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HAIR GROWTH TIP: WASH DAY STEP 1

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If you have tried this water only hair wash method, kindly share how your hair felt afterwards.

Who is a Social Entrepreneur

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Who are social entrepreneurs? Social entrepreneurs are people who drive social innovation and transformation in various fields including education, health, environment and enterprise development. They pursue poverty alleviation goals with entrepreneurial zeal, business methods and the courage to innovate and overcome traditional practices. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are often ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. One of such is Professor Muhammad Yunus, the Founder of Grameen Bank, in Bangldesh Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus was born on 28th of June, 1940 in the village of Bathua , Bangladesh. He was the 3rd of 14 children of whom five died in infancy. His father was a successful goldsmith, but his biggest influence was his mother , who always helped the poor people. This inspired him to commit himself to eradication of...

Ideation In Business

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Are you an aspiring entrepreneur planning to start his or her business and do not know what to do? Are you a business owner who wants to learn more about business as well as expand your market reach? Business Development Series is here to help you solve these problems and make a success of your businesses. Here, you will learn from, network with other business owners/ entrepreneurs and increase the visibility of your businesses.  Register before the 14th of February, 2016. Limited seats available!     You can also send messages on this platform for more info.

Misty Copeland, the First African-American Principal Ballerina

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Good day everyone, how are you today? I have not written for a long time because I have been busy working on successfully creating my natural beauty product line (which I have successfully formulated and will discuss in another blog post). However, the desire to encourage people to live beyond their present situation has brought me back to blogging. This time, I wrote about Misty Danielle Copeland, the first African-American performer, who was appointed as a principal dancer for American Ballet Theatre (typically considered the best company for classical ballet in America) in June, 2015. The reason I decided to write about her is because she has surmounted different hurdles in life to get to where she is today. Oftentimes, we have challenges and life hardly goes the way we want it. But it is our duty to make the best of the available opportunities or challenges we have. Kindly read about this wonderful, multi-talented African-American ballet dancer and get inspired to do that whic...
Greatness lies in our contribution to calling men and women back to God, in solving life's problems and in making this world a better place. True greatness lies in pulling men and women off the way to hell and getting them qualified for heaven's eternal glory - Francis Wale Oke

Story of An Icon: Giuliana Rancic

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Giuliana Rancic (1974 - ) is an American journalist and television personality of Italian decent, who is New York Times best-selling author and the winner of the Fan Favorite award at the 2014 Daytime Emmy Award. She is also an entertainment journalist, author, fashion and beauty expert and television personality with over 3.5 million devoted followers on Twitter and 7 million followers across three social media platforms. History Giuliana was born on August, 17, 1974, Naples, Italy to Eduardo and Anna DePandi and immigrated to Maryland at age 7, along with her family. As a new immigrant, her English skills were close to zero. Her love affair with television journalism began before she could even speak English. Her parents couldn’t afford a tutor, so she learned the language by watching television, mostly various news channels, and trying to repeat the sentences she had heard. Education In the United States, Giuliana attended Walt Whitman High School, after which she enrolled i...

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS: Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs (1955–2011) was the co-founder of Apple Computers. Through Apple Computers, he pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad, which are successful today. Childhood Steve was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. He was later adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs.as always an intelligent and innovative thinker. Though as a youth, he had frustrations over formal schooling that his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. He dropped out of college after six months due to lack of direction and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. In the summer of 1968, the 13-year-old Steve gets a summer job at the HP factory. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. Apple Computers In 1985 Jobs was fired from Apple and immediately founded another computer c...

Success Initiatives

The secret to success is laws. We must understand them. Laws have no respect for location or time. They are not controlled by environment but can control environment. However, most of us try to succeed on emotion and scheming. Laws are designed to guarantee success 8 principles of Laws 1. Law sand principles protect the product. 2. Laws and principles preserve the product. 3. Laws and principles serve the product. 4. Laws and principles guarantee the function of the products. 5. Laws and principles simplify product function. 6. Laws and Principles bring peace and confidence. 7. Laws and principles protect against experimentation. 8. Laws and principles are the enemies of fear. The knowledge of laws are the source of wisdom.

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS: Oprah

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Oprah, whose birth name is Orpah has been cited as the richest African American of the 20th century. She is currently worth $3 billion. However, she was born in an economically troubled neighborhood and raised by a single-teenaged mother in the city of Milwaukee. Initially, Oprah was raised by her maternal grandmother, who taught her to read at an early age. Due to her ability to read and write before the age of three, she was often promoted several grades ahead of her age when enrolled in school. However, when she was sent to her mother in Milwaukee, her lack of supervision enabled several male relatives and friends to sexually abuse Oprah, who gave birth to a premature baby (who died shortly after birth) at the age of fourteen. After the death of her baby, she went to Nashville, Tennessee to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey. Vernon was a strict disciplinarian, who gave his daughter the secure home life she needed to flourish. It was here that she became an honor student and...

FAILURE, A ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS

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Hello, how are you doing? This is my first post since a week ago and I am happy to share this knowledge with you. Today, I gave a presentation in my office on the topic written above. I am sharing it with you  hope this adds value to your lives. You can like, comment and share with family, friends and 'enemies' if it pleases you. What is Failure? Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective – wikipedia. “Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there,” - Ralph Heath. What is Success? Success means completing an objective or reaching a goal- business directory.com. Success means having each area of our life balanced. These areas include self, family, friends, work/business, community, spiritual and material things. * Try not to ignore any of these. When someone concentrates on just one or two of these areas, then the others will f...

The Story of An Icon

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Have you heard the name, Adepeju Jaiyeoba (nee Mabadeje)? May be not. Well, I will tell you a few things about her. Adepeju is a Nigerian trained lawyer and founder of Brown Button Foundation , an NGO established to help curb the high mortality rates in Nigeria, promote women’s sexual and reproductive rights and helping them to make informed choices. Over time, Adepeju has headed and contributed to different spheres of life. She was the NYSC Legal Aid group committee head on women and children’s right between 2008 and 2009.  In 2009, she was a volunteer guest writer for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Trinidad and Tobago. Also, she was selected to participate in a capacity building and young women mentoring program with the Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) organization where her leadership skills were further sharpened in 2010. In 2011, Adepeju founded Brown Button Foundation and sold Mother’s Delivery Kits, which are cost-effective and life-...

Africa's Billionaire, Dangote

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Brief Profile Aliko Dangote , the richest man in Nigeria and first Nigerian Billionaire to be listed on New York-based Forbes , was born on the 10th of April, 1957. He is the founder of Dangote Group , which has subsidiaries that supply commodities like cements, sugar, salt, flour, rice, spaghetti, fabric and the like at affordable prices. This Dangote Group imports 400,000 metric tonnes of sugar annually which makes up about 70 per cent of the total requirements of the nation and is a major supplier of the product to the manufacturers of Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and Seven-Up in Nigeria. Dangote was ranked first (weath-wise) in Nigeria in the 2008 Forbes Magazine with an estimated fortune of 3.3 billion dollars. At the monment, he is estimated to be worth 17.9 billion dollars on Forbes in 2015.  Background Aliko Dangote was born in Kano, where his grandfather, the late Alhaji Sanusi Dantata provided him Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates with a small capital to start his own busine...