₦airaland Forum

Time t my man, came up with this,
MI's album,
Mode 9's Paradigm shift
Sound sultan's SS4
Tuface's own early next year
of course Pasuma's yearly december album
J Martin's album
Kelly hansome's own is manageable
etc etc,

Back to Basics
This November America went back to the basics. When their nation became engulfed in two wars, is suffering from a battered image in front of its allies and enemies alike as the architect of neo-terrorism and is suffering from the worst economic crises since the great depression, its time- tested machinery for regeneration, transition and change came to its rescue. November 4, 2008 was the day America re-engineered itself to continue playing its leadership role in a world that is changing at the speed of light. November 4 was the day America voted in Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America.
America was founded by men of intellectual sagacity, depth of character and a strong will to bring to fruition of their belief that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. America was kept together by men who believe so much in the American dream and it’s ideals that they profess words from deep conviction which resonates centuries after they were uttered that “Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people” . America was guided by men who were not afraid to lay down their lives to defend the interest of the honest, hardworking and simple average American, despite the presence of enemies, both within and without, one of who said at the height of tension in the nation that “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country”.
But the last eight years has been downhill for America. It started with rejection of men with great intellect, reason and education and the profligration of the idea that even an Average Joe can do the job of steering of a nation towards greatness i.e. a widespread belief that “omo wa ni eje ose(he’s our son whatever he does is okay)”. Second came the hijack of that sacred tool of good, able and responsible democratic governance, the ballot box, in 2000 when some abracadabra magic was done in Florida, where one of the contestant’s brother was the Governor. The final straw was the very controversial judgement by the Supreme Court that halted the recount of the infamous Florida ballot thus ushering into the saddle an irresponsible, aggressive and vain government that has shocked and awed the whole world with its uncanny thirst for war and financial recklessness.
So America went back to the basics. They went back to the drawing board and decided to change. They went to the last vestige of the masses, the ballot box, to usher in a change we all can believe in. The election of Barack Obama as the President of America was the first step that America has learnt it’s lesson, the hard way, that governance must be entrusted in the hands of the capable, in minds of the intellectual and the crown adorn the head of the popular. Barack Obama has shown all the qualities of, and espoused by, America great men of yore. He has shown his capacity to tackle the financial crises of the country that is threatening to take the whole world down with it, maintaining a level-headed decisiveness about his plan to extricate the economy from the fingers of Bushonomics. He has shown his appeal to friend and foe of the United States, eliciting unprecedented support for his leadership of the country and the world de facto from far flung places as Spain, Russia and Iran. He has also shown his intellectual prowess and clear articulation of thoughts by his numerous speeches that has evoked emotions that will make Martin Luther King Jnr green with envy, from that fire-starting speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 to his victory speech after the elections where he proclaimed “And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world - our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand…. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”
Nigerians, yours truly inclusive, followed the United States Presidential Election right from the fight for the nomination tickets of the two major parties to the final lap on the night of November 4 when we breathed a sigh of relief that America voted for capacity and not for colour. But after the euphoric exhilaration, self-congratulation and backslapping that has greeted Obama’s emergence, the poignant question is being asked, what lesson can Nigeria learn from the United States and can an Obamania happen in Nigeria? As usual a lot of suggestions has expounded by our venerated political leaders, newspaper columnists and religious leaders and I would like to add mine.
The most important lesson Nigeria can learn is that of the sanctity of the ballot box. The Americans hold their electoral system sacrosanct because they know that their fate lies in this institution’s chastity and any contamination, factual or perceived, would render the process flawed, thus handing the reins of rulership and keys of the treasury to usurpers and men of low moral fibre. The case of electoral fraud did not come up in this election because everyone, both victor and vanquished, trust implicitly and inherently that their compatriots would rather die than compromise an institution built through sweat, tears and blood of their ancestors. The incumbent, who came in through a flawed process, knew that Americans were ready to repeat history and die rather than have their will overturned again so he stayed at the oval office and kept quiet. The sanctity of their ballot is a do or die affair! Here in Nigeria, until we build our electoral system up to a stage where men with nuclear arsenal cannot hijack the electoral process, we will continue to practise civil rule and not democracy that will create a change we can believe in.
A second lesson we can tap from America is the recognition that leadership is best given to the most qualified. America has gone from coping and enduring simpletons in corridors of power to electing men of capacity, no matter their ethnicity, colour or race. Blacks in America constitute less than 13% of the population with the whites having a population of about 69%, yet they rose in unison in their hour of need and let reason preside, electing a man with enough pedigree to steer the nation to a safe berth. How many of our politicians will allow someone whose parents are not from their state, but who was born, bred, went to primary, secondary and tertiary school at the state’s expense and wants to repay the faith showed him be the Governor of the state? Instead of rallying round and giving him support to lift their state to enviable height, they will bring one usurper with little education and foist him on the populace, smiling, singing and saying “omo wa ni eje ose(he’s our son whatever he does is okay)” instead of supporting ideas that will outlive generations yet unborn. They will gang-up against a candidate from a minority group in their state even though he may be the most qualified for job. Can the Hausa/Fulani, Ibo, and Yorùbá ever allow a Kanuri, Ijaw or Ibibio man smell Aso Rock? Your guess is as good as mine. With our political parties harping on rotational political ascendancy, we are reduced to choosing amongst people that may not necessarily possess the qualities needed to steer us away from the quagmire and dire straits we find ourselves. People who would best serve the nation, the people and themselves best in a supportive position are now pushed to the limelight where they wobble and fumble, making Nigeria look like a nation of befuddled idiots. We as Nigerians should disabuse from our minds that the emergence of someone from our ethnic stock would increase the level of the national cake that’s gets to us as this inherently implies that we expect everyone in the position of power to be nepotistic. We must let ability, capacity and capability prevail as the glory of this nation will be shared by all and sundry, likewise the pain and the shame of failing as a nation.
Furthermore, public institutions that perform crucial supportive role to the electoral system in particular and democracy in general should be further strengthened and made autonomous so as to make them truly professional and effective. God forbid it was the Nigeria Police that is policing America as the Nazi skin-heads that had already bought guns and bombs to kill Barack Obama and others would never have been nabbed or if caught would easily bribe their way out. Barack Obama will not have smiled into the camera and said that he’s being protected by the best guys if those guys where the SSS as they presently function. These organizations, alongside institutions like the Judiciary and INEC must be made truly independent so that the long term health, wealth and interests of the country will always be protected against the short term hot-headedness and tension that from time to time threaten to consume us and reduce us to barbarism.
Finally,” let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other…. Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long…. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours: "We are not enemies, but friends… though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection…to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the Nigerian Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can"
(quotations from Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy and Barack Obama freely used)

