Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 2016

·         The Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and Expo Nigeria 2016 was created to place focus on the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, which are cardinal to our national aspiration towards self-sufficiency and overcoming the challenges of job creation in the agro-allied, wholesale/retail, construction and technology sector of our economy. MSMEs are critical innovation drivers, wealth and job creators, with the potential to grow into multinational corporation in the future. Nigeria youth are also some of the most enterprising in the world, making up the 9^th largest workforce in the world, and also have some of the largest networks in the Diaspora which can be used to leapfrog change and development on the continent.

Wisdom Tales From Made Entrepreneurs, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika (CEO) Sokoa Nigeria Ltd

Everything I needed was in the system. The carpenters came with their tools. So I didn’t even need to buy tools. All I needed was to have a place to operate from. I noticed that furniture making company need basically three divisions -carpentry, upholstery and spraying. So I engaged three carpenters, two upholsterers and two sprayers. We were seven. So where do we start from? The chief carpenter said there was an uncompleted building close to his house. The man lives in Ejigbo. I had never gone to Ejigbo but I had to go because what I needed was there. The next thing was where do we get jobs from? When people heard that one of our first customers was Prime Merchant Bank, it sounded so big and great. But I had handled the transaction in my former place of work. I went there to see if there was any extra job that they could offer me. I treated them well. But how do you give a bank’s major furniture work to a 25 year-old girl who had nothing?

THE ILLUSION OF BIG PAY: NIGERIAN OIL & GAS WORKERS AIN’T EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK

The life we’re made to live, the perception friends and even foes have of us is an illusion, the more you look, the less you see. Those were the words of Rachael Kada as I asked about her job and monthly earnings in one of Nigeria’s foremost multinational Oil and Gas companies.

Irrespective of being a mid-management staff of a renowned multinational Oil and Gas company, Rachael is a restless entrepreneur with 3 flourishing small businesses and intent to invest in more. For what we know or perceive of the average Nigerian oil worker, they are comfortable enough to avoid the headaches of the entrepreneurial life. Depending on the company, average industry salaries starts at $45,000 to $140,000 per annum, this is enough to make them an envy in a country like Nigeria.

How Agricultural investment saves a ph.d holder

I started my farm in 2013 when I went to the Netherlands for my master’s degree with some money I was able to make working while studying. At first it was not easy I must admit. I started my farm with about 1000 birds. I had more mortality I won’t lie but my dad who also has farm was able to put me through and I learned very fast too.

Today I can boost of over 7,000 birds (Layers, Broilers, Turkeys and some day old chicks as well). I’m also currently constructing a fish pond and starting a tomatoes and onions plantation too. I get a minimum of 300 crates in a day. more pic