₦airaland Forum

arsenic33:
How can a country with large population can't control its territorial waters? Nobody is even talking about Environmental Resources Management?
Why? Over dependence on oil.
The same government complaining gave out licences for them to fish in our waters. They fish in our waters and export same to us at a high cost
Our Govt. said the country doesn't have the resources to acquire fishing vessels.
The so called "whites" empty the toxic wastes accumulated in their country into our waters. Our living aquatic resources becomes poisoned with toxic heavy metals which is passed to humans that consumes them. Why won't people develop incurable ailments.

The whites wave foreign currencies to bride the so called people protecting our waters. They then breach our Economic Exclusive Zone without resistance.


We have all the resources including human resources to make things right. We just need good policymakers and policy. Over dependence on oil sha

We need to breach the gap between Govt and University Dons to make things work. People in such field should be involved in policy making.

Hit the like button if you agree

AzontoGhost:
it's 2016 and you still believe this power supply sh!t

SemuhleB:
lol I don't need to go anywhere to hook a boyfriend. I have one already besides I don't date Nigerian men

pocohantas:
You prefer they remove their shoes and bless your house with terrible terrible smell from their feet? ?

ReneeNuttall:
Please does anybody know the name of this plant and it's usefulness? this plant has been in my compound for years and nobody seems to know the name or it's purpose.

Cashrange660:
Read the post again, i'm sure you missed the part where it says govt took over the managemet because of it's inability to even pay workers.

Einl:
Listen to yourself.

Arik Airlines is now under the management of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

bodejohn:
I think policies like this are not usually cast in stone, what works here might not work there. It worked in the US and maybe it might just work for Arik too, it won't be good for the employees to be thrown in the already over saturated labour market.

bodejohn:
You can look at it from the angle of making sure some citizens keep their jobs.
Some advance economies are a mixture of capitalism and socialism.

Don't forget that the US bailout as unpopular as it might had been returned their economy to the path of growth.

heendrix:
shey e con dey pain you ni

abeg leave lala alone o

doctokwus:
China is what,private or govt run commercial and industrial giant?
Qatar,Saudi Arabia and all successful Arab countries enterprises are owned and run by who?
Rwanda is being touted as a model African country,a goverment run emerging market practically being managed by one man's vision and determination of purpose,Paul Kigame.
The point is that enterprises run by goverment don't necessarily fail because they are goverment run per se,they do in Nigeria because of corruption and nepotism and no leader strong enough to enforce necessarily rules and sanctions.
The Arik Air that failed was a pure private sector enterprise.It had been failing for long but was being propped up by propaganda and goverment connections of the owner.Almost all private sector run airlines in Nigeria are in distress.

bodejohn:
I do not understand the economics behind it also, but it is better to keep the company afloat than allowing it to go under.


I don't usually like to site examples from foreign countries on matters like this, but you will remember that the United States gave billions of dollars to banks during the last US recession to keep them afloat.

Aminat508:
Popular Yoruba Actor Rotimi Makinde Seeks Nigerians Intervention over Building Marked For Demolition.. Says Gov. Amosun Refused To Compensate Him




Source: http://www.amiloaded.com/2017/08/so-sad-popular-yoruba-actor-rotimi.html

izombie:
wetin you dey talk sef? The issue here is what we have been talking about. What can nigeria manage? We can't manage our economy, quality education is non existent, we can't manage our hospitals, etc. We couldn't manage our nigeria airways, now its arik. What will the ethiopians do differently that we can't? Heck we couldn't even manage the only stadium in our nation's capital. What exactly can we manage?

doctokwus:
I tell you.
Ethiopia with all it's crisis and turmoil still very efficient in a very challenging airline environment.
This also puts lie to the now annoying cliche now becoming a chorus by African leaders that goverment is not good in running biz and should hands off.
I still maintain that what a properly run goverment enterprise can bring,100 private cannot.The problem Nigeria and other poorly run African govt led enterprises have is that they cannot separate cronyism,bigotry and family from biz leading to extreme corruption with employment of unqualified or poorly qualified individuals to run the enterprises.

bodejohn:
Maybe I'm missing something here.
Arik Air was never a government property or corporation until the take over by the government to prevent it from going under. It was started managed and mis-managed by Nigerians.

While Nigeria as a country is not doing well, but why blame the country or say the country is cursed because a few punks mis-managed Arik?

