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supersystemsnig:
I can't give my personal details here.. I know more than ten businesses that can give this money monthly in Nigeria, i have developed diverse business blueprints. I help people set up businesses from production to saals to I.C.T go and read and ye shall find..., I've started 70 businesses form scratch within a ten years gap, it took learning and knowledge, don't kid yourself...knowledge is everything..Nigerians don't improve...

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Mention this top IT companies and let's research their wages....
Last time i check, google is free...
I'm not asking u about ur life history...
Social media is a public toilet, anybody can come here and vomit poo...
The average salary in silicon valley is 120 thousand dollars yearly, the pinnacle of IT centre in the world....
Now u are telling me Naija IT sector pay similar rate...
Na him naija visa never become hot cake...
Right now in America, the most discussed topic is H1B visa....
Most IT guys on h1b visa earn around 80 thousand dollars annually, yet dem wan die on top the visa matter....
Any IT professional in naija good enough to earn 10 thousand monthly will not be in that country....
Fact....

supersystemsnig:
Even ICT guys in Nigeria can rake in $10,000 Monthly and $120k Per year if the work is done right, doesn't require being in USA, it's having the knowledge and knowing what do to, the opportunities online are not well harvested by Nigerians. I'm ashamed seeing Indians everywhere and Nigerians are busy submitting CV, walking upandan when there are chances to rake in cash

Pls which ICT guys and where do they work....
U guys will just be throwing figures around without any facts to back it up....
For a start...
Mention the top IT companies in nigeria n then we can research their wages...

timesup234:
They are all brainwashed and do it for the prestige. Funny the politicians and musicians all make their money in Nigeria. Nobody knows them in America. They are all part of the illusion

Pls be true to urself....
Do U think buhari will be alive today if he was managed in a nigerian hospital...
Be honest for once on this thread...

Slaveman343:
No I see desperate people trying to protect an illusion they have created for others that is far from reality. I don't see any balanced view here, all I hear from Nigerians over there is that Nigeria is bad and America is good because they have stable power and water supply and good roads. This argument is no longer holding water anymore since Nigeria is catching up already.

Please mention those areas where nigeria is catching up...
I'm interested...
Thanks in anticipation...

timesup234:
Another liar. I am planning a second part of this post. Now quote me..An immigrant bank manager in America can't be compared to a bank manager here in Nigeria. Please note immigrant in quote. There is no high paying profession in Nigeria that someone doing same in America can be better off. Talking about immigrants and not first class citizens

U be clown I swear....
I thought u were serious b4....
I didn't know u are a troll....
It's like u never heard of the word brain drain....
If it's so bad, then why do professionals from third world stay put n continue their career progression overseas...
Even ur politicians are joining the trend...
One of ur minister's daughter just got a job in Google worth around 500 thousands dollars a year....
Akinyuli daughter sold one of her artwork for a million dollars.....
Sit down there n be consoling urself....
Instead of u to double ur hustle n ensure ur children get the best of both worlds...
There's nothing as having a rich n strong career abroad...
The exposure, the skill, depth is unparalleled n inestimable.......
Even if its a stint....
Do u think if ur finance minister had worked all her life with naija financial institution, she will ever attain that position...
Don't worry more of them are on the way....
Politician are already securing the future of their children along that line....
One just came from CDC to head a division in global health, Nigeria...
No interview was conducted, the job was handed over to her....
Mph from Harvard, epidemiologist working with CDC.
Case closed,....
other Nigerians who went to Abuja for the interview were told to go back home....
Go to Abuja n see what's happening....

timesup234:
I don't stay in benin but I know for a fact! I stay in Ajah and pay 300k for a two bedroom

Mr man...
There's no where in Benin u will get a flat for 80 thousand naira....
If there's such place, mention it n let's confirm...

timesup234:
calm down. In delta and benin city you can even get a three bedroom for that amount

Please where in Benin....
Except u are talking of one room self contain...

timesup234:
Sorry dear, American visa is nothing. Maybe 20 yrs ago but not in 2017. When someone points this truth counter the topic and not the individual. Can you compare someone doing menial job or even a Registered Nurse in America to a bank manager in Nigeria. Come on let's be frank and honest.

