"Sometimes the smallest support can unlock the biggest dreams."
In this photo are some of the candidates who benefited from the 2024 Free UTME Registration organized by the Ogbeni Olajide Awe Foundation for indigenes of Oriade Local Government Area in Osun State, Nigeria.
Heard something today and I reckoned with it immediately;
Love is a a disease with different phases. Anxiety when you find it.
Fear of losing it.
Depression when it leaves you.
Do you agree with it?
โTonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISISโฆโ - President Trump
@seyitomas1@taadelodun Brother na wetin you dey watch dem dey bring come give you. Dont blame it on those that are genuinely doing there thing and feeding from it.
Before we use Nigerian billionaires as the benchmark for today's entrepreneurs, Let us be honest about who they actually were and how they actually built. Jim Ovia and Tony Elumelu are bankers. They did not build from an open market.
They built inside a licensed, regulated,
The Jim Ovie, Okoya, Dangote, Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu and some unknown billionaires in Idumota, Gbagi, Sabo gari, and Aba e.t.c were accomplished because they learn to keep the trade secrets.
Now SMEs owners are flying to China with cameras. You negotiated the prices in front of chinese to your end-users in the name of making contents while you are buying million of dollars of goods back to back.
They knew your market is large, now these Chinese are now infiltrating your market by building warehouses, small factories, and recruiting Nigerians content creators to market to your retailers and end-users and youโre crying on TikTok, complaining about low sales, and declining bulk orders ๐
What used to be relationship-driven access, controlled information, protected margins is now searchable, visible, instantly accessible. Infact, visibility is becoming a tradable asset and it is reshaping distribution.
The heartbreaking part? The government is not regulating the market for you people through strict investment policies, and you will still pay humongous taxes at the end of the year ๐๐๐
Una no dey produce ๐๐๐ eni leverage kankan ni global market except for oil . Una eyes go peel ! I feel sorry for us thoughโฆ.
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Rukayat Adeleke
Osogbo
The real question is not:
"Why aren't today's entrepreneurs like Dangote?"
The real question is:
"Why has Nigeria still not built the policy environment that gave Dangote his advantage and extended it to millions of small business owners?" That is a government failure.