₦airaland Forum

DMerciful:
Not really, they are viable because they believe they have the human resources to succeed.
Agriculture can sustain any people who have lands as a basic which technology, manufacturing, mineral resources etc will make them richer. But agriculture is sufficient in itself! We cannot continue to depend on Niger Delta oil, before oil we were prospering

The major reason why before oil it seemed like we were prospering was apart from the fact that Nigeria population was far less than this, because of the fact that Nigeria was just civilizing i.e less graduates, more people in villages(rural) areas, govt didn't have much problems.

That was why back then even if u are just a primary school cert holder u could get a job. But can u say the same to right now?

Misterdhee1:
Regionalism breeds innovativeness and competitiveness. I'm tired of explaining to you. What will an southern presidency achieve for an average southerner? Weakening the center will bread serious and innovative leaders, rather than the largely ineffective ones that are only bothered about enriching themselves and their cliques with monies from SS. Any state that can't survive, should be paired with neighboring state. Study the Canadain political structure, or read about the region political structure we practiced before the current system.

Seriously... LoL

If with billions of allocations monthly nothing much is on ground, u think when the billions stop coming over night innovativeness and competitiveness will start over night...lol


What will happen is that the wealth gap and poverty gap between states will become far too much.

Poor states will become deserted as everyone will want to be in rich states.

Some state will be so poor that they won't be able to even fund their police, once u enter the state it's between u vs anything u see take.

Is that what u want..
LoL

DMerciful:
Competition among states will be the biggest motivation for them to develop. It's happening in Canada, they dont have two heads. You talked about Hope Uzodinma abusing is power as governor to make laws tru the house to give him more power to abuse but part of restructuring is to fix the electoral process where misfits can't be governors or easily booted out through credible electoral process.

You keep mentioning Canada Canada.

Africa is Africa, u can never change that o.

Africa is Africa that's why South Africa that was once a developed country with nuclear war heads are right now shouting foreigners are taking our job, yet Canada opened their borders for foreigners.

It's not cause of this or that just know Africa is and always will be Africa

DMerciful:
So you left the developed countries of Canada,
USA , UK, Australia etc to be benchmarking with Ghana? This is what is called comparative tragedies. You comparing yourself with another failed state instead of comparing yourself with European countries or North American countries. Be ambitious!

Reason alot of European countries have an advantage with regards to federalism is that alot of EU country's states are now viable enough to sustain themselves, before they reached this level it took centuries U AND I KNOW THAT

DMerciful:
Restructuring is about having state police, having control over education so you can decide what will be the curriculum, having control over your resources, having control over healthcare, having control over emergency management,
having ability to remove quota system and celebrate meritocracy, having your own state grid vs national grid, having control over investment and technology. The benefits are endless and SE will do extremely well like was done during the regional govt of Michael Okpara

Having control over education, you and I know these lies are now sth of the past states have full control of most of the things u said up there.

We have state school and federal schools, do u think federal government controls state schools?

Same goes with your healthcare, has the FG stopped any state from setting up state of the art health care facilities?

Has the FG stopped any state from setting up emergency Management?

I won't lie to u, if quota system is removed you are opening the igbos to full time legal marginalization.

All in all, you didn't give me any point of what I asked you, u just gave me general view.

I ASK AGAIN, WHAT IN THE SE DO U WANT TO BE RESTRUTURED

Misterdhee1:
This is one of the issues with this system. Every tribe is bothered about Abuja, with little or no concern about development. BTW, igbo presidency irrespective of how sane, is another tall dream. Rather than fight for presidency which is mostly decided by northerners, let us fight for a stronger region and a weaker center. Once Abuja is less attractive, a lot of contemporary issues will be solved bottom-up.

Mostly decided by northerners right. And u want it to remain so?

So in your thinking if Abuja is less attractive states will start developing?

U and I know this is a lie.

Alot of states are receiving much money and nothing has changed you think it will change over night?

If Abuja relinquishes some powers some states will become no go areas cause it will be plunged back to 1970, look at hope uzodinma who made IMHA pass a law that gives him the power to arrest anybody in the state for as long as he chooses, imagine if more powers are given to governor's like that?

I hardly hear about FG owing salaries but u and I know states owe salaries like mad, imagine where there's state police and some states start owing police men 10months salaries. U are setting up a time bomb cause all those police men will turn to full time armed robbers.

The list goes on.

Ur location says Abuja and am surprised u think like this, am currently at Abuja, do u like the economic situation of our people at Abuja?


Your kind of thinking is full blown cowardice, people like u would go to a place instead of fighting for your right, u would go and live under Miserable condition just to avoid competition.

If we as igbos have this thinking we have failed the next generation of igbos, when they look at list of Nigeria president when Nigeria is 100years and find out only Nnamdi Azikiwe was close to power, I guess people like u will be happy.

U would tell them we don't need president

DMerciful:
This is not a federal system! This is a pretense of a federal system. Show a country that practice this system apart from Nigeria and call it a federal system?

What do u call what Ghana practices?

Nigerias system is even better than Ghana.

Almost all the decisions about Ghana and it's regions are made in accra

Misterdhee1:
But let them push it first. Northerners don't command a single voice anymore. Middle belt don't align with core northerners in a lot of political policies. If SW, SE, SS and few of the middle belt states can speak in unison, victory will be achieved. The bill is long overdue.

Ok brother tell us what exactly u want to restructure in the SE?

SW wants to control their affairs like 100% control of Lagos Nigerias commercial capital while they pay tax to the centre.

