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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 7:31pm On Jul 21, 2013
^^^RLG is not known anywhere in Nigeria outside Osun state or wherever they are, who uses them, what do they do? Can their impact in Nigeria be compare to that of Globacom who sponsors your premier league hahaha Gaynaian Premier league is sponsored by a Nigerian Company, even their nations cup participation is partly financed by Globacom.
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17 Nigerian companies invest $20 billion in Gayna
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www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/29643-17-nigerian-firms-invest-n240-billion-in-ghana-
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Talking about RLG

Gaynaian students and teachers fight over laptop presents from RLG loooool poor people.
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http://m.myjoyonline.com/pages/edition/news/201307/109796.php
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by GHPATRIOT(m): 7:37pm On Jul 21, 2013
If Nelson Mandela were a Nigerian,
he would never be treated in a
hospital within his country. God
forbid! At the slightest sign of ill
health, he would be airlifted to a
hospital in Germany, the UK, the US,
France, or Saudi Arabia. Any
Nigerian doctor who comes close to
him – much less touches him – would
immediately be arrested and charged
with treason. An SSS interrogator
would ask the hapless doctor, “You
dey craze? So you wan kill de man?”
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, not
only would he be in a foreign hospital,
he would commandeer an entire wing
of the said hospital. No government
official would ever give Nigerians
updates on his progress or prognosis.
Hell, no! In fact, the only statement
the government would ever issue is to
deny that the man is hospitalized.
Some spokesman would insist that
the old man went abroad on vacation,
to get some well deserved rest. You
see, Nigerian officials – from the
president down to the municipal
chairman – are fond of boasting that
they’ve “totally transformed” Nigeria,
this or that state, or this local
government area or another. Yet the
last thing these human transformers
would ever do is take a vacation in
the country they’ve ostensibly
transformed!
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, a
league of pastors and imams would
take to the press each day to tell us
what “God” allegedly told them about
the man’s condition. One pastor – or
imam – would say God told him to
warn Nigerians to pray interminably
and fast furiously to ensure the ailing
elder’s survival. Another would
declaim that God confided in him that
Mr. Mandela did not hearken to some
divine instruction – and so was put on
Saint Peter’s list of guests to expect
at the pearly gates. Yet another imam
– or pastor – would declare that a
clique of witches and wizards had
descended on the sick man,
determined to doom him. If he’s to
survive, he must personally contact
the clairvoyant imam or pastor to
receive special instructions on how to
win the spiritual warfare.
Mr. Mandela is a man of comfortable
means. He made a modest fortune
from advances and royalties on books
as well as earnings from his work as a
widely sought, handsomely rewarded
speaker on lecture circuits. He also
received a Nobel Peace Prize that
came with a handsome sum. In a
word, he’s worked – and worked hard
– for his money.
Now, if Mr. Mandela were a
Nigerian, he would be considered a
capital fool for working at all to earn
money. To work hard would make
him nothing less than a mumu, a
Nigerian parlance that suggests
somebody is a step or two worse than
a fool. No, he would simply announce
himself, Obasanjo- or Anenih-like, as
a major “stakeholder.” And then,
pronto, some currency tap would
start gushing cash onto the deep
pockets of his agbada. (Which
reminds me: if Mr. Mandela were a
Nigerian, he would not be permitted
to sport those silly shirts he’s seen in.
With those shirts, who’s going to be
able to tell oga apart from his
houseboys? He must exchange them
for an endless line of lavishly
embroidered agbada, accentuating
his image as a human god).
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would have enough cash stashed
away in foreign vaults to make the
Forbes list of the world’s billionaires.
Heck, Nigerian civil servants who
manage pension funds are
billionaires! Yet – like most Nigerian
billionaires – he would not be in a
haste to alert the editors of Forbes to
the size of his assets. Heh, it’s not
worth the trouble; who wants to be
