₦airaland Forum

Truckpusher:
Badeh should shut the hell up and deal with Boko Haram first before making silly noise.

I'm sure he understood clearly what it means for a nation to have two insurgent groups in two strategic parts of the country.

who told you they ever saw Boko haram as a bad thing? Have you forgotten "fighting boko is fighting the North" position of northern elite including Buhari? The bombing in the South will be a pound of flesh for GEJ daring to bomb boko. All these travels to Chad na show. Amnesty arrangements for boko is going on.

Goddex:
[size=15pt]Buhari and his wife are
Nigeria's biggest pretenders[/size]

Of course, in a country of sanctimonious pretenders, the president n C-in-C should also be Pretender-in-Chief. Na normal thing.

justi4jesu:
Hmmm okay oh, only if they taught "reasonable forming" as a course in school, maybe we would have known berra.

. Hahahaha haha. Reasonable Forming 101 to 505. Na full course o. You must be thinking " all these guys sef, can a babe ever get anything right?". Nor worry dear, middle ground tends to work often. How DB na? J'espere qu'elle est magnique! I keep postponing breezing over to visit.

justi4jesu:
If girls do shakara, she is forming

If she doesn't do shakara, she is being cheap.

What do men really want

Justie dear, reasonable forming. Some overdo it. And lose out often. If she wasn't a celeb, the guy might never have seen her again

Caseless:
na typo error.

Don't mind him. You know how APC are always angry and specialise in personal insults. Being in power won't stop that. I posted that stuff of busy night shift. With our professor popping into the ward at anytime. Even oyinbo wey get their English, I still spot errors in the notes they write up everyday. Doesn't stop some getting Nobel Prize nomination or getting honours from the Queen.

handie:
Do I need reply someone who can't even spell coonstructive? Lemme talk to you. whenever GEJ got it right, the opposition lauded it and asked for more. U people never see anything good in the positive strides PMB has taken. Well, guess what? Keep being negative.... It doesn't change d fact that things will get better. Only folks living in denial like u will miss out. As for opposition in the future, let's see how u recover power after we've made a positive impact in the country

. Hahahaha. So in ur entire life, you have never made any error spelling anything. Only in 9ja do people take basic errors as a big deal. Sorry, i'm not waiting for any leader to do anything. 30 years ago, Buhari nearly condemned the family to economic difficulty through civil service sacking. Luckily was just completing his doctorate and managed to securing university lecturing job as the dictator was kicked out. Hahaha.

Mamaflex:
This government need honest people.

. In places where ethics has a meaning, an umpire in recent poll would never even contemplate an appointment from the polls winner, outside the current job. Anything goes in 9ja. No wonder we're getting nowhere.

winnieberry:
Helloo am an intovert by nature ,quiet love been indoors watching tv reading novels browse with my phone rather than chat with people.it gives people a wrong steroetype of me to them am wicked oor lack sympathy becos I hardly call or chat with people,even they collect my number.My family and friends nag me a lot E.g am not sociable,I don't go out its bad for a girl hw will toasters or my Future husband find me. It hurts me at times why can't people let me be for who I am cmon everyone can't be d same.To them am too secretive and sensitive,I choose to be secretive cos people can't just keep secrets , u tell smone somting .d nxt ting every else knows wat u told them.A lot of people tink am probably suffering frm insecurity,inferirity complex ,lowself esteem,Hell no .Pls anything wrong with been an introvert?

The world of today seems designed for those who talk anyhow, spread ignorance without batting an eye and can gossip about almost anybody & anything. All those destructive small talk and politics, especially in the office.

If you're the quiet type, people cannot read you or understand you easily. And some people are uncomfortable with that. People like to weigh you up easily and shove you in a cupboard. With introverts, people cannot do so easily.

But just enjoy their anxiety and speculations. Of course it's good to have some quality friends. Sadly people seem to cherish having many "friends" and think that's popularity. When in fact so-called friends are "Come-And-Chop" or fair weather mates. To me, it seems like such "popular" people need approval from many people and cannot be on their own.

Focus on your dreams, do your own thing, cherish the quality friends you have and enjoy your life.

handie:
Wow! Is this really FireFire? If only ur co travellers(Barcanista, Oremussanctus and TemiTemi) can be this patriotic. Barcanista's own. Surprises me most. He doesn't want anything positive to happen in Buhari's administration. He's always criticising and always negative all the while forgetting that Buhari's failure is a Nigerian failure. Nigeria first before any partisan interest. God Bless Nigeria

And GEJ's "failure" (due mostly to unpatriotic propagandist, fifth columnists, bad belle & Boko sponsors) was just GEJ's failure only, bah?
Wow!
I wish people knew/admitted that supporting GEJ to at least complete his time in office was in 9ja's interest.

