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There are only female universities in South Korea and Japan. I don't know why the first set of respondents are complaining.

It's a private university. It's not mandatory to apply.

The OP is a troll.

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Tinubu, we need more factory jobs ooooooo!

tensazangetsu20:
This is a lie. Men only get better with age if they have money. If you are turning old as a man and you are poor its a tragedy

"It's better to be a dead man than to be a poor man" - Tensazangetsu20, 2020

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pocohantas:
GenZs are not tolerant of huge age gaps.
They are more into stylish fit men. Unlike Millenials and above that can marry a badly behaved crab.

This is especially true as their male contemporaries are making good money at an early age. Since women are hypergamous, isn't it better to be with someone within your age range that has money than with someone way older who has similar financial stability?

The notion that a man is the prize only works when the man has money. Younger dudes also have money. So, what does the older man bring to the table? Preek wey no fit stand without drugs?

chime11:
Thank you for your response. Please, is it normal for a school to ask for full payment of tuition whether 1 year program or two years, you will pay all at once before they apply for COE? And they didn't ask for bank statement

They should have asked for bank statements to verify if you can afford the living expenses for the entire MSc program. For instead, present statements to support your living expenses for two years.

Tuition fees at most universities, especially the national ones, are paid per semester. Two semesters in one year. My time, I paid the admission fee (which is similar to acceptance fee in Nigerian parlance) and the first semester tuition fees of the first year. One year tuition fees is divided into two semesters. As of then, most national universities had the rough equivalent of $5K per annum. So, students will pay $2500 per semester.

You have to read the school's tuition fees payment policy on its website. Every school outlines how much is required and when to pay.

The age shaming go reach everybody.

Na true you talk that time. Marry early and born max two children, else 40 years go quick reach. I think the men who do so are those who aren't (yet) financially stable.

As the poster above stated, it depends on many factors. Some who japa'd have vowed never to visit, let alone return to Nigeria. Another factor is the current country of residence outside Nigeria. I posit that Nigerians in Anglophone countries would (they should actually sef) rather purchase a house via mortgage than build in Nigeria. Those in non-Anglophone countries would build in Nigeria, no brainer. Family ties as well. How many siblings does the person have? How close are they? What about extended relatives? Do the parents have more than one house in Nigeria?

Most importantly, is the person willing or interested in returning to Nigeria in about a decade or two? This is where the country of one's present residence comes into play.

Eating meat is good for the body. If I tell you wetin I dey eat consistently and how many each day, you sef go shout. The koko is to have the finances and maintain a good exercise regimen.

Nothing wrong with eating enormous amount of meat.

thomas2024:
Bros, it's fvcking impossible. It's like a camel passing through the eye of a needle.

If I ever have a daughter who fall in love with a "poor guy", I'll not allow her to marry him. The thing is the word "poor" has a lot of different meaning though especially in Nigeria. To me, my definition of poor is someone with a quack and low mentality, clueless, no prospect, pessimistic, no dreams, idea-bankrupt, no proposal, pitch or concept. I doubt if my daughter will associate with that kind of person with her home training wey I go give her. But if she bring someone who has an abundance mindset, rich mentality, with a lot of prospect and blueprint, someone who has a pitch, or proposal waiting for the right investors, someone who is trying to get on his feet, etc. As a wealthy father wey I be, I will ask the guy just three major questions among others below:

1. Who are you?

2. Where do you see yourself in the next five years and if he answers, I ask him what's doing to achieve that?

3. Then I'll ask the next question, "what are your plans with my daughter?" (The koko)

I'll ask others as well to check his intellectual, social, emotional, adversity quotient. I[b]'ll even get him slightly angry to check his countenance sef. I'll place him under a watch for like 3 to 4 months, even hiring private investigator to gather information about him, dig his pasts for me. If he pass, I'll loan him some money to fulfill his dream. But if he fail, over my dead body[/b].

So why are our men angry that financially stable women don't want to marry men who aren't financially stable?

Humans are the same everywhere.

spiceadole:
Men prefer to marry DOWN because they want to CONTROL their wives
It's very difficult to control someone you are not feeding
So even if you meet an averagely well to do lady ,you will take her for granted.
Collect her money and flex with jobless hungry girls.

Then still marry a lady who is "lower" than you

But women from all races are hypergamous. So, it makes sense for men to marry women who they are higher than. That is not control, but basic evoutionary biology. Why do you make the man's own to be bad, but women's own to be good? You are in the medical field, so you ought to know this as it is basic biology.

Even well educated and high earning women desire to marry men who are higher than them.

Mikasaobi:
https://www.rt.com/news/623533-reuters-journalist-quits-gaza-israel/

Journalist publicly quits Reuters over Gaza ‘culpability’ "Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned as a Reuters stringer after eight years, alleging the agency has been “justifying and enabling” Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza, including members of its own staff. Her announcement came hours after an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, according to local health officials.

