bobnatlo:

My friend u don't know what u ar talking about.
I'm from the east, currently working in SW but practically did all my education, service n even worked a while in d north (NE,NW & NC)
The Nepotism in admissions n education is at worse levels in the north of this country.
Most standard n Govt schools in SE n SW don't give a pooo where u come from.
Theirs u come wt exceptional results n u get in. And If ur result is good or average u may need to know some1 in d system or bribe u way in. But that applies to everyone.
But in d North non-northers with 250 in Jamb Wil be forced to change from 1st Choice of medicine to biochemistry or microbiology n not get admission.
While Northerners with less than 200 will get medicine n may abandon the course along the way.
While schooling in a Fed uni in NE. I saw a case of a department refused to give pg scholarship n GA to a first-class Chem engr just because he's not same religion n tribe. This is a research grant domiciled in his department that all best grad student are supposed to automatically get but on d condition that u a GA. They simply refused to give him d GA so as not to get d scholarship. Only to give to a couple of Northerners in d next set.

You may be right in some points but also wrong in many. Hey, listen, no universities in the north offers admission to a student who had less than 200 in JAMB admission to study medicine.
Right now, I have a girl who scores 238 in JAMB and scores 230 in Post UME, she is from Kano and applied for medicine in Bayero University, kano , do u know she was given admission to study medicine, rather she was admitted into Bsc Industrial Chemistry.
So just know that the competition is high, and due to catchment area, northerners are favored to be admitted and this is applicable in anywhere in Nigeria.

victorazy:


Western education is Haram yet una rich men are sending their children to study abroad who is misleading who? What am I looking in Qur'an when I have Bible translated in English? God doesn't speak one language BUT all, not only Arab. They want u to look like them forever by telling u God doesn't understand ur language only speak and dress like Arabs, common sense bro.

Pls can you show me anywhere in the Holy Quran where it said that education is Haram? U are so bigoted, ignorant and intolerant. U are no different from Boko Haram terrorist.

iconize:


You're a moronic person.

More than hundred youth corps members were killed in the North during the 2011 election violence.

Habaaaaa, easy with the lie nahhh. Actually corpers were killed which was unfortunate and painful. Corpers has also been killed in the south especially ss and se, we just saw a report on this Nairaland of a corper shot to death few days ago in the south, what will you say about that

I kinda agree with you, but that shouldn't be the reason for his wife to be slut shame. It is wrong in all ramification and it is immature men that engage in that

Akowemoon:
Guys If na me be oga Femi ehn!, to touch this woman no go hungry me gain. I hate hearing from some where or my woman tell me say somborii bleep am. Kai my jolobina and Joshua no go just rise.

And the gal u are going to married may not be a Virginia when u met her also. So, definitely she must have been bleep and who knows how many times and how many styles she must has done. As far as people keep on glorifying fornication and adultery, and are not ashamed about it, rather they flaunt it.
Cases like this will keep on going on.
God standard never change

Nigerian men and slut shaming. ...............
This is not cool and mature men should not engage in it. I see men that engage in slut shaming and even here on Nairaland as men who are not man enough and has a childish mind and character.

lefulefu:
it is very wrong what he did but then its obvious this lady is nothing more than a sidechick .most ladies who think they are in a serious relationship with their man unfortunately in some cases are side chics. Its left for a lady to see the signs to know if she's a side chic or not. This lady in question is fortunate to know her true position in the relationship.

Don't say what you don't know. She may not actually be the side chick but the real chick while the girl he is hanging out with maybe the side chick. U know guys and double life

FrenchWay:
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Let's talk about the ones in Nigeria...

1): have sex with a 13 year old in the south and get arrested for sleeping with a minor.
Have sex with a 10year old in the north and even marry her and you shall be hosted by the emir in celebration.

2): Have sex with a blood relative in the south and see ursef tagged an outcast. But have sex with a blood relative in the north and even marry her, it is called 'auren dangi' and it is allowed.

