₦airaland Forum

Good people, Great nation!

alj harem: Raw truth. Thank you. Most of this so called southerners are very funny at times

Bros, don't blame the southerners that sent their children to school but blame the likes of Ibrahim Idris; the former Kogi state Governor who just married his 13th wife. This is a man that ordinarily should show an example to his people about giving birth to children you can train. If each of his wives gives birth to 4 kids each, our former Governor will become a father to 52 children and still counting. Then his gateman who sees him as an example of an educated man will emulate him by marring his sixth wife to also appear "educated". you can then imagine how many children the gateman will give birth to and what will be their outcome.

The problem of the North lies with its elites.

thehomer: God sits by while these people bomb several of his churches, he doesn't get any blame though he knew what they were planning. These people get themselves blown up and God gets the credit? Please help us ask God what he was doing on the Christmas and Easter bombings.

You are very right dear, its just as He knew that you'll come online today to insult Him yet He allowed you to live.That is the full defination of love.


Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good

[quote author=Okija_juju]And where was he during Christmas and Easter day bombings?! [/quote]You are not the first to ask this question and certainly will not be the last but those who did it before you regreted it later.


Judges 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

2Pe 3:9 ¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If this is true then it's a great moral burden on the supposed "man of integrity".

Is Nigeria the poorest in the World? No.
Is Northern Nigerian the only region in the World that practices Islam? No.
Is Northern Nigeria the only country that combines Islam with poverty? NO

Why then are our Northern Brethren always coming home with this type of infamous trophies?
Is it a coincidence or a deliberate attempt by some poeple to keep them in perpetual subjugation and make them a willing tool for wrecking havoc?
Why are they so religious to the point of turning poverty to piety?


Certainly, I seem to have questions and questions but who will answer me?

Northern Nigeria Has Highest Number Of Children Out Of School In The World - WB

I can't believe the illiteracy in our north is this chronic, Who is responsible for this great wickedness?

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has touched off a furore with his controversial programme to build 400 almajiri schools with public funds. By committing federal resources to Quranic schools, the President has taken a dangerous step that could entangle the government in a messy constitutional, political and bureaucratic quagmire. When recently, he inaugurated a special school for almajiris in Sokoto, he took two wrong steps. First, he dabbled directly in primary school education, a function reserved for the states and local governments. Second, he stepped into a constitutional trap since the basic law expressly forbids the government from promoting any religious faith.

The constitutional breach has broad implications. By succumbing to pressure from some quarters, he failed to realise that he was somehow conceding to the blatant attempt by some interest groups to shift responsibility for the presence of over 10 million child-beggars in the North from the host states, where it rightly belongs, to the centre and, by extension, the rest of the country. Giving aid to any religious institution violates the Constitution. Jonathan should back out.

Almajiris are youths, some as young as seven, who are pupils of itinerant Quranic teachers. They are consigned to unmanaged fates. Their entire existence revolves around instruction in the Islamic faith and begging for sustenance, since no one fends for them. They are homeless; some may have left their parents in Maiduguri to end up in Kano, 600 kilometres away. The anachronism in this outmoded form of child abuse has long been acknowledged. What have been lacking are political will to outlaw it, the discipline to enforce free education by the northern states and principled and visionary leadership to declare the practice inhuman.

Babangida Aliyu, Governor of Niger State and Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, has admitted this: “The system of almajiri served a good purpose in the past…but we have passed that stage now. We have now reached a situation with respect to almajiri where we have to be ‘wicked’ in order to be good to ourselves. We must say, ‘No,’ to this system and then work out how to integrate them (almajiris) properly.”

Modern society requires and deserves a truly secular state. We get into problems often because the Nigerian state has a penchant for breaching the Constitution. Nigeria is not a binary nation of Moslems and Christians or of North and South. We boast many faiths (countless profess no faiths at all) and myriad cultures and languages. The 1999 Constitution states: “The Government of the Federation or a State shall not adopt any religion as a State Religion.” The government cannot escape censure for violating, at the least, the spirit of the law, by building, funding and maintaining 400 schools catering exclusively to members of a faith, whose core curriculum is a particular religion. Will the government build schools for other faiths when some states irresponsibly abdicate their responsibility to provide child education and create a mass of beggars and social miscreants?

