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ISAAC DUROJAIYE (OTUNBA GADDAFI) Otunba Gaddafi at work This is the heroic story of Otunba Gaddafi as told in my book: GROWING YOUR BUSINESS (BIG your small business). Enjoy. The name Isaac Durojaiye sure doesn’t ring a bell in the ear of so many people, but not so his statements. Clichés such as “shit money no dey smell,” “shit business is good business,” “you call it shit, we call it money” are more popular than the personality behind them. Otunba Gaddafi, as he was popularly called, worked in the securities department of the American Express when he was in the states. And that exposed him to many things in the course of his duty and sojourn in that land. He came back to Nigeria, and became the bodyguard to late Chief M.K.O. Abiola. At the time Chief’s son was to get married, Otunba was asked to take care of the security for the event. He was discharging his duty when he noticed that, there were only about two toilets at the planned programme venue. For the t...
THE NIGERIA I HOPE FOR IN 2016 I have found among other things that one thing is common among most Nigerians. Even though there are few exceptions here and there, you will find generally that not many Nigerians will let you go scot-free if you decide to take on their country. No matter who we have become in the eyes of the world and how we have been painted, Nigerians are proud of their country. We all only want to wake up someday to find that the country we are so proud to defend, is also ready host us. We want to ascertain that this country will meet our needs with the very abundance that it has been blessed with. It is in accordance with this hope that we decided to vote out a government that we believe was not going to preserve the heritage that we so cherish only to empower another that lacks clue as to the realities of the economy nor indeed seem to know in which direction to steer the course of the ship of the country. I know I sound like broken record, but I know Ni...
HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS AS A GRADUATE The schools of higher learning in Nigeria: Colleges of Education, Polytechnics, Universities, etc, admit over a million candidates each year, and they churn out about as much each year. These people have been trained as good employees with a mindset built for job search and employment in someone else’s venture. The federal, state and local governments with all their ministries, agencies and various parastatals and all what not put together, cannot accommodate more than 20% of these graduates in their employ per year. What happens to the remaining 80% ie assuming that the 20% are totally employed? This has more than led to confusion among even those who had great visions for entrepreneurship and self employment after school. One truth that can’t be hidden from you is that, most of those who succeed early in small businesses after school, are those who started the process while in school. A successful business is one that started when...
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