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What if the most dangerous idea in human history is not war, politics, or money but God itself?In The God Delusion, R...
20/05/2026



What if the most dangerous idea in human history is not war, politics, or money but God itself?

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins launches a fearless intellectual rebellion against centuries of unquestioned belief, tearing into religion with arguments so sharp they have enraged scholars, inspired atheists, offended believers, and ignited debates across the world. This is not a polite discussion. It is a direct challenge to faith, tradition, and the very foundations upon which billions build their lives.

Dawkins asks the questions many are too afraid to say out loud:

Do we believe because it is true or because we were taught to fear doubt?

Has religion united humanity more than it has divided it?

And if science can explain the universe, where exactly does God still fit in?

Loved by some, condemned by others, this book has been called enlightening, arrogant, liberating, blasphemous, brilliant, and dangerous all at once.

Whether you agree with Dawkins or want to argue against every page, one thing is certain: you will not finish this book unchanged.

This isn’t just a book. It’s a battlefield of ideas.

PRICE: 16,000 NGN 📌

History is never neutral. It is written by the victors, defended by the powerful, and feared by those who know the tr...
19/05/2026



History is never neutral. It is written by the victors, defended by the powerful, and feared by those who know the truth was buried with the dead.

In The Victors and the Vanquished of the Nigerian Civil War, Usman Faruk drags one of Nigeria’s most explosive chapters out of silence and into open confrontation. This is not a polite retelling of the 1967–1970 war. It is a daring challenge to the stories generations were taught to accept without question.

Who were the real victors of the war? Did Nigeria truly win or did the country merely survive while justice, trust, and unity died quietly in the shadows? Were heroism and patriotism genuine motivations, or were greed, ambition, ethnicity, and political hunger the hidden engines of the conflict?

This book forces readers to wrestle with the uncomfortable possibility that the wounds of Biafra never healed, they simply changed shape and entered Nigeria’s politics, military, religion, and ethnic tensions. Every page invites argument. Every chapter threatens long-held beliefs. Some will call it courageous. Others will call it dangerous.
But nobody will read it and remain neutral.

For those willing to confront the truths history tries to soften, this book is more than a war story, it is a battlefield of memory, identity, power, and betrayal.

PRICE: 4500 NGN 📌

What if everything you believe about humanity is a beautifully constructed lie?In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari does not...
18/05/2026



What if everything you believe about humanity is a beautifully constructed lie?

In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari does not simply tell the history of mankind, he puts humanity itself on trial. Religion, empire, money, capitalism, nationalism, even human rights: Harari argues that the foundations of civilization are built not on absolute truths, but on shared myths powerful enough to control billions.

This book asks dangerous questions few dare to confront: Did agriculture liberate humanity or enslave it? Are modern humans truly more civilized, or just more efficient killers? Has science made us wiser, or merely given us deadlier tools? And if humans now possess the power to become gods through technology and AI, what happens when we lose what made us human in the first place?

Bold, unsettling, and impossible to ignore, Sapiens shatters comforting illusions about progress, morality, and power. Every chapter feels like an intellectual rebellion, one that will either change the way you see the world forever or offend everything you think you know.

Some books entertain. Some books educate. Sapiens starts arguments that never end.

PRICE: 8500 NGN 📌

This book examines the establishment and development of a centralised system of government and administration among a p...
17/05/2026



This book examines the establishment and development of a centralised system of government and administration among a predominantly diverse population. As an emirate of Sokoto Caliphate, Bauchi differed from its neighbours in Hausaland where the populations were already essentially linguistically, culturally and religiously homogenous under centralised systems of government in the form of city states. On the contrary, the Bauchi region encompassed a motley collection of independent political and social units, varying in size, language, structure, composition and religion. Under the leadership of the pioneer Emir Yakubu and his immediate successors, these largely autonomous units were transformed into a larger political community and absorbed into the Sokoto Caliphate.

This book is an account of how this transformation was achieved and sustained for a century from 1805 until the British conquest in 1902. Relying on variegated written and oral sources, the book analyses the history, geography, demography and ethnography of the Bauchi region as a background to the emergence, administration, successes and challenges of the emirate system in a manner no book has ever done.

PRICE: 7000 NGN 📌
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Power is never handed to women without a fight—and in Lessons from Some of the World’s Most Powerful Women & Leadershi...
16/05/2026



Power is never handed to women without a fight—and in Lessons from Some of the World’s Most Powerful Women & Leadership, Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tear away the polite myths about leadership to reveal the bruising truth beneath the spotlight. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with trailblazers like Jacinda Ardern, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May, this book exposes the cost of ambition in a world still uncomfortable with women who command.

