₦airaland Forum

Sagay212:
Take your time to read and spot the words used carefully. I said ipods and biafrua.ds. I did not mention igbos. Stop jumping like an antelope. E n mbe bi oya

I took a few minutes to go through your previous posts to confirm what I already knew. You wrote this on June 8:
"you ipods are so good at preetending. Now you are asking why so much hatred when you igbos are the masters when it comes to hate. You ipods hate the hausas, yorubas, edos..."

So obviously, I am not jumping like an antelope. Your mouth (fingers) is yours, and you are free to use as you wish. Just ask yourself though: would you be comfortable letting your parents, spouse or child see the stuff you type here? Don't delude yourself that you're just having fun. Words are important. Use them wisely.

Peace.

Sagay212:
The problem with the ipods and biafrauds is that they are extremely foolishly stubborn. ...You don't want a particular priest or bishop because he doesn't speak your dialect or not from your community or whatever. These are people who call themselves Christians and still discriminating against their bishop/priest... I think the air they breathe in the east affects their brain.

Must you abuse an entire tribe because of the actions of one town? To ba je omo Yoruba ni e:ma doju tiwa pelu iwa palapala joo.

Thanks for your explanation. To be frank with you though (and I want to be very polite), you guys have no case still.
The Roman Catholic Church is not a democracy my brother, or do no not believe in spiritual authority?

Shitface:
...he leaves some names of people whom he thinks can succeed him, these names can come from anywhere and from any tribe. It is left for the people of the diocese, the pope and other faithfuls to pray and select someone among the names presented by the late bishop.

I take it your mentioning the Pope after 'the people" is no mistake. And you folks are Catholics? Odd. Spiritual authority!

...but not one of those presented by the late bishop was picked instead a priest was appointed bishop from a completely different place

So? Must the Pope, or the Cardinal follow the Bishop's wishes? Spiritual authority!

he has never been to our diocese, he hasn't been there even for Apostolic work.... Nothing.

So?

This said priest was RUMORED to have been promised to be Bishop by the cardinal ...WITHOUT NOT EVEN AN EXPLANATION ON WHY THE NORMAL PROCEDURE WAS BOYCOTTED is not fair.

So

Mbaise is 98% Catholic with the rest been protestants... We value our priest alot and our bishop too, we look up to them for guidance and also as mentors and role models. They are FATHERS. bringing a stranger to become the Dad of our home wasn't accepted and strongly rejected by the people,he is a square peg in a round hole. And we are resolute about it.

Hmm, if I say what I really think about Mbaises after this, you won't like me at all. This is a show of shame.

Tolexander:
there is. Drop that theoretical aspect of believe!

Theoretical?!
Kindly don't mix up holding office in a church (an organization) with being a follower of the one who said (of humility) "let the greatest among you be like a servant". The moment you profess your humility, you lose a little of it.

Tolexander:
lol!

I'm more christian than everyone in your lineage.

Take it easy, there is no such thing as "more Christian"!

Shitface:
MBAISE, GREAT PEOPLE.
FOR THOSE OF Y'ALL WHO DO NOT CARE TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AND IS HAPPENING BUT INSTEAD WANT TO KEEP BLAMING THE PEOPLE FOR REJECTING THE MAN.
DO YOU THINK EVERYONE THERE IS TRIBALISTIC? U THINK THEY DON'T HAVE A PURPOSE BEHIND ALL THE PROTEST FOR THIS LONG? MAKE UNA FIND OUT STORY BEFORE WAGGING YOUR TOUNGE ANYHOW.

So, why don't you, an Mbaise man, set the records straight? Otherwise, all we have is the report that their primary problem is his dialect.
If that narrative remains, then neither you, nor any Mbaise man anywhere in the world should be proud.

lofty900:
He wants his own share of the billions, Afonja can not do anything for free

The Igbo "elders" on Nairaland need to talk to their kinsmen, because they are embarrassing the entire tribe.

I was on threads yesterday where two igbos were at the center of some unsavory stuff. I deliberately scanned through the threads, and was proud to see just one idiot raising tribal sentiments. I was even more proud that as at the time I checked those threads (each around 3 pages long then), his comment had attracted not a single like.

