SKILL; CAREER OR HANDIWORK?
Bimpe is a hands-on person. She has an eye for things she can do with her hands and learns by watching another person do it. This fascinating fact about her has earned her the words SKILLFUL in the mouth of many. Despite having a degree in Accounting and loving numbers, everyone believes she would be limiting herself if she decides to take up a career in Accounting. She is pretty [...]
SKILLS NEED CONSISTENCY
Ever heard the words ‘Hard work beats talent’. Let’s rephrase that to ‘Consistent hard work and smart work beats talent’. To become a success within the industry of your skill, one cannot downplay the power of consistency. Consistency is an essential, irreplaceable ingredient for success. Consistency is your commitment to keep giving your best even when it doesn’t look like it is yielding much. One can have the best knowledge [...]
THE CAREER IN YOUR HOBBY
It is no news that many people have made great careers from things they did out of pleasure or love. Things named hobby! Most times, making a career out of a hobby can pose as a difficulty, especially because most hobbies never align with what a person might have studied in the University. Also, these hobbies never seem to be what families or friends would like to call a profession [...]
TIME; THE ASSET OWNED BY ALL
Did you know it is possible to know all the rules to create wealth and still not be wealthy? To create wealth requires a person’s input combined with knowledge that needs to be rightly channeled with time. Though, time is overlooked and rarely considered a business resource because it seems overly available and one does not have to source hard to get it. Still, its role in wealth creation cannot [...]
THE SOCIAL MEDIA CURRENCIES
Very similar to every country in the world, Social Media has its own currencies. Every space that hosts a number of persons has its generally accepted use of words (language) and currency. For spaces that don't foster physical touch e.g. Social Media, their language is easily known compared to their currency. This does not change the fact that the currency does exist. While the use of every country’s currency can [...]
STILL ON THE SAME SKILL LEVEL?
One of the amazing things about the earth is how it changes every second yet looks the same. Every second the earth goes through a change, there are ceaseless, mostly untapped opportunities. These opportunities require expertise and the frequency of the change requires one to be on his/her toes all the time. This is one reason you cannot afford not to be up the scale at your skill set. With [...]
The Maiden Edition Of Skills Kitchen Experts Forum
Wednesday February 20, 2019 - Glitz Event Centre Oniru Lagos . Busola Dakolo, Renowned Photographer and Founder of Skills Kitchen; an online skills acquisition platform launched last year with a growing student community of over 2000 students yearning for knowledge to develop skills applicable to the Nigerian economy, lifestyle and culture. Busola Dakolo hosted over 100 experts across Lagos to an exclusive discussion forum including renowned experts in various industries [...]
YOUR UTMOST POWER AS A NIGERIAN CITIZEN
Hope you have been able to let off the steam of the postponed election. Hope the act by a body we expected to deliver will not stop us from observing one of our major rights as a Nigerian citizen. You should not only encourage others to vote while you personally stay aloof about voting. We are positive that in the next two days, we would cast our vote for candidates [...]
THE ABSENT QUALIFIED APPLICANT
Lilian stood in shock looking at the mail she had just received from her boss. She was torn between following instructions and telling her boss that the candidate he instructed her to prepare an appointment letter for did not attend the interview. Her boss had made her part of the interview committee and the organization did not have many applicants for the vacant post. This made it quite easy for [...]
THE RAY
Light beam. Losing her husband to the war, having to fend for three children, playing the role of the father and the mother, making effort to fit into the society as a woman, then a human, these burdens are shoulder crushing. Yet, Hannah told herself she would thrive. She would give her children the best, endure her mean boss because she needs the cash, give out what [...]
OUR DAILY SEEDLINGS AND THE OUTCOME
For most people, the last day of every year circumspect around thoughts of events that happened in the present year and making plans towards having a better year the following year. Plans made are mostly based on lessons learnt in the present year. This act has become never-ending, many times an unproductive cycle. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great act to engage in. However, these plans are soon [...]
THE REAL CHRISTMAS SPARKLE
Christmas for children is about getting that gift they have longed for through the year. A visit to Santa or attending a Christmas party would mean a lot to them too. This defines a perfect Christmas, at least for most children. For adults, Christmas is ensuring that their loved ones are very comfortable. Everyone getting what they want and having enough to their fill. They would engage in a lot [...]
