₦airaland Forum

2elliot:
That period in history was a time when young men and women had revolutionary ideas, not now that 50yrs old men and women are without any ideology or direction like pussies and woke feminists. That period was when boys and girls of 18–30 acted like real men with balls, and girls with intellect, not affected by flouride in their paste and water that diminishes their manliness and brains.
The idealogy of the time was pan Africanism and liberation movements. Those young soldiers saw a need to stop the chaos in the south western region–with Awolowo's freedom as their rallying point. This is very important note. If you miss this aspect, then you will miss all.

Excuse me it is the same mistake they are making with the Obidient movement. Even captain Gbuli admitted with the benefit of hindsight that he wouldn’t have staged the coup. There is nothing more dangerous than young people who think they know it all.

I didn’t miss the point. It is irrelevant because the coup failed. I think you missed that point. If you stage a coup and you fail, the consequence is death, no one cares about your intention. The consequence of the coup failure in this case was the handing over to Igbo centric section of the country even though it was never their intention and it was exactly what they were fighting against. But nobody cares about your intention. People only remember the effects, results and consequences.

I repeat in case you missed it that I don’t believe it was an Ibo coup but the consequence of it was to hand over to Igbo centric leadership. I think you miss that point.

DaddyCoool:
You are the one who FOOLISHLY said cities with great night lives are not livable

Like I said your major problem is you lack English comprehension. Saying a section of a city is unlivable is not the same as saying that city is unlivable. Again a man read but does not comprehend yet he calls himself educated! I specifically listed the areas of those cities but you’ve never left your village so what would you know?

Go to school and develop your English comprehension and stop derailing this thread!

DaddyCoool:
All this rambling preaching simply because you're called out as being in error

I live right here in Lagos and love it and it's quite livable FOR ME because I have money and live on Lagos Island - the part with the famed life style that's being referenced! The part of Lagos that has the famed lifestyle that foreigners reference is actually very livable.
So your analysis is totally wrong

Clap for yourself. The thread is about Lagos nightlife. You can create a seperate thread about livability and discuss with yourself instead of the displaying typical new era Nigerian’s poor English comprehension by detailing the thread .

Good. Day!

kettykin:
A fascinating story, but let’s dig deeper. What truly triggered this coup? Wasn’t its original intention to free Awolowo from prison and install him as prime minister? If so, why has history been distorted to present only one side of the story?

As usual, the one sides story seeks but to scapegoat the igbos. No one talks about another group of igbos led by Aguiyi Ironsi and Odumegwu Ojukwu that stepped in to restore government.

I actually believe the coup was not an Ibo coup as such. I sincerely beleive they were a bunch of overzealous immature, deluded misguided but sincere young men who saw themselves as patriots. The problem is that it failed and as a result of its failure, all we witnessed was the unintended effects.

I also believe there has always existed and still exist a band of Ibo expansionists whose views are represented by the Dady Onyeama declaration at the Ibo conference and unfortunately for the coup plotters, they are the ones who took over after the failed coup and started to act in an Ibo centric manner for instance by not trying their coup plotting kinsmen and enacting laws that suggested an Ibo supremacy/conquering agenda.

1: Whether by commission or by omission, the major actors in the coup were Ibos.
2: whether by commission of by omission the major causalities were non Ibos.
3: whether by commission or omission those who got away were the Ibos. Not only were Ibo politicians spared but the Ibo coup plotters were not tried.
4: if my brother kills your brother and I do not offer my apologies for or distance myself from his behavior then it is natural for you to conclude he had my approval.
5: the nature of some of the deaths/murders are unconscionable.
6: the fact that Ibos have never dissociated themselves from the coup but more importantly apologized and also carry on today like a people intent on conquering others only serves to perpetuate the idea that it was an Ibo coup.
7: I draw parallels with the Obidient movement, where you have probably sincere naive young non Ibos who genuinely think Obi will bring the change they desire but haven’t thought it through. IMHO if they succeed they will unleash probably the worst regime in Nigerias history because the real agenda of the Obidient movement will take ove but they will be blamed. The only difference between the Obidient movement and the coup plotters is 1) the coup plotters were in the army and controlled weapons and 2) the failure of the 1966 coup brought negative consequences while the failure of the Obidients is a blessing.

