₦airaland Forum

CodeTemplar:
Ribadu came out to say terrorists are peace loving people. Nothing was heard from the northern attack dog.
Fulanis where discovered with automatic rifles and ID cards issued by office of the NSA yet these people kept quite.

No the people arrested in kwara had no id card and spoke no English while being armed with assault rifles. If they had id cards they would not have been arrested and tied up the way they were by the locals before the NSA directed that they should be released

Vision101:
Read again my first reply. We have a right to demand accountability but are we going to say that we will not fulfill our duty of paying tax until they account? My take is pay but demand accountability not just from the center but from the subnationals as well. Unknown to many the impact of corruption and lack of accountability at the subnationals effects us more because they are in charge of our microeconomy.

Any governor that does not have igr greater than allocations should not be in politics. You are leading a state with millions and you have no igr up to your allocation it shows you are not good enough

Stephen0mozzy:
Face the question and answer direct; not all these big big economical jargons you're throwing around.
People who have shown zero accountability and prudence in managing small VAT, Stamp Duty, Oil Revenue, Foreign Exchange WILL? all of a sudden start becoming prudent because the citizens are now paying 30% tax?

Do what other countries are doing and you will be like them. Make Tinubu the President of the USA and he will perform. Make Trump Nigeria President and he will fail. If you talk like this, it reeks of inferiority complex because you think all of you here are inherently bad managers while people in neighbouring countries that work are not and common sense says that is not correct

In any case, any governor you think is working now is doing so because of the revenue generated by Tinubu except maybe one or two. They have not increased their own igt

The US is really spending resources on global peace. If not for the US things would be far worse but those who want sharia should be allowed to have sharia. They should not be allowed to have nukes and they should expect not only US but international action if they do things that do not measure up to standard.

I wonder when the US will start charging or making cash calls for all they do

Ribadu should be on trial for sending unknown gunmen as vigilantes to communities under the attack of unknown gunmen.

The right system for any country is a government of national unity all the time with positions shared among political parties according to how they fared at the polls and the national assembly should consist of elders that receive all the briefs of the President and that can overrule the President on anything and be able to sack him without notice

tiger28:
POINT BLANK!!!!!

80% of Nigerians don’t pay INCOME taxes….. NOT SALES taxes , as some illiterates here don’t know the difference.

There will be up to 70 million people earning income. The ones paying PAYE can not be up to 5 million. Just the Civil servants and the organized private sector

Edit

I was wrong. There are 11.3 million workers in the pension scheme and I believe all are also paying PAYE. I also believe up to 100 million workers exist in Nigeria for up to 11 million to be in the pension scheme

Majdddd:
From 70k na ogun go kee u how u wan spend 70k a month and u will still pay tax

The FG has no power to tax your income and any state that wants to enforce PAYE will definitely increase the minimum wage unless the deduction on minimum wage is very insignificant

nairalanda1:
The sentence makes sense.

The problem is, saying it makes sense apparently means you support APC.

If Obi, GEJ or anyone else said the same thing , I would applaud.

But many Nigerians want to live as if they be from Saudi Arabia.

Even if we fight corruption, we still need to find a way to make an extra 500 billion or more dollars for the treasury. taxation is the way to go

You don't need that much here. All you need is a very high tax to GDP ratio. 500 billion dollars in Nigeria is worth far more than 5 trillion dollars in the US in rent and services which make up the majority of any economy.

If your GDP is 500 billion dollars, revenue of 220 billion dollars will turn you into a developed country without controversy

People will not ask to pay tax. It never happens like that. The only tax that causes riot is head tax and nobody does it again.

When you fix minimum wage and tax it, that is not a tax but a nation building facility or trick. You can't claim to be paying something that is already purposefully added to your income

In short, government should collect tax instead of complaining that people are not paying or instead of begging people to pay

MrGerald:
The Lagos is for all Nigerians not specifically for any group, you're here hating in your empty stomach.

