Xda59:
A lot of people on nairaland lack simple comprehension skills. Could this be due to hunger or what? A man cried out that his wife got a sextoy as souvenir at a wedding she attended everybody thinks it was the couple that received the sextoy as wedding gift. What is so difficult in reading and comprehension

Poshriel:


This is one of the stories I read on this forum and I am excited..

Good write up well explained, use of tense and punctuations....

Bro be it as it is please consider being a writer ... For you are good

AnonyNymous:



[i]Shouldn't the supposed "selling Nnamdi Kanu out" tell you that the ruling class don't care what happens to members of their ethnic group if it doesn't relate to them? Why then, would they even care about a random Igbo man being made SGF? Or do you think Senator Avaribe signed Kanu's bond because he was Igbo? Nah. He wanted to take advantage of the Igbo masses. He could care less whatever [/i]happened to Kanu, left to him.

Seriously, its not that hard to understand.

AlexandriaToria:



Thank you for understanding. Honestly I am happy you understood me

AlexandriaToria:



Do you guys have issue with comprehension? I am not shallow. How can I use English to judge a person? Does that make any sense?

I was talking about the annoying thing we keep hearing people on this forum saying, that English is not our language? So let them say it? What exactly is the language? Don't say pidgin English because that's just modified English.

The truth is that Nigeria only has one language that unites us and that is the English language. I made reference to Kenya. If the government of Kenya today decides to stop everyone from speaking English, they have got a backup and that is Swahili.

So which is Nigeria's common language outside the English

Tolexander:
Holocaust discussion and debate on DW were arranged for objective reasons and not subjective reasons.

Discussed by historians, not just anyone. And not for the aim of setting a race, tribe and others against another one.

analice107:

Sir, What The Master means there is, the Gentles.
And, being GOOD doesn't qualify us for the kingdom of God.

And those Patriarchs you mentioned were lovers of Yahweh and they followed and obey him.

Pls remember that, at the time the Master said that, Jews never considered any none-Jew good enough for their fold, the Master was just preparing them to open up to the Gentle believers which will later join the fold. Jesus does not have any other sheep who are disobedient to him

He said "My sheep will hear my voice and will follow me".
Where ever his sheep are, when he calls them, they will hear and follow him. This is the reason you see Christians in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. No matter how much the Muslims kill them, many more will believe.

Christ has sheep everywhere. When they believe, they become his, no longer outsiders.

Interpret the scriptures with understanding sir.

Nightshift:
I am going to checkout the book on amazon this weekend. I hope it's gonna give me the kind of thrills I get from James Hardly Chase books

bikerboy1:
Even after speaking all the English language at school. That doesn't stop you from learning how to speak your mother tongue.

But if you 're allowed to use you native language in school, I'm very sure your English language speaking and writing ability wouldn't be as good as it is now.

Whatever they did then, was for your own good.

vowsng:
U

So if there was no english language, after you finish learning housa, you will go and learn yoruba, anyday you want to travel to south africa or any foreign country, you will spent atleast 1 year to learn the language of that country and so on, also imagine as we have this platform, (nairaland) you are typing in igbo and another is typing in house and yoruba, how do you think there wouldnt be a bridge in communication?

Stop trying so hard to be wiser than your masters, a general language that makes it easier to communicate globally is a sinequanon. If an african country was opportuned to be the colonial master or country, they inturn would have enforced their language on their subjects, but nature did not permit them, instead, they were busy jumping with monkeys in the bush, and when you ask them, they will say that civilisation started in africa, i tend to wonder what has stopped them from getting more civilised even with the exit of the colonial masters.

musicwriter:
This type of topic should be deleted by the moderators as its promoting slavery. English is not our language!!. It is a language forced down the throats of our ancestors when we were slaves, and as such, you shouldn't be proud speaking it.

Some of you often ask; what were our ancestors doing to have been enslaved? What they were doing is the same thing you're doing today when you promote English language or feel proud speaking it.

