Category: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Johns Hopkins University To Award Nigeria’s Chimamanda Adichie, 7 Others With Honourary Degrees

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Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States has announced its list of eight “distinguished achievers” who will receive honorary degrees this year. The list includes award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, groundbreaking filmmaker Spike Lee, Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel and Ellen M Heller, Maryland’s first woman to become an administrative Circuit Court judge. The honorary degrees will be conferred at a commencement ceremony on 18 May. Adichie earned a prestigious creative writing master’s from Johns Hopkins in 2003. Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J Daniels says the group are “visionaries…

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Linda Ikeji’s Residence 15Yrs Ago And Now

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Nigerian-based Africa’s number 1 popular blogger and owner of lindaikeji@blogspot, Ms Linda Ikeji, on Sunday shared a photo of her apartment 15 years ago and her today’s classy home on her Instagram page to celebrate the Easter with her teeming followers. The accomplished blogger, who has become an inspiration to many young bloggers across Nigeria and Africa, believed her success story today was the handiwork of “a miracle working God”. She said, “From living in 1 room & parlour in Idioro, Mushin for 15 years (my old compound left. We…

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The 12 Skills Every Millionaire Must Have

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If you want to become a millionaire, you need the skills to pay the bills. Millionaires set themselves apart from the masses by the skills they possess. These skills are so well crafted that the average person does not realize them. And this is what made them a millionaire in the first place. In my journey to becoming a millionaire, I thought that these skills were impossible to cultivate. However, once I started meeting people who had them, I realized that I too could learn them. After plenty of mistakes, I sought…

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How $5 a Night Hostels Led to Japan’s First $1 Billion Startup

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In 2012, Shintaro Yamada was 34 years old, single and frustrated with his job. So he quit a comfortable position in Tokyo and set out to see the world. QuickTakeUnicorns He made a point of traveling on the cheap and mixing with the locals. He stayed at $5-a-night hostels without hot water, hitching motorbike rides and hopping local buses between destinations. Over six months and 23 countries, he hiked the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia, stayed in a nomad’s home at the edge of the Sahara desert, tracked the turtles of the…

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Mary Dinah: Eyes On The Job

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Mary Dinah is one woman the phrase ‘prim and proper’ describes aptly. With  passion for connecting people to their dream jobs and shoring up their employability level, she comes across like Mother Teresa of the Nigerian job market. Mary runs Nigeria’s first real job centre – JobLink Recruitment Services. “Anyone from different walks of life can come into our centre, drop off their resume or fill a form. From there, we add them to our database; we then connect them to the list of vacancies we have from employers.” “We…

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Saraki Receives His Trendy ‘Made In Aba’ Outfits

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Senate President Bukola Saraki has confirmed receipts of his trendy made in Aba outfits from Adic Designs, as his support for the #BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira campaign. Saraki stated this on Friday in a post on his social media handles in Facebook and Twitter @bukolasaraki. He said, “Received my trendy outfits from Adic Designs, the gentleman I met at the Made in Aba Trade fair a few weeks ago. We must all make the conscious effort to patronise Nigerian designers which can help reignite the textile industry that once contributed over 2 Billion dollars to…

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PMB Must Know This

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This is Temilolu Danso. She is a 2nd year mechanical engineering student at the University of Plymouth. Temi was the winner of the 2015 Range Rover Evoque WISE undergraduate scholarship.  She beat 200 students in the whole of the UK to bag this award. On Tuesday, Temi was at the office of the mayor of London, speaking to young girls on science and engineering. Uju Okorie, a UK-based Nigerian announced Temi’s excellence in foreign land on her Facebook wall on Thursday.  

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P’Square, Elder Brother Fight On Tweeter

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Two years after they were rumoured to have broken up, Nigerian pop duo, P’square are back in the news again as one-half of the singing duo, Peter Okoye yesterday moved against their management company owned by their elder brother, Jude Okoye. In a series of tweets, Peter who has been on a business trip in the United Kingdom lamented the poor management style of their brother, warning everyone to desist from doing any business on behalf of P’square with Jude. The tweet reads, “Please whosoever makes any transaction with Northside…

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