₦airaland Forum

babyfaceafrica:
we need to spend more sef!!!....what are you saying....students pay 6,000 naira for a bed space and yoou want comfortpay 20k for school fees and you want the best,it aint gonna happen!!.....ask those who school in ghana and SA and check how much is they collect to the peanuts here.Yes our leaders are useless and visionless,even the youths are brainless.....but education in Nigeria is fvcking cheap.....you aint gonna get top quality with that amount in the 21st century

I did say we are faced with the problem of poor funding. We do need to spend more on education but it doesn't end there. At the end of the day, the funds raised will be under some people's care - the management. Going by what currently obtains in our country, you'd agree with me that more funds, rather than aid development, often mean more avenues for mismanagement and embezzlement. And this is one of the issues that Impulse80 has been raising. Poor funding is A problem, and not THE problem.

Rivertemz:
You do realise how unscientific you are linking this ?? Every person existing today is part of of the homo sapien species, if you're assuming we West African are another species, a lower primate, then you must be mad to consider yourself a degenerate of the human family. You're playing into the belief that Africans are inferior

How am I playing into the belief that Africans are inferior by citing an evidence. Aren't you the dumb one here? West Africa, East Africa... Is one more African than the other? The singular narrative of everyone coming out of East Africa leaves a lot of questions unanswered. But then, let's not derail this thread.

Schwartz:
op are you aware of the difference in cost involved in studying in a school the USA vs Nigeria? Do you know how much money each student has to pay for education in the USA? Multiply that by the number of students in that University and then you arrive at the reason why the infrastructure is different and ofcourse the quality of education also. Nigerian unis are the way they are mostly because of poor funding and low school fees.

Poor funding, yes! But Nigerian schools do not need to spend as much as their counterparts in the USA to offer the best of education; the cost of living here in Nigeria is far lower. Besides the funding concern are issues such as the attitude of the staff (especially academic staff), the value system in the schools themselves, the recruitment process, the incentives system, etc.

I remember back then in 2008 when Mimiko was contesting to become the governor of Ondo State for the first time. While passing by, he stopped in front of our school (AAUA) gate to sell himself as a viable candidate. I can still remember that some of us in the crowd then were more concerned about what he had to drop than what he had to say. Now imagine what would've happened if the major contestants then were to have a debate in the school's multipurpose hall. The same students who are supposed to listen and think and ask questions will be the ones who will ensure that they scream and squeak to each words emanating from their favourite candidate's mouth - betraying the purpose of the debate in the process. Our leaders deserve all the blame apportioned to them but we, ourselves, are not entirely blameless. Salaam!

macof:
oh please stop this utter freakshow display.

oral history is enough for yoruba children to know their origin. .. I have traced by bloodline back several generations knowing the names and deeds of much of my patriarchs through that oral history you are trying to discredit

if you don't know where your family house is, pity! you obviously cannot appreciate oral accounts and traditions. .

and just because Yoruba have nothing to do with Nubia doesn't mean we came out of the soil. Am talking cultural anthology here not biological anthology so don't use that "East africa origin of humanity" line, it is invalid here ..
There are more similarities between southern Nigerian people and the people of the savanna regions of central Africa than east or north africa. Yoruba civilization is a pure home grown one because our ancestors came from no other civilization. ..they established civilization in west africa, before that we were great hunters and herbalists not empire builders

.. but ignorant wishful thinkers like you want to cling to more popular groups of people eg. Egypt, Nubians...some even go as far as Israel, Palestinians, mecca, Syria. .. I've seen all kinds of nonsense on nairaland

I used to wholeheartedly buy the story of the Yorubas migrating to our present location from Sudan until I recently came across a news item about a discovery that at about the time of the evolution of homo sapiens in East Africa, a similar occurrence also took place in West Africa, independent of the one in East Africa!

"So this recession no reach you nii?"

Nigerians and JAMB questions.

kenonze:
I think Nigerians should listen to this man #sale of national assets.


Maybe sign a protective agreement incase it backfires.


