₦airaland Forum

Short men are always pushing themselves to the front...

Lionessza6:
LMFAO, here comes a typical nigerian egomaniac with a chip on his shoulder.

Many countries did more for SA than you did. Whatever you did has been reciprocated in kindness for over two decades now. Your students have been given schorlaships by not only SA government ( SA taxpayers) , but also by private organisations. You pay less than other international students to study in some of Africa's great universities . Our taxes are feeding your criminals in prisons and jails . You are using our healthcare system for free when you get here ( our sweat ). You are using infrastructure that is not widely available in your own country that was and continued to be built and paid for by South Africans. The South African government has works well ( most times) with your government to bring in companies that employ you and give you quality services that you clearly lacked.

But one thing is for damn sure , we will never overlook the criminality of your people in our country because of whatever relationship we have with Nigeria.

Once people resort to personal insults and ad hominem attacks, I thank them and move on...
For it indicates either a lack of substantive points or a crude upbringing or both, so thanks but no thanks.

Meanwhile, feel free to read the last paragraph of my comments...
Humility says that even if you have a million and someone gives you a dollar that they are not obligated to, you acknowledge it nonetheless.
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chrisagyei:
you see bro,I like Nigerians very much buh we hate it when some Nigerians claim they developed Ghana or has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in Ghana b'cos it creates an impression that they control Ghana due to these investments which some Nigerians boastfully proclaim that.Ghana will not restrict or frustrate any investor in our space as some huge Nigerian cooperations are restricted from investing or starting up businesses in other African countries.Nigeria restrict Ghanaian products from entering into their borders buh we relax such restrictions such us no Ghanaian cement company or product is to import into Nigerian market buh we allow numerous Nigerian cement products into our country.Don't mistaken our willingness to open up for business as a weakness besides most of our brothers detest the high level of Nigerian stalls,mini businesses and retailers operating in the country buh we mostly see it as an oversight due to our close relations.Our laws says any foreign enterprise must have a start up of 200,000 us dollars minimum capital buh millions of Nigerians in Ghana doing businesses fall very short of this minimum capital buh we allow them to operate and flourish.Not even Benin Republic your neighbor will allow such unlawful actions due to the francophone African countries serving one common colonial Master France and back tracking Africa unity.So please avoid such sayings when talking especially to a Ghanaian.Already the Chinese,Europeans,Americans,Indians,Arabs and the Lebanese has massively invaded our market and they have this minimum capital to flourish so we have no right to target our African brothers.Thank you.

Strawman’s Argument...

There’s nowhere I said that Nigerians “developed” Ghana or “control” Ghana. Personally, I steer clear of these childish and primordial arguments, because as an unabashed pan-Africanist I really do not care to expend any emotional or intellectual energy into these divisive primitive discussions based primarily upon what a bunch of dudes sitting around a conference table in Berlin drew up.

Meanwhile, just for the purposes of factual rectitude, I reaffirm that Nigerians have invested hundreds of millions in Ghana from GTB, Zenith, Access, UBA, etc., to the likes of Glo and Dangote, to real estate investments. However, apparently unlike you, I do not equate investment with control. Rather I considered investment to be a win-win-win situation for all concerned if properly harnessed.
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samstradam:
Lol, ITKs full here!!

I am sure even Justices with 30 years plus experience don't know how to address letters to NJC but nairaland e-warriors do. Or maybe a man born into law like Ademola, a High court Justice, does not know simple letter writing and that he must inform a secetary that he wants to retire.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/retired-voluntarily-immediately-freed-court-justice-ademola/%3famp

Honestly, irrational hate coupled with unemployment is a serious disease.

Meanwhile, there’s absolutely NO indication that Justice Okoro’s letter was to the NJC as a body, rather than a direct communication to the CJN (despite the honorifics). For starters, he states in the first paragraph that he had asked the DSS to be allowed to call the CJN (not the NJC) but was refused. He thereafter addresses “My Lord” indicating that he was addressing one person (the CJN), NOT a council or body.
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samstradam:
Lol, ITKs full here!!

I am sure even Justices with 30 years plus experience don't know how to address letters to NJC but nairaland e-warriors do. Or maybe a man born into law like Ademola, a High court Justice, does not know simple letter writing and that he must inform a secetary that he wants to retire.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/retired-voluntarily-immediately-freed-court-justice-ademola/%3famp

Honestly, irrational hate coupled with unemployment is a serious disease.

