₦airaland Forum

Treasure17:
ninubu believes everywhere is safe for now base on his body language. Until these lunatics enter Lagos and shot down third mainland bridge.

Ibehchizzy:
ninubu said it’s his enemies that are causing it

Elusive001:
He is not just the very best ever and will ever be from the southwest, he is a god to many of them.

Seunpapa65:
Is ninubu the best Yoruba can field as a president
The drunken old fragile man will rather die in power than to step down

BAAT is not from SW.

he is a puulani from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the puulanis to over run the country..

he has no siblings anyone knows about

he has no parents anyone knew about

he has no cousins anyone knows about

he has no pictures of him in primary school and secondary school

he has no pictures of him when he was a teenager

the above can only be possible if the person is an immigrant.

Kemetian:
The problem with your "brilliant" idea is that it favours the western buyers who can now drive prices low by forcing a race to the bottom in terms of price per barrel, as opposed to oil producers forming a Cartel to maintain decent income for oil producing countries.

So this does not favour Nigeria at all.

That crude oil is in "your backyard" doesn't mean it is free for Dangote to take.

Or that the process for extracting and delivering the crude oil costs 5 Naira because it is in "your backyard".

you are talking to people whose ethnicity's main business is importation, buying and selling e.t.c.. so they don't care..

lower oil prices will favor Nigeria as traders will no longer be able to use cost of fuel as an excuse and as long as Nigeria votes out APC...

Emeskhalifa:
I suspect he was forced to do that so as to demarket himself.

Exactly he was most likely paid a huge amount to do that..

That's how they've been able to keep hold of Lagos.

If N200b is waiting for Governors to join APC then imagine how much they have been given to opposition parties in Lagos to demarket themselves.

SSpeter:
Oga stop displaying your folly, you are contradicting yourself. You want to choose your own form of intimidation of those you consider non indigenous and also choose their own form of intimidation of overstayers? She is even correct 💯, you are intimidating your own country man and still talking trash

Stop talking trash.

The country was created by england. The people that reside in the country are thousands of years older than england so it is foolishness and low self esteem to accept the country..

You are not my country man.

You are my fellow black man.

Lionessza6:
That explanation still doesn’t remove the contradiction.....it actually confirms it.

You’re saying ethnic political competition inside Nigeria is treated as an invasion because history has shown that when one group grows in number inside another group’s political space, conflicts over power, resources, and control follow. That is exactly the logic you’re using.

But then you turn around and say migration pressure inside South Africa cannot raise similar concerns about citizenship, resources, culture, or political space because migrants are “only traders and barbers.”

That’s simply not accurate.

There are already foreign nationals in South Africa who have openly spoken about forming ethnic homelands, like the Igbo king issue that made headlines. And yes, there are foreign-born citizens participating in political structures...as the Constitution allows. So the idea that migration has zero relationship to political space is not realistic.

South Africans also know from their own history what happens when settler populations grow without clear agreements around land, resources, and governance. Conflicts follow. That lesson did not start in 1966 Nigeria....it exists across African history, including South Africa’s own past.

So you can’t argue that population movement into another group’s space creates pressure inside Nigeria because of history, but insist that population movement into South Africa cannot create similar pressure because migrants are “just traders.”

If history matters in one case, it matters in the other too.

it is still not a contradiction.

it is a difference between Nigeria and South Africa.

In Nigeria, A foreigner can run for office but the political parties usually pick indigenes because it is the indigenes that are majority and they will not vote for a foreigner...

in South Africa, according to your explanation, the foreigners where voted into power by South Africans who are the majority...

so that makes it a South African problem.

in Nigeria, when one group grows in number inside another group’s territorial space and not political space that group is still not a majority in that space and the indigenes will always limit them not through violence like South Africans are doing but through not patronizing their businesses, increasing taxes that they pay, not renting spaces to them e.t.c..

that is why it is not a contradiction..

Black South Africans are the majority in South Africa and should use their voting to block out the foreigners turned citizens...

WizardOfNG:
Said it more than 2 years ago Hamzat is the one. I also categorically dismissed any chance of Seyi becoming Governor of Lagos before age 45 and without 'paying his dues'.

