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:...

Attitude

There is no attribute of a man so powerful as his attitude.  It dictates his response to the present and determines the quality of his future.  A man's attitude is the brick of his life...

Procrastination

Procrastination has made failures out of many potential successful people as so many people have not tapped into their tremendous potential and the genius ability within...

The Best Revenge

You must not take the failure as personal to you. The setback that you had is not peculiar to you alone nor customized to your name. There are many other people that are also going through similar things...

An Evening with Chris Gardner In Abuja

Chris Gardner warns that unemployment and lack of money are a major threat that make people break their marriage vows. It's as though 'love is not enough' when marriage and raising a family is concerned...

“6e” to the Rescue of National Capital

We must put a discontinuity to the slavery ideology in the governance of Nigeria and value mental development of Nigerians...

Do Not Rob Us

It’s been confirmed that the wealthiest place on earth is not the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, neither is it the diamond fields of South Africa.  In fact, it is not the oil fields of Saudi Arabia...

Entrepreneurship University: Effective Institution Producing Creators of Jobs, Goods And Support Services

The need to encourage paradigm shift, redefine work, encourage value driven service and encourage change initiative driven by people that make up any system can not be over emphasized...

Reaching For The Goal

I don’t read inspirational books, reason being that I believe they are junk. You know, books that tell you how to become a millionaire... I wonder if it ever works for anyone...

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Lessons from Reno

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So who Rigged the Osun Election?

Most of us watching from the sidelines did not really understand what an El-Rufai was going to do in Anambra State on the very eve of the elections. Was he a grassroots campaigner or was he going there as an accredited election monitor?

Of Political He-goats, She-goats, Rattle Snakes and Turn-coats in Nigeria

Among the Nigerian political class, there are political he-goats, she-goats, rattle snakes and political turn-coats. They infest the political landscape like maggots...

This Government And The Leadership Newspapers

The tension between the Press and the government has hypertrophied to the point that neither is acting in the public interest. It is time for these two adversaries to discuss the patterns of behavior creating such rancor and frustration...

What if Ribadu Leaves the EFCC?

One can hardly hold such an office as Ribadu has held for the past five years, without stepping on some “powerful” toes big time...

An Imaginary Encounter with the President

ME: Sir, thank you for taking time to grant...

The Problem with Olusegun Obasanjo

The man Olusegun Obasanjo is as complex and paradoxical as his record; here was a storied General whose famed native intelligence contrasted with his brash, dictatorial and vindictive tendencies. A man whose ability to manage large organizations, contrasted heavily with his messy private life of tens of concubines, and personal indiscipline within his home...

Why The 10th Senate Leadership Under Akpabio Is Facing Unprecedented Scrutiny

Nigeria’s 10th Senate, headed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio...

Banal Lessons from Edo 2020

The curtain has now closed on the democratic soap...