This is not a celebration—it is a reckoning. A daring examination of prejudice, power plays, resilience, and the quiet strategies that reshape nations. It challenges the reader to confront an unsettling question: If leadership has always been defined by men, what happens when women redefine it?

Bold, intimate, and unapologetically honest, this book doesn’t just chronicle history—it dares you to rethink who should be writing it.

‎PRICE: 12,000 NGN 📌
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In a nation drowning in its own waste, opportunity doesn’t knock, it rots in the open.Recycling in Nigeria is not jus...
15/05/2026



In a nation drowning in its own waste, opportunity doesn’t knock, it rots in the open.

Recycling in Nigeria is not just a guide. It is a confrontation. A bold, unsettling revelation that what we throw away daily—plastic, metal, glass—is not garbage, but untapped wealth hiding in plain sight. While millions complain about unemployment and economic hardship, this book dares to ask: what if the real problem is not scarcity, but blindness?
With ruthless clarity, Terseer Ugbor exposes the uncomfortable truth about Nigeria’s waste crisis and the billion-naira industry quietly rising from it. This is a manual for those willing to see value where others see dirt, to build profit from neglect, and to turn environmental decay into economic power.

Not everyone will like this book. Because it challenges excuses. It disrupts comfort. It forces you to rethink everything you believe about business, sustainability, and survival in Nigeria.

But if you are ready to stop waiting for opportunities—and start creating them from what others ignore—this book will change how you see the streets forever.

‎PRICE: 10,000 NGN 📌
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Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persu...
14/05/2026



Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.

Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give anyone who is insecure about their public speaking abilities the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives.

The opinions expressed by Carmine Gallo in TALK LIKE TED are his own. His book is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by TED Conferences, LLC or its affiliates.

PRICE: 5000 NGN 📌

Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business by Femi Otedola is a compelling memoir and practical business guide fr...
13/05/2026



Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business by Femi Otedola is a compelling memoir and practical business guide from one of Africa’s most successful self-made entrepreneurs. Otedola takes readers from his early dreams of business to becoming a billionaire by age 41, sharing the ambitions, challenges, setbacks, and triumphs that shaped his career. Packed with personal philosophies, resilience-building lessons, and insights on leadership and philanthropy, this inspiring story shows how tenacity and strategic thinking can turn big dreams into lasting success — and how wealth can be used to make a meaningful impact.

‎PRICE: 8500 NGN 📌
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The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United...
12/05/2026



The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.

PRICE: 10,000 NGN 📌

In August 1950, the soft-spoken and dependable ally of the British colonial administration in Northern Nigeria, Abuba...
11/05/2026



In August 1950, the soft-spoken and dependable ally of the British colonial administration in Northern Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, launched a surprisingly radical attack on the colonial government administration popularly known as the Native Authority (NA) system. In a motion in the Northern Regional House of Assembly, Balewa vociferously criticized the NA system as antiquated and stale. He called for overt and unambiguous manifestations of modern emerging political values of western educated elite for inclusion and universality of the content of the immediate changes it required, applicable at the federal, provincial and district levels of governance. This is an analysis of the context and the immediate changes it required. It is not only an account of the NA system in these contexts, it is also an analysis of the conditions that necessitated these changes, including the nature of the colonial administration and accountability. What Balewa said in the Northern House of Assembly in Kaduna in 1950 still resonate in the reality of governance and accountability in the local level in contemporary Nigeria, seventy-five years later. The actors and nomenclature may be different today but the same old reality remains.

‎PRICE: 3000 NGN 📌
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Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the jo...
10/05/2026



Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong. Evidence has shown that creative geniuses are not attached to one identity, but constantly willing to rethink their stances and that leaders who admit they don't know something and seek critical feedback lead more productive and innovative teams.

New evidence shows us that as a mindset and a skilllset, rethinking can be taught and Grant explains how to develop the necessary qualities to do it. Section 1 explores why we struggle to think again and how we can learn to do it as individuals, arguing that 'grit' alone can actually be counterproductive. Section 2 discusses how we can help others think again through learning about 'argument literacy'. And the final section 3 looks at how schools, businesses and governments fall short in building cultures that encourage rethinking.

In the end, learning to rethink may be the secret skill to give you the edge in a world changing faster than ever.

PRICE: 6000 NGN 📌

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