Thoughts and Ideas from the Arabian Gulf
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has long been an integral part of Nigeria’s educational and national development landscape. Established in 1973, its primary objective was to foster unity, promote cultural exchange, and instill a sense of national pride among young graduates. However, as the years have passed, concerns have emerged that the original purpose…
Nigeria’s bewildering security and economic problems seems to be going only one way, that is up. At every turn of the news page, kidnappings, banditry, and so many other atrocities seem to have become normalized in this country with over 200 million souls. Whatever the government is currently doing seems to be not working or…
It has been 3 years, 5 months, and 20 days since I last published on this blog. Yes, this long! There is a condition I came to know about called Writer’s block, in which a writer loses the inspiration or motivation to write, but I didn’t consider myself a writer in the first place. I…
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is one of the most interesting subjects in the tech world today, I read earlier in the week that Facebook developers had to shut down an AI because ‘it’ started developing its own language (I called it AI++) that the Facebook developers do not understand. This just sounds like an amazing science-fiction…
If you are just starting up your company, there are so many hurdles and challenges that you will definitely face during your journey, it doesn’t matter how many years of experience you have in the industry, or how much money you have in your bank account, in fact startups with the fewest amount of money…
So many times I receive phone calls and messages from friends and even people that I don’t know asking me if I can help them find a Job in Dubai. I usually refer them to some well-known job portals in Dubai where they can submit their CV and apply for available jobs. But the kind of jobs…
Insurgency in Nigeria has been around for more than 5 years now. General Elections are just around the corner and we still don’t know if election will hold in the states under emergency and some territories currently under the control of the insurgents.
Yes, I finally waved goodbye to Facebook, forever! There is big difference between between suspending an account and deleting it, by suspending, it means you will be back someday, by deleting, it means you will lose everything and if you want to return you must create a new account, request all your friends to add…
It has been 4 months now since students in Nigerian Universities were kicked out of school by the Academic Staff Union, not the longest stay-at-home order by the Union, but one of the worst ever. I look at this and wonder about so many atrocities befalling the country, security situation, economic woes, epidemic political climate,…
It is 8:30 in the morning, fast metro-train swift sounds, buzzing car sounds, with police sirens, it is just a bustling modern Kano city, Salim was rushing to reach the new Alga station. His phone rang and it is his friend Amin, “Hello Amin” he answered quickly while taking his clothes from the double decked…