WHAT IS THE YULETIDE SEASON WITHOUT SPENDING?
The circulated popular believe that December is the month to spend and January is the month to manage can be changed. You can have abundance in January.
THE PERFECT PICTURE
‘Because I have a perfect picture of how my adult self would look when I was a teenager. Glasses was one of the features. It would not be a perfect picture without the glasses.
HANDS AND HEALTH
One of the very crucial health habits we are encouraged to cultivate is keeping our hands clean all the time. Especially because it is the most active part of our body. It goes into other parts of the body; the mouth, ear, nose etc as well. But you know, as the Nigerians that we are, we only remember to wash our hands when we are about to eat some very correct swallow.
THE WAILS OF AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN
As a Nigerian, if you do not know who matters, you do not matter. The pay for labor can cause one to regret all the years spent in school. It is an insult. Our economy does not encourage entrepreneurship. It is a survival of the fittest. Living in Nigeria is hell. Showing a Nigerian passport should be enough to get one into heaven.
THE 21ST CENTURY PALS; SOCIAL MEDIA AND CAREER.
The glam of social media and the frontline reason that it ought to aid communication does not shrink the fact that it can be an instrument for career success and criteria during a job application process.
END OF THE YEAR; GOALS POSTPONED?
A new year always seems like the perfect time to roll into motion all the plans that could not be achieved in the present year.
Communication: A Versatile Business Tool
With humans tagged as the most difficult set of creations to manage, communication makes human management a little less cumbersome.
TIPS ON HOW TO CONVERT YOUR SKILL TO A PROFITABLE SOURCE OF INCOME
Do you spend more than you earn? Have you learnt a skill in order to get a financial balance? There is always lot of demands to be met, I know.
THE NETWORKING LIFESTYLE
Many individuals regard others as the ‘connected people’ because of the kind of relationship they maintain.
BREAST CANCER KNOWS NO GENDER
The myth that only women have breast cancer is untrue. Breast Cancer has no regard for gender.
THE NEVER APPRECIATED HOME
I was told other African countries do better than my country. I longed for more. I was hungry and passionate. People whispered that making it in Nigeria will require my grey hairs.
YOUR ROLE IN YOUR GENERATION’S HEALTH STATUS.
She kept wondering how she could be in this situation despite her parent's level of education.
SOCIAL MEDIA, A MARKETPLACE?
Though, Social Media seem to favour the Trade Business more, there is no business type that cannot thrive on it.
IT IS HUMAN TO BREAK NORMS
It is human to fail. It is human to disappoint. It is human to be mean. We cover every lapse with the human nature. Our human nature always takes the blames for our mistakes.
FINANCES AND SCHOOL SHOPPING; A MINUTE PART OF PREPARING FOR SCHOOL RESUMPTION.
Weeks before school resumption, parents are encumbered with preparing their children for school. This is usually very stressful and expensive.
THE SMARTEST WAY TO RUN A BUSINESS
Some individuals venture into business on the tale of profits they heard about. Individuals like this end up leaving the business space as hurriedly as they came in.
THE PROMINENT INVISIBLE KILLER
Do Children get depressed? I think depression should come with advancement in age. How often can depression occur in one's life?
SAVING MONEY, A NIGHTMARE?
Do you look back and regret spending that Two Hundred Naira that year? Do you think if you had not spent it, you would have hit your first millions or tens of millions now?
HOW OFTEN ARE YOU ONLINE?
Oh no! The meaning of the word is not how appears. This is not to question the time you spend on social media. We are not monitoring you. In the TGIF spirit, we would be addressing a social slang that has become a social norm amidst youths. People who do not engage in the acts that get one to be online, utter the words to show they are in vogue [...]
NIGERIANS AND THE ONE HUNDRED NAIRA NOTE.
As a Nigerian, it has become a norm to live with anything that does not change with time. We pride ourselves with the fact that we can adapt to anything difficult and rugged. We console ourselves with the belief that a supreme being is making us go through whatever we go through, forgetting we have a part to play. We rarely see ourselves as being resilient enough to get the [...]
EMPOWERED WOMEN IN THE WORLD OF DISEMPOWERED MEN.
