₦airaland Forum

When you are rich, people will want to identify with you and your projects. When you are nobody, oyo is your name. People would give you excuses why they would not be coming for your events.

Hustle and make the money!!

idowuswap:
tell me if ojuwkw can help them someone whould ran to bush.during war

See stupidity. You wrote something and replied and quoted your self again.

Leave bigotry, it has a way of affecting one's sense and reasoning.

9jaRealist:
Not necessarily, as several Nigerians study abroad and actually return...
Nonetheless, even if we lose them physically they can still contribute to Nigeria from wherever they may domiciled. Congrats to both!

Thousands study and return. Most people returned because of their inability to secure a decent job overseas and also due to tighter immigration policies these days. Those ones that return, including me, are just numbers.

Being a graduate is different from being highly talented and genius -like. Those exceptionally intelligent ones, the innovators and inventors do not come back to the shores of this country. These are the category of people I meant and not the general children of the rich and self- sponsored students that study overseas and comes back to Nigeria to continue their hustle.

I was a PTDF scholar, studied and returned back to Nigeria because my skill is not an exceptional over there. I studied a mere Energy Finance but here we are talking of about those that have acquired the skills necessary for the job of the future.

"Wonderful God ". Ignorance is the worst affliction that could befall anybody.

What has God got to do with this natural occurrence?

Some have started attributing it to something spiritual and some have unleashed their useless bigotry.

Always seeing imaginary enemies.

Trust me, so sad - we have "lost" theses two great minds. Oyibo don't joke with their scholarship and scholars. They will want you to stay and contribute to their country. Until our structural defects as a nation are fixed, we would continue to loose our best minds.

we have lost countless and thousands of record-breakers in foreign universities to the host nation due to stupidity and lack of focus of our leaders. For our leaders, those thing does not make sense to them. There is no data base of our highly brilliant minds and innovators. Those in the helm of authorities do not place priority on human capacity development.

I wish them success in their various endevour.

Nigerian Universities and "Hold Him Down" syndrome - what happens to giving mop up exam or re-sit for students who fail? Why do schools/universities takes pride in making it hard for their students to graduate?

The course may even be one useless course that adds nothing to the person's self development. In UK Universities, they will specifically engage the students with this type of problem and see how to help the people concern to graduate and go and face their real life hustle.

The UK schools will never keep you in school for up to that number of years without finding a solution on how to assist you one way or the other to just get out. Schools there are more interested in your future personal growth and development and not by passing one useless course or module that adds nothing.

Why are we attacking Zimbabwe? This is a country that has been under severe sanctions from the West, yet they continued to feed anybody admitted into government hospitals and schools.

Do your own government feed patients in their own ramshackle hospitals? Forget the watery foods served in some primary schools.

Go to Harare and see beauty and decency of a cosmopolitan city despite their problems. You see beauty, order and discipline unlike our own dear Lagos, the most expensive ghetto in the world with open drainages and gutters, dominated by fiercely and crude looking humans, ready to on leach mayhem on slightest provocation.

You will never know the extent our politicians have failed us until you step your feet outside the shores of this country.

You may not even need to go far, just get to any southern African countries, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe or even Ivory Coast.

Typical Nigerian politicians - where are their supporters? - let them come and see how they are dinning, eating well prepared vegetable soup and whole wheat grain, with even moate to wash down the swallow while they are in the street eating watery mama put soap and "akpu"

Don't fight or insult yourselves for these politicians, our youths wont hear.

So sad what this country is turning into. Ethnic division every where and some supposedly educated people on nairaland will be jeering these touts to continue dishing out ethnic hatred.
Be it IPOB, OPC or AREWA, nobody has the right to threatened any group.

I see reason why educated and progressive Nigerians are leaving the country in droves to Canada. It makes some of us that still have hope in this country to look foolish, stupid and insane.

They can no longer guarantee the safety and future of their kids and future generations.

Seun and nairaland should stop bringing to front page threads that are capable of threatening national unity.

This is how Rwanda genocide started.

The classroom is too decent to be a typical Nigeria public university. We learn in a very crude and chaotic environment.

He looks more like a party agent than a party flag bearer.

bolarinwa346:
Hello peeps, does choosing preferred centre within or outside one's geopolitical zone has any influence on one's PTDF scholarship interview?

Thanks.

I always advice to pick from your Geopolitical region. I won the scholarship about 10 years ago and had to travel to my geopolitical region to sit for the assessment. You are competing with people from your own region/state.

Once you are not from the region where the interview is being conducted, the biasness from the interviewers will be clear and apparent. But PTDF will not tell you that but the interviewers are the one that will make the decision.

Risk it and travel to your own region for the assessment

All these hungry ambassadors - some of them lobby to come to Nigeria as they always get favors from Nigerian politicians

Honestly, the large number of Nigerians emigrating to western countries, especially Canada is becoming alarming.

This has even made some of us that decided to stay to look stupid, foolish and insane.

A large chunk of middle and upper class, most of my colleagues and contemporaries have all left.

But Mehn, it is still a tough decision for me and I always seems to gravitate towards staying. I like the freedom and my job.

My major concern is just the insecurity.

As for my kids, I just had to ensure that I had all my kids abroad in case. That was the decision I took even before my wedding and it worked fine.

