₦airaland Forum

Contract job is a crime to humanity. I will never wish any of my siblings to work in the bank as a contract staff. They will used you and dump you without any benefits. I'm happy that the set of contract staffs have one mind inrespective of what the outcome meant be. Fighting for their right and privilege is the way to go. The bank Directors shld regard them as humans and not treating them like slaves. They possess the same degree and qualifications of that of your staff. Hence, let the poor breath and do suffocate them.

Why is everyone condemning her? It's not easy to stay without ur partner for 2 good yrs. If I may ask? Is the hubby not having a good time over there in the US? Would he also swear that he has not slept with any other woman since he left his family for America. Why would only the female folks be punished for sensitive issues like this. No one is at fault here, cos the hubby have not been around for her. Wisdom should be applied when it comes to sensitive issues like this. I will suggest you open up to your husband about it, and allow both families to take it up from there. The matter can still be settle amicably. I wish u goodluck dear.

Our supreme Court have help the opposition party to finished this country. Our judiciary are rubber stamp. The highest bidder gets judgment.

This ref is bias. They need to send him to championship. He is not qualify to officiate in premiership.

His victory was a true reflection of fruad and disenfranchisement.

I don't know why El Rufai is taking this matter personal. He has never been there for his people all this while, why the sudden change. He should just tell Nigerians that he still has some old cash with him, and the CBN shld make provision for him rather than every day ranting .

The 5G Governors are only speaking for themselves and their immediate family. I have my candidate at heart and no one can compare me to vote against my conscience.

This is a welcome development. We hope that this project will impact life's positively. There should also be a maintenance culture to sustain the good work of the administration who initiated such a project

I feel very sorry for the family of the deceased. What a sad way to loose people that are so dare to you. May God continue to protect us. We can't protect ourselves apart from our creator.

Oga talk your mind. What is hmmm? Negativity everywhere.

wahala dey oh. let see where this will take us too.
The policy go still affect those wey wan jagban.

I really feel your pain. May Almighty God intervene in your situation. May he send a destiny helper to rescue you in this critical time.

Why do they always hold him? Is it that Tinubu cannot walk on his own. Sometimes I do wonder the kind of mentality we blacks have.
Why can't this man withdrew his sword and allow the country to elect someone who is medically sound and fit to rule this nation.

South West are greedy. I want power to remain in the North till we come back to our senses. The yorubas think they are smart, and they don't want South East to assume the sit of presidency cos they assisted Buhari to vote out Jonathan. That same table is turning against them right now. No body should blame PDP for choosing a Northerner to represent them. If they body language of APC have been to zone the Presidency to South East, they will be no cause for all these drama. But Tinubu thinks he is smart, we are watching as the drama keep unfolding.

Renon na stomach infrastructure politician..

Oga, na u get the solution to your problem.

I don't think that person that said nice one is ok. He has a serious problem and needs to see a psychiatrist.

Why wouldn't there be short comings in the institution when appointment to sensitive position of office have not been by merit. We have seen it all. These present adminstration have finished Nigerian.

I don't believe in all these cook and join allegations against him now. This is an avenue to delay his repatriation to America where is he is meant to face trial. They are playing politics.

Pls show us the picture of the said penis.

U just misquote him.

Na slavery be that.

ON SYLVESTER OROMONI AND OUR FAILING SCHOOL SYSTEM.
It's a terrible thing what happened to the young man. I can imagine the pain the family is going through at the moment. To lose a young child to a needless, avoidable death, and under such tragic circumstances can be emotionally heart ♥ rending. No one should send their child to school only to hear of their death. A boarding school should be a home � away from home. May they be consoled.

The Story has raised a lot of issues about parenting, our boarding school system and by extension our educational system. Paramount of these issues is the perceived failure of the boarding school system to deliver on the quality education, security and well-being of the child. This case in particular has been joined to similar cases of neglect of duty of care by the Deeper Life School saga, the Edo College Boarding School mishap and some other cases in recent months.

Boarding schools it is said, have become centres of criminal activities like cultism, gay and lesbian clubs, bullying, drug abuse and systematic impoverishment of students by management of these schools to cut costs and make more profit. The extant reputation of boarding schools as centers for integrated learning, discipline and development of social skills is being threatened. The 'Big Brother' watchful eyes of boarding schools is no longer watching.

The second issue is pertaining to the role of parents in a child's cognitive, physical, social, emotional, spiritual development and security. Most people are of the opinion that choosing to educate your children in a boarding school is a tacit abdication of parental responsibility to raise a child for the pursuit of less gratifying wealth. For them, it is a misplacement of values.They argue that the modern world offers a difficult environment to raise children, and parents therefore need to play more active roles in the character formation of the children especially in their formative years.

