₦airaland Forum

lawmani: Guy let's try and be truthful at times. The shoprite road has two visible sign post clearly positioned at the end of the road that hits awolowo way. One is written "Do not Enter" while the other has a symbol of a crossed road entrance on it indicating no entry!

Lets give fashola the credit he deserves there, but a lot other one way roads need to have sign posts on them

rockafela: Ahhh na wonder my network is so fast dis evening...people have switched off their fones..I think dere should be cosmic rays everyday...lol

lefulefu: na money i go first consider first oooo.if u no get money tell me wich babe go gree marry u

Godogwu: @OP This is a clearly a well written piece as it sheds light on the various places Nigerians feel downcast to be part of the country, nevertheless I would say this is a trying time for the country and frankly I detest it when people compare Nigeria to America. The fact is America is about four times older, more industralized and more developed than Nigeria. Nigeria is barely 52 years of age and we are bound to have problems, we cannot asin cannot be the perfect Nation as at now, No way!( just so people know... there's no perfect nation) ...please feel free to correct me if there's another country 52 years of age that is on the same level with the United Sates. Comparing both countries is like comparing a 40 year old man to a 12 year old boy and asking why the boy isn't as wise, as agile or as diligent as the man. I can and will never ridicule my Country ( I can comment on its problems but I can't write the country off) . Yes, Nigeria has problems; the educational sector isnt swell hence private schools, no sort of healthcare, electricity and security is not left out....but hey, Rome wasn't built in a day......you don't expect Nigeria to be as industralized as the US only after 52 years? Do you?, like is it magic? Each problem Nigeria faces as of today will be systematically dealt with in due time and that is for sure. I always say it....."Nigerian and PROUD!" and to me Nigeria is already blessed.

werepeLeri: Its so appalling when you disagree with an issue on a public forum and dogs start to call you names because you dont share in their ill opinion. Rogues.

Mekusnwa: Nice one. At times, we take most of these things for granted while harbouring the illusion that Nigeria has not done anything for us. All through my stay in the university, my school fees did not exceed 12,000 Naira each session. A friend of mine is going to pay over 4 m as school fees for masters in Scotland.

Elueme: May I ask the OP of any country devoid of its own peculiar problems? Agreed Nigeria should be better than it is now but no thanks to the military, however, ironically Nigeria has its own advantages over some with better social system... In Nigeria You are not treated like a second class citizen, you can cut corners by refusing to pay your NEPA bills or under pay but expect a 24/7 power, in Nigeria many citizens evade taxes but want our social systems to be perfect, in Nigeria, You are virtually educated for free or with little token but you want our institutions to be like Harvard or Yales. I can go on and on. In as much as I don't brief for govt for having fail on her part but we must also look internally for some of te solutions to the menace plaguing our dear nation by changing our ways to suite a relatively perfect society and then we can hold govt responsible for failing us.

rakumiii: [size=18pt]NIGERIA IS A BIG FAT JOKE..........and everybody in the world knows this[/size]

Dollarman101: Shut up! Nigeria has not done anything for you but I'm sure you were born in our general hospitals, where almost everything is subsidised including ante natal. Inspite of all the criticism, teaching hospitals and federal medical centres remain the number one destination for health care delivery for a vast majority of Nigerians.
You must also have passed through our unity schools or graduated from any of our federal or state universities which is the most subsidized in the world. Make you take time to ask your friends schooling abroad, how much they pay as school fees. You use our airports including MMAI which is ranked top 10. You ply some good roads in Nigeria without paying taxes or tolls.

Govt subsidizes your electricity bills so that you can pay as low as N7.00 per Kwh. Google electricity tariffs in Uk or other advanced countries and see what Nigerian govts subsidies for you.
If you re from Niger Delta, you collect bursary from your state govts. While you grew up, your only window to knowledge and the world may have been NTA. Recall the educative programmes like sesame street, kiddies vision 101, tales by the moonlight. Is NTA a private Ghanian company?
Make una dey think before talking. We know say things never better but that one no suppose make us dey misyarn.

proflangdon: Instead of ridiculing the country more, Nigerians should think of how to make it better... not to always blame the Government!!!

werepeLeri: I have seen a sick, bedridden American whose last words on earth were that he was proud to be American. I do not know any up-and-doing (perhaps the opposite of bedridden?) Nigerian who maintains that he is proud to be Nigerian!


Lie - How many Nigerians have you met on their sick bed? How many Americans have you met on their sick bed? How many Nigerians have you asked if they love their country Nigeria?


