₦airaland Forum

I'm not an Igbo man, before you Fashola voltrons jump on me, but the state of the roads in Ejigbo is just totally dreadful.

It is telling that the guy posting pictures here is putting up pictures of busy expressways, bridges and top tier intersections. When you drill into the real lagos, the inner roads, the Ejigbos of this world, you'll see how these areas are starved of attention by the State Government.

My in-laws live in Ejigbo and I can tell you the nightmarish time I have everytime I have to visit. I won't even talk of the abysmal state of the roads near TB Joshua's Synagogue church.

From what i've heard, the Local Government chairman in that area loves to develop the roads on paper while living in luxury in far better areas of Lagos. Fashola et al cannot claim to be unaware of this.

The 'fashola cannot do everything at once' excuse is utter rubbish. 5+ years into his tenure...Taxpayers live in those areas too.

owolabifunke14: Finally,Nigeria is heading towards the right direction. Constant power supply will soon be our portion. I can now proudly say that dividends of democracy is here with u.But,I hope the private companies are not owned by our governors and senators?

I'm not sure how old you are, but wiser heads will tell you that in Nigeria, it is better not to count your chickens before they are hatched.

I'm sure years ago someone was rejoicing about 'Vision 2020'...where we dey now?

We were promised a crash in cement prices...still yet to materialize. We were promised an end to Boko Haram last year. Fighting still goes on.

be wise.

It would be great if the OP provided a balanced view of this issue of religious intolerance. Use Christianity in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran as case studies.

kutchs: It is so sad and disappointing reading the comments of so many misinformed and ill-informed Nigerians here. The rally which SR has described at PDP's was advertised, promoted and actually was a celebration of women's achievement by the office of the first lady in collaboration with NCWS. That being the case I dont see what is wrong with female members of the armed forces joining.

...and that explains why they were wearing GEJ wrappers?

Please do not assume everyone out there is as brainless as you are.

You traitors will weep with shame in your old age when you see the harm you've done to Nigeria.

This is the most hilarious thing i've read all year.
contrary to what this CNS says, the bulk of stolen crude is siphoned away in the creeks of the Niger Delta...and the Nigerian Navy cannot claim to have clean hands in this matter.

Ask the CNS which vessels the oil thieves use to carry the stolen crude...and why his outfit does nothing to stop vessels from moving freely in and out of our waterways.

tatosh: ^^^ Are you okay?

It's okay. You don't have to fret because I'm smarter than you are.

mikelreal: True talk! THOSE LECTURERS ARE MONSTERS, THEY DONT DESERVE ANYTHING! OLE!

And why should a cultist like yourself get anything good?

Pk001: Oh I miss ObJ!
I now understand that these ASUU are just fighting for their pockets. They don't have the students at heart.

My Advice to GEJ is to do like OBJ;
Ignore them and don't pay them during the strike period. At the end of 3 months, they will start begging for negotiations. Before the 4th month runs out, they will come to your terms and resume. They will never strike again till after 6years.

You understand nothing. You think the answer to the problems in our University lies in worsening the welfare of Nigerian lecturers?
Poverty mentality sha. Good thing I am firmly on course to ensure my kids sidestep Naija universities. Na the masses go suffer the fruit of their imbecility.

tankoemmanuel: Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige who is representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, has sponsored a bill in the National Assembly. It is called ANTI-GAY BILL. It might also interest you to know that Dr. Chris Ngige is not the kind of Politician who plays to the gallery, trying to garner cheap popularity like most roguish politicians.

Anyone who thinks an Anti-GAY bill is not playing to the gallery does not deserve to breathe oxygen

tatosh: Smart thoughts from a Nigerian(Yoruba)
F.G, you are the manager of our national patrimony. Please demand these from ASUU:-

1. Their members should stop the selling of handouts, they should make video DVDs of their lectures to serve as a supplementary learning aids for their students.

Why should lecturers make Video DVDs? On whose budget? You think this is the norm everywhere, even in first world countries?
Not all lecturers sell handouts. Stereotypical assumptions of this nature is as idiotic as someone saying all students are cultists.

tatosh: 2. Each lecturer should have a blog (with threads) like that of Nairaland for him/her to interact with his/her students with for supplementary and effective communication (online Q&A sessions).

