₦airaland Forum

bukatyne: u want to know wat I know about God? go outside on à cool evening and stare at d expanse of the clouds. walk through a garden and observe the flowers. Go to a beach and observe the sea. Go to a maternity ward and observe new born babies.

kutchs: And what proves that the road in the pix is actually Enugu-PH road? Is there any thing captured on the pix to prove it.

BinghiNya: Was santa claus not a masquerade

Billyonaire: America is a funny country, Nigeria is insecure, yet they are re-strategizing and expanding consulate building....

PRESUMABLY USING FUNDS MADE LARGELY AND ILLEGITIMATELY FROM NIGERIA'S OIL AND FROM VISA APPLICATIONS

pleep: The only thing that can uplift our race is [by] simply favoring our race over others, and adopting a natural distrust of people who do not look like us. Such...is supposed to be inherent to human beings, but is strangely lacking among sub-saharen Africans. I do not know why this is, but it has been the cause of most of our most serious problems historically, and in the present day.

abankula: I am of the personal opinion that the OP has just merely sought the experience of GEJ's former students on his teaching qualities as a teacher.
It is apparent that most contributors on this thread have realy moved off the track by linking this post to a request for comment on GEJ leadership qualities.
Since most Nigerians, without bias, are already aware of the GEJ extremely poor leadership qualities, except for the few myopic individuals whom their defence for mr president has been beclouded by their tribal, religious and personal affliation with him, it may be interesting to know if GEJ was a briliant teacher. As a note of caution, it may be wrong and unfair for any one who has not passed through his tutelage to conclude that he was a bad teacher based on his poor performance as a president as these two scenarios are incomparable. No one knows, until we hear from his former students, he might have been an exceptional teacher!

ifihearam: The most annoying part is that most of you here used mercenaries for your WAEC and Jamb .
You still have the effrontery,temerity,audacity to talk down on Dr. GEJ
How many of your fathers are DRs Fools

Adagba1: His PHD if at all he has any is a honourary PHD,as for MSC may be he bought it.

dasparrow: I am personally so tired of Nigerians and Africans in generally 'worshipping' foreigners...I have never lived in a western advanced society so far where the locals/indigenes treated me better than their fellow indigenes. It is only whilst living in Nigeria that I noticed that a Nigerian will treat a westerner/oyibo/asian/arab better than they will treat their fellow Nigerians. It is just baffling to me and very sad...Our school curriculum needs to be changed and children should be thought history at a young age to properly shape their perception about themselves, their country, their ethnicity and their history. Without doing so, we will see more Nigerians trying very hard to emulate everything foreign with disastrous results.

dasparrow: I just don't know what to blame this behaviour of hating one's own on. I don't know where our people inherited such a sick, demented mindset.

canadaik: ...all those math (sic) formulars that you meet in physics, chemistry and other fields that work perfectly together...were all made by God for humans to discover them!

chaircover: 4 kids in 5 years.

Did you have twins or triplets?

drzed: Majority of Egyptians and North Africans are not 'culturally' Africans, but even in Egypt of today, you will find aborigene people (Nubians). Similarly in places like Algeria you will find indigenous (non-arab) people known as Kabyle tribes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_people) among which the Berbers are the most prominent e.g. people like Zenedine Zidane are Berbers even though he has an Arab name. Also read the history of North Africa during the Roman Empire (Hannibal the warrior king, the city state of Carthage, etc). You will realise that North Africa has always been occupied by Berbers and other aborigine/nomad ethnicities. Arabs moved in and the region dominated much later, especially during the spread of Islam when Arabs colonised places as far as Spain (Andalusia).

So not-suprisingly, most North Africans (especially Egyptians) do not consider themselves Africans. The twarts! But can you blame them? Based on how we (other Africans) have conducted ourselves? But the real question now is: what does it mean to be African? Is it your ethnic group? The colour of your skin? Your geographic location? Or your propensity to violence and inter-ethnic hatred.

To answer this, Africa is a geographical expression and a location. But Africa is also partly a socio-cultural phenomenon. However, Africa is only marginally a linked to your race or your skin colour - because the dark skinned people of Papua New Guinea are definitely NOT Africans. Being African is therefore, a mind thing: just like being American is also a function of your mentality and belief in the American dream. Until we understand and respect these fundamental principles, we wont understand nationhood... or what it means to be a Nigerian for that matter.

igbo2011: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/600155_10150877802558994_1941261420_n.jpg Why do we treat the foreigners who are exploiting us better than our own people? No wonder why everyone in the world treats us badly. We dn't even treat ourselves well!!

Erelu_Y: [b]Wherever you go, Europeans, Americans and Australasians are treated in Nigeria like monarchs, princes and princesses, when many (certainly not all) Nigerians are, by and large, treated like bullshit in Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Years ago, when I was studying in one of the earliest Nigerian Universities (established in the 1960s), one of my professors who studied for his master’s degree in the USA and his doctorate degree in the UK, systematically frustrated virtually all the expats on the campus and most of them (excepting those married to Nigerians) angrily left for their respective countries. On a few occasions, I challenged why he was doing it and he said we give too much privileges and opportunities to the whites who would not let blacks have 0.001% of such privileges and opportunities in Europe, North America and Australasia. He narrated how he suffered discrimination, prejudices and racism whilst he was studying in North America and Europe, and hence, his resolve to pay them back in their own coin. I was never persuaded by his argument at that time. More recently, however, I now totally agree with him so much so that when I finally return home any European, American and Australasian that cross my path MUST be unsympathetically crushed. See how BP is handling the Oil Spillage in the Gulf of Mexico, and compare their reactions to the way in which they deal with environmental degradation in the Niger Delta. Will the Nigerian government and Nigerians in general be ever resolved to treat its citizens, and fellow citizens, like first class citizens and foreigners as foreigners? Fellow Nigerians what do you think?[/b]