₦airaland Forum

Lithiumite:
Op you are very wrong,it angers me when ill trained and ill equipped minds for the 21st century would look down on sone venture just because they have some paper qualifications......food business is big business all over the world,same China you keep referring to has made big business out of their local cuisines.

This same akara is what many of these so called woke graduates buy at a premium in upscale eateries and shops even in diaspora.....I see akara and koko sellers selling out within a few hours every morning enough for a mother to send her kids off to school every morning,make her esusu contribution daily and support her house old in her own way,its still far better than being jobless.......as a so called graduate it behives on you to use your intellect to upgrade the trade and operate in a more business like scale rather than unintelligently criticising everything you have no solution to.

You mean the average Akara seller live in a 2 bedroom apartment, send their children to private schools and even buy new clothes for their family. You didn't check well sir. Some even fuel their cars with the income from akara

What actually find infuriating is how she said they have tried their best for Nigerians. If this is your best, what will your worse & worst look like?

Smartworkfx2:
Some of you making comments didn't even read the whole story l narrated. Read my post carefully to the last sentence to fully understand my point of view.

I am not supporting what the first lady said. I am only exposing how difficult it is to make profit from this busines considering the operational cost plus logistics.

I could only do the Akara business back then because my sweet mum supported me. Also because l had a large market in a private university with rich students.

How much is Akara in your area now. It is N50 and N100 near my office in lagos depending on size.

One mumu Tinubu loyalist said it can be repackaged and sold for N1000. Very weird set of people

Note that this same akara was N10 and N20 when tinubu became president in May 2023. Beans of N900 is now over 5k. Oil of N300 is now over N1500. Cooking gas of N400 per kg is now over N1700. All within the space of three years.

Your last line is what Mr Buhari said in West Germany and got flak for it. Be careful


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBnWzWByek?

Usmanovic95:
What actually find infuriating is how she said they have tried their best for Nigerians. If this is your best, what will your worse & worst look like?

Akara wasn't even what caught my attention, it's this family's obsession with corn. Dem use corn do sacrifice? cause I no understand the Agbado thing 🌽

Kukutente23:
You mean the average Akara seller live in a 2 bedroom apartment, send their children to private schools and even buy new clothes for their family. You didn't check well sir. Some even fuel their cars with the income from akara

Effects of the olodo culture made manifest with no doubt whatsoever...... your entitlement mentality throws you off as a non realist who doesn't even understand anything.......I know people living in their own homes and arent as rich as many others who owns no home yet,do we all need to go to private schools,there are so many kids in public schools far more intelligent than those in private schools,go to those tour useless WhatsApp propaganda groups where you indoctrinate yourselves with hate and tell them someone told you a lie......whats so special in new clothes that anyone can't buy,why haven't the clothe sellers in oshodi,lagos island,aba all closed shop since no one can afford their wares.

Your inferences are at best posits from a drunken arm chair ideologue who doest even appreciate the issues in question.

Lithiumite:
Effects of the olodo culture made manifest with no doubt whatsoever...... your entitlement mentality throws you off as a non realist who doesn't even understand anything.......I know people living in their own homes and arent as rich as many others who owns no home yet,do we all need to go to private schools,there are so many kids in public schools far more intelligent than those in private schools,go to those tour useless WhatsApp propaganda groups where you indoctrinate yourselves with hate and tell them someone told you a lie......whats so special in new clothes that anyone can't buy,why haven't the clothe sellers in oshodi,lagos island,aba all closed shop since no one can afford their wares.

Your inferences are at best posits from a drunken arm chair ideologue who doest even appreciate the issues in question.

I knew it will fly over your head and leave you engaging in empty verbosity
The point is that most akara sellers do not have a good standard of living. Selling akara is a low end business to keep body and soul together not a business to brag about its profitability as you claim. Look at the Op for example who claims he used gas to fry akara for sale. He was honest enough to acknowledge the clients were rich enough and he was not footing the bill of the gas. How many people can afford to run akara business with gas and still be profitable in this era of 2k per kg gas and 18k per 5L oil.
The simple fact is that people especially young graduates deserve to be gainfully employed so that they can contribute meaningfully to society. So glorifying akara business like it's such a desirable line of employment just shows your innate sadism and hate for your fellow countrymen that you're ready to throw them under the bus to defend your political god

Lithiumite:
Its becoming more obvious by the day how much of a scatterbrain you are......what are you even saying.....single mothers doing petty trading have been sending their kids to university long before you ever knew how to wink and are still doing......you keep going round in circles and keep tieing yourself with your own rope,you just justified the setting up of nelfund in your typical incoherent ramblings.

