A very good friend and a globally renowned financial/ICT consultant Asonumaka George Wakanma has advised the FGN to take these steps to pull the country back from economic precipice:
''For now available records shows that: 1. There are currently 86million unemployed youths
2. Where 20 million are university graduates that had never ever been employed.
This is growing by the day ...and is a source of concern for any right thinking mind ...
The solutions and the social intervention funding schemes the government are coming up with are at best a
worst idea from a moron
Let me attempt to proffer a simple workable and implementable solution to the evil specter of the rising youth unemployment in Nigeria For a 21st century time.
All the Government need to have done is to pursue the ICT revolution .
Copy India's Infosys
(Bangalore model). ..instead of the 16th Century Rice
or agriculture revolution ... which is a sure and certain covenant with poverty!!
Here is what to do...
With an ICT revolution in mind, Nigeria can borrow funds about $5billion thru floating of eurobonds.
This $5billion
will be the FGN seed capital for the ICT revolution.
The FGN will now as a policy...
get all the IOCs and Banks in Nigeria to contribute 2% of their profits as CSR to the ICT revolution project in order to get a 15% tax rebate.
This will now be the basis of the FGN equity
contribution in a PPP with the Private sector venture capital & Private equity investors seeking a concession to create ICT projects either as Greenfield or Brownfield.
The idea is to design an ICT curriculum in Schools & content developers.
Hardware / devices manufacturers
will set up factories In Nigeria Where the following deliverables will be the target: 1. Teach our children coding
From Primary school to secondary 2. BTS & ATS ( Basic threat specialist & advanced threat specialist ) for computer virus 3. Programming & Application developers
and others
Objective and Target:
in less than 8 years -we will churn out at least and have 10 million certified ICT professionals to rival India Where at least 6 million resources will have international Jobs - working remotely from Nigeria -- the investors will source and
secure the jobs for the resources across the world.
For example, If these 6million youths are earning at least $20k monthly .... We will have a guaranteed FX inflow of $1.2billion monthly.
And if the balance 4million are beneficiaries of a seed capital scheme of $100k...the
seed capital still have a balance of $3billion in an annuity scheme ...
The 4million x $100k seed Capital per youth = $400Billion USD .
With 120 fold increase in the ICT industry, our GDP will hit the $5trillion mark in 6years
But then what do I know ?''
Drinking tips from a Cocktail Connoisseur
Drink responsibly
*THE A-Z OF POPULAR ALCHI...*
Hennessy VS / OX and VSOP is more of a culture than a premium drink.
Even worse is that you have probably never tasted an original.
JW Red Label used to be this popular. These days it’s
usually in First Aid boxes for cleaning open injuries.. like TCP.
It will happen to Henny
Jameson is an alte drink.
It represents youth and some sort of Political correctness.
On its own, it’s better off as a very good base to mix cocktails.
It’s also highly tolerable.
Regardless
of your brand, you can manage Jameson as a second choice.
Glenfiddich is Jameson.
But for Older people and new money.
Kind of what Jack Daniels No. 7 represents.
Except that JD at every level is better than its counterpart in Glenfiddich.
But as I type, Glenfiddich is a growing
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At first, and for more than one week, it insisted it was not at the scene of the shooting, and that it did not fire any shots. Belatedly, it now agrees
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