Author: Ifetayo Adeniyi

The Winning Attitude -5­ Trustworthiness! In his book, ‘The Speed of Trust’, Covey explained in detail how lack of trust has made some nations so poor and has increased bureaucracy in many nations thereby reducing productivity. For example, the many processes we set up in organisations today before goods or money can be approved is simply because of a lack of trust. As simple as a drug store, after you make payments to one person, another person will verify the payment before the drugs will be supplied. And another will still be at the exit to verify both…

Wisdom Tonic: The Winning Attitude -4 Intuition! Sometime last year, my boy got into a commercial cab in Benin City and was the only passenger at the back, with the driver and another passenger in front. The cab needed extra three passengers at the back, but the driver kept going without stopping for passengers along the road. After he had passed where usually have huge traffic and a very busy market, still without picking any passengers, the other passenger in front, who was not a passenger but an accomplice, brought out a gun and robbed my boy at…

OML 40 Contract: Host Communities Commend FG Initiatives Of Ceding Pipeline Job To OMSL. Video Courtesy: Arise tv Stakeholders and community members along the Trans-Forcado pipeline and Escravos Warri Refinery has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s wisdom by awarding to Ocean Marine Solution Limited, OMSL the contract of protecting the Nation’s critical assets in the oil rich communities of Delta State. Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, is one of Nigeria foremost asset protection Company providing security and surveillance for crude oil pipelines in Delta State. Members of the Community made this commendation following reports that Nigeria has lost an estimated…

Wisdom Tonic: The Power of Attitude- 5 Expectations? Express it! One fateful day in 2018, I was in the office reading the book ‘Good to Great’, by Jim Collins, and in one of the exercises, he asked that we should visualise the future and make some affirmative action as if it was already happening. I just got married a few months back, so I took my phone and sent my wife a text message. The text reads thus: “Hello dear, please clear your calendar for this date and make arrangements for the kids, you will be going…

Late Capt Hosa’s Children Present Scholarships To 100 Edo Students In public Schools. The wife of Olu of Warri, Olori Atuwatse III, yesterday urged pupils to emulate the life of her late father, Captain Hosa Okunbo who she said was not born with a silver spoon but made it through hard work and determination. She stated this in Benin City when the late Okunbo family gifted 100 pupils and students selected from public schools scholarship for the session to mark their father’s 64th posthumous birthday. Flanked by his siblings, other family members and heads of…

The Power of Attitude-1 There is a post that keeps going round various social media that compares hardwork, attitude, and some other words by picking the letters of the words and replacing them with their corresponding numerical values. And the sum usually gives ATTITUDE as the only word which gives 100% result. Let us take the letters that make up the word ATTITUDE in pairs as we discuss how it can either make or mar an individual based on its right or wrong application. Adversity and Trouble. In the United States of America many years ago, research was carried out…

Jaruma, Nwoko And The Price of Wealth By Sunday Attah For the past three days the Nigerian media and indeed lawyers have been throwing themselves over the sensational news of the arrest, remand and eventual bail of self-acclaimed sex therapist , Hauwa Saidu Mohammed alias Jaruma. Jaruma who was arrested and charged to court over libel and defamation charges on the 21st January, 2022 had been remanded in prison custody and had to spend 3 days pending hearing of the matter which lawyers and media sensationalists have feasted upon trying to throw shade on the matter and the…

Jaruma granted bail after 4 days in custody as youth protest against fake news Controversial kayamatta dealer, Jaruma was on Friday granted bail by an Area Court in Zuba, Federal Capital Territory after four days in the custody of Nigeria Correctional Service. She was earlier arrested and arraigned for offences bordering on drug dealing and defamation of the character of former House of Representatives member and philanthropist, Hon. Ned Nwoko. The court had granted her bail under certain conditions while she prepares her defence. This comes as youths stage a peaceful protest against fake news in the…

PRESS RELEASE Suspected Drug Addict, Hauwa Sa’idu aka Jaruma Rearrested, Remanded in Prison Custody Controversial aphrodisiac hawker and suspected drug addict, Hauwa Sa’idu Mohammed who also goes about with the name has been rearrested by the Nigeria Police. She was on Monday arraigned before the Upper Area Court, Zuba, FCT. Hauwa Sa’idu was arraigned on count of Defamation of Character, Injurious Falsehood, Hate Speech, Criminal Intimidation and Publication of False News with Intent to Cause Offence Against the Public Peace at the Court where she pleaded not guilty. Her counsel made an application for her bail and the…

Deliver More Than Was Paid For. I don’t know about other climes but in Nigeria, there is what we call ‘Jara’ in our local parlance. It can be likened to that little addition to goods or services offered that was not paid for. For instance, after purchasing cereals like rice or beans, the buyer expects the seller to add a few extra seeds for free. The truth is, this addition is so little that it hardly alters the weight of the goods bought, but it can make a seller lose a potential buyer. When Joseph was hired to interpret the…