PLS FOLKS, I NEED IDEAS ESPECIALLY THAT OF THOSE IN 9JA TO TELL ME CONCRETE THINGS IM SUPPOSE TO HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO FREE LANCE JOURNALISM AND ALSO THE MEDIA MARKET AVAILABLE FOR IT.

Im to facilitate a workshop for some set of young lads on jobs they can do without having degrees and im so clueless on how it may work here in 9ja. pls your in puts may be very supportive in my research. I want to know the equipments needed, scopes, any governing body regulating it, . , . the markets and what to look for exactly.

Church money

I wonder what makes these covenant children better that Lasu graduates

~Bluetooth:

No problemo so far the money is not embezzled !

This is not the civil service

We are all excited at new ideas but forget the reality of it in enjoyment of the good it can do. How many people will donate in this noble course really?

Well, even myself needs help and im on the forum so we can start by helping the forum members first. Just saying

e_prynce:

@Kholis

u are spot on!

Truth hurts,

His truth hurts i guess.

Akanbi_edu:

You don't think so?

Imperfect mixed economy I think.

baby-boy:


TV License

Is that really a necessity or basic need?

Akanbi_edu:

I concur.

I can't even imagine socialism in an environment like Nigeria. It's the major[b] reason practically all our public enterprises are either dead or dying.[/b]

So have we being practicing socialism?

Nice observation and thoughts my brother

@topic, Well its neither here nor there but for a country like Nigeria it can perhaps be yielding if we can carve out a way of applying the two systems. ie, socialism for basic needs and capitalism for further agitation of wealth. You can say for sure that most Nigerians lack basic needs like health care,good roads,shelter an education which is amounting to the social and internet   ;Dcomplaints by Nigerians.   We love life so much that if the basic needs can be met without further growth average Nigerians wont complain.  If you watch libya very well, their socialism worked perfectly well based on their system of Government. so it also has to do with the system of Government and the suitable economic system

baby-boy:

Well we pay £1.32 per litre its hard to complain

Who created her to fail?

Either ‎​Ǧ☺☺ϑ or bad they still criti : -\cise aπϑ ‎​ condemn
Is Fitch as corrupt like our indigenous institutions?!
Its also heart breaking to see that our EducateD illiterates are very superb aπϑ ‎​ poetic when criticising people irrationally

Under PDP

You all need to read this :
Saint Peter’s Epistle To Nigerians

Dear beloved Nigerians: Almighty God has directed me to write this epistle to you because the news emanating from your country has continued to cause great scandal, shock and deep sadness in heaven. Why this epistle from heaven, and why now?

The answers have to do with recent events in the world, specifically the ouster of long-time Libyan dictator Muamar Gadhafi. For more than forty years, the international media dubbed Mr. Gadhafi “the strongman of Libya.” His words and fancies were law in his country. His eccentricities defined or shaped the Libyan people’s lives. When he was bored with decreeing what happened in Libya, he amused himself by dabbling in the affairs of other countries, mostly African. He broached no resistance, within Libya or in any of the African countries where he exported his military adventurism.

For several decades, the people of Libya seethed in silence under Gadhafi’s repression. But things changed last February. Thousands of Libyans, emboldened by the toppling of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, launched their own effort to unseat Gadhafi. As the rebels seized key military assets and oil installations and made a daring assault to claim Tripoli, Mr. Gadhafi and his family waxed with the arrogance of denial. To Western reporters, the Libya henchman repeated the mantra, “My people, they love me. My people, they will die to protect me.”

On some level, he actually believed his own catechism. That was until his beloved people smoked him out of a drainage pipe where he cowered, and then used his own golden gun to dispatch him to eternity. I have soon to process his case – but first had to write and send this epistle.

Since Muamar Gadhafi’s ignominious death, millions of Nigerians have again been beseeching God to deliver them from the hands of their own oppressors, past and present. Of course, God, as usual, is appalled by your entreaties. The hosts of angels are consternated. That’s why I have been directed to remind you – since many of you seem to have forgotten a crucial lesson of the Libyan uprising a mere week after Gadhafi’s demise – that it was the people of Libya, not God, who dislodged the “strongman.” It was the bravery and sacrifice and determination of the Libyan people that turned Gadhafi, moments before his death, into a bloodied, scared, whimpering weakling.

God wants me to drum it into your ears that it’s not his place to “deal” with the few among you who have turned the Nigerian space into a metaphor for hell on earth for most of its citizens. The people of Somalia are stateless, besieged by horrific war and starvation, dying in their thousands. The people of Haiti are still devastated by the earthquake that shook their country two years ago. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese remain homeless from their own earthquake and tsunami. By contrast, Nigerians have been spared any major natural disaster. Why do you think God owes it to you to leave everything to rescue you from the yoke of a few men and women you allow to make a mess of your lives?

