₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
I do not know whether your claim is true or false but what is the definition of Concentration of business owners
WHAT IS A BUSINESS?>
Is this claim based on any objective data or just sentiments. What kinds of business exactly is it that is done in Nnewi and how do you define business owner? before talking of "concentration" ? That assertion seems like fantasy to me ? Do you know the concentration of Businesses in Malumfashi or Gamboru Ngala?
A lawyer running a Chambers is a business owner as is an Aboki selling Suya or cigarettes. So please tell us how you come about this Nnewi claim?

Itsis just a pointer that the anambra realised that they can't wait for government to give them jobs in 80sthey encouraged the SME and over the years these smes developed and budded to big firm such as case studies like coscharis innosson ibeto, capital oil etc ..these were SME before now they are big industries

The anology is that SME is the key not big economic theories

ypeace:
The West: the have knowlege, skill, capability before they can produce. The sell because they have what to sell to those who need them.


Nigeria wants to develop her SME, infrastructure etc. without the knowledge, skill and capability to do so... They want to enjoy the fruit without planting the seed.

A father who builds a house, buys car for him instead of educating the child has failed the child. The day that father dies, is the day the child realises he has nothing. Nigeria is failing and will continue to fail if it continue to seek for loan, infrastrcuture (depreciating assets = problem) instead of seeking for knowledge, skill and capacity to build her own (learning). History has taught us enough. Nigerians should learn!

You failed it ...the West had to produce because they need to produce was there not because they had a skill. The need to produce will spur skills

Bow another example ..during the Biafra war there was a blockage on Biafra side and the need to produce internally arose and the biafrans started producing their weapons ..that is the need


There must be a need before you developed the skill

What if you get the skill without the need to produce ..you will see that the skill will be a wasted capital


The need will spur the skill not the other way round



Chinese knew they wanted to be competitive and the encouraged SME and these SME developed the required skill over time they started by copying till they became innovative


We should always be mindful if what we postulate

ypeace:
I don't know Anambra or Nnewi. One could be considered richer than the other. But which is qualified to be developed? The true fact remains acquisition of capital (growth) is not same as development. And infact it does not lead to development. Nigeria over the years have acquired capital in form of loans, infrastructure but that has led to an increase in foreign dept and depreciated assets we lack the knowledge and capability to upgrade. Further acquisition of loan, machines instead of acquisition of knowledge, skill and capability to make them ourselves is like the foolish man in chinese proverb who didnt learn how to fish but wants to eat fish.


We had NITEL as a business in Nigeria, equivalent to growth in communication, we lack the development i.e the ability to build and run NITEL independently. The day those who built NITEl for us switch to another form (mobile network), NITEl falls. Now we have mtn, glo, etisalat which Nigeria had no capacity to build. They are business growth, not business dev. Nanotechnology is fast developing, when the west stops furnishing us with what the so called business men deal with, their business will run a natural death like NITEL.


But instead of acquiring capital a mere depreciating asset (finished product, infrastructure), let us acquire the knowledge, skill and capacity to do it ourselves just like Europeans learnt from india, china, islamic and african civilization in the medieval periods; just like how England learnt from the Europeans, America learnt from England, and the Asians are fast learning from Americans.


I am not writing this as a result of what I think is right, I am this as a result of learning from pple like Professor Ogbimi, Wale Babalakin etc, and a careful study of history myself. I have done an un-published report comparative study of history between Nigeria and India automobile industry submitted to a dept in OAU........


The result as learnt from history shows that developed country did not develop because they had money, infrastructure, smes. They developed because they acquire the KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND CAPACITY to do what they were unable to do prior to their advancement.

The grammer is too much

Capital is equals to growth and growth is iequal to development ..they are inter wined . you can't get a development without capital

I do get your apology but know that SME develops a competitive advantage and here economies of scale and comparative advantage takes place ....SME is a key to growth

Knowledge isn't always gotten from walls of school but by on the hand experience.

That's is why you will see proffesors of economics that can't manage a simple kiosk


SME and self employment is the key in this competitive world ..these SME will bud to big firms

ypeace:
the point the op is trying to make which you, christopher123 and others who think sme is the way, is not getting is;

developed nations did not develop as a result of their sme. If you check the article posted by christopher123, APEC nations ( which I called adults) are develeped not because they built their SME's. But, they are capable of DEVELOPING NOT GROWING their smes because the are now developed. Nigeria and third world countries (babies) should not try to eat adult's food by developing their SMEs. What a baby needs is breast-milk......... Someone up there said something about China doing copy cat.


Now have it in mine that China is not yet a developed country. But China is growing to be one because, before you copy cat, you learn what the other person first do before reapeating it.............. Let me illustrate better.......


3 students are in a class. Developed nation, DN is a student who knows engineering and can draw with autocad. After drawing with autocad, he sells his drawings. Fast developing nations like china are copying every clicks and strokes DN makes, the repeat the clicks and strokes drawn on the system and makes autocad drawing to sell. Underdeveloped nations, UDN, like Nigeria copy the autocad drawings of DN to sell. The difference is, DN knows, they do and they sell. Developing nations are trying to do, by them trying to copy cat, they ask questions and when their questions are answered, they learn. UDN are doing something too but that something is the wrong thing. Instead of learning, they want the end product.


