Christmas Gift Ideas in Nigeria: Plan It in October
December in Lagos is not a good month to make decisions. Traffic doubles, everyone is travelling, and every supplier is at capacity. Which is…
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Gifting guides, cultural stories, makers, etiquette and the thinking behind gestures we remember.
Farewell Gifts for a Colleague Who Is Leaving
Farewell gifts are usually organised by whoever is least able to say no, funded by a hurried collection, and bought the day before. The…
Read story →Sending Gifts to Nigeria from Abroad
If you live outside Nigeria and want to send something home, you have three options, and two of them are worse than people expect.…
Read story →The Best Gifts Have No Occasion at All
A birthday gift is expected. That is not a criticism — expectation is what makes birthdays work. But it does mean that arriving on…
Read story →Client Gifts That Don’t Look Like Marketing
There is a specific kind of client gift that fails, and everyone reading this has received one. A branded item, arriving in December, with…
Read story →How to Write a Gift Card That Isn’t Embarrassing
Most gift cards say one of four things: Happy Birthday, Congratulations, With love, or Best wishes. None of them is wrong. All of them…
Read story →Wedding Gift Ideas for Nigerian Couples
Nigerian weddings are large, and the gifting around them is complicated. There is the traditional ceremony and the white wedding, sometimes weeks apart. There…
Read story →What to Send When Someone Has Died
There is no gift that helps when someone has died. That is worth accepting at the start, because the mistake most people make is…
Read story →How Much Notice Do You Need for a Really Good Gift?
Almost every disappointing gift has the same cause, and it is not money. It is time. The gift bought the afternoon before is not…
Read story →What to Get Someone Who Has Everything
“She has everything” is the sentence we hear most often, and it is almost never true. What people mean is that she has everything…
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