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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The Lost Identity: Salvaging A Nation In Distress

Nigeria has faced numerous challenges in achieving sustainable development since independence in 1960 in spite of its abundant human and natural resources...

Fake Intellectuals, Useless Patriots

Politics in Nigeria is like war because it is the most lucrative job in Nigeria. It is not impossible to see a man that made some moderate money from, say business, become stupendously rich once he's elected into political office...

Nigeria's Primitive Elections: Where Are The Western Democracy Defenders?

The New York Times editorial, "Nigeria's Imperiled Elections" published on 11th April 2007, clearly highlighted the open secret that most western media and their governments only moan about democracy when it suits their selfish interests...

Nigeria’s Goebbels: Is he over-optimistic?

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence speaks eloquently, with overwhelming confidence and not the cautious optimism of a diplomat...

The Persistence of Military Dominance: Russia’s 21st-Century Power Play

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Locating the Real Enemies of Nigeria

There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political...

Nigeria: Minutes of the Last Meeting

It is nightmare time in Nigeria. All over the place...

The Burden of Being Vice President

While Yaradua’s prolonged illness and lack of formal transfer of power to the Vice President may have brought us to the throes of a constitutional crisis, the situation more importantly calls attention to the special burden of being a Vice President...

Changing Nature of the American Electoral Process: Obama is a Winner

Americans believe that governance can only be legitimate if it goes through a rigorous electoral process. Elections must be free, fair, credible and transparent...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Obama's visit, Jonathan, 2011 Elections and Development of Nigeria: Correlation (2)

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual budget running into trillions of dollars...