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We now have 11 members, graduates from different disciplines, and there are spaces for only 9 more members...So if you are interested in our idea then join the train before it leaves the station!

tete7000:
While I agree with some of your submission, the truth is that buhari's tone has never been reconcilliatory. Threats doesnt douse tension. There is a way to talk to people agitated to calm them down. We talk about giving the President chance but the reality is that every opportunity he has to talk and he spits fire is a chance wasted. Is it a coincidence there is more reconciliation when he was away and Osinbajo held sway? Is it a thing of coincidence that Osinbajo dare to tread in those areas where President was advised to stay away from? The problem with Nigeria is the man Buhari, he represents violence. Long before he came to power he has been synonymous with violence. His utterances caused one of the post election violence that killed some corpers years back. He is the same man that said monkeys and baboons will be soaked in blood. He once advocated muslims should vote muslims while christians vote christians. He visited Oyo state in his capacity as an elder stateman some years back on the heel of a clash between hausas and yorubas and told the then Oyo governor 'Your people are killing my people'. During Jonathan and Obasanjo regimes, I wonder how many council of state meeting he attended; he consider himself too self righteous to mix and learn the complexity of Nigerian state from those who ruled before him when he boycotted those meetings. Of late he made allusion to a 95%-5% dichotomy. The man is just divisive and it is personality that is driving most of these strive and agitation where are witnessing. I pray the SE/SS people can calm down and give peace a change but Buhari in power will always prove a challenge to that wish of mine.

I disagree with you sir/ma! Obasanjo introduced the "do or die" dictum and ordered the massacre of the Odi and Zaki Biam people and Jonathan the peaceful leader was so peaceful that terrorists in the North actually carved out a territory within his territory. You say Buhari is not re-conciliatory but so he allowed the UNEP backed clean up commence. You say Buhari is divisive but he has a Pastor as a vice president. You say Buhari started the post election crisis of 2011 with a single statement but you advertently avoided the widespread rigging that marked the elections and spurred the easily manipulated irate and uneducated northern youths to go on rampage. You avoided the internal PDP crisis between Jonathan and the Northern leaders who insisted that Jonathan respected the PDP constitution and step down for a northerner. You avoided the defiance of Jonathan to the northern elite in the PDP and how this defiance was connected to the lives lost in the 2011 election...rather you pick and choose isolated facts and present them as the sole factors that led to the crisis.

Buhari is pursuing the corrupt politicians he can pursue , he is trying to restore our image in the international comity of nations and he is trying to wade through the quagmire the country is plunged into thanks to the useless oil dependent economy we have been running since 1959 and you say he is driving these agitations. The economic conditions of the Igbos and the Niger Deltans were not better under Obasanjo, Yar Adua and not even Jonathan and they did not beat their war drums to this extent but when Buhari came in with the drive to restore some sanity they woke up and realized needed to blow stuff up!

Now you see these agitations as a response to Buhari's personality but you do not see it as a response to his anti-corruption drive...

Fyno:
Who are those 'our leaders'?
Were they elected by the masses? The answer is No in most circumstance. Most of this leaders are products of the military generals,they are answerable to their masters and not the masses.

The only option left for the common man is to destroy the economic lifeline of the country because you dare not protest for the army will use you for shooting practice.

I disagree with you sir! Destroying the economic lifeline of the country is not the only option left for the common man. As a matter of fact only a fool does that. At a time of crude technology and at a time considered pre-historic, mankind came together to pool their resources towards building a city and setting in its midst a tower that stretches into the heavens, the Bible documents that the feat this group of persons wanted to achieve was so daunting that it got God's attention...How did the Americans, the Britons, the Russians (after the end of the USSR) and recently China all make it to where they are today? They made it there through honest, selfless and collaborative effort...However the average Nigeria would rather enrich himself at the expense of the entire country.

A Niger Delta Governor labelled his own people lazy. He noted that his people instead of working hard at their jobs would rather trade the job to people of other tribes in exchange for a fraction of the salary (source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200812190067.html).

Youths keep saying, no capital, no capital, no capital but they fail to realize that if 40 people committed to starting a business can contribute 2000 naira per month they would have raised 1.44 million naira in 1 year and 6 months to start a business that would in years to come provide an escape route out of poverty...

So sir, I disagree with you! It flies in the face of common sense to destroy national assets to air your grievances - particularly when those grievances include discontinuing the investigation of corrupt persons from a section of the country.

elisra:
i love ur approach that is trying to win a war without firing a shot,u think u can pretend to be smart and cow igbos to remain in slavery?ofcourse you wont understand that a threat pumps adrenaline up the heart of an ibo person.
If u are not ready to fight,never threaten an ibo because threats dont work.
Anyway u are a fool for thinking about that its possible to wipe out an entire race,ask Hitler whether he succeeded but Jews are still bouncing just as ibos are bubbling after the civil war.
Civil war 2.0 is loading but things have changed.
Life is a dream,death is the ultimate reality.

