₦airaland Forum

LagosOrigin:
Uba sanni will not win second term in kaduna ..

He's a goner , APC will be erased in kaduna state in 2027.

ManirBK:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I want to share something personal that has changed my perspective on education and parenting.

It has become my duty to teach my children.

Every day, my children – who are in Nursery and Primary school – come home with homework in their books. And every day, I am the one who teaches them. Almost every single day, they return with two homework assignments, sometimes even three.

This responsibility has given me the confidence to become a better teacher. I've grown. I've learned. And I've discovered something surprising:

My children seem to understand me better than they understand their professional school teachers. They prefer when I teach them at home.

I don't know if this is because I'm their father, because I'm patient with them, or because I explain things in a way that makes sense to them. But it's working.

I'm open to any additional confidence, advice, or guidance you can offer.

If you're a parent who teaches your children at home, share your experience. If you're a teacher, I'd love to hear your perspective. If you're just here to learn, welcome.

naptu2:
My post from March 20th this year.

Presidential travels and electricity projects.

I know it's just politics, but some people were saying that ordinary Nigerians do not benefit anything from foreign trips by the president and other leaders.

I said that it's very obvious that this is a lie because almost all the big projects that have been done have come about because of these foreign trips and everybody can see them. I listed some of these projects like the Lagos-Abuja rail line, the Lagos-Ibadan rail line, the railway university, the rail coach and wagon factory, the trains for the Blue Line and Red Line railways, the Super Tucano attack aircraft, etc.

However, despite best efforts, it's not all the plans that succeed. This post is about a very good plan that Muhammadu Buhari had, but which failed because of the Nigerian situation.

Shagari and Mambilla

President Shehu Shagari planned a lot of hydro-electric projects in his 4 years in power, but unfortunately he could not complete any of them. The biggest of these projects was the Mambilla Power Project.

The Mambilla Power Project was designed to be the biggest power plant in Nigeria. It was to provide 3,050 megawatts of power. For comparison, the Egbin power plant in Lagos, which is currently the biggest power plant in Nigeria and which burns gas, has a capacity of 1,320 megawatts.

The Mambilla Power Project consists of 4 dams and 2 underground power stations across the Donga River in Taraba State (near the border between Nigeria and Cameroon).

President Shagari's administration conceived of the project, but Nigeria ran into a financial crisis in 1982 and the government was overthrown on December 31st, 1983. The project was therefore abandoned.


Importance of the Mambilla Project

Nigeria depended on hydro power plants when I was a kid (that's why people often spoke about "no water in the dam", but we have since transitioned to thermal power plants, specifically gas powered plants.

The argument for using gas was that Nigeria had the 3rd largest gas reserves in the world and therefore, we might as well use it.

However, gas is expensive.

That's one of the reasons why the Mambilla Project is important to me. It helps us balance our energy mix.

Gas is expensive and you run into trouble when you can't pay for it. Furthermore, there are strange people in Nigeria who actually go and cut gas pipelines and besides, some of those pipelines are not well maintained.

You don't need to worry about buying gas when you are using a hudro plant. God provides the river water. However, you still need to pay workers and maintain equipment, so money is important.

Which brings me to my important point. The Mambilla project is not the solution to the power crisis in Nigeria. The solution is to remove subsidy. If you don't remove subsidy and charge a cost reflective tariff, then you'll still have problems maintaining equipment, paying workers and buying equipment at the Mambilla Power Plant.

However, the addition of Mambilla's 3,050 megawatts will help significantly.


Muhammadu Buhari and Mambilla

Nigeria is a poor country and this fact has affected the ability of many governments to deliver services to the people. However, the Buhari Administration did not allow this to disturb them. The administration borrowed a lot of money and used the loans to provide projects and services to Nigerians.

So President Buhari travelled to China and reached a deal with the Chinese that the China Export Bank will provide 85% of the funds to complete the Mambilla Power Project and the Nigerian Government would provide 15%. Obviously the construction work would be done by Chinese companies. That's when the Nigerian factor came in.


Obasanjo and Mambilla

Dr Olu Agunloye was a protege of Professor Wole Soyinka. There were many former students of Professor Soyinka (and other young people that admired him) who collaborated with him after they graduated from school.

Professor Soyinka pitched the idea of a Federal Road Safety Corps to President Babangida and Babangida made him the first chairman of the corps (this was in 1988). Dr Olu Agunloye was made the first corp marshal (chief executive) of the corps.

