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Nigeria has come of age to have a National Building Code. This specifies the minimum acceptable standard of infrastructure in Nigeria. For instance,stipulating that all roads built in inhabited areas such as towns and cities must have accompanying drainage systems. The National building code made countries like USA and South Africa to build standard infrastructure in every part of their country, not just their federal capital.In this way, over time, every town or city in these countries are of a certain standard that make these countries qualify as "developed".

AFGHANISTAN

Eko Atlantic: No sane government 'll prefer a creek full of militants and a few population of productive people over a state that has everything. Deal with it, Lagos is the bomb

Recognize a BOSS(Lagos) when you see ONE

But they'll prefer to enjoy the proceeds from the creek abi?

musiwa23: i will not say 99.9 %.. I will says it depend on ethnic group.. some ethnic group are honest.


With the hausa/fulani 65% this is why they bomb people.. and kill themself because money means nothing to them.

igbo 30% every igbo is a run man.. igbo people are the smartest and cleverness in nigeria. they will outsmart even God.

middle belt 60%

ijaw 40% they use too but with militia.. they are no more honest.

kanuri 70%

With the yorubas.. 70% that why the igbo scam them alot.. Yoruba tend to be stupiid and not too clever like the igbos. because of the culture.

are pastor punishing this people too. how many time do you see white people do this. it is just the culture of yorubas.. that they bring into Christianity.
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I agree 99.9% with you, except for yoruba.Personally, i have never met an honest yoruba person.
Their honesty is only when they say 'gud mornin' and you have to look outside the window to confirm it is really morning because they are pathological liars.
Yoruba percentage of honest people shouldn't be more than 0.001%. Okonjo Iweala was being very modest. She should have said the bitter truth that 99.9 percent yoruba nigerians are very very shady and most dishonest people ever created by satan.They teach them how to lie as their nasty language is being taught to them as kids

That teenager ruling north Korea will soon lead all of them into mass suicide. He just opens his mouth to talk crap. If i burn his skin with ordinary cigarette light,he won't talk about nuclear war again. That is what happens when you take teenagers who should be in secondary school and make them Presidents.

Please we need amnesty for the boys that did this. Afterall,Boko Haram kills 100 JTF and innocent citizens in the north every day.

mekaboy: In my opinion, the moment the FG of Nigeria commits a dime of tax payers money to paying a fraction of Islam in the name of Amnesty, it has become as islamic nation.

It is just like the catholic church wakes up and says that all churches should pray through the virgin mary. And if they don't nigeria will become ungovernable, then they take up arms and start killing muslims and Nigeria, bombing mosques.

Then the FG will call for Amnesty and start paying people who don't contribute anything to Nigeria, in the name of amnesty.

We are praying for that day. Insha Allah,it will come very soon!!!
So that every ediot who did not want to fight for the breakup of the animal farm called Nigeria will finally realize it needs to breakup.

Table Leg :
How much did GEJ give you to come and open this dumd, daft and dimwitted thread?!
You must be a moro...n to think a weakling and a dunce can perform!

O'l boy SHARAAAAP your smelly mouth !

GEJ does not need to give him anything to speak the truth. Nigeria's economy is booming so much now that there is serous talk of Nigeria's economy surpassing South Africa's ! Everything isn't politics. Some things are just hard facts!

Penis sucker: Nigeria's economy has been growing in leaps and bounds. Most estimates show that Nigeria's economy grows at an average rate of 6-7% annually (faster than that of the US). Not only that, Nigeria's GDP is over $300bn; the Foreign reserves are over $40bn.

So who should take the glory for such a transformation: GEJ( ) or others

Na your Papa dey responsible before?

So this is what they get for killing innocent people and security agents, after they were defeated in their insurgency? Imagine what they would have demanded if they had won ! So, What will the victims of Boko Haram violence get then?

BizBooks: I came across this picture on Facebook. The origin is not known.
But it is most likely the work of a Ghanaian.

Very very tru

alfaman2: Orji wants igbos to act like cowards. To run home to mummy instead of fighting. Remind me which people in the world history acted thus when confronted?

Yoruba? am i right?

