₦airaland Forum

Smiles.... Thanks so much for the criticism bro.
Criticisms like this make me know what tone to use in subsequent compositions...

Too much spice spoils the taste of food.

Why the too much grammar and beating about the bush in this article is what I dont understand.

WW2...... the beginning of a new world order is about to start.

Brace up for impact![/quote]

I am writing this open letter, sitting on a couch in the three-bedroom apartment of a retired civil servant who had used his youthful mental and physical strength to serve the country in the then Lagos State Ministry of Urban and Regional Planning. Engineer Jendo, as we his neighbors fondly call him, are already used to regularly visiting the household of the old retiree. Here is already a striving family of seven mature adults excluding parents and the potentiality of another pregnant young lady to be taken in as second wife by this same Engr Jendo. It is either we are called upon to help settle a quarel with Mrs Olanike, his wife or to remind his under-employed graduates that they have no other father-figure to make their confidant especially, one who still shoulders virtually all family expenses for that matter.

While some Nigerians may have decided to live in the fantasy world of their own self-denial. And some who might as well, decided to be more selfish and less nationalistic in their thinking, attitude and deeds in the coming year. It is expedient at this time to remind people to eschew all manner of self-centredness. So, I imagine myself writing from the inside of your mind. It is your idea and the writer is only doing the job of putting thoughts down on black and white. The issue in discourse is not alien to us as Nigerians. It is no other but child proliferation or to be called subtly, child procreation which is a very common practice among people below the middle class of the society.

It is an issue that everyone, irrespective of their ethnic and religious affiliations must be willing to address and reach a compromise for the good of all and sundry. Expectedly, governments at all levels should be seen taking the lead by consistently sensitizing the public or come up with a legislation to legalize and give a somehow holistic position of this fundamental issue but surprisingly, it is being handled with levity. And if we fail to deal with it now as other countries have started doing, it will deal with us ruthlessly - in very near future. No time is as critical as now!

As sweet and heavens-reaching pleasure a 10-minute sexual activity can be, it equally has the sole capacity of causing far-reaching dangers for the country and depriving us the minimum standards of living expected of normal human beings in any working society, if that activity lacks adequate planning from the beginning. A country of about 200 million people where a citizen lives on less than three dollar a day and running year in year out on a period of deficit national budget with no visible state-of-the-art social infrastructural amenities in sight should not be seen celebrating unnecessary and unjustifiable population increase the way we do in this country. As people , we should introspect and begin to be proactive rather than search for solutions after seeing problems grow wings. We can in our little ways, start to change the navigation through which the undesirable journey the Nigerian socio-economic ship is heading. We should make this a top priority from now on. We cannot continue to increase in number with no corresponding infrastructure to match the geometrically- growing figure.

Let's go a bit further: In the 2020 financial budget that was signed recently, the Federal Government proposed that about one-third of the country's expected spending would go into capital projects namely education, health, road and rail construction and their maintenance, power generation, housing etc, these being the only section of the budget that will have direct impact on the lives of the people next year; any further expenditure on such capital projects can only be made in supplementary budgets which is rare in our polity except for unforeseen contigencies like security and environmental emergencies. Public spending on these cases are again, subject to the approvals of the National Assembly. So if we are contemplating on increasing our family sizes by bringing in new wives or attempting to still multiply (using some people's shallow understanding of the Bible) for no tangible reason, so many other right-thinking Nigerians are begging. Please, have a rethink!

According to WHO in its 2018 world health rankings on global life expectancy, Nigeria is placed 178th among countries whose citizens can expect quality elongated life span. In addition to this report, a Nigerian boy- child born in that year is expected to live for about 54 years and his female counterpart would live about two years older, 55.7 years. Life expectancy is a statistical measure that uses certain factors like the year a child is born, its current age and other demographic data including gender. For those born between 1970 and 2000, life expectancy of a Nigerian baby was averaged 45.4, yet some of us in this fragile cycle live very irresponsibly. Even if we are desirous of an elongated life, our lifestyles would not. In meeting domestic needs, we live and grow with the stress, hustle and bustle found in a city. Emission of toxic gaseous substances emanating from left, right and centre in the industrial city we live in, also would not. Yet we keep on multiplying offspring when we do not have substantial reasons to justify our parochial decisions.

