₦airaland Forum

benalvino3:
Becuase it is classified as Trans-Saharan

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Your map shows red sea and I can understand that.

But anyway I get the point. It's fair to say since people were taken from places like Tanzania and Zanzibar (beautiful place!) by Arabs across the Indian.

Nonetheless it is not true that the Trans Saharan trade took more people. Lasted longer yes, but more people, no.

basilico:
And most of those trans Atlantic went to work in Brazil. America got apptox 400K . Sucks?

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The point being?

benalvino3:
Trans-Saharan, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean are estimated to be 17 to 18 million. And slavery in this region is still going on to date.

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Why are you adding routes. Since when did Indian Ocean become Trans Saharan?

raumdeuter:
Did you complete High School or secondary school

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How dare you utter such words to your dark master.

Now, I command you, be turned into into duck-billed platypus.

SQLmastar:
Is the Op related to Suen Owesa? How come there are no comments to this post, yet it made the front page?

At the OP, this life is spiritual. You need to align yourself with the elements of life, else you will derail till eternity. Come to me DM, and I'll give you a bathing soap for success.

1. Gave Osimhen his soap when he turned 19 and look how he is thriving...
2. I gave Wizkid a leaf soap, mixed in cat urine, now he is a star.
3. I even prayed for Elon Musk when he was a mere millionaire; now look where he is.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahha!

raumdeuter:
Yes I did, Now I will ask the same thing from you

Did you complete High School or secondary school

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Will you kneel down and raise up your hands at once!

Now where was that secondary school, and did it have a library and clean toilets?

raumdeuter:
Sound bites are great but they are not thought out policies until you are asked to show how you will implement it sustainably given the conditions

Free meals for Under 12 sounds great then they ask you how do you fund it sustainably. More govt spending which comes from taxpayers, Are you willing to pay more taxes for this. Then it dawns on them

Obamacare same thing, How do you fund it. Like we have seen with Obamacare, the premium kept rising and needed more govt subsidies. Where do govt subsidies come from? Taxes, are you willing to pay more? Then the light bulb goes off

Epstein file is not a policy. I am sure you know what policies are. Or what was the last Democratic policy on Epstein file?

Defund ICE, Great, then what happens to illegals who try to enter the country. Which body will stop an enforce border laws. Or should we remove all border laws regarding entering the country illegally? Should we have a limit on all who enter or anyone who wants to enter should be allowed? Thats when the reality hits

Its at this point that they start seeing the foolishness in the policy they support and they turn it into I just support the Democrats

A party getting trashed is nothing new, Almost every sitting presidents party get trashed n mid terms dating back 100yrs

If you have been paying attention long enough you will know this or be familiar with the 2010 shellacking of Obama

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Did you complete high / secondary school?

raumdeuter:
So fame is what determines what is bad or worse?
Trans Saharan slave trade started 1000 yrs before trans atlantic, Trans Saharan slave trade is still going on till today

But you are more concerned about the one which is famous, not the ne which has taken more people, gone on for longer and still going on today

bemeruca are you sure its still 1 or 2. Ignorance or mischief

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Trans Saharan lasted much longer but is generally agreed to have taken less people overall. Estimates range between six and ten million while Trans Atlantic was over 12 million confirmed.

Patel is among the most despicable hypocrites in the Trump regime, along with Bondi and Hegseth. Thank heavens we have seen the back of Noem.

PHIPEX:
What is the population of Iran again?

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92 Million.

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nairalanda1:
Buhari inherited an economy that was already failing in quote for several months.

In 2014, March, oil prices started falling. People who had seen the same story before in 1982, began nodding their heads like agama agama. By January 2015, NOI was prophesying that the economy would be bad, regardless of who won.

So, yes GEJ handed over a bad economy to buhari. Na high oil price he dey use to hide the cracks.

The problem with Buhari and tinubu is that instead of using hard times to shine, dem come dey do borrow borrow to maintain what we had when oil prices were high, because the sane decisions they needed to take to pull us out of danger, they no take because they preferred to be in power rather than do the hard decisions to leave Nigeria a good leagacy

All of our leaders are the same.

