HIP HIP HIP….

5 days ago, my son, Araoluwa, Obaloluwa clocked 1. Yeah, you got it! He’s an independence baby. So many people called, visited to wish him a happy birthday. Interestingly, he got an August visitor’s call – Prof. Pat Utomi called to also wish him a happy birthday. It was a cool event, watch out for his pictures on facebook. Our photographer, who has been taking our pictures before we got married and has...

MR SUPERVISOR

Sometime ago, i wrote an article on having finished my course work and exams for my masters programme and how i was given my most dreaded lecturer as supervisor. Since then, i had been going back and forth to get a project topic approved. It has not been funny at all. Up until last week, he has rejected about 25 project topics i had taken to him and had refused to meet with me to tell me why he rejected them. Finally, last...

THE STORY OF A CHANGED LIFE 2

The two hot slaps he received initiated him into the cult. After receiving the slaps, he heard a voice in the room which told him, “welcome to the pirates club”. The next night was the initiation proper. It was an experience. From then onwards, he became a devout member, attended the meetings regularly, became a force to reckon with on campus and enjoyed the good things of life – girls, booze, etc. There was...

Uncontrollable cost truncates GSK credit rating

For a very long time, even though most stocks in the healthcare sector have not generally been doing well, gsk still did much better than most; but in the last one year, the story has changed… Ordinarily, Glaxosmithkline Consumer Plc stood the chance of making an enviable score of the Altman index of creditworthiness in 2007 going by the marked improvement in its financial strength. Remarkable successes were made in the...

PRODUCTS OF INFLUENCE

Influence is powerful, it could be so strong on an individual that he could find himself doing the things he swore he would never be caught dead doing or doing the things he never thought was possible for him to do. At the moulding stage of a child, he/she copies what he sees. After going through peer pressure in the adolescence stage, he later develops individuality/independence where he begins to assert himself until he...

THE PAST REVISITED….

I was at a women’s meeting last week, it was actually a mix of the single, married and divorced. It was meant to be interactive in nature, people wrote out their questions and sent them over to the facilitators to do justice to them. One of the questions asked and particularly the way it was answered shocked me. A woman expressed a lot of worry and wanted to know how to handle a particular challenge she was having with...