₦airaland Forum

Rutheby:
I was surfing the internet some days back when I saw that statement. I love sport especially football. At first, I did not agree with him but watching the game we lost against Sudan, the confusion between the coach and players, the way NFF are going and others... I became convinced but there is hope. What is your take on it? Is football really dead in Nigeria? Our legend said so.

Well why don't football be dead in Nigeria when it is run by the govt? Heck I read somewhere that 18 of twenty teams are run by the govt and you want to know why our football infrastructure is awful.

ManirBK:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-corruption-difficult-to-fight-250677.html

We knew it was not easy to fight but if you had surrounded yourself with the best and the brightest you could find irrespective of their ethnicity and nationality then maybe you could have turned the tide against the war on corruption but here you are bogged down in a stalemate with hardly any sign of progress ahead. Too bad.

omojeesu:
70 AD: The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple. Thousands of Jew were slaughtered, scattered and enslaved. Israel was renamed Palestine.

1939 -1945 AD: Hitler slaughtered 6 million Jews.

1948 AD: The Jews returned to their land but no Jerusalem, no Temple.

1967AD: The Jews recaptured Jerusalem and secured the Temple site.

2017 AD: The US recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

2018 AD: The US moved her embassy to Jerusalem.

The next major scenario according to the Bible is the start of Daniel's 70th week as Israel signs a treaty for peace in the Middle East brokered by the antichrist.

May my country Nigeria not be against Israel and attract the wrath of the God of Israel. Amen.

Oh, and you forgot to mention that when the jews started moving back to Palestine an masse in the late 1800's that there were hundreds of thousands of Arabs already living in that area for thousands of years and that this people were ignored by the British and the rest of the non-Arab world when the nation of israel was carved out from the region of Palestine.

These people were not even given a country of theirs and were left in legal limbo and when they rose in revolution the Israelis kicked almost all of them out of israel including hundreds of thousands of civilians and this people were not allowed to return hence the reason for this protest and pretty much the major source of contention ever since (the right to return).

So next time you trash the Palestinians learn about them first. Find out why they are angry and the reason for their frustrations. Morale of the story: learn about the other side in every argument before taking a side because when Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine was under ottoman rule (before the British deposed them) Jews and Arabs had lived mostly peacefully together side by side until the British ruined everything.

Sirjamo:
I wish Trump was alive 2000 years ago, maybe he would have been able to save your personal lord and Savior from being nailed to a wooden cross along with two other criminals by an unknown soldier.

Well if he had done that then there would be no remission for sins especially, for us gentiles.

zlantanfan:
All i see are just failed nations trying to seek relevance, Israel had never had allies with Nigeria, or south Africa.

The position of the strongest nation in the world is clear for all to see and no blood sucking terrorist doing ethnic cleaning in his own backyard matters.

Arab and Islam has killed billions and yet no one cares but alas Israel shouldn't protect itself.


Anyone that want to wet this place with tears and terrorist sympathy should first condemn the civil right violation happening here on nairaland where a select group forces people to swear to s terrorist god before expressing their free opinions

Goodness! The ignorance on this post and this thread is absolutely jarring. And I don't blame the writer of this post cos most Nigerians don't even know anything about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They have no idea how unbearable the Israeli govt make the lives of ordinary Gazans. Gaza is basically what people call an "open air prison." This people are basically blockaded in by the Israeli's on one side and the Egyptians (who are basically funded by the Americans) on the other side. The Israelis barely give them access to food, water, health amenities. This people basically have no future. And if you ask why don't they just move? Well guess What? The Israelis dont let them leave so they are stuck their and have nowhere to go. The goal of Israel is to break their will. Ordinary Gazans hardly have any jobs or good economic prospects so they are stuck there as long as Israel wants them their so instead of just opening your mouth and mouthing off why don't you keep your opinions to yourself. The Palestinians are protesting to be allowed to move back to the land that they were kicked out of when Israel was formed and just in case you didn't know hundreds of thousands of Arabs (approx. 750,000) were expelled from Israel after the 1948 war of independence. Since then most of this people have lived in refugee camps and Israel won't let them back because it doesn't want to lose its Jewish majority.

EzeDiEgo1:
nice one

This is what you get when trying to stop God's word

Rubbish state of Palestine

I don't think you fully understand the Israeli Palestinioan conflict cos if you do you would take back what you just wrote quickly!

