₦airaland Forum

acidtalk: Who is complaining?
You people haven't seen nothing yet.
All over the world, Nigerians are known the be the biggest critic of his fellow citizen.

We derive pleasure in not promoting ours, criticizing ours as well as doing everything possible to allow a foreign nationale shine over ours.

What have we done to support the likes of Soundcity and Niajizee? NOTHING!!!

We were all excited when HiTV went underground, paving the way for Multichoice (DSTV) to monopolize the entire PayTV market.

While South Africans are supporting the likes of Channel O, Trace and others, we are here distamcing ourselves from Soundcity and the rest.


Imagine Nigerians wanting to kill themselves to win a South African based awards like Kora. Whereas those people don't give a hoot about any of our so called awards.

The saying "united we stand and Divided we fall" we forever have an impact of a Nations success or failure.

You are on point.Nigerians are often being pessimistic about their follow citizens which shows know good impression about us.lets speaks, think good; to our fellow citizens.

CastleandGreen: Religion is indeed a bondage.

I laugh in nepotism

Good

[quote author=eduson55]Nigeria exports religion, India exports cars
BY AZUKA ONWUKA

The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).

When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonised, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists, among others. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.” Interestingly, it is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but, ironically, rejected the British technology. The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its own heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North. Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.

Long after the Whites and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its territory by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a very religious people.

Meanwhile, as we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, and hospitality industries among others.

Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples. It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother, sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it does not change hands, no show. And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.

One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the morals in our society. But it is not so. The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.

We import petrol even when we have crude oil in abundance. We also import rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance. We even import toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort. Yet, we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive vehicles are the in thing. Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot products as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado as official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70 per cent live below poverty line. Private jets have become as common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education and its sick people are running to India for treatment.

India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans travelling to the country for medical treatment. India has joined the nuclear powers nations. India has launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.

I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.

Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166,000 million, while India has a population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups, India has more than 2,000. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions — Christianity and Islam; but India has many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 52 years of independence; India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.

I am a Christian, and nothing can change me from Christianity. But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” is still a saying that is germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion; more work and less of hope; and more action and less of words.

Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now or it may be too late. via PUNCH

You are on point but know solutiom

mondi_cheeks: its up to u to make the most out of what has been handed over to you. you can have all the best things given to you depending on who u are and where you are from but if u do not make the most out of it, you will come out with nothing or you could have a very few opportunities but is you ,make the most out of them you could become someone very influential. everyone has been who is still alive now has been given an equal opportunity to wake up on a daily basis to see another day, make the most of what has been handed over to them so that they can see a brighter tomorrow.

thanks.noted

Tonto pride comes before a fall.

Subject to the above question.pls nairalander i need your valued contribution as it is a project a work a four unity course;and an hypothesis that is yet to be subjected to emperical test.though i have carryed out other research but i deemed it necessary to still gather enough and valuabe facts from here inother to boosts the ones i have already.'does life offers everyone equal opportunity'please moderator, this should make the front page.pls nairalanders keep it rolling.

masterpiecer: i also heard dat if you are tired of life and you want to die, the best option of suicide is to listen to her song

Guy you are funny o,very very very.

Abeg make they two move jare.infact how does that reduce the level of flood we are witnessing already abi na G****...

DrKnow: But can someone please and please explain how this will affect the price of . . . .

perhaps you may ask how those areas that have been ravage by flood, affected the price of Garri.hiss

I think this is the right place to share and relate with one another ideologically.i happened to have a word with my colleagues on this issue;that if you are told that the whole money needed to complete your education and that includes your master degree i e if you which,will cost the sum of #10 million.and that you be given the money and forget about schooling, which of then is your option i ask of which almost all of them choose the money even the serious minded ones.now subject to that question nairalanders which of then do you prefer.lets share our idea and thoughts here.

Rihanna not that beautiful anyway.

Air waves reporters @ it again.

thelastPope: I am really getting irritated by many Nigerians in diaspora. They seem bent on seeing Nigeria and Nigerians go down. They come here and all over other Internet sites spewing garbage about Nigeria. They will put down anything positive about Nigeria. It seems they are suffering from gross bitterness.

There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has many issues but we cannot solve it by hating ourselves with so much raw hate and talking nonsense all the time. There is a time to critisize. For example, I like to criticize our excesses on materialism as a people which leads us to many unwanted stuff like corruption and crime. But insulting the nation and saying we will never make it and making us look so pathetic to the rest of the world is just too bad! We have our dignity and pride and we will never sacrifice that on any alter of self defeat and hopelessness.

If these bitter diaspora folks can't see anything good about Nigeria and Nigerians, I wonder why they even bother to post on Nigerian forums. They should carry their crap somewhere else. They forget that they are part of those who have failed Nigeria because they have not made any meaningful contribution to Nigerian growth.

Some of us travel out of the country and know how many of these folks live in Europe and even the US. In spain, Italy and Greece, many of them beg on the streets. In the UK, I don't even want to start. They haul themselves, sometimes as much as 15 in a 2 room apartment! Yet they talk nonsense here on NL because they can afford cheap Tmobile internet connection.

We have no other country but Nigeria. We must stand up and build it. Yes, it is a long road but it is a journey worth taking! Our families and friends live here. The question we must ask ourselves today is how can we make it better?

Apologies/acknowledgement to the many Nigerians in diaspora who do not fall into this category. Your patriotic contribution is a blessing to some of us!

YOU ARE ON POINT.

Torres 4 sure is a trash.

Moses need to sit out in this match.

Oscar is really doing well

Torres is a garbage dat needs to be throw in a dustbin.

He worths more than just the names you all just mentioned.

Manutd in problem.i laugh in nepotism.*

What has she be doing all this while.kindly send her to one mama puot to learn how to cook delicious meal.

Lagos state is definitely a work in progress,only a matter of time it will turn to a mega city.

Scores

The story is told of two
shopkeepers who were bitter
rivals. They spent each day
keeping track of each other's
business. If one got a customer,
he would smile triumphantly at
his rival.
One night an angel appeared to
one of the shopkeepers in a
dream and said, "I will give you
anything you ask, but whatever
you receive, your competitor will
receive twice as much. What is
your desire?" The man frowned
and then said, "Strike me blind in
one eye." Now that's jealousy of
the worst kind!

If you ask me now,who i go ask the matter wei i see so he heavy for my eyez.

Whats the final score.

toluxe0075: 2 more goals n we are thru wit our vengeance

Lol

Delta state has long begin their indefinate strike;i wonder what our governors are doing.

Now i believe the saying that every terrorist is a muslims.islam definitely is a religious of shit.

Garri_Activist: Na soso I hear say.... We just the dey hear for here, omo you go fear news na

A source this, a source that.....
Can't y'all get the stinky names of dem sources with all the resources at ur disposals mehn y'all niggaz is fallin mi hand yuh

Anyway sha, we wish our first lady quick recovery and we still pray for a decrease in the prize of our in mandatory food(GARRi)

Do we have inflation in the price of garri?

Only if burning of flags can let them reach an amicable settlement.

Good move coming from CBN aleast it will help curtail their movement.