₦airaland Forum

I dont see anything bad in the parking fees charged. My worry is the rate per hour. At local markets around Lagos you pay parking fees imposed by local councils. I shop regularly at Oniwaya markets in Agege and other such places where a parking fee is imposed. You dont park your car any place around Ladipo motor spare parts market and not pay the parking fee. The problem is we all like to drive our cars around even those residing near the Ikeja Mall will rather drive to the place than walk. Well if you can not afford the fee dont go there with your car or shop elsewhere. The problem is most of us want to assume the status we can not pay for. I am an advocate of parking fees in public places, it is one sure way of ridding our roads and streets of unnecesary traffc and arbitrary parking. If possible some people will take their cars to the toilet. We should all try to walk or sometimes take a cab.

All these blackberry students should better face their studies. When did naming and renaming of schools become the prerogative of students. Imagine how some posters think, UNILAG is swagzz, is a brand, sounds international and all those rubish talk. Is that the problem of UNILAG and other universities in the country. What do you expect when they have turned an academic environment into a social entertainment complex. Is this the first time such renaming happened? Students of this generation have lost focus and lack priorities. In a community where there is inadequate facilities, gross underfunding, lack of power, water, teaching aids, research grants, project sponsorships and schorlarships, what the students protest about is what doenst add value to their degrees and lives. I weep for Nigerian youths for having lost the intellectual capacity to intelligently discourse issues, analyse situations, draw deductions, make projections, profer solutions and take actions that can bring positive change and add meanings to their lives. It is a shame they are even on the street at all when they sat back while their future is being eaten away by the political class. In my generation, students led protest against repressive govt policies and actions. Anti SAP riots was a glorious show of peoples power orchestrated by NANS. Not any more, what we have now is cultism, ashawoism, commercialisationism, showbizism. Student power is dead and with it peoples power .

If you idiots think by sharing national appointment is what governance is all about, then you all are really retarded. What has changed for better in your miserable life simply because a man from your village is senate president? Does that accord you special citizen status. Does it make your village better than the next? North has been in power for close to 40 years, has that solved all their socioeconomic ills. Does that give a northerner access to best schools, hospitals or employment than other regions. Why is alamajiri everywhere in the north. If GEJ spends 100 years in power, the southsouth will not be better off than other regions as long as the fundamental problem of bad governance is solved. Petrol is cheaper in Lagos than other parts of the country, particularly in the southsouth, why has 2 years of GEJ not resolved it? Why are nigerdeltans still crying over lack of development inspite of all billions voted into OMPADEC, NDDC and Niger Delta ministry plus Amnesty Programme. Is yoruba responsible for this gross misappropriation. I am really sorry for you people, the unfortunate thing is that those who really suffer in Niger Delta are not the fools parading themselves on NL. Why did Ken Saro Wiwa die, why did the militants take over the creek, has the problems being solved. What is your annointed son doing to make your region the best in Nigeria, is he even laying the foundation. Do you believe that even if he laid the foundations, the succeeding government will sustain them under this our system. These are the issues. If you are intelligent and not blinded by crass sentiments and ethnic tendencies you will know that GEJ will be a big curse to the southsouth people if he fail to redress all the wrong in his 4 or 8 years in power. Remember Gowon spent 14 years in power, the problem of middle belt position in the north is still burning. Please go home and think rationally and laterally. Dont be idiots.

We will see after 4 years of GEJ what the idiots in Southeast and southsouth will benefit. The two regions are the most undeveloped in the country. The southwest championed the cause of deprivation in these regions but fools they were and continue to be, they always follow the path of self destruction laid for them by their masters from the north. Two years of GEJ has not benefited them. Like blind fools, they will continue to follow their retarded son. The yorubas have gone beyond that, you do well you get your praise, you fail you get your slap. Go and ask OBJ. I pity the idiots on this forum who rather should strive for good governance are getting excited over nothing. Tell us what development has Nigeria witnessed in the two years of GEJ. Fuels subsidy protest did not start with GEJ and will not end with him as long as lies rule this country. Oshiomhole made his name through fuel subsidy protest under OBJ. Because you idiots are incapable of rational and critical/lateral thinking, Occupy Nigeria was against Ijaw or southsouth peope. You are all dense, no wonder GEJ is really what he is called, A RETARDEEN from a retarded people. If yoruba is your problem, why are you afraid of the north. Let GEJ deal with Boko Haram and their sponsors to get a life. He is just so much a let down so far. Why is he afraid of accepting the USA listing of Boko Haram as a terrorist group. He knows his masters and will dare not step on their toes like all of you from southeast and southwest. All these years southeasterners are being killed in the north, what have their leaders done to stop it. So who is really a slave in this entity called Nigeria.

@ Logic mind, you must be stupid and daft. The southwesterners are forever the master in this household. We sneeze all of you catch cold. We singlehanded stepped aside IBB, installed GEJ. We dont share political sentiments with any of you in the Southeast or Southsouth who are perpetually incapable of self identity. You are always lapping at the dirty political table of the north. If you are capable pull out of PDP like the Southwest did under Bola Ige and see if you will survive politically in the household. Stupid slaves.

The conspiracy theory is on again as it will ever be. Lies upon lies, after all the Bible said, it is from the poor that riches will flow into the hands of the wealthy. Personally, I have always doubted if GOD ALMIGHTY is the one who inserted that verse in the Holy Book!!!

The issue of subsidy can be simply summed up as follows:

-There is no responsible leadership in Nigeria
-There is admission of total failure of government to perform the basic duty such as stopping exploitation, corruption, wastage, leakages and self-enrichment at the expense of the masses.
-Leader want sacrifice to perpetually be made by followers without corresponding it.
-There is extreme dishonesty, selfishness, greed, avarice and incompetence in government
-People welfare and interest does not exist in the formulation of socio-economic and political policies
-There is general complacency and apathy in the country to the extent that government feeds on it
-There is no definition of governance and its purpose in Nigeria.
-There is total lack of empathy in Nigerians.

People think the fuel subsidy issue is simply an economic one and I wonder if they truly understand that there is no economy without people. Economic development of any country centres around the capacity and the capability of the people to produce for themselves and for others.

When people are not developed, not empowered, not healthy, not induced to produce and incapable of eking out a living, I wonder what economy we are talking about.

So Nigerian government want her undeveloped, unempowered, unhealthy and uneducated people to pay more for fuel. The issue is not to look at yourself but to look at the larger picture. Where will these people get the money to pay for increased price of fuel?

The unimplemented minimum wage is 18,000 naira. I doubt if 10% of the working population both in the public and private as well as informal sector earns an average of 100,000 naira in a month.

