₦airaland Forum

adehab:
So you know?? Why is PMB still blaming the pass administration ??

I no know for am oh... they were not elected to make excuses, but that's about the only thing thing they've done well so far.

Will he be able to get accommodation for 10k close to the school (75k - 65k) + transport and the hassle of moving?

With all due respect, the honourable governor lacks imagination.

There is a lot you can do to improve the economic strength of your state... and if you were serious, you'd cut your own expenses and pay workers. Find ways to attract investment/companies and grow your economic base. Not just going on radio and blaming others for the predicament you met. Didn't you know all this before you contested for government? Didn't you want to be governor so you can improve your state?

Iceberg3:
you are just contradicting urself,u stated the obvious,naija is a secular nation with diverse tribes and religion,is'nt it wise for every public institution,especially public educational institutions, to put religion and its affiliations aside,separate it from public institutions,to avoid unnecessary conflits and confrontations?

I wonder how on earth those appeal court judges arrive @ such junk decisions!

Just because you don't see the need to wear a hijab does not mean that you should not allow those who want to - this is the difficult part, because if we do as you said (separate religion and its affiliations aside), who gets to make that law? Religious or secular MPs? Both? Keep in mind that they have to represent the views of their particular constituencies (i.e. the wish of the people who voted them in)

It might be seen as self-contradiction, but I think it reflects the fact that it's a complicated issue. If you aim to have a secular country, you must be careful not to treat any religion as more special than other religions:
- either by elevating it by forcing the wearing of hijab, or
- subjugating it by insisting that nobody should wear hijab.

A truly secular society must be seen as neutral, which means in essence: one is free to practice one's religion as they see fit. Of course we need to balance this freedom with other secular rights, and this is an ongoing process in many countries, including ours.

To be fair, this is a difficult issue in most countries where secular values must blend with religious values. Instead of jumping on the hate bandwagon of "the Islamization of Nigeria", we need to realize that we are a very diverse country with different views and levels of religious observance. Just because you don't see the need to wear a hijab does not mean that you should not allow those who want to (or are forced to).

This is different from the state that insisted _everyone_ wear hijab...

Personally, though I'm not Muslim, I appreciate the reasons for it, and I even think it offers a nice conservative respite from the over-exposed dressing of modern girls these days.

Does this mean we should always have two current accounts:
1. with a small amount of money, like 20k-40k with an ATM
2. the larger amount, without an ATM card.

Then we can move only what we need using online banking every morning. Will this work with those one-chance people who steal cards? Or will they simply beat us until we provide them with all our accounts?

Oh... it's a diplomatic passport... so we can't just stroll into South Africa or Kenya... not just yet anyways

You're going to cook the tin tomato right? So it's just extra protein... no harm done, especially now that crayfish don dey cost

So I'm looking for someone to build a garden pond... 40ft by 40ft and 6-8ft deep. We're going to be storing a few (about 75 thousand) gallons of water. If you've had some experience or know someone, please let me know...

Good for him...

However, I do wish our celebrities (and us) would stop worshiping the pursuit of a "lucky break" or a "miracle". In countries that have made it, it's possible for 99% of the citizens to school, work, and live very comfortable lives without being mega rich. I'm happy for those Nigerians who have struck it rich, but I pray for a Nigeria where most of us can be comfortable and happy without any special intervention.

Online reactionaries... yet the first to litter the streets of Lagos with pure water and gala wrappers. Have you paid your tax or kept your city clean this month?

Dear T.B. Joshua,

you know the number 1 really important prediction we are wishing you would make:

"when will Nigeria's leaders finally get sense? Is it 2047 or 3015?" Please let us know so we know whether to remain hopeful or just give up.

Thank you.

jeffcheddy:
Just started a relationship with an albino girl who loves me dearly. She's been faithful and helps me too when I'm broke. But I don't know what the future holds between us cos I'm a youth corper as well and we are both passing out by sept/oct. I promised to marry the next girl that comes my way, and here are my with this caring hearted girl. But my fear is what are the chances of my future kids health. What if they are all albinos,in terms of their healt issues,like eyes,skin etc. Will it not be unfair to them? Please I need advices here. Thanks

Her parents were likely not albinos... though one or both might have the recessive gene. There is a small chance that you will have an albino child, but given how rare it is see albinos with albino children, I think it's nothing to worry about.

