₦airaland Forum

PMBuhariGCFR:
You are not even up to my son. Do you even have a powerbike?. Poor and lazy youth.

Buhari... You mean your son Yusuf?

PMBuhariGCFR:
You are not even up to my son. Do you even have a powerbike?. Poor and lazy youth.

Buhari... You mean your son Yusuf?

Movic1:
I didn't understand. Is okoro not an Igbo name? Why are you guys crying like a child. You guys love attacking and abusing other tribes but you don't want to be attacked. That's how they were crying yesterday because someone called them Nyamiri

Close that hole before your face. He gaffed, Imagine an Igbo leader calling Yorubas Brown roof whatever!.

MrAJQ:
You can say that again. Buhari will not steal

Is it the one that aided and abetted looting during Abacha?

NOC1:
I go die should go and die.
I am not in any way in support of the stupid act from INEC, if He will die ever listen or read he will see that the president condemned the act. That of 2015 was done by the then president based on security challenges.
The president and the Senate have made available to INEC all pins they requested to the build up of this election, i can't see the reason why logistic arrangements will be an issue.

The national identity of BMCs is brain leak.

mammass001:
I have noticed in all Atiku campaign, he never mentioned to end corruption in Nigeria. Can anyone tell us why he decided not to mention corruption?

Buhari promised ending corruption in Nigeria when Nigeria was ranked 135th out of 167 Nations of the world, today... We're 148 the worst in Nigeria history.


Is Buhari scam?

diadem10:
Obasanjo led for 8 years and oil price stealthily kept rising within that period. Even the first four years of Obasanjo that you posted showed that oil price rose. That was good enough when you consider that money had value then and in his second tenure, oil price rose every higher.


Stupid heads can't fathom this. You can't be a supporter of Atiku and be sane

Illiteracy kills. Can't you take average of crude oil price during Obasanjo's first tenure as standard, it's $22.

2019* $60.52
2018- $71.19
2017 $54.15
2016 $43.74

Average earnings per year during Buhari's tenure is $57, why is Buhari crying of lack of money then?

Secondly, I'm not your Economics teacher, at least pay me for schooling you. It took PDP 16 years managing Naira in 1999 at $1 to 20 Naira to 145 Naira per Dollar in 2015.
But Buhari couldn't manage it, but landed it to 500 Naira per Dollar, it was during Buhari's medicals in London, that Osibanjo brought it to 350 Naira per Dollar.

diadem10:
Eediot, Obasanjo led for 8 years. Besides money had value then. A plate of rice was 1 naira as at 1999. I don't even know why I'm bothering with stupid heads.

I thought you said there was Oil boom during Obasanjo's time? I'm using just one tenure to measure Buhari's one tenure. We were over 130 million people with $2 billion reserve and fuel was selling for N20.


Why did Buhari's government ran into recession during 1983?

AnyoneButAtiku:
While the appraisal provided by the Prof is one that can easily be applied to any of the larger ethnic groups and is, invariably, difficult to fault; what do you offer in return beyond the most puerile of responses kernel001?

How does the personal accomplishment of each individual you mentioned up there, which was attained in a completely different milieu, invalidate the Prof's incisive analysis?

I'm not in the business of trading words, throwing tantrums, it's for ignorant.

I doubt if you're an Igbo man.
First, let me start by making this point clear, that education qualifications doesn't transcend to societal knowledge. I'm an Igbo man, with background knowledge of my clan. When I challenge certain facts, I do it in authority.

Please for the points I disclaimed, can you kindly fault any of them.

"How does the personal accomplishment of each individual you mentioned up there"... In your words.