I believe you are all discerning Nigerians, begin to do the maths using the following parameters:

Accomodation, Transport, Feeding, Schooling, Medicals, Dependants (transfer payments), Bills (PHCN, Water, Waste Management, etc), Charges and Taxation (of various forms), Subscriptions (Internet, oh u think the rate will not change, DSTV, Mobile Telecom Services, etc), Leisures, cost of production and provision of services. (You can add more)

If you are capable of critical or lateral thinking, you should be alarmed of what is coming once the subsidy is removed without doing only one thing: REDUCE THE COMPLETE DEPENDENCE ON FUEL (PMS) CONSUMPTION BY NIGERIANS FOR PRACTICALLY ALL ENDEAVOURS.

To do this need no rocket science only political will to:

-Combat economic saboteurs in the name of cabal
-Make Electricity constant and stable
-Reduce cost of governance in terms of paraphenalias, allowances, estacodes, security votes, privileges, and other egoistic entitlements to public officials (career, elected and appointed)
-Plug leakages and stop wastages

-Harness otherl resources for growth and development.

No government, I repeat, if you like be an Okonjo Iweala, can create employment by voting funds into job creation. People creates jobs when they are empowered, educated, healthy, and given conducive environment. One reason, Okonjo Iweala thrive and excel in USA, not that she is special. One reason, Nigerians in diaspora succeeds and live a better life.

Sadly, one truism about promise is that it is only the person doing the promise that knows about and guarantee its fulfilment. So trusting on promise particularly from an established unreliable source (such as FG) is like mortgaging ones soul.

Unfortunately, we Nigerians lack capacity for empathic act and resolution because we are so deluded with the promises of political, economic, tribalistic, religious and social inclinations. One reason, government has never been responsible and accountable.

Our attitude has always usually been once it gets tough, the tough gets going forgeting that in a society, all is not tough, there are the weak and the meek. It is the natural duty of the tough and the strong to provide for and protect the weak and the meek. This natural duty is what all Nigerians have fallen short of doing, most especially since democracy took hold.

I wonder what happened to the spirit that enabled us to drive the military out of power, student unionism has become student cultism, Labour Unions think fighting for ridiculous minimum wage is the centre of their existence, other than fuel pricing, I have not seen Labour protest over unsavoury laws and policies or government official misdemeanour or gross incompetence,

We have sold our souls to the devil for money and so everything is monetised or is it commercialisation or privatisation you people call it. No one threatens another with heaven will fall, if it does, all will be affected. You can learn from tsunami and hurricane.

The wealthy ones parading the corridors of Lekki thought they are too big and special to fight a common government exploitation of tolling Lekki expressway because of "I can conveniently afford it" mentality. But they will soon realise that it is not funny to be paying to access your own home. Even the richest man in the world doenst pay to enter his dwelling place!!!

Nigerians, old and young, male and female, poor and rich, royal and servile will decide their own fate. Not GEJ, or OBJ or IBB or any of the persons in government. Like they do elsewhere. Otherwise you and me may get away with it now, our children might not. The fact that you can afford to do certain things does not mean your offsprings will afford it.

So whether you support or against the fuel subsidy removal, think out of the box and look around you. The other time, I was in Ikeja along Bishop Oluwole Street (Guiness area) around 5pm working day I saw an exodus of young Nigerian male and female, trekking from the companies they work as factory hands to their different homes, some trek as far as Agege and Iyana Ipaja.

If you doubt me, do your own investigations. Now with what they earn they cannot afford to commute in a bus, imagine post subsidy removal. I once told a group of friends that I will not be surprised if the civil unrest upon the subsidy removal start from the bus stops and motor parks. Many times I have met people begging for transport fares, I dont know about you.

I wonder how many Nigerians having access to internet now will continue to have that access readily when subsidy disappears. Like I stated earlier, dont think about yourself alone.

The conspiracy theory is on again as it will ever be. Lies upon lies, after all the Bible said, it is from the poor that riches will flow into the hands of the wealthy. Personally, I have always doubted if GOD ALMIGHTY is the one who inserted that verse in the Holy Book!!!

The issue of subsidy can be simply summed up as follows:

-There is no responsible leadership in Nigeria
-There is admission of total failure of government to perform the basic duty of stopping exploitation, corruption, wastage, leakages and self-enrichment at the expense of the masses.
-Leader want sacrifice to perpetually be made by followers without corresponding it.
-There is extreme dishonesty, selfishness, greed, avarice and incompetence in government
-People welfare and interest does not exist in the formulation of socio-economic and political policies
-There is general complacency and apathy in the country to the extent that government feeds on
-There is no definition of governance and its purpose in Nigeria.
-There is total lack of empathy in Nigerians.

People think the fuel subsidy issue is simply an economic issue and I wonder if they truly understand that there is no economy without people. Economic development of any country centres around the capacity and the capability of the people to produce for themselves and for others.

When people are not developed, not empowered, not healthy, not induced and incapable of eking out a living, I wonder what economy we are talking about.

So Nigerian government want her undeveloped, unempowered, unhealthy and uneducated people to pay more for fuel. The issue is not to look at yourself but to look at the larger picture. Where will these people get the money to pay for increased price of fuel?

The unimplemented minimum wage is 18,000 naira. I doubt if 10% of the working population both in the public and private as well as informal sector earns an average of 100,000 naira in a month.

i believe you are all discerning Nigerians, begin to do the maths using the following parameters:

Accomodation, Transport, Feeding, Schooling, Medicals, Dependants (transfer payments), Bills (PHCN, Water, Waste Management, etc), Charges and Taxation (of various forms), Subscriptions (Internet, oh u think the rate will not change, DSTV, Mobile Telecom Services, etc), Leisures, cost of production and provision of services.

If you are capable of critical or lateral thinking, you should be alarmed of what is coming once the subsidy is removed without doing only one thing: REDUCE THE COMPLETE DEPENDENCE ON FUEL (PMS) CONSUMPTION BY NIGERIANS FOR PRACTICALLY ALL ENDEAVOURS.

To do this need no rocket science only political will to:

Combat economic saboteurs in the name of cabal
Make Electricity constant and stable
Reduce cost of governance in terms of paraphenalias, allowances, estacodes, security votes, privileges, and other egoistic entitlements to public officials (career, elected and appointed)
Plug leakages and stop wastages.

No government, I repeat, if you like be an Okonjo Iweala, can create enployment by voting funds into job creation. People creates jobs when they are empowered, educated, healthy, and given conducive environment. One reason, Okonjo Iweala thrive and excel in USA, not that she is special. One reason, Nigerians in diaspora succeeds and live a better life.

Sadly, one truism about promise is that it is only the person doing the promise knows about its fulfilment. So trusting on promise is like mortgaging ones soul.

Unfortunately, we Nigerians lack capacity for empathic act and resolution because we are so deluded with the promises of political, economic, tribalistic, religious and social inclinations. One reason, government has never been responsible and accountable.

Our attitude has always usually been one it gets tough, the tough get going forgeting that in a society, all is not tough, there are the weak and the meek. It is the natural duty of the tough and the strong to provide for and protect the weak and the meek. This natural duty is what all Nigerians have fallen short of doing, most especially since democracy took hold.