What about Rivers, Kaduna, Jos that are obviously more cosmopolitan than Lagos? Or Anambra where it is claimed more than 500k Yoruba live and do business?
What makes Lagos different from these places or infact any other place in Nigeria? Type law Chambers in a place like Ilesa into Google and you find chambers owned by non Yoruba. Therefore Lagos is just another Yoruba state since in any case almost 100 percent of the electoral posts is held by the Yoruba. Know this and accept it. It can't change unless the Yoruba agree for it to change or how do you think non Yoruba can forcibly win up to five percent of electoral posts in Lagos? There is no contest at all

BlakKluKluxKlan:
Hmn
I've heard about the connection between the Bonus in Binin city and Onitsha.
It's funny how easily a language can disappear for lack of use.

The fact remains that we cannot agree on Obasanjo so better we each keep our opinion about him to our self.
But I cannot but say that he had the greatest opportunity to put Nigeria on a sound footing but fluffed it.
His spinelessness in the failure to take the bull by the horn over sharia is the major cause of the insecurity we are facing. He was a general without action where and when it mattered.
His carrying the country on his head is patently mischievous.
To me, he belittles himself by his devious letters at every turn.
Obasanjo is rather envious and suffers inferiority complex.
He did it to Awolowo.
He did it to MKO.
Same thing he's doing to Atiku.
He wrote in his book that Atiku stole so much under his watch enough to feed millions of Nigerians for several decades.
He thought he was running down Atiku but in actual fact, it was self-indictment proving his ineptitude and failure as a leader, or they were both guilty of kleptomaniac.

If people want sharia on their land and they are the majority there, then there is nothing anybody can really do to stop them. It does not really matter that they are a part of Nigeria. It is just like if you really want out of Nigeria as a group, nobody really can stop you unless you are doing it the wrong way.

Former VP Atiku is to blame for the showdown between him and former President Obasanjo. All what Obasanjo is fighting him over is that he attempted to edge him out after his first term. If you were President Obasanjo you would give your support to another person too after your second term and you will also grant interviews to disrupt Atiku"s chances of becoming President.
Then Chief Awolowo was not in the good books of the late Queen Elizabeth who could easily teleguide President Obasanjo to do anything and that I think is a possible explanation of his open support for Alhaji Shagari in 1979 which should not have been the case as a sitting head of state. He openly said the best person don't need to win, referring to Chief Awolowo and he openly queued to vote for the NPN. The same can be true of his non alignment with late Basorun Abiola as well. Everybody can't be in the same camp and many people that built the old western region were not aligned with Chief Awolowo as well especially the late Chief Akintola amongst others

zoomman:
Either the country is doing badly or not. Even citizens of a developed country still migrate to other countries for opportunities.

People will migrate of course but to say any country must take anybody interested can not work especially when many countries are being run sub optimally. If all countries are run well then there will be competition for tax payers and that should be the aim

zoomman:
Same reason you are not from where a particular forum originated from and you still share your views without anyone trampling on it.

Migration is a right of everyone in as much as such persons has a genuine reason to do so.

If only one country is run well among UN member nations and others are run anyhow even with enormous human and natural resources, would you say that one country must unconditionally open its borders to all others? Even as emigration is the high ambition of the majority of citizens in those badly run countries? Answer honestly.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
This is a new one on me !
That the grandfather of that Obi must have been Yoruba who spoke the dialect.
Please note that Obj is a devious fellow.
Whilst he openly identify as Yoruba, he secretly interact with the Ibo as one of them.
In his right years in power, he did practically nothing for the Yoruba in terms of infrastructure.
The Lagos - Abeokuta expressway was left undone by him.
He knows he has done enough bad to the Yoruba to be hated
After his tenure, he almost got lynched along Agege motor road.
He was once declared person non grata in Ibadan by the indigenous leaders
I think it was the Ooni that interceded on his behalf.

Just before the demise of Iwuanyanwu as the ohanaeze presido, he held series of conspiratorial meetings with them not favourable to the Yoruba.