APC are having a taste of the many distractions, betrayals and intrigues that come with power.

Maybe after their regime, they will make a better, contructive opposition in the future.

You mean the same Principal that only she "waka come" see our dear Dame Peypey? Chai, diaris really God o!

Things dey happen for this our zoo of a nation. Even a zoologist had difficulties managing it.

Let's see how well a cattle herder will do.

The Czeckoslovakia scenario would actually be best, if things don't improve.

This forceful marriage seems very uncertain.

A proper federal system would address many things BUT the beneficiaries (from all tribes/zones) seem to have no appetite to change status quo.

NOW, many younger Igbo generations are suddenly yearning for Biafra, the same generations that have travelled wide, intermarried, lived, schooled, done NYSC and worked outside the SE.

One major reason is that the Civil/Biafra war seems a taboo. There is no national discourse about it. So various narratives have arisen, your preference depends on where your sympathies lie.
We see how arguably young and educated people here on NL taunt each other with Biafra & Ojukwu stories & jokes.

We're still very far away from reconciliation. I doubt if silence is the best way forward.

Mexense:
I don't get these appointments though. If you are trying to appoint professionals for executive positions I'm guessing then do just that.

These media guys are trained journalists. Journalists cannot manoeuvre and manipulate information. . .well Nigerian journalists. This is the forte of PR guru's. Ask Tony Blaire!

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In 9ja, PR seems underdeveloped. A seasoned journalist imbued with impartiality (very few in 9ja by the way) are hardly the best in this kind of job.

PR professionals are far better spin doctors, who can read the mood of a nation at critical times and expertly diseminate information timely.

But since 1999, presidential spokesmen have been more of attack dogs. Most in the zeal to impress, didn't know when to keep quiet or when to avoid mudslinging.

Mexense:
I don't get these appointments though. If you are trying to appoint professionals for executive positions I'm guessing then do just that.

These media guys are trained journalists. Journalists cannot manoeuvre and manipulate information. . .well Nigerian journalists. This is the forte of PR guru's. Ask Tony Blaire!

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In 9ja, PR seems underdeveloped. A seasoned journalist imbued with impartiality (very few in 9ja by the way) are hardly the best in this kind of job.

PR professionals are far better spin doctors, who can read the mood of a nation at critical times and expertly diseminate information timely.

But since 1999, Presidential spokesmen have been more of attack dogs. Most didn't know when to keep quite or when to avoid mudslinging.

Olaone1:
Canada?

Some peeps close to me want me to come over but Ola is not interested

I am chillin' real good here

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Lol.

SUBMARINE:
Some electorates wey shout CHANGE are about to cry.

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Hahaha.

If you enlisted in civil service even just after GMB was already overthrown, you may now have to go.

I told them how GMB sacked civil servants then, including relatives, they didn't want to hear. They said he would create jobs. Lol.

GMB wants to continue sacking where he stopped last time. Hahaha.

Teempakguy:
hahahah
But you forget, science originated from the black man nah. For example, we are the first to start learning simultaneous equations, quadratic equations, and geometric formulas. In we are the ones the invented Pythagoras theorem.

We can still take back out glory. Don't you think?

I think science is too factual. It's empirical, based on evidence and requires a certain intellectual depth. It tasks the mind a lot more. It is also not as interesting or entertaining like calling GEJ names and making wild speculations.

Many scientists may not even be registered here, but read some stuff and leave.
Our economic system is not encouraging too. If engineers, biochemists, pharmacists, mathematicians have to look for banking jobs anyway, why bother?

The binary system used in computing today has long been used by Ifa priests for divination, for millennia, some of the oldest wooden mathematical instruments possibly used in calculating the calendar, menstrual cycle or both, were discovered in central Africa. The ancient pyramid builders of Nubia, mostly likely the origins of the Luxor/Giza pyramids definitely used mathematical knowledge in doing so.

Google.

But didn't register for years.

Only took Nairaland seriously after Seun got rid of Nairalist. Despite many posts on NL asking why, Seun has kept a deafening silence.

#BringBackOurNAIRALIST.

Since Seun won't tell us what happened to Nairalist, maybe he cashed in to allow competitors take the space.

Hope it's not anti-competition things o.

When you don't get explanation, speculations follow.

