₦airaland Forum

Jakumo:
Frankly, no place is safe in Nigeria, BUT the highways are by far the most dangerous places of all that are best avoided by anyone who values their life.

Each time one travels a highway in Nigeria, a dice is thrown, and a gamble is taken. The more times that dice is thrown, the higher the probability that the traveler will encounter an ugly fate. The FEWER times a person uses Nigerian highways, the LOWER the risk that they will run into an ambush and wind up tortured to death or beheaded by terrorist gangs.

OK. We all agree that roads are now hell.

So, is that what people voted for? Is it the mandate some are standing on? To make our roads the road to hell?
Do innocent citizens have to now do statistics/probability of death/kidnap before they leave home or travel?

Whose job is it to secure lives and property?

Nyne:
Just listen to the nonsense that You are spewing from Your mouth/hand/mind.

Na until una no fit commot for una house?

Asking People to not go out on a long journey. Is it making any sense to You?

And People like You are always the first to post comments. If I was a moderator, I would block You and Your kinds from my Website.

People are already prisoners in their homes.
Soon they will blame people for going to the market instead of using delivery service.
People should do online lesson at home.

Why go to church, mosque or anywhere instead of worshipping at home?

They will find a way to blame the victims.

So, if no more travelling, why build the coastal highway?

People who doublespeak should never be trusted.

MIKOLOWISKA:
So you want to be producing expensive?

So you want to be producing expensive?
was it globalisation that said you should not produce electricity for mass cheap production?

So cannot understand that since Pa Awo ceased to be Western Region Premier, we have never had sagacious leaders leading any national and subnational political entity in 9ja?
That failure to produce meant we could not industrialise because our so-called leaders put IMF above the masses.

We had almost enough electricity for the population back then. We needed to improve rural electrification back then.

There were industries at Ilupeju, Apapa, Ojo, and Ogun state axis. And PAN in Kaduna. And various processing plants across 9ja. They had no issues with electricity. We bought a tear-rubber PAN Peugeot saloon for about #4,500. We were proud as it was a "Nigerian" product. The refinery at Warri was a busy hub back then, producing fuel. There were rice fields and palm plantations everywhere. A relative set up a rice mill and oil palm mill. And employed dozens of people. We went days without much light interruption and Waterboard taps were running most of the time.

So, it's not like we not doing those things. We didn't have foresighted leaders to continue, improve local production and KNOW how to benefit from globalisation.

So, be constructive in your criticism and trace the history of the failure. So that younger politicians can go back to the drawing board and see how we got it right in the past. And massively improve on it.

ashawopikin:
All these bandits, na jungle justice fit them, no need for arrest

Or at least use gunshots design their thighs, so they can't return to the forest again to kidnap.

The kidnappers will be freed. Nothing will happen.

Ok o. See everything as e dey.

AdamuKD:
You see what I am talking about

You a perfect example of a real Nigerian and the way we reason

Did globalization kill other countries textile industries?

We always find a way to defend our leaderships because he is from our region or based on religion affiliation

So we don't hold them accountable

He's partly right. Our leaders didn't know what globalisation meant. In 9ja, we find excuses to choose foreign brands as a mark of taste and status. Like those bragging of drinking 40 years old whiskey from Tennessee or Scotland.

Sagacious leaders in Asia quickly figured out that only those who can cheaply produce and export in huge quantities benefit from globalisation. Otherwise, you will remain dependent and in poverty.

Growing up, we had cotton trees everywhere. So, our soil is good to produce the key textile raw material. We have exported local clothes/textile, through the Europeans/Portuguese, buying from along the Bight of Benin and selling along the Coast, to Angola and beyond. The Portuguese documented this trade centuries ago.

smallsmall:
Every time l see this sort of situation, especially when Nigerians are involved, l get annoyed at the Host Country (like South Africa) but it quickly don on me that the bigger problem is the Leaders in a well blessed Country that are looting resources meant for the population and they are the ones that deserve our Anger.

