Category Archives: My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better

[BPP] TRAILER: Teen Girls Coached by Dad Use Tools to Cut Wooden Kite Shape for School Math Project

This is a 3:06 minute VIDEO TRAILER version of my latest Best Practice Parenting & Schooling (BPPS) video.

This version you’re looking at has been sped up about 3 times to show more footage so you can just get to see some of the slides/frames.

Now, my daughter was given an assignment from school for math. They were supposed to cut out the shape of a Kite on a piece of plywood, and they were actually told to contribute money to go and get it done with a Carpenter.

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[FINDING GOOD BUYERS] 4 Man Marketing Team Lost Web Project Bid to Solo Expert [TIP: Jump to 10:26 for True Story]

As I said in the first installment of this series, I’m not a fan of the philosophy of going through friends and relatives (to find buyers), especially here in Nigeria/Africa.

Reason: Too often such clients tend to expect and/or demand what I call “Profits-Killing” and “Growth Stifling” concessions from you, because of the relationship they have with you.

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Do You Know How to Attract Total Strangers to Buy from You? [Make Profitable & Repeatable Sales Without Connections!]

Below: Excerpts from the Promotional Audio Conversation Based Video for my FREE YouTube/Instagram Question and Answer Service (click here to request it via email).

“You are a marketer first, and an expert second” – Burt Dubin

“Once you have passion, and you have verifiable competence in whatever it is that you aim to sell, then you can do what I’m talking about.

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[NEW LAW!] Vocational Subjects to Mainstream…into Nigeria’s Core Educational System from JSS1 to SSS3, Transforming Secondary Schools into ‘Skill Acquisition Centres’ | Best Practice Parenting & Schooling Newsletter/Mini-Magazine – BPPS NO. 004 OF 15TH MAY 2021 [PDF]

ease find attached a copy of the latest issue of my FREE Best Practice Parenting & Schooling Newsletter/Mini-Magazine for your perusal.

As usual, a digital (PDF) version will be posted at www.tksola.com for FREE download by interested persons.

I continue to distribute both print and digital versions to selected target individuals, groups and organizations.

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Farm CEO Client Requests “SOP” [Part of my BOPMS™] For Farm Performance Improvement

Do you run a farm business, or plan to start one? If yes, adopting what I call a BOPMS™ can save you time, effort, and lots of money – in the short, and/or long run.

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6 Year Old Mechanic [BBC VIDEO] – His Parents Tried to Stop Him But His Passion Made Them Give In: LESSON FOR PARENTS!

Click HERE to watch this BBC Interview of an amazing 6 year old Nigerian Automobile Mechanic in Training.

Like I’ve been screaming for years…PARENTS must take ownership of the process of educating their kids for success in life post-schooling. Continue…

[BPPS] Reps approve compulsory vocational studies in secondary school – PUNCH NEWSPAPER REPORT

This PUNCH Newspaper headline [Reps approve compulsory vocational studies in secondary school] is proof that we’re winning – at least on THIS front, and at long last too.

Only a few weeks ago, I attended a follow up meeting with senior officials at the Ministry of Education, who had invited the Chairman of the State Parents Forum to discuss with me.

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[BPPS] Teen Sisters (15 & 12) PRACTICE for their 1st Mobile Hairstyling Experience Sharing Clinic for Kids!

This video trailer features:

1. Highlight photos and a video clip from the 1st practice session done – on Tuesday 27th April 2021 – by the girls with their Mentor, the CEO of ADA UNIQUE SALOON located at No. 5 Akinriade Street, Anifowoshe, Ikeja, Lagos.

2. Subtitled playback of a recorded phone Conversation, 2 days later, on 29th April – when Ada spoke with Temi after seeing  photos of the 2nd practice session done by the girls at home.

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[PDF] Our Societies Are Badly in Need of REAL MEN as Role Models…and Leaders – NOT Weaklings in Mens Pants (aka WIMPs)

I’ll be 51 on 6th July 2021. However, I know that my best years are still far ahead of me. Today, I’m doing the work I LOVE with increasing success, financially and otherwise, despite adversity i.e. even in the face of harsh economic conditions. Continue…

[PDF] He Called Me “Voleur” (Thief)! | The Big Mistake Some Africans Make In Thinking About Nigerians

In this article, I discuss one big mistake some non-Nigerian Africans seem to be making in thinking about Nigeria.

To do this, I share a true story about a Francophone African undergraduate in his 20’s, who called me a thief – and meant it.

Why?

Because he daily saw me typing away on an Internet connected laptop, and I never seemed to go out to “work”…LOL!

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