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Whether registered or not, naija used na naija used

Using "automatic" to market a 406 is actually a demarketing.

Wetin be prado jeep? For Nairaland frontpage?

popp:
All these things you wrote here is nonsense.

We have Faculties and Departments where ICT, Science in computer, both in Engineering and many more are being taught in Nigerian Universities.

A thief is a thief.

not everyone can go back to write waec and jamb to enter university, but everyone can learn at a vocational school

I have said this before here with my lost moniker.

Let’s be honest, the so-called “Yahoo boys” are not just lazy youth chasing shortcuts. Many of them are brilliant minds with real digital skills, coding, design, marketing, hacking only misdirected by lack of structure, opportunity, and hope. What if the government could flip that energy into something productive?


1. Set Up Government-Backed Tech Hubs and Internet Cafés
Instead of banning them outright, create Innovation Cafés, modern internet centers equipped with fast Wi-Fi, coding tools, design software, and training resources. Each center could double as a learning lab where young people practice ethical hacking, app development, and digital entrepreneurship.

2. Partner With Tech Firms and Mentors
Invite tech companies, cybersecurity firms, and even former “hackers turned experts” to train these youths. Many of them already understand the digital underground, teach them to use those same skills to build protection systems, detect fraud, and develop apps.

3. Create Structured Incentives
Offer small grants or competitions for the best app idea, cybersecurity solution, or online business. Channel their hunger for quick rewards into constructive innovation.

4. Integrate into National Digital Policy
Make these programs part of Nigeria’s broader digital economy agenda. Train, certify, and then employ the reformed talents in government cybersecurity, fintech, or ICT departments.

5. Change the Narrative
Instead of treating them as criminals first, treat them as misguided potential. When you give people purpose, they’ll surprise you with what they can create.

If the Nigerian government builds spaces that nurture digital creativity, today’s Yahoo boy could become tomorrow’s cybersecurity expert, app developer, or tech entrepreneur. The raw energy is already there, it just needs the right channel.

Educationalserv:
Civil servant have devise survival way
They now go to work once or 2 time a week
They report by 10 am and leave by 2pm
They now add side business
Wife'now make income too days on depending on single income is gone
HMO for Hospital and health needs
Limited number of kids
Second hand clothing
The Civil service now is called side gigs not main source for Majority

no comma, no fullstop, no punctuation. I weak

diesel86:
Good use of Chatgpt 👍

is chatgpt the only Ai tool?

Linkai447:
I will delete sex, overrated stuff that society pushes forward

you may be in your 20's. Don't worry, when you get older, you will realize that sex is not just for pleasure.

Anambra wey get election next month no dey the list.

Here’s a plain-language summary of the article:

Foreign tech and finance companies are quietly making big money from Nigerians through airtime loans, small cash loans, and other mobile-based credit services. One example is a company called **Optasia**, which works with major phone networks like **MTN** to offer these services to millions of Nigerians.

The problem? Almost all the real profits, data, and technology are kept **outside Nigeria**. The companies run their servers abroad, pay little tax locally, and employ only a few Nigerians for basic roles. Meanwhile, Nigerian consumers provide the usage data, take on the credit risks, and pay the fees — but foreign investors get the rewards.

Even though Nigeria has laws that could prevent this (like data protection and tax rules), they’re not properly enforced. This means the country is **exporting digital wealth** while getting very little in return.

Other countries, like India and Indonesia, have already fixed this by forcing foreign companies to operate through **local subsidiaries**, process data **inside the country**, and share ownership with **local investors**.

The article argues that Nigeria should do the same. Regulators should:

* Make sure any company offering mobile credit is **licensed and based in Nigeria**.
* Require that **data from Nigerians stays in Nigeria**.
* Ensure foreign firms **pay taxes and invest locally**.
* Let **Nigerian investors share in the profits** when these firms go public abroad.

In short: Nigeria’s digital economy is growing fast, but the value is flowing out of the country. To stop being exploited, Nigeria must **set fair rules** so that the data, profits, and opportunities created by Nigerians also benefit Nigerians.

