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InvertedHammer:
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It is a deceptive illusion.

Certificate is just a way to thin out the herd.

Education means to acquire knowledge and not to acquire certificate. Wealth is power and the most formally educated are not the most powerful. Bill Gates and Zuckerberg have no formal college certificates but they acquired knowledge.

Some certificates are not worth the papers they are written on. But the illusion must continue.

Millions of Ph.D holders in Nigeria but Buhari is the president. Do I need to say more?

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Well said, couldn't agree less...

2dugged:
op,since you have mentioned going into business, I would like suggestions of a business I can start with #200k and expand later and it should be a business that will not be affected by this current economic recession

There are a couple of businesses you can consider especially with the amount you have proposed. Mini Importation, Online Reselling are good examples.

banmee:
Are you sure you read what you wrote? you want me to quote the relevant part that complements my comment?

Please go ahead

Wao... I didn't even know that the article had landed on frontpage. Congratulations to me.
Thank you guys for your comments and positions on the matter...

banmee:
Times have not changed. Nigeria has always been like this.

@italkmoses, your dad lied to you. All you need do is listen to fela's songs and compare with what is happening today in Nigeria. Also check out the year of the release of the songs. You'll find that nothing has changed since independence.

Are you sure you took your time to read this article?

Libra38:
Omaye, Ojo ki denyo we (God bless you my brother).

Agba, ola uko'lo.

2sexynet:
I am always proud of you bro. You have really grown into sophisticated personality. Just put a call through to your brother now after seeing this.

Keep the energy brighter.

I greet you Bros. I didn't even know that the post made frontpage. Truly, Formal Certificates are overated. People need to know this.

“For the sake of this article, a formal certificate is considered as the certificate obtained from a tertiary institution; whether Universities, Polytechnics, Monotechnics or other higher institutions of learning”.

Our country has evolved. She is still evolving. She has evolved in almost every sector. She has evolved into a tragic bad on one part and an astonishingly advanced enclave on the other part. The interest of this article pertains to the evolvement between our formal certificates and their relationship with guaranteed meal tickets.

There has been an age long debate that cuts across many generations in this country about whose generation is Nigeria better or worse. Some commentators proposed that the 1960s’, 1970s’, and 1980s’, Nigeria was the best. Younger generations said the 1990s and 2000s’ is better. Whatever indices must have been used to reach both conclusions will suffice for another fresh article. But I want to focus on what formal certificates meant between the earlier generations and what obtains in today’s reality.

It was my dad that told me about how first degree graduates were treated in the 60’s, 70’s and even early 80’s. You may have been told similar stories of how graduates got cars upon graduation, white collar jobs were already waiting for them to graduate amongst several other pecks that seems unbelievable in today’s reality. In those days, all you needed to liberate yourself and your family from sheer poverty and consuming despondency was a degree from a tertiary institution. Your degree or certificate was the ticket and the only ticket you needed to transfer from lack to plenty, from have-not to have. I once attended a course on Facilities Engineering, Operations and Maintenance Management and the facilitator corroborated my dad’s tale to me, he was a beneficiary of the account my dad told me. Engr X (name withheld), a graduate of University of Ibadan, in the department of chemical engineering in 1978, before he was shortlisted for NYSC, already had a job waiting in Shell, where he eventually worked for 33years before voluntarily resigning as a Lead Projects Engineer. This is only one out of several other examples. These kinds of stories were popular until the 90s’.

Then, something happened! Something that is better imagined than described. This thing that happened will suffice for a PhD thesis if you want to undertake a study on it. Let’s not go into that story.

These pecks and assurances of securing white collar jobs started fading away like a diffusing flame, thousands of graduates now have to write application letters, converge at stadiums to write aptitude tests for fifteen (15) vacant positions, amongst other unspeakable tendencies. More unfortunately is that the trend deteriorates every other day. A close comparism on what is obtainable between then and now reveals that the distance between the experience then and now can be liken to the distance between heaven and earth. Honestly, it is that far! Hence, when people argue on what use their formal certificates are if they can’t get a job with them in their own country; I listen along with a heavy heart, worried about the imminent consequence of this quagmire. This may be a title for another piece.

However, are formal certificates still guaranteed meal tickets? I will answer Yes without batting an eyelid. Are formal certificates a deceptive illusion? I will not answer No.

Firstly, jobs are still available even though they are only a few vacancies that will never go round. Hence, to the graduates or applicants who eventually get employed, the certificates have paid off. There are several ‘fortunate’ graduates whose stories support this claim. Recall that without the certificate, you do not qualify to contest in the first place. However, it is also not incorrect to say they are a deceptive illusion. This is evident in the thousands of graduates that are roaming the streets or under-employed and waiting for their miracle day, if it will ever come. This is then a two way bridge, one is wider, while the other; slender like the biblical road that leads to heaven.

What is the way to go?

Whether or not the job comes, education shouldn’t be replaced with anything. Going to school should be non-negotiable especially if you have the capacity to. Going by the current reality of this generation, disabuse your mind from considering formal certificates as the only guaranteed meal ticket. Having established that, re-adjust your mindset to be open to all options. After graduation, if the job comes; lucky you. If it doesn’t, re-strategize. There are several other options you can consider. Learn a skill; go into business (if you can), deliberately develop your gifts and passion. The education you have acquired puts you in a better position to organize your life. Start something, grow it and move your life on.

Moses Ilemona Ihiabe

Fellow Nairalanders,

Greetings.

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I covet your sagacious response(s) in this regards.

Fellow Nairalanders,

I am managing an online bus ticketing platform (www.emytrip.com.ng) and we need a mobile application to make our service a lot more smarter.

Please reach me on 07064243290 as quick as possible if you are a mobile application developer.

