Business and Entrepreneurship

If we can build this, it also means we can grow further to start putting engine into it. It's better to do something and make mistake than not to take any step at all. Arise Nigeria, Arise Africa, we can!

The high rate of unemployment in Nigeria has reached a point where the number of graduates returning to the universities to pick post graduate forms for diploma, masters and PhD has greatly increased and still increasing by the years.

Let me point at the two (2) scenarios taking place in this country (Nigeria). 1)       The unemployed or underemployed graduate will not buy the same product made in Nigeria but will prefer to buy an imported version of the same product.

An annoying business environment   Watching the sorry state of the Nigeria economy, I discovered that we are a nation that enhances the economy of other nations. We are proud, yet unproductive. In this article, I intend to raise a number of issues which needed to be addressed urgently to reposition the Nigeria economy and reduce our current dependency level. We are a nation that imports about 85 % of our basic need.

Other thoughts on entrepreneurship It is relevant that an entrepreneur should have a written business plan before registering with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The business plan should include the nature of the business, the sales and marketing strategies as well as the financial background and profit statement. However, emphasis should be on what makes your business different from other available ones.

Preliminary steps to being a business person First, there is a need to build your personal brand through some self discovery measures. To start a business does not require a degree or one’s ability to be good in business studies, nor is it for only those in business environment or for those who are very well established in business.

You and your business Emmanuela Felix, a friend of mine in the University once told me some things which I will like to share here. I have also published the work in Joint Christian Body (JCB) Unity magazine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The account is as follows.

The first step to becoming a totally independent nation in terms of our need as a nation is for everyone to change our collective thinking. We need to upgrade our thinking, we need to stop seeing school as a medium for qualification towards job security. Instead, as a means of changing society. the nations of Europe, America and Asia did not arrive at the enviable state we all still dream of today by just being a nation of job seekers. No! they consciously took steps that led them to where they are today. The aim of this blog is therefore to change our perspective toward employment as well as give information that will enable us, as a nation to be numbered among the committee of industrialized nations of the world in no distant time. Another important fact is that, to get to that desired position among the committee of industrialize nation, it is a collective effort. It's time to stop giving excuses.