Nigerians Who Are Making A Difference

I have met a number of Nigerians who are changing the face of Nigeria as a nation and of Africa as a continent and I just feel you should meet them. There are three (3) of them featured in this post; please feel free to suggest others that can be included on the list:

Abiodun Fijabi (http://www.facebook.com/abi.fijabi)
Abiodun Fijabi presides over Life Africa. Before founding Life Africa in 1994, he was a Corporate Executive in two multinational corporations in Nigeria. He had been a National

The Leadership of Self

Have you noticed that when the issue of leadership is raised or when we generally think of leadership, usually we think first of someone else? If we ever hope to be effective leaders of others, we must first be effective leaders of ourselves. Leading others will be much fun if we master the act of leading ourselves.

Consider what a Clinical Psychologist said about Self-Leadership, He said, “There is a person with whom you spend more

Millennium Development Goals

MDGs is the acronym for Millennium Development Goals. These goals were officially established at the United Nations Millennium Summit in year 2000 where 189 world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration from where the 8-Goal action plan were extracted and now known as the Millennium Development Goals.

There are basically 8 goals and 21

Improving Your Leadership Effectiveness

John Maxwell told a story in his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. In a poll published by the London Daily Mail in the year 1996, Princess Diana and Mother Theresa were voted in first and second places as the world’s most caring people. That’s something that does not happen unless you have a lot of influence. How did someone like Diana come to be regarded in the same way as Mother Theresa?

In 1981, 15 years before that poll was carried out, Diana

Seven Truths About Your Strength

What is a strength?
A strength is defined as consistent, near-perfect performance in an activity. For something to qualify to be called a strength, you must be able to do it consistently and excel in it practically all the time. There must be a degree of practicability to it.
Here are seven points to help you understand how strengths work:

Strengths start first in your heart
When you study the lives of great achievers, you will find

The Obituary of Words

The obituary of words refers to the failure of communication. What exactly is communication, you might ask?

Communication is the mutual exchange of information and understanding between the speaker and the audience by any effective means. This exchange of information most times is non-mutual i.e. they fail to achieve the purpose intended.

Before I proceed, let me give you two examples of failed communication that we experience everyday. One, I was considering a cartoon picture recently where there was communication failure between a man and his wife. The wife barked out command to his wife, ‘… Go to the

Speaking With Confidence

Have you had the privilege of seeing the old tape of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while giving his famous ‘I have a Dream’ speech? There you will hear him saying, ‘And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jew and gentiles, protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro Spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God we are free at last!’’

Here of course is an example of a good speech that is still being referred to till date. He stood before his audience and spoke with confidence.

You too can stand before your