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Saw your previous thread, man, you people take this stuff so seriously.

RodgersAkpafu:
I understand
but the above is the mistake WE make as black folks
Once we think that we are popping, then we think we are insulated.

Here in the UK, if you are the only black affluent in an upscale neighbourhood, you will hate your existence in that place
some people feel like it's a flex, but when they start isolating you and passively aggressive towards you, the scales fall off....

BTW it's good to see you are doing well in Chile

I am curious, what do you recommend in such a situation? Live amongst blacks? Chile or where I am is a different place as there are very few blacks. But for me, there is a reason I left Nigeria. Going to live in a place with many Nigerians get as be e. If I want to live amongst Nigerians, I will do so in Nigeria.

I read your previous comment about Nigerians/blacks in the UK. I no understand, up till now, that group of people never build economic wealth. How else do you wish this wealth to be built?

In all, the OP did make sense and the best response is providing value. Nothing else. No one likes the black man. E don tey I realise am: https://www.nairaland.com/5886610/racism-against-blacks-reduce-drastically

If blacks want comfort, the answer remains to build sub-Saharan Africa and make it prosperous. Anything else is big grammar to me.

Karleb:
@Gerrard59

Did you see what I was talking to you about the other day about not giving up on your japa dreams no matter what.

This man emigrated at 48!

Good luck to him, but I would never do it or encourage a loved one in his position to do the same. This might change depending on how many children he has. But for me? I no do.

KnowAll:
I believe it is 5 million. How many public officers in Nigeria would admit they have 1 million dollars and we all know our public officers starting from our parliamentarians who get roughly 4 million dollars a year when all allowances are taking into account although that has been devalued to about 1.5 million or there about. To our Governors, Judges, super perm secs, some ministers in juicy portfolios. They are more than 10,000

Nobody has $1M stashed somewhere lying fallow. That is not how wealth is generated or built. Two, if you believe it is 5 million, conduct your study stating the methodology used in coming up with that figure. That is how bold claims are made, not I no fit lie give you

25 years of Democracy means we have 7 sets of National Assembly members. They are 450X 7 = 3150 members minus a few 100 who came 2nd, 3rd, and 4th term. Just the legislature alone 3000 people not to talk of 36 Governors since 1999, then talk of super perm secs, accountant general that stole 109 billion not to talk of ministers in juicy offices, and head of parastatals.

In Nigeria I believe they are more than 5 million. If you take every regime since 1960 . The number surges up.

Another thing to add, Nigeria's population is highly falsified. No one knows Nigeria's true population considering it is the only country where there are more people in arid areas than coastal regions.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/06/20/why-nobody-knows-how-many-nigerians-there-are

Then, let's assume what you have up there is seemingly true, no reasonable person assess the wealth of a country's citizens with the loots of its corrupt politicians.

People dey vex o

KnowAll:
The advantage of a large population is that in Nigeria you have a privilege few who are larger than some African population. For instance a while ago, I wrote an article 5 million Nigerians worth 1 million dollars. And I believe it. That is more than the population of Togo and about 17% of the population of Ghana.

You are right. South Africa has the highest number of dollar millionaires in Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria comes second. But not five million Nigerians o. It is less than 10000 Nigerians.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/top-10-african-countries-with-highest-number-of-millionaires-in-2024/

RodgersAkpafu:
All you have said up there reeks of low self esteem.

No matter what you think you become in life, you cannot escape whom you are, and you my friend are a low self esteemed fellow.
PhD or no PhD
even if you work with the white house

"my boy, you are still coming up"
this is the rhetoric people without endogenous self worth use
shame

What I have always said time and time again is that the acquisition of a degree does not make a motor park tout a bourgeois.
you are still a motor park tout in reasoning.

He is a Nigerian politician, so don't expect anything different. His cohorts have lamented how young Nigerians left the country in pursuit of what they stole money to get. So, it pains them bitterly that young and ambitious Nigerians are getting what they have. If they have their ways, they would warn Western politicians to ensure visas are issued or naturalisation is barred. After all, Buhari and Tinubu have made it harder for Nigerian nurses to work abroad.

2shure:
Abegi old hag.olosho on big glasses

Jesus! A married woman with children whose business is thriving is an old hag?

waybgold:
That’s a really valid question you have just asked “ which certification can i acquire which has links with the issuing body of CPA? Just as ICAN has to ICAEW in the UK”. Aside that, do you know anyone who can support in writing the NIW petition? Recently, I have seen a most approved petitions are for PhD students and some pure science professionals.

Your last post is in the NIW thread. So, hopefully, you get an answer. Alternatively, you search "Accountant NIW Reddit".

