₦airaland Forum

Tharmon:
Good day nairalanders, so I plan on going to the University next year to study Economics but I wrote art subjects in waec..I wanted to study law/political science but I am switching to economics now.

The issue is I want to write GCE next year only writing economics as I feel it the only missing piece in my weac to study the course. Is it possible? Will I have to write commerce and all those commercial subjects?

Thank you

Edit: I will be using two sitting

Write to use one sitting result. You have to include mathematics if you did not. No school will admit a student to study economics who did not meet the minimum requirement in either mathematics or further mathematics. And you will need maths to perform well in economics, and in aptitude tests during job hunting. It is this job hunting stage that will request one sitting result for your secondary school exams.

So, one sitting and mathematics.

emmaodet:
I totally agree with you.
That is why a boy who comes from a poor home and goes to university party and drink most times with ladies of same caliber is only setting himself up for failure if he is not wise because after school, some of these ladies will secure financially average men while the boy is starting from the scratch and those ladies will avoid him like a plague after school.
Women have he luxury of squandering their future yet still have leverage and insurance of men but a man doesn't have such opportunity.

I saw this a lot during university days... Girls who weren't good in academics got married in their twilight years or immediately after and began living comfortably (better than when they were single). So a guy whose parents aren't comfortable yet loses focus in school or trade will pay for it. What is the backup? I am always glad I was serious while in school, even with a more comfortable background than some I know who did not have a similar background, yet played along in school. The girls they dated while in school, they cannot approach today because they (the girls) have upgraded. I don't know how it feels, but it will be extremely awkward to come across ladies you paroled with in school, but their economic standing has surpassed yours as a man.

The day HushPuppi will be released eh! If the dude runs for an electoral office, he would win by a landslide.

Rictech:
My seniors in Japan (Blac.kbriar , Gerrar.d59 & co) season’s greetings to you all. Abeg, na which online store I fit place order for garri/Nigerian food? Just like Shinjukuhalalfood , Tokyo. Just this evening, I Wanted to place order but garri is out of stock at Shinjukuhalal.
Abeg, I seriously need your recommendations

Google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/17ov3t0/massive_list_of_international_food_stores_that/

Many websites were listed that sell ethnic food items. I rely on Shinjuku because it is the number one for African foods. The rest mostly cater to non-Africans. If the item is not in Shinjuku, I would rather wait, and when available, I purchase enough to last for months.

SonOfWords:
Na the Jalingo youths wey stand there dey watch the aneemal dey malfunction I blame.

Port Harcourt boys for don brush am wetin no sound for that stage .

Will PH boys do the same to Duncan Mighty? Most likely not.

uchman:
I so much appreciate your time brother,
Talking about doing business in China and also in Japan.
There are a lot of used cars, electronics and co in Japan, I will say that one of the best means of making money in Japan as a Nigerian is importation of used items especially, used car parts because you sell them in the warehouse (general warehouse that everybody can use), the same day you offloaded your container and all buyers of used car parts pays cash before taking their items out of the warehouse where you offloaded and nothing like selling on credit but China goods are more of new items, new items are not sold in the warehouse except the importer’s personal warehouse or shop and a lot of credit follows because you will need to sample your goods in different peoples shops and outlets until you are fully known not like used car parts that one can sell the same day, cash payment and you don’t need to look for customers because a lot of customers will be in the warehouse searching for containers that are offloading to buy from.

In my opinion,

Nigerians mainly buy used items from Japan and new items from China.

Used items sells immediately with immediate payment because used items don’t have warranty not like new items
are not wonderful business to do but everybody knows what they actually want in life.

English dey hard me but I hope you understand

Okay. I fully understand it now.

Please do you speak Chinese? If yes, to what level?

Zionmdde:
Never seen a dumb story before
You spend all your fortune building mansions that your grandchildren will not want to live in because it will become old fashioned.
We have seen many of those kind of houses everywhere lying fallow and dilapidated

I wish men will learn how to focus on what need to be focused on, which is knowing when to stop hussling for properties and start taking care of themselves so they can live longer

Even though I am not a fan of building unnecessarily big houses in Nigeria, which one is the "dumb" story? Did you experience the Civil War as they did? Within the past two years, similar rhetoric has resurfaced, so they were right.

uchman:
Thanks for this wonderful suggestion but as someone that have stayed in Jakarta Indonesia 2016 , lived in Vietnam as an ESL teacher and presently with Chinese resident permit and living in China, I can tell you that those countries are not ladies friendly when it comes to job hunting except ESL jobs which is even hard for we Nigerians to secure.

