₦airaland Forum

Aphrygian:
Are these what u guys can offer as tunnels? Tunnels wey ibadan don get since in large numbers and nobody is bragging abt it. U guys chest beating is factory fitted.

Standing5:
I already said he spent 5 months. Stop feigning stupidity. He left enough deficit is what I was driving at. Your brain is to weak to get it?

Reyginus:
Just imagine the suffering. If you live in Suleja, Niger State, try walk pass that Old Minna Garage to where you have First Bank, Mr Biggs and Chicken 'N' Sides. If you are driving you'd be lucky if you don't lose control as beggars swam your car begging you for anything be it food or money.

My friend went to pick his girlfriend at night and these beggars swam like bees and even dragging the steering with him. My elder brother was also disturbed on this same route while coming back a particular night. You know that type of begging that turns violent if you resist.

Three days ago, a Fulani guy we hired to weed our grasses with his sprinklers finished the work and begin to beg me for increment telling me in Hausa how Baba has finished them. Two cobblers almost drew each others blood because the other shouted 'Sai Baba' when he passed him. And these are northerners.

naijafella:
All thanks to Jona and the gang.

oduastates:
Goodluck to Adeosun and Buhari with that diversification thingie.
Not with the useless banks,corrupt and useless politicians, rotten infrastructure, cartels and so called captains of industry dotting the landscape of the country.

Buhari has not been radical enough for me.
I was expecting that many of the criminals would have gone on nitro exile by now.

39xtr90r:
Igbo wannabe, continue to deceive yourself thinking you can deceive sane minds with your unnecessary silly talk.

In Imo State you can find Hausa advisers in Rochas cabinet.
T.A Orji of Abia State and Sullivan of Enugu had Yorubas in their cabinets. 
In this 4th republic, Orji Uzor Kalu was the first governor to appoint a non-indigene into his cabinet. 

"...we have millions of millions of Igbos residing with us in our homes, in our towns, in our states, very peacefully, very industrious, helping our communities and our economy to grow..."
- SULTAN OF SOKOTO, Nov 23 2015

“Any state government that ignores the Igbo does so at the risk of its economy. It is in this wise that I appointed a high powered official in my government from the Igbo community to liaise between me and the community.”
- Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State

Quakertellicus1:
No, the parts were made abroad...and then assembled in Nigeria.

It is what companies like PAN, Volkswagen of Nigeria, Steyr, Leyland, and company used to do in Nigeria in the 1970's...they would import CKD (Completely knocked down ) parts into Nigeria and assemble them here into cars.

Solong as oil prices were high back then, and we could spend the dollars back then, we could do that with ease.

But back in 1973....construction work began on Ajaokuta Steel Complex...the idea being that all those car assembly plants would eventually make their cars in Nigeria...and end the imports of CKD parts. That unfortunately did not happen.

When oil crashed in 1982...the parts became too expensive to import , and eventually a new car became expensive in Nigeria...which is when the tokunbo industry began to grow....from the late 1980's on wards.(In 1975...you could get a new car for less than N6000. By 1990..that new car set you back N1million. By 1993....it was basically the government and the very rich that were buying new cars.)

What Innoson was doing was importing CKD parts from China and assembling them under the INNOSON marque. So long as the dollars were flowing in thanks to high oil prices....he could do that easily. But...once oil prices crashed, and the FG was forced to bring in restrictions on forex...that became difficult.

You see why GEJ's automotive miracle was a false mirage? We were just doing what we did in the 1970's....live on a false lie. You cannot have a good domestic car manufacturing industry without sufficient local content.

Innoson is a great man....where his problem was....his Achilles heel if you will ...was in the area of local content.

LAGOS, NIGERIA —
A series of arrests of bloggers, newspaper reporters and even a dog owner has advocates worried about a chill on freedom of expression in Nigeria.

While the constitution of Africa’s most-populous country guarantees freedom of speech and the press, Peter Nkanga, West Africa representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said those rights are under attack.

“More and more, that freedom is being eroded,” Nkanga said. “How is it being eroded? By the actions of government institutions and government authorities, who are ensuring that that freedom of expression, that freedom of the press that freedom to hold opinion, gradually, steadily, is being eroded.”

Nkanga pointed to a number of episodes in recent months as instances where Nigerian security forces went after people simply because of something they said or wrote.

This month, the army said it wanted to question a journalist who had posted a link to a video released by the Boko Haram extremist group.
A journalist investigating arms smuggling was assaulted in June 2015 after a meeting at a Nigerian border post. Nkanga said customs officers looked on as the journalist was attacked without intervening.

Musa Azare, a blogger known for being critical about the government of Bauchi state in the country’s northeast, also found himself under arrest this month.

"“They were dispatched from Bauchi to come and arrest me,” Azare said of the police officers who traveled 450 kilometers to his house in the capital, Abuja."

He was driven to Bauchi and told that he was being taken in on suspicion of cyber stalking and criminal defamation, before being released. A Bauchi state official denied the government had anything to do with Azare’s detention.

It’s not just journalists that are facing threats. Police took a man in the southwestern Ogun state this month into custody for naming his dog “Buhari,” after the president.
Nigeria’s leaders have pledged to respect the freedom of the press, with Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed saying in June that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari does “not intend to do anything to stifle press freedom.”

Mohammed was not available for comment.

Laws on the books have allowed local politicians to go after journalists and bloggers for their statements, says Mai Truong, manager of advocacy group Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net program.

