From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any serious industry or manufacturing concern owned by a Yoruba person, but the Lebanese!
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I was at a meeting many years ago. It was a gathering hosted by Prophet Kayode Abiara. In attendance that day was Bishop Francis Wale-Oke and the late Pastor Folahan. The guest minister was the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa. It was the introduction of the late Archbishop that caught my attention and I’ve not forgotten
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This time last year, I was at a Senior Management Leadership Training. One class I can’t forget was on Ethics and Values and it was taken by Prof Vincent Anigbogu. I still remember nuggets from that class. 1. Success in life is predictable: ethics and values form 98% while miracles and luck form only 2%.
20 years ago, the ATM machine was a novelty. No bank issued debit cards- maybe just the foreign ones. There were no banking apps. You couldn’t transfer funds the way we do now.
While there will always be people who think the Pastor did not act well and others who think he acted properly, we need to interrogate the culture of lateness we have as Nigerians and Africans.
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I drove from 6pm to 11pm on weekdays before I retired for the night. I took off my jacket and tie, put them in the glove compartment and put on a fez cap so people would not recognize me as a banker.
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Dear Team, It’s been my first week with the team and what a week it has been. We had a fantastic strategy session and people gave commitments with boldness. And some are making it good already. But quite a number are nowhere near their commitments. Fortunately, there is still one more week to go. What
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Joseph made a tough choice. Maybe he had sleepless nights, turning and tossing on his bed but he finally decided to let her leave quietly – without exposing her. He waived his right to call her out.
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One day when my wife went for her ante-natal, the doctor said they had to do a C-Section immediately. It was when my daughter was brought out that I called my dad and broke the news. Neither of us had informed our parents of the pregnancy all along.
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I was at a courier company on Saturday to send out a parcel to Abuja. This courier company actually started out as a transport company with buses going to different destinations in Nigeria. Over time, people sent parcels through the drivers to different destinations. The company saw an opportunity and started a courier and logistics
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