₦airaland Forum

ollah1:
There isn't any defence here but truths. Bu your logic, CAN, Christian leaders and some political leaders condemning this move are saying the "Truth" right?

Every sane mind knows they are bunch of lairs but bigots and ignorant people will ignore the truth and kiss lairs asses

Your noise isn't fooling anybody. We see right through you.

abdulkayus:
FYI, Arabic studies was not introduced by the buhari regime. Arabic and French has been offered for long time as I can remember. I don't know when they introduce it bt I was it was an optional subject for us to choose when I started my secondary school in the 90s. So, i am surprised when I read the false information travelling around that PMB is d one that introduce Arabic. Lol.
And FYI also, CRK was nt cancelled. Both IRS and CRS were collapsed with other subjects like Civic education, social studies and security studies into a single subject called National values and security. The CRK theme will be offered to the christain while the IRS theme will be offered to the Muslims. Bt the rest will be taught together. The same thing happens with home economics and agricultural science, the merged them into one subject. And all these happens during GEJ time nt PMB time

Lots of words, but did not address what I said.

The fact that every single person on this thread passionately defending "Arabic Studies" is a muslim tells me everything I need to know about the obvious relationship between Arabic and Islamism.

The fact that every single person on this thread passionately defending "Arabic Studies" is a muslim tells me everything I need to know about the obvious relationship between Arabic and Islamism.

It's good that you guys have exposed yourselves here. In a way, I should thank you for sensitizing the thousands of people who will read this thread.

PreyingMantis:
He never charmed anybody. Jonathan was voted out for reasons bordering on very primordial sentiments. It was a shameful display of hate and intolerance.

We said it then, but nobody was listening. Thank goodness we are all alive to witness the end result of our dumb actions.

Not that they will be in any way better than hotels.ng, but thanks to being an all round genuine arsehole, Mark Essien has made himself dozens of enemies who will be only too happy to see him fall.

Being an arsehole doesn't pay.

Underpaying and withholding people's wages will come back to bite you in the butt.

Arseoholes finish last.

ZombieTAMER:
The flyover is not useless
Just that a lot of work needs to be done all around that axis to make it more efficient

1. The bustops at both sides of Ilaje needs to be moved.. Those drivers are not helping matters at all even with the Lastma officials there

2. Ado road should be expanded .. The traffic there is mind blowing... It wasn't designed to carry such traffic

Don't be surprised if I tell you that the original design for the Ado road axis developed under the Jakande Administration clearly set out that road as a 6-lane artery, but in its typical incompetence, the Lagos state government just built one tiny 3km stretch of asphalt and moved on, almost as if they can never envisage that the population will grow and put strain on the infrastructure.

They are repeating this EXACT same incompetent behaviour on the stretch between Abraham Adesanya and Ibeju Lekki. This is the area that has the Lekki Free Trade Zone, the new Lagos airport, Dangote refinery and dozens of housing estates and developments. Yet LASG has constructed just one tiny single-lane road with dangerous hairpin turns and no demarcation.

As usual, when the place starts filling up and the road becomes a daily nightmare, LASG will not own up to its own incompetence. What they will do is start sponsoring a few idiots with wasted destinies to start shouting "Lagos is full. Go back to your villages."

It's only in Nigeria that I've seen a government act like its own population is a dreadful burden, and that they should be grateful for whatever crumbs it throws their way, like a grossly inadequate and poorly-designed flyover bridge that actually worsens the existing problem. They even paid for a massive electronic advert on the billboard at the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge Admiralty way roundabout saying. "We are indeed grateful to you, Governor Ambode".

These people make you want to literally vomit. They are absolutely disgusting!

Ikology:
The problem was not that GEJ was not performing, it was because one of the theif down south becomes greedy in the name of becoming VP. He launched the highest propaganda in the history of Nigeria to tarnish his Image. My prayers is to see the greedy thief with big eye ball paid in his own coin in this our time.

When the story of Nigeria is told to our children, there will be a few pages dedicated specially to the cautionary tale of Rotimi Amaechi. That man is the genesis of everything we are suffering today. Not Buhari, not even Tinubu. It was his looted money that turned the Nigerian media into a hostile anti-government outfit that basically called for open revolt against a good leader.

Well, he is a cabinet minister now, good for him. He has about 24 months left, if he makes it that far.

We will all be around to see how his rotten story will end.