Lagos is the most politically complex State in Nigeria by far.Those who dont understand that will never see how the State continues moving forward, to be inspirational in Africa, while others around her are mediocre and comedic.

Angelfrost:
Seyi's turn will come down the line...!

Maybe after MC Oluomo has had his shot.

s:e:yi can never be governor of Lagos...

his father is a puulani from gaaambiaa that's why he allows the puulanis to over run the country..

Lionessza6:
That’s exactly the contradiction I was pointing out earlier.

You’re describing Nigeria in terms of ethnic ownership of political space.....where “ethnic nation A” should not contest leadership in “ethnic nation G.” In other words, territorial political control based on identity.

But when South Africans express concerns about national space, borders, citizenship pressure, and political access, suddenly that same logic becomes unacceptable and is called xenophobia.

So which is it?

If identity-based political territory is normal at the tribal level inside Nigeria, why is it suddenly immoral at the national level inside South Africa?

You cannot defend “go back to your state” politics locally and then reject “this country belongs to its citizens” politics regionally.

That’s the contradiction.

That's not a contradiction...

Black Africans in South Africa are not vying for political positions in South Africa, they are street traders, barbers e.t.c.

they are doing business and are not a threat to black South Africans national space, borders, citizenship pressure, and political access...

the different ethnic nations in Nigeria can be a threat to other ethnic nations that's why it is frowned upon and seen as invasion.

in 1966, the ethnic nation trying to create kings in other African countries k:illed the Premiers of the 2 other major ethnic nations in Nigeria in other to have the power to change the constitution and have access to the "political power" and "revenues" of the other 2 major ethnic nations which they did successfully but it only lasted for 6 months as the other 2 major ethnic nations took revenge and kill over 1 million of them.

so in Nigeria, it is seen as invasion because of what happened in 1966 and early 1800s ( which i did not explain ).

Lionessza6:
LMAO. The contradictions on this . But then again it's a Saturday...who knows what folks are having at this time

What are the contradictions?

He is talking about a person from "ethnic nation A " vying for political positions in "ethnic nation G" in order to take the privileges of "ethnic nation G" political positions while "ethnic nation A" political positions remains intact and exclusively for "ethnic nation A" people..

Elipsis:
It’s easy to point fingers at South Africans, but are we really any different?

With the general elections just months away, the familiar pattern is about to begin. Soon, the usual suspects will rise, threatening anyone who refuses to support their candidate. They will insist that Lagos is their ancestral homeland and tell others to “go back to your states.”

If you complain that Lagos is dirty, they will tell you to go to your state.

If you say that Lagos is no longer safe, they will threaten to pursue you to your state.

Ironically, many of these people do not even belong to Lagos by origin.

We’ve seen it several times. Even traditional rulers have issued chilling threats, warning that those who don’t vote “correctly” could be cast into the Lagoon.

We’ve watched homes and businesses belonging to Igbos demolished, accompanied by intimidation and calls for them to leave. Sadly, they will have lots of comments on Twitter and even Nairaland supporting these barbaric acts against their own fellow countrymen.

This pattern of hostility is not unique to South Africa. It is alive here too.

Go to South Africa as a Nigerian and become a citizen then try to be the Mayor of Pretoria or CapeTown and see if they don't start killing Nigerians there...

stop saying rubbish...

you cannot compare been attacked for been a non-black south African to challenging another ethnic nation politically because ethnic nations have to defend their politics or they will be subjugated.

SmartPolician:
You people don't understand what's happening and haven't made efforts to find out. I've listened to South Africans argue that their companies are resorting to cheap labour from black foreigners as against their nationals.

He gave an example of how they go on strike to demand pay rise only for their companies to fire them and hire foreigners who are ready to settle for peanuts. Their anger, in my honest opinion, is valid!

that's like saying it is valid for Y:orubas to chase out non-Y:orubas from South West states because the non-Y:orubas have jobs in the SW that are meant to go to Y:oruba graduates...

you are not smart..

Svoboda:
In other words, you're implying that the trio leaving ECOWAS was a personal attack on Tinubu? The ECOWAS isn't Tinubus personal property, in fact, his diplomatic blunders in the days after the Niger coup in 2023 catalysed their exit from the bloc. Unfortunately, he lacked the clout and charisma to prevail on them to remain. Meanwhile, enter Buhari or Obasanjo. This is where class, statesmanship and charisma outshine bringandage and open threats on the African continent.

