₦airaland Forum

Roland17:
The professional aspect of teaching in Nigeria is quite poor, particularly after secondary school, I have to admit. I had similar experiences while I was growing and learning, particularly in secondary school. I really worry that we don't have actual professional teachers who have gone through the rigors of becoming educators from tertiary institutions teach our children, especially in primary and secondary settings. Like you rightly alluded to, most of the teachers at the basic level are usually university graduates who are not equipped to be actual educators because teaching transcends being in the classroom. How many of our primary and secondary schools actually employ graduates from our Federal and State colleges of Education? I mean over 80% of NYSC corpers are deployed to primary and secondary schools, even those with 3rd class and Pass (No disrespect to anyone).

We really need to get our basic education right and it starts with employing the right educators who have been trained specifically for the purpose of being career teachers in the field of academia. You'd notice I am focusing primarily on basic education versus post-secondary because if we get it right in this setting, post-secondary would be easier for students. Also, it is the same problem in post-secondary settings, where to your point, people get lecturing job without the requisite training needed to actually be a professional teacher. People use connections to get lecturer slots and are have absolutely no idea what it means to lecture. For avoidance of doubt, not all post-graduate students or degrees should teach. If your Ph.D. doesn't include courses in college teaching, including practicum hours then the student has no business becoming an instructor.

We are just winging several sectors of our economy and we

Well, I think some states are now trying to set things right.

I learnt Lagos state ministry has insisted on recruiting only graduates with Degrees in educational courses for both state owned primary and secondary schools. If you have a degree in a non education focused course, then you must have PGD education for you to be considered for employment. In their last two recruitment exercise, they insisted on this. I commend them for that.

Ibime:
I hear you, but it's still penny wise pound foolish. NYSC should be treated as a one-off life event which budget provision should be made for like a wedding or funeral. The speed of the ransom payment in less than one week shows money dey with proper planning. The kidnappers were calling N950m for 20 students initially, and in less than one week, the matter is done and dusted. Let's even say they reduced it to N5m per child, that payment was too quick. You will usually spend the first 3 days pricing with the kidnappers, then another couple weeks to raise the money but these guys done finish the whole matter in few days.

As example, when my cousin was traveling to Osun, she was going by bus. I quickly called her and her father and saw that it's just complacency setting in. This is around that Owo massacre time. Within few minutes, we have arranged contributions for her to travel by air, and the agreement is that she should stay there throughout NYSC until we book return flight than risk coming back and forth by road. As a child in her early 20s whose brain cannot comprehend entering plane or spending few hundred k on it, it's up to those with means within the family to guide, before ransom bill of millions drop. And it's up to her father to know the importance of accessing such funds for safety than to bring a bigger ransom bill later

You just made my point for me with this your example. You were able to advise the girl's father and back up advise with money because you are financially stable.

I have seen two different videos of the parents being interviewed and from their environment you can tell they are not financially stable enough to afford the air travel you are suggesting. As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I can tell you for free that not many family members will bring money out of their pocket to contribute for your child to fly to NYSC. They will tell you even their own child enter bus go Kano from Ibadan, why your own daughter Wan enter plane go Imo? 😂

If I had a younger who wants to go for NYSC, I would also try as much as possible to ensure he doesn't travel by road if the state he's going to has a working airport.

GloriousGbola:
also means the true story may not be as cut and dried as everyone is making it out to be.
as far as i can tell, the kidnappers did not even have time to release videos of their victims suffering which they normally do to drive up the price.

If you ask me, this particular kidnapping looks like local kidnap done by criminals operating in that area. It doesn't look like the previous ones . The way they reduced the ransom drastically and quickly negotiated with families of the victims was totally different from the pattern of mass kidnaps that has happened this year and last year.

I have a feeling if the security agents put in serious efforts, they can nab these guys. I won't be surprised if they turn out not to be the regular Fulani herdsmen

GloriousGbola:
the problem with AI is that it often it is only as good as teh person post9ing it

white is navy officer uniform
the other shoud be an army lieutenant

black uniform is just copy pasted

you do not 'join' the military officer corps

you enter nda and you are a cadet until you graduate, not an officer

I get ur point, but u are overthinking the whole thing. The point the creator was just trying to make is u can join any of the military or paramilitary with SSCE but u can't "join" NYSC with SSCE.

