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**Then:** Emirates started operations in 1985 with just two aircraft, a Boeing 727 and an Airbus A300, serving a handful of destinations.

**Now:** By 2024, Emirates has grown to a fleet of 260 aircraft, including a large number of Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s, serving over 150 destinations worldwide.

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Job Description: Assistant for Channels Academy
Position: Academy Assistant

Overview:
The Assistant for the Academy will provide essential administrative support to ensure the smooth operation of the academy. The assistant will manage schedules, handle communications, assist with academy coordination, and support faculty, and staff. The Assistant will assist in developing, coordinating, and delivering training sessions.

Key Responsibilities:
Administrative Support:
• Manage schedules and appointments.
• Prepare and edit correspondence, reports, and presentations.
• Handle incoming and outgoing communications, including emails and phone calls.
Academy Coordination:
• Assist in the preparation and organisation of academy events and activities.
• Maintain academy

How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter outlining their qualifications and suitability for the role to [email protected] stating the role as subject of email.

Please apply only if qualified.

Referrals are welcome

How Shark Tank investor Matt Higgins went from dropout to CEO
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Matt Higgins, CEO and founder of private investment firm RSE Ventures, has a story to tell. He recently sat in Glassdoor’s Hot Seat to chat with Community users, opening up about his challenging upbringing in the Queens neighborhood of New York City. He shed light on the challenges he’s faced and bravely shared his journey from dropping out of school to becoming a teacher at Harvard Business School.

On setting fears aside to start your own business:

My number one piece of advice is that you cannot derisk this move entirely, nor should you want to. The fear of failure and anxiety will drive you to success. I find the people who want to make the leap but are paralyzed; it's usually because they raised the bar impossibly high. They assumed they had to have every little thing worked out, but that's not realistic. You just have to trust that when everything is on the line, you will figure it out.

On getting past “imposter syndrome”:

I have come to see imposter syndrome as a feedback loop. I imagine what life would be like without that feeling. It would mean I'm settling for mediocrity. I've also come to realize there is no final arbiter of belonging. No one is going to welcome you and invite you to take the seat.

You just have to realize, you belong here because you are here. That's all there is to it.

On how his survival instincts guided his path:

Desperation led to a very calculated plan. I knew my mother was going to succumb to our circumstances if I didn’t do something to change our trajectory out of poverty. I also hated my life. Working overnight while trying to go to high school during the day just didn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense. Once I discovered this loophole – that if I did well enough on my GED, I could go to college at 16 and get a better-paying job, I couldn’t unsee that path.

Of course, everyone told me I would be branded a loser for the rest of my life with a GED. But I knew I could clean that up later on with a graduate degree. It took me seven years of college at night with two jobs at a time and another four years at night to go to school to get the JD.

On one of his biggest career risks:

[For me] It was the first time I left the Mayor's Office. I was frustrated that they wouldn't give me the job as Deputy Press Secretary because I was too young/didn't have enough experience. But I felt ready.

So I quit and took a higher-paying, soul-crushing job.

[They] called me back four months later and gave me the job I wanted, a higher salary, and paid for law school.

The safest best we make are the ones we place on ourselves.

On advice for new grads entering the job market:

As the applicant, think about creating an opportunity for yourself in an unexplored area with a pitch that speaks very specifically to the company's problems — not from the perspective of YOUR needs. AI is the perfect example. Imagine you are approaching a brick-and-mortar food business. You could propose [that] you will work on a project to identify best practices and emergent tools to use AI to increase same-store sale comps (the most important KPI)...just making it up. [The] point is, try to manifest an opportunity for yourself by identifying an unexplored problem, and then pitch it.

🇫🇷 | Kylian Mbappe's father in 2018: “At first, I wanted my son to play for Cameroon but, someone at the Cameroon Football Federation charged a sum of money that I didn’t have to make him play. The French didn’t charge anything.”

◾Can you now see how terrible corruption has affected Africa! Imagine all the stars African nations would have had if they didn't ask players to bring money before selecting them to play. I am ashamed!

◾Don't ever blame any player of African origin for playing for and European nation. Embolo was asked for bribe but he didn't have money so he went to play for Switzerland and then he scored against Cameroon and Africans came out to curse him! For refusing to pay bribe!

◾I can beat my chest and tell you if Ronaldo and Messi were in Nigeria they would be hawking because obviously no one would let them play for Nigeria.

