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[RECOMMENDED] Meet South Africa’s youngest millionaire only at 23 CGTN Africa 1,014,527 views
This video is better watched by YOU, than narrated to you.
The comment reproduced below was made by a past viewer of the interview with this baby (teenage) faced 23 year old South African millionnaire – and it perfectly captures my sentiments about this young man’s achievement:
Such a great story. To take your university money and throw it into the forex market takes some guts. The truest definition of risk versus reward.
Watch the full video to learn how he achieved THAT feat!
Protected: PII 071: VIDEO Tutorial – How I built my Automated Cash Book/Bank Reconciliation Spreadsheet Software [Part 1]
The FARM CEO (Issue 85): VIDEOS – How to Start a Farm with No Money, How to build a fish pond (Backyard fish farming), How to Make Money on a Small Farm
This week’s issue of the Farm CEO newspaper features 3 videos titled (1) How to Start a Farm with No Money (2) How to build a fish pond and (3) How to Make Money on a Small Farm
(1) How to Make Money on a Small Farm
(2) How to build a fish pond
(3) How to Start a Farm with No Money
[RECOMMENDED] Lagos Opens Website To Register Undergraduates For Internship Scheme
[RECOMMENDED] Lagos Opens Website To Register Undergraduates For Internship Scheme
I continue to shake my head at the irony of the situation in which supposed graduates from Nigerian institutions keep “NEEDING” brushing up and polishing to make them more “employable” AFTER they exit tertiary institutions they spent YEARS preparing in!
My argument remains that MANY of our kids are being made to pass through these institutions learning courses in fields they are VERY unlikely to easily find jobs in, or qualify for by way of employability.
It is my considered opinion that we NEED to get real and guide our kids to acquire real world relevant education based on their identified geniuses/talents.
That way, ALL this wasteful spending of money on pseudo-tertiary-education, that ends up needing the graduates to the “retrained”(!) to be able to ADD value to the real world, would not be necessary!!!
The news report previewed/linked below is heartwarming to the extent that it announces efforts by the Lagos State government to go beyond just giving jobs and training to graduates.
I say this especially because of the extra steps being taken – as highlighted below – to develop a sustainable model that is built into the existing schooling system.
In a forthcoming article, I will publish transcript excerpts I’ve typed out from a video in which the Vocational Skills based education system of a European country with the highest Youth unemployment rate in the world, is compared with the College tuition based education system of a North American nation whose youth unemployment rates keep climbing.
The differences between results being obtained in both economies are stunning in their implications – and offer the rest of us valuable lessons on changes we need to make!
This is happening via what Lagos State Government calls the:
“Ready.Set.Work (RSW) scheme which is an entrepreneurship and employability initiative designed to equip final year students of tertiary institutions in the State with the right skills to add value to the society.”
Lagos is choosing to go a step further to (quote):
“…integrate the RSW into the education curriculum of the State, and also expand the modules as well as the benefiting institutions.”
Lagos Opens Website To Register Undergraduates For Internship Scheme
The Lagos State Government on Thursday announced the opening of its website to register intending applicants for the 2017 edition of Ready.Set.Work (RSW) scheme which is an entrepreneurship and employability initiative designed to equip final year students of tertiary institutions in the State with the right skills to add value to the society.
Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh, who disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, said interested applicants would be able to access the website – www.readysetwork.com.ng from June 16, while the training would run from July 1 to September 16, 2017.
REFUSE TO BE USED – Differentiate Between True Helpers and Carrot Danglers (CDs) [Featuring “Lessons in Discernment: Carrot Danglers” by Marina Michaels]
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NB: This article was originally titled Don’t Let People Take Advantage of You: Differentiate Between True Helpers and Carrot Danglers (CDs) [Featuring “Lessons in Discernment: Carrot Danglers” by Marina Michaels
1. WATCH VIDEO:
Click https://youtu.be/n0Ezmmf9-2U to watch the video presentation version of this article.
It features excerpts from a video titled “What does ‘DANGLE A CARROT mean?” which I found on “English Lessons By Cloud” YouTube Channel.
2. DOWNLOAD & READ THE PDF ARTICLE: Click HERE
This article was first published on 14th June 2017, as a blog post via www dot tayosolagbade dot com/sdnuggets (My SD Nuggets Multidisciplinary blog)
Click https://youtu.be/n0Ezmmf9-2U to watch the video presentation version of this article.
