₦airaland Forum

Bofoy4:
Udoka is Ibibio name meaning 5th Son
Pls don't claim what is not urs

Biafrans are criminals generation to generation especially this one in London

EMAXIM:
Na AkwaCross son o and not Igbo
Nigeria Amaka!
God bless Nigeria!

Which Amaka?
AkwaCross Ayaya!

Nigeria Ayaya

Kinzo0917:
ALL I KNOW IS WE THE GOOD PEOPLE OF SOUTH/SOUTH CAN NEVER BE PART OF GREEDY, SELFISH BIAFRA. GOD FORBIDS IT HAPPENS. IS BETTER WE BELONG TO ODUDUWA REBUPLIC OR BE ON OUR OWN AS SOUTH/SOUTH COUNTRY

BIAFRANS are known CRIMINALS everywhere you go

Siwel25:
Akwa Ibom is Igbo?

They are known CRIMINALS

lastempero:
Udoka na ur father's name, which kind witch craftry is this . Surname in naija indicates where you from. It's either the lady is from akwa n married to an igbo man.

Illiterate confirmed Stark IPOB illiterate

preciousmetals:
Which ibibio?, Udoka is Igbo Akwa ibom

We know you lots like your master are CRIMINALS

Blakpot:
Igbo America amaka?

[Udoka] was taking people out like in Mortal Kombat,” Muoneke wrote on Hoopshype, referencing the popular, ultra-violent fighting game. “’Finish him!’ Incredible. …

“In the middle of the whole thing I heard Ime, literally in mid-swing of another opponent say, ‘Watch back, Gabe’ and he calmly, I mean calmly, smeared a guy who, as I turned to see his warning, jumped from the stands with a chair to probably kill me or knock me out to where the crowd would have. I mean, Ime caught the guy in mid-air with a fist and calmly continued his dispatching of oncoming people.”

Nnamdi Kanu is probably thinking of recruiting him into ESN.

.
Criminals everywhere

AkwaIbom Ayaya
The guy will mortal combat KANU and ESN like meatpie

JoeArmsD1:
what narrative are you trying to present here?
That they're a settlers or bilingual?

Let me shock you, they don't speak nor understand any Akwa ibom language other than their Igbo language; their villages are named in Igbo.

Akwa ibom govt tried to enforce Ibibio name on them and they sue Akwa ibom govt.

Today, they have refused to accept the name notwithstanding the govt still have the Ibibio name in the state gazette.

They're Igbos of Ndoki stock.

.

Generation of Criminals

Burruchaga71:
Igbo Amaka

Criminals yesterday 2day and forever

AkwaIbom Ayaya

jjcphenom:
Biafra to the world.

Making this nation proud in Africa and beyond.

.

Criminals as usual

mrfreestuff:
If those are the people Twitter is bringing to meet a Fashola, Keyamo, Pantami who is a UK-trained PhD ICT technocrat and Lai Mohamed, a former Chief of Staff, LASG, then it is safe to say Twitter has lost it again and time is not on their side.

Twitter will need experienced people and diplomats on the team , not coding programmers who live their lives as recluse. This is high level meeting and trust me, Twitter is not in a good place . My joy is that talks to resolve the issue is in the works.

.

Stop talking nonsense just like LIE Mohammed, you think it is just geeks that works in Twitter?
Even if they wear just shorts the negotiating team team of Twitter will beat the primitive and stone age team you have

afroxyz:
What valid reason? The same reasons of volatility, aiding criminal activites and enviromental effects. All these reasons have been countered appropriately.

The FUD narrative is been put in put faces. A country announced its adoption, another country announced clampdown, yet the market reacted only to negative news.

Then you have billionaires like Ray Dalio, Paul Tudor and other co adding to their portfolio. Microstartegy borrowed money to buy almost 500m worth of btc. Why are they buying more despite impending regulation?


for your comment on Nigerians not buying more crypto see the links below

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1195753/bitcoin-trading-selected-countries/

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://qz.com/africa/1947769/nigeria-is-the-second-largest-bitcoin-market-after-the-us/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiIjrGXhqvxAhUEolwKHWQPCf4QFjAMegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw0vSwWCfYxYFmJamMCkjI73

.

Cryptos is going through a transition phase where government policies, cleaner energy and Wannabes has been the hiccups but the good news is that many paper hands are being shaking off and only will the strong will stand to drive it full force ahead
Banks in Europe have carried successful Crypto integrations and are poise to deploy
Communist China is hunting miners soon they will regret their policies

ekene101:
ask the goat sokoloan agent.

Relax, don't let them make you have high blood pressure, I can assure you that over 90% of them are not obeying the Central Bank guidelines

MrFollowFollow:
I can't speak for all of them but I know the one I have worked for has all the relevant licences.

But let's even assume that a loan company does not have lending licence will you then decide not to repay your loan because of that. That's similar to saying you will not repay a loan your friend gave you simply because he does not have a banking licence!

