Let me paint you a picture. Church service ends at 12pm. Most of the time. This Sunday, I boil white rice in the morning before we leave, so we can have rice and stew when we get back. I never make lunch before church on Sundays. I know it’ll make Sunday afternoon easier, but I have a lot to get done on Sunday mornings. The food timetable on the fridge says “fresh tomato rice” but I don’t want to do that after church today. I started reading a Marian Keyes book on Saturday night and I want to get home, feed my offspring and lie in bed reading till my head aches. There’s stew in the fridge. There’s always stew in the fridge. I just don’t like rice and stew very much. Maybe because I grew up eating it a lot. The food timetable has rice varieties for lunch every Sunday, but no rice and stew. Never rice and stew.  Wow! This is a new record for digression! But all is well that provides context. Back to the picture. We get home, I heat up the stew, and serve everyone food. Except ...

First of all, is it really modern parenting? I can absolutely imagine Mama Chike in post-colonial times saying to her neighbour, “Leave Chike for me. He will learn how to fetch firewood when he wants to. Go and advice yourself!” or Papa Ebimo saying “Eh i know that all Ebimo’s mates have started practicing on their own small parcels of land, but Ebimo said he does not like it so there’s no problem. There is enough in my barn to feed all of us.” Maybe it's always been like this, or maybe we need to bring back shame. We don't have to decide. Let me tell you how parents are ruining education. Lack of participation. Do you know why a lot of kids are dumber than usual underdeveloped? (Sorry, kids.) Because their parents never speak to them. Parents are engaging less and less with their children. And we can blame the economy and how much people have to work these days, but also, very busy executives with families are making time to cheat on their spouses. So really, if you wanted t...

 How to Turn Followers into Buyers The Art of Seduction Underwear - lacy. Colors - black, red. Holes - discreet, deliberate holes. Hair - wild. Makeup - accentuating. Facial expression - naughty, petulant, or clueless. Silky strings everywhere. What is one thing that can be said about this? It’s intentional. I don’t know how men do it, but for women, seducing a man may look effortless, but a lot of thought goes into it. It’s planned. If you think your girlfriend is being seductive without trying, it’s because she’s just that good at it. Whether it’s in a t-shirt and shorts, a silk nightgown or even a towel, seduction is a practiced art and more than anything, it’s planned. No matter how beautiful the girl is, if she really wants to “get down” with the guy, she has to be purposeful about it. If motivating sex that gives brief pleasure takes so much planning, why do you think converting your audience to buyers will just happen? How to Get out of the Friend-zone (or Get Buyers) Show u...

  I like soup. But that’s not what this piece is about. I used to be a terrible cook. My husband will never admit it but he knows it’s true. I used to be very easily distracted, so I’d be writing an article in my head while cooking Oha soup and more times than I can count, there would be so much Achi in the soup that I’d have to pour a bucket of water in it to make it lighter, which often resulted in the soup becoming like rivers of living waters . Why am I talking about soup? Because just as it’s possible to be bad at cooking, it’s very possible to be bad at personal development. So the problem sometimes is not that you’re not engaging in personal development, but that you’re just bad at it. Is being bad at something a reason to stop doing it? Of course not! It’s a prompt to learn how to do it better, and that’s what I want to teach you in this article. Here are some mistakes you might be making: What’s the first thing you do when you decide to make a pot of soup? I used to just...

There are prostitutes, there are runs girls and there are “girlfriends”. In the world of paid companionship, there’s a clear hierarchy.  There are those who are in the dark corners of the roads in lower class neighbourhoods, putting in the work with creative marketing, reaching out to the target audience and offering significant discounts regularly. The second tier of paid companions take a different approach to marketing, in that they are not obvious in their marketing. They are there, but they’re subtle. They hardly ever have to solicit, their strategy is positioning. Their target audience is the middle class, and those trying hard to appear upper class. They simply popup in the places where their target audience is most likely to be; the fairly expensive clubs and lounges, the supermarkets, the restaurants, church even. They know where the client is and they make those places home. What should be noted about their form of marketing is that it mostly integrates engagement, rather...

Let me tell you about my wedding; well, the activities prior to my wedding. I had just launched a new business, my content development agency - Words on Us, and I was very very busy. The only friend I had in the region I was living in then, which was also the location for the wedding, was also very very busy with work. I didn’t know a lot about wedding planning because I'd never really been interested. My mom was also very busy with work and my sister was living far away. Considering all these things, my husband and I agreed to hire an event management agency. Now, this agency was great; they had these lovely videos of their work all over social media and they did have a lot of good ideas. However, they made a huge mistake that so many service providers make without even knowing.  The event management agency forgot about the client and focused on all the wrong things e.g. what is cool, what is trending, what others are doing, what most people like, what they’d been doing, etc. Thes...