₦airaland Forum

adecz:
On the other hand, Nigeria has more than 20 major developed cities that are
close to the level of Lagos.

This is not true. Only Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Port-Harcourt have a small claim as worthy cities outside of Lag.

Calabar is also cool and quaint but quiet and small.

Stargangz:
Abidjan, Dakar, Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, Luanda, Lusaka, Harare, Kigali, Accra, Gaborone, Windhoek, Blantyre, Addis Ababa, Port Louis, Francistown, Bulawayo & Kampala all have a better skyline than your overhyped Lagos, Lagos is an advanced slum. I've not even mentioned the major cities in North Africa and South Africa. Lagos can do better.

I I have been to most of these cities and this is simply untrue. None of them is an equal for Lagos, the only one that mildly competes is Nairobi and thats mostly on account of its truly international airport and truly international character as a travel and tourist hub.

You dared to mention Windhoek. Quaint, but mostly empty place.

Ceenachi:
I don't know when these people will show a level of intelligence in their thinking. Atiku went to the US and obtained the certificate Tinubu claims he has. What APC needs to do is to approach WAEC to obtain his original certificate and take him to court like he did to Tinubu. Ranting on social media I think will not help them.

APC and co. should know that Nigerians can't be fooled by any. At the moment they should be thinking about how they will defend the shame they brought on Nigerians rather than managing shameless thinking they will cause a distraction.

A person who went to the lengths Atiku went to regarding Tinubu's academic records should be willing to volunteer his own without waiting for anyone to have to start interrogating academic institutions. He should have an "i have nothing to hide, here are copies of my documents, enjoy" attitude. That is the only way to show himself different from the one he so strenuously persecuted.

Now just for the sake of the way Nairaland is, let me make it clear that I detest Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I consider him a narcotics dealer, an academic fraud and the leading light of corruption in Africa.

Misterc:
One thing you must love about the Lagos State Government is the fact of continuity on the sides of the governor's following a particular roadmap which is the reason most other states don't come close to Lagos in terms of development.....

Other states do not come close to Lagos because Lagos is the former capital of Nigeria and remains it's economic capital.

wirinet:
and my friend Deepsight would posit that the worst of democracy is better than the best of military dictatorship.

Haba, good brother, I am not sure this is the way I put it. This characterization may not be fair to me. After all, benevolent dictatorships have often made very successful governments throughout history, and yes, democracy does have many pitfalls - a thing which a philosopher like Plato articulated very well. The reality though, in the contemporary world, especially contemporary Africa, is that nothing is more dangerous than absolute power. Also, as terrible as our democratic experience has been, no, I do not accept that it has been worse than our time with the military. Happily I was old enough during the time of IBB and Abacha to feel it and understand it enough to appreciate just how much of a no-no it is in this clime.

You see, the problem with our democracy is that it is not yet mature. Give it time. It is still evolving. There are certain things that will become impossible with time. To give you a small example, when OBJ came in as President in 1999, he removed several State Governors through a declaration of a State of Emergency after which he would appoint a military administrator for the state. This was very illegal. But it happened. As jungle dey mature, that sort of thing cannot repeat itself. We have evolved past it. In the same way, democracy has a way of self-correcting over time. Many things which we are appalled at today will be impossible tomorrow.

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Do I even have pussy ass friends that will hate me secretly


My kind of huzzle won't even allow me to have friends like that

Because my kind of huzzle is the type were all my friends want the convoy of benz and lexus to be long

You are fake. This is not Slawomirr. You have cloned his account by adding a letter.
You are detected. Because you dont light up your weed in peace.

tsdarkside:
i dont agree with you on this....
corruption is in every country in the world....but to think nigerias problem is only corruption is makin it look too simple....

I have not said its the only problem. However I definitely insist it is the biggest problem.

waveman2:
My brother they are useless that is why nigeria will never make headway.Have any of them gone through our budget to see how projects are being padded.E.g a ministry digging bore hole for 25m,is that not corruption? And they will still dig that borehole the following year.This is the corruption we are talking about,without corruption there would have been growth which would have aided our revenue generation.

I have seen projects are deliberately left undone every year so that they do it again annually almost perpetually. There are projects like that that have lasted 20 years. That's when a person says corruption is not the number one problem, I have to ask the age of that person.

Kukutenla:
Don't mind these nitwits
See how they are making excuses for corruption by saying the effect is being felt because the money is not enough to satisfy the loot
Just imagine what youths are saying!!
Have you ever heard of a US President dead or alive who looted even 100m not to mention 1bn despite their budget running into trillions of dollars?
This country will never be fixed with the kind of citizens we have

I tell you. Its funny how we worship our destroyers. Well, there is a saying that a people get the leadership they deserve.

The bold in yours puts it perfectly.

