Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect somewhere…

Last year I was supposed to do a review of 2017 but for some reason, a lot of bad things happened and not sure I wanted to be vulnerable, just yet. In September 2017, I completed my course at Lancaster University and between then and when I graduated in December…

2008 was the year I discovered that I had Acrophobia — the fear of height. We (me, my siblings and my aunt) had just arrived in Ghana for a vacation and as part of our itinerary, we visited Kakum National Park located on the coast of southern Ghana. Kakum National…

I started writing this post on Thursday, 13th September at the moment I was able to get my google script to work. It was 1:45 AM (WAT). FWIW: One of the beauties of spreadsheet applications is that they always have somewhere to script (write code that makes content show…

It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m mopping the sitting room floor. I had started my mopping journey from upstairs listening to songs on YouTube (you know, man don’t have space on his phone, so man streams) using my Bluetooth headset. By the time I got downstairs, the song paused. “Ah, the…

Thanks to Facebook’s Messenger and Whatsapp — Chat banking in South Africa and Nigeria took off in 2016 and 2018, respectively. This happened primarily on Facebook Messenger. Yesterday’s announcement by Nigerian banks will see it extend to Facebook’s Whatsapp. The two Facebook services combined dominate the instant-messaging market for Africa. Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, (GTB) was one…

Thursday, July 19, Twitter announced the appointment of Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI) to their Board of Directors. Aged 64, NOI becomes the first Nigerian to be appointed to the social media company’s board. Harvard Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and MIT PhD holder — Okonjo-Iweala is the first female finance minister…

On Wednesday, July 11, Twitter announced the planned removal of the accounts they locked from follower counts on profiles globally. Locked accounts are those prevented from interacting with the platform. They lock accounts when they suspect unusual behaviour like tweeting a large volume of unsolicited replies. “If we detect sudden…

A new company scaling personalised home tutoring. — While Gbemisola Ogundowole (Gbemi), co-founder of GATE Academy, was in secondary school, she took after-school lessons at Anifa Preparatory Centre, Ilupeju where she met Tobi Afolabi (Tobi), her tutor then, and now a co-founder of GATE Academy. At Anifa, students would enroll and visit a center periodically for their classes…