Who has arrested all those 13 years and less that are pregnant out of wedlock in the south? How many girls before 18 are virgins in the south? Most girls in the author before 18 are already very sexually active, who is arresting those having sex with them? Or have u ever had that someone is arrested for having sex with a 16 years old girl in the south?
Please, stop the hypocrisy

Thought provoking and worth reading. This is the one of the most straightforward article u have read about this Innoson and GTB issue.
Lalasticlala, pls take this to to front page

Nigerian Banks, Billionaires, & Your Sorry Ordinary Ass

By Pius Adesanmi

Some of my friends have said that we moved too quickly within the same week from Hijab-Gate (religion) to Innoson-Gate (ethnicity). I told my worried friends that I do not share their despondency.

On the contrary, I am saying Allah be praised for I have learnt to give thanks and praise to God for little mercies concerning Nigeria. At least two days separate our cursing and hating each other on account of religion from our cursing and hating each other on account of ethnicity this week.

That is considerable progress and sufficient ground to celebrate and give thanks to God considering the fact that we used to multitask our hatreds on several fronts simultaneously. Now we hate on one basis at a time before we transition to the next basis for hate. One hatred at a time. No more multitasked hatreds on multiple fronts at the same time.

Having done Christianity versus Islam over hijab before transitioning to Yoruba versus Igbo over Innocent Chukwuma this week, chances are we will be back to APC versus PDP by Christmas. Is this not progress?

Given the fact that we have less than 48 hours before we forget GTB and Innoson and move on to the political front of hatred (then back to religion, ethnicity, politics; repeat cycle of hatred ad nauseam), I deem it important to enter a few pertinent submissions so that your sorry ordinary Nigerian ass may once again contemplate the enormity of the price you pay for your stubborn and congenital apathy towards memory.

Save for a comment on my friend, Barrister Abdul Mahmud's wall, I have largely stayed away from the raging inferno of ethnicity feeding into a business relationship gone bad between a bank and a business man. In the main, I see a typical Nigerian farcical plot complete with layers of irregularities, counter-irregularities, and plain bad behaviour. Somewhere in all this is a dividing line shaped by ethnicity and primordial sentiments.

If you are Igbo, you tend to believe that the bank is a rogue Yoruba bank that has been stealing money from the business man, violating court orders, and corralling the instruments of the Nigerian state to intimidate the hapless business man.

If you are Yoruba, you are probably retailing the acerbic narratives of the bank and the EFCC, aided by your friends from the north who have been dragged in because their Sai Baba is being accused of going after the business of his enemies in the Southeast.

This, in the main, is where we are. We are here because, once again, we have sacrificed memory on the altar of primordial sentiments and failed to press our immediate past experience into the service of our collective interests as the little peeps.

You see, primordial sentiments are not just invidious, they are also blinding and require a fundamental surrender of the part of one’s critical faculty that should be constantly sentient in order for one to be able to grasp the full dimensions of one’s situation.

Were your sorry ass as an ordinary Nigerian not blinded by primordial sentiments, you would have been able to reason on the basis of memory that who scammed who between GTB and Innocent Chukwuma is an intra-class fratricide that is none of your business.

When we speak about a particular class we call the Nigerian elite, many have a reductionist conceptualization of the matter. You think in terms of individuals, of those one percenters in politics, social circles, and business.

It is important that you broaden your understanding of the elite. It is individuals. It is their social group or class. It is also their institutions and apparatuses of dominance, control, and exploitation. In other words, the politicians, the state and her instruments of violence (the Army, the police, EFCC, etc), the banks and other instruments of financial accumulation and oppression, are all part of a one percentile elite organism of exploitation and oppression.

An individual member of this group in a feud with an institutional member of the same group is really a case of Gambari pa Fulani. It is none of your business because however it plays out between Innocent Chukwuma and GTB, none of the feuding parties will lose. YOU will still lose out, you and your sorry little ass. Forget ethnicity. Forget your Yoruba-Igbo incubus: you will both pay the price of this feud between a business man and his bank.

