₦airaland Forum

NoApology:
So one of my uncles that is based overseas is billed to come home this Xmas, as such a lot of cleaning and fumigation has been going on in his house in readiness for his come back.

I went this morning to supervise the work going on there. I went inside of the stores by the car house and saw this old metal cabinet and I decided to check what's inside. Lo and behold, I found in the midst of old paper files and debris my uncle's Nigerian certificates! Omo!

Rats has eaten some portions of the certificates. I scanned through and discovered that he was,by his Nigerian qualifications, below average. This is the same man that is an internationally sort after lawyer both in the country and overseas where he resides.

This got me wondering with so many questions on my mind:
1. Are certificates really overrated?

2. Does it really come a time in our lives (apart from death) when our certificates becomes irrelevant?

3. Is it not obsolete to measure ones intelligence based on exam performances? ( My uncle would have been jobless or better still a charge and bail lawyer at best going by his academic performance)

4. And why do Nigerians perform better in almost everything when the leave this country? Are we too stringent or is a reflection of our flawed system?

Personally I believe the Nigeria education system is kinda hard, average student in Nigeria are above average outside Nigeria.

Take for example, there was a semester I offered 12 courses with 8 practicals, I still came out with good grades even though I was broke in sapa wanted to kill m then. Plus I doing courses like calculus, circuit theory and all.

I don't think I would face such stress studying in a foreign university hence my results would even be better than what I have here.

ishowdotgmail:
Shey I won't go and carry drugs too like this and be accused

Are u from the north

Shobbyxi:
It's not about having light 24/7 it's about how many times you'd have to charge your phone a day and not carrying charger up and down.

Iphone 13 battery is 4000 MHA if u charge it in the morning it should serve u till evening. In the evening u are rest assured that there's light to charge ur phone but same cannot be said in a place like Nigeria that's why we make battery such a big deal.

Amotolongbo:
Promiscuity in South Africa is on another level.
The men who impregnated them should be sentenced

Little wonder HIV is so prevalent in the country.

It's same in Nigeria, why do u think we have vvf center all over northern Nigeria.

asobo1:
Our gallant officer's are dying while buhari is gallivanting all over the globe. Nigeria Army is the worst on the surface of the earth. You deploy young lads from army depot straight to the war front. People without experience. God be with you till we meet again gallant officer's

We don't have gallant officer jor, because they swam in gutter n told them they are superior to civilians doesn't make them gallant.

Na only civilians body Dem dey do gra gra, beat one, him go go call the rest like a cultist. We train cultist n call them gallant men in Nigeria.

Anyway RIP to the dead, they died a useless death for nothing.

Cheezzyy:
as long as it is used by Nigerians as well, why not?

I don't think the makers of iphone even target the Nigeria market.

Our purchasing power is weak, and we mainly buy UK use except for few who has money to spend.

Imagine the new iphone 13 is about 1.2million, how many Nigerians can afford that?

So using battery as a comparison is not very valid, in a country with 247 light, u don't have to worry so much about battery.

Shobbyxi:
Battery is the phone gan gan oga mi.

And is a very big thing when making a comparison.

Not when you have light 24 7.

padi94:
Hmmmm... I stop advising people a long time ago on career matters, why cos I advice one guy and I ended up paying his rent for 2yrs. Cos the advice blowback

Always end advice with "I don't know, just say" or the "the choice is yours".

That way no advice can backfire.

Cheezzyy:
iphone battery no dey last like android battery normally, can't be compared to battery centric phones like the Pova series

This is only a problem in Nigeria you know right?

So it's not a basis of comparison.

Ayo081:
If your intentions are good, your chatting skills or so doesn't matter. But that up there is funny

You are right sha, because I was playing an online game and somehow ended up chatting with a girl from Japan, n our conversation was so natural and easy.

Japanese for that matter, like I wonder why our conversation was easy when we have absolutely nothing in common.

killmods:
Although it happens but Op no sabi follow up chats. I have foreign friends whom I met online male and female and they know from day 1 that I'm a Nigerian. I even reach some pidgin and some like our music too. Na as u present ur self no too blame Nigeria, blame ur communication skills

Nah, chatting with foreigners doesn't even require great communication skills. U can literally discuss anything with a foreigner n they will reply u.

Talking from experience.

Tekecoms1:
The job is better

U think 250k is money until u start receiving 250k.

integrityhomes:
you can only pick one

would you opt for a job of 250k or a visa to Canada America

A visa

Drella:
So I just wanted to make foreign friends and I messaged this polish woman.

At First, she acted like she doesn't know Nigeria.So our tarnished image might be out of it.

Also,after seeing my last message, she didn't block me until about 5 minutes after reading it.

I must confess I'm not good at chatting. Maybe the way I texted her was off. But then, I have an Ukrainian girl I've been chatting with on IG and whatsapp since 2019 with no qualms. Infact, I haven't opened the IG message she sent today.

What then could be the problem?

That's not a polish woman, that's a catfish account most likely a Nigerian.

TheDevilIsALai:
Olofo, you are exponentially more stupid than the useless Balogun that they went to interview at FUTA.

It's funny u think u are intelligent someone that cannot even hold a civil conversation.
Ogbeni rest.

TheDevilIsALai:
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Another illiterate.

