₦airaland Forum

drss:
The old man is even an Asznall fan. Smh

Why you did not think about Dangote and his noise about Arsenal FC beats my imagination?

The Daura Dumbass duplicated his idiotic nonchalance to details and continues to hurry into issues he is clueless about. How could moronic Nigerians rush to USA without months of understanding what the timetable looked like and marry to the highly sophistication of United Nation method of operation? This Fulani jackass and his cronies are fanning flimsy excuses towards any department in Nigeria headed by none-Fulani or person not from northern Nigeria. What briefings were given to Daura Dumbass by the ministry of external affairs before jetting out of Nigeria? If the moronic dingbat could not even adhere to UN schedule of events, how can the jackass contemplate the solution to Nigeria’s headache?

spectroscopic:
If we separate today, at the rate we have gone thus far, the only thing that will be different (reduced) might be inter-ethnic tensions, and that would be only in the SW and SE, because they are more homogenous than other zones. Online wars as experienced on Nairaland might not even abate. The North and SS will remain hotbeds of ethnic tensions. Boko Haram may not stop the killings in Northern country; Fulani will not stop killing minorities in the North.

Regarding corruption, all zones will still be faced with corruption and morality issues because we all have since deviated from the norm, and well advanced in the course we have taken, to make a quick turn-around.

I imagine then that the world will know Biafra for drug trafficking (similar to Colombia) and perhaps an Oduduwa country for another vice. We should be careful what we wish for ourselves.

If anybody thinks Nigeria shall see any form of progress as its presently configured, I shall beg the fellow to see a physician. Nigeria is similar to Czechoslovakia where ethnic tensions led to any form of social decadence anybody could imagine. The Nigeria is even worse than Belgium where there Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south. Before Belgium overcome the ethnic menace with constitutional amendments, warning signs are posted to warn people entering each other enclave. In this case Belgium is better than Nigeria both in high intellect of human understanding and number of ethno-linguistic differences. The only solution to Nigerian case is total disintegration and I would not mind if the zoo is divided into 350 countries.

spectroscopic:
Background:
American (overall Boss; title of office = President/CEO)
Nigerian (staff) (me)
Ghanaian (staff) (colleague of mine)

My Ghanaian colleague and I were chatting with our boss. My colleague and I are at the same level more or less, both extremely professional, with PhDs to boot.

Unfolding event:

The discussion happened during a dinner organized by our organization and the boss was going around meeting his staff and getting introduced to them; he is a new appointment. I was seated with the Ghanaian whom I considered a brother, and with whom, quite frankly, I have always gone along well. Besides, we are the only Africans in the organization.

The boss sat with us for quite some time chatting, compared to the time he took with others. I presume he did this because we were the only people ''different'' from the rest, and he would have been naturally curious to learn more about us. So he really chatted with us for a long time. In the course of the discussion, he had asked my colleague if he was Nigerian and he said ''No''. ''I am Ghanaian'' he went on to say, but Ghana and Nigeria are at the same wavelength''. The boss replied, ''but you guys see things more similarly in Ghana than Nigerians do, as far as I know''. At that point I got really edgy, thinking the boss wants to throw a bombshell at Nigeria, and I am Nigerian.

To my surprise, it was my African colleague who did. Hear him. ''Sure, Nigerians are much more corrupt than us, and they hate each other with so much passion''. He continued, ''they always want to rip you off your money, and they kill each other in real time'' (that is, in reality) and online as well''. I was thrown aback and felt extremely betrayed, but I could not, and would not, start an argument, with a new boss around who is eager to know his staff, but who apparently knows one or two things about Nigeria (where I happen to come from). You know what they say in America about the ''angry black man'', right?

''So where are you from?", he eventually asked me. In a split moment I was torn between saying Nigeria or Biafra (I am Igbo, BTW). Saying Biafra would have given me immediate ''immunity'' from the problems associated with the name, ''Nigeria''. But then the boss, elderly enough to know about the Nigerian civil war, would immediately have asked ''Biafra? Do you have a new country now'', and all that kind of stuff. Then the discussion would have become even more tortuous and perhaps messier. ''I am from Nigeria'', I said smiling. ''But I am American too'', I added (just for disclosure, I hold a US citizenship see thread https://www.nairaland.com/1974578/received-us-citizenship-today-im

He turned his head and looked at the Ghanaian. ''Did you know he is Nigerian? he asked. ''Yes I know, but he is a different Nigerian from the ones I described to you,'' replied the Ghanaian. I could see that the boss was surprised that someone could speak so negatively about the heritage of another right in their face without any respect or regard for their presence.

