₦airaland Forum

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I no dey defend them oh

I am just saying they are ready for the risks and the reward.

Na person join NA to fight BH, knowing he would die.

Na their own choice oh. It can pay off, if your Eleda no sleep [/color]

When eleda see machine gun pointed at ur head in the middle of the creek in the Niger delta , Shey eleda will leave person and run ?

afrodoc2:
Soyinka made good points. He actually acknowledged that there are positives to the issue which is why he referenced the Arab Spring. He was however interested on this occasion in pointing out some of the negatives. He also noted that it is not a black and white issue. It is quite nuanced and complex as you yourself have said.

Your point about the distractions is 100% true. Internet is a huge avenue for learning but if you are not focussed you will lose your way in an endless cycle of videos and memes which take you away from meaningful learning. Then you watch videos and you see mediocre people with limited knowledge abusing and insulting academics and experts either based on their feelings or just to trend.

Overall the internet and social media are net positives to society but they are not perfect and one has to be aware of the potential pitfalls.

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I still had a discussion with a friend yesterday and we both agreed that nowadays the youth learn from people on social media even the simplest of things they should pick up and learn from their immediate environment . Like people listen to people like Davido, Wizkid , Burna etc and think they are always right simply because those are the guys making all the money , buying the luxury cars and what have u. People glamorize some of their indicent behavioris, think it’s cool and won’t mind replicating same in their own immediate environment/society .

Remember that time Davido literally disrespected Dele Momodu over his issues with his baby mama Sophia ? He said “Dele na my boy “ did not end there , but added it to the lyrics of his song . This is Dele his uncle’s friend o; someone that has known him from birth . The youth though it was cool Davido had to give it to Dele and put him in his place…. Blah blah…

Davido has since apologized to Dele but that moral value broken is gone.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Many of the corpers who volunteer for this, go with the intent of making extra on the sides.

When i served, a guy in the set before mine made 500k from both APC and PDP.

In an era of 19800 oh[/color]

I know na , but for u to make that much on the sides then definietly u are rigging for one or two parties at ur polling unit . That even makes it worse cos if it’s a community that get skuru for head , they can declare maximum shishi for u immediately they find out ur game.

For someone who is not out to rig in Favour of any party , all he will get on the sides are money from two or three different party agents for refreshment/lunch which does not come at a price for ur life .

Amigoss:
Wetin Wike do for last election,no courts pointed it out and rebuked that rubbish,they were more focused on those wanting them to do right thing for our democracy....

Love how it has started in Bayelsa,let's see what Yahaya bellow has off his sleeves

When I see youth Corpers who volunteer to work for INEC in this age and time with the amount of violence in places like Bayelsa and Kogi ; I do wonder if those corpers have extra lives they kept somewhere .

The money paid corpers for these INEC jobs are not even worth the risk involved sef .

Ur future fit be becoming MD of a big company , but all that can get cut-off because u are trying to earn paltry 30 something thousand working for INEC that doesn’t even have any provision for substantial death benefits or compensation for ur beneficiary or urself if anything unto-wards happen to u. That Bayelsa for example a gun boat can just come out of nowhere , attack ur boat carrying INEC material and corpers , capsize the boat and leave u for dead in the middle of a creek that is not adequately policed .

seankafor:
Who are those that even gives this man this mic to be saying all these rubbish?

It's them I blame not the old fool himself

https://www.nairaland.com/7907249/technology-creating-new-generations-illiterates

In a way Wole Soyinka is right .When I say in a way , I mean social media has become sort of distraction that makes real learning kinda difficult .

Currently I have books I have been trying to read for months yet unable to make much more progress. Yes my job is now time demanding but the free time I don’t use sleeping or working , I find it difficult to use it for reading . Once I pick up my phone and enter social media I just waste hours getting amused/entertained by the contents therein while learning very little thing .

In fact , of recent in my quiet time I do wonder if I would’ve graduated with very good grades if it was this advanced social media age with many distractions I attended UNI . Like post-2020 when there’s TikTok , Twitter and IG where there’s always one trending issue to take off as much as 2-3 days off u e.g Mohbad case, Fatoyinbo case that year , Hakimi marital matter , Davido vs the American Only fans girl, etc . These are topical issues u will learn little or nothing from, but u will spend days following the news , discussing it on all social media platforms and even nairaland .

