₦airaland Forum

I advise you to go after taking necessary precautions. Clearly the authorities won't do anything against you. Why would they ask you to come in the first place.
Those who may wish you harm are the colleagues of the corrupt policeman. So if you would go-of course in the companies of lawyers or media people- don't go home straight. This is to remove the possibility of trailing you.
Be a HERO! May God protect you.

haqueurate:
afenifere and opc are pdp apologist. nobody takes them serious in the south west. children of hate should leave

So in your mind, you think everything is about party. SMH. Even now what is the difference BTW PDP and APC?

Philistine:
Odumakin is the biggest fool in the whole universe, he speaks for himself and not the Yoruba nation. The Yorubas know their real enemy in this geographical expression called Nigeria. Odumakin should shut up and speak for only himself and his Igbo wife!

Wise people show restraint using such derogatory words on other people. I don't see that restraint in your comment.

EPIJOE:
WHEN HE WAS THERE WHAT ROLE DID HE PLAY?

Why don't you find out? Google is your friend.

jaytime:
Good development. But if Electricity authority did their own side of job well, nobody will gladly be involved in power stealing.

Are you kidding me?

SalamRushdie:
Good invention but who told this prof Nepa is concerned about electricity theft , PHCN is more concerned about how to maximise it's own theft by selling darkness to consumers under the guise of estimated billing

SMH. NEPA and PHCN have long ceased to exist! Pls be current.

Generating power on paper!

I really wish this policy is begun. At least, maybe as a pilot scheme in some schools and let us see the outcome.

Then I hope the abortive tendency of government policies won't happen to this one too. Corruption destroys the best of ideas!

Zenithpeak:
If Nigeria after 100 years of official amalgamation of Southern and Northern protectorate with English as her official language cannot set herself on the path to greatness then, no amount of localized educational system can help us.


The governor of my state speak our local language very well yet, will rather care for himself and his family with the state fund at the expense of the people of the state.


Let us develop the land first, good road, access to good health care, constant electricity supply, qualitative education, effective policing without assault on the citizenry, Free and fair election, government accountability, effective budget implementation etc then we can be talking of language of teaching in our local schools but for now, it's still a secondary matter.

Your line of reasoning is like a man whose child has leukemia and says, 'look let us give child quality education. Education is the most important thing. When he is well educated we can now treat his Leukemia'.

The child might be dead before he gets the quality education. Even if he doesn't die, where is the health required for gaining useful education?

PaztorAYO:
Hehehe...... I'm a creation of no one, my brother. It is not always possible to completely reverse the effects of Imperialism, especially in places where its influence was incredibly strong. We can only make the best out of the current order of things globally. That is the way of the world. Just like no man is an island, nor is any culture or civilization. We all affect one another, because all cultures coexist on the same planet. You assimilate that which is useful and discard the injurious.The Romans conquered the Greeks, but were heavily influenced by Greek culture, since the Roman Empire was a cultural vacuum. The same Romans who conquered the Jews were in turn conquered by the Jews who gave them Christianity. So, who is the other's creation in each one of these instances? Are we to advocate that the Western world abandon Judeo-Christianity so as not to be regarded as the creatiom of the Jew? I'm no advocate of any form of cultural purity or conservatism. There is no point in it. All that matters is progress. The current system WORKS WELL. All that's needed is improvement, nothing more. It'll take more resources, time and effort to implement the policy you're supporting than it would to improve on the current system of education, in addition to the fact that there's no guarantee of greater success and efficiency.

So, are you saying you support the division of classrooms along TRIBAL LINES just so that students can be taught in their native languages? What consequences do you think that holds for society?

Your comment shows you are well read and exposed. A big problem with your post is: The current system works well.

Does it REALLY work well for us-Africans, Nigerians? Maybe it works well for Europe and the West but I doubt it works well for us.

zionmade1:
"they all passed Common entrance" in my Primary school days we all passed common entrance. Let dem also all pass WAEC. RUBBISH. Those country u mentioned have scholars and are very much equiped. Instead of developing our education first to a world standard before talking about language, we are here experimenting with passing common entrance

How old are you?
I am very sure you were not near earth in the 70s. Common Entrance was big deal then. Besides this was a pilot scheme. So it was natural to test it in primary school before advancing to Secondary school.

