₦airaland Forum

@OP Who or what is afenifere to think for us?

What do Igbos contribute to Nigeria in terms of revenue? NOTHING! yet they want to be in control.
You have nothing but you want to be in charge of other region's resources at the centre.

The mistake our fathers made was to trust Igbos thinking they are reliable people to form alliance with but we got betrayed instead. I'm sure Ahmadu Bello would have preferred to form alliance with Awolowo over Igbos but Awo was busy pacifying Igbos up and down. I wonder what he was thinking or smoking at the time.

walemoney007:
Have you seen the game the FG is playing on this VAT issue? The supreme court won't give a judgement and if they do not give judgement on the case within a certain period of time, status quo will remain.

And you know what that means

A judge in the Appeal Court order for status quo to remain.

The Supreme court can't go against the constitution that created it and made it the apex court in the land, same way the powers that be don't want VAT collection to go to States... So right now, it's stalemate.

The North's overbearing attitude is what made people remember VAT.. just like they consume electricity free of charge while discos kill people with estimated billing in the South. The injustice is just too much.

walemoney007:
I doubt the constitution states the State should collect it.

It's there in the constitution.. lawyers can help out.
That's infact the reason Rivers state took the VAT issue to court up to Supreme court level with the suit now joined by Lagos, Ogun and some others.

Imagine paying a State that generates nothing in revenue almost equal, if not more than what states like Rivers, Lagos and co. are getting.. who would be happy with such? they are using quota system too to share money from South for North's enjoyment.

Well, according to the constitution, States are to collect VAT but for some weird reasons, FIRS has been the one collecting it.. Wike has the Southern senators to thank for stalling the attempt by FIRS to ammend its Act.

Leave PDP, those ones ain't serious for anything yet.. Instead of SE to stand firm and drag ticket in PDP so it'll be South vs South in 2023, they are busy dragging Tinubu who has not even won APC primary yet. They are waiting for Atiku so they can start Atikulating with people like Dokpesi.

omenkaLives:
It is in their DNA. They're born with it, raised with it, and die in it, after transference of the traits to their progeny.

It's a horrible situation. Old and young alike, not a squat of difference.

It's really horrible to have people with such horrible traits in the same country.. both old and young, male and female, it's the same behaviour and same attitude.
I really feel pity and a little bit of worried for them because they might end up making a mistake that will cost them so much with the way they are going about politics in Nigeria.

Vistra40:
This one is too bitter and such emotions do not get you anywhere in politics. I may not be a supporter of tinubu but you have no right to tell him not to contest for president. Get a candidate and campaign for him instead

The real question is.. do they even have PVC to vote in the coming elections? who will vote for a region that all the people there do is to hate, insult and curse other tribes in Nigeria.

Let's be practical for a bit.. will you give your next door neighbor that's always cursing and insulting you a position of power over you in the compound?
That's the typical case of Igbos with other tribes in Nigeria. Nobody is ready to support them so they want to blackmail Yoruba candidates to step down for them which won't work.

Vistra40:
I don’t support the rubbish statement made by those so called igbo leaders but what exactly do you mean by “woke”? The last time I checked, there are yorubas who are not in support of Tinubu’s ambition. Abi is Tinubu synonymous with the yoruba race? Because you sounded as though only bigots support his ambition

That you don't support them doesn't mean they are not Igbos neither does it mean that you're more Igbo than they are.. Have you made any attempt to call out the so called Igbo elders for incitement before jumping into my mentions?
Why I ask is because I really don't know what concerns Igbo elders with Tinubu or his candidacy as he has never ruled any of the Igbo states. So what's the problem here?

If corruption is cancer.. then Nigeria is in the final stage.

Look at NNPC spending billions of naira daily on refineries with zero output (as in nothing produced). It's a big shame.

Interesting!
The same Tinubu that gave them posts over credible and competent Yorubas when he was governor.

Well, this will serve as a lesson to all the woke Yorubas out there.

Haakeem:
. Comrade wey no get sence

You better go and marry so we can rejoice with you.. trolls everywhere
My posts are still valid for the OP.

Haakeem:
sure i would.

Congrats once again and happy married life to you and yours.. naming ceremony is up next.

@OP congrats.. make sure you take good care of your wife.

@OP So the boy's head is now your own practice specimen abi?.. why not open mini barbing saloon for boys in your vicinity so you'd become a perfect barber.

I still think there is more to that Regina's story.. how come the jaruma girl is always around her and in her business up to the point of recording her in the hospital.
Una dey sure say ancestor Ned still dey see road so.. maybe it's the product that's making him go berserk on Jaruma to protect his "love".

This is just bad.. teenagers for that matter.

I think our society needs to start working more on the girl child, train them to be dependent and see dating and guys generally as compliment.

The things driving most of these guys into rituals revolves around money and women. They kill one girl to go please another.
I was shocked reading here sometime back of a girl saying she can only date yahoo boys.. by yahoo boys, I'm sure she meant internet fraudsters or even ritualists yet the society looked away, her parents too are somewhere probably encouraging her to go after money.

Lastly, I think we need to bring back death sentence so that anyone or group of people caught killing another man should be killed.

laughitall:
why are people still hungry …

Overpopulation I guess.. coupled with bad economic policies where people must struggle to survive.

