₦airaland Forum

Koval12:
Even when the Holy Bible advised against taking what doesn't belong to us. As a clergy, you have left a bitter taste in the mouth of not only your family but those that believes in the teaching of the Holy Bible. Why take a life you can't create? For those contemplating suicide at the moment, just remember that WHATEVER CANNOT BE CURED MUST BE ENDURED. RIP

It's his life.

No one has to endure anything. That's the foolish mindset of a beast without brains.

OrestesDante:
We are the best tribe in the world. 'cos we dont believe in segregation!

You cannot claim to be the 'best tribe in world' based on something that many other people do.

It's only the most backwards places, like the north, where they force non-Muslims into ghettos.

It's the same thing that Europeans used to do with their Jewish population.

If they have this in place there will really be no excuse for all the filth in Ibadan.

Also, I hope we stop with this foolish 'national grid' system.

danidon08:
When you get to rome, you better act like the romans

Rome ultimately burned to the ground because it was set its ways.

Adapt or die might be true for individuals but it's also true for societies.

OMOTOWO:
you are the slowpoke here ..AN SLOWPOKE?

I wrote something else, a word that begins with 'i'.

Nairaland's system of censorship changed the word.

Kathmandu:
When there is ORO in Lagos everyone respects the traditional customs by not walking around at night and obeying their instructions but I'm surprised that the Muslims
had to break the customs of the land because of Islam.



Traditional worship has been there before the advent of Islam in Ekiti land

In a free society people should be able to move around as they need/see fit.

And going into someone's private place of business/worship to attack them is criminal.

I don't like religion or religious fanatics, whether that be Muslim, Christian or the traditional religions. All are wrong.

Thugs in uniform.

zionmade1:
Because we have come to identify to English language and because most southerners dream of sending their kids overseas to further their education, because the foundation of any kid matters.
Ask urself Why do they want to do it?
Is it dat d level of education in d south is not satisfactory or is because we need to stoop so low in order to draw d northerners who dont want to be educated. A system needs to be changed wen it doesnt work and as long as i know in d south d educational system is improving with speed.

It isn't just northerners.

There are people in rural areas in the south who would benefit from this.

And even if it was north specific is it not better that they be educated than remain ignorant?

mmmustapha:
which south are you talking about mumu? the same Mighty North you hate is ruling you. politically, economically and socially we are ahead of you. we dictate what to be done in this country without any coward confronting us. we are ahead of you in every aspect, go and learn HISTORY.

You don't dictate anything.

A small group of northerners control the north and hold it back.

Rather than confront that criminal elite you choose to attack southerners on the internet.

And it doesn't matter how many presidents that the north produces the situation will remain the same until the northern masses deal with the evil that is the traditional, religious and political leaders who have failed to do anything to bring forth development.

martineverest:
well said bro....its only in nigeria u see ppl think english is far superior to their local languages because of their low self esteem.......india is the biggest english speaking nation in d world.they speak and teah in hindu and english,yet they have some of the most innovative ppl in d world...the CEOs of google,microsoft,adobe,mastercad,nokia, etc are all indians with heavy indian accent when speaking,yet they are far more innovative than nigerians with heavy british accent

Read some of the responses here.

People are getting angry and I have no clue why.

Lancelott:
And is India a first world nation so you counter an argument by comparing a third world nation with another third world nation?? wow so brilliant

No, it's not me comparing.

The minister in question used India and China as examples.

Why is this issue making some people so angry?

ekensi01:
Left Nigeria to go and fight in Europe.


Op you sure? my country people no the do like that. May be na Ghana people you mistook then or na this ajebo way their papa steal or crude oils.

I'd rather they go do their nonsense in Europe than be polluting Africa with their stupid behavior.

zionmade1:
At basic level?
Wat is d essence of basic level?
So its wen u get into University that u will learn English?
I said it before no southerner will ever send his kid to a school where he will be taught in local language. Wat Rubbish

They still have English language and literature classes.

You're jumping to conclusions and getting very upset over something that is a good idea if we're serious about getting rid of some of the ignorance in our society.

Why would no southerner send their child to a school where they will be taught in a local language when they teach their children local languages at home?

zionmade1:
Do u know how many scholars those country had before they could implement dat, scholars whose books are widely used all over d world, can u name a nigerian scholar? Or maybe we wud start translating other people's books, RUBBISH

We're talking primary school level, not tertiary.

It's basic maths and science translated into a language that these children are comfortable with.

They will still need to learn English for university.

It's not the travesty that you seem to think that it is.

Lancelott:
It worked because of a common tongue.. what do we use as the common tongue? is it the more than 100+ languages

India has over 120 different languages itself.

I can see the issues long term with such a program but I do understand the need to ensure that people get real knowledge from an early age in a language that they are comfortable with, while they also learn the lingua franca of the country.

martineverest:
i support this.....the death of our indigenous languages in schools is appalling

Languages die every day, the reason being that they are fundamentally useless.

