Olopade receives Franklin Roosevelt Award.

Nigerian Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Olufunmilayo Olopade, has received the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal.

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getting ready for the Solutions Summit Reception @UN HQ. Check out the welcome carpet.

Source: @FemiOke

Open letter to Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachukwu, Group MD, NNPC

Sir, I am strongly compelled by recent de­velopments at the Nigerian National Pe­troleum Corporation (NNPC), particu­larly the recent appointment of Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran as Group Executive Director, (Commercial & Investment) of NNPC, to write you.

Clean 9: How you can loose your heavy weight in 9 DAYS

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT OVER THE NEXT 9 DAYS?

YOU’LL LOOK BETTER AND FEEL BETTER. YOU’LL ALSO BEGIN TO FEEL LIGHTER AND MORE ENERGISED AS YOU PROVE YOU CAN TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR APPETITE AND SEE YOUR BODY BEGIN TO CHANGE.

FOLLOW THESE TIPS TO ACHIEVE YOUR BEST RESULTS

National Youth Summit (Pan African Edition 2015).

The National Youth Summit is all-inclusive. Anyone passionate about leadership, self-development,
entrepreneurship, social change, career advancement, national-building, national transformation, values reorientation and more is welcome to attend.

Twitter Opens Up Ad Platform to More Than 200 Regions

It’s been a long time coming, but today, Twitter has announced that access to their self-service ad platform has been expanded from 33 countries to more than 200 regions across the world.

 

From the official announcement:

“Today, we’re excited to expand our self-service ads platform from 33 countries to over 200 countries and territories. Now, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from Honduras to Hong Kong can more effectively reach their target audiences on Twitter in 15 languages.”

The 3 Cs of Social Selling Success

As the Social Selling revolution continues to captivate the sales industry, the most successful and forward-thinking professionals utilize social media to connect and capture more business than ever previously imagined.

But, how exactly is this accomplished? Here are three simple steps that describe the transformative process of “Social Selling,” or how to use social media to generate revenue:
  
Content

The buyer is, and should be, the primary focus of your Social Selling efforts. Any cursory listening exercise on LinkedIn, the epicenter of the Social Selling universe, will yield an undeniable conclusion: buyers crave information. Sales professionals must provide this valuable information to buyers in the form of appropriate content.

How to Advertise on Instagram

Instagram ads are finally here and live for the majority of advertisers. We've had access for a couple of days so wanted to share how to create Instagram ads and share some things to look out for.

How To Get Set Up
Below is a step by step guide for getting set up with Instagram ads:
Step 1: You'll need to connect your Instagram profile to your Facebook Business Manager account. To do this go to your Business Manager account, and hover on Business Settings as shown below. From here, you can choose 'Instagram Accounts'.

Women Networking: Is It Finally Kicking In? - Miriam Hara

A little over 25 years ago, my mentor who was a decade older than me, philosophized that with every passing decade, things would get easier for women in the future within the business marketplace. The challenges I faced climbing the proverbial corporate ladder were nothing compared to the obstacles she had faced. Although I remember thinking that regardless of the "degree of hardship" that women over the years faced, hardship is still hardship. Less pain, still implies pain.

Fast forward to 2015, getting ahead in the corporate environment is still challenging for women (albeit maybe less so than 25 years ago). However, we now see more and more women as entrepreneurs, mompreneurs and at the helm of small businesses that they had a hand in starting or growing.