₦airaland Forum

eku_bear:
Eh, he was the ambassador. If he doesn't know Nigeria more than your average Nigerian, then he didn't do his job.

Anyway, it is quite interesting. Hopefully this CPC/ACN alliance comes through.

I know he was an ambassador, but he wasnt the Walter Carrington type of ambassador.
He prolly barely left his quaters
He never mingled with the people, so how does he understand the mentality of say my grandmother who sells bitter Kola in my hometown or that of my uncle who works as a technician

I think he is wrong by his assessment that Buhari has a great deal of popularity on the street. May be in some parts of the North, definitely not in the south. Yeah, people admire him, but that does not mean they would vote for him. Why would a SS person vote for him against their own son of the soil.
He also said "He is one of Nigeria's most popular politicians and is perceived as being more democratic than most of Nigeria's leaading politicians," that to me is absolute balderdash. When did he become a democrat? Buhari wants a sharia state, amongst other non-democratic principles.

John Campbell is just wrong. He must have gotten his analysis from an Hausa man, and because of his laziness and ulterior motive, he chose to generalize without doing due diligence.

SEFAGO:
ki lo on she were yi. Ti ba fo e le ti

I dont speak yoruba, I am a posh mensa wielding guy.

Obviously, you are one crazy Ajebutter

No Aje pako like me would utter such phrase in that context

It just sounds gay!

Fucck Campbell,  what does he know about Nigeria

Obviously, he is doing someone's dirty job

Bloody american, thinking they know Nigeria more than Nigerians

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Oloshi ni bobo yi sha

I thought you said you dont speak Yoruba

When did 9ice become a philosopher

BAba nla morasucker the bobo SEFAGO yi sha

Tpiah is taken

She is now the sole property of Oga DayoKanu!

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Not that true

Harvardconnect thrived for a while

Facesmash, the original facebook, thrived as well.

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You also need SEFAGO; he also has a very high IQ!

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You need SEFAGO!

hey gals, stop this shit


dont wanna read about whitish secretions ever again please

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aminalib:
aww i have a nl stalker,

If that makes you happy

BTW, I wont be needing papers anytime soon. i came here with my papers Ok.


Good luck with your imaginary husband! I sure know that when I am married i wont be allowing my wife spend as much time as you on NL. And my wife wont be flirting with random people.

aminalib:
who told you, us, ghana, sa is jealous of anything u have?

Because we know so, Madam Paper-for-hand Back-for-ground!

AjanleKoko:
All that talk about our history is just BS. Let's just forget all that. It's just useless excuses.
The truth is, do Nigerians, even Africans as a whole, even have any kind of skills? Sure we have a lot of certificates, but when you look at the profile of Nigerians across the globe, and even in Nigeria, it's easy to see why entrepreneurship is low profile.

In every overseas country, just check the blue collar portfolio: technical workers, small, medium, and large scale traders, etc. You find the following races: Lebanese, Indians, Filipinos, Chinese, Malays, Iranians, and nowadays a lot of Eastern Europeans. Apart from Somalis running parking lot businesses in Washington DC area, you hardly find Africans in most countries engaged in anything creative. They're usually students, high-profile white collar workers, or involved in one scam or the other.

Where you have African businesses, you only see them servicing African communities, unlike maybe Pakis and Indians in the UK, and Lebanese everywhere else. Are you guys aware that Carlos Slim Helu is half Lebanese, or quarter Lebanese? So I was told by a member of the Chagoury family.

I think Africans lack knowledge and skills to run and manage business on the small and medium scale, beyond the level  of subsistence.  At least that is what LBS has noticed, which is why they are trying to educate small business owners with their SME forum initiatives. I'm sure their research has indicated the deficiencies of Africans in these areas, and they are trying to upskill entrepreneurs the best way they can. Get a really good idea, nurture it, build a working prototype, make your prototype viable, attract investment - which African entrepreneur has the luxury to work within that framework, with hunger and family problems snapping at their heels?

Also, the world is a village nowadays. Are African entrepreneurs able to negotiate major deals and trades with Westerners (Europeans, Americans) or Easterners (Indians, Chinese, etc) without getting the short end of the stick? What practical detailed knowledge of global markets do Africans have, beyond our fresh business-school grads who rely on CNBC for their insight, and are always quoting their textbooks on Nairaland? No personal slight intended here mind you.