She said a law passed last year criminalizing “cyber crimes” such as hacking and cyber stalking has become a tool for politicians seeking revenge against online commentators.

“We’ve seen [kind of] an uptick of bloggers, particularly, being targeted for arrest and charged under the cyber crime law for various types of writing related to posts about local governors or officials,” Truong said.

Buhari came into office last year pledging to tackle corruption in Nigeria. The country is Africa’s largest economy but little of the wealth trickles down to its poor due in part to graft in the federal and state governments.

Shuaib Leman, national secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, says much of the ire directed at journalists come from politicians who don’t appreciate seeing allegations of corruption against them printed or broadcast.

“I am not surprised that daily you find one instance or the other where a journalist is either picked up at the insistence of the state governor or a powerful politician for writing against corruption or for bringing up issues that need public attention and adequate scrutiny,” Leman said.

When a journalist is attacked, Nkanga said the perpetrators of the assault rarely face charges.

“Until you start to ensure that those who perpetrate attacks on journalists are brought to justice, there will hardly ever be a time when there will be [no] chill on them,” Nkanga said. “It has become a norm.”

sarrki:
Yorubas voted Buhari based on personal conviction & clear the mess of Gej administration

SE voted for Gej coz they claimed he was one of them.

SS voted Gej coz he's there son

NC, NW & NE voted Buhari coz he's there son

NOETHNICITY:
I ve said repeatedly that an average SS prefers a one Nig to a biafra. Its not exactly as if SS love the idea of a one nigeria. We jus don't fancy a biafra.

Aufbauh:
We all know that the idea of secession is an entire struggle of some disgruntled Igbos who can't forbear a Fulani man that they so detested ruling over them.

l'll encourage my maternal cousins to be part of TRIPOB because I believe in their ideology.
I was taught early as a school boy that"winners never quit,and quitters never win",this of course have stirred up my success stories till date.

Assuming there is marginalization,injustice,inequality etc in your clime,is it not foolhardy and cowardice to quit? Every strong character person will stay on to fight to change the status quo, not to think of escape to a better equitable clime.

owoademola:
If not for PMB did you ever think of going back to farm...............
MAay Almighty Allah continue to guide PMB.
Amin.
We all need to look inward and forget exporting of food.

LorDBolton:
Obviously you didn't take the chill pill.

It's on this same NL i've seen northerners tagged as hungry people with no ambition so keep quiet.

From ur use of the NL derogatory term afonja I can confidently tag u among the ignorant people on this site who have no use to even their parents.

Anyway I don't tolerate people of a lesser stock...go and relate with your mates with same orientation.

willibounce1:
Labana rice from Kebbi state offloaded enough bags of rice in imo state and we did not see any body from that region bragging or even posting pictures of farms before then. These backward flattinos won't stop bragging and jubilating over things that other states have achieved quietly long time ago. Lie self esteem has finished their lives.

With all the pictures they are showing us they do not have enough rice to go round their region but have enough imaginary rice to export. Flattinos always looking for trouble everywhere they go

GentlemanUnltd:
****these has always been the problem with you Igbos. Whatever is done in East is seen as an eastern thing but whatever is done in other regions, you igbos would want to take it as a Nigeria thing.

What's here that you guys are celebrating? Uromi (my place) alone has about 3 large farms that equals or surpasses this you guys are celebrating, and right now there is a $750million(N150 billion) WELLS FARM construction ongoing in Odighi, Ovia North East LG, also in Edo state. Have you heard Edo people barking about these like you guys are doing right here? Have you heard of Ojemai farm, in Ovia South Lg, also in Edo state, owned by The guy the owns Arik Air? Ask your Google, Ojemai farm is no 5 amongst the top 10 largest farms in Nigeria.
http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20140228012156zg/agriculture/10-leading-farms-nigeria-owners/

So you guys should stop celebrating rubbish.

LorDBolton:
Seriously the igbos on NL need a chill pill.

We just saw a thread of rice from kebbi state being offloaded in aba... NONE of them showed up there.

Here is a very good project again (this time an igbo man pioneered) and they chest beating? Funny thing is this chest beaters here are jobless and add no value to their parents talk less their communities yet come here to chest beat and boasts.

If anambra & Ebonyi can feed the whole SE very good

Lagos Is investing in kebbi to cater for lag and indeed sw, I wonder what the lands in osun is good for other than cassava? But it's good devt anyway.

Must mumu people here turn it into my ethnic /tribe is more superior? That's dull

CandyDiamond:
The problem we have in Nigeria is where the tribes that make up Nigeria hate each other, like example we have a good cottage industry in Aba, but FG is looking else where for miracle, why don't we have a viable inland waterways that will ease the transportation of agricultural products from River Niger to river Benue to river Kaduna but FG believe that it will favour a part of a country, we have only one viable international airport, one sea port,everything is concentrated in one state and you want diversification where FG will never like any good thing to come to certain part of the country. Come to South Africa and see how all part of the country is been developed without segregation.

omenka:
Everytime dam go come here dey yarn dust not knowing there are a billion and one things one could easily mock them with.

#Learners.

payosehtor:
I pity for Buhari 's haters. to be Frank, any time I notice a pmb's hater or those refers to here on Nairaland as waillers, I'm always tempted to conclude that the Op is either an Ibo or a stooge of the "stealing is not corruption" generation cuz they still have 7years ahead as far we we pro pmb s are concerned. after all we are the apparent majority