Author: Pride Team

By Winsome Duncan “A setback is preparing for your ultimate comeback” No one likes to deal with rejection. It leaves a sour taste in our mouths. Rejection is a part of life and gives you an opportunity to learn where you can improve. I am a firm believer if something is meant for you, no matter what the circumstances you will get it.    In business I have faced many ‘no’s’ and what makes it worse is that I use to take it personally. My Business Mentor has spent many months telling me to grow a thicker skin, in the…

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For the 4th year in a row, The Guaranty Trust Bank Lagos Fashion and Design Week (GTBank LFDW) is set to take place from October 29th to November 1st 2014. This year will be different though; the platform would not be showcasing Nigerian Designers but will include other designers from across Africa. Omoyemi Akerele, Creative Director of GTBank LFDW stated ‘this year, we will begin to present designers from a selection across Africa as part of our vision to promote inter connectivity within the African fashion industry; a vital tool for the promotion of intra African trade. The African continent…

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My dear daughter, A friend of mine asked me to read an email he was sending to his daughter as he battled for his life in a hospital bed. I told him I would like to share his thoughts with my own daughter since I found the mail quite instructive. “Adaobi my dear, I was about your age when I had my first cigarette.  Most of my friends at school were smoking, and I thought it was cool to join them. It also made me feel grown up. I hated the taste of my first cigarette but I couldn’t let…

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General Electric Co has pledged to invest $2 billion in Africa by 2018 to boost infrastructure, worker skills and access to energy, an announcement timed to coincide with a United States f America summit meeting of nearly 50 African leaders which ends today. U.S. companies still have opportunities to catch up to China, Europe and Japan, who have made bigger strides in investing in the fast-growing continent, Jeffrey Immelt, GE Chief Executive Officer said. Immelt said Africa’s rich natural resources and potential swell in local demand for electricity primed the region for investment. But the CEO said the rewards outweigh…

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By Alex C A two-decade surge in growth in Africa suggests the poorest continent is starting to come to grips with its challenges and has raised the prospect of the “African lions” emulating the “Asian tiger” economies in the 21st century. Africa’s advantages include vast untapped resources, a youthful population and an expanding middle-class. Offsetting these are rampant poverty and inequality, a rise in Islamist militant violence and appalling infrastructure. Data collated by the African Development Bank support the premise of an Africa on the rise: Average life expectancy rose to 58 in 2011, from 37 in 1950, and primary…

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By Alex C FBN Holdings Plc, the investment arm of First Bank of Nigeria, has reported gross earnings of N212 billion ($1.3 billion) for the first half year ended June 30, 2014, 7.9 percent higher than the N196.4 ($1.22 billion) of the corresponding period of 2013. FBN holdings had in April announced an 8.8 percent rise in profit for the fiscal year 2013, from N70.6 billion ($430 million) in 2012 to 76.8 billion ($480 million). The company’s total assets has since grown to N4 trillion ($2.48 billion), 3.4 percent higher than the N3.9 trillion ($2.48 billion) it recorded in December…

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Sunday 3rd of August had us out with Genevieve magazine and house of Tara at the house of Tara international office, Centro mall. The event was the Pink Ball Lip Stain Launch, the dress code – chic. The PinkBall Foundation is a breast cancer awareness initiative of Genevieve Magazine; and as the first of many awareness events leading to the Big PinkBall this year, House of Tara partnered with Genevieve magazine to help create and launch the PinkBall lip stain whose sales proceeds goes to the Foundation. Other lined up events for the awareness campaign by the PinkBall foundation is…

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