I did my best to conceal my consternation with the Ghanaian until the boss left. I then tongue-lashed him, after which I stormed out on him. Since then, he has been apologizing but I find it hard to forget the betrayal, even though I know that the mutual hate and killing accusations he had made about Nigerians are not far from the truth. Although I do not want to hate Ghana as a country because its citizen disparaged Nigeria the way he did, I feel I have to watch my interactions with this particular Ghanaian.

Lessons learned:

Nigerians should stop the morbid hatred they have been exhibiting, both offline and online, against each other. The world is reading and watching, and cyberspace has made everything accessible these days. Nairaland has been a ''good'' online resource for outsiders to learn how hateful we have been towards each other. If I were the Nigerian authorities, I would ban Nairaland at this point. The minders of this site have done a bad job promoting the unity of Nigeria.

As for me, I do not know if I have made any hateful and ethnically disparaging comments on Nairaland in the past. If I ever have, that would be the last such comment I would make here, and I ask to be forgiven.

If Nigerians must live together as citizens of one country, which I believe we should, then we should begin to actually live together. It is not for nothing that God (or is it the British ) brought us together, 250 ethnic groups. We should make this work.

Thanks for reading.

Nigeria is what your Ghanaian friend described. Ghana had never had a civil war as Nigeria did. In addition, the leadership in Nigeria has done nothing to ameliorate the issues that lead to the civil war which continue to set the stage for another war. Nigeria is growing increasingly apart and giving way to social decadence.

meforyou1:
God bless igboland

Igbo land had already been blessed and there is nothing the haters can do about it.

kITATITA:
I won't join you in ethnic oriented anger. The pogrom happened nearly 50 years ago. The civil war ended nearly 40 years ago. If we keep living with the pains of the past, the present will elude us. Biafra is resilience. Biafra is the ability to rise from challenges and ask such difficulties 'is that all you could do?' Biafra is the ability to survive and succeed despite oppression and repression. Biafra is not soaking up in ethnic anger and standing still while the world moves on. Biafra is not rogue radio station and propaganda. When the clarion calls, who'd be your ethnic leader? Nnamdi Kalu or who? I live, work and pay tax outside my ethnic domain. Hausa Fulani played it's own role during the war. So also those who introduced starvation as a weapon of war and those that created the saga of abandoned property. How many are you going to isolate yourself from and live in seclusion and distrust? I won't join you.

The bold is arrant nonsense. It is very typical of dumbass Nigerians to stand logic on its head. When a person does not know where the rain started beating him/her, he/she will never know where the rain stopped. He or She who does not understand the past will never understand the present and can never chart the future. Most idiotic Nigerians tend to forget the past and fail to address the social decadence hence the reoccurrence of blunders.

HungerBAD:
There is only one way Saraki is going.

And that way is DOWN. He has to go down for their to be peace in our Polity, as he is overheating the polity. Saraki, before he played his betrayal game, should have done a little research about the Proverbial BANANA PEEL in the Nigeria Senate.

History will tell him, you don't go against Party Policies. Former Senate Presidents that learned what party loyalty means the hard way are Evan Enwerem, Dr. Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo and Adolphus Ndaneweh Wabara.

The BANANA PEEL Theory is for TRAITORS like Saraki.

The only polity being overheated by Saraki is the figment of your imagination. If the Nigerian polity had been overheated, it was fanned by the Daura Dumbass named Muhammadu Buhari who is bent on dividing Nigeria.

OdenigboAroli:
What is this new craze about Nigerians especially the celebrities and the rich running to America to give birth in the USA then returns soon after?? Is it that we don't have good hospitals or that they want to secure American citizenship for their kids? Ok,if it about hospitals what about South Africa,Ghana,India,UK and the rest with sound medical facilities. What is this hunger and desperation to go have a child in America where you don't live or pay taxes? I think America should pass the law that will refuse children born to non legal parents citizenship.That way I will know what they stand to gain. Truth is that Nigerians are lazy,greedy and unpatriotic bunch of monkeys running around trying to reap where they didn't sow. I see them everyday with their stick legs and head full of weave ons laughing like they just done smoking cheap crack. Please ,stop defrauding the American system because people work very hard and pay taxes to keep the country in order. I know soon as these children born in America turns eighteen their ffoolish parents will send then to USA where they will be given grants to go to school because their parents don't have a business nor live in America,so,they will qualify. And the tax payers money who can't even get so grants will be used to sponsor these ffucking immigrant kids. Nigeria disgust me...ffucking Zoogeria!

Only conscious people in the zoo called Nigeria knew that the country is useless. The people milking the country knew that the geographical expression has no future hence the need to travel to USA when giving birth is the subject matter. Who would want to seek medical attention in zoo where no standard existed? Nigeria needs to be disintegrated for next generations to have a benchmark.

pazienza:
It wasn't the "Yiios" that gave away Bakassi just to get hold of Eastern oil Wealth, it was the parasitic Arewa-Odua gang up. I believe by now, the thousands of Efik natives of Bakassi that were rendered homeless by the parasitic gang up, already know who their
enemies are.

