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naptu2: The point is, you find the exact same thing that you find on nairaland on twitter.

If I was the editor all I'll do is formulate rules (like they do on all interactive fora).

1) Insults will not be broadcast (that is, you can post as many insults as you like, but they will not be broadcast on tv).


2) Ethnic bigotry will not be broadcast.

Etc.

There is absolutely no reason why nairaland can't be used.

Naptu, naptu2!!!!!!

how many times did I call u?
This is the simpleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thing. You've just described

You see why I am upset
No be hardworkk at allllll

We don't need big time consultants to reason this out

Ishilove: I am being serious o

Yeah, but it is sooo possible to design a presidential question harvesting tool around the crazy space.
All it needs is that first the actors recognise that this is possible
Then they put on their thinking caps and get to work

If the brains of the actors are getting cold due to old age
they can simply outsource the thinking to students in Nigerian universities as final year project
shikena...

Ishilove: I will concede that this new NL is a lot bigger than the old, intellectually driven NL. Inanity is the order of the day and it has helped NL grow to this point. So as long as NL keeps growing, Seun does not care if threads like "His armpit hair can plait Bob Marley" continues to make the fp.

LOL
abeg Ishilove, no make me laugh here
dis na serious topic

Ishilove: Esere, sweery, abeg cool down jare. How can government use NL when the NLanders themselves are not helping issues. Go to the front page and see all the brain deadening topics there. How can any govt take NL seriously when we have topics like "Picture of Davido eating Akpu" or "Help, his dog farts too much. Advice needed",or "Picture of Tiwa Savage pounding yam" makes the front page while serious threads like this are relegated to the background.

Do we really want to dissect this issue into bits?

lets start with these questions:

What was Twitter used for in the presidential debate?
How was it used to acheive this?
Could NL with its large Nigeria following not have been able to acheive the same objective despite being a breeding ground for 'brain deadening' youths?
WHo benefits in the use of Twitter?
How can the Nigerian 'brain deadening' youths be encouraged to know that the cleverer they become, the more government will invest in them?

I cannot imagine the American president choosing a foreign forum over theirs simply because they've got a55holes littering the place

We've got to start from somewhere dearie

malc619: We will get there soon enough...

I hope we do my friend

But, this was a no brainer (using Twitter)
The eldorado is technological and infrastructural advancements
not simple social media tool naw

Guys
we really need to start believing in ourselves
You are no less than anybody

Me, I stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone,
even Eistein would not be more clever than me If I chose to tow that part
I expect others to feel and act the same way

tpia1: nairaland should be used in a media chat?

boko haram nko?

after all, they're both against western education, as evidenced by the high number of tribalistic whatnot we see daily here.

Come off it. Why are you saying this?

This lacks depth
and you're better than such statement (except you're just making fun)

tpia1: nairaland should be used in a media chat?

boko haram nko?

after all, they're both against western education, as evidenced by the high number of tribalistic whatnot we see daily here.

I see these tribalists too, and I despise them
but they are everyehere including in twitter

So whats the big deal?

It is so sad when 'future leaders' in this forum can't see the st.upidity of such an action or inaction
and instead argue blindly against themselves, their kids and their generations yet unborn

What hope do we then have?

naptu2: What's really frustrating and depressing is that this nonsense has been on for decades.

In the 1970s the government attracted Peugeot, Volkswagen, Steyr, Mercedes Benz, etc to invest in Nigeria. It was hoped that Nigeria would be the automobile manufacturing hub of Africa and that there'll be technology transfer.

Government didn't fulfil it's own side of the bargain. The is a law that makes it mandatory for government to purchase and use made/assembled in Nigeria cars, but government officials prefer to inflate contracts and use imported cars. Our railway system was comatose, making it impossible for PAN to use the rail system to transport it's vehicles across West Africa.

Ok, the next plan was to produce Nigerian made and branded cars. A joint venture between the Product Research Agency (PRODA) and the University of Ilorin produced the first made in Nigeria car in 1989. They also made a tricycle that was supposed to be used by farmers and rural dwellers. They got no support or encouragement from government. In fact, when Colonel Marwa wanted to start the "keke Marwa" project, he went to India to import auto-rickshaws!

What about the Izuogu car?

What about Innoson? The subsidy buses and BRT buses should be Innoson buses!

It's quite depressing.