Abeg don't bash me o! I didn't call any tribe o! Unless you know you are a tribe of cowards.

UncleJJ: I have to agree on this one. The real Nigeria was built with agricultural gains and most of it came from the North.

But, then again. I thought SS is part of Nigeria and hence that oil belongs to Nigerian's eventhough it main source is from the SS.

Why bother with such trivial issue's if it can give us peace..... whatever

Where is the proof of this? Or just another shameless bunch of liars. At Independence the north demanded and got 50% derivation. Nigeria's oil industry was developed by multinational oil companies. That is why we have so much problems in the Niger Delta today. The Nigerian FG refused to fund oil exploitation projects. Instead they went with the policy of awarding oil blocks to multinationals to develop and pay royalty. So where did they spend the so called north's money?

Hell No!
I will vote Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau for president first before Buhari. At least shekau is open about his desire to use violence against other Nigerians perceived as enemies.

HOPE NOT !!!

iam nigerian and i love jonathan. stop lying.

For the first time in my life, i agree 100 percent with Gov. Orji

Rossikk: Good news. Let the peace begin.

Which peace? you think Boko Haram is interested in peace? They just want to ridicule the government while they are given time to regroup and recruit more daredevil attackers for 2015. Their only interest is power by a secret Boko Haram sponsor. They know who sponsor's them and that ex-head of state is their man. If he loses again in 2015, Boko Haram will then be in a position to cause more bloodshed.After using the period of amnesty to acquire enough arms for 2015 mayhem.

hmmmm, ok. gra gra no be power o!

That small boy dragging north Korea into suicide should go and look at Saddam's or Ghaddafi last moments. Nothing will make him escape it this time around. Even China and Russia that helped them in 1950s under supporting communism are now fledgling capitalist economies trading with America! Will China risk her economic well-being for north korea? hmmmmm !

May Allah grant oil in the northern Nigeria,just as it granted oil in Saudi Arabia. So that they stop the cheating and falsification of data in Nigeria just to steal & cheat others in Nigeria

Ownfag: Can't believe this. Plz stop killing innocent people like so called boko harams.

Boko haram will soon issue their standard lie. They are civilians! But when they are exchanging fire with JTF or bombing JTF,or bombing public places and killing innocent Nigerians, they are called Mujahadeen warriors.Once they are killed, they become civilians. Boko must be calling Nigerians senseless dogs.

Please post your pictures of the new Uyo here. Let us also experience the uncommon transformation here too with pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rN07cbRdT8

The numerous April fool threads here is quite unbecoming. This is a serious blog site,may i plead with those bent on posting junk like Peter caught molesting minor, OBJ dies on top of oga's wife and such crap to stop? Abeg una with Allah name.

They want to increase NL viewership by writing very offensive things about Igbo vs. Yoruba. In that way,they will whip up enough negative emotions to keep people visiting and posting on the website.

Good business strategy,but it's killing the badly needed southern solidarity between these principal southern ethnic groups.

Amnesty means, give money to Boko haram so that they can pay for more arms and suicide bombers to terrorize Nigerians more.Those supporting it are simply playing to the gallery so that Boko Haram will not target them. They know the truth about those murderous boys.

ROSSIKE: You keep foretelling armageddon for the country but it never happens. Why? Because Nigerians do not really want to see their country balkanized into little states. We always find a way to get back together even after the worst bloodletting (see Biafra war). There's no reason to suppose we will split up, no matter what happens in 2015. Eventually the whole place will calm down again and life will continue (that is if there's any trouble at all)




You're wrong that foreign (and indigenous) investment, especially powered by govt development of infrastructure etc, will have no impact on the social circumstances of the nation. There is a direct link between economic development and social stability which you simply cannot wish away.



You need to quote more than a single source to buttress your claim, as well as tell us their economic credentials. Today there are projections from VARIOUS respected financial organizations about Nigeria's future, and it's not just words. There is actual economic growth (7% per annum) and an influx of investors never seen before in the country's history.

