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Stephen0mozzy:
Thank you Chief.

Your last paragraph actually just validated the stance I've always taken. I'm more of a builder guy than dependence on corporate jobs with the skills, I've just not had the discipline, i think, to complete any of my attempts at a startup (SaaS).

You're right about AI being a blessing too, but not so much for entry level guys as their own "tasks" are now being automated out and companies are not very keen of training new hires either.

Well, I may I have to disagree a bit with you with respect to AI not being a blessing to new hires. When I considered where I was some 25 years ago, I think this generation is blessed. For context, I became a certified java programmer in 2002 and for me debugging even some issues back then took too much of my time. Compare that to now when, you can easily use AI to trace your source of error.

These days it is easier for a junior developer to churn out standard grade code, if they know what they are doing. My advise generally is for developers to see themselves as solution providers. It is easier to attract money when you are solving people's problems.

I wish you all the best.

Stephen0mozzy:
Thank you my good Sir, that would be greatly appreciated.

I think, evidenced by the current shake up in the TECH industry - layoffs and stuff, with some new startups that would often spring up to absorb skilled developers backpedalling due to the uncertainty about AI's disruption - the demand has dropped big time, and the competition is even worse than it has ever been.

Not to even talk about the phantom jobs, 7 rounds of interviews that ends with automated rejection mails.

I guessed right as to what the discouragements could be. However, permit me to advise you to stay strong. Actually, AI is a blessing to skilled developer and not a curse, as it (AI) facilitates Rapid application development.

Now, my advise is for you to learn to identify pain points of existing tech solutions and try to build products that solve those problems. That way, you can have products to market rather than waiting for that employment offer. Your products are more likely to earn you revenue and job offers faster.

Stephen0mozzy:
Man... You have a beast of a laptop.

Now when it comes to skills, there are three types of people.

1. The creative
2. The analytical
3. The Seller

If you are on the creative spectrum, I'll recommend you go for motion graphics and a pinch of 3d - specifically for building product demos using After Effects and maybe Cinema4D.

If you're more on the analytical and number crunching side... I'm probably going to err on the side of caution and suggest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning or start from Data Analysis for Financial/Business Analytics.

If you're the seller personality, I'd suggest you master how to use and help people manage CRM Software - Case in point GoHighLevel - you can actually charge people good money in dollars to help them set up their CRM, Automation Workflow, Funnels and Landing page, there's a ton of them - especially now that everybody is a founder or coach selling one thing or the other.


Personally, when I took this kind of decision about 4 years ago, I went into Programming (Became a MERN Developer); but the programming world is very volatile now and not very promising, especially for entry level.

Wishing you the best.... And while you're flexible in how long you want to spend in learning and waiting till it pays, it helps to tie the goal to a timeline too.

I like your insights but pray tell, why do you think volatility is a barrier to your skill set as a full stack developer. Perhaps, I may have one or two pieces of advice that might be helpful.

2special:
So why are they not giving dividends

Post its 2025 balance-sheet cleanup, FirstHoldco’s Q1 2026

The report refers to only the first financial quarter (2026 Q1). Corporate actions such as dividend pay out are usually carried out after Q4, being the financial year end.

spiceadole:
Men don't like court marriage so that their wives does not have a share of their properties , if the marriage goes south.

But a prenup is sufficient to address such fears.

udemzyudex:
Traditional marriage do give marriage certificates.

I hope they did in this instance.

FortCavazosKnox:
The guy is the loser here now then 😂🤣

It is sad, but it is what it is!

FortCavazosKnox:
This woman is not moving with sense and tact, all the guy needs is to forward their marriage certificate to USCIS. She will be be arrested immediately then deported!

Unfortunately, it seems like there was no court marriage in this case. Because, I have only read about their traditional marriage.

Nnamdipapa:
Yes, you make a good points but, with all the above, more people are still miserable over there than in Nigeria.
You do realize Nigeria is still a developing country and, we still have a long way to go but despite all that, we have it good here in Nigeria.

On band A, I have lights for about 22 hours in a day and when the light is off, the kids go to play table tennis or basketball in the compound, don’t forget we have good weather all year round in Nigeria. This week there was a mass shooting in BC Canada leading to death of 10 students. This goes to show nowhere is perfect or totally without one form of problem or the other.8

The more you have this conversation with Nigerians who haven't had the first hand experience of some things that motivated your decision the more you get into needless arguments. I guess it is better for people to go have their own experience and make their decisions based on that.

