SharingIsLife:
I guess your main problem here is that you're not used to public transportation in Nigeria because you have your personal car. So my advice is that you should just try to get used to it. After all, there are many tall people that commute across Nigeria.

It's impossible to get used to this but thank you. I'd like to get the perspective from tall people working in Lagos.

I'm 189cm tall, fresh out NYSC and I've recently began working my first 9-5 job in Lagos and inorder to cut costs, I've had to opt for public transportation and I've found that the leg room is never enough in both those yellow buses and the BRT. I'm tired of folding like jeans in suitcase, my back won kpeme and I'm not 30 yet. It's even worse in traffic.

First of all, I don't think 189cm is that tall. Also, I'm suspecting most of these buses are shipped in from Asia where the minimum height is the lowest in the world.

Tall Nigerian working class, how do you cope?

nnamdi640:
Am sure you lack understanding, majority of them don't even depend on their salaries except those that don't want to use their heads. You should know that majority of workers in Nigeria are less paid, it is not lecturing job alone, some private school teachers that have such qualifications like those in lecturing field are even praying to get such job while those in the field are complaining. Again, I never said that they are been paid well but when compared with their fellow in private schools with such qualifications, theirs are till better. Remember that as their level rises, the salary continue to rise unlike those in private sector where salary can be stagnant for years without increment, the best you can do is to leave if you are not satisfied with the pay.

It beats me how there are Nigerians like you. Despite being oppressed and underpaid, you still take the side of your oppressors unconsciously. Is it that you just love to talk?
Your input about them having allowances is not your place to give. Let the bourgeoisies argue that. You just keep quiet.

And like I said it's all because you're not class conscious.
Your comment is so anti-revolutionary to a topic that could beget questions about salary increment for the proletariat but you just have to give your own ignorant opinions.

nnamdi640:
You forgot that they receive allowances something most people in private sector don't get. I earn more than them monthly, but with their allowances, I think they are still better than some in private sector, beside their work is stress free

Your thinking is all wrong. This individualistic thinking of not wanting better for your brothers and sisters in your class will ultimately allow the bourgeoisie use your head for life.
In that case, since you're suggesting that what the lecturers earn is decent, you don't deserve better either. Or maybe you actually think you don't deserve better 🤔

lexy2014:


Where did she (Remi Tinubu) get the money (N950m) from?

Seun Kuti said something about Nigerians that stuck with me because I've noticed the pattern too. Whenever you say something to elevate or inform oppressed Nigerians, there'll always be one or two self ordained lawyers rising up to defend their oppressors. They don't even know the oppressor personally o, the oppressor sef never give them 5 naira before, they just have that sudden awakening to rise up to defend their oppressors.

Like those self ordained lawyers quoting you defending Remi Tinubu with nothing to gain. They worship wealth and oppression so much irrespective of the fact that there’s a chance it’s coming from their slow demise. One even name e sef Thomas Sankara 😭

samogo1:
Why borrow money to dash out to citizens?

The money will finish. What then happens?

APC has no intelligent plan. Just repeating same routine of last administration.

Not only that, it's inflated figures too. There's literally a template for stealing money in Nigeria. The normal subsidy, borrowing for elephant projects etc I wonder what's next? Ajaokuta steel?

Jokerman:
Buhari pulled 100 million out of Poverty, Tinubu wants to pull 50 million out of Poverty...

By next year now, 90% of Nigerians no go poor again...😬

Because of you I had to log in to comment. 😂😂😂

If Shettima takes over even he can pull the remaining out of poverty and start pulling Niger out of poverty.

Mercylike:
Is it normal to wake up and experience mouth odour?

I don't like talking to people very early especially when I just wake up bcoz there is this odour when I smell whenever I try to smell my own mouth..

Is it normal or it is something that has to be treated?

If i have brush, I don't have any odour from morning till night except for night to morning sleep..

It's coming from your stomach probably ulcer related. Try to sleep with your head elevated.

The prayer na say make the trailer too in trying to avoid you doesn't swerve into the sands too like you did.

Jeon:
Like the above poster said





Nigeria, is not the only country xperiancing this.


