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On a more serious note, education na scam!

Ablesam171:


Why do people always compare Nigerian professionals (especially doctors) to those in foreign countries?

Do we use Euros, Pounds, or Dollars in Nigeria? Why not compare the cost of medical school fees in those countries to what is paid here?
A starting salary of ₦400,000 in Nigeria isn’t bad at all when you consider our minimum wage. Why all this focus on doctors as if medicine is the only profession where pay is lower compared to overseas counterparts?

Abeg, make una let us hear word about all dis doctors mata, nobi only doctors de country dey affect.

Okay! Our Senators, and Law makers paid school fees in US Dollars and British Pounds abi? or they pay their house rent in foreign currencies!

Deeegbee:


You would have gotten the PR easily with your PhD back then in 2017 because the cut off scores were damn low.

Exactly! I was completely ignorant of the process. On the other hand, I kept hoping things would get better soon. Sadly, as the years progressed, things only got worse! Age was also another factor (40+) and not having a sibling in Canada meant I was disadvantaged in aggregate scores required for the cut off (ITA) - I had wasted too much time on the wrong track! Nevertheless I relentlessly kept seeking for a way out. Thankfully with my PhD + good IELTS score, I explored the PNP pathway - the saving grace! Friends I helped with their dissertation, home and away, during their postgraduate and even some I served with, during NYSC, and kept in touch with, were more than happy to help with the required funds! It's ALWAYS good to be nice to people, and to endeavor to periodically keep in touch with goods friends once in a while - you never know when you'll need them or vice versa! Be willing to assist if their request is within your capacity or at least offer some advice if it's out of your powers. It might just be your turn someday! Many of those who came through (especially the ones in diaspora) told me not to pay back the funds - it was a gift! I was shocked beyond words, even till date! I moved with family and it's been my best decision. Canada is welcoming to families with PR! I deeply regret the wasted years but I thank God !

PROPEACE:

Please bro, how do I get a guide from you on how to get out. If you are willing, I will give you my email address so you could furnish me with any info that may help me. How I survived the past years is a mystery to me, I believe God has a plan for me. Hoping to hear from you.

No wahala! God will do it!

Send me a dm

PROPEACE:

No I mean you recent trip, is it still for study?

No! I went for PR. The process isn't as difficult as I thought it were. With some concerned friends who saw my sufferings and knew I've done myself a disservice by turning back after my PhD, and was also aware of the unending imbroglio between ASUU and FG, I was able to pull through. A few friends raised funds for me. I'll encourage you to move out as quickly as you can. It's not rossy abroad, but not as bad as it is in 9ja! Experiences differ though, but from my experience on both sides, I can tell you confidently that the odds are stashed more against you in 9ja - especially if you are a low income earner - in such an unproductive and unfavorable economy!

PROPEACE:

Wow! I thought I was alone I. this boat. Did you travel out to study?

You're not alone bro!
Yeah! I traveled to study. MSc & PhD. My PhD Supervisor and friends begged me to stay back. A friend from India (my MSc classmate in UK) particularly encouraged me to move to Canada as he was equally planning to move to Canada at the time. He successfully relocated to Canada afterwards and kept in touch with me via Facebook calls and occasional phone calls - encouraging me to do Express entry. I didn't understand the process at that time (2017), and even if I did, affording the cost of IELTS (50k) was a herculean task, as my take home pay was nothing to write home about. I had less than 40k left to saddle all home front expenditure after deducting my car loan then. Things were HARD! I bitterly regretted the move! I couldn't run anywhere for help. I couldn't even extend any money to my poor parents every month. Bills accumulated and debts soon spiralled almost out of control. Inflation didn't help matters! I suffer no be small!

PROPEACE:
I Left Nigeria in my mid 20s, completed my MSc with a fully funded scholarship in UK, the son of poor naija civil servants o! Used my two legs to come back to Nigeria. My European girlfriend discouraged me from returning, she told me we should get married, I said no, I struggled for over a decade believing hardwork and merit in Nigeria will get me there. I was interviewed many times by several government agencies in Nigeria but never got the job, today I sit in my 40s licking my wounds. My naija friends that were friendly while I was there have vanished. Some have humiliated me before leaving when it seemed to them the tunnel I am in has no end to it. My biggest undoing in life is I believed too much in this country. Today, my peers that stayed back in UK are doing very well as citizens. I am trying very hard not to give up. Still strategizing. It's hard but deep down in me, I know I have learnt so much. Too much to not make it in the end. I pray for God to grant me long life.

