₦airaland Forum

Austindark:
This is not about low self esteem man, it is the painful truth even an African problem generally.

Nigerian leaders instead of interpreting the law for enhancement of the economy and development resort to tribalism, ethnic chauvinism, and religious bigotry.

They encourage stupidity, laziness and slavery to metaphysics by telling the masses to send in best pastors (god of men) to pray for the economy while the white people are making aggressive economic reformations and innovations.
In short, let me just end it here rather than starting my day in an angry way

The bullshit every layman on the street spouts as excuse
for African underdevelopment is "bad leaders".
I found such expression to be meaningless.

It is the time we throw of that useless line of thinking. A country's development
depends on the citizens. If the citizens love the current state of their country
(as most Nigerians currently do), then it remains stagnant.

Leaders are not magicians or angels, they are a product of the Nigerian populace which
celebrates mediocrity, tag corrupt people as "sharp", teaches short-sightedness
and has a strong love for magical expectations without work.

The latter part of your post address some of the secondary problems of
development but without a change in orientation of an average Nigerian we shouldn't
expect any meaningful progress.

khalhokage:
This country is not in need of any more educated people, just more enlightened people, Nigeria has such a large number of educated people around the world that passed through the walls of higher institutions without gaining any useful knowledge.

We need more educated people, you seem to be confusing being a student and being
educated. At least 50% of our uni students have no business being in college in the
first place.

The majority of our leaders in this country are degree holders, but we're still in this mess, what we need are intelligent and compassionate people.

Intelligence without education is useless when it comes to solving
modern problems. Nigeria's mess is as a result of a complacent
uneducated population who are easily fooled

An idiot will remain an idiot educated or not.

Any educated person cannot be an idiot.

It's like an acquaintance of mine, This guy has a very very good memory, so school work is a breeze, but he lives on weed, always makes stupid decisions and has a ignorant world view, education can't help such a person.

He is just a degree hustler like many Nigerians who have no business
in tertiary institutions. Education can help anybody!

You should change your mindset and be more open minded, education can never be the measure of a man, because we have Youth corpers in this country calling themselves corpses and wishing heart attack on themselves because basic English spelling eluded them.

Education is a valid measure of a persons' class, thinking style and worldview.
I determine a person's level of education from their conducts since
nobody people don't inscribe "degree" on their forehead.

crixuss:
Stop painting flawed analogies. They make your argument very unconvincing. Discriminating against blind or cripple women when choosing a partner isn't the same as discriminating against people who don't have degrees. They aren't the same thing.

The analogies are not in any way flawed.
Individuals have preferences and they have the right to pursue them.
There are people who can't marry a police officer for the
reasons best known to them, they are not wrong for their
choice, the same way you are free to like or dislike a certain group
of people.

My focus on tech experts is to illustrate to you how you are drawing a false equivalence between education and having a degree. A degree is merely a written statement that one has acquired knowledge or skill in a certain area. Now if one doesn't have that written statement, it doesn't mean he or she hasn't acquired such knowledge or skill.

I think you are being a literalist. If I say that ex-convicts have at one time
done something wrong and I don't want to have anything to do with them,
it doesn't mean that there aren't some tiny percentage of them are actually innocent.
Degree holder in this context can be taken to mean educated. Please note that
intelligence and education are not the same. There are intelligent uneducated
men and there are also educated men with below-average intelligence.
A college educated man is more exposed and has a progressive life experience than
an average non-degree holder. It doesn't matter if there are some unicorn
non-degree holders that are very educated, after all, there is hardly
anything in life that is absolute.

But your discrimination on the basis of having or not having a degree excludes people who might have education in a particular field, but without the written statement. Like there are lots of courses today that can be self thought. Take for instance a course like history. What's the difference between someone who decided to study history on his own and someone who spent four years in the university studying history? At the end of the day what matters is the knowledge gathered and the person's ability to retain that knowledge and apply it.