DickDastardly:
Let me expatiate. One vacuum cleaner can do the work of one hundred brooms and can do it faster and more efficiently too. The APC and Muhammadu Buhari are representative of brooms. This is why Muhammadu Buhari keeps saying he will throw corrupt Nigerians into jail. Now, as a means of fighting corruption, there is nothing wrong with throwing corrupt persons into jail, particularly if you follow due process. But will that tactic work in Nigeria today? Yes, to an extent it will work, just as a broom will work to an extent in sweeping a dirty house.But supposing you try a new and better way? Supposing that instead of just concentrating your efforts at sweeping people one by one into prison, you use a vacuum cleaner to clean the house at a faster pace by employing technology that makes it difficult, nay impossible, to steal?Prior to the Goodluck Jonathan administration, there were fifty thousand ghost workers in the Federal Civil Service. They drained the treasure of about 2 billion US dollars annually. President Jonathan could have used the broom on them by unleashing the police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate who and who were collecting these fifty thousand unearned salaries. It would have taken many hours of investigation, evidence gathering, judicial process and lawyers to achieve that.Being the philosopher king that he is, President Jonathan chose instead to employ technology to tackle the problem and using the software of the  Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, this administration made it impossible for anybody who has not been physically captured in the IPPIS system, by way of entering his/her finger prints and biometrics, to receive a salary. And voila! in one fell swoop, all the fifty thousand ghost workers were excluded and the Federal Government was able to save billions every year that would have gone on salaries.Also, it was common practice for civil servants to mop up unspent votes at the end of the year. The only problem is that they mopped up these funds into their private accounts rather than back to the government treasury.But instead of going about with a big stick to bash in the head of offenders, the President simply approved a system that mandated that all payments be made by e-payments rather than cash and any e-payment that does not come under the sub head of salaries will shut down the system at the end of the year so that civil servants could not mop up funds as they were used to.Take another instance. Prior to the rise of President Goodluck Jonathan to power, the fertilizer procurement and distribution system of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture was one of the biggest avenues for corruption. Contracts were awarded at hundreds of billions for products that either did not come or were substandard. Moreover, in the process of distributing the product, a lot of it was diverted and resold with the government not getting value for money and farmers not being able to feed the nation.Enter the Jonathan administration and the e-wallet system of fertilizer distribution, in which the Federal Ministry no longer used middle men contractors, but dealt directly with the manufacturers and the end users of the product, the farmers, and used a simple text message to connect end user with manufacturer. The manufacturers simply debited the cost of the subsidized fertilizer from the e-wallet funds the farmer had on his phone, saving tens of billions and increasing efficiency.These examples show that with a broom, you will work harder, but with a vacuum cleaner which President Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP represent, you will work smarter!With a broom, you will deliver activity, but with a vacuum cleaner, you will deliver results!It is this broom mentality that caused Major General Buhari to answer to the question “how do you intend to manage the economy in the face of dwindling oil price”asked during his Channels TV interview as follows “first we will stabilize the oil market and run an accountable government”.Do you control the price of oil? How do you want to stabilize the oil market if you do not control the price of the product and the global supply of the same? This is analogue thinking! This is broom mentality! That is the mentality that says that you will concentrate on curing corruption instead of focusing on preventing it when even a nursery school pupil knows that ‘prevention is better than cure’!And that is the choice before Nigerians. Are we going to go with a broom or with a vacuum cleaner? Are we going to go with an analogue leader or continue with a digital leader?To make the choice easier for you, let me ask those who are able to remember how many schools were built by General Muhammadu Buhari when he was military head of state. The answer is of course none! But you might say that he only spent twenty months in office. But what if I told you that in his first twenty months in office President Goodluck Jonathan built nine new Federal Universities in Ebonyi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Gombe, Taraba, Katsina, Jigawa and Ekiti?Let me ask you also to remember how many Youth Empowerment Programme the Buhari led government put in place to spur youth employment. The answer is of course none! But five months after he was sworn in as Nigeria’s President, President Jonathan launched the Youth With Innovation in Nigeria Initiative which is a unique business competition where Nigerian youths submit their business ideas to a consultancy chosen by government who then selects the best proposals and then the government trains them in modern business skills and grants them between 2-10 million Naira. Remember that this is a grant, not a loan. They do not have to pay back. Over four thousand youths have gone on to be selected and trained and have started up businesses that are employing other youths.So once again, I ask are we going to go with a broom or with a vacuum cleaner? Are we going to go with an analogue leader or continue with a digital leader?Nothing exemplifies the fact that the world has passed the APC and its flag bearer by than the use of a broom as their party’s emblem. Yes, it is a fitting analogy for the All Progressive Congress, APC and its Presidential Flag Bearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), but facts will bear me out that a broom cannot do the work of leadership that is expected in Nigeria today.Reno Omokri is Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media.Regards,Reno.