This is 70% my story! Was also in the UK with scholarship up to PhD level! Foolishly came back to pick up a job in a federal university in Nigeria! The salary was paltry but I believed FG will fulfill its promises made to increase ASUU's salaries, and other allowances. Alas, none was fulfilled since 2013 till date. In 2020 and 2021 we embarked on a cumulative 20 months strike without salary! Not a kobo earned! Only God saw me through! My spouse wasn't working either! As if that was not enough, IPPIS was launched with inexplicable salary amputation every month! Throughout the job, I struggled to make ends meet with the miserable salary and lived a poverty stricken life. Nothing achieved in over 10yrs! I only recently raised money to japa! That country kills talents!

However my greatest regret remains not investing in bitcoin when it debuted in 2012 or so! Wish I poured my scholarship money into it and left it there all these years! My story would have been significantly different!

It's caused by your sleeping posture. Also get a good mattress. Exercise often.

Usually the case. Take heart.

This lady needs psychiatric evaluation

Sonofgod1990:
The father of that boy should have used his school fees carry 2odds.

. The world is a funny place. Oftentimes, such wayward children are the ones with responsible parents. The serious and focused students are often from poor homes with irresponsible parents! Everything just dey upside down!

Apcshit:


What has her education got to do with anything

It has everything to do with the situation....education is in learning and character! As a learned legal practitioner, she's expected to know how to seek legal redress of matters like this by deploying facts and logic, rather than throwing tantrums and emotional blackmail. In character, she lacks composure, equanimity, humility, simplicity, and decorum! She also lacks knowledge of and respect for the rule of law. All senators who read their code of conduct knows that once your seat is moved, you have to move to the allocated seat to raise any objections! She refused bluntly and was shouting "order 10". You can't deploy order 10 from a wrong seat! Again, why all that drama of not wanting to stand up at the entrance of the president? It's a tradition that must be followed! So many other goofs from her...including g her own petition, not turning up after being summoned by the ethics committee, taking the matter to court knowing fully well that a matter in court can not be entertained by the committee, etc etc..way too many goofs...now in UN to indict Lecturers ..wetun bring lecturers enter this matter now? The issue of sex for grade has no business with this please!!!! It's just to gather sentiments and depict Nigerian certificates as if all women in Nigeria got their degrees after s*x romp with lecturers! Abeg o!

okezuoemmanue:
This woman isn't politically wise. She should have used this opportunity to turn the table to her favour.
The Senate entirely loves her charisma.
I have listened to some senators, they just want her to bring down her wings a bit and probably make a good apology to the Senate, doing so, she will be welcomed back and she stands to get her motions been heard and thereby getting a juicy committee heading.
But u see this her method, even if she eventually comes back to the Senate through court orders, she probably might become thrown into the oblivion where no one will even notice her again. , she can't use the court orders to order the Senate to allow her have her way right inside the Senate. The Senate president has the right

She's not smart!

Apcshit:
Akpabio is a sexual serial predator

Even if he is, the prey is not handling the matter smartly and professionally! I'm grossly disappointed to know that this woman is a Lawyer! this is pure undiluted travesty! How did she graduate? how did she get to this exalted position of Senator? Have we condescended so low as a nation? She's not worthy to be called 'learned' by any inch. She doesn't come close at all!

2aces:
There are some bannies that are not worth lashing, cos the storm of troubles they carry will make you wish you never met them.

This your statement is echoing TOO LOUDLY in my head bro! #off your mic 🎤 !

The thing enter me wella!

So sorry, you're too young for this.
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Exceed15:


Na man e be.

The guy deserves an award! If you see the kind respect that man already won in my heart without even meeting him! No be here o! I salute his Commodore!

