₦airaland Forum

Midgut:
why mentioning my state's name?

Because it's an example of Education without success

lastmessenger:
If a man or woman is really educated he or she will succeed.

So what happened to the many professors of Ekiti state

estyvino:
With Naija pot holes! Na only the bus will be alarming! I need directions, please help!

Is it just pot holes. The roads are not naked too

nasonaso:
Tell me more abt ur glass solar panels

It's not mine. I used the world we for the world. Google the terms in UK. It's in use in the UK now for buildings and bus-stops.

lofty900:
thirded

Fourthed

YourNemesis:
So because it is old in Japan and the US, we shouldn't start our own abi?

No mind that mumu. No be start we got start first. Please appreciate the genius guy more

TPAND:
And this are the people we call the leaders of tomorrow. Imagine if these ones make it to the helm of affairs at the political scene.

Nigeria is still going to be the same if this is what the products of the tetiary institutions perpetrate to get into positions.

Forget that leaders of tomorrow thing. We've always had thugs and many of them are in power today. We have many better youths other than these non-entities.

Dressed with Gold or Gold colour

This is Barbaric.

Modest Society

The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).
When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, language, etc. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists, etc. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.” It is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.
On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but rejected the British technology. The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.
Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North. Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only Sharia Courts but no Customary Courts. So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.
Long after the British and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up religious branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia – the Islamic headquarters of the world – there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its country by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a very religious people.
Meanwhile, while we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, shopping malls, hospitality, etc.
Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples. It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, Brother, Sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it does not change hands, nothing gets done. And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.
One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the morals in our society. But it is not so. The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.
We import the petroleum that we have in abundance, rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance, and even toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort. Yet we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive is it!
Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot cars as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado, without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70 per cent live below poverty. Private jets have become as common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education and its sick people are running to India for treatment.
India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans travelling to the country for medical treatment. India has joined the nuclear powers. India has launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.
I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.
Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166,000 million, while India has a population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups; India has more than two thousand ethnic groups. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions – Christianity and Islam; but India has many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 52 years of independence; India has 65 years, while apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.
I am a Christian, and nothing can change me from Christianity. But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” is still a saying that is germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion; more work and less of hope; and more action and less of words.
Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now.

By Azuka Onwuka

Why swearing to deal with the AGF. A suit was initiated, tell your leader to either resign or prove them wrong. What the heck of a country is this

Truth be told. Our problem isn't coaching though ability to maintain dressing room relationship hygiene is important which the coach and its crew with the team captain has a responsibility for but the team and most sectors in the country presently lacks passion and genuine dedication for what they do. Until our mindset is progressively positioned, we can never get it right

saiNDAvengers:
"any Yoruba man that votes for Gej is a bastard"

I am Yoruba and I voted Buhari but you are wrong to have made such horrible statement that any Yoruba that voted GEJ is a Bastard. Anyways there are many Bastards in the land and only one could be able to tell that another one exists.

nnachukz:
These people acting like a saint when their can of worms has not been opened. Pointing hands to others of which there were once a member.

If I were you I will be happy that at least we got to this stage unlike when everyone gets away. Keep watching and you will see that it will soon go round. Let it be that way o.

P0intBlank:
Germany defeated its nemesis (Italy).
France defeated its nemesis (Germany).
Can Portugal defeat its nemesis (France)?

Yeah, Portugal did defeated its own nemesis (France)

Dainikel:
Germany really fall hands...mtcheww & for those hoping Portugal will edge out France on sunday to the cup should quit dreaming...how on earth would that happen? Tho I secretly wish CR7 gets his 2nd trophy this year.

Who is dreaming now? You or those that wished Portugal to win.

beautyoftheLord:
My goodness! Nigerians before you start abusing try and get your spellings and tenses right. Abeg! This is too embarrassing please. Horrible English both written and spoken.

please get a life. Can they speak your own language? Even in England, there are illiterates who cannot read nor write. So what led to embarrassment. Free yourself from a slavery mind set

Sunnycliff:
Its not morally right. What if he received an SMS on the pulpit that can shatter his emotions while on stage?

The device cam be in flight mode. It can also be on silent.

Rapmoney:
You are too little to relate intelligently with! Now listen, I don't sell cheeseballs, bobo or Caprisonne! You can go to the neighbourhood children's store to get those! Bye.

Common get away. Look at your level of reasoning.

