₦airaland Forum

ziga:
Na the thing wey d voices wey dey sing for your head tell you abi

I no blame you. na those voices i blame. shior, kelebe, tue.

ziga:
My guy. . . Nothin do you.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in your suggestion. We will pray for all the people who have suffered misfortunes. Amen!!! haleluyah!!!

Having fun doesn't mean we should forget our brothers. We should celebrate Nigeria, but remember our problems.

Everybody has problems. i have never met someone who didn't. But that doesn't mean you have to be miserable and negative for the rest of your life.

Babzilla:
I dont know how celebrating 50 years of nothing will improve the state of our affairs. I think the problem is we choose to be out of touch with reality.

truly:
Have fun with your celebrations
But remember in your prayers - the patients not being attended to by Lagos striking doctors
- the families living under siege in Aba
- the fishermen in Niger Delta who have abandoned fishing because of incessant oil spillage
- and the over 70m Nigerians who as usual will wonder where the next meal will come from

ziga:
Na by force to drag people into your miserable existence.

If you are sad, you don't have to make other people sad. Selfish eeediot.

Those words have summed up the problems with Nigerians. Lots of people believe that there should be someone to serve them. So, everybody is waiting for magic to happen.

tensor777:
^Are you normally so miserable and apathetic?

tensor777:
^Well I'm no interested in reading such negative pessimistic trash. Those who want to celebrate Nigeria's 50th birthday have every right to do so.
However if any one here is so miserable or disgruntled that they must be a killjoy then they do really need counselling.

md4real:
this piece is from a friend's note on facebook.


[b]As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………

I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.

So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.

I produce rice, but don’t eat it. I have millions of cows but no milk.

I am 50, please celebrate me.





I drive the best cars in the world but have no roads,

so I crush my best brains in the caverns,

craters and crevasses they crash into daily.

I am in unending mourning,

please celebrate me.





My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof.

I take lectures through windows and live with 15 others in one room.

All my professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas.

I am a university graduate, but I am illiterate. I want a future,

please celebrate me.





Preventable diseases send me to hospitals without doctors, medicines or power.

All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also.

I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world;

and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless,

please celebrate me.





For democracy’s sake I stood all day on Election Day.

But before I could ink my thumb, results had been broadcast.

When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets.

My leaders are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors.

I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy.

I have no verve, no vote, no voice,

please celebrate me.





My youth have no past, present nor future.

So my sons in the North have become street urchins;

and his brothers in the South have become kidnappers.

My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the Mediterranean.

My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt;

while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam .

I am grief-stricken,

please celebrate me.





Pen-wielding bandits have raided everything in my vaults.

They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes

They have looted the future of generations unborn;

and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes,

but their brothers die of starvation. I want a kit of kindness,

please celebrate me.





I can produce anything, but import everything.

So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa;

my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland;

my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy;

my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia*** my biscuit is made in Indonesia;

my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France.

My taste is far-flung and foreign,

please celebrate me.

*** To think that Malaysia came to NIFOR in Edo State in the 70's to acquire the Palm Oil Technology

My land is dead because all the trees have been cut down;

flooding kills thousands yearly because the drainages are clogged;

my fishes are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers;

my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done.

My very existence is uncertain and I am in the deepest depths of despondence,

please celebrate me.





I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.

So I spend billions of dollars to import fake leather.

I have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel,

so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country,

but send troops to keep peace in another man’s land.

I have hundreds of dams, but no water.

So I drink ‘pure’ water that roils my innards.

I need a vision,

please celebrate me.





I have a million candidates craving to enter universities,

but my dungeons can only accommodate a tenth.

I have no power, but choose to flare gas,

so my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of unclothed flares.

I am shrouded by darkness,

please celebrate me.





For my golden jubilee,

I shall spend 16 billion naira to bash around the bonfires of the banal.

So what if the majority gaze at my possessed, frenzied dance;

drenched in silent tears, as probity is enslaved in democracy’s empty cellars?

I am profligacy personified,

please celebrate me.





Why can I not simply reflect and ponder?

Does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?

Does my location limit the lengths my liberty?

Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul

Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?

And is failure worth celebrating?

I AM NIGERIAN, PLEASE CELEBRATE ME[/b]

agenta999:
we are sopposed to weep for the country and not celebrate because there is nothing to celebrate at all. unless we want to celebrate our award in corruption, we are now first in the whole world, H.I.V, we are second after south africa. bad leadership and poor security, we are third. e.t.c. we have the most corrupt embassy in the world, the nigerian embassy rome.

ziga:
I don tire for all of una small small pikin wey come don full everywhere.

Just continue in your misery. . . Whether u like am or not, we go celebrate our Naija at 50!!!

ziga:
Abeg if u no get anoda thing to say make we hear word.

You hear me compare. I only said that as for me and my family, we will celebrate Naija.

In your eyes, Nigeria hasn't measured up to the countries you compare her with, so don't say i compare, because, i no get time to dey look another pesin face whether e get pimple or not.

Shior, such pettiness. No wonder we haven't been progressing.

ziga:
And i'm tired of your hypocrisy. . . Nigerians don't deal drugs abi, men don't sleep with men, Armed robbers don't terrorize, Ritualists, Kidnappers, Corrupt public officers. . . The list is endless.

