₦airaland Forum

I guess it's about time the controversial issue of the LGBT hits Nairaland frontpage. Seems nothing is really happening within the country these days, the flood is receeding, boko haram doing their normal thingy, Fuel subsidy scam and the CBN currency note saga, no longer a trending topic, so a Vanguard newspaper reporter wants to put himself in relevance. No one can actually win the argument, even militant homophobias and indifferent victims. We ought to know that we are being had over this issue!

What can't we change these days.. Our sexuality, gender, careers, cars, talents, our beliefs and only recently.. Our states of origin/cultural heritage. Very soon we might be able to change into tomatoes or hippopotamus in not to distant a future. More seriously, In as much as I support the advancement of the Nigerian state, I think this would not be a very good basis to stand. It is way too...complex!

With the points he gave, I think he is justified, just like everybody in his own perception of reality, while the critics are equally right to blame his acquisition of the private jet in a country where majority of the citizens and indeed, his congregation are just living one day at a time. Though I choose not to judge him, I personally believe that men of God living flamboyant lifestyles will soon become insensitive to the plight of the poor they are meant to shepard, people whom the core of the gospel is centred on. How can you effectively minister to poor believers, when you've forgotten or probably don't even know how "being poor" is?

Really impressive works..

It's such a shame that topics like this get to make Nairaland frontpage. A website that is rated to be No. 1 in Nigeria. When the outside world is probing the far out universe for treasures and life-forms while simultaneously. Building incredible materials out of nano-particles, we're here arguing if gold and silver would be donated at the gates of hell. I think I shall begin to reconsider my visit to this website. It's about that time!

Quite similar to the topic I once created. It's true that the young people in Nigeria today - me inclusive, are under-utilizing our true potentials, blaming the system for our under effectiveness. How many business enterprises or causes do you see undergraduates running? Most prefers to be seen, gallivanting around campus in their parent's cars, pinging, browsing and doing all sorts of distracting stuffs with no long term value. There are so many things wrong with this country, agreed; but this is a particular one - Young people not taking up responsibilities.Do we expect the government to engage our minds for us as young people?
Besides, it is intellectually lazy to claim that lack of funds stopped an entrepreneur from his goal. One wise man said lack of funds have never stopped anyone, rather lack of ideas.

Why Is It That Majority Of Young People In
Nigeria Are Not Entrepreneurs?
www.nairaland.com/1084433/why-it-majority-young-people

Even though I shared a little bit of the writer's sentiment against Achebe, I really hope that the non-literary consciousness of the average youth of today will sweep in and save us all from an impending uprising. For good reasons, I hope that majority of young people today, keeps pinging, watching movies, listening to songs and wasting considerable time on Facebook, if it would be a positive diversion from what these old men are plotting. Old men should not plan wars for young men to fight. I once expressed that Prof Achebe ought not sit within the coasts of the United States, and set these volatile issues aflame in the minds of today's young people. The inter-connectedness the 21st century offers us these days does not leave us worrying about what happened yesteryears again. People mostly think of the future these days, either they are Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Idoma,Tiv, Ibiobio or what have you. Some words are better left unsaid.

It's so sad that many Nigerians who have access to the internet cannot argue intellectually and in a way that shows civility and 21st century-mindedness. Wole Soyinka spoke plainly on how he thinks it would be terribly wrong for the federal government to accept a negotiation standpoint with the monstrous Boko-haram. Instead of people to argue for or against his reasons, they are rather claiming he's unsaved and all that. Must he be saved before offering solutions to the country's problems? Besides, who made you guys the detectors of human salvation? We will roam longer in this jungle, if many of us still keep thinking this narrow-mindedly. FACT!

This is superb idea, coming from Lagos state. It's good to learn of such future-conscious plan of the city that would eventually be a hub and a model for the Nigerian transformation. While the extremists are bombing out their spleens up-north, some people are down south, making progress. Let's hope people take the plan as well-intended, though Lagosians are open and civilised anyway!

The message was titled New Creation Realities.
We should be able to answer three questions, now that we're in Christ.
1.Our identity- the root of man's fall, and the first temptation of Christ.
2.The abilities we now pocess - the divine ability and grace now given unto us
3. The divine resources now ours.
I really felt blessed by the concise message!

