₦airaland Forum

Amirullaha:
So many death happening these days...

So many precautions not being taken these days. Just doing things carelessly.

Rashduct4luv:
This is lovely! But fixing exams on our religious periods should be forbidden henceforth! This should never happen again.

You should not use your religion to avoid exam.

Islamisation of Nigeria

mecussey:
I have thought about this before...sometime in 2005. I dont know why i am not opportuned to sell some ideas. Trust me, that car is made of silicon.

Scratches, dust and exhaust fumes will clear away all the shine. It will start to resemble those translucent/scratchy danfo side glass.

hardeywhale2:
Germany producing the same picture every year?

I saw this last year or 2 years ago......

Abi it's Sakamanje?

If you are in a 1st world country like Germany, and hunger is not your problem, what else will you do?

farouk0403:
Is against Islamic Teaching


He did quite okay


No one should dare quote me

So will you kill me now?

miracool946:
stc

Have your present for a wonderful achievement.

yeyerolling:
nawa. how did he come out

Once upon a time, the car was OK.
He came out that time and closed the door.
The trailer fell on it after that time.

ZombieTAMER:
This is illegal and unprofessional

It's a battlefield and not a picnic party

My biggest wish this morning is that it is YOU they physically send over there to meet them and repeat this your statement to them.

kulikuli45:
Which of them is the Uber driver pls. The one with long hair?

Women like to snap their faces all over social media. Neither of them is the uber driver. Just 2 random women shining teeth as usual.

Meajor:
Na to pour am sand sharp sharp...as part of repopulating earth...nansense

I wish you were given the shovel to pour the sand on the man. We would take the pictures and you will be locked up for attempted murder.

donstan18:
Try this nonsense with ogoni people.

If dem use shovel throw you sand 2 times, na fly you go fly komot dia.

So you are insinuating that Ogoni people are all liars and thieves? To employ somebody without the intent of paying the person? The work deserves his pay. God is on the man's side.

The last good buildings are in VI, Surulere, Yaba, Ikoyi.
These were planned and built during the colonial era. Ever since independence, the quality of housing has been declining. Currently there are many multimillion naira structures that do not function. Bad doors, bad windows, collapsed kitchen cabinets, flooded gutters, flooded estate Getting it all together and correctly is our biggest issue. Good house, good interior, good exterior and good access road.
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Since we all wish to live in our own houses one day, I think all student should learn how to build and just fix up their current accommodation. This is Nigeria, fantastic house will not fall from heaven no matter how much money you have. If you want it fine, you must use your hands to do something.
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You have so much money for phones and credit. Start with one screwdriver..

dgysoft:
I MADE IT

Well done for being the 2nd to comment on nairaland.
I hope this award will provide more for you than any University Degree in this world.

Enjoy yourself.

Big menses are wroted on computer

Venerable612:
Nothing wrong with staying off marraige... if you not financially and emotionally stable for the life time decision.

African parents and marraige are like 5 and 6. Its almost like it’s taboo not to get married before 35.

If you ask me, it’s not so much about the choice of the life partner... it’s more about the showbiz and social respect amongst their peers!

#but I may be wrong, after all the marriage isn’t the ceremony.

You may probably be able to stay off marriage. But if I took away your smart phone you will probably die within 1 month.

People refuse to share their emotions and life with a physical spouse. But burn all their energy sharing it with an electronic device.

IamMissMarvel:
for Naija?

Yes, in Nigeria.

Do you want to hustle for money to apply for visa to enter aeroplane to travel to cold Europe, before you will walk and ride
a bicycle?

Walk and ride your bike now. Nigeria is your country.

crestedaguiyi:
and he is still seeing with his eyes. this is why i love edo youths

You love them because they will kill the man abi?
One day they will kill you too. Then I will take over all your property.
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Why do people love violence?
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Devil tempted the man to violence. The man failed the temptation and killed his wife.
You read the story. Devil is already stirring up your love for violence. You are looking for how to kill another person.
Devil is succeeding in making everybody hate and kill each other.

IamMissMarvel:
We go to Gardens and joints to eat fish, pepper soup, nkwobi or suya and drink too, then go for comedy shows or to clubs.

