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June 20, 2019
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“I am fed up of this life, I just want to go”, I said those words every day for 3 years. I am an English graduate but I am allowed to speak bad English over this matter. Five years out of Uni and no job. Not even, “Sister, come and do work for half salary. Let’s see what you can do.” There’s no job that I haven’t tried out for. And when I say nothing,…
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You can’t understand fear until somebody starts shouting ‘Ole’ at you in a market. Trust me, what you think is fear will evaporate. The day a woman grabbed my shirt and started shouting ‘Ole’, was the day that my life changed. I nearly passed out! I was walking outside the Ogba Retail market and an angry woman of about 50 years, standing with two policemen, kept shouting at me from across the street. They were…
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Few years ago before i started Enovate Lab i was a blogger and my greatest challenge was how to have engagements. Even though i wrote a lot of quality contents but i always felt something was missing. Then i didn’t know how to tackle it but in my curiosity and thirst for knowledge i stumbled upon the concept of Content Development, not just as a term but as a system. Since then i kept learning…
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I wanted to write a piece mid this year about my experience so far in 2018, but I could hardly muster the mental strength. The year began with a complete downturn of events. I had started my company Enovate Lab with my co-founder. There have been series of unpleasant events leading to this decision. I had sacrificed a lot at the wrong place with the wrong people, I had been doing what I disliked and…
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As a documentary photographer in northern Nigeria, I noticed that not many people understand that the power of photography can change the narratives in our society. So my team and I at Enovatelab, an organization for creatives and problem solvers who are tackling local challenges by using an innovative approach organized a three days Photocamp. We wanted to tell our community that there is more to photography than weddings and portraits which is more common.…