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Double post.

Free2Fly:
We want realities, bro, not assumptions.

My assumptions and realities are not mutually exclusive. I simply painted a scenario where "I just got married, no kids yet, and the house is currently run on a single income".

Can those things not happen or are they not things we see across today's Nigeria?

yemmit90:
Rent are costly in Osun too o, especially Oshogbo and Ile-ife. More costly than majority of places in Ibadan. The way things are going now, people might start moving to the core villages, especially those that don't have good jobs in the cities.

Yahoo boys are one of the reasons for such exorbitant rent. When I did a short academic exercise there a decade ago, rent, food and transport were dirt cheap. Now some good-for-nothing agents now throw prices around for a town with barely any reasonable commercial activity.

I mean you can drive around the entire Osogbo through and through in under two hours. That's how small it is. OP is better off staying in Ilorin, Kwara State. It's still affordable, decent and less cutthroat than Ibadan.

The two western states that I'll recommend for you are Ekiti and to a lesser extent Osun. If you eschew the current geopolitical setup, Kwara would have been your best bet. It's western in everything but name.

The three has nice weather, low cost of living, fairly easy traffic, affordable food and housing, easy to navigate to the North and deeper South.

Shut your ears to anybody that says you are living in "a village". Let them supplement your income if they want you to live in Lagos.

Here's my own breakdown on three assumptions:

i. This is my family's sole income,
ii. Also that I am newly married with no kid,
iii. I am living in either a tier 2 or 3 state (e.g Ebonyi, Kwara, Gombe etc).

Here's how I'll spend it:

Feeding/Groceries: 100,000
Savings: 60, 000
Transportation: 50,000
Wife's allowance: 22,000
Utility (Gas & Estimated NEPA hill): 15,000
Laundry & Toiletries: 15,000
Charity: 7,000
Airtime & Data: 15,000
Relish: 15,000
TOTAL: 300,000

Bluna:
300k monthly is approximately 3.6 million annually. That's not really a big amount, if you're not careful you may expend everything on feeding and family/personal expenses with no meaningful savings. A businessman like me will rather join a cooperative society, saving 40% of the monthly income with them. After a year, I will seek for a loan of N3 million to invest in my business.

Wow. Saving 40% on that income is too aggressive. How would your family (let's assume you have a wife and one child) feed of that's your sole income (let's assume again that your family is a one-income family.)?

WriterrNg:
Lmaooo 🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😭

Lindsey Graham death just dey amuse me since morning.

The lousy oaf finally kicked the bucket.

The Palestinians and all the peace-loving people in the world will celebrate his death, just as Pharaoh's death was celebrated some millennia ago.

The oloriburukus (pardon my harsh language) oppress, torture and kill people as if they'll live for a thousand years. Two or three short months ago, this dead, filthy Chihuahua was gloating about the death of the innocents, now he's about to be welcomed to where he deserves to spend his eternity. Very vile human being!

Their actions mirrors that of the devil in everyway possible. Donald Dumb is already an octogenarian and Satan.yahoo is almost one too, but they still commit genocide like nobody's business.

One thing is for sure, once their useless time is over, they'll be consigned to the dirtiest trash in history where the filthy memories of their horrible mentors dwell.

soccerlite:
Lamba!! Lies!!!

First, they can sack anyone as far as the company isn't someone family business

Job time is 8:30am to 4:30pm any other is paid overtime and Saturday is 9 - 12

They even give allowance for outside duty


Any other thing you stated above might even be false too

It doesn't speak so well of you to trash his experience as outright lies, especially if you are not working for them. What he wrote is the norms (not the exception) in these types of company.

There are (though few) good Lebanese, Chinese and Indian companies that try as much as possible to operate with Global Best Practices in Nigeria. They exist and pay well, and respect your work-life balance to a large extent.

Things might have changed no doubt, but you ought to have asked for his length of years, with them and department.