playing hide-and-seek with armed
robbers and kidnappers? He may not
confide in Forbes, but a Nigerian
Mandela would be the proud owner of
numerous oil blocks. He would be
entitled to a “security vote” that nets
him, at least, a billion naira per
month. He would own mansions in
several European capitals and resort
locations. He would own private jets,
his own private army (otherwise
known as thugs), a university or two,
a private cathedral or mosque,
controlling shares in several banks,
and enough high-priced cars to run
an automobile dealership.
Mr. Mandela is an enlightened man, a
towering moral figure who commands
respect around the world, a lawyer,
author and reader. Yes, he has the
stamina to put in the months and
years it takes to write a book. And he
is capable of staying still for hours or
days to read book. If he were a
Nigerian big man, he’d love to have a
book or two to his name – but the
content would be cliché-riddled
speeches written by bored, ill-
educated and often cynical
amanuenses. As for reading a book,
perish the thought! A friend of mine
once told a joke about one of
Nigeria’s illiterate moneymen.
According to him, this mind-ravaged
rich man laughed at people who,
behind his back, whispered that he
was unlettered. “I can read,” said the
traduced businessman. “I only care to
read the amount on my checks!”
That’s what a Nigerian Mandela
would learn to do.
If the legendary Mandela were a
Nigerian, he would not be addressed
simply as Mister. On Mandela’s first
visit to Nigeria, he was awarded an
honorary doctorate degree by – if my
memory serves me – the University of
Maiduguri. Since then, Nigerian
newspapers and magazines as well as
broadcast media have taken to
addressing the global icon as “Dr.”
Mandela. In the Nigerian media’s
imagination, by bestowing the prefix
“doctor” on Mandela, they have
somehow enhanced the man’s
standing in the world. What would
the man be without this generous
beneficence from Nigeria by way of
Maiduguri?
It’s conventional wisdom in Nigeria
that titles, however hollow, matter. In
many quarters, the quality of a
person’s mind is of no consequence.
What matters is self-advertisement,
buttressed shamelessly in the
adornment of antiquated, silly
honorifics. So we went from
addressing people as Chief (which
has no meaning, really) to calling
them High Chief, Double Chief, or
Double High Chief – terms that
inspire embarrassment on behalf of
those who flaunt them. If Mandela
were Nigerian, he would be identified
as Triple High Chief (Sir) Barrister
Nelson Mandela, GCFR, Tigbuo
Zogbuo 1 of Igboland, Aare Baba
Dudu 1 of Yorubaland, Alhaji Magajin
Biu 1 of Hausaland, etc, etc. He
would be overfed, weaned off his
sprite, sportsman’s physique. With his
kind of figure – a flat belly and all –
you can’t even aspire to become a
local government councilor in
Nigeria! Day and night, his staff and
harem would ply him with pomo stew,
cow leg pepper soup, pounded yam
and egusi washed down with six
bottles of lager per session – until
he’s appropriately fattened.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by GHPATRIOT(m): 7:39pm On Jul 21, 2013
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, his
claim to being a hero would be put to
the ethnic test. Only members of his
ethnic group would consider him an
exemplary man. To others, he would
be an object of ambivalent response:
a hero today, a villain tomorrow,
depending on what he’s said on what
issue.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would never have spent more than
one week in prison. Why, the
traditional rulers from his district
would have gone as a delegation to
his jailers, apologized on his behalf
for his unruly opposition to the
apartheid machinery and pledged
that they would ensure that he show
appropriate respect to constituted
authority. He would then be released
– cameras clicking to capture the
moment – to the “royal fathers,”
guarantors of his docility, quiescence
and submission to the powers-that-be.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would not be an ex-president, but a
president-for-life. His kinsmen would
have hired a dibia, babalawo or
malam to cure his “madness” when
he decided to step aside after only
one term as president. A Nigerian
Mandela would not be subject to any
constitutional limits on presidential
terms; the constitution would be
subject to him. Any part of the
constitution that runs counter to his
whims and caprices would be
instantly amended or – better still –
ignored.
To make a short story long, if
Mandela were a Nigerian, then the
man and his stupendous moral capital
would not exist!

