₦airaland Forum

Oksman:
I am not in support of his offence but I must say you are a Hypocrite, how many officers from the north have been treated as such?
Is he only corrupt one among them and why use a Yoruba general for the trial? I doubt if you followed this issue from the beginning.

Here's a perfect case of Whataboutism.

Coldie:
Goodluck to them, but seriously all these Nigerian billionaires wetin una dae use una money do, if not for oil and politics is their nothing else in your heads, u can't imagine the billions leaving Nigeria as a result of this foreign companies.

Even our least telecoms Glo is Africa's least competitive and Nigeria's most useless network.

If our politicians stealing our money can be investing it in Nigeria instead if using it this go and buy shares in companies overseas and in foreign bank by now Nigeria for don better

You're quite right. However, you may not be able to appreciate the depth of resolve required to develop an infrastructure business in Nigeria. The frustrations are daunting. Low hanging fruits (Oil businesses) provide easier alternatives. There's no valor in making life harder for one. Except you're maybe an Elon musk.

edoairways:
You want to compete in a saturated market? I pity una

people have done it though.

See Illiad (free mobile) in France.

Hypocrit:
No good news again all we now hear is: Rape Slaughter black lives matter Covid419 political 419ers ... i am tired already.

Hahahaha!
You probably shouldn't tie your social sanity to the news.
Consider reading the short free book "Avoid the news" by Rolf Dobelli.

wallex1983:
It appears every politician in Nigeria has a questionable history. You are only a Saint as long as you are in the right books of the powers that be


As soon as they turn their back at you, they open your books.

They have finished him politically of this is true.

Not only that.

The average Nigerian is Incompetent and usually lacks integrity. Politicians are Nigerians.

Of Course there are exceptions. But those are few and far between. Even I as a Nigerian try to check myself daily to regularly rid myself of these "Nigerian" tendencies.

oyejideogunjumo:
MARRIED LIFE FAR BETTER.JUST PRAY TO GET THE RIGHT PARTNER.AT A POINT IN LIFE YOU NEED A COMPANON ESPECIALLY AT RETIREMENT OR OLD AGE.ASIDE YOU NEED CHILDREN FOR CONTINUITY.YOU ALSO NEED THEM AT OLD AGE

While right, Your points assumes that nothing happens to your partner at "Old age" and that your Children are forthcoming in assisting you (morally & financially) then too (a phenomenon that's gradually disappearing).

To be fair though, with Money, All the challenges you've raised can be eased.

Davash222:
Oshiomhole tried this nonsense with Rochas pre 2019 election. He refused Rochas in-law from becoming the Party's flag bearer. Rochas, legit handed over the state to PDP and move to Senate house.
Tyrant Buhari intervened by using Supreme Court to bring Hope back.

Obaseki shouldn't go the way of Ambode. We make war to live in peace.

Hahahahaha!

Did buhari also intervene by "bringing in" The Bayelsa State governor with the Supreme Court too?
Or your logic of Buhari controlling the Supreme court works when you want it to work?

I am not in Support of this administration but make your criticisms consistent.

ademidedavid:
To be a military personnel is a very serious task, civilians sees you as a bully, the enemies (boko haram and the others) see you as enemy and yet, the country has no plan and compensation for you and your family members......one of my happiest day was the day my 63NA Father retired......
Rip to the dead

Are you kidding me ?
Civilians see you as a bully?
Most policemen are bullies. Should we argue that too?
(Didn't say all).

Sad what Happened to these guys.
On the positive though, spiritually knowing one was about to be killed affords you the opportunity to immediately reconcile with God. Still a sad event.


God help us.

Righteousness89:
Obiwon of those days, The obimo crooner!

I Remember at a time , I got confused with His music
Today he is a Secular Musician, Tomorrow he is Gospel musician.

Happy Birthday Brother!

He is actually a gospel artiste.

ajl:
Population growth is not the problem but poor management and distribution of resources is main issue with Nigeria. Huge population demand that they are productive and add value to the economy. Go ask China how they are able to do this. Of course, there is some point legal population control is needed especially when economy growth rate is not meeting rate of population growth. China did this, and once it was out of the wood it stopped pursuing the one child per family policy as seriously as before.

China is no promise land. They've been successful in bringing many out of poverty but even they had to slow population growth too (One child policy?).