Source: http://citypeoplenews.com/the-broom-or-the-vacuum-cleaner-by-reno-omokri/

This post makes me so sad. Everything we are seeing now was stated in plain English. But some people I am unfortunate enough to have to share a country with decided the broom was superior to the vacuum cleaner. It is exactly as Reno said. Make noise, use the apparatus of state to harass people, and achieve absolutely nothing, while destroying the economy into the bargain.

Why can't Nigerians just listen?

North Korea has at least 15 hours of electricity all over the entire country, everyday.

If your country does not have at least that, just face your front. Other people are not your mates.

IbnSultaan:
North Korean Military is aging with aging capabilities and no capabilities to project military capacity beyond Soul / Tokyo.
North Korea subs are old obsolete and out dated
No aerial capabilities.

Utter nonsense!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army_Air_Force

Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes
Combat Aircraft
MiG-29 Soviet Union multirole 40[15]
MiG-23 Soviet Union fighter-bomber 105[15]
MiG-21 Soviet Union fighter 60[15]
Su-7 Soviet Union fighter-bomber 18[15]
Su-25 Russia attack 35[15]
Ilyushin Il-28 Soviet Union medium bomber H-5 80[15] Chinese-built variant designated the H-5
Shenyang F-5 People's Republic of China fighter 106[15] derivative of the MiG-17
Shenyang J-6 People's Republic of China fighter F-6 97[15] licence built MiG-19
Chengdu J-7 People's Republic of China fighter F-7 120[15] licence built MiG-21
Transport
Antonov An-24 Ukraine heavy transport 1[15]
Helicopters
MD 500 United States light utility 84[15] Aircraft were illegally obtained by circumventing U.S. export controls.[16]
PZL Mi-2 Poland utility 46[15]
Mil Mi-8 Soviet Union utility 40[15]
Mil Mi-14 Soviet Union ASW / SAR 8[15]
Mil Mi-25 Russia attack 50[15]
Mil Mi-26 Russia transport 4[15]
Trainer Aircraft
Shenyang F-5 People's Republic of China jet trainer FT-5 135[15]
Shenyang FT-2 People's Republic of China jet trainer 30[15] Chinese production of the MiG-15UTI

Emigrating is for useful people. Useful people get proper documents and visas and they fly across the desert in just 2 or 3 hours.

It's useless people that go on this fool's errand of crossing the Sahara on land.

If you are useless in Nigeria, you will be useless in Europe or anywhere else.

Don't know why some people think the world owes them something.

Oil will soon lose value completely.

When that happens, there will no longer be any income to maintain this fakery of a country.

Then we will have no choice but to separate and find our true levels in life.

Those who value enlightenment and human life will go their way, and others who insist that 11th century theology is suitable for running a nation in the 21st century will also go their way.

You can be triumphalist now because your straws are sucking Niger Delta oil and using the money to build gold palaces and mosques in Maiduguri.

That oil will soon be completely valueless.

Let's see your mosque save you then.

Bloody scam artist!!!!

So that's how you wanted to scam us of our hard earned money abi?!

God punish you!!!!

Get a screenshot of the email showing the address that sent it, the date it was sent, the date of your interview and the location of the interview.

Post that on this thread and I'm sure people will help. I will help too, though it won't be the full amount.

We just like to be safe because a lot of scammers play on people's emotions to extract money. This is Nigeria. Don't take it personal.

Urukpe:
You did not seek refuse in his 6 yrs in power, so y assuming it will happen when he continue? Don't forget our recession is not 100% as a result of oil price but due to policies, action and inaction of this government.

Rather than accept that 2+2 is 4, some people would rather write a 5,000-word White Paper about the epistemology of arithmetic, and how there is a grand conspiracy against them.

These are the same people that insist that Buhari was a better candidate than Goodluck Jonathan.

It doesn't matter how obvious and glaring the contradictory evidence is, they can simply engage in any kind of mental gymnastics to discredit it and push their deformed agenda. That's why you hear them saying things like "GEJ ruled for 6 years", when 2015 minus 2010 is obviously 5 years.

As I always say, if Buhari is the answer, then both the question and the person asking it must be very stupid.

Obvious troll is obvious.

He is trolling.

