₦airaland Forum

SarkinYarki:
Buhari should have put a time frame , giving lockdown a semblance of being indefinite out pressure and uncertaintyon the economy in an adverse way , he should put a time frame to it and extend again if not satisfied but Buhari as usual went uncertainty which has been one of the problems his govt has

No country has put a timeframe on lockdown!

Everywhere is "we will look at the scientific evidence"!

factormatt6:
. I am happy you point out thar our leaders are misfits and they don't care about us. You make my day for saying the true

It is true! Our leaders don't care about us, so asking them to now care is an absurdity. But it's our fault. It is we who are misfits who don't care about ourselves or we would elect fit leaders who do care.

Pity it takes a thing like this to point out the truth to us. And I hope we learn from it.

factormatt6:
. How can I exposed your many lies if I don't form an emergency situation? You are not doing us a favor. If you fear God you will justify your pay by carrying out your job professionally or you quit. You are not doing Nigerian a favor

You could have gone and found out like Ross Kemp is doing!

But I do find it amusing that you ask me to justify my pay. Do you mean the February pay that we are still hoping they pay us? Believe me when I say if I considered the pay, or rather, the non-payment, I'd justifiably infect you myself!

factormatt6:
. You didn't even talk to me on the phone. You won't answer if I am truly infected and I go on and spread the virus? I hope nairaland are reading your comments so they know what they are dealing with. My intention was to expose your inadequacy and worthlessness and also to sound a message that we need to protect ourselves individually.

There are almost 200m Nigerians. You, are not special! Or were you not here when this thing started and our doctors decided to go on strike? Smart people would have reasoned that their life must be in their own hands, but you think we care.

We have told you how to protect yourself. Self isolate! Or get your ass over to a hospital and be tested. And if you want us to do better next time, make sure you elect competent leaders who care!

Freelane33:
You’re talking in the nonsense, writing in the rubbish . That’s act of inadequacy,unprofessional and lack of human feelings . You guys should try to be at least have fear of God and this is freaking common among health workers in Nigeria . I almost slapped a nurse in one of the hospital I’ll mention the name when she wanna rip my vein of in the name of inserting needle . Na we force una go do medicine and surgery , if una no like wetin una dey do make una go resign

If the person "testing" NCDC feared God he would not have called us and lied!

Next time, go to a proper hospital where you will not almost slap nurses, but if you are still inclined to slap nurses, please go ahead. We will just add 'nurse slapping' to your bill.

factormatt6:
. You are defending your inadequacy and lack of professionalism. What if I wasn't able to get myself to the hospital? Do you bother to check back if I did take myself to hospital before I spread the virus?

I am inadequate, but you do not deserve my professionalism and I am not defending anything. In fact, I'm attacking you! You had no symptoms but lied! Ordinary answering your call took us away from attending real ill people while you were "testing" if we consider you important enough to come and save you, in this our Nigeria at that!

I hope you never catch Corona Virus, but if you do, make sure you borrow someone elses phone when you call us because its likely we will no more be taking timewaster's calls!

Every country is observing restrictions on movement for as long as “our scientific advisers declare they are necessary”, but trust some Nigerians to expect bubu to know when this would end!

I do agree that more should be done to ameliorate the hardship though, but last time I checked, I'm sure we Nigerians don't do socialism in our capitalist nation. Or have we changed our minds like now Socialist America has?

Lamanii22:
OP, this is Nigeria, you'd carry yourself to the hospital na, this is not Europe that you'd call 911 and then immediately they'd come pick you up... You should know these things its nothing new.

Even in Europe, 911 isn't working like it used to. You'd be told to self isolate and call back if your condition deteriorates, and some have died while waiting.

factormatt6:
. If you have ask me my contact information and address I will have told you I am well ok just checking if you really care. What if on my way to hospital I get someone Infected? Have you thought about that?

Its a chance we take, you infecting others on the way to the hospital. There's already infected people not showing symptoms so that danger already exists.

If after all that though, it turns out you were lying and had no symptoms and were ok, you must be glad we did not ask for your contact details or we would definitely have paid you a visit for thinking this is a time for silly juvenile pranks!

I am proud of you! You and your neighbourhood took responsibility for your safety while some will be waiting for overstretched and don't care police to come and protect them instead.

Welldone!

Someone needs to tell him he disrespected Nigerians by not observing stay at home and lockdown!

So, did you visit the hospital or were you just testing NCDC?

Please know that we at NCDC get many crank calls like your's. Testing is how we weed out the numskulls who make them, and some we get arrested for wasting our time in these difficult for everyone days.

Fear God?

Please why was this idiot not thrown in jail?

Hey! What ever did happen to that amotekun thing? Did it catch Corona Virus and just die?