I’ve met many “Carrot Danglers” (or CDs) – as friends, coworkers and especially as clients. They basically want to get something for nothing (or as little as possible) from YOU while pretending like they have something to give.
My advice: Avoid them. But do so tactfully.
The ideas I share in this article are based on personal experiences and observations as a DISCERNING adult in my interpersonal interactions over the YEARS.
[Note: I picked up the term “Carrot Danglers” (and its apt definition) from the article linked below, titled “Lessons in Discernment: Carrot Danglers” by Marina Michaels]
“A carrot dangler is someone who promises something—to help you out, to give you something, to introduce you to someone, or whatever—and never comes through. When you try to collect on the promise, there is always some reason why they can’t give it to you right then, though they tell you they will do it another time. But when “another time” comes along, that isn’t a good time either, and so it goes, until you give up on that carrot, and then they start to dangle another carrot. The underlying dynamic is that they are generally getting something they want from you, and they are making the appearance of offering something in exchange, but they never actually give anything in return.” – by Marina Michaels, http://www.thelighthouseonline.com/articles/carrots.html
When I suspect someone relating with me is a CD, I do NOT let on that I suspect what s/he is up to.
Instead I go out of my way to act the fool so that s/he feels safe to act out his/her true intentions each time we have to interact.
But that’s as far as I go – acting the fool. Sometimes, getting it right may require that I let him/her have his/her way – but only once, or at the worst, twice. Just so I can be sure that what I suspect is really what it happening.
Once that happens, in future interactions, I make sure to NOT give him/her what I see s/he wants, except s/he delivers what s/he puts forwards first.
For instance, let’s say s/he says s/he wants to buy my Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager for a farm business s/he claims s/he plans to start “soon”, BUT URGENTLY wants me to set up a branded Facebook business marketing page for his/her Agro consulting outfit next week.
Usually, alarm bells go off in my head when I get requests couched in offers like this. If I sense it’s driven by a “Carrot Dangling” motive, I simply ignore the other thing s/he asks for (the Facebook page) and focus on talking about the suspected carrot itself i.e. the Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager.
But I do it with tact – so s/he does not have reason to feel offended.
To illustrate, I could say:
“You know, now that you mention it, I could give you that Excel-VB Poultry Farm Manager at 50% discount if you make a down payment of 5% of the discounted fee at the same time as that for THIS Facebook business marketing page you want done URGENTLY”
If s/he balks at THAT too-good-to-be-true counter offer, THAT would often be a sign that s/he most likely NEVER intended to make that other purchase. Otherwise, a 5% down payment on a 50% discounted fee is a NO BRAINER for anyone. Especially when both parties are already connected via prior transactions. You can vary this to suit your unique circumstances and needs.
When you put the suspected CD on the spot in the above described manner, and s/he does not respond appropriately, chances are often good s/he was only dangling THAT carrot to get you to do the other thing (which is really what s/he needs) in the hope that your desire to have the carrot will make you give that thing s/he needs!
Nothing spells disrespect and manipulation more than THAT!
As a rule, I tactfully avoid people who do this in my personal and work life. They are the kind who can drain you dry.
I’ve been told that some CDs may not know they are doing it.
BUT I do NOT buy that argument or excuse!
Any conscious and emotionally intelligent adult MUST be sensitive to treating others right. That’s why we have BRAINS and EMOTIONS. We can think and we can feel. Our minds are unapologetic in telling us when we do wrong and when we do right. We only decide whether or not to listen – which is why some people act good and others do bad…like those who operate as CPs!
As far as I’m concerned, using and manipulating others for selfish gain is never justifiable! Anyone you love or respect should never have it done to them by YOU.
Anyone who makes the mistake of doing it to me, in a manner that leads me to conclude s/he is a CP, will get the “treatment” described above. Period!
Related Article
“Lessons in Discernment: Carrot Danglers” by Marina Michaels
[RECOMMENDED] Why Our Most Educated Generation is Struggling Financially – by Robert Kiyosaki
By many reports, the millennial generation is the most educated generation in US history—and by some stretch. Take a look at this graph from Pew Research.
Yet, they have a problem. Despite all this higher education, they have the highest levels of unemployment of any work demographic and they make 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of life.
PII 070: Will Your Child’s Certificates and Degrees be Enough to Succeed in Life?