Lord of mercy.

ok

Na wa o. Raising kids in diaspora is not easy. The absence of family/social support system is a big issue. Trying to be strict on kids in a permissive environment is tricky.

How much?

debosalau:
Best brooder box ever, 50,birds capacity

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Nice idea.

Location?
Registered?

Na wa o.

Something has gone wrong seriously.

We're caught between tradition & western system that we don't actually know how to run properly.

Double wahala.

Neither traditional authority nor state authorities seem to be in control.
A state of flux.

Things Fall Apart come to mind.

Pavore9:
Cannibals! Truth be told, such shrines are all across the country no region exempted because every tribe has its good people likewise evil minded ones! lt would help if locals can tip off because human lives are being wasted on a daily basis in forests across the country!

Fact is Nigerians are superstitious people. Pagans by nature even. Lots of people still believe in ghosts, witches, wizards, enemies etc.

That is why churches are everywhere in 9ja. Cashing in on superstition.

Most people go to church to get wealth/breakthrough, kill enemy, etc. Others go to shrines. Many hover in between.

Shymm3x:
Those were hunting guns, not the type of guns the Europeans had. What about gunpowder? And they had more than enough African troops in West Africa to get the job done. Yes, it probably would've been more difficult - but they would've done the job.

Haiti was a different kettle of fish entirely. That was a long battle and the fact that the French and Spanish/Portuguese never got along didn't help. However, Haiti was saddled with debts it's yet to fully pay to date, by the world powers, as a result of that rebellion.

No chance, mate - cannons and gun powder changed the game. And they had willing African tools to use to fight their battles, just as we've loads of Uncle Toms and Aunt Tomasinas today selling the black race out. We're a fvcked up race of people!

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Sure they'd still have massive advantage. Are you saying we would have no ability to make gunpowder? Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese by the way. At that point in history (1890s), the Chinese, even Japanese were still considered rather primitive by the West.

You forget that those "hunting guns" helped Benin win many wars and expand the kingdom. Raw materials were a challenge but skilful people hat kept improving their techniques was never a challenge.

Shymm3x:
Lmao @ history might be different

Nothing would've changed against those cannons. Don't forget that most of their infantry men were also blacks with hez on, from other West African countries, and the Caribbean. So they had more than enough supply of troops - and the cannons. Add guns to it.

What if we had our own home made cannons that we could produce in large numbers? So that before they deploy more from UK and other colonies, they are annihilated. Remember Haiti won the War against France, possibly the dominant military power beside Britain then.

Guns were being made locally in Benin, copying European ones.

Many Kingdoms with excellent metal workers like Benin, Ife, Oyo, Owo, were more than capable of replicating cannons, if they had one to copy.

Remember, it's about UK losing too many troops and military resources to stir discontent in parliament. That leads to abandonment of certain missions, at least temporarily, and that could have been overtaken by World War 1 events.

geesampower:
Military might is very critical to human freedom. Imagine if our fore-fathers had a superior military might, would able bodied black men's dignity be this trampled?
Hope we don't pay dearly for our technological backwardness in future again.
If we must get it right we most first get leadership with vision.
China Used to be threatened by the Mongolians, but today mongolia is one of the most underdeveloped countries while China is one of the most Advanced in the world. Why? Leadership.

Until we get leaders who have sense of pride for their people and not crawl to other countries with cap in hands for everything we are going no where.
China's revolution started with Mou restoring the pride of his people and true industrial independence.
People say to solve corruption it must start with everybody. This is a lie our leadership sold to us in diverting responsibility from themselves and we bought it. Leadership sets the direction for the people.
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No military power, no power. Simple.
We saw that in Benin Empire. The last main barrier to amalgamation. Months of guerilla war with the British was not enough to stop the British.
With that defeat, colonisation was complete.

Imagine we had a more advanced military, linking up with Oyo empire and Opobo, Owo and other organised kingdoms/chiefdoms in the South to resist. History might be different today.

ok

Truckpusher:
At ya age you still do not understand that all the rallying and lobbying is just for their own nations interest, then I pity your unborn generations for having such a dummy in-waiting that would pass on such a deficient gene to them. And may I also remind you that even if Abacha should be made Nigerian President today , the same West and the East will rally around him ,after all it's time to feed off Africa without using a single whip or cane once a Fulani man has power.

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You know how these countries like to hang around you when they think you're mumu. They want to cheat you before your eyes open in office.

Since 30 years out of govt, he might be a bit rusty. Such as believing that Anfela Michelle is President & C-in-C of Western Germany.