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ednut1:
Basic things of life na him people dey pray for miracle. This is not Christianity

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Make I search for the tweet to read the responses.

E no dey pass Igbo women. It is so predictable at this point.

Rent controls don't work. It has never worked anywhere in the world. Anyone who proposes rent controls on privately owned properties is an illite_rate

"Every accusation is a confession"

What this West vs East rivalry and economic warfare has taught me is that whatever the US-led West accuses one of, it is that very thing they are doing or plan to do. Take this Nexperia saga: we are told by th US-led West that companies should be wary of doing business in China because the CCP would seize their businesses or shut them down. Now, we see the US coercing the Netherlands to take over a thriving company from its rightful owners.

It is a lesson, though: when one accuses you of something you have never done, know that the accuser is planning to do the same, has done it and is doing it.

Every accusation is a confession

Lorayne:
Nice.. thanks.
Seems you are in tech too?
Is C# .Net widely used?

No, I am not in tech. However, I have two friends who work for a Japanese tech company and are well paid. The three of us graduated from Japanese universities. Recently, an acquaintance from Benin Republic got a job right after she graduated (a Japanese university). Her internship was also at one the big tech firms.

As I stated here:

Gerrard59:
Good, but you have to be good to get a company to employ you while outside the country. To increase your chances, especially against applicants from Southeast Asia and India, a minimum of three years of work experience is vital. The language skills is also important as most companies will be Japanese centric. But being in the country and having the skills supercedes the language. That is, provided you reside in the country and have the skills, your chances of getting a job are higher than having the skills while being outside the country.

I know nothing about C# other than it is much harder than Python. To know more about the job market and what it demands, use LinkedIn location search feature. Search for jobs and change the location to Japan or Tokyo.

Lorayne:
Hey boss... I'm a software engineer.

How is the job market for engineers like in Japan?

Good, but you have to be good to get a company to employ you while outside the country. To increase your chances, especially against applicants from Southeast Asia and India, a minimum of three years of work experience is vital. The language skills is also important as most companies will be Japanese centric. But being in the country and having the skills supercedes the language. That is, provided you reside in the country and have the skills, your chances of getting a job are higher than having the skills while being outside the country.

CHUDIEMMA22:
Thanks for the reply.. btw i studied biochemistry.
Do i need ielts to get admission into any uni in japan?

This depends on the university. Some mandate it, others might not. It is your duty to do your research.

Biochemistry is good as it leads to opportunities in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which are dominant here. To increase your chances as a non-East Asian foreigner, a PhD is recommended. If not, ensure your Japanese is at least intermediate, as your major competitors will likely be native Japanese (many stop at the MSc level, as they are not interested in PhD).

What program do you want to study? How do you intend to fund your postgraduate degree?

I live in Japan, and it is great, but like everything in life, it is tied to the value you offer. The language is extremely crucial in getting a job, and do your best to get the job before you graduate, as most Japanese students do. Here, you get the job BEFORE you graduate, not AFTER. If you can, target the April admission session so you graduate in March 2028. Through this, you participate in the job hunting process like most Japanese. So, more job fairs and companies seeking to employ new grads. Part-time jobs aren't an issue. Scholarships are plentiful (check StudyInJapan).

Japan is incredibly safe. Stay within the laws, follow the rules and social norms, and there would be no problem. However, if you seek a higher currency vis-à-vis remittances, the Yen is not high.

PS. If your intended program isn't engineering or hardcore sciences, you are better off enrolling in a language school before you begin a master's program as jobs in non-STEM fields prioritise above intermediate or almost fluent Japanese. Your competitors are Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese and increasingly Nepalese, all of whom study the language before coming here. The first two have a historical linguistic advantage over everyone else.

See the Japan thread here: https://www.nairaland.com/2655545/japanese-visa-travelling-japan

yemmit90:
Playing hard to get is still very much in existence, forget what men are saying on social medias. A man can do anything to have a woman of his dream, he won't mind to wait or pass through anything to have her.

