₦airaland Forum

ZZ22:
False comparison? I don't even know where you are driving but let me tell you, you can't defend Nigeria without looking stupid(I'm not saying you are stupid)
How much is Nigeria's budget for education and how is that of Canada?
How much is Nigeria's cost of governance and how much is that of Canada? do the comparison and see the kind of country you are trying to defend. A country still operating military constitution while they deceive themselves with democracy

I already said I'm not defending it, yes if you compare things relative to those factors you have in mind, you will get to the truth

drlateef:
the shame of nothing to show relatives for many years of living and working abroad. Majority of Nigerians do menial jobs like cleaning, healthcare assistants, office assistant etc. Their salaries are not enough to pay bills and save for home coming.

You can add security guard and making hair (not owning the salon) ... All those jobs are enough to be somebody in Nigeria, it depends on personal expenditure. Except now that ad-hoc contracting is affecting employment, it may be more difficult but not impossible

Quality20:
really strange, well even here in nija ds rubbish is fast spreading. remembered a guy who claimed he saw a lonely girl in a park and decided to approach her only to be accosted by another girl telling him that "she is my girlfriend,," and d guy was left bewildered.
I really don't know why a lady would decide to b lesb? Dont they want children, real sex enjoyment, manly strength, financial inducement fom d man, respect and all that?

They don't decide it, it's their sexual persuasion...

Hopefully nobody harms them since they have decided to go public with this...

ZZ22:
Your colonizers don't want you to do shit, respect yourself, put your house in place and watch colonizers treat you with utmost respect. Things are really bad in Nigeria and there's no future for the coming generation with the way things are going. We have to tell ourselves the truth because shying away from it will further sink Nigeria in to pit. Nobody is exaggerating the situation of the country rather it is our local media controlled by same demonic government underrate how deep the country has sunk in all standard. Telling yourself the truth is the first step to solving your problems and being truthful is not exaggeration.

Yes you are right, I am only making the point that you should compare the same pieces of data and not make false comparisons

And because of N100 road safety won't see this one, they will only see you and start harassing you over nothing

Beat123:
country gets older n wayward. It’s a pit

Lol they must get high by any means possible

Neoteny:
I think it's spelled like that from the source the writer copied, though I see it a lot in the media.

Yes excuse me I mean the nysc statement, it's wrong sha

jlo247:
Typewriter is the best for the beginners because it serves as a check from copy and paste from their friend and deleting of their mistakes. If they were allowed to use computer the teacher won't be able to measure the level of achievement among the students

Interesting

Arewa1408:
@Midnighter, I sent you a PM, to get your email address and tell you clearly what i am talking about based on my personal experience, cos i don't want to cast myself or reveal too much here. However, I was at an Information Security Conference in vegas some four months ago. This is a meeting of Information Security Managers and one of the participants in my team is from a lumber company in Colorado. I repeat a lumber company and i was amazed and blown away, you know why?..

Why??

stormborn28:
midnight lady, if I squeeze you eeemmmhh

Lol do you attend this church? Their preaching is like a special effects movie

neweraomo:
Why only her at the front ..other parents are not merit abi..craziness dey our brain for this country

Maybe she sat there just for the picture and then went to join everybody...I imagine the front seat would be for senior academic staff

I just realised they made it longer to cover their chests

Well, good for them

The smaller hijab looks a bit better though in my opinion

Neoteny:
Nigerians and laziness...

What they call a fez cap is actually just called a hat or a baseball-type cap

A fez cap is below

It's called a "face cap" but the writer doesn't know how to spell it

olujastro:
The actual reasons Nigerians find themselves stuck abroad are:

2. Crime is increasing in Nigeria by the day so those abroad don't want to return and get kidnapped.
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If you return and keep a reasonably low profile do you think you stand any more chance than a normal citizen of being kidnapped? A genuine question and not a rebuttal

This is what jidenna tried to say all those years ago and he still hasn't fully recovered

I can't imagine it could be a real risk unless the person comes back and makes too much noise or wanders into a bad area

mormoney85:
if they tell u hw much it costs to put that uni like this u will know ur government spent more to give u the nonsense u hv here today what am seeing there is not that expensive take another look at it window unit ac but well organized and clean job stop defending Nigerian

I'm not defending it at all I'm telling you to make a fair comparison, if we are saying the right thing then there's no need to exaggerate

