‘Our Aim Is To Make Nigerians Lead More Productive Lives’

Abisola Longe is a seasoned facilitator and mentor highly skilled in coaching, business consulting, career planning and counselling.

 As the chief executive at Human Capacity Development Consultants (HCDC), a firm committed to the goal of developing human capital in organisations for exceptional business results, she drives the Productivity Plus Planner initiative conceived in 2011 to help people live productive lives. She speaks on the planner and sundry issues.

Glassy Touch

THE use of glass blocks as building materials has been in practice for decades. Glass blocks are favoured especially where translucence and durability are important. They are attractive and add a classy touch to architectural designs or buildings.


These blocks are used both in the interior and exterior of buildings, and can offer great design opportunities. They have luxurious look that blend with many architectural styles – whether for building new homes or remodelling projects.

Facelift With Painting

PAINTING is a fast way to improve the look of a home. Applying a fresh coat of paint will instantly transform the building or living space from dull to exciting one. Apart from its aesthetic value, painting is a form of protection for walls.

However, painting on the exterior walls of houses is subject to wetting from rain and dew. It is not out of place to see outside walls shedding the paint that was applied not in the distant past or experiencing discoloration.

Fabrics Of Taste, Comfort

CONSIDERATIONS of beauty and comfort come into play when selecting a piece of sofa or chair. For upholstery furniture, the fabric is important in making a choice.

Choice of colours, patterns and textures of upholstery fabrics is a matter of expression of taste. The choice is virtually unlimited. However, lifestyle and budget should come into play.

Window Care

CLEAN windows contribute to give a home a relaxing air. Glass windows, oftentimes may not look clean even when they have been cleaned obviously because the right method has not been employed. Here are some tips provided by home improvement managers.

Windows should not be washed while the sun is shining on them because they dry quickly and leave streaks.
When polishing windows, use up and down strokes on one side of the window and side-to-side strokes on the other to tell which side requites extra polishing.

From Architecture To Photography, Adekanye Lives His Dream

OLUSEGUN A. Adekanye, currently a professional wedding and portrait photographer, was born in Kaduna. He was raised in Kano and Lagos, but frequented his ancestral home in Offa, Kwara State until his departure from the country when he was 19.


Now 40 years old he has spent most of his adult life pursuing his passion where ever. His Architecture degree which he started in Minna, Niger State, at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, was completed at the University of Greenwich in London UK; due to the countrywide instability with Nigerian university lecturers early 1994.

Tools To Building Self Confidence

Building Self Confidence is all about fixing your belief system by getting rid of the limiting beliefs you have and replacing them with ones that allow you to reach your full potential.

Return Of Babariga Move Over ‘Resource Control,’ The Flowing Robe Is Back With A Bang

FASHION is ever changing and evolving. It doesn’t stay static and so, what is “hot” and “in” this month, may suddenly become old-fashioned the very next month.


And this major change is expected in the nation’s fashion ethos, with the return of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The fashion wears of Nigerian presidents and first ladies, have always inspired major fashion choices among Nigerians. This influence has been happening over time but this trend has been strongly noted with the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan.

Building A Successful Event Career Just Got Easier

EVERY event business that is a success today has years of hard work at the crux. You don’t start a successful event business, you only achieve success with time as you keep at it because no business becomes a success overnight. How long it takes you to succeed however, depends on a number of factors. But if you must succeed at all in the event industry, then you should adopt these tips and practice them religiously.


Gatecrash: Go everywhere. Attend every event. Even when not invited? YES. You can’t possibly build a successful event business if you are not exposed to all kinds of events. Be it corporate event, social event, or even trade shows, just keep attending as many as you can. Doing that helps you learn the nitty-gritty of these events as well as build networks which is just as important as your ability.

The most common furniture stains will make you want to spew

ou might want to get up from the couch. Those mysterious stains on the sofa have just been named.
The number one most common furniture stain isn't at all surprising; we've all had a drunken mate fall asleep and piss themselves on our sofa, right?


Right? It's just surprising that slobber isn't the cause of the second most common stain. No, but it is another bodily fluid that, like urine, can often arise as a result of too much to drink.

When Smart Women Become Foolish

I AM sure you daily meet very smart women. Some women are naturally gifted that everyone in the society respects them.

 There are girls who claim to be so vast in life and who have seen so much that they now believe nothing can trap them down. These are the kind of women with great followership from their fellow women. It is not just their fellow women honouring them for their wisdom, men also fall for them.


Some of these women use their wisdom and knowledge the right way, but a good number of them make use of their wisdom the foolish way. The most painful part of this is that these ladies believe they are smart and streetwise when in the actual sense of it; they are the most foolish set of people on earth. I am sure men dread these set of women and for you not to ruin your relationship with the man you love, you have to be careful and know when to run away from these women. You must grow up to know when to stop going to them for advice.

The Controversy About Woman (II)

CONTINUING again on the Controversy about Women, today I would like to deal with the image a woman creates for herself. Unfortunately, one of the ways a woman’s image is formed is from her romantic relationships and her interests – most of which seems to be pushed on her by society. Unfortunately, a lot of women are exposed to it at so young an age when their personality is just coming into shape. How can a woman be true to herself without shutting the world out?

Friends With Your Ex? Good Or Bad Idea?

I KNOW what some of you are thinking, you are thinking “there is nothing wrong with being friends with your ex,” or your thinking “well they should be cool with it because the ex was there before them,” or finally you’re thinking “I know plenty of people who are good friends with their ex!”


Well before you go there I want you to think about this first. I am sure all of us are old enough to have had an ex before so do me a favor and think about how long it truly took you to be over that ex. Now think about how many times you and that ex were broken up, but both of you played that in and out, love/hate, emotional roller-coaster game.

Building Your Relationship

Some ladies would think it’s not possible to build a relationship without dating a man. I tell you today that its 100% possible. So how do you build a relationship when you’re not dating him? The answer: With the help of technology, of course! The mobile phone.


You need to learn about how to make men actually want to call you more and how to make him miss you over the phone so much that he can’t help but ask you out more often.




Think about all the relationships you’ve had with men in the past. How many of them were improved with the phone calls you shared with each other? How many of them actually got worse when you talked over the phone?

Why He May Marry A Foreigner

A FRIEND and I were enjoying a ride with her male friend, one who has travelled and seen the world. He told stories of the cultures he had observed. After a pause, he declared that; “May be a man should go to Ghana to marry a wife.”


It was not a question, it was a statement and I thought that he had thought over that idea a great deal before he said it. We kept quiet; I knew that my friend had entertained something bigger than a casual friendship with him and it was possible, he knew that she expected him to pop the question.