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Rostikol:
I'm talking about if you are worth 7 billion dollars, you should be looking to spend a minimum 3 billion dollars on public works.

Nigeria is a poor country of 230 million people with an annual budget of just 35 billion dollars.

I just don't see how I can in good conscience be worth 7 billion dollars in such a country and not be looking to spend AT LEAST[/b] 3 billion dollars on public works, but instead setting up some 'foundation' that might spend 50 to a 100 million dollars if that.
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Now I know you are a fvcking illiterate! It is official! No need to question your mental capacity. So, you think any billionaire or even a well-to-do entrepreneur has billions or millions sitting in the bank? So you think Adenuga in question has 3 billion dollars lying somewhere?!

Nah! You are an illiterate!

P.S. It is good you finally accept that Nigeria is a poor country. But man, you reason through your ears for you to believe a billionaire has billions lying somewhere. Were you taught economics or mathematics in secondary school?

Your question is too broad to make such a claim. Best in electoral litigation? Maybe. But is electoral litigation the only aspect of law or the most popular or the most lucrative in Nigeria? No.

Even if he is mooted as the best in electoral litigation, you have to compare his victories to other prominent lawyers over a decade at least. There are many factors to consider.

Regex:
Baba no mind this people. English we speak and learn in school is quite different from what is spoken here and used in learning. When I came to UK I realised that either the British taught us rubbish or as information over time whether formal or informal lose its form and or to an extent value as it gets handed down from generation to generation. Another I am speculating and I have everything to believe given situation of things surrounding us is that we were taught and we refused to learn. That IELTS is a snippets to how English is used here and honestly I do not want them to write it off.

Well, in spoken English, things will be different due to accents. Singaporeans have a different way of speaking. But in written English? Nigerians don't communicate correctly in it. Nigerians are the only ones I have seen use "borrow" instead of "lend". Even an elite like Iyin Aboyeji did it. I was stunned!

Nigerians must write IELTS/TOEFL whether they like it or not.

SoNature:
Nobody knows it all...even Americans make that mistake on social media but they are still considered native English speakers. While English isn't our first language, there are just a few countries in this world that write and speak better English than Nigeria.

Nigeria, in this context, doesn't include the northerners (thank God those ones don't bother leaving the country to further their education). I mean Southern Nigeria, and probably the middle belt. The good thing is that many of their schools are accepting WAEC results now.

I have never read Americans or South Africans or Singaporeans or Ghanaians used "borrow" instead of "lend". If an elite Nigerian like Iyin can use "borrow" rather than "lend", then it is finished. None of those nationalities' elites used "borrow" rather than "lend". None of them also argue stoopidly that "English no be my papa language".

benalvino3:
which proves my point given they are the ones getting the most VISA to enter these countries.

It did not prove anything as you said Indians rarely move with their families. But the stats say Indians take their families only second to Nigerians.

Ednut already proved you wrong. Accept it, you posted a false statement.

SoNature:
They won't fall into deficit. I noticed that many of them are lowering their hitherto crazy admission requirements. For instance, many have changed from 2.1 to 2.2 for postgraduate taught studies.

Imagine asking Nigerians to spend over #100k to take IELTS because we want to study in the UK. Meanwhile, those people know that our English language proficiency is topnotch. Many have waived that as well.

her English speaking countries with enormous employment potential. That's why the UK will continuously attract international students but not like before though.

People who use "there" for "their", "borrow" for "lend" and scream with their smelling mouths open that "English no be my papa language" cannot be described as proficient speakers of the English language.

benalvino3:
Nigerians and Indians too like to abuse any small opportunity they see. At least the Indians moving abroad hardly bring in their family members as most of them are young. Nigerians, Na the old them they travel these days.

Indians come second after Nigerians in dependants. Chinese, previously the highest in international students, have the lowest dependant ratio. Please, let's not lie on the Internet.

https://www.thecable.ng/uk-nigeria-has-highest-international-students-dependents-in-last-4-years

004gist:

I am there now.. Having spent 25 million from Nigeria the school ask me to return if I can't accept their plan.
I ask them to spread the plan to June or let me pay 1200 pounds per month they said no.

I ask why the sudden change, this is what they have been doing. They said not anymore
I am just telling Nigerians not to waste funds because not everyone can bare what I am passing through now

I won't lie, if I were in Nigeria, I would be shocked at the sums people pay just to study in the UK. Maybe na my privilege, but it is shocking o.