The Yoruba would do well to reject and banish him while still alive

Yes any group of people that claim to have come from Benin city. Not Benin suburbs, had Yoruba speaking ancestors who were proper Yoruba people. So in that wise, the ancestors of the Onitsha royal family were Yoruba people but their descendants today are Igbo. They know in Onitsha that their original language is not Igbo. They would not have been speaking Igbo in 1850 and there was no other language in which to deal with Benin than Yoruba language. Dr Emeagwali once mentioned that some old people could still speak the language a few decades back.

It is Obasanjo that knows what he did or did not do in terms of infrastructure for the SW. I have not taken stock of what he did. Even if you put any other President, the rigged census will still make them to allocate to the Yoruba and even the Hausa far less than what they should have if their population were to be considered. You can only discover the fault if there is no oil money and you have to use or are using tax paid by the citizens as is happening now. Any President giving less than thirty five percent or even forty percent of anything to the Yoruba is cheating them but that is considered normal in Nigeria. If you don't run the country with taxes, you won't realize it.

Obasanjo in his personal capacity even if not enough with his position as President has contributed to his community. He is among the highest employers of labour there and he is living there among them but his people or subordinates are in the best position to say anything about him. I don't see him as a bad man and of all past Presidents, he carries the country on his head more than others. I did not gain anything from all my past defense of him. I even lost. So it is not really my business but it is not right to be saying he is not a Yoruba man

When education is commercialized

When education is commercialized, then the standard of intakes will have to drop because not all qualified students will be able to afford the education and some who can afford the education will not be fully qualified and the meeting point will have to be the lowering of entry requirements.

This is already playing out in Nigeria because when we were in high school and tuition in OAU was 500 naira and accommodation ninety naira, it was very tough to pass o levels and UME and only the best students get admitted into the first tier universities back then. It used to be very difficult to score over 200 in UME and also very difficult to have five credits including Maths and English which were requirements back then for university admission

Nowadays, I see people who allegedly passed o levels with credit in Maths and English and I know they could not have passed during our time and I hear of very high scores in UME which just weren't possible in the 1990s. Yet we are hearing of JAMB lowering university cut off mark to 150 and dropping credit in Mathematics as a general requirement for university admission and I think it is because of the money factor. There are too many open slots and the people who can pay school fees are not really qualified for the admission and there is therefore pressure on the schools who in turn put pressure on JAMB to lower standards

One way the government can intervene is to offer scholarships and not loans on their own condition. A student must have credits in both Maths and English regardless of what JAMB says or even what the university says and they should also make a minimum score in the UME and they will be sponsored by the government to any university of their choice within the country whether private or government owned. This will make the students study more and it will also make the examinations more competitive as it used to be during our time

BlakKluKluxKlan:
You spoke quite well.

But as it turned out, Obasanjo is not Yoruba but Ibo.
The irony was why the Yoruba erroneously thought he was one of them, he knew his real root and acted accordin
Go through his cabinet and projects and see how he favoured them.

He claims to be Yoruba and was brought up as Yoruba. So he is Yoruba. In any case if his father was Obi of Onitsha, the grandfather of that one would have been a Yoruba man who spoke a Yoruba dialect. Onitsha people didn't even speak Igbo until recently. A man however is what he identifies as and they will never accept him anywhere else apart from Owu Egba

Proposed reforms to the pension fund act

The funds should be statutorily required to invest in equity more than in loans. Over fifty percent of the funds should go into equity whether into private companies or into public companies

They should require concessions or guarantees from the federal government before exposing the funds to government debts because government do print money anyhow and this devalues the debts owed by government and companies while the fund invested in equity is not affected. Anything invested in equity or real estate is outside the reach of inflation and it will certainly have a yield much higher than the least bank interest.