Please remove RN from your list....
Specialist nurses/ nursing practitioners earn as much as 10 thousand dollars a month....
Even in the us, that's good money, putting u in the upper middle class echelon....

kaycyor:
Illetracy na big disease..

I absolutely agree....

AnambraDota:
I'm no English, am Igbo so don't get mad when I get someone else language wrong, I pride in mine.
Why do yoruba men indulge in such shameful act of lazying about in female shops why their female work hard to feed the kids?

Yoruba men are lazy, aren't they?

Then write in igbo....
And those who understand u will reply...
Stop behaving like a typical African who has every excuse for mediocrity...

ODVanguard:
Guy, you be proper e-goat o. The same Soludo that made that 'fourth largest economy' comment was quoted on record just few days ago for saying:

"Anambra'll emerge 5th largest economy soon"

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/soludo-anambra-ll-emerge-5th-largest-economy-soon.html

So, which one are we to believe?? Did Anambra slide back from being 4th largest to now targeting 5th largest?? Like Blue3k said, no single data has been presented so far to back that scam of a statement. You people have been exposed as merchants of lies and fabrications that you are. More and more verifiable data like the ones presented in this thread will continue to expose you lots for the frauds that you are. Smh.

I think he said anambra will become the fifth largest economy in the world....
That's a gdp of 2.6 trillion dollars..
And gdp per capita of 520,000 us dollars....
Making anambra the mega richest country in the world....

Someone tell me I didn't read that right or soludo was misquoted...

Ngokafor:
Economic migrants whose tax you live and salivate on??...Literacy fall on you.

Oh really....
Then we can assume Dubai, UK n USA salivate on taxes paid by Nigerians n indians economic migrants living in their country...
Italians too should be grateful to our naija ashewos....
So much for nigerian educational system ...

Ngokafor:
Normal SW propaganda 100%....I guess the fact that the Chinese are doing business in Nigeria means Nigeria is more developed than China ..Same way,Nigerians in Togo,Niger,Chad e.tc means these countries are richer than Nigeria..

Una matter tire person.
Thanks
Una matter

Common there's a big difference between foreign investors and economic migrants....
How can u compare Chinese business men with economic migrants....

sexybbstar:
The Yoruba name for fork is "amuga".... Most of you are coming across this for the first time.

U be Yoruba student...
That was deep...
because our ancestors never had anything like fork...

onyxo76:
no rule as such but consider your environment first, there is a statue of ogedengbe the great ijesa warrior in my home town, maybe a lady should wake up one day and go and dance with it, and let's see how the natives will react.

So....
If a girl dances with ogedengbe statutes....
And she's hacked to death by the natives...
It's justified..
Cos I don't understand u guys....

Gerrard59:
There really has to be no law. It's based on what the school constitute as morals. IMO, what she did is quite distasteful and in some countries can see herself in prison (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Thailand, Singapore etc).

Nothing wrong with twerking, just do it in the right place(s).

I agree with the aforementioned countries....
But those countries has very strict n rigid codes regarding behavioural public display....
And the consequences of flouting those rules are very mean....
It's very clear....
Now if nigeria wants to go tru that route, I've got no problem...
But what we should do is sit down n agree on what is distasteful....
Not some few extremist directing the moral fibre of the society via their myopic angle....
Now, I don't see anything wrong dancing with a monument....
Does that make me a liberal jerk or morally weak..
....

