₦airaland Forum

Haha how do you use google to conduct census.......But ya the North is not nearly as populated as it claims

SamAfrik: why dont you like APC? have they govern your state before? Have they ever being at the fed?
I judge based on physical evidence not conjuctures.
BTW I have witnessed the 2 in my state of residence & origin. And please dont fall for that Islamic propaganda.

OK wrong choice of words. What I meant to say is I am not enamored with APC. And for good reason, there is an excess of GOD-FATHERISM in the party, It looks like they will end up choosing the wrong people for their Pres. and VP spots in Buhari and Tinubu and their utterances regarding Boko Haram is worrisome.

SamAfrik: pls how have they (APC) gone the boko haram route. you sound more educated to make ridiculous claim. Im about performance so already decided on going with APC cos the current govt has lost it in most aspect. the glory of my dear nation keeps diminishing by the day.

OK....It just seems some of the Northern APC Lords are overly sympathetic to the BOKO HARAM cause in their utterances, and the former aviation minister Fayemi Kayode FAyemi who had decamped from the PDP to the APC and then back again said that he was concerned from what he saw as a "muslim agenda" in the top echelons of the party. Then again he could have been a PDP mole all along

VICTORCIZA: @op no matter the amount of time you and your evil clique spend online ranting it can never make people hate pdp or make Gej not to rule till 2019!!!

Politics should not be about hate, it should be about asking honest questions and being truthful to oneself. In all fairness what has the PDP done for this country? What has GEJ done to deserve a second term?

Are you infact voting for him because you like his personality, or you like where he comes from or you like his dress sense?

Becuase lets face facts you are not voting for him for his performance as president....the man has done nothing!

Where is the PIB? WHERE? ( The legislator most be blamed as well)

Why is he pardoning people convicted of corruption, when he promised to fight corruption.

And I am not going to mention the current state of insecurity in the country (Not even Winston Churchill could deal with BOKO HARAM now)



LETS get one thing straight I dont like APC but it shocks me how people are so blind in their support of PDP!!!!

I wish the APC was still the AC and Baba Fashola was still their golden boy. SMH

Mogidi: @op
In a nutshell I believe supporters of APC for Janjaweedians and PDP for PDP.

So if I vote for PDP next election. What will they do for me....From the past 15 years I guess the Answer is NOTHING!!!!

Serious question here, the way some people here support PDP is ridiculous. What has the PDP done in all its time in power in Nigeria? I am not saying the APC will do any better, especially now they have gone down the BOKO HARAM route.

But it begs the question what strong KUSH PDP E-warriors SMOKING that makes the Party so attractive for them?

people blaming Mikel...Why not blame Moses guy did nothing...Mikel made some really nice passes today or are you expecting him to run past 5 players and score no be lie.

RHYDEM stop posting that stupi.d SHYT

MIKEL HAD A GOOD GAME....So make una stop

Am I the only one who thinks we played well...Sometymz u just get beaten by a better oyinbo



MR LOVER MAN YOBOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![b]

Good try boys but France are a better team

ComrEmmanuel: There's no white person on this list bro. all of them are Africans.

Johann Rupert & FamilyNicky

Oppenheimer & Family
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Christoffel Wiese

too many white people on this list

otokx: Good write up, only a change in the mentality of the Nigerian can bring about real progress.

I just saw a documentary on Iran today....in terms of size and history with colonialism and oil resourse it is quite similar to Nigeria, but they are so much more advanced than us. They struggle with corruption and wealth gap but still the cities are orderly, public services are adequate and it is definitely the mentality...the upper class of Iran although corrupt still want their nation to have some prestige, while here our leaders dont care how the world views Nigeria.

Man I spent Time on this oooo, and people arent even taking notice....but Tonto D watevas bleached asss keeps making Front Page. Mweeeeech

APC has really bleeped up havent they..... Remember when Baba Fashola was their poster boy and they where known as the tonic to the disease called PDP!! But now they smell election they have exchanged Fash for Tinubu and Buhari Kai!!

Its sad to say but Jona will win 2015. God help us!!

