₦airaland Forum

incrediblestev: imagine what the man had to face just for being a non-believer, religion is very dangerous, especially when dealing with the very organized ones like the Catholics and Islam with very powerful institutions and political power.
They can choose to make things difficult for you in places that matter, from seeking a job, having a career or even having a relationship.

It goes beyond believing in a God that needs to serviced through organized worship and gathering, it seeks to control or regulate people and their thought process, its major aim is power not neccessarily a God.

That is why it is very dangerous to argue openly against it especially as a young person with very and promising future looking ahead. I respect people's choice of religion even when I don't agree with their beliefs. I only argue or debate with ignorant notions they sometimes put up about their religion being the only way to a fulfilled life and eternal life..... I once told a Christian friend who kept disturbing me about eternal life, I asked, "what is the use of an eternal life that according to your bible is synonymous with slavery in heaven, as I won't be entitled to free will, thought process or even allowed to make a mistake and learn from it, who wants to live the boring life of perfection, definitely not me.

frosbel: Deception. Jesuits are dangerous. This MAN wants to bring all Christians under mother church , and guess what, many , many will be deceived.

"For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." - Mark 13:22

bellong: I always have problem with a general statement. The fact that a Nigerian did something unworthy doesn't warrant you painting all Nigerians with the same brush. You are also a Nigerian yourself. It is not a function of race nor culture but wickedness that resides in the hearts of men irrespective of race, culture and gender.

My advice to you is when you set to help people, do it with no strings attached and no expectations whatsoever. With this you will not be disappointed by the shortcomings of people. If because of the disappointment of one, you close your eyes to others in need, how will you feel if God repays you for all your shortcomings against Him? Do good to all and be wise while doing it. It is well with you

nenergy: It is not a "Nigerian" thing, ingrates are everywhere in the world. Forgive his mumu-ness..I pray this event doens't stop u from rendering such help in future.

nijanigga: Nigerian system is a systematic failure. Unless concerted efforts are put in place to correct our fabrics of lives , it's impossible to fix fallen standard of education alone. If you still have to worry about clean water, food, accommodation, transportation etc. especially in the mist of plenty, you will always be tempted to look for "short cut". Any Nigeria leader can wake up and tell us that they have vision 2010 (Abacha) Vision whatever, but what's been done to achieve just 10% of the countless visions, absolutely nothing, but on the other hand , CORRUPTION is taking strong hold of every aspect of Nigerian society. So, fallen standard of education will not be an aberration.
Sad to say, Nigeria is still a sinking ship, the rest of world are looking at nomothetic approaches of solving their problems, Nigeria have held on to idiographic ideologies for too long. It's no uncommon for young intellectuals who wants to bring new ideas are often frustrated with phrases like, " this is the way ,we have been doing it". I just think Nigerian entity is an anomaly. The 53 years experiment hasn't worked and it won't anytime soon.

Erelu_Y: The depth to which education standards in Nigeria has sunk is, arguably, quite alarming. I work in the City (London), where some time last year, my colleagues and I decided to carry out a research which compares financial regulations in UK and Nigeria. To facilitate this study, we needed journal papers addressing financial regulations in both countries (Nigeria and the UK). So, we searched databases, and realised that there was a vast amount of published materials from both countries which could be used for the literature review. In the case of Nigeria, many of these were written by lecturers, associate professors, and professors in the so-called “TOP NIGERIAN” universities: UNILAG, UNN, UNIBEN, ILORIN, etc.

To our consternation, however, over 95% of the papers published by Nigerian academics were of an extremely low standard both in terms of contents and grammar. In fact, we (5 of us on the team) all felt that if these published papers were to be graded as undergraduate coursework submissions in a typical UK university, none would score Grade A (70–100%). One of us further mooted that we clandestinely submit the best of these papers (especially those locally published in Nigeria) to top journals in Europe and North America for blind peer review. We did! Out of 25 papers (sent to 25 different academic journals in Europe, USA and Canada), 22 did not go through the initial editorial reading. For those in the know, this implies that the respective journal editors considered the papers absolute waste of precious times to send them for academic peer reviews. That is to say these 22 papers were deemed NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE! The remaining three papers went through peer review. Each was reviewed by three anonymous reviewers; each reviewer REJECTED each of the three reviewed papers. In other words, these journal articles were not of international standards and could never find their ways into prestigious journals published by Routledge’s Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Sage, etc.

Now, these are the type of ‘papers’ which form the basis of academic staff appointments and promotions in Nigerian universities. It also, largely, forms the basis upon which undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships (i.e. citations) are based. In one case, an author (based at UNILAG) published 15 journal articles in one single year (2011). I do not know of any professor at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE, Imperial, etc, who is capable of publishing 10 peer review academic articles in one single year—search Google to prove me wrong (I know this as MBA and PhD holder from one of these ivory towers)! This reckless and fraudulent faux pass is, however, possible in Nigerian universities. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few scholars of international repute in Nigeria whose works have been published in top notch academic journals. Many of these (who can only publish modestly) must be struggling (one can only imagine) to survive amidst the majority who publish sham articles in bogus journals.

Most concerning for the team is the standard of education which undergraduate and postgraduate students studying under these cheats—who shouldn't be anywhere near pedagogy and research in Nigeria’s ivory towers—are receiving. Most disheartening is the impact these fraud authors are making on future generations of Nigerians. Two biggest questions which our adventure posed are as follows. First, if Nigerians at home continue to receive substandard education in the hands of rogue academics, how could they successfully compete and excel in the global markets? Second (and if this ugly situation is not arrested), would Nigerians not continue, even in their own country, to remain inferior to, and short-changed by, Asians (Indians and Chinese) and Caucasians who are continuing to invade its technology, engineering, oil and gas, construction, and other sectors?

ajanaku2: So you still hope to make your fabled, imaginary "Heaven"...Wait a minute, you actually believe you have a Soul that's gonna leave your body and go to "Heaven" immediately after Death? I think you're the Simpleton here!

akereconfi: They should just go and apply for IELTS, serve same purpose, no need to be scared

JECBOSS: Let a thorough investigation be
carried out and the perpetrators
brought to book. May the souls of the departed rest in peace and may God give their families the fortitude to bear the losses. AMEN.

Idowuogbo: Erelu de o! How much u pay Awujale?

iknopro: Leave Oduah alone or you face the wrath of God