₦airaland Forum

vineyardfarms:
PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO FIGURES ARE ALARMING AND TROUBLING. HE SUPPOSED TO BE A LIGHT TO THE MASSES.

THE POLICIES OF DR NGOZI OKONJO AND THE PAST ADMIN ARE THE GUIDING LIGHT TO THIS ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS NO AGENDA OF THEIR OWN.

Abeymills:
How can d president of a country like Nigeria diverse in nature human religion ethnic n tribe say openly dat some pple are 5% n others 95% while d d real 5% gives 80% of d nations income?Mr president u are an hypocrite

goodvision12:
The Apc chieftain who made this assertion is seriously and definitely under the influenced of oshogbo weed,TUFIAKWA!

Juve4:
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The High Chief of Agbon Kingdom in Ethiopia East area

Tolexander:
Go and ask Olisa Metuh, Nnamdi Kanu and Fani-Kayode if the "bragging government" has balls or not!

shobroy10:
And some ppl will come down here and start calling Buhari on this. Things like this as been happening in Nigeria from time immemorial and various state as done nothing to avert because they won't gain any cash from it and any of their relatives is not involved.



@Op mind u they were not Boyz. #mendem



With their age Frame I will attribute it to cultism

khSteel:
Do people from your corner of Nigeria read their books up-side-down?

Honestly, it beats natural human understanding how you people reason...pathetic!

heo88:
It's after the fact but these Fulani herdsman attacks are getting out of hand and Buhari needs to delegate an overhaul/improvement in policing.

I am not keen on the link between it and added momentum behind Biafra. The initial Biafra movement was understandable in some ways due to the violence levelled at Igbos resident in different parts of the country, namely Kano. However, even back then when the momentum began for a Biafran Republic, Ojukuw was being politically opportunisitic (He was Northern raised, educated in England and his dad Louis was the founder of the Nigerian Stock Exchange). When the shit hit the fan, he ran off to the relative safehaven of Cote d'Ivoire and waved the white flag in surrender, from a distance.

The demarcation of the area which includes the present day Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Calabar subsumed within Biafra was a very deliberate move to ensure accrual of oil wealth/revenues. This was just as, if not more important than securing the safety of Igbo people. Had this cession movement been successful, it wouldn't have been to the benefit of the Igbos, Ikwerres, Efiks etc, at large, but to the benefit of a small elite as is the case in several countries/territories.

In the present day, people like Nnamdi Kanu are also acting opportunistically under the guise of Biafra agitation to preserve the safety of namely igbos, and if he succeeds, life will not improve under him, I can say this confidently. Besides, whilst I recognise everyone has a right to self-determination and can assert the idea of an Oduduwa Republic, Arewa Republic, Biafra, Niger-Delta Republic etc, it's worth considering the merits behind it. Ultimately, in a day of Nation State arrangments, and being an African country with all the historical baggage which comes with that, it is only a further advantage to not have a port. A latter-day Biafra wouldn't mirror the historical Biafra which means it would be landlocked and import and export of physical goods would prove problematic, without cooperation from the Niger-Delta. This would be similar for the likes of an Arewa Republic.

All-in-all, an overhaul of policing would remedy, at least in part, the security situation which is easily exploited by Fulani herdsman. However, if you're one who supports cessionary movements, it would be worth challenging your point of departure. The adage holds: "be careful what you wish for".

GloryIsaac:
These Fulani's aren't Nigerians to start with, but their causing problems everywhere .. End product of having a bigoted presido , who knows? it could be a blessing in disguise, paving way for a new nation ....

Koladelampard:
Mr Tonye Barcanista.... I didnt go through your harangue write up... Let me maken the point clear.... Is served as a youth corps mmber in Bayelsa for a year .... Bayelsans and at large the Ijaws are astronomically Lazy.... They literally wake up in the morning , take kaikai(local gin), look for women or men to sleep with as the case may be ..Thats all... They expect govt to do all for them

Deadlytruth:
I have read this thread and found hypocrisy and double speak running through most comments. The first is that the same people who claim here that Edo is not part of the SS let alone Niger Delta have quickly included Benin City youths and sited examples with them in their assertions that Niger Delta Youths are lazy. I don't know when Edo has suddenly become a Niger Delta State and part of the SS now again. I thought they say Edo is part of Oodua-Arewanistan Republic? So why site examples from it on the so-called SS/Biafra issues now?

