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5 things we learnt from Zootopia.

Zootopia is a 2016 American  3D   computer-animated   mystery   crime   comedy  film produced by  Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by  Walt Disney Pictures . It is the 55th  Disney animated feature film . It was directed by  Byron Howard  and  Rich Moore , co-directed by  Jared Bush , and stars the voices of  Ginnifer Goodwin ,  Jason Bateman ,  Idris Elba ,  Jenny Slate ,  Nate Torrence ,  Bonnie Hunt ,  Don Lake ,  Tommy Chong ,  J. K. Simmons ,  Octavia Spencer ,  Alan Tudyk , and  Shakira . It details the unlikely partnership between a rabbit police officer and a red fox con artist, as they uncover a conspiracy involving the disappearance of savage  predator  inhabitants of a  mammalian   metropolis .(Wikipedia) Zootopia was released in 2016 and was a massive hit for disney land. Of course almost everyone who watched ...

10 Uncommon Skills You'll Need to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

10 Uncommon Skills You'll Need to Be a Successful Entrepreneur This is not the first time I've read articles on inc.com this guys write very good entrepreneurial articles and at some point i can't help but to share them. Here is the article as written by inc.com, read to the end and believe me it's alot of help at the end, you can leave a comment of what you think in the comment box provided below. Are successful entrepreneurs born or made? Do you want to be successful? Of course you do. But are successful entrepreneurs  born or made ? If you weren't "born with" what it takes to be successful, is it something you can learn or cultivate? Or should you just give up now, and  find a new job ? Success  is a relative term. It means different things to different people. What does success mean to you? Fame? Fortune? Freedom? When it comes to entrepreneurship, success generally means achieving a specific business goal. It could be starting your own comp...

9 Inspirational Quotes From Billionaire Entrepreneur Bill Gates

9 Inspirational Quotes From Billionaire Entrepreneur BillGates Words of wisdom from the most successful Harvard dropout. Getty Images Billionaire, innovator, philanthropist, author, Bill Gates loved for his personality and life in general has been through a lot and has a lot of advise to offer. Having co-founded Microsoft in 1975, Gates paved the path to the revolution of personal computing. Starting with a dream to have a “computer on every desk and in every home,” Gates transformed the complex technology of computers in the 1970s into something accessible for everyday consumers -- a mission he was passionate about early on. At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school’s computer lab. At age 13, he created a BASIC program that allowed users to play tic-tac-toe against the machine. He went into business with fast friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at age 15 after creating Traf-O-Data, a traffic m...

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cristiano Ronaldo

From his difficult childhood in Madeira to the top of world football, here are 15 facts you may not know about Ronaldo. 1. His Father Was Troubled Dinis Aveiro, Ronaldo’s dad, was a war veteran. He spent a year in Angola during the Portuguese authoritarian regime’s war to keep its former colony in the mid-70s, although he never saw any action. He struggled with alcohol abuse for much of his life and even started selling his son’s signed Manchester United shirts to feed his habit. He died at 52 of liver failure in London in 2005, despite Ronaldo’s efforts to save him. 2. He Grew Up in Poverty You may know that Ronaldo had humble origins in Madeira, but did you know that he even had to share one bedroom with his brother and two sisters? Dinis Aveiro struggled to find work, and one of his roles was at the local football club, where he’d do odd jobs and drink at the bar. His mum was a cook. 3. He Always Hated Losing Ronaldo started training with his l...

IMSU Best Student Gets N13.7M Scholarship From Rochas

IMSU Best Student Gets N13.7M Scholarship From Rochas Dr Chigozie Ekenze, the best graduating student at the 2016 combined convocation ceremony of Imo State University IMSU  was given  Thirteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand Naira (13,700,000) been  by Governor Rochas Okorocha to enable him proceed for his Post Graduate Program in London immediately. Dr Chigozie who lost his Father after gaining admission to study Optometry in Imo State University and was almost withdrawn for lack of funding as his mother’s vegetable trade could not sponsor his education. After becoming governor in 2011, Rochas Okorocha declared free and compulsory education from primary to university for him.

A call to Youths; rule the future yourselves

'it is shallow-thinking for anyone to think that if a youth becomes president, he will do better than the older one' These were the words of sagay in an interview with independent newspaper, according to him the youths can't rule Nigeria properly. I believe am not quoting sagay out of context, but he meant it is even foolish thinking to think a youth can run for presidency. It's a foolish hypothesis to just logically quess that a youth cannot rule the country when they have not yet gotten the chance to - should we leave the country for granddads and the elderly only to rule?. “That psychology of overnight wealth is almost exclusively a youth attribute"... how many said that? “Number two: who is stopping the youths? All these people who are advocating that the youths should take over are in essence saying the older ones should just call the youths and say ‘come and take power’i might want to believe he made some sense here, but with the older ones ...

Nigerians React To claims that Snake Swallowed N36m In JAMB Office (Photos)

Currently trending on Twitter . Nigeria reacts to claims that snake swallowed 36million in JAMB office. ( see interview with snake   (

OLX state why they are shutting down in Nigeria.

One of Africa’s leading online classified platforms, OLX, said the need to consolidate international operations of the company led to the decision to close its Nigeria office . On Thursday, February 8, 2018 OLX through their public relation department stated why they are closing in Nigeria. The company’s statement reads: "We made a difficult but important decision in Nigeria to consolidate our operations between some of our offices internationally.” "Our marketplace will continue to operate here - uninterrupted - as it has since 2010, and we remain committed to the many people here who use our platform to buy and sell every month. We continue to be focused on constantly innovating to make sure that OLX remains the top classifieds platform in the country." OLX was founded in 2006 by Alec Oxenford and Fabrice Grinda to serve as an alternative to Craigslist. The Nigeria office of the company was opened in 2012. In 2014, a South African media group, Naspers, bought a m...

How PDP can defeat the APC - Jimi Agbaje

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos governorship candidate in the 2015 general election, Jimi Agbaje, has urged members to be united to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019. The businessman spoke at the inauguration of the Caucus and State Leaders Council at the party secretariat in Lagos on Friday. He insisted that the ruling party had failed the people of the state and other Nigerians, adding that it was time for the PDP to take over government. “The APC has failed in the state, making one to ask if anything is working now in Lagos. “It is time for the PDP to take over government. However if we must win, we must be united. “If we must win, we must say no to impunity. We must put our acts together and work with unity of purpose; that is the only way,” he said. Speaking, Lagos State PDP Chairman Mr Moshood Salvador appealed to members to drop their differences and be more committed to the party. “I want all of us to see the best in...

Cattle colony; Gov. Yahaya Bello provides 15,000 hectares as promised.

As promised, Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi state have handed over 15,000 land mass in the state for cattle rearing ! Speaking during a visit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, in Abuja, Friday, Bello said 15,000 hectares of land has been provided; 10,000 in Ajaokuta and 5,000 in Adavi Local Government areas, respectively, both in the central senatorial district of the state, sun newspaper reported.

Top 20 richest leaders in the world.

According to thrillist.com Going through the valuations of these 20  various world leaders  netted a few surprises, although as you'd expect, kings are still doing just fine. 20. David Cameron, $6.3 million Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The non-figurehead leader the U.K. actually has some figurehead in him. His fifth great-grandfather—apparently how you say great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was  King William IV . 19. Barack Obama, $10.1 million Ex President of the United States   And he’s only the  21st richest American president  of all time! 18. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, $12.9 million President of Argentina Here she is with dirt-poor German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She got her money the old fashioned way, by marrying the preceding president, Néstor Kirchner, who was accused of embezzlement. Their net worth went from $7 million to something like $82 million, and $600 million of other ...