₦airaland Forum

muaa:
Can a third class graduate apply for teaching job?

No company would take you with your third class.

Please what did you study?
I made a 2.2. And I workednin a top audit firm that accepts only 2.1. And 1.1

I can put in a good word for you but I need to see your c.v.

What have you been involved in since you graduated.
Why did you make a third class.
And what plans do you have for the future.

If you made a 3.3. Please stop looking for work and start looking for the much needed connection that might take you there.

Keneking:
Where is lalasticlala sef

+ I noticed that the handwriting of our foreign students are pathetic. Can't they write in Arial or Verdana or Times News Roman straight font.

+ $1,000 a month spend is a lot of money ie N200,000

+ CBN approves academic tuition overseas from Nigeria with priority.

+ Housing can be paid from Nigeria.

+ Handouts are not sold overseas.

+ Basically, you need cash for transportation (which is at times free), feeding allowance and entertainment. So that $1,000 is still too much.

+ You can buy food ingredients from Nigeria to conserve forex.

+ Clubbing is cheap.

+ I don't understand why they are complaining.

PS: where can I get a boxing glove? Its boxing day

Even students of Abia State University dont require such budget per semester.Where is lalasticlala sef

My brother, you are wrong.

First, cbn no longer approves form A dollars for student and housing.
My brother's form A has been sitting in the banknfor two goddam weeks.

Secondly, 1000 usd per month is too small considering the cost of living there.

Some weeks ago, I was in paris. I couldn't even pay my hotel bill of 1, 500 dollars.
I had to contact my brother in u.s. to wire 2000 DOLLARS to me.

The policy is evil and wicked.

Do you know the card rate is 240-250 naira per dollar? I mean when you withdraw from atm abroad, the rate is way higher than the official rate.


If we don't have dollars, why is estacode, subsidy andother top level government payments made in dollars?? The masses are just getting punished for the sins of the kleptocrats.

End of career or begi ning of career depending on his management.

mickey45:
do contact me think I might know a way out.

Aiight bro.
Will contact you tomorrow.
Im in a poor network area.

sunboy:
Please stop trying to make that a big deal.
I once slept a 5,000 naira per night hotel in Lagos that use card for their doors.
Most hostels have the hot and cold water showers now.
About the bus thing, in BRT buses we pull a rope or press button to alert the driver.

At Ecenter Yaba there is auto tap, and many public places do have it.
Normally, zebra crossing should be for crossing roads so it's left to you to reason that they will be more developed and organized. Tho we don't have a magic button here.

I just believe the difference shouldn't be much. I believe so and and Africa is not that totally backward na!

Lol!!!!
The difference is much my brother.
Im a naija boy to the core and I have been to all the happening high class spots and ghetto ass spots...bro, you cannot compare those countries with naija in anyway.
Just take it from me.
I no fit shout lol

Jengbetiele:
I just have a feeling this may be useful here for some categories of students. Let me quickly share my story with you....the best sermon is one's personal experience. I left secondary school in 2004. By 2005, I got admitted to a state university in Ekiti State. After two years of studies in Ekiti state, I discovered the program I was enrolled into was not accredited. To make the story worse, nearly all lecturers in the faculty of science avidly disliked everything about the program. It was called SLT then.

Consequently, they mark down our papers. Not only that, they called us all sorts of names like NFA, unfortunate students and the likes anyone who attended the university and did that course can attest to what I am saying. My dad happened to be a staff of the University, so I told him about the poor grades, everything I heard about the program and the intensity of the lecturer's hatred for the program all to no avail. All he said was whenever students don’t want to read, they come up with different flimsy excuses so I kept mute.

After five years of my life in that school, my dad was made one of the board members of the faculty so he saw the whole results since the inception of the program. He saw so may spill over students from year 2000, and the fact that the program has not been accredited. I was in 500 level (final year) then with a lot of carry over courses.....carry over is not a big deal in that program....people had 15. It was so worse that from 300level, you can be so sure you are already a spill over student. My father saw how bad it was and he immediately invited me to his office for a meeting. He blamed himself for not listening to me when I complained 3 years earlier and he said he would want me to transfer immediately. That was how I took my transcript using his influence. I was the first person ever and possibly the last person to get a transcript from the program. I returned to 200level in another school entirely when I ought to graduate with maybe a third class or a pass.