Dr Agunloye had problems with the Abacha Regime (probably because Professor Soyinka was campaigning against the regime) and he was removed from the FRSC and harassed.

President Obasanjo made Dr Agunloye his personal assistant on power. He later made him the minister of state for defence (Navy) and then the minister of power and steel.

Dr Agunloye took a proposal to President Obasanjo when he was minister of power and steel. It was from a company that wanted to partner with the Federal Government to complete the Mambilla Power Project.

President Obasanjo told Dr Agunloye to bring the proposal to the Federal Executive Council for approval.

President Obasanjo said that Dr Agunloye never brought the proposal to FEC.

However, when the Buhari Administration wanted to partner with the Chinese to complete the project, they discovered that they were sued by a company that claimed that the Federal Government breached an agreement to complete the project. The company claimed that President Obasanjo and Dr Agunloye agreed that it would complete the project, but the FG reneged on the agreement. The company was thus suing the Federal Government for compensation.

President Obasanjo said that he never approved any such agreement and that his last instruction to was that Dr Agunloye should bring the proposal to the FEC.

The Mambilla Power Project has thus been grounded because of that dispute.

Indeed, the last national duty of President Buhari was to testify at the arbitration hearing in Paris over the dispute.

Obapluto:
I have never used techno,Infinix or any other.. GP,Sam or iPhone! Best

Boldliteagency:
THE BOLD LITE AGENCY

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Winnerrrr:
i’ve been indulging in this despicable act since i was a teenager and i just turned 25 this year but i was able to quit completely from the root, currently, i have zero urges and i can stay with myself as long as i want without reaching out for it.

FIND A GIRL YOU REALLY LOVE (NOT LIMERENCE OR INFATUATION)

find a girl that motivate you to become a better man, make sure she is worth it (vet and observe her before you commit) also make sure it is mutual.

A girl will change you and make you want to do better for yourself, before i met my girl, i would goon and go to work or will do it the first thing in the money, i was always low energy and can’t keep a conversation going, what broke the camel back was one day, immediately i finished gooning she called me, even though she was not there i felt so guilty, i was like imagine being with a girl and you still watch porn and masturbating, is that the type of boyfriend you want to be.

i don’t know what happened but ever since that day i felt free and never had the urge to do it.

this can’t work with any girl, it has to be a girl you truly desire, not a lashing mate, the desire to be the best for her will overcome the desire to goon.

this is my own personal experience.

kenchop:
This is a direct result of years of weaponizing illiteracy, poverty, hopelessness, backwardness and religious extremism by the elite on their masses.

God will surely punish the leaders and their children.

tuoyoojo:
Tulumbu on the beat

See what people want us to vote in again

Truly I wonder what APC would use to campaign against


Abeg who has poster of APC when they were asking if we were okay with 216 naira to a dollar

Opposition have so many things to campaign with

Love800:
Its gratuity and pension the same thing?

Lithiumite:
My spouses father is a retired soldier and retired as a corporal......his monthly pension just got increased to 93k from 70k and he has been getting it regularly since last October.

So how can a level 10 civil servant say he is earning 74k,he should come out and tell us how much his gratuity was......i know someone who retired @grade level 12 as far back as 2010 and he got 12m in gratuity.

Mrkc:
How long did you date your spouse before getting married

ariesbull:
Nigeria’s Single-Motherhood Pattern: What the 2021 Data Shows — and Why No South-East State Appears in the Top 12

A 2021 data graphic attributed to StatiSense, based on Nigeria’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), highlights substantial differences among states in the proportion of children aged 0–17 living with their mother alone while their father is still alive. The underlying UNICEF/Nigeria MICS data examines children's living arrangements at state level.

The 12 states with the highest percentages

Rank State Percentage

1 Bayelsa 19.0%
2 Cross River 14.4%
3 Edo 14.3%
4 Ekiti 13.7%
5 Ondo 13.5%
6 Delta 12.8%
7 Osun 11.7%
8 Akwa Ibom 10.5%
9 Oyo 9.9%
10 Kogi 9.7%
11 Rivers 9.4%
12 Ogun 8.5%


The striking feature is the regional concentration: six of the 12 states are in the South-South, five are in the South-West, and one is in the North-Central. No South-East state appears in the top 12.

Why is the South-East absent?

The first point is important: the graphic does not prove that South-Eastern states have no single mothers. It only shows that none of the five South-East states made this particular top-12 ranking.

