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Kobojunkie:
You are not wrong @BlueBand. There are cases where people with PhDs have been seen driving cabs and even homeless people with PhDs. I mean it happens even here in America but I would not advice you to take that route. True that being self employed, one can make way more than persons with degrees can. A friend of mine just completed her Medical degree out there in the UK and she plans to move out here to work.

Abeg o.I was only saying with all my hard work,I saw a cabby doing as good as medical doctor.I envy the guy sha,He does not have the kind of responsibility I have.If he shags another cabby's wife nothing will happen to him.If I shag my colleagues wife(which I love doing ) and I am caught,I ll lose my medical license.Your advise is taken,I won't become a cabby.Happy now?

steaming:
@blueband, am i wrong in asking that a man take his place in marriage. This is not a relationship i am asking about. It is marrigae and like i mentioned i am yet to land a good job. What i am doing now is on a contract basis and will soon end, nothing much to it.

It is great wisdom to know that you are ready for marriage and not just to dabble into it because some man came your way. It helps one define any and every relationship you get into. Marriage is not a coincidence that just happens. You prepare yourself for it. I think i am not wrong saying i am ready for marriage. I have been an adult but wasn't ready, now i am.

Quite an interesting and very mature answer.I understand where you are coming from.But please don't be in a rush to marry.Dem no dey give first prize to whom marry first.You say you love this guy and you fear for your future with him.He might be feeling pressurised now.But life is funny you know.You leave him now cos you think he is not financially capable of keeping a wife in a house and tomorrow he hits it big and you end up in an unhappy loveless rich marriage.My advise is to stick with him and plan how to overcome this "little" issue.There is nothing love cannot solve.Except ofcourse you are getting "proposals" from other suitable guys that you are already considering.Most times ,people only seek advise to validate an action they intend to take.So they feel less guilty about it.

Sorry *both

Marry someone in your social class/league and you will be happier.You can then bought grow into what ever league you want to be in."Marrying Up" explains why men treat women the way they do in marriages in Nigeria.If you want to avoid it then please marry in your own league!

domwas2:
They says "Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man. "

[center]Love makes life so confusing, but without love
would you really want to live? [/center]

True talk my brother.One of the best quotes I have read in a long time.Love has no formula.Maybe the guy is bad in bed and maybe the girl never forgot about you.If you show the guy the text messages it can turn against you.If you sleep with her once,it will continue and sooner than later you will start having feelings for her again and you will start being jealous.Do you have a girlfriend?Maybe you should flaunt her in front of this babe.Who knows she might let you be.But if she comes charging at you,I really don't know what you can do.When she grabbed your d**k in public did you like it?If you did,then no one can really advise it,because sooner than later she will be under you.I don't envy your position.This is a hard one.Pray to God to give you the strength to avoid what might happen soon.

This mentality you have that a man must provide for you will lead you to making terrible mistakes in future.If you have a job and you are a graduate why do you expect money from a jobless,non graduate?

And who says you are ready to marry? Your age?I thought people were ready to marry when they found a compatible loving partner.What if you are ready to marry and you don't find the right guy will you just marry anyone who has ahouse to his name,a graduate with money?I can now understand why loads of girls are in unhappy marriages.

Does anyone know where I can get information regarding First inland Bank?
Are they planning a public offer,I notice they have been on TS for sometime now.

Akolawole:
Abi o.

I tire for these guys, once they cross over to the west, every single thing about Nigeria is rubbish.

@Debosky

Nice Analysis bro

@ BlueBand

Yo've not answered my question.

How much do these cab drivers pay to their contollers?
@Topic

We want PHD holders as lecturers. It is that simple!

Go and read my post again.I said black cab drivers who own their cabs.And not mini cab drivers who have to rent their cabs from either controllers or outsiders.On the average to hire the radio from a controller is £100/week.And if you own your own can you can actually set up your own control room in your house staffed by your wife or child.Look,self employed guys make a lot of money because of the tax break they get.What you declare is what you get taxed on.You don't want to know what I pay as tax every month.

almondjoy:
Eyaaaaaaaaa! Abeg come join me for New York. I get plenty taxi to lease out till you own your own.

Your profile says you are 30 years old. You started medical school at 16? Brilliant!

Hmmmmmmmm!

