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Adesuwa Omoruan- a World Class and seasoned Journalist reaches out to even more

Adesuwa Omoruan is dubbed the "queen of selfies" by her siblings. She confesses to taking more selfies than regulars photographs. When Adesuwa Omoruan was a child, she never thought or imagined herself becoming a broadcaster; it was the last thing she ever thought of becoming. As far as she was concerned, the lifestyle of reporters was not up to par with the kind of life she wanted, as the young dreamer that she was at the time. She wanted a life that was rich and full of the best life could offer,  although she wasn't seeking a life that was necessarily flamboyant.  "I just felt that journalist were not paid enough... My idea of a journalist wasn't just working at that time. Sometimes they looked very stressed, very few of them had cars... Growing up, I had this picture of what I wanted to be in life..." She had wanted to become a banker!  As a child, she had taken trips to the bank with her mother on several occasions to cash-in her moth...

The Extraordinary Story of Malala Yousafzai

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." That lone powerful voice was that of a seventeen year old Pakistani teenager who became the target of terrorist group, the Taliban, in her native Swat valley. Malala's foray into activism started when she was about 11-12 while writing a blog for the BBC Urdu detailing what it was like for her and other young girls living in her native Swat Valley during Taliban occupation. Born Malala Yousafzai on the 12th of July, 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern   Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to an activist father, Ziauddin Yousafzai who also owns a school, Malala's was destined to take on the the Taliban. After a public speaking titled "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right  to education?"and blogging about her life in the Swat District on BBC Urdu, Malala became a target of the Taliban. Her voice began to grow and she started to garner world wide atten...

Eight Highly Effective Business Tips for Entrepreneurs

Being an entrepreneur means that you'll often blaze your own trail: No career guides, counselors or maps will guide you from one step to the next: You'll have to make it up as you go. I’ve been an entrepreneur my whole adult life and it’s the only career I’ve ever known. In a way, that makes me lucky: I’ve become not only comfortable with, but actually good at, forging ahead into unchartered territory. However, like everyone else, I’ve faced moments of doubt and uncertainty and plenty of sleepless nights. As I look back at the steps that led me from my first sale -- standing next to my grandfather Joe at a folk festival when I was just a young kid -- to my assorted entrepreneurial ventures today, some common themes emerge. 1. Keep the big vision in sight. A big vision will take you far. I put this tip first because when things go wrong on the path to your success, and they will, keeping the big vision in mind will enable you to ...

Michael Crichton: the late King of Intellectual Entertainment

Crichton at Harvard, 2002. "Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working" Michael Crichton is my favorite author in the world simply because of his style of writing. Michael Crichton combines intellectuality with entertainment producing a pulsating edge-of-your-seat storytelling. The first Crichton book I ever got my hand on was Sphere. It was my introduction to him. I read that book in one sweep- finishing the same day I started to read it. From then on, I decided I was going to read as many of his books I could get. Right now I think I've average about ten of his books. This delightsome novelist was born John Michael Crichton in October 23, 1942 (he passed away on November 4, 2008) in Chicago, Illinois to a journalist father, John Henderson Crichton.  He was raised on  Long Island,  in  Roslyn, New York. He  showed a keen interest in writing from a young age of 14. He had a column related to travel published in ...