₦airaland Forum

Chukwuka319:
Am unapologetic Igbo but I must be brutally honest.Anyone with insults can direct them to his or her ancestors, and generation unborn.
Why are they harassing Gowon? He spoke the truth about the civil war.
Gowon never wanted the war to break out and sought peaceful means of settlement,but Ojukwu was reckless,rash and too eager to pull Igbos out of Nigeria.
Well Gowon is still alive, healthy and bubbling in good health, while Ojukwu the war lord has long ago passed to the other Side.
And Gowon is older than Ojukwu.
Irony of life.

Your brothers are coming for you.

Ngozi123:
What exactly makes you think that Nigeria will exist beyond 2027?

Because it existed in 2021, three years ago. And the prevailing circumstances does not portray otherwise.

Now what made you think Nigeria will not exist in the next 3 years, 2027 and beyond?

Ngozi123:
You people keep talking like you know tomorrow. Do you even know if Nigeria will even exist come 2027?

There is a lesson to be learned for you people and from your comment above, it seems that you have still not grasped it yet.

I urge every Igbo person to not tell them what it is.

Nobody knows tomorrow. But we can infer from past and present times what tomorrow offers. Nigeria will exist come 2027. There are lessons to be learned by everybody. Learn yours as well.

missidy:
I will never advice my worst enemy to work in a school except the ones that pay well on the island (Green springs, Corona, etc). For the mainland, Oakwood, Pampers, Grace high school, ECT. Why should anyone be earning 30k in this country while the children in nursery school pay almost 200k as school fees. If you want to waste your youth, then work in a school. I worked in a school for 6 months and resigned. I refused to waste my youth and not even gain any experience. I stayed at home for almost a year before I got a job that put me on a career path.

It is better to sell tomatoes in front of your house than to work in a low paying private school. Some people think it gives mothers time for their children, that is a big lie. Private schools don't release their teachers until 4pm. You go to work from 7am to 4pm everyday just to earn 30k that can't even buy your toiletries and foodstuffs. All teachers should start thinking business and dump that profession. By the time nobody is applying for teaching jobs, the school owners will will be forced to pay teachers well. Teaching is a difficult job yet the least rewarded in this country.

You are right. The schedule is tight and the pay is ridiculous.

absoluteSuccess:
LOL,

Calling someone agbado for their political affiliation is on another level. However, I like fair and technical thinking wherever deployed.

I do not know why a certain set of people excel in giving other people derogatory names. But still claim they are the ones being hated. They have derogatory names for virtually all other major tribes.

Jayboi:
Don't mind that yeye boy. What does he know? Very ridiculous and he thinks he's making sense. I voted Obi during the last election. Infact till today, my wife still makes fun of me. Just two of us voted for him in my PU somewhere in Osun State. Obi even won in Lagos and the Igbos always thinks they made that possible.
All these their insults on the yorubas smirks of pure tribalism. Infact if one wants to properly analyse it, you ll know they were the most tribalistic in the last election but will keep denying it.
The more they keep pushing this Obi thing as if he's the mEssiah is starting to make me question why can't they just use their heads. Nigeria belongs to all of us. They keep saying they are marginalised because they are the third dominant tribe in Nigeria. Marginalised how? Even they in their regions won't come out and vote and even when they do, they are easily swayed by their politicians with bribes and vote buying.
How did APC even gain foot in the south East? One would wonder and yet they are marginalised.
Nigeria belongs to all of us. Wether they like it or not Tinubu is the president and but must all reject bad governance and keep the government on their toes. They must be up and doing and no room for corruption. That's the essence of this coming protest. For all I care, they can stay in their rooms and laugh and we will all see the results at the end of the day.
And just like someone said earlier, if theres another general election held today, Obi would not get as much as he got from the last election. Why? Because the sane Yorubas who voted for him then would surely have a rethink.

Apt.

I keep telling them this, they keep replying with insults claiming that one is an agbadorian claiming to vote for Obi. The support he had in the last election among the yorubas, he has lost it through their unguarded statements. The support is immense and heavily under quantified.

