₦airaland Forum

luvola:
@ theblesing and omololu - d guy is saying d fact

greall12:
I am also a graduate,All these first class it"s look some how to me,Is not easily to got first class in a school strict with exam, with a senior lecture"s,If they go school like U.I i bet those first class student wil fall into 2nd class upper or Lower,this is unsound.i don"t  belive UNILAG and reading like U.I UNI ILORIN & co

eminemkayc:
MAKING A FIRST CLASS IN UNILAG DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. . . AT LEAST IV WORKED WITH SOME OF THEIR ENGINEERS AND THEY ARE LIKE BLAAA. . .I THINK UNILAG IS JUST A FUN SPOT WERE WE PICK UP CHICKS AFTER WORK AND MAKE LOVE TO THEM THATS ALL. . . HOW MANY OF THEIR GRADUATES ARE MAKING IMPACTS IN TODAY'S SOCIETY? APART FORM THE ENTERTAINMENT SCENE, I HARDLY SEE THEM IN OTHER FIELDS. BUT THEN, THE SCHOOLS I RESPECT THEIR FIRST CLASS GRADUATES ARE. . .
1) NSUKKA (UNN)

2) IFE (OAU)

3) IBADAN (UI)

4) ABU
MY OPINION THOUGH 

Guy, I agree with you to a degree!  Reason being, the backgrounds and history of these Universities - a British established Educational system you have to respect as it operates on the basis of, "If you work it, you earn it". Hard work, that's the British way!!! You can not get it if you don't work it and if you do, someone reports you  sorry, your a-rse will be up! You can not get it through the back door, period! Tell me, how could you get it cheap? By the time you finish writing one bloody Essay, and attend lectures/sign the attendance register each time you attend lectures (Argh!! 90% attendance o o remember plus your continuous assessment and end of year examinations before you could pass your course, chei!), you'd have known how difficult it is to SPELL Education ;

Yes to a degree, the above Universities I think still maintains their original culture but I doubt, there are still pockets of corruption in all their Depts/Schools. So, they can not escape the damages caused to our Educational System as a result of corruption and lack of leadership!

As of the so called Unilag and their kind, I sorry for that College because, it's an American product, isn't it??  Like father like son!  Everyone knows, American Educational system is so Shady! One can buy their degrees or pay someone to attend classes or examination for them, if they can't do it themselves. That's why, to whom it may concern, there's always a query regarding their Qualifications and Certificates. Too dodgy!!!!!

Jarus:
While you are free to say anything you like, I think your opening statement is contemptuous, even as the whole post is defeatist. Granted that our educational system has been bastardized, I think the few that struggle through the system to get the best of it deserve some respect.

I make bold to say that you can bribe your way to getting any grade, but not First Class. Having First class requires you to have A in more than 70% of your courses, from year 1 to year 4/5. Are you saying you can bribe all your lecturers, in every course, from year 1 to 4? I'm sure Nigerian system is not bad to the extent that 70% of the lecturers take bribe. Even with bribe, only few lecturers will give you A. People bribe not to fail, maybe to have a C, rather than failing and repeating a class or overstaying in school.

As regards First Class struggling outside, that is arrant balderdash. A First Class graduate that is worth his certificate will not struggle(baring any spiritual angle, like trial from God) and I'm sure more than 90% of them are worth their certificates.

I know tens of First Class graduates and have them as friends, and I'm not aware of anyone of them that couldn't find job. One of them has contributed to this thread and he is a big boy in one of the leading oil MNCs in US.

Hey guy, I refer to samir101ng comments on Yesterday at 12:16:31 AM

The guy is saying the truth ok!  I support him 110% and he can say it all over again.  It's disgraceful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have never in my life seen a University produce this number of 'First Class' graduates. To start with, Nigerian Universities haven't got the resources (finance, libraries, current and quality books, state of Art technology and enough/available computers in each School/Depts of these Universities to support this level of academic intelligence/wizardry among these graduates they claimed to have merited First Class.  Also, with their ASUU Trade mark, when did they get the time to teach these First Class  Hmmmm!!!  THERE'S A LOT TO QUERY and A LOT TO ANSWER TO, here! Shame!

In fact, to the blind and deaf person in the street, this act is overtly suspicious!  As we all know, no University in the World had ever done so but I ask, where else would this happen if not in Trashy Nigerian Educational system. 

It can only happen in Nigeria, were else

You can't sit down there telling me, there are Universities that had ever done so.  And if you do, I challenge you to point at them, let's check out their backgrounds? BRING THEM ON!!! Let's check them out! If any, it would only be  3rd World Universities - where else! 

