₦airaland Forum

kettykin: [size=20pt]How Awolowo invented Tribalism and introduced Nepotism into Nigerian Politics[/size]

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dederocs: YORUBAS ALWAYS ENSURE YOU DO NOT RENT HOUSES TO abokis-bOKO haram are following the ideology of Usman Dan Fodio,they want to take over Lagos-conquer to the sea.Be wise,else you perish...do not allow religious sentiments to blind you.Terrorists use religion to penetrate areas and they spread through mosques and religious centres.Our security agents should carry raids and do stop and search regularly.Boko haram must want to come into Lagos,because they want to make an impact.Nigerian Immigration should start to deport anyone without proper documentation back to their country.
National security is imperative.

Clerverly: So so on point! Look I am a thorough-bred-Igbo man, but when it comes to Nigerian politics we dont cut it and with the present kind of leaders we are unfortunate to be bestowed on by the products of corruption from the centre, We would never be there, at least for the foreseeable future. It pains and my heart bleeds for the so called youth from my place cos it seems, we have not learned anything from the misdeeds of these Abuja contractors, who are only interested in what comes to their family and lineage without giving a damn what their people intends to benefit. The same set of people would come back and play the ethnic card when they are being outsmarted in their vainglory in Abuja. Surprising, the youth of the Igbos who are "assumed" to be intelligent enough to decipher when deceit is being played, would be the first to buy that and start playing the victims. My Igbo brothers and sisters on this forum, can we ask ourselves these probing questions below and try to reflect on them before we decide where to pitch our tent in 2015;

Why do the Igbo always support any government in power (Shagari, Babangida, Abacha, OBJ,Yardua and GEJ, I stand to be corrected on these)?

Why are the Igbos only remembered during electioneering periods?

Why do we have the worst road network in whole of the country and yet we have supported any Government that had ruled?

Why did we allow PDP to rig these characters into the helm-of-affairs in our respective states notably Elechi and T A Orji?

What is our stand or the so -called stick and carrot approach in 2015?

What has the present government at the center done for us to warrant us supporting it in 2015.

Ndi Ibe Anyi E keleem unu, Ka Udo Chia!!!

Adejoro74: Like your folks trouping from SW, with all its milk and honey, to London to beg for social safety net and deprive citizens of their dues. What does Lagos govt offer those Igbos? Nothing. Instead they take from them and close their bizs at will. Also I guess yorubas do not live in the North and East and SS. You are an ugly baboon, like Obj/Tinubu/Fasola.

bams01: Seriously, this people are putting the cart before the horse.
The second day Fayemi gave free laptops, I got bombarbed with software installation requests. Guess what softwares?
TVC, Virtual DJ, VLC, Ymessenger, Power DVD, e.t.c.
NOBODY ASKED FOR ENCARTA!
And I have seen enough HD P.o.r.n to last me sometime.
Students that were not given any tangible computer education suddenly became owners of laptops. What do u expect?
Bros, Afraid dey catch me for these our so called leaders

danot1030: what do you expect from a state ruled by people destroying people (PDP), all the state affected are PDP states including the federal capital, a party where criminals are celebrated, Delta State have record of Ibori, Bayelsa State has record with Alam, yet some people born by criminals like their fathers in PDP will come to Nairaland to be making senseless comments against ACN States. Thank God the test was conducted by a committee headed by PDP vice president, maybe some people like their uncle Abati will says they smell rat by ACN again.

lekzyn: yes Baba Iyabo is an illustrious son of Yoruba land but the Yorubas will only worship those that have or will impact there lives positively not those that stole their vote in 2003 through do-or-die means to win an election.


The Yorubas may not produce a president till the next century but the region is among the best region in the country if not the best in terms of infrastructural facilities, education, industry, and so on. this is the fastest growing region in Nigeria and this region has been growing rapidly since 1950's

free13: A very good point. An ex-convict is an ex-convict.

kingoflag: My man, shut the f-cuk up, u ignorant, dirty and bitter old man. How many people pardoned have ever stolen funds meant for the American people?! U try that u will die in prison! The Rep.William Jefferson associated with Atiku--- $100,000 was his sin and he got disgraced and got a 13yr Federal prison sentence. The former mayor of East Cleveland, an Igbo man, Emmanuel Onwuwor, probably had your mentality--- his crime was less than $50,000 and he was blessed with a 9year Federal Prison sentence; today is homeless, living in a friend's basement apartment, and looking for a job.

