₦airaland Forum

Agbaletu:
There was nothing like hijab during my dys.

Yoruba are the most tolerant people i know. I'm a muslim but started my education in United African Methodist Church school. My muslim parents never for once complain about reading songs of praise all morning in assembly. In high school, we as muslims students had days we worshipped,mostly on fridays even my christian friends joined us and we all had fun. Now, it's different, intolerance is the order of the day. since we allowed the importation commercial churches into southwest, who are marketing their gospel and want more household as customers and creating discord between us. Both christians and muslim in the 70s,80s used scarf to cover their heads, It's show of morality then,not a muslim thing in southwest but now we have new doctrine that fight against it and tag it islamization but never tag the nuns who were all over our schools then.

Let's look beyond religion and show respect and love to each other. I'm from a family of four, my older sister is a christian, my two younger brothers one is muslim and last one is christian but we loved each other dearly and we are all religious in our own way. And I will fight to keep them safe. We enjoyed our relative peace to that tolerance, we celebrate together. We forget our religions when we meet and party together. Most muslim governors in southwest have christian wives. You will never see christians at that level marry a muslim.

aloziedaya:
Yes I know how difficult things are in Nigeria right now. Everyday I read and hear from the media news and articles about Nigeria that trouble the heart.
Life in Europe is better in terms of basic needs as humans, but socially it has decayed beyond imagination. The future of our children is at stake here socially and morally. The western culture is eating deep in our children.
So I'm considering bringing my family down to Nigeria to train them in our own culture.
Do you think I'm making a mistake?
Please your candid advice.

My brother i understand you because i live right here too. Nigeria is not as bad as Nigerians would make us believed. Things are changing,it might not be as fast as struggling Nigerians want but it surely changing. Nigerians who are at home thinking living in US or Europe is eldorado are joking. You can have all you desire it times of education and good life,clubbing. But socially is not worth it, your kids would grow up with some social vices. There's issue about too much free access to gun,I'm afraid of safety . i have a friend who married a foreign wife and they have never deem to visit his family back home in Nigeria for decades. I have close family friend here in US, a Yourba man from Oyo who died last year and his children for the american wife(dead) are struggling to connect their father's family,begging to help them locate or find her father's family. I only assumed he was from OYO because of the tribal marks. So many things are wrong socially in spite of the good things of life but raising children to be responsible it difficult.
Lastly, racism is raising it's ugly head more than ever, and there's no place like home. You can be set up for a crime,as prisons is privately owned and commercially in their stock exchange market. If your kids don't end up on the street with drugs, set up for jail, become nuisance drinking and gaming, or discriminates against in spite of his or her education. In fact Nigerians is feeling the impact of globalization. If you can run a moderate business, build a moderate comfortable home in a secure place in Nigeria to raise your family. I will support you. Forgive my errors.