What I don’t agree with Wole Soyinka on is the fact that his bias towards this generation’s technology has blindsided him to see the advantages of these new technological innovations. He choose to only see and talk about the negatives which conforms to his bias . He chose not to talk about young prodigies that have used IT to put Nigeria on the world map. He chose not to talk about young talents who barely completed their college degree but doing exceedingly well today thanks to skills like programming and the likes. Some of these people are well read more than some professors sef . People who work with dashboards , who have found simpler ways of doing some of the stuff our so called professors want to do just one hard way( their own way ).

You can imagine that in Nigerian newspapers when their opening for an academic job in a university , they will still be asking a professor , Dr, Senior Lecturer , etc to send 15 hard copies of their CV , their academic credentials etc; in an age where u just need to email ur CV , do virtual interview and get ur offer letter emailed to you with little or no physical contact involved .

Itsrm:
I once asked my wife the same question. She said its because the quality of customers are also different. If you tell the one in VI the issue has been logged and he should expect reversal within the next one week, he will thank you and leave.

If you tell the one in Oke arin the same thing, the next thing you will hear is "what do you mean, I came here with the last money in my account and you're telling me one week. That money must come out today"

Eventually, it gets to you and you just find yourself snapping at them.

Maybe the same applies to government hospitals. Beyond the obvious fact that they are overworked.

Some of those bank staff too are not adequately trained jare. Some of them lack communication skills and emotional intelligence.

I believe banks make mistake of sending their best hands to places like Lekki, VI branches while they send the regular joes to places like Oke Arin branch. The fact that most of those tellers and Customer service guys are underpaid contract staff doesn't help matters.

raumdeuter:
While you are arguing about best swallow

Oyo chef don start the GWR challenge to Bring back our Record

Una go chop amala taya this month

Na me go sponsor this Oyo Hilda Baci

https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/oyo-chef-cook-200-hour-break-world-record/

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This one na chef Hilary Bashiru

Banky W and Obanikoro's hope dashed at the Appeal court.

https://www.nairaland.com/7906252/court-reinstates-lp-candidate-lagos

iamoyindamola:
Bodies
Midnight mass

I will download bodies now; I've checked it out.

As for Midnight mass, I figure it is horror genre. I no dey enjoy horror movies not to now talk of series.

Abeg recommend others to replace it

Iamoyindamola which series dey Netflix now wey dey make sense?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Leave am.

Under 4.5 - 2.03 odds

Stake 600k to win 1.2 million

19 mins: 3 - 0[/color]

Who go give u 2.03 odds for Under 4.5 game ? . When it's not Real Madrid Vs Accra hearts of oak.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Hollandia dey give this people headache

Please how is Nido fairing?

Na when i dey small i see that milk. I no dey see am again.[/color]

Dem dey sell Nido for stores well well na. I still see am for shelf recently in a store

Fchristo:
The State Government declared today public holiday

U work for the Federal civil service not Bayelsa state civil service.

The Federal civil service is not bound by any public holiday declared by Bayelsa state government. Your boss did the right thing by denying u absenting yourself from work today. If he had granted ur request, he would have been unfair to other staff from different states who didn't get any special holiday when their state elections were conducted earlier on (e.g Osun State, Anambra state, etc)

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I already reiterated that the problem with government hospitals is lack of staff, equipments, and the pressure has removed every iota of empathy from the staff.

Asides that, they have more qualified staff than most private hospitals

There are not so many good private hospitals. Maybe you are using Lagos/Lekki eye to look at it.

Where are the many good private hospitals in areas like Badagry, Shibiri, Epe, Ojo, Kirikiri? But people will need to do CS there...So?

Health care is not cheap. Just browse the prices of medical equipments and you'll know that what we call "private hospitals" are just school clinics.

Decent private hospitals are not much. No use big man eye look this matter abeg[/color]

Baba every area get em own fair share of good hospitals , it’s affordability that is the issue . At least I’ve lived close to some of the areas u mentioned up there and I know the people there will know where to go to get good health care .

That lack of empathy is a major issue with the government hospitals .The value they place on human live is not much at all. I don’t think it’s majorly lack of staff and equipment . LASUTH and LUTH for example are well equipped with medical equipment and qualified personnel in different departments ; yet u go see shege there except u get “leg” to take fast track ur treatment .

Make person just pray to have money to be able to afford private hospital or hope his comapny has a good HMO plan like itsrm pointed out.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Is it the increasing number of substandard private hospitals wey una dey eulogise?

Let us add levels to this thing.

Top private hospitals are okay; The Evercare, St Nicholas and some other expensive/affordable ones around us. But many private hospitals are death centres.

