₦airaland Forum

The word 'economy' and 'Buhari' are parallel lines. They can never meet. Kind of antonyms.

It's not new naah!

Travelling is his hobby. Didn't you see it mentioned in buhari's resume?

For once this prof just talk sense as per restructuring. Though he waited for Buhari to win first before coming clear.
Restructuring is a sine qua non to Nigeria's survival. We can't keep on running away from it.

APC Politicians have started again and I hope they won't make the mistake of 2015 but at the end the legislators will vote and decide.

Carelessness!

Simple divide and rule tricks is being played by the north against the south.

Only if the south can unite and ignore petty competitions that had pitied it against one another.

It's not true that too many countries don't like Nigerians.

To me, your "population" reasons are not exhaustive.

Amongst us Africans, I can smell a little bit of envy about Nigerians. Probably because they're distinctive in their pursuit of wealth, career, happiness or because they probably make stronger inroads to what I will tag whiteman's exclusive areas like education and technology. Nigerians are very competitive and seen in rare places where you hardly see blacks.

On the negative side, yes we could be hated because of crimes as well. Here, the population thing could be helpful because we are many. And leadership has been our greatest set back. None at all!

Nevertheless we love every African, regardless of whether you like us or not.

nonsobaba:
Anambra and Enugu have nothing in common. We are worlds apart. That is why Anambra people lobbied the Babangida government to pull us out of the unproductive union with our wawa neighbours. You can see how rapidly Anambra has developed since we shoved aside those backward people. Then for Bianca, her husband who made her to become Anambrarian is no more, so she reverts back to being enugu.

Grow up and stop all these nonsense divisive mentality. She's by marriage Anambrarian and very well qualified to vie for anything she likes. It's her legal right and even cultural as well. Stop being and sounding more superior. That's racism.

Dark hearts of evil. Poor souls.

Very nice one. It looks as if I just entered the market.
Nigerians dey try.

Nigeria stinks with corruption and malfeasance! It's everywhere and it's starting to look like a DNA thing more than environmental.

tsmat:
I can't disagree with you on this sir....but Yoruba have a saying that he who will give you cloth, its the one he is wearing that you look at first... let them develop the Eastern states first then they will be taken serious... Yoruba are not the enemy of the Igbo's intact despite all the rumour and chant on nairaland we still cohabit fine and do business together every time.

Of course there is no perfect tribe or ethnic group. Each has its uniqueness, strengths and weaknesses. Being a forced union and not a mutually agreed marriage, we are meant to make it work by all means, for the good of all and our posterity rather than quarrelling bitterly and dissipating useful energy on frivolous. This is common among black nations.

Let Nigerians, regardless of tribe, language or religion, walk and work together to get this nation moving in right direction. We've wasted so much time hating than loving; destroying rather than building; suspicious rather than trusting. But in all, we all need each other to stand as a Nation.

The fact is that Igbo spirit of enterprise is unquenchable. They have this penchant to succeed in anything they put their heart to do. Who knows if they have the magic wand to fix Nigeria. They're brave and always take a stand on issues. They are not typically ambivalent. It will be to the good of Nigeria if other tribes especially Yoruba and Hausa give them a little chance to lead instead of trying to stifle them and exclude them out of historic suspicion of " they will dominate if given small chance". Igbos are inherently good people and generally likes progress and development. They don't necessarily rely on govt for anything. They're self driven with penchant to make life meaningful to themselves and others.

We copy a lot.

Law made by man! How can it be superior to the Bible.

I thought denomination dichotomies has been killed in 21 century.

Christ dinned with the tax collectors and also spoke with the Samaritan Woman just to teach love.

Where is LOVE?

Let the Legislators choose their leader. Executive should not dictate who should be elected but rather lobby for party's choice to win at the end of the day.

Bizarre!

In deed a great African Ambassador!

Not those yeyebrities and politicians buying & showing off customized Ferrari, etc.

You rise by lifting others up. Not torturing them mentally!

