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PII 100: What Are You Willing to Do to Succeed? [Hint: I Slept on the Streets of Benin Republic’s Cotonou & Porto Novo!]

How badly you want to succeed in any area of endeavour you embark upon, will often determine how well you eventually succeed, in the long run. 
 
And since succeeding has been defined a “never ending journey of striving perpetually for excellence“, THAT means you need to (like I explained in the 10th Way described in my Self-Development BibleBE HUNGRY & STAY HUNGRY…for success, if you want to excel at what you do!

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Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement 
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 8th January 2018

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
 I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 100: What Are You Willing to Do to Succeed? [Hint: I Slept on the Streets of Benin Republic’s Cotonou & Porto Novo!]

 
How badly you want to succeed in any area of endeavour you embark upon, will often determine how well you eventually succeed, in the long run. 
 
And since succeeding has been defined a “never ending journey of striving perpetually for excellence“, THAT means you need to (like I explained in the 10th Way described in my Self-Development BibleBE HUNGRY & STAY HUNGRY…for success, if you want to excel at what you do!
So what are YOU willing to do to achieve the success you say you desire?
 
Hopefully you are not one of those increasingly larger numbers of people who engage in the self-delusion of empty affirmations NOT backed by diligent and intelligent ACTION TAKING.
 
I refer especially to those who hide behind pretentious religious dispositions they display, to try winging their way to success.
 
Like I’ve said in past articles, and will continue to say, there are no reliable, worthwhile shortcuts to lasting, authentic success.
Majority of the exceptional achievers many lazy minded people regard with a mixture of admiration and envy today, often have a string of past failures that they had to relentlessly ignore, and overcome with hard work and persistence, in spite of adversity, to arrive at the success they enjoy today.
 
You most likely have read a variant of the above before. You most probably know the true stories of success achieved despite suffering and setbacks, about some famous persons.
 
Most people I meet know all of these things. But it always amazes me to find that despite reading and hearing about how those they idolize in success had to sweat, struggle and strain to reach the top, MOST of these same people express a shameless (and nauseating)  tendency to want the same REWARDS dropped in their laps, with little or no exertion required from them to get it!
 
But then again, that attitude, often displayed by many of the new generation of youths and young adults I meet, out here, is a direct fallout of the instant gratification culture promoted by PC and Internet technology driven conveniences we  enjoy in today’s modern world.
 
At the click of a mouse, one is able today to get things she would not even imagine possible about 2 to 3 decades ago.
 
It is for this reason, that today’s parents have their work cut out for them. Especially those who have to care for teenagers or preteens. 
 
The teenage years are the most crucial determinant, of how kids will arrive adulthood. 
 
If not well managed during this period, especially in terms of helping them to mould their CHARACTER, in addition to knowledge and skills they develop, teenagers can grow into adults who need outpatient care from their parents, because they lack the competence to function as independent adults when they leave home.
 
Strength of Character, is the ultimate key to lasting success in life.
 
Without it, most people would not be able to deal with delays, disappointments, setbacks, failures and anything else that goes wrong in their lives.
 
Such an inability to deal with adversity will make them more prone to experience what can be called PERMANENT DEFEAT – to paraphrase Napoleon Hill, from Think & Grow Rich, in which he described FAILURE as TEMPORARY DEFEAT.
 
But to help your child acquire an ability of this kind, you must have it, and your child must SEE you display/use it, if your message to him/her is to fully hit home with him/her.
 
So, do YOU have strength of character? 
 
Can you deal with things going wrong, as if a storm is brewing in your life, for long periods, without giving up?
 
Have you had any experiences that have tested your faith in yourself? To the point that you (like people in my part of the world so often do) began to “believe” some enemy in your village or home town was using “juju” or “black magic” to make you fail or struggle perpetually?
 
If YES, then take it as a sign that YOU NEED to work on developing GREATER strength of character than you currently have. THAT is the only sure, time tested ANTIDOTE to permanent defeat and frustration. Once you have strength of character, NOTHING – and I do mean NOTHING can stop you.
 
But guess what the best part is?
 
