What's Yoruba fixation with Lagos?

accordadoga23:


Hehehe

Ok Chibuzor..

But no Igbo man will ever rule Nigeria

We don hear Assistant Allah. Please tell your brother to pull the economy out of the wreck he plunged it to.

PressMyButton:
A state like Abia that has got more money but the governor budgeting 1 billion for food and another billions on cars yet Abians are crying to Abuja while Otti is left stealing them blind.

Our Yoruba brothers are trying to divert attention from the incompetence of their brother, Tulubu, with a concorted story from Sahara Reporter.

Abia actually budgeted #150m for 2 Hilux cars, not the #1.5 billion you guys are masturbating on.

😂😂😂😂

If Tinubu, Edun, and Cardoso, the best our Yoruba brothers can offer, can wreck our economy like this, I wonder what others will do if given the opportunity to run this country again.

Tinubu will likely be the last Yoruba man to rule this country in a long time.

We don't trust them to handle our economy right

ObiPandora:
Few years from now our people will claim Alex Otti was a bank manager n can not steal just listen to the senseless excuse the criminal his giving now imagine if it was Sanwolu that gave such foolish excuse.

This is aside the fact that this failure as not commissioned a single project yet the criminal want to buy himself cars worth billions after budgeting several million to feed. All sort of criminal adventure just keep coming from the foolish governor.

You won't understand because all your life, you have not used Excel or even understand how Excel formula work

atobs4real:
South African with aboki/ fulani mentality.
One way gang.
Do any how we flush your investment out of the......

We will not flush it. We will nationalize them and still sue them at the Hague

I really pity our Yoruba brothers if this hardship persists till the Ramadan.

I really pity them, walai.

They should do something about this hardship. It's not going to be funny.

Hunger doesn't understand political alliance, especially during the fasting.

They should get to work.

Evilthoughts:


Foolish Ipob , there won't be any breaking up of Nigeria that's going to happen here. Bury that dream the same way we buried and tamed your useless fathers and uncles back then. Africa is uniting and there won't be any landlocked hungry countries left behind. Your little Ipob agitation will be silenced permanently and you will do nothing. Tinubu is not Buhari you can do as you please with.

Foolish yoruba man, nobody is interested in your misguided one-state Africa nonsense. You bury and tamed who? Na Britain give you mouth to talk this nonsense. When a Yoruba man started beating war drums, we will laugh and just go back to sleep.

We saw yiruba cowardice in full glare during their show of shame against Niger.

DeLaRue:


You think so, but that's not the reality.

There is a pain point at which demand for many imported goods will fall fast. People will simply start buying less and less of them. Whether that pain point is at N1500, N1800, or N2000 to a dollar, I don't know.

But the CBN will have the data. They know. If N1500 doesn't stiffle imports to the level they want, I suspect the CBN will not mind seeing naira close to N2,000 to a dollar.

In some ways, it is to the credit of Mr Tinubu's administration that it is willing to follow this extremely tough path to redirect the economy from import-dependence to greater local production. For a politician facing election in just over 3 years to follow a path that may not show positive results for a few years, is truly brave.

The Nigerian economy was heading for the rocks after over 40 years of mismanagement. Tough decisions are needed to correct long term over dependence on imports.

That naira/dollar pain point is the point at which local production of certain goods starts becoming more viable than importing the same goods. This should translate to us producing more of what we need locally. This will lead to more job creation, less pressure on the naira, and a stronger, more balanced economy in the long term.

But this approach comes with a lot of economic pain initially, as the country is witnessing now.

That's the theory o.

Whether things happen in practice like I stated above is a different matter, because Nigeria's situation often defy economic theory.

Using import duties to stimulate demand for local products is useless if have not achieved sufficiency in that local production of that commodity.

Nigeria is in mess today because ban foreign rice when we can't produce enough locally to feed us.

Things are already expensive but Tinubu is working extra hard to make it more expensive for Nigerians.

I don't really know why he is doing that.

Evilthoughts:


I'm not surprised by your shortsighted view. Your own fathers were like you when they joined the coward Ojukwu to declare a war on their betters.

Na this mentality you want use form your one-state Africa? Deal with the hatred in your heart first before trying to lump over 50 independent countries together? Coward Ojukwu was dealing with your ancestors until they ran to Britain, their papa for help. Una for fight like a man nah, F O O L S.

