₦airaland Forum

Biety:
the countries producing weapons don't just sell them because you have money to purchase them, this is why i'm laughing at some of the points in your post. The T72 tanks are produced in russsia and they'll never sell such sophisticated weapon to Nigeria.


Do you even know that few WW2 russian Tanks helped the NA to reclaim many teritories from bokoharam? So it's not a matter of how old but how effective.

Are you this slow seriously? Who would want to buy T-72 at this time of age when there are T-84 and T-90? I guess only the goons from Nigeria will want to have such clunker in their arsenal. I can get you a good functional Bell 412 for 4k dollars.

9jvirgin:
Even if Nigeria buys United States Airforce 1 Airplane from Trump you will still fault it.

Of course, I will fault the process because Nigeria needs caterpillars and bulldozers to take care of their gutters. This is a country without ordinary good network of roads yet the moronic dingbats want to fly a helicopter. Life is a stage for crying out loud.

Biety:
even if na somalia war era helicopter we are happy as they'll help us to be more ruthless against terrorist and criminal elements.

The above crap is a true statement from an unenlightened onlooker led by a rapscallion such as Muhammadu Buhari.

Adieza:
A while back I wrote and spoke about how corruption destroys the lives of people in Nigeria. Not just the poor but everyone. So I read in the papers this morning that Bola Tinubu
lost his first son. That must be devastating. He
reportedly slumped and died which is a sign of a heart attack. My brother in law got a heart attack two weeks ago in The Netherlands. The ambulance was at his house within 5 minutes and they rushed him to the hospital and stabilised him for days before he was operated. some of his arteries were blocked. He is back home now already walking around. No matter how rich you are in Nigeria you cannot fly out of the country during a heart attack. I also read that Dr. Alex Ekwueme is in coma. He was also one of those who ruled Nigeria before and didn't build our medical system. The governor of his state is
thinking of flying him out of the country for treatment. It is hard to fly someone in coma out of the country. The same Alex Ekwueme, few months ago erosion almost washed his home away. What a way to get old? When I read all these I wonder why these people don't feel outraged to want to change things today.
What have to happen for our elites to say Enough is
Enough?
Source: https://free.facebook.com/AromsAigbehi/photos/a.160241647815285.1073741828.158338594672257/288483948324387/?type=3&_rdr
This Was Aroms Aigbehi Article Before on Corruption
www.nairaland.com/4054453/how-nigerians-both-benefactors-victims

It is an insult to put countries such as Netherland in a narrative that involves a zoo such as Nigeria. The British contraption called Nigeria needs to be balkanized for the people to be saved from inadequate social calamity.

aribisala0:
In 1970 after the war the Nigerian government generally gave £20 of Nigerian money to every eligible adult but no one has ever done the math.

Let us assume their were one million of them =£20million Nigerian

We know that the Nigerian pound exchanged for £2 pounds sterling in 1970 so
that would be £40 million . What would that be worth today

according to this inflation calculator

https://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html
it would be
£432612859. Sterling
Not sure what sterling is doing these days but @ 475

that is

205491108025 Naira

200 billion

Assuming it was 1 million people that received the money. No one has ever told us how many did but I think it could be double that.

For a country to pay that out immediately after a war of such devastation is a huge feat considering that Nigeria was not even a major oil exporter in1970 and in 1970 oil prices were under $4 which when adjusted for inflation in today's money is $21.

It is a testament to the prudent financial management of Papa Awo who also kept the allocation of East Central state for 3 years and paid it all after the war


But they are not grateful and feel entitled to that payment. What have we done for the NE . Imagine finding 200 billion to give them today when oil prices in real terms are 3 X what they were in 1970

The standard of living was much lower. Let me put it in Perspective our standard of living then, There was no Lagos Ibadan Expressway. No East -West Road. PH to Aba was a single carriage way. The Air assault camp was the main airport in PH Omagwa airport did not exist . There was nothing like presidential jet. Where were the airports?
The country was broke with very little compared to today but still gave generously in the spirit or sacrifice and reconciliation

You are an irreparable disgrace to your ethnic nationality in Nigeria. You were not in Biafra or probably not born during the Nigeria/Biafra war yet are bent on making fool of your silly self by posting idiotic conjectures. Again, Nigeria did not give every Biafra 20 pounds. The 20 pounds were given any individual who had proof of certain amount of money in the banks in Nigeria before the war. Based on the situation on the ground by then due to destruction lives and properties by the war, I can say unequivocally that not more than 50, 000 Igbo peeps received the 20 pounds. Before the Nigeria/Biafra broke out, there is an air airport in Umumasi which accommodated planes such as the BOAC DC 3 or 4 and MIG 19s and 21.