It is often difficult to hold an objective argument with a Nigerian without it being downgraded to you being an agent of doom,or you hate Nigeria because you are this or that tribe. I had initially joined NL to hold meaningful cerebral discussions with other Nigerians from across the globe, but i always found,this wasn't the right forum.
Asking that we consider these things to keep Nigeria stable for true development means i am forecasting Armageddon? Well,let us just pretend what I'm saying is not attributable to Nigeria and it's out-rightly untrue. I thank you for your time Sir.

ROSSIKE: So HOW COME we are witnessing an unprecedented scale of foreign investment in the country?

If the country is about to break up like the Soviet Union, why is it being described as Africa's No 1 investment destination even as we speak? As we speak, tens of billions of dollars worth of road, rail, airport, and power infrastructure projects are being developed in the country. Why are investors throwing their hard earned billions into what you claim is a lost case and a failed nation?

Could it be that you are EXAGGERATING the difficulties we face while those seasoned analysts and investors can see the transient nature of our problems?

Believe me,I love and pray Nigeria succeeds.But Nigeria is taking a path of forced unity which had failed even in more powerful countries.

Yes, Nigeria is #1 investment destination in Africa and can very well be the #1 in the world. It doesn't change the fact that 2015 shall be a hotly contested election. It doesn't prevent Boko Haram from killing other nigerians or trying to blow up petrol farms or bridges in Lagos. The foreign investments shall NOT prevent other ethnic groups from exerting revenge on others when they feel they 've had enough. You cannot guarantee the backlash outcome of a successful boko haram strike in Lagos. God Forbid!

The point being that foreign investment shall not change the fundamental issues we face as Nigerians. We must solve those issues before we can brag on the guarantee of Nigerian being there in 2050 to fulfill the projections of your "seasoned" analysts.Mind you,the same type of "analysts" said in 1960, that Nigeria shall easily become an industrialized country in 20 years.(Read "The Africans" by mazrui). They didn't take into account the fact that Nigeria's problems might lead to bloody riots in the west,instability or with imposition of state of emergency, military coup and counter coup which could degenerate into a bloody civil war, all within a space of less than 2 years! That is the "factor" i'm trying to get you to consider.How to make Nigeria prosperous as a diverse place.

Foreign investors have invested in unstable places and sometimes,it is merely a calculated business risk. It doesn't guarantee that those events shall not happen.The recession in Europe and much of the world have made the risk of investing in Nigeria somewhat more palatable, it does not remove the risk.

@ ROSSIKE

Bros, i no fit tok. You can as well bury your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretend even the tribalism you see here on NL is just a creation of the bloggers and not a reflection of the reality of the Nigerian state.

It is good you believe simply that economic progress will remove wicked groups who see religion and ethnicity as a means to hate and kill.You have missed the mark by naively believing economic progress alone is Nigeria's issues. Indeed, Nigeria's issues are a fair way to share resources and ensuring each region has control over their resources.

The constant struggle for political power hidden in the desire to control resources stolen from other regions to develop another resource poor region, under the pretext of "one nigeria". Little wonder why we always talk about "Igbo" President, "Yoruba" President, "Hausa" president or "Ijaw" President. This inherent struggle for resources has bred enormous hatred which shall continue to make Nigeria remain an un-viable state. No country is ever assured of it's future if a segment of that country is pressed down and their resources brazenly stolen under false pretenses.

Needless to remind you about the former soviet union which still broke up and even had to go to war with Chechnya over similar issues as Nigeria. Even at a time Mikhail Gorbachev had achieved spectacular economic growth through his "perestroika and glasnost" economic reform policies. People like you in the 1990s would have been projecting the former USSR to surpass USA, inspite of the serious instability inside the former soviet union, where the state brutally held all smaller nations within via brutal force and ignored all appeal for a sovereign conference to determine how former Soviet Union should proceed as a "united" country. Does that sound like present day Nigeria?

That is the ultimate issue of Nigeria. "RESOURCE CONTROL"

ROSSIKE: Hamas was a rag tag group of terrorist malcontents a few years ago. Today they've seen the light and are now a respected political party which contests and wins elections. Same (or similar) will happen with BH.

In other words, Boko Haram shall one day become a respected political party eh? A beg, i no fit tok.