₦airaland Forum

asuustrike1:
I agree that it is high over there but we see cases of obesity and weight related diseases here too.

Yea but it is way less. It's like comparing 55% to 15%, in fact the daily hustle of an average Nigerian negates most calories eaten, this is the reason most people are not affected by late night Eba when they come home from work....lol

BigIyanga:
A broad day example why average Naija IQ is the lowest in the world. We have the highest child illiteracy rate and this OP is talking about intelligence. Internet, Twitter, Facebook, IG, Google, Amazon are all products of US intelligence.. List Naija’s...?!?

Actually all the companies you mentioned above rely heavily on the intelligence of migrants. It's called knowledge drain, if you removed all he foreign intelligence from the U.S wokforce, you'll realize they have nothing but I guess they are still smarter because they are able to attract the best talent to develop their country....lol

udemzy101:
All the research you've been making about Nigeria, where you also contacted before it was carried out?


Just imagine how a nation voted for a dullard and think he will change the country.

The same nation voted for a Ph.D holder who had no shoes growing up thinking he would have the masses interest at heart, so no be by intelligence...lol

asuustrike1:
Inspire of this obesity is on the high side coupled with cancer in Nigeria. So how is Nigeria better than America? Are Nigerians not consuming tin foods too?

Obesity and weight related diseases are way higher in the U.S. Most Nigerians eat fresh soup, fresh bread and so on, most of our foods here in the U.S. is processed with chemicals.

handsomeyitayo:
wat am trying to justify is why is it that if they want. Travel out ..they will start promising heaven and earth ..after you might have assisted them with something..dey promise not to forget you...when dey get there ...dey start acting funny...I wish him well

You called this person a friend and even brother. Do you do favors for your friends or family in expectation of a reward? The guy might actually be living a hellish life abroad and might even end up borrowing money just to send to his GF because that is where all his hopes lies. Just thank God you are not the type to depend on a friend before you survive!

balanceofterror1:
When I was a child, I reason like a child.






What is the truth?




Picture of him giving to the poor nko?



There's provision for the needy in the bible.

The bible is not silent on how the poor around us should be treated.

Giving your tithe to the poor is like using your house rent to pay school fees.

God is God of principle and the greatest givers are tithers. Show me a Christian who pays h/her tithe and I will show you a Christian who cares for the poor.

I am yet to see a Christian that becomes richer by not paying his tithe or become poor for paying his tithe.

What you just wrote is false especially the bold part! We have many Christians that are strong tithers yet they can't afford to send their children to private schools. We have many tithers here abroad that are living paycheck to paycheck, once they lose their job they start depending on welfare checks from the government. Paying tithe does not make any economical sense if you are struggling, there's no way you can ask someone making 1m per year to drop 100k as tithe knowing he'll pay house rent 500k, he'll pay school fees for his children, transport, he'll feed and so on, it's just plain WICKED!

adaxxy:
Exactly,
During Obama's time the journalists were worse but he was not rude to them he applied wisdom
Even during McCain contest against Obama...a journalist wanted to bring down Obama...
McCain politely stopped the journalist right away that the journalist should not speak bad about Obama's family..
Blessed memory

Yea I remember but honestly in Trump's defense, he's no politician. It's like having Dangote run Nigeria, he's always looking at things from business perspective instead of diplomacy...lol. I guess his biggest advantage is also one of his major disadvantages

People need to realize Trump is in his 70s, he's a spoiled Billionaire and fights back at everything, he does not care if you are a nobody, you attack him with a fork, he comes back at you with AK47. As a trump suporter, I feel this is his greatest advantage, unpredictability! Unfortunately no one can win against the media machine especially CNN so it might be best to just ignore them. If Acosta was rude, just refuse to answer his questions, they can't sue for that....lol

The problem here is like watching someone pour petrol all over their body and then play with fire; it never ends well! She knew about his kids, she knew about his previous relationship and yet went ahead, no sympathy here...In fact GTFOH

I love how all these internatinal organizations are able to come up with detailed statistics about the Nigerian population even though the Nigerian government could not complete a census without many shortcomings. It would be nice to see their sources and their verification process. Yea yea CIA but even CIA dey mess up, for example does the stat include those abroad? Does the stat include those without any form of identification? Laughable!

Top 400? I guess it's an achievement, maybe 10 years from now we might see top 200.

