₦airaland Forum

IbeOkehie:
No, it's a terrible policy path that the government has set off on. All you have to do is look at the EVIDENCE of other initiatives where government took control of other sectors. It always starts off nice and clean, but over time CORRUPTION, inefficiency and scarcity take over. Government, especially NATIONAL or FEDERAL governments, NEVER perform as well as private investors and markets in ANY country for the simple reasons that NATIONAL or FEDERAL governments are monopolies, they have no competition and no need to please the customer or pursue quality that leads to PROFIT.

Go review the history of EDUCATION in Nigeria. Universities in Nigeria used to be owned by the Regional or State governments and the elementary and secondary schools were private, mainly owned by religious groups and individuals. In 1975 the government of Murtala Mohammed decreed the government take over of schools, Federal Government took over Universities and State government took over elementary and secondary schools. I know schools in my hometown that were PRIVATE and taken by government with no compensation.

Go chart the performance of the education sector in Nigeria. Talk to anyone old enough about the Universities in Nigeria in the 1960's and 70's, let them tell you about secondary school education back then. When Saudi Princes used to seek treatment at University of Ibadan Hospital. Compare it to the mess in the sector today, ALL government owned schools are in shambles, performance, excellence and output has definitely declined since 1975. And of course we know Federal Universities are cesspits of CORRUPTION despite all efforts to fight it.

Has anyone even asked WHY the Commodity Boards were abolished in 1986? Go look at a chart of cocoa production around that time and then after the Cocoa Board was abolished. It's CRAZY that anyone is trying to revive a government institution that's been tried and it FAILED, it's similar to the effort to revive Nigeria Airways. Please give me ONE single Federal Government owned commercial institution that is productive, efficient and fulfilling the goals for which it was established or doing better than a private sector equivalent...just ONE....you can't do it.

The solution to raising food production in Nigeria is to encourage PRIVATE investment by getting the government to relinquish control of factors that affect food production....such as LAND and fertilizers, the government needs to abolish the Land Use Act and allow private individuals to own land. Then big businesses will be comfortable investing substantial capital without fear the land can be seized by government. Government involvement in fertilizer distribution needs to be cancelled. It serves no good purpose other than CORRUPTION.

About CORRUPTION that you identified as the major problem of Nigeria, well you can be sure that it will NEVER be eradicated. Government ownership and control only makes corruption easier. Think about this and spread the word - National Commodity Board is a disastrous idea.

Thanks!

I just kept nodding all through while reading this.
Wish I followed you earlier on this forum to broaden my perspective and gain fresh insights.

Thanks nwanne mmadu !

Gerrard59:
Young men these days still believe in love? What you have is hypergamical transaction in place. If you had say a US passport, those Nigerian ladies who declined your interest will swoon over you.

As it is, you bring nothing to the table. That is the truth. In fact, you don't have a table.

Comrade take it easy on the young man.

sharpwriter:
Here in Africa, we don't eat raw fish or raw sea food , no matter how delicious.

Your choice.
Neither do Asians eat okra soup/eba nor Amala/ewedu.

They prioritize nutrition over taste. The reason why Japanese top the global life expectancy ranking with an average of 84years lifespan.

Are you saying he was carrying his village people without knowing.

I don’t care about the party dress code.
All I know is that sushi should be recognized as the 9th wonder of the world.
That sh!t is so nutritious, delicious and expensive.
The Asians have good taste for food.

Firstly, you’ll have to accept that life is like a big complex web of energy vibrating on multiple frequencies. You’re not special but unique. Yes, you can slowly reread the last line and ponder the difference.

Fulfillment, purpose, flair are all created within you and your actions breathe life into them. For some it can be as simple as giving to the needy, engaging in their hobbies, taking a trip to choice location or even getting a tattoo.

What really matters is listening to that inner voice that come from a calm peaceful state of mind.

Secondly, you need to understand that to attain such state of mind (that transcends to inner peace) in these modern times laced with numerous virtual and real-time distractions requires you to constantly and consciously guard your mind.

Try as much as possible to see everything from the bright side. Generally, humans are insatiable beings and society reinforces this with capitalism built on exploiting our natural materialistic tendencies.

Ezekiel owns a bungalow but is losing sleep because he wants a duplex. However, he forgets that it could have been worse for him by being homeless or a tenant.

Mary is ready to trade her pride so she can shop for the latest designer heel shoes not forgetting it could have been worse for her like not being able to walk.

The point is this: cultivate the mindset of gratitude and live in the moment.

PS: this is coming from someone that has triumphed walking that path.

If I say Hala, you chant Madrid !

Hala !
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JeffreyJunior:
Home is wherever you make it.