Experiences can differ even in the same company depending on some of the metrics I listed above.

pook:
You don't need connect to get their job. You will get it easily and same time leave or lose it easily. Top league companies are tough to enter not this Jubaili. Infact if you are merit, they might not give you, they prefer to give those they can manipulate and will feel grateful for the job.

Right on point, you know these people very well and I totally understand you.

All these foreign Asian companies get levels and some are quite good with decent pay. If not for high unemployment in the country, why should young Nigerians be exploited, working working 9hours daily, Mon-Sat with with barely 3 days annual vacation? They hardly even respect National holidays.

I've made several comments about these low-tiered Lebanese/Chinese/Indian companies in the past. They prefer robots; people that only take orders without using their initiative. They are also famous with using their staff till the point of full exhaustion. This is in addition to subtle or overt racism that they'll show you.

If you're intelligent, a self-starter and strong-willed, you can't stay with them for long. It's a pity that the Nigerian environment is still not supporting high-level entrepreneurship in other areas other than Tech.

I mean FMCG and Agribusiness is very key to Nigeria's future. But sadly, indigenous companies are not really getting the strong support they need. I'm not talking about all these 2-3M loans with cut-throat interest from the government. I'm talking of mid to high-end double digit loans (with ZERO interest) and grants coupled with strong logistics and material support from the government.

Sorry about your ordeal, at least you left with your dignity intact. Some people, sadly would leave without their dignity and lose one or two limbs in addition.

sacajawea:
Though only the connects will get it.
This is just .....

Do you know and fully understand this?
Like the likelihood of you a regular, applying even if you are very qualified and all

Regular company jobs hardly require connects, except it's some high-level companies that has deep roots in Nigeria and West Africa They thrive on skills and merit.

XTruth:
Lol Nigeria still dey sleep. These na country were dey on sanction for 5 decades..

Iran has proven if any leader want to work he will.we can't even start ajaokuta steel mill for years. Still import nearly all our munitions..

We just never ready.

There was even a time during Obj's tenure where they wanted to help us with our refinery and electricity problem. But it failed. A big minus for Obj...

Anyways the US is less than 300 years old while the Persian civilization is over 5 millennials old has seen the rise and fall of countless superpowers. The US cannot be an exception. It's only a matter of time.

That's why I laugh when I see US bootlickers berate the Persians. The Chinese, Persian and Indian civilizations may endure (in some forms) till the very end of history as we know it.. All indications shows that Uncle Sam will capitulate as a superpower before it's 300th birthday.

So let them continue and make the mistake of sending ground forces to Iran, they'll soon realize what the previous empires faced and tasted.

Rarre:
From s4 finale
how did Sophia and dat fat clara walk into each house, take all the talismans, and not get noticed or caught by the residents?
The different plot holes this season is too much, from the Julie story walking storyline and all

At this point na to gather beat shege commot from the production crew's body. It's too ridiculous, not caught even once. Their ability to neatly wrap up Season 5 is greatly in doubt now.

At least they could have show MiY/Sophia using a psychic power of sort to know if a house is empty of it's inhabitants or not. Just showing this once or twice is enough. That way we'll be somehow convinced.

I don't even want to go into the rest of the plot holes, just completely majoring in the minors.

Rapmoney:
One thing you should know about academic success in children as a parent is the fact that the academic success of your child starts from early years and it has more to do with you rather than the educational system.

Oftentimes, parents blame schools for the academic lapses and shortcomings of their children instead of looking inward. I am not in anyway saying that schools should be absorbed from blames as regards to poor academic performance in children, but what I am saying is that everything begins with the parents.

For most of us who are Millennials, I would excuse our parents and grandparents more than the way I would excuse Millennial parents who are currently raising Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids. This is because for us who are Millennials, our parents and grandparents were not as exposed as parents of today. They did not have internet; neither did they have Open Source Learning and other modern learning tools and platforms. Today, these things are easily accessible to anyone who wants to make use of them.

I have compiled some ways that parents can use to raise brilliant children in Nigeria where the government does little to fund education and improve the standard. Take note that this post is not AI generated, but has been compiled by me based on the fact that I was in the academia for years as a Learning Support Head before switching to another career.