The bottom 200m+ Chinese people are very likely poorer than our bottom 200m people.
I.e. There are more poor there than here. Probably seek a better example.

We know that mismanagement/Leadership incompetence is an issue but even when that is solved we still have to soft pedal on the growth.

Show me a developed Western nation (you admire) with a Population growth like ours.

ednut1:
like he said more people less resources now. If the present Nigeria had 1/4 of its current population it would have been ok. But we keep fucking and giving birth

Unbridled population growth is the ache most Nigerians never talk about. It's rarely considered a pain point.
The economy is clearly not expanding at the rate of population growth. This resource Competition is our daily challenge (of course besides Corruption).

olaboy33:
I wonder why dangote will need 270 workers from India alone in a country of over 100 million available work force.

It's not untrue that our educational system is not in order, but adequate training will fill the gap.

Use Nigeria, grow Nigeria.

We'll remain committed.

Boye2023

Nigerians can do the job but the nature of this job would require some form of training.

So essentially, the Nigerians (besides those for show) are not Job ready. These guys are. Or near ready.
Perhaps they just left a similar project prior to going to Nigeria on this project. Or they had relevant training.

The nature of Competition abounding in a Country of > 1bn people would normally exceed that of Nigeria where the average application expect to be trained for the job at hand.

Capitalism preys (when not being seen).

michlins:
Some people have highjacked this guy's death to score political points yes.

But if after watching everything and you still think that racism is something to play with,then I don't know what happened to your sense of reason. The blacks really want to send a message that they can't tolerate the hate and discrimination anymore.

Racism is bad.
The US is Imperfect.
The American Police have clearly shown flaws in their actions.

However, The US is not absolutely(perhaps it is relatively) the Worse place in the World for the black man. The worse place for the Blackman is here in Africa.

I as a Nigerian have never experienced racism before. But I have clearly seen other similarly bad prejudices here in my Country.

50shot:
Parents you need to do more concerning your children you shouldn't spare the rod on them if not the children won't spare you from hypertension.

Train up your child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it..

True. But there are no guarantees though. A child who'll stray will stray. The Child makes the decision ultimately.

jakD:
There should be no mercy for armed robbers. Those guys are murderous.

They are not murderous. They are literally Murderers.
God help us.

Davash222:
These two are the major problems we have in this country.

Really ? I had though it was the Late Abba Kyari.

Who exactly is the main problem then? I say it is every Corrupt Nigeria in high & low places.

Smartypant:
Look, I know that you guys enjoy licking Trumps stinking ass simply because of RELIGION, but the rest of the world knows that in the US , the Police will kill you in a jiffy for any slight offence. That's why you have protests in London, Berlin, Milan, Dublin and so many more. If you don't know that by now, sorry I can't help you. It's only the brainwashed Nigerian religious ZOMBIES that are still supporting TRAMP. Even many Republicans are now lining up against him.

Informative and educational links for you-

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/george-w-bush-calls-george-230818452.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/australian-camera-crew-attacked-police-100253005.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-floyd-racism-protests-193534241.html
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/german-foreign-minister-trump-is-pouring-oil-on-the-fire-with-threat-to-deploy-us-military-103722548.html
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/former-tennis-star-still-shaken-encounter-cop-15-200857622--ten.html
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article243193666.html

BTW, is Duterte and Trump not in the same camp of DELUSIONAL NARCISSISTIC LEADERS?

BYE BYE

I don't support trump. I can't even if i tried. Im not an American Citizen.

The problem is, you claimed (pointing to Vox statistics) that America has the worse Extrajudicial Murder rates in the World. I faulted that claim by referring you duterte's Philippines now you want to claim they are all in the same "camp".

Any black (who by the way I know the US police have profiled and demeaned in the past ) who thinks the US is the Worse place in the World (like you claim) for a black person should feel free to head down to Africa.
That's all I said.

Cheers.

Really sad a young person dying.

Interesting that a blogger's family are requesting for privacy (which I totally support) but bloggers (don't know about her) rarely extend that favour themselves (privacy of others).

Smartypant:
Statistics shows that the US police have a higher rate of killing innocent people than most Police forces in the WORLD.
US Police kills and average of 3 people on daily basis and most are NEVER CHARGED.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/george-floyd-death-police-violence-in-the-us-in-4-charts.html

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938170/us-police-shootings-gun-violence-homicides

You are able to find this because the Americans (while not perfect) are still the most forthcoming in terms of Statistics of these kinds of social issues today.

