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musicwriter:
Education is not the same in Europe, Asia, America, Africa. Education in the other places; except Africa, is based on their own languages, terms, culture, point of view, history, e.t.c. During slavery and colonialism, the original model of education in Africa was removed and replaced with what white people believe to be education. Same way they made their own languages official in our lands while our languages were relegated to the back seat.

The prerequisite for formal knowledge acquisition in Nigeria is English. The prerequisite for formal knowledge acquisition in Benin republic is French.
e.t.c.

No matter how intelligent a Yoruba boy, he cannot be educated in Africa, unless he speaks English. No matter how intelligent an Igbo girl, she cannot be educated in Africa, unless she speaks English.
e.t.c.

Get it?.

It ought not to be so!!. Because, this alone cuts off a large chunk of the African population from knowledge acquisition.

Of course, you would not understand these things cause you're already a victim of the system. Our leaders too are already victims, because nobody escapes it.

Lord Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of African independence noticed these problems in the 50's. He was so embittered that he called education in Africa a "fraud". Unfortunately, he didn't live to make necessary changes.

Indeed, Lord Kwame Nkrumah noticed the problem with education in Africa. After observing the distortion of education in Africa, he said .

As you can see, the father of African independence who schooled in about 3 American universities called education in Africa a fraud. He even went further to say in future this education would create the type of elites that would become a problem to Africa's development!. This's the same problem you've observed, but unfortunately you can't fathom the cause of the problem is education.

Another African scholar Mr. C. Tsehloane Keto, observed that education in Africa was faulty and that it makes us surrender power to foreigners. Mr. Keto said

All the above gives white people intellectual superiority over us- which is why you see a white man giving instruction for a job done by Nigerians. It's so because we the African people have not realized the foolery in what we call education- the education cuts us off from real knowledge acquisition!. It only indoctrinate us!. We no longer remember what we have today is not true education but an indoctrination fed us by the British and French. The intellectual superiority white people exert over us is so big that a white man boasted to me recently saying

He had the audacity to say such to me because he understands we're being fooled with what they fed us as education during colonialism. He understands that knowledge is only knowledge, if they say so. He understands they create knowledge and that all we can do in Africa is copy and paste. Yet, the saddest part is that while white people understands the damage and how western education mess up our minds, but we Africans don't!.

Until African nations re-invent education and eschew what Fela Anikulapokuti called ''follow follow'' and what Bob Marley called ''mental slavery'' we'll remain in this situation of looking up to white people as a standard.

I've researched the problem with education in Africa and I know exactly what the problem is. In order for Africa to develop we must create a model of education that’s grounded in African philosophy, ideals, point of view, history, culture, e.t.c. A model of education without colonial hangovers. The same model of education the Japanese have used to acquire knowledge to build technological wonders and went to the moon without western influence. I’m talking about a model of education that will work for Africa!.

Canada USA Malaysia India n many more have their education system tailored using English-language with English being the predominant language.

While there is nothing wrong with being taught in African languages, I think Africans should stop wailing about frivolities. The list of countries with English as the primary language of learning abound with such countries doing significantly beta than Nigeria.

Nigeria n Nigerians need to quit making illogical excuses for their failures n strive to ensure sucess is achieved with the inherited system from the British. The system is not the problem Nigerians n their leaders are.

[size=38pt]Late NSA to Jonathan Gen Azzazi said on Live TV "Channels TV" PDP is boko haram and boko haram is PDP before his own kinsmen in the person of the drunk Jonathan Ebele gave the instruction that he must be assasinated like a piece of fowl and sadly at any cost. [/size]This is definitely not a surprise.

Igbo people again

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Confederacy was part of the aburi accord in 1966 nwokem.
Igbos suggested debulking of Nigeria earlier

I thought its was an igbo man that balkanised the federating unit into unitary system initially.

[size=38pt]The number of Igbos that have become mentally deranged simple because Buhari won the election is alarming. Anyway you all have about 3 more years to wail your souls to the grave so please continue[/size].

tit:
oloriburuku vice president.
the best way to transport goods from lagos to calabar is by sea.

Was that what your deranged father told you and how does the picture reiterate the nonsense you post ? The adjourning city btw Lagos n Calabar how do you transport goods to them ? You need to do the needful since you can not imagine an aboki ruling you, just get a rope and be gone.

dollyjoy:
This is myopic and baseless!


