Kobojunkie:

I took to biking because I could no longer jog or walk. I used to walk about 16 miles round the path back in columbus, but in 2009, I found that I had torn cartilage and it became painful to run or walk. But Biking came to the rescue. The distance from my place to the Library I go to each day is about 4.3 miles, so I hop on my Schwinn Surburban (I love that machine) each day to ride there and back. Takes about 20 minutes.

I think anyone who lives in the city, and has to commute can easily do 40 miles of more a week if he/she chooses to bike it. I live about 4.3 miles from where I go everyday to work and hangout, and those 20 minutes each way on my bike is time for me to free my mind, relax and enjoy the breeze, right before I hit the books/work, and then the 20 minutes back is my time to de-stress, stretch the muscles and enjoy the breeze/wind. Also time to work out all the eba of the day before. lol

I know people who bike twice that each week actually. Biking from a place like Irving Park to downtown is easily 7 miles each way, and that is about 14 miles a day. Add to that errands and what nots on the weekend.

I don't see how being raised in close knit family and what not has anything to do with what you are implying here. I was raised in a close knit family myself and I am not falling apart in the way the @Poster described. I enjoyed my family, and still do that I don't have any attachment issues to deal with since I am well adjusted and confident that the distance between us DOES NOT IMPLY less love or hugs for me at the end of the day.  I mean that one was raised in a close knit ground should not be reason for one to break to pieces when one has to move to a far away land. One needs to be able to take what one learnt in the family situation, and use it to one's advantage when one is away. Create a close-knit group with those around you and continue enjoying your life.

Biking is not abut drawing close to others  . . .  it is actually my way of getting more confident with myself, no matter how many people are around or not around. Those minutes everyday, each way on my bike, I get to listen to the silence, accept and LOVE IT. It is good. Ofcourse when I get to my destination, I go back to my yapping  . ,  lol

Happiness should not be based on where you are, or the number of people(family members, friends) around you at any time. If you find that you cannot sit alone, all by yourself and still be happy, then you probably need to go talk to someone about that. One should learn to be happy wherever one is. And being comfortable never hurts.

Obviously you've lived in obodo- America for a really long time and you've lost your Africanness. You've come to accept loneliness as a way of life. Glad you adjusted to it quite well, for now,  but the rest of us still love that connection.

We miss what makes us human; the touch, the sound, the interdependence, the emotional connection, the smiles, the cries, the daily grind of love, hate, friendship, the constant interruption by families and relatives, the tease, the unsolicited words of encouragement etc

That is what being human is all about. That is why we remain in touch with our humanity and the feelings of others. It is the reason we dont engage in endless loops of argument on an anonymous forum. The reason we dont take ourselves too seriously. It is the reason we express our emotions appropriately when people die, get married or say things we disagree with or agree with. It is the reason we dont hold malice against people that may have offended us in the past.

Kobo, its time you get back to your root, go spend sometime in your village, with people that love you and can remind you of what you really are and not what you wish you were.

Its  great to be in constant connection with your family, friends and most importantly your root. We arent made for isolation. It is actually beneficial to your psyche to experience a close knit, hot, dysfunctional, loving, family-like type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

Kobo, it is up to you.

Ufeolorun:

Stop going on about man! Fiddlestick!

Some people were raised in very loving ,close-knit families,enjoyed growing up and now feel a void hence no amount of 40 miles biking,senility or boredom induced cooking classes will replace these things.

Op is possibly someone who does not measure everything in life in monetary terms or by 'comfortability index'.
Happiness is key in life,only those whose life is strapped irretreivably to the system they are in would not get what you are trying to say.

LOL

Why are we all against Kobo.

Kobo is the most hated NL'er, it seems

Kobo, I can make all these hate go away, if you agree to do 'janglover epomoto' on my ding dong.

he emperor is at it again."

"Which emperor is this?"




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"The Emperor Alhaji Ibn Tinubuktu."

"What has he done this time?"

"He is imposing candidates on his party men and women ahead of the up-coming local government elections."

"How can a political party impose candidates, where is the wisdom in that?"

"A political party can do whatever it likes, particularly if it is an enterprise."

"An enterprise? I don't understand?"

"The party is an enterprise and is managed as such, and benefits, cash and gains must be derived by the enterprise."

"So some people are kicking against the imposition of some candidates?"

