₦airaland Forum

Noblechykk:
You have no shame.

Tell me I lied and prove it with facts. Tell me Arthur Nzeribe's ABN was not being used by some rogue military officers.
Tell me Abiola didn't win and his election was not annulled due to the activities of these people. Truth is bitter sometimes.

kettykin:
But in another thread, someone is saying igbos were responsible for Abiola's issues

All the facts are available. This didn't happen in 1893.
We all remember Arthur Nzeribe, Chukwumerije or whatever he called himself and some other conspirators.
Kalu of Youth Earnestly Yearning for Abacha as well. How anyone could be yearning for a murderous tyrant is beyond me.

Some Ibo conspirators and some rogue military officers killed Abiola. Denied him of his hard won electoral victory, destroyed his businesses and murdered him.

Racist Bullcrap. What is wrong with you sef. Imagine an Indian writing this nonsense about Nigerians.
They have their problems and we have ours, why not focus on your own problems?

Rebuker:
Omo, we are really blessed in Nigeria with good weather🙂

Part of the reasons for your laziness. If you face this once in a while you wouldn't wait for the government to subsidize your heating bill. Otherwise, frozen will be your appellation.

P.S: This is not about you personally.

membranus:
So the annulment of the June 12 election was an Igbo and Fulani military men collabo to prevent a competent Yoruba man from ruling the country. They did the same thing to Awolowo.

History is gradually judging them harshly.

Now, we know for sure.

Slurity:
ACCORDING TO THE CONFESSION, IGBO MEN ACTIVELY STARTED THE ANNULMENT OF THE ELECTION AND NOT REALLY FULANI BASTARDS

June 12 was another Ibo led coup, now we know.

And so many people had to die as a result of the annulment, all because some people were power drunk.

flyinnizam:
u are dump if u think US gave Ukraine their sophisticated weapons. RUSSIA don't dare go to war with US. Nobody comes close to US...even China and India is more frightening than Russia. Over the many years Russia has lost too much males to war. Go check Women to men ration in russia

US was humiliated out of Vietnam. Stop the hype, their Ace is the nuclear bomb which no one is going to use anyway.

MERCHANDISER:
I see Europe fighting Russia and America staying neutral

And Europe will stay neutral next time the US found some weapons of mass destruction somewhere and requires some allies to go with them.

WriterNig:
To be an enemy of the US is dangerous

Who is the enemy of the United States? Trump is busy attacking the traditional allies of the United States and getting cozy with her traditional enemies.

Not exactly a bad thing, everyone should be free to align with anyone they feel comfortable with.

Obiedun:
First to visit Pa adebanjo n clerk after their death,also stood by those who packaged poison as drug for hospitals "AGBOTIKUYO"

Lol@ Gbotikuyo.

Saga16:
He loves funerals.

He wears black even when there is no funeral. Obi is always ready. May God protect us all.
R.I.P to Chief Adebanjo.

henryadex:
Hm, how would this better the life of the commoners

If you can't afford it then stay away from it. Not everything is for everyone. There are luxury car dealers in Nigeria as well, how does it benefit the life of commoners?

Earthquakes:
They are helping you do what your government should be doing if they are clean

They are helping by telling you that they have been funding terrorism in Nigeria?

oz4real83:
Some prices are dropping while some are still going up. I bought a bag of wow rice in December for 140k, I bought a few days ago for 94k. I spent 6k\rubber of beans in December but 4.5k\rubber also a few days ago. 5litres of kings groundnut oil for 24k in December but 18.5k for the same few days ago. Prices are dropping not due to any favourable govt policies but inflation due to December demand and pressure is gradually easing off, also, producers are trying to sell off their goods to avoid excess losses due to low consumer purchasing power and low demand.

If the prices are going up it is due to government policies but if the prices are coming down it is not due to any government policies? Right?

Make Incompetence Great Again.

If they are brought back in chains the government should refuse to let them disembark.
It's like a horror movie, America is turning rogue.

"We know business, all other people are lazy" that is what they say.
These products are killing Nigerians, young and old developing kidney and liver problems at alarming rate. This must stop.

delpee:
Is it only in Ebute Ero that houses were demolished on the Island? Many buildings were also demolished in adjoining markets starting from the big one by Adeniji junction which is visible from 3MB. Most of the buildings and shops in Ebute Ero are even owned by Yorubas. The earliest traders around Idumota/Ereko/Ebute Ero/Apongbon apart from Lagosians were mostly Kwara Yorubas - the Igbominas. They own many buildings there. They're quite wealthy but humble. No "na we build Lagos" mentality.

This tendency for unjustified victim mentality is becoming nauseating. After all, there's no noise when similar situations arise in the SE. Demolitions have taken place in Enugu and Anambra for instance. UN etc should be duly informed about this too.

You are absolutely right about that.

May he rest in peace.

fman:
That name truman
Reminds me of uma truman
American actress who featured in the movie kill bill.

