₦airaland Forum

datola:
Not bad but different herbal medicine will be offered by universities according to their 'tribe'

Not necessarily. You can have a synthesized course called Alternative Medicine. I'd even advocated the inclusion of some Asian stuff, especially Ayurveda. Ofr course, each department can include some things that are specific to local tribes in the content but everything would have to be approved by a central regulatory body to avoid the dissemination of harmful practices.

Bighead9:
Lies.
The Car is just a moving Coffin, with zero safety features. The Car is not close to the word "reliable". It's a Chinese Car Assembled in Nigeria.

Have you actually driven it or do you assume it must be bad because of its China-Nigeria connections?

Truthwords:
It's very strong. Built for African roads

Have you driven it or know someone who does?

promentoxp:
Yes but what has he done to promote locally made or will I say “locally assembled” Innoson Motors? Charity begins at home.

Well, I heard some ministries are patronising Innoson. But that's beside the point. The point is that Toyota is the preferred auto brand in our country. We should harness that power to compel them to bring some of those jobs and taxes here.

I hope he asked them to hasten work on an assembly plant here. Toyota sells three or four times more than other cars put together in this country yet no plant, no CSR, nothing.

Tell us.

Switruth:
. When they’re finally caught they won’t be jailed but used to catch other thieves. If you know you know.

In your dream. The NYPD will ask you to give up your accomplices for a reduced sentence only. If it's a death penalty case, you'll get life. If it's 30 years, it can be negotiated down to 14. That's the best you hope for.

Venerable612:
Smiles, subways are usually way below in the ground; houses or not.

The real problem is the lack of political will. The light rail system (blue and red line) are yet to be completed; after so many years of the commencement of the construction.

More serious is the fact Nigeria is still dependent on the train tracks built by the British roughly 60 years ago - and we are still using the old locomotive trains, in this 21s t century.

I think we should be more concerned with that. Nigeria is messed up and we keep voting in crap leaders. God help that country.

Tell them, my brother. We seriously want to keep a city of possibly up to 20 million people moving on buses!

[quote author=AutoReportNG post=81654528][/quote]No megacity relies on buses - ain't gone work! What you people should do is pressure Sanwo-Olu to continue work on the metro line started by Fashola.

Bbbwings:
This world Don finish
What is the goat looking for inside that pot
No be pot alone o.
Pot wey dey on fire

Might be hunger. You know the economy affects goats too.

majamajic:
pls allow me enjoy my fresh fish , after all the guy dey jeje on his own

Ok. Enjoy.

majamajic:
airlines do give bachelors titles ' MR , does that mean they are married ?

since there was not wedding rings on her. if he is interested he will ask her if she is married , I think she didn't impress the guy ,

Did you read the story well? And are you seriously asking the bolded, comparing Mr to Mrs?

Raysleek:
Electricity in Nigeria is no more a right and a social a memory but a commodity that is now being sold by the govt to the highest bidder.. If this is true then it's a shame

The problem is that the government has not allowed them to implement tarriffs that reflect the cost of providing electricity. That's one of the reasons for the continued darkness. This not good enough, yes, but I guess it's a desperate measure in desperate times.

odaniel1:
This lady is very great story-teller though..i love the way she made use of imagery. Almost like i saw them there sef..lol
Nigerians need to appreci8 Writing n Reading more...

I tell you.

majamajic:
I think airlines do use that for ladies mostly not minding if u are married or not ,

I think the guy was not impressed by the desperateness in her moves

atleast he should have asked ' are u married ?

I think your reading of the situation is not impressive. Most guys won't have asked once they saw that - it doesn't mean he found her desperate.

daddytime:
Don't be surprised this same Army in search of the owners or importers of these vehicles are the real owners, but due to zero cohesion and information dissemination within their ranks, they'd first embarrass themselves before the entire world.

Very possible.

GlorifiedTunde:
Shebi it's now Yoruba's turn?
I don't know when we will all grow up beyond tribal sentiments.