Don't feed the troll.

Rossikki:
I'll address the main part of your post and ignore the bizarre drivel.

Europeans may have "developed a consciousness about the need to conquer agriculture", but so did every other population on earth, including Africans. But success in this was determined by the quality of the soil. Climate issues also affected the ability to domesticate animals. In Africa these were adverse, and in Europe, the conditions were ideal.

You've just confirmed my theory.

You are trolling.

Rossikki:
I think you are putting the cart before the horse. You have this idea that a people or a nation must FIRST develop a new consciousness, BEFORE they can hope to become a great nation. I disagree. It is not possible for that to happen. In fact it's the other way round. The nation must FIRST develop economically to a substantial level of industrialisation and self-sufficiency, BEFORE you can start to change the masses' orientation. The real "dreamer" is the one who thinks Nigerians can "change their ways" in the current conditions. Economic growth FIRST. Then people can afford to read, research, study and explore the finer aspects of life such as morality, ethics, faith etc.

That was the way the western world developed. They were barbarians. But they conquered agriculture, such that only a small proportion of the population needed to engage in farming, to sustain whole communities, and ultimately, nations, allowing the rest of the population to develop other professions, from the sciences to the arts, and philosophy. They were lucky though, because European soil is the most cultivable and fertile on earth. African soil is the worst on earth for cultivation. Which is why we've always had food issues, and needed whole communities to engage in farming. So a society needs to first create the agricultural/economic surplus, freeing up the population to pursue aspects of life that have little to do with physical survival, like food, shelter worries. Once freed from those basic wants, the human mind then opens up to other realms to reality, thought, and existence. Creativity becomes the norm. Philosophies sprout. Minds open to new ways of seeing things. But it all starts with ramping up the Economy. As Bill Clinton famously said, "It's the Economy, stupid."

Little does Sapiosexuality know that he has been talking to a sock puppet.

The amount of horse manure contained in this comment is hard to quantify. See how this thing directly contradicted itself saying "Economy comes before awakening", then in the very next paragraph says "Europeans conquered agriculture, allowing the rest of the population to develop other professions". So which came first? Did the Europeans first develop a consciousness about the need to conquer agriculture and free themselves to do other things, or did the agricultural know-how just fall from the sky?

See this Rossikk handle in my observation is actually a hardcore white racist who spends time here faithfully trolling. His message is too one-track and uniformly stupid to be genuinely his opinion. For someone who can do as much research and construct as many sophistic polemics as he can, these posts are too dumb to be his true thoughts.

This guy is trolling.

Rossikki:
I think you are putting the cart before the horse. You have this idea that a people or a nation must FIRST develop a new consciousness, BEFORE they can hope to become a great nation. I disagree. It is not possible for that to happen. In fact it's the other way round. The nation must FIRST develop economically to a substantial level of industrialisation and self-sufficiency, BEFORE you can start to change the masses' orientation. The real "dreamer" is the one who thinks Nigerians can "change their ways" in the current conditions. Economic growth FIRST. Then people can afford to read, research, study and explore the finer aspects of life such as morality, ethics, faith etc.

That was the way the western world developed. They were barbarians. But they conquered agriculture, such that only a small proportion of the population needed to engage in farming, to sustain whole communities, and ultimately, nations, allowing the rest of the population to develop other professions, from the sciences to the arts, and philosophy. They were lucky though, because European soil is the most cultivable and fertile on earth. African soil is the worst on earth for cultivation. Which is why we've always had food issues, and needed whole communities to engage in farming. So a society needs to first create the agricultural/economic surplus, freeing up the population to pursue aspects of life that have little to do with physical survival, like food, shelter worries. Once freed from those basic wants, the human mind then opens up to other realms to reality, thought, and existence. Creativity becomes the norm. Philosophies sprout. Minds open to new ways of seeing things. But it all starts with ramping up the Economy. As Bill Clinton famously said, "It's the Economy, stupid."

Cocaine is a hell of a drug...

Sapiosexuality:
You don't seem to want to get it. You are not looking at it from a rational or logical position. You'd pick few information about a certain development and create mansions from them. You are also guilty of the same problems our leaders are guilty of. I want you to reply these next post logically and rationally.

No one can conquer you until they've savaged your mind. No physical pain can defeat you until you've been destroyed mentally. This is Psychology 101. In same vein, nobody can be saved until their minds are salvaged. No physical project can uplift unless it uplifts the mind.

