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Zone it to South abeg. APC and PDP fielded candidates from the North last time, so what's this talk of "what's best"? You will find "what is best" in the South too.

Guess who was fielded as presidential candidate in 2003, 2007, 2011? The Northerner called Buhari. Why did he not complain about zoning then with ANPP?

Enceladus:
Main-one has data centres here in Nigeria but no, oga Pantami carried our data to the US for storage. This Nigeria is not a country really. I can't imagine the US storing sensitive data on Azure servers located in Germany. Anybody can get hacked, but it shouldn't be script kiddies or individuals... I hope that Sam of a guy doesn't get hacked by NKorea or China for the data. Maybe they might as well have a go at our servers

Does it matter? Apart from a few individuals, this country doesn't have anything worth hacking for...

Expect denials from Panatmi, Baba Lie, and others in govt.
Or maybe they will ban infowriteups, and Amazon S3

Reflect7:
You, do YOU always do the right thing in every situation?
Expecting perfection from everyone before you can appreciate your own country.
Are you yourself perfect?
Have YOU never tried to jump a queue, or bribe some official after an infraction, or to get preferential treatment?

In America countless people are killed yearly by police brutality. Over 50,000 citizens are shot dead yearly in gun crime there. That is like 20 Boko Harams operating all at once. Yet you will never see Americans speak about their country the way some of you do here.

It appears you're ignoring the myriad of protests against police brutality in the US - the latest which led to riots last summer in several cities. There was outcry against Rodney King beatings in 1990, Amadou Diallo in 1999, Eric Garner in 2014, Michael Brown in 2014, Breonna Taylor, in 2020, George Floyd in 2020, and countless others throughout the decades. People protested in their own ways - including "taking the knee", yet some Americans thought people were disrespecting the country or their flag - similar to what you're implying here. The US civil rights movement of the 1960s was a decade-long, concerted effort by people talking bad about how they are treated by police and various levels governments in their own country - and it was embarrassing to the USA, but you know what? Society changed for the better.

One thing that has happened in recent years is that police in the USA are no longer going scott-free for their brutality. In the past, the law, the courts, the police department, even the press would mute all kinds of protests (or not cover it), but now at least the victims get a trial.

I don't see - in the case you've picked up here - how protesting police brutality in Nigeria is somehow a character flaw. I'm not perfect, but it's no reason to turn a blind eye when police is inhumanly treating a fellow citizen. I give small change to police now and then, mostly to avoid escalation of tension: my papers are in order, but one might end up going to station, wasting a lot of time, spending more money, or even be killed by an officer who is fundamentally not being paid enough, and is given free reign to act anyhow against citizens. As a result of my "bribe", I should stay silent about the brutality, the corruption, and bad leadership?

Have you stopped to ask why we jump queue, are in a hurry to take, or bribe our way? Because there are inadequacies in the system. It's not because of any type of character flaw. Anytime there is some kind of scarcity in the US or UK, you will see people jumping queue and fighting - because of perceived inadequacy. Notice the violence over fuel scarcity in UK? Notice looting in USA during blackout or after hurricane? Even fighting over luxuries like TVs in Walmart during Black Friday sales is a national embarrassment.

When there is enough to go around in Nigeria - food, employment, light, water, fuel, forms, university slots, etc, you will see these so-called character flaws subside.

As for corruption in the USA, its often masked as "campaign finance", "lobbying", "voter suppression", "gerrymandering", "prison-industrial complex", "offshore finance" , and so many other colorful terms. The US Great recession was caused by corruption: banks giving NINJA (no income, no job, no assets) to people who they knew would default (so the bank could repossess the appreciated home); people lying on their applications; investors selling off these risky/bad loans to other institutions while misrepresenting the risk. People write and complain about these issues in the press and in person, so it's disingenuous for a Nigerian leader to imply that only Nigerians criticize their own country.

Listen, the day police stop harassing and killing innocent citizens, we will sing their praises.
The day army uses their training to eradicate threats to the country - rather than flex against citizen, we will stop criticizing them.
The day PMB actually does something worthwhile for his country, he too shall receive praise.

It's like we should keep quiet when a person is doing wrong...

This is just post-Christmas drop... nothing to smile about here.

Na wao... Okada riders kidnap passengers... now passengers kidnap Okada rider.

Before you know it, both rider and passenger will try to kidnap each other, then when they reach den, they realize they're part of the same group.

