Made-in-Nigeria vehicles to be unveiled next month – Federal Govt. of Nigeria

All is set for Made-in-Nigeria vehicles to be unveiled next month – Federal Govt. of Nigeria

Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom has revealed the Federal Government's plans to roll out made-in-Nigeria vehicles into the market next month, June 2014. The Minister made this known when he received a delegation from Automobile Peugeot, France in his office in Abuja, Punch reports.

The minister, while addressing the delegation which included the company's Vice President, Mr. Yves Moulin, said the newly introduced auto policy is quite effective and is attracting automobile brands to establish assembly plants in Nigeria. Continue...

"The automotive policy is derived from the National Industrial Revolution Plan, and we are happy with the response we have been getting from the automotive industry worldwide; and with your coming, it shows that this policy is working. When the policy was introduced, people criticised it and most of them do not understand the benefit of the policy. We have had several stakeholders from the automotive industry approaching us to set up assembly plants and spare parts plants in the country. I want to assure up you on behalf of the government that we will do everything to make sure the policy succeeds.” the minister said

Meanwhile the first set of Peugeot cars assembled here in Nigeria would be reeled out next month, says Managing Director, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited, Mr Ibrahim Boyi. He said this was made possible due to the Auto policy placed by the government.

MEET THE TOP 10 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

MEET THE TOP 10 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

source; forbes magazine

Rank	Name/Title	Organization	Age
1	Vladimir Putin President	Russia	61
2	Barack Obama President	United States	52
3	Xi Jinping General Secretary, Communist Party

Leadership Secrets of Massimo Ferragamo, Chairman, Ferragano, USA

Massimo Ferragamo, Chairman

Ferragamo USA

Overview

Select the best people for every key position, and give them the authority necessary to do their jobs.

“I believe in trying to master and develop the science of selecting the right people within an organization,” says Massimo Ferragamo, “and consequent to that, to be able to delegate and make them responsible and the owners of what they are in charge of. When you entrust someone and give them responsibility, you are automatically handing over a piece of the company. It’s up to him or her to live up to that ownership.

“As our company was prospering and growing, I think we selected the best people for every key position, and we gave them all the authority necessary to do their jobs. More recently, we selected a president for our company who was put into place, as I became chairman. I also formed an executive committee with all of our top reports that meets regularly and acts strongly together working as a team.

“The most important thing in selecting the right people is to first have a clear understanding of their backgrounds, experience, and successes in previous companies, including their reputations in their industry. On top of this, it is essential to fit their strengths to the position they will assume in the company.

“For this process, there are outside companies who specialize in helping you determine this. In general, for me, the three most important criteria are: a person of high ethics, a strong business mind, and someone who takes pleasure in the development of others.

“Some of the characteristics required to be a good leader include being a team player, a coach, a strong people person; having a clear focus for the task at hand and the capability of convincing others. If you like people, like to see others prosper, and enjoy working in a team, you might have the right qualities and can be a great leader.

“I think ultimately a great leader must be a people person. If you don’t have that quality, you might get away with it for a few years, but for an all-around leader it is a necessary quality. I also suggest putting yourself at the service of the team, because it’s the team who wins, not the coach.

“I don’t know if good leadership is something you can learn, but you can get better at it. Also, one should remember that every day is a new learning process, and that you never stop learning.” 

7 Must Read Success Secrets from Henry Ford, ......continued from last episode

5. Nothing is Particularly Hard

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Henry Ford said, “There are no big problems; there are just a lot of little  

problems.”  When you think about it…you see how true this is, nothing is really “that  

hard.”  You climb a mountain one step at a time; the individual steps aren’t hard;  

the hard part is being consistent. Eat your elephant one bite at a time, and one day it will be all gone.

6. Keep Your Eye on the Prize

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

Never take your eyes off your goal!  It is the goal that motivates; it is the goal  

that gives you the strength to keep going.  You must consistently see what you want  

to be.  You must see the goal as complete; you must experience the goal as  

accomplished in your imagination.

7. Think!

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few  

engage in it.” Thinking is how you prepare, it’s the hard work, it’s where you figure out the little  

nuances and “make ready” your plans.  Ford said, “Before everything else, getting  

ready is the secret of success.”  Are you ready?  Are you thinking?

