₦airaland Forum

repogirl:
Lol, Parents, we need to teach our boys to survive without women in their homes.

If I travel from home, I come back to meet it even neater than I left it. Some men cannot stand even the littlest piece of dirt. It's all from training.

You're right. Parents also need to teach women to be financially independent and not have to always depend on a man.

iLoveConductor:
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Biafra will be hell on earth for Igbos who supported the evil One Neajeriya and or tormented Igbos just because they had one post or another in Nigeria. I hope you get the clue.

You don't have Biafra yet and you're already threatening people an then you wonder why some people don't want to be part of your experiment. The moment some of you realize that liberty and the right to on'es opinion is one of the fundamental rights of people, the more accommodating you'll becomes.

Hmmm...the moment my mind starts telling me to stab someone, i'll run the hell out of that place. Nobody just decides to stab anyone. It's a psychological problem.

TheGoodJoe:
Contrary to the agitation for the Biafran Republic by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the late leader of breakaway Biafra Republic during the Nigeria’s civil war between 1967 and 1970, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu had warned against second Biafra agitation.

And Ojukwu is somehow supposed to be god? The same Ojukwu you people derided is the person you're now using as a reference point for your anti Biafra rhetoric.

Tyche:
Seyi Law should go and rest. He seems to have an opinion about everything. Mtcheeeeeew

he is a human being and a Nigerian and has the right to have an opinion. Do you want to kill him for it?

PDPGuy:
I didn't attend. I can't even remember which city it was held in.

This year's edition was held in Los Angeles and i know you're not that far away. From what i watched their were loads of pretty Igbo chikalas.

PDPfan, did you attend the Umu Igbo Unite?

ststyreal:
collateral I guess

I understand that part. But he didn't say anything about what the person will do with the car and house if he doesn't pay up at the agreed time. Will someone just help him keep his car till he comes back after 20 years to pay his debt?

Do what your moms says.

What will t he person do with the car and the house?

diezani:
Newspapers would improve your grammar. Bloggers don't take writing seriously.

If you want to be a good writer, read newspapers esp Guardian and Thisday.

If you want to be a good writer, you either read books or go to school. Btw, those newspapers are also online.

How is Olamide A list and Phyno B list. Is the compiler of this crap okay in the head?

He should tell us what criteria he used to arrive at his results.

step1:
why the sarcasm. Explain what you want to explain. Use any state that comes to mind

Now imagine you're from Ebonyi state having in mind that Agriculture is what makes the state and then the federal government tells your state that they can no longer control the agriculture in the state. That it will take over the agriculture in the state and give oil wells farming lands to their friends and cronies, many of whom are not from Ebonyi. You will bow have outsiders controlling your agriculture and at the end of the month, the government will give the state just 13% derivation. Do you think it's fair considering that that's the only resource that the state has. Doesn't Ebonyi state deserve to control 100% of their resources and pay a certain percentage to the federal government?

step1:
Why the question ?

Is your state now a top FBI secret? Just wanna use to explain something.

HungerBAD:
In what ways please?okay i see you have modified your post.

Recently, white supremacist in charlotteville, Virginia were responsible in wrecking havoc, killing one person and injuring so many. Instead of of Donald Trump to condemn that white supremacist, he made a general condemnation just like Buhari did.

step1:
You can pass your message across without the word stupi.d


So they should agitate to leave Nigeria. What are you even saying? So long as the laws of Nigeria hold, no resource is for any individual or group of people. We have Niger deltans that own oil wells so what are we saying. I am here and I know the mentality here and I tell you the region cannot grow with this sense of entitlement. Watch Niger delta's that don't have this silly mentality and compare with the ones that have.

Abeg make una do what you want. Nigerians don't like reading or hearing the truth. Blow up all the pipelines and employ only Niger delta's. I don tire

Which state are you from? Abia?

sarrki:
“.Kidnappings, farmers versus herdsmen clashes, in addition to ethnic violence fuelled by political mischief makers. We shall tackle them all.