I wonder what happened to the spirit that enabled us to drive the military out of power, student unionism has become student cultism, Labour Unions think fighting for ridiculous minimum wage is the centre of their existence, other than fuel pricing, I have not seeing Labour protest over unsavoury laws and policies.

We have sold our souls to the devil for money and so everything is monetised or is it commercialisation or privatisation you people call it. No one threatens another with heaven will fall, if it does, all will be affected. You can learn from tsunami and hurricane.

The wealthy ones parading the corridors of Lekki thought they are too big and special to fight a common government exploitation of tolling Lekki expressway because of "I can conveniently afford it" mentality. But they will soon realise that it is not funny to be paying to access your own home. Even the richest man in the world doenst pay to enter his dwelling place!!!

Nigerians, old and young, male and female, poor and rich, royal and servile will decide their own fate. Not GEJ, or OBJ or IBB or any of the persons in government. Like they do elsewhere. Otherwise you and me may get away with it now, our children might not. The fact that you can afford to do certain things does not mean your offsprings will afford it.

So whether you support or against the fuel subsidy removal, think out of the box and look around you. The other time, I was in Ikeja along Bishop Oluwole Street around 5pm working day I saw an exodus of young Nigerian male and female, trekking from the companies they work as factory hands to their different homes, some trek as far as Agege and Iyana Ipaja.

If you doubt me, do your own investigations. Now with what they earn they cannot afford to commute in a bus, imagine post subsidy removal. I once told a group of friends that I will not be surprised if the civil unrest upon the subsidy removal will not start from the bus stops and motor parks. Many times I have met people begging for transport fares, I dont know about you.

I wonder how many Nigerians having access to internet now will continue to have that access readily when subsidy disappears. Like I stated earlier, dont think about yourself alone.

People like beaf, GEJ and Okonjo-Iweala are in the same category, poor intelligentsia, they have brains yet can not think - lateral thinking or critical thinking or simply thiking out of the box. I am most disappointed in Okonjo-Iweala, by the way what do you expect of someone who has been brainwashed by western economic exploiters and ideas like many nairalanders.

This is our situation, let assume Nigeria is really broke, and we are looking for money or funds. We have a choice to borrow or use what we have to generate fund. We have decided not to borrow. So the question is what do we have to as resources: oil. It is clear there are leakages and wastages in the system. There are other resources that can be tapped into.

The first step a reasonable person should do is to first of all stop the leakages and wastages. GEJ could not do this simple task, why. He is part of the leakages and wastages, It is what gives him and his collaborators their positions and powers! That is why he has to remove the subsidy to entrench his group and indulge them in thier profligacy and wastages.

When he was told to reduce government size and cost, he baulked. So if subsidy is removed with the present system and structure of financing 75% reccurent and 25% capital, your guess on how the savings on subsidy removal will go is as good as mine. GEJ is ready to task Nigerian masses to make sacrifice but he is unwilling to make that sacrifice!!!

Everyday gas is flarred, would stopping that and utilising it positively not have resulted to generating more extra fund. To GEJ and his thinkers and policy makers, gas flarring can continue with all its attendant financial losses and environmental consequencies!

Oil bunkering and theft is going on daily, all the president we elected can do is look away from these heinous economic crime but punish us through removal of subsidy. Refinery is a taboo in our country that produce crude oil, whilst country like Cote d'Ivoire without crude oil resoucre has refineries. Who does not know that exporting refined petroleum products will fetch Nigeria much more than all the savings "they" will make from fuel subsidy removal.

Let us even look elsewhere away from Oil, Is GEJ and his daft thinkers telling us that Nigeria cannot make money from exploring other resources, why must everything revolve around oil.

There is no arguement in favour of subsidy removal that will be superior to creating and developing other sources of revenue for the country and stopping all leakages and wastages in the system that is being perpetrated and supported by GEJ and his collaborators.

Why is it that Nigerian government is always looking at and pursuing measures at generating revenue by means of subjecting Nigerians to financial burdens without any effort to provide for these people needs.

FRSC planned to generate 98 billion naira from new motor licence plate numbers and drivers' licence within one year but no one is told what the generated fund will be used for. There is plan to reintroduce toll gates on Federal Highways that are not motorable. Power tarriff is being jerked up without commensurate improvement in power supply.

We were told, no one will invest in refinery without subsidy removal, just like they said no investor will put money in power generation without hike in tarriff. Now the tarriff has increased, we are still waiting for the investment and increase in wattage. They may as well told us that no road will be built without toll gates.

It is not difficult to see when someone is a failure. GEJ is one spectacular one, a star failure, a primary school certificate holder cannot do worse in national economic administration. Another thing, who does GEJ think he is threatening or blackmailing with his stupid assertion that Nigeria economy will fail in two years if subsidy is not removed? He is indeed daft. I dont know what to call an economy where citizens provide their own roads, water, power, and can not pay 18,000 naira minimum wage.

I sincerely pray he removes the subsidy so that the end for either his administration or Nigeria will quickly commence.

Tadelara, you are welcome to wanting to know your Yoruba Cultural root. There have been many positive remarks, comments and contribution so far and I will implore you to consider them. Please discard any negative contributions.

You said your name is Lara, which is Omolara in full. If am correct your name means, "My child is my body" The name is given to a female child whose parents, in your case your father has great love and care for just like we love and care for our body. That said and done. I wonder as you claimed in your post why your father did not teach you Yoruba language, (that is very strange attitude coming from a Yoruba person). The language is so loving that wherever they sojourn to and reside, Yoruba people takes pride in speaking and teaching their children to speak the language. So your father must have a reason for distancing you from his language, his culture and people. You are not even close to your father's relative. Find out why. Or may be you are the one not interested in learning it! Or your late mother, being African-American, discouraged your father or yourself from speaking it!

This situation makes your intention and dreams very daunting but you can make it exciting, depends on your reason for wanting to know about your Yoruba heritage. To start with, hear from your father first about the country called Nigeria, the tribe called Yoruba and his ethinic branch called Ondo. Be sure to know that there is a general lingua called Yoruba and there are several dialects in that lingua, so for you, your dialect is Ondo, (assuming your father is from Ondo town and not Ondo State) for instance I am Ijebu, there are Egbas, Ekitis, Ijeshas, Aworis, Eguns, Oyos, Ifes, Ibarapas, etc. For your information, in Ondo State there are the ondos, Akures, Owos, Ilajes, Akokos, Ifons, etc. You may visit www.ondostate.gov.ng

Also find from your father what caused his disinterest in his culture and his feelings about your desire to know and associate with your Yoruba root. It is a pity your mum is late, her knowledge and impression of Yoruba people would have been a great help, afterall she married him who is a Nigerian and a Yoruba person inspite of all fears, negative comments and sentiments many must have expressed against her choice and decision.

Talking about Nigerians, you have visited Nigeria before and must have gone away with certain impressions right or wrong but one thing that no haters deny us is the fact that Nigerians are hospitable, friendly, chatty and communal people. We like celebrating a lot and very religious to a fault, you can say very spiritual. We view our relationships with seriousness and cherish respect, this shows in our verious modes of greetings.

