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Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Proserpina: 8:13am On Aug 27, 2024
Mom007:
There is no need arguing with people like you who feed on second hand knowledge and think they know it all. What feedback from msc students? Did I not do their msc last year? It was greatly underwhelming and aside the fact that it is heavily computer and online based, nothing to it. Abi are my children not currently in their schools? I am giving you first hand, real time feedback and you are here writing long epistle based on something you have personally not experienced. Mr man, sit there and be arguing with yourself. I have left the table.
Lol

Why are you angry? cheesy So your personal experience studying an online based course should be picked over the experiences of thousands of international students.

You studied a tortoise and iroko program and use that to judge other discipline like Law, Medics, Pharmacy, Engineering etc... when ordinary Mental Health course shakes some with bright Nigerian academic records. Again go back to where you jumped on this conversation and asked the supposed Pharmacist you are trying to hard to defend the two questions I asked earlier.

I'm a lady BTW another error on your part . But for oath of confidentiality I would have taken you to the cleaners with facts and stats but then to what end? To Win an online debate ?

Stop being angry and learn!
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Ndipe(m): 8:40am On Aug 27, 2024
Reality of japa, families are not as close as they once were when they lived in Nigeria. In some cases, friends become family and family becomes strangers.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Offpointng: 8:45am On Aug 27, 2024
dfrost:
You are asking an average Nigeria to read to understand? 🤣🤣

Ain't you expecting too much?
Very annoying bro
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Mom007(f): 8:50am On Aug 27, 2024
Proserpina:
Lol

Why are you angry? cheesy So your personal experience studying an online based course should be picked over the experiences of thousands of international students.

You studied a tortoise and iroko program and use that to judge other discipline like Law, Medics, Pharmacy, Engineering etc... when ordinary Mental Health course shakes some with bright Nigerian academic records. Again go back to where you jumped on this conversation and asked the supposed Pharmacist you are trying to hard to defend the two questions I asked earlier.

I'm a lady BTW another error on your part . But for oath of confidentiality I would have taken you to the cleaners with facts and stats but then to what end? To Win an online debate ?

Stop being angry and learn!
Tor. I should have guessed the gender from your pointless ramblings based on second hand information. Enjoy your ignorance.

P.s, angry? You wish. undecided you just ceased being interesting, that's all.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Proserpina: 8:53am On Aug 27, 2024
Mom007:
Tor. I should have guessed the gender from your pointless ramblings based on second hand information. Enjoy your ignorance.

P.s, angry? You wish. undecided you just ceased being interesting, that's all.
I still don't understand why you are being unnecessarily rude, angry and bitter.

Lol the only reason I'm holding back is because of the f on your profile.

It's best to respect yourself and learn to communicate without sounding like an unsatisfied wife cheesy grin
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Kaczynski: 9:29am On Aug 27, 2024
Proserpina:
I still don't understand why you are being unnecessarily rude, angry and bitter.

Lol the only reason I'm holding back is because of the f on your profile.

It's best to respect yourself and learn to communicate without sounding like an unsatisfied wife cheesy grin
Gbas gbos


Gen Z VS Boomer
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Proserpina: 9:32am On Aug 27, 2024
Kaczynski:
Gbas gbos


Gen Z VS Boomer
Lol

You find me reach here grin

Abeg who be GenZ who be Boomer? grin
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Chibuezem(m): 10:45am On Aug 27, 2024
CyrusVI:
You obviously didnt read the article

Its not an interview session for people to tell us the pros and cons of their past actions, its about the mass impact it could have on families as they tends to scatter across the India ocean with less and lesser possibilities of ever meeting/seeing their relatives again
You can always come to visit, bringing your children or family to experience Nigerian culture or you can take the whole family out and keep practicing our culture there. There are several communities of Nigerian tribes abroad.
For me we should hold The Nigerian government accountable for making this country unbearable for the common man. Even our elite pride in sending their wards overseas as they know that our country has little to nothing to offer. Now the current administration has decided to cage professionals in medicine who seek greener pastures outside by making weird policies without consulting associations in charge of those professionals.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Orinechi: 11:15am On Aug 27, 2024
New form of slave trade. The difference is that this one I voluntary while the former is forceful.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by EdoEngineer: 11:27am On Aug 27, 2024
There’s always a cost. Staying in Nigeria comes with a price, and so does leaving. I know siblings in Lagos who don’t see each other until they return to their village every December. Dat one too na JAPA cheesy
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by EdoEngineer: 11:35am On Aug 27, 2024
Ndipe:
Reality of japa, families are not as close as they once were when they lived in Nigeria. In some cases, friends become family and family becomes strangers.
Leave them. We all should move back to our parents village to build family ties!!! tongue
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by NairaMaster1(m): 3:17pm On Aug 27, 2024
YoshihideSuga:
You mean they sold off their businesses to the tune of half a billion naira? To japa to where, please?
I swear my brother.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Muriswas(m): 4:12pm On Aug 27, 2024
Despite how much I love your articles, you messes up in the end by affiliating Japan with buhari and tinubu failure

May we remind ourselves that people have been japa years back as far as 1960

May God bless Nigeria
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Kenn55: 7:34pm On Aug 27, 2024
Mom007:
Bro, it's actually not. Ours is actually better... if you actually want your children to learn anything. Who no go no go know. These people don't teach kids anything in school. They just play and color and have a good time and play with tab. It's quite maddening! They hardly hold pen to write anything, the hand writing terrible, attention span zero! No discipline, highly entitled, see I no fit talk abeg. Living in abroad but your children still doing online lessons from Nigeria because they don't learn much here..

