₦airaland Forum

totit:
She must trend by fire so that her fellows and future possible bigots can learn from her foolishness.

There was no bigotry in her post, she didn't support IPOB or insulted Yoruba people, she just showed support for her candidate and in a very low-key responsible way.

Christistruth03:
Those are the real Original founders and owners of the Labour Party for over 20 years

Peter Obi was just an Oppotunistic Gate Crasher who used money to hijack the Party Presidential Slot

Under the Party rules he shouldn’t even have been considered for the Post because he hadn’t been in the Party long enough

Then why did they all seat back and allow him to run, why didn't they begin their madness then maybe save everyone lots of headache

Is she married yet?

Omowale2023:
Number 2 can't work. It will discourage people from coming to the website

True, but it might also make people take the site more seriously.

Omowale2023:
Lol.....even fb, Twitter, YouTube no dey do paid subscription, na Nairaland wan start am.....😂😂😂
Even reddit & quora won't even try it, talkless of discord or twitch or rumble. Seun should just hire more mods to regulate the comments on the site. That's all

Reddit and Quora have good moderators, they also use an upvoting system so the most sensible posts are more visible...

I don't think this might work for Nairaland

Just observe how the most tribalistic posts tend to get more likes than moderate ones

So good moderators or upvoting system won't change much it's the customer base that needs to be worked on.

It seems like you are cursing UBA for being a good bank.

They did a transaction - it didn't go well, hence they reversed the money so their customer doesn't lose his money.

That's what a good bank should do.

AchrafHakimi:
Your comment is just too unintelligent to reply so I'll just numerate a few.

1. "Stupid teenagers & children" have the most money to spend on frivolities which Nairaland is.

2. "those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave" are the guys that drive Nairaland's ad revenue. If the numbers leave, Seun's ad rate drops.

3. If you think any serious person will pay to comment on Nairaland then you are deluded. The serious ones read & scroll. 90% of commenters are attention seekers.

Bye.

1. "Stupid teenagers & children" have the most money to spend on frivolities which Nairaland is.

No because to pay you need to have a bank account with money inside which teenagers wouldn't have and if they have it they wouldn't want to spend the only money their parents gave them on Nairaland


2. "those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave" are the guys that drive Nairaland's ad revenue. If the numbers leave, Seun's ad rate drops

This wouldn't be a problem because Seun would no longer rely so heavily on ad revenue.


3. If you think any serious person will pay to comment on Nairaland then you are deluded. The serious ones read & scroll. 90% of commenters are attention seekers.

I agree, as long as Nairaland remain a petty site no one in their right mind would want to pay to interact on it, if this changes though.

In other words

"I am putting business before sentiments"

AchrafHakimi:
Pay for exclusive bigotry you mean?
If dem born Seun well let him try it.

Nairaland will end 0.000000056 seconds after.

Nonsense.

I mean it will drastically reduce the number of stupid comments since teenagers and children can't comment on the site because they can't afford it, also those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave, also it will reduce the pressure on the mods to push trendy but meaningless topics to generate traffic.

Meaning a large pool of sensible people would remain and this would change the discourse on the site for the better.

"I think".

I mean the level of useless comments I read here is abominable, 90% of the comments on front page topics are just repetition of the first few posts, it's sad because there are some sensible and educational posts on Nairaland which are overcrowded by the number of rabble posts.

I think Seun needs to introduce an annual subscription, that should at least reduce the number of senseless post here and create a sense of exclusivity.

This is how things were meant to be

thisisit:
Thanks for your analysis.... please read this..

UNITARY STRUCTURE ..IS LIKE FACE ME.. I FACE YOU APARTMENT.. WE SHARE KITCHEN, BATHROOM AND TOILET... THEREFORE WE WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE ENDLESS CONFLICTS.. BECAUSE SOME PERSONS WILL NOT FLUSH THE TOILET AFTER USE.. SOME WILL STAY IN THE BATHROOM FOREVER WITHOUT REGARD FOR OTHER USERS ETC.


ON THE OTHER HAND, REGIONAL STRUCTURE... IS LIKE SELF-CONTAIN APARTMENT... EVERYONE HAS THEIR KITCHEN BATHROOM AND TOILET..

IF YOU TRESPASS INTO OTHER PERSONS TOILET OR BATHROOM WITHOUT PERMISSION.. IT IS OBVIOUS YOU'RE THE AGGRESSOR.... WHEN BIAFRA MILITARY STARTED HEADING TO THE WEST THROUGH MIDWEST.. OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AGGRESSOR.