Every tribe has good and bad people!

Yes. After the Igbo list comes the Yoruba list. Trust Nigerians!

usoroh4luv:
It is more important brother. When you understand drmfsltd', sheet reading will be easier to learn.
drmfsltd' is the sound of music.

Ok. If I decide to start, I'd contact you.

Chibuzoc:
Because wadume is not an Igbo man the news is not tending smh if wadume was an Igbo MAN by now we would had have 20 different topics on fp condemning the entire Igbo race

It's now clear that the hatred towards the Igbo people is the uniting force of Nigeria

Your post makes no sense. Just saying.

[quote author=usoroh4luv post=81567179][/quote]Music is easier when one understand musical sounds. When we understand musical sounds (drmfsltd), there is no musical instrument, we cannot play.

You mean drmfsltd is more important than sheet reading?

usoroh4luv:
Trumpet and bass guitar very well. Piano, small.

Do you read music?
Can you teach guitar?

usoroh4luv:
Thanks man. I think, it is money related. I'm a teacher. I teach mathematics. I'm into music too. I play musical instruments.
Maybe, it is relationship related. But, I don't want to go into a relationship now.

What instruments do you play?

BUTTERMILKSUGAR:
it was just mere misinformation and friendly fire..
The soldiers were misinformed that there was an incidence of kidnap. They engaged the police men thinking they were kidnappers.

So there are people still peddling this long-discredited narrative. But, again, you probably went to sleep two weeks ago and woke up 5 minutes ago.

zekepio:
He's just a victim of circumstance.

He lacks sense of his own.

Emaax43:
I just hope Tariq will start using his brain in Season 6. ... Dude just keep messing up

Yea. Kid is a total idiot.

agaliboy:
FTC yeah. Okay, call IPOB to run the state security na. Mtssshhhewww

Policing is sensitive, people-centred work. You can't police a people if you don't have their confidence.

benji93:
You need to be more specific with your arguments. The problem is not with caning, it's with doing it excessively. The reason students won't get it is that the system currently existent, requires it, at least as applied to students in public schools. And my solution for phasing it out is not for teachers and students to say no to it, rather, parents and teachers should be educated to understand the best approach to punishing their wards. So that is a change we will see in the future if students in public schools are properly educated today- parents and teachers of tomorrow. I am constantly referring to public schools cos most students are enrolled in public schools.

I agree with the bolded.

What would you deem "excessive caning"? Once you cane a child, you've crossed a line - sent him a message that violence is useful and he's no good unless it's brought to bear. That is why those public school kids won't behave if you don't cane them - they're there already, they've been conditioned.

benji93:
My brother, you can only punish a child cos you detest what he/she has done, that equates to some form of annoyance. That being said, IMO we can not entirely put aside caning students at the moment(it should not be banned) especially in the government schools. Since most students that attend government institutions are poor, there is a higher risk of exposure to a lot of vices hence a tendency to be delinquent. Issues like this fall into the grew area category. It is neither black nor white, neither is it right or wrong. All of it comes down to the kind of lives we live generally in this country. The correlation between corporal punishment and violent, dishonest or fraudulent tendencies is not quite clear. We cannot put forth the opinion that since corporal punishment is still frequently being used and we are involving ourselves in all sorts of violent, fraudulent or devious activities they must be a direct correlation. Other factors might be contributing-poor living conditions, unemployment e.t.c. I believe that as Nigeria changes, especially in its general living conditions our management of misbehaviours committed by our wards will evolve. I am saying this cos i was really troublesome while i was growing up- I don't know what would have happened if my father had not punished me the way it did. I sometimes look back at some specific incidents-misbehaviour/punishment- and conclude that some of the punishments were a little too much, but you see, what can be defined as too much? my father was not a psychologist to know that. .A better education generally, better living conditions might be the only way to combat excessive application of corporal punishment. As we learned from psychology about operant conditioning, since you need a combination of reinforcements, punishments and time to instill a habit into someone, the best way to cause the expresser to change the way he expresses is by conditioning him in time. I would think most private schools have outlawed caning that anyway.