The focus on empowering one gender against the other only deters progress and makes the society imbalance. Concentration of power either professionally, academically, politically etc. is never healthy for any society. Have you ever wondered why there are more woman empowerment program than men?
LONELINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
I love to be by myself. I am happy being alone. I hate to deal with others. Humans are complex. But I think I am lonely too. How is that even possible?
THIS THING CALLED ENTREPRENEUR
A stack of money, large bundles of them and a very robust bank account is the image that comes to mind when the word ‘Entrepreneur’ is mentioned. The words, ‘I am a businessman or businesswoman. I run my business. I resume anytime I please’, are what majority crave to roll out of their tongues. How convenient? This mind-set has populated our business market. Most people venture into entrepreneurship with little [...]
THE POWERLESS CITIZENS
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything. -Albert Einstein Citizens of most African countries believe that there are senior citizens with the most power. Citizens who are more powerful than they are. This belief, unknown to many, has its root planted in our educational environment where young minds spend most active hours of the day. It is [...]
LIFE BEHIND YOUR SCREEN
Measurement birthed comparison. What the measuring device is, never bothers us, as far as the result gives us a reason to compare. With age and technology, Social Media has become a measuring device. It has silently, yet emphatically dictated how we should live, what we should wear and eat, how we should look etc. This surreal standard that our screens have built has helped shaped a large pyramid of low [...]
THE RECYCLED ‘LEADERS OF TOMORROW’
I froze on the spot when my 8 years old brother told me I did not have to let the bus conductor playfully hit my buttocks so we could pay for one seat instead of two for the three of us. Those words stung me and opened up a hidden emotion of anger for my parents. They seem to believe that fending for our physical and educational needs are what [...]
SECURITY; A ONE MAN BUSINESS IN NIGERIA.
With the recent happenings in Nigeria, putting our lives on the pedal of our government’s decisions is not one of the available options to ensure safety. The Plateau killings, the fire blast on Otedola Bridge Lagos, the attempted murder of a LASU student and the everyday lack of security that results to deaths but never makes it to the media is a wake-up call to every Nigerian on the issue [...]
SOCIAL MEDIA; THE NEW CLOCK
In our reflective state, we most times have this nudging feeling of “I wish I could go back in time”. Sometimes, it is to fix that friendship with the words, “I am sorry” or it is to walk away from that situation that has now become our greatest night mare; other times, it is to have properly responded to the warm greeting of an acquaintance or paid a little [...]
SOMETIMES THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE
People are often too quick, to say that ‘The grass is never or barely is greener on the other side. But like really, what if it is? How would you know what shade the grass on the other side is, without checking it out to kill that curiousity especially if your grass isn’t green at all or refusing to improve its shade after investing all your effort on it? I [...]
29 TIPS ON HOW TO BUILD A GOOD WRITING HABIT
Writing well is difficult, isn’t it? Sure, you can string a few sentences together to communicate your thoughts. You know how to correct there’s and theirs, then and than, and you’re and your. But to write something pretty much persuasive? To create content that goes viral? To engage and enchant? It can feel like an insurmountable task. But really, it doesn’t need to be that hard, if you can take out time to build an healthy writing habit with [...]
THE NUMBER ONE SKILL YOU NEED TO BOOST YOUR CAREER
With the millions of graduates leaving school and dashing to the job market and the constant change of industry and consumer behaviour due to technology, internet, and innovation it has become a matter of survival for you to standout from the crowd or be ignored. In the years that lie ahead of your career, most jobs will be replaced by a robot or AI (Artificial intelligence) Today there are driverless [...]
3 PROVEN WAYS TO MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION MEMORABLE
What can you remember about the last presentation, sales pitch, or sermon you attended? For most people they can’t remember anything about the experience because it was not ‘MEMORABLE’ In other words their memory bank could not spare any mental real estate to house it. Now, that’s a problem especially if you want your product, service, idea, or personal brand to be remembered. We live in a world of abundant [...]
Ways to keep the fire burning in your marriage
Boring marriages happens always. I'll list some ways to keep your marriage hot and steamy!!! Couples can still enjoy their marriage even after being together for many years. Not only can long-term couples get along with each other, but they can maintain their passion for many decades. Close relationships are the centerpiece of our sense of identity and are fundamental to our feelings of fulfillment. Few things to do to [...]