₦airaland Forum

OP. What you wrote there is the undiluted truth.


You don't even need to be Hausa for a Hausa to assist you in getting into any government establishment. And usually with no strings attached. (Though this is highly reduced in recent times due to the state of the economy, unavailability of such job spaces and the highly polarised state of the Country).

Very few Southerners have this attribute.

For some, if they do assist, they'd expect some compensation in return.
For others, they just simply shut the door of
any potential chance of assistance to others once they get in.
But note, it's also the same for many minority tribes in the North, where influencial people rarely assist others.

I've observed it has a lot to do with cultural values.

These PDP guys na clowns

Even for clubs, most na knockoff.

Buckeyemedia1:
Keep ranting self determination, a poor peasant in Nigeria is a poor peasant in any fragmented state, keep deceiving yourself, waiting for your Hausa Fulani brothers to come & partition Nigeria for you. It will never happen.

From your understanding of Nigeria today, it's the 'poor peasants' who complain of the terrible ills of this system, the highly defective and skewed constitution and seek self-determination. It's okay!

Buckeyemedia1:
With your kind of myopic mentality, you will suffer in Nigeria for a very long time, & chances are no reasonable nation will grant you a tourist visa because you have nothing of value to add to society wherever you imagine you hope to visit to become an illegal immigrant.

Actually wanted reply, but can't make out any sense from this rant. Purely impulsive jargon!

Buckeyemedia1:
Are you referring to your grandparents that drafted it?

Whoever drafted that rubbish were just a bunch of selfish rogues, pure fact! I don't care if they were related to me or not!

1999 constitution prepared by rogues?

At this point, calls for secession would come with full force.

otosa:
With this I see no credible election outcome in 2023 and beyond.

That's the plan

Secession is the only ANSWER to this failed system!

ibietela2:
What will the main police be doing?
This country keeps getting complicated.

When there is fire both the police and fire service + ambulance are expected to be there.

It's true o, they forgot to arm the 'ambulance' with AK47

I've never seen this one before.

Everyone is armed except a few selected citizens.

Although I've never seen or heard of people attacking fire service personnel while doing their job at the scene of a fire outbreak, it may be possible in Nigeria where the fire personnel would run to the scene to become spectators due to lack of equipment and water.

Rather than acquire equipment to make this service efficient, these clowns decide it's best to arm the personnel. What's the function of the Nigerian Police?

ogbuefi677:
I hate seeing this Falana man shalaye up and down.
After defending tyrant buhari on his non existent certificate, he is now coming to revive his human rights crusader credentials with his fake activism.

Who else has come out to demand Justice for that poor girl? This is not the first time he has done such.

I commend him. He's a true activist.

You only find them on Nairaland.

Why? It's a faceless forum.

In every other SM platform, you'll see the true feelings of Nigerians irrespective of tribe or religion.

Only on Nairaland you'll find these highly unintelligent fellows doing a poor job I must say. Their pay needs to be reviewed lower.

It's so obvious that most of them have multiple accounts. They make a post and shamelessly begin to reply themselves with alternate accounts. Pure shamelessness.

nairalandankrah:
That small child is richer than all Nairaland BMCs put together!

Allow them do their work, it's their passion!

WebDevExpert:
Unauthorised mining is a criminal offence. Call the police.

Meanwhile...
Let us design and build a world class website or a standard application for you at a very low price that will amaze you.
Call the number in my signature and let's get started.

Which police? SMH

Great!

The Nigerian Police claimed it was a stab wound.

Kudos to all the brave men and women in Lagos!

First of all, this is a supplementary list.

With the huge task of tackling the high rate of banditry and terrorism in the North, this list is necessary. Don't you think so?

We would like to see such supplementary lists when recruitments for CBN, NNPC, FIRS, AMCON, etc are being conducted.

All along the UGM were mercenaries engaged by this government.

It was a ploy to justify extrajudicial raids and killings of youth in the SouthEast.

Nigerian government of LIES and DECEIT

Perfectman91:
We talked about creating our political party during the endsars protest, where are we on it?

That will still be sabotaged too.

dejol88:
Why southern Nigeria behave in this manner still shocks me! On a serious note, are southern Nigeria under a spell? Or generational curse ? Or there something amiss about the people of Southern Nigeria?
This is the region with most educated, that produces the wealth of the nation but how the north manipulate the entire space is a wonder.
If any southerner spoke up about injustice, it is same south that will bring him down. our situation is very sad!

My brother, it seems to be a spell or a curse.

It's just unbelievable!

This is someone using his brain.

Unfortunate such are locked out of the process of policy and decision-making in this administration.

Even if they intend to detain the IPOB leader as they did to Dasuki or El-Zazaki, in addition to the already terrible security situation in the Country, there would be the high tendency of civil unrest in the South Eastern part of the Country.

An avenue should be created to allow these people state their grievances (and for any other group within Nigeria) and relevant adjustments made.

It's their region and they can make any law they deem fit (even if it contravenes that of the Nigerian constitution). If you are an apparel trader, the law there says do not display your wares using mannequins, modify your business method, it's your damn private business.
Of course, forget about alcohol business if you love yourself.

