₦airaland Forum

Tenshades:
That's a vamproach.

Is that what theyre called?

Jeez! disgusting creature!

NemzySeries:
hiz 1 of d deported pple frm SA

Lol youre not serious

Toks2008:
I love your counter notion...nice one.

lol thanks a lot

Kingkun69:
yes exactly but then most of them are unlucky and after toiling for 4 frustrating yrs jobs are now not guaranteed
Las Las school na scam

Yea...its such a shame...

asuustrike1:
Those schools take time to teach their students.Students and lecturers are evaluated from time to time. No witch hunting of students like we see in many Nigeria public universities. Less cases of disruption of academic activities that are prevalent in many public universities

Yeah...the way some lecturers victimise their students is so appalling...

Michaelcas:
you can't manipulate language bro, it has rules

You can manipulate language and bend some rules...language changes all the time..

Cant believe this chic used her real name and also mentioned the name of her former employer in an ongoing case...

This is either extreme courage or arrant stupidity and career suicide...

Only time will tell..good luck...

PS. hope you werent really using netflix during office hours though..

asuustrike1:
It is not free. No enough funding from the government hence the necessary charges

Yes i meant "supposed" to be free. When UNIPORT students protested against implementation of exam fees, the official line from the vc was that there are no "school fees" only "departmental levies" or something like that

Rubbish

GenBuhari:
Is the powder not also toxic to your health? Do you know it's ingredients?

Some of powder may float in air like dust and could be inhaled.
Also unless it kills the roaches immediately on contact, roaches will spread the toxin around the house and even to any food that's not properly covered.

Best option is cleaning and denying them water.

Thats why I pour the powder into a small container, leave the cover slightly ajar and then place it in a corner where the cockroaches are.

I browsed the ingredients of that greenleaf before opening it and it has a low toxicity for humans

All this stuff is harmful sha but we have to manage them, those things are too disgusting for words. Cleaning doesnt seem to be enough

scaramucci:
In a country where the citizens generate most of their electricity, pump their water andbuild some of their roads, education should be, at least, made free.

i thought federal education was free self...dont understand where all these charges even crawled out from...

scaramucci:
I spent less than N20k From 2002-2006 in UNILAG.

Hm! youre making that 2002 sound like the golden age. twenty thousand...omgsh...

Vincad:
But if you put beans in shawarma it don turn to burrito na. Also if your shawarma is dry, change your shawarma guy. The guy I buy from, if you eat his shawarma ehn, you will want to eat that paper they use to wrap it.

Yeah a burrito and shawarma are the same thing but from different cultures ie. different spices and different methods of preparation. Basically just a wrap roll or a sandwich

Yeah you're right...or better still i should make it at home lol

sassysure:
I really really hate that thing.

It's because of the way we build our drainage. They live and multiply there.


I haven't seen one roach even tiny one since I left the country which convinced me that our drainage system breeds them.

Yea and rats too

What i notice is that even if ones house is very dirty, if the outside surrounding areas are built up, rat/cockroach/lizard will have no idea that house even exists

Its because of surrounding bad drainage and dirty waterways that pests find their way because of the moisture and the smell. Most of them would rather be outside

Mynd44:
A lot of taboos are not to be taken literally.

probably a taboo by proxy..maybe they told them that shrinkage thing to stop them from using broom...to prevent that infection you were talking about...

alabimustcry:
these institutions are rubbish...you can't compare it with unilag, UI, OAU

But federal government needs to refurbish those ones...they are existing on prestige and past glories...the state of their hostels alone is something else..strike is another thing..

But i like them because poor yet bright children are able to go there and shine... who on earth has 2 point something million naira to be paid up front..?

Haba...

Josephemma2:
so how many foreigners has come to school there, or how does that present buhari certificate?

cant stop laughing

DonTattaglia:
I haven't even heard d names of some of them.. Lead, Nile, Bowen....

youve never heard of Bowen??

As far as the teaching is up to scratch, no problem

when are student loans going to be implemented in nigeria...

I never found the cure for those giant mutant cockroaches that wander in from the bush...one night I was sleeping and heard an incredible noise coming from my sink...thought it was a rat...it was actually a huge cockroach scrabbling around before it died...wonder why it came into my room to die...

even if you spray it or beat it with broom/slipper it will revive after a few hours....like something from jurassic park...

AryaSand:
Buy Green Leaf powder and pour it everywhere. It is 50naira per sachet and works like MAGIC.

yes i prefer this than spraying chemicals everywhere that will kill the cockroach and kill you too. That powder is a godsend...

sprays, camphors and all that stuff have a lot of cancer-causing agents and chemicals that do some nerve damage

marvelous000:
I didn't know that you elaborately educated him. I wouldn't have gone the bother of affording him a response.
you should know that some people are incorrigibly obdurate in ignorance, and it is inutile trying to inculcate sense into them.

ignore him as he jolly well should, else you will be embroiled in futile back and forth

Lol he's the one who cut the conversation off. Cant handle logic I guess.