BUT IN THIS UNITARY, BOKO HARAM CAN ENTER ANYWHERE IN SOUTH WEST IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.

BESIDE IM REGIONAL STRUCTURE, THIS DO-OR-DIE MENTALLY OF POLITICIANS IN THEIR BID TO BE AT THE ALMIGHTY CENTRE WILL NOT BE THERE.

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THST SOME REGIONS HAVE PROBLEM.. THE PROBLEM IS LOCALIZED WITHIN THE REGION.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, CORRUPTION WILL BE MINIMIZE.

THERE WOULD BE HEALTHY COMPETITION AMONGST REGIONS .. AND NOT THIS CURRENT BITTER ETHNO-RELIGIOUS RIVALRY

THANK YOU

Have you lived in self contain apartment where there is no clear head or leader, where every tenant can do their way as long it is within their apartment, it is usually a disaster and such a building would become uninhabitable...

For example what would you do when some girls flush pad down the toilet, and this cause the soakaway pipe to get stuck which would affect other tenants...

Sometimes when water is pumping it doesn't reach everybody because some people just leave their tap running...


What about Nepa bill?

What about tenants who refuse to participate in sanitation?

One way or the other you would have to interfere in people's apartments because it affects yours, so this analogy simply doesn't work, living in a house with no central authority would not be so different from a face-me-I-face-you, having a strong central authority is the solution for better accomodation in both scenarios.


"BESIDE IN REGIONAL STRUCTURE, THIS DO-OR-DIE MENTALLY OF POLITICIANS IN THEIR BID TO BE AT THE ALMIGHTY CENTRE WILL NOT BE THERE.

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THST SOME REGIONS HAVE PROBLEM.. THE PROBLEM IS LOCALIZED WITHIN THE REGION."

What are you basing your claims off? Are you basing it on history?

Maybe you didn't read about the massive amount of political scandals, protests and lynchings in the early days of Nigerian independence, I personally think your suffering from nostalgia of the good old days syndrome...

- if regionalism was so good it would have still existed, good things can't be destroyed easily...

Having a central authority helps to balance different kinds of people. Maybe the authority should not be too powerful to the point of tyranny, but it should not be too weak to allow chaos.

Thank You.

thisisit:
SO, HAS TRIBALISM GONE AWAY FROM NIGERIA OF TODAY?... HAS CORRUPTION GONE AWAY?. IS THERE SOCIAL COHESION IN NIGERIA OF TODAY.

WE ARE BUT A FRAGILE LEAST DEVELOPING COUNTRY, HELD DOWN BY POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, CORRUPTION &

UNITARY STRUCTURE IS GOOD FOR HOMOGENEOUS PEOPLE LIKE MILITARY.. BRITIONS.. ..ODUDUWA ... BIAFRA.. AREWA ETC.

BUT FOR HETEROGENEOUS PEOPLE LIKE NIGERIA, AMERICANS ETC,, TRUE FEDERALISM IS IT.

OLD WAYS ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOOD JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE OLD.

AGUYI IRONSI WAS WRONG TO HAVE CHANGED THE REGIONAL STRUCTURE.


A WEAK CENTRE AND STRONG REGIONS IS THE WAY TO OUR GREATNESS.

OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT-ELECT ONCE SAID ... NIGERIA IS NOT ONE NATION....HE WAS RIGHT.

Nigeria is still tribalist and corrupt, now imagine how things would be under regionalism...

Under regionalism the regional governor would have an extreme amount of power over a vast number of people - add a little corruption to the mixture and you have a nightmare...

Under regionalism Igbos would dominate the South East, Hausas and Fulanis would Dominate the North, I'm sure Calabars and Niger deltans would be glad to have their future dictated by Igbos, same way people of Jos and Benue would love to be ruled by Fulanis... This is what you believe would stop tribalism.

Old ways are not necessarily good because they are old - you should take your own advice, just because regionalism is old doesn't mean it was good.

thisisit:
MR. SHUT D Bleep UP,

KINDLY TELL US THE VERY GOOD REASON IT WAS ABOLISHED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Because it encouraged tribalism, it also encourages corruption, a body cannot function with different brains.

Aguiyi Ironsi himself abolished it and no other leader was foolish enough to revive it.

thisisit:
OPC .. IS STILL ALIVE
MEND ... IS STILL ALIVE
BIAFRA ... IS STILL ALIVE
BOKO HARAM .... IS STILL ALIVE...

