₦airaland Forum

I'm pretty sure my parents did not see any pastor/Reverend/Evangelist before they got married and I'm going to follow their footsteps.

I think you should use your brain for what it was made for in the first place.

GenBuhari: Rossike,
The term average Nigerian , means that it includes children infants and elderlyand unemployed adults
So the same way you have stated that infants cannot be expected to own a mobile phone, also acknowledge that the same infants are included in the calculations of what an average Nigerian lives on.

This example my help clarify:

Take Mr Augustine Okonkwo who lives in Enugu.

He lives with his wife Ngozi and 5 children.

Mr Okonkwo earns N50,000 per month as a civil servant .

Mrs Okonkwo earns N10,000 per month from selling eggs at their local main market.

The Okonkwo's total household income is N60,000 per month

which at an exchange rate of N170 = $1 , is equivalent to $350 per month

As there are average 30.4 days per month,

The Okonkwo's income is $11.60 per day

For a family of 7 people (including the children), this means Income per person in the household = $11.60/7= $1.65 per person per day

Therefore based on Mr Okonkwo's household, the average Nigerian survives on $1.65 per day

Thumbs up to you. I owe you a beer for this analysis.

Flyboy Zee: In th East, where most of the brand new cars we buy come from, poor people don't buy cars. Even in the west, where we say they are developed, the poor don't buy cars. For emphasis sake, mention any country in the world where poor people buy cars, even the rickety 10-20 years old cars that are not luxury to you, mon ami.

Your rants and rattles only points to one fact. Things are economically getting better in Nigeria.

Poor people don't buy cars because they have good transportation networks. Can you say the same thing about Nigeria?
This is one idea that is good in theory but in practice, not so good.

VULCAN: God bless you for this. I wonder how Azed believes that they would show Inside Africa in the US. Most Americans have never left their city/state of birth so what do they care for Tony Elumelu in Nigeria. And even if they were lucky to see such an interview. I wonder how that translates into showing that Africa has a middle class. And a growing upper class. Its when you travel that you realise that each region has its own flavour of CNN. Its not just them. Even AlJazeera in London is very dry unlike the one we watch in Nigeria. They rarely show all the great documentaries/human interest stories that we get to watch here. The fact remains that western media make it a matter of policy never to show middle and upper class areas and buildings in Africa(with a partial exception of SA). Neither do they show skyscrapers or any of the magnificient govt buiidings in Abuja. Unfortunately OP has allowed himself to be dragged into side arguments but this assertion he made is true. I have made the same with friends over the past 5yrs. So no be lie!

Did you read the title of the post? Even here in the UK, i have seen a well built house shown on CNN.

I guess there is a cabal that has mandated western media not to show middle class buildings in Nigeria.

ROSSIKE: One out of a thousand reports is supposedly positive and we're supposed to accept that?

I can see you've started changing your tune. Besides those three videos i posted where just for Nigeria only and they are all less than 6 months old. If you want, i can post at least 10 videos that rubbish your claim that "No well built African house is shown on CNN".

chinaman666: BBC and CNN are nothing but pure biased garbage. You'll never see anything postive about Africa or China from those two networks. I'd take RT and Al Jazeera over them any day.

Dude stop lying. I posted 3 CNN links that were about Nigeria and nothing was negative in those 3 videos.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2013/06/07/inside-africa-nigeria-b.cnn.html

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/06/12/inside-africa-duthiers-nigeria-street-food.cnn.html

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2013/06/07/inside-africa-nigeria-a.cnn


Those are 3 videos from CNN. Watch the 3rd Mr ROSSIKE and say what again

theoctopus: You mean the whiteman has no problems? The last time I checked, they where shooting themselves in the cinemas and shopping malls!

Snap out of your inferiority complex my friend and get real! The western society is more messed up than the African society. Part of the propaganda is to make you believe our society is chaotic when it is not. If you listen to the news (unfortunately, the Nigerian media has joined them in the evil trend), you will think we are all living in fear of kidnappers and boko haram daily. But kidnapping only happens in about 5 states out of 36. Boko Haram only happens in about 3 states. But, according to the propaganda, boko haram has taken over Nigeria and all of us cannot come out of our houses anymore. Unfortunately, people like you have become their agents, spreading their falsehood

Who ever said the white man doesn't have problem?

VULCAN: I have read OP's original post 4 times trying to see whether he put his foot in his mouth by the title question or by the content of the post. I must state categorically that his position is a valid one. A question was asked "Have You Ever Seen A Well-Built African House On CNN Or BBC?"
Either you answer yes or no!
Is that so difficult??

OP says that he believes the perception of foreign nationals will be influenced by their never having seen developed areas in Africa(outside of SA, of course).

Is that so difficult to swallow or does it sound illogical?

Sounds logical to me. Neither of these stations have ever shown Maitama, Asokoro, Parkview or Banana Island. All places where the wealthy live. But as someone has said let's not use that as a yardstick. Have they ever shown Ilupeju or Yaba or Wuse? Where middle class folk live. The answer is no. Where do they show? Mushin and the slum parts of Lagos Island.

Like i said earlier the OP lied. A documentary about CCHUB was shown on CNN. If you watch inside Africa, you would see that they show a lot of positive things about Africa

theoctopus: I am really ashamed at the kind of posts some so called Nigerians are posting on this thread. I dont believe these are Nigerians. They are total sellouts! Denigrating your country because of your inferiority complex. So sad

This was how they used the western press to deceive Egypt and Lybia to change their leadership. Now, they are completely messed up! They called it freedom They called it the triumph of the people. They called it liberation. They called it the Arab Spring. Now, it is the Arab Scam! Those countries are in a spiral and only God will help them. They have been deceived, just like some people on this thread!