Chapter and verse please. Show some evidence.

You have money to travel out the country but now want government money to pay for your return from Covid19 infested countries without testing first so you can come and infect the rest of us back home with our not quite up to it medical service?

Diasporians should get travel insurance before travelling out the country! You are no more special than those of us who stayed home!

Yujin:
Good you mentioned those people and they're the only people who had the power to fix Nigeria because power under such situation is absolute but they all failed because they don't have what it takes to do it.

Sorry Yujin, but I dont think it is logical to claim "they're the only people who had the power to fix Nigeria" when you know "they all failed because they don't have what it takes (the power to fix Nigeria) to do it".

If they had the power (which includes the knowledge and the ability), to fix Nigeria, they would have fixed Nigeria, but most would agree with you that "they l failed", so I can not agree that they had the power, not to talk of "absolute power", which they definitely did not have since more powerful beings kicked them all out.

Tianamen1:
The problem with your logic is that all developed countries have well funded public education systems. In fact, the human development index places Education and Healthcare as the two most important drivers of development, so your idea of having a developed country run by privately educated workers is born out of ignorance as to how the world works.

Its a chicken an egg conundrum at best. You seem to think "well funded public education systems" started economic development, when the truth is, in most countries, privately educated individuals fought for "well funded public education systems" for all and that fueled their development. Or do you seriously believe the stupid and ignorant who "love their fantastically corrupt leaders who use bullion vans to share cash to them and provide stomach infrastructure in the form of rice, eba and egusi" care about "well funded public education systems"?

Tianamen1:
Education goes beyond learning Maths and English. It is also the friendships and relationships that are formed.

Indeed " education goes beyond learning Maths and English". I'll add, critical thinking, and being able to converse intelligently even while not in agreement, amongst many other things, like being able to find funds to set up a generator assembling plant in Nigeria just as Steve Jobs did, and Obama too.

Jobs and Obama would not have been able to achieve what they did if they did not have the knowledge, gained through learning, to overcome the numerous difficulties they faced before achieving their goals.

RuudVanNisteroy:
It should be the responsibility of the government. The most successful nations have the most educated population. And that is the same thing countries in Africa have realized such as Rwanda,Botswana and Namibia. A significant amount of their budget goes to education and the funds a properly utilized. It is not wonder they are leaving the rest of the continent behind.
When Bill Gates came to Nigeria he repeated this same thing. Any nation that does not invest in the leaders of tomorrow will remain a failed state.

Sorry, but good governance is not the responsibility of government since government itself is a responsibility of the citizens, in a democracy, at least.

It is the citizens, the electorate, that elects the government, so you cannot abdicate responsibility if the elected government is incompetent.

As for education, I think it is absurd to expect those who benefit from keeping you ignorant, stupid and poor to be responsible for educating you. If I were them, I think I will ensure I educate you to be even more stupid, ignorant and poor so that I may further realise my ambition to exploit you.

Please note that it is the responsible people of Rwanda, Botswana and Namibia that "invested in the leaders of tomorrow" which they today benefit from and which you envy. If we too start "investing in the leaders of tomorrow" (by educating ourselves and our children instead of hoping some government would educate them for us despite all the evidence to the contrary), we too will reap the same reward when that tomorrow becomes today.

Shormiey:
I know say you go talk your own....no be you again...?

After all, I get data and I get mouth, you intelligently observant person.

Tianamen1:
We also had Moghalu who was by far the most qualified candidate.

By 2023, APC and PDP will put two clowns again and the illiterate masses of Nigeria will choose between the lesser evil, rather than voting in a competent cadidate from a smaller party.

Moghalu did not stand a chance. The work to make him stand a chance had not been done and we are here now deciding if we shall do the work to make his like stand a chance but unfortunately many are claiming they failed already.

Come 2023, we'd therefore likely have another "clown" as President because nations only can get the leaders they work for and deserve.

If anything, this is showing Enahoro as a serial offender who needs to be serially pardoned.

Buhari pardoned him for alleged crimes committed circa 1983, and not for those he allegedly committed and was pardoned for in '63.

Drfernandez:
Do you think otherwise?

I do think otherwise since I have not found all men have the same attitude. Even sons don't always have their father's attitudes.

Tianamen1:
90 percent of children in America attend public basic education. Over 90 percent in the UK also do. In China, I believe 100 percent attend public education.

In a recent argument on public healthcare in America, a senator argued that if there were two healthcare systems running side by side(a public and a private), the government wouldn't invest properly in the public healthcare system, thus ghettorizing the system.