Famine is hitting the World. And only the strongest and fit person[s] can overcome .

modified: To those giving me useless mentions, abeg make unah chop me. Everyone with his own opinion

If any continent is complaining of famine, it should never be the motherland Africa that birth life.

BigDawsNet:


Remove VVD Nd put gomez...

Gomez go shok everyone today

Are the bigdawstv that pulls pranks on YouTube and this is just another comic act? Lol Gomez wey them give 100odds to score.

Luton Town 1 - 4 Liverpool
Salah brace
Nunez
VVD

At this rate, Nigeria will have to do some sort of agreement with USA to have the Nigerian Dollar

You people should sha let me know when you’re ready to fight the government, even with weapons, I'm available.

Made Kuti and bishop collars na 5 and 6

JoeEeL:


You have done so well. No matter the little quota, we must contribute. But this is a seriously thankless task saddled with demotivating factors aplenty.

Happy weekend bro.

I agree. O gbenu tan sometimes but we gotta keep fighting. Have a great week

JoeEeL:


I slowly read your comment and I was beaming with smiles because the words were laced with purity and immaculateness. Well well, where do I start from? This matter is a very long one o.

When I make a soul-searching or a status-quo-challenging comment on the first page, it tends to get removed. It has happened to me several times. After painstakingly guiding my thoughts and writing paragraphs and text after text, I refresh... only to see my comment removed. Im glad you pointed it out. Its so bad that I now half-heartedly make attempts to comment atop posts and in the event I do, I ensure to make bland or herd-like comments.

It's easy to think d mods are compromised, as in bribed. But we may have to hold that thoughts considering nl is such a huge site with little to no real competition, even with its 90's-looks. I believe the government has the site handlers on a leash. You have to closely follow the pattern on how the terrorist nigerian govt changed the words "fulani terrorists" to "bandits", boasted to capture the transmitter of radio biafra, fined (I think) AIT for airing a phone call conversation with the ipob media & pub secretary, banned AIT for supporting the opposition and lately had a skirmish with I think AriseTV. The media gagging is real.

As we Yorubas say, oro po ninu iwe kobo. There's still so much to say but lemme summarise by saying I do my bits here and there in stoking the moral and historical consciousness of friends and family. In spare time, I follow social media channels that promulgate decolonisation, history, emancipation, societal discourse, revolution, referendum, freedom and the counter of subliminal foreign doctrines and ideologies etc.

Image below, showing NL web traffic metrics:

I forgot to praise your reference using tech and user behaviour. Very nice haha and I'm glad we share the same values.

Yes I believe Nairaland is compromised. One is compromised not only through bribery but also by CHOOSING to support things that further divides Nigerian people for profit (just like NL and these highly tribal and religious topics/comments that make front page) and refusing to support things that elevate the consciousness of Nigerians, like you said they take them down or refuse to put them on front page.

Choosing to support things that further divides us is exactly what our governors and presidents do to get into power instead of educating us on how to be more African than osuka tying or churchgoing. So you can see the pattern in these compromised agents.

You're doing well. Anything at all to liberate and raise the status of Nigerian people is highly welcomed. I think the final step is to organise politically. There is The Movement Of The People centre on social media, and I share the same values as them and I believe it's the amount of time and effort you and I put into it that'll determine how much impact it can have in the lives of Nigerian people.

JoeEeL:


Karl Marx will faint twice inside his grave. In tech, there's something called user behaviour. You don't assume too much that the end user of your product is going to have sense, hence you make things like the user interaction and flow easy enough so that even a monkey could operate.

That's like what Karl Marx did with his quote. He never would have believed that such strong quote of his, with the intent of reviving the dead lost soul of a black man, can still be wielded in such a way to further sink them in their retarded hopelessness. When you think there's no possible newer lows, the average nigerian will go lower.