OredoPikin2:
Then stop coming out to dish lies.
Abi una think say na goats dey read una posts or comments abi?
U guys should be careful pls
this is not 1966 were all your lies goes unchallenged

Which lies did I dish? Is it a lie that waiting time has been an issue with NHS services or is it a lie that UK medical services is superior to Nigeria, even though one may experience delay while accessing it? Kindly quote the post where I told a lie regarding this issue and I will issue an apology but if you are unable to do that, you owe me an apology for accusing me wrongfully.

For context, you may need to refer to my original post regarding the issue so that you can point to the "lie" therein:

Whoever the op is, I sympathize with him in advance as I expect that some people would insult him based on their limited knowledge of the subject.

Waiting time is one of the prime problems of NHS aside work overload for employees. This is understandable because health care was designed to be free in the UK, although there are some cases that require out-of-pocket expenses. This free access and limited NHS budget creates a situation where service users have to stay on the queue, sometimes for long period.

When you contrast it with the speed with which you can access medical care in Nigeria you begin to appreciate what you enjoy back home. However, the upside is that you can enjoy top-notch medical care at almost no cost at the point of access in the UK. So, I believe that it is a trade-off and one has to weigh the pro and cons based on one's peculiar situation.

OredoPikin2:
Buhari spent almost half of his 8yrs in the UK seeking medicare
Tinubu is equally doing the same in France and beating Buhari record🤣🤣
Abeg who una think say una dey deceive self these APC people?😂

I believe that the UK space is not forbidden for you. When next you catch malaria in any part of the world, please hop on an aeroplane and go for your treatment in UK just like late Buhari and Tinubu. Is anyone restraining you?

OredoPikin2:
Meanwhile Tinubu is running to France every 3days for same medicare🤣🤣
Keep deceiving yourselves and thinking u are deceiving others

Did you read where I mentioned that the advantage of healthcare in UK is the quality access at almost no cost or not. Or are you just incapable of comprehending little things? If Tinubu goes to UK "every 3 days" that is because he is paying for private medical care at a premium cost that many ordinary citizens may not be able to afford!

If you didn't understand, the op and myself talked about public health services!

uche87:
On the 30th of January, 2026, I fell ill while at work. After struggling through the rest of the day, I returned home to rest. When my condition worsened, I decided to visit the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit at my local hospital.

I arrived at exactly 10:13 pm. Within a minute, I was booked in by the receptionist and asked to wait. Shortly after, a nurse called me, took my details, and recorded my vital signs. I was then asked to return to the waiting area to see a doctor. That moment never came.

Instead, I was called twice more by nurses to repeat the same observations, each time urged to remain patient. A notice board nearby displayed the previous day’s estimated waiting time — seven hours. My ordeal lasted until 9:30 am the following morning. I never saw a doctor. Eventually, a specialist nurse briefly attended to me, offered verbal reassurance, handed me a leaflet, and asked me to leave. The A&E waiting area became a temporary shelter. People turned chairs into makeshift beds. Others left in frustration. The environment was chaotic. Police officers intermittently brought in injured suspects in handcuffs, adding to the tension and discomfort.

As I sat there, exhausted and unwell, my thoughts drifted back to Nigeria. I remembered a day in 2016 at a government hospital in FESTAC Town, Lagos, when my condition deteriorated so badly that the crowd insisted I jump the queue. I also recalled how, at the private hospital attached to the multinational firm I worked for, I could see a doctor within five to ten minutes.
Now, in the UK, seeing a doctor sometimes feels like winning a lottery. According to The Sun, 554,018 patients in England waited 12 hours or more in A&E in 2025. Data from the Nuffield Trust shows that during peak periods, over 61,000 patients per month experienced 12+ hour waits — around 11% of all emergency admissions. At a minimum of 12 hours per patient, this amounts to over 6.6 million hours lost annually.

Unsurprisingly, many Nigerians living in the UK now travel back home for major surgeries and treatments. It is often faster, cheaper, and far less stressful.

While the quality of healthcare in the UK and Nigeria may appear worlds apart, few imagined that Nigeria would one day serve as a medical lifeline for those living abroad.

Beyond healthcare, the economic reality is equally sobering. Many Nigerians sold land, cars, and family properties to relocate. Today, they struggle under hyper-inflated rents, rising energy bills, and high living costs, barely staying afloat.
Securing a white-collar job often feels like requiring divine intervention. The system appears structured to trap certain groups within physically demanding, low-paying roles. Warehouse work destroys the body. The care sector drains emotional and physical strength. Mental health support work, though meaningful, exposes workers to extreme violence and psychological trauma.

