₦airaland Forum

somehow:
Then what is the usefulness of high IQ? That remains my question. Apart from Albert that was said to have high IQ which made his works popular , I'm yet to read of any other

high IQ is useful mainly in research and academic fields, most of the scientific breakthrough u see are by these persons, if u want to know about such people take a look at present and past winners if the Nobel prize.

kamiden:
i believe in reincarnation,
took a study about it and found out amazing facts and right now am trying to connect to my past life.
This man also reincarnated

care to share what u found out? I will have an open mind

anthonyuncle:
and he didn't change sand to garri, or water into wine, or urine to fuel, or side chick to main chick

lol, not a miracle worker na, haba.

pinkyruledworld:
wheres he now? if hes not a billionaire then...

typical Nigerian, everything has to boil down to money. you don't need to be "book smart" to make money, most of the top billionaire today are not geniuses, they are more of dreamers who then hired geniuses to build their dreams. as a matter of fact sports or musical talent is likely to fetch u more money than a high IQ, except you have the ability to have big dreams along with the IQ.

encryptjay:
Let's say it's an Asian thing cos even China,Japan,Taiwan, Singapore etc top the charts in mass

yea I meant to mention Asians, don't know why I zeroed in on Korea. my bad.

somehow:
Achebe was known as a good writer, wole soyinka is known globally for a course, these are just 2 few smart people, now what is he known for? He teaches but is he a stand out teacher known all over the world?

Albert Eistein (got the spelling wrong) was also known as a math guru (I believe)

why are confusing high IQ with being famous? there are many famous people who are not smart and there are many smart people who are not famous , that does not remove anything from them. today people applaud Steve jobs for revolutionizing smart phones but how many people know the talented engineers who did all the work behind the scene?

also many people know the first man to land on the moon but how many people know the various engineers and mathematicians who did the complex calculations that made the journey possible?

encryptjay:
That's why Hollywood movies use them as the computer guys
The way they play table tennis sef dey weak person

Koreans are usually very good in math.

abeeee:
the person with the highest IQ is Terrence tao 230 I don't know this guy.......op wats your source

IQ test are usually subjective, and not exact.

Robbin7:
Where is he now and what does he do for a living?

he started working for NASA when he was 8, but presently he is a professor in a Korean university.

mvem:
....israel dont like african migrants....why love someone that hates you...do a research on israel and see how they threat africans like you even legal ones, they dont give africans equal rights and hardly give them access to legalize there stay or on certain basic things...some africans praise israel for issues i dont know not knowing the country is very racist....The only black they recognize are the ethiopian jews even though they keep them at the borders so that any strike will kill them first, imagine that wickedness....sometimes we reason out of sentiment and emotion, failing to see facts that are glaring....The jews hate you and dont care about you, thats all...

do Arabs that most of fucking Muslims lick their assea not hate Africans? don't they discriminate against Africans?

Jelal0007:
The money means nothing. These people migrated becos they needed a better life,why can't the so-called people like you defend with ur might offer them that?

so why didn't they migrate to Saudi Arabia or a fellow Muslim country?

today I am totally convinced that 90% of nairalanders are dullards, they cannot even read and understand a simple article.

aluko465:
y do d Israeli hate Africans

don't u people read, they are referring to people who entered isreal illegally.

freshkpomo:
abi??knowing how brutal these isreali people could be when they say a word!!!but what about those that now have houses and bussinesses over there! This is so not cool.

the problem with most Nigerians is hat hey don't read, the article clearly stated that they were referring to undocumented migrants who entered illegally.

deliveryboy:
Christians killing Christians always.

when did cultists become Christians?

tolujohnso:
Honestly, we cannot continue to hang our destinies in d hand all dis Nigerian capitalists. They n d politicians re same. A politician seeks financial support from d so called successful biz men, and afterwards create d biz climate dat enable Dem extort d citizenry. SMEs are d real machines for a developing economy such as ours, but d politicians can only help to kill them for big bros Dem to survive. Which way Nigeria?!!!

how many sme's have the funds to run a large telecom company like 9mobile.

baybeeboi:
Did Oyegun just call Tinubu a disgruntled element?

