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If there is a country that has a worse leader than Buhari, they should sell that country to the Vietnamese. Chinese are even too advanced.

Haba!

OlaoChi:
firs of all, your writing is hardly coherent.
2nd, you sound like you have a problem with a few yoruba people you have met. Lets face it, this is pure stereotype, this whole issue of yorubas being two mouthed was started by the Igbos after losing the Biafra war, I would hate to go on to a political debate and how the igbos were wrong to think such of yorubas (it is obvious you are worse here than you are bad at History). If i was to use the ill character of the few edo people i've met, one here in the city i live just did what you accuse yorubas of to me, thereby making me lose a lot of money because i trusted his vow of committment, an edo man married to a friend was a serial adulterer, and many more. But I know better than to Hate an entire ethnicity based on my experience with a few. You would have also seen ill characters from fellow edo people.


then lemme make a comment to your delusions about Yoruba obsession with Bini. Yoruba and Bini are connected by Kingship and a long history, therefore it is only normal to make mention of Bini when talking about yoruba kingship and history, and this is vice versa. You do not talk about Bini kingship without mentioning Ife(Yoruba), so blame your ancestors for having much dealings with the Yoruba.

So far, all groups are guilty of bigotry. i have seen many bigoted statements from all corners of the country against others, Bini has not been behind in this regard.

If you were convinced by Political agents to vote for one party or individual, why should you blame them? is it their fault that they play politics well? or you do not know what soliciting for votes is all about? and In fact, I do not see you hate on the North or your former governor Oshomole for massive campaigns against Jonathan, if Politics is really your problem. You are just hateful

Thank you Mr English. You try.

Anyway, English is one of many European languages I have used as daily language since teenage years. So do not believe your writing is that great. Still, I was able to be educated by & understudy some of the very best, who won some of the most acclaimed international Prizes.

Where did your "presumed coherent Queen's English" get you? A den of cultists, a pamphlet buying & lecturer sorting glorified secondary school? I'm quite sure you will not know where to put or omit "h" before a vowel in your spoken English.

So you now accept that your people are among the bigots from many corners of Nigeria. Good.

If you people are not obsessed with Benin, why does it give you nightmares? Why did your Alake wake up one day & begin to rank Oba of Benin among Yoruba Obas?

Mid-West left Western region in 1963 when we had enough to mind our business. So mind your bloody business.

I have no problem with Yoruba people because I have learnt not to rely on them. Simple. Even the seemingly decent ones. I need nothing from them either.

Oshiomhole or anybody can join any party they like, we are not people who follow one direction like a herd of cattle. We are not fuelled by bigotry. I do not trust any politician to begin with. They can support or oppose anybody to grab power & fill their pockets.

You can accuse me of anything you like. I do not give a poo. Your opinion is worth less that rat droppings in my opinion. I only write for the sake of silent discerning readers.

All I know is that politically, water will find its level one day. Nigeria will scatter and everybody will decide who to form a new country with.

I visited Yugoslavia barely a year before war broke out there. It was a beautiful place. Disintegration seemed impossible then.

I nor blame am.

Even President don go stay for London, much more an ordinary citizen going to stay in Ghana.

Who knows if Buhari has secretly changed his name to JOHNIE WALKER in London .

The excitement this lady brought us daily through her frank talks gave presidency a very human face.

Because she was not bashing men anyhow, people will not call her a feminist. In fact she was a paragon of feminism. She spoke out frankly about things, refused to be silenced by a male-dominated political landscape.

She waded in where many would have been content to just enjoy Aso Rock and keep quiet.
With all her flaws, she was a breath of fresh air of frankness & openness in an opaque & secretive Presidency.

We saw how our current FL has been sent into the kitchen and the other room by those who fear women having their own opinion.

autojosh:
Beetle Limousine
We also have our very own Beetle Limousine, a.k.a Ijapa Limo. At all At all na i’m bad pass.. LOL.

I know you must have a lot to comment about.. but which is your favourite so far to start with?

Also like and share.

Ol' boy, where this Ijapa Limo, na real collector's item o.