It is Peter Obi I pity, because he seems to be heavily investing in his political future, with the way he's maintaining a presence as opposition leader, donating here and there and maintaining a media team. I pity him as his obedients has done irreparable damage to his candidature. He'll get less votes and support in the next election. People are free to bookmark this.

The unique thing with Nigeria's political space that some people are still failing to come to terms with is that you cannot do it alone. No matter how vocal and sound you are. You need the ample support of at least 3 regions if vote sharing comes to play. But if not, you need the ample support of 4 regions to win the presidency if its a 2 horse race. Basket mouth will always damage the credibility and trustworthiness of a candidate.

sleek214:
I said it before and I will say it again. If a general election is conducted today, Peter Obi will not get one quarter of the votes he got in the last election. Everyone has seen the hypocrisy and tribalism of Obi and his kinsmen

You are right.

jude79:
Obi won the election, inec chairman gabbed, snatched and ran away with it for Tinubu, we know already, stop telling us how you steal, its a despicable habit to sane humans

INEC chairman was in all the polling stations to rig

Againstallodds:
Add peter Obi vote from rivers state where he is supposed to have 90 percent of the vote.
Add his vote in Benue state where he won 80% and add his vote in all the southwest states where Ebola rigged his way then you can see peter Obi won the election

Which SW states? I thought you people always abuse them that they all voted for Tinubu?

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar

He keeps on appointing his cronies
Tinubu's administration is a disaster

• You go appoint a Banker, Bayo Adelabu wey na monetary matter him know about all him life as Minister for Power.

Sadly, under Bayo, national grid done collapsed more than 8 times within 8 months, and Megawats don drop patapata from 2,000Mw to 450Mw. Sotey some Discos dey receive Zero Mw.

• You appoint an information (media) guru, Dele Alake as Minister of Mines. Person wey every Nigeria know say na talk him sabi talk.
Nothing dey mine nau.

• You carry a whole trillionaire wey get many companies both home and abroad, Atiku Bagudu take do Minister for Budget & Planning.
Wetin him want plan past him business and political empire.

• You appoint tax collectors and commercial bankers, Wale Edun and Yemi Cardoso as Minister of Finance and Central Bank Governor as if you know dey this country wen Obasanjo spent millions of dollars to get technocrats like Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Charles Soludo to help his government stabilize the economy and financial sector.
Kemi Adeosun and Sanusi Lamidi Sanusi also did their best under Jonathan and Buhari's government.

Meanwhile, Adams Oshiomhole warned the Senate make dem no approve appointment of commercial bankers like Cardoso to handle monetary policy of the country.

• You appoint boyfriend and girlfriend, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and Beta Edu as Minister of Interior and Humanitarian Affairs. But later sacrificed Beta for Tunji-Ojo wey the entire world know say he follow chop inside Betagate scandal.

• You still come appoint your younger brother, Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola wey fail woefully as a sitting Governor sotey him opponent defeat am take do Minister for Marine & Blue Economy.
Person wey no know anything about marine sotey the blue economy sef don turn to black economy.

Economy team or federal executive council no be for political patronage or compensation at all.

I swear, Tinubu don put everything and everybody in Nigeria for reverse.

E be like say na true you talk oh

soil4soil:
Nigeria have been sold since 1999 - 2003. BOT Build Operate and Transfer for that long period 30 - 490 years na wa ooo

And people are still saying Atiku will perform wonders.

Those their generation are evil crooks that sold the country. We need to do away with them, its sad we lost the opportunity to either have an Osinbajo or Peter Obi on the top seat.

Rossikk:
IT IS SO DISGUSTING THAT BUHARI NEVER FOUND A WAY TO RESOLVE THS MAMBILLA POWER PLANT ISSUE.

STUPID LAZY MAN.

He got the Ajaokuta own back, he tried.

