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Bekwarra:
EVERYONE should be familiar with Donald Trump, the United States of America presidential aspirant on the platform of the conservative Republican Party. He is rabidly racist, irascible, anarchist, amoral, voluble, loquacious, xenophobic, isolationist, and protectionist – name it! He sounds every bit irrational, violent, and dangerous. His hatred for immigrants – Blacks especially – knows no bound. To be sure, Trump wouldn’t be the first such hate- peddling presidential aspirant in the history of the United States; problem, however, is, this one appears a very serious aspirant; he seems a likely winner of the Republican ticket. The who’s who in his party has endorsed him and the voters in the ongoing party primaries are flocking unto him.

He has trounced hitherto promising challengers and the gap between him and the others keeps widening primary after primary. Soon, he could reach the threshold necessary for him to be declared the undisputed winner of the Republican ticket – and he would be only one step away from the White House – the world’s most powerful office.

As it is today, the only person capable of stopping
Trump is the Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Former First Lady to two-term ex-President Bill Clinton, former Democratic party presidential aspirant (challenging Barak Obama and giving him a run for his money); former Secretary of State in Barak Obama’s cabinet and Senator, Hillary aims to make history as the first woman president of the United States. If she is elected, the Clintons will also make history as the first couple in the country’s history to both occupy the White House as president.

She has practically outpaced other challengers for
the Democratic Party’s ticket and barring any upset,
should soon wrap up the contest. Is she to be
preferred to Trump? Many will say “yes” but I have
read reports about her being an Establishment
person whereas even in her own party, the chant is
for change from the Washington culture. She is said
to be far right of the Centre; not a friend of the poor; not passionate about the issues that concern the poor and if she wins, is likely to serve more of the same menu that Americans across party divide are fed up with.

Americans need CHANGE. The conservatives need
change. They want somebody conservative enough to implement real conservative policies that will make no pretence at pandering to populist ranting. Trump appears to fit the bill. On the Democrats’ side, the people, especially the young, are also clamouring for change. Senator Bernie Sanders best approximates that change but he may not win the ticket. Clinton is not trusted even by the pro-Left of her own party who sees her as pro-Establishment and pro-Wall Street. This is why many are afraid that in the event of Trump winning and Sanders losing, a chunk of pro-CHANGE Democrats may defect to Trump.
Our own Reuben Abati described Trump as “snarling insurgentand nativist” and the possibility of his becoming the U.S. president as “frightening prospect.” Abati adds: “(Trump) has said all the worst things that should never be uttered by anyone seeking to lead a responsible and diverse nation. His campaign has been marked by insults, anger, put downs, bully tactics, rants, and unapologetic immaturity...He recommends torture and the killing of the families of terrorists. He has been endorsed by white supremacists and he doesn’t quite seem to mind being labelled a racist. He threatens violence and on one occasion almost punched a protester in the face.

He even got into an altercation with the Pope. He
wants to barricade the American South border and
build a wall to shut out Mexico because, according to him, the Mexicans who cross the border into
America are ‘rapists’. And when that wall is built, he
insists Mexico must pick the bill. He doesn’t want
Muslims inside America either, and he has dismissed Africans as unwanted and Nigerians as a problem.”

The hysteria which has followed Trump is
understandable. Now, hear what he said that has
frightened everyone “We need to get the Africans out (of America). Not the blacks (African-Americans); the Africans, especially the Nigerians. They are everywhere. I went for a rally in Alaska and met just one African in the entire state. Where was he from? Nigeria! He’s in Alaska taking our jobs. They are in Houston taking our jobs. Why? Why can’t they stay in their own country? Why? I’ll tell you why: Becausethey are corrupt. Their governments are so corrupt they rob the people blind and bring it all here to spend. And their people run away and come here and take our jobs! We can’t have that! If I become president, we’ll send them all home. We’ll build a wall at the Atlantic shore. Then maybe we’ll re-colonise them because obviously they did not learn a damn thing from the British.”

