₦airaland Forum

confusedmind1:
Thank you all for the wonderful advise, I so much appreciate all.

I have now seen strong reasons to move.

thanks.

Moving to Canada would be a terrible mistake my friend, especially toronto. In Canada, your Nigerian degree is worthless. There are many PHDs from countries like India that are homeless in Toronto, what makes you think they will hire a Nigerian? The cost of living in Canada is also astronomical.

The U.S. would be a better option. Try to get a degree at an american school if you want a job. They are always hiring tech guys.

According to Al Jazeera, Nigerians are flooding out of the country at an unprecedented level -- second only to India which is a country with 6 times the population. Nigerians are buying citizenship in countries like Malta, Bahamas, Grenada, and Dominica. The World Bank also predicts that Nigeria's economy will unravel by 2025. The ship is sinking.

Get out while you still have the chance.

_{This image represents Nigeria. Save yourself before its too late.}

Keep your savings in dollars or some other currency.

British Colonialism saved the Yoruba from being conquered and enslaved by the sokoto caliphate.

Here is Al Jazeera posting what looks to be a snuff film. They would never post such uncensored graphic violence against any other race, but Africans. This film was actually showed on mainstream news with no filter. The disrespect of our people on these news agencies is intolerable, and I don't know why there isn't more outrage.

This is a very insidious form of racism where they reduce black people to animals, unworthy of the respect they accord other races.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlpZr8IRUcY&has_verified=1&bpctr=1607477077

I decided to check out the CNN report on the Lekki toll gate incident, and I was shocked out how freely and disrespectfully they were displaying dead Nigerians with no censor. When have you ever seen white news agencies parade their dead like this? During COVID-19 they wouldn't even show the faces of sick patients in Italy and New York, talk less of dead bodies.

Granted, I know such images are common on our own media, but international news outlets should maintain the same standards when dealing with people of different races. This is extremely offense.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/africa/lagos-nigeria-lekki-toll-gate-feature-intl/index.html

I wish they used something inspired by a traditional architectural style to build the terminals.

Sirjamo:
Shame on the Poverty Development Party. If Buhari had been our president since 1999, all our States capitals would have been connected by rail lines.


I am calling on our south east brothers and sisters to have a change of heart and support the APC, after the second Niger bridge, their region will witness more development that they didn't get from the other useless party after 21 years.

I AM DONE TALKING

Buhari will have my support if he drops the multiple exchange rates. Who is the APC candidate for 2023?

QuotaSystem:
This was the view from my VIP seat the last time I was on board.

Not everyone is a wretched pauper if you are.

Despite security challenges, you can see one of the reasons why it's hard not to love and praise Buhari.

It's very modern -- as is the one in Abuja. I'll give Buhari a win when it comes to infrastructure. More got done under him than the last two presidents combined. But, his economic policy (multiple exchange rates, border closure, etc.) has created poverty.

QuotaSystem:
Dividends of SW support for Buhari's Presidency.

Congrats.

Buhari has impoverished you to the point where you won't even afford this train, but you are here praising him. Monkey pepu.

theenchanter:
Ok, u want to rant...... Continue.

You want to suffer and smile... continue. Nothing will change with passive people like you. You are part of the monkey population holding us all hostage.

theenchanter:
calm down....

How can I calm down while my people are behaving like monkeys? There is no refuge in this world for the black man. Either we live as an unwanted immigrant in a white country or we live like an animal in Africa. Suffering and smiling is not my portion. I will speak the truth

theenchanter:
Roads in early developed areas across d world are usually narrow....... So many reasons justified it.

Ikoyi is among d early developed places in Nigeria, so the road will be narrow just as d case in ebute-metta and yaba.

If u go to Europe, most of their early developed areas also have narrow roads.

No be every time ur brain go dey hot.

This is Jakarta Indonesia. 20 years ago in the year 2000, Nigeria was richer than this country on a per capita basis. Now look at them -- moving forward while Nigerians continue to live like dumb animals.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72Hu29Le5g

MajesticKris:
Some times ehhhh the kinda road network in Lagos is soooo useless n stressful..

Seems like the black man is born to suffer. Even a simple road is like rocket science in this nigger-area.

Below you will see a recent drive-through video of Ikoyi, Lagos -- a fast growing economic center with many corporate offices, hotels, and residential buildings. The streets are only 2 lanes wide in either direction, which is way too narrow for a business district in a mega city of 20 million people. As the population density of Ikoyi continues to grow, within five years, the roads will become extremely congested with traffic and unusable.

