₦airaland Forum

The Solution: I would be in error just like all the groups I have criticized if I end this long essay without providing solution.


My Solution to our myriad problems, to adopt what I would term the BALANCE OF JUSTICE AND PEACE
Every citizen of Nigeria in one way or the other have faced Injustice in every aspect of our lives ranging from domestic injustices, where our parents cannot afford to provide for us the finer things of life, to our education system where we have to go to school and learn on bare floor, where we are forced to provide our educational resources in public schools where it is on record that these amenities were already being paid for but are not present. There are some of us citizens of Nigerians who have lost our loved ones needlessly to death due from issues ranging from lack of amenities in our health care system, Hospitals, hospital equipment and even personnel and there are situations where all these were provided, those whose job were supposed to take the responsibility of providing these services becomes nonchalant and leaving their duties to negligence.
There are some of us who have faced injustice in the Nigerian system in areas of employment, where are potentials are undermined because of lack of platform to prove our worth, or perhaps outright robbery in our chance due to nepotism and favouritism. There are also some of us who have been victims of injustice because of the Ethnic and religious affiliations. Where we are been profiled for no reason because we are from certain locations and regions in the Nigerian Geography.
For all of us who have had these painful experiences, on our mind, the only justice we demand to end this injustice is to put fire to the fuel of incitement currently soaking our national fabrics and burn it to the ground. For some of us, as long we are not part of those who are eating from the National cake, let’s scatter everything and pull it down and let us all start afresh. In as much as these form justice might bring some form relief for the problems we have gone through as Nigerians, it will never be the solution.

Governance/Politics: knowing and understanding the power of illiteracy and the tendency for it to be used and abused by the political class is paramount to understanding the basic of every problem we face in this country. Accounting for the highest number of out of school children, drop-outs and people never being in school, Nigerian youth population is a definition of human weapon of mass destruction WMD: every half-baked and illusory ideology takes root in the uneducated minds of this naïve population group. From time to time we see different political class take advantage of this low point to feed their followers with ethnic rhetoric, religious and other divisive sentiments are being sold to these helpless persons as the reasons for their misfortune and obviously avoiding the very obvious questions and answers on how they could provide the real amenities that would have ended their misery. They end is that we see this opportunist political leaders becoming Senators, Governors and Presidents bereft of ideas on how to make positive impact on the lives of their constituents and for a cover up, this easy deceptive mechanism is easily employed to continually deceive their gullible followers and many times up to the point of violence.
As it is with our Political class, so it is with all Opportunistic malevolent characters who claim to be the people messiah tow this very treacherous route by playing the Ethnic, religious and other divisive sound to the receptive mind of the ever gullible followers. Time and time again we continue to witness the collateral damage this strategy has caused the Nigerian society in terms of material and human resources.
Like Nnamdi Kanu / Like Muhammadu Buhari: During the last general election, every discerning mind saw the APC go around the country campaigning on a note sentiment calling out the previous government on its inability to stop the Boko Haram carnage, they indicted the previous Government on its inability to stop financial leakages and its notoriety for stealing and corruption. The APC and the PDP also played the Ethno-religious card but in all these noise making, none never articulated their solutions and how they were going to amend the problems of the country. Typical to the average Nigerian to never ask very serious questions, they all fell head over heels for the then-opposition (now incumbent) just for the fact that they were fed up with the previous government, they preferred to move from the proverbial ‘frying pan to fire’ without even knowing what they are doing before it is too late.
There is a similarity between the Buhari’s APC which I take as an analogy to represent all political class in Nigeria and the current IPOB campaign by Nnamdi Kanu, this similarity is the inability for either of them to step off the propaganda platform and not play the easy Ethno-Religious card to drive home their points, And even going the extreme in adopting violence as a tool of conviction and persuasion.
The obvious reason why that is the case is that neither of them have the solution to the problem which they claim to fight against. Many times I have questioned some of my Biafra-believing friends, ‘’what is the plan that you people have put in place to make sure Biafra does not repeat the same mistakes that Nigeria did, how will you end corruption?, what are the steps that Biafra has adopted to guarantee Ethnic equity in the political scheme of things?, what are your Political ideologies?, which system of Government would be practiced in Biafra: is it parliamentary of presidential system? What economic Models are you adopting? Have you sought the consent of the people you are dragging by force into this territory of yours?’’ And many other questions, but the answers I normally get from these people is that the birth of Biafra would be like a magic wand that when the independent country comes on board, all the problems that was faced in Nigeria would automatically disappear. The truth is that such assumptions is even more potentially destructive than they imagined because when the said Biafra comes and all their hopes becomes dashed all their illusions would be betrayed therefore leading to the an endless vicious circle of agitations and violence.

