₦airaland Forum

I don't see anything wrong in giving to the less privileged but why must the government do it
Can't mosques and Islamic charity organization rally up funds to feed the poor themselves. Giving to the poor is what makes a good person.
This way the government can spend money developing the state so that there will be less poor people to feed.

AlfaSeltzer:
I know you won't understand. Let me try again.

What I am stealing does not belong to Igboland but rather to Nigeria. An Igbo proverb captures the situation quite well: a goat owned by the public grows thinner than one owned privately.

I buy a car, I take good care of it. Me, Adamu and Dele buy a car together to share, how do you think that car would look in a few months?

You can say that but at the end of the day the money that you're stealing was most likely supposed to be for your Igbo brothers and sisters so the people that you're hurting the most from your thievery is your fellow Igbos, not Nigeria as a whole.

I dont believe the N5000 per month is a bad idea but it is just not realistic in Nigeria currently. We do not have the right institution to distribute money. Most of the money will likely end up in the wrong hands and not reach the people it is meant to be for. How would we know if someone seeking the money is even Nigerian, poor or does not already have a job?
Nigeria is also right now currently working on a tighter budget. We should finding ways to cut cost not increase them. If this project would even be viable on the long term, it would require tax payments from citizens.
The money for this project should instead be used to create jobs and develop infrastructure.
20 or 30 years down the road when Nigeria (hopefully) more developed then this proposal should be considered again.

hansad:
PMB does not seem to understand that north of Nigeria is like Somalia - more or less. But he is focused on those he called crazy people that talk about splitting up the country.

Methinks, for Buhari and his fellow travellers on the boat of one indivisible Nigeria, so long as crude oil flows from the Niger delta areas, Nigeria is intact for them - no problems.

It's only a most diffident lot who brlieve they can't survive in a country without crude oil who would want to belong to a country like Nigeria wrecked by Boko Haram.
Boko Haram says it's fighting for a country friendly with sharia criminal justice system, sharia criminal justice system also adopted by 12 northern states before Boko Haram emerged.

Boko Haram persists in Nigeria because it has millions of people in northern Nigeria with whom it shares the same aspirations for a country governed by sharia criminal justice system.

If Nigeria splits into several different countries who then will deal with Boko Haram? The north would not have the resources or the will to do so and will eventually be devoured by Boko Haram. After devouring the north they will eventually creep into the south. If the whole Nigerian army is having a difficult time with Boko Haram, it would be much difficult for smaller nations to deal with it, especially when they would be dealing with a larger Boko Haram army.
The problem of Boko Haram will not just end if Nigeria splits into smaller countries but would actually worsen it. It would be better if the Boko Haram insurgency was minimized as much as possible before we entertain the idea of splitting up.

I agree with some of your points about Boko Haram and Nigeria but I do not agree that splitting up into different countries would magically solve all the problems and keep us permanently away from the insurgency raging in North Eastern Nigeria.

Amazing!
He's doing Nigeria proud

This is not true. I have searched all over the internet I do not see any other online sources reporting this news.
Please news should be confirmed before they appear on the front page.

mama777:
i dnt see anytin wrong in this.what are their crime,at least they are better than those that aborted theirs.whats wrong wit dis our police and country.let dem be

Selling of babies is illegal and so is prostitution. (How did these girls get pregnant?)

Bonsoir mes amis
Mon français est mal et simple mais j'apprends.
Je n'aime pas le français parce que je pense la langue est difficile mais l'est utile.

fr3do:
The parents should let the woman be!
Is it by force to be white?

I think that the problem is that she lied. She even sent fake hate mail to herself so that she could pretend that people were being racist towards her because she was "black"

I don't understand the problem
He was a thief and he was fired
I would prefer if he was sent packing to jail sef

VickJames:
This process has been going before Buhari got into government. Since GEJ started doing deals with the russians, they found out that they can do business in and with Nigerians. Russians are very good and straightforward with business. I'll love them to be in this country.

People shouting "we're not ready for nuclear", I tell you, the only solution to our power failure is nuclear power generation. If its going to take us paying whites to maintain it, its a good deal.

If you really want nuclear power plants so badly please let it be installed in your village. One leak from that plant would you reduce your village to a wasteland. No one will be able to grow food for hundreds of years and result in deformed babies.
I do not trust the Nigerian government to manage the plant as they cannot even manage and minimize oil spills. Countries better governed than Nigeria have had nuclear leaks so with Nigeria it's not the case of if a Nuclear leak would happen but when. Imagine how devastating one would be in Nigeria.
Using Nuclear energy in Nigeria would be a BIG mistake and I would rather be without light for a 1000 nights than have a nuclear power plant built in my country.

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In a sharia state
If he cheated on his wife, I expect him to be treated like how women a treated in the north when accused of commiting adultery.

Bad idea
Many European countries are already regretting switching to the Euro
Most African countries do not have a stable or strong economy. Switching to one currency means that if one African country is having a bad year economically, it would affect the other African countries as well.
Nigeria has more to lose than gain from a single currency.