Stratospheric Atmospheric Balloons are used to deploy weather probes and sensors up into the higher Stratosphere to take weather observations aloft.

Where did you see me say the fabric is spiritual?

Comprehension is really a big problem among Nairaland Lazy Yoot.

I just ask u a simple question, if u feel that explanation was wrong, u should have at least given ur own explanation instead of insulting ur Father and father's father.

TheDevilIsALai:
Stratospheric Weather Balloon

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These idiots at FUTA need to be sacked ASAP.

Stratospheric Weather Balloons are used to probe upper air atmospheric conditions such as Temperature, Wind, Pressure.

They are much larger and denser in size and texture than normal atmospheric balloons that are limited to the lower and upper Troposphere.

To think these are the so-called scholars and academicians holding fort for Meteorology in Nigeria is just sad and shows how Nigerian Universities are filled to the brim with mediocres and semi-illiterates.

So u actually believe the cloth is spiritual

cownobygo:
OK u believed in the past

I mean I use to believe in all this spiritual things b4, but not anymore.

Rrex99:
Maybe you live in North... Come down to South. Lest I forget Gas is #700.

Gas is more expensive in the north than south

Eriokanmi:
Enough said in my earlier post boy. The ends will justify the means. Good night and sleep well.

The end is oblivion. Make peace with this.

cownobygo:
may be in future you may possibly belief

Nah, I believed in the past but I'm wiser now. I will advise you to learn the truth, there's no such thing as juju or spirit or whatever. We live in a physical world n everything there is to this world is physical.

When u die, u die.

Simply going back to the state of unawareness u were before birth.
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Eriokanmi:
I think the last line in your comment matches you the most. SMH!, Ignorance is truly a disease. Now I believe. :

U are the ignorant one here. Too scared of reality so u worship an imaginary sky daddy giving to you by ur colonizers.

cownobygo:
if time can permit you bro make I carry enter some Yoruba town make u go witness wetin I dey talk

No level, those are all fake tricks n scammers, you guys are just too gullible. Countless times people have come out to pay who ever is willing to prove that black magic is real, yet no one has been able to.

2million naira was donated recently on Twitter for this same cause, n the story is always dsame, come to this come to that. Una juju nor dey fear to commot una village. Abeg make I hear word.

Eriokanmi:
I'm more informed than you think. There's nothing like evolution Mr intelligent and that's the point I'm proving to you. Even if this world exists up to 1 trillion years more, man will still be man , while animals will remain animals the way God had made them.

FYI, God exits and He communes with me personally, same way He does to those who seek and are closer to Him. The onus is on you to search for Him. He's closer than you think, in your benefit.

When u start hearing those voices again, visit a psychologist because you are mentally ill.

And informed person will not believe in fairy tales while disbelieving facts.

You are deformed and probably sick too.

Eriokanmi:
No am not intelligent.

Ape didn't also change to man lool.

In that case, where was your home erectus, homo habilis and homo sapient warped evolution came from then? Confused human being . Your utopian theory is the weirdest thing ever heard of.

Iranu

No matter how hard I try to explain u will never understand, humans hate what they don't understand.

It's just funny you think evolution is stupid but woman coming from a man's bone makes total sense.

Optimistguy1969:
Shut up!!!!!!

Your father's mouth.

Eriokanmi:
So, who crated the team of surgeons and gave them the knowledge? I guess they also evolved through the theory of evolution, loolz. I'm still waiting to see human evolve into angels or an ape change to man in this generation cos evolution is supposed to be a continuous process

If you were intelligent, u would know that evolution took millions and billions of years, couple with a changing environment.

Ape did not also change to man, but man and ape has a common ancestor which no longer exist. This is why human n Ape share 92 percent DNA.

Also evolution is still taking place, not in the way u imagine it, it's a gradual n very slow process. U can't see a noticable change in one life time.

This may seem ridiculous to you but so is ur religion.

U think it's absurd for the earth to exist without a creator, but u conveniently believe a creator exist without a creator.

U believe a creator exist and created everything out of nothing but made a woman from ribs(bone), how weird.

IamHonourable1:
This is achieved through science,but can same be achieved through religion and prayer?

NO

Optimistguy1969:
Medicine is good, but GOD IS GREAT

Science correcting God mistakes

cownobygo:
if u don't believe in spirit what of juju??

None, if juju were real Britain would not defeat the Benin kingdom in 4 days.

Mayeldah:
So why are you still wearing Clothes?

Bros waka naked go buy Suya for aboki shed na?

Morality is subjective. places, people and community evolve over the yrs.

At this point what should define public nudity should be the constitution, in the constitution is public nudity legal or illegal. If it's illegal then offenders should be punished in accordance with the law, if it's not illegal then it's non of ur fucking business if one decide to walk around naked.

jimyjames:
It's because we lacked the knowledge and skills to make clothes for ourselves that's why we were naked not that it's in our culture, even the whites once walked naked like Africans did before developing the knowledge and skills to make clothes

Ogbeni shut up, Africans had many barbaric cultures back then, there's nothing moral about us. We killed twins, we do human ritual, we sacrifice our princess to appease the gods, we walk around naked. We used each other for slaves, some communities in Nigeria even practice cannibalism back then.

Just so u know, morality is subjective.