And what are these Jona E-warriors smoking that makes Jona look so good to them, I would like a hit of it biko!

Richiy: What is this one saying Seun fix nairaland and add an unlike button.

Yes fix am make I dislike this stupid post.

YAY!!! More bleached and weave wearing women YAY thank Jesus!!

eloexcel: thanks

Dont know if your being sarcastic but you are very welcome

Lessons Nigeria as a Nation has failed to learn from.

They say history is the greatest teacher, and for one to adequately chart a future course, one must substantially know his or her past. Nigeria is a young nation, however many lessons can be extrapolated from events in her short history. Unfortunately the political class and elite of today have failed to sufficiently study and garner wisdom from the said past lessons, this is portrayed in their posturing, demeanour and utterances. Thus the following is a list of unheeded lessons taught by history.

Lesson 1: Politicians inability or unwillingness to reign back their supporters.

In 1966 Nigeria went through the first of many coup de etates, however only a fool will see smoke and not look for the fire. In the previous year Nigeria also underwent another “first” which was the first post-colonial elections. These elections were marred by violence invariably sparked by politicians. With the benefit of hindsight had they known that their fanning of the flames of violence would lead to a bloody coup, they would indeed have checked the excesses of their supporters.
In the present day lessons have not been learned and the situation has become worse, politicians still lack the foresight and common sense to restrain the violent excesses of their supporters but rather they preach bloody violence whenever their personal ambitions are stifled by fair or foul means.

Lesson 2: Violence begets more Violence

Now due to the political collapse of Nigeria in 1965, a group of disenfranchised Army officers had the great idea that in order to stop the spiral of violence in Nigeria they would unleash their own violence in what is now known as the 1966 coup. Those young officers had only to look at the history books to see that this was not a viable solution. Reference –“French Reign of Terror”
The lasting repercussion of the actions of a few young men are still being felt today, bloody coup after bloody coup and bloody injustice after bloody injustice.

Lesson 3: The malignant power behind the throne

A leader is only as effective as the people he surrounds himself with; this is the hardest aspect of rule, the possession of a discerning mind. The 1966 coup led to a power vacuum, a vacuum that was filled by young men, very young men. This situation led to older wiser men in advisory capacities playing on the naivety of youth for personal profit and to the detriment of the country.
Today the same thing still persist, it is not so much youth that is being misled however, it is kinsmen, state and religious brothers being misled in the “our son, this is our turn” fashion. If leader don’t look past their noses to see beyond their family, village or local government, then the status quo of under-development will perpetuate for generations

Lesson 4: Getting drunk of the cocktail of Religious-Politics

From experience people very rarely set out to drink themselves into a stupor most people don’t. You always feel in control of the drink, after all it is your hand that is being raised to your mouth. However for whatever reason you find that you are in drunken oblivion. This analogy bests describes the mechanics of Religious-Politics as instigated by the political elite. They assume the role of Geppetto the master puppeteer and start pulling the latent strings of religious sentiment in the hearts of the populous to further their political agenda, but to their chagrin when the drop the strings and call it a day the find out they have giving life to Pinocchio .
From the time of the civil war leaders have used religious sentiment to fuel instability and hate all for political gain. Even when the present democratic dispensation was only just in its infancy the leaders in the North for no other reason than for political gain started to agitate for Sharia law. (an issue that was never pertinent in the past). Now that they had sufficient whipped up religious sentiment at the cost of a few lives here and there and achieved their goals. They thought it was all over, however a decade later we all now have to contend with Boko Haram whose bombs do not discriminate between Muslim and Christian.

