Crixie:

Innovative entrepreneurs of course...Am only saying that we can't neglect or discourage small businesses.Remember 'Dangote did not invent anything but he is a billionaire today.He made money as a trader before venturing into production.He is a graduate too

Pls describe what you mean by innovative entrepreneurship. Try distinguish it from traditional and conditional entrepreneurship.

solutionsnow:


Pls describe what you mean by innovative entrepreneurship. Try distinguish it from traditional and conditional entrepreneurship.

Thanks for following up

Thanks, the emails keep oozing in.

The awareness is increasing

Good points.I agree with U.
I have little reservations for ur expectation of First Degree knowledge-its exaggerated.Even with appropriate exposure in Mech Engr and financial capacity, U cant still set up an automobile manufacturing coy except ua specially talented/innovative.A graduate Doctor cant still handle some complex but GOPD cases,not because he's not brilliant.Hes got to learn!Capital&innovative entrepreneurs are meant for the rich everywia!
However,an SME can participate by specializing in manufacturing bolts or nut required for assembling generators or automobile..I mean fragmentation of production stages,handled by different coy for a bigger coy..This u still need exposure and vocational programs..
Don't forget,Govt shud improve amenities and review policies..
In this write up,sir what is d place of a friend who studied Political Science in school?Lol..Gud job bros

Heijay:
Good points.I agree with U.
I have little reservations for ur expectation of First Degree knowledge-its exaggerated.Even with appropriate exposure in Mech Engr and financial capacity, U cant still set up an automobile manufacturing coy except ua specially talented/innovative.A graduate Doctor cant still handle some complex but GOPD cases,not because he's not brilliant.Hes got to learn!Capital&innovative entrepreneurs are meant for the rich everywia!
However,an SME can participate by specializing in manufacturing bolts or nut required for assembling generators or automobile..I mean fragmentation of production stages,handled by different coy for a bigger coy..This u still need exposure and vocational programs..
Don't forget,Govt shud improve amenities and review policies..
In this write up,sir what is d place of a friend who studied Political Science in school?Lol..Gud job bros

Thanks sir. Am not saying that a graduate mechanical engineering should/must manufacture cars. What am saying is that in advanced countries, engineering graduates are not regarded as poorly trained, unemployable, unskilled and disadvantaged like Nigerian graduates. Their students engage in yearly technological fairs where their inventions and innovative products are being displayed. They are always contributing to technological growth of their countries unlike Nig where engineering graduates are regarded as novices because they know little or nothing more than the theoretical aspect of their jobs.

Pls do you know the history of SILICON VALLEY in USA, pls try Google it. Graduates of Stamford university in US developed it, and today we have HP laptops and many other products

Let's plan to massively train our undergraduates as well as our post graduate students.


Am not ruling out vocational training in Nig, my point remains it is not a viable tool at revamping the economy. We need to grov innovative entrepreneurs as is is done indeveloped nati

Hmmmm, op is obviously very brilliant and smart. however, I dnt think you really understand wat "entrepreneur" is. An individual with a great entrepreneurial mindset can build an empire from the production of chin -chin, pop corn, moi - moi , bread etc. FAMOUS TFC, QUEENS MEAL BREAD ETC ARE FEW XAMPLES.

Note: all your points are very right but all those adjustment can only start manifesting in the long - run but we need to start from somewhere , if traditional/conditional entrepreneurship can reduce unemployment and poverty in the short run then let's embrace it and work towards t advanced and modern form of entrepreneurship that can completely develop our country .

please how do we get write ups like this to media houses so that nigerians can wake up from their slumber?

as a prospecting chemical engineer in my undergraduate days, i carried out a research on alternative energy source in which i streamlined my work on the estimation of emission of biogas from waste dumpsites in portharcourt, and also its use as domestic fuel. i discoverred that the amount of methane emitted from just one dumpsite in a year can provide enough domestic fuel for every home in portharcourt for a quarter of a year, if properly harnessed. its been 2years i sent my findings to the appropriate ministries and am yet to be contacted

1b8m:
as a prospecting chemical engineer in my undergraduate days, i carried out a research on alternative energy source in which i streamlined my work on the estimation of emission of biogas from waste dumpsites in portharcourt, and also its use as domestic fuel. i discoverred that the amount of methane emitted from just one dumpsite in a year can provide enough domestic fuel for every home in portharcourt for a quarter of a year, if properly harnessed. its been 2years i sent my findings to the appropriate ministries and am yet to be contacted

imagine! soon white people will catch u and they will shout brain drain!!!