What percentage of this is the fault of the government? What percentage is the fault of those living there? An average Lagosian would lick sweets or eat biscuit and throw the wrappers on the road. Average Lagosian would but suya, moi moi and so on only for the wrappers to litter the streets. I grew up in the ghetto and I can tell you the last thing on most mind is cleanliness or recycling, our orientation is so far gone, if you doubt me, go to places like Mushin, Ajegunle and even some parts in Ajah, watch what people do when it rains a lot. You'll discover the average Nigerian is just as bad as the government, in fact the government is a direct reflection of the people it governs!

These ones still dey learn work, the bigger fishes have settled EFCC/police and all other important personnels. Abeg confiscate all their properties and send them to rehab, they are only products of the mentally enslaved populace!

“Oshiomhole has no locus standi to talk about morality in today’s Nigeria’s politics. That must be a joke coming from Oshiomhole talking about moral ground,” he said.


Saraki which one are you PDP or APC, confused soul

You guys are missing the keypoint, the poor guy works in a plant abroad and he is begging them to fly him to Nigeria. Obviously the 300k is a big deal to him and he must have worked is butt off to send money home. May God save us all from a disastrous spouse!

jpphilips:
What you need to do if you are truly a concerned Nigerian is juxtapose the decisions of the illiterates with that of the so called Phd's to convince us how better we have fared over the years, I suppose that the economy is a true reflection of a leader's academic sagacity.
Lets go to the facts;

OBJ as an illiterate farmer created the excess crude account from which we paid off over $12b Paris club debt that reasonably freed up our budget, another $16b was equally used to lay the foundations for most of our power plants in the NIPP initiative, he equally left us with a robust foreign reserve so good that the Nigerian economy was immune to global shocks (in the words of Soludo), that simple strategy saved us the agony of global economic melt down, we practically did not feel it.......OBJ the Illiterate at the time.


Jonathan with a Shiny PhD earned one of the highest crude prices in our history, despite inheriting those accounts OBJ left behind and also inheriting one member of OBJ's economic team, by early 2015, Jonathan has borrowed over 12T naira in affluence, not only did he push us to the brink of indebtedness, he proudly told us that the best he had in Savings was a miserly $29b for our $500b economy at the time.
Not minding that one of our competitors in Africa, Algeria saved $195b for their $158b economy at the time.
The consequences of Jonathan's PhD ingenuity was one that Nigeria lost her ability to withstand global shocks, unfortunately, one global shock arrived (crude oil price shock) Jonathan's paltry savings could barely pay for imports, which led to severe dollar shortages, high inflation (high cost of living), severe unemployment etc..........Jonathan the PhD holder


Then came another illiterate buhari, despite meeting an economy in tatters, severe terrorism threats, crude oil price shock etc, he quickly rallied our reserves to a whooping $47b in just 3yrs, immediately that was achieved, dollar scarcity disappeared, traders and manufacturers stopped complaining of dollar scarcity, inflation dropped from a whooping 18.8% in 2016 to 11.28% today........Buhari the illiterate


Here comes my question to you, between this three individuals, who dis-serviced this country? I need a very honest answer hinged on facts like I presented not emotions.

You dey mind this yeye guy? He likes arging off-point while using half-baked rhetoric. Yes all the leaders have failed us in most ways but for some reasons he believes the guy with the Ph.D was a better decision maker....lol

NairaMaster1:
Professor of Zombie.

The war college said any certificate from them before the year 2000 is no masters.

That, they only started awarding masters from the year 2000. Do you understand?

The custodian of the US academic curriculum. Does NIPPS in Jos has the same curriculum with the conventional university?

Here you're saying a student in the US is this and that when we are talking about a war college.

OMG...you're a special type of slow...lol. Who's talking about masters? The college certificate was not even equivalent to a Bachelors degree back then. The college response shows that there is no requirement to present a an undergraduate(Bachelors degree) or a graduate(Masters degree) before enrolling at the university, it made no mention of high school certificates such as WAEC which is basically a requirement to enter most colleges. Think with your brain not with your mouth!

Polchiz:
Also, try and find out why
1. All vice chacellors in Nigeria are seasoned professors.

