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Mr. Nairaland, your thread deserves better but to be candid, a better way to make Nigeria better is to Zombify the wailers, better still use your position to avocate a state of emergency on wailers. Hope i've been able to help.
Obey the truth!

Young03:
This is a nonsensical question

not neccesary

really?
ahhhhhhhh. na your type go dey blame government pass.

Leaving the damn country as soon as I can.

Fynestboi:
_No one is born excellent; no one is born a success; it's not a function of your background neither of your circumstances; You choose to be great, it's a choice dilligently worked towards. Happy New Month._


However I will like we all to judiciously ruminate on the bolded question.

Times too many do we see Nigerians complaining about the government. Yes, our government is inefficient. There's no light. Our roads are horrible. We know. It's very easy for any one of us to list complaints and problems about our nation. Recalling good is difficult, but can we recall any good that we have done? I truly wonder.

What many of us fail to realize or remember, in my opinion, is that most of us are able bodied. We can make an impact with our own two hands if we wanted. It doesn't have to be big. Changing Nigeria isn't only by going "Terry G" on Aso Rock.

So my questions to we all today, is what are we doing in our own ways to make Nigeria better?


©Fynestboi



TeamFynestboi_
Wish you Happy Independent day

I've always been a law abiding citizen, as if that isn't enough, when I gained admission into Ahmadu Bello University, I studied my way from average or below average student to one who took free tutorials (Engineering drawing - MEEN 201 and 202) in Engineering faculty as a whole (and with Engineering Student Fellowship - ESF), took tutorials in my department (Metallurgical Engineering courses - 200 level courses to 500 level courses), also as class rep, I delivered dutifully to my classmates and did extra by preparing solved solutions to past questions and summarizing bulky Metallurgical and Materials Engineering courses, which I made available to my course mates free of charge.. Me and one of my other classmate (both graduated top of our class) were the reason most of our classmates passed courses, including difficult ones. I contributed more simply because I was the rep and I saw it all as a duty..

As a Youth Corps member, I was posted to an all girls secondary school, a school that stopped receiving corps members because the male corps members usually molest their students while the female ones always appeared lazy. But I delivered dutifully (even more than most, if not all their teachers) without touching even one of their students until I left Benue state as a whole. Due to my effort, they reversed on their earlier stand never to accept corps members again.. I was a lone corps member for months although two other corps members were later accepted when I was almost done with service. The school went on to accept four more after my POP...

What has been the reward thus far?

Successfully registering friends and family members on MMM. Very selfless of me.

Am advocatin for d removal of buhari...dats wat am doin to mak dis country great

HoldenCaulfield:
Fair question. Well my contribution towards nigeria's development shall start after i finish school, i shall join the NDLEA and make sure that i catch all those nasty ipod yoots trying to smuggle drugs and all, boy i can't stand those people smearing my dear country's name all over the place or something. And i will like to become.... Well thats all i can remember right now.

tribalism, so if u spot anyone aside ipob youth(Igbo youth ) yo just gunna tell them go and sin no more.

K

Happy Independent or Happy Independence Lalasticlala

to help these country we need to be reformed. our system of government ,our educational system and our mindset need to be changed. we should improve our youths.

4 POINTS SOLUTION TO NIGERIAN PROBLEMS IN MAKING NIGERIA A GREAT COUNTRY 1. Since tribal segregation has always been an evil that has not make us to unite as one nation, and has generated a lot of social, political and economic hindrances to our national development. It will be a great victory over this evil if we replace the identity of any Nigerian not tie it to his or “her STATE OF ORIGIN” but his or her “STATE OF BIRTH”. A Nigerian born in Lagos should be indentified in all documents to Lagos state. This will give our family multi states values, and we do not see other Nigerian born from other states as alien in our state or country. 2. All Nigerian must carry identification, linked with his place and address in Nigeria where he or she is of residing, thump printed electronically, with data and information linked up with the national security services, and assessable to the states and local government as instrument to national, states, and local planning. Movement or resettlement of any Nigerian from his or her place of registration to another place should be notified to the national security agent of both place of departure and new place of arrival within 48hrs. Failure to abide should be punishable under the law. A functional state boundary Police posts should be mounted between states boundaries to facilitate free registration and data collection of Movements and relocation of travellers. 3. States and local government should be given autonomy to explore and manage the state with all resources within the states as states assets, the federal government could assist states to explore resources on commercial terms, and all revenue generated by the state should have % of allocation to the federal government for national security and planning. States should run their police force and law enforcing agents within the federal law and the federal judiciaries should be the moderators of disputes between the states police and the federal police force. The Federal police force should be made up of professional, non political and would handle cases like treason, bribery and corruption, treat to national security, uprising and terrorism, human, drugs and ammunition trafficking. Etc. 4. Local, states and federal educational institution should design all educational programs and curriculum to incorporate: patriotism, national awareness, state and local management of governmental and nongovernmental properties, revenue generation, management of natural resources, human and constitutional rights, and national building. I hereby submit that should this program be adopted, we shall within 5-8years have a new breed or species of Nigerians with national building mentality and a society where proper planning can be put in place to effect growth motivated agenda to a GREATER NIGERIA. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION - #alshams#

