₦airaland Forum

ednut1:
There were notices by most businesses that they would be closed. Everyone one deserves to spend holiday at home with family and loved ones unlike in Nigeria. What you should have done is team up with fellow Nigerians organize food and shayo and have fun. I can bet my hand say you will not return to Nigeria after your studies.

Bros don't bet your hand because you might just lose it, if the guy was like me. I had a fellowship with the American government and I was on a J-1 as a Government visitor. Once, my fellowship ended I got on United Airline back to Naija. People are wired differently.

kollinz1234:
We all just want a better country; irrespective of the results of the election, there is no winner or looser among the masses. A good leader favors us all and a bad one troubles us all.

That is it. Kudos.

Samunique:
Try read my post once again, I didn't ask anybody who wish to not to Japan, but they should stop destroying their homes from outside, so that when jungle is matured they'll have where to run to.

Look at what happened in Ukraine, was anybody expecting it ?

Anything can happen at anytime, no place like home bro !!!

Your statement in bold fonts refers. No need to educate them on that, let them continue to do that. When the consequences come, they will realize their folly.

By the Grace of God, some of us have traveled and are still traveling without throwing mud at our home country.

People can travel without mudslinging their country of birth. Nigerian leaders haven't particularly done well but have the citizens been better behaved?

If you have any relative schooling in the UK now ask them how Nigerians are misbehaving right now. My young cousin was telling me how some Nigerians who just got to the UK made a care agency to lose its clients because some Nigerians would go to care homes with Alcohol for the night. No sense of professionalism.

Jokerman:
Lol...

Is this to scare the potential teaching applicants?

I don't think it is written to scare the potential applicants; rather I think it is to help them prepare their minds for cultural shocks which are expected part of cross-cultural experiences.

Angelfrost:
Calm down with this tired line abeg...!

Don't act like people don't pay bills in Naija!

You are on point, but folks shouldn't make it look like everyone is suffering in Nigeria too. I know a number of friends who, for one reason or the other, have elected to stay back in Nigeria inspite of the fact that they do travel for business and visits from time to time.

tabaralph:
Immediately SHINA peller the son of late professor peller that owns Quilox left apc few months back I know something like this will happened

This is not entirely true. Even while Shina was in APC, Quilox has been sanctioned in the past a number of times so this is not about any political witch-hunt. This is a routine action when residents complain and the club will still be opened. This is quite unlike the situation where the Government goes to demolish citizens' buildings indiscriminately.

Denko2721987:
You are right but she still needs that therapy

Laughing out loud @ she must go for the therapy.

Denko2721987:
Madam go and seek therapy so you can heal from your male inflicted trauma. This na Christmas and a few days to entering new year so na advice I they advice you so. The bitterness u spew towards men shows u need that therapy so don't take it personal darling okay

You can't single her out for counseling while leaving out the men that bash women for a living. Even as a man, I get pissed at the way some males here bash women through their hasty generalizations. Every man has a mum and every woman has a dad, so we should not encourage male or female bashing.

This is laudable on all levels. One, I am happy that the monitoring was developed by Nigerian youths. Two, it is a good thing that citizens can now participate directly in the monitoring of project execution through the use of technology.

Vos1:
you're an idiot

That guy you quoted is a very idiotic and mad fellow. They are talking about the avoidable death of two young ladies and all the idiot could do was to bring in his stupid politics.

OriOko88:

See as thread dry. No single post of anybody in Qatar. Chaii. Poverty has really showed us shege. Even when we qualified to russia 2018,the Nigerians who travelled to see d eagle no reach 500. I'm very sure those oyinbos behind d OP came there for sight seeing,their countries may not qualify.

Poverty has become part and parcel of us. Very dry thread. Many nairalanders are hustlers. Very few middle class amongst us

You would be shocked at the true number of the Nairalanders there but most people have learnt to be more circumspect and they enjoy staying incognito. The times are perilous and these aren't good times to begin showing indiscriminate pictures of flexing on the internet or social media. If them 'packee' them family member for Naija who go follow pay ransom? Discretion is the better part of valour.

Nirvana101:
Don't be deceived with nonsense like; don't make excuses, the government can't help everybody bla bla bla. Forget it. Nigerians are extremely hard working people. Enable the environment with constant power, roads, and other pro development policies and see this country grow.

Yes government has a role to play but the citizens too need to play their roles. Nigeria has not always been bad at least. So what happened, when Nigeria was good? When there was free education up to the University level? Well, what happened was that Nigerians started gaming the system. They started giving birth with reckless abandon believing that Nigerian government will always provide and cater for the children.

I'm where I am today because I don't make or give excuses but you see Nigerian government? bunch of comedians...

Well this should be every Nigerian's goal, to be where ever they want with or without the government while staying clean. At least, you did and if you can any other person should be able to.

ednut1:
She is a political appointee in kogi, her husband is also contesting under APC. What is she supposed to do All these stupid fans sha.