Activities of underdeveloped countries is characterized by bringing in finished products like How dangote brings in chemical, machines, mixes it together using either unskilled or underdeveloped labour.

The day UN stops dealing with autocad drawings is the day UDN stopes earning from it. The day europeans stops making the machine and chemical Dangote uses in a particular sector, is the day that sector of dangote's investment starts to dwingle just like NITEL died.

Compare Dangote to Bill gate....... If you see the difference in development and growth, then you understand what point the op is trying to make.

I used anambra and nnewi as also a case study

Nnewi has the highest concentration of business owners and anambra as a whole ...it's the work of SME


Will you refute this also

NIFORSALESREP:
If his brother is wise, he should come up with the name Mr. P2.
Go back to history when they started and see that Peter is actually the holder of Psquare and now he is breaking out he has a reason for that because he knows what pains him.

I believe he will go farther than his brother being alone but blood is ticker than water so they will eventually come back after realizing that he cannot leave his blood behind.

This issue will only make us all know that one has always been better than the other and being twins doesn't mean that both destiny are meant to go same way.

It's now that I understand why God warned Israelites not to marry outsiders

Okeikpu:
i told them to stop getting wives from dat tribe dat drinks oilsoup see d consequenses now

Nwanne ike gwuru


Iga afu ihe GA eme ya

Ihe di na ikpu nwanyi di egwu!!!!

Nkita onwu GA egbu anaghi anu isi nsi!!!!


Peter piro Pedro
Ugboro one ka m kporo gi ?


Gbado Anya


We saw how Samson went


Oga adili anyi mma

APC are becoming a bunch of embarrassment to this country

crixtex:
lolsssss....

Even Delta state was created from IBB wife toto... That igbo woman

kayodekb:
I GAVE YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE BECAUSE U ARE NOT THINKING LIKE A RATIONAL HUMAN BEING... the meaning of hypocrisy is when u concluded that its only Muslims that do kill while we are hearing news concerning Christians killing every day. EVEN THE WEAPONS USED ARE MADE BY CHRISTIANS .u are a fool once again. I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO QUOTE A SENILE BEING AGAIN. IF U HATE MUSLIMS, GO AND DIE WITH UR FAMILY MEMBERS

You are a yoruba Muslim so I don't even regard your muslimness cos it's impure ....

From my position and non muslim, I feel that the passage encourages the muslim not to probe nor research but take everything HOOK, LINE AND SINKER....thats my own interpretation....


Just talking

ari3l:
Not insulting islam here but I have a question I want to ask.

Quran 5:101 says : O you who believe! Ask not about things which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble....

I have a question I would ask, why would allah ask you not to ask questions about your religion? Shows there isn't freedom of speech in your religion. And you now see that the level of confusion is strictly based on your Quran. You dare not do stupíd shít with a christian who would always ask you questions. He's not gonna tell you the truth, he will expose you the next minute if he was a christian.

I always ask questions where ever I go. So I'm asking what do muslims have to say here.

I PRAY YOU WILL BE THE ONE THAT WILL PROVE THAT ALL MUSLIM AINT THIS BLOOD VIOLENT THIRSTY INDIVIDUALS


But wait...are you really comfortable with how muslim is causing chaos globally?


Answer me objectively. Please dont speak big English

A simple Yes or No answer will be okay



Are you comfortable and not ashamed with Muslim killings?

dyn1800:
YOU'RE MY BROTHER TOO..... I WILL ALWAYS LET YOU SEE REASONS WHY WHERE BROTHERS

NUC and Backwardness, Lecturers that cant even browse internet and do basic online research.


This is the years that it takes to get a medicine degree in Developed world that have efficient education and medical system. NIGERIAN LECTUERS ARE INEPT, THEY ARE ONLY GOOD AT SELLING HANDOUTS AND SLEEPINT WITH KIDS...NO INVENTION AT ALL...JUST STRIKES



Medical school typically takes 4 years to complete; then there is a 3 to 7 year ...in USA

Training to become a doctor in UK is one of the long education training and may takes 5- 10 in UK

Most faculties of medicine in Western Canada require at least 2 years, and most faculties in Ontario require at least 3 years of university study before application can be made to medical school. ....In Canada, a medical school is a faculty or school of a university that trains would-be medical doctors and usually offers a three- to five-year Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.D., C.M.) degree. Although presently most students enter medicine having previously earned another degree, the M.D. is technically considered an undergraduate degree in Canada. There are currently seventeen medical schools in Canada. Some faculties, such as Manitoba, McMaster, and Toronto, in addition to training would-be medical doctors offer two-year bachelor's or master's degrees to train physician assistants

Various models of medical education exist in Australia. Undergraduate programs typically last 5–6 years, and by definition, admit secondary school matriculants. Applicants are usually assessed by a combination of high school leaving certificate performance, Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) score and an interview. Graduate medical programs typically last 4 years, and applicants are assessed on the results of their previous academic degree in addition to aptitude tests and interviews. The most commonly used selection test is the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT).

In the United States and Canada, almost all medical degrees are second entry degrees, and require several years of previous study at the university level.

