₦airaland Forum

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.

Jman06:
That guy does not love the girl! She's clearly the one forcing herself on him. No guy in love with his woman would treat her like that. In fact, if the guy was inlove with her, he'll be very happy to see her all the time.

But I'm sure that even with this sort of disgrace the guy meted out to her, she'd still continue throwing herself at him and facing all manner of humiliation and when he's done using her for sex and dumps her, she'll come to social media to tell us that men are scum.

Boundaries are vital.

It does not mean that she couldn't have been coming from another guy's house.

Love is overrated and very fickle. Basic rules and responsibilities are more important these days.

How are you sure she's not using him for sex?

I don't go to anybody's house without informing them first. No matter how close.

It's a matter of self-respect.

APOPTOSIS:
Please, What did you smoke?

Nor mind am. Nothing like Africa.

No body respects you, especially neighbours, if you spend more time loving others than yourself.

Even 9ja must change "Africa First Policy."

It must be "Nigeria First and Nigeria to the World Policy."

Chidinma was not allowed to represent SA in common beauty contest. But Saka, Olise, Eze, Madueke and others represent other countries in FIFA WC 2026.

Even that Okon in the XenoBanana squad fall hand.

Kalashnikov49:
Define being selfish..

She didn't know he was selfish before he relocated her to UK.

She didn't see the selfishness when she sgreed to 50/50 split.

She even gave birth to the first and second child and she didn't see the selfishness after the first child?

She is still a nursing mother and she now remembers her independence, because of $4000 ?

For her saying she is back to the streets should tell you already that she was already meant for the streets. Even before marriage, she was just looking for a reason.

Correction. She never left the streets.

She has only now "officially" returned to the streets.

Read between the line of what she said.

Kalashnikov49:
You have always been for the streets .

Stress of UK living Standards has gotten to the man, as a family man, and he wants you to contribute more to the family upkeep (your own family ooo) and you are complaining because one MAN is making you feel like Cinderella abi?

Anytime a woman starts giving you attitude, someone or something is giving them MORALE.

She will regret it...its always them with the

OH NO, HAD I KNOWN lamentations. Dont take her back, because she will definitelycome back begging. Just imagine a NURSING mother..

Anyway na dem...awon sophisticated...

She was always in the street. Unofficially.

She said it is now official.

The man should do DNA test on those kids o.

SmartMaster001:
Go for the one who respects you and gives you peace of mind.

E get why.

No long story. All that ebony or fair skin, quiet or gist-loving type, na just surface, QED.

kaywhy09:
Then, another will propose Two terms of the 6 years

This is my fear. Otherwise, I have supported a 6-year single term for years. Knowing how greedy our people can be, they will sneak in another paragraph to make it 2 terms later. And they will shoot students and youth who protest against it at sight. And nothing will happen.

If OBJ had thought of it better, he could have had 6 years in his second term, instead of his 3rd term adventure.

Belurved1:
Asset and liability

Chai! Economist don land.

Some assets na big liability at the same time.

The lady nor too get class like that.

Nlkay:
Kindly help choose between Stellenbosh and University of Pretoria

Stellenbosch has a better reputation alongside Uni of Cape Town and Wits University.

Uni Pretoria is good though. But research the ranking in the subject/course you want to pursue.

And the city/cost of living and safety of the city.

Negroid001:
Marriage is not an achievement i repeat.

Ok, it appears divorce is now the achievement.

On to the next dude to chop and spend.

Na turn by turn.

IDERAWOLE:
It depends on the scale or size of business you're planning to embark upon. However, take note of this:

Setting up a gas skid refilling plant is a highly viable business venture in the current economic climate. The demand for LPG is strong and growing, and the skid model offers an efficient path to market for entrepreneurs with medium-scale capital. With meticulous planning, strict adherence to safety regulations, and a customer-focused approach, this business is well-positioned to generate consistent, long-term profits and strong returns on investment.

So, I can give you a detailed set-up plan if indicate what size your looking at.

For a gas skid, you'll be looking at a capital of #5m. If it's just a shop size, it's going to be far less than this. You can have a detailed plan including returns on the business and how fast you can recover your investment.

Please show pictures of the various sizes you have. The shop type, medium skid type and larger one with two tanks. And price of each.

cyberbro:
Ok they were able to rescue those ones as special citizens with political privilege. Congrats.

Whether na ransom dey pay coded, we no even know. Make dem sha bring back the school kids and teachers!

Dem go don pay ransom.

Deadly gun duel without pictures of the dead.

How can 7:30 pm be called late-night?

Thank God the mother and boys survived.

osuofia2:
Iran problem started when they declared islamic Republic, Iran was doing way better before the Mullah took o ver.

How did the Mullahs get the support of the masses to go Islamic?

Because they leveraged on the resentment against the West over toppling of their democracy. And propping up the dictatorial and corrupt Shah who served Western interest.

You are typically addressing the symptom and not the disease. Read history bro.

osuofia2:
Iran is more rich in minerals than Qatar but because of the love for terrorism, they are badly backwards

Would Qatar have flourished with 47 years of sanction?

Iran still has a nuclear programme of their own. In the 1950s, Iran had a vibrant democracy that even Spain or Greece didn't have.

What happened to that democracy? The West disrupted it because Mossadegh, the democratic prime minister decided to take control of Iranian oil to benefit Iranians.

The anger from that 1950s act of the West fuelled the 1979 Revolution. When you kill democracy for selfish reasons, you create a monster. The West did.

We need to know a bit of history.

Cute animals.

Only that they are being fed better than 70% of Almajiris.

GanagiBitrus:
Make dem no break that goat leg o.
Na him last chance at winning the WC be dis.

Else in next WC 2032...

But why you wuked laidis? Are you a Wike Old Gin fan?

Haba! Ororo will look older in 2032 than Jose Mourinho is today?

Racoon:
A good product does not market itself. It valued speaks for it.

Abi. Like garri and ground nut nor dey do advert but saving lives since 1749.

9ja is sleepwalking into what we thought was not possible again.

Whenever politicians become too complacent, the unexpected always happens.

At this stage, it's fair to say that despite ethno-religious sentiments and excuses, political leaders have totally lost it.

They can't protect lives and property.

Their bickering, freeloading and blaming political rivals ain't gonna resolve the mess and quagmire.

Expect anything, including total collapse.

There are more heartless people now out there than at any time in 9ja history.
Eroded values.
Worshiping wealth/money.
Greed and money by any means.
Endemic corruption.
Poverty.