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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by francizy(m): 10:57am On Nov 25, 2015
menix:
Number one on that list should be machine operators in a Lebanese factory..

You wrote my mind bro! Thought I was gonna see this one on the list but didn't. Those guys get amputated or killed at will and worst is some of them work for probably #50 per hour or less. When their worker gets amputated by their machine, the worker gets dismissed without pension or any special medical care package...

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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Nobody: 10:57am On Nov 25, 2015
Nwanne mmadu,kedu ifem me? Ngwa bia k'anyi kpa n'igwe.

francizy:


Peppy nwanne'm oh! Na wa to you oh! sad
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by onasa28(m): 10:59am On Nov 25, 2015
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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Nobody: 10:59am On Nov 25, 2015
better than being a beggar... undecided
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by TheeReaper(m): 10:59am On Nov 25, 2015
ylaa:
is arm robbery a job? instead of adding dispatch riders you say arm robbery. may God help you.
learn to read and understand bro.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by chubbygal(f): 11:00am On Nov 25, 2015
lasisi69:
End time jobs

You don buy data bundle finally? Because for like one week now you no show your talent online tongue " end time pikin"
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by macaranta(m): 11:01am On Nov 25, 2015
Brothers gat to get paid.
(Except armed robbery)


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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by francizy(m): 11:01am On Nov 25, 2015
peppyluv02:
Nwanne mmadu,kedu ifem me? Ngwa bia k'anyi kpa n'igwe.


Nsogbu adiro, nga akpo gi na ekwe nti ma nmecha. Kita, anum na ebe mu enwero ike ikponwu nmadu
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by ylaa(f): 11:01am On Nov 25, 2015
come n teach me sis grin grin
TheeReaper:

learn to read and understand bro.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Nobody: 11:02am On Nov 25, 2015
BrightEye:


which skill do u have, to fit to no. 1 that's available for u?

I can't swim.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by marquis31(m): 11:03am On Nov 25, 2015
http://daynightincome.com/?user=2250 . for ur cool money without stress check the addres. real no scam
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Nobody: 11:03am On Nov 25, 2015
Segadem:
even if it is no 3?

Anything legit. Can you help?
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by seangy4konji: 11:17am On Nov 25, 2015
If you did my mention jay working or job searching as a job in Nigeria. Then you are wrong.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by FRANKOXY(m): 11:18am On Nov 25, 2015
FILLING STATION MANAGEMENT. YOU ARE THE TARGET OF BOTH FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. GOSH!
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by ihedioramma: 11:20am On Nov 25, 2015
@OP any thing in this world is dangerouce . do you know driver is a dangerouce business? what of condoctor? what of bank workers? what of teacher? what of okada? what of people that sell foods? what of pastors? e.t.c what is there is that you have to becareful in any one you are into or you want to go into but remember you are going to die one day .
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by vislabraye(m): 11:20am On Nov 25, 2015
Lennycool:



http://naijaaid..co.id/2015/11/9-most-dangerous-jobs-in-nigeria.html?m=0

You forgot to mention rig workers. They go to their location with a chopper. The chopper could fail and land in water.
On the rig, you arr exposed to a lot of hazards. Worse case scenario, an explosion can occur.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Ijaya123: 11:22am On Nov 25, 2015
OP, Armed Robbeey and Oil Vandals are no job. They are crimes.

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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by seangy4konji: 11:23am On Nov 25, 2015
If you did my mention jaywalking or job searching as a job in Nigeria. Then you are wrong.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Fabolous75: 11:24am On Nov 25, 2015
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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Coldfeets: 11:25am On Nov 25, 2015
I don't care what the merriam-webster dictionary says or not, abeg just remove that armed robbery and oil vandals from that list okay? Those things can never pass off as a job in any sane society.

In fact, I consider it a very grave insult for such things to be listed amongst other noble professions where men and women are legitimately working the âss off just to earn their daily living.

If you are looking for some really dirty occupation that can still pass off as a dangerous job or profession to complete your list, then try listing prostitution, okay?

Thank you.

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Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by jayriginal: 11:35am On Nov 25, 2015
Lennycool:

Although most people would joke that just living in Nigeria, was a dangerous job on its own ( they would be right ), in fact the only reason it’s not on this list is because we aren't paid, between the crime rate, terrorism
and decayed infrastructure, the fact that your actually alive to reading this right now means you're tougher than Rambo, but believe it or not there are Nigerians who have it much worse than you do, people who have to dance with death every time they go to work, so take a look at 9 of the most dangerous jobs in Nigeria.