Medical degrees are awarded to medical students after the completion of their degree program, which typically lasts five or more years for the undergraduate model and four years for the graduate model. Many modern medical schools integrate clinical education with basic sciences from the beginning of the curriculum (e.g.[1][2]). More traditional curricula are usually divided into preclinical and clinical blocks. In preclinical sciences, students study subjects such as biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, pathology, anatomy, physiology and medical microbiology, among others. Subsequent clinical rotations usually include internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology, among others.

Medical course in Canada is 3 to 5 year program, depending on Universities and the background of each student. For 5 year medical study program in Canada, the first year is preparatory year and designed for those students without bachelor degree in appropriate science. To inter into 4 year medical program, the student must have bachelor degree in Biology or other appropriate field.


In fact, most South African med students enter medical school straight after high school. Some take gap years and some do a year or more of a Bachelors of Science, either by choice or in order to have a better chance of acceptance.If you go to medical school straight after high school and pass all your years on the first try, you will study for six years. Only one university (UFS) still offers the five year program. Two others recently returned to the six year program. Many schools also have an Extended Degree Program, where students complete the first year in a two-year period. This is especially useful for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who just need some catching-up time.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of growth and innovation in the APEC region. SMEs account for over 97 percent of all enterprises and employ over half of the workforce across APEC economies. SMEs contribute significantly to economic growth, with SMEs' share of GDP ranging from 20 percent to 50 percent in the majority of APEC economies. However, they only account for 35 percent or less of the direct exports. APEC’s Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group (SMEWG) therefore works to encourage the development of SMEs and to build their capacity to engage in international trade.

The SMEWG works towards the achievement of APEC’s Bogor Goals by fostering an enabling business environment for SMEs to grow and develop into export-ready firms. The APEC SME Ministerial Meetings, held annually since 1994, set out the direction for the Working Group. In August 2012, the SME Ministers endorsed the SMEWG Strategic Plan for 2013-2016 which provided a roadmap to address critical issues pertaining to the growth of SMEs and micro enterprises (MEs) in the APEC region:

1. Building Management Capability, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

2. Financing

3. Business Environment, Market Access and Internationalization.

Under the theme “Mainstreaming Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Global Economy”, the Ministers discussed ways to: (i) Remove trade barriers to facilitate MSMEs entry to markets; (ii) Advance modernization, and standard and conformance of MSMEs; and (iii) Promote inclusive growth through sustainable and resilient MSMEs. The two important outcome documents of the Meeting are the Statement of Ministers and the Iloilo Initiative.

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most common businesses found across most of the world’s economies. Although the definition of what an SME is varies across nations, the most widely used measure is that of the European Union (EU), being an independently owned and managed business with fewer than 250 employees, and annual turnover of less than 50 million euro.

Such firms comprise around 99% of all businesses in most economies and between half and three quarters of the value added. They also make a significant contribution to employment and are of interest to governments primarily for their potential to create more jobs.
I looked at this article and I laugh. I will take Anambra as a case study. I come from Nnewi Zone, after the war we decided that whatever business you will do or industry that you will build, you must build some part of it at home, we also encouraged people to have some sort of small business SME and that is it. This small SMEs graduated and evolved to EMZOR , COSCHARIS, IBETO, EKENEDILI and other big companies like CHICASON and ERISCO FOODS. With other small SMEs growing maybe in few years time also these new SMEs will evolve.
Now somebody will come out and tell me that entrepreneurship doesn’t grow a country. I wonder what grows a country. All these big names like Cadbury, PZ, Ford etc started as a one man business. The bottom line is that average Nigerian is lazy and has refused to think out of the box, we will bring down our own local product tagging it IGBO MADE while we buy the foreign stuff. Forgetting that as you buy this foreign stuff you help these foreign workforce to retain their jobs and you sack local workforce

freshdude99:
Mr Op. I'm really sorry to say this, but I think u are lost like seriously. U don't just pick a pen and start writing opinions that aren't well thought of.
To start with, u don't know exactly what entrepreneurship is sir. For u to know this, search for Joseph Schumpeter's capitalism, socialism and democracy. Read it and u improve ignorance
Secondly there are different level of entrepreneurship, it could be necessity-driven or opportunity -driven. Sadly enough Nigeria and majority of Africa still find themselves on the former and that's a serious cause of concern
Thirdly wen rating economies, it could be factor-driven, efficiency -driven or innovation -driven. All these are dependent on competition and globalisation. Sadly enough again, majority of African countries are running a factor -driven economy because of our natural resources abundance and lack of saturation in terms of competitiveness of our local economy.
Mind you entrepreneurship cuts across every sector wether you are a government employee or a private practioner.
Truth is ur write up lacks deep and I see it as a mere complain of another Nigerian who wen given the opportunity to serve won't do anything different from what's already obtainable.
Finally I will end this submission by say that the prevailing economic condition is the only way Nigeria can make it to a developed economy by refusing to devalue the naira, encourage local consumption of local goods, make power stable and if possible give subsidies to local industries across all sectors of the economy etc.
Muoh Obinna
B.Tech Entrepreneurship and Business
muoh_4u@yahoo.com

You will always support your brother I knw that

dyn1800:
HE'S HUMAN..... SURE YOU'RE HUMAN TOO.... YOU CANNOT BE PINCH WITH A NEEDLE WITHOUT REACTING......

I'M STILL PROUDLY A MUSLIM AND I'M NOT A TERRORIST..... IT'S YOU'VE THE RIGHT TO HATE OR LOATHE ANYTHING YOU LIKE.

