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Sunshine34:
Stupid talk.

No where in the whole wide world is safe in an ungodly hour anywhere. Stop making it Nigeria exclusively. Stop hating your country.

Not entirely true. Singapore and Japan are very safe even at odd hours.

I think many people need to live in those places to truly understand what absolute safety is. The belief that there are not safe places is misplaced.

HardBishop:
The only technology China can never produce is an aircraft engine... It's only America and France have the technical know how in manufacturing that...
Come rain come sunshine, China will try all possible means but no way m

I just came off a short clip on Bloomberg where it was referenced that in 2011, Elon Musk mocked BYD for its quest to produce EVs. Today, all is history.

But I am to believe that China cannot produce an aircraft engine..

blackbriar:
Thanks Bro.

If it is a private university, they have every right to ask such a question.
Because private universities are expensive even for the Japanese locals.

yes yes yes!

Those students at private universities, especially in Kansai and Kanto, are the ultimate rich kids. Their parents no want them to study abroad for a long time or they don't have the requisite English skills.

Namaster:
Lord Lord have mercy!
These people are INSANE. Imagine dressing up this HORRIBLE thing as some kind of virtue. This guy has EVIDENCE that Western companies were trying to act in a way that would DESTROY an entire company.
And cause MANY people to lose their jobs. And China, who's probably capable of building something BETTER and producing it FASTER too, offered to buy it and SAVE that company and those JOBS. Instead of being GRATEFUL, this guy used the Chinese offer as a BOOGEYMAN to get the other "like-minded" Western Nations to BACK-OFF. These people did NOT care about Canada, Canadian Jobs or that Canadian Company...UNTIL they thought it would benefit China.
They were happy to KILL that company.
Until China stood to gain from it. That is PURE EVIL. They INVENTED capitalism and touted as the BEST system for running an economy.
Chinese Communism is KICKING their capitalism's ass left, right and center; and they have started to PANIC.

Instead of discarding their GREED-PROPELLED capitalism and refining it for the BETTER, they are trying to KILL OFF China and it's economy.

When the West CANNOT compete; they KILL.
That's their M.O.

When I was watching the video, I was just stunned seeing a country's leader describe how they could scuttle what could potentially become their biggest customer because of vAlUeS. After watching it, I con dey reason say this Canada is an Anglophone nation, white as snow, abut to the US, historically tied to the UK and France, yet it has to beg that they should be allowed to sell their planes to other countries?! Like, this is not Brazil (with its own Embraer), but Canada. So, what is the benefit of being amongst the G7? Why make Canadian jobs cease if you scuttle plans of one of their biggest companies to sell? Like selling to other countries o, even before the Chinese came calling.

When Nigerian pro-Western bros see this, don't they ask themselves: if this could be done to Canada, what would happen to Nigeria? If the US could boldly, in front of Indian officials, remark that they cannot allow India to become the next China, why would Nigeria be different?

I'm NOT even going to talk about the fact that they REFUSE to certify Chinese Aircrafts.

The Chinese don't have to be bothered about this. Tecno was not certified by American authorities before it was sold across Africa. Today, Chinese EVs, lithium batteries and solar components sell themselves across the RoW. As I stated in a related thread about EVs, target other countries. Today, Chinese EVs makers have factories under construction in South Africa, Brazil, Hungary, etc. Battery factories in Morocco. BYD has stated explicitly that they don't need the US market to succeed. No country can out-produce China in these new fields. So, the Chinese should develop their aircraft to standard, adopt them across China and once acceptable, sell them (as usually cheaper than Boeing and Airbus) to the RoW. That way, Boeing and Airbus are confined to just the West.

The economics will win it again. So far, it works just as EVs, lithium batteries, and they are affordable, the RoW would buy it.

Kaczynski:
Computer engineering is totally different from electrical engineering . it's like saying computer science came out from the field of mathematics.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between the two? I did not see any noticeable difference for schoolmates at undergrad level. They took the same courses till final year. In fact, the comp sci students wondered what the "computer" was there for since all they did was almost pure mathematics.

p.s. The great thing about computer science is that it is four years, the same as mathematics. Else, mathematics takes the cake.

iUpsurge:
Anybody exposing her body is not a sane person

So Chinese and Japanese girls aren't sane then.🙄

So why sell those wares if he criticises prospective buyers?

Some people should stick to being employees. Everyone cannot be an entrepreneur or trader.

p.s. That dress isn't indecent in the tropics. You people should stop trying to impose your cultural norms on everybody.

CJStarz:
See as they were there shouting and making noise instead of dealing with the aggressor.It's the Fulani man's boldness for me

Fulani are the alpha males in Nigeria. If I were to return to Nigeria as a new born, I will ensure I come as a Fulani man.