Imagine the Deputy Head of the NNPCL telling Senate Committee that they used Two Hundred and Ninety Three Billion Naira (#293Billion) to REGISTER NNPCL as a limited Liability Company!

But Company registration is less that Twenty Thousand Naira, infact, it was done for free, less than two years ago!

It is this sort of monumental level of Corruption, that spreads poverty and drive Nigerians to relocate to ANYWHERE, including into Countries that hate Blacks (Arab North African Countries) or Xenophobic Republic like South Africa.

If we don't fix our Country and get rid of Looters, Bad Government, things will keep getting worse and we will keep getting treated like Garbage, by those who should be our Shoe-Shiners.
Let us make the Sacrifice, to make Nigeria work for all of us, by shunning Tribalism, Religious, stop supporting Criminal Politicians/Political party, stop Voting along Ethnic and Religious lines, ..... TOGETHER, face our Rulers SQUARELY, they are the real and bigger enemies.

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.

When we are done with ourselves and have become a big Power (just like China), let me see how all these Xenophobic Countries will not show us the respect we deserve.
Have we seen any Country try to abuse a Chinese Citizen, in recent times?

Good talk but one problem. 9ja is not a country. It's a collection of countless tribal nations.

Don't let passport or FG or NASS fool you. The last two group, from across 9ja elite, need the appearance of a country to keep accessing power and state treasury.

For 65 years, can you tell me one thing that truly units even just Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba? Never mind the other hundreds of nations.

When Pa Awo said 9ja was a mere geographical expression, he wasn't joking. He saw the birth of the Nigerian state and its tottering about before he said so.

Today, Fulani herding cows through airports, past Asokoro and anywhere say it's part of their culture and sacred. So, what does a trader at Onitsha or a cloth weaver in Osogbo have in common with that?

MJ

Helinuse:
Better for you.

If you guess, stop at the guess.
Don't profer solutions to where tehre is no problem.

Oh, it is you. The APC guy that defends all nonsense for a living.

Chai! And I was wasting my precious time with you? SMH.

Goodbye.

Helinuse:
Not America, bro.
Not New Orleans.
Your Google AI informed you wrongly.

I guess you have never been to New Orleans.

So, to you, Google might be your information source.

I just told you how it plays out in my sub-culture. They danced with coffins of young people, like this late Alex Ekubo guy, in your town as of 40 or 50 years ago? And you witnessed it?

madridguy:
Iran doesn't need anyone permission to own or use their ballistic missile.

As for the nukes, I'm very sure Iran has it already just deceiving the world.

Iran is cold out but very hot inside. When you come for them only then you will know how hot they are.
For President Putin to say that Iran has some weapons that the world could only imagine.

Sentiments aside, if I become Nigeria president tomorrow, I will be sending our brilliant engineering students to Russia, United States, Israel and Iran to go and learn how to make weapons.

You can't be as big as 9ja, have no nukes and want to be respected.
Only that if we had, we won't know before Boko gets hold of it.

Rocket man governing a country that can barely feed itself is respected today because he has nukes.

If Ghaddafi had nukes, he might still be alive today.

Helinuse:
But what is really the motivation behind people dancing with caskets in burials?
This practice is only observed in Africa.

I don't know why we think that way.
What sponsors such thoughts that make us think it is cool to dance with a casket?

Back in the day, it was done when people died in old age. Young people were quietly buried because it is deemed they hadn't quite fulfilled their destiny. And had not lived long enough to bury his seniors as culture would have expected.

In my culture, they danced with the empty casket, not with the body inside. In fact in my sub-culture, till now, they dance with only the cover of the casket, which is decorated with the finest expensive hand-woven cloth. Quite interesting with cultural and spiritual aspects to it.