It is freaking crazy.
I am indeed upset

Common social media again wen be everyone's toy
Wetin be this?

Are we so self hating, with huge inferiority complex?

Elueme: You are just ranting all over this thread like a stray dog. Cool down. You want to know why nairaland was not used?
1. Nairaland has gone to the dogs in the past years. Most comments gotten from here could be ascribed to be coming from tabula rasas. No deep only insults and criticisms( blind criticisms).
2. The moderators of this forum and some of the very known monikers have made it look to a lot of other people that the forum is created to serve a particular political interest. I as a person share in this suspicion..
From the aforementioned, NL cannot be fair to be used in a national media chat as the one we had yesterday probably until it overcomes these obvious weakness as well as jettison irrelevant and retrogressive posts like Tonto Dikeh's gossips..

Twitter has most of these characteristics you've just mentioned and more.
Is it not from Twitter accounts that face-offs between Jim Iyke and Linda Ikeji are harvested and pasted on NL?

Any political party can use NL to push its information if it so wishes.
I am not aware of any restrictions to that. Please correct me if I am wrong



Seun, what is this guy saying?

zerocool: You want to compare Twitter to Nairaland? Are you kidding me? There have been couple of times I come on Nairaland, surf through some threads and voila!!! -- Server Not Found.

Why can't we compare Twitter to NairaLand?
Why is "server not found"?

I have been to quite a number of foreign sites, and they've had such downtime issues some times

Did you follow the rise of twitter?
Did you see how it was pushed aggresively by those in foreign media simply because they liked its model of on the spot information?

Twitter got to where it was because it was first 'pushed' before it was 'pulled' by the crowd
I was one of the first to use that tool, so i know


NL on the other hand has been 'pulled' by Nigerians home and abroad without any corresponding 'push' from structured organisations including the Government in Nigeria


I feel its simply because we think that any thing that comes from our brains is local, while anything that comes from the west is international. ...Simple

@OP

You've asked a multifaceted question I am interested in
do you mind brraking it into chunks.
Thanks

yinkaoke: " Nashville tanx, I appreciate your response.
But a quick one, I find some similarities in ur points, like most of U said u sense some competition, how? I don’t think so, Is like saying the head of an organisation is competing with the head of a department in same organisation even though they’re working together to achieve a common goal, it’s not just possible. Biblical, God has made the man the head of the family and nothing can change that to eternity. If it was competition, i wouldn’t have gone to her Church which I have done severally even before I suggested we attend her Church and the new church we choose only that she never kept to our agreement.
If her opinion does count like most of you thought, u no that I don’t give her s change to take decisions, I wouldn’t have said she should find a new church for our family.
That I have neglected her, I beg to disagree, she was equally running her education and was equally busy on that, just that she is not just committed as I am. Surprisingly, for her own schooling, she even went as far as getting an accommodation outside home all in the believe that she want to get the best of result, she asked for my permission I allowed her for I wanted the best for her, she stayed outside home for 2years just for her programme thank God she’s now through.
So far so good I think I have been fair enough. I will write the full completion to this later.
@ Ekindu, I don’t know what u’re talking about, I don’t know ur family, u or ur wife, and please never jump to conclusion on matters that may look similar in some aspect as some as rightly said, for me you are just a distraction and I reject all of those your plan in Jesus name for they’re not for me I stay in Surulere and that’s were I am still staying currently so please extend your search further God help you.

Kai see the way we jump enter conclusion.
na so we for stone this guy like the typical 9ja jungle justice

To avoid jumping again, I hold my peace

I don dey calm dow now
wow!!
It's great getting these things off ones chest
But wait a minute,.................how did we get here?

some young rascals without any real creative ambition for Nigeria nor terabytes for brain power
somehow got into power (all the way from the begining of the existense of Nigeria till now)
They then set about reproducing/spawning their types in every nook and cranny of our geographical expression

Like the salmons, their basta.rd seeds spend their lifetime going upstream to the upper echelons of government
and reproduce the same cursed DNA accros the length and breadth of the country

Yep,...and these cursed seeds (the next governors, presidents, Speakers, Legislators etc) are all around us and within our generation now
They are even busy typing away in NairaLand

You can easilly tell them and their potentials or anti-potentials even in NairaLand
young and ethnic jingoists, pyscophants, incapable of simple analysis, escapists, cuns,
lacking the abilty to read and discern, insultive , callous, prefering others to their own, brainwashed.......................

