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A History of the Forest Kingdom of Benin.

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With artwork to rival that of renaissance Italy, structures comparable to the Great Wall of China, and a ruthlessly disciplined army, the Forest Kingdom of Benin is one of the highlights in Africa’s great history. It derives its name from the lush rainforests in which the Edo people first settled in the 900s. The people called their kingdom the igodomigodo and the head went by the name of Ogiso, the ‘ruler of the sky’. This dynasty of rulers came to an end in the 1100s, and the

The Third Most Important Skill in Business – The ability to sell to a customer (Part 5) By Dr Strive Masiyiwa

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___You and your brand. When I launched my first business in 1996, I didn’t really know that much about marketing. As I mentioned in my first post in this series, I first learnt to "sell" when I was only eight years old. Remember my story about selling sweets to my school friends? People bought from me because they knew me and, of course, I was selling something I knew that they wanted! It’s possible to run a very successful business short-term, even if you don’t know anything about marketing. You can sell, sell, and sell. But if you want to run a really profitable business, you must understand the importance of marketing, which involves many steps.

ADORABLE COUPLE. "Pique & Shakira"

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Some believe it exists, some believe it does not last while some others say it does not exist; Do you believe in love at first sight or is it a myth? Shakira is obviously head-over-heels for her Spanish beau, Gerard Pique. And she also

Feeding The Ten Billion

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Growing enough food for future generations will be a challenge. Here’s how to meet it ONE of the extraordinary things about the modern world is that so much of it takes food for granted. For most of recorded history, the struggle to eat has been the main focus of human activity, and all but a handful of people were either farmers or farm workers. Starvation was an ever-present threat. Even the best years rarely yielded much of a surplus to carry over as an insurance against leaner times. In the worst, none but the powerful could be sure of a full stomach.

Rise To Wisdom

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I saw these on Facebook Nigeria Info 99.3 Page.....worth sharing! Jack Ma is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group. In a recent interview, the Financial Times 2013 Person of the Year claimed that: “If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.” This may initially come across as a little harsh, but to be truly successful in business, is this a necessary viewpoint?

The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 3) By Dr Strive Masiyiwa

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Study to show yourself approved. There is more to sales and marketing than simply putting an advert in a newspaper or on social media. Sales and marketing is a professional discipline just like engineering or accounting. You must be conscious of the need to acquire some deeper academic understanding of this subject if you want to run a successful business or be a top executive. You know by now that I don't believe in experience which is not supported by continuous study and scholarship.

Empowerment Opportunity By Federal Govt Has Started

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Hello friends, Please let the unemployed youths around you in Nigeria  know about this:  Log on to www.npower.gov.ng as from today to register for FG 600 000 Special intervention programmes.  NOW THE SITE IS OPEN #NPOWER 500000 applicant from different fields are required to apply.

HOW MMM-NIGERIA WORKS WORKS (Make extra income)

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This is a community of ordinary people, selflessly helping each other, a kind of the Global Fund of mutual aid. This is the first sprout of something new in modern soulless and ruthless world of greed and hard cash. The goal here is not the money. The goal is to destroy the world's unjust financial system. Financial Apocalypse! Before you join, be sure to be acquainted with our ideology! MMM is not a bank, MMM does not collect your money, MMM is not an online business, HYIP, investment or MLM program. MMM is a computer program that was created by Sergey Mavrodi for the people of this world to be able to live free from financial pressure. MMM is a community where people help each other.

The Third Most Important Skill in Business (Part 1). By Dr Strive Masiyiwa

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 A few weeks ago I identified the most important skill in business as the ability to read. The second most important is the ability to count (work in numbers). I've also talked about this before. Now what is the third? It's the ability to sell! This is a huge topic and one of my favorites: Every entrepreneur must be a good salesperson.  You must never stop selling, even if you're the richest man in the world. I remember listening to Bill Gates one day talking passionately about one of the products from Microsoft.  I thought to

Beware of Porn, Guns and Drugs. (By Dr Strive Masiyiwa)