realnas:
Look at how they are celebrating the induction of a 40 year old helicopter like it's a 3 generation fighter jet

Bros it is a shame. This is a Vietnam War era helicopter yet these goons are hilariously happy.

oladeebo:
Black race is a super power race of all the race in this world, although I may not say the exact reason but may be because of it's status as the mother of humanity.
In 1500AD when European entered the coast of Africa for slave trade, millions of African took to the other continents to labor on plantations, that lead to the first economic boom of the whole world, leading to the manufactured of machine that replace or aiding the humanity in hard labor till today.
Since 1500 AD to 1800AD All other continents were served by the black and all the economic prosperity of the world originated from the black labor of 3 consecutive centuries.
It's after the hard labor of the Black race for 300 years that human being started fabricated machine that were using till today, The Capital which is the second resource in investment after Land is originated from the Black race hard labor on plantation in the whole world.
When you are talking of Black you are talking of the survival of humanity is this world!
Although human being originated from Black race, immigrated to other continent, taken to serve the economic survival of the world, stand to save humanity in the first and second world war, leaving her mineral resources to be use to save humanity till today.
Other races take refuge from Black race because Black race is the mother of humanity.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6833748262769305281#postsstats

Take this nonsensical crap and shove it. There is no race called or know as "Black". The world had one race and it is human. Again, color can never be a human. I guess inferior mentality is an incurable disease.

Alariiwo:
It's no news that igbos have entered into various alliances with core Muslim North since independence.
Is it fake love they have for muslim North or what exactly cos I'm not understanding again.

Today they cry islamization agenda, tomorrow it's Atiku 2019, some say El rufai and other gibberish like that.

Were you littered by a person of opposite sex on religious ground and possibly Igbo? I must say that your infatuation with anything Igbo is worrisome.

Alariiwo:
All your state governors take loans from Islamic banks.
So why are you guys unhappy having muslims among you

The above post indicates the poster has the tendency to mix religion with business.

aribisala0:
You see there are so many lies about that time that people believe without questioning.

Some of it they believe because they WANT TO. This may sound strange but people can make a deliberate effort to believe a falsehood like the young lad who walks in and finds his mother in copulo with Pastor Koboko and persuades himself they were praying. The human capacity for self deception is astounding.

Now consider the story told about Awolowo and the indigenization policy. How he conspired as Minister of Finance to facilitate the acquisition of businesses by Yorubas.

The Fact is Awolowo left Gowon's government in 1971 in fact he sent is his resignation letter giving notice in 1970. This is public knowledge.
It is also a fact that the First indigenization decree was promulgated in 1972 With Shehu Shagari as Minister of Finance from 1971-1975. Still you will never hear Shagari's name but Awolowo.

WHY??

The reason is simple.

The civil war brought a new and profound sense of failure for these people and they remained in shock for a long time. They needed a narrative to explain their failure. For them the principal reason for their failure had to be Awo and by extension the Yoruba.Reality was irrelevant.
Well we differ. You lost out not because of Yoruba betrayal(we were not allies politically) but rather because of your tendency to act impulsively without planning or regard to consequences. Just like we have seen recently with Nnamdi Kanu

Essentially they are owned by a deep sense of self hate that is so corrosive internally it had to be externalized and Awo and the Yorubas are a ready alibi.
Till tomorrow they have not been able to confront and process or interrogate the pogroms of 66 and 67 and its perpetrators ,they cannot even look them in the eye. A case of collective Stockholm syndrome.
Well They are entitled to their hate. We are entitled to ensure the fidelity of any historical narratives.

Awolowo was VERY GOOD to them and they should make a big statue for him in Owerri

I thought you have turned corners. For the sake of posterity, in your finite wisdom, if any, you assumed that the decision to handle Ndigbo was taken in 1970? Please tell how Nigeria will ever progress if it has bunch of people like you in the corridor of power. There is something called strategic plan and it is not an impromptu handle for touts.

Mrnairalandd:
The most foolish pig from erosion ravaged region

Just read what he wrote up there, all you ll see is idiocy

Igbos used £20 to rebuild an entire South East...

How stupid can you be

We thought the foolish ones among you Igbos have all passed on until i saw your write up

My grandfather told me that most foolish pigs from certain section of Nigeria did not know where rain started beating them will never know where it stopped. No wonder certain goons are terribly scared about the disintegration of the zoo called Nigeria.

I guess you are included, Soyinka, since you tend to wallow on the subject matter you know little about especially the presidency of Donald Trump.

Mrnairalandd:
It baffles me how you guys are so gullible and manipulative

Pls, tell us how Igbos multiply the £20 to what they have today if that was all you get from Nigeria govt?

They tried to make it sound as if £20 was only given to few Igbos, how did you manage to rebuild the whole East with £20?

