the president is saying education is a scam make u go do Yahoo or go learn handwork so dat everybody will be ignorant and the elite class (their children) will continue to rule over us

baqina:


Sir, a medical doctor fresh from d University., without job,earning less than 100k and some being owed salaries......wat do u suggest they do

An engineer decided to think outside d box..Got necessary certificates in programming but without job decided to establish a computer school .Despite that he is still finding it funny.Students are not paying, fuel expense alone is 1,500 per day and their is rent,LG taxes....I can go on and on....

Your friends dt are graduates might be lazy and incompetent but not d few I know...Some of d females after graduation went back to study fashion designing,interior decorating,beads making, hairdressing,cakes etc and they are still finding it hard to survive, despite diversification of their degrees...chk Instagram ,u will see them

I believe we are saying the same thing. I apologize if i misunderstood you in beginning but i see your point. Education is good to have but our prevalent situation haa made its value worthless. Nonetheless, individuals must activate their creativity and self-improve by learning trade to keep their dignity intact.

Government must aid their effort and create environment to spurn consumption and commerce.

I give you 100%, you are correct!

baqina:


My graduated in Nigeria,left d country for her master's in d UK..Today,she is a writer and she survives and takes care of her bills as a writer.
Try and be a screen writer in Nigeria and see wat will become of u.

Nigeria graduates are not saying dey want to become instant millionaire after graduation... Government should please provide basic amenities for them to survive..I hv never had light for almost 2 weeks now and I spend N1000 on fuel alone...imagine if I was using it to run a business..how will I survive?.

Education that he is saying will not provide "eldorado" is even my right not a privilege.It is now left for me to decide wat I will do with it...Arsene Wenger studied economics and today he is a coach.

Isn't this in support of what he is saying? The person graduated in Nigeria...but did not sit down on the degree and expect to find El Dorado. He/She used it to move to a higher level and an environment where it can lead to Ei Dorado. Wenger got his.... but found another path to El Dorado which also supports the statement.

If degrees can't get someone into El Dorado, it means our educational system (Curriculum) needs serious overhauling. Entrepreneurship and IT were there to mould the students into the labour market, if it has failed it means the government has failed

Then why disturb yahoo boys? If degree is worthless what you still doing in schools?

Originalsly:


Isn't this in support of what he is saying? The person graduated in Nigeria...but did not sit down on the degree and expect to find El Dorado. He/She used it to move to a higher level and an environment where it can lead to Ei Dorado. Wenger got his.... but found another path to El Dorado which also supports the statement.

Yeah, you are right....if you read deep into baqina's position you will get the point.

Baqina is not disputing that education is not an el dorado.....but that even those who have stepped up their game and self-improved and become self-employed have realized clientele and consumer traffic is dry. Discretionary spending is low. So to buoy the economy and make more people spend, which will reward those on the side of Buhari's advise.....the government and even private sector should fund commerce.

moonbender:


Beggars in the UK and US has hope. ALL Americans can afford food.

Their case is like that of a child who has #100 but to that child, its small and term it poverty. While there are other children who will see #10 and jubilate and call themselves bigboys.

Almost all Americans can afford iPhone, but in Nigeria, only our celebs and those involve in frauds can afford it.

How many legit citizens can afford Benz in Nigeria? In America, its a normal car to them.

How many youths can afford a laptop and confidently go out to do legit business with it in Nigeria? But in the US and UK, young lads go to parks and public places with free internet access to connect to do business.

See let's stop deceiving ourselves. Nigeria is in a mess, people are suffering. Some people have no hope of today's meal.

As in. Most the cars we drive with pride here in Nigeria are seen as low class or cheap article over there. Nigeria is far behind. Anyone that uses the presence of poor people and the homeless in America to insinuat that things are hard everywhere and that America isn't much better of needs a resounding slap.

In America, a homeless man CAN start from scratch and work his way up but what are the chances for a homeless begger in Nigeria? Even graduates are miserable.

DeOTR:

The sad part of it is that, even those that developed themselves ended up being shortchanged.
A university degree is enough guarantee of good life in Nigeria if you have connections. Except you're exceptionally talented, you won't get anywhere without knowing someone in Nigeria.
Those that learned one skill or the other, how are they faring? Most of them are being paid peanuts compared to their counterparts in other countries.
I left my former employer when I realized our colleagues in other countries are earning almost ten times our pay in Nigeria for doing the same thing.
The country is messed up beyond repair, I had to leave. Smart people should do the same.
Nigeria will not move forward unless she starts to reward excellence.

