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As a consultant, the last job I did for a client was in April. Since then, nothing concrete has come up. I have been reading up on other things and looking out for other gigs. Yes, the last pay has been sustaining me and family and I am waiting for any other one before end of the year.

wunmi590:
He would look back now and be proud of himself for making the best decision....

Good

In this present circumstances in Nigeria and around the world, job comes before any higher education. If you have a moderate paying government job with Olevel, please continue with the job. Don't resign to go to University. People will always tell you that you will get a better job after graduation. Job market in Nigeria is now saturated. Hold on to the one you have please.

We have someone in our family that joined Nigerian custom with Olevel in 2011. People asked him to resign to continue his education having secured admission to FUTO. He remained in custom and jettison the admission. The guy is far doing well, while some of his mates that went to University are still job hunting. He also concluded the so called B.Sc with National open university.

If you have any serious job that is paying your bills, please stick to it. The high rate of unemployment among graduates is high now. I have 3 of them in my place and the 4th will soon join the queue.

Nothing wey Abba Kyari no go see for Nigerian bloggers.

This covid is going to be a disaster to the world for the next decade. The disruptions it would cause in years to come is better imagined. Imagine those vaccinated are still getting infected and are still being told to mask up.

The mutating variants are giving the vaccine good run for their money, resisting the efficacy of the vaccine.

Nigeria is heading for the worst Olympic games in decades. The only hopeful had just failed a drug test. Nigerian Olympic committee will use this one to taunt and finish her. She has been 'yabbing' and insulting the committee, accusing them of gross incompetence.

Where una dey see tweeter tweet?? VPN or tweeting from abroad?

Nawao.

To be trained and upgraded from being a Bandit to being a Terrorist. Nigeria's security system seems seriously compromised. Why are they not catching all these bandits and terrorists?

Imagine if these issues of banditry and terrorism is happening in the South. Government are not effective with these terrorists and bandits.

Good one.

The richest and most funded club in sub Saharan Africa.

ugbanante:
Am familiar with this scenerio. Though i dont make much cash but i enjoy the time it affords me to spend with my family and explore other business.

Yes, the key thing is to save up well while in paid employment and invest in other things before you go solo. It may not be easy initially as you will literally live on your previous employment savings.

Money is not yet coming as I would have loved but I am quite hopeful.

authority2006:
Welcome on board bro. Nothing better than being able to spend your day the way you want, set your own pace, when to work and when to sleep.
I worked with Dangote Cement Transport for just five months, I nearly developed stomach ulcer among other things. I wanted to quit but the fear of family and friends tagging one "unserious fellow" wouldn't let me. The man finally sacked us (about 800 employees) after cleaning his garbage and I was about the only employee who was happy for being sacked! I'm glad that I choose this current path.

Yeah, it has not being easy. I have done only 4 jobs for client since the beginning of the year. Total fee is still ok as it could still take care of my bill. I was lucky to have utilised my salary savings very well when I was till in paid employment, at least to get my own house.

Nevertheless, the peace and comfort is priceless. I must tell you. I am just waiting in my house now, chilling to join a UN organised online training for intending consultants in the development and humanitarian sector.

Tochukwu30:
I admire your courage for taking the leap towards financial independence. I have also come to understand that the major benefit of starting out on your own is FREEDOM. one might not make a lot of money but the freedom gained in my opinion surpasses every other thing.

Yes, I haven't made the last gross emolument I earned in 2016 in my previous employment while working, but the savings from that employment enabled me to complete my own house, create an office within the house as I work from home using it as my business registered address. People even gossip within the estate that I "belong" to the G-guys with my laptop/ipad and thick beard.

I am not rich but I don't beg for food. Just one gig from government or man-no-man, I know say my story go change. In all situations, my freedom, mental, emotional and physical well-being are paramount.

When you have mastered a trade, skill or a specialist in certain field

when I started my corporate work at 25, I told myself that I would have my own hustle by 40. The stress that investment banking work brought on me was too much. Waking up by 4:30am and coming back by 10pm. The rat race was simply too much and was taking so much on my mental and emotional well being, even though the pay package and other emoluments were good.It provided me with all the necessities of life and I was financially doing relatively ok.

I registered my own consulting company by the side and was waiting when the side hustle could pay at least 50% of my total salary. That never came to pass as the Solo Consulting space itself is even competitive. Most jobs came through referral. I never got any consulting job based on submission of application. By 2016, I couldn't take it again and resigned to face my solo consulting. This is the fifth year and, I am yet to gross the annual salary I enjoyed when I was still working.

Any regret? No. I have my peace, wake up at my own time, visit my parents and enjoy good moments with loved ones during the weekends without considering the impending coming Monday. I am on my bed typing this, reviewing a document sent to me by a client. My mental and physical health is top-notch and I have developed myself beyond my imagination. Money wise, I am still far from getting what my corporate employment paid but I am far happier now than when I was working in the bank.

Wike is going for the PDP ticket and he is positioning to pick either Tambuwal or Kwakwanso as his running mate based on Southern Governors decision. Peter Obi has been very docile lately and he is not a political force.

Amaechi or Osibanjo is taking that of APC and they are taking either Zulum as running mate.

The decision of Southern governors stands. Atiku is just wasting his time. He should support the decision of the Southern Governors forum.

Ever8090:
Ha..them dey export nkita go USA before?....