Simply due to people having different understanding and interpretation of the Bible. You know you can interpret Bible to suit you or a particular situation and still be right!

In fact it has been so from the Apostles' time till now and will remain so until Christ comes.

You can only make meaning of it when you read it in context of the writer - Apostle Paul. If you just pick a line, no matter how simple or catchy it looks, it could lead to misinterpretation.

Pls rewind and get the whole context.

What goes round comes round Kano!

The word UNITY and Buhari are antonyms

As if I'm surprised. Of course the North wants status quo to remain. Regardless of the enormous poverty it brings and too much concentration of power on one person, they're still jittery to change it. Why?

And if we can't agree to restructure to devolve power, then I'm afraid the cycle of poverty and corruption will continue. The British is culpable to this mess but it is not irredeemable.

Ejimagifty:
The hungry Ipobs are online celebrating Osun and Oyo elections as if Adeleke/Seyi makinde are igbos. While Yoruba people don't care about who they elect in their red mud region, they are all over the cyberspace jubilating over electoral results that has no direct impact on their lives. The Tinubu they love to hate set the template for the mordern Lagos they migrate to in droves for their Gala and Fan yogo business. Buses are loaded and filled to the brim daily with eastern economic refugees coming to the South west for greener pastures yet Tinubu is their problem not the 5 clowns they elect as governors. Yoruba interests comes first before political party differences. The results of election in Yoruba land will not stop Aba from being the refuse dump of the nation.

If you understand Igbo people very well, "they hate injustice". They don't like pretense or colouring of the truth or bandwagon support...even to themselves. This is somehow their albatross and they won't stop shouting regardless of tribe.

[quote author=thoollz post=76908247]Yeah, right. All these politicians don't care about anyone except their pockets. This one will kip saying thrash to kip his ministerial post even if it means denying God. [/quotel]

Correct Talk!

He's simply campaigning for retainership in Buhari's cabinet. In fact, he would have said Buhari is the best thing to ever happen in Nigeria.

There must be something about this Ubi Franklin of a guy.

It's not such a coincident that people previously very close to him has one complaint or another against him.

Nice one. And other professions as well.

Good thought anyway but beyond that we need people, regardless of age, colour or creed, who have the burning zeal and desire to reset Nigeria

I'm surprised how some people in this forum see this write up as insult to Nigeria. Is it because it was written by a white man or that the content is a raw truth politely presented.

If you have visited or lived in developed world, you too would have been praising Nigerians for their extraordinary resilience.

We are too tolerant and passive to suffering, poverty, bad leadership, dysfunctional system and corruption, such that it's too hard to see beyond our immediate environ how generally wack the system is...way way below the basics.

No wonder that our learned, well travelled and even saintly ones, are easily choked to surrender of any amour of good character after fully immersed into the weird and chaotic Nigeria system. We can't say we were born this way! Yeah, we dey manage!

But like the oyibo observed, it's a land full of untapped opportunities. And Aliko Dangote and other few are spotting and taking these opportunities.

It's wise to choose your battle carefully and always know and protect your turf.

Quote "[/b]Fashola said most of the accidents on the Nigerian roads were avoidable, adding that overspeeding by drivers has led to more deaths than bad roads.[b]"

He didn't say bad road doesn't cause death but over speeding leads to more deaths than bad road.

And I think he is spot on here even though I'm not really his fan. Sometimes he talks anyhow that you begin to wonder.

I think US view remains basically an observation which is in tandem with the reality of what happened in March 09 and the follow up governorship election.

INEC the supposed umpire struggled badly in many places with different playing ground in different states of the country.

Nigeria security apparatus was generally partisan and unprofessional in conduct of their electoral duty.

Thugs were in rampage in all geopolitical zones and even were publicly disenfranchising voters especially in some parts of Lagos. In fact, a House of Rep member was killed by thugs in SW.

Underaged voters were seen casting votes unhindered in the North hence disrespecting the electoral law.

And the politicians...well I leave that one to you.

But UK seems to agree with the conduct of the election. Has it any historical connotation?