Thrive Fest 2025: Igniting Growth Through Tech & Creativity.


ThriveFest 2025 is more than just an event, it is a purpose-driven platform created to empower entrepreneurs, SMEs, startups, creatives, and young professionals in Nigeria.
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Happening on Saturday, October 11th, 2025, at Domus Mariae, Isolo, Lagos (Mainland), the festival is expected to host 350+ attendees, cutting across industries such as business, technology, finance, fashion, food, and entertainment.
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The theme for this year, “IGNITING GROWTH THROUGH TECH & CREATIVITY,” reflects our mission to showcase how innovation and creative strategies can fuel sustainable growth for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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🔑 Key Highlights of the Event:

Keynote Sessions — Inspiring talks from local and international thought leaders.

Panel Discussions — Practical conversations on business, tech, finance, and creativity.

• Exhibitions & Vendor Booths — SMEs and startups showcasing their products and services.

• Networking & Partnerships — A platform to connect with potential partners, investors, and customers.

• Awards & Recognition — Celebrating entrepreneurs, innovators, and change-makers.

Entertainment & Culture — Blending business with music, creativity, and youth energy.

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ThriveFest After Party: 

The celebration doesn’t end with ThriveFest! ✨
Join us for the Official ThriveFest 2025 After Party 🎶🍹 — an unforgettable night of music, vibes, and connections.
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🗓 Date: October 11th, 2025
📍 Venue: Domus Mariae, Isolo, Lagos.
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Come ready to unwind, connect, and celebrate the success of ThriveFest in style. 🚀
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🎯 Why ThriveFest?

ThriveFest isn’t a commercial conference; it is a community platform where leaders, doers, and dreamers come together to learn, connect, and grow. It is designed to spotlight SMEs as the backbone of Africa’s economy, while also inspiring the next generation of innovators.
🏢 About the Organizers
ThriveFest is organized by Thrive7 Group, a Nigerian innovation company focused on tech solutions, SaaS platforms, branding and SME growth support. Since 2022, Thrive7 has delivered over 250+ projects nationwide and continues to build platforms that drive business transformation and community impact.

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Ways To Improve Your Personal Life


1. Set Goals: Set specific and achievable goals that align with your values and interests. Write down your goals and create a plan to achieve them.

2. Practice Self-Care: Take care of your physical, mental, and emotional health. Exercise regularly, get enough sleep, eat a healthy diet, and make time for activities that you enjoy.

3. Learn New Things: Take on new challenges and learn new skills. This could be something as simple as trying a new recipe or taking up a new hobby.

4. Improve Relationships: Cultivate healthy relationships with friends, family, and significant others. Practice good communication, empathy, and active listening.

5. Manage Stress: Identify and manage stressors in your life. Take breaks when you need them, practice relaxation techniques like meditation or yoga, and prioritize self-care.

6. Give Back: Find ways to help others and give back to your community. This could be volunteering, donating to a charity, or simply showing kindness and empathy towards others.

7. Prioritize Time Management: Learn to manage your time effectively by setting priorities and avoiding procrastination.

8. Practice Gratitude: Focus on what you have to be thankful for, and practice gratitude regularly. This can help you feel more positive and optimistic about your life.

Remember, everyone's personal journey is unique, and what works for one person may not work for another. It's important to experiment and find what works best for you.


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Don't Pick The Wrong Enemy.



Everyone has an enemy - even the good person who had never offended anyone. Knowing who your enemy is isn't bad, and understanding whose enemy you are isn't bad either. But picking the wrong Enemy can be the greatest injury you inflict on yourself. 

A particular saying goes: bring your friends near, but keep your enemies closer. The idea is your friends wants to make you happy, and they appear to be there for you. But how honest is this? The best people who can really tell you to your face how you sulk, are people who have nothing to do with you, people who really don't care if they please or hurt you - and most times this is true. 