Thinking is the hard work, but someone’s gotta do it, someone’s gotta get ready to  

succeed! Thank you for reading and be sure to pass this article along!

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where every article expands your mind,  

increases your faith, and changes your life.

7 Must Read Success Secrets from Henry Ford

7 Must Read Success Secrets from Henry Ford

Henry Ford was a remarkable man who founded the Ford Motor Company; he was also the

creator of the assembly line.  In October of 1908 Ford introduced the “Model T”

automobile and single-handedly revolutionized the transportation industry as well as

the American industry.

Ford was an amazing inventor who was awarded 161 U.S. patents and amassed one of the

world’s largest fortunes, most of which he left to the Ford Foundation.

Today I want to talk about seven amazing success lessons from Henry Ford the inventor

and pioneer!

7 Must Read Success Lessons from Henry Ford:

1. Serve Others

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits.

They will be embarrassingly large.”

The secret to success lies in serving others!  All successful people serve, the

greater the success, the greater the service.  Wealth is created from service, wealth

only comes from service.  Ford said, “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when

sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”  Who

are you serving?

2. Focus

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.”

You are completely unaware of your potential, because you’ve never focused all of

your efforts on one task.  You spend an hour of your day doing this, three hours

doing that, but you never focus all of your attention to one assignment.

When you focus your life, impossibilities become possibilities.  Get focused, you can

do more than you think you can!

3. Be Productive

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others

waste.”

We all have 24 hours in our day, yet some succeed while others fail.  Why is this?

The reason is because some successfully control their day, while others are

controlled by their day.  Some dictate where their day goes, while other’s let their

day dictate where they go.

If you fail, you will fail because you failed to make excellent use of your time, if

you succeed, you will have succeeded in mastering your time!  Are you mastering your

time?

4. Solve Problems

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve

them.”

You will only be rewarded for the problems that you solve for other people.  Are you

solving any problems?  If you solve big problems you will receive big rewards, if you

solve little problems, then you will receive little rewards.  If you solve problems

for a few people, then your payment will be small, if you solve problems for the

masses, then you will become rich.

Don’t waste your time going around problems, solve them!
To be continued....Check back

Dream Big: Live Your Life without Limits -Chiugo A. Josephat-Nwokolo

Chiugo A. Josephat-Nwokolo

Dream Big: Live Your Life without Limits

The basic rule for success is for you to continue to remind yourself that you are where you are, and what you are because of yourself. You are in your current situation because you have decided to be there. You have made the individual choices and decisions that have gotten you to your current place in life. If you want to go somewhere else or be someone else, it is totally up to you to make the choices and decisions today that will eventually get you there. And there are no limits.

Positive Thinking Will Change Your Life

Here is another rule: “If you want your life to get better, you have to get better.” This simply means that your outer world will be a reflection of your inner world. If you want your outer world to improve, you must go to work on improving your inner world.

If you want to have better customers and more sales, you must become a better and more personable salesperson. If you want to have better employees, you must become a better manager. If you want to have better children, you must become a better parent. And if you want to have better relationships, you must become a better person. The great tragedy is that the world is full of people who are trying to change the outside world without going to work on the one thing that they can control, their own thinking!

Change Your Thinking

Here is another rule: “If you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life.” And since you can change the quality of your thinking almost infinitely, there are no limits on how you can change and improve every part of your life, in any direction you want to go.

There is a lot of talk today about “positive thinking,” and I think that positive thinking is very important. It is much better for you to think positively about yourself and your possibilities than for you to think negatively. But the danger is that positive thinking can quickly turn into positive wishing and hoping. Positive wishing and hoping can turn a person into a very optimistic and happy failure. Abraham Mallow said that the story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short, and settling for far less than that for which they are capable. Don’t let this happen to you.

The Power of Positive Knowing

What is better than positive thinking is “positive knowing.” This is where you take the steps and do the things that bring you to the point where you absolutely know, with complete certainty, that you can achieve your goals and be the kind of success that it is possible for you to be. When you reach the point of positive knowing, no matter what happens in the outside world, even if you lose everything you have acquired, you will make it all back again, and more, because you know how to do it in the first place.

