The BBC's \"Doing business in Nigeria\" article linked below, went live yesterday, and is trending ferociously.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-27081948<\/a>. <\/p>\n Isn't it amazing that a newspaper outfit run by a Pulitzer prize winning journalist could have failed in Nigeria, as described in the article? <\/p>\n That reminds me of Richard Branson's Virgin Nigeria airline partnership that failed in Nigeria few years back, and Branson's very unflattering comments about how institutionalized corruption killed the venture!<\/p>\n For me, I think it's great that more people are now willing to write the truth about what it's really like trying to run an honest and upright business in Nigeria.<\/p>\n All these years I've written about clients who literally attacked me for trying to do things right. <\/p>\n Many told me I could not make it in Nigeria. And some went out their way to make sure I did not.<\/p>\n Like I've explained in past articles, it got to a point that the Attorney General's office assigned me a lawyer to respond to a phony petition by an abusive client who wanted to make me work without paying my fees.<\/p>\n That incident, followed by some others, coupled with a confrontation with the local branch of the power company, about bloated bills, made me relocate to Benin Republic<\/a><\/p>\n In relation to my part-time marketing of high profile solutions like Burt Dubin's Public Speaking mentoring products and services<\/a>(as sole agent in Africa), my deep understanding of the \"psychology\" of Nigerians - as illustrated in the article - is what convinces me VERY few of them with financial means will be prepared to purchase them. <\/p>\n The environment they live and work in operates on completely different rules, compared to the rest of the normal world. <\/p>\n The truth is years of exposure has trained the Nigerian majority to accept most of the absurdities as normal, just like the author noted. <\/p>\n Over a decade of personal experience as an entrepreneur in Nigeria, convince me this is true.<\/p>\n That's why businesses with contrarian philosophies and strategies end up being stifled to \"death\" in this country.<\/p>\n Only groups like high profile farm industry players I work with <\/a>can be influenced to adopt solutions like Burt Dubin's and those I offer. <\/p>\n Farm businesses cannot flourish with corner cutting, mismanagement or disregard for best practices that occurs in some other industries.<\/p>\nKudos to the Article's Author (Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani), and the BBC!<\/h3>\n
Now, with articles like this, fewer people in their right minds can accuse me of being unpatriotic, or of exaggerating the problem in Nigeria.<\/h3>\n
What's more, some of the comments posted under the BBC article readily add credence to my above assertion, about the uniquely warped \"reasoning\" that Nigerians in Nigeria employ in doing business locally. <\/h3>\n