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CaveAdullam:
1. To be sincere, Nigerian graduates are paper tigers. We all want to earn 1million+ income but we've not asked ourselves what skills we have? What value are we bringing to a company that will make them scratch their tooth and nails just to pay that sum of money as a salary?

2. Though the academic system now operating in the world is skewing to the left, and the wrong side, not tending to make students and individuals become familiar with skills and knowledge necessary for real-world application and survival. The system just paints something that looks good but lacks vitality and can neither improve the individual nor society.

3. Why do many graduates fall head over heels for this vacuous academic system? In yesteryear the few people who pursued academics were successful, and they were successful because the system was capable of accommodating their intellectual ability and curiosity. That's why it was rewarding.

4. But the people stampeding the gates of universities and colleges around the world today lack curiosity and the intelligence necessary to illuminate the paths they seek. What they are all pursuing is the final result - high income, forgetting that high income is the resultant effect of skills, knowledge, intelligence, and deep curiosity.

5. The people that succeed in academics, not those with first-class degrees are those who had that intelligence and curiosity before alleviating it with academics. That's why it's only a few professionals of many "professionals" that can make waves in their various fields. It is these sets of professionals that give value to an academic degree and results that equal their fame and high income; and which stimulates the masses to pursue academics while they are being oblivious to the necessary work involved in achieving a good result.

6. Tunde is ashamed of his handwork because his friend, Yusuf has a university degree. He abandons his handwork he is well equipped with the right knowledge for a university that he is incapable of performing up to average. At the end of the day, he struggles with his academics till he graduates, and when he enters the labor market he becomes frustrated and hopeless.

7. Many do see academics as an escape route from the harsh reality of life, and an easy way to a good income and that's why they become more frustrated when they don't have a job or when they face the harsh reality of office politics.

8. Where do most of them land when they don't get their aspired dream job? They land on the apprenticeship they refuse to follow from the beginning which they were more built and suited for.

9. Since everyone is in rush for money, it is better to start chasing it from the beginning rather than look for an easy escape mode through academics that they are not built for, coupled with the fact that academics has been eroded with many of its values. And this is only possible by engaging in profitable skills and scalable trades.

Thanks.

Number 4 caught my attention the most.

emmaodet:
Or in another way, most of humans are not self reliant.
Very very very few percentage of humans are self reliant.
Reason why you will see people running away from Nigeria because no free education/school, no free health care and no free handout at old age.
They run away from Nigeria just to rely on the government of the west. Hardly self reliant.
The ones at home are hoping to bank and count on their children to support them at old age.
Either way, whether 3rd world or 1st world, it is either they are relying on government or children and that is bad enough.
Outsourcing your existence at the mercy of others

Thank you for this. I realize that I have been implicitly outsourcing many parts of my life. With what you wrote I intend to seriously think about it and truly take a stronger hold of my life.

I have touched on this in my post where I debunked the "make money and women will come" scam.

https://www.nairaland.com/7465815/make-money-women-come

Skyview01:
Whatsup bro.

I hope you are still winning the battle for self control?

More grease to ya elbows!

Thank you Skyview.

LikeAking:
Shit up..

Your mates are getting married and fucking …

U Dey dull ya self…

Men who don't embrace manhood can't understand my undertaking.

I'm getting back in the fight right now. Tomorrow will be my first day.
Warrior spirit.

Alearna:
You relapsed?

Yes. Failed after 170 days before. And now failed after 39 days.

Don't mind Iconic.R.
She is just not sexually fulfilled. I hope she finds the D she needs.

abba190:
lgo easy, i dont think its possible for a young person to go 365 days without porn masturbation or sex.

You are just firing me up to take up the challenge again

Gerrard59:
At least, those women will not outrightly refuse to prepare food for their fathers like what I read on TwitterNG for the past two days.

And what about Ukrainian men? Most of them had to face the merciless Russian army whole their female counterparts are being f*cked all over the world. When the war ends, they'll make documentaries about how women are most affected. Enough is enough.

emmaodet:
Interesting time is really ahead of us and I pray these guys don't annihilate us all.
A Russian I worked with of recent said when the Ukraine Russian war started last year, it all started small with light weapons but as the day progresses now, more and more dangerous and extremely dangerous weapons are been brought to the war front and things are really going out of hand

Do you guys suspect that all this is a theatrical performance like I do?
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that all these guys are best friends behind closed doors, or are playing a game whose rules have been set by bodies independently of them.

