₦airaland Forum

becomerich show them the power of google map and estimate the distance of benin to biafra

for all we know pdp is rigging its way in

i thought AD is ACN

lets watch and see

flashing news , first post all the cases of murder that happen everyday in the country you live in.

weirdoo your case is really pathetic , how can someone be soo obsessed with anything igbo.

hmm i will give her a break and put all the time and money i hav been spending on her in my career , we men can take it but can the women move on if it happens to them

bk.babe97y:
Anything u say nicca! Ibos are animals, end of story!

am not your nicca you pig, now go get a job before you die of envy.

bk.babe97y:
Cus they straight-up animals!

your papa and your mama na animals if there wer not they wouldnt have given birth to a worthless pig like you that only show up when dirt is spilt.

OAM4J:
Yes, I am a Yoruba man, but not an ethnocentric Nigerian. . . so dont break my heart now, lets make a good example of true love and unity that cut across ethnic barriers

for where the one obasanjo and other marry wat did we get in return , tribal bashing all over nairaland, heebo here heebo there

chiogo:
Are you Yoruba? Sorry, my husband has to be Igbo. Igbo Kwenu!!
Haha, of course not. They suck!! Well, we'll see what my Caramel would bring along with Amare.
So, your "sisters" are "Ibos"? Hmm
I've always suspected you. . . tough love, huh? it's okay, you don't have to admit it. loool

chiogo dont mind them am igbo and i will marry you.

bk babe must be the most pathetic nl desperately searching for anti igbo threads to comment on , notice she only comes out when something negative about an igbo person is posted, i feel sorry for people like this they dont get far in life cause they are soo busy with their phd(pull him/her down).

this must be a lottery winning day for ekoile,bkbabe and ileki idi they go dey feel like obasanjo but dont get too excited remeber the yoruba man in america that beat his wife to death with a baseball bat in front of his child and the one that tied the already killed wife on his car and drove her dead body round .

if these nigerians cant keep their marriages in the states they should come back to nigeria haba.

PhysicsMHD:
The violence which some Fulani are inflicting on the Middle Belt and even starting to inflict on a few parts of the south; is that something we should not be talking about, Mr. Sanusi?


Read Sanusi's article "ISSUES IN RESTRUCTURING CORPORATE NIGERIA." The man is a bigot. Yet he's complaining about his people being targeted for blame and insults when he did the EXACT SAME THING to a greater degree and without any provocation well before Sir Ajayi's book launch.

am sure the head of pilice unit and even army in benue and plateau are not fulani , what have they done to guarantee the saftey of the people there. instead they have also been accused of shooting protesting students

am actually loving what he said, we should stop all this hatred and start holding our governors, LGchairmen and other leaders accountable rather than pointing fingers at other tribes especially hausa and fulani for the state of the nation

Nigeria by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Posted by Kabura Zakama
A refreshing perspective – Interesting read!!!

The Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi at the Muson Centre in Lagos.

The book titled: “Nigeria , Africa’s Failed Asset?” attracted many important dignitaries, intellectuals and some governors. The argument by discussants centered on whether or not the colonial masters laid the foundation for the problems Nigeria is currently facing.

Many argued that the British loved the North and that was why it gave more than 50 percent of the National Assembly seats to the North at independence.

Sanusi, however, stole the show when he spoke. His speech was anchored on the plank that the British and Nigerian rulers are responsible for the state of the situation Nigeria finds itself today.
Below is his unedited speech.

“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.

“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.

“Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria. Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regarded himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.
“The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now said it was a Muslim North.

“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria.
Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.

Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.

You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?

“We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urhobo land, that there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urhobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urhobo people support her?

“We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not. “The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal.
Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.

“So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria. The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.

The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about few numbers of graduates in the North (two at independence). What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerner should not be educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It was documented. And you say they love us (North).

“I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows me. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?

“There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere. That is the truth. “Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria. It is better if we are united than to divide it.

“Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don’t have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urhobos. Isn’t that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.
“There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody’s hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature.

“So, why don’t you talk about; we don’t have infrastructure, we don’t have education, we don’t have health. We are still talking about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying there is no poverty among the Fulani?” he said.

heebo this heebo that

una no dey sleep ,abeg free us joor , we dont love ourselves yet we built the infrastructures in the SE ourselves from owerri airport to the aba industries, abeg make una go drink poison , its only in nigeria land that igbo people do not love themselves cus u said so.

only in nairaland that igbos dont live in the SE yet its over populated.

i bet you all will be more comfortable if igbo people did not have jobs and beg on the streets than you can sit back and laugh at them , for those clown that are saying they should change their life am just SHFH, you ran away to a white man country cleaning toilet and looking for who to marry for paper u dont understand why an igbo man should leave the south east to another part of the country to establish himself .

we africans are mess.ed

no body voted obasanjo , he rigged himself in, the north he is claiming voted buhari.

eku_bear:
I made a post on employment here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-602652.64.html

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I don't think the Yoruba are doing badly, as far as employment goes. The only below-average state is Ekiti, the laggards of Yorubaland . The rest seem to be doing solidly. Ogun doing spectacularly well, if those #s are taken at face value (I'd take with a lot of salt, though   ).

With that said, there is certainly room for improvement.

wow bayelsa with all the money pumped into it and low population have the highest unemployment rate, chineke nyelu mmadu aka(God help us)

Alikote:
the oil reserve in nigeria is about 38 billion barrel so which will finish in about forty years from now  that is  2050 at 2.2 million barrel per day so forty years in the life span of a nation is so small becos countries like swiss just celebrated 700 year ecqudor 200 yrs so 40 yrs is just a fraction the north of the country still have vast miniral deposit,arable land which is a vital tool for a nation long term futurist plan one onion was sold for around 100 naira last week in lagos!!!!!!abi u can farm tomatos onion on swamp agriculture still contribute large chunck of the gdp 70 percent while crude oil 90 percent of earning which is been stolenly mercilessly by the iboris .tafa balogun,abacha e.t.c is cut across all tribe so my friend wake up world scientic are make effort to for about crude oil may be they might succeced even b4 our own finish

exactly the north have a vast land that will be very useful when dooms day arrives  our problem is our leaders not notherners cus most of them are even suffering more the southerners instead should question theiir governors what they have been doin to billions of dollars pumped into their account from federal govt, bayels is the least populated state yet gets the highest budget but with nothin to show for while anambra with its high population and low budget is doing very well , pls lets shine our eyes people are moving away from oil lets stop fighting and start planing for 100 of years to come when oil will no longer be needed