Nobody gets the right job in Nigeria. Your dad is already a monopolist billionaire, at least create a company with the monopoly money and hire young Nigerians with more talent to do this job.
Edit: Oh, shame, he's not even officially a billionaire anymore (even though we know all their money is not public).
Rossikki: You must be drunk. Is any of that crap you posted comparable to Abuja, Calabar, Uyo, Enugu, and many parts of Lagos?
D you think any of those pictures are impressive or stand out from any other selective stream of images of an isolated affluent area in any third world country? Show us the downtown night life of Abuja, not clubs, something like this:
I hope you're not talking about Lekki that doubles as a river and a lake every year or neighbourhoods in Abuja with mansions and huge heaps of trash by the side when you're comparing to oil camps with full electricity, running water, and sanitation.
There are over a billion Chinese first of all, secondly Chinese or any other east Asians are not represented among boat people in the Mediterranean like Nigerians are. And at least you know Nigerians are so desperate that they feel that they need to push drugs abroad and commit other crimes, while folks from other sides of the country either strap bombs to themselves at command or try their luck with severed human heads.
I'm sure east Asian countries have no help from their culture and long history of education and hard work ethic, right? Keep telling yourself that.
Rossikki: Show us the highrises. Is it that stuff you posted above? Those antiquated buildings? Dude, just respect yourself.
And don't try to claim Vietnam hasn't got its fair share of bad roads, 'cos i will post them here to shatter your lies. Just like you claimed there were no shanties in Ho Chi Minh City, and then got angry when I posted images of the shanties.
You didn't show anything, you showed a shack that was on the rim of the town, as I said, in 5 years probably those will be gone and the people moved into affordable housing, weren't the people of the waterside slums in Lagos chased into the ocean to sleep and live exposed on the water just a few weeks ago?
How pointless would it be posting every high rise in Vietnam, they have multiple buildings and projects going up at once, in multiple cities, not in two overrated and congested cities like in Nigeria. The real upper hand they have is with their detail and urban planning.
Rossikki: The article speaks of a POWER CRISIS in Vietnam. And speaks of daily power cuts. Of course there are news articles dealing with Nigerian power cuts. What are you on about?
There is a huge rise in violence in Vietnam, which I posted a link to. Does it matter if their names are not Boko Haram or Fulani herdsmen? Crime is crime, even if it doesn't come with a name.
Yawwwnnnnn. When your white masters were here weren't all those problems 100 times worse? That is what this thread is about. ie that we have made PROGRESS. For instance, infant mortality rate in 1960 was over 250 per 1000. By 2015 it had fallen to 69 per 1000. IS THAT NOT PROGRESS?
If you cared so much about Nigerians why are you so silent on the colonial ra/pe, that looted at least a trillion dollars in today's money, from this country? Angrily attacking those of us who point it out.
So because we have some corrupt leaders today, we must forget about the looters of yesterday. Why? Because they are white? Being white gives you the right to loot Nigeria? I don't think so.
Dude, most 'tourists' to Vietnam are old Americans suffering guilt over their criminal bombardment of that country in the 70s. Spare us the crap about the whole world rushing to visit Vietnam.
There is NOTHING INEVITABLE about Vietnam's future success or otherwise. It is your racial inferiority complex that makes you think their success is ''inevitabe''. Stronger nations than her have fallen into conflict and disaster, or economic collapse.
Look at Venezuela. 20 years ago they were among the richest and most promising nations in South America. Today, their people have to cross the border into Colombia to find soap. Food is a luxury. Riots are a daily occurrence. SO NOTHING IS GUARANTEED TO ANYBODY IN LIFE. Get it?
As for Nigeria, her future is bright by all expert calculations. She is projected to be among the world's top 10 economies by 2050, based on current economic growth rates. I didn't see Vietnam on the list:
Your village is the arsehole of the earth. WE LOVE OUR NIGERIA. If you can't stand it, get lost and stay lost.
Sorry, but none of this rubbish you concocted is stoping the fact that these southeast Asians were on your level at independence and are now steady whizzing past you, or are already miles ahead. Even the so called excuse of American help is nonsense, because Nigeria was under British order during the Nigeria-Biafra war, yet they couldn't use their brain to ask for help apparently. Of course Nigeria's economy is rising, as poverty levels and the wealth gap deepens and the crisis all over the country worsens, and infrastructure stays in 2000 BC, a country that basically only exports oil but imports petroleum products, are you not ashamed at all? Nigeria's life expectancy is in the 50s, yes or no? People who love their country do not trek over deserts and seas to run away from such country, how many British people visit Nigeria because of colonial guilt? A white person in Nigeria is like a white elephant outside of the little towns the oil companies have built for them in places like Bonny. Better luck trying to convince someone else, ask an average Nigerian on the street if they would stay in Nigeria or have a free ticket to Vietnam who produce twice as much electricity as Nigeria by the way.