To quash your statistics about the US being the world's worse kindly research about Duterte extra judicial "War on drugs" in the Philippines and the attendant police killings there.

Again I dare you to refer us to similar convincing statistics here in Nigeria. Ours is messed up.

Smartypant:
In regards to Police relations, Nigeria is better. Nigerian police mostly wants money from you. If they should shoot and kill anyone, the chances are that they will be arrested and prosecuted right away.
The problem in the US is that the police will kill an unarmed black person and still claim they have done nothing wrong. Not only that, the Police Union will claim the officer didn't do anything wrong even when the whole world can see that the police is in the wrong. The city mayor and the prosecutor will also defend the police officers no matter how bad they behaved.
To make the matter worse, even when the are arrested and charged, the usually ALL WHITE JURY will eventually find them not guilty.

All of you supporting Trump, don't understand the history of Police brutality. It's not about one case, it's about a systemic institutionalized oppressive methodology that has been in place for DECADES. This is just the straw that broke the camel's back .

Trump is just making it worse with his open racist attitudes, unfortunately some Nigerians are more concerned about religion than their own race.

Maybe you meant Niger Police. Certainly not Nigerian police. Those who think they are better have had little dealings with them. I pray you don't. You'll recant this statement.
What happened in America is terrible but that doesn't make ours better. While the US isn't perfect, Blacks heralded a "Year of return" movement to Africa right. They probably should come and see worse.

UjuJoan2:
I think I would have. But that's just me!

Wow!

UjuJoan2:
I think you have to know me personally to truly understand what I mean. I am 100% committed to my marriage if that's what you are asking. But I'm also not one of those I-must-stay-married-even-if-it-kills-me type.

I don't lash out at my husband, if anything he makes marriage more bearable for me. I knew I had no choice but to get married if I wanted to have kids, and I love love love kids.

But I also love my solitude. I've lived alone for like forever and I think I got too used to being alone, being free, being independent.

Children are not the Central reason for marriage though.

Would you have deemed your marriage unsuccessful if (God forbid) you failed to have children after a long while?

catfrog10:
If you want to do business, you should have decided earlier in your life. Igbo men decide this very early as young as 15 and they don't turn back or care what anybody will say. They stick to it and until they make it or don't make it. But trying to switch to business in your 30s or 40s, it won't be easy oh. Side business okay but fulltime, make sure you do your homework well well. Business is a profession

You are right. Except that Igbos don't really "decide" on Businesses earlier on in life (i.e. most of the time). in many cases it's Circumstancial.

Typically young people from poor backgrounds are attached to "masters" as apprentices. Some of these young chaps wouldn't have toed that line if their parents had the means. They probably would have gone to school much longer.
People don't launch businesses in their 30s/40s due to fears and risk averseness. Usually stemming from tight budgets and Suppressed curiosity. I see daily how the Nigerian society conditions us to live above our means almost without thinking about it. This single habit alone cause a lot of us not to have any/little savings up to our late 40s (since most our Salaries aren't that much to start with).
Little savings means little room to try "something" else(other than a 9-5) and this almost certainly seals our entrepreneurial fate till, well, death.

panafrican:
They already did the same thing before African kings centuries ago , and ended up colonizing the continent. Wake up folk!

True. But that was decades before we were born.

As a Nigerian in Nigeria I have yet to suffer racism BUT I suffer Tribalism/Nepotism and favouritism daily. Is this any different from racism. I am not talking of our ancestors type racism. I am talking about the kinds black suffer in the west.

Racism (though very terrible) is a scapegoat. All forms of prejudices exist unabated in Nigeria today.
Funnily even those who perpetuate these prejudices here are offended by racism but they are just as bad.

Amanee:
Who remembers this man?

Aroma Ufodike, from Nnewi, Anambra State, who appeared on the popular TV Show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Nigeria” on September 11, 2009, and won 10 million naira. He was the first and only person to win the top prize in Nigeria, I think.

He got all the questions without using any life line.

When he was on the last question, he said “I want to use my 'phone a friend' option to call my family at home that I’m about to win 10million Naira.”