Zero suitable accommodation and not enough funds to build any for themselves

Or

Sending money back home to dubious relatives, architects and contractors who will collect the money and build absolutely nothing or else a substandard building that will fall down in during udu mmiri

Hence mockery for coming back with "nothing to show for it" and hostility from relatives who see them as a burden

ZZ22:
From this thread you will discover that there are demons among us that have started seeing the chains in their hands as bracelets. How can a sane person defend a thing very useless as Nigeria? to them Nigeria is very OK the way it is today, they will even come against you for trying to remove their chains by revolution forgetting that most countries with good standard of living have numerously revolted against their leaders. Nigeria is a shame but most Nigerians defending the status quo is a bigger shame.

Not defending the status quo but avoiding unfair comparisons. That things are bad does not mean we should exaggerate our problems or take on a defeatist attitude, that's what the people who colonised us want us to do

AK481:
This post is slightly misleading.

Op how much is your school fees let’s compare it with the classes in AUN .

Fee for fee
Structure for structure
Class for class.

Then the discussion will start.

Are you going to compare it fee for fee with an international student at AUN? That's the only way it will be fair because those schools always use international students to fund their courses and build their libraries...their international fees are always out of this world because the citizens there can't pay the money

joepepsy:
Only went to polytechnic, so polytechnic is not school? No wonder all these youth are jobless, the day Nigeria know the importance of technical schools the day you guys get back to track.

It's a worldwide cultural problem that people see polytechnics as inferior... I think Germany is an exception, they value vocational education more

Daviddson:
Well I attended a federal university where we paid nearly next to nothing (some very "local" PRIMARY SCHOOLS charge as much as N20K per term which translate to N60K per year while my UNIVERSITY was charging less than N30K per year!), but our classrooms were air-conditioned (at least my faculty).

As far as I know, public education is the only free gift we're enjoying in Nigeria. The small fees we pay are just for formalities.

That's a proper utilisation of taxes, if people would just try and leave a little when they're stealing from the coffers it would help everybody more

Peresrichly:
He is not styling anything sometimes let’s take the truth and face it. One other problem is we always look for side things to dilute the truth to make the truth less effective.

This is a defence mechanism to make it easier to digest those pictures, you can't really blame him

If you do not laugh, you will cry

theButterfly:
Washrooms at my Uni are only cleaned once a day, not "several times a day" - usually in the evenings when classes are done for the day.

Modified: that your school doesn't do it doesn't mean other places don't do it, so I don't get your point.

AgreatMan:
Actually, this is not a fair comparison.

International students pay an average of 3million naira in Canada per year but Nigerian schools charge an average of say 100k. (Rough estimates)

It's called getting exactly what you pay for. Good class rooms, but it's no big deal.

But you can't deny the effect that embezzlement and bad character has on our educational institutions.

A hall with enough seats and a lecturer who doesn't want to sleep with you or fail you because you do not belong to his tribe are not too much to ask even if your school fees are N20

By the way you shouldn't be comparing the fees of a international student with a home student in Nigeria, of course it will be more. You should rather quote the average Canadian home students fees. It will still be more but it's still important

And some places have free university because their taxes are utilised efficiently without too much embezzlement

sugarboy212:
Haaaa, kuku kill me, pit latrine ke?lol.

Yes lol they go and breathe the fumes to get high

crackhouse:
The problem we have here is Nigerians. I bet u if that place were to be in Nigeria. Those toilets would be an eyesore by now. The students would have messed it up big time that you can't even step in let alone urinating.

The toilets will still get messed up, the difference is that the toilet attendant will come and clean it several times a Day

A lot of toilet attendant staff here will not clean anything even if it's their job

Shoprite toilets are always clean,even though hundreds of people use them every day, that's because the toilet attendants are on hand and present inside the restroom

On second thoughts I do agree with you to an extent, we don't have good toilet culture in fact plenty of people have never seen one before or if they have, can't see the difference between that and the bush. Therefore they just mess anyhow so there are two sides to it

sugarboy212:
Beat123, you mean people now smoke paracetamol? OMG.

Lol and pit latrine

Bigiyo:
Are u there on scholarship??
how did u get the students visa??
no vex for my questions o, i am just tired of naija schools, imagine going to lecture and u will take standing or u sit on the floor

Or borrow somebody's seat until they come back....chai...

So are they going to show us some independence day dances, marches, parades, songs, anything...? Mtchew