When you have it, especially in the generous amounts that I have found it possible to develop it, you become VERY attractive to others who seek INCREASE in their lives. 
 
You become a source of inspiration for them – they will see you and what you continue to do DESPITE the hardships you go through, and they will draw massive inspiration to pursue their own valued goals.
 
Take it from me. Like I always say: I practice what I preach. In other words, I LIVE this stuff! Below, I narrate a true story to illustrate
 
Back in April 2013, during my first month in Cotonou, after I relocated from Nigeria’s Lagos, I found myself in the very uncomfortable situation, by the end of my first week of stay (in the small and cheap Hotel Petit Pere, located in the center of the city), of insufficient cash to continue paying for a room.
 
This happened due to my arriving with limited funds and not being conversant with the exchange rate between the Naira and the CFA.
 
Typical of my entrepreneurial self, viewing the world through rose coloured glasses of optimism, I’d assumed i would easily find rented accommodation within the first week. 
 
What I did not know was the real estate agents I kept going to would be so naughty as to repeatedly ask me to pay 2,500 FCFA to go see one supposedly “good” apartment after another. 
 
They kept coming to pick me up from the hotel to go on visits to different properties to let, until I noticed a trend in which they took me to houses that were not even fixed up with electricity or water access! 
 
When I queried them, they readily assured me those would be sorted soon as I paid up. 
 
But a closer look at the properties, and a chance conversation with residents in the neighbourhood, soon revealed some of the houses were not even up for rent. 
 
The agents had seen my desperation to escape from paying the hotel fees, and exploited it.
 
For those looking to rent accommodation, in Cotonou or elsewhere, this above mentioned potential risk is noteworthy. 
 
You’re advised to find a trustworthy local to move around with you, especially as you explore offers on ground – and in particular when you discuss/negotiate terms with agents and property owners.
 
It goes without saying that you need to ensure you read, understand and agree with anything you are asked to sign e.g tenancy agreement (which in a place like Cotonou, is often written in French, for instance).
 
A nifty little book on the above theme (see cover below), written and published for sale to a global audience by Dr. Nana Arnold Kouayep, offers useful time tested experience based wisdom from his deep repertoire as a bilingual Jurist.
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Too low on funds to stay in the hotel, I moved out and began visiting different properties with “A Louer” (To Let) signs in desperation, but unable to find anyone willing to accept my crazy proposal that I be allowed to move in and pay by Monday, when funds I expected would arrive
 
Soon it was nightfall, and I still had not found a solution to the problem of a place to rest/sleep. Carrying my travel bag and backpack, I kept walking from street to street, through areas around the Etoile Rouge roundabout.
On a particular street, I noticed a church building for what seemed to be an Anglican style church. The lights were on. So I went in, and seeing an elderly man around 65 years old, explained that I needed a place to stay for the night, having run out of cash to continue in the hotel. 
 
Speaking kindly and acting concerned, he asked me a few questions, and I replied.
 
Then he asked what country I was from, noting that my spoken French lacked the common Beninese “flavour”. “Gabon?” he suggested. I told him, NO – and added “Nigeria”. 
 
That would be my first experience of what I found to be a common negative attitude of some locals towards people from my country – “Nigeria“. His countenance changed almost imperceptibly, 
 
But I did not miss it. 
 
His next words were along the lines of: “Sorry, but I can’t help you. I think you should try finding your way, possibly to places where other Nigerians live, so they can take you in.” 
 
I asked him where that would be, but he replied that he had no idea. However, I got the distinct impression that he simply could not WAIT for me to leave LOL!
 
That discouraging scenario would replay itsself at about 3 other places, until I got to a private residence around midnight.
 
There I saw a plump looking young man sitting on one of the fancy Cotonou motor bikes while chatting with a friend at the gate. I greeted them and explained that I needed help. 
 
The same question and answer session as occurred in the previous places took place.
 
I was already thinking nothing good would come of it yet again, when he suddenly asked me to show him my passport, so he could be sure I’d come in with correct papers. 
 
When I did that, and he’d satisfied himself they were in order, he said he knew a place I could stay. 
 
