I just watched a video of a guy being honored with a dehumanizing slap that was well-delivered on his cheeks by a young lady he is dating. What was his offense? What I can deduce from the short clip is that the young man had been dating the girl for about six years. Since he…

We shame each other at every opportunity. We forget that what’s firm today will sag tomorrow. Some bags are better secured when we unite. Nah, we would rather argue and fight. Sinners stay judging sinners. They stay wondering who had sex with who. You should think of how to be a better person. But you…

Insanity defines her. Oh! What a mad city! Occupied by people afflicted with self-pity. Yes! The traffic jam punctuates her punctuality. Fluctuating supply of electricity is the norm in her city. We still love her though. The functioning touts have been illegally legalized. Her bus-stops are our bout stops. Uniformed men hop around her metropolis…

Self-classification on fleek. I won’t let you hurt me, so I hurt myself. I apologize for being scum. You want me to unlearn all the crap in a hurry. Don’t you know patience is a virtue? You want me dead but I’m in my prime. Well, maybe not. At first, it was tabula rasa before…

It’s a tug of war between me and this emotion. It’s pulling hard, I’m pulling back, trying not to fall back in the pit. I was malice in sadness land, the last time I lost the round. So I’m fighting and screaming and pulling harder this time around. My will is bleeding, inside me, I’m…

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…