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What exactly do product managers do?
According to Tobi Lufadeju, product managers are walking encyclopedias. At Reliance HMO, she’s a product manager who is in charge of their consumer business unit.
New to the role, she battled with impostor syndrome at first.
“The first two months on the job were not easy. I joined an existing team which meant that I had to do a lot of learning and observation in the beginning. My team members would throw around in-house language during meetings and I also had to figure out how to speak the engineering team’s language. I dealt with impostor syndrome big time.”
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Seerbitâs Omoniyi Kolade wants financial inclusion for all Africans
Everyone talks about the moment they knew what they wanted to do with their lives.
For some people this moment comes very early – an engineer may tell you it was the first time she ever saw LEGO bricks as a kid. For some others, it comes at the cusp of adulthood, just as adolescence starts to fade.
The former is where Omoniyi falls. His realisation came sometime during his penultimate year in the university.
This “knowing” happened during the Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) program – which is basically compulsory work experience in the year before your final year at university in Nigeria.
Uber raises fares
Ride-hailing giant Uber has raised fares in Nigeria by 13% weeks after its driver-partners went on strike.
The details: From 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Mondays through Friday, Uber riders will now pay a base fare of ₦237, minimum fare of ₦538; ₦70 per kilometre and ₦12 per minute. These fares are up from the previous minimum fare of ₦500, ₦200 base fare, ₦50 per kilometre and ₦11 per minute.
At other periods, riders will be charged a minimum fare of ₦575; a base fare of ₦255, ₦75 per kilometre and ₦12.50 per minute.
How happy are the drivers? The drivers are like, meh, because this doesn’t address their demands; they asked that Uber and Bolt reduce their commission on rides from 25%. They also asked for a seat at the table to have a say in prices.
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Blessing Abeng on dreaming in French, learning on the job, and overcoming career failures
My dad wanted me to be a doctor. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Back in the day, my mother used to get teased about having two daughters. Her co-workers would tell her, “you don’t have a child yet because you don’t have a son.”
So you didn’t go down the medicine path. How did you find your way to branding?
A friend of mine recommended that I go to branding school and turn my creativity into a professional career path. I told my dad I was leaving Abuja and moving to Lagos to learn brand management and work in an agency. Even though he wasn’t fully comfortable with it, he still supported me. We signed an agreement: if my chosen path didn’t work out after two years, I had to come back home.