2. You cannot lecture B.Sc students if you don't have at least an M. Sc

It is that way in the educational sector all over the world but when you look at other fields it drastically differs. You don't need to have M.Sc before you can become a manager, you don't need an M.SC before you can become a CEO or CFO. In fact I know many people with over 15 to 20 years of experience and just a Bachelors degree and they ended up in middle and top managerial positions. Like I said earlier stop comparing apples and oranges.

abdulwastecx:
I don't need to Google South Korea, I have done an extensive research on all the so-called Asia tigers. SK never started off as a developed country with the institution and know how to prosecute and sentence a former president to jail. In fact, it was very poor and corrupt in the 60s. Most of the work was done in the 70s, 80s to build this institution and industrialized the nation through controlled state enterprise, most of these industries were owned by the ruling elite, at this time corruption was still rife but a majority of the stolen money was reinvested back into the local economy, the reason for my earlier comment about negative and positive corruption.

Institution to prosecute corrupt politicians just don't come overnight, you have to build an environment, economy and society that will build an institution and you need a highly qualified individual to pull this off not some ex-military general that got everything in life through quota system

I'm not disputing that but they are successful today because they put mechanisms in place to reduce negative factors such as corruption. It could be through education, it can also come from having patriots but to say corruption is not a major hinderance is a fallacy.

Polchiz:
Why do you think a hiring manager would demand that a candidate must have certain educational qualification with 15 years experience to stand the chance of being hired as a manager?

Are you saying all managerial jobs require more than a decade of experience? I must be very lucky then...lol

abdulwastecx:
Corruption is not the problem but ability to build a nation, institution, and economy that will solve the problem of the populace. At the top of my head, I can list 10 more pressing issues than the corruption that you all like to talk about.

Throughout the 58 years of Nigeria existence as an independent nation, we have had the misfortune of been ruled for a majority of this time by clueless people due to the military intervention. We have had leaders that had squandered a majority of our oil wealth to gross incompetence, fail to develop any meaningful infrastructure and diversify the economy.

Most far east Asian nation like South Korea and Taiwan were able to develop because they have competent people in place direct the affairs of the nation. Read about the positive corruption of southeast Asia

Another person comparing apples with oranges...lol. By you own admission, you stated past leaders squandered majority of our oil wealth, they failed to develop any meaningful infrastructure. Do you think they didn't know how to do things right? Do you think many of them did not travel abroad and see how things were done? They chose not to! This is the corruption I'm talking about, when you use funds meant to develop the economy for private gains, the result is extreme poverty and an economy in total decay. I'm glad you used South Korea as an example, you might want to google how it sentenced its ex-presidents to prison for corruption. Google it and tell me how corruption is not the problem in Nigeria.

Polchiz:
What is your definition of failure and explain exactly how Goodluck failed.

OMG....Are you serious? Is this a real question? Tell me you're trolling me, come on! I'm not going to dignify this ridiculous question with an answer!

Polchiz:
You still do not get it. What you do in your office and what is written in Nigerian constitution are not dogmas.

I am talking of an established principle under ideal condition. It does not matter what is obtainable in your office or Nigeria.

Ideal condition? Define ideal? What we have is reality and experience, save fantasy for your fellow daydreamers! The last time I checked there is no one principle of management, we have many management principles so what are you talking about? I think you've chosen the wrong person to discuss principles of management with....lol

abdulwastecx:
Education is important my friend!!
Nigeria is such a shitty country because of mentality like yours, you need the education to lead a nation, to formulate policies, to chatter a path for a progressive society.

Buhari is one of the most clueless Nigeria president ever because he lacks all the requirement to even lead a local government no to talk of a country has big and diverse as Nigeria. He doesn't understand anything relating to the economy, the rule of law, foreign politics, domestic affairs of the nation and everything you will expect from a leader of a nation.

Democracy will never work in Nigeria, we are too stupid, divided, and too preoccupied with religion to pull it off. We just leave in a nation where a man with with an intellect as worst a laborer is the president only because of his trip and religion

Nigeria is a shitty nation because of corrupt, greedy leaders. You can continue touting education as the number one priority but we've had a Ph.D holder fail just as much as an illiterate. If you can't defend this then keep shut!

Polchiz:
You need serious lectures on advanced management. A manager should atleast possess two times (double) of the skills and knowledge of the people he is managing.

It is not enough to give order and directives, you ought to supervise the work and ensure that the people you are leading are doing the right thing.

In big multinationals, a director or general manager must have the general knowledge of the activities and operations of all departments. With this you can easily coordinate them in order to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Quality control principles requires a require that a manage detects impending problem and act swiftly to bring it under control.