True friends can be good enemies: when it comes to criticizing you and making you a better person; sadly though, we may sometimes mistake them for real enemies. 
But who really is an enemy? We consider someone an enemy when they pose direct threat to us either physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Some are considered enemies because they criticize us all the time, not to make us better but make us feel bad about ourselves.

Being able to differentiate between these sets of people is vital to picking the right enemy, Nonetheless it pays sometimes - if not most times - to have your enemies around, this way you will understand how those who don't like you perceive you. This is important if you want to advance in whatever thing you are committed to. 

Some people have enemies because of what they heard about someone, whether it be true or not. And since they don't have the patience to find out about what they heard, they establish hatred towards the other person - often to their own disadvantage. When you find out something offensive about another, before you go on to hate the individual you should investigate if the person who narrated the unpleasant things to you is the offender or the offended. 

Sometimes we pick a fight with people who could have been of help or a blessing to us, simply because someone we liked and trust don't like them. I have had a situation where someone confided in me that the reason she hated me was because of what another close friend told her about me. Incidentally, I heard very unpleasant things about her from the source but choose not to hate her as I have no evidence. She decided to take a turnaround when the same person who have been feeding her with lies turned out to be her worst enemy. 

After she opened up to me, it was clear that one person wanted to create a riffle amongst us. If I had gone ahead to hate the same lady because of what I heard concerning her, imagine if she would have been generous to open up to me. Scenarios like this happen all the time - it appears some people have a specialty in breaking walls and creating enemies; a few sensible ones are concerned about mending fence and building friendship.


Enemies are created too when we are jealous of someone. It's natural to feel threatened around others when they are doing well, but you must understand that it is not the person's fault. If you admire someone's success, it's only natural to want to be like them, and you can get close to them to learn how they could succeed in that area. But hating them because they are doing well shows something is really wrong with you - you are a disaster waiting to happen, and the world need to be careful around you. 

Sometimes it is those who are doing well that hate those who are not doing well. This is crazy. Whatever the reason, jealousy is real and unhealthy jealousy - what you call envy - is dangerous. In more other case, it has to do with fear: we fear people even though we do not know why; or we fear them because of what we have heard about them; there are times when we fear because we have had bad experience with other people that the certain individual reminds us are of; in other words we believe they would do us potential danger. Whatever the reason for the fear, fear itself is bad.

A fine acronym reads: fear is 'false expectations appearing real'. If fear is the basis for hating someone, then we are not justified. Being afraid of a thing or person should serve as precautions for that thing or person, and not to hate. In hating, we waste mental - even physical - energy; we do ourselves a great disservice, showing our own vulnerability. Anytime we fear, what we fear always takes advantage of us. And even if we have good reason to fear, we should tackle that reason and not hate - it may not be worth it. 

There are times when we are completely responsible for the enemy we make and keep. Often times, we offend others and for the sake of pride, we don't apologize; then we hate them for showing us how angry they are because of the offence. We are to blame in this.  Everyone deserves some measure of respect, if not more. It didn't matter of the person we offended is a subordinate, they have a right to be angry and we owe them our apology. And if they become enemies because we fail to humble ourselves and say the simple word - I am sorry - then they are right to see us as enemy. 

It is important to understand who the real enemy is - the person who wants to harm you, destroy you, and keep you from being happy at any cost. But some enemies we keep do not fall into this category; we could be keeping the wrong enemy for very wrong reasons. It takes character and guts to set healthy boundaries and not make an enemy out of a future helper. Everyone we meet have a reason for coming into our lives, and one way or the other we would soon find out. 

We are the real enemy of ourselves when we do not set the right boundaries, and when we fail to see that people are different and should be treated as such: the way you treat a tribesman may not be the way you treat a stranger, this is because our beliefs and experience to life are different. In this day and time, we really do not need enemies, but friends who would add value to us. A healthy outlook to life is important if we intend to have happy ending.
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by: Gloria Okezie-Okafor
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The 5 Stages Of Dating You Should Know.

Are you in a relationship or you're starting one?

