₦airaland Forum

cnonyechi:
Champions hahaha try my mother she be super star for beating and it helped me

some body that flogged me seriously by trick while I was still a teenager

I snuck out to play ball against her instructions
got myself this wound on my toe we call "shhitto" then
like on the tip

I snuck back home
treated myself on code
and pretended that nothing happened
not knowing that "guy man" don sabi wetin dey

that fateful night; while enjoying my dream that I was on the next flight to a splendid holiday in South Africa, what i heard; or will I say felt was *gbosa, gbosa; gbosa*
and *gbola gbola gbola*

I crashed out of the plane
I was shaking and confused at the same time
and the gbola kept coming



chei nostalgic memories
i miss you grand ma

children dey enjoy these days sha

ornicus:
yes, all the wonderful beatings have made us wonderful nigerians and world class leaders , not so?

i'm sure the yahoo boys, ritual u murderers, gang rapists , thieving politicians, fulani herdsmen, armed robbers, killer policemen, sars , drug dealers etc were never flogged in their childhood.

look around you and you can see the benefits of corporal punishment everywhere

laura ikeji much as i loathe her, is right.

all most of this beating does is reinforce a mindset that violence , solves all problems

and violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

that is why you see people , well dressed in a car accident immediately begin fighting. because that is what they have been taught by beatings
that is why youth corpers will go into an office to seize [steal] computers
that is why frustrated parents are beating their kids to death.

we see them on this forum too, unable to make an argument without threats of violence and i will deal with you.

you want to see what beatings do to a person - watch how tacha of bbn relates versus the way mike relates
that is what beating ultimately does, and we see it everywhere. we are all aggressive and violent

you have a point

sinaj:
lwkmd
Not to talk of African back hand slap that can even change your destiny
This generation kids are lucky sha

very lucky

mastermaestro:
You just spoke my mind. In her delusion she thinks she is the first to give birth.

it's mostly ladies without common sense that talks like that

my grand mother's that popped babies aplenty should then say what?

and the two of them were champions of flogging and smacking

jaxxy:
I believe children shud be flogged bt only as a last option for misbehavior. If u can’t flog a child at all especially for certain bad acts u might be destroying the child indirectly by lack of proper correction. Also flogging for flimsy reasons is also destructive and counterproductive.

moderation is key

Born2Breed:
Some people are confirmed idio.ts.

If you think sparing the rod spoils the child then flog your biological child, not the child I put in your care after paying you.

This has never happened to me and will never happen. If you flog my child then I flog you outside the school premises.

One silly woman on the run now,flogged her daughter to death all in the name of I don't want to spare the rod bull crap.

Most people supporting flogging ain't even married,carry belle and open ur leg to push baby out then u go understand mother hen and the chicks story.

your last paragraph is wrong

my mother pushed out many babies

and she smacked us at intervals

better smacking

my paternal grandma gave birth to many
and she smacked well well too

so that point of "pushing baby bla bla bla" is invalid

that said

I am somewhat on the fence when it comes to smacking kids...
only parents should have the right to smack kids (that is if you must smack)


and moderation is the key when smacking

because Nigerians have abused smacking and its now transferred aggression
there has to be some regulation in place against such

But the good ole smacking your head with newspaper (my father favourite then ) a knock on the head and other soft targets etc is not out of order if you ask me.

Angelfrost:
Things are changing, though gradually... I have said it here before, and I will continue to reiterate it... The world is getting fed up with our nonsense. Even our fellow Africans are turning hostile due to what they suffer abroad, no thanks to the criminal activities of our youths.

Late. Akunyili foresaw this, and tried to sensitize us on the pertinent need to rebrand the image of this nation during her stint as Information minister...

Eventually, there will be a last straw that will break the collective backs of Europe and America, and you will witness massive denial of travel visa to Nigerians in general.