Was it the white ma that voted Ibori, Is the white man that voted our so called senators? Is the white man that wrote out budget whereby the president spends a billion naira on food?


Stop blaming the white man for our troubles, they have the same brain as we do only difference is while they are using theirs to solve their problems, we are busy apportioning blames to someone else for our woes.

ifyalways: On point!

Its pathetic. Check on Nairaland too. They abbreviate because they don't know the right spelling and they don't want to learn either.

They abbreviate because they are lazy. Nairaland has a spell checker.

OP stop lying.
I'm pretty sure CCHUB has been show on CNN, Nigerian Fashion week has been show on CNN, so i don't know which CNN you are talking about.

Also, please stop blaming the white man for our problems.

Vivly: In as much as some of the facts are incorrect, they are still tautologies. A deeper view, breakdown of the concepts will show this. Most of those facts are accepted as spoken english, maybe due to constant usage but it doesn't change the fact that it's a tautology

I disagree with the bold part. Lets take the case of small minority.
The dictionary meaning of small is
1) Being below the average in size or magnitude.
2) Limited in importance or significance; trivial

The dictionary meaning of minority is
a)The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole.
b) A group or party having fewer than a controlling number of votes.


Having looked at the meaning of both words, we should be able to conclude that a group of people can be in the minority camp but they are not limited in importance or significance.
To buttress the point above, i'll use the presidential election as an example. GEJ cannot win the election in a two party system with a 51% of the valid vote count. In that case, those who voted for the opposition are a minority but they are in no way small because their number even though is less than those who voted for GEJ is significant to force a re run of the election.

Vivly: [b]You all trying to dispute the facts based on claims that some of the adverbs were used for emphasis should try to check the dictionary meaning of the words. Why the unnecessary repitition? [/b].

You are the one who is wrong here. Context, Figure of speech all play a role in a sentence e.g the sentence 'if you've seen one of the Johnson boys, you've seen them all' is not tautology but a figure of speech to connote that the Johnson boys look alike.

Marriage is a choice not a must and its his decision.

pro01: Another big fool comes along, predictably. You want to teach your papa mate English abi?

Since a dispute arose in the aftermath of an election that involved a mere 36 persons, why is it difficult for 19 of them to come out in the open and identify themselves and clear all doubts once and for all? If you fools cannot answer this simple question, kindly shut the eff up and quit trying to be clever by half.

There is a reason why the election was done by ballot system and not a show of hands. If you can't figure that out them i'm sorry.

pro01: It is a pity, walahi. None of them is able to provide a direct response to your direct challenge, yet they all want to run their 'mouths' and appear smart. That is the biggest problem with Nairaland. If you have nothing to say, or if you have been boxed into a corner, simply shut the fùck up rather than spew rubbish in order to appear smart.

The simple and direct question here is this: Can Amaechi (or any of his silly supporters here) name the so-called 19 governors that voted for him? Why are the 19 governors reluctant to identify themselves? If you can't provide straightforward answers to these questions, keep your useless rants to yourself!

Dude please buy a dictionary and check of the meaning of ballot before asking stupid questions.

Ngwakwe: We need facts and empirical proof and not tantrums of bigots.

It is damn shameful for grown up adults to be resort to insult, invoking emotions, name calling and religious condemnation to deceive the gullible and divert attention from the crux of the matter.

Can somebody help this community list the 19 governors that voted Gov. Chibuike Amaechi as NGF Chairman?

Can you provide empirical proof that Mimiko did not vote?
PS: Hear say does not count.

yugotee: [b]Over reliance on foreign made products destroyed the manufacturing industry in Nigeria [/b]and as such has made most Nigerian Youths Lazy! Nigerian government and our leaders should harken to the voice of reason and see farther than they see now, These enterprising youths in Aba and other cities in Nigeria can do more with the right support and aid! Aba still remains the center of SMEs in Nigeria. They can do more than China! Sentiments apart!

The bold part is not entirely true. Manufacturing was destroyed in Nigeria because of so many factors and so it was cheaper to import.

But seriously are the ballot boxes imported?

More reason why separation of state and religion is an urgent must.

CFCfan: With determination, right tactics, and a bit of luck, Nigeria will become the 1st African nation to lift the world cup!

Yeah in the year 2300

Its funny how people say a child calling the father by his name means the children don't have respect. Calling someone 'dad' doesn't mean he is respected.
I have a friend who prostrates to greet his dad, when his dad he answers yes sir but this same dude has told me the only reason he hasn't killed his dad is because of his mother and sisters.

Once again i laugh at the notion of calling some dad means he is respected.

solihu: Struggling to make a meaning out of this. It must have been written in swahili.

I think its cantonese

trillville: Your link states that the legislators approved N240 million but NCAA spent N564 million on vehicles. Is this not extra budgetary spending?
Or is there something I am not understanding?

What you don't understand is Insincere 9gerian is a liar even the devil can't compete with.

Every Tomiwa, Dike and Haruna knows what was approved for vehicles in the budget.

For fuc*s sake GEJ called IBB his father.

My own advice is to travel with your Nigerian ATM card or if you have someone outside Nigeria that you send money to, open an account and send the person the ATM card.