If you think last year, 2014, was bad...2015 doesn't look any better!!!

Happy New Year? More like Troubled New Year!!!

Imagine this year, 2015, being anything short of the goodies we experienced as a people or packed with more woes that we suffered in 2014! God forbid. Tufiakwa.


I have been getting this really disturbing feeling that things may not look as well as anticipated.

Nigeria has quite a lot on her plate and we are not chewing as fast as we should! With the fall in oil price leading to inevitable financial crisis , anticipated elections that may likely be messy, boko haram saga and other all time classic Nigerian issues, we have have fewer reasons to be jolly but we can rise through. I know we can.

I hope to see things improve and I am a firm believer of DIY when it comes to creation of jobs. If we can sell that notion across the country, the number of people who will implement it rather than cross legs and watch telemundo anticipating our government to come through, may be among the few to survive and make money by appealing to a "market" and working to keep it that way.

Overall, we have reasons to believe that in most business sectors private individuals do it better. Our entertainment industry has grown immensely and we can't miss the weight it pulls in the whole continent. I believe same can be achieved if driven private individuals with finance/capital are encouraged by government to create workshops, factories, warehouses that will have the enabling environment for growth.

I'm sure millions of entrepreneurs see the vast business opportunities that lie within us but most of them won't bulge because of the strict regulations/policies that usually serve to grease the pockets of corrupt officials, high operating cost because of NEPA palava and security issues that make headlines on major international news giants' sites. Now these are areas that are in need of urgent attention of government not starting white elephant projects with leaks that gulp millions year after year.

We have to do something differently to have different results.

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