"No single primary election has been held; candidates have been imposed for every available council position by the emperor."

"Sure this emperor does not believe in democracy and the ballot box."

"He believes in his rascals, people like him who are smart, street wise lowlifes, but with the ability to loot without leaving any trace for the EFCC to follow."

"That is unbelievable and we are supposed to be in a democracy?"

"The ACN has a unique approach to democracy and it is the enterprise approach dictated by Emperor Alhaji Ibn Tinubuktu."

"I heard party elders met with the emperor and agreed to return nearly all the incumbent chairmen for re-election while three others were swept aside without a single vote cast."

"Did you say party elders? What kind of elders are these? Elders without democratic temper or credentials surely."

"No wonder the masses of the party are demonstrating and insisting on electoral primaries."

"No primaries will take place for as long as the imposed men delivered to those who put them there, the same people they hold their continued stay in power to."

"But what have these imposed people done to merit a second term and the royal fiat of his majesty?"

"What they did or did not do for the masses are immaterial; it is what they sent to the emperor that counts."

"Then let the people team up at the poll to defeat the emperor's candidates, it is as simple as that. Remember Papa Awolowo allowed primaries in the Old Oyo State when Uncle Bola Ige showed interest and the readiness to challenge Reverend Alayande."

"Papa Awo was a democrat and the emperor is not."

"Then what is the difference between ACN and PDP? Even PDP holds electoral primaries. Though the highest bidder would eventually win at least primaries were held."

"The difference is that the PDP has no emperor while the ACN has Emperor Alhaji Ibn Tinubuktu. The emperor is all in all and his words are decrees that must be followed."

"That is very undemocratic."

"He does not care; you either take it or leave it. It is his royal road or you can move into the highway. Many have since left the party because they do not consider it democratic at all."

"Of course, it is not democratic. What a shame that that is the party of Babatunde Raji Fasola."

"Even Fasola almost got kicked out and prevented from contesting for a second term by the emperor."

"Are you serious?"

"The emperor has his way always and no one can stop him."

"In this democracy and in the 21st century?"

"Was that not the reason some left the party and others enter sidon look."

"But the man in Somolu said he has done a lot and executed some projects."

"But his party men and women said he's done nothing; they said there are no roads, no health centres, and no progress."

"Even if he's done a lot let the people still decide through the ballot box if he should repeat class and go for a second term."

"Repeat class, oh like Lucky Igbinedion? The protesters said the projects the man claimed to have executed do not exist!"

"Bogus and phony projects just like the projects Emperor Alhaji Ibn Tinubuktu carried out during his eight years."

"And then the man said his party endorsed his candidacy, did you not hear that?"

"I heard. He did not say his satisfied customers, the party faithful and the people of Somolu endorsed him, but the party."

"It is the emperor, who is also the party and the state rolled into one who endorsed him."

"That is ACN democracy for you - a demonstration of power by the monarch and maximum leader."

"But the party rumour monger said they have a problem that is cumbersome because about 20 eminently qualified persons (EQPs) are jostling for one position."

"If 20 EQPs are jostling for a position is that not the reason why a congress and party primary should be held?"

"I would think so."

"Let the primaries decide the party's candidates rather than allowing royal rascals to select and impose their will on the party."

"Even some of the imposed candidates are said to possess fake certificates and qualifications."

"Made in Chicago degrees and procured diplomas?"

"Something like that."

"The party was built on such foundation, and this is not new. Don't worry the media boys are still there to clean up the mess for the emperor."

"Our third republic, or is it fourth republic, is not growing at all."

"We have a long way to go."

"We should not allow dictators and emperors in our democracy."

"I already told you this is not a democracy."

"So what is it?"

"It is a shameful fraud, at least as things stand today."

"The emperor can't be challenged."

"Is he god?"

"He is the overall head of the party."

"And what is Chief Bisi Akande?"

"That is what he is - a chief in the emperor's kingdom."

"Then Akande is no more than the emperor's sidekick."

"Remember the emperor served two terms of eight lacklustre years."

"And so?"

"He reaped and no one said anything, so his boys, the boys handpicked by the emperor are also free to do two terms."

"They are all his puppets and he controls the ropes from his palace."

"I like that. It is a puppet show and the real entertainer is Emperor Alhaji Ibn Tinubuktu."