You people are spending a lot o. No be small thing.

whizqueen:
You might have been asking yourself if moving to Canada is still worth it and I’m happy to tell you that it is! I recently became a Canadian citizen just in 3 years of moving. Let me tell you all about it.

I left Nigeria in September 2019 to Canada as a Permanent resident all by myself! I was literally just 23 and I remember being filled with so much anxiety and fear for the unknown. Thankfully I’ve been able to navigate life as an immigrant in Canada. I’d say it took about 2 years for me to fully settle in and get a hang of my new life. Things got better with time and I’ve been able to build a strong community around me.

I migrated to Canada as a PR so my pathway to becoming a citizen was much more straightforward. You’re required to reside in Canada as a PR holder for at least 3 years/1,095 days before you become eligible to apply for citizenship. I became eligible in September 2022 and I submitted my application online. I was invited for the citizenship test March 2023 and approved for citizenship ceremony May 2023. My

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For someone who emigrated to Canada in the same year as you (student visa), when is the person likely to become a citizen? My dear friend did the same and she told me COVID delayed the processing to become a PR. I am just curious.

maasoap:
That's my opinion and contribution. You don't like it, I can give you a rope, you will find the rest in your room

Typical Buharist.

Buhari will handle sehkurity, while Osinbajo will handle the heconomy.

yommen:
Abeg no curse the girl abeg. Which special school na? She is a regular child with extraordinary abilities, not a child with special needs. Children with special needs are the irregular children, the blind ones, the autistic children etc. Or do you mean a separate university should established for her too? Abeg abeg abeg!!!

He probably meant a gifted school for students with exceptional brilliance.

gidjah:
I finished my degrees all in d north,you are very right on this.Most of the best grad STDs are from here.Though we have good numbers of the southern guys who are better, but the northern few are doing very well for themselves.We had three FIRST CLASS IN MY DEPT THAT YEAR, ONE OF THEM NA CONFIRM ABOKI FROM ZARIA.He couldn't speak too fluently but when it comes to analysing data and mathematics complexes,he was a gift to behold.Na only for Gramma I pass d guy o ! I am so proud of him.Even the two others that came out with FC,were all born here in d north and grew up here too so it signifies that ;they are partly NORTHERNERS ABI??

It is only logical for the best in the north to come from the north. The north is not as diverse as the south west. So, that is not really surprising. Most importantly, universities in the north are not the best nationwide to attract brilliant students from other parts of the country. This is aside from the religious and ethnic clashes which happen frequently as exemplified by responses here being concerned for the girl's safety simply because she is from Southern Kaduna.

gidjah:
I was once an Olympiad ACE MATHEMATICS TEACHER in d late 2000s .Most of my kids who qualified and got medals then are still outside this country working and still studying too.It was also the North that produced the best students that very year.One of them is Dr Micah Maikudi who graduated as a Med from A top class university in china at 24/25! three years ago or so.I got to know that she is practicing now in Gwag Hospital(I really hope so).it was a great experience tutoring those kids way back then and I still pray my rewards pay with huge success today. Thier TEACHERS WOULD SOON BE FORGOTTEN,NO ONE CARES ABOUT THEM ,I AM A WITNESS TO THAT.

I think it has to do with us as Nigerians having so many responsibilities to cater for, aka the black tax. This makes it difficult to be charitable towards people not related to us by blood. I am still looking for my economics teacher to say thank you. We never know the kind of responsibilities these people have on them as they might be the ones with the best jobs in their families (nuclear and extended).

As a teacher, your happiness should be seeing your students excel beyond the country, and or applying to elite schools where you get paid higher and chances of being gifted money increases or you become entrepreneurial by setting up your math academy.

gidjah:
I was once an Olympiad ACE MATHEMATICS TEACHER in d late 2000s. Most of my kids who qualified and got medals then are still outside this country working and still studying too. It was also the North that produced the best students that very year.One of them is Dr Micah Maikudi who graduated as a Med from A top class university in china at 24/25! three years ago or so.I got to know that she is practicing now in Gwag Hospital(I really hope so).it was a great experience tutoring those kids way back then and I still pray my rewards pay with huge success today .Thier TEACHERS WOULD SOON BE FORGOTTEN,NO ONE CARES ABOUT THEM ,I AM A WITNESS TO THAT.

