₦airaland Forum

The morals in religion are known already to anybody with common sense. The bullshit added that is used as justification for wars means the whole package in it's entirety is bullshit . Can you eat food mixed with a little shit?

Economic growth, development and organisation is the panacea for poverty. Education is for human capital development

Hopefully cost of living will crash in high income countries and cost of automobiles will be around ten percent of current cost after the RCCG issue is attended to

casualobserver:
Stop talking like ignoramuses simply because you have data. Bakassi has nothing to do with Nigerian Army. Bakassi was handed to Cameroun by the United Nations. It belongs to Cameroun under International law. Except you want to engage in a war with the UN, Bakassi is gone!

The ICJ is a toothless bull dog. No self respecting nation has really ever obeyed the judgement before

The land actually is owned by the occupiers and it is wrong to evacuate the place for Cameroon. It is no different from the Palestine matter. What right does anybody have to ask anyone to leave their ancestral home based on an ICJ judgement?. If they own the land, they can align it as they wish. God punish ICJ ruling

Dollar is better of course but avoid saving substantially in any currency. Save your money in a means of production as soon as it is substantial. Means of production are assets yielding income however little even if it is five percent per annum. Once you invest in such, your money can not depreciate but beware of real estate for now because of the bogus cost of land once that is settled hopefully soon, real estate will be a safe sector to hide money for anybody

Azazyel:
I understand that Igbos are very good when it comes to business but the problem is despite the fact, they are benefitting from Nigeria population, the East is far from developed. why? Why are the people not rubbing minds together to fully develop eastern Nigeria. Instead they come back to brag with money and build houses in forests. A lot needs to put in place especially now with the Biafra agitation. Igbos have to develop their lands before people can take them serious.

Nobody is benefitting from Nigeria's population when all companies are relocating and Nigerians are studying even in Ghana, Benin republic and etc. Ghana alone is receiving Nigerian school fees above the federal budget for education last time I checked. Igbos are not more dispersed in Nigeria than Hausa or Yoruba. Can you explain to me how?

Do you know you can be shot dead while following the wrong leader? Even while the leader still lives? That is why Emefiele can be punished for what he superitended over. Can you blame Chinua Achebe for any Nigerian mishap?. He refused honour from the Nigerian government, so he is not among those to be blamed. If Emefiele were a correct person he would have resigned. Where did he get one hundred million naira to buy Presidency form? So anything that happens to him is justified.
People with land can not claim marginalisation under any settings. Why?. Because they can not be marginalized on their own land. The first Yoruba to lead Nigeria was Olusegun Obasanjo after two Igbos but they did not claim marginalization because of that until MKO was assassinated and it is Yoruba being marginalized in Nigeria in everything up till now far more than Igbos but Igbos still want more. Why you think you are being marginalized or that there is Igbophobia is simply because Igbos are new in the comity of nations. They were isolated in the past and that was the theme of the book Things fall apart. All Igbo speaking people are Igbos and there is no reasonable person who would argue that. It is a culture born out of trade relations and not empire building, so it has its own uniqueness. There will be problem only if one section is claiming superiority. Each group is superior on its own land

ShootThemAll:
And it will really help them in future... If Lagos state election is 40% free and fair, Igbo's will be the ones to decide who wins election. That's why INEC don't give them their voters card in Lagos state, because they have and know the statistics of Igbo's to other tribes in Lagos state.

Why are you like this?. You want to start war in Lagos? Can foreigners decide what happens in any country?. For your info, Igbos are not more than Hausa in Lagos and SS is more than SE. in Lagos. Yoruba are more in Rivers than Igbos are in Lagos by percentage but nobody has ever made this kind of statement about Rivers and it is not only enemies of Igbos who are on this faceless forum. There are also enemies of Hausa and Yorubas here as well. Don't make such inflammatory statements again which can lead to bigotry against Igbos. It is not even intelligent since Igbos do not even have a permanent if any control over even just one local government in Lagos

Siddiq Abubakar probably is dead which means everything owned by Atiku was fraudulently accumulated and he should pay for that before Nigeria breaks up. Such should not go unpunished

He killed Odunayo Olagbaju and Daramola of Ekiti up to seven people in total.

Hausa:
I understand you.
While I agree that it is true that some Igbos must've wronged people either here or in the real world, it is important to note that by virtue of equity and fairness, it is not all right to make it about us alone. That wouldn't be fair, and that would make you insinuate you're entirely innocent while we're entirely guilty. That's not how it works. And I'm guessing that this constant pointing fingers here and there by the different tribes is why we're struggling to move forward as a country.