The funds should be aggressively invested into the private sector and any contributor with assets over a certain threshold should be working for the fund as directors in companies where the fund has invested. This will provide extra income for contributors as well as better management for those companies where the pension funds have equity. It will also make the contributors want to leave their pension assets with the administrator even after retirement. If you have only twenty million naira saved in the fund as a contributor, it should be common to be able to get a director's seat in a small company whose capital outlay is not more than one hundred to two hundred million naira and be earning income as a director while being the eyes of the pension fund in that company.

There should be a government agency monitoring the expenses of the pension fund administrators. It should not be a system of the more profit we make, the more our expenses and the more we pay our executives and management team. The contributors should benefit directly from big breaks since they also suffer from devaluation of the currency and etc

In conclusion, corporate and government debt should be avoided as much as possible by pension fund administrators though they can't be totally avoided. The drive should be towards equity because there is more potential for growth there and pension funds have the human resources to do the work required and the expenses of administrators should be monitored

The faulty security architecture of Nigeria

What the Hausa do in Yoruba land is they gang up to attack the host community relying on the backing of the Nigerian state. The Hausa don't try to claim the same rights as indigenes in Yoruba land as they do in a place like Jos in Northern Nigeria or as some Igbo people do. I guess this can only be because Jos is a new city while the Yoruba cities have always existed and have always had Hausa living in them. It can also be because Jos is in Northern Nigeria The Hausas have always lived among the Yoruba and the Yoruba among the Hausa but there is no recorded incident that I know of, of Hausas ganging up inside Yoruba land to attack their hosts before Nigeria and they were in Yoruba land with many of them in the civil service and bureaucracy. Many of them were high ranking officials of the Oyo etc

Maybe if the Yoruba or the Igbo were in power for longer in Nigeria especially during the military era, they might have been doing the same in Hausa land and other parts of the country. Who knows?

The bottom line is that the security architecture of Nigeria is not what is good for any country. It is what led to the success of the first coup d'etat in Nigeria. If local people manned the security of their regions back then, the 1966 coup d'etat may likely not have been successful.

The person that brought the idea of staffing different regions with troops and police officers that are not locals did the country a lot of harm. Chief Awolowo was able to end the practice after being released from Calabar prison but subsequent military governments reinstated it after the civil war.

Therefore the security architecture must be reframed and infact anybody not in support of handing the security of different states and local governments to the locals in the country is a dangerous person. This was what Chief Awolowo insisted upon when he joined the government of General Gowon. The Midwest and the west infact did not allow federal troops to move against the secessionist Biafra across their land

In what other way for example can the banditry problem be solved other than by handing over security to the locals?

Let the country breakup if it will breakup. Keeping people together by force after all is not nation building. You have to find another name to call it.

If you can't point to one thing you are gaining as a people from Nigerian unity, then the disintegration will not hurt you. Do not say you are gaining money because I have pointed out severally that all states have the GDP to fund themselves. Even one thousand people have the GDP to fund themselves.

The security architecture of Nigeria is faulty and nothing short of handling the security of different states and local governments to the locals can even start to address the problem. If you are not in support of this, then you don't want the wanton killings to end

WhizdomXX:
Probably in Lagos . You should know they are scattered across the country more than any other group, maybe only the hausa comes close.

All the southerners in the North are between 1.5 and 3 million. To disprove this just publish ten random pupil manifests of classrooms in Northern Nigeria showing up to three percent of the names as southerners

The entire non Yorubas in Lagos may not be more than twenty percent of the population which you will then share between Hausa, other Northerners, Igbo, other southerners almost equally before you add foreigners

WhizdomXX:
The writer is not even Nigerian, unless we know the architects of such. No true Igbo person will threaten war when we all know the outcome of 2023 elections.

There is Igbo marginalization, along with the Niger Delta minorities and so many other groups Sir. Nigeria will not break up, let everyone be given what they truly deserve. Igbos are over 2/3 of Yoruba population in Nigeria and probably more outside. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yes they are over two thirds indeed and the entire NIN registration in the SE, Delta North and Ikwerre is struggling to be up to Lagos. Where are those Igbos living if I may ask?