1b8m:
as a prospecting chemical engineer in my undergraduate days, i carried out a research on alternative energy source in which i streamlined my work on the estimation of emission of biogas from waste dumpsites in portharcourt, and also its use as domestic fuel. i discoverred that the amount of methane emitted from just one dumpsite in a year can provide enough domestic fuel for every home in portharcourt for a quarter of a year, if properly harnessed. its been 2years i sent my findings to the appropriate ministries and am yet to be contacted

bro; my advice to u is to go for MSc Prog in renewable energy. Pls dont wait for Nig. A brother I knew far back in 2008 powered a generetor set with biogas generated from dried spear grass. He was working in a renowned research institute in Nigeria, unfortunately, his effort was fraustrated in Nigeria, so he had to go to scotland for his MSc in renewable energy. You can make a trial, you might even get a scholarship, God bless you

1b8m:
please how do we get write ups like this to media houses so that nigerians can wake up from their slumber?

thanks. I have sent the article to Punch, Guardian, Sahara reporters, Premium Times. Thay have all refused to publish it. The major problem of Nigeria is change. They hate positive change. A post like this ought to have hit the front page, just dont know why it has not. Anyway, the article is already on some (5) blogs . Log on to google and type the topic 'entrpreneurship is a scam' you'll get the links.

I appreciate

hayzed1090:
Hmmmm, op is obviously very brilliant and smart. however, I dnt think you really understand wat "entrepreneur" is. An individual with a great entrepreneurial mindset can build an empire from the production of chin -chin, pop corn, moi - moi , bread etc. FAMOUS TFC, QUEENS MEAL BREAD ETC ARE FEW XAMPLES.

Note: all your points are very right but all those adjustment can only start manifesting in the long - run but we need to start from somewhere , if traditional/conditional entrepreneurship can reduce unemployment and poverty in the short run then let's embrace it and work towards t advanced and modern form of entrepreneurship that can completely develop our country .

i dont think I want to understand your own explaination of entrepreneurship. Some countries sell wheat/flour, sugar, rice, frozen fish, steel, textile, furniture, so we import all cos we lack the production technology of these items. I will support your entrepreneurship if they can provide all these.

How will conditional and traditional enrepreneurship help solve power generation, transmission and distribution problems? How will it help tap our bitumen resource (second largest reserve in the world, lying in Ondo state)?

I can go on and on. Do you know we have been practicing this lame practice for about 30 yrs and we've got nothing from it? Ok entrpreneurship and vocational education is what SAP of 1986 brought to us.

If conditional and traditional entrpreneurship can help solve poverty, we would have solved poverty problem over 20 yrs ago.

thank you.

oneolajire:


bro; my advice to u is to go for MSc Prog in renewable energy. Pls dont wait for Nig. A brother I knew far back in 2008 powered a generetor set with biogas generated from dried spear grass. He was working in a renowned research institute in Nigeria, unfortunately, his effort was fraustrated in Nigeria, so he had to go to scotland for his MSc in renewable energy. You can make a trial, you might even get a scholarship, God bless you

If conditional and traditional entrpreneurship can help solve poverty, we would have solved poverty problem over 20 yrs ago

I dnt think there was emphasis on self employment 20yrs ago as it is now... development process can start by changing the mindset of graduates from been job searchers to job creators first and other things can follow. Am sure u understand the concept of economic growth and development.

Nigerian universities are scam, Wasting your time in the university reading without acquiring skills will only endup with a good grade and a useless future. CGPA Is as useless as poo only scarce skills are the way forward for a better future.

hayzed1090:

If conditional and traditional entrpreneurship can help solve poverty, we would have solved poverty problem over 20 yrs ago

I dnt think there was emphasis on self employment 20yrs ago as it is now... development process can start by changing the mindset of graduates from been job searchers to job creators first and other things can follow. Am sure u understand the concept of economic growth and development.

pls explain what you mean by 'self employment' if they do not belong to the category of traditional employment

telim:
Nigerian universities are scam, Wasting your time in the university reading without acquiring skills will only endup with a good grade and a useless future. CGPA Is as useless as poo only scarce skills are the way forward for a better future.

our educational sector needs to be revamped. The quality ouf education in our higher institutions are just too poor.

