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An opportunity for such teachers that studied English, have access to a computer and can proof read documents, they can apply for a part time job here.

An opportunity for such teachers that studied English, have access to a computer and can proof read documents, they can apply for a part time job here.

An opportunity for such teachers that studied English, have access to a computer and can proof read documents, they can apply for a part time job here.

An opportunity for such teachers that studied English, have access to a computer and can proof read documents, they can apply for a part time job here.

This is hard sha. For marketing position perhaps I will go for competence. For admin... I non sure o, because honesty is not enough to successfully manage a business but a dishonest administrator will run your business aground.
Every other area, perhaps integrity before competence.

emmanuelewumi:
I threw up a question the other day for people to choose between employing,

1. Competent staff but does not have integrity.
and
2. Incompetent staff but has integrity.

When I gave this a though recently, I realized that our health care and education, especially university education is subsidized compared to many of the countries we admire. No students loan here.
I read one guy's comment that he spent one night in a US hospital (probably didn't have health insurance, don't know) and spent an equivalent of almost 3million Nigerian naira.
When God puts on his prayer request session, the ones from Nigeria are likely to be full of negativity.

ultron12345:
You're 100% right

Till today, I still appreciate that Nigeria gave me the opportunity to attend medical school with less than $100, without taxing me to death or putting me neck deep into student debt like other countries. Even though I no longer practice, I always find time every month to donate my medical skills to the society as a way to give back to the nation, because if I was made to pay the true value of that MBBS degree, I wouldn't have been able to.

I've worked in government hospitals where people pay 10K for caeserian sections, and yet will say Nigeria has done nothing for them, ceasarian section that if I'm to do, only the cost price without my "workmanship" will cost near 100k. My fellow doctors who got MBBS at less than $100 will go to UK or Canada, be doing better financially than the indigenous doctors there, and be insulting Nigeria, thinking its their prudence that put them in better financial standing than their counterparts from other countries, not knowing that it's because those doctors are still busy paying back hefty student loans for the same degree Nigeria gave them for next to nothing.

The fact remains that there is no problem with the land called Nigeria, there is no problem with River Niger or Zuma Rock. The problem of Nigeria is the citizens, nigerians. Those leaders we insult are also from amongst the citizens, the SARS that abuse their power are also from amongst the citizens. They didn't come from another planet, they are our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and neighbors.

If you take all Nigerians to Dubai and bring everyone from Dubai to Nigeria, in less than 4 years, Nigeria will turn to Dubai and in a few months, Dubai will turn to Nigeria. Before you know it, the Nigerians in Dubai will be begging for visa back to Nigeria. That should tell you something about the kind of people we are.

My error, was someone else, I just checked again.

DexterousOne:
Didn't say I was migrating to Cote d Ivoire

Did I?

You made a lot of points here. With these apps, one is not in control at all.

Rockyfancino:
What I was trying to say is how is your investment protected in case the broker (online) goes bankrupt or bust. I'm interested in long term investment in foreign markets, hence I need to know I will be protected in some way, 10 years plus is along way to go and anything might have happened by then.

You know, it's not as if there's any legal physical paper to sign on. What everyone uses here are just apps (online brokers,) which doesn't have any proof it'll stand the test of time. I think I'm clearer now.

This Cote D'Ivore that you said you are migrating to, how soon please are you going?

DexterousOne:
The question you should ask yourself is. ..


What is there on ground to inspire any Nigerian to promote (which btw I think its ridiculous because what is there to promote? If you dont have stable electricity in2020, you have the highest number of out of school children, the HQ of extreme poverty, domestic terrorism and one of the highest open defeacators on the planet) the country?



With all that's besetting us as a country

Anyone presenting a rosy image of Nigeria is a liar and a fraud.


Nigeria's GDP growth rate has been growing beneath our population growth rate in most of Buhari presidency

What that tells us is that the country is receding backwards

South Africa is having similar problems too


Instead of us to be deeply ashamed of ourselves
We still have mouth to talk

Jeez... this is so salvage.
But what you say is the truth, criticisms are good as it spur us to inspire to be better, but most people are just involved in pull the country down syndrome.

ultron12345:
... but if I did a Google Search about potholes or any other bad thing in the state, I will see thousands of HD images and 4K quality videos.

