₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
You get what you pay for

We were and have been underpaying for power for decades. That's why it is so poor

But really you are here to play politics , not to discuss issues

Good evening. It's no use

EchoEnigma:
You actually believe that this so called jihadist are in DRC to bring Islam and not take Diamonds instead? No wonder it's easy for all these influencers to fool you people.

nairalanda1:
You get what you pay for.

Via tax or via tarrifs

I know you disagree with me now, but when your side wins, you will agree with me.

My view remains the same whoever is in power

Good evening

CaseSensitive:
I'm not a muslim, I don't identify with any religion but if you believe terrorism in Africa has anything to do with any Islamic ideology then I have an airport to sell you.

nairalanda1:
They were able to do so because they had enough money paid to them and enough profit and investment because no government price controls and tarrifs

Or how do we get GSM? We paid high tarrifs and it took several years for service to improve. The high tarrifs we paid were enough to fund expansion and improvement

Your assumption makes no sense. Companies don't have bottomless pit of money. It's what people pay in that enables then to make a profit to provide services and expand services

It's like you guys don't like capitalism and prefer communism

nairalanda1:
Because french people are ready to pay into their power system to make it work via tax or cost reflective tarrifs..

You guys will refuse to pay or underpay or shout corruption

We get what we pay for.

I am no apc or pdp or adc supporter. This na issue way beyond politics

lapintoz:
A blind, deaf and dumb being will certainly call this wonderful project a fraud.

Nothing else.

😁

Lanretoye:
check my posts very well if you see me blame Jonathan but at a point as a president,Jonathan allowed him to be taken for a fool cos he danced to their tune and allowed himself to be used.the way boko haram was going during GEJ I tought they we would have entered Lagos by now but was it any president that stopped them even when they threatened?.did you ask yourself why the noise of boko haram have subsided even though we still have bandits or are they the same?
I will continue to say that only a foolish person will talk about terrorisn in the north when the nothern governors have one voice to create isbah police to be destroying beer but they have never come together to discuss a unified security architecture to safeguard their people.all governors in the south and west are devising means to tackle insecurity in their states and region but ask yourself what the nothern governors have come together to do in respect to that…some people will come here and be shouting tulumbu,if they kill theirselves remain 6 their head go set

Lanretoye:
as the president of Nigeria,what did Tinubu do to stop sit at home in the east?,in your own house,if you decide to kill your own brother,will Tinubu or any president come and stop you or would you have done your did before the news get to Abuja?. As a president,if they tell you in the north that they don’t want schools but they want mosques and in the west,they tell you that they can build mosques but you as a president should give them schools,what would you do?.if they tell you as a president that almajiri is part of their culture and you can’t change their system but in the south they say they want to eradicate poverty,what would you do?…in the north,when they tell you that they don’t want vaccinations but you as a president want to eradicate polio what will you do?

madridguy:
You don't have to bark before you make your point. If you have anything against Tinubu wait for another thread to do that. You stylishly input Benue State into the discussion as if you traveled into the moon when the governor of Benue State confirmed to the press statement that the major problem is communal clashes in his state.

Majority of people arrested so far in connections with Benue killing are indigenous people.

dederocs:
What you feel don't matter, the nation need more government forces with AK 47, well you can tell your governor not to start one, every state decides it's fate...I only care about my state, let's all put efforts in our respective states, Nigeria is an illusion.

Alliswell248:
Cry more
Sokoto to Badagry is on going. Peter obi can't never criticise that .. a coward
Lagos Calabar is progressing.

simpleseyi:
Cry well well. Cry to sleep and wake up in tears, then continue the cry

Lanretoye:
the truth is that if Jonathan becomes the president,boko haram will not stop cos it is a nothern elites framework.which extra framework did Tinubu use to stop the sit at home in the south that made it subside and buhari didn’t use?.we as youths should always be sincere in our anaylsis of our economic quagmire rather than being unnecessarily sentimental.

WizardOfNG:
How many times must you people be told that, because of Azikiwe, secession is outlawed and an act of treason according to the Nigerian constitution?

Where Yorubas are different to you people is that we are law-abiding, work with reality and are cognisant of the saying "insanity is doing the same thing over and over to expect a different outcome".

If you know and understand that secession is outlawed by our Constitution, as Yorubas know and accept, then whey continue pursuing it under lawless and anarchic individuals like Kanu, Ekpa etal when it is only a change in our constitution, enacted by our legislators, that will grant you Biafra?

Why not support the option of regional autonomy, which is more or less the Biafra you seek in all but name?

We have hosted regional autonomy before to note it will be fairly feasible to achieve unlike the secession you tout that frightens the daylight out of Northerners because , naturally, they feel unprepared for the balkanisation of Nigeria.

