₦airaland Forum

Fact is millions of Nigerians have no steady legit 20k per month.

So the write up is very useful. Even many NLers talking still rely on parents, siblings, bfs, sugar daddies for 5 or 10k. Nor be 9ja.
In difficult times, managing the little you have is as important as looking for avenues to increase income.

You think unemployed men in their 30s & 40s are not shagging women, getting them preggy & living together/marrying?

Of course they are. It might not be what we deem as ideal. But it is simple reality.

RIP young woman.

Men please learn to walk away from trouble. Do not react hastily to a woman's sharp tongue. She can call you impotent, lazy man, poor church rat, etc. Please bear it.

Women, do not taunt your man. Do not dare him to hit you. Do not hit him first or necessarily provoke him.

By doing these, you might just be saving a life: yours, your spouse's or that of a neighbour or family member trying to separate you fighting.

This one weak me o.

If Fayose talks now, his people from Zombie HQ will attack him.

JESUSBOIY:
A friend of mine who is 25 years old wants to go to medical school. He is really worried about his age , he is going to graduate at age 33 or so and he is troubled about employment at that age.

Is it too late?

CC: lagusta

There are two answers. The short & the long one.
(1) Not too late
(2) It depends on several things. Are you already a graduate? Are your parents ready to sponsor you to do a second first degree? Are you REALLY passionate about it? Do you know what it entails for real? Any experience of healthcare? Are you going to study locally or abroad? Etc.

Because as if you are already a graduate, your mates might become bank managers before you enter medical job properly.
Medicine is great but not glamorous as portrayed. It is very serious hard work. Not everyone is suited for it. It is akin to a job like being a priest. Proper priest, not businessmen we mostly see around these days. Because people do not realise the humanitarian calling that it is, hence many make excellent academics, but poor doctors in terms of empathy.

If studying abroad, like Germany, USA, Canada, UK, you will find that you are actually a baby compared to some fellow students. Many will have a PhD/D.Phil from Oxford or Cambridge in their 30s to 40s. The typical African's question is "why would PhD holders go & study medicine?" It has been asked here on NL on similar topics before. Reasons abound: a relative died of cancer, own experience of illness/accident, finally found the courage to pursue an old dream/passion, etc.

Plus in Canada & US, medicine is a second degree for minimum BSc/BS holders only.

If studying abroad, your academic calendar will be reliable and you can qualify at the right time. But age is always an issue in employment anywhere. The average employer would prefer a 24 years old house officer to 34 or 44 years old one if both have same academic grade.
Competitive training slots like Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery and many other surgical specialties would prefer a younger candidate too. The training takes years and you hardly want people beginning it with grey hair already.

But you can still have a decent career irrespective of age.

I can only talk from diaspora experience though.

RIP.

Because there were no feminists & feminazis then.

If not they would have lobbied for it to be called "Unmarried People's Degree".

Folks, your degree would have been UP. Sc, UPA, UP. Ed or UP. Tech instead of B.Sc, BA, B.Ed or B.Tech.

It actually came from Latin word "baccalaureus". Some call it baccalaurate. It just means first academic certificate. Not really about age or marital status originally. Though in practice people began its study in late teens.

Bac in some countries like France is equivalent to British A'level.

RIP.

khalids:
How will the religious houses be able to stop or change anything....what is the message that our religious houses preaching...

Well, isn't religion supposed to make people better people? It should follow that the more people who profess Abrahamic faiths, the better the society should be.

I remember as a kid preaching about town. That was a time many people still openly worshipped in the traditional African way. Yet the world was not this wicked. I went about town with other teenagers not fearing kidnap or being abducted for ritual.

A few decades on, every street has religious houses and mankind is so wicked.


The excuse of poverty does not wash. Back then many families had no TV, no phone, no car and little income too. Some did not even have electricity. Borehole in the compound was unimaginable for most. They were just less greedy for money, not that they were richer or better off.
Therefore you might want to ponder over your own question too: "what is the message our religious houses are preaching?"

Now for Christians, what they should preach and enjoin adherents to practice are obvious enough in the Bible. So are they doing it? How are they doing it?

If Christianity and the rectitude, albeit imperfect, that come with it does not manifest in our lives, what kind of Christians are we? Are we the type Christ would be proud of?

Sowing seed to reap aplenty or just going on about prosperity or overly espousing materialism won't get the society far at all.

mikky4764:
We don't know who to trust again. That is why it is advisable to monitor ur children's movement at every point in time.

My sister. Ah! ah!

The nice neighbor might be a beast.

The likable industrious housemaid might be planted by kidnappers.

Even the school teacher might be a molester.

The world is very sad now o.

Nice. Close follow up will be needed.

Cool.
Money talking.

RIP Madam Doc.

You saved thousands or even more through uncommon bravery & selflessness.

Which kain life be this na?

So normal looking young people can just simply abduct kids, kill, mutilate & use body parts for money ritual?

Haba!

So all the religious houses everywhere cannot stop the rapidly increasing rate of moral decline and inhumanity?

We have a big problem on our hands o.

If we do not stop worshiping money and sudden wealth, it looks bleak.

More pics.

Which serious entrepreneur talks down employees?

Such are not real ones.

Entrpreneurs need good employees for their business to succeed.

If all are self-employed, who will they employ?

Evaberry:
I'm sure the mum still thinks her son is a virgin, not knowing that he has smashed several pussy before.

but why did he ruin the good non sexual image the mum had of him, he Polly kissed her too long and deep hence the reaction from the mum

I don't Know why parents always think their children are not sexually active.

Well, we can as well ask why we think our elderly parents are not smashing it too.

