₦airaland Forum

PepeXKermit:
I beg to differ, imagine telling Temi or DJ cuppy that because they dont mingle with the middle class, they do not have the skills to navigate life. This is a bull sheet assertion. This is the analogy you are trying to portray? Please.....

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This is a very bad analogy because you are selecting extremely privileged people who have everything on a platter of gold.

That being said, it remains nonetheless true that many such kids do lack key life skills and cannot cope outside the protections of their privilege if flung into tough and unpredictable situations. This is a fact.

LordIsaac:
Getting First Class is hard anywhere. Quote me daily, and twice when you get one.

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It is distinctly easier abroad.

PepeXKermit:
you will experience a lot form your cousins if you all converge in the village for holidays, talkless of thousands of people from different tribes, religion and background clumped up together in one enclave, what else is different from both experiences if e no pass ashawo, thuggery, God-entitled lecturers, bribery, wetin dey there again to learn?

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Nah, it's beyond all that. It's actually a practicing ground for life and for many the crucial interactions which set up their whole lives are made there.

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Why do so many women appear to hate DNA tests?

Would they hate it for their brothers or sons?

For me it should be done automatically at every birth.

fabolouz1:
Been in the opposition doesn't translate to not accepting realities . Every gain must not be politicized ,
Opposition parties need to learn how the the then ACN which has now metamorphosed to APC played their opposition which brought them to power.

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They played it by loudly complaining about EVERYTHING including the removal of partial subsidies which they themselves have now done FULLY.

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This ADC appears to be to silent and slow for my liking. We are not hearing anything tangible from them anymore.

mikeapollo:
Most of the so-called ''reforms'' (sic) that this govt has implemented are about getting more revenue, even though the additional revenue is being (or would be) looted and squandered on meaningless ventures:
i. getting more naira revenue to share from floating the naira
ii. when Banks reported forex gain, they forcefully took 70% of the gain for no work done by govt.
iv. removing fuel subsidy
v. NNPC imposing some dubious ''markup'' on ex-factory price of petrol sold by Dangote refinery, before public outcry made them to leave DR alone
vi. increasing the price/removing subsidy on electricity tariff
vii. introducing and increasing tuition fee in universities and tertiary institutions
viii. increasing CGT in NGX to 30% (from initial 10%).
ix. attempt to increase VAT to 15% before it was blocked by NASS etc.
x. shamelessly, they said they would tax ''Oloshos'' (prostitutes) if they had their way! Incredible!

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They are not interested in the well being of the people.

koning:
...and Yahoo boys and drug dealers plus including Agberos.

I honestly do not think that Nigeria has matured to the level of taxing every citizen. The government over the years have not giving account of oil revenues and all other forms of revenue collected. The level of corruption since 1960 is mindboggling. And now they want ordinary Nigerians to contribute more money for them to steal.

In developed nations( UK, USA, EU, Japan) even those that collect welfare cheques pay tax. Tax is deducted from all forms of social welfare benefits paid by the state. Nigeria is simply not mature enough for all these Tax reforms.

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Correct but aside from that some of the so called reforms are absurd and dim witted.
Who opens his mouth to say that even illegal income is to be taxed.
I mean, who says that?

In short if I conduct an armed robbery or collect ransom from kidnapping, they want to tax that.

Image123:
i am in the present. Also, it serves as good warning to those blindly following some political messiah. Reminder, there's no messiah anywhere near at this time. The best of the bad is already there. And blimey, he's doing a fantastic job IMHO.

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What a shame.
Enjoy.

Image123:
A lot of vain expectations is the similarity.

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There are valid examples of opposition leaders who have become president in this country. Use them.

Image123:
A man whom God will never allow near the presidency, you mean to say.

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The more reason I was shocked you used him as your example.

Anyway, na you na.

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Mr. "We will tax oloshos."

Joke of a man.

owobokiri:
Barack Obama and Nicholas Zarkosy bombed the Ivorian presidential mansion just to remove President Gbagbo from office. Their favourite man was Allasene Quattara, who is now running endlessly as the president of Ivory Coast.

Quattara was supposed to be the guy who would bring true democracy to Ivory Coast. But what has happened? He is now a "sit tight" ruler, who fights more for the western alliance that imposed him as the president of Ivory Coast and not for the people of that country.

