₦airaland Forum

TolaniLuv:
Igbo's are very smart people. We have to admit that. I remember back in secondary school days, this Igbo guy passed 8 subject and failed only Yoruba Language and he decided to fail and didn't move with us to SS3 he repeated himsef back to SS2 just because he failed Yoruba Language. I will never forget that brave bold Igbo guy. Everybody thinks he's crazy ...

wise men come from east

have you ever windered why they say Igbo brain

it means smartness. ...that is a gift from lord and we are humbled by it ...your people are also smart in their own ways especially diplomacy we Igbo are smart also in sciences and technology

so we can be peace

I hate this tribal war

Duru1:
Ozodi Osuji is a fraud and a son of Yoruba man. The would-be his people from Ohiagu, Ngor-Okpuala LGA had long disowned him as illegitimate child. By the way, he never had Ph.D.

his real father was a Yoruba trailer driver but adopted by his igbo father and when he was told about his real genealogy he felt betrayed by his mum and igbo and to make the matter worst they couldn't trace the irritant Yoruba man so he was stuck with igbo name


I know his history ....this is traumatic for him

ttmacoy:
I really don't get this idea you guys have that being an entrepreneur means you wake he ever you want etc.

As a serious entrepreneur you wake whenever your clients or business needs you and not when you want.

You guys don't really know how much her swirl it takes to build such ideas up from scratch do you? Please read the biographies of the Google guys or even Facebook to see how HARD they worked to start their businesses. How much sacrifice they made.

apt

FreeGlobe:
So the iiiidioot in imo state is the only one missing. Very good. Imo can join us after the next 4 years

lol ...NNE inwere onu Ojo....don't mind that frog in IMO state ..he is off the radar ..did they invite him

EasternLion:
Broh, just as Okowa and Obiano made this possible now, we need Udom to start calling these guys in.
Wike is gradually building bridges and what we want and need is for Eastern zones + Delta to start closing ranks, instead of falling for "we SS", all of us should come together, we will get whatever we want done.
IBAKA should be utmost importance.

If a single deep seaport works in East, trust me, 90% will move their investments back to East.

mark my words we are the ss people will invade this thread ..

wadetaw202:
Stop fooooling yourself flaaaathead. If 90% of your business is in onitcha and nnewi, you wouldnt have been bringing your fathers, mothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, cousins, nephews, grandfathers, grandmothers and concubines down to the southwest everyday by the truckload. You wouldn't have cried blue murder when fashola threw you out the other time. You can only fool your own head, empty chest beating flaaaaathead. Your life depends on the southwest. If we take the southwest away from you, your tribe will die.

fashola apology to igbo was ground breaking but he didn't apologise to Yoruba that was sent away

abduljabbar4:
Rubbish! You just listed the activities of those that Islam has dissociated itself from.

so they are not Islam OK they are islamist

kpodosky:
You know the world isn't black and white right? there are people out there with mixed ancestry I hate stupidity in all it forms.The problem with us is Romanization of everything why support lies all in the name of pride?what do we want? we need to make up our mind where we belong Biafra or Nigeria. My father once told me one has to take a stance and stick with it.

bye bye

wadetaw202:
It is you that you should learn to use your brain. Igbos have not dominated anything. You are only here because we still feel you are still useful to us.. The moment we have sucked you dry, we will push you out. Eediot. Just continue to invest all your money and increawe our IGR more than that of your alaigbo states. And it is your tribe that should be ashamed of yourselves for being ungrateful ingrates to your amiable hosts. If we had given you the kano treatment, you would all have run away. Our own would have been worse than that of Hausa Fulani. And do you know why? We wouldn't fight you physically, but diabolically.

if igbo have not dominated anywhere then why the apathy and this thread

at least the clothe you wear is owned and sold to you by igbo man maybe the phone you use ...one way or the other igbo is impactn in ur life

kpodosky:
I don't try to change people's opinions of me. You're problem is,you pick and choose who is IGBO or NOT based on people who agree with your sentiment. So you are telling me I am not Igbo because I don't agree with you? Your arguments are vain,simplistic and down right idiotic. You are part of the group chukudebelu calls Philistines.