Napoleon was a brutal man in combat but he'd rather win a war without a fight (Robert Green, 33 Strategies of War). Winning a war becomes foolish, when you have to fight so many battles, lose so many good soldiers, lose hard earned wealth and render yourself incapacitated in the process! Yes death is a reality but do you think those who fought the 1967 war would fight again if they were given the chance to. Do you think the Igbos who died in combat would be happy with an Ojukwu who decided not to meet the ultimate reality in the hands of Nigerian soldiers? Do you think that those who died in the war would love to start it again after seeing the hardship and poverty that would follow for generations?

I trust you anyway, you would be one of the few privileged who would escape to South Africa when the sounds of missiles play an orchestra for your timid ears...I have learned that true warriors go to the battlefield as a last resort but cowards dance easily to the beating of war drums!

ofeoil:
The only problem I see here is that this is not 1967.

This is the problem wen a man at departure lounge is asked to preside. This is 2016.

Go ahead and commit genocide, we wont rest until u make ur appearance in the Hague for war crime.

As e be u, na so e be us, we are fully committed.


If Buhari don't kill 30million den he is a bastard.

As a dictator he did not last one year, so he is turning out democracy to dictatorship. The coward was the only dictator displaced without one gun shot!

Bros drink some cold water and relax...It did not take a world war to remove Gen. Gowon from power! If a war starts now on account of this Biafra thing, the death toll in present day realities will dwarf what started in 1967. Last time i checked Gen Gowon is still a free man yet he ordered the massacre of millions of people and plunged several generation into a state of generational hardship and lack. For your information, the Hague, like every institution on this sick planet, is controlled by the powers that be and if Buhari plays his game well, he can start an ethnic cleansing that will go completely unnoticed by the superpowers of this world - the atrocities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar are veritable examples.

It is foolhardy to ask for a war and hope to punish the initiators of the war at the end of the war...Wisdom says prevent the war and spare the hangman's noose!

I feel the pain of the Igbos. I feel the hate and disdain they have for the rest of Nigeria as a result of the war. I feel their thirst for vengeance and I lack the moral standing to plead for them to forgive and forget but they must understand: it is foolishness for the weak to stand up against the strong, wisdom demands that the weak retreat, grow in strength and might and return to fight a fair fight!

My advice to the Igbos; return home, galvanize your resources, grow your local wealth, gain regional and global influence then return with a bid to secede and I assure you all, the only war that would be fought would be the signing of papers...but would the Igbos heed such an advice!?

holajeedayy:
I am jide by name a graduate of computer engineering uniben.....i am a graphic designer and web developer add me up and call me for job on 07030b42589

Hi Jide, i guess you must be mistaken! We are not middlemen providing job information actually we have a different purpose and i believe if you go through the thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3178547/unemployed-graduates-willing-create-joint you will understand better.
Best Regards,
Victor

added!

Already we have 10 members who have declared interest...we need 10 more! So join in now that we still have room for more!

Hello people, i just reapplied for myself and someone else and it went hitch free! I suggest you reapply if you had problems with the previous application.

...but for those that reapplied, did you guys get a confirmation of a successful application in your mail box? This is the main issue here!

@princeofpeace the op is simply being logical and i think his logic is sound. Tho i have not tried it but if what the op says is true about him reapplying and having his application being treated successfully despite applying previously then it is possible that the previous application information has been erased.

I remember applying for some of my people and realized that the NYSC call up number could not be edited and after sending the application I got no confirmation of a successful application. These suggest that the site had some problems that needed fixing and it the OP reapplied successfully without being barred, as observed when i tried reapplying, then there is a high probability that he could be right...

The issue of multiple applications was not raised by the admins of the program and this is due to the fact that the website is designed to bar multiple applications. The OP is quite smart! Kudos!!

Please interested persons should state their name, discipline, state of residence and phone number...and upon joining the whatsapp group this should be restated for the sake of members of who are presently not here on nairaland!

Hi there,

In a previous thread created by one luvlyADESUWA titled: "GRADUATES IN EDO; Lets Discuss Business" an idea to break out of the tradition of seeking jobs, particularly during this austere period, that would involve a lot of hard work for a ridiculous salary was conceived.

The idea is quite simple.

We are (unemployed or underemployed) graduates who instead of putting our hard earned resources into the business of another man and get paid an embarrassing amount as salary we have chosen to pool our resources: material and non-material, towards starting a joint stock business .

