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The world is facing one of the greatest crises in human history.  From the trend today, more than 3.5 million people worldwide may become infected with the Coronavirus by the time you read this article. Unfortunately, we have lost many people. We pray that most recover and the souls of the dead rest in peace. …

The killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a white policeman with a troubled past during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill, while three other policemen watched without coming to George’s aid,  unleashed a tsunami of emotions that led to 21 straight …

Coca Cola is one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world. According to Forbes’ annual list of the World’s Most Valuable Brands, it is the 6th most valuable brand in 2020. Interestingly, it is the only non-technology company in the Top 6 with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook in the Top …

Playing host to a robin as she gave birth to three chicks and nursed them from birth to flight over the last couple of months, lifted my family’s spirits and gave me a new-found admiration and respect for it. It became a pastime for us to watch the bird family every day as she built …

When I first arrived in Canada, I believed strongly that I would only need to rely on my qualifications to land a job in the corporate world. I had left Nigeria with the hope that coming to Canada would wash off the bitter taste of tribalism, nepotism and downright corruption that had bedeviled my career …

Leaders invariably transform situations using the available resources such as human assistants to achieve a specific goal or change in society whether positive or negative. This is true both in the wider society and in the most prosaic confines of the corporate world. Leaders by design or accident inevitably develop a brand that marks them …

In many situations in our daily lives, even within our families, we have all at some point in our lives, for many reasons, taken a decision or action that did not reflect our true position on a particular issue to serve a purpose; whether base or idealistic. As kids many of us knew which parent …

A few years ago, a former colleague of mine told me he had quit his job. Naturally, I assumed he had secured another job and asked him about it. His answer blew my mind. He had no other job lined up but was quitting to save his life. Literally. I paused.  Sensing my confusion, he …

We tend to take things for granted when everything is going well.  The longer things go well, the less resilient we become. So, when disaster strikes, we switch to panic mode. This is the fragility that makes us all human.  I still remember with some sadness, the rise in gas thefts in the wake of …