I want to share some ideas with you that have been very helpful to me and to many thousands of other highly successful men and women. These are all ways of thinking and looking at your world that will enable you to become a far more optimistic, confident, and creative individual in everything you do. These are simple, powerful, proven techniques that you can use to throw off your self-imposed limits and begin moving toward the realization of your full potential.

Dream Big, You Have No Limits

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to, “dream big dreams.” There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations and begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become and have and do.

A wise man once said, ” You must dream big dreams for only big dreams have the power to move the minds of men.” When you begin to dream big dreams, your level of self-esteem and self-confidence will increase immediately. Your self-image improves. You feel more positivel about yourself and your ability to deal with whatever happens to you. The reason so many people accomplish so little is because they never allow themselves to let go and just imagine the kind of life that is possible for them.

Thank you for reading this article about positive thinking and how to dream big and create success in your life. Please share and comment below!

 Anthony Chinweugo Josephat-Nwokolo; is the Managing Director of SUCCESS STRATEGIES NIG. LTD., a US trained Success Strategist & Leadership Expert, Consultant and Coach, an Inspirational & Motivational Speaker, An Author, and a Media Consultant, Enterprise & E-Business Applications Developer & Solutions Provider, an Investment Advisor, Brand & Business Growth Strategist, A minister of God and Publisher of SUCCESS STORIES (www.successstoriesng.blogspot.com), Author of The 10 Commandment of Success & Fulfillment.

7 Qualities of Creative Thinkers - Chiugo A.Josephat-Nwokolo

7 Qualities of Creative Thinkers
...Truly, when you stop thinking, you start dying.......The more you do of what you’re doing, the more you’ll get of what you’ve got. Creative thinking requires that you continually dig deep into yourself and generate more, newer, better, faster, cheaper, different ideas that you can use to improve the important parts of your life. There are seven qualities of creative thinkers. When you practice one or more of these qualities, you begin to prove to yourself that you are truly a genius, and you simultaneously disprove the negative hypothesis.
Ask Questions
The first quality is that creative thinkers are intensely curious. They are always asking questions. They ask questions like “Why?” very much like children do all the time. Then they ask, “Why not?” “Why can’t we do it?” “Even if it hasn’t been done before, can it be done now?”
Practice Zero Based Thinking
The second quality of creative thinkers is that they practice “Zero-Based Thinking” all the time. They continually ask themselves, “If I were not now doing what I am doing, knowing what I now know, would I start?”
And if the answer is no, they cut their losses, discontinue what they are doing and start doing something else. It is absolutely amazing how many people persist in something that they wouldn’t even get into if they had to do it over again. And they wonder why they are making so little progress.
Change Your Mind
The third quality of creative thinkers is that they have a willingness to change. They recognize that in a world such as ours, the unwillingness or inability to change is fatal. They prefer to be in charge of their lives rather than being caught up in the flash flood of change that is inevitable and unavoidable. The words of the truly flexible person, the person who is willing to change are simply, “I changed my mind.” According to researchers, fully 70% of the decisions you make turn out to be wrong in the long run. This means that you must be willing to change your mind and try something else most of the time. Mental flexibility is the most important quality that you will need for success in the 21st century.
Admit When You Are Wrong
The fourth quality of highly creative thinkers is their willingness to admit when they are wrong. Fully 80% of people burn up most of their mental and emotional energy defending against admitting that they made a wrong decision. Don’t let this happen to you. Truly intelligent, highly creative people are open minded, fluid, flexible and willing to both change their mind and admit that they are wrong when their earlier decisions turn out to be incorrect.
Continue to Learn
The fifth quality is that highly creative people can say, “I don’t know.” They recognize that it is impossible for anyone to know anything about everything, and it is very likely that almost everyone is wrong to some extent, no matter what they are doing. So when someone asks them a particular question that they don’t know the answer to they admit it early and often. They simply say, “I don’t know.” And if necessary they go about finding the answer. Here’s an important point. No matter what problems you have, there is someone somewhere who has had the same problem and who has already solved the problem and is using the solution today. One of the smartest and most creative things you can do is to find someone else, somewhere, who is already implementing the solution successfully and then copy him or her. The smartest person is not necessarily the person who comes up with the idea. It may be just a lucky flash of insight. The smartest person is the one who copies the idea first. And it is often the person to recognize the value of a new idea that makes a fortune from the idea while the originator makes little or nothing.
Creative Thinkers Are Goal Oriented
The sixth quality of creative people is that they are intensely goal focused. They know exactly what they want. They have it written down very clearly. They visualize it on a regular basis. They imagine what their goal would look like if it were a reality today. And the more they visualize and imagine their goal as a reality, the more creative they become and the faster they move toward achieving it.
Eliminate Your Ego
The seventh quality of highly creative thinkers is that they have less ego involvement in being right. They are more concerned with what’s right rather than who’s right. They are willing to accept ideas from any source to achieve a goal, overcome an obstacle, or solve a problem.
Creative Thinking Generates New Ideas
The most important part of creative thinking is your ability to generate ideas. And the greater the quantity of ideas that you generate, the greater the quality your ideas will be. The more ideas you have, the more likely you are to have the right idea at the right time. But generating ideas is only 1% of the equation. As Thomas Edison once wrote, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Your ability to come up with an idea, to test it and validate it, and then to implement it through creative thinking and execute it in your life to achieve results is the true mark of genius. Every single time you originate a new idea, write it down, make a plan for its implementation through creative thinking and then take action, you are behaving like a genius. And the more you manage your creativity in this way, the smarter you will become. And the smarter you will become, the more you will achieve in every area of your life. Your future will become unlimited. 
Thank you for reading this article about creative thinking. 

