tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:12:22 +0000NIGERIAbusinessStrive MasiyiwaEntrepreneurEntrepreneurshipAfrican traditional medicineInvesting2015 Budget2016ADP researchAndelaAsian TigersBrandingBusiness modelBuyingCBNDevelopment planningDigitalDigital economyDownloadsDstvEconomic developmentEconomicsEconomics QuotesEconomistEconomyEmploymentEuropeEyinnaya Harcourt AbaribeFeaturesFinancial InclusionFuel ScarcityGovernmentHerbal medicineHerbsIllegalImpact of TwitterIndustrializationInternetJob SwitchersKaesy NwosuLagosMigrationMortgageMuyiwa AfolabiNYSCNaijaNigerian Budget SystemNigerian Football ClubsNobel Prize 2015Pay TVPolicy cycleProblems of Nigerian BudgetProblems of football in NigeriaProject topic WritingProverbsResearch paperSellingSkillsSmedanStartupTaxationTime is MoneyTop EconomistsTransformation AgendaTwitterUberUnleash Africaa critical Analysis of Nigeria's budgeting systemchallenges of planning in Nigeriamentorshippublic Policysteps in Policy buildingOpinions of an amateur economisthttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-4899830013119524702Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:18:00 +00002018-02-28T14:18:31.427+01:00AndelaBusiness modelA few months ago i read 'Business model generation' and ever since i have been amazed at how much one can understand a business by using a business model canvas. I have been drafting models of popular businesses to be better at generating business models for my business and other businesses. Surfing the internet i discovered the lack of Nigerian business model examples. So today and over my nexthttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/02/brilliance-is-evenly-distributed-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-4872167566647992375Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:27:00 +00002018-02-10T20:27:30.631+01:00businessEntrepreneurship Source: Africabeta "Everybody loves a rags to riches entrepreneur; the unexpected genius from the remote village that built a start-up worth millions.  Such stories, valid as they sometimes may be, fuel the myth of the entrepreneur, blurring the realities more closely associated with running your own business. What other myths lie on the path to start-up glory?" Few months ago, ihttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/02/before-we-all-become-entrepreneurs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-560636419686350826Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:54:00 +00002018-02-03T22:09:52.673+01:00Economic developmentEntrepreneurshipNYSC A few months ago i was discussing a few friends (my fellow corpers) about the National service that we just began. We talked about the debate to scrap or not to scrap the scheme, the factors that will constrain its scrapping.  After that discussion, in truth was discouraged. I have i come to waste the next few months of my life, all for preserving 'our national unity'. I was deeply http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-to-restructure-nysc-for-economic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-1182707990086720991Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:39:00 +00002018-01-27T21:39:42.927+01:00MortgageMuyiwa AfolabiSmedan 3 things i learnt this week So am thinking about what to write and i thought about sharing what i learnt this week with you. 1. Pay Attention To The Principles: As is my morning ritual i visited Frankly Speaking With Muyiwa Afolabi where he talked about 'Paying attention to the principles'. We read books, hear speakers preach at seminars. Eat this they say, walk this way, treat people http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/01/3-things-i-learnt-this-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-2107672932958937048Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +00002018-01-20T21:00:20.022+01:00InvestingNigerian Football ClubsProblems of football in NigeriaAm not a billionaire, at least not yet but i want to invest in my favourite football club in Nigeria. But why can't i? Nigeria's Captain, John Mikel Obi Nigeria like many other African nations can be proudly tagged a football loving nation. If more than 80% of your youths discuss and follow football trends on a daily basis i think the title fits. Since the introduction of professional http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-cant-i-invest-in-nigerian-football.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-3088955271496541425Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:45:00 +00002018-01-13T21:54:19.623+01:00Impact of TwitterNIGERIATwitterNaija Economics Weekly I remember the first time i came on twitter it was a disaster. I just opened my first Facebook account and i quickly got into it. Then i heard someone say something about twitter and i immediately searched for it and signed up, but after i logged in....IT WAS DARK AND WITHOUT FORM to me. I couldn't make of what was going on so i left it even without tweeting a word. http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/01/what-can-tweet-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-6007611702428935655Sat, 06 Jan 2018 20:45:00 +00002018-01-06T21:45:20.428+01:00DigitalEconomyNIGERIATaxationWhich comes first, tax or profit? Like you i think the answer is obviously profit because you can't pay taxes on losses. This article is a sequel to "The New Economy is Digital: What's that have to do with me?" you can read it here. Across the circles of the adoption of digital economy and its technologies one disruption has been in the centre of debates. The reality of the potential threats http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-new-economy-is-digital-more-profits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-7244266275209300758Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:45:00 +00002017-12-30T21:45:08.814+01:00Digital economyInternetNIGERIA The New Economy Is Digital: What Does That Have To Do With Me? “ We project in the near future a digital economy that will bring about massive deviations in society. We simply have no way of knowing how deep and far-reaching these deviations will be".