Goes to show what POVERTY AND LACK OF RESOURCES IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM can cause - manipulation of Degree results and it's only Shady people that would support this evil.  Shame!

So stop attacking the brother and own up to the truth that is right under your nose that way, we can change our Country for the best!

chris wu:
@theblessed.I don't think Nigeria is ready for a split right now especially now we don't have a president. there will be too much chaos. lives will be lost nd i mean lot of lives,   

chris wu:
@Theblessed . aww, There's strength in numbers, ND UNITY IS STRENGTH. we need that strength right now that we are enemies to GOD'S OWN COUNTRY

N.I.Gboi:
welcome back . was actually wondering where u have been.
you made some good points here but i do not totally agree with them.
in  the first bolded part, i take it that [b]u are referring to taking up arms or dieing for your country. al[/b]l over the world, several revolutions have taken place, but first a breaking point has to be reached. it took hundreds of years before the masses actually reached breaking point. the nigerian case must not be bloody. we don't have to take up arms to turn this nation around.
come to think of it, how many 'oyibo' men will agree  to go to the high hills for the sake of their countries?

second bolded part, u have always been talking about gender inequality, why do u have to wait for the men to start it first? i believe we are equals, so it won't matter who starts, will it?

for the last bolded part, there is too much of talk going on about the evils of Nigeria and that will not solve the problem. It won't even reduce it.

Oh, didn't know you've been waiting for me! Ask those who know me here, not the type that shy away from issues, got it? Ok! 

I scanned through one of your post alleging that I have issues with Nigerian men, I want to make this clear to you now, so that you don't keep going on and on and on!

Firstly, I don't have any specific issue with Nigerian men rather, the bone I have with them or should I say African men as a whole are socially and culturally based, tinged with political factors though, politics is not my forte, as a Nigerian that loves her country, am bound to be involved here, too. 

Yes, socially, EQUITY, JUSTICE and FAIRNESS is a thing of the past in Nigeria. I don't think Nigerians had ever known or ever experienced these ideologies first hand and in its full gear, to have the oomph to make a change in these aspects as one can not miss what they haven't got, right? Just as our Democracy is non-existent so are these three and if available and accessible, Nigerian women are the last to enjoy it even though, everyone is entitled to them irrespective of age, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, tribe, religion and disability, right? So, why do African men (let me just focus on Nigerians) think its their God given right to use, enjoy and abuse these Rights without any consideration of their women? 

You will have Nigerian men shot you down via abuse, intimidation and control and sometimes physical harassments.  For example, last month here on N/L the story was that a young lady was dismissed from her job for having a baby out of wedlock.  How fair is this? You mentioned that I am also fuming about gender inequalities - what does that look to you? If a woman is sacked from her job, her only source of income to feed herself and family, where's the hopes for women in this country. Since am fuming about gender inequalities, tell me, if an unmarried man doing the same job had had a child out of wedlock would he still be sacked?

Again, not quite long ago, in Northern Nigeria, a woman was despoiled by one cranky slowpoke of a man and found herself pregnant by the whole experience and the courts their ordered that she should be flogged and stone to death, why, how unfair and archaic in this 21st Century? And we supposed to be One Nigerian here and have one Constitution, abi? Or are we being One Nigeria when it suited us? Why should women in the North be treated differently from anyone in the South? This episode took international outcry and interventions by Governments and Charity Organisations to save the life of that woman and her children as they managed to sneak her out of the country. What kind of a Country is this? You get despoiled, made pregnant and eventually got killed or imprisoned and the man walks free boy, is that your justice? If that woman was your sister would you tolerate this kind of justice for her or sit on your back side and watch her go to the gallows for a sin she did not commit. Search your hearts all of you!

Look, if its good enough for the goose, it's damn good enough for the gander, ok!

Nigerian women deserve much, much better and we demand it. As long as Western women got theirs after many years of struggles, Nigerian women will get theirs, eventually. Thank God the Terrestrial tv's and Satellites Dishes are all beaming into our lounges/sitting rooms everyday thereby diluting every hard core and authentic cultures globally, even China can not swear by its might in this area now, as they are going through the dilemma - so it's not gonna be long!

Also politically, you alleged that I am referring to taking up arms to achieve progress, development and unity in my country and if that is the case, why not? If that's what it would take to stop this nightmare of poverty experience by Nigerians up and down the country and caused by deep rooted fraud, corruption, embezzlement fuelled by insatiable greed, you name it - why shouldn't Nigerians take action to that effect when everything else is not working? All avenues have been exhausted, what are you guys waiting for?

