Comments regarding why every indigenous teenager and young adult from the Southeast of Nigeria should embrace the renowned Igbo apprenticeship system have been prevalent on social media lately. My belief is that the system is most suitable for the less privileged because the average Gen Z individual born to middle-class parents or who has experienced a degree of affluence may struggle to endure the rigorous training.

The master benefits from the system as it saves them the expense of paying employees and significantly reduces the risk of employees absconding with the business’ resources, given that a master typically selects an apprentice with a close familial or village connection. The apprentice gains informal education in a specific line of business, connections with suppliers, and most importantly, funding that their family may not afford.

It is not advantageous to undergo the apprenticeship system for five years if one's family can finance their business. I know numerous undergraduates at university who began with small-scale dropshipping and have progressed to importing larger quantities of products from China. Additionally, I am acquainted with graduates who received financial backing from their families to initiate small-scale businesses after completing their NYSC program, and these businesses have since developed into medium-scale enterprises.

A formally educated individual with a business inclination has the potential to excel in business more than an uneducated apprentice. The apprenticeship system is effective for small-scale businesses where one individual is responsible for procurement, stockkeeping, marketing, retailing, and even securing the business premises. However, it is not sustainable for structured medium-scale or large-scale businesses. There is little that an Igbo airline owner, oil servicing company proprietor, or FMCGs like MarketSquare can teach an apprentice. One can only learn from such businesses as an intern during tertiary education IT or as a graduate trainee. I doubt that any apprentice has handled the amount of dollars that the young founders of Paystack, Flutterwave, and Moniepoint have in the last five years.

The apprenticeship system imposes lifelong limitations. The most prominent Igbo figures did not undergo this system. It will not afford one a dining seat close to the POTUS like Chimamanda Adichie or Ngozi Iweala. Nor will it guarantee a ticket to the Federal legislature like the notorious Ekweremadu or the outspoken Abaribe. In fact, from 1999 to date, I am unaware of any Governor in the South East who emerged from this system. Neither Soludo - a professor of Economics, nor Obiano - a finance expert, nor Ngige - a trained medical doctor, nor Otti - a finance expert, nor Umahi - an Engineer, nor his successor - a lawyer. Not Ojukwu, who attended a military university, nor Nnamdi Kanu. Even the new generation of wealthy Igbos like Obi Cubanna, E-money, and his brother, etc., are graduates who did not undergo this system.

Without formal education, one may be restricted and potentially mediocre for the remainder of their life. And what about the daunting "what if" scenario of being falsely accused of theft or misconduct just before one's master agreed to settle them?

If you reside with your widowed mother in the village with younger siblings looking up to you, the apprenticeship system presents your best opportunity to support your family. There are superior opportunities available if you are better off.

It is an option for the poor and it turns the poor to rich people.

AmuOtu:
It is an option for the poor and it turns the poor to rich people.

That is my opinion.

People should stop shaming graduates like the apprenticeship system is the best option for everybody.

The children of successful masters are studying abroad or in Private Universities.

N3TRAL:


That is my opinion.

People should stop shaming graduates like the apprenticeship system is the best option for everybody.

The children of successful masters are studying abroad or in Private Universities.

Nobody is shaming any graduate except tinubu that said he'll recruit 50millions of them into the army and feed them agbado.

It's an option for the poor where at the end they have the chances of becoming rich thereby closing the gap between the poor and the rich.

Less poor individuals and more rich and middle class, you get

The problem with you Igbo is your perfectionist foolishness.

As critical as anyone can be of the system, nobody can dispute it as lifted many out of poverty that even government can not accomplish since Nigeria attain independence.

Simply because others mock the negatives side which is glaring n prevalent you started wailing forgetting that (1) no perfect system in the entire universe (2) there is no beta alternative to the successes it accomplish within your society. Worse case you fine tune for more improvement.

Those with Almajiri system own it with all it flaws, having the workforce they need to the detriment of the larger society.

