“WILL THIS MAKE NIGERIA BETTER OR WORSE ON THE LONG RUN?”
So, they keep saying we should always pray for Nigeria our beloved country and never say negative things about her like “Nigeria is bad”, “Nigeria cannot be better”...etc. But I say let’s face the facts on ground! As a human being with logical reasoning, I don’t see Nigeria getting anywhere near better in the nearest future. If anything, I see it getting worse. Before you crucify me as a pessimist, let me tell you a story.
I was drilling a “11” year old boy one evening (11 is in quotes because he said he doesn’t know how old he is, so i just guessed he’d be about 11) on multiplication tables and i discovered that he knew little of it. It took him 70seconds to answer 4X7. When i asked him what class he was in, he said he was a primary four pupil. I then further asked him why he doesn’t know simple multiplication tables (even tables of 2 oo). He replied by saying that they are allowed to check their textbooks when they need any multiplication tables. Later in the conversation between me and the boy, i learnt that they don’t beat them in school. My mother (retired teacher) also made me know that corporal punishment have been ruled out in primary and secondary schools nationwide. The week before all these happened; i was checking the minimum UTME requirements of University of Ilorin...where I was seeing most of the programs having minimum score of 180/400. Medicine even had 230 or less, the highest one i saw was Mass Communication which was 235.
All these facts and many more all point to the deteriorating educational standard nationwide. When educational standard is reducing, dollar-naira rates are spiking up, fuel price also spiking up, federal government cannot win a war between Nigeria and Boko Haram_ a single terrorist sect (when we no fit win war against sect for years, abeg if another country wage war against us nko biko?), lots of states not paying civil servants, constitution is whack and no real amendments are being proposed, minimum wage stagnant and politicians receiving millions as monthly salary/allowances (dem turn politics to full time job. Go America, u go see mayor wey be lecturer abi farmer or something).
So my brothers and sisters, i’m a man of faith too o and I believe in prayers very well, but I also happen to be rational and logical. If they say we should not say negative things about our country, give us positive things to say. i cannot say Nigeria is good, when everything around me tells me otherwise. The farthest I can go from saying the facts that I see (which all depicts that Nigeria is bad and might remain bad for a very long time) is pray to God for a miraculous turnaround or a gradual change in attitudes of all our leaders; starting from the president down to the principals of public schools and proprietors of private ones, down to the leaders of each family...Let every decision you make be guarded by this big question, “Will this make Nigeria better or worse on the long run?” God Bless Nigeria!
Jolayemi Goodness Ibukun
B.Agric (University of Ilorin)
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I don't know but ask google

I hate long stories

good write up.

chidifyn:
I don't know but ask google

Thanks hommie. You should google "Mastering English by ODIAKA" too. You might be lucky someone took the pain in uploading the e-Book version on their blog or something. It will definitely help in improving your writing skills in subsequent threads you create.

thegoodone2:
good write up.

Thanks. I'm looking to get better.

Lattop:
I hate long stories

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jyggzzy:


I know you do mate. ...it's why you go for short porns to self-service to, instead of the long-ass ones that wont go straight to the point. Nice threads you created though...real top notch profile you've got

Loool.. See how you were saved by the editors. I hope you take your time to notice the difference tho (since you are always rushing "things" lmfao

this is not a country at all just a jungle where its survival of the fittest.

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Thanks hommie. You should google "Mastering English by ODIAKA" too. You might be lucky someone took the pain in uploading the e-Book version on their blog or something. It will definitely help in improving your writing skills in subsequent threads you create. [/quote]