Like I said, with what I know now. I have 98% certainty it was not an Ibo coup. It was just a series of unfortunate coincidences by young revolutionaries and Yorubas at the time looked down on joining the army, so naturally there would be more Ibos involved.

It was not who staged the coup that continues to be the problem but the actions thereafter.

DaddyCoool:
This your write-up is generally untrue.
Rankings of Nightlife by more established media don't have any of these cities in top 5. No cities ranked low in livability rank top 5 in nightlife

Oga please, I know Nairaland is a place for the brain dead but please let us try and discuss matters in a manner that reflects we have benefitted from some level of education. A man is not properly educated if he cannot reason, analyze, seperate issues and arrive at rational dispassionate conclusions based on the parameters and information presented before him. Otherwise he only parades a certificate that shows his ability to remember information on a given test day.

The article is about Lagos’ nightlife. Does Lagos have a vibrant nightlife? The answer is yes. You brought in a totally irrelevant survey about Lagos’ livability. Does Lagos score low on Livability? The answer is yes. Can both coexist? The answer is yes. The article did not say Lagos is a livable city, it said it has a vibrant nightlife!. Don’t be a victim of poor English comprehension, like those who forge degree certificates they don’t need, when the law says minimum qualification is school
Leaving certificate which they have or forge school certificates, when they have a degree.

Can we move on?

DaddyCoool:
I live right here in Lagos and I didn't want to embarrass my great city. I didn't want to expose my city is ranked 170 out of 173 cities, and you've forced me to do just that! See below

**BTW this list has the aforementioned criteria and basis of ranking!

Nightlife and living conditions are 2 different things. In fact the places with the best nightlife all over the world are often not the best places to live. For instance soho in London is a terrible place to live, broadway or Harlem are not the best place to live in Newyork, the ripperbhan is not the best place to live in Hamburg etc etc. So saying Lagos is one of the best nightlife cities is not the same as saying it is a great place to live. Everyone in Lagos knows it isn’t but that is not the subject.

Generally speaking the more vibrant the nightlife, the more unlivable the area comparatively. Vibrant Nightlife comes with crime, drugs, robberies, traffic, noise, pollution, street prostitutes etc. so it goes without saying that the more vibrant the nightlife of an area or a city the more unpleasant it is to live. There is nothing inconsistent with Lagos ranking high on nightlife and low on livability…..infact that is the general expectation. Learn to stick to the issue….the article did not claim Lagos is a nice place to live.

Zionmdde:
See this anumanu
Infact point me to the man that impregnated your mother, it have a water tight condom for him. He shouldn't be adding to the woes of this earth by producing more useless things. You and your half brothers and sisters are already enough

Your responses are consistent with the responses of an uneducated man, a man of low intellect. An agbero, an okada rider, a labourer etc. With every post you continue to prove my point about the quality of your education.

Run along and deliver your POS proceeds for the day to your master. Pos and recharge card is where your “education” can take you.

Zionmdde:
See this one ooo. You are trying to correct an incorrect sentence with another incorrect sentence
Chaiiiii plenty idiots here feeling funky.

Moreover if correct grammar is all education means to you, then I can't really fathom the depth of uselessness that can be attributed to your existence

The reason why you are selling recharge cards and POS despite your degree is because your education is worthless. Those who are properly educated can spot a -poorly educated person just from your CV. That’s why you are rejected everywhere you apply for jobs. A poorly educated person will expose himself without even knowing it. You cannot hide bad education it follows you everywhere like a bad odour.

Anyone with a good education knows that in a deregulated environment govt does not fix prices. The minute you make such a comment, you expose yourself and that’s the end of your opportunities. The only difference is I pointed it out to you while others wouldn’t and you would be none the wiser why your life is the miserable life it is.