I was just thinking, why did obama not contest in kenya for presidency against him papa's friend Mwai Kibaki?? Why na im mama house na him go contest?? For africa that is tantanmount to being called a bastard, Is Obama a bastard for contesting in his mother's house and leaving his father's house in shambles and disarraY

Dudes,
Thanks for all the advise, i'm thinking of using JSP but i'm open to other ideas.
please send ideas on using CGI for it

I'm trying to get a message typed in a form of a webpage sent to my yahoo box but i dont know which method/ what code to write, help anyone

Why now? Why my Generation? Why so deadly? Questions, questions, questions.
Before I go into the rhetorics you must be wondering what I’m talking about. Well it’s all in seven letters (eight characters); HIV/AIDS
It is my generation that grew up watching cable TV, satellite TV, the internet and what have you. It is also my generation that has the highest Hollywood bombardment of all time. The tough-looking Casanova, the randy high profile guy, the rich girl that likes to get her freak on; we’ve seen them all. The singles bars, the brothels, the strip joints were what our young minds were fed with as the norm rather than the exception. Our minds were collectively gang-raped by glitters of the make believe world created by wealth and fame-thirsty westerners.
As we were getting ready to start emulating what we’ve seen for most of our lives, down came the gavel: AIDS. This dreaded silent killer’s profile was heightened in the last decade of the 20th century when most of us were growing from being little teenagers coming into the late teens and early adulthood with the statistic that over 4 million Nigerians have this disease.
Abstinence, they say, is the only cure for now. Well, thanks to Hollywood again, we are privileged with the knowledge of satisfaction and contentment of old age when one look back at his achievement. Some youths wants to feel this joy and satisfaction so they are abstaining from fornication and instead pursuing their future goals by concentrating on their studies, either formal or informal.
But this has its price. Due to the fact that we have to behave in a different way to the way we’ve been made to think, most youths feel deprived of the “good things” of life. Feeling of this deprivation can led to various reactions in a person’s life. In this case, it has started rearing many ugly heads.
Chief among these is sexual perversion. Sexual behaviours alien to our culture has found its way into our society and are now practised at an alarming rate. We now find guys and girls who, tough will not admit it publicly, that are homosexuals.
Another is the addiction to pornography. Before the introduction of internet into the Nigerian society, youths patronised (and still do) video clubs for pornographic tapes. There was this friend of mine who professed, vowed and swear on his grandmother’s grave that he had watched pornographic tapes from all major countries all over the world: British, American, Italian, Indian and even our beloved country Nigeria. This was when we were in SS1! I will not be surprised if by now the guy is already HIV positive because it wont be long before for a man addicted to pornography to start patronising brothels or in the worst case scenario; raping girls.
Now, with the advent of the internet, pornography is one click away. One day, a 13 year old neighbour told me to visit a website. On getting to the website, I found out that it was a porn site. When I asked him where he got the website address, he said he has been following some of his friends to surf the internet after school and it was there he learnt the address. I was dumbfounded that if this could be happening to 12-13 year olds, the next generation, then what we have in our hands at this time is a child’s play juxtaposed with what we will have in the future because addiction t pornography causes illusion, lack of focus and lack of concentration. I have seen adults battling these, most of the time to no avail and if this same problem is present amongst the youngsters, then I see a very bleak for our great country.