Bonny LNG, and other oil expatriate facilities at near developed standard, while the rest of Nigeria is behind because of some excuse or whatever. Look at how people have set up and developed parts of your country in under a few years while you're trying to diminish other countries success and have nothing to show in your own country.
iamexcelblog: Asin eh... The thing tire me. Nigeria is a failed state but the way some of these IPOB guys behave eh? God forbid. These are not the type of people we can allow to run Igbo affairs.
It pains me too to see people insult the Igbos anyhow because of a few misguided people. But that has got to stop.
The truth needs to be said at all times, excusing IPOB's blunders because they are on a similar track for what many Igbo want or because of sentiment is very costly. Even if it means being berated by brainwashed or desperate folks who can't see that IPOB is not the do or die in terms of Igbo advancement and future. IPOB is far from being the group that will bring the Igbo people to where they want to be, especially not with all this nonsense dragging of other peoples lands, even up to Benue which most Igbo people considered Ugwu Hausa until IPOB showed up.
Most peoples arguments is a 'better than nothing approach', but we can see that that is not getting the movement anywhere. This is high level politics and you either have you stuff together or you will caught in the trap of those who have.
Onye nzuzu ka i bu. Afo sagbuo gi ebe ahu. O di ka na inwugo gAy
Try taking medicine. I'm not really into this bush reasoning of cursing people when you have nothing better to say.
Presidiotbuhari: Every man must go as it is written of him. And nothing can be more sensless,useless & directionless as an igbo man/woman who still believe in ONE NIGERIA uptil now. Some of igbos who share ur type sentiment are been sacrifice everyday in the north, in susternance of ONE nigeria. Eg mrs Magareth that was beheaded in kano last year. Tragically, when the owners of ONE nigeria came for her head, her ONE nigerianist status/profession could not save her. Because she's seen as igbo & not a nigerian.
I do not like the Nigerian state and neither do I like IPOB or running up and down the internet wasting time on people who you will never convince or change their perspective. I know you guys do not appreciate nuance and objective views. All parts of Nigeria suffers from the symptoms of being a failed state, people in the north took advantage of opportunities to survive when nobody would provide for them, so I don't know how anybody who is not feeding or housing them or their family can really give them advice.
Biko gbachie nu ezeagu nkiti maka na o bu nkita na gba uja na efu
midfinger: Enyia a na akpo ezeagu amara ihe ma ncha,biko umu nne'm nwoke ahu abu kwa onyi Igbo?...enwere edemede oji Igbo were dee ebe erigbe oji ako tuu ebe.
It's you guys barking up and down shouting 'Afonja' on nairaland that know better of course! Lol.
NIGHTMAREOO7: There are igbos in benue and rivers dont be dumb. And nnadi kanu neva said donald trump knows anything abot biafra.
Which Igbo communities are there in Benue, realistically, and how does that equate to adding the entire state to a country? IPOB keeps on going on about the US and Israel, as if these countries like Africans.
navada99: I'm so freaking disappointed at ezeagu right now that I'm speachless. Come to think I used to like reading his posts longest time ago. "In Donald Trump's voice" SAD
If you believe Benue is part of Biafra or Donald Trump knows what Biafra is, you will probably not like my posts.
perez100: @ezeagu, you condemned posting of tribal mark pictures but turned blind eyes on the ones posted above. No Afonja has condemned that picture too. Emereye Ndi Igbo eme?
Stop wasting time on petty subjects, if there's an offensive image, you report it.
GreatSE: Ezeagu, go and tell that to the people who registered on nairaland y'day... You are always dividing Igbos here, those days I used to think that you are Joe igbokwe for real
You can't divide what is indivisible. Make the connection.
obaaderemi: I remember your thread on a future igboland with the cities modeled on successful international cities like Hannover,Hong Kong,etc.I saved the first page of that thread for a long time because it resonated with my own mindset.
That's what I'm referring to, there used to be meaningful discussions, but now you can hardly start a thread without somebody posting a picture of people with tribal marks as if this is not a pro-Nigerian website, or if you're against IPOB propaganda then you're an 'Afonja'. Civility and decency were always scanty on this forum, but now they have been completely thrown out the window.
