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Lol, this werey is finally going home meanwhile about eight years ago he talked a good game about making the nation thrive. Thoughts and prayers to the citizens whose life he made a living hell in his disastrous administration.

ZooOga:
Donald vs Ronald ... Early presidential primary battle rounds. see beer bottle in the hand of under age youth? lolz.

Trump shares old photo of DeSantis appearing to party with teen girls when he was teacher

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-shares-old-photo-desantis-224500065.html

Lol, but he doesn't need this. DeSantis has zero strikes against him.

Nbote:
I don't think d train option at the Abuja airport is up and running yet

What about MMIA ??

bukolatitus:
I congratulate him on the achievement and rejoice with his parents. Nigeria will be great after all

Lol, the boy is all American as they come.
Nigeria can only be changed by it citizens after all you've got over 200M of them, folks like this kid may wanna identify with their root but that is where it ends.

Obviously there's two international airport - MMIA and Nnamdi Azikiwe Int'l airport, just wanna know if any of it has rail transit option like Gautrain in O.R tambo Int'l airport in South Africa.

Yankiss:
Dangote will not sell cheap PMS. His monopoly of cement is telling on Nigerians. We should brace up for the outcome. He is chasing to amass dollars and become the Forbes richest man in the planet, not the welfare of me and you!

Lol.
Dangote, richest man on the planet will always be a Yankee.

Lol, poverty did a really good number on the kid but the sad thing is he stuck with that asshole who have no clue about governance.

Jokerman:
You can imagine.

No wonder some clowns are thinking the US military is weak because of rubbishes as these....

Unenlightened, Lol.

Gerrard59:
All you have stated here is true.



While the rest of this post is true, the bold is not really true. But I do agree that there exists social mobility and many economic opportunities for even the most ambitious truck-pusher or factory worker. For instance, the CHIPS Act in the US will usher in many high-paying jobs, even for those without a college degree.



At the first bold, the average Nigerian politician is very wicked and cruel. This stems from the fact that the average Nigerian can be very wicked to his neighbour, especially if the person is of a different ethnic group. The politicians in Nigeria do not come from another place. They are also Nigerians and are supported by fellow Nigerians, even those who later relocated support these politicians.

At the second bold, the way I see it, unless there is a marked economic difference between a bachelor and a married man, the latter tends to be better economically placed than the former. That is, those males who got married are doing pretty well. On the other hand, average income earners do marry - the truth is: the average Nigerian, male or female, looks forward to getting married. The percentage of those who wish not to get married for whatever reason, even if they are doing well financially, is very low. Their views just get the widest attention due to tweets, posts & videos, but the percentage is very low.

As for my direct classmates/schoolmates, most are females, and like I stated, almost all are married. Even the ones who flirted in school are married and have children. I know too many, which is why alfa meil posts dey make me laugh. Nigerian men will keep marrying non-virgins no matter what they whine about. The single ones wish to remain so, not because they do not have suitors. In fact, I know two that if they say they are marrying next week Saturday, they will get wedded.

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Well, to be fair, semi-skilled workers are appreciated in countries where the population is very low, and the economy is very prosperous. In highly populated countries that are not prosperous, labour becomes very cheap, thus, leading to poor wages for those without university degrees. An instance is the Philippines and Indonesia. Contrast is the US and Switzerland. The higher the population of a country and the poorer it is, the lower the wages for semi-skilled workers.

Secondly, yes, by ensuring ports in the South-South work just as those in Lagos, economic opportunities will spread across the country. The other day, Udom of Akwa Ibom was lamenting how approval for the Ibom Deep Seaport has not materialised upon his continuous request, whereas that of Lekki was quickly approved. If the IDSp works, it makes no sense for someone in Cross River, Benue or Adamawa to move to Lagos to earn good money or export his/her products. It is a major reason I admire the US. Very few Texans move to California for economic opportunities unless the salaries are very high or it is very specialised. Why should he or she move when there are so many economic opportunities within the oil industry (excluding tech, biotech, logistics, manufacturing etc)?

Another thing is security. There are families which own massive farmlands in Nebraska and Iowa which have had generations working there, and they make good money coupled with support from research institutes and the government. Nothing bothers them with Fulani herdsmen. They cultivate, harvest and ship their crops to buyers worldwide via the nearest states with ports. If Nigeria was working as even Brazil, why should a family abandon their farmland in Plateau or Kaduna and move to Abuja doing menial jobs where they could make consistent revenues in those northern states? The farmer in Benue will have nothing to do in Abuja or Lagos, just cultivate and transport via Rivers or Akwa Ibom. I once envisaged the lifestyle - own farmlands in Plateau or Taraba, cultivate, process, package and transport to the world via Rivers or Akwa Ibom. But security is paramount as one needs a sense of stability.

Also, due to the low cost of living in the north, many southerners who found it too hard to compete in the south would have moved there. Simply obey the customs, do your business/work and live a simple life. Most individuals worldwide do not aim to be wealthy but just want a society that provides security, prospects and average economic opportunities. It is why very few citizens of richer countries migrate to other countries, and even when they do, they migrate to their richer counterparts.



