₦airaland Forum

kradleber:
I have a white friend and he called me Nigga ..
The days of racism are over... Stop living in the past

Stop trying to bring back the past.

kradleber:
So Barcelona couldn't beat those Nazis for me.. smh ..Anyway we are in the finals already, so no qualms.

Heineken is the official sponsor of the UEFA champions league and they are asking all soccer lovers on nairaland to join hands in voting Tohpahz as Miss NL 2015 ..hurray!

Nazis... very derogatory, I bet if a German called us monkeys we would be in an uproar and ready to draw blood... sometimes we just a take moment to analyse the import of our words before we use them... #justsaying

Nihilist:
Nigeria is buckling under the weight of it's overbloated beauracracy, that much is true....but that is NOT the reason we are in penury.

And an over-dependence on Oil is also not the reason we're so poor...even though it looks that way.

We are poor simply because the amalgamation of 1914 was a mistake of epic proportions.

By forcefully merging several previously sovereign and culturally disparate nation states into one, the British inadvertently created a never ending struggle for power and resources among the 265 ethnic groups, that has manifested in the forms of corruption we see today: Nepotism,theft and Militant ethnic jingoists.

The race to Aso rock has now become a race to plunder, with the Efik man not giving two fvcks about his countryman from Gombe, and why should he? He is Efik first, and Naija for life at football or when bragging to the Ghana man.

It is too late now to break Nigeria up into smaller more governable fragments, but what we must do at least put Nigeria on the right path is to truly federalize the Government, by devolving more powers from the centre and moving it closer to the grass roots.

We need to foster economic and infrastructural competition between states, with the Federal Government taking more of a 'Big Brother' approach.

This is not the way to fix the country, but in my opinion, it's the best way to start.

There's a warri saying ( in pidgin) that goes thus "word when e correct dem nor dey drag am" and this piece follows the dictates of that saying!

chachanga:
OMG!
This was my 1st taste of the experience except for the fact that i was peeing in the toilet and it felt so real...I was like 11yrs old.
I had woken up after some sleep feeling full to bursting point.
Rushed to the loo, gratefully opened the floodgates and let loose a long string of "Pure Water " that'd make Poseidon envious.

Only for me to now wake up in the midst of a very wet bed .

OK, so i first perched like the way you see one of those Hurricane Katrina victims on rooftops .

It wasn't quite 12seconds, my Muse brought me the golden keys of Wisdom...I NUDGED/ROLLED MY COUSINS ON MY SIDE OF THE BED (he had it coming for eating my fish at meal time earlier ), I CHANGED INTO DRY SHORTS &SINGLETS, HID MY BRIEFS DEEP IN THE WARDROBE, CHANGED MY COVER-CLOTH AND LAID BACK TF DOWN Praying Such Dream don't come again else Am Finished !

DON'T BLAME ME JOOR...JSS2 Boy still bedwetting...chai , I wouldn't have survived the shame !!

NB
I've loads of dreams like that since then, to the point that sometimes I kinda know the trigger point for activating Reality; like I got good at seeing through those Matrix-ish layers eventually. Because that ability has saved me a lotta needless night-time pain and anxiety.

Quite enough times, I've experienced being in some jeopardy in my sleep and some primordial deeper level knowing bubbles up telling me "IT's a Dream, burst out of it now!" and I jerk tf awake.

So, I don't know if anyone's had it to that level sha; where you can consciously observe those DE JAVU type layers and peel 'em back.
- I watch way too many Horror flicks (for the MakeUp Effx),
- have a mind boggling collection of Sci-fi Movies (starting from The Fly, Star Trek (1976 release up to last week's picks!)
- E-books yapa thanks to PirateBay+ other Torrent sites (10's of thoousand literarily, had to admit to meself one day there was no way I was reading all that ish in dis one life time) [A 3TB Hard Drive crashed on me once and i grouched for months]
- my profession and hobbies (won't tell ya) also influence a bit
I can't really say what's responsible for my my switch in that direction; although am now much of Night Owl and when i sleep to dreamless nights, i still wake up many times tired like say i slept but my mind was processing in overclocked state all night

But, I'll really like to know if there's folks who've been able to do that Neo's kinda decoding ish where you get to even see through it or how you deal with it because av been having this mothas like every other month or so. (Specifically tha reason i stayed off Pot, ghanja etc in High School, shy.t was complicated enuf already).

Pls, share more. I'd wanna know!