Contrast that experience with the above, which demonstrates something I have observed before: bigotry from Igbos attract so many likes from presumably fellow Igbos. I am worried at the depths such a proud race is descending into.

Talk to your people. This conduct (both the bigotry and the likes) is a shame to the tribe of Achebe, Akunyile, Okonjo-Iweala etc.

akyus:
You're very correct, may he charmed her, she may not have gone to Alhaji's house at will.

There it is: the Nigerian penchant for convoluted answers when a more likely one is staring us right in the face.
I take this story as a parable on how morally bankrupt we have become as a people. I was on another thread earlier today where ladies were explaining how other ladies have rich "sponsors".

If this girl was less than 18, perhaps the parents can get the alhaji on rape. [s]Otherwise, especially if the police can establish previous phone calls between alhaji and the girl (I would expect there to be), and if the autopsy revealed no sign that she was physically manhandled in any way, then alhaji walks. [/s]

We should be careful about playing the victim card when the obviously bigger lesson is that there is a cancer eating into the moral fabric of the nation (especially the youth).

Edit: okay, I just read the previous thread. There is little evidence of a long-time relationship, but neither the mother nor the girl can play dumb here. It looks likely that alhaji convinced the girl to "try something new" and she was given far more than she could handle. I think alhaji *could* be guilty of manslaughter.

Gerrard59:
That will ignorant and sentimental of them. Mine is why Nigerian students prefer the UK with its high price (naira and pounds) yet when there they do not necessarily go to the best. Better University of Capetown than Coventry University.

1 Rand to Naira = 25 naira
1 Pound to Naira = 413 naira.

There can't be a Nigerian university on that list while a five-year engineering B.Sc. costs $500, the same as a cheap laptop.
Just saying...

Ekiti360:
...Pastor Adeboye and his family own about 65 million dollars, a private jet and several houses.

Forbes also revealed his three top cars ranging from Rolls Royce Phantom, with starting price of $400, 000, Land Rover Discovery worth about $80, 000 and Mercedes Benz Gelandewagen with starting cost of $100, 000.

I usually don't want to be in the same zip code as unabashed posterity preachers, but I'm just curious here:

Could that private jet have been bought in his name? I seriously doubt that. So, why would Forbes say it belongs to him?

Wisebird22:
you think?see a minister of finance that a country has ba,she doesnt even know how the economy of the country is going,well anyhow una do we go survive am then wait for una wit our voters card by 2019.

The title of this thread is misleading and mischievous.

She has an opinion based on the proper statistical measures (hint: "...all the statistics seems to suggest that..." ).
You want her to make a more confident declaration when the trends in the stats are not cut-and-dried??

I can understand folks like Wisebird22 getting excited; they probably came to this thread as I did: expecting to see how Adeosun messed up. Well, she didn't, so please edit this dishonest title!

PapiSmith:
must you be a tribalistic bigot?

I don tell you make you no dey type like mumu again...this same idgit will travel out of the country and complain of racism.

Your brain should be removed and flogged
https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kill_it_shaun_of_the_dead.gif

This is the funniest thing I have seen today. Just saying...

Ikechu0b:
Not shocking to me
...As for Osibanjo, the yoruba were willing to play second hand fiddle and betray the south just for power. Whatever happens, happens. The rest of South just butt out of it. Let them battle it out with the cabals or northerners or whoever. E no concern us.

This idiotic narrative continues.

Why can't you get it into your thick skull that the Yorubas voted for Jonathan (and rejected Buhari) when he seemed a good choice, but decided to vote him out when he didn't perform? There is no Yoruba block vote. I dislike Tinubu and his politics, but I supported what I felt at that time was the better of two very bad choices for the progress of Nigeria.

Please say no to tribalism!

but the few kids not masturbating will eventually masturbate

1. It is absolutely false that only a few kids are not masturbating by JS1.
2. Furthermore, see, from my post:

"...determine the typical age of risk for most classes of sexual behavior, and appropriately target those ages. Using your example, mutual masturbation would be more responsibly taught at JS3, not JS1."

Again your judging the whole book based on one page.