REGARDS

dyn1800:
I STILL STAND BY MY WORD.... I'M A MUSLIM AND I'M NOT A TERRORIST

DYLANN ROOF KILLS NINE BLACK PEOPLE IN A CHURCH- THE CASE WAS TREATED AS HATE CRIME COS HE'S NOT[b] DYLAAN MOHMAMED ROOF[/b]
2. Andreas Lubitz DELIBERATELY CRASHED GERMANWINGS INTO FRENCH ALPS KILLING 150 PEOPLE ON-BOARD- HE WAS SAID TO BE MENTALLY UNSTABLE- SURE MEDIA WISH HE HAD A MUSLIM NAME IN IS IDENTITY CARD.... SURE WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE HEADLINE WILL BE.
3. DAVID HICKS KILLS (46) KILLS 3 MUSLIMS YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE HIS KIDS (23,21,19YEARS OF AGE)- HE WAS NOT CALLED A TERRORIST -RATHER CALLED AN ANGRY MAN WHO FOUGHT AND KILL OVER PARKING SPACE. THOUGH CASE STILL COURT
4. Anders Behring Breivik- KILLS 77 PEOPLE IN NORWAY 2011- HE WAS NOT CALLED A TERRORIST-BUT ANOTHER CASE OF MENTALLY UNSTABLE YOUNG MAN-WHOSE KILLING WAS MOTIVATED BY HATE.


SEE MY BROTHER YOU'VE THE RIGHT TO HATE ANYBODY...... BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE MADE TO BELIEVE BY THE MEDIA.......

JUST WAIT ON WHEN THE MEDIA TURN ON YOU

Did you see how your Muslim brothers proved me right above


As you can see I am correct

kayodekb:
ogbeni, u are a compound fool, Muslims comprises of more than 2 billions population in the world, am sure u are a product of baby factory product who doesn't recognize his father which now implies that u lack training from home... am sure u have Muslims in ur family or ur compound, if Muslims are terrorist as u claimed, then you would have died by now. u are suffering from inferiority complex bcs Muslims are the majority in Nigeria. USELESS FOOL. IF YOU HATE ISLAM, GO AND DIE WITH UR MOTHER AT HOME

Another budding terrorist spotted ..just look at his curses and abuses ..instead of tackling this intellectually. This is the hallmark of Muslim

Imagine if this was physical.. He would have detonated a bomb since or at most go loco


You have proved my submission that Muslim are terrible set

Bye


Funny enough you are a yoruba Muslim and not even considered a pure Muslim by Fulani standards ..you can't and will never lead a prayer in front of Hausa Fulani

dyn1800:
I STILL STAND BY MY WORD.... I'M A MUSLIM AND I'M NOT A TERRORIST

DYLANN ROOF KILLS NINE BLACK PEOPLE IN A CHURCH- THE CASE WAS TREATED AS HATE CRIME COS HE'S NOT[b] DYLAAN MOHMAMED ROOF[/b]
2. Andreas Lubitz DELIBERATELY CRASHED GERMANWINGS INTO FRENCH ALPS KILLING 150 PEOPLE ON-BOARD- HE WAS SAID TO BE MENTALLY UNSTABLE- SURE MEDIA WISH HE HAD A MUSLIM NAME IN IS IDENTITY CARD.... SURE WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE HEADLINE WILL BE.
3. DAVID HICKS KILLS (46) KILLS 3 MUSLIMS YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE HIS KIDS (23,21,19YEARS OF AGE)- HE WAS NOT CALLED A TERRORIST -RATHER CALLED AN ANGRY MAN WHO FOUGHT AND KILL OVER PARKING SPACE. THOUGH CASE STILL COURT
4. Anders Behring Breivik- KILLS 77 PEOPLE IN NORWAY 2011- HE WAS NOT CALLED A TERRORIST-BUT ANOTHER CASE OF MENTALLY UNSTABLE YOUNG MAN-WHOSE KILLING WAS MOTIVATED BY HATE.


SEE MY BROTHER YOU'VE THE RIGHT TO HATE ANYBODY...... BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE MADE TO BELIEVE BY THE MEDIA.......

JUST WAIT ON WHEN THE MEDIA TURN ON YOU

oga , I am not in the mood to advise you, but I noticed that in Islam everybody that practise it has an issue of violence, I was talking with one muslim and I told him that let us analyse Muhammed and Jesus Christ logically and their personality Objectively...He got violent. Then I realised that ISLAM has violence ingrained in them. I will give you another killing in the name of Islam today. Just give me few minutes.


all terrorist are muslim and all muslims might not be terrorist.

