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Business environment in Nigeria is in a very poor state. In the latest World Economic Forum (WEF) rankings for global competitiveness in doing business, the country ranks at a very low point.

Nigeria ranks 127 out of 138 countries considered in the Global Competitiveness Index, according to report.

All the countries that rank below Nigeria in the index are war-torn and crisis ridden.

In 2015, Nigeria ranked 124 on the index. For some reasons, it was easier to do business in Nigeria in 2015 than it is now.

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Starting relationships or closing sales online is not so different than it is in real life. Nobody wants to connect with you or buy your product for no reason.

I am being too straightforward. It is very clear I am. But this is true.

And that is it. You cannot break word (or communicate) to win more followers and customers anywhere without these basic reasons:

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A coalition of civil society organizations says the collation of election results at the recently held governorship elections in Edo state was the major weak link of the Independent National Electoral Commission at the poll.

The civil society groups under the aegis of Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room), in assessing the conduct of the election, said, although voting ended early and the process ‘largely peaceful and devoid of any major acts of violence,’ the collation process was very slow and had to be suspended late in the evening, resuming the next morning.

According to the Civil Society Situation Room, with the interval created by suspension of collation by INEC, there was no way of confirming or verifying the integrity of election materials, ballots and results.

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Online business owners and content creators can now truly do without the dread of building websites and hiring website developers.

The Grid’s artificial intelligence (AI) website builder that released early this year removes that dread by automating all the technical aspect of building websites and letting users only do the content.

And last month (September), Uniregistry, ICANN-accredited domain name services company, announced its partnership with The Grid. Under a five-year agreement, Uniregistry will be the exclusive partner to provide users of The Grid with custom domain names, according to report.

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Generally, businesses need to grow fast enough to recover or compensate their investments and become profitable, mostly within a certain timeline. Startup businesses are not exempted from this. In fact, they are the ones that are most vulnerable to lack of growth or slow growth. Startup businesses easily close down and come to an end when there is poor growth.

Rory O’Shea, at one time a visiting professor in innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member at the Smurfit Graduate School of Business of University College in Dublin, Ireland, says ‘slow growth isn’t an option’ for internet businesses especially.

With these ideas you can grow any kind of startup business fast enough:

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Very often, conflict arises in relationships and things become unsettled. Sometimes they finally hit the rock and shatter. Many relationships get this way just because partners are unable to reach an agreement.

Whenever people come together, they all come along with their different needs, wants, aims and beliefs. It is hard not to have conflict and disagreement when such differences have to be brought along into a union. The only guaranteed way to make sure such differences never cause conflict and disagreement is negotiation.

Negotiation is a hard thing and so is relationship. In negotiation, each partner is often looking for a win position. For this same reason, it is always hard on both partners.

Dr Ellyn Bader, author, speaker, therapist and co-founder of The Couples Institute in U.S., writes that ‘three most common negotiating mistakes’ that couples make are:

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Starting entrepreneurship, starting a new business, is not easy. It is never going to be. Nothing in life is easy, especially new things.

Finding space for the new, while the old is still in place can be overwhelming. Getting people to easily agree with it and open their arms to warmly welcome it is a challenge, first of all. Then building it in reality and making it work under existing conditions is a tough task on its own.

A great part of world generally believes that to go into entrepreneurship and start a new business, certain level of experience, money and time are required. And, in reality, these things – experience, money and time – are not always readily available to many people at the early stage of life in the quantity required. Many times, they are never available in that quantity for the rest of life.

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Between last month and this month, we made new changes to our operating style and recorded new achievements in our performance.

After redesigning our website last month and seeing how our targets have reacted to our offerings, we realised we had to try a different style of operation.

One of the major changes was on our employee management. While we offered only commissions-on-revenue formerly, we now offer fixed payment with other benefits. Our goal here is to attract and retain employees better than we have done before.

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No Reason.

Are you surprised to hear that?

Well, August 2013, I had my first girlfriend and I must confess, I still do not know why I asked her out. I hope she has truly forgiven me.

Well, maybe it was because I knew she wanted me to ask her. I mean, she had given me the green light. She spent all summer holiday with me, invited me to come see her mom, kept in touch even when we were out of sight and the one that got me thinking, she telling me boldly, ‘I am waiting for you’.

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It may be hard to say exactly how much of the internet in Nigeria is used in illegal and criminal activities, but it is certain that some of the Nigerian webspace is home to such activities. The most popular of such illegal and criminal activity in Nigeria has been scam and fraud.

