₦airaland Forum

ZoomTravels:
No reason too. There have never been any public statements disallowing Lagosians from participating unlike there have been in anambra. We respect each other and act with order. We don’t go to other tribes demanding to govern them. Build your support organically in Lagos and maybe we will see an Igbo governor one day, until then let the locals in states you have migrated to, decide who leads them.

Tychost:
He is 100% allowed to contest for any position he likes and it is his constituency job to vote or not vote him. So why is a Igbo socio-political group demanding for igbos to be given a spot? Put in the work and integrate into the society and the people will decide on that. You do not get to go to another man’s land and demanding you are offered a table at the corridors of power. This is logic but sadly not too many from the east apply it on a regular

In Nigeria, it is where your father is from that you contest for elections... not where the person is born...

so at the very worse, the person will need to have a Yoruba father from Lagos.

so stop saying nonsense.

RillJ:
Imagine Venezuelans sent to Naija. How them wan take start life? send deportees to their home countries, please.

The Venezuelans will be helped and funded by the u:s:a.

Just like whats happening between izrael and balistine.

ZoomTravels:
It just seems while some are willing to move past the ethnic brouhaha you mentioned, some are clinching hard to it because to do otherwise will give them less reason to hate and hence heal. For a candidate who did as well as Obi did in the SW last election, it’s a shame that the people closely allied to him has turned his candidacy into an ethnic issue as if you wouldn’t need votes from other tribes.

only a person living outside their ethnic region will say there is tribalism in Nigeria..

There is no tribalism in Nigeria..

Each tribe in Nigeria has its tribal location and region and some tribes have bigger regions than others.

most Nigerians especially southern Nigerians shout "tribalism" because they are not living in their ethnic region and want to manipulate the system of the region they are living in to favour them.

Amedino99:
Our culture in this country where we demand private individuals to do the work of government is too shameful to say the least. https://x.com/Ozorbig1/status/1941081751738282344?t=kzpnXDdoA-Lahd_NxD8t6g&s=19. Nwabali recently did an empowerment for youths in his area and a higher portion of the comments were negative saying he should have built a factory. The more you see, the less you understand......

those comments were likely influenced by what Seydou Keita did in Ma:li or maybe not..

but they forgot that Nwabali plays in South Africa and not Europe..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqa0mEgvDU

elyte89:
lol as exposed as u re…so u believe dis beerpalour last statement gist 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣,I no believe say u fit say dis kind thing


So u think u and I wey no worth shishi go influence d decision of multi billion dollar company’s project or business ideas

No one or company wants to be continuosly called out on social media it can lead to negative trends or hashtags towards the person, club or company.

TheLoneCitizen:
What's my concern if Liverpool sign him or not.

You're the one who has your priorities misplaced.

You should be worried that my statement on Osimhen doesn't reflect the sensitivity of the tragedy or that saying it at this time doesn't respect his memory.

Instead you're only worried that it will make fans veto a signing.

"Don't say that or they wouldn't sign him"
"Don't say that, it's disrespectful to his memory"

Two different interests.

you're putting words in my mouth instead of accepting your mistake and error...

you're the one that showed that you lack empathy and sympathy..

fans won't veto a signing...

the club owners know each other and are the ones that can veto signing him.

I am worried that your statement shows you don't understand people of other races behavior and culture.

TheLoneCitizen:
I know.

The point is this will have a ripple effect on the personal lives of everyone in football.

The effect it will have on someone like Osimhen is not only will he be shaken, his life path will also change because this means that Liverpool who weren't that serious about a striker will go all in now.


I've never felt so distraught like I am now about a public figure like I am now, so I wrote that with great consideration and empathy of the situation.
Even Kobe or Chapecoense didn't move me like this.


So don't think I'm sensationalising it, I know how sensitive this is.

nope..

you are sensationalising it.

when interacting with wyte people whatever you or people that support you say or do will be used against you...

if there is someone associated with them on NL and they see your post it is enough reason for them and other teams not to sign him...

same way Boniface deal did not happen because Nigerians were already making noise..

Wrackcityoffici:
It really irritates me when an individual adds spite to a conversation, a sign of low intelligence actually. I asked a question and all rather than answer politely, you’re talking trash about my intellect.if you can’t be polite like an adult, you’d get treated like a child

its not spite... humans don't know everything... now those words "don't know" actually means don't have knowledge which also means at that point they do not have the intelligence to answer certain things...

now another word is "intelligence" from a security point of view means the process of gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information to protect individuals, organizations, and nations from threats. It involves collecting data from various sources, assessing potential risks, and providing timely and relevant insights to decision-makers. This enables proactive measures to be taken to prevent or mitigate security breaches..

you have your own intelligence but you needed more data on how it would destroy the banking industry..

