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Random thought: Now that we've established that "Bank teller," which was a solid Nigerian middle class job just 18 years ago is being decimated by tech and soon to be extinct, what "legacy" jobs out there in Nigeria can still support families and help people plan for the future?
Medical professionals - Only viable at very senior levels, otherwise they all migrate.

Lawyer - Market oversupply. underpaid and overworked. Not family friendly.

Engineer - Depends on what kind

Teacher - Underpaid. Also soon to be extinct.

Civil servant - Underpaid.
Pilot - Extremely high financial barrier to entry. Existentially threatened by autonomous aircraft development.

Oil worker - Soon to go the way of the T Rex

Stockbroker - They still exist? Trading what? NSE shares?

Management personnel - Oversupply. Soon to be underpaid.
Journalist - Underpaid. Overworked. Undervalued. Threatened by govt overreach and financial bullying from private sector.

Programmer - Depends on seniority. There are literally poor entry level developers.

Creative - Underpaid. Undervalued. Usually the family's black sheep.
Accountant/Auditor/Tax professional - Only as relevant as the economy is strong. Also existentially threatened by tech.

Banker (Actual banker, not support staff working for a bank) - Very slow to hire, very quick to fire. Job security = zero.

Consultant - For who?
That leaves us with:

Commercial sex worker - High risk of rape, police violence etc. However, income guaranteed.

Internet fraudster - Success rate <1%. Social ceiling.

Corrupt politician - Success rate <0.1%. Bastard.

Armed forces - Underpaid. High risk of transfer to Dutse.
And finally we have:

Social media influencer

Instagram/TikTok skitmaker

Gossip & Lifestyle blogger

Vlogger/Podcaster

Musician

Actor

Footballer.

LMAO at our collective future.
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David Hundeyin says #LockdownTill2050.
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As I said, the "marginalised, impoverished African" is not a 2-dimensional character from a UNHCR fundraising appeal. He has thoughts and opinions and agency.

One thing I can't do is hear you call me a fool, and then agree with you in the name of political correctness.
Journalism will not rescue Nigeria. Journalists will not rescue the people of Northern Nigeria or Nigerians in general.

The people make a conscious decision everyday on the choice between their own lives/future and ethnoreligious dumbassery.

Don't ask us to save the unsavable.
The people who rule Northern Nigeria are not gods or mystical creatures. They cannot control minds. Nothing that they inflict on the North is possible without their people's support, cooperation and acquiescence at every level.

If they ever want freedom, they know what to do.
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China's ongoing attempts to quell internal dissent over its woefully incompetent handling of the COVID-19 outbreak by blaming it on Africans is the latest in a long series of instances where governments use the "African" bogeyman to deflect attention from their malfeasance.
In 2015, the Saudi government attempted to blame a deadly Hajj stampede outside Mecca on "African pilgrims." Actually the single largest group of people in the crowd, as well as most of the victims of the stampede were in fact Iranian.
ibtimes.co.uk/mecca-eid-al-a…
But it's more difficult to smear a neighbour with close historical and cultural links to you (and also looks like you) than it is to smear different-looking people from a continent nobody really knows anything about except that it is poor and powerless. i.e, they can't hit back.
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#LockdownAndInshallah😬
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I just got some very interesting insights from a former colleague who now works in industry. Remember how @MTNNG announced that it would support the fight against COVID-19 by giving subscribers 300 free SMS messages per month? Remember how we clowned them for it?

Well get this..
According to my colleague, the #YelloHope thing has actually been a hit outside of urban Nigeria. While we clowned them for providing free texts instead of free internet access, apparently our compatriots have been using their 10 free daily texts like there's no tomorrow🤷🏽
Apparently, over 50% of their subscriber base is in rural/semi urban Nigeria and do NOT have smartphones or internet access. These guys still rely solely on SMS and voice calls to communicate.
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