₦airaland Forum

Beating a man when he is down. I am sure they would've taken credit of he had won. Humans

I think the pressure is now too much to ignore. Nigeria seems to be fighting more for their right, which is good.

One question. Do governors also declare assets?

Hmm. Mixed feelings about this. Monitoring of each each government will now become more complicated, due to sub groups. Overall it should be beneficial to Nigeria.

gatiano:
There is nothing called Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Bini, Urhobo, Ibibio, Hutsi, Tutsi, Twa, Swahili etc. When the light of God goes away from a people, they sieze to become a nation and they split into tribes and sub-tribes bringing darkness upon themselves. I am all the tribe of all Black people on this planet.

When the light of God shows mercy on a people, they go from being a tribe to form a nation. Proof? Goths, Welsh, Vikings, Slavics, Normandy, Scots, etc. After the dark ages, they became a nation.

I can proof to you all that none of us, you and I is not Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Zulu etc. It is just plain ignorance.

True that. People need to leave the tribal mentality.

hadura29:
What I am simply saying is that the man should be allowed to choose competent hands, technocrats from wherever he wants to get them to do the job... I don't really care about their tribes... Working Nigeria is all I need. Appointing across board is his business my brother all I want for him is to choose the right people for the task at hand...

We all want that, but Nigeria is not ready for it. Imagine a cabinet with all southsouth including the president, do you think war will not break out?
We need to work on integrating all tribes before giving a poltical correct statement you are giving.
Please be practical. I also want zero corruption, blindness to tribe etc but for we are not there yet

Reference:
So why aren't we being realistic in not expecting the best from government when we cannot give our best as a people in overlooking tribal sentiments. Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria not government. The limitations to the 'change' regime is set by the people. They removed Buhari in 85 and they will determine whether he succeeds this time around.

At the moment this is a fantasy talk and it isn't implementable.
There are still millions of uneducated people in the north who only care about poltical power at the expense of their own welfare. Then you have a vocal and tribalistic biafra groups who are might feel even more marginalised if you tell them none of their citizens are good enough.
These things take a gradual process, so the best thing for now is to chose the best candidates from each tribes.
I believe each tribe is more than enough to produce many excellent candidates for any position.
There are many things we all want to happen in this country(e.g peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Christian, zero corruption), but we need to prepare the platform for it.

bushdoc9919:
99 days for the owner....

yolo

NDPVF:
[s][/s]You are COMPENSATING US,with what rightly belongs to us?.Are you not madt?.Did whats the rationale behind Southwest that contributes almost nothing in the oil & gas industry,hosting the headquarters of the multinational oil coperations,whose operational base is here in the region?.You compensate us with allocation?.Are you not stup!d?.Before the arm struggle in the region,which am proudly to have partaked in,was the headquarters in the region?.You one Nigeria mantra,is cos' of 'oyel' in my land,and nothing more,and i bet you,you and your people should be ready as things are about to unfold.Unam ikot.

I agree, that you guys are being cheated in a way. Can't you debate without insult? God bless everyone's hustle

NDPVF:
[s][/s]Thu.nder f.i.re you.
Do you know what is gas flaring?,do you know what is oil spill?,do you know what is acid rain?,do you know what is poor crop performances due to high pH leve of soil?,do you know what is dead aquatic life due to spills?,do you know what is high temperature due to flarring?,do you know what is low life expectancy period due to poor environmental conditions,due to unhealthy oil exploitation?,etc.
I always say it,reason why you profess your love for us,is cos' of what you are gaining from us.

You will have high blood pressure if you are not careful . Seriously, you need to stop kidnapping people first....... then IOC companies might come back.
To answer all your narratives, I believe Niger delta are already being compensated through federal allocation. South south has by far the highest allocation in the country, so that's a start. Do you guys deserve more? Absolutely, but you need to use the right medium to voice your complain and stop praying for acid thunder rain to fire you.

barcanista:
I agree with you @OP. IOCs need to be urged to relocate along with NNPC. If NPA and NIMASSA can be cited in Lagos(Obj moved them to lag), why not NNPC?

From ethnic bias, it makes a lot of sense, but from the nation's point of view it doesn't. Ask yourself why major companies are located in the financial centres of most countries.

akwabassey:
Oil soil sustains their operations, so they should relocate to our region.

But the key and major operations still takes place in Niger delta. Lagos I would imagine is for business operations.

Why? Don't open threads without giving a sound reason behind your tantrums. Anyways, you will find headquater of most production based companies(Oil and gas, Engineering companies etc) tends to be in the financial centre.
I can give you many examples, but here is a couple.
1 Texas-Newyork
2 Northern Britain(Scotland, Tyneside)-London
etc.
Doesn't make sense to me at all, especially with the kidnappings and instability. It's not like the oil rig is in lagos.