It may surprise you that your ancestors came as migrants to the place you call home today. After settling, they made it their home which is why you enjoy it now. I'm not saying that is your case but we have such cases around us.

All of us are migrants in one way or the other so wherever we find ourselves, we should endeavor to make it a home. If not, one will continue to have issues.

What I miss about Nigeria today are my family members and sometimes the food I grew up with though I'm now used to intercontinental dishes.

What most Nigerians abroad miss about Naija aside family members and food, are just impunity and lawlessness in the country, nothing else.

You must be a sorcerer for inking my exact thoughts.

That mofo’s life savings may probably not be upto 100k.

The ‘Old Lady’ and irregularities.

The Italian mafia have strong influence over Juventus, Napoli and Roma.
These clubs are their cash cows same way Nigerian polithiefcians run oil blocs.

Late Maradona was brought to Napoli courtesy of the heavy dirty money used to finance that world record move then. In a time when Napoli was financially insolvent in their books.

Take a look at the league table and tell me this is mere coincidence - UCL is where the big money flow brethren so by all means their business clubs must represent.

faceLAGOS:
I’ll prefer to fall inside gutter than to fall in love with a Nigerian girl.

Heeeyy ! brother Bernard. . .

chinoify:
You will delete this post, when you lay hands on ChatGPT- 4... You possibly used the free version.
Sub for the paid version, choose the GPT - 4 model, use the right prompts, oga... you will re-edit this post.
I bought 1400 ChatGPT prompts, devoured and started implementation. I can tell you for free that I have created quality fiction and non fiction books.
ChatGPT -4 gives citations if you use the right prompts.
ChatGPT is all about prompts, most especially the paid version with Gpt-4 model.
Selah!

This sounds interesting and I would love to explore its functions.
Please how much does this paid-version cost and can you share a link?

I could PM you though if you give me a green.

pansophist:
Thanks, comrade.

I am always open to civil discourse, feel free to table your disagreement concerning my stance. I am also a learner, it is the truth I am after. And yes, the more you know, the more you become conscious of how much you don't know.

Like raalsalghul ask me yesterday one painful heavyweight question like that. I don't even know what or how to answer him. Can you attempt it?

Yet another trait I admire a lot ‘being open-minded’
Well then we’re all students and life is the teacher.

Cheers mate!

pansophist:
If the university wasn't the reason why I left Nigeria and established myself in the west, I would regret going to uni, especially if I did it in Nigeria. Most of what I know is based on my elemental habit of autodidactism (self-study), as opposed to a traditional method of education.

I make money via my entrepreneurial skills, and not through my degree whatsoever. In fact, I like the social aspect of the university, to be exposed to things I won't otherwise be, but the education purely in itself can be gotten through other methods without stress, late-night sleep, expense, and pausing oneś life for four years.

I have been a silent reader and follower. I enjoy your inputs on geopolitical discourse. The storyline, history, philosophy and logic behind each argument is just superb (though I may not totally agree with all).

Reading your posts make me realize that there’s still more to be learnt.

Cheers!

I hope this is not another joke.

Come 25th it’s Obi or nothing.

Deflate their remuneration, bonuses, allowances and excessive living mode to checkmate the artificial inflation.

ifihearam:
LOl you are joking..you either lying or never really liked a girl.
Even the best of players falls in love.

It’s either you play the game or keep off the playground.
Your choice not mine.

ifihearam:
True, but that can only work when you dont have feelings or sexual pleasures towards them..but this op is madly in love with this girl who needs just friendship...

OP scored an own goal the moment he started showing emotions towards the girl.

Emotions are for women. Men should learn to be like a rock unwavering in the sea.

Ikennaford:
I'm talking about real men son, not a teenager like you

Well noted grandpa.

Is that supposed to be a manifesto or a special public service announcement?

Ikennaford:
Real Men don't keep female friends,you only keep females you working with to make money, if you ain't fucking her, stop talking to her or block her, get yourself a girlfriend your feelings towards her go vanish

Lies from the pit of hell.
The problem with most of you is that you only see women from the sex angle.
Women are much more capable of a whole lot and you can use that to your advantage only if you know how to play the game of human dynamics.

There’s nothing wrong in having different girls for different purposes sane way they keep guys for their own agenda.

There’re levels to this game.

Stephen2324:
Crazy how girls went from covering the breast to covering only the nipples

Female and the need for constant attention and validation are like T1nubu and gibberish, both are inseparable.

I look forward to seeing the whole package out in full glare. I learnt it reduces blood pressure and also elongates the lifespan of men.

herkeem:
The presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised that he and his Vice Presidential candidate will not fight and abuse themselves at Wuse market like Obasanjo and Atiku did while in government. He says this as he attends youth town hall meeting in Abuja.