Zionmdde:
Lol. It's only a mediocre and a slave that worships schooling abroad.
Asides that, buy your mother's neighbor condoms so he won't end up distributing more useless idiots (sperms) like the one he gave your mother when your father was busy drinking agbo and jedi jedi with his useless friends.
It's not every sperm that is meant to recreate, some are meant for toilet sinks, and you are an evidence

It is not “you are an evidence”. The correct way to say it is “you are evidence”. Again symptom of bad education.

Like I said you would have been better off learning a trade like farming or carpentry. You wouldn’t be on the streets with POS selling money despite your degree. At least you wouldn’t be deluded into thinking you are educated or to think you are qualified to comment on matters way beyond your comprehension or station in life.

Your parents sent you to school and you can’t get a job and when you talk you embarrass your so called education. They did you a great disservice sending you to school. If you hadn’t gone to school you would be no worse than you are now.

Zionmdde:
If not here is a faceless forum you could have dropped a little 1M then we do that argument objectively

So NNPC is a private company to you abi (spare me that PIB bull shit) yet the board is strictly based on political appointment? They tell you with PIB the industry is deregulated, ignorant people like you will shout "O Yes" and that's all. Nobody questions if the industry is truly being deregulated.

You will be here arguing with textbook knowledge without asking yourself if that's the reality on ground. Or you thought that dangote was 100% in charge of fixing the price of petrol. Am sorry for naive people like you who think they know anything

And yes if you don't know how to hold a civilized argument, I will join you and be crass. From nowhere you brought my parents into an argument.

like i said, a certificate, especially from Nigeria's decayed educational system is not evidence you are properly educated as you once again prove. There is a reason parents who know the value of good education move mountains to send their children abroad.....its not because they are all wealthy...its so their children dont end up like you.

if your parents knew the value of good education and recognized what good education is, they wont have sent you to the schools they sent you to. They should not have bothered and your life would have amounted to a lot more if they had sent you to learn a skill instead.

Zionmdde:
At least I got education
Maybe you can go to your parent's neighbor who is your real father and ask him why didn't he just release his useless spermm outside instead of adding another useless idiot to the world

The meaning of what I posted is you are better off not being “educated”. That you went to school and post like a farmer who never went to school shows that certificate does not equal education. Many non educated people are more intelligent than what you posted.

An “educated” man who says the government has control of prices in a deregulated environment clearly is not educated.

There is a difference between educated and well educated. If you went to school and were taught the world is flat, you may call yourself educated but you are uneducated or at best poorly educated.

There are certain things that do not come out of the mouth of a properly educated man. One of which is that the government can fix prices in a deregulated environment.

Zionmdde:
I will tell you 2 things

1. Government has control over the price of petrol

2. Go and read 1 again

Go to your parents and tell them they wasted their money on your education.

Zionmdde:
Can they just keep the price stable? If it's 1000, 1500, 900 etc, just keep the damn price at one place. So price of commodities and stop fluctuating and people can find how to adapt and plan from there

It is a deregulated market. Who are the “they” you speak of because the govt no longer has any control of the price of petrol. Just as it has no control over the price of tomatoes or yams.

rinzaugustine:
My president, the man loved and voted by every Nigerian not the cursed mandate thief that have ruined Nigeria . Look around you at the people criticizing Peter Obi and realize they are only the same well known failures and that will tell you the stuff HE Peter Obi is made of

Comments like this make me realize the problem with the Ibos is they lack credible leadership. That’s why they fall behind any charlatan who steps up in their name. The fact that the Ibos have descended from Azikwe, Onyeama, Okpara to the likes of Kanu, Ekpa and now Obi is a reflection of the failure of the Ibo elites…..shame on them!

To the Ibo professionals and the elite, your people are crying out for credible leadership. Your failure to step up and pick up the mantle is doing damage to the Ibos in the eyes of every other tribe. No will see a people led by Kanu, Ekpa and Obi and take them seriously and that ultimately affects the Ibo professionals and elites! Ibos are now viewed in the image of Kanu, Ekpa and Obi.

