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macaranta:
This maths is counterintuitive, it's supposed to be crashing not rising. No body is sourcing dollars for international travels or importations like that due to border closure, so where's the demand that's making dollar rise like that? Our economy always defies logic

It's because nigeria is an import heavy country. we are always buying foreign goods, but have nothing to export, hence putting pressure on the dollars w have in the country.

Too much naira chasing too few dollars. Thus, dollar price goes up.

MummyIMadeIt:
I'm interested but won't it be nice contacting you on ur sigy

I understand. I have modified my post above to add my details. It is better to register, so I can better confirm details. Thanks for your interest.

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I am offering a data gathering job. It will suit someone who lives in Lagos, especially those close to Ojota. It involves getting price of of items, and recording in excel sheet. It should take 1 to 3 days. Depends how fast or smart you work. Pay is up to 10k. If you are interested, send me a pm or drop a line here. Please I want someone below 26 years. Thanks.

Ellie01:
Its top secret, if nigeria as a country sold $104 billion worth of oil in 2018 and FG got $38 billion, than d balance goes to multinationals. Yet our people are mostly casual workers

how did you get this info? i have checked online but not found a source. thanks

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I am organizing an entrepreneurship program to be run in several schools. I would like to know if you feel this can help you build foundation skills in business. It's a free program and several people from it have gone on to start their own businesses.

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As we all know, data is very important in the 21st century and many people are using it to generate more revenue. In Nigeria, there isn't a lot of available data.

To this end, I am working on a business data portal. To help me better work on design and features, I would like to get opinions on what data-sets you need to grow your business.


Some examples:
Number of people/men/women per state/LG - so you know which places to place your shops or for your sales team to target?
Average earnings in a state - so you can better allocate marketing budgets or products
Number of job earners in each state/LG - good for people like dry-cleaners who target corporate clients.
Number of houses been built per state - say for people in the construction industry
Highest growth regions in terms of people - also good for construction workers
Number of people below 18/mobile phone usage - help betting shops locate their shops in high traffic areas.
Number of cars that use specific roads - help filling station owners place stations appropriately/real estate agents on property development

etc..

What information or data would help make your business more profitable?

Good article.

sorry seems i didnt explain well. she has been caring for him. if he travels out, she and his son will move out with him. so his dad wont have any family member around. its either they all stay or they all move and he hires a caregiver

A friend off mine, who works in an MNC has been offered a lead role outside Nigeria. He was working on the documents to relocate with his entire family (he has a wife and a son). 2 weeks ago his father fell ill, and he had to do a lot of running around. the situation is a bit stable now. the docs are saying his dad needs someone around. His wife is close to his dad, and even before he fell sick - gives him emotional support, sometimes drops by with food etc. He discussed with his wife, and she says she will support any decision. His intuition is that she wants him to continue with the relocation plan, you know, let them upgrade. She was also planning to quit her job.

He is not sure if he should scrap his travel plans and turn down the new position abroad, so he can be around to personally take care of him. His dad is the only person he has left.
Or should he get some professional caregivers to watch over him? The new position nearly triples his pay so money will not be a concern.

mammanbawa:
In our country, big car = big money = above the law.
Which is why it cannot be great again. Not until ignorance and oppression are dealt with.

exactly, i have seen countries where the society rallies if one person is trespassing on the rights of others. dont want to blame govt, but probably it is an issue with type of leaders in general. a lot of them also oppress the populace. anyhow, maybe the best thing is to get a big car too. its like that is what will get the most respect from people.

fbtowner:
The poor guy must be very rude

Them no use money train am

Him see correct benz motto he no humble him self

When I was in camp if I go charge my iPhone for mami market d guy go pack all the Nokia and blackberry one side attend to me first

That's how someone that knows the value of money does

i dont agree, the guy jumping is paying the same amt na, theres notn special about him. he was just oppressing the other guy. it will e a different case if as he chanced him, he was paying double price or sth. then i might understand that money is talking. this just looks like oppression to me

angels09:
But on second thoughts...if I come in a Benz X-class do you think I should queue behind your Nissan Micra?