Lesson 5: Destruction of the Civil Service

Say what you like about the British and their actions in Africa, one thing one cannot deny them is that they left a competent and functional civil service. However years of political ineptitude and rampant corruption had eaten out what ever good that was in the service, so much so that one of the Military Regimes Buhari I think purged the whole institution. That in itself was not a bad idea per se however the service was never adequately restored to its immediate post-colonial pomp and was stacked to the rafters with jowl shaking yes men, who bent over backwards to blindly carry out the whims of ministers and executives without following due process or protocol.
The situation at hand to day has drastically deteriorated, they civil service or administrative arm of Nigeria is an eye sore of political appointments and red tape corruption. How many permanent secretaries are kinsmen of their executive bosses? A clear demarcation must be acknowledged between politicians and administrators.
Using the analogy of a scientist and an engineer would aptly capture the roles of political appointments (ministers, executives, etc.) and civil servants. The politician is the scientist and the civil servant is the engineer, and as the eminent American physicist Freeman Dyson said, “A good Scientist is a person that formulates original ideas, while the good Engineer is person that makes a design work with as few original ideas as possible” Therefore the politician is the source of ideas while the civil services must generate those ideas on ground as efficiently as possible.

Lesson 6: Injustice will thrive in a land of delayed Justice

No-ones knows the exact date that the legal system of the nation entered a catatonic state it now languishes in. We have not seen fit to rectify the judiciary, and thus extra judicial justice is serviced around the nation on a daily bases, the corrupt plunder with impunity and injustice thrives and flourishes. Why should anyone fear the repercussions of a slow, almost unresponsive judiciary that will likely take 20 plus years to call me to order assuming they do call me to order.
An overhaul of the justice system is needed promptly; a nation can have a very effective police service however without a powerful justice department crime will still thrive.

Lesson 7: Glorifying and rewarding bad behaviour

This by far the most malignant and dangerous lesson we have failed to learn, we as a nation tend to glorify the corrupt, the perverse and the unjust and yet expect our children to follow the straight and narrow. This problem permeates through all of society from the lowest to the highest. It is even more frightening when it occurs in the upper echelons of public service. The not so distant national or presidential awards is case in point, The president of the nation GEJ, rewarded or rather insulted former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar by awarding him with the same honor as leaders like IBB and Buhari who committed high treason by coming to power by means contrary to the laws of the land. What message is being sent here?
If we take a look at the recent Ekiti election the PDP candidate is currently under trail for corruption and murder and yet he stands for and wins an governors election. If we turn our gaze upon Lagos we find Alhaji Bola Tinubu a convicted drug pedlar elected twice as Governor of the state, celebrated as a political role model by many.
At a local level when our neighbour lands in office and after a few months we start adulating and celebrating him as a great man not for his stellar service to the community but because he has upgraded to a bigger house and added 4 more cars to his fleet. And in so doing mock the honest hard working office holder who didn’t amass great wealth in his time of service.

History is the great and wise teacher, look to your past to chart your future if we learn from these seven items raised above then ours is a prosperous future. Fail to do so and we will see a rehash of the past fifty years.

Lessons Nigeria as a Nation has failed to learn from.

They say history is the greatest teacher, and for one to adequately chart a future course, one must substantially know his or her past. Nigeria is a young nation, however many lessons can be extrapolated from events in her short history. Unfortunately the political class and elite of today have failed to sufficiently study and garner wisdom from the said past lessons, this is portrayed in their posturing, demeanour and utterances. Thus the following is a list of unheeded lessons taught by history.

Lesson 1: Politicians inability or unwillingness to reign back their supporters.

In 1966 Nigeria went through the first of many coup de etates, however only a fool will see smoke and not look for the fire. In the previous year Nigeria also underwent another “first” which was the first post-colonial elections. These elections were marred by violence invariably sparked by politicians. With the benefit of hindsight had they known that their fanning of the flames of violence would lead to a bloody coup, they would indeed have checked the excesses of their supporters.
In the present day lessons have not been learned and the situation has become worse, politicians still lack the foresight and common sense to restrain the violent excesses of their supporters but rather they preach bloody violence whenever their personal ambitions are stifled by fair or foul means.

Lesson 2: Violence begets more Violence

Now due to the political collapse of Nigeria in 1965, a group of disenfranchised Army officers had the great idea that in order to stop the spiral of violence in Nigeria they would unleash their own violence in what is now known as the 1966 coup. Those young officers had only to look at the history books to see that this was not a viable solution. Reference –“French Reign of Terror”
The lasting repercussion of the actions of a few young men are still being felt today, bloody coup after bloody coup and bloody injustice after bloody injustice.