You seem to spend more and more time in traffic and with mobile phone going to these places. And end up getting yourself more stressed up.
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Walk, cycle.

EsotericMonk:
For a person who like me works round the clock with little time for rest, whenever I have a weekend free to myself, I relax by:
Taking fruit wines or red wines with chicken or fish pepper soup.
Weekend travels to places of interests
Hotel lodging
Gaming.
Visit Nairaland whenever I wanna have a good laugh. We get craze ppl for here walahi
That's the life of a bachelor, yeah?

Nobody is like you.
You are like yourself.

Foolish people destroyed by mobile phone.

AutoReportNG:
Did he just say taking Henny and champagne Christ like?

Hmmm, please pray for this Bro

We have a problem with Alcohol in this part of the world. Because we always get out of control.
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Jesus Christ drank and everybody saw him drinking. There is nothing wrong with drinking if you have self control.
There is a decent culture to drinking wine. But foolish people mess up the whole thing. Then ignorant Christians say,
wine is bad.
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Just like Sex. It is for husband and wife only in marriage. Not before marriage, not outside of marriage. Not between 2 men,
not between 2 women, Not between man and animal, not with any artificial stimulus/sex doll, masturbation.
Just husband and wife only inside of marriage.
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He drank because, he lived in a part of the world that produced wine. The local people locally produced wine. Nigeria is not a wine
producing nation. We import European wine and get drunk over it whilst degrading our own palmwine, and gin as
something evil/dirty never.

Freeman59:
christians, this is a time to hold your bibles close. the world is turning into sth else.

A Christian is a person who follows Christ, Jesus Christ.
Many have been deceived and brainwashed into following PASTOR.
They will do what their Pastor says, but not what Jesus Christ says.

Which one are you?

To the OP
The way these headlines are written, you would expect to see a picture of the dead person.
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You were not even there.
You didn't take any picture.
Then you post social media picture of someone shining teeth.

May her soul rest in peace.

ziddy:
The wahala is too much

But this is what dating/courtship is all about. That is the period they were supposed to see each other's characters
to know if it will work or not.
Unfortunately, many people are so emotional at such periods that they overlook all the obvious blunders on either side
and proceed to wedding.... Rice, stew, cake, shoe, dress, watch.... Their eyes are covered.

dust144:
Better stay separated and Sta alive.

Marriage is a test of character. It forces you to be sincere with yourself. Because one day, you must stand before
God, completely naked and answer to your life. If you are a truthful person, your marriage will work out. Even if you
are a bad person, but are struggling to be good, marriage is that opportunity for you to right your life. You will love your
marriage.
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There is so much fakeness in people's characters. Pretenders everywhere. You may have money and go around splashing
and having lavish wedding, or even donating the highest amount in church and sitting on every high table. Nobody may question
you how you got it. But that your husband/wife WILL question you, day and night.
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Marriage questions every item of your life.

perfectgen:
You are still not getting me; I am not talking of the likes of your IT student, who is lazy and not ready to learn. I am talking of those who have it in them to make positive changes but not accorded any form of opportunity, yet being tagged unemployable.
You mentioned Bill Gates; go back and read his biography and see that he came from a privileged home, which most of us cannot boast of. His real breakthrough was the opportunity to intern at IBM from where he was able to practically execute his OS project which is now known as Microsoft but how many big firms are giving out internship opportunities to the so called average kids here in Nigeria; except for Andela, most multinationals internship is now based on who you know.
Now to the question of grades; it has been killing us from day one. We focus too much on grades and end up learning too much theory in order to graduate with first class and the likes while our foreign counterparts work on research and inventions.
This is not to downplay the essence of taking our studies seriously; for example, I graduated with a distinction and second class upper which I did concurrently because I focused so much on graduating that way but what is the essence of such grades when we can't convert it to practical innovation; partly due to our level of exposure; thanks to the so called employers who called us unemployable or why do you think government is pushing so much for local content and technology transfer.
The real essence of knowledge is in its ability to liberate; not just to have it. With the number of first class and distinction graduates we have in Nigeria, we should be able to better our lives and innovate, but like I and you know, the educational environment doesn't give much in terms of exposure and practical learning, yet the work environment too is now playing stereotype, so what is the future of the country with such a culture.
Truth is if not for the large number of graduates being churned out in Nigeria; with employers being able to pick as they like, nobody will call another person unemployable. They have too many choices for the few openings relative to the number of willing workers or can the employers do the job all by themselves; it is not about entitlement but a symbiotic relationship thing.
I really see where you are coming from but even though I am gainfully employed in a very good firm with over seven years experience, it is not just about me but every other person who desires such opportunity, so let us drop the unwholesome labeling of graduates as unemployable; let us all assist in working on their deficiencies while giving them opportunities to excel in what they know how to do best. Most celebrated inventors today are failures in other thing; Bill Gates just had a tennis match with Roger Federer to generate funds for a philanthropic venture but his inability to beat Federer doesn't make him a dunce; this is my exact argument. People should not be measured and called unemployable based on only our predefined metrics; tell me they have challenges and I will agree but to label them as unemployable is inadmissible.
I however like your pattern of thinking; it shows self reliance and hope you can give the Nigerian graduates more opportunities to showcase what they have in them and you will agree with me that nobody is unemployable.

