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Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Hassanmaye(m): 1:27pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
when she doesn't have the capital, strength to create a job, what will she do?
You must not have big capital to start a business, I started with 100k today I'm worth 25m
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Afonja007: 2:40pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
yes . Even some are going cos' of the huge 77k allowance too. No hope for them in the areas of jobs
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Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by MIKOLOWISKA: 2:46pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
Education isn't celebrated in Nigeria. Most of the senators in Nigeria presently doesn't have degree not to talk of having PhDs in their various discipline.
what have you gained from degree and PhD holders
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by MIKOLOWISKA: 2:48pm On Jun 30, 2025
press9jatv:
To be sincere with you, this lady is right here. How could you study for 4,5,6 years courses without getting any job. It's unfortunate seriously. Nigeria unemployment rate keep rising by the day. What is the fg, state and the private sectors doing to cover the huge gap of unemployment in our country Nigeria.
if you're so educated why can't you create job for yourself
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 2:51pm On Jun 30, 2025
MIKOLOWISKA:
what have you gained from degree and PhD holders
nothing sincerely. I'm self employed brother
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 2:52pm On Jun 30, 2025
Afonja007:
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yes soooo. Not funny seriously
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 2:59pm On Jun 30, 2025
Hassanmaye:
You must not have big capital to start a business, I started with 100k today I'm worth 25m
that 100k capital you started with na 5 years ago business you did. Not in this hyperinflated economy we are running for years now.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 3:28pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
it's bad leadership that's affecting us seriously, this set of government preferred their family first before they take other people serious. It will take more donkey years for the right things to be done.
I beg to differ that "it's bad leadership that's affecting us".

We are a democracy, imperfect as we are, and it is the followers who elect those who lead us. So, if we elect bad leaders, we should perhaps blame ourselves for electing bad leaders, and next time elect good leaders.

Please do not, as some claim, try to argue that we did not elect bad leaders. Even if you did not vote, your not voting let the bad ones be our leaders, and we've hopefully learnt from our apathy.

Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 3:53pm On Jun 30, 2025
budaatum:
I beg to differ that "it's bad leadership that's affecting us".

We are a democracy, imperfect as we are, and it is the followers who elect those who lead us. So, if we elect bad leaders, we should perhaps blame ourselves for electing bad leaders, and next time elect good leaders.

Please do not, as some claim, try to argue that we did not elect bad leaders. Even if you did not vote, your not voting let the bad ones be our leaders, and we've hopefully learnt from our apathy.
do the followers have the funds and the strength to counter this emperor government? Do they have the strength to counter them niiii. It will take 40-50 years when Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi of this world are no more that the new generations will have a rethink to rebuild this nation for job creation. Millions of graduates are home jobless.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 3:59pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
do the followers have the funds and the strength to counter this emperor government? Do they have the strength to counter them niiii. It will take 40-50 years when Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi of this world are no more that the new generations will have a rethink to rebuild this nation for job creation. Millions of graduates are home jobless.
Funds are not what elect governments. We the people elect governments.

Our failure is an inability to organise and rally for what we want. And until we do organise ourselves, likely after the likes of the grandchildren of Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi, are tired of being chosen by us, we shall continue to graduate and be workless.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 4:02pm On Jun 30, 2025
budaatum:
Funds are not what elect governments. We the people elect governments.

Our failure is an inability to organise and rally for what we want. And until we do organise ourselves, likely after the likes of the grandchildren of Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi, are tired of being chosen by us, we shall continue to graduate and be workless.
A jobless hungry youths can never organise any rallies. He will first solved the issues of hunger before he sponsor any rally here. You seem not to know political settings in Nigeria.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 4:26pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
A jobless hungry youths can never organise any rallies. He will first solved the issues of hunger before he sponsor any rally here. You seem not to know political settings in Nigeria.
You make me laugh, thank you.

No one is asking hungry people to rally. Nor is rally the solution to hunger or joblessness, nor will it enable us to elect good leaders.

But I guess this proves the point. We can not organise ourselves because we are hungry, lol, which is why the food giving Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi are the ones we elect then wail that we have bad government and are hungry and jobless.

Education is the solution to hunger, as it teaches people to learn what good leadership is and how to elect it instead of us ignorantly uneducatedly voting for a loaf of bread we'd eat today.

We must perhaps not put our bellies first and vote for food, or we'd continue to starve till we learn.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Chief2410: 4:29pm On Jun 30, 2025
budaatum:
You make me laugh, thank you.