That said, your point is noted.

What are your plans on how to move Nigeria forward?. Don't you think a Hausa country would fare better?. A Hausa country merged with Niger is the best for Hausa destiny.

Holluwhakemmy:
oponu of the highest order is Lagos not part of southwest? To go to school you no fit itiboribo

Yorubas in the East by percentage will be more than Igbos in the west. Yoruba are in Rivers more than Igbos are in Lagos by percentage but Rivers is like forty percent of Lagos in population. West is more than double the East in population. So there is no restriction against movement but each group should respect and know the limit of where they control for the sake of orderliness.

Tafa Balewa, General Gowon, Alhaji Shagari, President Yaradua were excellent Presidents that even did better than President Obasanjo with their approach to leadership or is there any issue on which you can fault any of them? And they did not seize power from a democratically elected government. Obasanjo had issues of overbearing influence. The only extra of Obasanjo is that he is more interested in the government at any time. He is more energetic than them but if I am voting anybody it will only be ethnic sentiments that will make me choose President Obasanjo and nothing else.

He was also the only person after PM Tafa Balewa that became the leader of government because if he did not then the country would have broken up or gone into civil war. He became President to appease the Yoruba and the only difference between him and PM Balewa was the small party controlled by the Yoruba voted for another Yoruba man while the NPC supported Balewa but the Yoruba supported him for second term since he they had no reason not to

advanceDNA:
The reason is because in court..., motive or intent is usually proven as well in order to establish the condition of "beyond reasonable doubt" which is needed to determine the sentence a guilty person ......

For example..if a person kills and it's true they killed ...the court still needs to prove motive to determine the judgement....

Is it planned or premeditated murder?? maybe borne out of anger, malice, greed: that's first degree murder and could attract capital punishment

Is it an impulsive murder. Like murder that happen when u are suddenly provoked : e g crime of passion, like u walked in on ur best friend banging ur wife ... The sentence will be different....

it could also be self defence which means u could walk away free even though u killed the person......


The problem with paternity fraud is that women always have a roof to hide under...and that roof is deniability of the existence of the pregnancy.....while they can spread their legs for as many men as possible in one day....It's all too easy for them to claim ignorant of the time or existence of the pregnancy..... So proving beyond doubt that a woman knows she was pregnant before sleeping with who she pinned the baby in becomes difficult


So just like self defence ...the vagina pple can easily walk away by claiming the fraud wasn't intentional.... I mean a woman can even lie she was raped....so what are we even saying ... ..Unless an infallible proof exist ...they will always walk away

You are very correct. It is an academic response but the seal on the argument is a song by Yoruba mothers that says the mother is the true owner of the child, the mother is undoubtedly the owner of the child, it is only when we are pranking ourselves that we say the father owns the child. The logic in the song is that the true father is known only to the mother. All women know who impregnated them but also know who have the right over the child.

SporaD8:
If it's just by resemblance, what further need is there to stress the already-overpopulated system when orphanage homes are ever looking for adopters?!

Children of Mohammed are terrorists despite not being his biological children. Citizens of nations under good leadership do better in all respects. Better IQ for kids, respect in foreign nations, innovations in their universities and etc. If your president is a criminal, it will tell on your personal fortune as a citizen. Everything is infectious like a contagious disease. Phenotype and character are not exempted. A bastard can turn out as the glorious child in the family who physically resembles the father and also taking after him in character while DNA result can reveal paternity fraud. A wife can give birth to a son resembling her former lover who did not marry her while DNA says no paternity fraud. By all means not everything is explainable by science

EmperorCaesar:
What sector, I want to know

I'm in Anambra, during my NYSC in 2021, i taught Agric Sci from Jssi to ss3, and I swear to God almighty that there arent any Yoruba student i the school, iN fact, there were just 4 Hausa students altogether...Students of SS origin in the whole school isnt up to 50 and this is a school that has classes A-E for junior sec schs...The rest are Igbos


Now, during my growing up in Ondo state, I have never been in a class without at least 10 igbo students being my class mate despite changing schools three times and that too was inside an interior village in Ondo state


My point is, I still live in Anambra and i can tell u that Yorubas make less than 1% of their entire population in the cities while Igbos make up to 5% of the population in every Yoruba interior villages let alone the cities

Abeg, make una suffery dey lie...Igbos moving to SW is far more than Yorubas travelling down here

