₦airaland Forum

@femo
Free education at the primary and secondary level is a basic human right. That is a long term solution to armed robbery. There are a lot of people who can't afford free education in naija, you probably don't see them, because to you they don't exist, but just go to the slums of any city in naija and you would know what i'm talking about. It would cost soooooo much to connect every state with a railway. There should also be access to credit (capital) and by the way how high is Nigeria's interest rate? If its higher than 4%, that should be a be a travesty. Oh what pathetic leaders we have. It seems to me that Nigeria is just worried about appreciating the naira compared to the $ instead of using our low value currency to our advantage (see Japan). When Nigeria starts exploring high-tech products to the rest of the world like electronics, our devalued naira would make us competitive compared to the $, but first of all, we have to produce something that the rest of the world wants. Oil is simply not going to cut it.
Vocational and "blue collar" jobs don't make countries rich, economic power houses, its high-tech industries that do. Like i said the govt should lead a state led industrialization drive, starting with simple, basic technology from the East (Aba boys and their electronics).
@Kobojunkie
you said that Education is not going to solve nigeria's problems, just go see what all the developed countries in the world have in common then come and tell me if education is not worth it. Where do you think our future "Einsteins" are going to come from? Our future Donald Trumps, Bill Gates, nano-technologists, and MIT graduates are selling groundnut, robbing people, working on farms, or even extorting money (area boys), when are we going to teach this kids and harness there potential?

In order to help those in the countryside (rural areas), Agriculture is the solution. The govt needs to subsidise agriculture by providing farmers with free seeds, free fertilizers and free tractors to plow there land, whoever performs well is given more land. Also, the govt should provide free harvesters, free vehicles and a great means of transportation including great road networks from the villages to the cities, and a good railway network to different areas around the country avoid the clogging of roads. Also, the fed. govts should provide electricity and clean water for people in those areas. It should also levy taxes on farmers so that it can use it for free compulsory education for primary and secondary school students. The wiring of electricity in the rural areas would help boost local (light) industries like textile manufacturing and food processing. This would lead to reverse migration because the kids who have gone to the  cities to look for work only to find none (and ended up being "agberos" and "ashewos") would come back to the villages.
Also, the govt needs to levy taxes on those who own property or businesses in the urban areas (cities) and abolishing taxes on property and businesses in the rural areas so that  people would start migrating to the rural areas instead of clogging up our cities (e.g Lagos). This is how the govt should promote businesses in the rural areas.

Murphy's law says "whatever can go wrong will go wrong".

right now odeku, thats what we need, corruption free govts.

@ seun
no source, no story

Do you even know what a source is Can't you see the sources (links) that he posted. Gosh. A source is simply where you get your information from.

@folahann
The problem with Nigeria is not the population, in fact its an advantage, only if used in the right way. If Nigeria is able to properly educate her population, it would be an economic power a la USA, china and india. The big problem now is that our leaders don't see that education is very vital to Nigeria in the long run. Our educational system (especially at the university level) needs to be seriously updated, our primary and secondary education should be geared away from cramming information (Ababio textbook) to creative thinking. Education at the university level is not producing enough enterprenuers (pronounced as unt-uprur-nor not enta-pre-nior) in the business fields and in the science field its much worse, the informations is so diluted and watery, our kids are using outdated information (1960 textbooks). Also, we need to shift our educational system towards application not cramming textbooks for final exams that are worth 70% of your grades. The infrastructure for research is even lacking, the equipments are not even there. College students don't even know how to use a computer talkless of Microsoft Excel, and you wonder why contracts are awarded to foreign companies. There are so many things that you can't do without software these days like civil engineering, computer engineering and just about every college course including journalism.

