Before the Second World War, the French sensed an attack from the Germans after their huge loss in the First War, so they constructed the Maginot line – a series of expensive super-forts along their eastern border with Germany. They reckoned the forts were so strong that they would prevent any future German army from […]
Bernie Madoff has pled guilty last week to the 11 count charges of fraud that was levied against him. For those who have been following the story in the media, this has been regarded as the largest fraud ever committed by a single person; about 65 billion USD of investors’ funds gone. You could literarily see […]
The US dollar is rising against the naira at an alarming rate; at the moment, the black market rate is about 188 naira to a dollar. This is getting a bit worrisome for an importer like me who depends on buying dollars to make procurements, ship and also clear consignments. Would this trend ever reverse […]
Slumdog Millionaire may have conquered this year’s Academy Award with 8 Oscars including the prestigious Best Picture Award but the rag-to-riches plot may have hit some nuggets that most people fail to adhere to; always follow LOVE and your experiences along the way will help you win the challenges of any opportunity that opens up […]
There is United State Dollars literarily falling in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (the commercial point of Vietnam) and only those that can SEE will grab it with both hands. Whenever I recognize that someone is financially wealthier than I am, I know that there is something this person knows that I don’t. […]
Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and Nancy Killefer are three names that will definitely come up in the 2011 election in America but I am not here to talk about politics; I want to address something that has hindered so many Christians from exploiting their potentials and thus becoming what they are destined to be. The […]
My Val’s day was spent talking to Youth Corpers (University and Polytechnic graduates serving a one-year compulsory military program) at Umuahia – the capital city of Abia State (an eastern state in Nigeria). It was a three and the half hour talk on entrepreneurship and I focused on “selling†as the most vital element to […]
 Twenty years ago when Tolu was still in secondary school, he decided to visit a friend living at Argungi, Lekki. This was his first time visiting this part of Lagos and he was a bit excited about the whole journey. The experience was not as he thought it would be; the bus ride from […]
 I really don’t know how new this trick is in Lagos but it was sure new to me yesterday when I was driving my wife and my little princess to church in Victoria Island. It was on a Sunday and the road was quite empty, along the expressway leading from Ijora to Apongbon, was […]
Thank God! It’s the month of love and I am giving away my new book free of charge (FOC). Did you read right or are you sleep-reading? Take a pin and pinch yourself because it’s real. I am giving away my new book to promote knowledge and thus improve the thought-life of my fellow Africans. […]
The alias for oil is black gold and due to the invention of internal combustion engine, oil has become a necessity for man. I won’t go onto details about how necessary oil is to Nigeria especially with the epileptic supply of electric power and bad road networks that causes unnecessary traffic jam. Oil has thus […]
  There is really no better way to promote my new book than to allow you to watch and listen to this heart-felt talk by Eleni Gabre-Madhin – the founder of the first commodities market in Ethiopia, focus on bringing rates and standards (not to mention trading systems, warehousing and data centers) to the […]