Our native languages are now in a sorry state, some under threat of extinction, while we're busy fooling around promoting English. I regret to have learned to speak English in school. I wish I invested all that time studying Igbo language and one other Nigerian language, like Yoruba or Hausa. If I could go back to school I'll invest my time studying our native languages.

adioolayi:
If you were celebrating the depreciation of the Naira EVERYDAY, why are you asking me not to celebrate the appreciation EVERYDAY? #Copied

Even if it appreciate by #1 , Credit to the "polytechnic graduate " and Emefiele......kudos to "mere commissioner" too.

#GodBlessNigeria

AntiIPOOP:

Lol The biggest scam in Nigeria is Fayose, how this man was able to hoodwink Ekiti people, remains a mystery.

Tadeknkeepcalm:
arrogance, too big to take correction.

elobyobi:
Interpretation:
1. So, if a guy doesn't feel happy, sad, moody, disappointed, angry, Hot, ecstatic, anxious, at various times he doesn't love you.
2. If he loves you so much that he flaunts you to his ex. If he thinks you're the one, and he just needs to get the pesky ex off his back, to try to convince her to move on and find love, as he has done, then he doesn't love you
3. If you so happen to be "hot" (whatever that means), and he takes you places, the same places he used to go to when he was single, He doesn't love you. If he weren't using u, he'd wrap u up like agidi and then lock you up in the house for his eyes only. (Why does that remind me of a certain religion?)
4. Of course love is not sex. He should keep visiting his exes and side chicks, whom he doesn't love, because he doesn't want to "use" you.
Did I miss anything?

QuotaSystem:


What you should understand brother, is if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.

Leave Buhari alone and work on your own certificates.

midehi2:
dream come true


my dream almost coming true, live in a comfortable home with my kids and adorable husby

Okikiki:



Why take the stress to pile up this monologue?

Is referendum too hard?

Then we would know who says what and who wants what.

No one has absolute right to speak for all.


Ask BREXIT!

slimfit1:
The truth is very difficult to take in. The electricity we are talking is it not one person that thought of it and decided to do something. It only on Africa you see engineers in the street looking for jobs can't make anything with all the knowledge he has.

Look around us rivers and sun wasting away we are still looking for opportunities when it is all around you. The minister is saying the truth abeg use shame understand what he is trying to say, useless people can take sense sometimes.

gbemoh:
The kind of news these days and the title the reporter deems fit to give it.
So after reading the speech he gave and the the topic the reporter gave it.
The average Nigerian reads out of context, they just want a shocking headline to move traffic. The summary is, he said we all should look inward to get us out of recession, not out usual praying and fasting without working efficiently.
Can we all read more so we be misled less.

Trendirabingi:
nairaland has gone to the dogss..

Ikem11:
why is it that in Nigeria we elect old fools in government and they keep calling on young nigerians as the way out? what stop young nigerians being elected since everything is based on them. ndia ara!!

kingphilip:
“You are the new batteries to power the engine of growth of our country. Your choices must be clear, free from fear, not reckless but driven by analytical thought, questioning and probing and ultimately determined by convictions."

Praising them as the new batteries isn't enough Mr dishonorable minister..

Empower them to put those skills you mentioned above to work and you'll see Nigeria will be great again

toprealman:
oyibo:White is godly, Black is evil.
And my people applauds this fantasy.....***smh****

moshould:
make him pray for our country na, do miracle make our bad leaders dem run mad....

mandarin:
See this info and measure your alma mater

For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely.....

1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.

2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards

3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres.

4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities

5. Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches

6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated.

7. 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects

8. Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian universities are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old.

9. 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet

10. UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively).

11. All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels

12. 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as "Glorified Primary Schools" Laboratories are non existing

13. There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government

14. 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed

15. 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers.

16. 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics

17. 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce)

18. Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same

19. 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background)

20. Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities

21. 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female.

22. 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities.

23. The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities:

24. LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:111

25. (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15).

26. Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs

27. Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books

28. Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications

29. While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture

30. There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5)

31. Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders.

32. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs

33. Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers.

34. MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis.

35. 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers.

