₦airaland Forum

LeoDeKing:
Is Timaya not a hooligan?

Even 97% of his songs are about "successes" from being a tout and hooligan.

Not true

While he is no Nosa or Nathiel Bassey, he often sings of his struggles to make it as an artiste.
He is know to shout the word 'LEGAL' in most of his songs perhaps to signify the approach to success he endorses.

This is sad though.

mrvitalis:
Lmao ...ask any mathematician ... Russians , Chinese are the kings of mathematics

I showed you that the US has more Mathematics medals.

https://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_fieldsxnation.htm

Field medals are the Nobel prize of mathematics.
The US also has the second highest medal count for Olympiad with china being the highest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_medal_count_at_International_Mathematical_Olympiad

However, Olympiads are not comparable to Field medals. As it turns out even the top Olympiad performers from other countries are desirous of studying in the US.

JohnBullMySon:
Russians are the king of what?

Can you even compare America's universities to Russia's universities in research output?

How many technology advancements have happened in Russia? What other benefits do they bring to the world currently asides from selling raw materials?

They only know how to build missiles and nuclear weapons so that they can brag about being a "world power". Even China is miles ahead of them.

Actually the Russians have some of the best pure scientists and Mathematicians for a 'closed' country.

Unfortunately they are miles behind the US.

mrvitalis:
Oga only Russia know how to float a space station in space ..no other people can .... they own the technology

Ask yourself why America would work with Russia if they can do it alone

Russians are the kings of mathematics

They are good but not the top.

See.

ken6488:
The world needs two supper powers to keep each other on check

Who's the other one?

MangekyoAlt:
The world? Apart from Europe and America, who else do you see crying about Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
South America is quiet. Africa has barely made any statement, same with Asia. Infact the supposed US allies in Asia, South Korea and Japan have both been coordinating themselves.
It is just Europe and USA that have been crying and ditching out sanctions. Russia spoiled all their plan which is why they're so triggered right now

It's easy to 'criticize' US & Europe. And truly they aren far from perfect.

However the hypocrisy that's not uncovered is that children of the Elite (including the political class) send their wards to school in US & Western Europe,
(Kim Jong Um did his secondary schooling in Switzerland) stash their assets in same places and usually when they are out of favour with the dictator government they also go to US & Europe.

The reverse however is rarely the case.
The children of political class/elite in US /Europe rarely (if ever) go to China or Russia or even North Korea to school. They hardt stash assets in these countries.

Summarily almost all strong American oppositionist live in America today. Where do the political oppositionists in China or Russia or North Korea live? In most cases they're either arrested, killed or flee the country. North Korea has no political oppositions.

While we crave for balance in power, The Russian government (as now) or China (with CCP) are hardly good replacements.

othermen:
When will you do a thread on refugees fleeing herdsmen attack, bandits and boko haram insurgents?

Boko Haram didn't start today.

To answer your question here's a thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/3072374/boko-haram-refugees-cameroon-adamawa

This is since 2016. Satisfied now?

The point is, this is the top focal news!
News pan out in cycles, surely another event would overshadow this conflict.
Hopefully there'll be a ceasefire.

Cheers.

JooEeL:
Go and learn what ruling by proxy means, mr man.

You explain.

To me Nigerians have led Nigeria for 60+ years.

JooEeL:
Mr man, what you have is mere flag independence. Open ur eyes.

What are the names of the British administrator (s) that have led us since 1960?

I suppose to you we would never gain independence right?

JooEeL:
Medical aid after looting our resources dry? Stealing N100 and giving back N10.

Africans and their way of thinking. Choi.

What resources have they stolen today?
Nigeria gained independence over 60 years ago.

How long do we keep lamenting over what they 'stole' from us.

What kind of thief really gives back 'some' of what they stole? Never seen such thieves before.

dasparrow:
Indeed there is a double standard when it comes to how the mainstream media reports the news. We all know that. When white people do things that are not good, they report it differently than when a Black person does it.

I guess what we can all agree on is that on 23/24 Feb 2021, Russia struck Ukraine first.