My point is that for Nigeria to develop, we need a properly funded public education system. Nigeria's current earnings may not be enough to accomplish this, so the government will have to make structural changes to its public and civil service and at the same time raise taxes particularly on the rich. Without doing this, Nigeria will most definitely remain a failed state even 500 years from now. If you can't see this, you probably have not thought long and hard enough about Nigeria's problems.

The present crop of elite Nigerians in the public and civil service and private sector do not subscribe to this policy because of a backward culture common with Africans. I, myself, am a reasonably paid civil servant, but can see the writing clearly on the wall.

Personally, I think parents should be responsible for their child's education, especially since government does not seem inclined to. I guess I'm well into personal responsibility, and not its abrogation.

If I can't educate my child I should consider not adding to the pool of "stupid and poor people" who "love their fantastically corrupt leaders who use bullion vans to share cash to them and provide stomach infrastructure in the form of rice, eba and egusi". Educated people usually find ways to provide for their own "stomach infrastructure" without having to rely on "fantastically corrupt leaders who use bullion vans to share cash".

Monjerk:
Nigerians we are achitect of our own misfortune (bad leaders in quote). Some that I respected so much once told me in 2019 during election campaign that he knows that Buhari has nothing to offer, that his ideas are old school, that there's nothing good that will come out of him. But we should allow him to go back for second tenure, so that he can complete his 8yrs for the north.

I shook my head that day for him, ethnicity and religion will never allow Nigeria to move forward.

The earliest we restructure, the better for Nigeria.

It was rather unfortunate that the choice was between bubu and Atiku. I think we elected the lesser of two evils. And I think it was impossible to elect Atiku. But 2023 is around the corner. If we do nothing we deserve whomever the poor and the stupid impose on us.

gidgiddy:
We should all work to return power to the people by organising a referendum to know what wants to remain part of this 1914 British incorporated fraud called Nigeria

I think we have many steps before we can start "organising a referendum".

Don't we first have to get power into the hands of those who would help us organise a referendum, if that's what we want?

RuudVanNisteroy:
Stupid people elect stupid leaders. There is reason the mafia syndicate refuses to fund education.

They want to keep population stupid and poor. It makes them easier to manipulate and outnumber the educated and smart people 10:1.

Then it seems we should first start by "funding education" and thereby reducing the "stupid people" don't you think? Perhaps by organising like those "mafia syndicate" "they" who "want to keep population stupid and poor" so "it makes them easier to manipulate and outnumber the educated and smart people".

We can not claim to be "educated and smart people" if the "stupid and poor" can better organise and rule over us.

As individuals, we surely can fund our own individual education, or can we not?

JerryGent1983:
If I may ask my dear how do you intend to put Tony Elumelu on the mantle of leadership with this Nigeria Electoral system

That was my question! But I seem to be being told they have failed before even starting!

By working with RuudVanNisteroy who proposed him, I hoped. But it seems he's decided to fail before we even begin. If he had stood firmly behind his man, same way those who put the "Tinubus, El-Rufais, Atikus and other jokers that will keep the country fantastically corrupt" on the mantle of power, which is by campaigning and appealing to the majority and getting whoever we want elected.

If some Nigerians who "love their fantastically corrupt leaders who use bullion vans to share cash to them and provide stomach infrastructure in the form of rice, eba and egusi" can get their jokers elected, we smarter people (and I'm hoping we are smarter), should be able to beat them even "with this Nigeria Electoral system", and elect those who would help us get "electricity, portable water, sanitation network and hospitals" that we seem to want.

IamMichael:
I reserved this space to tell our people a very big secret...
I am a freethinker, and i became one after realizing that to the whites, we are probably like 30-50yrs far behind.

About 300 to 500 years behind, actually, the Christian part anyway.

We are only just reading the book and believing it. In another 100 or so years, we might begin to understand that Jesus was a freethinker too who was crucified for being an atheist and a 'use your senses' scientist, and in another 100 we might start to do greater things than he is written to have done.

Do all men have the same attitude?

RuudVanNisteroy:
We had to escape to save our lives and secure our children's future. What we witnessed in that country will take years of counselling to fix.
We still care about the country and want to see it get better.

You are not the only Nigeria needing counselling having witnessed in Nigeria. First time I saw the place I was like, can we go back to Dakar, Conarkry, Freetown or any other capital along Africa's west coast. But Nigeria was the new home.

Claiming you failed before you begun is defeatist and can not possibly be the attitude of the citizens of the country you escaped to, which likely had a rough history too before becoming a country that is safe and secure for you and your children. I bet it was developed that way by its citizens, and must have taken quite a lot of blood and lifes to build too.

If you care, and if you want to see and believe Nigeria can get better, then you would need to stop thinking you have failed before starting to do whatever you might have to do to make Nigeria get better.