OnyeAshuaUru:
A new Nigeria is POssible.
Vote for a country that works for you.
Vote LP
Vote Peter Obi

chai. You remind me of the below guy seven years ago.

After 50 years una go get sense last last.

abbey621:
What most people don't know about the U.S or abroad in general is that it can either be a dream or a nightmare. I have never seen a hardworking, smart and intelligent Nigerian fail to make it here, yes it will be difficult, yes it can be rough but most people end up being in a better state than they were when they left 9ja. Now back to the topic, many Nigerians here are forced to forget partially or completely about Nigeria due to the number of hours you have to spend at work, raising a family and so on. An average trip to Nigeria will cost you at least $3000 to $5000 dollars when you count ticket, hotel and other costs. Most Nigerians can't save that much in a year, in fact most Americans can't save that in a year. The real Nigerians suffering here are the illegal immigrants, they can't work a decent job, they can't leave the country and are constantly watching their backs. Hopefully with the emergence of a new Nigeria under GMB, many of the illegal immigrants can come back to 9ja and make something of their lives!

Teenwolf:

I won't insult you, but just know that argentina will either Play portugal or brazil in the final

Argentina can never meet Brazil in the final lol.

There's more to just the match. With the partitioned structure, the semi is where they will meet if Argentina can knock out Australia and Netherlands next.

ozimec:


You maybe right but then, the power for any constitution amendment or review lies on the National and state assemblies not really on the President. However, in the case of our country, North will never support restructuring or true federalism because they believe it will not favour them and, without their support you can't get the required two third number. Remember 2014 National Conference.

So what do you think we can do in your opinion? Really curious.

duro4chang:
Thank you. But why is it difficult to change or amend all those areas even under Obasanjo?

Because we need

1. Four out of five of all houses in the country. This means at least 24 states' houses of assembly must support it. This is virtually impossible.

2. Two-thirds majority of the National assembly must also support it.

These two requirements are against the South that majorly suffers from the bad constitution,

duro4chang:
Please lawyers in the house, what is really wrong with the constitution? Why should we discard the constitution?

For a start, the constitution has about 68 items on the exclusive list. These items are exclusive to states and only the president and federal government can decide on them.

An example is fishing on the high seas. It is illegal to go fish on the sea. Imagine that?

States can't generate and distribute their own electricity. e.t.c

Their are a lot of things in that barbaric constitution but we need to do more to enlighten our people.

This is the most sensible thread on nairaland in years!

bluediamond1239:

Arise TV journalists, please bring Yakubu Gowon in for question and answer section.why did he disagreed on agreement in abury
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How many GenZ's are even aware of the Aburi accord today? All they want is to reclaim a country that was never theirs in the first place.

Aburi accord or a similar system is the only solution to Nigeria's problem but let us waste 50 more years first.

On Aburi we still stand

mach7:
Like Pa Adebanjo, like Pa Akintoye.

What is it with this old papas and their perceived hatred for Tinubu?

May God deliver us from crab mentality o.

Maybe because Tinubu used to be a disciple of the Sage Awo and subsequently abandoned Awo's principles when the sage was no longer around.

Prof Akintoye was the youngest member of Awolowo's cabinet, and he was more like a son to Awolowo while pa Adebanjo also has a relationship with Awolowo. They feel betrayed by Tinubu's greed.

two pointers solves this in O(n) at worst. This is probable the first question to wet your appetite. It's suspiciously easy.

oluwasegun007:
This country will on grow under a no nonsense president....


Imagine this one way of thinking

A no-nonsense president like Obasanjo abi?

You guys forget it's turn by turn. It only takes a kind of Buhari or Jonathan to scatter everything again.

Cantonese:


My first comment was borne out of the fact of what I have noticed in the recent times.

Without doubt, our country has become so deeply polarized by the words and actions of the political class.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, even though we had different tribes and cultures, Nigerians remained one. It was on the basis of that fact, that the late Chief MKO Abiola won the election convincingly. He received votes from every part of the nation, as where he came from did not matter.

The new nation called Nigeria should be the estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future”- Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria, 1961

A few months later Northerners started hunting down Igbo's. We were never one in the history of this country.

Abiola's case came at the back of a vicious military regime and it was either him or a relatively unknown person.

