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Chapter 4: Overview of the most popular digital marketing websites used in Nigeria. In this chapter, we do an indept analysis of the various websites available for use in digital marketing in Nigeria highlighting the strengths, weaknesses and advantages of each website. The analysis also distinguishes between Nigerian owned websites and foreign owned websites that were popular amongst Nigerians. The knowledge gained from this chapter will help you make more informed choices when choosing digital marketing platforms to use in promoting your business and enable you to get better results. To learn more about this, kindly visit https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Kunle-Oshobi-ebook/dp/B0BN4865Z3 to get a copy of the book.
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 Our welfare and the politics of 2023 By Kunle Oshobi As we approach the 2023 presidential elections, as it has become the norm in the Nigerian political scene, issues of ethnicity, religion, and region of the presidential candidates continue to dominate the headlines and criteria for support while the issue of which candidate is best equipped to fix the economy and make life better for Nigerians has taken the back seat. The irony in all this is that the foremost responsibility of our political leaders is to ensure the welfare and security of the people. While the ability to effectively manage and grow the economy will take care of the welfare of the people, issues of ethnicity, religion, and region add zero value to the effectiveness of our leaders other than the fact that politicians use it as a tool to distract and divide us while they take away our attention from what matters most to us which is our economic welfare. The more pertinent issue is that the economy is now at it’s lowest ebb given the fact that all the economic gains achieved since the return to democracy in 1999 have been reversed in the last seven years by the current administration that appears clueless as far as managing the economy of the country is concerned. As a result of this per capita income of Nigerians has dropped by over 50% since 2015 while the Naira has lost over 70% of it’s value within the same period. This has resulted in the prohibitive cost of goods and services, high unemployment rate, declining productivity, excruciating national debts, increased crime rate, and Nigeria becoming the poverty capital of the world at a time when other third world countries are fast pulling their citizens out of poverty. Given the grim existential reality we find ourselves in, given the pathetic state of the country's economy, in our self-interest it only makes sense that we collectively support a candidate that is best equipped and has a proven track record to fix the economy and of all the presidential candidates soliciting for our votes next year, only one of them has a credible track record with growing the economy and has also demonstrated his preparedness to get our country’s economy back on track. As is the current situation today, at the return to democracy in 1999, the Nigerian economy was at its lowest ebb with the GDP growth rate having stagnated at 0.58%, huge external debt of $35 billion, and debt service obligations in excess of $3 billion per annum, foreign reserves at less than $3 billion, GDP per capita of less than $500 and oil prices at less than $17 per barrel. Without blaming the past military administrations for the nation’s woes, the Obasanjo administration set to work and assembled an economic team under the supervision of the then Vice President Atiku Abubakar who was put in charge of the economy while Obasanjo focused more on international diplomacy to restore Nigeria’s battered image in the international community. With the leadership of Atiku Abubakar, the economic team was able to turn around the economy, and from a dismal economic growth rate of 0.58% in 1999, they were able to achieve a growth rate of 16.2% by the third quarter of 2002 at a time of relatively low oil prices (This remains the highest ever economic growth rate achieved in the county’s history) and put the country on a trajectory which resulted in our GDP per capita growing by over 600% to $3,000 per capita by 2014. Having set the economy on the path of sustainable growth, they also ensured that the country’s resources were very well managed and were able to grow the country’s foreign reserves by the highest margins in the country’s history even after paying off our external debts through a negotiated settlement in an agreement in which they were able to save the country a whopping $18 billion. That asides they initiated several economic policies which helped to accelerate the growth of the country’s economy and create jobs such as the bank consolidation program which grew our banking industry by over 300% in just two years, the pension reforms which has now grown our pension funds to be in excess of 14 trillion Naira and remains the largest single pool of funds in the Nigerian financial services industry till date, the Local content policy in the oil industry which retains on average $8 billion worth of oil service contracts to