Yes, my question is valid because if there is and it can be written in Nigeria, you write and pass. Then apply for NIW - work authorisation. The aim is to get work authorisation so as to work in the US. So, if you could do that without pursuing an academic degree (since transfers are hard to come by these days according to Ednut), better. Pursuing an academic degree does not confer ease of work authorisation. The good thing is accountants are in short supply. So, your chances of getting a job are higher.

Except you like book sha, but anything to fasten the process is what I prefer.

I saw the screenshot all over social media and declined to comment because of my friends and followers. I recalled a comment I made on Facebook about a news article where a couple who had triplets (altogether five children) requested help. I write say make dem sell the children. My lecturer then in school reacted "sad". I had to delete it out of respect. But this lecturer has four children, the second set was a set of triplets.

The best solution for this couple is for the woman to work and solely use her earnings to support her family members. Even at that, she would still request money from her husband to support her family. Well, that is why I am very cautious of ladies who have more than two siblings, especially those who are the first in line. Except the father is very financially comfortable. I don't want his money, but I just want to know that he is capable, because I wouldn't be responsible for what I did not cause/create. When he was fvcking his wife, he did not call me.

DrAkpa:
I have a PhD in Molecular Biology and currently a professor in a university in the state of Victoria.

In the whole of Nigeria, there are not up to 10 people with that qualification.

Maybe in a particular research field, but to state that Nigeria does not have PhD holders in Molecular Biology or its sister field Biochemistry is a wild claim.

I could have been made a minister or a DG by Buhari's government in 2015, if I wasn't pro-pdp. Better use your tongue to count your teeth my boy, you are still coming up

How many Igbos with a similar profile did Buhari appoint? So, what makes you think Buhari would have appointed you as DG of any agency/parastatal? I wouldn't be surprised if you probably think the same for Tinubu, whereas even the DG for Kerosene Affairs, he appoints a Yoruba man. If these are the kinds of political elites Igbos have, no wonder the region is in disarray.

Konquest:
STOP the relentlessly calling of that man who is now the President a drug kingpin or drug baron... It's an act of CLEAR online criminal defamation of character on the part of you, the boy you quoted, and others here. The day this man and his team finally roar like lions, I can assure you that YOU will be one of those to be picked up by the Intelligence Agencies for prosecution. This NL Website is also owned by a Seun who is Yoruba guy but some of you young Ibos here take too many risks while falling into mass hysteria and cannot use your heads to know that you are leaving a huge digital trail of all your defamatory posts online. You can call Tinubu any other name but not the drug baron o

Interesting write up, but I am curious, does this also include when Wole Soyinka called Patience Jonathan, wife of a president, a "Sheppopotamus"? Or when he described Jonathan, the president, as a "drunken fisherman"? Or when he mocked Jonathan's Fedora cap, traditionally worn by the Ijaw people? Or what about when one Japeth Omojuwa called upon Yale University to withdraw the degree it conferred on the now 70-year-old Ngozi Okonjo Iweala?

Why is Tinubu different, but Jonathan wasn't?

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Regex:
If his refinary reduces fuel in Nigeria then subsidy was not removed at all. Therefore ibeOkeihe was right Gerr.ard59.

Unless his refinery sells fuel at the equivalent of the global price (USD) to naira, then it means no subsidy.

P.S. I don't know the accurate price of petrol or the current naira:dollar exchange rate as at the time of this post.

Marisujuaku:
I've been to Bayelsa and I'm most disappointed with the standard of living and the living conditions there. Bayelsa no fine like this. Once you leave their main expressway, potopoto full everywhere. Their waste pipe from bathroom was channeled into the street road. Sometimes, you'll see faeces flushed into the road. My girlfriend's father built mansion but the road is flooded with black dirty water. And it was not rainy season them. I left there immediately after her marriage ceremony.
The residents are living in squalor, which indicates a poor governance.

To be fair, the topology does not help matters. But other places have conquered water in building very developed cities. So, Bayelsa cannot be different. There was a video I watched on visiting Bonny Island, the poster showed the environment: so so dirty up and down. Untarred roads and poto-poto. I was shocked o. An oil producing island?

Only the NLNG area is well developed. Elsewhere is a literal sh!thole. Like Gabon, like Bonny Island.

Black man no try at all. If na to dangle smelly preek, we sabi do that one.

slowice:
Nigerians you people are funny and extremely shallow and backward. See the mess in the CS.....youth hyping mediocrity in the name of tribalism.

When will yall realize that no part of Nigeria is developed.... Not Lagos, not anywhere. That is why someone with a functional brain will suspend common sense and support a known failure and criminal just because he’s his tribesman.

Oga no one gets out of this shithole alive Y'all should wake up and wise up... The world has left us donkey years behind.