FarahAideed:
This too I can always disprove and I will ...this is one lie that has been over peddled

100% thruth. state workers now receive better salaries than federal workers

masterfactor:
The people that called LAGOS a no mans land was not even part of the Lagos right from inception. People from the south East has no history with people from the South West.

why is this simple English too hard for you to understand? Title of thread says "Lagos indigenes"

asfrank:
Not too late, submit your resignation letter tomorrow morning. Mouth no get bone

oga, I did that in August, our admin hid it and refused to submit it. As I am talking to you now, I have abandoned the work. No fuss.

seyenko:
FIRS means Federal Inland / Internal Revenue Service. How did you come up with the idea that they are not to generate revenue? The intrument of government worldwide to generate income for social and public services is thru taxation and revenue generation.

what or where are they generating revenue from?

SatoshiX:
What are you saying? So what is the meaning of the Revenue in FIRS?

I wonder why most people here failed to understand my point.

Now imagine Mr A is a marketing officer, he makes calls, pays transport, answers calls at midnight while other are sleeping, moves from one point to the other in oder to make money for his company. After making this huge sum of money, Mr. B comes from His office to collect a part of that money made by Mr. A. The higher the amount of money Mr. A makes, the haigher the portion Mr B takes.

At the end of the month, Mr. A who suffered to make this hug sum of money will be paid peanuts, while Mr. B who comes to collect the part that money is paid huge sum as salary.

Mr A is companies, firms while Mr b is FIRS. In honest terms, what actually did they do to deserve the kind of money they are paid as salary?

Owaincouncil:
Is there any government in any part of the world that doesn't collect tax.
Your argument should be tax reduction. There must always be atax to keep the system run

you do not understand my submission. What is the work of FIRS? What do they do?

Commentor:
My argument is clear.

Why should FIRS not have a target?

I'm sure you are aware that the US IRS and the UK's HMRC have targets

Let discuss with clear minds, we are not quarreling.

They are given targets to do what exactly? They are simply revenue COLLECTING not generating.

Why should they be this handsomely renumerated just for simply collecting taxes? Even other offices of the federal government that actual work tirelessly to make the money are not well paid.

Kanixt:
You want to work in firs? Send message

I am a Federal government worker. If given a chance to work under federal government again, I will reject it with everything in me.

Commentor:
What is this one saying?

You mean HRMC and IRS do not set targets?

Abi na only when e reach Nigeria, e no suppose be?

I do not understand your argument

FIRS is not supposed to be a revenue generating agency. What item do they produce? Other people will just suffer to make money, FIRS goes there and mops up the money and we hail them for making money and they are paid huge salaries just for going to offices and shops to tell them to pay tax.

Ayra Star is 1000 times better than Tems

Angelfrost:
From Ghana to Edo state...!

Una go just dey travel everywhere dey misbehave.

Na wa o!

was Hausa misbehaving when their own was also rejected?

Here’s the link to the article reporting that the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) rejected the planned installation of a Hausa community leader in Benin City, Edo State:

https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/04/19/traditional-council-kicks-against-planned-crowning-ceremony-in-edo/

LegendHero:
Because his lawyers are not opening his defense.

Kanu lawyers themselves are trying to evade justice

even when the same court had ruled on the matter and orderd his discharge in 2022?

LegendHero:
I agree with you. They suppose don sentence Kanu to detbyhging tey tey in a sane country.

so why has he not been found guilty and sentenced since 2017?

The t0ut is actually bigger than 1m. I saw him at computer village the other day sharing money and he shared more than 1m.

Beautiful!

Eleven more characters needed?

I can't even type "how much" on a thread where an item is being sold. Seun, it's a shame.

saphiere:
Confiscated say wetin? Please explain more.

they will come and carry it

Without mentioning the hospital, I already know the hospital. But I will wait till she tells her full story, then I will tell mine. It's a Teaching hospital.

FarahAideed:
Officers in the NSA office don't have what it takes to execute a coup..

You willl need the support of

Abuja Garrison

Brigade of guards


1 Div .

NSA boys don't have that kind of reach

and you think they are the only ones involved?

beerfraud:
na only Sowore dey protest?

you see your hypocrisy?

beerfraud:
So now that Peter Obi’s presidential dream has crashed and all opposition politicians are trooping to APC like it’s a rescue camp, IPOB people suddenly remember that Nnamdi Kanu is still in DSS custody

For years they dumped the “Free Kanu” struggle and turned everything into “Obi this, Obi that.” Now that reality has hit hard and 2027 looks like a closed door, they’ve gone back to shouting “Free Nnamdi Kanu.”

Truth is, Kanu didn’t just get detained yesterday — they only remembered him now because their political messiah has no path to Aso Rock again. Same old script, different season.

so Sowore is IPOB?

Celestialsword:
Is this your contribution

is it your own?