Noblechykk:
If it were not that most Nigerians are gullible this kind character will not have a voice

If not that many non ibos are gullible and have been gaslighted, a man like Obi will not have a voice. The same ibos who critici Obi as governor and celebrated his exit are the ones selling him as a messiah and a beacon of purity and sanctimony.

The wise know to the ibos, Obi is all about ibo presidency. The foolishness resides with the non ibos whose brains have been manipulated into promoting an agenda that is manipulative and not in their interest..

Alliswell248:
Stale....
U should by now be extremely tired of this lifestyle.

If you take a look at her profile picture you will realize the calibre of lowlifes one interacts with on Nairaland!

EmperorCaesar:



I have failed in life if Obi becomes the president of my country!

I don’t think anyone can put it any better!

8 days into the new year and I doubt anyone will come up with a better quote in 2025!

Maxymilliano:
Reverse psychology 😂

Na IPOB people so very believable…..they know no other way.

Wainey:
Please if you can't give mature response, don't fill up the front page with drivels.

So I am in a relationship with this lady, but the problem is that she already has three children with her ex, not just one or two but three. Two of the children lives with their father while she lives with one.

Despite this, she is an industrious lady who works for her own wellbeing, though I spent money on her once a while but it's not even half of what she spends on me, that is mostly because she has a better financial muscle than I do.
She is caring, loving and loyal, she doesn't even have friends and has always been all about her career, when I asked why she didn't end up with her ex, she said it was cos of tribalism, I didn't ask further though.

Now, Getting married to a single parent is not something I wanted but I have dated a lot of rubbish in this country, but this lady was nothing like them and letting her go is not something I want right now.

So my question to those that are married to single parent, what difficulties did u face in ur marriage?

Editor: Pix used for illustration

So your role in life as a man is to protect and provide for another man’s bloodline. For this privilege of maintaining another man’s bloodline, your reward is you will never be her priority and you are dispensable. If the father of her children is dispensable, who are you? Don’t forget every divorce or separation started with “I love you”.

That’s all!

Single mothers are meant to be side chics….never get it twisted!

Remember this for the rest of your days: no divorcee, single mother or cheating spouse will ever tell you it’s her fault or it is because she is wayward or has some character defect she is a single mother, she is a divorcee or she is cheating. She has to come at you with a sob story or else how will you look at her. So forget this story of tribalism…..it didn’t stop having 3 kids with him. Remember the father of her 3 children rejected her.

Earthquakes:
Did the government tell you the document was missing?? How about the big banks and foreign companies that invested in landmark?? So the all didn’t do due diligence?
How about the lands with c of o been reallocated in Abuja? No documents too??
You poor today no mean say you go poor tomorrow, one day Nigeria will happen to you and we will ask you same question 😁😂

The matter is very simple. He does not own the water front land. He admitted he tried to buy it from the federal govt but was rejected. That alone is proof, he knows the land does not belong to him.

Now this is the issue, as you rightly pointed out no one would lend you such sums without doing their due diligence. Therefore a man with a brain can clearly see that his business model was not based on the beach. His business model was profitable without the beach but obviously more profitable with the beach. On this basis he was able to obtain his loans. He is simply trying to be too clever by halves. What compensation is he crying out for when he built recreational facilities on land that did not belong to him? Did he pay the government for the use of their land for free for many years? When he tells you he invested millions in the resort, the money is in the high rise buildings, the hotels, the events center etc. those are on the land on which he holds proper documents and no one has taken away from him. I am almost certain that his investment in the beach side (which never belonged to him) is less than $1m if that and I am sure he has recouped his money.

kettykin:
The relocation wave is surging with intensity. Landmark Group has boldly uprooted and shifted its entire operations. One can only hope that the dominant Niger Delta-owned banks and oil giants will seize the moment, relocating their headquarters—or at least a significant part of their operations—to Port Harcourt. Failure to act now risks leaving the region vulnerable to the next toxic chapter of political neglect and economic marginalization as the proverbial cock crows its timely warning.