If you think any girl can't play hard to get with you, it simply means you'd never met the ones you can't afford to let go.

You do have a point. But in an era where a man could be accused especially PUBLICLY of stalking a woman, it's better to let go. Once a woman says no or I'm not interested, it's better to let go.

Relationship is not by force.

Lying is not good. Kneeling outside the classroom isn't good either.

It's not easy to train children. If the older generations were better trained, why is Nigeria the way it's? This is my issue with this "old generation were better disciplined" rhetoric. How is it shown itself in nation building?

Jeje247:
No one should complain when the staff seek greener pastures in foreign lands. It's not their fault that greedy politicians have collapsed the economy

Sure. I agree with this. It's the free market. Employ Cameroonians, Ghanaians etc. If I see Gabonese sef, I go employ.

RollinTNDA:
Women use sex to achieve an end goal
For Men, Sex is the end goal
For women Sex is the vehicle they use to reach their end goal...

That is why women don't give it out freely
There must be something she wants from you before she gives you sex.
If she sees that there is nothing to gain from you. She will not give you sex.

When you have something
That is when women will open wide open For Men sex is just pump and pour
For women Sex is a tool she use to get what she wants from you.

Your MONEY
Your tall cute genes
To be your wife
To make you commit to her

You must have something that she needs before she opens wide open. women understand that men love sex and inorder to make men hunt, protect, commit to them. They will use sex as a tool to make sure she gets all her demands.

I think this guy has beautifully summarized my write up in short simple sentence.

In other words, sex is never free. Every man pays for sex via:
- Cash
- Kind
- Commitment

So, to those who believe women should have sex without payment or any benefit in mind simply because "they enjoy it", think again. Women know that men can do anything just for sex. For that reason, they are stingy with it and prioritise the highest bidder.

Sex is not free. Every man pays for it.

emmaodet:
It is relatively a calm, quiet and safe country.
I didn't go out much, mostly was onboard and guest house before going to the airport but from the little I saw, observed and mostly from what I heard from people I met who have stayed or worked there, it is an extremely poor country. So driving G-wagon will definitely raise eye brow unless you are in the top political class.
It is more or less a closed-ended country in that it is an island, which means regular entry into the country is hard and controlled - by air and sea (the port is heavily monitored from Bata and Cameron).
The president has been in power for ages so spies are everywhere trying to sort out rebels or those planning to topple the government by external actors.
As a caution, don't talk bad about their president nor trying to snoop around digging for informations about the president, political class or the country in general for too much else, they single you out for monitoring codedly. You can't trust those you are talking to if they are the government spies.
During the massacre when some factions were rebelling against the government, the government killed over a 100 thousand and over 1m were displaced to neighbouring Gabon who still love there till today to avoid clampdown.
A friend of mine who I met there who works for another company (he stays in Ibadan) was detained with 2 other of his colleagues just for strolling around and wanted to go to a beach close to the presidential villa with a citizen who was their guide.
The citizen was left alone while they were detained on the charges that they were spies and they used 3 weeks in the cell.
It took several top tier calls and intervention to release them after 3 weeks.
My friend told me many people he met in the prison were detained for flimsy excuses and have been there for long with no hope of being released.
In summary, they are hostile to outsiders, Nigerians a bit higher because of some little past issues we had caused.

Thank you for your response.

I jump and pass. Yes, I am not a fan of poke nosing into another country's affairs, but outright detention and harassment isn't my thing. So to drive G-Wagon na big deal for Malabo?

Nigerian elites, political, religious and economic, have failed their people.