Nigerian girls are simply the best.

Best fire ?! Naija babes are slut and am talking almost 97% of them. Note that does not say the guys are saints

musicwriter:
Thanks for that observation.

It's a shame white people exert intellectual superiority over us in our own country. And it's the same no matter what African country you go.

It all boils down to wrong model of education in Africa. The system of education we run in Africa is still the same we inherited from colonial Britain. The education was originally meant to keep us dumb, unfortunately, it's still achieving it's purpose as you can see. It only allow the creation of follow-follow leaders and follow-follow citizens. So, we see airplanes fly and we even enter it, but we don't want to know how it was made. We see ships travel on water, but we don't care how it was built. All we want is buy the latest Prado jeeps, but we don't care about how it was made.

Our education system disables the African mind to want to explore scientifically, and it was intentionally made that way by Britain. Same for Francophone African countries.

The purpose of western education in Africa was created to do exactly what you saw in the pictures. I'm even surprised you noticed that, because many so called educated people who has been condemned by the system by default lacks the mental capability to ask such question.

Africa cannot develop until education is restructured and science taught in our native languages across Africa to enable children have inquisitive minds; like start building robots even from primary schools.

Africa cannot develop without investment in grassroots science

Wrong, the black race is just not ready for emancipation. Education is the same from Europe Asia Africa n the Americas. Anytime the black man is ready to do away with greed that is when Africa will progress.

The Europeans succeeded in taming their greed having realise there is no new land to be exploited or conquered, Africa is far from realising conquering n exploiting its populace will not augur well for its development. Its not about educstion, its more of common sense / intellingce of the Africa leader.

Ugonnax:
No....all states cannot follow suit because all men are not created equal. Just as the Germans are more successful than their neighbors, Jews to their neighbors, so shall Igbos be to Yorubas and Hausas perpetually. No amount of envy, hate can change this...even if a yoruba or Hausa steals 900 billion, gets phd, work sun up to sun down, he can never be like Igbos...why? All men are not created equal!

Igbo boy if you like chest beat from now till the next millennium it does deny the fact that it is the Yoruba land you run to for success. Some land will forever remain like the biblical desert Moses passed try on his way to Egpty, the erosion ravaged land of you Igbo's readily comes to mind.

While you keep boasting it is on record there's no Igbo among the top ten richest in Nigeria

For every thing Obiano an Igbo as achieved there's a Yoruba living to let you know you will till eternity chase the shadow of the Yoruba just as Obiano IGR is behind Ogun / Amosun.

If your Obiano is working on building 4 overhead bridges always remba there's an Amosun that as completed 7 and presently working on extra three.


[size=28pt] The story goes on n on. The endemic failures of the Igbo race at superiority in Nigeria is unquantifiable. From the first coup plotter, to the first mumu head of state without power, to the first war monger etc the Igbo race n its ambition is only synonymous with one thing in Nigeria and that is FAILURE.[/size]

Disclaimer : It should be noted this view is strictly for the person quoted and not any sensible Igbo.

Godgay:
god bless buhari for not uttering a word while people were being killed now he deploys a troop Whetter to protect his brothers we do not know,and you want one god to bless him

He should have ordered the troop to go and kill the herd men right ? That would make more sense to you ba ?
Or would you have preferred he sent the troop to go and wake the dead ?

Jadekitana:
Hmmm na wa o, this your artist is fine o

its obvious you are fanatical about fine boys sha take it easy. Me 2 cent

daylife7:
In GST 101, it is called FALLACY (error in argument) if u ever wen to the university. ..you are avoiding the argument. Am not partisan. Read the first paragraph of the article

To talk about fallacy, errors in reasoning you must first be able to comprehend what precisely reasining is. That is where your lecturers failed. You were obviously thought type of reasoning but lack the intelligence to comprehend what reasoning was all about. If you had taken the time to educate your soul on that your comment of NL won't be as pathetic or appalling. Refer to my first quote of your comment for an astonishing example of what pathetic is.

daylife7:
U just dey speak grammar: the guy is talking about approach of a government in its first tenure to quickly arrest d situation on ground. .....u think nigerian population is increased by 50%. Do u know the dead rate in this country. ....just shout up, if u don't have anything positive to add

