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SamuraiXXX:
i think Nigeria already has too many banks as it is

And unfortunately most of this banks just take deposits and

1) lend to government and high net worth corporates

2) Collect back charges


3) Real sector lending like long term mortgages at reasonable interest rates are not easily available

praisettforme:
Plz house I need some guidance regarding new Zealand visitors visa.

With all respect , I advise you research legal immigration options through in demand jobs and akills

From a man


Men need to start limiting the way they add wife's and children and chicks to their life because each of those bring more expenses to the man

Solar is good for basic stuff like bulbs, laptops and phones and rechargeables

But for normal standing fan's or fridges and other items that would demand current, it would drain fast

Please any hardworking typist should contact Me.
Payment above.minimum wage.

Brilliant analysis ..we need more of this

Scammers............people should beware

HacheNoire:
She should be patient! It’s pay back time!

Two decades from now, Caucasians will be minority in Europe and that’s a constant.


Considering how Africans reproduce coupled with those Middle Easterners, the replacement theory is inevitable.

Same will happen in the US. Caucasians will become minority and other diverse races will now become majority.

What goes around, comes around!

Reproduction without corresponding current world essential skills and productivity and technology is not a thing of achievement but a potential for destruction of a society

ariesbull:
Nigeria has a habit of celebrating its size.

We proudly point out that Nigeria occupies about 924,000 square kilometres, while Germany has about 358,000 km², the United Kingdom about 244,000 km², the Netherlands about 42,000 km² and Belgium about 31,000 km².

Put all four European countries together, and Nigeria is still considerably larger.

But so what?

This is where Nigerians need to change the way we measure national progress.

The size of a country does not determine how developed, productive or prosperous it will become.

What matters is what the country is able to produce from its land, human resources, natural resources, technology, infrastructure and institutions.

Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium occupy far less territory than Nigeria, yet their combined economies are many times larger than Nigeria's. Their citizens also enjoy dramatically higher levels of income, infrastructure, healthcare, education, productivity and social services.

Germany has built a world-leading manufacturing and engineering economy.

The Netherlands has transformed a relatively small territory into a global centre for logistics, agriculture technology, trade, finance and high-value manufacturing.

Belgium has developed strong pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing and logistics industries.

The United Kingdom has built globally competitive financial, technological, pharmaceutical, aerospace, educational and professional-services sectors.

Nigeria, meanwhile, has enormous land, a huge population, oil and gas, agricultural resources, minerals and an energetic entrepreneurial population.

Yet we continue to struggle with electricity, transportation, manufacturing, infrastructure, human capital, productivity and the ability to consistently transform our resources into high-value goods and services.

That is the real Nigerian problem.

Nigeria is not backward because it is too small.

Nigeria is not underdeveloped because it lacks land.

Nigeria is underperforming because we have not sufficiently converted our enormous potential into productivity and prosperity.

A country can be enormous and poor.

A country can be small and extremely wealthy.

Singapore is a classic example. The Netherlands is another. Their achievements demonstrate that productivity is more important than geographical size.

Therefore, instead of constantly telling ourselves that Nigeria is bigger than Germany, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands combined, Nigerians should be asking a more uncomfortable question:

Why are countries occupying much smaller territories able to create vastly more economic value than Nigeria?

Why can't Nigeria consistently manufacture the machines it needs?

Why can't we provide reliable electricity for businesses and households?

Why do we export so many raw materials instead of processing them into finished products?

Why does a country with enormous agricultural potential still import so many food products?

Why can't we build infrastructure at the speed required by our population?

Why does our enormous population not translate into equally enormous economic productivity?

These are the questions that matter.

Landmass is potential. Natural resources are potential. Population is potential.

But potential means very little if it is not converted into industries, technology, jobs, exports, infrastructure, innovation and higher living standards.

Nigeria needs to stop measuring greatness by geographical size and start measuring it by what Nigerians can produce, invent, manufacture, export and earn.

The goal should not be to prove that Nigeria is bigger than Europe.

The goal should be to build a Nigeria whose economic productivity, infrastructure, industries, institutions and standard of living can compete with the best countries in the world.

Nigeria is big enough.

What Nigeria needs now is to become productive enough.

That is the real measure of development.

Very Brilliant and insightful write up. Landmass and population size does not guarantee productivity

Western and developed countries as at today's date appear not to want so many immigrants

Except healthcare jobs or very wealthy ones

Tech is risky as A.i is leading to some tech jobs being eliminated.