Anyway he didnt insult me so I didnt mind continuing the debate even though he obviously didnt read what I wrote or take any of my points into consideration

Barrytone:
Yes, only few make it from comfort zone to comfort zone. The trend

what you said was interesting but what about intergenerational wealth? Donald Trump came from a very rich family and worked so hard to multiply his father's wealth and keep the lineage shining. David Cameron and Boris Johnson also came from very genteel homes. In fact the very basis of Britishh society is the fact that wealthy landowners hand down property to their children and dont give anybody a chance

Isnt this more a matter of discipline and correct orientation in a childs upbringing so that they will understand their position and responsibilities?

I personally dont like the idea of too much money myself, but that may be a symptom of my own upbringing. I grew up extremely "normal", with parents who did "normal" public service jobs, and now I even balk at the idea of being a manager or supervisor of any kind

you mentioned some bad apples but what about yusuf and zahra buhari? Even if we dont like their father, they are far from useless

mansakhalifa:
You haven't been paying attention over the years that's all. Nothing is ever new.

ok o...please everybody should try to hold on...our useless politicians havent killed themselves..why should we...

Is it that suicide is becoming more popular due to western exposure or that news coverage is more detailed on it since it is no longer a taboo subject?

until recently I dont remember hearing of any suicide in Nigeria apart from Okonkwo from Things Fall apart

amaniro:
He reminds me of those days that it was a battle of who could speak the bigger English. Smh childish act

Lol...speaking big English is not a crime..after all you can still learn a few words from it...assalamu aaleikom...

goslowgoslow:
Is shawarma a Nigerian product?

It should be...as in something like "adopted cuisine" the way Americans love chinese food.

And to be frank, the way lebanese people finish everybody in this country, we are supposed to be getting something out of it.

PoliticalWitch:
...especially those teaching in private schools....).

i dont know why they do those private school teachers like that...5 or 6 subjects to one person...bad hours..low pay...do they want to kill them??

and funnily enough the children who go there will come out shining

gozzlin:
I have exhausted all I could muster to tutor you in the previous post but it's obvious you're completely incorrigible and prefer to stick with your Nigerian English. Do carry on. Gracias.

Lol sir, you are the one doing Nigerian English, because you are too rigid. The true mark of having mastered a language is being able to manipulate it in a meaningful way.

Have a nice day

Lol. Localised shawarma

Some entrepreneur could see the business opportunity in this and start adding custom fillings to shawarma to make it more interesting...

I sometimes feel that it needs something like sweet potato or a spoonful of mashed up, seasoned beans to spice it up... cos at times the chicken wey dey inside dey too damn dry....

gozzlin:
Why do you choose to engage in an unnecessary argument just for the sake of argument?

I went to great lengths to type out this elaborate explanation so that you should desist from such atrocious errors are in your daily use of English, it leaves a very poor impression.

As you can see from my last post, I definitely know the difference between "versed" and "vast" and have never pronounced them the same. I took this up not for the sake of argument, but because I saw something wrong in what you said.

You are taking the statement too literally. The word "vast" can definitely be used in a figurative sense, more akin to the definition you provided in number (4). His meaning can be implied; I am [intellectually] vast enough to know everything about communication. the word "everything" is our context, showing that he could use either "versed" or "vast".

I maintain that there is nothing wrong with what he said. In fact your own construction was a lot clumsier...hardly anybody refers to themselves as being "versed" in something, even if it is technically grammatically correct. A more appropriate wording would be "well-versed".

Language is not just about grammar...there is a balancing of grammar, meaning, intrinsic aesthetic and inference...

Human beings are in fact, extremely vast. In the metaphorical sense of the word...

mamajaz:
Op don chop beating taya. Well, in those days I used to believe in all those gadgets, but these days, never again.

I looked at our leaders and the leaders of the oyibos that were not beaten like ours, there are vast differences between theirs and ours. So, if childhood beatings produced resultant leaders like Buhari, Tinubu, Oshiomole, Dino etc, I would rather leave my kids unbeaten and produce Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Theresa May. These guys countries are working, yet, dem no chop blala. *Ogunkorlaye*

You are right but some of those people were actually beaten since corporal punishment was only outlawed in uk schools in the mid 80s

In those days even their police used to beat unruly teenagers...

That should serve your point better since Boris Johnson and Theresa May are some of the most heartless and crafty people in politics. As for trump, its only him who knows what his problem is....