No one is asking hungry people to rally. Nor is rally the solution to hunger or joblessness, nor will it enable us to elect good leaders.

But I guess this proves the point. We can not organise ourselves because we are hungry, lol, which is why the food giving Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi are the ones we elect then wail that we have bad government and are hungry and jobless.

Education is the solution to hunger, as it teaches people to learn what good leadership is and how to elect it instead of us ignorantly uneducatedly voting for a loaf of bread we'd eat today.

We must perhaps not put our bellies first and vote for food, or we'd continue to starve till we learn.
all these things you are saying sounds very ideal but in today's Nigeria where we are divided along tribal and religious line,it is almost impossible to achieve.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 4:38pm On Jun 30, 2025
Chief2410:
all these things you are saying sounds very ideal but in today's Nigeria where we are divided along tribal and religious line,it is almost impossible to achieve.
I agree. Ideal. That's why we continue to be confronted with the realities of joblessness and hunger. The leaders love our division too, as it ensures we'd never organise to solve our common problems. Hunger and joblessness does after all not give a flying fuq about anyones' tribe or religion.

My hope is that it stops being ideal, and we make it a reality. Until then, agbado, lol.

Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Chief2410: 4:42pm On Jun 30, 2025
budaatum:
I agree. Ideal. That's why we continue to be confronted with the realities of joblessness and hunger. The leaders love our division too, as it ensures we'd never organise to solve our common problems. Hunger and joblessness does after all not give a flying fuq about anyones' tribe or religion.

My hope is that it stops being ideal, and we make it a reality. Until then, agbado, lol.
I want a better Nigeria as much as you do but we are too divided to create that.The leaders have successfully divided us that the tribalism in Nigeria is worse than racism abroad. It is divide and conquer rule.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 4:50pm On Jun 30, 2025
Chief2410:
I want a better Nigeria as much as you do but we are too divided to create that.The leaders have successfully divided us that the tribalism in Nigeria is worse than racism abroad. It is divide and conquer rule.
No leader divided me from you or you from me.

It is our ignorance that divides us from each other, and that's for us to solve, and not some leader who reaps benefit from our ignorant division.

One day we will cure ourselves of our ignorance. My hope is its before we kill each other first.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Originalsly: 5:01pm On Jun 30, 2025
ogascomax:
I disagree with you that the purpose of going to school is to be educated or gain knowledge.[/b]I My question is now to be educated for what or to gain knowledge for what? If I read medicine for example I mine going to practice it at my home or an organization that offers that role to the society. [b] We go to school to acquire that knowledge to contribute to the society. However, they are places that are established to retain people to perform what they have learnt.
The bolded ... you disagree that one goes to school to be educated then you agree. Which is it? My point was the purpose of going to school is not to get a job . It is to be educated ... with the education you can get a job in your field of study ... a related field or a totally unrelated field in which you can apply some of what you learned in school. As per your example....if you study medicine... graduated as a doctor ...but no vacancy for a doctor... you can use the same education to apply for a job as a nurse .... and if jobs are simply unavailable .... you can be self employed ....practice medicine at home ... not on the same level ...applying your education.... or you can give lessons to student nurses ... open a small school etc . If you don't feel like ...you can apply as a biology teacher in a Secondary School ...... all of which you can do because you are educated.... you have a variety of options. But to be sitting and waiting for a job....some for years.... that person is not educated ...that is one with a head full of information.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 5:22pm On Jun 30, 2025
budaatum:
You make me laugh, thank you.

No one is asking hungry people to rally. Nor is rally the solution to hunger or joblessness, nor will it enable us to elect good leaders.

But I guess this proves the point. We can not organise ourselves because we are hungry, lol, which is why the food giving Tinubu, Atiku, babangida, Peter Obi are the ones we elect then wail that we have bad government and are hungry and jobless.

Education is the solution to hunger, as it teaches people to learn what good leadership is and how to elect it instead of us ignorantly uneducatedly voting for a loaf of bread we'd eat today.