So much power...

evanpass:
Hello everyone, please like how much should someone plan for STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT for research program of 2.5 million tuition fee including living expenses for a year

Submit a bank statement showing the equivalent or more than the equivalent in naira. Preferably if you've a domiciliary account, submit the SoA with the foreign currency (e.g. usd). This is the best as it becomes easier for them to convert.

Nevertheless, the yen is in the toilet, so tuition fees will continue to "look" low in the coming months especially as long as the US war on Iran continues.

LalaGreen247:
No, some are tell me to apply for scholarship, as they don't believe I can fund it

You didn't answer his question about whether it's a national or private university?

Goodvibes007:
Where did I say it was all about hardware?

Or did anyone tell you its only hardware they deal with in Samsung or AMD? Infact, Electrical/Electronics Engineers also do software/programming.

My point is why study computer engineering when you can study Elect Elect. Computer Engr. itself is a specialization of Elect Elect degree. Why specialize and limit yourself from undergraduate?

I wonder why they find it hard to grasp the bold. When oil jobs were scarce in the country, those who studied petroleum engineering found it more difficult to pivot or had it harder to apply for jobs where specific engineering courses were required.

For a beginner level, it's better to generalise than specialise.

Goodvibes007:
Yeah. My colleagues working in Samsung and AMD hold degrees in Electrical/Electronics not Computer Engineering.

My point is that you don't need a degree in computer engineering to work as a computer engineer.

Go for a more general course that makes you more versatile and open more doors of opportunities. Don't narrow yourself to computer engineering from the get go, which some universities even still classify as a course under Elect/Elct.

Yes. OP,

This is a much better explanation.

Flangelo12:
Because I would not stand and watch you mislead him.

Computer engineering is perhaps the most lucrative, and adaptable course in the world today.

Stop misleading him.

Completely untrue. Better Elect/Elect which is vast and versatile.

DeepSight:
Both of you have provided sound reasons and enlightened me. Obviously I know little about the way businesses like these are run. However I would say two things.

One is that it still represents cheating the consumer so long as the particular stock being sold was obtained at the pre existing price. Which ever way you see it, on that stock, the seller is now making an illegitimate profit by selling at revised prices which ought not apply to that stock in such a regulated industry. I may not be a retail businessman but I am a lawyer and I can tell you that such a practice violates consumer protection laws and should draw the attention of the FCCPC.

Sorry, but no profit is illegitimate. Profit is profit. When companies made losses during COVID, were their losses also illegitimate? We share different ideologies; but I am not a fan of it, and I strongly kick against it, dictating to companies what their final prices should be. Even more so when the causes are out of their control, and it was not fixed pricing.

The second point is that the correct principle should be that the seller should ideally act as though he has to source fresh capital for new market realities as he would have done when starting his business. He can take a loan for such a purpose rather than inflicting an illicit increase on the consumer in order to afford his next stock, which he would at all events make profit from and be in a position to continue.

This is not realistic in Nigeria. Interest rates are abominably high. The best solution for certain retailers and even manufacturers is to try to get their materials or a significant amount of them directly from the source and stockpile.

A very good example is how food and chocolate companies were caught off guard by the increase in cocoa prices. They had less stock and had to restock at way higher prices. Obviously, they were forced to increase their final products or reduce the cocoa content in those products. Today, they have stock of old prices and have reduced their purchases of cocoa even though the price of cocoa has plunged from its 9000 usd per tonne rate. They have to use the old stock before replenishing them. Final products' prices have to remain higher than pre-cocoa high rates for them to break even.

If any cocoa end user could foretell the increase in prices, they would have stockpiled cocoa so much that they wouldn't have to buy them at the higher rates. That way, their final products would be considerably cheaper than their competitors who have no choice but to buy cocoa at a higher price.

LalaGreen247:
I told them that I'm self sponsored, but they keep telling me international students are on scholarship

Noted, thanks

You use forceful/confident words to express yourself as the person willing to finance the education. Be explicit and direct.
Something like this:

Prof: How do you intend to fund your education?
You: My parents would fund my education, including the living expenses and tuition fees. From my research, estimated living expenses for international students in Fukuoka (put a link to where you found the estimates) are 100K yen for a month. A two year master's brings this to 2.4m yen. Together with the admission fee and tuition fee, my parents would fund them. Nevertheless, if there are private scholarships, I would still be interested, especially for research purposes.

When you are asked to provide proof of financial statements, you provide the ones bearing your sponsor, in this case, your parents. You have to be bold in the way you let them know you or your loved ones can handle the expenses.

