By TONY NWANKWO
Dr. Jummai Umar-Ajijola  worked with the United Nations (UN), Actionaid and Microsoft. But today, she says she has found fulfillment, above all else, as a multi level marketer of Forever Living Products. As a guest speaker at the Forever Living Products Success Showcase, held recently in Abuja, Dr. Umar-Ajijola said that as an FLP network marketer, she has been freed from financial bondage.

“As a Muslim, I recognise the special powers of honey in Islamic teachings, together with its healing abilities. So such products like the Forever Bee Honey, Jojoba shampoo, Aloe Vera Gel, A-Beta Care, etc. are natural products that have encouraged me to participate and grow in the business”, she said.

She was speaking at the second edition of the FLP Nigeria series of 2012 Success Showcase held at the Shabak Centre in Uthako District, Abuja, on February 18. 2012. The event drew a large gathering of young and middle aged people who were attracted by the success of the modern method of distributing goods and services, known as multi-level marketing.

34 years ago, the founder of Forever Living Products, Rex Maughan, had believed that to distribute the company’s wellness and beauty products, it needed an ingenious method which not only made the products available to consumers but gave those in the chain of its distribution network money in their pockets.

Among the list of major distributors in Nigeria, are nearly 100 young Nigerian millionaires who, today, symbolize the fortunes of the company.

Speaking at the occasion, company managing director, Nigeria/Benin Republic, Mr. Cornelius Tay, said the new outreach programme of the company through a monthly event across the country is aimed at recognizing excellence in the business of distribution of FLP  healthcare and beauty products; and to teach people new ways of doing the “ home based family business” more successfully.

He revealed that the first edition of the Success Showcase in 2012 held in Lagos, late last month, attracted over 1,480 participants, many of whom testified that the FLP business opportunity enhanced their physical and financial well being in 2011.

“Coming to Abuja, therefore, is simply to give Abuja distributors an insight into the new business year which promises to be even greater and more rewarding for all our diligent distributors”, Tay said, adding, “One of such indicators is the growing population of FLP network marketers which has risen to over 250,000 in Nigeria and projected to reach 15 million worldwide”.

Tay also said the attraction to the business is because of the ability of the company to make available a range of natural health care and beauty products which help to promote healthy living and fight poverty by ensuring that everybody, within the network -receives a reward for using the products, organising a sales force to retail the products to non-distributors and for recruiting people into their team.

Providing further tips to success in FLP multi level marketing business, Tay urged the audience to adopt the sequence of positive thinking, careful planning, strategizing, preparation and finally the determination to do all it takes to succeed in their FLP business.

For the over one thousand FLP distributors and guests who besieged the Abuja event, the attraction was to see those who were moving up in the FLP marketing plan and hear their powerful testimonies of success in multi level marketing. FLP Distributors came all the way from Calabar, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, Kaduna and Onitsha. Add these to the Abuja audience, and you have a full mix of Nigerians in the Federal Capital city. Overall, the FLP Abuja event to showcase success and accomplishment was fun and filled with expectations..