Pocket of Thoughts™ by Saint Akanji

Life is a product of personal responsibility (David Oyedepo).  In the third term of my fifth year in high school, I was nominated as the lead house prefect (with two other assistants). A year before this, I got the prize for the best student in Government. Five years before this, my name would never have come up even if 100 names were shortlisted. My academic performance was at best average. Let's just put it that I was least unlikely to succeed. I didn't have anything that stacked up as "special". Such position as the House Captain was reserved for those with special talent or skill. So how did I become the House Captain? How did I become a prize winner? Between my JSS 1 & 3, I was very highly inconspicuous. My one minute fame was when I got the notoriety for being a lover and performer of Fela Anikulapo's music. I used to serenade my friends with the tunes of the legend. My chance came when I was whisked away to the box ...

In my honest opinion, the concept of mass youth unemployment remains a very distant concept to me. I am humble enough to say that I don't know what it really means to be jobless. I hope my naivety can be forgiven. My guts tell me that most of the people (Oga at the top) that we expect to create jobs don't have a clue what it means not to have a job. They can't help us because they don't just gerrit! What most of us don’t know is that you really don’t have a right to create, serve or lead if you lack the human skill of empathy. (Now that’s a line you should tweet right there). lol Everywhere I turn these days, I hear “the world is changing very fast”. It’s changing faster than most of us can possibly phantom. In the midst of these major shifts, new realities are created. All you have to do is look around you to see this. Chances are that before I finish typing these words, Google Android would have released a new operating system. Competition has married Col...

  My post NYSC job was as a Business Analyst in a mid-sized supply chain management company. Oh dear, it was a great time of my life (talk of the Good, Bad & damn right Ugly). So, one of the things I enjoyed about the job was the latitude to relate with the business groups. Like a typical start-up, there was really no “THIS IS MY JOB” thing. The idea was to get the job done. Nuff said!    Is it true that we humans (our businesses included) are victims of an Icarus Deception? That all things being equal, (whoever came up with that idea anyway) we would rather stick to the status-quo. This concept claims we love inertia so much that we won’t move until we are moved.   To be conservative, there are more than 100 supply chain companies in this clime (DHL, FedEx and others). So how come none of them with their robust architecture for distribution haven’t considered venturing into the e-commerce space not as a support system but as a key player?...