WhizdomXX:
Not possible Sir. No one really wants to divide.

Explain what should happen next that everybody will be comfortable with?

Even if you reform and offer representation by revenue as well as state police and etc, the Yoruba as a group will still be better off in their own space where they use primarily their own language and are able to contribute to the world accordingly while working with neighbors and the global community and I believe the same is true for the Hausa, Igbo and etc. Why should the Hausa prefer a union with the Yoruba over a union with Niger? Yoruba is better off uniting with their people to the west too. If East and west Germany can reunite then the destiny of Yoruba land is reunification

If counterfeit production is thriving, how come a lot of importation is still going on? There definitely is counterfeiting but I believe it can't be up to ten percent of the market since it is not all that easy as it requires investments that can not be easily hidden too and if that is what you are based on, you will just be a customer for law enforcement. You can never accumulate real money doing such.

Lagos should have at least 55 reps and 18 senators as it's population deserves maybe by then non Yoruba will be able to win a significant percentage of the posts as they have never been able to win up to one percent of the total elective posts in Lagos.

If Lagos representation is not increased then Lagos and the SW is being seriously cheated as people who already have more than enough in their home constituencies are coming to reduce SW and Yoruba seats by contesting in Lagos

Then there are enough Yoruba in non Yoruba cities to counterbalance the non Yoruba in Yoruba cities only that they are not dragging politics with the locals in those places

Love800:
Thanks so much.

Sorry for my late comment.

But i taught Nce is for teachers, and the teachers in this context should be primary and secondary ones.

What concerns Bachelor in education degree here!
Are bachelors of education in universities go through the teacher training that these Nce graduates often pass through!

Am confused.

Actually NCE should be able to teach junior secondary schools. Even passed school cert can do that but more is needed to teach o level candidates, however even well passed school cert can also do that. The reality is that anyone that actually passed school cert very well without cheating is almost as good as a graduate.

1nice:
You Yorubas like to pretend alot.

It is you Yorubas that always sabotage igbos from getting the Nigeria presidency.

Tinubu a Yoruba sabotage rochas okorocha and spoiled his good reputation and till today rochas okorocha is still trying to recover and Yorubas did what they do to rochas okorocha to Orji kalu, ekweremandu, and even try to do it to peter obi but failed because the good things peter obi did for people was fighting against the evils the Yorubas was planning for him.

Igbos will watch wether the Yorubas and northerners will sabotage Igbo from getting the 2027 Nigeria presidency.

It is colonial census that caused everything. If not for colonial census, Igbos would know their true weight and act accordingly but there are educated Igbos who think Igbos outnumber all groups in Nigeria. If your base is faulty how do you build an edifice? Politics is a game of numbers. Igbos think they have the numbers when they don't and that is the cause of all the problems

Omoawoke:
There’s something about the food

Foods in the US aren’t safe…

Everything has been capitalized for maximum profit

They give you food to make you sick and then give you medical bills to pay for the rest of your life…

The foods also has a way to mess with blacks, so many people have become obese and have poor health

Na them dey born autistic children pass …
And people with lots of different allergies

Weird allergies

Food not safe but they are living longer than Nigerians. What are you supposed to get from safe food outside long life and good health?

1nice:
You go explain tire.
Since civilian leadership emerge after military leadership ended in 1999, no Igbo from southeast have become the president of Nigeria.

Hypocrite

If any of them had strategized then they would have gotten it or do you think it was handed free of charge to Tinubu or even MKO? The civilian President that got it free without ambition was President Obasanjo imposed by the military

Then Nigeria did not start in 1999 and there exists other groups too with some almost half of Igbos in population

21lucky:
If Azikiwe 'controlled the civil service more than Balewa', then why did Balewa remain PM with executive power while Azikiwe was ceremonial Head of State? Ceremonial means no veto, no control over ministries. That’s why historians don’t count it the same as an 8-year elected presidency.