Oga Kalu, ur mumu never do? 1 year 4 months remaining, and we're still hearing what Buhari "will do" for ndi Igbo. Please the sun is setting, this is not the time to start going to farm.

aguiyi2:
I just wish I can go back in time. Too bad no one sees tomorrow.

True... but the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior...
We even have sayings about leopard spots, brooms and wives, new wine and old bags, etc.

Glad for it. And the painful thing is he will still blame somebody for all the problems, including the fact he let everybody down.

seunmsg:
Dear PDP members, stop deceiving yourselves. Nigerians don’t want you back in power. The evil you did from 1999 to 2015 is enough. We are never voting you rogues back into Aso Rock.

What's funny about your statement is: 1/2 of PDP defected to APC, and 1/2 APC defected to PDP. Between 2013 and now, we had so many news about carpet crossing. One week 30 reps from this party crossed over to that party. Next week, this governor decamped to the other.

We don't really have any kind of identity politics in Nigeria (unlike say Labor/Conservative in UK, or Democrat/Republican in US). It's the same group of greedy people with no intent to serve or leave a legacy - just line their pockets.

But regardless, we cannot deny the fact that on every single metric, Nigeria is much worse off today than in 2015 (2x or even 3x worse: inflation, debt, poverty, insecurity, exchange rate, unemployment).

It's not a question of which party (since they're identical), but of how well the President (as the individual who makes policies and hires the right people to implement them) has handled the affairs of the nation he vowed to serve.

Lagos driver taking the craze to airside

I really hope this thing alleviates traffic in Lagos.

Please guys, as a public service, do not help this woman make more babies... abeg

But seriously, I'll delete 600mil. Once you have what makes you comfortable, more is not better. A comfortable house, a loving spouse, healthy children, enough change left over for ice cream and the occasional vacation for the family... that's way more fun.

So you're telling me to consider spending the rest of my life sexless and toothless? No thanks. I've been fine without 600milla for 40 years, I'll survive without it for the next 40. But the good times... beats any amount of money you can give me to exchange for it. I also enjoy looking at my teeth, and smiling at myself.

amnesty7:
And how many lives has atheism saved?

No more than it has taken: e.g. 0.
I don't recall any atheist saying: "You better believe there is no God, else I kill you", or "those who kill those infidels in the name of ... nothing... will by martyrs".

I'll take a system that neither saves nor takes, over one that has killed millions.
And it's not as if anybody knows the answer. Humans invented the supernatural (i.e. religion) to help them explain the world and their place in it. Like Greek, Egyptian, and Mayan mythology, modern religion too shall pass.

franciskaine:
the earlier you started understanding dat women hate contribute dis, contribute dat, the better for you. A man dat earns 300k should automatically know dat not more than 50% of that should go for daily family expenses. Make ur calculations and hand over what u can to ur wife. Let her sort herself.

You make a very good point, based on reality on the ground.

However, women should stop hating "contribute dis, contribute dat"... we didn't train them to be equals so they can hate responsibility. Afterall a man is told the same, and he takes it. A woman should take it too. Op should keep looking till he finds a woman who's for him.

omoolababs:
True talk jare, I bleep u, you enjoy me I enjoy u and will still pay money

A job is a job my guy. Abi you won't pay a comedian because "they enjoy cracking jokes"?

Mama, no vex... I was just occupied with the ongoing festivities.

Happy Christmas to Nigerian Olosho Association, in arrears. My favorite people. The only honest people we have in Nigeria, I swear down.

Sadly, na only mouth I get, shingbai no dey to pary with una last year.

edoairways:
You teach in the aforementioned languages to the detriment of students migrating from other states ( especially kids whose parents who at the police force, army and among others)? .

You make a good point. However, I still think there's room for both approaches, and parents can choose which to send their child to. I don't think the solution should always be throw up our hands and say: "let's just teach in the colonial language"... that has to end at some point in our timeline as a country.

franciskaine:
you are not getting the point. This guy can save way more in marriage even without dat list. You say to ur wife, this is 100k pls manage it for the home in a month. I assure u a good woman might not use everything, or if need be, add her own to augment. Only a foolish lady will demand too many from u without thinking of tomorrow. That budget should be for the man alone. He should hand over what he can afford to the wife for family upkeep.

I disagree that the budget should be for the man alone... we talk about "partnership" and "equality"... well, this is it.
I think it would work much better if the woman has skin in the game (i.e. she is also expected to pay into the household, not in a "add to it if need be" kind of way)

SoapQueen:
This is the comment I've been searching for. What some of these men do not know is that some women are the breadwinners in their matrimonial homes. But they keep quiet about it just to respect their husbands.

