₦airaland Forum

SIBF:
The problem of Nigeria and other Africa countries is Democracy.
The moment Europeans force it on any African countries, hence its collapse look at Libya, Nigeria etc.
What most people don't know is that Africans and Arabs have the same ancestral background as such their society is patriarchal from the start.
If Democracy hasn't been forced on some naturally blessed African countries like Nigeria, Libya, she'd have developed to the pace of Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi etc.
The colonials(Europeans) only came to steal their resources and makes them inferior in thinking, then cause tribal feuds among them.
There's no gainsaying that the major economic development witnessed in this country was done by the military government.

Africa in the face of Europeans is like someone that was thrown inside a ditch, and whilst he tries to come out, the Europeans stand at the top of the ditch and keeps firing her with an arrow so as never to come out.

Most people just clamour about while Africa is not developed not knowing that she was a victim of colonial masters.

Yes! Europeans will never allow Africa to develop in their face.
It's a sad reality!

Only Northern Africa has escape this dungeon since they form an alliance with middle eastern nations - MENA.
As such they are being supported heavily by the rich Arab nations. Just look at development going in in Egypt, Morroco, Algeria, Mauritius, Seychelles etc.

Go read the Berlin conference of 1884-85 where the fate of Africa was determined by European nations while no Africa nations/leaders were present.
Go read books like; How Europe underdeveloped Africa, What Britain did to Nigeria, Africa in Bondage etc.
The issue is deeper than what you see on TV.
The book below is a must read!

LasgidyPort:
Doing that quota is what a lot of people find difficult to do.

Nigerians behave so badly and then want leadership to automatically provide a civil and sane society for them out of the blues.

Nigerians cannot wait in line for anything. They by themselves over the years corrupted the public services by their hasty attitude to get things done ahead of others by any means possible.

The so called decadence happening in Nigeria was caused by Nigerians themselves not people from Pluto.

Apple's come from apples.

The so called leadership, myopic people are trying to lay the blame on are also from the people.

95% of Naija people are morally defective is the simple reason we have been getting bad leadership. The rest talking from the back have just not been availed the opportunity to dip their hands in the cookie jar, some of them are worse!

The British developed Britain
Americans developed America.
The Japanese developed Japan.

The Chinese 're currently developing their country and taking millions of their people out of poverty.

Nigerians, the ball is in your court to also develop your country.

guobe:
Are you another paid BMC?Nigeria is retrogressing and you are siding him Nigeria of 1980 is far better than today.Ibrahim Babaginda Military era built Abuja from scratch can we do that today.Nigeria had strong currency years ago can you say that of now,you bmc people even if you are being paid to spew thrash on Internet do it with sense as there are better ways to do it or keep mute.

Reflect7:
Another dumb, illiterate response.

Firstly, it is ignorant beyond comprehension comparing a city, 'Dubai' to a country.

Do you even know that Dubai is a city and not a country?

How and why should Nigeria - country - look like the city of Dubai, you dumbass knucklehead?

And for those who know better, the UAE, of which Dubai is its capital, has a population of 9 million, yet is 7th in world oil exports, compared to Nigeria which is 11th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

UAE has three times Nigeria's oil reserves, and exports around 4 million barrels a day, compared to Nigeria's 1.7 million.

Nigeria has 220 million people to cater for.

UAE, 9 million.

Simple, basic mathematics shows It is the HEIGHT OF INSANITY AND IGNORANCE to say that Nigeria ought to be as prosperous as the UAE based on its oil revenue.

Karleb:
A lot of people are like you but they didn't even try to improve on their spoken English.

In my secondary school I could write any English I could imagine but speaking was a great problem because I rarely speak the language. I attended a public secondary school where we rarely speak English.
Pre-university, the only time I spoke very good English were the 2 years I spent in a private primary school.

The university coupled with my church, RCCG changed everything for me tho.
It's either you speak English or you keep quiet or you end up embarrassing yourself because people will question your quality of education as a young fellow if you speak bad English in those environments and they also encourage the proper usage of the language.

It's one of those reasons why I love mingling with non-yoruba people, I enjoy speaking English and pidgin with them.

The English language do frustrate me atimes tho, especially the Nigerian English we speak. Personally I still prefer yoruba.

I must confess sha, having good command of English language will increase your confidence especially in today's Nigeria compared to when you have a bad command of it especially as a graduate.


I still dey shoot gun small small sha but I no dey shake.

BSdetective:
Hmmm, the thing is that what if you're wrong and God actually exists along with the afterlife, along with a heaven and a hell? Aren't you afraid of the outcome if you end up being wrong?