The fact that there is mob mentality against people that have opposing political view is really annoying. This is the reason why the system we practice is called democracy, one man one vote. People should learn to live and let others live. Mercy Johnson has the freedom to support whichever candidate she wants.

Some of these idiots criticizing her, wait make them give them papa just councillorship first, na them go craze pass.

int0x80:
Dude, it's not that hard. If other people are doing it, why can't he do it. It only takes some level of self discipline and dedication.

It just requires discipline. Nothing is impossible.

Cutehector:
otipoju, its not everyone that can grab IT easily. Some, it can take years before they even understand Jack. My advise is, learn what you love to do and can understand easily so you can be a pro.

Almost anyone who can operate a phone can learn some IT and make money from there. IT is one of the shortest routes to making it out there. Again with IT, it is possible to do remote jobs unlike some other work that might require the worker's physical presence. People need to understand that some areas of ICT are easier to understand than others. For example, there are data analysts who aren't programmers but they make their own bucks too using tools like PowerBI and excel; although their growth may be limited. And there are UI/UX designers who make some tidy sums.

zionstaar75:
so what is your business with other people's stupidity abeg?so supporting someone who's tribe calls Nigeria a zoo is what?both sides are actually stupid but the guys with the highest number will still win no matter how hard u cry oga

This is the undiluted truth. No matter how strongly anyone feels about any aspirant, democracy is a game of number. If you like call the presidential aspirants whatever name you like, whether it is 'blu bala blu', 'agbado cassava', 'Atiku' or 'Peter Obi', it does not matter as long as any of them is declared as winner of the election through election by the majority that is the end. Nigerian youths should stop being foolish by calling these guys names; they are made already and an electoral loss to any one of them will not change that fact. My own is that whoever wins, I will remain prosperous.

Brendaniel:
OBJ did to some extent...

To what extent did OBJ curb the excesses of the governors? Under OBJ, Ibori looted Delta state without looking back; Igbinedion dealt with Edo mercilessly; a sitting governor was kidnapped by a set of touts in Anambra; INEC machines were found in Adedibu's house and baba said Adedibu should be left alone because he was elderly and then Ghana must go filled with cash were always finding their ways to the national assembly; some northern governors like Yerima started implementing sharia law. I can go on and on.

Brendaniel:
Because accountability under this Buhari's administration is at its lowest in the history of Nigeria, out of trying to gain control of the entire system to be controlled by a few they monopolized the sharing of authority that would have helped to checkmate each other, the national assembly is too controlled by the executive, same with the judiciary, since most of the governors are with ruling the party and few oppositions who already know the dirty secrets of the central government, it now became a game of steal your own I steal my own, we should not disturb each other the only reason we are even hearing this now is because we are in election period, tenures are rounding up, they need to fight dirty to either retain their seats or kick some people out.

You haven't addressed my question. If we assume that accountability is the lowest in the history of Nigeria because of Buhari, why haven't the excesses of these criminal governors been curtailed by regimes that were supposedly more accountable like OBJ and GEJ?

Brendaniel:
You are speaking through the prism of corruption, we need good leaders in every aspect of governance, that is why we need to vote in right leaders into office.

If Buhari was leading by example, this governors would have been exposed a long time ago

I would like to believe that if Buhari didn't lead by example, some other presidents in the past must have led by example. So, the question is why haven't the governors been exposed!

emerged01:
How can you have the decent roads? When the loads on it too much? The rails will help reduce loads on roads by transporting large numbers of people at the same time.

Bro you have time to educate people who have allowed themselves to be blinded by meaningless sentiments.

webizone:
Oga we never grow reach China and we have more mineral resources than they do per person, yet they are richer than us. It is not our population that is the problem. It's just the wicked leadership.

Our population is our strength in future.

People who talk like you are usually brainwashed by the west.

The guy you quoted made a very good point. And as you compare Nigerians to the Chinese people, do well to compare the productivity of Nigerians to the productivity of Chinese. We have too many people that are very unproductive and they are popping kids with reckless abandon. Our population is not a strength until we can turn it into productive advantage.

Nigerians have always complained about bad leadership. In the early 80s, people complained about austerity under Shagari and Nigerian was still prosperous then compared to now. People were given free education in the 70s, and the citizens felt they could birth as many kids as they wanted since government was providing free education; no sense of responsibility. Nigerians have since exported our sense of irresponsibility to countries that allow citizenship by birth as they give birth to more kids per family than the country's original nationals.

One of the major problems in our country is that most Nigerians do not have any sense of responsibility. You will see very young people complaining of lack of jobs, yet when jobs are set up and they get the opportunity to work they are looking for ways to bleed the business to death. Ask an average entrepreneur in Nigeria about his biggest headache and most of the times the answer will point at 'thieving employees' because 'thieving' is what the average Nigerian equates to 'being smart'.

