₦airaland Forum

Everyone knows that Osinbajo is a good brilliant man.

But in 9ja a brilliant person can be caged by politics and our unworkable system. Making them largely redundant.

samuk:
Benin also bears Amadi and Okoro

Okoro in Benin even means boy but most commonly used as Prince. Son of the Oba.

Okoro N'okhua is crown prince. Before he is invested as Edaiken.

Amadi is a common name. Both are still regular surnames in Benin.

MartinsD12:
Listen we are the architect of our problems, this rape keep happening everyday in this country why not government pass a bill for rape which should be death by firing squad until we get a bill to proposes a death penalty as a consequence for rape this barbaric and evil atrocities has repeatedly continued can't Nigerians demand for capital punishment for rapists

They won't because even big men rape.
It's not considered a serious crime by many of our men. Unlike Western countries where only murder is more serious than rape. Violent rape will get you life sentence in several Western countries.

Horrible. RIP.

brunxy:
you re fine girl.!!

See method.

Esseite:
That was a big insult to Nigeria...you cant allow a nation carry its citizens directly, but would rather another African country carries its citizens for it at a higher cost...

Real see finish..

Look let's be honest. Does Nigeria have a proper Airline that flies our national flag? No!

Others rubbish us because of our lack of seriousness. That is why they allowed Ethiopian Airlines with a good track record to do it.

Why has the rep not constantly worry the authorities to support a national carrier?

Is it the same Sirika that blew million dollars on audio Air Nigeria that the reps are praising?

If they ban UK and Canadian airlines from landing, which airlines will they be taking to get medical treatment abroad?

It hardly matters if the money goes to France, Germany or US Airlines. Still our loss as we have no decent airline of our own. Others airlines will just hike prices on 9ja routes. Simple.

Good effort.

salford1:
I still remember those jabs from my kindergarten school days with the scar left on my left arm . Who knows, one could have ended up with polio or some deadly disease.

My grandad's from both maternal and paternal died from small pox in the 1940s and 1950s.
The World Health Organization (WHO) championed a campaign which eventually led to the complete eradication of smallpox from Nigeria in 1980.

Sadly not many have the awareness of how international bodies saved many lives. Trump is only angry over the rise of China. China has a new self confidence after being dismissed as primitive yellow monkeys in the past.

The Chinese have admirably earned their spurs. If we Africans were a bit more serious, we would be like China now forming another power block.

salford1:
I am just gonna leave this here and walk away from this thread.

Yep. And many of them would have died before the age of 5 or be maimed if not for UNICEF free jabs including TB, Polio, measles , Rubella and others.

You see why those against Africa always find abundant Africans to use against us.

ednut1:
By Lord Lugard:



""In character and temperament" wrote Lord Lugard, "the
typical African of this race-type is a happy,
thriftless, excitable person. Lacking in self control,
discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and
naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with
little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving
weapons as an oriental loves jewelry. His thoughts are
concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment,
and he suffers little from the apprehension for the
future, or grief for the past.



His mind is far nearer to
the animal world than the that of the European or
Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals placidity
and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has
reached. Through the ages the African appears to have
evolved no organized religious creed, and though some
tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense
seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more
often to take the form of a vague dread of the
supernatural".

He lacks the power of organization, and is
conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of
men or business. He loves the display of power, but
fails to realize its responsibility ....he will work
hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the
courage of the fighting animal -an instinct rather than
a moral virtue......In brief, the virtues and defects
of this race-type are those of attractive children,
whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as
to an older and wiser superior and without
envy.......Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as
those most characteristic of the African native are his
lack of apprehension and his ability to visualize the
future"

Pg 70 of The Dual Mandate by F. D. Lugard 1926


The characteristics noted by lugard are still happening today. The black race everywhere have no unity or ability to think about the future. After all the neo colonialism(imf loans, cia interference and western manipulations) , african nations have still gone to enter China loan trap. Just take a look at Liberia where some African Americans slaves were resettled. They began to discriminate against the indigenes and we all saw the wars that became of it. Even in the USA once black Americans hear your have an African name they begin to discriminate against africans. All over the world black nations in african and those of majority slave descendants (Jamaica, haiti and others) are suffering from same thing. As far as am concerned the black race does not have the capacity or drive to be rich or make an impact

While some of his assertions maybe correct, many were coloured by his own prejudices.