Apina:
I'm still in doubt that one person can actually conjure up so much ignorance as u just did. If it was useless, it wouldn't be there and so that u do not make an even bigger fool of urself in public, it's not just a statue but a monument. As the statue of liberty is to the Americans, so is that statue to UNILAG. That's why so many persons have no respect for institutions or rules in this country

Can u please state that rule that forbids dancing with statute/monuments...
Thanks...

olaolaking:
Absolutely nothing happened to her. As usual bloggers want to break news for you

Ok o...
If u say so...
I understand the university authorities may not like what she did...
But gross abuse of power should not be encouraged in our ivory tower....
This is too petty to even be discussed in a university senate meeting....

olaolaking:
The report is false

So what exactly happened...
Tell us...

brownhawk:
and u think the whoree will tell the truth?
I've looked at her and concluded she should fed to crocodiles

At least if he's truly missing...
She will cry out...
Then we can start from there....

I think he has a wife....
Let's hear from her when last she contacted her husband....

I don't have a problem with Nnamdi kanu running away in the heat of the crisis....
He may have good tactic n strategic reason for doing that....
but i have a problem with fact that he misled and misguided a lot of youths by telling them to stay behind and receive bullets for a cause he engineered and promoted....
Instead of lying by saying biafra or death, he should have been honest enough to tell them it's either biafra or u pick race....
At least, that's exactly what he did....
U don't tell your followers to confront the invading army on a murderous mission with broken bottles and stones, while u fashioned out an escape route for urself....
He took his followers for a ride and abandoned them at the most critical time....
That's selfish and uncharacteristic of a leader kanu claim to be....
When he eventually comes out of his hiding, he should tender an unreserved apology to his followers for decieving them n jumping the ship at the first sound of gunshots....
Nnamdi kanu has no excuse for what he did, its purely cowardice.....
It was just so wrong....

Deji124:
Wetin southwest do them,

It's needed...
Let them deal with those bloody ritualist, badoo guys n militant kidnappers hiding in the creek....

My memories of my father are sketchy. I have no photographs of him, but I remember he was tall and thin and always wore expensive cologne. He smoked, too, a forgotten brand now relegated to empty packets on eBay.

My parents had met in London in the early 60s. They were part of the new wave of arrivals from India, Pakistan, Africa and the Caribbean. London swelled with a Commonwealth population who came to work and build new lives.

My father had come to study engineering. He met my mother, a trainee nurse, and swept her off her feet. My grandmother simply couldn’t understand why she insisted on a relationship with a Nigerian and not a “nice Caribbean gentleman”.

My parents’ union became increasingly fraught thanks to my father’s somewhat laissez-faire attitude to his duties as a husband. He had come from a wealthy family in Nigeria. His mother, a formidable businesswoman, spoiled and indulged him. Once in England, he was easily intoxicated and seduced by the brights lights, parties, whiskey and, whisper it, probably, other women. Engineering was abandoned and, regardless of a growing family, he showed no sign of succumbing to domestic life. He took a series of meaningless jobs and continued his playboy lifestyle.
Years of unhappiness and bitterness festered and finally exploded into an acrimonious parting. My mother gained custody of me and my siblings. She became a single woman with three children and no financial help from my father. After a few visits to London to see him, and occasional shopping sprees to Marks & Spencer (the 70s Nigerian shopper’s paradise), he disappeared. We were told that he had probably gone back to Nigeria.

I never saw him again.

We were brought up with a daily mantra from our mother to “never, ever marry a Nigerian”. After all she had been through, you couldn’t blame her.

I suppressed my African heritage and fully embraced the Jamaican. My father was a waste of space. In the early 80s, I wanted limited association with Nigeria. Jamaica was cool. They had reggae, a killer cricket team and lovely sounding patois. Nigeria was too foreign and they wore strange headwraps and spoke in sing-song dialects that I couldn’t understand. Plus, I had a fierce loyalty to my mother. She had brought us up single-handedly and done a very fine job. Why would I want to find a man who had no hand in my upbringing and whose face I could barely remember?

As the years and decades passed, there was still no contact, until a phone call changed everything. It was a cousin. Cousin? I had no sense of a wider family of cousins, aunts or uncles.

