Personal Development

Why Can’t You Do It?

By Lydia Aje We were in a staff meeting making preparations towards our annual end of year party. The school director needed someone to do some...

A Trip to the Pool of Opportunities: Deborah Dagogo recounts how it all started

“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity” – Peter Drucker. Contesting in competitions is one activity I...

When the going gets TOO TOUGH!

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going” goes the common saying  but sometimes the going gets too tough even for the toughest:...

My Boss, You Devil!

Ask yourself, if I were in my employer's shoes, would I run this 'show' better? You never can tell- you could be on your way to becoming a business owner tomorrow and the place you are, could just be an opportunity that life offers you to learn!

7 Creative questions for self discovery

Efficiency and effectiveness are products of specialization. You can delegate your weakness and focus on your strength. Always be the best in what you can do better!

The Making of a Boss

Being a boss is very simple. The first step is to garner every conceivable and inconceivable subterfuges, including blackmail, ethnicism, praise-singing, name-calling, tale bearing, bootlicking, laying claim to bogus intellectual achievements...

How One Billion Naira can make Nigeria a Super Power

If I have a billion Naira, I will ask no more. With my one billion Naira, I will put Nigeria on the map of the super power...

Be Positive Always

Thinking positively and staying positive is one factor that, to a large extent, determines the magnitude of success you will achieve in life...

Want to succeed in this life? Plan!

Most people still do not know the importance of planning. Let me make it very clear here: whenever you plan, you take your own future, bring it into your present, shape it and send it back to the future to wait for you...

When You Dare To Dream…

The greater percentage of people on earth have a one-way traffic dream: grow up, go to higher school, graduate, pick up a monthly salary paying job, get married and have children, retire and die receiving pension. Nothing more...

Greatness is a Choice!

Why are there rich countries and poor countries? Why do some fulfill their potentials in life and some don’t? Why are some kings and some slaves? Some become heads of corporations’ and some serve them, why? To some life is brutish and unfair, to some life is beautiful and good. Why?

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Ensuring Peace In Jos

To achieve peace in Jos, all stakeholders must be brought on board, not just a handful of political dumb-nuts. Bringing all stakeholders together must be done without any concession to ethnic, religious, political and economic affiliation...

My Interview with Jonathan Goodluck

"Could you please address me as “Your Excellency.” My official position demands you address me as such. You know I have a doctorate degree, I have chieftaincy titles five times over, I have been a governor and now I am just a heartbeat from the presidency…"

Security in the Niger Delta – An Interview with Col. Rabe Abubakar

"The issue of security in the Niger Delta is a collective responsibility for everybody. However, the JTF has been doing a lot to provide that sense of security..." - Rabe Abubakar

Ndi'Igbo, Looking For Good luck

It is palpable today that the South-East zone of Nigeria is looking for its good luck in the political equation of President Goodluck Jonathan...

Is Dianne Abbott, MP, A Friend Of Nigeria?

Dianne Abbot has shown Nigerians and by implication her many constituents her true face. Her comments are bound are likely to ignite further the flames of inter-ethnic wrangling between Nigerians and Jamaicans in the UK...

The Real Problem with Nigeria

What is the real problem with Nigeria? Why is...

Time to probe regulators’ role in economic woes

Last week, the anti-corruption crusade in the financial sector scored a big one as Cecilia Ibru, former chief executive of Oceanic Bank International crumbled under the fire power of Central Bank and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and pleaded guilty to numerous allegations...

The sovereign Nigeria versus the home grown terrorists

Keeping mute in the face of tyranny or maintaining passivity when actions are required is not ordinarily an act of cowardice, it is inhuman, it is deplorable and it is unpatriotic...

The Era of the Anti Christ: Understanding the End-Time Turbulence

The whole world is shaking and there will be more violent and bizarre occurrences on planet Earth and there is nothing presidents, lying journalists and lying pundits can do about it...

South Africa 2010 Random Memories

For many, South Africa has indeed put up a show with memories to keep for a lifetime. So while we obviously will remember the vuvuzela, Paul the psychic octopus, the farcical French team, etc, here are a few more things also worth remembering from World Cup 2010...