₦airaland Forum

BUTCHCASSIDY:
Is it that Nigeria is too big and diverse or Nigerians generally are intolerant?

Too intolerant is the right word. We are not mature enough to channel our diversity for the best interest of the country.

Caseless:
you know what shallow-minded people like you think, unity is uniformity. This post goes to that little girl called dollyak for her post up there.

Little boy, what are you saying? Are you suffering from lack of comprehension? Who said unity was the same as uniformity or are you trying to divert the attention from the key issues? Seriously, you can debate with whoever you want but stop mentioning my moniker. You don't even have unity to justify that statement in the first place.
#ignore list#

owobokiri:
Obviously, buhari and his goons are desperately trying to starve the census commission of funds, since they know that a credible census performed by an 'outsider' will never favour the North. Jonathan messed up the census count when he removed Odumegwu who was more of a technocrat than Eze Duruiheoma, who is just another run in the mill politician. Odumuegwu would have given this country a very reliable census capable of changing the political demograghics once and for all. The charge that he talks too much is just peurile. It was the sectional press beholden to some ethnicities in Nigeria that blew whatever he said out of proportion. The North, now in the saddle will do everything to get a census count that favours them. Census in this country is everything. It is the invented censsus figures that are used to to gerrymander election units to favour certain states against others thereby creating a situation where just 2 or 3 states in the north can determine the cause of a presidential election in this country, while a region in the north can hold the National assembly to ransome.

Somehow in this country, a warped census count stated that kano has many more people than Lagos and people kept quiet. . No thanks to very dangeroly cooked census figures, Kano and jigawa, just two states up north, are having as much Local governments with bigger alllocations as that of the whole South east. These leads to lopsided appointments, lopsided sharing of funds and amenities, lopsided political representations etc. But most dangerously, our skewed census counts in the past has given the north an unmerited edge in terms of political representations in the center. An edge that has been used to turn the south more or else into a colony.. . For every discerning southerner, the call for a credible census should be as important and as vociferous as the call for credible elections. The reason is simple; an election is already rigged, when a certain district, local government or state has gotten an over bloated electorate, no thanks to a flawed census.

Well, sooner or later the truth will come out with the bio-metric census.

deife:
Dollyak, you strike me as someone with beauty and brains.

Why, thank you .

pbs4real:
dnt worry i wont do dat to u

I bet you wouldn't, you saints .

Adminisher:
Please take your minority and unrealistic opinion and you know what to do with it . Every tribalistic misfit now finds it easy to write nonsense about Nigeria while cowardly ignoring the major problem which is corruption. Very odious trash couched in interlectual verbiage.
The world has no time for Biafra or the mad Boko Haram caliphate or any delusion from every young who finds it difficult to "get it up".
If you actually succeed at Biafra or Arewa or Oduduwa Republic no your problem has just started. Second slavery of the black man has started.

The first rule to sounding intelligent is to offer a rebuttal as to why the opposed argument is invalid. What you have up there is an empty rant.

mikolo80:
Tsk tsk tsk Smhseriously. Anyway that you've lost it shows you've lost the argument.that's good enough for me. PS I hope you know you are an ambassador of the kind of upbringing and home training you Received. Keep acting like someone from the gutter and don't be annoyed when you get treated like scum

you are inferior. Resume your position . You don't even make sense. Peasant

Forget centenary city. It is not feasible.

mikolo80:
it is you who are unintelligent cos you didn't bother to comprehend what I wrote.not enough to read at the surface. Imagine if jesus just preached without miracle"works". Talk is cheap why you can come here and throw insults and remain at that level. If you had done something you would have inspired someone else to copy.why do you think we all want to be doctors lawyers and oil workers but not farmers and VulcanisERs

Listen to your miserable and inferior self. You are talking about intelligence and you can't string a proper sentence together nor express yourself in a coherent manner. You are not even worth the effort. Go and worry about your worthless life and stop worrying about someone superior to you in every way. If you are going to display your stupidity at least try and be interesting with it.

jaybee3:
How?

Perhaps deceptively, but there has been no visible economic plan from the president so far. This, coupled with the delayed appointment of the ministers (finance) meant investors were always going to be worried.

The president isn't helping matters either.

Aww. She need to maintain her dignity and stop washing her laundry in public. She is definitely dating a boy

I love aisha buhari. She come across as a very simple and humble woman.

mikolo80:
What do you produce or manufacture as an example to others or are you all hat and no cattle

is that relevant to the discussion? Be intelligent for once.

jasmines:
will do that

Can you post a link here for us to see? I am also interested.

