please God, we need more like him in Higher places. May God bless this Man.
And may the curse of God keep going to the homes of the likes of IBB, obj, ohakim, ogd, akala, even Mariam in her hot grave, that useless balarabe, turai and her husband and those other useless govs like ex-gov or lagos, ojuyobo the retard.

as much as I use to hate been a Nigerian and despise been born in this country, after traveling outside the country about a half dozen times, and meeting people from several parts of the world, i realized am even lucky to be a Nigerian. though nigerian leaders are totally useless and dont have the slightest clue or idea about how to move this nation forward especially those useless northerners, and now we are already seeing how useless ijaws people too really are, i just still feel lucky after sharing a room with a lebanese in Florida State University where I studied quantity survey and csm.he would tell me i was lucky to even be a nigerian that they arabs have long been demonized by the entire humanity and its as if they carried a greater curses and these are nations that possessed more oil than nigeria.
nigerians just dont count their blessings.

thank you man.the bricklayers agreed it is an excellent idea and they say it will surely work.i will call you once we are done and keep in touch with you.God bless

i need the house to contribute asap

dear nairaland i got a face me i face you 10 rooms bungalow for a client in ilupeju lagos and he doesnt want to renovate yet;the problems that he want to rent it out and the house has a problem.water sip out from the ground below.we just did a good concrete work on the ground again and got some nylon for it but the water still keeps coming somehow.any expert in the house to help with advise.i will so much appreciate.thanks.am looking forward to replies y'all

found it deep and though provoking

Questions For Chinua Achebe
Out of Africa
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Published: March 22, 2010

Since its publication in 1958, “Things Fall Apart,” the story of a Nigerian yam farmer who is unable to accept the changes wrought by British colonialism, has become the best-selling novel ever written by an African.

Well, I hear such exaggerated comments. I just leave them alone.
Michael Prince for The New York Times

It’s a staple of American high-school English classes, and it has supposedly sold more than eight million copies.

That would be possible. I’m not grumbling; I have done well. But don’t imagine I’m a millionaire.


Things are again falling apart in Nigeria, which was in the news this month, when a predawn massacre occurred near Jos and all the world saw images of Christian villagers, many of them women and children, laid out in mass graves. Do you think the incident is related to the spread of Muslim extremism?

It is, but it is other things as well. My own explanation would be the failure of the authorities in Nigeria to address the issue. The nation cannot be trusted to use the machinery oflaw and order. And in that kind of situation, all kinds of people who are normally sort of put aside suddenly find an opening for evil.

What do you think of Nigeria’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, who just dissolved the cabinet?

He suddenly doesn’t seem to bring good luck. He is weak. A strong man in any position in Nigeria should be horrified by what happened in Jos. Shamed is what we should feel. We don’t seem to have any government. People don’t know where their president — before the present acting president — where he went or where he is.


You’re referring to President Umaru Yar’Adua, who left Nigeria in November for a three-month stay in Saudi Arabia.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

As the son of a Christian missionary, were you aware of conflicts between Christians and Muslims when you were growing up?

No, they lived in another part, and so there was no reason for me growing up to know very much about Muslims. It was not an issue.

If you had the chance to say something to the so-called underwear bomber, the Nigerian man who tried to blow up a plane approaching Detroit on Christmas Day, what would it be?

I would say to him: “That is insane. Drop it. You cannot solve any problems by blowing up innocent people.”

As a professor at Brown University, in Providence, R.I., you yourself live in exile, as do many other Nigerian writers, including the playwright Wole Soyinka and the young novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

If you were in Nigeria and had cause to go to a hospital or to see a doctor, you would then immediately understand why so many people are abroad.

You’ve been wheelchair-bound since 1990, as a result of a car accident that left you paralyzed from the waist down.

Yes. I was in Nigeria when the accident happened. I was flown to England for treatment. They tried to put me together, then they recommended that I go to America for a follow-up, and that’s why I came to America.

How old are you now?

I’m approaching 80. I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

What do you consider the most important thing about yourself?


Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don’t expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. There is this complexity which seems to me to be part of the meaning of existence and everything we value.


Are you still writing every day? What are you working on?

I’m working on this interview.

@all

ignore this guy or girl or whatever or frosbel. just some bored dude who has nothing to do besides visit google.com and copy paste unfiltered information without reading through it let alone judging if its balanced or just trash. this is what the political forum moderator should be doing but this forum has become a trash can filled with yamayama posts.

bros talk now

why post a news thats several years old and re-tarnish your image again?
this news is about 3 years old. if you keep googling everything bad about any country in the world, you will find many. why are some people so hopeless and downright negative?

let me take this baby for #500k

jesus. the dead rises and talks. though he aint blinking or acting normal.

@soldee

you harsh o
I think Bayelsans are too dangerous for their own good. I mean greed.

@my ex-girlfriend was Bayelsan, this was a girl who works in a big new generation bank and was almost dead from cholera. Crazy wont go the hospital because she doesnt want to pay the bills. Not until her boyfriend shows. Bayelsans are appearing worse than the northerners to me. I pray Yaradua recovers. Atleast, he wasnt a complete loser like this Idiot called CheapLuck.

@doyin13

Bayelsa state between 2007 and 2009 has issued over 800billion Naira in bonds and sold more than 96% of it. The same state gets more than most states from the federal purse. MEND gets several billions monthly, and now your militants are now been bankrolled by the federal govt.
Yet all we see are more greedy souled Ijaw elders with rimmed hats demanding for more more more
militancy/freedom fighters, Youth restiveness, kidnapping, poorest standard of living, a state thats yet to begin with no master plan besides crying that Abuja was built by its wealth. The same wealth you cant manage since your state has been created.
When Danjuma half a billion dollars oil well story made it to the headline, and the whole country was shrieking, and its confusing how the same crook was elected by an Ijaw man to his cabinet again, and now Silva is been given the "Carry Go" applaud. For once, I am very happy to be Ibo. Atleast, the ibo man loves money, yet he's honest enough to work hard tooth and nail for his wealth.

@octar6  
Its a shame to see educate men reduced to the level of pure and complete stupidity simply because they can't free their mind from religion, ethnicity and prejudice when it comes to making sound decision and judgment. So, Silvia can be keep looting Bayelsans dry, and keep making their lives miserable? It doesnt matter as long as he is from the Niger Delta? No wonder you people are far behind every states in Nigeria, and you will never get started if everyone down in Bayelsa have the same pathetic opinion like yours. Any nation that doesnt progress has a high population of wicked and useless people. I hope he continues looting you, and pray Bayelsa keep having leaders who are totally useless like him. Dont get mad, I am only praying with you. We all know Bayelsa gets more money than Lagos and all your precious and insane yet wonderful governor who the same greedy MEND support has to show is nothing but Castles and Palaces.

it will be complete shame if Obama and Brown meet this weakling and slowpoke He's another Yaradua from Bayelsa.

an early compromise so soon. its clear this man is totally weak and doesnt have the courage of an average ijaw man. already stooping low for the yaradua's house hold and still in-need of the blessings of the annenihs. how sad. God help this country.

i will be driving this by this time next year. just one toy in my garage

I have 1.8m cash ready for this car. Please let me know if it will work.

already heard they will be charging 50 naira per private car.

i am an experienced quantity surveyor and i stay down in ajah where i have worked on several properties. i believe 17 million naira will build this structure on half a plot of land to a fine taste though 15million will build something very modest with simple finishing. i can volunteer a complete breakdown myself. i agree with aasog quotation, the only problem is that it is too decent and the house will be plane and it wont have the necessary things that characterize ajah properties. i mean the flash.
for those calling him names, i think it is naive of them. the best you can do is prove him wrong by quoting a much more comprehensive estimate or analyze your inflated 30 million etc. like i said, i agree with him, but the house will probably be something so simple and plain. i can prove my own 17million estimate like he has clearly proved his 15million which seems almost accurate except for the fact that he's not a quantity surveyor.
You can write me here to get your estimate or quote: mmeehan72@yahoo.com