I wasted 5years of my life in Ekiti state University and as a result, i was so sad and depressed. Merely sitting with my younger brother's age mate turned my stomach in anger. Infact when I got to the new school, my own younger brother who I happened to be ahead of by 3years became my senior. The retrogression started affecting my grades such that attending classes became a burden. Along the line, I sat myself down and reasoned deeply about how my life has been. For crying out loud, I used to be one of the best students in secondary school. I was only unfortunate to have attended the wrong program in Ekiti. Though I wasn't given any certificate despite the number of years spent but what about the life lessons I learnt?

From that day onward, I made a concrete decision to change my attitude towards my new classmates and I began to humble myself to a fault. Above all, I began to see my new school as the golden opportunity to start afresh again. My declining grades all of a sudden began to soar so high such that I had 5.0/5.0 in one of the semesters with a bit of dedication and I ended finishing top 5 out of the class

Today, I am currently in Canada on a graduate program fully funded by a Canadian university. Up till now, I am yet to spend a dime of myself in Canada because the scholarship covered everything. Guess what? I even got two scholarships from two different universities and just last week, I got another funding again. Yes just last week! What if I had committed suicide then? Would I have seen the goodness almighty God has packaged in my future today? What I am saying in essence is you can fall as much as possible but whenever you fall and refuse to rise again is when you failed. The righteous shall fall seven times.....but they shall rise again.

Conclusively, whatever the case maybe, dust up yourself and try again. Do not give up so easily because winners never quit and quitters never win. I am sure very soon you gonna look back and smile. Every successful man or woman at some point had a share of that gloomy period when you feel you are all alone and the world is about coming down on you. But I am happy to announce to you that alot of people have tread this same path and today they have become success and point of reference in the society. My brothers and sisters, it is never how far, but how well and tough time never lasts tough people do!!!!!!

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This is a motivational story but its bullshit to me cos you were just lucky to have atop lecturer as dad.
What of the 100's of other students that didn't have such opportunity, hownwill their story end?

IamLucy:
when she's charging high price how will she sell.11k for ordinary hand bracelet.

You can't say the price is high if you dont know the quality of whwt she is selling.

Listen to mi's "human being" song.

Bro, these celebs are also humans.
Sometimes they are pissed.
Sometimes they are sad,
Sometimes they are happy.
They are prone to the ups and downs of life and still have to make ends meet.
You prolley met her on a bad day.
Yemi alade is down to earth and really friendly.
She probably didn't make alot of sales and it probably gotnher off the mood to do the picture thingy.

My greatest achievement this year was skydiving.
We jumped from 10000 ft.
I have always been scared of height but I did it

Nigerians go abroad and perform wonders but in nigeria, tribalism, bad belleism and ever "ism" keeps holding us back.

How can I cope with harmattan?
My throatbis dry and swallowing is extremely difficult.
Yesterday night I felt the same way and after some drugs and hot beverages, I felt better.
I just woke up this morning to severe throat pain.
I'm quite allergic to dust and I don't know what to do anymore.

Please help me.
How can I cope with this and keep my throat moist?

DrDauda:
Don't mind d fool coming here to cry over the decision he n his fellow fools made

First of all, GEJ was never an option for me.
Secondly, the effects of this economic quagmire affects each and every one of us no matter how prepared you think you are. Unless you have absolutely nothing financially linked outsided west africa.

You know well enough from that our thread that I advised people to dump naira long before this crisis started during the gej era....

I am not a fool for supporting buhari and you are not a fool for supporting gej.
Even if gej runs again, I will not support him.
Regardless of who is at the helmsnof affair, its in the best interest of everyone to have things working as they should.
Gej was supposed to be the ultimate messiah of nigeria but he blew his chance. Not my fault.

DrDauda:
You were one of those nairaland rats shouting changy, changy, changy. Now you have changy, shut up n bear d consequences of your decision

Lol!
i am not the only one being affected.
It affecting even people that voted and supported Jonathan.
Common sense should tell you that now is not the time to latch on to the apc/pdp divide.
Unfortunately, common sense is not so common anymore.

Why does the CBN sell forex to the parallel market but refuse to sell to banks?

Why is subsidy payments made in dollar - Which runs in Billions, estacode paid in dollars and government travels/itinerary made in dollars but a Nigerian student schooling abroad cannot access dollars for their use?

