Month: February 2015

Written by a working-class Chilean woman in 1973, shortly after Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende, was overthrown. This is to be read by two people, one reading the bold-faced type and one reading the regular type. I am a woman. I am a woman. I am a woman born of a woman whose man owned…

The Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC) Joint Venture in pursuance of its corporate Social Responsibility invites suitably qualified applicants for its 2014/2015 Session Tertiary Scholarship Scheme, effective February 9 to March 9, 2015. Category of Awards Host Communities Merit Award – For applicants strictly from NAOC Host Communities National Merit Award – For applicants from Non-Host…

BabT I used 16 cubes of sugar to prepare my cornflakes said Kola. Really… BabT enthused, you are improving. The last time I prepared cornflakes, I used 23 sugar cubes –  7 cubes more than your highest record.  I was a boarding house student during my secondary school days. In the boarding house we had…

The young James Kilroy was working on the docks of Boston harbor in the 1940s, loading the freight ships of the time with big crates filled with blue jeans, destined for the far reaches of the world. One early November morning the day started as so many before it. The wind was blowing, the weather…

APM Terminals is one of the worlds largest, high technology and most-respected container terminal operators offering the global shipping community an integrated and growing Global Terminal Network or over 70 operating container facilities in 64 countries on 5 continents including Africa. APM Terminals is a recipient of diverse international awards one of which is “port…

The Nigerian Stock Exchange Graduate Trainee Program (GTP) is an intensive 11- month program designed to groom young global talents locally and raise a new generation of leaders for the Capital Market and the Nigerian Economy. Combining theoretical insights and a hands-on practical approach, the NSE Graduate Trainee Program (GTP) will give participants the extraordinary…

In school we were taught that economics is the study of how goods and services are produced, sold and bought. I dare say there is an economics of how love is generated, even sold and bought! An understanding of this economics is vital to achieving success in love even as an understanding of world economic…

Charles Plum, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a Communist prison. He survived that ordeal and now lectures about lessons learned from…