Good People, if you have paid for Tekedia Mini-MBA and you are yet to receive your login, please have patience. My team is working; the number of registration is huge. But they are working on them one by one. Our members who paid before 10 am today must have received their logins.
Team is reading your emails and I am extending the early bird registration to Monday. So, all the accruable benefits stand.

We have digital payments which support self-registration but we understand that many members prefer bank transfer. No problems – this evening, everything will be sorted out. I have moved team members from our electronics business to assist.

As always, Nigeria and Africa always support whatever I put my hands on. I truly want to thank everyone. I do not take it for granted that an Aba businessman put a signpost in Ariaria telling his friends about this new school he is attending. We reached out to know the excitement.

Interestingly, he is coming mainly for the “Personal Finance and Wealth Management” session. Yes, he has made money and wants to understand how to manage it better the global way. Our Faculty for that has it cut out.

Registration continues here.

https://www.tekedia.com/mini-mba-2/

One of the companies joining Tekedia Mini-MBA with 40 of its workers is Reliance Infosystems. Reliance Infosystems, a Microsoft Gold Partner & Sophos Platinum Partner, under the leadership of ICT industry veteran Olayemi Popoola has been fixing technology frictions in Nigeria and across Africa with absolute commitment to quality, in the domains of business transformation, operational excellence and protection assurance.

The excellence in this company has delivered many awards including Microsoft Country Partner of the Year award.

Companies that send more than 35 staff get special customized elements in our program along with a company-specific interactive discussion. This morning I spoke with Reliance Infosystems leadership as we begin to structure those components ahead of June 22 when the program begins.

Good People, I invite you to run with Reliance Infosystems!

Register for Tekedia Mini-MBA.

The Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD), Georgia, USA , will handle a session titled “Exponential Technologies and Business Opportunities in the Age of Singularity” during Tekedia Mini-MBA which begins on June 22. The following TAFFD’s Futurists are developing the course:
Edward Hudgins, PhD
Chogwu Abdul, PhD
Gennady Stolyarov II
Brent Ellman

Join these futurists and other faculty by registering for Tekedia Mini-MBA here.

Video credit: TAFFD, USA.

He is the Managing Director of Weco Systems, a technology systems integrator and technology advisory company. He joined as a Systems Engineer, and rose through the ranks to become the MD. He holds a B.Eng. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) and Executive MBA (Marketing) from the University of Lagos. Over the period of his career, he has attended several technical, leadership and business courses locally and internationally. He is a Certified Transformative Architecture Specialist (TAS), Certified Business Value Specialist (BVS) and Certified Business Value Practitioner (BVP). A member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) UK and Project Management Institute (PMI) USA, he was my undergraduate classmate in FUTO (Great FUTOite…the Greatest)..

Nnamdi Onyebuchi, a Tekedia Institute Faculty, will lead a session in Tekedia Mini-MBA on Execution – Business Objectives and Technologies. In the session, he would teach how firms and project leaders can lead and execute projects, with absolute commitment to quality. He goes back to the interface between strategic business objectives and technology, and why alignments are critical for successful execution.

The theme of our program – Innovation, Growth & Execution – includes execution. Yes, without execution, it is all talks. Mr. Onyebuchi who has won multiple Business Integrator of the Year Award for his company will teach us how to Execute and deliver value. Join him here

https://www.tekedia.com/mini-mba-2/

In secondary school, I read a novel One Week One Trouble by Anezi Okoro, about Wilsom Tagbo who was always running into troubles weekly. Permit to update that title to One Month One Loan for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our capacity to borrow these days to expand bureaucracy is legendary. I pity the poor Naira – what an unlucky currency. With the hedge against the Naira, downstream and upstream,…. [let me not complete this sentence to avoid confusion]. Yes, the House has approved the $22.7 billion which it originally suspended to explore how to include an excluded region. That  is now history. The focus now moves to making sure the money is used judiciously as noted. 

On Tuesday, the Nigerian House of Representatives approved the $22.7 billion loan request made by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is coming a few weeks after the Nigerian government secured a $3.4 billion COVID-19 assistance fund from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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The $22.7 billion was approved by the Senate in March, but was rejected by the House due to the controversy surrounding it. The speaker of the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila said the loan was not approved then because the southeast was excluded from the infrastructural projects that Buhari said the large part of the loan will be spent on.

On debts, this is where we stand, according to Premium Times. Yet, if this $22.7 billion is executed properly, great things could happen. Loan by itself is not bad. The problem, in Nigeria, is that loans hardly do much as they are wasted.

Last month, both Houses approved an N850 billion loan proposal from the president, which is to be sourced from domestic markets “to fund critical capital projects in the 2020 budget.”

Last week, Mr Buhari also wrote to both chambers, seeking the approval of another $5.513 billion foreign loans.

Nigeria’s rising debt profile, as of September 30, 2019, was N26.2 trillion. Of this amount, total domestic debts is about N18 trillion, or 68.45 per cent. About N8 trillion are owed to foreign lenders.

Good luck to the bigger bureaucracy including a new 774,000 quasi-government workers!

COVID-19 Is Forcing Some Positive Changes And Reforms In Nigeria