₦airaland Forum

out of the blue @op

safer to be feared than respected

killsmith:
If you hit your wife, you risk losing her respect forever.

even the pre nup doesn't hold water again
the state needs slave men to keep its engine well funded

crackhaus:
That's why smart people sign a prenup to protect their investments.

If the wife-to-be asks you, "baby why should we sign a prenup..do you think I am interested in your wealth?"
Tell her, "baby I know you love me for real, but are you planning to get a divorce?"

panafrican:
In the army the high command knows who is mostly anti Boko Haram.Pick the good guys from that group.

who will do this mysterious picking?

good the more reason he should be appointed

kingkakaone:
Most of u laughing at Tillerson are illiterates who do not know him before he became the SOS.
He was the CEO of Exon Mobil (The world's sixth largest company) before his appointment so he is wealthier than Trump himself and that was the reason for his insubordination most of the time.

how is 300 million wealthier than 3 to 10 billion
you think yua talking to illiterates here
this is not local politics section o

Those ignoramus shouting it was because of his visit to Nigeria i want to ask u this...
Did Omerosa and others sacked by Trump visited Nigeria too
For the wise and simple please do this so u will know what's going on...check google to know how their problem started.

did you quench before facebook

EgbechoFaith:
shut down? U want us to quench?

dis aung suu kyi wen think say na by mouth

you mean arab countries
don't forget they couldn't do anything in rwanda after the fear of somalia gave them wisdom

LibertyRep:
NATO and the world powers should dispatch their armies to Russia and China forthwith to liberate their citizens.

Oh I forgot, those are not African nations that could be messed with and trampled.

panafrican:
With all tbe oil revenue and a population of almost 200 million prople, Nigeria can put 2000 soldiers, 2000 volunteers armed with, five battle tanks and three Russian MI-24 helicopters per school in the area where those Bolo Haram thugs are attacking schools.

really
what if they shift base like the 'herdsmen' are doing
have you been taking the night night juice/

its so sad yet funny to see them voting their own rights away
you go fear brainwashing and propaganda
now the'yre playing the kid card but thank goodness nra is on top of the situation

peterphd:
Can't anyone now see that American / hollyweird celebs have the same paymasters and are always at the forefront of any social engineering yadayada? Some massive social engineering going on in the West mehn.

those judai make it possible for you to run your mouth freely

Heromaniaa:
People marching against gun violence were met with counter-protesters in Arizona on Saturday, some of whom were carrying guns openly on their hips.

There shall always be a Judas among the gathering of like-minds.

frrrom our cold dead hands
up nraaaaaaa

Explorers:
People marching against gun violence were met with counter-protesters in Arizona on Saturday, some of whom were carrying guns openly on their hips.

An estimated 15,000 people attended the March for Our Lives 'sibling' protest in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday.

But these marchers were met with a few dozen counter-protesters who were standing up for their second amendment rights.

Some of these counter-protesters reportedly brought their AR-15s and other weapons to the event to show the marchers that their gun-totting rights would not be impacted.
Mynd44

cos dem know say you no get to return d fire

opomulero101:
Try dis for naija nah teargas and live bullets dem go use disperse una.

Cutehector:
But why e be say for Nigeria we no dey protest?

cos we don't have guns

In the words of my hero Fela Kuti, he says

We fear to fight for freedom

We fear to fight for liberty


We no wan die


We no wan quench....

mama de for house
papa de for house
pikin de for house

AntiWailer:
American Govt prioritize politics over safety.

guns provide safety

None of the mass shooters was brought down by the people who clakm to buy guns to decend themselves.

the school is a gun free zone
all the shootings happen in gun free zone
in texas churh the bad guys were gunned down promptly
all the gun violence in states with strict gun laws and gun free zones
what do you think the police used to stop d mumu

So why allow anybody buy an assault rifle to defend himself. His he playing a War Game ?

ar 15 is not an assault rifle
assault rifles are illegal in the usa

abeg no give dem idea o
omo na joker be dis

Abjay97:
Unfortunately, if boko haram fires theirs to Abuja, Nigerian Army technology cannot do anything

wey be dis abeg
dis hotel looks woke

benvolavolarag:

Development GALORE THATS SOUTH AFRICA FOR U.
We are building our own DUBAIs from Namibia border on the ATLANTIC OCEAN via Cape Town, PE, EL, Durbs to the north coast Mozambique border on the INDIAN OCEAN, looks like Moz is the LIMIT

d whiteman has gone faaaaaaaarr

14:
There is no competition in africa, SA is 100yrs ahead. Even the arabs know that.
1. DURBAN
2. CAPE TOWN

if one is praising baba it is because their situation is better
the ones crying are all pdp supporters
abi you no sabi read again?

timilehin007:
I swear u are not making sense with this comment...I don't really get what u are passing across

so sad that the phd has nothing to offer

fashola fall hand since 2015

Fashola fall my hand on this


BTW sai Buhari

may we check am.what has he really achieved besides some paparazzi in lagos

GovWahala:
Fashola the only APshit man I respect for his achievement. But this statement right here just Disqualified Buhari cos he is a frail Grandpa.
GEJ till 2019!

after losing election
governance not same aspoliticking

valentineuwakwe:
i pray we all live sentiments especially our igbo and Hausa brothers but the greatest Nigerian politician of all time since 1960 is no other person than Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the greatest president nigeria never heard!

shervydman:
The problem with this country is d people, they don't know their rights,

they do,they also know they don't have so called rights

they don't know that leaders are chosen to serve them n not d other way round.

they know but ...

