₦airaland Forum

blackpanda:
[quote author=blackpanda post=48442780]That phrase "blame game" has no meaning? Every president is responsible for his administration. Period.

maclatunji:
When logical arguments fail you, attack the person you oppose. Tactic of the poor debater.

I wonder if there is a religion that condones looting the treasury and driving a country to recession in times of plenty. Maybe you and GEJ practice such a religion. #Shior

maclatunji:
The public discourse is dominated by the poor state of the economy with many opponents of the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari seemingly relishing what they perceive as his failure to run the economy which they claim is the source of our current recession.

However, a short look at our immediate past shows that former President Goodluck Jonathan actually presided over running the Nigerian economy aground during his tenure which largely favourable global economic conditions.

Read this report from last year :




So, the 2015 budget which was done by GEJ 's administration was financed from borrowing, what happened to all the revenues raised in the previous 3-4 years under him?

Do people think we will just stroll out of GEJ's mess like that? The man did not only fail economically but he also empowered militants that are now sabotaging the economy, he also failed to decisively tackle Boko Haram until few months before leaving.

It is only an hypocrite that will blame the present government for our problems, it is doing a lot to stabilize a bad situation.

seunmsg:
During the time of GEJ, saharareporters gave us a very good evidence of Stella Oduah's corruption, that's the kind of evidence we want to see.

Built2last:
Sources from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have revealed to SaharaReporters that their agents sealed offices of The First Group company in the Central Business District of Abuja. The First Group, a real estate development company, has featured in SaharaReporters investigations into the unexplainable properties belonging to Army Chief of Staff Tukur Buratai. The First Group is located on the seventh floor of the Bank of Industry building of the Central Business District, Abuja.

READ MORE.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/07/13/efcc-seals-first-group-company-sold-army-chief-tukur-buratai-his-dubai-properties

zyonnista:
Mine would have to be the TED(Technology, Entertainment,Design) app ...the lectures are really motivating and act as eye openers sometimes, and they are usually funny too.

The best part is having to listen whenever and wherever as it lets you download for offline use.

Whats yours? you can mention more tan one

MUVA:
Nigerians are happy people. We suffer and smile. We love to hide from our reality. We would rather celebrate mediocrity than demand for the best. We would rather use the internet to watch and download movies than research about other countries and how far ahead they are of us. We would rather celebrate thieves than honour heroes.


Our problem plenty.

AutosBay:
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Check your fuel filter to make sure it is allowing fuel through it. Fuel filters can become clogged over time, and eventually it may not allow enough fuel through it to allow the engine to run. Changing fuel filters is much easier and less expensive than changing a fuel pump.

dalaman:
There are no muslim atheist here. Only one was here before but has soon stopped posting years ago.

DevGuru:
This is just to assure all Nairalanders on this thread that I am still standing. There have been further developments which I can't type now because my phone battery is low. I'll update all you wonderful ladies and gentlemen as soon as I get home. Cheers

emoch:
I have been researching the health benefits of various plants and herbs and most times I hit a wall because even as most of these plants are available in Nigeria, we don't know their names in our local parlance. For instance I never knew the wonderful Neem tree is our popular Dongoyaro tree. This thread is for people to contribute their ideas on various plants in our local parlance.

Below are some ideas personally know
Basil plant is known as Nchanwu(hope I spelt that right)in Igbo and Effirin in Yoruba
Henna plant is the famous Lali used mostly by northernmost for body art
Hibiscus plant is what we call here as Zobo
tamarind is called tsamia here
Tumeric is ata Ile pupa in Yoruba
Cayenne is Bawa
Chilli is Shombo in Yoruba
Black pepper is iyere in Yoruba, Oziza in igbo
Thorny pigweed/prickly amaranth is tete eleegun in yoruba

Pls post yours. Note that the plant must be indigenous to Nigeria

beejaay:
am aware that MPC is like once every three months and it affect almost everything the commercial banks do..

as per the interest rate on personal loan, do banks operate fixed or flexible interest rate on personal loan given the realities of MPC.

someone here is having this type of issue with fidelity bank and the bankers are claiming that there interest is fixed which i very much doubt.. i have asked the person to contact the bank head office to confirm..loan was booked for her at 26% and now the bank rate is 23% as per what she told me (3% is a huge change)..