This is one of the few things dear to me. I hate our dependency on natural resources. Nigeria should be targeting a technological-production based economy rather than natural resources based.. The former earn you a lot more money, ask south Korea with Samsung.

astrodome:
Where I live is a nice suburb and not the big metros in your list. The 25% is what my bank and I agreed upon. So not sure what you are driving at

Fair enough

astrodome:
25% of income as mortgage payment for donkey years is low? Where did you get that from?

Homeowners in 24 of the 30 largest metros covered by Zillow were paying more for homes in the fourth quarter of 2012 relative to their region’s median income than they were from 1985 through 1999. Metros with the largest difference between their pre-bubble and fourth quarter 2012 price-to-income ratios included San Jose (52.1 percent more), Los Angeles (48.8 percent more), Portland, OR, (45.4 percent more), San Diego (44.6 percent more) and Denver (40.8 percent more).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2013/04/16/high-home-price-to-income-ratios-hiding-behind-low-mortgage-rates/

Op, with your ridiculously low mortgage to salary ratio, 3k a month isn't that bad. I am sure you live in texas, Washington (North West) or some sh!!t, because there are not many states/career(Excluding medical fields) that pays decent six figures with such a ridiculously low rental ratio, unless you are a world class specialist.
Anyways, you just need to learn to say no. If you are going to give, you need to make sure it's going towards a self sustaining programme for your family and friends. The amount my dad have given to his ridiculously large nuclear family is definitely into seven figures. Yet, nothing to show for it . Therefore, be strict and give wisely.

MalcoImX:
Are their views canonical? Are the views of mostly Western Christian countries on gay sex and marriage that of the Christian faith? I am asking you what the scriptures say and you're quoting "Opinion Polls" for me.

Why do you guys do this ? Let's talk about the comparative unprovoked killings done in the name of Islam/Christians in Nigeria and not the validity of both religion. Religion section is more appropriate for that. Muslims in the northern Nigeria are extremely violent. End of discussion. No more argument. If you still want to justify it by using off point argument, knock yourself out.

MalcoImX:
Are their views canonical? Are the views of mostly Western Christian countries on gay sex and marriage that of the Christian faith? I am asking you what the scriptures say and you're quoting "Opinion Polls" for me.

You are just shifting the post sporadically to try and fight for your faith. Poor you. Most western 'Christian'' countries you are talking about now holds a secular view. How many people now identifies as Christian? I live in the system so you can't pull a wool out of our eyes. The fact gay practises were forbiden by core Christians in the olden days is pretty conclusive.
All these narratives of yours are red herring.

Politically speaking, there are far lessssss(understatement) religious killings by Christians in Nigeria compared to Muslims. This is what matters, so forget about every other thing. Have you seen people call yoruba Muslims a terrorist? Go and fix up your backward practices in the north and stop trying to defend and deflect from the indefensible.

Good cause, but I am not sure about the effectiveness of this.

Op I sincerely share your concern. It's a gloomy situation but perhaps he has a master stroke up his sleeves?

Khd95:
I dnt nid 2 read dis ur mu.mu topic,
ure jst anoda saddist,nigerians will create problems for themselves even when their is none.

because he asked dat cow herders nd farmers b protected he has done wrong kwo,nd hw has he negleted BH

When he released money,had meetin wit security chiefs nd other regional president all in d name of endin BH wher were u biko,sleepin ontop okada



M nt defendein PMB,bt enof of shiiii frm nigerians nd contribute positively 2 d betterness of dis nation nt by fermentin hatred in som quaters.....

Who needs more protection, is it the gun wielding herders or the- in most cases harmless farmers? This can't be true anyways because he can't be that biased to only protect his people while leaving he farmers in the cold.

Seriously, I refuse to believe this story. Based on recent killings, I certainly think the farmers needs more protection than the herders.

It appears the crowd cheering him are paid thugs. This is simply not acceptable.

Some hoodlums on Tuesday attacked pensioners and human rights activists who staged a protest against Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State over his inability to pay them for the past seven months.

Our correspondent gathered that the pensioners and some human rights activists under the aegis of Civil Societies’ Coalition for Emancipation of Osun State had gathered at Ayetoro area of Osogbo from where the protesters took off but some youths pelted them with water sachets.