DO WE NEED A SOOTHSAYER TO TELL US THAT THIS UNITARY GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE WILL INADVERTENTLY DESTROY US..

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE (FEDERATING FEDERALISM NOT UNITARY FEDERALISM) IS THE FACTORY SETTING OF NIGERIA. IT IS THE GOD-GIVEN POLITICAL TEMPLATE BEQUEATHED TO US BY OUR FORESIGHTED AND MORE EXPERIENCED COLONIAL MASTERS.

OUR DIVERSITIES ARE IRRECONCILABLE...

WE MUST REVERT TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENT.. SOONER OR LATER AND I HOPE NOT VIOLENTLY.

THIS IS WHAT ABURI ACCORD IS ABOUT.
THIS IS WHAT SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS ABOUT..

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

Shut the fak up jare, there's a very good reason it was abolished in the first place

The only way to defeat a woman is with another woman

This topic is long overdue but I feel I do not have enough resources to do it justice.

We shall begin with Fani Kayode's famous line "the new found trust and alliance between the people of the SW and the people of the NORTH shall never again be broken"


Now one might ask when did this trust exist and who broke it...

Perhaps it was when Usman Dan Fodio declared a jihad on the Oyo Empire or maybe when Tafewa Balewa sentenced Awolowo to ten years imprisonment, or maybe when Sani Abacha killed MKO Abiola, however none of this is important what matters is the geopolitics of Nigeria presently and what is responsible for the 'new found trust' , the answer is very simple and complicated 'IGBOS'...

Igbos are one of the major tribes in nigeria but unlike the other major tribes, igbos lack a central structure and this lack of central structure is both a great strength and a greater weakness..

Yorubas leaders no longer have to just worry about the ambition of Northerners they now also have to worry about the ambition of Easterners...

It's a tight situation, it's like choosing between a mad enemy and a smart enemy, the mad enemy is mad so you can't reason with him, the smart enemy on the other can be reasoned with, however he can also plan and aim more effectively on how to bring your destruction.

For now Yoruba leaders have picked the smart enemy and they hope that by convincing them they have the same enemy and goals perhaps this smart enemy would not destroy them...

but there's a tiny tiny flaw in this plan, this plan only works as long as Igbo leaders do not try to form some kind of alliance with Northerners and as long as Northerners perceive Igbos as a threat, so no matter how they ally with the North they also have to carefully make sure Igbos don't change course and they also have to buff up igbos so they don't appear too weak and non threatening, they have to keep the embers of hatred alive from time to time between these two groups.

But fortunately things are going well - a bit too well, the Oyo Empire is finally rising again, but in the long run only time will tell.

The worst part about japa wave is how it ultimately destroys its purpose...

If few Nigerians japa then it's not a problem - because it's not a problem more Nigerians begin to japa and very soon the worst Nigerians will japa too and they will japa with all the crime, lawlessness, corruption that the initial japaists claim to run away from...

Eventually the government will become racist and would ban Nigerians from immigrating.

MasterJayJay:
But north remains headquarters of terrorism, kidnapping, poverty and illiteracy.

It can be likened to a man with a good penis but can't impregnate his wife because of impotency.

The terrorism and banditry is proof of how great Northerners are, even northern criminals are united and disciplined.

Compare them with a certain terrorist group in the South that runs to Finland or UK at every small opportunity, they can't even work together to do their crime in peace...

Northern Terrorist are actually willing to die for what they believe in and the fact Nigerian government have been fighting them for over a decade, should show you how well trained and resilient they are.

As for the so - called illiteracy, where is the education in the South where their youths are either Yahoo boys, Drug addicts or cultists?... Where they turn on each other at the slightest provocation for the stupidest reason?

Education is not education

They are the most united, God fearing people... who at the same time are very humble, slow to anger yet very ruthless when they need to be.

They have been in power for over 100years and they shall rule for 100 more because they are God's chosen people.

Southerners are too barbaric, disorganized and corrupt to rule anything.

Power must go to the North Inshallah.

God Bless Nigeria.

The coup has been successful

Shettima is the president

Wealthoptulent:
But when the confrats sang "e dey shake" u didn't know that then abi? Smh

I have been saying that long before the elections even began

It's amazing how the man responsible for the deaths of many youths in this nation managed to live to a ripe old age to add insult to injury he even feels qualified to dictate our politics direction.

Gambling should be banned in this country

Wole Soyinka brought cultism to Nigeria he has played a big role in the degradation of Nigerian morals, however criticizing him based on politics and not on his own works is extraordinarily foolish.

Jacob was tricked into marry two sisters