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If you are working in one of those "safe" banks, you should expect this. In exchange for peace of mind, management will walk all over your career. Two things: 1. Never take your job personal. Treat it like its a business transaction between you and your employer. This way you dont get dejected when your hard work is not being rewarded the way you want. There is nothing worse than having health problems because of work. You lose both ways, and your family feel the brunt. 2. Always have the mindset that you are your own boss, and will establish your own business someday. Even if you never do, it will push you to get even better at what you do. This mindset also puts you on the lookout for connections and ideas. Its only a matter of time before your skill meets opportunity |
Delafruita: you're either too dumb to read your own postor just too stu.pid to understand it.the twitter page isnt el-rufai's page.he simply retweeted what someoneelse tweeted which is normal.i wonder why you're castigating a man for something you claim he tweeted when you have already provided evidence that it wasnt him that tweeted it.some people are dumb shaAll these Omokri drones trying to distract us from GEJs woeful performance with tribalism. Not going to work. |
tunnytox: Sometimes I wonder how some people reason, if you like Nigeria so much that you want to stay there at all costs then so be it. People migrate for different reasons and mind you sweeping streets with Phd is better than roaming about with your Phd with nothing to do. In the end its down to choice, in a country like Nigeria if you have some health problems its undoubtedly a death sentence. In the UK here government can spend several thousands of pounds on just one patient, some patient with kidney failure can have dialysis 3 times a week free, tell me if you have such problem in Nigeria how can you survive even with your hard work? abi na persin wey sick go dey do hard work?You keep missing the point. No one is saying going abroad is not a good thing. However, if you have to spend $50-80k on a degree and there is a good chance you wont get a job, maybe, just maybe you should think twice about it. As bad as things are, there are people making it in the same Naija. Instead of spending years looking for paper and doing underground jobs, maybe you could own your own sh** in your own country. This same naija yall are heaping abuses is the same one lebanese and indians are becoming millionaires in |
renewnaija: If given the opportunity, most of them will leave. Did you see what Effwazobia listed out? I would never trade these for anything.You can have those same things in Nigeria, within reason, if you put in the hard work you undoubtedly will be forced to in Canada. And owning a house debt free is something you will probably never be able to do abroad. Dont forget the standard of living is falling too. There are PhDs from good schools sweeping streets and driving taxis in Canada. Living abroad has its pluses, but is not a slam dunk (or gbam) as you think. |
ayusbobs: Afta six bottles i no fit commot here o. E b lyk say na here i go dey till my eyes clear. Mehnnn i don high o,i no wan Bleep up osee small boy. na 6 bottles dey fall you. abeg take one more stout clear eye |
seeing those pictures just drives it home. It really could be any one of us. Scary how little control we actually have over life. RIP |
eGuerrilla: Haba Comrade, you see no redeeming quality in this particular initiative?Beaf needs a good flogging every now and then. I like the fact that this bill embraces industrial policy. Unfortunately, the political naivette in presenting this bill has killed it. Forcing bakers to include a certain percentage in their product is unnecessary, the price incentives ought to be enough to jumpstart local industries and demand. Here is what the bakers themselves have to say (from your pdf) In general, bakers and flour millers think that 10 percent cassava in wheat flour is achievable. But beyond that level cassava would introduce odor and aftertaste to their products, reduce shelf life of bread from an average of 7 to 4 days, and drastically alter the baking characteristics. Technically, bakers think that at a 40 percent cassava inclusion rate, bread ceases to be wheat bread because the cassava will predominate in baking characteristics, especially because of its zero protein content. High cassava flour content in bread will require higher doses of bread improvers, especially protein and preservatives. |
If all ethnic groups were asked to vote on one Nigeria today, I think the results would shock all the revisionists on this board. There is only one region that is staunchly PDP time after time and has without fail been the "spoiler" when it comes to checkmating bad governance in Abuja. Hint: A certain GEJ got 99% of votes in the last election in this region, a statistical impossibility. SMH. |
busybee24: Lets face it who doesnt want to be like the white man?At least you are honest. |
No one is going to challenge you. Outside of Nairaland, most people accept these mistakes of the past as fact, and are moving on. I havent been on NL for a minute, but unless something has changed, you can wait for the kids to fight another civil war on your thread ![]() Btw, there is no need to defend Awo's legacy - a man's true legacy is firstly what he does for his people, and secondly how he treats others. Given his fairhandedness, it is forever safe. |
RFK, aka Fani Power was flogged and jeered mercilessly by soldiers in front of his whole family, including his young son FFK. I sometimes wonder if FFK ever recovered from the trauma. Even among Nigerian politicians, dude is one glib talker |
PhysicsQED:generalize much? |
breezy147:Nobody gives aid for free. The aid given to Sudan and Haiti has strings attached, ALWAYS. So, no, you CANNOT as well say the UN is foolish for giving aid - they are doing it the right way. |
breezy147:When you (foolishly) give aid without strings attached, you cant blame anyone but yourself. |