Children should be under the watchful eyes of their parents from infancy to at least the teenage years they claim. Society cannot rely on boarding schools to raise decent children, since their interests may not coincide with those of parents. This is creating a crisis of confidence in schools and parenthood. Consequently, there has been calls for the end of the boarding school system. I think this is a simplistic view of things. We can't throw the baby away with the bathwater.

The third issue is that of bullying, cultism, drug abuse, body shaming, sexual harassment and perversions, truancy, juvenile delinquency, youthful exuberance and all other forms of anti-social/deviant behaviors of students in our schools, both public, private and boarding. Schools are fast becoming centers of criminal expression. With poor management and supervision by school administrators, students have converted their schools to camps of criminal enterprise.

In Benin City for instance, there is perpetual warfare between Ihogbe and Akenzua Secondary School Students.I personally witnessed a titanic clash of their students on one of my marketing engagements there. The use of stones, axes, machetes to cause mayhem on the opposite party was worrisome. It was Armageddon! I saw in the news the other day how the Idogbo Students reduced their school to rubble in a rampage. I don't understand the circumstances leading to that. I do understand however, that most of the problems we face with our school system is not unconnected to the pervasiveness of cultism and drug abuse among our young students both male and female. With a few exceptions, many schools are better equipped to produce more internet fraudsters and criminals than well educated and civilized children. One has to be extra careful in deciding which school to send their children to nowadays.

Sylvester's case happens to be all the issues laced in one. First, there is the case of negligence by the school authorities for not taking the young man to the hospital when he was discovered brutalized. There is also a case of an attempted cover up of the facts of the case by spurning a 'football' induced injury narrative as an alternative fact. The pain is further exacerbated by their attempt to absolve themselves of any responsibility in the death. There is also the case that the parents did not respond in time to the call of the school about something wrong with their child. An anonymous messenger claimed the parents were intimated with the issue immediately it was discovered that the young man was badly injured, but it took about three days for the parents to present themselves at the school, and when they did, they took the boy to a church instead of a hospital where the situation got worse, leading to the boys death. I think that whole argument is lame and the anonymous agent is speaking for the school. He also claimed to have spent the last week listening to interviews of all five suspects in the case. His narrative seems bogus and filled with gaps. There is another narrative that the young Sylvester willingly allowed himself to be beaten in a 'blending' activity. He was being initiated in their cult group and willingly submitted to describe his sister's genitals and take a beating. The argument is that the whole death scenario is a cult initiation gone wrong. While it is not unheard of how students are initiated into cult groups by unconventional methods such as serious beatings of that nature, we need an independent investigation to reveal the the veracity of that claim. More investigation will reveal the remote and immediate causes of the young man's death.

In all of this though, what I see is a needless back and forth effort to push the blame on the other party. The school is having bad press as a result of their perceived negligence and poor PR handling of the matter. Their reputation is at stake and they would lose a lot of students if it is revealed how they were wittingly or unwittingly complicit in this whole problem. The parents are grieving and rightly feel injured by this whole attempt by the school to misrepresent the facts by claiming the child sustained injuries from playing football. That is playing on their intelligence and a breach of trust. The school is bound in covenant to a duty of care and skill to the child and parent, when they took him in to their boarding school. In all of this, we may be ignoring the elephant � in the room, which is that a young man full of life and dreams just died in a school system that failed him. The killers need to be tried and if found guilty, jailed. The school should have self censored by closing down itself in the interim out of respect for life and sacking some staff who may have been negligent of their duty in the case after a quick in-house investigation. They should have understood the social expectations and sensitivity of the situation, come out clean and collaborate with the parents and the public by reviewing their policies to meet the requirements of sanity and justice. They may lose some students in the short-term, but the healing effects of a good damage and effective crisis management will make it worthwhile in the long term.

All parents, schools, the public and leaders of institutions with social character can learn from this, fix their institutions and we can all move on safely. The simplistic solutions of passing the ball is an injustice to the young man and the whole issues. Someone has to take the ball and accept punishment.

THE WAY A MAN 'SINGS' SO HE IS
(The Davido Effect).

A rich music superstar started a joke about fans sending him one million naira each on Twitter to raise fourteen million to clear his newly acquired Rolce Royce�. Boom�! He has raised over 150 million naira in 48 hours and still counting. He is breaking the bank � and the bank is enjoying the publicity. Everyone now knows that he has an account with WEMA bank. That may attract an ambassadoral deal worth more millions of Naira if he isn't already one.