Many people hide behind this Biafra movement to post rubbish and don't actually have any meaningful contributions, that is why you don't hardly see any meaningful threads, and I know these threads on nairaland impact real life because some politician was recently regurgitating a whole thread I made on the proposal for dredging the Imo River and placing a port in Abia therefore the southeast made in 2015. Nairaland and the internet in general has a real world effect.
Presidiotbuhari: Goodness me! I am not an ipob member nor based in se, however, i wouldn't stand & watch u talk ill of those who fight for what they believe while u uphold & adore urs.
You can fight for whatever you believe in, don't just be misled by nonsense sentiment and get killed with in a movement with no plan.
perez100: @ezeagu, that is the problem with us. The Afonja keeps jumping from one Igbo thread to the other, with their insults yet no single Afonja has condemned them publicly or secretly, but you are here kicking against your people openly for nothing. The reason why they said Igbo are not united. I know you can even claim a detriabalisd Nigerian my feet. Is it a curse to many Igbo?
And what is my business with what other people do?
Presidiotbuhari: This abakaliki man what is ur problem with Ipob? Must every igbo person be a proponent of nigeria? do ur thing & allow others do their thing
Look at this logic, using "Abakaliki" as an insult while professing to be an indigenous nationalist. Now do you see the problem with an average IPOB member?
TarOrfeek: anyi ebidogo Kwa. nwayo nwayo ka eji eku ofe lòlaló
What I'm saying is these topics are pointless and petty, the whole of 'anti-Afonja' Nairaland is wasting their time. The so called Afonja people create quality threads like some Igbo people used to do until IPOB zombies started to deteriorate this section, the admins have only allowed this to happen because it brings in traffic.
MalcoImX: The right to self-determination is a right recognized by natural law and nearly all international conventions and entities. But it is not right for certain groups lay claim to what they're not in order to exercise this mandate. The 'Indigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB) is the worst case in this misapplication.
You're using indigenous as the international law, however by definition of indigenous, meaning nobody there before or in any recent time, the term applies to Igbo people
It's a personal choice, if you can prove it to be harmful, bring in laws to ban high levels of hydroquinone and the other harmful chemicals like has been done in civilised countries.
freshest4live: You are right, Vietnam is way better today and has made steady progress after the war though still not there yet. One thing we must consider though is that Nigeria for a large part of her history after independence has been under military rule following a series of coups and political instability till 1999, and obasanjo also did little in terms of infrastructure. The military made some positive improvements though but not enough compared to what they looted and the years of stagnancy. Nigeria is on the path of great change, the problem now is the internal crises and the structure that allows such high corruption, and old school/clueless men to lead her in this age. The biggest problem however in my opinion is the dependence on oil for revenue (considering that oil only makes up 10% of Nigeria's GDP), as well as her lack of unity along religious and ethnic lines. Notwithstanding l would not deny that Nigeria is on the path of great progress punching below her weight slowly.
That's a bit like saying a car would drive really fast only if it had tires, the whole point is in getting to a working state, otherwise you're not going anywhere, everything is just a possibility and hypothesis, which is why 20 years from now Vietnam will be near or probably at the level of "tiger economies" while Nigerians will continue to swim is filth and make excuses about a possibility. This is not even mentioning The Philippines.
An what's happening in Vietnamese city centres is what Lagos is desperately trying to recreate in Eko Atlantic which is working at a snails pace. You can't compare the road works of Vietnam to Nigeria, or the new builds and high rises.
Rossikki: For you and your disgruntled ilk, everything in Nigeria is always stagnant and bad. Everyone is suffering and dying in your dark little world. To hell with your pessimism. You can migrate to Vietnam. Many of us are thriving here, and have plans for the future. We are not lazy, self hating folks who don't see anything good in themselves. Go abroad. You will see thousands of Vietnamese in menial jobs, washing toilets all over the place. The same Vietnam you're calling a paradise on earth here.
Actually Nigeria's was 2.11% for 2016. And growth rate year-on-year is normally fluctuating for most countries. All nations experience recession. If you were honest you would measure GDP growth rate over a ten year period, rather than just measuring the growth rate for last year. On a general 10 or 20 year period, our GDP has grown by an average 5% per annum.
Wrong. Oll and gas accounts for less than 20% of Nigeria's annual GDP of $529 billion.
Stop quoting silly figures. If you really believe the average Nigerian kicks the bucket at age 52, you need help!
