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 conversations kicked off with the topic, ‘Entrepreneurship or Employability – Addressing…
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 behaviour and eligibility of electors within Athens & Sparta. The groups of people identified, and which…
Police brutality is not a phenomenon that’s peculiar to Nigeria and the protests in the United States to end police brutality in the months preceding the EndSARS protests were testament to that. However, in the thick of the peaceful protests by young…
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…
“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…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently published the unemployment rate for 2020 and below are some of the insights gleaned from reports: Nigeria’s youth were the worst hit with over 13.9 million people aged between 15 and 34 years unemployed. Graduates…
There I was, on a wintery day, somewhere in West London, sat in front of this slightly built, a caucasian gentleman with a bald head, his glasses sitting right on the bridge of his nose and almost glued to his face. Steve…
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 nonchalant manner about an issue. To…