Toochukwu Leonard's Blog

Today was a very eventful day. I went to Ikoyi to process some documents with an organization. After everything went down successfully, I boarded a bike from the place to Obalende, then a car to Oshodi from where I’ll take a tricycle to 7&8 park and then another tricycle to Canoe. Yeah, long and stressful journey. Welcome to Lagos. I was trying to save money, if not, an Uber would have been ideal. Anyway, what I’m writing about happened at Oshodi. The car stopped us at Oshodi Saleh. I had to cross the very busy road, and trek down to the place from where I’ll get a tricycle to 7&8. My story happened along the road. Oshodi is very notable for hundreds of people selling lots of different products along the road where people pass. I’m sure they’ll all be making loads of sales and profits. Why wouldn’t they? I estimate an average of 50, 000 people tread that same road every day. It should definitely be more than that, as Oshodi bus stop is one of the most popular bu...

Hello, Jambite, how are things going? I remember quite vividly when I was preparing for my UME exam, i.e., JAMB back in 2008. There were lots of emotions that I was feeling back then; lots of them, like Fear, Confusion, Apprehension, Resolution, Uncertainty, Faith, Confidence, and so on. As you can obviously see also, some of them are rather conflicting; but I felt them all anyway; all of them at the same time; some more intensely than others; some of them at different points during the preparatory stages of the exam. Some of them in fact remained and in some cases, even intensified after I wrote the exam. Why did I start with this? Well, I started like this because I want you to understand that I perfectly understand your emotions and feelings at this point, & also to tell you that it’s perfectly normal for you to feel those emotions. In fact, that’s what this article targets; to arm you with the necessary knowledge to eliminate those negative emotions and cling to the p...

It’s no news that Lagosians spend countless hours in traffic, and some are avoidable if you plan yourself well, others, however, cannot be avoided. Some commuters spend up to 5 hours or more in traffic every day to and from their place of work. Here are some possible things to do when you’re stuck in traffic, when either you’re driving your own car, or you’re in a commercial vehicle. 1. LISTEN TO AUDIO BOOKS The invention of audio books is one of the best things that happened to us in recent times in terms of how much we can learn and the flexibility of learning it. You could find good websites that give free audio books, or you could buy audiobooks from Amazon and other websites. There are hundreds of thousands of audiobooks right there filled with knowledge from all fields of life, including your very field waiting to be downloaded. If you visit YouTube, you could find lots of them there too. The good thing about listening to audio books is that you can do it while...