₦airaland Forum

Fahdiga:
This man's stats with the super eagles is quite impressive but his shortcoming is lack of convincing display in his games

Judolisco:
since Oxford is far better why are you crying over his bsc? Is their undergraduate program not superior? U dense iswr

Judolisco:
dem no dey do msc for eksu arbi? kai all of una sef

Judolisco:
Oxford University Na average university?
He became vc in 2019 so why all of una dey shout... Most civil servants have their kids abroad... Most times Na scholarship sef

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal.

MadamVanessa:
Does PVC really work? I don't think so, because assuming it does, there's no way one uselessss idiot, skinny skeletal dullard, low intelligent quotient nincompoop, incoherent bastard , brainless vagabond of a man will preside over millions+ intelligent individuals.

God punish those who pushes this calamity on us.

27 years later, black South Africans can’t be bothered to vote anymore!

https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/27-years-later-black-south-africans-cant-be-bothered-to-vote-anymore/

It took over 80 long years of relentless, bloody, and tortuous battle to win the right to vote. But just 27 years later, this right, won at a bitter cost of thousands of lives, families, and destinies, no longer count for much. At the just concluded local government election, only 28 percent of South Africans bothered to vote – the lowest such figures recorded since universal suffrage was adopted in 1994.

What could have led to the level of political apathy in so short a time? Most analysts and journalists will be quick to point to the disappointing performance of current politicians and political parties, especially the African National Congress (ANC). That is true. But there may be a subtler motivation and mindset fuelling the apathy – a sense of entitlement and misconception about the social contract. For most Africans, voting during elections is not a duty and a privilege, but a favour to the system and to the politicians and parties. In return, people expect their votes to naturally and automatically translate to better outcomes and raise standards of living. When that does not happen in the first and perhaps the second circle of elections, apathy sets in.

This is more so the case in South Africa where the ANC has come to define the 82-year struggle for black emancipation. Many black South Africans still cannot fathom voting for another party that is not the ANC. And in the face of the disappointment that the ANC has become, staying away from the polls completely appears to be the reflex reaction.

Perhaps it is also time for leaders and elite to rise to the challenge of either genuinely reforming the ANC and refitting it for purpose or creating a genuine alternative to the party.

The degeneration of the ANC from perhaps, the world’s most cohesive and disciplined freedom fighting organization to a thoroughly corrupt and vile organization that has been hijacked by criminals will make a classic case study of the corrupting influence of political power. What the apartheid state with its sophisticated apparatus of repression and the Western world with its severest of sanctions could not accomplish for 80 years and counting (destruction of the ANC), exposure to political power has comprehensively done in such a short time. The way the ANC has so thoroughly mismanaged the developed state it inherited will always remain a case study of how not to govern a state. The ANC seems to be giving voice to the long-held view by the defunct apartheid state and sympathizers that blacks are inherently incapable of governance.

And sadly, corruption in the ANC is not just by a few of its apparatchiks. It is the soul of the party. I argued on this page a fortnight ago that the rise of Jacob Zuma and his influence in the party is not an aberration. It is the real face of the ANC. Zuma only ran into problems after the 2016 local government elections where the polls were largely viewed as a referendum on Zuma’s leadership and the party received an electoral rebuke, losing key strongholds to the Democratic Alliance.



The election of Cyril Ramaphosa, a Mandela ally, as the leader of the party, was principally to mollify an angry electorate and present an image of a party in transition and reform; a party that is capable of service delivery to the people. But it can be seen from the rank and file of the party membership and the most influential members like the Deputy President and Secretary-General, that the party remains essentially a corrupt organization that has been captured by criminal interests.

So, rather than being a referendum on the leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa, this election – and the ANC bigwigs are aware – is largely a protest against the party. For the first time since 1994, it received less than 50 percent of the total votes cast. It received only 46 percent of the vote. The Democratic Alliance – the White party with a reputation of service delivery – received 22 percent, the left-leaning and chaos-loving Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) got 10 percent, the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) got 6 percent, and both the majority Afrikaner party, Freedom Front Plus and the newly minted Action SA got 2 percent apiece.

The ANC, the DA, and the EFF – three parties that do not see eye to eye on most issues – would now be forced into embarrassing alliances to govern the provinces.

Maybe black South Africans need education in civics. Although democracy and credible elections could lead to superior economic performances and could radically transform the lives of the people, results are not always immediate and automatic. It can take time and it can be frustrating at times. What is more, the people could make mistakes in electing leaders. But the most redeeming feature of democracy is the ability it gives the people to correct their mistakes. Thousands of their comrades did not give up their lives, families, and destinies as martyrs of the struggle only for the living to abandon the cause for which they so valiantly fought and died as soon as the slight onset of challenges.

South Africans have absolutely everything to fight for. Their country is the most developed on the African continent. Its institutions are still strong and working. And despite all the corruption and criminality in the ANC, elections are still conducted efficiently and credibly. These are strong positives not easily obtainable in other African countries. As the freedom fighters would always say, “the prize of freedom is eternal vigilance”, black South Africans must learn to guard these treasures and put pressure on their politicians to be more accountable to them and to improve on service delivery and growing the economy. Besides, the best place to express their dissatisfaction with the quality of governance is at the polls. That is what Mandela and his comrades fought for over 82 years.