Go to Apapa port and see the kind of things Nigerians are exporting.
There was a time I saw truck load of Igbo dwarf he-goat to be exported to US. Some people are cashing out on some unknown export potentials.

Baba is just there for his medical check-up. Forget this educational summit thing. Organise an educational summit in Nigeria and see whether he would attend.

Nigerian politicians and leaders are always quick to attend international conferences and seminars but when the same seminars and conferences are organised in Nigeria, they won't attend.

[quote author= post=104131286]Good one.
Way to go.

This is how things are done in the saner climes all of us want our darling nation to be like.

God bless Lagos State.
God bless Nigeria. [/quote]Physical and urban development means nothing to the poor. Nigerians are extremely poor and people are struggling to survive. For a poor man and struggling families, beautiful physical development means nothing to them.

Let's focus on aggressive human capital and social systems development. A hungry man places no emphasis on decorum, decency and neatness. Where his next meal will come is his priority even if it means abusing the urban landscape of the city.

I am not supporting the people building those shanties but the poverty level in this country has reached an elevated level. Please do well to inform the people in power as it seems you are closer to them.

He worked under the old NEPA and not this current corporate thieves called Electricity Distribution Companies. What are they distributing?? Estimated bills and darkness.

Nigerian Professors Shakes my head. What do they even research on?? Embezzlement, politics,hand outs and looting.

To even publish a well written article in a learned journal is a problem. They hardly publish in high impact journals.

Good one. That was how my wife and my brother's wife were looking at me and my brother cooked delicious jollof rice last chrismass one hot Saturday afternoon.

It reminded us of our good old days when we prepared food together. There is that inner joy when grown up brothers once again come together to do something unusual.

During the last xmas, we went as far as scrubbing the whole terrazo floor in our father's house in the village where we stayed during holidays. Brothers doing things together is lovely.

Nawao for this Oyibos. So, someone cannot escape in peace again?

Oyibo police!!! "Interviewing" him. In Nigeria, police don't interview, they interrogate and torture.

SirSkipPearsons:
Thats too bad...The scene of the accident still looks like nothing even happened.. If it were to be in my country, the eyesore alone will be enough to kill hundreds

If it was Nigeria, the whole place would be filled with wretched and stressed-looking human beings, tampering with crime scene and even trying to see what to loot within the area. Everywhere will be chaotic and disorganized. Organized society discipline and order are some of the bedrock of any developed economy.

Kai Kai kai Nigerians no get joy. See how they are attacking the guy left and right.

The Advocate, please go ahead with your plans. Source for a good school for your wife. Let her go and do masters. She should go with your kids if successful with her student visa application.

After her masters, she should apply for provincial nomination in the province she schooled. The HR officer of a company I consult for used this same strategy and avoided the express entry process with all the wahala. She was nominated by the province she schooled and is now living there permanently.

Since you have some cash, one year masters program and accommodation should be about that amount or less. Good luck!

The children the society breeds will come back in the future to taunt them. People are continually given birth without any means to cater for their wards, especially the poor ones in the society. No be person born all these ones? What kind of home training were given to them by their parents?

We should start taking pro creation seriously in this country. Un checked and uncontrolled population growth is a disaster. The parents of all these miscreants are extremely poor people but they will go ahead to produce 8 of all these without bothering on how to train them. At the end, the society takes the blunt of their parents negligence.

Just a matter of time before the agberos takes it over. We should invest heavily in poverty alleviation and human capital development. Development is about societies evolving, with humans leading the charge. These gigantic edifice do not make any meaning to an average agbero at oshodi. They will turn the place into their meeting point with law enforcement agencies looking the other way. As someone earlier mentioned, they have started breaking some of the glasses.

In a country full of fraud and corruption, any semblance of this kind of thing is celebrated. This shouldn't be celebrated as the recipient is expected to lodge a complain with his banker. But Nigeria is one kind. When this kind of thing happens, the person is celebrated. Imagine if this transfer was made to one agbero's account or someone in need of money by all means.

Forget all these conception that it would be traced. Most Nigerian banks and law enforcement agencies are too laid back when it comes to detail investigation. If the recipient of this money relocates to another state or to a remote village, it would be difficult for him to be traced. After like one year or so, the story dies down

UEFA played a fast one on England. They allowed them to get to the finals so that UEFA could make more money with a warning to the referee not to mess up the game

UEFA gifted them the semi finals to be sure England made the finals to scoop more money. Now they were sure that England had cruised to the final, they allowed the referee to do a good job in the finals.

beauty7:
Although I did not support any side.

But I am happy for Italy because of Chielinni their captain.

He looks like a nice person.

He is always smiling and embracing people, even his opponents.

I am happy he has been rewarded with a trophy.

You truly watched the EURO, even coming from a lady. I thought I was the only one that noticed that behaviour. The captain was always behaving like a father, both to his team mates and opponents with his boyish smiles always and bald hair.

Loyalty,dedication and commitment to ones nation. These are lacking in Nigeria. We hardly show these kind of undying passion and love to our nation just because successive leadership had failed to uplift the living standard of majority.

Kobojunkie:
Even Jesus Christ warned us against people like this using the story of Lazarus and the Rich man, declaring that no one will be sent back from the dead to warn the living- Luke 16 vs 19 - 31

Exactly!!!

But people will believe all these cock and bull stories. No one has ever crossed from both sides of the divide. The guy man is selling his book and the religious fanatics that have been threatened by eternity and fearful of it have bought the stories whole.