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UK wey most Nigerian lawyers that qualified there had to return to Nigeria to do law school because they couldn't get a training contract (pupillage in the UK).

UK wey a lot of Oyinbo Doctors who qualified in the UK can not find jobs as Doctors due to budget constraints and competition from Doctors who trained abroad and some UK Doctors are now working as Uber drivers to make ends meet

This is also happening in America as well where nearly half of all U.S. doctors work side hustles just to make ends meet. Medical school debt and burnout are pushing some of them into gig work like DoorDash or Uber.

Now with AI its going to get worse for most white collar workers as AI cancels the need for so many humans and the only safe jobs from AI are blue collar jobs like plumbing,bricklaying, welding etc according to a Microsoft research. (their Sept 19 2025 update says the jobs once thought to be “safe” aren’t exactly untouchable anymore. Not even plumbers are safe from being replaced by AI).

According to Microsoft, if you thought your job was “safe” because it requires a degree, think again. AI is creeping into white-collar professional territory first and AI Won’t Just Touch Your Job — It Will Rewrite It.

https://medium.com/@arhezkhan157/what-safe-jobs-look-like-according-to-mit-microsoft-05ce3277f0ae


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fisXuKajtTI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5malCdGKgZw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFtEkXl3uo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9jJgy8yZ4

So many people don't know this, they think money is picked on the floor, my brother has been talking about moving to England i have been discouraging him in the process his wife friend moved there with his family only after like three months he is the one advising him to focus on his business in Nigeria he was telling him his ordeal guy hmmmm, the guy has moved to the village where he can be able to cope, no money to travel back home, and people at home are waiting for him to send them money, someone that was doing very fine

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

But its not only in chambers lawyers can practice na. They can work in other organizations and be paid well.

Nonexisting1:
Law is one the most useless courses to study in university now. Unless you have a family of lawyers with an already existing good chamber, don't waste your time.

Sonnobax15:

Gone are those days when law as a profession used to command so much respect..

Make she come ughelli police station Make she come see how lawyers dey stand for station gate dey hustle for clients . Na once she go thank God for her stars...

Do you think that is because the lawyers and other professionals have failed to contribute to the political and governance processes, unlike professionals in the UK and other japa destinations?

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

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anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

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TheBedWench:
The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood)[1][2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).

This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]

The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.

Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.

The first reasonable comment I've read.

At the point they start questioning themselves, just know that their mental health is in trouble.

Not everyone is a 'low life' who's willing to take and enjoy just anything for living abroad.

eyesoflagos:
https://eyesoflagos.com/nigerian-lawyer-uk-care-assistant-reveals-job/

She should come back to Nigeria, nonsense!

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

Na low self-esteem dey worry so many Nigerians!

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

Wait till when they come back to your country then compare because they are in a foreign country, they can never feel richness except comfort but when they arrive Nigeria or Ghana with the dollars they made, that’s when they will know that they made the right choice by traveling.

ZombieDredd:
You dey live like king for where?

As a caregiver, some months down she can decide to go vacation in Spain or France with small money from salary........now as a king that you are in Nigeria, can you go to South Africa on vacation with small money from your salary, oh king

Yes ooo I support your motion. Infact she being a care giver in UK is far better than when she was a law practitioner. Cos from the image you can see she looks more ok in UK than that of the law gown

ZombieDredd:
You dey live like king for where?

As a caregiver, some months down she can decide to go vacation in Spain or France with small money from salary........now as a king that you are in Nigeria, can you go to South Africa on vacation with small money from your salary, oh king

Leave am,
He thought in his heart and believed that what his heart told him is true.
Better life is in abroad and living overseas is not only about money but about life that he or she have not lived all his or her days in Nigeria so far.

One can’t imagine what they have not seen.

When I was begging some Nigerians that are despirate to japa back then that NO PLACE LIKE HOME OOOOO, LET ALL BOTH LIFT THIS COUNTRY UP they turn deaf ear, Imagine what she might have being passing through.

Sonnobax15:

Gone are those days when law as a profession used to command so much respect..

Make she come ughelli police station Make she come see how lawyers dey stand for station gate dey hustle for clients . Na once she go thank God for her stars...

every profession has their hustling phase but when some lawyers when they finally hit that bag, uncountable money!!

Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.

The so called Government have unknownly fixed a general protest Day, you see any day person delay me for road say na tax collectors,I swear I go gosh out person intestine with my gravity of frustration now,make Nigerians warn their siblings against applying for that job oooo,I know what am saying

WizardOfNG:
She can't blame the UK for not allowing her jump straight into practising law there after arriving from Nigeria.

They're not dumb to not see how Rotimi Amaechi, Deji Adeyanju, Dino Melaye, and literally thousands of other wealthy Nigerians, buy Law degrees, from even Nigeria's neighbouring countries like Togo and Benin Republic, and even "call to the bar".

The reality they know about us reveals they will destroy their systems over there if they take our "professionals" at face value.

This is not indictment of this lady who may be a properly qualified and talented lawyer.

She however needs to accept it is best she does the needful and gain all accreditation that will allow her practice law in the UK.

That's how she needs to move and not lamenting about her former life in Nigeria publicly after she willinglymade the decision to relocate .

The truth is that Nigeria is a nation that fails to do the right thing and thus expose her people to ridicule where systems are organised with strict insistence on compliance and proven capacity in important professions like Medicine, Law, architecture etc.

You have said it all,even me as a Nigerian wouldn't give easy access to any office I manage just because you are a Nigerian is enough reason for me to tighten my seatbelt, people think is hatred but no, that's how far we have gotten even without us knowing it

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

no u can ask the dead arise tv staff coz she had a pretty decent life too in Nigeria or ask someone that parked their car only to come back and the car is gone and all of a sudden they are back to jumping bike. Untill Nigeria happens to u then u won’t get it yet.