What would u expect from the people when they're bribed with 2.5kg of rice during election??

o boy dem don de share garri finally

Reason why d governor of a state will construct a 1km road n will celebrate it with red carpet ovation. Our leaders think they're doing us favour by providing basic amenities. Our leaders are not leaders but "politicians".

it is a favour
shebi they collected the rice

d people are also divided that it's impossible to stand for one cause, another weak-link!!

weak argument
why doesn't opposition ever use a unifying cause like super eagles or money spraying or owambe

when some people are not contented with a leader's dispensation, some set of people will fight tooth n nail for that leader to continue his irresponsibility simply because he came from their region. How can we have visionary leaders with this intricacies??

very easy if you are a visionary leader

As long as this stupid unitary system remains, Nigeria won't develop...As long as we don't develop Nigerians to think beyond mediocrity n demand better governance from d government, Nigeria is going nowhere, How can we even progress when we're still sensitizing ourselves on "sham unity" that's not there in d first place instead of promulgating progressive policies??

we are very unified when eagles play or we see ourselves outside
we tried federalism bfor and it failed
its not the system its the ppl

The most annoying part of it is d religious fanatics, they expect God to miraculously do miracles. I don't even want to talk about d religious mumus.

hahahahahaha those ones don enter one chance

laziness

Nothing could properly explain the backward states of Africa.

same the world over
lazy ppl

AmakaG29:
Economic exploitation
Political unrest
Violence towards women
Poor national infrastructures
Lack of quality, accessible education for all
Lack of quality, accessible health care for all
Stunted technological advancement
Extreme instances of poverty and disease

Certainly different countries are experiencing different rates of growth and improvement in some areas over others, but these are the things I've noticed

I would never use the term "backward," because the "West" damn sure ain't forward...I would say that the continent is in a state of economic, political, and social warfare where most of the violence is experience by the poor.

OzReal:
This is a multifaceted question that gives me sleepless nights; I'm really sure that if we had a certain answer to this particular question we would all be millionaires by now. I cannot state to a certainty that all African nations share the same problems we have in Nigeria; however, there are some similarities to these problems. Here are my own theories:

1. The culture as you rightly stated above is one of the problems. The particular aspect of culture that I believe to a certain extent is a continuous bane to our development is the unquestionable respect we have for elders. While this is an admirable trait among we Africans, there is no doubt that it has resulted in the continuous plundering of the national treasury by the self-acclaimed elder statesmen. These men have never been challenged or held accountable by the youth of this country partly due to this particular trait.

2. I honestly cannot give a logical explanation for this, but I just can't shake the feeling that there is something inherently amiss with the black man. We as Africans pride ourselves on having a strong sense of community as opposed to the Europeans' individuality, yet we have no sense of commonality. Hence the simmering, and sometimes overt ethnocentrism that permeates our country. We have shown time and time again that we have the propensity to harm ourselves and brothers due to selfishness right for the time of the Atlantic slave trade to this current time(look at the current politicians all over sub-Saharan Africa).

3. The effects of colonialism still reverberates in Nigeria, and all around Africa. As much as I believe that we are our own greatest enemies and cause of most of our problems, the 'invisible' hands of the colonial masters cannot be dismissed lightly. We all know the saying that: "He who pays the piper, call the tune"; in the case of Africa, this is very true. We already know that our continent possesses vast resources and all, but we also know that we are in a very weak position against the West and if I might add, China. This weak position has put us in a situation whereby we cannot easily dismiss or go against their(powers that be) vested or potential interests in the continent, otherwise the results of doing so could be more devastating than they already are.

how are we in a weak position
they need us
we don't need them

These are some of the reasons I believe that Africa is in a backward state.

too much grammar is another reason

peace loving culture

Blackteeth:
Whenever the question of why Africa/Nigeria is behind the rest of the world, the usual answers we get is; "because our leaders are selfish and corrupt". But this doesn't sound like the ultimate answer because it failed to explain why selfishness and corruption is preventing only Africa from developing and excluding other continents. Some say its colonization, but that doesn't still sound reasonable because africa hasn't been colonized from day one. Therefore the reason I started this thread is to get contributions that can best explain why Africa is so much underdeveloped when compared to other continents.

Personally my own theory to explain the african situation boils down to what I will call the default culture. Each race has a default culture of their own; meaning the original culture they were created with. We ask ourselves why africans don't behave like europeans, but why don't we ask ourselves why africans don't behave like arabs, indians or asians? Each race came with a different established culture which is responsible for dictating how the the entire race fares in any aspect of life. These cultures are not genetic but acquired through learning and passed through generations. Therefore the difference in development between the white and black societies has nothing to do with superior intelligence. The reason why the white society is what it is today is due to the default culture they were created with which involves the zeal for exploration, innovation and adventure. The African default culture is different and lacks these three features. The African culture values tradition so much that they dont give room for changes, improvement and innovation. They wouldn't mind doing the same thing for 2000 years. Though africans are trying to copy the west, but the copying wouldn't work because the default culture is seriously clashing with the invading culture. All the races are equally intelligent. If they say africans have low IQ then it was conducted in a way that is not in favor of Africans considering the mass illiteracy everywhere. Africans can put a man in space, it is their default culture that stops them and not their brains.

This is my theory to explain the African situation. You may come up with yours or criticize mine.

achiever12:
Actually, it is between your slowpoke father and nitwit mother.

your in laws abi

yes it is with the kind of resources the us of a has at its disposal
even north korea cannot stop invaders not to talk of russias large expanse of land

Skepticus:
Wake up from your fantasies, bro.

It isn't a video game.

newslifeop:
Which way to go my people. The past 16years has been toughest for many nigerians like me.we are at a point where we are choiceless. They kept telling youths to go and get the pvc ...where their is no candidate to vote for.


Are you ready to vote the same people In .? As for me ..I don't have a choice anymore and can't keep wasting my vote until youths wake up from our slumber!

are you not a candidate?