Those selling akara and corn getting by while you condescendingly bypass their presence with scorn,are you the one feeding,housing or sending their kids to school?

Maybe because it was not so expensive then afterall when I attended university, my first school fees was N1500 while minimum wage was N5500. Today, minimum wage is N70k while same school fees is N300k. All thanks to your god.
Getting by is not a way of life to wish on others. It leads to poor standard of living, poor health and even uncertainty about the future. You shouldn't be advocating for people to just "get by" in life. You should advocate for people especially young Nigerians to get opportunities to aspire to be the best they can be.
At this rate I fear APC have a feudal mentality. Impoverish the people to such extent that they lose any atom of ability to think for themselves. I fear more for your kind who are their hailers. Your comeuppance may not be good. Go read Isaiah 5:20 if you have a bible close to you.

The big question still remains what do they eat, how and where do they live, what schools do their kids attend? If you believe their standard of living is pleasing to see and desirable then may their lot be your portion in the earliest possible time. Amen

Kukutente23:
Maybe because it was not so expensive then afterall when I attended university, my first school fees was N1500 while minimum wage was N5500. Today, minimum wage is N70k while same school fees is N300k. All thanks to your god.
Getting by is not a way of life to wish on others. It leads to poor standard of living, poor health and even uncertainty about the future. You shouldn't be advocating for people to just "get by" in life. You should advocate for people especially young Nigerians to get opportunities to aspire to be the best they can be.
At this rate I fear APC have a feudal mentality. Impoverish the people to such extent that they lose any atom of ability to think for themselves. I fear more for your kind who are their hailers. Your comeuppance may not be good. Go read Isaiah 5:20 if you have a bible close to you.

The big question still remains what do they eat, how and where do they live, what schools do their kids attend? If you believe their standard of living is pleasing to see and desirable then may their lot be your portion in the earliest possible time. Amen

I guess you avoided that part of the same bible that talks about contentment and fulfillment in life....their are people earning just 100k a month and they are far more happier than you earning millions.....govt cannot make everyone rich even if gold was growing on trees......an average beninoire or Ghanaian isn't as rich as an average Nigerian but they are highly contented and will readily claim a better standard of living......your utopian idea of getting everyone to drive a car or live in mansions is only a dream no govt on earth has been able to achieve,majority of the world population are just getting by several people I know In the UK are just living from paycheck to paycheck,open American forums online,its same.

The reason we all see your obi as impractical us because of the superfluous,myopia of many of you and your ilk who believe Nigeria can be dubai in 4 years.

Kukutente23:
I knew it will fly over your head and leave you engaging in empty verbosity
The point is that most akara sellers do not have a good standard of living. Selling akara is a low end business to keep body and soul together not a business to brag about its profitability as you claim. Look at the Op for example who claims he used gas to fry akara for sale. He was honest enough to acknowledge the clients were rich enough and he was not footing the bill of the gas. How many people can afford to run akara business with gas and still be profitable in this era of 2k per kg gas and 18k per 5L oil.
The simple fact is that people especially young graduates deserve to be gainfully employed so that they can contribute meaningfully to society. So glorifying akara business like it's such a desirable line of employment just shows your innate sadism and hate for your fellow countrymen that you're ready to throw them under the bus to defend your political god

And where did the first lady insist graduates must sell akara or roast corn,nigerians are still daily grinding tbeir hustles in other ventures free of any encumberance by govt,a poor mind will remain poor no matter how much millions you throw at him or her,thats not the fault of govt.......you always sidestep the fact that ybeir are millions of untrained people out there who still have to live their lives daily......in your warped thinking,sikiru the vulcanizer should be employed in a bank or imelda selling oranges at 40 should be employed in a givt ministry or musa who only knows how to man gates at 50 should get scholarship and go learn tech in China....what then do you do with that lot,kill them all or what,was it tinubu that got them to where tbey are different from where you are? Ask yourself what we are supposed to do with them other than encourage them to seek gainful ventures to keep themselves.

