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SuperIgbo1:
An average Igbo or Efik man, who's very fluent in English finds it difficult to speak pidgin English.

Your narrative holds no water. There's no such thing as Nigerian culture.

Just as many native Igbo and Efik people born and raised abroad find it difficult to speak Igbo or Efik.

Yet those same people could still have Igbo and Efik culture, because language is merely one of many subsets of culture.

Dee60:
Thank you very much.

A man marries a woman of her choice and someone here is quick to label him 'oyinbo man'! In this age and time, people need to grow up and clear their minds of the old mentality. Caucasians are getting married to people of colour everytime and it is just their choice. Someone here wants to make something so special out of it!

Personally, I don’t think of this as newsworthy and could care less who anyone chooses to marry.

However, is he not an “Oyinbo man” (as in Caucasian)? The term is both correctly descriptive and ascriptive, and thus not the issue here.

SuperIgbo1:
You're chatting shtye. Aro, Oshimili, Nkanu, Onitcha, Oka, Ngwa and, the rest have come together to form the Igbo nation united under a one language.

And WTH is Calabar? Is Calabar an ethnic group? Now I see why you actually think there's a Nigerian culture.

Just like the Igbo, Efik, Yoruba, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Bini, Ijaw, Idoma, Tiv and the rest have come together to form the Nigerian nation united under one language - Pidgin English!

Is this another one of those Davido-type NYSC “duties”?

Aunty, you need a good Accountant here not a pastor...

Speedy recovery

apelike1:
yeah! It pains me seeing your mother begging in the street

And even if she was, she would still be the most BEAUTIFUL woman on earth.
Do something about that self-hate and self-loathing that is weighing you down. That is your real problem, not Naija women.

SuperIgbo1:
Nigerians are really stark illiterates.

There's no such thing as Nigerian culture unless, Nigeria is an ethnic group but, it's not. What exists is Igbo culture, Efik culture and, the rest.

Nigeria is just a political entity.

If you are insistent on disaggregation, then why stop there?

There would also be nothing like Igbo culture or Efik culture, but rather Arochukwu culture or Onitsha culture or Wawa (Enugu) culture, and nothing like Efik culture but Calabar or Ugep cultures. The reality is that there are certain COMMONALITIES among many different Nigerian/African cultures, and that culture is always evolving. Accordingly, the term “Nigerian culture” should considered a generic.

apelike1:
handsome man get married to an ape

You should have stick with your fellow White races, this naija women got nothing to offer ya apart from thier big and dirty lips and their wide and open annnnus

Glad you have a Naija mother.
It must be painful for you to see her everyday.

Buharifanatic:
All these white guys that marry black women are trying, me that is black I cant marry them

I like to eat puna and I don't like the ones that looks like burnt black meat, then if you add their smelling lifestyle, envy they have for people they don't know, their lack of self esteem

Marrying a black woman is like, begging God to curse you, they are the worst, I feel sorry for him, we know that the marriage wouldn't last

Show your black girl a video of a fine girl online and see how she will insult the girl for no reason, so much hate, no wonder they are black

I’m glad that you have a black mother and perhaps black sisters. How it must pain you to see them everyday...

ZOO!

Populated by many illiterate and superstitious folks.

frosbel2:
Facebook has no office in Nigeria - their operations in Nigeria are managed from South Africa
Google has no office in Nigeria - their operations in Nigeria are managed from South Africa

They are not providing any employment opportunities for the Nigeria youth.

I recently asked a senior manager at Amazon why they had no offices in Africa , he said due to poor infrastructure. They only very recently opened one office in Cape Town, South Africa.

I personally know the Director of Africa Policy at Facebook (a classmate at Columbia Univ), and can assure you that Facebook has a hub in Nigeria, which was launched in May 2018. In fact, not only FB, but also Google and MEST each have a hub in Nigeria (with the Google Nigeria office quite prominent on Kingsway Road in Ikoyi). Meanwhile, Nigeria led Africa in foreign investment in tech for the past 3 consecutive years (2016-2018), including leading the way both in number and value of deals in 2018 (see WeeTracker’s Africa Venture Capital Report 2018).

BTW, Nigeria does not really need Amazon, with Jumia and Konga doing as well as they have (and each attracting significant foreign capital), just as Alibaba led the way in China before the influx of foreign competition. Amazon is a great brand but local knowledge is invaluable.

kannymoore:
I dunno what you think but I personally believe that Nigeria doesn't have 200 million people!

Tend to agree.

Notice that since the introduction of the smart card reader, actual voters (not registered numbers) in Nigerian national elections has been in the 30 million region (28 million this year), even as our elections become more keenly contested and the population becomes more politically aware and active. We need to do the BASIC minimum requirement of every sovereign nation - count ourselves PROPERLY!

JeromeBlack:
Did you miss where 2 leading economists were quoted or the fact that they used metrics such as GDP, income per head and strenght of currency to reach their verdict on Nigeria?

Telegraph might have their bias but Nigeria is rushing towards doom. If the economic recession and the devaluing of our currency in Nigeria are not enough for you to see the impending doom, then nothing will.

