yemmyse:

I think we need to clearly define the term illiteracy.

Illiteracy - he condition of being unable to read and write

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Going by this how on God's earth can u tell me that 70% of Nigerians are illiterates, even in the North, almost everybody reads and writes in Arabic. Able this is just another ploy to get fund from UNESCO and EU. Even our govt is involve in scams.

Yes they cld read the arabic, but what is the official language in Nigeria, and the language of the world?
How many of them can really read english, cos that is the language of communication in the world and not arabic, there are so man "mama alatas" in oshodi that cld read yoruba, but can they communicate well to other pple out of their own group of yoruba "Yoruba Yoruba" pple? nope, so now does that means they are literate, cos theya re able to read "alawiye" and cos they cld read arabic? nope. so my guys, it takes more than that to be literate.

Kobojunkie:

You know people who have at least primary school education?? LMAO!!! Are you sure all of them can be considered educated? I think that is partly where the term “educated illiterate” comes in. Many of these happen to include the nurse “muyiwas” who have little command of the English language but work in hospitals across the country. We were just having a discussion on these a couple of days ago, and I remember how shocked I was when, upon graduation from primary school, I found some of the gals in my class (many of the unserious ones too) already had jobs as nurses at the local hospitals. You can imagine how scared I was to allow them touch me, let alone attend to me. ROFLMAO!!!

I hope we can get to look into the books and all the leaders we have in Nigeria at presnt has done at school, cos that will shed light into how and why they are brain dead.
There are so many graduates in Nigeria that never even knows what they studied.
So i guess educational illiteracy is a "live long" stuff in nigeria, although, there are lots in the western world as well.

God and ask your Dada, cos i am sure he paid it too.

So passing thru the walls of primary school qualifies one for literacy?

This is not big deal, there are medical doctors that finished schools in Nigeria and are driving cabs in USA and Canada, and even some that finished other courses in western world, a job is a job, if that is what they cld find to do, better to do it while they are looking for something else.

Ibime:

Nigeria population is not more than 120million, so I don't see how 70million are illiterate.

u better blv it, even if they say 119.9M are illiterate, never argue am.

A man that wanna monitor a woman is a dumb fool, and wanna die so young too.

I think they shd kidnap the minister of defence as well as all the police officers in OWO.
and take the governor into custody as well.

Kobojunkie:

Interesting how each government seems to “introduce a new curriculum” as solution to the same old problem.


And this is supposed to help in what way??


How many of the 18 percent that actually passed did so by cheating and paying JAMB officers?

u mean to ask that how many are ladies and how many of those ladies was kind to examiner?
so sad, we always wanna kill same old snake by feeding the snake with proteinous rabbits.

Reese1:


THANK YOU!! May you live long!!! That is the part that grates my last nerve about the whole program. It's very very inhibiting to those who actually want to serve the country but nooooo you can't because you didn't do NYSC because you happened to school outside the country.

And some pple will be complaing that pple out of Nigeria dont wanna get involved, and yet the power to do so is not within our reach.

onlysose:

I am a complete northerner, when I was serving in delta state it was like this is hell. after a while I got used to the village setting in delta ibo and then became part of them . it is a one in a life time experience

I a lot of schools in nigeria that completely rely on corper labor. those that complained in this tread were tho se that tried to bribe their posting and failed.

that is nice that u enjoyed it, at least you are a positive news out of many, and hope cos of that, they cld keep it, but overhaul it.

Epiphany:


Hahahahahaha. Ok, i feel you sha. Most Profs and Teachers dey fight for money too, with all the strikes they embark on. They are innocent. Hahahahahah

abi na, why would u wanna kidnap a proffessor, what can they possibly get from him, chalk and some good grammer?
Although, wont be surprised if they come out soon that the man arranged his own kidnap so that his university cld pay the ransome, cos the dude hasnt been paid for months

Nigeria1@;:

bawolomo,


the problem would not remain, if let say nigeria split us. would the fulani/hausa leave their country and start to kill the igbos again, no,


would a yoruba man steal yoruba man and get away with it. no. they can only do it now because we are in nigeria. they can always get their northerner friend in crime to arrest you. it would reduce our problem by 99%.

we would be decieve ourself. if we believe that we would develop been in one country. we have tried it for 50 years, and you think this problem would just go away in 700 years after, no, it would not.

ask yourself this question, what is the % of igbos who experince the nigeria civil war. the answer is less than 20%, and what are they still shouting today biafra. why i may ask. have the generation of biafra who were around not gone. this should tell you unity is not the solution. we need to find a structure that is different from what we have now. give everybody power.

how long are we going to have this power war and arms, how long i ask. nigeria is a failure. do you continue a fail state.

look if you have a car that is not working again, do you continue to push it from mile 2 to oshodi. a wise man would buy another car. may be we should all buy another car?? this is wisdom. 50 years is enough to try british experiment and it as not worked. only fools would want to try it for another 700 years. are we fools. nigeria is a failure it is difficult to accept but that is the truth.

let look for solution, and not pretend. a fool pretend.