– Tank L, MD Huawei Technologies Nigeria. If you have heard about digital economy and you have no idea what it means, you're not alone. In fact http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/12/new-economy-is-digital-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-6023155076415813203Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:23:00 +00002017-12-22T22:23:32.828+01:00African traditional medicineHerbsInvestingNIGERIA So i wrote briefly to introduce this topic and talk mildly on some pertinent issues. But as i began to think more on the potentials, I truly became angrier that the Nigerian government has not done enough to create an infrastructure to support the sector and private investors for not making more investments in this industry. Everybody knows that Africa is the fastest growing continent and hashttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/12/nigerias-billion-dollar-herbs-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-3392921734295815004Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:01:00 +00002017-12-16T23:01:22.270+01:00African traditional medicineHerbal medicineNIGERIAPeople say that Nigeria's herbal medicine has been in existence before our ancestors knew the white man's medicine. But their coming you see, saw the doom of the medicine of our people, for one they didn't understand our processes and frankly we thought theirs was better too. Source: Healthfacts.ng Herbal Rising The resurgence of the herbal medicine industry in Nigeria today, was notably as http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/12/nigerias-billion-dollar-herbs-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-8589272957402087158Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:45:00 +00002017-06-09T12:45:17.292+01:00EuropeGovernmentIllegalMigrationNIGERIALet's Take a walk Source: UNHCR Trends in migration has taken on different dimensions over the years from rural-Urban migration which was a troubling development in 60s and 70s to today’s irregular migration.  Across the sahara Surely its not uncommon to hear horrid stories of death and starvation of young men and sometimes women who journey across the Sahara in search of greener http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/06/for-migrants-sake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-6607370939782676Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:57:00 +00002017-06-03T11:57:12.705+01:00DstvNIGERIAPay TV "The story of DSTV and its rise to continental dominance began well over two decades ago when the brand was launched as the brainchild of a Joint Venture between Multichoice Africa and a Nigerian entrepreneur called Adewunmi Ogunsanya.".... The excerpt above is from my article published on stears on the relevance of a strong regulatory agency to curb many of the excesses that has causedhttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/06/pay-tv-in-nigeria-abusive-affair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-4868282041355142492Tue, 23 May 2017 06:34:00 +00002017-05-31T02:00:49.626+01:00ProverbsTime is MoneyNo doubt you have heard the phrase or used it a couple of times, which implies simply that time is a valuable asset; therefore it is better to do things as quickly as possible. Hence each time you hear those words you get a rush of hormones that stimulates you to do things as quickly as you can. But what if I tell you that it can mean a different thing. In Japan "time is money" means that more http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/05/time-is-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-35520286749645205Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:14:00 +00002016-12-02T13:14:57.707+01:00CBNFinancial InclusionNIGERIA Yesterday while attending a two-day CBN fair tagged ‘Promoting Financial stability and economic development’ one of the speakers spoke of CBN's financial inclusion policy which was launched since 2012 as he spoke many question began to flood my mind ‘what does financial inclusion mean' why is CBN interested in my being financially included so I began digging and here is share with you what I http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/12/6-reasons-why-cbn-wants-you-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-3072823200010506515Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:00:00 +00002016-10-12T07:00:17.807+01:00businessEntrepreneurshipStrive MasiyiwaStrive Business Special The bible teaches us that every one of us is a unique individual, an absolute original. For the greatness in you to emerge, you have to become yourself, first. You will never achieve this by impersonating someone else on Twitter or Facebook, no matter how great you think they are. I started in business when I was 25 years old, with only $75, pooled between myself and a http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/10/principles-of-success.