We political observers will have a lot of entertainment in 2018.

to be disgruntled means to be dissatisfied. everyone knows that tinubu has not been allowed to have the power and influence he expected during the campaign for the presidency, so is he dissatisfied? yea he is.

Herrmes:
Whatever are you talking about, do you practice what you preach?

good question, the fact is we always point accusing fingers at others without looking at ourselves. this is the kind of person who will have 10 k in the acc but will refuse to give anyone 1k. anyone who is unable to give from the little he has will not give when he has much money.

Beckino:
Moi-moi is moi-moi just like pizza is pizza (pizza is an Italian name). No english name abeg.

abi o Bros, it is a delicacy that is known to us in this part, whites don't have it in their cuisine hence we get to name it.

Saaruman:
GEJ has a midas touch. Everything he touches becomes better. Liberia's presidential election was the most transparent in the history of the country!
God bless GEJ
God bless Liberia.

was gej the one who conducted the election? or he led an international observer team to monitor the election?

pcguru1:
This is why I like street life not much might be going but they know how to enjoy themselves unlike being in a stick up environm3nt like Goshen estate

why not move to ajegunle then?

JuanJO:
After all this... North Korea I tink is still very preferable to me to this yeye country

so why not move there? I am sure they will welcome u even without visa.

Alikote:
really did u know what caused 2007 global financial crisis that lerman brothers went under...who told u it best..with 41m homeless people...norway , finland qatar swizz are best

and how many homeless people do u have in Nigeria? lemme guess, u don't even know because there are no reliable stats, and don't get me started on the companies that have gone under. anyway companies need to exist first before they can go under.

timesup234:
You are missing something. In America nobody buys a new car with cash, they make a payment plan for them where they make payment of $500 monthly for six years before they can claim full ownership of th vehicle. While in Nigeria we pay cash, those tokunbo flooded vehicles were all bought with millions. This is something 90% of Americans are incapable of. When you factor in cost of shipping, buying, clearing and profits added by the car dealer you will find out Nigeria are paying more to own a car than Americans. Most brand new cars here cost between 15million-25million naira so 10,000 is a huge number when you consider most were bought with cash

whether u pay it cash or over time, bottom line is the manufacturers gets their full money plus profits eventually, otherwise they won't be able to stay in business fyi the credit system can only work in a stables financial system so stop presenting our cash and carry system as if it is the best, it is actually a product if our poor financial system

ken4jj:
This is a long write up but it is very good to read for people who always compare Nigeria to the western countries

The problem with Nigeria is our mentality. An average Nigerian is all about money, money, houses, SUV etc and this is why this question is always coming up. Because of our greed and our ability to acquire, acquire and acquire, our society have been built on storing money, properties. It is not surprising to see Nigerians in Nigeria with fat bank account, many houses with high fence and big gate, high SUV yet the street they live is littered with bad roads and full of generator noise because that is what we care about.

The western world is different because they are not built for people to store money. Their system is designed for money to circulate. This is why even services we pay peanuts for here is Nigeria is costly abroad. Everyone is given the opportunity to live a base life and if you want to be rich you can use your brain and do something extraordinary. For example, a barber, cleaner, nanny etc in the western world has the opportunity to live a normal life. He can save a little money, make a little down payment and buy a house or car on mortgage despite being just a barber. He gets to enjoy his tokunbo car and 2 bedroom apartment even though he is paying for it in the next 10 years. Even if he dies before he finish paying, he cannot say that he didn’t enjoy the basic things of life. Enjoying the basic things of life is not left for the rich alone.
In Nigeria, some people can never enjoy the basic things of life forever. For example, a cleaner, nanny etc can never buy a car because Nigeria is designed for the rich to exploit the poor and there is no buffer to help the poor.