I do not see nigeria getting liberated though. Even though majority of them are backwards in thinking, they are still acutely divers in their backwardness. Nigeria getting better where one section of d country is protesting pro-Israel while another is protesting pro-Palestine and burning Israeli flags? Or where the youth do rituals for money while the other section kill people in d name of islamic blasphemy? Or where one is running secular and another is running sharia? Or where they kidnap someone from Ibadan and hand him over in Ilorin to face trial? Or where before one ascends presidency, he has to first swear at the terrorist usman dan fodio's grave then go to downing to swear oath of allegiance before any hope? Or do you mean a nigeria that is still firmly a british conquered territory...

I'll be thinking I'm talking with human beings and they will be tying osuka on their head all d way from arab culture, yet they conveniently forget that the arabs sold our black ancestors as slaves and castrated the males amongst them. Or d so called "woke" ones that are so clung to their british / jewish saviour that they start to demean our own ancestors? Is it such people with a lost forgotten identity that wants to make a country great or what?

Bro Nigeria is not getting better abeg. Just forget it.

You'd be surprised if articles like what you've just written makes front page on here everyday, our people's consciousness will be elevated. JUST ONE PER DAY and even small kids on here will begin to use words like EMANCIPATION, CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS in no time. And then if we spread the message on a nationwide scale, most of our African people will become conscious, especially politically.

But no, the compromised agents of Nigeria just like the mods of Nairaland will rather push Big Brother Naija and Rema and 7 things to do for survival, things that distracts the average mind from the issues at hand.

The absurdities you see doesn't work automatically, people wake up everyday to oil the machine of docility that keeps African people enslaved. People slowly fall back towards being human when left alone. When you see your own brother tying osuka, one compromised agent; an Alfa, wakes up everyday at 5am to sing the words that'll keep that osuka on his head for life. You can't blame the osuka tying man because we the conscious for Africa are not waking up at 5am to help him unlearn it.

Remember me and you are only privileged to have the level of consciousness that we do. Our only duty as free men is to liberate our brothers and sisters from religious obsessions and other distractions and not use them for profit like NL mods and Alfa...... and the only way to do that is to organise ourselves but even I fail everyday.

So yes, maybe Nigeria will never get better.

OkCornel:
How to remain docile in the face of hardship and exploitation.

Lovely

Put it in BOLD FONT my guy. The guy is an APC agent and I know even he doesn't believe what he's written. He's literally asking people to join APC, to waxen the political elites and then go to church on Sunday to forget their suffering.

JoeEeL:


I tell u. Imagine the idiocy! Saying clinging to religion.

That's like telling an ostrich to bury his head in sand in the face of oppression / danger.

Nigerians are the shame of d world. With such mentality, they are directly responsible for the black race being at the bottom barrel all over d world.

I totally agree with you and I suspect it’s one of these Tinubu boys trying to make the masses docile in the face of immense suffering. Misquoting a whole KARL MARX to back up a crazy narrative. Marx would turn in his grave over this capitalist strengthening, bourgeoisie elevating, political elites promoting article. Even asking people to join APC 😂😂

The moment Nigeria is liberated from the shackles of neocolonialism, religious obsession, 'copy copying' white people due to inferiority complex, I think the rest of Africa will be liberated as well. It's 1960 independence struggle all over again but this time it's with the Nigerian agents of the colonial masters

ecolime:

The messenger plays a part in how well a message is received whether you like it or not.


Would you receive an advice from a mad man?

If I want to fix an issue in Anambra, I just might 😂😂

Karl Marx was not supporting the use of religion for the proletariat when he said it’s the opium of the masses. He was only trying to raise the consciousness of the people.

Crazy how a writer who’s making front page on forums like this would say the masses should do everything but START ORGANIZING TO TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY IN 3 years.

Even writers no too wise again like before.

Realguyman1:
First of all Son and Vinicius Junior are not top 9, secondly no way Tottenham for grin sell Harry Kane give Chelsea. Then thirdly, wetin make u think say Vinicius Junior go grin agree to leave Madrid say na Chelsea he dey go? Even if he manange decide am, wetin make u think say he fit play well for Chelsea, abi u think say Chelsea na Madrid?

Overall, it's not a player issue, it's a coach issue. Poch is using the players wrongly.

