₦airaland Forum

ednut1:
you clearly are not smart. This is my last comment here. I work in the oil and gas sector let me school you small.
1- exon, shell chevron help us drill crude/gas and also steal from it. Their refineries also convert it with crude along with indian refineries ( our refineries were from the french and are dead now). There is no oil in netherland but shell from the same country brings in billions from overseas

2- as we no get light we have to use generators from perkins(UK) and some asians ones- if we had light is there any market for those guys

3- cocoa from west africa is converted into billions of chocolate in the west and asia( if we had chocolate companies here would it benefit west?)

4. All the other things we import nko Does it not benefit them

Be smart bro. U say our leaders shud be smart. So our reps and senators shud make laws that will favour all of us So their 33m salary becomes 2m and the 5.5 billion car doesn't see the light of day. U dull sha

All what u wrote up there is excuse....
We can game the global economic system to favour us, only if we have smart leaders that make the development of its county a priority....
The problem is our leaders are not smart n don't really give a damn about any real development in nigeria or elsewhere in Africa.....
They see africa as a grave yard, a place befitting only for final resting place....
Leaders are rarely motivated to develop such places and that's the problem with africa....

Now lets take a look at present day nigeria....
The current Nigerian president lifetime ambition is entrenchment of fulani oligarchy in nigeria....
Do u think he cares about any anti-African policies developed by world bank or IMF....
How's that the fault of the white man, if u got no one to speak for u and fight your cause....
Have u heard of the phrase, principle of self preservation-My race first, then others....
All these talk about exporting natural resources and importing refined products is because we allowed them...
Simple....
First it was western world, thereafter China joined in the exploitation and now its india....
Neother China nor India control the system....
So what's the excuse this time around...

Litmus:
I was so proud and pleased for her. She is Nigerian as far as I’m concerned and her victory has made up a little for the sulking Nigerian athletes messing around in Douha until they get their pay checks and applause from misguided Nigerians who believe that by encouraging them to blame everyone else but themselves they are somehow teaching Nigeria Authorities lessons.

Maybe, If nigeria had invested in our athletes like Bahrain did to Anwar eid nasar, the story may be different....
If anwar had remain patriotic to nigeria, I'm sure her case wouldn't be different from our other mediocre athletes n wouldn't be have made history last night.....

It's very easy to throw dirt at our athletes but ask yourself...
How come they excel beyond expectation once they make that decision to be unpatriotic....

A mediocre n disorganised system can never get the best out raw talents....
It takes finesse, intelligence n systematic planning to refine a crude gold....
salwa Eid nasa just showed that nigerian athletic federation is a joke....

PoliticalWitch:
On a more serious note, we do have a shortage of medics. However, the shortage precceds Buhari's administration by decades.

Let's start with the fact that we are not turning out enough doctors yearly because of limited spaces in our unviersites (ironically the UK too has this problem...which is why they heavily recruit doctors from abroad....and why some UK citizens even go abroad to get their degrees!)...plus the fact that we are not even turning out enough specialist doctors.

Which leads to the next issue....funding. As it is, we spend $2bn on health annually. That money isn't enough. Add the fact that most hospitals charge very low hospital fees...and you have chronically underfunded hosptials.,....which at the teaching hospital level has an impact on training for doctors.

The Unions....NARD , NMA, etc have been crying about this for years...(an amusing thing I note about both the party supporters here....SLAPP44 and ...is that both APC and PDP have refused to listen to the cries of the medical doctor unions about funding)...and government doesn't listen to them.

But the sad thing is at the end of the day., we need money to improve conditions of service etc. I don't see APC improving the economy the way they should to improve funding...which leaves us with

1.Taking a loan

2.Raising hospital fees, taxes, etc to levels that would allow our hospitals be sustainably funded and financed....so that they can train more medics

3.Increasing university spaces...which means that the APC government should for example consider adding an extra 2 trillion naira for universites yearly.(which can be raised by remoiving subsides on fuel).