"dead on arrival" lol actually talking of dem osadebe, rex lawson, tunji oyelan, KSA, KWAM 1 (why d guy change the name) and of course Fela who could have been a good jazz musician, a great hi-life artiste but chose to be a legend by founding/starting Afrobeat, when i grow up i want to be just like him

Why now? Why my Generation? Why so deadly? Questions, questions, questions.
Before I go into the rhetorics you must be wondering what I’m talking about. Well it’s all in seven letters (eight characters); HIV/AIDS
It is my generation that grew up watching cable TV, satellite TV, the internet and what have you. It is also my generation that has the highest Hollywood bombardment of all time. The tough-looking Casanova, the randy high profile guy, the rich girl that likes to get her freak on; we’ve seen them all. The singles bars, the brothels, the strip joints were what our young minds were fed with as the norm rather than the exception. Our minds were collectively gang-raped by glitters of the make believe world created by wealth and fame-thirsty westerners.
As we were getting ready to start emulating what we’ve seen for most of our lives, down came the gavel: AIDS. This dreaded silent killer’s profile was heightened in the last decade of the 20th century when most of us were growing from being little teenagers coming into the late teens and early adulthood with the statistic that over 4 million Nigerians have this disease.
Abstinence, they say, is the only cure for now. Well, thanks to Hollywood again, we are privileged with the knowledge of satisfaction and contentment of old age when one look back at his achievement. Some youths wants to feel this joy and satisfaction so they are abstaining from fornication and instead pursuing their future goals by concentrating on their studies, either formal or informal.
But this has its price. Due to the fact that we have to behave in a different way to the way we’ve been made to think, most youths feel deprived of the “good things” of life. Feeling of this deprivation can led to various reactions in a person’s life. In this case, it has started rearing many ugly heads.
Chief among these is sexual perversion. Sexual behaviours alien to our culture has found its way into our society and are now practised at an alarming rate. We now find guys and girls who, tough will not admit it publicly, that are homosexuals.
Another is the addiction to pornography. Before the introduction of internet into the Nigerian society, youths patronised (and still do) video clubs for pornographic tapes. There was this friend of mine who professed, vowed and swear on his grandmother’s grave that he had watched pornographic tapes from all major countries all over the world: British, American, Italian, Indian and even our beloved country Nigeria. This was when we were in SS1! I will not be surprised if by now the guy is already HIV positive because it wont be long before for a man addicted to pornography to start patronising brothels or in the worst case scenario; raping girls.
Now, with the advent of the internet, pornography is one click away. One day, a 13 year old neighbour told me to visit a website. On getting to the website, I found out that it was a porn site. When I asked him where he got the website address, he said he has been following some of his friends to surf the internet after school and it was there he learnt the address. I was dumbfounded that if this could be happening to 12-13 year olds, the next generation, then what we have in our hands at this time is a child’s play juxtaposed with what we will have in the future because addiction t pornography causes illusion, lack of focus and lack of concentration. I have seen adults battling these, most of the time to no avail and if this same problem is present amongst the youngsters, then I see a very bleak for our great country.

The more i try not to think of 9ja and its situation, the more i think about it and one(1) thing constantly bug me, is Nigeria not a failed state?
Everywhere you go,even amongst your kinsmen and church members, corruption is the norm. i mean you cannot get any thing done without "kola".
The only Good thing that has come out of 9ja is it's music
What do you think??

