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That year peter rufai left football for a while and went to school and returned to take Nigeria to the world cup

IF HE WANTS THE EXPERIENCE, THEN HE,LL GET IT

Sheuns:
To you money may be all you need in life, but it’s not African.

A good name is better than gold and silver. African proverb (in fact it’s Yoruba adage).

Power is greater than money. Someone with power can render your money useless.

So being a graduate automatically gives you a good name?

Do you even know that there are many graduates in Nigeria who cannot tell you the number of states we have in Nigeria currently?

Naija graduates wey no get level

This life isn't just balanced! There are many professors in the academics who wish to be in Osimhen's shoes.

Here is Osimhen wishing to be educated like them

Of course education is very important in a man's life, no matter how rich you are, you still need to be literate.

But school na scam crew will not like this.

IamOrei:
Even many of those ones born abroad and the white footballers did not attend school.
majority of them did not go beyond high school

Cristiano Ronaldo for example

No be lie oo. School no be scam.

Gotocourt:
job fairs is common in developed countries. Medical students don't get that in Nigeria 🤷🏿.

If only!

But the countries that have job fairs are based heavily on manufacturing and export of manufactured goods. As a result they have a sector that can and does generate jobs , even when the economy is 'stagnant' (though this am I was reading that China is now producing far more graduates than jobs this year).

Nigeria's problems, which I have mentioned many times, but most people miss, because they think I am defending or attacking their personal favorite politican, is that our economy is oil dependent. This means that we basically just import and import. It is conducive for people who are merchants, but for graduates, problem solvers? Since we do not need to for example make toothpicks from the wood resources we have here, we can just import...that's a lot of jobs lost.

And since imported stuff is expensive (imported toiletroll can be 800 times more expensive than Nigerian one)..it drives up inflation, which has a negative net impact on our spending ability. It also worsens the naira value. That;s why we can't buy as many things with N2000 as we could ten, twenty even thirty years ago.

The problem with Nigeria, and for that matter most African nations is that we have governments that want to lift people out of poverty, and apopulation that wants to live the good life now. It's how independence was sold to the masses, because most Nigerians as at 1940 didn't care about indepndence or self government. So, the best route was to export raw materials and either import the finished goods, or import the parts of finished goods, assemble them in the country, and pretend as if we were making them here. Well, our population is too large to keep on doing that.

NO jobs, poor value of the naira...people run abroad.

That;s why the only job fairs for medical doctors are for those wishing to go abroad.

you have what it takes to return back to school, money and the will.

Ii

nairalanda1:
If only!

But the countries that have job fairs are based heavily on manufacturing and export of manufactured goods. As a result they have a sector that can and does generate jobs , even when the economy is 'stagnant' (though this am I was reading that China is now producing far more graduates than jobs this year).

Nigeria's problems, which I have mentioned many times, but most people miss, because they think I am defending or attacking their personal favorite politican, is that our economy is oil dependent. This means that we basically just import and import. It is conducive for people who are merchants, but for graduates, problem solvers? Since we do not need to for example make toothpicks from the wood resources we have here, we can just import...that's a lot of jobs lost.

And since imported stuff is expensive (imported toiletroll can be 800 times more expensive than Nigerian one)..it drives up inflation, which has a negative net impact on our spending ability. It also worsens the naira value. That;s why we can't buy as many things with N2000 as we could ten, twenty even thirty years ago.

The problem with Nigeria, and for that matter most African nations is that we have governments that want to lift people out of poverty, and apopulation that wants to live the good life now. It's how independence was sold to the masses, because most Nigerians as at 1940 didn't care about indepndence or self government. So, the best route was to export raw materials and either import the finished goods, or import the parts of finished goods, assemble them in the country, and pretend as if we were making them here. Well, our population is too large to keep on doing that.

NO jobs, poor value of the naira...people run abroad.

That;s why the only job fairs for medical doctors are for those wishing to go abroad.

Well said Sir 🙌

Helinuse:
And you usually wish you were as knowledgeable as they are.
That is, if you even have any fish, poultry, or you are just an online "I am a very big man."



Even the big boys in the Onitsha or Alaba market, although richer than their employees, will always wish they had the opportunity to be as learned as their employees.

But one small poultry farm guy simply thinks he is better than his employees because they are learned and he is not.

You're a very wicked man 😂,you dragged his small Ego on the floor🤣. I have met his like before,there's a vacuum he can't fill. Just let him be

Gotocourt:
job fairs is common in developed countries. Medical students don't get that in Nigeria 🤷🏿.

