₦airaland Forum

People like Smart Adeyemi are what the system throws at us
Shallow minds
So sad we are stuck with his ilk
And he is one of the better ones!

dudu19:
@oldie its walk out, the topic is got noting to do wit keepin fit

Sorry sir
Corrected

To put it simply,
Most of our public office holders and public affairs commentators
are mentally and morally corrupt !
I do agree with her

@ vigasimple , and God/god or satan or whatever has got nothing to do with this

redsun:
IQ test should be mandatory.People that doesn't even know what intelligence stands for runs the affairs of men,it's like entrusting a nutty child with great and enormous responsibilities.

No relationship between IQ and corruption
It is a systemic problem
The smarter ones bleed the system more

I think the problems are both psychiatric and physiological
The mental illness can be cured, hopefully
A lot has to be done in the areas of primitive accumulation and
stealing of public funds.

All loop holes must be plugged
Laws must be applied strictly and offenders punished severely
The greed and insatiable want will be wiped out of their stupid
and fat stomachs!

You can work walk out, if you had an alternative
It is always a good idea to attend all interviews
At least for the experience

Decimalization will not change the value of the Naira
It will only reduce the numbers of billionaires we have

lucabrasi:
@oldie
sorry but was the stupid comment directed at me or the poster?

I knew this might be asked after I posted
As a rule I do not insult people in real or virtual life
The comment was directed to nobody

It is a class thing stupid!
The poor think the system owes them everything
Including training and disciplining their kids

How many middle class to upper class kids have been knifed or killed on the streets?
Very few or None!

The Nigerian academics and brilliant minds in our system, will not resign and walk away!
They have seen and tasted the juice
They will always rationalise why they should hold on
They use the system to enrich themselves
They don't have the balls to resign!
It is not because they love the country better than you and I
It is because they make fortunes out of our misfortunes!

Before you can understand the Banjo story,
You need to know:
Why the 1966 coup took place
Who were involved
What were the reasons for the coup
Why subsequent events led to the civil war

The same reasons for the coup are still with us today:
- Corruption
- Tribalism
- In-eptitude leadership
- Egocentric leadership
- Tokenism
- Shallow followership

The police intimidated you and you gave a bribe of N1,000
Then the country is doomed?
Sometime I wonder, if you guys want to change this country

And what offence did you commit to have bribed the police?

naijaking1:
@Udobe
Points you must know.
1. Any time you leave your natural environment there is always some degree of danger- I live in NYC, and there're some areas I don't visit.
2. Your boyfriend and myself may be biased because we obviously have Igbo ancestors.
3. Given #1, and #2, I would say follow your heart, but be guided by brain.
4. Your boyfriend would likely give you better direction than anybody out there, maybe he can come with you.
5. Follow basic international safety travel plans, immunizations, and protocols.
6. Get more information from your charity organization and places your services may be mostly needed.
7. Remember self preservation!!!
Good luck

Good advice
Go where your heart leads you.
There is always good in doing good!
There are also so many decent people at the grassroots
You will be pleasantly surprised

I have a friend who is presently volunteering in the Niger Delta
(Areas I will not venture to go)
He has not been kidnapped or molested

We all have our own biases
Typical of the unknown
But use your head, whereever you go

bilymuse:
who wants to come and live in Nigeria for 3 years before becoming a citizen, its crazy !!!!!!!!!!
You ll be lucky, if you are still normal after 3 years, provided you re alive. Armed robbers regularly target returnees, and the Nigeria factor would make lose faith in humanity.

This is the type of Nigerians I have problems with
Arrogant, Ignorant and brainless!

This article has spoken about the "Nigerianess" in all of us.
The problems are not only that of the government but the governed.
Everybody blames somebody else for the Nigerian problems

We all know what the problems are, but what are we doing as an individual
to profer solutions to these problems?

I think we may have to start from re-evaluating our value system

The best airport I have been to recently, has been the Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 International T3.
This is a spectacular piece of architecture
I was pleasantly surprised!

And coming back home, the problem is still attitudinal.
The so called big men who take advantage of the system
and the workers who take advantage of all of us!