Litmus:
You do realise that on some slavers record, many victims from what is now Nigeria were recorded as being fairer in complexion than victims taken from elsewhere on the African continent. When the breeding of slaves in America began to take on "aesthetic" values, those victims from eastern Nigeria were prized for their lighter skin coloring. The term Red IBO in Jamaica used for mixed raced people was derived from the incidence of fair complexioned Igbo people.

Nigeria is full of naturally light-skinned people, there are several in my family, some with grey and light blue eyes. It causes no end of grief being accused of bleaching. I wish people would know for sure before accusing people of bleaching. While there are debates to be had about the politics, fashion and health issues surrounding the Bleaching, Some people find it offensive and harassing when accused falsely.

I am not Igbo. but half of my grandad/grandma's kids were very light-skinned. One even in her 90s still looked very light-skinned. And she was not even the fairest. One was so fair with slim figure & height and full long hair that people easily mistook her for oyinbo. Were she alive, she'd be well over 100 now.

But what what do you say of darkie people that suddenly turned oyinbo with black knuckles and all?

Xbee007:
Well I am not my kinsman and he doesn't speak for me or my race, but I am sure everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. That is the beauty of democracy.

The truth is the hatred and ill-informed stereotypical comments you were making made me mistake you for an average IPOD youth. So that has guided my comments against you.
Cos, it is an average IPOD youth that wish Yoruba race is scared of Nigeria breakup when in reality they can wait for that day.
They wish the Yoruba are jealous of their progress while in reality they are not.
They wish we would treat them with discontempt when they take up business in our neighbourhood but we welcome them with open hands.
Lagos state was the first state in the whole of Nigeria to appoint Reps that don't speak the host community language.



I know u wish I wouldn't believe that The Edo Kingdom is a progressive kingdom who doesn't judge people base on the language they speak or the God they worship. SHOCKER! I DO! Because I believe that any tribe with solid link to Yoruba culture such as the Benin kingdom itself are always objective. Fact!
But u are one confused strain of Edo blood. I am sure you have been to the SW and have witnessed firsthand the wonderful nature of the Yorubas. The genuine love they showed you irrespective of the language u speak or your religion. Yet, you lots come online to say nasty stuff about Yoruba race. It is a big shame on you guys that u will bite the hand that feed you.

I can't help you with your hatred with the Yoruba race but if you continue this way it will consume you whole.

Everything I say are things I have witnessed frequently. Not made up. Sure, I have not personally dealt with the odd 40 million of your kinsmen. But of those I have dealt with, to your face all seem mostly nice. Finding out things later behind the back is very different.

Sure I know decent ones.

If I was writing this even 7 years ago, I would have called them my kinsmen. Yes, that may surprise you. Edo actually has a sizeable number of Ado-Akure people. United with Edo people not necessarily by tribe/origin but a common culture, overseen by the King.

Benin is not necessarily a tribe, it is a culture. That is why anybody immersed in Edo culture can reach most high positions even in traditional institution.
Yes some Benin people may not even know. You may have to be from a certain level of traditional society to know these things.

In Mid-West, we had no problem letting Dennis Osadebey become the first Premier. Oba Akenzua did not insist that because he led the campaign for Mid-West, a Benin person should rule.

75% of my people had Yoruba language as first language for centuries. Until the 1980s when most died. Some still alive. We straddled Eastern Yorubaland & Edo in imperial times.
All the people I learned my history from were bilingual: Benin/Yoruba. Some were born & lived half their lives in Eastern Yorubland. So no Yoruba mysticism they didn't know. All had personal reasons to be historically objective.

So when people who only ever lived a one-tribe life, with little exposure to others come to claim they know all, I just laugh.

My problem with your modern kinsmen (especially social media ones) is inability to step back and objectively see other people's point of view.
They turn up with this arrogant and condescending attitude of "we are the majority, we know it all".

Whereas the person you are talking down on might even have a better historical evidence of descending from Oduduwa, not like those claiming they are his children without any evidence of descent but maybe Igalla or Hausa originally.

I once argued here that Yoruba people should not claim Oduduwa alone. That through Benin monarchy, Oduduwa's children sit on thrones in Delta (including Anioma), Bayelsa & Rivers state. Is that the idea of somebody with a natural hatred for Yoruba people?