9. Electrician

OK so most of you are surprised at this, but if you had really thought about it, you would have realized that being an electrician in Nigeria is no picnic, especially for those that work for power distribution companies, carrying their heavy wooden ladders in the hot sun, going to potentially hostile places to disconnect the electricity of potentially hostile people ( and you can guess they won't be happy about that ), we have had reports about electricians being beaten by locals and in one case flogged by a state governor because the electricity went out when his birthday was going on ( really it happened ), its like there not just electricians anymore but the power holding company itself, people blame them for everything. The danger doesn't end there folks, because even if by some miracle your not one day beaten by locals, there's still the problem of electrocutions from faulty wiring even electricians that don't work in private homes gets electrocuted, because either the owner of the house was too cheap to hire a proper electrician when he was building the house and instead did it himself or he hired a fake and only now when everything's gone to ruin does he call far from the case hire a proper electrician to risk his life and fix it.


8. Construction worker

You've seen construction workers in other countries before, fully clothed people, with hard yellow helmets for protection ( like in the picture above ), but if you’re in Nigeria you've got to know that's far from the case here.
They work on buildings sometimes more than five stories high, with no protection whatsoever (because boxers don't count) with most times the only support being long bamboo sticks, and with no health insurance, it would only take a misplaced foot on the bamboo to send them to their deaths, even if there on the ground the possibility of something falling on them is high, so of course it's dangerous.


7. Petrol tanker driver

We've all seen or heard about tanker related accidents and its never pretty, the damages are usually gruesome and fatalities high. Driving a normal vehicle through most Nigerian roads ( which seem to have more portholes than road ) is difficult enough, but driving a really large vehicle, filled with inflammable liquid is just playing with danger, all it takes is just one wrong turn, a big enough pothole or even a crazy driver and your dead, tanker drivers face the risk of agonizing death if burnt by fire or a quick one from impact alone .


6. Telecommunication mast

The danger in this one is pretty easy to see isn't it, all you have to do is look at your nearest mast, you see how tall it is, well its built by people and when it malfunctions, which it will every now and then someone has to repair it, that's where these engineers come in to fix these tall scary steel structures, most of them more than 40 feet high, the good news is at least the ones I’ve seen are equipped for the job, but still at those heights anything can happen.



5. Armed forces

This Covers the air force, navy and army, so basically people who are allowed to wield weapons and shoot people, with such privileges I.e. the guns, it begs the question how are these groups of people in danger, to answer that I would advise you to look around. We've got terrorist in the north bombing and killing people and had militants in the south killing and kidnapping people, and even though they face more danger than say the electrician, their paid almost the same if not less. I'm not even sure they have health insurance, and if they eventually die the family is hardly compensated, think about it the government hardly pays its living workers, you think their families are going to get compensated if they die, no wonder they are always so angry.

4. Police

I was kind of conflicted on whether to put this before or after armed forces, but then decided on after, because whatever soldiers were facing, the police were facing it too, for example soldiers are killed by boko haram terrorist, so are police officers, you know when they raid police stations to bust their peeps out if prison, and whereas the soldiers font have to deal with everyday problems like kidnappers, armed robbers or just crazy Nigerians, the police has to deal with that and still get killed by terrorists ( now does that seem fair ) all on top a bad paycheck and no insurance or compensation.


3. Armed robbers

I know most of you are probably asking yourselves " is armed robbery really a job ", well yes it is, sort of, but don’t just take my word for it according to www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/job, a job is work that a person does regularly in order to earn money ( so as long as they rob regularly we're good ), thank you Merriam, now that I have been vindicated and you're probably nodding in understanding, let's continue.

