₦airaland Forum

oldguyman:
The DSS medical team should take care of him inside their facility and let his family cover the cost. I think some people were saying then that the UK government will come for him.

Will you keep quiet! Why doesn't your god Tinubu allow DSS doctors treat him if they're so 'good'!?

atiku4President:
An average Nigerian hates a truthful an patriotic leader who would want to work for change. Most Nigerians will prefer a bad leader from their tribe and reject a good leader from another tribe. Let's stop deceiving ourselves. We are far from development.

I agree with your assertion to some extent, but i'd rather argue that the average Nigerian doesn't really know what he wants!

ibechris:
The way people are running away from Nigeria shows that this country isn't working at all.

That's not the way Tinubu and his deluded mob tell it! According to them, Nigeria is well on its way to attaining uhuru!

LegendHero:
Emilokan is for his party men. He still had to face the national election and he won.

You’ve had many instances where people said it’s Igbo turn for presidency, Ohaneze made that statement but yet no Igbo man has been elected president through the ballot.

No be by mouth, it’s by action.

Dude, you don't get to pick and choose what definition to give fairness based on how it fits into your selfish agenda!

On what basis do you argue that it's fair for Tinubu to shout emilokan to fellow party men who, when last i checked, didn't join the part to become his serfs! Does his party have a constitution that recognises his emilokan posturing in which everyone else should queue in line behind him for 2023 election!? If it doesn't, then it means he's expecting preferential treatment! Now if he had gone out to contest for the party's presidential ticket like everyone else, there wouldn't have been an issue! But when he stands on a podium and shouts emilokan, this means he's now expecting....in fact demanding that he be given preferential treatment by the party over and above all other contestants, yet you feel Ndigbo/south-east were not right to expect same on the issue of zoning the presidency to them! You argue they should go out and contest, yet on the other hand see nothing wrong in Tinubu demanding to be handed the 2023 presidential ticket of his party! How does this sound fair to you!?

On what basis do you and Tinubu demand emilokan based on 'party arrangement' when you're not seeking to be president of APC or Oduduwa Republic!? You were seeking to be president of NIGERIA, which consists of other regions and ethnicities....some who are yet to have their own emilokan turn at producing president of Nigeria! How could you, in all good conscience, demand the presidential ticket of APC be reserved for Tinubu, while as part of a wider Nigeria you refuse to recognise that some ethnicities/regions/zones are yet to get a chance to produce president since 1999!? If this is not the height of hypocrisy, greed and lusting for power then i don't know what is!

LegendHero:
Presidency is an election. The South East should contest and campaign just like every other region and win.

INEC chairmanship is appointment.

Those are two different things.

You conniving lot like to move the goalposts as and when needed to suit your selfish narrative! So why was your godfather shouting emilokan!?

I also wanted to comment on the recent issue of Sojimoto and the Enugu state gov't...specifically the part where he mentioned the Enugu state governor told him of plans to build a skyscraper in the New Enugu City! Let me just say that the Governor has no business talking to any contractor on this if said contractor is not Julius Berger or CCECC! No other Nigerian based building contractor should be trusted to build such a massive project, as we all have heard of highrise buildings collapsing in Lagos and other parts of the country!

Building a skyscraper needs much more technical ability and experience as well as much more funds compared to building highrises which Sojimoto is known for. He just doesn't have the knowledge or capacity to build a 69 story skyscraper!

A 69 story skyscraper can be said to be a vertical city that would need very deep pilling to secure its foundation! It would also need its own supporting infrastructure and support services, like independent spower supply; independent water supply; independent sewage system; etc! It would also need to be supported by a good transport system, a nearby residential area for workers, and a park residents, workers and visitors can use for recreation, fresh air and activity! So there's much more that comes along with a skyscraper than just what you see on the surface.