Are u not tired of repeating same shit every now n then...
Different username, same old dry stale...
Increase tax, increase fees, increase loan bla bla bla...
No fresh ideas at all....
U beginning to sound like a crack c.d.....

wirinet:
In the real world, sanctions don't work. People devise ways to go around it. Iraq and Syria under ISIS were selling hundreds of thousands of barrels a day, under tight embargo by the west. They simply ferried the crude by huge lines of trailers through Turkey.
It may surprise you that Nigeria sells more crude illegally through the high seas than even officially.

An oil embargo against Nigeria can never be effective.


How will it be a lose lose situation? Are you saying China will not pay for the crude it takes from Nigeria? The only problem will be currency. Nigeria can then adopt the yen as our reserve currency as earlier proposed by Buhari.




Because it's a stupid issue. The government would never have imagined that our external reserves kept with US banks could be at risk, because of a stupid piece of paper.

We still keep asking, why did the previous administration not pay before it handed over. No new government will agree to pay a sum you willingly negotiated. If the government was not mischievous, it could have insisted P&ID to wait to negotiate with the incoming government.

This guy u funny sha...
Nigeria don't have what ut takes to survive western sanction.....
Nigeria will simply be punching far above her weight....
Ordinary arms embargo on your military n next thing, boko haram will be having a jolly ride on the battle field....
Ask Jonathan....
And i wonder where u guys get the impression that nigeria survived under Abacha sanction....
Nigeria suffered, middle class was wiped out and public institution collapsed, never to recover till this day....
Be careful what u wish for...
Nigerian political leaders lack the intelligent foresight needed to navigate the troubled waters of sanction.....

YelloweWest:

The Dr should put her baby back!

How...

kikake:
Yoruba come closer to the Atlantic Ocean to the south where you truly belong,

leave Islam apart,

join the Igbo and now called southsouth to take over leadership of Nigeria with help of parts of oppressed Middlebelt.

This way, South/Middle belt rules Nigeria, puts Nigeria to the part of development, until Hausa/Fulani agree to go to school.

This way, no more Boko Haram, no more herdsmen marauders, no more bandits, no more kidnappers.

Guy u making sense
But will my brothers listen...

PoliticalWitch:
And most developing nations don't have our population and subsist on loans and grants to alarger extent than does Nigeria.

well we can argue on subsidies....
I'll understand, but not on education....
one of the key step Nigeria needs to take at this time, in order to lift millions out of poverty is free and compulsory practical basic education for its citizens especially for those below the poverty level.....
My guy, education is key.....
u need to visit far east nations and see the validity in the above phrase...

PoliticalWitch:
No I am not.

You Nigerians think your country is as rich as the West. It isn't. We are a poor resource dependent, poorly led country. And yet, we somehow expect free education without thinking about how much it would cost.....

We have free education all over Nigeria...cheap educaiton. And at the end of the day, the schools from primary to tertiary are all badly equipped. Because we want free stuff ....while living on very low oil prices.

Look....I really want educaiton to be free. If it was up to me.....I would have free educaiton. God knows I know most of my countrymen are suffering. B

But we cannot pretend we have the money to fund it.

They pay heavy taxes in Europe for the purpose onf welfare, amenities, public transport etc...here in Nigeria we all rely on Niger Delta oil. The oil that we produce less than the United Arab emirates for a population of 150million and above (UAE has 11million people)...and you expect free educaiton from that??

Either we raise taxes, or we cut subsides on fuel, or we agressively become an industrial nation , and everyone pays taxes at the rate of 40-50% annually, then we can talk of free educaiton.

You cannot get N200000 worth for just N200.

