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DailyNews: In midst of present global economy melt down and several other economy flaws happening in Nigeria and beyond, as an entrepreneur trying to rise to fame like other successful entrepreneurs you look up to as role models, what has been the greatest challenge you have encountered so far in your entrepreneurial journey?

To guide you, see below:

- Access to funds for expansion?
- Power/Electricity
- Time factor?
- High running cost, e.g. shop/office rent, utility bills, etc?
- Low Sales/Poor patronage?
- Government policies, e.g. the banning of Okada, demolition claimed illegally built shops, VAT, tax officers, etc?
- Transportation?
- Wrong location?

etc....etc...

Let's be factual, mature and business-minded and learn...thanks ahead

obalola7: Work Work Work...

The Nigeria situation is pathetic. While i sympathized with most Nigerian youths and graduates who continue to experience the agony associated with looking for job, some of them are not to be pitied.
While few years or even months ago, i would have love to canvas for Nigerians living abroad to help the situation by joining effort together to create jobs or establish or invest in Nigeria. However, Nigeria abroad too are not smiling, things are not really going well.

And for those who have thought of coming back home to invest and creates job, some of these graduates have not only squander the business capital, but kill the business completely. One of the guy i spoke with was telling me how he brought so much money to start a block industry with latest machines or equipments, in less than 9 months he ran out of the country. You can not even leave your business especially start-up business with anybody other than yourself

Nigeria situation is pathetic, we hear about the Jewish sending money to help creates jobs in Israel. However, in Nigeria case, if you try such, and those who had, end up having hypertension if not eventually die as a result of organized fraud instituted by their confidant or even kill by harm robbers if you dear question or make attempt to collect your money.

Nigeria situation from joblessness, corruption, bad leader, no light etc can only be diagnosed and treated by supreme being.

I think one of the best way to resolve this joblessness is collaborative effort in youth working together and addressing the situation. The one that has brain to come with idea and the one that has money with no brain should put money down, but here come trust, where everyone want to carry all the money or some does not want to work. An average Nigeria graduates want to be multi-millionaire in one day..

Look at all the yahoo yahoo money that comes in to Nigeria, you will see them buying expensive cars and going to squander the money in the clubs and few years later, when the money is all gone, they now remember they have a degree and will try clean up their CV to start looking for job..

In one of the recent report from Somalian pirates, people were asking what they pirates lords were doing with their money a critical investigation into Billions of dollars that enter into the country, was not even use by the pirate lords for their personal selfish need, rather, they evenly distribute the money to help the poor that use to be fisher men and to improve the village economy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia " If you go to the Benefit section at the bottom of the page you will see how the ransom collected from victims benefit the economy.

If you want i can send you a pdf documents that have detail information on this.. just send me your email if you are interested, because it will not fit into this place.

But in Nigeria case, yahoo yahoo boys collect money from mugun and later become the biggest mugun after few years.. you will see them littering and lottering the street of Nigeria with past glory.

What happens to million dollars from mugun, why cant that money be used for investment in Nigeria, why should we continue to expect the government to creates jobs.. what happen to our brain that is so good at deceiving people to collect their hard earn money and not good enough to create job with it... what happen to invention, investment?


An average student after graduation would live like he owns the earth with a 200k job, what happen to savings? Many want to drive cars, spend 20k in the bear pa-lour when their mates outside the country are thinking of developing new application, thinking of a business to start and planning for the future, Nigeria graduate is thinking of how he is going to yahoo, yahoo everyone so he can drive Range Rover, Bentley, Rose Royce and daily spend beyond the people who work hard for their money

My advice, when you make the money, think of making best the money for yourself so you will never have to be unemployed and then plan to employ others.

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