Black women friendly*

Japan is the friendliest of all. China is second. Singapore is the most friendliest, but it is way too elite for most Black Africans in terms of work visas. Japan is good because she can get a job in corporate Japan if she speaks the language. The same for China, but the competition is stiffer. The competition in Singapore is the stiffest, considering English is widely spoken.

Well, with your experience, you have seen the reason why I stated this:

Gerrard59:
Good luck tho, but from my experience so far, I would rather raise a fully Black family in a Black dominated country.

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uchman:
I 100% understand you brother just that I feel like as my wife have been teaching in a Federal school for sometime now, she should continue with ESL jobs while running her MSc under Education so that maybe in 2 to 3 years, NZ or Aussy will be the next step ahead for PHD.

Secondly, I am considering finance for a family of five going to either NZ or Aussy, you know that the funds won’t be a child’s play.

Then, in this case, she should continue with her job in the federal school while you build capital and expertise. Then apply for a PhD fully prepared with all docs, tests and applications. Application fees should not be a problem. That is where your built-up capital becomes useful.

Australia is better off and within the Asia-Pacific region. In all, na money be the koko. So build up the capital and strike hard when it is time.

Also my main business in Nigeria that I am well known for is used auto parts, I feel like I will do fine scrapping cars in Japan while supporting my family with bills.

This is something I have not written about here, but the car parts/container business I have seen here (I am a member of the Igbo Union in my region) does not look profitable to me and is physically demanding. Without sounding immodest, I can make that kind of money in my family's business back home once I am in full control. Don't get me wrong: there is money, just not the kind of money I want or the kind of money I expected. I have met another man who said there is money doing the same business in China rather than Japan because goods are cheaper, and this is true.

See the new rave behind young people visiting China, even to the factories for goods. You don't have such here, and factory goods are usually cheaper or more affordable for Nigerians. Although goods from Japan have higher quality, but pricing is the issue for Nigerians. The weak yen might help businesses more now than when I got in. Nevertheless, not the kind of money I am interested in.

Lastly, I have businesses running for me from China to Nigeria because I have a Chinese resident permit and can fly to China from Japan anytime I need to meet factories I produce with in China and flying from China to Japan ain’t that expensive.

Your decision to live in either country is your choice, and I respect it.

Philosopher1979:
The fact that a man is poor does not mean he has to wife a LovePeddler. Also, poor has levels. There is lower middle class and very very poor. At any strata of society, there are decent ladies and whores.. I mean a mechanic can still marry a hairdresser that is decent. A lawyer can still marry s nurse that is decent. Being poor pr average is not enough reason to wife an ex prostitute. It is not fair

Fair assessment. Hopefully, we have more of this rhetoric across social media platforms in the country. The belief that everyone is rich in Nigeria is untrue. The belief that every thriving or hustling young man is into fraud or every young lady is into hookups is misplaced. Most importantly, Nigeria is a country of many ethnic nations: so people should not generalise what happens in their ethnic nations towards others.

guobe:
Yes ,it's for people that feel it's all rosey over there.
You just have to do your thing and chase your dreams disregarding the obstacles that comes with it.
Also you can't compare tribalism to racism as a racist can go all length you can't imagine.

Why shouldn't we compare tribalism to racism? Aren't both forms of discrimination?

The thread should be closed. The two commentators have done justice to it. Saying Jamaica does not receive tourists nullified everything. There is nothing fascinating or nice about winters, especially frigid ones with no escape for the sun. Caribbean islands still get tourists, notwithstanding the alarmist rhetoric about insecurity. As gun-shooting as Jamaica is or "unsafe" as the Bahamas might be, they get tons of tourists from the US, Canada and the UK. More multimillion-dollar hotels are built across Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas every Eke market day.

Lastly, the majority of "tourists" into Nigeria are Nigerians: first and second generation. Nigeria does not attract foreign tourists as our counterparts in Southern and Eastern Africa do. In fact, more tourists troop into Ghana than Nigeria. Detty December came as a result of the Ghanaian initiative to commemorate the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Detty December didn't originate from Nigeria.

Na so dem talk say South Africa is crime ridden, yet tourists steadily flock into the country.

luminouz:
Yes I agree with the mental stress on men. That is why I usually tell young dudes that being born a man in this world is basically 2-goals down. We develop the strength and mental toughness that ultimately makes you a man. The road is usually hard, rough and tough. If you are lucky to meet people who care about you as a man, then you are lucky indeed because men are not loved because they are men but for the value they can provide. I knew this ages ago. Everyone wants you to be a provider, protector, sacrifice for everyone but you rarely see anyone giving a hoot about your pain, fear and wants. That is why being a man is literally the toughest job out there because most times you are alone and expected to figure it out alone.