So, please remind me again of why Afghans are less human.

I know my Nigeria, and i accept it for what it is, while i still have hopes that things will get better.

that is why i choose to celebrate. Naija is 50.

i think you are just a big hypocrite. You have been preaching all day that Nigeria is not worth celebrating, and now you want to die to defend your theory that Nigeria is better than Afghanistan.

Abeg, i too tire for una Nigerians. .  Instead of facing your own problems you are obsessed with looking at who is better or who is worse than you are. Today na ghana, tomorrow liberia, next na SA to USA.

If you no want celebrate, no be by force. nigeria sef no send you.

ziga:
And you must have gone mad for thinking that Afghans are lesser beings than we are. slowpoke. . . If not for people who still believe in Nigeria, how long will it take to have complete anarchy in Nigeria.

So, you think we have nothing to celebrate. Well, i believe the situation in Nigeria should not be of concern to you at all. Bloody pessimist.

ziga:
Statements like these make me cringe. Too many Nigerians think too highly of themselves. In what way will you say that we are better than Afghans.

And this kind of arrogance is displayed by the average Nigerian. You hear them say why should Nigeria be poor. You seem to believe that riches is a God-given gift to Nigeria and you don't need to do anything to get it.

You don't have to celebrate, my brother. Leave the celebration to the few of us who appreciate, and know that the future of Nigeria is in our attitude towards our country.

ogugua88:
Was I referring to the present? Keep in mind that the US saw slavery, World War II, the civil rights movement, etc. I can even talk about South Africa. Was it not just 20 years ago that Nigeria and other nations were assisting them through terrible Apartheid? And look at what they pulled off in June-July. A flawless World Cup tournament. Did all this occur overnight? Was it magic that made them overcome? Or maybe it was a bunch of Americans and South Africans that sat in their chairs, frustrated and not willing to celebrate with their growing nations.

Tough times exist, we all get that. HOWEVER, a nation only goes backwards when unity and pride lack. If you, a Nigerian, are not celebrating or proud of your homeland and heritage, then na wa o. Maybe you're expecting Koreans to step up and be proud on your behalf.

ogugua88:
There are problems in the US too. That has never stopped any American from celebrating the 4th of July. Instead they stand together and become more patriotic and grateful as each year passes by. Just saying.

ziga:
Well Mr. Oga, you don comot na. So, leave Naija bizness for us wey still get stakes for Naija. Leave us make we celebrate our thing. At least you dey celebrate ya own for the place wey u dey.

copho:
Are you saying Nigeria has not acheived anything at all in 50 years? and that you cannot see that we continue to acheive? Look to yourself and answer me this, are you not able to read and write because of Nigeria? Ok, fine you may have been more fortunate than others with a better education but the fact of the matter is every Nigerian who was born in Nigeria and continues to live in Nigeria or is now in the diaspora has been influenced positively in one way or another by Nigeria. We may not want to admit it, but it is the truth. And if you can look at yourself and find just one good thing Nigeria has done for you, then i am sure Nigeria has acheived in your life. If you cannot, then i say its a damn shame and pity, which makes my heart bleed for you. But all the same, i would urge you to do something in Nigeria that will have a positive effect on another's life, so that in another 50yrs they can be proud to say i am Nigerian because of what you did and you can be proud to be Nigerian becausde of the positive effect you have had on your country.

I am starting to sound like a politician :-). I will celebrate Nigeria at 50!

ziga:
God bless NAija @ 50 jor.

It is human nature that no matter the situation, there will always be something to complain about.

I no go give myself sleepless nights to dey think about wetin we no get. But for people who wan carry all the whole burden of Naija on top dem head, Na you sabi.

God bless Naija, naija for life.

copho:
If you lived your life through ups and downs, and managed to still be alive in one peice at 50 years old, knowing that things are getting better and you still have a chance of someday being somebody, will you not celebrate?

Nigeria at 50 is definitely worth celebrating and i don't see any reason why i should not be celebrating. Rather than asking what has Nigeria ever done for me, i am asking what can i do for Nigeria.

I hope you all will be celebrating too :-)

ogugua88:
9ja needs more optimists amongst its population. We could easily be Sudan or Somalia, una know abi? We still have hope, and that, to me, is worth celebrating. I love my country very much and know that the next 50 years will be far brighter. In order to triumph, one must suffer. We have suffered. If we wish to be triumphant, we must want change, and I believe that day is near.

tirnom:
Nothing. I thank God for placing me in Nigeria. There are so many things to thank God for, we are getting there if you and i can be a little bit optimistic. you sef which corner of the world are you at? talk true Nigeria with all its imperfections is
sweet to live in.

Sagamite:
Someone pass the strait-jacket please.

McCoy91:
Some people are so funny/stupi.d. Before any revoluionary ever raised his hand, he was not happy at the way things were. Assuming you went out with your spouse & he/she embarrassed you, do you come back home & smile as if nothing happened without voicing your displeasure? I think the ones who are unpatroitic are those happy with the way things are now. Perhaps you or relatives are profiting. IMO, dis thread is not to pen-bash naija per se but to create disgust against those things that are destroying her. To help us put our country right.