Angered by the effrontery of the youths, one of the pensioners told our correspondent that some of his colleagues repelled the attackers by stoning them in return.

The protesters, he said, advanced to Igbona where they were ambushed by some armed thugs who hurled stones at the elderly persons and flogged some of them especially the women who could not run as fast as their male colleagues.

The police were said to have intervened by shooting into the air to scare away the hoodlums.

The leader of the police team was said to have appealed to the pensioners to stop the protest, saying the police would not want a clash between them and pro-Aregbesola youths who were also protesting at Olaiya Junction.

The pensioners, who later regrouped, stopped singing anti-Aregbesola’s songs while the few remaining senior citizens continued with the protest.

The protesters carried placards with various inscriptions such as “Aregbesola, pay pensioners their stipends, “Aregbesola: Stop receiving N500m monthly as security votes,” “Osun Assembly: Treat Justice Folahanmi’s petition,” and “Our demand is that Aregbesola must go.”

The Chairman of CSCEO, Mr. Adeniyi Alimi, said the group would not relent in its protest until Aregbesola “is removed from office.”

He said, “This is a serious matter. Although, we are practising democracy in Nigeria but in Osun we are under a demonic and oppressive rule. We need to save this state now. Everybody must be involved because under our nose, Aregbesola has completely destroyed this state.

“In this country, we fought the military to a standstill and in this case, we will continue with our mobilisation from house to house, market to market, school to school until this repressive regime is booted out. Aregbesola must go.”

While the pensioners and civil society groups’ protest was going on, some pro-Aregbesola youths and some notable activists, who are loyal to the governor also marched to Olaiya Junction from Odi Olowo, saying no to the planned impeachment of the governor.

A serving judge in Osun State Judiciary, Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, had petitioned the House of Assembly on the alleged financial recklessness of Aregbesola and asked the House to impeach the governor.

Many had thought the lawmakers would begin the impeachment process on Tuesday. Consequently, some anti-Aregbesola groups had planned to demonstrate in support of the impeachment while some pro-Aregbesola also trooped out in support of the governor.

Some youths, who were armed with a gun, axes, saw and cudgels stormed Olaiya junction and disrupted the pro-Aregbesola demonstration.

However, the hoodlums who some claimed to be ‘State Boys’ being sponsored by the governor, shot sporadically into the air to disrupt the anti-Aregbesola’s protest while those watching the debacle fled.

One of the thugs, who bore a rifle, came on a bike just like his colleagues and he shot into the air repeatedly before they boarded a mini commercial bus already waiting for them.

There was a heavy presence of police at Olaiya Junction and other flash points in Osogbo to ensure that the situation did not degenerate into a total breakdown of law and order.

But the Osun Progressives and other civil societies group led by its Convener, Wale Adebisi and his deputy, Waheed Lawal, in a statement condemned the attack on pro-Aregbesola’s protesters.

Adebisi accused the Peoples Democratic Party of disrupting the protest which he said was a peaceful demonstration to defend the mandate given to Aregbesola by the majority of the people of the state.

Reacting to the allegation the Director of Publicity of the PDP in the state, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, told our correspondent on the telephone that the PDP knew nothing about the attack.

He said, “It is unfortunate that the APC is still using their old method of blaming the PDP for their evils. Do they still want the people to believe that outright lie? We do not have anything to do with any protest.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/thugs-attack-pensioners-during-anti-aregbesola-protest/

I can't believe people are still trying to do drug business in countries like Indonesia.

onatisi:
the nation cannot and will not move forward with the way buhari is going about it . Buhari isn't smarter than all other world presidents that appoint ministers. You appoint the best brains and minds as ministers so that they can give u ideas and work in hand with u to lift the nation,it is called division of labour. And sorry to say this buhari even lacks the mental acumen to handle an economy like nigeria own in this period of economic crisis. HE NEEDS HELP. Many of u still don't understand what we are saying,how can u put the nation on auto pilot with a credible economic team Anyway , we dey there together .

it's a futile exercise drumming sense into some people. There is simply no excuse for not appointing the ministers. At the very least he should appoint minister for finance and internal affairs.

Why should you invest in education when you can just use a gun to loot the southern Nigeria from their hard earned money? Smarter investment for northerners if you ask me

Saintabey:
One of the top ten richest man in Nigeria. Simplicity!

Indeed.

You can't solve corruption without addressing the social issues. The tribes needs a unity first in order to curb corruption