₦airaland Forum

IbeOkehie:
Among all governments, the one in the USA is the best - not because it's run by better human beings, but because its powers to steal are almost PERMANENTLY & EXPLICITLY LIMITED by the basic law called the Constitution of the United States. That document is the ONLY BASIC LAW in the world containing the words "GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT". That's the REAL REASON the USA is the greatest nation in the world, the greatest and best nation in HUMAN HISTORY, it's a fact that's undisputable by the living or the dead, ordained by God and the Devil.

Dump is shaking my faith in the powers of the words "GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT", I daresay.

IbeOkehie:
Whatever sha...China will save Africa. Indeed. It's so terrible that Nigerians don't understand these simple things. Shhhheeeesh!!!

An old English friend used to say China will exploit us more than Britain did.

My response was, the fact Britain has exploited Nigeria has educated and made us more aware and somewhat vaccinated ue against colonial exploitation to some extent, and he should credit us with brains to know that only ourselves can save ourselves.

I know I exaggerate a bit, since many still seek their own salvation from heaven, but we most definitely on the whole do not think "China will save Africa"!

nateevs:
This is proper BS. You are mad at the consequence of Chinese strategic industrial, economic, engineering growth plan and readiness for many decades.

The Chinese graduate 1.6m engineers every single year. You think this came about by just reverse engineering 5h!t? This is result of long term planning..... government-led, government-financed strategic mobilisation across all facets of society. They are going to dominate everything for decades to come.

Imagine this nitwit complaining about China, whilst enjoying Chinese privilege on his cheaply-made Chinese phone.

Whilst you are busy tainting the Chinese as evil pirates, China is concentrating on domination of the future.

80% of the world's most advanced AI researchers are in China. Over 80% of new AI patents are tendered by Chinese.

China produces more electric power in one year than the whole of Europe, US, and Canada combined.

China controls more than 80% of the world's renewable energy supply chains. China by far dominates the world in robotic engineering, EV technology, 5G wireless communication technology, and in time, they will dominate the world's automobile industry.

Whilst Trump was intent on tariffs and banning China from accessing Chip technology, China dug in, and now China is on the verge on creating the world's first commercial EUV lithograph machine not built by ASML.

You must be mad thinking dominance of this scale across multiple sectors is by copying.

What was the US doing whilst China was laying down the ground work for this scale of dominance? .....deindustrialisation, capitalism and warning the whole world about Chinese dangerous socialists.

You decapitate Chinese influence by socialism. Government-led initiatives to industrialise across all sectors. You build your own supply chains from the ground up.... not by going to kidnap other presidents because they chose to align with China, instead of the US.... That's dictatorship of its own.

I had to post this here to lead me.

magoo10:
so you are serious you are looking for thief when you are defending one with your life already.

And which thief am I defending when I am telling you how I will defend my own house and my own land and my own country?

nairalanda1:
Lol. US dependency on Nigerian oil has fallen drastically,

How drastically?

The chg and % is interesting.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTIMUSNI1&f=M

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/nigeria/crude-oil-petroleum-bituminous-minerals

magoo10:
what it means is if thief enter your house you will set it on fire.

If that's how irrational you think I mean then so it is.

As for me, if thief decide to enter my house and settle in my house, first I will cut the water to my house and cut the electric to my house and put juju on my house and the thief. Then I will put dead cow in my house and block the entrance to my house and dig up the road to my house and stone the windows of my house so as to diminish the thief enjoying my house before burning it if thief doesn't get the hint. And after that I still might not get my house back and might need consider further obstacular measures so thief severely don't enjoy occupying my land.

I perfectly understand if you differ as we are not all the same.

magoo10:
you will blow up your oil so it cant be stolen as in how?
you guys should take it easy in being emotional.

I, Nigerian, "should take it easy in being emotional" about foreign thief breaking my house on my fatherland and kidnap my peoples and sell the asset for their own benefit and profit?

Magoo10, I am not like you. Add severe anger and a dose of I no go gre, and that's buda.

If thief enter my own house and steal my asset to sell in the market, I will terr⁰r¹se them back in return, and if I'm not strong enough to terr⁰r¹se them, I will definitely dig my road and puff my factory and put every other possible obstacle I can muster in their way to reduce their profiteering and get the f off my land.

It's a strategy that's been used after all, so why not Venezuela?

Antichristian2:
Can God die?

Yes Gods die, as history shows.

Humans just need to stop worshipping them and they die.

On the flip side, insurgents might blow up Venezuela's oil so it can't be exported, and that would explode oil prices. But I see FreeStuffsNG has already explained this scenario so I shan't belabour the point.