ILLITERACY: Sub Saharan Africa is the least developed place on earth when it comes to education and Nigeria happen to be a major contributor to that statistics and just like every other problem we face in this country, the blame rest on the shoulder of the federal government but when you come to think of it, how much have we individually contributed to reduce the educational gap in our own little way.
ASSU: The Notorious university association has always perennially embarked on strike to demand pay rise from the federal Government, but this greedy association has never for one day considered embarking on any industrial action to demand the cleansing of their stinking and corrupt members and staffs who have debased our educational system in the most shameful way ever imagined. The open secrets of members of ASUU collecting pay for marks, sex for grades, sexual harassment, out-dated teaching methodologies being applied by its members and all other practices that has made our universities an object of ridicule is not enough reason for ASUU to embark on strikes. And yet when the issue of who is responsible for the low level of our education standard is question, all mouths would shout “FEDERAL GOVERNMENT” and correctly so and no one would take responsibility for their role.
Structure and Re-structure: The main topic of discussion today how faulty the system of Government is built, with every one of us shout and proffering re-structuring as the solution to all our problems. And yet again no one is self-conscious of the role they play in amplifying this fault. The Niger-Delta accuse the Federal Government as the culprit of all their misfortune and even thou the truth may not be too far-fetched, how many times have we as citizens and dwellers of this places held our governors, our senators, our councillors and even ourselves for some of the problems we face in our environment? My guess is as good as yours.
The executive Governors of each state have a responsibility to make their jurisdiction better and make the life of people in this areas better but what we see are governors who have no idea or insight in making this hopes of those who voted them a reality. Even thou we understand that they needed more rights to achieve more but the question we must not fail to ask is “what have they done with the little that they have?”
Jesus Christ in all his wisdom in the Bible said “He who is not faithful in little, will not be faithful even thou more is given him” and that is wisdom. You can go all around the whole over 700 plus local government areas in Nigeria; you will hardly find anywhere that is kept clean. And this was supposed to be whose Job? And even in some places where a little is being consciously sort to be made clean, you will find residents, Nigerians, right-thinking human beings take garbage from their homes take it outside to the street and dump it there. When you ask why would you dump your dirt on the street? They are quick to blame the government, as if the government is still responsible for giving people common sense. The sanity of our society is our collective responsibility.

Nigerians and Nairalanders:
I crave your indulgence to permit me a spare of your precious time to read my assertion on the state of the nation at this critical time when there are so many skirmishes with grievous consequences to extinguish our national identity as we know it.
We have had the Boko Haram menace since the past six years, threatening to annihilate the north-eastern communities and their cultures in Adamawa, Bornu and other communities in Cameroon, Chad and Niger and the implication of that onslaught has resulted in one of the biggest humanitarian crisis currently in Africa.

Marginalization:
The background of the current stem from the recent agitation by the Indigenous people of Biafra to create an Independent state off the Nigerian territory siting reasons of marginalization by the federal government as the major reason for the agitation.
If we are to look at the assertion given as the reason for the renewed agitation by the Biafra enthusiast, we can easily conclude that Marginalization is the same reason why there is Islamist agenda by the Boko Haram terrorist, It is the same reasons of Marginalization why there is Militancy in the Niger-Delta creeks of Southern Nigeria, and it is the same reason of Marginalization on the youths of Nigeria why there is high level of employment, which is the direct consequences of increased rate of criminality, kidnapping, ritualism and other heinous crimes to mention but a few.
In the light of all these, it is clear that almost all sector and aspects of our National life is being marginalized and this begs the question, who is marginalizing who?
The Obvious answer that many would give would be, “The Federal Government” and truthfully so but what no one would want to acknowledge, is the role every individual, every citizen, every leader in this country of 180 million people contributes to the rot in the Nigerian system.
Every one of us has a role and a responsibility to the betterment of our dear country, but I have observed among Nigerians which I come to identify as bedrock of our problem is our terrible notion of “Entitlement”
The Nigerian societal frame work is built on the notion that the world owes us, everyone owes us our happiness. If life is not working the way it should, therefore it is the result of others, we fail to understand our own failings and how our deficiencies may have contributed to the problem.
The reason I believe our sense of self-entitlement is fundamental to our problem is that it has blinded our eyes to other obvious problems and how our collective resolve could have been the weapon we could have used to stop this problem..

All these long story for what? Stadium and round about in 2017?
Bro...!!!