It does not take 70 years to form national identities. It did not take the Americans 70 years. They already knew what they wanted, fought the war of independence against the British; had a constitution; fought a civil war and became who we all know today.

Like I said earlier, America, Canada, Australia and a whole lot are settler's colonies. Do you want that in Nigeria?

A country must have one and only one majority. Nigeria has multiple majorities with different ideologies. Even the United States is trying to keep the power of the whites. Same thing with Germany. That's why Singapore separated from Malaysia.

Can one say he is not a Nigerian when he is from Nigeria? We can only ask ourselves if we are United as one country.

Now, I agree with you that we are going nowhere if certain burning issues affecting our nation, are not sorted out. We must ask if we are ready to proceed as one nation.

Nigeria is not a nation. Jut know this. At best it is a county of multiple nations. The first step to solving a problem is to accept reality. Their's nothing like our country.

A nation where 90% of the southerner's won't want to live in the North because of the North's civilization, and where alot of the Northerners wants to live in a sharia country.

Let us do Nigeria for another decade of. suffering. Maybe people will have sense to demand for a refferendum.

Cantonese:


But the different European ethnic groups who could not stay together, peacefully went their separate ways.

Maybe you do not know that the indigenous people were not wiped out by the invaders/settlers in America, in the 17th century.

Nigeria was built on ethnic and religious lines also, but as it stands today, are the tribes in any form of agreement?

You just proved my point. Your original comment was

Some Nigerians, right in their own country, ask other Nigerians to vacate Lagos and relocate to their villages. These set of myopic Nigerians struggle to get visas to the UK and USA, in their efforts to become citizens of those countries. How can you ever get visas?

There's nothing like a Nigerian, at least not yet.

You guys forget that Nigeria is less than 70 years. National Identities are not formed in that short duration.

Nigeria is a clash of ethnic groups with different ambitions. We are going no where.

But the different European ethnic groups who could not stay together, peacefully went their separate ways.

Nigeria was built on ethnic and religious lines also, but as it stands today, are the tribes in any form of agreement?

Do. you see how you called them European ethnic nations and Nigeria tribe Denmark is less than the Ijaw people population and you will never call them a tribe. We should try to decolonise and detach from the coloniser's language.

Cantonese:
See how a migrant would be announced as the Prime minister of the United Kingdom. The American vice president, the same.

Some Nigerians, right in their own country, ask other Nigerians to vacate Lagos and relocate to their villages. These set of myopic Nigerians struggle to get visas to the UK and USA, in their efforts to become citizens of those countries. How can you ever get visas?

Yeye people.

Oya wipe out the indigenous people like they did in America and then make Nigeria a settler colony so that it can be a free for all.

The UK and most of European countries are built on ethnic lines and so can afford that. Nigeria is a contraption of different civilizations.

The people that gave us democracy are practising this kind of system while we are practicing a satanic fake federal system of government.

People that think Obi or Tinubu or Atiku is the solution should keep chasing shadows.

I only pity the policemen assigned to this guy as escorts.

It's only the policemen and security men that will die when these individuals' shady partner comes and strike them. Same thing with that Uba guy.

The shady guy you are supposed to be protecting is inside a bullet proof armoured vehicle while you are inside an Hilux van.

Work with these people at your own risk!

His metaphor makes sense, but the same way Tinubu and APC weaponised Jonathan's statement that year.

The chicken has come home to roost for him.

Omo. The pressure is getting wesser.

Msmither:
Just so you know, we are once naked before the whites came and gave our forefathers ceramics, guns, ordinary 50cl alcohol bottle, umbrella and some stupid things in exchange for outrageous amount of human beings.

Let them go naked, it's In their blood.

I saw a picture of alafin of OYO and his wife's back them, the wives are naked and the kind only covered his penis.

Oh really? Ife made glass before the 15th century, the first of it's kind in SubSaharan Africa but couldn't make cloth?

FYI, Aso Ofi production was started before the 14th century in ancient Oyo so how come we walked naked during the 19th century?

I have more abandoned projects than completed ones Mostly because of trying to do something unrealistic for a single individual.