Fujiyama:
^^^
This was one of his more consequential blunders. In true BAT fashion, he refused to appoint ambassadors after taking office (and he is only just getting round to doing so, with about one year left to the end of his administration ) and the Niger coup caught everyone off guard. BAT obviously did not consult with the career diplomats in the Ministry of external affairs before his hasty and ill-thought out public ultimatum to the coupists in Niger - and they called his bluff outright. And here we are today.

This is not how foreign policy is run. And unfortunately, the errors don't end here.You can be sure that some countries will reject Nigeria's recently assigned ambassadorial nominees - apparently because the administration only has months to go before its tenure ends. There is no absolutely no reason for BAT's tardiness and unseriousness surrounding our representation at the highest level - in countries with whom Nigeria has relations. Nearly four years gone and BAT and his crew are only just waking up to the need for represenation at ambassadorial level. This just isn't how it works.

BAT is a fula from Gambia.. so he is also sympathetic to them.

nairalanda1 stop hiding comments...

if you are not the one hiding comments then i hope you can now see that the Nigerian cyber space has been captured by the people you are defending and they don't want the people you are abusing to read my comments because i am saying the truth...

if not you can keep deceiving yourself

nairalanda1:
You should know that the World Bank and IMF want us to stop taking loans, as do Europe and USA. They all do..their people are grumbling about how their governments are throwing away billions of dollars on the poor people of Africa. The far left complains of loan dependency in poor countries stifling devleiopment, the far right complains that government can spend billions on people oversease, rather than spend billions at home taking care of poor citizens of the US and EU.

And yes, being a rich productive nation doesn't stop imports. China, Korea, Japan and the EU and USA...both export and improt from each other. NO nation is an island.

Better stop all these conspiracy theories. You guys should stop supporting governments in Africa that share money...which is why we have a tinubu ruling over us in the first place.

Nope..

Productive black African countries means the only things Africa will import will be tiny because everything a black African needs is already in the continent of Africa so there will be zero need to import from E:U or U:S unless that black African wants to import cars or phones or airplanes that's if black Africans are not producing their own phones, cars or airplanes.

zinubu is a sell out put in the president position by the E:U and U:S that is why he is signing deals with f:rance, e:ngland and the E:U and U:S... which is also why he sanctioned Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger..

nairalanda1:
No, you are wrong

A working prosperous Africa benefits the West more than a.crisis ridden one.

Dead and refugees don't make a working prosperous nation.

Plus a prosperous nation will produce stuff for export and trade with other nations. No country is an island. Even first world nations import from other Nations. Apple of the USA has a lot of customers in Europe and China and Japan. for example. Toyota does a lot of business in the Americas

You and your friends are disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing

Plus i am not saying Africa is ok, I am arguing against the point that the West destabilises Africa for the sake of some plot

P.S: Cucumbar has some form of irrtnl hate for me to the point that if I call him a handsome man, he will say that I am lying.

you are making the same mistake again because you don't have the balls to accept that you are wrong...

A prosperous Black Africa will produce stuff for export and make money and no longer need loans from the W:B and i:m:f which means U:S E:U cannot have leverage over Black Africa anymore and will eventually lead to the decline of the economies in the E:U and U:S.

nairalanda1:
US and west prefer a peaceful and productive Africa to a violent one

Dead people can't buy imported goods and dead people cannot mine raw materials.cheaply and dead people cannot provide cheaper labour for finished goods for export

US and Europe are not fond of Asians either, yet China, Korea and Japan and peaceful. Because it benefits the world and the USA in particular


As an example., if peace reigns in the dr Congo and stability and good governance reigns there , the price of phones and many electronics would be cheaper by far. Because a lot of the raw materials for your phone and computer electronics are mined in the Congo and the instability in the area makes the price of the raw materials produced there rise and rise.

Same issue in places like Sudan and South Sudan. Peace there is vital to oil prices staying low. Apart from the strait of Hormuz.