Secondly I see comments from Yorubas giving instances of their first hand experience of laziness and work refusal among Ijaws and all SS people. The irony is that Yorubaland is the only part of Nigeria where youths, in the name of agbero, refuse to farm or do any decent and respect inspiring jobs but choose to seek and get the state government's support, approval and protection to harass motorists and extort them of the little profit they make all day, and in turn the motorists hike fares on commuters in order to break even after submitting the cab owner's daily returns. Is that what defines hardwork?
It is also only in Yorubaland that youths refuse to work (despite the countless industries in Lagos and SW generally) but choose to continuously patrol their neighbourhoods looking for a person buying land, building a house, roofing, etc so that they can order the process of negotiation or actual laying of foundation or roof rafters to stop until the person pays them the unconstitutional and illegal Omonile dues, which in some cases go as far as N150,000 before work can continue. I don't know any place in the Niger Delta or SS where that is done.
It is also only Yorubas youths that would, whenever there is traffick gridlock on a major road in Lagos, quickly get a stick or a long bench and place it across the alternative routes the drivers would want to take as bypass, and then illegally start demanding for N50 per driver before they'll remove the bench or stick to allow the driver pass. I have never seen an Ijaw youth degenerate to that level of laziness that inspires him to obstruct flow of traffic when there is no riot or demonstration.
Also, it is only in Yorubaland you'll buy a piece of land and after fully paying for it, you go away to raise funds to develop it and on return you meet someone else on that land telling you that the same Omoniles have sold the same piece of land to him. Is that not duplicity inspired by laziness? I don't know of any Niger Delta area where youths double sell or even triple sell land.
Yorubas were just only lucky to have Awolowo who was far sighted, realistic, principled, tenacious, pragmatic to the extent that he risked going to jail to see that Yorubas quickly got education and a good sense of enlightenment to rapidly develop ahead of all other parts of Nigeria. Why God decided to single out Yorubas for blessing with such a leader is what I have not understood.
Unfortunately we the SS were not so lucky except for having an Enahoro who however was not allowed to lead us (and set us up for better orientation than the one we currently have) in the Midwest area by our other leaders who sheepishly followed Zik in his fraudulent "One-Nigeria" fantasy.
For the Igbos; I have not really lived much among them in the SE to know them deep on first hand basis, but I place the blame of the laziness in Nigeria wholly on them because as at independence we were practising true federalism and resource control whereby each region retained 75% of its earnings to develop itself at its own pace. By that arrangement every people were hardworking and no one waited for federal allocation or other free funds as no region was constitutionally permitted to unduly benefit from another region's resources. So whoever was lazy in his region would die of hunger. That model was working perfectly until one arrogant Igbo Army officer who knew absolutely nothing about governance came and crushed and replaced it with unitary system claiming he was seeking some silly national unity and one-Nigeria inspired in him by that blind and myopic Z[/b]ik. By how much has that rash decision really brought about national unity today in Nigeria?
If Igbos had left Nigeria's federalism as they met it all this laziness in the Niger Delta, SW, North and even SE would never have been known in Nigeria.

totit:
Mtchew.
We are talking about purchasing power this one is yapping about population.
And so what,so what happened to ogun state, Oyo that beat the rest of SE states?
You should ask yourself this question, if SE as a whole couldn't beat SW as a whole what make you think that the few populace of Ibos in SW would have any significance after all?

Use you head nah

It's simpl as a ABC

YourNemesis:
South West!

Qabt:
Dis 1 na military regime ooo

AkasGonahMani:
2000 youths was recruited, documented &
trained in N.I.S by d former Admnstrtn bt
buhari's Admnstrtn dispersed dem.... It is
10 months now, notin notin... I beg who go
epp dem??

crazymod:
Rochas is one of the governors that will go exile after 2019................ I hope he make the right choice of country to go. Europe don kast and Donald trump is coming to checkmate America side.

TonyeBarcanista:
I am not from Bayelsa state, but as a proud Ijaw son from Rivers state, I find the remarks credited to HE Gov Seriake Dickson where he termed the good people of Bayelsa state, and by extension Ijaw people as lazy. This subject is trending on social media platforms including twitter and palmchat, and I feel slighted.

