Oya, do something 😜

music: 

Do Something, by Koker

and

Bottom Belle, by Omawumi

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Monday Money Wealth

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The cosmos to the cellar - you will soon understand!

MY BILLIONAIRE IN-LAW | MR MACARONI | FRANK DONGA | MOTUNDE

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A Timbuktu Chronicle // West African History // The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold

Today, the Songhai Empire is all but forgotten by history. But this medieval kingdom was once the most powerful force in Africa.  Find out how this civilization grew up on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, among some of the most extreme conditions that nature can throw at us. Discover how it grew and flourished, passing through a process known as the imperial cycle, and learn about what ultimately caused its sudden and dramatic collapse. 

  by Fall Of Civilizations podcast 

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sneak-a-peek again: more #Entrepreneur #stories

women sharing real love  

and 
africans keeping it real 

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This year, Father's Day is extending to Father's Week.

Is this TRUE?    

Also: How to keep your babyadult happy :-) 

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more Food Business inspiration

1. Chicken Nuggets - food processing and marketing 

2. Tesco - a 100-year-old grocery store 

3. Food dryer


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Unbundling women's work

 #SDG5 

In addition to paid labour in the workplace, it is customary for women to be burdened with a large amount of unpaid labour in many of these categories:

Pregnancy and childbirth
Physical childcare - bathing, feeding, cuddling and so on
Earliest childhood education - before schooling

Nutrition and catering services / Food and beverage handling
Bed-and-breakfast (hospitality) management for family and guests
Home care and facilities management

Personal grooming and fashion duties
Laundry, grooming, and related duties for spouse, children, others 
Public relations officer and relationship manager to teachers, extended family, and friends
Public appearance duties

Partnership towards external projects or goals
Counseling for spouse
Companionship for spouse
Entertainment and leisure

Emotional labour and relationship maintenance
Physical wellness and personal care
Bedmatics and sexytime work 

Nursing and healthcare services
Primary parent and child-handler for about twenty years
Shopper, Driver, Nanny, miscellaneous
Chief Operating Officer position in some busy homes, with or without a Chief Executive Officer 

Not every woman will attempt to do all of these things, and most women could find better things to do instead.  Some men could find fresh opportunities in so-called women's work.
 
I can see many of these jobs being unbundled into expert industries and fields:  catering services, life-counseling, spa services, co-living and managed housing, personal shoppers, health, entertainment, childcare, elder-care, concierge, cleaning, fashion, and so on.       

Some people, male and female, may be better off specializing in one or two or maybe three areas at most, and not try to be "superwoman" who is poorly compensated, and society may find itself better for it. 
Some people may relish the combined role, the traditional 'wife and mother' role.  For those who do it, male or female they may be, and still manage to do it all very well, I hope they can be very well compensated.

The current situation is that many women do their best with this combined homemaker role and are not well compensated for it at all, then they combine this with doing their best in an external job role, and there they are also less well compensated for their work than men doing the same work.

We say we appreciate women as individuals and citizens, or women as wives and mothers, or women as friends and lovers, or women as leaders and workers, but as a society we cheat them and leave them tired AND broke.   

There is nothing romantic about female poverty.  It's time to change. 

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Skimming is the new reading, somebody wrote. OK. #FastFive

Reviewing the 2008 global financial crisis // The key policymakers have always maintained they had no choice but to let Lehman Brothers collapse. That’s simply not true.  (More...) 

Sooner than later, people will realise that cattle ranching is a good investment. - Audu Ogbeh, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development (More...) 

Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential to Create Wealth, a speech delivered at the FAO by Akinwunmi Adesina, former Agric Minister (More...)

Aretha Franklin died without a will.   One of the singer’s attorneys said he urged her repeatedly to draft one.  (More...) 

Young people working for free, no money for food but they're cooler than you (More...) 


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Stop Disturbing Women.

Enjoy this lively cross-generational dialogue about tradition and girls' right to achieve.  Length: 50 minutes.



Indra Nooyi - Leads PepsiCo as Chairperson-CEO.  Tenure from 2006-2018.  Considered one of the world's best company leaders and highly paid (she earned over $30 million salary in 2017)  

Priyanka Chopra - Miss World 2000, a leading Bollywood actress AND Hollywood celebrity ( Her social media followers on facebook, twitter, and instagram number more than 37, 23, and 27 million respectively )  

Forbes - covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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Six Questions with Mother-Daughter Team - Teacher Anna and Jumoke Joseph

1
Children are _____
TA: a Great Heritage

JJ: an absolute wonder 

2
Children want ____
TA:  love, attention and to have their way

JJ: affection, attention and fun 

3 
The introductions: 

Jumoke Justine Joseph works as the proprietress of Great Mother's Joy Nursery and Primary School located in Satellite Town, Lagos.

