₦airaland Forum

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Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

Nairaland loves Igbos and Niger Deltans very much. The thought of being separated from them for any reason is unbearable to us, so we have decided that we will reject any attempt by anyone to use Nairaland to promote the idea of removing Igbos and Niger Deltans from Nigeria.

We have updated rule 9 of Nairaland to reflect this decision. It now says:


I'd like to urge all Nairaland members to respect and obey rule 9. Mynd44 is in charge of enforcing it. If you break this rule, you'll be banned.

Thanks,
Seun (Founder Of Nairaland).

With the rate of comments coming in, this is just to show that there are more Igbos on this forum, or maybe the yorubas aren't ready to comment.

But left to me, I think this is a good decision. We are clamouring for freedom of rights now, and yet when we get to from of military or even technocrats or better still, popular politicians body guard, we shut up.

Sometimes, when freedom of speech abuses its purpose, the best thing is to control it, and in this scenario, Seun did the best.

Note:
I am indifferent about Biafra, whether or not the igbo people leave, Nigeria would remain Nigeria, but for sanity to remain on this forum, I think this is a wise decision.

Kudos, egbon.
My respect for you just elevated.

stanuplane:
Bleep off my mentions dude. I aint got no beef with you. Unless you re one of em monkeys.

And you must quote back'
Du*b F@ck.

stanuplane:
Mark Z clearly understands that bokoharam have not killed a single human in northern Nigeria, just good old baboons and monkeys.

And you said something meaningful.

Can someone give these guy a dollar for posting his deepest thoughts...

Shallow fellow.

adekunle0000:
Killing Muhammad Yusuf did not stop Boko Haram. Imprisoning Nelson Mandela did not stop the ANC. Prosecuting the Waldenses did not stop the Reformation. The death of Ken Saro Wiwa did not put an end to environmental activism. The imprisonment of Lenin this not stop the Russian Communists. The imprisonment of Adolf Hitler only was his greatest grand entry into German politics. The assassination of Martin Luther King did not stop the civil right movements. The expelling of Fidel Castro from Cuba by the Batista government did not stop Cuba from falling under communist rule. 22 years of Mao Zedong's (Chairman Mao) stay in the harsh Chinese wilderness only strengthened his resolute in initiating the Chinese revolution. The fall of France in the second world war only presented a stage for the French liberator Charles de Gaulle to rise. The death of Osama Bin Laden was not the death of radical Islamic jihadism. The killing of Che Ernesto Guevara is not the killing of the guerrilla warfare. The death of Jesus Christ was only the marvelous beginning of the radical Christ movements.‪#‎FREE‬ NNAMDI KANU NOW FOR THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE CONSEQUENCES.

And you continue to deceive yourself.. ..
I imagine you are a resident in the western region, aren't you?

What killed Marcus Garvey?.

lestat:
Sharrap!!! I am igbo and I don't recodnize or associate with Biafra!!!
Yes seun is a tribalist but you biafran enthusiasts are worse!!
As in I have not the slightest understanding of what the biafran ideology is about! Yet you want all igbos support?
Back then yes there was an attempted genocide so Ojukwu formed it to save our people and I respect him for that but today there's no attempted genocide!!
Yes tribalism is very high in Nigeria but all tribes are guilty!!!
So why form Biafra over something that even we are guilty of? Or is it marginalization?? My dear instead of crying that our region is under developed let's hold all our governors accountable or is it the yorubas and hausas stopping our governors from tackling the crippling erosion in Anambra?!! Or the filth lining all the streets in Abia?!! Or the total lack of security in South eastern states?!!!
F00lish illiterate!!! The governors in south east are not doing anything meaningful now so it's Biafra that will make them act?!!
Have u guys even carried out an opinion poll of all igbos to see how many are even interested in this rubbish dream to form biafra?
My dear u guys are a bunch of thieves who want to form a lawless region where u can oppress and defraud the people !!!

If u really cared about igbos start holding the present south eastern governors to account!!
Make them build schools, good roads, independent power projects, improve security by installing cctvs everywhere!
Make them equip the hospitals! Make them subsidize education, make them arrest importers of fake and substandard goods!!!

Animals in human skin!

Spot on.

THE NIGERIAN EXPO?