He wasn't thinking about all those technicalities of differentiating between commissioned military officers and the non commissioned ones

iamoyindamola:
From the producer of the industry (HBO)
Another potential is up and running 'WAR'
It's about 2 biggest law firms in youkay fighting it out to win a top divorce case

That's the little spoilers I can drop for now


Blueraydick, izzou et ibime

I saw a review of it online this morning. I plan to watch it later this evening when I'm free.

It seems they are releasing it one episode per week.

Ibime:
That's why I said it took them less than one week to raise ransom payment. That indicates there is means within the family, whether the nuclear or extended.

If my relative is kidnapped today, it will take more than one week for us to agree contribution levels oh

Okay look at it this way: The parents are obviously poor and cannot afford flight ticket to and fro. I don't know about other airlines but as at August, a two way ticket on value jet for Lagos-PHC route costs about N368k

The parents obviously have poor or even poorer relatives. Now imagine if they approach their relatives to ask them to raise over 300k as flight ticket because their son or daughter is going for NYSC. Do you think any of them will come through for them? I mean these are poor people who have their own nuclear family responsibilities not yet met, why will they contribute to ur child going to camp via flight? The means is not there like you are thinking.

They only squeezed out money out now because everyone fears the kidnappers may actually harm them.

GloriousGbola:
i guess i see your point. . .
but i counter with NYSC is not military or paramilitary

what we do is not even boot camp.

It's not that deep. The person who created the post was simply saying u can't wear NYSC uniform (legitimately) except you've graduated from a university while u can wear any of the other uniforms just by having your SSCE and joining the respective military/paramilitary service.

The post is not about which is military or paramilitary . (Even Immigration is not military na)

Ibime:
Anywhere there is a clean rescue without any victims blood spilled, money has changed hands.

These parents sef. You sent your child by nightbus to NYSC, only to raise 100 times the airfare for ransom payment in less than one week.

According to the parents, the ransom was a combination of donations of sympathizers and borrowings.

The truth is those parents are poor and cannot afford flight ticket for their kids under normal circumstances. Some of them even struggled to raise the night bus fares sef. Omo no be everybody come from soft life o

Roland17:
https://www.nairaland.com/8762141/children-learn-better-me-than

I saw this topic and felt compelled to bring it here to share my thoughts, read other thoughts as well.

While the OP and those who support his position make some good points, they are forgetting the OP is responsible for teaching only his child in comparison to the teacher who has to teach a lot of children. There is also a misconception that being a professional teacher is limited to just teaching and because I teach my own child better, I can do a better job than the teacher who is supposed to be the professional.

Parents have the advantage of knowing the tendencies, temperament and unique dynamics of their own children, consequently, your own child should learn better from you. Children may also behave better at home and be more compliant at learning than at school.

A teacher is trying to teach a classroom with children who have different personalities, tendencies and learning dynamics, so it is more challenging for the teacher to achieve perfect teaching techniques for every child in that classroom and this is where collaboration comes.

Parents should be sharing thoughts, what works at home rather than expecting teachers to be the only source of learning. Parents should also be active in the academics of their children, particularly when they are still in nursery, primary and secondary school.

All you've said is very true, but I won't rule out the fact that some teachers actually don't know how to teach.

In my secondary school we had different teachers at different times who took us some subjects and made most students dislike those subjects because of how terrible they were at teaching. I attended a government secondary school where all our teachers are civil servants, most of whom do the barest minimum to impart knowledge. I guess some of them were just university graduates who got teaching jobs out of necessity for self-preservation and not because they studied education-based courses nor have passion for teaching.

Some of the subjects they made me dislike from SS1 to SS2; by the time I attended an external tutorial for 6 months in SS2, I wrote GCE and cleared all my papers while doing B3,B2 in two of such subjects. The difference was the teachers and the their teaching methods in that external tutorial.