Kukutente23:
Maybe because it was not so expensive then afterall when I attended university, my first school fees was N1500 while minimum wage was N5500. Today, minimum wage is N70k while same school fees is N300k. All thanks to your god.
Getting by is not a way of life to wish on others. It leads to poor standard of living, poor health and even uncertainty about the future. You shouldn't be advocating for people to just "get by" in life. You should advocate for people especially young Nigerians to get opportunities to aspire to be the best they can be.
At this rate I fear APC have a feudal mentality. Impoverish the people to such extent that they lose any atom of ability to think for themselves. I fear more for your kind who are their hailers. Your comeuppance may not be good. Go read Isaiah 5:20 if you have a bible close to you.

The big question still remains what do they eat, how and where do they live, what schools do their kids attend? If you believe their standard of living is pleasing to see and desirable then may their lot be your portion in the earliest possible time. Amen

Pls stop engaging that guy.

One thing I have figured out about them is they can’t give what they don’t have.

They’re so shallow. They only reason in the surface. Just as those they support and defend.

Lithiumite:
And where did the first lady insist graduates must sell akara or roast corn,nigerians are still daily grinding tbeir hustles in other ventures free of any encumberance by govt,a poor mind will remain poor no matter how much millions you throw at him or her,thats not the fault of govt.......you always sidestep the fact that ybeir are millions of untrained people out there who still have to live their lives daily......in your warped thinking,sikiru the vulcanizer should be employed in a bank or imelda selling oranges at 40 should be employed in a givt ministry or musa who only knows how to man gates at 50 should get scholarship and go learn tech in China....what then do you do with that lot,kill them all or what,was it tinubu that got them to where tbey are different from where you are? Ask yourself what we are supposed to do with them other than encourage them to seek gainful ventures to keep themselves.

You're too narrow-minded. Sikiru the vulcanizer deserves to have a shop instead of putting his machine by the roadside. He deserves to be better trained to use modern methods of patching tyres that are less cumbersome and untidy.

Heck there are electric pumps now that Sikiru should aspire to own. But how will Sikiru be able to do this when you've bludgeoned him with high cost of living and you're still telling him to try roasting corn.

Imelda can also be trained to make orange juice from her orange. She can also be empowered to own a fruit shop with better hygienic conditions instead of condemning her to hawking and getting hit by fast moving vehicles.

These folks are your citizens. They deserve a better life. I remember in the 90s.

Do you know what phased out using soda soaps to wash plates and clothes? An NGO took it upon themselves to teach our women how to make homemade detergents that are more friendly to the hands.
This was under a military regime. How much more a democracy?

Jonathan had a vision to phase out cooking with firewood and charcoal because of the health hazard and environmental impact. He got an agency to make a plan to supply gas stoves to households I think 2m in the pilot phase. Unfortunately that plan died with his govt and you here an APC apologist once darkly told me you see nothing wrong in cooking with charcoal!! Darn!!

The purpose of govt is to improve life not to stamp down on the already downtrodden. That you lots in APC don't know this is why you think eating rotten shawa is a smart strategy to survive Tinubulation.

Lithiumite:
I guess you avoided that part of the same bible that talks about contentment and fulfillment in life....their are people earning just 100k a month and they are far more happier than you earning millions.....govt cannot make everyone rich even if gold was growing on trees......an average beninoire or Ghanaian isn't as rich as an average Nigerian but they are highly contented and will readily claim a better standard of living......your utopian idea of getting everyone to drive a car or live in mansions is only a dream no govt on earth has been able to achieve,majority of the world population are just getting by several people I know In the UK are just living from paycheck to paycheck,open American forums online,its same.

The reason we all see your obi as impractical us because of the superfluous,myopia of many of you and your ilk who believe Nigeria can be dubai in 4 years.

The Bible did not mention contentment in the context of poverty. Proverbs preached against poverty to no end. Proverbs 10:15 talks about how poverty ends up destroying the poor

Perhaps you do not understand the basics. There's something called decent living. It's not necessarily owning a car or not. It's about having enough to take care of yourself and your immediate family. Living in abundance is a plus. The big question in this context is if the akara seller can earn enough to give his family a decent life in the context of the Nigerian reality. A 2 bedroom apartment is not a mansion. I think you're being sarcastic.