It will also be impossible to expand the roads without destroying the side walks or demolishing millions of dollars worth of buildings that have sprouted up alongside the street.

Why are Nigerians so brainless and incapable of properly planning for the future? Why do we continue proving to the world that the black man is a monkey who can't do anything right and is incapable of managing his own affairs? And before you scapegoat the government, remember, Lagos is not a village. Why didn't the educated citizenry pressure the government to enact better planning instead of this nonsense -- it will be their businesses that suffer when this area turns to a slum.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-WfrzsSvCk&lc=Ugw9bv8JhtIpP7guZx54AaABAg.9D1d1VZvlIu9GfeQdFwxW6

Jakarta Indonesia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72Hu29Le5g

Southerners who cry over Northern issues are clowns. Let the North deal with its society the way they know fit. It's not our problem.

Nigerians have the government they deserve. Monkey people.

faste:
any coup attempt will end nigeria

Then I am praying for a coup. Nigeria must shatter.

rossniti:
Stop talking rubbish about Singapore and China, places where you would be shot for saying 1/10th of the stuff you say in Nigeria.

When the Chinese middle class were forced to ride in bicycles to work 2 decades ago, how many had the guts to raise any complaint or attack the govt?

The repression in Singapore leading up to their development and beyond, could you tolerate it in Nigeria without screaming ''dictatorship, failed state!'' on twitter? They have worsened in their freedom of expression laws, with unwarranted online criticism of their govt and nation being made crimes:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/singapore

Every country is looking to protect its image in order not to repel investors and tourists.

Shouting from the rooftops that you are the worst place on earth only becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to your extinction.

The fact is you and your fellow cry babies are mosquito brains who think the world gives a hoot about your complaints. They just find you boring and idiotic, and move on to people who believe they have something to offer.




You're a liar. You've NEVER smiled. All you and your parents and millions of others have EVER done is COMPLAIN and MOAN. That is why even when you read good news about Nigeria, you reflexively turn it to bad news, or simply ignore it, because you've been conditioned to hate the country.




The call is to USE YOR BRAIN and acknowledge that you are a developing country, just like 80% of nations on earth, who have those exact same problems you listed, but do not go online to trash their country daily!!!

Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world, which means our poverty level surpasses any other nation of earth, even India, which has 5x the population. Our life expectancy of 53, years is lower than active warzones like Syra, Afghanistan and Somalia. We are the third most terrorized nation on earth.

Burn Nigeria with fire. This country is worthless. I will dance and shout for joy when with this useless, nigger-area collapses and shatters to a million pierces.

They will badly regret visiting this zoo of a country

AskiaHarem:
Berlin, Rome, Dublin, and Stockholm etc have few to zero skyscrapers yet there far more developed than cities littered with skyscrapers will ever be you delusional mofos need to knock it the Bleep off.

Stop spreading nonsense. European countries put their high density buildings in certain areas away from the historic city centers. Germany has frankfurt, Italy has Milan, Paris has La Defense, etc. Building density is a key indicator of economic activity in an area.

rossniti:
Is your own face any less stupid? Brainless dunce typing rubbish.

The Germans were not hired to ''fix Nigeria'' by the way, you little airhead. That's YOUR job, assuming you're even a Nigerian, with your rotten attitude.

And do spare us this whole ''if Germans can't do it, nobody can'' slaveboy Kunta Kinte bullshiit.

The Germans, like their British brothers, ruled vast swathes of Africa for nearly a century - regions which they simply looted and left as undeveloped bush hellholes at independence, which is why black Africa began to develop only AFTER independence in the 1960s.

If I was in charge, I would fix Nigeria's power sector in less than 3 years. It's a very simple thing to do. However, I don't have faith in other Nigerians because yall have a track record of incompetence.

Earlier this year, the Nigerian government signed a multi-year agreement with the German government to increase Nigeria's electricity capacity to 25,000 Megawatt's by 2025. I see this as the last hope for this country to have stable power in our lifetimes, because if the Germans can't fix Nigeria's power grid, no one can, and Siemens is an internationally respected company.

However, to my alarm, I have not heard any update on the progress of this aggrement. What is going on? https://www.theafricareport.com/45057/siemens-to-spearhead-nigerias-power-revolution/

_{Look at Buhari's stupid face, sef.}

Maybe try South Africa. Sandton is a good area.

Nairalandian:
So of all the problems we have in this republic, it is wood and concrete that is your problem..