Is that a Fake News too? Or double standard?

ifytrik:
I think Africans are the most kind hearted and loving people in the world, the way we are praying for Ukraine has got me asking this questions
(1) If it was two Africa nations fighting each other will Ukrainians give a 4uck?
(2) Is this not the same Ukraine that the federal government once warned Nigerians not to travel to as they were killing black students?
Well I think Africans naturally have Golding hearts, even as am typing this, all my friends and I are seriously praying for Ukraine and I still don't know why.
Well thank God for the good news

Africans are not collectively better or worse [in character] than Ukrainians or the west.

Character should be judged individually not collectively. There are Ukrainian /western racists. There are also bad/Prejudiced Nigerians.

Over the last 3 decades the west have supplied Medical aid /assistance to Africa during several epidemics/pandemics. I am not sure bad people do that.

May God help us.

wordapostle:
American media house (CNN) is doing the thinking for many people especially Africans, Russia has done nothing compared to what America and UK has been doing for decades with no one condemning them.

Everyone is blaming Putin because America is using the power of media to propagate their sublima messages framing Putin as the evil guy.

If you really follow the news of Russia vs Ukraine from 1997 you will understand the present day happening.

Nevertheless, war may not be the only option for peace.

Rip to the dead
And safe trip back home to our African Brothers and sisters.

Let's assume without conceding that no one has criticized America for all its gaffes, does that make this ok? Are countries to take turns invading other countries ? We are talking about this specific case.

What you're doing is a simple whataboutism.

N.B.There are literally 10s of popular YouTube channels, stations and journalist that have criticized America. So your 'no one's is definitely untrue.

Mustiboy:
Putin keeps receiving from left and right.

Ain't no one took this many actions when the US and Israel were invading other nations, which resulted in the killings of helpless kids and women.

Now, Putin is simply protecting his country's interests which requires drastic measures, and the Western world is going haywire.

Confused lots.

Let's assume without conceding that the US & Israel did all you've alleged. What you're doing is whataboutism.

How does Putin protect his own country by firing missiles into another sovereign country unprovoked. Explain it. We are talking about this specific case not Israel or US.

Well God help us.

Afonjashapmouth:
The aim of the United State and its European allies is to peel Ukraine away from the Soviet orbit and incorporate it into the West. Their basic goal has been to make Ukraine a Western Bulwark on Russia's border and Russia is not having it.

There are three key strategies....

NATO Expansion: Since the Cold war ended starting with the Clinton's administration, America has been moving NATO eastward towards Russian border and the Russians have said that they will not have it.

European Union(E.U) Expansion: Its all about integrating Ukraine economically into the West just the way America is in the process of integrating or polling the Czech republic, Slovakia the Baltic states into the West and of course America is doing that with NATO as well, these are two sets of institutions, NATO military institution, the E.U and economic institution and the idea again is to take Ukraine, peel it away from Russia and make it part of the West.

Fostering Orange Revolution: Its all about promoting "Democracy" in Ukraine and other places and the United State runs around trying to topple regimes and put in place democratically elected regimes and we know how hard it is to be against promoting democracy because we all love it.

If you are Vladimir Putin or part of the leadership in Beijin, when the United State talks about democracy promotion that means toppling your regime, so you should not be surprise that they do not like that idea is Beijin and they don't like it in Moscow as well. The Chinese believes that the United State are behind the protest in Hong Kong, the truth is that the Chinese political elite do not like democracy because it is pro America or West.

Monroe Doctrine: The Western hemisphere is our backyard and nobody from a distant region is allowed or permitted to move military forces into the Western hemisphere. This was why America went crazy at the idea of the Soviets putting military forces in Cuba, "This is unacceptable nobody puts military forces in the Western hemisphere, that is what the Monroe Doctrine is all about"(Cuba Missile Crisis).

Can we imagine 20years from now, a powerful China forming a military alliance with Canada, Mexico and moving Chinese military forces unto Canadian and Mexican soil while America is just standing there and saying..there is no problem, we are all 20th and 21st century people worrying about Chinese forces, what's with these 19th century people like Putin worrying about..America will not say this, infact America will say "this ain't going to happen, we are going to maintain the Monroe doctrine with regards to China just as we did with the Soviet Union during the Cold war, so nobody should be surprised that the Russians were apoplectic about the idea of America putting Ukraine on the Western side of the ledger.

America is the biggest hypocrite with so much double standard. They use the power of the press via propaganda to justify their falsehood or half truth by portraying themselves as the defender of peace, truth and humanity.