The Federal Government, through the Universal Basic Education Commission, substantially funds and supports primary education in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory through grants for buildings and equipment while it provides teachers’ salaries. But not on a discriminatory basis. Even at that, most states cannot access UBEC’s matching grants because they fail to meet their own counterpart funding commitments. While most southern states can be faulted for this lapse, the northern states, with their excessively high levels of illiteracy, can be described outright as negligent.

Between 2005 and 2009, most states failed to access their UBEC grants. Shamsudeen Usman, the National Planning Minister, at a presentation in June 2010, quoting World Bank findings, recalled that Northern Nigeria had the highest number of children not going to school in the world. “The level of education of a people has a direct correlation to their living standards,” said Usman. In a report locating the 10 poorest states in Nigeria in the North in 2007, the Central Bank of Nigeria said that between 1980 and 2004, poverty increased in the Northern states from 36 per cent to 71 per cent compared to 13 per cent to 35 per cent in the southern states. Jigawa had 95 per cent poverty rate in 2004. The same state, with a 77 per cent illiteracy rate, spent billions of naira on information technology education for a few instead of promoting mass primary and secondary education for its millions of illiterates.

Ibrahim Gambari, a former foreign affairs minister, lamenting the dire situation of the North, said, “If you take the education of the girl-child, you see…the South-East having an enrolment rate of 85 per cent, South-West 85 per cent, South-South 75 per cent, North-East 20 per cent and North-west 25 per cent.” According to Nyesom Wike, Minister of state for Education, Borno has overtaken Kano as the state with the highest number of almajiris with 1.9 million child beggars.

Who is to blame? It is the states that should adopt mass education and public enlightenment programmes to get their children into conventional school system. The northern states should begin the task by “domesticating” the Child Rights Act, which makes education compulsory from age six to 15 years and forbids the marriage of girls less than 15. They should devote a substantial part of their resources to mass education and stop politicising religion.

Interrupting violence and transforming almajaris into vibrant citizens require joint efforts. But Jonathan’s approach is wrong. Other stakeholders should challenge the scheme, using legal means. Jonathan has simply caved in to the ongoing blackmail to make the central government accept responsibility for the incompetence, failure and negligence of the states that have created the almajiri problem. This should never be so. The Federal and State governments should stay off religions and their trappings.

http://www.punchng.com/editorial/fg-missteps-on-almajiri-school-scheme/

Is it not that same guy that said that Boko Haram don't wear Jeans? ;DThe failure has even started already but I still prefer him to his Master

klas: If it is proved that marketers claimed subsidy without importing fuel, then Deloitte and adekanola firms will be culpable. Not as the external auditors to PPPRA (which Deloitte is) but as verification auditors (consultants) to pppra on fuel importation.

The procedure for fuel importation and subsidy claims requires that ship cannot discharge fuel at jetty without the presence of the verification auditors (Deloitte & adekanola) to sign discharge sheet showing quantity discharged. The document is sent to pppra for processing.

The processed documents are sent by pppra to Ministry of Finance for further processing leading to payment. The discharge stock sheet is again sent back to the verification auditors by the ministry of finance to confirm that it was the document they earlier signed before payment is made. So unless there is collussion, unilateral false claim by marketer is a bit difficult.

Thanks sir for this infor but an sure some people who want to vindicate Akintola Williams at all cost will pretend not to see this. It is a betrayal of trust of the masses to aid and abet corruption by an auditing firm. Thank God WB didn't take her away cos i know that once she leaves for a day somebody will quickly cookup an allegation to tarnish her image and cover their evil tracks.

Why will a professional firm like Akintola Williams join the corrupt politicians and marketers to steal our fund. This is a very bad news for that firm because it maybe a few of their staff that may have sold their conscience to the marketers and now the company will pay. With this I believe many of the private sector cabals are the ones aiding the political cabals to ruin our country. That Audit firm was trusted by whoever appointed them to police our fuel importers but we have seen the outcome. Kudos to the Presidency!!