THE BEST WAY TO LEAD IS TO SET AN EXAMPLE.

How do you set an example if you do not have the knowledge?

In political leadership, a president is expected to be highly educated with robust personnel management skills. He must also understand governance.

Education is not just going to the school to acquire certificates. Education broadens someones thinking ability. It improves your cognitive evaluation and behaviour. It equips you with 21st century skills and promotes excellent comminication, organizational and interpersonal skills. Your approach to task and conflict resolution is enhanced by education. In fact education makes you a problem solver.

You are not expected to be an all-rounder but you ought to know what exactly is expected from the people you manage. You cannot do this if you are an illiterate.

Point A: A manager in a corporate setting is expected to have general knowledge of specific area/areas that he or she is managing not advanced knowledge. In fact all my years as a technical professionals and an I. T auditor, I never worked with a manager who knew close to half the things I knew. When I became a manager I started knowing less and less about the micro tasks each of my auditors were engaged in and I focused more on the macro engagements. I think you are confusing managerial skills with technical skills, a manager can get his or team to work more efficiently by deploying effective team building tactics focused on key metrics, such a manager need not be an expert but must know who or what to rely upon when answers are needed. When you've managed 15 to 20 staff members and also hold two Masters degrees, maybe I've received some lectures on advanced management...lol

Point B: The Nigerian Constitution only requires a WAEC certificate for any presidential aspirant. In the U.S., no formal education is required, surely your expectations are based on your own thinking and not what is written in the Constitution! Furthermore, formal education is no guaranty for success, as witnessed by our Ph.D holding ex-president, perhaps you meant non-formal education/experience? Are you saying someone who led during the military era and also led during the Democratic era such as Obasanjo would be classified as a less educated leader to someone like GEJ who holds a Ph.D? Sometimes formal education is highly overrated!

princfred:
If the president gets it but the cabinet not and the president does not sack and replace fast to rectify so at the end of the day all is well, who do you blame?. If I give you a contract and there is a messed due to one of the workers you hired who do I hold responsible you my contractor or the worker you hired? The president is under contract by the people and picks his cabinet to achieve certain goals and ultimately is responsible.

Your statement above shows that the cabinet is even more important than the president. Success depeds on them and he can fire and replace all he wants but if they keep coming up short then that is what defines his or her presidency. Let's just agree to disagree, there's no point in going back and forth!

princfred:
Even if you elevt the goidwilled leader, if he does not have the know how based on lack of exposure efucation can provide forget it. Now must you settle for just one important parameter when you can and should go for both? Must it be half measure. Inspire to lanf in the moon then maybe you land in the stars. But no Nigerians keep shooting for their roof and land on the ceiling and wsil and repeat exactly thesame but expect a different result. Must the standard be lower than the best? Can you answer that question i asked about going fir a surgeon?

The ideal setting is having someone who is educated while also being goodwilled but I'll gladly settle for a goodwilled president over a professor right now. Your question does not deserve a response because in order to be called a surgeon you must have the educational and experience required. No one is going to allow you to cut them up without being qualified. Once again the qualification for being president in Nigeria is a WAEC certificate hence such a person cannot be compared to a quack.

princfred:
Am telling you about reality not what sounds nice hypothetically on paper. Each administration ultimately toes the orientation of tge president beyond cabinet members. From Clinton to bush to Obama to to Trump ultimately the presidrnt calls the shot, steers the ship and tajes the blame sane thing in Nigeria, Russia, slovakia, North korea, Turket, Italy. The presideny molds the country after his iwn image cabinet members be damned. Any cabinet members who dissents gets the boot. The cabinet is the president! Thats reality. One thing is to be sure the president is getting it right but his people are not executing right even in that case the prwsident is blamed for not sacking the dull one.

The impact of the inefficiecy of cabinet member depends on the desired efficiency of the president as the presidents if his own efficiency standard is high enough sacks inefguciancient cabinet member fast just like Trump fired to Session recently.
Another big problem not just in Nigeria acedemia are usuallyout if touch with reality. As the even the academic wirld is soo into virtual utopic hypothesis for doi long that most times they easuly loss touch reality.