Now, tell me again, what was the madness u was spewing up there again? F*uck.ing criminal minded soul.

Billyonaire: First of all, I see no reason why US Government should actually have a voice in what's going on in any sovereign country, it is none of their Business. They should learn from China and stay off Nigeria's decision. We respected their Gay rights as pertains their decision to let a man kolombo another man and a woman finger another woman, we didnt interfere. Should any country chose to pardon their Lucifer, then its for our national interest. Whether I love my President or not, is my business and not that of Obamaland.

django1: The SS people are quite greedy too if you look at them well, first they get a huge amount in allocation, the oil companies located on their soil pay their community leaders a lot of money, all sorts of special previledges are granted them, but these leaders and politicians keep cornering all the money, and many towns and villages don't even have a clinic, yet the village chief go get house for Lekki!
If they can't manage the money they are being given now, do you think they'll use proceeds of oil wells if given to them to improve the lives of average Niger Deltan?
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For the records too, most of Nigeria most productive oil wells are not even on shore ND.

Abagworo: I'm usually saddened with the level of reasoning displayed on this forum or elsewhere in Nigeria. Why must we label everything tribal or regional? Nigeria has a population of over 100million while the number of. OPL allotees are not even more than a thousand. How has the ownership of oil wells helped the real Northerners on the streets? What have I personally gained from Tony Ezenna, Arthur Eze, Emeka Offor, Tony Elumelu, Jim Ovia, ABC Orjiakor, Oduah etc even though they are Igbos? Absolutely nothing but oppression of the masses with wealth which does not belong to anyone but all Nigerians. We are deeply brainwshed.

nwando: They stick out like a sore thumb and shoot themselves in the butt and do not care.
I wonder what this their northern love is all about
If there is any group to stand out in support of the north outside of the north,you can count on the Yorubas to represent.
The day Nigeria gets divided if it is Gods will, I pray to God the SS and SE will not be encumbered with the black sheep of the south.
I will vote for NC instead minus Kogi and Kwara
The people are as treacherous as can be
They simply cannot shut up
I feel the conquering of parts of their land by Usman Dan Fodio has something to do with this alliance

bloggernaija: We all did comprehension in school and if you are told to summarise the article,falana was saying that the government does not represent Nigerians and that as bad and corrupt as the crude allocation of blocs is ,it is nothing compared to what the foreign oil coys are getting.
In short,the nigerian masses are being short changed.the wiki leaks disclosure also supports this.likewise ,the senator was not saying anything on behalf of the common man on the street of the Niger delta.he was talking about how no "big man "from the niger delta got an oil block.truth they did viz a viz The ibrus .falana did support the common man as regards the Venezuela example

thelastPope: Honestly, I can't undersand it! We said, let us split, they scuttled it! Now we are complaining that our God given wealth is being plundered from under our beds, they are writing nonsense articles again! I don't know what their problem is! Must they continue to draw us back? Must they always be used as tools to truncate our collective liberation? They are on their own this time. No going back! We must stop the injustice!

thelastPope: Nothing new there from you and your kind! You have always been traitors and backstabbers. You did it in 1967 and have been doing it ever since. You will always stoop to kiss the feet of your slave masters. That is your way. The way of the feeble hearted! The way of betrayal! We have liberated ourselves. No amount of propaganda will change that. What Enang said has been common info in the ND for years. So continue spewing your trash there.

hotwax: The guy is misquoted.
He doesnt mean size. He means performing economy.

honprof1: U and ur overrated governor are wrong , simly check one of d yardsticks of measuring Economy , Just check d price control system alone , it is better in Ghana than Nigeria at Large. So wake don't be a sycOphans.

Sincere 9gerian: "What is the tour supposed to achieve? Are they resolving problems at project sites? Where are their projects? What is the value of tour when you can't implement a budget? I can go on tour of projects because my budget performed 89 per cent last year"....Fashola

It's now obvious that Fashola thinks he's COMPETING with the federal govt. Is the state govt supposed to COMPETE with federal govt? This COMPETITION mentality is what has been causing schisms between federal govt and southwest state governors. The southwest governors are just being CHILDISH. There should be COLLABORATION between all tiers of govt to deliver services to the people, irrespective of party affiliation.

After all the president was in Lagos recently to flag off the Eko Atlantic city project.

lastpage: How can you give yourself away so easily?
You are NOT YORUBA... and you can NEVER be one!

