Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.
I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.
I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.
I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.
My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦♂️
At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.
Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.
Connections will open a door. I will not pretend they don't. But understand what that kind of door leads to. A job you got by whose-son-you-are can be taken the same way it was given. The skill you built yourself cannot. I walked into Shell with no godfather, and that is why no godfather could remove me. Build the thing they cannot hand you, because it is also the thing they cannot take back.
When I become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:
@JAMBHQ will be abolished. Admission into tertiary institutions should be determined by the institutions themselves under a transparent, merit-based system, not by another layer of bureaucracy.
The National Youth Service Corps @nysc_ng , in its current form, will be scrapped. In its place, we will establish a two-year, voluntary National Job Corps that guarantees participants meaningful employment, practical skills, entrepreneurship support, and pathways into permanent careers.
Nigeria's young people do not need more compulsory schemes. They need opportunities, jobs, skills, and the freedom to choose their future.
Samsung actually does a lot more than people think.
iPhone users don't even know they can't do without Samsung. Lol.
- Samsung makes the OLED screens inside your iPhone 🫵🏼. They also make RAMs and processors for different brands.
- Samsung built the Burj Khalifa, Taipei 101, and the Petronas Towers.
- Samsung owns JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel.
- Samsung builds ships such as oil tankers and container ships, at massive scale.
- Samsung makes EV batteries that power cars from various brands. So, if you own an electric car, there's likely a touch of Samsung in it.
- Samsung is making Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in a billion-dollar deal.
- Samsung runs life insurance and a brokerage firm in South Korea.
- Samsung owns and runs an amusement park called Everland, South Korea's largest theme park.
- Samsung is building the first Korean-built nuclear power plants outside Korea, in the UAE.
And guess what?
Samsung started in 1938 as a noodle and grocery shop.
If as a friends, mutuals or followers, you agree with everything I say or do, then there’s a fundamental problem, with either yourself or myself. You are either a gullible friend, mutual or colleague, without a mind of his own, or I am a pretender and people’s pleaser and not telling ourselves the truth.
So as matter of fact, it is perfectly okay to disagree on issues, either privately or publicly; and if we must, it must be in a manner that whatever it is we share as common interest is protected and not to throw it to the dogs to feed on.
It’s simple reciprocal courtesy that is not too much to ask or extend.