Can we give the equivalent of that money(#200,000) to few Igbos today to rebuild a whole village within a space of 10years?

Nigerians are smarter than all this propaganda

Awolowo changed Nigerian currency when Ojukwu went to CBN in Benin and robbed that Bank in broad daylight.

Igbos should stop lying

FG started rebuilding the Eastern part of Nigeria back after the war with massive allocation.

Yakubu Gowon even said it few days ago that they started pumping money to the East after the war sonas to rebuild it back.

But children of hate just lying through their teeth that they build the entire region with £20.

Does it make any sense?

It is this same manner Igbo came to Lagos as tenants and became landlords. There is no narrative, even in motion pictures, that can explain the rapid recovery of Ndigbo.

Igboid:
Nwanne, that's the bone of contention, you are free to air your own opinion.

There is nothing like bone of contention in a factual fact. It is absolute idiocy to air an opinion opposite of the facts. Nigerians seem to wallow in fictitious hearsay.

Igboid:
Commercial banks existed in Biafra during the war you say. Provide poof of that, you failed to do.
Even Biafran Bank had to relocated many times during the war.

The article you posted said nothing about 20 pounds policy.
It talked about the exchange of Biafran currency and old Nigerian currency cash for New Nigerian note at fixed price.

The above, though a topic for another day, was never the bone of contention of the topic, and so, is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

The bone of contention was that Nigerian government gave 20pounds to every Igbo account holder in Nigerian banks after the war.

Your article neither accepted nor debunked that claim, but was rather making an entirely different claim that isn't the meat of this thread.

You are the one who is unscrupulously trying to link the two together.

Were you in Biafra during and immediately after the war? Did you get involved in the exchange of currency with respect to 20 pound saga? I really do not know the reason why most Nigerians like to open their mouths so loudly.

Rotimik:
Another lie!

In those days, we have thousandnaires. Millionaires don't exist at that time. Millionaires are very difficult to come by. These were the time and new car that will cost you N50million today would be bought with less than 500pounds.

Did you or anybody close to you have a car?

I honestly blame certain goons from southern Nigeria for this reckless display of idiotic arrogance by the Fulani from northern region of Nigeria. If Biafra had stood and maybe Oduduwa Republic had followed suit, would the Fulani ever display this idiotic behavior?

Ogonimilitant:
For some weeks ago now, Niaraland politics section has been recording below 1000 guest and members,
I hope its not because of non discussion of Ipob and Biafra issues again. for the first time, I scrolled top to down
looking for IPOB and Biafra thread but cant see any.

I hope its not Bad business for niaraland

Those who have been scared to bones because agitation for homeland by IPOB seemed to have a reprieve or a break of bellyache since the proscription of IPOB.

aribisala0:
In 1970 after the war the Nigerian government generally gave £20 of Nigerian money to every eligible adult but no one has ever done the math.

Let us assume their were one million of them =£20million Nigerian

We know that the Nigerian pound exchanged for £2 pounds sterling in 1970 so
that would be £40 million . What would that be worth today

according to this inflation calculator

https://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html
it would be
£432612859. Sterling
Not sure what sterling is doing these days but @ 475

that is

205491108025 Naira

200 billion

Assuming it was 1 million people that received the money. No one has ever told us how many did but I think it could be double that.

For a country to pay that out immediately after a war of such devastation is a huge feat considering that Nigeria was not even a major oil exporter in1970 and in 1970 oil prices were under $4 which when adjusted for inflation in today's money is $21.

It is a testament to the prudent financial management of Papa Awo who also kept the allocation of East Central state for 3 years and paid it all after the war


But they are not grateful and feel entitled to that payment. What have we done for the NE . Imagine finding 200 billion to give them today when oil prices in real terms are 3 X what they were in 1970

The standard of living was much lower. Let me put it in Perspective our standard of living then, There was no Lagos Ibadan Expressway. No East -West Road. PH to Aba was a single carriage way.The Air assault camp was the main airport in PH Omagwa airport did not exist. There was nothing like presidential jet. Where were the airports?
The country was broke with very little compared to today but still gave generously in the spirit or sacrifice and reconciliation

The caption of your post shows how deep in ignorance you have lived. Not every Igbo person received 20 pounds from federal government. The few that received the meager 20 pounds were the lucky ones who were able to show they had more than 20 pounds in the banks in Nigeria before the outbreak of the war. Mere ambition to balance things up in the zoo called Nigeria has set some goons into a tailspin of idiocy.

oladeebo:
republic of Igbo or you mean Biafra?

Mean whatever you want.

