₦airaland Forum

banmee:
Sometimes I think you people only read the headlines and not the story. What is true about the nonsense the OP wrote? What influence does a parent have on the educational system except on their ward? Plus, the OP/abdeiz obviously did not get an education because I am trying to figure out how government has transformed into a person. You didn't see that did you? There is only one reason the educational system has failed if you must know. It is being managed by Nigerians. Nigerians are not normal so don't expect anything normal.

Parenra encourage their wards to cheat, and in addition, pay huge fees for expo and special centres. That's it.

shysteve:
NairA is now nothing to write home about...even people were complaining at the border that nairA has become so useless....it's 1k nairA to 1600 cefa.....almost becoming 1 to 1.

These are trying times indeed for our currency.
Very trying times

idera1:
thanks for the quick response. please if I may ask, what tourist centers can we visit in Cotonou?

Well, you could go to the beach, basically....
You can also go to Ouidah, which is not far from the city, and you will see the slave relics, the temple of pythons, etc.
As for hotel, you can use the GuestHouse at Haie Vive, next to Lambis bar, I have used them, and they are good.
15000CFa per night, And the services are awesome (Free Wi-Fi, air conditioned room, etc)
what else?
Okay transport, you can use the luxurious buses, but even tho that would dig a big hole in that your budget, it is more comfortable.
What else?

Ugosample:
My humble advice is to go to Lomé or Cotonou instead

And I say this because your budget will earn you higher utility in Cotonou/Lome than Abidjan.
You'll save money in transport costs, and in addition, things are cheaper in these countries than in Ivory Coast, even tho they all use the same currency.

shysteve:
We left Accra station by 6:30am o....the major delay was the border.

Yes Those guys at Elubo can be annoying

idera1:
Good morning everyone smiley smiley smiley smiley. Myself and hubby wld like to go to abidjan for our honeymoon wink wink wink wink wink wink, we need names of tourist places to visit and a very affordable hotel to lodge in. Also, our budget is N100k and we want to be sure if it will cater for transport fare (to and fro), hotel bills, feeding, site seeing and little shopping for a week cool cool!


please i need response and advice from everyone.

Thanks and God bless!

My humble advice is to go to Lomé or Cotonou instead

shysteve:
Bro.....we got to the bus station in Abidjan around 6:30pm and I took a taxi to youpogon,mehn it took me almost an hour to get there from the bus station in trechville and I finally got a very nice hotel for 12k cefa per night.....Abidjan is a real beauty but the only problem is the language issue....it's so terrible that you will hardly come across someone that understands it....tank God for the lady that helped me talk to a taxi man but even after that I faced hell when I got to the hotel....at a point they had to go and look for someone who understood lil English before I was able to get a room.....I bought some spicy meat for 2kcfa and big bottle water for 500 cefa outside the hotel.......I doubt if I can stay for the budgeted 2 weeks dos of this language issue....meat seller, water seller, hotelier etc no understand nada for English but all in all.. It's a beautiful with some lovely,attractive buildings.....what about the very long beach....will give account tomorrow when I setup my laptop.

What time did you leave Accra?

ojimbo:
i have not seen any africa country that refuses people from entering their country through road. Morocco is free to enter if you reach their border. I will only advice you to hide your passport to avoid deportation. Go through Niger-Algeria-morroco. It is free movement

You don't mean it?

shysteve:
Cleared at last....my bubble was busted when I was thinking we are almost there until an Ivorian just told me its four hours to Abidjan from the border....chai see gobe o.....they charged me 2500cfa for meningitis even though my yellow card is okay o.

Lol
It's a good experience tho. You should be in Abidjan before 8pm.
U will love the city.

shysteve:
Just took off from the bus station, our projected eta is 6pm so am guessing it will take one full day from Nigeria since Ghana is closer to Abidjan and they are saying we will get there by 6pm.

Will keep updating the house.

Safe journey to you bro.
Update us on your experience eh

mrkayusfit:
Why is the federal government slowing down their bombardment of this touts? By now the Tanks, warships and bomber jets should have been deployed in full force to the entire Niger delta cos it seems the Indigenes are sympathetic to the scAvengers. Bombing of our oil facilities alone is a treasonable act that must be considered an act of war against Nigeria and here they are threatening to declare Niger Delta Republic. Many states cannot pay salaries and people are dying of hunger because of the actions of these few vagabonds crippling our God given oil wealth. The federal government should not negotiate with them but instead warn innocent people who cares to listen to vacate the region so full military might can be deployed to wipe out the terrorists with brutal force. Anyone caught in the inferno will have themselves to blame cos this nonsense has to stop.

The oil is our collective wealth and no group of people can hold us to ransom. We once fed the whole country with cocoa and groundnut pyramid money and no youth from those regions formed militancy. I can smell the hands of the Biafrans in these renewed militancy and they think this approach will blackmail the FG into releasing Nnamdi kanu or restoring the dead and buried biafra of 1970. We will resist any attempt by any groups to break away and we shall never support any form of referendum. A word is enough for the wise. Do anyhow, see anyhow

What is this one saying?