Me maself, I'm looking for an albino girl to mhmh eheh... I'm sure you can understand...

EvilSeeed:
If she were not born in Britain, she for black like charcoal and worgly like demon.

Take that back. Ah ah, are you insulting all the beautiful women born in Nigeria?

David25:
so they decided to push the problem to Nigeria when he shares citizenship with both countries?

Who says we can't also deport him back to swiss when we can't also take his sh!t any longer??

From what I can tell, he is not a Swiss citizen, in spite of being born there. According to the rest of the article:

"About 25% of people living in Switzerland do not have Swiss citizenship, though some 300,000 were born in the country to foreign parents. Unlike countries such as the United States, being born on Swiss soil does not grant a person the right to Swiss citizenship."

So all I can say is "ol' boy, welcome home... you'll do well in the service of politicians, activists, terrorists, area boys, cult boys, armed robbers, or even the police force! Lots of occupations to choose from"

I am humbled by this woman's faith and convictions. May God bless her soul and accept her into His Kingdom.

What a sad sad loss, and it greatly saddens me that anybody would seek to do harm and kill a person preaching about the Word of God. I'm not angry, but deeply grieved.

Was marriage on the horizon?

Waiting to see what it looks like in six months or 10 months time... when are we going to have a category in our budget called "maintenance"?

onyekaegbo:
I'm roughly 2-3 months away from rounding off my NYSC programme and I just got a job with a telecomm firm and they resolved to paying 60k per month (after tax). Now I'm at a crossroad because I was aiming for something higher than this. This really has nothing to do with pride as some people might assume, just that I'm somewhat disturbed that the sum is not 'okay' enough, considering the harsh realities confronting the economy presently. I'm expected to start soon and I'm so confused, whether to accept or reject the offer.

Wait... don't take the offer... Please let my cousin, who has been jobless for 3 years now after NYSC take your place. He has no problem accepting the "low low" wage of 60k.

Smh

emmaliver:
That is not the issue, the fact here is this pregnancy is unwanted. For all intent n purpose this man isnt ready to fathet more children. I do not do, neither do i encourage Abortion. I preach contraceptive as a means of avoiding this mess.

Unwanted by whom? The very person who made the pregnancy happen? But it is wanted by the woman? So whose desire trumps the other?

Should they abort, so he has his way?
Should they keep, so she has her way?

It's a difficult situation if the two parties don't agree - a problem we see too often - but for him to abscond...

Well one day the children will be grown and independent, and then he'll start wishing and hoping to connect with the children he abandoned.

SillyeRabbit:
We Americans don't give a fck about you Africans. Stop claiming familiarity. Go solve your national challenges.

If you are a black person, then your "We Americans" appears misguided... as shown by the relative impunity with which black lives are hastily dispatched in the US. Ironically, you're right, except the phrase "you Africans" also applies - unbeknownst to you - to [i]you [/i]too. If you're not a black person, the quote is still misguided, because America has shown time and again, its willingness to interfere in the affairs of African countries, albeit for its own national gains, so what happens in Africa, does ripple in America.

If you're a Nigerian saying "wetin consign us", I feel you are also misguided: it's very likely that Tiwa's son (as a member of Nigeria's large jet-setting elite) will one day spend a lot of time in the US or UK (either growing up, going to University, or as an adult). We have a lot of young black men from Nigeria living in the US, and this does concern us very much. We invest in them, send them to greener pastures, in the hope they will use their education, finances, and connections to come back home and make Nigeria better (or at least grant their parents visa). It does us no good for their lives to be cut short by some racist system.

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Abeg... did he lie? The fact that you and I can buy enough credit to blast somebody online from the comfort of our middle-class homes does not mean that there are no poverty-stricken parts of Nigeria (and Africa at large) that cannot even afford to buy pure water on a daily basis. The compensation for sports is clearly getting out of hand, and could be used in more equitable ways (arguably, what we might call equitable, some might call socialist, or non-capitalist).

We Africans have this tendency to get hyper sensitive about criticism... Yes, we have rich parts of Nigeria, but do any of us make the effort to show the world? Those of us who can spend all their time flying to Dubai and London and flexing with watches and shoes and white boats, instead of channeling all that money to produce educative programs that air on US TV. Then we get upset at how Western media portrays us.

