₦airaland Forum

mikeansy:
lol that's new!

How do you fire a man in retirement?

he don retire ? But the blame usually fell on his head ni and the usual chant was that he should be sacked

Buhari single handedly initiated and implemented this auto policy that has car manufacturers scrambling into Nigeria.

All hail Buhari

Ihejirika should be fired

The FG led by Gej is too corrupt that's why this thing happen

There's something sinister about this funny letter purportedly written by MEND (obviously a farce)
Something tells me there's a dangerous political gambit about to be played out

Its funny that even those wey never see water with their eye get opinion about militancy/piracy in the Niger delta.
Be that as it may, these past few months has seen a steady increase in sea piracy especially along the Brass/Nembe axis which has led to loss of lives and property. What baffles me is that there is a security vote set aside for such eventualities if they should ever occur and the vote is meant to support our security personnel on the waters.
The activities of sea pirates has led to a strike action by speed boat operators even as at yesterday I couldn't go to site because of the strike which affected up to dredgers.
During the tenure of Timipre Sylva, the activities of pirates came down a bit though I wager it was because he camped most of the major militant leaders on villas scattered across the Bayelsa govt house complex and spent huge sums of money petting and "entertaining" them which caused quite a scandalous stir.
I feel the cause of this recent upsurge and I repeat RECENT upsurge is because of the federal governments clampdown on the illegal refinement of crude oil and this has made a lot of the youths who were "engaged" to become jobless. I still make my stand, the FG should allow these people operate modular refineries and pay appropriate taxes, it will crash the price of petroleum products and reduce militancy/piracy to the barest minimum.

Alfred234:
Am having the same problem and its not due to network cuz my Etisalat is as fast as a rocket its always on H+ but d BBM app refused to open

its a crappy app I tell you. I'll just stick with whatsapp

berem:
where's the proof? I don't listen to hearsay.

you'll have to wait till they commission the route, me I no get strength for that kain waka to go snap picture. I think it will be by december

berem:
I thought Enugu and PH had a rail line? Does it mean nothing is happening on that axis?

work is in progress on that route

...."Umar further stated that the rehabilitation over 90 percent of
existing narrow gauge lines throughout the country was
ongoing, being the first segment of the 25-year railway
strategic vision...."

The 25yr master plan implementation has been going on gradually with the rehabilitation of current rail lines and equipment and expansion of current services. The master plan includes the integration of high speed rail lines into our transportation system. The only problem Nigeria has right now is that despite the obvious progress going on right now in the railway sector, a particular group of people want us to be blind by force to such progress. Their plan no go work lailai

Unseen:
You must be on a poor data network. also ensure you installed on the phone memory. That was how I solved such even on the last version

I use mtn + always on 3g and my apps are downloaded directly to phone memory.

Patryk or Patrick.

The Nation = propaganda wing of the boko haram army. Op you should have known this a long time ago

anonymous6:
Take this to the celebrity section, I don't even know it will be noticed there either

I must buy you a hot bottle of beer for this wonderful comment

Downloaded BBM since yesterday after I heard there's an update on the app. Still telling me "setting up BBM"

....."While in detention, he
collected a gun from a patrol officer and
shot himself in the tummy at about
5:40am this morning......"

The lying skills of this police commissioner will make the devil go green with envy

Gej should pay these Edo workers their money jor

Gej should pay these footballers their money na

femicyrus:
This man is about to defect to PDP.
Amosun should watch out
The pdp mentality is to acquire wealth once you become a political office holder and since Amosun is committed to developing the state instead as an APC governor, then a deputy governor with the same mindset should have being his running mate during election. The governor should be more careful this days because the deputy might have been dinning with pdp in the state

oya olodo clap for yaself

Cutehector4u:
my apologies...Sir.

no wahala though I believe the solution lies beyond sending our kids to pako school

ISpiksDaTroof:
Maybe you shouldnt be the one pretentiously preaching peace as theres never been anything but spite shown towards me from you, so stop with the fake attitude.

smh

manny4life:
No brother, I did not contradict myself. "Average American" is a term coined by the media to separate the rich and poor = average, it is NOT a recognized term and thus, it could refer to any of the class up to the "Middle Class or even the Upper Middle Class". An average american depending on their class, can be educated or non educated, bottom line is their income that differs them; they are often within the lower / middle working class. When Congress talks about taxation about the "Average Americans", this is who they refer to.

At least according to the U.S. Class structure, I want him to explain to me how an "average american" say an engineer or lawyer working for Shell Oil and making $150,000 annually turned out to be a millionaire? Yet, how does a doctor with a fat salary turn out to be a millionaire? Or aren't they making the big bucks?

I was only referring through his own context. He just came across as unnecessarily angry towards you and it was quite baffling abi you sleep him babe before ?

gregtochi:
If you would explain to me why you hid my post and left the insult-laden one I quoted, Mr. moderator?.
Does partiality, bias and intimidation wear a different cloth?

Yes... As long as you are pro PDP/Gej, you will be intimidated out of here. Ask other saTANs what's happening here

ISpiksDaTroof:
You're nothing but a bush village man; always acting like you know it all and can never stay out of any topic because of this attitude. Tell me, in one breath you said this law "isn't only for millionaires, it affects the average citizens making the big bucks"....

Please enlighten me how an "average citizen making 'big bucks' " won't fall into the category of a millionaire, or what do you call "Big bucks" in your hamlet?1

Okay he contradicted himself but does that mean you should describe him in a derogatory term when you could have easily corrected him without such ?

Cutehector4u:
Madam thr r government schools u csn take ur children to ..... Or military schools wich i prefer... Ur kids will turn frm ajebota to pako children...

