Seriously Nigeria like Israel can have zero unemployment. All we need do is to create the right environment, deploy the right minds and empower the right hands and employment opportunities will be endless. In every 5 Nigerians 3 have the capacity to create jobs for others when empowered in an enabling environment.

Creating the environment where great ideas can germinate and be nourished to great success is easy. First it must start with firm belief in originality; because it came from the West doesn’t make it first. We must resist the urge to borrow or duplicate what we see in the West. If we must borrow, let’s learn how to improve upon what was borrowed. Like the Chinese, we can borrow and make it better. Second, we must learn how to import knowledge and turn them into great ideas. You don’t copy knowledge; if you don’t know it you don’t know it. This is the cross of our challenges; we learnt how to copy in primary schools, and as adult we remain copycats. We must learn how to import knowledge and build great ideas with the same. Our value must be on knowledge and ideas.

However, I found goodnews in a nation of goods and no services. There are many Nigerians with great ideas that we as a nation have refused to harness. This is true because almost all fortune 500 companies in the world have a Nigerian as the head or among the board of directors. It is great ideas that put them there. But back here their ideas wither and die. The ideas are there in commonplaces, on the streets of Nigeria. Let’s make our world better, by generating solution proffering ideas. If I have a billion naira I will harness all the great ideas on the street of Naija and make Nigeria a better place.

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