NTA should be sold and the money should be used to buy Current affairs pamflet for the mumu directors and editors of NTA and the remaining change should be used to buy beer for the gods of Akwa Ibom

eezeribe:
I really understand your situation.I am also a last born out of seven,just try to create a balance between your sisters and your wife.
BUT,NEVER YOU ALLOW YOUR WIFE TO COME BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR SISTERS.
Your siblings were there for you even when you were a 'Nobody'.
If you had not become 'successful' with the love,care and support of your family,that person you call your wife won't have married you.

I'm baffled by your way of thinking.... no doubt being the last of seven have spoilt you more than the OP is complaining of....

" that person you call your wife?" .....Is this how you will describe your wife?

Once you are married, the most important person in your life is your wife or husband.

my parents cared for me, so what? that's their duty. there were cared for by their parents the same way I would care for my children.


Op, warn your elder sisters to steer clear from your family matters.

stop taking their advice. stop telling them your family problems.

But if you are still depending on them for finance to run your home, you have lost every right to complain.

very instructive.

zicoraads:
There is none. I live here. I go to Abuja whenever I want to travel by air. We don't have.

I thought as much!!!...... bunch of idiots.

by the way....thank you for the info.

So where is the airport?

Instead of taking photo of airport there are focusing on saraki like we don't know him before.

rubbish

ikechkwuegone:
Thanks, I really appreciate the contributions.

I would like to add one or two to this matter at hand.

firstly I think your wife is cheating on you. it may not be physically or sexually as the case may be, but emotional she is not faithful and her boss is heavily flirting with her if something is not done rightly may end up having bad consequences.

somebody advised you seek for more evidence and confront her with it, even though that may seem a good idea but I disagree.

why wait for evidence before you do something.

what I am saying is you should be proactive.

Your wife is lacking romantic gestures and there is a lull in your affection for her that's why she has time for the opportunist boss.

secondly you are weak when it comes to controlling her.

solutions: endeavor to overwhelm her with your attention. call her every hour and any time at whim.... infact try to set a daily call target of 20 calls per day... you don't have to say much 30 secs is enough for each call. and whenever you call flirt with her. seduce her and general switch your romantic temperature to the limits.

one thing I observed with most women is that they are hardly ever going to be two most important people in her heart which she thinks about. and you been her husband you are naturally going to be who she will choose. just buzz her phone tease her.... bring back your play boy attitude.


solution Two: Be bossy about her choices. when you come and see her make those illicit calls, tell her to switch her phone off an take the phone off her till she goes to work next day.

extend you bossy attitude to every little things but don't be a bully or threaten her.

Make choices for her, make decisions for her. the idea here is that you must be the man she respects.

apply this two methods and other methods of talking with her concerning her ways....... and see how you will win her with ease.

wish you all the best.

...observing

While they were in the beach, ......

Jesus and Gang went clubbing,Then they met this Olosho Babe

Jesus and man moved from one party to the other....

And then they Hit the Street..... Balling #YOLO

Then Jesus gave his 12-man gang Orientation....

And then started forming his gang of twelve..

Jesus Did his first Miracle.......

Then Satan became angry...

After 40 days and 40 nights.... Satan came to Tempt Jesus.

On Earth....

When Jesus told his disciples He was ....GOD!

They were like.....

Meanwhile in Heaven Mohammed and Budha were still lobbying

So Just before Jesus was born on Earth....

Still in Heaven... and decided to play some tracks from his iphone7

After a busy day at work in Heaven, Jesus decided to browse to the future

Jesus was still in heaven Helping his Dad...

Then Jacob did this

Remember Abraham?
Well Jesus was bored he needed something different!

Then in the Garden of Eden!!

And God created the heaven and the Earth...

but this is was how "Hell" was created.

timilehin007:
I have to defend him, why shouldn't I he makes me happy listening to hi music. I can bet it no class of Nigeria doesn't like am.. at least a very good number of them does.

That good to know you defend what you like at least that's a good trait...

But you must also learn that growth is inevitable and we must demand that all living things grow and improve on themselves Olamide included. Even though we all love him and he makes us happy, we still demand he grows to be better. that's my point.

pinkyruledworld:
how many of hin mates wey dey naija don win the grammy? shey na award hin family go chop.

Na your types full Nigeria unfortunately...

And yet we pray to be better?

The idea of wetin me and my family go chop na'm keep naija at this level of despicable poverty. Mind you civilization did not start until man or at least the Europeans were able to overcome the puzzle of wetin me and family go chop.