I hope you will come back one day though. Cause if everybody jah who go remain na. And no it's not beyond repair.

baqina:


And who says everybody wants to be a millionaire?That is how we got it wrong in ds country and that is d reason d president also said "eldorado"...I know he means wealth but is total rubbish....wat we all want is for basic things of life to be in place..not everyone dt is craving to hv billions and trillions in account

What do u mean by folding of arms., Nigerians are some of d most hardworking people..Despite being educated,some are now Keke riders,okada riders.. Their are now many lawyers and medical doctors that are now tailors...In 2011,I saw a medical doctor being paid #70,000/month.some of them survive on locum..When he travels out for medicals,is he going there to meet babalawo?..If those doctors didnt acquire d education and their government investing heavily in their infrastructure,will he go there...he paid those people their and dt is "eldorado"

Both of u r right though. Buhari is for the most part right too.
The difference between us and the west is that while we r clamouring to be millionaires, the west constantly want an environment that will be conducive for their upcoming generation.
That brings us to the problem of the family, education and the government.
These days parents hardly buy their kids books and novels outside the normal school books. They don't even have libraries. I read things fall apart in primary school and books about earthquakes and demons and life, still in primary school. That period really shaped my thinking abilities. These days parents think about building houses in the village and in the city. It's so disgusting.
If the government has over the decades built factories, research centers, equipped schools and provided enabling environment for businesses to thrive, many people who finish school will have jobs.

So how does a blockhead finish from University and wants to make it when he or she cannot even use his brain becos he or she just went thru school as a routine? Especially as regards so many girls around?

Look at our hospitals. Even for nurses and doctors to get jobs is an uphill task. Now we can ask the government.... Is it rocket science to build hospitals and factories?
We can also ask rich private individuals..... Is it a crime to build same, instead of filling stations and plazas and supermarkets? ask our banks why they lay of staffs every year yet their CEOs get richer.

U see why it's a mentality thing?

moonbender:


Beggars in the UK and US has hope. ALL Americans can afford food.

Their case is like that of a child who has #100 but to that child, its small and term it poverty. While there are other children who will see #10 and jubilate and call themselves bigboys.

Almost all Americans can afford iPhone, but in Nigeria, only our celebs and those involve in frauds can afford it.

How many legit citizens can afford Benz in Nigeria? In America, its a normal car to them.

How many youths can afford a laptop and confidently go out to do legit business with it in Nigeria? But in the US and UK, young lads go to parks and public places with free internet access to connect to do business.

See let's stop deceiving ourselves. Nigeria is in a mess, people are suffering. Some people have no hope of today's meal.

Many sociologists and government officials have argued that poverty in the United States is understated, meaning that there are more households living in actual poverty than there are households below the poverty threshold. [89] A recent NPR report states that as many as 30% of Americans have trouble making ends meet and other advocates have made supporting claims that the rate of actual poverty in the US is far higher than that calculated by using the poverty threshold. [89] A study taken in 2012 estimated that roughly 38% of Americans live "paycheck to paycheck."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

Do you know the meaning of actual poverty? It means absolute poverty as against relative poverty.

baqina:


Their is no pure truth in what he said...his statement.."You are cautioned that university degrees do not usher you into an El Dorado"...this is a bad statement coming from a President. What will happen to fate of millions of students that are studying and seeing this statement from d president.
That students are not getting the right education is another topic entirely.They have subject themselves to the system ,it is now left for d government to ensure quality,student can't provide quality education.

Government led by d president is supposed to provide enable environment for u to succeed after ur studies but inferring that education will not quarantee future is absolutely wrong..Going for further studies supposed to be optional not for me to get my first job on that premise.

What do you expect from someone who did not get any form of higher education?
But he's training his own in the university o...bunch of nitwits!
Quite annoying coming from a whole President who should encourage especially his own people to read and stop the violence in his region

MetaPhysical:


Yeah, you are right....if you read deep into baqina's position you will get the point.

Baqina is not disputing that education is not an el dorado.....but that even those who have stepped up their game and self-improved and become self-employed have realized clientele and consumer traffic is dry. Discretionary spending is low. So to buoy the economy and make more people spend, which will reward those on the side of Buhari's advise.....the government and even private sector should fund commerce.

That is it. Buhari is a brand and ought not to hv uttered that statement.

Our graduates are hard-working.some have already diversified their certificate but still finding it to cope.The issue of electricity alone is a burden...It is shame dt in 2019, Nigerians are still carrying placards to hv light...