Nigeria's resources and social amenities, from time immemorial are never sufficient and there is no end in sight yet to correct the deficiency. However, if the figure of the users of those facilities is put in check, resources available can conveniently and adequately satisfy the people to use. Pressure on these projects will be lower thereby reducing the cost of maintaining them as well. There are limitless purposes of our creation by the Almighty, of which I want to believe is not just to come into the world and multiply. No purpose can be more essential than serving Him and leaving the world better than we met it.







It should not always be the more the merrier!!!!!https://ngg.ng/2019/12/31/procreation-in-nigeria-an-open-letter-to-every-mr-and-mrs/

I am writing this open letter, sitting on a couch in the three-bedroom apartment of a retired civil servant who had used his youthful mental and physical strength to serve the country in the then Lagos State Ministry of Urban and Regional Planning. Engineer Jendo, as we his neighbors fondly call him, are already used to regularly visiting the household of the old retiree. Here is already a striving family of seven mature adults excluding parents and the potentiality of another pregnant young lady to be taken in as second wife by this same Engr Jendo. It is either we are called upon to help settle a quarel with Mrs Olanike, his wife or to remind his under-employed graduates that they have no other father-figure to make their confidant especially, one who still shoulders virtually all family expenses for that matter.

While some Nigerians may have decided to live in the fantasy world of their own self-denial. And some who might as well, decided to be more selfish and less nationalistic in their thinking, attitude and deeds in the coming year. It is expedient at this time to remind people to eschew all manner of self-centredness. So, I imagine myself writing from the inside of your mind. It is your idea and the writer is only doing the job of putting thoughts down on black and white. The issue in discourse is not alien to us as Nigerians. It is no other but child proliferation or to be called subtly, child procreation which is a very common practice among people below the middle class of the society.

It is an issue that everyone, irrespective of their ethnic and religious affiliations must be willing to address and reach a compromise for the good of all and sundry. Expectedly, governments at all levels should be seen taking the lead by consistently sensitizing the public or come up with a legislation to legalize and give a somehow holistic position of this fundamental issue but surprisingly, it is being handled with levity. And if we fail to deal with it now as other countries have started doing, it will deal with us ruthlessly - in very near future. No time is as critical as now!

As sweet and heavens-reaching pleasure a 10-minute sexual activity can be, it equally has the sole capacity of causing far-reaching dangers for the country and depriving us the minimum standards of living expected of normal human beings in any working society, if that activity lacks adequate planning from the beginning. A country of about 200 million people where a citizen lives on less than three dollar a day and running year in year out on a period of deficit national budget with no visible state-of-the-art social infrastructural amenities in sight should not be seen celebrating unnecessary and unjustifiable population increase the way we do in this country. As people , we should introspect and begin to be proactive rather than search for solutions after seeing problems grow wings. We can in our little ways, start to change the navigation through which the undesirable journey the Nigerian socio-economic ship is heading. We should make this a top priority from now on. We cannot continue to increase in number with no corresponding infrastructure to match the geometrically- growing figure.

Let's go a bit further: In the 2020 financial budget that was signed recently, the Federal Government proposed that about one-third of the country's expected spending would go into capital projects namely education, health, road and rail construction and their maintenance, power generation, housing etc, these being the only section of the budget that will have direct impact on the lives of the people next year; any further expenditure on such capital projects can only be made in supplementary budgets which is rare in our polity except for unforeseen contigencies like security and environmental emergencies. Public spending on these cases are again, subject to the approvals of the National Assembly. So if we are contemplating on increasing our family sizes by bringing in new wives or attempting to still multiply (using some people's shallow understanding of the Bible) for no tangible reason, so many other right-thinking Nigerians are begging. Please, have a rethink!

According to WHO in its 2018 world health rankings on global life expectancy, Nigeria is placed 178th among countries whose citizens can expect quality elongated life span. In addition to this report, a Nigerian boy- child born in that year is expected to live for about 54 years and his female counterpart would live about two years older, 55.7 years. Life expectancy is a statistical measure that uses certain factors like the year a child is born, its current age and other demographic data including gender. For those born between 1970 and 2000, life expectancy of a Nigerian baby was averaged 45.4, yet some of us in this fragile cycle live very irresponsibly. Even if we are desirous of an elongated life, our lifestyles would not. In meeting domestic needs, we live and grow with the stress, hustle and bustle found in a city. Emission of toxic gaseous substances emanating from left, right and centre in the industrial city we live in, also would not. Yet we keep on multiplying offspring when we do not have substantial reasons to justify our parochial decisions.