Perhaps it is also time for leaders and elite to rise to the challenge of either genuinely reforming the ANC and refitting it for purpose of creating a genuine alternative to the party. The ANC, in true African fashion, has completely abused the trust of its people and nothing short of a surgical reform can stop its slide into oblivion. I strongly feel one of the factors fuelling the impunity in the party is the certainty that the party will continue to hold on to power regardless of what it does. No genuine democracy can function that way. There must be a credible alternative to the ANC.

Ilaumoh:
Your governors and president na

Ilaumoh:
Fraud? And your kinsmen are borrowing money from them. You sure say you get sense ??

ChangedMan1999:
I am not a hater, but can't Akwa Ibomits buid a city by themselves.


Is this not an embarrassment for Africans to considering Chinese, Americans and Asians as Second to God.


For how long are we going to be playing second to these people.

ManirBK:
the lazyness inside us is the answer bro, Africa anti snake antidote is very cheaper and effective than this foreign medicine.

Elsueno:
Some Nigerian lecturers can be extremely annoying...so I won't take anybody side...I remember one small boy lecturer with an ego shouting down on me a while back...remain small for me to give am bloody nose..but the cooler part of me prevailed. I just walked out & reported him to the Dean...na him looked for me to settle

ChiefSosa:
In as much as it was totally wrong for the boy to assault his lecturer, but we can't act like some lecturers don't deserve some ass whooping.
You that you're reading this, I'm sure you can mention at least 5 lectures/teachers you wish you can Panel beat. Sentiments aside!
Lots of lecturers have made life a living hell for students.
There is more to this story and I don't think the boy will just randomly start beating the lecturer for no reason. This is a 400level student we are talking about. He must have been severely pushed to the wall before risking everything and then attacking the lecturer. He is a human after all and his emotions may have gotten the best of him, thereby making him overreact.
The case should be adequately heard and appropriately judged without bias, regardless of the parties involved. But, the guy would definitely have to receive some sort of punishment for assaulting a staff and fighting on premises. He shouldn't have done that. From the way she was crying and shouting, you'll know the guy really did a number on her. The guy should have just continued to endure till he will get the certificate he came for and leave the school. It's not going to be easy, but it's the smart decision.
I'm sitting on the fence for the main time.
We need more details.

Maxymilliano:
Dele Momodu is not saying anything different from what we skeptic's have known all along, the only news here is that it took him so long to know Buhari is a monumental failure

Perfectbeing:
The payment of transport allowance is just for 6-12 months.

Mastakija:
What can we now boast of now
Popularity?

slimghost:
Nobody in my entire hometown received this money. I am so happy to know that nobody in my hometown is poor. Bloody criminals!
The next administration must probe this administration thoroughly; that’s why I want a PDP president.

cayorday89:

It's good to know they are doing their job, but the question is are they not going out of the way, or beyond what they are meant to do, with the way people commented about them above, you can imagine their high handedness especially when you factor in the Nigerian angle.

NarcissistKing:
Nigerians are used to not obeying laws and bribing, hence the reason they are complaining.

NOC1:
But is normal thing in every country, if you have money you get special treatment.

It is just not a Nigerian thing, how do those who dig tunnel to set particular inmate free do it, if they are with other inmates, how come they are the only one to escape, if they dont have special preference how come they have access to communicate with the jail breakers?

yungskyzye:
i want my governor to do something lik dis in niger state

temitope27:
borno av oil, oil is nt only found in Delta area

ConqueredWest:
The stupid Abby caused his downfall

The Tigray people declared independence based on Ethiopia's constitution but the idiot(Abby) said no

Is Unity By Force.?

RiceProducers:
The pay back plan is pay your taxes. Border closure is good policy. It will protect Nigerian goods. Personally if I were President, my economic policies would be more draconian. Nigerians don't want to use brains at all yet the world is changing.
There is energy transition. Crude oil will soon be destroyed as the most important global commodity.
There are supply chains issues and post COVID stuff causing global inflation yet all Nigerians can think about is cheap petrol, imported salad and bone straight hair. It is a disgrace

dasparrow:
I think there should be a strict penalty for those mining illegally so I agree with the government this time. Do you know how many foreigners like the chinese that are in Nigeria and other parts of Africa illegally mining our resources?

DrChukki:
Nigeria in 1970s : Operation Feed the Nation

Nigeria in 2021: Operation Feed Yourself

Nigeria if Buhari should stay after 2023: Operation no More Feeding, You're Free to Die...

BlackfireX:
African slaves or Asian slaves??

esere826:
It would be great and polite if they responded, but they owe you nothing unfortunately.

It's like a movie start not greeting you back after you've said hi.
You're expending 1 person effort in saying hi to them, but they'd be expending thousands of persons energy to say hi back to every one that greets them.

Maybe if the firms were more tech savvy, they be able to within 5 minutes send an email to everyone not accepted, but unfortunately with the way they currently operate, it might be some 2 hrs of their time collating and sending out such mails, so not worth their time.

Treasure17:
You are right. I don't have a problem with trying to fund the university system through fees but it has to be reasonable to some extent considering the fact that the parents of these students are not earning above 30 thousand naira minimum wage which is not even guaranteed.

Treasure17:
As if there is a job out there waiting for you after paying all these exorbitant fees. Students are to pay 2.2 million naira when the minimum wage is thirty thousand naira. Make it make sense please.
During the AAUA saga also, a lot of students who could not afford the increment drop out from school.