₦airaland Forum

leghagha:
It goes to show most of us don't understand the problem at hand.Will she increase the price of oil to over 100 dollars or diversify the economy overnight?

She cannot improve price of oil, true. But she has the pedigree and the global clout to attract much needed FDI and dollars in the country and assure them of long term gains.
Nigeria needs solid investments. We were the third largest in the world under iweala, now it is not even in Africa's top 10 destinations for real investments.
It is no longer a question of oil.

LouisVanGaal:
Truly we Nigerians are BAD student of history! We can be likened to the Israelites of those days...when God decided to take them away from Egypt(captivity), through wilderness to canaan(promise land)..they cried and wailed..claiming to be better off in Egypt..

Same thing is happening now, we have been crying for diversification..now we are in a situation were we can painfully,but slowly diversify..we are crying! We are paying for recklessness in embezzlement and lack of vision on the part of our past leaders.. Longing for a government official that kept giving us an utopia Nigeria on paper..despite the oil bloom, nothing to show for it...



I can imagine how she would be laughing @ how gullible majority of citizens of her country are..

Your non-oil sector has shrinked from what it was in the past.
FDI has dropped rapidly. So Nigeria was actually diversifying at a more rapid pace before. I am sure you can't compare adeshina's agricultural exploits to whatever buhari has now in audu ogbeh.
Now there is no more diversification. Not with your president searching for more free oil reserves. Just more suffering.

LadyMercedes:
After SEVERAL abortions?!?! Nne, feel free to murder him. God had better understand.

And you sef, next time, follow your heart, but take your brain with you!

Damn!! You are beautiful.
Your eyes though gives me a feeling you can actually murder a man.

Adenyphemi1234:
Well what i will say is yhu dont have to kill yhurself or him to show how hurt yhu are but take it easy, Give it time yhu will get over it belief me but the only thing is if yhuv are affected by the abortions. but if not atleast yhu can still let go. Time heals wounds.

Even if she was affected by the abortions, there is nothing else she can do to the guy. That is her Tough luck
Nigga is home and dry, looking for a fresh churchy girl to take home to mama.

There must be a direct link between oestrogen and stupidity. This was how one lady too wanted to kill herself over one of my bad as$ cousin after the nigga has bleeped and aborted the shitt out of her.
C'mon, even if you are a whoree atleast have common sense . Only an idiott would marry a lady who aborts like a fish regardless of who owns the pregnancy.
Human beings are not that selfless.

Ritchiee:
lol....RHETORICS AND LIES... just post SOME and shame the devil
I still have more.Anybody can say that they do this and that.Let us see the proof

I hope you won't call it chest-beating because I really don't see the point.

bantudra:
haha...we try everything to love them,but the just keep on hating us...ridicoulous...!!....

why do you think buhari said,you are only 5%??....in a democratical-system,we afonjas are 95%,,,!!!!!!...howwww darrrre you insult the ancestors??...

a plea against you shall be sent again!!...walahi...

Illiterate.
95% of your votes went to buhari. That is what your dumb president meant.
You are not 95% of anything good.

Ritchiee:
SO YOU WOULD BELEIVE ANYTHING THAT MASSAGE YOUR EGO WHEN FACTS STATED OTHERWISE.
ALL FACTS POSTED SHOWED THAT THOSE THINGS WERE MAINLY BROUGHT IN BY FRANCE AND MERCENARIES.

Why would a president that obviously doesn't care what igbos think want to massage our egos.?
Even the speech was given in a way to create a credibility for the president capabilities to restore Nigerian technological prowess and not to praise the Igbo ethnic group.
That you believe your president wants to massage our egos with biafran stories shows how deluded and hate-filled you are.

Ritchiee:
YOU ARE A LIAR OR ILLITERATE WHO DOES NOT KNOW THAT YORUBA LEADS IN TECHNOLOGY AS WE SPEAK.INNOSON ASSEMBLES CHINESE VEHICLES WITH SOME INPUTS,,,IN SHORT HE IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A CHINESE COMPANY AND IT QUICKER AND MADE ECONOMIC SENSE FOR NIGERIA TO GO THROUGH INNOSON.
INNOSON KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ENGINEERING BUT BEING PROPELLED BY THE CHINESE COY.WELL,KUDOS TO HIM.HE IS AN ACHIEVER.
WE HAVE PROFORCE IN YORUBALAND SET UP BY A REAL ENGINEER WHO KNOWS HIS ONIONS.READ HERE:
http://businessnews.com.ng/2014/01/30/nigeria-imports-1500-armoured-vehicles-yearly-proforce-boss/


Why did you prefer manufacturing to importing?

