₦airaland Forum

honeric01:
Because i am blind abi? do you know how many schools (secondary) is in my vicinity? do you know if i live around schools? like i said, do you know if i am even a teacher? enough of this silly questions from you, not worth it. you claimed it happens in Nigeria and that 15/16yrs stab and kill eachother in Nigeria, can you kindly give us proofs that it does happen?

yes, Lagos alone, lets stick to Lagos alone for now since the thread is about one city too (London), can you prove to us that student stab and kill eachother in my public schools? (15/16yrs old)

pure rubbish talk from you, you don't or haven't heard of it, yet you believe it happens just because it's Nigeria? get a life dude!!! just prove to us that it does happen, any link? news? statistics? anything as evidence? do you have any?


I'm wasting my time with a fallacy preacher.

honeric01:
I hope you saw the "was" in my posts?

honeric01:
The topic is about London alone, just London alone, so why are you trying to group the whole of Nigeria instead of comparing a state like Lagos with London?

honeric01:
Which death? the fighting that went on in school during that time never resulted to deaths, at least i didn't hear of any deaths, it's always blow and all that, you hardly see or hear of any death. (no longer in vogue again, alot has changed and the students rather rap/sing/dance hip-hop the whole day than go out fighting each-other).

Nimshi:
What's genetics? The fraud? Stop insulting hardworking and honest Igbo people by using Philip 'The Fraudster' Emeagwali as an example.
About the most crushing exposé on this fraudster was effected by no less than another Igbo daughter; read Chioma K. Ezeilo's pieces and weep:

Part 1: http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov05.html
Part 2: http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html
Footnote: http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2004jan02.html

And here: see the unrobing of a man who couldn't deceive all the people all the time:

http://www.republicreport.com/intellectual-fraud-crisis-allegedly-rocks-%E2%80%9Cphilip-emeagwali-myths%E2%80%9D%E2%80%94reports/

He's not a hero; he's a fraud.
.

honeric01:
fighting was a common thing between one school and the other, but this has died down.

olafolarin:
Thanks a million for emphasizing the bolded.
The problem with most posters on this thread is that they never had that rough Lagos Secondary School life.
I went to a very rough secondary school in lagos.I mean really dangerous school notorious for all kinds of fight/social vices.
I have seen many school fights/attacks.
But i have never seen any secondary school student with Knives and Gun[/b]s?
[b]Sticks,iron rods,compass(inside maths set box) or worse still bottles are used on each other but thats it.
Students were expelled for using razor blade on each other.How can such students use knive.
I know school system has seriously gone bad in Nigeria but not that BAD.
KNIVES AND GUNS are just out of the question.

honeric01:
^^^^^^

   You dey mind them? all in the name to standardize their ego, they go spewing lies about Nigeria, some of them do not even know that there are public schools in Lagos with classes equipped with air conditions, yes PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

olafolarin:
Sticks,iron rods,compass(inside maths set box) or worse still bottles are used on each other but thats it.

honeric01:
people like you make me sick and i can't but get so mad with your likes, now tell me, do you know if i am a teacher in a secondary school (public)? do you know if i have friends/family members that are teachers in public schools? what do you even know self?


All my educational life was spent in public schools, i was never a richboy, was never been into a silver spoon home, i know what rolls in the public schools, i went to 3 secondary schools, 2 primary schools, i am talking from 1st hand experience, IT'S VERY RARE TO SEE PUPILS OF 15/16 GOING ABOUT WITH KNIFES AND GUNS IN NIGERIAN SCHOOLS, i repeat it's very unlikely because (1), WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GET A GUN FROM AT THAT AGE? (2) Where are you likely to keep your knife when you don't even have a standard bag to go to school with? is it the Knicker? most pockets are leaking due to too much storage of kulikuli, epa/garri mixed with sugar.

boy, you don't know shitz, just read from those who have really seen it, this is not about Nigeria/UK, this is about London not being safe to raise kids.

honeric01:
Yes, kids fight and all that, but you hardly see kids of 15/16yrs in Nigeria walking about (gang-style) with knifes/guns in their possession, i repeat YOU HARDLY SEE THAT except you want to cook us some stories just because you want to win a "case"

honeric01:
^^^^^

  Gang or no gang, still didn't erase the fact that it's not really a place to bring up a child, parents doing more than 2 jobs just to survive, kids roaming about doing whatever they feel is right to them, what do you expect?

15/16yrs old joining gangs? gosh!!! well i am yet to hear or see anywhere in Nigeria where 15/16yrs old belong to gangs.

OAM4J:
“the Angelina Jolie of Nigeria.” is it in terms of her acting skills? or in terms of her beauty?