I will never get that part though. The part where men get small money and they rush to get married, especially to the same ladies who rejected them when they were broke. It's almost like men have this innate desire to watch themselves suffer. Then they still stayed in these marriages despite knowing they are not loved but tolerated because they can provide. The same set always tell me 'you better marry, you are not a complete man if you don't ' and when I point out how fvcked up their marriages are, they are like 'fear who no fear woman oh' and my mind is why dafuq did you have to marry who doesn't love or respect you? And you knew this yet you went ahead.

All in all, this community is one of the saving graces to help men grow and see their own value.

Honestly, the life of a man, regardless of where he lives, is very hard and full of responsibilities. It is much better in richer countries (which have their own issues), but the life of a man is just full of work, work and work. I thank God for the comfort he has provided my family, but when I think of the scenario where I am a husband and father, it gives me issues. It is now that I further appreciate the sacrifices my dad went through. So far, I don analyse am tire - the best solution is to have a few children. When I see men with three, four or five children, I raise cap for them.

I opened the thread to confirm my bias: we would have more male commentators have a say. Interestingly, most of these male commentators did not comment on the previous thread.

Ofodirinwa:
South Africa has 500+ airports. Meanwhile...

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/nigerias-airports-pilots-and-profits-aviation-by-the-numbers/p812m65

South Africa is richer and more advanced than Nigeria. So, having 500 airports is okay. South Africa is not our mate on the continent. The aviation industry has a thin profit margin, and globally, only a few airlines are consistently profitable. For us to have thriving airports, the country has to be rich, as we are the "richest" country in West Africa, and with such wealth, many Nigerians don't fly consistently, how much folks in Niger, Ghana, Mauritania and Senegal? The country has to be rich so the wealth spreads to many neighbouring countries, especially in Central Africa, such as Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the like.

So when we have states like Ebonyi and Abia (two of the poorest states in the southeast) and Ekiti having airports, it amuses me. What annoys me is how the indigenes arrogantly and ignorantly defend the need for these states to have airports. Anambra did not need an airport when there is one in nearby Asaba. In fact, Asaba did not need an airport as there was already one in Benin City. Uyo did not need an airport when the Margaret Ekpo International (only in the name) airport exist and there is a thriving Omagwa Airport in Port-harcourt. Imagine a poor Abia having an airport when there are FIVE nearby states with airports and four within an hour and a half drive? In 2013, it took 30 minutes or 45 minutes if the driver drove slowly to get to Calabar from Uyo. Today, it takes at least 5 hours. Better roads or airports, which benefit more people?

What we need are high-speed railways connecting major cities across these states. Abia should collaborate with other states in the region to build cargo railways that terminate in the Onne area of Rivers state. Furthermore, collaborate with governors and political elites in the north east so their goods can be swiftly transported. Cross River, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, and Benue can spearhead this move.

These things are not rocket science.

Here: Air traffic has not hit pre-COVID levels: https://businessday.ng/aviation/article/nigerias-air-traffic-yet-to-hit-pre-covid-era-as-peers-see-steady-growth/

We are too poor to have many airports. Aside from the airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Rivers, the rest should be closed or used as regional train stations.

JASONjnr:
Airports are idle because the state government are not doing enough....

Look, development in Nigeria needs visionary state government to create enabling ground for development and growth within different local government areas and not only the state capital.

Nigeria needs GDP growth rate of at least 10% per annum for ten uninterrupted years for development to take place. When development takes place and people can afford their basic needs consistently and comfortably, then airports can thrive.

hegelian:
You dey shout racist when in your country, you hate yourself.. The tribalism against yourself is worst in the world.. You all prefer your tribal enemies fail or kpaied just for political expediency and yet demand respect from those totally different from you..

Don't mind them. Anytime a Nigerian complains of racism, I chuckle.

owobokiri:
Most of these policies targeted at ordinary Nigerians are born out pure racism by Trump.
Nigerians in the US are most probably the most educated. Very resilient, very professionally purposeful. Many Nigerians are contributing massively to the us economy and tech advancements. Most are into high tech, academics and research.
To clamp down on all of us just because you prefer migrants from "Sweden and Norway" imply shows how crudely racist Trump and his gang are..