In a Facebook post, Zink accused Reuters and other Western media of amplifying unverified Israeli claims linking reporters to Hamas militants, arguing that this has contributed to conditions in which dozens of journalists have been killed since October 2023. She cited the case of Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera reporter, who was killed with his crew in Gaza City earlier this month. ”Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that al-Sharif was a Hamas operative,” she wrote. Prior to the attack, the Israeli military alleged al-Sharif was a Hamas commander but provided no evidence.

”The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a hit list,” she added.

Zink also criticized Reuters’ response to the killing of its own staff, noting that cameraman Hossam al-Masri was among those killed at Nasser Hospital. Western media, she said, were “culpable” by repeating Israeli claims without verification, acting as “a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda.”The number of journalists killed in Gaza since 2023 has now reached 245, according to press freedom groups."

If the pressure continues, we might see a change as it happened during Apartheid South Africa. In my opinion, I think today's West does not want to repeat that scenario where they lost political power in South Africa. If things change as they did in Apartheid South Africa, it means they have lost settler statuses in two different regions within a period of almost 40 years, and if you extend this to the Civil Rights legislation in the US, it means they have lost a lot of demographic and political control within a 70-year period. This is a demographic with a very anaemic fertility rate. So, they want to crush Palestine entirely. Two, the mentality of those in the UK and US, where White settlers derived power, differs significantly from today's Israelis.

But then, wealthy Arab states are culpable. In South Africa's case, Nigeria and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa lent support to Black South Africans. Qatar owns Al Jazeera, and Saudi Arabia is too rich to talk to its US' masters (can a servant command his master anyway?). What are they doing to end the situation?

Nevertheless, every mallam to his kettle. I cannot recall when any Middle Easterner called for the end to the massacres across various parts of Nigeria or sub-Saharan Africa.

fasho01:
They should at least let us know how they came about the figures and not just giving us useless lists

Exactly. No outlined methodology. Just vibes and publication.

Well, someone has to put a stop to it.

It's interesting to see Nairaland men say it's not possible or they won't allow their daughters marry poorer men if they are/were rich. So, why do we expect women to marry poorer men if we the men wouldn't want our daughters to marry poorer men?

God sees us all....

omoredia:
This is the same white people that they said took black people as slaves. Big lie. The white man came to save black people from other black people

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Mr IbeOkehie, is this your second account?

chime11:
Can I send a Dm you? Maybe on WhatsApp?
For Germany I'm working towards scholarship

No, please. I'm so busy in real life. Please ask your questions here or another thread.

chime11:
It's like all schools require the 150 hours study lol. It's listed on the requirements to submit. I have checked some in fukuoka, and I'm still checking

Then it should be a new policy as the government earlier this year revamped the requirements for operating language schools. So, that could be the reason.

Softmirror:
It was reported on BBC and other international news outlet so definitely it was a misunderstanding which the Japanese government have come clarify.

The accurate news was the creation of special zones with designated cities for four African countries. Only the Nigerian government official went to add that we would get a "special visa category" whereas none of such was reported by the other trio - Ghana, Tanzania and Mozambique.

It was a terrible lie.

Just as I stated. Nothing of such existed. Nothing like a special visa category. Nigerians aren't Indonesians or Vietnamese.

The government representative lied.

chime11:
Thank you so much for your response. I was contemplating to go to Germany for masters in pharmaceutical or Japan through language course first then masters later. I guess Japan is better since it's easy to get part time job without the language and also longer working hours

Except the German visa policy of Category A for scholarship abd first class students and Category B for everyone else has changed, I recommend Japan. The snag is your age, since you want to opt for language school (a great path). If you see a language school that agrees to admit you, choose Japan. The visa is less of a problem once the COE is obtained by the school and sent to you the applicant.

chime11:
Oh thank you. My question is about if one can easily get visa using a language or masters program. Which one is easier?

The one that offers you a COE is what gets you the visa. Language schools prefer younger applicants, say 18-25. Graduate schools are more liberal about the age of the applicant.

Also, in terms of work and study in Japan can one be able to find part time job easily without knowing the language?

Yes. Part time jobs can be obtained pretty easy without language proficiency. However, permanent jobs are hard to get without knowing the language.

Lastly, can one get admission into some language schools without the 150 hours study time

This requirement is mostly given to citizens of countries where there is no Japanese language school. Additionally, it's given to older applicants, say those above 30 years old. To beat this, target language schools in areas with low population, especially Southern and Northern Japan. Fukuoka and Hokkaido areas. These ones want money, so they won't have strict admission requirements.

Albertone:
Aptitude test doesn’t matter much when it comes to employment.
In a 5 stage screening process, aptitude test will be the first or second stage. This means you still have 3 to 4 stages to scales through after aptitude test.

The aptitude test stage is where many job seekers fall off. Those with high or perfect scores most likely have strong mathematics knowledge. Some organisations have like two aptitude stages and one logical reasoning stage. Math grads scale easily.

