₦airaland Forum

JohnBullMySon:
So Tinubu should have refused to see him or what?

US State Dept secretary met with Xi Jingping, Shettima met with Putin. What is there if that's the person you want to meet with?

Don’t mind him. It is everything they create class and bureaucracy for. That’s why he hasn’t progressed.

He dey pepper the wherey say all their curses haven’t come to pass on Tinubu.

Classless mofo forming meeting etiquette wey no dey there.

derecho:
Why the useless rainbow colors in almost all his projects?
Make Nigerians look that man well.
I first noticed it when he commissioned a university or medical facility... Was wondering why this childish paint but seeing this one, I know there must be something behind it

The man loves colors but he lacks class.

Westwood2580:
So do you mean Accounting jobs are hard to get?

Yes.

Westwood2580:
Quickbooks and Xerox are great softwares for a practicing accountant.

Not for big goons company. Those software you mentioned are for starters and sone trading shops.

If he is going to North America, let him learn either Navision or Mfgpro in addition to those you mentioned, in case he finds himself in a manufacturing environment.

If it is europe, he should learn either SAP, Sage, JDEdward etc, in addition to Power BI or Qlik (for business analytics).

We that have ACCA and CPA, with over 18 years’ multinational companies work experience struggled before landing better job.

It’s not easy here to start professional exams and combine it with work or study.

Alejo2000:
Hello fellow Nairalanders,

I find myself at a crucial crossroad in life and would greatly appreciate your valuable insights and diverse perspectives. I have worked diligently in a private organization for 15 years, managing to save up to N20 million. Additionally, I own a 3-bedroom apartment. and a few plots of land in three different states in Nigeria.

Current Situation:
Recently, I was disengaged from my job, and this has prompted me to contemplate a major life decision. I am 45 years old, and my wife is 42 years old. Together, we have three children, two of whom are in secondary school.

Contemplating Relocation:
Given the circumstances, I have been seriously considering the possibility of relocating to another country with my family via study route. Two countries have caught my attention: the UK and Canada. I believe that I still have around 15 years of active career working life by the Grace of God, and I am open to exploring new opportunities abroad for the betterment of my family's future.

Reasoning:
The motivation behind this move is to provide my children with a better education and quality of life while also embracing new experiences. However, I am fully aware that this is not without risks, as it would involve utilizing my lifetime savings and making a fresh start in a foreign land.

Seeking Your Advice:
I humbly seek your honest advice and opinions on this matter. Here are some key points to consider:

Family considerations: How will relocating impact my children's education and overall well-being?

Age and career transition: Is starting anew in a foreign country feasible, considering my age and accounting background as my profession?

Financial stability: Should I be concerned about using my savings for this move? What steps can I take to ensure financial security in a new country?

Visa and immigration: What are the challenges and best practices in obtaining permanent residency in the UK or Canada?

Job opportunities: How promising is the job market for accountants in these countries? Are there viable prospects for career growth?

Investment options: Alternatively, what investment opportunities in Nigeria can provide a stable income stream for my family?

Conclusion:
I am deeply grateful for any advice, personal experiences, or suggestions you can provide. Your valuable insights will play a significant role in shaping this crucial decision for my family's future.

Thank you all for taking the time to read and respond to my post. Your support means a lot to me and will help me make an informed choice.

Warm regards,

It’s a pity that we don’t know your profession and/or whether you have transferable skills or not.

Based on the little you wrote about yourself, I will say these:

- go but don’t plan staying longer because you are already old for their system. Going abroad will give you certain exposure and change your orientation about some things.

- be ready to do menial jobs all through.

- don’t plan to stay longer than 5 to 7 years if you don’t want to be useless.

- save while you work there and start commercial projects on your land you have back home. Don’t think of using your savings to build any house ‘to your taste o’ - at least while you are still abroad.

- it would be better if you and your wife can pull resources together to build more units of simple rentable structures on those land.

- when it is 10 years (max), leave and go and face your investments fully in Nigeria.

Things would have improved a bit in Nigeria but it won’t get to the level of that of western world.

Ire o.

Hope the asphalt is strong and hard sha? Make dem consider putting drainage o. Because by the time vehicles and other automobiles start climbing the road from sides, it will start breaking off.

Don’t believe what you read about Abiodun o. Ogun can package shege.

S.a.k.a.m.a.n.jeeee

n3xt:
I stopped including cost of wood in my estimates since 2015.

Even my last and ongoing project, the whole formwork is on us at fraction of the cost.

The savings is huge.

Just imagine the huge saving on using steel shutters for columns production.
Within 5 days, we were able to take 3 buildings to first floor slab level without breaking bank.