I see intelligence from a security perspective...

intelligence is information and information is knowledge..

to me, saying someone is not intelligent or does not have the intelligence means that person does not have information to understand the situation or question but most Nigerians see it as an insult...

computers get updates to become more intelligent... which means humans also have to get updates to become more intelligent...

Nigerians use it as an insult.. so I understand your response..

anyway, I have added to your intelligence...

dederocs:
Smarter and more visionary than all the detractors and their idols joined together...but he must focus on anti corruption fight too, push the EFCC an FG agency and the attorney general to scrutinize the books of states, most of these governors are there just to loot, and their people don't even hold them accountable.

he needs to focus on building infrastructures, renovating hospitals, renovating schools, upgrading federal roads that are going bad not scrutinizing the books of states that already hate him.

let the people of those states hold protest to EF:Cc office and tell them to scrutinize their states books..

dederocs:
Tribalism is like religion an opium, it intoxicates and blinds them, you have a valid point.

it's the version of tribalism they practice..

a real tribalist will want what's best for his people and will call out their own governors..

a supremacist tribalist will ignore the shortcomings of his own governors and call out and talk down and hate on another tribe governors. they have superior complex over other tribes.

dederocs:
They are ignorant, remember federal structure is taught in government in secondary school, some of them are dullards, they can't even educate themselves. They totally ignore the vast resources and powers at the disposal of their governors. This ignorance affects them negatively, but their governors are laughing to the bank, some of them are paid political sycophants though...

they are not ignorant... their governor is the same tribe as them so they will not call out their governors.. its the same thing with te:rr0r1sm..

bentenny:
Unrelated regurgitations!
Refute my 'confused' comments or crawl back to where you came from!

you're the confused one.

bentenny:
Sir you are confusing yourself with the use of legislative terms!
Buhari signed the amended electricity law!

In other words,electricity was under the control of the FG through the national grid!
After the law was amended in 2023 through the signing of Buhari,the control is now UNDER the authority of the states!

If you say Tinubu signed a bill into law...what is the name of the bill?
If it's electricity bill,then that has already been signed by Buhari in 2023 and any other electricity bill that is identical to what was sign by Buhari is tantamount to repetition which I believe is Tinubu trying to take credit for what Buhari did!

you are the one confusing yourself for constantly responding to people who hates T1nubu and the Yoruba nation and who would never see anything good in what Yoruba people do and what T1nubu does...

unless you are quoting yourself intentionally to sway public opinion.

loganx:
Police is next, followed by full control over state resources.

Make every state make itself useful.

All those states that are sponsoring terrorism, just so they could distabilize the nation, should make revenue from such act.

then military coup by northerners and 1gb0s to reset everything back to the FG...

dederocs:
You can't blame them, most Nigerians are ignorant, they don't understand federal structure, they don't understand the principles of this democratic federal system.

Ignorance is bad, they all focus on the president and give their governors enough space to plunder them.

Pootle:
menh you really hitting it, they believe the president should fix every damm thing. maybe its as a result of military rule but 24year of democracy should by now make people understand how it works. another issue out hatred for a president or governor you see heavy criticism even if he is doing the right thing. on a broad sense i thing nigeria is not ready for democracy

it is not about ignorance alone... it is about hate towards the pr:esident and the tribe he is from.

and to you this is not about Nigerians... it is about 1gbos and their attitude towards non-1gb0s especially Yoruba people, the 1gb0s will never call out their own tribe's governors, senators and politicians.

don't blame and generalize all Nigerians for something that a tribe in Nigeria is guilty of..

Pootle:
you spoke well, nigerians out of hate dont think when right decision is made they behave like the american democrats who out of hate even if trump does the right thing his criticized. am not supporter of who is the president but if the right move is made or if we need try a new method it should be highly welcome.

Lithiumite:
The sub nationals don't have any excuse for being poor and redundant.......develop your state an investments will thrive.....why would a gov be pointing to abija when he can't pay salaries of civil servants it employed itself without fg consent.....how can a gov of say Ogun state be pointing to abija if the people can't get cheap garri when the state has humongous potential for cassava production.

babat89:
The uproar from the tax ammendment palava made him soft-pedal a bit.

