₦airaland Forum

Horus:
This is a very good point!!. The Government in Nigeria is the innocent mirror of the nation. The quality of government and its leaders in Nigeria, is simply a reflection of the collective consciousness of all the people. If the collective consciousness in Nigeria is disintegrated and negative, and people are not behaving in accord with Natural Law, then problems and corruption will be an unavoidable phenomenon of government. If, on the other hand, the collective consciousness in Nigeria is positive, integrated, and coherent, then the government will not be influenced by any negativity. If the people of Nigeria wish to be protected from corruption in government, then they must create an integrated collective consciousness. Positivity and harmony should be so strong and dense in national consciousness that negative influences cannot penetrate it.

loyeruope:
1. I agree with blacksta on the issue of capital punishment for corruption. When people start getting the message that the fastest way to go to hell is to steal government's money, less people will take that route.
2. Also, there will be complete ban on importation of consumer goods. The only goods allowed in will be capital goods that will boost our ability to manufacture. I know the world will skin me for this but national interests first, I will worry about international interests later.
3. Provided the power situation has not been solved, I will direct almost all my energies to ensure we have 24/7 power supply. I honestly don't see how we can make any roadway without it. And like I said in (1) above, anybody found sabotaging my efforts will reside in hell - literally.


These are definitely the first things I will do. I cannot say what else I would do as time goes on.
@Poster,
My job, if I am a President, will not be to make Nigeria another America. My job will be to make us reach our fullest potential, and removing anything or anyone who wants to deny us just that.

Don1DeMaco:
hehehehe,

Dis one was kinda funny with the lawyer shouting "My Lord this is remote control", hehehe in acourt of law.

whats the judge supposed to say??

Oya accussed would u drop dat remote and remove the batteries??

This happens only in Nigeria

blunt1990:
How would you guys hear of people of such calibre when you spend all your time in this forum lashing yourselves in the most unproductive manner!! The sort of people you will continue to know are the likes of [b]Ikey, becomrich, nuzo, blaksta and every other tribalists [/b]here. I thought this forum was meant to serve a good purpose, informative and articulative, rather, its all tribal hatred which limits one's intellectual growth. I wonder where this will take Nigerians!!

$osisi:
I agree with most of what you've written except the highlighted part.
The guy started chopping Nigerian money from the 80's
He's never been penniless from the moment anyone heard his name.
He didn;t start today.
Those who know his records in northern Nigeria especially Maiduguri know what I'm talking about.
There was a scandal in the 80's involving him and cartons of money,I was a child but I remember it well.
He had mansions way before he became a governor.
He's had businesses since the 80's including filling stations and vegetable oil producing companies and several others.
He made his first millions as a twenty something year old.
stolen money of course

archemedes:
@tosh_acer
I have read topics and responses in this forum for two weeks and I can confirm to you that 90% of issues discussed here (politics) are ethnically inclined and has nothing to do with real politics. You notice they are more interested in barking at themselves than profer solution to problems facing Nigeria. I had always guessed them to be teens, for the fact I read some comments yesteday regarding a member who said he made some contributions in the 1970s, I retracted such impressions. This relays the depth of problem Nigeria faces but I want to believe the educated/exposed ones are different. I promise you can only have reasonable contributions to this thread by the likes of biina who is one of the few intelligent people I spend time to read their comments.

@topic
I discussed this issue with friends on facebook a month ago where they blamed nigerian problems on political office holders. Most of the problems in Nigeria is within us; the bashing and unintelligent abuses without the spirit of entertaining criticism evident on NL, the culture of giving N20 to police in the presence of our children threrby instilling the culture of bribery in them, offering N100 to NEPA officials in the presence of little kids thereby telling them to pay their utility bills thru the culture of bribery and corruption, where is the way forward with all these practices?

Until we change our mentality, nothing will work in Nigeria

MrCrackles:

Y[b]ou claimed the area is a major landmark but no one knows fuc.k all about it![/b]

You cant compare a mere ornament to the sites you named above, definitely cant!

I know about landmarks and thier importance dude so dont go there!

sleek_p:
Address the issues and not the personality.

tpiah:
and once again, YOU are missing the entire point of what a capital ought to be.

This isnt about your alleged love for Lagos- its all this unecessary love for sentiment that blinds Africans to reality.

[b]Every capital in the world is the subject to development.[/b]Since a capital is likely to draw people from different areas and walks of life.

When the British came, some areas were already highly urbanized- Benin city is one example. The Yorubas in particular have always had a high percentage of town dwellers, as various records and oral accounts show. The topography of the west is one reason for that. In the east there were Onitsha, PH, Calabar

Kano and Kaduna were already urban centers before the British came. Lokoja, where Lugard was headquarted, isnt on the coast. Neither is Jos, which many whites like for the climate.

Washington DC is also located on the eastern edge of the US- what's your explanation for that ?

Lagos is a Portuguese word meaning lagoon. There's a town in Portugal called lagos which used to be a slave port. Dont know if you see any connection there.

The British may have told you they chose Lagos as the capital because they wanted an easy escape route from the peaceful lagos natives, but I 'm sure other factors like shipping, the nature of the coast, and trade routes also came into play.

California was never the seat of government- Lagos and some other places were. So I dont get your comparison here. Neither do I understand your weeping over Lagos being made the capital.

As I pointed out, other parts of Nigeria besides Lagos are also urbanized. They may not have as many skyscrapers as lagos but that doesnt mean they're all hamlets containing only goats and chickens.

tpiah:
Your argument is too simplistic and more likely to stoke tribal sentiment, because you're trying to confirm the allegations of intentional neglect without considering other factors.

Being a seaport had nothing to do with Lagos' development, I suppose? That's like saying moving the US capital from Philadelphia and New York to Washington DC was because other parts of the country werent being developed.

One of the greatest problems Nigeria has is the tribal close minded mentality of being out to "get" other tribes and at the same time being convinced other tribes are out to "get" you. A relic of the old headhunting days no doubt.

This leads to communities struggling to put "their" people in crucial political positions in so "their" candidate has a portfolio to develop ONLY his tribal area and nowhere else. Thus for most of them, their hands are tied even before they get there. If such an individual doesnt promote only his own area, he/s seen as a traitor by most of his tribesmen.

Like i said, look at the topography. The capital was moved to Abuja for reasons of security, from what I heard. Lugard had wanted to place it in Kaduna but decided on lagos instead.

Lagos isnt the only city in Nigeria that has some level of development- if you think otherwise then you dont know much about the country. Lagos may have the most skyscrapers (maybe), but there are other places with high population and which have a fair standard of living.

The type of delta we have in Nigeria is either a wave or river dominated type. The coastline changes as you move west- these are all natural factors and not man made. Same way the topography changes as you move north.

tosh_acer:
From the way people argue in here, I summise, Nigeria has no future.