And what exactly does a letter that the NJC itself held to be an IMPROPER attempted resignation have to do with who receives correspondence to the NJC as a body?! The very fact that Justice Ademola was being retired by definition indicates that not all of his conduct are proper.
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ILoveToFuCcK:
Twitter user @sne_ndlovuSA posted "I don't give a Bleep that's it's not politically correct but Nigerians are a huge problem in SA..

Ghana deported 700k Nigerians also Cameroon did the same thing last year for similar reasons we are facing in SA by most of the foreigners" and other South Africans vehemently supported her views.

Not particularly bothered either way, but...

First, Ghana did NOT deport 700K Nigerians (Nigerian formal investment in the Ghanaian economy runs into hundreds of millions of US dollars), and while Cameroon forcefully returned some refugees from the Boko Haram insurgency, almost 40K Southern Cameroonian are presently living in refuge in Nigeria.

South Africans nonetheless have to realize that almost every working Nigerian household/family made PERSONAL sacrifices for their liberation. Every Nigerian worker in our parents generation had to cough up at least 2.5% of their gross wages towards the Southern African Relief Fund (that catered for South African, Zimbabwean and Namibian refugees).

Nigeria inflicted significant economic harm on itself by refusing to do business with companies and countries that supported the apartheid South African regime, culminating in the expulsion of and nationalization (albeit with compensation) of the Nigerian subsidiaries and trading assets of Barclays Bank (became Union Bank), Standard Bank (became First Bank), BP (became AP or African Petroleum and presently Forte Oil), and Esso (became Eagle Petroleum, and presently Conoil). We ceded lucrative markets by refusing to sell our highly sought-after light crude oil to many Western countries (while donating free oil supplies to the five “Frontline States” bordering South Africa), and even denied Coca-Cola an operational and manufacturing license in Nigeria (leaving them to continue to rely on the Hellenic Bottling Company to franchise Coca-Cola products in Nigeria, through their subsidiary Nigerian Bottling Company).

Additionally, Nigeria provided FREE university and tertiary education for scores of South Africans and financed scholarships for many others. Nigeria also deployed considerable financial and other resources towards the campaign against apartheid across the world, culminating in Nigeria effectively assuming effective permanent control of the UN’s (standing) Special Committee Against Apartheid at the UN headquarters in New York City (initially set up in 1962), as from the 1970s onward with each Nigerian Permanent Representative virtually automatically anointed as the Chairperson of the Special Committee (except for a year or two in the mid-1970s, apparently following Gowon’s overthrow) until it’s disbandment in 1994 after the demise of apartheid and following free elections in South Africa.

It’s a shame that history is such a non-valued subject/commodity in much of Africa, because the Nigeria-South African roots run much DEEPER AND LONGER than the present generation appreciates. There’s a reason that, even during our GRANDPARENTS’ generation, Nigeria was the very FIRST place that Nelson Mandela sought political exile when he was first declared personae non-grata by the apartheid government of South Africa, arriving in Nigeria in the early 1960s (where he lived in the personal house of then Parliamentary Secretary, Mbazulike Amaechi, before deciding to return to South Africa to go underground in support of the military struggle), and why Nigeria was one of his first ports of call following his release in 1993 after 27 years in prison (and during which the Babangida government made a significantly large dollar donation to finance the electioneering campaigns of the ANC for South Africa’s first free elections ever).

For the avoidance of any doubt, none of the foregoing entitles Nigerians to a special status in South Africa, nor should earn them permanent or automatic immunity, but it should caution the beneficiaries of our collective sacrifices to treat individuals offenders individually without blacklisting an entire nation and its people or resorting to the sort of barbaric stereotypes visited upon them during apartheid.
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nonen:
They won’t last there. They will be kicked out in the next elections

4 years is more than enough to do anything/everything they want to do...
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Glad my sister commenters unanimously see this for the dumb tweet it is...
There are more appropriate situations for chivalry (pregnancy, age, etc.), but this isn’t one of them. SMH
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SO CHILDISH AND CHURLISH!
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tayebest:
Take this form me, El rufai can't easily get retired from Nigeria politics. The guy na bricks casted from iron!

I give it to him!

Peacecore:
His retirement would have b imminent if he go on to fight Jagaban but got his sense back on tym. U can ask Saraki,Dogara,Atiku etc

Even Jagaban himself...
If they don’t retire voluntarily, death will retire them compulsorily.
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ornicus:
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/sarah_palin_in_a_miniskirt

First off that picture is as fake as those Nancy Pelosi slurred voice videos

Secondly, there is a time and place for everything. The way I would dress at home is not the way I would dress in the field and is not the way I would dress in the boardroom.