And, speaking of hypocrisy, I saw, in some small town in Delta state, over 300k wasted in 10 minutes: crates upon crates of expensive drinks were opened and just poured on a birthday celebrant. How many families could that have fed, or books bought for children? Why don't we get all outraged?

I've gotten tired of our outrage, and only want to see people silently, tirelessly, improving our countries so that the criticisms will one day be wrong. All this touchiness is not productive, does not change the fundamental fact that upon all our gragra and I-sabi-pass: EVERYTHING we use was made by non-Africans. Even the value we get from our oil is - in the main - provided by non-Africans.

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emmaliver:
They are not lawfully married but co-habiting.l, judging from the disparity in their names. The man doesn't have relatives? the woman too. Likely using pregnancy to trap him. God provide for her. Try n do family planning if you come out of this. The Economy is not smiling.

What? Did she get pregnant all on her own, without any help from him? Wasn't he the one who made her pregnant? And he wants her to abort... do you know how emotionally, psychologically (mind), and physiologically (body), damaging the process is?

He made his choice to impregnate her, she made her choice to keep the pregnancy.

Nice one... I also like the scientific facts that we probably won't be around to enjoy the view (Jupiter's radiation, tidal lock, etc). If we could one day make it to one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, the views would be absolutely spectacular.

Abexayuba:
Wats the meaning of this rubbish? How many politicians have street mobs descended on? Fayose is a known thief but still walks on the streets of Ado-Ekiti cutting kpomo. Na wa 2 una o

At least politicians don't visit injury, visceral fear, and death upon the general populace on a daily basis. I've never had my heart jump when I see a politician, but armed robber, abeg... it's like seeing a snake: you want to kill it immediately when you have a chance because you never know when it will come and bite you. These people don't have mercy on their victims, so why should we?

meltiplexer:
What is beautiful in a woman that can not keep her husband, nothing

So you subscribe to the school of thought that a woman is nothing unless married? None of her other accomplishments matter? In spite of being a good person, she made a mistake in marrying a guy who was bad for her, and divorced him? And you still heap blames

Are you secretly jealous?

Klint... so dis is the fyne gyal you gohome to each night... after acting the fool and cracking our ribs... hmmm... no comment...

Throw shade how? Even in this Naija, you must to secure your bag, no matter where you are: airport oh, taxi oh, church oh, police station oh...
In fact, na church dey fear me pass

ChimaAdeoye:
[size=16pt]Type of threads that make people mock the SE.

Just look at the gravel road and it's tiny width with no gutters. Only God knows its length.

Anyhow, tell this guy to invest in agriculture, poultry and build small agro-based factories to employ youths in his community. That will help develop his place much faster than the 100 short gravel roads[/size].

Ah ah... which kind bad belle be dis? Is it the responsibility of any private individual to create roads to a town/village? Where is it done? A gentleman has used his own private funds to create a road, and all you can do is mock it. Na wa oh... This is the purview of governments, and 1 man has made this possible. Can you imagine the enormity of that task? The logistics and funding needed? This is somebody who has the best interests of his community at heart, and I doubt millionaire anywhere in the world would mock him for his generosity and ability.

AnonyNymous:
Currently, we don't have any Nigerian owned Civil Engineering company large enough to take on this project.
We're not relying on China per se, its a Chinese owned Civil Engineering company. They have a branch in Africa and have been taking on many projects for a long time.

And the lamentation is that, as a result of our short sightedness, we won't ever have a Civil Engineering company large enough:

- we won't loan them money at favourable terms
- we want them to import all the materials and expertise
- we won't partner them with the bigger companies to work on these large projects
- we won't spend time and money to help train them
- we'll second guess them and frustrate them at every turn

and so on. Once China gets too expensive or obviously imperialistic, we'll turn our begging bowls elsewhere. That's what vexing me.

saintdennis:
Baba I tire but actually china did not develop themselves the soviets and u.s.a did.

Difference is leadership, the Chinese learnt all they could, sent their citizens to the west and eastern blocs and when they came back home they put them straight to working on developing china.

In naija even when the harvard educated peeps come back na only to thief dey their mind

Agreed... we don't seem to learn... nothing wrong with developing your economy with somebody's aid, as long as you're learning along the way. Arguably, the US developed on the back of UK technology, and then took the lead by the early 1900s. What I'm griping about is that we "buy" development projects, but never "do" development.