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 7:49pm On Jul 21, 2013
^^^^ copy and paste rubbish! I only read the first line. Your former president who decided to be treated in a Gaynaian hospital, what happened? He died like the fool he is hehehehehehehehe

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Conquistador: 8:22pm On Jul 21, 2013
GH PATRIOT: If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, his
claim to being a hero would be put to
the ethnic test. Only members of his
ethnic group would consider him an
exemplary man. To others, he would
be an object of ambivalent response:
a hero today, a villain tomorrow,
depending on what he’s said on what
issue.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would never have spent more than
one week in prison. Why, the
traditional rulers from his district
would have gone as a delegation to
his jailers, apologized on his behalf
for his unruly opposition to the
apartheid machinery and pledged
that they would ensure that he show
appropriate respect to constituted
authority. He would then be released
– cameras clicking to capture the
moment – to the “royal fathers,”
guarantors of his docility, quiescence
and submission to the powers-that-be.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would not be an ex-president, but a
president-for-life. His kinsmen would
have hired a dibia, babalawo or
malam to cure his “madness” when
he decided to step aside after only
one term as president. A Nigerian
Mandela would not be subject to any
constitutional limits on presidential
terms; the constitution would be
subject to him. Any part of the
constitution that runs counter to his
whims and caprices would be
instantly amended or – better still –
ignored.
To make a short story long, if
Mandela were a Nigerian, then the
man and his stupendous moral capital
would not exist!
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 8:23pm On Jul 21, 2013
collynzo2: ^^^^ copy and paste rubbish! I only read the first line. Your former president who decided to be treated in a Gaynaian hospital, what happened? He died like the fool he is hehehehehehehehe
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Conquistador: 9:08pm On Jul 21, 2013
Hahahahahaha no wonder senator chukwumerije described these apes and f00ls as educated illiterates! If you live to be 1000 years you can’t achieve one-hundredth of what Professor Attah Mills achieved in his lifetime. A man who obtained his Phd at the age of 27, when most young men in your sh1thole are busy kidnapping anything that moves! grin grin grin

I understand yar’dua was the first university graduate to rule the sh1thole. shocked

Can you imagine! grin Ever heard of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and professor Busia, scum sucking low life? grin

Ghana wrestled independence from the Brits in 1957, while MUMUgeria was freely given independence by the Brits who found their country very useless and of no value, in 1960.

Between 1998 and 2010, two of your clueless and colourless leaders died in office. One was said to have died on top of Indian pr0stitutes at the presidential villa, while the other died like chicken, looking like an HIV/AIDS patient! Both of them were in their early 50s- not a surprise considering life expectancy in the sh1thole is 52 years. cool shocked

Professor Mills died a very dignified death at a ripe age of 68. There was no drama and he received a very dignified burial, which was attended by the US secretary of state and many dignitaries. Even your NL posted some of the pictures https://www.nairaland.com/1013475/late-president-atta-mills-funeral

Can you post pictures of the burial of your late presidents for all to see? Shameless bigot. I challenge you to post burial pictures of abacha and yar’adua so we can compare them with the burial of Attah Mills. grin

Your current president is said to have a doctorate in zoology or some nonsense programme. Post his biography so we can compare with that of Professor Mills.(Below). In fact post the CV of your best educated president. Hahahaha I know you can’t do it because the difference is 7UP! Fuelish goat! a shi1thead and senseless mor0n! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin



Biography of Prof John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills


Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, was born on 21 July 1944, at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana and hailed from Ekumfi Otuam in the Mfantsiman East Constituency of the Central Region. He launched a lifelong interest in acquiring knowledge at Achimota Secondary School, where he obtained his General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level in 1963. To further his education, he attended the University of Ghana, Legon, where he received a bachelor's degree and professional certificate in Law (1967).

While earning a PhD in Law from the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, John Evans Atta Mills, was selected as a Fulbright scholar at the equally prestigious Stanford Law School in the United States of America. At age 27, he was awarded his PhD after successfully defending his doctoral thesis in the area of taxation and economic development.

Prof Mills' first formal teaching assignment was as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana, Legon where he spent close to 25 years imparting knowledge (as well as other institutions of higher learning) rising from lecturer to senior lecturer then to associate professor. His contribution to intellectual development is remarkable having served on numerous boards and committees.

During the almost 30 years of teaching and researching, Prof Mills served as a visiting lecturer and professor at a number of educational institutions worldwide and presented research papers at symposiums and conferences throughout the world.

He traveled as visiting professor to the Temple Law School (Philadelphia, USA), with two stints from 1978 to 1979, and 1986 to 1987, and also as a visiting professor at Leiden University (Holland) from 1985 to 1986. During this period, he authored several publications relating to taxation during the 1970s & 1980s.

His expertise goes well beyond the classroom, and is evidenced by the various examiner positions he held with finance related institutions throughout Ghana (i.e. Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Bankers, Ghana Tax Review Commission). As an advocate for recreation and an active sportsman and sports fan, Professor Mills has supported the academic community and the nation at large through his contribution to the Ghana Hockey Association, National Sports Council of Ghana, and Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club.

The Law Professor loves sports and he is a keen hockey player and once played for the national team and is still member of the Veterans Hockey Team He equally keeps his body in shape by swimming, spending close to two hours every day when he has time.

Outside of his academic pursuits, Professor Mills was the Acting Commissioner of Ghana's Internal Revenue Service from 1986 to 1993, and the substantive Commissioner from 1993 to 1996. By 1992, he had become an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Ghana.