Einl:
If anybody supports us letting an Ethiopian company come and manage or buy or whatever English our useless government is using..
you are complicit in this evil. Because honestly that's what it is. Evil.

This country ain't even got a national carrier and one of the poorest African countries wants to run one of our biggest indigenous companies.


And the useless government invited them.
They couldn't see any corrupt free person home or abroad to run it??

Shame!

Einl:
There are no Nigerians in Nigeria or abroad that can manage Arik Air?

Don't support evil.

A third world country wants to manage one of the biggest companies in Nigeria and the Nigerian government is actively encouraging it....shame!!!!

MizTyna:
Shame! Very soon states in Nigeria will be on sale.

Buy Ekiti get Osun free

Cashrange660:
So there is nothing in this country that can be effectively managed by the government? Oh.. I forgot they can effectively manage their habit of stealing public funds.. #Rubbish

babyfaceafrica:
Nice invention...but then ..people are going to lose their jobs to machines....this is a 2-edge sword

amicable09:
It's been years since I last came on nairaland, I remember when I was seeking for admission into the University sometime in 2008/2009, I always got info and was constantly updated right here. Kudos to the moderators.

Over to the reason why I reactivated my account, OP nice piece and I commend you for inspiring us. I graduated from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and I graduated ... well, trying to be modest. Truth is while in school I never heard about companies like KPMG, Pwc, Delloite and the rest, in fact I was just doing well academically so as to join the Federal ministries and the likes I was seeing in Enugu. It wasn't until the time I went for service in a south western state I heard about KPMG and applied but unfortunately I just wasn't prepared for what I was about to face when I got invited by dragnet for my first aptitude test. Sadly, my calculator disappointed me right in the hall and I was just not coordinated until I got up from my seat when I saw 'sorry" boldly staring me in the face... for the first time I had failed a test! boy, I was depressed. mmmmh, but I've since gotten over it and armed myself for other tests I've done afterwards.

But, I want to say that a lot of undergraduates on campus need better orientation especially about what the labour market is actually like and to be really focused while on campus. They also need to DREAM BIG! I thought my dreams were big enough until I met with other graduates during the course of my service to my fatherland, now I know it wasn't. I have just started to DREAM. And I won't stop until I get to my destination... cheers to all!

Blue3k:
Why bother if you well versed in history you know freedom fighters don't care about death. When you want to break away you have to be prepared for worst case scenario. Did all these scenarios stop movements anywhere else in the worst. Look at Liberia with 3 civil wars.

It's better to focus on factors that can build unity and lessen incentives to secede. Working on economy, political comprise, and good old military force. These keep those elements of fridge. Nobody going to destroy a good system for crumbs.

psychu:
Op started by exposing the dangers of war which is an important thing for all Nigerians to be aware of, but took a wrong turn by making it obvious that Biafrans were the target. You could have easily remained neutral and preserved your message. Now some of your audience feel offended and will naturally not absorb the message.

That being said, I believe that a second civil war will be bloodier than the first. Nigeria at the moment cannot afford that! We already have our hands full with Boko Haram issues. War is expensive! Economically, we are in recession, borrowing on daily basis to survive, oil price is low. Militants will likely cutoff oil production during the war, our CinC is not fit, and so on.

Again, I don't think a second civil war will be like the first that will be fought only in the SE. I believe it will be felt all over the country this time. Biafra will be foolish not to export the war to major cities in Nigeria via Guerrilla warfare. If Boko Haram could penetrate Abuja, don't you think that the Igbos who have since after the war assimilated into every single city in Nigeria, eat their food and speak their language will do much more damage? They are more educated and have more population.

What FG should do now is to kick-start a national dialogue that will lead to the restructuring of the country or lobby NASS to... This move alone will kill the Biafra agitation. If you want to cool nerves, that is what you should be preaching now! They shouldn't wait until it's too late, it's getting late already!

pazienza:
Lol! Look who is talking about emotions. You came here thinking you can use your war scare tactics to force union on a people who obviously would have nothing to do with you.

No, you said what your demonic mind had in stock, your ilks boasted of ending the war in weeks last time around, yet you needed Britain to bail you out after years of failure. You don't know nothing. Your mind is too straight minded, you have no idea the plans Biafrans have for you.

