₦airaland Forum

nku5: If i use the quality of characters who log on to this site to judge i would say nigerians dont deserve the likes of soyinka and achebe. people on this site largely on account of their selfish partisan reasons, poor upbringing and manners dragged the name of these great men thru the mud just to score one or two hollow points

eko ilee: Rubbish, they have extradition teaty with Nigeria so why not issue Interpol warrant and have him extradited to the UK. Abi how den nab ibori..?

pazienza: Power supply in my area in Aba is now like 2-3hrs a day. Yet PHCN would still bring their monthly bill. It's somehow crazy,considering that by january this year,we were having not less than 18hrs of power supply on daily basis.
Can someone tell me what really went wrong?

Aro Computer Ce: I live and work in Ogun State. Gov. Ibikunle Amosun is actually redesigning the face of Ogun State. No amount of pictures uploaded here will be sufficient to explain the kind of massive road constructions currently going on simultaneously in all the senatorial districts. If you have been to Abeokuta in recent weeks, you will appreciate what we are talking.

Crayola1: To be fair if the pictures that were posted later in the thread had been first folks may have not been so negative to the thread's title

Its ok work..

Still have more pics here but i cant put them up here...i dont know why!

omonnakoda: BB1, aka ziga
Ode! He said he is from Osun State! He is not impressed with Aregbesola and believes the ACN propaganda machine is in overdrive. Politics is a competitive business and he is right to compare with other regions whilst looking at prospective replacements for ACN governors. As such it is reasonable to see what other governors of ,significantly,other parties are achieving perhaps he wants some of that in his OSUN. Clearly you did not read his post before spouting your moronic prepackaged response.

emmasege: Confirmed, Amosun is working! But pls don't be deceived into believing that only ACN state governors are working. Governors of other parties and zones are also working. And by the way, who says all ACN governors are working. An exemption to this is the deviant governor of osun state. Some civil servants are yet to collect their february salary up till now, and this has been recurrent for the past few months. And why is the guy biting more than he can chew in a year preceding election in osun, pulling down public school buildings with a promise to build new ones. The last time i checked he had demolished several school buildings in my home town, with just only one being re-constructed. It's obvious he cannot re-build all b4 electioneering. Thank God the school owners of some public mission schools disallowed him from touching their structures. And what of his useless O-Yes scheme, that he's used to siphon the state resources and subject the state to indebtedness.
There's nothing special about ACN governors. There are governors in other states/zones whose performance speak volumes for them without this useless propaganda. Pls stop this mediocrity and noise-making.

flexeey: btw AKpabio's federal allocation is more than ogun, oyo and ekiti togeda

pat4love: I believe some of us do't even understand the word "massive", how can we be esily bought with an akara money?. I live in Ogun state, Sango as per say, run business to Idiroko and I do't even fell the present of Goverment of two and half years. From Songo to Idiroko, to Ota, Ijoko, Owode Idiroko, Owode Ijako nothing, I said nothing is going on. But I can assure ourself that what ever propagander we carry out for any Goverment that is not working today because of Ewa & bread money will surely hot us in future.

Pataki: I share equally your sentiment. You are very right.

However do you know that even the African Union building was given to a Chinese firm to build? It simply goes to show how we in Africa have totally come to rely heavily on the Asians.

Heck! Even most of the major Nigerian construction firms equally travel to Asia to buy the equipment for use here.

Education they say is the best legacy: The ongoing construction of one of the model schools at kemta Abeokuta South LGA by China Gezhouba Group Corporation CGGC.... Project to be delivered by February 2013.


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Dede1: The above project is nothing but fool’s theory in action. Is there any reason to waste fund on an elevated carriageway when there no fathomable reason other than political shenanigan?

nig2change: Pls if you to see an ACN gov in action go to Edo state and Lagos state. Ogun state is also trying but I tell most solemnly Adams first 2yrs did what PDP could do in 8Yrs. Come and see roads constructed with drainages, streetlights, traffic lights, proper demarcation. I have never one day seen him showing the world his legacies on newspapers or tv like others but he needs to do more. But the word MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION can better be defined in AKwa Ibom state.

Health in Ogunstate: One of the ongoing 9 secondary health care centers being constructed by the Ogunstate govt in each of the 9 federal constituencies.


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django1: But won't he start from somewhere? I tire 4 una reasoning o!!
You want to be seeing flyovers all over the state within a year? Are you a learner?

Clerverly:

Femke Becomes Funke: Celebrating Mediocrity In Nigeria By Femke van Zeijl
Posted: March 21, 2013 - 06:02

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Femke Van Zeijl
By Femke Van Zeijl
I used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity. Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author who writes a colourless book gets sponsored to represent Nigerian literature overseas; and a young woman with no secretarial skills to speak of gets promoted to the oga’s office faster than any of her properly trained colleagues.