Know this and know peace! Whether you’re at the start of a blossoming relationship or been with your significant other for years, every relationship goes through the same five stages of dating. These five stages are attraction, reality, commitment, intimacy and finally, engagement.

 Let's face it! It may seem pretty obvious, but relationships – whether romantic or platonic – grow with time and undergo distinct changes as bonds are formed and intimacy is developed. As your relationship evolves through each of these stages, you’ll learn more about each other and determine if you and your partner are committed and destined for a lifetime together.

If you’ve begun dating someone new or if you’re unsure at what stage your existing relationship is at, this blog is for you. Below, we’re going to talk you through each of the five stages of dating, so you can work out where you and your partner are right now and more importantly, whether your relationship has the strength to flourish into a long-term commitment.

1. Attraction

Attraction is the first stage of dating, and plays a fundamental part in whether the connection can develop into something more. Whether you meet each other naturally whilst out with friends, family, or acquaintances, through a matchmaker or on online dating sites or apps, there has to be an element of attraction between each couple for it to develop into something romantic. Often known as the honeymoon phase, this is the stage at which everything feels very new and exciting and seems almost perfect.

This stage often lasts for the first few months of your courtship and will see constant communication between the couple with lots of messaging back and forth on different channels such as texting, dating sites, social media and WhatsApp as well as long phone calls and video calls in the evenings on the days that you are not together. You will also find that during this period you will go on lots of dates and make time to get to know more about one another before you decide whether to take things to the next level.

2. Reality

Stage two is reality, and it tends to creep up on you slowly and can last for around six months. This signals the end of the honeymoon phase and is the point at which you might start to see flaws in your partner and notice things that annoy you.

This doesn’t mean you no longer like or love each other; it’s just reality and life setting in and you tend to become more aware of your partner after the rush of hormones has subsided. For example, you may find that as you start spending more time together you notice little quirks or habits that you might not have noticed at first.

Unfortunately, it is this second stage where lots of relationships fail. But the good news is, if you make it past this stage this is a good sign of things to come.

3. Commitment

Once you get past the reality stage, you enter the commitment phase. At this point, you express a desire to be with each other exclusively and you have grown to not only recognize but accept the flaws that may come with your partner.

This agreement to commit to each other regardless of circumstances also means accepting their dreams, goals, wants and needs in life. This could mean things like deciding where you want to live together, helping them to achieve career goals and discussing plans for the future. 

4. Intimacy

Stage four is intimacy and this typically involves nurturing the true love that has been cultivated over the last year or so. Contrary to popular belief, this stage doesn’t just relate to physical intimacy either, it’s also about connecting beyond the superficial.

Once two people have bonded with each other, this is when true love really begins. This stage usually means opening up to one another and really letting your guard down. For the first time in the relationship, you will become vulnerable without holding back, learning about each other’s pasts and deeper feelings and seeing their true character in a new light.

5. Engagement

The final stage is engagement and blissful love. This is where you ultimately decide to pledge a lifelong commitment to your partner and take things to the next level. This level of commitment comes with working together to plan a happy and fruitful future with each other.

Even though you have made a commitment, it doesn’t mean that your relationship will be without its ups and downs in the future. The important thing is to learn to apologize and forgive when things go wrong and instead work together as a solid partnership to overcome any challenges that life throws your way.

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The Billionaire Who Lost Everything.

This is a true life story of Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola on the day he lost everything.
Life was rosy for Femi Otedola until it took a sudden turn leaving him billions in the red. He had to start all over again.

In 2008, a shipment containing one million tons of diesel set sail, heading for the shores of Nigeria. The owner of the vessel, Femi Otedola, Chairman of Forte Oil, a petroleum and power generation company, had grown the company to one of the largest in Nigeria, with over 500 filling stations, according to Forbes. The growth had been rapid and profits were at an all-time high. Then disaster struck.

“I had about 93 percent of the diesel market on my fingertips. All of a sudden oil prices collapsed and I had over one million tons of diesel on the high seas and the price dropped from $146 to $34” —Femi Otedola.

