It was the year 2017 and Union Bank had just won ‘Best Brand Development to Reflect Changed Mission / Vision / Positioning’ at the Transform MENA awards in Dubai. This award soon became a subject of conversation within and outside the Bank. For years, Union Bank, while upholding loyalty at its core, was in competition…

“Sometimes, all you need is a symbol,” screams a celebratory ad showing an Ankara scarf without a face. The viral photo was created by a Nigerian graphics designer, Onuorah, one of the many Nigerians who cannot join the #BeLikeNgozi Challenge- a challenge started by the founder of Lifebank, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, to celebrate the appointment of…

Well, hi there! The Sunday we have been looking forward to is finally here. As much as we were invested in making things more interesting, we couldn’t just miss the drama that came with the previous week. Catch up on all the trendy stories of last week: Hits Sanni Goriola, better known as Lil Frosh,…

“So how do I explain to all my awesome, incredible new followers that this kind of day is only once in a while and I’m mostly tweeting memes on here?” Odun Eweniyi tweets on January 25, 2021. With the name “Tech Bro” as her name on her Twitter handle, one can decipher the personality that…

By now, we are familiar with the fact that long before the coming of the White man on the African soil, Africa was developed in its own capacity. Besides the written history of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and what is today known as Nigeria via Nok arts held secrets and knowledge of its people.  As people…

It is easy to imagine that the easy-going Patricia Obozuwa would know all about success. It is the umpteenth time we are trying to make a connection, and it seems like the virtual interference does not want us to win at this. I ask if we should move our interview to the following day, but…

1974 When the federal Commissioner for Economic Development and Reconstruction, Prof. Adebayo Adedeji and his delegation embarked on a three‐week tour to US cities including New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, his mission was simple: to convince Nigerians to return to their country to aid in economic development. O. Oche, the then…

Mr Godwin Agu stares into space and closes his eyes. For a brief second, he is oblivious that I am there. As soon as he opens his eyes, he says, “Only God will pay them (Mrs Nneka Nwobbi, and the Children Living With Cancer Foundation) because I slept in that hospital on the ground for…

In “Living in Bondage,” Nigeria’s first home video, Chief Omego walks into a supermarket to meet Merit (played by Nnenna Nwabueze) and Andy (Kenneth Okonkwo)’s wife. Even though he is inside the supermarket, he is easily noticeable. Compared to the others in the supermarket, he wears dark aviator shades and a bespoke suit. As he…

  Let me win but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt- Special Olympics athlete oath What does it mean to live with Down Syndrome or any form of disability in Nigeria? It is wishing that you are given a thought to seat at the table; it is hoping that when…

Confident, self-assured, dependable and go-getter perfectly describes the man that is Hamzat Lawal but when we ask him to describe himself, he is short of words. “Hmmm, this is interesting, I have to tell you about myself outside of what I do,” Lawal, the 2019 United Nations SDG Actions Award winner says. A few more…

In 2003, Itoro Eze-Anaba was working with an organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, when she was approached by a young married lady, a victim of domestic violence, who narrated her ordeal to her and sought her help to reconcile her back with her husband. Her effort to help the lady showed a lapse that…