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Shookonekilla:
This is why the graduates are unemployable

Nigeria is a dead country

This is why graduates are even as employable as they are. In foreign schools they run business to support themselves because they know student fees can't fund researches and government can't be equally burdened with research funding. Let the VC go and sit down.
Even here in Nigeria, Landmark University has business interests and proceeds of these businesses fund the school partly.

HigherEd:
''How creative can they be and what else can they do? Nigerian Universities literally have become business outlets. Universities are selling table water, running bakeries and commercial bus services or guest house services. This is no way to run a university. It can never fund universities. The bottom line is that as long as universities are not sufficiently funded to do basic teaching and research, they cannot function.

There is nothing special here to me. Universities are suppose to impart knowledge and character on graduates. If the universities can't then bring these examples they set in terms of business knowledge and character to run ventures that will keep them afloat, what are they giving certificates for?
Foreign schools are into business ventures and since we compare ourselves to foreigners at every slight chance it will be fair we do what they do to survive.

To me the most pressing need of the system is blocking of leakages. Even if the business deliver trillions in profit, leakages can still bring the system down.

MicroSweet:
As in, he opened fire on a group of innocent people? Those animals should be caught and skinned alive. Sounds like a movie. No respct for human life.

The separators of fight are probably loyal cult member to one of the cultists who acted in team spirit. I don't buy the idea of so much Jews being killed like that.

Xoxoxigan:
celebrating a graduation party at a bar before the fight started

Let's face facts, 70% of the victims are probably cultists and cultism isn't stamped on the forehead so everyone will surely claim Jewish bloodline after the dust has settled.

owobokiri:
When this nonsense started to get out of hand during the babangida regime, instead of the government to come hard on these rats, they were handled with kid gloves because they are always their for the bidding of the men in power..., now this. Cultists are in command of almost every sensitive sector of this country but you wont know. Their ability to help members up the carder after school has been more effective than is reported. Even outside Nigeria, you get calls from young Nigerians begging you to help out cos some Nigerians he is owing are trying to use cult guys to eliminate him. In obodo oyibo ooh... I personally Know of a former classmate in the uni notorious for his cult activities who later joined the force and was posted as the head of an anti cult unit in one of the states! i aint making it up. Nigeria is highly and comprehensively fukked..

This is why we need more reforms in our uni system. We need less admission gainers with connection, more closed campuses because most open campus freedom is for cult activities.
We can't keep promoting street mentality in campuses and society and now turn around to condemn cultism. it is a paradox.

Xoxoxigan:
they weren't cultist

And what were they doing with so much cultist?

Did the embattled registrar resign or was sacked self.... Whichever ways, he should have acted more responsibly.

Nigerians and hardship mentality.

Was she aware it was even forged in the first place?
This is an issue of trust and the government to failed to spot an alleged fake certificate until it was late. May be there should be an open platform for checking validity of certificates.

HigherEd:
I think wealth should be measured by the circumstance of the populace, especially in context of a country like Nigeria where pulic servants amass wealth belonging to the nation into their private quarters.

Any parameter that accesses the even spread of wealth may see small countries like rwanda, madagascar besting Nigeria.

I support this. wealth should be measured by per capita income and not aggregate national wealth. 10 men can own 50% of the wealth in one nation and another poorer nation can have a better wealth spread across citizens.

Where is Osun Lagos and Ekiti?

NaijaMutant:
If Nigeria is the 3rd richest African Nation by this report


And Nigeria is also the poorest nation on earth by Theresa May.

I can succinctly put it that Nigeria is the richest poor nation on earth

God save our soul from devourers

Rich in terms of aggregate wealth but poor in terms of per capita wealth. The report tallies with Teresa May's submission.

Ugosample:
my family have significant holdings in dangote cement

I personally have good holdings in dangote cement too

But that's by the way side.