We must perhaps not put our bellies first and vote for food, or we'd continue to starve till we learn.
education is never a key to hunger. It's our mindset that needs to be changed.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by press9jatv(m): 7:24pm On Jun 30, 2025
MIKOLOWISKA:
if you're so educated why can't you create job for yourself
of course I create job for myself but not enough niii
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 9:41pm On Jun 30, 2025
Truths9ja:
education is never a key to hunger. It's our mindset that needs to be changed.
Education changes mindsets. The more you learn the more your mindset will change.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by Truths9ja(op): 3:11am On Jul 01, 2025
budaatum:
Education changes mindsets. The more you learn the more your mindset will change.
but it never helps in job creation. Yes education is the best legacy, but not helping enough in the area of job creation.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by ogascomax: 7:37am On Jul 01, 2025
[quote author=Originalsly post=135939435]The bolded ... you disagree that one goes to school to be educated then you agree. Which is it? My point was the purpose of going to school is not to get a job . It is to be educated ... with the education you can get a job in your field of study ... a related field or a totally unrelated field in which you can apply some of what you learned in school. As per your example....if you study medicine... graduated as a doctor ...but no vacancy for a doctor... you can use the same education to apply for a job as a nurse .... and if jobs are simply unavailable .... you can be self employed ....practice medicine at home ... not on the same level ...applying your education.... or you can give lessons to student nurses ... open a small school etc . If you don't feel like ...you can apply as a biology teacher in a Secondary School ...... all of which you can do because you are educated.... you have a variety of options. But to be sitting and waiting for a job....some for years.... that person is not educated ...that is one with a head full of information.[/quote

I would rather you say that job is not the only reasons we go for tertiary institution. In those days when people finishes primary and secondary then were able to secure good jobs fewer people go to the university. The call for higher education became high when primary and secondary school certification could no longer help to secure those jobs. I knew people that used primary school results to enter NNPC, DPR etc. now it's not possible.
Some people who do not go to high institutions will still perform more than those that went to school if giving opportunities to work in a some field. When you do your research ask people why they went to school?
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by ogascomax: 7:38am On Jul 01, 2025
Originalsly:
The bolded ... you disagree that one goes to school to be educated then you agree. Which is it? My point was the purpose of going to school is not to get a job . It is to be educated ... with the education you can get a job in your field of study ... a related field or a totally unrelated field in which you can apply some of what you learned in school. As per your example....if you study medicine... graduated as a doctor ...but no vacancy for a doctor... you can use the same education to apply for a job as a nurse .... and if jobs are simply unavailable .... you can be self employed ....practice medicine at home ... not on the same level ...applying your education.... or you can give lessons to student nurses ... open a small school etc . If you don't feel like ...you can apply as a biology teacher in a Secondary School ...... all of which you can do because you are educated.... you have a variety of options. But to be sitting and waiting for a job....some for years.... that person is not educated ...that is one with a head full of information.
I would rather you say that job is not the only reasons we go for tertiary institution. In those days when people finishes primary and secondary then were able to secure good jobs fewer people go to the university. The call for higher education became high when primary and secondary school certification could no longer help to secure those jobs. I knew people that used primary school results to enter NNPC, DPR etc. now it's not possible.
Some people who do not go to high institutions will still perform more than those that went to school if giving opportunities to work in a some field. When you do your research ask people why they went to school?
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by budaatum: 3:03pm On Jul 01, 2025
Truths9ja:
but it never helps in job creation. Yes education is the best legacy, but not helping enough in the area of job creation.
Education does very much help with job creation. It allows you to see the possibilities that exist beyond the immediate horizon.

If you educate yourself to be a doctor, say, you may start a business healing people, and hire others to assist you.

If you educate yourself to be an engineer, you may open an engineering shop and hire others to engineer with you.

Education, see, is the acquisition of knowledge. When Eve acquired it in the Garden of Eden, her eyes opened, and she gained wisdom, and she freed herself and her Adam from naked ignorant slavery from whence they went on to become self employed and populate the entire earth, it is written.

And when a Gospel has it written that, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, its basically telling you that worshipping education, or at least learning to read, is the beginning of attaining eternal life, or at least peace of mind in the short life lived on earth.

Pity you'd think otherwise though. Its a damnation on the mediocre education dished out in Nigeria.
Re: Why Exactly Are We Going To School When We Know There Are No Jobs - Lady Asks by stainzvill(m): 10:59am On Jul 03, 2025
Pls, can u also send me a link to study for Networking
VladimirTheGrea:
Very sad my dear brother. But I can assure you that it's a beautiful beginning if you are willing to pick up and learn one more skill in addition to the one you have.

Try using you phone to learn Data science or data analysis. You can also learn networking and apply to write the Cisco compTia A license exams... it's easy.

If you're interested I can load you the links where you'll learn for almost free. Don't forget, you need to pay a token to make you skill valid. But it is as costly as nothing. And don't look for jobs related to your discipline.
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