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Episode 3: We Started Showing Up in Each Other’s Days I still did not think I was falling in love. That part matters. I had met Tunde at a bus stop. Nothing planned. Nothing intentional. Just two people surviving Lagos mornings. I told myself it was ordinary, and for a while, that lie held. Then…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has extended heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Stephen A. Oyelami on his extraordinary achievement of breaking the Guinness World Record for the ‘Longest Marathon Reading Aloud’ by a Team. Governor Adeleke praised Mr. Oyelami, an esteemed educationist from Iragberi, for his historic feat of reading aloud for 431 hours, 31…
Episode 2: He Knew My Name Before I Knew His It’s been a week since I met him at the park. I did not expect to see him again. Lagos is too big and too chaotic for coincidences to repeat themselves. People pass through your life like traffic. Brief. Loud. Gone. So after that…
Title: Soft Life, Hard Choices Episode 1: I Wasn’t Looking for Love I did not have time for love. Not in the poetic sense. In the real sense. The kind shaped by alarm clocks that rang too early and bills that refused to wait. I was young, Nigerian, and permanently tired. Work stress stayed with…
The memo went out on a Thursday morning. Subject: Internal Restructuring – Brandfair Advertising From: Regional Director One line made my heart stop. “Effective immediately, Mr. Bako has been reassigned to the training division in Abuja.” It didn’t say demoted. But everyone knew. There were murmurs around the office, eyes darting to me, quickly looking…
A Review of“Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa”By Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede “Leaving the Tarmac: Buying a Bank in Africa” by Aigboje Aig Imoukhuede is a story in risk-taking, entrepreneurship, genuine business partnership, strategic international alliance, and passion for a professional career in banking. The book highlighted the issues encountered during the bank’s mergers…
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States have released a damning report that Nigeria as a nation is at a point of no return, with all the signs of a failed nation. The organisation made the disclosure in research findings it released recently through its senior…
It is quite commendable that the Lagos State Government is considering an official public holiday set aside for traditional worshippers in the state. Commissioner for Tourism, Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, and the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Solomon Bonu, hinted this while giving an account of their stewardship in the…
Germany is consolidating on its resolve to lead the plethora of museums in Europe and across the world in returning looted artefacts to Nigeria, and by extension Africa. This is following a German delegation to Edo State on 19 May 2021 to complete modalities for the restitution. Governor Godwin Obaseki who has been a strong…
Title – A Journey in Leadership’sAuthor – Tijjani M. BorodoPublisher – May University Press LimitedPlace of Publication – Lagos Of the four main sections of the Ministry of Justice, I was most inclined towards the Public Prosecution Department. When I newly joined the Ministry, I worked under seniors, just like my peers. As I moved…