  She attended St. Mary's (on Broad Street, Lagos) for primary school, went on to Queen's College Lagos for secondary school, and then to the University of Lagos where she earned a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Mathematics and Statistics.  

Ms. Jumoke Joseph

Her areas of expertise include business management and facilities management from her previous career, as she worked at The British Deputy High Commission BDHC Estates Group, Lagos from 1998-2011 and CIACO Nigeria Limited, Ikoyi, Lagos from 2012-2015.   She also has expertise and has taken courses in child development, classroom teaching, communication, and elocution.      

Jumoke Joseph's mother is the famous and spectacularly sweet "Aunty Mrs. Joseph"or "Teacher Anna", who raised thousands of us little ones as a nursery and primary teacher at St. Mary's Private School.  I remember learning some of my first skills from her - addition and subtraction, nursery rhymes, Catholic hymns and prayers, with some reading and writing and other classroom skills ... I was four years old.

Teacher Anna was born on 18th January 1943, the seventh among thirteen children.  She started her primary school education at Our Lady's School, Kaduna, and proceeded to Lagos after the demise of her mother Mrs. Victoria Saba in 1955. While in Lagos, she attended St Mathias and then St Mary's Modern School. 

She commenced her teaching career in 1962 under the tutelage of Reverend Sisters at St Mary's Private School, Broad Street.  Between 1975 and 1978, she proceeded to African Church Teachers Training College, Ifako Lagos. She eventually retired from St Mary's in 1989 after 27years of service.

Teacher Anna Joseph

Mrs Joseph taught for another 10 years (1989-1999) as Head of Nursery Section at the Learningfield School, Satellite Town, Lagos. She then proceeded to McLilies Primary School, Satellite Town where she worked for another 2 years till 2001. In 2001, she established 'Mother's Joy Day Care Centre and managed this until her daughter came on board as proprietress in 2015.

4
How has your work changed over the years?  

Children's Day // Professional Day @ Mother's Joy School

TA: 29 years teaching at St Mary’s. 10 years teaching/management at Learningfield.  2 years teaching and management at McLilies. 16 years managing own Preschool and Nursery.  I've stayed in the same profession since the age of nineteen.
 

JJ: I moved from General Administration to School Administration / Teaching

Surrounded by little ones 💗

5
What do you do on weekends?

TA: Saturdays – resting, reading, parties and catching up with the News. 

Sundays – generally church and home front.  

I sang at the Holy Cross Cathedral Church choir from 1959 to 1975. These days I serve at the same parish on the Board of Catechists and Marriage Counsellors and I am a member of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers.  On the home front, I live with my husband Mr. Suru Joseph and love spending time with family including Jumoke and Oladipupo.  

JJ: Saturdays of leisure – resting, reading, parties.  

Sundays – Church and eating out 

6 
Favourite colours: 
TA: Green and sometimes White - Green is a cool colour that reminds me of nature

JJ: Red, Gold and in recent times White 

... because Red is bold and cheerful, Gold is regal, and White – c’est très chic!!

Teacher Anna and JJ Joseph

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Christmas is coming again eeeee

Some people will be expecting...


How we go take manage?

Just joking around.  Have fun.  #NoPressure 

Music:
Something Tangible by Chigul
Funmi Lowo by Aramide (ft. Sir Dauda)

+ the remix of Fun Mi Lowo Mi by Aramide, featuring Koker and Sound Sultan


Oya drop something ke, or "Is this a charity organization?"  😅

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Let your word be your bond, and also...