But these days, in many parts of Southern 9ja, they dance with the casket containing the corpse and it is touted as part of Christian burial. Ghana does same.
It looks to me that it came from America, in it's current form done in 9ja. New Orleans has a culture of a solemn procession, followed by an energetic jazzy dance with the casket containing the corpse.

I stand to be corrected.

Reference:
Hmmm... story.
If we were downhill since independence, that crazy move was the hangman's trap door dropping.

It was the stupidest thing this country had ever done since independence.

45 years later we are running all over the world like headless chickens looking for foreign investors without any iota of success.

And to rub salt into injury, look at the country we mortgaged our own economy for, chasing us out...

The British, Americans and the Dutch will be laughing their heads off.

True. Leaders of all the countries that labelled Mandela a terrorist lined up to praise him at his funeral. Nigeria had no prominent place at the funeral.

Those countries that kept doing business with and supported Apartheid SA, their citizens travel visa free to SA today. 9ja are being chased out.

Nobody respects you if you can't look after and protect your citizens at home.

brain54:
Nigerian subscribers would only end up paying that 20% tax...


But I agree that compensation should be pushed for returnees by affected countries.


Countries like Ghana through their president mahama has already said he would push for compensation from S/A government for it's citizens affected in the next AU meeting.


I really like the way the Ghanian government handled the whole thing. South Africa were careful with them and really respected them even though they still carried out their intentions... but it was with care and respect.


Nigerians on the other hand they treat without respect because they know we have a useless government that is always talking of diplomacy even when its citizens are being killed.


To them it's always about not further straining the useless relationship between both countries!

The telecommunication regulatory body can be mandated to stop any price hike by SA companies. All the loopholes for SA companies to escape FG tax hike unhurt can be blocked by a determined FB/legislature.

FG can interfere with private businesses in the national interest.

Fact is this: a lot of our stolen money is in SA. Many politicians who have the power to do something know how vulnerable they are. So, they won't dare SA.

Very wishy-washy response. Na diplomatic talk sha.

FG should impose additional 20% tax on SA firms to compensate Nigerians returning home after losing everything in SA. And to give succur to the bereaved families of xenophobic murders.

NASS should pass a bill: Compensation of Victims and Families of Victims of Anti-immigrant (Victims of Xenophobia) Injustices, Persecutions, Injuries, Deaths and Others in Foreign Countries Act 2026.

If that happens, powerbrokers in SA with massive shares in MTN, DSTV, Multi-Choice and others will push SA govt to control xenophobia.

You won't hear that a 9ja AI and Automation company wants to raise $1b at NSE and has caused global excitement.

Na consumption and short-cut we dey.

Those who invented AI know the risks and are cautious.

Na so we go take abuse AI.

emmabest2000:
If to say OBO na Igbo man he for use Nwa Eke-uke instead of Umu Bingo

But the truth is that
Reno is a small Ewu Gambia

His grandma was Igbo.
So, he tried.

aswani:
I had an Afrikaner friend once, lovely huge guy that was a former Rugby player and liked me enough to be able to say his true feelings without mincing words as he knew me well as one that won't judge him.

I have lost touch with him now, let's just say he wasn't wrong about his postulations on his black countrymen and their warped sense of reasoning when it comes to expectations.

You will be surprised that a lot of black South Africans support this assertion of receiving a million rand a year from the government, and not just the unemployed and unemployable ones that are going around shutting foreign owned businesses that employ their people.

Oh wow! I had several such with a number of Boers in the 2000s. They were all unanimously savage on Black South Africans and how they will soon run SA down. An SA lady was doubting my experience on this platform only a few months ago.

At the time, Pan-Africanism made me defend SA Blacks as victims of Apartheid that need time to be educated. That affirmative action was necessary to bridge the gap between previously privileged Boers and disadvantaged Blacks.

I had only previously met very accomplished South African blacks. One of them very renowned. So, the Boers' picture of SA blacks just did not resonate with me. I thought they were just bitter over end of Apartheid.

