Public holiday is defined as a work free day. It is a day set aside by government of a nation, state or local to mark special occasions. As an entrepreneur, especially if you deal with essential commodities like food and other things that are needed to run daily lives, there should be no holiday for you this is because NEEDS for your products don’t go on BREAK, so why should you?. Today, Easter Monday in Lagos Nigeria where i live, there is a popular attitude of vendors that is inimical to business growth which is getting hooked with holiday fever. I stepped out to buy airtime for my phone , i discovered that none of the vendors opened their shops apart from a Mallam who is a security officer and a trader in front of my estate. On getting there, i found out that we were over 50 in a queue waiting to buy one or two things from his shop because all the other people who sell similar products around did not open shops because of holiday. The past few days are serious harvest for this young mallam because he is the only one available within the vicinity during this period.
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