It seems that most businesses in the country today are formed by people who are beyond 25, especially when they have finished a degree program of some sort. While smart 18-year olds are C.E.O's of business enterprises in other (not all) countries, majority of young people around here are busy gallivanting around town with their parent's hand-me-down cars, and spending off the later's money extravagantly. Given the diverse opportunities that abound in the country today, I would have believed that Nigerians used to be business-conscious and hardworking sets of people, but why not at their young? I'd love a critical analysis of this issue, please.

What's the point of trying to change the world anyway, by equipping only the elitist few. What guarantee is there that the noble action will be spread round equally and eventually? I recently learned that even in the church's nursery school, of which we have a ward there, you're mandated to pay your fees in full, i.e no half payments. I should expect a kinder approach from a secular institution. If this is a good representation of God, then He must be so distant from the reality of things!

If Mr Achebe thinks he can sit in the comfort of his cozy home in continental United States to set aflame the controversial, combustible stuffs of yesteryears, then he hasn't got it. He isn't aware of many bright young westerners, growing up and sharing positive friendships with the Igbo people, while unconscious of the sad tales of the Civil war and hasn't read his literature. He should plant trees instead.

I personally believe that there are fine secular songs that just portray the state of mind of the artiste, not really illuminati-minded or something that are worth listening to. I wouldn't want to mention names. After all, songs have always existed before Christianity came. I also think that there are many genres of Gospel music nowadays that could keep one hooked and continually listening-in, ike rap, rock, R&B and the likes, if you don't allow yourself to be indoctrinated into believing that the devil now possesses all gospel artistes that are singing extreme music genres. We're mostly being blind-folded religiously these days from the spontaneity of life.

I used to be very cynical about blackberries too, until I laid my hands on one. I now feel like I seriously can't use any other smart phone again, having used Nokia Symbian extensively, and observed android (which I think is such a crap). Americans may love Apple or any other mobile OS, but I think here in Nigeria, we love and have accepted the simplicity of Blackberry phones, especially with its cheap internet subscription. It's now kind of a geographical thing, like Asian noodles and American hamburgers.

It's really quite concerning to see the state that present-day cartoons have degenerated into. It seems the devil himself already bought a stake in Cartoon Network in particular, to warrant frequent features of demons and nearly demonic character. You need to actually sit down to observe the violent and very occultic nature of most episodes. I don't want to start superstitious, but I believe we're raising a different set of kids these days. The good ones like Word girl that performs heroic actions while teaching English words, among others are unpopular compared the extreme ones

I really would be frugal, and not like to have my sympathy diverted just anyhow, for nothing should ever justify the killing of 4 young students for petty, materialistic gadgets. Especially since the perpetrators have not been fished out entirely yet. The question to ask is, where were those people who's properties was torched when the evil act was being perpetrated? and these I believe, should be prominent citizens in that community for that matter. With the rate community news is being perpetrated these days, you will have to be living in a cave for such news not to have reached you as it is happening. I remembered when I was living in Ilara-mokin community as a student. I was woken up one morning by the noise of the villagers to see a thief who they caught earlier that day and is now being beaten and 'shamed' to the king's palace, where appropriate justice was to be meted out to him. I don't want to sound tribalistic, but one would have expected more saner justice system from Yoruba communities....

I wonder how people like these robbers think they can make it in this 21st century where people are getting more open and receptive of themselves. I should say that nobody should complain bitterly when culprits like these are burnt for such inhuman crimes, not on some upgradable, materialistic product that is not worth the life of a chicken in its complexity. We ought to know how and when to separate facts from emotions and when to combine both. I personally think that governor dude has not spoken reasonably. Instead of being conclusive on how to hunt and apprehend the criminals, he is more keen on politicizing the whole affair. Politicians and their attitude sha..

I guess it won't be hard for him to call such an amount, since he doesn't sweat it all out to gather it together. It is always...there.

You guys should keep decieving yourselves with your fancy computation. Majority of us that will eventually vote are not even hooked up to A.I.T tonight. We don't want a demagogue to rule us again this time. The fact that some politicians make fine speakers don't bring breakfast to the table of the masses. We have made up our minds.

