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Thanks.

http://prwebpodcast.com/pod/360869/360869.mp3


Please, forward it to your friends. That's my first podcast interview for iPods and other players. Happy listening and reading. I was sweating before and after the interview because I didn't know what to expect. The man that did the interview on the phone walked me through a long process that seemed as if I was being interviewed to run the world. The PR is here:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb360869.htm

Tell me what you think of it, my accent in particular.

A company in LA wants me to donate some of the soaps for their annual award celebrity gift-bags and some others want me to do a nation-wide cable/radio/tv/internet promo with them for a percentage.

http://prwebpodcast.com/pod/360869/African_Black_Soap_From_Ghana_Unscented_Pure_and_All_Natural_.mp3

1. A.C. Okafor Chicason Group:

A-Z Petroleum
Cason Travels
Life Vegetable Oil

Someone in Nigeria should help me upadate his companies/products . I have been away for a while.


2. The man that owns Cosms Chemical (Dudu-Osun Black Soap)

3. Cosmos Mmaduka: Coscharis Group (#1 Dealer in BMW, Land and Range Rovers)

4. Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport. He is the first guy that imported Mercedez Trucks in Nigeria and King of the Nigeria passenger Transport Industry.

Let's be real and mention everyone, irrespective of tribe.

madam,

Are you a Nigerian yourself?

Rufai,

http://www.great-india.co.uk is not bad at all.

It looks quit professional and good for the resturant business.

Orji Kalu is the man I would vote for if I am to vote for an Igbo man.

His website shows some of the things he has done. So far, I think he is the only young blood that has stood by his ambition to be the next president and I believe that if for no reason, people should support him based on his consistency.

Others may come in at the last minute and do their ojoro to become president. Atiku is also my choice of candidate. Babangida is not really serious to me.

Please, if someone has the website addresses of other interested aspirants, let me have it so I can check them out before I endorse anyone of them.

I love the videos on Dr. Orji Kalu's website. The designers did a very good job on the site. It must have cost him a lot.

Thanks and God bless.

Okafor David

Before I answer, I must advice my fellow website owners to know that flash does don't help your search engine ranking.

It may look good to your vistors but if you depend on search engines to promote, you better use html, php, and other text-related whatever (s) to build your site.

Anyway, my sites include:

1. African Student Union
2. Okafor David or David Okafor
3. OKAFORWORLD - Messy! This was my first website design experience. Nobody thought me anything. I just stole ideas around.
4. The African Store

I have not started yet.

I see blogs as a job for those that are paid to do it or those that have less to worry about in life- financially.

But it has its hugh benefits, which I will pay someone soon to do for The African Store.

Okafor David

I can help with that.

You just have to link to me and know how to use HTML.

If not, I can copy your current files to the new domain name.

Okafor David

The African Store

Website owners, please link to my website and tell others about it.

Non-webmasters, please add my site as one of your cool websites on your Yahoo!, MSN, Google, hi5.com, blackplanet.com pages and profiles.

The steps are simple and this helps me keep my ad and product cost down because people will get to know more about the site and my search engine ranking will go up due to the hits from your page.

About The African Store:

The African Store sells unrefined pure African Shea Butter and the world-popular Dudu-Osun African Black Soap from Nigeria. They are all your skin and hair needs, including cure for skin disorders like eczema, dark spots, sunburns, and dryness from the winter cold.

You can use:

Title: The African Store - Shea Butter, Black Soap and More.
Link: http://www.theafricanstore.org or any link on the website that best fits visitors to your web category.


Thanks and God bless you.

Okafor David
My business website
My persinal website
Listen to African Songs free on my persinal website.

If he can change the "naira" to "dollars" I will have answer to his question now now.

Okafor David
The African Store
www.theafricanstore.org

My best choice so far include:

1st place: www.batnigeria.com (They got the money for such website, plus the rule the world of cigarate.)
2nd place: www.y2kpublishing.com (I like their original design and contents)
3rd place: www.theafricanstore.org (In the making)
4th place: www.woointeractive.com (Though they use too much software that doesn't really help their clients' search engine rank)
5th place: www.nigeria.com (They are bogus though) They need to specialize in few things.

"Dangote is employing people to bag it. And thus creating job opportunities. Your uncle has the money, he should look somewhere else. "

Dear Kazey,

What is the essence in employing about 2000 people while affecting the demand-supply adversely?

I never doubt of his patrotism in investing in Nigeria. What I said is that his business skills have affected the lives of so many ordinary Nigeria in much negatively because of the high costs that came about.

See it this way:

He secure approval from the government to process/package stuff locally thereby pushing other players aside, then increase profits by shutting down a plant to create scarcity of the products.

Now tell me if that is innovative business.

My uncle never depended on the cement import so I have no reason to worry but no matter who we are or who we relate to, we should always try to see life outside our own circle.

I made a request for linking to my site and you are not obliged in anyway to do that. If you are ashamed of your own, I am not.

My business is my source of survival, I may not depend of hand-outs from dad and mom like you. You should keep your crazy Nigerian mentality to yourself.

Thanks and God bless.

Okafor David
www.okafordavid.com
www.theafricanstore.org

Guardian wrote:

Last but not least could you just name a few other Nigerian's who have or are investing in Nigeria to the benefit of our economy
PLEASE NOTE  : This excluding self centered and family business.

If you know who the first Nigerian millionaire was and how he ran his business to benefit Nigeria and Nigerians then you won't be asking such questions.

I will give you example of Ekenedilichukwu (Transport and others), Coscharis, Ishiaku Rabiu etc

The case with Dangote is that he invests in Nigeria but look behind the scene and see who really owns the investments - Babangida them.

Have you ever wondered how he gets all these favours from every government? That's because they use him as well as others as puppets to hide and invest their loots in Nigeria.

As a business man, I have no grudge at all on Dangote but the overall bad effects his practices have on Nigerians in general outweighs the benefits.

If his products are doing that well, why don't he export them to international markets just like Cosmos Chemical does with its Dudu-Osun African Black Soap.

The owner of Cosmos Chemical is another person that invests in Nigeria and is not only helping Nigerians with jobs but people all over the world, especially minorities in the U.S. like me.

Thanks.

Okafor David
www.okafordavid.com (Play Nigerian songs free)
www.theafricanstore.org

Please, add a link to The African Store (www.theafricanstore.org) in your yahoo, msn, google, profiles, groups, even this site as one of your cool websites.

I have a limited advertising funds but with your help, more people will know about my biz website.

I am a withness to the dirth deals Dangote has involved in.

Example is the cement business. I know for the fact that many Igbos, including my uncle (Chicason), Ibeto, and others were competing head to head with Dangote Cement until 1999-2000 when Obasanjo took over and declared cement import illegal unless it is imported in bulk and bagged in Nigeria.

This was done from plessure from Dangote Group once they had completed their cement factory. After that cement prices went way up.

WHat I am saying is that Dangote gains from favouritism through Babagida and others like OBJ cause, he is their cronies in stealing from Nigerians and making the playing grounds hard for other businesses.


Quote: "As far as I can tell, this is not the case, and I'm sure that if an innovative businessman came into Dangote's area of industry, he would be in real trouble. I remember that nearly two years ago the government granted his cement companies special privileges so that he could do well - if he was so good a businessman, why should he rely on these privileges?"

Thanks.

Okafor David
www.okafordavid.com
www.theafricanstore.org