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Professor Gives The 2 Best and The 2 Worst Graduating Students From UniIorin Scholarship to Study Abroad

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Nigerian-born Chris Imafidon is a Professor at the University of Oxford, England. Though autistic, Imafidon, whose children have been described as world’s brainiest kids, tells ‘NONYE BEN-NWANKWO, how he got to the height he has achieved. You were at the University of Ilorin recently during their graduation and you said you would give a scholarship to the worst graduating student. Why? You might need to ask my grandmother that because she believes that every child, without exception, has a lot to contribute to the society. She would find out what you are capable of doing. In my own generation, I try to implement what she lived by. She didn’t just preach it, she did it. She was interested in every child. I did what she would have done. She is gone now. But I am here to represent her voice. I must not let her voice be unheard in my generation, I will always echo it and my mantra is that every child is a genius. If every child is a genius, then it shouldn’t matter if y...

Believe in Yourself: The 5 Levels of Personality

 By Brian Tracy You can imagine your personality by thinking of a target with concentric rings. Your personality is made up of five rings, starting from the center with your values and radiating outward to the next circle, your beliefs and values in life. Believe in Yourself Your   values in life   determine your beliefs,   about yourself and the world around you. If you have positive values, such as love, compassion, and generosity, you will believe that people in your world are deserving of these values and you will treat them accordingly. When you believe in yourself and chose to be a good person you will find yourself to be more positive and successful in life. Set Expectations and Know Your Values in Life Your beliefs, in turn, determine the third ring of your personality, your   expectations.   If you have positive values, you will believe yourself to   be a good person . If you believe in yourself to be a good person, you will expect...

30 Questions for Couples Preparing to Get Married

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A few weeks ago I moderated a discussion of informed minds on the topic of moving from #relationships to #marriage. We discussed specifically on some of the salient issues that lead to failed #marriages and broken homes. In other to define our direction of discussion clearly, we asked the question, ‘What are those things that people tend see very clearly in marriages but never saw them when they were in relationships? ’. It would have been a very tremendous work to compile every single contribution that was made in those two sessions by these very wonderful individuals, which I am sure, will benefit you immensely. Unfortunately, I am unable to recall every one of those contributions.  But I’m going to share with you now, some very interesting and important questions, that when sincerely answered will give you a clear answer to the above question, give you an insight and make you benefit in our discussions, and enable you avoid the mistake of being blind folded in relat...