₦airaland Forum

Gbadugbakun:
For this Tinubu regime?

Oridinary corolla those days people used to call poor man car has now become luxury under Tinubu.

See guy, no Nigerian youth doing a 9-5 job without any extra business can afford to buy and maintain a car in this Tinubu's economy. It's almost impossible. Because even if you're earning 1m per month, you would pay house rent, feeding, other expenses, if you manage and buy can you might not be able to maintain it. That's the reality.

Are cars really that expensive in Nigeria these days? If inflation and custom charges contributed to their increment, what about people charging higher for their services and increased salaries/wages?

Starz825:
Its a serious issue tbh

ev
its about her ego, pride, beauty, money, her hunger for independence from a man.


Once a woman is pretty and rich and probably has a child or 2........SHE WANTS INDEPENDENCE!!

Actually, it is a global phenomenon. Once educated women with thriving careers and/or businesses have max one or two children, they lock up and are open to divorce especially in secular societies. But the aspect of "Locking up" is universal across cultures and religions for educated women. She believes her biological assignment has been completed. Up next is companionship, if it makes sense, she stays. If not, she comot.

BlueStripper:
“The only place to get a good man in Lagos is on the mainland but they are BROKE"

So every "good man" living in Lagos mainland is broke? A land area of approximately 19.5 square kilometers?

Most ladies of nowadays talk as though they were raised by animals. When and where did she conduct that survey?[quote]

I didn't even read that part before I knew island boys and men have deceived her. So men in Gbagada and Ikeja are poor? FESTAC men are poor? Ogudu and Surulere men are broke? las las, na broke men most women go marry after experiencing a lavish lifestyle with island men.

No wonder she couldn't see good men on the island. Well deserved!

She must have seen shege with island men and boys. But that is the result of trying to keeping up with the big boys. All they want is sex and God Knows What Fantasy

I wonder how a typical Sunday at HOTR Lekki looks like.

pocohantas:
Are you ugly?

I have the facial looks of a typical Igbo businessman. That is what I realised recently, especially looking at the pictures closely. Thankfully, I am tall enough and no potbelly.

emmaodet:
Your story is not uncommon.
It is similar to what is happening to billions of guys out there.
I had my own fair share of women snubbing too during my early days with nothing to show.....broke.
That is why i find it hard being faithful now that everywhere done stew.........if you rubbish me during my struggling days, why should i follow love during my hay days?
Have come to realize it is not just a woman thing rather a Human thing.
When you are nobody - family, church, pastor, girls etc all ignore you and you are invincible but when you start earning fine, they all start singing your praises.
I hope the woman you Love is your mum and not one yeye girlfriend....because bro, na owo epo oooooo
As you are growing, as i am growing and other men growing, please never ignore to wisely invest because if you go broke again, believe me, that coldness and invincibility, insults from women would come back again.
Your money is your shield.
If you go broke, it is as good as you being NAKED

I've been called ugly twice by two girls during my school days (secondary school and university). One is now based in Canada, the other is in Nigeria. Their responses towards me these days differ significantly from when I was in Nigeria, especially for the one in Canada. Interestingly, I wasn't doing badly in Nigeria by all standards. The change of responses is one major reason I don't fancy relationships.

The last bolded statement na why Tensazangetsu20 dey preach say it's better to be a dead man than a poor man. That boy na werey 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The weather is a major aspect. Winter is a terrible experience for a Black person who was born and bred in the tropics. And yes, Nigerian women. Nothing beats the big yansh, well marinated pus.sy and breasts of Nigerian women.

pansophist:
You see how IMF is advertising generous loans to Burkina Faso since Ibrahim Traore took over, chased out the French and swore never to take loans anymore. These westerners wants us to be indebted to them. They just have to control your economy somehow. For the US to be trillions of dollars in debt, but still go wage is a result of indebting the world for their selfishness. China or Russia are not indebted to the US but infact, the US in indebted to China. If you put the pieces together, you see why they must go to war and reset everything.

The one that pisses me off is how some of our "educated people" view these people. Their so-called aid and help does more harm than good to us. The EU just offered South Africa more loans (4.7BN euros) for green mumbo-jumbo energy and vaccine production. This is after a scheme by the US and EU offered the same South Africa to let go of coal ($20BN). Vietnam and Indonesia were offered the same, but I don't know if they accepted it.

