₦airaland Forum

Oluwasaeon:
God gave you the name 'honeypot' ? What kind of nonsense is this ?

Imagine, how she dragged God into her self-afflicted insanity....

What is even going on in this world........it's like I am lost.

Or is she sane and I am the one who's insane.

HBB1:
It's not all about money to be honest. But common sense is needed, except you are very sure that's your path. If you are sure no wahala, time will always tell.
You don't go about changing anything when you have not developed strength or girth, situations will overwhelm you!
Have you read the parable of the 10 virgins...? ''it will not be enough for you, it will not be enough for them''
You have talked about China Achebe and Wole Soyinka...
Their generation was a wonderful one-- they were in their 20s and were already renowned playrights, Colonels ( in the army), senators... Nzeogwu was 27 and masterminded a coup, 27!
Why?
It was just that generation, they were the ones equipped to fill the gap left by the British.
It could have been wonderful still in the country except for bad governance. Now our young ones can not even dream anymore, they just have to make the best of every situation.
Do you think Anthony Joshua will be where he is if he had grown up in Nigeria, or the many underprivileged nationalities doing well in the developed world?
If someone has the chance to improve himself, let him go, he can always come back when he has

People like me don't dwell on the bad things about Nigeria. We derive strength from what we are doing to make it work. And yes, I have got 150% conviction about my path.

I can't remember asking anyone not to leave bro. On the other hand, I don't believe that any country is better than Nigeria.

Is Anthony Joshua the greatest to come out of Nigeria? Leaving a indebible legacy has nothing to do with generation or British training.

These things are about convictions, principles and consistency.

Even if you dash me the whole of America, it won't change nothing.

HBB1:
I was a 'Nigeria-or-nothing' kinda person for as long as I can remember. I was begged for years on end by siblings to relocate, but I was naive, very naive!

I have seen many promising, bright young Nigerians suffering because they lack opportunity. Their dreams dashed, their aspirations crushed. They now have to settle for whatever comes their way.

There is nothing like 'one-man-army' in life. Your life is dependent on where you were born, the generation you were born and the family you were born into. I believe everybody should read Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' to get the scales of their eyes!

Do you know how much some Western trained specialists that come back to Nigeria charge or earn? As little as 4million per month to as much as 9million, depending on speciality. ( And that's possibly one hospital)

About building the country, you have to understand timing. If you get ahead of yourself, you fail. If you are miss the time, you fail. A man can prepare all his life for 4 years of destiny! That's akin to sharpening an axe for 4 hours and chopping down the tree in 30mins.

Knowing what I know now, I can never advise anyone to stay back if he has the chance to travel out. He can always come back you know. He can always come back haven acquired skills and built his capacity.
By the way do you know how frustrating it is practising 'stone age' medicine in this country? A place where doing the basic test s is an issue because of poverty.

Please there is no one-man-army anywhere, you can't do better than the system you operate in!

Well, that is good for you.

I don't see how it is a one-man-army ideology anyway.

One does not have to earn N4million or more monthly to make lasting impact that helps humanity.

You don't have to reduce Nigeria's medical system to ground zero to make a point. We can only improve, and its humans that will help achieve that, not spirits.

Whatever Malcolm Gladwell has written in Outliers is within his experience, imagination and knowledge. However, as you know, knowledge is boundless hence his submission can't apply in all scenarios, as it were.

Like I said before, these things lie on choices and convictions.

We do not all need to go abroad to reach our fullest potentials in knowledge, accomplishment and impact on humanity.

HBB1:
My dad did the same in the 70s... Got his PHD in record time, was begged to stay back by the authorities, but came back all the same ( besides Nigeria was doing ok then).
40 years after my sister asked him if he regretted doing so, which he bluntly replied, 'yes!'
All he kids are making the second missionary journey back there again now sha, and trying to revamp the years a failed system has wasted!
Will this be the same story for everybody? Of course not!
However if you aren't sure, follow the common sensical knowledge that you can't do better better than the system in which you operate.
Place geniuses in a failed system, and they will fail.
Place average people in a good one and they will succeed.

Let me stick around your point that the story can't be the same for everybody.

I am also sure you will agree with me if I rephrased 'place geniuses in a failed system, and they will fail' cos not all geniuses will fail. Some will certainly make the most of it.

For me as an individual, nothing counts more than a good legacy, regardless of where you are.

We saw Soyinka, Achebe, Mandela and Malala Yousafzai shoot up to global reckoning from selfless works they did for their countries.