Rapmoney:
My Generation is cursed and mentally sick hence been able to think straight and be sincere in my involvements is a problem

Fantastic I can now understand you better. Please visit your village for prompt action.

cekhoe:
and leaders past and present that have failed to deliver, how many have been beaten the shiit out of?,that is my point of concern,we are way beyond redemption, some may call me a pessimist some may even say I am a prophet of doom,I call it reality

Whatever

Rapmoney:
Get lost!!! I hardly have time for people who do not reason beyond 'crowd mentality' and don't bother to quote me again! Once again, get lost!!! To hell with you and whatever you think! Nonsense!!!

Look at you equating my comment to your coinage of crowd mentality. Please remember to visit Yaba left side before you enter the market.

cekhoe:
hehehehe, read my first comment and comprehend, I wasn't complaining,and btw the government has never in your own words enfranchised the masses,tell me one thing you get to benefit for being a Nigerian?, at no time has any government in power put the masses first, so I didn't disenfranchise myself from the government, rather, it's the government that did that to it citizens which happens to include me,but I can't say about you,maybe you are typing from one mansion in maitama, and don't really grasp the suffering of the masses

Na June, na July, both are half of the year. Whatever you say was your intent in your first comment.
The failure of the nation lies both in the hand of the government and the citizens. When the citizens give up on their government, they've only said do whatever you like and they will keep doing it unless citizens start pushing their own responsibilities too.
Vote when you need to vote and beat the shit out of your choice when he or she isn't delivering and vote another till you get it right.

vizkiz:
So they don't know
wizzy baby
Oluwa-wizkid
babanla
Oluwa-Expensive shiit
Star boy
back up singer for Drake and Pepsi ambassador?

Are they mad?
Y

Be anybody you want to be, once you do not have the proper documentation, just forget it.

cekhoe:
hehehehe, I am not ranting, from my comment you should have known that already, I am more of a realist, and from what I am seeing so far,the parameters do not swing towards the better side,reality is hard to accept especially if it's not positive and to hide from it we hide behind optimism, don't deceive yourself Mr,things ain't gonna get better for the common man out there, it might for the political class and the rich(the gap between the rich and poor will only keep getting wider) but not for the masses, it's the reality, I indulge you to quote me on this one for future reference, I belong to the class of the masses,I was in my house on election day because I lost hope in government along time ago, I see optimism as a psychological tool to keep people inline

Since you have lost hope in government and decided to disenfranchise yourself then stop expecting anything from the government or complain about the government.

cekhoe:
Yes, I am happy, I am happy because things are going this way, sometimes to make a gullible person wise up, you need to teach them a bitter lesson by scamming them,and that.is what is on going, it will get worse I assure Nigerians,from all sides,sit back and learn your lesson

Can you see yourself. The best you can wish is for the Nigeria situation to go bad and yet complain it's going bad. Why won't it be bad, since all you see and has hoped for is bad, worse, and worst.
Some set of Nigerians yearned for a better life by voting to change hands and instead of pessimistic individuals like yourself to embrace optimism hoping things go right through your own contribution and value creation, you rather chose to sit in your toilet to start ranting.
If they voted the government and they are not getting what they want, when 2019 comes they will still vote another because these set of Nigerians will not deter till they they get what they want rather than settling for crumbs like yourself.

Rapmoney:
Even people who campaigned with their lives and insulted others on this forum, for this dull ancient good-for-nothing fellow called Buhari will still come out without any atom of shame, to complain too!!! It was good during pre-election period, now you guys should eat the cake you baked! Rubbish!!! I'm not losing my sleep for nonsense!

You will still have high BP because I can't understand why you are bitter against Nigerians that invoked their franchise to give a trial of change since transformation mantra gave them otherwise.
If they complain, it is their right too do that because they decided it and can still decide another.
Rather than ranting, why not sit and think of the value you can add to Nigeria and your future.
People like you are satisfied with cutting corners as long as there is food on your table. (FFO)

omokenny94a:
I taught you were talking about the visafone

Yes Evdo 10gb monthly

omokenny94a:
Meaning the 10tb can still work?

10tb or 10gb. If it's 10gb @ #6k yes an it's likes

omokenny94a:
I have been buying SME data before someone introduced Visafone to me then i buy 1gb for #1300 but now that MTN took over Visafone i can't get airtime for Visafone and i've been spending much buying data this days that's why i opted for something cheaper.

I contacted the guy i've been buying SME data with before but his price is even more than MTN's price now (but he is reliable) so i risked it!

Visit MTN office and swap your visafone numer to MTN-VSF and still enjoy your visafone data plans.