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Friday, 27 May 2016
Online MBA Scholarship for Students in Nigeria
Master in Business
Administration
This challenging course
will expose you to all areas of business through a diverse range of modules.A
critical part of the University of South Wales’s MBA is exploring how people
impact on business thinking and the systems that can enhance this fundamental
part of an organisation.
Why get an MBA:
- 93%
     of the MBA graduates landed their dream job (GMAC 2013 Survey) spacer
- The
     same recent graduates reported median salary on a global scale of 128,569
     USD (GMAC 2013 Survey)
- 100% salary increase on average (Financial Times 2013)
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Benefit of long term investment on man
One of the main concerns for any type of
investing is market volatility. Volatility measures the degree to which prices
change over time. Another way to think of volatility is in terms of price
swings. The greater and more frequently an investment's price swings, the
higher its volatility. Investments with high volatility have a high degree of
risk because their prices are unstable.
It is important to note that short-term
volatility is not necessarily indicative of a long-term trend. A security can
be highly volatile on a daily basis but show long-term patterns of growth or
stability. Some investments may maintain purchasing power over time, but can
fluctuate wildly in the short term.
The advantage of long-term investing is found in
the relationship between volatility and time. Investments held for longer
periods tend to exhibit lower volatility than those held for shorter periods.
The longer you invest, the more likely you will be able to weather low market
periods. Assets with higher short-term volatility risk (such as stocks) tend to
have higher returns over the long term than less volatile assets such as money
markets.
Staying invested in the
market over the long term has historically paid off.
It is very difficult and risky to time the
market. Many people panic when they see reports of a falling stock market.
However, staying invested in the market over the long term has historically
paid off. Although short-term fluctuations seem random, the stock market tends
to reflect the overall growth and productivity of the economy in the long run.
4 hot tips to accumulate wealth
We know that its far more easy to spend money than to save. And
at the same time we also know that nobody ever gets wealthy through spending.
Wealth building is preceded by money preservation.
Money
is volatile and those who have a spending mindset find money disappearing from
them. On the other hand, those who have a money preservation mindset are like
electromagnetic attraction to money.
Can a money preservation mindset be developed by those who spend
on sight? Here are some techniques that one can use with patience.
As Self Employ, What Do I Need To Do Differently?
The gravity of the questions you ask will determine the strength
of your actions. One of the most powerful questions you can ask a company you
want to work with is: What will it take for us to work together? That question works
every time. When the person answers they end up listing the conditions of
working together.
7 Steps to protect your Business abstract from stealing
Avoid Revealing Too Much
One of the best ways to
secure your idea is to only reveal what is absolutely necessary. If you’re
pitching an idea to a potential client, give only the details necessary to
convey the idea. It’s not necessary to share every detail of how your product
works, for instance, when you can get the same information across by revealing
the need your product or service fulfills. One exception to this may be when
you’re pitching to investors or lenders, who will likely want to know
everything about your product before taking a financial risk on it.
As a business grows,
pitching becomes increasingly important. As the business seeks investors, new
clients, or even new employees, a business owner must repeatedly reveal details
about the company to others.
220BN Saved through Federal Government Pay Roll Initiative
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it had
recorded savings of about N220bn since April 2007
when it commenced the implementation of the
Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
A statement from the Office of the Accountant-General
of the Federation said that the amount was expected to
increase when other agencies of government would
enrol onto the platform.
recorded savings of about N220bn since April 2007
when it commenced the implementation of the
Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
A statement from the Office of the Accountant-General
of the Federation said that the amount was expected to
increase when other agencies of government would
enrol onto the platform.
Sunday, 22 May 2016
One Of A Kind Where Your Expectations Will Be Exeeded In Nigeria
Asia Town Nigeria Limited is a growing
hospitality management company that specializes  in restaurants, catering
and event management.
Asia Town restaurant
& event center is the first Asia Town Nigeria Limited projects.
Asia Town, a high- class
modern restaurant and event center, is Port Harcourt's most exclusive venue
featuring exotic textures, colors and details of the Orient.
Located in the heart of
the oil-rich City of Port-Harcourt, Asia Town is the perfect hangout venue for
lunches, dinners, after work meetings and chill outs.
Asia Town provides a
revolutionary fine dining  experience in a unique Asian inspired
atmosphere, and can also create a show-stopping setting that can host up to 500
guests for all your events.
     
    • A variety of
tailor-made buffet, set, cocktail and finger food menu.
     
    • Chinese, Continental and Nigerian cuisines.