How the cbn is stopping essential needs category from accessing the much needed forex?

I really do not understand the cbn policies and how it will protect Nigerian Naira but the effect is really biting hard on my business.
My sibling got dropped from his registered courses cos he wasn't able to meet up with the required payment before the deadline.

I tried to send some funds to him today through western union but they refused to do it cos the cbn ordered them to stop!!


My knowledgeable people, i wish to be educated cos i am about to go coo.

My business has suffered greatly in ways you can't imagine!

NwabuezeWini:
Hmmm sai Buhari. I hape all the people that voted Buhari are enjoying all these his policies

Can we stop politicizing eveythng.
I m neither for apc nor for pdp but I am for nigeria.

kponkedenge:
Are u sure about this?
And when did you go?

I went today.

I went to the western union in eco bank (g.r.a ikeja) in order to transfer some money to u.s.a. only to be told that it is no longer possible to do so as a result of cbn's order to them this morning.

Banks have not been sold forex by the cbn in two weeks+ and I am at loss on what to do.

Please help with good suggesrions.

YerYer:
Since this topic made front page twice, lemme repost what I posted the last time...

You would think "Boko Haram" would be the most searched or trending topic, instead you have people searching about the Charlie Hebdo killings. This just shows that we don't value Nigerian lives. The day after the Paris attacks I saw Nigerians on social media doing #wearewithparis or #parisstrong etc meanwhile many innocent Nigerians are losing their lives, limbs and arms to boko haram everyday and no one cares.

Seems like we love to join the band wagon just to look cool. I noticed the same thing during the Ice Bucket challenge in 2014, Nigerians on social media were doing the whole ice bucket thing to create awareness for ALS which is a neurodegenerative disease very common in Caucasians meanwhile millions are dying of malaria in Nigeria. Not sure if this is a case of misplaced priorities or just attention seeking behavior. Even our celebs were part of the short lived craze.

Value yourself or no one else will give a rat about you.

Loool...
My life as a nigerian is valued morenin europe and in american countries than in Nigeria.
Atleast, I wouldn't get shot by the u.s. soldiers for blocking the road.
Atleast, I wouldn't be denied my fundamental human rights by those supposed to protect me.

Nigerian lives have ni value in nigeria loool. Get used to that fact.

#prayforparis

kay29000:
People are making all this seem as if the military went to a community and opened fire on a bunch of innocent civilians. Have you guys watched the video? These people had machetes in hand, and were shouting allah akbar, and a top military officer walked into their midst, not carrying for his life, and even shouted out an order to his boys "DON'T SHOOT." He walked in there, and faced one of the shi'ite men, one on more, and pleaded with him to control the mob. He and others begged this people for 10 good minutes...I mean, top military men begging you just to let them pass in peace. Come on!

Are "top" military men gods?
There were women and misguided children in their midst.
I saw the video. The shiite movement was agressive but not violent.
They blocked a major road which is probably a crime but do they deserve to be massacred for it?
The coas appealed to them to move away for his almight convoy which fell on deaf ears and that is really wrong but does that warrant a death sentence?

You do not kill a mosquito with a hammer.

The coas had the power to order an arrest of every single individual there.
Alternatively, he could have involved the police since they are better at dealing with civil disobedience.

The military carried out a thoughtless action which they would probably never pay for.

Men, women and children lost their lives that day. It could have been anyone. It could be someone you know next time. What is wrong is wrong. Condemn it.

The shiites were wrong for blocking the road but the military committed an atrocity by massacring them.

obailala:
... A lot of Nigerians obviously do not know what is going on, a lot of people have absolutely no idea how close Nigeria is to a total economic collapse and the CBN and FG obviously isnt communicating maybe in order not to cause panick.

Economics 101:
The nation is import dependent which means there's a high forex outflow. The main source of forex inflow is oil and oil prices have crashed massively to an 11-year low (even though expenditure has increased massively). Right now the nation spends more forex (via importation) than it earns (oil export) and consequently, the stock of foreign exchange is reducing drastically.

