tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:20:19 +0000facebookpentecostalismjobbermanayodeji adewunmiyoungstars-foundationIfeEssaythisdayrisk managementyouthinternetcyberfraudyahoo yahoomusicCIPEpop musicscampresidentcollin powellyricsRoving thoughts inside my big fat head.http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-1519139750011184098Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:01:00 +00002011-03-09T15:10:45.706-08:00I have just hit on an idea that is sure to yield some good returns. I am not going to hoard it since it is in the interest of the common good and posterity to have this queer idea brought into fruition. The inspiration for this idea is from none other than the luckiest woman this side of the Atlantic and the “mother of the nation”, who recently promised to ‘mother us a ll.’ Whilst, I am not http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2011/03/business-ideas-that-dame-patience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3158629675739804027Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:56:00 +00002011-03-09T13:59:51.597-08:00I would never have thought in my wildest dream that I would be paying tribute to my dad this early in my adulthood. But life, when it happens, does not give a prior notice. Like the several lessons that my dad taught me in life during his fruitful lifetime, his death teaches yet another invaluable moral. Capturing my late dad’s truest essence in words is one herculean task. I wish I were doing http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-dad-was-teacher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-2065127954697964620Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:38:00 +00002010-04-25T16:42:56.419-07:00youthyoungstars-foundationpresidentEssayMy Leader Essay ContestNigerian Youths Are Deciding the Qualities and Values of the 2011 President!Once again Democracy is about to give us a chance to choose the leader of our dream in the coming general elections. No nation can grow beyond the quality of its leadership. Nigeria is loaded with huge potentials, all we need is the leader who can harness all these potentials and move us into a http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/04/qualities-and-values-my-president-in_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-2046020905037813487Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:38:00 +00002010-04-25T16:42:26.182-07:00My Leader Essay ContestNigerian Youths Are Deciding the Qualities and Values of the 2011 President!Once again Democracy is about to give us a chance to choose the leader of our dream in the coming general elections. No nation can grow beyond the quality of its leadership. Nigeria is loaded with huge potentials, all we need is the leader who can harness all these potentials and move us into a http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/04/qualities-and-values-my-president-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-637521773586679473Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:26:00 +00002010-04-08T11:36:42.409-07:00My WLP's essay on Maternal Mortality was published in the Guardian. Hats Off to Dr Abati for raising the issue once again.herehttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-essay-in-guardian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-6173469951720463721Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:20:00 +00002010-04-03T12:31:31.460-07:00EssayAnnouncing 1st Money-Prized Essay Contest & Application to our 2010 Educational FestivalThis year’s seminar would be held in Tanzania in order to enable our many East African applicants who for want of travel funds have not been able to enjoy the life-enriching encounters to do just that. And there is a money-prized essay contest open to all Africans between the ages of 18-35 as well.More detailshttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/04/1st-money-prized-essay-contest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-7249401855774760112Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:40:00 +00002010-03-28T06:48:32.261-07:00Be among the 3 winners of $350 each and global profilling by submitting a page essay on the topic"Discuss any skill, knowledge, technology, issue, product etc that Nigeria can develop, master and begin to teach the rest of the world as a leading nation in that field by 2020 and beyond" Eligibility - Nigerian youths 18-3years of age resident in Nigeria. Deadline - entry closes April 15th, 2010. http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/03/nigeria-pride-youth-essay-contest-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-4182802559278959275Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:30:00 +00002010-03-24T08:41:03.741-07:00CIPEEssayThe Center for International Private Enterprise invites young people to share their ideas on how to create opportunities for youth to strengthen democracy and the private sector in their own countries.Details Herehttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/03/essay-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3410528752985490818Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:53:00 +00002010-03-24T01:53:31.544-07:00The Dreamerhttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/03/dreamer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-6277539725284633834Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +00002010-03-01T10:12:40.320-08:00Hello People,I am on the short list of WLP Essay Contest.My essay on maternal mortality made it to the final list alongside 11 other finalists.The winners will be annouced at a WLP symposium at the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York City on March 5, 2010. As finalists, we are expected to draw the attention of our friends, associates and family members to our http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-am-on-wlps-shortlist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-2810186362522961610Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:04:00 +00002010-02-22T04:16:33.002-08:00ayodeji adewunmifacebookjobbermanWhen I got the facebook invite to join the jobberman group I thought it was just one of the several invitations to the countless groups that denizens of facebook are wont to start.I began to rethink the invite on seeing the sender's name. The invitation was from none else than Ayodeji Adewunmi, one of the smartest though unsung under-30s this side of the atlantic. We had pioneered a thriving http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-jobberman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3362194643959709695Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:20:00 +00002010-02-22T11:30:55.425-08:00pentecostalismrisk managementIs he cheating on you? Are you seeing the telling signs that he has some UNILAG girls somewhere quenching the raging fires in his groins before he comes home to you. Quit praying 'fall-down-and-die' prayers. You can leverage on this leading practice from Kenya. Yes Kenya!  and gratis too. You can now hedge your exposure to Infidelity before the risk crystallizes. Singles, you might take a cue toohttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/02/infidelity-risk-management.