yet be proud of your Yoruba tribe ..thats all. I have very proud Yoruba friends and nice pals

Pidggin:
Lol you are funny. I actually own my own business, take it or leave it the choice is yours. The businesses I started based on passion didn't work, the one I started based on the need I saw and filled, is what is working.

nice thought

macandy21:
Yea, just trying to "think out of the box" cos somebody is of the view that if everybody is self employed who will work for whom, I don't like that line of thinking, it's just like saying, if everybody becomes rich, who will be the gateman, who will be the car wash, who will be the cleaner?

A clean can still drive a G-wagon to work, if everybody is rich.

nice reasoning

macandy21:
Anybody who says self employment is rosy, easy, walkover should be shot. As an entrepreneur they challenge is something else, but even at that, it has it's own merits, you know, when the hen comes to roost.

With the few years of experience as an entrepreneur, sometimes I wished I had a job, but the thought of applying for a job, going for an interview with thousands of other competitors and actually working for salary just scares the hell out of me.

Anybody caught preaching evil about being employed should be flogged, I respect and value workers, they keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

Am a believer that impossibility is nothing, It's still possible that everybody can be self employed, don't even think it if you are not a radical thinker.
Yes, If own a company and I hire workers as independent contractors who are themselves owners of their own firms. Life will be easier, cos I don't need to monitor them, I just tell them what to and they do it otherwise, we review the contract and they may get a dent in their reputation.

that's is called outsourcing

erico2k2:
Like I said b4.this is where the quest 4 initial capital comes in.The primary needs of a sef sufficient biz is a stable environment t not necessary money.

your right

Pidggin:
(Assuming am working for someone) Not everyone goes into business because of passion, some people establish their business as a means of income, not necessarily because they are passionate. I will rather work with someone who has a commercially viable business and can pay his or her staffs, than with someone who has passion for his business but no one else does.

because of this quality I think and advise you stick to earning wages ...CEO is not your forte

wadetaw202:
Be sensible for once. If it gives them comfort, they will stay and do business there. They only go back there to spend money,but can't stay there to make money,which means the place is not a good place to make money. It means igboland is bad for business.

and its you that should be logical ..so we don't have igbo businesses in Nnewi aba and Onitsha

I have told you that you have a terrible mindset


we igbo have our economy under us 90% then we will love to have your own economy like 60% and we can achieve that by venturing out. pls don't venture out because you will make bulk of the oversea market to be dominated
I am done with you

erico2k2:
He worked in a supermarket during school.shortly in the civil service and bought a van and sold stuff frm the van.but you got to know who he is today to make any sense of what I'm saying.do U know who he is?

your a CEO and I love this


a CEO that earns £10,000 is better than MD staff that earns £100,000 that's me ...do you know the psychological trauma that will encounter when fired or retired which must come one day

its just like postponing the dooms day

which must come

Pidggin:
Yes I am. The situation may get to a stage where passion can no longer carry you after being frustrated by lack of success, this is why even passionate owners of businesses sometimes fail.

with passion you can be frustrated you keep doing it


have you ever thought of this ..what if that place that you work is not established by that man ..where will you work

joseph1832:
And people like you are no different from pastors who get rich of the sweat of the multitude by feeding them abstracts and half truths.

And I suppose in having your own business, you won't be tired, retired or fired right? That is when you're old you won't retire of fire yourself because you can work and run your business forever?.

You're myopic in your thinking if you believe everybody must be self employed, and you have the worst understanding of what slavery is about.