Don't mind them. From my observation so far across various social media platforms, most Nigerian youths reason so illogically and stoopidly. If not for this recent japa, most wouldn't have used their eyes to witness functioning societies and how they operate. With the presence and spread of the Internet, one would have thought that most of our young folks would use it to read about cities in different parts of the world and ask themselves hard questions:

- How did these people build this stuff?
- How is it maintained?
- What was the process involved?

When I was young, I watched "Megafactories" on National Geographic, browsed "Howstuffworks" and read about various cities and their infrastructures. I recalled being mesmerised by Hong Kong's skyscrapers and wondering, how do they maintain these buildings? I fell in love with civil engineering. While very young, I questioned roads without pedestrian walkways which are fully covered. In fact, I consider a road well constructed when there are appropriate markings and covered gutters. Passersby aren't supposed to see what is inside.

The truth be say. there is a very odd way in which the average Nigerian reasons/thinks: brash, illogical, braggadocio, loud and dogmatic. Nigerians in general hate fact-based debates. They prefer "I no fit lie give you" and "dem tell me say".

MrEverest:
Finer than this is an understatement. These pictures are slums. Only one road with trees looks a bit decent, the rest are shanties. What sort of abysmal standards are we operating that someone will post these shanties and be proud of it? Even villages in many third world countries look better than this!

How Bayelsa looks is really depressing and shows they can’t achieve anything great even if they control their oil resources 100%.

It seems only Igbos have presentable cities and villages in Nigeria, the rest are an eyesore.

Entirely untrue.

jamesversion:
The issue with Bayelsa, nay Ijaw areas in the Niger Delta is the absence of proper habitable land. The terrain is mostly swamps and mangroves which without intensive capital expenditure will be largely uninhabitable. For example, take the East West Road, see the sections that passes through Ikwerreland, Ogoni land, Akwa Ibom etc and check the section that pass through bayelsa. The Bayelsa section is deplorable due to terrain.

Almost everywhere in Ijawland need serious sandfilling, which is capital intensive before reasonable work can be carried out. So don't expect serious development there.

Use Google map and zoom into Bayelsa and Ijaw parts of Rivers state and see how scanty there villages are. No amount of online revisionism can change what they are. It has never been about the size of bayelsa but the liveability.

If the Netherlands and Singapore can build new regions/cities on reclaimed lands, Bayesla can do it. The problem is the mentality, economic growth and political will.

Hong Kong and Kansai Airports are built on reclaimed lands. In fact, as I write, the new site for the WORLD EXPO 2025 is built on a newly created island in Japan. Singapore is building a new business district on reclaimed land. Dubai is a world leader in building cities and zones on sand-filled lands. Does it mean the Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Emiratis have two or three heads compared to our people?

cococandy:
BW are typically long-suffering, ride or die, hold you down to the last drop type of wives. That’s why.

When they pair the tenacity of a BW and the generational successes of WM, it lasts because BW are empire builders. It’s unfortunate that it’s only taken until recently for BW to start being appreciated in their own communities after all the sacrifice they make to keep the community afloat while the men where being racially profiled and locked up en masse.

As for BM and WW, it never lasts that long because BW aren’t going over there for good reasons. They usually do it to show the WM they can get their women, or to try and prove a point to BW. But after the dust settles, they find out they don’t even really like each other and the people they’re trying to show don’t care. The WW realizes she’s not as special as she thought she was for being light skin. She gets cheated on as well. The pipeline from being the preference to baby mama is as long as my pinky finger.

Below the belt!

Akinpresident:
How many women can go to their fellow women for mentorship and get it talk more of loan to start a business?
This auntie talking, how many girls can she take up and mentor them to become wealth creators? No be by cho cho cho everytime, show workings.
Women don't help each other and that's why younger women depend on men. If women carry their gender along, we won't come to Nairaland to read this clout coloured news.

To be fair, she has held and sponsored empowerment programs for young women, at least when she was popular.

AreaFada2:
My brother, marriage is actually supposed to be a wonderful thing. It is the oldest institution still in existence.

Agreed.

Hakimi has shown how to hide your money from gold diggers.

Sure. This is small thing for me. There are good bank(ers) around.

The Chinese will one day create a machine to carry a baby for 9 months.

Everything will soon fall in place and water will find its level.

I pray for this day, and I believe it would come especially as the developed world have anaemic low birth rates, but natives are not open to endless trooping in of immigrants from developing countries.

Men just have to weigh things carefully. Expect nothing and expect anything. Do paternity on all kids.

fair deal. Keep a poker face mentality. The bold is extremely important regardless of prevailing circumstances.

AreaFada2:
I know of several guys going through this right now. Both locally and abroad even worse. The women have cornered the kids for child benefit and single mother pay. By the time child is 18 and the mother ready to release them (kid may be leaving home to uni), then he/she is already brainwashed against the dad.