About 30 minutes later, he’d dropped me off at an area around the Stade De L’amitie (the national stadium), where he introduced me to some private security guards, and explained my situation to them
 
Long story short, they agreed to let me sleep on the tiled outside floor of the shops they were guarding from that night right through the weekend, into Monday morning, when funds arrived at the bank, for me, from Nigeria.
 
I exchanged numbers with my new friend and he left for home waving backwards to me. “An angel sent by God” I said to myself LOL!
 
During that 4 day period over the weekend, the guards would let me use their shower to bathe and clean up, including wash my clothes (before daylight). 
 
Then once it was dawn, I would go walking around the stadium to watch people do different sports till nightfall. But lacking money, I could buy no food to eat. 
 
Yep, I mean it. From that Friday night till Monday a.m of April 2013, I only drank water – as I had NO CASH to buy ANY food to eat!
 
I knew no one in the country at the time, and I had made no friends I could reach out to. It was far from being a funny experience. 
 
Yet each day, I would write and publish a new article on my blog – click here to check my April 2013 archives: I did not miss a single publishing day. That was how driven I was. The hunger pangs I felt did not stop me from staying motivated to do what I LOVED! 
 
NB: Those close to me – my kids and relatives – have heard this story from me before now. But THIS is the first time I’m sharing it publicly. And it’s NOT even half told yet LOL!
 
I’ll be telling the rest of it during my talks as I travel (click here to request an audio version of the full story). 
 
For now, I’ll end by noting that on Sunday night, the hunger I felt was so great that around 10p.m, I approached a lady selling pineapples in front of the stadium for a pineapple. 
 
She told me “C’est cent francs” i.e. it’s 100 French CFA (about N33 Naira at the time). 
 
I replied that I knew, but that I had no money. She looked me over in disgust and told me to leave. I quietly did so while consoling myself that I’d at least tried and thay the rejection I earned was the worst that could have happened. 
 
Retiring to a corner bench outside a closed shop, I lay down with my head on my backpack, while my travel bag was beside me. (This experience really opened my eyes to what it meant to be homeless, I tell you!)
 
As I looked up into the sky, praying that time would run fast into morning so I could go to the bank to receive the UBA Africash transfer I was expecting, I heard the old lady call out to me: “Monsieur!”
 
Sitting up, I saw her motion for me to come over. Getting to her table, she handed me a pineapple and told her son to peel it for me.
 
I thanked her profusely, and watched, with my stomach growling, as the little boy peeled the fruit and sliced it up into a nylon bag that he handed me, 
 
Thanking them both, I retuned to my corner and proceeded to eat the fruit, prolonging each bite as long as I could, to savour the flavour.
Never had pineapple tasted so great in my mouth before!
 
That night I slept much better than I had on the previous nights – for obvious reasons. Food is good my dear reader! No matter how  tough you are, lack of food for prolonged periods WILL get you down sooner or later. 
 
The next morning, by around 9a.m, I had collected cash from the UBA branch in front of the stadium 
 
Life was good again…or so I thought – until few weeks later, I once again ran out of funds and had to sleep on the streets of Porto Novo, when I made my very first visit to the famous Songhai Integrated Farming Centre. 
 
Details of that and other trials I passed through in my first few weeks in Benin Republic will be in the audio podcast I will soon publish for members of DiscoverCotonou.com to freely access.
 
I’ll end this piece by saying that my willingness to endure any form of hardship to achieve any goals I set for  myself is why I AM the unstoppable force of nature that others find me to be. 
 
