LOUD THOUGHTS
Some of the things that goes on in my head, the way I see them without sugarcoats.you are allowed to disagree.
CAREER ADVICE FROM SLAYFESTIVAL – HOW TO BE A UNIQUE LEADER, TIPS FOR JOB INTERVIEWS, CV AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
So I attended the slayfestival two Saturdays ago and I am here to share the career advices I got from attending these 2 masterclasses: Developing your Leadership style, Communicating values: Acing interviews The first masterclass which was hosted by Olachi Olatunji focuses on how one creates a unique leadership style that sets one apart from other leaders. I was a little bit late to the class but I learnt the following: Characteristics of a good leaderRespond: A good leader respond to questions or problems bothering the people they lead. Communicate: One who is a good leader must be ready to interact with people in order to know how to lead…
THE OCTOBER 1st DISEASE – THE STORY OF NIGERIA’S MADNESS
An epidemic began to afflict the country the day we got our independence. It first started in the core North; the West, the East and the South raised their noses and blamed the unsanitary living of the northerners on it. ‘When they spit anywhere they see’ ‘Aboki mallam that uses his spittle to wash his hands. Dirty lots’ We mocked the northerners when we saw footage of them going stark naked because of the disease. We all agreed the spirit of madness has descended upon them. Sorry to those unfortunate people. We left their fate in the hands of those ECOWAS, UNESCO, BASACO and other COs. Let them come and…
QUARTER LIFE CRISIS – THE GBAS, THE GBOS AND THE KPA-DU-KPAS
Adulting comes at you so fast and out of the blues like Lagos crowd when they hear ‘thief!’. It rushes you the way they rush whoever is named the thief ignoring your feeble protests of ‘but I am just 20 somethi..’ The realization can be sudden, it’s like a prick from an injection. It goes innnnnn and stays a while and then out leaving you with a tingling sensation. My name is Kanzah and I got adulTrouble. I must have been a joker to think getting forced to plait my hair on sundays, having to submit assignments, solving mathematics problems were the toughest things life could throw at me. I…
CHILL MAMA I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF – WHAT’S WITH OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS?
It must have been love…but it’s over now Growing up my folks never let me go out so I learnt to do my mischief right under their roof. When my mother grudgingly began to allow me out she’d start blowing up my phone to come home before the fun started. If there was a way she can make me chill and catch my cruise at home all the time she would be the most glad. My curfew was fixed at 4pm but if for any reasons I was still out by 5pm or 6pm all hell would be let loose on my phone. One time a bus I boarded moved…
NARCISSISTIC ENTITLEMENT SUCKS AND THAT MENTALITY NEEDS TO BE DROPPED!
See I get pissed over some things and entitled people are one of them. It is okay for you to be content in your self righteousness and stuck up feeling that the world owes you something but keep it to youtself and stop feeling smug about it okay?!!! How can a grown man think coming from a poor family, hustling through school means they wouldn’t have it tough when it comes to living a better life. That is a telenovelaic idealistic expectation of wealth eventually coming after one have gone through some shit. No sir! Poverty isn’t romantic can you stop romanticizing it? How would you think the cosmic will…
THE H FACTOR AND MY PERSONAL ‘HEXPERIENCE’
Do you guys know that insane confidence you have in yourself? Thinking you are awesome at something and reeling in those thoughts until someone put you where you belong? Yeah that was me. I used to think I ‘know’ English. That my English was smooth until 300 level in uni. We were all gisting and stuff when someone brought up the H-factor issue. That was how they began and the argument was that all Yoruba people have H-factor problem. I confidently chimed in and said ‘Hai don’t ave H-factor sha’ I thought I was above any and every grammatical error in English until Fikayo, who was this unapologetically honest babe…
WE ARE NOT MATES! SHO MO AGE MI NI?
Lately, I find myself relaxing my frigidity when it comes to human relations and that turned out to be one of the greatest mistakes I have ever made in my entire 20 something years on earth! I got walked upon and dragged through piss like I was a smelly tattered rag in the process. That one didn’t even hurt me because I know humans at times tend not to use their brain so I carried on with life like ‘if you don’t have sense it’s not my business.’ If I had known. I would have carried my iron fence in the dungeon where I tossed it in but no I…
SMALL GIRL WITH A BIG GOD OR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HOE!
I am just a small girl with a big God. When this saying was just a harmless caption on Instagram. It meant nothing other than women expressing their gratitude to God and the grace of God in their lives. When this caption began to garner popularity on Instagram, it is usually accompanied by picture perfect girls with outfits that look freshly bought from a high end boutique. Small girl with a big God and pictures taken at Burj-khalifa, Marseilles, a beach in Miami without any source of income. It didn’t take unpaid Nigerian detectives long before they found out girls who hustle smart are particularly fond of the saying. The…
NASELS DINNER AND AWARDS NIGHT 2018
WELCOME TO NASELS AWARDS VOTING PLATFORM. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MANIPULATE THE VOTES IN ANY WAY, IT MAY LED TO A DISQUALIFICATION. YOU CAN ONLY VOTE ONCE PER DAY IN EACH CATEGORY. MOST ATTRACTIVE (M) MOST ATTRACTIVE (F) MOST BEAUTIFUL LADIES MAN ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR MOST POPULAR (F) MOST POPULAR (M) MOST INFLUENTIAL (F) MOST INFLUENTIAL (M) MR FRESHER MISS FRESHER HOUR GLASS SPORT PERSON (M) SPORT PERSON (F) TAKE HOME TO MAMA YOUNG AND GETTING IT (Y.A.G.I) MOST ENDOWED WRITER OF THE YEAR PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR (F) PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR(M) MOST SOUGHT AFTER (M) MOST SOUGHT AFTER (F) CLIQUE OF THE…
5 LIFE LESSONS FROM MAITUMBI HILL HIKE
The Editorial and publicity CDS in Minna which I belong to organized a hill hike for it members. The hill selected is the maitumbi hill that is situated at maitumbi. We all converged in front of the maitumbi corper’s lodge before we proceeded to the hill but before that I cushioned my tummy with bread and akara. I cannot come and go and faint mid hike. We began the climb around 8 or thereabout and got to the point we will stop at 9:30. Everybody took a seat on the hill immediately, people like me literally slept on the rock. We played games – scrabble, whot, ludo – for a…