Here is a thought: Imagine 20 of us (which is the quorum i feel is suitable for now) contributing #5000 per month to a fund. By the end of a year, we would have contributed 1.2 million naira! With this contribution and the skills 20 of us have we can collaborate and form a joint stock business that could in 2-4 years from now take us above our current economic condition as business owners.

I trust some would be scared of putting their resources into a pool either because they would love to have control or would not want to risk doing business with persons other than known and close associates. I share these fears too but I fear being trapped beneath the poverty line even more and the risk involved in breaking forth with a group of persons with like minds is worth taking.

So i ask; if you are an unemployed or underemployed graduate with a degree or diploma in disciplines like: law, administration, management, finance, physical sciences, estate management and agriculture and you are interested in the idea of pooling your resources, no matter how little, with others like you, towards starting a business that would make us all owners of a joint stock business in a couple of years to come then feel free to go to the link:

https://www.nairaland.com/3174419/graduates-edo-lets-discuss-business

However I must add, that due to the fact that most of us that initiated this idea are located in Benin for different reasons, we have inadvertently decided to start with a business located in Benin (personally I believe the business can be in any state and location should not be an issue). Nevertheless, thanks to the world of the internet and social media, i believe locational constraints should not debar us from working with bright minds ready to break out of the unemployment situation in the country right now.

I believe the time has come for us as graduates to stop blaming the government, for crying out loud, and do something meaningful with our tertiary education. Necessity, they say, is the mother of innovation and right now the country is slipping into a depression thanks to the stupidity of our leaders in power since 1999! Necessity is upon us and innovation is the solution i propose (not the blame game).

I have suggested a quorum of 20 members and it would be great to have these members cut across different disciplines. So far 4 members have indicated interest and we now have a whatsapp group. Two of these members are engineers and the others are economists including myself!

So interested persons should go to the link stated below and introduce yourself (basically your name), your discipline, your phone number and state of residence and you will be promptly added to the whatsapp group. We apologize if it turns out that we are selective. It would be great to have a group of persons with disciplines that cut across those mentioned above.

https://www.nairaland.com/3174419/graduates-edo-lets-discuss-business

Best Regards.

Victor aka Benyeshua
Admin.
Group of Entrepreneurs

For the sake of having a manageable number, i suggest that we have a maximum number of 20 members interested in this initiative...It would have been nice if we had persons with skills that cut across the other disciplines with emphasis on those that studied law, marketing, business administration and finance...Towards this end i suggest creating a thread to solicit for unemployed graduates in the disciplines above who would be interested in this initiative...However the newly created thread will redirect interested graduates here for the sake of transparency!

@bemyguest i'v tried addin yu to no avail...pls check the numbr!

We should spread the word to other unemployed graduates in other disciplines too...with a quorum of unemployed resource person's from different disciplines we can employ ourselvea towards starting something meaningful!

@adesuwa added!

@langd you are right and that is why we are taking it slow and steady and as you rightly stated we need the services of a lawyer to be give us advice on the legal requirements of what we are doing...so no one unilaterally loses out in this!

So bright brains that don't wana rust at home but have got stuff to offer no matter how little should join in...we already got four persons. Two engineers and two economists!

since most of us are unemployed we will be the staff, the shareholders and board at the same time...Why go through the hell of doing marketing research and dump your findings into the biz of a person who will pay you unstable 30k! When you can do the same for your own biz and make it huge!

Quite a number of ideas abound for now but we must first amass a quorum of members and hear their thouughts as well and afterwards we must do research on each idea to know its expected revenue inflows, expected cost outflows, legal requirements, etc so we will need graduates of management, accounting, law, engineering etc so we can put our heads together and analyze every business idea till we have a list of ranked viable ideas and a we can hence start with a business plan for the business idea that yields the greatest net inflows...a business that can bring in something in the range of 1m - 5m in at least 1.5 years of operation!

This would make a good read for all of us that are interested in this:

How to start a business in 30 days:

http://articles.bplans.com/start-a-business-in-30-days/

Everybody's head is buzzing with ideas but we must understand that starting a business involves getting hard, trusted and reliable facts about our resource flows (inflows and outflows of both material and non-material resources) in addition to other necessary rules and codes of conduct that would bind upon all the participants of such a collaboration to ensure that we all seek to maximize the objectives of our collaborative effort and not find means to undermine the group effort for self-driven interests...

My number is: 08069170234. Put your number here and I'll add as many as are interested in the pooling their resources to build a business that would lead us to financial security and independence. Upon joining the group discussions on the way forward will commence as soon as possible.

Oneness, Godliness and Imagination must be our guide and any breach to these three could spell doom to whatever it is we are about to start.