On 'SE has lowest population but equal zones': The 6-zone structure was a political compromise in 1996, not based on population. If we switch to tax/revenue for representation, then we need a new constitution and a credible census first. You can’t apply one rule for SE and ignore it for others.

And 'Yoruba get no benefit from Nigeria' - then why are Yoruba in politics, business, and federal jobs across the country? You don’t keep benefiting from a system for 60 years and call it useless only when it’s not your turn.


You say 'no unfounded claims of marginalization', but then say 'Yoruba get no benefit from Nigeria'. That’s a claim of marginalization too, just for a different group.
If your real position is secession, say it directly. But don’t use selective history to paint Igbos as the only problem. Nigeria’s problem is bad governance, not which tribe produces the president.


We can argue history all day and still be here in 2050.
The question for 2027 is simple: who can fix power, security, and the economy? If you think Tinubu is that person, argue his record. If I think Peter Obi is, I’ll argue his.
Reducing it to 'my tribe deserves it' or 'your tribe has had enough' is why Nigeria stays stuck.


You want tax/revenue to determine representation, but also want Yoruba to break away and keep Lagos revenue to themselves. Which is it?
You can’t demand a 'federal system based on tax' and then reject federalism when it doesn’t favor you. That’s hypocrisy.

No absolute powers in a parliamentary system. It is not like the Presidential system. In parliamentary there must always be consensus and the PM is merely a coordinator. He can't do anything without the go ahead of the ruling coalition but the highest ranked person was Zik. Nobody had absolute power in the first republic but no doubt Igbos benefitted most from appointments

Any census in Nigeria will still be manipulated but if you look at all stats backed with biometric data, digital footprint, revenue and etc, you will have a good idea of how the population is distributed by percentage if not by absolute numbers. In short you don't need a census to have what you need.

Yes if SE is getting five federal universities while NW or SW gets less than fifteen each, that is already favouring the SE. That is obvious or isn't it? If you consider NIN registration or even taxes paid leaving population figures gotten via any census

I am not saying I want anything for Nigeria. I want Nigeria to break up but what will be best for any federal union is for the federating units to be represented at the center according to their revenue. That is my advise to all nations including any new ones that may rise out of Nigeria's ashes.

There should not be talk of 2027 at all but talk of breakup but which President has done most for Nigeria since the end of the civil war? That is the current President who has reduced oil income to less than twenty five percent of government revenue as he did in Lagos. He reversed in three years the decay caused by the military incursion into governance over decades.

Where did I paint Igbos as the problem? That is your imagination. The problem is unhealthy rivalry and competition which ends up drawing everybody back. It is the same thing you will get if you merge the whole world together as one and staff the security personnel as well as the leadership with only one ethnic group or nationality.

Stop harping on Lagos or Lagos revenue. There is nothing special in Lagos that any state with the same population can not achieve

The newest refinery, a refinery in Angola of 30,000 BPD was valued at 470 million dollars. This means the Dangote refinery will be valued at around 8 billion dollars if it decides to seek funding or is it possible to value a 30,000 bpd refinery at 470 million while valuing a 650,000 bpd at 20 billion dollars? If the refinery is valued using that new refinery as template then the NNPC stake in it is going to at least double

21lucky:
Counting how many times someone from an ethnic group took an oath doesn’t automatically mean the group wasn’t marginalized.

Azikiwe’s ceremonial presidency 1960-1963 was under a parliamentary system where the PM held real power. Ironsi ruled 6 months before being killed. That’s different from 8 years as an elected executive president.
Marginalization isn’t only about ‘who became president’. It’s also about federal projects, appointments, policing, and post-war policy. The 3Rs - Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction - are still debated for a reason.
Population/tax argument: If we’re using contribution to decide slots, then we should apply it consistently across all regions, and let the census settle the numbers. Until then, it’s speculation.
Civil war death toll: Historians and organizations give different figures from 500k to 3m. The point isn’t to argue numbers, but that the war left deep wounds that still affect politics today. Dismissing it doesn’t heal it.