BreconHills:
Until you inderstand the structural imbalance in the 1999 constitution there will be no change. Even if by some freak of nature the LP candidate was to find himself miraculously sworn in as President, he would be powerless to change anything. First he would have no power over NASS. LP doesn't even have candidates in all states, second he eould discover that any new LP NASS members would be unwilling to let go of their new bonanza. If he tries to discipline them, they simply cross the carpet to another party.

Instead of endSars it should have been endNASS. Until NASS is reformatted under constitutional amendment, nothing and I repeat nothing will change in Nigeria. We must return to the 1960 constitution. We cannot continue paying governors and NASS members to live large at our expense. This election is just window dressing.

It is shocking that this so called new generation youth are no different to the old generation they blame for everything. They too have cheaply been lured into thinking that its all about the Presidency.

Not just well said, but very well said!

One4me:
Most Wives dont want to be protected by their Husbands!
When the Husband is trying to protect her, most of them interpret it as "he is trying to control me" and they rebel. So, what can the Husband do?

In this age of Feminism, most Women claim to even know more than their Husband so, how can someone you claim to know more than, be the one trying to protect you?
The issue of forgiveness does not even come into this, everyone must take responsibility for their actions.

Whether it is the Husband or Wife, anyone who fukcs-Up, should face the music.
That is the first bus stop of EQUALITY

I agree completely with you. That is why I said any wife that refuses the husband's protection ought to deal with any consequences that comes from her refusal.[sub][/sub]

One4me:
Sure, anyone who must come to equity, must come with clean hands!
Just like A Man's Matrimonial bed is not meant for knacking hs Pregnant Wife.
Both Cases will be heard together, infact the Man should have shot both of them dead
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A Man's House is his Castle - British Law.
If you intrude into a Man's Castle and he shoots you dead, you die for nothing.
In America, they call it "Stand your Ground"

Sure, you are spot on. Whatever action the husband took in that instance in defending his territory could have been defended in a law court either in the U.S or UK.

MNDY:
It is the woman that allows what will happen to happen in issues like this and that's the bigger role play.

Without the details and background to the story, it might be difficult to understand the roles that each individual played. And I am not absolving the woman from blame but this should serve as a lesson to individuals.

I have seen where some men would quarrel with their wife or daughters for not going for prayers with a particular pastor. As a matter of rule, I cannot allow my wife to go and pray with a pastor in my absence.

Some other men allow their pastors unfettered access to their homes even in their absence, all in the name of prayers. My brother, be you Bishop or any pastor you are not allowed to come to my house in my absence.

The truth is that women are more likely to be manipulated by some satanic people masquerading as men of God. There are some fearful prophecies, which maybe false, that they can use to break a woman's defence for exploitation. Same may not work on men easily.

Husbands, please protect your wives and anyone of them that refuses to be protected should be ready to face the consequences of her actions or inactions.

Moh247:
Na God save the man say Dem never kill am

You are spot on. And the fake man of God should thank his stars that the husband is a gentleman and only stopped at snapping pics. Some other hot-headed man could have maimed him.

Coolcash1:
Fear women!!!

My brother, there is nothing like fear women here. Two adults committed a crime so we cannot single out the woman for condemnation: what about the slowpoke who had the audacity to go and bleep another man's pregnant wife on her matrimonial bed!

The press men present should have asked Atiku on how he intends to devolve power without the national assembly. The devolution of power would require constitutional amendment therefore no President should boast about that. At best he could have promised that he would lobby the National Assembly to do the needful.

DimIsaac10:
By March we shall know the president.
Then the boys will go back home.

You can say that again! By next year March, the election would have been won and lost and we can at least concentrate on other things. The claims and counter-claims of the different parties as to who would win the presidential election are needless as far as I am concerned. Party supporters ought to concentrate more on selling the candidacy of their aspirants instead!

Angelfrost:
How can they be when all they ever think about is quick and easy money?!

Such mentally lazy and greedy youths! SMH!

This is your damning verdict on the younger generation is why I fear for Nigeria's future. Where do we go from here as a nation?

simontosy:
Atiku can win without them. Who ever wins the bulk northern votes becomes the president of Nigeria and that I how it is going to be unless we restructure our country

This is not true. Buhari won the northern block votes 3 times but he never became president with the northern block votes. I however agree with your assertion on the need for restructuring.

GboyegaD:
I guess you know one and we read of incidences of fire outbreak that nothing was done. Part of the challenges with the fire services is non access to water because Lagos State Government successfully destroyed our water pipe system.

I referred to one that was personal to me because of my closeness to the people directly involved. That said, I equally mentioned that I have read about the interventions of the Lagos State Fire Service in other instances some of which I mentioned in passing.

I do concede that State Governments need to do more but when it comes to firefighting, it would appear as if Lagos State shoulders above the rest of the states. I have heard about instances where Lagos State firefighters had to intervene in fire incidences in Ogun State.