reality

VR/AR Set To Disrupt The Last Strand Of Reality?

November 24, 2019 8:23 am

In many malls in Lagos, you will recognise the virtual reality (VR) stand as the little space where an individual in a Cyclops-like eye gadget is screaming and shifting for dear life in terror.

As far as augmented reality (AR) is concerned, we have the many Snapchat filters and apps that can alter your image from a young person to an old one or even completely alter your gender with the touch of a button. The difference with both terms is that while virtual reality demands a full immersion of your senses, augmented reality only influences a part of it.…

Jaiz Bank: Between Perception And Reality

November 21, 2019 5:46 am

Jaiz Bank has begun a subtle but committed move to change its narrative and win more patrons, writes Raheem Akingbolu

Perhaps because of the level of religious and ethnic biases in the country when Jaiz Bank entered the market, most banking public were apprehensive about its brand promise. Considering the fact that perception establishes the meaning about a brand when a consumer makes initial contact with it, the toga of being referred to as a core Islamic institution, has since remained with the Jaiz Brand.

After overcome the teething stage and got the brand well rooted in the market, the …

Reality with Odumodu: The hatred and fear of the Igbos II

February 10, 2019 11:36 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

They declared NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED yet they call us their slaves and vowed that nothing will make us smell power again.
After the war comes the 3 RRR’s. RECONCILIATION, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION.
They were abandoned as soon as they were propounded.

The only useful thing that came out of the reconciliation is the founding of NYSC, which has outlived it’s usefulness as Igbo and Southern Youth Corp members are killed in the North at every slightest opportunity.

The war ravaged East was not reconstructed nor rehabilitated.
There were no government presence at all.
We labored and …

The Reality with Odumodu: The hatred and fear of the Igbos

February 9, 2019 2:12 pm

By Odumodu Gbulagu

It has always been the Igbos.

The British didn’t deem it fit to give power to the Igbos because they consider us uppity, and cannot be controlled. Also, because of the leading role Zik played for the Nigerian independence and for African liberation, the Igbo people have not been in the good book of the British government.

The colonialists perceived us as “The ambitious and clever Igbo people ” just because they preferred as their successors those that would continue to depend on them and those they would easily manipulate, a stooge of colonial power. The Hausa/Fulani …