₦airaland Forum

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mukina2:
hmmm " " hummmm hmmmmm

Old Roger is dead and gone to his grave, hum, ha, gone to his grave,

Where is Ika!!!

ikamefa:
yeye! if i dey vex this play for don scatter since oh abeg nor let my husband see all this britico(rondon) allegations oh ,_{my papa don chop all his dowry money}

i neffa ready to find another bruv!

Indeed you're not, Ika!
What exactly is going on here, and who are these men falling over themselves for you?

fineyabber:
<sub>Strolls in toothpick in mouth, just from a seven star hotel in Dubai where he went for lunch

checks for any human being in the room but finds only 1. An AIDS victim(Anusman), a walking corpse (Clemcydawg) and a hermaphrodite disowned by his/her parents at birth,presently serving as an apprentice with a shoemaker(Orimolade)</sub>

Why this room empty like this naaa? NightNUrse, come fill my void

Sorry, fineyabber matey, don't mean to spoil your fun. . .
but isn't it a bit insensitive when you class an (not real, I know) AIDS patient as a non-human being?
Ciao!

Kobojunkie:
You are not wrong @BlueBand. There are cases where people with PhDs have been seen driving cabs and even homeless people with PhDs. I mean it happens even here in America but I would not advice you to take that route. True that being self employed, one can make way more than persons with degrees can. A friend of mine just completed her Medical degree out there in the UK and she plans to move out here to work.

Your submission is full of good intentions, but often incoherent and your logic is often flawed and inconsistent. For example:

There are cases where people with PhDs have been seen driving cabs

There are also cases where people with MScs, MBAs and whatever else, as well as people with no academic degrees whatsoever, have been seen driving cabs. So what exactly is your point?

Also:

, and even homeless people with PhDs

See above.

If your point is supposed to be complementary to bluebands' argument, then it falls woefully short. Blueband has diligently sought to support his assertion that PhD holders do in some cases drive cabs due to perceived economic benefit (as opposed to intellectual satisfaction), although I cannot say how successfully he has done this. 

You, on the other hand, are trying to prove what with your assertions?

@ Akolawole:

Akolawole:
On rare occassion, one can go for PHD without having a masters.

i thought its not possible until i met a Ghanian lady in UK doing her PHD without Msc though she got first class in her first degree in Ghana.

Kobojunkie has already made this point, although with regard to a different educational system. It is not rare at all. In fact it is increasingly more common at the top UK universities (OXbridge, IC, UCL, etc) that people go right to their PhDs from their undergraduate degree; and conversely less common to see people who have first done an MSc.

blueband:
Believe it my friend.There are many Nigerian doctors,PHD holders,Engineers cabbing in the UK.By the way,for your information a black cab driver earns more than the average medical doctor here.There income is around the region of £80,000-£100,000/Per Annumn for the ones that actually own the cabs.I visited a black cab driver the other day at home.He had a five bedroom duplex in Bromley.I asked him how much he earned-he told me on the average he makes about £300 daily.Just a trip from Canary Wharf to Central London in a black cab can cost upto £30.The hospital I work with have a retainership with a cab company so we can use for patient home visits.Just yesterday I took a cab and the bill was £36.I am seriously considering becoming a cabby myself,doctor or no doctor!

Interesting. I stand corrected.

Do you like butter also?

@almondjoy

I cannot believe that you have a PhD and are driving a cab in NY. Either you wrote this in jest or there is something wrong with your story. Of course, that could be the career path you have chosen, although I seriously doubt this.

almondjoy:
Is anyone questioning my nationality in this world?   Does not stop me from saying what I feel is right.

Have you noticed that a 2 year old toddler in any developed country can beat a Nigerian PHD holder hands down in any "Spelling Bee" contest? Like getting PHDs is the main solution to the problem of mass illiteracy and cognitive malformation in the collective Nigerian mindset.

This is nonsense. I am sure you do not mean this to be taken seriously.

Just compare the education our parents received without PHDs to the ones our jet age institutions in Nigeria are producing now.  A so called "Standard 6" holder, like my grandfather in those days--pardon my archaic expression--will put any modern day PHD holder in Nigeria to shame when it comes to simple comprehension and verbal/written skills.  Most of these so called PHD holders are part time spare parts dealers at Alaba, New Benin, Onitsha or Aba. Just look at what most of the so called representative sample of Nairaland Youths--are churning out here. You wonder if there is any hope at all.

Rubbish!

Ridiculous, unsubstantiated bollocks again, I say. Why do you make these sweeping statements that ultimately have no meaning?

I agree that the majority of the lecturers in Nigerian government universities have no business being there in the first place. But does that make the requirement of a PhD to lecture an unnecessary measure?

I think not.