₦airaland Forum

speedyboi: I'm so happy that these kinds of thread are springing up!!!! I can now believe nigeria is on the verge of changing.....I like the fact that some people out there are not shifting blames anymore!

If we continue to shift blames on the govt no change will happen cos there is obviously no government official, busy business men, professionals who visits nairaland (if there is, atleast it won't be often)....we have been making noise since, we are now beginning to see the problem.

The majority of people on this forum are the people, so I feel the purpose of the forum should be enlightenment of people on what they are failing to do on their path (thereby paving way for leaders) and the need to be accountable- I can now say this forum is now achieving the main aim.....
Once again, to the guys blaming 'ourselves'.........I luv you , and I'm proudda you! :-o


[size=16pt] I'm happy the Naija mentality is fading out little by little!!![/size]

I am 100% sure that all our corrupt "leaders" will be very happy to read your post. And they would also agree with you. nice one!

Kobojunkie: Dissect it whichever way you choose, but at the core is the fact that this is now a Democracy, and in a Democracy, if there is a problem it is with the leaders, and who are the leaders in a Democracy? THE PEOPLE!!

Kobo, I see you are adding to the confusion here. you need to see the picture from a different perspective.

iykak47: If is that what you call sense, i sympathize with you.

I think you should sympathize for yourself, by the way what is your contribution to this topic?

lonelypal: ...And the bottomline of this whole debate : NIGERIANS BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE NUF SAID

How do you think this change will happen, do a community or country change by itself without any form of leadership?

iykak47: Your post does not make sense, is your brain on a reverse position?

Do you think you are making sense? Ballabriggs is on point here.

koruji: This is complete upside down. If we have to do personal stuff before government lives up to its responsibilities why do we need a government before we can accomplish this personal chores.

The real issue is that many of the things that we need to do in our personal life depend on a government meeting its responsibilities FIRST.

I agree with you koruji, it's sad to see that there are peeps that don't understand the basics of an ideal societal construct.

NTA should get funds from the private sector because the government funds are inadequate. I agree with lilyeean, the news theme song should be changed, it sucks. They should also stop the use of compositing techniques in their news studio, it's horrible. This is how a proper news room looks like, no blue screen compositing.

OBJ is right they are all armed robbers.

Funny people. From Yoruba to Igbo and now to Ibibio. These camel fckers are trying their hardest to paint boko haram as "not a Northern but a Nigerian thing" with their cooked up stories.

Na so me I see am too.

Sweetlemon: Why should I remove that part when its part of main gist of msg? We cannot and will not thrive with the nauseating level of tribalism in us and that is the truth. Please think about it.

Is this directed at bokoharam? Your main post I mean.

Sweetlemon: I understand why there is so much anger and hate every where now. It is very understandable. But please, I appeal to us to take a deep breath, release, then count 1-10 or 1-20 if you are REALLY angry. Then please read what I right here with an open mind. Please I beg you.
Yes! Nigeria is in a hot mess and in critical situation. Yes we have lost our minds such that some of us are now calling for war without even considering the effects of war. Someone rightly said here that 90% of the people calling for war have never witnessed war in their lives and so have no idea what war is. They naively believe that "sharpening their knives and cutlassses" and "loading their guns" will save them from the pathetically, devastatingly, hearbreaking blows of what a war can bring. Perharps these people do not have children to consider? perharps they do not know that even their children could be taken from them, molested, or used to fight the war that will give them them their cherised "Biafran", "Odua" or "Arewa" dream? Perharps these people also do not realize the possiblity of having all their sacrifices go to waste when if they eventually get the country of their dreams only to find out that they will be back to square one all over again when their Biafran, Arewa, and Odua leaders continue to treat them the same way or worse than while still under Nigera! I'm sure we will be happy then. Or maybe our pride will not allow us admit that we have been too blind and foolish to see past our arrogant noses to see the real problem. Perharps then it might become too late for us to see that we should have fought the real problem instead of allowing it turn us against each other. Perharps we might be too proud to see that our real problem lies in us.
What am I trying to say?
We Nigerians, are a bunch of egoistc people who find it difficult to accept the truth and that is why our beloved country is crashing before our very eyes! Let us first lear to love our neighbours. lets learn to accept others regardless of tribe and religion. [s]Look at America, they have tribal, racial, religious, and even national (there are Asian Ameicans, African Americans, European Americans, etc.) differences but when was the last time you heard them them screaming, "You this Afican American!" or that "European American"? when last did you hear a white man say he cannot live in the same area with a black man? And even when you hear cases of racism, do you hear all the blacks or all the whites screaming "lets sharpen our cutlasses"? do you hear their muslims calling their Jews or christians "infidels"?[/s]
Nigerians!!! cant you see? can we not see that our greedy leaders are the ones turning us against each other? Is it not these same leaders that will still rule Biafra, Odua and Arewa? cant we see that while we are busy attacking aand retaliating attacks, they are busy feeding themselves fat in our kitchen while throwing the bones at us as more incentives for us to keep fighting each other? can't we see that these fights are distractions to take our eyes off them so they can keep clearing our kitchen?
Please think, think about it. I know it's quite hard but just try to see that two wrongs can never and will never make a right. And while you are still thinking this over, ask yourself how many war-broken countries are thrieving today.
Please can this be put on the front page? Thank you.

