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I started scouting for writing gigs on Nairaland in 2020. It was a very tough time for me financially.

I submitted interest in working for a guy who said he needed articles every day for a blog. The articles were to be an average of 500 words each day. We agreed on ₦1/word (not agreed though, he said he would pay...lol). I accepted because it was something at the time. I wrote several samples to prove my craft. And at the end, he left me hanging.

Soon, I met another guy who needed a rewriter. I applied. He gave me samples to rewrite. He was content with one and not with the other. He didn't get in touch any longer.

I was getting fed up about this endless sample writing. I upped my game. I began tackling low payment on the platform. Some outsourcers told me that I'll never get gigs with my attitude. I told them I don't need gigs from slavers (clients who stress you) like them.

As Providence would have it, this lady reached out to me in February 2021. She needed my services for long term. She asked that we discuss price, and we agreed on ₦1.70 (a far better price than what outsourcers do pay at the time). We kick-started and boom. My first pay was a 10000 word e-book at ₦17300. The second was ₦34000. And that was how we rolled for 2021. God bless you, Lammy.

Funnily, I don't even know her here. I don't know her username. I don't know which of my write-ups she saw here that made her reach out. But it was without stress.

With time, I got several other clients here. I avoided the stressful ones. As we say in our local English parlance, "who go epp you no go stress you." Good clients won't stress you.

Check me out... I'm that writer you need. My contact is in my signature... I'll be expecting you.

Something happened last night and I've not stopped wondering how nature works.

I was going home, and I saw ₦2000 on the road in front of my house. In my character, I don't pick things I see anywhere. But I felt the owner must come around to look for it. And if I don't pick it, someone else might, and the owner won't get a chance to get their money back.

I picked it up and just waited in the compound to see anyone who would come look for it.

True to my prediction, someone passed and was looking so worried. I watched. She went to and fro, looking for what was lost. Then I called her and asked what the problem is. She told me she lost money. I asked for the amount and denominations. She said two ₦100. I told her I didn't see anything of such. She begged me if I can give her anything as she and her baby don't have anything to eat. Then I told her I found ₦2000 but that's not hers, maybe God wanted to give her more anyways. So I handed over the money to her so she could get more food for herself and the baby. She thanked me so much and left.

In less than a minute, someone else passed in the same fashion looking for what was lost. I asked him what happened after I noticed him pass to and fro. He told me he lost ₦2000. Me: 🤐🤐🤐. He said what makes him sadder is that he saw ₦200 on the ground and picked it up. Only for him to get home and found that his ₦2000 was lost.

Oluwapelumi Awotedu

PS: Let me write for you. E-books, articles, blog posts, etc. You'll be glad you employed my skills. My contact is in the signature. I'll be expecting your messages.

“Managers follow structures, leaders create them.”
John C. Maxwell

In 2008, Pep Guardiola accepted the job to replace Frank Rijkaard as coach of the Football Club Barcelona in Spain. The club had been without trophies for two seasons consecutively prior to the coming of Guardiola. He adopted the same style of play that was used while he was a player at the club – an attacking philosophy based on passing and it turned out to be greatly successful. In his first season, Pep Guardiola won the Copa Del Rey, Laliga and UEFA Champions League. He also went on to win the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and the Clubs World Cup. Making it six trophies won in 2009 under Guardiola, something that has no precedence in the history of European football. Pep went on to win fourteen titles out of a possible nineteen during the four seasons he spent as coach at Camp Nou.

Even after Pep left in 2012, Barcelona continued in their success under Tito Villanova, winning the Laliga league title; and Luis Enrique who won the Copa Del Rey, Laliga, and UEFA Champions League, a treble in 2015.

Pep already laid the structure. For the first few years of his departure from Barcelona, even a nonentity could lead Barcelona to win titles. The structure was already on ground. Very little work would amount to success.

Excerpt from one of the e-books I ghostwrote on leadership.

Would you not love that I write for you? My contact is in the signature. Winks.

Olawrites:
Go sit down, you've been writing for that long and you can't pay. You guys don't appreciate creatives and yet you can't do it yourself.

Appreciate and encourage these young writers

I pay my writers at least #5 depending on the kind of copy

God bless you.

The last client who hired my service paid ₦10/word. That was the first time any Nairaland outsourcer would pay so high. We don't normally come to term due to their poor pay.

Is it academic?