Even Emirs are fingered in Child abduction...what a shame, a religion that abducts and marries a child as young as 12 years...that is peadophilia...it really sucks to be a muslim

Where are Chibok girls now
the ISIL killings
Mehn ...abeg leave islam with their wahala, thanks I never have c

PRISTINE STUPIDITY

SMEs and Start up is what put China and USA in the map, stop sitting around and wait the government to give you a job...Go create a job, You can fry Akara, package MoiMoi and do something unique, you will have the capacity to grow. Dangote, Ibeto, Coscharis all started small...do not look down on the days of humble beginning

Above all stop these long post..people are easily bored by it. Learn how to Itemize your reports. It makes people read it and be striaght to the point


Entrepreneurship is the best way to curb unemployment. I am an anambra man and I know what SMEs meant and how it has put us in the map....so smell the coffeee when you wake up


As of now keep sleeping while the Asians and South African keep reaping in NIGERIAN Economy



Bye

oneolajire:
Nigeria is a country where all big investors have no inventions (tangible or intangible) to their credit. Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Michael Dell, Thomas Edison and the likes all have products to patent, but most entrepreneurs we have in Nigeria have invented nothing and have made it through dubious means. 

Entrepreneurship/vocational education is government's way of telling the youth and graduates that she (the government) lacks industrialisation and job creation strategies while the youth have been left to fate.

Entrepreneurship/vocational education is government's way of making the youth/graduates look intellectually lazy and burdensome as well as telling them that they are have been abandoned in the valley of unemployment. Unemployment rate increased simply because government owned industries and companies get strangulated by the python of corruption as well as the refusal of the government to establish new ones.

Entrepreneurship in advanced countries is about innovations, inventions, improvements, expansions, people and institutional empowerment. Modern and sophisticated skills are being utilised to manufacture goods and services which culminates into abundant job creation.

Entrepreneurship in Nigeria is of the graduate job seeker told to engage in bead making, soap making, hair dressing, laundry and so on. These businesses have neither inventions nor advancement to add to the business practice and the economy, as they also have little or no impact on the international market. 

Entrepreneurship in Nigeria is also of the rich that colludes with the government to defraud the masses, destroy public corporations and infrastructures in order for them to import alternative goods. The rich set up few enterprises and often pay peanuts to their employees in order to increase their wealth; culminating into increase in poverty level and underemployment in the country.  

The government of advanced countries often invest billion of dollars on education and research, so they always have intellectuals who will offer innovative products and services to the world. These products and services are initially developed into small scale businesses as they many even grow into large enterprises. While Nigeria keeps wasting hard earned funds on Small and Medium Scale (SME) development, yet the businesses are nowhere to be found.

Only an insane person will keep doing the same thing the same way and expect a different result. Am yet to see a nation that got developed by investing so little on the education of her youth and students but spend so much on SME propaganda. Still searching for a nation that gave nothing more than mere, non-professional, common, stark and non-sophisticated skills/training to her youth and achieved rapid industrial development.

Why should we buy a trailer engine, fix it in a car and try to make it compete with an aircraft? Why should we make people earn mere skills and expect them to compete with foreign sophisticated technologies? We have to know that the issue of local production of goods and services is a serious competetion with the developed nations.

Some questions for the proponents of entrepreneurship/vocational education.
 When will out textile, fashion and leather industry be able to make products of international standard? When will a Nigerian mechanic be able to manufacture car engines and other motor parts? When will our furniture makers be able to make furniture that will compete with ones made overseas? When will a computer repairer be able to produce motherboards, memorycards, monitors, just to mention a few?

Did America achieved greatness by emphasising on vocational trainings on how to make shoe polish, bake cake, produce detergents, event decorations , frying akara and establishment of football viewing centres? Did Britain get it right by teaching her youth how to start a beer palour and salon businesses or by ensuring technological dynamism? I wondered if it is mere phone repair training was what brought China among world's  mobile phone producers. Over and over again, I see entrepreneurship and vocational education as a scam.

Take a look at the furniture industry in Nigeria, you'll discover it is almost dead because foreign furniture has flooded the Nigerian market. Foreign furniture makers have been able to introduce much variety of products with various designs, even at exorbitant prices, yet people still buy them. Imported furniture  attains this much because modern machines are regularly produced to make new designs of furniture, but here in Nigeria, we only buy simple tools, we don't engage in design and manufacture of  machines/tools to be used in the furniture industry, so we are perpetually making furniture that cannot compete with the foreign ones. It is only engineering that provides modern machines, stack entrepreneurship cannot.

Entrepreneurship and and vocational education has never helped Nigeria in the manufacture of modern machines for production of finished goods that can compete favourably with imported ones. The best entrepreneurship has offered us is to use social media means to engage in selling of imported products as well as setting up of few businesses with the use of foreign machines. It is appaling for government to still keep preaching the sermon that can never bring solutions to us.

Every sector of the Nigerian economy has been badly affected by the erroneous policy of entrepreneurship and vocational education. From the agricultural sector to the transportation sector, from manufacturing to education, from construction to entertainment, name it, we have rendered our nation incapacitated when it comes to production of goods and services. There can never be abundant job opportunities as long as we keep executing this lame practice. 

I wonder why we have not given so much vocational training to professional operating as doctors, nurses and pharmacist in the medical field. We give this set of people trainings that can make them compete favourably with their foreign counterpart. I believe it should appear proper to the government to substitute entrepreneurship and vocational education with the training they receive in the teaching hospitals.  The government (after emptying the laboratories and workshops of polytechniques and universities) substituted requisite training for our engineers and scientist with entrepreneurship and vocational training, so they are rendered handicapped when it comes to provision of modern goods and services as well as job creation.

It is high time we changed our job creation policy of entrepreneurship and vocational studies to provision of qualitative education at all levels, especially science and technology education so that Nigerian graduates would possess requisite modern and sophisticated skills for our nation and the world market at large. It is only qualitative education and intensive research that can initiate intellectual thinking for creation of innovative goods and services.
 