Nothing else. It is disheartening.

omoredia:
Thats why I always say that what they told us about slavery is a big lie. It was black people that sold themselves as slaves to the Arabs and then to the Europeans

But that is the truth. What is the lie that is being peddled?

emmaodet:
Which part of equitorial guinea are you going to?
The island Malabo? Or the main land Bata?
If Bata, it is a dirty poor place with little to nothing to do but if Malabo, you will enjoy the place more as rich settler than a hustler because it is a small country.
The island is quiet, serene and lovely to stay if you have money but economically, there isn't much happening there.
Malabo is just as populated as Abeokuta or Ijebu Ode. About 500k to 1m people max.
So you idea of what am saying. The overall market you want to tap into is small.
I have been there twice

How safe is Malabo? Like, using your definition and experience of safety, how safe is it (on a scale of 1 - 10)? Can one drive a G-Wagon without raising eyebrows? Are there police roadblocks here and there? Do their police harass young men who drive nice cars (regular Toyotas, not Benz)? Are there shootings and kidnappings?

simpleseyi:
Our problems plenty for this country. Some people are supposed to be in charge of this, monitoring the implementation of the project. Or is Tinubu supposed to be driving Tractors again?

The mistake was in buying the tractors. Governments should not be involved in tractor purchases. Farmers should form cooperative groups (See Land O'Lakes and Fonterra) amongst themselves, run it like a company and buy whatever they want to buy. Alternatively, partner with a major offtaker, either a major exporter or food companies. The food company then provides tractors at subsidised rates to the farmers in return for the continuous supply of agri-raw materials.

Governments, especially in ethnically diverse countries, should not participate in businesses. Their operations should be very limited.

PureFace1:
https://yen.com.gh/entertainment/celebrities/292964-igbo-king-sparks-outrage-video-installing-a-subchief-surfaces/

The story looks fabricated.

The initial matter has been settled between a Ghanaian MP and the erstwhile so-called king.

The people behind this propaganda seem interested in fomenting trouble in Ghana and/or between Ghana and Nigeria.

WriterrNg:
⚡The Dutch decision to take over the Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and oust its Chinese CEO came due to US pressure on the Dutch government - Reuters

To get the full story from the beginning, read this thread and follow the author: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1979198132195070290

Now, European automakers are complaining. The US really eats its vassals allies. First Japan, then Germany, now the Netherlands.

investorcj:
That's what am sayin,the E9 visa is not available on their site,I guess they don't want Nigerians using it to flood their country,so a company over there will have to give you,I guess I need to learn Japanese here first,thanks so much

What I am saying is that the E9 visa does not exist. If it does, please post the link. I am in Japan, so site access does not affect me.

E9 visa is for South Korea, not Japan.

And yes, language school is one of the easiest and surest routes to migrating to Japan.

How is he a postdoc and professor at the same time? This Alex tends to be inconsistent or amplifies news beyond its scope. I find it hard to believe most of his tweets. He is quite inconsistent and has been caught doing so.

Chukwumaobi Kingsley Oluah must have completed his postdoc at the Technology University of Eindhoven before being employed as an assistant professor, aka lecturer 1 or whatever is the entry level name given to newly employed lecturers. You complete postdoc role then search for assistant professorship roles at universities. You don't do both at the same time.

But Alex, being who he is - consistently inconsistent - shows himself.

Married men are trying.

It is not easy.

Having few children is the ultimate solution. I cannot inconvenience myself because of children. My interest is to make money and enjoy life.

investorcj:
Good morning sir, please I intend on going to Japan to work,maybe on an E9 visa,that's the unskilled labour like factory jobs, farming and the likes,but it's not showing on their site I guess they don't give it to Nigerians,is there a way I can get a company in Japan or even Korea that will be able to give me employment from over there so I can be able to travel from here,and show the embassy here that I got employed already to work sir, please anyone with any knowledge at all should please leave a comment

Can you post the link here because on Google, there is nothing like an E9 visa.

That said, I think there are specific companies that recruit or match applicants to companies, but you need to know the language up to N3 level. Cameroonians have a strong number here due to the Japanese language school in their country.

Getting a job here is not the issue; it is knowing the language. It is extremely important.

Over-speeding is going to be the cause.

Do many prospective drivers undergo driving lessons before obtaining a driving license?