15 FAMOUS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN AFRICA
Over the recent years, there's been a paradigm shift in business ownership in Africa. Africa has witnessed more women-owned businesses in every industry. The gender stereotype that had plagued the African woman for generations in the past has finally been broken. And today, we see many bold female entrepreneurs who are helping shape the African entrepreneurial world. Below are 15 famous faces of the female world of entrepreneurs in Africa

#1. Folorunsho Alakija
Folorunsho Alakija is one of the leading African billionaire female entrepreneurs, born in Nigeria. Folorunsho is involved in several industries such as oil and gas, real estate, fashion, and many others. She once worked as a banker before venturing into business full-time where she has distinguished herself as an exceptional entrepreneur. She's the group managing director of The Rose of Sharon Group, under which we have The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions Limited and Digital Reality Prints Limited. She's also currently the executive vice-chairman of Famfa Oil Limited. She's also a philanthropist, founder of The Rose of Sharon Foundation.

#2.Khanyi Dhlomo
Khanyi Dhlomo is a South African journalist who became the editor of True Love magazine at the age of 22. Under her leadership, she grew the business to the extent that the magazine became the most widely read women's magazine within a year. Khanyi Dhlomo is the founder and chief executive officer of Ndalo Media, Ndalo Luxury Ventures, Destiny Connect, and Destiny Magazine. She's a brand to reckon with in media publishing and entrepreneurship.

#3. Divine Ndhlukula
Divine Ndhlukula is a Zimbabwean businesswoman. She's the founder and managing director of DDNS Security Operations Limited, the holding company for SECURICO Security Services. Divine started so humbly in 1999 when she founded SECURICO Security Services and built it to become one of the most respected companies in the security industry in Zimbabwe. She once worked in the corporate organization for companies such as Old Mutual and Intermarket Life Assurance Company before pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams of founding her corporate organization. She encourages young people especially women who are business-minded to be optimistic and pursue their entrepreneurial talents.

#4. Mosunmola Abudu
Mosunmola Abudu is the founder of EbonyLife TV, a global pan-African television network. She's a reputable entrepreneur who has worked with several corporate bodies before resigning to live her entrepreneurial dream. She's passionate about bettering the living conditions of poor and middle-class African. She believes in the African story and works toward making the African voice heard globally.

#5. Bethlemen Tilahun Alemu
SoleRebel footwear brand founder, Bethlemen Tilahun Alemu grew from one of the humblest beginnings in Ethiopia to become one of the most reputable African businesswomen to reckon with. Founded SoleRebel, she's created world-class jobs and empower her country while she presents a brilliant face of our creativity in Africa to the world. SoleRebels is Africa's fastest-growing African footwear brand with stores in many countries and continents.

#6. Carmen Tal
Carmen Tal is a businesswoman renowned for her multi-million beauty company. She's the founder of the famous Morrocanoil. She started by collaborating with her hairdresser to just open a single hair salon. Her entrepreneurial spirit paved the way for her even without any experience in the beauty care industry.

#7. Njeri Rionge
Njeri Rionge is one of Africa’s leading businesswomen and one of the few women pioneers in the information and communication technology industry in Africa. She's the co-founder of Wananchi Group Holdings, one of the lead providers of pay-tv, broadband internet, and voice-over-internet protocol services in East Africa. She's established lots of other successful businesses which include Ignite Consulting, a business consultancy; Ignite Lifestyle, a healthcare consultancy; Business Lounge, a start-up incubator; and Insite, a digital marketing agency.

#8. Adenike Ogunlesi
Ruff 'n' Tumble founder, Adenike Ogunlesi is one of Africa's famous female entrepreneurs. She founded the children's clothing line, Ruff 'n' Tumble in Nigeria in 1996 in a small shop, working alongside her mother for her newly created business. She turned the business into a renowned brand with a reputation as one of the best children's clothing manufacturers in Nigeria. From that very small business in 1996 with only 2 workers, Adenike's clothing line now has 13 branches across the country and a distribution line across West Africa. Her business also employs over 150 people.

#9. Isabel Dos Santos
Angolan businesswoman and daughter of Angola's former president, Isabel Dos Santos is one of Africa's famous female entrepreneurs. She’s got investments in oil, diamonds, and also in the communication and banking industries. She founded a nightclub in Luanda, Angola, and a trucking company that helps other businesses with supplies logistics. Also, Isabel presently has lots of issues with her investments due to political affiliation with her father's government, yet she's still in the line of Africa’s famous businesswomen.