Let me get one thing straight, natural resources like oil never made a country rich, its industrialization. How many high-tech industries (electronics, semi-conductor, ICP's, semi-processors, chip manufacturing, software) do we have? How many heavy industries (ship manufacturing, train manufacturing, aero space manufacturing, car manufacturing) do we have? The state should lead an industrialization drive like Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia did, instead of building skyscrapers to beautify abuja or building some "Tinapa" resort in calabar and praying for foreign investors to come down from heaven. Wetin oyinbo man fit do wey we no fit do also.

who told you the bundesliga is crap. Those guys play the best 1-2 i've ever seen. They make the most intricate passes. I know they are not fancy because they have a very business like approach to the game, that's why they've won 3 world cups to England's one and spains zero despite the spanish having the best league in the world. In fact, last time i checked the germans got to the semis in the world cup.

The only thing German football needs to do right now is to break the monopoly of Bayern Munchen by inviting foreign investors to their league just like the English did. There are a lot of foreign owners buying clubs in the premiership and injecting cash into those "small" clubs, hence boosting competition. That's how they were able to break the dominance of man. u in the early 2000's. As a result fo this, even chelsea (regular pretenders to the title) even won two league titles which i still find hard to believe till this day. Also, English league sides are doing well in the UEFA cup and the champions league.
So the bundesliga has to remove restrictions on foreign ownership and increase the quota on number of foreign players allowed to play in their league.

The solution to unemployment in Nigeria is EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION.
Singapore has the best students in the world because it hires the best college students to be primary school teachers.

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9989914

So in order to reduce unemployment of student graduates, the nigerian govts should employ them as teachers and pay them very handsomely (they say everybody has a price).
Each primary school teacher must have a masters degree and must go to teaching school on a state scholarship.
The Nigerian public school system has enough pathetic teachers, some of whom can't even speak good english and for some reason they are teaching our kids english.
No teacher should have anything less than a two one classification and they should be top of their classes.
The teachers should also sign contracts (10 years) with the state to avoid early departures so they don't flee after a couple of months on the job.
The teachers too should be very highly paid, i am not saying like millionaires but enough to get married have a car and build a comfortable house. Also, teachers who teach in rural areas should be paid more and they should be given extra benefits.
All teachers should also be paid based on there performances and effort and should be paid on an hourly basis, the more they work, the more they get paid.

Nigerians unfortunately think that the erection of big infrastructure and glossy buildings is called "development". Development is when the standard of living of its citizens is very high and when there is an equal income distribution amongst the populace.
So instead of the govt spending money on building unnecessary infrastructure like 4bn naira skscrapers and stadiums in abuja thinking that it would make them developed, they should focus on developing human talent which would advertently lead to industrialization and the creation of high-tech industries in the country.
Nigeria has a hugely unnecessary bureaucracy; we have 19 ministries most of which are useless like ministry of women affairs and the ministry of youth affairs, most of this ministries should be scrapped, there should only be 7 ministries, and 30% of nigeria's GNP should be spent on education as supposed to just 0.6% (yes, even Somalia spends more on education). Only then would Nigeria ease its way into the most developed countries not spending money on projects left and right.

The solution to unemployment in Nigeria is EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION.
Singapore has the best students in the world because it hires the best college students to be primary school teachers.

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9989914

So in order to reduce unemployment of student graduates, the nigerian govts should employ them as teachers and pay them very handsomely (they say everybody has a price).
Each primary school teacher must have a masters degree and must go to teaching school on a state scholarship.
The Nigerian public school system has enough pathetic teachers, some of whom can't even speak good english and for some reason they are teaching our kids english.
No teacher should have anything less than a two one classification and they should be top of their classes.
The teachers should also sign contracts (10 years) with the state to avoid early departures so they don't flee after a couple of months on the job.
The teachers too should be very highly paid, i am not saying like millionaires but enough to get married have a car and build a comfortable house. Also, teachers who teach in rural areas should be paid more and they should be given extra benefits.
All teachers should also be paid based on there performances and effort and should be paid on an hourly basis, the more they work, the more they get paid.