You said we need scarce skills, pls explain.

oneolajire:


our educational sector needs to be revamped. The quality ouf education in our higher institutions are just too poor.

You said we need scarce skills, pls explain.

that is what we need. A revolution in our educational sector

1b8m:
as a prospecting chemical engineer in my undergraduate days, i carried out a research on alternative energy source in which i streamlined my work on the estimation of emission of biogas from waste dumpsites in portharcourt, and also its use as domestic fuel. i discoverred that the amount of methane emitted from just one dumpsite in a year can provide enough domestic fuel for every home in portharcourt for a quarter of a year, if properly harnessed. its been 2years i sent my findings to the appropriate ministries and am yet to be contacted

Nig, killing innovations since independence. Just follow the advice of the OP

Ademat7:
imagine! soon white people will catch u and they will shout brain drain!!!

truth

hayzed1090:
Hmmmm, op is obviously very brilliant and smart. however, I dnt think you really understand wat "entrepreneur" is. An individual with a great entrepreneurial mindset can build an empire from the production of chin -chin, pop corn, moi - moi , bread etc. FAMOUS TFC, QUEENS MEAL BREAD ETC ARE FEW XAMPLES.

Note: all your points are very right but all those adjustment can only start manifesting in the long - run but we need to start from somewhere , if traditional/conditional entrepreneurship can reduce unemployment and poverty in the short run then let's embrace it and work towards t advanced and modern form of entrepreneurship that can completely develop our country .

A man can build a mud house and be a champion while another builds a 25 storey building.
The difference is capability. Some nation trains her citizens to acquire technology in steel, tyre, rocket, electricity etc production. Another believes in business and anyhow business, with her citizens possessing primitive skills.
I love the mindset of the OP.

solutionsnow:


A man can build a mud house and be a champion while another builds a 25 storey building.
The difference is capability. Some nation trains her citizens to acquire technology in steel, tyre, rocket, electricity etc production. Another believes in business and anyhow business, with her citizens possessing primitive skills.
I love the mindset of the OP.

thanks

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oneolajire:


Brother, your story is not different from that of most graduates, especially those who studied engineering. It is so pathetic that dreams have been cut short, cos there were no avenues for to explore and develop their ideas. May God give us divine help

You ve nailed it bro... I thought i was alone. I remember watching school pass by and seeing my dream of really learning Engineering fade cos we were made to focus on cramming obsolete books and syllabus for exams ignoring the practicals.

mctowel01:

You ve nailed it bro... I thought i was alone. I remember watching school pass by and seeing my dream of really learning Engineering fade cos we were made to focus on cramming obsolete books and syllabus for exams ignoring the practicals.

They teach theory over and over again with little or on practical as a science and engineering student, after it all, they now impose entrepreneurship on the helpless graduate whose visions have been cut short.
Yeye entrepreneurship

op the problem with your idea is that it's not original. We need to contrive an alternative solution that is unique to us as a people. Stop the follow follow mentality. Becos it worked for europe or asia doesnt mean it will work for africans. People of black african descent need to understand that a different set of rules applies to us in this age of white imperialism. The europeans used the massive wealth accumulated through 400 yrs of black enslavement(free labour) and then colonialism to invest in resaerch and development.The europeans and asians are cousins that's why the european willingly transfered capital and technology to asia. Have you asked yourself where is the market for prospective indeginous innovative products and services? Do you really think home grown products will be allowed to compete fairly in the global market? You cant beat these indoeuropean devils at their own game that's why we need to exit this global matrix of white supremacy and created our own game and rules. We the people of black african descent all over the world need to first tie our economies together before thinking of innovating stuff. No matter how innovative the product or service, without a ready market it's totally useless.

fayahsoul:
op the problem with your idea is that it's not original. We need to contrive an alternative solution that is unique to us as a people. Stop the follow follow mentality. Becos it worked for europe or asia doesnt mean it will work for africans. People of black african descent need to understand that a different set of rules applies to us in this age of white imperialism. The europeans used the massive wealth accumulated through 400 yrs of black enslavement(free labour) and then colonialism to invest in resaerch and development.The europeans and asians are cousins that's why the european willingly transfered capital and technology to asia. Have you asked yourself where is the market for prospective indeginous innovative products and services? Do you really think home grown products will be allowed to compete fairly in the global market? You cant beat these indoeuropean devils at their own game that's why we need to exit this global matrix of white supremacy and created our own game and rules. We the people of black african descent all over the world need to first tie our economies together before thinking of innovating stuff. No matter how innovative the product or service, without a ready market it's totally useless.