The word in bold font is rendered "you're", NOT "your". Your grammar is being influenced by (the baser elements of) the Americans. Obviously, you're also taking too much of your value system from them!

campbelljosh:
I tire o. Some people go dey form holy holy and most of them sleep with their maids

Most of you on this thread are obviously not parents.
The issue is not forming holy-holy at all. The issue is: at what age should we force kids to come to terms with different kinds of sexual behavior?
Note that this hoopla is not about masturbation, but doing so with a partner .

My question is not : must we expose kids to mutual masturbation?

But rather: must we do it in JS1 (modal age ~10 years?!!)

naijalander:
Your advocating for don't ask don't tell. When has that ever worked.

I am advocating for no such thing. I already said what I am advocating: responsible and restrained exposure . Some of us are smart enough to think out of the box, and suggest effective approaches to problem-solving that don't require lumping into boxes ready-made by the Americans!

An illustration of responsible and restrained exposure from your own submission (hope you see the irony there):

Some of these kids are already masturbating ( maybe not the JSS1s but JSS3 for sure.

You accept that most kids in JS1 are (probably) not masturbating, but in order to teach *the few* kids who are having sex, you welcome the whole class to the topic of masturbation with a partner . I guarantee you that for every sexually-aware kids you thereby save from premarital sex, you create another who soon graduates from "just" mutual masturbation to sex.

Possible solution: base the development of intended educational outcomes on sound scientific studies which determine the typical age of risk for most classes of sexual behavior, and appropriately target those ages. Using your example, mutual masturbation would be more responsibly taught at JS3, not JS1.

You haven't even read the whole book you are already making judgment

Chief, I am an educator of many years, and an author myself. When I see an author and publisher who take the path of least resistance when formatting their book, I automatically see a pair who are unlikely to pay attention to details, nor be smart and/or painstaking enough to teach a nuanced subject like sex education.

What I see is a generation of parents and teachers who are abandoning the teaching of important, character-building attributes (discipline, delayed gratification, sound work ethics) in favor of pumping more and more information into kids. When this same attitude seeps into sex education, we create a bigger mess than we met.

menxer:
what are we shouting?

do we want our children to grow up ignorant of these things or get to know by trial and error?

how many of us are bold enough to discuss sex in a positive way with our teenagers?

i believe it is better it is mentioned in class where the teenagers can ask questions without feeling ashamed

I disagree completely sir!
If you (or I) can't discuss this with your (my) teenage kids, then, that's your (or my) failure as a parent!!!
It's your job, or your spouses, to introduce this topic to your kids, because:

1. Most of the teachers are not competent enough to handle in a responsible manner, and can get unnecessarily lurid.
2. The time they spend in class, teaching ~25 - 50 students, will not be sufficient to answer the questions generated in so many curious and precocious minds. Those minds will fill the gaps. If daddy and mummy cannot do it for them (see my first point), God help daddy, mummy, and kid.

AntiWailer:
That is a sex education text book innit ?

What were you expecting in the Text Book ?

John 3 : 16 ?

Hypocrites.
If we are so pure. Which country are the rapists, baby mamas and baby papas from ?

Which country idolised tuface and call him a role model ?

Which country sing jollof rice and tomato with flavor.

They are screaming but they engaged in pre-marital sex in one form or the other.

Hypocrites

Good God. No!

I wasn't planning to contribute to this thread, but I see so many posts pushing a (IMO) wrong idea: wantonly expose kids to sexual topics and strange, intriguing-sounding sexual terms just because you want them to get it "from the right source". I agree 100% that kid can pick these things from other kids, and make all manners of wrong choices if they are not properly educated. But the reverse ("over-education" ) is also just as dangerous: carelessly expanding their sexual vocabulary with so many topics that simply invite them to fill in the gaps, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophesy!

If the point is to help them to make the right calls, then consider this: there is scientific evidence that the circuits that help adolescents link action to consequence (i.e. circuits aiding sound judgment) are still underdeveloped at this stage. You want to give them enough to make the right calls IF THEY HAVE TO, but you shouldn't, by the teaching of the course itself, increase the chances that they'll be making those calls. Why? If they have to, chances are, they make the wrong call anyway. So, for me, the policy guiding sex education should be "responsible and restrained exposure". Expose to the basic stuff: sex (NOT the details and sex styles!!! I've heard horror stories about this), pregnancy, STI etc.