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3819943362310645698Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +00002010-02-22T11:34:26.264-08:00cyberfraudlyricsthisdaycollin powelscammusicinternetyahoo yahoopop musicIn 2008, I watched America's first black Secretary of State, Collin Powel, swaying to the hypnotic tunes of Yahoozee, a song rendered by Olu Maintain, at one of those star-studded, swanky ThisDay parties. It was meant to be an after party, I suppose, for one of ThisDay's talk shows, which usually feature erstwhile world leaders who now far from the levers of power stump to mouth ideas they did http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/02/convoluted-logic-of-using-music-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3434674290385589275Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:57:00 +00002010-01-25T23:00:52.232-08:00I am afraid you might find this a little grisly but it is an apt representation of how low we have descended as a people. It is jos at the moment.I don't think we have seen the end of all this madness. Where the next scene of this macabre drama from hell will be staged remains in the lap of the gods. http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/01/only-in-nigeria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-7879401918480194018Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:52:00 +00002010-02-22T11:32:20.492-08:00IfeEssaySound likes something that will interest my old marxist comrades at Ife. The essay is organised by Seven Fund. Essayhttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/01/morality-of-profit-seven-fund-essay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-8418737592683568425Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:47:00 +00002010-01-14T10:28:49.846-08:00I have resolved (nay, not some flimsy, starry-eyed new-year resolution) to scour the internet for essays contest, pitch my ideas in the market place of ideas and see if they could fetch me some cool benjamins. Talk isn’t cheap! Already, I have started walking the talk. I literally laid a seige to the World Bank essay competition website. It is my last change to take a shot at the competition ( I http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/01/essay-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-4475960111592524591Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:58:00 +00002010-01-25T22:35:38.827-08:00Hello Blog, Been away for what seems like ages. I'm back and this time for good. I must confess I did not keep faith with you in the last year. This year, I promise, will be different. At the minimum, I will drop by every week. As a proof that I intend to walk my talk, I have got a post. It makes for comic relief. Sunita, Sorry, Evita! featuring two crazies. Enjoy! http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-1313842409493159551Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:20:00 +00002009-08-12T10:17:07.154-07:00A respondent to an article that recently appeared in the Prestigious American sheet, the Washington Post on how the worldwide economic recession is affecting the yahoo yahoo industry ( for want of a better description) has proposed renaming nay rebranding of Nigeria as Scamerica, the world capital of internet fraud.The report written by Karin Brulliard highlighted how the 'industry' has fallen onhttp://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/08/nigeria-should-be-renamed-scamerica.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-6208645881512239812Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:53:00 +00002009-07-30T12:43:14.667-07:00While on a frantic search for websites for sore eyes, I happened on this essay contest that should interest young people. If you are game, the contest is just a click away. http://youthinkblog.worldbank.org/youthink-international-youth-day-essay-competitionWatch out for more opportunities on this blog. That's a catch isn't it?http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/07/essays-contests-for-young-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-6913658943099438294Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:57:00 +00002009-07-29T05:31:29.351-07:00I have had more than my own fair share of close shaves. Every now and then I am on the cusp of something risky and after the danger has slipped by I am left in awe, nay shock, with mouth agape how it manages to elude me. For me, the moments remain instructive in that they bring closer home to me the immensity of dangers that others have to contend with in the course of the meeting the quotidian http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/07/close-shave-with-internet-fraudsters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-8411028843154200354Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:42:00 +00002009-06-30T23:57:24.498-07:00Daily Mail online has just published a shocker-MJ's purported suicidal thoughts.His unofficial biographer award winning journalist,Ian Halperin who had earlier predicited that the late pop singer had six months to live only last year dropped the bombshell. Curiously, his dire forecast proved prescient after all. MJ dropped dead six months and a day after Halperin's doomsday prophecy. Indeed this http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/06/wacko-jackos-deathsuicide-perhaps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-3598256912386509537Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:16:00 +00002009-06-30T23:34:02.801-07:00I have just found this new site- http://sarabamag.comIt is run by some young literary enthusiasts and they have got some great stuffs too.Please drop by.http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/06/site-for-sore-eyes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-8485087178341631625Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:35:00 +00002009-06-30T11:55:19.928-07:00Reuben Abati's much talked about article-A Nation's Identity crisis- is obviously still generating ripples.Arguments have been bandied back and forth with most folks (young people especially) lambasting the respected social critic for taking the emergent youth pop culture to the cleaners.For me, the question is what the heck?.Abati has trained his searchlight on myriad social issues more germane http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/06/nations-identity-crisis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-2698616521210863899Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:38:00 +00002009-06-30T11:59:44.102-07:00Here is a review of Jude Dibia's controversial debut 'Walking With Shadows' that I Wrote for the Nigerian Tribune in 2007.It was my first attempt at writing a review, so guys pardon the errors.Do not spare me all the same. Do let me know what you think.Walking with Shadows JUDE Dibia calls his readers to join the fray in the debate on the propriety or otherwise of homosexuality; there is no http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2009/06/here-is-review-of-jude-dibias-walking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460044992871919341.post-2029411823587305449Thu, 01 May 2008 18:51:00 +00002009-06-30T12:06:00.121-07:00I am undertaking a mentoring programme facilitated by the Afrigrowth Foundation.For a while,i am going to be under Dr Reuben Abati's wings.This is the account of my first meeting with RA.Enjoy!Still basking in the euphoria of being assigned to Dr Reuben Abati, Chairman editorial board of the Guardian newspaper, a polymath whose columns and other writings are subjects of keen interest for me-I http://tinwatinwa.blogspot.com/2008/05/meeting-reuben-abati.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (omowole inuobidun)0