The North is very scared as we speak.
Na dem dey benefit from the current centralised government the most...
Reason they start crying once they are not in power.

correct

Realteeyee123:
So, first off, would say from being a big admirer and player in the technology space from Nigeria, we've made tremendous progress in the kind of companies we have produced, from the early days of Interswitch, to early 2010's with companies like Konga, to Dealday, to Jumia, to the fintech boom in 2015's with the likes of Paystack, Flutterwave, and Teamapt, (Now Moniepoint) to recent startups doing amazing things in the crypto and AI space,

But, one thing that always, baffle me is why our scaling and growth is always limited to Africa and maybe just maybe a little town in UK or US, why don't our companies dominate in the global tech ecosystem, like the likes of maybe South African companies, or US, Canadian and UK companies even when we raise similar amount in VC founding as these companies, some don't even raise as much as we do, but still we dont dominate foreign markets like these companies.

Just curious if any one can share insights or think similar to what im thinking

watch the video below and you will understand why.


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

Wrackcityoffici:
Sorry how would it destroy banking industry? Guess the only industry that profits from instability, yes! The banking industry, Nigeria is crumbling but the banks are recording even more profits, because everyone in Nigeria is running on loans, I care less about the interest of a group that profits from our misfortune than the interest of the people. 8/10 people are currently on loan, as they’re paying one their running to another loan company.

If you can not answer it yourself then it is beyond your intelligence so let me help you update your intelligence to its latest operating system.

The tax law is tied to having a NIGERIAN bank account so all people have to do is go to another country and open a bank account that uses mastercard or visa and they will have no issues..

In summary, the tax law will encourage Nigerians not to have accounts with Nigerian banks.

It will destroy Nigeria's banking industry and anything banking in Nigeria.

It is targeted at southern Nigerians..

Will kidnappers pay tax?
Will fraudsters pay tax?
Will herdsmen pay tax?

Ifyz0001:
Don't forget that Lagos was a previous capital of Nigeria, being the first of everything good in Nigeria, technology, life, etc as a capital of a country.

Fast forward to today. You cannot say, let Lagos be made for a particular tribe and let other leave. When it was the whole countries resources that was ploughed into making Lagos what it is today. Whosoever, that are the leaders today should take cognizance of this fact.

That's why there is still that saying , "Lagos is a no mans land". But now indigenous are pushing against that statement, forgetting that they allowed other peoples money to develop their land.


Let us be sincere to ourselves, the tribe that is keeping lagos afloat are not the indigenes but the largely other tribes, and let us all know that those tribes are not the foreigners, or the oyibos.

if you and your tribe could keep your own states of origin afloat then you will not be in Lagos..

How can a tribe that can not keep its own state afloat now keep Lagos afloat??

Y_o_rubas made lagos what it is today and they keep it afloat without help from the FG..

stop saying rubbish..

Streetinvestor2:
This is why I keep shouting any living soul of SE must align with north for 2027.The igbo man must not be the president in 2027.The igbo can negotiate for economic benefits only for 2027.The most important is to break off lagos monopoly on sea and air.This is what is carrying igbos to lagos and does already thr finding it difficult to leave because we are majority business men.We can negotiate this things to SE,SS and Abuja
The SW has been the greatest enemy within to SE since the war.let stop pretending. The North is far better partner to igbos in everything c

SE and SS have 4 ports which is more than anywhere in Nigeria..

There's a port in Rivers state called "port Harcourt".
There are also:
Calabar port
Onne port
Warri port..

the only thing Lagos and the SW has over other regions is the spending power which means the buyers and consumers of most products in Nigeria is the SW..

A business person whose market is the SW will not import from the ports in the SE/SS regions then transport the goods to the SW to sell because that is waste of funds and will destroy the business before it starts..

you have never started or owned a business in your life so you don't understand how businesses work and make profits.

hilaryCU:
Why do you say North is unproductive?

this conversation has ended.. share sales reports

so please do not quote me. I will not respond to your quotes but I will answer since you did not see the answer in the 1st sentence of the comment you quoted.

the answer in summary is = north had a continuous deficit balance of payment yearly until 1914..

which means all the money north including all the 19 states in the north has been getting since 1914 to 2025 has been the surplus of southern Nigeria's wealth ( which also means all the I:G:R reports are fake especially the ones from the north ).

which also means if southern Nigeria's surplus can take care of 19 states in the north then if 1914 amalgamation never happened southern Nigeria would have no poverty at all ..

so when people say Nigeria is poor... I get triggered, especially when it is coming from a southern Nigerian...

