₦airaland Forum

Man knows himself this is from a popular Greek Philosopher. To my Igbo brothers why do you play into the hands of your enemies then turn around to say they hate us.

Before some of you will come for me I am not from Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani or neither am I from Igbo as a matter of fact my wife is Igbo and I was having this same discussion with her when the South Africa Igbo Kingship started.

If actually Igbos know themselves what on earth will Igbo man be thinking to consider becoming a King, Eze, president general or whatever you call it in Ghana, South Africa or even any African countries considering the hatred these countries have for Nigerians and amplified by the Yorubas and the funniest part is when these countries speak evil about Nigerians the Yorubas will try to distance themselves and pour more fuel by saying they are Igbos that is how they behave without knowing that what goes around comes around as long as you’re a Nigerian they hate you, a case in point is recently in Ghana the Ghanaians are telling the Yorubas descendants in Ghana that they are not Ghanaians after hundreds of years that they should go to Nigeria.

And to my Igbo brothers please we must not grandstand in everything anywhere you find yourself just live your life quietly make your money genuinely. If you know yourself you’ll understand envy exists the reason you live your life quietly.

Again, I will not be surprised if lessons are not learnt from my Igbo brothers with the Ghana and South Africa King/Eze incident because before the end of this year we might hear another Igbo man trying to be King or Eze in another African country.

Lastly, enough is enough let us stop this madness of becoming King or Eze outside Igbo land since people do not like it and it doesn’t add anything to any Igbo man or woman in that country. For me I don’t care if you answer the King of Igbo or Eze in my State Rivers or even in my village, but if others say no then stop and move ahead after all the primary purpose of you been in that country or state is for greener pasture to make money. However, if you disobey the already constituted authority or do not pay homage to the King of my land we go against you.

This is the problem I have with those that do not have the means to relocate, and instead of them to stay calm they’ll start saying things to comfort themselves or those that have the means but still undecided to relocate. This same person tell him I will sponsor your relocation abroad his rhetorics will change.

In abroad there’s dignity in labour no matter the job you do you’re respected because you can pay your bills and also contribute to the society by way of your personal income tax, the CEO of you company respects you, attend same company town hall meeting of your company, seats in the same hall, chat eat and if you see him in an elevator or walk-way you still address him by his name Michael or whatever and tell him how you feel about the company be it positive or negative without fear.

The present day Nigeria with people like Tinubu, Wike and APC any Western country is better no matter the kind of menial job you do. My brother works with government before he relocated to UK and when he was in Nigeria he was just managing with the government job, but today he’s doing extremely well buying properties and taken up more responsibilities something that would have been almost impossible if he was still in Nigeria with his family.

Yes, the early months or years of relocating abroad could be challenging but it’s temporary provided you know what to do like in the case of Canada getting the Canadian job experience by just getting any job to start paying your bills then start improving yourself, you’ll see how things will gradually change.

And beside people like me that relocated to Canada I did it for my family I mean my kids giving them the best of education, exposure, health and better opportunities. Yes at the beginning I didn’t get the kind of job I wanted but I started somewhere got the Canada job experience first then started moving from one company to company before I finally landed the job I am proud of today, after landing the job i did not stop there I started writing more certification exams in the industry to prepare myself in case a greater opportunity comes.

Lastly, no body should deceive anyone if you have the means to relocate abroad do but be strategic, calculative set your goals and target long term and short term. Around 2013 I was working with a multi national in Nigeria and my brother approached me to sponsor him to Australia for his masters education as a way of relocation I discouraged him then that let him do his masters in Nigeria that he’ll get a better paying job in Nigeria like me that Nigeria has all the potentials, I did sponsored his masters in Nigeria by 2015 I regretted not sending him to Australia when he brought that idea and proposal.

Wow! A country on it’s knees citizens facing a hardship never seen before but the federal, state and local governments spending billions on things that we’ll never improve the living standard of the people.

Inflation, insecurity, unemployment, no electricity, no healthcare, take home pay as a civil servant can’t take you home, president spends more days abroad than in Nigeria, couple with nepotism of Tinubu.

Nigeria is doomed.

Oshiomole, very useless man the same way he praised Buhari during his tenure for handling economy and security very well that the rot was created by PDP.

The moment Tinubu won he started criticizing Buhari for the economic and insecurity problems.

If Tinubu fails to win in 2027 he’ll turn attention to Tinubu and start spewing rubbish.

APC under Tinubu has Afghanistaned Nigeria.

Let it be fellow Africans you’ll see black South Africans protesting and shouting Amhambe go back to your country Kwerekwere. As long as they’re white or brown colour people they’re okay.

I have never seen a useless set of Africans like the South Africans.

And the people that claim they speak good English are not here. The South Africans and Ghanaians.