brainpulse:
Ensuring my tax is paid regularly, and utilities bills are also paid. To do everything to abide by the rules and laws that governs this nation. To be faithful, patriotic and contribute to the development of this great nation God has blessed.

what useless blessings are you talking about?!... are you just being stupid ignorant of the country's predicaments?!

brainpulse:
Ensuring my tax is paid regularly, and utilities bills are also paid. To do everything to abide by the rules and laws that governs this nation. To be faithful, patriotic and contribute to the development of this great nation God has blessed.

na 2day?

brainpulse:
Ensuring my tax is paid regularly, and utilities bills are also paid. To do everything to abide by the rules and laws that governs this nation. To be faithful, patriotic and contribute to the development of this great nation God has blessed.

na today?

I dey fry plantain. Mtchwwwww

i visit this forum everyday,on less there is no data.

SycophanticGoat:



I've always been a law abiding citizen, as if that isn't enough, when I gained admission into Ahmadu Bello University, I studied my way from average or below average student to one who took free tutorials (Engineering drawing - MEEN 201 and 202) in Engineering faculty as a whole (and with Engineering Student Fellowship - ESF), took tutorials in my department (Metallurgical Engineering courses - 200 level courses to 500 level courses), also as class rep, I delivered dutifully to my classmates and did extra by preparing solved solutions to past questions and summarizing bulky Metallurgical and Materials Engineering courses, which I made available to my course mates free of charge.. Me and one of my other classmate (both graduated top of our class) were the reason most of our classmates passed courses, including difficult ones. I contributed more simply because I was the rep and I saw it all as a duty..

As a Youth Corps member, I was posted to an all girls secondary school, a school that stopped receiving corps members because the male corps members usually molest their students while the female ones always appeared lazy. But I delivered dutifully (even more than most, if not all their teachers) without touching even one of their students until I left Benue state as a whole. Due to my effort, they reversed on their earlier stand never to accept corps members again.. I was a lone corps member for months although two other corps members were later accepted when I was almost done with service. The school went on to accept four more after my POP...

What has been the reward thus far?

I'm impressed, but I don't think that because the rewards seems to be tarrying then you should be deterred. I will advise that you will should remain resilient and indefatigable. God has a way of rewarding moils and those who diligently seek him.

Listen, Listen, pay full attention. ‘Betta dey for 9ja o!’

In the doldrums of the rainy season, we all made plans for the winding down of the long vacation (as we term the summer holiday in Nigeria.) One could have never predicted how the holiday would draw to an end.

Inexplicably due to storming headaches and plethora of other issues, I spent close to a week in our University clinic running myriad of tests that showed me being in perfect health. At that juncture, sitting perplexed across an equally befuddle medical practioner who was also a Lecturer at our medical school at Unilag. After much consideration as we discussed my symptoms, she wrote a referral letter to LUTH for futher tests as we decided that this was the best course of action moving forward.

To LUTH, I went. LUTH is a behemoth unto itself as you have all heard. We got lost a couple of times we eventually got to where we were supposed to be. We were early, minutes past 7, yet we met a lot of people there already.

After all of the tests that were run there, two wonderful women whom I shall leave anonymous for the purposes of this article, saw the need for extreme measures due to my condition and recommended that we quickly go to UCH, Ibadan (the Teaching Hospital there) as there are more specialists in the area of my situation and a lot more equipment.