I can't carry our babies for 9 months, push them out, change my body and clock in motherhood just to be stressing myself carrying financial burden.

Marriage is not a must.
I'll work hard for my money but no man will tell me how to spend it.

To the women bread-winning. Kudos to them. But I must argue that if a woman's not going to be carrying financial burden for the children she chose to make, she should have let her parents know early on so they won't have bothered spending money educating her. I'm being intentionally mean, but that's the logical conclusion your statement is taking me to.

SoapQueen:
Serious heavy one. With his mouth like vacation.

I love how she dumped him like hot potato.

Crazy thing about such a dude is that he'll be having side Beeeches.

So are you implying that all the money and time educating the girl, so she too can work in modern society and contribute to her household financially... are you implying that was all for nothing? I mean, she also went to the same schools, took the same exams, made the choice for career, etc. And somehow it's not cool for her partner to insists she deploy her earnings into the household?

She too is not ready for marriage, running away because she was given a bill.

Mariangeles:
You see why I said he's not yet ready to marry?
What does he even know about a woman's needs?
A pack of common sanitary pad now is about #500. I bet he doesn't know that.

You should also say that she too is not yet ready to marry and be responsible. If he doesn't know... is the response for her to say: "actually these are my expenses, as a woman"... or for her to run away? Once they both have a better idea of what the bills are, they can both make the decision.

I think the OP made a very good point to let her know she will be sharing in the responsibilities from day one, as she should.
Let her know that she needs to pitch in for kids' education - and for other house bills - from the start.

We, as a society didn't spend all that effort, time, and money educating our girls just so they won't contribute financially to their households. Equal rights and access to education means equal financial responsibilities - according to your earnings of course.

I didn't make any resolutions at all. I'm still the same person I was 1 day ago...

I was busy choppin suya, drinking hero, and eyeing one or two ogberagas ... everything in moderation my guy, happy new year!

Hisbah21:
i dont agree,we have so many tribes to even start that. alot of confusion will happen. There are states with more than 59 ethnic groups..English Language moderates alot of things in Nigeria.. National assemblies for instance,which tribe will be spoken there? no one will agree to speak others tribe, even if he agrees,he cant understand. the same thing will happen if we are taught in our tribes. There are some groups will less popularity and can hardly understand the majority tribes

So what's the problem in teaching maths in each of the ethnic languages/groups? I mean, if you are in Kwara or Niger State, teach in Nupe... if in Delta, you can teach in Uhrobo or Igbo. Textbooks can be translated, as can exams, and other materials. Even the smaller ethnic groups have populations larger than some countries, so we have enough authors, teachers, and students to make it worthwhile.

We're not addressing the question of national assemblies, or even employment, but instead focusing on education in mother tongue - which is the point of this topic.

[quote author= post=108971284]Slow and steady we will get to the nation of our dreams.
Nigeria will succeed and wake up to be the GIANT God has created it to be.[/quote]What kind of wishful thinking is this? It's like when we're in school, steadily failing quizzes and homework every week. Yet we retain the belief that somehow we will pass the course without studying. It's like we don't prepare our farm, we don't plant good seeds, we don't weed it, yet we're hopeful of a bountiful harvest.

I learned this year never to invest in agric anything again. Las las all na scam.

I learned that you need to rock life while you have it. Lost close people this year mehn..

Admirable even in death - he requested to be buried in the cheapest coffin available. I can't imaging our so-called pastors accepting anything less than gold plated caskets. At the end of the day, we all return to the earth whence we came.

Death comes to us all, and is very painful, but it gives me joy to see this man celebrated. Joy, not because he's dead, but joy being happy for his soul, and for his legacy. Not too many people touch lives as meaningfully as Archbishop Tutu.

God bless.

irunoko:
Minister of health shame no dey catch you?
Minister of failure

Minister of health does not allocate budget for buildings, equipment, nor for salaries. It's those NASS people who do, and they've decided their newspaper allowance is more important than good healthcare.

And let's not forget the people who voted them in... they are simply reaping the wonderful representation they voted for

Why don't you let some of the other people bothering her buy her the phone. I assure you fine gehs have no problem finding sponsors.
If you want to be one, fine, but don't do it out of guilt.

BlaqJosh:
Not bad tho, by the way it's even an American woman not a normal woman.

I think I understand what you mean, but I'm not sure...