Naturally, it would be easier to ally with you guys, like in fact used to until I found that objectivity has no place there. Jonathan's issue put me off completely. I criticised him bitterly initially, until I saw the efforts he was making. When I tried highlighting those things, I was suddenly labelled Ipod, Tanoid. Haba! Me that has never voted or supported any party?

Yoruba people should not feel that because of modern numerical supremacy, they can afford to alienate their natural allies. And that includes the Igbos & all of SS.

Good.

But those one world stuff do not suit an average black person.

We like to exaggerate a bit. So those flawless, deafening, excruciating and so on do not sound Nigerian.

We should embrace our own.

By the way some dictionaries show Canadian, Australian, New Zealander & even South African words (albeit mostly from Afrikaans) in addition to regular American words. Even Indian.

Too ajebuttic.

However, when writing it becomes more important.

Emphasis should be on developing Pidgin, controlled by us. We cannot be imitating and playing second fiddle always.

As expected, this thread never make front page.
Chai!
Those DSS guys go don open eye for NUES tire.

Na wa.

austin2all:
WELL, THE LAST TIME I CHECKED HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A DISEASE CALLED HALE AND HEARTY.

BWT, IS IT TRUE THAT BUHARU HAS BECOME A VEGETABLE?

You just made a medical history dude. Congrats!

Henceforth the new disease "Hale & Hearty" shall be called AUSTINITIS.

With Buhari as pioneer sufferer/patient.

It depends on which vegetable you mean: garden egg, ewedu, carrots or okazi?
I will personally go with waterleaf.

The only new & positive thing here is the sentence.
I heard even primary school kids are not left out now.

Soon KG/garri school will be involved.

Ah! Buhari will not come back soon.
The excuse will be that travelling by car from Kaduna to Abuja would be too arduous. And presidential choppers are also under repair.

Excuses will just be flying left, right & centre now.

I hope they will flood that dangerous Kaduna-Abuja road with Road Safety to prevent incessant fatal accidents. I hope they have maintained the roads too.

Dyt:
Everyone saying quit job


Yes
She has admitted her mistakes
She's pleading
Still pleading
Dunno why it's hard for men to forgive sha
Not like she's still with him sef
Hian
Very selfish set of humans

Dyt, the man is very linient. As for me I would have left that house the very first time she admitted adultery.

In my culture habouring an adulterous lady is tantamount to death sentence.
Yes, I know many of you form oyinbo that these things do not happen. Those who thought so and flouted it, over 90% are not alive to even regret it. Once the man knows, he's in soup.

Girls can mess about before marriage. Once married, no more.

Before people go on about " how men do it, that is is hypocrisy", well polygamy is allowed across many cultures. Our women desirous of legal multiple pric.ks can go to parts of India where polyandry is cultural.

By the way, both my father & grandfather were not polygamous even though their culture allows it. And grandfather was even offered young women for marriage those days. He refused.

Everything is just unnecessarily frustrating in 9ja. Except politics.

It should be about imbibing competence & professionalism, to produce able people to drive economic growth. Not delaying people's progress through bureaucratic huddles. Whatever the discipline.

Considering how little of our land is properly surveyed, we need surveyors to do it. I know of QS graduates now in banking and other areas. Some not happy but need the money.

With determination & persistence, you can go very far with surveyor career.

EMANY01:
''Cheap Swipe''?
Is it not this same Economist that wrote hit piece after hit piece(ala ineffectual buffoon) against President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and deityfied Buhari so much the children of hate masturbated to and had orgasms on everyone of those articles here on Nairaland ?
Do you think we have forgotten?
It's just about two years ago come on your memory can not be that bad or can it?

Any opinion that does not glorify Buhari is caused by Ipob or Jonathan or both sef.

They will soon say Jonathan paid The Economist from "looted money" to publish this piece.

While they were in wild jubilation over every unfavorable opinion published about Jonathan, they never thought they'd be in the hot seat one day.

It has burned Buhari's bum bum so much under 21 months that he fled to UK.

tonididdy:
I JUST WANNA MAKE COMMON SENSE and hope the
govt reads this.
lastnight....i had a revelation on how to reduce hunger
and food prices in our Nation.
the answer is FREE LABOUR....thanks to prison
inmates.
the government should provide large farming lands and
flood these lands with inmates(prisoners), they will do
anything for freedom or reduced sentences.
make them FARM FOR FREEDOM .
what do u think?