Putin is dangerously patriotic, he is the best kind of man needed for Russian survival at this time of aggressive Western imperialism. However, if America was not playing double standard or accussing Russia of what they have successfully done in other places, I would have said Vladimir Putin is that man to be tamed so as to maintain global peace.

What America is doing right now was what France and Britain were pushing Poland then, promising Poland of help in case Germany attacks but did nothing to give Poland tanks and planes but when Germany attacked, they did nothing. And when Germany was defeated, they sold out Poland to the then Soviet Union even when Polish soldiers and pilots fought in their thousands to defend Britain.

America knew exactly what to do to push Russia to war…..this isn’t hard to figure out; US would have gone to war if the Cuban missile crisis continued. I think the owners of US used Ukraine to achieve a purpose which is to cut off European gas supply by Russia….that supply deficit would be filled in by America oil companies.

Ukrainian President should have been wise enough to give a little bit to Europe and a little bit to Russia to keep the balance…the geopolitical location of Ukraine demands such….this was the position Belgium prior to Second World War and they chose no sides...Ukraine has refused to learn from history.

N.B Any reasonable government will maintain policy of non alignment at this point and prepare for the possible economic impact the Russia Ukraine NATO crisis will have on global economy including Nigeria

Non alignment is good but many developed Nations (barring Germany) don't stand to lose much from decoupling from Russia.

It's been fairly isolated/high handed over the last 2 decades. Russians (the people) are brilliant & great.
It has produced some of the most brilliant scientists in the world. But when a country's leadership allows no room to hear dissenting or constructive opposition voices, it surrounds itself with yes men & in the longterm [may] be doomed.

The US is FAR from a perfect country.
Most people say the US tries to fosters 'democracy' everywhere but democracy wasn't even invented by the US.

People might say what they want but Political oppositionists in the US live in the US no matter how much 'dissenting' they appear.

Where do strong political oppositionists in Russia or China live ? They are most likely killed jailed or have fled the country. That can't be a decent way to lead a country.

The US (as racist as many claim) is one of the few countries in the world where one can rise above most human limitations to political & economic success — even as immigrants.

The elite in Russia/china often consider their assets safer in EU/US should they fall out of favour with the government.

No country is perfect (not even the US) but if the M.O. of leadership in Russia & China would be their template for global leadership then we are in for it.

Cheers.

DoggoneDogg:
Who lost money? Manchester United

Aeroflot can always find another advert means afterall Man Utd won't even play in the Champions League next season

Clubs like ManU aren't usually lacking for sponsorships.

Even the airline industry, Aeroflot isn't the deepest of pockets around.

Mossadd:
I'm sure all of them will collect their own sanction from putin when the war is over president putin know their weak point

Other than Russian Oil (which is important),
It's hard to pull think of anything Russia can 'do' to the EU. Prior to now EU/US companies hadn't really been able to operate in Russia effectively.

jackslow:
yes their forces are in Syria

Care to share a recent source?

I shouldn't just believe your words just like that, should I?

DoggoneDogg:
Two can play this game. You don't recognize ours, we don't recognize yours too.

Russia just called out US hypocrisy. You are crying to save Ukraine while you are torturing & killing Syrians & Palestinians in the Middle East.


I love Putin

Is America in Syria?

obembet:
There is questions I want to ask our religion brothers and sisters here..

Please can someone educate me why God allow all this suffering? Watching innocent children suffering, watching wicked man Killing the unharmed people, watch wicked one living longer in wealthy life?

Geni Sani abachi is one the most wicked man we have in this country, after his death, his 4th generation can never be so poor like adenuga or adeleke, look at the wicked people In North sponsor boko Haram and bandits, they are enjoying life, according to the history, Gumi father enjoying life more than anyone in North. Look at Buhari, Putin, Africa slavery... etc. Why God is watching all this people without any action on them. This people nare living longer and leave inheritance for the generations to come

Don't you think wicked are enjoying life then good people?

Please correct me with fact if am wrong.

Don't you know?

Humans have free will.

DemMannaScam:
Mazi Vladimirovich has slapped the western hawks again.
He spat right on their faces and told them to go to hell...

I've been saying this for ages & I will repeat it again.
POWER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST!!!

The western world destroyed themselves with woke liberal idiocy & lunacy... They will NEVER recover again...