Why? In God's name, why? Interaction with students is left to the lecturers to define and decide. Why not ask for personal massages from your lecturers while you're at it?
Please go and show me the blog that Prof Alan Gringarten of Imperial College runs.
If a lecturer does this, this can provide good value...but asking for this to be mandated of all lecturers is just lunacy.

tatosh: 3. Lecturers should stop seeing themselves as demi-gods but as friends and parents to students. That all sadists and bad teachers (poor teaching skills) among them should be given Jonathan's booth.

Less of an issue for FG vs ASUU and more of a University administrative issue. The University council disciplines errant officers. Why are you students not uniting to provide strong negative feedback about poor lecturers to the University Council? Are you in Engineering? What's the NUESA Exco doing to engage the Dean of Engineering that Prof. XYZ does not show up in class for half the semester?

tatosh: 4. All exam results must come out within 2 weeks after the completion of all exams so that students can know their results on time and be able to plan better for the next semester.

Now I'm convinced the writer of this is an imbecilic dolt. University exams are done in the same period. The same lecturer teaching 3 courses is expected to mark hundreds of booklets, collate results and submit to a central body which will then collate results for thousands of students and release within two weeks?

Why not ask them to renounce life and family while you're at it?

tatosh: 5. Graduates must get their certificates on their convocation day.

Certificates are prepared and delivered by Exams and Records departments, whose members are NOT academic staff and are NOT ASUU members.
Are you sure you're a student?!

tatosh: 6. That examination should be re-designed to evaluate student's understanding of the course (application) and not student's ability to COPY & PASTE crammed definitions. Each lecturer should prepare a synoptic summary of his/ course which should then contain all the definitions and summary of what he/she wants to teach to aid students in the mastery of his/her course.

Thousands of words in, this is the only marginally sensible point you've made so far. Of course it can be argued that this 'synoptic summary' can be called a 'handout' which we've already established you want to see completely banned.

tatosh: 7. Productivity Allowance should only be paid to lecturers with 70% pass rate i.e 70% of his/her students must pass (C-pass) his/her course on merit based on effective teaching. Greatness lies in simplicity. If a lecturer has not mastered his/her subject to the extent that he/she is able to effectively teach it, then he/she is not fit to be employed in the system.

Again this continues the previous established trend of unintelligent comments. If you make a 70% pass rate necessary for payment of allowances, you WILL get 70% pass rates. There's no way to put this in place without the system being gamed. In other words, you want the FG to pay money to GUARANTEE 70% of students pass a course.
I suspect this point was not well thought through

tatosh: IF ASUU CAN FULFILL ALL THESE 7-POINT AGENDA, F.G, PLEASE DOUBLE THEIR SALARIES. IF THEY CAN'T , F.G PLEASE REDUCE THEIR SALARIES BY 50% AND LET THE LAW OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY BRING YOU ANOTHER SET OF WORK FORCE . THEY ARE SHORT CHANGING YOU (POOR SERVICE)!

You poor, naive fellow. What law of demand and supply? Why do you think Universities and ASUU lobbied to move retirement age up to 70 yrs? Due to the incredibly silly and treasonous behaviour of the FG towards the Educational institutions in Nigeria, the best young brains have absolutely no desire to embrace a career in the University. The best graduating student of Engineering in my set had a First class with a GPA of 4.8 or so. He was given an automatic job in the Uni...he instead chose to become a cashier in Zenith Bank. You think they don't have families to feed?

Go to your University and look at the lecturers there. How many bright, young and disruptive lecturers do you see? Would YOU lecture?

You want to attract the best brains yet pay peanuts. That's laughable.

tatosh: STUDENTS DESERVE THE BEST. THE 7-POINT AGENDA IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE AND ASUU DOES NOT NEED BILLIONS TO DO THE ABOVE, THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TOOLS FOR THESE WITHIN THE SYSTEM.

IF ASUU WANTS THEIR MEMBERS TO BE PAID LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD, THEN THEY SHOULD ALSO DEMAND OF THEIR MEMBERS TO WORK LIKE THEIR COUNTERPARTS ABROAD.

