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Start the year with great expectation

Happy New Year. As we left church and I drove towards home yesterday, I thought about why it would be a happy new year, if there is not a happy new you (me). The timing of the New Year was perfect for a call for a new system of thought. If you have been [...]

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Merry Christmas: presents without presence

It’s a great day to wish you merry Christmas and compliments of the season.
I t was a special day. I remember Mr. Joshua, the CEO of Human Rescue Inc. laughing and sharing insights and jokes before retiring for the night. He had come to join the trainee life guards on a cruise around the Atlantic [...]

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Effective planning for a successful year

Imagine you were in a business class of one of the leading airlines in your country.
“Attention ladies and gentlemen, this is flight AX3247. Fasten your seatbelt, as we take off from our runway through to Heathrow airport. Though presently, there’s no approved flight plan, our experienced pilots are capable of ensuring a safe and [...]

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Making the most of information and seminars

On my way back from another business transaction yesterday, I thought the book on e-Myth Mastery by Michael Gerber which I forgot to pick on my way out of home so I could read during waiting times… Ok, that’s not true I had left un-read at home countless number of books, eBooks, charts and lots [...]

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30 days to finishing the year strong

If you have been visiting closely and have not seen a new post, it is because I’ve had to cope with poor connection for a few days. But then, this post comes in timely as the New Year is exactly 30 days away. 30 days more and the once new year just graduates into another [...]

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The many regrets of Nuhu Ribadu

This astute cop could not be hidden from limelight even after being sentenced to compulsory containment at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Plateau State for a mandatory one-year course. If not for Dora’s promotion to being a minister, he would still have made my list as a role [...]

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Why 90% of entrepreneurs’ businesses fail- points you need to ponder on

Entrepreneurship is spreading in Nigeria, and seems like the new evangelism of its hope. Business opportunities are springing up everywhere, enticing and calling you to make the leap of destiny into the wealth and affluence you’ve often dreamt about. It is also notable that 9 out of every 10 businesses collapse within 2 years of [...]

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How to be an early day starter

I’ve been on my fifth day of being an early starter. I have always loved the life of an entrepreneur, my waking up has always been based on work demand. I’ve had days when I knock off to sleep at 4am only to be up by 6 for another assignment, but on a general note [...]

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The audacity of Obama’s hope- yes!

For the very first time in History, the american elections gripped the world like a vice. Even the Nigerian elections did not carry the same fear and exitement among peoples. People could no longer distinguish between people who had the right to vote or not…
Today, 200 years after the abolition of slave trade and 40 [...]

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THE EMERGING FUTURE THOUGHT LEADERS

The kind of Nigeria we seek is already being defined today. Politicians, businessmen and public speakers have continually encouraged us to get prepared for the future, but the people who will be the leaders and shakers of the future are not complaining about the present, they are not even preparing for it, they are creating [...]

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