There is a clear difference between someone who studies history at the university and the
unicorn who studied history on its own. The former acquired more than just knowledge, he
gained different perspectives, absorb various ideas and learned different cultures from student-student
interactions and lecturer-students interactions.
Finally, he isn't just someone who studied history but one who has been certified by intelligent
people that he actually understood what he studied.

You should understand that there are different categories of non-degree holders just as there are different categories of degree holders. There are non degree holders who are inarticulate, uninformed and without any marketable skills, while there are those that are smart, informed and "educated in various marketable fields."

The overwhelming majority of non-degree holders can't hold a meaningful
non-mundane conversation with their educated counterpart. To avoid
frustration or suspicion, it is advisable that one dates within their class(whatever
it means to an individual). It is bad advice to consider every group because
some outliers might exist in a non-desired group even if one could miss out
on some rare gems.

But the problem is that you are painting them all with a single brush. You aren't even considering the SSCE holders who were smart enough to gain admission into good schools but dropped out along the way. You don't box everyone into the same category.

Sound generalizations are useful human tools, without it, we would be paralyzed in our
decision-making process due to too many choices.

Being a degree holder is a non-issue since most people won't start discussing academic thesis in their
first meeting. It is easy for an educated person to weed out the uneducated(degree or non-degree
holding) from a few minute interaction. I am not aware of anyone wearing a "degree" badge
on their head so it isn't even part of a first impression.

lefulefu:
Hehe see question.his chief ruggednes in Benin aka chief bob izua na stark illiterate. But he dey married to two educated women.his first wife na lawyer and im second wife na medical doctor. Make u no smell the walls of a school but as long as u get cash very beautiful educated babes go dey run after u.ask those our umna bros for east wey dem no go school but dem dey get very beautiful educated ladies as wives. Na money ooo

What some people lack in education they make up in class and power.

yeyerolling:
so attending a uni where all u did was cram and pour makes ur thinking higher lmao. NB- I had a 2.1, and i had friends with first class who bathed with soap during ebola or who believed IPOB lies easily

If this was all you did during uni days, then you are not really educated,
you just happen to have a certificate.

UnknownT:
What Timi is saying is that people should try and make their marriage work. If it's domestic violence against one's wife would make the marriage to crash, the man should stop beating the wife. If it's verbal violence from the lady will make the man become physically violent, she should stop it. Just like the Freeze said about the "wife cutting dick" scenario, it's up-to the lady to stop any violent act that will make the marriage crash.
Thank you all, back to my dinner now

Timi is saying trash.
When did he become an all powerful god that can
stop people from behaving like humans?

Timi say they should stop? Is that a joke?

If humans haven't adhered to the basic principle
of not killing each other why will anyone expect
that a simple goodwill advice will have any effect
on an abusive spouse?

ElPadrino33:
It should be the man

Why?

Decsions should be jointly made.

Lordygram:
AT his age and status in Africa entertainment industry, peter is still celebrating appearing on a cover of a magazine... jezz!!!! He behaves like a kid and an upcoming star.. This is why i like paul, he has paid his dues, right now, he is pursuing bussiness, and very soon, he will drop a hit that even peter wnt see coming.. Thats how bosses run their thing.. e.g jayz, Dbanj, Eminem..

Why are you so pained?

ofuonyebi:
she didn't lack home training boy?...she simply play her wayooo ..game and took some bloody money out of ur pocket..

thank to the good mother...some other olosho mother would form alliance with this cunny lady to drain the purse of their son!

despite this ur sad experience, some millennium guys who dey go for anything under sket will not learn!

The boy looks like someone still being fed by his parent,
so their is no purse to drain from.
The mother knowing that she will bear the responsibility
for the pregnancy decided to confirm the story.

WaffenSS:
I guess you missed the part where the cop said they're still investigating.

It's only in movies that cases get solved in a day.

Yes, the police are still investigating that he lied to police.

Welcomme:
I regret going to school... My old mum is there hoping that I should be bringing something for her but here I am with nothing after graduation. Just tired mehn! No money to start or learn a business or skill...