(madam)

I nearly couldn't believe APCankerworms saw nothing wrong in this disgraceful episode but then again na their way to dey mumu... APC I hail Una o

Saving our children from house arrest

October 28, 2014 by Azuka Onwuka

Thank God I did not grow up in this type of caged and dull life that my children are growing up in. When I compare my childhood with that of my children, I am certain that they are not having half as much fun as I had as a child. Why do I say this?

Anytime we travel to our hometown to spend some time, our children just don’t want to come back to Lagos. The reason is simple. Unlike in Lagos where they live a caged life, they live a free life in Nnewi. They also have many children to play with.

Today’s children from the middle class and upper class (who live in Nigerian cities) live a life that is the same as being under house arrest. Children live in homes from which they cannot step out of. If they live in a flat, they are not allowed out of their apartment to play with other children. If it is a single family house, they are allowed to play within the compound, but they are not allowed to step out of the compound. To get to school, which may be on the same street, they are driven in a car or a school bus. When they close from school, they are driven back.

But when does the school even close? That’s around 2.30pm. And that includes toddlers who are in the kindergarten. But it does not end there. After school, lessons start. That will last till 4 or 5pm. The child then returns home fagged out. The implication is that most children stay in school longer than some adults, especially adults who work in government offices and close by 4pm.

Because the schools most of our children attend are privately owned, they operate on plots of land that are about 120 feet by 60 feet (about 668 square metres). The school may be a three-storey building. There is no space for the children to play during break, let alone a field for football as well as march past, field and track sporting events, a volleyball court or even a table tennis board.

When the children return from school, they have homework to do. When they are done, they may be allowed to watch TV or play some video games or phone games before bedtime. By 5 or 6am, they wake up again and prepare for school.

What type of food do these children eat? They take all kinds of cereals in the morning. In addition to the lunch packs they take to school, they take snacks everyday as well as carbonated drinks. To show them more love, parents regularly buy them ice cream, popcorn, meat pie, hamburger, shawarma, chocolate, candy, pizza, and the like.

If the children have to attend any event in the church, the parents drive them. If daddy or mummy needs to buy a recharge card across the street, they send the house help but not their children. At 15, many children have never crossed a road on their own. When they get admission into a boarding school, parents drive them to the school. If they don’t send the children to universities overseas, when they gain admission to a university in Nigeria, the parents drive them to the university, if it is in Lagos or the South-West. If it is outside the South-West, a flight is taken.

Now, compare that to my childhood. My primary school and secondary school had fields for different sports. Sports was not optional. In secondary school, marathon or cross country held every Monday for all boarders. During sports, the hostels were locked so everyone would participate. There were two sports prefects and a football captain who were recognised as prefects of the school. There were competitions called inter-house games as well as inter-house match (football). In the same vein, there were inter-school sports and inter-school match (football). And the grass in all the fields in school was cut by us, either as our duty or as punishment.

As a child, once I came back from school and did my house chores, I had the freedom to go out to play. Football could be played anywhere (field, someone’s compound or on the street) and with anything (football, bad orange, bad tennis ball, a ball of cloth, etc).

For the sake of swimming, we went to the stream regularly to fetch water, even if the tap water in the home ran. And we could swim from morning to evening. We went to fetch firewood or fodder for the goats or sheep. We went to search for wild fruits. We played under the udara tree for hours, waiting for the sweet fruit to fall, as it was a taboo to pluck the fruit. We climbed trees to pluck fruits or to play. I doubt if my nine-year-old son can climb any tree.

We tilled the soil to plant crops. And for me, it was fun. We tended the crops and harvested them. And our meals were mainly from fresh crops and fruits and vegetables.

When I took my common entrance examination, it was in a secondary school far from home, and I went to the school myself with other classmates. As a 15-year-old Class 4 student of Okongwu Memorial Grammar School, Nnewi, I received a letter from the West African Examinations Council that something was missing in my GCE form. I got my exeat card signed by the school, and for the first time in my life, I travelled to Enugu (and alone) to WAEC office, changing buses about five times. When I got to WAEC office, I was given my form to append my signature to a page. I travelled back again to my school. Also, when my UME result came out, I travelled to Nsukka for the first time to check the result and do my registration.

Because of the type of food we ate and the amount of walking, working, playing, and sports we did, it was rare to see an obese child. Today, seeing an obese child is easier than seeing a slim child. Today, it is not unusual to see eight-year-old girls menstruating. With the health challenges and sudden death facing our generation and those before us, one wonders what will be the fate of our children when they become adults in the next 20 to 40 years from now.

There is no gainsaying that my children know more things than I knew at their age, because of the access they have to books, cable TV and video games. They are more tech-savvy than I was at their age. They show me features on my phone or video player that I never knew existed. But I was stronger and fitter than they at their age. I was more street-wise and more daring. I was more independent-minded. I confronted bullies and tough situations.

No doubt, things have changed. Rural areas have become towns, and towns have become cities. Crimes of kidnapping and ritual killing are high. Nobody can be trusted anymore. But do we really have an excuse for turning our children into unhealthy, obese, clumsy, dependent, jelly-like people, ill-equipped to survive in a hard world?

It is not late to change the negative lifestyles we have forced upon our children in the name of showing them love and protecting them.

Follow me on Twitter @BrandAzuka


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/saving-our-children-from-house-arrest/

ba7man:
Those matches are scripted and the wrestlers are actors/stuntmen.

I was gutted the day I found out.

this has caused huge arguments between me and most of my wrestling fanatic friends. Though we can't deny the entertainment factor sha

HAHAHAHAHAHA nothing wey man pikin no go see for this internet o CHAI !!! vanishing ink wetin Una do APCankerworms naaa ?