Ruyi's World of Books & Stories

My great mentor asked me one day, a few years ago, why after the appointment of a Receiver/Manager by GTB over the assets of HiTV I gave up fighting and just rolled into a semi-coma. He said this because he knew how hard we fought to save it. I responded with the story of King David crying to GOD over his sick child but then quickly wiped his face off, ate and started drinking when the child was pronounced dead. You really just must know when to move on so that you can see and take the future opportunities that will come your way. Thereafter, Solomon, the wisest and richest ruler of Israel was born to David because he looked and lived forward. People who care, ask me what happened to HiTV and others in their supreme wisdom profess their own reasons. I have kept my peace and quietly moved on in life until I wrote an article recently about 1 million Digital Jobs from the Creative sector. I realize, however, that if I am throwing a challenge to other entrepreneurs to be bold and c...

Here is a summary of Tinubu's 7-point agenda: 1) national industrial policy 2) infrastructure plan 3) tax credits and subsidies 4) credit-based economy 5) more electricity generation 6) government-backed home mortgage system 7) investment in agriculture I find this amusing in Tinubu's address: “We must realize that no populous nation has ever attained broadly- shared prosperity without first creating an industrial capacity that employs large numbers of people and manufactures a significant quantity of goods for domestic consumption or export” I find it amusing because it is a careful rewording of an axiom that is generally applied to education - specifically public education - in the developed parts of the world. We say that no nation has ever attained modernity, prosperity, development, etc, without laying a solid foundation in public education. The quality of your growth and development is proportional to the quality of your publi...