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Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by rasaquadri: 5:33pm On May 15, 2019 |
HigherEd:
Rasaq Quadri - I am inclined to believe your religious bigotry against Christianity is diffusing into Covenant university. I quite remember your handle giving me dismissive mentions(on matter pertaining to church schooling system) quite a number of times now. It would amaze you that a Muslim like your self from Bayero University's dangote business school, Kano wrote this beautiful article...
You need to clean your mind out, religious bigotry kills you know.
religious bigotry my feet . Inductive inference bro |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by Nobody: 5:49pm On May 15, 2019 |
oneolajire: Entrepreneurship in Nigeria is a Scam and a Multiplier of Poverty: Part 3
In the second part of this article, I described the four types of entrepreneurship available, they are, traditional, conditional, capital and innovative entrepreneurships. Link to part 2 https://www.nairaland.com/3102449/part-2-entrepreneurship-scam-nigeria
It is important to note that nations that have developed over the years ensured massive emphasis on both capital and innovative entrepreneurship.
Unfortunately, the emphasis of entrepreneurship in Nigeria is on traditional and conditional entrepreneurships. I wonder how these kinds of entrepreneurships will solve socioeconomic problems in Nigeria.
Entrepreneurship in developed nations was used to provide infrastructures such as electricity, railways, airports, hospitals among others. Steel plants, petroleum refineries, automobiles, aircraft and hi-tech companies came to existence as a result of exploits in innovative and capital entrepreneurships.
Nigeria's kind of entrepreneurship being preached to our youth cannot be used to solve any kind of socio-economic problem such as lack of power supply, good roads, portable water, railway and so on. It is so obvious that the entrepreneurship we practice in Nigeria is absolutely handicapped. It lacks both solution and growth factor, however, it is a poverty multiplying one.
Nigeria's kind of entrepreneurship lacks the capability to provide substantial job opportunities needed by the youth. The traditional entrepreneurship we practice provide jobs in retailing, unskilled or semi-skilled jobs, exportation of raw materials and importation of finished goods. Developed nations have massive jobs in information technology, aerospace, space technology, healthcare power, sports, tourism, oil and gas, which are products of innovative and capital entrepreneurship. It is certain that the number of unemployed people in Nigeria will continue to increase if there is no change to our entrepreneurship approach.
Taking a look at the genesis of institutionalisation of entrepreneurship in Nigeria, which can be traced to 1986 when the Government established the National Directorate of employment, NDE, to provide skills for youth in order to make them employable. It was this same time that several industries began to fold up, banks began to liquidate, the quality of education began to experience sharp decline and government's investment in infrastructural development began to recede. It is so obvious that the government at that time lacked job creation skills.
Over thirty years down the lane, one should ask, how much jobs has NDE provided? Would we have the need of NDE if we had abundant industries and functional education that produces job creating graduates? What a pity to see that the major mantra of the government to the youth is traditional entrepreneurship. If Nigeria's kind of cake baking, hair dressing and dough-nut entrepreneurship had failed in the past, how would it help create factories and solve our unemployment problem? I see no reason why we should magnify the failures of entrepreneurship in the name of self employment.
Innovative entrepreneurship of Mr Innocent Chuckwuma of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing and Mr Adetokunbo Ogundeyin of Proforce Limited -manufacturer of armoured vehicles- are undeniable examples. They built technological empires without government's help, yet, the sky is not even their limit, but their starting points. Imagine if we can replicate this achievements in electricity generation, petroleum refining, road/railway construction, metals and material production.
Nigeria is facing serious budget finance crisis because the revenue earned from petroleum is no longer sufficient to fund the budget. Massive funds is being ploughed into traditional entrepreneurship that provides very little tax, thereby plunging the nation massive borrowing. However, products and services of innovative ventures in developed nations have become huge sources of revenue to their respective nations. Therefore Nigeria should to invest in entrepreneurship that will generate abundant revenue to fund subsequent budgets.
Nigeria has more than thirty percent of an estimated population of 200 million people involved in agriculture, yet malnutrition is ravaging our land. The major problem of insufficient food production is the primitive farming using cutlass and hoe -a form of traditional entrepreneurship. So unfortunate that insurgency in North-Eastern Nigeria and the nationwide herdsmen killings hsd highly contributed to reduced crop production.