The articles linked below offer true stories of my achievements by the end of that first year (2013) in Benin, despite my rocky start – such as:
 

On another occasion, I had to write a blog post due for publishing on my blog, while inside the chauffeur driven jeep of a Cotonou based Nigerian diplomat client, at 11.30p.m. We were stuck in a traffic jam on the way back to Seme border, after a visit to his farm in South West Nigeria. Read more

 
2. getting paid 2,500 Euros by a European Union funded NGO based on Holland, to write a 4,000 word case study paper about the use of my Excel-VB Ration Formulator by farmers in/out of Africa
 
By the time the year 2013 ended, I wrote a post (so far viewed over 25,000 times) featuring highlights of various other aspects of progress I’d made since my initial sputtering start…
 
 
FINAL WORDS: If you want to achieve your own goals, no matter what, you MUST (MUST, MUST!!!) be willing to face and overcome ANY adversity that comes your way
 
If you need help learning how to do that, signup for my Master of Adversity (MA) coaching program
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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutionsweb marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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Order Tayo’s Self-Development Bible – as well as his popular Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, 25 Articles & True Stories Ebook, Speaking Ideas: 25 Articles and True Stories for Experts Who Speak and Those Aspiring, the 4 part Farm Business Best Practice Ebook series, Kukuru Danger ebook and others.

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In July 2005 I, met with the president of Ghana’s Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) in Accra, about the use of Print On Demand (POD) publishing to publish international quality physical books at zero cost.

He agreed with the point I made that PAWA members could use POD to get print published to a global paying audience.

So he asked me to order a physical copy of my 113 page Self-Development Bible that I showed him in my online store.

Several months later, I sent a copy through a Nigerian banker friend’s Ghanaian colleague who had hosted me during my 2 week stay in Accra.

It was one of 2 copies hand delivered to our Lagos home by a family friend who’d kindly ordered while in his US base, prior to visiting Nigeria at the time.

Incidentally, that would be our 2nd attempt to order my book. A few weeks earlier he’d placed an order for 5 copies to be delivered to me via Post Office in Lagos.

They never arrived – even though we confirmed dispatch from the US publisher lol!

Back then (2005), debit cards did not exist in Nigeria. So I had to get others in diaspora to help with their crediz cards/paypal etc.

Things have changed a whole lot since then, and I’ve since gone on to help clients in/out of Nigeria get published in print via my ghost-writing based Print On Demand Publishing (POD) Service – using a debit card issued to me by a Nigerian bank.

And I’ve earned multiple royalties from sales of my books/information products in both physical & digital format in my online store.

Sadly I still see too many experts who can benefit from it, being unaware of &/or refusing to adopt Print On Demand Publishing (POD) to boost their brands’ sales & marketing efforts.

That’s why I talk about it in my on demand 1 hour talk about how a WMS can be used to achieve timeless marketing based name/brand recognition and zero cost sales leads generation.

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Use the form on the page below to invite me:

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PII 093: Getting YOUR Employees to Consistently Deliver the Results YOU Want at Work! [What Every Executive, Entrepreneur, &/or CEO Should Know]

This issue of my weekly performance improvement ideas newsletter links announces a learning event I offer to help businesses of ANY size get MORE of their employees to repeatedly and consistently deliver On-Th-Job results their employers value!

My achievements as a well paid high-flying employee in a fast paced multinational manufacturing workplace during my 7 year career in paid employment, PLUS the training experiences given to me by the company in my role as a departmental Best Practice Process Management champion, make me uniquely qualified to facilitate this event..

Now, back in 2008 the CEO of a Lagos based small/medium sized cookies factory engaged me to develop and implement custom Best Practice system for use by his employees. So this is a concept that has been tried and tested in the marketplace.

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Tayo Solagbade's Performance Improvement IDEAS(PI Squared) Newsletter

Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement
IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 20th November 2017

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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View Tayo Solagbade's video tutorials and demonstrations on Facebook Productivity Tips, Web Marketing, and for his Custom MS Excel-VB driven software applicationsJoin the SD Nuggets community on Facebook.comConnect with Tayo on Twitter.comConnect with Tayo on Google PlusConnect with Tayo on LinkedIn.com

PII 093: Getting YOUR Employees to Consistently Deliver the Results YOU Want at Work! [What Every Executive, Entrepreneur, &/or CEO Should Know]

This issue of my weekly performance improvement ideas newsletter links announces a learning event I offer to help businesses of ANY size get MORE of their employees to repeatedly and consistently deliver On-Th-Job results their employers value!