This is where memory helps. Unfortunately, memory and the Nigerian are always hostile neighbours in the same sentence. In 2009, the current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, rendered an historic service to this country. It was one of the most patriotic acts ever rendered this country by a citizen – a blue blooded one percenter for that matter. He was then CBN Governor. He carried out a thorough audit of the banking sector, indicted so many misbehaving and criminal bank chiefs and, in a revolutionary manner, published lists of bank loan defaulters in two installments.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s action was a climacteric. Nearly two hundred and fifty names – the most prominent names from every corner of Nigeria, old money, new money – were involved in the most egregious abuse of depositors’ funds in criminal collusion with our banks.

Virtually every billionaire in Nigeria appeared on the list of chronic debtors – Dangote, Otedola, etc. Virtually every corporation, every holding in the country, featured in the list as owners of non-performing loans or outright bad debts.

We are talking of hundreds and hundreds of billions of naira. Nigerian banks will take your owo oniru, owo oniyo, owo alata, your hard-earned deposits of one thousand naira, the money of the newspaper vendor, the money of the roadside mechanic, the money of Iyaloja, the money of unpaid teachers, nurses, the money of civil servants, roll them into billions and parcel them out as non-performing loans and bad debts to Dangote, Otedola and billionaires of every tribe, politicians of every faith, social climbers of every hue.

What SLS revealed in his 2009 list showed that Bukola Saraki was a boy scout with his heists at Societe Generale Bank.

The bank chiefs, mostly Bible-wielding, Holy Ghost fire-spewing morons, understand the game. They do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, tribe, or political affiliation. Once you are a one percenter, you are in on the family crime that is the Nigerian banking and financial sector. They give you billions in loans and credit instruments with little or no due diligence because there are all kinds of in-built cuts and kickbacks. The banks rub your back and you rub their backs.

They will never lend to your sorry little ass as an ordinary citizen. They will never lend to your little business. If you are a Mai Shayi, you better not approach them for a loan to grow your business. Pray that Governor Ganduje wakes up on the happy side of his bed tomorrow morning. If you are a market porter in Makurdi, you better not approach Nigerian banks for a loan to help your small business hustle. Pray that Governor Ortom dreams about wheelbarrows tonight. The banks will not give you loans but they will take your little money, your meagre deposits, and parcel them out as loans to the billionaires. Never really to be repaid.

Because it is all a game, Nigeria made noise for about a week after Sanusi published the lists. And we moved on to our eternal shame and damnation as a people. Not a single arrest. Not a single prosecution. We moved on.

In fact, Professor Pat Utomi, who appeared in the list as a loan defaulter, did a lot of gragra. He made a lot of noise and threatened to sue. I guess someone eventually whispered to Prof to observe the golden rule of silence and let the matter blow over. We never heard pim from Prof again. We never heard from any of the 250 people listed again. We moved on.

But your sorry little ass as an ordinary Nigerian has been paying for the crimes of these one percenters and the conniving banks. Oho, so you think that the banks went to sleep just because Dangote, Otedola and every other Nigerian billionaire did not repay the loans?

No, the loans are passed on to you in a cruel Darwinian equation. That is why Nigerian banks are forever making you pay fees that you cannot for the life of you understand. That is why they are always criminally withdrawing little sums from your account – fifty naira here, a hundred naira there. They charge and charge and charge and bill you out of existence. You are repaying the non-performing loans and bad debts of their criminal one percentile family members.

Innocent Chukwuma and GTB are family members in this game. It is poverty that makes you invest in Yoruba-Igbo feuding when there is no such thing going on in this matter. One percenters are too rich and busy to think like you. No matter how this pans out, the debts will be parceled out to your sorry little Igbo and Yoruba asses in the bills and charges you pay for the 17th-century services of GTB. They will milk you to get that money back while eventually reaching a deal with Innoson.

Let’s recap for it is very important that you understand these things: Nigerian banks, Nigerian instruments of state violence, and social, business, and political actors are all branches of one class organism called the elite.