When we all realise that orderliness is status-blind, then
things we start working very well in Nigeria.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn3_html?pdate=290608&ptitle=Our%20Attitude%20Is%20The%20Problem&cpdate=290608

I read this article and I believe it has told us some hometruths
I have posted the link here for your info, please read it.
If you need to comment, critisize the content and not the writer

The parts I find very instructive are:

"But you can't run away from such comparison in this age of globalisation. You use the same technology as the white man, you are setting up global banks, your country is trying to play big in the international market, your people want to live by international standards, your government wants Direct Foreign Investment, your footballers are playing in Europe. We are either part of the world or we are not. And my argument is that we do not have the right attitude, we are not bringing the right attitude to the world of competition. National growth is about attitude"

"Take for example the problem of gas supply to our new thermal stations, the thermal stations have been built but there is no gas because we are still flaring gas. And the gas that we are not wasting, we have sold to the mulitnationals and collected money upfront. President Yar'�dua himself said so. It means nobody ever thought that the thermal stations built by the Obasanjo government would need gas and that provision should be made for that. You get the impression that our leaders do not think"

"The difference is that the white man may collect bribe, but he will not go out of his way to jeopardise the public good. And if he gets caught violating the law, he knows he will go to jail. There will be nobody to say that he is a saint and should be forgiven or that he is too big to be subjected to the laws of the land."

"Here in Nigeria, all you need would be a former Head of State to speak up on your behalf and you can run away with your loot and even get a National Honour in due course."

Those best graduates will not be allowed to make any inputs. Big contracts are usually won by nonenties or by well-connected persons or those who are willing to offer bribe. The Nigerian system is not interested in merit. Your religion, your ethnicity, these are more importnat considerations."

"The thing annoys me. If Nigeria wants to be led by the best and the brightest, it must end the culture of quota system."

"You can still have a quota system but a quota system that will throw up the very best and not the relations of privileged persons who have captured the state."

"Intelligent and gifted persons who want to make a difference find it difficult to survive in Nigeria. You should know that. If you show too much promise, there is a standby crowd of nonenties who will come after you. Is he the only one? He is disturbing other people. Who does he think he is? Let him go and sit down. The mediocres get praised because they do not pose any threat to anybody's ego; and they are given responsibilities that they cannot handle. And they cause havoc, or they pull down everyone to their own evel."

"What bothers me is that there are Nigerians abroad who also behave exactly that way. I know Nigerians who live in England but who are no better than Nigerians in Lagos. They watch Nigerian movies. They work in Nigerian shops. They attend Nigerian parties. They don't listen to news, if they have to, they prefer AIT, NTA, LTV, Channels - local Nigerian channels that are now available on satellite TV. They attend Nigerian churches in London. They live in the South East. When you listen to them, you would think they have just arrived from Shaki. I guess the only time such people have contact with the white man is when they use the underground."

And lastly the buffet analogy:

"Teach Nigerians how to eat buffet"

"What kind of silly idea is that? My friend, what has buffet got to do with national progress."

"May be our friend is hungry."

"I am serious about this"

"Okay?"

"I observe that at many Nigerian parties these days, guests are treated to buffet or what you call serve-yourself. You watch how Nigerian eat buffet and you'd see a picture of our national crisis"

"I don't see the picture"

"Me neither"

"Can't see nothing"

"First, there is class discrimination. The high table gets the best part of the buffet: A reserved serving point with more than enough, or the right to go to the serving point first. That is class discrimination. Others are made to feel like second class citizens. Just the same way there is inequality in the society."

"� have no problems with the idea of a high table, and VIPs getting the best part of the meal"

"I do. There is too much oppression in Nigeria. Why invite me to a party if your plan is to humiliate me?"

"But have you not also noticed that even when other tables are called, those who get to the serving points first, are so greedy they scoop everything. People mix all kinds of things, salad with eba, goat peppersoup with salad, porridge with tuna. When you look at some plates, you wonder whether some people have drums for stomachs."

"You are abosultely right there. In fact, once I hear buffet, I try to jump tables because if you wait for your turn, you may not get anything to eat."

"You know some people will carry three plates at once. Appetiser, main course and dessert. At a buffet, you are supposed to take a little at a time and eat according to the size of your stomach. But some women will collect food and collect for their husbands who are sitting down and waiting to be served."

"I don't do buffet. I recruit hostesses who ask you what you want to eat and serve you. That way, the food will go round"

"But the funny part of buffet is that the people who have stolen all the food end up wasting it. At the end of the party, there will be angry guests who have had nothing to eat, and abandoned plates with mounds of food literring some of the tables. "

"So what you are saying is that if Nigerians can only learn how to share and manage food, most of of our problems will be solved."

"You think about it. I am not supposed to spell it all out. Use your brain my friend."

Thats the Nigerian story for you
How sad,

And what does Tsvangirai stand for?
I do not even believe he believes in his cause
He wants others to fight his fight
Thats not a good sign of a leader

IncaGold:
My opinion: Personally i think the nigerian stock make needs to go through some corrections as most companies are trading far beyond their fundamental values!