FACT: To give their kids the best chance of success in life, many parents today spend hefty sums to send them to the best schools – sometimes abroad. Sadly, many such kids eventually graduate and have to struggle, alongside less qualified others, to find good employment – or ending up underemployed!
Read also(*Added on 23rd July 2017):
- [RECOMMENDED] BBC NEWS: Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland?
- Schools Can Kill Your Child’s Creativity – IF You Don’t Apply These Tips
- A New Generation of Entrepreneurs PROVES That Our Schools Need To Offer a Different Kind of Education!
- Proof that Schooling Can Dis-Empower Your Child Economically!
- No. 153: A “Formula” Schools Need to Teach, But Don’t! (FREE PDF Report)
- Is Your Child Learning For School Or For Life?
- The Hood Does Not Make the Monk. School Uniforms Don’t Guarantee Learning!
- Don’t Let Wrong Teachers Make Your Child A Thinking Pigmy!
So s/he begins life doing a job s/he does not like for its pay and possibly work conditions, but which s/he feels obligated to hold on to, until something better shows up.
Very rarely, does s/he ever seriously contemplate exploring the option of starting his/her own business – even though it frequently promises much better rewards!
The reason that happens is that our kids go through life being told they only need to get good grades and then get a good job, to make it in life.
Very few parents ever tell them another formula exists i.e.
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Monday 12th June 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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PII 070: Will Your Child’s Certificates and Degrees be Enough to Succeed in Life?
FACT: To give their kids the best chance of success in life, many parents today spend hefty sums to send them to the best schools – sometimes abroad. Sadly, many such kids eventually graduate and have to struggle, alongside less qualified others, to find good employment – or ending up underemployed!
Read also(*Added on 23rd July 2017):
- [RECOMMENDED] BBC NEWS: Could subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland?
- Schools Can Kill Your Child’s Creativity – IF You Don’t Apply These Tips
- A New Generation of Entrepreneurs PROVES That Our Schools Need To Offer a Different Kind of Education!
- Proof that Schooling Can Dis-Empower Your Child Economically!
- No. 153: A “Formula” Schools Need to Teach, But Don’t! (FREE PDF Report)
- Is Your Child Learning For School Or For Life?
- The Hood Does Not Make the Monk. School Uniforms Don’t Guarantee Learning!
- Don’t Let Wrong Teachers Make Your Child A Thinking Pigmy!
So s/he begins life doing a job s/he does not like for its pay and possibly work conditions, but which s/he feels obligated to hold on to, until something better shows up.
Very rarely, does s/he ever seriously contemplate exploring the option of starting his/her own business – even though it frequently promises much better rewards!
The reason that happens is that our kids go through life being told they only need to get good grades and then get a good job, to make it in life.
Very few parents ever tell them another formula exists i.e. the route of self-employment or entrepreneurship. And THAT journey can be started more or less at the same time as formal schooling.
Some people argue that that a child should not engage in income earning activities while schooling – and even call it child abuse. I argue that THAT is not correct, because it is the “HOW” of it that matters.
I’ve schooled with orphans and indigent students (and I’ve also had clients who told me that as kids they) had to work to pay their way through school – for various reasons.
What I found out was that those experiences forced them to mature faster and develop competencies to arrive adulthood readier to succeed in spite of adversity in the real world, than many of their peers, who did not have to fend for themselves to complete their education.
Conventional schools are not telling learners the truth about what they need to know and have to achieve what Nigerian society defines as success.
That’s the key: First we need to define what society’s expectations of them will be!
[NB: This does not mean they have to accept those expectations. Instead, it’s about PREPARING the kids to deal with those demands and expctations psychologically or otherwise.]
Will their certificates and degrees be enough? Or will they be measured based on how much money they have regardless of their educational attainments?
Truth be told, the latter is the reality that confronts us today.
Most people in society pay MORE attention to how much material possessions and money you have, than they do to your academic qualifications or credentials.
It’s also why no one seems to care how others make money anymore. Once you have it, people fall in line and “respect you”. The well schooled person unable to function in a crooked society that does not recognize merit, then ends up being ridiculed about “blowing grammar and knowing too much book”
That’s why blatant bribery and corruption in schools and religious institutions is so rampant.
Smart best practice parents will focus on identifying what works, to ensure their honest, upright, do-things-the-right-ways kids don’t end up getting frustrated in the society after they leave school
My views on this subject have been shaped by my experiences as a product of the conventional schooling system.