My achievements as a well paid high-flying employee in a fast paced multinational manufacturing workplace during my 7 year career in paid employment, PLUS the training experiences given to me by the company in my role as a departmental Best Practice Process Management champion, make me uniquely qualified to facilitate this event..

Now, back in 2008 the CEO of a Lagos based small/medium sized cookies factory engaged me to develop and implement custom Best Practice system for use by his employees. So this is a concept that has been tried and tested in the marketplace.

What follows below are details of the learning event I offer, which is designed to inform and educate attendees about how to use proven performance improvement techniques to boost workplace productivity among employees.

What Attendees Will Learn

• How to ensure your employees get the skills and experience they need (without
going off duty), to achieve their fullest potentials on the job.

• How to utilize Spontaneous Coaching™ to subtly, but powerfully influence
employees, to form the habit of Going The Extra Mile(GTEM)™ in their work!

• Intelligent, and low/zero cost strategies for using PC/Internet technology, to get employees to consistently comply with set standard and guidelines. Say goodbye to stressing yourself checking up on them every day.

• How To Boost Employee Productivity, Without Increasing Salaries – 6 Proven, But
Little Used Strategies

Bonus Items Attendees Will Get

* Each attendee gets a signed glossy covered PHYSICAL copy of Tayo Solagbade’s 113 page Self-Development Bible™ ($13 Value!) – see online store at www.lulu.com/sdaproducts

• How to use Tayo Solagbade’s 10 item Employee Workplace Morale Gauge Quiz*,
to measure how your employees, reports or team members feel about working with
you/your organisation.

*Tayo Solagbade’s Employee Morale Gauge Quiz was features in a management research paper titled “Performance Management and Employee Motivation “, which Tayo presented in the 1999 edition of Nigerian Institute of Management’s Young Managers’ Competition. The 10-item multi-choice survey questionnaire was administered to employees of a number of organisations in Lagos and Benin cities.

Over 80% of the employees scored their companies low in areas relating to welfare, rewards/recognition,involvement in decision making and fulfillment of promises made to them etc.

The results were discussed in the paper presented. Copies of the questionnaire will be given to attendees, and the procedure for administering it, and interpreting the results for decision making explained.

• Packed with tested and proven experience based-thinking, discoveries,
philosophies and anecdotes from a fully cultural context.

• Many ideas and actionable steps you can put to use immediately

• Based on a Paper delivered at the Center for Management Development.

This topic is available as a keynote speech, a half-day or full-day workshop.

Click here (or below) to download PDF flyer for THIS event!

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Click here to request details about how to invite Tayo

 

 

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Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

Click to view larger screenshot

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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Monday:

[Wednesday]:

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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PII 092: Response Generating Digital Marketing Content Creation Service

Intelligent creation of new and useful digital marketing content is the key to achieving – and sustaining – name and brand recognition at low to zero cost.

Look around the web, and you’ll see that those businesses that are able to capture your attention, for decent periods of time – especially the ones whose websites you find yourself going back to, often have a routine of churning out new content designed to appeal to their desired target audience.

But creating new and interesting content that attracts pre-qualified prospects to your business on a regular basis is NOT easy to do. It takes lots of hard work characterized by thinking, researching, testing, evaluating etc

 

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NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016.
I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 092: Response Generating Digital Marketing Content Creation Service

Intelligent creation of new and useful digital marketing content is the key to achieving – and sustaining – name and brand recognition at low to zero cost.

Look around the web, and you’ll see that those businesses that are able to capture your attention, for decent periods of time – especially the ones whose websites you find yourself going back to, often have a routine of churning out new content designed to appeal to their desired target audience.

But creating new and interesting content that attracts pre-qualified prospects to your business on a regular basis is NOT easy to do. It takes lots of hard work characterized by thinking, researching, testing, evaluating etc.

Those that get the best results typically employ a combination of methods – including creation of unique series of articles, videos, audios, PDF reports, info-graphics and others.

Every business will however need to experiment quite a bit to find out what works best for its brand. Very rarely will it be possible to arrive at a one size fits all kind of web marketing campaign. Instead, the business owner and/or those responsible for the web marketing implementation may most likely have to do lots of testing to identify what combination of methods gives the best results.