This cousin told me he had managed to track me down on the orders of the family in Nigeria. He was a professor, lived in Oxfordshire and made frequent visits to Nigeria. He told me I had a father who was very much alive and a host of family members in Abuja who were desperate to contact me. Apparently, the search had started years ago. My father had tried the Salvation Army with no results. Family members had tried too, until, bingo, they had tracked me down through social media.

When I eventually met my cousin, he handed me a letter; it was from my father. It was simple and short. The word “sorry” dominated each paragraph. At first I did nothing. I didn’t reply. I didn’t tell my mother he had made contact, not at first. It felt disloyal. I left his letter in a drawer for months but continued to meet my UK cousin. He was full of stories of Nigeria, its rich history and our large family tree. I wanted to know more about them. They had beautiful names and I couldn’t blame them for my father’s mistakes.

I wrote back to him. I saw it as an opportunity to let off steam and berate him for being a pretty lousy husband and father. He wrote again, apologetic, regretful and asked for forgiveness. Something thawed. I forgave him. We arranged a phone call.

At this point, my cousin in Oxfordshire gave me the warning about Nigerians and their telephone habits. My initial thought was: generators. I knew there were frequent blackouts and assumed this would affect our call as would the amount of credit on his phone.

Our first call came and there were no proclamations of long-lost love on either side. The conversation was incredibly formal. He asked about my health, my family’s health, my husband’s health. I asked about his health. He was 82 after all. Four minutes and the call was over.

What perplexed me most was the lack of questioning on his part and at the end of the call he said, “OK”, and the phone went down. He didn’t end the conversation with “goodbye”, which I thought incredibly rude.

We went through the same three-question telephone ritual a couple of times. I knew he had an interest in politics so I interspersed our chat with added comments on Theresa May and the weather. I asked questions. He didn’t. He would say, “OK” and midway through my own “goodbye” the phone went down firmly. We continued to call each other and on each occasion I was left with the receiver in my hand, incredulous at the brutal end of our conversation.

In one call, I mentioned I would visit him in Nigeria. It was a deviation from the three-question script. “When, when?” he said. I blurted out “April” without thinking. This was never going to work it was already early March. Why had I said April of all months?

I called a few days after this and told him April was out of the question and I hoped to visit in October.

“Thank God,” he said.

My father spoke Igbo, English, Yoruba and Hausa. I had learned from a phrasebook the Yoruba for “goodbye” “O da dor”. My intention on our next call was to impress him with my rudimentary attempt. I’d written him a letter too. It asked, “Why do you never say goodbye at the end of a call?”

I never got the chance to practise my Yoruba or get a reply to my letter. The phone call came in May. My father had died. A stroke. He was 83.

And then I got an invitation from another cousin to come over and meet all the family. They had been waiting, she told me. She put the phone down and didn’t say goodbye.



I made the trip to Nigeria and discovered Abuja – a green, wide-spaced, international, vibrant, youthful city, full of coffee shops (yes, Africa has them, too). I met a whole new family of aunts, cousins and uncles.

In Abuja, I learned that my name, which I had always thought was very English and not Nigerian-sounding at all, is quite a popular name. Its roots are in Arabic and it is spelt Kamilah or Kamilaat. My family were all solidly middle-class professionals with law degrees and architectural practices; one or two were presidents of oil companies, and a cousin held a seat in the Nigerian senate – quite an achievement for a woman.

They spoke fondly about my father, or Uncle as he was known by all the family. They told me he was a quiet, thoughtful presence, always elegantly dressed, who never forgot birthdays and smelled of cologne.

I asked one of my cousins about his phone habits. “My dad never said goodbye. Why was that?”

“Sometimes we don’t,” she said matter-of-factly. “Everything has been said already.”

And I suppose it had.