To your answer sure why not? Another approach is to plan your personal projects the same way your product manager and tech lead does. This will help you research more about the implementation before you write a single line of code which thereby the problem would've been solved before you jump into your IDE.

great app btw

Snowden gets citizenship while Assange got whacked. Talk about divergent.

internationalman:
Honestly speaking we are a country of incoherent people. We are too diversified to be one country...

The country will never work that's just the plain truth.

Before una come from my head, everyone knows my tribe here.

The flesh has not shown this to you, as they say.

A country with about 3 (60) million major ethnic groups will find it hard to form a national identity unless they are ready to surrender their ideologies.

South is trying to westernize the North while the North is trying to Sharianize the south.

There's a popular political figure in Africa that postulates that the problem of Africa is that each country has multiple major ethnic groups, hence will never agree on the direction of the country and will always have ethnic census instead of elections.

The last part is so evident in the next coming 2023 elections. It won't be an election but an ethnic census.

Acidosis:


As far back as 1914, majority of the world's nations have been colonized. Most of the countries we run to in Europe and North America (Canada, U.S., Etc.) have colonial history. So??

She offended your forefathers? So what?? Didn't your ancestors unfairly maim and slay people within the Nigerian colony as well? Abi they did not kill "witches" and twins in Aba based on their limited knowledge at that time?

War and resource/economic dominance were the major policy instrument of those days so if your forefathers were beaten at their own game, that is absolutely nothing to cry over. That era is dead and it's forever dead.

Our gold was stolen by the Queen, who then shipped it to the UK.

Our funds were stolen by our very own Abacha and transported to the UK.

Today, we are now putting in a lot of effort to move to the UK so we can slave (work 2-3 jobs) and pay taxes to the Queen Mother.

What I see is a tactless people who have chosen blame game and irresponsibility as their official currency.

I am sure what you replied to is this right?

The source of all problems in this contraption called Nigeria is the British.

Did you see the recent tweet of Bashir ElRufai's (son) about how the British used indirect rule and left them the power while leaving?

You see, I would still redirect you back to the previous book. Some things won't appear to us autochthonously I get.

It is the same shite they tried with India and Pakistan till they separated and what eventually happen with Yogoslavia.

bergs2:
These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans.

Same way Europeans conducted the holocaust on the jews abi?

Teacher don't teach me nonsense! These are the ones Dr Woodson is referring to in his book called the Miseducation of the negro!

The Europeans told you Africa sold themselves and you ran with it?

Acidosis:



What has she or any British person done to you?

You must be a gen-z.

What has British done to us? Chai.

This is what happens when history is not taught in schools. Teacher has taught you nonsense like Fela sang!

The source of all problem in this contraption called Nigeria is the British. Maybe go grab a book. A fatherless people would be a good start!

Which fo0lish worth? This our country people sha.

Treasure17:
All hail the incoming president of Nigeria. Nigeria about to witness a new beginning with you as the captain. Peter Obi is the chosen one.

Last last both of your camp's will cry election ringing next year.

delzbaba:
Food for thought, it's like our patriotism disappeared with the advent of democracy.

Our patriotism died after the First republic. All coups after the Nzeogwu's one was based on ethnic tribal and greedy sentiments.

Because Abacha schooled his children in the country doesn't disregard that he's our patron money sender from the grave.

Both Tinubu boys and Obiclowns will cry foul next year February sha

OJEEMAH:
I don’t like Chelsea but they conceded 2 fraudulent goals.

Just like Arsenal, Chelsea have also been treated very poorly by those useless referees in England.

Fergie’s United in collaboration with Mark Clattenburg and other refs robbed them twice at the bridge.

Bad officiating is the reason i don’t feel or have any atom of pity for Man United. They are paying for the sins of Ferguson. They robbed almost every team in the league.

Out of the 13 league titles Fergie won, about 6 dey questionable if you check am well.

Oga analyser

Whose sin was Liverpool paying for when they had 20 years of no serious trophy?

Omatseye is right after all .

What these people are missing is that religion sentiments doesn't count in the south west.

SpecialAdviser:

I agree with all you have said but unfortunately we only have the option of voting Obi or voting the others. So you chose

What happens after voting then? We continue hoping for a saviour that will set things right even though ]the country is in a configuration that will never work out.