It seems Northern Christians tend to out-perform Northern Muslims academically. Am I correct?

cc: loffyloffy, Again, another receipt that many brilliant young Nigerians reside outside the country where their FULL potentials are harnessed.

loffyloffy:
Some people only want to see the negative and that is the only thing they will keep seeing.There are thousands of talented Nigerians that have found a breakthrough in different endeavours, academics, banking, medicine, oil and gas etc..People who believe Nigeria kills talent are the people whose takents will be killed. But the reality is, if you are talented , your talent will speak for you, irrespective of your tribe, or wealth. This girl would probably do better in research or IT..and I am pretty sure that a few years down the line we will be reading great things about her. A Talent like hers, cannot be hidden or suppressed. Its differen from a local champion forging jamb result and being celebrated by her kin.

The girl in question comes from a region that has witnessed her people being slaughtered by Fulani herdsmen. So, it is approrairte to piushb that she moves away from that region to somewhere safer. Also, inasmuch as talented Nigerians exist in Nigeria, the chances are higher for them to excel outside the country. This thread about highest JAMB scorers says it all: https://www.nairaland.com/7763389/top-jamb-scorers-where-today Many relocated.

Typical tribalist. While Mmesoma cheated, the highest JAMB scorer is also Igbo. Are you going to cry blood this time?!

ImoleNaija:
May God help her to reach her goals in life.
Exactly! Someone once told me that Northerners mostly top the universities in the North. Though 99% could be average/poor, but the top positions are always held by Northern students.

The majority of people living in Northern Nigeria are northerners. So, why are you surprised the majority in those positions are northerners?

Dancebreaker:
I don't believe the man needed vasectomy. Sure. he has part responsibility but remember the lady already decided before marriage. The lady tried to paint the hubby bad but knowing how hot she was about having many kids, I did not believe her. I even advised her after the second child to take it easy. I didn't know her hubby was saying same thing. She was still insisting on 4 kids minimum. She is not a single child a people who cannot heed a simple advice.

Couples should learn to be flexible and reach a consensus on many aspects in marriage: number of kids, taste, lifestyle, investment, etc.

If the man did not want more children, he had the option of doing a vasectomy. What do you have against vasectomy? If I were the one, I would undergo a vasectomy and wait to see where she will get sperm to fertilise her eggs. If she eventually gets pregnant, I will present my vasectomy result and demand a DNA test for further confirmation.

If as a man, you get married to a woman who wants plenty of children, it is in your best interest to make decisions to prevent such from happening. Just because a woman wants five children does not mean you as the man must fulfil that wish. This also applies to women who want fewer children.

If there is one aspect of my life I would say "it cannot never be me", this issue of procreation is one. It can NEVER be me. Never would such happen.

Dancebreaker:
I had female friend who said many years ago that she would have minimum 4 kids. She had no steady bf. Although she claimed no bf but you know ladies are not honest in such matters.
I advised that she should wait and agree that with her future hubby. She insisted it must be minimum 4 kids by fire by force. I just siddon look. She married some years later.She knack one pikin fiam! Like another 18 months, another pikin fiam! Nor do nor do, a third pikin fiam! Well, the hubby insisted on not having a third child but she did everything to have it. I only found out when the hubby began to avoid coming home until very late at night and marital problems started.She is a single mother now.

Are you implying the marriage collapsed because of the husband's refusal to have another child? So which of them is in charge of the children's custody and well-being? Why did the man not do vasectomy? How is she coping now as a single mother of three children?

Sorry for my too many questions, I just find the tale interesting.

maasoap:
Two is okay for intending couple who are not superbly rich. And probably on monthly fixed salary. Nigeria has never remain the same since after year 2020 covid-19.

This Buharist and Tinubist, what exactly do you have with the Nigerian economy?

P.S. Rich people have fewer children. It is the poor that birth plenty children. So, for the bold, it is better they have just one.

TheWinterBird:
In a developed country like this there're no issues with the economy, at least not to the point where I've to worry about how many kids to have. There're even financial perks from the gov't when you've kids. That said, I only want one or two kids.

Developed countries actually have lower birth rates than developing ones. In fact, South Korea has spent more than $200BN within the past decade to increase her terribly low TFR rate of 0.78, yet it has not worked. Wealth begets fewer children. The more you earn, the less number of children you wish to have.

