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Teach Kids With True Stories and Demonstrations

January 3, 2014

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Most kids love people who teach them new things they can put to immediate productive use. If they discover you’re like that, they can even pass up meal times, to pick up some new knowledge or skill from you! How […]

Career Development

Can You Be Trusted to Keep Private Information "Private"?

January 2, 2014

Let me be clear about this up front. What I advocate in this article is not meant to endorse covering up dirty deeds or secrets. In other words, bad things you may know or discover about another person that s/he may wish to keep away from public knowledge. For instance, a person who habitually shop-lifts, […]

Entrepreneurship

Meet the Best Agricultural Radio Program for 2013: Alhaji Luqman Ibidunni's Global A.I.M.S

January 1, 2014

Happy New Year to you! And here's one bit of news that will help you start up the new year perfectly - on radio. Especially if you're a lover of agriculture. Global A.I.M.S is a company specialized in providing agro-industrial information marketing services. And they are making BIG strides in agribusiness communication nationally. Infact, their […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 122: You Need Mastery, Innovation and a Problem Solving Focus

December 30, 2013

Modiu confidently assured me he could do it. He said “Just let me have each child’s age. That’s all I need to sew the outfits for them”.And he was going to sew six full outfits in about 4 days (with piles of other people's fabrics awaiting his attention)! I still struggled to believe it. Modiu […]

My DN Travel News

Must You Quit Paid Employment to Influence Change in Nigeria? (If YES, will you get a FAIR & IMPARTIAL chance to do it?)

December 28, 2013

I tried posting a contribution to a friend’s recent post, in which one person asked him to quit his job to do something about the problems he was complaining about regarding Nigeria. It’s however morphed from a comment into this 5th issue of "My Ideas for Making Nigeria Better" PDF series :-)) Click here to […]

My DN Travel News

Show Others How to Succeed!

December 27, 2013

In 2002, I worked as a volunteer maths tutor in an NGO’s weekend(secondary school students) tutoring project.. Having overcome a severe math-phobia (with the help of a private tutor) to get a distinction on my second exam attempt, I had a passion for demystifying maths for students. I Dreaded Maths in Secondary School… You see […]

Self-Development

What Should You Really Give to People at Christmas?

December 26, 2013

"What! Giving again?" I ask in dismay. 'And must I keep giving away?" 'Oh no' said the angel looking me through. 'Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!" Source: "Success through a Positive Mental Attitude", by Napoleon Hill NB: This article should have published yesterday 25th December 2013...but I was back in […]

Entrepreneurship

Sometimes Going On Alone Will Be Futile (Hint: I Wrote "Begging Letters" to Keep Going)

December 24, 2013

I first encountered the term "begging letters", from reading a biography of Karl Marx. Many books have been written about Marx, and NONE fail to mention that he wrote "begging letters" (read this one). That's why I know that the SMSes/emails I've sent to ONE friend (few times in 2002), and many relatives (over the […]

Entrepreneurship

No. 121: If Others Doubt Your Ideas, You’ve Probably Struck Gold!

December 23, 2013

Fran Tarkenton (Former American Football Star turned Millionaire Entrepreneur) once said: “I have never started a company that, at some point, didn’t cause me to have doubts. ‘This must be a stupid idea because no one else is doing it. Why don’t people get it? Maybe there is nothing there’. We all have self doubts, but […]

Entrepreneurship

Even When Too Busy, Don't Stop Marketing!

December 21, 2013

[UPDATE: 15 February 2025] NEVER STOP MARKETING! Why The Time To Do More Serious Marketing Is When "The Going Is Good". This piece was originally published as a blog post (see below) . It’s now republished HERE - today (15 February 2025) - as a PDF. Click HERE (or the above COVER) to download the […]

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