synergycom19:
Add Bill gates and many others to the list
God doesn't usually bless EDUCATED people because they are too often PROUD and claim stupid wisdom

it will be case of moronic folly for me to start educating you...

iamsegsy: why not give us millions of successful people who went to school and get dis crap outta here...... dis are d kinda things that discourages youth from studying hard.... they all wanna be lyk wizkid,davido....it might work for them but not for all

u should encourage us not discourage us...

We rather have youths be like Davido , Wizkid and rest than wanting to be like Boko Haram boys

iamsegsy: why not give us millions of successful people who went to school and get dis crap outta here...... dis are d kinda things that discourages youth from studying hard.... they all wanna be lyk wizkid,davido....it might work for them but not for all

u should encourage us not discourage us...

You're not a kid bro...you know whats good for you.

All the op is trying to say is that if you didn't go to school doesn't mean all hope is lost.

Did u calculate the odd,8 people out of how many millions of Nigerians?

OK...so make we drop out of school now..

imoleay0:
Why is anybody not mentioning the name of King Sunny Ade?

you done that

with the rate of unemployment in this country,at least hundreds of this kind of post should make front page

searay: Op you dey jealous abi? What do you mean by being succesful?
Having Money is not what I call being successful

Are you poor?

NwaAnambra: Arthur Eze, G.U.O, Bishop Okonkwo, Sir Emeka Offor, Chikason, Seaman, Fenabros limited and so on

Capital oil nko?

donroxy: Don't mind them fools Okrika sellers and Ghana pam-sanders importers will soon spam this thread with :

''education is over-rated''

is it not?
you again?
lol

BOB IZUA

8 Successful Nigerians who went to school:
Aliko Dangote: Africa's richest Man worth an estimated 25 billion USD, ranked 23rd richest Man in the whole wide world is a graduate of Business from Al-Ahzar university Cairo.
JIM OVIA- the godfather of Nigeria banking sector with a personal net worth of 900 million USD, the owner of Africa's second largest financial service provider with according to market capitalisation and assets base of 4.2 Billion US dollars, a Mobile telecommunications network provider with over 2.5 million subscribers holds a B.sc in business administration from southern university Louisiana, a masters degree in business administration from southern university Louisiana and is an alumnus of Harvard school of Business.
Mike Adenuga Jr- We've all heard of the telecommunications network Globacom, we've used it before or know someone who has used it.(most of us are even using it to read this tread now lol). it's the largest indigenous telecommunications company in Nigeria. He also owns a oil company(Con Oil) and a bank. The owner of this telecoms giant and these other great establishments is a graduate of northwestern university Oklahoma and pace university New York graduating with degrees in business administration
2face Idibia- Affectionately called 2baba by his teeming fans, a man you just can't hate, a winner of soo many awards(this thread no fit hold all of them) the first Nigerian to appear in Billboard's magazine top selling albums, and is undoubtedly Nigeria's greatest entertainment export of this century holds an OND from institute of management technology Enugu.
Do I need to say more? Success is about grace but education helps increase your chances of being successful. HAPPY NEW MONTH AND INDEPENDENCE DAY

i thought they said Dangote no go school na

If you have a B.Sc without good social skills, you may end up poor.

If you have School cert with good social skills, you might make something out of life.

So being successful (making money) is not a solely dependent on university degree bt determination and creativity.

rattlesnake: But somebody else who went to university on their behalf was behind their success......

Don jazzy cant make music without some software developer
Coscharis cant sell cars without the engineers who made the cars
Famfa oil cant do business without the oil engineers
Mercy Johnson cant have Big braests without Dr 90210

etc etc etc

I will rather go to school

Are you richer than them With your education and what have you been able to invent

stigman:

Are you richer than them With your education and what have you been able to invent

Hishuula: na only people wey no go university u dey post..... post some university graduates who are really going tru what is called suffering & hardship ,I'm talking of people whose neck re now longer than the ruler they used at the university,their I.d card should be their unshaved mustache

4 year universities, IMO, are some of the biggest educational scams the world over, wasting the young and agile years of youths in exchange for tuition money and learning concepts that will likely not apply to the student's life. The worst off are those cretins in the US and UK who pay exorbitant fees (up to $60k a year) to meet artificially constructed social standards.

No one needs 4 years of generalist, repetitive education to make it in life. Many of the concepts taught at university (even those in the hard sciences) can easily be appended to the secondary school curriculum... students at the senior secondary school stage of life are already aware of their natural abilities and will be capable of handling a college level workload in their desired course of study.

