Imagine a world without Apple; where only Microsoft made computers. There’d be no iPhone, and Windows UX would look a lot less interesting. Samsung would not have grown as big as it is today as it would not have learnt what it needed to make products targeted at the premium…

Of the 54 countries in Africa, only 8 (including Nigeria) are richer than Lagos State. Of the 15 ECOWAS member states, only Ghana’s economy is as large as that of Lagos. You can actually sum up the GDP of 9 ECOWAS countries and it would be less than Lagos State’s…

@KadariaAhmed raises a very important point in this interview. The interesting thing is, this is the same reason Tinubu would also make a horrible president. These…

I’d always suspected the term “cultural appropriation” was invented and propagated by some white dude. I was right. Because you know who never complains about their culture being appropriated? White people. The five countries that set world culture Global influence is often measured by military, political or economic might, but for some countries, it's the strength…www.bbc.com Question: What’s the opposite of “cultural appropriation”? The…

What if, instead of this monstrosity called Matrix Resurrections, Warner Bros had simply gone for a prequel TV series, showing how The Matrix came to be? Allow me to elaborate. Instead of trying to continue a story that (for all intents and purposes) had been successfully wrapped up two…

I once applied for a job in a multinational in Lagos and the interviewer was so excited at how I’d aced the SHL tests… until she learned my age. As you might have guessed, as a Nigerian I was a bit older than the average global graduate. She (from…

They say hindsight is twenty-twenty. When you look back at various phases in your life, it’s easier to see what went well and what could have been better. So here are some thoughts on how I would design a perfect life, financially speaking. There have been books written about this…

A close friend shared one of those seemingly innocuous stories in a WhatsApp group I’m in. The story went something like this: HEADMASTER: how much is passport photograph for children? PHOTOGRAPHER: the price for the passport is N100 per child HEADMASTER: class teacher go & inform the pupils that they…