If you dislike your teacher, you will likely struggle in that class. If you hate your school, you will not have the energy to give your best right there. And if you hate what you do, you will remain unsettled, and will not offer the best doing it. And if you hate your country, most times, your mind will not be open to see the “good” in it.
Young People in Nigeria, the message is to overcome despair with optimism, and in that construct see why the billionaires are getting richer, and startups minting $millionaires, despite all the challenges: “Jim Ovia, the chairman and founder of Zenith Bank, and Tony Elumelu, the Chairman of UBA, are set to receive a staggering N25.4 billion and N12.71 billion dividend payout respectively for the 2024 financial year, an outcome of their banks’ record-breaking performance.”
The Zenith payout, scheduled for April 15, 2025, follows a year in which the bank delivered an exceptional profit after tax of N1.03 trillion, a significant 52.5% increase from the N676.9 billion reported in the previous year.
The financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024, reveal that the Board of Directors has proposed a final dividend of N4.00 per share. This, when combined with the N1.00 interim dividend per share paid earlier in the year, brings the total dividend payout to N5.00 per share.
For Ovia, whose direct shareholding stands at 3,552,949,395 shares and indirect holding at 1,529,851,344 shares, the total shareholding of 5,082,800,739 shares translates to a windfall of N25,414,003,695.
Tomorrow is a promise and you can win it. Live positively! The sounds of crickets will come through. The happy birds will break. And the future will turn out GREAT provided you can focus on doing PRODUCTIVE things, one step at a time.
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People will tell you that you have no connections. Those things do not matter: excellence will connect you to any level. You just need to work hard to make people know what you do well. Over time, opportunities will break. The day they asked me to come to Harvard Business Review because of an article I wrote, I could not believe it. I did not know that someone in the finest business temple was reading me. It was the same connecting into Elumelu, Bill Gates, etc worlds; people just discover you! Think positive. Be positive. Put in more effort. You will win the FUTURE.
I have put some things you can do to improve your webinality (web + personality). Do them and keep improving with sheer optimism.
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