Nigerians unfortunately think that the erection of big infrastructure and glossy buildings is called "development". Development is when the standard of living of its citizens is very high and when there is an equal income distribution amongst the populace.
So instead of the govt spending money on building unnecessary infrastructure like 4bn naira skscrapers and stadiums in abuja thinking that it would make them developed, they should focus on developing human talent which would advertently lead to industrialization and the creation of high-tech industries in the country.
Nigeria has a hugely unnecessary bureaucracy; we have 19 ministries most of which are useless like ministry of women affairs and the ministry of youth affairs, most of this ministries should be scrapped, there should only be 7 ministries, and 30% of nigeria's GNP should be spent on education as supposed to just 0.6% (yes, even Somalia spends more on education). Only then would Nigeria ease its way into the most developed countries not spending money on projects left and right.

Sean Taylor was voted into the pro-bowl posthumously.

Isn't this the same guy who was tried on corruption charges? or the guy who was also tried for raping an HIV infected family friend and said afterwards that he took a shower to minimize the possibility of his infection .

by the way, Phillip emeghwali (or however y'all pronounce his name) is not the father of the internet, get your facts straight. Also, has Chinua Achebe won a Nobel Prize yet. Also, who was Nigeria's first millitary dictator (in otherwords who led to Nigeria's demise)? Last time i checked he was supposed to be Igbo.

ONE WORD. ETHNOCENTRISM. YOU GUYS SHOULD JUST GET IT INTO YOUR SKULLS THAT YOU'RE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING ON THE EARTH.

Y'ALL NEED TO LOOK AT YOURSELVES AS EVERYBODY ELSE, ACTORS ON THE WORLD STAGE AND NOTHING ELSE.

Look at foreigners like this "Leilah" having the audacity to even diss us, can you imagine, come talk that kind thing here for naija and see what happens to you. Everybody is tough when they are behind a computer.
@Stillwater,
by the way, i live in Stillwater and i go to OSU, that's why i was asking.

For those who grew up in the 90's, my fondest memories are watching Checkmate on TV on thursday night, Voltron and super-ted, the Joy Girl commercials, Indian movies (Toofan, Mard, Karate), mexican telenovelas (the rich also cry, no one but you), also, the rise and fall of the super eagles and the not so fond memories of the Abacha regime, IBB, the regular strikes in school, Ken Saro-Wiwa, NEPA, 1993 or 199-terrible as my mom's friend called it: the year of bloodshed, June 12. Who can also remember where they were when they heard that Abacha had died?
I also remember normal activities like going to church almost everyday, boarding school, preparing for common entrance exams, playing soccer during primary school days, and eating "guguru and epa"      .

Goodluck

Pillar

Plant

Yeah y'all got lucky, Brian Billick gave the game to you guys. There is no way you guys would have won if the man was not such a bad play caller, imagine not handing over the ball to willis mcgahee on 4&inches. That was pathetic. Besides you guys are 1-13 is that something to be proud of? you guys were going bananas like y'all won the superbowl or something ha ha ha. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3157721&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1

Look how y'all dissing us, when we start dating other nationalities and races you start whining like babies that we don't love y'all, yet you disrespect us like this. Thank God i'm in yanki, i don't have to put up with that nonsense because we have several "options" here. There are akatas, oyinbos, kokoyes and even chinko's. Naija boys i pity for una investing all this time and money for some of this snubbish condescending girls. I can't imagine spend my time trying to be sweet to some unattractive, average looking naija chic when i could be dating a domenican or a Jessica Alba look alike who is sooooooooooo sweet, friendly and nuturing. I hope i don't ever marry naija girl, by the way Stillwater do you go to OSU also? holla at me.

Who even started this thread, was the person high or something? how could you compare an unattractive, (average looking girl at best) no talent actress to the goddess Halle Berry. Man you need to get glasses please. If genevieve (or whatever her name is) was in hollywood, she would be unemployed and probably working at IHOP or TACO BELL.

T.mari as we can see is a one hit wonder. Rihanna has gone way ahead of her. Also, rihanna used to be a former beauty queen in jamaica, and she is way more prettier than tierra mari (or whatever her name is).

