LEAP Africa, a non-for-profit initiative promoting research on leadership and entrepreneurship development, is set to hold its seventh CEOs forum on May 24 at City Hall in Lagos.

The book, The Authoritative Profitable Cottage Businesses You Can Start With Little Capital, otherwise known as Businesses Without Loans Book (BWLB), contains a collection of wild innovative streetwise business ideas that the cash-strapped unemployed school leavers can conveniently start with as little capital as N10,000 and make from each of them a net profit (income less all operating expenses) of not less than N20,000 weekly guaranteed.

The importance of water to humans cannot be overemphasised. It has been discovered that human beings can live without food for more than seven days, whereas, nobody can live for more than seven days without water. In this regard, well packaged water, in hygienic condition, with the approval of appropriate authorities will be automatically consumed.

Why are the richest men in the world still working? The answer is: We cannot pursue more than we see! Passion is it! Bill Gates will be a good case study in this regard. In his junior year, Gates left Harvard (a university many will give up all they own to attend) to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975, with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Very critical to this survey was a statement quoted on the Bill Gates’ Web Site/Biography of Bill Gates: “Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on Every Office Desktop and In Every Home, they began developing software for personal computers.

Consumption patterns normally contribute greatly to the social and economic policy of the country. In developing countries like Nigeria, the consumption pattern is skewed towards food i.e. food accounts for a higher proportion of the total expenditure, the reason food businesses have become common and important features of urban towns in the country. Apart from providing incomes for those involved, they are a ready source of food for the urban population.

The big opportunity for Nigeria and other developing countries to reap the benefits of the ongoing robust global development for biofuels has suffered a setback.

It is no longer news that small enterprises are vital to all economies – developing and developed. So, when a corporate body comes up with the idea of brainstorming on the issue of how to support these enterprises for optimal production, you know that body is on the right track.

The Lagos State government is concluding arrangement with the Bank of Industry (BoI) to provide fund for small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in the state. Olusola Oworu, the state commissioner for commerce and industry, at a meeting with the bank’s management in Lagos, said the matching fund arrangement became necessary because funding remained a major threat to the growth of SMEs in the country.