Each day, Nigerians and Nigerian newspapers wax praises for those Nigerian office holders who are certified frauds and derelicts. You call your embezzlers political icons. Instead of rejecting men and women who rigged themselves into office, you hail them as God-sent leaders. Instead of protesting against perpetrators of electoral fraud, you implore the real winners to accept their dispossession. You argue that to stand against the riggers is to overheat the polity. Your legislators don’t spend a moment enacting laws to improve your lives. Even so, you celebrate them with pompous names, calling some honorable members, others distinguished senators. In short, you gush with affection for those who waste your lives, squander your resources, and abort your hopes.

In America, where decades of prosperity have yielded to grim economic experience, hundreds of thousands are staging demonstrations by “occupying” different cities. These demonstrators are demanding that those who have raked in stupendous wealth through corporate greed ought to rein in their materialism and sacrifice for the common good. Whatever the flaws in their argument or defects in their strategies, they have sustained their cause with a combination of audacity and tenacity.

The last time a committee of angels did an audit, Nigeria had (by far) the highest number of churches, mosques, temples and shrines in the world. Despite this fact – or, in fact, largely because of it – your country has done more to mislead or dishearten believers and to give God a bad name than all the officially atheistic countries combined.

A few weeks ago, just before the 51st anniversary of your country’s Independence, your president, Goodluck Jonathan, set out to respond to critics who question his mettle as a leader. These critics have wondered whether Mr. Jonathan understands what leadership was all about. In response, the man submitted that there was no vacuum in the leadership of Nigeria. And then he went ahead to allege that God, not a mere mortal, was in charge!

It was a sad day in heaven the day Mr. Jonathan spoke those impious words. In fact, God immediately urged me to fully repudiate the sacrilegious claim. To say that God is running Nigeria is to associate God with failure and disaster. It is tantamount to giving God a scandalous image. It’s the kind of heresy that enrages heaven.

God wishes to reaffirm that Mr. Jonathan and his cohorts are fully in charge of running – or, more appropriately, mis-running – Nigeria. God has never stood election for the presidency of any country. He certainly wasn’t on the ballot in Nigeria’s presidential elections in April; Mr. Jonathan was. It follows, then, that Nigerians could not have elected God to be in charge of their affairs.

Past and present Nigerian leaders, from the president to the local government councilor, have specialized in the business of ruining lives and wasting opportunities. Look at the vast resources that are in the bowels of the Nigerian earth. What have the people done with them? As the Spanish would say, nada!

In most other countries, including China and Russia whose leaders hardly ever raise their hands in supplication to heaven, leaders spend a good deal of their waking hours thinking about how to improve the conditions of their people. They envision and implement strategies to create jobs, reduce poverty, improve healthcare, strengthen the educational sector, build or rehabilitate critical infrastructure – and give an increasing sense of pride to their citizens.

By contrast, Nigerian leaders are experts in all the wrong things. They think that their country’s woes can – and should – be tackled with speeches. Worse, these speeches are unimaginative, boring, and bereft of spirit and conviction. In 1999, the then Nigerian president said he was going to deliver the dividends of democracy. Other politicians, governors as well as local government chairpersons, descended on the phrase and began to use it with such promiscuous rampancy that it quickly became a cliché. Another phrase that Nigerian politicians have drained of any meaning is, “moving the nation forward.”

Week after week, the Nigerian leaders who proclaim the loudest that they are moving Nigeria forward are the exact ones who have put the nation in reverse gear. But nothing riles God and irritates the angels more than hearing Nigerian rulers (rulers is their more appropriate appellation, since most of them don’t know the first thing about leadership) state that God is in c
ontrol.

At election time, these rulers maim, kill and intimidate their opponents – and then hijack mandates. They then turn around to say that God gave them victory. Does God engage in electoral fraud? Day after day, Nigerian rulers fatten their bank accounts and those of their cronies at the expense of the public. After stealing the public blind, these con artists posing as leaders proclaim their unearned wealth a sign that God has blessed them. Is God a robber, or a collaborator with robbers? Some so-called Christians among these executive thieves even have the effrontery to donate ten percent of their loot to unscrupulous pastors. Many of the so-called Muslims among the looters similarly seek out an imam to bribe, or even build private mosques with the proceeds of heists. Do they think, these contemptible looters, that it is possible to impress God with the proceeds of the most heinous of crimes, the dispossession of the most vulnerable in society? Do they imagine that God can be bribed?

