this is not the kind of livelihood I hoped for, To make things easier, we had to tell the applicants to pay N200 for lamination of the NIN slips; when you’re done, you have some money left — your spoil of war — something to make yourself happy after the stress - NIMC staff

On August 1, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) announced that from January 2018, no Nigerian would be able to procure or renew an international passport without providing a National Identification Number (NIN). Coincidentally, that announcement came as ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO, Editor of the ICIR, was rounding off an investigation into the national ID enrolment process. His findings were discouraging. Extortion of members of the public, blackouts at enrolment centres, non-production of ID cards, staff disgruntlement and a budget that is heavy on food and wine but low on vital needs all prove that the project hasn’t fulfilled the objectives for which it was conceived 10 years ago.

“Won s’epe fun o ni? Oo p’oo r’owo mi ni?” It is the driver bellowing in raw Ibadan accent, wondering if the road user behind him is “cursed” and if he “didn’t see his hand”. In Ibadan, it is de rigueur to drive cars without a functioning trafficator, so long the driver is willing to flap his outstretched hand when turning left, and the passenger seated by him is willing to oblige in the case of a right turn.

A short, bald, old man with full Ogbomoso tribal marks, the driver decelerates on the dusty road and pulls over by a structure that, from the outside, looks like a kiosk. To the left is a wooden bench sitting three middle-aged men sipping dry gin in the scorching mid-day sun; and to the right, a door left ajar plus a ragged generator in a state of extended disuse.

The reality is that many of the people you do things for to help move them forward in life, might not come back to say thank you - Pastor Sola Osunmakinde

You must learn to resist the pitfall of expecting people to whom you are nice, to be nice to you as well


Or of thinking that people you are fair to, will of a necessity treat you fairly in return.


The reality is that many of the people you do things for to help move them forward in life, might not come back to say thank you.


This always happens, and that is when your real motive for doing what you do will be revealed, whether you did it expecting something in return or you did it just out of a heart of love


It is only the latter reason that will help you not become unnecessarily angry and bitter in life.


If you do it for the first reason, you are in for a rude shock.


For this cause, many are bitter and offended, and have shut their hearts from helping any other person that comes their way


The interesting thing I've found out is that you might have helped ten people, but it is that eleventh person you help that will really make you smile and bless a lot of people in return, but if you are already offended because of the behavior of the earlier ones, you would have shut your heart against this.


Therefore Solomon said "In the morning, sow your seed; and in the evening, do not withhold your hand, for you don't know which of them will prosper, either this or that, or if both will do well" (Ecclesiastes 11:6)


Listen, one thing is for sure; you can never be disappointed if your major motivation is love


For as it is written in 1 Corinthians 13:8...


Love never fails.

Why do this to your child's cereal?

Every parent knows that once you introduce cereal, I mean the nice kind of cereals to your children, then that automatically becomes their everyday breakfast, but what I don't understand is if you do not know much about cereal why don't you ask people who know so much about it?

loool...It sounds like a skill yeah? Oh yeah it is! knowing how to serve your kids cereal is a skill, wait till you find out the faux pas some parents make with cereal....eew! I'm disgusted already!

How on earth do some parents feel comfortable putting evaporated milk in their kids cereal? why? oh why??? it tastes like congealed milk, yucky!!!
who does that? .....
Dear parent, please it's a faux-pas to use evaporated milk with cereal, not only that, it is utterly bush to do so.
Don't let your kids hate you for messing up their breakfast and taste buds.
Powdered milk or Fresh milk is appropriate....you can thank me later.

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Kemi Olunloyo, a typical example of an Ibadan woman - Ife Esan

Kemi Olunloyo just fired Seyi Law again, she says his wife's body rejected three pregnancies.


I am not surprised, I am only like ahn ahn.... I will tell you why I am not surprised.


The reason why I am not surprised is that Kemi Olunloyo isn't a bastard, she is a true born and bred of Ibadan, if we check properly, she might have a drop of Iyalode Ibadan, Efunsetan Aniwura's blood on her.


I know my Ibadan people whom I love so much will come for me on this, but Kemi is a reflection of most Ibadan women.
They have no filter, and no emotions, and there is nothing they cannot say, just don't try them, even if you don't try them, pray they don't try you .
An Ibadan woman will tell you that Ara Ija ni eyin wa, meaning biting is part of battle skills.. if you come for them you are looking for wahala, if they come for you, you have found wahala, either way, you can't win only if you are Ijesha..

A lifeline from the Supreme Court - Reuben Abati

On Wednesday, July 12, the Supreme Court saved our democracy and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It did with its ruling in the matter between Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, to determine who among the two is the authentic Chairman of the PDP. The Supreme Court of Nigeria practically threw the party a lifeline. Since it lost the 2015 Presidential election, the former ruling party, the same party that one fellow in a moment of megalomania promised us would rule Nigeria forever, has never been the same. Some people have said the party could not manage victory well but it definitely found it difficult to manage defeat. The PDP went into the 2015 general elections utterly divided among its ranks.

Five Governors and their supporters had left the party, the point at which the defeat began, to join a coalition that became the All Progressives Congress (APC) and from outside, the departed malcontents threw stones at their former party and swore to destroy it, if only to teach those remaining behind a lesson. The lack of internal democracy within the PDP, and the arrogance of remaining members further created a situation whereby some Governors became over-powerful and unpopular candidates were imposed at the grassroots level. Discontent spread.

Acquiring degrees like the marks on a thermometer won't guarantee you - Olu Adegoke

If you have no plan to lecture, my dear, don't bother yourself doing MSc and PhD. 

Go get professional certificates and acquire useful skills. Acquiring degrees like the marks on a thermometer won't guarantee you. We are tired of reading "tales by moonlight" of entitled people who come online to lament about how they are offered pittance after all their degrees. 

Stop deceiving yourself, there are jobs out there, it is just that you lack the requisite skills to get them because everyone wants a lazy-man's job of tie-with-suits or what they think is a sycophant job these days - LECTURING. 

Every person with average IQ and who are mainly liabilities in a highly competitive world think the next easy thing is to wait it out doing more degrees to secure teaching positions; since performance assessment is not needed to retain such jobs in Nigeria.


Animations, Data Scientists, Builders, Plumbers, Furniture makers, Mechanics, Accounting, Mobile Application Developers amongst many other skills are in high demand in Nigeria. Stop wasting your time acquiring paper certificates. Only do so, if you have a genuine passion for teaching and research.