The major problem of government hospitals is the lack of equipments and manpower. The doctor(s) are more qualified than what most private hospitals parade.

LASUTH is a government hospital that is very okay.Even LUTH is okay, except for the lack of equipments. Nigerian Navy and Army Hospitals are okay too.

Make we no go praise private hospitals too much oh. Many are not better than roadside canteens[/color]

There are so many private hospitals that are very good and even though they are not up to dem St. Nicholas , Lagoon hospital , Reddington ,Eko Hospital etc standard . I’ve used a couple of them in the past and I can confirm some of them have equally good doctors ( mostly doctors who work government jobs also work in those hospitals as side hustle ).

Some of the advantages those private hospitals have over government hospital is the fact that u can walk in anytime and have ur health issues attended to. Nobody will ask u to first go and pick an appointment date to see the doctor . They are more empathic ( which is something that is lost in public hospitals ; till this day my mum still tell tales of the shege she saw at Ayinke House during childbirth )

I remember sometimes around early this year I had issues with my ear and had to go to the hospital to complain . Less than 20 mins after seeing the doctor , they had the ENT specialist check my ear and a procedure was carried out . I was relieved after a day or two using the oral drugs I was given . I can’t imagine the same situation playing out in a private hospital .

I co-saw shege with the rest of my family at LASUTH last year . The bureaucracy , lack of human kindness and care free attitude of government hospital health workers is a huge turn off for me . I will pick a decent private hospital above dem LASUTH any day anytime on general medicine issues

larride:
My wife delivery was CS. Paid 470k. Scheduled CS was 450k but if your wife don already begin Labour before una later settle for CS, e don turn emergency CS be that so the bill na 470k.

Everything they used for the CS, I paid for it including 2 pint of blood, even their surgical gown and gloves na me buy ham after paying 470k.

Later heard govt general hospital was 120-130k for CS, he pain me.

U better thank God u didn’t hear about the Govt hospital gist earlier . Government hospital is not it at all except in cases where u are referred to a specialist there .

Trust me, I’ve tasted both government hospital and middle class private hospital to know whose custody I will rather leave my loved one irrespective of the cost .

iamoyindamola:
I have not understand that part and I just they look them in amazement

Me I no even rate anything cassava made

liveLongNprospa:
Starch is for gods not mere mortals.

How you go dey talk like this?
You Don knack starch and banga soup or Owo soup.
Behave yourself oo

Oga u are just making dry cleaners charge us more for dry cleaning our shirts ni jare .

Starch wey dem supposed use make person shirt stand , u dey use soup wallow am 😏

Ibime:
Ambode went at the next primaries and so will Fubara. He is from minority tribe and Wike controls delegates

Tinubu would have briefed him to be patient till next election so as not to jeopardize the countries bread basket, just like Tinubu did with Ambode

Fubaras goal now is to chop enough to make his one term worth it. That's a good deal for Fubara

Still cannot discount Wike causing chaos before the next primaries though. All I know is delegates will chop tire if Wike does the sensible thing and waits

I agree second term is not sure for Fubara . This 4 years is sure for him if he doesn’t sleep on the bicycle and allow Wike spring surprise attack when it appears everywhere is cool and calm

Itsrm:


That's why I added that they are loyal to Wike. So it easily can be a lie. And it can be true.

Even if it's a lie and SIM was being targeted, then he has BAT to thank for saving him

Yeah, maybe he owes Tinubu for not standing aside and watch the state burn ; but he certainly took his destiny in his hands by having the the HOA torched first .

If those HOA members had form quorum to seat on his impeachment , he would’ve been a goner like this .

Itsrm:
You have to go back to the origin of the fight.

Fubara wanted to hijack the structure from Wike. So far, he has failed. Wike still controls the entire PDP structure.

And according to the statement by the Rivers State elders(loyal to Wike I have to add), there was never any plan to impeach Fubara. The person they wanted to impeach was Edison Ehie who was the majority leader of the house. SIM got wind of it and thought he was being targeted.

Lmao

And u believe this ? For naija politics?

Na God save Fubara say he no believe this kind lamba, he would've become ex-governor by now.

GloriousGbola:
Fubara has only been on seat for six months. he has not had time to garner any long term support. and now he has put wike on the alert. he does not at the time even have a track record to endear the electorate to him

what this looks like to me is winning the battle too early in the war.

You have not disputed anything I've said.

The battle was started by Wike making a move to impeach Fubara and thus far he has not succeeded. If Wike had succeeded it will be visible to the blind that he's the invincible kingmaker his loyalists portray him to be.

