“The institution may not determine your future but it will surely define it” ‫ Dipo Tepede Last weekend was actually an unforgettable one with 5 functions demanding my presence: Career Talk and Dinner Party with Student Chemical Society, OAU Ife; Wedding Ceremony at Ife; Dinner with Final Year Students of Student Christian Movement, OAU Ife and Motivational Talk with The Intellectual Group, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho. I am sure; you will be wondering how I juggled all these events in two days. Don’t fret it; I simply used the Pareto’s Principle. (more...)

«If you can not plan it, immagine it and prevent it, then it must be an accident» - Dipo Tepede     Friday, that should be today when a motor bike (aka Okada) ran across my car as I was trying to park in my office parking space. I was filled with awe when the man somersaulted in the air and landed on his spinning bike. I instinctively pressed the brake and ran to the already crowded scene. Lying on the floor was a man whose feet was soaked in blood (more...)

“Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.” ‫ Mathew 5-15 (KJV)   Still on Wednesday, the 26th. My perspective was enlightened once more after 10 minutes of conversing with my mentor. She asked me where I wanted to obtain my MBA degree and I answered her without thinking. She looked at me straight in the eye and gave me a lecture that made me reverse the positions of the nouns on the subject-head. (more...)

“To live through an impossible situation, you don’t need the reflexes of a Grand Prix driver, the muscles of a Hercules, the mind of an Einstein. You simply need to know what to do.”    -  Anthony Greenbank Wednesday, the 26th was a day I can never forget, in fact it was a double twist, walking out of Diamond Bank, and I had a double mind; the teller had overpaid me by a sum of N1, 000.00. Looking at the load of expenses I had to foot the next day (Dami’s naming ceremony), I am sure you can support me in my walking out of the bank without any sign of guilt. But as we all know, the...

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God has indeed blessed me with a bouncing baby girl yesterday 20th July, 2006 around 10.00a.m. The baby had come to this world 1 month earler than we projected but God chose a perfect timing to introduce little Dami to this world. The miracle has actually humbled me and has re-enforced my belief in the almighty God (more...)

We live in a visual generation. The language of the culture is pictures and images. In this information age, the mass media seems increasingly omnipresent transmitting images via the internet, cable and satellite TV and even through video games. The pictures and images which assail us daily are aggressively sensual. Pornography is peddled vigorously through movies, music videos, and the internet and in magazines on sidewalks. Even ads and commercials employ all kinds of sexual innuendos to sell everything from auto parts to toiletries. A few weeks ago TV viewers were held spell bound by Big Brother Nigeria , reality TV show. Since then the participants have become celebrities.  (more...)