This conversation was going smoothly until you decided to tag the east as IPOB terrorists, because I didn't buy your misguided proposal.

Evilthoughts:


The borderless Africa will even help you with your petty trading and importation but you're too foolish to see it. You will have no restrictions where to live and do business but your illiteracy won't help you see it . I don't blame you. I blame your parenting.

Foooolish yoruba man, we no do. Use your literacy to fix the nigerian economy your brothers wrecked.

Evilthoughts:

Do you even know those countries have a lot of resources that will be useful to help Africans be
better?.

We still no do.

Evilthoughts:


Take the Niger Delta and Yoruba-land out of your stupid agitations. We are not interested in dividing Nigeria and Africa. I'm sure even the tribes in the middle belt will swear at you for wanting to include them in your Biafra stupidity.

F O O L I S H yoruba man, where did I included them in Biafra or you want to be unfortunate?

Biafra

Oduduwa Republic

ND Republic

Arewa Republic

Are current seccessionist movements in Nigeria. Unite these people first before talking about unifying African countries

BoldBrainz:


Northerners should put pressure on their governors and representatives in the national parliament, so they in turn can coerce that Aso rock relic to open the Niger borders to allow for free flow of economic activities. Clearly, the Ecowas as a West African body has lost relevance. You cannot punish citizens because of the pride of one stupid association that has never added any relevance to the member states.

That will definitely happen.

We can't continue to lose money due to one man's misguided geopolitics

Evilthoughts:


No one asked you Ipob terrorists filled with hate for your own compatriots. Are all Fulanis terrorists?. Are you all drug dealers . Useless talk

Good.

Form your United Africa State with your brothers in Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. I am sure no sensible country will want to join that made-in-hell alliance.

Yorubas, Igbos, ND, Middle Belt, and some people in the North want to exit Nigeria and will grab the opportunity with both hands if given the chance.

And you think lumping over 50 independent countries together will solve African problems.

Be wise nah.

Sensible people should be advocating for free trade and not the nonsense you are proposing here. Even, free movement (visa) is even a disaster.

We IPOB "terrorists" roundly reject this misguided proposal. We are still battling Fulani terrorism due to ECOWAS lack of foresight and "Yoruba wickedness" due to One Nigeria.

Thank you.

BoldBrainz:


Did Benin Republic send Tinubu to impose sanctions on Niger Republic? Tinubu saw the need to flex muscles and interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation and Benin's support was only a matter of "communal necessity" being a member of Ecowas. Nothing prevents Benin from deciding to do business with Niger republic.

Who cares for nobility when all nations are fighting to stay afloat in the face of global economic struggles?! Even the US, the so-called ultimate seat of democracy is currently still doing business with Niger republic, have you gone to accuse them of treachery?

Tinubu is foolish and this is what you get when you have a leader who talks or acts before reasoning.

Now how do we remedy this situation?

Many of us in Kano relies on Niger buyers to hit good numbers. I have goods that transit to Niger from Aba through Kano, monthly.

Tinubu's stooopid moves are hurting us and will cut us off this market if don't solve this problem soon.

And we are not cut out for smuggling?

Trying to move the goods through Chad into Niger is dangerous and expensive. And when you look at it deeper, its also smuggling.

We don't want this.

Alternatively, we can move them to Niger through Benin. But its even more expensive.

Cotonou to Niamey is over 1030 KM and when you add Aba to Lagos and Lagos to Cotonou, that will double the transit time.

I don't want to even talk about logistical costs.

God will help us.

We from the South East don't support this.

We are still dealing with Fulani terrorism in the name of ECOWAS free movement.

A serious President will pull Nigeria out of that "social club" or re-negotiate their involvement.

BoldBrainz:


You're not a serious fellow.

They are traitors for doing what's in the best interest of their own country? Benin should focus on playing silly petty politics and losing 5billion dollars worth of trade that is a massive plus for their economy?

It is this same mentality you're carrying that is reflecting on the way our useless leaders are mismanaging this country. Since your country's president has decided to be foolish in his approach towards our neighbouring countries, don't expect other countries to reason likewise.

Treachery my black flat butt!

What they did is not noble.

Supporting Nigeria all the way to impose sanction on Niger. And then opening their borders to Niger, knowing that the move will hurt Nigeria is not what friends do to each other.

I won't have cared if they had stayed neutral.

If Benin had not opened their borders to Niger, there's no way Niger would have exited ECOWAS, because they need those ECOWAS ports to run their economy.