anyone with the right information should please shed more light on the matter

Jealouzzy:
Do you know that?
1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million.
2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools in the South.
9. In 1983, Senator Arthur Nzeribe spent $16.5 million to win a Senatorial seat in Orlu (in Imo State).
10. In 1973, the Federal Government of Nigeria considered officially changing the name of “Lagos” to “Eko”. Regarding “Lagos” as a colonial name.
11. The geographical area now referred to as Nigeria was once referred to as ‘Soudan’ and ‘Nigiritia’.
12. Offences punishable by death sentence after the 1966 coup included embezzlement, rape and homosexuality.
13. MKO Abiola was named Kashimawo (Let us wait and see) by his parents. He was his father’s twenty-third child, but the first to survive infancy.
14. Jaja Wachucku was the first person to refer to Lagos as a “no-man’s land” in 1947, provoking a national controversy.
15. Jollof rice, chicken breast, serve of ice cream, tea, coffee or Bournvita, with full cream milk and sugar: Meal Cost = 50Kobo- Unilag in the late 1970s
16. At the point death in 1989, Sam Okwaraji was a PhD candidate and qualified lawyer with an LL.M in International Law (University of Rome)
17. When British Bank of West Africa (now First Bank) opened a branch in Kano in 1929, Alhassan Dantata (Dangote’s Grandfather) opened an account depositing 20 camel-loads of silver coins.
18. Jaja Wachuku is reputed to have owned the biggest one-man library in West Africa. Balewa sometimes referred to him as “Most Bookish Minister
19. The colonization of Nigeria took more than 40 years to achieve and the territories were integrated by the use of force.
20. Yoruba is spoken as a ritual language the Santeria cult in Carribean and South-Central America.
21. Slavery existed in the Nigerian territory before the 15th century and was abolished in the 19th century- 1807 by the British.
22. At least 55 women were killed in South-East Nigeria, in 1929 when the women forced the Umuahia warrant chiefs to submit to their rule.
23. The coinage ‘Supreme Court’ was first used in 1863 by the colonial administration through the enactment of the Supreme Court Ordinance No. II.
24. MKO Abiola died suddenly on July 7, 1998, exactly one month after General Sani Abacha died mysteriously on June 8, 1998.
25. Agbani Darego was the only one to wear a maillot as opposed to a bikini during the Miss Universe contest in 2001.
26. The ‘Ankara’ material is not indigenous to Nigeria. Our indigenous textiles include the Akwete, Ukara, Aso-Oke and Adire.
27. Aloma Mukhtar is the first female lawyer from the North and went on to become the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
28. The area known as Makoro town in Lagos was first a swamp, later sand-filled by the colonial government and served as the first bridge to the Island.
29. Esie Museum is Nigeria’s first museum, established in 1945. Once reputed to have the largest collection of soapstone images in the world.
30. Aminu Kano formed the Northern Teachers’ Association (NTA) in 1948, the first successful regional organization in the history of the North.
31. George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
32. In 1996, John Ogbu, a Nigerian Anthropologist firmly advocated for the use of African-American Vernacular to teach in the U.S
33. Hause Language indigenous to Northern Nigeria is spoken in 11 African States. Germany, French, U.S., and British International radio stations broadcast in Hausa.
34. The surgeon who ‘killed’ Stella Obasanjo was sentenced to 1 year in prison, disqualified for 3 years and fined €120,000.
35. The word ‘asiri’ means ‘secret’ in Hausa, Yoruba, Nupe and Igarra. It also means ‘gossip’ in Igbo.
36. Igbo-Ora in Oyo State, Kodinji in India and Candido Godoi in Brazil are the towns that produce the highest number of twin births in the world.
37. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba, in 1857 produced a reading book for the Igbo Language and a full grammar and vocabulary of NUPE in 1864.
38. The first TV broadcast in Nigeria and Tropical Africa was on October 31, 1959.
39. In 1978, a 50Kobo increase (from #1.50 to #2) in the cost of University Students’ meal per day caused the ‘Ali Must Go’ protests.
40. Albert E. Kitson discovered coal in Enugu in 1909. This discovery led to the building of Port-Harcourt town in 1912.
41. Today, only Nigeria has a larger black population than Brazil. More than 3.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved and transported to Brazil.
42. Groundnut pyramids were the invention of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata to stack bags before export.
43. In 1967, old traditional ruler, Oba Akran and A. Ademiluyi were jailed for 14 years (7 each) for stealing £504,750 (#2.5b).
44. Since 1960, Nigeria has been either ruled by an ex-lecturer/ex-teacher or military man. The only exceptions are Azikiwe and Shonekan.
45. If you visited Lagos in 1975, you could spend a day at the Presidential Suite of Federal Palace Hotel for #100, single room for #19.
46. The first aircraft to land in Nigeria landed in Kano in July 1925. A British fighter jet flew from Khartoum (present day Sudan).
47. In 1895, Koko of Nembe (now in Bayelsa) took 60 white men hostage. When the British refused his demands, more than 40 of those men were eaten.
48. The ‘Naira’ was coined by Chief Obafemi Awolowo when he was serving as the Federal Commissioner of Finance.
49. Koma Hill (settlement in Adamawa where people lived and practised the killing of twins) was discovered in 1986 by a NYSC corps member.
50. The pilot (Francis Osakwe) that flew Ojukwu away from Biafra (1970) was the same pilot that flew Gowon to Uganda (last flight as Head of State).
51. In 1986, Shehu Shagari was banned from participation in politics for life. The ban has still not been lifted.
52. As the wife of the deputy Head of State (Vice President of Nigeria) in 1984, Biodun Idiagbon personally ran a small ice cream shop in Ilorin..
53. Koma Hills (Adamawa State) inhabitants when discovered were observed to engage in the practise of borrowing wives among themselves.
54. Juju, Dashiki, Yam and Okra are words in the English dictionary that originated from ethnic groups located in present day Nigeria.
55. Nigeria has more English speakers than England, and more Muslims than Saudi Arabia and Syria.