Go and learn technical skills, Graphics, Design or Programming.
You can get many lessons on Youtube for free.

Organizations reserves the right to weed out candidates using whichever
method they so desire.

If a company is recruiting the wrong candidate, then it is headed for bankruptcy,
so if a company keep using a non-intuitive way of screening candidates, then it
must be working for them.

I once saw a stage 2 screening questions for an accounting role which 90% were
current affairs. It looked weird and stupid but I realized that the company probably
think any of the candidates can do the job and opted for an unusual screening method.

Begging culture is widespread in Nigeria.
I remember some bank's security men begging
and harassing anyone who came to use the ATM.

WaffenSS:
Obstructing investigation by lying to mislead is a crime.

Why don't they charge him to court?
I bet it is the fear of being ridiculed by a sound lawyer.
In fact, anybody with a sound mind can defend themselves
without a lawyer in this case.

MicroBox:
Abdulrasheed Maina was cleared by court as fit and sound to be reinstated..
So what is the fuss..

When did the court clear maina?
Maina's corruption case is still in court.
You must take everybody here for an illiterate.

starchris:
I can't believe mtn still have almost 50 percent of the market share. We need more competitors

More competitors will change nothing, people hardly abandon
their old network for a new one unless there is a mouth-watering
offer. What we need is better service from other operators.

teflonjake:
Remember the st petersburg metro explosion?

ISIS, did that.

No waterloo yet.

I'm not in support of any radical group, but please get your facts straight.

Some people think that Russia is some kind of invincible country
which can solve any security problem within a day.
They forgot Afghanistan and the current Syria crisis.

BadBlaize:
The day ISIS or any radical Islamic set will carry out any attack in Russia

that will be the day dey meet their waterloo..

Russia gat no Chill

Russia can't handle ISIS.
Tough talk can't defeat those terrorist because
it just take one single man to cause widespread
havoc. Remember that ISIS isn't written on
member's forehead.

highchief1:
yet ur pussy is wide

anthony533:
pls what is the name of your job?

It is a male behind that handle, so his job is scamming randy men.

Olalan:
Really sad for the guys family, but truth be told Davido can't be prosecuted even if found guilty of any wrong doing, except he's no longer a celebrity, a billionaire son in a fantastically corrupt country called Nigeria.

Prosecuted for what exactly?
Witnessing a drinking competition or his car being used to convey Tagbo to the hospital?

Just because innocent poor men rot in police detention for a crime
they didn't commit doesn't make it right.

Of Course, the new CP has to show that he is working
and what better chance than he gasping at straw in attempting
to nail a high profile suspect.

The so-called lie is becoming a comic.
First he was accused of lying that he didn't know the hospital
Tagbo was taken to, how was he to know when he didn't follow
them.

Now the lie has been changed to "he didn't know who took Tagbo
to the hospital.

Even if the CP claims were to be true, lying to the police is not
a crime. It is a waste of public resources to pursue a fruitless
case just for sensationalism.

I hope the teachers will also be "World Class".

nnokwa042:
if northerners can't take polio vaccine then u expect Igbo man to be injected by zoogeria army?

It is illiteracy and religious conspiracy propaganda that make some northerners reject
polio vaccine.
It is the same illiteracy and political propaganda that made some people swallow the
monkeypox vaccine lies.

The saying that "illiteracy is a disease" is very much alive!

gidgiddy:
Military exercise is still the deployment of troops, anyway you want to see it. Military training exercises are not done in civilian areas.

I am not aware of any law prohibits military from carrying out exercise in any part of Nigeria,
if there is, kindly cite such laws.

Insurrection is the violent uprising of a group of people. No such thing existed in Abia state

Ipob member were terrors to the public and security agents

As for aiding civil authority, there was none to aid since nobody asked for military intervention

Shutting down a state with illegal protest and rendering civil authority powerless
with constant harassment warrants a military aid.

Even if we are to believe that Operation Python dance was a way of aiding civil authority, they announced it would start on the 15th of September. The Army invaded Abia state and Kanu's house and killed several people before that date

The military is under no obligation to give you a date for their exercises.

