Did you know?
In February 1976, Arthur Ashe, the first black man to win the Wimbledon, US and Australian Opens, was in Nigeria to play a $60,000 Lagos Tennis Classics tournament inside the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.
He was in the second set of the semis when problem started!
Has anyone conducted a research to confirm that the plastic GP tanks we store our cooking water in in almost all Nigerian households do not leak microplastics or carcinogens into our water? After sitting in the sun for 10 hours everyday and heating up….
Exactly this time last year, I was killing it in the final interview for this quoted role I genuinely believed would take my entire family out of the trenches.
I even made the interviewers realise the exact responsibilities the role should cover, responsibilities they didn’t even know existed before that moment.
The cybersecurity manager was so impressed that she turned on her camera and said, “You didn’t ask anything about Qatar. Don’t you like it here? Let me show you around so you can get familiar with the environment before coming.”
About three weeks later or so, the hiring manager assigned to me called back to say leadership had met about my case. They agreed I was the perfect choice, but their policy requires any expatriate coming in to lead a team to have over ten years of experience.
My heart sank. I was confused, angry, and full of questions, but too exhausted to ask any. I just replied, “Okay,” and ended the call.
You reviewed my CV, I passed several rounds of interviews, and you didn’t notice that I didn’t have 10+ years of experience? I outperformed the other candidates and you still didn’t see the potential?
Our beloved President, John Dramani Mahama, has delivered one of the best speeches at the General Assembly this year.
He touched on everything from Palestine, Sudan, Climate Justice, Reparations to Equal Representation.