₦airaland Forum

saw my green passport with those two dead horses on it

Laughing my eyes out,

Tamita:
Wait oo! D guy 4 die if d plane blast?

I've been asking that same question. You sure say he no mis-fire on purpose? Maybe fear been catch am at the last minute. Ode buruku 

mama-gee:
Nigeria is in trouble. . .

CNN won't rest until they've gone over our whole backyard with a microscope. See how they were showing Kaduna on air? You will think the whole of Naija is worse than the worst area in Somalia.

Fhemmmy:
I think the mind of most ladies has to be rewired to understand that it is not about how many people are fed at your weddding that matters, but what happens afterwards

Abi o. Spend all your money cooking rice for the wedding guests, then go back and drink garri with your hubby afterward.

Na so Naija wedding be. Lwkmd!

Fhemmmy:
But u cant separate wedding from marriage.
Besides, either traditional or Non-traditional, it is all overblown fabu

Nah, you can get married without the so-called fabu wedding!

For many people, marriage is all about the wedding and the title of being "married."

Siena:
But I'm also aware marriage isn't for everyone.

Yep, the sooner we start accepting that not everyone is meant to get married, the better off we all would be.

If your prime reason for wanting to get married at a young age is "babies," please you would be better off freezing your eggs and waiting for the Mr. Right, than you would be by tying the knot with the wrong guy.

I don talk my own  

Double N:
Marriage is not Over-rated but Wedding's are!

Thank you! Please add traditional marriage to the list. Never really saw the point. I still don't

Fhemmmy:
Who defined the above and who say we have to be normal based on the community's definition?

My point exactly! But unfortunately many people think that if they don't follow the "community's definition," then the society sees them as abnormal.

Too bad.

londoner:
Marriage isn't so much overarated, but it is misunderstood.

I totally agree! the purpose of marriage is grossly misunderstood, and so also is that of having babies.

Unfortunately this is the way we have been programmed to think:

Finish school -->  Get Job -->  Get married --> Have babies

Any deviation from the above is seen as abnormal.

The world is changing, and so should the paradigm of life. Believe it or not, not every woman will find a life partner, and even if they do, many of them will marry at a pretty late age.

1. There are more women than men in the world today.
2. More gay men are popping up everywhere.
3. Most guys don't "make money" until they are past their prime.
etc, etc.

It's not just foreign passport and visa applications that will be affected.

What about students seeking admission in US colleges? Nigerians operating small businesses in the US? Nigerians seeking for jobs in the US?

All these areas will be equally affected.

Even foreigners with significant investment in Nigeria will pull out. Foreign airlines may stop making Naija connection flights. etc, etc.

Unless this whole thing blows over pretty quickly, we're all in for it. Let's hope no stupid thing like this happens ever again.

Nija4Life:
Instead of the Deputy Gov blaming teachers for the poor education pupils are receiving, I think that blame should be heaped on the door steps of the Government, past or present. The question that should be asked is 'do these teachers pass through a reputable teacher training programme? If so what is the standard of training provided? Does it conform to International standard? If not whose responsibility it is to quality assure the process? How much has the government spent on infrastructure, books, teaching resources, IT etc?' Unforunately in Nigeria we don't do 'taking responsibility', when things ain't working it is somebody's fault. Education is an expensive business anywhere in the world that requires a great commitment in funding and expertise in order to recapture the good standards of the past let alone catch up with the rest of the world.

THANK YOU!!!

“Anywhere I go, I get complaints that our teachers can’t speak English. We should improve and that is why we are here. Our primary school teachers must upgrade their knowledge. Many of them are not doing so.They should work on themselves,” Sosan directed.

Of course, what else do you expect? With the pittance you pay school teachers, who else do you think would want to take on such a job? If teachers go and better themselves, they will quickly take on better jobs in oil companies, banks, etc.
If you want good teachers and great teaching, you should revamp the whole Nigerian educational system.
Just wait till this whole issue get to the higher educational institution level. The current lecturers (ASUU) we have now are getting old. Who do you think will take their place in the future? Aliens? Of course it will be the kids of today that are being taught by these present day non-correct-sentence-writing primary school teachers!

According to her, “lots of pupils are no longer coming to our schools, unlike 10 years ago. The problem is qualitative teaching. We hear that some teachers, especially in Epe, don’t come to school at all. God is watching us.

Please, if you taught in a Govt school in Nigeria during NYSC, raise your hand. What do you think is the main cause of the lackadaisical attitude of the teachers? If you were paid for teaching in the school, every month, and on time, too, please come out now and bear testimony.
Rubbish!

“We are not expecting man to reward us. We need to put the fear of God in everything we do. Whether people are watching us or not, do the right thing. Let people have faith in our schools again.
Please tell that to the Govt and the educational board and minster of education. Let them do their part and provide an attractive compensation for teachers. You will see how many talented and well-learned individuals will flock into the educational system if things are done right.