Recently, we saw Ethiopia launch the massive GERD dam that would supply more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity to the country and its neighbours. It was built at a cost of $5 billion and the funds were sourced by gov't issued bonds as well as remittances from Ethiopians in diaspora. The funding model used for the GERD dam is what i have always advocated for funding critical economy enabling infrastructure in Alaigbo/south-east! Nigeria receives on average about $20 billion yearly in diaspora remittances, and a modest estimation of the Igbo component of these remittances could be put at $5 billion....though i reckon it's much more! The Ethiopians were committed and patient enough to raise $5 billion over a specified period, and i feel this same commitment and patience could be replicated by Ndigbo to raise funds for the New Enugu City project and other infrastructure in the state. I'm referring to Enugu specifically because i've come to realise that it's presently difficult if not impossible to have a pan-Igbo approach to this funding initiative because the region in led by a lot of insular and inward-focused governors who prefer to work in silos and don't have a pan-Igbo worldview or approach to development! This is why i'm narrowing my attention specifically to Enugu, and Abia also, as i feel cautiously optimistic about governance in these two states, and feel their governors have the capacity and the trust of the public to drive this funding initiative! Both states have done sometjing similar, but on a smaller scale, with their security trust funds.

Ordinarily, the SEDC (south east development commission) would have been the best option for driving this funding model on a regional level, but has anyone heard anything from them lately? I was unimpressed at the time SEDC was inaugurated because i know it's just more of the same....just playing to the gallery, and the usual motion-without-movement that has seen Nigeria stagnate economically since the 70s and punch way below its weight!

So anyone close to Mbah or Otti could help us show this post to them so they can help kickstart the process ASAP as time is not on our hands and the rest of the world is fast leaving us behind! This could be a state infrastructure funding initiative, or it could be regional, though as i've already stated i don't have much faith in all the governors of the region and SEDC being serious and committed enough or having the capacity to see this through to a successful conclusion!

Like Ethiopia has done, Enugu state could use gov't issued bonds and diaspora remittances to raise at least $2 billion over the remaining 6 years of Mbahs' governance! This could be used for the New Enugu city project, a state rail network, a power plant, as well as investments in education and health separate from but complimentary to the states budgetary provisions for the sectors.

nedu666:
Not only that most of the people he is replying have few tweets. Then suddenly they start to quote him. One amadi he replied registered newly and few minutes reno was replying him. Lastly after replying them and educating them, those people stop posting. Their accounts suddenly go dormant.

Bros, that's just the half of it! What happens next is that the 'interaction' between the fool and his 'follower' suddenly finds its way to the frontpage of nairaland, and stretches to multiple pages of Igbo trolling in minutes!

lawani:
Which assertion?. Are you saying some parts of the south was added to the North by the military?. If Igbos were divided by the military it only applied to the old Eastern region.The Igbos in Delta and Edo states were never in the East to begin with neither were the ones in the NC

The flaw in your jaundiced analysis is that you're starting the story from the mid-point while ignoring the period BEFORE the British came and cobbled us all together in 'one Nigeria' and unilaterally proceeded to divide us into Regions! After they left, the Nigerian military then took over the baton of oppression to further entrench the divisive divide-and-rule actions of the colonial Brits!

owobokiri:
We have always spread our arms to embrace them. Problem is when they start to distance themselves from the igbos in the south-east because of their desperation to be more One Nigerian than our traducers from the far North and the South West. No igbo man would like to see another igbo man irrespective of locations to be acculturised as a non igbo as is the case with some Ikwerres. At the same time, it's frustrating to be preaching nonstop to your brother to do well and recognise your shared brotherhood. Igbos outside the South East are the ones who need more work to do. Igbos in the South East have always been ready to welcome them back home into the fold with love and joy.

The seeming or apparent self-hating actions of some Igbo outside the south-east is driven primarily by selfishness and the social, economic and political dynamics/realities enthroned by the hegemonic 'victors' of the uncivil war, and it's been going on from the late 60s right up till the present! Especially in the immediate aftermath of the uncivil war, to gain national relevance and political and economic favours from the hegemonic alliance, you had to distance yourself from the Igbo and show loyalty and subserviance to said ruling alliance!

The day Nigeria disintegrates, reverts back to TRUE federalism, or becomes a confederation, that's the day you will realise just how large the Igbo nation really is! The enemies of Ndigbo (we all know who we're referring to here, and they know themselves) know this and this accounts for their fervent and sustained failed actions of trying to sabotage Igbo territorial interests and give the impression that Alaigbo is 'just your 5 south-east states'!

floss:
Even very dark man will defeat Tinubu in a free and fair election if voting was to be conducted online and live as one votes, if there is a good electoral reform

Never mind VDM.....even Mickey Mouse would give him a good ass whopping, and do it convincingly!

helinues:
Anonymous individual that's saying today that Peter Obi is the best curry for Taiwan rice? How are we sure you are not different from the guy

Dude, what are you rambling on about!?

