How will you spend the holidays?
I am flat broke so the ideas of travelling – first to India and then later to the hinterlands of Johannesburg – have been scrapped. In my disappointment, I have decided to take time out and be a blessing to others and will be spending time with a group of dynamic people who themselves have […]
Public speaker ko? Public Speaker ni! A satire
by Oluwakorede Asuni on Friday, 15 October 2010 at 09:01 Original posted to facebook I am a public speaker. Yes ke, a motivational speaker. I love to speak and motivate, so it is the clear and direct career option for me. Haba, I require nothing but the idea to change the world and an energy […]
Now that we have raised our voices…
Now that we have raised our voices in Abuja and in Lagos – whether or not they are listening, one thing is certain they can hear us and they can not ignore us, not any more, our voices are too loud to go unheard – we need to press hard our demands not just provide […]
Ngozi OkonjoIweala Speaks… at TED, on Africa
I have been a fan of TED for close to two years, since my days at the Paradigm Inintiative Nigeria (PIN) where I cut my teeth as a social entrpenur under an Ashoka Fellow: ‘Gbenga Sesan. Going through the TED archieve, I found this presentation by Ngozi OkonjoIweala in 2007. Ngozi (FYI) is the current […]
Is Africa all war and famine?
The answer is of course, no. In truth she has been ravaged by war, famine and other disasters that could have been avoided or were in some cases delibrate machinations against her progress and development. Is africa a land of beauty? Yes, and that is what the Ogbwuegbu sisters have set out to bring tell […]
YALDA: Committing Young People to Action for Africa’s Development!
Are you young? Determined to make a difference in your life and those of others? Interested in helping birth a new Africa? Will like to contribute your skills, time and other resources in actualising the dream for a better Africa! Then you will be interested in the Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development of Africa […]
In His Own Words…’Gbenga Sesan let’s out the words.
Official public presentation is billed for Wednesday Septer 9, 2009 at the BooksNG offices in Gbagada, Lagos, Nigeria. For those who already know, it is the 09.09.09 event. Having just completed a priviledged reading of an advance copy if the book, I can not but say the following of ‘Gbenga Sesan: ‘Gbenga has again provided […]
What do you do on/with facebook?
Look, the internet is like the real world and in many cases offer benefits hard to replicate in real life. See, when you post a status message on facebook, it appears on your friend’s walls – all your of friends will see it (yes, when they log-in to their facebook account). And if one person […]
Where I write :)
Where I write. Following the reproduction of a BBC article of a writer writting about ‘where she writes’ by NEXT – a publication of TIMBUKTU Media and a new player in the Nigerian media scene, I decided to do a similar piece on where I write. Having tried many times to to write this piece […]
Social networks (II): Twitter
I have been meaning to write and share about social networks and how they can be put to advantage by people who work in development but…for a number of reasons I have failed to do this. However, I recently succeeded in committing pen to paper and wrote what I will like to tag Twitter (I) […]