You can always find “leading economists” on both sides of every economic discourse.

Nonetheless, more interesting is that Renaissance Capital (whose Chief Economist is one of the two economists quoted) continues to ramp up its Nigeria operations, and its affiliated company Rendeavor recently broke ground on the massive Alaro City project in Ibeju-Lekki.

RTSC:
That Nigeria economic prospects is declining rapidly is a fact.

That everybody, both fans and foes will suffer it is also another fact.

I don't have time or energy to start lambasting the ignorant or diabolical buhari fanatics here trying to turn truths on its head.

There is nothing to be said that has not being said already.

Sorry, but it’s simply NOT a fact.

frosbel2:
The guy is right, Nigeria is riveted with corruption, scamming , tribalism, religious fanaticism and one of the worst Infrastructure in the entire world.

Little wonder, many tech companies refuse to invest in Nigeria or even West Africa because these countries cannot guarantee stable electricity, clean water, health care and security. These are the basics of life and Nigeria struggles to even meet 10% of the overall requirement. It is sad but true, some of the best and brightest have fled the country and continue to flee the country;because of this , we see educational standards falling and ignorance multiplying.

Nigerians save yourselves before the country goes up in smoke.

Finally, we have the BREAK the STRONGHOLD of Islamic and Christian Madness from the minds of the people before they can begin to progress rapidly.

Nigeria attracts by far the highest tech dollars in Africa (and btw, Google and Facebook have significant operations here).

Most of this Telegraph article is Parachute Analysis at its worst...

Esseite:
It's not doom saying.. they are worried because a mass migration of 200m people would cause a global problem...

They are the investors, they are the countries that migrants would flock to. They are only being logical.

On a side-note, each election exposes this “200m population” LIE. We really need to count ourselves PROPERLY!

ZOO!

And I am not speaking of the caged animals. SMH

CreepyBlackpool:
On a totally unrelated note, does anyone have any idea what later happened to those animals Pablo Escobar kept in his house?

The hippos are roaming around the countryside wreaking havoc. One recently killed a local earlier this year.

deomelo:
[s][/s]Stop bothering me with your Abuja rubbish, what they have in Abuja is not what they have in Lagos hence the phrase
'first of it's kind in Lagos"

Again, if you are going to spew your ignorant nonsense, do so with facts and documented evidence.

What they have in Lagos is one and only in and before your next ignorant post, make sure you have the technical specifications, capabilities and functions of your Abuja rubbish

Dude, here’s free counsel: when you find yourself in a hole quit digging!

You can go back and MODIFY your post as many times as you want, but thankfully you cannot modify mine. Accordingly, only the worst kind of arrogant ignorance would lead someone to classify something that was already done EIGHT YEARS EARLIER elsewhere in NIGERIA as “ground breaking” and “ahead of Nigeria”. Again, take this as a TEACHABLE moment and LEARN from it (presuming that you have the capacity to learn), because the wind has blown and duly exposed your ignorant behind.

PS: And please don’t reduce yourself (more than you already have) to the status of Nairaland’s Resident Comic with that obtusely comedic “technical specifications” gibberish. Is posting pictures of Fashola shaking hands with an Oyinbo woman supposed to constitute “documented evidence of technical specifications, capabilities and functions”?! SMDH

deomelo:
About JJT Park in Ikeja, please tell us what happened to Fashola and why Ambode refused to include and knowledge Fashola. Was Fashla never a former governor in Lagos state just like Tinubu, Jakonde and Johnson?

Why stop at Fashola?
Why not “Johnson Jakande Tinubu Lawal Ukiwe Kanu Mudashiru Otedola Marwa Fashola Ambode Park” for all governors?

Meanwhile, Ilubirin was not abandoned. Rather, it was upgraded from simply another HOMS residential estate to a mixed-use Live-Work-Play project under a PPP arrangement, so that rather than having only residences with all of the residents piling onto the Third Mainland Bridge every morning and clogging up traffic even more than it presently is, people can reside and work within it. See relevant link below.

The real utility of some of the projects pursued by Mr. Ambode are too subtle for the MC Oluomos of this world to grasp (in contrast, someone like Tinubu comprehends it but realizes it cuts off his spigot of patronage), but hopefully folks like you have to capacity to use these posts as TEACHABLE moments and accordingly learn therefrom. But then again, one can only drag the horse to the creek...SMH

https://www.ilubirin.ng/#ourVision

KunleyY19:
He tried Though but the problem is had it been Lagosian hadn't tasted Fashola reign then all this would have been an insurmountable achievement but the guy fucc up...

Fashola paid attention to every details...
Ambode was Lax in upholding basic laws
Lastma all of a sudden became redundant...
LSPWC too etc...

Common Tree planting he couldn't be sustained. Volunteer Group in sec sch eg Boys Scout Etc nosedived...
This are the deeper issues Fashola touched...