Sexual education should be a careful dance to educate the kids without kindling dangerous curiosity where such didn't previously exist.

deflover:
All afonjas ve been used till 2019 dey will beg the mumus again and dey will allow themselves to be raped by gambaris

Why won't you let this tribalism thing rest?

Tinubu is a politician. He does horse trading for a living. He believed he could not unseat the PDP behemoth without forging an alliance with Buhari. He forged the alliance, and he won. I think that makes him smart. Machiavellian, maybe, but smart. If you think he didn't realize the risk of being played, you must be slow.

What does all this have to do with "afonjas"??

* and for those mocking Tinubu, why don't you wait until his hand-picked candidate (Osinbajo) does not emerge as the president of Nigeria?
** just to be clear, I cannot stand the man.

dignity33:
I'm not tribalizing this comment but I have come to understand that the problem of Nigeria is Southwest, they are very tribalist in terms of politics, religion Etc. Southeast and Southsouth always see them as one but they always choose to betraye them each and Every time, take a look during the time of Abiola, Obasanjo they enjoy the support of Southeast and South south but take the east or South to contest for President today they will Support the North and this whole thing happened also during declaration of Biafra. Check out religion also east and west serve as the major supporter of Adeboye, Oyedepo etc but bring an easterner or southerner you will see Yoruba people calling him fake pastor just to tanish his or her image. Gej also serve as a good Example of it.

I can only hope your shallow and myopic reasoning is shared by only a small percentage of ndi igbo.

Mr. Man, I Prof. Femi did not support GEJ during the last elections, and my reasons had absolutely nothing to do with tribalism. If folks like you weren't brain dead, they would ask themselves why people like me supported the same GEJ during previous elections.

Sadly, it is you, not people like me who see everything through the lens of politics and religion.

Shame on you.

YonkijiSappo:
That picture 4 of King-Kong though... Buahahahaha!!
Reminds me of one particular tribe located in the POTOPOTO part of Nigeria known for wanton crimes and baseless chest beating.

The people who developed Bangkok, Cambodia, Jakarta, New York, Madrid, Los Angeles, Lagos and Johannesburg, With their *cough* *cough* activities , but left their homelands looking like a scrap metal yard

I no mention anybody papa name ooo....

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4173/33922307390_63dc7586bc_o.jpg

Knock it off dude.

AyakaDunukofia:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

When the Royal Tout of Lagos denigrated the Igbos, they hailed him. No Yoruba that I know spoke against this dirty, bribe-taking police man. Now the lunatic has turned to the amiable custodian of Yoruba culture, His Majesty, Ooni Ogunwusi, Ojaja 1. Evil should not be supported at all times. No matter the sentiments in the air.

Please cut the bullshit. If you must hate, feel free to do so, but don't be a liar.

You folks are an embarrassment to ndi igbo . I know lots of smart, enterprising Igbos, but unfortunately, it seems the dregs find voice on Nairaland. See just one post to refute your bullshit: https://www.nairaland.com/2245014/obanikoro-flays-akiolu-over-comment#32505553

I don't enter the mud-pit of tribe-bashing, but I hate ignorance and falsehood with a passion.

Edit: given the way you "spoke" about the Ooni, to be honest, I'm not sure you're really one of the Nairaland bigots. If I've been too harsh on you, I apologize. But the message stands for the real jingoists.

vayne:
When we were telling you lots to condemn and cut the excesses of Oba akiolu during the lagoon saga,you where cheering him,forming "sufferisticated",now e don reach turn of not just anyone,a first class King

Thesame disastrous Agbero of a king dictated for them during the 2015 election.

Yoruba is respectful my foot!

This is too much now. Why the hatred and bitterness?

Sadly, I have noticed that tribe-bashing posts from Igbos attract far more likes on average (I will be happy to apologize if this is not the case). What does this say about the percentage of Nairaland's Igbos or Yorubas who are bigots?

Chew on that for a second.