Great work Spyder u'v inspired me to build too.

Great news from the north, its a relief. I wish u the best bro!

If your head is correct, few weeks may not be bad but don't become like someone I know who is about to spend a yr in his inlaw's house. Am even ashamed to say that I know him.

Beaf: It has little to do with North/South merit issues. Rather it is about longterm strategies and the North is well positioned within the judiciary to supply the CJN's for the next century or two. Why? Southerners prefer the bar, cos of money; while Northerners go for the bench. The bench supplies the CJN.

nagoma: For law profession , The practice of law as a an advocate or solicitor offers a lot of money, judges have comparatively small salaries and many restrictions. Southern professionals tend to avoid many years as judges , earning what is relatively pittance. Somehow the Northern law graduates patiently remain on the meagre bench salary all their lives. The only compensation they get is - a few of them become CJ. I can see that some bigots are giving different meanings to this trend. You can't have your cake and eat it. Amass wealth as a lawyer or live all your life as a poor judge and one in a thousand of you becomes chief judge.

Thanks, I'v learnt a new thing today.

Encouraging, Gud things come out of 9ja.

[quote author=9-zeros]electricity is d back-bone of any state/country cuz it indirectly influences every sector of d economy. d government needs to put d basic amenities in place b4 development can grow, so no amount of money can save d nigeria. dis is jst anoda way which money wll be wasted. no electricity, no roads, no urban planning....... wallmart indeed. smh.[/quote]But Malls are survivng in Lagos and Enugu even with those problems in place, should economic matters be put on hold cos PHCN is on hold? "Necesity is the mother of inventions".

Am happy that a woman is assuming the post but more curious to know why Northerners have been holding that position for the past 25yrs?

Can someone please explain?

violent: Senator Mark surely understands that there are more than a thousand hospitals in Nigeria and equally likely many thousands of home trained medical experts that could attend to his flagging health. Why travel to Israel?

...ah of cos, none of these hospitals are adequately equipped and perhaps even more frightening is the fact that the local medical experts are under-trained, overworked and underpaid miserable fellows.

Senator Mark doesn't have an incentive to fix this terrible mess even though his office carries enough influence to effect the much needed change....Senator Mark and his family could always jet off to Israel or the United States, the rest of us Nigerians should make do with the terrible medical facilities and frustrated doctors.

In as much as i really want to, It's difficult for me to wish Senator Mark a prompt recovery. I respect more, people who can put their money where their mouth is. If you don't have enough faith in the Medical system after four years of being a Senate President, the individual deserves to be hanged by the balls and his dead body shot for being a miserable failure.

chiteny: When they loot, they keep in Switzerland. When sick,
they go to Germany, India or Israel. When investing, they
go to America or UK. When buying mansions, they visit
London, South of france, dubai, USA, Spain & Ghana.
When shopping, they go to Dubai, France, Italy & Swiss.
When on holidays, they go to Bahamas, Brazil, France,
Malayasia, Turkey, U.S.etc. When educating their
children, they select Europe, Canada & America. When
praying, they go to Saudi Arabia, Vatican city or
Jerusalem. But when they die, they all want to be buried
in Nigeria.

What else can I say?

jmaine: Your answers are inside the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 36, page 456, paragraph 5 line 36 . .. . . Hurry up and check it up . . .



Long question . . .long thing . . .

I hate steriotyping especially after listening to "The danger of a single story" Chimamanda which I recommend for all Nairalanders. But no one will reasonably blame a southerner who calls all northerners Hausa. I don't think any northerner will be crucified if he says that Igbos are traders if all the Igbos he sees up north are traders. When have we heard in the news that these non-Muslim northerners reacted with seriousness against the killings in the North except Plateau state. I can reasonably conclude that Borno is 99% muslims if the Christians there fail to protect fellow christians from the south.

Why can't these few educated ones help educate their fellows up north?

When the first Abu Quaqa was arrested, BH denied it initially but later agreed so this is not a new thing. Time will tell.