I excelled in paid employment – but encountered serious absence of fair and impartial systems to reward my efforts in entrepreneurship – until I developed a system that greatly reduced my need to interact directly with people in my society to make money I needed.
The pain and suffering I passed through taught me that Vocational Skills Based Schooling is the safest and most reliable way to educate a child for self-actualization – especially in Nigeria.
Any school system that cannot provide a real world relevant vocational (NOT hobbies) base for education of learners will NOT have access to my kids.
I see today’s conventional schooling not counting in society and honesty/integrity being ridiculed.
In Nigeria, this problem is compounded by the fact that those who have no work routinely have more money than those who do.
This is a fact that stares us in the face DAILY.
Yet we continue using an education system that fails to eliminate that embarrassing imbalance!
The question I continue to ask is: Must everyone pass through the same educational system? Does everyone NEED to pass through the same TRAINING?
The answer of course is NO. We all differ from one another – and our unique abilities will often determine what method of learning best suits EACH of us.
Like I’ve said in the past, human beings are not like livestock (poultry, pigs etc). We cannot be reared in uniform BATCHES based on the same menu of INPUT.
To do so would be to damage the individuality of each person. Room has to be made for the unique needs of each person!
Our conventional schooling system tries to force ALL learners into the same mould – and THAT is wrong!
That’s why Sir Ken Robinson said it damage creativity.
Little wonder that many gifted kids emerge from it looking and acting clueless most times. It is also why we keep coming across trained medical doctors who switch careers late in life to finds success and fulfillment in professional soccer or fashion design!
In Nigeria, it is why our kids who graduate from our schools are getting described as “unemployable”. And it’s also why the idea of self-employment is so difficult for most of our graduates to comprehend!
The status update shown in the screenshot below, posted by Charles Ayo Dada features powerfully thought provoking rhetorical questions that underscore the point I’m making here…
Like he wrote: “…It seems our spirits are in recession. We suffer from lack in the midst of plenty.”Click here to read the status update.
Once a child can read and write competently, s/he can learn any subject s/he has interest in.
I’m training my kids to develop a firm vocational skills “reflex” as a basis for their academic studies. In other words, they are being taught to identify vocations they LOVE and channel their academic energies towards theoretical and practical mastery of it i.e. killing two birds with one stone.
This will make them creative thinking self-directed learners.
Our schools are forcing kids to study subjects they often do not need to manifest their genius and find their purpose in life.
We fail to realize the real ultimate and most important goal of schooling. As a parent who was brilliant in passing thru the school system, the experiences I’ve had in life have taught me that our conventional schools focus on teaching too little of what matters the most in the real world – especially the hands-on practical stuff that have to do with living a successful life!
In today’s Nigeria, most people are just mindlessly doing what others have done, with regard to educating their kids, without checking to see if a better way exists.
Considering the fact that those who received similar schooling in the past, are today walking the streets struggling in spite of the obeying the “Every child must go to school” law, I wonder why this is so!
Ask yourself: What kind of schooling system has society made available? Does it give my child what s/he needs to succeed in the real world of the Nigerian society?
The answer my objective evaluation gave me was NO.
So I decided to develop a complementary program of my own that would give my kids a better foundation to protect their minds against future exposure.
Today we use a technology and exercise based model, with a vocational bias to progress. They carry out specific tasks including but not limited to book work.
I argue that taking exams is not the only way to evaluate learning achieved. Indeed passing exams is no guarantee of success anywhere in the world, especially outside paid employment.
Now, while we’re on the subject of exams…
It’s funny that I did not know about it earlier, but there are apparently societies that do not require kids to take exams at certain levels – yet the kids that pass through their schooling systems still excel internationally.
Sadly, many Nigerian parents don’t even know this truth.
And those who do already engage in crooked dealings they see others do to get ahead outside paid employment. As a result, they don’t care what schools do because they know they’ll be helping their kids cut corners like they did!
I’m therefore not concerned about such parents.
It’s those law abiding, hardworking and honest parents who fail to see this problem with the Nigerian school system and society, as it can (and often will) negatively affect their kids that I feel sorry for!
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[Thursday]:
One Strategy Igbos Need to Learn From American Jews About Succeeding
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[RECOMMENDED] Tackling the Rise of Fake Qualifications in Nigeria By Linus Unah on June 6, 2017
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The FARM CEO (Issue 84): Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations | Producing Good Catfish is Important, But Finding Good Buyers is Imperative!