At least we remember late Adedibu vs Ladoja saga in Oyo state. Adebibu moved against Ladoja a seating governor and successfully had him impeached by the HOA. That is not the case here, Wike simply failed replicating same

Spy360:
Exactly my point. And he is now handing the pleasure of victory to Wike just to massage his ego so as to prevent further escalation and more enemies.

Perhaps he knows something we don't

Itsrm:
Lol, he didn't win anything. Wike still controls everything. Wike is also not a fool. He knows SIM is no longer to be trusted. He already even hinted it in one of his press conferences that the last election may be over but another one is coming.

I really don't understand how Wike won this round o.

Wike planned to impeach Fubara using the HOA members, Fubara's loyalists foiled the attempt and Fubara is still the governor as of today.

Whatever compromise they both reached behind closed doors we don't know, but what we do know is that the impeachment move failed and Fubara will most likely finish his 4 year term. Maybe Wike will win the war eventually, but this first round of battle surely favored Fubara.

Or how u take see am ?

Itsrm:
If this is the nonsense he wants to do, my hand no dey.

The one Wike did on Aker and Nkpor Road is still there standing strong without any issues. What makes these two roads interesting is that was used based on the nature of the soil in that area. Asphalt may have started given way.

The concrete road itself is not the problem, Nigeria just happened to the ones already failing in Ebonyi

That's the problem with politicians. While u are busy buying into their lofty ideas, they codedly have their own end-game

WhoDeyHause:
Even this man too? Capon of works? Hei. Is there any hope for this country at all?

Hope dey Imo State as supreme Court governor

GloriousGbola:
the real cost of a concrete driveway on an express is not the concrete, but the steel reinforcement

i saw the volume of reinforcement on the badagry oshodi expressway. the cost os is in the billions. no question about it

this road allegedly done by umahi is mass concrete.

it looks like they just poured weak concrete directly on the road without any preparation whatsoever.

What is the assurance this is not the kind of concrete road he will do on a national level? At least this is the kinda road projects that got him the national job

izzou:
[color=royalblue]No steel under sef. Which kind concrete road be that?

This man just wants to steal. You abandoned Lagos to Abuja existing highway in a deplorable state, but want to construct a fresh one.

Did we tell him the distance was our problem, or the bad roads?

He should go and ask Dangote what it costs to fund a concrete road.

Maybe na this nonsense e wan come do for National scale.
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This is why I agree with the house of assembly decision of putting the whole thing on hold first. Let previous concrete roads he has done be critically reviewed; let the durability of the road be investigated and reviewed before considering his suggestion

https://www.nairaland.com/7905775/group-exposes-cement-roads-done

itsrm Eboyin people calling out Umahi on the state of some cement roads he constructed in Eboyin

cc: izzou

Amoto94 no go show us this one o

https://www.nairaland.com/7905708/calling-israeli-mossad-order-bomb

Mossad/IDF legit calling people's direct phone line warning them of an impending airstrike and advising them to evacuate high rise buildings before bombing them.

raumdeuter:
Eba and fufu are sufferhead food

Anything made from yam definitely trumps anything from cassava. Cassava is the Toyota corolla of root crops while Yam is the Mercedes EQS

Cassava grows in any soil, while yam needs special tendering. Many places celebrate new yam, no one cares about new Cassava

Ideally Cassava suppose be for starching native wear and goat snack

This is the gospel truth!

When I see people turning starch as swallow, I just shake my head . Some people will even boast that starch is sweet; Like WTF !

Emaprince:
The congregations will have to be some special kind of foolish people to remain there. The new pastor needs to build and grow his own gullible followers.

Foolish people dey this life I swear. Imagine mothers and fathers waking up to discover they have been sold to another pastor and they didn't move on with their lives. All of them deserve flogging.

lol.

When I was growing up, Primate Ayodele and Late T.B Joshua are two prominent pastors I know who always end up with so many failed prophecies in a year. When it is December period, Newspapers like Tribune will write center-spread stories of " failed prophecies of prominent men of God -year 2001 ";be rest assured those two aforementioned pastors will make the list.

As at the time of T.B Joshua's death , his church had thousands of members all over the world. Primate Ayodele is still alive today and also has tens of thousands members as well (In fact a friend of mine got married in his Church a couple of years back). The man still gave failed football prediction last week sef.

How these pastors get to have a tight grip on their members I will never know. If people can stay put in a church where the leader constantly gives failed prophecies, tell me why such people can't stay put in a church where the founding pastor sold it to another investment pastor?