I went to university at N2000 per sememster. My hostel was a mess. My labs were poorly equipped. Libraries did not have enough books. Meanwhile, the private schools are catching up and will soon surpass the free public schools. And when it is time for employment...guess who gets the jobs. The well trained private school grads...or the poorly trained public school free education products .

u not being logical with this argument...
u can't compare the system in a developed nation to a developing nation...
compare Nigeria to another developing or emerging nation....
the first pathway towards economic prosperity is improved education attainment for majority of the population....
The above cannot be achieved by imposing school levies on students and their parents- those who can't afford it will simply stay away....
and the purpose will be defeated...
travel to the north of this country and check whether those guys will be willing to pay for any entry fees as a requirement to send their wards to school...
the rot in our education system isn't becos its free, its simply because the govt doesn't care....
what we need is change of attitude from govt to see education as a means to social and economic upward mobility irrespective of school fees....
many state govt universities are now as expensive as private ones, yet the rot remain......
most developing nations with low tax rate also offers free basic education to its citizens- even those without oil or proorer than Nigeria.

koboko69:
Useless group trying to remain relevant...
Clearly Osinbajo and his team didnt do a good job, they were appointed for political correctness.....
Now Buhari decided to change the abnormally are hore competent known hands...they are trying to sow seed of discord. What business did Fashola or Osinbajo who are lawyers have in the economic team in the first place?

Buhari ass lickers are pathetic....
They will deny their parents just to hold straw for buhari....
Buhari refused to change the security chiefs despite the huge security challenge in this country....
That's ok by them....
The constitution clearly states the V.P should be the head of the economic team....
But u guyz are ready to throw osinbajo under the bus for the sake of 2023....
I dey shame for my Yoruba people ....
U guys saving grace should be Buhari hands over to a SWner in 2023....
Or else it won't be funny at all....
Abi is that not the reason u lots keep supporting an overtly incompetent n unrepentant nepotist in power....

In as much as I don't buy into distasteful comparison...
What i don't understand is why an important dignitary in nigeria can't carry his/her umbrella and bag...
It makes no sense...

Blue3k:
This arguement is stupid. The FG cant stop Nigerians from returning back if they have passports. Besides the ECOWAS passports only alloe person to stay in any member state 3 months at time without getting visa. They'd have to be allowed back.

See Buhari's supporters....
Obviously what's written up there is beyond your level of comprehension....
Not surprised...
Birds of same IQ flock together....

This woman will make a good foreign affairs minister...
Very passionate about nigerian welfare overseas...

Behold the so called 'great African hero' who couldn't build one standard hospital in zimbabwe he ruled for almost 40 years but had to die in a foreign hospital.....

No wonder Nigerians could only buy 8500 new cars last year....

I really like the girl's boldness....
She's quite smart n intelligent....
If we have more female folks like her, guyz will be forced to behave.....
Guyz hate embarrassment but get away with the shitz they do because girls let them....
If they called out anytime they do shitz....men will begin to think twice....
It's not really a man's world as we all think....
Western world as proven that.....
And yetty has shown that too....

Na so he dey start....
Buhari has a way of making inconsequential people famous n relevant....

First kanu nnamdi- a failed uk hustler has become this govt biggest nemesis in diaspora.
Thanks to buhari n DSS stupidity....

Next is El zakazi who has turned into their albatross, a fish bone stuck in their throat....
Just pray Iran no reason una matter....boko haram will be child's play....

Now smart Sowore is going to use his incarceration to resurrect his dying political ambition....
Does buhari really think people will just abandon sowore in jail...

Buhari never learn...
I wonder what his followers see in him....

Afonja007:
Sunny ade 30 children,abiola 150 children,obasanjo 22 children,ayinde marshal 38 children,eleganza 30 children,you see to marry a Yoruba man is not a problem ooh but don't be angry when they start calling senior wife because he must surely more wives later

That was then....
Modern Yoruba elites don't do that anymore...
How many has otedola got...
Tinubu may have mistress...
But he's got only one wife...