Humans are tribal. You people practice tribalism on Nairaland, but you don't want the white man to practice his?

dominique:
Trump is so sympathetic towards the plight of Nigerian Christians that he's doing everything he can to shut them out of his country. What a weird way of showing concern

Maybe those Christians would rather live in their ancestral lands than in a foreign land. Abi you think say na everybody wan japa even if offered the opportunity?

LordBiden:
The vegetarian diet is the best form of diet to avoid every sickness and disease.

lol

People wey dey lack essential nutrients for body?

Kaczynski:
Bring your family to china instead of waiting on japan or better yet go for vietnam or indonesia.

A Black man who is financially comfortable should raise his family in Vietnam or Indonesia?

Wetin I no go see for Obasanjo Internet.

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I agree that if Japan is not feasible in the meantime, better China. But I think he wants a long-term residence like PR (not possible in China). Unfortunately, laws are changing and more new rules are expected between 2026 - 2027. Getting them to China and enrolling in a Japanese language school is better than them being in Nigeria if the end goal is Japan.

JESHAL007:
Lol
It's because of need for steady and uninterrupted sex, need for romance( oxytocin induced love), loneliness creating a need for companionship and societal with religious pressures make men act emotionally against their interest, logically and pragmatically asides raising kids in a functioning home there is no tangible benefit for marriage

So far, many married men across social media platforms have disputed it. While being a biased environment to take up such a survey, the men who lodged and spent the most in my family's hospitality business were mainly married men from all walks of life. Even the men whom I thought were single were actually married with children. But they paid ahead to secure rooms and had different women. I saw this too amongst my male lecturers - all except one sha (no girl had an encounter with him) had mistresses. These were married men. We have had our women screaming that too much sex is an issue for them IN MARRIAGE, and their favourite arrogant question: "Is sex food?"

Various studies clearly show that married men patronise sex workers way more than single men. So, it is not true that married men derive sex more frequently than their bachelor counterparts.

emmaodet:
I don't like "if" in statements... It is a conditional tense and I can generate many "if" for many scenarios.
There is no going to be "if"
Humans are constantly dream of a perfect world but there won't be any.
There are reasons why some conditions are created to have a predictable output.
If your women so as to be independent and avoid marriage, we can also skew many scenarios

I like your explanations, but the quoted post by JESHAL is realistic because there are examples to glean from. He is right that with a functioning or semi-functioning government, marriage and fertility rates in Nigeria, especially the southern part, will plunge. Already, the south has a lower fertility rate than the north. So, imagine a prosperous Nigeria that is like Malaysia. Using the Malaysian example, the fertility rate amongst the Chinese is below 1.0, which is way lower than that of Malays at 1.9 - 2.1. Prosperous countries tend to be less religious, and our Christian population is largely influenced by Western culture and lifestyle. I even project that divorce rates shoot up and the willingness to marry nosedives in the north in a prosperous Nigeria.

Another example is how our women (mostly Christian) who live in the West are open to being single for life, divorcees (with most initiating the break-up) and lesbians. In summary, with the current poverty and Southern Nigeria being more prosperous than Northern Nigeria and having a lower fertility rate, a Malaysian replica will see it plummet further.

uchman:
Gerrar.d59 my brother,
You are right on the four years you mentioned but I believe this time, it will pull through.
I am looking for a way to send my wife and three kids to Japan so that I will have rest of mind. Moreover, I live in China with a Chinese residency and also doing my business in China but living in China while my family is living in Nigeria never go down well with me.

Good luck tho, but from my experience so far, I would rather raise a fully Black family in a Black dominated country.

Best of wishes!

ariesbull:
Select list of countries where a majority (over 50%) of adults are currently married, based on recent census and demographic data (roughly 2019–2024). These countries still have marriage as the dominant relationship status among adults.
In most Western countries, marriage is no longer the majority status

Where marriage is still dominant, it is usually barely above 50%
Cohabitation though very has replaced marriage in many Northern European societies due to the laws on divorces and alimony and most men try to avoid marriage due to these financial losses not as if they don't want marriage but the laws of divorce

Their fertility rates will never increase until marriage rates shoot up. Children are best raised in a marriage setting, so when there is a decline in marriages, fertility rates will not increase. Only a major social upheaval like war can lead to an increase in the fertility rate. If the effects of coronavirus could not lead to an increase in the fertility rate, no major disease outbreak can do so.