You need to do more of the shutting up, you obviously have nothing to contribute and expect every sensible Nigerian to regret voting out the clueless thief from Otueke with his gang of thieves but alas you have 4 more miserable years to be tormented with the truth till you give up thinking every one will accept the bs the dimwit op posted or simply get a rope and do the needful.

darocha1:
Congrats.
Its unfortunate we Nigerians dont appreciate and hype our own.
This reminds me of the great Jay jay okocha and how he neva won African footballer of the year due to lack of support from home.
Oliseh mite have had ego issues, he mite have goofed in some ways on the eagles job but there were some points he raised during his resignation that no one cared to address.
His recent appointment by FiFa shows he has worth and its our people in glass house who have issues.
Congrats to the man
Congrats to Nigeria

If someone say you have gone mad now, some will complain that is harsh. How can any living soul queried Nigeria love ' be it Hausa Igbo or Yoruba" for Okocha. For God sake what is wrong with you people ? If I take a wild guess concerning your tribe now you go be one born throway Igbotic slowpoke that enjoy running his mouth on NL but neglect making use of your brain.

funnynation:
I'm not on same league with you. I will not insult you bcs I know where you belong.

The essence of my comment was to silence you so therefore remain buried with every other illogical reasoning tormenting your brain.

ndcide:
Suddenly anyone who does not agree with you becomes igbo. How shallow.

The FG have even attacked the state Assembly with gun shots everywhere. abducted lawmakers for no reason. What more do they want to do. J

You fight who you can beat. Carry your tribal stupidity comot jare.

I already said if the FG goes that route they'll become unpopular.

Being a bigot is not a crime against the constitution of the federal republic. Only those that are pained from the lost of the last election wail about any initiative from the present govt whether bad or good and we all know what tribe constitute 99.9% human of such obstinate reasoning.

asorocker:
Why yorubas are so hell bent on having this project included in the budget is really surprising why are they crying more than the South South and south east.

Even the South East and Niger delta who are supposed to benefit from the project are not batting an eyelid.

Could this project be the Savior of south west or east bikonu.

[size=28pt]How come so many generation of you Igbotic Biafrans will live several centuries without a brain ? If a train line goes from Lagos to Calabar, how does that benefit only the SE and the SS without benefiting the Yoruba SW ?

Why is about 99.9 of you Igbos cursed by your god Amadioha beyond redemption ? What sort of plague did the almighty God curse the brain of almost 99.9% of the entire Igbo race with that you can barely reason like a baboon talk less of a human ? [/size]

opalu:
China go dey feel like one big oga for their mind now.
I once supervised a water treatment project handled by Chinese company for Lagos state government.
These guys don't know JACK. They packed their apprentices inside plane send them to Nigeria as expatriates. Can u imagine I caught them welding reinforcements head-to-head instead of lapping? And many other professional atrocities

Yet when they give our governments loans, they give us on the condition that we must give their companies the projects to handle. And if the project costs 20B, they charge us 42B and that we pay so so percentage before they release the balance. And the percentage will be equal to 20B! Hence Nigeria has been raped left right and center.

NB: No Chinese or Government person should call my line for this post. I am free to make my views known

Any update about the Europeans and Americans or are they saints from God ? NA dem no all ba?

funnynation:
After people din share money finish.. I weep for this country.




Nairaland official comedian

...but I did not see you weep over that of Bayelsa and Rivers hopefully you will not weep till your grave.

zendy:
Stop talking like someone suffering from mental slavery. How can a white man called Lugard come to Africa to tell what your country should be? It is for you to decide what your country should be. I'm indigenous born Igbo man, how can I go to a Yoruba or Hausa man and tell them we "one" just because a white man said so? Is that not madness? You mentioned Scotland and Catalonia. Scotland asked for a referendum and their right to self determination was aknowledged and respected. They are even planning another referendum. Catalonia is also on its way to conducting their own. But in Nigeria, mention referendum and some Yoruba man in Ibadan who doesn't even know where Igboland is will start shouting treason. The important thing here is that we have all have the right to self determination and if I don't want to be with you, then you have no business being with me.

