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The Making of Funke Akindele: The Talent, Grit and Vision Behind Her Success
Funke Akindele is widely known as...Notes with STBYou Built It. Now Give It Wings
You spend years building a business, nurturing it and giving it everything you can. But at what point do you begin to let go? A reflection on working in versus working on your business, learning to delegate and creating something that can stand without depending on you for everything.Inspire MondayEdward Moshole Went from Being a Factory Cleaner to Building a Manufacturing Business
Edward Moshole started with R68, selling...Notes with STBPersistence Is More Than a Mindset. It’s a Numbers Game
We often treat rejection as a verdict on our abilities. But one unsuccessful attempt tells us very little. A look at the mathematics of persistence, why experience matters, and the difference between knowing when to keep trying and when to change direction.
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From One Cancer-Care Mission to an Ecosystem: The Dr. Omolola Salako Story
Dr. Omolola Salako didn’t set out to build a cancer-care ecosystem. Twenty years later, she shares how solving one problem at a time shaped Sebeccly, Oncopadi, Pearl Oncology and what comes next.EntrepreneurshipFrom Marketplace to Movement: How Bukky Asehinde Is Building a Home for African Creativity
From Bellafricana to TALES House London, Bukky Asehinde shares the mindset behind building an ecosystem that outlives the founder.InspirationYou Don’t Start from Scratch. You Start from Experience
What Abby Kesington's journey reminds us about beginning again.TBN SpotlightEmem Nwogwugwu: Building Balance from the Inside Out
Meet Emem Nwogwugwu. She helps people build systems that serve the whole person and not just the bottom line. In our Founders Friday feature, Emem shares what transformation really looks like, how to stay grounded in chaos, and why presence is the real secret to a balanced life.
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One Store. Two Days. Fifty Women: How Brief Essentials Is Bringing Breast Health Closer to Women
In 2022, an estimated 2.3 million...Notes with STBNigeria has a fake-product problem, and it’s doing more damage than we think
The recent sanitary-pad conversation raises a much bigger question: what happens when consumers can no longer trust the products they buy? Nigeria’s fake and substandard-product problem is not only about consumer safety. It affects purchasing power, competition, legitimate businesses and something every functioning market depends on: trust.EducationNigeria has had Oil for 70 Years. The Dangote Refinery IPO Shows us where the Real Value is.
Nigeria has had oil for decades, but having a valuable resource is not the same as creating value from it. As Dangote Refinery prepares to go public, its IPO offers a timely lesson on industrialization, capital and what happens when countries build productive capacity around the resources they already have.Notes with STBWhat if you didn’t need more Discipline to build Wealth?
The secret to building wealth is not discipline. It's removing the decision entirely. True financial success comes from system design, not willpower. The research has been saying this for years.Books & Movies10 Lessons from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
What if the single biggest factor...
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Tope Awotona Built a Billion-Dollar Business from an Everyday Problem. Here Is What We Can Learn
Some of the most successful businesses...Notes with STBYou Built It. Now Give It Wings
You spend years building a business, nurturing it and giving it everything you can. But at what point do you begin to let go? A reflection on working in versus working on your business, learning to delegate and creating something that can stand without depending on you for everything.EntrepreneurshipIsaac Sesi Saw a Problem in Agriculture and Built a Business Around It
Agricultural losses do not always happen...EntrepreneurshipFrom Laying Bricks at 13 to Building a Real Estate Business: Lessons from Ayobami Akindipe
At 13, Ayobami Akindipe worked as...Notes with STBWomen are good at putting money to work. So why is it still harder for us to access capital?
Research shows that women can be effective investors and that when we control more household income, the benefits often extend to our families. Yet women entrepreneurs still receive disproportionately less capital. What might become possible if more capital reached our hands?
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What the Norwegian Viking Row Can Teach Us About Building Things That Last.
A chant born on a notepad. A father who reached one World Cup. A son who led his country back after nearly three decades. The Norwegian Viking Row and Erling Haaland's story reveal a simple truth: the traditions and legacies we admire today often begin as uncertain first attempts that someone refused to abandon.Inspire MondayReni Folawiyo: Building Alára, A Home Where African Design Thrives
They say that a name carries...LifestyleExtraction of Style: Kolwezi Fashion Week Celebrates Creativity and Identity
Kolwezi, a city in the southeastern...LifestyleOn the Lagos Runway: African Designers Weaving Culture into Global Fashion at Lagos Fashion Week
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