Even when the economy was good, I maintained my stance on two children. Nowadays, I don't mind having just a child. Raising children is expensive. I am not a fan of it. I did not come into this world to raise children.

captaininiobong:
My bro ask people who have committed sucide how it's going with them. Some of them get tormented to the core when they reach that side.

I understand your pain, Nigerian politicians are dream killers , we all have all it takes to cater for citizens of this country but everyone wants to steal in the available position he or she has. Take example from Betta Edu.

Drugs is the one that makes people finally go mad when it mixes with your blood on a steady and gets to the brain.

How do you know they get tormented? Have you gone to that side before?

ednut1:
The internet is not a safe space

Not on Instagram or Facebook, at least to people wey him sabi, but Nairaland. And OP na 40+ year old man o

EmperorCaesar:
And how many non-islamic countries have been able to achieve this in the world? U will want to list Asians(China and japan) cause na your only defense be that
European, Amercian and African countries looking up to the USA and copying everything about them would struggle to filter some civilization and would instead just do whatever is flying around over there
U think its that easy for a developing country swallowing every western agenda and looking forward to implementing their policies to suddenly start clamping down on the growing feminism/abnormal civilization in their country and hold their ground on chastising women in this age of "Equal right, Mind your own business, Its is my body and This isnt stone age"?

To be fair, a major reason we readily accept Western cultural practices with open arms is largely because we don't have a unified culture in Nigeria, and most importantly, we are poor. One thing I have come to realise in life is that humans admire the lives of rich people and aim to be like them in how they behave, not necessarily what brings them money. So, because we are poorer, we tend to copy the lives and cultural norms of the closest rich people we can find. These are Westerners; for colonial, geographical and linguistic reasons.

Another reason is religion. Countries that adopt the Western version of Christianity tend to assimilate Western cultures more than those that adopt the Orthodox version. Examples are South Korea and Singapore. They have varying levels of Westernisation in their societies. Unlike us, who copy everything out of low self-esteem and poverty, Koreans and Singaporeans tend to limit the levels they copy certain Western practices because they are also wealthy. Japanese and Chinese don't copy because they did not adopt Christianity and are also wealthy. Mind you, these four groups have varying levels of Confucianism in their cultures.

This level of Christianity shows in Nigeria. The way women dress in the south east and south south differ significantly from how they dress in the south west and parts of the north that are Christian-dominated. I bet you, Northern Nigeria's Christian women don't dress in the same manner as girls from Eastern Nigeria (south south and south east) do. This is why when people criticise or deride Nigerian women for certain attitudes, I laugh because there exists a sub-set of women who don't possess or, at least, display such attitudes publicly. Why is this so? Northern Christian women live in a Muslim-dominated environment where they have to behave like Muslims even though they are not. Islam cages women more than Christianity does, Western or Orthodox version.

Ultimately, we as men must provide the environment for our women to thrive. That is how it is everywhere. The likelihood of a Yemeni woman engaging in hookup is higher than that of an Emirati woman. There are reports many Northern Christian women are going into hookup because of the excruciating poverty as a result of continuous attacks on their farmlands by Fulani terrorists. In other places, the women can cultivate their crops peacefully because their men have provided security. In Northern Nigeria, Christian men are slaughtered, leaving the women to fend for themselves. With no man available to provide, the woman has to resort to what she naturally has to offer in times of survival. For men, it is crime. For women, it is selling their bodies.

A successful society is one where the men worked so hard to build. If the financial success of a household lies on the man, aka father and husband, why should it be different in nation-building?

emmaodet:
I don't know what people enjoy in many kids.
If you talk now, they will tell you to shut up that they are capable and can feed their kids. As if life is all about feeding alone. Even the feeding
Their lives and daily calendar is sooo Soo boring and predictable.
Monday to Friday, go to work and yansh your madam in-between, Saturday is for any event like burial or wedding invited to by co-workers, Sunday church. Finish
Yet they will be the one to first scream I can feed my kids that is why I have 5

Sometimes, I am glad they have more kids provided I get to benefit from the arrangement. As long as no one tries to put the burden of taking care of their offspring and I am not living in their midst, no problem. I know how to extract benefits from such people to my advantage.

uvie66:
I SAID DRIVING SKILL NOT CERTIFICATE

You are quoting me for the second time. E be like say as I burst your lies with verifiable evidence, you don vex.

Sha, next time, don't lie on the Internet. This is 2024, not 2004.

franchasofficia:
If we are honest to ourselves, it is men that designed the world we are seeing today.