"He is the puppeteer and manipulator in chief of the ACN."

"Everyone must dance to the emperor's music, which is why three relations of his have been imposed and catapulted to offices."

"It is the puppet show and the theatre is part of the Nigerian landscape."

"As pointed out by Oscar Wilde, puppets have one advantage: they never argue."

"The emperor will brood no argument and he will not allow dissent in his palace."

"Honestly, I did not know it is like that until now."

"Are you serious?"

"I did not know until recently when I heard that Oloye Sarumi left the party and then read about the protests by party faithful at the local governments."

"I even heard he was behind the delay in the appointment of commissioners in Ekiti and Osun State."

"Why was that?"

"He wanted to impose candidates on the governors."

"Why would he do that? He is not the elected governor and he is just one of the leaders of the party."

"He considers himself the party and the party is his enterprise."

"What happened eventually?"

"I don't know, but I heard he nominated about half of the commissioners in those states."

"This is not a good trend at all. There is nothing wrong is someone having an influence, positive influence and making contributions, but to literally impose things on people is just unacceptable."

"He is the emperor."

"There is no place for an emperor in our democracy."

"One of your political parties has an emperor and you say there is no place for that in your democracy, what do you plan to do about that?"

"The people must wrest themselves from such an emperor-loving party by electing people who have voices and are no sidekicks of a local emperor."

"It will be difficult to dislodge this emperor."

"What makes it difficult?"

"He has full control over the rascals who aid electoral rigging and manipulate the votes."

"Then get rid of the rascals the very same way the motor tout rascals Alao Akala depended on in Oyo State were dealt with."

"It will be very difficult."

"But it is not impossible.


http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/babsajayi/100511.html

Relax101:

How do you hail a drug dealer?
Gbawe, I am very disappointed in your remarks.

He benefits from the ACN shenanigans.

His uncle is that Gbenga Onaolapo that won a senatorial seat in Ogun State.

alj_harem:

can this get to the front page pls I want people to read this great article and be aware

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-788021.0.html#msg9403369

That article is ridden with plagiarism. She plagiarized Farooq Kperogi

Sagamite:

He is a cretinous product of a failed education system!

Coupled by lack of adequate diet to sufficiently provide nutrients for brain development!

First of all, you need to go back and learn how to use prepositions appropriately.

Coupled with = along with, in addition to, furthermore

Coupled by = join by something external

Again, I have said it so many times, your English is too verbose and often nonsensical. Is English like your tenth language?

Olodo jatijati.

lagerwhenindoubt:

@sagamite - that was tame; are you getting soft these days or is your crusade for a world devoid of insidious buffons thelikes we see on NL fading away? give it to him squarely like you used to

Why dont you give it to me squarely?

bitterpill:

I don't know why some people are wasting precious time on this Beaf of a man. Can't you see that he represents all what is wrong with that wasteful country called Nigeria?

And you my friend represent all that is wrong with rational thinking.  You should sit down and study Beaf, he is better than you by MILES

Meanwhile, Former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, caused a drama at yesterday's local government election  when he arrived at his polling area in Ikeja without a voter card.

[size=18pt]Tinubu, who arrived the venue of the polling centre in the morning, caused a stir when he bluntly told electoral officers conducting the exercise that he was not with his voter card and that the officials should allow him to vote[/size]



http://tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/5403-gunshots-ballot-snatching-mar-lagos-lg-election-we-supported-fashola-not-acn-voters-i-forgot-my-voter-card-at-home-tinubu-opposition-in-early-jubilation-in-eredo-shomolu-thumbprinted-ballot-papers-in-obalende-festac-violence-in-shomolu-agege-

Progressives indeed.

According to ACN, Progressive = Nepotism, imposition, breaking laws, thuggery to mention just a few.

ak47mann:

nawaao people dey live in these level of poverty My GOD

That is Lagos for you, controlled by ACN (  The so called avatar of liberal hope in Nigeria)

E no go better for the first person to stop.

You guys are on a roll, keep it up.

bebe2:


MR FIRE BLANK

finally dis man head don dey correct, chei dat was long, no wonder the last psychiatrist get to remove u from his list.
u r a bit slow. never min it comes with all these illness wey u get.

That is incredibly hilarious.

Sun of god:



And start reading your childrens english books.

