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hbemigho:
I'll go first.

I have failed at several businesses o, but this particular one still dey pain me anytime I remember it.

So I have been drinking zobo since I was in primary school but it didn't feel or taste special until I drank one correct chilled zobo made by my babe.

Drinking this zobo, business ideas started to enter my head. I started to see the possibility of becoming a major competitor of Coca-Cola with my brand of zobo.

That's how I brought my babe and my brother together to start a zobo company.

As fate would have it, it was about the time that Deeper Life was having their Easter retreat.

So for my mind, there is a huge market for our product. I went ahead to make branded stickers for the zobo bottles.

We made 500 bottles of zobo for a start. By my calculations then, one bottle was selling for 50 naira, which would have generated N25k minus our production cost, we were expecting at least N12k profit from that first batch.

Long story short, day came, we transported the chilled zobo to the camp venue. The woman in charge of selling already did her own zobo to sell.

Omo, the thing just off me 2 seconds.

Lass lass we managed to sell only 20 bottles for N30 each.

The thought of transporting the zobo back home made me start experiencing symptoms of malaria and typhoid there on the spot.

Please don't even ask me what happened to the remaining bottles of zobo because I never still recover from that heartbreak.

To think I wanted to compete with the almighty Coca-Cola.

Chai!

Have you ever started a business that doesn't work out as you thought?

Abeg gist us.

donaldwhal:
Look at this one. Do you think accounting is only about: debit the receiver and credit the giver? Anyway, that’s where your knowledge ends about the profession.

jbreezy:
So the story goes like, my gf and I have been dating for 2 years now. I really love her cos she's so interesting, extremely caring and so good to me. She's a pretty one too. So I finished school ahead of her (We were in same school).

But we couldn't let each other go because we already love each other, so we continued the romance. I loved her after and I really gat plans to marry her even though I'm like 5 years older than her. I was going to wait till she finishes school (She was in 200 level when I left). So I went to visit her in school and out of curiosity, I checked her whatsapp chat...I read her chat with her very close friend (the best place to find the truth) Well well well...There was this gist about her having sex with a friend. Then another was about her trying to date a guy..It really broke me, but till today, I haven't challenged her...

Actually, I would have broken up if I dont love her up to this level cos I hate it when I'm being cheated on... But I don't think I'm ready to lose the girl..

So I met a very pretty lady lately... We've been talking and she's really been giving me all the greenlight a normal guy needs to see... This one is more mature (I felt like my gf is still probably at what y'all call the hoeing stage cos she's 21)... So I've been contemplating on leaving her for this one, by bringing up the cheating part (something like a chess game)...

Seriously, I still think I love her, and would have married her if she didn't do that... So I'm lost between challenging her and giving her another chance (cos she's going to obviously beg) or challenge her to leave her...Thanks and sorry for the long essay

vickydankal:
I agree with you 100%. I may may not be right in my assertion but yet it is my view. But since the wife is not here to tell me her place of the issue, it is normal to look deeply, from the tune of the voice or the writer you will notice anger towards the wife.

vickydankal:
Oga no vex ooo but I think you don't trust your wife with money of her own which means you are insecure, I don't know if there's a past with your wife that contributed to this or just fear of " she won't be obedient any more if she pays her own bills" that some men has.

Secondly, what's wrong with your wife giving money to her people? They are your in laws and when you have you should be giving them from time to time.

Thirdly, I don't think your wife is interested in knowing everything, it seems you are just secretive with information. You don't give her full details on vital things she should know about. Hence any one she gets to know she wants to influence it to her favor.

In conclusion.
I'm not supporting my fellow woman, I deduce the above from your writeup. My husband tells me everything but at the right time, there are things he will tell me before, during, after or may never tell me sometimes for my own benefit he won't tell me so that I won't act it out ( you know women nah) please be more open with most vital things about you she won't find reason to dig deep.

That's my 2 cent

CSTRR:
Where is economics applicable in Nigeria apart from govt, the academia and some very select organizations?

Which advantage will you really get?