This should open the eyes of many Africans who supported the NATO forces in their unconstitutional acts in Abidjan. While you guys were swallowing the nebulous western propaganda agaist Gbagbo line hook and sinker, the West rode on your support to impose their lackey on the good people of Ivory Coast.

France did it alone if I am not mistaken. The USA was not involved.

Image123:
Like Outtara like Obi. Dazall. i remember when folks were backing this guy against the government thinking he's coming to save them.

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How funny you are using an example of a man who hasn't got the presidency yet when there are examples of those who have.

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And we all remember when this man was fighting the sit-tightism of Laurent Gbago.

Now look at him.

PepeXKermit:
They offer one world of view, please tell me what world of view or view of the world does public schools intentionally offer students? Please tell me again, what is learning about?

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That's the point. A university is a microcosm of the larger society so it should contain all flavours of life and all worldviews. That's what makes it a real place where the student can experience for the first time a sense of the larger world. A place which is almost like a convent can never give that advantage.

poiZon:
Why r u ignoring deepsight post, are u this dull?
His post has highlighted all the yorubas GEJ appointed n you r still running back n forth about the most senior in his administration..

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I tire for the guy oh.

Kewtt:
Then you must know Professor Agbede....he practically built Babcock University's law programme. Public universities have a lot of problems with accountability of the personnel, which impacts the learning process of the students. No doubt we have excellent and some vastly experienced personnel in the public universities. But truth be told it's like comparing public primary and secondary schools with the private primary and secondary schools.... The difference is vast and multidimensional.

The government is NOT ready to fund education. The private cannot fund like the government but they have far better management of the available resources.

The real currency here is the time of the learners. The public universities are more likely to waste your time which is your life. That you cannot buy back.

A lot of people's lives have been totally ruined by the public university systems. I can go on and on. From imposition of courses to overcrowded classrooms and outright unconducive learning environments.... With widespread poverty pervading the atmosphere coupled with the so-called yahoo boiz and gals strutting about the institution.

Most private universities are levellers. No cars, eat same food, no extravagance, morals still taught, courtesy taught, and above all your time is NOT wasted. ...which is your life!

The conversation is neither here nor there, as both have outfits which engage in sharp practices

Perfectly said and understood.
@ Prof Agbede, of course! Would mention a couple of others but that would stray too close to opening me up!

Back in my time Yahoo boys were not so much the problem as cultists but in my school cultism was mild compared to some other scary places.

PepeXKermit:
The education you gor collectively, both in the classroom and out the classroom is not better than private universities. Especially the established ones

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I particularly doubt the out of the classroom aspect when it comes to faith based universities because they offer a very narrow view of life on account of the question of limitation by religion.

PepeXKermit:
You are actually tge joke here. For you to mention that last patagraph it means you dont know what you are saying. For example, nobody abroad actually cares about what school you went as a nigerian in nigeria because they all have a collective mindset of what the education systrm is in nigeria. They know irs pure trash. What they focus on is of ypur school is accredired and if you had a good grade. Ifypu like thonk say ur 2,2 for UI na big deal over a 2.1 in covenant for admission slot.

In what terms is a federal university better? Quality of education? You have 300 people attending a class in federal than 30 -50 people in a class in private? Who learns better? Airconditioned well ventilated classes in private compared to public, lae and order in private compared to public, your hostel is 2 - 3 max in an AC room and parlor with personal bathroom and kitchen as compared to a dilapitated hostel where toilet is publuc and parts of the hostel is decaying? Tell me who amoongst the two has the best quality of education? Lets stop deceiving ourselves and tell ourselves the truth when we have to.

One thing i notoced is that many people because they cannot afford private education, the put down othets going there, saying they dont get the best of both worlds and are not going to be prepared for the real world. Oga, education no be violence. Being outside the comfort zone of your house without the guidisnce of your parent, is preparation for the real world enough... its not supposed to be fight, there are some lifestyles ypu dont need to get exposed to as a human being . Suffering is not a virtue. Whatever you think you get in education in a public school both in the classroom and out of the classroom, private university students get better in the classroom and a different form of yours outside the classroom, this is why we have something called class in the society, and you wont psyop people to belueve that as a public school student, you are better off with your standard of public education and more prepared for the world. Its a big lie

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I think standards have fallen in the public sector obviously. When I was there, our lecture halls were fully air conditioned, library, top notch (and I strongly doubt private universities have a comparable library up till today), hostels were not bad at all, though I never stayed there, and there were really classy restaurants about, comparable to some upscale ones in town.