@9star
To each his own please. If you don't like American football then stay away, are we disturbing you? My goodness and you wonder why our country has so much problems, we simply can't agree to disagree over any issue, what a shame. We need to start teach our kids diversity.

yeah i love samuel peter a lot, we need more naija people like him.

Yoruba is the world's coolest language in the world, but i wish i could speak fulani, so i could speak to those cute fulani girls.

this post is the truth, we just can't agree to disagree. No wonder we can't figure democracy out. if somebody comes up with something different we shout them down (common get out) woe unto them if they think of something different, we call them all kinds of names like small boy or mumu, and we wonder why our country never progresses, when we can't come to a consensus amongst ourselves. I must admit i am just like that, i guess its the way we were raised, we need to start reeducating our kids lest they become like us.

Here come all the conspiracy theorists. Too much American movies na wetin dey cause this. Next thing they would tell us that aliens exist or the 9/11 attacks was planned by George Bush. They are also the same ones that say that Abacha was killed by a Western power as if naija is that important (nigerians are so full of themselves) just because they buy oil from us doesn't mean squat, the saudis have way more oil than us. We are just pawns (non-entities) or should i say extras on the world stage. Get it right into your thick skulls Abacha had cirrhosis of the liver mostly caused by too much alchohol and the man took viagra which raised his blood pressure.

hehehehehehehe. . . . . i love africa . . . . . . where fools rule . . . . . . . with their dumb wives . . .

WORD
Mr. Toshman you couldnt be more right.

@mr folahann
Only in Africa can stuff like this happen. Instead of the First Lady being so graceful and lovely like Laura Bush and Jacqueline Kennedy, they go round acting the direct opposite. What a shame.

and they will stay winless ha ha ha

@made n naija
I don't know,i really don't have any golden answer but i guess its drugs, drugs, drugs. The poor school system in the inner city (where blacks live). In America, you can only go to school were you live even if that means your school is as good as some Mudasiru fatai Abdulaziz comprehension gramar school (you know what i mean). You can't just move anywhere because housing in other parts are ridiculously expensive.
Breakdown in culture and society, students excel in school if there is co-operation between parents, teachers and the student, but if daddy is in prison and mommy has to work 2-3 jobs, where is the time fo junior? What facilitates this is the fact that African Americans have a 70% child out of wedlock rate, which in turn leads to the high incarceration rate (conviction) this is what happens when you have kids without guidance running around.
In America the justice system is very complicated. If you've ever been to jail before, your chances of getting a normal life just went down the drain (its almost impossible to get a job as a janitor), talkless of being convicted of a felony (federal crime). Aye e ti pari (your life is basically over) because the govt would strip you of your rights for life (you can't even vote no more, talkless of a job) that's why 80% of people released from prison eventually go back because why would i be spending 40 hours a week working at McDonalds or some menial job for $400.00 a month when i could be making $500.00 an hour selling crack.

So my good friend, the problems are so numerous and complex, that's why i thank God i was born and raised in Naija where we still have a strong and conservative culture and society and where we are thought that the sky is the limit, only if you work hard (remember those grueling hours reciting the multiplication table and solving those "Larcombes" mathematical problems, guess what? they paid off big time).

@MP007
A quaterback must do whatever it takes to make the team win even if he does not have the personnel (like running back) around him and whenever "superman" was in the game, he always gave them an opportunity to win, it was only there freshman defense that cost them those 3 games.

@scambater
I am not sure about LSU convincingly beating OSU this time around, because the buckeyes have a chip on there shoulder, they were embarassed last year (because Ted Ginn Jr. got injured on the first play of the game) and that has been on there mind all season long. I can guarantee you that Jim Tressel would make sure its not a blowout.
Also, did you see the Arkansas vs. LSU game, LSU couldn't stop the run, in fact, D-MAC and Felix Jones ran roughshod over them what makes you think Chris "beanie" Wells is not going to do the same thing. But who knows? The Big 10 was mediocre this year which made it easier for Ohio state to run over everybody else and there offseason schedule was pathetic also (Youngstown State anyone).