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My mum drives an automatic car but once there is a fault, she's totally helpless without her mechanic. She will be like 'what is that red light showing there?' 'why is the sound of the engine like that?' As for phones, she loves high tech phones but men, she asks a lot of questions on the same thing over and over again. She won't hesitate to call me on phone to say 'please remind me how to move this folder to my flash drive' What?! again? I've told you this many times already! Sometimes she'll just call to tell about a strange notification showing on her laptop's desktop background even if it's nothing harmful to her computer.

My older folks are struggling with new tech but some are trying anyway.

The FG knows the location of the girls and that location is 'nowhere'

NaLaugh: You gotta keep up.

Then again, Naija kids are a little slower to develop coherent speech, and they speak soooooooo slow. Like person wey drink palmi

The other time wey i enter Naija, one of my 5 year old cousin was like:

"myyyyyy muuuummmyyy sayyyyyy thaaaaatt yoouuuu shool com an' eaaaaaaat"

Not all of them are like that. You need to see some of them, so talkative and they are not slow.

skasski: I wish i was nigerian

pardon me, but what country are you from? Why do you wish to be nigerian?

collins125: Sick people everywhere.

I can only laugh at this. Doctor sir, you still did not get the point. If you don't mind, scroll up a bit and read the comment of the poster below this (your) post I quoted. You can get a clue from there.

acorntree:
This kind conversations. Na Nairaland e dey start and na for Nairaland e dey end too.

collins125: Yes talk talk no action

It means you have not gotten what people have been saying on this thread. It starts with you and me in our little corners. If you are waiting for a big revolution somewhere, you might as well wait your entire life time.

Double post.

Very nice thread. Kudos Op. Mynd44 frontpage please. Thank you.

Give it up for the soldiers!

The fact that all test results returned negative doesn't reduce the seriousness of the threat. Can they account for what may be happening at the moment? People should still be on alert. No where is safe until it is confirmed that ebola has disappeared because the thief next door is also a threat to every other house in the vicinity.

There is a fundamental flaw in our value system. We are quick to say that our leaders are bad but we forget that they were not imported from elsewhere, they are from among us. If we want to change the country, we have to start with ourselves. The average worker goes to work late, the public office worker won't do his job unless you apply some grease (bribe), parents encourage their kids to cheat in exams, business owners only employ family members, etc and yet all these people are quick to point accusing fingers at the government.

Why does this sound like a story from all those mexican/filipino shows on Tv?

Why does this sound like a story from all those mexican/filipino telenovellas on Tv?

optimusprime2: Mumu students... imagine Russia & Ukraine?? why wont they suffer in whack countries...
What stopped them from gaining admissions in better countries which I wont name- whereby
even if the bloody scholarshop schemes were suspended or stalled, such students would have found their lives and simply forgotten about Nigeria... they went to Russia and Ukraine #Laughing in parables

They did not choose the countries themselves! or did you hear/read otherwise?

mployer: Sorry op for your plight.
But we know you got the scholarship through one connection or the other and we he didn't hear you complain about that. The government was definitely your friend at that Point in time despite her irresponsibility. Now I'm surprised on how you expect commitment from an irresponsible friend.

Pls spare me the 'merit' talk, we know how it happens.

I guess you're talking to Ikenna the original writer of this article, right? I only posted this here to create awareness about the plight of these people abroad. And 'merit'? Yes some people got it based on merit.

hmmm..

Hello Mynd44, officially requesting that this be moved to FP. Thanks.

Very bad. it seems the government is bent on frustrating nigerian students wherever they go. In Nigeria they constantly live with the fear of ASUU strike, fee hikes, etc and also abroad they are made to starve and live under desperate conditions. If we hear now that Nigerian students robbed a bank or caused a riot in Moscow, the government will just term them as 'bad eggs'. I'm not in any way proposing that crime is the way out but this is not the way to encourage the young generation. Absolutely not!

Written by Ikenna David Ike

On behalf of all federal scholars, I will like to bring to the public’s attention the current challenges facing the Bilateral Education Agreement scholarship scheme with various countries, including Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Cuba and especially Russia.

The BEA scholarship scheme is a good initiative that has existed for more than 30 years in various forms. It is sad that the same problem that beset this scheme 30 years ago still rears its ugly head today. The Nigerian government has shown complete disregard for the welfare of its scholarship students.

This year, Nigerian government scholars have not been paid for 8 months. It is important to note that all scholars solely rely on the government stipends. Majority of the students are from humble backgrounds. They were awarded this scholarship based on their excellent academic achievements. Due to laws governing the rights of foreign students in the above listed countries, these students are not permitted to
work and in cases where they can, culture and language barriers make it almost impossible for them to find employment.