local entrepreneurs while ensuring technology transfer, the cement industry policy which boosted local cement production, saves the country $3 billion annually from money spent on imports and created hundreds of thousands of jobs down the value chain, liberalization of the telecoms industry which attracted tens of billions of dollars into the economy and grew the telecoms industry by over 30,000% within fifteen years amongst several other policies that added up to make Nigeria the fastest growing economy in Africa and resulted in Nigeria becoming the biggest economy in Africa by the time the economy was rebased in 2013. It was this same rapid economic growth that Lagos being the commercial capital of the country benefited from and allowed it to significantly grow it’s IGR from the companies thriving based on the economic policies. Ironically, it is someone that added zero value to these companies apart from taxing them that has been busy claiming credit for the IGR growth over the years. In addition to the vibrant growth-inducing economic policies, as part of the efforts to manage the country's resources judiciously, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) were established to institutionalize the fight against corruption while the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) was strengthened to make the fight against fake drugs more effective in the country. The Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (BMPIU) popularly known as Due Process office was also established to cut the high cost of procurements and contracts, thus saving the federal government hundreds of billions of Naira yearly in the process. Growing the economy didn’t happen by chance, it took a lot of hard work, strategic planning, commitment, and tenacity which the Atiku-led economic team of the Obasanjo administration exhibited to make Nigeria become the fastest-growing economy in Africa. Given the economic predicament in which we find ourselves today, it is inevitable that we must elect a president that is not just committed to revamping the economy but has a proven track record and experience in this regard. Of all the presidential candidates that have presented themselves to serve as the country’s next president, only Atiku Abubakar has the requisite experience to turn around the country’s economy while it is also a fact that he is the candidate that has shown the most commitment to fixing the country’s economy based on his level of preparedness. Apart from having the most robust and realistic plan for the country, Atiku Abubakar plans to address the biggest challenge entrepreneurs have in the country with a $10 billion economic stimulus plan to finance Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the country to stimulate economic growth. On the contrary, his main opposition’s plan to grow the economy is to recruit 50 million youths into the army and feed them with agbado (corn) and cassava to stimulate demand and supply thus betraying his cluelessness in managing the economy for growth. Another frontline candidate is fond of banding slogans such as 'moving the economy from consumption to production" without any clearcut economic plan of how he intends to achieve this feat but if we are to go by his antecedents in which the poverty rate in his state went up from 41.4% to 53.7% under his leadership as governor, we can safely conclude that all his noise about moving the country from 'consumption to production' is mere propaganda as he has demonstrated a very poor ability to manage and grow the economy in his most recent public assignment. As we approach the 2023 elections, we as Nigerians have to stop allowing sentiments, emotions, and propaganda to influence our decision-making process. We have to identify the candidate that is best equipped to ensure that our best interest as Nigerians is taken care of and which is revamping our economy and growing it for our collective benefit. In ending this article, I must submit that it is actually in our enlightened self-interest as Nigerians, to vote for Atiku Abubakar as the next president of the federal republic of Nigeria as he is the candidate that is best equipped to fix our ailing economy, grow it and ensure that we all as Nigerians enjoy a better standard of living and higher quality of life. Our welfare is what matters most and it only makes sense that we support the man who has a solid track record of phenomenal performance in managing and growing our economy. Kunle Oshobi writes from Lagos. https://thebossnewspapers.com/2023/01/03/our-welfare-and-the-politics-of-2023/ |
Chapter two: My digital marketing experience. In this chapter I delved into my sojourn in the world of sales and marketing culminating in how I discovered the exciting world of digital marketing and how I was able to exceed my previous year's sales within just one month of executing a digital marketing campaign that was introduced to me. This turned out to be a major turning point for my business and this simple strategy can easily be replicated in any business. To learn more, kindly visit https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Kunle-Oshobi-ebook/dp/B0BN4865Z3 to get your copy of the book.