Nigerians are behind mental bars. They are behind mental asylums and irrespective of what you do, if the goal is not about removing those bars you are wasting your time. You can't make a broken people great. You also can't build a country on lies. You can build rail ways and other modern systems but Phaoroanic Mindset must be taught.

You think countries like UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait will be termed great because of their fine structures? You think wrong. As long as they kelp depending on Westerners to develop structures like the Burj Khalifa, going abroad for studies, worshipping western sports and news, unlike China, they'd never be great countries but fine countries.

Respond to this logically.

This is a very profound post.

I hope Innocent Chukwuma is happy now.

Innoson had first mover advantage for almost a decade, and they did absolutely nothing with it.

Oga insisted on running a car manufacturer like an archaic 20th century Igbo business.

Now Dangote is coming to thoroughly annihilate Innoson when Innosn had 9 whole years to establish dominance.

I don't feel sorry for them.

Jiang:
like play like play Nigeria is gradually becoming the MOST backward & retrogressive country in the whole of Africa.

Anyways all of the areas i live have prepared meters, soo i think nepa them try but it's still not enough

We are certainly entering the Somalia and South Sudan territory of "fundamentally failed state" in at least 1/3 of the country. Nobody is paying attention as usual.

Stelvin101:
Those of you shouting for breakup are bunch of kids. If there is a breakup then other things will follow. Other things like War, chaos, Conflict of Interest, creation of new government which I believe will bring more serious and deadly war, then there comes the worst of all which is the purchasing power of the new currency in international market . Non of y'all modafuckas wanna experience this in your life time. Trust me, because we all are going to lose loved ones

Problem with this is that Nigerians never make decisions and analysis based on dispassionate reasoning. It's always "X is so bad that ANYTHING will be better than X". That's how come they replaced Jonathan with something far worse because "ANYTHING will be better than Jonathan".

Eventually they will apply this same reductive, destructive unreason to the very existence of Nigeria. "ANYTHING" will be better than Nigeria, and they won't bother thinking about the implications of "ANYTHING" until it happens, and then the loss of life not seen since World War II starts to happen.

Nigerians only learn by pain, which is the same level of existence as monkeys in the forest.

The quintessential Nigerian selection process by the quintessential Nigerian business.

Opaque, unaccountable, one-way communication, zero logic.

Same old, same old.

Justuceleague2:
Some of us are not fools

That "some" apparently doesn't include you.

MXrep:
we knew, we told you, but you called ipod yoot, loosers etc.

Fam, it's amazing! They're actually asking "How could we know?" I'm genuinely gobsmacked. I just assumed they all voted against Jonathan out of the usual ethnoreligious chauvinism. I didn't actually believe anyone genuinely believed that Buhari was remotely credible. Seeing these reactions is giving me a headache. I can't believe it! If Nigerians are this gullible, then my God! It's a miracle that Nigeria still exists as an independent country. Someone should have come in ages ago to recolonise this place if the people have such a basic lack of consciousness. It's like a country filled with sleepwalkers!

"No one could anticipate this"...REALLY What else did Buhari have to do to disqualify himself from being considered as a serious presidential candidate? What else? What stupid thing did he not say? What debate did he not avoid? What competence has ever displayed in his entire life? The sum and total of his achievement on earth is that he is Fulani and he was able to use that to steal a living without doing any actual productive work for DECADES! And you people made him your President!

Even more incredibly, the incumbent was a PhD who had led Nigeria into its strongest economic growth period since Yakubu Gowon, with his achievements repeated regularly ad nauseum. Yet you people chose this dead body over him! And now asking "How could we have known?"

REALLY? Do I live in a country of people suffering from Malaria?

Reference:
No one could anticipate this. The solution is more education and enlightenement across board. Do that and sentimentality reduces. And oh. Build institutions. Demand they be established to insulate the citizenry from the fortunes (or shall we say misfortune) of the leaders because it is not Buhari's fault that he is sick and it is not his fault alone that medicare is shot.

REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank heaven I stopped taking Nigeria serious in 2015. You people will not kill me. How did I even end up in the same country with these ones sef?!

alaskido:
This is the drainage Godswill Akpabio constructed to ease the flooded roads during raining season. it has now swallowed a whole car. There should have been some sort of casted slab to cover the gutters.

You mean covered gutters?

In Nigeria?!?!?!

Next you'll be saying that we should have uninterrupted electricity supply and municipal pipe borne water, which the rest of the world achieved since the early 20th century...

We're still half a century away from such sorcery at least