Not sure if you actually live in Lagos, but Ambode appointed one of Nigeria’s foremost environmental activists Bilikisi Adebiyi-Abiola to run LASPARK and several new parks and gardens have been built since. The agency has moved into new headquarters and has modernized its equipment. It is responsible not only for park management but provides tree emergency (if a tree falls in your neighborhood there is an emergency hotline to call) and regular tree pruning services across the city.

Tree planting continues unabated in full-force during the official tree-planting season between April and July, with the stated aspiration of planting 10 million trees pursuant to the agency’s 5-year masterplan. In fact, LASPARK has introduced “community tree-planting” and tree planting exercises pursuant thereto across the 5 divisions and all LCDAs. In addition, last year the agency entered into a CSR agreement with the developer of Reliance Gardens to plant 700 trees along the Lekki Expressway.

Meanwhile, not sure where you get the idea that the Public Works Corporation is dormant, because public work gangs are out almost every night during the dry season fixing roads, street lights, etc. Similarly, just because LATSMA personnel are no longer fighting with drivers (and VIO Inspectors and FRSC are not extorting innocent motorists) does not mean they are”redundant” (for example, VIO now does computerized testing at its several test centers across the city, rather than the previous roadside rubbish). New agencies like the ERU is first-rate (the best anywhere in Nigeria), while the Neighborhood Corps provides much needed neighborhood watch and local intelligence support for the police.

deomelo:
[s][/s]Fashola commissioned the one in Lagos state back in 2011 and this joker is talking about 2023.

If you are going to lie or make ignorant claims, back if up with facts and documented evidence. You are not dealing with your fellow ignorant ipobs

Only in the MC Oluomo school of tortured logic does 2011 precede 2003...

https://www.geospatialworld.net/news/nigeria-revamps-abuja-gis-after-11-years/
http://agis.fcta.gov.ng/about/

Such arrogant ignorance is the principal reason that the likes of Tinubu lords over you. SMH

If many of the negative reactions here is representative of Nigerians, then our rulers (not leaders) are hardly our main problem...

ZOO!

deomelo:
This is one of my favorite Fashola achievements.

Very visionary and ground breaking.

The man was ahead of Nigeria.

“Ground breaking”?

Dude, Abuja has had a computerized GIS system since 2003 (that is, EIGHT YEARS BEFORE Lagos), initiated under the Obasanjo government - and I doubt that many rational persons would categorize the then FCT Minister El-Rufai as being “visionary” or “ahead of Nigeria”! LOL!

deomelo:
Let me show you Fashola's 1st term accomplishments..

Dude, some of those projects in your pictures were actually in Fashola’s SECOND term...

For example, Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge was in 2013, Lekki IPP was in 2014, the LAWMA Simpson Street Transfer Station was in 2009, that paving stone production project was in 2013 (it’s even so dated in the picture you posted), etc.

GidiWoodsMan:
Ambode is the best governor Lagos has had in recent times (second to Lateef Jakande though).

A thinking-man's governor. The first thing he did was eliminate the urgent need for a fourth mainland bridge by clearing the bottlenecks at Berger and Oworonshoki. A four-hour trip from V.I. to Ojodu (evening rush hour) was immediately reduced to <45 minutes. He cleared these predatory agencies away from Lagos roads by computerizing their stop & search functions, embarked on major road construction works and blocked all loopholes via which government funds were being pilfered (this was the main reason why he was kicked out).

Nigerians don't even know about, talk less understand the social contract, so they don't know when they are being cheated by their leaders anymore.

Ignorance is the worst type of disease.

Well said!

Although, in fairness, Lagos has been fortunately blessed with relatively good civilian governors.

deomelo:
Even with your overly inflated essay, still less than a 1/4 of Fashola's 1st term achievements.. And considering the fact that Ambode's budget is twice Fashola's budget

First, I made it clear that Ambode built upon Fashola’s foundations (after all, government is a continuum)...

Furthermore, the post that I was responding to was not a Fashola vs Ambode post, so it’s befuddling where your comparison emanates from in relation to my post. Nonetheless, since you have now raised that point, my curiosity has been aroused and I would like you to indulge us and list Fashola’s first-term achievements (we know the Lekki Bridge was not in his first term, and obviously not the Blue Line or the Badagry Expressway).

obajoey:
If the railway project is going to take like let say 20years, that means whoever is occupying the leadership position will be there till after 20 years.
What happens to continuity?

The thing is they can always have a developmental plan, so from the developmental plan any elected leader can choose a project from the plan and embark on.

Why?

Government is a continuum, and thus just like many of the government bonds that the Buhari government is issuing today will fall due for redemption in some cases in 15-20 years, long-term infrastructural projects do not need to completed within 4 years, so long as proper contractual agreements are entered into. Frankly, the only issue thereto in Nigeria is the tendency of our governments to breach contracts.

bluecircle470:
Those were not his legacy.
Abule egba and Ajah flyover are project nearly completed during fashola period.

Er.. quit fibbing.

The Abule-Egba and Ajah flyover projects were approved in December 2015 - seven months after Fashola left office. See linked story below.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/lagos-govt-approves-flyover-bridge-for-ajah-abule-egba/