I covet your sagacious response(s) on this.

Augustbreak:
Jubilation ongoing in lokoja at the moment.

If it is true that he has risen from death, then this man head strong and e get oyel...

: Just received a call from an observer live from kogi state who is monitoring the supposed burial rites of Prince Audu Abubakar that he has risen and no longer dead.
Is this information true? Somebody confirm please abi na which kind drama be this?

: Just received a call from an observer live from kogi state who is monitoring the supposed burial rites of Prince Audu Abubakar that he has risen and no longer dead.
Is this information true? Somebody confirm please abi na which kind drama be this?

Very good thread @OP.

Meanwhile, I sell Mobile Phones and Fashion Items on Konga. I have 5orders for Infinix Hot 2 already and I am out of stock. Please contact me on 07064243290 if you have the mobile phones (Infinix Hot 2) in bulk for sale.

Please treat as urgent if you have the phones and lets do business.

legendboy:
I pledge to Nigeria my country to be faithful, loyal and honest. To serve Nigeria with all my strenght, to defend her unity and uphold her honor and glory so help me God. I see a better gallant giant of Africa

A very good commitment you're making there...

Fellow countrymen, I join other Nigerians to celebrate our independence as a country. Exactly fifty-five years ago, our founding fathers succeeded in putting paid to the almighty supremacy of the British colonial rule by fighting for the collective independence of what we will later celebrate as a country. All the sweats and pain-staking efforts that went into the journey to liberty and freedom are already an open secret and may it not go in vain. This prayer is already been answered in bits as we are no longer where we used to be.

We have come through thick and thin, we have come through crises that should naturally disintegrate us, we have come through all kinds of unimaginable and unspeakable situations; yet these situations made us stronger instead of permanently tearing us apart. However, our country is yet to fully maximize the potentials she has; she prefers to be a sleeping giant instead of a gallant black nation where prosperity should be a commonplace, but this will be a matter for another day.

The crux of this piece is to drive home the supposed gains of independence, as it were.

For the records, independence means freedom from control, influence, support or the likes. The irony that is obtainable in our country is that we are only experiencing independence in the terms of 55 years of freedom only. I personally believe that to the ordinary Nigerian on the streets of Nigeria, independence should mean equality irrespective of financial class. To the unemployed Nigerian, independence should mean a gainful employment that can engage his creative abilities and also add value to the chain. To the market woman at Idumota market in Lagos, independence should mean conducive business environment that can encourage sales and business growth. To the civil service worker, independence should mean improved work remunerations and proper value for hardwork and not repay diligence with unbearable insults. To the farmer in Maiduguri, the best way to explain independence to him is to have a good road network so that his farm yields will not perish with him. Even to the unborn child in my pregnant neighbour’s tummy, the best way to explain independence to the innocent child will be to have a prosperous Nigeria where opportunities abounds and life is moderately comfortable. All of these and many more are non-existent or scarcely available in our Country and that feeling naturally kills the excitement that should come with the independence celebration.

We cannot shy away from the obvious truth that our country is not where it desires to be. This I think is not because of geographic disadvantage neither because of tribal differences; definitely not because of our increasing population nor any of the natural or man-made disasters. Our country is where she is because of poor or bad political and economical structures or institutions if you like. Virtually all our challenges as a country (security challenges, economic and developmental challenges, etc) are politically generated, most of which are motivated by not doing the right things. Our representatives in power now pride themselves in doing the wrong things, parents now choose to spare the rod when their wards do wrong things, civil service workers now considers it smart to cheat the government, the society now celebrate people who carry wrong symbols as glaring signs on their forehead, it is an endless list and that it is the ugly situation we have found ourselves in.

However, even though the country has become a direct irony of what it should be; in many ways, our country still remain the envy of so many other countries, even the western countries inclusive. We lack almost nothing in terms of resources and we have been blessed so much so that it is not unsafe to say that God is a Nigerian. From Lagos to Jos, Okene to Ikot-Ekpene, Abuja down to Kwara; there are mineral resources scattered across our country in commercial quantities. In intellectual capacity, we do not have a shortage neither; and several other ways that are better imagined than described. Hence, what then could be wrong with us as a country? The answer which is a bitter truth is: doing the right thing at the right time. We can only say Nigeria is truly independent if we begin to do the right thing and at the right time.

Having identified the root cause of our challenges, I wish that Nigerians will use the occasion of this independence celebration to begin to take decisions about doing the right thing and especially at the right time; because if the right thing becomes the order of the day, we would have solved more than half of our challenges. More importantly, we will be realizing the dreams of our founding fathers.

Happy Independence Nigeria and Long Live Nigeria

Originally published at: http://italkmoses.com/nigeria-at-55-how-to-achieve-the-dreams-of-our-founding-fathers/

innofyno:
Ojokinugwa

Your head has oyel, you must be an Igala fellow.

I have a background in Petroleum Engineering (National Diploma), but I want to proceed to studying Project Management Online to obtain a Bachelor's Degree.

Does anyone knows of any Internationally Accredited, Moderately inexpensive and Good school that provide such education online.

Please, kindly drop your suggestions or complementary advises if you know/have any...

Hese: Hello house! I wrote dis technician training aptitude test on Oct 12 at lagos.For the next phase of the screening, we were told dat it is technical skill test.Pliz house,anyone that knows how d next phase of total E&P recruitment is like should pliz help out.Thank u o'o'o'.

Did you survive this stage through to the the next stage?

If yes, have they started inviting for the third stage; I mean the Interview?

I was invited for the test... Anybody here also got the invitation?
Let's discuss and rub minds together..

What's up for Department of Geology... I'm putting in for Geology.
How much is the direct entry form and when is it closing?

Also, How can I get past questions?