I have passion for innovation. As an engineer, I do not believe that trading is the way forward. Engineers believe that trading does not build the economy of any country; it is through innovative manufacturing and application of the latest technology. Manufacturing is the heartbeat of any economy; without manufacturing, the economy will be stagnant and may collapse under global market pressures. Trading is just a short-term engagement; manufacturing is long-term.

You can imagine the amount of joy you have when you see your products in other countries all over the world. It enhances Nigeria’s good image all over the world.


A FEW TECHNOLOGICAL INGENUITY OF THE YORUBAS:
Not fake ones on videos but publicised and verified...


https://www.nairaland.com/2961174/first-made-nigeria-tractor-small-scale


https://techpoint.ng/2016/02/25/ayoola-lautech-nigerian-drone-maker/


http://www.flameville.com/2013/08/video-obasanjos-made-in-nigeria-jet-car-amphibian-car/


http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2015/03/02/the-30-year-old-nigerian-mobile-phone-entrepreneur-who-is-challenging-apple-in-africa/#7778cf0f2924


http://www.newsghana.com.gh/babatope-agbeyo-and-his-original-mathematical-instruments/

AND MANY MORE.LET US SEE YOURS

This is not significant and definitely not revolutionary. I can as well pick a few Igbo erudite engineers and put here. That is definitely not a proof of an engineering culture.
The local electronic market in Nigeria is dominated by aba and Nnewi manufacturers. From wires to transistors to stabilizers to electric meters, to various kinds of heavy automobile parts engineered and reversed engineered and then mass produced.
That is what it means to have an technical culture and an engineering aptitude, not picking random names of well-fed theoretical professors that schooled abroad.
Even the most illiterate people on earth can boast of a few names.

bantudra:
whattt??..what are you doing??..what are you planning..??..please tell..!!!


mtchwwwwwwwwwwwww..

e-rubbish...

This is the best ship you can muster in 2016? A Chinese F-90 ?

ashjay001:
U said it right there! Big houses, but d source of d big houses are in yorubaland, creating employment and improving economic activities, all in yorubaland!

Guy, I just want peace! The same way d US doesn't care ur part of d world, but just encourage ur potential is d same thing yorubaland does!

I want to be able to go to any part of Naija n assume my investments are safe, my interests protected and my security guaranteed! When I hear my supposed brothers insisting on going their separate ways, after welcoming them in my home, its a betrayal!

An Igboman n a Yorubaman in d UK, will be termed Nigerians and quite separate from Ghanians, we are blood brothers, birthed together.

Demanding biafra is a rejection of d hand of fellowship, of brotherhood. If we are to av any beef, it should be btw us n d northerners, who av several times ejected us from their lands!

I'm beginning to develop hatred for Igbos, d same way I will develop for a brother who inspite of opening my home and heart to, insists on remaining selfish, self-centered and ungrateful! Now he has found wealth, he now remembers he has a home he wants only for himself?!

Instead of quietly migrating back home and developing biafra to a world destination, he is insisting on separating entirely?! Left to me, u can go, I always had brains now I've learnt ruthless biz acumen from u.


I speak for myself, anyway!

The fact that you actually believe igbos should plan their future based on what yorubas think and feel shows how deluded you are and how fake your so-called love is.
Igbo race is bigger than most nations in population. That you expect them to defer to the desires of another ethnic is stupid.
A new nation doesn't mean a foreigner's investment will not be safe. That is a rotten excuse.

LorDBolton:
Oga google the uli airport n others it's on record France sold weapons to the biafrans

To make steel ain't easy u need the right equipments biafran govt made alot of money from oil b4 d blockade on oil shipments thus biafran forces used 'normal' local refining techniques...which they hype till today smh

Anyway the oil money finished and France stopped doing business #simple

Bullets ain't free.

Google the Israeli blockade of Palestine , what awolowo did was not a crime , the biafran forces were using it to not only get food aid but weapons too.

Let me even further agree that france managed to sell weapons to Biafra in a hidden manner. It doesn't change much.
The bulk of biafran weapons were built in biafran land.
This is your FG attesting to that.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/economy-buhari-committed-inventing-new-prosperous-nigeria-presidency-2/

sukkot:
thats not the point. its a fight between one faction of the west and another faction of the west. yes the west already had control but the french wanted a piece of the pie and biafra war was how they could cause instability so they can get a piece of the pie from america and britain.

That you believed the French can get a pie from America is funny.
America was and is the world power. Nobody gets a piece from them.
If the French actually had a hope of getting a piece, then they would actively supported Biafra like Britain did Nigeria.
France just wanted a weak anglophone Nigeria that is all. They didn't stick their necks out for it.