Good idea but 9ja is not ripe for it.

Hardened criminals will just run into the bush & escape from there.

They can do other things. Bring factories into the prisons and train them in shoe-making and others. That way they will be easier to guard and no need moving them over long distances to farms. Prison vans can even be ambushed by daredevil criminals to rescue their friends.

babadey:
Nigerian women are synonymous to bleaching, since the year 2000.

Dude not only our women now o.

Recently saw a 50 years plus man I have not seen for about 6 months.

Ol' boy. The man skin be like Alao Akala own o.

I remember he always "highlights" how dark somebody is. That's anybody even slightly darker than himself.

Even his wife that was already fair now looks like ripe banana.

Haba! At that age?

I was just ashamed for them.

I used to think 9ja being rated as world champion in bleaching was exaggerated. But from what I have seen in past few years, I think it's spot on.

IMASTEX:
It is only in the political cycle someone appointed/elected abandon his duty post without any good reason yet not sacked. "he isn't sick, yet not on duty and he isn't fired". Nija got a long way

Correction:

Only in the politics of backward countries it is allowed.

Responsible and progressive countries never do so. Going abroad for treatment is unheard of. Let alone abdicating duty and hibernating abroad.

And all that while being "hale & hearty" according to APC.

queencalipso:
Buhari should resign honourably and save what is left of his supposed intergrity.

Buhari must not resign o.

Which integrity? The propaganda one they were misyarning?

Those who out of envy raised bigotry and propaganda to a new sickening level should not benefit from the providence of Jonathan.

In fact I want Bubu to live to over 100 years and remove term limit on presidency.

You cannot hypocritically praise someone to high heavens and suddenly want him to resign. Not saying you as a person did or not.
If you (Nigeria) hand over your destiny to a man in his 70s, should you not expect that he will be sick, in a country where life expectancy is 52 years?

Those who want him dead purposely to take his position shall never succeed. They should be careful not to die before him.

alatbaba1:
I am something., 2019 I will vote for buhari.. WHAT AM I?

An irredeemable zombie.

Recession biting even goats.

Nor be who don chop go see throway for goat to chop.

Even his beloved cows will soon revolt against Buhari.

Horlaidex:
About to type RIP, sorry... may ur soul never Rest In Peace.

Fact is after death, judgement is only God's.

He has already paid for his sins, assuming he's the real baddie they have been looking for.
Because in Nigeria the more you look, the less you see.

When the foundation is faulty, and sometimes bad friends play their role, it happens like this.

Wealth, good looks and all that vanity may not be enough to sustain love.

Very good.

He won't be worse than what we have there now, So why not?

Xbee007:
U are just manufacturing claims I didn't make. Just digressing aimlessly like a kayyack lost in the storm. I have been to the north and I have witnessed first hand what ignorance can do to the human mind. There was no where that I mentioned education is not vital in my comments even though u wished I did. But the reality is the north are not gonna change overnight. That is the fact!

The well travelled (informed) ones among you know that TRIBALISM and BIGOTRY is as ALIEN to the Yoruba race as HATRED and BITTERNESS is as deeply rooted in your culture.
The world knows quality education, which most Nigerians lack, is most crucial to the development of a country and I don't dispute that. However, the bitter truth is Nigeria has digress from the straight path hence the current situation we are in. As long as Nigeria remain one we will be in this together till the time we go our separate ways.
It is therefore crucial that Nigeria deal with the issue of insecurity, education, health amongst others simultaneously.
Therefore, the defence hardwares procures is justified.

I am not surprised by your justification.

A well-ravelled & educated kinsman of your was defending Buhari's coup of 1983 thus: Yes that coup was justified because there was corruption." And he was probably a baby then. In his mind, corruption justifies coup. Then it means that every regime since 1960 deserved to be overthrown.
He forgot that all systems in history were corrupt in the beginning. But corrected and balanced the errors over many decades & centuries largely democratically, not through incessant coups.

