₦airaland Forum

Will never stop praying to God to save Nigeria from Nigerians. Cos our problems have gone far beyond the physical

"Under the sun or in the rain, with dedication and selflessness, Nigeria is ours, Nigeria we serve"...that particular aspect of the NYSC anthem always highlights the commitment and purpose of serving our fatherland. One thing I just disliked in the anthem is that they never inserted a stanza that will keep reminding the nigeria youth that after one year of serving our fatherland, they won't be payment of federal and state government little honorary into our account or a stanza that will keep ringing a bell on every corp member and prospective corp members that after one year of your compulsory service to your fatherland, they is no sure red, blue or black collar job waiting for anybody for grabs.

It always dishearten when you see our youth unemployed after so many years out of school which in most cases increase the level of unemployment rate in Nigeria. I salute the courage of the NYSC authority by initiating a programme call SAED(skill acquisition and entrepreneur development). According to the body, this programme is initiated to provide all corp members the opportunity to learn different skills so as to be self employed during and after service year. One thing that actually disappoint me about this programme is that since NYSC intends to empower the corp members, adequate fund or soft loans most have been created so that corp members can actually use that to set up on their own after service year.

Though am aware that the body has provided a shadow soft loan for selective corp members. This loans according to the NYSC is provided to corp members to finance any of their intending project. According to my findings, its so unfortunate to hear that, this said loan is not designed for all corp members but selected few of which their respective local government believe they most have satisfied their own individual desires( though,I stand to be corrected).


To all corp members who are passing out soonest, will want to encourage you to please think twice before lavishing your last summed up "allawee" cause after this, no more bank alert every 30th or 29th of the month. And for the prospective corp members, please think of the business, savings or investment you want to engage yourselves in before the commencement of your service year. Will encourage you to learn a particular skill you are comfortable in and start running it so as to avoid making you depend on your monthly allawee as your only source of income. Service year is one of the most interesting years, but always remember that after one year they is no automatic work except for the few 'fortunate' ones.

Will end this piece by saying I pray that one day corp members will be given a reasonable amount of money when passing out to establish themselves and not rely on white colour jobs and what have you. If 14million could be dashed out to the individual members who attended the just concluded CONFAB, then the government can also make provisions for every corp member to be given a reasonable some of money to invest or establish themselves so as to alleviate poverty, thuggery and the issue of unemployment among Nigerian youth

Dear Service Providers,

I am not writing this to seek any favour or assistance from any of you, neither am I writing this to blackmail or tarnish the image of any of your respective companies. I am writing this to speak for the voiceless and demand our rights from you all. I believe we have five major GSM service providers in Nigeria, thus we should have options to pick from based on the nature of tariffs and quality services rendered. Unfortunately, we can't identify who offers the most subscriber friendly tariff.

One would have expected most of the complains we channel through NCC to you people to be addressed but it seems even the body itself is just interested in what affects its own personal modus operandi. I wouldn't know if it's you people that didn't listen or NCC never gave our message as we passed it to you. I just pray this little piece of my letter will get to you all and you will whole loosen your tight belt in charging exorbitant rate and rendering of poor service delivery.

Since you all commenced operations in Nigeria, we all have rejoiced towards a better living, a smooth communication link that will foster the free flow of information between families, friends, business associates and what have you without leaving the comfort of our homes or offices. We quite appreciate all the network coverage you have provided to the nooks and crannies of Nigeria and we say weldone even though all this services aren't for free. You people have tried one way or the other to sustain a healthy communication channel between families,folks and business enterprises.

When I conceived the thought of writing this open letter, I thought I should summarise all what I wanted to say but something in me tells me to write all my worries so as you all can work on it at a time. It is so disappointing and annoying if you guys wake up one morning and you just increase tariffs or you add a new network plan without considering your subscribers. Is it the disavow caller tunes that most of you forcefully link to our phone numbers against our wish or request, or the deduction of some of our units without even justifying what this was used for? You people can't just remove our money anyhow when we have plans for every unit on our account and you expect us to give you a nod for a job well done.