Entrepreneurship and vocational studies have been found to have contributed immensely only to economy of nations with massive investments in education and research. Singapore and South Korea are the examples of nations that have eradicated illiteracy and have invested huge funds into science and technology education, so entrepreneurship thrives there.

Let the laboratories and workshops of our secondary schools and higher institutions be adequately equipped with modern and facilities so as to provide avenues for learning practicals. We need to replicate the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg who utilised the qualitative education they obtained in the tetiary institutions to create worldwide business ventures in their fields.

Real entrepreneurship is when Nigerian graduates of electrical engineers can produce transformers, power generation turbines, alternators, televisions from local technologies. Metallurgical engineers must be able to produce steel for oil and gas pipelines as well as in train and car manufacturing. Combustion engines, pumps, hydraulic and pneumatic parts must be what our mechanical engineers must be able to manufacture from their companies. Businesses of agricultural science graduates should able to feed the nation cos they should empowered to do so. This is what is called real entrepreneurship.

Businesses that leads to industrialisation are offshoots of science and technological discoveries and investments. The kind of entrepreneurship Nigeria needs is one in which Nigerian chemical engineers can set up refineries and petrochemical companies with the aid local resources. I would also love to see mobile phones, computers and other information technology gadgets developed and commercialised by Nigerian graduates of computer science. 

The entrepreneurship that Nigeria needs is one in which local engineering enterprises will be able to metamorphous  into multinationals like General Electric, Ford Motors, Chevron, Microsoft Corporations,Tata Steel and the likes. This is how we can solve the problem of unemployment as well as put an end to the massive importation of good in Nigeria. However, with this, Nigeria will become industrialised and be listed among the developed nations of the world.

oneolajire2000@yahoo.co.uk

APC have a way of making a reasonable man think unreasobale. NGIGE and AMAECHI has proved this theory


I stand to be corrected

Oga forget what Jesus said...I am talking about what I see daily..Killings are too much all In the name of one religion...ISLAM



ARE THEY THE ONLY RELIGIONS ON EARTH...Why are Islam constituting a nuisance to the Global peace


Oga, if I were you, the best thing for you is to leave that fold,many people are leaving ISLAM in droves, you can choose any religion but Islam...hmmmm they can cause wahala

dejisakin:
Pls brother, can you read to us what Jesus (Pbuh) said in Luke 19:27. God bless you

El Rufia, Tufia kwa to you...You should be an administrator not a moralist


You have lost ideas
throw in the towel
dont let people kick the bucket
a stitch in time save nine
it is not the case of 6 and half a dozen
dont stir the hornets nest
be the real McCoy

Once beaten twice shy



I am outta here

Then what is it ? lol


No joke with Toto matter ..ask Fani Kayode...wetin make him people detest am...na IGBO toto


Ask Bill Clinton wetin put am for wahala...Na Monica Lewisnsky toto

crixtex:
Hahaha bro.... its not; its not.....

joseph1832:
Have you taken a look at yourself lately? Cos you're the one who clearly lacks understanding, Mr man.

Why don't you show us how to analyze, so we can all be 'analyzers' like you.

well..Abbookkii WILL always showcase his Abbookkiinneess...You are correct afterall

sukkot:
bros the analysis is impeccable, even if i do say so myself. you should never argue with an hausa man. they dont have time for arguments. lolz

lolz...well you are correct

Hausa are barbaric
fulani are savages

sukkot:
here is my own advice for the rest of you that are still living, especially the igbos. the igbos see it as cowardice to be timid and subservient when in another mans land. they ( not all ) think being brash is a sign of bravery. well let me tell you how i think this incident happened. the igbo guy was charged 10 naira extra than he should - instead of just accepting it and walking away knowing he is in hausa territory - the igbo ' bravery ' comes out and he starts talking reckless to the hausa man. abok-ki just summon his fellow abo-kis and dem tie the igbo guy up and throw tire on him and burn him to death. rip. THE LESSON IS, BE HUMBLE ALL THE TIME AND KNOW YOU CAN NEVER WIN ALL THE BATTLES. SOME BATTLES YOU JUST HAVE TO SURRENDER SO YOU CAN LIVE. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT ' BRAVERY OR COWARDICE '. LIFE IS ABOUT BEING SAVVY AND SMART AND KNOWING WHEN TO BE TIMID AND WHEN TO BE BRASH.

if stupidity is a course of study...You should have a PhD now..is this how you analyse

I feel that people should go their seperate ways in this country. Some set of people are Savages and Barbaric while some areCivilized and educated. So they just cant stay together. We are just decieving ourselves


Just look at how they killed him

crixtex:
Or the power of Love? ?

Delilah killing samson..is that power of love
or Adam jonsing because of Eve that one na power of love

Toto has a way of making men leave rationality to stupidity...it has been recorded , so this no brainer

I know people will say that why hate Muslim, but the stats are there, we are just talking about killings not kidnapping ...


Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2016.03.13 Ivory Coast Bassam 16 17 al-Qaeda gunmen assault a hotel and murder anyone refusing to praise Allah with them. The sixteen killed include a 5-year-old child.
2016.03.12 Afghanistan Khanashin 1 3 A child is disassembled by Taliban bombers.
2016.03.10 Syria Wilayat al-Khayr 2 0 The Islamic State executes two terrified men by blowing them up.
2016.03.09 Iraq Taza 1 600 A 3-year-old girl dies from an ISIS chemical attack that left hundreds injured.
2016.03.09 Somalia Mogadishu 4 2 Four people bleed out following a suicide car bombing outside a café.
2016.03.08 Uruguay Paysandu 1 0 A Jewish man is stabbed to death by a Muslim convert yelling praises to Allah…
2016.03.08 Turkey Kilis 2 1 A 4-year-old and his mother die when Sunni extremists hit their car with a rocket.
2016.03.07 Tunisia Ben Guerdane 19 17 A 12-year-old girl is among nineteen others who lose their lives during an Islamist assault on a small town.
2016.03.07 Pakistan Shabqadar 17 30 A Jamatul Ahrar suicide bomber murders seventeen people at a courthouse, including two children.
2016.03.06 Iraq al-Jahash 12 0 A dozen people are executed by a Sharia court.
2016.03.06 Iraq Hillah 61 95 At least sixty people are incinerated when a suicide bomber in a fuel tanker detonates outside a town.
2016.03.06 Syria Aleppo 14 40 Jaish-al-Sunna terrorists send mortars and rockets into a busy market, massacring over a dozen shoppers.
2016.03.06 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 3 0 Fundamentalists ambush an ambulance and machine-gun a medic and two injured patients.
2016.03.05 Yemen Aden 2 0 Sectarian terrorists fire on a vehicle, killing two occupants.
2016.03.05 Syria Jarablus 1 0 A teen is beheaded for apostasy after missing Friday prayers.
2016.03.04 Yemen Aden 16 0 Militant Muslims storm a Catholic retirement home and murder sixteen, including four nuns and the elderly residents.
2016.03.03 Iraq Abu Ghraib 2 10 Two civilians are killed when terrorists sent mortar shells into a market.
2016.03.03 Syria Kafriya 1 3 Sunni militants machine-gun a civilian in his home.
2016.03.03 Libya Surman 2 0 Two Italian hostages are killed while being used as human shields by ISIS.
2016.03.02 Iraq Hawija 6 0 Six people are beheaded and crucified by the Islamic State.
2016.03.02 Iraq Nineveh 5 0 A 12-year-old girl is forced by the caliphate to execute five women, including a doctor.
2016.03.02 Syria Quneitra 18 30 Two suicide bombers massacre eighteen bystanders.
2016.03.02 Egypt Khariza 1 3 An Islamist bomb claims one life.
2016.03.02 Afghanistan Jalalabad 2 19 Four suicide bombers target the Indian consulate, killing two civilians.
2016.03.01 Pakistan Noorshah 2 0 Two women are murdered over 'doubts about their character and lifestyles'.
2016.03.01 Pakistan Peshawar 2 4 Two employees at the US consulate bleed to death following an Islamist bombing.
2016.03.01 Afghanistan Pul-e-Khumri 3 2 Religious extremists hit a house with a rocket, killing three family members.
2016.03.01 Somalia Alamada 5 8 An al-Shabaab bomb produces five dead bodies.
2016.03.01 Egypt al-Arish 2 0 Fundamentalists behead a man and shoot his son to death.
2016.03.01 Iraq Haditha 8 8 Eight Iraqis are blown up by four Fedayeen suicide bombers.
2016.03.01 Philippines Zamboanga 2 0 An assassination attempt on an anti-ISIS preacher outside a university hall leaves two dead.
2016.03.01 Philippines Datu Salibo 1 2 Bangsamoro Islamists kill one other person during an ambush.
2016.03.01 Pakistan Sheikhupura 1 0 An Ahmadi religious minority is stabbed to death for his faith.
2016.03.01 Russia Moscow 1 0 A woman beheads a child, saying that it was revenge for 'spilled Muslim blood' in Syria.
2016.02.29 Afghanistan Farah 3 3 Three children are disassembled by a Taliban IED.
2016.02.29 Afghanistan Uruzgan 4 3 Four locals are shot to death by the Taliban
2016.02.29 Iraq Mosul 24 0 Two dozen Iraqis are rounded up and executed by the Islamic State.
2016.02.29 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two religious clerics are murdered by their more radical brethren
2016.02.29 Iraq Muqdadiya 40 58 A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates at a funeral, sending at least forty mourners straight into their own afterlife.
2016.02.29 Iraq Hawija 3 0 Three youth are beheaded for putting up anti-ISIS posters.
2016.02.29 Yemen Aden 4 5 A Shahid suicide bomber snuffs out four other souls.
2016.02.29 DRC Ntombi 13 0 Four women are among thirteen villagers found hacked to pieces by ADF Islamists.
2016.02.29 Nigeria Badarawa 15 22 Suspected Boko Haram surround a group of villagers gathered to watch a video and pour machine gun fire into them, killing at least fifteen.
2016.02.29 Syria Deir ez-Zor 3 0 Three men are crucified by a Sharia court for crimes against Allah.
2016.02.28 Iraq Abu Ghraib 24 22 Two dozen Iraqis are shot or blown apart during a Fedayeen suicide attack by ISIS.
2016.02.28 Iraq Baghdad 78 112 Seventy-eight people at a packed market in a Shiite area are exterminated by two Sunni suicide bombers.
2016.02.28 Egypt al-Arish 1 0 A man is shot to death in front of his home by the Islamic State.
2016.02.28 Somalia Baidoa 30 60 At least thirty civilians and first responders are slaughtered by a twin suicide attack near a restaurant.
2016.02.28 Afghanistan Qads 1 0 A tribal elder is tortured to death by religious extremists.
2016.02.28 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 3 11 Three souls are snuffed out by an explosive device planted by Sharia proponents.
2016.02.27 Pakistan Qayum 1 2 A Muslim shouts a religious slur and fires into a Christian home, killing a 17-year-old boy.
2016.02.27 Afghanistan Bolan 2 0 The Taliban wipe out two local police with a roadside bomb.
2016.02.27 Egypt Rafah 2 2 Two local security personnel are cut down by an Islamist bomb.
2016.02.27 Iraq Abu Ghraib 2 9 Jihadis bomb an outdoor market, killing two patrons.
2016.02.27 Iraq Baghdad 5 25 A series of Mujahideen blasts leave five dead.
2016.02.27 Syria Ajila 2 4 A suicide car bomber takes out two village guards.
2016.02.27 Afghanistan Asadabad 12 40 A dozen people lose their lives to a suicide blast along a city street, including three brothers.
2016.02.27 Afghanistan Nangarhar 1 5 Taliban bombers take out a civilian.
2016.02.27 Syria Salamiya 2 3 An ISIS suicide bomber takes at least two others with him.
2016.02.27 Afghanistan Kabul 15 31 A suicide bomber targets a bus, killing fifteen passengers and bystanders.
2016.02.27 Syria Teeba 4 4 Four villagers lose their lives to an Islamic State suicide bomber.
2016.02.27 Syria Deir Ezzor 3 12 Three children are disassembled by Sunni mortars.
2016.02.26 Somalia Mogadishu 14 30 Holy Warriors attack a 'Youth League' hotel with bombs and gunfire, laying out fourteen innocents.
2016.02.26 Syria al-Zahra 1 0 A child is killed by Jabhat al-Nusra.
2016.02.26 Egypt Giza 1 1 Fundamentalists open fire on two traffic cops, killing one.
2016.02.26 Germany Hanover 0 1 A 'radicalized' teen girl stabs a female police officer.
2016.02.25 Somalia Mogadishu 4 8 Four civilians lose their lives to an al-Shabaab attack.
2016.02.25 Iraq Baghdad 15 50 Two Sunni suicide bombers detonate at a Shiite mosque, slaughtering at least fifteen worshippers.
2016.02.24 Nigeria Agatu 30 0 Radical Islamic mercenaries sweep through a series of Christian villages and slaughter over three hundred, including pregnant women and children.
2016.02.24 Libya Sabratha 12 0 A dozen local security agents are captured and beheaded by ISIS.
2016.02.24 Mali Timbuktu 3 2 Islamists attack a checkpoint, killing three defenders.
2016.02.24 Afghanistan Kabul 7 0 The Taliban kill seven Afghans over a 24-hour period.
2016.02.24 Syria Dayr al-Zawr 2 14 Sunni rockets take out two civilians.
2016.02.24 Syria Aleppo 10 5 Seven children are among ten civilians disassembled by two Sunni mortar rounds.
2016.02.24 Iraq Mosul 1 0 An imam is beheaded by Religion of Peace rivals.
2016.02.23 Iraq Fallujah 12 0 A dozen Iraqis are caught trying to flee the caliphate, marched to the city center and executed.
2016.02.23 Syria Hamidiya 2 0 Two teenage girls are stoned for adultery.


