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I think this is a great post and it demands some careful analysis and considerations. This is an honest issue that every patriotic Nigerian should pay attention to. I also do not consider the post to be derogatory or targeted towards Indians in a hostile manner. I think it is important for us Nigerians to remember that the employment rate in Nigeria is terribly low and most of our graduates are unemployed. This consequently has caused a good amount of unemployed Nigerian graduates to consider illegal means of income e.g. 419 etc. While these illegal activities should not be condoned, we must acknowledge the cause and effect factor.

As most of us will agree, Nigeria has a lot of human capital and potentials. However, lack of fundamental vehicles needed to drive up development of our human resources is a tremendous challenge.

I do agree with most of the reasons earlier suggested by Big1:
Lack of Confidence, Lack of Trust, Decrepit Leadership Standard, Inferiority Complex, Confidentiality Concern, Slavery Mentality, Corruption Issues, Incompetence, and Deteriorated Educational Standard.

Even though these problems may appear to be very intricate and complex, I believe that there are reasonable solutions to these problems.

Employment of skilled Nigerians (at home and abroad) before considering professionals from other nationalities
As a Nigeria, it is easy for one to observe that Nigerians (Citizen, employers, and Government) have a lot of regards and respect for Nigerian professional in Diaspora. Hence, employer should consider recruiting Nigerian professional in Diaspora as well as highly experienced\ skilled home-based Nigerian. This might help build the confidence of Nigerian employer in Nigerian employees in general.

Advance training Institutes
Emergence of more specialized professional training institute will help bolster technical skills of Nigerian professionals.

Creativity (Just as Denex had suggested)
Nigerians should not wait for government and foreign investors. We all share responsibilities in developing this nation.

Please, I want to encourage everyone to participate in finding solutions to underemployment issues pervading the nation.

I wasn't sure where to place this thread, so i decided to create it in the politics section.

I have a serious concern about Nigerian lawyers and Judges wearing white wigs (or whatever it's called).
This was one of those white supremacist idealogies (that we ought to imitate them with everything even with our judicial system). This has been into play since the colonial era.

Do you guys think this should continue or not?

Anyway, Mbeki, a black president wore suit to the swearing - in ceremony of Yar' Adua same with the President of Ghana. Nelson Mandela, a foremost African, wears suit

And so?, does that imply that every African president must walk in there footsteps? I think it promotes the African culture when its leaders wear Native attires.

- The most important thing, first and foremost, is the "attraction" itself (either man-made or Natural). Kilimanjaro is located next to villages in Tanzania, and yet tourists troop in from all around the world. As long as basic infrastructure exists - that is roads, power and water supply etc.

I believe their is alway cause and effect, if tourism abounds, so will hospitality, transportation, entertainment industries etc. For instance, i personally think it is unwise for a businessman to invest money into building hotels hoping that tourists would soon come unless you have substantial proofs. If you visit downtowns of most states in the US you would find road (re)construction here and there,   this is mostly acceptable as long as the contructions do not deter transportation.

- Fdeveloper

Well said

- syskay

I hope Niajacutee and Bossman have aswered your question.

According to Forbes Magazine, Nigeria, among four other African countries, has experienced a high economic growth
.
Does this mean that Obj's rule was actually beneficial to Nigeria as a whole, and can one argue that his rule has been the best Nigeria has ever experienced?

Please share your thoughts on this,

http://www.forbes.com/topstories/home/feeds/ap/2007/05/14/ap3716494.html

- Here's a quick fix

Let "Mr Gorgeous" hit once - a few times if you like - and you should be okay.  Be careful not to get hooked 

I though it was interesting that OBJ's son is a Microsoft IT developer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_Obasanjo

@ Charliecode

Thanks for the tip!

@ScottN

"You hit the nail at the head". You can easily learn the fundamentals in School, but experience is needed to master design patterns and software engineering as a whole.

@enohj2ee
- Not bad write up though,
But, you didnt site your sources or references. That only forces readers to conclude that their is a lot of plagarism going.

Am suprised no one has mentioned Chinwetel Ejiofor. He has co-starred with some Oscar winning actors e.g Denzel Washinton, and Hilary Swank

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/awards

I found this unbelievable comment from the post in that link - quite shallow, and remarkably shameful.
"Condoning prejudice against your own people is in deed a shameful thing. " - moi

Seun Osewa said, 
Oh please, let's be reasonable. Do you think Nigerian managers are fools who just like to spend money for no reason? Protectionism will not bring any benefits to the country as a whole. Why would any company want to offer a job to foreigners if Nigerian graduates can actually do the job? No economy cannot develop without importing something from outside. We can employ highly trained expatriates and then ask them to please train our boys and girls.

6:09 PM

- The job opening is not seeking an astronaut, or rocket scientist. So why is it not open to the few Nigerians that have mastered the art. The ad did not even specify what level of experitise or years of experience needed. But the only thing precise about the ad was that it sort for "foreigners".

http://odili.net/news/source/2007/apr/24/206.html

- I wasn't really a big fan of Yar'adua, and i still don''t know much about him besides the fact that he is well educated (at least with a Masters degree)

I ran into an article that presented a good side of Yar'adua's career a student, lecturer, businessman, and politician - and this has almost swayed me to think that he might make a decent president - this does not imply that he is the most suitable for the post.