On the other hand, some nations have lesser than two percent of their population in agriculture, yet they meet local demand and export. They make use of innovative entrepreneurship both on the farm and in the lab/workshops. They don't depend on normads to provide beef for them. Here in Nigeria, graduates of agriculture do not practice farming professionally, yet it is the unequipped graduates of other courses, that are persuaded into agriculture as a result of unemployment.
It is good to have several capital entrepreneurs like Aliko Dangote, who has built several industries in Nigeria and across Africa. His latest investment in the 650,000 bpd of crude oil refinery and petrochemical complex which is expected to help tackle the availability of petroleum products is highly laudable. However, he didn't become an overnight investor, his success story began in 1977 with the 500,000 naira loan -when 1$ = 0.65k - given to him by his uncle, Alhaji Dantata. The major problem of capital entrepreneurship is how to get massive loans for industrial development.
Finally, a paradigm shift is still the solution to our challenges.
well said! |
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Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by Legendguru: 7:13pm On May 15, 2019 |
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Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by Naanlong01: 7:18pm On May 15, 2019 |
endi4real:
Thank you for pointing this out... hope d hate-filled mind would find liberation someday. I say amen on his behalf |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by lajid: 7:48pm On May 15, 2019 |
Wow Dr adams adeiza. Love the way he lectured us. Great man indeed 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by HigherEd: 9:52pm On May 15, 2019 |
oneolajire: Entrepreneurship in Nigeria is a Scam and a Multiplier of Poverty: Part 3
In the second part of this article, I described the four types of entrepreneurship available, they are, traditional, conditional, capital and innovative entrepreneurships. Link to part 2 https://www.nairaland.com/3102449/part-2-entrepreneurship-scam-nigeria
It is important to note that nations that have developed over the years ensured massive emphasis on both capital and innovative entrepreneurship.
Unfortunately, the emphasis of entrepreneurship in Nigeria is on traditional and conditional entrepreneurships. I wonder how these kinds of entrepreneurships will solve socioeconomic problems in Nigeria.
Entrepreneurship in developed nations was used to provide infrastructures such as electricity, railways, airports, hospitals among others. Steel plants, petroleum refineries, automobiles, aircraft and hi-tech companies came to existence as a result of exploits in innovative and capital entrepreneurships.
Nigeria's kind of entrepreneurship being preached to our youth cannot be used to solve any kind of socio-economic problem such as lack of power supply, good roads, portable water, railway and so on. It is so obvious that the entrepreneurship we practice in Nigeria is absolutely handicapped. It lacks both solution and growth factor, however, it is a poverty multiplying one.
Nigeria's kind of entrepreneurship lacks the capability to provide substantial job opportunities needed by the youth. The traditional entrepreneurship we practice provide jobs in retailing, unskilled or semi-skilled jobs, exportation of raw materials and importation of finished goods. Developed nations have massive jobs in information technology, aerospace, space technology, healthcare power, sports, tourism, oil and gas, which are products of innovative and capital entrepreneurship. It is certain that the number of unemployed people in Nigeria will continue to increase if there is no change to our entrepreneurship approach.
Taking a look at the genesis of institutionalisation of entrepreneurship in Nigeria, which can be traced to 1986 when the Government established the National Directorate of employment, NDE, to provide skills for youth in order to make them employable. It was this same time that several industries began to fold up, banks began to liquidate, the quality of education began to experience sharp decline and government's investment in infrastructural development began to recede. It is so obvious that the government at that time lacked job creation skills.
Over thirty years down the lane, one should ask, how much jobs has NDE provided? Would we have the need of NDE if we had abundant industries and functional education that produces job creating graduates? What a pity to see that the major mantra of the government to the youth is traditional entrepreneurship. If Nigeria's kind of cake baking, hair dressing and dough-nut entrepreneurship had failed in the past, how would it help create factories and solve our unemployment problem? I see no reason why we should magnify the failures of entrepreneurship in the name of self employment.
Innovative entrepreneurship of Mr Innocent Chuckwuma of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing and Mr Adetokunbo Ogundeyin of Proforce Limited -manufacturer of armoured vehicles- are undeniable examples. They built technological empires without government's help, yet, the sky is not even their limit, but their starting points. Imagine if we can replicate this achievements in electricity generation, petroleum refining, road/railway construction, metals and material production.