Brilliant submissions. It is my view that caning is black and white wrong and is not effective. But I agree that phasing it out of public schools at this time can create problems since most of the kids there just won't get it. The fact is that children raised with the cane tend not to take you seriously until you cane them - it's a conditioning. Thus only a holistic approach - where both parents and teachers stop using the cane while adopting more deliberate methods - would work. So for now, we can only keep debating it.

I was caned as a kid. I wish my parents had TALKED more. I've no doubt talking to me would have worked better. But they did the best as they knew it. We, however, know better. Or we ought to.

SUPERPACK:
if you're not a teacher you have no right to take part in this argument, understanding one child is easy and less time consuming, how do you go about understanding about 60 students in a crowded class from different parental background.
how do you understand the bullies and the quiet ones, if you want to stop flogging in Nigerian schools the best approach is to reduce the pupil to teacher ratio which is getting out of hand, taking care of one child is far different from taking care of a community it's same approach

Fair point.

sinaj:
lollll
Following your logic,

Medicine should be outlawed too.
Guns should be outlawed and replaced with sticks
Alcohol should be outlawed.
Cigarette should be outlawed too.
Politicians should alsi be outlawed.

I understand your point on punishment being administered without being physical, but we should know that same way our societies, culture and all differ, is the same way children and characters differ.

I know about punishing via positive and negative reinforcement, but you should know it might not work on every child.

You might even have 3 children and use different disciplinary approach on them coz of how unique they are.

We shouldnt be quick to swallow everything from the westerners.

See who's not reading between the lines now. Yes, guns should be outlawed in any relationship between a policeman and an unarmed citizen.

Last line is the mistake you people keep making - that any of this talk is Western. No. Human values, human rights, etc., are universal, even if some societies have so far made more progress at codifying them than others. I know someone who was depressed and people accused her of being oyinbo!

I agree that different things will work for different kids. But have you ever seen a teacher finding out what works for kids and disciplining them accordingly? No - they take the cane to every kid that misbehaves or fails to show up with some fee. Why? Because caning is always done in ANGER. Ask any mother you see caning her child, she'll tell you it's because she wants to correct the child. But check her temperament at that moment, and all you'll see is anger.

The real issue for me, though, is whether caning works. Here in Nigeria there are some who will tell you they were never caned - are they worse off? In the absence of any scientific study on the matter here, the anecdotal evidence is clear that caning does not make kids turn out better. The one thing it achieves is that it makes parenting less time-consuming - you don't have to REASON or DISCUSS or NEGOTIATE with the child - just cane him and go back to pilling egusi or watching TV. This is intuitive, it's the lazy man's approach to parenting. Good parenting is not intuitive - it takes deliberate efforts.

sinaj:
Learn to read between lines and interpret what you read according to the context.
Thank you.

I know how to read and I read what you wrote well. Your skittish response doesn't change that.

Yes, the societies are different, but what some of you fail to realise is that (1) "punishment" can be administered without getting physical, and (2) as long as caning is legal it will always be abused - same way we fail to realise that as long as it's allowed for the police to use gun in dealing with unarmed people in any circumstances, these killings will always occur. Laura Ikeji is right - caning should be outlawed, especially in schools.

sinaj:
Most african kids are well behaved compared to their white counterpart all thanks to flogging and punishment.

In as much as some parents and teachers abuse it same way drugs are abused, it shouldnt be taken away.

Before talking about making it illegal or having government taking people's kids, let her ask herself if the family court or social welfare unit is even effective. Is the government even capable of taking care of people's children?

She can as well experiment with her child here in naija or volunteer to teach in any high school in America to understand better before calling for the government to arrest parents that flog their kids.

Ok.

In terms of evil, corruption, kidnapping, fraud, armed robbery, lying, bad parenting, lateness, bad work ethics and every other index of measuring the badness of human beings, Nigeria is turning out better adults than those white countries, right?