Last month, October 2025, Nigeria hosted the first national renewable energy Innovation Forum, the first in Africa, the first in the entire continent that has the highest number of people without electricity. If anybody would ask me in to summarize the learning what I have learned in two sentence, my answer will be what I have learned in that gathering that has policy makers, regulators, investors, financiers and innovators. What I learned was one single thing that the future does not just exist like that.T ...

We should learn from children. Children are the world's first scientists. And why do I say this? They do not take things as they are. They do not accept things as they are. But they ask why, how, what if. And every great idea, every great innovation starts from these same questions. And that is curiosity. The desire to understand how, why, when, who, and what if. My name is Deborah Fashida, and today I'll be talking to you about curiosity. A small word with enmous power because curiosity is the first bridge ...

How many of you here today try to connect or tried to reach to the next person and introduce yourself and said I am so so so person. It is a honor meeting you or I have been looking forward to meet you or I have been reading much about you and I need to know you more please. How many of you have done that today.Oh, that's a good one. Thank you. Because I did that right from airport, I was looking at some of my colleagues that are speakers and I didn't know we are coming to the same place.But then when we we ...

Oh, hi guys. Uh, I think I will need more of the smiling faces just like the presenter says earlier. Uh, I'm Mustafa Gajivo.uh here today I want to talk about uh in this our evolving fast evolving modern economy of the world uh most of the young people choose business and entrepreneurship as a career. So uh today I want to talk about a bridge that uh our young entrepreneurs need to build to cross from just uh a startup business to a fullblown successful business. Uh in every business uh customers and client ...

I was trained to see the world in numbers. Four years I lived two lives. Uh one as a chartered accountant.I worked in a bank. It was a fixed life structured. You know the normal 9 to5.You wake up at 6. You know you have a shadow and you close at five. And then the second life, that life when I came home and I walked into the kitchen, I changed into something else.I breathed spices. I loved food. My eyes lighten up when I have conversations around food.But for some reason, the second part of my life was like ...

Can you remember what was the last decision you took. Was it a decision to sit at the back of this row or maybe in the front. Was it a decision to sit by the left side or on the right side of this hall.Maybe due to the lighting or the sound. Whatever it is, I'm sure that before you came to this gathering, you've made a handful of decisions. And even as I speak currently, your mind is working, filtering options, and making decisions.As human beings, we are constantly making decisions. Some small, some big. a ...

Sometimes the smallest moments build the strongest bridges. For me, even though I lived across the flying school in Zarya and I watched planes fly overhead almost every day, the dream only truly took shape when I went on a primary school escortion to ENAT, the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology. That day, I learned MOS code.I spoke to an air traffic controller for the first time and that tiny spark settled in my heart. That's how dreams begin. Not with a big dramatic revelation, but with something smal ...

If you have ever second guess yourself in a presentation, performance, or game, could you please raise your hand. If you're not raising your hands right now, that's okay. It'll settle on the car ride home.But if it feels awkward to admit, that's because we all know it's true. According to my survey, over 85% of athletes at Brainham High School share this experience. Overthinking is real in sports, in school, and at work.And today we are going to break it down. As an athlete myself, I have overthought in gam ...

Hey y'all. >> I guess his slides were in here. My time as a trend team.When you first saw that title, what was the first thing you felt or the first feeling that came to your mind. Was it pity or sadness or even anger. If it was, um, that's a little concerning.Maybe you should stop by the therapist after this. Or maybe when you read the title, you felt happy, excited, or maybe even a little curious. If you did, welcome.And uh high five. No matter what you think, you're here to listen to me talk to you about ...

Have you ever heard a song that instantly took you back in time. Maybe it's the one song your dad always played for you in the car on the way to school. For me, that song was Don't Stop Believing My Journey.Maybe it was the first song you danced to. Maybe it was the soundtrack of your childhood. Or maybe it's that one song you simply can't escape on Tik Tok.Whatever the song is, you know the feeling. Music has this strange magical power. It bends time.It freezes moments and it brings you backward. Sometimes ...