Uma Thurman.

mrvitalis:
Cocoa House... That is a symbol of what I call cocoa house sickness...its my economy theory of what is wrong with Nigeria

Cocoa house sickness - when a country or state use huge chunk of money to build feel good or legacy project that is not economically viable just to show off

Especially when their re other economic pressing issues... And most times it's done with borrowed money

He built hospitals, textiles, universities, radio and TV stations, industrial estates, schools and several manufacturing companies, some of which are still operating today. The Cocoa house was just an icing on the cake.
I think he was just getting started before everything was truncated.
Yorubaland would have developed at least to the level of south Korea by now.

madridguy:
UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR; A BRUTAL LESSON IN GEOPOLITICS AND WAR HISTORY

The war in Ukraine has claimed millions of lives and brought chaos into the doorstep of western Europe once again ever since the balkanization of Yugoslavia.

To my fellow readers, Yorubas and non Yorubas, I will beg you to leave emotions and humbly learn what Gorbachev called "realpolitik", we call it Geopolitics. Geopolitics is war, history, politics and conquest. To understand it, is to crack the code of how our world works, therefore I am begging us to please use Ukraine-Russia scenario as an opportunity to decolonize our weak and naive minds as black Africans. Before we start this brief intellectual journey, I will like to State it categorically that I am not pro Russia or pro West, I am just an African pouring out my thoughts as regards the future of our world.

The world is divided into two blocs namely;
1. The Superpowers
2. and the rest of us.

Who are the Superpowers? Superpowers are regional or global bullies. They use their soft and brutal power to crush lesser empires and lesser countries. That has always been the way of the world from the time of Babylon to the times of the Ummayid caliphate till this present moment.
We saw what Trump did by unilaterally renaming the more 300 years old Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. That's the definition of Superpowers! Can Germany or UK try that in 2025? No! But America can do it, Russia can try it and China can dare it. The three powers are regional superpowers!

Ever since the fall of the USSR, we only had one Unipolar power in the world which was the United States of America. USA was able to use her economic power to turn European colonial powers into vassals of America. It created NATO and other proxy organization to build an American empire.
The rise of China has created a rival super power that is far more capable than USSR. The emergence of Putin has also led to the rise of a resurgent Russia which is slowly rebuilding its Russian empire brick by brick.

Ukraine is the European country sitting on the black sea which has a considerable ethnic Russian population in its Eastern axis. The politics of Ukraine is tored between pro Russian elements versus pro Western elements.

Ukraine and Russia are the bread and food baskets of the world and Europe especially. Cheap Russian Gas and cheap steels and other goods from Ukraine has been one of the things sustaining the prosperity of Europe.

This are my postulations as regards to the whole scenario;
1. European powers underestimated the military and economic resilience of Putin and they thought they could Ukraine another Slavic powerhouse to cannibalise Russia.
2. They thought Russia will be afraid to confront NATO in Ukraine.
3. They expected an internal coup detat to destroy Russia from within because of the cost of the war on Russia but Russia was able to build a powerful war time economy that wasn't expected at all.

Now let's talk about what Ukraine lost in this war-
1. 1/4 of the population of Ukraine have left the country as refugees permanently and might never return to Ukraine till eternity.
2. Ukraine has lost nearly 25 percent of its land mass to Russia.
3. Eastern Ukraine is like the Lagos and Niger Delta of Ukraine. Russia has taken it away from Ukraine.
4. Ukraine has lost 80 percent of its sea access to the black sea meaning that Ukraine is almost transforming from a coastal sea powerhouse in 2021 to a landlocked country in 2025.
5. 60 percent of the mineral resources in Ukraine is now in the hands of Russia.
6. Nearly 1 million Ukrainans have lost their lives.
7. Western multinational corporations have bought nearly 60 percent of the remaining fertile soil in Ukraine as a compensation for assisting Ukraine in the war.
8. The less than 40 percent mineral resources in Ukraine has been sold out to USA as a collateral for loans during the war.
9. Russia now control almost the entirety of the black sea.

10. He who controls Eurasia will become an Empire and Russia understands this and they won this war.
11. Ukraine will not join NATO.
12. Ukraine will not join EU.
13. Ukraine will probably self implode after the war is over.

Conquest is a legal means to acquire land in the international rule of law. Israel took Golan height and Mount Hermon from Syria via war till today and nothing has happened.
Turkey stole Northern cyprus from Cyprus since the 1970s, nothing has happened and the world moved on.

This is the definition of power and Geopolitics.
I hope we learnt some lessons.

Source: Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo

Yes, we learned that in times like this we should appreciate why some countries find the nuclear weapons so attractive. Mutually assured destruction.
The aggression is always towards weaker people and you are 100 percent correct that this is how it has always been since the time of the Babylonians. I would go further to say this is human nature.

femisplash:
Jordan is taking the first 2,000, it's already unfolding, bro.

No reason to argue about it.

femisplash:
However you might want to window dress it, the displacement plan has just begun.

Doomed plan, it will never happen.

femisplash:
After agreeing at the white house to take in 20,000 kids, he then got home and hopped on Twitter to spew this garbage. And you take that kind of a person serious?

He said 2000 very sick kids. I watched the news conference, he didn't promise anything else.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Another one. This is looking like internal sabotage

Or incompetence under Trump.

NothingDoMe:
Canada is not a viable country without US subsidy - Trump

According to Trump. One day 50 lies and 100 misrepresentations.

Abacha, though evil, he taught us Nigeria can survive under sanctions.