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Your Choice – a broom, an umbrella or humans!

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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You are lost in a forest and you need directions to return home, one zen-master appears, and offers you three choices: a broom, an umbrella and a human. Which one would you choose? Good luck on finding your way back to home of prosperity, abundance, good health, and wisdom!

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Comment 1: Trying something different is always difficult for a lot of people, even when they complain to you about their present predicament and misery, rather they keep creating more excuses on why they need to stick with what is not unfavourable to them, for the fear of unknown.

The question remains, what do you really stand to lose for trying something different? At least no one will accuse you of lacking effort and ambition, and you will be at peace with your soul, because it was a choice made with good intentions.

We are already in trouble, and it’s not clear when those who create troubles become solution providers, else their original intent for creating troubles will need to be examined. It’s POssible, never doubt yourself. Humans make things happen, umbrellas and brooms don’t.

Comment #2: 14years ago, I was in a related situation. The bus I was travelling in, broke down in the middle of no where. The driver went for a mechanic and that was when the indefinite wait began.

Firstly, the spot we were, had no phone network, so we couldn’t call. Secondly, the day was maturing unemotionally and we had 6hours or more to our final destination. Thirdly, the clouds gathered and it began to rain.

I reasoned that though the bus provided shelter from the rain(Umbrella), the night was coming when being in that bus without moving will become dangerous and uncertain.

To the surprise of others, I got down in the heavy rain, and started flagging down vehicles indiscriminately with only one goal in mind, “I must leave this place before night fall”.

Drenched, shivering but undeterred and soon a Sienna stopped. I explained my plight to its occupants and they asked me to bring my luggage from the bus, the rest is history.

I don’t know what became of those under the umbrella and even a good broom in that situation was useless.

Dear Nigerians, the promise of following people moving to a Common Destination????? supercedes those who promise Comfort? and cleanliness?, yet remain in stagnation.
Be like me, For No Risk No Results.?

Comment 3: Unless the broom and the umbrella are magical tools of which effectiveness may not be 100% guaranteed as it is currently. So, it is wise to consult with the humans. However, the humans need the fourth force which is God to intervene to assist because the umbrella and the broom are evil spirit in the forest. Good luck everyone.

Comment 4: Sir, still wondering making your platform for one-sided political sojourn; failing to realise that this platform is open to different opinions.

We only know this your platform for knowledge.

But, be ready to get it raw opposing opinion and don’t take offense…

I don’t think this is a familiar path for you, sir!
Your illustration is opeque, don’t you think we need to consider if the “human” has substance, capacity, capability, verifiable evidence of good governance, structure?

My response to comment 4: “Sir, still wondering making your platform for one-sided political sojourn;” – your comment explains how low Nigeria has gone.  People find problems where there are none? If you read this as one-sided, it is your fault, not English language’s fault. Your comment is totally lost because it has no reality to this post. What is one-sided about asking people to choose among 3 parties?

Comment 4 author adds: Ndubuisi Ekekwe, sir, I ve been following your posts on this matter, which I said it is an unknown path: political opinion.

On this path,sir, I think you ve to develop stick skin for opposing views,and give more superior argument,as we know you for. I respect you when it comes to enterpreneurship knowledge.

Sir always Check out those comments in favour of your opinion, which u Amy not find offensive, there u see it review how people view your comments.

Don’t forget pastor Poju just pull down a post, that attracted negative/positive comments,but does the comments drop anybody name? Sir, is this English language fault?

Sir, re-read my posts,u only reply to a part of my comments, leaving the rest observations?

Again, I only know your platform, for knowledge,but I must confess, this path take note of the comments in favour of ur political posts,and be mindful that this is a electioneering period, anybody can read meaning to your posts…nobody is looking for problem where there is none…pastor Poju is a case study.

My follow up Response: This post if it attracts negative comments or makes people feel bad, it is not my fault. We all went to secondary school where we learnt satires, figures of speech, etc. If we live in a society where we cannot use party symbols to open a debate, that is a problem. What is one-sided, you have not explained. Your mindset is that I am favouring humans. But when you do think deeper, you can make a point that favors brooms or umbrellas. Some have argued for a broom, umbrella, excellently here. That is what knowledge is about. 