Came4amod:
The world has evolved .. What tacha is doing is more .. Productive to her than having a PhD ..social engineering should be given more attention .. Because if you wanna take the world by its balls .. You dont need a PhD .. You need social skills

Social engineering is the main reason the west is in serious decline...
Innovation n real productivity remains the sure way to prosperity....
The West learnt the hard way...unfortunately, it's becoming too late...
There's no doubt our PhD n academics has failed us in nigeria...
But I'll pick a PhD holder over a social media influencer anytime any day...
There's hope a PhD can finally put his knowledge to good use and create wealth....
A social media influencer has no real value than to distribute wealth already in existence....

Btw
Social skills is good but I think it's over hype....
Technical, professional n labour skills are the key to economic rejuvenation n vibrancy...
That's what citizens of a country need to attain economic prosperity...

Chinese are terrible in social skills, those guys can hardly look u in the face not to talk of communicate...
But we are all witness to the Chinese miracle in the last 2 decades...
The West who had buried their heads in social skills in the last 1-2 decades are now beginning to have a rethink....

derbykol:
Exactly PhD is not a child's play.

But someone quoting me insist Awolowo's name can easily get him a PhD...
Nothing person no go read for nairaland.....

new2012:
I don't know if or if not.. But if a PhD holder is in that house, then he has no sense!


BTW, his fathers name can put him on track for his PhD..

I don't believe the father's name stuff you wrote... When you gotta work to eat, work harder to pay fees, work hard to feed your siblings and parents maybe, PhD becomes harder and non achievable at a Young age..

If everything is paid for from birth, you can achieve most things easily.. But if a medical doctor, PhD holder can only join such mediocre program to get known, screw it!

Stop being sour grapes....
Most PhD students nowadays are on scholarship or stipends....
some work as graduate researchers or graduate assistants in uni.....
Rarely do u find a PhD student who's self sponsored....
Even in naija, most PhD students are placed on regular salary via this FG academic support programme started by Jonathan....
Getting a topic approved for phd and having professors to be your supervisor is a lot hard work on it's own....

And u talking about his family background....
If that's the case most PhD holders will be from wealthy families and we know that's not the case....

As per what's he doing in bbnaija...
I don't watch the show but judging from what people are saying about him...
He's got some entertainment side of him he may want to project....

Khaleell001:
This is where some inferiority complex simpletons get it wrong.
If he likes let him jog on his pants and so what?!
The problem with most people "see as oyinbo life easy" is they are quick to learn their social life without learning the implications hence we find it difficult to deal with the problems that come with them.

Just look how low self esteem copy cats take after this man.

Is there anything wrong in keeping fit at old age....
Nigerians becomes out of shape immediately we cross 40 n that's not healthy....
Pot belly or adding weight after 40 isn't a sign of good living....

God has blessed the black man with a good body but we not doing a good job keeping it healthy......
I strongly believe blacks have what it takes to live beyond 100 and still remain very healthy....
We don't really suffer from most old age disease when compared to other races....

Let's copy the good things from other races and leave the rubbish to them....
Exercise and keeping fit is one thing I've learnt from white people which is very good and should be promoted......

new2012:
Even guys that call the whole show mediocrity are here lauding Seyi.. Screw it, by virtue of the mediocrity of the show. A medical doctor in it with all the supposed achievement is a fool!

In showbiz and such craps that the show stand for, she has achieved more.

Take away his father's name, he probably would have been a nobody like me. If he went in there concealed his lineage, would have believed he achieved more

If truly seyi has a PhD at that young age....
Then kudos him.
Anywhere in the world, PhD no be moin moin.....
Forget his father's name....that can never get u a PhD...

I thought the guy is a medical doctor....
That's a career for life....
I really wonder the career the other lady has built....
We want a nation where our kids looks up to career minded professionals as role models ....
Yea, they can watch bbnaija for entertainment or whatever....
But we don't want people like Tasha as role models for our kids....
As far as am concerned, she's a nobody...
Unless warming the beds of pot bellied failed politician is an achievement....

alBHAGDADI:
So says a doctor with no certificate.

You mean Paul told Timothy to drink alcohol which the Bible said we shouldn't EVEN LOOK AT as seen in Proverbs 23:31?

