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If ladies really like you, they would do one or two things to attract your attention.

What have you done or noticed?

Another PS&I judgment and Paris Club Ballon payment.

Different levels of courts in Europe are fleeing Nigerian Government left right and center and some Nigerians are jubilant.

Nigerian businesses, professionals and politicians make deals with foreign companies to flee Nigeria while gullible Nigerians celebrated.

Nigerians how great thou are!

Goodness. When was Awolowo released and when was Agbekoya Protest against Awo Government as the Premier?

They don't teach history in school anymore. Do you realize that Kayode Adams went to jail and ran mental after stabbing Biobaku that replaced Dike

All Yoruba fighting Igbo cause always called traitors and destroyed.

Ask Banjo who fought his mamaland for Ojukwu: Lagos Is Within Reach!

ivandragon:
What are you even saying?

What was the Agbekoya Revolt about & who was it against? Was it not Pa Awo's release that helped settle it?

Better shut your mouth if you don't know what to say.

Find out about Agbekoya Protests, Kayode Adams of University of Lagos Protest or University of Ibadan Protests against their own before you open your mouth.

ivandragon:
Sentiments aside, Yorubas have protested against any head of state or president that is not of the Yoruba stock. The exception might have been OBJ, but then, it was more of a labour-FG face off. Besides, the preferred choice of the SW was Chief Falae.

'They' have been at the forefront of some of the most intensive protests against perceived bad governance which is why it is a bit baffling that some Yorubas chose to play politics with criticism of BAT.

This attitude has seriously called into question past agitations and is shedding a new light on protests in Nigeria.

People like you die unceremoniously abroad as organ donor because you think as untouchable at home, you have nothing else to lose.

Even untouchables at home are better than untouchable abroad used by Asians, not even whites, to mop the floor. No wonder you dare death penalty in Asia.

SeeWahala:
If you believe all you listed in bold above is far worse than what we experience daily here in nigeria then I'm sorry brother . . . I can't help you

Even the abroad you want to japa to too can't help you your myopia is too advanced

SouthEast stat is impressive. Great progress after the War I must say.

Chei, see warped logic.

Fighttillvictory:
there was nothing rare about him, he new his people couldn't face competition from the east and gave them free edu.

If we want to be honest with ourselves, is there any other ethnic group anywhere in the world that have tolerated anything and accommodated other Nigerians than the Yoruba?

If there is any, please let us know. I want to Japa too. Especially now that we see burning and riots against refugees in Europe. Throwing humans into desert and sea and putting children and mothers in cages in America under both the Democrats, Republican Administrations and at least a Nigerian freezing to death in mild weather in Canada.

SeeWahala:
Everybody now sees the yorubas for exactly who they are

2027 isn't far, let us survive this TINUBUlation till then

Typical Nigerian hypocrite. Even Jonathan did not use so called Federal Character: Our Oil, our money, we spend it anyway we want.

They did. Made the highest oil income, spent reserve left by OBJ and plunged Nigeria into abject poverty like Northern leaders.

The Norther Protests and riots today are based on years of neglect by their own leaders.

Now they prefer Atiku

Even before 1999.

Find out how many Nigerians Herbert Macauiey mentored before Independence in the Youth Movement.

Many of them and their children have become ingrates.

stonemasonn:
Yoruba leaders have been the most influential in Nigeria's politics since return to democracy in 1999.
Scoring their influence you can see it was good at the beginning but it has been bad so far. With time greed have overshadowed passion and activism.

Anybody but a leader from the same West that made most of Nigeria's richest men.

This has gone beyond politics. It is boiling hatred for Yoruba on their land. There must be a dialogue. Even if we separate, this anger will boil over the borders.

It is either they get what they want by any means necessary or give it to anyone but Yoruba. Even Yea For Abacha, the most brutal dictator Nigeria has ever produced.

We have to go back to the drawing board.

The reason Igbo and Yoruba got to this sorry state is the tendency of Igbo to either dominate or cry tribalism victims.

I do not think any Yoruba wants to make that mistake again. Though Igbo were accommodated and tolerated well in Yoruba land, they would never reciprocate.

How could someone cry because he did not become Premier in the West? There are many cultural companies in Osun State alone not to mention the West.

Please avoid trouble when you can.

The rate Boko Haram is killing off either the Northerners or the Southerners, there will be little left for the begat of the next generation of Nigerians. It was the Seriki Hausawa of Lagos State that cried out for public demonstration against Boko Haram like those done during the fuel price increase. Many of us derided him and asked where he was when Southern Christians were being killed in the North.

