Do you rather I tell you some home truth or sugar-coat the realities on ground? I think I would choose the former; if you are reading this article, you have a maximum of a 100 years to live (well, I still have to sugarcoat it). Look at where you are today; do you think you would be where you are today if you made an alternate decision in the past. For example, if you chose not to go to school, you are likely not to be reading this article; you are likely not to have the friends you have; you likely not to be married to the person you are married to or working where you are working. It is funny how past decisions affects where we are today.

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What is all this fuss about project management? I have observed that when you are trying to get some plush jobs (not just any job because jobs have levels; I mean jobs that can make you permanently bid farewell to poverty), you are asked in an interview if you have a Prince2 or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Well, if you are like me, you simply focus the interviewers' attention to another certification you have and bridge the relevance. This strategy hardly works for an interviewer who doesn't have the final say.

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I hope it's no more news to you that 300 (three hundred) Zain executives were laid off last week and despite the fact that I have some other articles to write about, I have no choice than to invoke my calling by educating those that believe that this kind of thing can never happen to them. It is actually not what has happened but the feedback of what has happened and the chain reaction that can easily develop from this kind of event.

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Seriously, whenever I see a landlord, I see a smart investor especially in a country like Nigeria where there is neither price regulation nor downward review of commodities. Landlords have covered all the aces of investment – capital gain and leasing. Think of it, every investment follows these two patterns of investment. Where do I begin from?

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