Kola Oyeneyin

I was watching the House Impeachment session yesterday, and saw the Rep from Massachusetts totally rocking this Ankara. I felt a sense of joy and pride at how far our products and services have come. These days I walk into malls and hear Nigerian music. Kanye West Sampling our songs. Bethel Music redoing Sinach’s Way Maker. Nathaniel Bassey’s Imela trending globally. Nollywood movies taking their place on Netflix and our fabric now at the US Congress floor. Imagine how much we could be exporting to the world in products and service when we finally get our acts together, and make oil the last of our exports; as against the 75% it currently represents in our exports basket.

By the way, hardly does a nation move from developing, to developed, without developing its textile industry; through textile technology. We cannot jump over industrialization to service, as we seem to have done; it’s not sustainable. That’s why we’re struggling!


We can do this, it is not rocket science!

#ProudlyNigerian #MadeInNigeria #NigeriaToTheWorld

Yesterday, I turned 40. It was hard to mark it in any shape or form, given what’s happened in Nigeria in the last few days. However, I’m incredibly grateful to God for 40yrs of His faithfulness & mercies. Thank you all so much for your prayers & wishes. God bless you! #KOChapterFour

“See you in 10 days”, was your last message to me in just over a month today. It feels unreal still. So much to say, no headspace to fully conceive it and no words to truly articulate it. But as believers, we give thanks in and for everything. It is who we are and what we do, even when we do not fully understand.

For now, as you, Doreen and Chizi are finally laid to rest today and the reality fully sets in for all who knew you well enough to know that you were an outstandingly good human being, goodnight Herbert. Thank you for simply being good, and human!

Rest well, Doreen and Chizi.

For the rest of us who are still on this side of eternity, may God teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom!

#TheFearlessOne