2017 was the year I started responding to comments on my articles. Initially, when I started writing on BellaNaija, I did not respond to comments. I...
It made the rounds on the internet last week, images of a woman who very much wanted to look like Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie. This woman,...
You know one thing that really baffles and amuses me at the same time? It’s seeing a man, very muscular, well-built, chiseled and sculpted; the kind...
One of the most beautiful sights in the animal kingdom is the Peacock’s tail. This gorgeous plumage of a bird, with its brightly-coloured feathers and majestic...
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to always be progressing, while some others don’t? Maybe it’s with you even. Maybe you just feel like...
Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly (POOR), is a clever acronym that I once heard for the word ‘poor’. There’s some truth to it. In fact, there’s a...
A few nights ago, I was chatting with my friends when an interesting topic came up. It was about money, taxation – how they charge an...
We’ve all read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People (or maybe not all of us), and we know that in order to gain...
I came across a YouTube video recently. It was a snippet from one of T.D. Jakes’ preachings. It was only about 7 minutes long, but it...
Ordinarily, no one would think of stooping so low as to learn something from ants. I mean, there’s the bold lion, the soaring eagle, the swift...
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to...
As children, we were made to believe that being “good” was the key to success in life. “Good” implied being polite, obedient, apologetic, as well as...
In our everyday lives, we observe different seemingly inconsequential things like a car starting, a baby crying, a bird singing and a raindrop falling. As kids,...
In order to standout in anything at all, you have to do things differently than the majority of people would do it. Of course, there are...
When was the last time you did something for the first time? Did that ‘something’ involve going against the grain? Many times, we embark upon an...
“If you are doing big things, you attract big men. If you are doing little things, you attract little men. Little men usually cause trouble… [pauses,...
Gujam was a very successful businessman. He had built himself up from nothing –self-made, you may say. He received accolades out there; The Times today, The...
Michael Jackson was a perfectionist. He referred to himself as such. During his rehearsals before a performance or when he was at recording sessions in the...
There was once a farmland in a town far, far away. On that farmland, lived a community of soils and seeds. The soils were beautiful in...
I have heard it said that two things that determine where you end up in life are: the books you read and the people you associate...
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