Many of you Nigerians blame Satan for your country’s crises. But I have been instructed to tell you something you ought to know already, but often deny or ignore: the majority of your troubles are man-made, not Satan-caused, much less acts of God. Why, then, do many of you and your rulers belabor heaven, importuning God to come solve your problems? Has it ever been heard or seen that God built roads, swept streets, donned a judge’s robe to read a verdict, ran a classroom, put on a stethoscope or performed a surgery, dug boreholes, investigated corruption, chased down murderers? Now, if God has not done these things for any people, why do Nigerians disturb the serenity of heaven with petitions for divine intervention in matters that they, and they alone, ought to handle?

I must end with a statement that is neither in the Bible nor the Koran, but which applies to your situation. It goes: Heaven helps those who help themselves.
By Prof. Okey Ndibe


My only discomfort with this epistle is just how he blamed most Nigeria's woes on just GEJ's administration forgetting the others

At least they are killing for allah

At least they are killing for allah

Long life aπϑ ‎​ p dear, many Nairaland aπϑ ‎​ seun salary returns! Lol

Some folks here are so irrational. Seun posted an alert, unconfirmed aπϑ ‎​ asked if it was true, , some ediots here are saying he 'plastard' this on the front page. one lesson I have learnt over time is that when threads are created, irrespective of its quality we've always learnt from it. So what's the fuss with you haven to comment on every thread even when you have nothing reasonable to sAy?

GenBuhari:

@bekay911
Such things could happen to IBB and OBJ as they are enemies of Nigeria, Buhari on the other hand never looted and tried to salvage Nigeria, he cannot be categorised with evils fools like OBJ and IBB.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-693700.352.html

you keep defending this sharia and autocratic man.

Is obj a failure than ABACHA?

I really shared tears to see some people come on here to defend this inhuman act. ESP. Ronkefb, it's really not acceptable to see people give good riddance to awful things just because it's a norm. We have been mentally infected with our ancestral cultures and traditions and on this norm some people brain and thoughts were forged. It doesn't have anything to do With education or exposure, it has to do with what you personally see as wrong or right due to your heart. How can people come here to justify nonsense and give it sense cos we've being practicing it? I bet we should go back to the days twins were killed

ronkebp:

Da doctor, you mind your language, thank God for you, at least you help your wife, how about those that do not, especially for those that are pregnant and heavy, don't they need some kind of help, In America, life is easier, we have light 24/7, water, good roads, for the fact that we do not have to fetch water, sit down and wash pile of clothes is a big help if you don't know. When Nigeria, becomes better, naturally everything would fall into place, there is no need preaching what you cannot do.

ronkebp:

Da doctor, you mind your language, thank God for you, at least you help your wife, how about those that do not, especially for those that are pregnant and heavy, don't they need some kind of help, In America, life is easier, we have light 24/7, water, good roads, for the fact that we do not have to fetch water, sit down and wash pile of clothes is a big help if you don't know. When Nigeria, becomes better, naturally everything would fall into place, there is no need preaching what you cannot do

Arent they professional maids abroad? Can you use kids for your shores there without being jailed?

ronkebp:

Da doctor, you mind your language, thank God for you, at least you help your wife, how about those that do not, especially for those that are pregnant and heavy, don't they need some kind of help, In America, life is easier, we have light 24/7, water, good roads, for the fact that we do not have to fetch water, sit down and wash pile of clothes is a big help if you don't know. When Nigeria, becomes better, naturally everything would fall into place, there is no need preaching what you cannot do.

ronkebp:

Da doctor, you mind your language, thank God for you, at least you help your wife, how about those that do not, especially for those that are pregnant and heavy, don't they need some kind of help, In America, life is easier, we have light 24/7, water, good roads, for the fact that we do not have to fetch water, sit down and wash pile of clothes is a big help if you don't know. When Nigeria, becomes better, naturally everything would fall into place, there is no need preaching what you cannot do

Arent they professional maids abroad? Can you use kids for your shores there without being jailed?

pawa4ul:

@ Da doctor: MADAM, MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. I AND MY WIFE HAVE LONG BEEN MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, WE DONT TAKE IN ANY 3RD PARTY. SHE IS UP TO THE TASK AND I HELP TOO AS NEED BE. IF U ARE LAZY NOT ALL WOEMN ARE LAZY. THE ODDS OF OMO ODO OUT WEIGHS THE GAINS . MY OPINION. NOTE THAT NOT ALL HOME USE OMO ODO. YOU AND your HUBBY MAY BE SPECIALISTS. NOT OTHERS

May I also submit that your wife may be a full house wife. Not all women are. I also think that you do not have the mind of helping anybody so you hide under the cloak of terming it ''Lazy.'' We always say these mordern women,  we should also remember that our mothers had their siblings around to help them out in certian house chores as the case may be.