1. Start very early: Yes! This is the first step. Start very early. By age 2 to 3, you should start reading to your child. Make good use of pictures and colours. Children love both and are usually captivated by them. Use the alphabet to make songs. You can go further by connecting sounds to letters. This should be done in a fun and playful way. This is one of the reasons why parenting is intentional.

2. Make them see reading as fun and not punishment: While growing up, our parents screamed at us to read our books. Some children were even flogged mercilessly and denied food for not studying. That is a wrong way of cultivating the culture of reading in children. When you make children see reading as a punishment instead of fun, it is a already a pathway to academic problems. The resultant effect is that the child pretends to be studying when you are around, but goes back to whatever he or she has been doing as soon as you step out. At the age of 6,7 and probably 8, you should read with your child/children. Listen to them while they read, and ask them to analyse stories and answer questions when they are done. When they understand that reading is fun, it becomes a natural habit.

3. Reduce the amount of entertainment time: This is one reason why many children perform poorly academically. The amount of time they have for entertainment far outweighs the amount of time they spend on studying. Too much movie watching, countless hours playing video games, etc can slow the academic growth of a child. Some parents even act abnormally by giving their phones to their kids to play games. The child can spend hours on the phone while his/her homework is left undone. Schedule time for your kids. There should be time for studying and time for entertainment. Entertainment time should not be anytime. While the school do theirs, do your own part as a parent, and do it diligently. If your child still cannot read at the age of 7, you should be worried.

4. Buy novels for your kids: Apart from confidence, do you know why some people are better speakers than others? It is because they possess a larger collection of vocabularies. Novels enable children to learn new words and improve their vocabulary. Buy books for them and encourage them to read. Don't be upset when your child is not given the opportunity to address guests at the school's graduation ceremony. The child who has been chosen for that might have a larger collection of vocabulary than your child.

5. Teach your children how to think and not what to think: If you can afford a school that uses the British curriculum, do not hesitate on that. The difference between the British curriculum and the Nigerian curriculum is that the former teaches children how to think, but the latter teaches children what to think.

Look at this example:

The Lost Wallet

Chidinma and Musa were walking home from school when they found a wallet on the roadside. Inside were some money and an identity card. Instead of keeping it, they took the wallet to their class teacher.

The next day, the owner came to the school. He thanked the children for their honesty and explained that the wallet contained money he needed for his small business. The head teacher praised Chidinma and Musa during the morning assembly.

The children learnt that honesty is rewarded and that doing the right thing helps others, even when no one is watching.

Now, critically look at these questions:

Nigerian Curriculum
Answer the following questions
1. Where was Chidinma and Musa coming from?
2. What did Chidinma and Musa find?

British Curriculum
Answer the following questions
1. What do you think would have happened to Chidinma and Musa if they had kept the wallet that they found?
2. Rewrite and improve this story by adding two more paragraphs.

You can clearly see how the British curriculum challenges learners to think, while on the other hand, the Nigerian curriculum expects the child to answer questions robotically by picking answers straight from the passage.

Lastly, with all what I have posted here, if you don't have the mental strength or capacity to embark on this as parents, you are leaving the academic progress of your child solely on the school, its system, and the society at large. This is the more reason why you should be intentional with who you are getting married to.

I am Rapmoney. Thank you.

You have a very strong piece, which is commendable. But it's missing one critical thing, the glue that holds everything together. Nutrition.

As a parent, you may get every other thing right, but if you derail concerning your child's nutrition, then the final result will be very sub-par.

Calibrator:
Done with Ozark season one.

Really hope the subsequent seasons are worth the hype.

It's not worth it at all, except you can stomach all the woke nonsenses that the show would shove at your face across the rest of the seasons. Even the main focus of the show which is money laundry is unreal and inaccurately portrayed.