RichDad1:
If you've read some of his books, you'll understand this is part of the schemes to avoid taxes. 😅😅
I've been an ardent follower since 2004. I have almost all his books. He influenced me buying so many stocks and lands as far back as 2006. Sadly, the stocks turned into bad investments, while the lands gave me more than 5000% ROI.
However, I stopped following when I realised most of his principles were not designed to work in an African and most especially Nigerian markets.
He's the lore behind moniker when I decided to registered on Nairaland after 2 years as a guest in 2007.
Seun added the 1 years after without my consent 👎👎

Brilliant insight.

Also people should note that this Robert Kiyosakis advice is not suitable and might not work in Nigeria and most African countries where interest rates on borrowing money using property have a high yearly interest rate.
In the western world and in some parts of Asia and the middle East, interest rates can be less than 10 percent. It is not so in Africa and Africa in most places don't have are no long term like 30 year loans most time

So the advice might not work in Nigeria

As at the last time I checked

Opay does not keep transactions more than a year

Opay does not allow you search for transactions using bank name, account number or transaction amount

Mut4y:
Hello, weldone everyone. Please, I’m in a dilemma and I need honest opinions.

About two years ago, I met a lady at NYSC camp. We fell in love and started dating. Everything was going well, and we genuinely loved each other.

About four months into the relationship, she travelled home for Christmas and came back telling me that her mother wanted her to marry someone who had shown interest in her. She said she had already told the man, his family and even her mother that she wasn’t interested, and assured me that she wouldn’t leave me for anyone.

The pressure from her family continued throughout our relationship. After NYSC, she went back home, and eventually the pressure became too much. She told me she had decided to go ahead with the marriage. At the time, I had just finished NYSC and wasn't financially ready to start a family, while she was approaching 30 and wanted to get married before then. I loved her, but I couldn't provide the financial security she wanted, so I let her go.

Later, I discovered that the man she was marrying was actually her ex. I was disappointed that she had hidden that from me. She also told me that pastors had said she and the man were spiritually compatible, while she and I weren't. I told her that marriage requires more than spiritual compatibility; both people have to be intentional and willing to put in the work. She didn't agree, so I let her make her decision.

Her bride price was eventually paid. She later told me that if I could somehow raise money for her bride price and a proper wedding, she would leave the man. Because I still loved her, I put a lot of pressure on myself and my business trying to make it happen, but I eventually had to admit that I couldn't afford it.

Since then, we've had an on-and-off relationship as friends. Sometimes we wouldn't speak for months, then she would reach out and we'd reconcile. We've only communicated online since the marriage process began.

I know I wasn't financially ready for marriage after NYSC, but I also believe we could have built together. During NYSC, I took care of our feeding and still gave her a monthly allowance from the money I was making from online gigs. I wasn't lazy; I simply wanted to build my life through legitimate means and refused to do fraud just to make money quickly.

So, I don't necessarily blame her for choosing financial security. I was disappointed, but I accepted her decision.

Now, recently, she reached out and told me she's tired of the marriage and wants to leave. She said that if I'm still available when everything is finally over, she'd like us to continue from where we stopped or start afresh.

The problem is that I still love her, but I don't know if I can trust her the way I used to.

There are also things I noticed during our relationship that I was willing to tolerate because I believed tolerance is important in relationships. She gets angry easily, sometimes gives silent treatment for days until there's a lot of begging, and has insulted me when she's upset. I never insulted her or raised my voice at her because I adored her so much.

Now I'm asking myself: if she eventually leaves the marriage and comes back, can I genuinely build a marriage with her again?

I don't have anyone else in my life at the moment, and a part of me still wants her. Another part of me feels that too much has happened and that the trust we once had may never return.

I also worry about the fact that she is currently married. Even if she eventually leaves, would I be making the right decision by going back to someone who once chose another man over me and is now returning because she's unhappy?

I believe love is important, but love alone isn't enough to sustain a marriage. Trust, respect, communication, emotional maturity and willingness to work through problems matter too.

What would you honestly do if you were in my position? Would you consider taking her back and starting over, or would you let the relationship go completely?

Please, I genuinely want honest and mature opinions. Thank you.

-She was dating You and that guy together and using both of You for resources and attention.
-Someone that lied to You that her family said she should marry someone is not to be trusted
- Someone that said a pastor said she and the guy are more compatible is not to be trusted
- Someone that said You should match the wedding ceremony and bride price money of another man is not to be trusted. Real genuine marriage and affection is not for auction
-Someone that gives you silent treatment
- She used You bro and She still feels You are usable.

Unfortunately a lot of men are the ones in love, a lot of w--men are in the extortion business (extortion of men's resources, efforts,time, money , goodwill and assets)

Better go to the hospital and see a qualified Doctor in Person

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LordIsaac:
However, do not bring a child you cannot raise to this world! The world has suffered too much from ill-raised offsprings!