I think that there must certainly be a meeting point between traveling overseas to get a better life and appreciating the reality that no one will fix Africa for us.

Offpoint1:
Like I always said, Nigerian are their own problems until we realize that this nation will never move an inch of progress.

A potential individual [Nigerian] brought two options on the table, one of which is beneficial to Nigeria and other which is totally of no benefits to Nigeria and Nigerians... to my greatest surprise, all comments from Nigerians above and below is advising he leaves. They don't even know genius doctors will soon go extinct in Nigeria because they're leaving the shore almost everyday.

My question is How will Nigeria be great when Nigerians are advising all the already threatened brains to leave? Each time they leave the more useless and endanger Nigerian health sector becomes.

Sometimes is not what your country can do for you, it's what you can do for your country.

Your house is on fire, instead of us to seek for solutions on how to quench the fire, we ran to relax in our neighbors abode.

I know everyone deserves the best out of life, everyone wants the best out of life, but sometimes in life we have to make sacrifices which aren't convenient but are worth it.

Op, I know if you leave, your probabilities of coming back is zero to none. remember the lives you've saved so far with the little available resources to you. think of lives that will lost when you're not there to contribute... is it really worth it?
If you have intentions of coming back, there's nothing wrong if you go for your masters outside the shore, but it'll be inhume if you don't return after witnessing what your people are going through.


like I always wrote on my facebook wall and whatsapp status... "If your ambition in life is to go to school, graduate, get a job, build a house, get a car, get a wife and bore kids... then you don't know your purpose of existence"


I know I'm offpoint, that's what everyone thinks of me... but I'm always on the right path, so please don't quote to insult me if your IQ is lower than my UBA account balance. if you care to know, it's N32.00

Though lengthy but I seriously get your point.

To be double sure I did, your position is that he should go abroad on the account to improve himself and come back to avail his country of his premium expertise...and not just stay back in a medical system that is very functional whereas the real needs reside here in Africa.

I think you are a very smart and patriotic individual. I am so surprised that we still have your kind.

I will tell you my short story. Four years ago, I went abroad to train on a novel technology that is currently benefiting the world; and which has a much bigger prospect in Africa. During the training, the team abroad discovered that they needed to keep me and asked if I wanted to stay. Nothing dem nor do..... You won't believe that I declined to stay back in North America because I imagined the huge losses that would happen back home in Africa if I remained overseas. I imagined how much opportunities would be lost if I stayed back. I felt that the continent would collapse without me. I felt I would be judged by that.....the feeling was intense and indescribable.

Not minding that the foreign team was willing to get my young family to join me abroad, I had to come back and try to do something to help my country and continent.

Not everyone can be like that. We are different people. You won't believe that I still consider that as the best decision I have made in life.

So...I truly understand you...but still, we all don't have the same drives and dreams.

seguno2:
In whatsoever that you do, learn to be diligent so that your ambience will truly be cool and not as fake as Buhari’s integrity.

I guess in your mind, this 'nonsense' qualifies to be written on marble.

mungoparks:
And na person wey no even reach that guy one cent dey fcvk you,go with your ode- ism.

Money doesn't make a man.

If you know you know.

Apple2:
If the car was bought with her name on documents they is no way the person wl collect it back, even thou is not with her name she can still do change of ownership immediately and still refuse to give the man pussy if she doesn't want to share her thing, is simple, and he cant do anything,

Wetin this one dey talk?

seguno2:
There is no First Lady in our country. Please update yourself.

I am referring to the title not the office.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha_Buhari&ved=2ahUKEwi9ztnxxYjhAhXLThUIHVzGBeMQFjAOegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1xUAn4o5s7YS4A65qKrxir

Oga Oversabi, you should be the one updating yourself.

seguno2:
You have said it all- just like our useless politicians led by our president. How can we change them to be more responsible for us

And you believe you are responsible with this kind of comment right?

Aren't you aware that both the first lady and Mrs Osinbajo have visited? Or what do you make of Gov. Ambode visit?

obembet:
Thank you brother. You will see some fool shouting next level and atikulated up-and-down. God will open thier eyes

Have the president's and vice president's wives not visited them already? Including Gov. Ambode.

Abi talk just hungry you?

pode:
Amaechi go and seat down

Oga, is 'sit' not seat.

Cherrybae:
Must you know him. Is he not a Rivers indigene, did INEC not clear him.

The Riverines voted massively for AAC. Wike is not coming for a second time.

I am with you on this.

