derecho: Big lie...there are many Iranian Christians. The Government is only trying to force their citizens to be Muslims. I think all this nonsense started in the late 1970s
You LYING DEVIL.
Iran has ALWAYS been a Muslim country.
Of course there will always be exceptions in any situation.
There will always be a few Christians in any country.
The point is WHAT IS THE STATISTICAL LIKELIHOOD that you would be a Christian OR convert to Christianity if you had been born in IRAN?
At most 2%.
NEGLIGIBLE.
So the point STANDS.
Your country of birth is what determines your religion by at least 98%.
So it is STUPID to think the religion you follow will determine your salvation or otherwise.
Because God does not operate by GEOGRAPHY.
Or it would mean if God wanted me to be “saved”, he would make sure I was born in Southern Nigeria.
If he wanted me to go to hell, he would make sure I was born in Saudi Arabia, or Japan, where the national religion is Shintoism!
So your religion is IRRELEVANT to your salvation or otherwise.
Simple common sense.
But most of you are too STUPID and BRAINWASHED to accept it.
ChybuzzDD: You should have rejected their assistance when they helped you to fight a war to keep the unworkable country together. Or you just recently became wise
The unworkable country in which you are still fleeing your Igbo homeland to go and live in, in your tens of millions.
Even dragging their land with them and calling it “no man’s land” out of your desperation to live in their “unworkable country”.
Idiot.
You would probably starve in your millions without the “unworkable country”.
musicwriter: The solution is that we must understand the principles of CAUSE and EFFECT, then go to the ORIGIN of the problem and remove it. The CAUSE of our condition is the language, education, religion imposed on us by Europeans.
I updated my previous post with a lecture on the principles of CAUSE and EFFECT. Once we understand this principle, we'll attack the problem from it's roots instead of treating symptoms .
The question is “how do we get our people to move from effects to causality reflection?”
I doubt it can happen without Divine Intervention.
People are simply not prepared to re-examine their proclivities and thought processes in order to effect change in the present or future.
It’s probably just enough for our LEADERS to understand the phenomenon of causality, and enact changes based on that knowledge, eg by making long-term plans to revert to indigenous lingua franca and religion.
The people will simply be compelled to go along with it.
But as for this mass awakening in which we essentially become a society of philosophers, I don’t see that occurring without some sort of external intervention or long term educational/social engineering program.
musicwriter: Good to see Africans waking up to the situation facing us.
But you all keep on missing the point.
As long as we speak their language, acquire their education, worship their God, they'll keep controlling us till eternity.
The root CAUSE we allow ourselves to be used is because our brain had been held hostage by them without our knowledge.
1. Language
Your language is your reality. No one can cheat you in your language. Whoever says that "is" is is, "the" is the, "be" is be in any language, owns first hand experience in meaning in that language.
Over many years of speaking that language, you'll adapt to it as if it's the only way to reason.
This would take long to explain, but know it that a white man can NEVER deceive Sunday Igboho using Yoruba. For a white man to deceive Sunday Igboho, he must first get Igboho to abandon Yoruba language.
Ok, let me give you a real life example below....
Despite how well Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe speak and write English but white people changed the meaning of "African literature" in their head in 1962. A conference was called in Uganda and in that meeting, African literature went from being writing in African languages to become writing in European languages. This is a clear example of how meaning can be changed in our brains. If you need more information, go to www.africason.com and read the article "how Britain and the CIA fooled Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe to destroy African languages in literature"
The English language we speak doesn't allow us to enjoy first -hand experience with meaning, rather is destroys meaning in our head and impose on us an artificial thought process that has superimposed African thought process.
2. Education
Once you have learned something, it becomes your truth. You cannot disagree on the things you learned in school. The things you learned in school have formed your world view. But when another culture has determined for us what's worth knowing and what's not worth knowing (as is the case in Africa) it means that they control the way we view the world.
This is why we can easily be railroaded by white people to do their bidding. We cannot disagree with their "facts" since they gave us the so called knowledge to begin with. So, even if you a black man or woman has a better idea but you're most likely going to think that a white idea is superior.
3. Religion
When a foreigner has imposed a God on you, automatically it means that your God is not qualified, your God is not worthy. And since nobody has ever seen God, it means that the person that gave you a God is more worthy to be human than you are.
All the above three conspires to create the mental and psychological attitude that allows us into submission, exploitation, manipulation, etc by the one who imposed the above 3 on us.
