What a day!

Been wanting to do this. I had my first visit to a Toastmasters club yesterday. I spent about an hour and a half. It was worth it. I visited the Elevation Toastmaster's club at the Elevation church, Lekki. This was a good choice for me as it is close to home (Home now is Ologolo, near Jakande, Lekki Expressway). I took part in the Table-Talk session and got good feedback. I spoke for 2 minutes on the topic: If you could travel back in time, within your family history, Who would you love to meet and why? My evaluator said I made use of the pause fillers (Kiitan had told me earlier when I was to make a presentation at work) and needed to make eye contact with my audience when speaking. She used the CRC method. Commend, Recommend and Commend again. I also listened to some prepared speeches by Toastmasters. I would love to attend again and join within the month. The next session is on 17th November 2018. I look forward to making prepared speeches myself.

I'll be straight. I took it to learn . To learn how Sales works in a different sphere. different from the electricity business. I have always had a passion for power. That's what drove me to work with the power sector. I didn't take it because my dad worked there. He didn't even have a part to play in my getting the job with BEDC, maybe we can say his' paying for my Power training course with NAPTIN which took about a Million Naira or over, was a part of it. But the power business was too direct. Monopolistic! I learnt a few things in the business but the lessons I got was limiting in my perspective. if I was to run an electricity business afterwards, I'll be good with it. Before the opportunity to work as a Product Analyst with MainOne came, I had told Kiitan I wanted to learn about Sales. I had even applied for a Business Analyst role 3 or 4 months before to get close to it. I wouldn't want to remove the part of the role paying more. It does (in...

I joined 16th April, 2016. I left BEDC 11th April, 2016. It was a good farewell. I had given a month's notice and also taught Opeyemi all I knew. He was to take over the two roles (Technical Assistant and Training Coordinator). He did and he is doing better at it (visited him about 3 weeks ago). Joining MainOne as a Product Analyst for the data centre has been a good experience. I won't say awesome as I have learnt not to feel too 'jivy' about a new job. I have noted difference in the way I was treated in my former place of work and here. I sometimes say that HR is non-existent over there when I have to compare.  I remember when I was invited for the Essay/interview. I observed the people and the workplace. There and then, I had decided that I wanted to be here (I told Kiitan this immediately after). There was something about the way they carried themselves. There was something about the environment (maybe because they were all young or so). Me...

Thanks to the CSH, Ondo & Ekiti States. Rumours were in the air about the coordinator of the VIPL-EU programme, Mr. Tunji Raphael. He was leaving BEDC they said. Every rumour had turned out true. He confirmed it the day he sent a mail to me requesting that I come to the Head Office for a handover session. Really! He was going to hand over to me?  That was some weeks back. I started the programme coordination. There were 28 trainees I was to start with. One didn't make it to the camp the first day (Chukwuma Offor...He made it with the next batch). I informed HR about him that night I remember and they said he didn't inform them. Mama K said he would have to join the next batch. That was how he exited. Another trainee was unruly, disobeyed the boot camp coordinator who reported him at the Head Office. He was also pulled out of the training also. Coordinating the programme has given me a different view of it. I was here over 3 years ago undergoing th...

My thought on the fuel crisis in Nigeria between December 2017 and February 2018 The scarcity of petrol at filling stations is not new to Nigerians. We've had the worst of it. But then we didn’t know the worst was yet to come.  So far as I have known, petrol scarcity has not been a topic for over a month but it was the issue for over two months from December 2017. The Buharinomics (never mind – it’s simply Buhari’s idea of economics) is not working for me. I know we are in a democracy but a firm statement or resolution with the petroleum marketers would have gone a long way I believe. This I did not hear of in the media. At Akure, petrol was sold for 180 Naira and above. The price at 180 was in February 2018. We bought at 200 Naira per litre and some people claim they bought at 250 Naira per litre at some filling stations. Only one filling station sold at 145 and as you might know, the trail of vehicles at such points would leave you with some doubt about joining. ...

Some call it a resignation. I wrote a piece some months ago. You can find it here . I have talked about how things have been with my present work and to be true, I have felt unexcited about the business since work began at Benin in 2014. It seems the only exciting thing was getting a new position and travelling. Every change in position or department was a challenge. I was up to the task but when I got used to it, that was it. I got bored. You can say that is normal, and I do know that it is for some people. But after a few months at BEDC, I began to feel it. There was no invention. Nothing to spice up. It felt rigid. Just the way things used to be. Once, I asked a technician/engineer about using an electrical machine for filling the oil in the transformer and he laughed at me, calling me a lazy guy. Oh, yea! I am that lazy. They used a manual mechanical process that required you to turn the knob in a circular motion till your joints ached. and you still had to continue. I to...