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etrange: Gerrard59:Trust me when I say it is always the poor men who cry every day that young women these days are fvcking everywhere as if the people these women sleep with are not men but ghosts. I can understand their pains - women are raking a lot from their genital parts while they (young men) cannot replicate the same. It can be painful, but if they understand a thing or two about biology and elementary economics, they will rather look towards seizing opportunities within the industry than lampoon all day on social media. Cry today, cry tomorrow, cry forever, women will keep getting paid for sex, and men will always continue to pay. Nothing will change it. Sex itself is not free. |
Personally, any society that insists on males being very important in the scheme of things should at least be prosperous. Japan does not allow females to become Emperors like the Royal Majesty in the UK. But hey, Japan is prosperous. You cannot be a privation-laden society yet insists on certain cultural practices. Another example is Tony Elumelu, who, after five girls, had male twins. One would know he really wanted males. But hey, Tony is rich. Not when you don't have a single monetary asset to your name, you insist on male children or sending the mother of your children out of the marriage because she bore only girls. |
obotematics:What aspect of Ibibio culture necessitates the presence of men? |
koyyess:This woman sef.
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Legend2019:Radiography is more lucrative. Judging by the very few universities that offer it (Unilag, UNIMAID & Unical. Abi another school dey?), the supply is low while demand remains high. Any skill/program that is in high demand but has a limited supply incurs higher charges/salaries. That aside, please re-word your post. I had a hard time understanding it. You dey 200L abi 100L abi you be Jambito? How come your then engineering classmates are now graduates when you just entered 100L Radiography? Then you said you be 200L mech eng student? I thought your mates are graduates already? Abi you mean secondary school? If so, don't worry yourself. You are in the medical field, it is normal. Also, as much as you get inspired by others, you don't have to compare yourself to them. Everyone's path is different and people have different desires/wishes in life. |
HudaIna:Interesting.. It could be the area of Lagos she stayed at. Last time I was at Palms Mall, my eyes saw things. ![]() @Topic: Gradually, we are progressing. Just pains me that when I was in Nigeria, I did not witness all this o. My love for breasts (perky and moderate to cupped size) is like copied assignment, I cannot explain it. |
Seun:OP, You don hear? The Elon Musk of Nairaland has spoken abi written. ![]() |
festusbiz:I am glad my suggestion helped you. ![]() To future applicants, the Japanese visa is very easy to obtain provided you adhere to all rules stated. The COE (I like calling it the pre-visa) is very important. Without it, you cannot be issued the visa. Even with it, you might not be issued the visa. But this, I would say, is 1/10, while possessing the COE gives you a 9/10 chance of being issued the visa. Ensure the process is legit and straightforward. The COE application is done by the organisation/company/university/language school in Japan, and until you receive it, that is when you can email the embassy for an appointment. Before Covid, you could walk into the embassy and submit your application. Make your application tight-proofed, as a denial means you would be ineligible to apply for a visa of any kind in six months. Again, it is an easy, quick and worth mentioning affordable process. Before Covid, it takes max four days to get a reply and cost N8, 350. Last I checked, it cost N10, 700. The fee is paid if you are issued the visa. If not issued, you don't have to pay. Everything is online: https://www.ng.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000092.html You don't need an agent How did the employer in Japan know that the certificate is not accepted by the embassy in Nigeria? Also, check up on the required documents the embassy demands from applicants who are applying for a work visa. Check if there is a required health certificate.You also don't need to sign any health document or enrol in any health insurance scheme before departure as you would be enrolled in the national health insurance scheme when you are in the country, not outside. |
Worriedwife:The average Nigerian is a bloody hypocrite when it comes to marital affairs. Imagine the man being on his third wife and people think the woman is at fault? |
maasoap:Coming from someone who supports ALL APC's policies, which have wrecked the country terribly, it is surprising you know what is better. Tinubu supported Buhari, who is a world-class failure, then rational humans should expect him to outperform Buhari? What do they say about "show me your friends...."? |
emmaodet:The usage has to be there before the price falls. Also, the price depends on the alternative. Are the roads safer than they were ten years ago? Do people have the discretionary income to keep flying as previously? What about the costs involved in maintaining an aircraft (which is domiciled in dollars)? Even with the inflation globally, people still fly. Chinese, Japanese, Americans etc., what does this mean? There is an existing demand even when alternatives are available, affordable and safer. Airlines would prefer more people fly, but if there is no demand, then it makes no economic sense to ply unprofitable routes. I still remember years ago when aero do fly from Ph to Lag or Lag to Abuja for as low as 5k, 7k. People started using them.There was a strong middle class, jobs were plentiful and the country was safer than today. The roads were also pretty safe. What the low patronage notwithstanding the high rate of insecurity says is that Nigerians have become poorer