Olusola Samuel's Blog

In Nigeria, almost everyone is always complaining about the bad living standards. We all agree we have had series of misLeaders rather than leaders...but there is some hypocrisy going on here.Most Nigerians are pretending. Yes, they are pretending as if those that ruin and are ruining this country are unknown. They say, 'Our Public office holders are corrupt' but they hold people holding these offices in high esteem. The same people that ruined this country are those we wish could grace our parties or anniversaries as 'special guest of honor'. They are the same people we wish we knew so that they could 'connect' us. They are the same people we troop in numbers to protest in support of when they are being prosecuted. They are the same people we think highly of; confering them chieftainship titles. They are the same people we will hold 'Welcome Home Parties' for when they leave public office, for a 'job well done'. They are the sa...

I'm having a rethink about the the title of this post, maybe it should have been "Humans do not want to be told to change their". In other to protect our ego, we humans resist being told that we are wrong - whether its about our favorite football club or about our religion or about the politicians we choose to support - we feel that our ego is threatened when we are told by others that we are wrong. Permit me to share with you an excerpt from James Harvey Robinson’s enlightening book 'The Mind in the Making:' "We sometimes find ourselves changing our minds without any resistance or heavy emotion, but if we are told we are wrong, we resent the imputation and harden our hearts. We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem which is threatened. . ...

It's still a shock to those of us that hosted sites and registered domains with domainking Nigeria that our sites and domains are gone. For website designers, it was a real mess, how do one explain to clients that the site they paid for is gone? I bet most of us lost clients to the mess. In this post I will be explaining to those that registered domains with domainking.ng how they can retrieve their domains back (as I did to mine). One thing we must know is that, domainkingNigeria is just a domain reseller , they actually register domains with publicdomainregistry.com (PDR). Now to move your domain, you need to contact PDR to help you move your domain to another reseller . Luckily for me, I found another reseller of PDR named Qservers . The following are steps to moving your domain: First register with Qservers Download and fill this form from PDR here NOTE: you have to fill the form manually, then scan it. Since you are transferring to qservers, you will...

Books are meant to be read Just as we need foods to grow our bodies, we also need a kind of 'mental food' to grow ourselves mentally. If you don't put food in your mouth, there is no way you will not get hungry, likewise if we do not regurlarly 'feed' our brain with knowledge, there is no way we can become brilliant students or become good at what we do. The friends you keep determine you Except for personal development through reading, another factor which determine our success academically and in life generally is the friends we keep. Jihn Rohn said,"You are the average of the five people you spend most times with". This is true, look at your life and also the life of your friends, are you not in the same level? The friends we keep either help us to get to the top or bring us down to their own level. Make sure you choose friends wisely, distant yourself from friends that are affectiong you negatively. They are like the anchor used t...

I think the reason betrayal hurts so much is because it usually comes from a loved one. Bukola Elegede, (a.k.a Asha ) sang:  " So it was you, it was really you, you picked up the knife, then you cut me into two, you stabbed me at the back, then you twisted it in..."  Your enemy cannot betray you only your friend can. Why?  Firstly, it is because we usually have 'no deal' with our enemies where we would expect their loyalty.  Secondly,it is also because we don't usually confide in our enemies, we confide in our friends, family or spouse and we usually expect them to be loyal to us.  Events around the world have shown that the people we confide in may sometimes(if not most times) betray us, we have heard of stories of spouses betraying each other, brothers betraying brothers, sisters betraying sisters, children betraying parents and so on. The common thing about all these betrayals is that they involve two parties that had trusted each other before. ...