Adapting Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) words to Nigeria: First they started killing the Hausa, we not rise up in anger because we are not Hausa. So they started killing the Berom, we did not speak up because we are not Berom. Then they started killing the Igbo, we did not demand justice because we are not Igbo. Later, they started killing Christians, we did not fight because we are not Christians and when they came for us, there was no one left to defend us.

In retrospect, Seriki Hausawa was right. Whoever the sponsors of Boko Haram are, they have created the Frankenstein that they can no longer control and shall come back to haunt them. We may be on our way to Lebanon civil wars unless all Nigerians come together to arrest this situation by concerted effort. It will also be imprudent to blame the President alone for reacting after the fact instead of being proactive before innocent people are mutilated. Since both sides sent students to Libya to train as terrorists.

African borders are so porous, some Nigerians are blaming mercenaries from Niger, Chad and even the remnants of Ghadhafi recruits that crossed over to cause havoc. In good times, Africans need not worry about their brothers and sisters in their midst, but tolerance has run low in this type of situation; made worse by economic hardship in our individual countries. At the same time we must remain one another’s keepers.

Nigerians are changing for the worse as we are becoming more hostile to one another. It is getting to the point where Nigerians prefer to live peaceful outside their states or Country rather than live at home in pieces. Sincerely, those that are displaced, have no place to go. Never mind those asking them to come back home. Come back to what?

Despite all the insults of living in foreign countries legally or illegally, Nigerians are accepting their fate as refugees. Some are even afraid to come home on holidays and if they do, they stay in fairly peaceful area/hotel far from their hometown and loved ones. This started as fear of being kidnapped, it has grown into fear of being roasted by Boko Haram or MEND. The Militia including OPC and MASSOB are sending hot reminders.

Strong deterrent measures by the Government against lawlessness and jungle justice are not mutually exclusive with negotiations. It has always been the opinion of this writer that in negotiations, charity must begin at home with the help of local chiefs and representatives rather than staying put in Abuja and state capitals as ethnic champions; threatening to put on military uniforms if Nigeria’s breakup jeopardizes their oil blocks.

The greatest jokers are septuagenarians that should be preparing their days in hell claiming they are ready to fight for the unity of Nigeria, but helpless to end their states’ mayhem. They are not and cannot scare a weakling. All they can do is listen to some talisman maker spending their loot killing the next generation of Nigerians wishing that the young blood will make them live longer. They should go and choke on their loot.

We have not fully recovered from the civil war they fought looting banks, cities and villages crying they were fighting for Nigeria. Out of over 160 million Nigerians, they think we cannot find young dedicated men and women out of all those they have corrupted, that know which way their Country should tow. The chaos and misery they created still lingers, they want to come back and splash their old useless carcass.

Some of the utterances of these political leaders have not helped. It is one thing to fight for greater share of what comes out of your backyard but a totally different game to demand more of what is not yours in the first place, with the rational that its God’s gift for all. Using that as an excuse to cause mayhem is incomprehensible. Each time the Government sucks to irresponsible demand, the more ants are attracted to the honey.

There are those that believe that the cause of the violence is that the North saw their turn as President going to the South and are bent on making it difficult for Ebele until he relinquishes power. It is nothing short of blackmail and those might as well wait another turn. The individual craving for power has been our problem since Independence with no successful projects we can be proud of. Ebele could be better, but not moving. By telling those that brought him to power to get lost, he has emboldened his opponents.

We may have reached a point to let everyone know that until outrageous salaries and benefit of the politicians and senior civil servants are cut according to size, working class and poor Nigerians will not make any more sacrifices. There are more wastes from the top than there are from the bottom. Indeed, demands for salary increases are vicious circle to chase ever increasing prices. More young people are idle with no means of livelihood because whatever the Country makes is concentrated in the hands of a few.

Every generation have to fight the oppressors of their time to regain their right for the future. Young people in the six geographical zones are the ones that should have more say in the National Conference some see as a dialogue to reconstitute Nigeria while others see it as a means to total dislocation of the Country. At the end of the day, young people have to take their Country back.

Your great fathers were fighting for Independence and your fathers and mothers were fighting against corruption of collecting ten percent on government contracts. Today, while some of you were asleep or indifferent, corruption has blown through the sky to over 100 percent kickbacks. They take 20 percent from the next contract after 100 percent from the present. Young people can use their valuable time in unity protesting against corruption, instead of using foreign religion and ethnicity to divide themselves.

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Why Watch The North Kill Off Themselves By Farouk Martins. February 8, 2012.


Why Watch The North Kill Off Themselves By Farouk Martins

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Is the cutting of salaries and allowances fake too?