Lesson 3: The malignant power behind the throne

A leader is only as effective as the people he surrounds himself with; this is the hardest aspect of rule, the possession of a discerning mind. The 1966 coup led to a power vacuum, a vacuum that was filled by young men, very young men. This situation led to older wiser men in advisory capacities playing on the naivety of youth for personal profit and to the detriment of the country.
Today the same thing still persist, it is not so much youth that is being misled however, it is kinsmen, state and religious brothers being misled in the “our son, this is our turn” fashion. If leader don’t look past their noses to see beyond their family, village or local government, then the status quo of under-development will perpetuate for generations

Lesson 4: Getting drunk of the cocktail of Religious-Politics

From experience people very rarely set out to drink themselves into a stupor most people don’t. You always feel in control of the drink, after all it is your hand that is being raised to your mouth. However for whatever reason you find that you are in drunken oblivion. This analogy bests describes the mechanics of Religious-Politics as instigated by the political elite. They assume the role of Geppetto the master puppeteer and start pulling the latent strings of religious sentiment in the hearts of the populous to further their political agenda, but to their chagrin when the drop the strings and call it a day the find out they have giving life to Pinocchio .
From the time of the civil war leaders have used religious sentiment to fuel instability and hate all for political gain. Even when the present democratic dispensation was only just in its infancy the leaders in the North for no other reason than for political gain started to agitate for Sharia law. (an issue that was never pertinent in the past). Now that they had sufficient whipped up religious sentiment at the cost of a few lives here and there and achieved their goals. They thought it was all over, however a decade later we all now have to contend with Boko Haram who do not discriminate in their hate.

Lesson 5: Destruction of the Civil Service

Say what you like about the British and their actions in Africa, one thing one cannot deny them is that they left a competent and functional civil service. However years of political ineptitude and rampant corruption had eaten out what ever good that was in the service, so much so that one of the Military Regimes Buhari I think purged the whole institution. That in itself was not a bad idea per se however the service was never adequately restored to its immediate post-colonial pomp and was stacked to the rafters with jowl shaking yes men, who bent over backwards to blindly carry out the whims of ministers and executives without following due process or protocol.
The situation at hand to day has drastically deteriorated, they civil service or administrative arm of Nigeria is an eye sore of political appointments and red tape corruption. How many permanent secretaries are kinsmen of their executive bosses? A clear demarcation must be acknowledged between politicians and administrators.
Using the analogy of a scientist and an engineer would aptly capture the roles of political appointments (ministers, executives, etc.) and civil servants. The politician is the scientist and the civil servant is the engineer, and as the eminent American physicist Freeman Dyson said, “A good Scientist is a person that formulates original ideas, while the good Engineer is person that makes a design work with as few original ideas as possible” Therefore the politician is the source of ideas while the civil services must generate those ideas on ground as efficiently as possible.

Lesson 6: Injustice will thrive in a land of delayed Justice

No-ones knows the exact date that the legal system of the nation entered a catatonic state it now languishes in. We have not seen fit to rectify the judiciary, and thus extra judicial justice is serviced around the nation on a daily bases, the corrupt plunder with impunity and injustice thrives and flourishes. Why should anyone fear the repercussions of a slow, almost unresponsive judiciary that will likely take 20 plus years to call me to order assuming they do call me to order.
An overhaul of the justice system is needed promptly; a nation can have a very effective police service however without a powerful justice department crime will still thrive.