Also, what I would love to know(which you should also be interested in) is how these pupils taught in local languages fared in their studies in secondary school. Did this local language learning foundation give an edge over other students OR were they at a disadvantage?

musicwriter:
Do you know 90% of the words and terminologies in your science class are not English? Do you know Britain once did exactly what our FG is proposing today?

For your information, the same argument you have above was the same argument educated people in Britain itself were making when Britain wanted to get back it's language to begin learning sciences in English. They also considered English an insufficient language for learning science!. It was Isaac Newton that pressed them in a meeting of scholars in 1616 to adopt English as their official language for learning science. They did so. What's the result today? Is English still lacking words to study science?

Of course, the above assumes you know Britain was also once colonized by Germans, French, Spanish, Rome, and that they once spoke the language of their captors.

Nothing is wrong with our native languages. As a mater of fact, I' am really ashamed you are writing this as a Yoruba man. If you think English is better than Yoruba, that's because the language is being destroyed by non-use. I' am not a Yoruba, but my research shows the Yoruba language is one of the best language on earth, but of course if you leave any language in preference of another language, you'll lose the capacity to create new words and the language may even die.

I am impressed.

samsono30:
this guy is a ram, in fact this guy is trying to divide Nigeria the more. More Nigerians will loose their teaching job. so what language will minority tribe teach with now? Zombie language? stupid APC ram. As if this is the problem facing Nigerian Education. just imagine u explain 6 raise to power 2 in Yoruba. you will now say GBE MEFA SOKE SI AGBARA MEJI.

Waoh. Your translation is nice. In fact you will be one of the Maths teachers in South west.

Phi001:
In a class where there are at least 8-10 ethnic groups, which language should the subject be taught with?



At face value, it is brilliant, but looking deeper, you'll see that the idea is nothing but nonsensical...

Maybe you should look EVEN DEEPER.

WarHorse1:
I am touched by this.
I remember when I was serving (NYSE) and teaching Mathematics at Govt. Sec. Sch. Basawa, Zaria. It was JSS1 class. I found out that when i give assignments, many of the students do not do the assignment. Most of those who do the assignment got zero. One day, it occurred to me that language could be the issue. I ask the most intelligent boy in class (An Edo boy but born and brought up in Zaria) to translate my class. It was a shocking realization. I still experience tear running down from my eyes when i remember the outcome. No one got zero. the majority passed all assignments. Especially exciting were the young female students who were so happy with their scores.

This was not going to be for long as the news got to the principal. he called me and cautioned that I should never translate my classes. Only English. Angry, I told him that I will never allow my fellow man or woman to be judged literate by a foreign language. I insisted that i will have it translated. The VP of the school then called me - a woman then - and begged that I should not call for trouble. Just obey, she said. Then a teacher from Edo state but have been in the North for long told me that if the Imam does not approve it, it cannot be done and that I should stir clear from trouble.

I can't wait to see the North taught in Hausa. That will be what will liberate the north from ignorance that perpetrate terrorism and poverty.

Lovely experience there!
So you see how backward reasoning keeps us down. The principal does not understand his role in the school which is to facilitate learning. He was just fulfilling unproductive bureacracy.

This reminds me of 3 idiots film: "This is a college not a pressure cooker".

PapaBrowne:
The senselessness of this administration is beyond normal.
So you teach a child living in Ondo mathematics in Yoruba language and he graduates and can't even get a job in Benin City that is barely 100km away because he can't communicate!!

Even China and Japan as advanced as they are have begun to teach in English in thier universities. In fact the demand for English teachers in these countries is so large that they pay them and provide housing just to make them stay.

We need the sack the old folks sitting in Abuja!

Your line of reasoning is faulty. Your bias against this administration is probably affecting you. So the Julius Berger engineers doing your roads was taught maths in primary school in English Or the Chinese guys repairing our refineries were taught in English.

Kwantinue!

zionmade1:
All in a bid to bring our education down to d level of northerners who rather remain illiterates than learn English. Which school in d South will accept dat Rubbish wen children at d age of 3 can flow fluently in English. Its a disgrace our educational system would have to descend so low all because we are in d same country will northerners who have vowed to remain illiterates. Other countries are looking for ways to further develop the standards of their educational system we are going back to square one. RUBBISH

With all the English, the okada that you rode on this morning can't be made in Nigeria. Mind you, it is not that they won't learn English Language but the children will be exposed to ideas in their native language. They will not be like those current Lagos/Abuja children who can't say 'I want to eat' in their mother tongue!