The West prefers peaceful stable countries. Again. dead people don't trade or buy things. Refugees can't earn money to buy stuff or organise lines of supply or even mine for stuff effectively
You better stop blaming the whites for your problems caused by leaders who prefer sharing money to actual development

you answered yourself in your comment " Dead people can't buy imported goods and dead people cannot mine raw materials.cheaply and dead people cannot provide cheaper labour for finished goods for export " and other comments....

dead people cannot do those things BUT people in peaceful and productive stable countries will also not do those things simply because they are stable which means

-- they will not import goods because they will now have the peace and stability to produce their own goods

-- they will not need to mine raw materials to export because they will now have the peace and stability to build their own processing facilities to convert the raw materials and store the excess

-- they will not be cheap labor anymore since they now have the peace and stability to do it themselves they will demand higher wages

-- if peace reigns in the dr Congo they will now have the stability to demand higher prices for their raw materials which will lead to higher phone and computer electronics prices

-- if Black African countries are peaceful and stable they will not need to trade or even interact with the E:U or U:S or any other continent because they will trade with each other which will lead to the E:U or U:S losing billions of dollars

you don't understand how economics and economies work...

NaijaRealtor ARISHEM Cmeo cucumbar Realguyman1 are right...

Parachoko:
And yet, the National Assembly is not taken the creation of State Police seriously

maasoap:
Nigerian police are useless. State police won't be any different from their counterparts at federal level. What I think should be done is to make all these government backed vigilantes more functional, states government should upgrade them in terms of law, training, salary and equipment. They're more committed to fighting regional crimes than police. Police will just be chasing money up and down

ufotunang:
..state police will not solve the problem..it's for the federal government to address and tackle hunger, hardship, high rate of inflation, high costs of living, high rate of unemployment for they say an idle mind is the devil's workshop and an hungry man is an angry man.. and Nigerians and Nigeria to also control their high birth rate and overpopulation.. Nigeria is 230 million in population out of the 230 million...160 million are youths so out of the 160 million youths how many of the youths are engaged or how something tangible to do or have jobs
So the idle ones or youths will go into criminal activities for they say an idle mind is the devil's workshop...so with all this I said insecurity, criminal activities will reduce and stop gradually

state police will work because it will mean funds for CCTV in all LGAs will be allocated because serious State Governments won't want their own people to die en masse and will be voted out easily.

it will also create jobs for the indigenes which means most crimes will be committed by people not from that state..

it will lead to the creation of a state criminal database, so criminals will be registered in a database.
E.T.C

CONS
it can be weaponized by the state government.

Tenses:
tinubu should do himself a big favour by resigning as president. Staying in that office means doing his people (SW) a huge disservice.

He is not Yoruba...

He is from Gambia..

He is a Fulani from Gambia.

symbianDON:
there's a software on the dark web that allows for your account balance to be 'loaded' making it seem like money was added but will reverse to your real balance after a very short. In reality, no actual money would be credited to your account.

What you are saying is impossible.

The topic has to do with fake sms alert.

A person cannot fake account balance on a bank because the account balance comes from a database through an A.P.I.

The only way to change account balance is to use photoshop or html viewer to edit it but the database only knows the original account balance and not the edited one.

GloriousGbola:
it matters because Nigeria does not have the resources to face this on our own

if you look at the news you will find that the islamists are for all intents and purposes in control of mali and niger.

a simple analogy is if the neighborhood riffraff who used to sneak into people houses to steal phones , get caught and beaten up has now been given an ak 47 by some bigger criminals. he is now too big for the neighbourhood to handle

then the community should also buy their own guns and attack the riff raffs...

KobolanderSegun:
I'm not talking of 1960 I'm talking of how people insult each other based on ethnicity on this forum

exactly just like 1960 was divide and rule tactics, people insulting each other can be categorized as "divide and rule".

KobolanderSegun:
You have to blame several governments since 1970 for not trying to make amends for the war. Do we non ibo really love ibo ? On this forum you have people insulting Ndigbo right left and center. We are a people who cannot love.

I for one if president would have ended the clamouring for Biafra ages ago, not by using force but by ending all the perceived marginalisation.

When in Lagos Nigeria ibos where harassed during the elections what did the government of Lagos and Nigeria do ? That was the time to show love, support and security to ibo. But we did not care enough.