◾We have lost many big names due to corruption in Africa. Until we stop corruption in football trust me: AFRICAN COUNTRY WILL EVER WIN THE WORLD CUP❗

Nigerians, in 2023, vote wisely - vote for Peter Obi for a New Nigeria.

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President Jonathan to Lead Election Observers in Tanzania General Elections

President Jonathan to Lead Election Observers in Tanzania General Elections Former Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan will lead the Commonwealth observer mission at Tanzania’s October 25 General Election.
The observers will come from 33 countries of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific.
Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Yahya Simba, announced this in Dar es Salaam yesterday at a meeting jointly organised by the UN and the government on the former’s 70th anniversary next week.
While former Nigerian president Jonathan will lead the Commonwealth observers’ team, Amb Simba said, former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza will lead the African Union (AU) observers.

60 Nigerian youths to benefit from NLNG/SHI training

60 Nigerian youths to benefit from NLNG/SHI training The Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company has partnered with Samsung Heavy industries NIgeria to train over 60 Nigerian youths in ship building at and other related skills at the SHI shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.
This is coming barely one month after the company trained about 57 Nigerians who were certified as shipbuilders and other aspects of ship development.
The move is aimed at pursuing the local content policy of the Federal Government in the oil and gas sector.
The General Manager, SHI in Nigeria, Mr. Frank Ejizu, said that the company remained determined to driving the local content initiative through empowering Nigerians on training programmes to bridge the gap in engineering proficiency in the country.
He said, “The initiatives are actually human capacity development . we have a project with NLNG, which calls for training Nigerians in Korea for manning the NLNG vessels. S ...

President Buhari Inaugurates National Economic Council

President Buhari Inaugurates National Economic Council President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the national economic council (NEC) which is to be chaired by the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and has all the 36 state governors and the central bank governor as members.
The president charged state governors to, as a matter of urgency, explore efficient means of gradually liquidating all unpaid salaries of workers in their states.
He said the non-payment of arrears of salaries had brought untold hardship to thousands of families. He also urged them to collaborate on developmental projects.
Buhari said: “I would like also, as a former governor myself, to remind us of the need for neighbouring states to cooperate closely on projects such as interstate and feeder roads, soil erosion, desertification and other developmental programmes.
“Our country is one and we have the responsibility to run it and lead by example. As far as possible, ...

Insurgency: Buhari to seek G-7 Support for Military

Insurgency: Buhari to seek G-7 Support for Military After the recently held extraordinary summit of Heads of State and Government of Lake Chad Basin Commission meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he had ordered the nation’s service chiefs to produce a list of the logistics needed by the military to successfully execute the war against the Boko Haram sect.
He said he would forward the list to the leaders of the Group of Seven Industrialised Nations (G-7) based on their request.
He said the leaders of the G-7 requested for the list during his recent meeting with them in Baravia, Germany.
He added that based on the request, he had informed his colleagues in the commission to also prepare their countries’ lists for the same purpose.
He explained that the final list that would be forwarded to the G-7 would be drafted at the end of the African Union summit holding in South Africa.
The President said, “You will recall that I ...

Port Harcourt Refinery to Resume Production

Port Harcourt Refinery to Resume Production he long queues and hardship currently being experienced by Nigerians will soon be over as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that the Port Harcourt refinery, which will resume production from early July, would seek to bridge the country’s daily domestic fuel supply and consumption by producing five million litres per day.
The corporation stated this in Abuja and noted that from the revised Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) strategy it adopted for the nation’s refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna, the refineries at Port Harcourt which benefitted first from the TAM would by the end of June and early July begin to refine petroleum products up to 80 per cent of their nameplate capacities.
It explained that such percentage production would translate to five million litres of petrol sourced locally every day for consumption while the remnant of the nat ...

British Envoy pledges to support the 8th National Assembly.

British Envoy pledges to support the 8th National Assembly. The newly elected Senate President of the eight session of the Nigerian senate Dr. Bukola Saraki, received the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock, at his office immediately after he was sworn in. The High Commissioner made a pledge that the British government would support the Nigerian Senate through capacity building of lawmakers in order to make legislative business easier for them.
The Eighth Senate was inaugurated on Tuesday with about 30 percent of the members being freshers.
Pocock, who spoke with journalists after the visit, said his country would offer necessary assistance to support the federal parliament in addressing its shortcomings.
He said, “We discussed capacity building for the Senate both in general terms and also in areas of particular interest and difficulty, complex pieces of legislation.”
He also said both the parliament and the United Kin ...