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And this no striking with cane, always pampering is the reason for lack of self control that americans have.. when it comes things like drugs & unhinged violence etc
NOTE that d low level stealing u talk about in Nigeria is due to the economy-- many won't if they had a livelihood.

Shokoloko:
1. See the photo of what a shepherd's rod looks like. Have you watched a shepherd guide his sheep. There are many sheep farms here. A shepherd never ever strikes his sheep.

2. Hearsay is not a good enough source. My time is spent between Canada and the US. If the rate of killing was 10 times the death toll in Nigeria, I would know. You cannot compare secondary school and university cultism in Nigeria to what is happening here. Over here, Youths stand up for pregnant women, elderly people, disabled people. How many Nigerian youths will willingly give up their seats on the bus for these people. I have never ever locked my car since I bought it - Can I try that in Nigeria with Nigerian youths? I'm jogging and running at 2am here. In Nigeria I would lock my house at 10pm. And it is only since November 2021 that I started making sure that I lock my home doors. Up till yesterday doordash, ubereats will drop your food at your door and nobody will take it.
The only error the youths here have is those sins that Nigerian youths do in secret, they will do it in the open if they commit those type of sins.
I have verified sources (see screenshots) that state that 10,000 people were killed in a span of 10 years - the paper points at the youths as being the culprits - the same paper says 90% of killings are not recorded. What do you think that means, it means that in 10 years, the death of 900,000 people from cult activities spearheaded by youths was not reported. Please do not compare youth related violence in Nigeria and the US

3. Never ever in the bible was disciplining equated to striking. When the bible wanted to describe striking a rock, the bible never wrote "Moses did not spare the rod on the rock". The phrase used in the bible was "strike the rock with the rod" Disciplining is not equal to striking. If you live here in North America, and your child hits anyone, the school will know that the child learnt it from you, the parent and you will go for anger management classes

What is the investment bank? -- it matters!
Big 4 looks good on d CV home & abroad with endless industry opportunities. Audit can be quite boring & excruciating but has good exit opportunities. If I were you, I would eye a move to strategy consulting or corporate finance in the big 4.

Investment banking (in d biggest banks) promises some more money than audit/tax and can be more interesting than audit/tax. But direct global mobility isn't there and hours can be crazier than audit. Also, you are limited to IBs & CF depts of the few firms that have CF.

lajid:
Pls I need opinions on the above subject matter.

I want to choose a career path...

Cc: mukina2 pls push this to front page, it’s important

Deep thoughts there... For the Christians here, let's take it a notch higher to say we should live for what God wants, what would make God happy with us after this earth

Are there even jobs in chemical engr?
Best thing forget about all that and focus on an IT area.

Lexiskillz09:
Good evening guys. I'm sorry for the long story. But it's serious Please
Please I need ur opinions on this issue bothering me. I am a Industrial chemistry graduate. I graduated last year and just completed my NYSC. I want to go for postgraduate studies but I am having difficulties in making a decision on what to do.

Someone advised me to switch to Chemical engineering, (this will require a 1 year postgraduate diploma course) though I wouldn't mind if there's a guarantee I stand a very good chance in the labour market after the PGD and MSC. On the other hand, 2 bros in my area I respect so much discouraged me about switching. Both of them were of the opinion that it would rather keep me confused instead of helping me. That recruiters will consider a candidate with B.Eng Chemical engineering without a masters over me, while chemistry field will consider a chemistry msc holder over me also.
Bottom line, it's almost a waste of time especially here in Nigeria that I should just do msc in industrial chemistry.

I'm still young though. I Will be 22 on 27th of this month.

Do you realise that d only regime comparable to buhari's is abacha's and buhari's military regime?
Even then abacha is a bit better because mass killings allowed due to nepotism were not there during abacha's

Moh247:
You are prolly young and all your life you knew just Buhari and Jonathan as President

If you had better knowledge you won't say this

First thing, cancel that betshop as a place to work.
Just go and sit at home if there is no other place to work. Ur matter is that serious. Go and sit at home and be sleeping and waking up.
But I know, if u are committed, if you ask around, you will get a place that is ok for you to work.
Barbing saloon is there, filling station is there. U can go and learn tailoring or be learning IT from home.
Just get out from that betshop TODAY!!!!

