Insight: Nuggets of Excellence For Teenagers by Maryam Popoola is indeed a ‘motivational book.’ Therefore, it belongs to a mode of writing that is becoming popular within the Nigerian book culture. What, however, stands Maryam Popoola’s contribution to the corpus of writings in this genre is the wide varieties of subjects she addressed. These subjects border on the spiritual and material wellbeing of all, regardless of age or social status. The merit, which these accord the author and the book, is increased as we become aware of the fact that the author is herself a teenager. The book altogether comprises 12 nuggets, each with a rider stating the specific focus of the nugget being offered. This manner of arrangement of all-important and ever-relevant issues appeals to two interesting ways of reading the material: reading the material as an organic whole; and reading it in its independent bits. In other words, the trajectory of Popoola’s thoughts runs as a continuous stream, which is remarkable for its ‘golden’ terminuses.