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If a business opportunity looks too good to be true, it could be much worse than that! A friend of mine in South Africa who is into "BEE deals" (as they call them over there, stands for Black Economic Empowerment), called me one morning, very excited:  "I have these American guys who want to sell us a company in one of the Caribbean Islands. It's a financial services business. It makes a lot of money. Can I bring them to see you?" He's a dear friend so I acquiesced to his request. The Americans were smooth, sophisticated guys from Texas who made a

Three Ways To Become A Learning Machine

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By Paolo Gallo I smile whenever I look at my university diploma hanging on the wall, because everything I learned then is no longer relevant now. Does it means that we should stop wasting all this energy, time and money on university? Not really: rather, as soon as we complete our “formal studies”, we need to become learning machines. I’ll rephrase it: we must become machines of continuous learning. We have no choice or we will be out of the game, left behind like cavemen after the Stone Age. For a period of 25 years, as a HR executive, I began interviews with candidates by asking: “What have you learned in the last six-twelve months?”. Unprepared for this kind of question, many candidates weren’t able to answer: the interview was over.

The Future is Here . . .

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#copied#lengthy but quite good. In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they got bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 qyear - and most people don't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but

KNOWING WHERE TO TAP (THOUGHTS)

Have you ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man,

Pause: Love and Lemonade By Dr Strive Masiyiwa

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This week I just happened to read a very inspiring article in Black Entrepreneur.com from 2014 that I want to share with you: How did a 9-year old, Mikaila Ulmer of Sugar Land, TX, beat out the conglomerate giants such as Kraft, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble to land coveted shelf space and a million dollar contract with Whole Foods? Her precocious response? “I don’t know? Do they make theirs with love?” Her company, BeeSweet Lemonade,  is the

MARRIED OR NOT, YOU SHOULD READ THIS ............

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“When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why? I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I

Turn your Business into a Technology Company (Part 7) By Dr Strive Masiyiwa

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__Maybe it was "esusu," "stokvel," and "mukando" that got me into business after all! In my last post I talked about a traditional savings scheme practiced across Africa. It’s easily the largest savings bank on the African continent, holding billions of dollars with operations in every single country in Africa (each one with its own brand name), and a branch network that goes right down to the village level! Well, it's more than a single bank, it is more of a system. I talked in my post about how technology could be applied to this amazing informal system to make it more efficient, modern and secure. I imagined that African entrepreneurs (including myself) will soon create a multibillion dollar industry around it. The mobile phone and the Internet are the key tools to making this happen.

Fuel Scarcity Palava

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Motorists please be careful, this man was caught selling kerosene mixed with palm oil and little petrol selling to members of the public.

Mature Response from Great Blogger (Linda Ikeji & Wiz- kid)

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I'm sure many of you have read that the police is now involved in my issue with Wizkid. Yes, I reported his public threat to me two Sundays ago to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and I want to explain why I did it! Please pay attention and keep an open mind. I've read a lot online from people saying I don't like Wizkid. Even Wizkid himself thinks I don't like him. Why he or anyone would think so is puzzling to me to be honest. Apart from his achievements after he started insulting me online a few weeks ago...everything else, every success Wizkid has recorded in the last 3/4 years is on LIB. All the awards, all the record breaking feats, his sold out concerts, his foreign magazine features, and collaborations, everything that has built him up to the young man he is today is on LIB. Please verify! Search my blog. Please continue... I was a huge Wizkid fan. The only song I

Must Read For Ladies!! Why You Must Urinate After Sex

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Care should be taken by each man in regards to the general well-being. Why is tremendously crucial that you be concerned about your sexual-health in this short article we’ll describe. it’s important to urinate after making love. It's valuable for your body as well as you personally because it makes it possible to fight with diseases that could damage your physical well being. You are aware that micro-organisms are everywhere and since the anus is near to the vagina, after sexual activity may have an unpleasant effect, Following the fact that during sexual intercourse, there are germs and germs in rectum and the genitalia region.

Hurray!!! The Billionaire is 59 today (Aliko Dangote)

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Aliko Dangote Happy birthday to Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote....