Timmi:


Number one, you choose to go and study in the UK and you are not forced to.
Number two, you were probably sponsored using the looted money from our common treasurer.
Number three, the conversion rate is not 1.900 as some of you cretins want it to be.
Let me stop here

guobe:

People are paying millions in private universities and I can beat my chest and tell you that the graduates being rolled out by the private universities can't compete with those from federal universities.
Most Nigerian universities need to upgrade first-to be standard and inline with the present realities of the new world and not those their old paper based lecturing they are dishing out to their students.

SmartyPants:


Lol...you're paying 40m for a degree. The rest of those things are contingent on you getting a job in a shortage profession which is highly unlikely. Moreover, the things I've struck out are not guaranteed at all. You're not in touch with reality.

Procashtips:


You do not need to spend that high to "escape" from Nigeria

That amount alone can move a family of 4.

I guess the person wasn't that useful in Nigeria in the first place to have needed to spend that high.

Someone with a useful life in Nigeria doesn't need to spend that high to change location. (Just one person)

casualobserver:


Private universities are not equal but there is a reason why covenant university has overtaken all Nigerian universities perhaps with exception of UI.

Kobicove:


It's a fallacy to believe that everywhere in Europe and America is safer than Nigeria...you could be in the mall minding your own business only to be gunned down by a mass shooter who is depressed and wants to commit suicide; you could also be shot by a trigger happy American policeman because you have you hand in your pocket during a traffic stop, you could be knifed by a crazy migrant if you're in France or Germany; you could be attacked and killed by crazy redneck racists who hate blacks.

....the list goes on

guobe:

Myriad adverts asking for 8 years experience to work in Asia.
Most fresh graduates struggle to get jobs nowadays.
If they are available please input the referral links on your nairaland timeline so that people can apply because I didn't see any in yours.

Kobicove:
If after spending that type of money you don't get a job that pays at least $15,000 a month then it's a wasted venture as far as I'm concerned

omonla10:
If he works where I wrk, he can save that amount under a year after paying bills and taxes as a single person

Calitoscassius:
If anyone is looking for moral or religious lifestyle. They should avoid the UK or America. Germans are better in terms of religion.

However, i don't think that is what that individual meant by his life changing in a different perspective.

NaijaphiliaBlog:


This is an example of an advert for fresh graduates (OND/ HND/ BSc):

https://www.nairaland.com/8129321/mrs-oil-nigeria-plc-2024


Here is also a thread with hundreds of jobs vacancies posted over the past months, including some remote/online jobs:


https://www.nairaland.com/7851192/thread-job-seekers

blowjohn:



Well, I think such changes or perceptions about life are part of it.

Like, look at it this way..... A typical Pentecostal person will go to UK and they will make him think he or she needs less of God and more of work. Whereas in Nigeria it's different ( even though both views can yield same results)

He may end up not caring about his relatives or brothers and sisters after seeing and believing that they ought to fend for themselves ( forgetting that his family back home are in a totally different economy)


I still feel the Nigerian family is better morally than the UK family.

Social media, internet, and bad parenting have messed things up.

guobe:

After paying 2 million naira in UNILAG and the job if any available for you is 45,000 naira.

guobe:
A total of 20,000 pounds was spent in this venture and if you convert to naira we should be talking of about 40 million naira.
The figures are really mind-blowing considering the fact that the Nigerian currency is getting worse by the day.

casualobserver:


It doesn’t work like that. You don’t say pay me the money for a well educated graduate and then I will go and get re-educated like a well educated graduate. You don’t say pay me salary upfront then I will work. You don’t say marry me 1st then I will show you I am worth marrying.

The way to solve the problem is to raise the fees of local universities to a level where they can compete with foreign universities abroad like it was in the 1960s-80s. The good thing is it won’t be anywhere as much as foreign fees. If the amount for a truly competitive university system is N4m then double it. Those who are paying N20-40m+ abroad would gladly send their kids to universities here. The only reason they send their kids abroad is because they know the quality here is very very low.

Why did I say double it? That way 1 fee paying student can subsidize the fees for a poor student and it will still be less than going abroad. That solves the problem of affordability for poor students and raises the quality of the degrees. It also ensures that both rich and poor can obtain good degrees that are worth more in the market than N45,000 salary.

dapotemi:
If you ask the same person to pay 2 million in unilag, he/she go carry placard..... Education is very expensive..

blowjohn:




Lol. Av met a few here.
Because if all the capital they used and the fact that they don't like giving the poor beggars money( they feel they are a nuisance) they bring the same attitude here.

georgeakins:


People are still getting well paying jobs in Nigeria.

Don't use your own condition to judge others.
No amount spent on education is too much.

Justiceganduje:
Then it is worth it.

lightwind:



What do you mean by here ? You met a few here. I am not talking about on Nairaland forum.

I don't know what to do to that woman i swear.
I am just getting pissed each passing the with her

Kobicove:
If after spending that type of money you don't get a job that pays at least $15,000 a month then it's a wasted venture as far as I'm concerned

guobe:

I don't think it's about population because China have population and they are doing well.
The Nigerian institutions are weak and we can't achieve anything with weak institutions.

lightwind:


I see the reason UK people are extremely stingy. I have one 58 year old England woman i have been chatting with for almost 2 years now. She calls me her baby boy etc always wanting me with her online 24/7 but when i ask for money to solve a problem she becomes stingy with it. Telling me she has only £9 in her bank account.

You see it's ridiculous. I always get angry with her most times.

blowjohn:


No I mean in Nigeria. Those that have returned after spending more than a decade in the UK

PeterObi4LP:



Is not a wasted effort. You said this because you're not opportune to be the one. A Caregiver here monthly salary is 1.4m to 3m monthly if you convert in Naira, 40hrs. Talk more of a skilled worker or M.Sc holder

lightwind:

Okay.

Those UK people eh.


I wish it's USA woman that's in love with me like this. My own for don better

PeterObi4LP:
I have spent 3/4 of this already for a 2yrs study (Ph.D), I still have 9 months to graduate. I work while studying too. T[b]he amount worth it and guarantee you a job after study.

Me come back to Nigeria to do wetin? I can't come back unless my constituency single handedly ask me to come represent them at HoR or Senate.[/b]

MT:


You are attempting to fleece a 58-year old and you are still proud of it.

Your kind is the reason the whites look down on us.

Go get a life. Go get a job.

Aguiyimba:



Lol. You that's useful in Nigeria, how much do you have?

BigDawsNet:


People paying 40m are not waiting for any white collar jobs in abroad… they understand it’s very competitive…

Someone that pay 40m to japa will gladly take up a security job

I have a bank manager that arrived here few months ago.. his now a security guard and his racking millions at the end of the month in Nigeria exchange