₦airaland Forum

ehizario2012:
A lot is in it for the USA. The stability (and control) of the middle east guarantees access to unlimited oil resources. Also the middle east is strategically located, it links Europe, Africa and Asia... Japan also relies a lot on middle eastern oil. The USA needs to have a big say in what goes on there or they may lose their status as a world power. My answer is not exhaustive though...

wonlasewonimi:
People pay for Microsoft?

Tier4Dependant:
Just like dat 😂😂😂😂 Whatchu smokin’ braa?

wonlasewonimi:
Do you mind if it’s a female? I want to offload my mother in law

kwakudtraveller:
Reads to me like you are the one who’s intimidated because there’s nothing wrong with his advice or anything "super story" about it.

Goodenoch:
Your low self-esteem is pathetic.

So because of a fraud of less than 100k you're referencing Lord Lugard?

Search Google for the biggest frauds and see who's there. Few, if any at all, of the top cases have anything to do with Africa.

I just hope this is not how you live your life in reality - believing that Lord Lugard was right that something is innately wrong with you, because it would severely impact your horizons o.

Lexusgs430:
If i have a penny to give you, get your daughter to start learning hair designs and braiding, when the time is right (actively encourage her)......🤣

I did same with my last daughter, she is now 15 (she charges between £30/£40 per head)..... She does male plaiting, ladies, girls etc etc (on the average one or two a day)..... 😁✌️(all tax free)...... 😜🤣

NB: For reference.....

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KingDemolah:

dustydee:
What has he even done apart from roads? I remember his predecessor did the same too when he assumed office before he fizzled out. There are governors in Nigeria today that have done much more quietly.

Efftyy:
Let rest and see front jare.
PGO Get magic wand ?

Schoolhike:
Please anyone have experience of updating updating visa by changing jobs or role on a sponsored role with the same employer. Currently sponsored on EO got HEO and saw on gov website that a new application will still be made with new IHS, is it possible to get refund for the previously paid Ihs when the current sponsorship is still leads than 2 months.

profemebee:
Lovely conversations going on... and trust we are enjoying the long weekend..

Twist/turn/Ignore facts won't change the truth.......

There is something wrong somewhere.. and you can't keep giving excuses or ignoring it.. it doesn't change the truth

Even if you mention slavery as an excuse for why the black communities haven't prospered, who sold their own people ? We did.. our ancestors sold their own people for mirrors, tobacco, jewelries, commission from both buyers and sellers, etc

What excuse do you give for a country blessed with natural resources not excelling when countries without a single natural resource have excelled tremendously (Switzerland and Japan as examples)

What excuse do you give for House of Reps member empowering his people with shoe shining kits in the north?

What excuse do you give for an oil rich country of over 200m people that has grown poverty rate from generation to generation and from government to government across different political parties?

What excuse do you have for a country that the Senate approved N82.5bn to construct 427 boreholes?

I can go on and on..

I saw Vision 20:20

The real example of having a vision and following it up with a strategy is Dubai, UAE for example... it was just bare sand.. desert... but they had leadership that cared and had ambition to prosper its' people.. selfless leadership.. to serve and not to just be served

There are documentaries on how they achieved it... you will shed some tears.. something must drop down your cheeks

Excuses excuses and more excuses

I don't care about LL or whoever..

EJIOGBENIMI:
Is there any one who sells original body creams imported from Nigeria?
I’ve tried EBay but what was sold to me was an expensive fake cream. I use FAIR and WHITE. The one that comes in blue plastic. My skin is now becoming darker and dry. I’ve tried several products locally but none seem to be working on my skin.
Any suggestion? And if someone is coming from Nigeria can help me buy some, I’m happy to pay for the cream and luggage space. Thank you

wallg123:
Na prayer dey generate electricity

hustla:
May God epp us

MichaelUde:
On a deadly serious note, trust me, given the number of people I know of who are struggling to survive back home, and the amounts of money I have to send back home to try and give stipends to some of them, I know fully well what's going on back home.

But again, I repeat - there's nothing genetic or inevitable about it.

hustla:
The thing dey pain and people will always argue with emotions and sentiments, ignoring the reality on ground

A set of people collectively no fit organize themselves for 60+ years, them still dey prove my point dey talk "i", "me" upandan

Plenty English, that's all Africans know how to speak. As a unit, we do well, as a whole, we are just as that LL guy described

MichaelUde:
hustla o. Come out, come out, wherever you are. Make we drag you small, its Easter and we need some entertainment.

On a serious note, how could you write wetin you write up yonder? Just a while ago, while dey were dragging Lexus upandan, your proudly announced you had passed your finals and obtained an M.Sc in Cybersecurity. We, on behalf of the Nigerian Migrants Pandemic Set of 20/21, were happy for you. Now you come dey quote one kolo man's rubbish talk for us. Are you now saying that you are exhibiting a "want of desire to rise beyond the state that Buhari left you in Naija?

Nigeria is what it is. It is badly governed, its leaders are lousy, corruption full everywhere. We know. We know what it is like. We all abandoned ship from there. Many African countries are in similar states. We sabi. The state of Nigeria in particular and Africa as a whole pains those of us who think about it.

