Unemployment remains a huge problem in Nigeria. Every year Nigerian universities continue to churn out thousands of new graduates with freshly minted diplomas who join a...
This week has been interesting indeed. I have had the pleasure of meeting some very talented and creative people. From photographers to stylists, to some really...
“My name is Zainab Makinde, I’ve got something I know you’ll be interested in.” Five minutes and fifty mumbled up sentences you heard little of and...
Sometime in the 1990’s, Cowbell threw its business doors open. Her birth was centered on the fact that mostly the rich and upper middle class could...
Saka has ‘ported’! Few weeks ago, we woke up to find out Saka had sold out. An excited Saka filled the front pages of our major...
You’ve thought up a great business idea, finally crossed the hurdle of raising the start-up capital, and now you’re in business. Wow, that’s good news. Five...
So you have a degree maybe two. Perhaps you studied abroad, your CV is so rich; you were offered a job at the company of your...
Imagine you have a race to run. The track stretches out before you. You do a little jogging to warm up. You are ready. You go...
“You are fired!” These are the words that business tycoon Donald Trump was known for in his TV reality show “The Apprentice”. However in the real...
Sometimes we wind up working somewhere we never dreamt of. Sometimes we find ourselves in a profession we did not choose, performing tasks we never imagined...
Last week, there was a fair bit of buzz in Nigeria. Not about politics, our economy or even Boko Haram. This buzz has to do with...
Two years ago, author, speaker and BN contributor Okechukwu Ofili shared his stupidity with the world in the hilariously successful “How Stupidity Saved My Life“. Everything...
“WWW!” another acronym I like! Working with women has been made such an issue by both men and women alike. The comments range from really terrible...
Self-employed since 2001, Olabisi Waller identified a major gap in the gift industry for unique useful gifts for special events and businesses. After consistently receiving inquiries...
It is being thrown out flippantly that Nigerian graduates are unemployable, and the reported 75% failure rate of the 2010 NECO exams doesn’t do much to...
Lagos is obsessed with success and success stories. It’s the reason why the word “Hammer” erodes every sentence. The disconcerting part of it is that it...
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