That was only the beginning of his problems. The naira was subsequently devalued and interest began to skyrocket. When the dust settled, Otedola had lost over $480 million due to the plunge in oil prices, $258 million through the devaluation of the naira, a further $320 million due to accruing interest and then finally $160 million when the stocks crashed.

“I had two options, either to commit suicide or to weather the storm. I decided to weather the storm. I just knew it was a phase I had to go through. 

You see God prepares you for greater things and of course experience is the best teacher so I had to learn my lessons. I took the bitter pill”. — Femi Otedola

Otedola was now $1.2 billion in debt. He sought solace in the only thing that had set him on the path to discovering oil, destiny.

“You cannot compete with destiny, so it was my destiny to make billions every month and lose billions as well. I said to myself ‘I was not going to have friends and enemies, I was only going to have competitors.”

At the age of six, Otedola had already discovered his knack for business. He would provide manicure and pedicure services to his father and his friends and write them a receipt for payment. 

On his birthday, while all his friends wanted toys, Femi Otedola would ask his father for a briefcase instead. His father, Sir. Michael Otedola, as a former Governor of Lagos State, was a well respected man. But now, his son’s public fall threatened to destroy that name.

“After I lost the money, something that struck me was that my father had always been my role model in life and the first thing I had to do was to protect his name. He had a policy; honesty was the best policy, so I had to protect that name and his integrity.”

Just after the global banking crisis had struck, the Nigerian government established the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to buy up distressed loans. Otedola’s loan was sold to AMCON, by the bank he blamed for his challenges.

“Experience is the best teacher. I didn’t have a proper structure and I also put the blame on the banks for not advising me. All they were interested in was the profits. They were not interested in sustainability of the business, they were short-sighted and all they were interested in was throwing money at me. So they never advised me,” — Femi Otedola.

The banks had to shave off about $400 million from the debt leaving Otedola $800 million in the red. AMCON offered him a restructuring deal, which Otedola declined. He opted instead to repay what he owed and start all over again.

“So we got a reputable firm to value my assets. I had about 184 flats, which I gave up. I was the largest investor in the Nigerian banking sector, which I gave up, I was also a major shareholder of Africa Finance Corporation and I was the Chairman of Transcorp Hilton. I was a shareholder in Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited, the second largest shareholder in Chevron Texaco, Visafone and several companies which they valued, and I had to give up to repay the debt.”

Femi Otedola was left with just two properties, his office space and a 34-percent stake in African Petroleum, which he rebranded, to Forte Oil in 2010. 

In 2014, Otedola bounced back to reclaim his place on the FORBES rich list and currently has a net worth of $1.8 billion, according to the FORBES wealth unit. 

These days, he is much wiser; there are systems in place to prevent a similar collapse of his mammoth business empire.

According to the mogul, the day he lost everything was the day he learned his biggest lesson. 

It taught him that he could overcome anything.

Source: CNBC Africa

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Billionaires lose millions to become billionaires.

Millionaires lose thousands to become millionaires.

But the poor don't want to lose anything, so they remain where they are.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. ― Fannie Lou Hamer

“When you fall down, rise up. When you fall again, rise up again. This is just a developmental process that makes a healthy baby become a successful man.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

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20 Shocking Pictures That Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life.


The sad reality in which we sometimes live in is expressed through 20 pictures based on humor, but are also rather shocking. The following images tell the truth: they present life's stereotypes, everyday habits as well as the bad role of technology in our lives.


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20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life
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20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

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20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life



20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life

20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life


20 Shocking Pictures Illustrate The Sad Reality Of Everyday Life


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10 Easy Tips for a Healthier Life.




10 Easy Tips for a Healthier Life


 

 Everyone of us wants to be fit, healthy and live a long active life. right? But what do you do for it?

 

Well, we all know that a healthy person doesn’t smoke, exercises, eats healthy, and is at a healthy weight. Sounds simple, but those who have tried changing their habits know how difficult it could be. Some people decide to make drastic changes, but when they face the difficulties, they just lack motivation and give up.