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You completely lack any iota of shame.

ReubenE:
That undisputed title belongs to Ijaw people
No try am.
Ijaw people bear anything and everything as name whether in English or in the native language. You'll hear:

Lagos
Urban
Asset
Fullpower
Goodhead
Machine
Nigeria
Ghana
Aeroplane
Government
Famous
Accra
Navy
Light
New-world
Newman
Dijay
Barbar
Welcome
Christmas
London
Money
Honour
Captain
Jerusalem
Think-of-me
Water-owei
Courtkiri - (Courtyard) Ijaw people have names that Ijaw and English is joined together. They can add "ere" and "owei" to the end of any English name they want to identify female and male.


It is endless

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Even I who know of someone called Appeal Court (Apili for short) am amazed at your list. Surely you are joking about Aeroplane ✈️

VOsimhen144:
Let me tell you the future of Lagos state.

Former Gov. Akinwummi Ambode is coming back to finish his 2nd term.

Then, Seyi Tinubu will become the governor of Lagos immediately Ambode finishes his second term.

This I have seen.

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Nothing for Hamzat?

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AsomughaChuks02:
I am just wondering the excuse that Peter Obi will give to his supporters on why he would degrade himself down to running mate of Atiku because that is where his ambition is tilting to.

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Even then, it will still be tough. It's almost impossible to defeat a Tinubu sitting as president.

bamayo:
the white man took advantage of the cracks that there was slavery on ground. They didn't find it difficult to elaborate and industrialized it.
our leaders took our money and stock it abroad, the white man has to take advantage of it.
As far as thier cracks, the lizard will always mount the wall.
our leaders sold our fathers into slavery and our leaders are sending our resources abroad for peanuts

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Deep.

Image123:
Lolz, dem don ban am again. He's destined to misyarn, 99% emotions about Obi.

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Many times the bot bans even innocuous posts these days.

As to your post, even though I have a most dim view of you, I never thought you would descend to the level of those who assume all critics of the government are necessarily Obi supporters or Igbo.

Image123:
Stop blind and lazy opposition. You're too shy to answer but intent to attack those that answer.
Are you an Obi supporter?
Are you an Atiku supporter?
Who do you support or suggest?

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STOP SYCOPHANCY.

Image123:
Phewww, at last you can mention me without having to be banned for vile remarks.
i am not a BATist anyway. i support and respect the president, and will defend him against useless opposition like the ones presented so far. By 2031, God sparing our lives, i'll again support, respect and defend the next most credible candidate by assessment. That's how free democracy works. i understand most of you haven't had such experience before.
As for your article, yes, as at 2025, Nigeria had turned the corner and was out of the brinks/bottom. That's right to say and data supported it. Nobody says we've arrived. BTW, the discussion and context is largely economic. No one knew the US and Iran would be at war. Projections and budgetting were not made by any country or body with that in mind. All the folks forecasting percentages of growth didn't factor in the Strait of Hormuz. It's an all-things-being-equal statement.
As situation is, there must still be some level of optimism coming from any leadership. No one feels happier or more confident for instance, hearing a minister say things are beyond control or apologising without hope or solution. A good leader must inspire hope and confidence. It's unfortunate if that gets past you. Though understandable since your leader and mentor Obi only glories in scavenging for bad news and misery.

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Stop assuming I am an Obi supporter.

WizardOfNG:
There is nothing to defend before a people who don't understand the problem let alone be aware of solutions required.

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The way many of you celebrate not just mediocrity but the sort of bad governance designed to destroy your generations amazes me.

Nigeria's problems toady are deeply entrenched and highly debilitating because they are the results of decades upon decades of leaders failing to do the right thing.

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Including the last eleven years orchestrated by Tinubu.

The main problems of Nigeria, plaguing us till today, arose when Government became a vendor of shortcuts, through introduction of subsidy to deal with problems in virtually every critical sector instead of taking the sincere and holistic path to solutions provisions which may be more arduous short-term but is best for medium to long term national development and growth.