DCmaverick:
U are right, but the thing is dat I don't know where else to work

People talk about immigration success just by the amount of money you could earn converted to naira. Some are practical and measure by quality of PHYSICAL living- d roads, other amenities, security too. But what about the PSYCHOLOGICAL aspect? The racism, the career ceiling for most immigrants; the SOCIAL aspect- the coldness of the whites, d lack of extended family knitting/support , the CULTURAL aspect and the RELIGIOUS aspect?
These are aspects to life that can still cause deep pain (or fulfillment) even when everything physical is taken care of

With all candidness, u no get sense! Youbare either still quite young or grew without sense..
A black immigrant low level worker is what u are comparing to a high ranking politician..

Tannhauser:
Bang! An refreshingly intelligent submission.

Most people think japa is all about money, thats foolishness.
I would rather stack shelves in Lidl as a permanent resident/ citizen than be a senator in Nigeria.
Na me TALK am.

I also thought he is 19.
Anyways, d world doesn' t work d way ur cartoon mind is painting it. There are real risks and there are consequences of actions!!
You don't know what a friend does and you want to go and stay with him? And you don't think it can be crime? Do u like to become a criminal? What is he showing you that he can't show u without you staying with him?
If he use you for ritual now, who do we blame?
My friend stay in your parents' house till you finish nysc. Be watching their car & doing everything and also develop in an IT skill like programming or data analytics or cyber security or graphics design.
And don't think of taking foolish risks

@OP , U are just a juvenile!! I can understand at your age,.pleasure & peer pressure is closer to u than sense.
But u must jolt yourself to reality- d reality of consequences.. U MUST embrace personal discipline.. Tell yourself you don't want to be useless to yourself sọ you must be disciplined. If you continue with betting , ur financial life wil be useless

It looks to me you need to leave that betshop and find job else where.

You gave answer to a question, you are still asking d question again.. Based on what you wrote, Would you prefer you àre not thinking of rent for d next 1 yr or d next 1 month?

As per supressing the poor, is every migrant abroad rich?

deepwater:
lol

people with N500,000 naira in their account are better than a lot of people abroad.

you see that line above? the rich have used it so many times to supress the poor from making any tangible advancement out of poverty (Nigeria).


500k would pay an average rent per month in the western world.
500k would pay average annual rent in Lagos
so how is a poor person in Lagos better off ?

Makes perfect sense.... this is what those that shouted down the OP should realise.. it is a different kind of hardship/discomfort... so rather than waving it off, try and find out what the pros and cons of the abroad and honestly consider if you are more adapted to that or to what we have here...
For instance for one person, having to raise children in an openly gay society with no cane discipline, too much liberty might be worse off than not being able to eat 1 out of 3sqr meals if considered critically. For another, he might be just fine with it.

mvem:
You know that the expectation going abroad is great that when you go and see it is not that rosy, you can't project it to your people down home

Why?

Because the expectation is high and no one will ever agree that you are having it tough. So most times what you see people enjoying and all that is them trying to project something to you down home. It's very tough in western world. You have all the basics like water,light, welfare etc and you can make some money and send home

But what many can't understand is lifestyle is totally different. I can relate to him not being able to talk to anyone. They are very independent here and lack community life. That's why they don't play with mental health. The whole system fu*ks up some individual head. Also hardship is of another form that you can't relate until you see it. The normal hardship will relate to is being not able to eat well, having no basic amenities etc. But in the western world they do have it but in another form not what you can relate to

This is in no way to discourag your pursuit of the greener pastures but sometimes it is good to have a better context of all these so that you won't come and start writing epistle like the OP or me...it is a different world out here but still pursue your dreams and know that you can never replace home

And u think that will happen that buhari will say so? U guys still don't know ur man buhari -- d same buhari that voted for a fulani from another country over Nigerian igbo for an AU post in 1985

Cyberterror:
This is amazing. Hurricane Tinubu will sweep the entire north from Maiduguri to Sokoto, then sweep Atiku to Cameroon and sweep Obi to Anambara. The popularity of Buhari in the north just took a huge leap with the oil discovery in Bauchi/Gombe and they are just waiting for him to say Jagaban is the road to eldorado and they will follow. Buhari is the undisputed leader of the north.