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It also reveals how some of the richest men in the world (Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page) made their money through digital marketing. |
While Emilokan is still busy planning how to rig the elections and Obi is just catching cruise, Atiku has gone ahead to start preparing for governance. One thing is certain, he will hit the ground running immediately after he is sworn in on the 29th of May. Atiku begins plans to run government https://businessday.ng/politics/article/atiku-begins-plans-to-run-government/ |
OLAADEX:The rodent went to pray for his selfish ambition and not for Nigeria. God forbid BAT thing in 2023. |
Racoon:Unfortunately his best was an unmitigated disaster for the country, may his likes never smell the corridors of power in Nigeria again. |
emorse:On the contrary, the Atiku plan was conceptualized by Atiku himself. Don't forget that he is very experienced in governance and he was in charge of the economy when Nigeria achieved the highest economic growth rate in her history under the Obasanjo administration. |
 How Atiku’s $10 billion economic stimulus plan will affect you. By Kunle Oshobi According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 59 million Nigerians representing 84.02% of Nigeria’s total labour force work in the Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) sub-sector of the economy. This effectively makes the sector the biggest employer of labour in the Nigerian economy and where we need to focus on if we are serious about growing the economy. However, despite the huge number of Nigerians employed in this sector, many more Nigerians remain unemployed with our unemployment rate currently hovering around 33% and many more of those that are employed being actually under employed and unable to maximize their potentials. Analysis by Statista further reveals that while we have an estimated 41,469,947 micro enterprises in the country, there are also 71,288 small enterprises and 1,793 medium scale enterprises operating in the country with a vast majority of the micro enterprises being one-man businesses. Various studies however reveal that the biggest challenge being faced by most MSMEs in the country is access to capital to finance their operations and the prohibitive cost of the capital in the rare occasion that it becomes available. It is also a fact that if we are to grow our economy, create jobs for our people and pull Nigerians out of poverty, we must stimulate economic activity and increase productivity within the economy. This essentially is what the Atiku stimulus plan intends to achieve as it will directly be addressing the single biggest problem that is inhibiting productivity within the Nigerian economy by providing concessionary loans to large numbers of existing and potential entrepreneurs to help finance their business growth. To fund the stimulus plan if elected into office, Atiku intends to use the proceeds from the sales of the refineries which have now become a drainpipe costing the government over N100 billion annually to maintain even though they are not producing any fuel. By so doing, Atiku will be converting a liability which is costing us billions of Naira to maintain every year into a resource that can be used to finance economic growth and positively impact the lives of Nigerians. In addition to that, part of the money saved from the removal of fuel subsidy which is estimated to cost the federal government $15 billion this year alone will also be redirected to fund the stimulus plan. Effectively speaking the plan aims to redirect funds from consumption activities (subsidy) to productive activities (MSMEs financing) thereby killing two birds with one stone unlike those who bandy slogans of moving Nigeria from consumption to production without any effective plan to achieve such objectives. In implementing the stimulus plan, unlike the “Trader money” charade which turned to be a vote buying racket, the funds will be disbursed through competent financial institutions where the funds can be professionally managed and processes put in place to ensure that the funds are not abused. With this move, the Atiku stimulus plan would also have ignited a credit culture within the Nigerian economy and help deepen the financial services industry in the country as the risk appetite of our financial institutions will increase based on the implementation of the plan. Various studies have also revealed that Nigeria can double her GDP within six to seven years if we can develop a thriving credit system in the country in which credit facilities will be available to most entrepreneurs and consumers as this will unlock a lot of potentials within the economy, stimulate an increase in demand and supply within the economy and translate to more jobs and income for Nigerians. With the $10 billion stimulus plan, as many as five million Nigerian entrepreneurs could benefit from the loans in the first instance and if an average of just two jobs are created per beneficiary, that means that ten million Nigerians can be taken off the labour market in the short term. Other benefits of the stimulus plan will include human capacity development programs to train beneficiaries on how to manage their businesses better and ensure that the funds disbursed are well managed and that they become more productive. With increased productivity, not only will the entrepreneurs earn more and put them in a better position to grow their businesses, government also stands to earn more in terms of taxes which will further enable them to enhance their service delivery to Nigerians. The good news is that this stimulus will spill over to all sectors of the Nigerian economy and affect everyone positively as the increased purchasing power that Nigerians will collectively have as a result of pulling millions out of the unemployment market will mean more patronage for existing business owners that didn’t benefit directly from the stimulus plan and more income for their workers. Less people will also resort to crime when more jobs are available thus making our country safer for all. With the implementation of the Atiku $10 billion stimulus plan along with other policies like the Atiku plan to incentivize the power sector as was done in the telecoms sector to attract more private sector investors into the industry along with his plans to ensure that the private sector becomes the engine of growth of the Nigerian economy, the average Nigerian will be the biggest beneficiary as this will translate into more jobs and higher income for all Nigerians. It is certainly in our enlightened best interest to support the Atiku plan to #RecoverNigeria by joining hands to vote him in as the next president of our beloved country. Kunle Oshobi is a spokes-person for the Atiku/Okowa campaign organization How Atiku’s $10bn Economic Stimulus Plan Will Affect You https://thebossnewspapers.com/2022/12/27/how-atikus-10bn-economic-stimulus-plan-will-affect-you/ |
