Over the weekend, Nigeria’s Covid-19 vaccine wahala showed its hands and elicited various reactions from many quarters. I thought my neighbour’s reaction was top notch because it contained some elements of hope. He had been depressed…
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The hope dealer from the ‘barracks’
Transitions is one subject that clearly mirrors life. It seems we are all at various points of transition, from one level to another; from someplace down to someplace up; from someplace up to someplace down….
David Ntekim-Rex – Anthony Mackie’s Outside the Wire as a case study for Nigeria’s software community
Following the publication yesterday of our piece on David Ntekim-Rex and how Nigeria’s software community can keep his memory alive, using Liam Neeson’s The Honest Thief model, my neighbour suggested something interesting. He wants Nigeria’s…
David Ntekim-Rex – those who think Liam Neeson’s The Honest Thief model can keep his memory alive
On the night of 15th January, several forces combined to take the life of promising David Ntekim-Rex leaving his family, friends, colleagues and admirers to grieve what was clearly, an avoidable and needless death. Of…
The garden he bought with his money resisted his own crops but welcomed happily the growth of weeds
My neighbour was sold after listening to a presentation on having a garden around the house. He got some money, bought some used water tanks and filled them with sand, which he placed at some…
Through Christopher Nolan’s TENET – 10, ‘…no one cares about the bomb that didn’t go off’ because (2:22:47)
We are creatures of habit We don’t like change We prefer the status quo We prefer the familiar The prefer the predictable
Through Christopher Nolan’s TENET – 9, what makes ‘my opinion of you is higher than yours of me?’ (2:03:39)
Pride Success Reach Delusion Foolishness
Through Christopher Nolan’s TENET – 8, being ‘at the right place at the right time’ is important (1:48:11)
Because it guarantees that one will be Considered Favoured Chosen Enabled Empowered
Funke Akindele’s Omo Ghetto as proof of the power resident in The Poor Collective
In our profiling of ten most powerful people in Lagos recently, we placed the Poor Collective in the first position. Because persons in The Poor Collective constitute the largest power center in Lagos state. They…
Through Christopher Nolan’s TENET – 7, are these ‘the people saving the world from what might have been?’ (1:45:51)
Politicians Journalists Big Pharma Big Tech Farmers Soldiers The Unknown Company?