Once we abandon the language, education, religion given us by white people and Arabs, our brain chemistry and psychology will change. We'll enter the driving seat of our thought process. We'll take control of our minds and act as if white people don't exist. We'll trust ourselves and be able to do all things. We'll rule the world.
What an intelligent and sobering post.
I almost shed tears after reading this.
How do we get out of this mess?
As for me, I abandoned christianity many years ago, because I see no reason why I should observe the religion of invading mass murderers and criminals who destroyed our civilisation, not to mention the complete FAKERY of their non-existent white ‘saviour’ and biblical lies about “hellfire” for not following their wretched fairytale ‘messiah’.
Isn’t it funny how ‘Jesus’ supposedly lived 2,000 years ago, and somehow, his message did not reach our ancestors till a hundred years ago when the British decided they needed to come and steal our land and loot our resources via colonialism?
If he could raise the dead, walk on a sea without sinking, and change 3 fishes to 1 million fishes, why couldn’t he get his message to West Africa? How far away is the Middle East?
The “son of God” needed whites to come and kill and rape our ancestors before we could hear his story after 2,000 years late?
So in those 2,000 years whites were going to heaven while Africans were going to hell, and “JESUS” didn’t care, until whites needed to rape and slaughter Africans to loot their resources in the 19th century, and THEN it became “really important” for us to hear the “good news” about “Jesus”?
I mean, the very idiocy of it is comical, and one must be thoroughly brainwashed to believe a word of that fcking garbage they call christianity.
tishbite42: You're a big fool I won't talk about your mother Someone who gave birth to a nuisance like you is not worth talking about
The Nigerian Navy can't manufacture a decent destroyer. A feat countries like Iran, Turkey all do for fun. Nigeria is supposed to be a nuclear armed nation. Oh yes, we Blacks deserve to protect ourselves. But here we are. I don't think we can produce the basic of artillery here. Look at the rifles of our armed forces. We still import match sticks and toothpicks. We still import bicycles. Clowns like you are responsible for the backwardness of the Black race. Shame on you and the people who copulated to produce a disaster like you. Shame.
You are a SCHOOL DROPOUT.
You just typed a bucket load of dog piss.
“We import toothpicks and matchsticks.”
OH, DO WE?
Wow!
So why haven’t YOU set up a matchstick factory in your backyard to sell?
Or a toothpick making business?
Or are you too DUMB AND STUPID to make toothpicks?
Or wait! It is President Tinubu’s job to build a toothpick factory for you?
Stupid air head with no brain.
Your juniors in Nigeria have established tech startups that are attracting millions of dollars in investment funding from Silicon Valley.
Some, like PROFORCE, are manufacturing armoured personnel carriers and drones and exporting to other African nations.
Carmaker INNOSON just completed a giant plant for manufacturing heavy duty vehicles like cranes and excavators.
Stay on Nairaland talking rubbish about “toothpicks”.
Greatzeus: As at Today 7th of August 2024, Africa is the only Continent not represented amongst the Top 30 best performance so far.
In fact the best performing African country so far is Kenya at No. 33 with 4 medals, 1 gold 1 silver and 2 bronze.
Yet we have African athletes who nationalized and have won medals for their countries. Africa is the bedrock of talent but not always utilized to the full potential. What is the problem really? Government, laziness or lack of adequate preparedness or what? Africa's performance so far is too poor.
You are worse than STUPID.
You are an IMBE.CILE.
A competition that’s barely started, and you have already declared who has won and lost, followed by a retinue of stupid self haters.
Meanwhile NOT ONE OF YOU is a sportsman.
YOU have not sacrificed your time and energy to excel in ANY sport.
But you blame “AFRICA” as if AFRICA is a person.
YOU LAZY IDIOTS.
If you want to see “AFRICA” excel, then YOU wake up every morning at 5am and go JOGGING for 3 hrs, and do it for a year. Then GO become an athlete and win a gold medal for “AFRICA”, or SHUT THE FCK UP.
Student loans in a nation where graduates of more than a decade ago are still looking for jobs?
Student loans, an initiative that its success depends on the students paying back the loans AFTER getting JOBS... where are the jobs? 😂 ..Where is the database for proper accountability? When we can't even maintain govt websites? Is this nigga for real?
It works in the US because they have a vibrant economy ready to absorb graduates immediately, even at that, its a heavy burden to American taxpayers!
Running a successful student loan scheme is NO MEAN FEAT! Always putting the cart before the horse.
