The Dead Sea. Some have generally heard about the Dead Sea and some others may remotely know it exists. The Dead Sea is on the border of Israel, Jordan and the West bank. There’s a lot of information out there about the Dead Sea but the one that most hit me is that water does not flow out of the…
There’s something about keeping good company. The type that challenges and inspires you. The ones that gist and chit chat yet you gain valuable life lessons from the banter…and if all fails, you get an inspiration for an article! That happened this morning and got my article writing juices flowing again when I heard the catch phrase working hard or…
Hyenas! They are a special breed. Not quite cats and not quite dogs. They are different enough to be classified in their own family called Hyaenidae and are of 4 types – the striped hyena,, the brown hyena, the spotted hyena and the aardwolf (yes it’s a type of hyena not a wolf) Of the species of hyena’s the striped hyena is known to be the carrion-eater.…
In the world of consulting, the following firms are usually referred to as the Big 5 – Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) Deloitte Consulting Ernst & Young KPMG PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) According to Wikipedia, The Big Four are the four largest professional services networks in the world, offering audit, assurance services, taxation, management consulting, advisory, actuarial, corporate finance and legal services. They handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as…
It was a must do – call it the ultimate opportunity to go to the cradle of Yoruba land. The marathon activities projected itself as a one time opportunity to see two greats at once – the great OAU and the great Ile-Ife city itself. So bag in hand the road trip began. A day before the Ile-Ife Heritage Marathon…
I sat at a workers meeting in January and heard this phrase and it just stayed with me. Leaders. are.tour.guides.not.travel.agents. A travel agent as defined by Webster is a person who provides travel and tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as activities, airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, travel insurance, and package tours. A tour guide on the other…
Gun laws and the need for them to be checked has been a perennial issue and floated yet again to the fore as headline news. There are those who are for (some are against it) and the divide continues to cause a rift with the people from the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. In a…
We are a well-read people. Nigerians desire and thirst for every degree and certification there is which in itself is laudable. There is a sense of wanting more, achieving more, desiring more, going a level higher cerebrally that seems to be somehow encoded in our DNA somewhere. The puzzling question to ask ourselves is “to what end”? It’s important that…
….that was the phrase! Just like it was a scene from the 2002 movie – “my big, fat, greek wedding”! “Let the people eat!” It was day 2.5 of a franchise partner meeting in Athens and meal 6 if you counted breakfast lunch and dinner as 1 meal each. But we were on platter 36! Yes you read it right.…
Honking, arguing, laughter, sounds of hawking, rapt knocks on car windows, more honking, stomping to get your attention in a distracting way, speed bumps, sudden jolting breaks. Banter, market hailing, howling, call outs and more honking. Bells ringing, kids chanting, feet shuffling, swings creaking. Music, loud music, tugging, pushing, loud radio station airings with pidgin and vernacular conversations. Arguments, whispers,…