The teaching job in Nigeria is such that, only those (females especially) who couldn't make their correct papers in WAEC and couldn't get a RICH husband, take on such jobs. Go ahead, do a survey and see if I'm wrong! What are they expecting? That graduates with first class honors will come and sit down in Epe, Nguru, Oturkpo, Kafanchan, Bukuru, Gombe, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Jebba, Zungeri, etc, and be collecting whatever pittance they pay school teachers these days? Many of them would also be severely mocked by pupils and students for daring to come to class in tattered shirts, patched trousers, and weather-beaten shoes.

They are coming here to use the "Fear of God" on us. How come they don't have the so-called "Fear of God" in their own hearts while carting away all the money designated for education and looting all the school infrastructures and amenities for their own personal gain? Where are all the money, books, computers and classroom furniture donated to Nigerian schools by concerned companies and Student Alumni Organizations? WHERE DID THEY ALL GO?

“If teachers are doing their work, we won’t get bad results. Pupils perform poorly because teachers are not doing what they are supposed to do,” she said, adding that the various education secretaries who were expected to monitor the schools had failed.

BIG LIE!!! It should be: "If Govt is doing its job, we won't get bad teachers and, therefore, won't get bad results." At least she blamed part of it on the educational secretaries.

Believe it or not, students wonder why the really talented teachers teach. they are surprised that such great teachers don't go to find jobs in Engineering Firms and Oil Companies. These good teachers always say they love teaching and would like to give knowledge back to the system that bestowed them with it. But now, those teachers have wizened up. They've realized that no matter how great they are, or how well-intentioned their reason for teaching is, the Govt will not give much of a damn. They only listen when ASUU goes on strike. Many of these teachers have long since departed and gone on to seek better futures in other job sectors.

See the state of our Federal Schools (once unity schools). They are just deplorable.
See the govt schools--primary and secondary alike. Nothing to write home about.
See the state of our Universities. God help us!

In short, this whole thing is too sad and disgraceful to behold! This our country--na wa o!

I seriously pity the future of the next generation kids, because, by the time they get to the University level, the lecturers there will be speaking:
"I doesn't rike what you are does. Prease, shapes up."

Whoa! Hold on a sec!

Chemical preservation of food is not the cause of Food-borne allergies--that is a whole different episode on its own. Food allergies has nothing to do with chemical preservation.

@ OP, by FOOD ALLERGIES, I presume you mean the major allergies caused by consuming certain types of foods such as:

1. Milk
2. Eggs
3. Peanuts
4. Tree Nuts (Walnuts, Pecans, Almonds)
5. Fish
6. Crustacean shell fish
7. Wheat
8. Soybeans (At type of Legume)

Allergies to the foods listed above are due to "poor immune system development" and not because the processed food may have some chemical additives.

If as a child you are not fed with bosom-milk, or you are weaned to early from your mother's milk, then you may develop food allergies as you grow up. The Immune system of babies is formed from that of mothers through bosom-feeding.

In the West, the reason many of them are prone to food allergies is because they were not bosom-fed as infants. Human milk contains a lot of immune-building hormones, immunoglobins, and proteins. So, those western babies that were fed cow milk (Infant formula) did not get much of these essential hormones, and as a result, they can not properly ingest certain types of proteins in foods which then results to allergies.

African children, on the other hand, are mainly bosom-fed. They develop a good immune system and can consume most of the foods listed above without problem.
If Nigerians should start depending on infant formulas for feeding their babies right from day one, you will start seeing many cases of food allergies popping up in the country.
To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.

FOOD INTOLERANCE is something else.
Take Lactose Intolerance for example. It is a disorder that arises as a result of the direct inability to digest the disaccharide lactose (found in milk). While growing up, African children are fed evaporated milk or powdered milk. The heat-treatment used for the processing of these kind of milks have destroyed the lactose, so there is no need for the babies to develop the enzyme that digests lactose. Then, as adults, when they move to Western countries and consume fresh milk, they start having lactose intolerance (diagnosed by too much gas in the large intestine).
You see, fresh milk is not as severely heat-treated as evaporated or powdered milk and, therefore, still retains most of the lactose. That is why many Africans have Lactose Intolerance.

Some people also have intolerance to food chemical additives like: MSG, Phosphates, etc, etc.

FOOD POISONING is in a different category altogether.
This is where the chemical additives you were speaking of earlier may come into play. Some kinds of additives or preservatives used in foods can definitely kill you or damage something in your system. Some of these build up over time and start causing problems at the adult stage.
Some cause cancer, arthritis, rheumatism, kidney-stones, asthma, ulcer, etc, etc.

A major kind of Food Poisoning is the one caused by micro-organisms. If you ingest improperly processed foods infected with deadly microbes, may God be with you.

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Food allergies arise mainly from poor immune system development as seen with people who were bottle-fed as infants or weaned too early.

In Africa, babies are mainly bosom-fed, some up to 6 months to 2 years. These babies have very strong immune systems and, as a result, are not prone to major food allergies.

The kinds of food disorder that may plague African children are Lactose Intolerance (fresh milk consumption) and Heart Burn (Legume consumption).