Is there a way to convert an AC fridge into a DC fridge or freezer, I wonder if anyone knows about HVAC enough to contemplate that. One can DIY a faulty old AC freezer and re-purpose it into a DC fridge and give it a new life. At least one would not have to bother about padding and heat conservation since that would already be taken care of.

Xplain madam, you have completely lost me. However, I did not make that statement in a way to make blacks feel inferior, however, my training tells me that when input always give out a certain output even when the input is different, then perhaps it is time to look at the process itself.

missjekyll:
And of course this is all due to a protein called melanin. It's not due to a lack of oversight and checks at all.
Did you hear what happened to the 2 trillion dollars released in the US? What happened to it because of no oversight? Were they black as well?
Your melanin doesnt make you superior to anyone else. It doesn't also make you inherently inferior. it's what it is. A protein

I think it is beyond public funds. We mismanage everything, private, corporate and of course public funds.
It is as if once we see money we run mad. Many of us who condemn others tend to do worse when the opportunity arises. I think some sociology PhD students should study the black race all over the world.
There seems to a recurring decimal which ultimately makes the world disrespect us. Although we always blame our leaders here, what can be the excuse of the blacks who have spent hundreds of years in the developed world without any influence their brothers back home.

ukay2:
We mismanage public funds without thinking

We are probably really beyond redemption.
Someone on this forum keep hammering on mentality, I believe he is saying the truth, there is a certain mentality that the blacks have, using Ema's defination, socialite mentality taken to the extreme.
It was at a wedding Nigerian politician sometime back that gold plated iPhones were shared as souvenirs, something even the owners of Apple wouldn't do.

ahiboilandgas:
I attneded the wedding of the son of a Nigerian minister ....what i saw ....i have given up on the Nigeria state and it political leaders ..we are the most corrupt society in the world ...an it beyond redemption.....my opinion sha ....

It is already a model that is increasing. Bank of industry actually have a few partnership with some companies on that.
Many cities have these offices, so you don't worry about generator, internet, and other office logistics.

yemibayo:
I see opportunities. Co-working spaces will spring up. I don't mind paying between 15-25k per month with access to fast internet, uninterrupted power and a chance to network with professionals from other fields and firm

Interesting read, especially the part about school and schooling.

ukay2:
.The Richest
Man in China said:



_If you put Bananas and
Money in front of
Monkeys, Monkeys will
choose Bananas
because monkeys do
not know that_


Money
can buy a lot of
Bananas


IN REALITY,
if you offer JOB and
BUSINESS to people,
they would choose JOB
because most people
do not know that
BUSINESS can bring
more MONEY than
Wages.






Similarly,
Robert Kiyosaki,
author of the best
selling book "RICH DAD,
POOR DAD" and also a
business partner of
Donald Trump said:




_"One of the reasons
poor are poor, is
because they are NOT
TRAINED TO RECOGNIZE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES.




They spend too much time in school and what they have learnt in school, is to WORK FOR
WAGES instead of
MONEY WORKING FOR
THEM.



Profit is better than
Wages, for Wages can
make you a living but
Profits can bring you a
Fortune."




THINK INVESTMENT
and stop fighting over
increments of salaries,
it still won't be enough
.


Hear this from a
Professor to freshmen
and women during their
orientation:



(Actually
he is an Acting DVC
Academic at a small/
new university in
Kenya)




"Academic excellence is
overrated!


Being top of your class does not necessarily
guarantee that you will be at the top of life.





You could graduate as the best student in Finance but it doesn't mean you will make more money than
everybody else.





The best graduating
Law student does not necessarily become the
best lawyer.





The fact is, life requires more than the ability to
understand a concept, memorise it and reproduce it in an exam.




School rewards people for their memory.




Life rewards people for their imagination.




School rewards caution, life rewards daring.




School hails those who live by the rules.



Life exalts those who break the rules and set new
ones.




So do I mean people
shouldn't study hard in school?




Oh, no, you
should.