megbu:
From 'WHY WE STRUCK' the man who initiated the coup a Yoruba man said it all the way it happened. It was not an Igbo coup instead a coup to liberate the southwest from political instability caused by S.L Akintola unpopularity and the sinister plan of Tafawa Belewa to lead a political siege on the Southwest using the military as his tool. To free the ungrateful Awolowo,Enahoro and the rest from prison. The least we expected from Yoruba's during the pogrom was at least to raise a voice in condemnation of the horror unfolding before their very eyes. No! Their obas went round the north on a thank you visit for sparing the lives of innocent Yorubas and shedding the blood of more than 45,000 Igbo's. God bless Prof Wole Soyinka who chided the obas in that open letter. He is the reason I still look at Yoruba tribe as people without dead conscience.

But the younger ones do not know this. They spew all kinds of e-vile on Soyinka for the sole reason that he was against GEJ.

Some people will just never learn!
After many heartbreaks and even suicide some people will still put money in this SCHEME.

I have an advice for ladies: if your boyfriend is involved in this MMM fraud, I doubt you have met your husband. It is either this guy is unscrupulous or cannot think properly.

angels09:
When you mess with national security matters..... your rights are erased.

National security matters? What do you understand by National security issue?

barrysome001:
A very good move I must say.
Industrial customers,estates and "smart" communities will benefit a great deal from this development.

Some Industrial customers consumes up to that requisite amount of energy,some big estates likewise.

"Smart" communities: there are communities here that are bulk billed by the disco we have here, i.e if any community can be smart enough to do a load assessment of their area and realize that their consumption is that high,all they need do is apply for this offer.

And the beauty of this idea is that,you can't owe the Genco like it's easy to owe disco, it will be easy to disconnect you from supply once you default in payment.
Thumbs up baba Fash!

More so, Fashola just put the discos on their toes, the competition will benefit Nigerians because Discos will be forced to sit up now,their major revenues are from Maximum demand customers that now have an alternative (a better one in times of service delivery perhaps). It's a good move #IMO

Very very few people will benefit from this because of the distance of gencos to them. The current distribution lines are owned by DISCOs.

DJInfluence:
Haha, abeg ask this question again but in slow motion.

meanwhile, i sure say you are not older than i am but who is counting.

I asked because you said the politicians are worse than the military 'we' chased out. As if you were part of them.

And judging from your comments I don't think you were a teenager in 1999. Cos if you were you would understand the oppression by the military. I know they still oppress people now but it will be worse! Now you can take them to court for maltreatment. The other day Fashola's convoy as governor stopped a colonel driving illegally on BRT. During military rule they run everywhere!

If an military officer's wife likes the location of your mother's shop in the market her husband only has to instruct soldiers to evict your mother and THAT WOULD BE THE END OF IT! Nobody will save her. Except God.

Be careful what you wish for.

Bridget95:
story for the gods...


But Abacha's government is better than this current APC's government.When Abacha was in power,Nigerians could afford three square meals unlike what is obtainable now.

We couldn't afford 3 square meals then, fuel was gold, military oppressing everywhere...

bigdoo:
If the coup is about flushing out all our ex presidents, senators, governors, ministers, LGA chairmen, councillors, political appointees and all those who have embezzled public funds and then taking over all their assets including private houses, money,jets etc and turning them into government property, then I fully support the coup. This is similar to what Rawlings did in Ghana.

Nigeria needs a fresh start. There is too much greed, corruption and inequality with those who have illegitimately amassed some wealth becoming so proud and arrogant while the masses just live as their slaves. A real revolution is needed in Nigeria and the civilians cannot do it successfully on their own.

Your fantasy is ridiculous! So you expect the military to give Nigeria a fresh start.

Do you know history of Nigeria at all? Just ask your uncle. He will tell you much about it, except he is a soldier too.

DJInfluence:
Buratai abi Burukutu... You are your so called top brass want to chop alone, una no want the others to get aspiration? In fact, if any miliraty group get the mind to stage a coup, i will support them because this politicians worse pass the milliarty we chased out.

How old were you in 1999?

hardbody:
Nicely said. I have not lived overseas, I have had frequent visits and have noticed how things work in all those climes. The led do not give room for the leaders to exercise the brazen roguery that pervades our environment here, therefore there is no basis for the military to get interested in politics.

