Career Development
Temi & Oluoma's No-Oven Charcoal Stove Cookies [Facebook page now LIVE!]
February 28, 2016









'Temi (10) & Oluoma (7) are sisters who (with support from their family) use creative low cost recipes & a charcoal stove pot to bake cookies for sale. This micro business venture began as a “skills acquisition project” Temi asked their Dad to let her do, after seeing videos of home made cookies baking. Click […]







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Teach Kids to Develop (& Monetize!) Market Relevant Abilities EARLY In Life [VIDEO DEMONSTRATION: After Watching Short DIY Video, 12 Year Old Builds Battery Powered Toy Power bike Using Sticks from Sweets as Frames, a Rotor from Damaged DVD as Engine, Plastic Coke Bottle Covers as Tyres & a Microphone Battery from his Mother's Church As Power Source]
February 10, 2016









This video (click here to watch in a new window) shows me test running the battery powered toy power bike built my 12 year old son, whose natural talent for creating electrical gadgets continues to excite and amaze me. He's been like this since he was about 8 years old. I've written several articles in […]







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Career Development
You Need an Experience Sharing Habit to Succeed More...in Career, as a Parent & in Life!
January 12, 2016









In this article, I explain what drives me to keep using my writing to share my experience based knowledge, ideas and insights on various areas of life, and why doing the same thing can help you succeed in your chosen occupation, as well as in parenting your kids! It is my vision to be the […]







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Excel-VB Solutions
Take Your Kids Out to Experience The REAL WORLD of Your Society [True Story: A Last Minute New Year's Outing with my Kids to the Bar Beach via Public Transportation in Nigeria's Lagos]
January 9, 2016









You take it for granted, but your kids don't have a clue about it - even though they WILL have to deal with the reality in future. I'm talking about everything you have to do, to provide for them and/or to pursue your goals in life. That includes the STREET SMARTNESS to move around in […]







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The Hood Does Not Make the Monk. School Uniforms Don't Guarantee Learning!
December 17, 2015









"Clothes don't make a man" - said Jay-Jay's mum to him in an episode of the popular '80's American sitcom - Good Times. The hood does not make the monk. School uniforms don't guarantee your child is learning all s/he needs. Don't abdicate your primary parenting responsibility, which is to teach him/her what s/he needs […]







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Career Development
How a Hilarious definition of "Black Friday" Made Me Offer THIS Black Friday Sale on TayoSolagbade.com [True Story | Goodies Inside!]
November 27, 2015









Yesterday, after returning from the Agra Innovate Exhibition on Lagos-Nigeria's Victoria Island, I stopped at the office of a small firm to see the CEO. While waiting, I overheard a young female employee voicing the following truly hilarious definition of Black Friday sales based on a Jumia.com TV ad being shown on the office TV […]







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Career Development
To Achieve Uncommon Success, Avoid Specializing [Hint: New York Times Article About Steve Martin's Amazing Success As a Multipreneur]!
October 31, 2015









The following 2 quotes set the tone for this piece... 1. "Specialization is for Insects A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, […]







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Career Development
Science Subjects are NOT Superior to the Arts: The Case for Self-Managed Schooling
October 27, 2015









“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” – Albert Einstein Despite agreeing with virtually everything else he said in his THIS DAY newspaper article on the recent NBL sponsored Maltina Teacher of the […]







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Why Instead of "SELLING" Fela Anikulapo Kuti to Them, it's the WORLD - led by America - that's "SELLING" Fela to Nigerians!
October 25, 2015









[PHOTOS: A visit to Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Kalakuta Museum with my 16 year old son - who is named after him] In my 2003 personal philosophy paper titled "Why I Do What I Do, The Way I Do It", I wrote as follows: "In certain ways, I see myself as a non-singing ideological equivalent of […]







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Career Development
Choosing The Right Role Models for Success Achievement - What to Look For [Case Study: 21 year old Ibadan-based Nigerian freelance writer/blogger, who earns thousands of dollars writing for international clients AND also makes money from a Catfish Farm Business he started 1 year ago!]
October 22, 2015









Quick Take Away As far as I'm concerned, due to the TRULY international dimension of the success he enjoys as a freelance writer/blogger, earning steady income in thousands of dollars by CREATING 100% original value adding content for high profile and discerning international clients, coupled with his successful investment of his earnings to start-up an […]







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