I am more worried about that because it sets precedent, caused inflation and reckless spending by a few while others break their necks trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Tinubu should take Peter Obi with him. Killing two drug peddlers with one stone

There are fatal mistakes for life. We had many regional protests in Nigeria from Aba women, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Agbekoya, Niger Delta to Kayode Adams in University of Lagos.

Each of these were regional that affected the whole Country without any instigation from another region, especially those opportunists who wish to overthrow the Federal Government.

If the Federal Government can be overthrown from protest starting in one region catching fire from another region, fine. It is an indication of the people's anger.

But in a Unitary Government since the decree by Military Government because of Oil Income, Goodluck O!

Who is supposed to be paying whom?

I thought Emefiele said Dangote has almost paid off the money he borrowed then. When or has he paid it off.

Now, it is NNPC that is owing him!

Oh, I forgot that the NNPC, Government and Central Bank owe different shares since they are not the same.

Yeye dey boom

Greed is Good and Healthy for business

- Ivan Boesky

Look, women are no longer bound by the preference of the men's culture to marry within.

Yoruba men were put in their place long time ago and their women marry outside their ethnic group well before other African women. Igbo men are still struggling with keeping their women under their culture. Hausa women hardly marry outside but they do now.

As for beauty, fair skin and colors of the eyes are not attributes of beauty in Africa. Only wannabes appreciate them and even bleach their skins.

Fulani are the fairest ladies in Nigeria and they do not beat the drums on it.

Thank you my buroda. The simple answer is some Africans have very low self esteem.

Of all Aba made, Okrika made or Ijebu made, na some foreign names designer dey raise our self esteem like teenagers wearing Nike.

ijebosb:
It may be real, I tailor my jacket sleeves as well.
But, why are you saying this with pride? Better for him that it is fake and he didn't spend much money on it, but then you'd wonder why he felt the need to buy it in the first place because of the label.

Imagine any other serious elected leader of a successful government wearing versace labels when their country is facing crippling inflation and crushing economic hardship.

It's nonsense.

Who or what in the world cursed Africans?

They see sufferings across the desert, they prefer it to Nigeria. They see slavery and indignity abroad, they embrace it. They pay millions to slave agents and Airlines, they claim it is far better than last century Slave Ships.

These are millionaires begging to Japa, what shall the poor do?

If they only struggle half as hard as they do abroad and invest half as much at home, their villages would be a better place.

Whomever CURSED Nigerians is dead!

Sp1ritHusband:
sharrap. wadya know.

Sango strike you there!

You don chop before shooking mouth for abroad things.

Ewure lasan! Alailopolo!

As long as most of the manufacturing is done in Africa, I am happy. Innoson, Proforce, Nord and now this.

Kaduna and Lagos used used to assemble Peugeot, how far in 2004?

Congratulations to Aba

Spray Euro or US dollars. Consult Davido Wedding.

The rich always have a way to be conspicuous spenders by their tastes. Others without their money break their necks copying them.

The worship of money without values continues.

I made it clear that I don't care about Burma Boy. If he has to clear all the hospital bills, he might as well build his own hospitals and pay the staff.

What is rampant in our communities today are ingrates all over looking towards an individual to give more than he can. This is how we create looters from our constituencies.

Governments are responsible for basic services but we put too much responsibilities on even the ones that are barely surviving. It's always more and more expectations from those less able while nobody dare looters with heavy security.

Again, I could care more or less about Burma but I care about the good Samaritans among us that the culture of ingrates have driven out of their minds.

SmartyPants:
Repeat after me: "I will always engage my brain before I speak in public." Oya!

I do not care about Burma Boy.

Does he have to cover all bills. The more you do, the more they want.

You can never satisfy greed, ingrates and instantaneous gratification that only exists in their "paradise abroad".

Say patrons patrons patrons, market market market.

Say educated consumers.

All the beautiful beautiful buildings, Ebonyi Airport, Maduka tallest hospital and more are laying fallow occupied by rodents.

Go West Young Man Go West!

OredoPikin:
He is making his money
That is where the population is.

Na poor people like helinues dey carry tribalism for head

Yoruba have no territorial ambition. They respect and abide by the culture of their hosts no matter where they are.

It is people outside Yoruba land that long and yearn for Yoruba culture, come back to Yoruba land to pay homage.

Spot the difference?

When we feel liberated away from home, yearning for success outside becomes desperately intense.

You need to prove to them at home that because you were born into a caste system there does not make you one outside.

This is the case not only in Nigeria but in India and United States. The only problem is that you may also be rejected outside if you become abrasive, ingrate or ostentatious.

Solution: Be humble and respect your host culture when in Rome.

The signature cap precede Tinubu.

If anything, people stopped wearing it when it became Tinubu's favorite.