₦airaland Forum

Dalohad:
It is always the sleazy and brutish British.

This is why the British empire will continue to collapse.

Evil mongrels they are.

The British have never liked the Igbo people. It was the Igbos that gave them the hardest and toughest battles during the colonial wars, it took them at least 2 and half years to topple the Caliphate, 1 year to smash the Yoruba, one day to topple the Benin empire but when it came to the Igbos, that battle lasted for 20 years plus. In fact, the first time the British landed in Bende region, they demanded to meet with the Igbo elders of the community, when the elders arrive for the meeting the British asked them to take off their hats as a sign of respect, such a thing struck the Igbo elders as an insolent demand and they refused to abide by the demands of the British rep, in short, the ones who didn't come with hats on quickly went to procure one and place in their heads.

Even Lugard has a derogatory and racist remark about the Igbos in one of his journals, where he openly showed his disdain to the fact that the Igbo people didn't view themselves as inferior to the white man and in some occasions actually saw themselves as being better. The fact that the Igbo were already republican in nature and didn't have a monarchial system further made it very difficult for the British to control them. Then you have the Aba women riots, a movement that was orchestrated by Igbo women showing how powerful and respected women are in ìgbo culture, This was when women in America and Europe were still unable to vote, they had little rights of themselves.

The British in their fear of the Igbo people had to construct the country to be loop sided towards the north, the very first election that was conducted in Nigeria was by the British and they made sure to rig that election in favour of the north according to Harold Smith, he was the man they wanted to use for that election rigging.

SeeWahala:
Lele mmadu di ka bobrisky na jaybuggie bu onye ndi-a chori me governor

Ike gwụrụ , inụkwa ụdị ka mmadụ ndị a chọrọ ị tinye na ọchịchị 🫤. Ndị na akpọ nwoke ibe ha ike

AMINDA:
Pants on fire! Where is the letter from the embassy authenticating the fake letter with numerous errors and other discrepancies? When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

"record czheck” instead of “record check”
“maitatins” instead of “maintains”
“it’s territories” instead of “its territories”
“The result of the checks were negative”
“contact me direct” instead of “directly”
“nor information of your department” - an incomplete sentence.

🤣🤣🤣Is this the letter that they are making noise about? If I send this kind of thing to my boss he will sack me and get me arrested join sef

HacheNoire:
Was the Rial doing good pre-war?

The petrodollar is being hammered more! Can’t you see how Iran has held the world economy?

Nope it wasn't doing well and it's even far worse right now, even the Naira is doing far better than Rial.

The dollar is experiencing far less hammering than Rial, the sanctions on Iran is choking their economy, it's a slow death and Iranians are not finding it funny

Kobojunkie:
Oh... boy! Here comes the deflecting!🙄🙄🙄

You are wrong there because what you do to your apartment, as far as renovations are concerned, DOES NOT impact the Nigerian economy, politics, and so on. 😒😒

🤦🏾‍♂️ I'm not talking about economy but the individualistic mindset of Nigerians which you have just displayed. It manifest in ways in our lives, personally and societally.

nairalanda1:
They did, but they were too small to make much change beyond ending sars...and anyway, SARS was replaced with another organisation, and the police is still the police.

There were more aims than just ENDSARS. NOTHING was changed

They were too small yet they shut down the a whole state? I don't think you were ever present during those protests if you're saying the numbers were small. Something that made it's way into CNN and Al Jazeera news.

Yes it was replaced with another organisation but that unit itself was disbanded.

nairalanda1:
This thing shows that Nigerians are not really interested in politics and who governs them because they have a daily bread mentailty.

That is why ENDSARS ultimately failed. The ENDSARS organisers did not have the money to pay people to come out and protest for the issues , and as a result people did not come out (then lots of people lost property, got injured, and got killed. ENDSARS had no money to give ).

In a society where people are focused on survival, they do things that earn them some cash. Its why we have bad government.People don't vote for long term planners, but for short term investors, who would get ROI By looting and more looting, and jobs for the boys.

I argue that the solution is tax, because if most people in nigeria pay an income tax and they see they are not getting value for money, APC would be in deep trobule, and there would either be a revolution, or APC loses by 100 million votes to 1 million in the next election, with 99% voter turnout.

What do you mean people didn't come out during end SARS protest ? You're always talking out of point all the time, people massively came out to protest end SARS, activists, influencers, artistes etc came out enmass, if it was a failure Why did the government send in soldiers to murder the protesters? And did they not disband sars unit?

HacheNoire:
A good one!

Let’s see who folds first!

Whose currency is dependent on oil trade? US or Iran?

Iran holds all the cards and US cannot just accept.

