₦airaland Forum

onetimepro:
This is opportunity to own a plot of land in government scheme with a small amount of money! Block:56 Plot:33 and 737.846sqmtrs. Call me on 08034276805

How small is the amount ?. I am interested. Is Isheri North in Ogun state ?. You could send a mail to chinomnazu@yahoo.com. There are other issues to discuss.

cyberak:
You are from Imo State but married to a Yoruba man, how have you been able to sustain your marriage for 25 years?

It has been wonderful. I couldn’t have married an Igbo man. If I was 20 years younger, I probably would have been married to an Igbo man. I have never met an Igbo man, particularly my age group, who isn’t heavy handed, extremely insecure, have fragile ego — they have to press their wife under the carpet to feel like the man of the house. All my friends are married to Yoruba men and we all hang out with no issues. The Yoruba men are civilised, confident — I am sorry but that is the truth. The younger generation of Igbo men are like that now. But when I was of dating and of the marriageable age, Igbo men like my husband didn’t exist. Adekunle is a fully emancipated confident man. He does have his issues like all men, but our union is a day in, day out work in progress thing. He is a kind man, a deep and quiet person. I have found him very fascinating as he has been able to keep my interest all through these years. He can be difficult and mischievous, but he is a very interesting person. He is also very supportive, he believes in me more than I believe in myself.

Uche Majekodunmi’s [b][/b][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]interview in Nigeria’s Sunday Punch of 06 22 2012.

Get the f*ck outta here. you're quoting Uche Majekodumni. Look where she married into.  All she saw was the naira and dollar signs. You're talking as if she married a Yoruba clerk working at Agege LG. Any Igbo girl would marry Adenuga or Otedola's son anyday. Yoruba or not. Or do you expect Uche to tell the press the real reason she married this particular Yoruba man. Don't be naieve, my friend

freecocoa:
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Its genuine I'm a zillion% sure,mod r321 will PM you the acc details,only mods can do that. thank you as you donate.

@freecocoa, i don't quite understand that picture of a beautiful baby. Are you saying that is what you will get from marrying an IGBO man (Beautiful babies) as opposed to marrying a Yoruba man and having children that look like baboons ala Iyabo OBJ.

In anycase, Yoruba woman are much more hornier than Igbo women. I love me some Yoruba babe in bed. They're so Hot that they're already wet on the way to your house. And that booty !. I wil take that anytime.
Generally speaking, I LIKE THOSE YOU LIKE ME.

** The civil war should be totally left out of this discussion. It's of no consequence**

[quote author=Bandit C. link=topic=849209.msg10013276#msg10013276 date=1327139341]For me personally, I just do not care about yorubas and their existence is irrelevant to me. I do not hate them because I do not see them as that important to my existence to confer such strong emotion towards them.

Everything about them is inconsequential to me. I cannot date their women, would deliberately not befriend them or approach them for any cooperation, unless situation demands that, don't find their lifestyle or appearances appealing to me and just simply don't deem them viable to anything in my life.

It is not hate and I view them just as I would view distant somalis, irrelevant.

My plane drops at MMA and I'm on the next route to my homeland and have no time to observe them in lagos.

If Nigeria ceases today, I wouldn't say there's anything about them that I would miss.

That is my stance, on and offline.[/quote]He is entitled to his opinion. What he said has an element of truth to it. Most Igbos in Lagos have absolutely no contact with Yoruba people. The only time they speak to a Yoruba person is perharps when they want to buy Akara or to the bus conductor. For some reason, most Igbos give them a wide berth. Must have something to do with their very UNRELIABLE NATURE. Yorubas will call the police on you for the stupidest of reasons

This is a very pathetic, below-the-belt attempt to look for that single Igbo man involved in this subsidy scandal. Why did'nt you quote The Guardian, The Nation or even Vanguard. "pointblanknews.com"!!. What is that. You guys are getting desperate. WE KNOW WHO THE REAL SUBSIDY THIEVES ARE.  Stop this ridiculous attempt to malign the Igbos. This is too opportunistic.
Your jealousies and insecurities know no bounds. A VERY SAD AND PATHETIC POST[size=8pt].