If any friend of mine give me the conditions and terms these Sokos and apps loans are giving, then he is no friend of mine.
I don't think CBN will ever sanction the interest they are charging at such a short period of repayment

chiboi19:
Now look at what you are saying
Nigerians are the problem
You wanna take money from loan apps and you don’t wanna payback
Later you’ll go about saying bad stuffs about the loan app when originally majority of people taking thus loan are already debtors on various loan platforms that don’t want to pay back
It’s saddens me that people( Nigerians ) are wicked with thoughts of bringing down this loans apps, have you thought of how many people will be unemployed if for any reason the government takes them down because of your own selfish interest or your inability to pay back a loan you wanna put the blame on the the loan app.
I have worked as a loan analysts, when this people wanna take this loan they’ll be so humble and I will go as far as telling them “please if you can’t pay back on the due date avoid taking this loan to avoid unnecessary embarrassment and they’ll be like it’s nothing I’ll pay but then eventuality happens but it is not our own fault to take just pay your loan as stated in the loan terms and conditions.
Defamatory messages are likely sent note: if a particular client has defaulted for up to 2 weeks and not showing any signs of paying back, not taking calls, drops the call whenever he or she hears the company’s name when they call him/her
This loan apps are not the problem but jobless young people who steal money from them are the problem.

All these Sokos and others are they abiding with the CBN regulations in terms of interest and duration period
* Are they truly registered with CBN

MrFollowFollow:
It's because of the activities of dishonest Nigerian borrowers and career criminals like Ekene101 that the loans are considered high risk and attract high interest rates.

All these Sokos and others are they abiding with the CBN regulations in terms of interest and duration period
* Are they truly registered with CBN

complexBoss12:

Why u de frown ur ugly face

Ango Abdullahi, Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy and Niger Delta Oil

I suffer from that disorder where I speak the truth and it pisses people off. - Unknown

In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” I called attention to out-and-out historical lies that vast swathes of Nigerians treasure and reproduce intergenerationally, and that are, I said, almost “impossible to uproot.”
One of such lies, I pointed out, is the idea, popular among northern Nigerians, that the Northern Region’s resources financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta. I wrote: “Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to ‘go and read history.’ The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

“When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist….

“In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta.”

Of the eight historical lies I pointed out, this was the stickiest among historically challenged northerners. I use the term “historically challenged” advisedly because several northern Nigerian professional historians called or emailed me to confirm that what I wrote was a basic fact that every beginning undergraduate in Nigerian economic history knows. They wondered why someone of the stature of Professor Ango Abdullahi would ridicule himself by repeating discredited and falsifiable lies. I told one of them to write a guest column to educate our people on the economic history of the region. “I am not as brave as you are,” he said. But when did educating people with the facts become bravery?
I am a northerner with as much stake in the region as anybody else, but I am also a truth-seeking academic who isn’t held back from telling the truth by maudlin sentimentality or fear of emotive pushback from the vulgar herd. I go where the truth leads me, even if it is to facts that cause me personal discomfort. That’s how my dad raised me, and no amount of emotional blackmail will stop that.

Several of the readers who continue to angrily react to my column say I didn’t provide any proof for my assertions. So, here we go. In an 89-page report for the British Parliament titled, “Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria, and Administration, 1912-1919,” Frederick D. Lugard clearly said two reasons informed his proposal to amalgamate the North and the South: finance and railways. On finance, he wrote:

“In 1906 a further step in amalgamation was effected in the South. Southern Nigeria and Lagos became one Administration under the title of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. From this date the material prosperity of the South increase with astonishing rapidity. The liquor duties—increased from 3s. in 1901 to 3s. 6d. in 1905—stood at 5s. 6d. a gallon in 1912, and afforded an ever-increasing revenue, without any diminution in the quantity imported. They yielded a sum of £1,138,000 in 1913.

“The North, largely dependent on the annual grant from the Imperial Government, was barely able to balance its budget with the most parsimonious economy, and was starved of the necessary staff, and unable to find funds to house its officers properly. Its energies were concentrated upon the development of the Native Administration and the revenue resulting from direct taxation. Its distance from the coast (250 miles) rendered the expansion of trade difficult. Thus the anomaly was presented of a country with an aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude. One portion was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer, which in the year before Amalgamation stood at £136,000, and had averaged £314,500 for the 11 years ending March, 1912” (p. 7; view the PDF of the entire report here).

Again, a 1935 report by colonial government statistician S.M. Jacob, titled The Taxation and Economics of Nigeria, gives a vivid account of the immense disparities in the revenues between the North and the South. It shows, for instance, that one of the reasons the North was financially disadvantaged was that agricultural produce from the region had less economic value in the international market than agricultural produce from the South.

There is also a 202-page record of the correspondence between colonial administrators in Nigeria and their home government in Britain on the necessity of amalgamating the North and the South. Copious references were made to the North’s economic disadvantage and to the economic lifeline the region needed from the South to survive. The record of the correspondence, which took place between May 15, 1913 and January 27, 1914, is held in the British National Archives, and can be accessed with the following reference number: CO 879/113/3.