I am in charge of Fintech in my organization.Whenever we organise pitch and competitions ,if u see d number of ideas that will be displayed..These are Nigerians and some of them are even below 18...that is d basis of my argument

Buhari is not providing conducive environment for graduates to thrive ,yet saying dey should look elsewhere....Please,ask him...where is d elsewhere..?

dalass:

What do you expect from someone who did not get any form of higher education?
But he's training his own in the university o...bunch of nitwits!
Quite annoying coming from a whole President who should encourage especially his own people to read and stop the violence in his region

I tire oooo..some people left there comfort zones to provide education for his own people with their hard earned money and they president is saying education will not guaranteed them brighter future...If education will not,wat then will?

felixomor:

Is it not graduates that will be employed to solve the power problem?

Graduates in Nigeria solve power problem? I laugh hard!

famouscargo4u:


Not even in the US or UK are you guaranteed wealth for being a graduate, that exactly is the point. You might get jobs no doubt but it is not a leeway into success.

Nigga whats wrong with you? Not every body wants to be a billionaire, I for example desire not to be rich or poor, just pleased in all my endevours. what PMB said is hypocritical, d government should provide quality education & enabling environment,if they can do that,less than 10% will settle for their shi##y 8-4 jobs which hardly pays $300 monthly

Is that what you told your children after they finish from the university. You can go to Mr President.

Very very wrong statement at this moment in Nigeria history.

Pls who are the people advising Buhari? Pls where is this man wife?

Pls can't anyone who love or who hare Buhari tells him there are words you don't say in public or say looking at what is on ground around you?

Pls when will Buhari be alright? Because right now Buhari is not alright.

How did Nigerians voted for this man? Tinubu where art thou, look at the bad market you sold for Nigerians

baqina:


I tire oooo..some people left there comfort zones to provide education for his own people with their hard earned money and they president is saying education will not guaranteed them brighter future...If education will not,wat then will?

I wonder o. They just want people to be illiterates so they can continue to exploit them.

baqina:


Their is no pure truth in what he said...his statement.."You are cautioned that university degrees do not usher you into an El Dorado"...this is a bad statement coming from a President. What will happen to fate of millions of students that are studying and seeing this statement from d president.
That students are not getting the right education is another topic entirely.They have subject themselves to the system ,it is now left for d government to ensure quality,student can't provide quality education.

Government led by d president is supposed to provide enable environment for u to succeed after ur studies but inferring that education will not quarantee future is absolutely wrong..Going for further studies supposed to be optional not for me to get my first job on that premise.

It is what it is.. No be only Nigeria sef. . A university degree doesn't guarantee success

blowjohn:



Both of u r right though. Buhari is for the most part right too.
The difference between us and the west is that while we r clamouring to be millionaires, the west constantly want an environment that will be conducive for their upcoming generation.
That brings us to the problem of the family, education and the government.
These days parents hardly buy their kids books and novels outside the normal school books. They don't even have libraries. I read things fall apart in primary school and books about earthquakes and demons and life, still in primary school. That period really shaped my thinking abilities. These days parents think about building houses in the village and in the city. It's so disgusting.
If the government has over the decades built factories, research centers, equipped schools and provided enabling environment for businesses to thrive, many people who finish school will have jobs.

So how does a blockhead finish from University and wants to make it when he or she cannot even use his brain becos he or she just went thru school as a routine? Especially as regards so many girls around?

Look at our hospitals. Even for nurses and doctors to get jobs is an uphill task. Now we can ask the government.... Is it rocket science to build hospitals and factories?
We can also ask rich private individuals..... Is it a crime to build same, instead of filling stations and plazas and supermarkets? ask our banks why they lay of staffs every year yet their CEOs get richer.

U see why it's a mentality thing?

I know a little about d health sector and have doctors as friends...d sector is in a sorry State..just like I asked someone..A fresh medical doctor from d medical school,wat do u expect them to do?..how do u want them to think outside d box... getting house manship is like a war now ..Is he saying fresh medical doctors from college should gather themselves together and establish hospital?...

We all know d reality and gradually we are adjusting to it..but he should stop saying it wherever he goes that Nigeria graduates are not intelligent.

Jiang:


Nigga whats wrong with you? Not every body wants to be a billionaire, I for example desire not to be rich or poor, just pleased in all my endevours. what PMB said is hypocritical, d government should provide quality education & enabling environment,if they can do that,less than 10% will settle for their shi##y 8-4 jobs which hardly pays $300 monthly

My friend, you are right and we are on the same page but we must tell ourselves the truth. Hundreds of thousands of graduates universities churn out every year is too much foe the few companies to absorb especially because the country just exited recession so, we must always seek alternatives since the government has failed to live to its responsibilities.

moonbender:


Beggars in the UK and US has hope. ALL Americans can afford food.

Their case is like that of a child who has #100 but to that child, its small and term it poverty. While there are other children who will see #10 and jubilate and call themselves bigboys.

Almost all Americans can afford iPhone, but in Nigeria, only our celebs and those involve in frauds can afford it.