I'm not Nigerian, please inform me

Sir, why are you running?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What are some of your best relaxztion techniques? What do you do to replenish yourself mentally after a study session to prepare yourself for the next one? How do you deal with stress? How do you avoid burnout?

Hello everyone.

I humbly come for help and advice as the new semester has begun.

I am a STEM major. When I study, I get mentally fatigued quite quick. It seems that I can't self-study more than 2.5 hours a day. After that, my mind is not there anymore, like my brain is saturated and not as active.

Please, what do you do to study longer (and better)? What do you think can help me increase my fatigue threshold and avoid burnout.

Thank you in advance.

turmacs:
How i wish someone as rich as this guy can come and marry me like this, heiii God i will sing praises to thee for the rest of my life..Oh lord, he doesn't have to be a young man, even if he's in his 60's or 70's, I'll forever be grateful...Ohh, Lord, i don't want to end up with a broke ass Nigeria man boy, who's older than 23 years, but doesn't have a car, a house, and not upto 100 million naira in his bank account, keep me away from such failures in da mighty name of Jesus, amen..

I'm not a Christian, but why bring Jesus into your wickedness?

This female will not even be faithful to Ronaldo. She is just looking for a guy that can provide for her lifestyle while still messing with the men she truly likes in the shadows.
If a woman doesn't like you with no car, no house, and no money at all, she will simply never ever like you. Don't go and sell your soul like Ronaldo just to end up with women like this one who don't like you and just want to use you.

kestolove95:
I hate burna boy

Understand thay you are hating somebody you don't know and who doesn't know you. It's better to keep hate out of your heart.

Gerrard59:
For black Africa to be rich or at least middle class, we need to receive investments and have our goods access wealthier markets. That is what the US did with Japan after the nuclear bombing, South Korea after the disintegration, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. Those countries got massive investments from Western companies and technical know-how. In return, they rose from the poverty stage to wealth. The same applied to China during the late '80s. A nation cannot be rich by selling goods to poorer countries. A hotel in Ikeja GRA will generate more revenues than another in Ojo simply because visitors/guests within the GRA axis have more money than those in Ojo. Also, countries like Brazil, South Korea, Japan and many African countries got richer as China grew. Western countries benefitted from low inflation because there was a China that manufactured anything at the lowest prices. Western companies also benefitted from a huge market where they sold goods and services. Everyone benefitted.

Now, the Chinese are ascending to higher levels and the West feels threatened and is clamping down on her growth. OK, their interest. So, where next are the world's manufacturing hubs they are targeting? South Asia (India) and South East Asia. But these places are a distance away from Europe and the United States. The most logical would be to do the same in black Africa to serve the same purpose as China. The other day, I read German businesses went to Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam to seek partners to produce goods for the EU market. For crying out loud, is Malaysia closer to Germany than Senegal? Kenya? Tanzania?

Investing in certain countries to make them rich is good for the investor because when those people invested in become rich, they purchase the goods and patronise the services of the investor. That is how it happened with the Chinese and the West. The West invested, and today Chinese purchase lots of Mercedes-Benz, LVMH, Tesla, BASF chemicals, Airbus etc. The same applies to Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea, where the Japanese invested, and those countries are major trading partners of Japan today by buying Japanese goods and patronising Japanese' companies' services. The same thing is what the Chinese tried replicating in Africa - invest there and ensure they become rich. In return, they will purchase goods from China when they become wealthy.

The question now is, why didn't the West think of the same, considering we have a 500+ year history compared to the Chinese?

Thank you for the thorough abswer Gerrard. I am learning a lot on this forum. Thanks to everybody.

Now, I will touch on your last question

The question now is, why didn't the West think of the same, considering we have a 500+ year history compared to the Chinese?

Clearly, they did not want Africa to rise from poverty.

A few months ago I wondered why South Korea became such an advanced and innovative country while Africann countries are still so far behind, given that they were about equally poor in the period of their respective independence. I discovered that a major factor was that the West did not behave in Korea the same way it behaved in Africa.

The West had an interest in Soutb Korea's growth. In the 50s, North Korea the communist part of Korea, was doing better than South Korea, the capital part. This situation was critical as we were in the cold war and some countries were still dithering about whether they should join the capitalists or the communists. Having the communist version of Korea doing better than the capitalist version was bad image. So, the West wanted SK to develop to show how much better capitalism is compared to communism.