Girl children are much worse after brainwashing. If a woman takes kids and keep preventing you from seeing the kids, just don't worry. Just have other kids. Take the ones willing to come back and leave the rest. In my experience, the softer, more caring guys/dads suffer the most. Just harden up. Women will always do what they want to do.

Even God could not please Eve in the garden of Eden. Nor go kee yourself for woman.

While I do agree with some aspects of your post, I am curious, in a nutshell, sir, what is the benefit of marriage to men in today's world?

I ask because the bulk of the finances to maintain a family for a pretty long time is dependent on the man. So, what is that "catch" to be a married man? Like, if I start a business, I aim to make money in the long run while providing value to customers. What is that "profit" of marriage to a man?

The initiative by Alhaji is commendable, but he should expect stiff competition from American companies that service the region. Also, while I do commend and like the cooperation between sub-Saharan Africa and our cousins in the Caribbeans, I wonder how the US sees the encroachment in its backyard.

BTW, when would such cooperation extend to Haiti biko?

HBB1:
He is not doing petty trading...or is he?

Is this how White British doctors behave or think?

Well, no difference between the so-called educated Nigerians and the rest of the population.

Golan007:
You hate the man because he is not Ibo.

If he had been Ibo you would have been telling us how resourceful it is.

I said what I said .

I did a search using "Denko + Igbo" and it revealed all related posts which showed that Denko is not Igbo.

The Igbophobia in Nigeria is something else.

Well, I can understand why OP is being petty. Those bunch of miscreants are terrible and useless people, especially the bastard who used corrupt money to finance himself to Australia. In fact, especially both as the other is a buffon who prides himself as an Ethiopian PR holder. Reading the tales these cretinous fvcktards write about him and knowing who OP is and the entire reality of things is just ridiculous to me. Someone who does not know OP in person might just consume their moronic tales hook, line and sinker. If there is one thing I hate in life is: dishonest people, and we know for a fact that the average Nigerian politician is a thoroughly dishonest person, any day, any time.

The game has always been to be petty till the actualisation of the Chilean passport and eventual work authorisation in the US.

Even when one wants to give this administration the benefit of the doubt, it fulfils one's initial thought about its incompetence.

Nigeria is too predictable, honestly.

NaijaVietnamese:
This your mentality is wack. You need to upgrade your brain to the latest version, otherwise, see you, see poverty😂😂.

Chile is never a developed country. Is there even a developed country in central and Latin America? No! But they’re mostly developing and are nowhere as bad as Nigeria, except Haiti.

You might evenw the number of expatriates who are making loads of money in Nigeria? Does Nigeria bring a poor country stop them from cashing out heavily

You are in Vietnam. Let's fear God a little.

No be you post this thread?: https://www.nairaland.com/8030698/why-traveling-vietnam-might-better

P.S. Chile is Latin America's most developed country. Only Uruguay comes close, but not close enough. However, I have mentioned to Tensa20 that his area get as e be to me. But hey, it is a developed country. A member of the OECD for that matter. https://www.oecd.org/about/members-and-partners/

KosiGee:
It’s the other way actually. The misogynists men opposed the idea of women serving in the military but the feminists were having none of it. Just like the rainbow flags, the feminists campaigned, fought and eventually had their way.

A misogynistic soldier wouldn’t want to serve side by side with a female soldier. He wouldn’t even want to see a woman wear a camouflage pattern dress let alone wear an official military uniform.

Tide is changing. I would not call them misogynists, but there is a growing number of young men who want women to engage in compulsory military service, especially in countries where mandatory military service is present - South Korea and Singapore. When Sweden changed its rules to have women serve in the national service and would be sent to war frontlines if need be, feminists criticised it, but many young men praised it. In South Korea and Singapore, especially in the former, young men are agitating that Korean women should be made to serve the country just as they to compensate for their failure to birth to children - South Korea's TFR is the developed world's lowest at 0.78/2.1.

The argument is that: you wanted equal rights, you got them. But now that the birth rate is very low and you refuse to birth to children, follow us and do military service. In other words, since you are not useful to the country by having children, you will be useful by serving the country militarily.

georgeakins:
Tinubu does not need ibo votes.
Nobody needs Ibo votes to become president of Nigeria.

Fine, Tinubu does not need Igbos' votes to be president, but how is Tinubu's administration going on for Nigeria? That is my interest. Also, even though what you said is largely true, does it make sense to you to flog Igbos simply because they wanted to vote in an election?

lastkingsman:
So she should separate from Davido and find who?

The mistake was getting pregnant for a brostitute. Fortunately, he is wealthy. But if I were her brother - as I would have warned her against being pregnant for Davido - I would cut her off. I have done it before in life, so this won't be difficult to do.