This issue of being offended by anything is our problem in Nigeria.  You write that GDP is down, Nurudeen will say that I am attacking Buhari. I ask people to choose between parties, Ola says I am one-sided. I write that EU is biased on coal policy, and someone tells me that the EU will not give me a visa. What is life if we live that way?

A community member response to Comment 4: Even if it is one sided, what is wrong with that? You enjoy his platform for brilliant takes on business, science, investment, etc but because he seems to have given an opinion on politics, the most critical issue at this time, you think the brilliant Prof is no longer brilliant. Simply because it doesn’t align with your own thinking.

Sorry to say that you don’t belong on Prof’s platform if this is how myopic your thinking is.

You even have the temerity to say: “I don’t think this is a familiar path for you sir!”. It means you have not been reading Prof’s posts with the required level of understanding.

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Tesla Hit By New Lawsuit Alleging Racial Abuse Against Workers

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Ojukwu Emmanuel
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American multinational automotive and clean energy company, Tesla has been slammed with a lawsuit after fifteen Black former employees of the company filed a lawsuit, alleging that they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at the factories.

The workers disclosed that they were subjected to derogatory racist slurs, and weird behavior from colleagues, managers, and human resources employees on a regular basis which was disclosed in a lawsuit filed in a California court.

Most of the harassment is said to have occurred at Tesla’s factory in California, which include the use of N-word and terms such as “slavery” or “plantation” or making sexual comments, which the lawsuit claims.

It also alleges that the company’s “standard operating procedures include blatant, open and unmitigated racial discrimination”. Also in the lawsuit, some of the plaintiffs were assigned to the most physically demanding past in Tesla or passed over promotions.

Tesla is currently facing at least 10 lawsuits on the allegations of racial discrimination, and sexual harassment, which includes one by a California civil rights agency. Although the automaker has previously denied all these allegations, stating that it has policies in place to prevent and address workplace misconduct.

Just recently, a federal judge in California issued a fresh trial on the damages Tesla owes to one of its black factory workers who accused the company of racial discrimination after he turned down a $15m award.

Also, a Tesla shareholder has filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk and Tesla’s board of directors of neglecting workers’ complaints and fostering a toxic workplace culture. It might interest you to know that this is not the first time Tesla is being accused of racial discrimination against its black workers.

The CEO of the company, Elon Musk who recently took over Twitter met with employees of the platform at a virtual meeting and stated that people should be allowed to say racist things. He also issued a disclaimer that despite the free speech policy, it doesn’t in any way mean Twitter would promote hate speech.

One would be tempted to ask, why would Elon Musk permit people to say racist things on the platform in the first place? Doing such alone, already goes against the free speech policy, all under the guise to promote racial slurs.

After his purchase of the platform, many black users expressed their concerns due to how Elon Musk treated black workers at his company, which they feel he would replicate on the platform. They disclosed that it is probably an end for black Twitter.

They recounted how in the past before his takeover, how Twitter had given them hashtags that turned into movements, like the #BlackLivesMatter and also the #OscarsSoWhite movement that led to pressure for changes at the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences.

With Musk’s takeover, they are skeptical that these movements will either be silenced or not amplified to gain massive recognition, due to his weird perception of blacks. Some have described Musk as a Billionaire BusinessMan with questionable ethics.

OSUN 2022: Voters Hint at Skipping APC, PDP as Parties Compete on Personality Disparagement and Ignoring Issues

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Mutiu Iyanda
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With 14 days till the Osun 2022 governorship election, Positive Agenda Nigeria revealed in its weekly report on campaign monitoring that among over 1 million voters expected at various polling units on July 16 some are probably not considering the ruling party and the main opposition. This is based on the main conclusions from the eight week of monitoring of campaign activities of political parties in the state.

According to the report, “When PAN asked the potential electorate about policy programmes that would determine their votes, they identified education, economy, health, workers’ welfare and employment as well as security, infrastructure, agriculture and social programmes (in that order). That is, the majority of the sampled respondents (97.40%) would not vote for candidates and political parties that failed to address these issues and/or needs of the people in their campaign messages.

“We also found that candidates and political parties that disparage personality would not be considered during the poll. This is also applicable to political parties and candidates found to have engaged political thugs before and during the election to cause violence across the state. Though the percentage is small, some sampled electorate are likely to vote candidates and political parties that induce them with them money and materials.