In my place, a non-indigene (an Urhobo heritage person) is the current (2017) non-hereditary Traditional Prime Minister (Iyase), who is next in power to the Oba and in ancient times he was the head of government, and most senior representative of the masses before the King. Even an Izon, and two Ado-Akure people have filled that role in the last 250 years. So which culture with bitterness & hatred appoints non-indigenes as the most powerful govt official, and that since many centuries?

All that was to get an experienced, accomplished & well travelled person without ties to the local powerful nobility, so that he can fearlessly & dispassionately represent the common man, instead of the nobility. Without fear or favour. Does that look like the way of bigoted & tribalistic people?

Cross-check all the facts mentioned above. If you want I can even direct you to the palace and get your info right from the source. But as it is typical of you lot that have no interest in the truth but just to keep defending even the most useless and ignorant position, you will sooner dismiss it as completely made up instead of taking the pain to cross-check.

So once again, your ignorance of other people has exposed you again. The sooner you accept that assumption of knowing it all means that you lot are too ignorant to learn, the sooner you can correct your ways. .

An intelligent person is one who wakes up everyday and assumes that he knows nothing and be hungry for knowledge afresh. Not even degrees or education can replace that. One who doesn't wake up hungry for knowledge has already set a limit to what he can learn in life.

Pablo212:
I knw say for this 9ja, one person dey wey get money pass Bill gates on the low... 47 Cars.. Jayz no get 47 cars.

Mrs Abacha once said her family will never be as poor as Dangote. We thought she was joking.
There will be many with more cars and houses.

There were some bankers who oversee destruction of old Naira currency. One of the ladies among them has hotels, schools and mansions all over the place. The case was in Ibadan about two years back.

90% of Nigerians would do same or worse given a similar chance. They do it now in their workplaces. Most currently live above their means on embezzled money, bribery, inflated costs or other form of financial fiddling in office. The few honest ones toil life long with little to show for it. So forget the hypocrisy.
Without death sentence or life in jail, it will not change.

EFFC should be fully independent, headed by a no nonsense foreign Commonwealth Citizen like an Australian, Canadian or New Zealander. Yes it means admitting we are not capable of doing it ourselves, and that is the truth.

The foreigner will have no political, religious, ethnic or tribal ties with nobody. No Oba or Emir or "Nigerian big man" can influence or intimidate him.
But as we all know, nobody in Nigeria really wants that because almost everybody will be going to jail.

Mutuwa:
There is always wisdom when you love the girl that you marry than to marry the girl you love.

Well, it is either you love a person or you don't. What happens if you manage to love & the love runs out? It actually does sometimes you know. Do not buy into that Hollywood idea of love and happy ever after. It is hard work sustaining love, with kids, career, different kinds of pressures, etc.

These days that many people rely on their head than heart when seeking a spouse, knowing who loves you genuinely is becoming rocket science.

Our ancestors were much wiser. Love was a matchmaking process (and you have the choice of refusing some matches). It might not be very romantic but it worked. It was about duty, commitment and dedication. Something many couples cannot achieve these days. Many frown upon it but they stay single for ages, and most eventually do not even get to marry the man/woman they dreamed of and waited for, for so long.

Favor99:
When you say Igbo in that, are you referring to the southeast Igbos or the Delta Igbos or both?
Are you referring to Igbos in the 5 SE states or just Delta or are you referring to both?

Igbo. Is there any difference?

Well, most Igbo I grew up with were from Anambra & Imo States that existed then.

But truth be told, growing up we considered what is now Delta Igbo (no Delta State then) as just Bendelites like anybody else.
In my early days abroad, SE Igbo people used to direct Anioma people with something like "your brother lives down the road, maybe he can help you". Amazing how things change within just a few decades. Especially with politicisation of ethnicity.

Who still worries about his woman cheating? In this life that when one reaches 90, it is considered long life these days.

Abeg just do paternity test, codedly if possible. Toto is meant to be flogged and only a woman decides who & how many people can flog, married or not. So why bother?

Once your kids are indeed yours (because well over 30% of first born kids belong to another dude & and over 25% of all kids belong to another dude outside), you're safe. In all those poor face-me-I-kick you inner city life, it could be more.