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Been some days. Didn't know this topic was still on.
Well, we must tell ourselves the truth. In this country called Nigeria, Employers do not need graduates. Simple.
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I once worked in a firm that did some type of construction related things. I am adept at all things computer.
Guess what? They had no electricity. No light!! End of story.
Some junior technician blew up one of the Generators...
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The man had no light... and with that, he had lost interest in computers. I was useless to him. There were other
competitors in the market now, a market that he once dominated. No number of graduates can revive that
company. Even Chinese had entered the market and were also constructing same thing the guy used to construct.
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How many graduates do you need to solve that problem?
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I work now in another firm. Number ONE: This firm has light and inverters. Therefore, computers work. So I'm useful once more.
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But the firm needs contracts from clients to survive. No matter how inventive we are, if we cannot get clients in
a highly competitive market, there will be no money for anybody's salary.
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What we need, is Nation Building.
Say no to importation. Tell ourselves, "We can do it".
This is what America, China, UK, Europe... This is what they do. They all know that if they import recklessly, they will lose jobs.
So they take pride in their home grown industries and DO NOT import. China = Zero!
This is what makes the local industries have jobs.
It is this jobs they can give to graduates. They give them brief training and the job is done.

addictiv:
I come from a family of academics, all through my life, i was practically raised in the university and i can tell you the problem with Nigeria is her educational system. Due to the massive attention given to degree holders over the years, a lot of person s who would have been better off going for vocational training in various forms of labour are forced to go get a degree. Now when these persons apply to these universities for the courses of their choice, its either they dont do well and are denied admission or they are given a totally different course that they have no interest in to study. Therefore you have someone who would have been a talented lawyer studying Fine Art, or a talented fashion designer studying Mass Communications, someone who would have been a talented Doctor studying History, and the list goes on and on. These persons come out and become misfits because the system choose to push them into a different area rather than horne those God given potentials in them. Also the issue of curriculum where u have computer science and engineering students learning fortran rather than current programming languages and trends, Students in 2017 are still being taught the same courses using the same processes used in 1987. Even the professors most of who are living in denial do not upgrade their books. More than 80% of Nigerian Professors do not know how to use a laptop at an intermediate level. Very few can comfortably type their full CVs without asking from assistance someone else. After watching Black Panther, i realised the power of education and its potentials which we tend to overlook and disregard in this country. Education goes beyond having a degree or certificate. Unfortunately that is the only aspect we see. Hence the rush for certificates and degrees and yet it is not being translated into factories and industries. The concept of being Unemployable only arises because people are coming out of our educational system and there is no place for them to fit in. Even if all the industries needed were built today, it will collapse because the persons we are churning out of our institutions are not competent enough to handle such infrastructure because the system did not prepare them for it.

I studied in UK. Post graduate. What I noticed about the the undergraduates, the industry comes to the university to tell the university what to teach the students.
Not all students go to university. People are so creative that they can get on with their lives without a university education. Employers are more concerned with what you can do for their company than how many degrees you have.