And going to look for alibi in the US, UK, Benin or Ghana simply shows even you know that your god is a massive failure. If Nigerians are not contented or know how to survive, this country would have been burned to the ground with the level of hunger and deprivation while the political elites continue to wallow in corrupt opulence.

The same UK and US will never spend humongous 21bn to build a house for their VP, or 70bn to buy cars for their legislators or dash the legislators millions monthly or give their first lady a running budget of billions of naira to do as she wishes. They understand what a commonwealth means and accept that they are managers of the commonwealth who must be ultimately accountable to the people.

That's the link that's missing in the case of your political god. You want them to run the resources of the country without accountability while making one excuse or the other to mask their failures.
You can't find that in those countries. The existence of your kind is an anomaly

Kukutente23:
You're too narrow-minded. Sikiru the vulcanizer deserves to have a shop instead of putting his machine by the roadside. He deserves to be better trained to use modern methods of patching tyres that are less cumbersome and untidy.

Heck there are electric pumps now that Sikiru should aspire to own. But how will Sikiru be able to do this when you've bludgeoned him with high cost of living and you're still telling him to try roasting corn.

Imelda can also be trained to make orange juice from her orange. She can also be empowered to own a fruit shop with better hygienic conditions instead of condemning her to hawking and getting hit by fast moving vehicles.

These folks are your citizens. They deserve a better life. I remember in the 90s.

Do you know what phased out using soda soaps to wash plates and clothes? An NGO took it upon themselves to teach our women how to make homemade detergents that are more friendly to the hands.
This was under a military regime. How much more a democracy?

Jonathan had a vision to phase out cooking with firewood and charcoal because of the health hazard and environmental impact. He got an agency to make a plan to supply gas stoves to households I think 2m in the pilot phase. Unfortunately that plan died with his govt and you here an APC apologist once darkly told me you see nothing wrong in cooking with charcoal!! Darn!!

The purpose of govt is to improve life not to stamp down on the already downtrodden. That you lots in APC don't know this is why you think eating rotten shawa is a smart strategy to survive Tinubulation.

Who or what has stopped sikiru from owing a shop,the last I checked i see several of them with shops even selling tyres,feeding their families,and sending their kids to school......if sikiru racks up on that higher cost of investment by getting electric pumps and tyre removal machines and scaling up his shop he will require a higher ROI which you wouldn't be able to pay......the orange seller doesn't ordinary have the skill sets to start making orange juice but you would have made common sense by pushing policy advocacy instead of tainting the discourse with your nuanced nuanced political innuendos by ensuring that this people are appropriately empowered to thrive in the akara or kuli kuli venture remi tinubu was suggesting rather than throwing out the whole idea and attempting to alternate it with your jaundiced utopia of how the economy should look.....you cant just jump from A to Z without passing through 24 other letters.

Several people have attempted pushing their restaurant businesses to look upscale and modern but ran under shortly after because they where to heavy in overheads and like my former boss used to say,keeping it simple is the best option.

The economic disparity we are suffering wasn't brought about by tinubu thats the annoying lie you obidients keep regurgitating at every turn,rather its as a result of years of systemic rot that past govts have brought upon us and you expect Nigeria to be Singapore in 3 years,even if it would have taken a year,isnt it something the most vulnerable in your society would have to live on pending the eldorado.

Whats wrong with the vp residence being completed,does the property belong to tinubu or to the Nigeria,the very commonwealth you are referring is on record to being efficiently managed as the economy has been able to turn the corner from the downward trajectory it was headed before now,you keep crying poverty due to subsidy removal like there were no poor amongst us during the subsidy years, like we were any better

Kukutente23:
Millions of household in akara trade send their kids to universities? What do we need nelfund for then? You see how you keep confusing yourselves in a bid to defend everything
Why don't you tell people your gainful endeavours for them to also get involved in and then you can take up the akara challenge instead of going about asking for incentives and business case for akara business. You don't want to be like Dangote ni?

Lol. You really held the dingbatus by the cohones. 12 years ago, an akara seller could conveniently send the kids to school.

