dikerebel:
pls what is memes

A humorous image, video, piece of text

Hey guys,

I'm not a regular poster on Nairaland, but my day ain't complete without a visit to this great website.. Nigerians are a funny lot, and always get me cracking up with laughter that most times make my day colourful

One of the things that I like most on Nairaland is the Meme's. They speak volumes, most especially when their use just hits the nail on the head while a comment is being made/intended

Here is my favourite for this year...

Do drop yours and lets keep it going till the 31st of December

badassProdigy:
Looking forward to the time when our leaders would act like this... or let me say looking forward to the time when Nigeria will be safe for our leaders to act this way!!!

Don't be carried away by the publicity stunts... Their entire itinerary have been swept clean by plain cloth security operatives, as well as a large percentage of those within shooting range around him are security details... The difference between theirs and ours is the packaging... In the present age, every world leader is a prime security target, regardless of how good they have performed or how popular they are.. Like I said earlier, its all about how packaged the security network around him/her is; and off course publicity stunts

Is this a mall or a hyper market? just wondering

A Nigerian 'Military Intelligent' officer talking so 'un-intelligently'... He could actually tell his story without giving out some Nigerian military operational details that hitherto should be clandestine.... Listening to him speak from beginning to the end, you could detect some military operational information that in no way helped to buttress his point rather than making him sound 'un-intelligent'...
He came out in the open to leak this secret tape, which is a good step in the fight against corrupt practices and a service to the Nation, while on the flip side he gives out Nigeria military operational and signal operations in his "few minutes of fame" on air.. This leaves me wondering if his palms were greased or sentiments were involved in the whole video thingy...

gbosaa: Any online link to watch this match?....Anyone pls.

Match links

http://firstrowas.eu/watch/281078/1/watch-south-africa-vs-nigeria.html

http://firstrowas.eu/watch/281078/2/watch-south-africa-vs-nigeria.html

http://firstrowas.eu/watch/281078/3/watch-south-africa-vs-nigeria.html

lafuria1: If this doctors start carrying arms and blowing up hospitals , this goverment will not only grant them amnesty but also sponsor them to the best teaching hospital in the world.

The doctors won't lose that much, all they need is open private hospitals or travel and be doctors in other countries.

LOL!!! You talk like its so easy to open a private hospital.... And worst of all "travel and be doctors in other countries".. SERIOUSLY!!! you think one would just wake up one morning, travel and become doctors in other countries... You think if it were that easy you would have as many doctors in Nigeria Come on..

Its very funny when I hear people talk about "Now the doctors will go practice outside Nigeria"... That's complete ignorance to the situation of things.. Now the world has changed and its only VERY FEW (worthwhile) countries that one would have the GOLDEN opportunity to get registered and practice... Its extremely difficult these days, and only plausible for just a few; and that is after a hard time writing exams and being persistent and dogged in their drive...
The truth is that most Nigerian doctors know this that is why they are still back home practicing....... Its very difficult these days...
In a few weeks time, those locum positions would be filled up with same doctors that went on strike as there would be a huge scramble for it
The strike actions were already getting alarming and embarrassing to the medical profession and Nigerians at large... It was one too far too many
As always "Discretion is a better part of valour"

They are definitely , but I thought the Marina Bay in Singapore should be amongst them

They are definitely breathtaking, but I'm thinking the Marina Bay in Singapore should be among them

No 8.

I was a post graduate student at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA. In the summer holiday of 1976, my bosom friend Dr. Lawson James Erhunmwensee of Blessed memory invited me to New York City to make money driving a taxi, because it was lucrative. I responded swiftly because I had not been able to secure a summer job in the city of Greensboro. So the invitation to come to New York to make money driving taxi was a welcome one.

I departed my station Greensboro on a Friday with my Chevrolet car in the morning at about 6:00am and arrived in the evening at about 7:00pm to the warm embrace of my late friend mentioned above. Happily he allowed me to drive his taxi until I register my own vehicle for business in the city of New York, USA. Thereafter, I put it to work and as it were Dollars started coming to my purse more than I expected. Ostensibly, on Saturday the 11th of July 1976, substantial Dollars was earned driving taxi.