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=848181.msg9984714#msg9984714 date=1326807813]OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
A Country’s Frustration, Fueled Overnight

By CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Published: January 16, 2012


Lagos, Nigeria

ON New Year’s Day, in my ancestral hometown of Abba in Anambra State in eastern Nigeria, my family and I woke up to unbelievable news: the price of petrol had doubled. Overnight, the government had removed what it called the subsidy on fuel, and almost immediately, transport fares exploded and food prices rose astronomically. It used to cost 4,000 naira — about $25 — to fill my petrol tank. Then it cost 10,000 naira. When I stopped to buy okpa, a steam-cooked bean dish, from a street hawker, she said it was no longer 50 naira; it was now 100.“Why?” I asked.

“Because of fuel subsidy.”

A relative who had traveled to her village for the holidays called me to say that she was stranded there, unable to return to her job in Lagos; she could not afford the bus fare, which had doubled in price.

Nigeria, one of the world’s biggest exporters of crude oil, does not have adequate refineries and so it imports most of its petrol. The government claims that it pays a subsidy to importers to keep the prices low, and that these companies defraud the government by inflating their costs. Perhaps that is true, but it is a strange reason for raising prices, as though the government is incapable of policing fraud. Politicians have long discussed ending the subsidy, but no one expected it to happen when and how it did. There was something frightening about the abruptness of such a dramatic change, a sense of lurching, a violent uncertainty that captured the general mood in Nigeria.

Nigerians, particularly in the heavily Muslim north, live in fear of violence from the Islamist group Boko Haram. More than a hundred people have been shot to death or killed in bombings in recent weeks. My uncle, who lived most of his adult life in the northern town of Maiduguri, recently moved back east after a Boko Haram bomb exploded mere feet from his bookshop. Now he is struggling to start over, a man past middle age, grasping for hope. I saw him on New Year’s Day. He said he had only barely been able to afford the rent for a new shop in Awka, our state capital, and now he had to deal with the new price of petrol — he will have to spend much more on transportation and, since there is hardly ever any electricity, on the generator to power his shop. “How will I cope?” he asked.

Many government officials argued that the price increase would eventually benefit Nigerians, but they were unable to clearly articulate how. They made economic arguments that were abstract at best and nonsensical at worst. Sometimes the arguments conflicted: on one hand, we were told that the government would go bankrupt if it continued to pay the subsidy, and on the other, we were told that the subsidy would still be spent, this time on “infrastructure,” a vague word if ever there was one. Only yesterday, the government announced it would restore some part of the subsidy.

Like many Nigerians, I am infuriated — and puzzled — by the actions of a government that appears to be indifferent to if not contemptuous of its people. The idea that in a democracy, the government needs to persuade the majority of its citizens, eludes our leaders, perhaps because of the stubborn legacy of military rule, which ended only in 1998. We civilians, in turn, deeply distrust the government, because of our long experience with corrupt leaders. It is obvious that this price increase, the abruptness of it, the murky justifications for it, the government’s inability to properly engage about it, the destructive consequences it will have for millions in a country where there are few government services, will only further calcify the cynicism of a people who are already very cynical. Yet our leaders did it anyway. The message sent to Nigerians is this: You don’t matter. We don’t value you.

Economic arguments are useful, but so are human arguments, which seem alarmingly lost on the Nigerian government. Prices have gone up but salaries remain the same. A driver in Lagos who earns 25,000 naira, about $152 a month, would have had to spend almost three-quarters of his salary on transportation to and from work, and this is before he would have to pay for food and, if he has children, for school fees. In Nigeria we like to say that we can “manage,” but it is almost impossible to see how many people could manage that.

We are an oil-producing nation and it is not unreasonable for Nigerians to expect affordable petrol, nor is it unreasonable for Nigerians to expect more from a democratic government. A friend of mine, after calculating how much she would now spend getting to work in Lagos, said, with her eyes alive with rage, “Our senators make $100,000 a month if you count their salaries and allowances. A month! In dollars! They live in government houses and have government cars. And none of them pay for their own petrol.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author, most recently, of “The Thing Around Your Neck,” a collection of short stories.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/opinion/nigerias-latest-frustration.html?_r=3&hp[/quote]I like OKPA too. Especially from Oji River or 9th mile

I still can't find anything wrong with the pictures. That 'tachiri' private jet fit no cost more than a few thousand dollars a day to rent. 'Two of those fat dudes will fill up the jet. With some seriuos savings, most of us here can afford that. Even if it's for a few hours.
So make una chill !!.

