North in Nigeria’s Workforce: Priority determines motivation
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

In 2014/2015, a highly respected mentor offered me a fortuity to pursue a Master’s degree programme in United Kingdom.

The interesting part of this was that, the mentor did not just want me to pursue a master’s degree in UK; he wanted me to do it in the same institution he attended (University of Buckingham), where he emerged as the best graduating student in his class. He also wanted me to do the same course as him (Global Affairs) so I can possibly advance the reputation of Nigeria in that department.

According to him, he believed am luminous and effulgent enough to excel not only in that institution, but also in the course like he did and having Studied Peace and Conflict Resolution (PCR) in my first degree, I also thought that going for Global Affairs (G.A) as master’s degree concentration in a posh institution like The University of Buckingham isn’t a bad idea. Though, I had my reservation about working or studying abroad.

My mentor wasn’t joking about this, he wanted to single handedly sponsor the entire program and every cost associated with it.

He gave me the institutions website, asked me to send in my application immediately because the admission period is almost elapsing and in the portion that asked about the sponsor, he asked me to put his name.

Before that period, I am one of those who don’t really fancy studying abroad. Apart from when I was in secondary school (Ilorin Grammar School), I have never seen myself going abroad for studies or work. However, having such a mentor who is ready to sponsor your foreign education is too tempting an offer to reject or even question. So I applied at the die minute.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I was informed that the application period had expired before I submitted mine and i had to wait till 6 months’ time to reactivate my application, if i am still interested in the admission.

To make matter worse, they also informed me that they will no longer be offering Global Affairs as course, that it has been replaced with one other course like that, I think ‘’Security and Diplomacy’’. Right there, I made up my mind to do away with the idea of traveling abroad for study. After all, it wasn’t my idea in the first place.

A day after that notification, precisely on 21st January 2015, I reapplied to National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) for Masters Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution (PCR).

At the time, a friend had asked me how easy it was for me to move from almost securing admission to travel to UK to suddenly enrolling in NOUN almost immediately; I guess the perspective of Gimba Kakanda on the conversation started by Adamu Tilde answers this question.

Few days ago, a thought provoking piece, concerning the sharp difference between the North and South in the workforce of the country, particularly in the private sector by Adamu Tilde sparked an interesting conversation online. In the publication made on his wall without a title, Adamu Tilde narrated a conversation he had with a mentor, who happens to be a former National Economic Adviser.

According to Adamu’s mentor, ‘’the combined workforce of the major oil companies around amount to roughly ten thousand staff, of which 70% are Yorubas with an average income of fifty million/annum’’. The use of the term Yoruba in Adamu’s piece doesn’t factor in the Yoruba’s in the North central who are also part of this generalization.

Adamu’s mentor had argued that, intellectual laziness of the north is responsible for this disparity and what he described as ‘’our penchant for easy money and rent seeking’’.
However, many did not agree with this perspective.
In adding a twist to the conversation from an insider’s point of view, Suraj Tunji Oyewale listed 4 points he believes to be responsible for the situation and those points include Limited ambition, Limited information, Over selectivity and Lack of hustling spirit.

Suraj clarified that, he doesn’t believe intellectual laziness played any role in this matter. ‘’This is why I really don’t believe an average graduate of southern origin is smarter than a compatriot from the north. The difference is just limited information, ambition and spirit’’ he concluded.

Yesterday, Gimba Kakanda joined the conversation with another perspective that greatly appeals to me. Gimba’s perspective appealed to me because I could personally connect with some of the points he raised.

The question my friend had asked me after my UK application, about how easy it was for me to move from almost securing admission in UK to enrolling in Nigeria can simply be explained by that ‘’sentimental attachment’’. I have become someone who is sentimentally attached to Nigeria and having missed the deadline of my UK admission, I easily switched back to my area of sentiment.

Even though I could have waited for 6 months to re-apply and head for UK, I didn’t think it was worthy to be waiting to apply to a foreign institution, when I could easily secure an admission in Nigeria and considering the fact the course I find attractive has been replaced, there was no motivation to make UK my priority.

After some months, when I eventually told my mentor that I am already running an Msc in Open University, he understood me and wished me luck. Although, I am yet to graduate from this same NOUN since 2015 because I and a colleague were unlawfully expelled in November 2015 for exercising our right to free association and leading the formation of a student association (Congress of NOUN Students), but the matter have been in court ever since and I believe that no matter how long it takes, justice shall be served.