Attending the ‘somewhat’ Architecture Expo of the University of Lagos – Nigeria, got a number of people thinking in different manners and forms, and it also did me. I used the word ‘somewhat’, because in respect to architecture expo’s occurring the world over, on a yearly basis, ours was like a spit in the desert. Nonetheless, Rome was not built in a day. The fact that something of this manner is just being birthed speaks volumes of how below we are as a country and as Black peoples. Needless to say even as youths. Again, nonetheless, the effort must first be commended.
The first architecture expo (I stand to be corrected) of the Department of Architecture, University of Lagos took place on a Wednesday the 16th of September 2015; with little to no aplomb. It featured as usual ‘potentials’ of great architects, artists and art creatives. When we shall break beyond the barrier of potentials is a matter of another day. Featuring also were enthusiasts; critics; lecturers; and big players in the architecture/construction industry – the FMAs, the James Cubitts, ACCLs.
Of course! Far from it, that this be an appraisal to wax lyrically on the beauties of the ARCHIEXPO, ‪#‎UNILAG‬. It is rather a stark opposite. Faced with my own challenges like any other human being on this surface earth. It never did cross my mind, that I would attend a single event of the UNILAG architecture week, (not that I would be missed anyway). But upon seeing a poster bill for the exhibition event, it did spark some of my interest. So fast-forward to the end of the exhibition. You have postgraduate students commending this feat. The pride they felt that their school could execute such progressive event; and also the shame on their, our faces that we could not think of, or achieve this (again) progressive feat. Instead what we all saw in our times’ were houseparties, costume days (parties) and cultural days – where we all donned our agbádás, dansiki’s, bùbá and ìró’s in stupid pride, as if to say we wore them every day in that ‘stupid’ pride.
So, take a walk every second semester of every session in the University of Lagos, and you will see banners upon banners of Law Week, Engineering Week, Science Week, and all sorts of weeks. And like we students all know this so-called Weeks have nothing to do with the nouns preceding them; except for a single day. The much heralded corporate day; where less than ten percent of students from the department partakes in. And where we all wear thick padded suits-and-ties like we are all corporate slaves. But that again is another matter for another day. Thus the fact that the University of Lagos had a student organised architecture expo is a sixty watt bulb in a dark hall. How long the sixty watt bulb will last, and how quickly it will be joined by a thousand more 1000+ watt bulbs, is left to be seen.
Early this week with a group of mind-liked colleagues discussing on the issues of Africa. It was obliviously brushed upon – the fact that ideas that made up the current riches and wealth of the Silicon Valley began in Jaja-like halls of somewhat universities, like the University of Lagos. Of course we all laughed aloud the ironic comparison of the products of the King Jaja Hall to the halls of the Harvard University. Again, another fact of our below-filth status – as Youths. Pass the buck all you want, to the government, the teachers, leaders, the educational system, etc. It must however be said that ‘we’ have done nothing as a generation to affect positive (technological) changes in our environment or country. All you have hither and thither are paltry calf-like efforts scattered haphazardly over this semi-wasteland. So upon typing this talk-is-cheap-like piece, I wondered why we do not have (student organised) University of Lagos; Engineering Expos, Science Expos, Law Expos, Art Expos, and the likes. Instead all we have are InExcess Beach Parties, Grind House parties, Engineering barbecue nights et al. Of course proponents of the aforementioned’s would argue that “all work and no play, makes Jìmí a dull boy”. But trust me, Jìmí is more than a dull boy, he is a confused African, and ‘all work’ is not even sufficient to save him. Some would also argue that school is not made for them or they were not made for school, that instead, “owó ni kókó” ‪#‎davido‬. This also, of course, another discourse for another day. But I shall restate that these are all mumming’s of the confused African youth. As Walter Rodney rightly put, “… youths and young adults are human agents from whom inventiveness springs”, but all I see, and all we are, are confuse, dried up African springs. There are barely iotas of inventive springs in this country, not to talk of inventive wells (of course they are also dried up) – and where these inventive iotas exist we are brain-drained of them. That also is another topic, for another day. Using also another excerpt from Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, “… in the German Democratic Republic, the youth established a ‘Young Innovators’ Fair in 1958, calling upon the intellectual creativity of socialist youth, so that within ten years over 2,000 new inventions were presented at that fair”. Of course I stand to be corrected, but I think not that there exists an invention fair in this Giant-of-Africa country of ours. There is no culture of Science fairs in primary schools (which is the foundation) so it is not too surprising that African youths in the university do not give a hoot about expos. It was only some years ago that I watched on television a science fair for public schools in Lagos state supported by the then Fásholá administration. How long that will or is still lasting, only time will tell. Although elite schools mainly on the Lagos Island are beginning to play with the idea of science fairs in primary and secondary schools. But how much of an effect it will have on the Nigerian populace remains to be seen in the near future. Or the fact that these children of aristocrats will mainly be shipped abroad, only to return – if willing – to a group of peoples with whom they have little to no connection with or even know about, and even later preside over or represent in political matters, as ‘they’ claim to do. ‪#‎nigeriansenators‬
Another buttressing point, of which we are too oblivious to the fact, and have been gullible to, for far too long; is one of Trade Fairs. The Lagos Trade Fair is about the most popular of them all, featuring mainly imported products and little (to no) Nigerian made products. And just as the aforementioned fair suggests, we have become like our forebears “too concerned with ‘trade’ than with ‘production or invention´. Therefore we will remain, if not otherwise a dependent poor and confused country. Hopefully we will also not declare without shame in the days when our youth has departed us and proclaim that, “My generation has failed this country”. ‪#‎GEJ‬
You can call it what you want or analyse it how you see it. But this is just a young African airing the saddening views of the Nigerian educational system and its ‘prospects’. Prospects who cannot wait, but to get to the top and have a share also of the national cake. Prospects who cry every four years of how they ought to be leaders of the so-called tomorrow, but in truth cannot wait to also grab a seat of power for themselves and their household. Prospects who complain that Nigeria is this and that, but cannot also wait, but to loot of the nation’s treasury. Prospects, who are confused.