[quote author=Jenifa_ link=topic=848181.msg9989234#msg9989234 date=1326858660]^ she's a 35 yr old grown woman. show some respect.


my opinion is I don't find her to be original and really don't get all the hype about her. even her popular TED talk seems to come word-for-word from an Achebe interview from the 80s that I watched somewhere. I was reading d article this morning and it read so boring like a typical adichie novel although she started to make more sense toward the end of the article. I am however happy there is an op-ed piece from naija on nytimes. I will give her props for making that happen.[/quote]Bad belle of the first order. Why don't you write your own and have it published on PM News.

Well, i need a partner to go into meduim level retail biz. If you are interested, we could team up together. That way, you will not have to risk all your money. But we will both bring in 50% of the capital required. We could also combine it with transportation biz in Lagos. This is a serious proposal. Contact me if you are serious too.'
Mail to ikezilly@yahoo.com.

What exactly is a "mini flat" How many rooms are involved ?. What is RSC ?. I need a 1 bedroom apartment or a room and parlour for my sister.

@Sam-Ikenna, i totally understand and agree with your point. This hate towards the Igbos is an expression of the deep rooted and unquenching love for the Igbos by other Nigerian Tribes. How the hell do you keep asking a people to leave, but when they wanted to leave, when it seemed possible that they could actually leave, the Yorubas and Hausas did everything within their powers, including asking Britain for help to prevent the Igbos from leaving. THEY WANTED AND STILL WANT TO KEEP US IN NIGERIA AT ALL COST.
Nigeria will be one boring place without the Igbos. Awo gave every Igboman 20 pounds sterling after the war. it does not matter if you had 5,000, 10,000, or even 20,000 pounds in your bank account, which many Igbos had at that time in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna.
Despite that, the Igbos bounced back big time. That resilience does not go down well with the Yorubas. At the same time, they would not want to see  the Igbos leave.
The kind of protests shown on the TV is for low life creeps. You don't see that kind of protest in the western world. With people burning cars, tires and looting shops (Igbo shops) in Lagos. The average Igbo man stands above that.

[quote author=anini-binladen link=topic=845082.msg9959173#msg9959173 date=1326491040]@chinom
all dat way you yan you belive am?

igbo man no protest becos him think na him turn for sunshine 2015!
BIAFRA I HAIL!![/quote]Yes, i believe am.  For the Igbos it's strictly business. Go to Ladipo to buy auto spare parts now and see whether you will not pay through your nose. Either way, Igbos don't really care. If it goes back to N65, good. If it remains at N140, no problem. The cost of car battery will just have to up by 300%. These jealous and insecure Yoruba people here hating on the Igbos are the ones that will bear the brunt of it in Lagos. Those Lazy civil servants in Lagos will suffer this loss of welfare package much more. Igbos have never depended on welfare. Hence the indifference.

Has it occured to you guys here that maybe IGBOS in the SE can afford to pay the N140 per liter for fuel ?. Igbos have never depended on government handouts. Subsidy is a form of welfare package and Igbos have always been self sufficient. The logic among Igbos is  - If they increase the price of petrol by 100%, i just have to find a way to increase my earnings by 200%-. That is the mentality of the Igbos.
All the talks about illiteracy is complete bunkum and outright stupid.  Igbos are the ones incharge of policy in Nigeria right now.
How do you reconcile illiteracy with the biggest complaint from other tribes about the Igbos being 'dem too sabi" or  'I too know". I urge the other tribes to get rid of their inferiority complex and accept the Igbos for what they are. N140 per liter is no big deal for us. Period[size=8pt][/size]

The removal of subsidy is a right decision. Only the timing was wrong. That subsidy has to go. Now that GEJ has announced it, albeit, at the wrong time, he must stick it out. There are no easy ways out now. We cannot continue to do things the same old way and expect changes and progress. I would rather have regular electricity and pay N100 a liter that live in darkness while paying N65. Besides nothing will be gained at N65 a liter because we will have to buy a greater amount of fuel to power our generators and cars. N65 = more quantity. N100 = less quantity ( electricity will be constant). Net gain = 0.
We just need to trust and believe that the president will use the recovered money wisely. we have to start from somewhere.

Does anyone here have access to a mini flat, BQ or a 1 bedroom flat for rent in the areas of Ikeja, Shangisha, Ketu, Ogba, Ojodu and environs ?. Max rent N150k per annum
Let me know if you have.

Do you have a mini flat, BQ or a 1 bedroom flat in the Shangisha, Ketu or ikeja area for N150k or less.I would like to rent one.

Very good decision. It's about time we get serious about this power problem. I hope and pray that reputable and capable companies take over. NO MORE EGUNJE FOR NEPA ( Still NEPA to me) STAFF. Was a very rotten parastatal.