Emmanuel Nduka

POV: Huawei welcomes the distinguished guest. Day one 🙏

I'm super excited to commence a new year today. Happy 22nd Birthday Anniversary to me.

Grateful it's finally here and I'm hitting the ground running already. I have drawn a subtle conclusion that a life of impact on humanity is one of the most fulfilling things to do as it makes the world a better place.

As opportunities for growth and development keeps presenting themselves. I would be eager to leverage them because there's a generation waiting for me.

For esteemed connections and well-wishers in whose sight I have found grace and favour, who has decided to bless me on this faithful day, of which I don't think I neither deserve nor I'm worthy, please find my details in the comments. I am really grateful. Thanks and God bless you ❤

I'm finally 22 and I am only just beginning

In a world where principles are rolled out to eliminate God in our lives, I dare to be different.

If I will be a multi-millionaire, I pray I don't lose my identity as a Christian.

If I will be a billionaire, I will strive not to deny my lord and personal saviour, Jesus Christ.

If I eventually own a start-up that becomes a unicorn. I won't adulterate my values

If I even lose followers because of this post. I don't mind.

This is who I am and I pride myself on it.

If I get there and this doesn't happen, then I have failed as a Christian and my success is not complete.

Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth.

If you have this mindset kindly share this post.

It happened so fast!!

I can hardly believe I'm here now, 40k+ awesome and outstanding followers. OMG 😱

Anyways, I'm grateful. Thanks for finding this small boy worthy of being followed.

The goal was to end the year with 20k followers, it's not the end yet but it doubled. This is grace at work.

Thanks once again for your support. God bless you and have a wonderful weekend.

Yesterday, I was privileged to meet Tunde Onakoya, founder of Chess In Slums Africa, thanks to my boss Chukwuma Ezeh.

Personally, his story has inspired me greatly and it was an honour to know that he knew me before we met. I was humbled to hear that.

Using chess to take kids off the street and reshape the future of these kids on the streets, many would have concluded that nothing good can come out for them.

Honestly, things like this are what I wanna do, transform the lives of people, give hope to the hopeless and new dreams to those that have lost theirs.

Hopefully, in the nearest future, I will find a way through which I will be able to carry all those thoughts of mine.

Sir Tunde, you are doing a good up and you inspire many. keep up the good work.

Let's celebrate him people.

My first speaking engagement in 2022 was successful. I'm grateful to God and looking forward to more.

My father is My Hero

👑 My guide

🥳 My friend

😎 My role model

Happy Father's Day to all the amazing dads doing audacious stuff for their children.

I'm super excited to know that I can now do this without any fear of what people think about this.

It's Monday.

As a young person, I often wish for things to happen in my life rapidly, almost as fast as the blink of an eye. Like a snap. However, I've come to realize that great things take time.

I understand that the foundation of a building is just as important as the building itself, if not more so. Even though no one sees the foundation, it's fundamental to how the building can withstand a storm.

To every young person out there trying to make meaning of their life, I'd say we should cut some slack, forget about the outcome we want for a bit and rather focus on learning and building systems.

These are our formative years, a period in which we need to take responsibility for our actions, make strategic decisions, focus on personal development, and invest in ourselves.

It's not the time for shortcuts and quick fixes, and quite frankly, this is a sacrifice on our path if we truly want to change the world.

In the years to come, our efforts will speak for us. They will subtly reveal whether we were merely chasing shadows or truly building something meaningful.

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation to those who believe

To the professionals, to the CEOs, to the entrepreneurs, to everyone. Just Believe!

Of a truth, we will all have our moments, and while yours is yet to come, it's important that you remain focused and keep building.

So that when 'your moment' eventually arrives, you not only have the competence for the occasion, but the courage and character to create more golden opportunities.

I pray the good Lord gives us all the grace to remain focused while yet living in a distracted world. 🙏

Exactly one month ago, we launched Scholarly and I'm super excited to share some of the progress we've made so far.

🚀 We have over 3700 registered users
🥂 An all-time high of over 700 users visiting our platform in one day.
💥 An average of 20 minutes is spent by each user on our platform
🥂 At least 200 people visit Scholarly daily
🤯 Over 2000 returning users in 30 days
🙈 Over 140 people on our platform in 30 minutes.

I'm grateful for the tremendous progress so far. The only way is up for us at Scholarly as we remain focused on making something people want.

Download our app on both Google and Apple stores at www.scholarlyme.com

P.S. I'm not really great with videos, written words are my power but I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and improving on it.

I did a thing last weekend and I would like to say it was yet another unforgettable moment for me. As the co-founder and chief evangelist at Scholarly, It was such a great delight and honour to share what we are building at Scholarly with attendees at the Gen Z summit organised by Purpose-Drive Global 🌍

In today's professional world, young people, Gen Zs, and Students are not served with enough resources and opportunities that make for growth and development and that's where we come in.

Scholarly is a place for young professionals to grow, earn, and find guidance for their careers. we are obsessed with bridging the social-educational gap among African youths.

At Scholarly, we simply want to redefine what professional networking is for young professionals. we are driving a new culture that emphasizes the importance of the process towards success over the result.

And we are giving young people a platform where they can be themselves without fear of prejudices and unnecessary pressure to be perfect. A platform to connect with other like-minded individuals and collaborate on ideas and projects that they find worthwhile.

The Big picture? Is that we bring together a community of builders obsessed with redefining Africa, a group of visionaries who strongly believe in the narrative of Africa rising, and are firmly knitted with the the hope of a better Africa where young professionals can have access to information and resources that will transform their lives.