But don't sacrifice every other thing on the altar of First Class.





Don't limit yourself to the classroom.




Do something practical.





Take a leadership
position.




Start a business and
fail.



That's a better
Entrepreneurship 101.



Join or start a good club.




Contest an election and lose.


It will teach you
something Political
Science 101 will not
teach you.




Attend seminars.


Read books outside the scope of your
course.


Go on missions and win a soul for eternal rewards...




Do something you
believe in!




Think less of becoming an excellent student
but think more of
becoming an excellent person.




Don't make the
classroom to be your world but Make the world your classroom.




Step forward, try
politics, try farming, try businesses, try an extra thing .





."Entrepreneurship is the salt of life" diversify ur income.




Don’t feel shy to
share with others
including your children.

If we were waiting for the big farms, all of us for don die of hunger. Subsistence farming still plays a major role bros.
Most Universities are located in towns and not in the major cities except the ones that civilization catch up with.

ahiboilandgas:
most big farm are own by city dewellers...choscaris rice farm ,azam rice

@Bolded, that is the point Barry is making. Those guys have been able to discover an opportunity that works for them in the village rather than in the city.
Retires do not have the strength non de experience to farm so it is still youths who should take over farming and improve over what our fore fathers did.
The painful truth is that some persons are better off in their towns than been swallowed up in the city where they live a life that is less than that for humans just to be said to be in the city especially when that city is Lagos.

ahiboilandgas:
ever body cannot not evacuate villages ....retires ,move back to urban area ....u never heard rural urban migration and urban rural migration.......with rice revolutions many people left Lagos to kebbi villages to cultivate rice ....

Even if it is village vs city, if everybody evacuate from village, who go de produce our food? We go start de import garri from China again?

ahiboilandgas:
u changing the conversation...we taking about village and city...not village vs Lagos ....the owner of max air , azamn air ,irs airline never stayed in Lagos....even owner of AA RAno depots Lagos run from his kano office ....

Why this Lagos vs Village matter de pain people like this?

Do what please you and works for you but never loose sight of the other perspective and options. If city works for you stay there, but if all you are doing in the city is saving for landlord, maybe it is time to do a critical review of your life to see if there are other options you are overlooking, no need to feel insecure if your beliefs are challenged.

Good points. Another thing to note is that it is not everyone that is chasing for money. Many other people are contented with the little they have in life and live a fuller light.

I know there are many people living in Lagos just getting by and not even able to afford food, some of such people are afraid to return back to base as the prodigal son did so as not to be mocked in the village, so they remain in the city hoping that one day their story changes.

GonFreecss1:
I understand you and Sir “Barrytone” very well.

People are missing the major point which he is making. And it’s funny because we are in an investment forum, the same forum that preaches what sir Barrytone is saying.

Going to Lagos and the cities seems like the logical thing to do, but is it? He just basically explained the principles involving more opportunities based on him being a champion there. People are still not getting it.

Many don’t know this, but there are many foreigners mining gold and other stuffs in our villages making a killing why “we” run to Lagos and overseas. It is sad.

Pa Emma, and sir Ukay and the rest of the investment gang I am very sure won’t buy a stock everyone is talking about and keeps rising everyday beyond it’s intrinsic value. They will want to buy more stocks in “bonanza” period, a time when people are scared and running away from the stock market.

Many want to move from Villages to Lagos and many from Lagos to overseas/Canada. I am beginning to think the bonanza might be in the villages, many just don’t know it yet.

Lagos has the highest concentration of rich folks, what they will not tell you is that it also has the highest concentration of very very poor folks who do not fair better than their counterpart they left in the village except for the bagging rights of living in Lagos and seeing flyovers, bridges and high rising buildings.
It does have an ambient that many other states do not have.