SHARE SALES REPORTS.. I won't respond anymore..

this thread has turned people to n:ai:ra m:illion:aires and those m:illion:aires can abandon this thread if it gets derailed and create their own private groups or stay as lone wolf especially with more Nigerians suspecting wyte people don't want Nigerians and other black people to be rich even in their own black countries.

Nadingo:
Why are 90% of TCN staff Igbos? Went to their Bauchi office and was shocked to see that almost all management staff are from the Igbo tribe.

Because TCN does not have knowledge transfer program to teach the indigenes how to do the work

anonimi:
Lazy people blame their tools instead of working on their goals.

Did Indians stay together with Pakistanis at independence 13 years ahead of us?

Did Bangladeshis not fight for independence from Pakistanis a year after our civil war ended?

What of Singaporeans who separated themselves from Malaysia five years after our independence?

If and when we are ready to go our separate ways, we will ALL work for it. Until then we should stop complaining and flourish with the entity left behind by the British. That is how Qataris and Emiratis are doing since 1971.

This has nothing to do with emiratis, qataris e.t.c.

the people that are out of school and extremely poor in Nigeria are in northern Nigeria and they are out of school because to their politicians and parents education is a sin and a crime... they are poor because the northern region they live in and are from has always been poor and has deficit balance of payment... they are suffering from generational poverty that can never be solved...

You said Nigeria has highest number of out of school children and extreme paupers and I answered you but you are talking about qatar and emiratis then that means the discussion is beyond your intellectual capacity

anonimi:
Could you please explain how this will work miraculously for our country to get out of the ugly mess of having the highest number of extreme poverty paupers and children who are not in school?

the b:ritish decided to join an unproductive northern Nigeria that had a deficit balance of payment with the productive southern Nigeria that had and still has and always has a surplus balance of payment in order to use southern Nigeria's wealth to create an illusion that northern Nigeria was doing okay and disguise unproductive nature of northern Nigeria.

there can never be a better Nigeria because Nigeria consists of different countries within it.. so the whole of Nigeria cannot suddenly become progressive at the same time, some states will always be more productive and developed than other states especially in a country where some politicians believe education is a sin and crime..

as long as northern Nigeria exists there will always be extreme poverty and out of school children because they have always been in poverty.. the allocations that go to northern Nigerian are actually meant for southern Nigeria states but the money southern Nigeria makes is so much that it can fund 19 states in Nigeria.

even Gowon said the money was too much and they did not know what to do with it.

in your family, do your siblings earn the same amount as salary as you. are you all living in mansions?

before you talk about Nigeria been poor just remember that one side of Nigeria called northern Nigeria has always been poor..

omoredia:
Better than to suffer tribalism with low pay in nigeria

mastermaestro:
Racism with fat pay is way better than tribalism with poor welfare package.

poseidon12:
Better to face racism in a developed foreign country than to face tribalism in your own country.

Stolen:
WAT RACISM IS WORST THAN THE ONE WE SUFFER IN NIGERIA HERE WHERE YOU ORDER THEM NOT TO COME OUT AND VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?


IS IT NOT RACISM THAT PURSUED HER TO TURKEY?


THEY WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER


SHE US EVEN A BEAUTIFUL GIRL

YesNoMaybe:
Tribalism remains the senior brother to racism. Anyone who survives tribalism should have no qualms about racists.

legitnow1:
IF HER NAME WAS AMOSUN AND NOT OFILI WILL SHE BE LEFT OUT?

There's no tribalism in Nigeria..

Some of the biggest companies in Nigeria are 1gbo owned companies.

These companies could have sponsored and supported her financially if they wanted to.

