When you meet a winner…
You just know it! You can smell it a mile off! Losers smell of losses, you can feel the disorganisation, the slacking off, and the carefree attitude from a mile away. But when you meet a winner, someone who is …
Surviving the changing landscape of modern business
These days with Facebook building a marketplace (Like Jiji.ng or Jumia Market) and Google now making mobile phones, VR headsets and other hardware products. It is now clear to everybody: Nobody has a safe hold on any area of business. …
The skies are falling down, People are dying every day!
Things are never as bad as they paint it in the media. People are dying everyday: of course… That is what people do, they die! (Moriarty said that actually.) But really, why do you focus on the fact that people …
Facebook did not kill Twitter: What kills new startups?
People say startups do not die from murder by their competition, they usually die from suicide and tend to agree for the most part. I recently found myself thinking about Facebook’s new war on snapchat and I remembered that several …
Higher life, higher standards
If you are interested in getting more out of your life, then you have to hold yourself to higher standards. People that refuse to hold themselves to higher standards of discipline, courage, drive and faith cannot do any exploits upon …
Working towards our Real Independence
56 years ago, Nigeria won its independence from her colonial overlords and became an independent state of its own. However, like they say: control is an illusion. We think we are independent, we think we call the shots, but we …
The one thing I learnt from Shimon Peres that drives me my agrotech pursuits
A few days ago, Israeli statesman and Nobel peace prize winner, Shimon Peres passed on at 93. There’s this thing he said that rings in my mind whenever agriculture is discussed: “People don’t realise this, but agriculture is 95% science, …
A rant about MMM Nigeria: lies and greed
I have to write this because these words are ringing in my head: “Those who know, have a duty to act” – Albert Einstein The lies the MMM camp are peddling are really baffling! Look, I don’t care about Zimbabwe …
You are one post away from going viral
In today’s social media world, anybody is one post from going viral. From moving from obscurity to the limelight. Yet, it is futile in itself to step out everyday, thinking about how to frame today’s post to ensure it goes …
The difference between wealthy people and the poor ones
It dawned on me recently that the difference between wealthy people and the poor ones amongst us comes down to the mindset. There is a way wealthy people think, poor people don’t think that way. Their mind is just too …