₦airaland Forum

Lionofdjungle:
Now you know. If they are asked to go to schools they will say it's haram and rather go to Qur'anic schools. I'm not saying one shouldn't be versed in religion but there is time for everything.

Religion should play a backseat (if it has any seat at all) to practical, functional knowledge.

Why teach a child Arabic when the lingua franca is English? When the language of international trade is English?

Would you not be better off teaching these children mathematics as opposed to wasting hundreds of hours of their lives on Quranic recital?

unclezuma:
Woooooo there cowboy...Take it easy.

Did he say something wrong?

Or was that too much truth for nairaland?

Jesusloveyou:
they is commonsense in the zig-zad you type here.
Efcc plant the money there, what a deceptive tactic by pdp.
Pdp is already affraid of the investigation.

Amaechi is PDP?

Tinubu is PDP?

Buratai is PDP?

NaijaFutbol:
It was 40 years GAP in 1960, It is now 80 years gap in 2017.

GEJ who was closing it for them, they refused and said the preferred certificate-less leader who was never interested in educating himself or the region.

Yes, as long as Nigeria remains one, the North will remain a parasite on the rest because of all leaders in the North, only SLS is ready to face the truth.

But even SLS is part of the problem - he has continued many of the cultural practices that have caused the north to be as it is.

He has continued the nepotism.

He has maintained the culture of overbreeding.

He has maintained the culture of child marriage.

He has maintained the myth that Islam is not a dangerous philosophy.

So, while it is true that he has spoken a lot of truth he too is part of the problem. He could have used his office to set a better example to the millions of northern sheep but chose not to.

farokkunle:
IBAKA SEA PORT .



ONLY IBAKA SEAPORT WILL CHANGE THE WHOLE THING .



ECONOMIC INDEPENDENT FROM EVIL SALT WASTE AND THEIR MURTALA MUMU MED AIRPORT

What of the new port in Calabar that is supposed to be connected to a new highway?

Abagworo:
Rivers State not South-south seized Igbo properties as a war booty.

Even people from other parts of the 'south-south' (a stupid term) lost property in Port Harcourt because of the civil war.

PapaBrowne:
What is wrong with that?
Why should we be racist in our disposition?

The future Lagos is a city that would embrace all nationalities and people of every color and creed. That's the Lagos Ambode is building.

A Lagos where the color of your skin nor the variation in your accent would serve as a barrier to your potential.

And just FYI, that lady is probably doing that artwork Pro bono- not receiving a dime for the work.

You should embrace your own first.

You don't make your own home more accommodating for others than your own children.

EVarn:
Polly Alakija....Alakija is Nigerian,probably a Nigerian-born British muralist.

No.

She married a Nigerian.

Look at the picture.

Factfinder1:
Why was the contract not awarded to nigerians

Good question.

I'm glad that they are finally sprucing up Lagos using public works of art but I hope they will make use of the many competent Nigerian artists that are there.

Sincere4u:
Headlines:

South Africans fighting Nigerians.

Indians fighting Nigerians.

Nigerian fighting Nigerians.

With all these fighting experiences we no fit win Gold medals in Judo, boxing and wrestling at the Olympics.

All human beings fight and argue.

This is a non-story it's just that some people have a deep hatred for themselves.

We cannot tackle the problems as one because should a southerner dare involve themselves in the north they will be attacked.

What happened to the Almajiri schools built by the previous administration? Did some useless cretin not claim that they were too expensive to run despite them wasting even more money on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia?

Can someone please translate?

What is she upset about?

Why is this front page?

Get these useless buses off the roads.

Finish the metro, post haste.

Get more BRT buses and routes.

Swizdoe:
The funny thing is you rarely see a northerner leave Nigeria in search of greener pasture abroad because what these parasites gain from this fraud called Nigeria far greener than the pasture southerners are looking for abroad....

I smh when I see Yorubas claiming one Nigeria, you guys are doing yourself. We all saw what the tribalist and divisive Buhari did by putting all the forces in the hands of his northern brothers.. Then giving you firs and tourism lol

Melaye is a product of the unbalanced system and see how he is constituting nuisance. It's funny a professor of law serving under a man with a missing secondary school certificate. If Buhari were a Yoruba man, I can bet my a** it will be difficult for him to smell a councillorship seat in the southwest

If Buhari were a Yoruba man he would be an old tout somewhere in Ile Ife - no one would know his name.

It is only because he was born in Daura that he was able to steal posts and positions of power for himself and use them to no avail.

oduastates:
This guy and his "no get sense" tweets .

Any multicultural, multi ethnic nation or organisation has to continue do ethnic balancing in all considerations.
You either do it or perish.
Nigeria has refused to restructure and we have no minimum acceptable standards.
The MSS is definitely too low .
otherwise, this clown would not have gone as far as he has

No, you don't have a quota system. Instead you ensure that each region takes charge of its own affairs and its own resources.

He has said several times that Nigeria needs to restructure, as have others.

But it's almost as if people are still afraid of the military in Nigeria, despite all of the mess that they created.

Good article.

I agree with his comments on the road from Abuja to Kaduna, I couldn't understand what people were crying about.

However, not being able to pay with a card for plane tickets at the airport is ridiculous. Likewise the lack of ATMs.

And I find it hard to believe that no enterprising soul sought to set up an eatery at the airport. I'm sure there are several people who inquired.

There's no problem.