IbnIbrahim:
It was the night of December 22, 2002. I was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. I was terribly sick; the hospital had no oxygen as at the time I was admitted, and I was severely low on oxygen. I missed a date with death by a few seconds. I needed a miracle and God showed up — it was a medical miracle.

My packed cell volume (PCV), which is the volume percentage of red blood cells in blood, was at five percent, about seven times less than what was expected. I was medically damaged. I had suffered in the days leading to this eventual admission. I was only 12.

I remember all that pain and trauma like it happened yesterday. The sickness was not all that was wrong; the tears flowing down my strong mother’s eyes broke my spirit. My father braved it all, but I knew he was hurt beyond words. My favourite aunt, was a nurse at UCH, she helped in ways she could, and periodically told me to be strong. She too was torn beyond words. My family was in pain, and I was the cause of it. I blamed myself.

I was one of the eldest children at Otunba Tunwase Children’s Emergency Ward. I was not scared of death, but I was scared of the pain it would put all these people through. The money my parents had spent, the love my siblings had shown, the care my aunt and cousins showered to this dying boy — I was scared of letting all that go to waste. So I fought for my life, and begged that God kept me strong and healthy for them. I survived, thanks to God and his messengers, who were in the form of skilled doctors.
My survival was made possible through the seasoned hands and steady minds of the likes of Professor Yetunde Aken’ova, Dr. Taiwo Kotila and many other medical specialists who beat the conditions of their employment to save lives in Nigeria’s under-served hospitals.

Based on this, and some other social experiences, Nigeria is personal for me; it is not my ambition to see a better Nigeria, it is a calling, a responsibility. So when I am making demands on government and policymakers to act on one issue or the other, I am not being political, I am not trying to be correct, I am just simply asking that they put facilities in place to make Nigerians need fewer miracles.

THE CRISIS ON OUR HANDS

Today, President Muhammadu Buhari is in the United Kingdom, treating an unknown ailment. I want to believe it is not just because he is president. As a former head of state, if he was not president today, and he takes ill, he would most probably go to the same doctors in the UK — because he has little or no faith in our medical system, and then we may not blame him as much as we do today.

But Buhari is really not my worry today. My grouse is with the system that produces his ilk.

There is a crisis in Nigeria’s healthcare system, and for today, my focus will be on the doctors. As far back as 2010, World Bank data have shown that Nigeria has one doctor to 2,531 people. The World Health Organisation prescribes one doctor to 600 people. The likes of Mexico, Mongolia, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and even Libya meet the WHO requirement. And many of them do so on the backs of Nigerian doctors abroad.

This means that the Nigerian doctor works at least four times more than his counterpart in any of these countries and earns way less than they do. The numbers are even worse today. We have about one doctor to over 6,000 Nigerians.

There is, therefore, no reason to wonder why a poll conducted by NOI polls and Nigeria Health Watch in 2017 found that 88 percent — almost nine in 10 — Nigerian doctors were actively seeking an opportunity to go abroad to practice. At the time the survey was conducted, a majority of Nigerian doctors were — and are currently — registered for medical exams like PLAB in the UK, USMLE for the United States, MCCE for Canada, AMC for Australia and DHA for Dubai. Most of our best minds are leaving!

5,264 NIGERIAN DOCTORS WORKING IN THE UK

Most recently, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, said 4,795 Nigerian doctors were currently working in the UK. Making specific reference to July, 2017. According to the UK General Medical Council, holding data on doctors in the UK, 5,250 Nigerian doctors were working in the UK as at April 25, 2018.

Checking the same data today, May 5, 2018, that number has grown to 5,264 — an increase of 14 doctors in 10 days. Africa Checks has shown that an average of 12 doctors move to the UK every week! Every seven days — or five working days — 12 Nigeria-trained doctors move to the UK!

After the same order, thousands of Nigerian doctors are working in the US, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and many other nations of the world. More than half of the 72,000 registered doctors in Nigeria now work abroad.

A LAND WITHOUT DOCTORS

In 2017, a friend of mine, who is a fresh doctor from UCH, told me about his plans to move to Canada by 2018. I attempted convincing him to stay, and was making some progress until I said: “Nigeria needs you”. He laughed and said “Nigeria does not need its own president, so how will Nigeria need him, an ordinary doctor”. This was at the time the president was in the UK for medical care.

