What did you hear about female bosses?
I took my time to write this blog post because I really want to get through with thoughts and emotions before I sit down with my fine long fingers(lol) to type and shake a particular table. Growing up as a young girl, I have always heard tales about how unpleasant females in leadership positions are, […]
Movie Review: ÒLÒTŪRÈ
Òlòtūré is a seemingly raunchy movie that evils of sex/human trafficking in Lagos /Nigeria. Hey fam! How have you been? I must confess I have missed doing movie reviews on this platform and it’s refreshing to resume with the reviews. And today, I am excited to do the review of the movie Oloture which means […]
Lessons from End Sars Protest
October was a grey month for Nigeria as a nation and even for me personally. While End Sars protest and palliative discovery and looting rocked the nation, I had an emergency that rocked my family. Through the rocky times, it hits me more than ever before that Nigeria is way far behind in the rightness […]
Travails for a New Nigeria
Travails for a new Nigeria is not a sprint race…we are here for the marathon! The past 2/3 weeks has been historic for Nigerian youths and suddenly torrents of violence beguiled the nation. What started out as peaceful protest of END SARS became bloody, leading to violent outpour, loss of lives and properties. With these […]
Chronicles of Greatness: Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28 1969) is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, the founder of LeanIn.org, an author, entrepreneur and a philantrophist.Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington DC to a Jewish family as the eldest of three children. She attended North Miami Beach High School, where she graduated with a 4.646 […]
Movie Review: Ben-Hur
Mon famille! Happy weekend, trust the weekend has been good. Of course you know it’s time for a pleasant and didactic review of a movie. Today, it’s the review of a movie that is every bit of the word epic and didactic, it’s the movie review of Ben-Hur. Ben–Hur is an American epic historical movie originally produced […]
Random Acts of Kindness
‘Carry out random acts of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day some might do the same for you’ Princess Diane On my way home from work on Wednesday, I was at the bus-stop and I saw a young lady who was trying to cross a busy road. A […]
Chronicle of Greatness: Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey, Jan. 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author and philantrophist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 […]
Chronicle of Greatness: Jack Ma
A popular saying goes Jack of all trades, master of none. But for this man, he is a Jack of one trade, master of one. Jack Ma, originally Ma Yun, (born September 10, 1964, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China), is a Chinese entrepreneur who is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a […]
Lagos Drama: Danfo Fare Haggle
For a young lady that grew up in Lagos, it is quite funny that it took me years to realise that bus hopping was a needed survival skill in Lagos when I relocated to Lagos few months post NYSC. I had difficulty in adjusting to the Lagos crazy life of bus hopping and sometimes I […]
Slay Your Priority
Life is often the result of priority list. Sometimes, I find it difficult or painful to write for no reason that I can tell. Today, is just one of those days but here I am trying to gather my thoughts with my long fine fingers. (Probably, you already know I have I have long fingers. […]
21 Bridges: Tribute to Chadwick Boseman
Guess the news of Chadwick Boseman’s death was an unexpected news to you as it was for me😭. If I was expecting anything from the Wakanda King, it was probably the release of Black Panther II. But life as we have it surprised us with the sad news of Chadwick Boseman’s death. Here is the […]
Hidden Figures
Hidden figures is a 2016 movie that brought me waves of emotions as I watched the movie, especially as a young African lady. The first couple of scenes in the movie introduced Katherine, a young girl with extraordinary mathematical skills. People had high hopes on her, even as an audience I thought the next scene […]
Flex Your Mind
‘Life is a battle of the mind’ they say, so flex your mind, don’t let life pass you by. On Tuesday, I stumbled on Tubaba’s Oya Come Make We Go video and the video got my attention till the very end. I kept asking myself, ‘Ife, haven’t you watched this video before?’ Like, the video […]
Justh Breathe
Just breathe! Has it ever happened that you blank out? When your mind is in a preferred state of not thinking or mentally processing anything and all you want to do is JUST BREATHE. Often times, we keep keeping up with the demands of life which can be overwhelming if not properly managed and truth […]
Endorse Yourself, Wait for No One
Waiting for others to endorse you before you value yourself will tear you down. Happy weekend to you! How was your first week in August? Any lesson or experience that have helped in your learning, relearning and unlearning process? Share with us in the comment section. For me, some things stood out for me this […]
She said ‘NO’
Saying No with confidence Hey family, how are you doing? Trust your July ride was great? Welcome to August, it’s a month of pleasant surprises. Enjoy it all. Some weeks ago, I heard the narrative of how a boy in his late teenage years unexpectedly bumped into a young lady in her mid-twenties and asked […]
ELEVATOR BABY
When I heard ELEVATOR BABY as the title of a Nigerian movie, my first prediction of the movie was a guy meeting a lady in an elevator, lo and behold I was pleasantly surprised as I watched the movie only to find out that I was wrong. First scene revealed a group of young adults […]
Celebrating the Evolution
Hello Difers, happy weekend! Thank you all for celebrating me on my birthday. You guys actually made my day. The wishes which came in various forms: through status updates, text messages, VNs DMs etc. were so heartwarming💗. I kept smiling😃 like a lady that is being wooed. Some years ago, one of my colleagues told […]
Hakkunde: The Climb of Success
This week’s movie review is on a typical classic Nigerian movie Hakkunde that depicts the hustle life and the climb of success of the Nigerian society . At the first scene we were introduced to Akande, a man who has been jobless for 4 years was being chased after his collision with an egg seller. […]