Abeg where are you based.Please when can I start with one of your taxis?Yeah started medical school at 16-brilliant?Hell no! Just lucky.After 6 years studying medicine,I started my house job in Nigeria and after 4 months we had still not been paid(40,000 naira/month).We marched to the CMDs office and he told us we should be grateful we even have a place to do housemanship.I left for the U.K 3 weeks after.Them no dey tell blind man say rain dey fall.

deor03:
bluebandI work in the UK too and i know that you probably pay 40% of that earnigns as tax, pay about £800-1000/ month on rent, pay sky , pay for phone, pay council tax etc
or what do you think?

Are you telling me.It is so annoying.You have not added Road tax,National Insurance,Pension contribution bla bla bla.These people are thieves walahi.And to make matters worse when I die,I will still be taxed "inheritance tax" which can be up to 40 percent of what you are leaving behind for your loved ones.That is in my death ooo!

Kobojunkie:
Have you considered moving to a new country?? Or better still Nigeria?? By the way, How much do Nigerian doctors make I doubt PhDs are in the high earning brackets in any country. At least not here. I remember I opted for a masters rather than a PhD cause of the pay. But maybe all you need to do is look around. Over here, doctors make over 300k a year and this is just for starting doctors in some fields.

Sorry,thought you were talking of Nigeria.Yes my friends who went to America are killing it.You are right.in America doctors earn more.But not the 300k you are talking for starters.After residency they get like 150k/PA.Which is what you can get here in the U.K.But they have more purchasing power than we do.

Maybe I am not an average U.K doctor .
I worked in Nigeria before moving over.300k a month?I left friends in nigeria who are consultants now and they are not earning 300k a month in nigeria.Infact one of them moved over to England 2 months ago to work as a Locum SHO.

My brother,money no dey medicine for nigeria.If you are toasting a babe in nigeria and you tell her you are a doctor na "eya" she go tell you.

I have no plans fo moving to another country.From here I am coming back home to invest all my savings and also take advantage of the credit facilities here.

I don tire to dey read book.Have been reading since I was 16 when I first got into medical school.If you see me now you will think I am 70 years.Bald and wrinkled fore head.Book don tire me!

deor03:
@blue band
The real problem is most nigerian are pre-occupied with the MONEY issue. I am an engineer and it is a profession i have always dreamt of. I am not one of the best paid engineers , but i love what i do. I can only hope earn more but my first love is what i do. Don't forget that a taxi cab driver will always be a taxi cab driver. As a professional you climb up the ladder in life

Here no one looks at the fact that you are a taxi driver or a plumber.Seriously no one cares.There are families that for generations have worked in pubs and they can tell you everything about beer.

When I first moved to the U.K,I looked at people based on the jobs they did.It took me a while to realise that,that does not matter at all.They have closed the rich/poor gap that it does not really matter what you do.Every job has prospects and you can climb up the ladder too,even as a black cab driver.Most start as apprentices and move up to become Black Cab controllers who earn loads of money.And of course,the enjoy their jobs.

And by the way,what do you think we came to do in England?Enjoy our jobs?Hell NO!Na money me I find come. And if we had the same opportunities in Nigeria or even half,I would have stayed back.Very few African immigrants emigrate for altruistic reasons.

debosky:
I agree with the policy whole heartedly, you need to complete your PhD before getting a full lecturer position.

I-man's assertion on business/commercial courses is not in question, people with acumen and real-world experience can be utilised as knowledge pools to boost what is available in house. . .But they can only offer what they have experienced personally, there is a whole other world of opinion and experience out there that can only be tapped through detailed and focused study/research. Adjunct faculty positions can be created to cater for this niche.

A given number of years (above 10 preferably) experience in the field achieving extraordinary results may be useful as a measure acceptable in lieu of a PhD

In terms of the wider university faculty, the PhD requirement should be upheld, the rules having been on the books for 20 years should have given anyone serious enough about teaching and research to pursue his PhD and complete it.

If you see teaching merely as a pay ticket, then you are definitely in the wrong profession, in addition we need Research people! Even if it isn't 'high quality' at the onset, things will improve and get better over time. If you still pamper Bachelors or Masters degree holders by allowing them to hold lectureship positions because of 'not losing 70% of teaching staff' then I believe the staff should be lost so we know where we truly are - if 70% of staff do not have PhD's then you might as well call it a secondary school or A'level college and not a university.

[b][b]Apart from some mushroom universities and some others in the North (who are producing half baked grads anyways) [/b][/b] I'm sure most of the Federal Uni's have a good quantum of PhD's and a large group pursuing theirs as well. . .this deadline will serve as a push to complete those degrees and get some research published. You'll in all likelihoodnot spend 6/7 years on detailed study of a subject without developing expertise and transferable knowledge.

