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[RECOMMENDED] 27 Ways to Make Money From Your Small Farm

May 8, 2018

Over the past decade, working as a Digital Multipreneur (click to see my book), one message I've hammered on to clients in various industries, is the need to make generation of MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME a habit they adopt and NEVER grow out of. An objective look at those who achieve income earning longevity in any […]

Entrepreneurship

[RECOMMENDED] The A-Z of making your own quality chicken feed at home to cut costs

May 4, 2018

In this recommended article, the author makes the case for farmers to formulate their own feed based on the fact that many feed makers fail to produce livestock feed that conform to the required standards. This is an argument I have used (along with the cost-saving benefits of making your own feed) for years to encourage […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[RECOMMENDED] Finland Will Become The First Country In The World To Get Rid of All School Subjects

March 30, 2018

In my 62 page paper titled "Schooling is a Means to an End and NOT an End in Itself ", I featured a preview and URL to a BBC.com news report - with the title shown below: [RECOMMENDED] BBC NEWS: Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? I began my feature […]

Career Development

[RECOMMENDED] Is Your Child Learning For School Or For Life?

December 12, 2017

By Tayo Solagbade | Submitted On June 11, 2008 "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write. They will be those who cannot learn, unlearn or re-learn." - Alvin Toffler Preamble Many people today, who have undergone formal schooling, do not have life survival skills, having only acquired learning […]

Career Development

[RECOMMENDED] Two Articles That Teach What You Need to Profit from Adversity

November 18, 2017

[Screenshot image of Nov. 18, 2010 Facebook post] "Hardship can be good for you. Adversity will force you to grow stronger + help you develop mental stamina. In contrast, a love of ease will make you INEPT and unable to withstand life's major challenges - especially when you step out of your comfort zone. People […]

Career Development

[RECOMMENDED] Why The Degree is Dying (and being replaced by something better) by Isaac Morehouse - Founder & CEO of Praxis

November 1, 2017

If I did not know better, I could have sworn the author of this piece spent some time reading my mind before writing THIS excellent piece. Now, don't get it twisted: The idea being advocated for adoption here is not that classroom based learning is no longer useful. Instead, as the author notes in the […]

Entrepreneurship

[RECOMMENDED] DIY Africa: Empowering a new Sierra Leone - Kelvin Doe, Self-Taught Engineering Teenage Whiz From Sierra Leone, Wows MIT Experts (VIDEO) - As seen on CNN, HuffingtonPost, Wikipedia etc

October 13, 2017

In this special edition of my RECOMMENDED blog post series, I feature previews from high profile news reports about a young African's amazing achievements - from when he was 13 years old - of using 100% self-taught engineering skills to innovate and invent PRACTICAL solutions to everyday problems in his own community. His accomplishments have […]

Excel-VB Solutions

[RECOMMENDED] Magufuli's Salary One of Africa’s Lowest, If Not World!

October 8, 2017

I invite you to read about the simple commonsense based approach to dealing with corruption by starting from the HEAD, that this wonderful African leader is using. Other African leaders, if they get their egos out of the way, need to take a cue from this great man! Magufuli's Salary One of Africa’s Lowest, If Not […]

Entrepreneurship

[RECOMMENDED] The new face of farming: youth making agribusiness ‘cool’!

October 6, 2017

"It is important to make agriculture ‘cool’ in order to attract more youngsters to the sector." - Botswana’s Mavis Nduchwa, 33 year old founder of Chabana (Animal Feed) Farms - a grantee of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) The above quote, credited to a successful young Female African Farm CEO accurately captures the important need […]

Career Development

[RECOMMENDED] Why online courses are trending

October 4, 2017

This report highlights a reality that people are coming to accept all over the world - including Africa - about the increasing popularity of online courses amongst people seeking tertiary level education. As tuition fees keep rising, those who cannot afford them are embracing the use of remote learning web based resources that a growing […]