NHS England records over 100,000 violent incidents against healthcare staff annually — an average of 285 assaults every day. In June 2025, Irene Wanjiru Mbugua, a 48-year-old care worker originally from Kenya, was tragically killed by a patient in the West Midlands. While rare, such incidents reveal the severe dangers frontline healthcare workers face daily.

Social conditions are no less concerning. 21% of people in the UK — about 14.2 million individuals — live in poverty. Without social safety nets, this figure would skyrocket. Additionally, 24 million people receive at least one form of state benefit, including pensions, disability support, and working-age benefits, highlighting the scale of economic vulnerability.

In terms of safety, police recorded 53,047 knife-related offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025. While the UK remains safer than Nigeria overall, rising violent crime remains deeply troubling.

For parents seeking better opportunities for their children, another danger lurks — hard drugs. Government data shows 16,212 children aged 17 and below were in drug and alcohol treatment between April 2024 and March 2025, a 13% increase from the previous year. This underscores the growing exposure of young people to harmful substances.

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, social life thrives. Community bonds remain strong. Laughter is louder. Life feels fuller. In contrast, the UK work culture often reduces life to an endless cycle of work, bills, exhaustion, and survival. Tragically, between 2024 and 2025, several Nigerian students and workers collapsed and died in the UK due to stress and exhaustion, including cases in South Wales and Hertfordshire.

I’ll end on a lighter note. The stress levels here are so intense that almost everyone snores like old power generators. Many refuse to believe it — until shown video evidence. This was never the case back home.

The hustle has shifted gears. And this one runs at a dangerously high speed.


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Whoever the op is, I sympathize with him in advance as I expect that some people would insult him based on their limited knowledge of the subject.

Waiting time is one of the prime problems of NHS aside work overload for employees. This is understandable because health care was designed to be free in the UK, although there are some cases that require out-of-pocket expenses. This free access and limited NHS budget creates a situation where service users have to stay on the queue, sometimes for long period.

When you contrast it with the speed with which you can access medical care in Nigeria you begin to appreciate what you enjoy back home. However, the upside is that you can enjoy top-notch medical care at almost no cost at the point of access in the UK. So, I believe that it is a trade-off and one has to weigh the pro and cons based on one's peculiar situation.

Hankim:
Tinubu and Ribadu must have roped him in just to kill his political career, Kwankwaso is not person who introduced sharia law, APC has lied against this man just to lender him useless politically

Kwakwanso was the second governor in the North to sign sharia into law in Kano state in year 2000. While you are correct that he was not the first (Yerima of Zamfara was the first), Kwakwanso's action was stronger and symbolic, given that Kano was a cosmopolitan state like Abuja and Lagos state.

And of course, Kano state is more influential than Zamfara state in the North and Nigeria as a whole. Once, Kwakwanso signed shariah into law in Kano, he opened the floodgates for other Northern states to implement the law. That is the genesis of the problem in Nigeria.

When next you read about Hisbah destroying the beer business of another Nigerian, Kwakwanso is the architect.

atobs4real:
So this one too is part of our problem. Please, sanction home and disgrace him

A lot of people don't know or remember that Kwakwanso was the 2nd governor to sign the Sharia law in Kano in year 2000. Yerima was the first governor who signed it into law in Zamfara state.

princeade86:
By now, we shouldn't be celebrating roads or light. We should be dealing with technology and innovation by now

You are partially right but whenever anyone wakes up is their morning. People would continue to celebrate such as long as they didn't have them before. You can liken it to a 50 year old man whose family chose to celebrate the purchase of his first car! It doesn't matter whether his mates started buying cars at age 18 or not.

Stephen0mozzy:
Hehehe.... "Egui ne fo wokha" - Tortoise nor dey finish for story - always in the news for the wrong reasons.

Later when they refuse to let us into their countries, we go still open mouth dey claim right.

As in, this is really crazy. Nigerians need to do better. At home, we complain about the environment not being conducive for personal and professional growth due to poor leadership. Yet, when our people go to better governed countries they still carry on with their "any-howness"! Nigerians who commit crimes to tarnish the image of the country abroad should be made to serve jail time in Nigeria as well.

onatisi:
This was my opinion all through last year that both Wike and makinde are playing a script but I believe now that the major issue isn't about PDP nationally but the governorship election in oyo state . It is obvious that Tinubu will want his party to win and Seyi too will want his own party to win too in order to put his own man in power . That seems to be where the logger head issues started

Spot on.

bewisemasses:
So they will give birth to a mixed breed of what now

They will give birth to an amphibian!

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sammirano:
EFCC no well, this is a symtom of a lack of focus

Penguin2:
I like this topic. And it’s because you didn’t post it to support anyone but to state facts as they currently are and what we need to next.

