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Eve looks igbo by the way.

Ray J and Reggie Bush look Yoruba.

By the way, Wesley Snipes looks my Dad and he happens to be my dad's favorite actor.

You presented nothing specific, no outline, no policy just ramblings, you remind me of Timothy Geithner (US Treasury secetary) who went in front of congress and everybody was expecting him to come up with a specific plan to save the US financial system and instead he was talking in broad terms and markets just kept on tanking. Next time, don't tell us something we don't already know.

study in asia instead https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-154714.0.html

Please, don't be pretentious. Our culture is to be naked, so there. We were naked before the british came so what are you talking about? All you hypocrites make me laugh.

sugabelly, ok so let us go back to marrying 10 wives now

WOMEN MAKE UNA LISTEN WELL, WELL, GO FIND YOURSELF A GOOD MAN WHO DOES NOT LEAD YOU DOWN THE WRONG PATH AND THAT RESPECTS AND NEVER EVER LAYS HIS HANDS ON YOU (that doesn't mean you should provoke him because not all men have self control). LOOK AT WHITNEY HOUSTON, PROBABLY THE MOST TALENTED SINGER TO EVER WALK THE EARTH (with all due respect to Aretha and Mariah) AND SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A MAN THAT RUINED HER CAREER BY INTRODUCING HER TO DRUGS AND BEAT HER. NOW SEE WHERE SHE IS TODAY.

ACCORDING TO THE BUREAU OF LABOR CENSUS 89% OF BLACKS ARE MARRIED TO BLACKS. so you people stop making useless conjecture.

You really think so? i don't think lagos was that pretty back then. Worse, Ibadan still looks very awful as of when i left naija.

What was Anichebe doing oitside the window looking like a thief in the night. He deserved the treatment and he should blame himself for looking like a street urchin.

SAURON, he doesn't look like a street urchin to me, what are you?? a lover of all things white? I am guessing you are one of those people Malcolm X refered to as the house Negro. In the US we call people like you Uncle Tom. You really seem to be suffering from inferiority complex, always kissing the white man's ass. I am sure you are one of those people who would have justified apartheid (let us live on there own and let them live on there own). By the way, if the UK is the most tolerable country by a mile why don't you have a black PM? we have our own President where is you people's own. Nonsense.

yep, you are right we are the ones that caused this whole financial meltdown. I spoke to the guy in charge of the quant program in my school and he was like this is a bad time to be a quant and from what i read some time ago congress is going to be investigating the quant's role in the financial disaster. I have also read so many articles of how we caused this financial meltdown especially with VAR model and so on. From what i read, even with the bad reputation of financial engineers, it seems there are more and more students joining in. I read about a guy at a who went to a quant seminar at MIT and the hall was packed and the journalist covering the story was stunned how people were not stunned by it.

Berkeley said if i want to come study financial engineering at there school, that i needed to be proficient in Gauss, SAS, C++, PDE, Linear Algebra, Engineering probability theory, all this i have not done because i am not coming from Engineering school.

It's hard being black out there. Come back to Naija where your respect will be fully guaranteed.

aloy.emeka, yes o, some years ago when Ariel Sharon was PM of Israel and there was a percieved wave of anti-semitism in France, the man called on all Jews in France to come back to Israel and the French govt. was pissssssed. They had to condemn the man. For African man, wetin he fit do than to stay kampe and swallow the maltreatment. Can't you see what goes on in China or other parts of Europe to blacks.

ezeagu, what good has culture done but drive wedges between us and make us kill each other just because we don't speak the same native language, what a shame.

@poster, do math. If you study math, you will be very very versatile, you can do anything in grad school be it engineering, economics or finance. You can go for PhD at the london school of economics or go study financial engineering (quantitative finance) at the university of california, berkeley.

goodness me, i want to be a quant also and i am applying to so many grad schools but i am still not sure i might get in because i am not an engineering or physics major.

This is why Jamaicans stop watching Nigerians Movies.
They are saying that Nigerians believe in too much Juju.
and they have it in too many of their movies.


Question: if Juju is real, why can't these people who do Juju
use it to make Nigeria a better place and a World power?
just my silly little question.

EHN!!! YOU MEAN THAT JAMAICANS WATCH NOLLYWOOD, UNBELIEVABLE.

goodness me, why can't the govt do something to help this people.

moyola, you are big clown ha ha ha, i am in the library no make people think say i don craze o.

go to obamicon.me website to make your own t-shirt.

xavier, what i am trying to say is that if the govt sponsors this kids, then they automatically have a J-1 visa which means that immediately after school, they are sent back home and no american company can hire them.

Also, education does not seem to be a priority for mr. fashola at all, he seems to be planting trees and building skyscrapers left and right instead of focusing on the fact that lagos has one of the worst public school systems in the world. All it takes is just 120 million dollars to build a world class medical school (20 for faculty and 100 for the facility) and a lot less for an engineering college but the man does not seem to be bothered about that at all. It seems that the people advising him are not innovative at all, they are just some people who live in yanki (mostly from new york or texas) and came back and wanted to bring yanki back with them without realizing how different both places are.

he he he

What's the craze about foreign education. Can't this very intelligent, but undigent, students be granted scholarships to study in OAU, UI, UNN, ABU etc.

and learn what?? Xavier, what are this people learning? You obviously have not been outside the country to a really good university or you would understand that there is a huuuuuuuuuuuuge gap in our universities and the one here especially in science. Imagine, the average Nigerian graduate can't even use Microsoft Excel or Powerpoint to make matters worse, engineering students don't even know how to use matlab or Java and he is supposed to be a student.