The secret to healthy living is by making small changes: A glass of water in the morning, more physical activity, optimistic point of view. These are just few simple ways to improve your lifestyle. Small changes lead to big results!

1. Drink a Glass of Water in the Morning

Wake up in the morning and drink one glass of room temperature water first off. You can put a slice of lemon or lime in the water, if you don’t like it’s natural taste. Water helps to clear our system, bring on metabolism rate and flush out the toxins. Health practitioners also say that, it helps to reduce weight!


2. Sleep Enough

Lack of sleep makes you feel tired and angry, you can’t concentrate your attention or focus properly. Lack of sleep can damage your physical health (especially heart) as well. Some studies have shown that 8 hours of sleep per 24-hour period is the average requirement for adults. But all people are different and need for sleep can range from 6 to 10 hours. If you feel sleepy during 4pm and 6pm, you probably do not get enough rest.

3. Stretch in the Morning!

Instead of snoozing in the morning, you can use your time more wisely. Stretch your back, your legs, your neck. It will wake your body from sleep. Stretching in the morning increases blood flow to your muscles providing an extra shot of oxygen and preparing them for a new day.

4. Snack the Healthy Way

Potato chips, salted nuts, candies, cookies and other tasty stuff are definitely unhealthy for your body. They contain lots of fat, salt, sugar. Choose raw nuts, fresh fruits or berries instead, they are rich in vitamins and minerals.

5. Eat Breakfast!

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially for you weight loss seekers. If you skip it, you’ll get hungry long before lunch and will start snacking on foods that are high in fat and sugar, but low in vitamins. Researchers at the 2003 American Heart Association conference reported that breakfast eaters are significantly less likely to be obese and get diabetes compared with non breakfast eaters.
It’s enough to get up only 15minutes earlier to fix a healthy dish, like bread with tea or fruit salad with yogurt.
 

6. Take a Daily Walk

We all know about the advantages of physical activity, but most of us have neither time, nor desire to exercise. Use the stairs as often as possible instead of the elevator, take a walk with your friends, walk your dog a bit longer, than usually, use any possibility to be more physically active. Researchers say, that people only need to walk up to 12 miles per week or for about 125 to 200 minutes per week to improve their heart health.

7. Make Social Connections.

It is said that lonely people are more likely to become ill and die younger. People who have no friends are more stressed, depressed and often less physically active. Moreover, experts say that how socially connected a person tends to be is one of the most important ways of predicting his health and independence in later years.

8. Study Ingredient Lists of Your Favorite Products.

Product’s ingredient list is very important as it shows you whether the food you’re about to buy contains unnatural and unhealthy ingredients. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of unhealthy ingredients on the market and it is almost impossible to remember all of them. Luckily, you can find a lot of information on the Internet about them, so study all of your favorite and most common foods, cosmetics and other products you buy. Harmful ingredients may cause various diseases, allergic reactions and even cancer.

9. Find New Activities!

Pick up a new activity involving the whole family or friends such as hiking, group sports, ball throwing and catching or riding a bicycle. Finding a hobby can give you the enjoyment and reduce stress. You’ll also start meeting people who have the same interests as you, and may make some new friends (remember the #7 advise). Enjoy your new hobby and remember, happy people live longer!

10. Love Your Life!

Relax! Don’t get nervous and angry because of the trivial things. Don’t be too serious. Smile, love others, and always look on the bright side of life, stay optimistic!
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All Women Are Gold-Diggers... - Linda Ezenwammadu


Before you visit your armory, nurse your pains. It takes a little time to heal from cut wounds caused by the sharp edges of truth. So before you jump into conclusion or say the words; can you imagine? Let's see if she has a point or not, so without further ado, let's dive right into it.


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All women are gold-diggers and other bullsh!ts some men say.

