While going through challenges you will always admit that the challenges are worth the stress if you sit down to take stock of the lessons you have learnt and more importantly, the people you have met.
I have a picture in my office that was taken along with Senator (Dr.) Jubril Martins Kuye, Professor Afolabi Soyode [...]
How I met Dr. (Mrs.) Nkiru Danjuma was also an interesting experience for me and after meeting her I said to myself that the price paid was worth it. During the 2007 edition of Nigeria International Model United Nations’ Conference held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, I met a young man from Covenant University [...]
Meeting people is one important thing that will help your business and I am sure you already know that by now. What I am not sure you know about is the fact that some of the challenges you are facing are supposed to bring you towards some of the people that you need. There are [...]
Placing priority over perfection rather than starting something is one great challenge that critics will make you face and if you listen to them well enough you will soon pack up because you will forget that it is important to start in a crude manner instead of waiting till it can be done perfectly.
I studied [...]
There are two business rules you must not violate. The first is to put your passion before your profession and the second is to professionalize your passion. Simply put, these two rules can be rephrased to mean that you must only build a business around your passion and take your passion as a serious business. [...]
Rejection is a consistent road bloc in the journey of any entrepreneur and our responses to the rejection will simply reveal who we are. Some people withdraw into self-pity after the rejection and the aggressive nature of some people comes out as a result of the rejection. I am not usually surprised when I see [...]
I can call this one the voyages of an entrepreneur and I am sure many other young entrepreneurs would have experienced the same thing. Except for those who have some big leverages to start with, you sure would be able to identify with this one. On several occasions in the city of Ago-iwoye, if you [...]
One of the things that I have settled in my mind is that challenges will never end. You will have to live with them for the rest of your life because it is challenges that will reveal who you are and they will be your tickets to access some locked doors. You don’t get promoted [...]
Let me say emphatically that my launching was a success because of some of the challenges I had gone through. You have read some of them and I am still going to talk about some of them now and even later. I am sure you have not forgotten I said that I prepared my book [...]
A lot of people have asked me questions about how I fund the publishing of my books especially because they knew I did not have any income apart from the honourarium I was given after speaking in some meetings. Some of the envelopes given during those times could barely cover for transportation back home and [...]