Do Nigerians really need or this TECH startup here and there or problem solvers that can deal with our basic problems like
innovative way to convert tomato to something else like juice instead of pasta and sell it internationally… in other words build salesmen that can sell internationally with confidence not just selling to Nigerians
thinking of way to solve electricity problem for their street, area or community,
Nigerian produced engr aren’t thinking of lean ways to fix road problems aside becoming Julius beggar first
Nigerians aren’t thinking of our raw material under the ground and be willing to dig the shit outta it and bring this massive Gods given resources
no one is thinking of way to correct or reduce this long trenched religious stigma thats eating us up and also tribalism
no one is thinking of better ways to enhance our transport system with already available resources through management
no one is thinking of ways to better our housing sectors without breaking the bank
i think this is what Nigeria needs ! . . . our foundation is dirty, scrappy , and weak and it pretty obvious thats why nothing stands on it for too long.
i think the biggest problem with Nigeria is that we love to run faster than our shadow with little or no knowledge just because we want to be recognize as the people doing this or that lets be honest guys.
somewhere in my heart i know i am guilty of this
ignore my typos and errors i really don’t go through what i write.
No matter how advance our tech industry becomes, or how good/creative the tech guys become, there are some problems you CAN’T just solve with tech. Period.
Take electricity for example, the problem with that sector is deeper than someone building a technology around it to solve the problem, corruption runs deep in that sector, the powers that be will never let it be fixed, no matter how robust/superb your solution might look like.
Our tech industry is still in its infancy, let people build as much startup as they want, crappy or innovative, the good/useful ones will survive. plus you never really know which idea is crappy, Sometimes the idea behind a startup might be good while it suffers from bad execution. Now, someone who’s never thought of the idea before might look at such idea and execute it perfectly.
That’s how the industry grows.
Da Vinci did not become great by painting one picture only. Attempt, fail, retry till your get it right.
I’m curios though. You have all these nice ideas, what are you doing about them?
I have a lot going on for me young man I just think we need more of innovative ideas that can sell to international market.
People who can outsource international deals. Take a plane out of Nigeria make this happen and return that’s how a country get rich not selling to Nigerians.
The tomato juice is one big industry that makes waves in the international market. Make your research we ain’t exploiting it. And many more but I do understand you.
Well said. As an engineer, turned imagineer, I understand what you’re talking about. I saved my Landlord hundreds of thousand of Naira by treating water with less than N20,000 at Lekki. I’ve proposed location based power generation and argued over twitter with some power engineering phD holder.
What I can say authoritatively is that Nigerians prefer old problems to new solutions. And we are generally not experimental. I remember my prospect telling me that if a certain experiment I was about to do at church didn’t turn out well, he would never listen to me again. Sometimes it could be worse.
And then we have to deal with the hurdles of license and permits. If you try to export tomato paste for instance, you will have local government officials, nafdac and several other licensing bodies to contend with. For an average Nigerian to trust your product, he/she must see it elsewhere.
That brings us to one if the main issues. We don’t have authority figures. In US, once Oprah talks about your home prepared recipe, it’s as good as a license. In Nigeria, only religious leaders have this kind of authority and they are not so accessible for such.
My advice is for us to build a community that can genuinely test products and help crowd fund requisite licenses for the government to Kermit commercial production of such innovations.