In the University too, I know a couple of lecturers who are actually very terrible educators. I believe those ones were just brilliant students who made good grades during their bachelor's degree, had PhD grade in their Masters and proceeded to obtain their PhD. They are people whom you will read their journal articles and commend their scholarly work, but when they teach in class they suck!

Theflint1:
The longer you're waiting, the wiser you get which makes it harder to settle

Most people don't know this gospel truth. The more you advance in age, you get wiser and you keep forming hard man wey no dey take bullshiiit. If God wan catch you, the person you are seeing too will also be within your age bracket. Ego and zero-tolerance for bullshiit will make it hard for both of you to settle down on time.

The category of people I've seen this thing affect most are people who relocated abroad as single in their late 20's, spent their early to mid 30's trying to sort their financial lives in a new country and start thinking of settling down maritally afterwards. Most times they always marry wrong whether they decide to marry someone based abroad or come down to Nigeria to get a spouse.

Government is saying the kidnapped NYSC members were rescued in joint military action.

The parents on the other hand have detailed information of how they pooled resources to contribute the ransom, changed it to dollars and paid to the kidnappers before their children were released.

That our government lies shamelessly is not news again. In my personal opinion, I think the honorable thing the government can do at this point is to at least reimburse the parents the amount each of them paid as ransom. Most of those poor parents will most likely be in debt as a result of the ransom payment

The family of one of the 20 abducted NYSC members says it borrowed money and sought donations to raise ₦6 million to pay a ransom. The family has disputed claims that the corps members were released without payment, citing the cost of securing their child’s freedom.… https://t.co/4ueCLCCrkX pic.twitter.com/xkpNCjFpRn

— News Central TV (@NewsCentralTV) October 8, 2026

iamoyindamola:
BlueRayDick
Do you know this woman?
It's only a matter of time if her deals aren't clean, blowing almost £3k is a lot both in youkay and naija

There’s no Nigerian living in the UK🇬🇧 who doesn’t know General Kagi, a stinkingly rich woman. She markets and distributes kilishi worldwide.

She was live on stage with K1 De Ultimate, spraying him £100 notes. pic.twitter.com/FxkfwsPVaJ

— PENTANE🎤💜💡 (@Thepentane_) October 7, 2026

I've never heard of her.

So the poster is saying na out of the proceeds of her Kilishi business she dey spray Wasiu pounds sterling ? Kilishi must really be a booming business in the UK o

Roland17:
Even Isaac Newton go enter flight, flee or fight mode!

I raise you Isaac Newton will be amongst the people that will first deck the guy better uppercut after they restrain him

Roland17:
Mid flight, Yes, (which is what it seemed like during this incident), I agree with you that is nearly impossible to activate the emergency exit door because of the differential air pressure.

However, this is you assuming everyone on that commercial plane is science inclined or understand physics to the point of feeling safe. He may not achieve his attempt but his behavior caused significant chaos, disrupting the flight and compromising the safety of everyone on the flight.

The incident could have forced an emergency landing irrespective.

Even a professor of physics at that moment is not doing any mental permutations as to whether the man can open the door or not. The idea of a fellow passenger making attempt to open the exit door is enough to send a Nobel Laurete in physics into panic mode.

Na who no dey on that flight (like we that watched the video on the internet) fit dey reason the chances of success of the man's attempt.

Update on the guy who attempted to open exit door of plane mid air.

They are saying it's a Kenya airways enroute Lagos from Nairobi. According to this poster, the man died eventually on the flight.

If this account is true, I hope the guy doesn't have drugs in his system either as a user or trafficker. Serious investigations need to be carried out to actually clear the air on what really was wrong with him.

Clearer Video: “The Man Was So Restless And Started Behaving Strangely. This Was When He Stood Up. It Seemed Like He Was Struggling To Breathe, And a Simple Oxygen Could Have Saved His Life. This Was The Moment It All Started. Unfortunately, The Man Died Inside The Plane Before… pic.twitter.com/JRTdfNA6DQ

— Somto Okonkwo (@General_Somto) October 7, 2026

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iamoyindamola:
Shey na you wan marry diggz sister that year abi na diggz wan marry your sister.

Onukuman

Omo, Kolo people dey internet sha.