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement
Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
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On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.
Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.
But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.
If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.
Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))
Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:
Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix
(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)
And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:
A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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The FARM CEO (Issue 84): Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations | Producing Good Catfish is Important, But Finding Good Buyers is Imperative!
In this week’s issue of the Farm CEO newspaper, I feature 2 of my most widely syndicated articles, published over 5 years ago.
They contain deep pearls of insights gained from YEARS of working closely with serious minded Farm CEOs to find solutions to REAL LIFE problems that were holding them back.
These articles have earned me phone calls (some resulting in sales) from Farm CEOs locally and internationally as I traveled.
An interesting tip you (especially subscribers who are my Web Marketing clients) may wish to take note of, is how I used my mobile phone number at the end of one of the write-ups to generate sales leads.
What I did was to invite the reader to request additional details about how to make successful use of the practical strategies for finding profitable bulk buyers, that I’d discussed in it.
I got quite a number of calls – some of which led to sales of my Feed Formulation Handbook and Excel-VB Ration Formulator software – as a result of that simple Call to Action (You can do the same in your writing!)
I hope you enoy reading these articles.
Have a great week.
Cheers!
Tayo
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Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations
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Introduction
In this article, I share VERY practical, real world relevant tips about performance measures you can compute daily, weekly, monthly and at the end of year to accurately determine at every stage whether your poultry farm business is operating optimally.
These performance indices are NOT aggregate measures. In other words, they are NOT measured in monetary terms. Instead they have NO units, being ratios, usage rates and percentages that help to (a) establish a normal trend of your farms’ behaviour (b) quickly identify/detect departures from that trend, so that you can take timely/corrective action.
Note that these measures are tried and tested, and are actually built into a custom spreadsheet software application I built for a client who runs a Twelve thousand (12,000) layer poultry farm business.
You Can Quickly & Easily Compute Performance Indicators To Check Your Farm’s Health
Continue reading…
http://EzineArticles.com/2635011
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Producing Good Catfish is Important, But Finding Good Buyers is Imperative!
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As I have said on my Cost-Saving Ideas Farm Business Support mini site, and also in many of my previous write ups, I have gained unique insight into the business of catfish farming as it is done here in Nigeria. I have moved around quite a lot within Lagos especially, visiting various farms in places like Iyana Ipaja, Egbeda, Ojo, Gbagada, and outside Lagos, more recently,in Akute – Ogun State.
During my interactions with the farm owners, I typically ask the same questions about operational practices being used, farm output achieved, expenses incurred etc. My objective is always to establish how efficient and profitable the individual operations are.
Time and time again, I have found that most of these farm owners are simply focussed on doing what they do in the same mechanical manner they have always been doing them.
Little or no effort is made to spend some time THINKING about how to operate more efficiently – especially in order to reduce the time, effort, money and labour needed to produce – and sell – the same output within a production cycle.
But times are hard. Business is tough. Costs have risen. To continue to profit, it has become even more imperative today, for EVERY business to explore ways of LOWERING operating costs, even as they maintain or possibly INCREASE output.
That is why IDEAS – NEW IDEAS – about how to better run the business MUST be routinely solicited, and explored practically, with a view to improving the way we work, so that the business can perform better.
Continue reading…
[RECOMMENDED] Tackling the Rise of Fake Qualifications in Nigeria By Linus Unah on June 6, 2017
The truths stated in THIS report is why I INSIST on empowering my kids with real world relevant income earning VOCATIONAL SKILLS as a MAJOR priority – a strategy I advocate for adoption by other parents.
Tackling the Rise of Fake Qualifications in Nigeria By Linus Unah on June 6, 2017
The disease of forging education certificates has infected every sphere of public life in Nigeria, including politics. In fact, several politicians have been embroiled in scandals involving fake certificates.
“Certificates are a big deal in Nigeria. From parents to corporates and the civil service, people attach as much value to educational certificates as to the skills, experience and attributes one has to offer.
This obsession with certificates has created a culture in which most school-goers are much more concerned with getting good grades than they are with acquiring the actual skills and competencies that would stand them in good stead after graduation.
And this – the overwhelming desire to rack up excellent grades – has stolen the joy that comes from studying to acquire a firm grasp on an academic discipline. It has also led many people to falsify their academic records for personal gain.”
Continue reading…
https://thisisafrica.me/tackling-rise-fake-qualifications-nigeria/