.. .. Sometimes u allow yourself to be "cheated"

It has not yet gotten to that stage. I wonder why the government has been musing the idea sef. Why sell what brings you income when you can obtain credit facilities, with an interest rate that is below 2%, from the international market?

This same Unilag again!

toulzbabie:
Please i need your help with the recruitment process, i just got a mail for personalty test...

You can actually get the info you need on their website.

UB40 - Cherry Oh Baby.

HMZi:
lady antebellum-need you now.. My fav

Yeah. Need You Now. Very nice song.

While others are enacting policies to attract investment to their states, the self-tagged "friend of the masses" is doing just the opposite. With friends like this one, who needs enemies?

Mumford and Sons - Dustbowl Dance

The Pussycat Dolls - Stick With You

Scotty McCreery - The Trouble With Girls

Lady Antebellum - Goodbye Town

Pope Francis is always excited to meet anyone. Emir Sanusi's case isn't any different.

simplycarro:
Just write in your Igbo language, we will understand better than this nonsense you wrote up.

So the guy is not Yoruba? Lol. And to think I wasted my time replying him...

Ooni:
such a person must accept that he is a yoruba like you and I

Really?! And the Yorubas in Kwara, Kogi, Benin Republic, etc. don't accept that they are Yorubas?

Ooni:
Op is a tribalist

kwara is a sort of hybrid. The southern kwarans are related to us yoruba. They have oba and speak a language that is almost our own but they see themseseves different from us and i dont know why. Central kwarans including ilorin was once under oyo control but the modern ilorin was founded and owned by the fulani hence they have an emir. Northern kwarans are hausas and nupes. A non yoruba may confuse kwara as yorubaland because of the language but most of the indigenes are fulani hausa and nupe by blood hence it is a northern state. So op, we never claimed kwara as yorubaland.

Kogi is Igbira igala and okun

even though lagos is an awori and egun city, the state govt website stated that no ethnic group can claim its ownership. Most ibos and yorubas in lagos are visitors. We Yorubas never claimed kwara and lagos as our own unlike ibos that claim abuja so op take your trouble elsewhere.

If I may ask, what, in your definition, qualifies one as a Yoruba man or woman?

Cc: Macof

In your twisted dreams.

Dejimartins:
U v spoken wel,bt my concern is abt u people dat are nt residing in Ekiti bt say wat u don't knw.Past Governor in Ekiti build Governors house(Residential Ludge)@ Oke Ayaba in Ado Ekiti nt office.

What is wrong with you people? The edifice on Oke Ayaba is both for working and residential purposes - the offices and the living quarters embedded into one large apartment, just like the White House.

This new venture by Fayose has got to be the joke of the century! A classic case of misplacement of priority. And to think that most people in the state have no access to pipe-borne water despite the presence of Ero dam, Itapaji dam and Egbe dam in the state... Jeez!

John Lennon - Imagine.

Rolls Royce kwa? In this economy!?

Chelsea needs to start killing off games before it becomes too late. That's the sole lesson from today's match.

wozniacki:
Relationships nowadays involve more than two persons of opposite sexes. It now involves one male, one female, one hoe, one side chic, one Ex trying to mess it up and one friend secretly hoping it ends.
Partnership is now mistaken for relationship. People are now confused about what they are into.
Below are different types of relationships to help you update your status:
1. In a relationship: This is a "serious" relationship between a two persons that love themselves. This type usually leads to marriage or... A break up.

2. It's complicated: Just as the name implies, it's actually complicated to explain but I'll try.
This is usually an on/off relationship, an undefined relationship or a relationship that is over but one party has refused to let go. Other times, it starts off with "let's just be friends and see where it leads" while you continue having sex. Well, sex can be the final destination in this case. At a point of person gets so involved and begins to think they are actually in a relationship.

3. In an open relationship: A lot of people believe this type involves two persons who agree to be "dating" (people prefer to use "dating" instead of "having sex" but are free to " date" other people. In my own little opinion, I think almost everybody is involved in this type of relationship. Infact, this is the relationship in vogue.