Don't just argue for arguments sake, we were sold a big lie!
I don't want to chuk my mouth in these over flogged japa topics but this your assertion shock me.

What is the essence of education? It is to use it and make things happen. If you can't create things and make things happen, that educational system is as good as bullshit.

If our system is better as you are saying, then we should be exporters of technology. We should be making things happen. Even our oil is being extracted with foreign technology and systems. Without them, our oil will rot in the ground and these are product of their own system not ours.

Education is not cram and pour, this is what our system is about. Those coloring and play play things you think are useless serve a purpose. I used to think they are useless too but they are not. These guys are systematic, they spend early years developing a child's non academic traits like curiosity, team building, thought process,creativity etc but in Nigeria, we are in a hurry to have our children graduate at 18 so we have no time for non academic capacity building, we want a child to become a prof at age 5. We want him to cram multiplication table at 4 etc. This is why we produce first class graduates lacking in basic analytical thinking.

So judging the system as a whole, ours is not better, if it was, then Nigeria will not be where it is today
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Barzinime(m): 9:15pm On Aug 27, 2024
And you are earning $5 million in Chile right?
Better say whatever you are actually doing in Chile...baba werey grin
tensazangetsu20:
I was earning over 1.5 million naira a month in Nigeria. Dey play grin grin cheesy.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by tensazangetsu20(m): 9:38pm On Aug 27, 2024
Barzinime:
And you are earning $5 million in Chile right?
Better say whatever you are actually doing in Chile...baba werey grin
Na drugs I dey do. I am following in the footsteps of your messiah.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Barzinime(m): 11:01pm On Aug 27, 2024
If you're actually smart and you use your brain adequately and not just about the stories you want to be heard/told.
Why dont you reason why he was acquitted and not indicated? While you all were raving mad like rabid dogs maybe he was undercover or had deals with the enforcement agencies.
Reason why your open letters and petitions doesn't hold water over there.
tensazangetsu20:
Na drugs I dey do. I am following in the footsteps of your messiah.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by tensazangetsu20(m): 11:29pm On Aug 27, 2024
Barzinime:
If you're actually smart and you use your brain adequately and not just about the stories you want to be heard/told.
Why dont you reason why he was acquitted and not indicated? While you all were raving mad like rabid dogs maybe he was undercover or had deals with the enforcement agencies.
Reason why your open letters and petitions doesn't hold water over there.
Just as i suspected. You go explain explain explain explain yet no evidence. The savior and tamer of the atlantic that trained for 20 years to be president. Unfortunately for you, I will never experience his demonic rule grin grin grin grin
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Barzinime(m): 3:51pm On Aug 28, 2024
Where is your own evidence?
Be wailing online as usual, you will wail and cry and that won't change jack shit.
You said you will never experience his demonic rule, so why are you complaining? You need to see a doctor cos this is an early sign of madness.

tensazangetsu20:
Just as i suspected. You go explain explain explain explain yet no evidence. The savior and tamer of the atlantic that trained for 20 years to be president. Unfortunately for you, I will never experience his demonic rule grin grin grin grin
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by Prettychild(f): 4:02pm On Aug 28, 2024
12inchess:
How many people are buouyant enough to visit once a year. The cost of international flights are very expensive. Imagine travelling for 25 hours one way just to see your parents for a few days. No to mention the huge logistics it takes to travel to Nigeria. It's not just something you can plan that easily. I'm speaking from experience as an abroadarian. Japa indeed breaks up the families. As the parents are feeling lonely so are their kids also feeling lonely and away from their culture. Most people japa for greener pastures. Money is important but everything is not all about money. When you Japa you will find out yourself. Make all of una come abeg. And experience it all for yourself then you will understand where the OP is coming from.
You can always video call your parents. Remember that those parents will be sad if their children are in Nigeria and not having enough to help them
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by gforce5: 2:27pm On Oct 18, 2024
Why do we Nigerians like to exaggerate everything?? Nigeria is not even among the top 20 countries as far as emigration goes but we act like Nigerians are the only ones affecting by mass emigration. What about countries like Lebanon, Syria, Armenia, Guatemala, Niger and Albania where half of their population are based abroad? What about countries like the Philippines where most of their youth are living outside the country in order to earn a living?

As for the loss of family cohesion, even within Nigeria, you have many family members living in different states or does that not count? Many Nigerians have been migrating out of the country since the 70s. The only difference now is that it's worst due to the sorry state of the economy and the effects of social media.

There are over 200 million people living in Nigeria, of which 90% live in poverty. How many Nigerians have the opportunity to migrate abroad? Nigerians can exaggerate sha.
Re: JAPA Syndrome: Its Devastating Effects On Family Cohesion & Work In Nigeria by saintkel(m): 2:25pm On Nov 12, 2024
PrettyRX:
Nothing new, people have always migrated for better opportunities and various reasons smiley
Better doing well in different locations than together in abject poverty. Poverty breeds envy, hatred and enmity grin
nice one....
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