First bank of Nigeria like the name implies is the first bank that was founded Nigeria and they have been consistent over the years. Many banks have come and gone after it was founded and it is still operating at an optimum level. First bank was founded in 1894. The bank was established by Sir Alfred Jones, a shipping head from Liverpool England.
The bank has its head office in Marina, Lagos Island and has over 700 branches across Africa. The bank has subsidiaries in countries like Ghana, Congo, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra-Leone and Senegal.
For eight consecutive years the bank has received the Best Retail Bank in Nigeria from year 2011-2018 by The Asian Banker.
These days, I usually have cause to do transactions with people I don’t see or even know and I need to make payment for these transactions using internet banking. Imagine if there was no internet banking, I will need to go to the bank to make the transaction myself and that would have taken some of my time.
Internet banking also saves your time because you can do your transaction within minutes which is better than going to the bank as you might need to queue before entering the bank and also queue before doing your transaction.
I can remember there was a day I was on my way home and I saw something I have been waiting to buy, but I wasn’t on cash.
Sometimes life throws at us things we do not expect. For instance, it could be some losing his job, some getting heartbreak from a relationship, failing in business or even have health challenges. So we will be looking at how to receive healing when life hurts you.
Emotional pains don’t just leave immediately, they take a while before going and for some people the period might be so long.
But you can actually do your best to manage the pain and make it work for your own good. That’s what we will be discussing in this post.
It is important we discuss this because a lot of people carry life’s hurt for every long period without them knowing and this affects the way they respond to life in general.
For instance someone who has been heartbroken before might find it hard to trust again.
Let us look at some steps on how we can get healing while we are hurt.
There are some things we need to do daily to live a successful life. Habits are not things that can be formed in a day, they are thing that are formed or developed over some period of time because some actions are being repeated.
As humans we develop both good and bad habit but most times it is easier to develop bad habit because they are easy actions we can easily repeat without adding much value to us. Watching TV all day can be a bad habit, being on social media all day can be a bad habit and these habits are easy to develop.
Reading can be a good habit, exercising can be a good habit but such habits are not easy to develop. It takes a a lot of discipline and diligence to develop these good habits.
In this post, I will be showing you some good habits that can help you succeed in life.
A lot of times, we have dreams that excite and inspires us to take actions. The dreams might be in different areas of our lives, for instance, some people have a dream of having a perfect body while some people could have a dream of traveling around the world and they get motivated at the early stage but they get tired as time goes on.
This happens to a lot of people, you see them motivated at a point in time and later on you will notice that the zeal and inspiration starts dwindling possibly because they are still far away from achieving their dreams, so they just give up.
If you are in a situation like that, I will be showing you the easy away to stay focused till you achieve your dreams. Make sure you read this post till the end and I’m sure it will change your orientation about issues like this.
The secret to staying focused till you achieve your dreams is being consistent at whatever you do and in this post I will be showing you some things you didn’t know about being consistent.
Being able to good decision is one of the qualities of a good leader. I do not think you will see any good leader who isn’t a good decision maker. Every good leader needs to be able to make timely and effective decision because they are leading other people and will make decisions that affect those people’s lives.
Being indecisive is a weakness and shows sign of poor leadership. Being indecisive is bad because it doesn’t just affect you alone; it also affects your follows and people around you.
You need to be able to make timely and effective decision as leader. The best leaders in the world have the quality of making timely and effective decision.
The truth is that failing isn’t a good experience but it is something that is common to everyone. As humans we are prone to fail sometimes but we shouldn’t allow our failure define us or limit us.
Do not let anyone deceive you that they haven’t failed before, everyone has failed at a point in time in life, even the most successful people in the world.
Don’t let failing weigh you down, don’t let it give you depression, don’t let it give you high blood pressure because it is common to all mankind and if properly managed can become a stepping stone to success.
You should see failing as a stepping stone to success and not as the end of the world. It’s how you handle failure that really matters and not failure itself.
Let’s discuss how we can bounce back from success after failing
Making an impact in life is all about the choices you make; it isn’t something that happens by mistake. Nobody got to the top without putting in effort or having a vision of what they want to achieve.
Some people just live life without having a vision, they just accept whatever life gives to them instead of the making a demand of what they want out of life.
Don’t live a life without plan or vision whereby you accept anything life throws at you. People who have made impact in life are people that have vision. It was an intentional process planed by those people; you can hardly make impact in life if you do not plan towards it.
We’ll be discussing some tips on how to live a life of impact.
In this post we will be discussing how you can be a leader that everyone wants to follow. Leadership is not just about being in a position as a leader because you might be in the position of a leader and not inspire other people who follow you.
You might not be in the position of a leader and you inspire people to follow you. That makes you a leader already, so do not wait till you get the position of a leader before you start acting as one.
I’ve worked with a lot of bosses and I can’t refer to all of them as leaders because they didn’t inspire me but I can call some of the leaders because they inspired me. You must have a lot of bosses or few of them and I’m sure some of them have inspired you while some of them didn’t inspire you in anyway at all instead they created a bad impression of themselves.
You are definitely going to get to the position of leadership someday and it might be leading a group of 5 or 50 people. The question is what do you want to people to remember about you? Would they say you were able to inspire them or would they say you dampened their morale?
I will be showing some attributes that can make you inspire others as a leader.
The first step to becoming successful in life is having a dream. When you have a dream then you will be able to achieve success easily.
Some people have dreams while some others do not have dreams, but it is not just enough to have dreams, if you are not work on achieving it, then nothing happens.
A lot of people have dreams and they do nothing about it or they do too little to achieve it, which might get them frustrated in life.
The difference between a successful person and someone who isn’t successful is that the successful person had a dream and worked on achieving it while the other person that wasn’t successful possibly had a dream and didn’t work on achieving it.
I have this friend I knew when I was much younger. He had many challenges and excuses for not succeeding in life, which includes not starting school in his early years, supporting his aunt with her business (because he came from the village to the city), doing a lot of chores at home and doing some personal hustles.
With his schedule he was able to come out with a good result and he studied architecture in the university and today he is successful in his field. A lot of young chaps stilled failed to succeed even though they had lesser challenges than my friend.
One thing I learnt from my friend was the he never gave himself any excuse not to succeed in life. He went the extra mile and he was able to achieve his dreams.
How badly do you want to achieve your dreams?
I will be showing you some tips that can help you go the extra mile to achieve you dreams.