More so, I have noticed of recent that some relationships in our society today have been crumbling based on the poor services you all provide. If you don't know let me be the first person to break the disconsolate news to you. You can imagine a subscriber on your network trying to reach out to his or her loved ones or acquaintances and you people will unprofessionally connect the call to another person's line entirely. I am not saying this from what I was told but I'm writing from practical experiences. I wanted to pass a message across to my girlfriend some days back and I put a call through to her, the discordant voice I heard coupled with the strange and barbaric voice of "who you won follow talk?" really baffled me. I was offended and angry that every minute. I narrated my ordeal with a friend and what he told me was a shocker about what he has also experienced. His cousin lost the relationship he has been keeping for four years because you people unprofessionally connected the call he was trying to make to his girlfriend to another man's phone in the middle of the night and all what that one could say innocently was "why do you want to speak to my wife at this time of the night?". Deep sigh.

In addition, it is an odious crime and offence towards we subscribers if you people keep increasing your service charge at the expense of poor network delivery. Your tariffs are never customer friendly, yet you provide poor network to us. Not every average Nigerians can afford your exorbitant data plans on android, and the few of us that manage to afford it, you professionally provide poor signals. Abi is it the issue of sending annoying text messages without even knowing when and whom to direct such spam messages too? So many people have annoyingly deleted important text messages sent to them because they believe service providers are the ones sending their traditional meretricious messages.

O service providers, when are we going to enjoy the value of how much we have invested in you? You all smile to the banks everyday but you do little or nothing to appreciate us. O service providers, when will all these humiliating and unreasonable deduction of our airtime against our own will end or when are we going to be given the audience to pick or approve profitable service charge on our individual numbers? O service providers, when are you going to start showing we subscribers the sense of gratitude for the good impact we have added to your companies at least by compensating us with a good network?

Conclusively, let me reiterate again that your poor service delivery have thrown all we subscribers into the pool of miasma loosing hope and doubt about your credibility in providing affordable and quality service delivery to us all. Though, there is still room for improvement if you people really have the feelings and sympathy of we your esteem subscribers at heart.

Good bless Nigeria and Nigerians

Yours sincerely,
Concerned subscriber.

I just want to believe this act by women is everywhere. I know sabi wetin man go dey do for hin leisure time if not watching soccer or keeping himself busy. Pray we guys find a solution to this girlie- football hatred before every goes out of hand.

When my babe thinks of weekend during a hectic week, she is always eager to spend the whole 48 hours that is meant for rest and special time out with me. Uninterrupted. The euphoria of those special moments will never make her pray for the weekends to be over.

I don't cheat and I don't womanise but one rival my babe has and hates is soccer. She always believe it obstructs our fun filled weekend. She hated soccer since the day I told her my favourite team is the only true relationship I've had for the past ten years and I'm totally submissive to. From the day I dropped that bombshell, my babe will never forgive that assertion or even the team that gives me that passion to love her more than my woman.

Whether this is an infringement on my right or she is just doing what is right for her relationship, I don't understand. Because I can't remember when I deprived her of watching her so called 'epic holly or nollywoods', fashion stations or even spending a whole day out of the precious day we have to enjoy ourselves at the salon. She does this with the sole intention that its her right and part of weekend chores of a woman to do. Why are women like this? How I love gender equality!

Recently, I noticed she wears a special mood anytime I have a league game. If I'm seeing the match at home, she wags almost everywhere in the room trying to distract me from settling with what is taking my love away from her. She wails at me on phone if she calls and realise I've gone to see a match and not caring about how she is feeling in my absence. She is so sardonic to an extent that she derives joy anytime my team loses and always wearing a moody look anytime we win.

Chai!!! What else can I say about the discord between my girl and soccer. I'm sure she would have been wishing to jab that soccer of a chick if only she could see her. The way my girl is getting cantankerous about my love for soccer, I'm getting scared that my relationship is hanging in thin air. Who runs the world?