Tell Magazine

Nigerian graduates, many of them tired of searching for paid jobs and others increasingly by choice, are changing their career paths by acquiring practical skills and training in response to changing demands of the labour market   Most of his peers are probably still ruing their long and fruitless search for paid employment, but Johnson Chukwuma, 38, a graduate of History/International Relations, is already an employer of labour. Chukwuma, who is the managing director, Amazing Grace Cleaners, a laundry and dry cleaning firm, currently has 27 people on his payroll. With two branches at Okota and Adeniran Ogunsanya, Surulere, Lagos,…

The flood sweeping through many parts of the country leaves in its wake a devastating effect on the productive sector, raising fears that the sizeable growth recorded by the economy in recent times may soon be eroded   Among the internally displaced persons at the St. Michael College camp in Oleh, Isoko South Local Government, LG, area of Delta State was Paul Upemu, a centenarian. Bent over with age and decades of tilling the land, Upemu should be having a deserved rest especially since he has long taken a break from farming. But he was a man greatly troubled as…

The Nigerian government has over the years reneged on a number of agreements with local and foreign investors at a great cost to its image and the national purse   On a large expanse of land in Ajaokuta Local Government area of Kogi State sits the behemoth steel corporation known as Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, ASCL.  From afar, this resplendent edifice is a testament to the wonders of science and technology, what man can achieve if he puts his heart to a course. But that is where the good news terminates: in the realm of aesthetic adulation.  Inside the complex,…

The inauguration of a rebuilt General Aviation Terminal in Lagos places the federal government in direct competition with Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, concessionaires of Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, sending bad signals to local and foreign investors   President Goodluck Jonathan has never missed an opportunity to let the world know that Nigeria is the ideal place to invest on the African continent. On several occasions he has told the world that attracting foreign direct investment, FDI, is one of the cornerstones of his government.   “With a population of 167 million, a robust economy, extensive oil and gas reserves,…