In the 1996 Presidential Election, Jerry John Rawlings selected Mills as his Vice-President in his bid for re-election to a second term as Ghana’s president. Rawlings was re-elected to his second term in office, and Mills became Vice-President of Ghana between 1996 to 2000.

In December 2002, John Evans Atta Mills was elected by his party to be its flag bearer and led them into the 2004 elections. John Evans Atta Mills was re-elected in December 2006 to once again have the mandate to lead his party into the 2008 general elections.


On January 3rd 2009, Professor Mills was declared President-Elect in the 2008 elections and was sworn in on January 7th, 2009 as the Third President of the Republic of Ghana.

He was until his death the presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress for the 2012 presidential election.

He was married to Ernestina Naadu Mills, an educationist, and has a son, Sam Kofi Atta Mills.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 10:17pm On Jul 21, 2013
^^Long story........ Abacha and Yaradua were muslims and were buried quickly according to Islamic rights. Your useless president died like a fool and up till today, the real cause of his death is not yet known. You said there was no drama? How about the continuous rumours about Mills being sick with the government denying them all until he 'suddenly' died like a chicken with flu?.
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http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/wap/article.php?ID=280085&mode=comments .

Re: First anniversary of Prez Mills’ death begins
Author: OKRI Posted: 2013-07-21 08:28:33
NDC should explain to Ghanaians what cause of his death
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Re: First anniversary of Prez Mills’ death begins
Author: BE BOLD Posted: 2013-07-21 10:06:45
What happened to Limann's birth and death
celebration? When a nation has no plans and doesnot know where it is going it will do anything to occupy itself and appease itself.
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Useless
Author: Kofi Posted: 2013-07-21 11:29:49
Anniversary for what? celebration or remembrance?
Instead of governing listen and look what Ghanainas are doing. Useless no development nothing. Always politics and useless talks. Even the cause of death of the late President is not known to Ghanaians as if is a secret of mistical. Common death Ghanaians doesnt want anybody to know how can we develope? kweaka yi
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 10:20pm On Jul 21, 2013
More comments, Ghana celeberates the dead an insults the living, Ghana need an Arab spring heheheh I thought Gayna was paradise?
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Re: First anniversary of Prez Mills’ death begins
Author: Eben Kwao Posted: 2013-07-21 11:56:10 Oh! GHANA we only celebrates dead and insult the living. God hav mercy.
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DUMB LEADERS
Author: Kretz D - Beantown Posted: 2013-07-21 13:27:54
We are not saying Ghana should not remember the death of our president. This one year anniversary can be celebrated in a quiet and calm manner but not a week-long celebration wasting money here and there. Don't our leaders have priorities set for the country? Ghana needs our own "Arab spring" to wake up our dumb leaders.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 10:23pm On Jul 21, 2013
Hmmm this particular comment is very revealing.
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ATTA-MILLS WAS KILLED. CANCER DIDN'T KILL HIM
Author: KWAME Posted: 2013-07-21 15:55:39
ATTA-MILLS QUICKLY REALISED HE DID NOT HAVE THE NERVE TO JOIN IN GHANA'S LOOTING CLIQUE, HE COULDN'T BEAT THEM AND HE REFUSED TO JOIN THEM, SO HE HAD TO BE ELIMINATED QUICKLY. MAHAMA AND RAWLINGS CAREFULLY PLANNED THE WHOLE "COUP" AGAINST ATTA-MILLS. ONLY PEOPLE WITH COMMONSENSE WILL KNOW THAT IT
WAS A CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED PLOT BY MAHAMA AND RAWLINGS, SUPPORTED OF COURSE BY ALL THOSE NPP/NDC PEOPLE INVOLVED IN LOOTING MOTHER MOTHER GHANA ON THE BLIND SIDE OF LONG- SUFFERING GHANAIANS. NOW, MAHAMA, RAWLINGS, KUFUOR AND THE REST
ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY, AND HAVING A GOOD
LAUGH AT DUMB GHANAIANS.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 10:27pm On Jul 21, 2013
Goat more important than human life in Gayna, driver sacrifices the lives of his passengers to avoid killing a goat. Pitiful
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http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/wap/article.php?ID=280110
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 11:28pm On Jul 21, 2013
Gaynians are a sorry bunch of fagg0ts, atta mills got a phd @ 27? Apart frm his being president of ape like humanoids and now food for maggots, what else did he acheive?..........do u know one mr. Soyinka?, achebe? Adichie?.....if you do, then you are a fool for mentionin mills n if you dont then u r a bigger fool for being ignorant, but then what do u expect from a dumb gaynian
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Conquistador: 12:25am On Jul 22, 2013
collynzo2: ^^^RLG is not known anywhere in Nigeria outside Osun state or wherever they are, who uses them, what do they do? Can their impact in Nigeria be compare to that of Globacom who sponsors your premier league hahaha Gaynaian Premier league is sponsored by a Nigerian Company, even their nations cup participation is partly financed by Globacom.
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17 Nigerian companies invest $20 billion in Gayna
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www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/29643-17-nigerian-firms-invest-n240-billion-in-ghana-
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Talking about RLG