In Africa, all they wanted were resources. The so-called development projects such as roads and other infrastructures they made were mostly to facilitate the extraction and transport of resources. They did not undertook project with the aim of Africans becoming richer.

budaatum:
Like telling me to leave high school and go learn what is taught in primary one for an hour.

What point are you making?

I am not making a point. This video explains how geopolitical and economic power shifted from country to country through time.
It actually hints at why the world economy order is changing in disfavor of America.
The video was very instructive.

Gerrard59:
While I agree that the US economy is doing very fine compared to her peers, I don't see her dominating the world for the next century as she has for the past century. One is the rise of China and other emerging powers like India and Indonesia. While both I countries are not like China economically, their population and growth of economies mean they would grow clout and demand a greater share in global affairs. Every country outside the West witnesses how China is bullied unjustly and falsely simply because she decides to prosper. The same fate awaits India and Indonesia; I wager they are preparing for it. The US and her allies would have to share global prominence. A unipolar world cannot continue to exist.

Europe's population (America's greatest ally) and, in fact, all of America's allies have rapidly declining birth rates which affect GDP growth, consumption and investment. They use immigration to offset this problem, but in reality, immigration does not solve the birth decline. It only solves population crises. For instance, in the '90s, Germany imported Turks to work in factories and bolster the workforce. Today, the same Germany is inviting immigrants, mostly from Arabian countries, to replace ageing workers. Additionally, Europe's immigration problems are social in nature. Even though I am an immigrant where I am, I don't believe in an open-door immigration system as the Europeans do, especially from cultures which are in stark difference from the native ones. So Europe, like Japan and Korea, would face severe demographic problems. However, Europe's own would be worse because the migrants have distinctive cultures, and Europe is abut to the world's poorest continent.

In some ways, I see it as karma after all the Europeans divided Africa for their spoils. So, they should benefit from the current invasion just as they did to Africa. Also, since they have blatantly refused to appropriately aid Africa's industrialisation just as they did with East Asia and now with South East Asia, anything they see, they should take it like that.

Gerrard, could you expatiate on the emboldened point please?

budaatum:
Don't you wonder why they borrow at all if they can print money as you suggest?

Still, there may come a time when their printed money is not worth the paper it's written on and creditors ask for more in interest to hold it, is a point you are not considering. Inflation too might erode it's value making it less worth holding.

Here's an opinion on it.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/05/03/debt-ceiling-scenarios/

Also note that the British pound was the major reserve currency until World War II, so there's nothing to say America's status of reserve currency would last forever.

Here is a thorough video that explains the place of reserve currencies in changing world geopolitics :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8&pp=ygUUY2hhbmdpbmcgd29ybGQgb3JkZXI%3D

Quite instructive.

Botragelad:
Nice thread......
I think it is possible that the United States will still be the world power in the next 100 years. Large and diverse economy, which accounts for about a quarter of the global GDP, strong military presence, with hundreds of overseas bases and alliances with many countries, vibrant culture, which influences many aspects of global entertainment, media, education, and innovation, resilient political system, which allows for peaceful transitions of power and checks and balances among different branches of government.

They also have a history of adapting to new international realities, such as the rise of China, the challenges of climate change, and the threats of terrorism.
In reality, the United States faces many challenges and uncertainties in this 21st century, and it cannot take its global leadership for granted. It will have to compete with other emerging powers, such as China, India, Brazil, and maybe Nigeria which will have larger populations and economies by 2050.

Still, I see no one taking that position they hold!

@emboldened

The US adaptation to the given international realities is questionable. Would you say that they reacted well to China's evolution? Would you say that their climate policies are effective?
You can react to something but your reaction might not be good.

I am not versed in geopolitics, so I will follow this thread to learn more. Thanks for making it.

Thank you for the report.
However, the link does not work.

Given that she is an African traditional princess, why is church involved? 😳

Skyview01:
Why is food expensive in Nigeria?

We have good farm lands for farming and rain at the right season.

Can somebody tell me why farming is not prioritized in Nigeria?

These are two relevant and important questions. I do not have the answers but inquiring about the them should provide key insights about African national policy, macroeconomics, and geopolitics.