There is great family life in Nigeria as well as societal care and control, not in terms of government administration. We regard our neighbpours as part of our family to a defined limit based on certain criteria. People are adressed with different reverence based on age, gender, position and character.

I have lived all my life in Nigeria with a lot of travel experiences to over fifteen countries including US and I have a lot of family members and friends living abroad rasing families. I tell you am yet to see a people as accomodating to visitors and strangers as Nigerians- east, west, north or south. Nigeria is probably the only country where you do not need to carry papers to move about as a non-citizen and naturally would not be suspected for not being a citizen or anything, no one will even know you are a foreigner once you are black or any of its shade, more so if you can speak our variant of English language - pidgin. Many whites in Nigeria go to our local markets to haggle prices of commodities and buy things from road side hawkers without molestation or fear.

In Naija, nobody cares if you are whatever you call yourself, be it African-American, Nigerian-American, American-Nigerian, to us Nigerians at home, it is of no importance or relevance, it will not attract you special attention. The only thing that gives you special attention or edge in our Naija is the size of your pocket, if you speak too much American accent you will only be tolerated but once they know you are a Nigerian or carries Nigerian blood, my NAIJA people will harass you to speak Pidgin or the native dialect, it doesnt matter whether you be Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. Hausas even hate to communicate in any other language than Hausa language.

I adivice you to relate more with Nigerians in your locality, start to pick some of Yoruba languages (particularly those ones use for greetings, Yorubas cherish greeting each other a lot) and if there are no "spiritual" reasons start getting close to your father's relatives. (To you "spiritual reasons" may appear and sound strange, but it is a very strong denominator in Nigeria and your father surely understands better).

You can also do some research and readings on YORUBA NATION AND PEOPLE, there are a lot of publications on Yorubas in the US and on internet. Keep your mind free of any bias, misconceptions and misrepresentations and you will become more knowledgeable about your root. If convenient for you, visit Nigeria more often, visit Ondo State, visit your father's village in Ondo State.

Do not be discouraged by news about Nigeria on various news channels, they are mostly about bad governance and leadership but none is really about the Nigerian people.

I will end my contribution by one relevant adage in Yoruba which literally means "No one born is without a father's and a mother's root. Even bible wrote about the genealogy of Jesus Christ. I wish you all the best in your endeavour. If you want more information about Yoruba and specifically, Ondo people, feel free to email me on s.adebayo@yahoo.com

Good riddance to bad rubish. It was Kate that first insulted Nigerian men. She married a white man and no big deal in that. Nigerian men have been marrying other nationalites for ages and not for once did they insulted their women compatriots.

Marriage is a path full of thorns and prickles smoothen with thin velvet. Human beings will always remain human beings, we are all looking for perfection and continually makes the mistake of seeking perfection in others when we lack.

No big deal her marriage collapses, it happens daily worldwide but what makes her case interesting was her condemnation of Nigerian men. Am sure she will live the rest of her life as a single mother. Divorcing at age 40 is bad enough, having bad mouthed Nigerian men is worse. She is not the first to condemn Nigerian men, we all know what happens to her senior colleague, Onyeka Onwenu, still single, ever single.

Those Nigerian women who appreciates Nigerian men died well sung, Christy Essien Igbokwe.

Marry anyone you want but dont condemn the other person, marry white or black, green or yellow, marital challenges knows no colour. A lesson to all who marries other nationals in the belief that they are better partners. There is no other better partner but yourselves, not nationalities, not tribes, not cultures, not religion.

May GOD ALMIGHTY keep all married homes.

In business world, it is not the big that swallow the small, rather it is the fast that swallow the slow. remember Standard trust bank swallowed  mighty old UBA

In business world, it is not the big that swallow the small, rather it is the fast that swallow the slow. remember Standard trust bank swallowed mighty old UBA

No one is saying it is impossible for CU to produce excellent fine first class grads but that score is questionable for some of us that understands the process of computing a GPA score.

CU is simply overreaching itself in its promotional and publicity drives. An academic environment should shun such publicity claims stunts that can not be validated.

It wont be long before we see students posting a GPA score of 5.00 and not being capable of defending same. We have seen many instances where many such acclaimed extraordinaire grads fail a job written interview or disappoint in postgrads test, GMAT and GRE tests.

This is purely a marketing gimmick and in the process of painting the school as the best in Nigeria, they make the greatest and world class academic blunder ever. 4.99 is not mathematically possible no matter how they did their computation. Because they know it would be unbelievable to say that he score a GPA of 5.00 which would have meant he recorded As throughout all the courses he took. A score of B in any course would have dropped the GPA lower down.

The student in question will have to prove himself in his chosen profession- accountancy. The problem is not the student but the school. Private institutions in Nigeria is making matters worse in the decaying educational sector because of commercial goal.

To private establishment, the best advert is to claim their products are the best in the market. Unfortunately we are talking about human life, the manpower development need of the country and some people thinks they can turn it into manufactured and packaged items.

This is one of the reasons Nigeria is not progressing, we lie a lot. We claim what we are not just to impress but when the chips are down, we are usually no where to be found.

So many things do not add up in the stories being reported by eyewitnesses and family members including his wife. It may be true he is diabetic and consequently frequently pressed, it may be true his phobia for water and his refusal to allow even his family members who may no share this phobia to go near water.

If these were really true, he ordinarily would rather chose to pee on the road side rather than went to a public toilet built right beside lagoon he so much feared. If he could pee on a USA road and got ticketed, I dont see why he would not do it on any Nigeria road, even on the one leading to Aso Rock where nobody would even care to look at him.

It is true that eye witness accounts might be very exagerated but they are more admissible than the account of the driver who never witnessed how he fell into the lagoon. He could have slipped like the family accounted, he have also jumped if he was really disturbed or troubled. The question is what could have troubled him and what could have made a man whose phobia for water is a family knowledge, walk on the banks of a Lagos lagoon till sliped into it.

The family can not whimsically dismissed suicide simply because he looked happy and full of life when actually he may be containing in his mind a very disturbing financial, political, spritual, business or even familiy issues. Many men, poor and rich are capable of doing that when they wanted to protect their families from the challenges that comes with such issues in the thinking that he is already searching gor the solution.

If the problem is financial, it could be connected with his investment company businesses (or is it a management and human resource consultancy) or his failed political expedition that might have sucked much fund, both direct and borrowed. This may explain his visit to his bank. It may be the tenterhook of a hope the bank might have been giving him was finally dashed at his last visit. He may heavily be indebted and time was up for payment or his assets on the line.

If the spiritual angle comes in, it may explain why a man so much afraid of water decided to go right into the mouth of water to go and pee. It may also explain a condition of mental trouble caused by either the extreme fear of loosing what he has spent his 56 years working for as a result of huge indebtedness or the workings of terrestrial forces which some of the contributors called "AWON IYA AYE". This cannot be discountenanced in a society like ours.