Any relocation from Lagos is welcome. Lagos is overcrowded and the quality of life is terrible. More companies should be encouraged to relocated to develop other areas of the country. The new tax bill will help in this regard.

LibertyRep:
Atiku too deserves some credit for thwarting the infamous 3rd term agenda.

Atiku was only protecting himself and looking out for his own interests……as usual!

meine:
Why are some northerners so obsessed with the presidency? .

Because after the 1966 counter coup, when they exacted their revenge and wanted to seperate from Nigeria, the British advised them that can you not see what Ironsi has done for you with the unification decree? The country now belongs to you. Since then they have moved from a region that was afraid to be part of Nigeria to a region that feels it is it’s right to rule Nigeria.

You start a thread praying for Peter Obi to be president of Nigeria. Within the 1st 10 responses, simply because someone says he will never be president without mentioning Ibos, Biafra or IPOB, you are already abusing other tribes, talking about Secession and Biafra.

We are not stupid. This is why Obi or any Biafra or IPOB sympathizer will never be a president of Nigeria. He can go an live in the gutters or IDP camps and carry his photographers along, understand this truth: Peter Obi is not the Ibo man that will be President of Nigeria! I have said this many times, Peter Obi is unelectable, the quicker you turn your backs on Obi and find a more acceptable Ibo candidate, the quicker you start the journey to an Ibo presidency. You have not started the journey, Obi is just wasting your time and efforts. When you find the man you will have to start again from scratch.

You have no political base yet you want to be president. You say no to Godfatherism yet you want a Godfather to endorse you. The man refused to endorse anybody, let the best man win, 2 years after you are still bitter. As if you worked to be VP in the 1st place, as if you could even win your ward in the elections, as if he didn’t have to transfer his PU away from VGC after losing woefully in 2019!

unbiasedTruth:
Agbado statistician
Fuel is N1k

NNPC is selling for N935, the station next to it is selling for N1070. Go and drill your own crude, refine it and sell for N180!



The market has been opened to all!

Eeediots!

unbiasedTruth:
Oh! N925 is far better than the N186 Tinubu met it!
Hurray!

I’m sure you also think the 97% debt service to Revenue ratio he inherited is better than the 63% now.

If they want to be acknowledged by the governor then they should not have behaved they way they did.

The governor’s obligation is to the late governor not his family. Ondo people did not elect Jide or his mother. If they want to be acknowledged then they shouldn’t disrespect the governor.

Susily:
Well, if the kids turn out to be yours after DNA test, then you have nothing to worry about whether she leaves or not

You want your children to come from a broken home? Don’t be daft!

Abeg leave ElRufai alone o! I don’t know what happened between ElRufai and Tinubu but he would not be president today without ElRufai. Apart from that he is also a man whose intellect and progressive credentials I respect.

I will never join anyone in speaking against Mallam. Without him we would have Lawan or Atiku as president.


Reno is an intelligent man who is available for anywhere belle face!

aylipple:
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if they’re under a spell; they’ve been showing their hands quite too early.

Meanwhile the man they’re battling to unseat has kept his own cards very close to his chest that no one can say with 100% certainty what his next moves will be; personally, I have a strong suspicion he may not even seek re-election but instead back someone in his cabinet from the north (think Health Minister or NSA); the best Shettima will get is what he’s currently getting - Vice President!

However, if he decides to run, the opposition may just be repeating the blatant mistakes of 2023 if they don’t close ranks and forego personal ambitions.

Sometimes I wonder if Tinubu cares about a second term and I have said as such on this platform. What I do know is if Tinubu wants a second term he will get his second term. If he is planning for just one term, he will make the moves such that his legacy will be perfected in his 1st term and you can’t undo it. For instance, no one (despite what they preach today) is coming to reintroduce forex and fuel subsidies. If he succeeds with the tax laws no one is going to scrap it, no one is going to scrap state police or lG autonomy if they are made laws.