According to you, Paul contradicted the Bible.

U just clutching at straws.....nothing more....
U not making any sense at all.....

I suspect u are a troll, paid by seun to create controversial topics in order to increase nairaland internet traffic....
Just like that timesup234 guy on abroad topics.....

Even your pastors have kept quiet about the wine issue and rarely discuss it on pulpit....
Just have your bath and go to church....
Try and make your Sunday meaningful....

alBHAGDADI:
Paul had to tell Timothy about how wine could cure his stomach ache because Timothy didn't know of such. If he knew, we won't be reading about it today because he would have just helped himself with it.

And don't make it look like fruit juice was something Timothy drank every day like water.

There's no way fruit juice can cure stomach ache....

Wine contains alcohol and ancient people knew alcohol kill organisms and numb pain.....
That's why they pour it on wounds to aid healing and use it as anaesthetic when performing minor procedures on patient in ancient times....

In bible times, sanitation was poor and drinking contaminated water was quite common....
People believed drinking polluted water was the cause of stomach ache...
Wealthy people generally avoid drinking water, rather ate their meals with wine......
Common people who had no choice, normally drink wine when they come down with stomach ache, hoping it will cure the ailment....
That was why Paul advised Timothy to start drinking wine as a remedy for his stomach ailment....

eniorisha:
IF U WERE TRAINED UP TO D UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN YORUBA, HOW WILL U BE ABLE TO PRACTICE YOUR DISCIPLINE IN OTHER REGIONS WITHIN D COUNTRY OR OUTSIDE NIGERIA?

THIS CAN'T BE ACHIEVED IN OUR VERY LINGUISTICALLY-DIVERSE COUNTRY.

Like seriously, did u write that...
Are u really an educator....
U telling me I can't function in my discipline if I travel to a region that speaks another language....
In today's globalised world....
How come Chinese dominates virtually all construction n manufacturing in Africa with only Mandarin as spoken language....
How come Arab countries are filled with western expatriates....
I've met nigerian doctors who studied in Cuba, Ukraine n Russia- trained not in English, working in nigeria n some in uk....

I repeat, science n technology is a universal language. U can learn it in any mother tongue....
And once u have the knowledge n skill, u can work anywhere....
All u need is ability to communicate with your clients in whatever language they speak, which u can learn....

eniorisha:
Are u an educator & linguist by training? That's how you guys will use mouth develop Nigeria on social media & if given opportunity, no concrete achievement.

That time u quoted they indicated "Isiro" on d board, it's only in primary schools level. It's still obtainable now. The approved curriculum stipulates local language shld be d lang of instruction at d primary level. IF U WERE TRAINED UP TO D UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN YORUBA, HOW WILL U BE ABLE TO PRACTICE YOUR DISCIPLINE IN OTHER REGIONS WITHIN D COUNTRY OR OUTSIDE NIGERIA?

HOW MANY OF D TERMINOLOGIES & JARGONS IN YOUR DISCIPLINE CAN U INTERPRET IN YOUR OWN MOTHER TONGUE?

THIS CAN'T BE ACHIEVED IN OUR VERY LINGUISTICALLY-DIVERSE COUNTRY.

Nobody made reference to tertiary education on this thread....
The babs fafunwa policy we talking about was restricted to primary n secondary schools...
Ok....
If u are linguistic expert as u claim, then I'm afraid u know nothing about what's going on in your field....
Already basic sciences subjects like chemistry has Yoruba translated textbooks for middle schools....

https://news.tulane.edu/news/yoruba-science-textbook-will-be-put-test

Below is an article written by some scholars validating the use of Yoruba language as a medium to teach biology....

Even at the tertiary level, if we are serious n determined....
We can take up the challenge, it's no big deal....
I've seen some indian lecturers teach engineering courses in Hindu on YouTube....
Your Chinese that builds your bridges n roads can't speak a word in English....
And none of the core science subjects originated from the far east....
They adopted them into their education system, just like we did...