The fact that the man body was recovered with all his clothings and adornments intact on him may also give weight to suicide logic. It may also enhance the arguement that he actually wanted to pee and in the process slipped.

All these are conjectures, only the dead man can explain what really happened. However the bank can help in resolving the financial issues, his company transactions record could also help resolving indebtedness issues. The spiritual issue I guess is the most difficult here, How do one establish the "african remote control" syndrome. Mental illness could be hidden for so long until it begins to manifest in physical form, actions, reactions, words, etc. So medical record may not reveal this.

My submission is that the man is disturbed, that is the only reasonable assumption (seems to me, I may be wrong) that will make a diabetic hydrophobic wealthy man to go into or near the lagoon to pee when he could have done the peeing right there on the road beside his parked car, when he had done that before in a place like USA as his wife claimed.

May his soul rest in peace but if his death was caused by the financial consequences of his loss at the senatorial polls and the failure to make the federal cabinet, then I would say he got what he deserved without an apology. I hope it is not so.

The solution is simple. Let the thieving politicians invest their loot in recycling companies and make money like never before. All these business opportunites that people with money should tap into are always seen as problems in this part of the world.

They will rather still the money and keep in secret Swiss Bank accounts to buy votes at every election year. Government will waste billions on ineffective waste management projects that are not really solving the problem.

What stops LAWMA from establishing a waste processing factory that incorporates recycling plants for different materials like plastic/rubber, glass, papers, metals etc and pay people to bring these materials to the plant. Rather they will be building waste dumps that add to environmental problems.

That is how most non-biodegradable and biodegradable materials are treated in serious climes.

The solution stares us all in the face but like everything else in this country, we live in self-denial.

This is sad but what else can one expect with the mounting cost of operations and dilapidating infrastructure. It seems our economy is seriously nose diving. The roads are death traps, no functional rail system. The most effective and fastest mode of travel now being priced beyond reach smellls like further digging the grave of an already comatose economy. Nothing has really moved and progressed in this country since the beginning of the year except boko haram,  prices and costs of living and doing bussiness. Even the businesses are drying out. Will somebody please wake GEJ up.

@omodapson. the greatest truth is the bitterest. You can not be truer than this. As a parent all these issues worry me and am alarmed that we are raising zombies as the next generation in this country in the name of child care and love.

During the days of our fathers and forefathers who were not educated, we all turned out to be good recording firsts all over the world in all academic and professional endeavours. These older generation parents cared only for the educational progress of their children nothing else, the belief is with good education no heights are unattainable.

What happened today is a reverse of that, we cared less about the education of our children even with the billions we spent on sending them to private educational institutions home and abroad. We created distractions for and around them in the name of providing comfort, we bothered less if at all about their academic progress, and bought exam results and certificates for them.

Look around you and see the past time of Nigerian youths, facebook, twitter, skype, yahoo, blackberry, ipod, online dating sites, dstv or hitv, TV series, big brother africa, maltina dance hall, who wants to a millionaire, naija sings, Nigerian Idol, project fame, the list is endless.

Evenings that are meant to study have been converted to periods to while away watching, listening and engaging in all these irredemably damaging programmes and actvities. Students dont read anymore and parents dont care any less. In the pursuit of money and status, we have succedded in destroying the future of our children.

Schooling is now an avenue to compete how much richer the parents are. Some parents pay for school bus services but will never allow the children to use them prefering to chauver drive them in big exotic automobiles.

During examinations parents compete to hire "mercenaries" to sit exams in place of the students, where that fail they pay to get results. Admission racketeering booms because parents will pay any amount to get the child into school with the poorest of results.

In spite of their swaggering, the youths knows next to nothing, they only read entertainment magazines and cram songs and lyrics of musicians. They study these lyrics more than they study a text book on English Grammar.

The recent JAMB results is a pointer:

Total candidates:       1,493,604
Below 200 marks          842,851
200 - 249 marks           495,426
250 - 269 marks           67,732
270 - 299 marks           31,444
above 300 marks            2,892
suspicious results           7,504
exam malpractices         15,160

So upon all the billions spent sending children to all these private schools, hiring private teachers, attending exam coaching classes, we can only get 0.19% of the total candidates scoring 300 and above, while 56.43% failed outrightly.

When I got admission into the University of Ibadan as a 19yr old, none of my family members followed me to that institution. The only time any member of my family came to the campus for me was when I was packing out of Kuti Hall after my convocation as a graduate. They only came to carry all my luggages after spending 7 years of rigorous academic years in the period of Anti SAP riots and other heighted students' demonstrations.

Todays parents dont allow the children to grow, face challenges and take survival decisions on their own that is why at 30yrs old, these children remains attached to the parents' apron strings.

keep running while some peeps keep telling you naija is the worst place on the planet. you dont know the worth of what you have until someone else picks it up and shows you.

you can come back to nigeria but not without a plan and enough resources, the problem is many wants nigeria to work like UK or US without putting necessary efforts.

If you are ready to take risks and exert yourself, come back home and begin to understand the environment. The confusing thing is why are Nigerians afraid of investing in Nigeria when people from countries you are running to are besieging the economy with investment.

My advice, do a business study visit to Nigeria and make your decision. If you are looking at having the infrastructure at your beck and call like it is in UK, then dont come.

I hope people who stays back in the UK and elsewhere because of the "beck and call" infrastructural facilities will not one day look back and say "had I known"

For goodness sake you people took a risk to live in those countries and not willing to take a risk in your own countries. Ask the retired footballers if they are regretting coming back to live in Nigeria.

Planning to come back and stay and live in Nigeria is not something you leave till when the pasture is no more green but when the pasture is greener.

To poster, begin your preparation now when you still have the resources and energy.

I am beginning to realise how daft and stupid this bashdecash guy is, he is not capable of discern. if you indeed is well travelled and exposed then your exposure has made you a personal liability.

Practice of Islam in the North is not what Islam is all about, in fact I dont think people like you can get a non-northerner become a muslim because you bastardise Islam. Many christians who are not even natives are living peacefully in many Arab countries and they dont get treated the way hausa-fulani treats their non-muslim compatriots.

So, if Jamalah, according to you is a Shiite muslim because he told you and your ilk to get better and reintegrate with mordern socieities like it is in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, even Lebanon; then all non-Hausafulani muslim Nigerians must be Shiite because these people dont practice your kind of "KILL IN THE NAME OF ALLAH" religion.

The truth be told, most, if not  all Northern muslims are charlatans, hypocrites and despicable people who are destroying all the tenets of Islam. People like bashdecash will have to die first before reconciling their ways with reasons and civility. The hausa-fulani in other African states are not like their Nigerian counterparts. Painfully, they tend lose more if they continue in their present ways and orientation, in fact they are already loosing.

