HarunaWest:
Zenith Bank Plx...just dial *966#

For real?
Full procedures could be carried out through this?

Hi Nairalanders. A Happy New Year to you all.

I am a 19 year old (not a student) and part of my new year resolutions is to open a bank account, and I wanna know which of the banks I should opt for considering the fact that mobile banking is the real deal in this era, and I will like to be guided on how I'll go through the procedures in opening a bank account.

I would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a bank which is more efficient in mobile banking like USSD transaction, recharge e.t.c

OMG!...... Thank you all for the wonderful advises, I really can't express how I feel right now........ I got really flattered at some point.


I guess I know what to do now.


THANKS AGAIN!

mrakeeno:
I'll advice you go back to school. Since you are on your own now, you can enroll in one of the distant learning institutions so as to avail you time to work also. Just like your friend told you, education will let you meet more clients and will separate you from others

P.S It might necessarily not be engineering cos of age and time factor but something along that line. So long as you are good at what you do clients will always locate you

Thanks a bunch sir.... I've always thought about this.. i'll put it into consideration

Thanks again

ednut1:
U are already educated. U only want the overrated 9ja tag of graduate. So find a school u can combine with ur hustle. What are most of the graduates doing Tailoring,cake making. Events planning,importation and business. Did they need to waste 4 years in school. Na God go save 9ja

Lol....funny u bro @ overrated 9ja tag

Thanks too

MJBOLT:

going back to school is the best step but you should know it's not just about going to school,you have to be serious this time and your write up is good if you ask me

I understand..... Thanks

decatalyst:
Get fund and get back to school.

Skills with education makes you different from your peers and it unlocks many doors of opportunities.

Thanks for the advice

TarOrfeek:


Nobody wey no fit to make am.....
Blessings follow you... Alubarika follow you... Plenty money follow you... Fine Fine ladies follow you....
But no let indecision follow you.

Lol...... Na so bruh

I don't know where I should start from.......but lemme begin this way

NOTE: It's a quite lengthy one, pls take your time to read it



I come from a family of 9 children, I am the fifth born, also the second son. My parents are Togolese, but my siblings and I were born and bred in Lagos.

Permit me to go a bit back in time so y'all can understands where I'm coming from.

While growing up, in my primary school I was the most brilliant in my school, in my class back then (we were not up to 20) to be very sincere honestly I am always the first in class back to back. it got to a point that it became a norm and I wished there was a strong competitor but no, there was none.

Fast forward to junior secondary school, I met students who were more brilliant than me, i guess this was where I began to loss it.

When I got to the senior school the bubble bursted!
negative peer influence began to get into me, started to loss interest in studies.

I find class lectures boring, evading of teachers and started to feel among the bad guys.

Mom soon began to see unusual changes in me, from the way I sew my uniforms, I barely take my backpack to school, I wash and iron my uniforms everyday.
Before I forget, my dad is a busy man, he seldom comes home, he works and live in Lagos.

There was a time i went to visit my dad during one of the holidays, he was aware of my non seriousness in school, he advised me everyday I spent with him....the one he always says repeatedly still rings in my head till date, he said and I quote "We are in the computer age, so everything in this world will go digital, and it's only education that is the key to digital knowledge)... but I never heeded to any of his advice (I'll forever regret I didn't)

Amidst those days, a particular family member visited, and he talked about taking me with him down to the east to be an apprentice and also further my education for 4 years..Tilling and Plastering precisely.

My mom advised I should go with him as a good chance of being financially capable in the future. initially I refused point blank, but after much pleading from her I agreed.
Hence after my SS1 studies, I dropped out of my school.

When I got here in the east, I realized I was only here to be an apprentice nothing more, my master has no intention to take me to school (he and my mom actually came up with that just to take me far away from home, after all, I've never been serious with studies)...though I later realized it's all for my good.

4 years down the line after gone through so much struggles and pain, it was actually on this forum I've come to know two things

Firstly, Education is so important, it's a necessity
Secondly, Money must be made,money speaks a whole lot.

Now to my point, this past month completes my 4 years in apprenticeship and I've been thinking what step should I take now??

Two persons advised me concerning education in different forms

1 - A graduated friend told me to get education added that it's very important in the kind of work I do (saying it will help me alot in meeting people)

2 - My master advice I should study an engineer course for two years (because he loves architecture and would love one of his apprentice to be an engineer) he said he has worked with engineers and can assure me success.... coincidence, I remember I used to say as a pupil that when I grow up I'll be an engineer, interesting, Huh??


Now I am at cross roads..... in as much as I'd love to be educated (which I've vowed to) I am still thinking about finances cuz that's what led me into apprenticeship in the first place

Nigeria is so messed up that an average Nigerian would prefer money over education anyday anytime

Please good people of NL advise me on what step I should take now... I really need them

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