Debbie Larry-Izamoje: Lessons From The Greatest Businessman I Know https://t.co/qrar6VZ4sL #Career

— BellaNaija.com (@bellanaija) October 12, 2017

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What is a real job anyway? Here are some examples:

The Wildlife Keeper

Photo by @amivitale. Wildlife keeper Kamara has spent 10 years at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (@lewa_wildlife) and is an expert in caring for orphaned animals, from baby rhinos to lions and now he is working at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary (@r.e.s.c.u.e) where he is raising an orphaned baby rhino but also gives love to the elephants when they need it. The team will work to rehabilitate these orphaned and abandoned elephants and reunite them with their wild herds. Read more about Reteti in my @NatGeo story: https://tinyurl.com/kvopc69 You can help support the great work happening here by visiting Sarara Camp (@sararacamp) and Lewa or supporting the organizations working directly with the local communities. Follow all of us, @lewa_wildlife, @r.e.s.c.u.e, @sararacamp and @amivitale to support and learn more about these initiatives. @nrt_kenya @kenyawildlifeservice @tusk_org @sandiegozoo @conservationorg @natgeocreative @thephotosociety @nature_africa #elephants #saveelephants #retetielephants #ecotourism #stoppoaching #kenya #northernkenya #magicalkenya #whyilovekenya #africa #everydayafrica #photojournalism #amivitale

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The Stay-at-Home Parent

The Professional Gambler

and one more:

Photo by @mattiasklumofficial for @natgeo Deadly encounter... Not really... People frequently explain to me that I have a dangerous job. Working close to elephants, tigers, polar bears, leopards, lions, sharks, illegal logging operations and venomous snakes such as this beauty. In my line of work doing serious research and reading nature well is key! It'll get my closer to my subjects and it has so far kept me alive! During a @natgeo assignment in the republic of Congo I managed, with kind assistance from Samuel, (my camera assistant at the time) and Zoltan (a great herpethologist), to close in on this beautiful and highly venomous banded water cobra! It resulted in a series of unique images of this rarely seen species. Go to @mattiasklumofficial if you want see some "result-pictures". Photo by #samuelsvensäter/Tirragrande Productions #grateful #teamwork #determination #respectnatur #watercobra #congo #cobra #snake #conservation #rainforest #respect #photooftheday #protectbiodiversity #bestjobintheworld #instagood @irisalexandrov @mattiasklumcollection @thephotosociety @natgeo

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More interesting options here: So You Want My Job / Trade on www.ArtOfManliness.com 

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Sometimes, hiphop is motivation

One nice example is I Decided., a 2017 album by rapper Big Sean.

Issa Tracklist #IDecided this Friday pic.twitter.com/j00ku7PmPt

— Sean Don (@BigSean) January 30, 2017

It has tracks like: Bounce Back.  I got the Moves.  Voices in my head tell me I can do better // Stick to the plan.  Inspire Me.  Sacrifices.  Bigger Than Me. 

Shout to @BigSean man. You're inspiring. Every single track has meaning. Crazy how much I can relate to every lyric. Thank you! #IDecided

— Marcus Stroman (@MStrooo6) February 3, 2017

Let your Light shine y'all. 

just got my autographed #idecided 🔥 @BigSean pic.twitter.com/M6ji0lB5yu

— Trae Steggell (@TSteggell) June 8, 2017

Peace.

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A panel of Lagosian newlyweds

How do couples manage their career and marriage? 
IK Osakioduwa, Merci Egwu and Ayodeji Agboola share their thoughts on the topic with host/interviewer Liz Awoliyi-Osho.

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We need to talk about this.

She went through unnecessary pain and suffering.
But now, life is goooood.  

Watch even more dramatic stories from Uganda and Kenya here, and commit to being part of the solution NOT part of the problem.
  

Merck's More than a Mother corporate social responsibility initiative aims to raise awareness about prevention of infertility and build capacity to manage male and female fertility issues throughout Africa.

In particular, through its Empowering Berna campaign, it's opening a dialogue that will ultimately reduce the stigma and social suffering of infertile women in Africa.

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Earning and Ego in the African family

Long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...
Not really :)
Men hunted, gathered, warred, and brought home an alien sliced and salted bit of pig meat called bacon.
Women cooked this thing, cleaned house meticulously, supported man unflinchingly, all the while dressed neatly and attractively in mellow yellow shirt and single-row of pearls.
Everyone lived happily ever after.

Nowadays, we have a new fable: 
Women march off to work and often win a delightful prize called bread, which many in these parts would rather have than bacon.

As before, men are free to hunt, gather, war, and bring home various cuts of meat, bearing in mind that physicians say fish and lean beef, as part of a low-fat, low sodium diet, are better for overall health.
 Now,
winning great quantities of bread is a good thing UNLESS this winner is a married woman.  Marriage interacts with earning in such a way that everybody does not live happily ever after.

Homie, we still cool? . . .  No, we are definitely not cool.

But why?
And what can be done?
Read this:   

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Soft skills are just as important

and that is why I urge you to get fabulous.

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Money and anxiety - Real talk about fear, work, love, and motivation.

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