If, as a builder, you can’t find the talent you are looking for, then build them. What you are doing is new and innovative. It means it hasn’t been done before. You can’t expect to easily find people who have spent their whole lives being conditioned to learn what society considered more important.
You must groom the people you are looking for to fill such positions, or push the government to change the higher education curriculum to integrate those skills.
I spent 5 years studying Petroleum Engineering, just like over 60 of my classmates who were among the best of their time. Back then, we all believed we would get jobs in the oil sector, but as I speak to you today, only 2 people are still in the field while the rest are doing something completely different.
We must tell ourselves the truth. With the low entry barrier into becoming a programmer or tech engineer because of the cost and no well defined path way, nobody will spend that much money learning those skills and then choose to settle for lower pay in Nigeria when they can earn more working remotely.
I know friends who, after failing to secure jobs, borrowed money to learn new tech skills. Do you expect them to settle for less when better opportunities exist elsewhere?
Most people you see today in the tech space are people who already had first degrees in unrelated fields but couldn’t find jobs.
A time will come when some of these tech skills will become as useless as my Petroleum Engineering degree certificate.
BREAKING: @Bullish just put 151M shares onchain, tokenizing its entire cap table on Solana after acquiring @Equiniti
CEO @ThomasFarley closed the announcement at @consensus2026 with a live wallet-to-wallet share transfer on @Phantom 🔥
Buhari called us “lazy” wanting free things.
EFCC Chair says 6/10 uni students are into Yahoo Yahoo.
Moniepoint CEO says many youths lack skills & are not job-ready.
Many idiots clapped and justified them.But let me tell you: The average Nigerian youth is grinding multiple hustles — trading, freelancing, learning tech on YouTube, building small businesses — just to avoid begging on the streets.
One of the primary responsibility of any Government is security of life and property of its citizens.
Our government has failed us all these years in doing their jobs. We should tell ourselves the truth.
What will it take to reduce drastically all these insecurity problems the ordinary law abiding citizen faces everyday? What has the government been doing on this?
These are the questions every Nigerian should be asking.
I keep saying this. How you make your money is of no concern to the universe but the decision you make with the money determines if you will go back to zero or continue.
I have seen many hardworking legit people who after making it still went back to zero because of bad financial decisions. I have also seen people their labeled yahoo boys make good use of their illicit money and now are in top places doing great.
Look at money like that of The Parable Of The Talent. There is no reward for bad and good. The universe doesn’t give a fuck only the government cares if you get caught.