Today, that akara seller cannot feed herself much less the children, not to talk of being able to pay thier shool fees.

Smartworkfx2:
As funny as this Akara topic of remi tinubu sounds, l remember a time in a my life when l was into Akara business back in school at Covenant University.

I met the buttery guy at CU and struck a deal of daily supply with him.

I told my mum she will be making akara in large quantities for me. She agreed and her maid started making it daily. My mum's driver will deliver it to me in school.

I was making a lot of money as the Akara was sold out in a couple of hours that the buttery guy told me to increase supply.

I didn't have the capacity to increase the quantity supplied as a student back then. My mum was very supportive as she was the one fueling the car to deliver the Akara all the way from Lagos to Ota.

When l told my mum l need to increase supply, she supported me again with more raw materials. (God bless that woman for me and May her soul rest in peace).

I kept repeating the process and made huge amount of money. After about six weeks, l got tired of the business. Stupid me used the money to flex🤣. I also got a timberland boot and blackberry phone which gave me some fulfilment that the project was worth it.🤣

Now, the moral of the story is l didn't have any passion for the business. I only did it as a means to an end back then.

The hard truth is without the support of my mum, l won't have been able to embark on that little project.

1. She paid her driver for delivery.
2. She fueled the car.
3. She bought the cooking gas.
4. She paid her maid who made the Akara.
5. She even provided the raw materials when l needed to increase supply.

👆🏻now imagine if l had to incur all these expenses as a student, l won't have made any profit.

Remi Tinubu, the Audacity you have to tell graduates to go into such business is insane. In this Digital age and Infotech era. Go to china and see what they are teaching their youths

Your husband promised to create 3 million jobs, yet he has failed woefully. You said you gave grants of 2 billion and 1 billion. Why not use the money to build factories and small scale companies.

Madam, if you have nothing good to say, please just keep quiet and enter the kitchen to cook for your husband.

u went to school n still lacked basic knowledge, a private school at that

Where did u see her mention students?
Hope u were taught meaning of grants n loans in economics n they explained to u that it's meant for a specified set of people n not everyone?


With your model of explanation, u were not making akara but wasting precious time n resources

I now understand why many said that with this present opposition n how they think tinubu can b president for 30 years, the opposition is too clueless n focus on irrelevant rather than something reasonable.

Lithiumite:
Who or what has stopped sikiru from owing a shop,the last I checked i see several of them with shops even selling tyres,feeding their families,and sending their kids to school......if sikiru racks up on that higher cost of investment by getting electric pumps and tyre removal machines and scaling up his shop he will require a higher ROI which you wouldn't be able to pay......the orange seller doesn't ordinary have the skill sets to start making orange juice but you would have made common sense by pushing policy advocacy instead of tainting the discourse with your nuanced nuanced political innuendos by ensuring that this people are appropriately empowered to thrive in the akara or kuli kuli venture remi tinubu was suggesting rather than throwing out the whole idea and attempting to alternate it with your jaundiced utopia of how the economy should look.....you cant just jump from A to Z without passing through 24 other letters.

Several people have attempted pushing their restaurant businesses to look upscale and modern but ran under shortly after because they where to heavy in overheads and like my former boss used to say,keeping it simple is the best option.

The economic disparity we are suffering wasn't brought about by tinubu thats the annoying lie you obidients keep regurgitating at every turn,rather its as a result of years of systemic rot that past govts have brought upon us and you expect Nigeria to be Singapore in 3 years,even if it would have taken a year,isnt it something the most vulnerable in your society would have to live on pending the eldorado.

Whats wrong with the vp residence being completed,does the property belong to tinubu or to the Nigeria,the very commonwealth you are referring is on record to being efficiently managed as the economy has been able to turn the corner from the downward trajectory it was headed before now,you keep crying poverty due to subsidy removal like there were no poor amongst us during the subsidy years, like we were any better