The main actor, Marty Bryde gets pushed into the background and everything rapidly goes downhill from there. Better to rewatch Godfather of Harlem than waste your time on the rest of the seasons.

eepeepook:
I’m joking because your thread is pointless. Tradition dictates that men should be the head of the home. It is not so in many cases. There are some households where the abused child is the woman’s relative. Once the man tries to put things in order, a family meeting is called where her uncles and aunts will choose to berate his authority. We all know once bitten, twice shy. The man will look away and do his thing. Also, the husband wasn’t the one who did the abusing. What concerns him in the matter?

I believe you're joking with the submission you made above? A man with his head intact should not allow any form of abuse. I fully support the OP, the man also ought to be arrested for aiding and abetting a crime.

As long as you live under the roof and authority of a responsible man, you have no right to abuse anybody relative or not. Discipline is different from abuse, the former is acceptable, but the latter must never be tolerated. Carry the child to your relative's house and abuse, not his.

Project Nigeria will be a reality.

educatedfool:
America's wealth measurements can be misleading because they are based largely on asset prices, which can be inflated by speculation.

Spot on! Elon Musk is as rich as the Wall Street guys want him to be. Welcome to America Voodoo Economics 101. Let him try and liquify his shares to the tune of $1bn as watch how his networth will crash!

The wealth is speculative and not real substance. In reality he's very cash poor. Uncountable number of people across the world are richer than him in real cash.

The richest Forbes Billionaire in liquid terms remains Bill Gates.

WriteerNg:

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On paper.

That mf fit no get reach $800 million in cash anywhere.

My Oga, $800M you say? He no fit get $100M in raw cash I tell you. He's cash poor o. When it comes to liquid cash Bill Gates remains the richest Forbes Billionaire by a very large margin.

Sorry please, it's a double post.

mrmayormedia:
You are not sensible

He's very sensible and that statistics is a fraudulent one. Why will you compare a less than one term to two full terms. Is this what The Guardian newspaper has been reduced to? How do you people even sleep at night??!

We did not borrow in Naira but USD. Also was Naira 1380NGN to 1 USD during Buhari's tenure? As at May 2023, Naira was around 500NGN to 1USD which makes PMB's borrowing to be around NGN16trn as at May 2023 when he handed over to PBAT!

PMB borrowed and at least we had N-Power, a more stable Naira, a stable fuel price, greater gain in Agriculture, more visible projects, lesser tribalism, stronger international reputation. What has PBAT, the first class Accountant done with his own loan? PMB is better than this current disaster in nearly every indices!

Don't cite white elephant projects please, because Nigeria has never had it this bad!

Kukutente23:
Why should the national police council appoint commissioners of police for the states
Why not have state police councils and why should state police not be headed by inspector generals instead of commissioners? I hope they are not trying to make commissioners of police ultimately subservient to the Federal police

Finally, someone is seeing through the whole smokescreen. The state police forces are supposed to be autonomous and only skeletally regulated by the overall policing body.

In addition, they also left a loophole by giving the provision that the Police Council can veto the orders of the state governor to the State Police Force if it's inconsistent (without defining what in consistency means) with policing standards. This means that the president can interfere with the affairs of each and every state police.

They're are not yet serious with the creation of a state police because this is still NPF promax. Make the state police autonomous, defining the arms and carriage limits, their scope etc, these people should behave like an organized institution for once and let's rest abeg!

maearies:
Thank you for this! Was the 800k paid at once or split across the semesters? And if it was split what’s the rough estimate for each semester?

You're welcome. It's split across the semesters. Tuition should be in the range of 170-220k per semester.

Ironfaceman:
This group of clowns are not serious at all. You have the western security network, you have OPC, you have hunters, you have vigilantes. Yet you are crying for state police.

It is a shame that Yoruba leaders can not call their son Pres. Tinubu to order.
The same Tinubu that declared state of emergency in rivers state because of insecurity.

He's now turning a blind eye on Borno state, yobe state, Katina state and sokoto state. All these states mentioned are in United state list of terrorist hub.

