My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better

Why You Now Need to Exercise Caution in Accepting Invitations to Attend "Large-Crowd" Religious Functions in Nigeria [Feature News Report = Bloody Saturday In A/Ibom: 200 Worshippers Dead After Church Collapses, How Governor Escaped Death By A Whisker]

December 11, 2016

[Photo:A scene from venue of disaster reported by news media under the title "Bloody Saturday In A/Ibom: 200 Worshippers Dead After Church Collapses, How Governor Escaped Death By A Whisker"] Vanguard quoted an eye witness who said: “I saw Apostle Weeks, Governor Emmanuel and other officials escape through the vestry, while the roof fell on […]

Career Development

To Succeed, We Must Help Ourselves - the Government Cannot Help Us

December 8, 2016

It's time for us to wake up from our slumber as Nigerians and Africans. I mean that with reference to EACH of us an individual and NOT our collective identity as a people. I am self-driven, and have always believed no one outside of me (and the Creator) can control what happens in my life. […]

Career Development

No Experience is Ever Wasted - Be Hungry to Learn New and Better Ways to Achieve [True Story: How I Learnt Spreadsheet Programming as a Graduate Trainee by Watching my Training Manager DO IT Every Chance I Got]

December 6, 2016

Below: Photo of me (Tayo K. Solagbade) as a 25 year old Graduate Management/Brewing Trainee in Guinness Nigeria Ikeja's Training Centre - seated beside Richard Chambers, expatriate Brewery Training Coordinator at the time (1995) . NB: See 3 past articles at the bottom of this piece, in which I made reference to Richard Chambers) Today, I use […]

Entrepreneurship

THE FARM CEO (Issue 67): A BOPMS™ Will Enable You Run Your Farm Business Profitably Even When You’re Away!, To Succeed, Your Farm Does Not Just Need a Software – It Needs a BOPMS!, Your Business Should Free You, Not Restrict You

December 4, 2016

Over the past 2 weeks I have made more sales of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator, Feed Formulation Handbook and Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager, to Farm CEOs - 2 within Nigeria and one outside (specifically Uganda via Western Union). Aside from those who have made purchases I have had some call me to make enquiries. For […]

Career Development

Is your Child Learning for School or for Life?

November 27, 2016

[I first published this article online 8 years ago, initially on my website (spontaneousdevelopment.com at the time) and later via Ezinearticles.com (On June 11, 2008) - from where it has since been widely syndicated on other websites. The ideas I advocate for adoption in this piece are today even more relevant and compelling than ever before. […]

Career Development

To Succeed, Expose Bad Employees: Don't Abuse Them!

November 26, 2016

About 4 years ago, I resolved to begin selling my custom Excel-VB Software products and Web Marketing Systems Development services remotely - 100% online. I did this because in working offline, I periodically witnessed the unpleasant situation in which some clients chose NOT to pay their employees what was due and just - and I DID NOT […]

Career Development

We Need Schooling Systems That Transform Learners Into Real World PROBLEM SOLVERS!

November 26, 2016

I've written severally on this theme in the past, and the current predicament of the millions of products from our so called "schools" (as seen in the news report linked below) further underscores the urgent need for people to WAKE UP and stop seeing "schooling" as an end in itself. The truth is that if […]

Entrepreneurship

PII 041: Avoid Intellectual Laziness, Learn How Things Work...to Achieve Success [Hint: A Culture of Making Your Own Things is Key to Individual/National Development - See Photos of Home Made Ankara Slippers and Shoes Inside]

November 21, 2016

All over the world people who excel in life ahead of their peers in any area of endeavour, most times succeed because they devote unrelenting time, energy and effort to MASTERING one or more vocations. Without mastery, you are unlikely to be anything more than average or mediocre. Yet, mastery itself cannot be achieved unless one […]

Career Development

THE FARM CEO (Issue 65): Grow your business at Agra Innovate [1 DAY 8 HOURS to go]

November 20, 2016

This week's issue of the Farm CEO newspaper announces a tradeshow you may find useful to attend, as it offers multiple benefits. Preview: Now in its third successful year, Agra Innovate West Africa is widely recognised as the region's leading crop production, processing and manufacturing tradeshow, connecting suppliers from some twenty different countries across four […]

Career Development

That the Grass Appears Greener On the Other Side Is No Assurance That Things Are Rosier Over There [Stop Thinking Others Are Better Off Than You!

November 17, 2016

It’s funny how we take things for granted so often in life. People across the world have an interesting habit of always seeing what happens in other places based on preconceived notions that many times have little or no bearing on what obtains in real life. One example. I almost fell of my seat in […]

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