. . . a town hall different from bulaba blubalu

Gerrard59:
Anyone who does not know this is a profound ignoramus, no ifs or buts. Those who know it but intentionally dissuade or discourage others from doing it are wicked and barbaric. There are many of them here, from Redsun (who has been in the UK for donkey years) to Sukkot (who is a British citizen) to 1Sharon (another British citizen) to my favourite - Dasparrow - a woman who loathes Nigerians and in particular Nigerian men. Hers is even crueller as she relocated from the west to Nigeria, hated what she experienced and fled to a no-name country in Central America. What does she do on Nairaland? Internet Witchcraft! She dissuades and tells young and ambitious Nigerians not to relocate abroad. What she does not say is that she has not let go of her European citizenship. Another one is EgunMogajji, who is an American citizen and a proud serial divorcee that stays somewhere in Ibadan and married a 20-something year lady. He constantly preaches that you should not bother having a second passport, but he has one and even his first daughter studies at Stanford as an American citizen. What about Nairaland's richest brostitute? Seatrade, who with his previous moniker, mocked diasporans only for him to create a thread disguising that his friend wants to know how to obtain American citizenship. https://www.nairaland.com/6742025/citizenship-investment-canada-usa#105611566 No wonder he is lurking around Covenant University or Babcock to grab a girl from an upper-middle-class family (hoping that she is a dual citizen), even though his character befits women from IMSU or Oko Polytechnic.





Additionally, THERE IS NO NIGERIAN ELITE WHO DOES NOT HAVE A SECOND CITIZENSHIP OR CHILDREN ARE PREPPED TO OBTAIN ONE Apart from skit makers who are new in the game, no notable comedian's wife birthed in Nigeria. ALL gave birth in the US, thereby making their children Americans. The same applies to musicians. It is the reason I am pissed when wicked misfits constantly vagabond this section opening their smelly mouth waaaaaa chanting that young people should not japa. You mean like Akin Alabi who hustled in the UK? Don Jazzy, who did the same? DBanj, whose dad is an ex-military officer that did the same? Mike Adenuga, who rode taxi in the US? What about Banky W whose mom worked in ExxonMobil, gave birth to him in the US and he studied at Corona Schools, the same school Osibanjo studied? Only for him to come and lie that his parents struggled, which is why they rented a flat in Yaba during the '70s. You mean the same Yaba that was home to the then middle class? Or him being a Nigerian-American married to Adesuwa, a British-Nigerian? Or his friend, the pilot, a Canadian-Nigerian who is married to Toolz, daughter of the Oniru of Lekki, who is a British-Nigerian? Or her friend Stephanie Coker, a British-Nigerian, who is married to the younger brother of the co-founder of GTB, who too is a British-Nigerian? Or Mo Abudu who is a American/British-Nigerian and son studied at Duke University? Or her erstwhile employee presenter Zainab Balogun, another British-Nigerian who married an American-Nigerian? Or the other erstwhile employee I used to crush on - Cynthia Kamalu, who married a Nigerian-American? Or Iyin Aboyeji, whose wife is an American citizen, and father worked at ExxonMobil and whose sister studied in the UK? Or Hakeem-Bello, whose daughter studied at Harvard and Stanford and ALL members of his family are dual nationals between the UK and US? Or Nnamdi Kanu who is a British-Nigerian? Or Sunday Igboho who is a German citizen or Sowore who is an American citizen?

C'mon!

There is no Nigerian elite, dead or alive, that does not or did not have a second passport to ease travel whether for leisure or business or academic-related events. I have stated it recently that visa free access is hinged on wealth not race. The reason the olodos on Twitter think it is race is that sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of black people, and as a result, many black Africans are denied visas. Even at that, citizens from countries like Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and even far-flung black-dominated places like Bahamas, Bermuda and Barbados don't face similar scrutiny as their contemporaries in sub-Saharan Africa. Have you seen African Americans complained that they were denied visas because of their skin colour? Are they not black people too? But woke olodos on Twitter don't understand simple economics, the reason they spend time chanting and whining that bOrDeRs ArE rAcIsT. As if they would offer unfettered access to a poor black stranger instead of Elon Musk. Except you want to have hope that sub-Saharan countries would be as rich as Malaysia before her citizens begin to enjoy visa-free travel.