Not only will that process take time, but it will also require considerable investment of effort in thinking up new ideas, implementing and reviewing them.

When you are an expert art your core business, the required investment of time, effort and resources to make the above happen, may however not be something you find yourself able to commit to.

Much as most business owners would love to do it, I’ve seen many of them struggle to combine it with carrying out web marketing content creation and propagation to boost their business marketing reach and impact – the way it needs to be done, for best results to happen.

We all have our strengths, and sometimes it pays to know when it would be best to outsource work that is NOT your core area of expertise.

This is why there is a growing demand for intelligent, value adding, web marketing content creation support services, delivered via a ghostwriting arrangement – like the one I’ve delivered to clients for years.

Since 2004, I have worked with experts in a wide range of industries (consulting, IT, real estate, health and fitness, hotels, bars/restaurants, hospitals, law, agriculture, education etc) to create and propagate web marketing content for their businesses.

My versatility/keen multipreneurial attitude and resourcefulness makes clients connect with me in ways that lead to long term relationships and friendships in which I add way more value to them than what they pay for.

Little wonder that many gladly remain in my network and most buy into other solutions I up sell to them over time.

Today, I have several who started out years ago by purchasing my Excel-VB software, but have since moved on to having me deliver other solutions like ghostwriting books, developing web marketing systems etc.

But for me, by far the most exciting part of the work I do as a Location Independent Multipreneur is the aspect that involves using my creative writing skills to support clients in a variety of ways – especially with regard to the use of PC/Internet Technology.

Below is an example of the ways I use my passion – and unique gift – for creative response generating writing – to help clients cost-effectively achieve improved marketing results

If you want take the work out of your business marketing, while boosting your reach and impact, the following custom solutions will interest you

[Special Offer] Standalone Digital Marketing Content Creation Service

I now offer a standalone digital marketing content creation service.

I will prepare and deliver the following digital marketing resources to paying clients at the indicated rates:

1. Biz Marketing Articles [750 – 1,000 words/unit]

Order 12 minimum @ N3k per unit

2. Educational Commercial (PDF) @ N50k per unit

Order 12 minimum @ N25k per unit

3. Biz Marketing Video Trailers @ N50k per unit

Order 12 minimum @ N15k per unit

Click here to get details of how to signup for any of the above special offers – OR let me know if you have questions or require clarification.

 

[2017 END-OF-YEAR OFFER] Join my Web Marketing for CEOs Club & Get Multipurpose Web Marketing Support Services (& Coaching) FREE for Your Business for ONE YEAR!1-year-wms-offer

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

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1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to watch a screenshot demonstration of the Excel-VB Driven Poultry Farm Manager I built for a client farm business in Ekiti state, South West Nigeria.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

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The FARM CEO (Issue 98): Utilization Potentials of Cassava Starch (Manihot esculenta) as Micro-Livestock Feed Binder

 

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix

(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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[MP3 AUDIO UPDATE] You Need a WIN-WIN Relationship That Helps You Succeed [Revised Guidelines for Service Provision by Tayo Solagbade’s SDAc’s Creative Business Solutions – with VERBATIM TEXT TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS]

Learn How YOU Can Enjoy  a WIN-WIN Relationship, With Me, That Helps You Succeed – in this short audio message in which I announce revised guidelines for provision of/access to some solutions I offer.

Preamble:

The revised guidelines discussed in this audio notification take effect from Monday, the 9th of October 2017.

The first one mentioned about my PROMO offers is the most important, but I strongly advise that if you plan to work with me, you download and listen to the full audio (click link at bottom of this post) to know what the other 2 are.

This is because they define how I will work from now onwards, to ensure I can serve ALL my clients and followers effectively and efficiently in a WIN-WIN relationship that ensures I stay profitable even as I help them achieve their goals.

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Hi there, this is Tayo Solagbade and it’s about 4.54a.m. I’m recording this special update just to announce some slight modifications to the way I’ll be providing my solutions to everybody in my network.