Gaynaian students and teachers fight over laptop presents from RLG loooool poor people.
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http://m.myjoyonline.com/pages/edition/news/201307/109796.php

Hahahahaha Ole buruku! How did N240 naira billion become $20 billion? so all these crap about nigerian dominating the Ghanaian economy bla bla bla is because 17 nigerian companies have invested $1.5 billion in the local economy? Hahahahahahaha do you know the investments that have gone into Ghana’s oil and gas sector alone in the past 3 years? More than $20 billion, eediot! Not to talk of the mining sector! Muhahahahahaha lying bastard. N240 billion naira has become $20 billion in your marijuana-destroyed brain. Arrant nonsense! One company alone, called Tullow, has invested more than $10 billion in Ghana in the past 3 years! Eeeediotic bastard




17 Nigerian firms invest N240 billion in Ghana



At a time government officials and organised private sector are gathered in Abuja to talk up investment in Nigeria, Ghana’s Investment Promotion Centre chief said on Thursday in Lagos, that seventeen Nigerian firms had so far invested $1.5 billion (about N240 billion) in Ghana’s economy. George Aboagye, Chief Executive Officer of the agency, disclosed this while highlighting investment opportunities in Ghana, at the ongoing 2011 Lagos International Trade Fair.

Aboagye said Nigeria was his country’s 5th and 6th largest source of investment, in terms of value and number of projects registered.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Conquistador: 1:16am On Jul 22, 2013
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF F00LS, THE TOILET NAMED NIGERIA scroll down for details!



Hahahaha abacha and yar’adua were buried the same day but surely there are no pictures or video of them being buried,huh? grin Fuckeduppedness grin grin surely there has to be photos and video of the burial of your ex presidents being buried even if they were muslims,huh? The eediot is afraid to post them because they were buried like dogs! grin smiley wink cheesy grin angry sad shocked cool cool tongue embarassed lipsrsealed

roforofo water don pass garri, abi? Illiterate bastard!

Still waiting for the biography of your cassava-eating president or the CV of your best educated president ever, azzhole!

And your pigmy-sized abacha, the commander-in-thief of the mugugerian boys scouts, was busy fvcking the hell out of an Indian pr0stitutte when he was kicked up yonder! That dwarfish tramp that turned ruled the sh1thole like his personal fiefdom really died in ACTIVE service- screwing an Indian pr0stitute! As for yar’adua, he became like an AIDS patient and died! Poor thing!

Hahahaha

I doubt if you ever had any formal education because of your poor English. But never mind, I may employ you as the INPREGNATOR-IN-CHIEF at my new baby factory at upper eweka road in onitsa, which opens next month,huh. There is too much suffering in that sh1thole. 42 million unemployed, 120 million without electricity, 34 million have no access to toilet, 90% mumugerians survive on less than $2 a day, life expectancy at 52 years, cool shocked

Hahahahaha from 419 capital of the world, kidnap capital, to rapee capital, to corruption capital. The capital of perverts and pedophiles…………and the latest one is ………









The Toilet Named Nigeria [/size][size=8pt]
http://washafrica./2011/07/12/the-toilet-named-nigeria/


In his latest column, government critic and Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity College (USA) Okey Ndibe, voices his disgust at the practice of open defecation in his homeland Nigeria.

If you want to gauge how badly Nigerians have been animalized, then pay attention to how, and where, many of them defecate. Just recently, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that 33 million Nigerians have no access to decent toilets. As a consequence, said the report, these citizens of Africa’s most populous nation answer the call of nature in the open.