An efficient education standard would be increasing the number of secondary school years from 6 to 7 or 8 years. The latter 3 years in this system can be dedicated to classes that are attuned to a student's choice of study.

After which, they would be well equipped to make it in the workplace, or in specialized graduate schools if they are interested in research (arts, engineering, sciences, etc).

Less educational expenditure for the government and people, and more time for individuals to actually live life.

Hmm. This one u guys have not called 2baba what happend? Has he started evening school? .. *singing* if nobody talks about u then u are nobody....

One of the major reasons why we are here on earth is to be successful. Although success has different meaning to different people, but it should be emphasized that attending university or not is not a prerequisite to being successful in life. It is not even determine by maybe you attend school or not. 'Attending' and 'not attendin' are just two paths to two ends (success and no-success). Some attended and are today successful, while some who attended are no where to be found. The same applies to those who did not attend. So, if you attend, it is either you are successful or not, and if you dont attend, it is either you are successful or not. To be successful in life has nothing to do with attending or not but to be favoured by God to receive a special grace - grace that surpasses all grace. That is when one will be successful in life. The race does not belong to the swift neither does the fight belong to the strong... Only the Grace of God can make one successful in life. Forget about maybe you have certificate or not, forget about your background, forget about your grade in school. If you will be successful in life, you will surely be successful. By the way, be educated. You dont get Education only in school. Education is everywhere. My prayer is that God in his infinite mercy will direct and favour me in everything in this life. AMEN

Slonge2: my grandpa, pa Longe of ikorodu, lagos state. He was one of the foremost building technicians in lagos, although he had no formal education. He ensured that his children got the best education money could buy in Nigeria and to whatever level they desired. At his death, he left behind a succesful bunch of chidren. we miss you grandpa RIP

huh?

Slonge2: my grandpa, pa Longe of ikorodu, lagos state. He was one of the foremost building technicians in lagos, although he had no formal education. He ensured that his children got the best education money could buy in Nigeria and to whatever level they desired. At his death, he left behind a succesful bunch of chidren. we miss you grandpa RIP

huh?

okeyscrib: Orji Uzo Kalu did not finish University?? How the hell did he become governor?

He finished in abia state university in his first term as a governor, u must not go to university to become governor in naija

searay: Op you dey jealous abi? What do you mean by being succesful?
Having Money is not what I call being successful

then what is being successfull ? Thomas

searay: Op you dey jealous abi? What do you mean by being succesful?
Having Money is not what I call being successful

then what is being succesful?

they are rare but I hate it when uneducated folks takes it on their educated counter parts

you hear speech like
certificate is a mere paper

the society care for only what u can over
^^^^^ yet most companies will state education qualification for its job seekers





bonus: if u didn't have the opportunity to be educated make sure or children do .

bigiyaro: Nice one op. The earlier Nigerians discover that attending University or tertiary institutions does not guarantee success or wealth the better our country will become.

Not so fast, bros. If a list of those succesful ones who did go to university is compiled in comparison, na you go come keep quiet o.

bigiyaro: Nice one op. The earlier Nigerians discover that attending University or tertiary institutions does not guarantee success or wealth the better our country will become.

Not so fast, bros. If a list of those successful ones who did go to university is compiled in comparison, na you go come keep quiet o because dem go reach hundreds of thousands.

donstevico: its a choice.you have to live life with the mentality that whether you go to school or not you will be successful. success does not come through schooling.

in addition, success is not in the
institution, but in the individual, success is a choice.

@ op: so Mercy Johnson is successful? U fall my hand ......deserve some koboko

I love this.

But we should understand fews things here

Education begets enlightenment, exposure and knowledge which every Great man possesses however Nigerians today think Western education is the only sort of education, we don't teach our kids African values, our history, our culture, language.
we don't let our kids develop independently and discover themselves we force our opinions on them and lock away their true potential
Every mother and father wants PhD children in medicine, engineering, law

Going to school, sitting in class and passing exams doesn't make your future bright...it's your life style- that is ur approach to life which is built by hard work and intelligence...you don't get this from university
Although you night need it to make it out of university

bolukaz: 8 succesful people alone? Why not take a short trip around your hood and observe scores of uneducated people living 'just' around the poverty line, these people just happened to get a 1-in-a-million chance of making it big in an education-driven society

absolutely right

missberrypop5: hmmm, that they didn't go to the university doesn't mean that they're illiterates. Illiterates don't even know the route to school talk of school itself. At least, most of them finished collage, they are educated enough. So pls, know the difference between Illiterates and educated people.

this username though how are u?