The fact the person you quoted now believes Peter Obi is the best option amongst the available presidential contestants shows his opinions were subjective and based on the informantion he had or didn't have at the time! Even i once criticised Peter Obis' governance in Anambra, and i'm man enough to now admit my assessment at the time was wrongly based on a flawed understanding of governance which didn't fully appreciate or take into account the socio-economic conditions Peter Obi met on ground in the state! Then i was naive enough to believe governance was all about building flyovers and sexy unsustainable white elephant projects, while relegating to the back-burner the fundamental building blocks of societal and economic development!

00FFT00:
How about you swearing with your children's lives that he lost the election?.

Don't mind those shameless mandate thieves and urban bandits! They're driven primarily by greed, bigotry and hate!

Ttalk:
Can you swear with your life that Peter Obi truly won that election?

Yes i can! I BELIEVE Peter Obi got the highest number of validly cast votes in the 2023 presidential election!

Now can YOU swear on the lives of your immediate family that you BELIEVE Tinubu got the highest number of validly cast votes in the 2023 presidential election?

helinues:
The guy below is saying what you listed above even though he said the below in 2013 about same person

Just shows how, in your desperation to try and discredit Peter Obi, you now resort to grasping at straws by posting the criticisms of an anonymous individual whose subjective claims could have been driven either by ignorance or partisan considerations! Get a life!

jydeskill1:
The writer must be an Atiku Supporter. He is the least educated amongs them but painted the profile to look better than others. Tinubu is first class graduate, he has private sector experience spanning Deloitte’s and Mobil before delving into Politics. One time Senator, Governor and has built a lot of followership in Politics. He is more an intentional leader than others. He has the best profile.

Just as with almost every other claim of his, that his 'first class akantant' claim is equally suspect! Which first class accountant would go on record to declare 'na statistics we go chop!?'

Peter Obis' achievements both in and out of governance that can fill two A4 sheets is what they reduced to just one or two sentences just so they can make it look like he's on the same level with Tinubu!

Of course i know Peter Obi won that presidential election but was remorselessly and ruthlessly rigged into 3rd position! Ever wondered why Tinubu e-thugs have Peter Obi on their bigoted insecure minds 24/7?

004gist:
Alart :

All the above comment are from one ip address:

Peter Obi terrifies them muthafckers! Someone they claim 'came 3rd', yet they sit waiting all day for anything Peter Obi to appear on nairaland, and they pounce once a Peter Obi related thread appears!

Depriest2020:
I think I prefer the "Before" pics of Assumpta Cathedral roundabout, that "After" flyover is not attractive.

My sentiments too! You don't go and build such a monstrousity right in front of a city landmark like the Assumpta Cathedral! It's akin to going to build a flyover right in front of St Peters Basillica in Rome or St Pauls in London! You wouldn't even get past the approvals process because you'd be thrown out the moment you present your plans for approval! But here in Nigeria, especially in our south-east, we don't value or appreciate the need for preservation of historical landmarks and views!

jmoore:
Step down for someone that is not interested?
Now it is obvious that Tinubu's crew are behind the Jonathan propaganda.

speculations?
sources?
Add 'delusion' to it too.

It is like saying that Nigerian coach should remove Ademola Lukman and put Kanu Nwankwo in our match against southafrica this week.

You're spot on! Imagine....step down for a lilly-livered fella who is cosy with Tinubu, whose wife has gone record to say they're not interested in going back to Aso-Rock, and would cave in to Tinubus' rigging machinery without even as much as a whimper! It's a obvious set up!

zero8zero:
Ipob claimed the British Govt borrowed Ojukwu's Rolls Royce to chauffeur the Queen around the country, you on the other hand, was saying the Queen only rode in his car in the east, Lol. Meanwhile, his own son said he wasn't aware of the Queen ride in his father's car. These only showed your pattern of lies

You keep parroting on the same tired lines because you're the personification of lies, revisionism and bigotry! I asked you to corroborate your assertion that 'IPOB claimed the colonial gov't borrowed Sir Louis' Rolls for ferrying the Queen around Nigeria'.....when and where was the assertion made!? The statement you attribute to Ikemba ISN'T a definitive statement but a speculative one! In any case, can you provide a link to either a excerpt from a script where he made said statement or a clip of him saying it? I made the assertion i made based on facts available to the public. Since you claim otherwise, you then tell us who owned the Rolls the Queen used for her visit to the Eastern Region!