@ OP, Have u heard Messi speak? The guy is a footballer and not a journalist. Lets talk other things abeg.

Nigerian poli-thiefians are too sophisticated for the EFCC. EFCC is busy jailing Yahoo-yahoo boiz May God kindly push these criminals to UK...Amen.


Please, does ICPC still exist?

Thank God She won a silver medal at the world stage. Congrats Madam afterall you have opened our eyes to the deceit called world politics, Foundamental human rights and Britonwood institutions. All men are equal but we have seen that some men are more equal than others, she deserves a heroic welcome. God Bless Nigeria!

It sounded unbelievable to me but it could be true.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world's rich people.

It only takes $34,000 a year, after taxes, to be among the richest 1% in the world. That's for each person living under the same roof, including children. (So a family of four, for example, needs to make $136,000. (thats about #21,760,000)

So where do these lucky rich people live? As of 2005 -- the most recent data available -- about half of them, or 29 million lived in the United States, according to calculations by World Bank economist Branko Milanovic in his book The Haves and the Have-Nots.

Another four million live in Germany. The rest are mainly scattered throughout Europe, Latin America and a few Asian countries. Statistically speaking, none live in Africa, China or India despite those being some of the most populous areas of the world.

The numbers put into perspective the idea of a rapidly growing global middle class.

Sure, China and India are seeing their economies grow quickly, and along with that growth, large portions of their populations are also becoming richer. But remember, the emerging world is starting from a very low base to begin with, so its middle class is just that -- still emerging, says Milanovic.

"It doesn't seem right to define as middle class, people who would be on food stamps in the United States," Milanovic said.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm?iid=EAL

[quote author=~Bluetooth]Did the US congress not invite Toyota over defects in its vehicle ? So whats the big deal about this since someone just have to be the complainant ?[/quote]Sir the report didn't say it was a general experience by Nigerians rather that the SINGULAR car he bought for HIS WIFE is faulty. If the company refuses to pay let him sue them, is he not learned?

Where have I been. Please someone should help me inform the HONOURABLE members that my landlord has been playing loud music at nights. When I tried to question him, he threatened to give me quit notice. That man needs to be summoned to the house

Wetin pesin no go hear for dis kontri? Next time, the man will petition the house over his cook that added to much salt to his egusi soup. Are the HONOURABLES dis idle that they now waste their time on bedroom affairs? I hope this is a joke.

anishe: How does this make the front page?

Ask ur question in Igbo for our understanding. Ok Let me help u. Kedu ka ihea si rute iru(ihu) akwukwo?

Asikwala nne gi na nna gi asi (Do not lie to your parents)
Gbaa mbo tuo utu ndozi Obodo (endeavour to pay your community development levy)

[quote author=~Bluetooth]You are insane. . . .somebody picked up particles from another vehicle joined them together with iron and you want me to celebrate him. . .you know i didnt celebrate innoson with his ingenuity,what makes you think this scrap is going to move me ? Huh[/quote]Bros, If u no dey celebrate bold and courageous people make u celebrate fear-fear hit and run Boko haram then.

Ironi: Apart from being proud that a Nigerian and for that matter an African could be the big boss at the World Bank, do you think she can work effectively to help Africa?
I don't really think so. She would be a lame dog at the World Bank when it comes to taking serious decision to help Africa.

She would not want to be seen as doing too much for Africa and this would tie her hands when it comes to giving her all to Africa. That is what usually happens with positions like this.

People are not just going to go along because an African has a chance of occupying that position, but how well and effectively could she help their economy and push Africa's agenda.

Does it mean then that Kim will do more for Africa? Am not going to give myself headache on who wins but am glad that for the first time since I started following global events, the position of a president at the WB is being contested as it should be and not just an appointment by some superpowers. Something must be in that woman that makes her tick because Nigeria hardly gets the nominations of other African countries in global positions like this let alone the entire Developing countries of the World and Austrialia. I see it as a win-win sitution for Nigeria; if she wins, it'll better our image otherwise, she stays here and completes her mission. More importantly, Americans are feeling her heat. Goodluck madam!