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The moment might soon be upon us. If all the projections go according to plan. And there are no significant interruptions. It will be a moment to treasure, particularly because it will be his biggest game-changing moment yet. Not just for him but all of Nigeria seeing that the occasion will symbolically mark the moment Nigeria began to refine all the petroleum products it consumes….
He is lonely. He is beginning to feel empty. He is Japanese. He is 44years old. He is a billionaire. His name is Yusaku Maezawa. He is the first paying passenger on Elon Musk SpaceX’s maiden tourist voyage to the moon in 2023. Yesterday, he tweeted a link to a website where ladies could apply to be his companion during the one-week flight in space….
Time is arguably the most precious gift we have all received from Providence. Daily, everyone receives the 24hour package. That constantly runs into more days, weeks, months and years. Until the final bell tolls. Many people are much troubled when they suspect the tolling bell is not far away as they look behind to see vast stretches of wasted years. Wasted years that can never…
This is Frozen 2 moment! The much loved animation movie is chalking up the numbers at the box office. The beautiful music and captivating visuals of Elsa and the rest have scored a home run for the producers. But my neighbour will not ‘Let it go,’ the title of the captivating music in Frozen 1. He is not happy that the Angolan government chose the…
Check: Hong Kongians live the longest in the world. Their GDP per capita is higher than that of the United States. More of their young persons are in local universities than was ever the case. Maternal mortality and infant mortality are among the lowest in the world. Yet Hong Kongians are among the unhappiest people in the world. And it is not because of the…
My neighbour is fascinated by Bloomberg’s Billionaire’s Index, in which the 500 wealthiest persons in the world added $1.2 trillion to their combined wealth in 2019. They boosted their collective net-worth by 25% taking the numbers to $5.9trillion! He believes all the small and medium size entrepreneurs in Nigeria who danced to Teni’s I want to be a billionaire’s hit during the holidays, should take…
Trust my neighbour. He came over to my place after watching a live transmission by Pastor Tunde Bakare, in which the former Vice-Presidential candidate unveiled the true enemies of Nigeria! He told me he wasn’t interested in the enemies of Nigeria. Pastor Bakare did not mention any names. Besides, he says he’s been preoccupied with his own investigation into the true friends of Nigeria. He…
President Donald Trump of the United States and President Hasan Rouhani of Iran, have provided remarkable case studies for a better understanding of the SMART goals framework. Their examples, coming at the beginning of the New Year, when individuals, corporates and nation states are encouraged to set goals/targets, provide compelling grounds for compliance with the SMART goals framework. Simply put, when setting goals for the…
According to Forbes Magazine, top music producer, Dr Dre earned a whopping $1.28billion in the last decade. He was the number-one earning musician of the decade, beating the likes of Taylor Swift, Beyonce, U2 and P-Diddy to the top spot even though his last album Compton was released in 2015. Exactly, how do you do the Dre? How do you continue to earn revenue despite…
My neighbour says he was finally rewarded with just the right idea of a gift to fascinate and intrigue Elon Musk. He had set for himself the task of giving the SpaceX founder a gift which, according to him, ‘Will kick his big brain into another kind of unusual motion. Something to occupy some of his obviously precious moments. Something to give him a real kick.’…