Damilare kuku!
Chiemeka Garricks
Awkaemezi ...
Trying to remember the author of "stay with me"
Lola shoneyin.
Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi!
Try these one's first.
P.S read every book by the author of stay with me.
I just finished reading Adanna, and before I drop my review, I want to make it clear that everyone who has read the book, including the author, needs to go to therapy.
A Nigerian culture that needs to die like yesterday is the one where Nigerians think they can just get away with anything just by apologizing. It doesn’t matter the magnitude of what they’ve done as long as they apologize.
It’s best to avoid pepperoni 🍕 to be on the safe side, then for gummy bears and other type of sweets - always check if it’s made in Turkey, and they mostly have the halal badge on it.
Sadly for Pizza, they use the same utensils to prepare it all, whether Pepperoni or not - same as restaurants selling porks. If it’s on the menu, I walk away!
They'd want to use "I love you" to injure you before marriage. After marriage, you'll be begging them to say it. Where and when to say it and earn the reward, the romance just dies. In the haram, romance was alive. In the halal,it died.
Sad stuff.
Did you know?
In Islam, Miscarried babies, stillborn babies, children who died before reaching the age of puberty are not “lost".
The Prophet ﷺ gave them a profound title "the Daa'mees of Jannah"
Unfortunately, you’re nothing but a source of entertainment fir people on the internet. Your life becomes entertainment for a while and then they move on to the next scoop. You’re not special, know this and know peace. Stop bringing your private life to the internet for crying out loud.
You have a moral responsibility to leave people alone to suffer the way that they choose.
All you can do is create an environment for them where if they don’t want to suffer they can come up for air.
But you can’t force another human being not to suffer.
If I were Tony Elumelu - or the HR - I’m sorry, but I’d seriously question whether I wanted her representing the organisation after that. And my reason isn’t simply because she called him “Tony.”
It’s the attitude that followed the correction.
First, what kind of “woke” workplace behaviour makes you assume you can call your CEO by his first name when he hasn’t given you that level of familiarity?
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with modern workplaces being less rigid, but professionalism and respect still matter. You don’t get to decide someone else’s preferred form of address simply because calling everyone by their first name feels progressive.
More importantly, the moment Mr. Elumelu corrected her and clearly said he doesn’t subscribe to being addressed that way, the appropriate response was simple:
“Thank you, sir. I’m sorry.”
That’s it.
Instead, what stood out to me was the apparent lack of remorse or acknowledgement after being corrected.
And that’s where the real lesson is.
You can make a mistake. You can misread a workplace culture. You can even unintentionally cross a professional boundary. But how you respond when corrected says a lot about your attitude, emotional intelligence and professionalism.
Respect is not old-fashioned.
Being modern doesn’t mean abandoning courtesy, hierarchy or basic workplace etiquette. And confidence should never be confused with unnecessary familiarity.
For me, calling him “Tony” was one thing.
The attitude after he corrected her was the bigger problem.