Cross-posted here And so today after a lot of soul searching and repentance of past sins of unpatriotism, I am back with a new list of bumper stickers. This time, they will be nice and politically correct, for those who like to see the good and the positive. Now you have no more excuses for not making them up as [...]

My column of this week. Cross-posted. Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a rookie management consulting analyst in a hybrid investment and commercial bank. She planned to first work in finance herself for a while before going back to graduate school to study and [...]

In the BusinessDay of January 5, 2010 Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a rookie management consulting analyst in a hybrid investment and commercial bank. She planned to first work in finance herself for a while before going back to graduate school to study [...]

The word ‘blog’, ‘blogger’ or ‘blogging’ come into existence with the advent of Web 2.0. Websites such as www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com provided a free means (e.g. www.spiritofjesus.blogspot.com or www.charmingff.wordpress.com) for people who are generally referred to as bloggers to have a blog (an online journal) where they can share their thoughts or knowledge (blogging) almost every day based on their [...]

When Nigerians comment in public forums, what are the odds that the discourse will be polite, respectful, contextual and useful?

Cross posted Apparently the profiling has started. CNN talks to Rafi Ron, frm. security chief at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, and frm FBI agent Mike German about calls to ditch all the silly political correctness and to agree that if it looks, walks, and quacks like one, it should be profiled a duck: CNN Video The gist of what [...]

Technological advance hasn’t exactly been the buzz-phrase in West Africa during the last decade, but the history books will most certainly use it regularly to refer to the immense leaps taken in a relatively short period of time. Nigeria will most certainly feature highly within this context. Fastest growing economy (at one point anyway), fastest growing banking industry, fastest growing [...]

It has been a while since I wrote but I seem to be coming across this whole other woman issues a lot these days.  I remember getting on face book, early one morning and I was tagged on a note by Ekene Onu, in which she was talking about the other woman, and then she tagged me on a second [...]

I was not too surprised when I checked out the Facebook group created to denounce the Nigerian Terrorist today and found that from a meagre 700 members on Friday when I first blogged about it, there are now over 56,o00 members on the group. This is very nice, right?. Very impressive. It shows that we care about the implication of [...]