Nigerians would not hear. What benefit does marriage have. If two non producing sustainable income people marry. Nobody is coming to save your child or You. Developed Countries are closing immigration and relocation pathways.
Nigeria is producing 5 to 8 million children per year and affordable housing, well paying jobs, renewed hope are still far from available

Raising a child is not cheap, quality or easy.

RollinTNDA:
Music business is not like buying and selling
There is something called Royalties

Once you produce or partake in producing a song. You are given a percentage earning on that song when it goes platinum or viral

If that song is performed in a show, used in adverts you get a commission from that

Problem starts when you are removed as a co author then you don't get any percentage
Or
You make verbal agreement without written or signed proof. That is thee job of your manager to make sure you received royalties from every song you produced
That is howproducers make their money if you don't know

Music business is crazy and interesting

There are different kinds of agreements
People need to learn the business. There are publishing revenue royalties generally shared 50/50 between songwriters and producers but in cases of multiple producers and songwriters and A list artistes ..the splits could be different and some. People may get less

There are master revenue royalties most times gotten by the record label or if the artiste paid for the recording and song, the payer.
In developed music ecosystems, some Hit making already re known superproducers with proven track record ( read the word proven track hit records like Timbaland, Pharell, PolowDaDon, Tim & Bob, Bryan M.Cox and The Dream and.Dr Dre and Track masters, Dr Luke.J.R Rotem and in Nigerian context maybe Sarz, DonJazzy, I d Cabasa, Shizzy and TeeYMix ) can also request a master revenue royalty point of 3-7 percent recoupable from the master royalty revenue

There are also work for hire/ buyout agreements / upfront total payments.. There are production advances some recoupable, some non recoupable., there are beat leases, there are exclusive tracks etc

spiceadole:
You people don't know what iss happening in Nigerian health sector.
I'm even surprised there was one on duty.

The way my consultants have japa to start afresh ehn.

The younger doctors are not interested in specialization. They are busy writing foreign exams to also relocate

Exactly they don't know. Qualified Medical Health workers are currently very scarce in Nigeria. Population is increasing faster than professional health workers are being produced.
Some are even leaving the Country for better quality of Life.

Try and employ a qualified genuine post Nysc medical Doctor, Radiographer, Consultant Anaesthetist, Consultant Radiologist and see how many genuine applications You would get.and if You manage, how long they would stay.

The era of Top Nigerian government officials saying Doctors can be tailors if they don't have jobs is over. During and after COVID, the relocation was high. Better lifestyle, better quality of life, better pay.better career prospects.

A lot of Doctors in the Nigerian public health sector are overworked and also many patients that use the public health sector come in aggressive not knowing there are procedures and in some cases, tests are done before wheeling a person to the theatre for surgery and this is not like the movies portray it.

Government and Private sector cannot force people to work. A lot of health professionals are leaving Nigeria and going to other countries even if someone don't practice their course.

The thing is a lot of people meet quacks who give them cheap home service without them knowing they are quacks so they think a true qualified Post Nysc Nigerian Doctor is easily available not knowing it is a quack they are calling Doctor or Nurse.

As at 1 years ago. Lagos state alone needed 30,000 doctors. Even the ones that come to Lagos use it to save money and have the Lagos working experience and relocate if possible

If Lagos the magnet of talent is struggling with health workers, what of other states.
The other time, a celebrity businessman was complaining that he went to a Hospital in Ikoyi and no Doctor, or is it that the Hospital in Ikoyi cannot afford a Doctor
Assume Nigerians had an app to verify if a Doctor is real by face I.d or palmscan, many would be surprised

https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/04/24/lagos-state-has-shortage-of-33000-medical-doctors-govt-raises-alarm/

The very rich Nigerian elites and political class import Doctors from abroad or are treated by Doctors imported from abroad ( YES) or travel abroad or go to Premium pricy private hospitals.

SCAM.COM. BE CAREFUL EVERYONE

Music is a high risk investment. And has high upfront business cost of it is to be done properly.

It's safer buying stocks to treasury bills or buying guaranteed land than investing in music.

A lot of record label lose money on artistes and some make money on some artistes but it is all high risk. Many artistes use the labels money and investment to get more exposure and then try to leave their contract. Music business is a high risk business except the record label owner is investing in his or herself because investing millions in another human being and being made to forfeit your investment before time is not sweet.