Bros there are too many nonentities in the southern Nigeria that I would have wished the Arewa-Odua gang subjected them to the same fate Efik of Bakassi are enjoying now. Southern Nigeria has numerous expendables.

According to few dumbass Yari.ba peeps on this forum, erosion does not occur in Yari.ba land.

Nigeria is a dead end!!!

hakeem4:
Awolowo my mentor


Adekunle my role model

All of the above died miserable deaths. Do you owe death a miserable rehearsal?

chino11:
Okay! I dey wait for their call. Let me report to Onitsha Naval Command first

Why reporting to Onicha Naval Command? Are you no longer the son of the soil who has dreamingly employed laborers? Do you mean you cannot afford bodyguards? The sheer imagination of affluence is left to the daydreamers such as you, boy.

chino11:
DEATH TO BIAFRA.

Everybody should go and develop their states.

Go and tell Obijackson, Emeka Offor, Innoson, Ibeto etc about Biafra and see if they will not throw you to the lions.

It is only hopeless and jobless fellows are campaigning for Kanu and his silly IPOD and radio.

Do you read what you write and apply some conventional reason? These people you mentioned have no power to stop the movement bent on creating independent home land in Ala-Igbo. The worst they can do is to play Ukpabi Asika.

Appleyard:
wake up from your fantasy, the Ijaws can never form an alliance with the Igbos when it comes to secession. And those of you dreaming of SS republic or Biafra, it shows you are still understanding the doctrine of realism as it relates to idealism and situational cpmpactability of the people.

Alot of folks still don't understand the mental disposition of the average Nigerian towards the political and economical environment. Alot of you have underestimated the adaptation nature of the average Nigerian man, which is second to none!

I just dey laf.

The Ijo (the Boat people or European porters) should be sent home to where they emigrated. The Republic of Igbo land and its delineated boundary is neither contestable nor negotiable. Ijo can have the so-called Republic of South-South Ocean in Bight of Biafra, I do not give a ratass.

DFemaleBoss:
There's really no need for all these insults, come on guys, where's the love?

To the topic, I don't think there's anything wrong with him donating those boats for the state, he's just supporting in his own way to make sure they (the navy) have no excuse not to do their job which is protecting the state and the people living in it bc we all know that the fed govt don't really care about us.

What the hell is Nigerian navy doing at Onicha? Oh!! the navy is guarding the Niger bridge. What a country.

pazienza:
Don't even think Chino is alone in this reasoning process, there are thousands, if not millions of Igbos like him. If we as a people can't even see in unity, the irrational nature of this Obiano's act, then I think any talk of Biafra is a waste of time.

Our enemies won't even need to invade us this time around, they would just pay some us peanuts to kill each other. There are too many of us with selfish interests. To even imagine that an Igbo man will take glory in the events that took place in Ezu river, and even go as far as to use it to threaten other Igbos runs a shiver down my spines.

Bros do not worry about enemy within because most of us have been trained to smoke out the fence sitters. Today is not 1967. The goons that exhibit the turncoat markers will not last to imagine their deeds.

udeagbalaC:
you misquoted me I said country not nation, search your fuckin dictionary for the diff btw country and nation, ass fucker

Who wants to belong to your freaking country such as Nigeria? I am not sure you have consulted your freaking dictionary. If you have done so, you would have caught my drift about Anambra State becoming a nation instead of a country. I guess you know that dumbass Nigeria is a country, Mr. jackass. By the way, I am for the Republic of Igbo land.

kliq:
God bless Nigeria

Big time!!

This Fulani jackass has graduated from herdsman to globetrotter. Nigeria is good for goons.

obailala:
Have you ever complained when a governor donates patrol vehicles and communications equipments to the police in their states?... Are you aware the nigerian police force is also a federal institution just like the nigerian navy?

If you do not understand how donating patrol vehicles to the police or donating patrol boats to the navy who patrol the state's waterways would enhance security in his state, then I am sorry, you and your cc'd friends below seriously need help!

Cc Duru1, onenaira3

Please put a question through your goofy governor and demand to know how many federal roads he or she has put in good working condition. A state governor donating patrol vehicles to the Nigerian police is a mark of inherent lunacy. Has the donation of the patrol vehicles to the police by the goofy governors put a dent on the rate of armed robbery?

FatIjeomaOkolie:
So you want the Nigerian government to make it easy for you and your people to smuggle drugs to other countries.