That is what Ndi alfa meils do not know. Our women are actually very family-oriented, but successive years of economic penury and insecurity have destabilised households making them toil endlessly when ordinarily, women are not built for that. Na why I dey always preach say Nigerian men have failed their women. https://www.nairaland.com/6643241/nigerian-men-failed-women

Developing a country is not difficult these days. There are many templates to choose from; tweak them and paste. South Korea copied the Japanese, the Japanese copied the westerners. China copied the Singaporeans, and so on. The last eight years have been terrible for most Nigerians, and should they vote for Tinubu, it is going to be catastrophic.

Wait, you think the miracle on the Han river was copied from Japanese economic miracle, i thought the developmental process of both countries was happening almost the same time.

t2luv1:
That speech encapsulates everything that is the essence of this earthly experiment we all call America.

One of the greatest convention speech ever & i think the speech made Obama to 'happen' much faster.

t2luv1:
The people that know you best are your family, immediate friends, and neighbor. Check how many of China's neighbors like them. I can count on one finger just three Pakistan, North Korea, and Russia (For obvious reasons). China laying claim to 90% of the South China Sea is a big problem. 19 countries in that region alone are in disputes with China over that area. International Law and norms are not on China's side. The USA despite all its problems and shortcomings (God knows there are plenty) is still the one country that 80% of the world population looks up to. Even within China, 65% of her population wishes to migrate to the USA. Like my former President Barack used to say "There is no other Country in the World where the story of my life, dream, and aspiration could have been possible except in the good olde USA". From Sea to shining Sea this is still the land of the free and home of the brave.

about Obama speech - is that the right quotes or you reframe it, was thinking about his 2004 DNC speech in Boston where he said "in no other country on earth is my story even possible"

[quote author=FreddieGray post=120641609][/quote]What is it with Africa and opinion.
The guy that handles this kind of crisis in the White House Jake Sullivan graduated from Yale and also a Rhodes scholar but to you buhari is better than Biden, Lol.
Why don't you stay out of things beyond your intellectual capabilities.

Progress.

Discipline trumps passion over and over again.

CoolUsername:
Nope

Lol.
If you're in the intelligence business you might understand what we're up against, it not rational but necessary.

saxywale2:
Lol.

Honestly, who cares about the feelings of hillbillies??

CoolUsername:
While I don't support it, extending the detention of a convicted terrorist is vastly different from spying on civilians—which was the original point that I brought up.

You an American??

Ok

MemoriesAndMe:
As I said before, I'm beyond that level where anyone will even think of offering me an IT support role even here in the US, not to talk of Nigeria. If a firm can't pay me $150k PA and above, let them keep their job. I haven't earned less than that since the past 7 years and sometimes I do multiple jobs and clock about $600k PA.

So why would I want to settle for tech support job that only pays around $50k or just a bit more per annum?

I don't know how much they pay them in Nigeria, but it's God Forbid for me. Tech support audience is even totally different from my audience and I don't even expect going backwards.

I started as analyst - my Bachelor's here was in Information Technology and I majored in Systems Analysis. After I graduated here, I was immediately hired by NCR Corporation at their world headquarters here in Atlanta, Georgia. NCR exists in Nigeria too.

I resigned from NCR after 3 years and joined General Electric, stin in their IT space, I was an IT lead there in their Governance, Risks and Compliance space, I left and joined another firm as a developer, I then went into consulting - I wotker for at least 3 consulting firms that sent me anywhere in the world they want me to go for various project.

I got tired of all the traveling and I'm back in Atlanta where I live and work with a bank here as a Cybersecurity Engineer.

Does that answer your question?

Lol, worked at booz Allen Hamilton??

[quote author=oyekanwahab post=120505946][/quote]Love your PC, make and model??

If you've got trained eye you'd still know the work of AI.

Lol, that's not actually surprising in a third world though. I will not tell you to bootstrap yourself but here is the deal - find any means necessary(legal) to get the hell out of that place.

K.

Lol

Lol.
This people clearly don't know where to find their target audience.

LOL.

Put this guy visa on the chopping block and you'd see him whimping, screaming and crying.

Maysdevices:
So so sad


One of the most tragic stories of our time.


These are the kind of things that breeds revenge in one’s heart.


If it were my brother, that village would have been burnt to the ground even it takes me a million years, that community will never stand again.

They were failed by their society, violence and revenge achieves nothing though, trying to put things in the past could help in the healing process but may prove very difficult.

Sanchez01:
Except for certain political positions, NO JOB or COUNTRY will ask you to denounce your citizenship just to give you a job or make you work with them. It’s ridiculous.

You got it, mostly national security jobs and Nigerians don't do those jobs.

Oops, take a look at the comments above and gasp.

Blacks and opinion.

Build a functioning society, they can't.