If Tinubu gets sense, he should be in Nigeria by now, pulling all diplomatic strings to force Benin to abide by the ECOWAS resolution they were part of.

flokii:


Don't mind the guy.. they want to continue enriching another country with Nigeria's commonwealth while Nigerians especially those in the oil-rich Niger Delta region continue to suffer untold hardship, oil spillage, pollution, environmental degradation. etc.

Nigeria's wealth will and must be used to develop all regions in Nigeria including SW, SE, SS, Middle Belt, NW etc. first before any foreign country will benefit.

A man from the Niger Delta, Jonathan supported this rail because he understands economics more than your people.

The funny thing is how, Yorubas who supported this Kano - Maradi rail project during PMB and defended it with their lives are now shouting against it, faking emergency patriotism.

Slittery, shady and unreliable.

😂😂😂

flokii:


I had to check your moniker to see where your loyalty lies..

This is not about politics. If it was, I would have started by insulting the hell out of Tinubu.

flokii:


Niger republic is a landlocked country..

The more reason we need them. Sadly, our Yoruba brothers rarely see beyond their nose.

Not an offence.

flokii:


Niger republic has nothing as far as sensible Nigerians are concerned.. we don't need a first class railway to Niamey for terrorists to be coming into Nigeria in fully airconditioned trains..

Niger is strategic to controlling trans-sahara trade. You won't understand this since your people suck in international trade and economics.

flokii:


Niger republic is not of economic importance to Nigeria.. they rely on our ports and electricity, we don't rely on anything from Niger republic..

If they are of no economic importance to you, why then do we supply electricity to them when we still struggling to hit self sufficiency?

Yoruba man think.

flokii:


You are crying now that Benin republic sabotaged Nigeria.. why didn't you call Buhari to order when he shut Benin republic and the other West African countries out of Nigeria?.
You expect them not to find alternatives or forge alliance with other countries?

And who told you we didn't cry?

flokii:


The same way it's paining you people that Nigeria shut border with Niger republic is the same way people in the Southern parts weren't happy when Buhari shut out Benin republic.

It seems our Yoruba brothers are competing with Buhari on incompetence.

Well done

dawno2008:

Your stoopidity smells to the high havens,just having a chat with one person,you decided to generalize and insult a whole tribe,using "walai" can't even help save you from your faking it

Yoruba will always be ahead, either you like it or not,hate the game,not the player,dumbskul
Trying so hard to sound intelligent,you criticize the damn government,as if your candidate would've done anything different, 💩shit brain

Yorubas will always be ahead, yet they are crashing the economy like people who never entered an Economics class for a day?

Well done with your "always being ahead"

Enice:
Oga! Stop spewing trash like a kid on the net. Nigeria will never allow Niger to build a dam across the River Niger. There's a treaty to that effect. We will colonize Niger overnight.

A treaty you broke by cutting off their electricity

flokii:
@OP If truly you want to be objective, you'd praise President Tinubu for preventing breakout of war with Niger when ECOWAS issued joint security statement. Mali and Burkina Faso would have joined with Niger to face Nigeria, then we'll have to battle economic challenges, internal security challenges and regional armed conflict with neighboring countries.. It would have been a disaster.

Tinubu didn't stop any war with Niger. ECOWAS force was already on standby. If the North, their senators nd governors had not rejected it, Tinubu would have invaded Niger to flex his muscle.

flokii:


You should also factor-in the fact that Benin Republic is a small country able to tackle their internal issues unlike Nigeria where we play politics of religion and ethnicity.
Nigeria will bounce back and I see Niger coming to mend fences with the giant of Africa in the near future. I wonder why most people can't see the strength Nigeria wields in Africa and globally.
If only we could weed off the bad elements within us and elect the right leaders, I'm telling you Nigeria will be a world power and a force to reckon with on the planet.

Geopolitics is all about interest. What leverage does Nigeria have to bring Niger to the table? Nothing, except mass deportation of Nigeriens from Nigeria and they have several deterrence:

- Complete damming of the Niger river

- Closing their airspace against Nigeria in and out bound flights

- Sabotaging of the Nigeria - Morroco gas pipeline

- Flooding of our northern borders with terrorists.

- Military cooperation with the Alliance of Sahel States

Tinubu destroyed our biggest leverage by shutting our borders against them.

christistruth01:


We were trying to explain to him that Nigeria’s trade with Niger is insignificant compared to the trade with the rest of West Africa

You're still not getting it.