What I'm telling you is that Nigeria as a nation without International support can not subdue Biafra, you manufacture no weapons, if you think the international community will give you unlimited support like in 1960s to go on and carry out your demonic genocidal intents on Biafra, then you better have a rethink. A simple look at how your NE campaign is going should tell you better.



Sorry to disappoint you, your Nigeria is failed Third World colonial entity, it is madness for you to compare with developed first world nations of China, USA or even Spain, who have technological advantage. You import even took picks, You over estimate the capabilities of your failed third world colonial entity, let that sink into your genocidal thick skull.

You are not cooling any tempers, there are no tempers to cool. You came bringing threats of violence, annihilation, genocide, starvation as tools of forcing your expired purulent Nigerian unity on a people whose very DNA is made up resistance to tyranny, impositions and subjugation.

That war you crave for, will come, and it will consume you and your ilks who seek to bring war on an innocent people, hell bent on severing every colonial ties with your genocidal people .

Let this sink in. Your war threat was brought in dead.

pazienza:
Good to see you lose your toga of neutrality and meekness.
Now we can discuss with real hostility and no more pretence.
Here we go.

USA is a poor example to use, USA was formed by willingful union of the original states that made union and with full consent of the people.
It's also a nation of migrants who invaded and displaced the original inhabitants of the land, ie the red Indians.
It's a very poor example to compare Nigeria with. A close example to Nigeria is Spain and Yugoslavia.

Chinese is a world power, more than capable of holding those people hostage without international help. Your Nigeria is a failed Third World colonial contraption, you must be delusional comparing yourself to China. A better example would have been Ethiopia /Eritrea scenario. That's what it would be, if you don't get international help.
And even if you get international help to subdue Biafra again, it would be at the expense of your future prosperity, as the world powers would force many economic suicidal policies down your throat in exchange for their help. You won't survive a second civil war without a chronic and terminal economic death.

You are naive, if you think so.
Nigeria is a broke failed state, already at war in NE with Boko Haram, you are already stretched to your limit financially and economically speaking, opening another war front in SE will not go well for you.
This is not 1960's when you got away with many war crimes, this is ICT age, you will be thoroughly scrutinized by the international news media and social media.
You also had not factored the fact that there are many want away groups in SS, if Biafra war ensues, these groups will capitalize on that to declare their own republics or atleast demand total control of their resources as a condition to stay with Nigeria, a condition we all know is not acceptable to Arewa, as it would defeat the very aim of their current forceful union.

First of all, there is more to Igboland than just Biafra, we know Igboland extends beyond SE.
If the East is landlocked, then Arewa is deadlocked.
An Arid area with a teaming population of miscreants and poor people( almajiri), a region that despite billions Nigeria had spent on its agriculture is yet to make the country food sufficient, as the country is still a mass importer of food.
You must be living in stone age of you think the civilized world would help you execute another starvation agenda in this 21st century.
You already having humanitarian crisis in your NE, if and when Biafrans turn the heat on you, your entire NC and NW will be a refuge camp.

You should be ashamed of yourself, if in your diabolical mindset you think you are going to be allowed to bomb civilian positions in Biafra without repercussions like you did in 1960s, you must be a demonic entity living in stone age.

pazienza:
I don't, but my parents do. They both witnessed Biafra, and guess what? They still want Biafra. They made sure that growing up, all of us knew about Biafra, and all the sacrifices our people made For Biafra.

Your threat of war is dead on arrival, you don't don't own monopoly to violence, every mortal when cut, bleeds.

Demand for Biafra, CAN NEVER be a demand for war. But if you turn it so, then you and your ilks will be consumed by that war.

Think logically, we can all sit on a table, like rational beings and negotiate Nigeria division like Czechoslovakia did, or you and your ilks can all decide to maintain the "Nigeria unity is not negotiable mantra ", and then see us all burn like Yugoslavia did. But when the dust settles, Just like Yugoslavia disappeared from the world map, so will your colonial entity.

Demand for peaceful dissolution of an expired British colonial entity that had already outlived it's usefulness cannot in any way mean habouring hate for other groups comfortable with the colonial entity, stop twisting logic on its head.

chibuzorAbia:
Shut up bloody Biafran. Who told you all the above nonsense? Do we even have a truthful constitution? And why are the greedy Igbos everywhere but their own land?