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Consumer Protection Council Unravel MTN Ultimate Wonder Fraud, Orders Them To Pay N1.85m To Short-Changed PROMO Winner

By Babaolowo
February 18, 2016
5 Min read
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I know we all remember the MTN Ultimate Wonder Promo! Yes the one that they claimed the winner won an aeroplane! Yes! That particular one… Well it all appears to be a fraud because if MTN short-changed the winner of just N2million during the same promo, how would they have honoured the money price for the winner of the Cessna 182T aircraft, Ebube Essien-Garricks who purportedly emerged...

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The Eagle in a storm (Part 3) – Protect The Root of Your Business

By Babaolowo
February 11, 2016
2 Min read
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Protect the root of your business. A young man and his father were watching a huge fire coming down from the hills towards their family vineyard. At first, the young man tried to organize buckets of water but it was clear that the fire would engulf everything and consume the vineyard. Then to his surprise he saw the old man pick up an axe and run towards the vines. Systematically he began to cut...

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Yaba College of Technology, The Art-Beat of Nigeria

By Babaolowo
February 5, 2016
6 Min read
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I was at a project site working with some engineers and IT troublemakers installing access control systems at my facility and we got talking about Universities and Polytechnics while on break. On my side of the argument I had three Computer Science graduates; one from a private university and two from the Yaba College of Technology. On the other side I had 5 graduates, two Computer Scientists and...

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No Cash, No Wahala! Meet The Homeless Man Who Collects Alms With Credit Cards

By Babaolowo
February 2, 2016
2 Min read
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The Professional Homeless Man I was caught unawares yesterday when I found the story about a homeless man in America who calls himself a professional homeless man, collects alms with credit cards  and owns a website that he uses for getting menial jobs (especially snow shoveling snow during winter) and collecting alms as well. What caught me unawares was not the fact that he was collecting credit...

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Series: The Eagle In A Storm (Part 1 – Intro).

By Babaolowo
January 21, 2016
4 Min read
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The new year opened with turmoil in the Chinese stock markets as prices fell dramatically, leading to a global selloff. In just one week, global stock markets lost over $2 trillion US dollars! Other news in the global markets saw the price of a barrel of crude oil fall below $35 per barrel, down from a high of $62 per barrel less than 12 months ago. That’s down 50% in 12 months and 71% in 24...

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How The Stock Market Works

By Babaolowo
January 17, 2016
2 Min read
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In Zimbabwe, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $20.00 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $20.00, and as supply started to diminish, the villagers reduced their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $30.00. This renewed the efforts of...

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Welcome To Church, The New Animal Farm

By Babaolowo
April 19, 2014
6 Min read
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Growing up in a Catholic church definitely taught me a lot of things I wouldn’t even know today if I was born in Pentecostal or perhaps a different sect in the religious circle. It shaped my core value system, and contrary to people’s believe and assumption, the church taught me religious tolerance in practical terms, even amidst the fear of me “seeing the so-called light” a lot of people find...

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