Now please note that what I’m about to say here applies to you whether you’re already a client or whether you’re just a subscriber in my network, or maybe you’re just on my contacts list and I sent it to you.

But in the email I would have spelt out the same terms I’m about to describe in this audio, and it’s just designed to let everybody be on the same page.

Starting from Monday, the 9th of October 2017, I will be launching a new system for sending out offers to people in my network. And this will be a blanket system. In other words I will NOT be making special concessions to ANY particular groups of people anymore.

Instead I’m going to just be giving a blanket system of offers to make what I used to call “Crazy Promos”…there will no longer be called “crazy promos.

Instead I’m going to just have promos, because like I said I’ve tested all kinds of things this year, and what I’ve learned is that at the end of the day, the most important thing is that you should make your offers with integrity, but at the same time make them to have as much of a human face as possible.

Incidentally, it was some of you who told me this – who requested for this and asked, “Oh why can’t you make it a bit longer. These are short” and all of that. And what I found out over the years, from experts that I studied in developing my model, is that it’s always a smart thing to test. If people tell you they want “this”, TEST it! Don’t just be (like some clients used to tell me I was…lol) “rigid”.

So I said, OK – they say I’m rigid, let me see – just how flexible can I be, that they will be able to take it up…

So, I tried being flexible, and I noticed that the more flexible I tried to be, not everybody would respond to the effort being made to be flexible.

Some people still, there was always something!

So I said OK, the African and Nigerian environment is peculiar. People have challenges they are facing that are not normal. Because they are not like Americans, where everybody has their credit cards and you can just be charging their credit cards, every month, like some of my Oyinbo mentors that I’ve studied.

Some people are dealing with price changes of maize every week. So when they are talking about subscribing to your offer – when they say YES last week, by this week, they’ll say “Ol boy that YES don turn to MAYBE” lol!

And so I said to myself, that I have to find out something. that will be convenient for everybody and that would be FAIR! But I realized in the process of trying to do that, testing all kinds of approaches, practically with each person, especially those people who were already my clients and I felt I knew them and that it would be unfair not to give the guy a chance. I found out that there could be a varying degree of commitment even after you’d made these modifications.

So, eventually what I’ve come to is the conclusion that a person who really wants something (and that’s something I’ve actually always known), if he wants something badly enough, he’ll find away to get it. 

All you have to do it to be fair in how you make the offer. Once you’ve done that, then your own part is played and it’s left to the person to decide.

And so, long story short, what I’m announcing to all of you is:

Starting Monday (9th October 2017), there will not be any crazy promos. They will just be FLASH PROMOS – which are promos that are (tightly) time limited.

So, the time limit can be in 3 forms.

The first form or first dealing will be 24 hours

That price will be crazy but I will not call it a crazy promo.

It’s just going to be at a flash promo price. You take it up in 24hours you get that price. You go beyond 24 hours, you’re going to have to deal with DOUBLE that price which will be applicable for 24 hours.

Then after that it goes back to (for instance if the thing was supposed to be ) N100k and I gave it to you at N5k, then you would actually have to pay N10k if you missed the 24 hour deadline, and then after the 48 hour deadline, you would have to pay the N100k…or comot eye lol!

Now, it’s important to note, that what I’m talking about here, there are no exceptions to it.

It does not matter if you’re a member of my Farm Business Ideas club or Web Marketing for CEOs club or whether you’re just a subscriber or you’re a member of my Inner Circle. It won’t matter.

(Not) even if you’re a member of Club Zero – because (unlike how I initially started it) I have revised the terms of Club Zero to be SPECIFICALLY for farm business owners.

The reason is this:

I would say that about 80% of my clients are Farm CEOs!

So those are the people that helped my brand to be what it is today, and it is for those people that I offer Club Zero – PRIMARILY.

It took me time, but I eventually decided that THAT was how I wanted it to be.

So anything outside Farm Business Support Solutions would NOT be a Club Zero thing. Therefore you won’t be able to get it at a zero price.

===End of Transcript Excerpts====

NB: The audio continues to the 2 other updates that you need to be aware of – but I do NOT offer a text transcript version.

