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110.43 Million SIM Cards registered by 95.89 Million Subscribers in Nigeria

110.43 million lines have so far been registered in the ongoing registration of SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards against official figure of 95,886,714 active mobile lines in the country.This is a huge difference of 14.54 million According to the Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah: this is More »

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5 Reasons Why You Should Start a Business as a Student

Are you among those who think that running a business is the game of experienced graduates and professionals? I am going to show you five reason why that believe is wrong. If you are a student reading this or you are a fresh graduate and you have never thought of More »

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How You can Buy or Sell on Google Trader through SMS

You can now search, buy, post or sell your products/services on Google’s classified ads site Google Trader. It is very simple, you only have to send a message to a short code via SMS. To start using the SMS service Text START to 6007. Posting on Google Trader is free! More »

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Wikipedia to Go Free on Mobiles in Africa and Middle East This Year

The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia and Orange, a mobile network provider have concluded a deal that will allow millions of people from Africa and Midddle East to gain free unlimited access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia from the mobile phones. The project is targeted at the More »

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Google+ integrates with Google Trader: Personalize your Listings

Google announced today that it has integrated Google+ (its social network) with Google Trader (it classified ads site). This means users on google trader can personalize their listings. According to press release on Google Africa blog: We wanted to make Google Trader a little bit more personal. So today, for More »

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Thomas Edison and the Lessons of Smart Delegation in Business

January 11, 2012   NairaBrains   No comments

Thomas Edison was one of the earliest businessmen to introduce the concept of mass production to churn out his invented tools faster and in more quantity. He is often labelled a prolific inventor but his profligacy was a direct result of his outsourcing. He identified young men with interest in inventing and had many of

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Employee Motivation Strategies: 6 Ways to Keep Your Workers Happy Without Money

December 22, 2011   NairaBrains   1 Comment

In many quarters it is believed that the best way to keep your staff and employees motivated and happy is to pay them more money. To some extent this may be true. Still there is an extent to which money can go as a motivator and many cases money alone cannot keep your people working

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5 Top Negotiation Tactics To Make You Win Every Time

October 26, 2011   NairaBrains   5 Comments

I first got my lesson on business negotiation several years ago when as a bleary eyed 19 year old writer I was faced with negotiating with an experienced, cunning small publisher who wished to purchase the manuscript for my first ever book. It was a novel I wanted to publish but couldn’t get any conventional

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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: As World’s Most Admired CEO Goes Home

October 06, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Steve Jobs, co-founder and chief architect of Apple-Inc‘s massive success in the personal computer and digital tools industry, died Wednesday aged 56. Jobs died 42 days after resigning as CEO of Apple, a company he had co-founded with Steve Wozniack over 30 years ago. In two spells as CEO he built Apple into one of

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Nigeria @ 51: Celebrating Independence Anniversary Amidst Bombing Threats

October 01, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

As Nigeria marks its 51st Independence anniversary from Britain it faces its greatest threats to nationhood so far. A Muslim sect known in the country as Boko Haram has for the past one year plus caused havoc in several parts of the Northern region and the capital city Abuja. The Boko Haram threat is coming

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The Search for Superior Knowledge

August 06, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

Everyman and woman really wants to be recognised and reverred in anything they do. Whoever tells you otherwise isn’t just being honest with himself. The best way to rise quickly in worth and respect is to acquire superior knowledge. Know more than the other guy does. Far too many people walk about with stale knowledge

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Why you must Fail to Succeed

May 18, 2011   Andy Chuks   3 Comments

The title of this post may sound weird to you, but in the real sense its actually a fact that you must experience failure before you can succeed in anything you do. Infact, successful persons are not afraid of failing and they are not discouraged by failure. The gadget you are using to read this

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Leadership Skills: Inborn or Learned?

March 22, 2011   NairaBrains   2 Comments

The debate has always gone on about whether people are born with leadership skills or acquire them in the course of life. We like to take a more accommodating view of the subject matter. When a child is born he is yet to be affected by environmental nuances and human influences. At that point of

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Business Leadership Series: How To Develop the Ability to Think On Your Feet

March 01, 2011   NairaBrains   No comments

As an entrepreneur taking quick business decisions with insufficient facts doesn’t come easy. Yet you will encounter such situations in the course of doing business when such decisions will have to be made. You will have to make do with fast thinking. Here are tips to help you do that better; Making Business Decisions are

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How to Get What You Want by Applying the Carnegie Lessons

February 17, 2011   NairaBrains   3 Comments

Several years ago while still new in college I read Dale Carnegie’s timeless work ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ but didn’t realize the importance of the lessons in personal life until almost a year later. I needed money badly and wrote my uncle twice for money without success. I called on the phone

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