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18/09/2024

16/05/2024

Something to note:

You are going to p**s off a lot of people when you start doing what is best for you.

But, do it anyways.

10/04/2024

Here this!

William Boadi of Educate Africa Institute applied for the scholarship from the Scholarship Secretariat for four consecutive years, between 2015 and 2018. He was never awarded one in all the four years.

He shares that in all the four years of attempting to be awarded a scholarship, he was always asked, when he followed up on his application, "Which BIG MAN recommended you?"

Errm!! Which big man is recommending you, la?

Greetings to you from the other side of Umuofia.

28/01/2024

Some of your sacrifices won't pay immediately. But, it doesn't mean, however, that it will not pay at all.

Just as nature has it, there are times and seasons. The fact that your neighboring farmer whom you started your farms with, is harvesting his corn within six months period does not make you the cocoa farmer any useless.

I see sacrifices as investments. And there are plentiful types of investments with varying yield periods. You'll just have to know when your dividends will be ready. That's all that matters.

Continue to pay forward but also be patient enough to wait for your day of harvest.

And in your wait you keep keeping on. Don't relent. Keep doing that great work. And even keep investing more.

Your day of harvest is just at the corner. Don't despair.



Pic: Taken about two years ago during ND Media Ghana's production of Eulogia Choral TV, a choral music content which aired on eTV Ghana.

18/01/2024

The immutable President, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo together with other high profile dignitaries from UNDP in a special session of 14th WEF in Davos, Switzerland launched a UNDP-supported initiative dubbed Timbuktoo African Initiative aimed at mobilizing about $1billion to support Africa's youth to help spark up the start-up revolution in Africa. A good step.

However, whiles we are looking for a billion dollars to spark the start-up revolution, other billions slip through from Africa in terms of illicit financial flow and tax evasion. The organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as published by the AfDB, estimates that Africa loses as much as $60 billion each year in illicit financial flows.

In October, 2023 at Interpol's Africa Summit which happened at the Angolan capital, Luanda, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, AU Deputy Chair told the conference that more than $140 billion is lost to corruption in Africa. Do the calculation.

As a continent we lose about $200 billion on an annual basis to illicit financial flow and corruption.

Pause for a second to just think what the amount mentioned could do for the youth of Africa just in a single year.

So where really should we be looking at if Africa needs money to invest in its youth?

21/08/2023