Many African societies were pretty well organised. Without any contact with Europeans or Asians.

The Romans wrote worse about other Europeans that they dismissed as Barbarians.

Nubians were black and went to conquer Egypt and ruled as black Pharaohs. Something Europeans of 1926 when Lugard wrote would have archeologically dismissed.

About same time Lugard was writing, Hitler dismissed Jews as an inferior race. An ancient people with a superior history of civilization than the Germans. Today Jews are the richest and most influential people per head in the world.

Over 100 years before Lugard wrote, Toussaint L'Ouverture led Haitians to defeat the French.

Haitians worked hard to win and their incentive was freedom. Which was and is priceless.

Remember that until about 40 years ago, maybe only 25% of Africans were educated in Western terms. It affected how we processed our history.

India alone has more deities than Africa. They were mostly polytheistic too. Not just pantheistic.

It's not so much how others define you that matter. It's what we do with ourselves.
Currently we practice a political system alien to us. We have other people's religions.
These are forms of colonialism that most Africans have not even realised.

abbey621:
My friend shut the f*ck up, people have a right to support whomever they choose, even Christ defended a prostitute so what's your problem?

You just confirmed my point that Trump supporters are mostly weird people. Your gutter language shows it.

How does Jesus forgiving a prostitute equate to Trump that has no regard for black lives? Jesus spared a sinner's life and that's equal to Trump recommending shooting looters (as much as we all condemn looting) in your "Solomonic" wisdom?

Clearly, like Trump, his supporters are confused truth-bending lots.

Who says you cannot support even the devil if you want? Nobody is stopping you. But I just describe you lot.

ethicallyright:
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You bloody liar and hypocrite. You have no morality to call the name of almighty God.

You are advising a woman whose husband obviously care but you support openly Do.nald TR.ump who cheated with an IndecentStar while his wife was nursing his little baby.

If you want to preach leave politics. I was disappointed that you preach Christ and still say that it's right for a President to order for his people to be shot at sight.
Stop spamming Nairaland please. Stick to politics!

Trump supporters are hypocrites. Many may even have personality issues that attract them to bigots, megalomaniacs, dictators and such people. If you check most will also support conspiracy theories. Lovers of Kim Jung-un and Vlad Putin.

Those are the type of people. And all are basically right wing masquerading as Christians. Like those holding Bible in one hand and hanging freedom-seeking slaves with another. Back in the days. Blacks among them are usually self-loathers. They hate being black inwardly.

Subconsciously anything that will harm fellow blacks, they'll support it. Never mind if they wear Buba/Soro,/Isiagwu/walking stick or native beads and hats and form proud Igbo/Yoruba/Benin/Tiv/Izon/Berom or whatever.

1stola:

But according to some people who would prefer not to believe because it contradicts with the stories they read in their story books,
THE FIRST CREATION WAS A MAN
HE WAS CREATED ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO..

I'm not an atheist but I'm very sure that you're the CONFUSED one.

I guess you also believed in the
-Noah's ark story
- Tower of babble
- And also how Satan took Jesus to mount Everest and showed him the WHOLE WORLD and ALL the riches in it....

And that person you quoted will also say he's educated o.

While people cannot make religion a personal thing and objectively look at science is beyond me. Imagine if we relied on these Bible "mis-understanders" parading as Christians, there will be no vaccines. And the best brains that developed planes, spacecraft, industrial machines, cars, GSM/Iphone, Microsoft, Google, medicines/surgical procedures and more might never have survived childhood killer diseases.

The yellow pawpaw lady for reason with the guy na. eating black soup at times is reasonable after too much ofe Owerri.

The yellow pawpaw get some sense sha.

If na some Mumunatu ladies, they will pour the dark lady soup. And the dark lady may not be aware that he already has a chick.

Lesson to bleachers. Having a yellow skin won't stop a Nigga cheating if that's his habit. Not saying the lady in this case bleached.

Indians and Nigerians are twins separated at birth.

When think you have heard it all, you hear certain things happening in India. Same with Nigeria.
The word absurd was specially invented for these coubtries.

But if those monkeys get infected and Coro decides to vex do some magic. Oh boy, let's not imagine the kind of virus it could become.

Wickedfact:
Why don't you move in with your father and brothers?

Or you've given up on making your own money in your life?