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The biological parents of a prominent civil rights activist in Washington state have claimed that she has been misrepresenting herself as a black woman when her heritage is white.

Rachel Dolezal is an academic, chair of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission in the Washington city of Spokane and president of the city’s chapter of African American civil rights organisation the NAACP.

Dolezal, professor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, where she specialises in Black Studies and African American culture, has regularly spoken out on local media about racial justice.

But this week, in a recorded interview with the local Spokane news channel KREM 2 News, the Dolezals said their daughter’s biological heritage was not African American, but German and Czech, with traces of Native American ancestry.

Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal said their daughter had black adopted siblings, and attended school in Mississippi where her social circle had been primarily African American, later marrying and subsequently divorcing an African American man.

Her parents claim that, post-divorce in 2004, her daughter began to adapt her appearance. “Rachel has wanted to be somebody she’s not. She’s chosen not to just be herself but to represent herself as an African American woman or a biracial person. And that’s simply not true,” Mrs Dolezal said.

In the news video, the Dolezals displayed pictures of their daughter as a blonde child, and also at her wedding several years ago. The couple later provided a copy of their daughter’s birth certificate to the Spokesman-Review newspaper.
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Dolezal has since told local media that she is not in touch with the Dolezals because of an ongoing lawsuit, and does not view them as her real parents.

The 37-year-old told the Spokesman Review on Thursday she would prioritise speaking to her executive committee before commenting on speculation in the media. “I feel like I owe my executive committee a conversation,” she said, adding the subject was a “multi-layered issue”.

“The question is not as easy as it seems. There’s a lot of complexities … and I don’t know that everyone would understand that. We’re all from the African continent.”

A statement from Spokane City Hall said Dolezal had listed her ethnicity as a mix of white, black and American Indian, as well as a number of others, in an application to the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission.

“We are gathering facts to determine if any city policies related to volunteer boards and commissions have been violated,” the mayor, David Condon, and the council president, Ben Stuckart, said in a joint statement. “That information will be reviewed by the city council, which has oversight of city boards and commissions.”

James Wilburn, former president of the Spokane NAACP chapter, told the CDA press that Dolezal’s race was not what had qualified her for the position in the organisation.

“It is traditional to have a person of colour in that position, but that hasn’t always been the case in Spokane,” Wilburn said. A woman of European descent was president in the 1990s, he added, and half of the chapter members were not black. “That is probably a result of the fact that only 1.9% of the population in Spokane is African-American,” he said.

In Dolezal’s numerous writings on civil rights issues, she does not discuss her own ethnicity in detail, but in several pieces she uses idioms such as “our cultural memory” when speaking about African American history.

Dolezal had also posted a Facebook photo with an older African American man, whom she describes in the caption as her father, but described by the CDA press as Albert Wilkerson, a volunteer at the organisation where Dolezal was previously employed, the Human Rights Education Institute in north Idaho.

In an interview about her portrait art with magazine the Easterner, Dolezal described a traumatic upbringing, where her parents would “punish us by skin complexion”. She also described being raised in a teepee and hunting food with a bow and arrow. Her parents now say they had indeed lived in a teepee, but before their daughter was born.

The NAACP president has been a regular face at local demonstrations and on TV channels, and has made the news on numerous occasions for the graphic hate mail she received, including nooses left at her home.

In one of the most recent incidents, Dolezal found an envelope containing pictures of lynchings in the organisation’s postbox at the local post office. Postal workers later told police the envelope had never been posted, and had been placed in the box by someone who had an access key.

source:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/civil-rights-activist-rachel-dolezal-misrepresented-herself-as-black-claim-parents


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PaulJohn1:
Well... Let's say they developed colony nation they settled in like those you listed above, unfortunately Nigeria doesn't seem to be one of them.

I'm not sure why you would wish to be one of those nations. In places where colonist settled in, natives were purposefully killed like in Canada and the US. The ones that remained were stripped of their culture and language. Many natives in North America are among the poorest. If enough natives couldn't be killed, they were treated as third class citizens as in the case of apatheid SA. Even now post-apatheid SA, there is still a very large wealth gap between black and white people. Many black people are still living in poverty. It's is the white people that own most of the big businesses and the economy. At least in Nigeria we can still say that we developed Nigeria ourselves.

As a Nigerian and Yoruba I was really embarrassed by the protest and I want to assure you that it doesn't reflect the beliefs of most Yoruba people.

PaulJohn1:
They didn't colonise any nation to make such nation advanced, but to get the best of her minerals for the betterment of their people.

It's left for the colonies to manage infrastructures put in place for the extraction and trasportation of what they came to get.
BTW, our longest railway line today (Kano-Lagos) and our most functional seaports were built by them.

China and Brasil were never advanced when they got their independence. It's a different story today. Remeber, same UK also colonised the US.