If the goal is a united Nigeria, the answer is power-sharing that feels fair to all, not telling any group ‘you’ve had enough’.


If breaking up is the only way for regions to develop, then we’ve already failed as a country.
If keeping Nigeria together is the goal, then every group needs to feel they have a fair shot. That’s all Igbos are asking for in 2027.
Let’s debate policies, not who suffered more.


You said ‘if Nigeria doesn’t break up, an Igbo will become president fairly’. Good. Then why is it a problem when Igbos organize and campaign for that now?
You can’t say ‘wait your turn’ and also say ‘stop asking’. That’s the definition of moving the goalpost.

Azikiwe controlled who got what in the civil service more than Balewa. The first republic favoured Igbos more than any group in Nigeria, so I don't regard those who say Azikiwe was only ceremonial as serious people. Everybody called him sir, so he must be counted as President. Then the short regimes of other people were counted so it is fair to count Ironsi's as well because all of them affected the country one way or the other. They made irreversible decisions.

It is not a problem if anybody or any group organises but it is a problem to be making unfounded claims of marginalization.

No group is more represented or getting more federal presence than the SE because they have the lowest population but are still entitled to what a zone with three times their population is entitled to.

Tax contribution is the only fair way to determine representation in a federal system because it will make everybody sit up. If Abuja has more revenue than Lagos, it should have more seats at the national assembly than Lagos and if you say Abuja was built by non indigenes then those non indigenes should fight for seats there. Good luck to them but soon they will realize they are better off contributing to their own native lands

Tell me what is the benefit to any group of a united Nigeria? To the Yoruba, there is no benefit. They are a major Earth ethnicity and they are better off in control of their own space not a Yoruba land with security forces who are not Yoruba. That is not good for any group

Focus on disintegration rather than Igbo or any group ruling. Focus on disintegration but if Nigeria does not breakup, an Igbo person will eventually become President again fairly and not by arm twisting others.
Igbos have headed the country thrice. Azikiwe two times and Ironsi once
Yoruba is five times
Obasanjo three times, Shonekan once and Tinubu once
NW seven times
Muritala once Shagari twice, Yaradua once and Buhari three times
Northern Christians one time of Gowon
Niger state two times of Babangida and Abdulsalam
NE tone and a half time
Abacha, Balewa supporting Zik.
Southern minorities two times
Good luck Jonathan
All counting the number of times oaths were taken

I don't see anywhere here that the Igbos were marginalized because even after the civil war, one of them was VP and they shared in ruling, in making decisions, determining who gets what and etc. Therefore they are not marginalized. Akwa-Cross people are almost half of Igbo in population and wouldn't you think they should have at least one slot if Igbos have had three? The contribution of Yoruba to Nigeria in population and taxes is easily three times that of Igbos, don't you think they should have nine slots if Igbos have three but they have only four. So Igbos are not and have never been marginalized.

Then the number of people that died in the civil war due to famine according to the CIA is around 500k. 3 million is a huge number and it will be up to half of the total Igbo population back then if not more. I believe the people killed by firearms on both sides can not be up to 50k. Therefore the figure is wrong.

Join those seeking for Nigeria to break up because that is what can ensure development of the whole region of west Africa and if we don't succeed then an Igbo man will at one point become leader again but the claim of Igbo marginalization is totally unfounded

NinjaMetahuman:
because it's common sense.
Are you going to buy a personal building of 1billion naira if your account balance is 1.1billion naira?

70% of houses in banana island doesn't go for anything less 800million.


Common sense should also tell you that a city with half the population of entire South Africa cannot be 4th to 5th behind south Africa.

Per Capita income matters and per Capita income is a result of cost of living. If your cost of living is very high as a country your per Capita income will be high and you will be classified as a rich country and you will have many dollar millionaires as a result but the real estate they own and even the stock will not be worth a tenth of their value in a low income country
In a place like Banana island, real estate is like equity, practically nobody is having one billion naira on a building without using that capital somewhere else. People who build house without c of o don't build in that kind of place