A top bank manager earning more than 1 million naira a month cannot bring out 50k to pay a Nanny or gateman. Instead he will go and bring one Ekaite from the village whom he will exploit as slave. Ekaite will do all the jobs in the house and will not even go to school for the first 3 years. After 3 years, they will now send her to a local school where children sit on the floor even though their own children are going to posh schools. During Christmas, they give Ekaite’s family a bag of rice and 20k and the family is happy due to poverty. But this same man store millions of naira in his account and building lots of houses yet his gateman is just paid 10k a month. In the western world, the bank manager will have over 60% of his earnings go into the payment of other services. That means he will pay the Nanny, guards, gardeners, cleaners, barber etc that works for him an hourly minimum wage. So he has little money to save and build mansions here and there but the good thing is that the people in the lower cadre live a normal life off him and the money circulates.

The Nigerian society is built for exploitation unlike the western world. The greatest disservice to poor man in Nigeria is that they are not paid hourly. The rich man/organizations takes all their time and pay them pea nut at the end of the month but a poor man aboard can work 24 hours and be paid for those 24 hours if he has the strength.

So before you travel, you need to understand how the western society works and what exactly you want. If your aim is to make millions and become rich, build houses here and there, the western society is not for you, you can become rich easier in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria, you can become rich overnight.
You can go to china, import some substandard goods into the country, bribe SON and customs and sell your goods and make mega millions in a jiffy and build your mansions here and there. If you run a business, you can avoid paying taxes, just tip the FIRS and they would look the other way and you take those taxes you should have paid and build mansions for yourself, you are rich! The FIRS,Custom, SON guys make mega money and build their own mansions, you make your own mega money too, the ordinary people and the government are shortchanged but the govt is not bothered because they loot their own from crude oil directly. In fact, Nigeria is a goldmine if you have the mind and can throw away your conscience. Dem no born you well to not pay your taxes in the western world or do anyhow in the western world.

If you work in many organizations, you may not have to touch your salary because you will be getting illegal cash every day. For example, if you work in immigration, you will be getting 3k, 4k from people who want to get their passport else they may have to wait for one year to get it. If you work in universities, you will be getting extra 3k, 4k, 2k from people who wants their transcripts else they will look for your results for the next one year and so many examples. If you add up this monies, you can see that you are getting more than your salary from your little office. No wonder these civil servants you see have a lot of money. This is what you can never get abroad.

So you can see that it is easy to make it in Nigeria but it comes at a cost. A country where nothing works. No light, no water, bad roads, bad schools, hospitals, insecurity etc. There is no fine house in Nigeria that does not have a high fence and a big gate. In the western world, you would hardly see a fenced house because the police is 2 minutes away from your phone call.

So our mentality is different from the western world. While the western world cares more about the larger society, we care about our individual self and individual wealth and this is why we are richer individually than them but they are richer and better collectively as a society than us. The question you should ask before you travel is what you value more as an individual.

bro try for this ur analysis, good one.

timesup234:
omo you won compare their pocket change to the millions we use in purchasing cars there or all our money used in purchasing their goods in cash. A majority of Americans cant even buy iphone without a payment plan that takes up to a year. Lets not even go to the oil sector here where their oil corporations are actively engaged in stealing our resources daily

Nigeria only purchase tokunbo flooded cars, in the whole 2017 only 10000 new cars were sold in Nigeria according to available stats

timesup234:
Thats pocket change compare to the amount leaving Nigeria daily

are u aware that remittances from abroad is the second largest foreing exchange earner for Nigeria after crude

timesup234:
If your dream is to make money in life you have no business going abroad. Nigeria is where all the money is, the money you will make in Nigeria can never be made in any part of the world.

so why aren't most people making the money?

zoedew:
Yet Glo seeks to acquire 9Mobile! #LoneBullKillsTheBusiness

as far as am concerned that is a better move than wasting money on renewing their licence when the market is not large enough, u can imagine only 1.2m in the entire country.