Nigeria's resources and social amenities, from time immemorial are never sufficient and there is no end in sight yet to correct the deficiency. However, if the figure of the users of those facilities is put in check, resources available can conveniently and adequately satisfy the people to use. Pressure on these projects will be lower thereby reducing the cost of maintaining them as well. There are limitless purposes of our creation by the Almighty, of which I want to believe is not just to come into the world and multiply. No purpose can be more essential than serving Him and leaving the world better than we met it.







It should not always be the more the merrier!!!!https://ngg.ng/2019/12/31/procreation-in-nigeria-an-open-letter-to-every-mr-and-mrs/

For you to get d true in-depth of what you are about to read now, be open minded, be true to yourself and be non-alligned to any religious faith at least for once. After all, if God had wanted us to be mandatarotily glued to a religion, there probably would have been an unremovable tag on us making us incapacitated to nullify or change it.

Wisdom is naturally given to man to apply when he is entangled in seemingly complex situations, to make reasonable decisions and help him live/adapt on the surface of this earth which is inherently competitive. Even animals including mammals, birds and fish use their brain. Did God actually send us to this world to be religious or spiritually close to him?

Back to my topic, unless we are living in the world of our own delusion, deceit and hypocrisy is when we would deny that religiousness and spirituality are two different concepts. In Nigeria especially, it has been confirmed on so many occasions that people in this part of the world, though religiously compliant but not spirit-filled.

Nigerians are one of the world's most religious worshippers but we similarly beat other countries to win the prize of the most corrupt, most deceptive and and most wicked. Reason why I have been ardently clamouring for the position of religion to be replaced with morality among us.

An average Nigerian is greedy and self-centred. We might not take much of the blame but how their religious preachers have prioritised prosperity over spirituality. We sheepishly follow their sermons hook, line and sinker throwing out reasoning away. We have been made to believe we must pray to be rich. Our religious preachers don't tell us not everyone will have money. To them, once you are religious, once you follow your religious tenets completely, once you spent more than two thirds of your time to pray to God everyday; surely prosperity must come your way. We pray to be richer in material accumulation, to command power and authority over mundane things, all in a bid to show superiority to fellow man. If this is what and how being religion works, I honestly do not want to be one. I just want to know God in sincerity and nothing more.

From my careful observation of the various creatures and what happen to them, it is safe to conclude that, in negation to popular belief about how things work, whatever come of our life is a composite function of a few factors: our Individual belief, the work we put into it, opportunities around us and how we take them and a little bit of luck. I sincerely cannot pinpoint any rationale for praying every morning and night to beat my fellow human beings in terms of material possession. I see it as unnecessary selfishness.

I also understand people pray to live long. Funnily no pastor or imam can ask God for such a request. Every living soul must taste death when their time comes.

Let's do what is right because no one needs the preaching of any religious leader on this one.

Peace be to all of us
Kola writes.....

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Rasheed2567:
and when the soul of the dying man is being taken away why don't you stop it if you are one of the truthful... heaven and hell is real

@Rasheed, thanks for this. Now if as a christian, I doggedly worship in tandem with what is obtained in the Bible that Jesus is the truth and the light thru whom I can only enter the kingdom of God. That I shouldn't have anything to do with my blood sister who is now a professing Muslim by the virtue of marrying a Muslim guy. Which brand of heave or hell, as the case may be will I go to?

The propagation of Islam and Christianity in Africa by those who brought them was originally to achieve thier business goals. They were neither righteous nor compassionate going by how they treated our forefathers with different forms of inhuman ways. Records are available for us all to believe this.

They made them forefathers who were completely ignorants to believe hell was awaiting them should they not accept the deceitful religions being presented. They instilled fear in them.

I will illustrate this with simple reasoning: if we are told heaven is a beautiful place to behold and everyone would love to be there. Also we were told that everyone of us was there as spirits worshipping the Almighty God in truth and with total submission to His will. We never had or nurtured evil intentions. Invariably we were holy, right?