My thoughts also go to the intellectually balanced Frank Edoho

Where is Gulder Ultimate Search? �

These are the type of programs we need to see on air not the extremely immoral Big Brother Nigeria.

This is worth celebrating indeed, but I'm not trying to shame BBNaija either.. I'm just saying..

I wish these intellectually stimulating TV programmes could return back to our homes. #GodBlessNigeria

Not exactly true.

Aroma Ufodike used his 50:50 lifeline in the question that gave him N5m. He also used phone a friend.
He definitely wasn't always sure too. Nonetheless, he is a brilliant individual. You don't have to stretch it. The fellow you are probably describing is America's John Carpenter.

Yankee101:
It's more about independence than corruption

If it is more about Independence than Corruption, why allow European/North American Countries hold Shares and Participate in the AFDB.

You can't have people's Money and not expect to hear from them.

liberalchick:
No, I didn’t marry the wrong person. I am just being realistic, living with someone for the rest of your life will not always be romantic and easy. There are different stages in marriages where it’s excellent, good, bad, sometimes ugly and then neutral.

Also, when people say their marriage is easy, sometimes it’s one sided, they are probably oblivious of their partner’s sacrifice to make the marriage an easy one for them.

This is one of the most profound submissions of a married person I have seen.
"They are oblivious of their partner's sacrifice" AKA COMPROMISE.

Very true.
The moment that partner is incapable of such sacrifices /Compromises, we then see the true picture of the previously pristine relationship.
God help us.

festacman:
Having read Akinwumi Adesina's responses to each allegation made against him during first probe that cleared him, I am confident that he has nothing to fear on the part of integrity but I am not sure about the part of international politics. Imagine being accused of bribing President of ECOWAS countries in order to secure his 2nd term. But again, what do you expect when US, UK, Japan and likes have more investment stakes in Africa's developmental bank than the African countries themselves.

My deduction from from US call for independent probe is that US and Western stakeholders are profiling Akinwumi Adesina as a Nigerian from the prism of corruption.

Retaining Akinwumi Adesina as head of AfDB is a test for African Presidents to assert themselves. All eyes are on them.

Not really so in my opinion.

The US even investgated its presidency last year.
I really don't know Adesina and would like to believe he is innocent BUT no one's beyond investigation. Moreso he is an employee & a man. He is not incapable of doing the said.

It's sad that such a reputation precedes us as Nigerians.

Racoon:
Why-on what basis? So because the US is the biggest shareholder in AfDB that now gives them the right to bully everybody around? Except if Akinwunmi Adeshina is truly guilty, the US is simply on a wild goose chase.

Bully?

I wouldn't say Bully. And Yes when you are the largest shareholder you have larger rights(not privileges).


If you think Otherwise then you go out there and start a company with your funds. then leave it up to others if you find anything funny in how it's being run.

My problem with some of us is that despite the US funding the Majority of the World's Unilateral organizations, we (who don't give much/have much) claim to "know" how best they should act on their money. Let the Shareholders act.

(Tongue-in-cheek)

Why source Cows from Zamfara? I thought the North was good for Nothing.

Hahahaha!

This idea of Nigerians disparaging a region when it is convenient is laughable.

This is yet another example of how, even though I don't like everything about you, I could sometimes need you.

No true Productive individual can be a tribalist— to the point of being tribalistic.

Flyingngel:
All parent has the responsibility to teach their children humility.

True. But true humility isn't always imbibed when taught. The Bible says train up a Child. True. But many a Parent think by their training alone the Child gets to turn out right. Far from it.

The Child himself makes this decision.
Most people think they "own" their Children. Forgetting that these are self standing Individuals Capable of thought and actions.

SmartyPants:
Every single army in the world recruits more of brawn than brains. The smart ones are always selected for specialized roles away from the battlefield. Also no one does complex calculations on the battlefield. You simply have a spotter as he rightly alluded to. And as you can see, there are spotters in the pics.

True. But those traits are not mutually exclusive.

There are very many "Brawny" Nigerian Soldiers who can barely express themselves fluently. Never mind Proper grammar.
I am not trying to put down the uneducated but many aren't even reasonable in little Civil matters.

I am also not saying hire Einsteins. I am Saying don't go absorbing all youths 17 and above from XYZ. LGA. Of Nigeria without a baseline education into the Armed forces.