My TEF Stories

Ace Greetings from EDICEO International is a pilot-stage project from a novel idea. It is in the product category for emotional health, public relations and psychology in the greetings industry. Presently, we are a team of 4 in a gender-balanced ratio of 2 male and 2 female. For the female components of the team we have Moyo Asani and Murewa Ajayi, both of them are in the third year in Redeemer's University, Nigeria, studying Psychology.  For the male components of the team we have Olalekan Ojo and Chiedu Marvels.   We have being able to develop a team of 4 people with divergent but complementary experiences and capacities , that will easily help us to create a market-fit greetings products as well as reach our target customers with best possible customer satisfaction.  Chiedu Marvels is 42 years old, the Team Lead. With a work experience of 20 years including 8 years of entrepreneurship experience. He is well equipped to lead this team being a mature male. ...

Time is an invaluable business resource. As a matter of fact, time happens to be one of the most important resources that will determine your success as an entrepreneur. Your attitude to time will determine whether you will evolve into an outstanding brand or become a normal brand with low to average performance in business.

I am a Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneur and I wish to support others to succeed in entrepreneurship. If you call it mentorship it is fine. I will rather call it leadership. We need leaders who can show innocent and young citizens how to succeed with little to zero damages. The role of leadership/mentoring could be compared to the role of the plantain shade to young cocoa seedlings. Without the shade of the plantain cocoa seedlings will die without fulfilling their mandates.

Do not think too deeply about the topic. I have done that for you because I want you to read up this piece as fast as you can, without any worry interfering with your reading speed and thought process. The obvious truth is that COVID-19 showed us its red flashes before now. Yes, it did not force our doors open. Rather, we opened our doors to it with ecstasy. I kept wondering why some national leaders and the residents of their geographical enclaves reacted obviously too late to the COVID-19 pandemic. When people were dying in Wuhan, these leaders felt comfortable I think. They did not border to educate their people on the necessity of a possible national isolation. Were they enslaved by the fundamental human rights to liberty and "freedoms" of movement and association? Can you imagine the peace that the world would be enjoying right now if common sense was employed quickly enough to curtail the scourge of COVID-19? I guess that we have a lot of lessons to learn for possi...