over the years, if not they should be flying every now and then. It simply means the Nigerians who could afford 5K flights then cannot afford 50K flights now. The tariffs african govt places on this tickets are way too high and there is nothing to even show for such high tarrif.That is because our government don't understand economics as they ought to. Another school of thought is that they fix those charges since there are few intra-continental flights compared to flights from outside the continent. The koko is ensuring Africans become rich enough to afford flying, then there would be a growth of LCC (low-cost carriers), 'cos as it is, the business model for such won't make any sense. When a large percentage of Africans begin to fly consistently, there will be demands to reduce the charges. If the charges are reduced now, can average Africans fly between countries on the continent? No. |
emmaodet:Economics of scale. There is demand that ensures prices stay low. How many Nigerians fly to Luanda from Lagos compared to London from Berlin? So, how does an airline company recoup its investments when the volume is low? It is by increasing the price. Also, there are many operating airlines plying that route compared to Lagos-Luanda. Additionally, the EU has a single market's regulations for air travel. Is it the same for African countries where they will charge airlines plying LOS-LUA the same amount as LHR-LOS? The first step in solving it is to ensure Africans can afford to fly. The same happened in South East Asia. Prices are lower compared to 20 years ago. But then, South East Asians are way more prosperous than sub-Saharan Africans. Poor people have nothing to do with air-travel. |
Rxzepet01:https://www.reddit.com/r/teachinginjapan/ https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/ Ask your question there. I have no idea about the visa process for English teachers. |
Rxzepet01:I don't have an idea on English teaching jobs application processes by applicants outside Japan. I suggested reddit/movingtojapan. Have you asked your question there? What is the name of this school? You did not even answer my questions about the COE. Well... BTW, are you Festusbiz? |
maasoap:Coming from someone who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015 & 2019, supports ALL APC's policies, sucks El-Rufai's deek and swallows his cum, and sees nothing wrong with a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a heterogenous religious country. Your hypocrisy is nauseating. The man who licks a microphone and is thoroughly corrupt is who you christened as the best candidate Nigeria has. The same "best manager" could only support a flagrant and incompetent Buhari in 2015. Best in managerial expertise! |
Refugee1:You just responded to one of Nairaland's most frustrated members. Go through his posts to see what I mean. |
obedience4:South Korea does not doubt US' capabilities to protect them. Rather, the president is saying should North Korea eventually attain nuclear power status, she will have to get hers, and rightly so, in my opinion. Their annoyance is with the US not ensuring NK does not attain nuclear power status. The thing is: should North Korea get it, South Korea would want to, and ditto Japan. The latter both nations don't even need foreign technical assistance as they have it in abundance. I read years ago that it would take Japan six months to develop a nuclear weapon using the expertise of operating nuclear power plants. And Pansophist is right. Should SK and Japan attain nuclear power status, they will become more assertive and belligerent towards the US - they are already prosperous. They might order US troops to vacate their countries. However, I don't think that is happening anytime soon as they are practically dominated by America's military influence. Also, they share a common enemy in China due to historical reasons. China will have to reassure them, especially the Japanese, that she won't be bellicose. In my opinion, the US takes advantage of the historical animosity to foster divisions among the trio. The trio share so many similarities that if they were united, they would form an Eastern version of the West (Western Europe, the United States and Australia). |
SIRTee15:While your point is strong, I did not mean that the decline is a result of immigrants. Rather, a decline in the native population. As the native population declines, there would not be enough people who have strong roots in their countries. Things might be different from the third generation, but second-generation and especially first-generation don't just have deep-rooted ties. They can easily bail out should things get difficult. They don't just have the interest of the country at heart. Also, in relation to your points, when societies get too heterogeneous, there tends to be greater acrimony than harmony among citizens. This, in my opinion, does not foster development or rather slows it as people always bicker over issues due to their different backgrounds/racial groups/ethnicities. Additionally, due to a general decline in birth, economic decline follows, which means the country loses economic standing in the world. In the decade, the Indian economy will become a major contributor to the world than the UK and France combined. Companies would need to generate revenues and eke profits, this means investing more in countries with large populations where the birth rates are pretty stable. An instance is German companies reliant on China for profits. In the next decade, that would be India. Previously, that was the US, Japan and Europe in general. I beg to disagree a country has to be rich for others to copy it's culture.This is true, but it is an exception. The culture of a country's racial and ethnic groups has a strong effect on the developmental status of that country. There is going to be a limit to embracing the culture of Nigeria especially when they cannot correlate it to the developmental