I Have Been Nominated for ICT Personality of the Year 2016 Award, Please Vote.

Our journey as an online auction company started about a year ago when we went live with our pre-launch marketing campaign, since then, we have broken so many new grounds in online auction market space. This and many more informed the reason why I was  nominated as ICT Personality of the year 2016 by Nigeria Communications Week  .

Voting ends on Friday the 10th of March 2017. You can still vote even if you have voted before. It is a 24 hours voting system. 

Here are some of the reason I was nominated for this award ... Continue reading

Activate the Segun in you!

Found a video of an unknown miller online, I reflected on it and decided to create a story out of it, with the hope it inspires someone, somewhere who may feel they are disadvantaged because of lack of formal education.

Segun was orphaned at 15 years of age when his parents passed in a motor accident. Upon the unfortunate incident, his dream of going to the University to study mechanical engineering appeared to have crumbled right in his very eyes – parents dead, no money to enter for WAEC, and the school authority will not allow Segun complete his studies because of unpaid fees, he may never forget what the Principal told him “Segun you are a brilliant student but your brilliance, does not pay salaries neither do we run a father Christmas business here”. He was further encouraged to pack his bags and vacate the school premises.

Segun left the Oshogbo township to live with his grand mother in Ejigbo;

The 50/50 Man

Sir Jack Petchey, presenting his book; 50/50 MAN The Petchey Story to Mr. Hillary Ugo Nwaukor; President, Entrepreneurs Society (ESOC) University of East London - Award winning Society NUS 07/08.

At i-naira.com, we conceptualise and design products that are customer centric; products that are implemented deliberately to benefit everyday Nigerians. This vision feeds into every product released by our platform as well as future products that will emerge from our steads.

Milo is a Recession Proof Habit

You may be wondering how a chocolate beverage drink can help you pull through the recession. While a hot chocolate drink will be a great way to start your morning in the office, this subject matter MILO simply means “More in, Less out”, It is an acronym for financial prudence; it simply means that you have to make more than you spend. There is no better time to discipline ourselves on wealth management than now when our country is going through economic reset.

The foregoing is simply logical

Between Legitimate Referral Marketing & Fraudulent(Ponzi) Schemes

In Nigeria, we wake up each day to the birth and death of all sort of Fraudulent (PONZI) SCHEMES.

The noise that comes with PONZI Schemes seems to be over shadowing legitimate REFERRAL MARKETING SYSTEMS that are designed to support the growth need of an actual business. Thus, the Nigerian customer generally have come to associate the word “Referral Marketing” to fraudulent schemes.

Sadly, it seems no lesson was learned after many Nigerians played the “ Russian Roulette” with the Russian founder of MMM. Russian Roulette ‘is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one's own head; an activity that is potentially very dangerous’.