Corrupt Nigerians will sign booby trap contracts against their country because of selfish interest and other people will now be blamed years after. Abeg, free Buhari.

The national assembly needs to enact a law making it a treason for civil servants to enact and sign contracts skewed against our favour with foreign companies due to vested interest. Until we start hanging people for crimes against the state, this nonsense will continue.

They'll push defective contracts for projects of high national value. The whole project will stall due to the defective nature of the contract and legal battles will then start spanning years invariably nothing is done and achieved, nothing productive came out of the process, and they will still try to extort the limited resources of the govt with legal abracadabra.

Good move. We need to cut down wasting of time

omohayek:
There was never any doubt in my mind that Atiku's plans were objectively the best of the three - he understands clearly that the Nigerian economy needs to be massively deregulated - but the question (at least as far as I was concerned) was the extent to which Atiku could be trusted to carry out his program in a fair and transparent manner, given his long record of using power to tilt deals in his own favor. That so many people harbored similar doubts as I did is no one's fault but Atiku's own, and Obasanjo's criticism of him wouldn't have stuck if there were no substance to the accusations.

In any case, Atiku's latest effort was doomed once Peter Obi announced his vanity candidacy using the LP as his latest vehicle of self-advancement, thereby taking 90% of the Igbo vote with him. Obi might as well have handed Tinubu the election on a platter, by dividing the anti-APC opposition.

Circling back to Atiku's latest statements, while I give him credit for actually making concrete proposals that can be scrutinised (unlike Obi, who sticks to worthless platitudes), the idea that Tinubu ever had the option of a managed float is pure fantasy, given how low the foreign reserves were (and still are), and how much of the FG's income was already going to debt service. Where exactly would the money to "manage" the float have come from?

The harsh reality is that any winner of the 2023 election would have been forced to make the same decisions at a similarly rapid rate, as the money simply wasn't there to keep going in the same old way. The only alternative to doing so would have been to print money at an even faster rate than Tinubu is currently doing, which would have led to inflation so high that a "mere" 30% annual rate would have seemed something to envy. The frustrating there here is that Atiku understands this quite well, but is happy to peddle lies to curry popularity with the masses. It's such dishonesty that makes it so hard for me to trust any promises Atiku makes.

Good bless you

Godfullsam:
Corruption can not fight corruption. Until we have a leader who can fight corruption head-on, we will just be beating around the bush.

The root cause of all our problems can be traced to corruption.

And that was why Buhari was voted for. Unfortunately, he could not achieve a lot in this regard.

teamoneline:
The only way to keep politicians in check is to ensure INEC is independent of political influence. Civil societies that are free from political/partisan influence (ASUU, red cross etc) should be involved in setting up INEC every election year as it is done in proper democratic countries

It's Nigerians themselves that are uniquely corrupt. Not the body INEC. Bring any body and give it any name and same result will happen.

Even the so called ASUU you mentioned, go and see the nonsense that happens during their elections.

And to correct you, its not Red Cross and bodies similar to ASUU that conducts elections in other countries. They are people nominated by the govt, its just that the quality of their people and their default level of integrity is far superior to ours.

EriMma1:
Your first time and you went in raw... I think you should worry more about HIV cos a girl who can approach you for sex must have had multiple sex partners. To even allow you do it raw means others have been doing it raw with her.

Mind you, ARV drugs are not cheap, coupled with the inflation.

Just accept your fate, whatever be the outcome.

Are ARV not free?

koning:
Large international carriers- KLM, Delta, Lufthansa, Emirates etc will NOT land there. International travelers will still go to MMA, ikeja.

He should not waste scarce public funds on that.

Get rich, private sector Nigerians to build it. It will only serve to private jets and helicopters. It's solely for local air travel.

It all depends on the design of the airport. It is only a dunce that will invest in a new international airport that cannot serve International carriers.