Bas.tards all

I mean, look at small things like the backdrop used for the presidential chat
Which kaine curtain be that?

The backdrop subtly but clearly shows how veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy far, and uncreative we are in our brain power
Those who designed it and approved it are an excellent sample of the mediocrity of position holders in Nigeria

But thank God, it is much better than the usually dull option of hanging funny drapes everywhere like those designs used in wedding receptions

One winch called Analist was busy praise singing in the NL thread during the presidential chat
I be no mind wetin im dey talk until he talked about the president building 6 universities
That was pycophancy taking one step too far

What the dull, dull heck is all this
Its not universities darn it!!!!

What is needed is an ability to plug the gap
not universities churning out unemployable youths
either due to low quality of the resource (graduate) output
or lack of jobs in the external environment
or lack of properly designed academic modules neccesary to unleash the viability of the positive graduate-economic mix

Sheit!!!

the president referring to the magnificence of the Ethiopian cutleries (I hope I wasn't hearing correctly)
He deserves to be flogged for that

Na crime to hire gold, silver or bronzesmith to design spoons and fork for the Nigerian presidential banquet that can handle our peculiar meals?
If our metal-smiths have awkward and ugly tastes
can art students in Nigerian universities not be involved in the design the same way Seun throws the NL floor open for youthful designers?

The next thing, i start hearing that the government is involved in you-win, i-win etc for youth empowerment

What will they win if their customership is passed over by the Nigerian government in preference for some other countries product
Does Twitter even have an office in Nigeria employing local labour?

Darn it!!!!
I'm extremely upset. Fc.uk!!!


What the heck!!!
Why was Twitter used in harvesting information for the media chat, and not NL or any other Nigerian forum??
Is this the way we intend to grow??

A55holes!!!
(*Sorry for my insults o, don't take it personal. I'm just upset *)

Common Reno, what is all this?
You guys are smarter than this

Why promote another persons own, at the expense of ours?
is this not what those before us where doing and got us into this mess?

we probably should have used foreign journalists for the presidential media chat instead of Nigerian journalists too

Common Reno, you guys really need to think global driven by local re-engineering

ANALIST: Mr President, you have tried joor. Education alone, you have set up 9 new federal universities to admit more students. You have resolved all issues and wages with ASUU resulting in stability of calendar.there are no more strikes.

Dude

ur just a pyschophant sha
unbriddled one at that

May God bless Nigeria with presidents in the mould of Donald Duke and I

God bless u all

thats true

GEJ is trying in the electoral process
5 stars to him on that

jayjam: How many of us eva congratulated him on his wife's recovery?Too bad many were even predicting death 4 d poor woman on d acct.Dat previous first families have suffered colosal losses

Congratulations on your wife's recovery GEJ

Prof Corruption: I will be more generous, I rate him 11.3%

Excellent.
He deserves to repeat then

GEJ for 2015

tarryT: Not when the likes of Demdem aka Generalisimo of Mr Retardeen posts are not hiden or handed a ban for his mensturating mouth. The idi!ot that rains personal insults rather than asking question..

Not a great reply u gave
Have you seen kind of crap that is twitted on twitter?

ANALIST: You guys should stop beefing and watch. He is talking about food for guests not cutlery

yep, but Nigerian or foreign?

Does the Nigerian president eat eba in the US white house?

[quote author=favourozo ][/color][color=#990000]Your Excellency, I want to plead with U to come to the rescue of Abians... No good or accessable road. The people are suffering. Our Government is not going anything abt it.[/quote]Vote the right gov. next time

[quote author=Soul_caine]Accusing OBJ of killing women and children. Hmmn![/quote] tomorrowa news headline

naptu2: If you go to a country like Ethiopia and see the kind of cutlery they use at their state dinner.

are the cutleries Nigerian or foreign made?

[quote author=favourozo ]Your Excellency, I want to plead with U to come to the rescue of Abians... No good or accessable road. The people are suffering. Our Government is not going anything abt it.[/quote]Are u serious?

The FG will soon buy cars for your family.
Just wait there

Maxymilliano: He actually said more than this, he said a case that has been visited by the previous administration should not be rushed into, a panel was set up in 2009 and the report that was submitted was just recently handed over to the IG for a possible review before embarking on prosecution, that;s what he meant by being slow. The bolded are my words

uhm..... smells divesionary if you ask me