JAkpayen:
Feraz you earn my respect. But this mentality actually start from the school where we are taught to get good grades (even by crooked means except few schools), get our dream job, and live the good life. @OP, for the country to achieve what you stated then we must individually make self-sacrifice and avoid only-me attitude.

tooltip:
Like kickstarter, right?, i endorse having creative competitions for students than beauty pageant events

Cutehector4u:
Who is this human being dats sayn dat oil and gas engineers sit down in d office doin nohin and at the end of the day they will collect 1.2million naira... R u crazy?

You should be in your late 20s or early 30s yet you don't behave like one

If you want to defend your 1.2 mill do so but you don't to be aggressive

Feraz:
Of course, needs differ. . . In terms of technological needs, I'd go foreign because we're still not at that stage but in terms of basic needs like clothes, shoes etc., I'd go Nigerian. How is the above related to this topic BTW?

Cutehector4u:
Who is this human being dats sayn dat oil and gas engineers sit down in d office doin nohin and at the end of the day they will collect 1.2million naira... R u crazy?

Suley316:



You should be in your late 20s or early 30s yet you don't behave like one

If you want to defend your 1.2 mill do so but you don't to be aggressive

naijababe:


I think you need t read the post again. No need getting so defensive

Cutehector4u:
Who is this human being dats sayn dat [b]oil and gas engineers sit down in d office doin nohin[b/] and at the end of the day they will collect 1.2million naira... R u crazy?

bushdoc9919:


And we can change that poor mentality by spending our oil money on rail , road and power infrastructure...and finally completing Ajaokuta...so that at least we can have the beginnings of an industrial society.

And while bad leaders play a big role in our mess...bad followers too are there as well.

Most of you educated Nigerians prefer to work in offices, rather than to devise innovative solutions to problems that directly influence you.

Like, for example...all those chemical engineers cannot develop a machine that would extract chemicals from waste/refuse...that could be used in industry and farming?

And all the argument over who gets the oil money...indeed you Nigerians are far too concerned about how to share oil money, or how to keep the Hausas from getting your oil money....that you refuse to invest in local industrial growth.

Because, local industrial growth's rewards are long term , not the short term thing that you Nigerians love. You want your reward here and now...you do not want to wait. You want to share the oil money now...you don't want to hear 'Long term planning'.You want to build your mansion now., ranter than twenty years later. And you people protect corrupt leaders for the price of a few notes of oil money.

Me, I think it is high time we made our governors and LGA chairmen and even the Federal Govt invest more in power, education(especially technical education) and the supporting infrastructure needed to develop a strong industrial base. And a lot of the funding can be got by removing that thing called fuel subsidy.

That is why oil is a curse. It stifles local development. Why make cars....when you can import them with oil money?

naijababe:


I think you need t read the post again. No need getting so defensive

Cutehector4u:
Who is this human being dats sayn dat oil and gas engineers sit down in d office doin nohin and at the end of the day they will collect 1.2million naira... R u crazy?

iCool:

lool, I understand your anger but it wasn't necessary.

I just viewed the post from the angle of a Drilling engineer, only the high blood pressure associated with delivering a well successfully warrants him requesting for a 5m monthly salary.

Feraz:
Thank you oh!
1. The amount there is just an assumption and not a fact.
2. That is the mentality some undergraduates have.
3. I appealed and said 'if there's anything I am ignorant about in the above write-up, please, do correct me as I am still acquiring knowledge'.

Cutehector4u:
feraz ur write up was too too lenghty and i ddnt get to finish it okk,.i only stopd at the point whr u wrote that we sit down in the office doin nothing and we get fat salaries.... I pray u dnt get to work in the field in an oil and gas industry....cuz people get to loose thr lives tooo...due to accidents...its not a jokin matter..

Feraz:
That's where the misunderstanding came in. Guess it's been cleared. And oh, I have no experience as you said. I'm still an undergraduate.

Suley316:


Not exactly, those could be programmes under the group activity.

let me give an example ok some one has an invention in mind. Others have ideas to better it, if a group like that existed they could work on it togetherbeing funded by their on pockets and sponsorship form tech coys.

Like you could even send your selves on courses to increase your knowledge.

Then what you said,

That could be during training week to help younger ones in that areas, or to discover new concepts.

You should get me

freshjayy:
First the regulatory bodies of engineering in Nigeria is a waste especially the so called NSE that does not know more dan collecting money from Nigerians and forgetting why they were created in the first place.
Secondly am an engineer in the power sector and I must say government no try, no motivation, no training, poor salary. I schooled in the UK and I know how very attractive the Power jobs are. The government is only paying attention to oil and one day that oil go finish and we would see what next.
We need a government for the future that can harness the potentials of very bright Nigerians not dem PDP that are enriching demselves

2sexi:
eleyi gidi gan o. Are you serious?