Thomthom:
Wow E be like Nigeria men dey try .. for that one wey say 7 years break up and she's happy, with all your comment wey I don read for Nairaland i must confess that man try. E remain siofora make she come tell us how she take break up with her husband

The funny part of this whole issue is that, such uncouth and vicious women believe they deserve the best husbands!

LivingSage:
Okpo full time
Good for you

You're angry you can't manipulate your husband?
Just leave him and become a single mother. You'll get what you're looking for. Your mentor is above u, check.

No mind them! Nigerian men of this generation are so unfortunate to have 're.tards with inordinate entitlement mentality as wives! Just imagine their comments! ..what are the shrinks in Nigeria doing for heaven's sakes? Where are the psychiatrists?

OP, you are in a big mess o! Since they're already threatening you, leave your residence into an obscure and unknown place for now. Lock your apartment with burglary proof and relocate elsewhere. Communicate your from distance to them and only pick their calls when its extremely necessary (only to discuss DNA test). Let them know your suspicions with facts that she has not been loyal. For now, tell them in clear that you'll only accept responsibility when DNA test proves you're truly responsible...until then, just lock up and avoid further banters with them! You were clearly set up for this mess and you fell cheaply!

BTW, you got what you deserve! Since you knew you dont luv her enough to marry her and you already had someone else you prefer, you should have gradually and cleverly withdrawn from her! But you wanted to form "playboy" chopping two kpekus simultaneously, now Mr. Player don score own-goal !

Kobojunkie:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Someone some years ago said that over 50% of Lagosians alone could benefit from mental health therapy of some sort. That is just Lagos there. Couple that with the general response to all that has been going on in the country for the last 9 years at least, and you get the sense that a majority of Nigerians have been so damaged in the way they assess the world and their conditions that they have been turned docile by it all.

Societal trauma bro, it's the cummulative effect of it all! On a more serious note, that country must certainly invest in mental health. See the way people drive na! I've long left the country, but TBH, a lot has to be done to rehabilitate the people. Pray for Nigeria!

Kobojunkie:
Counseling is available to all persons dealing with even emotional trauma from their pasts. It would be ill-advised, for OP or anyone in OP's shoes, to do nothing about the emotional scar from abuse as described by OP, an issue that has so far robbed him of a good quality of life according to his confession.

Ok! Perhaps I (and many alike) also need this counselling o! Going by your suggestion, I bet many young men brought up in the 80s and 90s will require the counselling sessions! We were also the generation that suffered multiple flogging in schools (those of us that attended public schools can attest to this crude, brutal, and traumatibringing! we get to school to face frustrated teachers who met out corporal punishments with whips, koboko, kpankere, planks, etc. We get home and also face menacing scourges from parents who thought corporal punishments and bodily harm was the best way to bring up a child. Children of this generation (the indomie and post-indomie generation) don't realize how fortunate they are! I even heard they've abolished cane flogging in public secondary schools! bro, we saw shege! Perhaps, we (those now aged, I think between, 35-50) should all come out en masse and push for counselling/post-trauma rehabilitation not only from parents but from our old school bitter teachers o! All of them combine to cause the pain o! They flogged us for CMS Grammar school (all the 5 schools in the compound) so tey, several years after leaving secondary school I was still having nighmares! I saw one of the wicked teachers - a maths teacher on my street after I left school and I stopped short of challenging him! Walahi I for beat that guy up that day, but a voice just whispered silently to me saying "Leave him and let him be. Can't you see he's looking miserable already?" I left the miserable looking b*stard o jaare, before I kee person!

I was in JSS1 when the hopeless maths teacher arbitrarily requested the entire overcrowded class to pay 10kobo to climb on a rickety weighing machine he brought from "God knows where'. They often devised mischievous extortionist tactics to make illegal money from students back then. I hadn't 10kobo to pay him (or perhaps I forgot entirely about him), so on this fateful day, he barged in angrily into the classroom with frustration ( I guess his salary wasn't paid) and demanded the class monitor, as we used to call them then, to call out the names of those who hadn't paid the 10kobo! There were about 50 of us who hadn't paid! He commanded us to be on a straight line and fall flat on our bellies, then he brought out a white cane and floged, with all the strength he could muster, the living daylights out of all of us, targeting specifically our legs (the bare legs - the gastrocnemius muscle popularly called the yam leg muscle). My legs were sore and red, and more than 15 years later, I carried the visible scar from that flogging, even throughout my Univ days. It was only recently the scar cleared and became invisible. So, wetin I go do that man? There were many more of those types of incidents! In fact countless, as I have chosen to delete them all from my memory. Public school teachers of those days no get joy o! and the parents of many of us who attended public school those days were equally extremely strict!
I don forget those o jaare! The doctrine of an eye for an eye, will leave all of us blind! Op, abeg forget and move on! (apologies for this long epistle) I don carry the matter like gala OP sef!

