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Strong opinions and shared thoughts on internship, education, and unemployment in Nigeria. By the makers (and friends) of Stutern. Since ‘15.

Finding My Place in Tech: How Stutern Propelled My Career.

Finding My Place in Tech: How Stutern Propelled My Career.

— Hakeeb Bashorun: Product Designer at Bayzat, UAE.
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Stutern
Aug 26, 2020
Top 5 Learnings from the 2018 Nigerian Graduate Report

Top 5 Learnings from the 2018 Nigerian Graduate Report

Do you want to earn more? Either change your job or go back to school. Also, educating girls and women is probably the single most…
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Taiwo Ayanleye
Oct 18, 2018
Curbing unemployment in Nigeria, the Stutern way.

Curbing unemployment in Nigeria, the Stutern way.

Unemployment remains one of the major challenges facing the African continent. Nigeria, with an average population of 190 million and a…
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‘Hafeez Babatunde
May 3, 2018

How To Get A Job Interview In Nigeria

Shocker: It doesn’t involve connections.
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Jemima Abu
Apr 18, 2018
An Inside View of Stutern — The early beginnings till now

An Inside View of Stutern — The early beginnings till now

A self-reflective piece usually comes at the height of success or a terrible low. This story doesn’t fit into either situation. Rather…
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Kehinde Ayanleye
Apr 3, 2018
Stutern Graduate Accelerator: How we reached a 90% employment rate

Stutern Graduate Accelerator: How we reached a 90% employment rate

“I had been out of a job for six months and wasn’t doing much with my time. It was a period of heavy brooding and introspection and I had…
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Kehinde Ayanleye
Feb 7, 2018
What is the Nigeria Internship Fair?

What is the Nigeria Internship Fair?

It is a significant fact that far more must be done to equip youths with relevant skills before they can be let into the employment pool…
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Kehinde Ayanleye
Jul 31, 2017
Recap: Stutern leadership and work ethic session

Recap: Stutern leadership and work ethic session

stutern is a startup in Nigeria that aims to help students find internship opportunities, and also help students and fresh graduates gain…
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Chucho Onwumelu
Jun 13, 2017
Design Journey of The Nigerian Graduate Report

Design Journey of The Nigerian Graduate Report

I have had this article on my to-do list for almost a month and recently decided to fight the ingrained need to procrastinate and complete…
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Winifred Yachiga Amase
Jun 9, 2017
Stutern Releases First Nigerian Graduate Report

Stutern Releases First Nigerian Graduate Report

Stutern’s goal has always been to power workplaces with the best talents the country can offer. One of the ways we aim to achieve this is…
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Taiwo Ayanleye
May 3, 2017
The Fred Donga Series produced by Stutern

The Fred Donga Series produced by Stutern

As a follow-up from Taiwo Ayanleye’s article on Stutern’s 2016 year in review. I decided to focus on an area which he referenced:
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Benjamin Dada, MSc.
Apr 2, 2017
The meaning of Jobpalava

The meaning of Jobpalava

Exactly 1 week ago, we all saw some social media rants about interns not being treated well by their employers. Don’t worry, I won’t relay…
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Taiwo Ayanleye
Feb 23, 2017
How BDD saved us from a pitfall

How BDD saved us from a pitfall

In November 2016, the Stutern team set out to ameliorate the Stutern application as mentioned indistinctly in this post, which if you…
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Joseph Rex
Feb 19, 2017
Stutern: An inside story of how we did in 2016

Stutern: An inside story of how we did in 2016

2016 started before 2016, we spent the Christmas of 2015 sending emails, making phone calls and setting up meetings, all in a bid to ensure…
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Taiwo Ayanleye
Jan 8, 2017
Welcome to Lagos Tech Tour

Welcome to Lagos Tech Tour

2 years ago, my cofounder and I attended a Tech Tour in Europe and at the end of the tour we had discovered Google Campus that would…
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Taiwo Ayanleye
Nov 16, 2016

First Internship Fair in Africa

Few hours ago, we got a phone call and a twitter mention. Listen up, these were not the normal call nor mention we usually get, these were…
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Kehinde Ayanleye
Oct 14, 2016
How do you track difficult metrics?

How do you track difficult metrics?

Meet Parklins
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Taiwo Ayanleye
Oct 6, 2016

Value in whitespaces

This is going to be short. What are white spaces in business, they are useful spaces that are currently ignored or unexplored. Simple! In…
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Sheriff Shittu O.
Oct 4, 2016
HURRY!!! The Nigeria Internship Fair is only 3 days away

HURRY!!! The Nigeria Internship Fair is only 3 days away

Over the past few months, we have driven awareness for our upcoming Internship Fair — 1st of its kind in Nigeria (Data source needed). As…
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Benjamin Dada, MSc.
Sep 28, 2016
Africa’s largest internship Fair — October 4, 2016

Africa’s largest internship Fair — October 4, 2016

“Nigeria’s unemployment rate RISES to 10.4 percent” — National Bureau of Statistics, March 2016.
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Benjamin Dada, MSc.
Aug 22, 2016
How to use Stutern to find an Internship?

How to use Stutern to find an Internship?

A similar post first appeared on our blog. Here: blog.stutern.com
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Benjamin Dada, MSc.
Jul 25, 2016

Be like Ståle

We call him Stutern Hero
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Benjamin Dada, MSc.
Jul 12, 2016
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