This are opinions of mine and I don't know the exact truthful details of what transpired between both parties

nairalanda1:
Those countries are trying to bribe people to have more children because their populations are falling. Not enough working age people to pay the tax that would pay for pensions and other things for the older generation, which leads to government borrowing and borrowing more, and economy collapsing not just because of the borrowing, but because of the fact that a low working age population and a higher elder population leads to reduced production. Who would man the factories, when more people are getting older. China that used to be the answer is also getting old too

Many countries wish that they were like Africa now. Even now, some of the opposition to Trump's immigration policy is because the USA may need immigrants, because even in countries where there are massive incentives for mothers, population growth is still low.

Better stop all this ;it is better with fewer children'. Nigeria has issues with its large population because we are a resource dependent economy. Not a producer economy, where things like population are an asset.We refused to depend on industries that would turn our resources into exportable industrial goods...instead we sold oil. Oil that even at 10million bpd is not enough for our large population.




Some do, but some do not know. Some young women leave on the promise that they would be, for example, apprentice hairdresser, or apprentice cook, and it turns out that is the truth. Some are lied to.

China has high population but low jobs so people reduced giving birth . America has high population but high housing costs so people reduced giving birth.Many companies are cutting jobs even in the developed world.
Children cost money to raise.

Immigrants do jobs indigenes don't want to do as indigenes have more options.
Even in the USA, many Chinese immigrants started self owned low to medium Chinese restaurants as they couldn't get middle class white collar jobs.
Their children now work as Professionals earning more or equal and less tress than running a self employed self run restaurant.
More education, more exposure, more enlightenment , more long term thinking make people in the developed world have less children.
Politicians need the workforce
Big Businesses who sell essential goods and services need the customers
The citizens however are the ones paying the taxes and paying the bills and taking care of children they create ( responsible parents ) so why have children unnecessarily.

bandad:
Oga how many children you too get. Share the picture of your kids. Na dem wey they preach do as I say but not as I do. Hypocrite.

I currently as at the time of this message have none and I think my reasoning and brain cortex cells are working. What's about yours

First of all please

1) People should stop having children they can't take care of. In South Korea, USA, Japan the Governments are trying to bribe people to have more children but people know that children are expensive in time, money and effort needed for parents to be put in for the child to have a healthy life and there is so much economic uncertainty and job uncertainty and quality housing uncertainty so many people reduce their family size

2) In my opinion , Most of this people claiming victim of trafficking know what they were going to do They go there and refuse to pay the investor.They then claim they were trafficked. So at all the immigration checkpoints, they could not meet an official for help Trafficking is all lies in my opinion

Yahoo boys and new scam format

Counter Arguement Views and Perspectives

The Proxy Extractor: Western boards frequently utilize executives with African or foreign. heritage to execute aggressive resource or market extraction strategies across the African or global continent, using their origin as a PR shield to deflect allegations of neo-colonialism.

​Corporate Colonization: Placing an African-born or foreign CEO at the helm of a Western multinational is often leveraged to negotiate softer regulatory treatment when these companies crush domestic competitors in African markets.

​Systemic Resource Transfer: African nations or foreign nations subsidize the early life, healthcare, and primary education of many of these leaders, only for Western corporations to reap 100% of the mature economic dividends and intellectual property rights.


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**The Survivorship Bias Trap:** For every Shuji Nakamura or Katalin Karikó, there are tens of thousands of highly skilled foreign-born scientists trapped in visa limbo, underpaid as postdocs, or forced into predatory labor contracts. You are asking for the statistical anomalies, not the baseline reality.


Note that global capital and research monopolies forcefully pull top talent away from developing nations.

2. **Equitable Opportunity:** You assume these immigrants arrived on equal footing. Many on this list (e.g., John von Neumann, Elon Musk) arrived with significant pre-existing academic prestige, generational wealth, or elite networks that bypassed typical immigrant hurdles.

3. **Benign Economic Impact:** You assume their "economic development" was universally positive. Figures like Wernher von Braun developed ballistic weapons of mass destruction, and tech founders have built platforms that monopolize markets and suppress localized economic competition.

### Three Unaddressed Counter-Arguments
1. **Host-Country Parasitism:** Western economies intentionally underfund domestic K-12 STEM education because importing pre-trained, high-tier talent via H-1B or O-1 visas is vastly cheaper for corporate bottom lines.
2. **Intellectual Property Capture:** The host country claims national credit for the innovation, but the actual patents and economic upside are captured by a microscopic class of transnational shareholders, not the domestic working class.
3. **Geopolitical Weaponization:** Brain drain is a deliberate geopolitical strategy used by the US and Europe to maintain technological hegemony, ensuring developing nations remain structurally reliant on imported technology.