Instead, like I noted in the preamble for this post, I strongly advise that if you plan to work with me, you download and listen to the full audio (click here NOW) to know what the other 2 are.

DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO HERE!

Tayo K. Solagbade

Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur

Web: http://www.tayosolagbade.com

 

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On the page linked below, I provide names and preliminary contact details of Affiliate Partners, from whom you CAN purchase ANY of my underlisted products at LOWER rates than their standard prices/fees.

Affiliate Partners

You will fill and submit a form linked on the page to contact the Affiliate Partner of your choice.

NB: The special discount concessions enjoyed by my partners  makes it possible for YOU to get more pocket friendly prices – from them – than you would get from me.

PPS: To learn how you can become an Affiliate Partner, fill the form linked on the Affiliate Partner page to request details

[RECOMMENDED] Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years by CEO of Mercedes

Comment by Tayo K. Solagbade: I prepared this print-ready 2 page PDF version (click here to download it now) of the message previewed below (reportedly given by the CEO of Mercedes), for my kids, who I’ve been coaching along the same lines, based on my observations/experience based intuition. It is my considered opinion, that every parent needs to read it with his/her kids!

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And truly WISE parents will enroll with their kids at Khan Academy (mentioned in the message)– it’s the future of LEARNING here today! See https://www.khanacademy.org/

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Must read article on how our lives will change dramatically in 20 years by CEO of Mercedes

​In a recent interview the MD of Daimler Benz (Mercedes Benz) said their competitors are no longer other car companies but Tesla (obvious), Google, Apple, Amazon

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world

Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world,  10 years earlier than expected.

Click here to download the 2 page PDF I prepared in a ready to print format, for my kids.

Source: https://naukarinews4u.in/2017/05/14/must-read-article-on-how-our-lives-will-change-dramatically-in-20-years-by-ceo-of-mercedes/

[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!] People are posting an 8-ball emoji on Facebook – here’s what it means

Facebook users are posting an emoji of an eight-ball – and it’s all part of a viral campaign to raise awareness about prostate cancer.

The black eight-ball emoji is popping up due to a viral message which is spreading via Facebook Messenger – urging men to post the image on Facebook.

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The message says, ‘Hi mate,

Continue reading…

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/08/people-are-posting-an-8-ball-emoji-on-facebook-heres-what-it-means-6496846/

DISCLAIMER: I Do Not Sell Fish etc!!! [Suspected Impersonator/Attempts to Discredit Me]

This is the 2nd or 3rd time I’m getting this kind of bothersome feedback.

It would appear some person(s) have been impersonating me in relating with Farm CEOs and other stakeholders.

A member of my Farm Business Ideas club – Tunde Okunuga – called me up at 08.56 this morning to say he’d referred his brother based in Ede to me a while back, and that the latter said he had been corresponding with me – claiming that I had even sold FISH to him!!!

Fish ke! Where would I keep them? Ede is a location I have never gotten a single call from. This made no sense at all!!

My mouth was hanging on the floor by this time, and I recalled a Real Estate CEO who’d told me a “Tayo Solagbade” – with a different photo from mine – had been sending him messages!

Beliow is the SMS I sent him after the call, which I post here as a precursor to a formal disclaimer I will publish later.

=Starts=

Hey Tunde.

I just spoke with MTN call center about your assertion that Alfa, in Ede, spoke with me on phone, noting that I never got such a call and have never heard that name or had an enquiry from Ede in my life.

Neither do I sell fish to anyone! The operative at my instance checked and found no active call direct on my line. A

s things stand it would be useful for me to speak with your brother to get a better idea of what’s going on.

Do respond.

Tayo

NB: I have since not been able to reach Tunde Okunuga on his line for some strange reason. And he has yet, as at this moment (4p.m) to reply my above SMS.

UPDATE (17th April 2017 @ 20:21): Tunde, who is on my newsletter mailing list, replied to the email broadcast version of THIS post, which I sent out, saying he would call his brother today, to find out what was really going on, noting that it did appear that someone was using my name. I’ll be posting any feedback he sends me, here, as soon as I get it,