Aid does more harm than good and perpetuates poverty. Now see this opener by David Hundeyin: https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1901661698748015029

erico2k2:
this IS BASED OB ASSUMPTION, HAVE YOU ANY CLUE OF HOWMANY TYPES OF NURSES THERE ARE??

There are many areas and specialities in nursing just as in medicine, but it is not a lucrative career. For citizens from developing countries who work in developed countries, I can understand why. But head to head between developed countries, nursing is not universally a lucrative career. In the US? Yes. In most other countries? No.

tensazangetsu20:
She dey do menial job sha like working in walmart and co. Person wey no fit make am for UK no go make am for USA too. Both countries are literally the same. One is just richer.

A Green Card Holder should return to Nigeria for crying out loud!

pocohantas:
The longterm projection when they factor in exchange rate. They can put in work now they are young and achieve more faster. There is also room for growth. It is not like banking is a career for most bankers. Not when some of us studied Food&Nutrition. We were there for the money and we can still go elsewhere for same money.

What is bad about care work?
You seem to hate it a lot.

I don't hate it. In fact, I never knew such a career existed until our people entered the UK en mass. The way it is depicted by them says a lot. I have nothing against it. My issues are: people who had good careers in Nigeria going into it. Those who had a high standard of living in Nigeria going into it. Nigerians in Nigeria who trump it as the best meal after sliced bread aka a care worker out-earn a banker in Nigeria. It is this one that annoys me the most. I am all for legit work, but why would someone come on Obasanjo's Internet to say a skyscraper cleaner earns more than a bank manager? Yes, they nearly killed me for opposing that notion on this forum.

I understand some leaving to get back into their passion via studies. That is appropriate, and I support it. I was once like them but later realised research wasn't for me, and opted out.

erico2k2:
How and where do you guys get this nursing does not pay says who?or you th inking bank staff ?

Nursing is not a lucrative career in most parts of the world. Unless there is a different meaning for the term "lucrative". Job security? Yes. But lucrative? No.

And people think Tinubu will lol in 2030?

TwitterNG are delusional noise makers 🤣🤣🤣

tensazangetsu20:
If one can’t make it in the uk they won’t make it in the USA. The USA is way more competitive and way more harder than the uk. I knew a girl like that she was living in Poland and blamed not getting a job on racism she went to the USA and has been there for like 3 years and can’t find a job.

That girl never still find work? To think her mama applied for green card on her behalf. So work authorisation isn't her problem.

In such a situation, isn't Nigeria a better option? This is what I'm saying: if it gets too tough in the abroad, leverage on the education and experience to get something tangible in Nigeria.

hkidola00:
comical...stay there

So you don't find it funny that a former rector of a polytechnic (similar to an ex-VC o) japa'd only to end up in a factory? You don't find it funny?

pocohantas:
Assistant branch manager is a portfolio. It is not a level that directly impacts your salary. So when people say, my sister was a branch manager, my cousin was this, I just know either they know nothing of banking or they just want to exaggerate the position of their loved one.

As an ET, I was an "asst branch manager" because it is for Sales staff and my boss and I were the only core staff. If I had japa'd to do care work, someone will na be on NL telling people I was an asst branch manager ba?😂 Does he or she know my actual level and monthly pay?
That said, I know many core staff that japa'd to do care work.

Thanks for the explanation and correction.

So why did those folks japa and later resorted to care work? At least, they were permanent staff not contract.

Raalsalghul:
Or you move first, get settled in and bring in your family later.

No o!!!

Just carry woman and pikin dey waka for air.

bea1234567:
I want to leave Nigeria sir. Pls help my life. The country have failed me sir 🙏🙏

I'm 24 and very hard-working. I want to borrow loan and travel out but I don't know how feasible it is sir . Pls I need your guidance sir 🙏🙏

Don't borrow to travel o. What if you don't eventually get the visa? Initially, I was sponsored by my parents (hard cash. Nothing was sold). Later, I got three scholarships. I lived in the school hostel where electricity, water, WiFi and gas were free and use as you like. I used the school bus. I got a job with a MNC five months before graduation. I literally lived like a king and was pampered.

A scholarship is the best route to enjoy postgraduate studies in the current naira dispensation. I will advise you learn a lucrative skill or go into agric trading. I see people - literally the typical Nigerians - make millions from doing it. You start small. That's how life is - you build from the ground not from the top.

Unlimitedlucky:
Sir I understand that. My field is financial management technology, and I don't think there's much research else on data analysis unlike pure science. I hope am not overstepping boundaries but I just want to make sure Sir blackbriar and Gerrard...