Many wonder why a rich guy like Davido is able to attract more money than the guys who really need the money �. How come some people need just 20 million for medical treatment abroad, and have to beg on Facebook for a lifetime to get it? This "life no balance" they reason.
The observed social behavior is not unconnected to the following socio-psychological phenomena.

THE MATTHEW EFFECT
Coined from one of the synoptic gospels Matthew 13:12, the Mathew Effect validates the observation that the rich tend to get richer why the poor gets poorer. It states that Influential people tend to get more recognition for their work more than similar or more important works from less influential people. "More is given to the one who has more, and more is taken away from the one that has little". In essence, work hard to multiply what you have and it will be amplified back to you by your relevance.

THE BANDWAGON EFFECT
People would queue up for something if they perceive that a lot of other people are doing same. Nobody wants to be left out. A song simply rated 'top selling' may garner more says as people are induced to buy it. Most artists buy hundreds of thousands of copies of their own songs using proxies, just to create the impression that the songs are "Bad" and "hot". Many run to download and listen. If Obi Cubana, Tinubu, Don Jazzy, et al are making transfers to a certain account, the bandwagon sets in.

A REPUTATION FOR GENEROSITY AND ABUNDANCE SPENDER
People who have a reputation for abundance spending and generosity attracts same treatment to their lives. Davido, Obi Cubana, Pastor Chris, Tony Elumelu, Aliko Dangote, Otedola, etc are known to gift millions of naira in cash and gifts to people in their circle of influence. Not too long ago Davido gifted a Porsche to his girlfriend Chioma on her birthday. He gifts luxury cars and cellphones to his gang members. He sings and talks about money a lot. Private jets, blings, balling and big spending is part of his brand. His first hit song "Dami Duro" and many others like it are about "making the billions". The way a man 'sings', so he is. Give and it will be given to you, shaken, pressed down, and bountifully.

CELEBRITY INFLUENCE.
If you make music that sells to millions, you are young, have a lot of powerful friends, unmarried, wild and free, rich and famous, then you become 'talk of the city'. It is easy to attract all that cash with a lot of the 'goodies' of life going for you. You are living the dream life of billions of people, and they see giving to you as a way of validating themselves or 'tapping into that your anointing'. Putting money into your account is like the woman with the issue of blood 'touching the helm of Jesus garment'. Oil dey your head.

PATRONAGE
In Victorian England, artists will stage plays and make paintings, dedicating them to Monarchs for they were rich and powerful. Scientists would make discoveries of the workings of the universe and inventions, and name them after nobles and the elite. Explorers will 'discover' new lands and name them after the rulers. These made the kings feel like they were the Sun everything revolved around. This is often to be in their good books and curry favor from them when the opportunity comes. Transferring money into an account from your personal account is a way to put your name in a person's good books. Throw your bread on top of the waters, "YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN" but in the course of many days, you will find it. A rich guy said that. The rich know how to return the favor. The capitalized words are mine.

Whoever that posted this have a poverty mentality. They go trek go training before?

APC is a plague to an average Igbo Man. Hence, the party does not have a place in South East.

So called Belgium that is maintaining first position is just there without any accomplishment. I don't know why FIfa keep recognising them as number one, cos when it matters most they will disappoint you. Just imagine how they lost to France in Euro Nations league semi finally.

My brother, I don't know why some people reason as if is only certificates or whatever that puts food on ones table. Don't allow their views to limit your person. After all, most degree holders are still wallowing in the street due to no job, and making ends meet have been a challenge to most people. Times have changed, education does not guarantee financial freedom but rather persona business and men with hand work are the ones who command money this days. If you hope on ur degree for turnaround in ur life, one will approach 40yrs yet nothing to show off apart from degree certificate. I don't want to leave your woman, stick with her and fight for what belongs to you. She is yours already and no body can take her away from you. Moreover, if you are interested in furthering your studies, do it at your own free will and not under duress.

The USSD code of *45665# which the humanitarian minister asked us to use to ascertain if we have been shortlisted for the N-Power program is still not going till date. No email communication as per those who have been shortlisted for the program. So how do we ascertain our status for the program since the code is not going through?

Harry Kane have made the best decision of his career. I keep telling Man City fans that there is no way he can push for transfer if Spurs are not ready to do business. The guy in question still has 3 years left in his contract with Spurs. Moreover, there is no release clause on the contract, thus the club is a better position to decide whether to sell or not. He took the right decision by staying put for now. And to Spurs Chairman, you did a marvellous work by keeping Kane. You have made us to understand that your club have an ambition this season. Not releasing to Man City means that the premier league will be competitive this season unlike what is alternable in Germany League.

It's well.

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