status of the country. Mexico has a solid economy (a trillion dollars GDP, strong passport and is abut to the United States). Also, she has cultural links to the rest of South America and Iberia). Partly why Nigeria has gotten a boost aside from the musical exploits is due to our diaspora, who excel academically and professionally. That has helped tremendously considering the other part where we get renowned for being drug mules, Internet fraudsters, cultists etc. India is the same and especially boosted by her wider diaspora from Trinidad and Tobago to Kenya. In addition, the economy is rising - which is where African countries lose. Black Americans have cultural clout because they belong to a superpower. If they were in Africa, they could have been like Nigeria. If we really want to have a more positive influence aside from entertainment exports, our economies have to grow rapidly. As for whoever plays the piper dictates the tune, the facts is in the 21st century, everybody wants to play their own tune, nobody wants to dance to European tune anymore except maybe Africa- u are right on that one.Every rich country/racial group* There is a limit to poor countries determining who dictates the tune. They should even be happy they are allowed to listen to the tune in the first place. |
higgs:You don't believe the state NMA chairman? Who else would you believe? @Tensa20, isn't this what you have been preaching ever since? Calculating from when you told me, it should be over three years sef. |
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SIRTee15:It is normal human behaviour. The person who pays the piper believes he should dictate the tune. Anyone who does not like the tune should either pay higher than him or produce a different tune that the audience would love. In my opinion, the only way whites would lose dominance is when their native population decline drastically. For instance, Europe being partly Arabised/Africanised. As for the world being multi-polar, Africa is not in the mix. Na follow come we dey for this world. As for an African sport being made popular, that will be when the vast majority of African countries are wealthy. Humans generally admire features/characteristics/things owned or developed by rich people. Success has many friends, and should African countries become very rich, many non-Africans would want to associate with things/features developed by Africans. The question now is: why should I emulate/copy/do what poor Africans do when I can emulate what wealthier South Koreans do? |
ednut1:Asian youngsters don't send their parents to old people's homes. Sometimes, they even ensure they stay close to their parents (Singapore) or their parents stay alone in rural areas (China, Japan, South Korea) while they are in the cities working. |
pansophist:Odogwu! ![]() |
Generally, the birth rates in large urban areas are lower (by sheer numbers not percentages) than the rest of the country/region. High cost of living, people, especially women preferring to postpone marriage/childbearing to build their careers, high cost of education, urbanites need to prepare financially to raise their children since it is a very competitive world etc. It is why the number of children born by urbanites is lower than in the suburbs and rural parts of the country. Also, don't compare northerners whose way of life and norms regarding childbearing differ significantly from the vast majority of Lagosians. Compare Lagosians to residents in Enugu, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, Ekiti, Edo etc. |
ednut1:Do children of black African migrants raised in the west put their children into care/old people's homes? |
festusbiz:Call the embassy on Monday to ask them. How did the employer in Japan know that the certificate is not accepted by the embassy in Nigeria? Also, check up on the required documents the embassy demands from applicants who are applying for a work visa. Check if there is a required health certificate. In Japan, one is required to enrol in the mandatory health insurance scheme by the government. So, I am curious why you need to pay for health insurance when you are not yet in Japan? How much is the insurance certificate? When is the expiration period for this payment? You signed the COE? Have you received the physical copy? That is, do you have the copy with you? I don't know if work visa applicants have to sign the COE, but I did not sign mine. Alternatively, go to reddit/movingtojapan and ask this same question. Be very explicit. |
GloriousGbola:When I read the profile of a recently retrenched Facebook AI developer who attended Stanford University and MIT for his BS & PhD, I asked myself, is it by degrees obtained or universities attended? |
GloriousGbola:Yet Nigerians are getting employed in the same abroad with ease? Abi the Nigerians working with Nigerian degrees in Canada, US, UK, Germany are what? Aliens? For mainly science-oriented degrees, the opportunities are immense. The degrees are rated equal in getting a job, ascendancy through the ranks might another issue. But it is entirely false to say Nigerian degrees are disregarded in the abroad. |
Their rules, no doubt. But wanting students to wear suits and tie in a tropical country does not make sense. Students in Singapore and even conservative Malaysia don't wear such. However, I am surprised the students even dared to wear indecent dresses in a Catholic-managed university. Well, Igbos are largely liberal and very secular in certain issues. |
CheapHomes1:Anyone who understands elementary economics should know that. This is simply capitalism at work. I wonder why people are complaining. There is a demand for what she is advertising, the onus is on those who demand for these products not the suppliers. |
Jakumo:To be fair though, steatopygia is natural and confined to a particular set of women. Although excessive, better natural than artificial. |
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