* **Money Flow:** Capital is extracted from the origin country (which subsidizes the innovator's first two decades of education and healthcare) and concentrated in Western tech hubs, eventually flowing into the hands of institutional investors and venture capital firms.
* **Labor Flow & Legal Constraints:** High-skilled labor is funneled through predatory visa systems that tie legal residency strictly to continuous employment. This system strips the worker of labor leverage and ensures extreme corporate compliance.
* **Institutional Incentives:** Academic institutions and tech monopolies actively lobby for highly skilled immigration precisely because it suppresses domestic wage growth in the STEM sector while providing a continuous pipeline of easily controllable talent.
* **Exit Traps:** Visa dependency prevents early-career foreign innovators from launching competing firms or returning home with intellectual property, trapping their output within the host's corporate architecture.

* **Who Carries the Downside Risk:** The immigrant carries the individual risk (immediate deportation if fired or defunded), and the origin country carries the macroeconomic risk (permanent loss of its highest-ROI human capital). The host corporations carry zero downside

Who Profits: Western venture capital firms, private equity, and institutional shareholders. They acquire pre-trained, top-tier human capital without paying the societal costs of their foundational development.

​Who Pays: The African continent. Every brilliant strategist or technologist managing a US or UK firm is a missing founder or regulator in Lagos, Nairobi, or Johannesburg or their home country

​The Trap: African or foreign professionals are structurally incentivized to migrate to Delaware, London, or Silicon Valley to secure capital and achieve scale. By doing so, they are forced to build IP and wealth within the Western corporate architectures that directly outcompete and suppress emerging African industries.

​Money Flow: Revenue, taxes, and patents generated by these executives are domiciled in the US, Europe, or offshore tax havens, completely bypassing African treasuries.

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## 30 Foreign-Born Immigrant Innovators
Here is the verified data tracking 30 immigrants who generated significant technological and economic impact in their host nations.
| Innovator | Birthplace | Host Country | Sector / Core Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Albert Einstein** | Germany | USA | Theoretical Physics (Relativity) |
| **Nikola Tesla** | Austrian Empire (Croatia) | USA | Alternating Current (AC) Power Systems |
| **Marie Curie** | Poland | France | Radioactivity & Oncology |
| **Sergey Brin** | USSR (Russia) | USA | Search Engine Architecture (Google) |
| **Elon Musk** | South Africa | USA | Electric Vehicles & Aerospace |
| **Enrico Fermi** | Italy | USA | Nuclear Physics (Manhattan Project) |
| **Katalin Karikó** | Hungary | USA | mRNA Vaccine Technology |
| **John von Neumann** | Hungary | USA | Computer Architecture & Game Theory |
| **Jensen Huang** | Taiwan | USA | GPU Microarchitecture (Nvidia) |
| **Noubar Afeyan** | Lebanon | USA | Biotechnology (Moderna) |
| **Shuji Nakamura** | Japan | USA | Blue LED Technology |
| **Andrew Grove** | Hungary | USA | Semiconductor Manufacturing (Intel) |
| **Alexander Graham Bell** | Scotland | USA | Telecommunications (Telephone) |
| **Jerry Yang** | Taiwan | USA | Internet Portals (Yahoo) |
| **Chien-Shiung Wu** | China | USA | Experimental Physics (Beta Decay) |
| **Pierre Omidyar** | France | USA | Global E-Commerce (eBay) |
| **Jan Koum** | Ukraine | USA | Encrypted Telecommunications (WhatsApp) |
| **Mario Molina** | Mexico | USA | Atmospheric Chemistry (Ozone Depletion) |
| **Carl Djerassi** | Austria | USA | Synthetic Hormones (Oral Contraceptives) |
| **Eric Yuan** | China | USA | Video Telephony Architecture (Zoom) |
| **Patrick Collison** | Ireland | USA | Financial Technology Architecture (Stripe) |
| **Lise Meitner** | Austria | Sweden | Nuclear Fission |
| **Max Born** | Germany | UK | Quantum Mechanics |
| **Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar** | India | USA | Astrophysics (Stellar Evolution) |
| **Wernher von Braun** | Germany | USA | Aerospace Engineering & Ballistic Missiles |
| **Elizabeth Blackburn** | Australia | USA | Molecular Biology (Telomerase) |
| **Hedy Lamarr** | Austria | USA | Spread Spectrum Communications (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth precursor) |
| **Charles K. Kao** | China | UK | Fiber Optics Telecommunications |
| **Ralph Baer** | Germany | USA | Interactive Video Game Consoles |
| **Venkatraman Ramakrishnan** | India | UK | Structural Biology (Ribosomes) |