ENTREPRENEURSHIP 101: Entrepreneurial Skills
An entrepreneur is a person who identifies opportunities, assembles the resources required to pursue the opportunity, creates a business around the opportunity; and nurse it to growth. To start a business, it is essential to learn specific skills that underpin the qualities of an entrepreneur. Let’s look at some of these skills. Entrepreneurial Skills are […]
Becoming A Successful Start-Up; Mistakes Of Small Businesses
Starting a business can be quite demanding, but it’s even more difficult maintaining a business. It’s quite easy to hit rock bottom even after a successful start-up as starting and maintaining requires different skillset. Asides skillset, there are some mistakes entrepreneurs and business owners make that accelerates the crashing of their hard built businesses. Some […]
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS. RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
Every business needs competition to succeed, and for continued existence. Ironic right? In the face of competition, it keeps businesses and business owners on their feet, in search of ways to keep up with trend and be ahead. This subconsciously leads to a general growth. However, competition gives either of two possible results; it makes […]
UNICEF SUPPORTING CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION ACCESS IN NIGERIA
As children, we were taught the basic importance of water. For cooking, washing, bathing and house choresWhile emphasis is laid on the use and need for clean water, it should also be made on the dangers and effects of unclean water and poor sanitation practices, which leads to contamination of water. Majority of diseases and […]
Sahara Technical Regenerator Program (STRP)
On June 12, Sahara Foundation announced the launch of the inaugural edition of the Sahara Technical Regenerator Program (STRP) -a partnership between Sahara Foundation, Energy Training Center (IG handle: etc_connect) and Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (REAN; IG handle: reanigeriaofficial). This program is aimed at promoting youth capacity in Lagos, Edo and Rivers, giving […]
SMEs. Elevator Speech
For small businesses, funding can be a great limiting factor for the growth of your business. Let’s say you stumble into a potential investor, and he/she has given you a minute of their busy schedule on a one-on-one conversation, to hear your business, with possibilities of partnership/funding if interested. This is called an Elevator […]
SDG 7: Affordable, Clean Energy
As the global population continues to rise, there is increased demand for access to cheap energy. Dependence on fossil fuels to meet this demand has led to an increased emission of greenhouse gases, which has created adverse and drastic changes to our climate. It is to this cause, that there has been a recent drive […]
Environmental Pollution. Guilty as Charged
When we hear environmental pollution, what comes to mind are aerosols, carbon monoxide and gases, so we proudly self-vindicate of environmental pollution. But Wikipedia explained Environmental Pollution as “the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse changes. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, noise, heat or light.” This […]
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Do we remember that TV jingles “… to make the world a better place… Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”? Was it just a jingle for you, or did you ever try to understand and implement it? The waste hierarchy is the order of priority of actions to be taken in order to reduce the amount of […]
SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing
The purpose of SDG 3 is to ensure health and human well-being for all at all stage of life. This goal covers all key health concerns, including reproductive, maternal, and child health; communicable, noncommunicable, and environmental diseases; and universal access to safe, effective, high quality medicines and vaccinations. It also calls for additional research […]