Year: 2016

Orji, Ngozi (MSc PhD Dr MBBS Consultant))

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Good morning beautiful people… Last week, my uncle called me. We’re not related by blood, but we’ve been family friends for a long time. I hadn’t heard from him in almost a year so when I saw his name pop up on my phone, I had to wipe my screen to make sure I was seeing clearly. “Ngor! Hawayoo?” “I’m fine thank you sir.” He’s at a weird age where he’s not so much older than us kids that we should be calling him uncle, but he’s also not our mate so we can’t call him by his first name. However, because he’s richer…

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A peaceful world without DSTv

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There was a time, some years ago, when news headlines always had one story or the other about Asian executives committing suicide. I did some research and discovered that it’s actually a thing with Japanese people, especially the men.  It’s called an honourable suicide. How it works is, a large organization starts to fail… maybe it experiences a colossal loss or there’s fraud exposed at top management level. The CEO or MD or high-ranking official directly responsible for the problems/fraud, will open a window in his large, sprawling, 20th floor office and jump out. No suicide note, no nothing… just his…

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Happy New Year in February!!

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Happy New year people!!! Yeah, I decided to drop by and say hi. How are you guys doing? Please forgive me! As usual, I have allowed too much time go by and now I don’t know where to start from with all the gist. There have been two major life changes since the last time we spoke so I’ll start from there. The “majorest” one is that I lost my job. *waits for applause to die down* For some reason, I was really embarrassed about this and that’s why I didn’t tell you guys. It happened shortly after my last…

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