IMO, Genevieve no doubt is one of the best actresses in Nigerian but her beauty is overrated.

frosbel:
Another message read: "RIP Sammy. Realist soldier. [size=15pt]GBNEF.[/size]"

spearman:
http://www.elendureports.com/index.php?Itemid=1&id=46&option=com_content&task=view
2005
http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html
2003

houvest:
Satire is a hard subject to understand. Chess is a tough game. Jurisprudence too as well as International espionage.

Aigbofa:
I guess you will have to wait till chickens grow teeth.

ChinenyeN:
No demarcated lanes? See how one van just carelessly drove out from behind the Mercedes and the other van on Onitsha bridge. . and the one about Aba, see accident about to happen at 0:24 (that blue van and the cyclist). Na wa.

Andre Uweh:
They have to consent to that, you know.

LouisThoru:
You are surely a p rick. You lack understanding. What is the relationship of this your write up to my own that you are quarrelling about?

What is it?

LouisThoru:
Ezeagu.

By your name, i suppose you are African, so i have no word for you. Keep living an illusory life.

LouisThoru:
America is full of slaves. LOL, including sons and daughters of slaves. LOL

Any black person who sees America as home and looks down on Africa, and the African people, or the black person in diaspora, must be reminded who he or she is, a slave son or daughter, beaten and battered, seperated, hated, looked down upon and fed the white man's remnants, that person needs his head examined and his or her butt hole fried with pepper until he or she sees reality.

Any black man, outside AFRICA, REMAINS NOTHING BUT A SLAVE AND THE PRODUCT OF SLAVERY.

Andre Uweh:
I wish to use this medium to thank all those who made it at the Iri Ji festival of ICSN yesterday. It was a memorable night.
Thanks to the Nigerian Acting High commissioner.
Thanks to Igbo mayors and councillors in London who made it to the festival.
Thanks to representative of Eze Nri for that wonderful yam cutting.
Thanks to UmuIgbo Katolic community for their cultural displays.
Thanks to Abatete Union UK for their Adaeze masquerade.
Thanks to representatives of Izu Anioma for their support.
Thanks to president of Ika Town Union for his support.
Thanks to ICSN executives and members
Thanks to Etche Union for their support.
To Ebonyi state Union president, thanks a lot.
To the entire Ndigbo and non Igbo people, thanks a lot as we look forward to 2011 edition.
God bless you all.

amazonia:
@ All
The word "bight" , as in bight of Biafra, is a cartographic indication
for the word "exit". Body of water that serve as a particular exit from
the international shipping lanes,to a bighting station. That is a long curve
in a coast-line. A bay formed by this curve. Passager voyages was the
only means of international travel for most of human history. Most of the earlier
travels overseas were done thru either one of these bights to international
trans Atlantic water lanes.

So, the word Biafra, like the words; port-Harcourt, Lagos, Badagry etc.
are of western European origin.

Andre Uweh:
The Igbo Youths in the U.K proudly presents to Ndigbo in the U.K the opportunity to witness Igbo culture in high definition. The 2010 Iri Ji festival has programmes such as:
Display of Igbo traditional attire.
Blessing of kola nut and and distibution.
Blessing of yam and yam cutting.
Introduction of distinguished Igbos in the U.K
Traditional dances.
All sorts of yam dishes to be served.
Igbo Drama.
Igbo rap music.
ETC.
For more information visit: www.icsn.co.uk.

ezeagu:
Nigerian people aren't used to this sort of international media attention, and so people become naturally suspicious. We all know that this and even the Welcome to Lagos documentary could have shown worse. I actually agree with someone earlier in this thread saying that the BBC's focus on Lagos is for economic/political reasons, although maybe not for the same reasons that was stated like Louis Theroux acting as a spy coming to tear Lagos' image apart (someone has to ask what image people on this thread are defending, maybe they'd rather leave the grimy reality to people's imagination instead of sealing it with video/audio evidence). Lagos has been officially designated as one of the next largest urban areas on earth by the almighty UN, so journalists have to do their work, they even mentioned Lagos in a recent environmental programme, and Welcome to Lagos almost filmed the exact same shots as that documentary and also mentioned that Lagos is growing. They're just eyeing the next [size=18pt]potential[/size] competition/pace setter/world influencer that's all.

debosky:
World influencer? Influencing other cities to be as lawless and filthy?  

Competitor my backside. . . .the 'competitors' are the likes of Delhi and not Lagos and you can see the giant strides they are making, depsite their obvious problems. Strides so obvious even the 'biased' BBC cannot but admit they have gotten some things right.

If being a 'large urban area' was what was required for greatness, Dhaka in Bangladesh would've been one of the greatest cities on earth by now. Size alone doesn't cut it. Once you lack basic organisation and sanity, there will simply be a large mess called a 'mega city'.