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N100,000. Your account details? Good morning and how was your night? Mark Zuckerberg Made Nearly $5 Billion in the First Two Weeks of 2017. How much have you made so far this year? While on Xmas/new year holidays far away in my remote village, with very limited network coverage, minimum of N100,000 was entering my bank accounts on daily basis, courtesy of power of internet, social media and digital marketing! While most Nigerians were busy crying recession, blaming Jonathan, Buhari, and closing down their businesses owing to limited income, I was rather busy building a house and completed same within a few months... I didn't do anything too special; I simply learnt 'how to make money during recession' and powered it with power of digital marketing. That was all I did! Ms. Gloria, one the people I mentor, sold items worth over N5million online, within 2 weeks. She had no products of her own, not even a shop or adequate capital. She simply keyed into the...

THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCE FOR BAD BEHAVIOUR, SAYS VP OSINBAJO *Receives GE team led by Global CEO, & the Nigerian Fisheries Forum Once a system is in place that punishes bad behaviour and enforces the consequence for misconduct, the people will behave well, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Speaking earlier today at the monthly meeting of the Presidential Enabling Business Council, PEBEC in Aso Rock, Prof. Osinbajo stated that  “we are at a point when we feel obliged to do our very best” to improve in all the factors that will create an enabling environment for businesses in the country. “We have to be committed to what we want to achieve. We must develop a system that punishes bad behaviour and reward good behaviour,” the Vice President said as the Council considered different options, and decisions that would be taken in the nation’s ports, on starting a business, construction permits, registering property, getting credit, trading across th...

CBN Building The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has donated a two-storey administrative block of N999 million to the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) under its Education Intervention Programme. Prof. Anthony Owan-Enoh, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, said this at newsmen conference shortly after receiving the keys to the building from the CBN on Monday in Calabar. Owan-Enoh said that the cost of the project, which the university gave to the CBN was over-shot as the furniture and installation of air-conditioning in the administrative building were removed from the budget. He said that the initial plan was to include the Phase Two of the project, which is building of the Senate Chambers of the university. “As a university, our target is to see how we can get across to the CBN governor to formally plead that the second phase be made a reality and the furniture that was removed in the administrative building be installed. “The cost of this building is N999 million....

Nigerian government on Monday announced that it has mapped out strategies to end the current economic recession. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udoma, made the disclosure at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He spoke at the Second Presidential Business Forum presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. Udoma said the medium term Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP 2017-2020) was being finalized to address current economic challenges, restore growth, and reposition the economy for sustained inclusive growth. Udoma said though 59 strategies had been developed for implementation to achieve the strategic objectives of the ERGP, 12 of them had been prioritized based on their importation to the success of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. He listed the 12 plans as “restoring production to 2.2mbpd and reach 2.5mbpd by 2020, privatising selected assets, accelerating non-oil revenue generation, drastically cutting costs”. The list also included...

Nigeria will continue to work together with other African countries to ensure that the African Union becomes a stronger and more robust organization for the benefit of the continent and its people, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo, who is acting President spoke earlier today while receiving a Special Envoy from President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, at the Presidential Villa According to the Vice President, "it is important for Africa to always put the best foot forward and we will continue to work together with the President of Djibouti to make AU stronger and more robust." The Special Envoy, Ali Farah Assoweh brought a message addressed to the Nigerian President, regarding Djibouti's interest in one of the positions up for contest in the AU elections scheduled for later this month, seeking Nigeria's support. The Djibouti's Presidential Special Envoy who is also the country's Justice Minister stated that his countr...