₦airaland Forum

Dogalmighty17:
Israel is proudly carrying on with genocide. Let them continue. At least the world will rest from their endless cries of victimhood. They have become modern day Nazis.

Who find trouble?

Zeebuy:
VAT has not, and has never been a criteria for measuring development in any part of the world. I don't know why you guys keep mentioning VAT. VAT simply shows how well a government taxes the citizens. The SE has, historically, not been focused on taxations as much as the SW has been.

Also, it's laughable you're basing your criteria on the number of hotels in a state. Imo State, I'm sure, has more than 1000 hotels

VAT shows spending power, spending leads to more business and growth. VAT is an important indice that shows the value and prosperity of a city or state. Most of you are half baked not well rounded at all.

gidgiddy:
In 50 years time, Gwari people will be claiming development because the capital was moved to Abuja

Lagos has been hot and prosperous even before there was a Nigeria, even before the British came to Nigeria, it is beyond it being a capital...the strategic location, the people in it, the people leading it, the coastline etc. Lagos is blessed and a blessing to Nigeria.

Basic123:
A train will have been better...preferably high speed train

High speed train is risky and can come with high maintenance cost, due to it's mechanics...if the superhighway would be elevated at least 7 feet from the ground and barricaded for safety, and adopting electric shock railings around it, then I think it is better because it will be safer with better maintenance efficiency.

The misappropriations and outright embezzlement, through fictitious projects, bloated project and expenditure figures is the real issues, this is the leakages.

Nigerian political office holders use public revenue like it is their personal money, they dip hands into public funds.

I like this talk with figures, we need more of these type of detailed debates online, debates in figures, follow the money, forget stories. Nigerians get on the public funds figures debates, analyse the budgets, inflows and expenditures...with this we can put politicians on their toes, and always tag EFCC and activists.

Ontarioo:
He was born with a silver spoon. He turned that around real good.

More like political silver spoon

Yeah, father was an ex governor... public office, public...go figure.

That money those days no easy.

LagosOrigin:
Which south westerners ?

How many south westerners has house in Lagos island, I can count them . But the rest are owned by the Igbos.

This is beer parlour talk, anyone can claim and say anything...it is childish to just assume base on areas, houses and streets you know in Lagos. Have you been to everywhere in Lagos?
How did you come to this conclusion?

Please talk like a reasonable adult...any clown can open mouth to brag we need empirical evidence.

LagosOrigin:
And which tribe has the highest number of real estate owners in Lagos Island?

Go and make your findings.

The top Real Estate holdings are in Ikoyi, Lekki and Victoria Island, it is mainly owned by southwesterners, then Deltans, some are owned by banks and organisations... individuals buying flats and duplexes is different from holdings by firms and financial institutions, who have hundreds of Real Estate holdings in these top areas.

It is very vague to assume a particular tribe has the largest holdings, we need good empirical evidence not just bragging online.

LagosOrigin:
The Igbos are the real powerhouse of Lagos . Na Igbos invest pass and na Igbos dey buy dia house pass in Lagos .

Shops and markets have a very low percentage in the total wealth in Lagos. Real estate, blue chip companies, IT start ups, money market, financial markets, oil business all form the largest chunk of the state revenue and GDP...shops are a small fraction. The wealth of Lagos doesn't come from any particular tribe or group but by a collection of people from different tribes and sectors...a lot of foreigners also invested in Lagos, foreign inflows.

I think people should focus on indices per state not zone, that will show a true and clear picture.

Minister of Rolls Royce, how you no go support...never seen a minister anywhere in the world driving a luxury car like rolls Royce as official car.

It's people that know him, they have predicted the outcome.

Softmirror:
"In God we Trust" proudly an inscription on the American Dollar. "God bless America" an American every minute prayer.

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Terrorists that should be turned to manure, what a useless government, no other nation in the world release terrorists.

Rehabilitate victims of terrorism not the terrorists... millions are in IDPs yet you are rehabilitating the killers.

Mumu, what about those killed, so they don't deserve justice?

Stick to jokes.

Arostar2023:
A black Jew, I presume . Jesus Christ was no different from the Jews of His days. Unless you want us to believe that the Jews of His days were black? Btw, Jesus Christ emancipates and frees the mind to live out it's potential.

In the songs of Solomon, Jesus was described as having woolly hair and brown skin...

Arostar2023:
African traditional religion didn't sustain anyone...they couldn't stop the invasion by Whites. The Catholic church went into the so called sacred and evil forests, and built their churches. And the natives were waiting for them to fall and die suddenly. And guess what? Nothing happened to them. The God that rules the whole universe will be my God not one tribal dirty god somewhere. I am against any practices or culture that venerate them. We don't need those...

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery... Jesus was black.

Arostar2023:
My point is that righteousness exalts a people, and sin is a reproach to any nation. Any group that practices devilish or unjust traditions will eventually face extinction. If the UK and others persist in fostering moral decadence—a deviation from the values that once established them—they will inevitably decline.