Needless to say the politician is probably hailed by those awaiting part of the loot he is stealing; the writer might have got his sponsorship from buddies he has been sucking up to in hagiographies paid for by the subjects; and the young woman’s promotion is likely to be an exchange for sex or the expectancy of it. So some form of corruption plays a role in all of these examples.

But corruption per se does not necessarily stand in the way of development. Otherwise a country like Indonesia—number 118 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, not that far removed from Nigeria’s 139—would never have made it to the G-20 group of major economies. An even more serious obstacle to development is the lack of repercussions for underachievement. Who in Nigeria is ever held accountable for substandard performance?

Since I came here, I have been on a futile search for a stable internet connection that does what it promises. I started with an MTN FastLink modem (I consider the name a cruel joke), and then I moved on to an Etisalat MiFi connection (I regularly had to keep myself from throwing the bloody thing against the wall), and now I am trying out Cobranet’s U-Go. I shouldn’t have bothered: equally crap. And everyone knows this. They groan and mutter and tweet about it. But still, to my surprise, no one calls for a class-action suit against those deceitful providers.

A one-day conference I attended last year left me equally puzzled. Organisation, attendance and outcome left a lot to be desired, if you ask me. But over cocktails, after the closing ceremony, everyone congratulated each other over the wonderful conference—that started two hours late, of which the most animated part was undeniably lunch, and in which not a single tangible decision had been made. This left me wondering whether we had attended the same event.

I thought these issues to be unrelated at first, but gradually I came to see the connection. [b]Nigeria is the opposite of a meritocracy: you do not earn by achieving. You get to be who and where you are by knowing the right people. Whether you work in an office, for an enterprise or an NGO, at a construction site or in government, your abilities hardly ever are the reason you got there. Performing well, let alone with excellence, is not a requirement, in fact, it is discouraged. It would be too threatening: showing you’re more intelligent, capable or competent than the ‘oga at the top’ (who, as a rule, is not an overachiever either) is career suicide.

It is an attitude that trickles down from the very top, its symptoms eventually showing up in all of society, from bad governance to bad service to bad craftsmanship.

Where excellence meets no gratification, what remains to be celebrated is underachievement. That is why it is not uncommon to find Nigerians congratulating each other with substandard results. It is safer to cuddle up comfortably in shared mediocrity than to question it, since the latter might also expose your own less than exceptional performance. Add to this the taboo of criticising anyone senior or higher up and it explains why so many join in the admiration of the emperor’s new clothes.[/b]

I have been writing this column for the last year, and after ten months I realised my angles were getting more predictable and my pieces less edgy. I figured newcomers do not remain newcomers forever and therefore decided to round up the ‘Femke Becomes Funke’ series this month, a year after it started. Ever since I announced the ending, tweeps have been asking me to change my mind and in comments on the columns and through my website I get songs of praise that make me feel my analyses of Nigerian society are indispensable. If I had no sense of self-criticism, I might be tempted to reconsider my decision to discontinue the series and start producing second-rate articles. Who would point this out to me if I did?

The hardest thing to do in Nigeria is to continue to realise there is honour in achievement and pride in perfection. I imagine the frustration of the many Nigerians who do care for their work, who take pride in their outcomes and who feel the award is in a job well done. When you know beforehand that excellence will not be rewarded, you are bound to do the economically sane thing and limit your investments to accomplishing the bare minimum. This makes Nigeria a pretty cumbersome place for anyone striving for perfection.

VolvoS60: ^^^^

This isn't true. The author of the article, bayo oluwasanmi clearly insulted Igala ethnic stock with two statements:


"Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – the antelope."


"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."


There is no way the above statements can be spun to mean anything other than what the author intended and indeed very clearly stated. Anyone familiar with basic concepts and techniques in literature would understand exactly what oluwasanmi is saying.


Let me reiterate: If anyone insults Igala ethnic stock in its entirety because of the words of Ahmadu Ali, then how are such people different from Ali? They are one and the same through their actions. These same people would be up in arms (as they should be) if a Caucasian were to make derogatory statements about African-Americans or Africans in general.


You can't have it both ways.

"Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – the antelope"

"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."

Fhemmmy: If this is achieved, then, i will praise him and say he has done well . . . . But the question still remain, what would happen to how to charge the tablets, would be a great idea if they could get them some solar chargers as well, but with this kinda argument . . . He has my vote.
Again, i dont have much figures yet, and i am sure that some with figures will soon come and shower us with them . . . waiting and watching.

folahann: Can't we all see these people are a bunch of Jokers.

Now, the president must appoint only PDP members and not people that are competent.
Who's going to get Nigeria outta this mess

Going by Nigeria’s leadership role in the continent, especially in the West African sub-region, the exclusion is believed to be too significant to be mere happen-stance.

Afam4eva: Is this man calling Igala people antelopes because of Ahmadu Ali. I think this is tasteless and very racist.