I love how the rise of China now exposes everything about the West and its version of capitalism. This is how the average person cannot get new things because of this mode of capitalism. How a country's leader can scuttle one of its major companies' sales simply because they don't like the buyer is surreal. The hilarious thing is how their major "ally" still betrays them by placing tariffs on their products.

The other one is how ethnic Chinese ladies, esp those in the West, would watch this, yet love Western bros even more than their own men. The same Western bros who don't want their country/motherland to prosper.

How ‘free markets’ work in practice.

Very rare to see the thinking of the ‘political west’, aka American empire, spelt out so clearly. pic.twitter.com/Hzb09mLkep

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) April 24, 2026

bentenny:
Saw the vid but I didn't see any 3sum...just the hubby knacking a random lady without CD while the wife,though completely naked, was busy filming!

Then it was done intentionally. Now, her products would sell even more.

Odin13:
These are what Obidients don’t understand.. they keep making online noise
Give Obi ticket and he will lose and lose gallantly.

The North remains the king makers .. Obi don’t have a pathway there .. not even Kwankwaso.. how many state governors did he won last election .. none except Yusuf gida .. he lost jigawa and kastina .. no state house of rep , no federal representative.. yet Obidients keep making noise on Ok
Which north will align with kwankwaso on a Vp ticket?
Emotions don’t win elections.. patience does .. based on reality

Obi and igbos have this last opportunity to come close to president by supporting Atiku and viceing him.. to build a national support instead of abusing and name calling ..
Tell me which southern states will give Obi .. 1 million votes and above?
Rivers state and akwaibom is taking already..

Many of us has been calling for this political reality .. but young kids on social media keep abusing and prompting Obi to be irrational..
at the end they will shout rigging then marginalization and back to Biafra

Ndi Igbo must wake to reality..
Tinubu is no fool to play with buhari and shelve his ambition today he’s the president and with Obidients and their foolishness..
Eight years is so assure to him

Obi should decamp and try his luck .. but is know on record that he’s greed and stupidity kept APC in power .
Same he did 2022.. at the end he lost.. someone that should have been a vice president by now .. left party claiming wike chased him out


The core idea of opposition is to take ADC out of government
Not to show how wise or foolish someone is


Politics is not emotion

Igbos hear

I remembered when i preached the same and I was mocked to the heavens. Peter Obi best chances was in 2023 when he could have paired with Atiku. Mind you, KK, AA and PO merged in 2019 against Buhari, but lost. Why did they think they could defeat the APC in 2023 as separate entities?

Well, come next year, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win again, and this time resoundingly.

It is Yahoo Plus itself that disturbs me, not even Yahoo itself. Yahoo or cybercrime exists in most parts of the world, but when it involves diabolical and fetish acts, there will be consequences. What those consequences would be on the average Nigerian is yet to be seen.

DeepSight:
Again my difficulty with this is that they never apply the same honesty in terms of increasing the prices in the first place. For example when BAT declared fuel subsidy was gone, prices jumped up at the stations before he left Eagle Square. They didn't wait for the stock they already had go peter out.

Because restocking would mean higher fees. So, it makes sense to sell at a higher price once the policy change, vocal or written, has been made public. Fuel is 100 naira now. I bought it for 80 naira. BAT says "subsidy is gone". To restock, I would need 150 naira to get the same quantity. Do I sell at 100 naira now and have less financing to restock at 150, or do I immediately increase it to 150 after BAT's utterances?

Look at the Iran War, again they didn't wait for existing stock to peter out. They upped the prices the second the strait was closed by Iran notwithstanding the fact that there was obviously existing stock and in the case of Nigeria notwithstanding that we have a system that could have hedged against it. So there is an essential dishonesty.

For Iran, in my opinion, unless there is a lasting agreement to establish long term peace, prices should remain high. Always assume the worst case scenario. The best way to win here would be to stock up goods long before the war started. Na why businesses suppose dey follow geopolitical events.

LalaGreen247:
Hi guys, after messaging some of the professor, some seems worried/doubt about my ability to self-support my self, how do you guys navigate around this??

What did you tell them?

Secondly, is it too late to aim for October, because a female prof told me that the October batch in her school started processing their visa last month

If I am not mistaken, I got my then admission letter in April/May ahead of the October session. The COE takes about three months to process, could be slower or faster these days now that VHF is involved. All things been equal, the applicant should have obtained the COE by August.

DeepSight:
What I worry about is that there is a bizarre phenomenon that defies physics in Nigeria. Whatever goes up rarely comes down.