Roland17:
The anger na me and you eh. He literally wanted to end the lives and happiness of generations by that action.

Omo, na why I no dey fit sleep whenever I fly, even if na long flight. From the moment I enter airport to when I finally board and flight don start, the way I dey use scan people pass wetin TSA dey do for here. I don't know how some people do it, they take medications to sleep throughout the flight because of anxiety.

God abeg oh!

I generally don't sleep when travelling no matter how long the distance is. Whether it's by road or by air, I find it difficult to sleep. I always scan my environment and keep an eye what's happening. I always marvel at people who sleep almost immediately the journey begins.

Roland17:
Omo na me dem go need to restrain next because the kain beating combination wen him go chop for my hand! Him think say na him mad pass Abi!

As in. Not being in the plane and watching the video, I dey feel serious rage ; now imagine ẹ being in the plane to experience my life flashing in front of me. I will most likely knock him unconscious as soon as they restrain him.

If he smoke colos before he board plane, no be me wey no follow am smoke go come follow am die o.

afrodoc:
It is a high risk venture. I wish him well and hope he does not fall victim to enemies within and without.

Most business ventures in Nigeria are high risk ventures sha. The people element of business is always deciding factor whether a business will thrive or collapse especially in a country like Nigeria wey wicked people plenty.

But looking at our entertainment industry, I would say he has a ready-made market waiting for his business venture to tap into. If he doesn't run into problem with government and doesn't suffer major sabotage from those he employs there, I think this investment will really pay off for him in the future.

Dem dey hawk Dangote Refinery shares

Them dey hawk Dangote IPO for Ibadan keh,I pray this thing works out oo 🙏 pic.twitter.com/oftSD6eZNt

— Omowunmi (@Omorhemi) October 7, 2026

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Dangote is now hawking his IPO on the street of lagos . Seems Nigerians no send him and his shares again . Vote out Tinubu so economy can return to normal. pic.twitter.com/gXT9hoI2YC

— UCHE (@ELLUP76) October 2, 2026

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iamoyindamola:
Yes that's a multipurpose investment there
Cinemas, hall, studio, mini movie village etc
Very brillant of him

Very very brilliant. His investment makes so much sense because going forward, most of his fellow actors will have no choice but to patronize his business at one stage or the other in their film production business.

Even if they shoot an epic movie in some remote village, they will need to post production in a studio which he has available with state of the art equipment. If they take their movies to cinemas, he will get a bite because he owns a cinema that has two modern cinema rooms. If they want to record soundtrack for movies, he has a music studio to serve their purpose.

The guy really has a very good head on his shoulder. I guess he spent the money he made from serving as special assistant back then, the money he made from multiple brand ambassador deals and the one he made from film making in a very wise way.

This is a massive investment by Femi Adebayo.

Omo! 😲

This beats all the investments his fellow Nollywood actors have been putting up. Having this kind of media hub in the heart of Ikeja will keep him financially stable even if he decides to retire from film making today.

This is really really impressive, I don't even want to imagine what the land alone will cost in naira, talk more of the building, fixtures and fittings. I respect him for this hustle abeg 🫡

Ola of Lagos giving us a well detailed tour of the new Euphoria 360 hub for movie production, music video, content creation and all owned by Nollywood actor Femi Adebayo🏠😍❤️…..Omoh, Na here money finish bruh🤯🥶 pic.twitter.com/2aIHdIyoIo

— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) October 6, 2026

Tochex101:
Airframes are not handled like road vehicles..... they do what is called periodic depot maintenance and most frames were usually cargoed to their host countries for certified maintenance.

We still recored air crashes and frame losses even then.
As at today most of the pdm is now done in house as capacity has grown tremendously.
In this aspect, the usual Nigerianess/factors are absent.
Rotor craft are just notorious, the physics is very difficult.

I am not an aeronautical engineer, neither am I technician knowledgeable in mechanics of commercial nor military aircrafts so I can't argue on anything you've written up here.

But one thing I know is, this is Nigeria and things don't seem the way they are actually are. My instinct is NCAA does a lot of good work to ensure only airworthy commercial aircrafts fly in our skies. I can't say the same for our military authorities because they don't have an indepedent agency determining if our military aircrafts are airworthy before they are allowed to fly.