ekt_bear:Regional governments, with more control over their own resources and revenue, with a weaker central democratic government. Each region could implement its own version of local goverment and resource sharing, similar to the current LGA. The North already has Sharia - other regions could do the same and traditionalise their democracy, but with more economic teeth. (I for one would love some sort of local grassroots participation of Yorubas in their communities that would bubble up to one central leader, like it was was for centuries )Unfortunately, the nature of power is that those who posses it do not give it up without a fight. I dont see the Nigerian FG willingly becoming an ECOWAS++ anytime soon. So I agree with you for the most part on the likely eventuality Nigeria breaking up, even if its in a round-about way. The only thing I see standing against this breakup is the level of integration among ethnic groups, which is far higher than you would suspect, given the crazy tribalistic threads on Nairaland. |
ekt_bear:No doubt. Democracy was never designed for an optimal outcome - it just had to be good enough to prevent a small elite class of Lords from dominating forever. Btw no country really runs a pure democracy - the result would be anarchy. Food for thought for those who think democracy is the best thing since sliced bread, eg Soyinka I compare China and India, and to the extent that China has modified its "democracy" to fit its culture and history, to that extent they have been more succesful than India. I dont think its that hard to come up with a similar democratic hybrid that would work in Nigeria. Wether we are willing to is another story. |
Arosa:Yourself you dumb@ss |
Top 15 Signs To Know Forces Are Following U From D Village This ought to be no 1. If I were his father I'd request he change his last name too. |
When facebook makes changes, they are gradual. User interface is the golden fleece. When you find something that works, you dont change it. Just minor tweaks now and then. Btw the new site looks horrible Im sorry to say. Its garish and off-putting, and has nothing that reminds you of the the nairaland name brand |
naijababe:LOL Please dont give them any ideas - this tribalistic meme already has a life of its own |
Why dont you post the link instead |
^someone smack this JJC chap |
ekt_bear: Is this true?Unfortunately true. I'd dig up old articles of record for you, but I think you'll do an even better job than I could. You might also be interested in which side Ojukwu was on during Ken Saro Wiwa's hanging. I half pity poor folk fed lies about some other tribe betraying them, when the real betrayer is eating from the same plate with them. As Soyinka exclaimed after the June 12 betrayal "Oro pesi je!". |
Funny thread. Uwazuruike is chasing his own tail - his worst enemy is in his own house. When he was "fighting" in behalf of Abiola's mandate as he claimed, does he not remember what his "leader" Ojukwu was doing? Everyone was ready to go their separate ways in those early Abacha days. If the Igbo had picked up and left, no one could have stopped them, or wanted to. And what did Ojukwu do with this opportunity? He paid a visit to Aso Rock, had a "talk" with Abacha, and returned home claiming the people's (including Igbos) mandate was null, and we should all let Abacha continue. All for a few more plots of land in Lagos. If I were Uwazuruike, I'd double up my guard protections. There are tons of your clansmen feeding from a corrupt Nigeria, like every other ethnic group. If they suspect your actions are about to take food from their mouths, you know what they are going to try next. |
Negro_Ntns:This coming from a guy waxing poetic about a 1950s Lagos, based on few BW pictures is ironic. |
Sagamite:Wtf is a poof. This dude must be one of those low life jand n**gers trying to oyinbo by force. Whitney Houston did more with her life in one year than you will ever do with yours. Go back and wash some more plates olodo. |
To get through 4 years of college, you are going to have to come up with ~60k over that period. Im really concerned that some "good" advice being peddled here will still mislead a few folks into taking the leap. For real, go to Canada, you'll thank me when 6 yrs down the line you have a job with no school debt and Canadian green card and your paddy in yankee is forced to enroll for PhD because he finished in the middle of a recession, has no job, no money, subsisting on cold noodles at the ripe age of 30. |
dayokanu:Perhaps Uwazuruike is not above ghana-must-go bag. Just saying ![]() |
Evil Brain:Could it spread, yes. But not like it is in the North. As I said, BH was grassroots fed, which is why it now has a stranglehold there. Their infiltration of the security forces ensures they can strike Rambo style almost at will. When was the last time you heard of muslims killing wholesale in the south. And you can be sure if it happened, it would not have popular support. Given this prognosis, my point stands. If you are from the south, escape while you can. If we don't solve this then we are all fvcked.This is NOT your problem to solve. Anyone who thinks BH is going to be a thing of the past in a few months is deceiving himself. When you tacitly support terror against other groups, it is only a matter of time before it turns on you. See Pakistan, Syria, etc, BH is going to force the north to come to terms with itself. Any southerner thinking he can affect the outcome is wasting his time, and will probably lose his life as a result. Remember, we may be one Nigeria, but we are several peoples. And as a people sows, so shall it reap. |
Soyinka has hit the nail squarely on the head here. BH may have outgrown its original sponsors and turned on them. There has always been grassroots support in the north for killing and maiming "southern infidels". I think that support has fed BH, and the north is now reaping what it sowed. I say "let them eat cake". I pity any foolish southerner still in the north. I'd leave and let the Islamists enjoy their harvest all by themselves. |
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