God forbid they return to Lagos - and turn out like you - 

I have to admit you did score a point on this one. The problem is that you arent any better. Same same!

Beaf:

[size=14pt]Why Gbawe. why this level of wickedness to your own people?
Is this what "progressives" do?[/size]

Gbawe is a paper progressive; no heart and no spʌŋk

Really shameful.

Gbawe:

You are truly schizophrenic.  Why not just say ,since you are the OP,  "I am talking about exportation"? Instead you have to ludicrously refer to yourself in the third like an insane person struggling with multiple personalities. No wonder you need multiple Nairaland aliases. Get help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism

O[b]p [/b]means a lot of things from Opinion poster (OP) to origininal poster to just opinion (Op or Op-ed aka opposite the editorial page).

That wasnt my opinion. Thats Farooq Kperog's opinion and so in this context Farooq Kperogi is the Op, sorry for the confusion. I didnt realize I had to spell it out for illiterate niggers like you. So much for your much touted Oxford education. It seems even a rat is far wiser than you Mr. Gbawe Oxford. You are a product of Nigeria's broken system. A system that rewards political associates of corrupt godfathers with juicy oversea, expensive education; education that makes dumba/r/s/es like you feel clever, when they really arent. You go around on NL fumbling and wobbling from one thread to another, derailing them like a mad man.


Now that you've exposed your ignorance to the whole world, take a sit and watch well educated people comment on this very important topic.

BTW, since you have some sort of  romantic fascination with psychiatry and MPD, Fugue and Fugue-like states, I'd advise you to spare some time and read  DSM IV ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association ) and stop embarrassing yourself all over NL.

Montaigne was right after all when he said, Have you ever seen a man who thinks he is wise? You have more to hope for from a madman than from him.

phuck_NL:

The US has more oil and gas than Nigeria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

The only reason they import more than the rest of the world is to satisfy demand. The number of active oil and gas rigs currently in the US exceeds the total number of rigs WORLDWIDE put together by a far margin.
Its of no use comparing the US and Nigeria. The US has tonnes of refineries so unless world oil prices go up, don't expect gas prices to be unreasonalble. Petrol should not be expensive in Nigeria period. Dont contradict yourself by comparing the US. By the way, i'm not sure about this but i believe the fuel used in Nigeria is Premium grad.

I believe the OP was talking about exportation.  And it is true, Nigeria export more oil than America

arsenefc:




If Nigerians don’t wake up now and occupy Aso Rock, the National Assembly, the Federal Secretariat, the Central Bank, governor’s offices all over the federation, etc they will be “occupied.” And this “occupation” will be more suffocating than it has ever been. The choice before Nigerians is one between death and life. I hope Nigerians choose life!

http://saharareporters.com/article/fuel-subsidy-removal-time-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-nigeria-farooq-kperogi

This will never happen in Nigeria. Nigerians are too docile and Oshiomole is now playing for the other team, and Wole Soyinka is too old and Fragile and Gani Fawehinmi is dead .

Oh well, who will help us

A seismic social convulsion is sweeping across the advanced capitalist nations of the world right now. It’s called the “Occupy” movement, which started with the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in New York. As I write this column, the protest continues to gather momentum and spread to not only other American cities (there was a hugely successful “Occupy Atlanta” protest here) but also to other major Western capitals and cities.

At the last count, nearly 100 countries in the world have caught the “occupy” bug. It’s a spontaneous grassroots rebellion against asphyxiating elite tyranny, greed, and other capitalist excesses.

But there is nowhere in the world that this protest is needed more urgently than in Nigeria where a clueless, thieving, conscienceless, and parasitic elite class is about to commit suicide through its wrongheaded plan to “remove fuel subsidies,” which is nothing more than an unimaginative, well-worn code for increasing fuel prices and deepening the misery of an already traumatized citizenry.

One of the slogans of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters is, “We are the 99 percent”— in reference to the obscene income disparity in America where more than 40 percent of the wealth generated by the economy goes to the top 1 percent of the country’s population. But the income inequality in America pales miserably in comparison with the outrageously unconscionable pauperization of large swaths of the Nigerian population by a cruelly insensitive and rapacious ruling class. Nigeria’s problem isn’t merely one of income inequality; it’s more the sobering reality of the perpetually savage violation of the masses of the people by a criminally privileged elite few in order to subsidize their vain, epicurean indulgences.