36. In Gombe State University, only 4 out of 47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers are visiting

37. In Plateau State University, Bokkos, 74% of the lecturers are visiting.

38. In Kaduna State University, only 24 out of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff.

39. 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are receiving more funds anualy than 20 Nigerian universities under 'Amnesty Scam'

40. 80% of published journals by Nigerian University lectures have no visibility in the international knowledge community.

41. No Nigerian academic is in the league of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel Prize.

42. There are only 2 registered patents owned by Nigerian Academics in the last 3 years.

43. Numerically more support staff in the services of Nigerian universities than the teaching staff they are meant to support

44. More expenditure is incurred in administration & routine functions than in core academic matters in Nigerian Universities

45. There are 77,511 full-time non-teaching staff in Nigeria’s public universities 2 Times number of academic staff

46. University of Benin, there are more senior staff in the Registrar cadre (Dep. Registrars, PARs, SARs) than Professors

47. Almost all the universities are over-staffed with non- teaching staff

48. There are 1,252,913 students in Nigerian Public Universities. 43% Female 57%Male

49. There is no relationship between enrolment and the tangible manpower needs of Nigeria.

50. Nigerian Uni Horrible hostel facilities, overcrowded, overstretched lavatory and laundry facilities, poor sanitation,etc

51. Except Nigerian Defence Acadamy Kaduna, no university in Nigeria is able to accommodate more than 35% of its students.

52. Some universities (e.g. MOUAU),female students take their bath in d open because d bathrooms are in very poor condition.

53. Laundries and common rooms in many universities have been converted into rooms where students live, in open prison style.

54. In most improvised cage called hostels in Nigerian Universities, there is no limit to the number of occupants.

55. Most State universities charge commercial rates for unfit and unsuitable hostel accommodation

56. In off-campus hostels, students are susceptible to extraneous influences and violence prostitution, rape, gang violence

57. Nigerian University Students sitting on bare floor or peeping through windows to attend lectures

58. Over 1000 students being packed in lecture halls meant for less than 150 students

59. Over 400 Nigerian University students being packed in laboratory meant for 75 students

60. University administrators Spend millions to erect super-gates when their Libraries are still at foundation level; Expend millions to purchase exotic vehicles for university officers even though they lack basic classroom furnishings; Spend hundreds of millions in wall-fencing and in-fencing when students accommodation is inadequate and in tatters;

61. Govt interested in spending money on creation of new uni instead of consolidating and expanding access to existing ones; Keen to award new contracts rather than completing the abandoned projects or standardizing existing facilities; Expend hundreds of millions paying visiting and part-time lecturers rather than recruiting full-time staff

62. Govt spending hundreds of millions in mundane administration cost instead of providing boreholes and power supplements; Govt hiring personal staff, including Personal Assistants, Special Advisers, Bodyguards, Personal Consultants,[copied]

EreluY:
[size=16pt]I carefully read what Atiku reportedly said. Whilst I neither love nor loathe him, I totally agree with everything he reportedly said. Most Nigerian university graduates are certificated but uneducated. To cite an example, the other day, the HOD of English at Uni Ilorin, one Dr Idiagbon, responded in a video recording to allegations of sexual misconduct. It's hard to believe that guy was HOD English. Besides, many Nigerian university graduates lack critical thinking and logical reasoning. I've written here in the past about shoddy publications of Nigerian university lecturers and professors - the quality is simply abysmal.[/size]

TruthisGOD:
You're wrong. As a graduate engineer, I've taught in school. English is just a language. Moreover, if you're brought up in a family with English as the speaking language, you'll be fluent in English just like being brought up with your native language. In addition, most parents send their lads to queens school that emphasizes more on English language but not good in technical subjects. Experience has shown me that using English as a yardstick for ones intelligent academically is navety. I've seen students that can't speak good English because of family background but are very good in Maths and Physics which are my yardstick of measuring how intelligent one is expecially in science related fields. Little wonder most schools give little emphasis on English as their selection criteria with respect to engineering and science courses. Futhermore in my field, I've seen some expertriate (Chinese) that cannot speak good English but they're technically and computationally sound! Finally what develops a country is how technically engaged they citizens are, not how fluent they speak a language like English.

elfmann:

...guts...