Is it really only 33 million Nigerians? One is afraid that here’s one occasion when statisticians have pegged the figure too low. Nigeria – as I wrote three years ago – may be described as one vast toilet.grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Anybody who has traveled from Lagos to Onitsha by road knows that there isn’t one single rest area with toilet facilities along the route. At stops in Ore or Benin City, pressed passengers must hurry off into the brushes, gingerly skating around others’ feces, in order to relieve themselves.


In Ndibe’s eyes the “habit of doing in public what ought to be done in private” points to a deep cultural crisis.

Long habituated to inhuman conditions, many Nigerians have ceased noticing those peeing or defecating in the open. Or, when we notice, too many of us have lost our sense of outrage at the oddity. Public acts of pissing and defecation have become – more or less – normal, part and parcel of our social experience and landscape. grin grin grin grin

Open defecation in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Kola Aliyu / PM News

The associated health risks of Nigeria’s insanitary conditions have made Ndibe feel uneasy about shaking hands. grin grin grin

For me, it’s often a dilemma. I know how scandalous it would be to refuse to offer one’s hand. Yet, I can’t help wondering where the hands I shake have been, and whether they’ve been washed.

Ndibe retells an revealing anecdote about local government staff who staunchly opposed a plan to build staff toilets. They told the local government administrator to “just give them a share of the public funds – and to leave it up to them to decide on toilet matters”.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 1:37am On Jul 22, 2013
^^^ I can't possibly read that long post of yours, especially when it's likely to be full of rubbish. I just skimmed through it and saw something about toilets. Talking about toilets.....

Just 17 percent of Accra’s residents, and 8 percent of rural Gaynaians, have access to an adequate toilet.
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www.irinnews.org/report/96112/west-africa-cleaner-toilets-to-save-slums-from-cholera
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 1:44am On Jul 22, 2013
More: Over 10 million Gaynaian women, girls lack adequate sanitation,
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what is their total population again?
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Over eight in ten women in Gayna have no access to a safe toilet............this is shameful
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www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2012/11/20/over-10-million-ghanaian-women-girls-lack-adequate-sanitation//
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 1:51am On Jul 22, 2013
You guys are still on this shit? Unbelievable.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 11:09am On Jul 22, 2013
collynzo2: More: Over 10 million Gaynaian women, girls lack adequate sanitation,
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what is their total population again?
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Over eight in ten women in Gayna have no access to a safe toilet............this is shameful
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www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2012/11/20/over-10-million-ghanaian-women-girls-lack-adequate-sanitation//

no wonder ghaynians are so full of sh1t that there eyes are yellow, a ghaynian opens his mouth and sh1t comes out, they think the know something but they dont know sh1t

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 11:40am On Jul 22, 2013
GH PATRIOT:
And yet more nigerians are trooping into Ghanaian universities.
compare the intelligence of Nigerian students going to gayna and that of Nigerian students in Unilag,OAU,UI,ABU,Unijos,lautech,.etc and you will discover that the gaynian ones are illiterates before their fellow Nigerians in Nigerian universities. They were not able to pass post ume tests and jamb, so they resorted to gayna where you guys don't write any prerequisite examinations. You all are doomed and deluded. Believing when Nigerians come to your universities to study, it means angels,newtons are coming. Not knowing they are those that will even affect gayna students negatively in academic section. Keep deluding yourself, your black brain must be the cause. Get some light ugly duckling!

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 11:44am On Jul 22, 2013
GH PATRIOT: If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, his
claim to being a hero would be put to
the ethnic test. Only members of his
ethnic group would consider him an
exemplary man. To others, he would
be an object of ambivalent response:
a hero today, a villain tomorrow,
depending on what he’s said on what
issue.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would never have spent more than
one week in prison. Why, the
traditional rulers from his district
would have gone as a delegation to
his jailers, apologized on his behalf
for his unruly opposition to the
apartheid machinery and pledged
that they would ensure that he show
appropriate respect to constituted
authority. He would then be released
– cameras clicking to capture the
moment – to the “royal fathers,”
guarantors of his docility, quiescence
and submission to the powers-that-be.
If Mr. Mandela were a Nigerian, he
would not be an ex-president, but a
president-for-life. His kinsmen would
have hired a dibia, babalawo or
malam to cure his “madness” when
he decided to step aside after only
one term as president. A Nigerian
Mandela would not be subject to any
constitutional limits on presidential
terms; the constitution would be
subject to him. Any part of the
constitution that runs counter to his
whims and caprices would be
instantly amended or – better still –
ignored.
To make a short story long, if
Mandela were a Nigerian, then the
man and his stupendous moral capital
would not exist!
if mandela were gaynian, he would be blacker than devil.
If mandela were gaynian, he would have had a gayna must go bag in his bedroom.
If mandela were gaynian he would be so shy and embarassed of being gaynian.
I don't got time to dissect your black brains. Whimps!