As a result of the above factors, delays associated with the payment of stipends often lead to a humanitarian crises. The existing arrangement is that the students will be paid every quarter. This means that students would be paid their stipends for the next quarter at the end
of the last quarter. For example, the stipends for April-June will be paid at the end of March. Unfortunately, for the past 7 years, this has never happened. Not even once.
At best, payments were made for the previous quarter at the beginning of a new one. For example, the stipends for Jan-March paid at the end of March or mid-April. Over the last seven years, the situation has deteriorated to a point where students were owed for 3 months, 4 months and last year, a little over 6 months and currently, 6 months in arrears.

Every kind of explanation has been given: from delayed budget approval by the Senate to Central Bank verifications, delays associated with the Ministry of Education’s budget implementation to release of funds to the Nigerian Embassies in the respective countries. Even when the budget (allocations?) was released early and the allowances for the year were expected to have been made available, it was always a battle to
ensure payments were made on time. The students were often made to wait for months before they were paid.

Today, students on the program, with no rich family to help them, with no rich friends around to help them, wait and starve as they hope that someday, their stipends will be paid. Many students defended their Bachelors and Masters’ theses in June but for the whole year, they have not received a dime for their upkeep or feeding, or accommodation or research. Some cannot even go to school, as they do not have money for
tral, as they do not have money for
transport. In this period of examinations, motivation is low and spirits down as the students feel like they have been abandoned and
neglected to starve to death. Graduating students are at risk of overstaying their visa, as they do not have the necessary funds to buy tickets to go home after 7 years of study. In countries like Russia and Ukraine, this comes with a heavy penalty (imprisonment and deportation).

Despite these issues, we have continued to uphold the pride of the nation by refusing to engage in criminal activities to sustain ourselves. It is
unfortunate that scholars, who have continued to excel in their academics in spite of their nation’s disregard for their welfare, have had to resort to begging in order to fend for themselves.

In addition, these patriotic citizens of Nigeria have been unwilling to engage in any form of demonstration at the Nigerian embassy in Moscow to press home their demands. The leadership of the students’ association (The Association of Nigerian Scholarship Students in Russia) has explored
several diplomatic measures to bring an end to this injustice but all efforts have proved futile.

You would recall that the students on the amnesty program had a violent demonstration at the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow a few months ago. Their stipends were only delayed for a couple of days! Since that incident, their money has been paid regularly with no delays.
However, after 8 months, the scholarship students are expected to be on their best behaviour and represent the nation in the best light. That is a baffling expectation. Must we wait for a student to starve to death or do something disgraceful, before the right thing is done?
The BEA students are truly suffering in their different countries.

Even as threats of war and political instability loom in Ukraine and Russia, there has been no measure to ensure that these citizens of Nigeria are
adequately protected and taken care of. Not only are these poor students starving and sick, the government is taking no effective measure to ensure their safety in event of a breakout of war or escalation of the current crisis.

In light of these, we demand:
i) That our stipends (January- September) be paid within a fortnight.
ii) That the annual accommodation allowance of $800 promised by the Federal Scholarship Board be included in our package from this year onward.
iii) A compensation payment of $1000.
iv) An upward review of our existing allowances in concordance with current economic realities.
v) That a structure be established to ensure prompt and timely payment of scholars’ allowances.
vi) Adequate evacuation and airlifting measures be put in place in case the current political tension escalates.

If the conditions listed above are not met within a fortnight, the whole student body will commence peaceful sit in protests at the premises of the Nigerian embassy in Moscow. Embassy activities shall be disrupted and we will meet daily at the embassy premises until our demands are met.

It is our hope that we will not have to undertake such extreme measures but if the federal government, the Federal Scholarship Board and the Nigerian embassy in Moscow fail to put an end to this injustice, we are willing to do this and explore other extreme measures to fight for our rights.

Source: http://www.thescoopng.com/olori-gbeske-plight-nigerian-federal-scholarship-students/

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Fleeing into the arms of Ebola. Perfect love story.

Many are easily distracted by Nairaland and other social networks.

J0nyb0y: yea, thats y i created something similar.

At times we get furstrated, but we just have to get used to it. Its not for a lifetime

yeah, she's your mother after all. Considering all the years of sacrifice to make you have a good life, one should be able to support them through that period because they are not finding it easy either.

There was a similar thread before now but it was lost due to the hack. Good to have a second version.
Good work @op. I have witnessed it firsthand. She is coming to the end of it though because the episodes are less frequent now.