₦airaland Forum

Fallen Olympus at 22?

Who has bewitched us?

DonX001:
Thanks a lot!

You're welcome.

Curve Kor, Corner ni !

Typical of the shoddy work of our indigenous contractors who are ready to part with up to 50 percent of a contract cost as gratification and then deliver projects that fail with the first rain drops.

They are the first to scream to high heaven that the Chinese have taken their jobs and would want COREN to regulate the kind of projects that can go to foreign companies.

Ordinary gutter to prevent and control flood and erosion , is now rocket science.

In kizz Daniel voice : "Before dem kill person o! Arrest dem"

"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight.

He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business.

He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility.

He is full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery.

Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"

This, unfortunately is the sad commentary of a black man's mentality as scripted by Lord luggard whom many have already erroneously labeled a racist in another thread.

Its abundantly clear that the earliest such retrogressive law is jettisoned, the sooner intelligent young Nigerians would pursue their dreams to fruition for the betterment of their generation and the country in particular .

SarkinYarki:
We warned that that anything that comes in contact with APC must lose value and the called us wailer but now his father has been reduced by APC to a mere ward head in Kano

To add salt to a festering sore, he is answerable to his local government chairman.

condolence visit becomes car tourism.

I hope the spirit of "personal vanity " has not been kindled in this man?

DonX001:
My dear, I had almost the same feelings when I read the Lord Lugard's comments.
He described us as a community perfectly....and this was as far back as a hundred years ago.
People that are arguing against it are blinded by self deceit, and refuse to tell themselves the truth. (Which Lord Lugard also mentioned in that writeup as "a lack of veracity". Those that don't know the meaning of veracity can google it up.).
The man describes exactly why we are where we are today, (compared to other nations/continents), from what he wrote over a hundred years ago.
The man has vision and sagacity.
I need the book too if you can find it.

http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~luarnaut/Lugard-dual%20mandate.pdf

Courtesy Mustiboy

Mustiboy:
http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~luarnaut/Lugard-dual%20mandate.pdf

Oh my word!!!!

You just made my day.

Thank you !
Gracias !!
Obrigado!!!

etc etc etc

Tragic!

Sunsets:
Don't shed ignorant tears. Every society goes through this sort of civilization curve. It is not about the African community. Its about poverty, lack of proper education and exposure. Nothing genetic about it.

"The typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past".

"He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business".

If the above excerpt did not send you into a sober mood then you are wired to self-destruct soon.

How do you escape poverty and ignorance when you lack the power of organization and veracity?

ednut1:
Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts:

"His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business.

He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"

I was moved to tears with the excerpts above.

How can someone so accurately summarize us and our future in such prophetic manner.

@op, I need this book please

Why denigrate an institution because the personality at its helm is your foe?

Balkanizing the emirate has invariably shifted ultimate power back to the sultanate.

This is one costly mistake that is sure to generate ripples for a while.

Westsida:
Coming from a tribe that doesn’t even know what love is.

"Assumption is the mother of all f u. Ck ups".

Truly a system failure.

AkataYeriYeri:
Sharrap !
The witness was bribed by Pdp
He go soon hear am

You're rude.

Four prominent Islamic scholars working with Kano State Government have tendered their letters of resignation to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje.

The clerics included Commander-General of the state Hisbah, Sheikh Aminu Daurawa and the chairman of the State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Abba Koki.

Others are a Permanent Commissioner with the state Shariah Commission, Abubakar Kandahar, and that of Zakkah and Hubsi Commission, Nazifi Inuwa.

The resignation letters dated Thursday, May 9, were made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Friday.

According to the former officials, their resignation letters were received by the office of the Secretary to the State Government as required by law.

NAN reports that Daurawa, Kandahar and Inuwa cited personal reasons for their action while Koki said he resigned on health ground.(NAN)

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/05/10/four-islamic-scholars-working-with-kano-govt-resign/amp/

Birds of a feather !

There is no love lost between these two political heavyweights.

A house divided against itself.

Little wonder why the antigraft agency delights in media trials than diligent prosecution of accused persons in our courts.

Just imagine how EFCC's own witness ran riot on them in court.

What is the delight when fake news tries to drive a wedge between these two?

The Jagaban appears to enjoy unfettered access to the C-in-C.

delugajackson:
What's there to celebrate?

Was he stuck to his throne? Or did he expect the handicapped student to get up and get the certificate despite his condition? We celebrate mediocrity too much in this country.

His office abhors it's custodian from such.


Just like the Alafin of OYO , the Ife monarch or the Oba of Benin can never rise to welcome even the C-in-C.

Acknowledge humility when Providence avails you the rare Privilege of beholding one.

Servant leader who speaks truth to authority irrespective of whose ox is gored.

Sir, your many travails shall soon pass .

tydi:
even with all the gibberish you wrote up there, you said nothing relating to what you claim you know...

#spit on your skull

tydi:
We learn everyday oga.. and who told you we all have time at hand to check or make research most times like you do.. like it wasn't someone that taught you majority of the things you claim to know now.. you should have just put me straight than bringing up your insecurities on a public forum like this.. peace I leave with you.

You come across as someone with multiple personality disorder .

Blowing hot in one minute and all sober the next.

tydi:
you just der speak big big grammer thereby deviating from the point..

which one is intimate partner again

A man on WWTBAM hosted by Frank Edoho once said "what you don't know, you don't know " but I say what you don't know, ask google.

You should have just googled those words instead of broadcasting your ignorance to the whole world with impunity.

Intimate partner violence is a criminal offense in Nigeria requiring adjudication via our legal system . Why seek arbitration in the court of public opinion?

Even government agencies have joined the bandwagon of sychophancy?

There is a dissociation of that assertion with the realities on ground.

Women are their own worst enemy .

Dividen of the acting IG "weight loss" therapy!!

I hail o!!

Most of our judges are complicit in matters of corruption as its no secret that their stupendous wealth does not tally with their pay packet when subjected to rigorous scrutiny.

Most lack scruples and will not flinch in delivering a "cash and carry judgement" if adequately mobilized.

I sometimes wonder where we imbibed this penchant for wealth and riches that can not be consumed in 10 lifetimes of the holder.

Too many battles on so many fronts. The security agencies have been stretched thin and exhausted by the insecurities bedevilling the nation.

At this rate, they may soon run out of names to tag their many operations .