I’ve always said I support the removal of subsidy whether rightly or wrongly removed, and I don’t want it back.

But we seem to be failing in demanding accountability for where the saved resources is being channeled to which in this case is the state governments.

One of the reorientation that needs to happen in Nigeria is how to get citizens to take their eyes off Abuja sometimes and question what their governors are doing at state level.

What do the governors have to show for the increase in allocation? Because apart from governors like Otti, Mbah, others are just paying salaries and nothing more.

It’s not about quoting trillions in their budgets, do those funds trickle down to the common man in the streets?

You have spoken well. One of the challenges that I perceive in most Nigerian social commentaries is that many people lack objectivity due to their partisanship. So, inevitably they do not care whether their governor is doing enough or not as long as he or she was the one they supported. But we must be able to hold all elected officials to account regardless of political or tribal affiliations.

Bittersweetnig:
you know that is the truth, but it's paining you

Do I look like I am related to Oyedepo, so why do you think it is painful for me. Rather, I feel a sense of sympathy for people who make baseless accusations. And the reason is simple, for every false accusations people make against others, they will receive multiple fold of it. It is the karmic law!

Bittersweetnig:
Oyedepo release phone conversation between him and Peter obi to APC two night before before election therefore betrayed Christian choice

It is really sad the way some of you make baseless assumptions and talk without evidence. Well, I guess this is a lesson for Pastors like Oyedepo to stay non-partisan.

This same Governor Bala was the one who chastised Governor Ortom back then arguing that Fulanis had a right to bear AK-47 as reported by Channels TV and other news media.

It will difficult to extricate himself from this allegation if it is confirmed that he gave monies to Miyetti Allah. That defence of being an opposition politician is wash and should not be entertained. He should go and defend himself.

Orlandoo:
Why not ban men and women from living in the same Yobe state? That will be the best.

What happens when the man and woman, in question, are non-muslims since there have been claims that sharia is only meant for Muslims. It is nonsensical issues like this that breed non-muslim's distrust of this sharia implementation in a country that is supposedly secular. This nonsense has got to stop.

ZombieDredd:
I heard her treatment included blood transfusion and she rejected it based on faith.

A US judge ruled against something like this recently and forced the young man to take blood to save his life.

Maybe our judges should consider such in extreme cases like this.

What then happens if the blood transfusion is forced and the person still dies? There is no guarantee that she would not have died even if she had the blood transfusion. Existing data calls to question the efficacy of current cancer treatments.

Wallade:
Go and read my first post on this topic again and tell me the questions I asked that are different.

Sometimes, when you happen to see a post, you may need to research how it started to understand where the person who posted it is coming from for better understanding.

I might not have read your initial post that led to your exchanges with the chaps. But my intervention was directed at answering your question "why sokoto". I was interested in that particular question because I had asked the same question before reading from Sokoto state's governor who asserted that the U.S. attacks decimated the terrorists' camp and he went further to say that the cross-border banditry would soon stop in Sokoto.

It was from there that I drew my inference that maybe Sokoto was targeted because of the presence of these cross-border terrorists. I shared same with you because I assumed that you might not have read that piece on Sahara reporters.

Wallade:
Really, so where are the terrorists that the 🇺🇸USA strike took down?

Can we see the evidence of terrorists in that location.

What you fail to understand is that you, the USA and all those supporting that position must be able to prove that there are actually terrorists at that location. The onus of proof is on you guys and your revered Donald Trump.

So far, you have only been insinuating it. There is no hard copy proof. There are no ISIS casualties seen or cleared just yet, after 48 hrs.

Who is fooling who?

You have brought into the discussion, questions that were not in your original post which I reacted to.

I only re-echoed what Sokoto governor and other indigenes stated which was that the bombed area is a regular route of terrorists from Niger republic.

Now, when you go like your 'revered Donald Trump' then you are only assuming. I want to believe that you are not a terrorist yourself. And therefore, I will like for us to deal with issues and not personalities.

Ikaeniyan0:
It's his father, the one talking anyhow now is just his so

Yes, you are correct. However, it seems as if the current son may even be a worse version of the father. They are both extremists.

seunmsg:
DSS should just arrest this Gumi and all his friends. This is his plan all along. We must never vote for anyone he supports for president because that’s the only way he can gain access to power and actualize his forceful Islamization agenda.

The excerpts posted are those of Gumi senior who is deceased. I believe the one you want arrested is the son who seems to be following the father's ideology. I am not against your proposition, I just pointed out the difference.