Recently, I asked him some questions, and while answering, he said: “What is a doctor doing in Nigeria?”

And that is my question today: What exactly is a doctor doing in Nigeria? When he can get 10 times his Nigerian pay by moving to Canada, US, UK or UAE, to do almost 10 times less work! What exactly is a doctor doing in Nigeria, when the government will call him names, and ask him to respect the Hippocratic oath when the same government has not respected the oath it swore to the people?

What is a doctor doing in Nigeria, when he knows what to do to save a life but is handicapped by the absence of oxygen, blood, sterile needles, and the very basic needs of his profession.

I think of what would have happened to me if the likes of Professor Aken’ova and her team of young doctors were not available that night in December 2002. Your guess is as good as mine. So today, I ask that Nigeria must act, lest she becomes a land without doctors


https://hotproforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1257&p=1781#p1781

Ok we get your Jeremiad on how bad the Nigerian system is but you didn't proffer any solutions. What policies are the govt putting in place that doesn't let doctors flourish apart from the usual "they are not being paid well enough?"

Proudlyngwa:
With this my comment, I've come to understand a lot of people don't understand sarcasm

I am sorry I just didn't think Nigerians used a lot of sarcasm.

Blue3k:
You know that was funny. It's the funniest of satire on level of A Modest Proposal if you read that before.

I thought so. I just didn't think Nigerians could be that sarcastic?

Proudlyngwa:
Thank God IPOBs are not blacks

Hahaha in your dreams.

zlantanfan:
The islamist jihadists would run here to cry forgetting the world problems today are from islam.

How people's entitled opinion becomes their global headache is puzzling.

God has called Israel unto his own not for their righteousness but for the covenant with Abraham and every Christian must respect that and not allow the evil propaganda from islam to ultimately wipe out Gods people

Are you people so brainwashed?

MEILYN:
They are the chosen people of God. They have all the rights in the world to kill and insult black people anyhow they like. We should worship them, serve their God and protect them by all means.

Anyone who insults this Rabbi wouldn't make heaven. I repeat, leave God's people alone, they are allowed to do anything they want to the inferior black race. God brought them to this earth to judge us, the Bible says Israel will judge the world. We are lucky to still be alive, we are descendants of Cain in the Bible and we don't deserve anything good. Ohh, God of Israel, I worship thee. I give the black race to Israel as a peace offering.

Are you a slowpoke?

Aaronsrod:
We must be silent before the wisdom of His Chosen people. We cannot condemn Gods anointed.

If they call us monkeys and cut our throats then we must think ourselves blessed.

To die in Israel is a blessing indeed!

Are you crazy?

NewshelmNg:
Nigerian politician and religious activist, Reno Omokri has once again taken to social media to attack President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to Reno:





http://newshelm.ng/7-things-buhari-does-not-know-reno-omokri/

Man, we really need to scrap this presidential system of democracy cos it doesn't seem to be working. Let's go back to the parliamentary where if the govt does not perform he is voted out by a vote of no confidence. That way G ovts are forced to be on their feet and perform lest they get kicked out of office the next day.

NaijaNewsPapers:
Unknown group protest in Allen Roundabout, close to government house Ikeja to kick against the enforcement of the recent increase in the land use charge by Lagos state government.

The group protest, saying that the masses would be greatest victims of the ‘wicked policy’.

The group also appealed to well-meaning Lagosians to reject what it described as the anti-people and wicked increases in the Land Use charges imposed by the exploitative Ambode Lagos Government.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/03/group-protest-against-lagos-land-use.html

Poorly written article. Why didn't they explain what land usage charges are, why ambode supports it and why the people are protesting against it. This is supposed to be journalism for goodness sakes.

CEOconcord:
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the amendment to the Electoral Act, which intended to change the country's elections sequence. The president, it was gathered, gave three reasons for withholding assent to the bill, which was passed by both chambers of the National Assembly.

Sources said that the president has yesterday communicated his decision to the federal legislature in two separate letters addressed to the Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara. The two presiding officers are expected to read the letters to their colleagues at plenary between today and Thursday. Following the passage of the bill by the National Assembly, several civil society organizations (CSOs), senior lawyers and other notable Nigerians kicked against it, calling on the president not to assent to it.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/amplite/breaking-buhari-rejects-electoral-act-amendment.html?