In Nigeria, this expanded elite is irredeemably criminal. It is also a non-sentient, sociopathic elite with zero inclination towards even the most rudimentary understanding of the social contract. The only social contract between you and this elite is the partnership between the horse and its rider. That is the only way the Nigerian elite can ontologically relate to you.

So, fight GTB but do not fight GTB on account of its family member – Innocent Chukwuma. Fight GTB in a broader, expanded and more meaningful sense because she is a member of a criminal cartel called the Nigerian banking sector.

Nigerian banks are wholesomely irresponsible. They offer you the most atrocious services imaginable. Customer service is zero. Banks in the Songhai Empire of Askia the Great offered better online services in the 15th century than what Nigerian banks currently offer in the second decade of the 21st century.

When they maltreat your sorry little ass, they don’t care about your ethnicity or religion.

With elections around the corner in the next two years in Nigeria, many of them are already prospecting for who could become Governor, who could become a Senator and potentially head a “juicy” Senate committee. With your deposits, they will extend credit facilities to these potentially bankable politicians.

You will only hear about it if things go south and they begin to fight.

Stop picking sides.

Grab a popcorn, open a bottle of Orijin, and enjoy the fight.

Credit: Prof Pius Adesanmi

xty50:
so true.I remember when I was serving in the east they all thought I was igbo.when I told them that I am in fact from kaduna state,the next question they always asked was but are u a Christian (knowing fully well that my name is Christy n we all worshipped in the same church).so this is the level of their ignorance.

So true, they never believe that there are millions of Christians in the north and also thousands of traditional worshippers. And the annoying thing is that this believe come from the so called educated ones.
There is huge ignorance among nigerians

And I don't see anyone abusing the southerners, their culture or religion over what happens, unlike if it is has happens in the north.
Hypocrites

Zanas:
Na their way. When I was staying in the north, you hardly saw a Hausa man that was not carrying a dagger on his waist and they almost always use it whenever they are fighting

Just as every youth in the south goes about with knife, dagger and guns in the south. And they make use of it whenever there is chaos

dieBYfire:


Abeg don't generalize , if you and your Headslamming goons plus Buhari are naturally born wicked, then that's understandable. Don't invovle other peaceful Nigerians in your act of terrorism!
So next time say " Me and my brothers are naturally born wicked."

And the act of ritual killings, thug fighting and cultism over there in the south is not act of terrorism, abi?

hypocrites and bigots are already showing themselves here. As if it is not in the south that there is high rate of cultism and cultists killing each other like nothing.
Am so sure if that case of a Corp member that was strangled to death last week has happened in the north, the abuses and curses wouldn't have stop. You guys should check yourself before admonishing someone

walosky:
The Relgion of Peace




Getting higher on stimulants




Rapists !

U are a bigot and a hypocrite

dupzy05:
Asalam alaikum waramotullah plz I have some important question I want to ask if u can permit me privately

Go on.

Edum13656:
if u like pave the streets of the North with gold... Aboki na Aboki. What the North needs most is human capital development.

And this one is what? Animal development abi. Hater and bigot. Ur hatred and bigotry has be cloud ur sense of reasoning.