You can't compare things now with the time of Adam and Eve or can you?

laughitall:
Rubbish .. can you buy food free ?

To an extent, yes.. the snakes you catch and eat are free, the fruits and vegetables you get when rain falls and they grow are free.

Don't confuse the concept of trade or buying and selling to "free" please.

nku5:
You say all tribes were involved in politics in Lagos then in your next paragraph you say Igbos never had a say in Lagos. You are contradicting yourself

Tinubu and his tribalistic miscreants will come will come and go but igbos will continue to have a say in lagos politics. If you don't like it go campaign for oduduwa republic

No you won't and you'll never have a say in Lagos or any other part of Yorubaland.. even a million Tinubus can't make that happen.

Your time for shenanigans is up.

seunmsg:
Sadly, we still have lots of woke Yorubas who can’t see through their antics. We must continue to educate and sensitize as many of our people as possible.

What the North had realized about Igbos since 1960s', Yorubas are yet to figure out.. I watched Ahmadu Bello's interview of the 60s' where he discussed Igbos and their obsession to always take what belong to others and never practice fair play and I pondered deeply about it.
They introduced tribalism into all spheres of life in Nigeria and made others become tribal conscious. Look at a lunatic Abia man like Nnamdi Kanu asking Ipobs to destroy Yorubas in Lagos yet Yorubas kept calm looking, including the Igbo puppet governor in Ondo state who finds his voice only when North is mentioned.

It doesn't even speak well of us as Yorubas to have kept quiet when the leader of a proscribed terrorist organization like IPOB called for destruction of our people and interests on our very own lands. These and more are part of the reason why these folks go about calling Yorubas names like cowards etc. because they've not been taught lesson yet in Yorubaland. The Deji in Akure got them flogged, the Oba in Lagos warned them seriously yet Yorubas still think there is gain being docile in the face of external hostilities from outsiders.

nku5:
Igbos have been into Lagos politics since before Tinubu's father was born in Iragbiji, Osun state

All major tribes were in politics in Lagos as the capital of Nigeria back in the days. Right from Tafawa Balewa to the times of Military in Dodan Baracks before IBB moved capital to Abuja.

Igbos at no time had a say in the internal affairs of Lagos talk more of getting appointed as commissioner in Lagos state.
It's the Yorubas that were removed from top positions in federal agencies and parastatals and were replaced by Igbos during GEJ's tenure that I pity most. Even Lagosians had no say over slots meant for Lagos in federal because GEJ felt he could appoint any Igbo residing in Lagos.

Thank God Yorubas are waking up.. soon noone will tell you to pack your loads and spare parts to the East when people stop patronizing your shops in Lagos and other South West states. Everything that has beginning always has an end.

sagieramos:
Like oxygen, water and sunlight

Exactly!!

Tinubu dug his own grave the very moment he brought Igbos into Lagos politics.. he was warned back then but when people think they know it all or are woke, this is the after effect. Their Lagos is a "no man's land" rhetoric started during Tinubu's tenure when he appointed an Igbo man as commissioner. If he (Tinubu) is to become president, it's the North (NE, NW & NC), South West and South South that will make it happen.

These ones we are seeing their posts are the ones bold enough to speak up, others keeping quiet have the exact same view and mindset.

The major setback facing Yorubas in Nigeria are the Igbos, not even Hausa or Fulanis like they want us to believe. Just look at the events of 1960-1967 you'd understand the real culprits in the woes facing Yorubas and Nigeria at large. I don't hate them and I don't tolerate their excesses either.. dey your dey, make I dey my dey.

The best things in life are free.. the rest are secondary.

Why won't you confront her? ask her how her pregnancy is 6 months when you both had sex on your birthday 5 months back.. she has serious questions to answer else you become a victim of paternity fraud.

Once a girl is desperate to come visit you or have sex with you on birthdays, there is a high chance that she is already pregnant trying to pin the belle on your head so guy should always be careful. Learn to control your third leg so you won't labour in vain for kids that are not yours.

The moment a man finds out that his wife cheated (even once), it's either divorce or he starts cheating too as payback..
I wonder what the woman was expecting, a hug or thank you kiss for cheating? It's her type that starve their husband of sex but will go outside and allow strangers do all sorts to their body. Too bad.

@OP Why didn't you scream or run after him? You're just living in Lagos, you're not sharp.

@OP Don't waste her time biko.. if you don't find her attractive, then you're only dating her out of pity.

Too much debt in the power sector, backlogs upon backlogs of debt owed.. most of the foreign investors that came to invest there are gradually moving out due to the shocking state of the sector.

This is what you get when people with no idea of how a system operates rush to buy off assets thinking they'll make automatic profit.

@OP Try to get something doing even if it means travelling far from your state of residence. In order to be successful, you must be prepared to leave your comfort zone and face life head-on.

What is your talent? is it music or playing musical instruments?

Are you computer literate? you can look for business centres around and seek employemt, you can get lamination or binding machines and start something.

Is it farming or poultry business you can do? fish farming, snail farming or buying and re-selling of palm oil, crayfish etc.
Just get busy and with time you'd be okay.

Na the girl lose.. chop her food, still chop kpekus join.
What else is the boy looking for? except he meant well for her initially, else he should lock up.