Sadly, those on the other side of the Niger are scared to even enforce a ban on open grazing, a measure which would have far more life-saving value for their citizens. Right now, a sizable part of their population suffers from relative food scarcity and soaring prices following continued destruction of farmlands and slaughtering of farmers.
But guess what? The recreants would rather resort to treachery and fighting one another for insanely selfish reasons.

Sammy07:
These guys will set the country backward for at least 200yrs

It's their region and they can make any law they deem fit (even if it contravenes that of the Nigerian constitution). If you are an apparel trader, the law there says do not display your wares using mannequins, modify your business method, it's your damn private business.
Of course, forget about alcohol business if you love yourself.

Sadly, those on the other side of the Niger are scared to even enforce a ban on open grazing, a measure which would have far more life-saving value for their citizens. Right now, a sizable part of their population suffers from relative food scarcity and soaring prices following continued destruction of farmlands and slaughtering of farmers.

Mangekyo:
IPOBS and MNK underestimated these abokeys Aswear. MNK isn't getting out of this one, it's certain

I doubt. He's a British citizen. They'll definitely come for him. No be Naija!

Once movements like this gain momentum, I wonder whether the police and army will be sent to shoot everyone.

Nigeria has reached the stage where something needs to be done regarding our system of governance.

Very soon no one would be talking about restructuring, it would be secession talks of different groups.

See another bunch of terrorists advising a clueless government

Gerrard59:
Speaking English as usual.

A farmer in of the SWestern states placed cassava in front of his farms as a deterrent against those cows As expected, the cows ate them and died. The man was arrested not because he planted cassava on his farmland but because senior citizens died. Farmers defended themselves against Fulani herdsmen after series of attacks in Tai, Rivers state. What happened? The Nigerian Army was called in from Bori Camp to "calm" the situation. Prior to those attacks, the army did not "calm" any situation. Or the incident where farmers pursued Fulani herdsmen from their lands only for them to come later and slaughtered all those farmers or the case where a Fulani herdsman threatened to kill a farmer who pleaded with him to leave his land. What about the case in Uruan, Akwa Ibom where Fulani herdsmen cut off the hands of the farm manager of a cassava plantation who dared to pursue them from the farmland. Guess who owns the land? An aide to Governor Udom. What happened afterwards? Nothing! Or the Nairalander who as a result of economic privation of Covid-19 borrowed money and started a vegetable farm only for Fulani herdsmen to use their cows and ravaged everything. How does he pay back his debts?


Keep speaking English.

They and their leaders keep on looking like sitting ducks.
Is it just a hopeless situation for them?

tensazangetsu20:
A lot of Nigerian students especially those from high school still hold some archaic mentality that some courses are a sure way out of poverty. The situation of Nigeria and the future should make people dead that mentality o. If you arent from a rich family or well connected you should avoid studying some courses in Nigeria.

The following should be avoided except you are rich or well connected.

Medicine: This used to be a very sure way out of poverty. Just like 14 years back, even NYSC doctors were getting six figures. It was so good that even after NYSC and Housemanship, some doctors had bought nice cars or even built houses. The situation is totally different today. To get housemanship as a doctor na die and even when you get it you will be paid peanuts. To migrate out of the country as a doctor requires serious money which if you arent from a privileged home might be very difficult to meet. To also further as a doctor in Nigeria is very difficult as a lot of residency programs are based on who you know. Its no more about merit just as it used to be before yet every year thousands of teenagers kill themselves trying to get into medicine when they can get into other programs which are much more lucrative.

All Engineering Courses except Electrical/Computer engineering: Contrary to what a lot of people think, engineering a lot of branches of engineering are not as lucrative as people think they are. I was checking unilag's cut off the other day for my cousins and was shocked to find out that petroleum engineering has the highest cut-off point in the engineering department. That is a program that should be scrapped. Its glory days are over and never going to come back and its so restrictive yet a whole lot of brilliant people think killing themselves to study this is actually a good idea. Electrical and computer engineering are the only courses I can really advise anyone to go for as they are very much relevant in the ICT sector. Embedded systems, computer hardware, robotics alongside a host of others are mostly offshoots of these fields.
Lucrative alternatives to engineering that arent as competitive are computer science, mathematics and physics. Someone intending to study civil engineering or mechanical engineering in Nigeria should go for physics. There's practically no place a mechanical or civil engineer can work in this world that someone with a degree in physics cant work.

Law: I wont say much here but if you love poverty, this is an amazing course to study. If you are from arts class, instead of law go for a degree in English. At least with a TEFL certificate and an English degree you can get good jobs teaching English in asia and latin america.

Another thing that might help is that before you study a course, go on linkedin. Create a profile, go to linkedin jobs and check specifically how many jobs exist for your course in Nigeria, Africa and globally.

Nigeria isnt funny anymore to waste time on nonsense and funny as it is, Nigeria of today is a paradise compared to the Nigeria coming so folks should help themselves.

Good advice.