Well said, however, from what u have said, yu have come across like it is other tribes that has been problems to the other tribes, and i beg to so much differ, there has been so many yorubas kiling yorubas and when last one of my dudes went to Nigeria in Ibo land, an ibo man made an ibo man smell the nozzle of a gun, hausa kiling hausa my guy, so no big deal.
If a car is bad, and you just buy another car, till u fix the raod and the condition you have been driving that car, the newer car wont even take 5o years be4 it gets on da damage path, now what would u do again? there is a need to find out why the car keep getting damaged and what is the best way to fix it and have it running forever.
there will always be a prob, even developed world is still going thru wahala daily.

bilymuse:

Rhino
Mr peacemaker, from you.

I love peave, but i have no feelings at all and no love for the old politicians that refuse to go away and yet refuse to do any good for nija, so i will pay anything for those kinda "he goats" to be kidnapped.

bilymuse:

Rhino
Rhino you are very interesting, l ve read most of your post, they are level headed. You talk like a real diplomat. Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God

Sorry , l stand to differ; Nigeria foundation is built on injustice, and is bound to collapse by the weight of truth. Many people are hurt and the perpetrator of the evil are refusing to admit nor apologise for their deeds:

How do you appease the Ibo for the pogrom in the north prior to the Biafra war
How do you appease the minority in the east for the war crime committed by the Biafra army
What about the war crime committed by the Nigeria Army
Odi - Army went in and massacre innocent children, women, elderly
Benue - Army massacre
June 12 - Unknown numbers of people killed by Abacha regime
Abiola, Yaradua, Ken Saro-Wiwa - murdered by Abacha regime
Religious riot - Every 2 years northerners kill southerners for fun for the sake of religion (kano, Bauchi, Kaduna,)
Manipulation of power and resources by certain part of the country
The exclusion of the Ibos from power and denial of fair share of national cake
Corrupt government, incompetent police, army, and ,
the list goes on

How do you solve the problems, do we just sweep it under the carpet and tell everybody to forgive and forget; when the perpetrators are the power brokers. They neither admit nor apologise for the crime. Infact most of the crime still continues up to this minute

The country is Doom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must admit that you are a man with wiosdom, it is either you read history a lot, or u have someone that give u detail of what has happened in the past, or you are just old enuf to have witnessed all these, and i giv eyou kudos for all these, infact, you are such a man that i will love to make friends with in real life, cos you have what it takes to have a good dialogue, all these being said.
Prior to the amalgamtion of Nigeria into being one, there has been probs, and there will always be probs even if nigeria breaks into 36 nations.
I am not a supporter of all that has happened in Nigeria and with the lil i have seens, i admit that way forward seems impossible, but with all impossibilities comes a way out and if we can make it happen, we will feel proud and know that we have done it.
Is it right that the Northerners are killing the southerners all in the name of some religion, not at all, but would break nigeria make it any better? not at all, cos if nigeria break today, some Ibo that has made a life for themselves and their family in the North will remain there, though, they might need visa, but dont mean they will leave, and if they are killed, will u get angry that they have killed an ibo man or woman, yes u would, so wat have we solved? Nothing.
I think all we need to do is for Nigeria to see why we are Nigerians and we need to do away with the nonesense of power rotation, cos that only works with the "kingship" clans.
It makes me sick to hear pple say that if Yar Adua die, they need to suspend and dissolve the house till another electio is held, and that make me to ask why, cos we have a Vice President who shd automatically be sworn in, although, Mr President cd help too by giving him more power to do more stuff and not just be a figure head.

r u trying to be dedicated now that he wanna marry you, so how about the other guy too, would u tell him that he is not man enuf or how do u really plan to deal with all these, and what would happen, if you man get to know about all these in the future, it cld takes time, but truth always find a way of being exposed.

And how many are educational illiterate?

i am a man that has achieved all i have with no one's help, and i can beat my chest that i know of no father, brother or uncle not aunty that is in power anywhere that i dey chop from, so i have answered mine.