Now, don’t blow your top yet. Let’s overlook the
insults but do contents analysis of what Trump said
about us. Truth, they say, is bitter. Is it not true that
Nigerians are everywhere? We often cite this as
evidence of our industry. Had Trump gone a step
further to find out the tribe of the Nigerian he met in Alaska, he might have found out his is Igbo! Don’t you think so? But truth is that where countries are faced with problems of massive unemployment, the first scapegoats are foreigners. Trump may have been crude in his choice of words but repatriation of foreigners, especially illegal immigrants, is
worldwide practice. We ourselves have sent
Ghanaians and other Africans out of this country.
Other African countries such as Ghana, Libya, and
South Africa have done a similar thing to us. Are our governments not corrupt? Of course they are! Have our so-called leaders not stolen us blind? Of course they have! Do they not siphon the loot abroad while we suffer at home for basic amenities that such stolen money could have provided for us many times over? Of course that is the case! Is there not a brain drain from here to the developed countries? Of course there is! Are our people not running away from hardship here? Of course they are! And are they not taking up jobs in other lands that the citizens would, ordinarily, have got? That, of course, is the fact! But, again, this is the standard practice all over the world. There are, perhaps, more Americans working abroad than foreigners working in America.

Trumps’ tirade against Muslims is no less acerbic, yet with its own “justification”. We must note that 9\11 continues to haunt the Americans; not to talk of the ISIS, Boko Haram , al-Qaeda, al-Shabbab, Mali, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, to mention but a few. It is trite, though, that the crimes of a few should not be stamped on everyone, especially when it can be argued that America’s foreign policy cannot be divorced from the terror-war in many parts of the world. Islamic leaders have a lot of image-cleansing to do all the same. Incendiary statements by Muslims leaders portray the faith in bad light. The mindless bloodletting everywhere in the name of Islam does not help the image of Muslims. We have had our own nasty experience here in Nigeria; the Mile 12, Lagos mindless killings, for instance. Read Remi Fani-Kayode’s “Sons of Futa Jalon” and you are bound to recoil in horror. In the last few weeks, the Ese Oruru saga has not been good Public Relations for Islam.

Newspaper reports are to the effect that there are
many other Ese Orurus that the media have started
to champion their cause for freedom and justice.
Other people confront their problems but we run
away from ours. Is that not why our best brains have left the shores of this country? Many of the lecturers who taught me at Ife, who made that campus tick, are out of the country. I will be surprised if you find

White lecturers on our campuses again. In those
days many of them taught me at Ife. When I heard
stories of Nigerian medical doctors who ran away to the U.S. to try to become a nurse, I wept. I
understand one fellow wrote the qualifying exams
several times but failed. He was almost giving up
when, like our own President Muhammadu Buhari,
he was prevailed upon to try one more time – and
this time, he passed! Tell me, if others behave like us, who will create the Eldorado that we take pleasure in running to? We love finished products; we loathe finishing the products ourselves. Even to grow coaches at home, we cannot; we would rather import them. Buhari said we import from rice to tooth pick – and he is damn right. We hate rules. I mean here in the country – but we conform abroad. The car crash that killed a Minister, his wife and son turned out damning revelations of rules broken. It was impunity upon impunity. Yet, the Presidency rushed to compensate such infractions with the award of scholarships! When we should all have buried our heads in shame! If gold rusts, what will silver do?

Send them home, Trump, send them home! Let our
universities bubble again with first-class academics.
If all those who brain-drained into the U.S. alone are sent back by Trump, we shall have our hospitals
brimming with first-class professionals. And we shall learn to develop inwardly. Prof. Chike Obi said long ago that unless we Blacks make contributions to science and technology\inventions, the Whites will never accept us as their equals. That is a fact. The best that we have notched up is Nobel Peace prize and Nobel Prize in Literature. Can Leopold Sedar Senghor then be right when the father of Negritude said: “Reason is Hellenic (white) while emotion is African (black)”? How will Donald Trump not trump us, so to say? Whether abroad or at home, have we behaved properly to others and to ourselves? The stirring but shrill voice of Okot p’Bitek, in Song of Ochol, pierces the wind again as he moans: “Mother, why, why was I born black?”