We damaged the oil, power, education sector and even currency convertibility power of Naira with subsidies. We killed manufacturing and agro-export sector, once a great contributor, to the economy of Nigeria.

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How come Tinubu was at the forefront of protests against subsidy removal in 2011 under Jonathan?
I am sure you know the answer: Fayemi came out to admit it was deliberate politics.

It is thus perverse for you to try to paint Tinubu white on this matter. He worked against subsidy removal when it was being done in a humane way, all for politics, only to come and implement it in a most inhumane way when it was his turn. Indeed, the manner in which he removed subsidy in Nigeria was a first of its kind globally: everywhere else, hitherto, it had always been done gradually to allow the people and the economy time and space to absorb the pain. Nowhere in the world before then had the price of PMS shot up by over 200 per cent in a single day.

And then he added to that calamity the immediate floatation of the naira which doubled the problem with such bad timing.

Steel and many other industry we allowed to become moribund while newer sources of great wealth, lithium mining for example, we are not in a position to control as we became poor failing to do the right things meaning we need foreign capital and expertise for extractive mining putting us in a weak position over control of our own endowment.

These are sad realities we could have avoided if we had leaders who committed to doing the right things at every stage of our development as a nation instead of seeking shortcuts always as we are predisposed to doing as a people.

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If you know that you need foreign capital you need to wise up. An import dependent country always loses when it devalues its currency. This is Economics 101.

Leaders needed to fix problems and keep Nigerians happy at the same time. Instead of choosing the path of tough love as is always done elsewhere globally, because that approach is proven to always lead to permanent and much greater national glory, our own leaders opted to put plaster over a serious infection with numerous subsidies.

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It irritates me when people try to paint Tinubu as someone who cares for Nigeria and thus "did the courageous thing" and is "applying tough love." Nothing could be further from the truth. It is not courageous to strike the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable and leave the powerful untouched. That is actually cowardice. Since we all know it is true that there was massive corruption in the subsidy regime, why did he not bring those complicit to book rather than punish the poverty stricken masses?

We are where we are today because Tinubu, before Nigeria collapses totally, is trying to show the requisite tough love Nigerian needs that leaders before him did not have the sincerity, vision or political will to operate with.

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Please stop insulting our sensitivities by talking about tough love from a thief. No one can explain Tinubu's stupendous wealth legitimately. Every sincere person knows that he stole Lagos blind to arrive at it. Every sincere person knows that he has always been massively corrupt. From the absurd bribes he has channeled through the national assembly to impeachable offences such as expending monies on a jet without appropriation and awarding a scandalous N15 Trillion contract without any public procurement protocol or appropriation by the NASS - to a known international criminal associate - Chagoury - to many many uncountable acts of brazen impunity, we are dealing with the most insensitive leader of our time.

This is not to speak of the fact that his entire history is wrapped up in mystery - no classmates, a fake name, forfeited drug related funds, bullion van on eve of an election, just to mention a few.

A man who means well for Nigeria will appoint Atiku Bagudu, Abacha's bag-man who refunded billions and billions of stolen money as someone in charge of our budgeting? That is a joke taken too far my friend.

There are far too many things to point at to show that Bola Tinubu us on a selfish mission to destroy this country.

I will say it and repeat it a thousand times for those who are into self-improvement via learning. Singapore, a former colony of the UK as Nigeria, were where we are today decades ago i.e a near failed third world nation.

Today they are a great and developed nation. I wish Nigerian can go and learn in details how they reached the laudable position they are in today so they see glaringly that visionary leaders of Singapore, beginning with lee Kuan Yew, understood the need for critical reforms that must be implemented to save Singapore.

Thankfully Singaporeans too largely understood the problems to appreciate the solutions required and, crucially, the need to make personal sacrifices so that reforms can provide a better future in the medium to long term for Singapore.

Today, It is not a better future Singaporeans are enjoying. It is a glorious future that has made Singapore the nation with one of the strongest passports in the world regularly voted one
of the top three nations anyone can live in on Earth.

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I am surprised that you fall into the trap made by many ignorant persons. It is wrong to compare a place that is a single city to a country of over two hundred million diverse people with over three hundred tribes and more original languages than the whole of Europe put together.