There's a huge rise in violence in Vietnam according to this report:
SEE, YOU CANNOT COME HERE AND LIE, BECAUSE I WILL BURY YOU WITH TRUTH AND FACTS.
What does it say when power cuts make the news from 2010 and 2015? How many articles on Nigerian papers headline power cuts in Lagos? Please go and check the electricity production of Vietnam vs. Nigeria, even the article you googled talked about one power cut per day, and that was under certain circumstances in 2010. Maybe you also don't know that the Nigerian economy operates on oil? Is that an argument? How many articles are you going to Google till you find the Vietnamese version of Boko Haram or Fulani Herdsmen?
You don't know how life expectancy works, life expectancy is calculated in a number of ways including the average age of a siblings death. Yes, people in Nigeria live much shorter, this is even reflected in entertainment. That's not even counting the deaths from Fulani terrorists, Boko Haram, road accidents which are some of the worst in the world, pollution which are some of the worst in the world, malnutrition which are some of the worst in the world, bad or nonexistent health care, and so on. No matter how many images of shacks you find, an average westerner which is where the huge amount of tourism money comes from will run a mile before picking dirty Nigeria over Vietnam. You're lucky you have monopolists like Folorunsho and Dangote to up your statistics.
Lost, wandering desert tokunbo Jew, you still haven't added Vietnam's backstory. At the end of the day, 40 years from now another mad delusional Afro-nut will come online or wherever and say Vietnam's inevitable astronomic success is because of magical oyibo, which you indirectly worship as the mighty magical source of all power, including making your homeland the arsehole of the earth.
Rossikki: What is in Vietnam? Their GDP per capita is half that of Nigeria's, and their GDP about one fifth of Nigeria's, even though their population is half that of Nigeria's at 92 million. They are trying, but we are ahead of them.
''In 2012, Vietnam's nominal GDP reached US$138 billion, with a nominal GDP per capita of $1,527.''
You're ahead of them in a stagnant state, only giving the illusion of progress through averaged data and unreliable statistics. Funnily enough, you've been very quick to mention how the other Asian states were helped by the United States, but there's no elongated discussion about Vietnams history here and how the US is known to have isolated them for years.
The nominal per capita for Viet is 2,553.987 projected for 2017, and 2,741.226 for 2018, that is how fast they are growing. They have set their sights firmly on developed status, by 2020 Nigeria will be officially behind them (Nigeria is already behind them). In 2016 they grew by over 6% while Nigeria lagged at 1.6%.
They have huge growth in tourism, while people actively avoid Nigeria, even those that travel to Africa regularly.
First of all, Nigeria completely relies on oil, while Vietnam has a more diversified economy. The average life expectancy of a Nig is 52 years and for Viet it's around 75. Vietnam still has issues, but it's an investment magnet that's being eyed by everyone, the political climate is sturdy, and there aren't a whole bunch of IDP camps and mumus blowing themselves up all over the place, etc.
Not to mention Ho Chi Minh city, commercial capital, has nothing nearly like Makoko or are removing them and upgrading the people living, it isn't a huge heap of garbage like Lagos, Vietnam has steady electricity and running water.
Obi1kenobi: Stop kidding yourself, Mr. The entrepreneurial drive, resourcefulness, hard work and strong, visionary leadership made those Asian countries what they are today. Stop always looking to blame the failures of our intellectually lazy, corrupt black asses on "the West". Countries invest where they can profit and they accordingly assess the risk of investment. They're not running charities. The success of Japanese or South Korean or Hong Kong or Taiwanese or Singaporean or Malaysian people or whoever belongs to them. Even an isolated, hungry, miserable country like North Korea under the most severe international sanctions ever imposed on a nation for decades demonstrate far greater ingenuity and technological innovation than we do. If they had unbridled access to international markets, they'd be just like their Southern brothers. It's a cultural thing.
To say that 50 years is not enough time to advance as a nation is utterly absurd. I'm a little busy right now and can't be bothered digging up the stats again, but over the last couple of decades, Nigeria is the only major country on the planet where instead of dragging people out of poverty, have actually seen a considerable rise in their poverty level. Most of the marginal growth in our economy have been absorbed by an exploding population and the ruling class getting richer. A situation where cost of living continues to skyrocket even as standard of living plummets. Do you honestly think your silly propaganda here convinces anyone about the hopeless state of this country? Do you actually live in this country? Cos I hope you don't type all this horseshit you do from outside this country.
Please ask the Hebrew African dreamer about Vietnam, which western country is behind their growing success today. Even North Korea shows and tells when they do their propaganda, so called Nigerians just talk out of their backside.