If the Professor claims that we aren't doing well today, tell the professor that we have men and women in Igboland who are starring globally, representing our clan.
Please, remember to tell him that IGBO states since the last 16 years, have come first in all the parallel examinations( WAEC, NECO and JAMB) in Nigeria.

diadem10:
Lol. First there was oil boom in Obasanjo regime and Obasanjo was wise enough to save. Tell me why Jonathan sank our foreign reserve despite oil boom or shut up

Please go back to books. There was no Oil boom during Obasanjo.
1999- $17
2000- $27
2001- $23
2002- $24


The average of his first tenure was $22. Nigeria was highly in debt $18 billion. Please which excuse do you still have to promote illiterate President?

BuhariAdvocate:
I blame PDP for anything that is happening to Nigerians.

Remember to blame PDP for Buhari 1983 Recession, bunch of clowns.

diadem10:
Will you keep quiet? Tell us why our foreign reserve sank from $48b to $26b under Jonathan or just shut up.

You're not just a stark illiterate, but star illiterate. Atiku and Obasanjo had $2 billion and made it $40 billion. Same Atiku is here.

Galaxyowerri:
Although, granted that the author of write up made some valid points that should be considered by we Igbos, but he is wrong in many others. Igbos have never lacked great personalities in diverse fields like technology, entrepreneurship, sports, entertainment, administration etc and trying to list them all today will be difficult because they are quite many. Igbos may have invested a lot in places like Lagos, Abuja, North etc where they feel will guarantee them maximum returns but they have equally invested heavily at home and has continued to do so. Aside Aba, most other SE cities has made great strides in the last decade. Cities like Owerri, Enugu, Onitsha, Awka, Abakailiki, Umuahia etc have grown astronomically. Owerri for instance is arguably the fastest growing city in Nigeria today. There are lots of real estates, hotels and entertainment centres that keep springing up on a daily basis. I was driving through the streets of New Owerri yesterday and I was marveled at the gigantic edifices I saw with an appealing environment that could be compared with what obtains in Abuja. Owerri is an underated city and would shock many in a few years time. Now, most of these investments are being done by Igbos. Aba is the only city in Igboland that has not only experienced stunted growth but has retrogressed badly and this is a problem of leadership, starting from Orji Uzor Kalu, to Theodore Orji and now Okezie Ikpeazu are all mediocre and failure personified and it's such an irony that a city that has the most hardworking and enterprising Igbos domiciled in it will be suffering from such perennial maladministration. However, I'm still disappointed that our people have not leveraged on our near absolute control of trade and commerce in Nigeria, and in recent times the rest of West Africa to make our region the hub for such goods. Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi should be the hub for Computers/electronics/consumer goods, textiles/leather goods, and motor parts respectively. Computer village Ikeja ought to be relocated to Onitsha and Igbos already have the capacity to ensure that. We should be using only international airlines that fly into AIIA Enugu, and for a people that have bulk of the travelers in Nigeria, we have the capacity to ensure that. However, I agree with the author that we don't have to wait until we get Biafra before proving our mettle regardless of the bottlenecks and obstacles the Nigerian state throws our way. An economically and technologically advanced Igboland will even be better positioned to challenge Nigeria against the anomalies that currently exist.

Thanks for your balance view. You're truly knowledgeable about the Igbos.

But then, the federal government knows that the Igbos are the commerce hub of Nigeria, and try to keep them in check. Example, If Igbos are the highest importers of goods in Nigeria, why not make Ph Seaport functioning?, Surprisingly, Malawi one of the poorest countries of the world, owns four seaports, while import and export in Nigeria of over 200 million people manages just one.

These are deliberate attempts to make sure Igbos are put in check.

ozowarac:
A very nice write up.

We're products of the information we contain. Sir, may I crave your indulgence to school you on the Igbos, properly change the stereotypical narrative that had bewildered few of us.

First, you make mention of Igbos lacking in innovation and other metrics of a great clans. May I start by mentioning many of Igbos in the new order that has changed the face of the world.

1. Eboe Osuji = ICC President
2. Arunma Oteh OON= is the Treasurer and a Vice President of the World Bank.
3. Phillip Emegwalim- Father of Internet
4. Chimammada Adiche
5.Ngozi Okonjo
6. Oby Okwesili
7. Chukwuma Soludo.