I think overhauling would be a good idea, and they shd give excemption to those that studied out of Nigeria.

Nigeria1@;:

rhino are you ashame of where you come from. i just want to know. i am proud to be a yoruba man. i was born a yorubaman and would die a yorubaman.

the issue tell you how far people would go to correct the injustice in nigeria. that why the constituttion review is taken place.

Ashame? not at all, but i am a nigerian, that is more important and that comes first be4 any tribal classification.

Planner:

No. You know why? The Yorubas (including Edos ) and Hausa wants to obliterate the Igbo people (to no avail). They will not stop trying, therefore it is better to break up this country.

to the igbo peope , quite in eating in Foods stalla by yorubas because there is this grand conspiracy to poison igbo people. It is already happening in yoruba hinterlands.

This is nothing new that pple always wanna blame others for their own problem, no one has ever look inward and find a reason why things are going wrong, instead, will blame all thatis blame-able.
It is important we do all we cld possibly do first, no matter how small it is, then, we can be talking of breaking away, but i can assure u of one thing, Nigeria cant break.

Planner:

Biafra lives today and Forever.

can u truely say u have done all u cld do to unite Nigeria?

Kobojunkie:

I can say that I do not have any relatives that I hail, let alone get money from knowing the money is illicitly obtained. Does that help?? ROFLMAO!!

I am glad we have pple like u too jare, my say is this, if you wont help me cos i am telling u the truth, the person cld go jump into lagoon.

hahahahahaha, u be yeye man, it is not a matter of where i am from that matters, but the fact that i am a Nigerian and would be glad to see Nigeria as one and not some mini-Nigeria.

What will happen to some groups that dont fall under yoruba, Ibo or the hausas?
How do we share the resources and what will be the boundary of the nations? Nigeria is very complex and wont be as easy as we are making it sound.

anonimi:

GBAM! GBAM!! GBAM!!!

Is one of your relatives not among them?

Anyone ready to answer the above question honestly?
When we can and do answer we will start seeing the change we ]say we desire.

with how nigeria is and all connected, i am sure one of our father, mother, bros and sister is in power, however, i dont think that will be enuf for us to accept their nonsense, if my father is the governor or the president and yet doing all what is being done, where the lil kids cant afford to got o school, all cos the parents cant afford it, and yet my father is stashing money away, then, such father worth being called a PIG, cos only a pig will do such.

Anyone that OBJ hates must be a great person, cos OBJ himself is an he-goat

Epiphany:

Hahahahahah! Another wahala wan start again. Very soon, they will start kidnapping Commissioners and special advisers.
So it is not only oil company staff anylonger?? P/H don dey become dangerous place o!

who really cares if they kidnap commissioners and senator, if they like, they cld even kidnap president, but what has a proffessor got to do with anything, he is just an ordinary teacher for God's sake.

ochi-aha:

Thank you so much for the compliments.

I think the forthcoming constitution review should address the issue of how our political parties are being run because i believe the system does not allow the best people we have to get elected at the party level and eventually at the government level. It means in essence that its often thugs,people who are bereft of ideas on how to govern properly and very corrupt minded elements who are elected into government, but I agree totally with you that we should try and wrestle political control from these bad elements.

The chinese have a proverb that, the journey of a thousand miles starts with one footstep; lets all take the first step in trying to reform our country for good by joining a political party.

I really will like to agree with you on that, that some constitution will be changed and will change how they select who and who can run for office in Nigeria and will help us to weed out all the old maggots, however, i dont agree with that, cos Nigeria's law is just for the poor and not for teh wealthy ones.
I think we need proper democracy and normal procedure of election must be followed

Here we go again with generalization, how sad.
First of all, not all Nigerians would marry 2 wives.
Secondly, lot of white men do have mistress, or visiting the red "ashewo" zone, which is worse that even the second wife.
Some married white are even "bi" and still living in the closet.
So my guy, there is nothing to learn from the white man.
To be a good husband, it is am individual thing and allow God to shape you.

lol

blasterman:

Nigeria can only be like this when we substitute pray with work. The difference between nigeria and western world is that people work like mad and they accomplish their goals but in Naija a man would beleive he can tithe his way to a better life,

This kind of nigeria is acheiveable if only we elect genuine people to office and we let the politicans know that we are tired with this kind of bullshit life.

Also if we can have a John Kennedy mentaility of what can i do to make my country great , that should be a starting pt, anyways viva naija

hahahahahahahahahaha
this is a very good one