People who practice Christian values, whether knowingly or unknowingly, tend to endure. Africans should abandon false gods and embrace the God who sets free. Mind you, not everyone who calls themselves a Christian truly embodies or lives by Christian values

It is their technology and weapons that makes them endure, though there is power and mysticism in the religion, it is a weapon for Europeans...don't forget the secret rites of the masonry, jesuits, they do rituals and offer sacrifices too, this is common knowledge...all these are European and Jewish controlled, they can't let you into their deepest secrets. Of course there is a energy the religion carries no doubt, but my point is do not condemn our African spirituality, it endured us to become great thousands of years ago.

Very good, poor states should give up land to viable states to boost agriculture...it should be on lease terms, strictly business.

Arostar2023:
I am by no means saying that all African cultures are evil or regressive. Like most human-formed cultures, we have the good, the bad, and the ugly. We Africans should abandon the harmful aspects and embrace the values and practices that have built and sustained civilizations.

No man is an island. The so-called traditions and cultures of our ancestors were started and shaped by individuals.

Let me share a quote from the novel Arrow of God:

'And we have all heard how the people of Aninta dealt with their deity when he failed them. Did they not carry him to the boundary between them and their neighbours and set fire on him?' (Arrow of God, p.28)
If what we have currently is not working, we should change it and adopt working ones. That's how intelligent people live. Period.

Yes, we’ve heard of the Benin, Mali, and Egyptian empires—great civilizations and all that. But the question you need to ask is: what happened to them? Why did they decline so rapidly and never rise again?

Do you know how long a thousand years is?

Portuguese was once a power too but faded to the background, the UK is already fading to the background, as time goes on things changes, power changes hands. In the next 100 years the power dynamics of the world will change drastically... don't forget the Europeans are smart enough to form NATO, build nuclear weapons, and keep oppressing Africa and others for resources and advantage... forcing the dollar on our necks as the benchmark on international trade, sanctioning nations and even going to war if their interest is threatened, but despite all these with time power dynamics will change...it has been changing, from Egyptians to Ottomans to Romans to Greece to the British. 1000 years is a long time in history.

Good work, God will bless your noble works. Imagine if all Nigerians can stand on their right like this.

Arostar2023:
Culture evolves... Europeans before now were savages and worship "things". But they have evolved since then... Japan and co wouldn't have made this far if they had founded their society on endemic cultures that are retrogetive. I don't need any idolatrous practices or culture to know and identify with my ancestors and root. Christianity have principles that apply universally. Anyone in India or Japan that subscribe to those principles prospers. But they may not have eternal life, unless they have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.

Christianity was created by Romans, same people that executed Jesus, Constantinople...

In our culture, we pray for good yields, pray for offsprings, teach good morals, if your heritage is filled with beasts and savages, you are on your own. The Egyptians built the pyramids and the first mechanical civilisation and Empire, ruled the world at a point, Egyptians were black and brown, they did this practising their own religion, the Benin Kingdom ruled West Africa practising it's own cultural and spiritual ways, how we pray, communicate with the elements and supreme being and our rituals, were ours, original and it worked for the kingdom's good, Timbuktu empire was built by Africans, all these thousands of years ago.

The rise of the Europeans began with the Germanic tribes who ruled Great Britain and the UK, later the Vikings who are Northern Europeans (Scandinavians), began to build power too, all are Europeans, all these nations began ruling the world, just about 850 years ago in total, but Africans, blacks have been ruling kingdoms and empires, as far back as 5000 years ago(Egyptian civilisation), while the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria and Timbuktu Kingdom of Mali started way back, about 1300 years ago.

The Chinese built their strong nation practising Buddhism, Nigerians like you who are zombies, enslaving themselves via a doctored religion, packaged to make them meek and obidient slaves are going round in circles.

With all our practice of borrowed cultures as religion, where is Nigeria now?

Are Nigerians righteous or living right?

We still manage to churn out the most corrupt political class in the world, while other nations that focus on their own cultural spirituality India, China are progressing.

Emancipate your mind from mental slavery.

N.B: You talk about idolatry...what will you call people praying in front of statutes and symbols in our religious churches and centres today?

What will you call handkerchief worship?

What will you call the worship of money?

Idolatry!

Our culture and traditions is more powerful, genuine and comes with good faith, than all those borrowed cultures and rituals we call religions.

People like this is why the political class is disregarded. Empty people.

Gumi is missing here, busy chasing shadows, the ghost of Mossad (extremists killer) hunts them

arantess:
The way and manner of democracy in nigeria is absurd

Really absurd

No enjoyment for poor man in sharia town ...only big men free...never seen hisbah arrest or harrass a big man, only poor pawns.

If all these hisbah boys are mandated to go after territorists, the North will benefit more, northern leaders are more concerned about immorality than bokoharam killings.

Na cult?

The way senators, local government chairman treat senate President and governors like masters Na wa

The problem we have now is terrorism and banditry, bokoharam, iswap, Baba this is the ones killing northerners, condemn them.