[size=15pt]Nowhere is this insensitivity more evident than in the perennial blackmail of the masses by successive governments through removal of so-called fuel subsidies. For as long as I can remember, every Nigerian government has “deregulated” and “removed fuel subsidy” to generate income for “national infrastructural development.”  When the late General Sani Abacha hiked fuel prices in the mid-1990s, for instance, we were told that the last subsidy had been removed. To “cushion the effect” of this drastic action, the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was established and entrusted with the responsibility of renewing Nigeria’s decaying infrastructure and health care.[/size]

After that “subsidy removal,” a lot of Nigerians were relieved not because they were anesthetized by the PTF palliative but by what they thought was their freedom from the permanent government blackmail that told them they were undeserving beneficiaries of government’s expensive benevolence through fuel subsidies. But the freedom lasted for only a short while. [size=18pt]Olusegun Obasanjo came and rehabilitated the old blackmail strategy: he said government was collapsing under the ponderous weight of its magnanimity toward the masses through fuel subsidies. He therefore increased fuel prices more times than any president or head of state in Nigeria’s entire history.[/size]

The last time he increased fuel prices, he assured Nigerians that the last abiding subsidy had been removed once and for all. The oil industry was now truly and totally deregulated. Government would no longer intervene in determining fuel prices. In the new “deregulated” milieu, the wise, invisible but self-regulating dynamic of demand and supply would determine fuel prices. Even though Nigerians were being fooled for the umpteenth time, they, in their legendary docility, put up with the government’s lies and came to peace with the unjustified increases in fuel prices.

Now, the Goodluck Jonathan administration is deploying the same old, hackneyed, duplicitous, and mind-numbingly familiar arguments to increase fuel prices. But I think this time around the government is pushing its luck a little too far—never mind that the name of the president is “good luck.” As the English say, even a worm will turn, meaning even the meekest and most docile person will fight back if you push him so hard that he has nowhere else to escape to.

Goodluck Jonathan--may not be lucky this time

The government is about to push the masses of Nigerians to a cul-de-sac. When that happens the masses would be faced with only two options: fight back fiercely and doggedly or submit to incremental but sure death. If it is true that self-preservation is the first law of nature, I expect a sustained, single-minded, and uncompromising battle in the coming months. The time may have finally come when the fault-lines of ethnicity and religion that have historically divided Nigerians will no longer matter.




[size=18pt]But the Nigerian people should never wait until next year when the government increases fuel prices before they strike. The “Occupy Nigeria” movement should start right away! And here is why.
[/size]
While over 80 percent of Nigerians live below the breadline, our legislators at both houses of the National Assembly earn more money than any elected official in the whole world, including Barack Obama, president of the world’s most prosperous nation. Our president and his numberless coterie of useless minions pillage the national treasury daily in the name of maintaining government. Our ministers are the most expensive public officials in the world.

Now, because a numerically insignificant portion of the population that are “privileged” to work for government asked for a miserly 18,000 naira ($114) a month minimum wage, the government wants to push every Nigerian who falls outside the orbit of institutionalized stealing otherwise known as government to the brink, to the very edge of existence. The same government that is complaining of the unbearable burden of “subsidizing” fuel prizes for the masses of Nigeria has depleted our foreign reserve by $3.5 billion in 2011 alone to subsidize the unconscionably lavish opulence of its members.

[size=20pt]In all of this, perhaps the biggest scandal is that among oil-producing countries in the world, Nigerians pay about the most for petrol[/size]. While Nigerians currently pay about $1.64 for fuel per gallon, Venezuelans pay only 18 cents per gallon (meaning a bottle of water is cheaper than a gallon of petrol in the country!), Iranians pay just 37 cents per gallon, war-ravaged Libyans 54 cents, Saudi Arabians 48 cents, Qataris 72 cents, Bahrainis 78 cents, Turkmens (citizens of Turkmenistan) 72 cents, Kuwaitis 87 cents, Omanis $1.17, Yemenis $1.32, etc. Only citizens of the United Arab Emirates pay slightly higher than us for petrol at $1.78 per gallon.

The standard of living in all of these countries is, of course, light-years higher than Nigeria’s. They have better social safety nets for their poor.