______

You’d save a lot of time.
You’d save a lot of money.
You’d be able to deliver a solid structure without compromising on quality.

Please, where can I rent these steel shutters for projects outside Lagos?

victorVIC1:
Don't you think you're investing too much in this your relationship? From what you highlighted, you seem to be the one making all the sacrifices. This is not healthy for you

Don’t mind him.

He is cutting corners and making extra cash off the multinational company he is working for so he feels he has arrived.

Just wait a little and let the table turn.

He doesn’t know the girl only loves what he is doing but doesn’t love him.

Cut off the wedding, baller!

hazinibones:
Thanks Tommy. I am 29. Any particular reason why in my 20s? Please every single information count.

That’s the age you can do some ‘trial and error’ with your life and you tend to get things right before you cross 30.

Relocating abroad after 40 without in-demand skill can be frustrating, even though it is better than not relocating. But at ages above 40, be investing (where your mouth is) back home so that after 50/55 years, you can go back and sit down to enjoy your sweat.

If you wait till 65 before leaving, na another person go enjoy bulk of it. Not you.

beerfraud:
then where is the stolen mandate?

Help me ask 0b1’s e-rodents o.

Lukuluku69:
And what about the effects on Society? On Families of Junkies? Their Friends? How Junkies will source for funds to fund the habits?

Look at Boko Haram and Bandits, that bravado, the audacity etc are all effects of Drugs.

Have you seen a society with an Army of Junkies?

I witnessed one here on Lagos Island in the early 90s, it is not a palatable experience.

Also, come to Vienna and see what our developers have used drrug to turn them to.

HacheNoire:
The government need to start thinking of ways to legalize marijuana use. It is a multibillion naira industry that the government is not earning a penny from.


With a good road map and implementation, the government can generate a lot of revenue from commodity.

The revenue that you would still complain about that someone is stealing it.

Our system, really, spoiled us and it is making us to believe what we are not suppose to believe.

ipobarecriminals:
Naptu2, u don reach Borno sharp sharp.Abeg! U sight Mallam OKORO OBI there?

For wia? Yesdaddy nor dey dey dis kain thing. And in 2031, e go still come say e wan rule, not knowing that these people na the af’oba je of Nigeria.

Looks fake and arranged. They can’t be gathering in such a low-wall building within the town.

Almiron:
Lebron James, Serena Williams, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities all fanboying and trying to get a glimpse of the greatest of all time.

What an iconic f*cking photo. 🐐

Some of those ladies go don dey think of how to kpensh Messi.

OldBeer:

Na so most of our state capitals be.

If our state capitals can look like that since 1914, I wonder how they will look in the e next 50 years.

Lots of our people who read Urban and Regional Planning dey there dey waste away. The ones who got jobs are mediocre. They didn’t make any impact. Everybody just dey buy land dey build jaga jaga.

aswani:
Obi came a distant third and hasn't proved anything at the Tribunal apart from the fact that he has boxes and boxes of copies of blurred pictures of INEC forms he got from the INEC portal. Hopefully guguru sellers will be allowed to use the papers after the Judges rule against him.

President Tinubu has no criminal record. If he did Obi's lawyers are yet to find it, maybe you can help them if you have a copy. It won't help Obi's very very weak case though because if President Tinubu is disqualified, Atiku will ascend the throne.

😁😁 and boli sellers.

Awon weyrey gbogbo. How has such case nullified a Nigerian from contesting an election? Is there anywhere it is written in our constitution and electoral law that an already decided civil case nullifies a contestant?

This is one of the reasons Obinnwanne’s heartbreak would be sifia after the judgement.

They are too emotional about everything.

Nemesis0147:
A very good man…wishing him a quick recovery

He is not a good man. He should only recover quickly.

From one governor to another after Ajasin, na sca.m. Only Adefarati tried just a little. He didn’t even score up to 3/10. Others, na less than 1 over 10 dem score.

Ondo state should have been competing with lagos state. They get better allocations and have access to the ocean.
Everywhere come be like Amadioha shrine.

Originalsly:
Not sure. ... but isn't the distance between Lagos and New York the same in December and February? If yes... then why the big difference in ticket price in December and February?

Ticket price has a lot to do with supply and demand.

The algorithm being used in picking price for Nigeria’s IP address doesn’t respect law of demand and supply.

It’s deliberate. They know Nigeria has money and we love to spend and brag about it. That’s why the price is always higher than other African countries.

The best is to have our own indigenous national carrier that can stand the test of time.

Instead of wasting billions of Naira on joint venture with Ethiopian Airline, our federal government should have revived Aero Contractors and make it our national carrier and trade its stocks publicly. The airline has over 60 years of experience operating in Nigeria.