4. Single: A typical Nigerian man become single when he needs to mingle with another specie of women. I wonder how 85 percent of these men is single and 80 percent of the women is in a relationship. With who? Who is deceiving who?. Which brings me to this conclusion: whoever isn't married, is single! No other relationship status matters!

5. Friends with benefits: This is the type where one person gives sex and the other gives money or other goodies in return. It's a business transactions with high negotiate techniques. There's usually an understanding between the persons involved.
Surprisingly, this type of relationships get too serious and end up in...

Read more here:
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The bolded is olosho business simplified, and not sex with benefits.

BTW, Types of Straight Relationships is a better topic for this thread of yours, methinks ...

StarPlayer:
The north is by far more infrastructurally developed than the south for your information. Go to sokoto, kano, gombe bauchi etc and see road networks, you go bow. Stop basking in ignorance

When it comes to road infrastructures, the north is ahead of the south.

skondo09:
Queen fm, and samaru fm ABU zaria are omitted in Kaduna State

Yep. The OP omitted these two. But it's ABU FM, Samaru, and not samaru fm ABU.

queenDD:
Dream FM Enugu.. the best radio in Enugu and one of the best in the Southeast.

Yeah. I really enjoyed that radio station during my service year.

plendil:
Ten GBOsa for you!!

@Bolded, I posed the question to plateon on the other thread, but he couldn't provide an answer.

If one was not an Otedola, Ifenyi Uba or Dangote, you had almost ZERO chance of getting benefiting from bank credit services. How on earth would a SME owner cope ridiculous interest rates of 20% and above??

So with all due respect to the tweeting senator, he lost it on this one.

Met a guy who recently passed out of NYSC two months ago, he approached some banks for loan for a start-up and provided all the necessary requirements - guarantors, collateral, and all that, yet they didn't give him the loan. People like Bruce, who are perpetual loan defaulters are the ones the banks do kowtow to because they are supposed Nigerian "big men". For the vast majority of us, most, if not all, Nigerian banks are not entities we can bank on. You operate a savings account, yet at the end of every month, the alert you receive is that of deductions, not addition. The banks should learn to live with TSA. Whichever ones cannot should pack-up. Shikena!

Lawalemi:
I agree. You don't keep the economy of one nation in a purse all in the name of protecting it

The banks are not complaining that they have no money to run their businesses. There is no scarcity of naira, only scarcity of dollars.

AZeD1:
Before the implementation of TSA, did the bank lend out the money?
What was the interest rate then?

This is a lazy man's explanation.

The banks got free government funds, then borrowed to the government at 15% and above... Pure day light robbery.

We are in a recession because we have a flawed economy which was driven by free oil money.

Thank you for this. They were sitting on government funds and lending out funds to the same government at exorbitant rates. I wonder how people who are defending the banks think. It beats me!

The police pulled out its personnel and NYSC refused to deploy corps members for the election? Hahahaha... Sounds familiar, anyone? The more things change, the more they remain the same. Buhari and his cohorts in the APC, well done o! 2019 is almost upon us.

Nonsense upon nonsense. People like Bruce are the same ones who do advocate that the government has no business in business o. Now that the government has taken its money away from DMBs they are singing a different tune. I bet there is nothing altruistic about these comments of his; he is only concerned about obtaining credit from his usual DMB partners. Onígbèsè òsì!

The government needs to spend its way out of the recession the country's economy is in at present, but spending alone is not going to cut it - institutions must also be built and strengthened. Then and only then can a thriving and sustainable private sector emerge. Private concerns like banks can't keep waiting to be spoon-fed by the government. Doing so will only help entrench rent-seeking the more and situations where banks sponsor the elections of politicians, as obtained in Fayose's case, will keep recurring.

daretodiffer:
We gave too many Omo ales in our midst , some even have the guts to attack me sef

Don't mind them. The collapse of our traditional family system is also to blame. Some of these ones who will be pumping their chests left, right and centre claiming that they are educated have little or no idea about Yoruba history and traditions. Met one two months ago who was claiming that Mary Slessor stopped the killing of twins in Yorubaland, until I corrected him. May Olodumare have mercy!