AHMED ‘TUNDE POPOOLA, Founder, Tomeb Foundation for Youth Development and Sustainability and Member of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Nigeria Team.

On Saturday March 15, 2014, Nigerians woke up to a bizarre. About 522,650 graduates assembled in major stadia across the country to write an employment test and go through physical fitness for recruitment into the elite cadre of the Nigerian Immigration Services. The candidates were all vying to fill about 4,556 vacancies in the Service, according to the newspaper sources quoting the Minister of Interior. If all the 4,556 slots were filled at the end of the exercise, less than one in a hundred applicants would have been employed. We do not know how many persons actually applied for the jobs. (more…)

BEING TEXT OF A PAPER DELIVERED BY AHMED ‘TUNDE POPOOLA, MANAGING DIRECTOR/CEO OF CRC CREDIT BUREAU AT THE 10th NASFAT YOUTH CONFERENCE, ON THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2014 AT THE NATIONAL MOSQUE AUDITORIUM, ABUJA, FCT.

1. PROTOCOLS
As salam alaikun waharamotullah, wabarakatuh.

2. INTRODUCTION

Our discussion today on the Nigerian economy is right on target as this has been the focus of national discourse in the last few days dwarfing even the on-going national conference. Hence this would not have come at a better time. On Sunday April 6, 2014, the Federal Government of Nigeria released the new rebased GDP which now put the Nigeria’s GDP at US$510 billion or about N80 trillion . (more…)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SELF-RELIANCE: BUILDING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL NIGERIAN ECONOMY
TEXT OF THE PAPER PRESENTED BY AHMED ‘TUNDE POPOOLA, , AS A LEAD SPEAKER AT THE 8TH WESTERN ZONAL DISTRICTS’ CONFERENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF NIGERIA (ICAN) HELD ON FEBRUARY 17-20, 2014 AT THE LAGOS AIRPORT HOTEL, IKEJA, LAGOS STATE.

INTRODUCTION

With the collapse of the last vestiges of the socialist economic system in 1991, virtually the whole world has embraced free enterprise economic system. Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone and at the heart of the free enterprise economy. (more…)