     
    • An exquisite service
     
    • An ideal option for corporate dinners, weddings, product
launches, fashion shows, birthdays and anniversaries…
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Our Mission is to exceed your expectations & inspire our guests. 
We are committed to providing you tailored event solutions that bring exceptional results. 
We want you to experience excellence during your event, and to love working with our team and partners. | |
The A-Z Short Cut You Will Ever Need For Effective Use Of Your Computer.
The A-Z Short Cut You
Will Ever Need For Effective Use Of Your Computer.
In
the current world, it’s almost impossible to imagine that someone can live
 without computers. Computers have become an electronic device of almost
every day use for individuals of every age. They are essential in almost all
the business dealings that are made nowadays. The most that any industry has
gained from the discovery of the computers is the business industry because of
its nature. Computers have gained significance as they have improved the
efficiency and productivity of work done. Large amounts of information in
industrial and business sectors as well as in the personal lives are stored on
computers.
Computers can help businesses by making their staff efficient
and productive and also save their valuable time in any business or office.
Computers in schools will help the learners to comprehend the basic concepts
better with the help of video or audio examples. Computers in higher learning
institutions will help the professors and researchers to do their work very
fast and in an efficient and better way and also help them to share the same
knowledge with their other members of staff. Computers become a vital gadget in
several sectors; railways, banking, electricity, telephone departments,
shopping carts etc are just but a few of them. Computers are also used in the
medical industry to help doctors in diagnosing the diseases quickly and
efficiently. All the administrative systems, whether private or public are now
using computers and this practice can be evident in every part of the world.
Computers have also helped the media and the entertainment
industries. Be it a multi-million dollars movie or a two minutes commercial,
computers have changed the usual concept of providing entertainment to the
public. With the computer business growing so fast, the computer industry has
also brought about an invention. Tablets, palmtops, and laptops have replaced
the desktops. With the decrease in size, it has become very easy to carry the
computer and use them anywhere you are to the fullest.
The importance of computers in our daily lives can be judged by
the number of people using them each single day. Computer is not only used by
professionals, but also by the little children and grownups at our homes.
Today,
everything related to your everyday life can be done using computers. You can
order your breakfast online using your computer, you can read newspaper online,
you can work from the comfort of your home with the help of your computer, you
can watch movies and videos through your computer, you can listen to music
through your computer, you can read novels and books through e-books, you can
play games, you can also contact people and talk to them through your computer
etc. These are just but a few things that can be done with the help of your
computer.
Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word
Notes
·        
These keyboard shortcuts
refer to the U.S. keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts might not correspond
exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard.
·        
For keyboard shortcuts
in which you press two or more keys at the same time, the keys to press are
separated by a plus sign (+).
·        
For keyboard shortcuts
in which you press one key immediately followed by another key, the keys to
press are separated by a comma (,).
·        
This article does not
cover customizing keyboard shortcuts or creating keyboard shortcuts for macros
or AutoText. For more information, click a link in the See Also section.
·        
If you are using
Microsoft Word 2010 Starter, be aware that not all features that are listed for
Word are supported in Word Starter. For more information about the features
that are available in Word Starter, see Word Starter feature support.
Microsoft Office basics
Display and use windows
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To do this | 
Press | 
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Switch to the next window. | 
ALT+Tab | 
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Switch to the previous window. | 
ALT+SHIFT+Tab | 
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Close the active window. | 
CTRL+W or CTRL+F4 | 
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Restore the size of the active
  window after you maximize it. | 
ALT+F5 | 
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Move to a task pane from another
  pane in the program window (clockwise direction). You may have to press F6
  multiple times. | 
This 25 Simple Steps Will Motivate And Inspire Your Business Life
We all feel less motivated
too often? I do. Well, perhaps not too often. But sometimes I just feel really
lazy and unmotivated.
Want some practical
solutions to that universal motivation-problem? Here are 25 of them. Try a
handful.
Let me know which ones
work well for you.
I’m sure you’ll find
at least one or two that do just that among these suggestions.
1. Strike a deal with yourself. Good
for overcoming procrastination and getting things done. You can make the deal
small or large. You simple tell yourself something like: When I’m done with
this chapter/these reports I can take a walk in the park and enjoy an
ice-cream.
2. Act it. If
you don’t feel motivated or enthusiastic then act like it. The strange thing is
that within a few minutes you actually start to feel motivated or enthusiastic
for real.
3. Ask challenging  questions in the morning. Here’s
what you do; every morning ask yourself five empowering three-part questions
this way:
What am I ______ about
in my life right now?
