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The age restriction thing is even more annoying in a country like Nigeria that needs to fire from all cylinders so as to turn our economic fortunes around for the better! Yet you still see some senseless companies and especially banks placing age restrictions on potential employees and thereby shortchanging themselves without even knowing it.

All the banks that place such outrageous age restrictions are not even performing well yet they won't think out of the box and avoid restricting great minds from being employed by them on the grounds of age.

As far as I'm concerned, it makes no economic sense to restrict employments to younger age groups. Even in the military, such age restrictions are not that necessary especially at the officer levels. Nigeria will be better for it if we stop restricting Nigerians from working on the grounds of age. Old age even has alot of advantages at work place

You're busy bothering yourself about what other people would say. Keep doing that until another man snatches her from you!
The age gap between myself and my fiancee is 16years and we're perfectly good together. I show her genuine love and make her a priority in my life and she also does same for me.

If you keep worrying about what people will say, you'll end up achieving nothing in life because no matter what you do, people will always talk. A word is enough for the wise!

Abeg wetin some people dey smoke wey dey make them misbehave like this Blessing CEO and Kemi Olunloyo? Sometimes I wonder what sort of highness cause these women to post the kind of content they post online. I'm sure they're not always with their clear eyes when they post those stuffs.

athaboi:
Mba yes, I don't think he is doing badly, he has stepped into a party that may pose a challenge in his re-election, except Obi is not in the ballot and ADC did not present a viable candidate! ADC lost an important person in the late Senator Okey Ezea of Enugu North. He is the only strong voice of the opposition in Enugu state but death took him away. Mba should be ensure no one else rises, if not, it will be a difficult time for him

Even if Mbah contests as an independent candidate, I'll vote for him and so will other reasonable people in the state.

This time around, it's not going to be about the party but about the candidate!

Kudos to governor Peter Mbah. He's indeed a visionary leader who has shown that good leadership is not a rocket science. Enugu state has never had it this good in terms of good governance!

pocohantas:
There is no rich man that will give you his daughter at 19. Yes, their dads will prevent them. My dad chased away the people that came for me at that age and he is not rich!

He chased your suitors at 19 because of his ignorance, not that he was doing you any good! And I hope you're now married? Or has the reality of those girls who fail to marry early dawned on you? Any man who is well-informed will not prevent his daughter from marrying early provided she's up to legal age of consent.

pocohantas:
And you couldn't get one for yourself?
Which most rich men do you know whose daughters married at 19? Abi you will marry Elumelu's daughter at 19 to train her in school? Abeg go sit one side.

I explained to you earlier why such girls may not want to marry early. It's not that their dads would prevent them if they want to. Unlike before, girl children enjoy more freedom of marital choices now.

pocohantas:
Once again, read to understand. You will need it in your marriage. No rich man would give you his 19yo daughter and you proved me right. No need saying I lied when you have said yourself that you will train her in school after she borns one for you. My parents aren't even rich, but they trained me in school and I didn't have to negotiate my womb for BSc.

No, I didn't lie. Your engagement is proof that I have been right all along.

I didn't read the first two paragraphs, they are unnecessary. Thank you

Most rich men don't prevent their adult daughters from getting married if they want to marry early even at 19. I'm sure you don't have any evidence to buttress the suggestion that rich men prevent their teenage girls from marrying older men of their choices. It's just a figment of your imagination.

What usually happens is that because girls from such homes are usually in schools at that age and are fixated on graduating and getting jobs, some of them make the mistake of not wanting to marry when suitors come at that age. They are often misled by the woke feminist mindsets of focusing on graduating and building careers before marriage. However, they often realise much later that their they should have married earlier when they attain certain age without being married. Many of them live in regrets all their lives.

There are still smart girls that understand the fact that time is not in favour of women when it comes to marriage. Such girls marry early and still go to schools and build careers even while married.