“The findings have validated our hypothesis that the closer the 2022 election, the more the political parties use verbal attacks as a campaign strategy. The level of attacks kept on increasing from week six of the monitoring, though the eighth week recorded the highest level of verbal attacks. This is an indication that the political actors in Osun State still believe in using the strategy as a campaign approach to de-market their opponents and woo potential voters to the side of their candidates.

In addition, as the election approaches, this 8th issue found out that politicians defected from one party to another. Despite their defections, each party, particularly the two main political parties, showed confidence in winning the July 16 election. Nonetheless, they kept canvassing votes and dissuading potential voters from thuggery and violence before and during the election. Although the parties preached against violence in their campaign messages, one then wonders about the level at which the two main parties accused each other of sponsoring violence and thuggery in some areas of the state.

Although policy-engaged messages in week eight were at their lowest since the monitoring periods, messages around infrastructure as well as workers’ salaries, welfare and employment dominated (most of which emanated from the ruling party). However, Osun digital natives were more interested in information about road construction, security, health and education (in that order) throughout the week,” the report pointed out.

The report says during the week, vote-buying and electoral malpractice resonated. “Although the two main political parties accused each other of sponsoring political thugs and planning to disrupt the election with thugs, the main opposition political party accused the INEC and security agents of planning to rig the election in favour of the ruling party. Its accusations mostly appeared in national newspapers and on Twitter.”

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First Bank Launches Single-Digital Loan Scheme For Women, To Strengthen Gender Inclusion

By
Ojukwu Emmanuel
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In a bid to promote female entrepreneurs in the country, First Bank of Nigeria has announced the launch of FirstGem fund, a single-digit loan scheme, exclusively designed to put women at an advantage in contributing to the socio-economic development of the country.

The FirstGem loan scheme is designed for female-owned or partnered SMEs in the following sectors; Catering and Restaurants, Transportation, Beauty and Cosmetics, Confectionery, Packaging, and Agric/Agro-Allied.

The loan comes with an interest rate of 9% per annum, and a collateral-free loan that is available to the bank’s existing and prospective female customers. Customers can be able to access loans from N500,000 to N3,000,000.

Speaking at the launch of the First Gem fund loan scheme, the group head of First Bank Folake Ani-Mumuney had this to say, “we are delighted with the role our First Gem product plays in creating an avenue to enlarge the business activities and endeavors of female entrepreneurs across the country. Our First Gem value proposition offers real solutions to constraints encountered by female entrepreneurs and working professionals, as it exposes women to opportunities for the advancement of their business.

We implore every female business-minded individual to take advantage of the First Gem loan as it puts them at an advantage to contribute their quota to the economy”

This is not the first time First Bank is supporting women, earlier this year, it partnered with CDC/BII to support women and small business owners with a US $100 million credit facility. In Africa, the gender gap in access to financial loans is believed to be driven by women entrepreneurs’ self-perception.

Worldwide, women’s access to financial loans is disproportionately low. After serious of questions as to what fuels the gender disparity in access to financial loans that particularly affects women. It was discovered by a few economists that one of the factors that excluded women from the credit market is due to high-interest rates and collateral requirements.

High-interest rates discourage a lot of female entrepreneurs from applying for loans, also a lot of women do not own properties to be used as collateral to get loans, unlike their male counterparts.

Even when these women eventually gain access to these loans, they are faced with more stringent rules. Unfortunately, in Nigeria, the ability of women in accessing loans is discouraging, as their contributions to the economy have been undermined, also resulting in gross underestimation of women’s socio-economic contribution to the economy.

These women are faced with financial loan constraints at the small and medium-scale enterprises, which often limits them from expanding. Although the narrative is gradually changing, as a report disclosed that women in Africa are reported to be in charge of a majority of businesses on the African continent.

These women own and operate around one-third of all businesses in the formal sector and they also represent a majority of businesses in the informal sector. Women have been proven to be more entrepreneurial when they are exposed to opportunities, coupled with access to resources.

Despite the low access to financial loans, few women still thrive despite all odds to be successful. Some of them have dominated certain industries like Agriculture and Fashion. This shows that with greater access to financial loans, many Nigerian/African women entrepreneurs will see their businesses blossom which will also impact the country’s economy.

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