If the president gets it right and the cabinet failed woefully, can we ruly say the pesident got it right? If the president is very bright and still appoints those who are fueled by corruption and marvel in inefficieny can we truly say such a president is bright? My premise still holds, the president is only as successful/important as his or her cabinet, to argue against this is pointless/redundant!

princfred:
You dont achieve it by half measure. Go for the best or mediocrity reigns. The Buhari without certs but taunted as Mr saint integrity himself what happened? Does that not tell you both are required? Will you try a lovely goodwilled but certificateless quack just because you heard that one certified surgeon with cert forgot scissors inside a patient?

You're confusing yourself, if Buhari was truly goodwilled we would have seen the outcome by now. It is clear that it was just propaganda hence I maintain my claim that a truly goodwilled leader will achieve things in Nigeria worthy of celebrating. A good person does not turn his or her back on millions of people suffering, it's only those who are naturally inept and evil that could do such. When we finally elect a truly goodwilled leader, we would notice his goodness in the lives of the people not through propaganda!

princfred:
This is another very naive fallacy. The presodent is atleast as important as those in his cabinet. Government policies arw ultomately geared towards the bias of the president. The l
Presidwnt even picks hos cabinent after his own orientation. Any dissent or relcacintraint (even just perceived to be so) cabinet member can always be sacked afterwards. In reality, to be found or percieved not to toe the presidents lead spells doom for cabinet members who can either resign or be sacked.

Everytime Africa want to copy but dont appreciate the peculiarities of their society and the differences therein so half-copy or copy amiss.

I think you've jumped the gun a bit, your response is directly against everything I've learned from graduate studies in regards to leadership/management, the president is important no doubt but emphasis should be more on the people actually carrying out his directives, this is the core of effective leadership, at least this is what my years of experience and educational qualificatins taught me. The president's fate is determined by the people he appoints, is this not correct? As a manager in a Fortune 50 company, I can tell you that my job would be on the line if the people I manage are incompetent at their jobs. Yes I could fire them and replace them but ultimately their efficiency/inefficiency determines my fate. At least in advanced societies this is true, in 9ja we are fond of blaming everything on the president hence we might not place heavy priorities on the cabinet memebers but the premise still holds!

princfred:
Again i have no disagreement with somethings you wrote. But you are looking at it from a very emperical angle considering the specifics of orientation, awareness and societal telligience and value prevalent in the different societies. The average american is educated even if not highly schooled. Even the not formally educated ones have huge respec for the intellectuals not with Nigerian were money is the only thing that matters not intelligience. Look how Trump was elected instead of Hilliary something that wont be fantomable in Nigeria even if the elextions are free and fair because Nigerians are not intelligient enough and exposed to proper reasoning even with formal education.
Am saying in Nigeria education (exposure to effective logic and value system and oreintation for macro management) is as important as goodwill by a would be leader. Any one without the other is a farce.

I agree but let's try the goodwill first, we've tried the intellectual piece once or twice, it's time for genuine goodwill. Let's have a genuine leader that shuns corruption, is transparent and puts the masses above his own family even when confronted with heavy criticism. Let's see if such a leader/leaders would fail woefully or if something actully changes. I'm willing to bet my last kobo on the latter.

princfred:
Most world leaders were/are learned inclufing the ones you mentioned and have certs far beyond WAEC. But since Nigeria set the academic requirement soo low, dullard us what they get. Again goodwill without pre exposure to know how via education is useless. Or what do you think is the essence of education. Ibfact this is why Nigeria is a mess - soo many highly schooled individual who are illiterates cause they dont even kniw the value and essence of the education and schooling they claim to have. I cant believe am here writing epistles to convince so called schooled individuals that educated is imperative to effective leadership.
Maybe those way even put WAEC there are stupid they for just say any one with good heart should apply even if he/she dont know 1+1 =2 or believes 2/2=50.

GEJ never went abroad to announce that Nigerian youths are lazy. Why ? He knows the import. The dullard - no clue and in his mind he was making sense when he said those words to the international audience.

Again you are arguing without proper facts. Most of the leaders I mentioned did not even complete secondary school yet they led their country to greatness. I don't know what you are arguing here, any reasonable Nigerian would agree GEJ was a failure and Buhari has also failed woefully, hence education did not factor into their greediness or inefficiency! You are worried about the Nigerian Constitution that requires just a WAEC certificate to become president, what would you now say to the U.S constitution which does not require any education at all? . Even the forefathers realized that formal education without a goodheart is defectum(defective).