Very sensible opinion
Greedy operators taking advantage of greedy investors

Seastone:
When and why when money is involved you will find a Nigerian involved?

Because our value system is warped. So so wrong
But there are other thousands of Nigerian women in Norway who do decent jobs, however lowly.

The bottom line is this get-rich mentality, my car is bigger-than-yours mindset that some of our
youths possess.

We need to start changing this.

Is anyone still using NITEL?
NITEL is a pipe C - waste of public funds!

Kudirat Abiola, Alfred Rewane, Tunde Idiagbon, Dele Giwa, MKO Abiola, Bola Ige, Funso Williams and many more. . . . .

When we start mixing emotions with ideology, then we have a problem
The only common factor to the names you mentioned, is that they were
all murdered by the instruments of the state

They were no freedom fighters. I am sorry
They were part of the elitist group who leaned towards the left a bit
Some of them were part of the Nigerian problems, compromising when
it suited them!

The real freedom fighters are the average Nigerians
who fight and die every minute of the day to survive

The change should be “common-man-centric”
The change should start from our attitudes, our values
The change should be a mass movement, non-violent (possible?)

Until we all realise that we are being held captive by this 
unique tribe, their families, hangers-on etc we will go-nowhere

They ran our lives, still run our lives and will continue to do so
Unless we come together as a unit to fight them!

@Radiant
Changing the norm has never been easy
Especially the so called entrenched norms
There are few powerful entrenched people who benefit from these abnormal situations
They are a unique tribe.
They are not Hausas, Ibos, Yorubas or the minorities
They are from everywhere
They are in the minority
They hurt all of us, yourself, my children and all Nigerians
The more we rationalise their actions, based on tribe and religion
The more things will never work here
And the more they prosper and the more we fight amongst ourselves
Who looses?
Yourself, myself and the entity called Nigeria
We must start fighting this unique tribe now, for all our sakes!
Our future can be redeemed by ourselves

I was very emotional, when I was writing this
I hope it makes sense
Dont blame me, I am a plain old engineer!
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Blind patriotism is wrong
So also is absolute negativism

We all blame the white man for our woes
We censure our leaders for all the problems in the nation
We chastise our elders for our own short comings

It is time to do something right for our nation
What have you done right lately for your country?

Abhor ethnicity.
Being ethnocentric helps
That’s the meaning of unity in diversity

Corruption is the genesis of our developmental woes
Corruption does not have tribe or religion
Corruption is evil
Corruption is selfish
Let us fight corruption

The future of this country belongs to the youth
I am no longer a youth
This country belongs to all the youth
Not a northern or southern youth
But a Nigerian youth

Don’t go the ways your parents went
Blaming everybody apart from themselves

Stay positive
Change the system, in your own little way
Nigeria will be great
Only if the youth will see the bigger picture

I still believe in this country!
And this is not blind patriotism
We all need to work at it
For yourself, my children and your own children

Typical Nigerian argument
No goal
No substance
No direction
- - - Like our leaders!

I do not have problems with Universities awarding first class degrees
I hope this is not a marketing gimmick!

Some British universities are now awarding first class degrees easily nowadays, especially to foreign graduating students
They make more money from foreigners!

I wish them luck!

And what happens when the the public service becomes top-heavy in future?
Self employment would have been a better alternative, I think

Lets all focus on the issues here
There are both moral and quality issues with Globacom.

The moral issue: I do not think we should support thievery, even if the proceeds of theft were used for something noble!
The QoS (Quality of Service) by all the Service Providers is below par, almost the worst in the world.
Forget all the razmatazz being churned out regarding our phone density.
Quality is quite different from quantity

Like some people have said, efforts should have been made to improve quality in Nigeria before we export expertise
Do not let us be carried away with all these emotions!

From engineering point of view, qualitywise I will grade the GSM providers in Nigeria in this order:
Celtel, MTN and Globacom
I do not owe any allegiance to any of them.
I am speaking purely as a Nigerian

Let us always use our first eleven
Globacom is not a good Nigeian example, I am sorry

We should stop supporting mediocrity, however nationalistic we may want to be

Discouraging street trading is not a bad idea
But I think removing traders from our roads should be done gradually
Provide workable alternatives to rehab them
Then prohibit street trading after 6pm
Thereafter total ban!

I do not think street trading can be banned with fiat!
Just like banning okada riders without providing alternatives.

Good music
Bad role model

@ superman
Did you understand what I wrote?
Or better, do you understand the incoherent crap you posted?