Invariably on Sunday the 12th of July 1976, I, a regular church goer decided not to go to church but to go out with my taxi to make more money. I was enticed by the success recorded on Saturday thinking that history will repeat itself on that Sunday. The get rich syndrome got hold of me and I forgot all that it means to worship and glorify God which is the purpose I was created – Read Isaiah 43:7.

On that fateful Sunday, I woke up from my bed, without Morning Prayer and devotion I started business as early as 6:30am. As usual money started coming in more than the previous days. It was so much that I forgot to go on lunch break. I continued working until it was about 8:30pm that I decided to go home and rest satisfied with what I had made.

Before going home I thought it wise to go to the nearby grocery store to buy provisions for the house since my house mate had been the one feeding me since my arrival. Immediately I entered the grocery store, my mind told me to go back home and shop the following day which was a Monday the 13th of July 1976. That was perhaps the voice of Satan misleading me.

As I came out of the store, I saw three persons; two guys and a lady waiting for a taxi. I could not resist it so I picked them up. I asked them where they were going and they told me “along” which was 123rd street. I picked them up not knowing that they were armed robbers who were to drain all my earnings for the day.

When I got to 123rd street and Eagle Avenue to be precise, one of them pointed a gun at me and asked me to stop the vehicle and surrender the key. I obeyed. Furthermore, in a thunderous voice, he commanded me to surrender all the money I had. I surrendered to them all that I had made. Thereafter, they asked the lady among them who sat in the front seat to stab me and push me out of the vehicle. I pleaded with them to let me come down ad not to stab me. They further commanded me to lie down and face the ground. I obeyed, but this time around I remembered God whom I failed to go to church to worship in the morning. I started repeating “JESUS, JESUS, save me”. Luckily the good people who lived in the house close to the scene of the incident who saw what was happening called in the police.

Thank God the police who were nearby arrived with a bright light over the place. The robbers were panic stricken and hit the fire hydrant with my vehicle in a bid to get away. They threw the key away and took to their heels. The police team led by a sergeant came to me and said “young man are you hurt?” I said “no sir” he said “get up” and I got up. He said “you are lucky, there is hardly any day they don’t kill people here, that is the reason the police station has been moved closer here”

They towed my car and took me to the police station. They asked me a few questions and then wanted us to go after the robbers, but I told them that I was not interested in pursuing the case because I was a foreign student and cannot be coming from Greensboro in North Carolina for a court case in New York. They reasoned with me and took me home.

As God will have it, my house mate just arrived saying that he was not favourably disposed to work that night and decided to come home. With his key we were able to open our door and went to our room to cook eat and sleep. At day break we went to the police station cum the scene of the incident and we found the key to the car.

The car was damaged, but I managed to drive it home. I spent all I had earned since coming to New York to repair it. I quickly abandoned driving taxi in New York and I returned to my base in Greensboro and later picked up a job with Sears Roebuck and Company.

Dear brothers and sisters, this is the nasty experience I had for not going to church on a Sunday. If I had obeyed God and the scriptures which enjoined us to keep holy the Sabbath day and worship God the creator of Heaven and of Earth (Exodus 20) the awful experience I had would have been averted. Therefore, beloved do not wait to have this kind of experience I had before making every Sunday worship a must

By Deacon D.U AIGBOVBIOSA (Formerly AIGBOGUN)
Writes in from Benin City, Nigeria

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This has to be the best thread I have come across so far on NL.....straight to the point advice, devoid of unecessary insults, sarcasms and semantics... Big up guys..

