₦airaland Forum

amanze15:
started watchin larry king live ever since i was 7yrs old, guess it is always good to do what u know best it pays wish him the best in his later life

Ileke-IdI:
. . . I am 43 and still hip
A country where: Freedom of religion is gradually receding. You have gay Christian churches in Igboland being threatened to get burned down etc.

Give me your reasons why you you think Nigeria has not yet failed.

slyfoxxjoe:
here are a list of things a degree gives aside from self esteem;
1) intelligence
2) respect from others
3)bragging rights
4) A CAREER
5) SKILLS (the sort that cant be learnt just by practice
6) a head start in life
7) (for foreign students) the chance of working permenenly in u country of studies and if u do outstandingly well maybe even citezenship.
discipline (it takes a high level of self descipline to successfully complete uni and this would help u generally in life.)
now if these are not enough reason to get your lazy backside through skool, tell me and ill give u some more.

EzeCanada:
Hear my people again.

Education simply is an act of learning.

Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding are the key without which the act of learning becomes almost impossible.

You don't necessarily need to attain western education to be successful in life. Its only an added advantage. So is Oriental and African forms of education. It is self identification and knowledge  that builds self confidence.

My observation in Nigeria had shown me that a local trader or business man with hands on skills (say 7 year apprenticeship) in business do better than  his  counterpart with the highest western degree in business administration or management. Or what makes you think that western medical doctor is better off than  a local or Oriental medicine man.

greenpea:
@ turbo, i think the average Nigerians career is not designed by the the owner but rather by what the university offered you or what the labour market allowed to eke a living from, is that not so?

dayokanu:
I studied Chemical Engineering in school and I wonder how someone who didnt go to school would solve Heat Transfer problems.

You gain a lot more than self confidence when you go to University and you study to get your degree.

You think e easy?

Zim Drill when you go to the US, the proportion of Nigerians with a degre is not representative of what you have at home.

Not everyone can travel and for you to travel and possibly pass visa interviews, You need a certain level of education

ezme:
I strongly believe there is no such person in shell Nigeria, Take a look again he developed himself after school and can handle his job description. A multinational will not employ someone who can't do his job. Whether he paid his way through school is not important. You think Shell is  NNPC?     Mind you these job roles are not handled by just being smart, You think the design considerations put in place before an oil well is developed is child's play? No come here dey talk dust ooo. Profit is the watchword of multi-nationals , when they have no JV to handle they lay off workers. Mind you a member and a fellow are two different things,

greenpea:
I think everybody is right to an extent, was just mulling over this fact a few days ago, that why do we go to the university, take the case of a computer engineer in some of these our university, who was so poor, could not afford a laptop and was so unfortunate not  to find one in the laboratory of his university, spent 5 or 6 years acquiring the book knowledge and on graduating could not do anything on a computer, hands-on despite the fact that he came out with a 2.1, and the case of a school cert holder who went to the computer village straight after graduating from the secondary school, 4-years after is considered a guru in his field of knowledge, so why go to school in the first place. I know of graduate who studied not what they are really interested in but rather what they were offered and when they graduate they are worse than when they got admitted into the university in the first place, I am not in agreement with the poster, but there are times i ask my self, why do so many Nigerian youth waste time in the university? is it just for the sake of been refered to as a graduate?

djojo:
i agree with what the poster said about university education
in Nigeria, let look it this way
lot of engineering students are working in the bank as cashiers
lot of computer science student are out seeking to work in an industries where they do not belong to and vise versa
so by this i believe going into the university is just to be more confidence and to have self esteem
ok in Nigeria what will a person that studied linguistics, or banking and finance, and lot more that does not relate to old field company be doing in company like chevron, shell, or any other oil producing coy, most company believe that no matter what u studied in school u will still av the idea of what they are doing as far as u will still be trained in the field.


my boss studied masscom while in school he end up being a GM in his own established logistics coy
but that does not mean those that does not go to school does not av what it take to be successful

Hamid O:
I'll disagree with  you completely on this. Having a degree goes beyond just gaining more self esteem, it comes with some specialized skills especially in science based courses. Mind you there are some skills that are believed to only be taught in the university example is structural engineering, no matter the number of years an uneducated builder spends in the business he can't put up an high-rise building without some complex calculations which can only be learnt in the four walls of a classroom. Tell me if such skills can be classified as self esteem? That doesn't mean an uneducated person can't  be richer, been rich is a different thing entirely.

silami:
Wao thank God for Wikileaks oooo!!!

AMERICAN Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton yesterday dropped a hint that Washington and oil services company, Halliburton were working towards an amicable resolution of the face-off between that country’s former Vice President Richard ‘manliness’ Cheney and Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which wants to prosecute him over alleged bribery charges, Just as the US government expressed its official view on the matter for the first time, US news website are also reporting that the oil services company,  Halliburton may have been engaging lawyers to negotiate with EFCC on the payment of up to $500 million in fines to settle bribery charges against the former US Vice President.

reckless:
GEJ has shot himself on the foot. Is he now saying the US ambassador lied? Why would she lie? The man has exposed his idiosyncracies for whoever cares to see.

Did u say Dr. Robin Sanders cannot lie?   I thought blood is thicker than water