Amaechi and Wike should shift abeg.

Their wahala don do. They aren't the only people from Rivers state.

Wike bulldozed his way into the Brick House in 2015....so if he's going to be bulldozed out, I do not see any 'haram' in that.

namiji2598:
so because south east did not vote for u,u ar doing these to punish them?
were u expecting all the zones to vote for a single candidate
mumu president
ashamed of my president

Wetin this go drink or smoke?

God please help am o......

BlacSmit:
Cancelling or denying shell an operating license won't help clean up Niger delta.

The people of Niger delta needs to be oriented about pipeline vandalism and it effect on the ecosystem.

Who should give the Niger Delta people that orientation on effects of pipeline vandalism and crooked crude refining methods on the environment?

Cue4rm:
Baba Buhari is just using this country to test run is empty skull.
Such a dull old man, I pity him shaa.

You be wetin Igbo people dey call....eti mpataka.

ayodaisi:
Igbo amaka

Lol.

Dis pass Amaka o....na Ajoka.

Shame wan kill me...

Ndi ala!

KGD10:
Far better than the Orji godfather of dirtiest place in the world called Abia state.

Lol.

Jayslicky:
We lift ourselves by lifting others, it's a good deed by Jim, if every celeb can be like him, children dropping out of school will be reduced, while many celebs are spending their money on frivolities Jimi is building another human's life, God bless Jimi.

I agree with you bro. Your point is very valid.

However, make we nor forget the fact say nor be these celebrities born the children wey dey drop out of schools. E no concern anybody if any adult decide say na frivolity e wan spend him money on. Abi how you think am? Make people try to stop to dey bring children wey dem nor fit cater for, come world come dey suffer.

Parents can do better by having fewer number of kids and probably enrolling them in schools that they can afford.

Reason am na....I nor make sense?

naijaguy1234:
Government schools are free, why send your kids to a private school if you can't pay.

My bro, I taya.

Some people too like disgrace sef.

Is it not the same JAMB, WAEC, NECO etc, that private and public schools write?

19grigri:
Boss man
If man city jam that your Barca
Probability of em beating you home and away is 60%

Story!

geo4c:
Buhari must be stop no matter what

Wetin this one dey talk?


Mtcheww.

scantee:
LOL see who is talking... Maybe you should research about who you quote well ok

Mtcheww.


Are you NLNG's CEO?

Evangkatsoulis:
so Kante can't mark messi?

Lol....no be only Kante.

Promking:
Anything Buhari dey vex me

Come, make I show you where naked transformer dey....

scantee:
Bro no he today earth moving start ooo, eventually nothing will happen, is all deceptive..

My friend, can you be quiet and let people who know something about the NLNG T7 talk?

Nawa o!

tj2018:
OP please don't misinform the public. The Feed is in progress and it was awarded 8 months ago. I work with one of the consortium based in port harcourt. the implementation begins after the design approval. please use a proper heading

When non-engineers / technologists and ignorant people talk online sometimes, I dey just waka pass.

Everybody wan talk....most of them know next to nothing about NLNG and its operations.

meccuno:
all these for me?

No vex...I will reduce it. Lol.

DeLaRue:
The eye-opener here is that artists' earnings are quite modest. An A-list Nigerian artist goes all the way to Turkey to perform for something like $6k, which is then shared amongst 3 or more people.

So, all the Bentleys, Range Rovers and flashy lifestyle they post on social media? How is that lifestyle funded

And see the way they were monitoring each other & sharing a few thousand dollars show by show, piece meal by piece meal like market women (no disrespect to market women intended). When will Nigerians do business in a professional way. Why aren't these monies going into a central pot and shared as dividends / profit, say every 3 months. But then again, the accountant /manager in charge will probably steal some. What a country. What a people.

Smart guy!

tooth4tooth:
See America many Nigerians are dying to go, is where another Nigeria man is begging to leave.Hmmm! The grass is not always green on the other side

My bro, no where easy o.

Who no go, no know.

I recieved the shock of my life when I had to hand the food I bought to eat while in a long road trip in North America to a beggar and her young child.

No be as we dey think am e be o. No food for a lazy man if you like run go heaven.

asha80:
are you sure to quoted the right person?look at it again

I am so sorry. I think I did not.

Forgive me.

meccuno:
How do you know that?

You must be a very ignorant fellow!

A festival that was so hugely publicized and which featured several A-list musicians in the country.

Instead of doing a small Google search of the festival...u dey ask 'how did you know that?'

Mtcheww.