Stupidly, you bashdecash compare your alamjiri with area boys and yet you claim to be exposed and educated. There is nothing to compare. The areaboys are averagely educated, can read and write, can discern, can decide for themselves, fight for their personal survival and growth, can earn an income, possess certain skills, and employable.

Your almajiris are pests and destroyers, they cant discern, possess no education not even arabic or islamic education, possess no skill and pathetically unemployable. Yet you have effontry to come to this forum to defend a system and culture that wickedly and deliberately increase their population.

Bashdecash, you are a lost cause, you have eyes yet you can not see, you have education yet you can not discern, you have ears yet you can not hear, you have brains yet you can not see, you are a big let down to your generation and worse than the pests your ilk have created.

@Jamalah and bashdecash, one does not have to be a muslim, christian or even Nigerian to understand the picture of the North of Nigeria as painted by these two differing gentlemen. Jamalah is rooting for change caused mostly by his exposure to other people, cultures, climes, knowledge and practice of Islam by other muslims elsewhere, even from regions through which Islam reached the North. bashdecash is a core conservative rooted in the old belief system, worldview and practices of his people as a result of lacking what Jamalah is fortunate to have.

Painfully, bashdecash has displayed another traits of intolerance and unwillingness to learn which is the bane of the North. The unfortunate thing is that those like bashdecash are in the majority amongst the so called northern elites and their only means of survival is to enslave their own people mentally, pyschologically, socially, politically and economically.

For Jamalah, what he has exposed is known to some of us in the South but the reality and cogency in his exposition is that he can not be accused of not knowing the north because he is a full blooded Hausa-Fulani muslim, who may even has some priviledged backgroung judging by his post and claims. It only take a priviledge Hausa-Fulani to have the type of exposure and knowledge obviously displayed by him.

The obvious thing is that this country will eventually break,wether we like it or not, there are too many irreconciliable differences amongst the Hausa-Fulani and the other nationalities in Nigeria.

At the end of it all the Hausa-Fulani north will eventually experience an implosion and the whole region will be affected by the irremediable cataclysm which may unfortunately spread to the south.

This is not an issue to be joke with, it is one that have one or two impacts on all our lives, directly or indirectly, the funny thing is that the so-called leaders thought they are sacred and immune but the recent bombings of the Police HQ is an indication of what is to come. The rich, the powerful, the leaders and the rulers all accross Nigeria may not in the end find an escape route.

@Hardeyorlah, it may appear funny but it is not funny.

Prison officials on a daily allowance or salary of 600 naira taking care of dogs on a daily allowance/salary of 800 naira. what do you think woulf happen.

An hungry man feeding a well fed dog? U no see say the dogs self no appear well fed. I maintain, corruption neva start for obodo naija.

I pity the lives of those dogs cos they will soon disappear through neglect and debilitation. I want to see how a prison officer whose minimum wage is 18k per month which is 600 Naira per day will happily attend to the care of a mere dog, whatever might be his usefulness, that devours between 800 to 3000 naira per day.

I am yet to see an hungry human being feed another being while his hunger is still very much there. Am sure those dogs' daily allowance will end up augmenting the survival of prison officials and foolishly one day, one EFCC will come and say prison officials stole billions of dog's allowance.

Corruption never start for this country.

Bakare omo Alhaja, how many ears do you have, why have you chosen to follow the path of perdition. Your case is like the case of the gentiles who rejected Jesus as the leader of the Jews and castigated his birth.

That same Jesus is the world's messiah and son of GOD. The gentiles were not GOD and not part of His design for Jesus. Lisabi Agbongbo Akala was murdered by jealous egba high chiefs because he was well positioned to become the ultimate egba leader. In fact Bakare's genealogy is traceable to the group that masterminded the plot to kill Lisabi. So am not surprised, it is the blood calling.

The killing of Lisabi by Bakare's progenitors never stopped Lisabi from becoming the all time leader of the egbas, Today, the egbas are known as "omo Lisabi", i,e. the children of LIsabi.

When you begin to poke at other people's ancestry with the sole purpose of destroying his reputation and pulling him down, then you should know that other people can poke at ypur own ancestry too.

Bakare has brought out the PHD syndrom in his blood, that is his inheritance.

The fact that you dont know a man's father does not make a bastard, after all Jesus did not have a human father at all. Bakare is not worthy of a Pastor, he is a lunatic.

Awolowo was a leader and the Akintolas, Adelabu Adegokes and Fani-Kayodes of this world castigated him and rubbished him. It took another Egba man of the same familial stock as Bakare to give us 12 2/3 in 1979 election. OBJ has the same blood with Bakare, they never accept any other person as capable of leading outside their stock.

I am not surprised, it was an Egba man that took the position meant for M K O Abiola after the JUne 12 debacle as head of interim government, he is Earnest Shonekan. OBJ capped it by declaring that Abiola was not the messiah Nigeria needed.

Need I say more, for any thoroughbred Yoruba man with sense of history, Bakare confrontational preaching is an inborn trait of his ancestors and with his involvement in last presidential election and subsequent defeat, the baying blood in him that his prententious religiousity has been containing is now boiling out.

A pig will always be a pig and a sheep will always be a sheep. Yorubas say "Ko si bi a ti ma se efo ebolo ti ko ni rungbe"

Bakare a sore loser and a backstabber and a traitor.

Yoruba leader emerge naturally, it is not canvassed, imposed, selected, elected or arrogated to. TINUBU IS NOT A YORUBA LEADER THOUGH MAY BE ASPIRING JUST LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

THOSE WHO FOUGHT EACH OTHER TO CLAIM YORUBA LEADERSHIP AFTER PA ABRAHAM ADESANYA'S DEATH ARE STILL ALIVE BUT WHERE ARE THEY. BOLA IGE WAS THE NATURAL SUCCESSOR BUT HE DIED BEFORE HIS TIME. ALL OTHERS ARE VERY FAR FROM BECOMING ONE, TINUBU INCLUSIVE, SO WHY THE EXPLETIVES FROM BAKARE.

I DO NOT BLAME BAKARE, IT HIS BLOOD CALLING OUT FOR IDENTIFICATION. HE HAS TOLD THE STORY OF ANOTHER MAN, MANY WILL TELL HIS OWN STORY TOO. FOR NON YORUBAS ON THIS FORUM, YORUBAS TELL STORIES, PARTICULARLY FAMILY STORIES.

LET THE FAMILY HISTORY BEGIN.

Servicing your car is critical to the performance of the car and how much you enjoy it. The best approach is checking the reccommendation from the manufacturrer or your car brand expert.

There is no general standard rule in servicing cars, they vary from model to model, year to year, engine type to engine type. The engine oil type is also a factor. For instance, you dont service a V6 the same way you service a 4-cylinder. Rate of usage is also a factor. The important thing is diligence and care.

Dear evilspirit, there is something you are not telling yourself. Marriage is not something you do based on your present capability or selfworth but on your capacity to develop and grow. When choosing a partner, it must be one that can support and encourage, not one that expects. Expectations are like time, it is limitless but unlike time can be unrealisable and unreasonable.