I think you have gotten it wrong. Your leader in Anambra said publicly that Yoruba in Anambra are over 500k which I accept to be true because he is an authority and a respectable person. He also was not seeking any political post for the people he leads. He was just innocently making a point. Civil servants, clergy men, artisans, Yoruba married to Igbo, bank workers, telecomms workers, traders, agbo sellers, transporters who are Yoruba in Anambra might be up to that number. Anambra is only one state. 5 states in all should contain at least 1.5 million Yoruba people because they have basically the same needs of artisans,federal civil servants, telecomms workers, bank workers, clergy and oil workers where Yoruba predominate. So I believe that the Chief based in Anambra and not Yourself a nairaland account is correct. If only one million Yoruba are in the SE then it will be sensible to accept that close to two million Igbos can be in the west because the population of the west is more than double the east and there is a huge probability that Yoruba has a higher percentage in the old East as a whole because of PH than Igbos have in the west.

SonOfDSoil01:
; what about the onion bandit in your cursed region? Why not do us a Favor and leave the region of the rice thieves, but yet your generation keep dying in ekene dilichukwu transport just to escape that unproductive region to Sw, Okoro are you coming here to thief rice? Because I really don’t understand the rush to Yoruba land! Osu

Stop deceiving yourself that Igbos come to Yoruba land more than Yorubas go to East. I think Yoruba rate is slightly higher. Yoruba completely dominate some sectors in the East as well. So stop deceiving yourself

The child of a married woman belongs to her husband and that is what the supreme court in any country will rule if it becomes a dispute. However it can be different if the husband agrees with his wife. Otherwise. No. The child will even resemble the husband or do you think it is only DNA that causes resemblance?

Tobichimezie:
It's sad to see some people still not understand the concept of igr in economic terms, even if you broke it down for them in layman terms dem no go ever get am...in the simplest way of explaining it, because a state has a higher igr relative to its standard of living doesn't mean the people in that state on an average index are living any better than the people in a state with a lower igr. It simply means the people living in a state with higher IGR pay MORE TAXES and thus generate MORE REVENUE for the state government, the only surest way to gauge the standard of living of a country or people is by measuring their wealth distribution, the strength of their middle class, and most importantly their GDP (not IGR).

I have shown in my upcoming book that revenue per Capita is a metric useful for determining the health of an economy. The more the revenue collected per head, the better the country. I don't think that the law will ever be discredited but who knows?

plaindealer:
Economic activity doesn't create, propel, or administrate itself, economic activities don't come up with ideas, solutions, and managerial skills.

Progress, development, and vibrant economies are created by competent leadership with creative economic ideas and solutions.

Lagos's population was huge before 1999 when the IGR was nothing to write home about, but the leadership came up with bright ideas and creative solutions to grow the IGR to what it is today and the top 5 economies in the whole of Africa.

Going by your logic, shouldn't the SS states with less than 5 million people and fewer responsibilities be like Dubai today?

It's not always about money or population, it's always about the people in charge and so far, Lagos State is blessed with an endless stream of wonderful and competent leaders.

You are right but only Lagos is different and not all the SW. Tinubu admin started it as a fluke becàuse he is not made up of stuff to bring positive change but the admin to credit for Lagos progress is the one that made PAYE the main revenue source instead of land use started by Tinubu. Who is it among the governors?.

oyatz:
Osun State has over 2 million registered voters, so the population of the State would be about 7 million.

Even, with 2 million people, if they had invested in massive Agricultural projects, they can be supplying rice for the whole of Osun, Oyo and Lagos States

Voter registration figures is totally unreliable. Use waec stats. It is more reliable. Active GSM lines, data subs and etc. Those are unbreachable data. If Osun is seven million, it means one third of Lagos. Can Osun be really one third of Lagos?. I don't think so. If so, Oyo will be at least ten million and Ogun ten million too or a bit more because combination of Ogun and Oyo surpasses Lagos. My calculation is Oyo and Ogun combined are like 120 percent of Lagos while Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi west may be similar to Lagos or a bit more and seven million will be too high for Osun in the mix

plaindealer:
SW without Lagos = N255 Billion

SE combined = N114 billion

Ogun State @ N120 Billion is more than the whole of SE combined

Poor developers, laziness, leadership incompetence and sitting at home get consequences.