Ogbeni, go and buy Brighter Grammar to learn say na ‘are’ and not ‘is’ dey come after plural. I sure say you never pass WAEC English. Wetin be this na?

nairalanda1:
The problem was that when we got independence, we needed to replace all the white expats who held vital positons in the civil service, including in medicne and education, and we needed professionals...and since there were not many to begin with, jobs in those days were hotcakes. Even during my father's time as a student in the 70's...they had job fairs in the university ,where companies came to recurit students about to graduate (something you still see in saner climes, even in China).

As a result, a graduate graduating before 1980 could be guaranteed a good job and enough money to buy a car and even get a good enough house. Heck even secondary school leavers could get a good job with ease, and be driving cars long before their mates who went to uni graduated.

The problem was , in the 1980's onwards, because our economy was oil dependent, not industry and manufacturing dependent, the number of graduates outstripped the number of jobs available. And with the population rising beyond the ability of government revenue to sustain it, salaries started contracting. OIl price collapse in 1982, led to worsening inflation, and the ending of subsides, and worsening of services like power and light.

So, all of a sudden a graduate was no longer guarranteed a car and a house unilke before. Meanwhile, because of our import oriented economy, the people who left school to go into trading, those who were close to government and able to chop, and later scammers were the ones earning more and more money and buying the new cars and building the new houses, while university lecturers as early as 1988 were doing taxi business as side hustle (kabu -kabu).

So, in the minds of many generations since, school na SCAM.

You said it all, Brethren!

You have the money you can invest in real business that will fetch you money in future, education is good but don't make you rich, invest in business...

omonwayaro:
This life isn't just balanced! There are many professors in the academics who wish to be in Osimhen's shoes.

Here is Osimhen wishing to be educated like them

There was one american musician who dropped out of high school to become a member of a very famous 1980's band in the genre of heavy metal music.

Yet he went back to school despite being rich and having made it, because over the years he kept on hearing from members of other bands how their managers were ripping them off in the name of contracts. He went back to school and became an accountant so that he could end that nonsense.

Very nice decision. However, I will advise him to do that after retirement . Even our former President, Olusegun Obasanjo went back to school after being a president at a ripe old age. There is no age limit for learning.

Like I always say, the day you STOP learning is the day you START dying.

Wotowotoman:
Ogbeni, go and buy Brighter Grammar to learn say na ‘are’ and not ‘is’ dey come after plural. I sure say you never pass WAEC English. Wetin be this na?

We'll meet in court

Typical Edo boy. Book dey blood.

saintopus:
It's a very good one, most Nigerians football stars lack education.
Them no go school.
Apart from those born abroad, the homegrown ones lack education

Who told you the ones born abroad are educated.
Can you mention few professional footballer with university degree?

Victor really needs the education. This same bobo wey lodge for hotel wey I lodge for VI and carried like ten exotic cars come.

In his convoy, you go see Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Range Rover, G wagon, etc. and he no dey comot without all of them.

That shows illiteracy. First, why blow all your money on all those exotic cars? Second, why moving around in all of them at the same time? See as them just dey constitute nuisance for the hotel. The guy should quickly go that school. He need am

nairalanda1:
If only!

But the countries that have job fairs are based heavily on manufacturing and export of manufactured goods. As a result they have a sector that can and does generate jobs , even when the economy is 'stagnant' (though this am I was reading that China is now producing far more graduates than jobs this year).

Nigeria's problems, which I have mentioned many times, but most people miss, because they think I am defending or attacking their personal favorite politican, is that our economy is oil dependent. This means that we basically just import and import. It is conducive for people who are merchants, but for graduates, problem solvers? Since we do not need to for example make toothpicks from the wood resources we have here, we can just import...that's a lot of jobs lost.

And since imported stuff is expensive (imported toiletroll can be 800 times more expensive than Nigerian one)..it drives up inflation, which has a negative net impact on our spending ability. It also worsens the naira value. That;s why we can't buy as many things with N2000 as we could ten, twenty even thirty years ago.

The problem with Nigeria, and for that matter most African nations is that we have governments that want to lift people out of poverty, and apopulation that wants to live the good life now. It's how independence was sold to the masses, because most Nigerians as at 1940 didn't care about indepndence or self government. So, the best route was to export raw materials and either import the finished goods, or import the parts of finished goods, assemble them in the country, and pretend as if we were making them here. Well, our population is too large to keep on doing that.

NO jobs, poor value of the naira...people run abroad.

That;s why the only job fairs for medical doctors are for those wishing to go abroad.