Just as you would look dumb wearing a full business suit to a pool party, you also look dumb wearing a Bleep me dress to a business meeting. This woman is not doing ladies any favors by parading herself as a sex object

But isn’t she at what seems to be a beauty pageant or some other sort of night gala?
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macello4:
all women are hoe, insult me and die a miserable death.

But wouldn’t that make your own mother (and your sister and/or daughter, if you have any) a “hoe”?
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Okayoo:
I just wonder,what this world is turning into. This highly irresponsible of her. She is supposed to be a role model for her followers. She deserved to be sanctioned. I will recommend death sentence for her, the reason is that as a lawmaker,she is portraying a negative image for the country. Also she has refused to accept that what she did was wrong.

Boko Haram members are now on Nairaland...

AyakaDunukofia:
She should not force an unpopular act which the majority found to be morally wrong. Her dressing would not have been no man's business if she was in the confines of her home.

The harn principle. John Stuart Mills.

Did you conduct a poll of the population?
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blackboy:
She made a fool of herself. Awful taste.

Glad you said ‘herself’...
Why then do you seem to be swallowing Phensic for her headache?
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justli:
You're the big hypocrite here because if your daughter should dress like that you honestly wouldn't like it

She is a 52-year-old MARRIED ADULT WOMAN, not some pimply-faced teenager... BIG DIFFERENCE!!!
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arantess:
They are talking lawmaker, you are calling cossy??
Some of you people here are retardedd, how many of our female lawmakers dress like this?

Exactly! Our lawmakers are more interested in STEALING money from a largely poor population, marrying 13-year-olds, sleeping with students, etc., to waste time on such clothing...SMH
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harkandey:
your husband bought it for you to be wearing it within the house premises, not to be wearing it in public.

You personally discussed this with her husband?
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Oshigun:
Because he respects his elders and was brought up in a culture of respect. Are you one of those who wake up your dad with a slap or kick?

There’s a difference between respect and subservience...
Pretty sure that all of those other standing Senators/delegates respect the President.
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KUDOS to the dude...
Education is a lifelong enterprise.
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DISGUSTING!
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dominique:
That's sexist tweet, the APC Twitter handler should know better. That she's not in your party doesn't mean you should regard her in such disrespectful manner.

Is the honourable in question Kalu Ikpeazu's wife, sister or in-law? These greedy politicians will just be rotating power amongst themselves and their families.

Nope! That’s the late Justice Ikpeazu’s daughter...
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For those who seem befuddled...
It’s the OBJECTIFICATION that is objectionable (no pun).

The APC (nor any other major national political party or any serious-minded news organization or media) would NEVER in its official medium describe or refer to any male legislator or political/public officeholders as “handsome” (or even as “pretty”) or otherwise substantively reduce men to their physical characteristics. Aside from being disrespectful, it is also patronizing!
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Two superstitious nutjobs who deserve each other...
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BIGGIE121:
A chiild that is given birth to out of wedlock is called .....................

A beautiful child?
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Kingosytex:
oshiomole is a political game changer. his political sagacity is superb. this astute politician from edo state deserves some credit. take it or leave it, oshiomole is a genius

I will leave it...
Agbero Adams is no more a “genius” than MC Oluomo is a Nobel Peace Prize candidate!
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This “university” sounds like a CULT!
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Rated BBB...

#BourdillonBullionBeneficiary.
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coolcharm:
I love Paul Kagame. Intelligent, bold and apt.

He is undoubtedly the poster boy for the kind of leaders African countries are in dire need of.

I can imagine all the itchy bodies and uneasy faces while he spoke

Not sure which Fifth Columnists at the Villa wanted to make PMB look bad by sharing the same speaking forum with Kagame...
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Rossikk:
If any country needs to be here, it is them. They have a lot to learn on human rights and civil liberties. What does ostracising them achieve?

Haba! What part of “I have nothing against relations with North Korea” did you (mis)understand as asking for it to be ostracized?
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Nigeria specializes in contaminating a good idea with bad execution...
This in itself is a brilliant concept, but putting Aisha Buhari there takes the piss.
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lexy2014:
I agree. I don't no how much it cost 2 buy an artificial tree or d cost of d various activities u mentioned, but I believe that in d long run whatever is spent on grooming trees is worth it. With all that has been spent on d plastic trees, they still fell. it shows d govt has incurred a loss. Once again, I don't c d aethestics &d beauty artificial trees add. Also, environmental sustainability should b an objective of any modern day govt& artificial trees can't guarantee that objective. So in d long run, u are better of with organic trees

Totally agree...
But my point is if you cannot maintain the easy one, the harder one will be a disaster.
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