Niger is a landlocked country, non- of these WA countries are. This Niger does about $5 billion in foreign trade on average annually. If we are able to get these goods to pass through our ports and we imposed just 5% as duties, that is about $250m, which equates to around #300 billion.

Now by closing our borders to them and Benin opening theirs to them, we have effectively lost these revenues.

Also, remember that Nigeria is building a $2 billion self-funded rail to Niger to connect them to our sea. This shows how important Niger is to us. Another thing I want you to understand is that Niger is a strategic to the trans-sahara trade, and connecting with Niger is key to controlling trade in the sahara region.

christistruth01:



The Road Traffic is Massive and it avoids Traders the stress of Clearing goods in the Port

Did you graduate from a SW university?

No offence.

Enice:
keep spewing rubbish! Na mouth to build dam? If Nigeria and Niger goes to war, who do you think will win?
France is no longer with them. All international community with be with Nigeria except Russia. So who will win

Yoruba man avoid me please.

Who is talking about war? walai, some of una reasoning is scary. But the truth is, if Niger wakes up tomorrow to start building dam across the Niger like Ethiopia is doing on the Nile, you won't do anything. BTW, Nigeria broke the over 50-year agreement governing the use of Niger for generating electricity.

pharmagba:


Obidents myopic economics churning and brandishing false figures shamelessly

Tell whoever cares to listen that Niger republic and northern Nigeria are one and same.
Iinfact despite all the railway to Nigeri will soon be completed

List one figure that's false.

Again, there's no where I mentioned about rail in the post you quoted.

christistruth01:


I explained to you that land Trade between Nigeria and Ghana Ivory Coast Liberia Gambia Senegal Guinea Gambia Togo passed through Cotonou that was why a Railway was necessary between there and Lagos it will even help reduce the Traffic of Cargo Carrying Trailers and Lorries at Seme

The duties the FG collects there alone far outstrips whatever is happening between Nigeria and Niger

Most of these goods move through the sea. Rail is not necessary since we are already connected by sea and to an extent, dominating trade there.

I have attached a map of the trans-saharan trade route in the 1400. Niger is highlighted in yellow. You can see how strategic the country is to controlling trade in that area. With the Kano - Maradi rail, we aim to connect Niger to our domestic market, including the sea to have direct access to this market.

If we can make Niger a hub, then Nigeria will control sub-saharan trade.

ivolt:

No, he is not right.
It is just like claiming that a person who has visited just Cameroon is a globe trotter.

I remember when his goons also claimed Niger republic is hitting back at Nigeria
by damning river Niger. They failed to state that the damn began more than 5 years before the coup.
Lying by omission is also lying.

Poor use of analogy.

You can do better, egbon

muyico:
I didn't even understand ur epistle

It's not for everybody.

Tayomi37:
Hmm with what I'm reading here, I don't even know what to say but one thing I will say is this: if all this is true, then Nigeria leaders are not serving the interest of Nigerians but interest of the West and this would be a serious problem in the future. The Lord heal the land.

There is no single lie there.

Benin is opening their borders to Niger.

Niger on it's own does $5 billion annual trade according to 2022 data. For context, this is bigger than the entire annual GDP of some economic power states, like Ogun State, Abia, and Kano. Opening their border and ramping up trade relationships with Niger, means that Benin has effectively isolated us from this market.

Besides this, Nigeria exports goods worth over $190 million to Nigeria.

The sanctions and border closure means we won't be able to do that again, and this puts us at the risks of losing nearly #300 billion anually (using current exchange rate).

Agboriotejoye:

But when Bubu shut all our borders against Benin in 2020 against same Ecowas protocol we were not traitors abi
Una never ready

Are you from Benin Republic?

christistruth01:



Niger International Trade is not Trade between Nigeria and about 7 West African countries

Our Trade Traffic passing through Cotonou is more Valuable it is actual Trade with Nigeria it isn’t just passing through

Very soon, we will start questioning what they do in those SW universities. Walai, engaging you people is a mental stress.

Did, I ever mentioned that Niger's international trade is trade between Nigeria and about 7 WA countries?

I posted a data that shows that Nigeria - Niger trade volume is bigger than Nigeria - Benin trade and you're still arguing. What's the importance of trade traffic if doesn't reflect in the accounting?

Please, don't stress my life further, Google is already doing that since morning.