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Many people think personal branding is only associated with sports stars, celebrities and popular figures. The reality is that you are already a brand whether you know it or not. What you need to do is to be conscious of it and make it work in your best interests. In our present world, the way we ar [Read more]

Habits are common to everyone. It doesn’t matter who you are, your sex or background, we all have them. But the type of habit you have could be the difference between a great life, or one you have no control over. When it comes to habits, in a nutshell, they fall into 2 categories – g [Read more]

Strategic planning is without doubt one of the main factors responsible for the continued success of an organisation and often distinguishes organizations that succeed from those that don't especially in the long term. Strategic planning, as an integral aspect of strategic management, enables or [Read more]

Being exceptional at what you do is a function of your expertise and experience but there could be less conspicuous factors that determine the kind of results you get. For some time now, I have been asking myself 'what's really the main difference between upwardly mobile persons and those wh [Read more]

 I feel it is incumbent on us, as professionals in the field of Learning & Development, to critically have a review, a restructure, a rethink, and a reconstitution on what we consider to be a proper training or seminar. My submission in this regard is that workforce training/seminar should [Read more]

If we are really being honest with ourselves, being motivated can be a lot of work. The ability to create the drive, energy and push needed to perform tasks can be daunting, stressful and even make us feel exhausted. Today, when everyone seems to have entered unhealthy relationships with the inte [Read more]

Report Highlights: Sugar production is expected to remain relatively flat at 70,000 tons, which signals limited progress of Nigeria’s backward integration plans for sugar production. Raw sugar imports are estimated to decline marginally by three percent, largely due to limited availability [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Central Bank of Nigeria continues to restrict access to foreign exchange in an effort to reduce rapid spending of U.S. dollars outside of Nigeria.  This restriction is hindering all direct imports, including food and agricultural products.  Post estimates that Nig [Read more]

Who is in charge of that challenging situation?  Is it you or the child?  In my past articles I have encouraged children to be given freedom of expression but when they push the boundaries consistently, who is in control?  I quite understand the frustrations that adults face when they [Read more]

1. Is Nigeria developing a Single-Term Syndrome? The appointment of a new governor to lead the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from June 2014 to June 2019 brings the number of persons so appointed since 29 May 1999 to four, although only the last two appointments were made after the 2007 CBN Act wa [Read more]