Very good points, Manufacturing industries are the bedrock for growth in any society. Nigerians prefer to import, because they don’t even believe their products. If the country wants to grow, they is need to revive manufacturing plants across sectors, regions, with a nationwide spread. If we have those goods, there will be less inflation and better standard of living. We have the manpower, it is the will and love for service to the people, that is making the leaders do otherwise. The little things count, and these things help shoulder economies and keep it running!

LagosOrigin:
He doesn't really need the degree because he has become successful

Do you know how much of real estate that osimhen has to his name in Lagos and Abuja?

He's made for life

Again,
What do you mean by "successful"
A man who has gotten to the peak of what you refer to as success just came out to tell you that he still feels unaccomplished without a degree.
You, who have not gotten anywhere, are telling him he is wrong.

Great decision! God be with you.

If Osimhen fit bend down and get educated, he will go places after retirement

saintopus:
It's a very good one, most Nigerians football stars lack education.
Them no go school.
Apart from those born abroad, the homegrown ones lack education

robosky02:
Who say school na scam?

See Osimhen make money still dey find degree

was it school that made him those billions?
school owes no nobody one naira, those that fixed their mind on making millions after school, without activating their entrepreneurship mind is in for a shock. they are the ones that end up saying school is a scam

nairalanda1:
The problem was that when we got independence, we needed to replace all the white expats who held vital positons in the civil service, including in medicne and education, and we needed professionals...and since there were not many to begin with, jobs in those days were hotcakes. Even during my father's time as a student in the 70's...they had job fairs in the university ,where companies came to recurit students about to graduate (something you still see in saner climes, even in China).

As a result, a graduate graduating before 1980 could be guaranteed a good job and enough money to buy a car and even get a good enough house. Heck even secondary school leavers could get a good job with ease, and be driving cars long before their mates who went to uni graduated.

The problem was , in the 1980's onwards, because our economy was oil dependent, not industry and manufacturing dependent, the number of graduates outstripped the number of jobs available. And with the population rising beyond the ability of government revenue to sustain it, salaries started contracting. OIl price collapse in 1982, led to worsening inflation, and the ending of subsides, and worsening of services like power and light.

So, all of a sudden a graduate was no longer guarranteed a car and a house unilke before. Meanwhile, because of our import oriented economy, the people who left school to go into trading, those who were close to government and able to chop, and later scammers were the ones earning more and more money and buying the new cars and building the new houses, while university lecturers as early as 1988 were doing taxi business as side hustle (kabu -kabu).

So, in the minds of many generations since, school na SCAM.

"Saner climes" lmao 😂😅 Nigerians with inferiority complex.

Sonnobax15:

Good one.

Imagine a billionaire like osimhen still have the guts and zeal to say he wants to return back to school,but one small Yahoo boy wey him mama just pay 1000 dolls from her pension money go open mouth say school na scam

But then again,we all know it's not gonna be easy but at least we've heard how other ex players did it and were success on it.

But I hope he won't do that in any of these our current Nigerian universities cha, cuz,Even ordinary peller that went to his paparazzi school one time ago,the rate at which Nigerian bannies were stalking him,the werey had to drop out by force

Nigerians didn't resulted to the mantra "School na scam" because EDUCATION is scam.

The mantra was born out of the foundation of "School will give you a better life", "School will make you successful"... These was what was fed to Nigerians when Schools was introduced to Nigeria, our parents passed down same message to us. Like every lies, it's matter of time before the truth unveils itself... When reality sets in and the lies are revealed, the mantra was born.

School can't and neither is it a guarantee for success or better life.

School enlightens the minds, empowers you with knowledge... But it's never a guarantee or never a promised of success or better life.

If you start a good project on a bad foundation, be rest assured that it'll collapse... It's just the matter of time.

Nigerians were going to school because they seek success and better life... Go to school because you're seeking knowledge.

Helinuse:
And you usually wish you were as knowledgeable as they are.
That is, if you even have any fish, poultry, or you are just an online "I am a very big man."



Even the big boys in the Onitsha or Alaba market, although richer than their employees, will always wish they had the opportunity to be as learned as their employees.

But one small poultry farm guy simply thinks he is better than his employees because they are learned, and he is not, but employs them.

Don't ever quote me here again , am not your mate in terms of assets

Freshtruth:
Don't ever quote me here again , am not your mate in terms of assets

Normal rants of an online bigman.

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Omo tears almost run down my beautiful chic
Nawa

He can still be attending classes while playing. Many footballers have done it and still doing it