I've always said it that Buhari and Donald Trump are very similar. Even though the fulani herdsmen are the trouble makers here, they've made it seem like it's the fault of both parties. When is the presidency going to condemn the rampage by herdsmen categorically.

step1:
So Niger delta should stop complaining then if they like to use their money for tissue paper or be looted.

Imagine This, a boy has a Land, I am a farmer, I grow the corn and after harvest I give the boy 13% of my revenue, not only that I share the remaining 87% with him and his other brothers, I still use some of the money and give it to his mother (nddc) anuty and co to be giving him pocket money and all he needs. Yet he is still burning my crops and stealing my tools.

Also you keep talking of region people. For crying out loud this region is under the laws of the federal republic of Nigeria so they are not autonomous.

My state is being called no man's Land, my village is lost to the city;have you seen us kidnapping and burning government or private structures ?

Your analogy is stupid. Sorry to say.

The land is not yours and the owners did not give you permission to cultivate it. You forcefully took the land in the name of one Nigeria, brought companies from abroad as well as sell oil wells to your friends and cronies most of who are not part of the family of people that own the land and then you think by giving them 13% of the land that you stole is good enough.

I'm not saying 13% is not a lot of money. Sometimes, i wish we in Enugu had 13% of anything. We would have gone very far by now. But that's not the point. The world over, resources are owned by states and regions and that's what makes Texas the second richest state in the US. Their oil is not controlled from the center. That's exactly what the Niger Delta needs. Under this present arrangement, the states need to manage their own resources and by tax to the federal government. That's the common practice all over the world. We must stop making it look like we're doing them a favour because we aren't. if they control their resources, however they choose to spend the proceeds is none of our business. It's the business of their people to hold them accountable not those it does not concern.

deomeelo:
I'm a Nigerian and the Delta is part of Nigeria so it's my freeking business and it should be yours too even though I do understand that you favor and excuse crooked, corrupt and incompetent leaders regardless the damage they do to their people. .

Your business should be to your immediate constituency. For example, i have n business how Kaduna chooses to spend their money just like you and i have no business how the Niger Delta chose to spend theirs.

deomeelo:
You really should be telling us what happened to all the 13% derivations, IGR, budgets, NDDC and ministry of Niger delta affairs and also Alams, Ibori and the other leaders in that region looting every kobo in sight.


The has nothing to do with resources control, it's all about bad, crooked and corrupt leadership in that region.

Even with resources control, are the leaders in that region going to repent, stop looting and deliver on behalf of their own people?


You know the problem so why keep pointing fingers elsewhere?

What's your business on how people choose to spend their own money. If they decide to use it for toilet paper, how the hell is it your business. What you self righteous people don't understand that we understand all these your tactics of telling us, what about the 13% this, NDDC that. it's the resource of the Niger Delta ad it's their prerogative to decide whether they want to squander it or not. it's not in your place to ask questions. You're a parasite just like all of us that are not from there. Heard?

@originalsy
In which boroughs are those suburbs?

FriendNG:
Zamfara Hausa How Far

I'm fine.

omohayek:
To begin with, as cynical as I am about Nigerian politics in general, I don't agree with your blanket condemnation of all of Nigeria's current politicians. As you yourself have mentioned, Fashola is one counter-example to the typical "come and chop" id.iot, and there are a few others besides him who come to mind (e.g. Soludo, or the current Emir of Kano). It's too simple to just say "throw them all out", without doing the hard work of separating the wheat from the chaff.

By all politicians, i'm talking of the career politicians and not people like Fashola. There are people that have been tested and trusted and that we know that take this country to the promise land. You've already named them. The likes of Fashola, Soludo, Sanusi, Ribady, Ezekwesili and co. But even this people can't function under this system that has been programmed not to work. Take a look at fashola for example. He has become a shadow of himself because he's now under a system that stiffles one's ability to function. Unlike when he was almost the lord and omega n lagos where he determined almost everything that happened. The likes of Buhari, Atuki, OBJ, IBB and those past military leaders need to be booted out. Most of them are illiterate who have nothing to offer and only care about holding the nation to ramsome for their personal aggrandizement.