Those who carry out scam and fraud on the internet in Nigeria are popularly called ‘yahoo-yahoo’. The same term is often used to describe the activity itself.

Internet scam and fraud in Nigeria has mostly been targeted at the international community. Scam and fraud cases worth millions of dollar have been traced to Nigeria by cybercrime investigation units from the international community.

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I remember sitting by the window that afternoon as I watched the rain pelt incessantly against the cold glass. The time was just 2:02pm, if I could recall correctly, but the dark clouds made the day seem like night and I felt a little bit frustrated because all the plans that I made were ruined.

I heard the door of the cafeteria open. Turning around, i saw three friends, all ladies, hurriedly hurled their drenched bodies into the shop. Wrapping their hands around their bodies, they tried in vain to stop themselves from shivering as they looked around for a space to sit. Curiosity had the better part of me as my gaze was fixed on them. In a little while they were seated and soon began talking.

I know it is grossly wrong to eavesdrop on people’s conversation, but the subject on which they talked about was quite amusing.

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IamQuins:
Guy kip quiet jare, vomiting all dese trash jst made u more fake.

Ur a startup and ur jst sayin it nw, ow fcking pathetic.

Maybe you cannot read well or you did not go through the main post before you started your jibberish.

The main post already said we are a startup.

Glaxx:
Lol. Can't stop laughing. #clearsthroat#
If you don't mind being paid 1,500 recharge card per month you can apply. Lol. You'll even argue and document the record all your reports for the month to justify the recharge card. # starts laughing again... Clearsthroat# Been there done that . .. And nearly ran mad. Thenewsghost indeed

You are obviously insane. You cannot differentiate 'work expense' from 'work pay'. We are a startup in the early stage and we cannot pay the kind of huge salary you might have wished for. Even if we paid the huge salary, with the poor quality of your writing and reasoning skill, you would not have been considered for such pay.

You are probably one of those that took the internet data we provided and abandoned our job.

You would do better minding your business and spending your time on your work than cooking up stories to defame our business.

For your information, the brand name is 'The Newsghost', not 'Thenewsghost'.

olafruitful:
I am interested pls. But an OND holder in Accouting can I apply
From Ijebu ode to be precise

Yes. You can. Please, see our Career page for new information on how to apply.

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Twitter is the social media site that pioneered account verification. It mainly launched this function to ascertain the authenticity of user accounts that are likely to be subject to parody and fake user accounts that try to trick other users into believing they are real ones.

Verified Twitter accounts have a blue badge with a white check mark inside and it is positioned right next to the username.

When Twitter launched the account verification functionality in 2009, only user accounts that are highly of public interest were verifiable and accounts were verified on requests. But a few years down the road, Twitter put an end to verifying accounts on user request and started doing it behind the scene based on in-house discretion. There were rumours that the former verification process was put to an end because of increasing numbers of new and ‘non-worthy (spam, parody, etc.) accounts’ requesting verification.

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Growing up as a child, I intuitively picked up creative talents. I would draw my favorite cartoon and comic characters. Aladin and his flying carpet with his little monkey friend, the entire Power Rangers line up, the cunning Bugs Bunny and so on. Later, I started to write poetry too.

How easily I started doing all these without any intensive structured learning, like those at schools of art and literature, somehow made me to start to think that every kind of work in life is so easy to get into.

I expected it to be easy getting into entrepreneurship.

Unfortunately, entrepreneurship was quite more challenging. Especially with the level and speed of development of the 21st century. The 2nd millennium.

Entrepreneurship is not an easy thing.

But here are some sacred secrets that I found out are necessary for success. [I say sacred because I find something divine in their nature]:

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How we learn is changing. There is an increasing shift from institutional to self learning. It is unbelievable how this approach to learning is strongly impacting people and fast changing the world.

Through self-learning people are gathering new skills, creating new jobs and starting new sources of income.

I have spent years under institutional education, attending traditional school structure. But most of the major skills I work with today are self-learnt ones. I have taught myself content writing and web development, among others.

Here are some important things that a self-learner must know:


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Many people who are starting entrepreneurship are advised to write a business plan in the beginning. Even schools of business and entrepreneurship teach that entrepreneurs must have a business plan when taking their first steps into entrepreneurship. But from experience, the need for a business plan at the early stage of entrepreneurship is quite overblown and misinterpreted.

A business plan is a document that would describe how a business is structured and operated. It is mostly required to show investors what your business looks like and what it is worth.

