Mr. Exponent's Blog

I got the image from someone I follow on Instagram and that got me thinking instead of laughing, really. Oh, Nigerians! We create humour out of our problems, we accept the abnormal and make it normal, we civilize our primitivity by conceptualizing and developing a mindset and a lifestyle different from the rest of the world! Nigeria, my fatherland! We are constantly in the quest for survival, we are thriving in the midst of strive and horror, creating humour out of our nuisance and ignorance! Africa! We remain the world's celebrators of mediocrity, greed, nepotism, injustice and societal imbalance. Disequilibrium is a norm in our society, the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" is so widen! The middle class is lost in the equation. Its either you are rich or poor-you have to belong to one class! Our leaders are visionless, their thinking pattern is far from advancement and civilization, our system is deeply corrupt, our youth'...

The future of businesses is online. Sales and marketing, commerce has gone “e”. I.e. Electronic. Technology is now the new tech block. To strive as a brand, SMEs must have their digital footprint visible online, they need to consider online advertising and social media marketing will be key to business growth and continual sustainability. Over the past decade, businesses and brands are using advertising as a way to boost sales, increase growth and generate quality leads. Marketing methods is evolving and the need to engage with the new form of marketing is essential to business growth. The era of budgeting huge amount of money on traditional marketing like newspaper adverts, radio jingle and billboards is fast becoming secondary to marketing. Most brands new engage online marketing by leveraging on social media as a way to market their products and services to a wider audience. In an ever increasingly competitive environment MSMEs have to find new and innovative ways to di...

What do you want? Another year is right here and the clock is ticking, the days are passing by, the weeks are rolling over and half of the second month is already gone! 2017 promises hope, opportunities, advancement, succor, success and fortune as well as disappoints, failures, misfortune, economic challenges like this current recession the Nation going through now. But you know what: you must decide what you want this year in spite of. This year can be same of the same as the previous year and the yesteryears. In fact, this New Year can just be the same as the previous year carried over or let me adopt the accounting term—brought forward if you make no move to improve your life, to advance your course, to be better. A change of date does not necessitate that the year is fresh or new-fangled. What makes a year new, hopeful and promising is essentially a change of mindset, a change of attitude or behavior, a change of idea or plan, a change in belief system and practice, a change o...

So on Monday 14 th of November, 2016, the Worship His Majesty (WHM) week-long conference began in grand style. WHM conference is an annual festival of praise, varieties, worship, warmth, word and thanksgiving service at the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, that features the best worshippers in church and some invited gospel artistes. This year’s edition is a special one at that. The opening ceremony of the WHM began with a musical production by the celebrated Choir—Grace Levites, featuring the talented gospel rapper, actor, preacher and youth Pastor Jimmy Odukoya, popularly known as Pastor J who happened to double as the MC for the day. Following the excellence delivery of praise and worship by Arinze, the talented and skillful Grace Levite and the Grace Band mounted the stage with power, energy, enthusiasm and attitude (swag) with Pastor J as the chief choir master. What a beautiful combo! Even the Host of Heaven was blessed! Beyond entertainment a...

So on Saturday, October 29 th 2016 we were live at Four Point at Sheraton, Victoria Island, for the “Switch Conference”, paid entry and the afternoon free entry- “Social Enterprise Conference”, powered by SMEHouse and Gtext Group. Special thanks to Mr. Stephen Akintayo, Nigeria’s premier digital marketing consultant (as he fondly call himself), CEO/MD of Gtext Group and SMEHouse, for his dedication to youth empowered particularly in tech and digital businesses. The Switch Conference was an eye opener as secret to thriving in business and career during economic recession were exposed. In fact, the Social Enterprise Conference too was wow with Speakers like the former Deputy Governor of Lagos, Mrs. Sarah Sosan, Mr Dayo Isreal, Mrs. Bukola Meshida Adefope, CEO of The Pegasus, Mr. Deji Irawo, and a host of other fantastic speakers on board to share their unique experiences and secrets in life and business. If only our youth can leverage on the power that resi...

#happyindependenceday Nigeria @56! We may not be where we ought to be as a Nation, but certainly we are not where we used to be! #Gbamest! It depends on how you see it, God has been faithful in this country o. Despite our diverse challenges, ethnic diversity, political quagmire, societal disequilibrium, social imbalance, imbecile, visionless, purposeless, selfish, deceitful, corrupt leaders and clueless, unambitious, lazy, crassly ignorant youth en masse in our ecosystem, and now the recession we en mesh ourselves into etal, Nigeria is still standing. And the future is never bleak! I believe in the future of Nigeria. The "change" might have chained, oh, sorry, changed all us, yet, we are not put to shame! The speculations by some "political idiots" that Nigeria would break as been faltered because right now we are still standing. We are ONE NIGERIA! We are still NIGERIANS!!! I don't know about you, I believe in the future of this great country. And I will ...

That destiny moment when you feel a very strong, unusual, “enigmatic”, inexplicable, unforgettable presence of God in a service, nay, a musical concert! There is no better way to describe the mightiness, sovereignty, and awesomeness of God especially because He alone can determine when, how, what and who to favour and bless at any day, anytime anywhere, anyhow. Obviously, God is such an expert in performing wonders and turning people’s lives around in a twinkling of an eye without anyone’s permission or apology. That is why He is the “I am that I am”. So God decided to surprise His children on Saturday, 17 th  of October, at the 2016 Emerge live Concert—an awesome praise concert organized by the coolest youth church in Nigeria, Church316, the youth arm of The Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos. And so the Emerge Leadership Conference 2016 cannot be soon forgotten in the annals of everyone that attended, particularly the emerge live concert that featured beau...