How many legit citizens can afford Benz in Nigeria? In America, its a normal car to them.

How many youths can afford a laptop and confidently go out to do legit business with it in Nigeria? But in the US and UK, young lads go to parks and public places with free internet access to connect to do business.

See let's stop deceiving ourselves. Nigeria is in a mess, people are suffering. Some people have no hope of today's meal.

man u just added 100 years to my age. thanks for dis bitter truth.

more than 2/3 of Nigeria's population is filled with hopeless hungry menial jobs citizens & no hope of d next meal & yet we look d other way tag people lazy even talking like we are super human than them.

in Nigeria a civil servant is owned 7-13 months salary & yet dis man will feed, pay school fees, rent, transport etc without any side hustle . nobody cares to know how he is surviving & we say we are fighting bribery & corruption. Nigeria is lost & is irredeemable with d way tins are. d populace are even d most dangerous in all aspect. from my years of experience

A man with no verifible O'level certificate has advised, 'hear yea him'.

Originalsly:


Isn't this in support of what he is saying? The person graduated in Nigeria...but did not sit down on the degree and expect to find El Dorado. He/She used it to move to a higher level and an environment where it can lead to Ei Dorado. Wenger got his.... but found another path to El Dorado which also supports the statement.

D last time I checked, Otedola gave Christian Chukwu money for his treatment...How many coaches are making it in Nigeria...How many screen writers can afford basic things of life in Nigeria..

I watched a documentary of a lady who studied Volcanoes in the USA with dt degree,d lady was able to live comfortably...Some of our friends here hv gone to study geography...After graduating,some hv gone into IT with no success,some have gone into personal business but grappling to survive...some decided to study up to PhD but are now writing projects for undergraduate to survive...some hv relocated abroad on a visiting visa and get hooked in d country....

Buhari avoided all d issues and d system and put d blame and d work on d graduates.

Killings from hearders would and BH would ba? Useless man

baqina:


Sir,u are not getting the point.Success and wealth is relative and means different thing to different people.

Are u aware in Canada sometimes back, medical doctors protested dt their salary is too much,they achieved that through education. Education supposed to be the right of every citizens and whatever they use it to do is up to them.

Education is the bedrock of every society and some nation's are spending heavily on it. Some nation's spend 20-30% of their budget on it and ours is saying it is not an "eldorado".How do we build our nation,how do we have engineers,medical doctors,teachers ETC,if we don't get educated. Buhari can not determine our eldorado,he is supposed to provide an enabling environment dt will make me survive.

The statement is not supposed to be coming from d president whose region has d highest number of illitrates and out of school children.

True bro, and with the rise of unemployment and the increase of illegal jobs he shouldn't have said what he said. He could have instead try and encourage the youth but well God bless Nigeria.

BluntBoy:


Many sociologists and government officials have argued that poverty in the United States is understated, meaning that there are more households living in actual poverty than there are households below the poverty threshold. [89] A recent NPR report states that as many as 30% of Americans have trouble making ends meet and other advocates have made supporting claims that the rate of actual poverty in the US is far higher than that calculated by using the poverty threshold. [89] A study taken in 2012 estimated that roughly 38% of Americans live "paycheck to paycheck."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

Do you know the meaning of actual poverty? It means absolute poverty as against relative poverty.

So are you trying to justify the poverty the level in Nigeria? Are you saying Nigerians enjoy more than majority of the Americans, are you trying to say the useless government in Nigeria are right by owing workers salary for months? Are you saying people enjoy basic amenities in this rotten country? ARE YOU SAYING POOR NIGERIANS HAS HOPE OF BETTER TOMORROW? Have you eaten today? if yes, what? Are you satisfied? Can you say you haven't lamented on how things are difficult in this soak away called Nigeria? Have you travelled to other countries? If NO, then you have to. And if YES, you should ignore that trash and propaganda on Wikipedia.

I RISE........CO...URT!

sarrki:
True talk

Olodo..

Agreeing with every silly talk.

Education refers to mastery not necessarily university degrees..

Martinez39:
As in. Most the cars we drive with pride here in Nigeria are seen as low class or cheap article over there. Nigeria is far behind. Anyone that uses the presence of poor people and the homeless in America to insinuat that things are hard everywhere and that America isn't much better of needs a resounding slap.

In America, a homeless man CAN start from scratch and work his way up but what are the chances for a homeless begger in Nigeria? Even graduates are miserable.

TRUE!

famouscargo4u:


I know some of the suppliers in my company who make over 200m a year without a high school certificate. People without degrees do well in Nigeria too. All in all, this nation has failed us all.

JAMB should be scrapped then. Why are people been deceived to go to school?