Not true. Countries like Nigeria and much of Africa in which the Europeans never planned to live in were never developed. All the infrastructure that was created by colonizers was for the purpose of efficient extraction of our resources. Countries like US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and even South Africa were developed with the help of the colonists because so many Europeans moved to those places.

Buhari never promised that and even if he did, it would be a stupid promise to make.
It's better fo developing countries to keep their currencies weak especially when the country relies on exports to generate revenue.
It helps to keep prices lower which results in more goods being sold.
There is a reason why countries like China and South Korea keep their currency weak in comparison to the US. They both export more than they import while the US although it is a strong economy is riddled with debt. Most oil producing country are low so increasing ours to N1 = $1 would put us at a serious disadvantage. Making N1 = $1 will only make the Nigerian economy worse not better.
What Nigeria needs to do is stabalize the Naira. Right now inflation is very high. This slows investment and growth which is not good for the economy.

Johntobi56:
Wow even without Lagos yoruba land is still the richest ! Did they add Kwara and KOGI yoruba

No just strictly SW
Oyo- $16.1B
Ogun-$10.5B
Ondo-$8.4B
Osun-$7.3B
Ekiti-$2.8B
Total: $45B
Lagos- $33.7B

Rose2014:
There is also high presence of other tribes in Nigeria in Ibadan for example. I'm talking of average Yoruba man contribution to Nigeria GDP growth

SS
$75B

SW
$79B
SW without Lagos
$45B

SE
$37B

NC
$30B
NC + FCT
$35B

NW
$44B

NE
$22B
source: http://services.gov.ng/states

Niger is the state with the lowest poverty rate which is 33.8%. It was followed by Osun (37.9%) and Ondo (45.7%).

Bayelsa (47%) and Lagos (48.6%) have less than 50% poverty rate.

The average poverty rate in the Northwest geopolitical zone is 71.4%, which remained the highest in the said area.

It is followed by the Northeast region which has 69.1% and the North central region which has 60.7%.

Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).

source: http://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

The SW does well in both statistical data and is probably the region that is trying the hardest to reduce its dependence of oil. If the Yorubas contributed so little to SW GDP, why can't other tribes replicate the SW development in their own states? Why is it that 4 Yorubas are in the top ten richest Nigerian list when Yorubas only make up 21% of the population?

Rose2014:
When u talk about SW you mean Lagos right?
All tribes in Nigeria contribute to Lagos revenue. Yoruba contribution may be insignificant sef

Well except if 'owoda' and 'Agbero' are part of the contribution

No I mean SW. Oyo and Ogun also contribute significantly to SW GDP. Their GDP is higher than most SE states

Rose2014:
It seems you're having comprehension problem and I urge to go back to bed ASAP

Oya read my lips: Igbos have never depended on Nigeria oil since 1914
Most SE states have oil too but we don't depend on it.

Depending only on oil for daily bread is a characteristic of Yor.bas hence I rejoice with them at this news

That's not true. The SW and SS are the only geopolitical regions that generate more revenue than the allocations they receive. All other regions depend far more on allocations.

eaglechild:
Source with dates or else this is junk.

here
http://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html
The data was collected by the National Bureau of Statistics

jomoh:
I beg to disagree a little. They are obviously allies but looking at the aftermath of countries they have helped, you can't but accept that the french are better off. Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Sudan, Mali are examples of countries with majorly French interventions. Everyone knows all the countries USA has intervened and how "well" they have fared after.

French armies do seem to have better results in Africa than the US in the Middle East but it comes as a high price. Many Francophone countries in Africa are not truly independent- or as independent as some other African countries. France has a huge say in who they elect and the policies they employ.

If the USA does help with Boko Haram, I hope it doesn't lead to the destruction of Nigeria and that our country doesn't become lap dogs to the US like some francophone countries

When I first saw the title of the thread I was horrified and extremely angry but after reading the posts in this thread it seems that law was created to impose further sanctions of people who rape minors and it doesn't actually lower the age of consent It is a welcome development but the law should definitely apply to children over the age of 11. It is appalling that although we are in the 21st century we still are not able to create laws to protect innocent children from pedophiles.

I prefer to stay as one Nation.
We're stronger as one. We have a bigger and more diverse economy, bigger army and greater political influence. If we were to split to smaller countries, it would be easier for foreign countries like China and the USA to control us through neocolonism.

AdeluwaTemi:
I knew it, my mind kept telling me that this fraudsters would be yoruba.


our governors should do something about the high rate of crime in our region

I definitely agree with you.
If we can get rid of most of the fraudsters in our region, it would mean less crime which would lead to a more prosperous south west.

Good write up

Lovely pictures

pazienza:
When did you and other hypocrite Nigerians condemn Saraduna and Akintola's anti Igbo rants?

Don't you lots still revere those men and their actions?

Take you sanctimonious platitudes to somewhere else.

I wasn't around during the 1960s so I do not know what fully happened during those days but I was around when the Oba of Lagos threatened Igbos. Many prominent Yoruba people condemned what the oba did and so did many ordinary Lagosians. As people we should try and learn from the mistakes of the past.


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