My goodness! What a terrible article. They don't even try to explain to people what the electoral act is they just write as if everyone knows what they are talking about. Isn't it the job of the press to inform the people? Na wa o. Journalism just like almost everything in naija is just awful.

WFblacc:
how Uganda take be abroad?

OP you too Stupid

Abroad means outside your borders. That means that travelling to Cameron could also be travelling abroad.

Lexusgs430:
Nah book den say make then go study o, then dey perform biology experiments......

Abi o.

JohnnyBling:
Uganda ?? Abroad?? to study??
Na wa oh..ordinary Uganda

Which one you don go sef?

Gebbson007:
bross why na


bross why na

Why you no buy am shoe yourself? If you didn't buy his clothes for him in the first place then you have no right to critique him. Like my pastor once said, if you didn't contribute to help buy the groceries then you have no right to critique the food that was prepared.

BankeSmalls:
I want to ask an honest question

Does Buharri and the federal government know that the police are committing corrupt practices like these

1. Extorting money from every motorist?
2. Torturing suspects for accusations of fighting or threat of another person?
3. Illegally arresting and detaining innocent Nigerians?
4. Supporting herdsmen to terrorise locals in their farms and arresting people who resist?
5. Conducting a stop and search operation in the centre of the city and slowing down traffic for hours and at the end, finding nothing incriminating from anybody for months?
6. Refusing to release suspects for flimsy offences except you pay a hefty fine in thousands of naira?

Is the federal government deceiving us with their fake fight of corruption while corruption is in their life blood?

They probably know but they.are just not accountable to anyone so they don't really care much.

My conclusion is that the presidential system of governance has failed naija. We might be better off with a parliamentary system that way leaders are actually accountable to people and are forced to be on their toes lest they get kicked out due to a vote of no confidence.

4tunebest:
Every thing you encounterd after that 'act' (The smoke from the ground, the creature,etc) and other weird stuff happens in the spiritual anytime one indulges in such secret sin, but you were just privileged to see it with your natural eyes. That wasnt the first time smoke came from the ground but that was the first time your spiritual eyes were opened to see the consequences of your act.

Thank God it's all in the past



This works like magic. I would have shared my experience but cant type long story

Dude, you need to share your story. You don't know who can learn from it.

Oppy4God:
This thread is the best, pls revive it

As in ehn?

century106:
My 'seeings' have evolved as I grew older. I still 'experience/see' things!
Let me share something that's 'recent'; it's about the end of the world!
I have seen in a vivid and very scenic trance how the world 'would end'. The strange thing? I have seen it twice, 365 days apart - that's I saw it again exactly 365 days (a year) after I saw the first one. I believe I have shared that somewhere in this forum but as I type I'm filled with goose pimples myself remembering it all so I'm going to have to skip the details about this one.

Dude, you've still not replied.

Probz:

I’m saying that there’s a certain level of adaptation to the lingua franca you need to meet in this day and age. That’s as far as it goes. Pure practicality. You don’t get any gold medals for reasoning like a village grandma. It’s to do with English being the world language whether that’s something you want to hear or not.

Chill innit.

And what exactly is this supposed to mean? Gosh, this is the side effects of colonization and brainwashing. I don't care if English is the world's language, my language is still my language.

rhektor:
Maybe but I don't think so

And could you please state your case?

Probz:
You know damn well what I’m saying.

What exactly are you saying? That your culture is primitive? Gosh! see brainwashing at the highest level.

1shortblackboy:
And anytime people talk about Africans bearing non African names they always refer to European names forgetting all the African Muslims that bear only Arabic names.

Our non non African names is just part of our history and there's no need denying our history. Its like telling an African American that he.should denounce his american citizenship. Its an unnecessary issue

The big difference is that African Americans were forcefully removed from their native land and still with that a lot of them try to retrace there roots and are still proud of their african heritage meanwhile our fellow Nigerians are trying hard to deny or even renounce theirs.

rhektor:
Reno o' mockery hmmmmmmmmm always wanting to make jest of everything shior

But he is right.

Mskrisx:
Always spewing crap!

He is actually correct on this one.

Probz:
Partly and partly a symbol of practicality in a globalised world. You don’t get any gold medals for being primitive.

Primitive? As in Barack Obama?

madridguy:
So this man get sense like this?

Actually on this point, he is probably correct. The lengths at which some Africans will go to avoid giving their kids native names is hilarious. That's why you have ridiculous names like Government and Laughter.