How many sikirus do you see with shops? Majority of vulcanizers in Nigeria don't own shops. But more importantly I shudderwhen I read from you sometimes. Can a human iq be this low?
The point I was making which you failed to understand is that govt has a responsibility to see to the improvement of small businesses. Instead of Remi telling people to go and join others on the street to fry akara or roast corn, she should be empowering those in the business presently to scale up the business so that they can become net employers and improve on their service delivery. That's what small business are supposed to contribute to the economy and they can only do this with govt support since majority lack the capital and wherewithal to scale up.
Tell your boss that if Bill Gates had kept it simple, he won't own a laptop today. If countries like the US think as you and your goddess do, Microsoft would have simply remained in Gates' garage repairing IBM computers since it's all about keeping it simple. Microsoft oh, Apple oh etc all started small and today they are mega-businesses. Same with McDonald's and even Michelin tyres.
The economic malaise most households in Nigeria face today is the handwork of tinubu. He removed subsidy and devalued the naira. These were not economic decisions that were forced on him. What's more painfully disastrous is that even after carrying out this macabre assault on the economy of Nigerian households, his govt is still broke and he still goes about borrowing like a man in need of oxygen. Budget performance and capital releases are at their lowest ebb. Only banks and FPIs are feeding fat with an undervalued currency, high interest rates which stifle small businesses but good for portfolio investments and inflation at abysmal level never mention the bonds being sold out with high returns of above 15%!! He's simply robbing the masses to enrich his buddies while unleashing his zombies armed with propaganda to shush the hardworking citizens who've seen their real income plummet.

Again you disappoint me. The residence of the US VP is over 120 years old. Akinola Aguda house that's the present residence of the Nigerian VP is only about 30 years old yet this frivolous govt saw it fit to build another one, something previous govts bucked due to the waste it represents. Even the US refused to build a new residence for their VP to save cost yet a third world country with 63% of the population poor thinks building a VP residence should be a priority
I shame for you

Lithiumite:
Op you are very wrong,it angers me when ill trained and ill equipped minds for the 21st century would look down on sone venture just because they have some paper qualifications......food business is big business all over the world,same China you keep referring to has made big business out of their local cuisines.

This same akara is what many of these so called woke graduates buy at a premium in upscale eateries and shops even in diaspora.....I see akara and koko sellers selling out within a few hours every morning enough for a mother to send her kids off to school every morning,make her esusu contribution daily and support her house old in her own way,its still far better than being jobless.......as a so called graduate it behives on you to use your intellect to upgrade the trade and operate in a more business like scale rather than unintelligently criticising everything you have no solution to.

all this noise instead of you marketing your akara business and location

Smartworkfx2:
As funny as this Akara topic of remi tinubu sounds, l remember a time in a my life when l was into Akara business back in school at Covenant University.

I met the buttery guy at CU and struck a deal of daily supply with him.

I told my mum she will be making akara in large quantities for me. She agreed and her maid started making it daily. My mum's driver will deliver it to me in school.

I was making a lot of money as the Akara was sold out in a couple of hours that the buttery guy told me to increase supply.

I didn't have the capacity to increase the quantity supplied as a student back then. My mum was very supportive as she was the one fueling the car to deliver the Akara all the way from Lagos to Ota.

When l told my mum l need to increase supply, she supported me again with more raw materials. (God bless that woman for me and May her soul rest in peace).

I kept repeating the process and made huge amount of money. After about six weeks, l got tired of the business. Stupid me used the money to flex🤣. I also got a timberland boot and blackberry phone which gave me some fulfilment that the project was worth it.🤣

Now, the moral of the story is l didn't have any passion for the business. I only did it as a means to an end back then.

The hard truth is without the support of my mum, l won't have been able to embark on that little project.

1. She paid her driver for delivery.
2. She fueled the car.
3. She bought the cooking gas.
4. She paid her maid who made the Akara.
5. She even provided the raw materials when l needed to increase supply.

👆🏻now imagine if l had to incur all these expenses as a student, l won't have made any profit.

Remi Tinubu, the Audacity you have to tell graduates to go into such business is insane. In this Digital age and Infotech era. Go to china and see what they are teaching their youths

Your husband promised to create 3 million jobs, yet he has failed woefully. You said you gave grants of 2 billion and 1 billion. Why not use the money to build factories and small scale companies.

Madam, if you have nothing good to say, please just keep quiet and enter the kitchen to cook for your husband.