Just think what we would do if it were Nigeria and some foreign country deposes our president and tries to steal our oil. I'm very certain we'd blow our oil up so it can't be stolen.

Antoeni:
Ask Your Yourself,How Come Borrowing Has Tripped?

Are you asking that we create some fake conspiracy to support your unsubstantiated claim, or will you provide evidence to substantiate your own claim?

kayjordan:
"Good morning!

I noticed you haven’t replied to my last rebuttal...

Does this mean you finally concede to my previous point that: -  "Youngsters in the UK have the free-will to choose between Science and Religion as they mature"?

No one said Youngsters in the UK do not have the free-will to choose between Science and Religion as they mature. And your reading of the Church of England report does not support the increase you seem to think there is.

The growth in church attendance is mainly in pentecostal churches, and that is full of immigrants. It is not growing amongst the natives. Churches, and even pentecostal churches, are shutting down as attendance and revenue dwindles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/369080/church-of-england-attendance-by-service-uk/

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/31-october/news/uk/church-of-england-statistics-for-mission-contradict-claims-of-quiet-revival

I have included the exact phrases used in my questions for the images below so you can falsify it to see the relevant links and not just assume AI.

Good morning.

kayjordan:
- and as you grow into an adult - you make the decision to know which to align with - scientific knowledge or biblical knowledge.

Either decision is like a choice of the operating software one runs their hardware on. And understanding matters much.

Science would teach one that force multiplied by velocity equals power, but religion might leave some thinking the power is in yelling Jesus.

Outcomes will definitely differ, since both are not exactly equal useful 'knowledges', but one can eventually lead to the other if some brain power were applied.

For instance, the Bible teaches Power = Force x Velocity, just in a rather obtuse way. The power to produce my daily bread depends on the effort I exert by the rate of time that effort is exerted, which shows the Bible's usefulness in the basics, but not very useful when attempting to travel to the moon or build a superpower computer or simply letting there be light, if any of those are desired that is.

tarboshi:
you have zero ideas to share.

Definitely not with your sort, that's for sure.

You'd need to first learn to talk respectfully before I even look at you.

raumdeuter:
Forcing a recession brings down interest rate

Yep. That is indeed an option. It will result in job loses and high unemployment, and will force the Fed to lower interest rates, but might not make lenders accept lower interest rates on bonds however.

But to be sincere, I'd need to see this to actually know if it might. And I wonder how that would make America great again.

raumdeuter:
That is why Trump is trying to force down interest rates to refinance the debt at a lower rate.

Dump can not force down interest rates to refinance the debt at a lower rate! And I'm very concerned you don't know this even more than dump not knowing it!

Even if dump forces down the Fed Rate (by firing Powell and installing his stoogee), it will not lower interest rates on bonds that finance interest rates on US debt, and will in fact raise bond rates.

Thinking otherwise is like saying you can dictate to a lender the rate of interest at which you borrow.

Pierocash:
that is how it is been calculated, rent relief. For those paying insurance, mortgage, debt and so many other deductibles will be deducted before the balance can be taxed

But you still haven't shown where you got your information from even though your deductables do reduce one's tax if true.

Cashylyxcartalk:
Budaatum seriously or really , my content are not educating or it is topic that you need to fight on ?

I am not fighting you. I am merely giving you some business advice. And I wouldn't bother with the suggestion if your content were no good.

If I open a shop to sell very cheap good stuff that everyone wants but don't clean the outside of my shop, will people enter my shop to see my very cheap good stuff and buy it?

Your content is educating, and might benefit from the cleaning of the outside of your shop please, so you can get more customers to educate.

You don't sound tired of salary work yet.

Because anyone with a business idea won't just give it to you, but either hire you on salary to effect it or sell it to you.

So, my question to you is, how much you buying business ideas for?

MONEY247:
Salary work is good but I think should be temporary...
OK... Please is there any business or skills I can start this 2026

I keep wondering if your "What Are[s]" are intentional.

It makes me think you do not understand what you are writing, and wonder if your incorrect grammar actually gets you the desired effect of being read.

I am your customer giving feedback.

kayjordan:
You are taught to believe in science.

I have chosen to address this one statement for now because it completely misses the point.

In UK, we are not taught to "believe in science" or anything at all. We are taught to use the scientific method (or as I define science, use our senses like Eve is written to have).

Once one believes a thing, one stops asking and knocking and seeking for knowledge because one assumes that what one believes is knowledge, which it isn't or you'd say you know, instead of, "I believe". I see this as a huge issue in Nigeria where we tend to believe a lot.

Belief in anything, is religion. It is not encouraged in the UK education system. The use of the senses is, and that's why Rule Britannia!