By ending of October, it will be a disaster for world economy!

Do you think this war with Iran will affect the petrodollar more than it will affect the Rial?

You people really don't know anything nor understand how the world economy moves.

Kobojunkie:
Why do all of this renovating in a house that was never yours to begin with? 😒😒

This is the mindset that have kept Nigeria from ever developing. It is not my own so why should I give a damn about making it look good? The politicians will say " these masses are not my close relatives so why should I bother about improving their standard if living?" Then the masses themselves will say " this person although he has what it takes to govern well, he's not from my tribe so why should I bother to vote for him". Very individualistic and self centered.

adeoyekay:
Nothing, the price of everything is skyrocketed

Life has definitely become cheaper

essentialone:
How does this concern all of us?

If it doesn't concern you then stay mute and let those who it concerns to talk

Cherrybae:
Imagine south East that claim the most educated region are bottom.

Peter Obi claimed he invested huge in Education but Anambra is bottom.

Kudos to the North, SS and SW including the North Central.

The South East still out performs every region in national exams.

Peter Obi left Anambra government since 2014, this record is for this year.

rossipki:
STOP SPREADING ISRAELI PROPAGANDA COMING FROM WAR CRIMINALS AND PERPETRATORS OF GENOCIDE WHOM YOU SUPPORT.

YOU SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE OF MILLIONS OF ARABS YET CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT "20,000" OF THEM.

YOU CAN DECEIVE MAN BUT YOU CAN'T DECEIVE GOD.

Israeli propaganda? Something that was reported by doctors and first responders within Iran?

When did Israel kill millions of Arabs? Btw Iranians are not Arabs, they're Persians. You claim to care about them yet you don't have any problems with their government gunning down thousands of them in cold blood.

God1000:
you need to emancipate yourself from mental slavery, Iranians have a powerful sense of national identity and they are solidly behind their government to defend their country from invaders whom you shamelessly continue to worship and defend their daily atrocities

Were these Iranians solidly behind their government when they murdered over 20,000 protesters early this year?

illicit:
This guy is not less than 30.

🤕

Rooney was going bald at his Twenties, bald head is not a sign of old age

Mandate1:
going for windows wasn't really the issue, but unwilling to adjust to anrket realities. Their phones were too technical to operate in that windows software.

I think that was a feature with the windows OS, it was wonky and not user friendly, same issues with the windows 8 and 9 on PCs

Cum4me:
You’re not imagining it. To my understanding the universe is stretching with no limit. There really are fewer stars visible now for most of us. Here’s why:

1. Light pollution
This is the big one.
When you were a kid there were fewer street lights, fewer billboards, fewer phones, fewer buildings lit up all night.
Now Port Harcourt and most cities are way brighter at night. All that light scatters in the air and makes the sky look like a gray glow.
It’s like trying to see candles during the day — the faint stars get washed out. NASA says 80% of people now live under light-polluted skies.

2. Air quality
More dust, smoke, and haze in the air also blocks starlight. Especially in cities and during harmattan/dry season.

3. Your eyes + location
As kids our eyes adapt better to darkness, and we usually stayed up later outside with no phones.
Plus if you moved closer to the city center, or if more buildings went up, you’ve got less dark sky above you.

The stars didn’t go anywhere
They’re still up there. Billions of them. It’s just that we built a ceiling of light between us and them.

The universe is stretching but our generation and the next 5-7 generations will not even notice the stretching at all.

Kindness218:
It's because of Climate change. The world is going in a different direction.

it has nothing to do with climate change, it's because of ligh pollution from city lights.

EKONGKING:
It's because of air pollution

not air pollution but light pollution from city lights

AsomArchitectNG:
Basically when I was a kid, I used to see a lot stars in the sky, right now it's no longer like that

It's because of Light pollution. The more urbanised a region is the less stars you will be able to see in the night sky. This is because the city lights hits on the atmosphere and screens the lights from the stars so your naked eyes can't see it. Only with a telescope would you be able to see stars faraway.

If you go to rural areas with no city or urbanised area close by you will be able to see as many stars at night as is visible to the naked eyes.

Places in Nigeria is speedily urbanising so it's going to be unable to see more and more stars in the night sky. Here in Canada you will see far less stars in the night sky than in Nigeria unless you go to a secluded area that has been preserved for star gazing, these areas are kilometres away from any major cities giving you a clear sky, you can even see the milkyway sometimes.

Itzlinda:
They only assemble. They do nothing. They add no value whatsoever but still kudos to them.

They know how to make money

The body, glass, fittings and some engine components are manufactured here in Nigeria.

