Nigeria’s Igbo Trade Apprenticeship System - The Morning Show
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025
- Nigeria’s informal trade sector contributes significantly to its economy. At the core of its activity, is a historical community system that drives its racing pulse.
ARISE Business Analyst, Abisola Owolawi shares this special report on the Igbo Trade Apprenticeship Scheme.
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Igbos have truly perfected this system to the extent that, they no longer remember that oil exists in their backyards.
They have built so much faith in themselves that they have suddenly realized that without Nigeria, they can build a great nation.
Who Can doubt that?
Reuben, you are spot-on about the apprenticeship system affecting the enrolment of boys in formal education sector. But, something caused it. A situation where the country has no meaningful employment opportunities for graduates, it is better for the citizens to adopt this kind of business, trade and commercial model which has produced many millionaires and billionaires in the South East. What the government should do is to help formalise, fund and consolidate this practice within the framework of SMES capital empowerment and incubation policy in partnership with local and international financial institutions.
This system has been before the civil war, I'm 52yrs but my father went through the apprantiship system at onitsha.
I'm not an Igbo but Edo person but the true is our country is nothing without the Igbo people's
Wow... I’m humbled by your comment 🙏
Which part of edo
I'm glad to hear this bro
Thank u for saying this some people don’t know
Bless you bro, Nigeria will make headway as a nation only when she begins to honour the great Igbo tribe and allow them to retake their leading role in the helms of affairs.
Very interesting and inspirational system. Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago.
I forgot to mention that should the master in this apprenticeship system ever fall on hard times, all the boys he mentored usually rally to raise money and save his business. It works in so many ways.
The apprenticeship system may appear to be only male oriented, but that is not entirely the case. Igbo women undergo apprenticeships as well, but in fewer businesses. The reason is that the women have to be nearer home than the men. Dressmaking was once dominated by women, who trained their apprentices and settled them with sewing machines to start their own shops. Bakeries too. I'm reminded of Our Lady's in Onitsha, which combined both businesses and was very successful. Some of the graduates set up their own brands and succeeded. I cannot wait to get my hands on the Harvard study to see just how much information it contains. Good report by Owolawi.
The Igbo apprenticeship system commenced around the 1900 when the Igbo youths began to leave the villages to the cities such as Onitsha, Enugu. It did nit comma after the Igbo genocide in 1970.
Igbos traders full in cameroon too ❤️
Many of the traders attend night college. Moreover, with online learning, it is now possible to have an education as you learn a trade. The first generation did not complete school, but it's different from subsequent generations. Most of these traders children now attend the best schools. Women are not necessarily discriminated against. It's just that no one would risk their daughter living and serving away from home. This system of servanthood is as old as Igbo existence. It isn't just for business. My grandfather sent my father to serve his friend in order to teach him humility.
WELL DONE Abisola GREAT Presentation👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼
Honestly, I want to find ways to contribute to the Umu Afia system. There is so much to be done in the system
Great analysis Rufai...Well articulated. One of the best out there....
Whao Ruben you are a gem 💎
No wonder Nigerians always appreciate you a lot.
What was given to the Igbos after the war as financial stimulus was ₦20 irrespective of how much they had in their kitties as Biafra Pounds was outlawed as legal tender for financial transactions. Yet, they have survived and grown so much from the paltry humiliating capital.
We congratulate our Igbo friends for implementing new better ways of doing everything possible to empower grassroots leadership - creative ideas and thinking and writing and speech. Our mission in life is bringing prosperity to everyone everywhere - it's not, shouldn't be issue of class 👏.
"Igbos don't love themselves" phrase is a complete fallacy and lie from the pit of hell. I am a beneficiary of the Igbo love as I was seen through the university by same love.
Infact, Igbos love themselves the most
Nigeria is suffering today and will continue to suffer till beyond recognition, if Fulanis and Yorubas continue to hinder Igbos from playing their God-given leading role in the helms of political and social affairs of the country.