There are several possible explanations, but they should be treated as hypotheses rather than established causes without additional research.

1. Stronger extended-family involvement

One possible factor is the traditional importance of extended-family structures in many South-Eastern communities. Where a father does not live continuously with the mother and children, grandparents, uncles, aunts and other relatives may provide support or accommodation. Consequently, a child may not necessarily be classified as living with the mother alone.

2. Migration and household arrangements

Economic migration can separate parents and children geographically. The MICS data itself demonstrates that children's living arrangements are affected by parents living elsewhere, rather than simply by whether parents are married or divorced.

3. Marriage and family norms

Differences in marriage patterns, family expectations and social attitudes could also influence the proportion of children living with only their mothers. However, it would be inappropriate to conclude from this table alone that one region has "better" families or that another has more irresponsible fathers.

4. The statistic is narrower than the phrase "single mother" suggests

This is perhaps the most important caveat.

The statistic shown is essentially about children living with their mother alone when the father is alive. That is not identical to measuring all single mothers, unmarried mothers, divorced women, widows or separated women.

For example, a child whose father is alive but lives elsewhere may fall into a particular living-arrangement category, while a child whose father has died represents a different category. UNICEF's MICS tables explicitly distinguish these circumstances.

A particularly interesting regional observation

The data becomes more intriguing when viewed geographically.

South-South:
Bayelsa 19%, Cross River 14.4%, Delta 12.8%, Akwa Ibom 10.5%, Rivers 9.4%

South-West:
Edo 14.3%, Ekiti 13.7%, Ondo 13.5%, Osun 11.7%, Oyo 9.9%, Ogun 8.5%

North-Central:
Kogi 9.7%

South-East:
No state in the top 12.

That concentration raises a legitimate sociological question: what distinguishes family and household structures in the South-East from those in the states appearing at the top of this particular indicator?

But the answer cannot responsibly be reduced to culture alone. Household composition is influenced by migration, employment, marriage patterns, economic circumstances, parental residence and extended-family arrangements, among other factors.

One important warning about interpreting the graphic

The image circulating online should not be interpreted as a ranking of "bad mothers," "irresponsible fathers," or the morality of different regions. It is a child living-arrangement statistic.

Indeed, UNICEF's national MICS results show that children's living arrangements vary considerably by factors such as age, urban/rural residence and household characteristics.

The more interesting story is therefore not simply "which state has the most single mothers?" but why children's living arrangements differ so markedly across Nigeria.

Bottom line: Bayelsa stands out at 19%, considerably above the 12th-ranked Ogun at 8.5%. The absence of all five South-East states from the top 12 is notable, but the available table alone cannot establish why. It provides a strong basis for further investigation—not a definitive verdict on regional family culture.

Studentcosmos:
I was arranging some old books yesterday and found a notebook from about three years ago.
It was full of sermon notes.

As I read through them, I couldn't believe how much God had taught me that I had completely forgotten.
It also made me realise something else.

Over the years, I've written notes in different notebooks, saved Bible verses on my phone, bookmarked sermons on YouTube, sent messages to myself on WhatsApp and even used Google Keep.

Everything is scattered.

I'm beginning to think that taking notes is not really the problem. Keeping them organised is.
So I'm curious...

How do you keep your sermon notes?

- Traditional notebook?
- Bible with handwritten notes?
- Notes app on your phone?
- Voice recordings?
- Dedicated Bible journaling app?
- Or do you simply trust your memory?

Personally, I'm trying to move towards keeping everything in one place because I've realised God often reminds us of things He spoke months or even years ago.

I'd really like to hear what has worked for other Christians.

EMMACHI1:
Everyone checks the baby after birth.

No one checks the mother for injuries.

Childbirth is not just pain. For many mothers, it is an injury.

Your perineum can tear. Your pelvic floor can weaken. Your back can ache for months where the epidural went in. Your wrist can throb from holding your baby — they even call it “mother’s thumb.” Your nipples can crack and bleed.

And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.

We call it “recovery” but it is really “wound healing” while you are awake all night keeping another human alive.

If you just gave birth and you feel broken, sore, leaking, or not like yourself — you are not weak. You are injured and healing at the same time.

Rest is not laziness. Asking for help is not complaining.

You just did one of the hardest physical events a human body can do. Give yourself the same grace you give your newborn.