Ehmm...dude are you asking how much she likes the men you mentioned above in her life if they are not famous?

There is one big thing called thing called hypocrisy.

As in call call not rich family members best dad and best brother in the world on their birthdays. Yet show disdain for other not do rich men out there.
Your average father and brothers are good enough for other people's daughters. But if they were not related they won't be good enough.

Women sha.

wolfenstein:
Bro I understand what u saying, but stigmatise or not we need to know what is actually going on. I saw someone talking about medical ethics, USA and BRITAIN that is very secretive show us footage of what is going on and they have a dedicated channel that gives update of what's going on. This life we live has gotten to a stage where we see to believe, forget stigmatisation u talking about, let's assume u know that someone in ur area has it, atleast u would be more cautious. If they told u vampires exist would u believe? No. U would atleast wanna see someone who has it so u can watch the way u move around . I believe covid19 exists but those that don't, show them so they believe too and they take precautions measures. They say we have over 200 deaths, yet we don't even know where d bodies are buried. So if the FG shows us ppl that are dead, will the dead also b stigmatised?

Journalists go to places and ask people for their consent to appear on TV. Patients know the public interest and benefit of what journalists are trying to put out there. But we are generally not that enlightened as a society.

In 9ja do our journalists have time for that?
In the West ambulances are everywhere. Conveying people to hospitals or the dead to mortuaries. Again journalists are quick to react to news and show pics and videos ethically.

Do we routinely see ambulances picking up the sick from their homes? No.

We have no system or institutions that work properly. So do not expect ours to work.

What we see on Western TV are not govt issued pictures but the media doing their work correctly.

wolfenstein:
Bro I understand what u saying, but stigmatise or not we need to know what is actually going on. I saw someone talking about medical ethics, USA and BRITAIN that is very secretive show us footage of what is going on and they have a dedicated channel that gives update of what's going on. This life we live has gotten to a stage where we see to believe, forget stigmatisation u talking about, let's assume u know that someone in ur area has it, atleast u would be more cautious. If they told u vampires exist would u believe? No. U would atleast wanna see someone who has it so u can watch the way u move around . I believe covid19 exists but those that don't, show them so they believe too and they take precautions measures. They say we have over 200 deaths, yet we don't even know where d bodies are buried. So if the FG shows us ppl that are dead, will the dead also b stigmatised?

Journalists go to places and ask people for their consent to appear on TV. Patients know the public interest and benefit of what journalists are trying to put out there. But we are generally not that enlightened as a society.

In 9ja do our journalists have time for that?
In the West ambulances are everywhere. Conveying people to hospitals or the dead to mortuaries. Again journalists are quick to react to news and show pics and videos ethically.

Do we routinely see ambulances picking up the sick from their homes? No.

We have no system or institutions that work properly. So do not expect ours to work.
.

RIP.

Exc2000:
what transformation, because for all i care i see non, in fact Abacha in that seat is economically sound than PDP even with all the embargo and economic sanctions he faced

if some of you had lost relatives due to accidents on PDP bad roads, and have them died in poor hospitals of PDP then you might understand why we curse them and their supporters daily

Abacha: So sound his loot are still being fought in court abroad since 1999.
If I didn't witness Buhari in 1983 I would believe all the fairy tales bandied about his regime now too.

Running a dictatorship lootocratic junta government by Abacha can never be compared to building democratic institutions that OBJ had to begin afresh.

Chekwume16:
You lack the capacity of being objective and it is quite unfortunate. Everything is not partisan. At your age in life you should be able to reason constructively though this is lacking. The PDP of yesterday is the APC of today. Nigeria has no credible politician so wake up boy and stop making embarrassing comments. Your future is at stake that is if you have any.

You think many people can think or speak objectively?

Anyone who was old enough will know how Nigeria transformed between 1999 and 2015 despite the shortcomings of PDP. But many are very young people and they just go with the flow of politics and sentiments on tribal, religious or follow-follow basis.

Hadsty23:
IF PICTURES, VIDEO ARE NOT SHOWN WHAT MAKES US BELIEVED IN THE OTHER COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST FIGURES. WHY ARENT OUR NEWS STATIONS ESP THE TVs NOT COVERING IT FOR US TO SEE IT LIVE LIKE OTHERS COUNTRY DO.