Kukutenla:
Yeah. I'm sure South Africa has a past ruler who is still sending them money from the grave and a past minister who is standing trial for bribery in UK. Dey deceive yasef because of agbado

Besides they sent Zuma to Jail. Which Nigerian president can even be investigated, not to speak of jailed.

Catapault:
The NUMBER 1 problem of Nigeria is NOT corruption.

It is that we don’t earn enough as a country.

Please I mean no offense oh, so try to take none - but how old are you? Because I dont know if you know much of our country. I dont know if you know, for example, how we budget for certain pieces of major infrastructure every year, and leave them untouched. There are many I can point out to you which have been funded for over twenty years consistently and never been touched. What is that if not black magic. That's why I asked how old you are. If the question offends you, please let me translate it to how long you have been following political economics in Nigeria. That's a better way to phrase it.

Dear friend, if you understand the ruthlessness of our corruption and its depth and scale, you would know that corruption has always been our biggest problem. If you like earn one trillion dollars, it will disappear in Nigeria, I guarantee you.

nairalanda1:
One way we can fight corruption is by improving our tax to gdp ratio to 50% from 10%

More people paying taxes -more eyes on government= hell let loose for any stealing

But look at it, 33 billion dollars, if spent 'wisely without corruption' on 200 million people won't go far. At all. Corruption makes the bad situation ten times worse.

The only reason our budget remains that poor - and I repeat with emphasis - the ONLY reason is our unthinkable political corruption. An oil producing country which has no working refineries for almost two decades speaks for itself. Let me also assure you that the theft of this country's resources is beyond the obvious. Those who collude with politicians to quietly steal solid minerals are there. Those who have deliberately sabotaged the power sector are there. If you think the subsidy was just a normal thing that had to go because "Nigerians are lazy" then you dont understand the depth of what transpires in this country. A subsidy that was only about 300 billion some years ago became over six trillion and you dont understand that a mafia was at work. The only reason it has been seized now is simply because Bretton Woods institutions will not continue loaning our political elite money to steal at that level. There are natural subsidies in every country. Its the extreme and even demonic theft of ours that has forced this situation.

Again, if you dont know that all the savings from the removal of subsidy in Nigeria will still be voraciously stolen by politicians, then you dont know Nigeria.

In Nigeria there are roads projects that have been financed by every government since Obasanjo's - and remain untouched. That level of theft should tell you the matter really rests with political corruption. Now that the cookie is crumbling or rather the cookie jar has so shrunk that there is little to steal, they wish to shift the burden to the poor.

Also, like someone pointed out up there, the true measure of a country's wealth is its GDP and not its budget. With our GDP, which has even been dropping, we can have a far bigger budget than 33 Bn. We can grow that GDP very fast also - exponentially even.

My dear, in Nigeria, taxing the people more is also no solution to political corruption. If you dont know that such tax will still disappear and yet Nigerians will move on, then you still dont know your country. Mind you, I dont say dont tax - I simply point out that it will not do jack to corruption.

nairalanda1:
1. Algeria produces about 4 times more oil than we do so more money (actually around the same amount of crude, but for a population of 44.5 million people, compared to our 200 million and more).

2. South Africa has a diversified economy and as such has more money.

3. Egypt has a diversified economy and is a tourism monster. (Everyone must see the Pyramids and the Sphinx at least once. That's billions of kash in hard currency without doing anything)

So diversify. But warning - with our level of corruption - even if we earn ten times what the USA earns, I assure you everything will still disappear.

Movie - Farha - about the Nakba, from the point of view of a 14 year old Palestinian girl.
A work of fiction which strikes the nerves of reality.

Israel made several efforts to cancel the movie and also Netflix, for airing it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNzXzl0MWA

The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Before the Nakba, Palestine was a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society. However, the conflict between Arabs and Jews intensified in the 1930s with the increase of Jewish immigration, driven by persecution in Europe, and with the Zionist movement aiming to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

In November 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution partitioning Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, with Jerusalem under a UN administration. The Arab world rejected the plan, arguing that it was unfair and violated the UN Charter. Jewish militias launched attacks against Palestinian villages, forcing thousands to flee. The situation escalated into a full-blown war in 1948, with the end of the British Mandate and the departure of British forces, the declaration of independence of the State of Israel and the entry of neighbouring Arab armies. The newly established Israeli forces launched a major offensive. The result of the war was the permanent displacement of more than half of the Palestinian population.

As early as December 1948, the UN General Assembly called for refugee return, property restitution and compensation (resolution 194 (II)). However, 75 years later, despite countless UN resolutions, the rights of the Palestinians continue to be denied. According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) more than 5 million Palestine refugees are scattered throughout the Middle East. Today, Palestinians continue to be dispossessed and displaced by Israeli settlements, evictions, land confiscation and home demolitions.

