₦airaland Forum

Sunnypar:
COMING GENERATION SCARES ME...REAL HARD!
While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osinbajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Ifeanyi Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Garba Nadama, Awal Ibrahim and so on has gone for good! Some of us in our 40s and 50s, when in school, either in the university or secondary school, had lofty dreams, both personal and societal. We were always motivated by nationalists and inventors who had impacted positively on the cause of humanity. We were voracious readers of novels and other books. Nelkon for our Ordinary Level Physics, Lambert for Chemistry, B.O ADELEKE and Goh Cheng Leong for our Geography, Phebean Ogundipe for Practical English, Achebe and Soyinka for Literature and others like that. We were always flaunting our knowledge of current affairs. Inter-school quiz, Literary and Debating competition were the in-thing. Nowadays, students can hardly string a sentence together in English without errors.
Fast forward 35 years on and you are shocked and disturbed. Have you ever spoken to or engaged a 20 year-old boy? Ask him what motivates him and he is likely to mention music, hip hop to be precise. He has hundreds of downloaded songs on his phone. He can sing all of them off hand. He knows all the singles of Nice, Neato C, Timaya, Davido, Whiz Kid off had. The babes among them take pride in enticing men old enough to be their father on social media with buxomly physique. But s/he does not know anything about history of nationalism in the country. Ideas about good society, responsible family and good conduct do not motivate him. He just wants to make money because his friend who does yahoo is rich and rides a good car, her friend who has numerous ‘aristos’ drives a SUV! The things that interest him/her are things that do not add value. S/he has google but never uses it for advancement of knowledge but to download porn and other inanities. Yet, in TWENTY years time, they are the ones that will be contesting to become governors, senators, Reps members and even president. They belong to a generation that does not care about morality. They belong to a generation that is motivated only by money and its acquisition. By 2035 to 2040, they will be our senators, Reps, governors and so on. I wonder if we have ever spared a thought for how this country will look like under them. I told a man recently and these are my words: IF A GUY WHO IS IN LAGOS COULD USE FALSE PRETENCE TO
OBTAIN $20,000 FROM SOMEONE IN UNITED STATES, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF SUCH A GUY BECOMES A STATE GOVERNOR AND IS IN CHARGE OF AN ALLOCATION HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE TO OBTAIN UNDER FALSE PRETENCE? WHICH HIS STATE IS STATUTORILY ENTITLED TO. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out of this predicament? I am worried, deeply worried. Are you?
Note: I don't know the Author of this write up, it was forwarded to me and it's worth sharing.

create a topic for this, it needs to be talked about.

Charmerbeautylooks:
Nice one Peter! God bless d okoye's family, amen! I knw Peter's wife is behind dis, she is so calm.if na lola, hell will let lose. She will give Paul reasons nt to apologize.

ode is Lola not Peter's wife

drug abuse is not good
na one heroine addicted mallam cause am

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galala no dey do dem again
swo no dey do dem again o
baby mama na the new dance wey dey rain

SAY NO TO BABY MAMAISM

AmyBelg:
Hahahahah I would cut his pay for a day job. Don't know if that exist in Naija.

and a bunch of sexually unsatisfied fat women actually @ your signature.

stingy boss, must definitely be an ijebu man.

may the "gods" of our forefathers see us through,
abi wetin man go talk again.

stwilliams:
Really

thunder wet go fire you dey do press up who you wan scam for here.

pesinfada:
Yoruba woman @work to destroy dis wonderful home

why can't you do without relating your whole life to Yoruba's.

kwaruption

Strahovski1:
My country is far better than Nigeria. Most of your business men come to India to trade money because your currency is weak. We own most hospitals in Lagos, most steel and aluminium manufacturing industries in Nigeria. 89% owned by Indians. Please do not talk about country please don't. Know your place.

Besides I'm a married man and I'm not up to 25 years.

Are you happy now?

India has a low per capital income compared to Nigeria
India has a higher proportion of its citizens living in poverty
There are more Indian economic immigrants in Nigeria, than vice versa.
So dude if you could have achieved all this at your age and taking into consideration your skin colour (caste societal stigma), you were most likely born into a family with high socioeconomic background.

very necessary

lalasticlala pls do the needful; a very informative article.

Strahovski1:
I'm not up to 25. I have my own house.

If I can do that, why can't any man do that or even better?

So your reply is lame

do you live in Nigeria?
you look Indian, and if you could have your own house before 25 in a poor country like India, then your family is loaded.

I think it is

Dongreat:
Every once and a while, we get those epic questions that have us all scratching our heads.
Why are we here? What is our purpose? How exactly WOULD a dog wear pants? 
Some may never be answered, but hopefully you can figure our this simple riddle...even though most of us can't.

OK. Everything's going pretty smoothly so far. 

I'm no maths genius (note the fact I chose a life in a creative field as proof) but I'm pretty sure the 10 fingers I have on my hand will help me get through this one. 

Now this is the question, good luck all; and lalasticlala & Mynd44you are free to try.