YES WE BELIEVE THERE IS THIS VIRUS BUT DID NOT ACCEPT THAT FIGURES

Dude, would you want your pics/video or those of your loved ones all over the media or TV channels if in that situation? Have you forgotten how we Africans crudely stigmatize people? Many people in Nigeria won't even allow others know they have asthma. They leave home without their inhaler pump, risking their lives instead of boyfriend/girlfriend or friends seeing them with the pump.

Yes, even so-called educated people consider those with illnesses as walking dead. People break up with boyfriends/girlfriends over asthma.

Like "abeg, make she nor come kpeme for my bed one day, I nor do again".

Much less Covid-19.

Fuckingmallam45:
Hope you and your family have been tested? Because we cannot be screaming under testing everyday, yet you refuse to turn in your family concluding the ones in your village for testing. As a good citizen, please I want you to lead by example I promise you that we the rest will follow suit , by doing so, we will be able to to test over 50k everyday which is a welcome development by you. Confused people everywhere.

What's the big deal about testing? Should anyone I know display symptoms, I'd encourage them to go. My people are not people without own will to be turned in. It's still voluntary.

I think it's idiotic to have symptoms or get the easy opportunity to get tested and refuse (no offence).

We should have mobile testing vehicles/vans in highly populated or areas mapped to have high Covid-19 cases. Not rely on disastrous, discouraging and frustrating bureaucratic ways we do things in Nigeria to access testing. Especially as we were roughly a month behind Europe in the pandemic.

The onus is on the authorities to access reasonably easy considering the lock down.

I do not know where people without symptoms/contact with an infected person can just turn up for tests.

boookworm:
We're not doing much test and people are not falling sick or dying mysteriously. You should be thankful for that instead of calling for more tests in a bid to see the figures skyrocket

Dude, death rate is high in 9ja anyway. The number of deaths I have heard of since the past few weeks were suspiciously high.Compared to last year. Most obviously without a death certificate or an autopsy.

boookworm:
We're not doing much test and people are not falling sick or dying mysteriously. You should be thankful for that instead of calling for more tests in a bid to see the figures skyrocket

Dude, death rate is high in 9ja anyway. The number of deaths H ave heard

boookworm:
FTC.

Just 182? Alright.

Meanwhile those people who actually agreed with Melinda Gate's prediction are grossly disappointed that we've not started reporting 5k cases per day and they are the ones screaming "undertesting" meanwhile they've not given themselves and families up for testing. Bloody wicked and hypocritical people, you'll continue to get these disappointments till you come to your senses and realize that corona is not spreading and can't harm Nigerians the way the media has painted it.

I can't take u seriously if u keep believing that we have up to 8k cases.

Nigeria with the population size should be doing minimum 100k tests daily. We have not even managed 50k in total yet.

Extrapolate the positives from under 50k on 200 million people. That will give a better idea. Albeit crudely.

Early lock down obviously helped.

But despite our low testing capacity, it's still rising.

thesicilian:
Gone are the days when Nigerian footballers were household names.

We just don't have many top quality players nowadays.

Salatavor:
I need two units. I hope these are for sales and they are not priced above 5M per unit

Kikikikiki.

If you get anything there below 15 to 20M you will be lucky. It's not for the average person.

Wickedfact:
Not only second world war, na Civil war. Useless wailer.

But be honest. Fan blade planes in this day and age?
Nigeria should be making this kind of plane by now. At least we will say na our own product.

Sure previous govt failed in that respect too but must we continue like that? Isn't to do better what this govt promised?

900warriorz:
Na sense of hearing I loose oo....the thing dey funny.

You know 9ja dey turn everything into joke.
Some will soon say he put leg for fire the thing nor pain am.
Somebody knife am cutlass. Mba, e nor enter.
Na part of Coro symptoms.

Country wey python swallow millions, dem nor go take anything serious.

VaselineCrew:
Yet people will say Nigeria’s strength is its population.

How can your strength be an undereducated population?

One even argued with me here on Nairaland last week that population has never been a problem to any country. That even Germany is even encouraging foreigners to come and have kids.

So you wonder if a country that has to plan like Nigeria does not already have a BIG problem.

With Boko Haram, kidnappers, herdsmen, armed robbers, cultists and ritual killers from primary school to university and everywhere. All due to population growth that we cannot afford.

How anyone can compare us with Germany that plan meticulously and assess need for human resource short, medium and long term is beyond me.