You still lack comprehension, Igbotic dunce if Luggard came to Africa to tell you how Nigeria should be and that is not acceptable to you which I also agree with does it not follow that the likes of Education civilization and the religion he brought should also be automatically rejected as well abi na your papa propound Christianity civilization and education ?Common sense should simply tell that your argument of sucession based on Luggard's input concerning Nigeria does not hold water simply because if you chose to castigate him you must castigate all that he brought.

ndcide:
Na who you fit beat, you go follow fight. When Lai Mohammed tried fayose, he got the bashing of his life.
Remember the corn in the anus line?

The FG has tried DSS harassment, but failed woefully.

Abeg. You can't keep fighting someone smarter than you. If the FG becomes high handed because of fayose, it will become unpopular.

How some of you Igbo reason is astonishing to say the least. If the same FG picsk up the Fayose now your anger saturated oblongata powered by hatred will instantly formulate another argument lacking in reasoning and common sense. Is it a curse of your tribe that you must not think before you type on NL ?

buchilino:
R U REALLY SURE? DON'T EVA STAND 4 ANYONE ESPECIALLY IF DAT PERSON IS A NIGERIAN POLITICIAN. AM FEDERAL CIVIL WORKER, I TELL AUTHORITATIVELY DAT CORRUPTION STILL EXIST IN D SYSTEM. INFACT IT'S EVEN WORST NOW COS SOME NORTHERN WORKERS BELIEVE DAT DIS IS THEIR TIME 2 EMBEZZLE FUNDS. I NO OF A PARTICULAR GOVT AGENCY, WHERE D DIRECTOR WAS CAUGHT RED HAND ON CCTV LOADING GHANA MUST GO BAG FILLED WITH CASH IN HIS SUV. DAT PIC WAS SENT 2 D PRESIDENCY. BUT AS AM SPEAKING WITH U, NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE. N GUESS WAT D DIRECTOR IS STILL IN D EMBEZZLING WITH IMPUNITY. HE( DIRECTOR ) IS FROM D NORTH

[size=28pt]Where is the photo you this basardic Igbotic Ipob lair ? Your life n that of you entire house hold as been dedicated to lying even before your father even thought of banging your mother to produce the lie of a thing called you. [/size]

Bluezy13:
Now I'm jealous...
It's high time I settled down with one of these girls...probably Chioma...no, she can't cook. Perhaps, Esther or Olari...
Oh, I almost forgot Angela.


Hmmm...I'll just look for a fresh girl to avoid problem.

. Oh boy ! Do time wait for no man

If na my people they would have turn the thread into another show of their flat head superiority. The most brilliant tribes among this black race, the lost tribe of Israel, funny people.

I hope this dunce stated all of this on the floor of the senate.

zendy:
Because unlike "Nigeria", I still have my power of choice with education and Christianity. You think anyone forced me to be educated? No. Do You think anyone forced or is forcing me to be a Christian? Of course not. Now let me ask you this, do you think anyone is forcing me to be a Nigerian against my will? There lies your answer.

What is the name of that which is forcing you to be a Nigerian ? Is he/she your local councillor, state rep, fed rep senate or governor ? The truth is with your education and religion you still do not have the intellingence of how to stop being a Nigerian, you even do not have the intelligence to comprehend your demand.

Is it to stop being a Nigerian or expecting a part of Nigeria is seceded to you just because you asked ? Do you have any idea how long Catulunya, Scotland as been seeking succession from their parent country without success ? Mr Man if you want to stop being a Nigerian you have options such as suicide or marriage to a Somali or Rwandan.

Amitex:
To all those shouting NASS this and that, let us wait for their reply. As for me, we do not need a coastal rail to be financed by concession. That means that the Chinese would build, operate and transfer the project, just like Lekki concession projects. If you understand what that means.

Questions to ask are:

Why not develop any two of Calabar, Warri and Onne or any other seaport with this fund? That would decongest Lagos ports and be of better benefits to SS & SE, if you love the people so much. Unless we are saying that SS & SE would perpetually be dependent on Lagos for import and export.

Why rail, to serve what purpose? To move goods from Lagos to the SS and SE? Why not complete the second Niger bridge instead?

Why are you concessioning only the Calabar-Lagos rail of all rail lines in Nigeria? Meaning, the cost would be recouped from users who incidentally would be SS and SE.

We should reason things before castigating others. have we even heard from NASS??

The stupidity that transerve the length n breath of the igbotic nation is enormous. I have repeatedly queried many of your likes on NL, what right or justification do you have to suggest what project should be embark upon by a govt you never voted for ?