It has produced lots and lots of seasoned airline staff.

Another heartbreak loading for Kekerenke boyz. They are never tired of it.

So many dashed hopes since 2022 but they keep believing one day, they will use the moon to play pingpong.

Yeeb 0s. Yeeb 0s.

So daaaft.

Zone bee.

ManirBK:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/07/18/unknown-gunmen-attack-enugu-police-station-cart-away-arms/

Part of non-living things that won’t make heaven is Toyota Sienna. If you know evils wey dem don take that vehicle commit ehn…

HanisahZuwy:
Today, I went to a government/general hospital to see a doctor. When I got there, I got card and waited for my turn to see the doctor. Then it was finally my turn and I went in, told the doctor the symptoms I'm experiencing, and then he referred me to the lab for a culture test.

When I got to the lab, I went to the cashier to make payments for the test and thereafter waited for my turn. When it was finally my turn, some documentations were made, instrument for the culture collection was given to me and I was referred to a woman who would handle the culture test.

When I got to her(the woman), she pointed to an enclosure, that I should enter there, UnCloth, lie on the raised bed and open my legs. So, I went in, then came out immediately to ask her if I can collect it myself. She said no, that I won't do it well, that I would just get the surface and won't go deep. So, I agreed. I went in, undressed, got on the bed and open my legs. So, she came and collected the specimen. This was somehow painful because she had to go very deep. After collecting the specimen, she then went to put it in the instrument that was given to me earlier, then came back immediately and said 'keep it up' with a thumbs up sign from her.

Since then, I've been wondering what she meant by that. Does anyone here have a clue what that could mean?

May be you have good hygiene and she’s saying you should keep it up.

You know they see a lot.


But next time, go straight to the point. You only needed one paragraph to explain what you experienced at the hospital but not this long line of write-up.

MT:
Governors that can't be trusted. The governors have even ensured to make sure local govt is non functional and rationing their money for them.

The LG chairmen will have to write the governor before they can be allowed to have access to their fund.

My question is if we save a lot of money via subsidy, must we spend almost all our savings at a go?

They even force their selected chairmen to sign documents that all local government allocations were released to them in full. Meanwhile, only 30% is released to local governments monthly.

Bobloco:
Money that will be looted by Governors and local government chairmen

That’s exactly my fear. Those people are kleptomaniac. They have penchant for s.tealing.

We have some of them and their staff on Nairaland o. And their children too.

They know the level of havoc they wreck on their areas of jurisdictions and they are parts of those that would complain about FG.

Hol ya state government tight. Na dem cause over 50% of poverty wey dey ground.

Our governors and their fellow politicians are h.orrible.

kc80:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/abia-uncovers-2300-ghost-workers-saves-n220m/%3famp

Ni’gba ‘wo, si’gba ‘wo? E never reach two months nah that the gov enter chair that you have quickly deployed the Unified System and weeded out 2300 gh0st werkers (like my Ghanaian people 😁)

Abeg talk another thing jor.

I don’t say the last administration was perfect but this your exercise was too fast to have happened.

I am sure the governor never know the door to his office toilet sef.


You want to tell me that the system has delayed while Otti was campaigning?

Ijelenwanyioma:
You are the only one getting my point. Maybe he plan marrying someone else in the future which I won't be part of his properties again

Madam, why are you so fixated about his properties? Are you this materialistic?

Do you have a work and a saving or an investment at all.

Please check your BP always o. Haba. Was that how you were brought up?

Abeg face front and be a good wife. Your better character will always be there for you, if you have one.

Person no write your name for land paper wey e fit sell tomorrow. You dey worry say e wan marry another woman. You think he would transfer the land to the imaginary woman?

Na ordinary land your wahala be like this o. Of e come build house on top nko? You for dey go radio and tv stations everyday to announce. M
Abeg don’t be lazy. Face your work and your children and love your husband.

Do you know what he could have done for you at the backend that he hasn’t shown to you?

Stop being petty jor.

How many plots the land be sef? Abi the land reach N250 million per plot?

XerXers:
Igbos are making more money from balabulu government. Government failure is business opportunities for the Igbos. If you like continue voting nonesense

The more money you make, will you soak it in water and be drinking it? Won’t you use it to buy other things that are expensive for your needs?

Or are you an island to yourself?

Who are you trying to spite here with your igb0 business mentality?

Who told you other tribes don’t make money? Other than your druuuuugs money, I don’t see other tribe that doesn’t make what your ober-hyped 3ribe makes. Go to the north and see how they make cool money.