World Major Religion

How was the universe created? What happens when we die? How do we become good people? There are some of the questions that religions attempt to answer. By creating an organised system of worship,religion help us to make sense of our lives and our world.
       Religion can be an individual belief. In some nations, religions have had the power both to unite people and to create terrible conflict. Today,there are thousands of religions practised by about by about 6billion people around the world.
  Christianity as a religion that believe in one God and that jesus christ is the saviour, the son of God, who was sent to Earth and died on the cross to save humanity. Today Christianity have about 1,974,181,000 followers around the world.
     Islam being the second on chart. The follower of Islam, known as Muslims, believe in one God, Allah. They also accept all the prophets of judaism and christianity. Muslims follow the practices and teaching of the Quran, which the prophet Muhammad said was revealed to him by Allah beginning in A.D 610. In year 2000, there were about 1.1 billion Muslims, living mainly in Asia and Africa. Today we have about 1,155,109,000 Muslim around the world.
      Hinduism is the world oldest organised religion, starting in India about 1500 B.C. It has influence and absorbed many other religions. Although Hindus worship a number of gods, today they primarily worship Siva and Vishnu with over 800 million followers in India whom still live principally in India. Today, Hindusim have over 799,028,000 followers.
          Buddhism began in India around sixth century B.C. And today is practised by over 350million people throughout  Asia. It's based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha, enlightened one. Buddha taught that to escape the suffering caused by worldly desires, people must follow the eightfold path, which prescribes a life of morality, wisdom, and contemplation. Today, this religion have  about 356,270,000 followers.
    Confucianism: although many people consider confucianism a religion, it is actually a philosophy based on the teaching of confucius, a Chinese scholar who lived about 500 B.C. He believed that moral character and social responsibility were the way leading to fulfilling life. Confucianism has been an important influence life on Chinese life since its founding, and confucius is often honoured as a  spiritual teacher. Today, about 154,080,000 people follow this belief.
        Judaism is religion practised mostly by Jews living in Israel and United states. Jews believe in only one God; in fact, their faith, judaism, was the first monotheistic religion. The main laws practices of judaism are contained in the Torah( the pentateuch) the first five books of the Hebrew bible. The six pointed star, known as the star of David was rarely used by as a Jewish symbol until the nineteenth century. Today it is widely accepted and appears on the Israeli flag today. Today, about 14,313,000 people follow this religion.
     Although some religion have spread worldwide, many people still practice religions that originated and developed in their own area. In Australia there are no deities in the traditional belief of the Aborigines of Australia. Their lives revolve around a belief known as the Dreamtime. According to aboriginal mythology, ancestors heroes created the world and all it contains during the dreamtime. The aborigines also believe in spirit that inhabit the natural world and can ne reborn to the earth many times.
     In Africa, because Africa has many ethnic groups, languages, customs, and beliefs, it is not suprising that local religions are just as diverse. Despite the differences, however most Africans recognise one God whom they consider to be a supreme creator.
        In Japan there are over 80,000 shinto shrines, Shintoism, which goes back to prehistoric times, has no formal doctrine. Believers worship Kami, which are sacred spirit that take on natural forms such as trees or mountains. They also worship ancestors or protectors of families.
         North America, the Navajo religion is distinct in that it must be praticed in a particular geographical area. Navajo people believe that the creator instructed them never to leave the land between four sacred mountain located in colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Navajo dwellings, called hogans are sacred and constructed to symbolise their land.
 

The hardest thing to do in business (Part 1).

 Building an efficient organization.
As an entrepreneur, you may have a great idea or innovation which you believe is going to change your community, your country, or maybe even the world we live in. And you’ll probably make a lot of money along the way. That’s allowed, and there’s nothing wrong with it, provided you don’t harm others, the environment, or break the law.
Go ahead, make money, be a billionaire, and you know I’ll be right there cheering you all the way! But before you can ever get there, you’ll have to build an efficient business organization, employing lots of people, because no one can do these things alone.
In this new series, I’m going to talk about what I call, "The hardest thing to do in business: building an efficient organization."
You'll face many different challenges as an entrepreneur, but the most difficult is building an efficient organization. What do I mean by efficient? Let me start with one formal definition: “Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.”
Most people fail dismally in this area. It’s at once the most difficult and most complex thing that any entrepreneur ever has to do. In this series, we’ll talk about many issues including registering a business, recruiting and hiring your team, and organizational structure.
This is business "MBA stuff" and if you just want to run a little bottle store, it might be tough for you, but if you think you can open more than one bottle store, hang around and see. As they say in my beloved Nigeria, "It's for the senior class."
You won’t be the next Dangote or Zuckerberg if you don't know how to set up an efficient business organization.
To lay the foundations for this series, here’s another definition: The Cambridge dictionary describes “organization” as “a group whose members work together for a shared purpose in a continuing way.”
__The verb “organize” is also important here! It means, “to make the necessary plans for something to happen; arrange.”

Do I really need to write much more…? If only it were as simple and straightforward as it sounds!
Building an organization has many different aspects. Can you tell me the importance of nearly each and every word in these three definitions?
Organizations can be almost any size, but the ones I’ll be talking about here are ones that involve a hierarchy of authority and delegation: executive leadership, mid-level management, technical experts, frontline supervisors and employees in different departments, most with different operational functions.
This means a complex array of people with different talents and skills, like those I'm proud and blessed to have on our companies’ teams globally. Maybe different roles and gifts, but the key non-negotiable ingredients? Integrity, shared vision, mutual respect, accountability.
I won’t dwell on problems so much as solutions in this series, but to get started, here’s a list from a McKinsey report on some of the biggest challenges faced by companies (young and old) trying to build organizational capability:
# Organizational resistance to change.
# Lack of resources.
# Lack of credible metrics.
# (Lack of) identification of who is accountable for execution.
# Inability to gain attention and buy-in from line managers.
# Lack of senior management support.
# (Lack of) clear vision or objectives.
# Ineffective training approaches.
# Inconsistent application of methods, processes.
Now you see why I’ve said building an efficient organization is the hardest thing to do in business. But with great people on your team, all is possible!
We'll get started on this and more next week.
To be continued. . .

Atiku unveil reason why I did not attend Buhari’s biography presentation.

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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said that he did not attend the public presentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s authorized biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’ on Monday because he got the invitation to the event late.
The explanation was contained in a statement by Abubakar’s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe.
Ibe claimed that the former Vice-President only received the invitation on Monday after the event had started.He, however, admitted that the invitation dated September 30 was received in Abubakar’s office on Saturday.

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