10 fishes.

adajiboyy:
lolssss.imagine us making almost 700 block a day and me and anuta guy remove from d machine nd we ar paid 2k.we go chop lik 700 buy body pain like 400 buy card lik 100 baba wetin remain again for money na.hahahahahhaha.those days.choi I bless u GOD

abi o.

NobleAngell:
Now see. Just negodu this kind of misinformation. The internet lies these days are becoming something else.

abeg wetin "negodu" mean

adajiboyy:
hmmmm.tank u bruv.great words u just told me.I won't loss d qualities but I had to let one of dem go.block carrying in a block making company.jess bruv that job is dead.I would never look dere again.wen ever I pass tro a block making company and I see those guys that carries block I cry in my heart cus that job is one of d must tedious jobs ever,but I bless God.we building up again.tank u stil

WOW those sort of jobs reveal the pu**y I am, I once tried clearing a 1/2(half plot), fully grown grass and fell sick, although that was a long while ago and I will probably comfortably do more than that now, but I still dey fear those kind jobs,asin that sickness no dey here, pale got use like twice wetin I collect as treatment cost.

Snipes009:
If na YahooYahoo nko? Lol

funny but I doubt that Yahoo guys aren't savers they are spenders.

adajiboyy:
I have been scammed oooo.scammed by a close family friend.I wanted to travel out of this land and all the money I ever made b4 I was 23 was close to 500k nd mum helped me wit 200k all was 700k,since I was a novice now,I trusted this guy newman agbonlahor can never forget that name till I die,wit all d money thinking that in 30 days I would b in moskow.chie tis guy run.wey no even see him shadow arrest talkless of humanbeing.I cry,I depress,I lost focused,I drank to stupor,F ashawo,didt go to church sef lol,like say na God do me.but bless God for my mama,she picked me up,loved me,prayed for me,give me small small pocket money 2 years after am still alive and stronger and finer sef.

don't ever let go of the qualities that saw you save up to that amount, they are life changing qualities.

ariesbull:
Oga shut up

If you don't have it you won't flaunt it ...we brag because we came a very long way ..we fought for three years against world power you guys parties. We came out if the war to rebuild you guys did indeginization decree , we wanted to enroll you guys introduced quota system to discourage us ...now we have gotten where we rightly belongs at the top ...why won't we brag


Now I reject the day our philosophy with yours will be the same ..it will never and can't be the same


Chart your course let us chart ours

Oga my comment was made in good fate and was not an insult, it was just my observation.

lordyugo:
dats d mindset u r giving growing up as an igbo child dat YOU ARE YOUR OWN KING nd it motivates u to strive harder to surpass ur peers so u wont end up being controlled by anoda, its an independent minded orientation

more or less like faking it till you make it, I understand and not to lie to you I have a lot of Igbo friends and they have taught me a lot on confidence, self-belief, and actualization of goals, the mindset I have now to succeeding is quite different from what the average Yoruba man save the ijebus has, thanks to my Igbo friends.

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But you Igbo's love bragging and showing off, but any way I fully understand the fact that the average Igbo mans philosophy is quite different from a Yoruba/Hausa-Fulani man own, while the former believes in eulogizing himself the later believes in being eulogized by other,a product of our different ethnic civilization.

Adaezeagu:
I wish your entire generation what u wish Igbos. Wicked soul

he directed it at Fulani's dear

menix:
See as Voltron them dey run mouth.
Yes the teacher went extreme but the pikin need small "sakpa", if my neighbor's 1yr old old defecates on me its pardonable but 3yrs, him go chop scratching knock.

Sure the teacher went this extreme, cous since 1st of February he has budgeted to use that cloth on Feb. 14 to woo Bola nd the pikin come mess am up.

you lack comprehension; he defecated on his own body.

Awesome piece, will have to check out the site.

Ricmayak1:




Self deceit

dude research well next time before mentioning me,

Gkemz:
I wonder why some people can't mind their goddamned business always good in assassinating good character integrity because of party differences. It baffles me alot. If he's a capitalist, its none of ur concern.

your highlighting the double standards he spoke about, does Ben Murray Bruce himself not attack the integrity of other folks of good characters through his insidious ranting online.

Lacomus:
you are derailing !
Pls answer my question first.

because they are not capitalistic, capitalism rewards innovation, but communism does not, so the average american is inspired to be innovative, but a Russian has no inspiration to do that, I mean why bother creating devices or equipments when the government will own it, no motivation what so ever, but they are motivated to get government contracts in creating military equipment, as they are rewarded and hence they have top notch military equipments but not top notch gadgets, are you trying to infer that Russian can not make their own operating systems and gadgets when they can create advanced ships, aircraft's, tanks, gun's and etcetera, meanwhile south Korea and Japan can't produce military equipments but can produce gadgets, come on the diff lies in the type of economy they practice.
Good morning

Lacomus:
Russia is not a capitalist state but they make their military hardware right ?
Wht make computers and it software unachievable then ?

they use their technology for militarized purposes, and not for luxury/pleasure or business like USA does

^^^^