I am not really in the commercial line so pardon my ignorance.

donaldwhal:
Don’t let anybody fool you, the econs is not useful if you don’t write any professional exams in another field eg. ICAN, ACCA, CFA. Don’t think your econs will get you jobs in banks ahead of those who studied Foods and Nutrition or Woodwork. Nigeria does not have sectors where to use Econs. You can’t practice on your own if you studied econs but you can practice on your own if you studied accountancy. The only problem with accountancy is that people are too many studying it and it can be discouraging if you don’t start your career well in a good company. I mean western multinational companies, not all this Saka Jelili Ltd, Hispro Hotels, or Yusdas Enterprises o. I am telling you reality. I have more than 17 years top notch work experiences across various multinational companies and I am a certified accountant.
While you are in school, please try and learn or teach yourself these skills and improve on them over time:

Microsoft Excel. ( don’t fool yourself that you are an advanced user the moment you can use Pivot table or use vlookup or xlookup o. Go and learn deeper Excel. There are free materials online.

Learn financial modeling using Excel to the best of your ability.

Learn Power BI or Tableau for data management, business reporting and analysis.

Learn PowerPoint ( I can give you a YouTube site where you can learn world class PowerPoint for free. I have materials for others too but I don’t guarantee they will be relevant by the time you graduate).

Finish your professional exams on time.

Aim high and target multinationals like GE, BAT, Nestle, Unilever, Atlascopco, P&G, GSK, Microsoft, etc. if you don’t eventually get any of those ones, you will get something closer eg PayStack, Flutterwave, Andela, Hayat Kimya etc. But if you lower your bar, you are in for a loooong thing.

All the best.

900warriorz:
You say?

Which Economics is not hard? Na Essential textbook you dey read?

Baba, mention 1 tough course in Accounting and I'd mention 10 tougher courses in Economics

Harrykn:
If you are coming to university of uyo, welcome to Accounting department. I’m still asking myself what economists in Nigeria are doing in this current economy.

ChizzyBuna:
I haven't been able to sleep since yesterday. Im a young guy and still in school and this girl is my bestie in school.
We do it regularly and without condom I never knew it will end like this.
I'm still young any advice on how to handle this situation..

Jman06:
Reno Omokri need to understand that not all Igbos support Nnamdi Kanu and his approach towards freedom fighting. I am Igbo but I saw through Nnamdi Kanu's tactlessness in his quest for Biafra long ago.

If he was smart enough, he wouldn't have started his radio Biafra broadcasts by insulting other regions of Nigeria and creating enmity for himself and the general Igbos among the rest of Nigerians.

A smart freedom fighter would not order the release of criminals from prisons and police stations in the same region he claims to fight for.

The joke is on anybody who didn't see through the foolishness of Mr Nnamdi Kanu.

Kanu is not the Messiah some Igbo people think he is, period.

triple996:
Berom vs igbos
Na anty-Muslim gathering
Brothers in arms when it comes to slaughtering of inocent Muslims. Na family matter

MoonWater:
I graduated in 2015 and went to serve my country in 2017. Since the much awaited employment isn't that realistic or visible yet, I have decided to proceed for my Masters program.

So today I was thinking how I could finance my academics myself instead of still relying on my parent. This is because I grew up an introvert and had no prior knowledge about any trade rather academics.

I would like to know, what jobs did you engage in before and after you proceeded for Masters degree program ?

InfoNow:
https://witnessngr.com/kano-bakers-threaten-indefinite-strike-over-bua-group-irs-others-flour-price-hike/

mugnmuffin:
Dear Nairalanders,
I have an issue that has been on my mind for weeks now. My fiancé and I have been dating for over three years. I love him and he loves me too. We are physically attracted to each other. We’re both catholic but since I graduated, during my service year I gave my life to Christ, got saved and left the Catholic Church. So I’ve been a Pentecostal Christian since then. He on the other hand is still catholic. I subtly try to nudge him to consider getting saved, i.e acknowledging Christ as lord and savior and becoming born again but he is content with his laidback Christian life.

Earlier this year, he asked to meet my parents and I let him. My parents like him especially because my younger sis is married and they have been waiting for me too. They’re glad I’ve someone. However, after the introduction,I regret it. I’m now certain that he’s not the one. I think about my spiritual life and how lukewarm he is about the things of God, I think about kids and how we’ll raise the, with such differing views about God and I’m discouraged. I feel like I’m settling because he checks all the boxes on the checklist of physical attributes. Another mistake I made is, I didn’t pray about this decision and that worries me because anything that involves him,I just act with pausing to ask God, but I always ask God about other aspects of my life. So it’s like my associating with him is a minus for my spiritual life and that’s a huge cause for concern.

