₦airaland Forum

Olanight: We also have a centa here in OAUTHC.....nt a big deal

Na competition?

abiL: I've only been once, and it's just awful. A lot of fresh off the boat niggas walking around the high street with chewing sticks in mouth.

Peckham is ghetto!!!!

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Lol.. lai lai

adaobi123: I'll pass it one day in the future

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Adaobi,

Peckham is a very decent place, people are hardworking, you trust Naija people so it's just the reputation of the past. Of course working class areas may have more issues than high-brow areas but that's same worldwide.

I used to be scared of going to Peckham from hearsay.

sandysprax: My thoughts exactly. The high street on a busy day.


U go just see Oyo women everywhere.

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On a busy day you see a lot of black people? Is it not what you would see at Ikoyi? Would that make Ikoyi a refugee camp?

coogar: but things are quite expensive in peckham!
peckham would be the equivalent of ikoyi/obalende in lagos. i am not even sure the people that cause nuisance there actually stay there - they just own naija shops in the area.

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A lot of people feel at home there, a kind of community. Some own a few properties there and can afford to live elsewhere but prefer staying there.

It may not be ideal place for me but people are cool there...good transport link, an award-winning library design, Teaching hospital nearby.

abiL: London is overrated!!!


A lot of Nigerians living there are living below the minimum wage. You'll find most of them in Peckham, selling ata rodo && weaves.

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Well of course you won't see the Nigerian surgeons in theatres, nurses, civil servants or IT whizkids tucked away in the city of London, would you?

So you see only roadside sellers.

Oh I very much like it that I can buy African stuff from them, we've got to rep everywhere.

shymexx: I left London for 5 years for uni and work - and I came back with acute depression... I just don't think I can live anywhere else apart from London Town...

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As expensive as it is, I feel homesick out of London. Lol.

abiL: Yes. Even pooping license.




No.

Lol

adaobi123: I was going to apply to kings but I became to scared - they all seemed a bit too intelligent to me (I regret not applying)
You can always visit me
And thanks

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Adaobi my dear....

Please never feel like that again....Nigerians (ok mostly UK-born) are repping at King's. Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Engineering.

You're just as intelligent as anyone else. I like to see more Nigerians repping there big time. Anyway, you can go do your post-grad there.

I am not even that smart, yet I turned down an invitation for interview from Cambridge. I didn't want to leave London, where I would be comfortable.

shymexx: I disagree with the bolded... UK universities focus on the tools you need to survive in the real world and they also teach students critical thinking methods and problem solving skills... Straight, direct, and very useful...

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You can even select some elective modules to widen your scope.

I did modules in film, Italian and Spanish even though my degree had no business with the arts or social science.

So this story of moulding rounded individual is just hype. A 3rd year Emory student said he has never heard of a country called Ghana. A history graduate from Seattle never heard of Nigeria.

Prof Corruption: lol. Are you going to win a Nobel for discovering HIV? It seems you are trying to console yourselves!

I am a Nigerian, not an American!

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Nobel prize is no priority but helping people everyday is. But it doesn't hurt to have been tutored by Nobel laureates.

coogar: with the course he read, he could have stayed and he would have made that within few years. now that he's back in naija, what has he achieved in 3 yrs? how can a chemical engineer leave a promising career path to face unemployment in nigeria. i see two things here - it's either he graduated with a rubbish grade or he has a criminal record in the UK that prevented him from getting good jobs.

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He could have topped it up with a biochemical engineering degree at UCL or a related course at Imperial. Even one of those Petroleum MScs at Aberdeen would have been a good move before rushing back home.

Prof Corruption: Technical University Munich is a good school. The rest are worthless. French universities? Don't bother! The only underrated country is Japan (in sciences).

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Talking like a political science student. A medic for example would know from reading journals what research is going on in French universities.

Anyway for Americans and America-influenced people, nothing happens anywhere else.....even trying to rob the French of HIV discovery...lol

Apart from the very top American unis, the rest just don't measure up. Because students I met here in the UK on exchange even from Emory were rather ignorant despite the so-called general education.

2legit2qwt: Move to Nigeria, you ain't gotta pay no bills

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When we start paying bills properly in naija, maybe NEPA, Water board etc will start working again.

The whole ranking thing is anglophone-centric stuff.

If you have ever studied in Germany, you will know what is called quality education.

Imagine ranking some of these American universities ahead of Universities of Munich, Heidelberg, Marburg, Tuebingen.

Not to mention where they rank Paris Sorbonne. My niece worked extremely hard there (always top of her class from childhood) to even beat the numerus clausus at med school.

Anyway my UK alma mater (a university of London College) has been ranked world top 25 for about 5 years running. Not bad.

Intresting

Why do we find it so hard to just simply support our own??

Some are claiming that it's a Nissan or Toyota engine in it, why are people so pessimistic?

My only grouse with Innoson is that I have never come across anywhere you can see their prices or interior or any proper marketing.