I read that that government wants to raise the fuel price to 141 naira per litter at the very minimum, which adds up $3.6 per gallon! That would mean that petrol would be cheaper in America and some European countries that don’t export oil than in Nigeria! I currently pay a little over $3 per gallon in Atlanta for quality fuel that actually burns a LOT slower than the fuel I use when I’m in Nigeria. (Nigerian importers always import the lowest possible quality of fuel to the country).

Remember, too, that the federal minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 per hour. That adds up to $1,160 per month, which is equivalent to 184,000 naira per month. In the state of Washington, the minimum wage per hour is $8.67.

So by next year, a low-grade clerk with an 18,000 naira monthly salary in Nigeria will be paying more for fuel than an American laborer who receives the equivalent of 184,000 per month. And the low-grade clerk is a citizen of the world’s 8th largest exporter of oil. Where is the justice in that? Why the heck should we have cream and our faces are dry?

If Nigerians don’t wake up now and occupy Aso Rock, the National Assembly, the Federal Secretariat, the Central Bank, governor’s offices all over the federation, etc they will be “occupied.” And this “occupation” will be more suffocating than it has ever been. The choice before Nigerians is one between death and life. I hope Nigerians choose life!

http://saharareporters.com/article/fuel-subsidy-removal-time-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-nigeria-farooq-kperogi

Aigbofa:

The only creativity you need is to accept Fstranger's request and stop shopping for warm leggings.
Maybe he can wean you away from endless loop of meaningless arguments.

ROTFL

I didnt even see this at all. OMG

LOL


ROFLMAO. I cant believe this. I dont think I have ever seen Aigbofa this confrontational.

This is so hilarious!

Aigbofa:

What is your problem? How do you intend to get it on with Kobo if you don't like riding bikes!!!

Its good though that she knows how to ride, hopefully one day she will be my Miss Kentucky Derby for a day/week

Kilode?!:

^
40Miles a week?? 

Damn! Can I bring you to Lagos to teach all these orobokibos over here. 40Mi on a bike?

No wonder, you def can't look like the average Nigerian. Bet you can't look like the average American too. Heard some folks drive to the next house just to pick mails 


I Like our orobos Here though but, it won't hurt to have bike routes from Ikeja to VI. All these chilling at the back of the car, not good at all.

Ojo Madueke proposed something like that years ago.

People die from riding bikes you know.

I always feel like hitting them off the road , TBH

A student was killed some weeks ago in Manhattan, imagine what would happen in Lagos.

Until we get our acts together in Nigeria, I really dont support it. WHo is going to compensate the families of people killed? What if the breadwinner was killed? How do we keep people accountable and how can we design the roads so that bicycle riders dont constitute a nuisance on our roads.

More than that we need to reorient the people, and that would be a tall task.


PS: I think Kobo is exaggerating though. 40 miles at a go is nearly impossible, especially for someone as physically de-conditioned as Kobo

Ileke-IdI:

I see.

Yea, this is my only worry as of NOW. The way things are moving.

Btw, I dont beieve any serious person should stop at Bachelors. Anybody can gt that one.

Unserious people like Wole Soyinka, Bola Ige, Ojukwu, Steve Jobs, Rick Perry?

ekt_bear:



People'll spend 4 years in college studying useless degrees like marketing, Hispanic studies, etc only to end up doing jobs a bright 11 year old kid could do.

We understand you are smart. Damn too smart as a matter of fact. One of the smartest around if I may add. But you've been lucky as well

Sometimes, humility goes a long way.

Its never good to worship one's intellect, being seen as smart, trust me you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out, like what happened to you up there. Something to ponder upon

Kobojunkie:

Being at home should not be boring at all. In fact, most people out there would trade places with you if they could get a break from having to look at the same four walls that have been looking at for years. I am fortunately to be one of the few who works from home, and wherever else I want to, and even I don't wait to get bored. I sign up for a new class(cooking, batting, shooting, etc.). You can take up a new hobby -- sewing, biking(my favorite) or even try to reinvent yourself by signing up for some college credits.

There is a lot to do out there, and the cold should not really be a hinderance anymore, especially if you have been here as long as you claim. I used to complain of the cold until I moved out to chicago -- then I actually got a taste of hash weather. But so far, I bike even in 40 degree weather to and fro my destination. Most of all this, as my mum likes to say, is "battle of the mind" you have to re-orient your thinking sometime and in some way. When I got to chicago, I had already established that I HATE THE COLD, so I started investigating clothing that helps one stay warm regardless of how hash it gets(but still remain stylish). This year I discovered hues leggings, and biking warmers.  My point is, one has to learn to be creative in order to weather life, and this applies anywhere you are.