SS want 100% resource control.

If u from the SE is going for negotiate restructuring what are u agitating for them to restructure in the East?

Misterdhee1:
The bolded is a tall dream. An average Nigerian has over time learnt to care more about what's in it for his immediate people, than what's in it for the country as a whole. You don't force a change on adults.

Btw, you've not really explained why a stronger region is a lose situation for igbos? Was eastern region a failure before Aguiyi Ironsi came up with the unit federation nonsense?

If it's a tall dream, then we as igbos need to come together settle down and plan about how we are going to do our own.

If we gave other Nigerians chance and the only thing they had in their mind is how to marginalize others, then let it be on the books, so when we will do ours nobody will complain about igbo domination.

If igbos can let go of Biafra cry, if Nigeria gives us power good but if they don't, I have a well thought up plan to fight back.

The current system should remain.

All these developments are unsustainable, what's the economic benefits of this in enugu?

Nothing will happen I repeat nothing will happen.

Them never even start, Christmas is close once it clocks November period u will start seeing sars again

Kingscee:
OK oooo northerners ZOOGERIA belongs to you guys alone

I am igbo and I own Nigeria as much as the next person.

Nigeria belongs to whoever owns power and he can do whatever he thinks with it.

Ok you as an igbo man, collect power NO "you say you want biafla or death"

We have been hearing biafra will come almost every year, Biafra we never see Nigeria is now 60, we are shouting biafra spoiling our chance of leadership giving power to others on a platter of gold and shouting na una get Nigeria.

Make we dae get sense o

Misterdhee1:
Why please? Will restructuring still leave the igbo nation at the bereft of the northern hegemony? The best solution to this nation is a stronger region and a weaker center. Nigerians are no longer patriotic, so it's unreasonable to keep hanging on to the federal system.

Our only intentions as igbos should not and never be restructuring.

I have studied the northern thinking to a large extent these people are smarter than us down here.

1st they said they don't support indepence, we in the South called them names, after the British left and gave us the indepence 50years later we are wishing they never left. Them and us who turned out right?

2nd they were against the unification decree proposed by aguiyi ironsi that gave the center the power it has now, u saw what later happened. Now we are wishing it never happened.

3rd restructuring they are saying no, and we are calling them names again until it backfires.

I don't know about other regions, if marginalization or tribalism or nepotism can be fixed in Nigeria, and corruption fought to a stand still there's absolutely nothing wrong with the present system.

Restructuring does not favour we igbos in anyway, d day it will happen u would find out it's we from the East that stands to loose out not the north.

Unlike other regions which have sth they want to restructure from my observation all the East wants is for the SE to have an extra state and nothing more. If we move for extra state and restructuring is done which brings true federalism that extra state will be useless to us, apart from that I know the next regions a state will be created from won't be from the East but from the West.

So its a loose loose situation

Covidscamtin.

According to what the world leaders told us, if u discover u have Corona u are supposed to observe 14days isolation before u can know abt ur status.

They locked down countries, said they were using billions to fight covid.

Now u all can see for yourself all lies

Law should be for everyone who can go to law school not just for law graduates.

Why should lawyers be working as bankers and accountant's in banks taking away the jobs of management graduates but we in management can't act as lawyers?

If u are from the East pushing for restructuring I only wish I understand what your intention is.

As an igbo man say no to restructuring

Police men are govt property, paid for by our taxes so indirectly we the citizens own the police and are the ones paying them.

In America u have the right to video an officer, as long as he knows that he is doing nothing wrong why should he get angry?

For this Frank Mba to say this he supports illegality, whether safe distance or not you have the right to record the police

celeiyke:
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Warri port is likely not seeing the light of the day.

That means there's a high chance that whatever that's going on in onitsha is just a charade

Ngorbungor:
For your mind, what stops wsrri indigins to start using it? So you want us to use your port when you people don't have the capacity, please onne port is ok for us

How does onne port connect to Onitsha port?

CanineOfJackal:
Direct that question to your papa

If I direct am to my father how I go use know whether the thing way born u dae OK?

CanineOfJackal:
Umahi the arselicker personae.

He is a silent achiever though.

The infrastructure in Ebonyi makes Osun and Ekiti look like a hamlet in Katsina

Are u OK?

For Onitsha port to be viable warri port needs to work.

With that, you will ship to warri port than load to barges and send to Onitsha

Their should be a law which says any SARS official caught on illegal duties should be sacked immediately simple

Arrewa:
see them... These same people will come online to tell you how backward and underdeveloped the north is.

See as una dey celebrate airport that we already have in the most poorest state in the north.

Why do you Igbos celebrate midiocrity?

Small boy grow up

Arrewa:
shut up... It will take the south east 20yrs to catch up with the north...

Keep deceiving each other with media propaganda

This boy try and grow up

NaijaCuzin:
It's a hoax

Swears what about d 14days quarantine....

Mozino007:
omo na akwuna joint ooo

Wetin be akwuna

Mozino007:
lets meet opposite jabi mister biggs 2pm

No probs... I hope say no be fast food.

Lets meet up, I just want to chill and talk about Nigeria,

I am tired of chilling with sm kind of people so many of not my Kind of people full here

Drinks on me.

If u are reasonable and smart enough I will introduce you to my company

Nigerians need to learn to be progressive, if selling out anything will better your life do it...

Only thing is wait till is decayed of your relocate it smwere else

Congrats to her.

I don't blame her for what happened that day, she was high as fvck

Sack them.