OK we've already cleared up the fact that armed robbery is indeed a job, so what makes it so dangerous? You ask, where should I start, oh I know “you ", not just you but everyone in Nigeria. Nigerians hate giving people things, especially money because we have so little of it, we even hate paying taxes because we don't want to give the government our money, and then here comes a group of armed individuals coming to take your stuff or worst, cash, and of course you can't do anything about it because they have guns, so in that moment you swallow your resistance and pain, so as not to get shot. Then a few weeks after getting robbed, you see were a group of people just caught a robber, right then you remember your new laptop that was stolen and suddenly it becomes personal. We've had incidences of robbers being beaten, maimed and burnt in Nigeria and though its very wrong, you can see where the hate stems from, but even if they weren't burnt to death by an angry mob, the law isn't much better, since the Nigerian police normally just shoots to kill, if you're a robber ( and they don't say freeze ), and if they don't kill you, you end up on in a holding cell till trial, which is almost worst than death, and when you do eventually get trialed, you risk spending 14 years in jail, life in prison or death if you killed someone, so next time you get robbed at gun point, just smile cause you know what's coming to them. Robbers ate hated and killed by both the police and people, yet its only number 3 so what job is worst ?



2. Oil vandal

This applies under the same job definition as armed robbery, Nigeria's special in this case as its one of the only country, whose citizens steel oil, it goes to show you how bad things are that people would steal their own resource. Though for some, the venture is extremely profitable, it is far from safe, besides the risk of getting burnt to death in the very likely chance that something goes wrong and an explosion happens, in which case they would probably suffer an agonizing death, there's also the fact the federal government has been on a war path with these vandals for several years now, security forces as well as local vigilante groups have been tasked with catching them ( and they don't play nice ), oil vandals risked the chance of getting burnt, shot or prison time ( yep pretty dangerous ), yet its not number 1 so what job is more dangerous than everything one the list



1. Manual river sand extractor

I actually learnt of this on an episode of don't tell my mother on discovery channel, when they came to Lagos and one of the places the guy visited was a river sand extracting site, for those of you who don't know what a manual river sand extractor does, let me enlighten you, they carry empty buckets to the floor bed of a river, fill it up with sand and carry it back up to the surface, pretty easy right, NOT, no part of that is easy or safe, first of all these rivers are very deep any inexperienced diver would drown in minutes, plus its a Nigerian river for crying out loud talk about murky, you wouldn't be able to see two feet in front of you, and did I forget to mention that the guy had no equipment whatsoever not even goggles, the only thing he was with, was the pocket and boxer shorts ( what's with manual workers and boxers in Nigeria ), this guys risk getting wounded or killed by sunken scrap metal or by dangerous aquatic life.


As you can imagine in jobs like this with ever present danger anything can go wrong and only the need for money and the decision to not be unemployed is the only reason these guys having quit, so do you still think you have a bad job bad.


http://naijaaid..co.id/2015/11/9-most-dangerous-jobs-in-nigeria.html?m=0

OP, telecommunication mast is not a job (no 6).

Armed robbery and oil vandalism are not jobs either (no 3 and no 2). If you define jobs as "work that a person does regularly in order to earn money", then robbery and oil vandalism would not apply as the money is NOT earned.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Afritop(m): 11:36am On Nov 25, 2015
what happened to agbero, bus coductor, street trading. Those kinds of jobs are danger list
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Sunseeker: 11:41am On Nov 25, 2015
Palm wine Tapper.
Police man
Pilot
Nurse
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by stevLegend: 11:47am On Nov 25, 2015
Armed Robbery is not a job. Some ppl go into it due to d lack of jobs in d country. (Even d menial ones)
While others venture into it due to d laziness in dem to struggle.

& secondly, Police is registered as part of the 'Armed Forces, therefore, shouldn't have been listed separately.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by EmekaBlue(m): 11:53am On Nov 25, 2015
Nairabetters
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by delors(m): 11:58am On Nov 25, 2015
So Armed Robbery and Oil Vandal don become jobs in your your world? Because money is involved? Abeg which course person fit study in order to be an ogbonge armed robber, and for which school?

Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by alaskido(m): 12:03pm On Nov 25, 2015
ARMED ROBBERY NO BE JOB O.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by Blackfire(m): 12:04pm On Nov 25, 2015
chubbygal:


You don buy data bundle finally? Because for like one week now you no show your talent online tongue " end time pikin"


chubbygal u owe me a cuddle, i think.


Uwa mmebi+ opin aye.
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by timmyblast(m): 12:10pm On Nov 25, 2015
Lennycool:



http://naijaaid..co.id/2015/11/9-most-dangerous-jobs-in-nigeria.html?m=0
if u say arm robbery, why didn't u add prostitution n yahoo
Re: 9 Most Dangerous Jobs In Nigeria by ministeriallist: 12:13pm On Nov 25, 2015
lasisi69:
End time jobs
end time comment

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