One of the things i find remarkable about Yar'adua is that he declared his asset when he became Governor of Katsina state.

Thus, i affirm that if he is inaugurated, he will become the Nigerian president with the best resume so far.

Does anyone have a conflicting view on this?

- IG

@rookie, please can you give me the names of the other chiefs (if there are any) on nairaland so that such
a mistake shouldn't be repeated

I was only kidding with my comment earlier!!

Ok. IG - You won the argument, but one thing you must know is that Sbucareer is a chief and mentor on Nairaland - he has paid enough dues in training lots of folks on this forum. so pls address him with respect

All passion aside, both JEE and .NET platforms have their own advantages and disadvantages.

I was a diehard Java 3 years ago, but let me say am kind of enjoying .Net now, eventhough VS2003 occasionally gets on my nerves- if you know what i mean.

I figured out the problem a while back.


Thanks, though

give me her number, so i can i help you find out if she loves you enough or not,

sbucareer:
Online banks don't use HTTP/HTTPS to get your details. They use RMI/RPC

Really, why use interprocess communication to interact with a web client; or are you talking about the bank HTTP server interaction with bank application engine?

Seun:
(Whether the software is made in Nigeria or not, the important thing is that Nigerians are being served.
We should export the things we are good at making and import the things we are bad at making <Econs 101>.)

I hope that was a joke though. Nigeria has a lot to gain if the Software Industry grow, and i think we have the human resources and potentials.
that would definitely attract more people to the field and open rooms for lots of jobs, and perhaps help reduce our dependence on oil revenue - (wishful thinking )

-- DJNiyi
Great point. I have been nursing a shallow ambition of starting a highly Nigerian market centric Software company. I will definitely thing of the bigger prospect you have mentioned.


-- Oke_amu
u sound like you stumbled into this forum by mistake. This is "Programming" Thread. All people talk about here might as well be called "High Tech", and some people earn their living by developing those high tech softwares. Having said that, do you even realized how much revenue a well developed IT sector can bring to the nations economy. Not to mention how many jobs it will provide in the future. Have you read about India's booming economy lately. India is still a developing nation, but their booming IT sector is rapidly changing things.

--even though, I have always disagreed with the notion that Nigerians are Arrogant, especially coming from fellow Africans (I feel a lot Africans that have strong contempt for Nigerians are simply envious)

However, I hate to agree with this notion, but arrogance (perhaps overly high self esteem) has been largely accepted and tolerated within the Nigerian society. What do you expect when you find yourself growing up and having house-helps, drivers, people give you more respect soon as they find out that you are either rich or from a wealthy home. More than likely, you will consider yourself to be more privileged and consequently more important than any less privileged around you.

This has led to increase in corruption and hunt for sudden wealth. An average Nigerian wants to be rich simply to oppress others or better still, take a revenge on other less privileged just as he or she had been once oppressed.

Now, if you go to a different society such as US. Most Nigerian will easily be perceived as arrogant.


Although, these characteristics are found in other societies and they are common with non-Nigerians as well, I am more concerned about Nigeria since I am one.

These days I take such criticism to be constructive, and not just discarding it simply because I think it sounds offensive or derogatory

N.A.S - true G

spoilt:
i own a house and when i bought it some people, who i will not name challenged me that why did i buy it in my name. that don't i know its forbidden as a woman in naija culture.

Did you ask them to tell you who forbade it?

-- If I'm not mistakened, This project was also open to anyone help in translating common english phrases, expressions etc. At one point I tried to contribute, then I realised that speaking regular Yoruba is a lot easier that writing Yoruba in it's proper form -- c'est complex sa ,

-- If I'm not mistakened, This project was also open to anyone. At one point I tried to contribute by helping with some translations, then I realised that it a lot easier to speak regular Yoruba than write Yoruba in it's proper form -- c'est complex

It's funny I was just teasing my girlfriend about this few nights ago (she's African American). I told her she had to go on her knees for every elderly person she meets in my family. The truth is that, she really doesn't have to do that - but that's just with my own family.

- Blakbeauty
I'd suggest you ask your boyfriend; he 's definitely the best person to anwser this question. Nigerian cultures and family background vary.

One important thing is that you should present yourself to be very nice, and humble.

I suppose an American PS2 would not work in Nigeria without a converter, right?

Does anyone know where I can find a PS2 coverter in Lagos?

Okay, the navigational/mapping site is cool, but you "hit the nail on the head" - "like google map" - so it's not an entirely new idea, but certainly a new mapping technology for Nigeria, Great stuff though

I have always thought to myself, how hard will it be to come up with genuine ideas for marketable IT solutions/services targeted towards the Nigerian market (against the present and future). Eventhough, one can consider borrowing from existing ideas (e.g eBay, CareerBuilders, Amazon, Paypal etc) and implementing them in the Nigerian system,

It seems to me like these days it's a lot harder to come up such completely new ideas


-- does anyone have any take on this?