Tayonic:
Stop talking rubbish you ardent Moro.n
Odumakin is nothing but a political contractor who is only fighting for his pocket.
Neither APC nor PDP members can chart a future for Yoruba.
Its only you yeboriskies that allows yourself to be hoodwinked by expiring politicians turned secessionists.
When Odumakin was collecting contracts upandan from Jonathan and campaigning for him using the platform of Afenifere he never knew Nigeria need restructuring abi?
Yoruba want out of this country or at least a total restructuring where we will decide who own even a centimetre of land in Southwest.
But we will do so at our own time not when a set disgruntled ediots who changed Nigeria from a regionalism into a unitary state in 1966 want to.
Nonsense.

So when is this time....
Nigeria is sinking, hunger is ravaging the land, southwest states are finding it difficult to meet their obligations due to financial mismanagement n debts, the prevalence of ritual killing is becoming alarming, our governors in SW no longer cares about education as reflected by recent WAEC result.....
And all u can see is partisan affiliation....
The above has so much eaten deep into SW political n sociocultural landscape that we no longer see the real picture.....
And that is, Nigeria as it is right now is no longer sustainable n it's only a matter of time before it implodes.....
If u guys think being in the centre or identifying with a political party is the answer, u are in for a rude shock....
U better wake up n smell the coffee....
The time for restructuring is now n as far as I can see, the least prepared region is SW.....
The northerners are gradually bracing up for it....
They are investing massively in agriculture n their leaders may eventually negotiate oil with Niger delta if restructuring finally happens....
So tell me, what are the policies n structures our governors n Tinubu have on ground to usher in the new phase of restructuring.....
Nothing....
all they do is collect allocation every month, add IGR to it....
Then share the money amongst themselves n their political jobbers as well as issue bogus contracts at hyperinflated costs....
Now Odumakin wants to do things differently n all u can see is PDP v APC.....
The amazing thing is northerners control both parties, yet when it comes to issue of national interest, their region come first irrespective of party affiliation....
So I wonder why a southerner will want to kill himself over 2 different side of the same coin......
Nigeria presently only benefits the political elite.....
That the nonsense that should stop....

I'm yoruba, but I'm strongly with markfemi on this.....
The truth right now is....
If u genuinely love Nigeria and passionately desire her progress....
U will support what kanu is doing....
That guy has brought the very existence n sustainability of this nation to the fore....
He has shaken n exposed the dubious n faulty foundation this nation was built....
He has revealed the hypocrisy of our political elites that they are nothing but charlatans irrespective of tribe or political affiliate...
He has proven that our political parties are just different side of the same coin....
Anambra election is around the corner yet none of the contestants or political parties are talking about the burning issues amongst anambra electorates....
The current agitation is voice for the common man, we should grab it passionately.....

Danielmoore:
Maghrebis is the most populous tribe in or outside Africa
ask google

Are they homogenous in language....
I dont think so, there are different berber languages...
Is just like saying europe is one tribe and speak same language....
Besides the focus of these discuss is most spoken language, not tribe...
Most northern africans speak arabic n some berber languages are in serious risk of extinction...

kettykin:
even outside of Africa , yoruba is not the most spoken african language it is swahili, first i had to correct the wrong heading that was giving to the topic so that anyone coming to read the topic will not be decieved

Do u have proof to substantiate that its swahili.....
Yoruba remains one of the largest indigenous tribe in africa n looking at the homogenous pattern of Yorubas in diaspora....
Then its very much possible as stated by wikipedia...

EntMirror:
I don't think he worth your mention. He's probably one of these individuals waiting for white collar jobs from the government.

Computer village is a huge market place and thank them for their immense contribution to the economy of Nigeria. These are entrepreneurs who have set out to break conventionalities.

Visit www.entmirror.com for Business ideas

32 billion dollars is overbloated...
The GDP of nigeria is 406 billion dollars...
So u telling me computer village alone contributes close to 10 percent of nigerian gdp.....
The total revenue of the indian IT sector is 150 billion dollars...
Thats a sector that includes outsourcing IT services, product development, software design n hardware manufacturing....
Wetin dem they do for computer village....
No be buying n selling...
Abeg....