SELF STARTERS NIGERIA

Employment as a matter of fact, is a business transaction where you sell your knowledge and ability to an organization for an agreed sum of money called salary; payable every month-end or as agreed. The employer is the buyer, the employee is the seller, the salary is the price and the knowledge, skills and abilities is the product or better still, service in consideration. The industry is the market. As an employee, the longer you are in your industry, the more valuable you can become. If you're a good ‘brand' your value will continue to appreciate and the demand for you will increase. More different employers, will come after you and try to purchase your skills - offering you higher compensation, salaries and perks. But you see, like every other set up, the labour market is dynamic, ever changing, always vibrant. New skills, knowledge, abilities and capacities are required every season hence, the preferences and needs of employers continue to change. The fact that you'...

Entrepreneurship isn’t  just about making profit or making people believe that they need what they actually do not need, it is about solving human problems in a smart, innovative way thereby making the world a better place. A company which refuses to create innovative solutions to human problems may die gradually but will die eventually. The dazzling story of the former Konga business analyst, Sheriff Shittu who is also a home decoration zealot exemplifies our definition of the word ‘Enterpreneurship’ . Sheriff Shittu, vast in crafting outstanding furniture designs started showroom.ng after he encountered the problem of recruiting furniture fabricants that can accurately replicate his erstwhile furniture acquisitions while moving to his new Lekki home. Showroom.ng which started exactly 30 days after the idea was conceived serves as an organized market place for furniture makers and buyers. Showroom.ng provides a regular supply of customers for the makers while ...

Are You an Aspiring Entrepreneur? Register Now for Bank of Industry’s YES Programme to get Support of up to N5 Million to Start Your Business The Youth Entrepreneurship Support Programme (YES-Programme) organised by the Bank of Industry is now open for young aspiring entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 to 35. In a bid to address youth unemployment in Nigeria, the BOI has developed the YES Programme where youths with viable ideas can stand a chance to be empowered. This is the second round of the initiative, which comprises both online and classroom training programmes aimed at equipping successful participants withskills required for entrepreneurship and business management.To be eligible for the Competition you must satisfy the following criteria: 1. The applicant must be a Nigerian. 2. Must have a viable business idea within the 40 identified clusters that is operated, or will operate in Nigeria. Visit www.boi.ng /apply/register for clarifications. 3. Must be within the...

First of all, I want you to consider the possibility of inevitable experiences turning out to be something good. The most important thing is that you should avoid having a bad experience wherever you can help it. This can only be possible if you take your time to properly look at your decision making process. However, if you happen to be a victim of a bad experience, you may gain one or two things from the benefits listed below. While this can be applied to any sphere of life, we are concentrating on businesses as well as finance. 1. You Get To Know Tricks That Others Do Not Know A bad experience is still an experience and the fact that it is bad drives the lessons into you. One of the lessons is the power to know and recognize the signs whenever it comes around. You may be a victim, but you are now a stronger, observant and more astute victim. You may be able to tell from a mile off when such an experience wants to rear its head again. This in effect equips you and gives you adde...

We all know what it looks like when people are passionate about something. It could be food or fashion or technology, the “what” doesn’t matter — the passion behind it does. The energy found in a passionate person and the way they impact the world leaves us all changed, sometimes in ways we don’t even realize at the time. It sits as a temporary moment and in a flash, it is gone. Later, we remember that moment and the feeling it stirred within us. We recall the way the person’s eyes lit up whenever they were vulnerable and honest with theirpassion and were willing to share it with us. We felt their excitement. We were drawn into their being. We tasted their power and allowed it to fill our hearts and souls. Sometimes, without appreciating it at the time, our reality is changed… just because of their passions and how it impacts all of us. Here’s how they do it: 1. They are problem solvers. Passionate people don’t waste time on bla...

THE NEXT TITAN; Nigeria’s business reality TV Show designed to ignite an entrepreneurial spirit of audacity, tenacity, creativity and drive of young Nigerians. THE NEXT TITAN is a 10 week Nigerian Entrepreneurial Reality TV show designed to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit of Nigerians. The TV Reality Show which is in its third season gives an opportunity to young talented Nigerians who have great, innovative and unbeatable business ideas, to compete against one another in real-life entrepreneurial challenges in a bid to ultimately win Five Million Naira and a Brand New Car to start their new business or to support their existing business. The show is designed as entertainment with thrilling and exciting format but its primary purpose is to change the mind-set of the people by awakening the entrepreneurial spirit of young Nigerians thereby accepting responsibility of being masters of their own destinies. 16 final  contestants will have very real street smarts in order to...

Twenty-nine-year-old Chief Executive Officer of Wisdom Gate Radio, an online radio, Olawale Lawal, in this interview, he speaks on his passion for the mass media What is Wisdom Gate Radio all about? Wisdom Gate Radio is primarily an online gospel radio station that broadcasts to 110 countries of the world, 24/7 via www.wigradio.com . WiGTV is an offshoot of WiGRadio and it started some couple of weeks ago. It is an online gospel television that presently operates on demand until we build enough capacity to run fully fledged online programmes. WiG Properties is a real estate business that deals with sales of lands and properties while Wisdom Gate Communications is into printing and publishing of books. The real estate company started a year ago. I bought my first plot of land as a 200 level undergraduate with a deposit payment of N50, 000 and over time, completed it before graduation. I used my scholarship money; there is a student endowment fund paid to students on first class grade...