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aboyaji:
It's because they realize early in life that being too smart becomes a social obstacle so they downplay their intelligence to fit in. Gifted children are known to struggle socially in their teens due to this.


Smart people will often develop a habit of picking their battles because if they contribute to every conversation outshining everyone else with their intelligence, they are quickly seen as uppity and a know it all. For many smart people, it's hard to say anything at all without coming off as reminding everyone else of the disparity in intelligence. I believe there's some research that does show that being mentally superior is a social liability in a way that being physically superior is not. In other words, it's easier to be an athlete around non-athletes than it is to be a brainiac around non-brainiacs. Someone being too intelligent is instinctually felt as intimidating and stuck up.

For some smart people, they can't really hide their intelligence very well. It's built into how they speak. The way they structure their sentences. The cadence they use. Their vocabulary. In those cases, a smart person might choose to listen more and talk less so their intelligence is not dominating the social circle. So their intelligence isn't an elephant in the room.

Source: Quora

There was a brief time I was serous in secondary school. One day, I discover that by alway answering the teacher's questions in math class, my classmates were falling behind (couldn't catch up). So I stopped answering questions.

The first day I refused to answer question, my math teacher (who saw me as a favorite) was so upset that he even beat me for claiming I didn't know the answer (frustration), he also realised that a lot of student in the class have fallen behind as he bombarded us with homework/assignments (he started giving us 15 to 20 problems to solve at home after every class... you could hear the whole class 'lamenting').

OsunOriginal:
It's not taxing the west. It is getting them to extend support to us the same way they do to others.

I see you point (it's a short clips so I don't know what he was talking about previously if there was inequality in the support they rendered). I am just saying we are all in this together and we should take responsibility to give those that are yet unborn a habitable earth.

I hope the standard of our living improve because we not suppose to be burning fire wood to cook in 2022 (except when camping). I think millions of household still do (may God help this country).

Pmedia7787:
Rather,what is making alot japa is poverty and lack of understanding,
If you have the means,
You will have more novel reasons to stay or move

Add injustice, lack of security and failour in life. It is better over there.

It is not a curse, things are getting worst.


I think many good Nigerians (not the criminals), would be influential and parotic people in their new country.

He has a point but his parable is pointless. For example, due to the Russian gas supply problem, many European countries has resulted to burning fire wood to stay warm during the coming winter, so condition can make someone not to care about the environment.

Protecting the environment should be a collective mission for us, we don't need to tax the west for it...

“Today, I am the Governor of Kaduna state and he’s coming to Kaduna to campaign and apart from other security agencies, I have the First Mechanized Division of the Army in Kaduna but I will not arrest him because we Northerners are civilized people.”

Why the whole North. Implying that due to Obi's actions, all his people are uncivilized?
You can't arrest him unlawfully you idiot midget.

ukaface:
There are some countries I won't even try to consider going to. India for example.
Why India?

Despite Nigeria being and underdeveloed country and India is a "developng" country, Nigeria is far better to live in than that shithole where they worship cows and the second rape capital of the world (where 10 strangers that don't know each other would just decide to rape a woman on the bus, in broad daylight, something that no matter how bad Nigeria is, it can never happen here).

If not for tribalism (that wouldn't allow us to progress faster), we could have boycotted the xenophobic India and South Africa by producing out drugs and goods here.

The man is not rich (scrap dealer). Free the kids or cut the ransom price without damaging those kids (mentally).

You can never win na

Look at these stupid kids

waititi:
you don't have Sense at all. You no dey see the nonsense wey dey happen for America?

Number one thing that would end is fulani attacks.... Then any useless cultist, you just waste them. Now we are forced to use knife and to kill him, he has to be stabbed 10 times, what if he survive, wahala. And all those stupid politician, you just from a distance scatter their head or start a gun fight. Respect would come back to the country.

Curious345:
If every Nigerian Owns a gun all this rubbish will stop ..

Plz who brought Cultism to Nigeria

They would be a brief period of madness but then, everyone would have mutual respect.

ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
what is the cause of the death? Your news is incomplete

Muslims bury their dead fast.

The country is just too hard (to start from the bottom). RIP.

brain54:
To old no be crime my brother…

Yes, agree.

PandoraObi:
Thanks I have forgotten the people I am addressing have no brain to reason with

It's like tribalism/belonging to those with identity issues. If they express extreme views that goes against logical reasoning, they think that proves loyalty to whatever group they want to appeal to. An example is Osibanjo claiming he would build on the good legacy of Buhari. What fucking good legacy?

Oesophagus99:
That's around the
80s

It reached 1999 and faded away from 2000 (I remember hearing of Aaliyah death from those magazine).

brain54:
Hearts…hints…better lover…best lover



My favorite then was hints….good old days.
That better lover and best lover na ‘blue book’.
I still Dey fin old copy of hints….campus blues.
Kiki Kiki!

Yeah Hints was widespread.

Wawelexy:
E be like say snake sef don plenty pass human being for Nigeria, no week will pass without a Snake thread on nairaland.

Big once that means they have been around for a while.

Chaos14:
whats worse is that she can't even go to a private uni here

Dragging spot with people that has no option but to endure 8 months of suspended lectures.

Look at backwardness.

This reminds me of those old magazines (I think they call it Heart). With fake stories and lots of art (drawings). Back in the days.

At least they seemed to have had a good laugh.

It looks like it would be delicious (like those southern soups), but they might be some movement in the stomach from the seafood.

Guy you know what you did.

You probably did something extreme that even Nairaland said no TWICE. May be try Facebook and tell us how many times they ban you there.

Bigajeff:
Check worth on https://worthofdomain.com

Even better. On GoDaddy Domain Appraisal, they said the domain is over $1k (ten times what your site gave).

Trick to get the owner to keep on renewing in hope of one day selling.

I was taking with someone yesterday that sincerely believes his 8 month old domain name is worth 700k naira. Isn't that delusional?

CSTRR:
Nigerian youths are up-skilling in tech, not because they want to earn a living in Nigeria, but because they want to ultimately Japa, including me.
That should be an emergency for the people in govt.

Anyway, that is not my business.

There are people that are paid huge salaries to find solutions to such problems.
They are instead busy looting the country dry.

We have more than enough Nigerian youths and millions more to come yearly. They should allow those that want to leave to leave instead of crushing theeir spirit here. If the make it, they would still send money back here.

This devil wants us to be trapped here. All the presidential candidates would japa if they fail. That is how stressful the country is.