Ayeni Olajide

Illiterates...

Not to you Op, but to the stinky, razz dogs. We don't need to go to far to know their story, by their words.. We know them.

Op, Nice work, sha... I mean the " popularity stunt".. Na you gangan be CIA, dey investigate,.. You sef get your own tory. But we no go discuss am.

Let's tell Ourselves the Bitter-truth, the cloth is bad.

You see, most of us would come here, complain to OP, say shitty stuff about the OP, forgetting that most of us(especially the men) won't take this. I mean, On your wedding day??

Is this the new definition of freedom? The new definition of vouge? Of style, expressing yourself? Really?

Do you want to be remembered on your wedding day for wearing something that irritating...

You forget, your kids would view the pictures, and if you are lucky, your future grand-kids, would do that.

Where is the moral sense, here? The cultural value of Nigerians, really? Fine, its a Customary wedding, a supposed "western tradition", but last I checked, they didn't mandate you to dress provocatively.

I mean, you must have worn this to church!!!

So what are we saying here, let's call a spade a spade. It's trashy,! At least, not on your wedding day. Your Husband, doesn't neccessarily need to tell the difference between what is right and wrong...

Its called common sense.

The OP is very Correct, Use tramadol, at your own peril. It has its side effects, future and even now, if not later.

Could have discussed a friend's experienceas an analogy, but no time for that.

In My World, Only Gays Are Friends With Women.

That's all.

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Palmwinetapper:
Lol own up to what

Own up to who you are,...?

So Tapper, We like Muna, and We want to see more of Muna pics, But your Relationship with Muna must be stated. It leaves a cloud over Us, Alright.

I mean, you could as well just own up...

Everything about Women Sha..


How to poison a man?

Eat his Scr**um everyday.

Hey guys,

In search of Building Constructions, Architectural designs, Real estates network.

Thanks.

12 Universities??

Where are they? Why do all Jonathan's project seem either invicinble, un-convincing or just rushed?

Schools that in the next 15-20 years they would still be fighting for accreditations.

Not to be a complete hater, where were these projects when Nigerians asked for GEJ's achievements. When everyone wanted to know what he did for four years, see what I said about rushed work.

I beg, who registered for this Uni, should just share please.

Montaque:
#Fasholajoker
So he takes the blame abi?

#Jonathan's butt licker
Under whose tenure?

levelszik:
God doesn't speak from both sides of the mouth.mbaka praised jonathan in december and rubbished him in february,what manner of man is that?

But was Mbaka wrong in criticising GEJ. He said it as it is.

Montaque:
who has he killed bro?

Does he need to Point gun or order people before we conclude that "the blod under his administation is too much". He(the person you quoted) never said he killed.

He said the blood shed is too much.

These Jonathan supporters sha.

When the news first cam out, a lot of them would be bittered(not because fashola blamed jonathan really, but because they had no counter-excuses).

Now, they have seen "a-not-so-good-enough" excuse. That's definitely what they have being waiting for. They would worship it whole-heartedly.

Do you need a soothe-sayer, to tell u that as the President of the country arriving in a state especially one that is not his day-to-day abode, his security is the prime purpose of nearly half or very well above quarter of the security officers available.

All security officers wouldn't and can't be at the same location.

OP, please be wise.

2011 or so when Jonathan came to lagos, we(my friends and I) were locked down at ikorodu road(palmgrove) to be precise, traffic at a spot for more than 3 hours. From 5pm till 8pm. Jonathan arrived around 7:30pm.
His route was airport road, ours was going to ketu.

Please OP, be more critical when coming to conclusions.

Belovedd:
Arsenal to play entertaining football
Monaco to qualify
Arsenal to return by bus

Simple and short

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] COOOOOMMMMEEEE OOOONNNN YOOOOOUUUU GUUUUNNNNNEEERRRSSSHHHH!!!!! [/color]

Lol! Don't shit on yourself bro.