@OP, helpful thread...kip it coming

your post almost word for word is the story of my life right down to the farme a coz for the pee and hide the evidence ish... even the wake yourself from a dream was something i thought made me weird. I took it to a level where I could switch dreams like flicking the channels on my tv... I simply tell myself even while sleeping that its a dream and I dnt like it and I either wake up of change the channel! Mind boggling sh*t ryt there. Lol

tohpahz:
Rarely dream.. but I've had this experience before.. when i was younger.. one was urinating ish..
Was slpin and i had to pee,woke up from d sleep and went to the toilet ,did my business thinking i was awake.. later woke up really nd i had wet the bed..



Another was wen i dreamt in my dream.. that my dad had an accident.. den i woke up from the dream(1st layer) and my dad told mi he was travelling that Morning, i started crying telling him not to go.. he said he had to and he'd drive carefully.. i continued crying and den woke up crying (2nd layer) ..

I had that bed wetting false awakening too as a child... funny part if after constant spanking and scolding my mind altered the dream sequence... so at one point when I wake up in the dream to go urinate, no matter how hard I try I cant pee into the toilet bowl but instead on the floor around it... the moment this happens my mind wakes me up for real... to go pee for real! Lol... I hope this doeant sount like gibberish but its hard to explain in a compressed form

Mojanity:
It doesn't exist

It does exist, just not in the form we usually want it or from whom we want that feeling...

Love is pain... the type we cannot live without... necessary pain.

Freemanan:
If I hear Ijaw language I will know the speakers are from Bayelsa/Delta so I need no Professor of rocket science to decipher it for me. #Busted

Abeg chop knuckle my brother! His lie detector is very faulty or unintelligent!

PeterKbaba:
How did she know you were speaking a delta language.... lie busted!!!

So iif u are in the same dpt with someone for over 3 yrs and you know the person is from delta... when u hear the person speakiing a languauge unknown to you, you will assume he's speaking arabic abi Abeg get sense small na. Smh

spongeisback:
I sang this list in Duncan mighty's voice...woyiwoyiwo!

Lol! I swear down! So did i... hehehehe

m1500:
This is the way a statesman should think; if only he'll remain incorruptible. I wish him the very best!!!

Nigeria is too poor for our leaders to act like multi-billionaires, and Nigeria is too rich for our people to be poor"


Note that in the above statement he didnt say Nigeria is too poor for the leaders to be multi millionaire, he said too poor for them to ACT like.... the man is just sitting on the fence and trying to appeal to both the victims and the embezzlers... yeye fowl

m1500:
This is the way a statesman should think; if only he'll remain incorruptible. I wish him the very best!!!

Nigeria is too poor for our leaders to act like multi-billionaires, and Nigeria is too rich for our people to be poor"


Note that in the above statement he didnt say Nigeria is too poor for the leaders to be multi millionaire, he said too poor for them to ACT like.... the man is just sitting on the fence and trying to appeal to both the victims and the embezzlers... yeye fowl

jascon1:
well, he was only a staffer in NTA when he started his business. So, he didn't trade with politics money. Am not saying he didn't embezzle, but I'm saying robbing the govt for the interest of the ppl is a nice incentive at this time. Since the govt don't know how to invest to provide jobs, then let someone make the move.

He is no robinhood.... he embezzled for the benefit of himself alone... telling his he flies economy is B.S ( and not to mention, a LIE). When he does sumfin worthwhile like donate his entire earnings as a senator to charity then he wud has acquired bragging rights. Till then he shud just shut up and let Naija hear words that actually sound sensible

jascon1:
If a man like Ben Bruce flies first class I won't snap on that. In fact I'll purchase the ticket for him myself. What am saying is, this man was intelligent enough to know that Nigerians are jobless n he put his money in the economy thereby providing thousands of jobs. Only if all those thieves could do the same. We won't have so much joblessness in the country. Imagine a joint venture by Ibori, Abacha, uduaghan, Tinubu and kwankwaso. If these men alone bring their money together they can provides jobs that our poverty rate will drop to less than 2%.

Hes just an intelligent theive... keeping a low profile or modest lifestyle... doesnt change the fact that he ran in close circles with known embezzlers and is most definitely one himself. If he like make e open 20 orphanage homes, thief na thief any day any time

Ishilove:
http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2015/05/yinka-adebamiro-murder-latest-sister-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%2FAqSJb+%28S.T.E.L.L.A%27S

Marriages of nowadays ehn. How very unfortunate

This may sound crazy but I think this sister had maybe a thing or perhaps an affair with her late bro inlaw.... this story goes a lot deeper than it apears on the surface... like an enigma wrapped in a mystery....