In sports, do you have doubts, because the greatest footballers in Nigeria today are Igbos.
In Entertainment industry we're doing too well.
Commerce, even our enemies will give it to us.

Sir... You talked about hate, wow! Sir! Are you aware that Igbos has a helping methodology called Igba Booyi? It's a system where a person is asked to serve somebody without any form of legal documentation for years, and at the end of 4=5 years he/she is settled?
Igbos have shown more love among them, when compared to many.

IkpuMmadu:
Nwanna, Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the “Biafra of the mind.” Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep.

But let me attempt here to tease out Dim Ojukwu’s prescription: the greatest proof of Igbo survival and aspiration must be to model, wherever Onye-Igbo stands, the ethos of innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ability that marked the Igbo endeavor in Biafra. We must also use Biafra as the stepping stone to a higher vision of the Igbo place in the world.

There is no single proof or evidence today that the Igbo of this generation are capable of transforming any nation to which they lay claim. I have looked; I have studied the Igbo situation, and I have listened to my Igbo kinsmen, and I think something is fundamentally wrong: the Igbo are trapped in a deadening hate, self-pity and nostalgia. It is the kind of nostalgia that is both defeatist and deadly because it continues to romanticize the past while the future speeds away.

The Igbo cannot wait until they achieve Biafra or a separate nation in order to build and secure Igbo land. Soon after the end of the war, Igbo survivors of the war, girded their loins and embarked on the work of restoration. With singular grit, they revived the economy of the East, and by 1979, just nine years after the end of the war, were ready to take on the rest of the nation again. We their children are a disgrace to the spirit of those men and women.

The Igbo are today a beggarly nation of impotent, lachrymal people now weeping about “marginalization” and waiting for Nigeria to collapse or let them go, so that they will go and make something of themselves. This is an over-indulged generation. The last of the Igbo are old and dying; the current Igbo are “inferior Igbo.” They are just waiting for Godot.

Now, you say, the only time the Igbo will work is if power remains in the South. I think this is too simple. Take a look around you, where are those Igbo men and women? Which Igbo today have the sagacity of Zik, or the courage of Okpara, Mbakwe, or Ojukwu, the capacity of Ojike or Okigbo, the fierce pride and stabilizing force of the old Igbo women, the organizational acumen of an RBK Okafor, the selfless pride of those Igbo of the last generation, who always rose to the occasion when the Igbo summoned them to great causes, including giving their widows mite without question, for as long as “they Igbo have said…”

Now, what I’m trying to say, people, before I lose you, is that the Igbo have left the land, and the land has left the Igbo. There is incoherence. And an Incoherent people cannot run an independent nation, simple.

Bring proof to me that the Igbo have turned Igbo land into an oasis of prosperity different from elsewhere in Nigeria, and I shall agree that the current Igbo know exactly what they are saying. There is no Igbo state with a budget that is not bigger than the budget of the Republic of Ghana. Indeed, put together, the budget of all the states in Igbo land is bigger than the national budget of ten West African states. What have we done with it in terms of rebuilding public services? Creating liveable cities? Developing new infrastructure? Developing the Igbo world.

The North or the West has never run down our schools.
They did not dismantle the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Owerri, Afikpo, and the Queens School at Enugu.
They did not destroy our hospitals or primary schools.
They did not stop us from building our cultural infrastructure – Community centers; recreational centers, or building up our libraries; or public parks, or city centers, or trunk B & C feeder roads.
They did not destroy our civil service. They did not stymie the growth of our cities.
They did not forbid the Igbo from creating strategic means of employing their greatest resource – their highly trained manpower- and using them to create a powerful regional economy that would continue to startle West Africa.