I notice you mention that you are far away from home. Why is that? Isn't home supposed to be the place you have built for and with the ones you love(not the extended family and all that jazz as some like to claim)? Home is where the heart is, and if your heart is some place other than where you are with your children, and possibly your hobby, then I think you need to please go talk to someone about your feelings. And talking is a good thing as it helps speed up progress.  I am not married, and I don't have any kids but when I come home everyday, I know I am home. I hate to spend so many days away from my own bed -- that is how at home I feel where I am now. Now, if I move from here, my new place will be my new home. If the cold bugs you, put aside an addition $50 bucks or more each month to ensure your house/apartment is warm and toasty during the winter years. And you can enjoy every minute you spend in it. So, I think you should look into investing more of your emotions into enjoying where you are now, even as you hope for changes, whatever they may be in the future.

quoted for posterity.

Kobo, why are you not married? Lakiriboto or just dont know how to phock?

BTW, when was the last time you had s3x? I bet ya, if I handle you for a second, and I hit the spot,  I will make you a tsunami, doubt it? Lets give it a try

Great job  Beaf.

I am most impressed by your professionalism. You've done great on this thread. Any neutral observer can see through the lies of the ever fumbling Gbawe and his cohorts.

Beaf, keep up the good work.

Remember what Ribadu said: When you fight corruption ( ACN), corruption fights back.

BlackLibya:

are you crazy? Providing loans causes the price of education to skyrocket. Look at the USA.

BTW, how dare you insult our NL genius? The one and only intellectual. The most educated intellectual we have around. An abomination

PS: Very good point you raised

Kilode?!:

Wey the loan now?

It's really unfortunate that you call these kids crooks and thieves. Think about the leadership they see.

The average Human being is rational and can recognize a fair deal. You need to View it from their POV to show some empathy.

Anyway, maybe I should stop now.

Mr. EKt Bear gets mad and insults random people once he is out-debated by "hinterland" educated Nigerians like your awesome self.

He gets flustered and cant understand how a well educated person like himself with degrees from prestigious American universities could be easily out-debated by an hinterland educated and very humble person like you.

Hey, keep your head up, ignore the insults. 

ekt_bear:

My brother,

BTW, Kilode is Yoruba and since your name sounds like Rashan or something like that, I dont think you are qualified to use that "my brother" epithet.

from what it looks like, they are just asking for 4.0 out of 5.0.

And you think everyone is as smart as you, who had 4.0/4.0 in college and grad school or isnt that what you claimed on the other thread?

I.e., B average in your classes.

If that was easy, how come most people graduate college with a "C" average

Even if they asked for 4.0 out of 4.0, and you know that this is the difference between you being able to afford school or not, won't you spend 12+ hours a day in the library (or wherever) studying?

Which library? The one with no Librarian or the one that never opens, except when the governor is visiting? Or the one that doubles as the school cafeteria?

Not to talk of simple 4.0/5.0?

Indeed!

These students are crooks and thieves.

Again I present to you all, NL poster of the year, 2011. Pretty much most people on NL are crooks, according to Mr. Ekt Bear. The same people that would vote for you when the time comes to choose NL poster of the year. Nice way to endear yourself to them

Roads need to be built, primary and secondary school needs to be improved.

Road like the one leading to  Tinubu's Swiss banks?

Kilode?!:

Ekt_bear don't get carried away by your free market angst. Lol

In the Obodo Oyinbo America you are in, after giving full scholarship to brilliant 4.0 students, shey they don't give student loans to the not-so-brilliant ones? Especially the poor ones.

Your point about cost and efficiency is correct but, don't be evil.

Dont mind him, Even harvard awards need based scholarship.

If you make less than 60000 dolls at Harvard, you attend free. Same at Yale and Cornell. And I am sure other schools are following suit.

Ekt Bear just wants to win Poster of the year I think. He is just trolling.

ekt_bear:



[size=18pt]Simple 4.0 out of 5.0 is all they want.[/size]

Simple if you attended private school all your life and live on campus and have light 24/7 and have textbooks and functioning library and competent teachers and laptops and well designed curriculum and teachers who dont have to sleep with you to grade you fairly and very good on campus security to combat disruption of prep time by cultists and etc

ekt_bear:

This is pretty much the same thing as the oil subsidy stuff.

