Happy New Year! Welcome to a new season, may we all receive the grace to thrive. 2020 was a year filled with the entire spectrum of human emotion, from happy to despair, hope to grief, on a global scale. We mourn the departed, we hope for the best, and must continue to live more deliberately. …
I was wondering what it would take to build wooden toys for children with as little funds as possible. Idea Build simple toys for children to play and learn while developing creative and psychomotor skills. The age range from toddlers to early school-aged children, that is, ages one to six. Easy first products could be …
I have always thought of writing a memoir, as far back as 10 years ago, I think. I made outlines in notebooks, even wrote out some sections, while awaiting the most favourable time and writing setup, probably some software to convert my handwriting to typed text, a grand study with a wide mahogany table and …
Children love animals but where do our children see animals in all their glory? In Nigeria, most of them only see them in zoos shown on TV, and even the ones privileged to visit actual zoos get to see only a few of them. The challenges for would-be entrepreneurs are many: sourcing for animals and …
Problem: Some people struggle with eating well regularly at work. Especially if you don’t have a lunch box from home, like me. What if people had a way to automate this daily meal ordering–set it in motion once per month/quarter (or per year!) and the meals show up daily without any further hassle? The Idea: …
Character, capacity, and competence: three elements crucial to succeed wherever we find ourselves in life. They matter for every one, be it young or old. Character refers to your values, the things important to you: integrity, empathy, selflessness, generosity. It is a measure of how good you are on the inside. Capacity is your potential …
Problem: Sometimes, people, especially women, have so many clothes piled up in wardrobes and yet complain they have no clothes. What they are saying is, they want new trendy clothes but for the constraints of cash. Solution: Set up a clothes shop where customers can exchange their pre-owned but good clothes for new clothes at …
It is refreshing to see someone successful without the accompanying snootiness or pretence to royalty or fame. Stripe has acquired his company for over $200 million or around NGN 76 billion. I mean, this is a guy supposedly in touch with the big players in finance, technology, banking, and business home and abroad, and yet …
The Problem: So much of the traffic situation in Lagos can be traced to the presence of container trucks in various modes: parked and waiting for unloading or offloading, broken down, tumbled over, or worse. The issue continues to be a huge drain on the population’s energies – physical, mental, and emotional where it’s not …
Problem: More people eating out are conscious about healthy eating and how well or often they do it. Solution: Establish a restaurant or eatery serving salads and healthy food fare. Even where you serve snacks and the traditional Nigerian staples such as rice, or swallows, or even beans, look for ways to introduce new nutritional …