The North or West did not say we should not build an efficient trans-regional transport metro system, by jointly developing the old Oriental lines, that would create a network of contacts all over the East and ease the strategic movement of people, or take advantage and rebuild, and expand the Rail system that connects Port-Harcourt, Aba, Umuahia, Okigwe, Ovim, Afikpo, Enugu, to Eha-Amufu. Even if the rail system is a federal project, there has never been a consortium of the Igbo states and consortium of investors that have mounted pressure to force the Feds to hands off the Eastern Rail system, to be run as a regional Terminus. We have never made the argument.

Mbakwe threatened in 1981 that if the FGN did not build an airport in Owerri, he would mobilize and build one. He did it. He threatened that if they did not build the Petrochemical plant in Izombe, he would build one by 1984. The land for the construction of the Imo Petrochemical Plant was already cleared when the soldiers struck on the last day of 1983.https://etimes.com.ng/the-current-igbo-are-inferior-igbo-obi-nwakanma/

When Mbakwe arrived government house Owerri in 1979, the three major cities in old Igbo – Owerri, Aba, Umuahia still had houses operating “bucket latrines” and the cities still employed nightsoil men (ndi Oburu nsi) and ran waste landfills. The first statewide public safety and hygiene law passed under the Mbakwe administration gave every landlord and household in these cities 4 months and a tax rebate to change the infrastructure from the bucket system to the water system, failure of which the houses would be marked as public health hazard zones. This was fully accomplished in three months.

By 1982, there was a marked upsurge and population shift as more Igbo began to leave Lagos and other places to return to Owerri and invest and settle. Nobody told them to return, the conditions were simply made amenable. By 1984, Igbo business men, particularly in the North, were moving their money and opening accounts with the Imo state Progress Bank, and the capital was growing for both accessible credit and for capital borrowing for infrastructural development in the East.

I point this to simply suggest that there is nothing the Igbo wish to accomplish in Nigeria that anyone can stop, if the Igbo hold down their lines. But we’ve deceived ourselves for too long – we have now made Nigeria into the convenient excuse for our own failures and self-indulgence. Now, there is a man called Onwuka Kalu. He gave the first N100, 000 as donation towards the Imo state Airport Appeals Fund in Owerri in 1981/2. There is not a single plaque to honour this man’s gesture at that airport. It will not be the Federal government that will do it; it will be the initiative of those who put value to memory in Igbo land.https://etimes.com.ng/the-current-igbo-are-inferior-igbo-obi-nwakanma/

But in the Imo/Abia/Ebonyi/Anambra/Enugu divisions that now pervade the Igbo mind, no one will remember. This is no recipe for a people moving towards transformation. Let me now, tell this whole truth: onweghi onye ji Ndi Igbo, Ndi Igbo ji Onwe ha (no one is to blame for the Igbo predicament but Ndigbo). Those who wrestle with Ala, the Earth goddess, often forget that no one has ever lifted the earth. Ala-Igbo is the earth, Anaghi Apa ala Apa! (No one can lift the earth). Period.

The Igbo of this generation are wrestling with the earth left to them by their ancestors. And they are busy blaming everyone else for their condition. We who have done, “Ihe Nzere” should tell the truth, or may our tongues cleave to our gums.

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Professor Obi Nwakanma

https://etimes.com.ng/the-current-igbo-are-inferior-igbo-obi-nwakanma/

We're products of the information we contain. Sir, may I crave your indulgence to school you on the Igbos, properly change the stereotypical narrative that had bewildered few of us.

First, you make mention of Igbos lacking in innovation and other metrics of a great clans. May I start by mentioning many of Igbos in the new order that has changed the face of the world.

1. Eboe Osuji = ICC President
2. Arunma Oteh OON= is the Treasurer and a Vice President of the World Bank.
3. Phillip Emegwalim- Father of Internet
4. Chimammada Adiche
5.Ngozi Okonjo
6. Oby Okwesili
7. Chukwuma Soludo.

In sports, do you have doubts, because the greatest footballers in Nigeria today are Igbos.
In Entertainment industry we're doing too well.
Commerce, even our enemies will give it to us.