By the way, buda is a non-believing atheist, as in one that does not just believe that gods do not exist, because I know humans create figments of imaginations of gods in their heads.

Good morning. Hope you woke well.

Fafo, lol.

https://www.change.org/p/deport-nicki-minaj-to-trinidad?

I can't quite understand why you choose to learn Igbo from people who insult you.

Are they paying you to learn perhaps, or are they the only Igbo teachers in the world so you can't go find teachers elsewhere?

You seriously need to be more responsible for your own learning, is what I think, instead of trying to take your learning from those who seem to be doing everything so you don't learn Igbo.

Was I really wrong for serving her chicken feet and head?

Yes you were very wrong indeed!

If chicken feet and head was as fleshy as you claim, why did she not serve it to herself or to her husband and children?

And I bet he slapped you because you were playing voltron arguing that you were right, and therefore literally asked to be slapped in front of your maid.

But I really don't know how you intend to survive this, I dare say, because he really humiliated you, and a flip side is if your husband is making the maid his second wife, and whom he might prefer to you. I sure wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking he mismarried.

You are fortunate if you are uneducated and have no means of earning, or you'd most definitely need to consider dumping that man and going to seek a man who aligns with your ideology of feeding dog food to the maid on Christmas day! But as it is, change your ways and grovel and hope you get him to love you more.

Oh! And get rid of that maid!

pocohantas:
He said he is almost 45. I don't know why some of you think these guys are young sha. They are older than you. 😂😂

It might be because some of them sound and behave like we'd expect 12 year olds to.

AlphaBoy:
So do you think success truly makes women chase men?

No, I don't think "success truly makes women chase men".

What I do think is the supposed success of many men and the corresponding finances it puts in their pockets is what some women chase, while fooling the men it is them that are being chased. And once those women have taken all those men have, which incidentally is easy to do by flashing t¹t at him, they not only stop chasing those men, they abandon those men too.

I'm ignoring the Islam and celebrating Aminat's strength, note, while recognising she got it from her faith.

kayjordan:
The UK is multi racial - some people may have dropped the bible and some are still reading the Bible as I initially noted in my previous comment.

First thank you. You are appreciated.

A fast growing religion in UK is Islam, which is due to the influx of immigrants, and not the natives converting. Pentecostal Christianity is also growing, and not because the locals are leaving the Church of England to go there, but for the same reason Islam is growing. Immigrants. Below is a map of Pentecostal churches in the same area I posted for libraries. Most are Nigerian congregation churches.

kayjordan:
Many blacks in the UK are part of the UK population and they were born into cultures that instilled bible reading and worship into their lives - they may not be active members in churches as cited in your evidence, but they probably do private bible readings at home or read devotionals.

Most churches are indeed full of black migrants, and would be dead without them.

My ma's church (of England) I sometimes go to is full of West Indian and Africans today, but investigate and you'd hear how they used to be referred to the Pentecostal church down the road as miss roads.

kayjordan:
Schools in the UK are mantaining the Religious Knowledge in their curriculums to encourage the religious education. So students are encouraged to read the bible texts.

Now, this. You'd think religion education in UK is like in Nigeria, but it isn't. No teacher can stand in front of a class of students and preach god in a UK school. Not even in a Catholic or Muslim school can they do that, as the curriculum for religious education in UK forces the imparting of knowledge of all major religions, as in their history, mode of worship, main doctrines, past atrocities, etc.

In fact, I asked my child for this, and he told me one of his teachers is a priest. She does not teach him religious knowledge however. She is his English teacher. And no. They do not read the Bible in school, and you should have in fact seen the look on his face when I suggested they might.

kayjordan:
Young people in the UK are seeking meaning of the world through bible readings.

No they are not. But I do not expect you to take my word for it.

One lament amongst the Nigerian parents in my mother's church and the CoE in general, is that children leave the church after they graduate from university. The parents can not seem to understand that while they are telling their children that God created everything in six days and rested, their teachers are teaching them the earth is almost 14 billion years old and has been evolving with nothing to do with any gods. And the schools arrange trips to the British Museum to go show them fossils of dinosaurs.

What kid, pray tell, will refuse what they see with their own eyes and choose to believe in fairy tales in a book?

kayjordan:
Diverse reports on religiosity in the UK will give you a full understanding of what's really happening.

only reports can tell us that - or one-on-one conversations...

You see the first part of your above? It actually irritates me when people say that, which they tend to do when AI disagrees with them, because they think the AI I present is some form of evidence, when I am presenting it as a pointer to research you should go and do. It after all does include links to reports and studies done on the topic, so why not bother researching them, or rather, asking and knocking and seeking for knowledge and data and information for oneself?