I am watching it live on NTA weblink. They are getting their signals though via AIT
http://ntanews24.tv/24Live.html[/quote]

Thanks for this

Future Olympians if well brought up

"Like" if you believe in the African Talent


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDlx5XPBkUU

oyewoleabiola21: I met this lady 3yrs ago,in a bus why going to work.she look so innocent and beatiful on getting to know she told me a lot of personal things about her and her familly..makin me to bliv she was unexposed,as she continue wit the relationship I discover that she only like to _ me when she feel she is in need of money and once I give it to her she will turn her back and live.she called me about a week ago asking Me to change here curve2 to Touch which I did,just yesterday she told me she is tired of using Touch that I should get her Bold5..I tried to talk som sense into her but she wouldn't listen she told Me I should not call/ping her if I haven't buy the Bold..pls what should I do ? Should I get her d Boldtouch or what ? The most painful aspect of it is that ever since we've bin datin we never had sex..can I jst let her go like that?

If you spent just a small fraction of those wasted "monies" and time on a proper English class you would probably be having a more mature and reasonable girl

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Its a frustrating country where most ladies look to marriage as a way out

Sadly marriage only affords a temporary haven

Bolushalom: Nigerians? In justin Beiber's UP...he said...Its a big, big world, ''Is'' easy to get lost in it (I may be wrong o, buh that's wat I heard. lol)

Well I just had to google up the lyrics and I found out that he used the word "It's" not "Is" so I think you got it wrong... Anyway, I got to find out that most people are now into the use of "Is" in place of "its" and it kinda gets me irritated... just need to get used to it quickly....

No Castigation's intended but the recent trend of Nigerians frequently replacing the word "It's" with "Is" has got me thinking as to when and how this all started...

Just got to notice this and found out too that it has spread like wild fire.....

SMH

Thought I share this piece with Y'all....

Christchurch, New Zealand was the location. (Yes, the same Christchurch hit by a devastating earthquake in February 2011 in which over 180 people were killed.) From here, you can peer and almost touch the International Date Line so to say. It was a very cold Wednesday evening in June. There we were at the meeting of the Nigerian Association in Canterbury huddled around the table, trying to keep warm, seeping coffee, thousands of miles away from home where, unlike here, the sun is always shining. As High Commissioner to New Zealand, I had gone to present my letter of Credence at the capital Wellington. Of course after the event I muttered to myself, I will overfly earthquake-prone Christchurch and head for Auckland the next location with a sizeable Nigerian population and where the ground is firmer! But on proper reflection I thought, if I dare scuttle out of town for fear of earth tremors, I would be shirking my responsibility. After all, after the last earthquake, I had called to make sure all was well with the Nigerian community. How then can I be within shouting distance of Christchurch and not see my brothers and sisters at the very end of the earth? President of the association, Mr. OluwaseunFasheun, made a passionate plea that I must come to Christchurch. So off we went to Christchurch.