KaLuCh:
Shut the hell up before I shut it for you.

Whos this slowpoke??

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

This stories sounds like Tinubu's stories, where his friends that drives a rolls Royce now drives a Honda.

You don't have any friend, nobody told you anything.

ronu and lies na 5&6, like their Oga for ass hole rock.

mukthar2000:
When I was begging some Nigerians that are despirate to japa back then that NO PLACE LIKE HOME OOOOO, LET ALL BOTH LIFT THIS COUNTRY UP they turn deaf ear, Imagine what she might have being passing through.

What is she passing through that is so unique?

That is the process for overwhelming majority of immigrants in the UK, from survival stage to stability.

Then go back to Nigeria. This is the spirit of ungrateful. Go to police station & court to see how lawyers dey pursue clients

eyesoflagos:
https://eyesoflagos.com/nigerian-lawyer-uk-care-assistant-reveals-job/

Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.

Real talk...

Sonnobax15:

Gone are those days when law as a profession used to command so much respect..

Make she come ughelli police station Make she come see how lawyers dey stand for station gate dey hustle for clients . Na once she go thank God for her stars...

. Blame it on society and the social media addiction gabage in garbage 🗑 out.


China 🇨🇳 doctors have created an Injection that heal broken bones in 3 minute just like super glue.


While our doctors dey TikTok dey hustle social media monitization funds

helinues:
Skills, creativity are the things that can earn you decent money in this age irrespective of profession or location

Is care giving a skill set?

I concur. Nothing but the truth. It is only few that make it as lawyers this days

Nonexisting1:
Law is one the most useless courses to study in university now. Unless you have a family of lawyers with an already existing good chamber, don't waste your time.

Read Deuteronomy chapter 28 and it'll help put your mind at ease or leave you more lost...

Read it over and over again

Alaga2222:
Yes ooo I support your motion. Infact she being a care giver in UK is far better than when she was a law practitioner. Cos from the image you can see she looks more ok in UK than that of the law gown

which one is that she looks more okay 😂🤣Stop deciving yourself,na climate change effect.

Real2088:
You have said it all,even me as a Nigerian wouldn't give easy access to any office I manage just because you are a Nigerian is enough reason for me to tighten my seatbelt, people think is hatred but no, that's how far we have gotten even without us knowing it

Indeed. Cutting corners is now default behaviour of Nigerians in Nigeria that some, not the majority, then export abroad.


We can't and won't escape the consequences and negative reputation of our actions, though unfair to upright and honest Nigerians, which often comes at high cost to Nigeria and all Nigerians.

There are several global trading platforms where you can sell literally anything, like eBay, that boycott Nigerian direct selling participation ( emphasis on selling because we can buy from the world directly but can't sell to it directly) for many reasons tied to our dubious practices , potentials to abuse credit facilitation etc.

Who loses other than Nigerian manufacturers, artisans, retailers etal who are cut off from what could be a muilt-billion dollars global market considering what we can offer the world at very competitive prices?

We refuse to do the right things individually, expecting others to take responsibility for that on our behalf, and we wonder why Nigeria is the way she is with everyone pointing fingers at others.

Mindlog:
What is she passing through that is so unique?

That is the process for overwhelming majority of immigrants in the UK, from survival stage to stability.

Absolutely. If a reasonable person, to begin with, you accept and work with reality ,even if such appears unfair, to get where you must.

It usually works out well in the end for pragmatists and realists who don't sit around obsessing about the problem when they should be seeking solutions to overcome it.

eyesoflagos:
https://eyesoflagos.com/nigerian-lawyer-uk-care-assistant-reveals-job/

Small job in the UK can comfortably take of your family.

WizardOfNG:
Absolutely. If a reasonable person, to begin with, you accept and work with reality ,even if such appears unfair, to get where you must.

It usually works out well in the end for pragmatists and realists who don't sit around obsessing about the problem when they should be seeking solutions to overcome it.

No mind them, I started out with minimum wage jobs as a packing operative, now settled in a professional role I visioned for myself, way back during my undergraduate days.

Lanretoye:
Abeg wetin be your own discipline?…na the ones wey Dey ugheli police station be 90% of the population of lawyers in this country.i don’t know what is wrong with some of you and reasoning,in fact i am very sure that you don’t even have children in school.isn’t it insane that someone doesn’t see lawyer’s that have their own chambers and the ones doing very well in their field?,na the ones wey Dey hustle for police station be your own yardstick.howmany lawyers self Dey the ugheli police station compared to population of well to do lawyers in the country

You go explain Tayad


😂

Lawyer ni lawyer ko


Criminal legal system

Sonnobax15:

Gone are those days when law as a profession used to command so much respect..

Make she come ughelli police station Make she come see how lawyers dey stand for station gate dey hustle for clients . Na once she go thank God for her stars...

Comment only on what you know Oga . Lawyers by their rules are not even allowed to visit clients to take brief, talkless of standing by the gate of a police stations.

9JAMac10:
Female lawyers are overrated take that to the bank. Law is a masculine profession. Nobody reasonable or rationale hires a female lawyer to represent them. She shocked that she been lied to her whole life about being a talkative and combative woman disguised as lawyer hahaha. Only professions women should engage in is healthcare , teaching or culinary industry. Those are feminine jobs. She better go to nursing school while working as a CNA

Don't pray to ever go through a Divorce in America or any part of the western world.
You see those female lawyers you are looking down on, they will screw you and your male lawyer in a twinkle of an eye.