I have never in my life seen a Nigerian flag in the private residence of any Nigerian. According to the grapevine, Nigerians do not feel they owe anything to their country and/or government, no wonder they exhibit a persistent disconnect between them and the symbols of their country, Nigeria.

How many Nigerian homes have you been to? Lie.

combatmedic: She is a rare gem.

sympathy marriage, the guy is an international preacher so most likely he will be rich,
what if the girl's brain is disabled? i don't see any imbalance here

How sad that people are so short-sighted.

Assuming that the picture is accurate, what makes you think that nigg3rs were allowed to ride on that train? Yes, I'm using the derogatory term to get my point across - too many people forget their history (or don't know it at all).

What does it gain you if all of your country is "developed" but you're treated as a second class citizen within it? And if you think otherwise, you really must be living on a different Earth). How many countries have thrived under colonization?

Most people like to point to South Africa. News flash - South Africa got its independence from Britain as far back as the 1930's so try again. And it might be the wealthiest subsaharan African country, but have you stopped to think were that wealth might be concentrated? Such short-sightedness; such blind acquiescence, swallowing everything you've been told about yourselves by some invader, and then wondering why the continent isn't developing fast enough? Look in the mirror.

Yeah - a lot of things turned to shiat after independence; it tends to do so in most countries. Didn't the "great" USA have a civil war after its independence? You learn from your mistakes and bind together to create a better country using as much of the "freedom" you worked for. You don't keep whining about your former invaders. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?

Chongaiman: Which British? Not the ones on planet earth I guess.

blink182: Handing it over to the black man is what went wrong.

black man with a black mind

fuke: You may be right.

But that does not mean there are no straight guys
in Nigeria even in NNPC.

KokoBeware: You dont shutdown a service that is widely used indefinately (and twist peoples arms to open current accounts)..... Basic IT principles should have been followed to ensure minimum downtime, also there should be at least an estimated time where the service will come back up... GTB just proved unrealiable with this move...

binger: And i will add,only in Nigeria will some1 write a post on a forum,and every sentence in it is filled with grammatical errors,wrong spellings and bad punctuation!

sunky644: I think what they are really after is for customers to buy the token. I tried making an important transaction lastweek but all to no avail as the excuse was this security issue. I was forced to buy the token since it's the only solution to that present problem. So, if you want to ve a smooth internet banking with GTBank, then I advice you get the token. But, if you don't want to buy the token, it's either you close your account with them or forget internet banking as far as the bank is concerned.

ikhile666: [/color][color=#990000] ;DKeystone bank is the bomb now.did a transfer their no charges from an internal account to another and also did a transfer from their atm to aanother bank hassle free.I ve already closed my gt account

jorge1980: It seems the pretense is over with GTbank. I had issues using the internet banking platform for a couple of days trying to transfer funds from on gt acct to another. I did this without success and decided to call the customer service center.

I was gracefully told that "due to a security upgrade" transfers (including internal) can only be made from current accounts and I had to open a current account to do that.

This coming from a supposedly IT compliant bank selling bogus hardware tokens for internet banking is outrageous . I had always known the bank was overated and this just breaks the camels back......closing my account immediately.

Beaf: Your argument is that of an enemy of Nigeria.

The fact there there is a President does not stop each of us being patriotic. Even worse, it is not an excuse for subversives, desperados and lovers of the status quo like El Rufai to shout gleeful alleluya's each time a boko haram bomb takes another innocent life.

If anyone wants to be an observer in our own country, then they might as well apply for a Chadian or Sudanese passport.

mejai: Hey, uncle u can lie o!

fuke: No I disagree with most posters.

There are still Nigerians who do not bend the rules.

I have a deputy VC uncle whose second son wrote JAMB thrice
before he got admitted to course of choice.

When I asked him to help a son who didn't meet the cut off point, he refused
and gave him money and asked him to buckle up and rewrite his JAMB.

My son did just that and today he is a chartered Accountant.

Yes, some Nigerians are still straight.

Acidosis: NIGERIANS! !

Can anyone ever satisfy thee? ? ?


What made her apply for the job if she doesn't need it? ?

texazzpete: Lol.
All he's saying is that out of 27000 plots he approved, 8 were to members of his family.

In percentage terms, that's 0.03%.

Are you dolts seriously construing this to mean he's 'corrupt'?

This is far less fishy than out of all the thousands of villages in Nigeria, a contractor chose to build a church in GEJ's village of Otueke. I didn't see any of you clowns complaining then