Xavier, look at what they are doing in the medical field in other countries, then come back and talk.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863993,00.html

NO WAY ITS SOLELY A PRIVATE VENTURE. THE STATE GOVT DEFINITELY HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. The funny thing is that nobody has disclosed who the private investors are. No private investor would want to invest on speculation that westerners would move in to make Lagos a business centre like London. Besides, even if it some Nigerian bank doing it, it would be a very risky investment because its based on speculation.

Look people, what Fashola is doing is wrong it is an example of putting the carriage before the horse. Its not the govts job to create wealth and build skyscrapers (business district or whatever they call it) hoping that rich westerners would come there, this is what happened in Thailand and other Asian countries and it failed. Go to Thailand and you would see empty skyscrapers. What happens when demand is a lot less than supply then? My friend in Dubai said the real estate bubble in Dubai just busted. This guys were doing the same thing that Fashola is now doing and guess what? all those skyscrapers they kept building nobody is leaving in it. Its the job of the govt to facilitate the creation of wealth by providing basic public goods like constant power supply, a sophisticated transportation network to boost commerce, and creating a well educated labor market which this guy is not doing. We can't become like America overnight. Fashola should have a bottom up approach by focussing on basic projects to boost the standard of living of people like access to clean water, rural development through agriculture and the electrification of the rural areas so as to provide so as to boost the standard of living of the people. It is all this factors that lead to a rich country. What is the purpose of building shiny skyscrapers when you have street hawkers begging foreigners with suits and ties to buy pure water or Nupe traders selling "guguru and epa" on the street next to a business executive in a maybach. This is the same problem in South Africa, the country might have a high GDP what is the PCI (per capita income)? With all there skyscrapers, you have the highest crime rate in the world because of people who move from rural areas to the city and wind up living in ghettos and because of lack of opportunity start committing crimes. Let's not jump the gun here by going ahead of ourselves instead of focusing on the things that matter the most, the average citizen and NOT the foreign investors or the elites and the nigerians coming back from abroad.
The govt should leave the building of the skyscrapers to the private sector and focus on our pathetic public school system. All it costs to have a world class medical school is $120 million dollars (20 for faculty and 100 for the facility). This would cost a lot less in Nigeria because of lower labor costs and permits cost. A world class engineering college costs less than that but i don't see Fashola focusing on that. He is focusing on planting flowers instead, you can put a make up on a burned victim but you still cannot hide the scars. You can build all the houses in Lagos all you want but what's the need when nobody can afford it.

tpia, thanks a lot, man when i hear all this tribalism nonsense it is sooooooooo extremely annoying and childish, that's one of the reasons that i am happy to be where i am. It is amazing how adults get into stupid arguements about tribes and about which ethnic group matters. Unbelievable!!!

debosky, you don't understand, electrification is the same thing as producing power supply. Also, in every developed country, the elites are not the drivers of economic growth, its the middle class. The gap between the wealthy and the common man on the street keeps getting wider and wider, and the number of people getting into the middle class is not enough. 70% of lagosians live below the poverty line let's not forget that. You might not be one of them but they are human beings also.

I am not saying that we should be feeding this people or clothing them. There is a saying that goes like this "give a man a fish and he would come back the next day to ask for more but teach him how to fish and he would never come back again" (or something like that). What i am simply saying is that in Nigeria unlike the developed world, we have A PERMANENT UNDERCLASS and in order to shift this people up the socio-economic ladder we should invest in them by providing free world class education for them. For example, our public school system is one of the worst in the world, why not invest heavily in it. When you have schools like Ansarudeen secondary school in nigeria, you can't go to this school and become the next Sergey Brin (founder of google), it just doesn't happen that way. If you provide very good schools and enforce the laws that every child under 16 must go to school that would reduce the number of hawkers on the street.

Another way of reducing hawkers is through agriculture. When Nigeria abandoned agriculture in the 70's because of oil, a lot of youths moved from the rural areas and migrated to the cities looking for opportunities and because of the lack of opportunities, they became touts, armed robbers and prostitutes. If the Fashola's govt can focus on agricultural education. For example, a one month forum in every LGA in lagos state where they invite agricultural experts from abroad to teach local farmers new agricultural techniques. This coupled by a move by the state govt to provide free tractors for rural farmers would go a very long way. If the govt can give loans to people in rural areas through community banks this would help more people buy land get heavily involved in agriculture, but steps should be taken to avoid rich people crowding out the rural people from owning land and being able to compete or else we would have another south america on our hands. Now, back to the power supply issue, if the state govt can provide rural areas with constant power supply and declare all rural areas tax free zones, industries would be opening up left and right especially light industries like textile and food processing plants. This along with a great transportation system were the people in the rural areas can take there products to the urban areas and sell them or to the ports for exports would create a lot of jobs and you would see the agberos going back to work in the rural areas. Nobody would want to migrate to the city where costs of living is higher because there is constant electricity in the village, there is standard affordable healthcare, there are jobs and most importantly you have world class primary and secondary schools in the villages.

The fact that the Nigerian educational system is pathetic beyond measure is one of the biggest understatements, instead of Fashola sending this people abroad so that they can get a proper education he is cutting the scholarships, he would rather spend the money planting trees and building skyscrapers.

BTW ,why would anyone be sending money abroad

Maybe to pay for your kids tuition.

By the way, currency devaluation could be a great thing if nigeria were an export economy like china and japan (remember its because of the devaluation of the yena and the yuan, chinese and american companies are about to put there american counterparts out of business) but it isn't unfortunately, soludo can solve the problem by reducing the money supply which would consequently increase interest rates and this high interest rate would make nigeria very attractive to the nigerian economy who want a higher rate of return on there investments.

CANDYLIPS, i see that you have the black box formula, but are you a "QUANT"? holla at me son.

the three horsemen.