ASUU, YOU CAN DO BETTER.

A massive chunk of your demands are not made mandatory overseas. Show me the personal blogs of Georgia Tech lecturers where they answer questions online. Show me where lecturers are not allowed to go on leave.

You want the ASUU members to work excellently, you want young lecturers to shun the temptation to sell handouts to make money yet you're not willing to consider their welfare. You want lecturers to embrace e-learning and modern lecturing habits yet a large chunk of Federal Unis still use blackboard and chalk, the computer labs are filled with dead and decaying computers, the FG cannot provide funds for University wide Wifi access, for example. The laboratories are dead. How many working Lathe machines does your University have?

So many words, so much intellectual laziness.

Abeg let the strike continue. The quality of submissions here from so-called students fills me with dismay. No sense in releasing this half-baked lot to the streets early.

Listening to these clowns, one would think

1. All lecturers drive around exotic cars
2. All lecturers sleep with their students
3. All lecturers sell handouts.

Instead of joining forces with your lecturers to fight to move away from the archaic infrastructure in your schools and to support reasonable wage increases that will attract bright, young talent to the University, you're busy spreading FUD.

Ex-millitants are being given N80bn without an eyelid being batted and the Govt is whining about 100bn for improving the varsities and lecturer staff welfare.

There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.

Statement above made by President Barack Obama, July 2013. Perhaps he's 'playing the race card' too?

ROSYL: why do we blacks always play the racist card?How is this racist? Not really sure why race always has to be the issue. Did she say, "No, it is too expensive because you aren't white?" That word is used waaaay too often when certain people don't get what they want. Perhaps Oprah was acting like she was "all that" and got offended that this employee had no clue who she is.

Oprah has obviously never watched the film Pretty Woman. One scene is of Julia Roberts trying to buy her first set of expensive clothes; On walking into a Beverley Hills store the two haughty saleswomen refuse to tell her the price of dresses and say they are too expensive for her. They assume by her dress she has little money. I wonder what Oprah was wearing when she went into the shop she is complaining about. Not all insults are down to racism Oprah.

We're talking about one of the richest women in the world who is styled by fashion icons...and you wonder if she was dressed shabbily when she went to the shop?
Pray that your Envy will not kill you in this life.

segzytemi: keep flaunting like you know it all just for the sake of comment... That the problem with many people here, you comment to criticize. Have you for once check the source....

It doesn't matter one bit if the source spelled it wrong. It's YOUR error now, you should have put it in inverted commas so we know it's copied verbatim. That is the correct way to go about it.

This has nothing to do with being a Corps member or not...by not wearing a life jacket while traveling over water, she effectively killed herself.

Instead of whining about scrapping NYSC, I wish everyone here would see this as a reminder to take safety seriously.

taharqa: Actuali, Oil theft has been reducing SIGNIFICANTLY in d last few mouths. Data from Reuters indicates that Nigeria's September Oil Future's Export is 1.94mpbd (and this is not even including d Crude used incountry and of course d few hundreds of barrel of Condensate Equivalents that wud also be exported). This wud esp be d case as d problematic Nembe Trunk Line which has been shut down for months now wud be reopened by Shell this week. Know what you are talking about b4 opening that mouth in public, plz...... @topic, sorry: I try not to comment on stuffs related to characters like Elrufai...

Meeting OPEC quota has no bearing on amount of oil being stolen in the Nigerian context. Oil theft has reached UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS during this GEJ presidency, despite the untold billions expended in payments to the ex-millitants in pipeline security contracts.

If anything, the bunkerers have even grown more powerful and secure in this presidency. Please refrain from resorting to cheap lies.

Ama28: Visa? To USA? Please where is that your USA in my dear country's map. No where right?
I would rather be here than have those micro chips inscribed into my brain so I can access healthcare, did I forget to tell you, that's modern slavery!

Now you have gotten my attention!

For believing that inane conspiracy theory of 'microchips embedded in your brain to access healthcare', you're already a victim of the most crippling slavery of all: Intellectual slavery.

Ignorance is a disease...

emmysenior: This goes to show how myopic and narrow your thinking horizon is. Whatever way you see it, you can never attain such height as theirs before you die off the surface of the earth.
The last time I checked, there was no fraud or complaints against Oyibo's Gagut theorem.

