Life of purpose

It was during a team-building exercise many years ago that I first discovered a talent I had no idea I possessed. The exercise itself was pretty run-of-the-mill -- name one special skill or talent for each person in the room. I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear anything life-changing, but I was taken aback when multiple people told me that I was very good at asking questions. It was not really something that I had ever considered to be a personal talent. It was, and is, just something that has always come naturally to me -- something that I’ve never really had to think about. And that’s the thing. Your true talent isn’t something that you need to focus on to do it well, and it isn’t something that you will consider remarkable. Rather, it is something that you should work on honing once you discover it, and it is definitely something that should be incorporated into your career. I’ve spent years working on turning my knack for asking good questions into a career and have helped ...

Rivers have no respect for political frontiers. They are the common property for many peoples and, if they are to be harnessed to the service of mankind, it is essential that we should continue to consult together, to exchange information and to discuss our problems. (Abubakar Tafawa Belewa; quoted in Anyaoku 2001: 20 While the rest of the world is running away from fossil fuel and dredging in the Niger delta it is good news . The funny part is we have not learnt the lessons from the  oil sector .we continue to place economics of  contract above the environment  where future generations unborn we live in .what many don't know is we are losing a precious commodity we don't even care about which is SAND. which is one the world's most sought-after commodities of the 21st century: Sand and gravel are the most-extracted materials in the world. The UN believes that sand and gravel, or aggregates, account for up to 85 percent of all mining activity around the world, mea...

Rivers have no respect for political frontiers. They are the common property for many peoples and, if they are to be harnessed to the service of mankind, it is essential that we should continue to consult together, to exchange information and to discuss our problems. (Abubakar Tafawa Belewa; quoted in Anyaoku 2001: 20) The statement was made by Belewa, then the Nigerian Minister of Transport (see below), in an address to the international conference on navigation on the River Niger held May 1956 in The Hague. The conference venue can be explained by the long association of the Netherlands Engineering Company (NEDECO) with Niger River development, a role since assumed through its Nigerian affiliate by Haskoning Consulting Engineers and Architects B.V. (now Royal Haskoning) in Nijmegen. This paper will review a proposed action by the Federal Government of Nigeria to dredge a year-round navigation channel in the Lower Niger River some 573 kilometers upstream from Warri...

I spent the weekend attending a business  seminar organized by mine local church it was a two day,7 hour intensive training session without the usual religious overtone forgive my language . My point is religious institution i.e churches  have powerful voices to radically change lives more than any government institution invented by man hence the need for worshippers to raise the standard of worship centres to truly be the House of light.what I mean in that sense is  we can make or encourage church leaders to make the church truly the light of the world.A place where a day to day practical life transforming impact can be made on peoples mindset i.e financial management which includes a building a  culture of saving, reduction in debt acquisition, talent management etc.some would say what business as churches got to do with finance. I would say they are inter-related because a person that is financially buoyant is a plus for the church i...

POLITICS                            I spent a lot of time reasoning about the future of the youth in Nigeria and specifically the Niger Delta. I realized we have spent too much time quarreling less time on proffering solution .This is what I intend to discuss briefly. For starters, what is the way forward to development :one of the key ingredient is human capital development I do not want to sound technocratic but simply put a vocational styled education simplified it is gaining practical knowledge about contemporary challenges e.g power outage,waste epidemic, road infrastructure etc.All this are not problems but multi billion dollars opportunities if we can tap into it.sorry to say the greatest pain the Niger Delta as experience as come from Oil  that is why I didn't mention it because then the blame game might begin. I pointed out this opportunity because we need to seek  international and local expert...

 VIDEO  PODCASTS  ARTICLES  START A BUSINESS  SHOP WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR Image credit: Shutterstock The essence of entrepreneurship is the desire to love our work How many of us are unhappy with our day jobs? We dream of leaving behind the 9-to-5 and following our dreams; of leading a life where we get paid for doing what we truly want to do. That's the essence of entrepreneurship. The desire to love our work. But how, exactly, do we do that? How do we take a hobby, like brewing craft beer, gardening or   photography , and turn it into an income-producing business? For most of us, the answer is not as simple as quitting our jobs and going for it. Instead, there are decisive steps we can follow to realize that dream . . . and still get to eat. On a regular basis. 1. Ask for honest feedback. You're not the best judge of your work, and neither are your family and friends. You need a mentor -- an experienced profe...