₦airaland Forum

bk.babe97y:
I'm so happy you wrote this looooong expose. You know what you've succeeded in doing: YOUVE JUST PROVEN TO ME ,AND OTHERS ON HERE, THAT YOU ARE NOTHING BUT AN ILLITERATE THUG ON THE PAY-ROLL OF COW-BOY JONATHAN!

I mean, look at the rubbish you posted above; I couldnt even torture myself to finish reading it! No structure! Comprehension: Zero!

Message? Hard to decipher! The topic is just all over the place like a ho in a locker-room! What is the point you were trying to make?

Youre such a poor writer. You should stick to your two sentence comments; You shine better that way!

Bozo!

bk.babe97y:
Jesus! I just noticed you aint the im*becile that wrote this piece!

But, hey, it impressed you enough to paste it on here so I guess youre just as foolish!

Damn! What a waste! i hope u getting paid good tho!

ladej:
a lifetime in academia wont guarantee you wealth, but in a country that appreciates it, you will live very comfortably, not to talk of FULFILLED. dont forget that these academics also write books and live off royalties, if successful. money isnt the primary motive but of cos a by product of reaching the top.

AjanleKoko:
Tell me that in the country where these people live, academic research is not eventually deployed in industry. Or are they researching for just the heck of it? Where does the grant money come from? I'm not an academic, and would really like to know.

I guess that was Becomrich's point, which you seem to have missed

A way to make more money
While we haven't heard any statistics for the past couple of years, graduate students used to estimate the ``payoff'' using the starting salaries of Ph.D. and M.S. positions, the average time required to obtain a Ph.D., the value of stock options, and current return on investments. For a period of at least five years that we know, the payoff was clearly negative. Suffice it to say that one must choose research because one loves it; a Ph.D. is not the optimum road to wealth.

AjanleKoko:
They're not Nigerians. They're Africans. They are well-educated but are not academics.
Are we listing academics here for listings' sake? If that's the case, I go with Becomrich once again

AjanleKoko:
They're not Nigerians. They're Africans. They are well-educated but are not academics.
Are we listing academics here for listings' sake? If that's the case, I go with Becomrich once again

AjanleKoko:
Not yet. They have done absolutely nothing compared to those folks I listed from Sudan, Egypt, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
I don't even know what either Ovim PC or Afrihub is about, and I'm working in that sector.

By contrast, MTN, Econet, Orascom, Celtel, are all well-known, not only in Nigeria, but across the African continent, as well as the middle East.

alj harem:
look

no one care about ghana,,, i tell u that

a nigerian in nigeria only cares about nigeria and it's situation

why would a nigerian care about ghanian university

well all in all thanks for the information

alj harem:
@ poster

waht does ghana has to do in nigeria problem

AjanleKoko:
I just have to laugh on the Ghana and Cameroun bit.

To answer your question, I would say, many still. Although the market has changed, so you might be looking in the wrong direction.

I'll start by asking you a twofold question: What kind of jobs were available to global workers twenty years ago, and what jobs are available today? Also, what would you say is the level of representation that Nigerians provide to the global labour pool?

I don't have access to any statistics on the global jobs market, but I am sure the dynamics are very different from, say, thirty years ago. By global jobs market I am referring to the pool of jobs around the world, created by academic institutions and multinational corporations, and filled from the international market. That is why you see multinationals with Indians, Chinese, Malays, Filipinos, and, yes, Nigerians, anywhere they are operating.

This is as opposed to statutory jobs that require local expertise, and are not open to foreigners. I.e. local jobs created for the local economy.

To get jobs in the first category, i.e. the global market, you need to have a skill that's in demand. Depending on the industry, it has a lot more to do with the industry's pre-requisites than your qualifications. For example, in the telecoms industry, Nigeria has exported engineers to all over the world since 2001, including the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Asia (yes, Asia!), the rest of the Americas, and of course other parts of Africa.

