Bagging an MBA is one of the greatest investment moves for an executive; the executive is actually taking a step to corporate emancipation and mobility. An MBA actually certifies your ability to effectively manage your company’s resources and take your company to greater heights. This is why MBAs are earnestly sought after in most companies […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ok, it’s a new year and I am already pitching sales (lol). Anyway, it’s for a good cause to empower entrepreneurs staying in Lagos especially those that read my site and can smell a great opportunity when he/she sees one. I am sure it is no longer news that the Lagos State government with conjunction […]
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I had a 4-hours talk this weekend @ Global Harvest Church, Ibadan and this particular episode of my entrepreneurial trail opened my eyes to a different dimension of entrepreneurship. After the residence pastors enumerated their challenges to me concerning their youths, I knew it was not just a local challenge but an African challenge that […]