Narrow minded boy, pls read below;



Pls quit quoting my posts, I don't do things with dirty things.

Thanks.

Everyone who hasn't been living under a rock (or who isn't blinded by tribal sentiments) now knows that many of Emeagwali's claims were inflated exaggerations, driven by an egotistical need for self aggrandizement.

Clinging to the 'massa Bill Clinton said it so it must be correct' manta is just plain pathetic.

4llerbuntu: Since you know how to continue posting this very mumu question I am very confident u kno how to google or the search boxes ssituate on every page on this site.

Your houseboy never resume you hear. 156 pages is too much to use google to search but your nanny will take time and his own bandwidth to be typing rubbish for you abi

Is this a subconscious acceptance that from now on, the Phone section 'man of the year' will likely be won by the Techno folks? This one wey you dey vex for your 'constituency'


Abeg if anyone knows any of the moderators on this section, let him do some cleanup on all those Techno threads. It's good phones are now affordable, and many people can now access relatively powerful modern smartphones, but three threads talking about discussion of Tecno Phantom A+ is just way too much.

ibietela2: When they release a new phone with similar specs and a screen of 4"+ let them call me.

You want a 4+ inch screen with 320 * 480 resolution and 512MB RAM?

LMAO

Alxmyr: The story was not properly told.
Amaechi decided to demolish the waterfront.
The people objected to it.
Amaechi invited the first lady to Rivers state, obviously to use her to endorse his planned demolition agenda.
She saw that Amaechi wanted to use her as rubber stamp for the demolition.
She refused to be used. And urged the governor to dialogue with the people first.
The press reported the event and scolded her for going against a governor's wish.

Political issue does not go straigh as you thought, my brother.

The first question you should ask was, who invited Patience to Okrika that day?
Why was she invited to Okrika of all places in Rivers by the governor?
Who brought the issue of demolition to the public during the visit?
Was the planned demolition part of the itinery of the first lady agenda for that day?
If you are in first lady's shoe, a governor brought you to your home town and said he will demolish your father's house, will you clap for him in front of your kinsmen; who obviously are against the planned demolition?
Why was the chairman of Okrika sacked the same day by Amaechi?
Why did he place the whole of Okrika under curfew for 9 months as a result of the incident?

These are underlining issues that Amaechi refused to face, but rather dancing around the globe granting interview.
A governor that claimed that his state is under siege, he was in UK throughout last week.
The opposition that he is following advised him right, he threw the advise to gutter and rather chose to dig deeper pit for himself.

He should be man enough to face his issues squarely. He has issue with Peter Odili, Celestine Omehia, Nyessom Wike, Okpara, Lee Maeba etc.

He is lucky to have GEJ as president, if I were GEJ, I will just do simple thing to him.
I will drop the Minister of Housing and appoint Senator Lee Maeba as a minister or even Celestine Omehia. Then he will understand the meaning of power.

So the story was not properly told until you put your own spin on it abi?

good thing for us you'll never be president. All you will amount to is an Esau that is happy to sell out his birthright for a plate of pottage.

Billyonaire: I saw arrogance, I saw false charisma, and I saw a man who disobeys the "First of the 48 Laws of Power" without a standing in the transgression of the law.

In his statements, he said he does not discuss about his sub-ordinates, yet he wants The President to discuss with him.

In politics, diplomacy is the order - Doing the harshest things in the nicest way, but Amaechi has been openly insulting a sitting President that was voted-in by majority of Nigerians and by extension, the majority of Nigerians are pained by these insults.

I understand that Nairaland age group is majorly 21-25 yrs so many Nairalanders are just advancing bracket who are either just out of school, seeking jobs, and inexperienced as is normal in that age bracket, but for those who pay the pipers, for those in the age bracket of 25 to 60s, we know what it means to have an insubordinate person in a chain of command, so when I watch this video about Amaechi, I feel terrible with his utterances. He is clearly done in politics and is trying to bring GEJ down with him. Arrogance and Pride has no place in politics.