SW without Lagos has a higher population and therefore economic activity than the SE.

foleskay:
Where did u get ur figure that anambra has 9million population?? That tiny state. Abeg Mk una dey use sense to comment

Anambra by waec enrollment figures of some years back is slightly higher in population than Osun

nedekid:
You de concern yourself with nothing relevant or beneficial to you. If Lagos or ogun generate revenue pass the other states, how e put food ontop your table? Abi do they share the money to you monthly? Does it decrease fuel cost from 600 to 100 because you are from Lagos or ogun? Can you ride brt or enter train without paying? Can you enter yakoyo and eat amala with gbegiri and ewedu, garnished with ogufe then shine your teeth and say Lagos and ogun has highest revenue so you must eat free?
Omo, to knock sence into yah coconut de hungry some people.

A government with large budget is more powerful can employ more people, fund big projects, fund education and etc. Money makes everything easy

Lagos of twenty million people should make only ten percent of total IGR but report says thirty four percent which is an improvement on how it was before if true but I don't think it is true.

People who are only interested in but not affected by what happens in a country don't have to vote. Illegals living in the country deserve to be given the vote more than diasporeans

erico2k2:
The only reason we buy brand new cars in the west is cos there is efficient credit facilities.Lease etc.So he should upgrade to a good financial department of trade.Lease vehicles to corporate organisation.

Can a school be providing credit facilities for parents to pay their kids' school fees?. Or a foodstuff seller be helping a buyer source for funds to buy food?. Credit giving is the department of banks and nor private companies who also are indebted to banks. Are you sure you are in the western world or western Nigeria?

CarlsJaz567:
On the contrary, in my own opinion, I believe that the quest for a third term was OBJ's undoing, which contributes to what Nigeria is suffering today. Such moves might have worked in Rwanda and China, but they have proved a failure in Nigeria.

OBJ had already achieved more than people expected of him when he came in as the president by laying a good foundation for the country's economy, effecting a substantial level of debt repayment which allowed his campaign efforts to secure debt forgiveness - a largely successful endeavor.

He was already on the way towards achieving privatization, having started in the Telecom sector. He just needed to settle down and carefully narrow down who could succeed him. However, he was influenced by busybody sycophants who convinced him that Nigeria would not do well without him and that he needed an additional term in office to consolidate on his achievements so far. Once he bought into that idea, he lost focus and devoted his time and effort to gathering money for bribing the National Assembly members in order to change the constitution to allow him to contest again.

All his genuine anti-corruption efforts slowed down, and he began witch-hunting his perceived opponents. He also slowed down on privatization efforts and was busy attempting to secure support for the third term attempt. Of course, those who egged him on in this direction used the opportunity to either steal from the economy, knowing that he was too distracted to fight them with the EFCC, or they collected money from him supposedly to disburse to would-be supporters.

Eventually, when it became obvious that a third term would not be allowed, he had wasted a lot of 'Ghana-must-go' hoards of cash on politicians and had to hastily plan for an emergency successor. He didn't have much time to ensure the sustainability of his successes, which were already eroding under his own tenure due to the ill-advised ambition to secure an extra term.

The rest is history, as we started a nose-dive right from the terminally ill Yar'Adua, who could not govern well and decisively due to ill-health and relied on Turai and the "cabals" to make selfish decisions for the country. He even reversed most of the last-minute Board of Public Procurement (BPP) sales of assets and did not do anything to correct the errors that he was meant to. Now, under his watch, we are wasted assets such as NITEL and left the refineries moribund. Nigeria's fate has only sunk even further under subsequent government since then.

So, greedy elongation of tenure is not a great idea.

He could have won a third term if he owned the fight for it but there was no time he came out in the public to campaign for third term. How can you win a war by proxy?. Other people that won third term in other countries campaigned in the open I believe. Maybe he could have won if he did not hide to fight the battle but who knows?. He may not have been interested in the idea. However you have to own a war to stand a good chance of winning it If you believe something is right, why support it covertly unless you believe it is wrong

The main reason he did not win was the sorry state Nigeria was back then and still is today If Nigeria was Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia etc, he would have won.

emmanuelbrown26:
If Yorubas are 40million in population I doubt if 2million has ever stepped outside their and before. And that's why they are very myopic in thinking

Yoruba land in SW, NC abd SS is holding at least eighty million people and if there is a Yoruba country in West Africa, it will exceed one hundred million, if others join it can top 150 million. To join iis easy, once you accept Yoruba language as official at national level, then you are good to go but Yoruba will not because of ten million people extra be speaking English. Forty million is just Lagos, Ogun and part of Oyo state.