There are wider problems with the Nigerian educational system no doubt, but this particular policy is well in line with the plans to re-establish basic standards for holding educational/mentorship positions in Nigerian universities which will improve the quality of products down the line.

ABU,UNIJOS,BAYERO UNI,UTHMAN DAN FODIO UNI,UAM MAKURDI,UNI-ILORIN,FUT YOLA,FUT MINNA,BSU MAKURDI,UNIMAID-Tell me which of these northern universities produce half baked graduates.I graduated from a southern university and I compare favourably well to my colleagues who graduated from northern university.

Akolawole:
1) PHD holders cabbing in UK! Cab Drivers earning more than Medical doctors? I disagree with you completely. Do You know how much Cab Driver pay weekly to their controller in the office?

I knew about Cab business in UK, its not like that at all.

Most of them make additional money by claiming Job seekers allowance while doing cabbing.

2) I am speechless in this o. An average 4 bed house in Bromley is £300k. Na wa o.

There is a difference between mini cab drivers and black cab drivers.Mini cab drivers dont make money as they have to pay all sorts and a lot are usually illegal anyway.But black cab drivers who actually own the cabs earn more than the average medical doctor in the U.K.The doctors who earn in excess of £100k/PA are General practitioners.As for Consultants the pay is between £72k-161K/Per Annumn.Registrars earn between £40k-72K/Per Annumn and House Officers can earn as little as £25k/Per annumn depending on the hospital.These are rough estimates.See link below

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=553

But the consultants/GPs make up less than 25% of the total doctor population in the U.K.The rest are Registrars and Staff Grades who earn around £40-55K/Per Annumn.Mind you it takes 6 years to become a doctor and another 6-10 years to become a Consultant depending on your area of specialisation.

Now come to the black cabs.The rate now is £3.00 for the first mile and subsequent miles are charged at £1.30.That is if you are moving freely.So a distance from Ojuelegba to LUTh which is about 2 miles will cost you about £4.30 if there is no go slow.And it is less than 5 minutes.And these drivers are classified as self employed,meaning it is what they declare that they are taxed on.So if you earn £300/day and you say you made only £70 in that day you will be taxed at the lower rate between 10%-22%.Now a doctor earning £55,000/Annumn gets taxed 40%.So tell me who earns more?

deor03:
@mr blueband

do you know also that "escorts" or better still "ashawo " earn about £200/hour in the UK. You can consider your girlfriend trying it.
Rubbish , so because of money you want to drop your degree and become a taxi driver

We are too pre-occupied with titles(my son is a doctor,I am an Engineer,I am an Accountant) in Nigeria.In the west,no one cares what you do for a living,as long as it is legal.With the dearth of plumbers,many city workers are retraining and becoming plumbers to make a killing.Call a plumber at night and you will understand why professionals in the U.K are retraining to become a plumber.Escorts(Ashewos) -that is a moral issue.I can't do that.And it is totally different from cabbing my friend.Until we drop the mentality of paper qualification over technical know how we will never move forward as nation.I heard on this forum that tony elumelu made a third class.Yet he runs one of Nigeria's biggest banks.In the Western world,Universities will be jumping over themselves to get him to lecture their MBA students.And ofcourse he will be paid handsomely,third class or no third class.

Don't get me wrong,I enjoy being a doctor,but if you are looking for the money then believe me jobs like cabbing and plumbing will give you more money when you figure in the time and hard work it takes to become a Consultant in Medicine.

Was also thinking of using Meristem until I saw the thread about their poor service.I am using Futureview now.So far so good.

We learn a lot ffrom forums like this.Who would have believed that I will be using Nairaland for advise on which stocks to invest in.While many people on nairaland are faceless I can assure you that many of these people are specialists in many fields.

I think Nairaland is a good place to bring your problems as long as you remain annonymous.You never know where the solution is!

This is interesting.GDR that was only floated recently you have received the certificate.Maybe because it was floated on the LSE and Diamond Bank is bound by their rules.

Geniall:
@almondjoy

I cannot believe that you have a PhD and are driving a cab in NY. Either you wrote this in jest or there is something wrong with your story. Of course, that could be the career path you have chosen, although I seriously doubt this.

This is nonsense. I am sure you do not mean this to be taken seriously.

Ridiculous, unsubstantiated bollocks again, I say. Why do you make these sweeping statements that ultimately have no meaning?