CFCman:
That's why I also think the single passport idea won't fly. It will be better for AU-member countries ratify visa-free travel within Africa for either a 30-60 day period, or a 14-21 day period. Africa needs a higher volume of intra-African trade, so another component of the proposed visa-free treaty would be the full implementation of the Yamossoukro agreement, which called for unrestricted intra African flights among African airlines.

Exactly

This does not make sense!!!

okudili4live:
When Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets.
Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Prime minister Tafawa Balawa was also killied by army majors from the wailing waillers SE.
These are documented facts!

Okwudili calling SE wailers *hmmmm*
Point noted tho

The (ex) president has landed in Turkey airport

csamii:
This amateur coup has been defeated. If they haven't got to Erdogan by now, I don't see them succeeding again and besides, police are now holding some soldiers.

We are still following proceedings
Let us see what tomorrow will bring

Turco:
It was the year Soviet Union was still alive. So, it is impossible at the moment. At the last time there was a coup in Turkey, my father was in university and there was not even a TV in some cities, so it is not possible. People unite on online against coup. It is that simple and that is stays as an attempt.

Let's watch and see.
I still feel the coup has a chance of success.
Because the military in support of this coup are a sizeable number, and will not go down without giving it their all.

But now, the army will now be bitterly divided

Turco:
Yeah, it happened. 36 years ago. Ever since I was born.

So coup is not impossible

Turco:
Dear People of Nairaland,

Hello from Turkey. I am Turkish National, living in Turkey. I've been following this forum for more than 2 months and I've been being a member of this forum for more than 2 weeks. I just wanted to state a comment here. There are 81 cities in Turkey and this attempt is happening only in 2 cities of country. Ex-president is on air, and he says; ''Turkey is neither a Latin American country nor an African country. There will be no coup in this country. This is just an attempt from bunch of soldiers who are minority in army.'' This is very unusual to Turkish democracy. We have no idea what is going on at the moment but usual life is still going on. We're just watching TV channels and following Twitter about the situation. So everyone must calm down. Nothing is happening. We can be against the government or with the government but we're all against the coup. Current president, current prime minister, current head of parliament was on air. In a coup, it is not possible. So, we're just watching the news. You can ask anything you want.

That man is talking like coups haven't happened in Turkey before

csamii:
No, no, no! This coup is succeeding alright.

But its taking long o

Orikinla:
. The crime rate in New York City is public knowledge. It is even worse than the entire south west of Nigeria. You can search on Google.

Okay

Nice one. Nice one indeed.

livenletlive:
They don't care if you die there! It's a cult and those 'managers' will always do everything possible to ensure you deliver, otherwise they answer to 'the lord bosses at the nocturnal meetings'. The Bible has warned about giants, GT & co are modern day giants. Get out and get a llife!

Cults?
Tell me more

UuzbaGuuzba:
I know You.

You are stuck at the bottom rung of your multilevel market. The only way to escape from the bottom rung is to trap as many new intakes as possible. Brianwash them to hate themselves and curse themselves but bless you as their god and saviour.

You spend sleepless nights wandering where and whence you will get new recruits. You burn all your energy on long seminars and long speeches where ONLY YOU speak and the others must listen but not speak there by making yourself lord and master over other people.

I know you.

You are very happy to pick up stories like this and use in your marketing seminar. To tell the new recruits to use this person as an example. You will happily make business out of the plight of others.

I know you.

You have no product you are selling nor are you offering any service. But DESPERATELY NEED the money of people selling products and offering services for your own marketing scheme to work. Without them you are nothing. It is their money they feeds your greed. Yet, you are very confident and proud to tell these same people that they are so stupid and are all idiots to be providing goods and services.

I know you. You sound just like the Devil a fallen Angel. You have knowledge of good and evil, but ultimately your plight is to trap as many as possible under your multilevel market bondage.

Once they are trapped, you will leave them to suffer sleepless nights and brain cracking. You will use your top level target as bait for them. Even if they sold their village to the money for your paper form, you will not mind. It was people like you that sold their fellow black people as slaves to whitemen. Black people who are completely confused and have lost all their history in America. They can't stay, they can't comeback. They will never be seen equal to white men no matter what policies are made.

I know you.

And your have come to feed on this poor soul.

Away with your evil . God will provide for this man/woman without your misguidance.

Have you fallen victim before

Following....... Just to learn. Ride on homeboy232

foladara777:
So d fact that there was looting before Jonathan excuses him from culpability or proves d uprightness of his person even if he allowed it when he was commander in chief?? No offense but ur comment seems to lack logic.
The question is this... Does the looting of public funds under Jonathan indict his character and person?? The answer is simple: Yes it does

Oga, pls don't put words in my mouth.
I am not a fan of any Nigerian leader (apart from say Yaradua)

My point is irrefutable.... There has been corruption since time immemorial in Nigeria. Simple and short

InvertedHammer:
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There is something about Bill Gates visiting Nigeria that is very unnerving considering that he is a global champion of depopulation via vaccination and immunization. Well, Africans are willing guinea pigs. It didn't start with him. His father was a big proponent of population control. He was the head of the controversial Planned Parenthood back in the days. Educate yourselves. Some see philanthropy, I see trojan horse.

