The phrase “Don’t lose friends over politics” is often thrown around lightly, as if it’s a mere suggestion to be taken or left as one pleases. But this naivety ignores the reality that tribal politics can have devastating consequences if ignored or dismissed. Take the example of the Rwandan genocide…

I stumbled on a person’s wall and all I saw were discontent about everything, from inflation to the cash crunch to the failed bank in Silicon Valley. It left me wondering how miserable he must be feeling. It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by the problems in this country and…

Anyone who cares about tech would have heard about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank by now. On Friday, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators due to a rapid and unexpected collapse, which is now the second-largest bank failure in US history. SVB had indicated just two…

This morning, I finished reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, an American journalist who previously worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica and Sports Illustrated. The book was written in 2019. After reading the first 80 pages of the book, I told a friend…

In 2020, a country representative of one of the top international development agencies spoke with me about joining his team in the North East. We had crossed paths years earlier on a project in the South South. His only requirement was for me to tone down my acerbic criticism of…

This is an account of my experience of the presidential elections in Nigeria, which took place on February 25, 2023. I arrived at my polling unit around 9 a.m. There were 750 registered voters on the list pasted on a nearby half-container used as a shop. When it was around…

Susan Wojcicki is one of my favourite business executives in the world. She was initially the search engine’s first landlord when she rented her garage out to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. She went on to become the company’s first marketing manager (and the company’s 16th employee)…

Last December, I received an invitation from Prof. Ajike to speak at her MBA class. Just a week prior, I had written an article about ChatGPT, a revolutionary AI tool that was launched on November 30. During the session, I shared my thoughts on ChatGPT’s potential to become the most…

This morning, I finished Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel. Campbell and Chellel are both award-winning business reporters for Bloomberg. The book was written in 2022. What do you do when, upon investigating a story…