Sir... You talked about hate, wow! Sir! Are you aware that Igbos has a helping methodology called Igba Booyi? It's a system where a person is asked to serve somebody without any form of legal documentation for years, and at the end of 4=5 years he/she is settled?
Igbos have shown more love among them, when compared to many.

KOLLYPROF:
Sorry who is Ateke Tom of all people

The man APC lied that he endorsed Buhari.

sreamsense:
I don't think kanu can get any replacement for your kind of missing brain, you derail from main issue to cook up way of escape for yourself. A whole director of biafra can not step into biafraland to direct followers, is it not shameful? You better call him director of brainless thouts of biafra, because no responsible leader and elder from the east know him as director you are carrying for head. A leader who can not stand in front of ordinary pyton dance is also calling himself a leader, causing the dealth of brainless BSS members withous providing them ordinary catapult. As per Tinubu or others, if he has stolen your properties or you have evidence of what he has stolen, why not raise a case against him at the court or go to efcc or are you so brainless as i said that you don't know what to do in the ambit of the law? Tell your director to go to aso rock or just step biafra land to collect medal of recognition if he will not eat his next meal in detention. Rubbish!

You call Atiku thief, without any conviction, but you want evidence to prove the innocency of Tinubu, Afonjas!.

As for Nnamdi Kanu, he's way too big for. Nigerian definition of a Hero. The definition of a Hero in Yoruba land is Buhari. That's okay.

blessingsystem:
Based on OBJ's book, the thought of Bro Atiku being in charge of our national treasury and assets for 4 years gives goosebumps and erection at the same time

Based on a book, right? Based on live experience, Nigerians have lost their means of livelihood, while being killed by Foolanis, supported by government forces under Buhari, the illiterate.

allthingsgood:
Haba!

Remember its not about buhari or atiku, but the future of this country

Dont let pride and arrogance destroy us. Atiku is a sure return to disaster

But we should vote Buhari, who represents
Recession
Insurgency
Bigotry
Excuses
No rule of law
Nepotism

To show who you are, instead of advocating for the best candidates, you're busy pointing hands of Atiku.
Under Atiku
Crude Oil was selling in 1999 - $17, 2000-$27, 2001-$23, 2002-$24.
Foreign reserve was $2 billion and he left it at $40 billion at the end of there tenure.

Compare to the illiterate recessionist we have as our president.

sreamsense:
Who is running away now from nigeria public ? Is it Tinubu that is well celebrated, honour and aking maker or Nnamdi KANU that is running out of the country for causing the death of many zombies who believed in him? Let Tinubu and KANU marched to Azo rock and see for yourself the criminal that will not go back to Abia state that day excepts he sleeps in detection! I am yet to understand if the type of food or climate in your side is affecting reasons why so many of you can no longer think right again.

I'm sorry for the vulnerables among you. You celebrated Oluomo, a thug, as well as Bode George the ex convict, elected a wanted drug lord Kashanu into our hallow chamber.

Back to the highest looter in the West, Tinubu. You won't have issues with him using the instruments of government to embezz government fund at various levels.

Globally, Nnamdi Kalu is known as the Director of a group, fighting for the independence of Biafra. His methods could be wrong, but he's not in the same category with Tinubu.

After which election? They won't be any thing like APC after election.

Africa... another world of it own.

OkaNaUbe:


If not for this ogogoro head, we won't be in this Buhari mess

What of the terrorist? The man that aided and abetted Abacha looting.

sreamsense:
When we were telling you that many of you were not thinking right by determining to follow wrong pathfinder, scammer and a coward, you were here insulting us to extent that some people wasted their lives over nothing while the guy is jumbing from one country to another flexing. Now, your eyes don clear now that you don enter one chance. You better download free sense now before it is too late to upgrade kanu-infected damaged one

Come off it. You've not delivered yourself of Tinubu Slavery.