- Linda Ezenwammadu -

 


So many people [sadly] believe that every woman who rejects a man who is not financially stable or earning a particular set of income is a Gold-Digger. Adding to that, the women who have set ambitious personal and career goals and are not willing to stick by their men who aren’t as ambitious are seen by some as being egoistic and/or greedy. So, let’s get this straight early on…

Not every ambitious woman you come across is a Gold-Digger.

And this is why.

A woman who is thinking of settling down is not going to waste her time tending to a man who has no plans or priorities for his future as a potential husband, father, and career/businessman.

Sure it’s natural for many women to nurture their loved ones and according to God, wives must submit to their husbands (Ephesians 5:24) but no one will submit to a man who is only a dreamer and doesn’t work to achieve those dreams. That can be dangerous.

As a man, not setting a goal and having plans to achieve these goals is telling a serious woman that you have a plan… a plan to fail. No wise woman will stick with a man like this.

There are two main goals a man should have. The Short Term Goal (STG) and the Long Term Goal (LTG). Both should never be the same, however, you have a higher chance of achieving your LTG if you have taken your STG seriously and achieved or are on the road to achieving them.

Steve Harvey, tv show host, author, and one of the Kings of Comedy gives us a perfect example in his book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man [I recommend you read] of his short and long term goals and the plans he used to achieve them.

One of his short-term goals was telling jokes to his audience and generating at least $2,500 per week. He achieved that and in no time, set a new goal to become a headliner earning about $5,000 to $7000 per week by upping his skills. It took him about eight years and he met his goal. Eventually, he met another great comedian ‘Sinbad’, who earned from $50,000 – $70,000 per week from working at a particular club, and Steve in his own words, ‘wanted a piece of that action.’ This prompted him to set an LTG that would afford him the kind of life he envisioned. One of his plans included getting into television which would provide the type of lifestyle for his family that would make him proud. Other plans that will help him reach his goal included networking and getting the right connections, getting a great team, and knowing those comedy clubs to target.

All these take time to achieve and one would need commitment, patience, the right partner [professionally and in terms of marriage], and God to be able to achieve it all.

You see, you may not have ‘blown’ in the Nigerian sense of hitting your financial goals but once you can prove that you have plans and are following them to achieve your goals, a good woman will stick by you and even help you in making your dreams a reality [while you do the same for her] — One verse of the Bible which gets overlooked is Ephesians 5:21, ‘SUBMIT yourselves to ONE ANOTHER because of your reverence to Christ.’ — This would be a topic for another day.

Men should be able to identify Gold-Diggers instead of grouping every ambitious woman in the same low category.

Every woman who is serious about settling down should ask her potential man what his Short and Long term goals are. Of course, you should ask these questions in an enthusiastic and interesting way that would make it easier for the man to spill because men enjoy talking about themselves. You do not want to turn a cheerful but important getting-to-know-you kind of conversation into a murder-investigationkind of conversation. It needs to be balanced.

It’s also important [as a woman] to be able to see yourself as part of his goals. You should also have yours of course and they should align with his. Don’t get it twisted, you must not be in the same field to have aligned goals i.e. You both must not be medical doctors before you can build a good and enjoyable life together.

Some men have plans and are working well to achieve them but they might not be space for you to be part of it and that is okay. Instead of trying to squeeze yourself, move on and meet someone who is a better fit. The last thing you’d want to be is a frustrated spouse living with a very successful man.

It’s okay as a woman/man to want more than you have presently. Just don’t look down on people but start now to take action by asking the right questions and taking the right actions.

As for men, it’s high time you also increase your standards when choosing a woman to grow with. Look at the values she possesses that could help you in becoming a better man/husband/father/worker instead of focusing [only] on the physical assets she has.

This way you increase your chances of not falling into the traps of the real Gold-Diggers and grouping every ambitious woman you see into the same low category because that is Bullsh!t.

- Linda Ezenwammadu

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4 Tips on Being The Best Version of Yourself.