#10. Saran Kaba Jones
Saran Jones is the founder and chief executive officer of FACE Africa, an organization that works to strengthen water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. She founded and launched FACE in 2009. Ever since, her organization has raised thousands of dollars to build over 50 water, sanitation and hygiene projects and reached over 25,000 people in the rural communities of Liberia. She also co-founded the Empire group, a Monrovia-based company that is into creating and sustaining small and medium-sized enterprises in agriculture, hospitality, and manufacturing industries.

#11. Julian Adyeri Omalla
As one of Uganda's finest entrepreneurs, Julian Adveri Omalla is the founder, chair, and managing director of Delight Uganda Limited, a company that produces the country’s most popular fruit drink. Aside from Delight Uganda Limited, Julian is involved in several other business activities such as agriculture and real estate. She employs over a thousand Ugandans. She's also into the exportation of her companies’ products to countries such as Kenya, Rwanda, and others. She's a leading member of the advocacy of the rights and economic development of women. No doubt, Julian is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Africa.

#12. Sibongile Sambo
Sibongile Sambo's story is an interesting one. She faced several rejections applying to serve as a flight attendant with South African Airways but she never gave up. She later founded SRS Aviation which was the first company to be owned by a female entrepreneur in the aviation industry in South Africa. From applying as an attendant to being an airline executive, Sibongile is one of the famous female entrepreneurs in Africa to be reckoned with.

#13. Salwa Akhannouch
Salwa Akhannouch is one of the most powerful female entrepreneurs in Morocco and North Africa at large. She's the founder and chief executive officer of Aksal Group, a leading company in luxury goods, department stores, and shopping malls. The company is also the sole franchise to companies such as Fendi, Gucci, Zara, and many more. Although Salwa inherited some wealth from her grandfather and she's also the wife of a wealthy Moroccan, she's a famous face when it concerns female entrepreneurs in Africa.

#14. Tabitha Karanja Keroche
Tabitha Karanja founded Keroche Breweries in 1997 in Kenya. Competing against the giant international company, East African Breweries Limited (EABL), which has been around for more than 90 years, yet Tabitha’s resilience and fortitude have enabled her to enjoy continued growth. Her beer has been embraced by the Kenyan market.

#15. Bridgette Radebe
Bridgette Radebe started as a miner working in large mining corporations. In the 1980s, she founded and started her mining firm, Mmakau Mining, a mining firm that now has holdings in other mines that excavate gold, platinum, chrome, and coal. She’s one of the reputable female entrepreneurs in Africa.

Conclusion
These female faces of the African continent are not just representing the African story at home but they stand peer to peer against other female entrepreneurs from other continents. African Women are no longer sitting at home wives and mothers, they're contributing their due share to the economic development of the continent.



References
AnswerAfrica, Africa’s Leading Women Entrepreneurs
https://answersafrica.com/africas-leading-women-entrepreneurs.html


Startup.Info, Top 10 Successful Female Entrepreneurs in Africa
https://startup.info/top-10-successful-female-entrepreneurs-in-africa/



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Outsourcers, get in here...

I wonder why anyone will be paying a ridiculous amount as low as ₦2 or ₦3 per word, and be expecting a top notch job.

Some of you get jobs as high as ₦20/word, and come here to enslave others. Then come back to cry foul about how Nairaland writers are shîtty. No, we're not. You get what you pay for.

While I know that getting gigs from international clients ain't a walk in the park, I'll never outsource at such ridiculous percentage.

If you want quality deliveries, that you won't need to start correcting over again, plagiarism-free, non-fluffy, then you have to pay well.

I'm that quality content writer you need. Check the signature for my contact.

Thanks.

jasonclement:
Are you a writer?

And so what?

Pls go write yourself and pay yourself ₦2.5/word.

writers100:
You have spoken well, dear sis.

But if you've been doing this long enough (I started online writing full-time in 2009) - you'll know that what works for established providers may not apply to newbie providers.

Clients distrust writers more than writers distrust them.

However, I think you expressed the sentiment that many new writers have. And it's okay.

I wish a time would come when Nigerians would be absolutely faithful and transparent so that misplaced fear would be non-existent. But we're getting there sha.

That's a million!

You've been at writing since 2009, and you still hire and pay such amount? It's either you've not grown well, or you just love to get all the money while others do the job. ₦3/word is poor pay.

I'm sorry, the pay is way too low

On Sunday, I decided to visit First Bank after ignoring anything that has had to do with banks or ATMs since January.