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 11:57am On Jul 22, 2013
maxwello.yg:

if mandela were gaynian, he would be blacker than devil.
If mandela were gaynian, he would have had a gayna must go bag in his bedroom.
If mandela were gaynian he would be so shy and embarassed of being gaynian.
I don't got time to dissect your black brains. Whimps!
.

If mandela is from gayna he probably wont go to jail for some bunch of apes. Dress, shave, school, groom an ape, it still wont remove the inner ape in him.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Fuelish: 12:17pm On Jul 22, 2013
Conquistador:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF F00LS, THE TOILET NAMED NIGERIA scroll down for details!



Hahahaha abacha and yar’adua were buried the same day but surely there are no pictures or video of them being buried,huh? grin Fuckeduppedness grin grin surely there has to be photos and video of the burial of your ex presidents being buried even if they were muslims,huh? The eediot is afraid to post them because they were buried like dogs! grin smiley wink cheesy grin angry sad shocked cool cool tongue embarassed lipsrsealed

roforofo water don pass garri, abi? Illiterate bastard!

Still waiting for the biography of your cassava-eating president or the CV of your best educated president ever, azzhole!

And your pigmy-sized abacha, the commander-in-thief of the mugugerian boys scouts, was busy fvcking the hell out of an Indian pr0stitutte when he was kicked up yonder! That dwarfish tramp that turned ruled the sh1thole like his personal fiefdom really died in ACTIVE service- screwing an Indian pr0stitute! As for yar’adua, he became like an AIDS patient and died! Poor thing!

Hahahaha

I doubt if you ever had any formal education because of your poor English. But never mind, I may employ you as the INPREGNATOR-IN-CHIEF at my new baby factory at upper eweka road in onitsa, which opens next month,huh. There is too much suffering in that sh1thole. 42 million unemployed, 120 million without electricity, 34 million have no access to toilet, 90% mumugerians survive on less than $2 a day, life expectancy at 52 years, cool shocked

Hahahahaha from 419 capital of the world, kidnap capital, to rapee capital, to corruption capital. The capital of perverts and pedophiles…………and the latest one is ………









The Toilet Named Nigeria [/size][size=8pt]
http://washafrica./2011/07/12/the-toilet-named-nigeria/


In his latest column, government critic and Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity College (USA) Okey Ndibe, voices his disgust at the practice of open defecation in his homeland Nigeria.

If you want to gauge how badly Nigerians have been animalized, then pay attention to how, and where, many of them defecate. Just recently, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that 33 million Nigerians have no access to decent toilets. As a consequence, said the report, these citizens of Africa’s most populous nation answer the call of nature in the open.

Is it really only 33 million Nigerians? One is afraid that here’s one occasion when statisticians have pegged the figure too low. Nigeria – as I wrote three years ago – may be described as one vast toilet.grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Anybody who has traveled from Lagos to Onitsha by road knows that there isn’t one single rest area with toilet facilities along the route. At stops in Ore or Benin City, pressed passengers must hurry off into the brushes, gingerly skating around others’ feces, in order to relieve themselves.


In Ndibe’s eyes the “habit of doing in public what ought to be done in private” points to a deep cultural crisis.

Long habituated to inhuman conditions, many Nigerians have ceased noticing those peeing or defecating in the open. Or, when we notice, too many of us have lost our sense of outrage at the oddity. Public acts of pissing and defecation have become – more or less – normal, part and parcel of our social experience and landscape. grin grin grin grin

Open defecation in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Kola Aliyu / PM News

The associated health risks of Nigeria’s insanitary conditions have made Ndibe feel uneasy about shaking hands. grin grin grin

For me, it’s often a dilemma. I know how scandalous it would be to refuse to offer one’s hand. Yet, I can’t help wondering where the hands I shake have been, and whether they’ve been washed.

Ndibe retells an revealing anecdote about local government staff who staunchly opposed a plan to build staff toilets. They told the local government administrator to “just give them a share of the public funds – and to leave it up to them to decide on toilet matters”.