While you have yours helping to curb destitute n grow communal wealth among your population so what is there not to be proud even with it flaws ?!

Alaigbo:
The problem with you Igbo is your perfectionist foolishness.

As critical as anyone can be of the system, nobody can dispute it as lifted many out of poverty that even government can not accomplish since Nigeria attain independence.

Simply because others mock the negatives side which is glaring n prevalent you started wailing forgetting that (1) no perfect system in the entire universe (2) there is no beta alternative to the successes it accomplish within your society. Worse case you fine tune for more improvement.

Those with Almajiri system own it with all it flaws, having the workforce they need to the detriment of the larger society.

While you have yours helping to curb destitute n grow communal wealth among your population so what is there not to be proud even with it flaws ?!

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N3TRAL:
Comments regarding why every indigenous teenager and young adult from the Southeast of Nigeria should embrace the renowned Igbo apprenticeship system have been prevalent on social media lately. My belief is that the system is most suitable for the less privileged because the average Gen Z individual born to middle-class parents or who has experienced a degree of affluence may struggle to endure the rigorous training.

The master benefits from the system as it saves them the expense of paying employees and significantly reduces the risk of employees absconding with the business’ resources, given that a master typically selects an apprentice with a close familial or village connection. The apprentice gains informal education in a specific line of business, connections with suppliers, and most importantly, funding that their family may not afford.

It is not advantageous to undergo the apprenticeship system for five years if one's family can finance their business. I know numerous undergraduates at university who began with small-scale dropshipping and have progressed to importing larger quantities of products from China. Additionally, I am acquainted with graduates who received financial backing from their families to initiate small-scale businesses after completing their NYSC program, and these businesses have since developed into medium-scale enterprises.

A formally educated individual with a business inclination has the potential to excel in business more than an uneducated apprentice. The apprenticeship system is effective for small-scale businesses where one individual is responsible for procurement, stockkeeping, marketing, retailing, and even securing the business premises. However, it is not sustainable for structured medium-scale or large-scale businesses. There is little that an Igbo airline owner, oil servicing company proprietor, or FMCGs like MarketSquare can teach an apprentice. One can only learn from such businesses as an intern during tertiary education IT or as a graduate trainee. I doubt that any apprentice has handled the amount of dollars that the young founders of Paystack, Flutterwave, and Moniepoint have in the last five years.

The apprenticeship system imposes lifelong limitations. The most prominent Igbo figures did not undergo this system. It will not afford one a dining seat close to the POTUS like Chimamanda Adichie or Ngozi Iweala. Nor will it guarantee a ticket to the Federal legislature like the notorious Ekweremadu or the outspoken Abaribe. In fact, from 1999 to date, I am unaware of any Governor in the South East who emerged from this system. Neither Soludo - a professor of Economics, nor Obiano - a finance expert, nor Ngige - a trained medical doctor, nor Otti - a finance expert, nor Umahi - an Engineer, nor his successor - a lawyer. Not Ojukwu, who attended a military university, nor Nnamdi Kanu. Even the new generation of wealthy Igbos like Obi Cubanna, E-money, and his brother, etc., are graduates who did not undergo this system.

Without formal education, one may be restricted and potentially mediocre for the remainder of their life. And what about the daunting "what if" scenario of being falsely accused of theft or misconduct just before one's master agreed to settle them?

If you reside with your widowed mother in the village with younger siblings looking up to you, the apprenticeship system presents your best opportunity to support your family. There are superior opportunities available if you are better off.

See don't come out here to speak on what you have little or no information about, firstly the people practicing it are they complaining?

Secondly the system has proven to be a good system for wealth and knowledge transfer and has stood the test of time even in modern day society..

Thirdly no one is insulting the standard education of others, if not how come Igbos are one of the highest in the country for university education like medicine, law and so on....

The problem I have noticed with a lot with you guys is you people have lived with Igbos but barely know Igbos, you think those of the Igbos who have become successful don't one way or the other still put their children through some form apprenticeship system either in their field of study or out of their field of study...