Anthony Chinweugo Josephat-Nwokolo; is the Managing Director of SUCCESS STRATEGIES NIG. LTD., a US trained Success Strategist & Leadership Expert, Consultant and Coach, an Inspirational & Motivational Speaker, An Author, and a Media Consultant, Enterprise & E-Business Applications Developer & Solutions Provider, an Investment Advisor, Brand & Business Growth Strategist, A minister of God and Publisher of SUCCESS STORIES (www.successstoriesng.blogspot.com), Author of The 10 Commandment of Success & Fullfilment.

SUCCESS STORIES, SECRETS AND STRATEGIES OF WARREN BUFFET

WARREN BUFFET

SUCCESS STORIES, SECRETS AND STRATEGIES OF WARREN BUFFET

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion (85% of his fortune) to charity.

Here are some very interesting aspects of his life: 

1) He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late! 

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha , that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence. 

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him. 

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company. 

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis. 

7) He has given his CEO's only two rules. 

Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder's money. 
Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1. 

8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television. 

9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet. 

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk. 

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself. 

What A Great Man!

Otunba Akin Alabi Shares - 3 steps to great success

Otunba Akin Alabi, CEO of NairaBet.com

3 steps to great success

Serial entrepreneur, Otunba Akin Alabi, CEO of online betting company, NairaBet.com and OverTheTop Entertainment, having in Label; Skuki and others, share 3 steps to Great Success

I'm about to reveal to you 3 keys to acheiving great success in life. If you're not yet successful, then you need to pay close attention.

Let's go...

Key 1: Stop dreaming

The world is filled with dreamers yet we've got very few doers. If you want to succeed in life, you have to start doing the things you believe will make you succeed.

Do you have a business idea? Then go out and do something about it.

If you don't do anything, you can never make it. Period!

Key 2: Invest your time

We've got only 24 hours in a day. Whether you're rich or poor, we all have the same number of hours to work with.

The Bill Gates and the Warren Buffets of this world had only 24 hours a day yet they made billions. It's what they did in those hours that made them all that money.

How do you spend your time? Especially your spare time. If what you do will not make you a successful person tomorrow, then you have to change

Key 3 : Seek information and help

To succeed in this age, you need information. Quality and life changing information I mean.

Recently, I was talking to a friend how I make thousands of dollars monthly by selling ebooks online and he was surprised that such a thing exists. He did not have the information. That is the difference between the two of us.

Always seek for information from the right sources. From people you admire, from the internet, investment and self development journals etc.

Then ask the poeple you come across how to apply such information. This is important because information without application is useless.

Thanks for your time today.

Akin Alabi