Science n Technology is a universal language, u don't need proficiency in English to be an expert in any technical field....
Your mechanic repairs your car thinking in his native language.....
Why then must we force him to be proficient in English b4 he can be admitted into a technical college....
The electrician that wired your house, solved all problems he encountered in his native language.....
Yet we insist he has credit in English, if he must study electrical/electronic course in a college....
Why can't we advance his knowledge in a language that best suits him...
To me, forcing these guyz to learn in a language they struggle with is insanity....
I don't know about u....

eniorisha:
On d suggestn to introduce local langs as a means of instructn in our schools; as a semi linguist, it's easier to suggest but highly difficult to implement, enforced & sustain it. No properly-schooled one will compare Indian, German, & Chinese linguistic atmospheres with dt of Nigeria. These countries have a nationalized indigenous lang which make it easy to apply such system in their respectv countries. Nigeria does not av a nationalized local lang. Till we get dt, the outcome of Prof Fafunwa research on d most suitable & effectv lang of instructn remains unimplementable. There are other reasons, but i can't type long essay as i'm typing with a small button phone.

No need for a national indigenous language...
Medium of instruction in southwest can be Yoruba...
Ditto for other regions with their respective native language....
There's is no national language in india either....
Each region uses its own regional language as medium of instruction in schools....
Yet those guys rule the tech and pharceutical industry even in USA and uk...
What i don't understand why even so called educated elites think this is impossible......
Something that was practiced in the past and proved very successful....
My dad and his generation were taught with Yoruba in the 60s...
Teachers wrote ISIRO on the blackboard when its time for maths lesson....
Yet he graduated with 1st class in mathematics from university of ibadan....

Davash222:
Good one.

But he should not employ Ogbomoso teachers. These ones teaches Mathematics with Yoruba language.

See another educated illiterate...

Toks2008:
He is cursed else I see no reason why he should attempt such.

U.K ladies are so complicated that you must exercise caution even before you talk to them so that they wont accuse you of assault or infringement on their space. This is why many of them are so miserable ...imagine jailing someone for attempted rape no be sey e don do am.

A lady in U.K can open her legs to a man and still turn around to claim assault and get the man will be jailed without fair hearing.

naija British girls get there own wahala....
Like when it comes to dating, everything must be at their own terms and condition....
Omo they so complicated...
Even at work place, u have to be careful how u relate the with your female colleagues....
They read meaning into everything...both verbal n non-verbal communication....

CapitalHYC:
I love nurses... you get to eat their juicy pussy and also their Juicy Salary too

In naija or overseas...

seunmsg:
You are simply saying what the white imperialist want us to believe. Before Mandela became the darling of the west, Mugabe was the poster boy of western imperialist. Zimbabwe has the best educational system in Africa and the economy was doing fine until he finally listened to the demands of his people that justice be done to land ownership in the country. The western world ruined Zimbabwe’s economy with crippling sanctions for daring to take away lands from white land grabbers.

South Africa that you are praising today is a walking time bomb. The xenophobic attacks that we are witnessing today is basically a result of the unequal distribution of economic resources between white and black South Africans. It is a pointer to the crisis that will soon engulf the country. A time will come when black South Africans will realize that African migrants are not their problem but white South Africans that control over 80% of the country’s wealth. When that time comes, the government of South Africa would have no choice than to pursue an economic redistribution policy that is similar to the land redistribution policy that Mugabe did.

Mugabe’s major mistake as far as I’m concerned was his refusal to quit the stage when the ovation was loudest. He should have handed over immediately after implementing the land redistribution policy. The west were able to blackmail him successfully due to his sit tight mentally.

Mandela was wise, Mugabe was foolish...
If Mandela had behaved foolishly when he became President, south Africa by now will be worst shit hole country in this world....
But he was smart to realize gradual transfer of economy from foreigners to natives is the only way to ensure stability n prosperity of South africa.....