My foray into the development space was rather serendipitous, after years of working as a Segment Manager focused on the youth demography in two of the leading financial institutions in Nigeria. Serendipitous, because I transitioned into a Programmes Manager role in a not-for-profit that was equally youth focused, but that was the main similarity between […]
November is the month of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and in light of that, Entrepreneurship is the broad discussion theme on the Social Conscience talk-show for the month. With this,the conversationskicked off with the topic, ‘Entrepreneurship or Employability – Addressing Nigeria’s Youth Unemployment’. It was such a delight to have Mrs. Detoun Ogwo, an External […]
Democracy reportedly has its early origins from Greece and history tells us that the Greeks developed a ‘’three-way Democratic Code’’ which was used to assess the behavior and eligibility of electors within Athens & Sparta. The groups of people identified, and which would be found in any society area as follows: There are reportedly studies […]
October 10 was World Mental Health Day, and it occurred to me that in these parts of the world, mental health is not a “thing”. A couple of years ago, I recall feeling tired, generally unwell and a bit cranky – being a hypochondriac, I went to the hospital and all my tests came back […]
“You carry the weight of a generation on your shoulders, so make it count – what you want to do is not to gain self-accolades, but to be an example for other young people.” Akintunde Oyebode. The quote above is a poignant message that resonated during my interview with Akintunde Oyebode (Akin), the current Commissioner […]
The National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) recently published the unemployment rate for 2020 and below are some of the insights gleaned from reports: In conversation with my friends, Temi and Akanimoh (Akay) – we decided to discuss the possible drivers of youth unemployment in our dear country. Akay and I were on the same side […]
There I was, on a wintery day, somewhere in West London, sat in front of this slightly built, caucasian gentleman with a bald head, his glasses sitting right on the bridge of his nose and almost glued to his face. Steve was my Sociology teacher at the independent A’Levels college I was studying at. The […]
Hypothetically speaking, if the Nigerian youth were to write a Letter of Intent to lead the country, the appropriate sign-off line would be ‘Yours Cavalierly’. To be cavalier is to behave in a careless, dismissive or non-chalant manner about an issue. To put it more crudely and to better depict the local context of how […]