Lastly, most aptitude test don’t test mathematical knowledge in their quantitative section. Imagine asking questions on ratio and percentages

Which is bread and butter to a Physics grad compared to an English grad.[/quote]

SmartPolician:
Undergrads of those art-related courses are also taught mathematics. The thing is that science students are generally more intelligent.

The math knowledge of a Physics grad is way superior than that of an Economics grsd
In fact, some US graduate economics programs prefer math or physics grad to economics major.

The level of mathematics knowledge differs.

samuelson06:
The problem with studying one thing and ending up doing a totally different thing is that you'll hardly move up the career ladder in your chosen career because you don't have a background there. Banks intentionally exploit this loophole so they can keep their staff in one tiny spot—doing so much and earning little. I wouldn't advise anyone go this route. It's always limiting because your employer will always use that weakness to exploit you.

A one-time CEO of First Bank studied Veterinary Medicine. The issue is that these non-economics inclined employees use the bank job as a stepping stone. Anyone regardless of course of study who develops his/her career within the industry would progress.

edoman2016:
Majority studied science courses while commercial graduates in courses like Economics, Accounting and Finance struggle to compete against them.

No thanks to mathematical inclined aptitude test for employment.

Confirms my stance that those with strong mathematics foundation would easily get good jobs before anyone else.

QuinModah:
Yes, the rise of baby mamas and sugar daddy culture in Lagos is undeniable. But calling it a “silent epidemic” might overlook the bigger picture — human choices shaped by context.

Not every “baby mama” story is rooted in desperation or moral decline. Some women are choosing single motherhood on their own terms — out of a desire for independence, control over their lives, and freedom from the instability of many modern marriages. For them, it’s not about a quick bag, but about owning their narrative.

Similarly, not every older man in these relationships is exploiting the young. Some genuinely provide mentorship, companionship, and even support education or businesses. While money is often part of the arrangement, in a city where survival itself feels transactional — rent, jobs, politics — who decides what makes one relationship “real” and another “fake”?

The Cultural Double Standard

Society often criticizes young women for being baby mamas or dating sugar daddies, yet the same society glamorizes men who flaunt wealth, sponsor side chicks, or father children outside marriage. Why is the shame usually placed on the woman’s shoulders?

Beyond the Stigma

Instead of framing this as a disease eating away at Lagos, it could be seen as a symptom of deeper truths:

Marriage is no longer seen as the only ticket to security or respect.

Young people are rebelling against old norms that promised love and stability but often delivered betrayal and financial struggle.

Economic realities are forcing people to redefine what partnership and survival look like.


The Real Question
So maybe the issue isn’t the rise of baby mamas and sugar daddies — maybe it’s Nigeria’s broken economic system, lack of opportunities, and the hypocrisy in how society judges relationships. If more jobs, fair wages, and social support systems existed, would this “trend” even be as visible?

You made strong points. As women now earn their own money and can control how many children and when they want children and due to societal evolution, they can determine whether they want it alongside a man or independently. We would begin to see a rise in women deliberately having children without a fatherly presence in the defined concept of a husband.

Funny enough, young Nigerian men have promoted baby-mamaism on the Internet. So the women are simply suit.

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Double0h7:
Is it poverty or boredom that’s causing this? Imagine having all these threads on top of another man’s pockets. 🥺

It's unemployment. There needs to be a lot of factory jobs for our people.

Nid303:
Thanks bro and Check your email

Please ask your questions here. I cannot access my Nairaland linked email address.

cc: donoso & chime11

thesicilian:
Lol.
It happens o
I think one even made it to the news one time. I'll try and search for it.
Their excuse is that they believe they'll make the money back within a year, which usually doesn't happen even in ten years

Seriously, I find it hard to believe. A bank manager o. Even a microfinance bank manager is a big boy.

As for the bold, as you said, it's not possible in the near future. The only place where such is remotely possible is the United States.

These girls never learn. Their naivety bemuses me.

ibechris:
U see those people supporting Tinubu ehhh,they feel he is doing well,destroying every fabric of our society with his staggered policies by impoverishing the livelihood of the people terribly.

Every day,people are falling into one form of poverty or the other because of one wicked president and they want us to keep quiet.

I am not affected by his policies though, but when I see people selling their cars,assets just to feed is very painful and ugly. The average people have completely fall into an unspeakable poverty. People are now aggressively mal-nourished because of numerous bad govt policies against the masses of this country.

No be small thing o

But then, subsidy had to go, even though it hasn't been completely removed. Two, Nigerians shouldn't have campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. That was where the problem started from.

Nid303:
Okay bro, So planning to visit Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka and Nara. Planning to stay in hostels and budget hotels for the accommodation and places in the city to visit have been sorted out too. Is there anything else ?

Nothing else. Touring a country especially for the first time is at the discretion of the tourist. Just follow the basic travel tips and have Google translate.