If it is Zimbabwean dollars, all that money is like N20

DolbyDigital:


Mehn, I thought I am the only one the bolded applies to. All is well sha.

We just have to forge ahead. Keep keeping on.

DolbyDigital:
Went at JAMB 4 times, scores swinging from 180 to 230, but Unilorin never gave me a shot. It's one of those tough times in life. Watching peers with lesser skills make it while I was home felt like losing. I took a different path, joined Kwara Poly, and graduated with distinction.

Tried direct entry into Unilorin, but they slammed the door in my face AGAIN. Even friends with Upper Credit got through. I was in a cafe, seeing parents pulling strings for their kids' post-JAMB, and it hit me – it's about WHO you know, not WHAT you know.

I didn't have connections. My folks don't play politics, or lick people's asses and I got that from them.

I aced my HND with Upper Credit. I joined where I did my NYSC training, got hired right away. I've got skills I'm confident of. But when I seek better opportunities, even with my certs, it feels like I've wasted life. I'm starting to feel like a charity case at work. Lose this job, and I doubt I'd find the same pay. They're all about that BSc. I feel like a charity case, and it stings.

HND isn't always about not meeting entry requirements. You might not get it if you're not an HND holder. Nobody wants to be treated like a second-class citizen. The discrimination is real, and it's a mental battle.

Man I feel genuinely bad for you because I had a similar experience. I sat for JAMB, got 214 when JAMB was actually JAMB. I remember we were about 4 or 5 in my class of 26 that passed the 200 mark.

I adored The University Of Ibadan so much and so I had UI as my choice and I sat for the post UTME. I can't remember my score but I did fairly well. And then I was denied, I remember I was so heartbroken. Weeks after, my mom calls me and tells me they're paying to get admission into UI, she got the information from one of her friends, an Oba in Ibadan. We couldn't afford what they were paying back then, plus such an act is against my dad's "principles" and so I had to let go.

I was the type of guy who planned out his entire life 😅 and the first step was to leave home for school at 18. UI, my dream, became my obstacle so I decided to settle for the "lesser UI", The Polytechnic, Ibadan. MISTAKE. Direct Entry didn't work as well so I went on to finish up HND. I eventually lost interest in school education. Instead of my school notes, I'd read books outside my syllabus and field.

Even though my command of the English language is close to perfection, with a touch of phonetics from my secondary school, despite my impressive knowledge and philosophy on Economics, Science, Politics, Arts, Anything! I still see that discrimination. I sometimes see them fighting that mental battle how man is not matching certificate lol

BoboNogoDie:

Lol
Ọdẹ olodo
Na inferiority complex go kee u

I went through your posts and my claims are not refuted. I see how you think even in moments of passion, I'm confident that you didn't attend any of the top 20 Unis in Nigeria and even if you did by accident, it's probably some insignificant course.

To be clear, I'm not one for changing HND to BSC, because the HND is suppose to serve a different purpose in our society, so a revamp of the programme is what is required and that's a discussion for another day.

I dare you to engage me with a meaningful rebuttal 😂😂 Uni Boy

BoboNogoDie:

Inferiority complex

BUT ON A NORM, YOU CAN NOT COMPARE A UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH A POLY STUDENT.

THE LEVEL OF CLASS, SWAG AND INTELLECTUALS IN THE UNIVERSITY CAN NOT BE COMPARED TO A POLYTECHNIC.

Poly students are usually "local" no pun intended

What if I told you I went to a Polytechnic and from the way you think, I can tell I'm more intellectually sound than you. You actually don't know what a pun means because that's CLEARLY not a pun.

At least mention the schools. UI, UNILAG and maybe 10 more universities can boast of producing proper students. I've seen the videos of some University students making all sort of blunders.

Just as there are 4 or 5 Polytechnics in Nigeria that produce proper students better than some universities. Yabatech, Laspotech and I've heard Ilaro and Auchi are pretty good.

NSK4U:


@26? You are already feeling low? That's dangerous to your psyche

Well, age is just a number like they say. At 26, I’ve seen some messed up things that some 40 year olds have not/may not see. And also, I’m not really hopeful for the future.