WriterrNg:
⚡The Dutch decision to take over the Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and oust its Chinese CEO came due to US pressure on the Dutch government - Reuters

emmaodet:
Is this really a good way of trading?
A country forcing another country to seize properties/investment of another country?

They did it to Roman Abramovich. Well, China has barred the exports of the firm's products from the country. Also, China has placed severe restrictions on the export of raw earth minerals and every Chinese-related technology involved in the mining, refining and distribution of raw earth minerals. They banned chip exports to China, they place Chinese companies on sanctions, they bar Chinese goods, but they don't want the same to be done to them? Jokers!

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Additionally, the Chinese branch has instructed staff in China, where 80% of the company's products are processed, to disregard any directives and instructions they receive from the Dutch office. You used a 70-year-old-plus law to seize a company that was loss-making from its new owners; now you are stunned that the company has retaliated. In the FT article I read, a good number of commentators made it look like the Chinese just stopped selling products, while some rightfully pointed out that it was the Dutch who started the issue by forcefully removing the CEO of the company. The Dutch expected the Chinese to sit back and watch their CEO removed and the company seized, because they are Dutch?

I am glad the Chinese are nobodies that can be tossed around. You do me, I do you. Now the Dutch commerce minister wants to meet his Chinese counterpart. Well, either the US removes Nexperia from its sanctions list or the company will eventually be divided with the bulk of its processing facilities in China.

That said, one opportunity I see is that other countries such as Brazil, those in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa become hubs for supplying goods and services to either side - the West or China. I can imagine the money Indian refiners made buying Russian crude and selling to Europe.

I am for nobody and I am for everybody should be our mantra going forward.

phorget:
Bros no state or city can anyone survive on 100k monthly unless you usually get side income that will argument the 100k.

If you feed on 3k per day that gives you 90k on feeding alone within a month, how about other expenses?

Have you lived in northern Nigeria, Jigawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Sokoto, Adamawa, especially outside the capital cities? Or you think Nigeria begins in Lagos and ends at Abuja?

IbeOkehie:
1) I have some Asian friends and I worked and schooled with many of them...Koreans and Chinese and I remember only one Japanese. Maybe it's the USA diet, but many of the Asian women I've seen here don't have small breasts. Asians in general are good people. I like them.

I like them too, as they are more honest, straightforward and hard working. Yes, it is the US diet, as I have noticed that Asian women bred and based in the US have bigger body mass/breasts compared to their counterparts in Asia.

If you're that passionate about Negro women, living in Nigeria is awesome, especially if you have a good income. Add a bit of good looks and it's actual PARADISE.

There have to be better options. Nigeria is not the only Black dominated country.

2) Yes, the economy of Nigeria is bad...no, it's TERRIBLE. Economy is the overriding factor in ALL matters about Nigeria. The attempt to portray Nigeria as a good place to live for most people...worse, making claims that it's better than the US/UK, is what brought me to Nairaland. Such gaslighting is EVIL.

The worse part is that the economy of Nigeria has been TERRIBLE for a looooooong time, the economy of Nigeria has NEVER been good. This is an important point that took a great deal of rational thought for me to appreciate. More than that, the economy will NEVER be good until the PEOPLE demand and adopt a free market system.

When I came to the USA, less than 0.01% of Nigerians had phone service. The TOTAL COMBINED NUMBER of land lines and mobile in 1999 was 900K. Most were in government and corporate offices Only the STUPENDOUSLY RICH or powerful had personal phones. A Communications Minister in those times, David Mark, famously said that phones are not for the poor.

Chai!

Is this not too much for we to bear? I do agree that the economy has been tough and bad over the years, and to an extent, the commentary by most Nigerians show that they support most of the policies and directives which made the economy bad.

Even TODAY, even in Lagos, how many Nigerians over 40 years old own a car? How many have access to good, comfortable public transport?

Wahala here and there. Honestly, our problems are too many. Where does one start from to solve them? There are many states outside the popular ones where transporting oneself is very hard.