Lastly i must state that on my own I cannot as much as do anything but as a group we can do the unthinkable...even the LORD GOD recognizes that: "...the PEOPLE is ONE, and they have ALL ONE language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have IMAGINED to do"

The OP is so on point! Jobs these days are embarrassing but what can one do...

However, i would like to suggest an idea...which would be based on mutual trust. On my own starting a business is a tall task due to the lack of capital and finance but if we can pool our material and non-material resources together we could start a business and work out the conditions for profit sharing. I have a first degree in economics and i am in UNIBEN pursuing a second degree in economics. I am resident in the UNIBEN area, Ekosodin to be precise and from my observation i have ideas on household commodities that would make good sales in this area if only we can find a cost effective way of making these commodities available.

I am willing to be a resource person if any one is interested in pooling their resources...personally, I am tired of the unemployment situation and i am willing to do something meaningful with my skills and ideas.

In a nutshell i am suggesting a cooperative! A cooperative of ideas, finance and capital with the hope of achieving self sustainability and ultimately financial independence!

Hi people! I am a data analyst and researcher with experience in the use of Eviews 7, SPSS, JMulTi and DEAP for conducting research; analyzing time series, panel and cross sectional data and conducting data envelopment analysis (which is a useful tool for evaluating the performance of decision making units). In addition i have experience with writing research works, thesis, papers and reports. I have a bachelors degree in Economics and i am on the verge of bagging a masters degree in economics as well. I would be grateful if I can be informed of job opportunities. My email address is: efficiencie@gmail.com and my phone number can be seen in my signature!

Many thanks for this opportunity.

Bia Mazi...so i sud bc of motor gree? Kikikikiki. Boris loose for ur head? Chai, the sister lambaste the mumucious guy! Na dis kain mumu guy dey make naija ladies dey tag men as dogs... Men like this expect women to be commodities that can be bought, used and trashed when out of fashion...

cowleg:
Use your brain. What is the percentage of PhD truck driver to the percentage gainfully employed. Why do you lots generalise issues and twist facts. Most people on PhDs are already accomplished people here in Nigeria.

No need to vex na! If i werent using my brain, i wont be able to use this phone let alone air view. Attack my view, dont attack me.

The effort expended doing a Phd here in Nigeria would earn you countless laurels in more conducive climes. My point is simply that the realities a Nigerian, particularly a lower class Nigerian, faces on Nigerian soil are bleaker than those in advanced countries...

He smiled at her and splashed some strong lyrical rhymes as well as some bottles of soft drink and her legs parted faster than the red sea...He deposited his load of exuberant foolishness in her and an "unabortable" pregnancy opens her eyes to reality! Now she realizes the warnings of her parents and now she must be married to the fool whose words and penny-worth gifts made a greater fool of her...He can't afford a decent wedding and neither can the unborn child be anymore patient so he hatches a cinematic performance of shame, directed by a priestly drama coordinator before a befuddled audience, titled "marriage"...and the drama goes on!

May the Lord have mercy on the new born!

Well she inadvertently prophesied her triumphant entry into hell herself...only that some people will be her forerunners to announce her triumphant entry into hell...I only hope God will be merciful enough to let her do 20 minutes internship program in hell so that she can properly make up her mind on whether she is interested in a extending her trade there after death!

As a christian i agree that the victim was in the wrong place probably doing the wrong thing but no one, no one i repeat, has the right to judge a person let alone take his life...Whatever that Omar Mateen thinks he just achieved, he just proved that there are more insane people walking the streets of this earth than are in psych wards...but the law is simple, Omar Mateen, no less a sinner like any other person on this earth, lived by the gun and his blood will surely be spilt by the gun! I only hope he doesn't land in hell when he dies, because if these 49 victims peradventure are in hell now they'll be waiting for his early demise...

...it appears many are calling for a war! Those that cannot bear a knife cut are cheering armed men on both sides - the Nigerian Army vs the NDA...I trust that the sons and daughters of the rich and powerful elite would be commenting from the US via social media while they watch their country go up in flames as in a war movie while the sons and daughters from middle and lower class families will be forced to choose between taking up arms to survive or wait till they face a horrifying fate...

As for me i pray: Every man or woman, boy or girl irrespective of tribe or ethnicity profiting wickedly and secretly from the carnage and hardship in Nigeria will have their names wiped out from under the heavens like Amalek and Nigeria will thrive in unity and faith, in peace and progress in Jesus name. Amen.

for the sake of criticism people just spout a truck load of crap...if the APC politicians are filling in the slots for their kids then i guess they must really be poor struggling for a program that pays a maximum of 23k! And if they are this poor then i guess they must not be corrupt and many claim they are...a corrupt politician will not apply via the website to have his or her wards enjoy an opportunity! The site must have crashed due to the massive overload of persons on the internet right now seeking to register for the program!