₦airaland Forum

lamalang:
I love Igbo gals, but if u marry them Na her parents burial go kill you, cos dem go suck u up when one of her parents die

Rolly22:
The way you people call FG as if we have any.

happydays1:
This is exactly the question put in simple terms: what is ur future plan for your young population (youth):

Answer should be related to ::jobs, jobs, jobs,l:::then education, sports, and others plans for the youths can be added.

ornicus:
Please stop talking like an ignoramus.islam has zero issues with women in trousers.

visionex:
it is not an immediate problem unemployment insecurity and mass illiteracy are our immediate problems if he is intelligent enough to link it to climate change,maybe bring in agriculture etc it would have made sense

sykeng:
Your forget they are humans too and elderly, there are ways you talk to people they ld respect you.

NGpatriot:
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So, what exactly are you rambling about? That he can not speak English or that you can not understand his English of you are just ashamed that the president of Nigeria speaks with an accent or heavy accent.

You sound very very confused.

What exactly?[/s]

NGpatriot:
It's funny how people are obsessed with the President's accents while at the same time admitting that we have many ethnic groups in Nigeria instead of Queen's English group.

You as a Nigeria do have an accent and many in this thread have worse accents than the president.

Poor diction is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing, but the speech he gave at the summit was written perfectly by his speak writers so I see zero poor diction issues here. Heaby accent, yes, but no poor diction.

Yes, the President must speak English because it is our National Language, but that doesn't mean we all don't have heavy accents, we all do because English is not our mother's tongue so expecting you or the next Nigeria to speak lean and unaccented English language is ridiculous and unrealistic.

It is not against the law or the Nigerian constitution to have stong accent and it is not an electoral requirement, the majority in Nigeria did not put him in office to represent Nigeria because of the Queens English.

It's ok if the president's accent is an issue for you, but the President gave his speech in English and his audience at the event and at home in Nigeria including me understood every word.

There is nothing constructive about criticizing the president's accent because we all have accents and English is not our mother's tongue, it was imposed for obvious tribal and ethnic reasons.

There's nothing constructive about asking a black man why he's black or criticizing a stammering person because hey are stammering, these are natural conditions that people are born with, not self-made

This is just too trivial.,

Blacknote:
Mods no dey sleep for NL, it's almost 2a.m and you still dey push thread come fp, wehdone oo

Midas01:
Our brains are not different from theirs. What you just said is what their lawyers would try to use to get them lighter sentences. It's what gay people also use in justifying homosexuality but till date there has not been a discovery of a gay gene or brain activity exclusive to gays.

cococandy:
He should tell us what his Nairaland moniker is.
I’m sure he’s a Nairalander

temmypotter:
I watched a ton of documentary and read publications on serial murderers like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, jack the ripper, etc.

NGpatriot:
1. It doesn't matter what your National language is English or no English, English is still not your mother's tongue and it's not the president's mother's tongue.

2. The French president can not speak English and he must speak in his native language because they all speak french in his country, unlike Nigeria where we speak many different languages.

3. Some of his co-participants gave their speech in Engish and they sound even more terrible than the president.

3. The folks at the event are not colomental like many in Nigeria with language low self-esteem and insecurities, they congregate and discuss issues with folks from all over the world with different languages and accents.

Many in Nigeria are just too unpatriotic, too basic, too trivial, too vain and too shallow I must say, they loom for pointless reasons to demean their own country which I find very very shameful.

NGpatriot:
Correct.

He answered the question brilliantly as expected, even with better detail than some of the participants, but do I have any issue with his delivery, his accent, no way, even most of the participants can not even speak English and the ones that did struggle with heavy accents and pronunciations.

Sadly, the president's speech at the climate event is not the main issue with the unintelligent people criticizing him here, their main issue is the usual hatred, tribalism, bigots and odious politics.

It's pretty obvious that they did not watch the video and they don't even care about the video, it's all hatred and bitterness.

mojounited:
Midnighter is correct, the video was not doctored but incomplete. The President gave a good narrative response albeit I think he could have been more elaborate with points on afforestation and deforestation, master plan to curb gas flaring (this point would have been used to role out incentives to entice investors to build more gas-fired power plants), etc.

What I find amusing is the shuffling of pages of paper and his incoherent speech / inability to read clearly without any form of blunder. Oga is not flexible; he isn't smart to answer these kind of questions off hand and lacks finesse. This, I find disturbing. Other than that, his response was apt with respect to the theme of the summit which borders on Climate Change.

Some people have the question a bit mixed up which has brought about the whole confusion.

Arewa1408:
OK. Youre correct the video was not doctored. I apologise for abusing your intelligence earlier on.

NGpatriot:
I thought it was self-explanatory?

Dwizeone:
Let’s look at it differently, we are having a discussion as panelists with a moderator, and a question is thrown at you, would you start by your excellencies like Buhari did, will you read a full prepared note or show your knowledge about what was asked. Not being sentimental, this shows a lot to us, have you seen Buhari address issues and you can confidently beat your chest about the rightness and intellect of his answers. This can’t be the best we have to offer as a country. The reason we now support mediocrity is because we are seeing what is wrong as a norm.


For your information I saw this video since morning on twitter and it was posted by Tolu though he has deleted. This is embarrassing to say the least.

NGpatriot:
What was the question?


It was a climate change event and they gathered to talk about the climate and all the participants talked about climate.

The woman referenced Nigeria's young population to highlight climate change urgency and she asked the president what Nigeria is doing about it and the president addressed the question brilliantly from his prepared statement.

dokie:
No its not.

The man did not answer the question. The question was specifically directed at his plans for youths. Buhari went ahead to dish out Nigeria's plan on climate. It only happened that in the write up, youths were mentioned.

Oga, if you go to an interview in any reasonable establishment and you answer a question that way, you and i know you will not come close to getting that job.

In any case, who answers a question with an already written script?

misterjosh:
A very weak excuse, so the future of the youth is to be planting trees He was lucky that line was in his prepared speech.

Arewa1408:
You can try to make a lie true just because you want it to be true. Dont worry, youre not alone, some people are still looking for Buhari's waec certificate, others are still busy looking for Obama's birth certificate. Shout from now till next week, lies will remain lies.