It is idiocy to continue existence when laziness has forced one to deny oneself. The first sign of transient life style is self denial.

oladeebo:
What left in pdp today is igbo,
true be said if by any chance pdp won in Lagos,
Lagos is definitely lost to igbo forever!
oladeebo

What good is the gutter called Lagos? For the sake of test, I would want Republic of Igbo land to be actualized today so that the competition will begin.

abdelrahman:
then who is rejoicing over IPOB?

It is very clear your previous post was not in a suggestive park. The quest or agitation for Republic of Igbo land or Biafra is not a matter of mushroom politics.

sylvez:
ah think she should be pitied, that is possibly one graduates mother thinking and hoping that the son or daughter who graduated 7years ago gets a job and reduce the burden on her

so sad, we are making mockery of her

my heart is seriously bleeding,

we quickly forgot that we are all humans and that sometimes we get fed up with work and feel discouraged because nothing seems to be working.

I feel the pains of my country people

mama, may God bless your hustle and keep you and papa alive to eat the fruit of your labour.

All is well sweet mama, I love you

What business of her lies with the bags of rice from the nearby market? Granted Nigeria is a zoo, the sight of a female police sergeant sitting on the bags of rice wedged on wheelbarrow does not help the situation.

Living4christ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcgJi8PNZo

As the "We are not Igbo groups keeps denying being Igbo, many blacks in America flocks to Medical centers to comfirm that they are Igbos, e.g. T.D Jakes, Whitaker, etc.

No human being is black. Color can never be a human.

Gowon and the knuckleheads such as Muhammadu Buhari were among the factors that precipitated the January 15, 1966 coup. It is unfortunate that colonial ninnies such as British used these nincompoops to set Nigeria a spiral downfall.

Chiedu4Trump:
The enemy is the North that believes its his right to take our God given resource.

https://i68.tinypic.com/29wpgfa.jpg

They murder us and nothing happens to them, instead they arrest you for fighting back.
Remember when the Enugu Farmers fought back, the Enugu Farmers were arrested and nothing happened to the Fulani Herdsmen

https://i64.tinypic.com/o5ynoy.jpg
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/26/76-enugu-farmers-dumped-in-prison-over-clash-with-herdsmen/

A dingbat skipped a routine for medication.

abdelrahman:
mumu,what has religion got to with what i said?

He or she who laughs last laughs the loudest. Please do not rejoice too soon on the perceived misfortune of IPOB.

Nigerians are most ignorant set of people on earth. Even they look worse than ordinary Joe when the dumbasses pull out their academic certificates.

OsunOriginal:
With the deployment of soldiers in SE and militarization of key Biafran towns, my advice to Nnamdi Kanu is to handover himself to Nigeria military or SSS to avoid loss of lives and properties. If he fails to do this, SE leaders should do the needful and hand him over before the rain of destruction starts. It will be too late to start calling UN and/or AI for help after the fact.

I suggest you shove your silly advice to you know what. The only rain of destruction will fall your entire kindred.

Michael004:
Two igbo guys were arguing with one Yoruba guy about the owner of Lagos. At first, I refused to join the discussion, but they kept disturbing that guy and asking him questions. One of the igbo guys told the guy that Lagos is no man's land. Later on in their argument, the second one said Lagos belongs to the binis because they had the son of the oba of bini as king of Lagos in the past. The Yoruba guy was trying to tell him about how awori people of Yoruba extraction were the first settlers in today's Lagos and how they made the son of oba of Bonita their king before the coming of the Portuguese. One of the guys cut in and said it is a lie, he didn't allow him to tell them the story. He asked the guy if Lagos was part of oyo empire, the Yoruba guy said no, then they concluded that since Lagos was not part of oyo Empire, Lagos does not belong to the yourbas that they only want to claim it. That was what prompted me to join the argument.
I said to the igbo guys, you people asked if Lagos was part of oyo empire and I said, of course No. Since you said Lagos is not Yoruba land because it was not part of oyo empire, then I want to ask you these
Was ondo part of oyo empire? They said how I want them to know.
Was ogun part of oyo empire? They said I no?
Was ekiti part of oyo empire? They didn't answer.
Then I asked them, why did you not say those states are not Yoruba land? Told them how confused they were. One of you said it is no man's land and the other one one said it is bini land, which one do you belong to. The became muted and started stammering. I said they should forget and continue their hustling. This is Lagos, Lagos knows her owner. Then I walked away from them. My question is why is it only igbo that are killing themselves over Lagos, something that God has ordained already. Are they the only non yorubas in Lagos that they are so obsessed with our land?
What is their obsession with our land? Igbo and ipob, what is your obsession with our land? Just asking.

In the silly fellowship of restructure of the zoo called Nigeria, most Igbo people had suggested that Nigeria must build Lagos and Abuja in the defunct eastern region and midwestern region respectively. When the defunct eastern region is handed its Lagos, then so-called Igbo obsession with Lagos could be discussed.