Wishing all that wants to flee safe janded, yankeed and canadeed.

The more reason I respect the South-West. Very enlightened and know what they want. It is not about sheepishly following politician. The East should learn a lesson from this - See how the distribution of votes in the South-West.

I have said it before, I know a lot of Yorubas that "Atikulated Obediently ", but the way Igbos are carrying this "atikulation" thing and insulting other tribes about it made some people to change their mind.

Yoruba people I know are good in making informed decision though not all. South-west will have a fair distribution of votes between the two major parties, may be like-wise in the north. But in the south-east, Mbanu! We know the ocean where the entire river will empty itself.

For those that will hit at me, I am not from South-West but a dedicated and committed Nigerian.

PresidoAtikuGcf:
You are a fool, so the votes Atiku got in Oyo and Ekiti and Osun are all Igbo people right? Idiot

Bro, just ignore these ethnic champions. Igbos doesn't know that their actions and utterances are not helping Atiku.

I know a lot of Yorubas that "Atikulated Obediently ", but the way Igbos are carrying this "atikulation" thing and insulting other tribes about it made some people to change their mind.

Yoruba people I know are good in making informed decision though not all. South-west will have a fair distribution of votes between the two major parties, may be like wise in the north. But in the south-east, Mbanu! We know the ocean where the entire river will empty itself.

To concur with what others said, put your own pictures. Dress corporate and look successful. Use other pictures that you taken, may be in the office, vacation, training, while studying or delivering presentations and create a moving slide on the home page.

I don't advise people to copy online pictures, themes or plug-ins in their website. Somebody else may have used the same pictures.

Make them original.

There is something I have noticed ed about Nigeria election. Rich and highly educated people know how to make better and informed decisions.

Poor and local people make decisions based on tribal and religious sentiments. Our politicians knows this and that's why they campaign more where poor stay. You hardly see them campaign in high brow areas because they know that the people that stays there won't accept their lies.

This is the reason why Nigeria and Africa are backwards. Voters don't know how to make decisions. Mundane and non-relevant issues are taken into consideration.

What is happening in Ikoyi, Victoria island, Lekki and Maitama confirmed this assertion.

Nnewi town, very chaotic, highly disorganized, choking, highly polluted and dangerous for pedestrians. Yet some people that do not know what real development is all about will come here and be chest-beating about the town and the number of billionaires it has.

Their souls RIP.

LuciferPastor:
Seeing as Italy is a Christian nation, Salah will be handed match bans & severe fines should he attempt to perform his heathen head slamming goal celebration.


*spits

Very STUPID comments. Do you think they give a damn about all these your religious beliefs in Nigeria?

Greatidonis:
Why can't they use those Okrika pants that white people has used?

Jazz no de catch oyibo naa. If to say jazz de catch dem, we don colonise dem

He got it wrong when he said he was off to Oxford university next week. Which means he wasn't ready to vote yet you are earning for change.

This is a problem with Nigerians. You want change and yet not voting

Buhari supporters are not online. They are on the streets. In Nigeria, those with streets support wins elections.

Those with online supporters do not win because most online voters do not have voters card.

pansophist:
As someone that studied in one of the top 100 best university in the world, I can confirm this. Honestly, I don't think I learnt anything special, it's more on the prestige and powerful network that I still cultivate from unto this day.

Also, attending such schools gives a certain kind of confidence, the deep seated feeling that you're competent and won't be assumed not to be. And to have global friends, being invited to high end events and benefits from being the early bird to be notified of deals and opportunities. The benefit is huge.

Like the old saying, your network is your net worth. With such a diverse community spanning from top-notch individuals in entertainment and diplomacy, businessmen to lawyers, the money is a merger in the long run. Most likely, those kids ain't graduating to look for jobs, but to manage companies of their parents or build theirs, with the convenient of such powerful network.

I learnt this first from a Colleague when we were recruited as management trainees around 2006. The guy went and paid for an expensive accommodation in a high brow Ikoyi. It was a self-contained though.

After 9months, he joined a multinationals company. One of the top ogas stays in the same estate with him and they connected.

It was when he was about leaving us that he told me the reason behind his paying that huge sum for a self contained in Ikoyi, which we thought was stupid of him but he had his reason.

As someone mentioned here, your network determines your networth

If I have the means, I will send my kids there.

People don't look at the monetary cost but the non-quantifiable benefits.

Your kids will build a powerful network that will come handy later in life. I know what I am saying.

You as a parent will build a network with other parents that will come handy.

only poor people will see the money as waste but business minded parents will always see opportunity

Where government works.

A couple that delayed picking their kids from school on time were bared from taking care of those kids for a complete year in Finland.

Government told them that they have observed them and that they have been consistent in not coming on time to pick up their kids.
My guy and him wife de hustle naa and they close late to pick up the kids.

Crowd everywhere but when the time for election comes, you no go see people - There is no correlation between crowds at campaign rallies and turn out on election day.

I am sure some people will say even the president got a job he is not qualified.

Sure draw for LIVERPOOL! Na Joke o - make una no wereey me o!

This guy is just too funny with this his politics - He does not understand how the system works.

He should surround himself with NURTW and NATO and dress in street man's attire - Nigeria politics no be showbiz

E go shock am o