Yet you people keep talking and acting self-destructively following your dead-on-arrival MASSOB, IPOB etal route, from time immemorial, and closing your minds to the viable option of regional autonomy as an acceptable alternative to secession.

See, you guys are not smart or emotionally intelligent. You don't understand how to be circumspect and think pragmatically and that is why many of you here on Nairaland daily touting the totally wrong claim that "Yorubas don't want us to leave".

By staying in their land the most, of the major ethnic groups and developing cultures and way of life other Nigerians migrate to the SW to enjoy, does this not prove beyond doubt Yorubas are best placed to succeed if on their own?

Does that not show, of the major ethnic groups, it is Yorubas that need others least if everyone has to answer their father's name?

Is it Yorubas trading across Nigeria, as you Igbos do, to the extent the SW will flatline, as the SE would, if those Yoruba traders no longer have access to the markets outside the SW, as would be the case for SE traders, if Nigeria is balkanised?

You guys don't think before you talk and you don't introspect before you agitate for secession due to your innate disposition for blaming others for all your woes.

Yorubas understand that regional autonomy allows everyone to enjoy what is good and advantageous about Nigeria, our large population and market for example, while regions can still enjoy self-paced progress unimpeded by 'One Nigeria' retrogression.

If you Igbo's noise of Biafra is not fraudulent and insincere, masking a hidden agenda, then why continue redundant secession grandstanding when you should be agitating for achievable regional autonomy that will give you freedom over your affairs in the SE similar to what you'd have of a separate nation?

Vitally, under regional system of governance, your people, traders by nature, would still maintain amicable trading relationship across Nigeria as would be near impossible to do if you had a separate Biafra nation.


Crystal clear you guys are not sincere and not progressive whereas the Yorubas are.

Brenbentondiaz:
When June 12 was annulled, did you support the Yorubas to chase out the military and handover to a Yoruba? Why do you need anyone to support you if you're not cowards. Why do people hate Kanu? So, someone that asked Lagos to be destroyed and Yoruba properties be burned should be showered with flowers, right? Do you people think before you talk?

Brenbentondiaz:
You lot love foooooling yourselves thinking you're fooooooling others. You deveropers are actually the ones scared of Nigeria breaking, because as traders, you need the huge market in Nigeria for your (majorly fake) products. No amount of projecting your fears on others can help you mask that fear. All this noise about "allow us go" is not foooooling anyone. It is clear any time moves are made for any form of autonomy in Nigeria. It's you deveropers that will kick against it. You say you guys are the strongest and most intelligent tribe in Africa (your typical self-delusion), so you shouldn't wait for others to allow you go or support you to go. You should fight for it. Lolz. Everyone (apart from you lot) knows that you don't have that capacity. Such a thing involves planning, but the strong urge to chestbeat will scuttle any plans before it even gets started.

PulaPower:
Well said..

Thank you for this screenshot..

The federalism really delayed and set things back for us. But I can still say we’re always trying to use the federalism to the best that we can..

It can only get better!

WizardOfNG:
Simple. Only redundant and self-delusional thinkers believe one man being President, however talented, can turn Nigeria into Dubai overnight.

We are very different people, with completely unalignable differences and ways of life, that will never be reconcilable.

This means we will always be enemies of each other's progress because we want starkly contrasting and very different things.

Those who want State-sponsored welfarism will do all in their power, when in charge of the Presidency, to frustrate others who believe in private sector-led and innovative/competitive free market democracy.

Those who want religion to dominate statecraft will endorse such when controlling the Presidency to the detriment of those who value secularity in national administration.

Clue to the above is how it was the North most vocally supportive of the effort of some misguided Yorubas to establish Sharia Court in Oyo.

See below to note it was Sultan of Sokoto passionately backing the establishment of Sharia Court in Oyo and Ekiti. What would such a character do if President other than enforce it and then destroy forever the exemplary religious tolerance , from time immemorial, Yorubas have been praised for globally?


https://guardian.ng/news/sultan-backs-sharia-law-in-oyo-ekiti/#google_vignette



According to the Sultan, it is "spate of intolerance and disregard for the rights of Muslim" yet he does not have the humility to accept Yorubas in the majority, Moslems and Christians, do not want not want Sharia Court because we are happy with the status quo we worked hard to establish.


The best thing that can happen is for Nigerians to accept they are very different and thus want different things.

After that we must unitedly reject "One Nigeria' fraud we use to decieve ourselves because such only benefit the elite and ruling class raping the centre to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians.

Next move, if Nigerians in general are discerning and truly seeking progress , should then be uncompromising agitation for us all to go our seperate way per the bolded in your post.

Nigeria, as currently convened, is destined to fail and worsen.