Yet working as a teenaged illegal fry cook, I could afford to have my own phone in the USA. I bought my first car at 17!!!! After barely 6 months of work. I don't understand how people who live or lived in Nigeria can come online and spew all this fakery...including your continual reference to PPP as a some sort of factor that negates REALITY. It's frankly blood curdling...people line up on bridges every morning in Lagos to defacate and supposedly educated people are talking about how Nigeria is better than UK/US. Arrant nonsense!!!

The thing about PPP is that it does not factor in standard of living, else PPP is a relevant economic metric as salaries are lower in Korea and Spain compared to the US. Another thing too: there are just very few countries that are livable.

This is a LIE. For most of my 3 years in Nigeria I lived in Owerri and Aba....and travelled all over Eastern Nigeria, up to Benue and also all over MidWestern Nigeria, that would be Delta and Edo and Ondo. ONE MILLION NAIRA a month in any place outside Lagos in the Southern part of Nigeria will NOT afford a better standard of living than what I had as an illegal fry cook in the USA.

I do agree esp regarding clean piped water and motorable roads. But everyone cannot leave Nigeria, Mr Ibe. The woman who booked my flight is an American citizen, while her husband has a GC; neither is interested in or keen on living in the US. Although the woman's siblings live there.

Just car alone....maintaining and fueling a car in Nigeria is murderously expensive. I've been spending time with TWO visitors from Nigeria this weekend...one a tailor and the other an oil company executive... and what I'm hearing is just Yes some improvement in power supply for example, but again ECONOMY and INSECURITY overwhelm everything else.

Insecurity, in my opinion, is a greater problem than the economy because there are other poorer countries where the kind of insecurity we experience is not rampant in those countries.

ednut1:
the steel needed for railway is not produced in Nigeria and has to be imported .Ajaokuta doesn’t work.

The British built the railways before Nigerians ran it aground. So we have no recent experience building railway like the Chinese.

Railway is mass transit, how many states asides lagos, kano, kaduna, or ph can you get enough traffic for a 10km rail.

Nigeria also has no capacity to build the actual trains or cargoes.

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Our problems plenty o. Person no even know where to start from.

I don't envy Tinubu.

Predictor3:
That's the problem. They don't embrace multiculturalism.

What benefits would this bring to South Korea? Did South Korea become what it is based on multiculturalism?

Dybala11:
They will collect it in heaven on the judgement day.
Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor of Osun state was also paying 50% salary for a long time during his second term. The said man is the current Minister of interior of the Federal republic of Nigeria right now.

Gbawe, the man whose epistles have never made sense to me, praised this man to high heavens!

Na why to dey always blame White man for Nigeria's woes does not sit well with me.

tgmservice:
Jealousy
Because u no fit find babe wey go dey give u knacks.
You come dey crey for nairaland
Almost Everyone knacks in higher institution u dey form holy because u no get class to find your own

That is it!

OP is jealous. He probably lives in a run-down apartment or in a hostel.

Demigod22:
I lived off campus and in a lodge of 45 rooms, more than 15 rooms have campus couples living campus marriage. You will see these girls cooking, washing, cleaning and being wifey.The tertiary institutions are a crazy place. My experience for four years convinced me that I can never date a student no matter how beautiful she is. How sex is being given and received in school like two neighbors sharing salt is mind-blowing, many girls you don't need to ask them out, during birthday party, end of the year party, neighbors in the same compound, classmates in the department, staff to students, even the bike men, a Mairuwa got a student pregnant in my school, even a secondary school boy in the University secondary school got a 300 level Sociology girl pregnant too. Sex is really common and cheap in school. When a neighbor has a birthday and throws a party in the compound, a neighbor must bang a neighbor. Cheating and fornication piqued in school. School is the place that even the good ones turn wild. Those girls that went to school as a virgin and graduated as a virgin without smooching, sucking, fingering, masturbating, anal sex, send nudes, are quite few and rare.

This happens across the world. It is youthful exuberance.

It is not a Nigerian thing.