The Success Digest

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...

Meet 26-Year-Old Nigerian, Adekunle, World Highest Paid Robotics Engineer Silas Adekunle, a 26-year-old Nigerian, credited for building the world’s first gaming robot, has just become the highest paid in the field of Robotic engineering. Adekunle achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc. The robotics engineer was also named as “Someone to Watch in 2018” by the Black Hedge Fund Group, according to reports by thebossnewspapers.com. Adekunle is currently the founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, a company developing the world’s first gaming robots. He also recently graduated with a 1st class degree and has four years’ background in robotics. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Adekunle studied in Nigeria before relocating to the UK as a teenager. After completing his secondary school education, he proceeded to the University of the West of England where he graduated with a first class graduate in Robotics. In 2013, h...

Your Career Depends on It! The Duke and Duchess of Sussex Image Credit: hellomagazine.com  "The most important career choice you'll make is who you marry."- Sheryl Sandberg Facebook COO "The most important decision many of you will make, not all of you, will be the spouse you choose," since "you will move in the direction of the people that you associate with."- Warren Buffet How very fitting! This really points to my mindset about marriage. Ever since I can remember, ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it was more important to marry the kind of person that'll increase my value, and who's life would inspire me to be do bigger things, to go for more- someone who wouldn't hold me back but spur me on. The sort of person who wants to rule the world- a marriage that'll be a power-partnership. Some people get married for the most stupid of reasons! Some just want to settle down. Think again! Do you really want...

Image Source: premiumtimesng.com Last year, Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote was the only other black man to make the Forbes Most Powerful list, the other being United States' former President, Barack Obama. Mr. Dangote, who is the President of Dangote Group, was ranked 71 last year ahead of the current number 3 man on the list, US President Donald Trump. This year, Mr. Dangote was listed 66th ahead of US Vice President Mike Pence ranked 67th. Aliko Dangote is the only Nigerian on the list and the second African, the other being Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. They are the only two Africans on the list. Dangote is the Chairman of Dangote Cement PLC which produces 44 million metric tonnes of cement annually. And as of March 2018, Mr. Dangote had an estimated net worth of $14.1 billion according to Forbes. Mr. Dangote is the current richest man in Africa

Elvis Chidera I'm a 19-year-old developer at an  MIT-backed startup  called  dot Learn  in Lagos, living in the bustle of Nigeria's largest city. But until recently my life was quite different. Just a few years ago, I was living in rural southeastern Nigeria and had nothing but a basic Nokia 2690 phone -- and a big dream to improve the world using technology. Here's my journey from "village boy" to the epicenter of West Africa's tech boom. I began programming at 11 years old. As a kid I spent hours on websites and downloading and playing the latest games. After a while I became curious about how websites, which seemed to exist almost by magic, were built -- and how I could build one myself. My first step was, like most people, to Google it. This led me to the  W3Schools  tutorials, a handy site where you can learn to program. To build a website I needed a computer, but no one in my family could afford one. Luckily, my relative gave ...

Source: Teachable.com Want to get paid to teach an online course in cake decorating, feng shui or how to fly a drone? Increasingly, instructors are turning to  Teachable , a New York-based startup run by Ankur Nagpal, 29. Most of Teachable’s teacher-customers pay $99 a month to use the company’s software platform, where they can upload videos, communicate with students and collect course fees. Founded in 2014, Teachable is growing fast. Last year it processed $90 million in course fees and banked $7.5 million in revenue. This year Nagpal says it’s on track to more than double those numbers, and he expects to be profitable by the end of 2018. “Right now, we’re close to a $13 million revenue run rate,” he says. Today he announced a $4 million funding round at a $134 million valuation, bringing Teachable’s total capital invested to $12.5 million. The firm has 64 employees. At a time when people can learn almost anything from a YouTube video, Nagpal says many students...