The point I am trying to make here is that, motivation determines priority. While some people , in the process of seeking wealth, recognition and prestige could go anywhere they can get it, irrespective of what they are leaving behind, others on the other hand can only pursue their quest for wealth and achievement, not at the detriment of other things they hold dear.

This is not just about the North, i think it is more about the total life experience of every individual, which include culture, tradition, motivation and priority.

https://mrrightsng..com/2018/12/north-in-nigerias-workforce-priority.html?m=1

The person below me will read and comment on my behalf.

Are you working or someone else is paying your fees?
If you had gone to the U.K., you could have been working and still do your masters. Also, the current course in the U.K. school seems to have more prospects inline with present global affairs- trend.
Lastly, there are two factors that drive the dominance of certain groups in juicy sectors (oil companies). One, preparation meeting opportunity. If one studies engineering, it's likely that they would work in an oil company compared with another who read Agricultural Science.
Secondly, the Nigeria factor, Man know Man.

This thing be like project

Too long....Abeg make una wake me wen summary don comot

Hmm
Thank yiu

:oThis is too much for me.

Read all of it.
But couldn't make half a sense of what it was about.
The op that put this on FrontPage, did he or she read it?

Anyway, you can visit www.motivate.com.ng to learn about life, success strategies, experiences and the greats like Ben Carson, Carl Brashear, Tomas Sankara, Lee Yuan Kew, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela.......

Op you have a point. The synergy we see our environment, poverty and disorganization is enough to want to correct them. We have to make our priorities straight as Nigeria. Let's solve our nation collectively and freedom and unity. MO

Nice Piece...

I quiet agree with u .personal conviction and observing also defines how far one can go in life.

But 70% of the armed forces like police army dss etc are northerners

No comment

When village people are manipulating your brain,you start reasoning like the original poster.
Why not go to school in the UK,exploit your opportunities over there, come back and become like Ngozi, Adesina,Ezekwesili etc.
Stay there and be forming wise man. Mumu.
See my face now as I de vex for this op

Saintp:
But 70% of the armed forces like police army dss etc are northerners

you mean am? So the remaining 30 percent is for the southerners. I beg to disagree

I waste my time reading this nonsense

What has this epistle got to do with us individually and how does it help Nigeria out of the lowest low of the world poverty index?

Saintp:
But 70% of the armed forces like police army dss etc are northerners

trash

I am not good with long passages. I need summary please

The North's problem is ethnicity.

OK. We hear

The whole premise of your essay is pretty obvious but i understand the need to reiterate it nevertheless.

I'll argue the biggest problem in the North isn't intellectual laziness - a product of lack of ambition, but instead lack of the right direction.

"While some people , in the process of seeking wealth, recognition and prestige could go anywhere they can get it, irrespective of what they are leaving behind, others on the other hand can only pursue their quest for wealth and achievement, not at the detriment of other things they hold dear.

Sometimes life just seems like chapters. Some good, some bad, but all come together to create the story of our lives.

mrrights:
North in Nigeria’s Workforce: Priority determines motivation
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat



According to Adamu’s mentor, ‘’the combined workforce of the major oil companies around amount to roughly ten thousand staff, of which 70% are Yorubas with an average income of fifty million/annum’’. The use of the term Yoruba in Adamu’s piece doesn’t factor in the Yoruba’s in the North central who are also part of this generalization.



https://mrrightsng..com/2018/12/north-in-nigerias-workforce-priority.html?m=1

This is not true. 70 percent? Lol

401kk:


This is not true. 70 percent? Lol

lol...leave them na. Niger delta get labour quota for oil company o. The mumu for talk say na only niger delta and yoruba dey oil company.

If there are chest beaters in this country...they surely come from sw

mrrights:
North in Nigeria’s Workforce: Priority determines motivation
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

In 2014/2015, a highly respected mentor offered me a fortuity to pursue a Master’s degree programme in United Kingdom.

The interesting part of this was that, the mentor did not just want me to pursue a master’s degree in UK; he wanted me to do it in the same institution he attended (University of Buckingham), where he emerged as the best graduating student in his class. He also wanted me to do the same course as him (Global Affairs) so I can possibly advance the reputation of Nigeria in that department.

According to him, he believed am luminous and effulgent enough to excel not only in that institution, but also in the course like he did and having Studied Peace and Conflict Resolution (PCR) in my first degree, I also thought that going for Global Affairs (G.A) as master’s degree concentration in a posh institution like The University of Buckingham isn’t a bad idea. Though, I had my reservation about working or studying abroad.