nedekid:
Hangon, the queen rode on the emir rolls Royce when she visited northern nigeria. That was a 2 door rolls.
It is on record she visited eastern Nigerian during the same period and while she was in enugu she also rode in a rolls Royce, this time a 4 door sedan. Did the emir remove two doors from his rolls Royce and then drove it down to kano for the queens use?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJETKe4xYes?si=bxLV77j72xtple8v

Thanks! This is the one i was looking for. @2.22 it shows the Rolls she used for her trip to the Eastern Region which is different from the two used in the Northern and Western Regions as claimed by earlier posts on this thread.

zero8zero:
Don't change mouth o🤣🤣 Ipob have been lying that the British Govt borrowed Ojukwu's Rolls Royce to chauffeur the Queen around the country. Now, you're saying it was only in the eastern region 🤣. For your information, even his own son, Odumegwu Ojukwu was not sure the Queen rode in his father's car, he was never aware of it at anytime.

Refer us to where 'IPOB claimed the British gov't borrowed Ojukwus' Rolls and ferried him around the country with it'! Refute the assertion i made in my original post instead of blabbling incoherently! Oh....so you now agree Sir Louis had a car worthy of ferrying Her Majesty about during her visit, but you're hinging your argument on saying his son wasn't aware if it was used for the visit on not!?

Noblechykk:
I think you should make a detailed separate post on this.

Na.....forget these bigots! For them, this is a full time job! I have better things to do with my time! Was actually looking for the clip that had a narration of her visit to the Eastern Region. The person she Knighted in the clip was Sir Dr Akanu Ibiam!

Now listen! Ikembas' dad DID provide his Rolls for the Royal visit to Nigeria in 1956! The Queen obviously used different ones for her visits to the Northern and Western Regions, but for her visit to the Eastern Region, she used Sir Louis' Rolls Royce. So the assertion that bigots and Igbo haters are trying to disprove, simply out of hate, is true!

In the attached clip that focused on here trip to the Eastern Region, you can see The Queen shaking hands with Sir Louis @1.21 He's the one looking a bit like MKO Abiola. And at @1.42 you can see her arriving the Eastern Assembly in Sir Louis' Rolls. Notice the Rolls is different from the other two shown on this thread which she used in the Northern and Western Regions....those were either fully convertible (Northern) or partly convertible (Western). A better view of the car is shown from @4.25


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAP9noiyD8?si=Iyf3GBm6l0RUacsH

The spambot thing is deployed on this forum primarily to protect Tinubu/APC/Yoruba interests! There are certain posts that are seen as 'just too truthful and damaging' but which haven't offended any of the forums rules, and it's those posts that they hide behind the 'spambot' to get rid of!

nwakibie3:
Nigeria even get application pass Afghanistan and Somalia wey dey for war

Bros, can you imagine! When we say ten insufferable years of APC has left Nigeria worse off then even war-torn countries, the evidence is out there to back up our assertion!

After voting in nonsense and aiding and abetting misgovernance, they think they can run away to Ireland to escape the consequences of their selfishness, tribalism and idiocy! The Ireland Home Office official responsible should just gather all those Nigerian applications to one side as them plenty reach, get the REJECTED stamp ready, and proceed to stamp REJECTED, gbam....gbam...gbam, on every single one of them! Let those applicants come back to Nigeria to enjoy the 'renewed hope' that the rest of Nigerians are presently 'enjoying'!

Hisroyalbadmeat:
I saw the Biafra map, it's funny, they should review the struggle and try minding their bussines, just as they love freedom,na so others love freedom too,Wata Bam Bam

Unlike 'one Nigeria', Ndigbo/Biafra do not have the interest or even the capacity to force any other ethnicity to join on the day we leave this killing field and lunatic asylum called Nigeria! If you're Ijaw, Ogoni or whatever, when we leave you're more than welcome to stay behind to continue your lovefest with the Yoruba and Fulani and continue whatever it is you've been doing since 1960 that has led to the 'peace, prosperity, harmony and progress' we're seeing in Nigeria today!

Brendaniel:
I would rather have a tiny successful, peaceful and progressive country than having a big country that doesn't have any of that?

Ignore that fella! Ask him now and he'll claim to be Igbo too!