Odusolar's Think Tank Hub

This year is the year, this year I’ll do this and do that, this year I won’t do this and do that anymore…bla, bla and bla. We all started this year with expectations, from others and from ourselves. We made plans. When the year started, to some, it was looking like ‘the year’ while to some it seemed like the year was still ‘booting’. Some people’s ‘year’ was still booting by April and their year finally started in august but somehow, they managed to achieve more than the person whose year started right on time. Some achieved not so much but are more fulfilled than those who achieved much more. Achievement means different things to different people I’ve come to find out. For me, this year has been very eventful. With numerous ups and downs, happy and sad moments, I’m mainly grateful for life for without life, I wouldn’t have been able to witness all I have. My main goal this year was to learn how to cook jollof rice and I think I’m almost there, you can come and find out. The purpose ...

Drama exists everywhere. In church, home, school, work etc. it is safe to say that drama exists in our lives in different ways. Drama isn’t necessarily negative or positive. It’s just drama and our reaction towards it determines how it’ll affect us whether positively or negatively. Our concern today is on workplace drama. I’ve worked in a few places and from what I hear about other places I haven’t worked at, it pretty much is the same thing. It’s inevitable, drama I mean. You can’t put people with different temperament, background, exposure, habits, etc in one place and expect it to be all fun and games. There are ways to avoid being affected by this drama when it arises and that’s the essence of this post. Thread carefully. If you’re new on the job or at your workplace, it’s important for you to observe everyone well enough to decide how you’ll relate with them. You won’t relate with them the same way because they differ from each other. Only through careful observation is how...

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying ‘don’t think of what your country will do for you, think of what you will do for your country’’ my question is ‘why does your country want you do things for it/her?’ oh well…this article isn’t even about our/my/your/any country, I want to talk about our churches. I gisted you guys some time ago about how some people wanted to crucify me one Sunday because I said I didn’t go to church that day. I was talking to my best friend about how I plan to split my tithe into two because a lot of churches don’t help the people.  They mostly use their money to beautify the structure, build it into a better looking one but neglect building up the people financially and materially. A lot of people give to churches not because they were led by the spirit but because they were instructed by their pastor to do so. I’ve heard stories of how people got broke giving all they had to the church because their ‘daddy in the Lord’ or ‘mummy in the Lord’ instructed them ...

Living in Lagos is a skill, that's what everyone is shouting. Even those who aren't living in Lagos are shouting and I'm just there like what? Biko shut up already before I...well, what can I do? I can barely help myself right now. Would have been easy if I could go back home but I can't even. Imagine oh, I left home by 12. I work as a customer service officer for wekofoam. On this day, I lied to fam that I had work meanwhile it was my off day. The plan was to go to Gbola’s place. Gbola was bae at the time so it was a love inspired trip. I stayed at a place called Enilolobo meaning ‘the person who went is the person who came back’. Whoever made those names though and it wasn't even a Lagos place. It was somewhere like 10 minutes from where actual Lagos started from my end - Ishaga. My afternoon shift usually starts at 2pm so I leave home by 11:30 to join the bus by 12. So I left around that same time on this fake work day. I had no cash so I planned to use the atm...

Who could have thought that Tunde, the bike man, would get his bike snatched from him by his passengers just this morning, this morning eh? He had just carried them from the junction to a destination he wasn’t too familiar with but he was going to ‘rough’ it. The ‘scope’ a lot of bike men uses to avoid losing their potential clients. He knew something was wrong when everywhere seemed quiet and deserted, that was when he told them he wasn’t going anymore. They agreed and got off his bike only to give him the beating of his life and left with his bike. He didn’t know how he got to the bus-stop. All he knew was that he was on the floor telling his story in tears to people hoping a good Samaritan was listening. He had his wife in the hospital and was hoping he’d make some money before evening to pay up part of her bills. He even had an outstanding debt of 500k which he had been paying in 50ks; he had paid just twice when the bike was taken - his only means of livelihood. He was a fathe...

I pray that you remain healthy I pray that you never have to consider surviving through illegal means I pray that you never have to invest in something that won't yield good results I pray that you find love I pray that the one you love loves you back I pray that you prosper I pray that you learn to unlearn bad stuff Hehehe, touche I pray that you have enough wealth to help others I pray that you never have to ask your enemies for food or anything I pray that you make your parents proud I pray that you have strength in weak moments I pray that you forgive even those who don't ask for it I pray that you find happiness I mean!!! He does hear I pray that you have sense to decipher nonsense I pray that you are surrounded by amazing friends I pray that you allow good thoughts override the evil ones I pray that you have the platform to showcase your talent I pray that you always have food on your table I pray that you always have cloth on your back ...

"Good afternoon oh" "Good afternoon sir" The bank teller collected the withdrawal ticket he stretched forth towards her and checked the application needed to verify if he was indeed the one. Verifying that, she went ahead to attempt to debit his ticket but it bounced back because his account didn't have the amount he requested. "Are you expecting cash?" she asked. That was a stylish way of telling him he didn't have the cash in account. He nodded in the affirmative. She felt sorry for him not because of his balance because that was something she saw happen every day, she only felt sorry because he looked like he really needed the cash. The smiling expression on his face turned straight as soon as she broke the news.   Few days later, he came again with the same ticket. She didn't bother verifying his signature and photograph as she was still yet to get over the other day's event. "Ekaasan sir" she greeted him i...