Do You Remember Hotel Rwanda? Hotel Rwanda was a film released in 2004 about how Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle ), the manager of Hotel Des Milles Collines, saved 1,268 Tutsis during the 1994 Genocide. The hotel was also shown in the 2005 film Sometime In April. I was at the hotel. The actual […]
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I went on a tour of the Kigali Genocide Memorial and one of the striking things I saw was the Hutu Ten Commandments. Immediately, my mind went to my country, Nigeria. Nigeria is becoming more dangerous a place to live by the day. The level of hatred is assuming an alarming dimension and may soon
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The roads in Kigali are neat. So neat that you can’t find any dirt anywhere. When I touched down from the aircraft and entered into the small but very smart airport, I knew there was something different about this country. I had heard so much about the transformation of this nation and I wanted to
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In exactly 41 minutes, the Uber driver was at Roving Heights Book Store, Surulere. And my bill? N2,120. I was elated. I had moved Uber to the front row now and totally eliminated the courier companies from further consideration.
No one joined our discussion because they had neither read the books nor heard of Malcolm Gladwell. Finally, the South African hit my table and said loudly, ‘I will open my account with your Bank!’
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I had become dissatisfied with my career at that point. Having started my career in Ibadan and having lived there all my life, I felt there was more. I remember how I felt there was a void within. Outwardly, things looked okay but inwardly, I was a mess. I knew that if I wasn’t careful,
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If You Do Not Defend Your Market and Take Over, Then Your Market Will Become The Market Others Will Share Dr Ubong King was our Guest Speaker during the month of March at our Directorate Retreat and he spoke on our theme Audacious. The hall was quiet as he dropped the wisdom keys during a
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When I got the message this morning, I screamed in disbelief. I tried your two lines and they were unreachable. It was when I reached your wife that the truth of the finality of this tragedy hit me. My boss, you came like a meteor and left on the wings of a chariot. In just
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‘Nazareth to Bethlehem was about ninety-three miles – four days. But it took close to a week because I was heavily pregnant’, Mary started her story, as her grandchildren gathered round.
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When customers are dissatisfied with our products or services, we may think we have lost their patronage or loyalty. That will not happen if we practise these five steps.
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