Their parents do not pay for their undergraduate studies. At age 18years, each person has his life to live and gets out of Daddy and mummy's house.
If you feel/think that University is meant for you, you take a student loan offered by the government. Pay your tuition and accommodation then do your degree. So their undergraduates are very focused on what they want to achieve and where they are going to work. They are mini-business men, investing in their future.
When they graduate and get that targeted job that they already had before entering the university, they pay back the student loan to the government. It is taken from their salaries.
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If a person already has a job and does not feel that a university degree is worth his stress, he does not go to one. He can just buy books and read. Or go to a library and update himself.

perfectgen:
Check the bold statement; this is why we are not getting anywhere in this country. Inasmuch as organizations expect you to add your quota, they have a role to play in your training and career development. It is so funny you said teach you and pay you; the teaching and training is to empower you to do your job with expertise and technicality. Why are we building a different culture here in Nigeria whereas when you travel overseas, tools, training kits, mentoring and career development are part of what employers make available to you; this was s however practised in some multinationals. Not aiding employee development is one of the reasons employee's loyalty in Nigeria is at the minimum as the employee has nothing to gain from his organization other than monetary compensation while he is being milked dry hence, immediately he sees a higher paying employer, he resigns and moves on without any feeling; such culture needs to be changed.

I've tried to convince you to see yourself as the employer. You still want freebies.
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Do multinational companies take dull graduates with 3rd class and train them? Usually 1st class or 2.1. If somebody can gain 3rd class in same school that another is gaining 1st class, it means the 3rd class person is quite slow in understanding some concepts. Why should a business looking for profit waste its time and resources retraining you that did not pass your uni courses? The table has turned. This is when YOU must show that you have something to offer. No matter how small. Stop waiting to be trained in everything. Train yourself. Try to find out what the business does and ask questions. They will answer.

Who trained Bill Gates and the Facebook boy? How about the Amazon man Jeff Bezoz? Who trained them?

If you keep carrying entitlement attitude it will inhibit your from even yourself. That Innoson man, who trained him?

You won't believe how much training we are giving that IT guy in my office. He won't read any new books. Just to press WhatsApp and Facebook on his phone. My boss doesn't have his time again.

Read about Bill Gates life. This is picture of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the 10volumea of Macropedia and the 20 volumes of Micropedia.
It contains all topics in this world from A - Z. Each one book is about 1000page. Bill gates parents had it in their house. He read EVERYTHING before even entering University.
Today, you have Wikipedia which is also A-Z of all topics but updated.

perfectgen:
You made a very good point by requesting that we add value to organizations to earn our keep but I guess that is a digression from my grouse. My advocacy is a level playing ground for all applicants; giving the unemployed opportunities to learn and give their best to job opportunities than asking for 10 years experience from people you put age limit of 28 years on.
Now to the issue of value, the business environment is highly competitive and demands ingenuity; most Nigerian organizations maintain stereotype operations such that things are done the way it has been done in the past without support for innovation and flexibility. Staff members who may want to bring about change are scorched and castigated using the parlance of 'don't outshine your master' therefore limiting the input of creative workers, yet they blame all workers at the end of the day, when evidently, they were never given the required opportunity.
In conclusion, I am not talking of the lazy worker who just needs a job to get by and make salaries; I am talking of those who crave to make things happen yet not given the opportunity and unfortunately labelled as unemployable.

Level playing ground.
YOu want the industry to give you opportunities to learn. As per you want them to teach you and pay you salary. Free teaching?

Where I work, there's this IT student who is always pressing his phone, whatsapp and facebook infront of his PC.

My boss too has a phone. But he's always doing a lot of MSExcel calculations. He hardly looks at his phone when in the office. The IT and other gradutes have not taught him anything new. He is the one who is even teaching them how to perform one calculation or another.

How do you think he feels about the IT student and gradutes?
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If you really believe that you can bring change to an industry, you should understand the full workings of that business and why they do things the way they do them. Your change may step on a lot of unpleasant toes that you are not seeing due to your inexperience.
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You must see yourself as the boss himself and wear his shoes to know what he is feeling. Don't just criticize him. Only then can you pass accross your new idea with your own eyes clearly open.