What about it makes me _______?
How does it make me feel?
What about it makes me _______?
How does it make me feel?
Put in your own value
in the blank space. For instance, a couple of my questions are:
What am I happy about
in my life right now?
What am I excited about in my life right now?
What am I excited about in my life right now?
It’s important that
you really feel how it makes you feel. When I think about the last part about
what makes me happy right now I really feel it. These morning questions are
great because the way they are set up makes you recognize things you take for
granted and then they really get you to feel those positive feelings.
Shell Oil And Gas Sued By Nigeria for N1.3 trillion Bonga oil spill
Federal Government initiated
a legal action against Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company over
the oil spillage that affected 350 communities in Delta and Bayelsa State on
December 20, 2011.
The suit was initiated
by the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, in the
interest of fishermen and the over 285,000 people from 350 communities and
satellite villages affected by the Bonga crude oil spillage.
Saturday, 21 May 2016
This Job Skills Will Get You The Biggest Raise I Your Business
You will need to know a
specific Ability/skill to get ahead. No matter what industry you work in or
what job you have (or are going after) it helps to know what you can do.
PayScale – an online
resource for info on salary and benefits across all industries – recently
released results of a survey showing exactly which skills and proficiencies can
help you get a better salary than the average for your field. They even provided
estimates on how big that pay boost could be. We assembled all of their data in
an extensive gallery, divided by industry. Check it out below!
As we look at the information PayScale released in its 2016
Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report – see the entire report here – we
see some up and coming skills that can be beneficial to workers in a handful of
spaces.
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Overall, proficiency with
the programming language, Scala, can bring about the biggest boost in salary
for workers in certain industries—a 22.2% increase, according to PayScale.
Other tech skills that can provide pay boosts are Cisco UCCE/IPCC, a business
Friday, 6 May 2016
Entrepreneurship, A 3-Day Weekend Dedicated to African-American Host by Sr. Foundation S.B. Fuller & Joe L. Dudley.
Winston Salem, NC — The S.B. Fuller & Joe L. Dudley, Sr.
foundation announces a three-day weekend dedicated to African-American
entrepreneurship, to celebrate the 79th birthday of Joe L. Dudley Sr. and to
announce the building of the S.B. Fuller & Joe L. Dudley, Sr. Entrepreneurship
Museum.The theme is “CAPITALISM… THE ONLY TRUE PATHWAY TO FREEDOM!”
1st Event (May 21, 2106) 1:00
pm – 5:00 pm
Fuller & Dudley Mastermind Business Group Meeting (http://bit.ly/1TPtH4L)
The Special Edition: Fuller & Dudley Mastermind Business Group Meeting is the first of three events being held. There will be over 1,000 African-American entrepreneurs in attendance to meet, share, network and do business with one another. Prominent guest speakers include Joe L. Dudley Sr., founder of Dudley Products Inc., Lisa Nichols Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses, Inc., Dr. George Fraser Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc., Deborah Bartlett, founder of Bartlett Communications (BMC) and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. This event will be held at the Benton Convention Center located at 301 West 5th Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Fuller & Dudley Mastermind Business Group Meeting (http://bit.ly/1TPtH4L)
The Special Edition: Fuller & Dudley Mastermind Business Group Meeting is the first of three events being held. There will be over 1,000 African-American entrepreneurs in attendance to meet, share, network and do business with one another. Prominent guest speakers include Joe L. Dudley Sr., founder of Dudley Products Inc., Lisa Nichols Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses, Inc., Dr. George Fraser Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc., Deborah Bartlett, founder of Bartlett Communications (BMC) and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. This event will be held at the Benton Convention Center located at 301 West 5th Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
TOOLS AND SECRETES TO A SUCCESSFUL MARKETING
For a while now you’ve
been in business.  Tweaking your website,
spending a fortune on yellow pages and attending all kinds of networking
groups. Yet your pipeline is empty; you don’t know from  where your next
job, project or sale is going to come– or even if it will come. 
You have no idea how you
are going to pay next month’s invoices, salaries and rent.  What do you
do? If you’re like most small business owners you do the only thing you know
how; you buy more advertising and other marketing tactical stuff and hope this
time will be different.
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Uber and Alipay in China to expand cooperation
Taxi-hailing service Uber and China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have
agreed on a deal that will allow Chinese travellers to pay for a taxi in any
country where Uber operates.
This means that they
can pay for their rides in yuan using their Alipay accounts.
