JAPAHTML:
is a shit hole and there's no hope
I mean I don't see any sign of hope
Something have never worked before, it's not working now and it won't work tomorrow yet some people Can even sacrifice their family members just to keep it going

We're rich but we're the poorest also, doesn't that tell you something?
A mighty hand is at work
The work that the colonial masters did is still very fresh

Is well

We are rich..

but the b:ritish decided to join an unproductive northern Nigeria that had a deficit balance of payment with the productive southern Nigeria that had and still has and always has a surplus balance of payment in order to use southern Nigeria's wealth to create an illusion that northern Nigeria was doing okay and disguise unproductive nature of northern Nigeria.

then in 1960 after independence, that 1914 anomaly was corrected due to the adoption of regionnalism but 7 years later the eastern region decided to kill the leaders of the other regions and start a civil war and abolish regionalism thereby giving northern Nigeria access to southern Nigeria's wealth again that even G:owon said the money was too much and they did not know what to do with it.

why do you think p:ulanis are trying to become indigenes in southern Nigeria by killing off indigene population and stealing territories because northern politicians know that without Southern Nigeria's wealth they will be extremely poor because they have always been poor..

that's why young southern Nigerians have to create their own private investment institutions like b:l:a:c:k:r;o:c:k and finance and fund their own development alongside their state governments...

I am expecting t:i:n_u_b_u or the next president to carry out sapiosexuality goal and criminalize tribalism especially towards p:ulanis so that they can steal the land in the south.

infact there is already an un-written rule that favors sapiosexuality goal because if people fight off the p:ul:anis invaders and defend themselves against p:ul:anis they will be arrested and sentenced to death or some people in m_i_l_itary uniforms will go and kill them off overnight...

if the politicians pass a law to criminalize tribalism then it will affect p:ul:ani invaders more that is why they cannot pass it...

Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies

nobody has money to continuously treat HIV in Nigeria and the medicine is expensive so it will make them broke..

no sane middle class Nigerian will do anything that will make them and their family broke..

Learner47:
The thing is that even if good crops of leaders suddenly emerge will they allow them?
Cause mehn, this present folks I don't see anyone that isn't compromised. The first sign of a compromised one, if you see any of them going to that 'Chatnam house' for campaigns like why the f** should I go to a foreign country to seek foreign validation of how to govern my people!

Omor this country ehh!

as long as they don't lead Nigeria to war with another west African or African country I am okay with them because their time will pass and they will grow old and pass away...

its the younger generation that needs to stay alive, acquire wealth and position themselves to take over from these ones.

for now the younger generation should not depend on politicians, government or anything that has to do with public sector... they should focus on the private sector and their diaspora population which also includes their tribe's diaspora population..

each tribe should create a tribal diaspora bank or tribal diaspora investment company like b:l:a:c:k:r_o:c:k and the likes because if they depend on the naira then they are in trouble....

the major problem is black people globally do not have their own version of the w_o:r:l:d bank and other global financial and development institutions... then black people locally do not also have their own tribal versions of this institutions..

if black americans or black African diasporans had such.. then they would easily have serious stake in Africa..

I am tired of seeing the govt collecting loans from wyte organizations instead of black organizations.

Learner47:
Sapiosexuality
CapitalBank

The topic is a big topic better to let it slide for the sanity of the thread. We have bad leaders & we have foreign interest as well. You can't separate one from the other.

We think we have a choice but it's all an illusion.

the topic is not a big topic..

it is failure to understand and accept the reality that some fellow Nigerians and Nigerian politicians are sponsored by foreigners to ensure Nigeria or a state or many states in Nigeria remain un-productive.. it is also the reason for the electricity problem in Nigeria.

sapiosexuality may not even be Nigerian but wants to manipulate Nigerians into turning on each other in the name of fighting for a better Nigeria instead of knowing that there can never be a better Nigeria because Nigeria consists of different countries within it.. so the whole of Nigeria cannot suddenly become progressive at the same time, some states will always be more productive and developed than other states especially in a country where some politicians believe education is a sin and crime..

CapitalBank:
Are you paying attention to how some governors are emerging? Do they represent what people really want?

Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state, Tinubu boasted that HE PUT HIM THERE. I didn't make this up, the video is up there for you to find. Ogun state is suffering one of its worst infrastructure decay as I type this right now. Ota was a swimming pool days ago.

Now, do you see how these things are connected?

Abia state, if not for doctor Nnenna Oti, who stood her ground and said she would never allow the power that be to steal the people's wish. Go to Abia today and see what is happening.

That is all I will say.

These things are all connected; they are not in isolation.

you better stop quoting sapiosexuality..

he is either working for the people you are speaking against or a wyte supremacist person pretending to be Nigerian on nairaland..

he said the quote below knowing fully well if that is done it will lead to another civil war in Nigeria.

Sapiosexuality:
Nice one but for Nigeria to work quicker, we have to kill off tribal identities. If you think that's too much to ask for then we are better off apart. We can't be apart within and still expect homogeneity in action.