I hear you ask, why can't Nigerian women take the initiative since they want equality? Well, you guys have not shown us that we are equals yet, until you do so then you'd realise what we can do! If you guys would do away with cowardice and take the bull by the horns perhaps, like the Marcoses of the Philippines, these so called Nigerian elites with no shame and remorse would begin to fear for their own dear lives, their children and grand children's lives as many Nigerian children are dying and perishing everyday from the effects of their actions - poverty.

Tell me, who in their right minds would like to see unclothed children with swollen stomach, oedematous hands/legs with dying eyes staring at them in hunger and helplessness, if not one with a heart of stone? Should I talk about our infrastructures?  Should I talk about our Hospitals? Oyibo toilets are even better than our hospitals and, that's why our President is abroad receiving quality healthcare, shame!! Our Schools, Colleges and Universities, nko?  Don't even go there.  Again, they are all well resourced and that's why all their children are being educated abroad and poor Nigerians are at home struggling, fighting and suffering in the hands of ASSU, how fantastic!

Are you still there? I wonder! If that's not enough I wonder what is and I must warn you, this is the anger of woman that loves her Country, if you don't know that, yet! Therefore, based on your inference if it would take revolutions to knock sense into the so called leaders of our country (past and present) and, for the sake/love of our country then, let's do it for a change and for the next generation!

Again, should there be revolution as you said, don't you reckon they'd be the first to leave the Country with their families just as the the Marcos of Philippines did, and where would they be running to this time, if not the West for some of them and Middle East for most? They can run but they won't hide because, Nigerians in Diaspora will deal with them, anywhere they go. Therefore, revolution is necessary for Nigeria to get out of this nightmare because, enough is enough of these abuses of our people and country!


And now, for those who support all these atrocities in our Country, your negativities are all welcome! Cheers!

Emmanuel.M:
Nigerian Men ain't cowards.Any one that say so properly does not know the true meaning of the word coward.let me freely educate such a person.the word coward means - somebody lacking courage: somebody regarded as fearful and uncourageous.Now you do know the true meaning of the word coward can you truely say that NAIJA men are cowards if Yes then you don't know Nigeria or It's just people around you that are cowards.Thank you for reading am out!ENJOY

George_D:
just be sensible ok? the spam bot may be on your tail for all you know!

OAM4J:
No one makes you inferior without your consent.

Looks like you have a personal issues with some Nigerian men. Sorry am not one of the Nigerian men you describe here, so cant answer your questions.

OAM4J:
pls educate me. What aspect of the Nigeria constitution says women are less than men or vice versa?

H2O2:
That was daft! I'm tired of reading painstakingly through sexist tripes like that.
Being boisterous behind a computer screen from the confines of your home or office, while seated on your calabash yansh.  What's stopping you as a woman from vacating your seat?  You too can do something about it unless you mean to tell me that women are inferior to men.

Now, you want us to go to war front but won't accept we are equals. 

So, by wanting us to do something, has it finally occurred to you that men and women are equal and that we have equal rights as you And that we should be treated with respect just as you? Well, to get us vacating our seats according to you and, challenge the powers at Abuja, we are challenging you guys now to imprint these Rights in the Nigerian Constitution then, you will know what Nigerian women can do. Try it! Don't be scared!!

I know you guys won't do it 'cos you're frightened we would take over the Universe and, we will because, there's no man in the house! Show me? Where are they?  Y  o  u??  You bet your luck!

Glad, you've finally accepted that you guys have been undermining our rights for so long, frightened people!

Eziachi:
The poster has stir the bee's nest and has got the usual Nigerian attitude of see no evil and hear no evil and attack the messenger.
Who can honestly dispute what the poster said and backed it up with a moving picture?

Planning in Nigeria is non existence and Lagos is just one of many junks, we called city,  except for few place where the rich lives as said by the poster, surrounded by a prison like fences and gates.
The poster should go to Ibadan and see pre colonial brown looking roofing sheets still hanging and sewage running openly on the street.
Or go to Aba and see how people lives side by side with stinking mountain of refuse dumps.

If you have been in Lagos for most of the day, outside. Just use a white hand towel to wipe your face and look at the result. It will be covered in pure thick black smug from unroad worthy autos and industrial pollution and that is exactly what people are breathing day in day out into their lungs- far worse than smoking.

Just like the poster said, I have also witness a man with cutlass cutting the grass as the plane taxi along the tarmac at the MMA just a year ago. How can that happen in the 21st century? How much does a lawn mower cost?