Every day I see one stupid post or another about how someone married oyibo so why should there be an issue if two Africans marry each other?

dingbang:
When explorers created a thread where Japan built a railway through a highrise building, I remember vividly I was the first to comment telling if it were in Nigeria, the government would first of all demolish...


Now look at it...

That was in China, not Japan and the structures that we're talking about in Lagos are often illegally built to very low standards.

They need to be demolished for the progress of the state.

verygudbadguy:
The rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana na out of dis world....

Egusi, jollof.. Dem win us for one tin., Their babes dey get bum like people of Bakassi.

That's because short fat women usually have big nyash.

HRich:
You mean Buhari is Jesus? Because he's always around Criminals.

I think Osinbajo is saying that he is Jesus because he's always around Tinubu.

Is this how he justifies being in Tinubu and Buhari's company?

BrutalJab:
Nonsense.


Who are the Boko Harams


Aren't they Northerners?


They brought the calamity upon themselves.

Did you not hear? GEJ created Boko Haram...

thesicilian:
I said it before that these people have failed from the beginning but many did not believe it.

They were destined to fail.

I can understand why some people were angry with the previous regime but these guys were not going to be better.

Amaechi has always been incompetent (at best), if not an outright crook.

Buhari has always been useless.

matrixme:
you see what those decorating food have caused for us now? What an embarrassment! Instead of doing it the traditional way, you will see them doing eba cubes. Who eba cubes help? Shioor!!!

Food presentation is important in some culinary circles.

Nothing wrong with the shape of this eba - it looks good in the picture which is what the photographer was concerned with.

Personally, I'm more concerned with the taste and texture.

seguno2:
Do not perish for lack of knowledge.
Below for your free education.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Meanwhile you are yet to provide a credible source for the lie told by Ambode about the phantom isolated GDP of Lagos state.

You can't tell the difference between Lagos stats and Nigeria or are you intentionally playing stupid...

I reiterate that you don't know what you are talking about and are now hiding behind silly games because my point stands. GDP per capita is higher in Lagos than Kenya.

seguno2:
Yes, Ambode was telling lies as usual.
I repeat, there is no credible separate information about the GDP of Lagos state. If you find it, share it.
Are you suddenly too lazy to find out the meaning of HDI and the ranking of Lagos/Nigeria and Kenya?
How did you become suddenly lazy?

So when you want proof I find it but you can't find proof to substantiate your tales I'm lazy?

You made a claim that you cannot prove and now you're hiding behind cheap insults.

Your arguments have no basis - you have no evidence that Ambode lied about GDP (or about anything else).

You cannot prove that HDI in Lagos is lower than that in Kenya.

seguno2:
Firstly there is no measurement of the GDP for Lagos state in isolation from that of Nigeria. If you have a credible source for that, please share.
Secondly, Kenya is higher on the HDI than Nigeria and Lagos state.
Go and read about HDI before you comment and embarrass yourself further.

So Ambode lied to the press and public when he said that Lagos's GDP is 131 billion dollars compared to Kenya's 64 billion dollars.

https://newsofnigeria.com/lagos-state-gdp-hits-131-billion/

https://qz.com/676819/lagos-is-africas-7th-largest-economy-and-is-about-to-get-bigger-with-its-first-oil-finds/

Where is your proof that Kenya's HDI is higher than that of Lagos state?

I think it is you who is ignorant of that which you speak.

Legitbaba:
Nigerians lazy?? Hausa's are hard working, Igbos are even more hard working....Yorubas or Ijaws aren't lazy too... Fulani's?? I don't know about any more hard work than walking long distances just to rare cows....
Nigerians are hard working...we are not just being treated fairly by the ruling class, though that would soon come to an end

Hard working for sure but also cowardly.

By now all of these Emirs, Sultans, Obas and whoever else should have brought out onto the street and lynched alongside the Senators, most of the governors, LG chairpeople and former heads of state (especially the military criminal elite).

Instead people prefer to bury their heads in religion than confront the crooks who have made their lives difficult. Especially the poor who cry about their lot but are afraid to take action but would rather take cheap handouts when they come their way.

seguno2:
His point is well made.
Bragging about GDP size is senseless when the standard of living, as reflected in the Human Development Index HDI, is terrible.
Lagos state is a terrible place to live compared to Kenya.
No more, no less.

If Lagos has a much higher GDP (per capita and PPP) then how do you come to such a foolish conclusion?

GERALD710:
China has a GDP ten times bigger than South Korea or Switzerland.
The average Chinese has a faaaaar much lower standard of living than the citizen of either two nations.

Population of Lagos is less than half of Kenya's, while the GDP is significantly greater.

What is your point?

Rilwayne001:
And it's bad to marry a teenager?



And again what's bad in giving birth to 12 children in so far you can cater for their needs as well as giving them basic education?



And his opinion should be discarded because you feel he himself has not been practising what he's preaching?

I did not say that his opinion has no value or should be discarded - I was very clear in saying that I agreed with his point. However, it is necessary to acknowledge that his personal choices make him a hypocrite and a part of the problems that he is now speaking about. People in the north pay attention to and look to emulate men of his ilk.

It is indeed stupid to marry a teenager, she was betrothed to him when she was 16. She is not mature enough to make a lifetime commitment, nor should she have to marry a grandpa.

Northern Nigeria suffers from overpopulation hence the draw of Boko Haram - it doesn't matter if he can cater for 2 children, he is in a position to influence the culture. He could have chartered a new course for northern culture by being an advocate for smaller, more manageable families. Unfortunately he has continued the practice of having a large family as a sign of 'wealth'.