Yoruba One Voice Worldwide should call on
Pres. Tinubu to declare state of emergency in those states that are over run by jihadist.

Nigeria is facing jihadism and not banditry

Jihadism indeed. You made sense all through, but ruined it with that last line. I guess the drug addicts below that can barely bath properly and you can almost smell their dirtiness from the screen are the ones to carry out "Jihadism" right?

The hundreds of people murdered in Kaiama LGA, Kwara State by these non-entities were traditional worshippers right?

Until we stop allowing hypocrisy to blind us, the treasonous traitors in the country will continue to sabotage this nation.

Charbliss90:
State security? Una funny o, when state don't have power to have their security apparatus? This your type of politics can only be played on video game 😂 this is the same way you people pushed the man to his present problems

Who said anything about creating a full-blown state security outfit? You have probably not grasped how that game should have been played. This is why governors ought to surround themselves with technocrats and intelligent people, and not use all political positions as a form of compensation.

The law does not stop any governor from creating pseudo-security organizations like; Vigilante groups, Amotekun, Forest Guards etc. What Fubara could have done was create one and call it something like Rivers Neighbourhood Community Watch. He should remove triggering words like Security, Police, Crime, Corps etc. from the name.

Once done he should make it known that they are meant to improve stability in their communities and assist the police, yes assist. Then he can explore every type of arms and security tools permitted at state level. Allow the NPF, NSCDC, NA etc to train them. In fact he should go above and beyond by sponsoring them outside for “training” and heavily invest in PR and make it known that they exist to foster peace.

Thereafter, he should make sure that these ones become present in every single state event and functions, station them in State schools, agencies and institutions. Then he should follow it up with an Executive Order that people seeking jobs and similar intent from the Rivers State Government have to obtain a clearance form from this outfit that would now have branches all over the state. This will increase their relevance and recognition. Then most importantly he should deploy them to polling booths in the recently concluded LG Elections, and he’ll have crystalized one of their functions in the mind of the people.

But all these I guess is Astrophysics right?

May Project Nigeria be a successful one for us all.

Racoon:
They stood on a mandate but not with the people. Now the master strategist of the fraudulent and evil mandate have so much dealt with them that they can't sing anymore.

Remain Desmond and Co to cry next . They all failed to get their long spoon when dining with the devil. Obi, and his guy, Kwankwaso will be laughing now.

Many of these aggrieved politicians will cut deals with them. They will not only sabotage the winners of the primaries, but they will particularly sabotage the president. The final nail on the coffin will be when Fubara loses the Rivers primaries. Let's see how much the governors' can do to prevent the loud sabotage that's coming!

Sonnobax15:

This option A4 really exposed many of our politicians . Unlike when it used to be delegates.

Imagine those senators who decamped but failed to win the APC ticket. They'll definitely work against Tinubu.

The anti-party would be very loud and disgraceful from now till 2027. They will adopt the stance of "If I can't win, then the president and others won't"

There's a reason why NDC extended their deadline for HoR and the Senate. They've anticipated all these. . Anyways, we've got no pity for any of them!

Sonnobax15:

This option A4 really exposed many of our politicians . Unlike when it used to be delegates.

Imagine those senators who decamped but failed to win the APC ticket. They'll definitely work against Tinubu.

The anti-party would be very very loud and disgraceful from now till 2027, and with pain in their hearts, they will ensure that the master strategist gets out-strategized, because they will adopt the stance of "If I can't win, then the president and others won't win too." AMINDA and Iweada had been very right in their analysis all along.

There's a reason why NDC extended their deadline for HoR and the Senate. They've anticipated all these fallouts.

A very lovely and sweet-smelling fruit. It has a way of making your refrigerator smell sweet.

samdaisi:
They came out with the ridiculous cut off mark because of the northerner, if they fixed the jamb cut off mark around 185 to 200 90% of them will not gain admission.

Where did Sam Daisi got this data from or is still the dem-say, dem-say statisshit that used to fly around?

Be very guided when making unfounded claims.