My people use to says that "a king who always hate to be told the truth will one day enter the village square with excrement of his on his clothe because no one dare tell him the truth".

God bless you for upholding the truth for the sake of your beloved Country!

legba1:
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, RUN FOR YOUR , LIFE mumu

johnkaro:
This is a life story, happened to someone close. her parent being very poor, I mean very poor force their daughter into marrying a lecturer who is mid 40s. Note: the girl is just 18yrs old. Now after the marriage the girl now discovered that her husband cannot perform and the so call husband asked her to meet other men outside to put her on the family, of which she has done the first one. Now the girl is tired, she want to quit the husband and the parent are threatening hell and fire. She now come to me for advice. I want your opinion so that I can properly guide her.

Goes to show the damage poverty can cause! Imagine parents forcefully gave their young daughter away into a doomed marriage? 

Pack your bag and go home to your parents and blatantly refuse to stay in that marriage unless, over your dead-body! That way, your parents would see sense.  Imagine, this man fleeting you from one man to the other? In so doing, most definitely you are going to contract HiV-Aids or other serious disease that are rampant in Nigeria, and who would take the blame? Losing your young life for the sake of obedience to parents?

Get me right, it's good to obey your parents but obedience can ruin your life sometimes as in this case, if you don't watch it. 

I suggest, you talk it over with your parents once again, make them aware of the implications of this kind of marriage/arrangement - how your life is at risk and if they are still adamant over your needs and views, pack your bag and leave home for good. Don't bother with them and don't tell anyone where you are, except your very close relatives/friends who have your interests at heart and who could keep a secret or two and while you're away, make no contacts with anyone until you succeed.

Finally, ensure you give him back his dowry as soon as you get the money, chikina! Better to have your freedom and make your own choices/mistakes than be imposed upon!

Good luck and be careful with the tigers out there because, there are many of them!

Now, we can all see why poverty is evil!

Kobojunkie:
That is it! I think We are now at the point where we are in dire need of a complete overhaul !

mendax:
this issue of standing up to fight is becoming more and more loud, the thing don dey fear me sef

mendax:
coach in nigeria?

Yes, there are some good ones!lol!!

bk_baybe99:
Hahahahaha, Beaf, Hey Im learning from Yardua. Im president in this Biyyyaottch!!!!


You do realize you do not know how how write properly dont you? same way Im sufferin'? lol.lol. I got 24 hr electricity, do u? I can walk into any hospital and get the best health care can u? I can travel a distance of 300 miles in 3-4 hrs, can u? in travelling that distance, aint no cops gonna stop me for bribes, nobody's gonna jump out the bushes to rob me, and if my car should break down I'll get immediate assistance from AAA. Can u boast of the same in that S.hi.t hole u call a country? No? alright then


I think I'd rather write my name on  Gold PLAQUE, instead of on a gold plague. what do u think?

Go on, go on, say that again buddy!  Teach them how to have a better and decent life. We don't know what it is. We are a Country of hustlers and we only understand a life on the hustling lane - hustling and struggling till you drop.  Onye nwuo ozuruike (When one give up the ghost they rest), Okwa onye nwuo, ya achisa owa (Isn't it when you die, you give it all up?). Perhaps a taste of a better life would change all that our negative thinking.  Go on buddy, say it again so that we can hang our heads in shame when we realise what we are missing in life .

Imagine, your car break down in any Nigerian Motor way, are you crazy? Better put it on fire and throw away the key before you catch the next Coach to the nearest town/city else, don't blame me!!!

And, with this attitude where we rubbish peoples views/opinions about developments and changes we need in this country, Nigeria is going no where with its back until, her peoples thinking is in tandem with modern times.  We can not achieve any thing unless we all agree and call 'a spade, a spade' and mean it as well as be prepared to work together to create a better and quality life for our people, of which some of us would have to sacrifice their lives for - and I ask, which Nigerian man would do so? 

You see, some people blames it on illiteracy but don't think so - education and exposure has nothing to do with this because, Nigeria has the highest number of educated and well travelled elite in the whole of Africa rather, we need serious social and cultural changes and that would do Nigeria a lot of good.

EloSela:
How was he used? Do you think he competed for free?

He was fully funded by the UK Sports council during his competing years which means all his living expenses were taken care of. Also in the article it doesn't make any mention of a job and so I am led to believe that he was probably surviving on benefits (disability and income benefit which could amount to up to £150 a week not including housing benefit and council tax which he probably also claimed for) and receiving free NHS care for his health issues. So who was using who?  Who got the best end of the deal out of it all?