I know the antecedent of dangote cement and how they evolved over the decade, and it's far different from what others say, especially my kinsmen about Dangote cement


Dangote made that paradigm shift from importing to local production, building that plant in Kogi state and all, while others (especially dem ibeto ) were just content with importation

When the time for us to make that shift, the cement importers were burned while those who were ready to produce at home got bumper benefits

And the shareholders have been happy ever since LMAO


even Dangote sugar was also a game changer, because dangote 's vision of shifting from importation of sugar to sugar refining in Nigeria in 1998, spending millions of USD then to actualize that dream.

When a business man takes big risks or ambitious projects like that, it's only natural for the govt to support him in one way or the other, which is done world wide.

Dangote has my respect ANY time anyday because I know the TRUTH, not what people are saying about him, and he makes my family richer too

Now dangote has taken a big risk in opening a refinery, and he was not the only one who was given licences to do so, but where are the others?

tomorrow his refinery will do well and they will accuse him if patronage of govt again.

The man enjoys unusual protection and in my estimation that is responsible for substantial part of his wealth.

Ugosample:
did you call Dangote an artificial billionaire? ?


This guy is tripping o

if you knew about Dangote the way I do, you will not call him an "artificial" billionaire

The whole of Africa knows him as an artificial billionaire. The protection he gets from government is well known in the African economic space. His cement story is plain and simple.

Timewilltell2:


Ipbob pig, I'm not surprised by your stupidity and hate too

Hmmm . . . your kidney must be in your skull. carry on with your Nigerian supremacist envagelism
..

SarcasticGenius:
Functional illiteracy. Madrassas which don't give aboki children formal education and which turns them into almajiri street beggars have now been elevated to "schools" in this one's eyes. Oya go madrassa go learn medicine or engineering.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnZZ4VtW0AAYVQH.jpg

Your own genius revolves arounds sarcasm abi ? or you are just mocking yourself unknowingly?

@topic, The Islamic schools have always been sold to illiterate brainwashed folks as the real education Allah wants them to have. This way, they see themselves as superior to those having any level of the wrong type of education (professor, PhD, masters, degree, diploma) inclusive. The irony is that the rich among them hardly go for Allah's recommended education as they tag it.

Timewilltell2:
Says who? . Have they visited Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe , these countries have the most illiterate and dumb people than Nigeria.

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Hedonini:
Lol, this is 100% true, but I'm sure you're honest enough to admit that these kinds of people barely exist in the rarified world of illicitly high earning corporate Mafiosi in our Nigeria. Theyre certainly not in the NLNG where they pay fresh (highly connected rather than talented) graduates 1.6m per month. That's my grouse really. The polluted, corrupt, and provocative regime of compensation in Nigeria's corporate space where pay is disproportionately higher than talent/value added.

I strongly share the bold with you. In Nigeria connection overrides talent and such talent I have been highlighting hardly stand a chance in
Nigeria.

Hedonini:
Well, I agree with this to a considerable extent. But this isn't often the case in Nigeria... The percentile of the kind of outliers you describe here (who bring almost existential value to the companies they work for) is less than 5%. But then, it's annoying when fortunate mediocres try to justify their outsized pay checks by claiming some special 'indispensable' skills or qualifications.

It isn't often the case in the world out there but the main thing is there are truly special breeds of experts who carry potential to create mind-bugling amount of wealth. And when I mean wealth creator I am not talking of characters like Dangote whom I think is an artificial billionaire created by the government. I am talking of skilled professional who groomed themselves in that realm.

Imagine this other scenario. Sahara desert region of Africa is now being deserted heavily due to desertification and deforestation. This can be remedied in a number of ways but one way I discovered that is being used in some Arid nations is desalination of huge volume of sea water. Desalination is needed because sea water is saline ( contains salt ) and has been achieved at a cost of aboiut half us dollar per cubic meter of water, but who will pioneer such a humongous project that can change Africa forever?
The answer will be individuals who have dedicated themselves to the study of fields relevant to achievement of this huge task.
Now such brains will likely end up as researchers and employees to any investor bold enough to dare such an investment because government is often to divided and shortsighted to undertake such.