Am sure if the white man builds with concrete and we build with wood, you'll also criticize your people for not doing vice versa..
Biko how does what we build with affect your destiny in life.
Am sure if natural disasters like a tornado or hurricane strikes we'll have more buildings standing than in the States.

That is false. In Haiti, they use concrete buildings just like in Nigeria, and when the earthquake struck it killed 100,000 people. If such an earthquake hit lagos the death toll could be in the millions because we make the same mistakes the Haitians made.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18406-why-the-haiti-quake-killed-so-many/


Here is an excerpt from the article:

The multi-storey concrete buildings that made up much of Port-au-Prince proved to be death traps when the earthquake struck. “The buildings were brittle and had no flexibility, breaking catastrophically when the earthquake struck,” says Ian Main, a seismologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Here is a comparison between an apartment in South Africa vs. an apartment in Lagos. Notice the superior ambiance of the South African design. It makes you feel relaxed and comfortable. Compare it to the Nigerian home, which feels like an office: cold, hard and dark.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIiXuCJmMo

babaolofin:
The guy made a very sensible observation. Your point is very senseless just like the Minister and his advisers. Is the train going to pick first class and business class passengers at home to avoid the notorious Lagos Traffic jams? People at Ajah, Lekki , VI, Epe, Ojodu, Ikorodu - Ketu axis will fly to railway station to pay 6K to travel to Ibadan.

This is a failed project already and the Minister is still requesting hundreds of Million of dollars for the project.

O.K, but as I understand it, the train will also carry cargo and be linked to apapa. If that it the case, it will help evacuate cargo from the port and help ease the traffic in that area. So it is not a failed project.

Rossntti:
Your colonialist indoctrination and the western media's white supremacist propaganda output conditioned you to hate yourself, your skin colour, and your mother, and to call yourself a monkey.

You're so conditioned and mentally enslaved, you're an embarrassment.

As you point your finger in racial abuse at black people, guess what the other 4 fingers are doing?

Dunce.

This has nothing to do with ME or MY skin color. I'm simply observing the behavior of other black people and duly noting that they behave like monkeys.

PharoahIII:
I would love to explain to @ aconomist but I don't think any amount of explaining would do as he appears to be neck-deep in his conviction that he is a monkey and the white man is god, first and foremost that is an incredibly small house, secondly and more importantly, the concept of economies of scale is clearly playing out here. Assuming that guy builds 500 of such houses every year, my guess is that his labour costs will be greatly reduced. For example instead of paying each bricklayer a certain amount, say 70 naira, for each brick layed, he could just hire them on a permanent basis and pay them 50k per month. Imagine a brick layer lays 100 blocks a day, at the rate of 70 naira that will be 7000 a day for each bricklayer, and assuming a 5-day working week, that will amount to 140k a month. To save costs he can just employ them on a permanent basis and pay the min wage every month and give them daily targets. So the reason why the houses are cheap, my friend, has got LITTLE to do with building and EVERYTHING to do with economics.

The building is not cheap because of economies of scale. The bricks are significantly cheaper than cement and they are also lighter which makes it easier to build a foundation. The building plan is designed to use the absolute minimum amount of material -- something called optimisation and efficiency, which are concepts most black people don't understand. Read here for more information:

http://madeingreatlakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CAT-MODERN-BRICK-SOLUTIONS-Draft-Third-Edition-Beta-Version2.pdf

BTW, no other region on earth has such a massive gap between income and home prices as Africa. In other cultures, builders use their brains to build the cheapest possible housing that anyone can afford. The specific brick designs I showed you are actually based on European homes 200 years ago, when they faced the same problems we face ( low income workers moving from villages to cities). They used their brains to solve the challenges, while Africans would rather stick to expensive concrete that clearly doesn't work for our situations.

Also, last time I checked, Europeans didn't have electricity either 200 years ago, so how were they able to make cheap brick houses back then while we can't in 2020? Blacks are pathetic.

COMPAQ:
Why this doesn’t work is that the rich can easily put their Prado on the road for a short trip like Lagos to Ibadan. The distance is not really that long. On the other hand people typically fly because it’s along distance not easily covered by road.

You make no sense. Lagos is notorious for traffic jams.

Nigerians don't think sha. They should be using the airline pricing model where first class tickets are used to subsidize the coach tickets. Rich people will pay any amount for comfort on the train... so charge them 10,000 naira so you can make the coach tickets 500 -- 1,000 naira.

Monkey people.