One thing about an average Igbo man is he believes if he is to venture into something he should be the best at doing it even if it means going to serve someone to get the knowledge and knowhow, this is not about status.

I was still in the university at 300 level when I decided I wanted to learn computer enginnering, I was studying business admin, I didn't have the money then to pay for any professional training, I went to computer village one day and saw some young guys who we did a transaction with.

And I asked them if I can serve under them and somehow they agreed, these guys were all Yorubas, the highest of them was an OND holder.

I will wake up in the moring to open the shop, clean it, take the generator down stairs go on all errands, in fact just think of what a boy boy does I did it, the day I forgot the generator downstairs I was punished for it.

But today all that effort are paying off on computer engineering even without a computer engineering certificate....

So I don't know where you guys get some of your narrative that Igbos are insulting those going to school, to an average Igbo man the end result is having the money from whatever thing he is venturing into....

If the school you go to brings the money fire on, if the nwa boy method will bring the money fire on, if both combined will bring the money fire on, I have seen nwa boys going to school these days, they come back from school and stay till night while they have others who are older that stay during the day, I mean these are young nwa boys of 10-13 Years of age.

What I see taking place among Igbos is a blend of both, I have said I will try and make efforts for all universities in Igbo land to have a form of apprenticeship program in Every field of study, then also an education program for every nwa boy not going to school....

Though it is already happening on personal levels but I want it institutionalized....

Peter Obi learnt his trade from his parents, so he also is a graduate from the Igbo apprenticeship system. So you see you have one governor already..

Nobody limits the system to only the poor and the uneducated of the society.
If even if your family are capable to finance your start up and you learn the trade for only one year. You are still a graduate of the system.

The reason why South East villages is one of the most developed around this part of the world is because of the Igbo apprenticeship system of formation.

It's obvious that you know nothing about business... You think running a business is just about pumping money into it....

If you know the number of businesses that fold up on a daily basis, you won't open your mouth to talk rubbish

God bless everyone Igbo man hustling out there.


God bless every Oga/Madam so that he or she will have enough funds to settle his/her boys well.




Iseee

If course. An educated Ibo person would rather send their kids to university.

How did you conclude that Igba boi is strictly for the poor in Igbo? I know an officer whose son wants to be a businessman. The man simply linked the boy to the Igba boi system where the boy is now learning how to deal on soundproof power generators. It helps not just the poor to make wealth but anyone patient enough to learn and be trained by the system.

Brendaniel:


See don't come out here to speak on what you have little or no information about, firstly the people practicing it are they complaining?

Secondly the system has proven to be a good system for wealth and knowledge transfer and has stood the test of time even in modern day society..

Thirdly no one is insulting the standard education of others, if not how come Igbos are one of the highest in the country for university education like medicine, law and so on....

The problem I have noticed with a lot with you guys is you people have lived with Igbos but barely know Igbos, you think those of the Igbos who have become successful don't one way or the other still put their children through some form apprenticeship system either in their field of study or out of their field of study...

One thing about an average Igbo man is he believes if he is to venture into something he should be the best at doing it even if it means going to serve someone to get the knowledge and knowhow, this is not about status.

I was still in the university at 300 level when I decided I wanted to learn computer enginnering, I was studying business admin, I didn't have the money then to pay for any professional training, I went to computer village one day and saw some young guys who we did a transaction with.

And I asked them if I can serve under them and somehow they agreed, these guys were all Yorubas, the highest of them was an OND holder.

I will wake up in the moring to open the shop, clean it, take the generator down stairs go on all errands, in fact just think of what a boy boy does I did it, the day I forgot the generator downstairs I was punished for it.

But today all that effort are paying off on computer engineering even without a computer engineering certificate....

So I don't know where you guys get some of your narrative that Igbos are insulting those going to school, to an average Igbo man the end result is having the money from whatever thing he is venturing into....

