An Open Letter To All Yahoo Boys
Nigerians are very intelligent set of people. We don't have to engage in cyber crimes to make money online. As we all know, illegal wealth isn't sustainable, and if you become addicted to illegal businesses, as the case may be, you also lose your creative mind. There are lots of legitimate businesses you could engage in online and make a decent income!
You can work and earn a decent income online without defrauding anyone or sending emails to foreigners to send you dollars in the name of cyber crime. I agree that most advertised Internet businesses are not as profitable as we're made to believe.
However, a lot of them pay well.
The biggest problem with newcomers is that they believe that they will hit it big immediately they start, so the moment their expectations aren't met as hurriedly as expected, they give up and join the millions of people who say online businesses don't pay. If you must succeed in internet business, you must be ready to develop your time, and also be very consistent as nothing good comes cheap.
It borders me a lot seeing lots of our youths wasting their precious time arguing bitter politics, sports, religion, tribal issues, etc, when such time could be channeled into achieving something productive.
Digital skills are The easiest and quickest skills anyone could learn today. With digital skills, your chances of securing a decent job increases by over 50% at the global labour market and you could work for any client from all over the world from the comfort of your home. Say you can be in Kogi State and handle a job for a client who lives in United Kingdom.
There are hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis who work and earn a decent income from the comfort of their homes without having corporate or government job. As a matter of fact, a lot of them don't even have degrees. All they need to do is to learn basic English and that's all. I have hired a lot of them to work for me.
We must not wait or rely on the government or our relatives to provide job for us because we are graduates or hold certain qualifications. Waiting for government jobs to come before we work may have been the case in the past, but that no longer happen anymore as the government job may never come.
Notwithstanding, governments at all levels must also be interested in championing this new direction of thinking as a means of solving youth restiveness and unemployment. This could be done through institutional framework restructuring, designing policies that will transform our economy into a digital economy and human-capital development. These have proven to create more jobs in the developing nations.
If we must achieve this, our leaders, most especially the people in power must first realise that they lack basic understanding of the digital world, then make efforts to learn and understand it; because you only give what you have and you cannot promote what you don't believe in.
More Nigerian youths have access to the internet than Indians or Pakistan youths, but more Indians and Pakistanis earn a living online than Nigerians. The difference? They are taught digital skills right from primary school, while an average Nigerian attends his first computer training after graduation. What do they teach them? You already know.
The digital sector can employ more than most government organizations, if governments could create the enabling environment, it would create more jobs and reduce the burden of unemployment from government, as serious governments have little to do when it comes to direct job creation. They rather serve as 'enablers'.
You can work and earn a decent income online without defrauding anyone or sending emails to foreigners to send you dollars in the name of cyber crime. I agree that most advertised Internet businesses are not as profitable as we're made to believe.
However, a lot of them pay well.
The biggest problem with newcomers is that they believe that they will hit it big immediately they start, so the moment their expectations aren't met as hurriedly as expected, they give up and join the millions of people who say online businesses don't pay. If you must succeed in internet business, you must be ready to develop your time, and also be very consistent as nothing good comes cheap.
It borders me a lot seeing lots of our youths wasting their precious time arguing bitter politics, sports, religion, tribal issues, etc, when such time could be channeled into achieving something productive.
Digital skills are The easiest and quickest skills anyone could learn today. With digital skills, your chances of securing a decent job increases by over 50% at the global labour market and you could work for any client from all over the world from the comfort of your home. Say you can be in Kogi State and handle a job for a client who lives in United Kingdom.
There are hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis who work and earn a decent income from the comfort of their homes without having corporate or government job. As a matter of fact, a lot of them don't even have degrees. All they need to do is to learn basic English and that's all. I have hired a lot of them to work for me.
We must not wait or rely on the government or our relatives to provide job for us because we are graduates or hold certain qualifications. Waiting for government jobs to come before we work may have been the case in the past, but that no longer happen anymore as the government job may never come.
Notwithstanding, governments at all levels must also be interested in championing this new direction of thinking as a means of solving youth restiveness and unemployment. This could be done through institutional framework restructuring, designing policies that will transform our economy into a digital economy and human-capital development. These have proven to create more jobs in the developing nations.
If we must achieve this, our leaders, most especially the people in power must first realise that they lack basic understanding of the digital world, then make efforts to learn and understand it; because you only give what you have and you cannot promote what you don't believe in.
More Nigerian youths have access to the internet than Indians or Pakistan youths, but more Indians and Pakistanis earn a living online than Nigerians. The difference? They are taught digital skills right from primary school, while an average Nigerian attends his first computer training after graduation. What do they teach them? You already know.
The digital sector can employ more than most government organizations, if governments could create the enabling environment, it would create more jobs and reduce the burden of unemployment from government, as serious governments have little to do when it comes to direct job creation. They rather serve as 'enablers'.
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