Here, the simpleton on the street collects N5k, loaves of bread, sacks of garri and then mortgages his soul. The Politician comes in and tries to recover his money spent on the voters and make some profit (afterall it is a business venture), then everything is left rotting away no one willing to bail the cat, so what is the way out of the wood. We get what we deserve. Until we learn to be objective, assess politicians and vote for them on the basis of their antecedents and desire to perform, not all these south west north divide (wailers and zombies as some people choose to christen them), then bro, let the military come. It took a Jerry Rawlings in Ghana to reset that country and put it back on the path of economic recovery. If we can get that to happen here, no regrets.

Those are my views. I remain apolitical, reason is simple, they make it impossible for right thinking people to aspire to lead. How much is the cost of acquiring forms to elective positions? How many honest and hardworking men and women can afford this? And when you borrow to acquire the forms, won't you pay back with interest? where will the money come from? Looting.

Compare the scenario with the western states you spoke about. We deserve whatever comes to us bro

" Until we learn to be objective, assess politicians and vote for them on the basis of their antecedents and desire to perform, not all these south west north divide , then bro, let the military come."

When will we ever learn if we desire to truncate the process of learning! Your comment is congruent with the lack of responsibility many Nigerians exhibit. Instead of working towards reforming the system they hopelessly hands up! Some even go as far on the irresponsibility continuum by desiring the British to recolonize us! Talk of ignorance!

"It took a Jerry Rawlings in Ghana to reset that country and put it back on the path of economic recovery. If we can get that to happen here, no regrets."

Why would you play Russian roulette with the lives of 200million people? WHY? You fantasize of Rawlings of Ghana, what if you get a Kabila or another Abacha instead?

My brother, think!

Spidermon:
I dont see any difference, if anything I actually prefer the military.

Forget freedom of speech. Is it on NL that you will say something and seun ala mods will ban you like say dem be custom officer?

The political system needs a reset.

If we CANT have true federalism, then they should do what they like..

Afterall, nobody wants to come out to protest. nobody wan die.

Actually, it will be worse.

Truth234:
How do you mean? $1 billion = N388 billion going by N388/$ exchange rate

200 million people = N388 billion/200 million = N1940 a day

Please note that we are not up to 200 million in population, and that is just $1 billion out of the $30 billion.

Nice and quick one!
You be accountant/statistician/economist. Lol!

I know it is simple Maths but for Naija Maths is getting endangered.

chiraqDemon:
Very true.
Also about the scammers, after the MMM era, then came that dead era. All sorts of ponxi schemes were opening up daily. Some would open up 6am in the morning and after successfully collecting an amount they feel comfortable with, just shut down before night sef and be gone.
These were nigerians doing this to each other. And those who participated did not care about the fact that they could be scammed, they would rush in and donate cash as soon as they hear of a new one so that they wiuld be among the first batch to be paid, as far as they weren't the ones the schemes closed down on then they were okay.
Looking back at it i realised that those ppl might say they are not scammers because they did not open or shut down the scheme, but they forget that they helped spread the scam fever. I can also say they were scammers cos they invited friends who came over and got scammed. These were all nigerians.

I do mot know what we can do to repair Nigeria's reputation if there is any left to even repair. The country is in a mess and we are the cause of it, that much is certain.

Such wisdom from your comment!

SSBN:
You are the biggest idiot in history . I am not a scammer, but these Nigerians you despise are doing nothing but surviving. They sustain their family and train the less priviledged to school. The peopme doing real damage to Nigeria are our crooked politicians. Rather than hold them accountable you make excuses for them and blame Yahoo boys. Did you know that the Nollywood movie industry which we Nigerians all have pride in was Bourne out of money made from Yahoo?

You must be a THIEF! Anyone that defends stealing Yahoo yahoo is also a THIEF.

People like you blame everybody for your misdeeds. If a man uses his wife for money ritual, it is the government that allowed Naira to depreciate who is to blamed for it!

SMH!

nellybadas:
Do you really think it's OK to publish the salary of a private firm in a public forum like this? In this era of insecurity. Just my take though.

Why all this secrecy? When it is not that they are paying them cash

In Europe and other places, salaries are not hidden.

ocelot2006:
This article makes absolutely no sense. Since when did the EFCC possess the power to transfer a serving Army GENERAL to a powerful Intelligence Service like the NIA? Only the NSA has such power, not the EFCC's DG who's a bloody Deputy Commissioner (DCP).

I believe there was a typographical error where it was said that EFCC asked a brigadier general to take over the finance of NIA. I suspect it meant to say Office of NSA.