Is Seriake Dickson aware that he only indicted himself and his unfortunate government by that comment, and not Bayelsa people?

A Brief History
Please permit me to take us down history lane for a moment.

The Ijaw people are predominantly fishermen. Our fathers and mothers would go to the rivers to catch fish and trade for a living. In fact, we never depend on any handouts from any group, whether the white British or government. Even when palm oil was one of the main source of revenue, our people never abandoned fishing.

However, when oil was discovered in commercial quantity in Oloibiri, Bayelsa state and upon exploration by Oil Companies, our people started losing their predominant fishing occupation due to land acquisition, pollution and water pollution. It became so bad that our young men started to take to oil bunkering to erk living. All these happened because Government at ALL levels and oil companies abandoned our land and people. This reckless abandon even contributed to the first ever secession group in post independent Nigeria, the Niger Delta Republic led by Major Isaac Adaka Boro in 1966.

I believe we would have stuck to our fishing if our waters weren't polluted or if oil wasn't discovered in our land.

Sadly, the government at all level despite the loss of our natural occupation refused to empower our people and retrain our youths. The FG setup intervention Agency like OMAPADEC/NDDC but the agency have not met expectation despite the huge funds they get.

Oil Companies would rather bribe local chiefs and thugs instead of employing and empowering youths. State government and local politicians like Mr Seriake Dickson would rather arm youths to win election and settle them with appointment/allowing them freehand to perpetrate criminality instead of working to emancipate the youths.

They have instilled a kind of psyche that thuggery pays and for the fact that an hungry man is naturally desperate, he would lazy to expect free meal.

An Indictment On Dickson
Pray tell what has Dickson done for Bayelsa state to uplift them intellectually? Does Bayelsa have any functioning state Orientation Agency?

Ex-Gov Alamesiegha not only introduce scholarship to encourage thousands bayelsans to get the best education abroad, he also paid the scholars stipends, and increased the bursary of those in higher institution to the envy of non Bayelsans. This he did in addition to establishing the state university. What can be said of Seriake Dickson?

How do you empower people in absence of education? How do you expect people not to be lazy without proper skill acquisition? Our people are very good swimmers but has the BYSG ever deem it fit to sponsor Ijaws to be professional swimmers like the Australians?

Who gave out guns during the last election in Bayelsa state?

What Does He Expect From Bayelsans?
They incapacitated Bayelsans of their God giving fishing occupation, they refused to empower the community and the youths, they refused to train them with skill acquisition, they even refused to provide environment. Instead they empower thugs and even elevate their thugs to government position. In addition, The local politicians, monarchs and Oil Companies together deliberately cheat the people.

What do we expect from such a people?

Dickson and his cohorts should be grateful that Bayelsans have not taken to criminality, armed robbery and ritual killing.

The only crime of the good people of Bayelsa state is that they are not well orientated like their Yoruba and Igbo neighbours. Even at that, it remains the fault of the government at all level.

Bayelsans are not lazy, Ijaws are not lazy. Bayelsans are only victims of maladministration and faulty political system. Dickson should leave Bayelsans off his failed leadership.


Long Live Ijaw Nation!!!!! Long Live Niger Delta!!!! Long Live Bayelsa State!!!

PS: God Bless The Lady that promised me Tecno L8.




May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

Uramzi:
It's better for a man to be stingy with his money
because he hustled for it...than for a woman to deny
you a hole that she didn't even drill.
Bro I'm most sorry buh yhur sis is kinda wrong! How does it sound in your ear disallowing yhur hubby intercourse? If en begin cheat nko? Wetin yhu go yarn if yhu catch am? If dey say make dey dey fu**k b4 marriage to know if sex dey bellefull dia man dem go say no, I'm a Virgin! Oya nunu! Get well o. God bless yhur Union! Over to d brothers...Is the man still breathing??

FriendChoice:
Buhari and Co are fantastically rounding up their game concerning chibok girls and may be included as one of his achievements within his first year in office.

God Bless PMB

God Bless Nigerian Army And Civilian JTF

God Bless Nigerians

wheredemdey:
Lmfao


This country is a big black joke

What is this??

Wow...i prefer to reincarnate as a healthy American eagle than a human being from Africa.

Pls what is this?