The difference between you and us, is... We don't follow without thinking. If we doubt your mission, we pull out.

sarrki:
You lack sense of reasoning in all forms

The full that gave bat to you lacks reasoning, you think those you're paid to insult on daily basis don't have parents?

You're the sion of a fallen deeemon.

sarrki:
Shut up

they are criminals

Your Fadaa a full, is the krimina.

sammyj:
See Gbege. Anyways, the judge is becoming too strict with Obanikoro matter. It is Fayose that on trial and not Obanikoro now !!!

Your reasoning is just a day higher than that of a 6 months old baby. He's the star witness, let him bring the evidence.

iamJ:
Meet the average benue man and they will blame ortom for all that happened but on nairaland, yeast people will be claiming that they are from benue and trying to stoke sentiments with lies

When it come to lies and propaganda no one is bigger than the yeast, they can brag and make noise from morning till night, those who know the story of Biafra will know how boastful they can be, but they have no value, 5% vote power, 2% natural resources contribution, 4% economic power, 98% fake products manufacturing, 76% national crime rate


With all the bad things they do, they still claim saints

You should be ashamed of your fathers, who died fighting to have Eastern Nigeria with them in Nigeria.


I don't need to start fighting your lies with long sentences, facts will bite you down.

Femziecarlos:
DEMENTIA AND AMNESIA
Dementia: a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember or behave normally.

Demented: Behaving in a crazy way because you are extremely upset or worried, having a mental illness
.
Amnesia: A medical condition in which somebody partly or
completely loses memory.

Buhari's perennial goofs have elevated dementia, demented and amnesia to ridiculous heights.
I remember while in an exam hall, I forgot how to spell "with". I wrote it down as "it". Was my condition dementia or amnesia?
Has it happened to you before?
I have read some of my posts where I had issues with dates,
spellings and tenses even after series of editing. Was my
condition dementia or amnesia?
Many of Buhari's traducers cannot even remember the events of our recent past. They cannot put their thoughts, spellings and tenses together. Which of these conditions are they suffering
from?
I heard Buhari refer South East as East Central. I heard him
mistake 2015 for 2005. I have seen and read countless number of people make same mistakes publicly. Haven't you?
George Bush Jnr goofed as a President of USA. Even Donald
Trump goofs from time to time. Are they under dementia or
amnesia?
Napoleon said, "men are ruled by toys". Being perfect is not an attribute of a leader or a manager. Nobody is perfect.
A good leader, a good manager, is that man or woman who gets things done through others who know more than he does.
Wise men do not judge others from their weakest point. If the Abeokuta section of Lagos - Ibadan rail runs today, that serves as a better talking point than harping on sicknesses that afflict us all.
I have come to this painful realization that those who accuse Buhari of "dementia" have the worse mental sickness. They are "demented" by hate and bitterness and they suffer from from the worst type of "selective amnesia".

I wish you lost a member of your family in the North, to insurgency, I will know if you're driven by hate or religion.

Those who lost their jobs, are clamoring out of hate, right? Dangote, whose net worth is presently $10 billion, against $23 in 2015 should be happy.

I wish your life, family and means of livelihood fare like Nigeria under Buhari, say Amen!.

gawu1:
Fact checked! All the replies came from the people of hate mongers region. They want every opportunity to vent their anger and frustration on Nigerians. These are Ugandan Jews in real sense

You love Nigeria, that's the reason why you prefer a man who has led Nigeria into recession twice to win as the President, right?

sammyj:
This is lies from the pit of hell. He no reach their belle

You sound bitter, seriously bitter. How did you know?

livelymatilda22:
This old fool called Lere Olayinka, is very useless and evil minded.I have never seen someone as bitter as he is ever in my life. You need to visit his facebookpage and read his numerous toxic posts..


Even if you are a Pdp supporter,you will be sorry for him.. What a devilish soul

Stop that, he's not worst than Laretta Onochie.