Geekaydon:
Pls mind you......dnt spoil sm ppol's business instead...fight for the solution to your area of intrest which is not selling.....calling youths who go into entertainment lazy ppol is wrong......everybody wants money.....who does'nt want.....and if you go into entertainment and your talent was recordnised...then ure good to go...some ppol are saying it as if its every aspiring musician that make it.....go to schools today.....most ppol find it as a joke....go tru malpractices to get their waec done...get to school and read only to pass...and for those who riili suffer for education what have they make out of it that can stand with what talents av got sm ppol....
My fight.....EVERYBODY WANTS A WAY TO SURVIVE AND NOT JUST A WAY BUT THE BEST WAY......most musicians are sure if they dont make it they have their certificate to fall to to atleast live life and feed a family.....but seriously if you dont show up @ the mtn audition and its your year.....ure a fool cause you dont know what they call luck.....i started music cos i like the entire life of going to lagos today and london tommorow...whats bad there...am still in school still....pls fight for making education pay more in nigeria and not spoiling sm ppols business......sm musicains are inteligent in books than some fools who get their school fees paid untime @ school...and actors go to school..... Gbammmm @geekaydon

ketoprofen:

the guy u quoted was wrong all through.
He neglected the vast majority of poor professionals to talk abt a certain 1%. Who told him celebrities don't engage in stock mkt n so on? they make more money.
As KANU nwankwo dey, which banker, lawyer, fit stand am both in fame n cash?

matify:
To add to the pervading madness, our younger ones and children are witness to the fact that a doctor can barely hold his head high in the committee of friend with the perceived paltry 250k he makes per month and which has to be speedily dispatched for" community development"leaving him with next to nothing other than to agitate for more.

Let's not even talk about our" learned brothers" or our engineers who have resorted to taking up jobs outside their disciplines or the banker that rearly see the sun because he works from dawn to dusk as if he is under a state of emergency in reverse but with no Naira to show for the hard confined labour.

To rub raw pepper on a festering sore, they see the 2baba, whizzy and davidos of this world who with little or no formal education display annoying opulence.

If you were in their shoes where will your heart be

The path of least resistance with a high return on investment ofcourse.

dabriggs:

Please go and read the expose again and see his point. He is saying there should be a balance. And frankly, betwneen me and anybody who cares to be on the other side of the divide, we need more doctors and engineers than Davidos. We celebrate the obvious absurd in Nigeria. No where in the write up did he call entertainers lazy people. You see what the system has done to you all. You cant read and comprehend.

And please, teenagers who cant even spell words correctly should stop coming here to claim upcoming stars. Youths who are seriously intellectually disabled.

As a matter of fact what is special about Nigerian music and entertainment industry? Is it "skelewu!skelewu" or "doro..doro..doro". or "chorkini chorkin"? And frankly I am not expecting much from the so called aspiring stars of Nigeria. We will keep hearing the same senseless repetitions in their music.

One day we may all be affected by the effects of half-baked intelectualism from our prolonged neglect and lack of foresight. Until Kings become intellectuals or intellectuals becom kings we cannot develop.

Anyway,to be a bit cynical, what are we even talking about? Afterall even when Nigerian Stars were unappreciated Nigeria hardly developed. Standarsds coul have been better back then,but it wasnt much really.

Nayoanalytical: Correct write-up

MizMyColi: True, That.

RuffRhyder:
Just wanna say a very big thank you to the writer.

zemaye: Op you are spot on God help us o

RuffRhyder:
Just wanna say a very big thank you to the writer.

Horayce:
Wrong. Our educational standards started slipping way before faceboook and twitter. The signs of the decay were apparent even in the 90s through the early 2000s when i went to secondary school. From the stories our parents and uncles told us, they had it way better in the 70s and 80s. The story of our educational sector is that it's been been on decay mode since the british left its reins in our hands, it would be a stretch to ascribe it to a recent phenomenom as social media.

ptoocool:
That is how a robust economy is built. It is an
economy in which people have the potential to
excel, to be rich and get national recognition in
whatever field they operate in. That way, children
who have the proclivity for research or teaching
are not discouraged by such fields’ low-rewarding
prospects and get lured into music or acting.
Those who will sing will sing. Those who will act
will act. But the nation must not make those who
should be in other fields to jump into
entertainment or emigrate, just because they
believe that their natural field is unappreciated.

stagger: OP,

I get your point but you need to understand something.

Entertainers (especially those who play the kind of music we hear in Nigeria) do not have lifetime careers. For every successful one, there are more than 1,000 who do not make it. Timi Dakolo's career has struggled when compared with some of his Idol contestants like Omawunmi. Even for the best entertainers, a time will come when their music and style will fade out and succumb to that common enemy of all men called time. It happened to MJ, MC Hammer, etc.

Where are all those stars we imitated with funny hairdos in the 1980s? My senior prefect in school who used to spot one of those hairdos is as bald as can be today!

But when you go to school and pick up an education and a skill, you can earn with it for life with no limit as to what you can achieve. So it is a matter of choice:

a) Earn those millions as an entertainer for 3 to 10 years on the average,

OR

b) Use your education and skill to earn for 40 to 50 years. Mind you, earning is not just from a salary. You can be creative. Develop software. Write books. Create a new product or develop and invention. Pioneer some kind of research. Start a business and aim to turn it into a conglomerate or a global brand.

As parents, it is our duty to teach our kids and show them these options so they can learn.

stagger: OP,

I get your point but you need to understand something.

Entertainers (especially those who play the kind of music we hear in Nigeria) do not have lifetime careers. For every successful one, there are more than 1,000 who do not make it. Timi Dakolo's career has struggled when compared with some of his Idol contestants like Omawunmi. Even for the best entertainers, a time will come when their music and style will fade out and succumb to that common enemy of all men called time. It happened to MJ, MC Hammer, etc.

Where are all those stars we imitated with funny hairdos in the 1980s? My senior prefect in school who used to spot one of those hairdos is as bald as can be today!

But when you go to school and pick up an education and a skill, you can earn with it for life with no limit as to what you can achieve. So it is a matter of choice:

a) Earn those millions as an entertainer for 3 to 10 years on the average,

OR

b) Use your education and skill to earn for 40 to 50 years. Mind you, earning is not just from a salary. You can be creative. Develop software. Write books. Create a new product or develop and invention. Pioneer some kind of research. Start a business and aim to turn it into a conglomerate or a global brand.

As parents, it is our duty to teach our kids and show them these options so they can learn.

lebesgue:

He didn't write it. He culled it from http://www.punchng.com/opinion/before-all-our-children-become-musicians/

lebesgue:

He didn't write it. He culled it from http://www.punchng.com/opinion/before-all-our-children-become-musicians/

Ignyte: For this post mind now e want make i quit my dream


how many Literates have Lucrative Jobs?

by lucrative i don't mean d smaller part of a six figure salary.

I am an eighteen year old about delving into entertainment and i read this post. It is everything you have said is true. I study a course in the university and i have seen how much money the graduates of my course earn. Do you think i'll waste my life like that??.

A certain entertainer that came into limelight mid last year, makes 4million naira after every live performance. now, thats the dream.

i don't have any problems in my academics but if i stick to it ama be dead broke in the end. so, i have to chase the dream.

bigx: Bad Belle Post


See it this way, when everyone veers into music (and most fail), it would create a scarcity of professionals and the demand for doctors and the rest would increase with the attendant reduced supply (check the humongous failure rate in waec). The current poor salaries they are earning is a result of everybody wanting to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer because of perceived high salaries (at least when I went through school)

bigx: Bad Belle Post


See it this way, when everyone veers into music (and most fail), it would create a scarcity of professionals and the demand for doctors and the rest would increase with the attendant reduced supply (check the humongous failure rate in waec). The current poor salaries they are earning is a result of everybody wanting to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer because of perceived high salaries (at least when I went through school)

And You Had To Cuss To Make Your Point Known
Smh4U

musaajebor:
No be d op be the writer
nlanders no get sense aswear

the write up was culled from punchonline.com

Horayce: I disagree with the main thrust of OP's article. How much do Nigerian entertainers earn anyway? The top 1% engineers, doctors, bankers, businessmen in Nigeria still make more money than Nigeria's richest entertainers. So as a market economy Nigeria isn't faring as badly as you paint here even if there's still a lot of room to improve. Politics is an obvious exception because of corruption. There are 99.99% of wannabe entertainers who will try and fail, and who we will most probably never hear about. For every tuface there are 100,000 also rans who will never hit the big time; so you can't generalize and say all our children want to be entertainers-- kids eventually realize the odds are terribly against you if your are not super talented or gifted. And a university education gives u a hedge/a safety net which you wouldn't have if you focused solely on comedy or music or sports. And while its easy to get drawn to the allure of celebrity life full of hype and make believe, stories of the odd celebrity who can't pay for his rent on his two bedroom apartment still abound. Meanwhile you have stockbrokers whom no one ever hears about quietly tabbing up over a 100 million a year. Kids eventually realize this

dabriggs:

Please go and read the expose again and see his point. He is saying there should be a balance. And frankly, betwneen me and anybody who cares to be on the other side of the divide, we need more doctors and engineers than Davidos. We celebrate the obvious absurd in Nigeria. No where in the write up did he call entertainers lazy people. You see what the system has done to you all. You cant read and comprehend.

And please, teenagers who cant even spell words correctly should stop coming here to claim upcoming stars. Youths who are seriously intellectually disabled.

As a matter of fact what is special about Nigerian music and entertainment industry? Is it "skelewu!skelewu" or "doro..doro..doro". or "chorkini chorkin"? And frankly I am not expecting much from the so called aspiring stars of Nigeria. We will keep hearing the same senseless repetitions in their music.

One day we may all be affected by the effects of half-baked intelectualism from our prolonged neglect and lack of foresight. Until Kings become intellectuals or intellectuals becom kings we cannot develop.

Anyway,to be a bit cynical, what are we even talking about? Afterall even when Nigerian Stars were unappreciated Nigeria hardly developed. Standarsds coul have been better back then,but it wasnt much really.