Infact, instead of building that new terminal at the already chaotic MMA, the FG should have used the funds to build a new Airport at another area of Lagos.

billagreen:
I'm not against more airports in Lagos but don't you think if the traffic of getting to Ikeja from Ajah is the reason for a new airport then its just a misplaced priority.
When the delay in traffic should be treated, when efforts should be made to ensure that Usable manhours are not lost on road trying to get home/work.

Island Should be for Islanders and mainland for Mainlanders, No one should be going from Ajah to Work in Ketu or From Ikorodu to work in Vi

This should be solved before new airports

Part of the solution to traffic problems is improvement in the transportation system. And an Airport is part of the transportation system!

An airport is definitely needed on the Island axis. Probably in the Epe/Ibeju Lekki area.

If this was made possible, I tell you that a good number of international passengers from Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta and others in that area will prefer to make use of this airport for International travels.

SSpeter:
Badagry will be perfect and what you said is the reason why it is best suited for Badagry. Busy Airports creates traffic and causes rapid development. Lekki axis is already busy enough. Far distance to developed area is good, Govt can easily fix the roads. Controlled development will come in handy. However, the airport will be located in Lekki due to the faulty logic of mainland has one the island should have one

So where will you suggest for the new airport? A place in Lagos that is not yet choked and will not be in conflict with the existing airport??

G00dharddick:
Meanwhile Lagos especially lekki ajah remains a dirty slum.

The joke is sanwo olu. U never do roads na airport you wan build 🤡

But they are already working on the road from Epe heading to Ajah. Even with durable concrete.

kaludestiny10:
The deputy no get respect for him principal again because the two of them no suppose attend the same function.

I've been seeing this everywhere.

Why can't both of them attend same function?

Asides from even tactical showing, he never showed any ginger to mark or retrieve lost balls. He was damn to slow and lazy on the pitch. His lethargy in this AFCON is legendary. I wonder why the coach keeps using him.

Sad sad

Like play like play

Why do I feel some expectant politicians are the ones bankrolling this report.

Dem don wait tire. Tinubu don forget them. Instead make una carry agile and strong intellect for the prime position, na Baba wey don tire una carry come. Una never see anything.

cjfavour:
CBN relocating some departments is in the interest of the nation. This sounds funny to me. How's d relocation in d interest of d nation? Why can't u defend your nonsense in peace without dragging d whole nation into it? If a south southern or south eastern become a president and relocate some departments of some parastals to south south or south east make sure u describe it as being in d interest of d nation. What an ethnic tribal sentimentalist u are!!!

Didn't Jonathan put the HQ of the NCMDB in Bayelsa

Buccalcavity2:
Just keep quiet oga. You messed up. simple!
You embraced primordial sentiments on issues that require pragmatism;hence people question your sense of judgement esp when/if trusted with executive position.
Nobody is interested in your family history. And exchange rate bla blah was not the subject!
Don't deflect.

Splendid submission.

Olachase:
them don relocate the CBN and FAAN to Lagos or not cus ayam not understanding

There's a plan to transfer some departments in CBN to Lagos. Most especially the department that is in charge of Banking supervision.

I think it is the main HQ of FAAN they want to relocate back to Lagos. The HQ was in Lagos before the Buhari regime transferred it to Abuja.

Bobloco:
He knows that immediately he plays the tribal card, he will no longer be attacked.

Honestly, the northerners knows how to deceive the south west

Some people like you have been talking about this 'deceiving of the SW people' ever since Tinubu supported Buhari to be president laughing and jesting that Buhari will never reciprocate and hand over power to the Tinubu to be president. Even despite my distaste, the outcome is glaring as Tinubu is the current president.

As an observer, I'm just curious as to what 'deceiving' you are talking about again now.

IMASTEX:
When a lion loses it's teeth & claw it quickly becomes a pet. If the Nigeria government has reacted with an airstrike. I doubt if they will ever dream of the word xenophobia let alone carrying out the act against any other Africa country.

Air strike indeed. The SAs have more capacity than us in this regard.

He spoke the truth like a real gangster. He is now a retired 419.

The best the law enforcement can do is to advise him to peacefully remain in retirement.