SIRTee15:
Nigeria is not a native English speaking nation and will never be....
English will be still be taught as a subject right from primary school and everybody will still be able to communicate in english....
What I even notice is people who learn English as a second language actually speaks better english than those who picked it from the street....
The latter's accent and pronunciation have already been corrupted by the bad english on the street....
Besides this is about producing a productive workforce in this country .....
Are u happy with the certificate graduates we have on the streets....
If not, then u join the disruptive innovation movement....

I did an MSc overseas. The industry came to the univerity to tell the University what to teach the students.... Software textbook etc. Even how to go for interviews and write CVs.. They only need 3years for their Engineering because everything is on point. No wasting time.
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This only happened because the Industry is viable. It has money.
It has money because it is producing things that people are buying.
People are buying things from their local industry because they DON'T want to buy imported from China. They love their local industries and want their local industries to survive. They are not jealous of other countries.
They love each other. They don't laugh at each other. They want to remain united to each other. They are not fighting each other. They all speak one language properly. They don't favour anybody according to tribe. It's only their one language they know.
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Their government does not allow import from China to compete with their own local industry. They told their government that THEY, THE PEOPLE can manufacture EVERYTHING they need. They openly criticize their government if it is not performing.
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Also They respect each other. If somebody does not have gold watch, nobody will look down at him.
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This all happened after many years of the people always FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHT.They did not allow corruption to go unpunished.

perfectgen:
I weep for this country; the majority of our educated youths are unemployed. Having gone through the hardship of academic stress in our tertiary institutions, we cannot but wait for that day when our hardwork would pay off. Unfortunately, we are now out of school and still awaiting that day when we would be gainfully employed. We are yet to stop depending on our parent's benevolence; not because we are not trying to get a job but because the employers wouldn't employ us. The painful part is sometimes, we are so sure we did wonderfully well during the interview yet we never get the offer. Sometimes, the employers promise to get back to us, but if we wait for eternity, we still wouldn't get called. Based on all these unwholesome events, we tend to begin to believe that we are actually unemployable as quoted by the op; whom I so much respect but disagree with on this assertions. I have only six things to tell you about the lies they tell us.
1. They say majority of us are unemployable just to cover up for the fact that they never wanted to employ us in the first place. It is just a case of calling the dog a bad name just to hang it or how do you explain going through five stages of an interview only to be dropped at the last stage due to no verifiable justification.
2. They demand from us what they themselves do not have or how can we explain employers asking for a number of professional affiliations and certifications which the employer apparently does not have. They joined a system that aided their career development through these trainings and certifications but they in turn expect you to have it before joining the organization.
3. They ask you to cheapen yourself by trying to underpay you or in the case of the ladies, make you go the long mile, only for you to reject such advances then they later come and say you are not qualified.
4. They use recruiting firms to employ you so as to contract you as a contract worker; these were same positions and job role for which they were gainfully employed as of their own time. In the recruitment process, they would set questions most of them cannot confidently answer well just for them to make majority of the applicants fail; this is easily observed in job test where applicants are asked questions not related to either the job being applied for now the experience expected to carry out such roles; why measure a fish capabilities based on its inability to climb a tree.
5. They make us apply for job openings that they have either filled up or have already handpicked people they wish to give the slots to; Nepotism is the order of the day.
6. More than 85% of applicants for any job opening would end up not getting the job because there are limited openings. However, it is in less than 10% of Nigeria job openings that applicants are selected on merit.
In conclusion, do not be deceived, you are not the problem, work harder on becoming better, gain new skills and don't ever give up; you will get your own job.

As much as I understand your pain, you have to realise that this country's over dependence on imported products has done so much damage to our local industries (we all drive cars and yet none of us can make a tire. Dunlop is gone).

If there are no local industries, where is the money coming from?. You the graduate, can you help the company earn this money? The little money they still have is what they use to pay salaries. Each time Chinese products flood our market, another person's job is NO LONGER required. The company quietly releaves him of his duty. If you cannot help the company earn more money or gain stronger ground in Nigerian market or stop the Chinese imports that are running our industries out of business, why should they employ you at all?
Do you just want to collect salary, watch the company fold up say "E kpele O" and waka comot?