WHY WE NEED TO EMBRACE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS NIGERIAN YOUTHS

by Neptune Dash 11:38:00 0 comments

Everyone has been talking about the need for us to embrace Entrepreneurship in Nigeria, and I think we the youths should embrace it more. We have got the strength and the youthfulness to try things out; yes people might say that for you to be successful in business you need experience, as in you have to seek for employment, why you shouldn't start a business, all out of good intentions only. But before you gulp down all that, think for a while about Bill Gates who left Harvard to start Microsoft; Michael Dell who left the University of Texas to start Dell; Fred Smith who, while attending Yale, received a "C" (More or less like our D in Nigeria) on his Fedex business plan and decided to start his business anyway; Milton Hershey who opened his first candy shop when he was 18; Steve Jobs who left Reed University to start Apple; William Hewlett and David Packard who started HP out of a garage after graduating from Stanford, our own Aliko Dangote who started out in business as a teenager. What would have happened if they were convinced by these lame arguments and backed away from their business plan?  We would have had to live without a Dell, a Microsoft, an HP an Apple.

 Good enough many of us are already graduates out of necessity waiting for one white collar job or the other. The truth is that young people have fresh perspectives on the world. This perspective helps them to see many opportunities that till now have not been exploited. If we do not travel down the road, how do we know what is at the end of it; perhaps you end up becoming the next celebrated business icon in your community if not in the nation or even in the world. The world is getting messier by the day, different kind of problems are showing up waiting to be solved. This period of economic downturn in Nigeria is the right time we have the opportunity to lead, we don’t have to all start up with politics there are several areas we youths can turn around our economic woes. Nigeria is our country; it is more of our responsibility as youths to make this country workout than any other categories considering the fact that we make up the biggest chunk of the nation’s population. Come to think of it, if 5 million of us startup 1 business respectively and we employ 3 staffs each in the first year then we would have reduced the number of unemployed youths in Nigeria by 15 million. If each of these businesses doubles their staffs by the following year, then we have successfully helped 30 million Nigerians out of poverty. NIGERIA CAN BE BETTER AGAIN, LET THE YOUTHS ARISE