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Parts 1 and 2 of this story dwelled on my anxieties, my experience and the strategies I employed to survive my very first face-to-face meeting with my Chief Executive Officer as a lowly placed...

On returning to my office, I spent the next 30 minutes or so wondering how I was going to handle myself. It dawned on me that I just might be in for a thorough drilling by the GMD, and...

The call came in the forenoon of an otherwise ordinary Tuesday seven years ago. I was engrossed in a particularly explosive mail from top Management. The mail laid out the details of an impending...

Bode Agusto is a chartered accountant with over three decades of experience. He founded Nigeria’s leading credit rating agency, Agusto & Co, serving as the company’s Managing Director from 1992 to 2003. He started his...

The True Story of My 2003 Abduction Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige keeps unenviable record of being the first civilian governor to have survived what is best described as a “civilian coup” in Nigeria’s political history,...

He should have no apologies, or regret, giving his daughter political appointment, though decency, morality and public expectation may dictate otherwise. But these are not Holy Writ. Neither are they laws. Nor unconstitutional. There...

If somebody does not save me soon from the terrorism of WhatsApp groups, I’m going to embark on my own equivalent of a combined Operation Lafiya Dole and Python Dance. Haba! You wake up...

The godfather of Nigerian stand-up comedy, Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome a.k.a Alibaba, served an ‘Inspiration’ Monday post while recounting how far he has come and also narrating how he got disowned by his father. The ace comedian said his father disowned...

An hour ago, I sat in on a training session for new managers within our Heirs Holdings Group. As these outstanding young men and women transition into supervisory roles, there is critical need for...

Phew! Just back from Ejigbo High School, a voter registration centre, where I went to confirm an allegation of money-for-registrstion that I have heard twice now. Spent close to 2 hours there chatting some...