My mentor wasn’t joking about this, he wanted to single handedly sponsor the entire program and every cost associated with it.

He gave me the institutions website, asked me to send in my application immediately because the admission period is almost elapsing and in the portion that asked about the sponsor, he asked me to put his name.

Before that period, I am one of those who don’t really fancy studying abroad. Apart from when I was in secondary school (Ilorin Grammar School), I have never seen myself going abroad for studies or work. However, having such a mentor who is ready to sponsor your foreign education is too tempting an offer to reject or even question. So I applied at the die minute.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I was informed that the application period had expired before I submitted mine and i had to wait till 6 months’ time to reactivate my application, if i am still interested in the admission.

To make matter worse, they also informed me that they will no longer be offering Global Affairs as course, that it has been replaced with one other course like that, I think ‘’Security and Diplomacy’’. Right there, I made up my mind to do away with the idea of traveling abroad for study. After all, it wasn’t my idea in the first place.

A day after that notification, precisely on 21st January 2015, I reapplied to National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) for Masters Degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution (PCR).

At the time, a friend had asked me how easy it was for me to move from almost securing admission to travel to UK to suddenly enrolling in NOUN almost immediately; I guess the perspective of Gimba Kakanda on the conversation started by Adamu Tilde answers this question.

Few days ago, a thought provoking piece, concerning the sharp difference between the North and South in the workforce of the country, particularly in the private sector by Adamu Tilde sparked an interesting conversation online. In the publication made on his wall without a title, Adamu Tilde narrated a conversation he had with a mentor, who happens to be a former National Economic Adviser.

According to Adamu’s mentor, ‘’the combined workforce of the major oil companies around amount to roughly ten thousand staff, of which 70% are Yorubas with an average income of fifty million/annum’’. The use of the term Yoruba in Adamu’s piece doesn’t factor in the Yoruba’s in the North central who are also part of this generalization.

Adamu’s mentor had argued that, intellectual laziness of the north is responsible for this disparity and what he described as ‘’our penchant for easy money and rent seeking’’.
However, many did not agree with this perspective.
In adding a twist to the conversation from an insider’s point of view, Suraj Tunji Oyewale listed 4 points he believes to be responsible for the situation and those points include Limited ambition, Limited information, Over selectivity and Lack of hustling spirit.

Suraj clarified that, he doesn’t believe intellectual laziness played any role in this matter. ‘’This is why I really don’t believe an average graduate of southern origin is smarter than a compatriot from the north. The difference is just limited information, ambition and spirit’’ he concluded.

Yesterday, Gimba Kakanda joined the conversation with another perspective that greatly appeals to me. Gimba’s perspective appealed to me because I could personally connect with some of the points he raised.

The question my friend had asked me after my UK application, about how easy it was for me to move from almost securing admission in UK to enrolling in Nigeria can simply be explained by that ‘’sentimental attachment’’. I have become someone who is sentimentally attached to Nigeria and having missed the deadline of my UK admission, I easily switched back to my area of sentiment.

Even though I could have waited for 6 months to re-apply and head for UK, I didn’t think it was worthy to be waiting to apply to a foreign institution, when I could easily secure an admission in Nigeria and considering the fact the course I find attractive has been replaced, there was no motivation to make UK my priority.

After some months, when I eventually told my mentor that I am already running an Msc in Open University, he understood me and wished me luck. Although, I am yet to graduate from this same NOUN since 2015 because I and a colleague were unlawfully expelled in November 2015 for exercising our right to free association and leading the formation of a student association (Congress of NOUN Students), but the matter have been in court ever since and I believe that no matter how long it takes, justice shall be served.

The point I am trying to make here is that, motivation determines priority. While some people , in the process of seeking wealth, recognition and prestige could go anywhere they can get it, irrespective of what they are leaving behind, others on the other hand can only pursue their quest for wealth and achievement, not at the detriment of other things they hold dear.

This is not just about the North, i think it is more about the total life experience of every individual, which include culture, tradition, motivation and priority.

https://mrrightsng..com/2018/12/north-in-nigerias-workforce-priority.html?m=1

Garbage.

Remove the north-central out of your observations and look at northern Nigeria objectively. Basic education in the core north is zero, if not in the negative.

Tell me how you can build a standard knowledge base upon zero foundation? Until you guys tackle the issue outside of your usual self-serving political agenda, the north can never move forward and educate its masses of young people.

401kk:


This is not true. 70 percent? Lol

A wise man once said that over 65% of percentages ever dished out are incorrect assumption, including this one.

This one long i

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