At this point, I want to tell my parents I am not convinced it’s him but I’m afraid of the disappointment this will cause. *sigh* I’ll appreciate your thoughts, comments, criticisms...

emy4:
I will love you to teach me business. When you know too much you miss a lot of details. Most small scale business you neglect make upto that amount daily. The reason why you are still in a white collar job is because you are blind or feeling to big to do certain type of small scale business.

emy4:
Anyone with a Reliable business idea that can be powered with 100-200k with potential of making average of 10k daily. If you have pls share your idea here in brief. I willing finance the whole plan and can make the business even bigger if it sounds interesting and profitable. We just arrange a profit sharing formular, while you remain the boss of your business.

Juliusmalema:
Imagine you live near Onitsha and you couldn't make use of such proximity and market situation to turn your 600k to millions.

I am disappointed...move down and do survey then click on and see your thousands run into million.

Sleekfingers:
none.......there is absolutely nothing in that two states....my advice to any graduate etc , who is looking for opportunity should come to lagos or go to these states eg ogun, kaduna, kano, oyo, rivers and kwara.....abuja also is not a bad idea.....


The rest states i didnt mention are totally useless

wwwtortoise:

Upon graduation what are you going to communicate en mass?

This is what I’ll do if I were to be in such fix.

Take up the course since it requires minimal effort to make a 2.1 in such field. Channel your time and energy into learning IT skills online - coding, web dev., data science, . . .

Nigeria of today is no longer by what you read in school.

It’s either who you know or what you can do.

moriss33:
Omo with the current prices of Goods & services in Nigeria.
If u like or not....u go still spend.
Me sef dey budget 3m for church & trad wedding which will hold same day....don't know if it will be enough
No hall or confined space.

Nemere2020:
https://punchng.com/osinbajo-appointed-me-nsitf-chairman-but-cabal-reversed-it-kokori/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&amp&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

GiZcorp:
Honestly, I'm tired of staying at home after graduation. Please guys, is it possible for one to meet up with NYSC mobilization by July if one sees his final year second semester result in this month of June?

cozy7:
your not even considering boko haram. Just write your will before u go sha.

lagusboyyy:
I'm a graduate from one of the south west university in Nigeria, and i spend all my life in Lagos state , and also a yoruba guy from Lagos State.

But due to the rising and unavailability of good jobs around, i have been thinking of moving over to the North for greener pasture, i want to leave my comfort zone.

So, two states are on my mind, plateau state or gombe.

I really want input of individuals on this issues:

Cost of living

Availability of jobs

Security

Acceptability of strangers, and many more.


Which state do you guys think is ok, I'm really in need of a good job.

I will really appreciate this topic to be in frontpage so as to reach wider audience.

Rozcol:
Please help my friend suggest very good flimsy escuses to dump her hardcore stingy but very good boyfriend.

He's very good on all other aspects but his stinginess is beyond human comprehension and my friend don't want to appear as been materialistic.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was when she demanded if he could get her pads and some few stuff on his way to her place and when he eventually bought and brought the items to her, he calculated everything he bought and was waiting to be paid which she eventually did and imagine he got the nerves to collect the money from my friend (Just some few thousands), he's very rich so brokenness is out of it.

We've exhausted all the escuses we thought would work out to dump him but he somehow have ways around them (very annoying) and my friend wants to be diplomatic. Please your suggestions are highly welcomed. Thanks

oluplus:
This is not true.

amnesty7:
Don't mind this guy who lives in the 15th century. I think it is better to consider the opinions of people who advised you based on objectivity and/or experience.

JayB11:
Exposure occurs when u have had interface with various situations, encounters, et al. Even if the devil dines in the North, there is always something to learn from there. What is all this lifestyle talk, u think your lifestyle is better over there, who told u? Remember, you are a savage elsewhere too and it doesn't stop u from getting there if you really have too.

Speaktruth88:
Story if you are skilled and with small sense you can build very well. That is why I laugh when I come online here and many fools are abusing the north when their brothers are the ones given jobs and contracts over the locals.

Many of the staff we employed in Abuja and Kano were from the South all parts. Some ended up in government jobs others even did visa lottery which we supported and they went abroad. Today we still have 70% of staff from the south. Anybody that tells you not to go where standard of living is cheaper doesn’t want your progress. Just make sure there is a real job for you there and stay away from trouble makers.

I really don't like replying people online, but did you just say standard of living being cheap?
Now that is the problem with the North, they do not even know what they are doing.

Fidelmak:
Good evening guys, I need your advice on this: I am pressured by my family not to travel to Taraba state for job due to various news about insurgency whereas I served there. My parent don't want me to leave and I find it difficult to stay at home please i need your suggestions..

okeyglm:
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