Dude , i'm also in the process of starting such though i program in Java and also some VB 6.0
Guy let's go for it, see u @ d top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe 9ja is dead and i'm just abiut checking out of it, to benin republic or some other african country where i believe they deserve the brains of intellectuals they get unlike 9ja which conspires to rule by naira istead of by mind,
, the mind is a terrible this to waste but 9ja doesnt need mine so, sai gobe

guys , abeg what certification exams can one write as a java programmer

dudes, thanks for starting this thread for java newbies like moi, using JAVA how to program 2007 edition and i'm already thinking in java (i.e i'm a subclass of my dad's family and i implement the class "mummy".
trying to develop a software for cafe management and someone recommended freeradius (on naijadukes.net, cant understand why the site no dey go again) but the problem is i dont know a shit about what freeredius is except that it's a open source program that run on linux.can anyone with experience of using it gimme the loaddown about how to dowload and use it??
Your in JAVA
Femmy Johnson
gorociano@gmail.com

Why now? Why my Generation? Why so deadly? Questions, questions, questions.
Before I go into the rhetorics you must be wondering what I’m talking about. Well it’s all in seven letters (eight characters); HIV/AIDS
It is my generation that grew up watching cable TV, satellite TV, the internet and what have you. It is also my generation that has the highest Hollywood bombardment of all time. The tough-looking Casanova, the randy high profile guy, the rich girl that likes to get her freak on; we’ve seen them all. The singles bars, the brothels, the strip joints were what our young minds were fed with as the norm rather than the exception. Our minds were collectively gang-raped by glitters of the make believe world created by wealth and fame-thirsty westerners.
As we were getting ready to start emulating what we’ve seen for most of our lives, down came the gavel: AIDS. This dreaded silent killer’s profile was heightened in the last decade of the 20th century when most of us were growing from being little teenagers coming into the late teens and early adulthood with the statistic that over 4 million Nigerians have this disease.
Abstinence, they say, is the only cure for now. Well, thanks to Hollywood again, we are privileged with the knowledge of satisfaction and contentment of old age when one look back at his achievement. Some youths wants to feel this joy and satisfaction so they are abstaining from fornication and instead pursuing their future goals by concentrating on their studies, either formal or informal.
But this has its price. Due to the fact that we have to behave in a different way to the way we’ve been made to think, most youths feel deprived of the “good things” of life. Feeling of this deprivation can led to various reactions in a person’s life. In this case, it has started rearing many ugly heads.
Chief among these is sexual perversion. Sexual behaviours alien to our culture has found its way into our society and are now practised at an alarming rate. We now find guys and girls who, tough will not admit it publicly, that are homosexuals.
Another is the addiction to pornography. Before the introduction of internet into the Nigerian society, youths patronised (and still do) video clubs for pornographic tapes. There was this friend of mine who professed, vowed and swear on his grandmother’s grave that he had watched pornographic tapes from all major countries all over the world: British, American, Italian, Indian and even our beloved country Nigeria. This was when we were in SS1! I will not be surprised if by now the guy is already HIV positive because it wont be long before for a man addicted to pornography to start patronising brothels or in the worst case scenario; raping girls.
Now, with the advent of the internet, pornography is one click away. One day, a 13 year old neighbour told me to visit a website. On getting to the website, I found out that it was a porn site. When I asked him where he got the website address, he said he has been following some of his friends to surf the internet after school and it was there he learnt the address. I was dumbfounded that if this could be happening to 12-13 year olds, the next generation, then what we have in our hands at this time is a child’s play juxtaposed with what we will have in the future because addiction t pornography causes illusion, lack of focus and lack of concentration. I have seen adults battling these, most of the time to no avail and if this same problem is present amongst the youngsters, then I see a very bleak for our great country.

mine is

The girl is mine
The girl is mine
Lost Children
Speechless
Black or White
You are no alone
Liberian Girl


As an Artiste, if i can get to do a collabo with Micheal, i no go sing again, na the height be that,

Being a student of the late Bola Ige’s siddon look philosophy, I have restricted my outward expression of the state of the nation to the wearing of my lapel broche, in the geographical shape of Nigeria, upside-down.

Indeed, a child born this very minute knows that there is something terribly wrong with this nation. What with being born in pitch dark by, more often than not, a less than qualified, irritable mid-wife, who is bedevilled with thought of how to get home safe, he/she joins the throng of postulating Nigerians who constantly theorize about the problem with this country. As it is, a Nigerian that is not concerned about the state of the nation should be charged with treasonable felony and contempt of Nigeria.