As for returning to Nigeria, trust me, many would return. One reason many would return is the weather. The new wave of emigres lived in the tropics for at least 25 years, so it won't be easy to adjust to temperate climates. My friend in Canada complains about the same thing. She told me clearly "once I attain citizenship status and the passport, G59, I am out of this place". Again, the vast majority of Nigerian elites once worked or studied abroad. From Tayo who is Paga CEO (has American citizenship) to Segun Agbaje who also studied and worked in the US to Emi Lokan and many many others. What about Okechukwu Enelamah who studied Medicine at UNN and did his MBA at Harvard? He co-founded African Capital Alliance, Nigeria's first private equity firm. Ibe Kachikwu nko? Studied Law at UNN and went to Harvard for his MSc and PhD? There is even one I used to admire who studied at Cambridge University and started his consulting business in Lagos. He, too, just like his contemporaries, is a British-Nigerian. One might say Northern elites don't do the same. That is a very big fat lie! Which child of any Northern elite studied in Nigeria? Sanusi's children studied in the UK ditto for El-Rufai's. What about Buhari? He claimed to be poor before the 2015 elections. However, ALL his children studied in the UK. Do poor people's children study in the UK? Esp when they did not attend top schools that have lot of scholarships to offer? Let's not even go to the south, where Amaechi's son is in Canada or Okorocha's son who finished from University of Manchester?

The effects of having a second and, most importantly, a strong passport cannot be over-emphasised. To buttress it, before 2010, Nigerians could travel to 76 countries without obtaining a visa. Ten years later, it plunged to 46. What do the next ten years hold? DrCheif on Twitter narrated his experience when he visited one African country. Upon the usual show me your passport, he showed the official a Nigerian passport. Even though it is visa-free for Nigerians (e fit don change sef), the official dilly-dallied. As time was going, Cheif brought out his American passport and showed the official. What did the official say? "You should have brought this out in the first place". Today, Cheif stays in Ghana. I have met a Belgian-Swiss missionary who has only applied for visa once and that was when she visited Benin Republic. She was confused about how to apply for a visa because prior to that, she had never done it. Also, the woman who owned the travel agency I bought my ticket through has travelled to over 80 countries, including places where black people are very few. Her parents migrated to study in the US, gave birth to her and siblings and returned to Nigeria. Today, all her siblings are American citizens and ditto their children. But she stays in Nigeria because she likes it there. No harm feelings. However, unlike the witches and wizards here, she encourages young people to do the same and take advantage of the opportunities. In life, always seek for more options as those with options have more opportunities. There are even foreign politicians that are tri-nationals.

Also, the aspect of entrepreneurship sef. Except for very few folks who are mostly in tech (most studied in top schools or had rich backgrounds), the most successful entrepreneurs started their businesses after working for some years. It is only in Nigeria I have read that young graduates should start their businesses even if it is POS or cyber-cafe or selling 1kg of gas. Elsewhere, young people work in companies (co)-founded by people who have worked and honed their skills elsewhere. That is how it is done. While there, you gain expertise, knowledge and network. You can decide to return to Nigeria, nobody will stop you. The Paga CEO did it after studying at two top universities, the most recent being Stanford for his MBA. PayStack folks worked for almost ten years before setting up theirs. But the online miscreants in the programming section believe anyone who knows how to type "Hello Word" should open a tech firm to create the next fAcEbOoK. Bloody olodos! Nevertheless, very few people will become entrepreneurs as there are more employees everywhere than employers, regardless of what the ignoramuses who learnt elementary economics by standing near the windows during their SS1-SS3 stages parrot. So, in the nearest future, many of your bosses will be those who did Express Entry or submitted Proof of Funds.

Worth reading.
The truth is this - only few who have seen the light wish good upon others in this country.
Most of them want to be the proverbial ‘One-eyed king in the land of blinds’

NevaUgivup:
Yes Sire..... consider it done (lol)

Jokes apart, try de use "pls" and frame your requests well when you arrive

Pardon my manners chief.
It was a polite message from intention.

Traveling has been my favorite pastime. From Europe to the Caribbean islands and back to my bed at Festac, Lagos.

I globetrot to any and every part of the world in my mind.

No Visa
No IHS

But now this Aba boy is moving to Scotland.
First time out of my mother land - Nigeria.

Stay tuned . . .

Hi Team,
I’ll be moving to Dundee, Scotland by January 2023 and I need someone on ground to ease my settling in.

digits69:
You are actually talented

Thanks for the compliment.

ShoeWorld2:
Ororo is bigger than the payoff and won't even bother himself about it.


I sell beautiful sneakers at affordable prices

Can I see some of your stock?
I need quality sneakers.

Saudi’s style of play is very impressive; high-line offside trap with fluid mobility of midfielders and massive physicality.

They deserve the lead joooor !

Maguire has Iranian fans too.
Interesting!