Now listen good democracy as a form of govt only offers best of available alternatives it does not offer you paradise, it is not redemption so you either make do with what Igbo's in the APC want as project that will be beneficial to them n their communities or what till Jonathan is returned.

Beside how many of your generation did Jonathan concessioned to pay for the second Niger bridge you are wailing about or was it not this same Buhari that save your generation from paying for just a bridge with the future of your unborn generation s.

If you care to know common sense should ordinarily tell you a rail system is as efficient as a port and way beta than a second bridge when the first bridge is still very active. If the Igbo's sincerely need a seaport they should do a visibility study n seek partners just like the Yoruba are doing with Lekki port or simply wait to vote in an Igbo or friendly Igbo president to initiate the project and stop disturbing others on NL.

It is pathetic how some ipob touts come on this forum daily wailing that their regions have no federal presence. They refer to Nigeria as a zoo their father n mother grew up in not minfing their parent are part of th animals that make up the zoo. Calling it all sort of name, insulting everyone on the forum because they are from the lost tribe of Israel etc.

A new survey recently carried out in the USA by a ipob americanised agency also declared them most brilliant black race few days ago, while that is an astounding accomplishment we are yet to understand what criteria was used to bring about this analysis and while the same agency is yet to declare which white tribe is the most brilliant in the white race.

Needless to say ipob feed fat on mediocrity so while they relished in this act of delusion it was discovered that Igbo senators in the federal assembly of Nigeria colluded with Saraki to deny Biafra a 60 billion niara rail line while authorising that of Kano to Lagos.

Why the Igbotic senators chose to go this way is beyond my comprehsion, everyday many NL Igbo's argue their superiority over the Almajiri but do their senator not have the intelligence to comprehend how meaningful this rail will be to Biafra or are they just hating the project does not start or end in any of the core Igbotic states or do they just hate the fact its been spearheaded by the one they live to hate in the person of pmb ?

Igbotic Ipob youths over to you.

Twitter senator your contribution is needed here. We have always heard about how you go dead on the floor only to wail on twitter please were you asleep when this project was removed by your more sensible Almajiri colleagues ?

egalitarian78:
Who are they deceiving? To tell me dat PMB will decline signing d budget cos of dividend of democracy due to a SS area of Calabar is a white lie aimed at setting up d natnl assembly against d masses, make Bubu appear as pan-Nigerian and as usual shift dia usual blame game to d doors of d legislators since Gej blame transfer strategy is not working any longer. This same budget FEC review dat he refused to attend is now this important. For God's sake d lifeline people have been hoping dat cud jumpstart the restoration of d economy is d signing into law of this budget but that appears to v ran into troubled murky waters of politics. These guys are really insensitive, kakistocratic and directionless. What happened to sending supplementary budget for any gray areas while implementing d ones dat are well appropriated. Obj u see ur advice dat he can run without budget till June?. If d budget is being suspended cos of this then d Bubu travel to China shd be put on hold till it is sorted out but alas d junketeer will be off this morning. If d natnl assembly shd be alive and active they must not approve everything sent to her lest they become rubber stamp. No sane Nigerian will support any action dat will push d country into foreign debt again . It is most painful dat most of us are extremely resilient, fanatically docile and annoyingly cowardly. In saner climes, 'Occupy Nigeria ' shd v been a daily routine now but we r all here bashing ourselves. Shame

Althiugh Nigerian are presently facing perilous moment arising from budget delay n fuel scarcity people like you are good example to continue supporting Buhari. Dullard are seen daily on NL referring to another as dullard, imagine a Senate that completely erased a 60 billion naira project forgeting the earlier the project commences the earlier ti completion. We are talking meaningful capital project here and you are here arguing it should be in a supplementary budget.

Are the senators billion naira budget going to be included in the supplemenatry budget ? Here is a man with foresight projecting such gigantic project in the SE, if he did not ipob like you will claim there is no federal presence in the East. What exactly is the problem with the brains of some of you Igbos ? Why can't you shut up if you lack the intelligence to make meaningful contributions on this forum or beta still why not call your father uncle etc someone anyone with a developed brain to engage others on the forum.

To many deranged Igbos across the globe. If the US can not declare a particular white race as the most brilliant in the world I wonder where and how it can decide Igbos are the most brilliant black race or is the brilliance of the white race equal among varying ethnicity ?