Eeyah.. u must still be very young. U will understand as time goes.. A woman has more say in things like that-- home Affairs-- than a man simply because while d man is d head, a woman will raise sọ much dust if she is uncomfortable with happenings in that area whereas a man can still keep it cool most times even if he is not.

Zonefree:

I was enjoying your dad's words of wisdom until I get to this part. Why must you consider your mum's decision first before settling down with your prospective wife? Is your mum the head of the family? Why must your dad delegate his position to the woman he called his wife?

ATIKU: 39%
OBI: 36%
TINUBU: 25%

What you are forgetting is we are already earning dollars from d crude oil that would be sent to d refinery.. So the only thing is the differential btw crude & refined crude which shouldn't be up to $20 per barrel sent to the refinery.

ahiboilandgas:
After the refinery pick up .40 percent of dollar demand is out . Then it will earn a 50 bn USD income as export sales . Dollars will be less than the official rate like 430 .

You are just allowing your emotions becloud logical reasoning.. what is d game plan? What can it possibly be? Talking as if a naira rebound didn't happen in late July for one week b4 depreciating back.

Eriokanmi:
I don't believe the potential crash in usd has anything to do with the redesign of naira. My position is, the CBN knows their game plans. Fx scarcity is deliberate

You are just a joker

vikstandon:
He should know much...

EFCC is Economic Financial Crime Commission.

There is Economics, there is finance... He stands a chance to present a view on how redesigning currency can limit financial crime and improve the economy which is wagered on dollar.

Are u on drugs or perhaps high on buhari?
Hw can u say $ will drop to 200? Cant you see the fundamentals? And you keep shouting 500 on all the threads, now 200.. Is it you that will supply the constant dollars for that?

Eriokanmi:
Dollar will crash to 500 naira, though as of today, they're saying it will crash further to 200 naira which may not be possible. I predicted 500 naira. Before doubting thomases say its a lie, please read the below. It's still very hot like amala gbigbona from.the coffers of the EFCC. . Only the smart will do the needful.


https://dailytrust.com/naira-redesign-dollar-may-crash-to-n200-efcc-chairman

It should remain illegal for the simple reason of the health problems associated with it.
Whatever monetary gains from it is not worth the health issues that will arise from it being freely available

Pure nonsense!! So if the friend is a governor, he will refuse to be a special adviser or commissioner if offered?

How ridiculous!!
Just because you have been accustomed to primitive thinking, does that make it correct?
Someone won something for himself, you are saying it belongs to someone else .. is it in deir agreement?
Is that kind of thing Iawful?
Is d apprentice a bought slave owned by d master?

immortalcrown:
Why can't apprentices do such things without louding it?

A similar situation happened in Onitsha and the boss wanted the whole money. The boss said he is entitled to the whole money because the apprentice used his (boss's money) to play the bet. Meanwhile, the apprentice used his lunch money for the bet as his boss gave him 300 Naira daily for lunch. I don't know how they settled it.

I am not in support of the boss's claim. But let us be factual and logical here. It is best to keep such as a secret. If you as an apprentice expose such, the boss can claim the money. He can even win in a law court because the apprentice is his responsibility and the apprentice is obligated to dedicate all his time to serving the boss during the apprentiship period, especially if the boss takes the boy to shop and gives him lunch from home.

If the boss gives the boy transport fare or money for lunch, the court can establish that the boy owns the bet money because the boy has the right to decide whether to starve himself and spend his lunch money on something else. If the boy does not get transport fare and lunch allowance, the court will establish that the capital used for the bet belongs to the boss, therefore the boss will get the money worn from the betting.

If the apprentice dies during the apprentiship period, the boss would be held responsible. This is why whatever the apprentice achieves under the boss is accredited to the boss.

So, if you are an apprentice and you play bet or anything for yourself, keep it as a secret. Your boss owns you when you are under him. So, use your brain.

Know this and know peace. There is nothing like reincarnation. But demons can play with some new borns' bodies, minds and make it appear as though he reincarnated.
From the bible: It is appointed for a man to die once and after that is judgement . HEB 9:27

gaby:
A three-year-old boy in Syria's Golan Heights region has suddenly become the centre of attention after he revealed that he was murdered with an axe in his previous life.