Me I have publicly been pro- ibo on this forum, if more non- ibo were pro-ibo, Ndigbo will calm down since they know before they shout help will come, but when you are indifferent to people, people can overreact.
We need to seriously end all the abuse on this forum because believe it or not alot of people are reading what we say and using it to Guage our unity as a people.
The hatred on this forum is on called for. When it is Nigeria playing football people want as many ibo players as possible because we know how good they are, when football finishes then they begin the Tribalism .
The level of Tribalism is ridiculous.

SE people through Nnamdi Azikiwe rejected the secession clause before independence because they thought they could dominate other Nigerians.

SE people got angry because after independence Ahmadu Bello sacked SE people from Northern civil service in order to hire northerners and Akintola also sacked SE people from the Western Nigeria civil service in order to provide jobs for SW people which led to the SE people killing both Ahmadu Bello and Akintola which eventually led to the civil war....

SE people were deceived by wyte men to fight other Nigerians so that the SE people do not focus on controlling the oil in the eastern region which would have made the SE people a powerhouse...

how can you have oil in your region and be concerned about what's happening in northern region and western region unless the SE leaders were too dull not to see that wyte people was deceiving them..

Princedapace:
I luagh when igbos and Yorubas fight. People who are supposed to come together and fight their common enemies. Never in history did Igbos and yorubas fought each other. It is always banter and words. But they fail to understand their common enemy is the fulani herdsmen. These guys are bent on ensuring that the entire southern Nigeria is for Islam. They are continuing what their forefather did. Igbos and yorubas will either run away completely or fight back

Igbos have attacked the Yorubas politically, socially, economically e.t.c.


Yorubas and igbos fought each other during the civil war..

the civil war was yoruba vs igbo war.


in the 1960s , nzeogwu exhibited such hatred towards Yorubas.


"According to a Nigerian Police Special Branch Report, nzeogwu executed at least 4 army and police security personnel including one of the men on his team (Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke). nzeogwu also participated in the execution of Col. Raph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College and is reported to have shot indiscriminately at fleeing women and children.."..

the statement above shows pure hatred for Yorubas and a lot of igbos all have this similar behavior towards Yorubas.

The igbos also tried to attack the SW but we're stopped at Ore.

Before the civil war, Nnamdi Azikwe was also fighting the Yorubas politically because he wanted to be premier of the yoruba region.

Azikwe tried to politically get Lagos and the SW region.
Ojukwu tried to use warfare to get Lagos..
Peter Obi and CRV tried politically to get Lagos.

Over 60 years and counting only f:ulanis and Igbos have targeted and are still targeting Lagos and Yorubas.

Brendaniel:
Why do some of you love validating the comment in the screenshot ?

Brendaniel:
Whether you call it Lagos island or Lagos, it was the capital of Nigeria, that is my point...

Your point is not the truth and not based on facts so your point is false.

If your daddy is giving one of your siblings N800,000 monthly and an outsider hears it and starts saying your daddy gives his children N800,000 monthly is that the truth?

Brendaniel:
Read

A section of Lagos island was the capital not the whole of Lagos.

Brendaniel:
So why is Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ogun not more developed than Abuja?

Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo are more developed than Abuja if you consider the size of Abuja to those states?

Abuja has more economic activities than those states except Oyo and Ogun.

Why is Akwa ibom, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa not mord developed than Abuja

Brendaniel:
So why is Abuja getting more development from the FG than other states?

Abuja is not getting more development from the FG.

There is Akwa ibom, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa who get more from the FG than Abuja.....

Its private individuals, politicians, external investors that are developing Abuja.

Why did Abuja development slow down when Buhari was president

Brendaniel:
Lagos was the capital(seat of power)

Lagos was the export point and trading route they robbed blind.

Brendaniel:
The question you should be asking is: was the development equal and is it still equal?

If it was equal why is Abuja more developed than Ekiti, Osun, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo states?

You can stay and be deceiving yourself...

There can never be equal development everywhere because money is a scarce resource.

development has to do with how much a place makes and the skillset of the people of that place or how much is invested into infrastructural developments of that place either by the people of that place, government or external investors.

Brendaniel:
I'm not too bothered about where was Lagos or not Lagos island and what not... My concern here are projects, investments by the FG whether in Lagos or Lagos island, give the FG its credits...

Colonial government is not the FG.

Nigeria was not a democracy during that period.