Truly, here is the end of the world. It takes you almost 23 hours to fly from Nigeria to Sydney in Australia and another three hours to hop across to New Zealand. Yet here I was with fellow Nigerians. Most of the men came along with our in-laws, "Niger wives" and lovely toddlers in tow. A thousand questions raced through my mind as we engaged ourselves. Facing the president of the association, my first question was "What on earth are you people doing in this place where the earth is always shaking every minute and threatening to swallow everything in sight? Why on earth did you choose to come to this place, a place where reportedly there has since been about 10,000, yes you heard me right another 10,000 earth tremors since the last fatal earthquake. Taiwo Afisi, a Ph.D Student from LASU, shrugged his shoulder and said High Commissioner "Ah we are used to it o! What can we do? We are here to study for our doctorate degrees and the conditions are good so why not." Danladi Umar from Gombe State University also undergoing his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with special focus on Biodiversity of the Mambilla Plateau echoed the same sentiments. Ditto Ralph Adewoye, another post graduate student. I learnt my lessons that natural disaster cannot be an excuse for not pursuing personal or instructional development.
Let me digress a bit. In far-away Christchurch, I was reminded of another well-known fact: the inestimable value of Nigerian forest and its bio-diversity in local and global ecological context. Apparently, the University of Canterbury whose researchers had followed up findings on Nigeria's North-east Montane flora had developed Nigerian Montane Forest Project. The university is working closely with Gombe State University (GSU) to strengthen the university's Department of Biological Sciences in the field of biodiversity, environmental science and ecology. This was through appropriate postgraduate training of GSU lecturers/students. I visited the university and met Dr. Hazel Chapman in the Department of Biological Sciences. In the footsteps of her father, she is engaged in research work in close cooperation with the Taraba State Government and GSU. She shuttles between Christ church and the Mambila Plateau to promote national and international commitment to the conservation of Nigeria's Montane forest by inspiring excellence in research by postgraduate students and empowering local communities through employment, development of small businesses and working with schools to develop conservation awareness. For me, the collaboration between the universities, thousands of miles apart, was a powerful symbol of the importance of bilateral diplomatic ties and that academic research need not necessarily be a mere esoteric adventure. It can truly be rewarding. This time here is a project which holds a lot of potentials for commercialisation of research findings of inestimable value and our forest; a veritable forest resources waiting to be tapped for development of pharmaceutical drugs and employment for the local communities. I was grateful to Umar, Adewoye and Afis - all PhD students of Canterbury University - for dragging me to the university to hear more about a project which deserve more support of our Environment Ministry.

I discovered so many Nigerians in New Zealand just like Australia are skilled migrants: medical doctors, nurses, IT consultants, university lecturers: all are here contributing to the growth and development of Christchurch. Fasheun, thePresident of the Nigerian Association of Canterbury, a social worker himself and married to a New-Zealander, confirmed that Nigerians are indeed a respectable group within Christchurch and adjoining areas. In rebuilding Christchurch, which was evident from the construction work going all around, they have not been found wanting. They have been there for the city and the people.

Auckland, the commercial capital of New Zealand, of course has a larger population of Nigerians. They responded to our call for a town meeting, through their association, the Nigerian Association in New Zealand Inc, headed by Dr. Evans Nwaomah. Here in Auckland, Dr. Adegbite runs his own clinic, Dr. Ayoade, a PhD holder, is an IT consultant, while the secretary of the association, Ladi Ajayi, is a Market Strategist with a top flight dairy company. When you face Nigerian professionals in an organised society like New Zealand, as a principal representative of your country, you must be prepared for hard questions. We had however been proactive with a Draft Programme of Cooperation with the Nigerian community across Australia and New Zealand. It is our road map forengagement with our people. We usually circulate it ahead of our meetings. Elements of the road map include issues such as migration and development and role of Nigerian professionals in development at home; economic diplomacy; cultural diplomacy to harness our rich cultural heritage and tackling the problem of negative stereotyping of Nigeria and Nigerians.

We quickly converted the meeting hall to a mini National Assembly to dissect and discuss the problems of our dear country. As usual, my Diaspora brothers and sisters heaped the blame on "those at home" the catchphrase is always "Why can't they do things right?" When you ask them to explain, they glibly retort "I mean let there be light, water, roads security; let everything work like here!" When you probe further and ask them to give specific policy recommendations they usually respond by saying, "but they know what to do!"

In our meetings with the Nigerian community we always stress that Lenin's famous question "what is to be done?" must be answered clearly. "Give us your specific and clear recommendations." Options should also include returning home to participate in the political process! We have thus learnt to challenge the loudest among the critics at these meetings; that it is not enough to criticise government, but proffer solutions which must be written and encapsulated in a document. The objective is to engage the community through an outcome document which can serve as reference point to galvanise the community into action in all areas such as community development activities at home to rebuild that old primary or secondary school, support for their former universities, primary healthcare clinic in their local government back home, donation of used books and magazines to public libraries in their towns etc. That was what we did in Christchurch and Auckland respectively and ended up with the "Christchurch Declaration and Programme of Action" and "Auckland Declaration and Programme of Action"respectively which included agreement for the establishment of a NIDO Chapter since there are none at these locations.