After 20 years of deep thought and wide consultation, I have come to the simple conclusion; Nigeria’s problem is not political but philosophical. Going back in history, we’ve found out through the hard way that political solutions always lead to greater political problems in this country. The wetie saga of the old western region comes as a ready example.

Let’s take our mind away from the present odious state of our nation and use our imagination, because from it stems philosophy and philosophical solutions. Imagine that everything, animate or inanimate, associated with Nigeria is given an intrinsic value of high quality i.e. everything Nigerian whether goods, services or human resource is of the highest quality in the world.

Suddenly, you see a very captivating image of immense wellness and opulence of Nigeria. The possibility is so frightening awesome my brain threatened to shutdown the first time I tried it but I held on for the love of Nigeria. As I know you will even as you join me to examine its element.
You instantly see a government that functions, not on rhetoric but plans and actions. When every civil and public servant brings to bear his/her whole being, both mental and physical, in adding value and creating quality in his/her every deed. Even if he/she is just a sweeper, let him/her sweep as if angels are going to tread on the floor. When the quality is one that can compare and surpass those of first world countries then we will have quality roads that don’t erode away because of poor design and execution, we will have courteous civil servants who will not be the definition of corruption, we will have a Police Force that does not rob us of N20, customs officers who actually stop smugglers rather than collude with them, passport officers who don’t delay you for 6 months because you refuse to pay kola. The list seems endless. And yes, we will have constant electricity supply.

In the private sector, the vision is equally enchanting. When every Nigerian brings his/her mindset to that of infusing quality in goods and services offered by his/her business or job, we will have bus conductors who are not unruly but courteous and civil, banks that are not filled with disconcerted staffs and very long queues, companies without rude receptionist, Aba clothes beating TM Lewin, Gucci etc in terms of quality, Grammy-award winning highlife songs, world’s top designers rushing to Nigeria to ship adire, saayan and aso-oke for use in Milan, Paris, etc fashion shows, demand for our farm produce world-wide etc.

What the above translate to is that on a bad day, you will wake up at 5:00 am, watch TV or surf the internet till 6:00am, pray till 6:30am, romance your toiletries, get out of the house by 7:00am, get to work by 7:45 am though you live in Iyana Ipaja and work in Victoria Island, everyone at work does there job, including you, very well without being cajoled or castigated because of nonchalance, there is no witch-hunt in your workplace because everyone trust the decision of the oga’s , you leave work for 5:00pm, get to the stadium or bar and workout or gist with friends, get home for 7:30pm, visit friends in the neighbourhood who persuade you to go out and you do at 10:30pm to return at 12 midnight and go straight to bed.

You will agree with me that the above scenario reflects a very good day for the average Lagosian. This is simply because their is lack of quality and value in the mindset of Nigerians. Why can’t Nigerians just think in doing things of value? This is the philosophical question that, once answered, gives the solution to our myriad problems.

The reason why Nigerians don’t strive for quality is because they lack the motivation to do so. When someone creates an oasis of quality in this country, the society starts working, covertly and overtly, to subvert such to its own system of values i.e. that of mediocrity and nonchalance. Simply put, it’s not in our national character. That is the Nigerian Factor.

The best way to kill a system, either animate or inanimate, is to injure it in several places, so that its stretched to its tipping point while trying to cure all its injuries. Once the tipping point is reached, there is a spontaneous shutdown of organs that eventually leads to the death of the system. If numerous oasis of value, schools, transport companies, food joints etc springs up in Nigeria, they can successfully harm this system that entrenches mediocrity and provide support for each others.

Our focus, individually and collectively, should be to drive this nation to the point where quality is a background hum we see, hear and feel from Kaura Namoda to Kajola, where value is what we teach our kids in school and at home which will in turn be the only kind of life they know and the only future we will live to see. So I implore you, please spread the message; Add Value; Add Quality; In everything.

Well, i'm the craziest dude u've never dated, wannna try? gorociano@gmail.com

i no fit shout, Greatest Ife!!!!Greatest Awoites!!!!, we run things men thing no run we, check anything good in this country na we, even 9ja's only olympic gold hopeful, fasuba our man, i no fit shout

just learning JAVA and i think it's better than the VB i know

A friend who just came in from the UK gave me an Advent 2 GB flash drive to use, worked well with his MAC laptop but on getting to my Xp, no show, it was as if nothing was plugged in, didnt even detect new hardware, help, i reinstalled xp all to no avail,

u have any i dea wetin i fit do??