It's rather shocking to read the headline, and indeed the whole news when even good roads for humans to commute safely are not assured, how much more a passage for water? It is a good argument anyway, that nature can't be stopped. But that does not mean we should admit defeat readily. Our government around herereally need rapid updates and add-ons.

My intellectual reasoning wanted to castigate the idea of remedial examinations, being a university student myself, but I was flanked by my natural reasoning. If we could have two 11o'clock's in a 24 hour period, likewise two 'fruitening' seasons in a year, and a second chance to be born, why can't we allow ourselves a second period of grace?

I really hate to get into this volatile kind of religious conversation, as I can't but wonder aloud why Allah don't use muslim elites to propagate Jihad. Or I should reframe: Why are the really popular Muslim elites often unwilling to submit themselves to be at the forefront of these kind of Jihad?

I guess it's not all of us that have come to church for ministration afterall. Similar cases occur the U.S where people sue Churches for ''Holy Spirit injuries". We should understand that it is a fallen world... On a more sober note, I think there are many more serious issues that affect the citizens of our country negatively which worths his legal crusade: like corruption of government officials everywhere, unemployment, the neglect of the poor and elderly, insecurity and many other vices. I don't think the lawyer is exactly bettering the cause of humanity by his actions. Most probably, he has an ulterior motive...

May Steve Jobs haunt you guys in your sleep! The visionary enterpreneur that had to literarily die in his quest to make the world romance QUALITY tech products! If Apple truely did not invent anything, well they did, a great brand. Many people sure knows this!

It has been jokingly said that life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits. I guess 21st century has its downsides also, which we just have to get used to. Meanwhile what is the fuss about the market price of garri on Nairaland when people are having intellectual discussions? Some other humans like us (in the sense of one head with no horns) are out there probing the far-off universe and the deep seas for the next big thing, here we are, consoling ourselves about the price of an endangered 'meal'. Is garri Nigerian internet users the perfect idea of mr splashy pants? (you might want to goggle that). I guess we can't beat a poor man out of his poverty anyway... (So sorry if it hits you hard!) SMH

I personally believe that it is no longer a 21st century thinking to have a capital city designed to accomodate a mere 1 million people. Even it has been predicted that more Africans are going to be living in cities in not too distant future. There seem to be very little opportunity left elsewhere these days anyway... And besides, why don't Abuja have high rise residential buildings (I mean real skyscrapers) like its counterpart cities elsewhere in Africa? I think most of its landmass is composed of fancy and elaborately designed duplexes when it could actually sit 102 storey buildings. We'd better stretched our imaginations wider by doing more with less if we're really serious in competing with globalness as a nation!

Must we all reply to forum topics just because we have access to the internet? It's really disappointing that a good number of Nigerians are die-hard cynics. Here are people showing their reactions on the hope of a noble job, those that are in no position to provide one are actually complaining. If they drove Dangote trucks across Nigeria today, and they become the millionaires of tomorrow, we will all be grinning happily about their justified wealth. Since they are not signing a Boko Haram form or (Armed Robberry training Institute), why don't we all respect their actions and wish them our very best?

There is this interesting thing about Christianity that make its denominations pocess a form of peculiarity. As a pentecostal member, one thing I discover about the Catholics is the fact that they are about the most humane people on the planet. You don't just consider the humanity of The Divinity, and not expect something to rubb off on you. They always differ from the Pentecostals that are so keen on God and the spiritual, yet forget to love, live with and care for their human neighbours. Salvation belongs to God anyway, so He's the only one that tells who and who does not qualify for it, -not man. People may say Catholics pray to Mary and the saints, but they aren't of the Devil anyway, and they call the name of Jesus in their prayers. I'll advice you have a very strong conviction within you for the basis of your change anyway... Way beyond the fascination for the devotional and a good character.

FUTA [Federal University of Technology, Akure] senate building picture is included in this supossed picture of Ekiti State. Please be aware of the deception, @all. Thanks

I think University education may truly be slightly over-rated tham the results it actually garner in real life. Yet, you must have been university educated to some extent to come to the point of knowing! ESPECIALLY if you have the priviledge. You may drop out when you reach that point. Ask the Facebook guy, Bill gates and many others.