Do you think Mercedes manufactures all their car components in their factory? They hardly manufacture 50% of them, the rest of the car are assembled in. Their factories, same with other car automobile companies

JohnAOne:
Innoson is in actuality AN ASSEMBLY PLANT (Chinese cars), they dont manufacture anything

Most car companies are assembly plants, they don't manufacture all of their components, in fact that hardly manufacture 50% of it. Same with innoson, he doesn't manufacture the entire car, but just a couple of components and the body of the cars are manufactured here in Nigeria, the leather, plastic parts, glass, fittings and batteries are manufactured here.

christejames:
Keep allowing your ignorance and hate for good governance stunt your progress...



As bad as Aba power supply may be it's still far better than anywhere else you think you are getting your own supply from.


At least, they are better than the one that's supplying you that will always go off without telling you why and when it will be restored.

As bad as Aba power may be? There's only been two major power interruptions in Aba this year, it's not like it's been epileptic or something, the issues are with the gas supplier and not even Aba power

Beforedbuilder:
All stories what Nigerians need is uninterrupted power supply. Aba power should buy or run their own independent gas plant. Enough of excuses.

Aba power should buy their own independent gas plant? You people will just come online and open your mouths Wwaaaaaahhh

ppogba:
The lies and propaganda of Otti providing 29 hours a day is presently collapsing and coming to the fore.

Las las, una go dey alright.

Each time there is power outage due to shortage of gas, na the same people dey start the wailing.

Now , make una come wail outside.

On average Aba gets more electricity than anywhere else in the country. Since this year there's been only two power interruptions in Aba, first was in July which lasted for 1 week due to difficulty in importing parts for the gas company and the second one being two days ago. Apart from that there's been uninterrupted power supply in Aba throughout the year.
It's not Otti propaganda like your Tinubu govt, the problem is not even from Aba power but from the company that supplies the gas to Geometric.

HawkTuahGirl:
Chinese will be opening each other phone because dem too resemble. I know a son that unlock his mother face for fun.

No wonder OPAY go say open your mouth, blink shake your head, because they know whatsup

No. Opay is doing that because some people might try to open an account using pre-recorded images, so they ask you to do all those things to be sure that the person opening the account is present with the phone and not someone else using another person's ID to open an account.

Osiris12:
No they can’t, except na low end phones

Is iPhone a low end mobile phone?

cyberaddict:
This is good news. Hopefully Short cake will make a complete comeback, exactly as it was back then.

I still remember the original Gala by UAC. I don't know what is sold in traffic these days 😭😭

Only God knows what they're selling to people this days, the original gala was actually made with beef sausages, this ones now are .... I don't even know sef

nairalanda1:
Nasco still produces shortcake, and crackers though.

Yeah but no Wafers. I have not seen their wafers in donkey years

oliidell:
I fell in love with shortcake way back in primary school @ Ile-Ife. It was so tasty and crunchy. I think it was 50 kobo.

That was back in the days of:
Nasco Wafers
Choco Milo
Peppermint
Fan Ice
Bubblegum
Malta Sweet
Go-go

That Banana Nasco wafers were my favourite followed by rich tea, digestive biscuits and Cadbury candy. Honourable mentions are speedy biscuits, choco Milo and peppermint

destinytreasure:
The biscuit reminds me of my primary school days.

it reminds all of us of those days 😁. These are the biscuits that made going to school worth it those years. Nasco waffers, speedy biscuits and digestive biscuit were the GOAT of that era.

Sirchiboy:
Do You Have Good Relationship With Your Parents Growing Up As A Child

Yes! I had wonderful relationship with my parents, in our early formative years my Dad was our coolest buddy, taught us a lot of things way beyond the level of a primary school kid, I mean astrophysics, biology, etc. He loved to tell us stories for hours and we were always eager to hear what he has in store for us everyday ( although later as we got older we started dreading asking him questions, any questions at all because Popsy will spend the entire rest of the day answering that question and diving into uncharted territories we never asked for 😂😂) , he was kind but strict, sheltered us from a lot of things in the world and celebrated our little wins, when we became teenagers we started seeing him as grumpy old guy, but as we passed that stage and got older we realised "holy damn! This man saved us from a lot of vices" , great dad he was.

My mother on the other hand was an angel in disguise, she was stricter than my dad and softer than him at the same time. Our best friend when the world comes crashing down, she's always there for you even before you asked, even if you just want to push through it on your own without bothering anybody you will find out that by the time you got to the finishing line she's already gone ahead to clear the pathway for you. Almost like she was a telepath. And we enjoy going to events with her because OMG!! Nuff said! She raised us so well, and was our best friend come rain and shine.

I and my siblings miss both of them dearly.