tonaydo:

Onuokwu:
These are some of the most used memes I have seen on Nairaland across the sections i am active in. Which ones are popular in your preferred sections?

ivyy:
A friend was going through my phone this afternoon and she literally laughed her _ass off while checking my picture gallery. Yeah I know I have a lot of funny pictures on my phone but until today, I haven't really thought about sharing them.

Anyways, no need boring you with guys with too much talk, oya let's go there.

DLondonboiy:
What if I told you BUHARI is too ill to come back to the country, would you believe me?

Well, I was told this morning by a source that craves anonymity (let's call him anon).

I'm not gonna remove anything from what Anon said. According to him, ' this President i am seeing is very weak and sick, I doubt if he can make it to Nigeria. We pray he recovers else there would be serious wahala. you know the North would not want a Yoruba President, they would rather Saraki becomes their President' ( I could not understand and still can not understand the relationship between saraki and aso rock). According to Anon, 'Osinbande (actually he said Osibanjo, but you know na) should be very careful o. The powers at play are bigger than him and if he his not careful, well, I trust he would be. we know he has been calling baba (OBJ) for advice and he would be meeting tinubu very soon, osinbadee is a very wise and cunny man, he would do well as president'.

Anon told me more things o..But I'd rather keep those ones to myself as tis content would shake Nigeria..

mrvitalis:
Buhari should have ran as an independent candidate.. .. this man is one man I hate in APC

Rilwayne001:
for the first time, I will have to agree with IPOB that this country is indeed a zoo full of dangerous animals in human skin.

Bottom line: FEAR NORTH

mrvitalis:
The influence of the North will take years to be broken, the Nigerian police should fish out this persons and let them face the law
This is too barbaric, this is 2016 not 1616

Efewestern:
Yea.. but that doesn't mean God doesn't exist... I don't do religious shiit... but i can Proclaim the existence of God any time any Day.. unlike you atheist who deny he exist.

Am a Christian thou, but i don't believe in poo easily, just living a Good life, Helping those around me and Asking God for Directions.. Such is life bro...

Efewestern:
, God Is Enternal, Religious is man made ...

modelmike7:
Only a fool says in his heart that there is no God!