Companies have to make up the losses incurred during the hike in raw materials. Also, they have old stock which was purchased at higher prices, so final prices have to remain high until/unless raw materials become cheaper or equal to pre-US invasion of Iran.

Reduce flights or increase prices. It is not a Nigerian thing. Tell the US to leave Iran alone, and the strait would be open for all to use, as it was.

Cancri:
she is even moderate, if start to read what some of this white people think about non white, you would understand that what she said is nothing.
Especially the japanese who think they are white by honor, their twitter discussion are fill with dehumanising blacks
I don't blame them sha they have a working country.

All East Asians (Japanese, Chinese and South Koreans) see themselves as honorary whites. In fact, they see themselves as the next to the White man. We have had Nairalanders in Dubai write about Filipinos who close their mouths when Blacks are around. It is now that the Chinese are realising they are not loved by White people as they thought, simply because they have grown in economic might. The likes of Japan and Korea have accepted their current economic status. Nevertheless, East Asian women love and adore White men.

We really underestimate the chokehold the White man has on almost all races on earth.

Namaster:
It's ONLY a matter of time before countries start to AVOID China as a matter of survival.

People want what China has to offer.
In fact, MOST countries are DESPERATE for all the cheaper alternatives to Western products that China provides.

But China's UNWILLINGNESS to commit Military Resources to those countries will eventually cause them to be CHASED OUT.

As they are signing Economic Agreements, they should be signing Military Agreements.

They should be building Military Bases in countries with STRONG economic ties to them.

Chinese Military Bases would be welcomed with open arms.
In CONTRAST to the American BASES that were FORCEFULLY shoved down people's throats.

And then watch with AMUSEMENT as American Companies attempt to REPLICATE the tech and brand power of the app.

You seem to underestimate Western propaganda and pressure. Also, while some countries are happy to do business with China, their elites and even regular people would kick against Chinese military bases. The West will convince, compel, or pressure its elites to reject it. They would stir up anti-China sentiments, as it is gradually happening in our country, to have people oppose the project. For instance, Party A can support the bases. But the West can push anti-government sentiments against Party A only for Party B to enter and revoke the bases, as seen in Panama Ports. The Chinese would have to leave. Additionally, you need a consistent flow of capital to support military bases. The West is prepared to borrow and borrow to sustain these bases. Are Chinese elites, and actually their people, in support of borrowing to support military bases in far-flung countries?

China has always presented itself as a party that is not willing to control you militarily, but just strictly by doing business. And this is why many countries in the Global South, like China, or at least prefer it. So suggesting bases goes against this.

You already explained this with your post, "Blacks loving Whites more than even themselves". In fact, it is that extreme obsequiousness that bothers me about people, even with current events - they are clearly seeing the hands of the White man, yet many will opt for him before the Chinese. You would have ordinary Nigerians side with the US over China because they prefer living in the US, even when it is impossible to obtain a US visa, while they can easily obtain a Chinese visa. You would have elites prefer the West because they or their children are Western educated, even though the country/continent has benefited more from Chinese technical expertise, finance and goods than we have from the West. The mental chokehold the West, or specifically the White man, has over Black people is very strong o.

I started LOSING hope for China when they willingly GAVE UP control of TikTok to America.
Rather than just letting them BAN it.

Which forms part of what I mean by the White man's chokehold. If not, why not allow it to be banned? If the Chinese can bend a knee in this case, who is Nigeria or a South American nation not to do the same?

I gave up on them when their SUPPORT for Iran turns out to NOT be as ABSOLUTE and EMPHATIC as it ought to.

I am with you here and it is hard to know unless maybe one hears from top officials or ordinary people to know if they are willing to have China, their country, back Iran to the very end.

uchman:
I haven’t my brother.
Have not checked that email for decades now

Okay. I received a DM from you a while ago. Is the email in your signature valid?

This means they must be ready to kpai themselves as brothers because that's one of the major side occupations in that part of Rivers State.

uchman:
@blackbriar @Gerrard59 and others,

Please you guys should not be angry with me for bothering too much abeg, many things dey man mind.

My story goes this way,
I have 3 kids of 7,5 and 3 years.
I am a Chinese resident permit holder and also an importer of electrical, electronics and used auto parts from China where I partly reside.
I own a business in Nigeria that is fetching me good six figures but my wife is insisting that she must run her Masters degree in Japan this year because she’s a professional teacher which we have applied to 3 schools already.

My problem is that can my 3 kids live in Japan with her while I come back to continue my China-Nigeria importation business?

Is there anyway she can cope with handling three kids alone in Japan while attending lectures?

Is there a way I can also add my 15 years old child minder in the application so that she will go to Japan with them?