It's beyond any doubt that, it is this transformation that translates into development in Africa. This vision and hope of Africa is at the heart of the features and products we ship out to our users.

We have so much faith in this just cause and we asking you to come along with us on this journey as we push the frontiers of Africa to new grounds beyond the normal.

Join us today, download our app and become a part of the community of builders at www.scholarlyme.com

This is what our company could look like after years of building. The E.N. conglomerate.

After going through the comments of my last post, I birthed images of what it would be like after years of hard work, building and scaling. So I concluded to share it with you all.

And it's quite inspiring. we are building the future.

I am building the possible. Just a matter of time.

I believe the sky is large enough for everyone to fly and thrive.

Like I was once told you when I joined LinkedIn I was building something here, there was the big picture before me,

and to be featured in this future, I needed to put in the work, be resilient and persevere.

I wasn't intimidated by the success of anyone nor was I pressured by the achievements of my mates or other people.

Some are founders of a company and I'm not.

Some are CEOs and I'm not.

Some have made cool 7 and 8 figures cash, others on a steady, but I've not made mine and I am absolutely not pressured, you know why.

Because I am building a future and I am putting in the work. Therefore, nothing can stop my results from showing forth.

Honestly, I am sorry for those that feel pressured by the success of others and for me, I try to calm this by sharing my failures too.

I don't know but if you are there and you are intimidated by my success or that of others,

I strongly believe you might not be working on something because if you are, then it should serve as a motivation to make you believe your time is coming.

Peace Out ✌️

📸 LinkedIn Offline Hangout

We launched Scholarly, and had 6000 users in a little over a month, average time per user of 30 minutes but then came the storm.

First, I have to admit this is one of the hardest posts I am putting out here, it's probably my peak vulnerability as a founder because the norm is that you should sound successful and show successful numbers all the time.

Honestly, I'm not quite sure I'm doing the right thing. Anyways.

We really had a successful launch, our posts went viral, were seen by over half a million people across my social media, and had some blogs write about us.

We even had VCs, prominent Investors and some accelerators reach out to us. It was such an honour. I experienced the incredible dream of a typical founder, ATTENTION.

At the time, we told most we would reach out to them when the time was due because we needed to remain focused on making something people want and building the right tools for young and early-stage career professionals.

I think we did right, some might hold a different view, however, we did that because we needed to be sure of the basis of our development and the philosophy and culture at the very core of our product.

At some point, due to traffic, our systems lagged. A good problem but it took a while for the team to recover. It was at this point I learnt the profound difference between 'Launching' and 'Building', suddenly, things weren't seemingly going well, so we tried different things, we removed a couple of stuff, and we fixed different bugs.

Users did the unthinkable and stretched our product. Different challenges, obstacles and roadblocks here and there. At some point, I lost faith and went missing in action. I was also going through a personal challenge that affected everything I was doing (This is something that should not be heard of a founder but sometimes I wonder if all successful founders didn't have their down times and moments of doubt when things weren't working)

Well, even Jesus at some point wished that the cup should pass him by.

but my co-founders, Opeoluwa Adewale Fasoro and Isaac Oyekunle, kept pushing in those moments of trough, the team and our evangelists were so unwavering in their faith.

Make no mistake, I was down not out, but as I attended events I still talked about what we were building and you wouldn't know about the challenges we were faced with unless I decided to tell you.

Again, I remembered why we started this in the first place, I remembered our mantra- until we all win, no one has won. I remember our philosophy was that young people can come together and build something truly remarkable, enough of waiting for someone else to create the change we desire. I remember it was about championing growth and fostering collaboration amongst young professionals.

For Scholarly, we win together. And we are still very much fighting for it today, just like when we started. We are going nowhere till we achieve this. Until we all win, no one has won

Worth Reposting? ♻

It was successful dear Linkedin fam,

But it turns out I still have to share my knowledge, experience and legacy with another set of young professionals tomorrow.

My First-ever speaking event was held today.

Your boy's global journey has started.

Christiano Ronaldo and I joined the Binance family this week.

Is this a coincidence or a sign of greater things to come? Only God knows.

Maybe I will be a G.O.A.T soon

I'm so excited to be part of this family and Ronaldo just spiced it for me.

Join the winning team with the link in the comments section

#binance #binancesmartchain

We were having an honest conversation about the future of tech and the product of value to be built for millions of people in Africa.

Until JOHN OSENI said “ I don't see you remaining single in 2023“ and I was like “shey you dey whine me ni?“

#fiction

I love watching TED Conferences talks, it's one of my favourite activities.

From the ambience to the cultural diversity, from the activities to the speakers and their various forms of delivery.

It is always fascinating and delightful to watch. I have attended a couple of talks physically and you can always get that vibes.

Asides from the euphoria that comes with TED events, it offers me the opportunity to listen to experts' take on issues and ideas that are truly worth spreading.

Ideas that shape our lives and existence, that make for who we are, and how our world operates.

It might be something we already know but shaped in such a manner that brings a new perspective.

TEDxOluyole happening in Ibadan next Saturday, the 29th, is another opportunity to learn from seasoned speakers.

It's a time to unlearn, re-learn and co-learn and the networking session is one I don't joke with. It's going to be fun.

Register with the link in the comments section. Be there. Cheers!

For my TED fans, what makes TED talks interesting to you?

#networking #events