But two things need to be made clear. First, the North’s economic disadvantage relative to the South wasn’t a consequence of the South’s superior work ethic—or the North’s laziness. It was because, being close to the coast, the South had (still has) ports, which brought foreign goods that attracted hefty tax revenue. It was, in fact, Lagos that almost singlehandedly gave the South its economic advantage. Lagos still accounts for more than half of Nigeria’s IGR.

Second, it also so happened that the cash crops that the colonialists introduced to the South—cocoa, palm oil, kernels, rubber—had more economic value in the international market than Northern Nigeria’s cash crops such as groundnuts and cotton. In terms of quantity, the North produced substantially more agricultural produce than the South but, by a twist of circumstances, the North’s crops didn’t have as much economic value as the South’s.

This isn’t something to be proud or ashamed of. We are talking here of naked colonial exploitation of our people for the benefit of Britain. It means, in effect, that the colonial conquerors exploited the South more thoroughly than they did the North. That’s neither a cause for pride nor a reason to be ashamed. In my undergraduate days, I recall getting a kick out of Lord Salisbury’s angry description of my part of northern Nigeria, that is, Borgu, as "a malarious African desert…not worth a war." As a starry-eyed Marxist then, I took delight in the knowledge that imperialists didn’t find my place worthy of economic exploitation.

Anyway, if the North wasn’t economically self-sustaining, how could it possibly finance oil exploration in the Niger Delta? That’s a wild leap of logic. Plus, it’s a well-known fact that it was Shell, not the Nigerian government, that bore full financial responsibility for oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

As George G. Frynas points out in his Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities, Shell spent more than 6 million pounds of its own money between 1937 and 1953 before striking oil in Akata, near Eket, in non-commercial quantities. After spending some more millions, it found oil in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956.

Neither the Nigerian government nor the northern Nigerian government made any financial contribution to Shell’s exploration activities.

By Farooq A. Kperogi

Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Realtalk20:
Nigeria takes 4 years to build this

Nothing special, Nigeria did same way back in 1977 during the building of Festac Town. The town was the best in the developing world way back then, 10 blocks of 4 storey building were done in ,24hrs

YouWillNotWin:
Brain dead is the one that says a brain dead and dead chicken can identify IPOB writings - think before you talk.

I will sell you right inside of your village

Sleekfingers:
where in my comment did i insult you? I asked a question.......it is quite obvious that you are monkey......for that reason, na ogun go use your blood bathe......

What Manner of Stupid questions is that?
May ur Pri-ck never rise every time u wan 4k a woman

helinuesIsaMumu:
Ur father?

.

Na FOOL

Tinubu will only be president of Kirikiri

helinuesIsaMumu:
In response to this thread..

https://www.nairaland.com/6615291/igala-never-part-biafra-group

The greatest mistake the Igbo nation will do is to include Igalla or any other group with sizeable number of muslims (eg idoma) into it's dream nation. (The reason why TIVs currently hate and will never allow the idomas to rule the state is due to their religious alliance. They use the derogatory word (loosely translated into) longer throats for this group).

If this is done, the affinity with their sokoto caliphate will still be there and that will be very suicidal for a Biafran nation.

He who has ears should listen

If only you IPOB have any idea of how despicable, insensitive, intolerant , myopic and stupid you are

Sleekfingers:
wetin una don use the money wey una dey collect do? Bo be individual pocket the money dey go.........

.

Wetin Buhari and Nigeria de use our money de do?
Even u and ur governor wetin una de use our money do?
MUMU u de ask me wey de feed all of una wetin I de use money do.. Thunder fire U

DefHQ:
Good to hear..
Well done ESN for your good works in safeguarding our forests!

.

fozapi only foolish flies gets buried with the corpse, what did I tell about KANU negotiations
Like fowl you go just KPIA 4 natin
Mumu Biafranboys

na2016:
A sensible leader you said , right? So even China doesn't have a sensible leader?

If you read the white paper of some cryptos , u will know that atimes, u were dashing someone money in abroad freely. For instance, from thier white paper, what is the use of shiba inu coin? Yet so many Nigerians spent a huge fortune to buy it.

.

China is a control freak environment, Buhari doesn't come close to dictatorship in China
Many Nigerians don't bother about white paper or usuage or they want is FAST money

GboyegaD:
My position remains, I will never trade anything without fundamentals.

Which is the best but BAD or GOOD news WILL rubbish fundamentals any time, any day.

EzeAro:
Abeg make una no vex, maybe I've been sleeping inside a cave all this while, but when did Igala people ever get added to the Biafran struggle? is this another form of attention seeking or what?

Wetin KANU never add for Biafran Map, even Cameroon and Gabon

Tinubuadvocate:
[s][/s] try get small sense.

Mr SENSE is Tinubus house a garage for Bullion Van?