We look at our loved ones with a certain eye of "purity".

Pure fallacy of course.

Angelparadise:
Hmmmmmm so he has become tourist site in another man country. Nigerians done see wonders.

Reports say UK is experiencing tourism boom.

No wonder considering that Abuja house is a major tourist site now.

justi4jesu:
how i want the rate to sky rocket. Walks out in style..

J4J dearest are you sure of that?

Na so prices go shoot up for 9ja too o.

Long time.

Bonne journee.

scooby12:
Chaii!

Tofa is the answer Tofa of NRC. So this guy still dey.

Had Tofa been on course to win June 12 1993 election, Abiola saga would never have happened. Fear Northern elite.

godquality:
I looked at this list, then looked again, then borrowed my neighbour eyeglass to looked again. Then realise why the igbos want Viagra abi Biafra. See the marginalization. Even me wey be Bendel pikin feel sorry for them.

Govt want tell us say no competent igbo person again? Or why dem no plenty for the list? All this useless politicians are not even doing anything to bring a lasting peace to this country.

Abi o. When "foreign bodies" too many for soup, even blind man go see am.

How do we achieve peace without equity? It seems to be just impunity. Or maybe everybody has already given up, albeit subconsciously, that Nigeria can be rescued. So it's free for all now. Until disintegration.

While the rhetoric of secessionists may be debatable, the powers that be seem not to be making any concrete efforts to reassure people, aside lip service.

jakD:
What did you expect?
Even him that appointed, he's still ACTING as President... So, let everyone keeps acting.

So we now have Nollywood FG. Wonderful! Not!

RIP.

senier007:
Who is to be blame for this?
What happen to the money they budgeted for that?
What happen to implementation

Imagine state house clinic without cotton wool and pcm
Does that means my house has more drugs than Aso rock clinic?

Wow

Just when you thought you have seen the worst

If by any chance you also have plaster/bandage, methylated spirit and Ibuprofen in your house, it would appear your house has more drugs sir.

Treasure1919:
Strange news every were. But wait how was the lady dressed?

My dear however she dressed makes no difference.

You cannot even begin touching a prostitute by the road anyhow unless she gestures you too. If she was indecently dressed and was in a way against the law, then inform the authorities.

My only suspicion is that if she had tolerated his "touchy touchy", he might have failed to follow it up with the " needful incentives". Imagine as country hard reach, you just touch and drop nothing.

EggPlant:
What have we Nigerians turned into of late?
Human parts are now more readily available and accessible than suya!
Wickedness, desperation, greed, savagery are the order of the day!

Yep!

Symptoms of a thoroughly failed country.

Boy, this your question nor gel at all.
Haba!

So it took you 10 years to realise that you cannot marry her?

At 33 you are not getting younger either.

Even the aborted preggy didn't make you sit down and reflect on your mission with this girl those years ago?

If you just do not love her or you have settled for another girl already, then just say so.

Because while shagging the hell out of the babe all these years, your parents' opinion did not deter you.

Fact is that Nigeria is already at war with itself and has been at war with itself since the political crisis in the Western Region in the 1960s. With the coups, civil war and all the crises since.
Absence of open battle fields does not mean peace.

IPOB is just another ethnic struggle resulting from failure of the Nigerian state.

Amarabae:
thats why it looks as if for you to succed in business in Nigeria in a big way, you must have allies in corridors of power.
Nigeria kills SMEs, go to cotonuo and see how Nigerians there are controlling their economy with business.
Open seaports in Nigeria to decongest Lagos port,
build power plants in a selected industrial estate in all states.
Give an easy accessible business grants.
Reduce heavy taxation on business etc

Well, until oil becomes as cheap as water, FG will not sit tight. We currently have no strategy to develop. Consider tourism. The cost of a UK citizen processing a Nigerian tourist visa can sometimes be enough to go to Morocco visa free, and spend two nights in a nice hotel plus cost of flight included.

So how can he choose Nigeria over Morocco that even has a better tourist industry already?
Those tourists will come back and spend more money in the future.

We are currently sleeping really.

Amarabae:
the cost of production is high in Nigeria and Govt. Don't support SME to grow.
So the cost factors do hype up the price.
He is trying.

Very true.

The same issues all manufacturers face that hamper growth.

Sadly the govt is not pushing to make it a huge success by giving generous incentives to IVM. It could become a global success like Nollywood if promoted. For example govt could help it produce green energy family cars that are subsidised for the Nigerian market. Making it take up a niche market of the future. Both locally and internationally.

Good one.

But commercial success will only become possible with exporting such cars.

Until Innoson can produce reliable family sedan cars under 2.5m, local uptake will remain very low.

wink2015:
8 years from now, the western world will no longer be interested in our crude oil as they are developing electric cars that will rely on greener energy or renewable energy.

That is just a short period from now ( 2020 ) now the federal government is on a drive towards developing agriculture to generate revenue.

Now how is Nigeria going to come with Agriculture in terms of security of the lives of farmers in the bush as more people will work in farms located in the rural terrain.

There are human parts traders that is now constituting a larger threat to our Agricultural revolution.

Ritual killers + rampaging herdsmen = disaster for agriculture.

Dollyak:
Not going to lie, this b.s is too rampant in the southwest. There needs to be a massive reorientation of our people. Naturally, with poverty, people tends to do desperate stuff for survival, but this is too grim.

My dear, it's terrible.

The worry is that such practices gradually but steadily spread. It could become more widespread over time.

Improved living standards, a better economy, better education, jobs and massive re-orientation would seriously help.

If not, energetic able-bodied young people will keep looking for avenues to make a quick buck. If human lives are lost in the process, it won't matter much to them.