It is up to Nigerians to try and learn the problems so they can appreciate solutions required and what they must do to assist those solutions achieve their aims of a glorious future for our nation and future generation.

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Lee Kwan Yew was not the sort of corrupt individual that BAT is, note that.

You are educated Sir, unlike many Nigerians. Critically focus on what is quoted below related to how Singaporeans embraced reforms, even if reluctantly, to note you should be educating less-informed Nigerians about a need to sacrifice ifoe a greater future instead of joining them wielding lynch mob sticks.

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Sacrifice is not a problem but mentioning it is distasteful when those asking you to sacrifice keep stealing at such a degree and pace that is dizzying.

Tinubu's Goverment, as is right to do, is "focused on long-term survival rather than immediate popularity" as all our previous leaders preferred. Crucial that educated Nigerians make this distinction

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Tinubu's government is focused singularly on forcing a return in 2027 to enable further mass looting, and little else.
It is a shame that educated Nigerians can root for such a government and it is a sign that we will hardly progress in the next one hundred years.

DataDoc:
Two things here:

1) Keir Starmer refusing to vote against the resolution means he has a bit of a conscience and acknowledges Britain played a major role in the slave trade era.

2) The most important question I want to ask: If not for the slave trade and exposure of our African ancestors to modernization won't Africa have been more backward than it is today?

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Not at all, Africans had already been interacting with the rest of the world and so it was just a matter of time.

The civilization also in places like Benin in Nigeria, Timbuktu, Ethiopia, and many many other places was telling.

Mere interaction with the rest of the world which geography had placed some barriers on would have opened things up gradually all the same.

SmartPolician:
Growing up, I learnt from different sources that Nigerians sold to slavery were those whose parents or local communities considered useless, stubborn, disrespectful or problematic. If that is true, why are Black Africans still playing the victim card for intentionally selling off their own people?

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It is true that there were buyers and sellers. It is also true that slavery has existed throughout human history.

However the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was peculiar in its barbarity and cruelty in terms of the treatment of slaves from the moment they were taken away. This, I believe, is what grounds the wellspring of disgust against it.

Secondly note that slavery in Africa before the advent of the white man was a complex matter of societal rules and culture. Slavery meant different things, in many cases it was mere servitude. In other cases it was akin to a prison sentence for crimes. However at no time was it practiced on the industrial scale that the Trans Atlantic trade became before the advent of the white man.

You need to visit the slave forts and castles in Ghana today to get a better picture.

TechBaron:
Baba. Learn to read Na.


Update by @pepele_news

The case of the alleged assault on a patient in Kinkole has taken a new turn.

📌 The doctor in question, Dr Balanganayi, has been taken into custody by the judicial police. [/b]

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Ol boy see name. Baba ke.

Up to Richtaiwo, Seunmsg, WizardofNG, Image123 and other BATists to defend.

He ain't gonna do shit cos he knows the consequences for the Gulf states.

erniok2:
I'd love to see this debt profiles in the USD it was borrowed with because if you look at the different conversion rates, the news becomes just sensational.

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Public debt is mostly in local currency so go and sit down.

Also, as someone pointed out already, same administration is responsible for devaluing the naira.

yemre:
You can insult him all you want. The fact remains that he's not poor and he doesn't even know you exist!

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Pathetic.

Who was that person once asking me for evidence that this administration has borrowed the most in spite of subsidy removal?

SmartPolician:
Eko Atlantic is a bold initiative that has become a reality

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Pace is still slow

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LordReed:
Why is death a pointer to you?

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Because it reveals just how artificial the covering of matter is. The way the body dissolves. There is something about it which shows that the whole thing is put on. I am not sure I can explain it.

I have seen many corpses but one struck me most. My cousin when she died. The corpse looked like a plastic doll. I can't get the sight out of my mind. Something about it struck me clearly and I could see how artificial the whole thing is.

I will try write what I have been meaning to write today and death will be part of it. I will expand on it.

PS: Did it mean anything to you when I referred to the fact that our perception can be easily manipulated?