Meanwhile, brainwashed and deceived zombies are still in shock. Una neva even see anything yet...

franchasng Jokerman DREAMZZZ Asour blackaxe78 NairaThief KingOfTheDamned NairaMaster1 Mrbenny001

You're not saying anything new.

Russia has been in a sort of cold war with US & Europe since almost 2 decades.

Go read the Magnitsky Act .

Russia /China have both made gains in military might /spend since 2000. Nothing new too.

However, Let's play a desirability test for World powers.

What country has the most sought Visa for Migration both Study & work VISA applications?

As Desirable world powers, Can we rely on China /Russia for the very vital industry called pharmaceuticals? What's their pedigree in Pharma /drug development in the world?

How many AirPlanes flying globally today are Chinese or Russian originated.

95+% of all smartdevices in the world are powered by American made operating systems (including the one you're using). How do you reckon we move on?

Most /All US political oppositionist live in the US.
Where do strong Russian & Chinese political oppositionists live? Is that the world you want?

America /Western Europe are FAR from perfect but if you think China / Russia (where the elite's children study in UK/US) are better alternatives with the way they act now that's a big joke.

ednut1:
There is no guarantee you will get job after graduation. If your occupation is not in shortage list in uk you are likely to get frustrated. Alot of Nigerians rushing to school in uk will learn soon. But hey nigeria is hell already

True. But most people aren't looking for guarantees, there seeking places with better probabilities & higher outcomes (if those probabilities materialize).

derecho:
Though "potential" has different shades of meaning, the idea the poster intends to pass across is that they are all racists but only masking it. This I find untrue.

Look at it this way,
If you birthed a white kid in say Borno and no one tells him that the white man is superior, how do you think he'll behave?If care is not taken, he might feel odd and beg for inclusion.

I believe someone is re-enforcing the white supremacist mentality that's why those "racists" behave that way.

Maybe, but maybe you're the one projecting too.
All humans are [capable] of doing bad things. Even the 'good' ones. We're fallible, ALL of us.

Potential means latent quality/ability. We ALL CAN be bad if we don't constantly watch ourselves.

Cheers.

derecho:
You guys should stop misinforming others.
Just like saying every Yoruba/Igbo person is a bigot because of the "tribal wars" on Nairaland.
When you mix with people with the right values, you'll understand.

He's right though, He said 'Potential racist' not a racist. It's like saying ALL men are potential liars. Would that be wrong? Aren't all men capable of lying?

Isaacpromise1:
Bro, just know that every white person is a potential racist, on the surface they can profess love but a spark of event can bring out the racism in them. Know this and know peace.

Just flow along, don’t expect love from someone whose heart is full of hate.
You can flow with them but don’t bring yourself so low that they tramp on you anyhow. Put that guy in his lane !

If every white person is a potential racist (you're correct) What's every black person's potential prejudice?

Classism? Tribalism, Nepotism? Ethnicism? Lookism or Ageism?

I hope you know that all vices I listed above including racism are sub vices within the prejudice family.
Racism (as terrible as it is) is a scapegoat.
The vast majority of Africans (not all) would never experience racism in their lifetime simply because they won't travel outside the continent.
However they'll suffer Tribalism, ethnicism, classism and other prejudices still common IN AFRICA.

Which should be our [primary] concern (if most of us are not out yet) Racism or the one that affects most of us here in Africa?

PlayerMeji:
Oga, you don't need to be mad at him.

Just tell him what the media says about an average young British.

Tell him about the knife stabbings, the hooliganism, idleness, etc... Tell him those were what you have been hearing from CNN and VOA..

Case closed, thank me later...

Very easy. He'll ask why you came there spending a good part of your assets to school there inspite of these vices.

Right001:
When I moved to the U. K for my master. I stay in an flat which consist of many white English boys. So an England boy called Harry decided to show me the equipment in the apartment. So when we got to the kitchen he show me a dish washer which I did not care to look at and he responded that have I see a dish washer before? I was shock and told him of course have seen a dish washer and he reply that I did not want to sound rude but africa are poor and always hungry and I reply him do I look like someone that is poor and hungry and his respond was you are from the rich family in Africa and I told him clearly my parents are not rich that am just an average Nigerian boy and he his reply was it is impossible that you are either rich or poor in Africa and my response was that he should stop believing the propaganda been pass by CNN and BBC about Africa.