These checks by the CBN are simply to prevent Nigeria from becoming Greece or Venezuela. The CBN is struggling to prevent a situation where the foreign reserves are depleted on ebay businesses as you say, or by people going on leisure holidays abroad and then in a few months, the country wouldnt have any forex left to import food to feed its populace. This is no longer about the CBN trying to save the value of the naira, it is about the CBN desperately trying to save the nationfrom crashing and this is certainly not the time for people to be going randomly on leisure holidays. If only the CBN and the government would just communicate more properly and let the people know how bad things really are, how close the nation is to total collapse, maybe we wouldnt have people complaining of 'no funds for holidays' anymore. People would rather be more concerned about feeding.

Just incase you didnt know before now, I'm sure you should now understand the picture better with my explanations above and you should now understand why the CBN is desperately trying to prevent the outflow of forex; it is to save you and I from the Greek / Venezuelan situation which is imminent in a few months if oil prices don't come up.

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Now this is another disturbing development. Things are actually worse than it seems, yet some people still complain they dont have forex for xmas holidays.

Very intelligent contribution.
I am very curious to know why the cbn sells forex tobthe parallel/black market but not to the banks.
The major leakages are from bdc's and online trading.
Online trading leakage has been plugged but the cbn still sells minimum of 10, 000 dollars on a weekly basis to bdc.
I dont think they are serious yet.

Bro, thisnis serious.
I haven't been able to get travel allowance for a while.
I had to buy dollars at 280 today.
If this card thing is true, then I am afraid I will have to withdraw all my money, convert it to dollars and move it to my us bank account.

If alot of nigerians do this, the banking sector would take a massive hit. That would be our way of protesting.

MARKone:
Are you kidding me? Defer his engagement because of what that some religious fanatics were doing procession, on a federal Road for that matter. I was very sympathetic on this shiites issue, till I saw this clip, it is utterly preposterous. There is something with Muslims and stubbornness, why not make way, let the COAS and his entourage pass, then continue with your bloody procession, it is only a f00l that argues with an Armed man, talkless, our Military Men i.e going by their antecedents. They shiite guys were wielding sticks and cutlasses, some with Masks, shouting "Allahu Akbar" in front of the COAS even after pleas from the Brigadier General for them to clear the road

It's like you've not mingled with these soldiers to see how they protect their senior officers.

So, they deserve to be gunned down?
Women, chidren and men gunned down for resisting the almighty coas and his truculent brigandes?
They were agressive but not violent.
Bro, ive seen alot of things in the killing of those people is gross injustice

jackobi:
The video says it all....Nigerian army chiefs were diplomatic to the core....bunch of lunatics they clearly got what they deserved. God bless Nigerian Army..

During the subsidy protest, I remember some roads were blocked, during a pdp rally, roads are blocked even an owambe can sometimes get roads blocked.
If we are to kill everyone conducting themselves in a disorderly manner then no one would exist.
Those shiites did nothing that warranted the hails of bullet.

For cryingnout loud, , children were in their midst.
May God forgive the men behind the trigger cos they will reap the full consequences here on earth.

What buratai should have done is to keepnhis appointment for another day.
Turn around and let the police deal with it.

Whatch the video I attached and see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Get him something useful.
If he is a smoker, get him a lighter.
A drinker, get him a wine or and wine opener
if he likes movies, get him a nice movie.

if you don't know anything about him, get him a bottle of hennessy or moet.
Don't overthink or overstress.

I am not trying to hype or anything but whenever i receive gifts that are consumable, 9/10 times, i give it away to one of them girls i'm nacking.

But if i get things like a nice picture frame or something like that, i do keep it.

gosh!
I give up on this country.
Thank God i have dual citizenship.
In due time, i will relocate and i swear i will never look back.
My children deserve better.

symbianDON:
thank you! to even imagine that Buratai personally got down to plead with them but rather than give peace a chance, they began to hurl stones at him! attacking the chief of army staff is equivalent to attacking the nigeria army which is tantamount to attacking the country. well, they have bitten well more than a mouthful of wahala for themselves!

listen!

Former president of the united states- George Bush- was stoned while he was on a tour in the middle east.
you do not use lethal weapon to quell a non-lethal attack.
If Nigeria was in Europe, the kind of sanction we would receive for this singular act would cripple the economy for years to come.
For crying out loud, these are also human beings.

Don't forget there would be collateral damages.
Innocent by-standers hit by stray bullets and all that.
It could be anybody oooh!