Dove18:
Explain Biko

lahmzy:
Please I'm facing similar problems. I also use smart 5, this morning I woke and realized that I've used 2.8gb of airtel data bundle, I nearly cried. I checked my data manager trying to find what caused the issue but the data I'm seeing doesn't correspond. This is the 2nd time this thing is happening to me. Infact I always make it a point of duty to always switch from 4g to 3g before I go to bed. Here is a screenshot of the data manager of both the system apps and normal Apps breakdown

lovemanred:
Lol China was already the most sanctioned Nation on Earth before Russia. You think China has still afraid of any sanctions from US? Can US live without China with today's economic realities?

seunny4lif:
Arab should be on the list because it’s language by people from the Northern Africa.
I don’t how those people can’t speak other languages like the rest of Africa countries.


Igbo language should be number 1 because I think we have more Igbo people in USA than Yoruba people.
My observation

RuddyFusion:
I hope both Court of Appeal and Supreme Court will affirm the judgement so we can have some sanity in our political space.....

Win election , stay with your party
If you have issues , deploy internal party organs to solve them...

We need parties build on ideas and principles not just parties to win elections..

Can a democrat in the US , switch over to republican after winning election? Never neither ways is possible.....

This is why we are not far from the shit hole that some people calls us

femmoy:
Good afternoon good people of Nairaland, I need your help with my phone's data consumption.

I subscribed for 4G plan 3 days ago,when I checked my remaining plan today,it was 1.5G. I slept for about 4hours without disconnecting my data and when I checked again I saw 4MB. I subscribed again this time 6G and after surfing the web for about an hour,I got a message that my remaining balance was 500MB.

Could I have tampered with a particular setting unknowingly or what could be the problem?

My phone is Infinix Smart 5 and I'm using Airtel network.

SamuelLoch:
I don't know which of the Vida M models it is, but the exact photo is what I uploaded

seankafor:
There is clear difference between the MTN mifi and normal phone network.

If there isn't network in your location, there isn't.. even the mifi can't help you..

Such a shame for an overpriced piece of shiit

SamuelLoch:
I use the Airtel Mifi too, and the speed is blazingly fast

See a report of how much MB download speed you can get per second.
Some other times, it would be higher than this, and of course, some days, lower than this, but this is my current speed.

I have gotten over 90mbps on this small Mifi. You can imagine downloading an episode of your favorite movie of about 250mb in about 3secs.

I don't know about others, but the server I'm connected to is doing me well.

haykinzz:
Guys!!!!, Please where can I download the power series from season 1 to 6. Tfpdl only have it from season 4. Help a brother please

The Red Devils have been joined by 13 other English clubs in the top 20 list for the biggest negative net transfer spending in the last 10 years.

Manchester United have posted the biggest transfer loss in Europe's five major leagues over the past decade with a net spend of over €1 billion (£846m/$1.14bn).
United picked up their last Premier League title in 2012-13 under Sir Alex Ferguson, and have only won three major trophies since despite investing heavily in new players. A new study published by the Football Observatory has outlined just how profligate the Red Devils have been in the transfer market over the past 10 years as they sit top of the list for the highest negative net spending.

United's net expenditure

United have spent €1.5 billion (£1.3bn/$2bn) on new players between 2012 and the present day, with €467m (£395m/$534m) recouped in sales.

Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona complete the top four, all of whom have picked up five or more domestic titles compared to United's solitary success.

Where did the other English clubs place?

United and City have been joined by 12 other English clubs on the list, including Arsenal - who come in fifth with a net spend of €583m (£489.7m/$666m)

Everton (€429m), Aston Villa (€424m) and Chelsea (€413m) have made the top 10, while West Ham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham, Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Brighton and Wolves have also posted negative numbers.

United's most costly signings

United signed Robin van Persie from Arsenal for €28m (£24m/$32m) ahead of the 2012-13 season, which proved to be a masterstroke as he fired the club to their 13th Premier League crown.

The club's subsequent big-money additions have been far less successful, though, with Ferguson's successor David Moyes adding Marouane Fellaini and Juan Mata for a combined €77m (£65m/$88m).

Louis van Gaal then invested €71m (£60m/$81m) in Angel Di Maria, who spent only one season at Old Trafford, and €40m (£34m/$46m) in Anthony Martial among a whole host of other signings that ultimately failed to deliver success.

A club record €105m (£89m/$120m) fee was later paid out for Paul Pogba's return from Juventus under Jose Mourinho and Romelu Lukaku joined the club for €89m (£75m/$102m) while United's last permanent boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer oversaw a €95m (£80m/$109m) deal for Harry Maguire and a €86m (£73m/$98m) Jadon Sancho coup.

The Norwegian also brought Cristiano Ronaldo back to the club last summer along with Raphael Varane, but ended up being sacked in November, and his interim replacement Ralf Rangnick is still searching for a winning formula as United toil to recreate the glory days.