If the school you go to brings the money fire on, if the nwa boy method will bring the money fire on, if both combined will bring the money fire on, I have seen nwa boys going to school these days, they come back from school and stay till night while they have others who are older that stay during the day, I mean these are young nwa boys of 10-13 Years of age.

What I see taking place among Igbos is a blend of both, I have said I will try and make efforts for all universities in Igbo land to have a form of apprenticeship program in Every field of study, then also an education program for every nwa boy not going to school....

Though it is already happening on personal levels but I want it institutionalized....

You're missing the point.

I wish to make it clear that my writeup was without prejudice and nowhere did I compare Igbos to other tribes.

The summary of what I wrote is that the system is beneficial to the less privileged as it gives them a chance.

However, apprenticeship alone cannot make you dine with kings and the importance of formal education cannot be overemphasized.

N3TRAL:



You're missing the point.

I wish to make it clear that my writeup was without prejudice and nowhere did I compare Igbos to other tribes.

The summary of what I wrote is that the system is beneficial to the less privileged as it gives them a chance.

However, apprenticeship alone cannot make you dine with kings and the importance of formal education cannot be overemphasized.

And my point is that it is important to both less privileged on non-less privileged, and also you can dine with kings with apprenticeship, Coscharis is a testimony to that, and also I talked about the importance of formal education and how Igbos have embraced it and also how they are combining both personally and how I want both to be institutionalized to work with each other....


You can read my post and see for yourself....

Fall out from the discussion on the Statisense thread, where both Igbos and Yorubas were defending their tribe.

Personally, I prefer Nigeria eventually adopts the GERMAN apprentischip system...where it is integrated into the education system, and the whole thing starts from 16 years old.

Problem is, we aren';t an industrial country, so....

EbinPawaGovt:
How did you conclude that Igba boi is strictly for the poor in Igbo? I know an officer whose son wants to be a businessman. The man simply linked the boy to the Igba boi system where the boy is now learning how to deal on soundproof power generators. It helps not just the poor to make wealth but anyone patient enough to learn and be trained by the system.

You're still missing the point.

Whether one is Igbo, Yoruba, Fulani, Jewish, Polish , Russian, etc, one has to go through an apprenticeship scheme to learn trade. Some even pay to learn it, still serve their master and are punished by their master.

Everywhere in Nigeria, a madam is teaching young girls under her custody how to sew clothes. Everywhere in Nigeria, a madam is teaching her young girls how to bake.

Everywhere in Nigeria an oga is teaching his young boys how to give someone a haircut. Everywhere in Nigeria an oga is teaching his boys how to drive trucks and service them. Everywhere in Nigeria, Oga Japanese is teaching his boys how to repair Toyota and Honda cars and source for their parts while Oga German is teaching his boys how to repair Mercedes or BMW. Generator dealership , Solar Panel dealership, borehole digging and pumping machine dealership, hair dressing and makeup etc.

Even delicate niches like pharmacy/chemist trade where Ogas teach boys that couldn't pass WAEC's Biology and chemsitry how to prescribe drugs, do abortion, give injections and Stitch deep cuts abound in Nigeria. With the absence of trade schools, almost every Nigerian engaging in a trade or business served a master even for a month.


The Nwa-boi system I'm talking about is more like a marathon course and lasts for many years. The apprentice lives with the master during the period and in many cases cannot even visit the village during christmas and if you default on the eve of the day your apprenticeship journey is to end, you can be denied everything that your master promised.

It differs from me sending my mechanical engineering inclined child to my friend who repairs bulldozers during long vacations or ASUU strike to learn from him or staying at my uncles electronic shop after SS3 while waiting for university admission.

And all the poor were transformed to rich circles while ebinpawarians are rolling in poverty

Whether it is for the poor or not, it is a system that have helped to establish many Igbo business people
However , I always advise that one go through the formal education system , as long as one have the financial support.
I am always proud that I am a graduate and passed through that particular system.
Some of our Igbo brothers and sisters are not opportuned to have the finances to go for the formal education, then they can go for the apprenticeship system ,if they find someone that can take them on.
This is far better than idling away.