The local pastor or alhaji with a flashy car around could easily be fathering lots of the area kids in hotels all around. Like we only get to see in newspapers' catchy headlines when a married woman dies during "marathon sex" (I wonder why not Olympic sex ) with lover in an hotel. Or married woman in soup after her lover dies during marathon sex (yet again) in an hotel.

Do not be like a wealthy relative who frequently travelling abroad relative who later found out all his kids were not his. Where it not for kids from a previous marriage, he would have left no kid behind when he died suddenly, soon after discovering the betrayal.

Cheating cuts across tribes, religions & status.

OlaoChi:
It is rather unfortunate that you have so much unjustified hatred for an entire ethnic nation
Now I see the reason for the foolishness you displayed on the other thread

You bring hatred upon yourself with your envy and bigoted but failed attempt to denigrate others.
That you always displayed foolishness, bigotry, obsession with Benin matters is obvious from your use of fellow bigoted writers for manufacture history.

Is it not true that you guys speak from both corners of your mouth and your yes can never be considered yes after two seconds?

Even some of your fellow tribespeople lament about that very distasteful their people in real life. Regularly in fact. They are surprised by the reliability and stability of other people. I have experienced enough of he turncoat behavior to last me a life time.

That is why if a person from my places says he likes you, he does. If he says next time you mess up, you will regret your life, do not challenge him to the contrary. Just go your way quietly.

You propagate hate & you no carpet hate and you now turn round and complain about same. Interesting.

If you only come here to brag and shout as you do in real life, just know that I am not.

Let me tell you something: I almost got deceived by your people into hating Jonathan. You people were using control of media to demonize Jonathan & Niger Delta people. Until I got home & saw all the changes that was on ground.

Even with overwhelming facts, better economy, better electricity, booming agric (many young people took up modern farming with Jonathan's encouragement) new Fed universities, hundreds Almajiri schools and more, you lot continued your bigoted vitriol. You guess survive on bigotry, so do not complain. My eyes opened from there.

Xbee007:
Have you ever for once, in the middle of your hatred, paused to ask yourself these questions.
Why do investors run away from the SS and SE?
Why do rich indigenes of ur region fear to go back home.
INSECURITY! Simple. With all the potential in Nigeria, every one run away from it. (I am not blaming your kidnappers brothers, human traffickers sisters or drug pusher relation of yours for destroying the country's image). I blame our security officials for not being proactive enough and the FG for not buying enough security apparatus to catch POTENTIAL INDONESIAN FIREWOODS.

Have you asked yourself if Calabar had remained Federal capital & oil money had been used to develop Calabar instead of Lagos, that Calabar would be the commercial centre & attract more people? Or if Ikot had been chosen & developed with oil money as a new Fed capital instead of Suleja turned Abuja, that all the three arms zone, ministries, foreign embassies and more would be in Ikot?

I know you're a very slow bigot but I will help you. People go where the population and consumer strength is. It is global, but how can you know that?

Anyway, Innoson operates in the East, so are Aba shoemakers and more.

Since you want me to be Igbo, I will gladly be an honorary Igbo. If that's the only thing that gives you orgasm.

Xbee007:
I don't blame you anyway.
It something so simple yet so complex for an OSU to comprehend. Defence spending and health spending are on different side of the divide. An unsafe country can never have time for health issue. Safety comes first then other follows.
If u can just stop hating for one second u will undestand, but if you can't it is your cross u just have to bear it.

So anyone who disagrees with you is an osu.

Your people are the most ignorant in Nigeria. They would have been better informed due to education but tribalism and bigotry did not allow it. I see them everywhere, they brag & talk loudly but have little knowledge of Nigeria generally. Hence everybody not licking Fulani ass with them is an Osu.

So you mean you want to defend dead & dying people? To what end? In their graves? You're are slower than I thought. A country where life expectancy is a mere 52 years.

So it never occured to you that Boko Haram got a fertile recruitment ground because of illiteracy, poverty & desperation caused by mostly Northern leaders who have ruled for almost 40 years? Now I can see why Jonathan's hundreds of Almajiri schools & Fed universities all over the place is never mentioned. Because your masters loathe educating the masses.

But what can one really expect from a product of a failed education system where lecturer sorting, pamphlet buying & secret societies hold sway?