Your next destination in Lagos...Funtopia!

This should be where you want to go to next in Lagos (with family and friends) -Highly recommended!

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Loads and loads of fun family time....

It has a totally unspoiled beauty, clean and well maintained. You have to pay gate though, I think about N1,500 ($12) per person. Full catering inside and lots of games, rides and a play pen/baby pool.

Will visit the Nigerian Conservation Site this Saturday, promise to bring you pictures of the visit.

Lagos Palaver!!!

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Has anyone seen Lagos in the rains? This is Iponri - Surulere exactly opposite the Iponri Shopping Complex, Lagos this rainy season.

All Vehicles in Lagos state are amphibians. They can swim, back flip and breast stroke in windshield-high waters caused by a variety of problems, inadequate drainage, inadequate utility maintenance, bad roads, poor environmental habits, human factors etc. It is also painful to think that we have had 8 years of (mis) rule from Gov. Tinubu. I am not going to talk about what obtains in Ikoyi/Victoria Island/Lekki, I will simply bring those pictures to the forum when next I blog.

Finally! my GMAT score

I feel so accomplished with the fact that i have given myself an impetus for advancement by scoring 700 on my GMAT. It has taken me no less than 12 years of nurturing the dream to do Ivy League MBA. My first attempt at MBA has proved to be no mean task, coping with work life balance had been taking its toll on my dreams for this length of time.



I did something really incredible today while browsing the net for scholarship, i was reminded of a website that a dear friend had talked about. The site hosted by Joint Japan/World Bank profiled a couple of study areas eligible for scholarship consideration by prospective applicants to the fund; Economics, Health, Policy, Agriculture and the like, subject areas that should help the average LDC attain their MDGs by the 2010.



The site had not listed my area of proposed study, Entrepreneurship which i considered very relevant to economic development of both the individual and the country. Going through all the Fund's criteria for eligibility I found that I seriously stood a chance albeit the non-inclusion of my area of study.



Being that I had a passion for the subject area and felt that the Fund's processes had not been reviewed for a while, I settled to write a PROTEST email to them. I found myself trying to justify to them how my country would benefit from this concept and how my ex President had within the last year established an institute for Entrepreneurial Studies in one of our local Universities.

This he felt was a new global trend that deserved attention.



I am also browsing several other sites with the hope of turning up the winning formula for a scholarship, BTW, if anyone is kind enough to lead me to some Internet destinations which could provide me with all my needs, i will be most grateful.



Let keep persevering as we hold the dream! Peace!

How Not To Win Elections.....2

Hello, Is there anyone out there keenly following up on Nigerian news? We just got a BIG! BIG!! surprise in the news yesterday here in Nigeria! Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State won a judgement in the Supreme Court against current governor who got elected in phantom electoral process I described in my first How Not To Series. Governor Obi ought to serve out a 4-year tenure going by the Constitution starting from when he was installed as governor BUT his mandate was never handed over to him but to certain favourable person to the government. He was however re-instated (temporarily) eventually through the justice system and the same system has given him back HIS mandate. It's a real way forward for Nigeria.

This thing called LUCK...

Is Luck ephemeral? or is it a given? Does it just occur naturally only to dissipate when you question its existence?

I have a colleague who says that what ever she wishes for she gets and for as long as she has lived its been that way for her......I really do not know what to think because as far as I am concerned mine seem to come in spurts of luck. Here today, gone tomorrow!

No matter how much I will it to stay it rarely does! The circumstance that I am going through today is a typical case in point. I needed to get something done very quickly, got there early and got disappointed, but by some stroke of luck, overnight my hard working partner strived to accomplish the task at about 12 midnight (not much sleep for him) and gave me the good news of success this morning, needless to say, I was so happy and trusted my luck. As I felt content browsing, this morning, he comes up to me saying that all the information downloaded had gotten lost overnight due to power outage! OMG!The temp office had no back-up facility, no generators, no inverters, nothing!

Tough Luck!!! But as the Good Book says, " Praise God in all things, whether good or bad,' so I have resorted to do just that today.

God almighty, I praise you even for all my floundering, I still give you thanks because you know my end from my beginning! Praise Be.

The How Not To Series.....

1. How not to conduct an election in the 21st Century - Cue from the recently concluded general elections in Nigeria where massive voting took place only on the pages of the Result Sheets and not in the actual electoral booths! Apparently, in one location in Imo state, voters turned up to vote, cast their votes quite alright but guess what? - the Returning Officers had no sheets to record the results on. Where? the sheets never arrived! Not that it was meant to!

Add your interesting bit to the How Not To Series....

What do we call this - mid career crisis?

I do not know how many women out there can identify with this situation - You are suddenly at a point in your life where you must stop in order to grow! You have children (which is perfect) AND a career that feels not quite so perfect. You know in your heart that you must change, positively so that you can catch up. May be it has to do with giving life to your children, maybe it has to do with multitasking your life away or maybe you just expect so much of yourself or may be just not! For me, there are times when I feel that I should have given that shot at MBA good opportunity to thrive rather than get married immediately after university and proceed to procreate. That might have been better career wise because I graduated with the best degree result in my year and my Thesis supervisor felt I had done brilliant research! I suppose I should support myself and get back and do the MBA but it does not work out quite so easily....
1. What does one do with 3 children while leaving your country to study for an MBA ?
2. How does the Husband cope for 18 months plus?
3. Who will ensure that home standards are maintained?
4. How do balance off preparing for GMAT with work and home issues because you want to get into the top grad schools with possibly a scholarship?
5. How do you support this 12 year old dream? (age is not on my side, as well) Any Answers?