Olu317:
Trade caution my dear, because, no one know the reason OBA OF LAGOS did such although there is no smoke without fire. It can't be ordinary for the OBA OF LAGOS to have been bittered in his HEART. I am tempted to believe, ILE IFE CRISIS could be one of the reason, if a Yoruba king was arrested at ILE IFE by DSS for not directly involved in a fight between YORUBAS and HAUSAS . Ooni's voice is too diplomatic over this issue. OONI isn't outspoken as he ought to be. No Emir or any Islamic leader as such can be arrested for crime committed in his jurisdiction without him being participant. It is totally despicable that it is happening in a era of a man, Yoruba massively voted in as President. And up till now, no known Fulani herdsmen marceneries have been arrested or jailed as need be. It seem OONI OGUNWUSI doesn't know his role as SUPREME KING OF YORUBA. Perhaps, OBA of LAGOS isn't happy about his role in the issue at ILE IFE. It baffles me to see or bring out any sane reason, OBA OF LAGOS, will do such a thing without any concrete reason. OOni need set up and be more proactive to his calling. So, was the other time, OONI went to LONDON to collect tithe or offering in a church. This is totally out of BOUND for him. OONI can bow to GOD but collection of offering or tithe doesn't MEAN OONI IS HUMBLE. Infact ,money is the root of all Evil. However, it may be another issue but I truly don't expect such attitude from OBA OF LAGOS is outrightly unacceptable in YORUBA LAND irrespective of OONI's action in recent times.

With all due respect: abeg go and sit down. This makes the Oba of Lagos look petty and petulant. If he wanted to embarrass the Ooni, he failed. He's the one looking like an appendage.

Scream:
Maturity and professionalism...no treat, no detraction; I salute the firm that put up that publication.

I second you on this. I'm impressed.

AjalaJ:
What do professors think of students who fall asleep in class?

When a student falls asleep in my class, I have a feeling of sympathy. Nonetheless, it is not in his/her best interest to miss my lecture.

What I typically do (my students can verify this) is wait a minute or two until I am getting to an important part of the lecture. Then I ask a nearby student to wake up the sleeper. When I do that, I explain to the newly-awakened that we were getting to something important, and I didn't want him/her to miss it.

For the next two weeks, nobody falls asleep in my class. Nobody wants to be awakened in that manner. And I do it very politely. Even so, I've often had the student come up to me after class to apologize. I tell the student that I have sympathy; I remember how difficult it was to be a student, and how I often did not get enough sleep.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Sleep-What-do-professors-think-of-students-who-fall-asleep-in-class

I don't think anything in particular (they could be sleepy for myriad reasons). I just ask the nearest student to them to tap them awake, crack a joke if appropriate at that point, and move on.

If multiple students are sleeping, I take that to mean my delivery of that particular lecture is poor, and usually acknowledge / apologize for this. A good lecturer should know how to use self-deprecation to good effect.

Priest200:
. It means i didnt sit fof the exam of which i did

Did you fill all the attendance cards / forms?

Priest200:
Please i need advice from well meaning people of nairaland .Am a student that is suppose to be going for Nysc by may or june but i am having a major challange with one of my courses in my school, i was given an absent in one of my coures and i have done every thing a student should do to see my result but my exam officer are acting as God,my life is in the line and they dont want me to disturb them and i need this result or to even see my scrip for the exam i wrote, pls people that have idea of how i can over come this pls i need help.

N.B::ppls pardone my grammer

What do you mean by "given an absent"?

proffemi:
Thanks. I'll certainly do this. One Twitter fracas brewing

Thanks lalasticlala, mynd44 for placing this on the front page. I've seen the benefits already.

Took UPS (US) 5 minutes to respond to my tweets...so some progress already...

Those of you who tweet should please "help me put mouth" #upsnigeriawhy

OkoYiboz:
...OP, go to Twitter and blast them. Copy the CPC as well as the handle of UPS in the US. State it clearly that the Nigerian office is ruining the years of goodwill built by the parent company. You'll see that they would contact you sharply.

Thanks. I'll certainly do this. One Twitter fracas brewing

Thanks lalasticlala, mynd44 for placing this on the front page. I've seen the benefits already.

bodejohn:
You might need to visit their office in Gbagada, that's if you are in lagos...
My experience with them too is not so satisfactory...

Thanks. I don't stay in Lagos, and besides, I'm not sure it will be a Gbagada issue. I was told the matter will fall under the jurisdiction of their MMIA operations.

lalasticlala, mynd44 could you kindly frontpage this to get more suggestions? The fates of my graduate students hang in the balance while UPS apparently twiddle their thumbs.