Why did we then decide to come to this sinful world, all to end up in hell fire. I repeat WHY?

No one should say the Almighty made the decision for us on our behalf.

That aside, two innocent new born babies are born on the same day but by different parents in completely different religious environments- say Islam and Christianity. Let's even add traditional worshiping to them. As each of these innocent kids grow in the environments, they learn different ways of relating to human beings, they learn different religious beliefs. They learn to be kind to one another. They learn to pray in the way they were taught by people around them. They are aware that not all their prayer requests would be answered irrespective of their religious affiliations. The Christian child is made to believe that without one Jesus, u cannot enter the kingdom of heaven no matter how good u are as a human. The Muslim child learns Prophet Muhammad is the best of all God's messengers that u cannot make aljanah even if nobody has caught anything wrong with u. They grow to become adults, none of them has killed anyone. They are just following squarely the doctrines of the religions they took from their parents and this has never failed them.

Let me stop here. Will it not be unreasonable for us to be liberal in whatever religions we are practising? Are we not fools to believe one is superior to another? Should we just conclude in our corrupt mind that anybody who doesnt believe in whatever religious belief we hold is a candidate of hell fire?

My cent: be good to me. Let me be good to u and everyone is better for it. With or without religion, our selfish prayers cannot stop what will be. Religion is not directly proportional to the success we make. Our success is a function of our own preparation and mere coincidences.

Thanks

Yes i am one.

What do you expect from an unbeliever?

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kkkp:
c crowd.

. Well-done! U think u are doing abi. Continue- u hear, continue

As a reply to ur post, na lie. It's possible to have a max of 2 uefa nations in a group. Reason being that they have the most qualified teams than other continents.

Korlerworley2014@gmail.com
08023028588

TINALETC3:
including ur mum, sisters and future female kids , hw dare u generalize dat

so sorry for the vulgar words. he pain me like sey am d victim ni

hooklover:
The are d ladies day come wives tomorrow and wen I Bleep den people go dry vex.imagine a lady use to seeing different ducks under the guy very nose...

She will do same in marriage. The character is already molded. Many men marry to chronic runs lady and will be boasting about it....

That's y web I meet them I just collect my share and move on... Trust an lady at ur own peril...... They pretend alot full of secrets dry know alone

anyways I have advised him to play along like there still exists a serious stuff BTW them while he zooms her hard any day anytime.

Summarily, there is this young lady a friend of mine met in July. In fact it was in my presence the two of them first met each other and luckily for my guy after a long palatable + sweet-mouthed conversation and toast, this girl eventually agreed after some few weeks.
They have been together since then as the girl seems to have met the right guy. she does not hide her feelings whenever she's with him. she even monitors every movement and actions of my friend o. The duo have been enjoining this not until a colleague at his work saw this lady with him.
Fast forward sha, this girl has started sleeping with this new guy while the lady always denies any relationship with him that the guy has only been disturbing her. She claims to have told him she's already in an affair with my guy.

Dear Sensible Nigerians, I will like us all to put away our individual sentiments and unnecessary religious and ethnic affiliations to reason logically as higher animals which have the freedom to use the brain God has blessed us with. Don't be deceived by all these hate speeches of our politicians which are aimed at causing chaos and rivalry among us. The real division in this country is between the Rich and us, the poor. Forget it, it is NEVER on which ETHNIC is more superior or which RELIGION is acceptable by God. After all, no one has even come back to the earth alive to let us know the type of religion being practised in heaven. All these are deliberate attempts to unsettle mind set and consciousness from challenging them on so many public issues that have been left unattended to and which are crucial to our emancipation and collective survival.

To the ibos clamouring for Biafra independence, how many of you guys have been so courageous to ask him Nnamdi Kanu the location of all his properties in Nigeria? therefore it will be so stupid of anyone joining him on this selfish agitation not to have enquired him on this. He does not have any known property in the country as I say. He surely does not have anything to lose in the event of any unexpected.

The Hausas too are not left out, are the security details attached to big mansions owned by the powerful Northern politicians in the North so tight that we are yet to receive any attack on them. Please let us be reasonable for once. No single attack has been made on these individuals and their paraphernalia since the unfortunate outbreak of Boko Haram activities.

