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Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Essay Competition for Nigerians 2016

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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has commenced the 2016 edition of its annual Essay Competition themed “Building a Sustainable Capital Market” which is one of the Exchange’s financial literacy and inclusion initiatives aimed at building a financially savvy generation. Essay Topic: What is the biggest obstacle to saving and investing money and how can The Nigerian Stock

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Call for Entries – UBA Foundation National Essay Competition 2016

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UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced call for entries for the 2016 edition of its annual National Essay Competition. Ijeoma Aso, the Managing Director/CEO of UBA Foundation, who announced this last weekend, said the essay competition provides an opportunity for students in senior secondary schools

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Do You Know Where You’re Heading? Don’t Go Without A Map!

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Is your life on track? Do you know where you’re heading, and how well you are progressing toward your goals? Maybe you’re still trying to figure out what you’ll be “when you grow up.” While others set out toward certain careers, you’re still floundering. Or maybe you once wrote out a list of things you

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DStv Eutelsat Award for African Secondary School Students with Interest in Technology 2016

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Brief description: The DStv Eutelsat Star Awards are calling all science and technology fans between 14 and 19 to be inspired to write a creative essay or design a poster based on the following topic: “Take yourself into the future as a scientist, tasked with designing a new-age satellite that will help improve the lives of Africans. Tell

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Is Schooling Really A Game?

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You must accept the fact that school is a game, but it’s a very important game: Whenever school is seen as a game, it produces a relaxed mindset knowing you are free from vulnerability. The word game suggests freedom from responsibility. It implies a spirit of sportsmanship, which implies exciting race running and risk taking

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TEENS, Check Out 4 Tips to build Assertiveness!

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It’s been observed that teens lack assertiveness and this could inadvertently have adverse consequences in many areas of their life. There is a high probability that they might have trouble making friends, asking the opposite sex out on dates, communicating their needs in different situations, standing up for themselves during arguments or asking questions in

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Get the Best of Learning!

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There is a need for you to change your mindset from being mediocre while you make effort to adopt an optimum learner’s mindset. In the list below, you can learn about the optimum learner’s mindset, but do well to let them form part of your belief system. According to Samuel I.O., the mindset of optimum

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Do You Know That You Are Neither ‘Smart’ Nor ‘Stupid’ Across The Board!

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Howard Gardner conceptualized intelligence as the biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture. This seems ambiguous right? I know you are curious to know if you are truly intelligent. Perhaps someone has categorised you as a

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4 TIPS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED AS A STUDENT LEADER

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I have interacted with quite a number of young student leaders who are finding it difficult to lead, some of them suffer burnout due to the attitudes their followers pose to them. Unfortunately, some have given up and thankfully, some are reading this article to learn how to be distinctive in leading their peers. You

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ARE YOU A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER?

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I deem it crucial that you be enlightened with the concept of transformational leadership, and with such intricate understanding; you can provide answers to my apparent probe posed to you as seen in the title above. According to James MacGregor Burns, transformational leadership can be seen when “leaders and followers make each other advance to

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