Well, what those Boers said seem to be majorly true for the average SA black (majority), from what we are now seeing.

fasho01:
Whether in person, Via mail, call, text or zoom, did you get the message? Then it was appropriate

Maybe they should have sent Uber driver or limousine to deliver the "executive sack letter" to Oshopiopio. With a barefooted yellow pawpaw lady.

APCheat:
"The Washington-based institution, however, cautioned that the timing of any new taxes must take into account Nigeria’s rising poverty levels and worsening food insecurity" .

Look at the mad IMF. They are the ones saying kill them and at the same time saying watch it before you kill them

IMF only aims to deepen poverty in developing countries.

They should just stop the double-speak.

LibertyRep:
Now I see where your problem stems from.

Is the discussion about the people presently in North Africa or the land itself?

When I said Geography lumped them to Africa, was I talking about how the people got there?

Are the people presently there not culturally closer to the Arabs than the sub Saharan Africa?

Again , is it wrong to say elements of physical geography like the Sahara desert and the sea forced them to be classified as Africa as it is presently?

You have a very poor comprehension skill that makes you find fault where there's none.

I won't dignify you with a response further.

I will write just in case those like you are reading who believe the world began yesterday. Or worship Arabs.

If they can't live with people they migrated to meet on African continent, they should deport themselves back to Arabia.

I don't care what their current culture is or what it's not.

The Sahara is not a divisive geographical feature. It is part of Africa. From when much of it was a sea to when it was a lush tropical forest (as documented by archaeologists). It was and is still Africa. Having visited much of North Africa, nothing you will tell me about the area.

LibertyRep:
Where are you guys coming from this morning?

What else 'lumped' the North Africa to the rest of the Africa if not the vast Sahara desert? What separates them from Europe and Asia if not the Mediterranean and Red Sea?

Aren't those elements of physical geography?

So what poor knowledge in saying Geography lumped them to Africa?

The North Africa is culturally, linguistically, and even historically distinct from sub-Saharan Africa. So what else makes them be classified as Africans if not Geography?

Some of you really have very poor knowledge and are always eager to show it online.

Your poor knowledge is that you don't know the original peoples of North Africa.

I am sure you don't know that the distinctive Y-chromosome marker common in West African and Black American men was found in the DNA extracted from the Egyptian Boy King Tutakhamun.

I am sure you don't know a man called Cheick Anta Diop. Or that his work made UNESCO declare in 1974 that Egypt (KEMET) was a black civilisation.
You certainly don't know the 100 years that Nubians were Pharaohs in Egypt.

I can't imagine you know that the Pharoah mentioned by name in the Bible, 2 Kings, Pharoah Taharqa/Tirhakah, 690-664 BC, was a black man.

Knowledge written in research journals does not interest our people. Most don't even know such exists.

LibertyRep:
They can actually exit CAF altogether.

Na Geography and the sea lumped these North Africa countries to Africa before

Poor knowledge. Geography did not lump us together.

Geography separated us.

They invade African soil. After the fall of the Roman Empire.
Those Arabs should return to Arabia.

Soon you will say Geography lumped Boers of South Africa with Bantus of South Africa.

It's not enough to stop hosting CAF competitions, they should move out entirely.

It is Africa condoning the nonsense in Saharawi that I blame.

And for readmitting them to OAU after they first left. Nonsense.

Goo0dHardDick:
Morocco can as well leave Africa continent

SA can leave Africa continent too. Two insane countries. SA must go berk to their kwatry and protect their jabs!

They tried to before. To join Europe. But Europe told them....ehhh.... sorry, you are in Africa.

They should return to the Arabian Peninsula and leave the land to the original Africans who lived there before Arab invasion.