For most kind of businesses, it is difficult to predict revenue and expenses at the early stage. Also, for a new business, Brian Hamilton of the American financial tech startup Sageworks explains in a post on Inc.com that certain aspects ‘have to change daily until we figure out what works and what doesn’t.’


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pweedieolamide:
I stay in Ogun(ijebu igbo) precisely, can I apply

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Yes. It is work-from-anywhere.

fabem:
Ok. Have sent my application to the email. Hope to hear from you soon. Thank You.

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Alright. Watch out, we would get in touch soon.

fabem:
When will the interview be conducted because i base in ibadan and also i want to report from there?

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Interview schedule would be sent in email. We interview online, there would be no need to travel for a physical interview.

fabem:
I am interested! After sending application, what next? I dream of this job called Broadcasting.

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Pass interview and prove yourself on-the-job.

Missmossy:
What's the work basis like,is it a daily or weekly thing??

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Daily. Requires firsthand, direct report on what is happening near you.

If you like a reporting career, here is an opportunity with a news tech startup - http://thenewsghost.com.ng/career/
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If you like a marketing career in the news tech industry, here is an opportunity - www.thenewsghost.com.ng/work-with-the-newsghost
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TheNewsghost:
The Newsghost is an online news platform that allows users to write about what is happening near them and get paid.

Old media does not work. It is easy to miss events happening everywhere and lose the real information about things by relying on the old media model of organised and biased newsroom.

The Newsghost is a total shift in what the newsroom is and how it operates. It is a remote newsroom made to be operated by the people who are really where things are happening.

You can be a part of this too.

Start telling the real things happening near you and earning money.

Subscribe on The Newsghost online. Go to www.thenewsghost.com.ng.

Subscription is free. No fees.

See basic details about The Newsghost, including user earnings. Go to http://thenewsghost.com.ng/about-the-newsghost.

See frequently asked questions for added help. Go to www.thenewsghost.com.ng/frequently-asked-questions.

Get started. Write about what is happening near you and get paid.

Get started. Write about what is happening near you and get paid.

It is no surprise to see the remarks that these Nairaland users have posted above to this thread. Nigerians have come to be popularly known for such acts.

First, regarding 'use and dump', every recruiting exercise follows a process of selection and induction. Jobs are not offered blindly. What one person here calls use and dump was actually a case of a job candidate who was selected for a trial on the job and was dropped after unsatisfactory performance. Speaking of which if you cannot qualify to remain on a job, how do you get an opportunity to gain all the benefits promised?

Second, regarding 'payment of meagre amount', The Newsghost is a startup that pays its team on a revenue-sharing basis [this is clearly disclosed on our website and discussed with prospective candidates during recruitment interview]. And as a startup that is solely owned and funded by bootstrapping on proprietary finances and operating income, our operation has grown quite slowly and our revenue has grown very slowly as well. So it is only realistic and obvious that we cannot pay the kind of Shell standard salary that our friend here expects.

Thirdly, about the idea that this is 'pure scam', none of the substance that our friend has started here actually shows any 'intent to scam' anyone who works with us. Everything he has stated here contradicts the real idea of 'scam'.

Fourthly, about how we 'force people to click' our site, Nairaland is a forum where we have the opportunity to start discussions with the audience we target. If you note that statement, 'to start discussion'. Nothing says we have to localise all our site information here on Nairaland and after all it is a tool for starting discussions. In no way have we asked anyone to click our site from here by force, we only started a discussion which should lead interested audience to take actions that originally should begin from our site.

Anyone certain that we have committed any act of scam and is bold enough about it can report to the mods and allow the right procedures be taken regarding that. Trying to forcefully defame our venture by posting unreal, misinterpreted and exaggerated claims in this forum is not a sign of rightfulness and moral uprightness.

Cc: Mods

TheNewsghost:
The Newsghost is an online news platform that allows users to write about what is happening near them and get paid.

Old media does not work. It is easy to miss events happening everywhere and lose the real information about things by relying on the old media model of organised and biased newsroom.

The Newsghost is a total shift in what the newsroom is and how it operates. It is a remote newsroom made to be operated by the people who are really where things are happening.

You can be a part of this too.

Start telling the real things happening near you and earning money.

Subscribe on The Newsghost online. Go to www.thenewsghost.com.ng.

Subscription is free. No fees.

See basic details about The Newsghost, including user earnings. Go to http://thenewsghost.com.ng/about-the-newsghost.

See frequently asked questions for added help. Go to www.thenewsghost.com.ng/frequently-asked-questions.

Great opportunity to earn alternative income while doing what you love.

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