Solution is simple... We must start talking to ourselves in this country... We must stop celebrating wealth and worshiping money... We have to ingrain and reward academic excellence and encourage dignity in labour... We must sanitize the political class, and allow only people of integrity lead.

your third and fourth paragraphs are the keypoints

if Nigerian folks continue on this wavelength
in 10 years time
we are getting the Sudan/Somalia treatment
no escape

Angelfrost:
Nothing personal, but that citizenship by birth nonsense has gone on for too long... Thanks to idiotic Nigerians and Africans that further worsened matters by abusing it...

Y'all will make effort to secure your children's future elsewhere while destroying the future of millions of children yet unborn in Nigeria... God bless Donald Trump for some of these immigration reforms. I pray other Nations like France borrow a leaf too... These corrupt Bastards won't escape the havoc they have wrecked on this nation... Karma has finally relocated to this nation.

I see your point
But this thing is going to continue
as sad as it sounds

AreaFada2:
Thing is the child will still get UK citizenship. Ibori has British passport they wanted both for their child. Ojukokoro.

ibori has British passport?

I never knew

the ojukokoro thing goes to show you the reasoning of a typical black man

Hotfreeze:
Ibori got convicted with his wife Nkoyo Ibori. He got released while she's still in prison.

Now, she's still chilling in prison and he's gotten himself a new wife.

You sef see am na

nairalee:
Donald Trump even planning on ending US Birthright citizenship altogether and these ones wan use their two left leg enter. I just dey laff una

You see that is the problem

he can't end birth right citizenship
that's mission impossible

but what I have seen him do is to throw so so msny obstacles towards getting the citiZenship

There are certain things that are sacrosanct in America

gun rights and birthright citizenship are two of them

Oxyb:
social media is the major problem of Nigeria. some people that have not eaten since morning now will be thinking another thing. Oga ooo

the more reason to stay away from.social media
And face what is real

FortifiedCity:



Since after the story of obinwanne, I am no longer impressed by show offs.

I don't blame u for that

his pic on that hospital bed should be taken down
this is quite disrespectful
don't they teach social etiquette anymore? RIP to the dead.

dokie:
Men get old, though the L E of men is slightly lower than that of women. But the reason you hardly see generation of men is because men marry at older ages than women.

An average Nigerian man marries at 30 years and could be anything between 5 to 10 years older than the wife. So the lady is usually between 20 and 25. Replicate that for the next generations and you will see that the man is very unlikely to see his son's grand children except he crosses 90 years, and not many live till 90 across genders.

Do the same thing for the woman, and you will see that at 75 the woman is seeing her daughters grand daughter.

As it stands, @ 75 my mum is likely to see my sister's grand children.

true tho
for the Nigerian context
but many men in Japan and America live to see their great grand kids...
the ones who got married early
And all that

peeps4u:
Don't mind those bad belle. They wish they had the same opportunities and I'm sure they would jump at it.
An average Nigerian hate seeing a more prosperous/successful fellow.

You may be right

seanjy4konji:
where all of dem see visa self?

.they get



They have the bank statements and sponsors to boot

most Nigerians don't
that is why they get rejected

dust144:
This is Nigeria

theatre of absurd

sylve11:
everything

I don't see anything wrong with it tho
as long as they pay their hospital bill

Kennitrust:
Been lucky to escape the poverty in Nigeria early is the best experience for anyone to have.

When you you are lucky to eat very well, you think it is easy for someone else.

I come to realized that life is not easy at all in Nigeria .
Now, I know why Nigerian abroad doesn't wish to step back their feet on their own soil when they escape to other places.

I used to wonder why people are not scared of going for robbery even when the other people are being killed for this purpose. Now, I understood that, the frustrations we are facing in this country can make you become mindless of what you do.