I age and still be at the board ..I am an Nnewi dude and I have seen first hand what the advantages of running your firm from small to big and compare it with the yes sir memo answering people and retrenchement

bro I choose the former ...I keep praying on that ..mind you I have enough work experience and I have a good job but this is the last job I am taking even if the offers come

its better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

no pastor will tell you that



I am scared of redundancy and gratituty at old age

erico2k2:
It's a long one and will derail the convo here.young Mr sugar was a paper boy wen Harolds was a conner shop. Does this make any sense?

give me a brief bro

ifeoluwasegun:
After gently reading through the article, I saw that the op just spoke my mind.

But don't be confused, I am self employed and doing good to the glory of God, but I must confess that it isn't rosy always from onset.

Pls imagine this situation, as a salaried employee, you have a constant income, oga ta- oga o ta, but in self employment, you live on what you can use your hand to do. How more you can utilize your brain and I'll confess that many skills needed are not acquired in-born, you get many from working under people. Learning from his right and wrong decisions. That's exactly what keeps me going, experience from former employer.

However, self employment requires far more than huge bank balance, though that's predominant.

I am salaried and I am working seriously to have my own firm and making contacts as a smart igbi dude we work to get experience not to have the long service award

starting up has always been hard but the future is rossy

I was in a meeting with a CEO of a top ICT firm he looked at me and told me why don't I think of floating my firm now that I am young ...it will be bad that I will regret that why did I not do it when I am old
I see people queing up for pension its scary, whenever there is staff shakeup its scary

above all your destiny is tied to one firm that is worst

bro keep it up...we will see in Forbes

have you ever seen any MD that is earning salary in Forbes?

erico2k2:
You are right there.who knows of Sir Allen Sugar? His relationship with Harolds?

I am interested in this story ...tell me about Mr. Allen and Harold's store

Mekanze:
Smart Igbo guy fooling the hausas, i have seen many that did it before just to get favour from hausas not new idea.

that's exactly what they don't know

inshort I am a Muslim today once you give me one million dollars USD oooo

I will choose raheem love that name

so who is going to take the offer




Christianity is the mind ...we can make use of the Muslim gullibility

wadetaw202:
Stop covering up. Igbo's leave their home because it does not give them comfort. If it gives you comfort, you won't leave. That is why you keep on shouting Biafra, but will never make moves to truly separate from Nigeria. I dont expect you to agree. You are a flaatheadd, so you must cover up.

it doesn't give them comfort yet they travel home every time for Christmas and Easter celebration you that your states gives you comfort don't travel home ..every Yoruba man us a lagosian

what an irony

lol

erico2k2:
Wen U have passion yoy keep trying no matter how much you fail.yoy get expirience as you go along learning new ways of doing what you do.However U need initial capital in all cases but is that not why most people travel out of Nigeria?

capital is good but the passion and will is the best

a bank can give you loan but won't give you clients

neahyo:
The last decade has witnessed a surge in all
manner of motivational talk in Nigeria.
Hundreds of seminars and thousands of articles
have been churned out by the motivational
talkers and the frenzy continues to gain
momentum. This is good, as everyone surely
needs motivation.

One of the most common subjects of such
talks is entrepreneurship/self-employment.
Good subject. I believe it is good to be self-
employed and seriously craves being one. The
benefits of owning one’s business are pretty
obvious: you are in full control of your
resources (time, finance, etc), you share all the
rewards. Fine point.
Owning one’s business is clearly one of the
best goals a person should desire to achieve. It
even makes you exercise your brain more. Most
of the richest people in the world own their
businesses, their brands. Aliko Dangote owns
Dangote Group (although being a PLC, he
doesn’t have 100% ownership); Mike Adenuga
owns the Adenuga empire; Michael Dell owns
Dell Computers; Bill Gates owns Microsoft;
Mark Zuckerberg and friends own Facebook,
etc.
These guys are bottomless moneybags. No
disputing that. They have done their selves
some good by coming up with some ideas and
making money from them. The
entrepreneurship advocates therefore have in
them fantastic examples to draw from in their
self-employment sermonizing. But that is where
it ends.


