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@OP
I don’t believe that it is true that PhDs are not valued in the western world. I can tell you as someone who holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and lives in Melbourne that a PhD still confers on its holder a good level of respect both at work place and in the wider community. It can open a number of doors. It also means an increased number of career options and opportunities. There is an inner confidence coupled with a sense of self actualization that comes with a PhD. I can say, based on my personal experience, that life can only get better with a PhD. Good luck bro!!

The statement that, “in Europe generally no organization in business would employ you if you are PhD”, is not entirely true.  You will find out that some world top tier organisations such as IBM, Accenture, Microsoft, AIG and so on take pride in employing PhDs as high end consultants. I am a PhD and I know many people in that line of work who like me have a PhD. Many choose the academia, but it is usually a matter of choice and not due to their inability to find employment elsewhere. I state this merely to encourage anyone who is interested in acquiring a PhD but who would also not like to be constrained to becoming an academic. You do have other options. A PhD can open the door for you in most western countries and the poster sounds like someone who has the displine to pursue one, either inside or outside of Nigeria.

@Ezeagu,
Bro, I have always thought you were pretty switched on. Forget this "my people" thing. You are Igbo. Ndigbo are your people, end of the story.

@Chino
I think that it does matter who their local partner is. You would find out that there is a feeling of conflict of interest in the wider community if, in fact, the Governor is their local partner. It is a recipe for corruption and should be discouraged.  In my opinion, a different local partner should be arranged for this foreign investor. That can't be too hard, I wouldn't have thought.

@Pleep
You are spot on brother. Spot on!!!

@ tolu001
You call me stupid for having a view that it would have been better for the US to have intervened in the Nigeria civil to stop the senseless massacre of millions, even if that meant helping themselves to some of the oil. It is obvious that you didnt lose any loved ones to the senseless war. That is why you believe that oil is more valuable than the human lives. After all, oil is your birth right. Would it not be better for you to go out and make something for yourself rather than relying on your so called birth right? What happens when your birth right runs out? You are indeed a genius.

I am not surprised that you feel the way you do about the Libya and the Gaddafis. It is the humanity in you that is crying out. I am sure that your heart is at the right place. However, I think that your empathy towards them may have been misplaced. Your feeling of brotherhood is definitely not reciprocal. Like other Arabs, they do not see you as their brother. They see you as a low life “Black African”. Gaddafi has demonstrated that over the years by executing Black Africans without reasonable justification and by catching and locking them away for years in desert prisons simply for trying to travel to Europe through Libya. His reaction when Obama became the US president, “The slaves are now ruling the slave masters”. As far as he is concerned Obama is nothing more than a “Black slave”.
As to whether the US is right to intervene in Libya, I say, “yes, they are”. It is their absolute right, as a nation, to pick and choose which conflicts to get involved in and for whatever reasons. I wish that they had chosen to intervene in the Nigerian civil war. I am sure that millions of lives would have been saved and it wouldn’t have mattered if in the end they helped themselves to some of the oil.

@Jen33
I am with you dude, although I think you need to tone it down a little bit. Nigerians should not be ashamed of who they are. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being flamboyant. Their flamboyance is a major part of who they are and their portrayal of confidence is one of their key strengths. All will be sweet if only they can stay out of crime and perhaps get their politicians to at least pretend to show a little bit of compassion towards their people. And oh, SA should stick to the rule of law.

EzeUche0, thanks for that post. It is very educational.

PhysicsQED, thanks for your highly intellectual, civilized and objective contribution. It is equally enlightening.

It is all quite refreshing….

I am not in support of kidnapping. However, the truth must be told that Gowon, Abacha, Babangida and Obasanjo have done more harm to Nigeria and humanity than 1 million kidnappers can ever do. Gowon single-handedly starved two and half million innocent children to death. The other three, among other things, presided over the embezzlement of over 400 billion dollars. None of these people are Igbo. I think that the Inspector General of police should just do his job of preventing crimes, rather than giving them an ethnic flavour.