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Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by ghostofsparta(m): 8:21am On Aug 07, 2014 |
Ishilove: That was then, wouldn't know about now, but so are/were many people in Nigeria, don't you know? |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by sholay2011(m): 8:59am On Aug 07, 2014 |
@ishilove and ghostofsparta You guys have spoken well. I hope Nigerians learn to be serious when there is need for it. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Orikinla(m): 1:04pm On Aug 09, 2014 |
Dear Fellow Nigerians, We are going forward in the mighty name of JESUS CHRIST. Amen. Our faith is our strength to overcome every wrath in the earth. For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein: as written in Psalm 24:1. 3 Likes
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Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by sholay2011(m): 1:16pm On Aug 09, 2014 |
This ebola palaver is a good example of why this thread needs to be on frontpage. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by tandj: 1:39pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
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Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by 9jahubcom(m): 8:49pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
na wa |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by great664(m): 8:53pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
ITbomb: Nigeria is so large a country that happenings in some parts sounds like statistics in another. Until it happens to someone in the immediate community, that is when we know say water don pass garri.adjust eyeglass |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by gift01: 8:54pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
That's why they say Nigerians are the happiest in the world. Fela's version: Suffering and Smiling |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by gorgeousnogo(f): 8:55pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Thats how we survive. We know that its only God that can help us not d Govt, So we make fun of tinz but deep down we are worried..... Meanwhile,Happy sunday everyone, Check out this newest amazing link http://tan.org.ng/onestar/register.php?id=43147 thank me later |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Kalvan500: 8:55pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Unserious people deserve an unserious government. 12 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 8:55pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Ishilove: Yes indeed. Why are we the way we are? I remember two years ago during the nationwide strike following the fuel increment, while many Nigerians took to the streets to stage protests, an even greater number sat in their houses, behind computer screens and drew ridiculous pictures with even more ridiculous, albeit hilarious captions. While their counterparts in the Middle East the previous year bled and died during the Arab spring, Nigerians conducted their own 'Naija spring' on the internet, circulating funny pictures and memes as their own contribution to the struggle. Abeg which kind shampoo dey kill dandruff? my dreadlocks dey scratch me 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by lebesgue(m): 8:58pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
LarrySun: I'm not surprised; since our verbal communication has often remained badly ambiguous; we blame the government for everything evil. No one is ready to take responsibility for the defects of the society; instead, we make asinine (even evil) jokes to mask our discomfort. The first sign of headache can be a neckache. We may suddenly wake up one morning to find out that these unserious fiends are candidates for straitjackets who'd escaped the confinements of their mental asylums. Chineke. Na only you waka come. See as you dey blow grammar. Dia ris God o. 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by nep2ra(m): 8:58pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Orikinla: Dear Fellow Nigerians, *face palm* This niccuh had to do this? |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 8:59pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Kalvan500: Unserious people deserve an unserious government.and UnSerious TreaTmeNt!! 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Kalvan500: 9:01pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
tandj: @op, I get the point u r trying to pass across but let me digress a bit. I'm an Atheist, but I feel it's a tad bit disingenuous to blame religion solely. A lot of factors come into play. Education and Leadership, the leaders have abandoned the education sector, public schools are in shambles, public teachers earn peanuts and the students are unmotivated. We need to fix the education sector, let every child get a solid education from pre-k to high school. When education becomes a priority , Nigeria will change. Good luck comrades. 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by arsetalks(m): 9:06pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
I thought I am the only one who gets angry with all the idiotic jokes. Yes, one need to ease up on life but when people are dying, you don't joke with it as those who must have lost their loved ones will not find it funny. I used to say to people who behave in idiotic manners that they have a brain tumor but not any more and thats because I lost my fiancee ( the best thing that has ever happened to me ) to a brain tumor. People need to consider others before joking. 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Votukpa(m): 9:07pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Ladystewie: Nigerians are just fun loving people and the ability to find fun in a rather serious situation in a bid to reduce the tension is genius to me. I think such 'jokes' tend to calm the people down and I don't really see anything wrong with it. Any reason why we never accomplish much? 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Joshuadon: 9:07pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
still trying to figure out the meaning of dis post 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 9:08pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Nigerians are not "Arabs". Stop comparing us with other people. Worrying doesn't change thing. We love to be happy, we love to pray and we react when necessary. Nigerians are happy and intelligent people. We are only human. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by adepojuis: 9:09pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Op, “wo,a le para wa jor”(we can't kill ourselves jor). |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by anonimi: 9:11pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Ladystewie: Nigerians are just fun loving people and the ability to find fun in a rather serious situation in a bid to reduce the tension is genius to me. I think such 'jokes' tend to calm the people down and I don't really see anything wrong with it. There is so much wrong with being a LAZY butt of jokes by your contemporaries (fellow homo sapiens) and you yourself play jester around issues. Can you imagine someone in your extended family who is penniless, and always being helped by others joking about his own impoverished situation that is self-inflicted I am sure you won't want to be that person or his child Some of us do not realize how we enslave ourselves mentally. Anyway, shey we dey wait make oyinbo people come give us the melecine wey dem don sweat for laboratory to discover against Ebola We go wait tire. Shiiiiiiiiooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! 5 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 9:13pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Orikinla: Dear Fellow Nigerians, wow!!!!! this thread about people like you 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 9:14pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
