Bodyodour:
mhen!! After 5 years in Nigerian university plus one year in law school.

osamz007:


you for put small salt na

Bodyodour:
wait, law, philosophy and English teaching don't have value over there?

Bodyodour:
Why is it only science related courses that is mostly discussed on nairaland travel section ? Is it that art courses are useless? We art graduates also want to travel abroad too. You guys should try and discuss art courses lucrative abroad,please. Not every time engineering, medicine and IT.

Art is very underated here

Abroad dey hungry us too.

Bodyodour:
wait, law, philosophy and English teaching don't have value over there?

Bodyodour:
wait, law, philosophy and English teaching don't have value over there?

Sysdatek:


Studying law these days is a waste of time

apolonius:

I have lived in the UK for 11 years, and Canada for some years. While I studied in the former to PhD level, I did art(law). It has served me well.

I can speak confidently about the UK and Canada. Ask questions, if you have.

Sysdatek:


Studying law these days is a waste of time

Gerrard59:


Art courses are largely country dependent. Nigeria's Law degree is useless outside the country but not for medicine or engineering. Also, in jobs' availability, even their citizens face low prospects and salaries. Check the lamentations by PhD grads in history, philosophy, political science etc. Now, compare to science based courses and you will see the difference. Someone with a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton will quickly get a job anywhere in the world over his counterpart with a PhD in history from the same institution.

It's what it's.

Bodyodour:
wait, law, philosophy and English teaching don't have value over there?

Mindlog:


Also Psychology which is social science. For example, graduate in Nigeria with a minimum of 2.1 in Psychology and apply to obtain UK's Graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (that designates one as an Assistant Psychology by UK standard), do a one year masters in a subfield that would get you a job upon graduation especially in mental health facilities where one can work part time even while studying. Switching to Ireland also becomes an easier option.

Bodyodour:
mhen!! After 5 years in Nigerian university plus one year in law school. :
Yes with all the impunity and failing students, Almighty that decides, even in Nigeria some law graduate earn 20k after all the impunity and highhandedness -[

Gerrard59:


It's even useless in Nigeria because the country is lawless. You can become a lawyer abroad by taking courses and and country specific qualifying examinations but compared to your engineering counterpart, it takes a long while.
It's pathetic and the impunity in that school no be here

SegFault:

What kind of useless talk is this? Those so called large companies when they enter trouble na shrine then de go.

MufasaLion:


Law is a useless course in Nigeria. Sadly, Nigerians don't know yet.
Hmm stop it after all the impunity and highhandedness?

Exodora:
All ya saying useless us social work useless over there too cause my cause is a social worker .
Nobody should say my German language is also useless before Donner feuer das linke Gesäß der Person .

CodeTemplar:



Food production mechanization, transport, communications and internet, construction, roads, cars, healthcare, household items production are all science driven. Any society that wants to get ahead mustn't play with those. That's why the developed nations prioritize them.

uuzba:

You can only practice law in the country you studied it.
I know one Nigerian guy that went to UK to study law, following them to speak big English.
When it came time for work, nobody will employ him. Because no white man will like a black Nigerian to be his lawyer in their own country again.
No way.
Hunger wan kill guy man.
And the law is useless in Nigeria.
The guy now got idea to be helping fellow Nigerians and Africans with Visa immigration problem. Since it's only black people that will like to use his service. The black people will not like to go to White lawyer. The white lawyer will not even defend them sef. He too will want them to lose and get out of his country.

apolonius:
I haven’t logged on to post for awhile but for the silly generalizations on this topic.

Art courses are relevant and useful in the West just like science courses. It depends on where you are, what you want, what you know and who is guiding you.

I have lived in the UK for 11 years, and Canada for some years. While I studied in the former to PhD level, I did art(law). It has served me well.

I know many who read art courses who are doing well in the financial, legal, healthcare, business and hospitality industries in Canada.

In short, they read these courses from places like Abia, Osun, Ebonyi, Delta, Ogun and Ekiti states.

I know science graduates too.

Through the Canadian NCA process, I have met and continue to interact with many Naija lawyers trying to practice here. Some work in courts, law firms and big professional services firms like PWC, Deloitte, Denton...while writing their licensing exams.

The licensing exams that Naija lawyers write are also written by American, British and Australian lawyers who want to practice law in Canada. It’s not peculiar to Naija lawyers.

Naija and other African doctors even face greater and tougher pathways to getting licensed here.

Engineers, nurses and teachers from across the world face licensing requirements and demands here too. Reason?

...Traditional professions are elitist and regulated to ensure credibility, control and compliance, and standardization.

In Canada, the UK, the US and co, all immigrants go through processes and seasons to settle in. Reason? We were not born here, didn’t study here and couldn’t have built the organic network for easy ascension.

It takes time to study, graduate and work in Naija where we were born and raised. It’s not abnormal and it is expected to take same, if not longer time, away from home in societies that are many decades, if not centuries, ahead of ours.

Over 30,000 Nigerians moved to Canada since 2015...The opportunities and areas of accomplishments and struggles are diverse across science and the arts.

Guys, do your research before you generalize.Stop listening to single and half stories of people who are determined to stay in their comfort zones on the sidelines of these societies.

I can speak confidently about the UK and Canada. Ask questions, if you have.
I have a brother who study law and graduate with a strong 2.2 will he have a chance, because law in Nigeria is something else after all the impunity

Bodyodour:
wait, law, philosophy and English teaching don't have value over there?

StacyO:
Kukuma switch to science na.

heendrix:


ion know why I've always loved to study psychology but I feel God knows better for me getting admission in Agriculture n wildlife

But is it possible to switch to Psychology when I want to do Masters??

candygist:


You wan go teach UK citizen how to speak English ?