For your information, I'm not marrying my girl solely for her womb like you made it look like in your post. We are both in love with each other and have resolved to combine our marriage with her education and career. Genuine love is what drives our union!

pocohantas:
I never said you will find it harder to get a younger girls. Stop telling lies. I said most young girls from stable homes are tilting towards their mates, but if you look towards poorer families, you stand a high chance. Which was exactly what you did. You went for a 19yo who you will train in university.

No well to do man will give his teenager to an ancestor like Regina (or you) which was the case study that day.

Marry your teenager and stop having guilty conscience over huge age-gap marriages.

Lolzzz @me being ancestor. My dear, I'm a young man in my mid 30s. Like I alluded to that day, marriage is much better when the man is far older than the woman because women age faster than men. The huge age gap would make the man remain attracted to the woman for a larger part of the marriage. This is unlike what normally obtains when man marries his age mate or ladies closer to his age; whereby the man readily gets tired of the woman while the attraction dies.

Also, our culture and religion still places the man as the provider and protector of the his home! You'll agree with me that asking a guy to provide for his age mate creates an awkward situation because most age mates tend to be on the same level both financially and otherwise, therefore, expecting the man to provide in that kind of marriage is not sustainable. However, if the man marries a much younger girl, provision comes naturally because most men would generally want to provide for the women who are not their equals financially.

You lied when you said that girls from rich homes marry their age mates! How many examples of such marriages do you honestly have? Girls naturally are attracted to older guys and the reason is due to hypergamy as I mentioned above.

erico2k2:
A man who has a Duplex, 3 cars, has good Job/Biz has the command of women, from 18 up to any age.SO why should such man go for a woman who is Older and live w ith her parents ?Them never know.

Exactly! Many of them don't reason well, that's why they believe that they can get any man at older ages.

ADC should do everything possible to forge a formidable opposition to APC so that Nigerians can have an alternative platform to unseat any underperforming APC government in 2027.

erico2k2:
I hope you are advising the singles who are from 23 to 30 to try as much as possible to settle down.As I have noticed, most of them a quite naive to this fact that outside of this age range, it is increasingly getting difficult for people to get married when they are women

Many of them are yet to come to terms with that fact. They still live with the delusion that they can get a man anytime they want.

Even on this forum, I remember arguing with Pocohantas one day and she was arguing that older men would find it difficult to get a younger teenage girl to marry. Not long after that our arguement, I met my fiancee who's just 19yo, very intelligent and mentally mature girl.

Ladies should learn how not to compare themselves with men when it comes to relationships and marriage choices. This is because unlike them, men can easily find a partner even at older ages!

Chai! This is the height of wickedness!

That evil woman must not go scot-free! She must be jailed to serve as deterrent to others of her kind

Diamond098454:
He's 50 and should marry a 40 to 35 years old lady

Not true!

He desires to have children and that is why he wants to marry! Ladies below the age of 30 would stand higher chances of giving him children, that's why he made the age choice.

There's nothing wrong with his choice!

Provided he's a good man and can take good care of his wife, there's no big deal! Or do people want him to marry older woman and then spend the rest of his life trying to have a child?

All over the world, different healthcare professionals are regulated by separate councils! In the UK for instance, pharmacy practise is regulated by the general pharmaceutical council (GPhC). In Canada, the Pharmacists registration board of Canada regulates pharmacy practise. The list is endless!

Why must the Nigerian medical doctors with their black man's mentality try to indirectly lord over other healthcare professionals? Where is it done? The national assembly must understand that the bill is nothing but a calculated attempt by medical doctors to hijack the headship of other departments in the hospitals and health institutions even without having the knowledge of these professions. The bill must not scale through the national assembly unless they want to plunge the healthcare system into chaos!

Let the status quo remain! The different healthcare professionals must continue to be independently regulated by the already existing regulatory bodies! A word is enough for the wise!

Too bad! The rate at which people fall to cancer in this generation has really become worrisome! Our healthcare system hasn't even faired well with other ailments let alone cancer. I wish the government could rise to the occasion and provide hope to those already battling this dreaded disease.

Keep blaming your parents for your inability to make something out of your life due to your laziness. I have told you countless times that your hate and disrespect for your parents is a major reason you're not progressing in life!