At first there was a sense of incredulity; was this a joke or what? Yet there was a sense of urgency with the tone that they used especially as they depicted my condition with models. So unto UCH, Ibadan we went.

If LUTH was a behemoth, UCH was gargantuan! It encompassed several campuses and was actually a lot easier to navigate . upon learning about it’s illustrious history, it made sense why it was laid out as it was. Like LUTH, we got there early but where equally shocked at the number of people already waiting. To be honest, I had heard so many negative reports of Nigerian hospitals and was filled with a lot of trepidation about undergoing any procedure in any of them.

When I went through the registration process, I was pleasantly surprised at how it had been streamlined as well as computerized. Of course, there were still hiccups. A lot of the stress was the Nigerian factor which was evident as we saw people who had been punctual about their appointments being bypassed by others who went straight to meet their Doctor friends or took their referrals from people they knew in the UCH system.

As was stated at LUTH, UCH’s Ophthalmology section was a lot bigger, there were more machines and a lot more specialists. People came from all of the country to seek help. As I interacted with people from all spheres of life during my duration there, I learned a lot about the psyche of our nation, Nigeria.

Getting back on track, I ended up being there for a period of time that was unprecendented by me. during that time, I learned to appreciate our unsung heroes and heroines. This ode is dedicated to them.

Let’s start with the Nurses who we all know are grossly underpaid for the grunt work they do yet are absolutely essential to the smooth running of any hospital, not to talk of one as big as UCH! They are the vital part of the machine that is UCH, they are always there for their shifts and are dedicated to their jobs. I became good friends with one nurse in particular who worked the graveyard shift, Nurse Maye. She is awesome! A kind soul who has absolute dedication for her job. Every night, she goes to each bedside, administers medications to her patiently nicely and soothes them with words of comforts. Early in the morning, she wakes them up and goes through her routine of checking the vitals of the patients. She is one of the many dedicated and nurturing nurses on call at UCH. They make being there a lot more bearable.

The Cleaners are also not acknowledged, when we were woken up every day by the nurses by 4-4:30 am, they ensured that we had steaming hot water for our bath, did their best in an abysmal situation- dwindling resources et al in recessive economy.

Now unto the Doctors, I am forever grateful to them. I am going to name a few here; starting from the worthy Head of Department- Dr Ogundipe, whose unerring dedication is an example to all. The Specialist and consultant Dr Oluleye whose focus and meticulous drive to serving others was a major inspiration (and motivation) to me. Everytime I spoke to him; during my operation and when I had follow up visits, I was filled with awe that he could have relocated like a lot of his peers for greener pastures thereby depriving us of his expertise, yet he has remained here with us. In fact he trains others and is magnimous about sharing his knowledge with others.

I am also very grateful to Dr Idiam who was very patient, gentle and encouraging throughout my stay. Without his excellent rapport and attitude, the trepidation I felt would have overwhelmed me and created an avalanche of being unable to handle the entire saga plus recover. I am in his debt forever and was encouraged by his service towards all of his patients. Dr Olajunji also reminded me that there is hope amongst our younger generation; that not everyone has lost the desire for academia in total- which in turn is beneficial for society as a whole because without teachers to instruct upcoming medical professionals, our healthcare system will grind to a halt. Imagining the calamity that would befall this nation should that occur is too frightening!

There is a lot wrong with our nation and in this case; our healthcare system. I witnessed a lot of it when I was there and it broke my heart over & over. The young father who couldn’t buy medicine for his son and weeping; desolate at his inability to ensure his son’s well being ( my mother gave him the money.) The single mother whose daughter was slated to go in for ophthalmology surgery but was unable to come up with the money and had to keep deferring an operation that is critical for her daughter’s vision. Or do we talk about the scores of people on the waiting list at the hospital? Our teaching hospitals are grossly underfunded, understaffed and have overworked people serving there. I choose to celebrate their effort and hope that as we encourage them, this leads to better morale for them as well as accountability to our leaders to really take stock of our health care system. It affects all of us!

Why African History is relevant for Education, period![center][/center]

Build a solid foundation 1st with African history being inclusive in all educational pursuits.

This morning I posted a reflection of mine and one response back streamlined the thoughts I had after putting up the post.
Here’s the post-

Imagine children all over, passionate about learning and the effect that it makes in their world when they question and discover.