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I like Trump.. He said the truth

aribisala0:
You have not Answered what I asked rather you are beating about the bush. Answer what I asked Where is your evidence for your claims about Anambra and Nnewi? There are SMEs all over the country nothing special about Anambra

FYI the Fulani Herdsman is an SME

And that's why the Fulani heardsman is more richer and will have a higher prospect that that man wearing starched shirt earning 30k a month blowing big English

A cow is 80k x 20 in a heard which is 1.6 million minimum so you can see that the Fulani man is turning more capital over but the guy earning 30k will just earn 360k a year so he can rise above poverty but the Fulani man has the capacity to rise above that and I have seen rich cattle owners


So what are you talking

aribisala0:
You have not Answered what I asked rather you are beating about the bush. Answer what I asked Where is your evidence for your claims about Anambra and Nnewi? There are SMEs all over the country nothing special about Anambra

FYI the Fulani Herdsman is an SME

Claims ..people are funny ..you are asking me claims of my village or my state. Why don't you go and have a first hand experience.. That's research. If I talk you call me chest beater

Anambra has the highest number if SMEs and that's a fact

Coscharis , innosson ,ibeto, emzor pharmaceutical, capital oil , cutix cables and many more are claims of nnewi SME s that metamorphosed to big companies

You see that you don't get knowledge in classes but on the field experience

Keep blowing grammar
Let those have have the guts keep becoming start ups


I hate these paper economist ..they ruined this country with their theories

Forgetting that each economy is peculiar and unique

desire222:
Ndi ofe mmanu na emere ha anya ukwu, odi ha obi mma ka ha gbasaa. Mana chukwu agaghi ekwe. Ogwu ahu kpuchiri Peter anya ga aru otu ugbosi. Ise !!!

Ngbe ahu odigo late

fred04:
ndi ofe mmanu asa go ya isi. ozuzu cha anyi amara ebe oga ebi. okwu m agwa.Ofu Ihe Mma Bu Na, Ihe Obula Ejiri Sachaya Uburu Ya Na Aru Oru Gwogwo!

Imana ha na agwo gwo gwo

Lol

Google won't translate this

Pwayne2016:
Nne m gwara m si mu,nukwa onye igbo maka muburu onye ofe.mmanu bata na be anyi na oga akwusi ikpo mu nwa ya...... Biko nu ndi be anyi ka anyi mata na ndi na buro ndi igbo na anyi na ha enwero mmeko na ebe Nnu di na nwunye nno.. Jiri Okoroawusa maa atu ma obu nke ana akpo Peter ewu

Okwu ka ikwuru... Chukwu dube gi
Ana eri ebe Ana akughi nri

jonhemma11:
Yesterday I broke the news that Peter Okoye of Psquare has finally moved on with his career as a SOLO artiste.

He’s said he doesn’t want his elder brother, Jude Okoye as their manager anymore and failure to amicably resolve the dispute has led him on to becoming a SOLO act.

He announced today that he has changed his management.Now known as addressed as Mr P, let’s introduce you to his new manager, Olatunde Micheals.

Olatunde has been a close friend of the Okoye brothers for a long time and he’s well known in the entertainment industry as well. Before taking up the full time job as Peter Okoye’s manager, he’s been with him for years. He’s currently the Managing Director of Playcenter Nigeria.

He once worked as Head of Channel,Soundcity in 2004. He’s also worked as a media and event consultant for the D'banj-led DKM media as well as Station Manager, Trace TV Nigeria.

Olatunde Micheals is a graduate of Public Relations and Advertising from Lagos State University.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/03/meet-peter-okoyes-psquare-new-manager.html

So the olatunde knew them all these years and he still took up the job as a manager instead of settling them

This olatunde is loyal oooo
Nawa for people sha



Nkwuo na ndi odida anyanwu abughi ya ...onye obuna akpo m iyi

Now this is it


Olatunde did a great job by taking the job to be the manager ..so much for friendship

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.....