The Yorubas also have outstandingly been amazing me in their defence of some of their leaders who are not only selfish but also callous. Think not that these leaders like us so much that they would prioritise our suffering and demands at the detriment of their immediate family. Please be wise once again.


Be reminded that they are all friends and business associates who excel at playing us like ludo game. Nigerian Politics is just an extension of their estate and thus know how they settle their differences in camera.

Skappy44:
university of ibadan, unilag,unilorin,uniben covenant university

university of Ibadan is the worst for now, especially its economics dept.

Sammmypoko:
Our own is light sharin..2days on and 1day off in Ipaja/Ayobo...out of the 2days,the would bring the light at night for just3hrs and den bring 20k bill for 3rooms

Sammmypoko:
Our own is light sharin..2days on and 1day off in Ipaja/Ayobo...out of the 2days,the would bring the light at night for just3hrs and den bring 20k bill for 3rooms

Sammmypoko:
Our own is light sharin..2days on and 1day off in Ipaja/Ayobo...out of the 2days,the would bring the light at night for just3hrs and den bring 20k bill for 3rooms

but that is totally unfair na

I reiterate, if u have deliberately decided to hold the supply of electricity in Shasha Akowonjo area of Lagos state; it is very irresponsible and bad of u to keep dispatching bills. Do u expect any response from the people in the area as regards payment? This is totally unreasonable! Since u have refused to do the right thing by halting further supply of light to defaulters, u don't possess the moral right to distribute bills. It is alleged that some defaulters owe considerable amount of money. These are defaulters who must be dealt with. they may even be prosecuted if this might proffer permanent solution to the menace. This is a clarion call to the higher authority to meddle into this ugly situation. The officials of PHCN covering this Lagos suburb are yet to be decisive as to how this issue should be finally laid to rest once and for all. Pls keep your BILLS for now!

This is to expose the irresponsible attitude of NEPA officials as regards supply of electricity in Shasha Akowonjo, a suburb area of Lagos state. In the last three years, the area has been known to enjoy a stable supply of light but lately the reverse has been the case. It would have been better if the dearth of this commodity is as result of genuine reason. But it is a hell NO as residents were told that the reason for the deliberate infliction of this suffering on them is the failure of some streets to settle their accumulated debts. For goodness sake, these alleged debtors can be identified and located, it is expedient therefore for the NEPA to disconnect supply of electricity to them rather than allowing the larger portion of inhabitants in the area not to enjoy the services for which they regularly and promptly pay. Am therefore calling the management of the NEPA covering this location to address this issue for the benefit of all.

cold:
Oh yes Evans the terror, who kidnapped, tortured, extorted and killed people in the line of his business can still make heaven only if he repents and begs for forgiveness. All he has to do is go on his knees and beg god to cleanse him and wash him white as snow. And voila! What do you know, he's on the straight and narrow path to paradise.
But an Atheist who's remained upright all his life. Never hurt anyone, never wronged anybody. Just went about his business will be heading straight for hell for the mere fact he doesn't believe in a god. Christian logic! Smh!

may God bless u on this. at times, I just don't wanna comment on this imaginary place called heaven or unreal relationship between accepting someone and his assured entry into heaven

Yeah, I say this without mincing words nor by any mistake that distance learning program being run by the economics department of the school is either a scrap or fraud. How does one explain a situation where students, having spent almost 7years of his life on a degree program that normally should not be more than 5 years at max. While they rumble silently and endure up till the final exams, they would again wait for the Almighty and time-wasting lecturers of the department who will never have time for projects writing until months after the final exams to allocate students to their supervisors. Students go through Hell and severe discomfort to write their projects after unnecessary repudiation by the same lecturers during the course of writing their projects. Now, how sensible is it that 2014/2015 session of the school is yet to be graduated even after students have struggled to complete their projects. What annoys one most is the deliberate attempt of the department to frustrate their students so as not to graduate at the right time and still no message has been communicated to the students on this. To the outside world, the school is the best but to me I regard it as Dream-killer Insensitive, Carefree, Wicked and Archaic which is yet to move in the direction of modern institutions and systems.

Now, what we never envisaged has finally surfaced and Nigerians will be left to either suffer in silence or revolt. Revolution, at this delicate stage of our economic period will spell a doom if not handled wisely.