If you can not manage 120k per monthe with a woman, I doubt if you will be able to manage 1m per month. Your friends earn more than twice your salary, yet it is not enough to get them married. It is because they set their espectations too high and I doubt if they even have any savings.

Life is about sacrifice and discipline, particularly in how we handle our finances. If you are not disciplined enough in your finances, even with 500k per month you will not be able to cope.

If you want to grow quickly, start a home now on your current income and plan your life and your future with your wife. Your wife may be used to life of affluence because her family can afford it. If she insist on that as a minimum for marriage, then you are in a wrong set up except her family or yours will continue to subsidise your marriage until you find your financial bearing.

Remember, her income has nothing to do with your capability, if you rely on her income be ready to concede a lot of things to her otherwise there will be crises. Her income is to support you not to provide for you and that support must not be an obligation on her.

If you believe you can grow financially, go ahead with your marriage plan but first sit down with your woman and discuss truthfully.

I wish you all the best. Remember, very very few rich men marry rich.

To all who thinks I defend my country blindly, I have no apology to give. I am not stupid not to know that I may change residence, I may change nationality but I can never change my blood. I was born and bred a Nigerian and am very proud to be a Nigerian just like I am very proud to be a Yoruba man.

As a man, am not perfect and as a citizen of Nigeria, I know Nigeria is underdeveloped and faces mostly human challenges, challenges like kobojunkies and playmodes of this world, who does not want to see nothing good in and about Nigeria.

The inferiority complex that drove them out of the country to the extent that they accept everything they hear about Nigeria as true is deeply pathological. They are unfortunately not better than Dangote who is investing in Nigeria or Adenuga who is showing the world that a Nigerian can own and run a worldclass telecom company.

You may have other views about Dangote and Adenuga, even if they stole those monies, they still chose to reinvest it in Nigeria because they believe in Nigeria. How many Nigerians believe in Nigeria. This is the only country where my nationality cannot be questioned or withdrawn, therefore I must defend it against any from of assaults.

If poverty push some Nigerians out of the country, how do they expect not to see poor people in Nigeria, are there no poor people in those countries they choose to reside. If those countires are heaven on earth and eldoradoes why are so much strives and killings there.

Some will say there is no security in Nigeria because of armed robbery attack or violence and I ask them, are there no armed robberies attack, serial killers, rapists, arsonists, gun totters, and violent people in USA.

Nigeria suffered bad leadership, yes, because the kobojunkies and playmodes of this world think it is better to escape to SAs, UKs and USAs of this world rather than fight the bad leadership.

If the entire Europeans have escaped to Newfoundland between 16th and 17th century, Europe will not be what it is today, if those who moved to Newfoundland had not extended support to Europe during its continental crises, Europe may have still been lagging.

It is good to go out to seek greener pasture, knowledge, wisdom and skills, many Nigerians and Africans have been doing that before our generations were born, the Awolowos, the Nkrumahs, the Azikwes, the Jomo Kenyattas, the Mandelas, the Herbert Macaulays; the Samuel Ajayi Crowthers, a slave turned priest who chose to return home. If they had developed the type of metality and attitude our playmodes and kobojunkies have now, Africa will still be a colonised continent. I am sure they will even prefer it (colonisation) and even prefer slavery so that they can have residences in Europe and America in order to enjoy slavish comfort.

The playmodes and Kobojunkies are like Nigerians who left their villlages to come to live in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Jos, Abuja, Kaduna and other major cities and end up forgetting their villages and whenever any piece of unsavoury news about their villages frittered in, they respond, talk and behave like our Nairaland kobojunkies and playmodes.

Imagine playmode saying I have never seen other countries and kobojunkie saying I have no job to do, they even say am seeking attention, simply because I try to make them realise what they dont know. I pity them. Most of us living in Nigeria are more travelled than people like you who just sat in a corner of a country.

What can you do about a compound fool, they know not, they refuse to accept that they know not and yet claim to know so much. Let me feed you:

Nigeria is an underdeveloped country with all its challenges and if you dont know that, then you are dead. When you here of news about Nigeria concerning its poverty, dont pity, do something about it. Pitying a jobless man will not give him livelihood, assist him in earning an income. Pitying an hungry man is stupid, give him food. That is what some Nigerians are presently doing, contributing to development and human empowerment using personal resources. Is that not what your Ford, Rockfeller and Bill Gates foundation are known for. You can do same, if you really learn something good from your international exposure than arrogant sympathy and condemnation.

About Makoko in Lagos Mainland, that Aljazeera just woke up to to degrade Nigeria with, who does not know that Maroko was worst than the present day Makoko except the kobojunkies and playmodes of this world. Maroko has become Victoria Island extension, now popularly called Lekki. The best hotels and shopping malls in Nigeria are now in Lekki, I doubt if kobojunkie and playmode with all their years of sojourn in foreign land can buy a plot of land there now.

Ilubirin around Adeniji Adele was once like Makoko, it is now being reclaimed and developed for the Eko Atlantic city. I wonder if playmode and kobojunkie ever heard that the original name of that area is ILUBIRIN. It was like a world war relocating the original settlers.

I have not heard of Aljazeera or CNN or BBC do a documentary showing the wonderful transformation of Maroko or Ilubirin. They will never see that, they will never broadcast that. CNN, BBC and Aljazeera are still blind to see the transformation work going on in Port Harcourt or the beautiful and clean city of Calabar, thay have not gone to check out Obudu where our President just had his post election retreat.

What the blind like playmode and kobojunkie will see through their blind anchor, is Makoko, Ajegunle, Amukoko or Riverside in Port Harcourt and the political violence in Jos that they will call religious conflict so as to set muslims against christians. The Lagos State development plan for Makoko is well known to those who follow development programmes of Lagos. But because of human factor, cost of relocation and compensation, the place is for now left to remain as it is. I need not mention several attempts at relocating the people from the area in the past. There are still some litigations against the state government in the courts over the ejection order given in the past.

If the state government forcefully eject them, it is idiots like playmode and kobojunkie that will post a thread on Nairaland on infringement of fundamental human rights and invite their blind CNN, BCC and Aljazeera networks to broadcast the demolition live like it happened during Maroko time.

I know of some lawyers, SANs amongst them who took Raji Rasak, the then Lagos Military administrator (1989-1991) to court over the Maroko demolition, who now lives in Lekki and owns properties there, so much for hypocrisy. Times have changed, they are now benefitting from what they condemned.

Every development comes with pains, losses and sacrifices. Every modern society start as slums. Those who knows, knows the history of London slums in medieval Europe. Twenty years ago, I used to walk bare footed in the mud of Maroko whenever I visited there (the then popular Maroko beach), today the area is the choicest place to live, work and own properties. The people who lived in Maroko then, despite their losses are today happy that the place is now a modern showpiece.