Abacha and mugabe nuff said

Reference:
So what if the best, brightest and most suitable come from the north. Should Buhari reform or should you reform. Who or what is the hindrance to our development. Who needs to 'change', the government or the people.

Ideally I would've agreed with you if you were talking about countries like usa. But do you honestly think we are mature enough to think about the whole country? Do you honestly think a cabinet filled with 95% northerner will not favour the north?
Please be realistic, in an ideal world the best solution is to choose the best regardless of tribe, but Nigeria doesn't do that.

anonimi:
Nothing to worry about, really.

General Muhammadu Buhari (ret'd) promised that already four years ago so he has everything all worked out and with an APC majority in the senate and house of reps, it should be smooth sailing for the constitutional amendment to make this a reality.
Not so


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2343594_buharitruefederalismpromise_jpegc85970dabfc1bf2df5d730398a429913

Lol we both know it won't happen. If it does then he will forever be the best president ever

Chukwugekwu:
nonsense yoruba are not my friends their children of hate.....

Based on your response, I think you need to reevaluate yourself because you sound like the one filled with hate. Pot calling kettle black. No disrespect intended tho.

missKiffy:
See ehn, igbos and yorubas are getting along fine in the real world, it's usually here on nairaland people rant rubbish

Nice to know .

bmos:
That is a wrong thing to say mr man. If it is going to be One Nigeria, then things must be done decently & in proper order. It is too early to expwriebce disappiintment with the nascent admin

Thanks for impacting knowledge into him.

Reference:
Until we re-structure your fears will continue. Nigeria has real and serious issues beyond quality of governance. Tar all the roads, provide power 24hrs, it won't solve the fundamental problems this country has. As a matter of fact there cannot be sustainable development until we tackle those fundamental issues. Most Nigerians just donot understand how this country works or why it has failed to work since independence.

I think fiscal federalism will really help, due to decentralisation of the federal government. So Presidency and some of the key post people are fighting for, will be of less importance.

elijah2u:
if there wasn't close relationship they wouldn't be marry each other

I agree. But it could be better. Imagine a really united Yoruba and Igbos? Nigeria would've improved a lot in every way.

It is difficult to say if Igbo and Yoruba are friends or enemies or merely tolerating each other. On the surface, they seem to be friends, because you rarely hear of any clashes or killings between the two in over 100 years. People from the two ethnic groups work together, live together, laugh together, worship together, and play together. Everything seems all right. Nobody wants to be seen as publicly making any comment seen as tribalistic or intolerant.

But if you look deeper, there seems to be something you cannot truly place a finger on. It’s like a volcano waiting for the least provocation to erupt. It only needs an excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country to be made public, or for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos to “deport” some Igbo to Onitsha for hell to be let loose. Commentators immediately line up behind their ethnic groups, releasing venom against the other side. Luckily, such altercations usually end in words and not in violent acts.

But on Nigerian online sites like the punchng.com and others, where commentators can use anonymous names, such fights are a daily affair, and they always get embarrassingly nasty. At such times, combatants throw caution to the wind and rake up gut-wrenching jibes dripping of hate and bordering on insanity. You wonder if the purveyors of such vitriol would feel at ease afterwards interacting with someone from the ethnic group they have maligned so viciously. Some see it as fun, but many don’t. They see it as a war that must be won at all costs.

Regrettably, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whose direct and indirect action and inaction sowed the seed of hate and distrust between the Igbo and the Yoruba, have died without uprooting that dangerous plant or even denying it water and nutrients. Therefore, till this day, the Igbo and Yoruba still enjoy shooting at each other with accusations of betrayal, expansionism, hate, ingratitude, greed, as well as trying to prove that each ethnic group is superior to the other.

And it seems the contest for superiority is at the root of that frosty relationship. The Igbo and Yoruba are unarguably the most competitive in Nigeria. They are the ethnic groups that easily and forcefully ask for the removal of quota system in all national life. They believe that if things are done on merit, they will excel. The Igbo think that the Yoruba are the major competitors they have in Nigeria, while the Yoruba think that the Igbo are the key competitors they have in Nigeria.

This shows in almost all spheres of life. The Yoruba had a head-start in western education because the British colonialists and missionaries arrived on their land first. The Igbo, who resisted and rejected the British initially, eventually accepted them and thereby began a sprint to catch up with the Yoruba. And they succeeded.