Same as the energy sector, where the Big Oil players in Nigeria regularly transplant Nigerian engineers to work on their projects around the world, till today. I guess it is the same thing in academics. Ivy League schools in the US and Canada recruit 1st class graduates from Nigeria as teaching/research assistants come postgrad students. Let's say Exxon needs a well engineering specialist in Venezuela. Unless there is extenuating regulation in Venezuela, they simply turn to that international pool and hire the best match for salary and experience they can find, regardless of nationality, academic background, and color of skin. Taking Americans to Venezuela would usually not be sensible economics.

To get jobs in the second category you probably have to naturalize in some sort of capacity. Which is where we face a lot of competition from Indians, Chinese, and Filipinos, asides from natural born citizens of those countries where Nigerians emigrate to for work and study. That's really the areas that we are able to see most, because not everybody is a reservoir or well engineer with Schlumberger, a 3G packet core switching engineer trained on Ericsson technologies, or even a first class physics graduate from Ife who was top of his faculty. In those categories, as well as a few other fringe areas, Nigerians are indeed getting first rate jobs in first-rate work environments. Trust me, I know this first hand.

Blazay:
From Southern Nigeria of course.
No morals.
Will bang anything that moves with all that polygamy crap.
Condoms melting away in their wallets, all for show.

Just imagine.

Polygamy. . . the main source of HIV among women in Nigeria.

AjanleKoko:
Well, the first generation Nigerians still get their best students picked up by the best UK and US universities.
The likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Stanford and MIT still pick up the best of the best at Unilag, UNN, OAU, ABU, and the rest of them, on scholarship. So much for the bastardization.

Methodist Bishop joins Abia senatorial race

News    Friday, December 3, 2010

Lagos-The Bishop of Evangelism and Discipleship, Methodist Church Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Sunday Onuoha, has declared his intention to contest a senatorial seat in Abia State.

Onuoha, who will be contesting the Abia North Senatorial seat under the platform of People's Democratic Party, PDP, seeks to unseat Senator Uche Chukwumerije.



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The clergy, who is also chairman, Vision Africa Radio (FM 101), Umuahia, announced his plan late on Wednesday at a fund-raising dinner organised by his friends in Lagos.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, that he was bringing integrity, uprightness, exemplary living and experience to politics.

Onuoha had served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Special Adviser on Privatisation.

According to Onuoha, God has ordained him to proclaim freedom to Nigerians, hence his decision to go into politics which many perceive as dirty.

"If politics is dirty, it has to be washed. I know that there are clean people who entered into politics and came out clean, and I hope to follow their footsteps,'' he said.

Commenting on Onuoha's plan, Prof. Joe Irukwu, former Ohanaeze President, said the entrance of good men became necessary because of the degenerating quality of politics in Nigeria.

"I believe that politics and religion are concerned about human beings and how to make society better. I think the blend between religion and politics is a positive one.

"This is not the first time that I have seen the clergy trying to play a role in politics. So I think it is a positive development,'' Irukwu said.

According to him, the situation in Abia has been making many people uncomfortable.

Some of the dignitaries at the dinner were Elder Uma Eliazu, Group Managing Director, Nigeria Flour Mills; Dr Emmanuel Akwariukpabi, former Lay President, Methodist Conference of Nigeria; and Sir Remi Omotosho.

Others were Prof. Herbert Oji, MD, Suma Guaranty; Chief Theo Eke, former MD, Union Assurance Plc; Sir Ogala Osaka, MD, Nigerian Reinsurance and Eze James Ogbonnaya. (NAN)

4 Play:
Another person fronting for some politician.

Onlytruth:
This is where I always have a problem with you Yoruba folks. Who told you that there will ever be a "southern unity"?

For as long as you keep denying the intentions of the coup plotters, there will NEVER be a southern unity. You guys are incorrigible.

If IBB is promising something good to ndigbo, we WILL vote for him.