Cutehector4u:
my apologies.....what course r u studyn?

Feraz:
I asked her to provide a link from where I copied it from and she is yet to do so.
Mechanical Engineering. . . .

tooltip:
yea i understand you bro, the two go hand in hand, a platform for creatives can network and a crowdfunding platform, to help with financing...so when are you doing something about this

baggylips:
pls start by leaving this country or ur dream will die with you.If you doubt me visit National biotechnology development agency(NABDA) at lugbe,Abuja.

Cutehector4u:
oh goood,.. ,..make sure u come out with good grades ....

naijareferee:

But i have a few questions for you

1. |Did you finish from a school of technology or just a conventional engineering school?
2. If u did, have you ever taken time to go to the workshop archives of your school
3. what did you design or invent as your final year project
4. Do you think it is lack of innovation that push people into oil and gas
5. For the time you spent in school, has a government ever paid attention to your school final projects

N.B. A faculty mate created a fridge and an oven combo....they work inter-changeably using the just one power source, today it lies in the store of my schools workshop.

ezme:
@Feraz... Nice write up, arguments well thought through and should be the ideal picture for a forward thinking society.

I would like to advise you. There is a real world out there, outside UGBOWO, where people make ends meet and fulfill other personal goals. You are getting an education so you can provide. Above all things try to get your grades up (if they not up at the moment). You would understand when you finally get out of school. I don't see the structure you seek falling in place in another 5years, so brace yourself. You may join the bandwagon too, unless you find yourself outside the shores of this country.

Just to correct the notion, people in the oil and gas industry don't just sit in the office and get paid. Engineering project and project execution encompasses alot. The industry has both the operator end and the service end. There are design engineers, project engineers, interface engineers,etc. These ones make mental input to the engineering solution being provided. You don't have to do the dirty jobs all the time before you consider yourself an engineer.

P.S: The handy men are actually technicians

hopelink1:
not bad it's just that you didnt write much about chemical engineers

Mrkuvuki:


Our Banks are allergic to Tech and startups , they are more eager to give you loan for APC forms

A lot of folks are obsessed with the "plagiarise" word since the linda ikeji debacle, Ignore them and move on...Nice write up bro,I was educated

freshjayy:
First the regulatory bodies of engineering in Nigeria is a waste especially the so called NSE that does not know more dan collecting money from Nigerians and forgetting why they were created in the first place.
Secondly am an engineer in the power sector and I must say government no try, no motivation, no training, poor salary. I schooled in the UK and I know how very attractive the Power jobs are. The government is only paying attention to oil and one day that oil go finish and we would see what next.
We need a government for the future that can harness the potentials of very bright Nigerians not dem PDP that are enriching demselves

chizzy94:
Engineering is the only thing that gets my D'ck hard; no bo'bies, no as'es, no pink lips, no yoga pants. Just Engineering!
If there be another world, Lord knows I'mma stick with Engineering. Engineers make your dreams come through.
Good Lord, thank you for giving me the privilege, the second chance to live this dream.
If I die, I die a beautiful death .

naijababe:
@ bushdoc9919

Oil is not a curse...........it is our mentality, lack of true and selfless leaders that is a curse. If we didn't have oil, our case will be sorrier than it is. Nigeria will in fact be a mirror image of Haiti!!! Comparing a resource poor nations like Singapore and Finland is comparing apples and oranges.

Nigeria in many ways is like medieval Europe, humour me a bit and read some accounts of how people lived then compare with present day Nigeria, the similarities are so striking that is shameful to admit.

Cutehector4u:
Who is this human being dats sayn dat oil and gas engineers sit down in d office doin nohin and at the end of the day they will collect 1.2million naira... R u crazy?

safarigirl:
Oh, like the Nigerian government will have a level playing ground for you with your innovative ideas.

They'll just shove it all under their desks and tell you they'll look into it. This isn't about people not looking towards other aspects of engineering. When you do, they'll choke all your ideas until you're an empty shell

AjanleKoko:
It's a tough one.
Being an engineer myself, I can relate to the OP's feelings.

However . . . there is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are mentally and psychologically lazy, as well as greedy and lacking in personal conviction. So you can't single out the engineering profession.

That is not to say that there are many engineering graduates in Nigeria who desire an opportunity to practise, not necessarily for oil-and-gas type of pay. Since we're not building and making things in Nigeria, there are little options for such people. IT has been an outlet for the last decade and a half, and people have done well in Nigeria here.