Ok I see but remove that part that I stroked out.

engineerd: This is what they should have been doing in the first instance, rather than killing innocent civilians. They should direct their aggression towards the Looters in power!

Well common sense is not that common in naija.

LeoMax: WE KEEP RUNNING AWAY FROM THE OBVIOUS TRUTH: NIGER-DELTA OIL ALONE CAN NOT SUSTAIN THIS GROWING POPULATION FOR EVER. LET THERE BE A BLUEPRINT FOR STATES TO GENERATE OTHER RESOURCES AND HELP THEMSELVES SO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN USE TAXABLE RESOURCE FINANCES TO SOLVE INFRASTRUCTURAL PROBLEMS. I REPEAT, NIGER-DELTA OIL MONEY WILL NOT BE ENOUGH ANYMORE

Your shouting is by default in vain, for nothing will change. The Nigerian government is daft.

I don't want to be in GEJ shoes right now. If one has no confidence in his boss isn't it better to resign?

ayox2003: *checks the topic of the thread, sees "Industrialisation will..," remembers "My administration will", "We will", "the govt will", " the power sector will".... And blames myself for wasting 3mins of my life writing this comment*

linsa01: the i.d.i.o.t old dude has just confirmed the origin of boko-PDP. May God punish all his generation. Who caused them the hunger? No be their leaders like him? Why must innocent souls suffer for their leaders failure to put food on their table? I'm boiling right now. Awon olori buruku, ole, alai lanu.

I thought I'am the only one mad at this. This old fukker should please do us all a favor and resign.

In the mind of a baboon injustice = justice.

PDP is indeed a party of/for demons. How can a sane person say that the killing of innocent men, women and children is fighting for justice.

wyt: it sickens me when i hear some peeps here say, Aziza said pdp is a boko haram, i read the statment, Azazi's statement mean that undemocratic by-law in pdp's constitution is causing insecurity. that of cause indicts IBB, Chiroma and Atiku!

Only mumus see it differently.

I have been trying to keep this back but I just have to say it. Buhari is insane.(I never misdiagnose a psychopath)

This is what I hate about Nigeria, our so called leaders are the problem. For them, it is either their way or blood, lots of blood. why can't they find a constructive way of solving our problems?

I must say the proposed introduction of rubber bullets is a very good idea.

dabrake: oga, rubber bullet go kill person jooh. no be 9ja hospital dem go carry you go?

Very sad indeed.

KINGwax: Nice move, but let's see it these ways,
1. Since i knw d police dnt have a real bullet, i can be ready for trouble anytime including resisting arrest.
2. If police dnt have, mayb the armed robbers will be more happy
3. As i police, knwin i dnt have a real bullet, i can fire at will to any part of a body. An effect which will be dizziness or being hospitalized.
4. Without real bullets, nigeria is doomed, and with real bullets too, we're dead! Either-way, we're finished

The implication of this new development is that: by default armed robbers will also use rubber bullets.

porka: Sir, what about Somalia?

Somalia is liken to Shite and Sunni Muslims fighting each other. there is no homogeneity there.

@topic, I will tell him "Dad" to respect himself and also to "my babe" not to Bleep-up, simple. I agree there are many OBJ like papas out there.

shymmex: Not all the tribes there, stop making things up.

The Itsekiris, Ilajes, and olukunmi are YORUBOID!!

Remove Itsekiris from that list. they may speak yoruba but they have edo blood in their veins. another edo tribe that speak yoruba are the Usen peeps.

Beaf: You could be right in that case. Perhaps Eweka brought it with him. But have you cleared that with people who a deeply steeped in ancient spoken Yoruba?
There is always the possibility that the name is neither of Edo nor Yoruba origins. It could even be Nupe or something.

The interesting thing about the word Oba in Benin is that, almost every word has Oba in it.
Opkioba=man
ohuoba=women

Obowie= good morning
Obavan= good afternoon

etc.

PhysicsQED: With these titles one can usually find a root meaning that explains it though.

In the case of Edo you have ogie which means prominent/exalted/honored and it comes to designate a chief, acquiring a second important meaning.

In the case of Oba for Yoruba the root meaning is possibly father or it's something similar to the case above.

Why do you think that Yorubas have other titles like alaafin, ooni and Olu?

Beaf: Its funny that as well as I know Benin that coincidence never occured to me! I guess the origins of the word in Isoko and Urhobo is plain to see now. Lol!

Nice one, But seriously the implication of this is that, at the reign of Oghene, the Isokos, Urhobos and edos were one people.

PhysicsQED: For linguistic reasons it's safe to assume it's Yoruba. That's my view although I can't make you agree. What I found strange is that the word for a chain like object or pattern in Edo is oba but with the o pronounced different from the o in Oba meaning king. At most I think oba would mean a chain like marking or pattern in Edo if the o is pronounced different.

I understand what you mean, But even if the word Oba is a Yoruba one, I think Eweka was the first Oba, cos oranmiyan did not have a son before eweka. or am I wrong?

Beaf lol, and thanks for the images.