Bmaster:
Everytime I come across any news relating to insecurity,I become dumb not knowing what else again to say.
Nigeria would have been a bit better off than what it is now assuming the president takes like 10 minutes out of his time to scroll social media apps on a daily.
There are too many things going on around him which he doesn't know,and his goons won't tell him unless he scroll through social media Apps

The so-called leaders know.
It was never their aim to better 9ja.
It's all about personal ambition. Turn by turn.
They are not even hiding that fact.

Reference:
Well, to cut him some slack.
The situation around his leadership did not allow for much governance. National cohesion and stability was the objective then and a swift return to democracy. It was more about politics than governance.

However he and his colleagues could have done a lot more with the inadequate Constitution bestowed on this country.

He, above every other living leader had the best opportunity to restructure this country because at the time the destructive forces of ethnicity and religion besetting this country were evenly matched by a dire need for cohesion and solidarity to prevent total national implosion.

It was at this juncture he could have constituted a national conference to chart a new way forward. No one or any group will have resisted a restructuring. That opportunity he missed.

So history will praise him for resisting the temptation to extend military rule but rather more circumspect about a country he had every opportunity to restructure before handing over.

Those fundamental problems he could not tackle are front and centre of our challenges as a nation today, problems our kind of democracy is just not equiped to handle.

He just wanted to leave. The country was sitting on a gunpowder keg.
Constituting NC would have been seen as delay tactics. June 1998-May 1999 would not have been enough to do all that.

He should have written an interim constitution to last just 2 years or less. With instruction for the next civilian FG to write a new constitution.

In All, OBJ had the best opportunity to immediately call for a new NC and restructuring after winning his 2nd term. But he put his 3rd term ambition over 9ja's long-term interest. He must have seen that the constitution favoured the North and keeping it was an act of gratitude to his Northern benefactors. Or both.

People hell-bent bent on rubbishing GEJ like to forget that he had NC done, to be implemented if he won his 2nd term.

ShenTeh:
Dies. Or killed?

This is the way the Nigerian system has been softening the narrative around terrorism. And see where we are today.

I said this the last time he was shown alongside his wife by the terrorists.

Nigerians have already been desensitized to death and criminality. It's now normal.

Exactly the way politicians want the masses to be docile and shrug shoulders to only say "It is well."

Tribal and religious sentiments have made people to lose their sense of outrage to demand change.

But it all bodes ill and ominous on many fronts.

fasho01:
Crazy lots. Instead of them to face their white oppressors, they're busy coveting and envying fellow Africans. Xenophobic lots

Fighting their white oppressors will infuriate USA, UK, France, The Netherlands and the West in general. They will turn them to worse than Zimbabwe. They know that well.


So they turn on those with less leverage than the West: Fellow black Africans.
At this point, forget about African Unity. 9ja should strategically work with progressive countries worldwide: Rwanda, Grenada, Brazil, Jamaica and all those ready to move forward. Secure 9ja's lives and property, ensure electricity and sustainably grow the economy.

Let the Xeno-countries be.

The world respects countries who truly value their citizens.

sweerychick:
that's because south south doesn't have a dominant ethnic group. Its made up of minority tribes and sub ethnic groups.. that is an off shoot of the 2 main ethnic groups in the south, Igbo and Yoruba.

Wrong narrative. So Edo, Efik, Ibibio and Ijaw are off-shoots of which tribes?

Don't let the now silly and failed Wazobia nonsense narrative and removal of history from National curriculum make you display ignorance in public.

The so called tripod that has led to Operation Wetie, Biafra War, coup upon coup and now herdsmen, terrorists, bandits and killings everywhere.

TemporaryHansel:
Why do caterers keep doing this? You'll be paid for your job why can't you cook for yourself from your salary.

Some people just don't know when to rein in greed.

It just shows that corruption/embezzlement is rife in society.

Even if you split 9ja into 30 countries, it won't solve the problem.

Funny enough, in 9ja, they will call the caterer "sharp, clever, odogwu, guy woman/guy man, etc."

So imagine this caterer is your governor or minister.