And again, ojukwu was an unknown quantity. And the west hates unknown quantities.
Nigeria was the sure thing for them especially in resource conrol.

sukkot:
ojukwu did not hire mercenaries. those mercenaries hired ojukwu. biafra was a proxy war for the west for african resources. deep down ojukwu thought he was fighting to liberate biafra but the people who are controlling the show ( the world powers ) were fighting for nigerian resources.

The west already had control of Nigeria's resources through shell and co, so I don't really know what conspiracy theory you are trying to spin.
It was the tomfoolery of gowon in not accepting the aburi accord that led to al this nonsense, not all this western conspiracy BS.

sukkot:
documentation to show how the french slipped all those weapons into biafra

http://journeytoforever.org/rrlib/biafra.html

Read through.
Nothing like that there.
Even if I agree that French were pro-Biafra for their own reasons. They didn't do much.
No evidence of that yet.

sukkot:
french mercenaries fighting alongside biafrans because they wanted that oil

http://mercenary-wars.net/biafra/

Ofcourse, ojukwu hired mercenaries from many parts of the world including Ethiiopia, gabon, Haiti and many parts of the world as fighters and strategists. That is not a point of argment.
They did not bring much or any significant technology with them. Nigeria was supported by both the east and the western powers. Any tech transfer would be confiscated by the CIA and co.
Even Nigeria is currently hiring mercenaries from south Africa in the war against BH.

sukkot:
france brought your weapons via cameroon. thats where all your weapons came through

But Cameroon was blockaded. If weapons could pass through, surely food would passed through and millions would not have starved to death.

sukkot:
truth be told, the biafran war is a proxy war fought by the west in nigeria. all the weaponry you see used by both sides were supplied by the west to whichever side they were supporting. its not unlike what you see today with america supplying isis with sophisticated weapons and pretending that isis is the enemy while using isis and co to fight proxy wars in syria. there is nothing new under the sun. no weaponry that found its way into nigeria during the biafran war was created in nigeria. it was assembled in nigeria however.

If the west supplied Biafra weapons, then there is no evidence of that yet. It does not make sense too.
They had oil interests to protect so Biafra was like a fly in the ointment.

Coldfeets:
Wow!

Igbos are too much!!!

My question remains did the Biafrans build these war machines in readiness for the impending war or did they build it under the pressure of necessity during the war years?

Because if the Biafrans engineers were able to accomplish such feat under such a short period between the period of Ojukwu's announcement of secession in 1967 and end of the civil war in 1970, then it is a very big shame to Biafra and the entire Nigerian engineers and Nigeria as a whole that almost five decades since that war, we still cannot provide our citizens with CONSTANT POWER SUPPLY.

It bores down to homogeneity in purpose and people. There is a reason why America is the only real example of a developed country where diversity becomes strength. Diversity is a big pain and a weakness.
Also ojukwu was a brilliant military leader that knew how to motivate and marshall resources to get results. Nigeria has not gotten such in like forever.

LorDBolton:
Have u forgotten France supplied weapons and armory parts to biafra?

Ya'll should keep deceiving yaselves tho... go and ask the Japan if in hindsight they would have supported hitler.

They lost ALL their territories to the allied forces the map below shows present Japan in red and former colonies in yellow

Comparing a super power like america- Japan to biafra -nigeria context was so laughable I didn't even bother to comment on that particular thread

France wanted Biafra for obvious francophone reasons, but could not really do much due to british and American support to Nigeria.
The Cameroon president too made a deal with Nigeria and received bakassi as part of its territory to prevent it falling into biafran control which was then totally sealed. If there was a means of weapons transfer in to biafran territory, then millions of people would not have starved to death and awolowo would not have used it as a means of war given the obvious futility.

Ojukwu wherever he is must envy south sudan. How they manage their independence in backward black africa is nothing short of a miracle even with all the cost .
And Biafra was probably and infinitely more deserving, more prepared and fitting of a new nation state than south sudan ever was. Fate can be strange.

mrvitalis:
Bro there is no chemical engineering in unn, I graduated from mechanical engineering unn, so please get ur facts straight
The ban has expired and they are trying to start again.. But for now.. no chemical engineering in unn

Well, I wouldn't know.
Anyway, That is sad . It just shows how bad things are.

Eco2580:
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During my days at NMS i was told that all military equipments used by biafrans were imported

Yes, imported from the spiritual realm while awolowo was busy blocking civilians of needed food imports.
Your FG just attested to biafran technology superiority. I expect you to go and give him a slap.