Kobojunkie:
OP is a 40-year-old man whose past still haunts him like a ghost that don't seem to ever die, yet here you are telling him,"it's all in the past now, fogerrit bro! na tough luv!"? Are you people for real? Aren't you doing to him the same thing those who abused him did which is to try to brush aside his pain?

So what do you want him to do now? Rehabilitate him, encourage him to pursue retribution and vengeance, or file a suit against his mother for the childhood trauma? let's know your point!

Pussyisgud:
See just live your life the best way you can, you are not the only one with a rough childhood.

Bro, you said it all! where we wan start from? where? just where na? mothers believed being super strict was the best approach to raising a disciplined child. It was particularly worse if you were a male child and the first! their misconception was that if they got it wrong with you as first child, others (your younger siblings) will follow suit! Alas they were wrong! They'll brag about beating you till you get traumatized with signs of physical scars written all over you and go ahead to achieve it. Neighbours then will wonder if you're truly her child or not! But it's all in the past now, fogerrit bro! na tough luv! If some of us tell you our experience, you'll delete this your thread o! So just put all that behind you, smile about it when you , thank God for keeping you, and pray for them! Just shrug it all off, and move on!

Hi NL folks,
Please my SINP application (Post ITA) is still *In Process*. However, my EE Profile expires tomorrow. Do I wait till it expires before creating a new profile? or can I simply go ahead and create a new profile now? What difference would creating a new profile now make?

Will I be asked any information to enable me to link the old profile with the new one? I'm asking to enable me know what details to copy down lest It's requested and I cant provide any info because it's closed.

Hi all,
Please is it acceptable to type all through in capital letters for IELTS listening section?

Hi are you on WhatsApp?

Nkeyabeyabey:
Good evening everyone, please I need advise and I think it's best I itemize them.
first of all, I got LAA for Manitoba in May and I have about two weeks to submit my documents but immigration hasn't printed my dependant's ports, please does anyone have any advise.

Then I will also like to be added to Manitoba pnp WhatsApp group, thank you

This is the reason why it's always best to have all documents ready before even entering the pool, especially when you know you have a very high likelihood of getting an ITA. Anyways, I'm not certain that the PNP will accept such as an excuse. Find someone to assist you at immigration

Sorry guys,
My visa category printed on my receipt after I paid at GTB, says

Category: J1 student, instead of J1 scholar

I'm not a student

I didn't notice until I got home. I plan going back to lodge a complain at GTB bank. Perhaps because of my small stature, the lady at the bank felt there was no need to ask me of my exact category under J1, and abruptly concluded that I must be a student!

Can this be changed?

pointednose:
You will need to make payment to GTB prior to booking an appointment. You can go to the bank physically or pay online. Either ways, a receipt number will be generated for you to use in hooking the appointment. If you are going to the bank physically, you will need to go with your port and if paying online, you will need your port number.

All the best.

PS: Whats the earliest date available? Are you able to view it?

sorted now. Earliest date available is July next Yr

baconline:
Wow its about 8 years ago since I started this thread

fob

pointednose:
You will need to make payment to GTB prior to booking an appointment. You can go to the bank physically or pay online. Either ways, a receipt number will be generated for you to use in hooking the appointment. If you are going to the bank physically, you will need to go with your port and if paying online, you will need your port number.

All the best.

PS: Whats the earliest date available? Are you able to view it?

Thanks. Yet to book. I abandoned it. I guess not all GTB banks can be approached for this purpose. I think I saw Gbagada, Lagos online, but it's kinda far.