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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...

NPOWER 2017: How to Check Your Name and Avoid Costly Mistakes

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Congratulations to all the 2017 Applicants! I mean; what a wait! It was almost like forever. But then the N-power has announced through its social media channels that names will be released by close to midnight on Monday, 20th and N-power applicants will be able to check on the N-power website if they have been successful in the pre-selection.  Remember this will not be the final list as there will be physical verifications at your local governments for all the items necessary for enrolment in the N-power programme.  Remember the whole journey? Online application, BVN Validation, Assessment test and all that and now by Monday, pre-selection would be completed. But then a lot of people are asking how they would check their names.  Well after uploading the list on the internet, and test running it, the N-power will be able to let us know how applicants will log in to check their names. But it surely will have to be a combination of any two of the following in...

What to Expect in the YouWiN! Connect 2017 second stage.

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YouWiN Connect Online Training, what participants must know If you have just been shortlisted for the next stage of the YouWiN! Connect 2017, I want to congratulate you once more. I am sure one of the things topmost in your minds right now amidst the joys of being successful in this stage is "what would the online training look like? never mind, I have a solution for you. This is probably the first time the YouWiN is adopting an online training method, but it certainly isn't the first time online training is being used to train entrepreneurs in Nigeria. But never mind I got you covered on this one.  Here is what to expect in the upcoming online training;  (NOTE: These are not official information or instructions from the YouWiN Connect team. They are only my opinion based on the previous competitive online training I have been involved in and online courses I have taken. Consider these as some intelligent guess from an experience) 1. The training wi...

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...