Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy In the environment of "the Third World Countries" (especially Nigeria), I do no think the leaders are so freak about leaving a good standard behind with their focus only on how to enrich themselves with the money meant for public consumption and development! Steve Jobs once said, " be a yardstick of quality. Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected !" What can we really expect from our leaders who have been engaging self-enrichment, Nepotism, Favoritism, etc. For decades, even before I was born, there have...
Posts
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." John C. Maxwell " Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. " Chris Hadfield The above quotes, led me to ...
I recently traveled to Switzerland to take a giant whiff of pit latrine odor. What I inhaled was a strong kick to the nostrils, a potent combination of sewage stink, barnyard sweat, and bitter ammonia topped off with vomit (or was it Parmesan cheese?). The stench was foul and made me wince. Fortunately, I also got to smell something much fresher and more pleasing during my trip. I took the first sniffs of a future of odor-free toilets and better sanitation for all. These olfactory revelations occurred during my tour of Firmenich, a family-owned fragrance and flavor company based in Geneva. The 120-year-old firm is known for crafting some of the world’s best-known fragrances and enhancing the flavors of beverages and foods. But it is also one of our foundation’s newest partners in the effort to improve sanitation in the world’s poorest countries. I’ve written before about the world’s sanitation challenge . The numbers are staggering. One billion people have no acces...
In 1979 West Bromwich Albion were looking for an idea for a benefit match for one of their longest serving players, Len Cantello. Somebody, we don't know who, came up with the idea of a match pitting black players against white players. Yes, really: blacks v whites, writes Adrian Chiles. It sounds somewhere between somewhat odd and downright appalling now, doesn't it? At the time, as I recall, it felt a rather progressive thing to do. After all we - I'm a lifelong West Brom fan - led the way in fielding black players. It seemed rather logical to push the envelope a little further and get a whole team together. Behind closed doors, in the decidedly peculiar world of the training ground, this kind of thing had been going on for a while. "In five-a-sides we used to have the Jocks and the blacks versus the English," remembers Cyrille Regis, one of the stars of the black team. "I think the idea may have sprung naturally from that." More of this at : ht...
What is Pidgin? The Oxford English Dictionary definition of Pidgin is: A language containing lexical and other features from two or more languages, characteristically with simplified grammar and a smaller vocabulary than the languages from which it is derived, used for communication between people not having a common language; a lingua franca. Simply put, Pidgin English is a mixture of English and local languages which enables people who do not share a common language to communicate. Most African countries are made up of numerous different ethnic groups who do not necessarily have a lingua franca, so Pidgin has developed. It is widely spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. There are differences, because English is mixed with different languages in each country but they are usually mutually intelligible. A form of Pidgin has developed into a mother tongue for the Krio community in Sierra Leone, which non-Krios can find difficult to understand. What...
"There's a very good chance that Donald Trump could face impeachment," Allan Lichtman told Erin Burnett on "Erin Burnett OutFront."(CNN Reporter) The man dubbed "Prediction Professor" for accurately calling almost every presidential election since 1984, including the 2016 election, now forecasts the impeachment of President-elect Donald Trump. Lichtman, a political historian who teaches at the American University in Washington, says he uses his own system of 13 true or false statements to judge whether the incumbent party will retain the White House. However, when it came to his bold prediction of a Trump impeachment, he told Burnett it's based on his instinct. "First of all, throughout his life he has played fast and loose with the law," Lichtman said. "He has run an illegal charity in New York state. He has made an illegal campaign contribution through that charity. He has used the charity to settle per...
Former Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga on Wednesday described former President Goodluck Jonathan as the renewed hope for democracy in Africa. Odinga said this at the 2016 Zik lecture series at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Awka, Anambra State. While speaking on the topic, “The crises of nation states in Africa,” said Jonathan gave credibility to electoral process in Nigeria by conceding defeat in the 2015 election. He also said the major problems affecting Africa was dictatorship, corruption and ethnicity. “Before then most African leaders would not concede defeat as an incumbent,” Odinga said. Ethnicity is the disease of the elite. They are the people who would always fan the embers of ethnicity and divisive tendencies whenever they lose their selfish interest,” he added. May Almighty God bless and guides us to the right path, because majority of our leaders are self-centred, self-serving and misleading machines! Brother Jonathan is being portray a...
"Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself, than one who play great man but lacks bread." Psalm 12 : 9 "The vexation of a fool is known at once, but a prudent man ignores an insult." Proverbs 12 :...