"It was after my NYSC that I made my first one million naira"
Obinna Iyiegbu, popularity known as Obi Cubana, has revealed how he searched for employment opportunity after completing the one year compulsory National Youth Service Corps Scheme.
He revealed this in an interview with BBC Pidgin on Tuesday, following the flamboyant burial of his mother in Oba Anambra State, which shot down the social media space in Nigeria.
The burial caught the attention of almost all Nigerians as the most expensive burial in Nigeria in recent times, where young billionaires engaged in show of wealth.
Obinna Iyiegbu, who is now Group Chairman of Obi Anambra Cubana Group, said he graduated from University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1998, with a BSc in Political Science, did his National Youth Service in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. But could not get a job after much effort to get one.
According to him, having not been able to get a white collar job, he decided to engage in small entrepreneurial job, where he made his first one million naira.
“After undergoing my compulsory National Youth Service Corps programme in Abuja, I started searching for job all to no avail.
“That made me start some jobs and from there I became a real estate agent. I usually get five percent of every task that is successfully executed. It was along the line that I and my colleagues met a man who asked us to help him furnish his house.
“We did it very well that he gave me N500,000 separately from the profit of N600,000 which I also made from the deal. That made it N1.1 million in total. It was after my NYSC that I made my first one million naira,” he said
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