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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 me

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 pre

image credit jamesaltucher.com A certain farmer had become old and ready to pass his farm down to one of his two sons. When he brought his sons together to speak about it, he told them:  The farm will go to the younger son. The older son was furious!  “What are you talking about?!”  he fumed. The father sat patiently, thinking. “Okay,”  the father said,  “I need you to do something for me. We need more stocks. Will you go to Cibi’s farm and see if he has any cows for sale?” The older son shortly returned and reported,  “Father, Cibi has 6 cows for sale.” The father graciously thanked the older son for his work. He then turned to the younger son and said,  “I need you to do something for me. We need more stocks. Will you go to Cibi’s farm and see if he has any cows for sale?” The younger son did as he was asked. A short while later, he returned and reported,  “Father, Cibi has 6 cows for sale. Each cow will cost 2,000 rupees. If we are thinking about buying more than 6

A Success Story by Niel  Darusa 9 months ago I went to fix up my phone. It fell down and the screen was just scattered all over. I literally couldn’t see a thing on the screen. It was a Galaxy s6 plus to be precise. So I took the phone to a phone repairs shop nearby and when I got there I saw the guy Sleeping. For the sake of the synopsis let’s call him Jerry. Jerry was just sleeping on the table. Well not really on the table, he was sitting down with this head on the table while he dosed off. So I walked up to him and woke him up then I said “hi, I hope this is a good time for you, my phone has an issue and I’m here to fix it up”. He said “Oh yes sure, this is a great time really, I was just praying”. I laughed. He then said “Okay so what is the problem with your phone”. I gave him the phone and told him the issue with the phone and then we had a long conversation about the issue and how he is going to fix it up and the cost of fixing up the phone. After

Ugochi being crowned winner of MBGN 2017 Michel Ugochi Ihezue yesterday emerged the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in the just concluded MBGN 2017 hosted and sponsored by the Silverbird Group. She beat 35 other contestants to emerge the winner. This was the same pageant that saw Nigeria producing Africa's ever first Miss World, Agbani Darego in 2001. The Success Digest would try to get an exclusive on her.