Lesson 7: Glorifying and rewarding bad behaviour

This by far the most malignant and dangerous lesson we have failed to learn, we as a nation tend to glorify the corrupt, the perverse and the unjust and yet expect our children to follow the straight and narrow. This problem permeates through all of society from the lowest to the highest. It is even more frightening when it occurs in the upper echelons of public service. The not so distant national or presidential awards is case in point, The president of the nation GEJ, rewarded or rather insulted former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar by awarding him with the same honor as leaders like IBB and Buhari who committed high treason by coming to power by means contrary to the laws of the land. What message is being sent here?
If we take a look at the recent Ekiti election the PDP candidate is currently under trail for corruption and murder and yet he stands for and wins an governors election. If we turn our gaze upon Lagos we find Alhaji Bola Tinubu a convicted drug pedlar elected twice as Governor of the state, celebrated as a political role model by many.
At a local level when our neighbour lands in office and after a few months we start adulating and celebrating him as a great man not for his stellar service to the community but because he has upgraded to a bigger house and added 4 more cars to his fleet. And in so doing mock the honest hard working office holder who didn’t amass great wealth in his time of service.

History is the great and wise teacher, look to your past to chart your future if we learn from these seven items raised above then ours is a prosperous future. Fail to do so and we will see a rehash of the past fifty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUFsqi5IyW0

Boko Haram what is glorious about this, what cause on this planet can justify this? Are you people not human? Do you not have eyes, nose, mouth, limbs? Do you not have parents, children and loved ones. How does committing the atrocity of killing a fellow human being fulfill the will of God? What injury have these innocent people committed for this ill fate to befall them?

I am tired, I am sad, what type of world is this? God help us. Politician play politics, fanatics play war and the lowly innocents keep perishing.

I have always maintained that once I finished my course of study that I would return to Nigeria to improve the lot of my country and so on.However as my graduation date draws nearer and nearer I have started experiencing cold feet and others I have talk to are experiencing the same. Here are the reasons why: I have been living abroad for the past 10 years and I had hoped in that time Nigeria would have gone some way in sorting itself out whether politically, security wise or just something to know that the country is moving forward. To date the only significant boon of Nigeria is the flourishing telecommunication industry.

Lets say I graduate and go back to Nigeria with my engineering qualification. What am I to expect are there significant employment possibilities? Or if I wanted to start my own enterprise, is there access to capital? With the amount of educated Nigerians plying their trade abroad I believe the Nigerian government should do more to clarify the uncertainties in the minds of people like myself who want to come back. I not saying the president himself should take time and go abroad ( God knows he does enough of that) and convince us, but little seminars could be organised in institutes of education by the Nigerian missions abroad to showcase the employment possibilities. A developing country like Nigeria cannot afford to be losing its educated individuals.

London skyscraper melted my car, says motorist
'Walkie Talkie' building blamed for melted car parts, as developers say they are seeking to rectify the problem
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London Walkie Talkie building melts car
The skyscraper's developers said the phenomenon currently lasts for approximately two hours per day. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
A cluster of new skyscrapers transforming the London skyline are often blamed for spoiling the view. Now one has been accused of "melting" a car.

A motorist said intense sunlight reflected from the "Walkie Talkie" − one of several towers under construction in the City, London's financial district − warped his Jaguar that he had parked across the road.

The skyscraper's developers said they were seeking to rectify the problem which they blamed on the position of the sun at certain times of day.

"The phenomenon is caused by the current elevation of the sun in the sky. It currently lasts for approximately two hours per day, with initial modelling suggesting that it will be present for approximately two to three weeks," Land Securities and Canary Wharf said in a statement.

Three parking bays had been taken out of service pending a solution, they added.

Motorist Martin Lindsay told the BBC he had left his car for an hour opposite the building and returned to find the wing mirror, panels and Jaguar badge had "melted".

He said: "You can't believe something like this would happen. They've got to do something about it."

The 37-storey building at 20 Fenchurch Street, which will feature a viewing deck and "sky gardens" open to the public, has been nicknamed the "Walkie Talkie" after its distinctive shape that appears to expand outwards at the top.

Why can't anything work in Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWIl2UWHOc

PDP see what you have caused the citezens of this country to resort to!!!!

ilugunboy: That is just human nature for you...most people will think you are mad if you dare think outside the box.

True dat broda

Remember the abuse I got for this post........I FEEL VINDICATED!!!!!

Well if our leaders can treat humans with total disrespect the animals stand no chance. Behold Benue zoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_8PHwWObns&list=UUYqyzNqFk0VFSu4ngwopPpg