My fellow Igbo people should start exporting from Nigeria to other countries. We have it backwards.
We Igbos are great...The rest of Nigeria should emulate and celebrate us
I really appreciate you people abati
Igbo apprenticeship did not start after the Nigeria/Biafra war. It started around the 1910s. My dad who was born in !922 was a beneficiary of the system.
Wonderful experience to emulate
Nice presentation!
You guys are doing great
This is an excellent system for economic growth. Tho the system needs to be strengthened by individual state governments of East where it originates from by ensuring that it's being formalized via written agreement etc.
Because it's loopholes is being exploited by insincere parties either from the mentor or mentee. Thus creating an ugly name for it.
Am proud 😁
To me I think that the south east governor's and lawmakers and stake holders needs to empower millions of Igbo youths in other to save the future of the igbos because most are times there's no market space
Exactly it exists almost in every culture but it was stronger in Alaigbo before the civil war. The civil war trew us back. I live in Europe,it exists here,in Asia,South and North America.Just everywhere in the world.
Surprise hear that, in the model of the Igbos? You know among the Igbos, though there may be the so called agreement to "settle" the "boy", it not guaranteed, and because it is usually a family affair, it doesn't usually create bad blood.
Surprise hear that, in the model of the Igbos? You know among the Igbos, though there may be the so called agreement to "settle" the "boy", it not guaranteed, and because it is usually a family affair, it doesn't usually create bad blood.
Rufai, you really articulate well, all you guys are great and doing well.
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People have to understand that this is a unique custom peculiar to Igbo people, and it is usually a family affair. There are also failures in the system which you may not hear about. Sometimes the agreement doea not workout, but because it is family affair, usually a distant unkle, a brother, and therefore there is usually no bad blood, something that can't happen with an Outsider.
It’s not only family ..anyone can work under anybody plus most of business that fail in Nigeria is because government can’t help in term of legal judicial system...if their is some form of agreement signed that u can take to court it will help both part but this system work on trust so Nigerian need to learn to improve things that is how west perfect their own ...we need to think on how we can make things better no matter the stage we get ...it’s call growth...this system makes more rich ppl but it need improvement from the government sector
Yes, the idea is you know the person “to the house”. That is what ensures accountability.
£20 only. Man’s inhumanity to man.
Can women also go through such apprenticeship? I want to go through this training and learn a trade practically.
Of course yes,ada nne.
Yes, advisably under a successful woman or a trustworthy man
Yes Igbo million business Dey well ohh
Would #ARISE TV reported about the IGBOS ENTREPRENEURSHIP if not because of # HARVARD UNIVERSITY looking at adopting as a model? Just my thinking......
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Not unnecessary because, Africans do not validate themselves until validated by white people.
Had same thought
Its 20 pounds and not 50 pounds
YES. 20 POUNDS.
Decent report but not comprehensive at all which is a shame given that, unlike Harvard, we live among and within the system.
In my opinion, the System has tremendous benefits but also require a lot of reforms:
1 Education (to improve efficiency and create innovations). Alaba and Aba have not evolved much in the last 40 years despite billions of dollars in cashflow because there is not enough innovation and imagination.
2 Legality- Contracts have to be legally binding to really scale this. And there has to be legal protection for mentees from abuses and exploitations by their Ogas and Madams. The language and psychology of Master-Servant should be eradicated for Mentor-Mentee.
3 Tenureship- 6 years is too long in my opinion to learn a business and the grit of doing business. I think 2 years is enough. This will also increase more participation from the younger generation including women. And they can come from their homes. Instead of setting up the Mentee, pay them a salary and set aside a percentage every month which will become the Principal they need to start on their own. And you can provide loans and credit lines as already happens in status quo provided all that is legally binding to protect the mentors as well
2years? You have no point to make. People that end up making more money than a university professor with a PHD need to serve 2yrs. Silly.
That contract thing will break this model. Integrity is very big in this model. Forcing it may not work
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Typical nwanne……..
This journalist worry. This fake accent worry.