The boy, of the Druze ethnic group, was born with a long, red birthmark on his head. According to Druze beliefs, birthmarks are related to past-life deaths. When the boy was old enough to talk, he told his family that he had been killed with an axe blow to his head.

As is the custom, the elders took the child to the home of his previous life to see if he remembers it. And sure enough, the boy knew the village he was from and once he arrived there, he remembered the name he had in his past life.

Locals told the elders that the man who the boy was claiming to be had gone missing four years earlier. When asked, the boy also remembered the full name of his killer. When the alleged killer was confronted, his face turned white, but he did not admit to murder.

The boy then took the elders to where the body was buried and in that very spot, they found a man's skeleton with a wound to the head that corresponded with the boy's birthmark. They also recovered the axe with which he had been killed.

Faced with the evidence, the killer then admitted to the crime.

The boy's full story has been documented in the book, "Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today" by German therapist Trutz Hardo.

People should know that If they are in a bad situation here in Nigeria, they can be in a worse one in the abroad. So , they need to be cautious and find out well about where they are going to.

Dikegodspower:
No matter how you look at it. Northern Cyprus won't be a hell compare to what we are going thru in this contraption

This is supposed to be straightforward.
What is d difference on expenses(rent, food, transport) in lagos & osun? I bet that difference is not more than 100k a month.. Add 250 to 100--- that's still.less than 400k. That is asides from d opprtunities for development in Lagos.
D only downside will be stress & less peace.

Ronaldoguy:
Nairalanders I need the elders input, I am currently on a job here in Lagos (salary is 400k), now I got another job in Osun state (salary is 250k). Should I go for the job in Osun due to Lagos expensive lifestyle. I want advice solely on financial aspects. I am leaving details out since I am not interested in the career aspects of both jobs.

tiger28:
I dont understand how many ppl like the OP think that Northerners cannot vote for a Southern President..........

If that is the case, then can someone explain

HOW OBJ won TWO terms?

HOW Jonathan won as well?

Strong Party structure and a viable Candidate that is NOT Just a regional Candidate are all it takes pls!

Despite that they wọn, Buhari who was d major northern candidate in each case wọn the North hands down.
But obj (03) & Gej(11) wọn the remaining 4 regions which was their saving grace

Common be disciplined and uninstall the FB app asap.
Don't allow social media to control you son.

Omoapena:
Nah d only thing I dey watch when less busy...

They are basically just rearranging d problem rather than solving it because they cannot solve it.

U reduce inflation & devaluation this way, purchasing power still remains unchanged at its low point..

Alexas58:
A very nice move to curb inflation and help raise the Naira.
Most people would not understand the implications of this, since they don’t understand how the forex market works

IyaTola:
It's important to not spank, hit, or slap a child of any age. Babies and toddlers are especially unlikely to be able to make any connection between their behavior and physical punishment. They will only feel the pain of the hit. And don't forget that kids learn by watching adults, particularly their parents.

In fact, research shows in Nigeria that hitting kids can increase their risk of aggression, antisocial behavior and mental health problems later on. Spanking is also counterproductive when it comes to bonding with your toddler.

I don't know where all these jokes of a research come from! Hw can u tell me toddlers can't connect beating and bad behaviour-- do u hav kids ?nephews, nieces? Mental health?? Who are the most depressed kids in d world- Nigerians or americans.. U must be a troll!! Aggressive? Have u seen dt recent video of d white kid scattering d room? Can u even imagine such in Nigeria?

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Joezik:
Most don't remember at that age

This is not true and u know it.. the only thing they will remember actually is beating not ur nicely put instruction.

clems88:
Children are so stubborn this days. My 1 year son will do wrong and when he does it he knows , he starts looking at you. When you beat him he goes back to it so he will see what you will do again .

I think children of nowadays- gen alpha also need prayers apart from the beatings which is v gud too.

Ain't we? We are until u see d larger system has no checks & balances... the west have checks & balances to deal with corruption.
U should also note what u deal with just 1 or 2 beatings, u can keep using words for years

Theunbothered:
That's why Nigerians are the best behaved worldwide