Madam Remi wasn't talking to graduates. Her advice was directed to women who were empowered with grants of 50k each. Some of them will find it useful.

ogolemati:
all this noise instead of you marketing your akara business and location

Tasty fried chicken,sweet sensation and co all started from one shop to be come a restaurant chain......TFC in opening lagos and SS was town planning way,ilupeju,they had to include fried yam akara in their menu at some point due to demand along with other local dishes which they weren't offering before......that same akara business you keep looking down on has fed many families for several years and even warned them university degrees........phyno's mother was once a local finger foods seller in lagos and he isn't ashamed of it......you can keep sitting on your high horse and be crying hunger like tinubu is supposed to be feeding you.

Lithiumite:
Tasty fried chicken,sweet sensation and co all started from one shop to be come a restaurant chain......TFC in opening lagos and SS was town planning way,ilupeju,they had to include fried yam akara in their menu at some point due to demand along with other local dishes which they weren't offering before......that same akara business you keep looking down on has fed many families for several years and even warned them university degrees........phyno's mother was once a local finger foods seller in lagos and he isn't ashamed of it......you can keep sitting on your high horse and be crying hunger like tinubu is supposed to be feeding you.

I only asked you to market your akara business and location,I didn't ask for all this .were all this programmed already inside you

ogolemati:
I only asked you to market your akara business and location,I didn't ask for all this .were all this programmed already inside you

I don't sell akara but I could if I see a strong business case and I will honestly support anyone Interested.

Some of you have turned this thread to a gbasgbos platform . You all should take a chill pill please.

What l posted as the OP was to let you know we are in a digital era and infotech age, meaning a serious government should not be talking about roadside business as a means out of poverty at this time. The same poverty that their economic policies created which led to massive hardship.

I did the Akara business in year 2006 as a student and made huge profit in six weeks. It was not about survival for me and l had no single passion for the business. I only did it as a means to an end. My end goal then was the get a blackberry phone and the income was also enough to get a Timberland boot.

I also explained that the business isnt that profitable as remi tinubu thinks when you consider all the expenses and logistics involved due to the high cost of food materials, rent for space or shop and cooking gas etc.

If not for the support l got then, l won't have been able to embark on the little project. My point is her 50k grant is too small as support for rural women. Most of these women will just spend the money on personal needs.

For those of you supporting what this ignorant first lady said, please let me ask you a valid question.

Can you tell your daughter/son or brother/sister to go and sell akara or roasted corn by the road side because it is a lucrative business. Because that is what your insensitive first lady was trying to explain.

It's obvious some of you didn't get the context of the story l narrated in the post.

Please answer the question before l proceed.8

henrybomb:
Please try to space out your sentences properly so we can read it very well.

Back to the subject matter
Have you asked yourself how profitable akara, kulikuli or roasted corn is?
Everything is expensive from the gas, shop or space, groundnut oil and other things to use.

It is not all about all this Queen’s English you are dishing out and you instantly marred everything by putting China in the conversation lol….I rest my case

if I understand the topic well.the first lady said some women received 50k and above grants not even loan .she now advised they make use of that amount to start a business like akara , kuki kuli business.
In my own opinion, I don't think anything is wrong with that.
I saw another video yesterday , where Peter Obi himself narrated how he encouraged 10 market women with 10k grants each to support their businesses.
na when person dey financially down, it will be dawn on them to see someone to uplift you with 20/30k in this country no easy not even from political class that are very rich.

ozo13:
if I understand the topic well.the first lady said some women received 50k and above grants not even loan .she now advised they make use of that amount to start a business like akara , kuki kuli business.
In my own opinion, I don't think anything is wrong with that.
I saw another video yesterday , where Peter Obi himself narrated how he encouraged 10 market women with 10k grants each to support their businesses.
na when person dey financially down, it will be dawn on them to see someone to uplift you with 20/30k in this country no easy not even from political class that are very rich.

It is all shades of wrong
In the real sense can that amount even start any business in Nigeria?

It shows that most of our leaders are really far from us and don’t even know what is going on out there or prolly pretend to deliberately leave people in their current situation.

Smartworkfx2:
Some of you have turned this thread to a gbasgbos platform . You all should take a chill pill please.

What l posted as the OP was to let you know we are in a digital era and infotech age, meaning a serious government should not be talking about roadside business as a means out of poverty at this time. The same poverty that their economic policies created which led to massive hardship.