Question; will Nigeria be better in my life time?

this is some what deep

Alwaysking:
These yeyebrities always giving birth in USA, Trump should start driving them away.

anything wrong with that?

mmadu4:
the baby was born in america .

before nko

mrvitalis:
Who lives in lekki then

most people who live in so called lekli are living in a bubble
And many broke people live there too

Reference:
Okay, I see the drift here. It appears the definition of middle class here is somewhere around economic status., the kind of job one is engaged in and probably ones earnings there of, or whether its is white collar, blue collar stuff. To me that is a bit narrow, subjective and fluid because one can earn a million in this country this year and 10,000 the next year. One can be a high flying banker today and be on the streets quite literally tomorrow.

I have in mind a more permanent classification of society by ideology, the way a group of people are organised amongst themselves and relate with the other bodies as a whole. These classes donot differ over time, race, economic status and creed. They differ in the way they think a nation operates and what that nation serves. In effect they differ in the way for instance they see country like Nigeria work and they tend to conduct themselves in that light.

Thus is the broadest terms possible and in the fewest words possible I view the Upper class as those who 'Exploit', the middle class as those who 'Make' and the lower class as those who 'Opportune'. So it is clear Nigeria is presently a duo-poly, a nation of exploiters and opportunists, there are very, very few people in society that make things work. It is not an economic position, it is not a bank balance, it is an ideology. There will be rich exploiters and rich opportunists, as there will be unfortunate exploiters and unfortunate opportunits as there are rich middle class folks and not so rich middle class folks everywhere in the world.

Brilliant

the uncertainty is too much

Many folks whon"thought" they were middle class just 5 years back

have been sent into economic destitution under Buhari misgovernamce

I see with my eyes

Reference:
This is totally wrong. The first victims of an imploding nation are its middle class. The middle class in the true sense of the word does not really exist anymore in Nigeria. We effectively lost our middle class during the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida. What exists presently is a duo poly. Rich or poor, ignorant or enlightened, power and peons... and so on.

I mean you cannot have a middle class and so called democracy works like this. It is just not possible. The middle class is the engine room of democracy. It either exists or not in its effects in driving the narrative prevalent in a nation.

You have spoken well
the middle class is so thin in Nigeria

Litmus:
It saddens me Nigerians never seem to appreciate what they have and always believe the rest of the continent has better. Nigerians have more class and are more sophisticated in thinking than the average Africans are. Gra-gra attitude is not radical it is backward. A good metaphor would be Whitney Huston. Imagine Whitney Huston was like your average Nigerians attitude and Bobby brown and his ghettoness was like the rest of Africa. At some point Whitney began to feel that her ways weren’t genuine and that being Black and genuine was being Ghetto. Whitney went Ghetto and died from it.

what is this one saying?

Mizwisdom:
Once again, talking from emotions not knowledge. Quite thin you say? hahaha

did you say emotions?


hahahahahahaha


man

I have travelled to many Nigerian States
I have seen with my eyes

I'll be coming to naija again sef soon
to still come and see

no one needs to tell you that the middle class is quite thin in NiggerArea
at MOST 20-21m Nigerians are in that bracket

and most live in 5 small area's (Lagos, Abj,Kano Kaduna and say P/H Onitsha
while the rest Of the country is a vast ocean of poverty.

Oszy:
The numbers you dropped aren't factual plus Nigeria doesn't have a strong middle class in the real sense only on paper.

Nigeria middle class is quite thin

WorWorBoy:
Says the failure who lives in Ivory coast

For your little mind now, living in a shlthole country like ivory coast means you're in aborad right?


You are so smart and yet you are running from the east
Why not use your highly intellectual to developed your region instead of running from one county to another like the refugee that you are.

Failure.

lmao


You see what I'm sayin

You did not disappoint

Davash222:
You hardly see generation photos of men. Always women. Abi, men no dey old again or men don’t indulge in all these generation photo of a thing

You are 4 generations men abroad (especially Japan /US)
but NiggerArea?
not very common

SoNature:
Story for the deities!
Power becomes more expensive when it is steady.

is this Nigger kidding me?

blackslayer:
Nigerians to pay more for darkness consumption! Anyways Nigerians deserve their government....Yall are cut from the same cloth!!!

indeed