Business
Consultant Charges Unemployed On Entrepreneurship
A Port Harcourt-based
business consultant, Dr Femi Agbede, has urged unemployed persons in the country, to strive to start their own business rather than depend on relations.
Giving the advice in Port Harcourt recently at a training workshop, Agbede said that there were many small, but profit yielding businesses that were formerly underestimated in our communities.
Agbede said that the most important things in this regard are to have a plan, cultivate a saving habit and be disciplined, adding that these are key things that will make one build a healthy business.
According to him, N5,000 was enough for one to start a business in the area and make progress, stressing that it is good to start small and progress steadily.
Agbede gave an example of a pastor whose identity he did not disclosed who had challenged one unemployed female member to collect loan of about N5,000 from the church and start at least an ‘Akara’ (baked beans) business .
He said that the woman refused to respond to the advice of the clergyman to start the business but had demanded financial gifts from the pastor repeatedly.
The consultant said “Discipline, Planning and Saving habit are all that it takes to succeed in business and when these are applied to business, there will be success.
Corlins Walter