I did the Akara business in year 2006 as a student and made huge profit in six weeks. It was not about survival for me and l had no single passion for the business. I only did it as a means to an end. My end goal then was the get a blackberry phone and the income was also enough to get a Timberland boot.

I also explained that the business isnt that profitable as remi tinubu thinks when you consider all the expenses and logistics involved due to the high cost of food materials, rent for space or shop and cooking gas etc.

If not for the support l got then, l won't have been able to embark on the little project. My point is her 50k grant is too small as support for rural women. Most of these women will just spend the money on personal needs.

For those of you supporting what this ignorant first lady said, please let me ask you a valid question.

Can you tell your daughter/son or brother/sister to go and sell akara or roasted corn by the road side because it is a lucrative business. Because that is what your insensitive first lady was trying to explain.

It's obvious some of you didn't get the context of the story l narrated in the post.

Please answer the question before l proceed.8

Explain no more if they don’t understand that is their problem
You just stated everything in black and white which is absolutely correct.

That is how someone on the thread said akara can be sold for 1k 🤣

Kukutente23:
How many sikirus do you see with shops? Majority of vulcanizers in Nigeria don't own shops. But more importantly I shudderwhen I read from you sometimes. Can a human iq be this low?
The point I was making which you failed to understand is that govt has a responsibility to see to the improvement of small businesses. Instead of Remi telling people to go and join others on the street to fry akara or roast corn, she should be empowering those in the business presently to scale up the business so that they can become net employers and improve on their service delivery. That's what small business are supposed to contribute to the economy and they can only do this with govt support since majority lack the capital and wherewithal to scale up.
Tell your boss that if Bill Gates had kept it simple, he won't own a laptop today. If countries like the US think as you and your goddess do, Microsoft would have simply remained in Gates' garage repairing IBM computers since it's all about keeping it simple. Microsoft oh, Apple oh etc all started small and today they are mega-businesses. Same with McDonald's and even Michelin tyres.
The economic malaise most households in Nigeria face today is the handwork of tinubu. He removed subsidy and devalued the naira. These were not economic decisions that were forced on him. What's more painfully disastrous is that even after carrying out this macabre assault on the economy of Nigerian households, his govt is still broke and he still goes about borrowing like a man in need of oxygen. Budget performance and capital releases are at their lowest ebb. Only banks and FPIs are feeding fat with an undervalued currency, high interest rates which stifle small businesses but good for portfolio investments and inflation at abysmal level never mention the bonds being sold out with high returns of above 15%!! He's simply robbing the masses to enrich his buddies while unleashing his zombies armed with propaganda to shush the hardworking citizens who've seen their real income plummet.

Again you disappoint me. The residence of the US VP is over 120 years old. Akinola Aguda house that's the present residence of the Nigerian VP is only about 30 years old yet this frivolous govt saw it fit to build another one, something previous govts bucked due to the waste it represents. Even the US refused to build a new residence for their VP to save cost yet a third world country with 63% of the population poor thinks building a VP residence should be a priority
I shame for you

You have the time to be responding to someone who will never find fault in anything done by this current government. Even if the government tell Nigerians to be eating shit, he will still tell us shit is rich in protein.

henrybomb:
It is all shades of wrong
In the real sense can that amount even start any business in Nigeria?

It shows that most of our leaders are really far from us and don’t even know what is going on out there or prolly pretend to deliberately leave people in their current situation.

this stuffs are opinionated Sha in my own view.i watch another video clip yesterday where in the video a women said she was given 12k by her husband some years ago to start same akara business and to the glory of God they built there house and also trained her kids from proceed of the business. The wife of the president was just advising them on making good use of the money. Make Dem no go use chop sharwama or Chicken
May God not allow us enter financial difficulties brother, it's difficult out there to even see close family members give out cash, shame go even dey ma sef to ask them for money in the first place.
I no feel Tinubu govt because that reform they made, only political class in my own view are benefitting from it. They are sharing a lot of money as FAAC now and noting significant on ground to show for it.also what my one month salary could buy 8yrs ago , may be I will need like 1 and a half month of my current salary to buy same thing despite all the promotion and work experience.
May God help us.

Lithiumite:
I don't sell akara but I could if I see a strong business case and I will honestly support anyone Interested.

so what will you do with the money they gave you to start akara business