Helplasgidi:Are you minding the bigoted rodent? I am sure he knows nothing about Gbadebo but just supporting him out of arrogance of the Obidient movement. |
Freethinker87:Is Gbadebo even in the race? You better stop deluding yourself. |
BATified2023:You must be extremely delusional to think that it's only Igbos that are against the criminal activities of Tinubu. The vile character is the most hated politician even amongst our fellow Yorubas. We all know that he is a notorious criminal. |
BATified2023:Is it the same Tinubu that poos in his Pampers and is demented that you are talking about? |
BATified2023:God forbid BAT thing, a vile criminal like Tinubu can never be president of Nigeria. |
MrColdsweat:Even Gbadebo knows that he is just wasting his time and doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning. You align and support the winning team. #jafuneko2023 |
Lalasticlala kindly move to front page so we can get more opinions on the issue. |
SmartPolician:Obasanjo administration didn't steal a kobo of the so called $16 billion. It was all political lies and propaganda to discredit his administration. |
sapele914:He was vice president of the country and put in charge of the Nigerian economy and not governor of Adamawa state |
ProjectNaija:Very well said by the writer, there are too many lies about Tinubu's claims to have increased the IGR in Lagos. He did virtually nothing but if just claiming credit for the hard work of others. |
This is another reason why we must vote out the tyrannical Tinubu hegemony that has been holding Lagos down for the past twenty three years and vote in the dynamic duo of Jandor and Funke who will listen to the voice of the people.
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EndiaSami:0802-733-8500 |
Tinubuwins2023e:You are an accomplished slowpoke for this extremely daft and fraudulent statement. Even complete idiots know that Lagos was the most developed state in the country before Tinubu came to slow down the progress of the state in the past twenty three years through his unprecedented looting of the resources of the state. |
EndiaSami:Thanks so much for the inquiry, it will cost 100k to get it done. |
Naira20:The article is not about promises but about Atiku's phenomenal track record and the huge success of the privatization program. |
 How the Atiku privatization plan benefits you By Kunle Oshobi During the presidential campaign rally of the PDP held recently in Lagos, the front runner and presidential candidate of the PDP Alhaji Atiku Abubakar reiterated that if he was elected into office, he will privatize all the refineries and make the proceeds of the sales available to fund small and medium scale enterprises as part of his plans to reinvigorate the Nigerian economy. With this move, he will be able to turn assets that have become liabilities and drainpipes on the resources of the country into a pool of funds that will be available to uplift millions of Nigerians out of poverty. As laudable as the privatization program is, a lot of Nigerians have developed misgivings about it due to politically inspired misinformation and deliberate distortion of facts by those who benefit from the rot in these government-owned enterprises. The truth is that “government has no business in doing business” and the government’s role is primarily to take care of the security and welfare of the citizens. However, governments all over the world venture into business enterprises for strategic reasons or when certain investments are needed and the private sector doesn’t have the capacity to undertake such investments as was the case with Nigeria when the government built the refineries and many other government-owned enterprises. As a result of the then weak capacity of our private sector, the federal government justifiably invested over $100 billion in business enterprises between 1970 and 1999. However, owing to the fact that the government is not configured to run business enterprises, most of these enterprises had been run aground before 1999 and had become a major drainpipe on the resources of the federal government. According to the erstwhile Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) that was put in charge of the privatization program Mallam Nasiru El Rufai, Nigeria was spending (wasting) over N265 billion per annum to supplement none productive public enterprises. With the sale of the distressed companies, not only was the government able to save billions of Naira being used to support these none productive companies, the government was able to generate revenues from the asset sales which were put into more productive use for the benefit of Nigerians. At the tail end of the Obasanjo administration in 2007, the government was able to sell the refineries which for years had been operating far below their installed capacity to a consortium of private investors led by Alhaji Aliko Dangote who had committed to injecting the much-needed funds and managerial competencies needed to turn around the fortunes of the refineries. However, the privatization exercise was short-lived as hawks in the succeeding Yar’adua administration who felt that they would be losing a major source of sleaze if the company was left in private hands were able to convince the president to reverse the sale of the refineries. The Yar’adua administration then promised to revamp the refineries and get them to start producing at full capacity within a couple of years. Sadly, this was never to happen as the output of the refineries that were then