Most importantly the pedigree of the academic staff was spectacular. To give an example, Professor Yemi Osinbajo was just one of an all star cast of lecturers in those days. And cerebral as he is, he was by no means special among them. There were absolute geniuses too many to count. Not just intellectually but with robust character.

GloriousGbola:
at that point, public unis were the only game in town and federal unis were the pick of the litter. the landscape has changed now and the leadership of 1st generation federal universities in the job market is no longer a given

the litmus test is simple - if you have the means would you send your child to a public or private university?

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I get you.

just a couple of years ago, a friend's son was in unilag in 100l and talking about a lecturer who was bragging that the highest score in his course would be a D. i cannot describe the fury i felt. in 2021, university lecturers are still pulling this fail students with pride nonsense.

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Slickening mentality.

PepeXKermit:
This is the psyop they fed you to believe hook line and sinker there was something special about public universities. If lecturers in public univetsities actually did their job, you will not make this statement. Imagine having this mentality and attending a university abroad, you will see how flawed this reasoning is.

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Anyway back in my time there weren't really many private universities around.

PepeXKermit:
That made life difficult for you as students. Edication is not violence or agidi. Its not a master servant relationship public universities made it out to be

How do you mean?
Most of us didn't get any unnecessary difficulties from lecturers.

Although as I said there were a few rogues who particularly harrassed girls.

GloriousGbola:
ask around. what you want as an employer is people who come out of university with a baseline skill level and exposure. schools like covenant offer this which means you get employees who can hit the ground running rather than be handheld and retrained

if you are a supervisor in corporate you want your life to be as easy as possible. your average public uni grad does not even know how to use ms office properly. i now run a business on my own and do not pay corporate wages so i have to make do with your average public uni grad and believe me, it is frustrating




the whole purpose of school is training for the rat race. more importantly, i am a graduate of a public uni and i have bitter repressed memories of the malicious, weaponized incompetence of public school lecturers. the causal incompetence where they misplace results, where they proudly fail entire sets, and sexually harass students with impunity.


talk to any of your public uni classmates who went abroad for a masters. exposure to a working academic system leaves them with nothing but contempt for most of the lecturers they encountered back in school

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN9H4W-wfmyZKDEBKUa4_seMe89qq1YDn

this is different from his normal fare, but largely accuarte

unfortunately, nigerians have been so messed up that they think surviving hardship rather than thriving as individuals is something to celebrate

I understand. Anyway I went to Federal University in Nigeria and till today decades later our entire set still hold our lecturers and professors in high regard. In fact we revere them. Of course there were a few rogues too, but pretty few. Most were distinguished, high calibre thinkers.

Also we more than hit the ground running in the best law firms at home and abroad so much so that within five to six years many of us had risen to management positions in multinationals.

raumdeuter:
Prove your allegation No
Do something worthwhile No

See why you are a Democrat?

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The owl does not hear the taunts of a fly, it only pricks its ears to the cries of eagles and hawks - of majestic, golden gleaming birds of the heights.

raumdeuter:
1. You made the allegations that he is implementing Project 2025, When asked to back it up, you chickened out

Boohoo.

2. You are spending your energy on Trump daily, Maybe you should put it into something worthwhile

No I am not.

U09ce:
Omoh. Your knowledge is archaic. No employer will overlook Covenant graduate o. First class and 2.1. They complete and many times outshine their counterparts from public universities

Is a University education all about the employment you can get thereafter.

Does it not also count as a life school from the point of view of being a microcosm of the larger society and to that end are Universities based on faith not limited.

GloriousGbola:
Look at this one

You know nothing

I worked in an oil and gas company for 15 years. When we recruited GTs in the 2010s they were 90% cu grads.

Do you actually have any working experience outside of being a political shill?

You sound like the kind of mentally battered suffer head who will celebrate the serial sexual harrassers who are unable to teach anything other then resilience rather than competence

Is it possible your particular company had a bias?

Also - Consider -

Is a University education all about the employment you can get thereafter.

Does it not also count as a life school from the point of view of being a microcosm of the larger society and to that end are Universities based on faith not limited.

raumdeuter:
So you cannot back up your claims. Like a liberal

Of course I can. I just dont see the point for two reasons.

1. You can read it up yourself and compare and contrast with everything he has done since January.

2. I just dont think you are worth my energy.

raumdeuter:
What about Project 2025 is he implementing? List them out

I will not list anything.