A Night Stand On the Ninth Planet written by Lanre Olagunju.

My invitation as a guest speaker at the 5th annual national undergraduate summit in Abuja took away sleep and tranquility away from me for days like it would to any speaker. In time past, my interest and social comments on issues like etiquette, morality, politics, economics and nation building has always been the basis for my speaking invitations and engagements. At a time like this, I’ve got no...

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The best of the world’s treasure remains the human mind written by Lanre Olagunju

Great treasures of the earth look unappealing, ugly and insignificant in their novel state. Besides that, they require so much strength, time, purification and refining before they look any useful or beautiful to behold. In fact they lodge in places where you least expect. Or how do you explain that petrol that fuels our cars resides thousands of feet beneath the earth surface as crude oil, same as...

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Flash Light Phones: Bait for Sudden Death. By Lanre Olagunju

What else can be more axiomatic than to say that death is inevitable? One of the surest things is that whatsoever has a beginning must surely have an end. Living in a country that has succeeded in fulfilling all of the indices of a failed state like ours, a nation with an unending intercourse with abject poverty, despite that she has no business been broke let alone been poor. You realize that people...

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It Pays to Treat People Right by Lanre Olagunju.

Undoubtedly, human beings are the most treasured creature on planet earth; unfortunately, men don’t treat men as such. No society can succeed beyond the premium it places on people, after all government is all about people and people alone.The parallel reason for the irreconcilable differences between the western world and the poor third world countries like ours is the premium placed on human. Developed countries dwell on the understanding that human capital is the richest and most crucial recipe for economic development. To that effect, they...

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MY FRIEND by TOSIN BUCKNOR

I once had a friend who was quit ill. The least of what he had was a cold. But he also had malaria, and doctors suspected he was anemic as he was severely jaundiced.My friend was a lovely boy to look at. Well, in parts for some reasons he was developing skin allergies from things that were destroying him internally and so he had some patches' here and there. But he was also vibrant in certain areas and you could see and feel that in him.He had this wide grin that drew you in, and even though there were a few teeth missing and one or two of the...

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Tunde Olabenjo is young, he is relevant, and he is a role model... By: Lanre Olagunju

He is the CEO of EdgeWalk Solutions, the proud trendsetter and creator of the biggest and fastest growing mobile social networking site in Nigeria. You want to hazard a guess? 9jawap.net. This young chap bags numerous awards which include; first in a Software Exhibition held by National Association Of Computer Science Students NACOSS UNAAB in 2007, first in a Programming Competition held by National...

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Are You Growing Up or Just Growing Old?... By Lanre Olagunju

The reality that life is short should always be paramount in our minds. The shortness of our numbered days becomes more perceptible when we view life as a countdown which indeed is. As each day passes we increase without even knowing it because at the tick of each second, we automatically grow older in age. Everyone was born little and with virtually nothing apart from the beautiful birthday suit we came in, but, while some grow up into maturity by taking charge of life and its endless adventures and prospects, others just grow old acquiring so...

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IS WRITING NOW IRRELEVANT? By Lanre Olagunju

In time past, things have gone into extinction, certainly, in a short time many of the things present today will be regarded as history, in facts, like the case of the dinosaurs’ only pictures and books will be the evidence that such ever existed. But in this world and most likely in the one to come if there is any, writing will ever be relevant. This world I only know little of, and you may want to quickly query how I ever got the hint that there would be another? Books told me. Yes they did. Reflexively I have made mention of the word “books”...

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They Are Still Our Slaves

“We can continue to reap benefits from the black without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current method of containment that they use on themselves IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS”.“Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, the best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.”We now live in the information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their flight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily...

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The Essence of Love by lanre Olagunju

There is time for everything under the sun, and presently we are in the season of love but considering the importance and significance of love in the family, the nation, and the world at large, one can’t but keep wondering if love really should be seasonal. Love, due to its complexity, has a whole lot of different meaning to different people but this four letter word hasn’t been impressively understood...

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