Sorry, Nigeria will never support drug smuggling

I guess you know something about the so-called "drug and smuggling". You wrote in a manner that Nigeria is very good at interdiction of smugglers. Yet Nigeria cannot mange ordinary gutter. What a wastepipe.

I honestly think coup is in order until Africans learn the logic of mankind. It shall start by creating nation states not colonial countries in Africa.

chino11:
Some of you are just waste of space. Oh you decided to keep quiet when vans were donated to the police? What a very dull person you are!

Clowns like you are always looking for fault every where, why didn't you complain about the commuter speed boats for community use also provided by Obiano? What about the ocean going ambulances? Very dull mentality some of you exhibit here.

You simply do not need to go silly because you neighbor has chosen to be a head-case. What a dumb move.

vascey:
All state governors, as chief security officers of their states, have the prerogative of ensuring a functioning security apparatus in their states.
Lagos, since the time of Tinubu has operated the lagos security trust fund. The aim is to complement the efforts of the federal government in alleviating the security challenges of their states. Other states have also done this by donating security infrastructure to the police or military. Heck, even corporate bodies do the same.
The states also have their security votes, which is not meant for chopping ram, but for improving their security infrastructure.
Anambra has had a system of supporting, through training and equipment, various town vigilante organizations. The essence is to enable them support the police and armed forces through organized information gathering and local policing.

As for the roads you mentioned earlier, you need to visit Anambra to see what has been done with the state roads.

I am not saying the government is perfect but when resources are directed at programs that will benefit the masses, I will definitely commend it.

The bolded is one of most nonsensical craps I have ever heard. Most Nigerians know how to stand logic on its head. Nobody can be chief executive of a corporation and at the same time chief gateman. The governors are chief executive of their states while the Police Commissioner of the state is chief security officer. This is one instance Nigeria continues to fall backward due to crass logic.

carnegiefan:
The annoying thing is that this governor could have used this money to invest in a good sewer system in Onitsha, a flood prone city.
Even if he only did it for Fegge, that is a start!
I honestly don't know what the idiot governor is thinking!

I think the goofy governors glow in the cheers of their moronic admirers. In the USA, who gives a ratass about the president talk less a governor.

udeagbalaC:
we are no longer in the 60s I can never be brainwashed nor any of my friends and family, resources don't make people, people make people through hard work and dedication, I'm from oraifite I'm proudly Nigerian, kanu and his bastards[including supporters should stay away from Anambra ] I guess Enugu can be a country of it own

Is there anything wrong if Anambra State becomes a nation? There are many nations in Europe smaller than Onicha, dude. You come across as a naïve jackass. Get out your backwater hut and travel for knowledge, boy.

carnegiefan:
If this news proves true, then, without any shadow of doubt whatsoever, this is the most IDIOTIC thing a governor in the East can ever do.
Quote me!
WTF don't these so called governors understand about the inevitabiity of a day of reckoning concerning Nigeria's foundations?
Someone mentioned something about the idiocy of using STATE funds to equip a federal agency, and that point is unassailable.
How many federal projects are in Anambra state?
How much has the federal government ever spent on Anambra state that it does not spend ten times everywhere in Nigeria?
What is Obiano trying to prove, and who is he trying to prove that to?
Just when you think these governors have a clue, they do something that proves you totally wrong.
Chukwu ju!

Bros the madness is beyond human comprehension. One drooling dumbass fool had been defending the idiocy exhibited by the governors. How many federal roads in Anambra State have this goofy governor put in working condition? The governor will be the first jackass to point out the bad road is federal government's responsibility. The problem with most Nigerians is that they do not know the limits of their capabilities hence woeful failures.

The day I saw the tout, Mallam Rochas Okorocha, on the Douglas Road, Owerri barely six months of his first tenure as governor of Imo State, I told my In-law that Imolites are in serious rude ride.

I give it up to Nairaland. Guys are too much, I swear.

babafoto:
I can't get you please will you just put it in liter way.

Bros in future, citizens of USA and Europeans will legalize the so-called drug as they are shifting away from marijuana now. The question shall be, will Nigeria join in the crusade of legalizing the so-called drug? It appears Africans do not have mind of their freaking own. USA has DEA and suddenly Nigeria followed with NDLEA. I wonder why Nigerians have not formed ATF which shall be NATF. If USA and European countries considered water illegal tomorrow, I am very sure Nigeria will ban water too.

tsdarkside:
black,white,violett,green,orange...who cares...na them wanted to start this stvpid game....we are not in the 1960s no more......they killed us,raped us,put us down,,,,dont blame me...blame them....do you know how many white-people i know ,i still behave like this??.......

I guess bad habit is very hard to expunge. Again, per the bolded, no human being is white.