omohayek:
The second point I'll make - and which I've made once before - is that I see absolutely no evidence that the "youth" you put so much faith in are in general any better than they elders you want them to replace. Who celebrates yahoo boys? Who champions and defends Dino Melaye, Bukola Saraki, Diezani, etc. on this very forum, even without anybody paying them for it? Who foolishly rushed headlong into MMM even when everyone was pointing out it was a pyramid scheme? Didn't you see the front page post in which most of said "youth" openly admitted that they too would steal as much as possible if they were ever made Minister of Petroleum? Your insistence that the "youth" will be magically better is an example of what I'm talking about, mere wishful thinking without any empirical grounding whatsoever: what I see with my own eyes are generations of "youth" which are even more mired in greed and blind worship of wealth than the generation that gave us Abacha and company.

The likes of Saraki and Dino Melayi despite being relatively young have no precedence to be considered good leaders. It's not just about whipping out any young person that claims to be a leader. What is your educational background? what are your professional achievements. In a perfect system people like Deziani and Okonji iweala would really do well. Deziani found herself in a corrupt system and she decided to enrish herself. That's what most so called good people do when they get into government. They join the bandwagon.

hammerT:
But Y is it only Igbo people dat feel for NigerDelta and truily care about their environment?

Even me, i feel for dem, if i have the power, i will just give dem resource control.

Yet, we hear Igbo want to dominate us propaganda fed to dem during Biafra War by the likes of Edwin Clark.

In Igboland we believe in justice and fairness though these people from the ND see us as parasites who are out to take tejir resources even though there's no history of that happening even though we used to be in the same region. All the same we need to keep fighting for what is fair irrespective of the region. Sometimes i feel the Niger Delta are not even pained enough. It seems like it's we Igbos that are carrying the thing on our heads. Maybe thats why people think we're trouble makers.

majekdom2:
what more due. Now that the investors are going? How una wan take do am? Now that oil don cast, how una wan do am? It is commensensical to resolve issues without violence. Thats the only way both parties won't hurt. Remember there is always a stronger party in any battle... in this case who know who is stronger. See, you people should go see how these companies are investing in other African countries, you will know Nigeria don cast

Whose aim s it to resolve issues? The ND says we want to controll our resources and pay tax to the federal government, the government says no. They say that oil companies should up their social responsibility ability, the oil company goes ahead to bribe government officials and everything is swept under the carpet. The little money that gets to the community are shared by chiefs and elders and you wonder why able bodied men go about bombing pipelines. My brother, don't worry, one day a company will come to your village and rape everything in sight, that day i will tell you to resolve issues with them. English is always easy when you're not at the receiving end of grave injustices.

wristbangle:
The case of ND is just shooting one's leg. One of the key factors to site business in a location is security. Unfortunately ND areas are too volatile which scares investors away. I seriously don't know what they can do to attract these business magnets.

It's commonsensical that a region that produces most of Nigeria's resources but doesn't get it's due will be restive. It's like jumping inside mud and asking why your body is dirty.

claremont:
It's also true that most of the people who hate him for no reason and who wish him dead are from the south. Tribalism, corruption and religion are birds of a feather, they go hand-in-hand.

Yes, a lot of people hate him in the south but a vast majority of them do so for a reason even though some of you will want to deny it. The North usually has an unconditional love for their leaders. In the south, not really.

omohayek:
The problem I see here is that there can be no hope of meaningful progress without bringing the "policy" into Nigerian politics, and that means being willing to grapple with ideas, not just hoping that somehow pushing out the older generations (which is in any case impossible) will make any difference for the better (and from everything I've seen of how "yahoo yahoo" boys, Dino Melaye and other such criminals are openly celebrated by said "youth", I don't see any reason for believing they will be any less crooked than the old people they'd be replacing).

