It is not enough that someone is a doctor… We tell them to hustle. So they collaborate with merchants and sell your son’s kidney when he comes for a check-up. It is not enough that someone is a teacher… We shame them for earning a certain amount. So they intentionally deny your children a good education in the classroom, so that YOU can pay for private lessons and they (teachers) can make more money. It is not enough that he is your employee… You indirectly scoff at the idea of working-for-others, so these people steal from you… Because you are an asshole. It is not enough that you are a football coach… The culture of “hustle oo” in third-world countries will get to you and you ignore the ethics of your industry and ask for a bribe. It is not enough that you are a politician… Nigerians will mock you for driving a Peugeot, so you will do as others do: steal a billion naira and buy a yacht. It is not enough to be YOU in third-world societies… ...

"Entrepreneurship is the only way out of poverty" "You can't be rich and comfortable working for someone else" "Entrepreneurs rule the world" It is imperative for you to understand that as a Christian professional, you can't afford to be led by popular slogans, the wisdom or empty philosophies of men! Recently, I was taking a Bible study and a verse in Scripture struck me. "The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian" Gen.39:2 How do you attach "successful" as a term to someone who is not just in the employ of another man but a slave?! Isn't that divergent to the messages being touted by the 'apostles' of entrepreneurship? It is this entrepreneurship bug that has bitten professionals that would have had great, successful and impactful careers as employees of organizations but have resigned because they want to have founders, ...

Sometimes the people we need to succeed are within our immediate reach, but we can't just find them by an oversight. We often believe if we had known a politician, recruiter or CEO, we could've landed a job by now, but it's that connection to them we lack. The truth is we cannot all get the connection these people. Is like getting the richest 1% of all people connected to the rest 99%. You and I know that is mission impossible. Come to think of it, how about the people you're already connected to, mostly your friends who are already working. I've you ever told them to keep you abreast when there is a job opening where they work or refer you to someone who needs hires?. Oh! You probably didn't know, or it's because you were more brilliant than them in school, thus you think asking for their help is stooping low. That where you're wrong. Research has it that 38% of people get jobs through their friends and relatives, much more than the 26% of thos...

Don’t speak English like an Ibadan man.  Speak with the kind of phonetics that even your mother will wonder where you were born. There are an estimated 190 million Nigerians.  The overwhelming proportion of these will live and die unknown and unsung.  Airports will not be named after them.  Neither will universities be established in their honour.  A hundred years from now, people will not even remember they ever existed, except that they might have some children and grandchildren hanging around. Surely, you don’t want that to happen to you.  You want to be known.  You want to be rich.  You want to be a man or woman of timber and caliber.  There are peculiarly Nigerian ways to achieve this.  The formulas have been firmly established by our good-for-nothing politicians and businessmen.  But don’t worry; they don’t own the copyright to them, so you are free to follow their vainglorious footsteps. If you would like to be a...

"What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever; what makes it precious is that it ends, [and if I may add the last, what makes it priceless is that it is mortal]". This statement aptly underscores that you'll appreciate life if you understand it. Life is fashioned within time to journey towards an end, an end with a goal in perspective. Life is time-dependent, and time, as they say, is luck, hence, don't waste it living someone else's life. Life is a roller coaster, it dwells in the belly of time, swaying forth and back, and getting one in close proximity to one's destination. Life is too short, only to those who know the usefulness of time. It is relatively long to those who think they can waste time, not knowing they're the one been wasted away. Time is not enough to profligate; learn to judiciously use it. Manage your time to craft life, don't let life craft you. Despite the vicissitudes, life is worth living, even if it...