The only constant thing in life change. I believe in positive changes all the time. Am always optimistic, but I see your opinion as a pessimistic one. Pls go study history again and see out of about 54 African nations and see those who colonised 95% African nations, except England, France and Spain. So how did other European nations developed themselves without participating in colonisation? This is what you need to find out. Pls go read about first, second and third industrial revolutions.

You buy made in Nigeria beans, onions, beef, pen, salt, and other commodities, what stops you and other Nigerians from buying other innovative products made in Nigeria? Until our orientation changes from reduction and rejection of imported products to locally manufactured ones, our economy CAN NEVER be bouyant. 


There is nothing superb about developed nations, they only invested in education and technology, we invested in tribalism, corruption, power and struggle. Believe it or not, I am working, others too are working to see that Nigeria changes for better.‎

oneolajire:



The only constant thing in life change. I believe in positive changes all the time. Am always optimistic, but I see your opinion as a pessimistic one. Pls go study history again and see out of about 54 African nations and see those who colonised 95% African nations, except England, France and Spain. So how did other European nations developed themselves without participating in colonisation? This is what you need to find out. Pls go read about first, second and third industrial revolutions.

You buy made in Nigeria beans, onions, beef, pen, salt, and other commodities, what stops you and other Nigerians from buying other innovative products made in Nigeria? Until our orientation changes from reduction and rejection of imported products to locally manufactured ones, our economy CAN NEVER be bouyant. 


There is nothing superb about developed nations, they only invested in education and technology, we invested in tribalism, corruption, power and struggle. Believe it or not, I am working, others too are working to see that Nigeria changes for better.‎

More important than the unoriginality of your idea is the fact that it's base on the faulty and naive assumption that there indeed exists a global free and fair trade that is also colour blind. Until you fully understand white supremacy and everything it entails every other thing you think you know will only confuse you. Whatever developmental strategy we black africans plan to implement must include various ways and means of check mating indoeuropean obstruction and sabotage. These devils wont sit and watch us threaten the global status quo which have taken them centuries to establish and fortify. They will fight us with all their might to maintain their supremacy. And yes you rightly pointed out the self-hate and inferiority complex that we blacks possess as seen in our insatiable thirst for anything foreign. The cause of such maladaptive orientation can be traced to colonial indoctrinations of both past and present. More, the nigerian market alone cant nuture the type of technological development you have in mind. A global market is necessary. I am being pragmatically factual and not pessimistic.

fayahsoul:

More important than the unoriginality of your idea is the fact that it's base on the faulty and naive assumption that there indeed exists a global free and fair trade that is also colour blind. Until you fully understand white supremacy and everything it entails every other thing you think you know will only confuse you. Whatever developmental strategy we black africans plan to implement must include various ways and means of check mating indoeuropean obstruction and sabotage. These devils wont sit and watch us threaten the global status quo which have taken them centuries to establish and fortify. They will fight us with all their might to maintain their supremacy. And yes you rightly pointed out the self-hate and inferiority complex that we blacks possess as seen in our insatiable thirst for anything foreign. The cause of such maladaptive orientation can be traced to colonial indoctrinations of both past and present. More, the nigerian market alone cant nuture the type of technological development you have in mind. A global market is necessary. I am being pragmatically factual and not pessimistic.

Cowards die many times before their death.

You are a democrat, a capitalist, either a christian/muslim, have an english or arabic name, is a citizen of a nation created by europeans, speak one or more european languages, wear european clothing, eat european foods, drink european drinks and graduated from a eurocentric university. So what exactly are you? Guy you are not even brave enough to accept the truth and know thy self. Wake up.

fayahsoul:
You are a democrat, a capitalist, either a christian/muslim, have an english or arabic name, is a citizen of a nation created by europeans, speak one or more european languages, wear european clothing, eat european foods, drink european drinks and graduated from a eurocentric university. So what exactly are you? Guy you are not even brave enough to accept the truth and know thy self. Wake up.

Is there something bad in having an orientation of prosperity? Is it wrong to think greatness? Is it wrong to dream big? Friend, if you cannot join us, leave us alone, when we achieve our goals, we'll definitely call you during celebration time. God is on our side