They had messaged us that we would be able to withdraw our hard-earned money that day. And testimonies abound that they paid ₦50000 the previous day.

Normally, if you're serious about getting cash from any bank, you should have been there at midnight or early in the morning. But lazy me woke up around 8 AM.

I arrived at the bank at past 9, bank was going to open by 10 anyways. When I got there, I picked number 132. I hoped the whole process would be seamless.

There, some people already spoke about how we won't use numbers. That the woman who coordinated the numbering the previous day even entered the bank around 1 PM. I just hoped for the best and stayed alert.

At 10, they started letting people into the banking hall. Some POS operators who had entered the compound through entrances we don't know of just went into the hall.

The guy who coordinated the number was trying to get people orderly through one of the gates. Then security personnel deceived those standing at another gate to go to the main gate. Unknown to them that he wanted to open that gate for someone. Immediately I knew what he wanted to do I stood on alert and rushed toward the gate, gaining entrance into the bank alongside some 10+ people.

I ran into the banking hall and I was number 5 on my queue.

By the time the man coordinating number found his way into the hall (he later found out that coordinating people is a Herculean task and left it), it was filled up. He had to beg and I pleaded with some others that we should allow him to stay before me. Him self don try.

That was how I got ₦50000 without spending one hour sef. A whole 50 buhary tousan naira.

What God cannot do does not exist. Miracle no dey tire Yeshua.

I hope this imagination happens when I go to the bank.

Oluwapelumi Awotedu

I watched Bashorun Gaa around 2010. It's one of the best epic Yoruba Nollywood has been able to produce.

"Ọyọ kọ, Ọyọ kọ Majẹogbe l'ọba..." Ọyọ rejects Majẹogbe as king, Bashọrun Gaa and the chiefs chanted as they took King Majẹogbe to where he would be executed.

After he was killed, the next day, Gaa assembled the people and told them the reason why Majẹogbe was dethroned and executed. The king had killed his father-in-law because his queen joked about his small body.

After that, Ọyọ needed another king. No one wanted to be king because Gaa had executed many kings who didn't please him. Gaa was the true power.

After a while, they settled for Abiọdun Adegolu to be king. When it was initially told to him, he ran away. He was later caught and enthroned.

Abiọdun became king but he feared he was next to be killed at the slightest mistake. One of his aides advised him to always go to pay homage to Gaa every day, that way he would last as king. He heeded.

Every time, he would go to Gaa's palace along with his chiefs to pay homage to Gaa. Gaa became partly incapacitated. He warned his boys against their vices. Also, he would give gifts to King Abiọdun. Soon, Gaa was getting bankrupt... Abiọdun even promised to give Agbọin, his daughter to Gaa as his wife.

Regardless of how Abiọdun tried to please Gaa, Gaa's boys kept up their vices and were immune.

When Gaa finally got bankrupt, he resorted to a money ritual. His herbalist said they needed agbọrin (deer) for the ritual. Unfortunately, Agbọin the king's daughter came around (because she always hawked kola nut), Gaa was playing with her, calling her my wife, and she responded, "Agbọin is my name." We've seen the ritual animal, Gaa called his herbalist. His herbalist hesitated but used her.

Gaa's palace got burnt in the process of the ritual. The king and the kingdom of Ọyọ all brought gifts for repairing Gaa's palace. Thus, his financial fortune was resuscitated. But the king's daughter was gone.

The king, in agony, went to meet the Aarẹ Ona Kankanfo (the army general of Yoruba land) to come to his rescue. The Aarẹ organized the army and moved against the house of Gaa...

In line with revenge, Agbọin's finance moved against Gaa, he was able to hit Gaa with a charmed belt (bantẹ) before a guard overpowered and killed him. Gaa didn't die but he became lame.

By the time the Aarẹ got to Gaa's place, his army killed all of Gaa's household and arrested Gaa alive...

Gaa was taken to the market square, Aarẹ advised that Gaa shouldn't be killed at once but anyone and everyone could come to get a piece of his body till he dies. The act was to serve as a deterrent to anyone who thinks they're invincible and utterly wicked.

The End.

This is what you enjoy when I write for you. Get in touch with me for your content writing. My contact is in the signature.

Pls, what currency is the 1.5?

Don't tell me naira.

ClixMaster:
I have been trying to understand why someone will claim to be a good writer and charges high rate per word, yet does not have a successful blog.

There are highly successful managers who are very well paid. They don't rush to start their businesses just because they're good managers.