Your mates are out there working hard to make their parents proud while you're just there shifting blames to your parents.

Gerrard59:


Suffice to say, many Nigerians aren't that clean. Constant heat without adequate bathing worsens things. Imagine living in Enugu where water is rationed?!

Water is not rationed in Enugu to the point where people can't get water to bath as many times as they want. In my house, I have tap water flowing everywhere!

Your problem is that you look down on the types of girls that would have accepted you and call them immature gen z.

See bros, you see all those so called working class or whatever ladies? They'll give you alot of headaches because they usually live under the illusion that they are the best and most desired. They have too many expectations from men and this makes it difficult for them to decipher between serious suitors and unserious ones.

So, if you don't want to waste your time further, pick from those girls you see as immature and build her up to your taste. There are still good girls out there from the so called gen zs. Leave the so called working class, their wahala is usually too much!

Chai! I pity the children born into this family! Government should rescue those kids from the mother ASAP

These days that ladies have even normalised the attitude of wooing the guys they like and think it's woke, yet some of you want to blame men for the irresponsible decisions by single ladies to get pregnant out of wedlock. Stop blaming men when women have sex with the guys they fancy (and probably wooed). In this time and age, ladies don't sleep with men they don't desire! This should tell you that their decisions to get pregnant out of wedlock is totally theirs and men shouldn't be blamed for it.

spiceadole:
So why are men getting married and feeling bad if a woman rejects their marriage proposal?

The society pushes men into getting married. If a guy reaches certain age unmarried, even his family starts mounting excessive pressure on him and calling him irresponsible. For this reason, marriage has become an unavoidable burden men must carry in order to conform to societal order.

Mariangeles:
How are they so? Because they were impregnated, and chose to have the baby?

Na this kind of your comment dey make some young girls flush pikin wey them suffer born inside toilet, because of shame and fear.
Make una dey try do better.
After all, na men like una impregnate those ladies, come abandon them.

Were they raped? No! They consented to having premarital sex with guys they consider attractive, so they should be ready to carry their crosses without seeking sympathy from other guys who are not responsible for their predicaments.

He reasons like a typical Whiteman! Unlike blacks, the majority of the white men believe in merits and that is why their countries are doing better! Anything gotten through the backdoor doesn't add lasting values to the society.

Kudos to him!

That CAF president needs to be sacked as soon as possible before he causes further damages to the integrity of African football.

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aieromon:
Her true experience did not qualify her for the role so she exaggerated to the maximum.

You can read about it here.

https://www.hcpts-uk.org/hearings/hearings/2026/march/ifenyinwa-chizube-ndulue-nonso/

She should have just gone for foundation programme and try to up her knowledge before applying. This is why they insist that we go through foundational courses before being licenced to practice over there.

Having gone through this woman's CV, she actually qualified as a dietitian and also has some job experiences that should have enabled her fit into the position she was employed into. However, her not being able to demonstrate knowledge at even rudimental levels is where the question arises. Things like the position of the small intestine (and even the alimentary canal generally) are stuff we learnt even at secondary school level.

It's people like this that put the rest of us in bad lights and cause the western countries to subject us to extra scrutiny when we're applying to get into their healthcare systems as professionals. She could have opted for a foundation programme or taken up jobs at lower cadres and then reapply after gaining some experiences.

I pray they have mercy on her and not deport her out rightly.

Perhaps the lady is a Dietetics technologist and like other technologists in Nigeria that tend to usurp duties meant for the real professionals in the field, she claimed to be a Dietitian just to gain higher pay without having higher knowledge.

Nice one! Wike has no honour to deserve such recognition!

Whoever that is posting these should know that he/she is encouraging self medication. In a country like Nigeria where anything goes, posting stuff like these will only worsen the problem of self medication and indiscriminate/irrational use of medications. The mods who push such posts to front page are equally displaying their lack of understanding of one problem currently bedeviling our healthcare system i.e irrational use of medications and self medication!