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Buying Naija to grow Naira is way beyond buying deats by dre headphones, nika shoes, or adercrombie tops, its way more than that. We want quality stuff too how but do we create something at a low cost without compromising quality? Of course it’s a gradual process and we’re getting there bit by bit but how about we stop our imitations and focus on doing something unique or creating our own brand? Most of us would rather make addas shoes so that Nigerians who cannot afford Adidas shoes will be able to afford addas so we call it our original. How is it even original if we’re obviously failing in our imitation? We’re scared that people might not patronize an entire different brand but that’s only because we don’t want to take time to gain the trust of fellow Nigerians so we’d rather just give them something they’re used to. That has got to change and it has to start with/from you. If you have a weird idea or something out of the norm, find ways to implement it. Don’t be scared to grow ...

So I walk up to my Pastor to ask him if it’s okay for me to smoke while praying (no, I didn’t do that) then he lectures me about how it seems disrespectful and how my prayers would probably not even pass through the ceiling of my room talk less of it going straight to heaven to God himself. Imagine if I had asked him instead if I could pray while smoking, he’d have most likely seen no wrong with it because one is expected to be able to pray anytime regardless of what we were doing before deciding to pray. That’s exactly how most of us pray. The problem isn’t in what we ask for but how we ask for it. Even the bible (apologies to non-bible readers) says that most of don’t receive answers to our prayers because we ask amiss/wrongly/out of order. So we know what we want, but putting them in the way it should be, saying them as it is meant to sound becomes a challenge which ends up being the reason behind many of our unanswered prayers.   If you were God, what kind o...

I usually don’t do first posts of the year but I just need to ask, how effective is your New Year resolution? How effective was it last year? New Year resolutions have been a norm for us year in, year out. We make certain promises to ourselves, some make it mentally while some even go ahead to write them down. Sometimes, we share the resolutions with others and sometimes we don’t, we just plan to work on them low-key. It works sometimes while some doesn’t work, we just repeat the same cycle over and over. The truth is, you don’t have to make those resolutions if you don’t want to. Some of us make resolutions because everyone else is making them or because we just don’t want to go with ‘the flow’ which actually defeats the purpose of making the resolutions at all. It’s another ‘new year’ and I’m sure a lot of us already have things we’ve resolved to do this year but it’s easier said than done right? Maybe you want to stop smoking and drinking this year, or you want to start a...

Welcome to the OTTH Fastest Finger Contest for the year 2016, we’re not giving out much today but we’re giving out more than we did last year and we’re definitely going to do better next year. We intend to show our gratitude more than once every year because you’re always here more than once for us so you can keep your fingers crossed because it’s going to happen from time to time from now on. We’ll be having two rounds, one right now and the other by 1pm so if you miss the first round, you can participate in the other. The recharge cards would be out as soon as anyone posted before it has been recharged and the ‘recharger’ has admitted to recharging it. If you win any of the vouchers, please comment on the blog so we can be sure of who the winner is and if you have trouble commenting, please send a mail to odusolar@gmail.com so we can be sure you recharged it. Without further ado, let’s get it started! MTN; 0377443685754620 AIRTEL; 540641785...

Dear OTTH readers, how are we? I’m extremely fine and excited maybe because I can perceive 2017 already, it smells like suya garnished with tomatoes, cabbage, onions and cucumber. So I’m going to officially wish us a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I do really wish that we can do this again next year but why not really? If Jesus tarries though. This year wasn’t so bad for me because I can’t say there were no bad times but I have a lot to be thankful for this year and I’m going to share some with us. For the sad part, we lost two legends, OJB Jezreel and Nomoreloss. Their deaths seemed personal to me, why should it not? I loved those men. May their souls rest in perfect peace. Now to the positives, my connections this year have grown larger and better, thanks to those who made it happen (Babalakun Femi, Uncle K among others). My knowledge has greatly increased (I wish ba?). It only gets better yeah? With God on the side of my family and I, the economic recession has g...

It has been said that trust takes years to build but sadly can be lost overnight. Building trust however might be a difficult task as experience has taught a lot of people not to trust anyone. Trust is foundational for any relationship, whether business or personal. When trust breaks, a fracture occurs in the relationship. These fractures weaken the foundation of the relationship, with more fractures creating an overall unstable relationship. There are steps which we can take to commence the trust building process and one of my favorite websites - dumblittleman - explains some of these steps; Lead by example. Show people what trust looks like by acting like a person who is worthy of trust. They will eventually take a cue from you and begin to trust you gradually. Be transparent. Open communication is essential for building trust so you need to create grounds that can allow for that and the more transparent you are, the more the other party gets comfortable with the idea of tru...

And the award goes to...CHRISTMAS. The crowd cheers while Christmas walks up to the stage to collect its award. Christmas deserves it, don't you think? For being the season of love that has indeed brought love that cut across every part of the society regardless of age, standard of living or gender.  I remember us being asked in church to bring gifts for exchange so we usually got little things we could afford of course from perfumes, to fancy pens, to clothes etc. But it never really mattered what the content of the package you're exchanging with your partner was, what matter was that the act took place - the exchange of love. We believe that love is giving because it really is. You cannot truly love without giving, no matter how little.  Christmas is the only period children from strict families are allowed to eat or drink from their neighbor. People exchange food and drinks - an act that would most likely not happen on a normal day. The importance of giving gift...