If indigenous languages are to survive they must show themselves to be of some value besides basic interaction between neighboring villages.

zionmade1:
All in a bid to bring our education down to d level of northerners who rather remain illiterates than learn English. Which school in d South will accept dat Rubbish wen children at d age of 3 can flow fluently in English. Its a disgrace our educational system would have to descend so low all because we are in d same country will northerners who have vowed to remain illiterates. Other countries are looking for ways to further develop the standards of their educational system we are going back to square one. RUBBISH

The issue with the north isn't the language it's the fact that many of the children aren't in school.

Anyway, the minister claims that similar schemes have worked in India and China.

I don't think it's the worst plan in the world. If the goal is to ensure that people relate to the subject matter then it makes sense to teach it in their native language.

PapiSmith:
Imagine if your maths teacher is igbo. How will he pronounce 43 in yoruba?

Eta lé Logoji. Na mass failure be that

LOL.

I don't think I've ever laughed harder at a Nairaland comment.

My still hurts 5 minutes later.

NwaAmaikpe:


My church teaches speaking in tongue in Efik and Yoruba

Lol.

No one lives up to their own name quite like this man.

IhateAfonjas:

Can someone explain this dream

I had a dream last night, i saw an Aeroplane land in Abuja airport, it was carrying a dead body, people were wearing black clothes and they were all crying

I had the same dream, only nobody was crying.

Instead people were rejoicing.

In my dream the stock market suddenly picked up because investors realized that no longer would the country be handicapped by foolish policies.

Which FCT minister has not been corrupt?

Is this not the same mess that El-Rufai was doing?

factwriter:
Really

What is then SENSE to you?

Living a sinful life while gullibly believing that a Capenter son who died (in far away Middle-East Isreal) 2000 years ago has taken responsibility for your sinful deeds

NONSENSE!

You lot don't cease to amaze me.

Why do you assume that I am a Christian?

zabuur:
You are right my brother. Since you are so sensible with your reasoning, plz how does this make sense as well?
The one you worship or is it the son of the one you worship has to crucified by mere creatures created by the one you worship so as to wash away sins.
Now, I'm confused. Who determines whether something is sinful or not? Who has the final judgement? Who determines who go to hell or paradise? I'm sure you must have answered all those in silence. Then, if who you are thinking is what I'm thinking, why should he then sacrifice his only son to wash away the sins he has control of.

Can your father even beat u if ur house maid breaks something at home?

Does it make sense?

I don't worship anybody. Try harder.

Maybe you should establish some facts before spewing nonsense.

airex:
How about you that pray in English or Hebrew? Do you belong to any of those nationalities? Foolish people everywhere.

I don't pray in English or Hebrew.

sobmos:
are you a Christian? Answer first before I know what to say to you.

No.

And even if I was it wouldn't alter the facts of Islam.

sobmos:
Islam... The only religion that makes sense, out of the countless religions out there. I'm proud to be a Muslim...

How does it 'make sense'?

You live in Africa but scrape your head on the carpet and face Mecca to pray. Where is the logic in that?

You live in Africa but are forced to recite prayers in Arabic - are you an Arab?

mikeycharles:
Sahara and Dino beef reminds of Beyonce and Wendy Williams. All politicians are thieves except BUHARI and some "pure" APC members.

Buhari's hands are not clean either.

If he was that close to Abacha there is no way that he is clean.

He can't explain how he earned the money to pay his children's school fees in foreign exchange.

He can't explain away all the property that he owns.

Nor can he explain where he got the money to pay for his nomination form.

Is this like the money that you promised to give to 'extremely poor Nigerians' before being elected by the blind and foolish (largely northern) Nigerian sheep?

mikeycharles:
I won't call him a total failure but he forgot to address economic woes, Nigerians desire to see food on their plates, salaries being paid, buying phones for slaying e.t.c. Security and the fight against corruption can then be added unto it.

He's a total failure.

The only thing he has going for him is the fight against Boko Haram and he was complicit in their growth by advocating for dialogue over military intervention (a war on Boko Haram is a war on the north).

The economy is the worst it has ever been.

There are other security challenges that his administration have ignored - namely the destructive Fulani herdsmen.

Destined2win:
Building collapse is trying to become a norm in Lagos.

Even though there isn't justifiable reasons for this but again if you endeavour to get a competent builder, alaye and omonile will not allow someone to build in peace.

You carry sand and gravel to site....Owodah
You start digging foundation. ......Owodah
You start adding blocks..... Owodah
You do first decking.......Owodah
Owodah continues until people start packing in.

You see unnecessary number of people including matured mums working to complete a building that should probably take 3 days in one day forgetting cement needs sometime to set properly.

For all the good that Ambode is doing they really need to deal with these 'traditional landlords' who add no value to the society.