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-2777506986553409639Sat, 17 Sep 2016 05:50:00 +00002016-09-17T08:34:56.529+01:00EntrepreneurKaesy NwosuENTREPRENEUR Today on Meet the Entrepreneur we met with an entrepreneur par excellence Mr Kaesy Nwosu, a student of Computer Engineering and the CEO of one of the foremost Nigerian technology blog Techcranked Kaesy Nwosu Naijaeconomics: Good evening sir We know your name and that your are student of engineering at the university of Benin and the CEO of Techcranked. Tell us something we can'thttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/meet-entrepreneur-kaesy-nwosu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-8101281002844228922Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:21:00 +00002016-09-15T12:21:27.196+01:00businessmentorshipStartupOwning A Business The master key to dominating a trade or a field is to study those who have become successful and great in the business and then imitate their style creatively. When you want to start a business, it really can be overwhelming to start thinking up a strategy that you hope will work and make you succeed in the business. Truth is research is very key to starting a business. You musthttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/owning-business-smart-mentorship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-1038273127825591071Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +00002016-09-15T02:10:23.000+01:00businessBuyingSellingStrive MasiyiwaStrive Business Special __A big idea, an excellent team. A few months ago, Liquid Telecom, one of our businesses, bought a South African telecoms company called Neotel Communications, for about $450m. Quite a few of you who saw the news about the transaction wrote to me, asking me to share some insights into buying and selling businesses. I’ve therefore decided to use this acquisition as a http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/buying-and-selling-businesses-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-4404978340852278968Sat, 10 Sep 2016 02:56:00 +00002016-09-10T03:56:11.344+01:00BrandingbusinessEntrepreneurStrive MasiyiwaStrive Business Special During the last few weeks, I have blogged on the importance of sales and marketing skills. We’ve also begun to discuss the importance of building, nurturing, and sustaining a brand. I’ve tried to show you that behind the sales campaigns, promotions, and advertising you see on TV and in newspapers is a highly complex business tool which you must appreciate and master ifhttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/brand-integrity-matters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-9133688447340847141Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:40:00 +00002016-09-04T14:40:12.650+01:00businessEntrepreneurStrive MasiyiwaStrive Business Special A good entrepreneur must never be too sentimental towards a business. There’s a time to buy, a time to sell, and even a time to close a business. It's all business, and in a successful business career, you must have the capacity to do all three. In the first part of this series, I introduced you to the subject of "buying or selling businesses." As an entrepreneur, youhttp://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/09/buying-business-6-key-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-9151622728957642452Sat, 27 Aug 2016 07:33:00 +00002016-08-27T08:33:44.535+01:00EntrepreneurStrive MasiyiwaEntrepreneur of the day Strive Masiyiwa Strive Masiyiwa is  is a London-based Zimbabwean businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Econet, a diversified global telecommunications group with operations and investments in over 15 countries. After working briefly as a telecoms engineer for the state-owned telephone company, he quit his job http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/08/strive-masiyiwa-entrepreneur-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-6146654821212101697Tue, 24 May 2016 10:19:00 +00002016-05-24T11:19:54.569+01:00Fuel ScarcityLagosUber "It is a global concept, but it has to be localized by a team that understands the fabric of the city."- Atawodi  Uber, an American online multinational transport company started operation in Lagos,  Nigeria about two years ago since then the company has been enjoying favourable response despite hostile environment. According to the company executives, the car hailing app has http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/05/uber-in-nigeria-successes-and-challenges.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-6824650984002762132Mon, 16 May 2016 00:22:00 +00002016-05-16T01:22:02.448+01:00ADP researchJob Switchers Research  It is not always a good time to quit one's job especially if you just started it or have spent a very long time doing it, leaving a job at a wrong time may cost you a lot, but can one know when it's the right time to quit.  According to a research done by ADP, "Employees who change jobs with less than three years under their belt typically only see a 2.7% pay bump, http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/05/when-is-best-time-to-leave-your-job.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-1526736808960149669Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:54:00 +00002016-04-23T18:54:27.531+01:00Asian TigersIndustrializationUnleash Africa Guest Post  By Sir John Akhile  jakhile@unleashafricantrade.com Some people prefer the term “Lion” to describe economic renaissance of African countries. I will defer to the late Deng Xiaoping’s quote that “it doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.” Based on the reality on the ground in all the countries of the continent, it is appropriate http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/04/creating-economic-powerhouses-in-africa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428811140596401737.post-2597909443290130536Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:44:00 +00002016-04-16T13:16:30.806+01:00Project topic WritingResearch paper Project writing is one of the most talked about course by many final year students here in Nigeria but it's not only done in Nigeria. In virtually every country of the world final year students of tertiary institutions are required by their programme to write a thesis or a research paper in their various areas of study. As a final year student myself I think it's important that I share my http://naijaeconomics.blogspot.com/2016/04/surefire-ways-to-writing-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0