Absolutely!

I could even see if it were an intelligently designed subsidy, where the top 10% of students admitted to each program get to pay reduced fees. Merit scholarships, I'm very much in favor of.

I dont know many places where people award merit based scholarships in this age and time. The existential question here is , What is merit?  The guy who cheated on JAMB and score 320s but couldnt express herself in passable English at UI ? or the guy with a 290 on JAMB who was asked to withdraw from the faculty of medicine at OAU  or the guy with a 210 on JAMB who nevertheless graduated in the top 10% of his MBBS class. Every Nigerian can relate to the above scenarios.

Most scholarships in America are need based, not merit based. Pell grant and tiution aid grant from the state readily come to mind.

But a blanket subsidy for all?

What about Pell grant and graduate assistant-ship that all graduates get?

So even the guy who barely gets into LASU is heavily subsidized by Lagos State?

What do you mean by "barely gets into LASU?"

The guy who gets a perfect score on JAMB and chooses LASU as his first choice pays the same amount as the guy who gets the minimum required to get in?

First of all, NO ONE GETS perfect score on JAMB. NO one has been able to do it and no one has even gotten close to 81% on JAMB. And most high scorers, circa 300 range, cheated.

You want to ask those illiterate mechanics to be subsidizing  a not-so-bright guy who barely got into LASU?

Even if that was true, the society eventually benefits from subsidizing the education of those willing to put themselves through the grinder for a college degree:

"In regions with a highly educated labor force, all workers ( including your fictitious mechanic) — not just those with advanced educational achievements — receive higher wages than their counterparts in regions with lesser  educational attainment. These monetary benefits have been measured using widely varying techniques, such as by examining the economic performance of regions with different shares of college graduates in the labor force

Also, Intergenerational social benefits may be very large as degree attainment today translates into higher probabilities of degree attainment in future generations."

Who, truth be told probably shouldn't even be in college anyway, but should instead be learning a trade?

So elitist. Nuff said

Just a very poor allocation of resources.

I'd say the same thing too if I was living in America.

Oh well, that is the nature of life on this continent called Africa, I suppose 

Poor public policy, poor decision making with predictably disastrous results.

Anyway, kudos to Ghana for getting it right (at least if this KNUST is any indication.)

LOL. Politics poster of the year, 2011

ekt_bear:

[size=18pt]And does no one see a connection between all the striking that causes people to finish 4 year courses over a decade?[/size]

.

Again, I present to you all, NL poster of the year 2011.

Can you provide evidence for this?

4 year courses in ten year?

Never heard it before. May be Kilode did?

Even DK that attended OAU during one of OAU's longest academic period did not spend 12 years. NL intellectuals sha

PS: my bad, I think NB and Katsumoto finished in 12 years.

Kilode?!:

I like your NL persona but you make a lot of assumptions about Nigeria.

A lot.

Finally, maybe he would listen to you, instead of that modafucker communist, Fstranger. lol Sup Mr. Olojede?

For example: yes the very poor can go to university in Nigeria, I actually know many dirt poor people who did 4 years of university work without paying their tuition, No, it's not scholarship, they just avoided paying by forging, and evading. No repercussion.

And I also know  lotsa people who came from dirt poor background, mother selling 'Boli' and Father working as a cab driver, who managed to pay their tuition ( school fees) without taking any short cut.

It is always good to be fair and balanced when relating our personal experiences.

ekt_bear:



I don't see why the Lagos taxpayer has to spend heavily subsidizing university education,

Because the society as a whole inevitably benefit from a more college educated populace? Is that too hard to understand?

ekt_bear:




Lagos otoh is getting money largely from taxpayers and IGR.

And who are the tax payers?

Ordinary people who can even pay their power/water bills or multinational oil companies with HQs in Lagos?

ekt_bear:



Who even wants a medical student who paid $350/year for his education to operate on them? I don't want such a doctor operating on me or anyone I love (a bit of hyperbole, but you get the idea.)

You mean you dont want someone like this as your doctor, should you need a neurosurgeon?

http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/neurosurgery/surgeons/nelson-oyesiku.html