You have to do your research. Such will exist, but whether the professor speaks or can speak English is another one. Those professors exist in the Imperial Universities, Japan's equivalent of the Ivy League. However, your grade becomes an issue unless you have a much stronger application aside grades to present. Since you're a privately financed student, your chances are higher. Just don't expect scholarships sha from the university. You will have to slug out your scholarships from private organisations not affiliated with the university. This concerns most Imperial Universities.

Elxandre:
This is such an interesting take from you.
Would Texans lambast someone from another state, say New York for speaking their mind? I don't think people in civilized countries check all these things before they engage in discourses.
Arnold Schwazzeneger migrated from Austria and became a governor in America and here someone who was born less than 1000km away can't even dare criticize failings in another state.

Nigeria is a mere geographical expression - Awolowo.

Mind you, I've read comments from Texans who rally against those from California having a say or trying to change the systems in Texas. I've read black people who live in Texas curse fellow black people who moved from New York that want to change the status quo.

Mcslize:
Anti-japa clue, I hail your kingdom. Pansophist will be so proud of you, trust me.

So I should share apartment with someone when I lived in a big room of my own while in Nigeria? In someone's 30s?

Salewa97:
Igbo man dey lie.

No igbo man ever enjoy amala. God no fit create problem and solution at the same time.

This is not true. I enjoyed Amala when I ate it at Amala Skye, Ibadan just days before the global lock down as a result of Covid-19.

anonimi:
Please who is the non-native who criticised our president, as opposed to criticising our country?

She lampooned Lagos. She has the right to criticise the president as she's a Nigerian. But the era of criticising a place where one isn't a native is coming, if it hasn't come already, to an end. After the Ronu episode, I have learnt to mind my business and mouth.

Allow the natives to solve their problems.

RZArecta:
What a dullard

With a PhD.

Anyone who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015 is automatically a dullard.

Young Nigerians who expect their celebrities to "fight for them" are largely ignorant and naive. Do they expect someone who has danced with Sanwo to lambast Lagos? Sometimes, I wonder if I'm too old to understand these things.

BTW, the era of non-natives criticising where they don't come from has ended. If she were to be in the US, she will experience similar backlash.

fullclub:
I repeat there is no improvement in personal standard of living aside improvements or access to cheap food Nothing else. Most of us are forced to work nights jobs and back home in the morning, sleep and return back. No party no visiting of friends, no sight seeing just work back home.

Communal improvement based on social amenities. Yes
good road is there.
Light is there
Fresh air
Crime rate is low

So if our government could have sense and work effortlessly to tackle this area Nigeria shalm be great

To be fair, as Tensazan.getsu20 said, it's largely a skill issue as I'm sure there are Nigerians who moved recently but don't experience the same struggles. Shey no 9-5 jobs again in the UK ni?

Unlimitedlucky:
Sir Gerrard Thank you for your support and kind words. You guys swift reply to my drawing board questions has increased my motivation to move the more. I really appreciate it.

Briefly Sir, blackbriar and Gerrard I noticed something different on the style of applications for the Japanese university, seems to be different, say for instance I was researching the universities, I don't see where one can apply either on-site or via portal, could be more light and helpful for me if you guru's highlight on this please 🥺

You contact the professor who covers an area of research you are interested in. If una agree, he tells you to formally apply. Without his approval, it's difficult as you won't have a research lab to work/study in. Master degrees in Japan, especially in science and technology, are largely research based than taught based. It's similar to the US and unlike the UK.

Unlimitedlucky:
Thank you for your cent Sir blackbriar.
The side of side hustle is partly settled, please are you aware of the POF account required. Must the money be in my account as a M.sc student, or use my sponsors. Your efforts is much appreciated 🙏🏿

I initially thought the aspect of side hustle was a business, say container business. But if it's part time jobs, there are a thousand and one of such jobs. If you want higher wages, do warehouse jobs. But it's physically tasking. But you will out-earn almost every African scholarship student per month. I know someone who did it to pay part of his tuition fees alongside tuition waivers.

Unlimitedlucky:
Thank you for your cent Sir blackbriar.
The side of side hustle is partly settled, please are you aware of the POF account required. Must the money be in my account as a M.sc student, or use my sponsors. Your efforts is much appreciated 🙏🏿

Any sponsor is okay, but the person must be related to you.