Qservers

The Nigerian fintech industry is heavily regulated. How can one tap from the value chain without starting a POS shop?

Nigeria is entirely a different terrain in comparison with other parts of the world.

I find it hard to understand why ladies who post so many business offers on social media end up sending guys DMs begging for money.

I'm forced to conclude that self-made ladies in Nigeria is a hoax.

Black women probably seem to be wired to depend on a man.

Any contrary opinion?

Hope he calls out other because he knows too much.

Russia is overrated

He knows too much.

Today is Feb 19, 2022. The queue is very very long. I couldnt join.

Could it be that FG can't bear the burden of subsidy?

The fear is that this might be the new normal.

Cubby

national leader still consulting.

consultant in chief

Who else fell for this scam?

He might not be extradicted. He knows too much.

Nice feat

Learn a skill, learn a trade or stay at home

No peace for the wicked. Contentment is a virtue.

Inspiring

Cindy222:
Before I started my self-learning journey in digital marketing, I had to research how to start and where to start from.

I figured I had to have background knowledge of digital marketing.

This led me to Google Digital Skills for Africa where I took 'The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing' course.

I learned a lot of things about being a digital marketer, like;

-Encouraging visitors to take action while on a website i.e Call To Action(CTA) e.g Buy now, Call now, etc.

-Writing effective and relevant content on a website.

-Making sure a website is mobile-friendly using a responsive design approach, having touch-screen phones in mind too.

-If you want increased sales, focus on content marketing and paid advertising.

-If you want increased awareness for a brand/business focus on social media.

-If you want to grow an e-mail marketing list; release freebies, special offers, special content, etc.

-The 'See, Think, Do, Care' Framework i.e the 4 stages most online customers go through before making a purchase online.

-Audience Segmentation.

-Touchpoints i.e the stage when a customer or potential customer comes in contact with a business/brand. As a digital marketer, you have to impress them at every touchpoint online.

These are just a few of the things I learned from the course, I will keep writing about all I have learned and still learning in different courses and workshops.

Lolz

Also Nigerians don't really compete intellectually. But foreign tech geeks can oust nairaland if they want to.

airsaylongcome:



It's going to be hard to compete with NL. Not because of a lack of technology. But because NL already has a huge trove of organic content. Not impossible. But really hard

What skillset can one acquire?

Americans understood that you can't reinforce failure with failure.

Nigeria may be heading the Lebanon path.

Leadership is everything.

Nothing surprising

Actually these roles are paid internship. The unpaid is just to discourage large volumes of applications.

Goodluck.

great thread. Here to learn.

The last 30 years have seen dramatic reductions in global poverty, spurred by strong catch-up growth in developing countries, especially in Asia. By 2015, some 729 million people, 10% of the population, lived under the $1.90 a day poverty line, greatly exceeding the Millennium Development Goal target of halving poverty. From 2012 to 2013, at the peak of global poverty reduction, the global poverty headcount fell by 130 million poor people.

This success story was dominated by China and India. In December 2020, China declared it had eliminated extreme poverty completely. India represents a more recent success story. Strong economic growth drove poverty rates down to 77 million, or 6% of the population, in 2019. India will, however, experience a short-term spike in poverty due to COVID-19, before resuming a strong downward path. By 2030, India is likely to essentially eliminate extreme poverty, with less than 5 million people living below the $1.90 line. By 2030, the only Asian countries that are unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty are Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and North Korea.

In other parts of the world, poverty trends are disappointing. In Latin America, poverty fell rapidly at the beginning of this century but has been rising since 2015, with no substantial reductions forecast by the end of this decade. In Africa, poverty has been rising steadily, thanks to rapid population growth and stagnant economic growth. Exacerbated by a pandemic-induced rise in poverty of 11%, African poverty shows little signs of decline through 2030.

These trends point to the emergence of a very different poverty landscape. Whereas in 1990, poverty was concentrated in low-income, Asian countries, today’s (and tomorrow’s) poverty is largely found in sub-Saharan Africa and fragile and conflict-affected states. By 2030, sub-Saharan African countries will account for 9 of the top 10 countries by poverty headcount. Sixty percent of the global poor will live in fragile and conflict-affected states. Many of the top poverty destinations in the next decade will fall into both of these categories: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Somalia. Global efforts to achieve the SDGs by 2030, including eliminating extreme poverty, will be complicated by the concentration of poverty in these fragile and hard-to-reach contexts.

By 2030, poverty will be associated not just with countries, but with specific places within countries. Middle-income countries will be home to almost half of the global poor, a dramatic shift from just 40 years earlier. Nigeria is now the global face of poverty, overtaking India as the top poverty destination in 2019. (While India temporarily regained its title due to COVID-19, which pushed many vulnerable Indians back below the poverty line, Nigeria will reclaim the top spot by 2022.) In 2015, Nigeria was home to 80 million poor people, or 11% of global poverty; by 2030, this number could grow to 18%, or 107 million.

Poverty numbers and trends have traditionally been reported on a country-by-country basis. However, today we see that low-income countries have significant corridors of prosperity, while middle-income countries can have large pockets of poverty. With advances in geospatial and sub-national data, there is a growing push to move from country-wide metrics to sub-national data, in order to better identify and target these poverty “hotspots.”