As aircraft finally took to the air, I peered out from my window seat. The crystal clear aquamarine waters of the Tasmania seas which sweeps Auckland was visible below. My thoughts went back to Christchurch and that cold meeting hall in Auckland. I thought oh yes the Nigerian Diaspora has truly multiplied and populated the earth doing great deeds. Behold our people "at home, away from home", this time around, at the very end of the Earth!

Ambassador Olukanni is the High Commissioner of Nigeria to Australia and New Zealand.


Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201207170067.html?page=2

trimandtrendy: [size=14pt]Nicely said, I am married oh, and i met my hubby when he was still a corper. But however i knew he had prospects. But the truth is money helps women fall in love. thats just the plain truth. [/size]

A Little modification... "Money helps NIGERIAN and MOST AFRICAN women fall in love"

Sky-walker:
Was wondering if i can use UK drivers license to drive in Naija. I know you can drive in the UK with international License for up to a year but not show if Naija accepts drivers license from other countries.

I no wan go Jail for Lagos or make Lastma use me catch cruise.


Anyone with information on this,please share

Just don't let those hungry looking policemen or road Marshalls get you, If not they would vent their anger on you for having the chance to visit the UK and they cannot....
I was very careful when driving, hence I didn't attract their attention... you might not be that lucky..


Use at your own Peril.....

KateSpade: After being in a distance relationship for about 9 months I ended things. We were together for abt 2 years. He initially was supposed to be gone for 4 months but its been 9 and he gave me dates of his possible return and those dates just flew by. He asked me to visit him at his parents home for Christmas but I declined due to exams and me spending time with my grandmother I haven't seen in years.

He calls every couple of days and I answer, try to call back when I can but there is a 6 hour time difference. I'm about to tell him to stop calling because there is no way to move on if we continue to communicate regularly. When he calls he says he misses me. He says that when he returns he wants to prove his feelings for me. Is it worth it? Worth giving it another try or just move on now? Who even knows when he will return. Its just hard to believe given the previous disappointments.

Also, I'm going to run into his family in a few weeks at my sister's swearing in ceremony. She is a political figure in the area they live and have a business in. As of now, I am unaware if they know of the breakup but I know its going to be awkward.

@Poster: I am in EXACTLY the same position as your situation, the only difference is I am the Guy ... I know how it feels on both ends. from your post it seems you really love him and he madly loves you too. He wants things to work out hence he wants you to meet his folks. At the same time he is very much goal oriented wanting to achieve something worthwhile in life. And I guess you are in the 22 - 26 age bracket (Its the most tempting and confusing in the life of a lady)
How I wish you can just be strong and "Know that no good thing in life comes easily"... How I also wish that you know that if you guys are able to surmount this dilemma, you have a chance of enjoying a blissful union
Anyway, there is no hard and fast rule.... no one can advice you more.. Its your life... Think with your head, and know that you are responsible for every decisions you make and take

PS: Thinking from the guys perspective

Hayjaycity: Make all of una dey deceive unaself dey go, while senators's, commissioners' and ministers' children and families are coming from abroad to take up jobs which they were not even interviewed for, you are here rehearsing on how to pass an interview, if you like ave d best answer for the above questions, a commissioner's child will take the job from you, wherther he applied for the job or not. They are all in the UK expecting appointment letters from nigeria

Please do not listen to this chap!!!!!!

"Intelligence wrapped in its abstract theoretical forms constitutes nothing other than distant dreams hidden in the heavens"

Simple Explanation to this trend..... The Priorities we place on our education and grading is very much different from what other more advanced educational systems do...... I have tasted both sides of the divide and my conclusion?? I shake my head for my country....
Many won't understand me, but its the hard truth...

For our present day scholars, If you have the opportunity, finance and will power to pursue an advanced foreign education... GO FOR IT...

A Funny country where folks circulate and debate on an unsubstantiated and "un-referenced" news like it has been confirmed true