As salaam alaykum waramatulah wabarakatu,,,
My beloved brothers and sisters, its being a while but can we talk? Yes, I mean now!
Aqidhu Nikkah is a great Sunnah............ Walimah Nikkah is nice too.............. But when the bride's pregnant, When she walks down the aisle bearing a protuding belly, The Nikkah has being dishonoured. And the bed? Defiled Then, its no longer 'Islamic Nikkah' It is called ''Thanksgiving celebration because the couple has already joined themselves. This is the common trend these days, I dont admire nor applaude it. Be the Zawjah before you become a Umm. If you have never heard it, pls hear this now,,,,,,, . that Introduction is not Nikkah........ Engagement is not Nikkah......... Dating and courtship ain't Nikkah......... 'Will you marry me?' 'I will', is not Nikkah...... 'His papa and mama already know me' is not Nikkah......
Your fiance/fiancee is not your wife or husband....... You dont own his or her body and can't demand for it!
Nikkah is the ONLY license to have sex... Make the Nikkah bed before you make babies........ Stop forcing yourself on a guy/ brother by proposing To him by getting pregnant..........................................
Sisters, you are not suya, so no tasting!! !You hear me so? He wants to know if you are good in bed, You are not a store sample..... .........................Tell Him that. He wants to know if you are fertile, , ,You are not a lab rat.
You come with a price (Dowry),, , dont you?? Some items comes with nice packaging, and Until their price is paid, you cant open to see what's in it...... A man who pressurizes you for sex because your Nikkah is days away will ruin your relationship with Allah...BE wise He's not worthy of you. And finally, when sin blinds our eyes, We claim Love is blind the same way we accuse the devil for atrocities committed....LOL Allah Ta'ala already set His standards (Sharia). He is not negotiating with you(sunnah). Allah will not ask you to fornicate, Beware of fake news......
I have heard stories of ladies who received such news,,,,,, 'be pregnant before Nikkah'. Watch it!
Allah Ta'ala cannot contradict Himself. May Allah grant us deep understanding of His words.(Amin) Wallahu Alam Allah know best

muller101:
But bad news in the north is more than the good ones . Why?

Lies. There are more good news than bad news in the north but u guys and the media tend to focus more on the bad news than the good news just as the western countries's media stereotype Africa as jungle

The haters are arriving. They never wanted to hear any good news about the North.

Seahawk:
Nairaland men/boys are very very extremely disgusting.
I hope this is not representative of the general Nigerian male population.

It is ooooooo. They like blaming the women folks all the time even if the men are at barefaced false.

felifeli:
How did I know it would be another Abo.ki even before I opened this post?

Hey illiterate, not every northerner is a hausa or Muslim. There are far more tribes in the north than in the south. This man that is appointed is an I gala that even the Igbo claimed that they are close to them and yes they even share border and market.
And FYI, NAHCO is a private company not public, so nothing concern the FG about appointment into NAHCO.
U guys should chill with this ur hatred and bigotry .

rekeson:


Sire u are working 4 the govt...

Am not, but with private. Also applied for this Npower but not selected, some thing with lot of ppl over here.

rekeson:

99% of nteach slots went to north.
Maybe they want to replace the sacked Kaduna teachers...

U guys should stop this ridiculous lies pls

Magnifico2000:

U still havent answered the question. What was d criteria used in selecting people? Why is dere no list like last year?

I myself don't know the criteria they use in selecting people, cos if it is based on score, I am sure of getting 95% and above

rekeson:


I disagree with u on this.

2017 Npower is simply north-power...

Even the blind can see that.

U are very wrong, in such very very wrong. Don't let your hatred for Buhari blind your sense of reasoning.
I have check for about 10 people here in the north and they were not selected.

Magnifico2000:

I just checked my name and it wasnt there. Well, i'm disappointed but lets ask ourselves the practical questions. What are the criteria for selecting these names? Does it mean if you have huge amount or a steady inflow in your account, you wont be selected because of the bvn involved?

Last year, i think it was open and transparent, everyone could see but this time around reverse is the case.

I dont want to really talk too much. God will help us in Nigeria.

Those that applied last year were not much, so almost all of them get selected. Only few were rejected, that was I the complaints were much then. A lot of people were skeptical about the project last year which lead to a lot of people not applying. But this year, over a million applied and only 300k were to be selected, so definitely the rejects will be much this time and also the complaints

You guys should stop thinking that npower is being biased and chose more of northerners , that is false cos no northerner will be selected to come and teach in South or East. Many northerners I have check for were also not selected. I think it is like a game of chance. I too was not also selected despite that I am so sure of getting at least 95%.
More than a million people applied, and only 300k were selected, meaning that over 700k will not be selected. So definitely there is going to be complaints here and there.