Given the penchant of ipob to link all recent deaths to politics, I do not
believe any army killing story unless with hard evidence.

modelmike7:
There is suppose to be a time limit for all these kinda cases. in 2 to 4 weeks, the case should be decided.

Any case involving human life must not be done in a hurry
so as not to convict an innocent person of murder.

Touchey:
It is even impossible to save your card pin on an online platform.
No website would encourage such.
Ivolt clearly doesn't know what he/she is talking about

It is better you talk about what you know but if you are still skeptical
please send your card no, name and cv v as pm.
I guarantee that you will get alerts.

You obviously know very little about prepaid cards and online shopping.

saydfact:
which bank is that? i use GTB and i get OTP or i cant complete my transactions.

Any bank, master or visa card.

saydfact:
online withdrawal require pins and OTP (ur phone line) -

It doesn't, I have purchased items countless of time online and my pin was never requested
just the card name, number, and Security.

Don't ever let someone have your card, they do not need your pin for purchases.

gidgiddy:
I suggest you read section 217 of the constitution. It gives only 4 situations where the military can be deployed:

1) Protecting the territory of Nigeria from external aggression

2) When there is insurrection

3)To "aid" civil authority

4) By an act of the national assembly


And none of them applied to Abia state

So you cannot differentiate between a military exercise and
military deployment?

Even if I were to agree with your false claims that the military was
deployed for combat, they did tick off both reason 2 and 3.

cbngov01:
Your write up was coherent but not valid! In e-banking u either stay secured or lose it all!...3banks,3atms and you move out with em at once?No soul, I repeat no soul can withdraw with ur atm card unless your password is compromised!For the lady who card was bought from her account I find d story funny but I will counter that another day...Stay safe, stay secured I'm with e banking all the way!

They don't need to withdraw.
Online purchases require no pin and the fraudsters can
buy as much as they want.

I read that there is this "card cloning" technique that fraudsters use to make
withdrawals possible without pin, I don't know if it is true.

gidgiddy:
There wazms no deflection here. The writter started by saying a boastful Kanu ran away from the Nigerian Army. My question is, was the Nigerian created to go after unarmed and boastful people like Kanu or where they created to go after people who are destroying lives and property like Shekau? So the Army left their consstitional role of defending Nigeria to go after boastful people and the writter is trying to make a point from that illegal act?

Nigeria can go after any suspected trouble maker. There is no law in our
constitution mandating the government to only go after armed suspect.
In fact, most of the arrest carried out by law enforcement agencies does
not involve armed suspects.

It is quite a shame and cowardly of the Nigerian Army to be still invading someones house as if we are still in military rule. The Army is going to fight an unarmed man and you people are praising them? What is there to praise? The only cowards here are the Nigerian Army who embarked on an illegal exercise to to attack an unarmed man in his house. But sheka has been in his house fir seven years and nobody can get him. So the Nigerian Army is only good at attacking people with no guns? So what was all that training for?

Again unarmed does not equate saint or blameless.

Cowards cower under their beds or flee instead of confronting
their problems so you can't have "coward" and "invade" in the same character.
We can clearly see who is the real coward here.

Army exercises are perfectly legal, if it isn't please point to the part of the Nigerian
constitution which barred Nigerian army from carrying out excercise in any part of
the Nigerian territory. I hate pseudo-authoritative arguments, just because you said
so does not make the Army Excercise illegal

By bringing in shekau into an unrelated issue, you are just like a pickpocket who
berates police for arresting him instead of going after armed robbers and murderers.
You can see the fallacy in such argument.

If you suppport the reigning in of people using unconstitutional methods in a democracy then you dont mean well for anyone.

Again, cite the part of the Nigerian constitution which bans the Army from carrying
out excercises in any Nigerian territory. Don't bother restating your point if you do not
have evidence to back yourself up.

Dangerous elements in a society must be reign in. Again this has nothing to
do with being armed.