Creative entrepreneurship always starts on the small scale. Whether Ford, Gates, or Zuckerberg, it's always some little guys who provide that killer idea that strikes to the heart of what the people want. I will challenge everybody, all of us reading and commenting on this thread, look at yourself. What do you really have to offer, beyond your copycat classroom ideas and your many certificates? Can you take, let's say for the sake of argument, oil palm business, by the scruff of the neck, run it by yourself with nobody helping you or making cash available, and make it profitable? Some people are doing it in Nigeria. Can any of you? Let's even go really low tech. L[b]ook at Baba Ijebu Lottery.[/b] An illiterate succeeded where heavyweights like the Ibrus and Kola-Daisis, backed by enough cash, government might, experts, and technology failed. meanwhile this was Baba's 8th lottery venture. The previous seven crashed.

I rest my case.

How was it growing up?
I was born on October 24, 1935 at Iperu Remo in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State. I completed my primary education in 1942 and had my secondary education between 1951 and 1955. Thereafter I started life. I worked briefly with Classic Chemical Limited, a pharmaceutical company that produces Andrew's Liver Salt, Cafenol and all of that. I rose from the position of salesman to sales manager and in 1963 I left the company to start my own small business.

Having no capital, I looked for a business that required little or no capital and what came to my mind was to be a pool agent, because to be a pool agent, what you just need is to get a table and your pen. So, you can see it is not capital intensive. I did that briefly and within a short time with my best friend, the late Chief Solomon Adebayo Ayoku, we dominated Africa. We then diversified to other areas like agriculture, manufacturing, estate management, the lotto, entertainment and so on. Today, I have the concession for the Gateway Hotels Abeokuta for 25 years. By the time I re-opened it to the public in December, you will see wonders.

Are you saying you didn't attend university?
Yes.
Why?
In actual fact, it was my ambition to study law but unfortunately I did not. You see, in our time, there was so much life. This generation is not as lucky as ours. We wore good clothes and good shoes. There were lots of shopping centres along Marina including Kingsway, and UTC. There was so much frolicking during our time. It was never about poverty or of not being privileged . Infact I was called 'chop life' then because there was too much to enjoy.


What's your most embarrassing moment ?
The most embarrassing moment of my life was in the early sixties when the entire coupon won and that killed about 95 percent of all the pools. Even the almighty federal government that sponsored Niger Pool located at the ACB building at that moment died. Everybody won. Can you imagine that? For all players to win.

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in what way?

Oga Dayokanu


You need to teach me some of your moves

7 and counting, not counting Tpiah though

Odunnu:
. . .or else what? You no dey fear face abi?
What is TBK by the way?
Oh you meant to say TKB? Why would you always have a problem spelling even a three letter word? Olodo!

Coming from someone who goes to UNN!

Wonders they say shall never cease!

Katsumoto:
I suspect you missed the implicit point I was making. European states became very creative so as to either conquer or avoid being conquered. For instance, Europeans used guns to sub-due many states but relied on gun powder that was invented by the Chinese. Chances are that you will caught unawares if you are content on being the big man in a small village, which was the case with many conquered states. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. I go back to the point I made earlier. Our fore-bearers had so much time on their hands for pro-creation with many women in their villages while Europeans were conquering and making alliances with other states through marriage.

Absolute balderdash

I am sorry!

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You are doing it again

Do I have to twist your peak milk before you take me seriously?

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SEFAGO:
This is going to a white man good, black man bad discussion.

Sounds kind of Orwellian to me

1984 all over again?

Where is Ezegbo Lagos town of Nigeria

Mu he he he he he he he he

Again

These people and their nefarious activities

Than God I am not Ibo/Biafran/Ndigbo/

Ileke-IdI:
People no dey learn at all.

Ibos dont learn

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ROFLMAO

Gots to be Ibos . . . hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhaa

The article was written by a Nigerian

hmmm

Nice man from a very nice family!

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Your Igbo brothers?

violent:
ah! seriously?

wetin pesin no go see for Nairaland self.

ABi

He never asked for it

All he wanted was to be a nice and obedient VP. However, destiny played a fast one on him

He is in all sincerity a victim of circumstance