House of Gold & Onyx

18/03/2024

I have reached 100 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. 🙏🤗🎉

06/01/2024

We have taking cake crafting to another level.

05/12/2023

21/11/2023

POTTERS WHEEL FOUNDATION IS A PLACE TO BE.

21/10/2023

Leadership is inborn

Sir, I respect your talent and gift.

People often ask me, TOE how do I learn leadership. Should I go on a course? Buy a book? Get a mentor? Are leaders born, or can you become a leader?

Just as I say about business success, leadership has many components – luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I also believe that those talents and those disciplines that you bring, creating a vision and the resilience and focus that delivers that vision, can also forge your own personal leadership.

I was fortunate to work with Chief Ebitimi Banigo, at the start of my career. My leadership philosophy was built working with him. It started with Chief Banigo taking the time to read my application letter and giving me a chance to prove myself at Allstates Trust Bank in 1988. When my colleagues tell me today, “TOE you respond too fast to our emails”, I laugh because I learnt from the master himself – Chief Banigo. When I sent memos to him, he would respond within twenty-four hours; therefore, why should I not respond even faster in this age of technology?

These are some of the leadership values I learned from my time with Chief Banigo, and I practise them all today.

1. Leaders must demand excellence: Only by going the extra mile and pushing ourselves, will we truly develop and stand out. Hard work and excellence made my bosses Toyin Akin-Johnson and Ebitimi Banigo notice, and subsequently, believe in me. At twenty-seven, I went from being a trainee to being a boss, when I was appointed a branch manager – the youngest bank branch manager at that time. All the things I learned earlier came into play, and I continued learning.

2. Good leaders find in people, what people did not know they possess – Leaders recognise the talent in their team and then push to unlock the talent. When I work, I work to achieve my goals, but I also work to unlock my team’s skills. I know everyone I work with has huge potential – for me my success is also about the success of others, growing and nurturing their talent, that is the foundation of our growth at Heirs Holdings Group. This focus on talent, teams, personal transformation, is why I am so insistent on creating institutions, cultures, and pathways, where human capital can thrive. It is why I am an investor in businesses, but also entrepreneurs across Africa.

3. Leaders must walk their talk - A leader must be consistent. People want to trust a leader that they believe has integrity. Leadership is not just about telling people what to do, it's also about setting an example. A good leader must lead by example and practice what they preach, this demonstrates integrity, it builds trust and respect.

4. Leaders must impart knowledge: I benefitted from the mentorship of Chief Banigo at Allstates Trust Bank. He helped me to develop my strategic thinking, my frames of reference and to channel my ideas into concrete actions, so that when the moment of opportunity arrived, at the age of thirty-four, I had the self-belief to gather a small group together to take over and revive a failing bank – take that enormous step, that is still shaping an industry and a continent today.

Today, when I am faced with an impossible situation, I ask myself, ‘What Would Chief Banigo Do?’. I worked with Chief Banigo from 1988 - 1995, till this day, he is the one I turn to when I need advice.

04/09/2023

May this week be filled with joy, financial stability, good health, testimonies, Great connection, Rich customers, lot of sales and happiness.
My prayers for you. Happy New Week ❤️.

02/09/2023

I feel like dancing like David.

29/01/2023

The Lord is my strength

15/07/2022

Patronize your girl ooo

05/07/2022

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE

Jas.4.1 - From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Jas.4.2 - Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas.4.3 - Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jas.4.4 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Jas.4.5 - Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Jas.4.6 - But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas.4.7 - Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas.4.8 - Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas.4.9 - Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas.4.10 - Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas.4.11 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas.4.12 - There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Jas.4.13 - Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Jas.4.14 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Jas.4.15 - For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Jas.4.16 - But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Jas.4.17 - Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

26/06/2022

26/06/2022

11/06/2022

No judge meeeooo

03/06/2022

Aka chukwu di na aru m.

28/05/2022

What are some wise things about life?

Life is like a blank cheque already signed with your name written on it. The only thing you have to do is fill in the number you want. Problem is that most people write a negative number and then blame others for their miseries. Only 1% of people have some idea what number to write on the blank.
Even if you wore the same clothes every day for 30 days nobody will notice that you wore the same clothes yesterday. People are so engrossed in their own personal thoughts and problems that they have no time to waste checking what kind of clothes you’re wearing each day.
The greatest life hack is the elusive feeling of happiness. If you can teach your brain to laugh even when you don’t feel like, your brain can’t tell the difference whether you’re happy or sad. You can then enjoy perpetual happiness any time you want it 24/7.
Of all the skills in the world, the greatest skill is the ability to say “NO”.
All the wealth in the world is yours for the taking provided that you give people what they want. Then and only then will they feel compelled to give you what you want.
The problem with most people is that they will always copy what others are doing. People will always doubt their abilities even if you tell them they’re good at something. They lack the self-confidence to do something that has never been done, only to realize quite late that they had a better idea than everybody else.
The greatest problem in life is not the lack of money. The problem is that most people want the money for all the wrong reasons, and don’t know what to do with it once they get it. This is what repulses money away from most people.
Lack of contentment is the root of all evil and miseries. From it emanates all kinds of jealousies, hate, greed and murders. On the other hand, contentment is the root of all happiness.
Love everyone for who they are for that’s a universal law. However, don’t choose the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with blindly, or simply because you’ve fallen in love with them “head-over-heels”. Sometimes it’s possible that other people have also fallen in love with them “head-over-heels” before you.
Never argue just for the sake of argument, unless you’re sure your opinion could save lives. Otherwise agree with your opponent and move on to save time and money. They’ll think that they’ve won the battle only to realize later that they were fools.

14/04/2022

We are whom we are

It can only be you LORD.
I am forever grateful LORD.

14/04/2022

It can only be you LORD.
I am forever grateful LORD.

30/03/2022

30/03/2022

29/03/2022

Our hands are blessed. To God be the glory.

29/03/2022

What a Jezebel

29/03/2022

Beauty will always fade away. But the soul still remains the same.

Be wise in making your choice because anything can happen at anytime.

14/03/2022

True image, beauty without makeup.
Lord I thank for the woman I have become.

14/03/2022

God's grace is upon my life.