The Nakba anniversary is a reminder not only of those tragic events of 1948, but of the ongoing injustice suffered by the Palestinians. The Nakba had a profound impact on the Palestinian people, who lost their homes, their land, and their way of life. It remains a deeply traumatic event in their collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and for their right to return to their homes. In 2022, the UN General Assembly requested that this anniversary be commemorated on 15 May 2023, for the first time in the history of the UN.

https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/

Seun / nlfpmod

jeromestarks:
You believe those shit.

Shitty isn't it. Just as shitty as your sense of humor.

jeromestarks:
These days, I see Tinubu in my dreams.

What does it mean kwa?

He is feasting on you. It is black sorcery my friend.

bdon123:
Sign contact ,oral one via video recording. This women they change story.

Looks like the way of the future oh.

obailala:
Why do I feel this is just another careless victim of a drunk white woman?

Avoid drunk hornny women! Avoid drunk hornny white women! Avoid drunk hornny UK women!... This warning can never be overemphasised. Even if they come at you, throw themselves on you, grab your staff, and literally beg for sex, push them away and run for your life, cos you might just have the police knocking at your door the next morning!

Thank you very much. From that which is disclosed in the OP just looks like a case of two drunk people in a club who got it on. Unless there are other undisclosed facts, looks to me just as you have analysed.

Brownemeka:
who fries catfish Biko?

Vulcanizers, gatemen, mechanics and brick layers!

Sucre6:
Not knowing difference between humor and insult is a sign of illiteracy.

Have a nice day 👌

Oya pele. Na play.

Sucre6:
Quote me when u finally have brains 🧠

Thank u

What a shame, oversensitive, no sense of humor. Poof!

LordReed:
This is a solution for those with the resources to do it.

Long time old man.

What happened to "Memento Mori" ... You retired it?

Matinox:
Op, are you a Christian?

You had better stop right there in your tracks.

Purvan:
Don't mind that barren witch called Jeon

Greetings.

I am Special Counsel to the High Lesbian and Woman of Sin, Jeon. Kindly note that I have the permission of their excellencies, his eminence Falseprophet1 and his perfection the RevDesm0ndJuju to undertake the protection and defense of her now excellency.

Her High Excellency asserts a place on this realm permanently beyond the depraved insults and wretched attention seeking of scalliwags such as your low born self.

Be therefore hereby warned: that any annoyance of the High Lesbian going forward will lead to severe consequences up to and including the introduction of startling and confusing nightmares into your pillows at night as well as the appearance of a most hideous and frightening goblin each time you visit the toilet, which appearance is liable to lead you to Yaba Left.

Be ye warned and so guided accordingly.

Signed,

Special Counsel,
Palace of the Perverse
Inner Earth

uwuana:
Food is ready, for the fact say things cost, there are some things that are still affordable here in my area, even tomatoes I use for Stew I bought them #800 and it was much

Ah! I caught sight of your toes and it is confirmed. Which one are you, a houseboy, washerman, mechanic, or roadside vulcanizer. Confess, there is dignity in labor.

Sucre6:
I love the way u fried the fish, and your stew looks good too, nice one

Which one are you, a bricklayer or a roadside vulcanizer. Confess. Don't be ashamed. There is dignity in labor.

Why is it that when done you dished your food as though you were serving a bricklayer or roadside vulcanizer.

[quote author= post=126962223]What Is Really Happening Inside This LAGOS

Don't Forget, Naija.Cover Bring This Sad News[/quote]It's really weird the way you always say, don't forget, I brought you this bad/ sad news... As though peeps are to hype you for bringing them bad/sad news....

Makes me chuckle though.

elipheleh:
E no concern me

My family and I serve the Lord.

The Lord provides for us

This is actually a most ungodly, uncharitable and unchristian statement.

englishmart:
I trust Pablo Ecowas. The mfker will simply sniff his cocaine, drink some wine and sleep. He only sobers up 30 minutes to a meeting. Sometimes he even appears inebriated. He's too high to give any fuckkkk.
If Tinubu was as much as remotely responsible, he would have not bothered contesting in the 2023 election, but baba wears his inadequacies with pride.

He will soon earmark 10 billion naira for presidential Estate, go back to his drugs while obidients fulminate and hyperventilate for months.

One day, mark my word, one day, he will purchase a Presidential Island.

codemaniacs:
no sarcasm..

it is story meant to keep black people in carribeans and america against west Africans.

whyte people did not have the infrastructure to move large amount of people from one continent to another.

whyte people in that era were also very racist and hated black people so they will kill any black person they see rather than trade with that black person.

In 2023, Africans are tribal.. In that era, Africans would have been very tribal and trying to kidnap one African from his ethnic nation would have meant attacking his entire ethnic nation simply put, it would have been impossible to kidnap one black person away from his ethnic nation because his tribes people will fight back.

Thank you very much and have a nice day. You need prayers.