They understand that everyone have their place.

New007:
Hope you'll pay the person you found well?

LMAO ���

ORIJIN201:
500 to 1k words. This is needed urgently. Call or send me a message/WhatsApp zero8zero2four186918

Thanks, pls this is needed urgently.

Have you gotten someone? If not, message me on 08067541098

Pennyseo2:
Opp sorry about your lose. You have been a mentor to many here. I learnt a lot from ur thread on ur old account, in fact you made me started blogging ...

Please just know that you can rise above this...for now write your articles your self.

This is your business, only you understand its importance. And as for those that says pay is too small you can as well open a blog, and hire writers then set your pay. Maybe 10 naira per word... Let change start from u guys. .

Some one that cannot give quality writing for 2000 or 3000 naira for 1000 word articles cannot give quality job for same word for 5000 naira they will still come up with same excuse.

I will give quality write-ups at any rate. But I'll never write @ ₦3/word again. God forbid. Wetin man don pass, e don pass.

₦10/word, anyone game... Let's roll.

ADunamite:
Good day, could you please Link to the FB writing group..

Do you need a seasoned writer?

Reach me on 08067541098

James4bright:
Are there any good WhatsApp group where I can hire writers? Please can I get any link?

Let me write for you.

08067541098

You can check my profile and vet some few posts I kid around with.

fastseo:
My brother the pay is not the issue because i do most time adjust review payment thinking that they will help give good articles.

The time i use to verify if the article are not spun/spine i will use it to produce two content of 1000 words each.

Because they will spin it so you hardly know that its spun. Unless u calm down , try getting the page where they copied content from and check it paragraph by paragraph before u can spot it.

I will write you a 1000 word article for free. You'll then decide if there are still worthy writers on this platform or not.

Reach me on 08067541098

Hire me if you can pay my fee. ₦10/word, non-negotiable.

I finished the series, "Squid Game" yesterday.

And the whole highpoint of the fatal game resonate one idea I've read about from Oscar Wilde.

He says, "In this world, there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

You see, the 'middle classes' don't know how much blessed they are. I think they're the ones really enjoying life. They can't afford/get most things or everything they want. But they work hard to do this. It makes life meaningful. It gives it some fun.

The fear. The faith. The work. The hope. The failure. The success.

But you see the lowest and highest classes, these classes are frustrating and boring respectively. No fun.

Imagine those who live in slums and trenches of low cost environs. Yet they can't even afford the cost of life in those places. The frustration is killing. Being trampled by every wave of circumstance. Failure upon failure.

Now imagine our elites... Tinubu for example, can afford to buy everything in a city like Abeokuta. Like, what does he wake up to look up to? Food? Sex? Money? Power? Which doesn't he have? It's boring when we have everything we want too.

Even Adekunle Gold that is just enjoying small elite life has exclaimed, "money no dey give happiness o, na wen I get money I realize this."

So what do the elites do to have fun and escape life's boredom? The same thing the Atikus, Tinubus, Dangotes, and their likes do: they strive for more. More power, money, fame. Like waking up to look forward to being more powerful. Going up in the Forbe list of yada yada. Et cetera, et cetera.

Others become philanthropists and humanitarians. Like Obasanjo has been doing a bit of that for years now.

And some crazy ones start squid game...

Oluwapelumi Awotedu.

I'm a writer. You can hit me up through my contact in the signature.

I'm sorry I can't send a mail.

This is my WhatsApp contact 08067541098.

"Rewrite gem."

I can write on crypto.

08067541098

I started writing officially in 2020.

First, I joined Opera News content creators in February, 2020. I wrote lots of articles and news for the reputable news platform.

Later, in the same 2020, I joined the league of satirical writers of DanfoExpress (now DanfoNation), a comic blog.

In 2021, I upscaled to several other dimensions.

I wrote for over 10 blogs on contract. Writing not less than 100 articles in the year, 2021. I wrote on entrepreneurship, traveling, mathematics, scholarship, and several other themes (you can request samples of these articles).

I wrote over 7 e-books. Theme on leadership, diet (ketogenic diet), online business, massive online open course (MOOC), biography (Adele), and several others.

I handled assignments for online students. I helped about 3 international students with their assignments at different times. And they came out in flying colors.

I write basically on anything and everything. And one more thing: I'm a great narrator. You can check my stories on Facebook - Oluwapelumi Awotedu.

Thanks.

You can reach me through my contact in my signature. I'll be expecting you.