Whatever the Igbo achieve, the Yoruba have an answer to it, and whatever the Yoruba achieve the Igbo have a response. So, if you have a Wole Soyinka from the South-West winning the first Nobel Prize for Literature in Africa, you have a Chinua Achebe from the South-East holding the record of the most popular and most-selling literary writer in Africa. If you have a Rangers International Football Club of Enugu shaking the Nigerian football scene in the 1970s and early 80s, you have the Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan shining brightly at the same period. If Rashidi Yekini is noted for scoring Nigeria’s first World Cup goal and being Nigeria’s all-time highest goal scorer, then Nwankwo Kanu boasts of being Nigeria’s most decorated footballer, while Austin Jay-Jay Okocha flaunts his status as Nigeria’s most glamorous and mesmerising footballer. If Genevieve Nnaji boasts of being named by Oprah Winfrey in 2009 among the most popular people in the world, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde will show off her name in TIME magazine’s most influential people of 2013. If P-Square and Flavour think they rock the music scene, D’Banj and Davido smash the charts.

So, in all areas of life, the Igbo and the Yoruba are competing, and in the process boosting the nation’s economy and bringing glory to the nation. Yet, some inferiority-complex-afflicted people who feel threatened within each of the ethnic groups look for every excuse to spread hate among the two peoples.

My close study of the Igbo and the Yoruba makes me see them as the Germans and the French of Nigeria respectively. Even the Igbo language is like the German language in many respects. In German and Igbo, there are no silent words. Excluding a few words in Germans which are sounded differently from the way the English sound theirs (like “j” which is pronounced like “y,” “w” which is pronounced as “v,” etc), whatever you say in both languages is what you write. For example, the “g” is always pronounced /g/ in Igbo and German and never as “j.” “Danke” and “obante” are pronounced as written.

But in French and Yoruba, what you say may be different from how you write it. Some letters are either silent or semi-silent. For example, the Yoruba and the French would pronounce “san” as if it were “saw,” or “son,” but the Igbo and Germans would pronounce it /san/: exactly the way it is spelt. Also, the “h” is usually silent or glossed over in French and Yoruba: Hospital or Kehinde.

The Igbo and the German are bullish and technology-minded. They have fought and lost wars but staged successful comebacks in a short time. Conversely, the Yoruba and the French are subtle and supercilious, with good administrative skills, regaling in their years of history and culture.

A country that has such two success-driven ethnic groups should be at a great advantage. The Yoruba have been great hosts to the Igbo; and the Igbo have reciprocated by contributing immensely to the building of Yoruba land, especially Lagos State, including buying swamps at a high price and turning such places to residential or commercial estates. The sleepiness of Lagos during the Christmas-New Year period, when the Igbo usually travel home en masse, bears testimony to their contribution to making Lagos lively.

Just like the French always wish they could cut the Germans to size, so do the Yoruba to the Igbo, but it will never work. And just as the Germans always try to flaunt their success at the French, so do the Igbo do to the Yoruba, but it is completely pointless. The Yoruba can never be like the Igbo, and the Igbo can never be like the Yoruba. There is nothing the Yoruba can do to suppress the Igbo, neither is there anything the Igbo can do to suppress the Yoruba. Both of them can actually succeed without the other, but working closely together will be very beneficial to each of them as well as the nation.

The younger generations are forging greater ties, despite the baggage of enmity the older generations handed over to them. Working together, attending church together and living together seem to have increased the rate of marriage between the two people. Most Sundays when I look at the church bulletin, I see increasing higher number of banns of marriage between Yoruba and Igbo people. These days, it is common to see women whose names are Temilade Amadi or Ngozi Adesanya because of marriage. The ethnic barriers are being broken, even though ethnic jingoists continue to spread hate. Such hate speech and thoughts need to be stopped, for ethnic bloodshed or xenophobia does not burst out in one day.

Since the older generations are passing away without bringing these two great ethnic groups together, the onus is on those born after the Civil War to consciously take steps to bring the two ethnic groups together for their own good and for the good of the nation. It is high time this Tom and Jerry relationship between the two ethnic groups ended, for the good of both and the nation at large.
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/tom-and-jerry-relationship-between-igbo-and-yoruba/

Fellow Yorubas and Igbos please unite, both of you are awesome
lalasticlala (Though old but really useful in this period)

ibietela2:
I don't know o

lol

kettykin:
igbos investing in Lagos since December 14th 1772.....

sarcasm

You are going places Bro. Enjoyed it.

How predictable that most of the key positions are already being given to the northern brothers.
let's wait and see how it pans out. I wouldn't hold my breath, but I hope the most deserving gets the key jobs.

Nigeria is still very regionally biased, so we need a balance of power between north and south to maintain fairness. The north will never accept a government dominated by the Southerners, so it's only fair we do the same.

ibietela2:
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YOU and Barcansita are both LIARS............ May the best WIN

how come? Please tell us

Thanks CramJones for the information. Didn't even know it will be a breach of constitution to publically declare his asset.

What's the obsession . Getting boring

freshdude99:
Ur reasoning so sensible I was forced to peep ur profy, trust me it didn't disappoint either Such a pretty lady with good sense of humour You just earned a follow from me
Abuja guys and ladies rock!

Thanks na God oo. We have to rep na. Abj

That's nice. We want Aba to be next big urban city after Lagos.