After that we bonded and we usually teese ourself and crack jokes. So during December period I was infected with covid 19 which all. Of them in the house have travel to their family home to spend Christmas and new year holiday. So during that mid January on Friday I was in the parlour with my white flatmates and we where just joking and catching fun then we started to talk about covid and I told them during the time they travel I contacted covid and Harry reply that he is going to kill me so I laugh and I thought it was one of the joke but he said he mean it and I started telling him that so do u expect me to call u in your family home and tell u I contacted covid and the others white where explaining to him and this guy started using abusing words against me telling me to return back to Africa and saying some nasty words about Africa and I told him if u have brief with me then challange me and stop picking on my continent and colour and he told me that he is going to insult my colour and continent that if I want to fight him then we should go to the garden to fight as man to man. I was just saying in my mind this man is looking for someone to kill him. I just ignore him and when I stop replying him he just calm down and left. What pain me most was when he left then all the white guys told me his crazy that I should not answer him and I was like when he was insulting me racially all of u where just watching him as if nothing happen. After some time he came back to the parlour and apologise to everyone except me for been a nusiance and after that he wanted to discuss with me and I shouted at him saying back off. After sometime he wanted talking to me and I just ignore him as if nobody is talking and after talking I just close my laptop and gave him a bad gesture and left the palour then he reply that I am looking at him as a vallian that he is not a bad guy.

The next day his girlfriend came visiting him and was smiling at me and i just reply her with a bone face and left. Then after sometime he came apologising to me that what he did to me was wrong that he did it under the influence of acholol which I know but I said to myself for him to say this to me when he was drunk meaning he has been harbouring such thoughts in his mind and the alcohol just gave him the courage to express his racist characters to me. I told him I forgive him but right now I don't trust any English people or white people because for such a guy to laugh and joke with u and still be a racist his something terrible. Abeg make una give bristish chance.

Sorry about your racism experience.

However, I think you're about making the same mistake he made. Using one experience, incident/individual to shape your outlook.

Wouldn't you be staying in the UK after school?
It more likely that a 'white' person would give you your job (if you plan staying). Would that person be bad too?

On a lighter note, if you didn't go to the UK on a full scholarship, you are hardly an 'average' Nigerian.
Most UK Programmes are £15000 without Visas, traveling, feeding & housing. That's ~N8.5m out of pocket. What's the % of Nigerians you reckon has that as liquid cash?

Good luck.

Wazobia2216:
Person wey die don die!

He doesn't know and will not need this burial in style where he is going!

Politicians should learn to live and serve the people!

Many of these politicians will not even eat at the burial for the fear of being poisoned! So what's the need of all these ill gotten wealth

I suppose it's the 'high' of being an important person in society.

It should be addictive.

obembet:
No career job is lucrative in Nigeria except fraud is involved

That's ironic don't you think?

See it this way, There has to be legit money in a system for scammers /frauds to extract otherwise even fraud wouldn't be lucrative.

Bad money suggests the existence of good money.
The world can't just be all scammers defrauding themselves.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Look at this woman singling out entertainers but hiding Nollywood actors/actress..
None is to be blamed tho..

The Dumbos who indulged in such are to be held fully responsible..
The moment you can't think for yourself and think Killin your fellow being is gonna give you some dough..then that moment you need to be in a rehabilitation center..
FFK's $@ke it's called entertainment for a reason..

The individual is the one who is going to take it his own ways..He is the one who has to decide what is good and what is bad...If he was not mentally trained well in school and childhood with good morals and all then he will definitely gets influenced by anything that he likes at that particular moment.. So it depends on the individual's mental state and the way they receive.. simple

True.

But Nollywood artistes are 'entertainers' too.

Afonjashapmouth:
Best gift a father can give a son is not money but legacy

Money can also be a legacy too.
The idea of a legacy started out as property /funds bequeathed to children.
In fact Ronaldo is definitely leaving monetary legacy for his kids.

Tracka:
Before Boko Haram is wiped out, part of Borno need to be eliminated, both men, children and women

More like before corruption is eradicated in Nigeria,
All Nigerians need to the wiped off; Men, Women & Children.

My point : Refrain from generalizations, for all you know this kid was certainly a victim himself.
He was a pawn. An impressionable kid with no personal worldview.