And here’s the response back- thanks brother-Olusegun Adesesan Bamgbelu

“It starts with them learning to love themselves, When my parents told me that it was the Africans that invented mathematics, with the Ishango bone, they calculated the volume of a truncated pyramid, that Imhotep was the father of medicine and a polygot.

Even the pure sciences of Physics,Chemistry Zoology and Botany are taught with a European slant. It leaves our kids wondering if Africans ever contributed anything to scientific knowledge.

The reality of the answer to that question brings up an interesting conundrum.

I have a lot of respect for Einstein, Planck, Kelvin, Fibbonachi, Euclid, but they were standing on the shoulders of giants, and those giants are our ancestors.”

It took me back to the years when I taught Mathematics to my beloved American children- New Yorkers, Californians, North Carolinians and South Carolinians. All our children in another land, yet still our children in our global village.
I had created a month long celebration of Black Mathematicians and Scientists after coming to appreciate this month long drive from my Alma Mata “Fordham University” which had a tradition of celebrating Women’s history month in honor of women’s contributions to society and the world at large.

I adopted that model because as I taught math and science, I saw the indifference my minority brethren across the span of the nation had towards the subjects. The rallying point came for me when a student much loved by me for his comedic antics in my classroom asked the pivotal question- “Why should I care about mathematics and science when my ancestors had nothing to do it, they discovered nothing, created nothing and when I listen to the news or radio I hear nothing about black or hispanic students involving math/science. Anyhow, black people aren’t good at math or science.”
I will never know how I kept myself from bawling out in frustration, grief and utter despair. Then I steeled up my resolve and realized at that moment that it was no accident that I was the only black person in the entire school and the community (I taught in a small community in the Central Valley area of California, comprising of a high migrant community- mostly Hispanic and Caucasian)
I stopped teaching that day and reached out to my students. I told them of my struggles with math as a teen, how lost Science- Physics, Biology and Chemistry left me until my mother made Chemistry make sense to me by bringing it down to my own understanding. The other people who also ignited my love of learning of science, going beyond mere recitation and actually discovering why it was important to the world.
I continued by explaining that in my educational journey, I learned about Western civilization and great thinkers. Yet, fortunately for me, my mother supplemented it with informal lessons about the greatness of my own ancestry. Their contribution to society and encouraged my independence as an African woman- telling me stories about great African women- Queen Amina of Zaria, Mrs Kuti to name a few.
Due to this strong foundation, I expected nothing less than excellence when I embarked on my educational journey.

I challenged my students to expand their understanding and expect that they would comprehend math/science.
I am proud to say that over the years I have had a low failure rate in my classes; always have engaged and empowered students.

The key difference is to ground a child’s inner self- it doesn’t matter where the child is from, what counts is ensuring that you stir the child’s spirit. Start from their past- their ancestors- their precedents and remind them that they too have the same power within.

Never discount this, it is critical

blueto:
I'm impressed, but I don't think that because the rewards seems to be tarrying then you should be deterred. I will advise that you will should remain resilient and indefatigable. God has a way of rewarding moils and those who diligently seek him.

Thanks sire... I've always been trying and I keep on trying. Graduated, finished NYSC but no job. Kept my cool and decided to apply for an entrepreneurship programme, I got some cash and started my fabrication business (amidst the setback I experienced when I had wanted to purchase a machine from China due to the dollar/naira wahala). All these happened but I still went on to start it like the locals do but the business has been lagging. I've given my best to Nigeria but it seems to give none in return. How do I keep giving when I've been stretched beyond my limit..?

Planning a revolution in the order of Fidel Castro of Cuba or a political cleansing in the order of Jerry Rawlings of Ghana.

Young03:
This is a nonsensical question


not neccesary

I did not read anywhere he inscribed what he does and he is expecting me to purge my emptiness. Make hin dey wait for me....

I'm training my children to become tomorrow good leader

Yes. We all, in our own various capacity have tried to live a righteous, the kind that demands holiness, love, truth, patience, hard work, joy and peace. These wonderful elements are powerful tools to forge the nation ahead. So, if every citizens adheres to all of these, he or she might have contributed enormously to the nation's well being and in return, the nation blesses such a one.

I blame buhari everyday

SlimAdenike:
I broke the window of the politician in my neighborhood #Happy Independence Day

You jut made my day

SlimAdenike:
I broke the window of the politician in my neighborhood #Happy Independence Day

Very funny!