I agree that the majority of the lecturers in Nigerian government universities have no business being there in the first place. But does that make the requirement of a PhD to lecture an unnecessary measure?

I think not.

Believe it my friend.There are many Nigerian doctors,PHD holders,Engineers cabbing in the U.K.By the way,for your information a black cab driver earns more than the average medical doctor here.There income is around the region of £80,000-£100,000/Per Annumn for the ones that actually own the cabs.I visited a black cab driver the other day at home.He had a five bedroom duplex in Bromley.I asked him how much he earned-he told me on the average he makes about £300 daily.Just a trip from Canary Wharf to Central London in a black cab can cost upto £30.The hospital I work with have a retainership with a cab company so we can use for patient home visits.Just yesterday I took a cab and the bill was £36.I am seriously considering becoming a cabby myself,doctor or no doctor!

Another useless policy.How many lecturers in University of London or Havard have PHDs?

You can research a particular field and be an expert in it without extra paper qualification.

A very good example is in the field of medicine where most lecturers don't have PHDs .

I seriously can't stand it when some people begin to mock others or insult them because they have posted something on Nairaland.This is a forum where anyone can air his views.

@poster.I ll meet with you on yahoo messenger and see how I can be of help.

[quote author=no_shaking link=topic=31554.msg1762378#msg1762378 date=1197456366]Breaking News!!! Just a brief diversion!!

James Ibori has just been arrested by EFCC - finally o! [/quote]Is he stockbroker?Or will his arrest have any effect on the NSE?Please let us know ooo

@Unleashed-do you by chance live in West Thamesmead? Why are you worried about them posting your cheque to you?

This Okechukwu guy probably was born and bred in England.There are loads of them in London.Due to no fault of theirs,they have never been to Africa not to talk of Nigeria.Won't blame them if they speak only "fune"

Do you think you are depressed?I doubt it.With depresion comes Nihilistic delusions which is close to what you have described,but not it exactly.But Nihilistic delusions are usually seen in people who have severe depression.In severe depression trust me you wont have the energy to even visit nairaland not to talk of starting a topic.

My question is:Are you hearing voices telling you ,you are going mad?Or are these thoughts from within your head.

I can't for sure say what you are sufferring from,but if I was to guess,I will put my hand on acute stress disorder.
Some very low dose anti-psychotic might help.One week prescription.But in the interim I ll rather go for an anxiolytic,for one week.

You will need to see a doctor to prescribe this medication for you.And it is best you see a doctor.I am only advising you and not responsible for your actions if you decide to use these medications without clinical assesment first.

Is it a dry cough?Any fever?Any night sweats?Any weight lose?
Most times it is usually an irritant somewhere around where you live or work.
You will need to see a doctor if it persits.

you will need to see a psychiatrist and/or a psychologists.
Desensitization is the main stay of treatment.Where you are gradually exposed to the stimulus until you get used to it and it does not cause you any anxiety.In the interim medication can be prescribed to help in acute distressing situations.

See a doctor!

Took a friend of mine to a restuarant the other day.He had just arrived from Nigeria.As it was in the morning I ordered a full english breakfast for both of us.When it arrived I told my friend there was pork in it as he is a muslim.He then proceeded to ask what the pork was and I pointed at the bacon.Before I could say jack robinson he beckoned to the waitress to change his "pork bacon" to "chicken or goat bacon".

If you work with white people and you speak in your own accent,they find it hard to understand what you are saying.I think after some years you kind of get used to imitating them when you are at work or in school.
The problem comes when you move back to your own community and try to continue talking like that.With my patients I try to speak "fune'" but when I am back in my home or with my Nigerian brothers ,I speak normally and sometimes people ask me in Nigeria-"After so many years in london you still dey talk like us sha"

Once you have passed the age of 9,it is almost impossible to change your accent.

Have you tried FHI?
What is your background?Are you a medical doctor?Is your research topic in anyway related to the developing tropics?

Whats your email?I might be able to send you emails of some people you can contact.

Regards

I think we are beginning to see the end of The Guardian

For a party?

It can be difficult when you love someone and the person doesn't ,as it appears in your case.I think you should continue stressing yourself and pestering her.You will eventually see the way to follow.She will either become tired of you and tell you to Bleep off or you will see the light and let her be.But you need to experience it first,no matter what people tell you here,you will still pick your phone and call her later tonight,and ofcourse,she will not pick.