Hi I am Ejiro, full proper wafferian, friends call me la saint, very new to NL so am still trying to get the hang of it. Am crazy, the I will try almost anything at least once kinda crazy! Oh and one more thing, I am blunt and sometimes sarcastic to a fault.

wirinet:
See lie. Omo this guy can wake a corpse with his lies. He is forming humble because of politics. He has relalized that Nigerians fall mugu fore fake humilty (remember how successful the "i have no shoes" claim was).

I have known Ben Bruce personally for over 30 years, and i know how ulta elitist he is. Around 1988 he bought a stretched white limo, which he drove arround in.

He want to tell us that when he was travelling around the world with stars such as Jeffery Daniels, Howard Hewitt and J.T tailor, Agbani Dorego, etc, they were travelling around in economy class, or when he was NTA DG he did not enjoy official luxuries.

He reason us as mugus wen nor know lies from truth na, ewu!

midasbliss:
Dnt him...
i dunno y he has to brag about that.
mtchewww
who e help?

Yes o, abeg ogbeni who you help?

midasbliss:
Story!!!
U Are Rich!
End Of Story!

He be forming I am one of you guys... mtchewww. Even bill gate flew coach until 1997 and he was worth over 36 billion by then

Freemanan:
I have been opportuned to live with Nigerians from different ethnic backgrounds and religion. By far the most ethnocentric and sentimental of them all are the YORUBAS and the IGBOs. My reasons are numerous and are based on observations marred with objectivity, some of which are;

1. An average Yoruba person believes only a Yoruba man knows everything and can serve in any capacity, something of which any other man cannot.
2. An average Igbo man believes his clans men are the economic nerve of Nigeria and without them, Nigeria will die of penury. #wrong Nwanem.
3. An average Igbo man will prefer to eat in an 'Igbo restaurant ' than any other when he's outside his region (he thinks no one cooks better than them).
4. An average Yoruba person will dialogue in his native dialect with his kinsman even in an heterogeneous gathering! Family house corpers!
5. An average Igbo person will sell something cheaper for his kinsman than he would an alien tribe.

Now to the south south people of Nigeria, the most neutral and objective set of humans I have met yet. They give little credence to ethnicity, they relate to anyone from any ethnic group. They aren't hostile to visitors and they have no crass for 'tribal nationalism'. #Warri #Ogoni #Eket #Calabar #Benin #Ekeremor...

My sincere observations and opinions

I have spent almost ten yrs in Yoruba land.... 6 at Akure and another 3 and still counting btween ogun and lagos.... Yorubas are the most tribalistic pple I have ever met. They may be nice to u but they will never accept u as their equal or better. The worst and funniest example of their tribalism happened to me when I was in the university... we were in class waiting for lecturer and me and a friend were conversing in urhobo when a girl in front of me ( who incidentally had been gisting in Yoruba with her friend) turns to us and says "why are u pple speaking delta here? Its very tribalistic of you" the argument that ensued is best imagined! Lol.

midasbliss:
Once Had A Dream, A Terrible Dream At That, Woke Up From My Dream In My Dream and As Usual Told My Mum The Dreadful Dream At That... Only For Me To Wake Up In Real Life To Realize That I Was Actually Dreaming In My Dream... It Looked So Real.

Scary when you dream within a dream... inception ish, lol

literarymathy:
I just don't get it? this your erratically disturbing behavior towards the Urhobos. Maybe I should psychoanalyse you;

Did you have a rough childhood?
Were you molested by your Uncle or parents?
Did you have any sexual fantasies towards your sisters or mom? Maybe it's an Oedipal complex.
Were you a social pariah in school?
Or were you bullied by better looking and more intelligent dudes?
Are you xenophobic because you were raped by an Urhobo man when you were in Ogwashiuku prison?
Or are you simply tormented by the evils you did yourself?

Please Freemanan take over the analysis from here, this guy needs a stronger hand.

his family probably had to live on charity after his lazy incompetent father was sacked in favour of an hardworking Urhobo man... hence the acute hatred,

Or more likely, his mother finally left his father when she realised his phileandering and drunkness was ingrown in his blood and that of his kin. Salt on the injury was that she ended up with an Urhobo man who completes her world beyond her wildest dream...

illiad:
Urhobo Or Sobo, very bitter people! They're very Jealous of Asaba wishing they could move the capital of Delta State, and probably convert Anioma to Sobo.

I detest these lot, sobos.

Illiad the ignorant self-servicer