Always making stupid populist decisions without critically thinking them through. Copying successful initiatives from saner climes WITHOUT COPYING WHAT MAKES THEM SUCCESSFUL IN THE FIRST PLACE!
What a joke of a man! A man who has been thoroughly demystified otherwise he would have gone down in history as the BEST PRESIDENT NIGERIA NEVER HAD like AWO and MKO.. 😂
I never believed in my life I would see any person who would make Buhari look like a freaking genius! 🤦🏾♂️
You are loud and you talk loud rubbish.
Why can he not start a student loan scheme while simultaneously working to revamp the economy to generate more employment opportunities?
Why must it be one before the other?
He should create the jobs first and THEN offer student loans?
By the time a student gets the loan and starts and ends his course, will your job still be waiting for him?
jumobi1: Bro there are some public housing (aka projects) and ghettos in the U.S. that look better than parts of gwarinpa. In 2021, I also visited a building in 1004 in VI and it looked like the projects. But my friends were paying Airbnb decent money to stay there. They had a nice view sha.
Utter nonsense.
You people seem to think that a US ghetto with highrises “looks better” than Abuja, because you are so impressed by highrise buildings that it doesn’t matter if it’s ghetto inside.
Those projects may look “nice” to you because they are 15 storeys or whatever, and look imposing from afar, but when you go INSIDE the complex, it’s a totally different thing, from the urine smell to the used drugs syringes lying around, to the dirty walls and poorly maintained apartments filled with broke people, gangsters and druggies.
When you ENTER those projects that look so pretty from the outside, you will NEVER in your life compare them to anywhere in Abuja.
Ezewuzie01: It has nothing to do with corruption or ignorance. Many of our leaders are well traveled so they know this. It is just laziness. It is so much easy for them to build roads with only their vehicles in mind and build deep gullies they call gutters by the sides. They don't bother themselves with pedestrians since they think pedestrians are not important in road infrastructure.
Good points, but why are they lazy?
It’s not as if they are using their own hands to build the roads.
faceland: I know what the fooq am talking about, show your pictures starting with CharleBoy house and would show you it's equivalent in USA Ghetto.
Just for the records ghetto is not Nigerian slums.
Your problem is that you are blind so one eye Nigerian 'rich' is your king. People wear your rent as shoe in some parts of USA Ghetto
You are ignorant, and sound ignorant.
You are extremely shallow. I lived and worked in the US probably before you were born. I know what the ‘projects’ are. NO. They are not comparable to Gwarinpa and Asokoro.
Now run along and stop being an embarrassment to yourself.
budaatum: You flood there because you don't know how to fix our country, and you get value for the tax you pay.
You get good free education and healthcare till you are 16. Roads and transport are good. Police and fire brigade are efficient and protective. You can buy a thick affordable jacket and heating to mitigate the cold, and the racism is not as bad as some make out. You'd likely get more racism being an Igbo in Lagos, and there'd be no police to complain to.
And after all the tax, you'd be better educated and employable if you invested in self education, and you'd have money left over to send to your family back home.
You’re wrong about the racism part.
As we speak the entire UK is in riot over immigration, and crowds of far right nazis are going around ransacking mosques, while immigrants are scared to come out on the streets, and even NIGERIA has issued a travel advisory warning for people to avoid UK.
I don’t see Igbos scared to come out on the streets of Lagos.
I don’t see any Yoruba shop owners following Igbos around the store because they think they want to steal.
I don’t see Yoruba women clutching their handbags tightly when an Igbo man passes them on the street, or crossing the road to avoid them because of suspicion they could be robbers etc.
This is what blacks experience in the UK and US, so it is stupid and ignorant to compare that to whatever you claim Igbos experience in Lagos.
Gerrard59: Not entirely the basis for having such poorly constructed roads. If so, why are there no such similar well-constructed roads in oil-rich states?
While I do agree that the economy has to grow so public authorities have enough funds to embark on such projects, the existence of states with huge oil windfalls or those with a low population base compared to how much they receive as allocation refutes that notion.
I think what is needed is a National Standard for building roads in metropolitan areas.
A bill at the National Assembly can be introduced which prohibits the building of metropolitan roads without pedestrian walkways and covered drainage, and compels every state to cover a certain percentage of its gutters every year till they are all covered, with sidewalks also built where space permits.
Within a few years open gutters would be history, with sidewalks everywhere.