₦airaland Forum

nobosaba:
*FOOD FOR THOUGHT.*

The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is *Nigeria.* The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is *India* (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).

When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, language, etc. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists, etc. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.” It is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but rejected the British technology. The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North. Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only Sharia Courts but no Customary Courts. So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.

Long after the British and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up religious branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia – the Islamic headquarters of the world – there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its country by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a very religious people.

Meanwhile, while we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, shopping malls, hospitality, etc.

Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples. It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, Brother, Sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it does not change hands, nothing gets done. And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.

One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the morals in our society. But it is not so. The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.

We import the petroleum that we have in abundance, rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance, and even toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort. Yet we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive is it!
Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot cars as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado, without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70 per cent live below poverty. Private jets have become as common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education and its sick people are running to India for treatment.

India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans travelling to the country for medical treatment. India has joined the nuclear powers. India has launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.
I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.
Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166,000 million, while India has a population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups; India has more than two thousand ethnic groups. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions – Christianity and Islam; but India has many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 52 years of independence; India has 65 years, while apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.

I am a Christian, and nothing can change me from Christianity. But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. *“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land”* is still a saying that is germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion; more work and less of hope; and more action and less of words.

Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now...

_*Do we need restructuring in the hands of selfish, greedy, myopic and visionless leaders or we need a restructuring of our individual selves so that things will work out.*_

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olaniyi0:
abi na, na igbos even develop the whole worl.

RichYoungNigger:
Where is Ghana located ??

Trulie:
For those running after admission in Ghana, you might just need to have a rethink. This is funny...as in funny in its literal and implied meaning.lolz.

hagmond1:
Ghana prisoners dey enjoy o. that fat guy even dey wear clean white shirt

gambus007:
Thank you bro...people think ghana is ok but i keep saying it nigeria is better than ghana.i remember one landlord telling me he hate nigerian.without nigeria product ghana is nothing.i dont b fool by electricity and co.

onatisi:
This calculation is misleading and wrong. I dont want to sound pessimistic about the guy moving to Ghana ,but I think it is advisable he goes to Ghana for a week before moving and of which I am sure he will change his mind. I am off to my politics section

Venzal:
DaVinciii... I have just gone through a lot of the listings on the website you recommended, and I am really impressed. I now have an exact estimate of what it'd take to move over and be properly settled.

Thanks for your help.

I have one little question though... Like how much in Naira terms is 3k Ghana Cedis? I have tried checking online. I am not getting anything definitive.

examhall3:
https://www.timenaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/index-288.jpg
Pictured are African beauty queens, including Miss Nigerian Rosalind Balogun, at their hotel lobby before Miss World beauty contest in London, 1977. From L-R, Miss Tanzania (Teresa Shayo), Miss Uganda (Rosemary Salmon), Miss Nigeria (Rosalind Balogun), Miss Ghana (Araba Vroon). Photo credit: Leonard Burt via Genevieve Magazine
lalasticlala

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Source: http://timenaija.com/check-out-a-photo-of-miss-nigeria-1977-and-other-african-queens-at-miss-world-contest-in-london/

oevenme:
Whao: that's so amazing bro, I just applied for mine few minutes ago and it as benn shipped, hope to get it sonnest as well.
Thanks Crazymommy

culturalheritag:
Akawaba means welcome in Ghana language expect more

Stanley08:
Oga! I lived in Accra for 3 years. Stop tearing bread for guys.

Glo Ghana don't got no 4G
Surfline are the main 4G LTE guys
Busy Internet is piggybacking off Vodafone
MTN Ghana don't got 4G
Vodafone GH don't got 4G readily available to SIM Cards, only fixed broadband and Vodafone maxes out at 20Mbps btw.

Naija has Ntel now readily providing 4G Enabled sim cards that work out-of-the-box. I can safely say we are ahead of Ghana in terms of Internet. Go and try MainOne fibre Optics. Anyways, yeah!

kokobongo:
Ghana's

Godfreytimesblo:
daabi...mi ny3 ghana ni nanso mi to h) da...

Godfreytimesblo:
Azontoghost: 3y3 00 na wo so 3n?