hmmmm guyy, I suspect you. but its not fair -its not right even, jumping queue just creates confusion everywhere

Thats how I was in a filling station and someone in a black benz jeep just drove to the front of the queue and chanced someone. The guy whose turn it was came out to argue. o boy, see oppression, the driver or the owner just pushed the guy. the guy was complaining, but its like he didn't have liver to drag the matter. the attendant was just like, oga, i go soon sell him own, he will be going. Honestly i felt like coming out to support him, but somehow at the same time, its better to just mind your business in this country.
Has this happened to anyone before? Whats the best thing to do? The guy that came out of the car was hefty.

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bootstrap:
Sm times, I wonder what Nigerian grown brands are doing wrong. Bfor now, I used to say I don't see any Nigerian company lasting over a single generation... Regrettably... I think it's getting worst. Now, most companies don't even reach the 10year mark.

I refuse to totally believe it's the environment joh. I think we as a people dnt hv what it takes to go thru the rigours of growing a business. We find that most often than not, we grow (blow) too quickly before we really hv time to establish a culture, a long term vision for said brand. Before u knw it... We are trying to diversify, we trying to "belong", the company start forming what it is not.

An example.. I read a post here yesterday, where smone was complaining about Linda ikejis blog. I smiled, coz I kind of saw it coming. No sooner has she "blown", way before she really carved a niche/ brand culture... Has she started diversifying, living the life, "giving back to community"

At best, the brand will outlive her for a couple of years, but not more... That's if the brand is lucky enough to last that long. (Yes.. luck - that's how most businesses in Nigeria blow anyways)

Similar story for HiTv, I'm wondering whether i shld mention TsTv sef?

Anyways, ... I dnt hv an MBA, I might just be wrong.

very good analysis

An easier to understand explanation for the Uncertainty Principle:
Imagine a car moving along a road. If you want to see the exact place where the car is, you must pause time (because it's always moving). You pause time, and you mark its place. While you paused (imagine it like a photo), you CAN'T know its speed. It's a picture. If you want to find out the speed, you must unpause and measure it. But if you unpause, it's impossible to know the exact position of the car because it's moving.



I still think the government is playing with our ignorance assuring people they wont increase the price of fuel. Price increase is bad for our pockets but i fail to see a workaround.

Well except if we go back to subsidies, which comes with a whole new set of problems.

In this period of fuel scarcity, I hear lots of people saying Nigerian fuel marketers are wicked. They are hoarding fuel, they are heartless etc etc.

Maybe they are not?

Let me give you an illustration say you are a businessman, you sell sardines. You buy your sardine in Abuja for N300. Your customers are in Lagos. They only eat sardine. You go to Lagos. On getting there, you here the market chairman has declared nobody must sell sardine in the market for more than N150.

What do you do? Sell the sardine you bought for N300 for N150? Yes, maybe you want to help them because without your sardine, they will be hungry. But for how long can you help? You will eventually run into debt and out of business. Or maybe you decide to hold on to your sardine and talk to the market chairman to increase the price?

If you choose the last option, you are now a “wicked” fuel marketer!

In this my example, the sardine is fuel, the market is Nigeria, the market chairman is the Nigerian government and you are of course the fuel marketer. No matter how nice or altruistic we want them to be, the pragmatic truth is that the fuel marketers are in business, just like dangote, just like the phone seller in computer village, just like the fish seller. They have to make some profit from their business.
Its easy to blame them but the issue of fuel scarcity definitely doesn’t lie at their feet.







Now, there are other reasons why the fuel scarcity is as it is. It is a different thing if we were addressing these other questions:
- Why we even have fuel scarcity in the first place?
- Why the government is fixing the price of fuel?
- Why we import fuel and why government has not been able to fix the refineries over so many years? (The reason is not one we like to hear)
- In fact, like above and for the same reason, why its difficult to fix power.

Yes there is plenty of politics, but there is also economics, 1+1 can not be equal to 4. Even if we elect the best people in the world, if we don’t accept economic reality of our current situation, we will deceive ourselves trying to make the impossible possible.