We now have Christians defending demons as having right to express themselves. Pathetic civilization I call it.

Hedonini:
This scenario would make me a solopreneur rather than a typical employee. I'm basically rendering services for a humongous amount of money on a retainer for a defined period (only 5 years, and can renegotiate anything on my own terms). I wouldn't be bound by organisational rules, or code of conduct, and all the other restrictions and B.S that comes with being an employee. Instead, as an independent actor, I'll be judged strictly by mutually agreed deliverables/output. This is basically the same thing many service/consulting business rendering a service for other businesses do.

This is not the same thing as a mere salaried employee slaving away at a job in spite of his so-called special skills.

You just said your own mind but even at that I don't believe you.

No this is another probable scenario.
Artificial intelligence is a relative new and evolving field and has been impacting all aspect of industries. It has been shown that AI can help to better monitor oil wells and improve the overall efficiency of these well over their lifetime.
If you, Hedonini, have the required formula of AI to deliver this services to an oil well with enough reserve, Will you try to own an oil well as a solopreneuer or try to offer it to the oil wells owner?

The emphasis here is being in a vantage position to fulfill your potential of wealth creation.
Be honest with this one when you finally reply.

Remember this trend is very common in STEM based career path. The big industries in this world depend on brains to run but those brains hardly try to stand on their own because the cost of competing with established brands is astronomical and the venture itself is risky.

Slay queen politician . . .
Hope she has more than a smile to offer.

Poverty and insecurity now has marketers . . . Next is terrorism and sharia marketers when he gets second term.

In Intl politics the body language of the influential figures can determine the tide.

Old but relevant news...

Any arrangement that gives the south an opportunity to fraternize unsupervised by northern element will likely lead to a break up by southern Nigeria.

The most important thing the North needs from the south is access to sea port and water. By water I mean supply of salty sea water to the desert sahara at large. Technology has improved so much that sea water can be desalinated ( freed of salt ) at commercially viable rate of about half US dollar per cubic meter.

The northern elite and brainwashed army of idle hands and minds stand between the theory and practicals of these ideas (mine and OPs).

FG under Buhari and the Northern obsession . . . We have no working refineries and subsidy was reported at over N60/Litre just yesterday.

Buhari should stop dictating ineffective moves to dormant and corrupt agencies...

He may wish to tell us between these port-linking rails and the one from katsina to Niger Republic, which comes first? u

Ayo5991:
nice one sir,,sir u said study on the word of God more sir can u point out some bible passage to study that we help ;pray for more grace to u that u may finish Dis topic.

All parts of the word of God is good for study.
The world is largely a spiritual world and the physical thing the bible talks of are merely analogy of this unseen spiritual world. People get confused by the analogies and take them for boring stories.
Study the word all round if you must choose some part you can choose any but keep studying.

Hedonini:
So a person has this much potential, ability and skills, yet they are docile and diffident enough to remain mere salaried employees? If they're so sure of their special skills, why not use it as solopreneurs (if not outright entrepreneurs) to make the money on their own?

Yes there are people who carry this much potential. Do you drink Milo ( popular cocoa beverage instant drink ) ?
If you do next time look at the sachet well there is a special malt formula called "Protomalt" that is largely responsible for the unique properties of Milo and this formulae is worth billions of dollars to them because it virtually controls their market share and revenue from Milo.
Now if you, Hedonini happen to be biochemist researcher and you come up with a formula as good as that of the Milo's Protomalt, will you attempt to go into cocoa beverage production as a solopreneuer with next to no capital and market brand reputation OR you will take a 10 million usd per month contract job with Cadbury (Nestle Milo's Rival ) for the next 5 years ? Will you be tempted to even think about this kind of opportunity if it presents itself to you?

Please be honest in your answers.

Indeed . . .
How can a man be sharing food and the money meant to provide roads water and structures for all?
These lazy folks sit down in one shade to preach that their poverty is fate from god but wants to eat money meant for our amenities.

APC and lies . . . Which crop is he planting self? Harvest time hasn't come and dude is making billions.