Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course, so says John C. Maxwell. The importance of leaders and leadership cannot be overemphasized as everything in the society revolves around leadership and when leadership is in the right direction, followership will also be in the right direction.
Leaders give direction and take the lead always; their policies, actions and inactions will always have a monumental impact on the society, as all and sundry look up to them. It is said that an army of sheep led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. This places the spotlight on who stays in front of us and lead us as a people.
Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange was bearish last week on account of profit-taking efforts that saw market capitalisation shed N537 billion, with market developments and other fundamental factors during this period informing Ripples Nigeria Stocks Watchlist.
We have selected a group of stocks you should watch out for this week on the basis of how the market fared last week.
Ripples Nigeria Stocks Watchlist is a selection of stocks monitored for viable trading or investing opportunities. An investor may casually generate a list of equities for investment purposes. But we have taken the pain to do that based on certain parameters in order to save you that hassle.
In the book, Effective Leadership Formula, I compared the leadership patterns in the United States of America and that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and concluded that a major distinction is the approach to democratic freedom. “On the one hand, even as the USA is far from perfect, the country has sustained measurable control mechanisms to minimize chances of negative freedom. This approach has helped to stabilize leadership in the American environment over time. On the other hand, Nigeria has elevated the freedom in her new democratic experience to negative proportions, where it appears that there are no consequences for bad behavior in the country. Any nation where anything goes, goes nowhere.”
We love scandals. By ‘’we’’ I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a workplace get entangled in a sexual congress with a subordinate if not driven by depravity and adrenaline rush from eating a forbidden fruit? It is predatory for anyone in authority or in a higher position to get in the hay with a subordinate. It is classical animal predation.
I once worked in a financial institution. I regard that experience as an ‘’incident of the past’’ I do not want to relish. It is suspended in the past. Let’s just say I witnessed the transactional potential and perils of sex in the workplace. I have also worked in places where the MD serially exercised his manhood on female staff without care that his sexual exploits and libido are stuff of office gossip. I have seen things.
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has pardoned no fewer than 16 inmates at the Maximum Security Custodial Centre (MSCC) Makurdi, due to the outbreak of the second wave of COVID-19.
This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by Governor Ortom in Makurdi, who said that the decision to pardon the inmates was based on the directive of the Federal Government as a result of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Ortom urged the inmates to avoid the mistakes that sent them to prison as they had been given a second chance to be good citizens to themselves, their family and the nation at large.