What if I decide to quit my business in Nigeria to relocate to Japan with them, although I have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a poor grade, is there anyway I can fix my life up in Japan so that I can still be taking care of my family and be footing other bills as usual?

Abeg make una no vex for the plenty question because that’s how it is in my mind.

Thanks for your time

I will respond to this in detailed later on. But biko reply my Nairaland PM. Or haven't you seen it?

Maitama and Wuse 2 don't have proper streetlighting and Wuse 2 doesn't have proper/standardised pedestrian walkways.

Well, she's a Ugandan. I'm not surprised. Tarred roads make her go gaga

franchasng:
Make it balanced, also tell us how Nigerian guys like you, and failed Nigerian leaders (men) like Tinubu contributed to whatever our Nigerian ladies have become today. All these are as a result of failed leadership and government in Nigeria which were headed by Nigerian men. To be honest, Nigerian men failed Nigerians, both the men and women.

If Nigeria's economy was booming, jobs available, most of our ladies doing what you call hookup or coded runs won't be doing it, they will be busy with their well paid jobs that foot their bills and I can tell you that if Nigerian ladies have a sustainable means of earning legitimate income, Nigerian men will struggle to find a girlfriend to talk of sex mate, it will become a scarce commodity in Nigeria.

GBAM! GBAM!! GBAM!!!

That is the truth. No way would a pot bellied man get a girlfriend in a wealthy Nigeria. It would not just work.

So it is failure of Nigerian men in leadership that resulted to every decay we are seeing today in our society.

Nigerian men should stop complaining about ladies all the time and start taking responsibility for the vampires they created.

And I even forgot to mention the Nigerian Yahoo boys that started the trend of using money to turn Nigerian girls into whatever they want. The working class guys who see it as a duty to use their little means to sleep with as many vulnerable and financially disadvantaged girls as they can set their preying eyes on? Nigerian men created the vampires we have in Nigeria today. Nigerian men used corruption, crime, disobedience of rule of law to destroy every fabric of Nigeria. The Nigerian Police who are mostly men refused to do their jobs sincerely and honorably but took their Policing job as a means to make illegitimate money hence, they allowed criminals to get away with crimes hence emboldened more Nigerians to turn to crime knowing fully well that criminals are not punished severely
So as you complain, please find a mirror to look inside as well.

We Nigerian men are not Saints as we do portray ourselves, we have the greater share of the blame of whatever our women and society have become today.

I wrote the same here years ago, and they lampooned me.

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

We, as Nigerian men, have thoroughly failed our women. Anything Nigerian women have become, Nigerian men caused it.

Until my opponents show me ONE country that women have built, then I would retract.

pocohantas:
Badoo in 2026?
It lost its credibility a long time ago, but it is not just Badoo. Everywhere the problem is the same. Offline and online. I noticed the SMs part when I was taking my minion for immunization. I kept seeing tiny girls with even tinier kids. They are plenty on TT. Dancing aura salad in a suggestive manner for kind gentlemen to reach out. Poverty is bad o. Poverty is very bad. I know anybody can do runz, but the way someone without a roof over her head would do it is different.

They don't stay in Ikoyi. Some are not even in Lagos. They come in with visit visa, stay for a while to hustle and return back to other states.

The majority of those girls are not Lagos based. I believe actual long term Lagos based girls would charge significantly higher. But they know Lagos is where the sex for money trade happens and chances of earning very well even for 30 minutes are high. Lagosian men spent half a trillion naira on sex related activities. Any Nigerian nay West African girl who wants to make it in runs has to be in Lagos. Some go to Ghana, but West Africa's spending power is in Lagos - West Africa's most wealthiest city. Do it for three years and move back to your base.

I applaud those girls for understanding basic economics, unlike the many illite*rates on Twitter who lament about hook up yet consistently patronise them.

I have never believed in dating apps as platforms to find a long-term partner in a Nigerian cultural setting. I don't know how to explain, but it wouldn't just work across regions and people in Nigeria.

As for Badoo and Michat, red flags. Even for hook up, I would not recommend.

When Bumble started in Nigeria, some Nlders, especially males who patronised hookup girls, were happy there was a platform to find "civilian" aka non-hookup girls. I chuckled because is it not time? Time would come when Bumble would be invaded by the hook-up babes. As long as the Internet is available for all and sundry, it is hard to sieve or limit participants unless you put a high subscription fee.

The new one or unsoiled one is Hinge, but again, it is only a matter of time.

Lastly, nothing like love in Nigeria. Love cannot exist in the world's poverty capital. The majority of Nigerians marry so as to have children within a two-parent household, for religious/cultural/social and to an extent companionship. The majority of Nigerians DON'T marry for lOvE.