Below is an alleged leaked chat between one of the personnel aboard the ill-fated military aircraft and a a friend. According to the chat, the plane had issues before the ill-fated flight. How do we know if the plane was indeed airworthy as of the time of the flight?

The crazy thing is even after an investigation is carried out into the incident, there might be some cover up in order not to indict some senior men who may be culpable of negligence.

iamoyindamola:
I no wan know the madness way enter am, if I can't fight him I go finish him neck with my teeth
Which kind nonsense be that

Aswear! I go run enter am.

If he's feeling suicidal, at last he should die alone instead of trying to everyone along . Which kind nonsense be that ?

A passenger allegedly tried to open the exit door of a Nigerian airline flight mid-air.

Omo, if I dey on this flight lásán, after dem Don restrain the weyrey, I go first give am like 7 heavy blows make he first lose consciousness. I go pour all my anger with the Nigerian system on top him head.

According to different videos circulating online, a passenger allegedly attempted to open the exit door of a flight mid-air? 🙆‍♂️🤯 pic.twitter.com/1PZ2YGOOWU

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) October 7, 2026

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izzou:
Are there no better equipments to search for a missing plane in a canal?

Which one be Swarm Boogie?

Swamp buggy is designed for movement in swampy terrain. I want to believe they are not making much progress with boats and canoes being used in movement for searching the aircraft parts.

I don't think Nigeria has the kind of equipment we see them use in more advenced countries when the are searching for missing plane parts.

If you go to Google and type " Equipment used to search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH37", you will see that there's no way a 3rd world country like Nigeria can have such equipment lai lai.

Tochex101:
Helicopter/top and tail rotor design is failed engineering if you ask me..
It almost never matters how careful you are, even if you follow all protocols, use the best technicians and follow factory maintenance requirements.

The chances of malfunction or crash is still atleast 8% which I think is unacceptable.
Check all over the world and militaries of 1st world countries, its the same denominator.

Now add all that to Nigerian factor ; I mean Nigeria where we do things anyhow. If one senior man cuts maintenance budget and the technicians have to make do with whatever is available to keep the aircraft flying, what do we expect will happen?

GloriousGbola:
Imho it is obvious.

We have two or more air force casualties every year. And there is never any investigation of any kind. For all intents and purposes it is like nepa /phcn/ekedc where you run any wayo without consequence.

That's my thought too. Military get away with a lot of things most private organizations would not.

izzou:
Also, it's possible that it was just unfortunate

Saw a video of the same aircraft airlifting Air Force secondary school students in September.

Such a pity

Some of the villagers on camera claimed they heard a loud noise from the aircraft before it eventually crashed into the swamp.

There's a possibility a mechanical fault led to implosion of the aircraft forcing it to crashland. Such mechanical fault may be due to lack of proper maintenance.

These are speculations fuelled by the incessant military air crashes in the last few years.

iamoyindamola:
I use to think this Dane gun is not Fatal like that

Omo, that was a headshot. Even if dem stone person that close on the head, person fit die o. Especially for a man who is likely above 60 years of age.

Earlier today I saw a post talking about the number of military air crash that has happened in the past 10 to 15 years while civilian airlines have not really suffered any major casualty in that same time space.

The post was pointing to the fact that Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency has been at their A-game seeing to commercial airline operators taking maintenance of the aircraft and general safety measures pretty serious. He posited that may have been reason there's been reduction in air mishaps involving commercial flights in Nigeria.

Military aircrafts are however not within supervision and control of NCAA. This is being speculated as maybe one of the reasons there's been spike in the rate of military aircraft. The post was suggesting corruption, inefficiency and lack of proper independent oversight may be reasons as to why aircrafts belonging to military authorities have been unfortunately involved in crashes of recent.

The whole thing got me thinking, the poster may not be wrong knowing how we are in Nigeria and how corruption has affected all spheres of of our daily lives

iamoyindamola:
Awo lo, ogberi nsunku

Omo! Even the closest awo change direction as he see say bullet commot the man's cap.