Any worthwhile political party will have to possess a clear set of principles by which it seeks to govern, and whatever such principles may be, their practical effects are likely to affect some groups more than others, which will no doubt play upon the already pre-existing tribal prejudices most Nigerians hold. Consider, for example, the abolition of the Land Use Act and the enshrinement of absolute property rights to land: while this policy is essential if Nigeria's mass of peasant farmers are ever to gain access to the formal credit sector, it will also mean that those who own a piece of land will also own whatever is found on or under it, which threatens to cut off the flow of oil rents which the FG redistributes as "federal allocations"; the northern legislators in the NASS recognized as much, which is why they torpedoed any attempt to remove the Land Use Act from the constitution, even though it is a tremendous drag on economic progress which disproportionately affects the more agriculture-dependent northern states. Similar reasoning explains why no northern-led government (e.g. the present one) will ever lift a finger to privatize and deregulate any part of the economy: northern elites understand all too well that they will fare relatively poorly in a more market-driven environment without the numerous parastatals and bloated public sector to use as patronage networks, so they are naturally disposed to prefer more state control in spite of how crippling it is to economic growth.

I've written all of the above not so much to criticize northerners per se, as to make clear that even purely economic principles will have varying practical implications for different ethnic groups, which in turn means that the necessity of formulating clear ideas on what a political party stands for will inevitably drive away support from certain groups while attracting it from others: in short, there is simply no escaping the ethnic factor. We can see this at work even in nations like the UK (where the overwhelmingly English north was pro-Brexit, and Scotland, Northern Ireland and the cosmopolitan south-east around London were all pro-Remain) or the USA (where the south is anti-welfare state and anti-union, but the northeast and the coastal states are for both), so imagining it can be avoided in Nigeria is a pipe dream no matter how idealistic a party's founders might be. The trouble with Nigeria is that by the time that political message filters down to the masses, the ethnic overtones will have become so great that we're back to where we started; again, this is not unique to Nigeria - look at how the GOP elite's small-government philosophy is read by the average party member as "keep the minorities in their place" - but Nigeria's low level of average educational attainment and intense tribal identification make the problem almost impossible to manage.

In short, I don't really see any hope for what you're trying to achieve without a radical reduction in tribal identification and a major upwards shift in the average Nigerian's educational level, neither of which is likely to happen in the near future.

Based on your last paragraph, we might as well just call it a day and go our separate if we agree that nothing is really possible or it's so difficult to achieve.

The reason why our political education is at it's lowest ebb is a doing of the political class who have dis-educated the masses for their own benefit. Now people have become zombies who follow politicians all around without asking pertinent questions. Even the so called educated folks are not left out in this zombism, so it's not a factor of formal education. There are some of us that understand what is truly going on and only us can use the same tool that our granny politicians used to mis-educate the electorate. Take a look at Lagos for example. During Bola Tinubu's era and prior to it, building a make shift market was seen as an achievement or carrying out an eye test clinic for a few lagosians by the government was seen as noble in a mega city such as Lagos. That's because people didn't know better. it was not until Fashola came that he set a new precedence of prosperity and now Ambody is even beginning to topple his achievement. Do you think lagos can ever have a mediocre governor without the residents rising up? It is no more business as usual for governors in Lagos. It's work or get out. That's the same thing we're suggesting at the federal and other levels of government. Change the status quo and people's eyes will open to new and real possibilities. It will not longer be about politicians saying that they will provide water, light, hospitals but about how they intend to go about doing it.

All these things cannot be possible with the present crop pf leaders we have. Until be boot them out, we shuold not even dream of any change. Only the youths of this country can make the much needed change and the time to act is now.

holuwajobar:
it is stressful... Buh i will try

Through their WHOIS information, you'll see their hosting company. Go to their website and send them a mail reporting the issue. The hosting company will mandate them to either reference you or take down your article.

Who says Nigeria is a not a country riddled with tribal and religious jingoism. Have you noticed that apart from politicians from all over the country that are on a partisan trip with the president, most of the supporters who are jubilating and killing camels, cows and chickens because of his return are from the north and share the same religion with him.

holuwajobar:
i also sent a msg to them warning them to desist frm copied my post...

You can actually report them to their hosting company.

holuwajobar:
Even naijaloaded copied my post.. It is unbelievable... They didn't even leave a credit to my blog

Naijaloaded is very guilty of plagiarizing some of my blog content. I once sent them a mail and asked that i be referenced else i report them to google but they didn't reply. I just really didn't want to go through the stress. They would have been toast if i wanted.