Category: Others

UP Nepa!

Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment
The National Electric Power Authority was apparently established in the era of Authorities: cf. Nigerian Television Authority, Nigerian Port Authority; and which other ones? And it has none left! No legacy either. One thing that NEPA is remembered for till tomorrow is the epilepsy, sometimes stroke, of power supply– a feature that has defiled President after President, even the shoeless one. And another has been… Read more

Surviving the times

Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment
Since deprivation has become something to be proud of by our elites, I suppose it is high time we talked about it. According to credible international studies, a stunning majority of my people live below the poverty line: US$1 per day. So that (falsely) identifying with the masses by laying questionable claims to childhood shoelessness enthroned one President, and may yet enthrone another if claiming… Read more
Sunlight Detergent

When the Customer Is ALWAYS Right. PART II

Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment
Many people have heard about the Sunlight Free Airtime Promo. Few people have taken it seriously. Fewer people know it works on all Nigerian mobile networks, and that it is real. Well, it is: real. As real as Sunlight detergent itself, and as real as Unilever Nigeria, that ogbonge company wey tanda for Agbara Industrial Estate, Agbara, Ogun State. Sunlight detergent Here’s how I know.… Read more

Why?

Adeola Adebowale Leave a comment
Thinking man Why should I ask why? We learn from our experiences or from the experience of others. In all we do, we constantly need to know the reason for the things we do, knowing why we want something, why we do the things we do, why we act the way we do. Asking why makes us have second thoughts and reason deeper, it helps… Read more

When the Customer Is ALWAYS Right. PART I: ETISALAT NIGERIA

Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment
I loved Etisalat. In fact, at a time when Nigerians have mastered the art of subscribing to multiple networks so as to buffer one with the other, i have become strictly Etisalat, buying SIM after SIM from the same network provider. Believing ?wrongly and ruefully that I was being ‘Naija for life’, and flaunting my network like nothing else mattered. Well, until they too showed… Read more