If you're a mother reply in the comments section.

owobokiri:
Is he a toddler?
You are seriously ill. You are a doctor. You are well aware of your pre conditions. You know the consequences of not taking actions and you kept hoping they will give you the leave to go take care of yourse?? In Nigeria??
Sorry, he has to share in the blame.
If I am a doctor in Nigeria, and I know my life is in danger if I don't quickly get a sick leave to treat myself, I am crashing out... Big time too!

Gotocourt:
Something wey you go waka go house. You don't need any aneeemal approval, just jazz out. Bounce, died for nothing.

Bogoshipo2:
It is because the woman makes money and you men have the audacity to cheat in top of her money. That will always lead to serious disrespect

adamkkk:
This generalisation is demeaning.

That you have a bad woman doesn't make other women bad.


There are women that are well trained and will baff u with adoration even as they progress in life.

In some situations, the woman will boast u till u start making it. Your growth will be totally the handiwork of the woman.




Many of u here are enemies of progress. U don't want Ur own wife to progress because of fear of imaginary domination. Some men even go as far as using juju against their own wife.

Emeskhalifa:
See how they are collaborating at the top ba?

But one uncle or aunty with Pencil camry and 3m for bank account go dey form I don't need anyone's help

HacheNoire:
Since 2014?

Our judiciary needs to do more! This is uncalled for!

No way the criminal shouldn’t have been celebrating his 10th anniversary in hell.

Olukat:
This report is so shallow. Please place how much has been expended on projects and the value of such projects

Anuoluwa12345:
? Anyone??

Robertgreene1:
Lol, this same Kuwait that l was working for one guy like that as a travel agent. Intrestingly enough, l met the guy on this very forum and l was getting clients for him from this forum as well and making my money. The guy even offered to sponsor me to Kuwait. But the day l lost my appetite both for the job and relocating over there was the day l researched deeply about the place and discovered that they still use the "Kafala" sponsorship system just like most Arab countries, which basically means that you're legally bonded to the person/company that sponsored you to the country. In other words, you're the legal modern slave of the person/company that sponsored you to the country, cus you can't get a job, or change job or even leave the country without that person/company's approval. Omo, na that very day l comot my hand and mind for anything wey concern Kuwait. I don't even work for the guy anymore sef cus my conscience no gree me again to continue lieing to the unsuspecting clients that were paying at least 2M for the visa processing. So my candid advice is this: Before you travel to any country, do your research about that place very very well to avoid stories that touches the heart and soul. And you see all those Arab and Gulf countries...Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia etc etc, don't even wish your worst enemy to travel to those countries to "hustle", talkmore of going there yourself, cus na modern day slavery dey wait for you over there!!!
All those ones over there that you see throwing money up and down, 95% of them are into drug trafficking, Yahoo, or Visa fraud. That Visa fraud of a thing is one underated and overlooked crime. But some niggas dey chop money for there pass Yahoo and drugs sef l swear. Working for that Kuwaiti based guy really opened my eyes on how it is very very easy to chop gullible Nigerians via Visa fraud l swear. A Visa fraudster can collect like 3M each from like 10,000 gullible Nigerians, then legitly sponsor like 50 of them abroad, so he can be using them for advertising that he's genuine, then chop the money of the rest of the remaining 9,950 Magas. You can now do the Math.
Those peeps no get joy at all, that's why you will always see them throwing money up and down in less than 3 years that they travelled abroad like say money dey grow for trees over there.
I remember one of my guys that travelled to Ukraine of all places, and in less than a year, he was already snapping pictures with White people and posting ads on Facebook, looking for Magas to sponsor abroad

Rhymesy:
I am currently dating two women. The one I love most just finished from Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, last year and she's currently serving. The other one just finished nursing science school. Both of them are unique in their own ways. At this point, I want to be serious in my life and stop playing games. Both of them have asked me to meet their parents, but I keep delaying the move just because of fear of making the wrong choice. I'm just confused. Nairalanders, waiting I go do

Refinedbeing:
This dude is the biggest clown and conspiracist I’ve ever known my whole life. I mean who told this clown the so called whites even care about his black a$$. Same Abacha he claimed was working for his people against the whites wishes died and there was jubilation all across his own country. I wonder how bad it can get to constantly delude oneself and still take pride in it. Like dude WTF.

Hundeyin need to seek help really. I know someday his conspiracist a$$ will still claim Seun, Mynd44, fergie001, and others are all CIA assets. Everyone on earth is a CIA asset except the modafvck3r. WTH