The self-employment preachers in Nigeria, good
as their intention is, are however beginning to
go off the mark. And this is where my problem
with them lies. There is a dangerous trend of
demonizing paid employment in the thriving
business of self-employment advocacy. Every
Ade, Ada and Adamu that can string two words
together has turned into self-employment
preacher and the fad is to demonize paid
employment. Being in salaried job, to them, is
slavery.

First, our self-employment advocates
oversimplify things and sometimes when you
listen to them or read what they write, you
begin to wonder why they are not Dangote
themselves. To be sure, I don’t have a problem
with self-employment preachment; indeed, it is
my ultimate goal too to own companies and
businesses too, on full time basis. I also hold
that being self-employed, if one gets it right, is
better than being under someone else’s control.
But is everyone cut out for being self-
employed? Capital NO.


This is why I think in the process of advancing
their advocacy, salaried jobs should not be
demonized. I don’t believe salary job is
necessarily slavery. I also don’t hold that you
cannot be rich with paid job. You may not be
as rich as Dangote or Adenuga, but if you work
hard to become CEO of Shell Nigeria (a salaried
job), for instance, I doubt your next generation
can ever be poor. Not everyone will be as rich
as Dangote, but with a dint of hardwork,
becoming a manager in a decent company can
earn you decent saving, and with sensible
investment (preparing for retirement), you can
live a satisfactory post-salary life.


I have seen some young graduates and
prospective graduates vowing they can never
work for anyone and they will go straight into
entrepreneurship. Good one, if you have the
idea. But managing businesses most times
goes beyond the theories we read in those
materials and the smooth talk of the self-
employment advocates. Apart from the
constraint of raising capital to fund the idea,
there is an even more critical factor in
management. Most times if you have never
worked for any other person, you may find it
difficult in running your own businesses.


Fola Adeola and Tayo Aderinokun founded GTB
after working for other banks; Aig-Imoukhude
and Herbert Wigwe apprenticed with GTB
before breaking out to found Access Bank.
Most of these guys cut their management
teeth working for someone else. This is why I
hold that learning by being under someone
else’s employ is most times helpful. Of course,
I have not said it is necessarily the case. It is
very possible to go straight into one’s business
after finishing school and still go ahead to
make it big. Aliko Dangote is an example here.
He started straight away.
So, oh you self-employment preacher, before
you tell me I am a slave for choosing the path
of salaried employment (for now), know you
that the CEO of Shell is a ‘slave’ to Shell. I
want to be one.

www.jarushub.com/excuse-me-mr-self-employment-advocate/

Cc lalasticlala

one day you will either be tired ,fired or retired so never you think of that and have you ever thought having your own firm apart from money helps the society by employing others .if people didn't open that shell would you aspire to be a CEO

people like you are bad for companion you can pioson a positive mind


learn how to believe in yourself and never be a wage slave


a slave is a slave be it in Ibadan or Iberia

come this boobs no dey fall seff? with all these years she has been displaying it ...or them



yet she thinks with her boobs ..can I just suck em for a minute biko ,

idgerrard:
http://www.punchng.com/feature/super-saturday-crime/doctor-flees-as-delivery-goes-awry-grandmother-mother-baby-die/


Pix: Edith and Elizabeth

do I call this cowardice or incompetency or quantity medical education ...I will love to know where that doctor comes from ....which school and his village . this will be used to ascertain why he took of on mere delivery .

I was thinking of this .I need a bio of that doctor for proper analysis

rest in peace to the death and the doctor all I can say is FFUUCCKK YOU

Ugomba:
I notice you bigot in my Anioma thread.. Oil and gas are in Asaba area.. Do you want to weep now?

my brother


In the final analysis, the greatest loss to a family is not death, it is the presence of "efulefu" in the community...

ejirede:
shut the crap! Asaba is a capital of Enugu or is a city in Anambra state.That is you continue to fail interviews due to ignorance!

he is cursing and swearing ...this morning ..what is actually wrong with you people ..is it because we told you that ihebu and awori are not Yoruba is it why you hurt


go to Asaba and tell them they ain't igbo you will be lucky if you escape with your head in tact