I've included some links to reports to assist you.

kayjordan:
Also note that, reading the bible and attending church are two separate activities.

One of the links below is to a census report where it specifically says "A person’s religion is self-defined regardless of whether they practise their religion or not". Basically, they may have never been to church apart from for a wedding or a funeral but still identify as Christians. Most have definitely not read the Bible.

In fact, Kay, my experience has shown that even most Nigerian Christians have not read the bible! Though I must define my own 'read', which is start at page one and go page by page to the very end, as opposed to the random dipping done in churches.

Reading, on the whole, is just about dying, I'd say, because there's just far too much to distract from it these days.

On that note, I'll stop right here for now so I can leave you space to consume the links below.

And remember. The map below is Pentecostal churches that are attended mostly by we black African migrants.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-religion/

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/god-heaven-and-hell-and-life-after-death-data-reveals-uks-low-religious-belief-compared-with-other-nations

https://humanists.uk/2025/03/26/non-religious-outnumber-christians-in-uk-pew-study/

https://www.brin.ac.uk/

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/07/christians-a-minority-in-the-uk-newly-published-data-reveals

kayjordan:
Nigeria is in a more extreme case compared to the UK.

I doubt you know how little Brits read the Bible. It's so bad, even churches are being converted to homes and mosques. But there's really no point us blindly arguing since we can easily consider facts, which I include below for your consideration.

And I never said "isn't sufficient for mental development", though it or any book alone is clearly not sufficient for mental development, as Christ himself said.

Nigeria is currently at a stage that Paul would describe as "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child", while I would propose to you that UK is at the "When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me" stage.

It's why we Nigerians believe, instead of seaking to actually know. We are just not there in sufficient numbers yet, but will get there in due time.

The judge noted that an ex parte application could not be used to set aside the coming into force of any act already passed and gazetted.

Produce the gazetted law so Nigerians can see it!

melechpilusof:
The education you received is useless.

I don't know how true it is that AJ said any of this since no source is provided, but the above and else he said about our education is what I have found to very true in too many cases.

Our education system seems to be based on the old method of feeding people facts that must be believed, instead of teaching us to question and extend our knowledge. This is indicative in the very few patents of new inventions we have made compared to a place like China who will travel to the end of the earth to steal knowledge they do not have.

A five year old in UK will question you to death when told anything, but a 12 year old in Nigeria will get whipped if they dared, and a graduate isn't much better at questioning having had the ability whipped out of them from in the womb. These two different educations produce different sorts of adults, with one obidiently believing what they are told, while the other asks and knocks and seeks for knowledge and understanding.

Both are even described in a Holy Book, where we read one person walked by a tree that produced fruits of knowledge and dared not pluck it to see if it really did what they'd been told it would do to them, while the other walked up to the tree and plucked its fruit and ate it to find out for themself.

The former ended up having to be naked ïgnorant enslaved, while the latter becomes self employed and able to produce their daily bread from the sweat of their own brow.

I daresay, UK was pretty dense like us, and had the education we once had, and which was derided by a certain Dickens when he wrote, "Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them". But he was of course writing after the fact, as the age of curiosity had already been upon them by the time he wrote that, and history shows Britannia ruled an empire on which the sun never set.

Unlike AJ, I am very hopeful about Nigeria however, because here on Nairaland it's very not easy to be a believer, especially if you express that belief in a thread or post. There are very many Nigerians here who will question almost everything, including what God ate on the first day and how, though I must say that not a sufficient number of us have overcome fear and plucked fruits of knowledge to find out if it will truly kill us or it be good for gaining wisdom and opens eyes and frees from naked ignorant slavery. But my faith in us Nigerians is so much that I know one day go be one day, and soon.

Now, please, it is very likely you may want to jump down my throat for what seems like a generalisation like you've jumped down AJ's, but do know that I do not mean every Nigerian is as described above, nor am I presuming that only Nigerians like AJ who experienced the UK education system from young are not like that, for I am fully aware that many have parents who value instilling curiosity in us their children in Nigeria, and I hope you instill curiosity in your children too wherever you may be so that they may Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, and not be îgnorant naked slaves in some garden in Eden, who can't even elect competent leaders and rulers from amongst ourselves.

My partner was call centreing at home last week, and a certain Lord Hamilton called. He complained he does not want to talk to an African but to a person who spoke Queen's English. The racïst git had called 4 times already saying he couldn't understand the foreigners who answered his call.

The company partner works for seems to hire foreigners because natives like me would have very rudely told him to go do one and we'd have been sacked.

Turned out he owes £6000 and doesn't want to pay.