Author: I.R Baboon

A former colleague of mine had just been made the head of the digital media publishing arm of a big Nigerian company – a tech firm which recently acquired one of the biggest online shopping platforms. It was good news and I hit him up to congratulate him.  Midway through this conversation, he hinted at…

When you get invited for a job interview, the first thing any sensible person does is to re-check the organization online (if you didn’t do so before sending the application). This is to give you a better idea of what you might be in for. Are you going to be employed to salvage a bad…

Being unemployed and actively searching for a job opens your eye to the different sides of corporate Nigeria, or Lagos. Well, let’s just stick to the Island for now (job-seeking on the mainland has not been explored by this writer). So, you get a couple of sure portals where you can find vacancies, update and…

So I got this job offer to handle certain media aspects of Harrysong’s KINGMAKER concert. “Where be the venue?” I asked my man, KC, who got me the job. “Warri Stadium” he replied in his usually scruffy voice. “Confirm,” I replied, extremely delighted that I will be going to the famous city of Warri I…

“Guy make we go outside go chill before heat go kill person,” P muttered with an expression that meant he was tired of life. It was one of those days when everything seemed to come together for the wrong reasons – There was light in most parts of the estate except three houses, ours included….

Let us talk about the BIBLE and your PASTORS. How often does your pastor teach you from the book of Songs of Solomon? My Dad was one of the few Clerics that I know that took out time to do a full Sunday School series on the book: Songs of Solomon or Song of Songs…

“Baboon, that shayo still remain abi you don lick am finish? You know say e no dey hard you to guzzle brew,” my friend Wheels barked, disrupting the Top Eleven Football Manager game I was playing on my laptop. “E remain small, V been don almost wan sip am finish, but Dash been invoke am…

I woke up and looked at the clock. It was 7:30 am. I fled out of the bed and went straight to the bathroom. Damn! I was going to be late. I had a job interview at Igloo Jandon, one of the new foreign-owned media firms that had taken over the advertising sector. My friend…