between 40 and 60% installed capacity dwindled regressively until a few years ago when they finally stopped production even after government had wasted billions of dollars on “Turn Around Maintenance” exercises in futile attempts to revamp the refineries. Consequently, we now have to depend on imported products for 100% of our fuel needs. For how long do we continue to use good money to chase after bad investments? To make matters worse, the current administration now spends over N100 billion a year to maintain the refineries that are not producing any fuel. Realistically speaking, they have become a drainpipe to the country’s resources because instead of being assets generating income and adding value, they have become liabilities through which the government is losing hundreds of billions of Naira every year. With the Atiku plan to privatize the refineries and other rundown public enterprises, not only will we save Nigeria billions of dollars used in sustaining these liabilities, the government will be unlocking the value in them by allowing the private sector that is more equipped to run these enterprises to take over them, increase the productivity in the economy and create more jobs for the people while government raises billions of dollars from the sale of these enterprises. By making these funds available to support the private sector along with a number of other proposed policy initiatives of the Atiku plan, the Atiku administration will be able to create 3 million jobs for Nigerians annually while lifting 10 million Nigerians out of poverty every year into the bargain. This will also have a positive multiplier effect on those of us who are not unemployed or in the poverty trap as the increased economic activity from the millions of Nigerians now getting employed and pulled out of poverty will mean more patronage for our various businesses and our employers, and more tax revenues for government to pay civil servants even better wages. The trick is to get our assets to start working for us while turning our liabilities into resources. We can thus empower small and medium-scale enterprises and increase productivity within the economy for the benefit of all. These were part of the policies implemented by the Atiku-led National Economic Council which resulted in Nigeria becoming the fastest-growing economy in Africa during the Obasanjo administration. Fortunately, the man who was in charge of our economy during our golden years of economic growth is presenting himself to us and asking that we give him the opportunity to return us to the days of growth and prosperity for all. Let us follow the man who knows the way. Kunle Oshobi Spokesperson Atiku / Okowa Campaign Organization
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gabrielokeke555:It will cost 200k if you want to use Sikkens but we can do it for 100k using another high quality brand of paint. |
Unveiling the secrets of digital marketing in Nigeria was written to give deeper insights to the realities of digital marketing in Nigeria given the fact that most books on digital marketing available were written by authors in western countries and the specific peculiarities that are faced by digital marketing practitioners in Nigeria and other African countries are not covered by such books. The book draws from the author's rich experience in sales and traditional marketing to shed more light on the realities of digital marketing in Nigeria. It also details the author's personal experience with digital marketing and how he was able to achieve outstanding success with it. It also guides readers on tested and proven paths to achieve success with digital marketing while developing a deeper understanding and appreciation of the subject matter. Now available on amazon. Click https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN4865Z3 to get your copy now.
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Unveiling the secrets of digital marketing in Nigeria was written to give deeper insights to the realities of digital marketing in Nigeria given the fact that most books on digital marketing available were written by authors in western countries and the specific peculiarities that are faced by digital marketing practitioners in Nigeria and other African countries are not covered by such books. The book draws from the author's rich experience in sales and traditional marketing to shed more light on the realities of digital marketing in Nigeria. It also details the author's personal experience with digital marketing and how he was able to achieve outstanding success with it. It also guides readers on tested and proven paths to achieve success with digital marketing while developing a deeper understanding and appreciation of the subject matter. Now available on amazon. Click https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN4865Z3 to get your copy now.
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Character? Where Is The Character? - By Ayo Lijadu "We will sue Channels Tv, Arise TV, and others for character defamation of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu" - Bayo Onanuga You were on a day job of $2.4k per month. No other known source(s) of income. Suddenly you have over $1.4m lodged in your accounts, which, till today, you have not been able to successfully and convincingly explain to the public, the source(s) of such humongous sum of money. Now you seek to preside over the affairs of the largest black nation in the world. Nigerians are asking you to explain the sources of those large amounts lodged in your bank accounts in America about thirty years ago. You and your supporters are crying foul. You claim you were never convicted by a court of law. That your political enemies and opponents want to assassinate your character. But this is the People's Court, not a Court of Law. And they have every right to examine and interrogate the past, and the antecedents of the man who wants to lead them as President,
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DaddyFreeze2020:Very ridiculous statement, no other candidate has more comprehensive plans to develop Nigeria than Atiku, while Tinubu is just a braindead and degenerated vegetable, Obi is all about noise and propaganda with no real substance. |