THESE ARE VERIFIABLE FACTS

Jihad Report
Last 30 Days

Attacks 145
Killed 1192
Injured 2206
Suicide Blasts 23
Countries 25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30


So you can see why I detest Islam, they are violent in Nature ..I am sorry to hurt you, but you cant change that perception or that of many people. Do you want me to Give you data of Nigerian Muslim attrocities this year only

dyn1800:
thanks for the insult bro! sure Christianity never thought you to do so ...... just your way of backward reasoning.... need I remind you My name is Mustapha and I'm proud to be a Muslim....and I'm not a terrorist

Gunmen from al-Qaida’s north African branch have killed at least 16 people, including four Europeans, after they opened fire near several hotels in the Ivory Coast. The shooting came amid fears the jihadi threat is spreading in west Africa.

The government said security forces had killed the six assailants who launched attacks on three hotels in the popular seaside town of Grand-Bassam, a weekend retreat for residents of Abidjan, about 25 miles (40km) away.

Among the 16 dead were two soldiers, said the president, Alassane Ouattara. Local media reported gunmen had entered the L’Etoile du Sud (the Southern Star) hotel, seizing guests and staff on Sunday. A French foreign ministry spokesperson said one French national had been killed. A jihad monitoring group said al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb had claimed the attack.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/13/gunmen-open-fire-in-ivory-coast-tourist-resort

That is the work of Muslim again just few days ago

without even DNA text...the pickin resemble am...why waste the money on DNA test instead of using it to carry other women that you can sow your wild oats for


mtchewww