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Monthly Archives February 2016

Certifications Broke My Heart

Nigerians are funny people.  Everyone wants a shortcut to success. For those without the liver to ‘do Yahoo’ or go into politics, sing or act in Nollywood, the obvious choice is having a professional career. I mean a career in just anything… as long it guarantees a chance to impress Baba Nkechi, the neighbor. I […]

Posted 29 February 2016 † dejiolowe § Nigeria § Piscalux § Syndicated ‡ Comments (16) °

Banking Career for Dummies

I’ve been in banking all my career, that’s if I don’t count the two months I was jobless between NYSC and my first proper job. I don’t know if this is an unfortunate experience as some people swear by heavens that banking is the worst job on earth. It’s not! Don’t mind bad belle people! […]

Posted 17 February 2016 † dejiolowe § Business § Nigeria § Piscalux ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Is Postgraduate Education of Benefit in Nigeria?

“Why would you offer me, a Banking Officer, the same grade that I was before I went to school, despite my Masters from the University of Liverpool?” I looked at the dude like he just fell out of the sky and gate-crashed into a nudist camp. I swore under my breath; what the heck? “Dude, […]

Posted 07 February 2016 † dejiolowe § Nigeria § Piscalux ‡ Comments (18) °

Base64 in Microsoft SQL

Base64 encoding is a Swiss Army knife function for every programmer but somehow not readily available in Microsoft SQL Server. Or that’s what everyone thinks. Apparently it has been hiding in MS SQL since 2005 release. So recently while searching for a working solution, I found a something workable at this blog post and then used that […]

Posted 06 February 2016 † dejiolowe § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,