LabiaDestroyer:
Dude just shut up...stop displaying ignorance
The ogbunigwe was a surface to air weapon converted to a surface to surface weapon and not a grenade launcher.
I won't be surprised if u are a flat headed toothless afonja

Nigeria does not produce a pin. How do you expect him to know what a SAM is and its modus operandi?
Ofcourse, everybody in the Nigerian boat has to be shitty as them -more like crabs in a barrel. That would make them very happy.

On a serious note, the Nigerian security apparatus are a bleeding disgrace. The crudeness alone is just vomit inducing.
It is hard to believe they have such technically gifted people as citizens. Even the fact that ojukwu and his team could dream and attempt stuffs like modular refineries,Tanks and an under-water submarine system just shows how they shitt on Nigeria, who were probably still thinking of how to pay Egyptians to fly their imported MIGs.
Extrapolating biafran ingenuity of the 60s to 2016, we are talking of atleast a medium level technological power like southafrica , Egypt or even south korea.
What a crying shame.

https://www.nairaland.com/3289167/nigeria-failed-harness-massive-biafra
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/economy-buhari-committed-inventing-new-prosperous-nigeria-presidency-2/

And that is coming from Nigeria's federal government, a Fulani man to be precise. Afonjas should be guided.

jollymizzle:
Lmao take it easy on them na.I just dey look them.those kind of steel used to make any armoured anything' needs heavy foundry,if they had it truly it shouldn't just disappear and by the way.those things I'm seeing look like replicas of Soviet war machines.no bad bellle intended.anybody in doubt can research old Soviet mmilitary technology and find out for himself

Soviets were on the Nigerian side, nigga. These technologies as at then were proprietry and advanced for African standards let alone a breakaway nation blockaded by land and seas.
Even food was not passing through the borders let alone weapons. Get some education, you afonja and stop putting everybody on the same pedestal you put yourself.
Even in 2016, the only place where you can get a decent level of manual engineering and reverse engineering and its applications is in the east. Nowhere else in Nigeria.

ashjay001:
America is d greatest of all nations presently, but achieved this by welcoming foreigners from all land n climes! Presently, in Naija, as much as u might want to ignore it, Yoruba are d greatest!

I'll never regard u as a mate! Ur tot processes are too limited! I think abt d general, u are limited to d particular! Enjoy

Comparing America to yorubaland is funny.
America is a nation of immigrants. Everybody is an American and owes their loyalty to America.
Lagos is not a country of immigrants. It is an ethnic state. The people there don't owe it any loyalty neither does not confer any citizenship. The igbos as well as other ethnics there just wants to hustle and send the money home to build big houses in their villages.
The rest of yorubaland is a docile fourth world enclave. The only other place there that has a bit of industrial activity is ogun state and is not even in the class of aba and Nnewi.
Btw, America is the only real success story of strength in diversity. The rest of the developed world in Europe and Asia was built on the back of homogeneity and singularity of people and ideas.

mrvitalis:
Yea chemical engineering for example

Don't tell me chemical engineering is still banned in UNN in 2016. That would be madness and spit in the face of one naijerians like you.
I heard about someone wanting to go for masters in chemical engineering at UNN.

xharder:
op you did add this pix, the Biafra submarine boat..

these boats where not built finish before the end of the war.. had been it was completed, it would have changed the course of the war.

as you can see from the pictures, the boats where being designed in a way that it could submerge into the underwater to remian undetected to lunch an attack on the enemy ship at a distance to neutralize it..

Nigeria lost a great deal by not using this biafran scientist.... common boko haram we are running to Russia, US and South Africa to help us.. isn't it shameful for the so call giant of africa?



pix 1 the front view

pix 2 side view

pix 3 side view

pix4 what the inside looks like

permit my pix quality, i had to snap it from a youtube video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ymJ-6ueVU

wow. So biafran engineers were already envisaging submarines as far back as then. My God!!. Even Nigerian navy in 2016 does not even know what a submarine looks like to even buy one, let alone building one.
Only God alone can really gauge the real scale of what igbos and indeed black Africa have lost for losing the war.
So much technological potential and dynamism wasted.

HMZi:
this is pure senseless trash,i mean,why u gotta attack a whole tribe?I aint yoruba bt 4 the fact that i c myself as being civilized and a citizen of the world, ur comment just made me mad as hell..in what ways do u tink u or ur tribe are beta than odas? Bro, leave bias behind u and u'll c how far u go in life..tribalism is no worse than murder...
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.recieve sense..amen

I know it would come off as tribalism but that was not my intention. It is just a general observation.
You hardly find Igbo guys bragging about how many women they bed. They can brag about other things like money, houses, cars e,t,c, .
The only people I know that brag about women are Yoruba people. I have a few of them as friends and it is a general trend.
We all have our imperfections, so chill.