Men created the vampires we have in our Nigerian women today. Whatever the women of any nation turns out to be, blame the men of that country. We Nigerian men failed Nigeria. Nigerian men's failure in government leadership led to the deterioration of every fabric and aspect of Nigerian society, it's a multiplier effect. If Nigeria's economy was booming with available good jobs for anybody ready to work like it is in Europe, US and other developed countries, our Nigerian ladies wouldn't depend on dating multiple men to make money to take care of themselves. It was also Yahoo Yahoo men, politicians and successful business owners that used money to spoil Nigerian ladies and made them realize that their buttocks and pussies are worth more than gold So stop blaming the ladies alone all the time, blame the men.

https://www.nairaland.com/6643241/nigerian-men-failed-women

https://www.nairaland.com/7684230/how-reduce-hook-ups-nigeria

Bros, there is nothing you have written that I did not hamper on in both threads above. But our men said nooooo. That women develop a country. I asked, which developed country had women at the forefront of its development? I offered to deactivate my moniker. Till date, no response.

If Nigerian men want their women to be chaste, they have to provide the environment for such to happen. So far, that has not happened. So, anything they see, they should take it like that. The complaints don too much.

GUNITGuy:
Thanks 👍 Thanks for that I told someone the same thing it's easier to bag First class in Physics, Mathematics Engineering than even in English because it's usually based on Precision and accuracy....But once it involves cognitive thinking you would be evaluated based on your Creatively and Cognitive skills

I have come across only one first class in Mass Communication and English (I am not too sure). But I am sure of Mass Communication, and she finished from Unilag. Me wey bin dey read Punch First Class Champions is what someone is telling me otherwise. Only Ayo and the Muslimah girl in Law had 5.0 in non-numerical courses. Any bright student can attain 5.0 in numerical courses.

IbeOkehie:
Government is a very important factor in individual outcomes. Since you were already working around 2011, I'm sure you've noticed like me, that many people in the middle class today graduated from University around 2003 to 2007 whereas those who got their degrees around 2015 are not making as much progress

Macro is very important. Again thanks 😊

I mean it when I say I hate those who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. Stoopid human beings. These people enjoyed high and consistent economic growth only to scuttle it for others. What did they do next? They fled like cowards!

Alore:
In essence, people who drummed support for Buhari and voted for him in 2015 had some good patriotic reasons. Not everybody is a fool and unable to do a search on the Internet, etc. As you said, many elites - highly educated citizens - voted across their tribal/religious divide simply because they had a reason to do so hoping for a better nation for everyone. Some of us did not need to depend on the Internet, we saw with our eyes the change Buhari brought when he came in at first.

Shut up! Kind response kill you there! Voted for an incompetent feudalist only to flee!

Intellectwat!

otipoju:
They are always in competition with themselves over everything. A guy with a heavy Nigerian accent is not " worthy of bragging about" as the accent is clear evidence he just came and trying to find his feet and not established yet.

Bro a good number of those girls are closet lesbians . The matter really weak me with the things i have seen. I know one boy whose wife is a bisexual. The Girl Papa na Pastor and her girlfriend attended the same church before they married.

I had to tell her calmly that I know they sleep together and that they should reduce it as she is about to marry.

America don clear my eyes completely. Naija women no be am at all.

Interesting tales. It is good to know this even though na ancetodal.

Good luck to everyone!

Evolutionism:
Most Nigerians don't know what it takes to raise QUALITY Children.

Honestly, it is expensive to raise children. The problem is that we see it as an investment, which is fair enough considering cultures. But in an increasingly competitive world with permissible cultural practices from other countries due to globalisation, the "investment" these parents are making might not be there for them. Indians, especially those based overseas, don dey send their parents to live in old people's homes. The saving grace for Hong Kong and Singapore is due to small land mass.

Many young Nigerians don leave their parents to make a living far away from where they bred. This brings me to the observation of building big houses with large compounds. I don't understand the rationale. We don't consider the costs involved during maintenance. Big house with say three or four children. Two don japa, one dey another African country and the last is doing NYSC elsewhere. How does the house gets maintained in the long term?

As it is, OP will continue to pay school fees till 2050. This is aside from other responsibilities of life and personal care. What would be the naira situation by then? Security? Economy? General costs of things? How much would his pension be?

Honestly, men should think twice when ejaculating into women's vaginas.