ITS THE SAME REASON THE COUNTRY WILL NEVER BREAKUP AS PREDICTED BY OUR ENEMIES!!!! 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Tstark(m): 9:17pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Make dem dey suffer dey go, they want everything handed to them on a platter. They deserve the corrupt government they have, and i hope it continues that way.....1.9 billion for ebola emergency and not a single person is asking what that money will be spent on. # NATIONOFAPES!! 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Onegai(f): 9:18pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
I've been following this outbreak in West Africa since May. In May, my very learned boss laughed at me for using hand sanitiser, then laughed at me for washing hands. Now, she bought a pack of latex gloves and face-masks for her self, 2 days ago. And people still don't believe in the virus. But I noticed a more alarming trend: Nigerians are not deep thinkers or planners of the future, or people who look at their past. I've been so worried about this Ebola outbreak, and my elderly mother said something today: this is not the first viral outbreak which has ravaged my country. I looked it up online and to my horror, I discovered that she was part of the generation who lived through 2 deadly outbreaks: Smallpox and Yellow Fever. If you think Ebola is scary, Smallpox is airborne, Yellow Fever was transferred by the bite of a mosquito. Gods were carved by our ancestors, to appease those diseases (Sopona was the yoruba god of Smallpox). Over 65 years later, NOT ONE AFRICAN GOVERNMENT HAS FUNDED RESEARCH ON ANYTHING. Foreigners found the vaccine and made it cheap for us. During those decades, we discovered oil and now, we pound ourselves on the chest and roar "Giant of Africa". More like "Cockroach of the World". Listen, I don't care who the hell "infected" Africans with this virus (38 years and 7 months, we didn't discover a cure). I'm ashamed to belong to a people who DON'T LEARN FROM THE PAST, DON'T PLAN THEIR FUTURE AND ARE CONFIDENT IN THEIR IGNORANCE AND FOOLISHNESS. In 1966, another smallpox outbreak occurred because a religious group refused vaccination. And I'm hearing the same freaking stup.idity bleated about. People hid from being contained and isolated. Sound familiar? In 2014, millions of people bathed with salt and water. Almost none of them bothered to take the time to read the free report on the Zaire 1976 Ebola outbreak, and come up with reasonable solutions (I found out from there that we need Methyl Alcohol 91% and Sodium Hydrochlorite, known as Bleach, to disinfect everywhere. And burn disposables and contain and isolate and do assisted nursing, from afar, best done by medical staff). I keep seeing and hearing ignorant nonsense spewed. And everyone is suspicious of the White Man. Yet you are "all more educated than those villagers". For once, let us keep ourselves clean. Let us voluntarily start research, let those who cannot research fight for governments who will fund it. Let others donate medical supplies (I started discussing with doctors about donating hand sanitisers to LASG hospitals 3 weeks ago before Ebola came here, all were hailing me as a "godsend". Please support my efforts and those of my friend, who lost his dad at LUTH). Let us demand accountability from EVERY SINGLE PERSON (DO YOUR PART AND PAY FOR A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM, FREE FOR ALL, WITH SOAP PROVIDED). Teach African History in school, so everyone knows what we went through before and how we beat it. And how to apply those solutions to future problems (such as a viral outbreak from another country, we should have closed our borders since). This year, Nigeria lost children to diseases which could have been prevented by vaccines. Those vaccines are finished, since February. When an outbreak occurs, some animals in government will then send money and declare emergency and create a panel. When it would have been cheaper to treat the problem MONTHS AGO. DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO ONLY PROMISES YOU GOOD ROADS AND ELECTRICITY IN A TV JINGLE, LET THE POLITICIAN TELL YOU HIS DETAILED PLANS FOR HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. Stop selling your birthright for N2,500 worth of rice. And for you tribalists, an outbreak in any part of the country affects you. Stop saying "na their problem". Learn from the mistakes of the past, stop these daft conspiracy theories and change our future. We've been doing the same foolish behaviour since 1966 and haven't changed once. 35 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by anonimi: 9:19pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
aletheia: Revolutions like the French and that of the Americans abi They failed so much that Nigerians are praying & fasting to be smuggled into voluntary slavery in these "failed revolution" places Person/People wey nor fit ENDURE na im/dem go suffer pass. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by Nobody: 9:21pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
"Ebola! Your fada. No matter how you strong your face reach, we must break you down"...this got me cracked up!! 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by dont8(m): 9:21pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Well said, for instance on this forum, you see people taking a very important discourse as a form of joke. Failed comedians everywhere, I weep for this generation.₪ Kalvan500: Unserious people deserve an unserious government. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by AspDrone(m): 9:23pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
Tallesty1: I know but @least we should know where to draw the line. We are fun-loving-people, YES. It helps reduce tension.YES. But can it give us what we want? NO, is it really helping us? NO!. Our leaders are aware of our unseriousness and that is why they are looting us with pride. One terrible thing about us is this mentality of "If I Didn't Happen To You or Your Relative Then It Really Doesn't Concern You". It is very bad. We are not serious people and we prefer to spend time sending retweets of hashtags instead of taking real action. There was a time you cannot see a comment here without the #bringbackourgirls hashtagg. But now what happened? The girls have been forgoten. To blow hot air; shout and make noise is where we are perfect.We have remained silent for so long and failed to make our government accountable for so long and it is not and will never help us.Do you realize everyone has there own personal problems which might equal or surpass those chibok gals? Who helps them in that? I know jokes sometimes are blown high but its just whom we are..I tell u |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by shabbey09: 9:23pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
My thoughts exactly. Most pple know its serious but Nigerians just always tend to find a way to ease their pain. God bless Nigeria!!! |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Unserious?!? by thomasdareal(m): 9:23pm On Aug 10, 2014 |
@op! We are who we are! Naija spirit 1 Like |
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