I spent last weekend with a blogger friend of mine… one of my oldest friends actually. She has been blogging for a while now and recently decided it was time for a blog makeover. Yes, my friend is a brand… Read More ›
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5 Books That Will Change Your Life
When I was younger, I read books for 2 reasons only – either because they were part of my school work or to feed my youthful exuberance. From my early twenties, I realised I particularly enjoyed reading books that dwell on… Read More ›
Life Is Not A Lottery: How To Avoid The Freebie Trap
We live in a fast paced world where everyone wants to be successful. We want to live the dream, post beautiful pictures of our lives – family, home, designer shoes, bags, clothes wristwatches, vacation in resorts, first class travels e.t.c…. Read More ›
Human Scanners: Defiers Of A Single Passion?
I recently stumbled on a Ted talk given by Barbara Sher, a career/lifestyle coach and bestselling author. While her speech is totally unrelated to the title of this post, the optimism in her delivery got more of my attention than… Read More ›
Friends Will Make Or Break You!
I didn’t have many friends growing up! No thanks to my parents who barely lived in a city for more than 2 years. Having attended 4 primary schools and 4 secondary schools, you can see how socially excluded I was… Read More ›
Make Freedom Count for Victims of Modern Slavery
Today is Human Rights Day! With the theme for this year being “Our Freedom, Our Rights, Always”, the world has been advised to reflect on the meaning of Freedom. This year’s Human Rights Day also marks the launch of a year-long… Read More ›
Getting to point zero, Nigeria’s 2030 HIV/AIDS target
Nigeria joined the rest of the world to commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1 with the theme: ‘Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths’ by the year 2030. There is also a 2020 target to eliminate… Read More ›
Colour me orange
Today, November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Woman and the beginning of the 16-Day Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign which runs till Human Rights Day on 10 December. This year, the United Nations Secretary… Read More ›
Touched by an act of kindness
I recently followed my mum to the hospital to have an x-ray done. As it was quite sunny before we left the house, adding on layers of clothing or even a cardigan to go didn’t seem like a sensible option on a… Read More ›
My Chatty Mind 