Walai:
Stop all this talk of wedding going on. I am in the event management industry and I can tell you for free that weddings have dropped over 50% since 2015. Infact this December season used to be everyday wedding, sometimes we manage 10 weddings in a single day, today getting a wedding event is scarce. Just one wedding per Saturday and you are jubilating. Do you know we have millions of unmarried ladies out there?

In which region are you based? If there are millions of unmarried ladies out there, there are equally millions of unmarried men.

The terrible Nigerian economy by Buhari and Tinubu are the root causes.

Emmabyte:
Nigeria men they japa to go find money and truth been told APC and Tinubu is the cause tell me how can you bring in terrorist from across Africa to come and kill Nigeria just because of 2015 election maybe one aboke from north for done come marry one, Op abi you no want aboke husband for your sisters

Since they have something doing according to you they will be fine. Am out of here 🚶🚶🚶

That's the major reason many who love to marry are yet to get married - the economy nosedived since 2015.

NiRfreak:
Your right, I used to say I can't marry anything less than 26, but the case study of my sisters makes me want to give a chance to ladies of 28-29-30 to prove their worth, see what's upstairs and their view of life and marriage in general.

As it becomes difficult to see lady of 29/30 who still have manageable history so it's becoming more difficult to see ladies of less than 26 who has not Commoditize and hyper sexualized themselves in this era of Snapchat. Badoo, Yahoo boy etc. .... Since we know sexual history of a woman matters a lot in long term relationship/marriage

Again, this is why you need to sieve everything you read/consume on social media. Shey e don affect you now to the extent you're changing words?

This is why extremism has never been a good thing. All the bad narrative will one day hit home. So, how do you defend your sisters when you held similar views which now affect them? How do you align with people whose views you espoused, but now reject simply because your sisters are affected? So suddenly your sisters have become good women because they're 30 and unmarried, but other 30 year old ladies were bad?

When I talk say make una dey go better schools, you people disagree only to attend poorly run British universities run by lovey-dovey woke administrators.

SuperOnyi:

You're not alone. But you know what's sad? I can't type now but it's sad. The powers that be are using these lUnatics and lesbians parading as feminists to destroy the concept of marriage. People still marry but a lot of us are losing the scope of what marriage actually is, a lot of us do not even think of marriage anymore or give it the reverence it once had.

Once the devil wants to destroy something, he find a dUMb bItCH with no brain. It hurts the most when you actually have sisters that this virus might affect. I have sisters, female friends, and daughters. I have women that want me but I don't find relationship appealing.

These Nigerian "feminists" are destroying the one thing that draws a man to a beautiful woman — feminity. You might not see the result of this social media madness now but give it time. It's slowly germinating... That is why I keep preaching about the stupidity of man-hating that has been disguised as feminism.

Nigerian females and males have screwed up mentality and only time can tell if they can stand each other. Sometimes, I felt sorry for my son and daughters, strong men created the peace we enjoy today, until the weak men and women who want what they never worked for came around.

I partly agree with your thoughts. The social media anti-men rhetoric between 2015 - 2022 really changed how both genders viewed and interacted with themselves. It's the teens and adolescents I sympathise with as they will have traumatic views towards the opposite sex even before any encounter because of their older siblings/relatives and online narratives.

Nevertheless, people are still marrying, at least in Nigeria. So nothing spoil.

NiRfreak:
Funny thing is we men are quick to generalize that any woman above 26/27 should not be considered again, I used to be so, but on a closer reflection, if I meet a lady of my sisters age, edu, outlook, character, job, religious & dating history, I will gladly marry her even if she's 30.
The reality of my sisters now makes me understand that not all 29 or 30 year old are Bad or Ashana...... But to know 29/30 year old who are still okay is the problem.... unless you talk and relate to understand their psyche

Stop listening to these people. Most are illiterates, poorly educated and have limited exposure.

See how their illiteracy works: they say would-be wives shouldn't be liabilities, yet they want to marry 20 year olds. Tell me, how many 20 year olds in Nigeria have graduated and begun working? How many 20 year olds have built thriving businesses enabling them to sustain themselves as adults?

These people are illiterates!

Jman06:
I personally won't marry any lady who is above 25years old. I'll rather marry an illiterate girl between 18 and 25 yo than marry any old lady. I have my marital goals clearly spelt out and I don't need a lady above 25 to achieve those goals regardless how rich or educated she is

Again, this is why everyone on social media needs to sieve out what they read. It's not every post, tweet or video you believe hook, line and sinker.

People's posts are reflections of their exposure, education levels, financial status and general outlook of life.