Kobojunkies and Playmode, if you are lost you are lost, the dogs that decidedly go astray will not hear the hunters' flute. You people are lost and know nothing about Nigeria. Get lost from my face. I am a proud Nigeria and no millions of Aljazeera will inform me about the realities of my beloved Nigeria.

kobojunkie and playmode, when you two wakes up from your slumber and realities dawn on you, it may be too late to know that the Nigeria you left is not the Nigeria of today.

Call me whatever, the fact remains that you people do not know much about the country of your birth. If you can not comprehend the simple english I wrote, then all hope is lost on you guys remembering home. There are many Nigerians coming back to participate in the rebirth of the country and they are beginning to see the true picture of the country.

Playmode, you need to go back to school to understand that the word "slavish as I used it is in the adjectival form and it simply means: Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. So when you are in a slavish comfort, you are simply enjoying the comfort of a slave which can be taken away without notice by the masters. "Slavish" can also mean: blindly immitative, or a copy of the original.

If you are well informed about Nigeria, you will not be pushed by media propaganda as to become blindly immitative of the notion that nothing good comes out of Nigeria.

So when next you open your orifice to speak about Nigeria make sure you check all facts and figures and not just stupidly and blindly rely only on unfounded source.

Whatever gives you the impresssion that whatever you hear or see from watching Aljazeera or CNN is exactly the case beats me. If we are to follow your logic, then every Nigerian is a 419 or drug pusher or terrorist. I tire for una.

As per my "never have been out of the country", continue daydreaming. My people use to say, if a child has never seen another man's farmland, he will claim his father's is the largest. Grow up man.

To kobo and playmode, and others like them, if you are ready to take me on on this, I am game and I am on ground.

My dear playmode, since you have gone personal let me tell you some home truth. Fora like Nairaland is like a movie, a make believe, where you can claim to be whatever. So it is left to you to to know if indeed you are what and who you claim to be. Nairaland attracts anybody and a Senegalese can register and claim to be a Nigerian. A transgendered can claim to be a male. Somebody in the deep forest of Oguta can claim to be in the White House provided he has access to internet and can blow some "turenchi".

On the issue in discussion, if you are not intelligent enough to realise that there is nothing total about a country and there is no utopian environment, then you will begin to curb your utopian idealism.

No one has said that Nigeria is better that what it can bem definitely there are a lot of challenges, which had been discussed on this forum in the past. But when you look at the bad side of things all the time you subject your self to delusion. It is this delusion that has pushed many Nigerians like you to other countries and once you begin to enjoy some measure of comfort in those other countries, you begin to remain deusional about your country.

The documentaries in question is a showcase of problems of homelessness and joblessness that pervades the whole world but with a Nigerian tinge. When people leave for other communities without concrete plan of what to do and where to stay, like in the case of Lagos, they end up living under the bridge, around beachlines, in the dumps and other unsavoury places.

These people are Nigerians, they do not require visa to enter Lagos, they can not be deported and the infrastructure available is over streched to cater for them and yet they keep pouring in. I will like playmode, kobojunkien and their ilk to suggest to us on this forum what the government should do.

May be they should do to this people what Americans do to illegal mexican and haitian immigrants, or deport them like they do people caught without legal papers.

You can say because, the government has failed, yes, but these people leave behind good accommodation in their villages to come to Lagos just like Nigerians like you and me left behind whatever comfort we thought was not enough in Nigeria to risk going for better life in Europe, US, SA and other places.

Just some of us make it outside the country, many more end up with more challenges than they ran away from in Nigeria. Yes, because of shame, yes, shame, many of these other categories never wanted to go back to where they came out from. Rather, with stupid hope, they stay back living in such places and becoming the dregs of the society.

Because many are lazy and at the same time arrogant, they want to remain on the streets of Lagos and London to eke out a living doing menial and jobs that they will not want to do in their place of origin.

Many Nigerians have to wash gutters, wash corpses, do taxi driver, car wash, duump collection, sweep streets, clean toilets for oyibo man that do such jobs in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Jos, Enugu and other cities in Nigeria.

My grouse is why are western media only seeing the bad side of my country, why cant they profile on some of the good developments taking place in the country. Why should they continue to show my people in the bad light all the time.

The insult to the injury, is for some lost Nigerians in the diaspora getting hoodwinked that Nigeria is not making progress at all why they remain locked up in their slavish comfort. I am not surprised because they have become a slavish copy of oyibo.

I have seen many like you in my various travels accross six continents, and I have come to conclude that though they claim to know, they actually knew nothing. For those in the diaspora, who see the need to come home and contribute to developing the country rather than pitying, sympathising, and "human compassioning" like me, I say kudos, may GOD continue to bless you.

Haiti have problems, yet their nationals abroad rally round to support their people back home. What do our own people do, they rationalise, they accuse, they blame, they curse, they run. And people like that, like playmode will and can only do rationalising, accusing, blaming, cursing, running.

In the last election dut to campaign to get Nigeria on the right track, many in the diaspora took the risk and spent hard earned money to come home to Nigeria, got registered and voted. Today, our election despite the problems and issues, pre and post, is adjudged even by the critical US government as free and fair. Obama even took out time to congratulate Nigerians.

What we want in Nigeria is support to get things right not condemnation. To balance good reportage, let Aljazeera do a documentary accross Nigeria, on efforts being made to move Nigeria up, let them record the landmark achievements of the past years. Then, only then will they be fair to the country and the people of the country.

To loosers like playmode, take time to visit home and do something to support your community, we dont need your pity or so "publicised" human compassion. Failure to do that you loose right to discuss Nigeria from ypur base in SA, if indeed you are in SA.

there is always a good side and a bad side to every human being and countries. there are places in Nigeria that if shown in an documentary you would believe is not in Africa, SA and Egypt inclusive. there are places in USA and UK that if shown in documentaries you will belive it is in backwater places in africa.

we dont need aljazeera to tell us how bad some of our system is but we dont need to claim another country is better than our own all the time. the guy who called himself playmode (or is he a she) is deluding himself to think life can be better in SA or UK or USA than Nigeria even with all our inadequacies.

I hope you, playmode have built your houses in SA or have established youe own company. Many like you mostly come back to realise that the people you think are suffering back in Nigeria have achieved what you are still dreaming off.

That same SA you are praising to high heavens have a lot of nationals here in Nigeria vowing never to go back to SA. Many are married to Nigeria and some even speak local languages. They own properties and have being given citizenship.

So do not come here telling us about SA as if it is one paradise on earth. Just thank your GOD or whatever you worship and believe in that you enjoy some measure of success there.

Remember, many have gone, disappeared, died, deported, denied, failed, disappointed, frustrated and brutalised.

If you really feel about your country and really have that human compassion, establsh a business that can give jobs to some of these people you feel so sorry about. Afterall you said you are comfortable and successful.

MANY LIKE YOU ARE STRUGGLERS WHO CAN NOT AFFORD TO GIVE EXTRA SUPPORT TO ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT SUPPORT YOURSELF. ENOUGH.