Take Nairaland for example. A large number of people who visit Nairaland have a decent purchasing power, both home and abroad. Are we not worth targeting as potential customers?

Innoson should take a leaf from Tata motors. Make it possible for 50% of Nigerians to own a small car ($3000-5000) and Innoson will become a household name.

noted

interesting

Titles? Are you direct owner or agent?

What's your last price?

It was useful in those days (centuries ago) as a kind of identification of origin and would help identify freeborn citizens/subjects.

No need for that now.

Lagos-Benin-Asaba-Onitsha standard guage is imperative even if just to ameliorate Niger Bridge.

A good start I must say.

nameo: why must it be the international media that is informing us about what is going on in our own railway sector? What of our Local media(Punch, vanguard, guardian, nation, saharareports, leadership, and others)?

Shouldn't our Local media be reporting to us on the progress work on the portharcourt-maiduguri rail line that is presenting ongoing, so we can put the authorities and the contractors on the toes?

I tire for 9ja at times o

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A lot of so-called journalists cannot write a decent piece. The good ones are mostly editors (doing a bad job btw) or have gone abroad or are on TV.

Naija journalists like headlines like....GEJ storms Lagos, Rihana storms Lagos, Police flush armed robbers.

toluene12: the average height of a 70kg man is 1.7m yet the length of the intestine located in his abdomen is 8m.
The benin walls are convoluted like the example given above, its are not a single stretch.

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God bless you. That's why I am a fanatic of science. Everyone should have a decent level of knowledge of science. It makes you reason both in real and abstract terms.
The wall/moat/rampart in question are actually 2: inner wall and outer wall with several quarters, districts , markets between outer and inner walls. See my earlier posts on this thread.

I didn't eat meat on Good Friday. It wasn't planned this time but somehow we didn't, fish was on the menu. We have generally cut down on red meat anyway for years. Subconsciously we don't eat meat on that day.

kuss: We are celebrating history what are we doing about the present

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One reason we are not doing much now is lack of confidence in our abilities. We think of ourselves as perpertual failures. Once we believe we can do it and do it well (as our ancestors once did), maybe more people will buy Innoson vehicles instead of KIA. That will encourage more local businessmen to venture into more than just buying and selling..

ILIDEFI: 2. The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD), in
present day Edo State, are the longest ancient
earthworks in the world, and probably the
largest man-made structure on earth. They
enclose 6500 square kilometers of
community lands that connected about 500
communities. At over 16000km long, it was
thought to be twice the length of the Great
Wall of China, until it was announced in 2012
(after five years of meticulous measurement
by Chinese surveyors) that the Great Wall is
about 21,000km long.


@OP; VERY BIG LIE.
To start with, these is no wall of Benin. What we have is the Benin Moat, not wall. Secondly, even if there was a wall, it could never have been 16,000km long. Do you know that the circumference of the earth is just 40,000km? Are you aware that the length of Nigeria from north to south is just 1,100km? How could a wall that surrounds only Benin city be 16,000km long. Same applies to the Great Wall of China.

Just because you don't know doesn't make it untrue. So you think ancient chinese were more hardworking or smarter than our ancestors?

A few people here find it difficult to accept the greatness of Old Benin Empire. But I will advice you to visit the following museums: British Museum London, Museum fuer Volkerkunde Berlin, Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie in Paris. I have visited all and many more. Maybe then you will truly see that it is at home that a prophet has no honour.
Now a brief lesson.

The fortresses surrounding Benin were two. The inner wall/rampart/moat and the outer wall/rampart/moat.

The inner wall/rampart and moats encircled the new palace, old Ogiso palace, Ogbe/palace chiefs Quarters and Town chiefs' quarters. The outer wall encircled Uzebu/Ezomo, Oliha, Ero, Oloton Quarters etc. Edaiken/Crown prince's and Queen Mother's quarters were outside the outer wall/rampart and moat. And there is logic/history behind these locations which I will leave out for lack of space.

The walls were very high so that even if you managed to climb it to jump inside, you will find yourself inside a moat which was a few story buildings deep in places.

Considering that the walls were built with sand and clay (not stone or mortar), rain washed down what was left by war destruction in 1897 others were used to build houses by locals post-1897. Sand walls have to be rapaired/maintained like mud houses. If not they disappear.

They were not built overnight. Estimates (carbon/forensic dating) suggest that they were built from about 800AD (Ogiso era) to about 1450AD (Oba Ewuare The Great era).
If you were around in the 1970s, you would have seen both the moat and some wall remnants at Iyaro (the Eros (ducal family) of Iyaro or "Iya Ero" happen to be my relatives as are the Ezomos (ducal family), among others). Another good place to see it was near Edo College even in the 1980s.


You think Europeans can just ascribe good things to Africans without proper research?

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NessaFresh: Hahaha seriously that's why am online ooo. Tryna distract myself. I don't know why am having this feeling on a good friday

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Issokay Nessafresh...

It's just the hormones.....if you get laid eventually don't forget contraception. This kind "horniness" is odikwa risky.