But.

But there is nothing genetically wrong with Africans and people of African descent wey don make Nigeria and Africa dey where they are now. The people who govern are lousy but that's them. The people who they govern could do more about freeing themselves from the lousy misgovernment, but other peoples have been misgoverned too and they no talk, not just Africans. At the risk of exciting missjekyll, it is arguable that the UK itself is a place where the governed too keep quiet and continue to exist while their governing class does anyhow. Nothing genetically wrong with that - or with anyone.

Abeg, please go and pull yourself one cold pint on my tab and reconsider what you wrote. No come dey add fuel to the right-wingers' fire biko. You are just as good a cybersecurityman as anyone else (that is what you have been telling recruiters o), so don't come and talk different for here.

hustla:
LOL, as usual.

It's either racism or neo-colonialism instead of looking into the mirror. It's the same thing when you ask the black man what he has contributed to the world, he is either mentioning the pyramids, Ethiopia or ancient Benin empires all with a serious face

They were pooing in the River Thames in 1914 but guess where they still wash and poo in rivers in 2024? Nigeria .

Speaking about barbaric practices. Guess where children are kidnapped en masse and sold to jihadi terrorists in 2024? Nigeria. Want to take a guess where children are exploited as house helps and killed for rituals in 2024? Nigeria
Want to also guess which country in 2024 has a church on every street and prefers to pray to God instead of fixing actual issues as described in that Lugard excerpt? Nigeria

Continue merry-go-rounding and speaking English when the irony is staring at you in the face

missjekyll:
May i exclude my past and future generations from this incredibly racist description. You may accept it for yourself, i have no problem with that.

As he was writing this s**t about us, his people were pooing in the Thames. Infact ,during summer,the thames smelled so
Much that parliament had to be suspended. Children as young as 3 years old were put to work among other barbaric practices.

Not planning for the future is a common failing in bad leaders of every race.
Infact, the current housing crisis in the UK can be linked directly to this .
I hope it wont be long before Kogi state renames its government house (currently its called Lugard house). This man should be confined to the soakaway of history.

Goodenoch:
This is pseudoscientific nonsense.

The state of mind described here would be the same for any group of people with the same lack of education/exposure, and whose horizons and ambitions were limited as a result. People like Lugard said the same about indigenous people everywhere else from America to Australia, etc. It’s part of the MO of conquerors to dehumanize those they conquer to justify their actions. Civilizations like the Mongols also likely held similar ideas about how much better they were than the other countries when they ruled half the world, but now they’re a tiny inconsequential country.

People from the former colonies are increasingly occupying high positions in politics, business, professional fields and everywhere else in the UK and elsewhere, including an outsized contingent from Nigeria, so it’s clearly not about anything in the brain and about the society and the education, rule of law and other factors that keep people in line.

Much as I hate to cite colonialism, fact is that the forced mashup of several groups in Nigeria is a major reason for the inability to have a cohesive national front to tackle issues. Britain with just 4 ethnic groups has had civil wars among them, with the most recent just a few decades ago although they cleverly call it ‘the Troubles’ and not a civil war. Till just last month governance was paused in Northern Ireland because of underlying ethno-religious disputes under the guise of parties not being able to agree (although if it was in Africa they’d say it was ‘tribal warring). So isn’t it logical that Nigeria is struggling more? I don’t think that excuses the people in power and us as Nigerians in general but it’s important to put issues in context and not take to simplistic assessments just because they sound witty.

To be clear I’m not disputing your right to believe you as an individual ‘African native’ are far nearer to the animal world and do not have ambition and all the rest o - feel free to internalize and work with that, I’m saying it’s not true for the generality of Africans.

hustla:
Naija, everyone is just looting, no one is sensible enough to care about the future or even plan for it

Lord Lugard's excerpt about Nigeria and Africans still holds true several years after

I have taken some parts loosely below -

His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.
Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future

lastkingsman:
The problem with Nigeria is corruption with impunity. Every senior ranking public official knows you can steal billions and get away with it. Worst case scenario is you lose your job or you are told to return some percentage.

Accountant General diverted 109bn Naira and efcc later claimed they recovered 30bn Naira. So my guy is still in 79bn Naira profit and today he's a free man enjoying his loots quietly.

How about the recent REB director wey corner 12bn Naira and was later sacked? Nothing will happen to him I can assure you. Betta Edu and her predecessor Hajia and co.

The looting that have left that country since 1970 is estimated to be around 600bn USD, enough to fix our infrastructure deficit (power, refinery, road, ports, hospitals, schools, railway and so on) and make us productive

hustla:
... And Nigeria Air... Paid $600,000 for a logo... Something you can design with photoshop or Canva

Sometimes when people blame neo colonialism for Nigeria's woes, i just dey think to dash them slap

hustla:
Nigeria sha

I wonder if it will ever work

Peerielass:
Council don’t need more powers to provide affordable housing, they need more funding.

In Scotland, affordable housing budget was cut by almost £200million for 2024/25. Imagine how many houses the Councils could have built with that money across Scotland.