....Except an "omo'ale to'nfo owo osi ju'we ile Baba re"!

how dare you pretend and deny your origins? Omo'ale, oloriburuku!

I can understand if that is how you do with your father's tenant's wives!
Asswipe ....calling himself Yoruba!

babyosisi: I have looked the Foluke woman from head to toe and wondering what he saw
What is special about that woman we are looking at that a man will abandon 3 sons and a companion of 13 years
Even me wey be regular babe fine pass that one 100 times
Abi I need magnifying lenses
Is it the fatty bum bum or the eyeshadow she is wearing?
Well dey fit each other,the man no gather at all sef

Who are they BTW
Never heard their names in my life

Prince0500: It is very clear that this man is still vry deeply emeshd in the huphoria of yet to be establishd reality,honestly he sounded too childish to me jst imagine the foul languages he used on a woman dat bore him 3 children jst because he found new lv in Foluke, using everytin posible to garnish his union with Foluke dere by discreditin his union with d former wife but then i wish him the vry best he wish himself in dis jorney.

shymexx: If they actually make N100billion daily in that market, they should be paying at least N10billion daily in taxes to the Lagos State Government... In a sane country, that would have been the right thing to do - however, everything in Nigeria is so tribalised that countries exist within a country... Yet, everyone questions why the country is so backward...

You make N100billion daily in that dump-site without paying the right taxes, yet you can fix the darn place up... However, when the authorities closed the dump-site down for causing health hazards and a nuisance to the environment - everyone from the tribe of those affected was ranting about tribalism smmfdh...

Gbawe: Just listen to yourself. Why do you people come with such a gene of unfairness you display with such pride when even other Africans will laugh at your rudimentary reasoning? Tinubu was never President and never had ultimate power to shape the destiny of an entire nation. Why, if you guys are equitable in outlook, persist in summarily judging that a 21 year old you know is "stronger" than a 9 year old when you know damn well that what you are doing amounts to a very unfair comparison most balanced folks would never make? Why not compare two 9 years old against each other and two 21 year old like for like? If at all you will compare two individuals of different ages, why not look at what they were doing when the same age?

Even the way you speak is unfairly arrogant and flippantly dismissive. Is OBJ, for you, now on an unmatched level because he was President while Tinubu was not? Some of you are ridiculous with the things you say here. We all know merit is not promoted accordingly in Nigeria. The same way you talk flippantly is how insincere9gerian would seek to tell us we must not compare GEJ with Fashola merely because GEJ has been President yet me and you know that if our nation is about merit and ability then GEJ would only be considered if all the Fasholas, Dukes, Ribadus, Oshiomholes, Akpabios et al in Nigeria have dropped and died.

Our aberrant nation now even affects how we think and talk. I have no problem with anyone nominating OBJ but try and validate your choice from an intellectually defensible perspective. It demeans us all when our argument is limited to "Tinubu has never been to prison", "he never cleared national debt" or "he never rubbed shoulder with world leaders" type of postulations. I am sorry but I really don't discern much critically effective reasoning on this forum.

segxyrema: Don't be myopic in making any statement here,mentioning of tinubu's achievement in west is nothing to compare with OBJ's own in the country.S/W is just a small fragment in nigeria.
So compare him with peter obi,oshomiole,amechi etc

alj harem: Fair enough, Ok what does Ngige bring to the table apart from getting (which I hope) MAJORITY (Emphasis on MAJORITY) of SEern states and according to myopic people on this site he is not a muslim.

Ngige seem to be a rather lay-back man unlike likes of Rochas and Fashola or Ribadu. You see, in any combination (I hope you are being objective cos I want to be here) apart from the ethnical and religious issue, we need to ensure the the merger is not just another fake government waiting to have their own share.

That was why I strong was against Tinubu. Now Ngige might fill all the criteria for the SE but not for Nigeria. Remember Nigerians ARE TIRED OF THIS ETHNIC THING AND WANT DEVELOPMENT,
THE SUFFERING IS TOO MUCH.
Ngige is a true warrior, he has the boldness of a lion. He is one of the few political Davids who could dare to challenge a political Goliath and acheive his set objectives for his people.
Nna i be Yoruba o, i no be Igbo. But you no what Ngige rocks.

Fashola/Ribadu or Fashola/Rochas fits intoo this well

Fashola is very discipline and so is RibadU, Roachas on the other hand is more pro-masses whoch cna be a balance for Ribadu or Fashola's tough laws.