Almost everyone’s end goal is to be successful, rich and famous. So you look up to celebrities and those who have achieved such status and copy them. But what if I tell you that it is all in you?
Yes, everything you seek from others is quite achievable if you only look within and progress to the best version of yourself. This is not a motivational speaker talk about “if you desire to acquire, you would perspire” mumbo jumbo. In this article, you would be dished real facts that can impact your life. If you can stop some certain attitudes, then you would be able to unlock hidden potentials within yourself that you never knew you had. Prepare to unlearn, learn and relearn today. Here we go!!!
  1. Stop being scared of failure
The only way to succeed in life is to try. Try, try and try again. In life, expect more failure than success. That is a salient factor with everyone who you would term successful today; they have all failed woefully at some point in their life. Failure should not discourage you in anyway but instead make you more determined and focused to be better at your dream and eventual goal. Whether it is that scholarship, that job, or that business plan, the only way to get it is to attempt and not be scared of failure.
  1. Dont be cherophobic
Cherophobia is a condition in which people are scared that they would lose all they have gotten and struggled for by being too happy. I know it sounds funny but think about it: have you ever thought “wow, too many good things are happening to me, should I be scared? Doesn’t this mean something bad would soon happen? ”. This is the spirit of cherophobia hindering you from achieving more and enjoying the bliss of your happiness. You need to always be confident, happy and take small wins while preparing for big ones. You should never be scared of success.
  1. Stop people pleasing
Not everyone would like you, and that is totally fine. You do not need everyone to be in your corner at all times . Only a fake person would always say yes, never speak their mind and rather go along with the pack and therefore be liked by everyone. By being fake, you change yourself and are unable to grow and progress as you should. In this case, how do you expect to become your very best??
  1. Stop procrastinating
Yes, we are all on this table. A task/job should be ready tomorrow and we wait the very last minute and opportunity to work on it. This is not the attitude of someone who wishes to progress exceptionally in life. In all things and at all times, you need to put in your best and ensure you can work under a schedule and be focused too.
All in all, being successful and getting the very best out of yourself is easier said than done. Only the few who are ready to go the extra mile with their work and especially their attitudes are able to achieve it. So, why not you?

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Female Genital Mutilation: Nigerian Filmmakers Raises FGM Issues in new short film, Amira.

What happens when a story dares to break the silence?

Director Michael Ichie Panda Okolie

Nollywood’s latest short film, Amira, is not just another cinematic release, it’s a raw and urgent confrontation with the harrowing reality of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This age-old practice, which continues to strip millions of women and girls of their bodily autonomy, often exists in the shadows. But Amira refuses to let it stay there.

With some of Nigeria’s most respected filmmakers rallying behind it, the film is set to spark the conversations many would rather avoid. Acclaimed industry figures Imoh Umoren, James Omokwe, Remi Ibinola, and Obinna Okerekeocha are joining forces as executive producers to back the vision of director Michael Ichie Panda Okolie and screenwriter Osas Idubor.

More Than Just a Film, A Mirror to Reality

For screenwriter Osas Idubor, Amira is not merely a story, it is a voice for the unheard.

“This film speaks for those who have been silenced for too long. FGM isn’t some distant, abstract issue, it is happening right here, in our communities, in our backyards. We cannot keep turning away,” Idubor asserts.

Shattering Taboos Through Cinema

African cinema has often shied away from addressing FGM, perhaps because the subject is wrapped in deep-rooted cultural and societal complexities. But Amira is different. It refuses to tiptoe around the brutality of this practice. Instead, director Michael Ichie Panda Okolie delivers an unfiltered, emotionally charged portrayal that lays bare the physical and psychological scars left behind.

“This isn’t just about making a film, it’s about forcing an issue into the public consciousness,” Okolie explains.

Nollywood has long been a mirror reflecting society’s triumphs and struggles, but with Amira, it becomes a megaphone, amplifying voices that must no longer be ignored.

As the world continues to grapple with gender-based violence and human rights abuses, Amira stands as a powerful reminder: storytelling is more than entertainment, it is activism. 

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