So by your logic, isn't Amaechi supposed to be 'pained' after receiving insults from Patience Jonathan? Aren't the rivers people who voted in Amaechi going to feel pained?
GEJ brought all this upon himself .

djustice: Sack Sanusi now! Bring back Soludo. No shame in saying sorry.

Under Soludo, the exchange rate went from N115 to N150.

I seriously question your sanity

samkoro: Biafran fought with Marchets,localy made weapons and arms gotten from dead Nigerian soldiers.There were known and clear facts.

So, I ask you, why go to fight a war against a better armed force with machetes and locally made weapons? Is it not senseless slaughter to send poorly armed and poorly trained boys and men to fight an obviously losing battle?
What does that say about the General who assumed tribalistic zeal would be enough to defeat machine gun fire?

I still have no idea why the Biafra issue still comes up for discussion here. Isn't it time for the wounds to be left to heal?

This is so pathetic.

Idi Amin: you are right, that Prof is a coward. Where was he during the military regime? Now he has opened that his dirty bearded mouth to talk rubbish, mtcheeeew

Not sure if you're an slowpoke...or just ignorant. coward ke?

ALTRUTH: Shut up! Soyinka has descended so low. Coward trading words wit a woman.

Sexist, chauvinistic pig to insinuate women are inferior beings!

If you truly believe women are inferior, weaker breed, why take exception to Soyinka's 'domestic appendage' speech?

homesteady: I'm sure many people will agree to this!!
Prof wole soyinka surely needs to be in NL hall of shame for 2013!! I am sure you know why!!

Unlike you, most of us are educated. We know 16 is not greater than 19...and 5 is not up to 2/3 of 32.

Don't worry, we know illiterate folks like yourself are always represented during the voting session, but thankfully most people here aren't that daft.

If a Nobel Prize winner who will always command more respect and admiration (on merit!) than you or your paymasters is your nomination for Hall of Shame, you might as well just throttle yourself now and save humanity from your tainted, addled genes.

gtrust: Prof was in PortHarcourt with 4 Northern Governors to collect his share of the Rivers OIL! Not Hippopo LOL!

Prof now we know your source of Income: BRIBES!

Unfortunately for you, Wole Soyinka's name, fame and achievements is greater than anything you will ever achieve in your treacherous life.

Elueme: Soyinka should guide his actions and utterances. This is a man I once so regarded but gradually losing that spark because of unwholesome inter lopping on matters that are based on perceptions and interest. In the case of Rivers State, Soyinka's inability to read the mood of the people and his lack of understanding that Amaechi is not a saint as he cries wolves has terribly deered a bitter blow on his perception by majority of the swamp deltans( in Soyinka's words) who ironically regarded him in high esteem. This issue is behold GEJ or PEJ but about how a people feel about somebody and Instead of the personality like soyinka to thread with caution and play an arbitrary role, he seems to be taking side. How the mighty fall!!

When will you thrice accursed m'orons realize that this is not about Soyinka 'taking sides'? This is about following common sense and the law.
Soyinka is not talking because GEJ is fighting Amaechi. Soyinka is talking because

1) 16 is not greater than 19
2) 5 is not 2/3 of 32.

It doesn't matter if Amaechi is a vampire that drinks human blood and feasts on virgins. Soyinka is incredulous on this travesty. YOU imbecilic dolt! This should bother you too, if you had not already been paid like a dog to yap on Nairaland for your masters.

i say again, the root cause of this matter is that 16 was made greater than 19 and 5 was made up to 2/3 of 32. This is a staggering aberration and anyone who has received a secondary school education should be outraged!

Please change your name from Elueme to Esau...that you and your ilk would so easily sell your common sense for a bowl of porridge.

Only a m'oron will believe this made up rubbish.

The guy conveniently sees the former wife of his Deeper life pastor...and conveniently sees a vision condemning women who wear weavon, jewels and trousers to eternal damnation...exactly what the Deeper life Church preaches.

People who make up lies like these should be beaten around the head with a stout cudgel.

[quote author=$uperior]The Shell recruitment exams are usually leaked to the children of the high and mighty in the society leaving the graduates from the community to appear they are not able to pass the exams.[/quote]This is usually the sentiment expressed by people who are too dull to pass the exams.
Stop trying to blame third parties for your failings.