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Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. Investors have also learned not to invest in ideas but only in entrepreneurs and teams who can deliver solutions. Success requires moving your passion quickly from the idea to the business implementation. A good execution requires a plan and the right people, combined to create operational excellence and exceptional customer value. Companies that do this best become market leaders. Google, for example, was not the first Internet search provider (think Yahoo!, AltaVista, InfoSeek and others), but according toInvestopedia, Google was the first to really monetize search. As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 billion in 2015. But Google is not unique. Many other companies have followed a similar set of execution principles which I believe are required for business success, no matter how great the idea: 1. Tune the busines...

Almost every single aspect of modern civilization can be traced back to collaboration and some division of labor on a grand scale. This fractal of synergy is what makes us the most innovative species by far on the planet. In the 21st century, we count on things like team meetings to clarify everyone’s individual tasks and coordinate large projects. But you can’t count on meetings alone to boost the productivity of your organization. If you want to remain competitive, the meetings have to lead to something. If you’re hosting the meeting, you need to lead the discussion into something highly-productive and positive. You need to know how to have a proper team meeting on Zoom! The road to a great meeting can be summed up in four basic principles that you must adhere to whenever possible in hosting your meetings. Let’s have a look at those, shall we? Make the conversation about data. After the chit-chat has finished, it’s time to make it clear that we’re getting down to business. One of the...

Nearly everyonej dreams of quitting his or her day job, whether it's tomorrow, next year or in the next decade. However, there is a wide chasm between "dreams" and "action" that many people never seem to cross -- and it's usually due to finances. Obviously, if you want to quit, you need to find another way to make enough income to pay your bills, save for the future and enjoy life. But what's the best way to do this? How can you make enough "side income" now so you can quit your job in the near future? Here are great ways to make side income while still working your day job: 1. INVEST IN OIL AND GAS MARKETING Oil and gas business is wide and diverse. You can actually go into oil and gas products trading, supplies, big and small deals and facility management, the oil industry is where everybody can benefit. The trading opportunity is massive, in fact, in one deal alone, you can make over N200,000. Product trading is where the wealth is and, it h...

More woes for Nigeria as its largest trading partner in West Africa, Ghana has banned the importation of Nigerian goods to fix economic issues. Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and John Mahama of Ghana    Ghana has prohibited some items from entry into its domain, following Nigeria’s foot steps that restricted 41 items from access to foreign exchange.   Ghana however has placed a ban on some goods from being imported into the country, Vanguard reports. Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated yesterday that Ghana and Nigeria trad are said to account for some 68 per cent of the ECOWAS region’s Gross Domestic Product. Nigeria accounts for almost 10 per cent of Ghana’s foreign trade volume, whereas Ghana is listed as the 9th largest trade partner to Nigeria. In spite of the difficulties, Ghana remains Nigeria’s largest trade partner and favourite investment hub in the West Africa sub-region, as Ghana imports the largest share of all Nigerian oil expo...

Nigerian Journalist, Omoh Gabriel has looked into the budget crisis of President Muhammadu Buhari which has being trailed by massive furor in recent times. Muhammadu Buhari presenting the budget before the national assembly   Zero budgeting cannot be responsible for budget padding. It cannot be the reason for rats smuggling foreign provisions into the budget. It can not be the reason for double entry in allocation to ministries, departments and agencies of government. Those who prepare the budget have been around for many years. The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation Dr. Bright Okogu holds a PhD in Economics from the famous University of Oxford London in 1987. He is not a stranger to budgeting process and figures. It is unheard of in the history of Nigeria’s budget circle and very shameful for the image of this administration that a serving minister will publicly disown the provisions made for his ministry. In the growing controversies dogging President Muhammadu Buh...

An ex-official of the Kaduna Chapter of the Independent Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has alleged that a cabal of corrupt workers are heading the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and its affiliate, Petroleum Product Marketing Company (PPMC), which has President Muhammadu Buhari, as the supervising Minister. The former IPMAN official, Bako Abdullahi Yelwa, on Thursday, blamed the alleged cabal for the continuous fuel scarcity across the country. Dr. Ibe Kachikwu the Minister of State for Petroleum, is equally being blamed for his failure to tackle corruption in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). According to DailyPost, the marketers who said the extortions and other sharp practices at the PPMC/NNPC seemed to be defying all interventions by successive administrations in Nigeria, expressed worry over the new cabal at the corporation who specialise in extorting money from IPMAN/AMFSON members before issuing allocation of petroleum ...

                       Senator Dino Melaye While addressing journalists yesterday, the Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, has vowed to probe former Presidents; Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan as well as ministers who served under them to correct alleged violation of the master plan of the nation’s capital city. The senator who represents Kogi West, did not exempt any former Minister of the FCT or President in the proposed probe, and said as a government of change, it was prepared to send any one found guilty to Kuje Prison which he said was not far from the Federal Capital City. While condemning what he described as the bastardization of Abuja Masterplan, Dino Melaye, expressed worry over why former FCT ministers allocated green areas designed for flood drains, city buffers, recreations, urban farming, reserved land and undevelopable areas to themselves and their friends. The pr...