Godfreytimesblo:
In life it is very important for one to know what he/she wants, but what God wants for us in life supersedes ours by far. If what you want in life is what God wants for you, then you are very much good to go.Emmanuel knew what he wanted and very lucky for him it was what God wanted. He went all out going after it, not minding what anyone thinks of how he is going about it. With the strength of knowing what you want egging him on, he went on progressively from one stage to another in life. Stagnancy was non existence in his life and that is as a result of having God’s backing.
The red sea parted for the Israelites because they had that divine backing. Abraham moved when God told him to and he did that not knowing where he was going and that is obedience like never before. Emmanuel moved to a strange land just as Abraham did, not knowing what was slated for him by God.
In putting God first and having to pay his tithe, God established him with the spirit of a blessing. And that spirit breaks the laws of science like it did for Sarah, it suspends the laws of nature like it did for Elijah.
The use of Chinese language as a tool to his greatness, is the spirit of a blessing working in the life of Emmanuel. When the spirit of a blessing is present in a man’s life hard things become simple.

Playing in the Big Easy Bar in Beijing , with the spirit of a blessing making things simple for him, Liu Huang a well known music producer discovered him .
And seeing that greatness in him , Liu encouraged Emmanuel to learn the mandarin Chinese. As a result of using pinyin to learn mandarin he is well above fluent in mandarin Chinese now .
He shot himself into limelight when he sang with Han Hong in the 2007 New Year Gala and it was greatness like never before since then .Everyone has his place or land of greatness just as we all have our own God’s appointed time for change .china the middle country , was Emmanuel A.K.A Hao Ge ’s Land of greatness.
In the days, humanity spoke a single language and agreed to build a city and tower . In seeing this God confounded their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scatter them around the world .
Confounding of that speech is the barrier we have in languages today .Language was the tool to the achievement of his greatness and Liu encouraging him to learn mandarin Chinese , was God using Liu to speak to him . And this tells us that God can speak to us through anyone . Emmanuel broke the barrier to his greatness when he learnt and understood the mandarin Chinese . God caused division in humanity with language by making us to speak differently and that division is a barrier working till date . His use of Chinese language to get to his greatness was an eye-opener for me ,it made me realize the power in language . He saw an opportunity and broke the barrier to that opportunity by learning to speak , read and write what is seen by those who are not in the know , as the weirdest language on earth .
I tell you today , the minute you can speak and understand another language , you have broken a barrier in your life . I got my sheer feeling of the power of language when I spoke briefly in Ghana‘s official local language (twi) , from that moment things were easily achievable for me . There is power in a language and that power breaks not only barriers , it moves you into opportunities of greatness .
But we must use it politely with love and respect just as Hao Ge is doing today. Emmanuel is one with trans-generational blessing and that is not just having a car or a house. It is a grace that is carried and has no limits in greatness. Is a grace that is passed on; it’s got to be better from one generation to another and so is how Hao Ge’s greatness is getting better And it is in that grace he is raising high the flag of Nigeria. We really do need more of his kind , Really a positive positioning of the Nigerian brand.

Equalizer:
That's Ghanian's cultural wear known as asante..

MichaelAustin:
and they will tell you Ghanaians speak better English

agoadiv:
this must be accra ghana

prettyboey:
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prettyboey:
Awww bro, I really wished Iam a pro but you i am just a noob trying out
what i have learnt and in the process of learning. I dont mind sharing my ideas with you though.

prettyboey:
2^ND WEEK,11^TH-15^TH APRIL,PERFORMANCE


Good Trades = 6
Bad Trades = 16
Total trades =22
% Accuracy = 27.27 %
Note : Comparing my 2^nd to 1^st week's % accuracy, it has declined by -19.40%

Pips Won = +383.7
Pips Loss = - 535.8
Total Pips Won = -152.1 , (3^RD week's deficit)

Account Decreased by -17.11% daaaamn !!!

2^ND WEEK'S REFLECTIONS
1.Entered too many trades ( I promised to take only few and the best R:R setups)
2.Poorly managed trades ( I will work on how to managed losing and winning trades,my profit target and stop loss)
3.Low confidence level ( I mostly watch what others do and change my decisions on my setups; I will work on that too )

Well, my second week of April dint go down well as expected. I believe the third is full of green pips then till then,
Happy Pippin !!!

Ednite:
Are u fine?