Nigeria is facing serious budget finance crisis because the revenue earned from petroleum is no longer sufficient to fund the budget. Massive funds is being ploughed into traditional entrepreneurship that provides very little tax, thereby plunging the nation massive borrowing. However, products and services of innovative ventures in developed nations have become huge sources of revenue to their respective nations. Therefore Nigeria should to invest in entrepreneurship that will generate abundant revenue to fund subsequent budgets.
Nigeria has more than thirty percent of an estimated population of 200 million people involved in agriculture, yet malnutrition is ravaging our land. The major problem of insufficient food production is the primitive farming using cutlass and hoe -a form of traditional entrepreneurship. So unfortunate that insurgency in North-Eastern Nigeria and the nationwide herdsmen killings hsd highly contributed to reduced crop production.
On the other hand, some nations have lesser than two percent of their population in agriculture, yet they meet local demand and export. They make use of innovative entrepreneurship both on the farm and in the lab/workshops. They don't depend on normads to provide beef for them. Here in Nigeria, graduates of agriculture do not practice farming professionally, yet it is the unequipped graduates of other courses, that are persuaded into agriculture as a result of unemployment.
It is good to have several capital entrepreneurs like Aliko Dangote, who has built several industries in Nigeria and across Africa. His latest investment in the 650,000 bpd of crude oil refinery and petrochemical complex which is expected to help tackle the availability of petroleum products is highly laudable. However, he didn't become an overnight investor, his success story began in 1977 with the 500,000 naira loan -when 1$ = 0.65k - given to him by his uncle, Alhaji Dantata. The major problem of capital entrepreneurship is how to get massive loans for industrial development.
Finally, a paradigm shift is still the solution to our challenges.
You should attack govt policies, lack of will or even inexistent economic framework for the inability of capitalist to invigorate the Nation's infrastructure. Now your comment on this thread is over out of place. Capitalist are doing their best to the degree govt permits. Or how do you come to tell me ThriveAgric empowering hundreds of local farmers as a multiplier of poverty. |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by akeensbussy(m): 10:27pm On May 15, 2019 |
HigherEd:
You should attack govt policies, lack of will or even inexistent economic framework for the inability of capitalist to invigorate the Nation's infrastructure. Now your comment on this thread is over out of place. Capitalist are doing their best to the degree govt permits. Or how do you come to tell me ThriveAgric empowering hundreds of local farmers as a multiplier of poverty. You are a lair..ThriveAgric is not empowering any famer. They just merry-go-round and running around politicians and Government personel. Doing eyes servicing. They are empowering farmer and we are still hungry in this country. tell us another lies. |
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Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by Degis(m): 8:20am On May 16, 2019 |
rasaquadri: religious bigotry my feet . Inductive inference bro It smells all over you |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by oneolajire(m): 9:11am On May 16, 2019 |
HigherEd:
You should attack govt policies, lack of will or even inexistent economic framework for the inability of capitalist to invigorate the Nation's infrastructure. Now your comment on this thread is over out of place. Capitalist are doing their best to the degree govt permits. Or how do you come to tell me ThriveAgric empowering hundreds of local farmers as a multiplier of poverty. My comment is not out of place. Most Nigerians practice traditional entrepreneurship and they see this as the only type of entrepreneurship available (Read part 2 of my post to understand my position on entrepreneurship) . When most of the entrepreneurship practiced is of innovative entrepreneurship like PiggyVest and PayStack, they are healthy for the nation. The issue is that we need innovative entrepreneurship in all aspects our economy, such as engineering (road, electricity, rail, telecoms, oil and gas etc), tourism, manufacturing, health etc. ThriveAgric is an example of innovative entrepreneurship. If they practice commercial farming that's fine, but if what they do is to get mini loans for cutlass and hoe farmers, they haven't done too much. We need educated people and professionals , not illiterate, in the agric sector to turn around our food production. For example, shouldn't depend on Fulani herdsmen for cows, we should have farms owned by agric graduates to supply beef. Imagine a report says 18000 cows is being consumed in Lagos daily, all being produced by the fulani's in the traditional entrepreneurship way. 2 Likes |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by oneolajire(m): 9:15am On May 16, 2019 |
akeensbussy:
You are a lair..ThriveAgric is not empowering any famer. They just merry-go-round and running around politicians and Government personel. Doing eyes servicing. They are empowering farmer and we are still hungry in this country. tell us another lies. Funny |
Re: Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by booksrite(f): 5:02am On Jun 29, 2019 |
Wow Dr adams adeiza. Love the way he lectured us. Great man indeed |