Listen to Bill Gates in his own words below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ6mjx4J7dM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjj4lq-rsNg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJMR3BUm2s

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What is wrong with population control?
So Afrocans and Arabs should continue populating the world with useless children abi, children that they cannot take care of?

If I were God, I would have sterilized every African and Arab man who has four- five kids.
Let us have kids we can train and mould to be responsible people in future

foladara777:
Uhm.. One thing.. His performance as president says a lot about his person... Case in point: d fervor with which d country's treasury was looted under him.
Of course Buhari is not proving much better

Uhm. One more thing.
Wanton looting did not start under his watch, and will not stop even after this current "incompetent" president Leaves office

koboko69:
Be sincere with your self, even before the elections, everyone knows PDP have been the one play kindergarten politics. How else can u explain the many folly being displayed by PDP members. Imagine this fool, telling a retired Major general he is imitating a useless bloody civilian.

Why call an ex president useless and bloody?
That is not how cultured people talk. You may attack his performance as president, but not his person

Orikinla:
The most recent documentary films of the BBC and Al Jazeera on Lagos city did not show the true pictures of Lagos. They showed Lagos with mostly dirty people and filthy streets to paint an overall negative impression of the city that will never attract foreign tourists and foreign investors.
We have to correct their erroneous pictures of the commercial capital of Africa, the largest megacity with the highest GDP in the continent.

There are millions of white people in the US and Europe who think you cannot be safe in any city in Africa.
They don't know that Lagos city is safer than New York City.
Immediately after posting these pictures on my popular @247Nigeria on Twitter, the President/CEO of beBee, Mr. Matt Sweetwood connected with me and many top CEOs and celebrities with hundreds of thousands of followers started following me.



As they day, a picture is worth a thousand words.

We saw the white woman jogging alone unaccompanied on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and waited for her to and fro.
That said a lot about her location of Lagos city.

[size=20pt]If nothing is special to you about a white woman jogging ALONE in the largest megacity in Africa, that does not mean it is not special to millions of others who have never seen or been to Lagos.
To them, it WOW! What a delightful sight![/size].

We are planning premieres of "Lagos in Motion" in different countries overseas to show millions of foreigners Africa's largest megacity in 2016.

Do you know that there are even millions of people in Lagos who have never seen or been to the Palms in Lekki!

Every October 11, to celebrate the United Nations' International Day of the Girl Child, we host hundreds of school children to watch films at the Silverbird Cinemas in the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, and majority of them come from the outskirts of Lagoos. They said they have never seen or been to the Silverbird Galleria before.
So, there are local tourists in Nigeria who have never seen a white woman jogging alone in a city in Nigeria.

Intellectual comprehension is a big problem among many people in Nigeria.
The ignorance of one person can help to improve the knowledge of others.

Cheers.

Lagos id safer than New York? *opens mouth*
Though I admire your drive to rebrand the image of Africa in the eyes of the global community, I find that statement hilarious

DeRay98:
"i[b]t's actually a place where students get to memorize books upon books upon books, that they'll eventually forget a year after graduation."[/b]

University education in Nigeria is not about mind development but ability to memorize and score high as the lecturers are lazy.
The difference btw the '60s. '70s Early '80s and now in job availability is that then, the economy was strong and diversified enough for the population of the country. But as the population grew, there was no proportional growth in the economy to keep up with the number of educated(graduands) emerging from the schools. Agriculture and other industries were abandoned as oil began to role out "ready-made" dollars for the rulers, impunity gradually grew in leaps and bounds as there was no punitive measures to curb the corruption especially in civil service.
Banks gave out loans to powerful influential people who never repaid their loans but lived large on borrowed money, lack of prosecution for such crimes committed by "the above the law" people killed many banks and the economy ended up in the bellies of such V.I.Ps.
They didn't create jobs to support govt to grow the economy that's how we got here.
Can you imagine if most of MKO Abiola's companies, Chief Igbinedion's companies like "Canada Dry" which competed stiffly with Coka Cola in Bendel in the '70s-'80s, Okada Air which had already become national carrier for some African countries then. Many other companies owned by Northern business men, Eastern businessmen, Delta today would have had some of the biggest Private and govt companies after they split from Edo (Bendel). These companies would have become exporters of large scale produce and products to earn forex. But they all died with their founders and subsequent govt ignored them as Oil was available for easy "take-away" .
A company that had 50 staff strenght in the '80s should 've by now be employing thousands of young people and the multiplier effect...

*doffs my hat*
This is an intelligent piece