delawal:
that ur village u re running from,to,go lagos some,other person from anoda area,is making it there. if u go to many villages in d north, west etc u will see many easterners who do biz there and are making it big. while d original inhabitants re,runnning away. once met a man who does biz in a remote village in taraba. he has built big hotels in awka, enugu and abuja, there re many many people in same shoes i have personally encountered

d problem wit many nigerians is d get rich quick syndrome. people wants,to hammer witout doing notin, people wanna win,contracts and make big money witout doing a neat job. those people in d village make little but constant money and reinvests them and grow higher. lagos is huge. i only go there if i must fly from there and not abj. ewch time am there i see how much stress,people,had to put up wit. last april was in ikeja and was looking around one morning,saw well dressed looking people going to work, some were wearing casual slippers while carrying their shoes for bag. this is bc they have to trek more dt,morning to evade traffic jam

This one is not politicians now, this is ordinary Nigerians destroying the last fabrics of respect we have.
Yet we keep blaming leaders when we cannot even comport ourselves when we finally find ourselves in same countries.

Or if you are very lucky, become an assistant lecturer. Lol.
However the truth is that many other states are just sleeping thereby putting a lot of strain on Lagos.

Grupo:
Lol.

He forgot to tell people that he's from Ákwá Ibom.

So he probably got a slot to work in one of the oil companies operating there.

Now, imagine someone like me, from a remote village in Ebonyi state. My options would be similar to yours. Either be a primary school teacher, secondary school teacher, palm wine tapper or Okada rider.

Lol...@primary school teacher. Teachers and farmers don suffer Sha, see them been used as reference in a derogatory way.

IamR:
I am happy with you, God will continue to bless you.
My advice to the younger ones, don't try this. This cannot work again in Nigeria of today except you want to be a farmer or a councillor in the village. There are lots of opportunities in the cities. If I had remained in my village I would have been a primary or secondary school teacher or even a palmwine tapper. Pls go out of your convenience and you will succeed.

You are very correct but Barrytone is also spot on. Lagos creates a different mentality in you but it comes with the pressure to show that you have arrived which is what Barry is talking about.
Many folks who go home during Xmas and show off save for it for most of the year, making the folks in those town feel envious.
It's different strokes for different folks.
Lagos may give to you but it will also collect from you. Some people just want a simple decent life. For some people, 3 million in their account is more than enough.

Lagos vs the rest of Nigeria argument be like Nigeria vs traveling abroad argument.

ahiboilandgas:
i really dont u ....no city in Nigeria produces more millionaire more than Lagos ....i have stayed in two must commercialize towns in Nigeria and i can tell u .....Lagos has bless more people more than any state in Nigeria .....but their are oppurntiies everwhere in Nigeria but no in the scale of Lagos ......the financial transaction that happens within alaba and trade fair axis might be =to the entire business Gdp of Ebony state ....

I am guessing you do not have proper earthing also?

Between a dedicated Felicity Solar Freezer and a thermocool freezer used on an inverter, what would you guys suggest one goes for?

Not a low hanging fruit bros/ sis. Freelancing/ remote jobs are prevalent in the IT space.
Yes Data Science/ Analysis write codes especially with python.
Go to indeed.com and see remote job opportunities. I think it is better to start with freelancing because it helps you to know what the industry considers important and most importantly to build your portfolio.
As for certifications, they have their place after you have shown that you know what you are really, but trust us, we want to cram and pass to get certifications and hold as a badge whereas people, SME, want solutions to their problems.

niyogeol:
I won't disagree with you. But the place of certificates and certifications exist in IT[b]. And freelancing is a low hanging fruit[/b] but it sure takes time too to start earning big.

I don't know if the Data Science or Cybersecurity curriculum contains coding since I am not in that field. Again, the story I painted is about Ireland.

Are you in the IT space?

Na real "Okay". The guy and his sister do not really understand stock, they are treating it like forex or crypto.
The truth is you cannot buy shares for somebody when you are not an investment body.
I fear expectations by both parties will not be met at the end of the day.

seyisanya:
Okay.

In the practical IT world, having PhD means nothing. A company will rather employ a secondary school dropout that can code than an msc that is speaking English and theory up and down.
Tell those friends if they really know what they are doing to get on freelancing sites if they will not start earning in USD.
For IT related jobs, results are what determine your market value.

niyogeol:
It is somewhat crazy. I have guys with MSc Data Analytics, Cybersecurity etc with no jobs. So it is making the IT story less interesting at the moment.

I PM'd you.