Hahahaha ma belle grin laugh wan tear ma belle so tay roforoforofo grin grin grin a ToIlEt Named nigeria paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Thank you Conqui, thank you Mr. Ndibe for alerting me to the fact that shaking hands with a nigerian is a major major health hazard grin grin grin 34 million paa without access toilet? that's more then the population of many countries oooooh roforoforo grin grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Nobody: 1:38pm On Jul 22, 2013
Fuelish:

Hahahaha ma belle grin laugh wan tear ma belle so tay roforoforofo grin grin grin a ToIlEt Named nigeria paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

Thank you Conqui, thank you Mr. Ndibe for alerting me to the fact that shaking hands with a nigerian is a major major health hazard grin grin grin 34 million paa without access toilet? that's more then the population of many countries oooooh roforoforo grin grin grin grin grin grin





if only your father had a job and could afford to buy that condom.............
If only he hadnt finally settle for that fake made in gayna condom which tore after that rough sex.......
If only your mom hadnt been so drunk that night that she didnt know when ur pop tore her smelly pants and forced himself into that putrid puccccci............
If only your father had used that vaseline before chancing on a sleepn n drunk mad woman...
You would have been another inferior sp3rm wanked into a gaynin pit toilet swimming and gasping for air.........
If only your father hadnt refused to pay for tht abortion when he discovered that ur mom was a retired p0rn star..........
You wouldnt be here right now


and the world would have been a better place

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by JOYCEOUS(f): 1:55pm On Jul 22, 2013
rigormortis:

if only your father had a job and could afford to buy that condom.............
If only he hadnt finally settle for that fake made in gayna condom which tore after that rough sex.......
If only your mom hadnt been so drunk that night that she didnt know when ur pop tore her smelly pants and forced himself into that putrid puccccci............
If only your father had used that vaseline before chancing on a sleepn n drunk mad woman...
You would have been another inferior sp3rm wanked into a gaynin pit toilet swimming and gasping for air.........
If only your father hadnt refused to pay for tht abortion when he discovered that ur mom was a retired p0rn star..........
You wouldnt be here right now


and the world would have been a better place

.............if only.............












LORD HAVE MERCY!!!

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by Idunobaehis(m): 7:54pm On Jul 23, 2013
The truth is that Nigerians live in affluence. Inspıte of our corrupt leaders, Nigerians are stil making it big time in all human endeavors at home and the diaspora. A true Naija guy doesn't need the help of government before he could make it. I used to be skeptical about those ratings before I went to Northern Nigeria. But all thesame it's verymuch exagerated.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by somegirl1: 8:50pm On Jul 23, 2013
People please let's stop trading insults with Ghanaians. They are after all our bradas and sistes
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by ghananotnaija(m): 10:15pm On Jul 23, 2013
some-girl:
They are after all our bradas and sistes

That sent shivers down my spine. Ghanaian and Nigerians are NOT related. I thank God everyday that I'm not a Nigerian.

Ghana is the first nation-state of West Africa. Nigerians have always been bush-dwellers (yes, even today, I know, because I live in Lagos, a jungle without trees but full of jungle-dwellers).

There is no comparison between our two peoples, thank God.

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Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by somegirl1: 10:18pm On Jul 23, 2013
ghananotnaija:

That sent shivers down my spine. Ghanaian and Nigerians are NOT related. I thank God everyday that I'm not a Nigerian.

Ghana is the first nation-state of West Africa. Nigerians have always been bush-dwellers (yes, even today, I know, because I live in Lagos, a jungle without trees but full of jungle-dwellers).

There is no comparison between our two peoples, thank God.

OH brada, why are you talking like this?
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 10:54pm On Jul 23, 2013
some-girl:


OH brada, why are you talking like this?
You are a big fool if what he wrotes hasn't convinced you that they can't be our brothers. They thrive on foolish weaklings like you. Îdiot. Next time speak for yourself. No Gaynaian is my brother.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by somegirl1: 11:30pm On Jul 23, 2013
collynzo2: You are a big fool if what he wrotes hasn't convinced you that they can't be our brothers. They thrive on foolish weaklings like you. Îdiot. Next time speak for yourself. No Gaynaian is my brother.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

To anyone who understands, you are and yours is easily the most clueless and foolish of the last three comments.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 11:35pm On Jul 23, 2013
some-girl:


Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

To anyone who understands, you are and yours is easily the most clueless and foolish of the last three comments.
Read what you wrote again, it doesn't make sense at all.
Re: 10 Things Ghanaians Know About Nigerians by collynzo2(m): 11:36pm On Jul 23, 2013
Better fuçk of this thread instead of disgracing Nigerians by sûcking up to these fools from Gayna. Fûck off right now. Scumbag

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