If she isnt a full time housewife why don't she hire a matured maid or nanny if her love for money and lazy ass can't raise the kids in her own way? Are you thinking from your brain? The state of the economy is worst but the poster doesn't sou d like someone poor or hungry. . . , . She could pay for a matured maid or are they extinct? We shouldn't let what we can manage or avoid affect our fundamentals sometimes. Some irrational women barely cook for their hubby or even take care of their kids lately cos of work work work, , , I know of a family that their kids barely knows the mother well, only the house help can carry or touch the child because of the parental distance. You'll hear the kids vomitting all the gibberishes they must have learnt from the poorly schooled maid out of the parents negligence.

pawa4ul:

[b]@Da doctor and Pinkrex, I think you guys are deranged. The issue here is that you see what I wrote as impossible huh. Ok, tell me what is wrong in bringing someone from a very remote village who has no parents stay with you and get some form of education. I bet I have done better than you both. Impact some lives around you!

Deranged? Looolz! No! You have damaged a life. You just told us she went to school but I'm sure she was never got pardoned, scolded, advised or trained like you would to your siblings or offsprings. It's a fact, we all know how it feels except you wanna keep lying to your self. You don't have an idea of the psychological torture growing up as a maid or house help. Children are not meant for such jobs and privileges as you may call it. Fine, you sent her to school but you hvnt given her the best life. . . . . . . Why didn't you send her parents money to send her to school or send her to a boarding school if you had so much love to impact lives? It's obvious, you needed help and you just covered the inhuman help by disguising it with education. , . . Which I bet she wont have the time to even study well cos ofmthe shores. Please try to sound matured in your next response

pawa4ul:

[b]I hate it when we speak as though we are not in Nigeria or that we are not aware of the nature around us. Most of you guys that want to skin the Poster alive are even doing worse than what you are thinking of this lady. Having house girl in Nigeria is a very common thing. It is seen everywhere including your houses and neighbourhood. But we thank God that it is getting refined except for those who are hard-hearted. Most people have house helps and make sure they attend not just school but private and other good schools. The level of exposure your house girl receives also determines the kind of treatment and coaching your children would receive from the house girl, cos whether we like it or not, the house girl is also your daughter and co-coach for our children.
You can hardly identify a house girl this days as they look close to if not exactly like the children of those who hire them. And come to think of it, what do they really do these days? Just to help in bathing the kids (that is if the parents did not meet up in that for that time in question), sweep the house and assist the woman of the house when she is cooking. As the kids set out for school in the morning, she follows suit.          
I am saying this cos we have a maid in my house. Neighbours around us never knew that she was not related to us tilwhen she was to leave (that was after passing out of Secondary school). And to tell you the truth, we are scouting for another.
A lot of people put theirs in a trade to benefit them in skill learning. This means that the maids are busy only in the

morning.


They really cook. Ask those who have one, and you will find out. this is so cos most men would not want any other person to cook their home food except their wife plus the fact that the women will not give that opportunity of their husband rating the food of the maid better.
House maid is not slavery at all, rather it is a way of helping to reach unto the less previlieged. You use them as you would use your children. This is my perception anyway. [/b]

Shut up man. You hvnt made any sense here, . . . . You are just gratifying the act just because your family has been abusing it. Yes!! It's a common practice here in Nigeria but that doesn't make it right. If it was a way of reaching unto the less privileged, why don't you pick up your close less privileged relative or better still your sister to employ and make her life more better? There are billions ways of reaching unto others but child slavery disguised as omo-odo is not one of them. You can also anyone into school without keeping he/she in your house to do your shores.

twinstaiye:

This is why  some people dont take personal matters to nairaland for opinion.  Nigerians are the greatest hypocrite on the face of the earth.  What they do in the comfort of their home, they will say they dont. And the way they comment you will think that is how they live their lives.  All of us are aware that the OMO ODO syndrome is in existence, and there are some commenter (sic) here who grew under the tutelage of OMO ODO, and yet they have the gut to condemn Owu Gal who was only asking your opinion whether you had seen any of them worst than hers.
Just take the thread as it comes, if you had seen one, say it out, if you hadnt laugh at her own for what it is worth. Am sure if she needs your opinion about whether she treats her right or not, she will ask.
Let us make nairaland an easy place to visit.haba!!!

I don't know where some sic hole think through and from


I don't see any reason why you should encourage child slavery in this century irrespective of what you think about it. Do you really think those that grew through that stream in life found it funny? it's not done!! Can you allow some "madam" because of some opportune wealth or position handle and control your own lil sis like that? If she needs help let her go get a nanny!!

If you needed or wanted a house girl why dint you go get your lil 14 year old sis or relative to test if they are all wicked ?

Too much a big title for such an achievement.

I don't know why everything that begins with Buhari is irrational