Auto mobiles are the top traded goods after oil on Earth. The competition is not among Nigerian companies whose local market represents a negligible percentage of the global market for brand new cars as at now. If you can really produce cars in Nigeria then it will be very cheap for obvious reasons and you will sell any number you produce and you will be in the rank of Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes Benz, Peugeot abd etc. So the competition is not among Nigerian companies. If everything settles, the big companies will come into Nigeria and many car part manufacturing companies will be set up to supply them but the big hurdle to cross is the materials industry. There will be Nigerian brands and foreign brands. If you have a new technology as a company then you will have a real footing but you can not have technology without being in the industry and spending money on research even if unintentionally

Wrong history is a virus. It was never a Fulani jihad and also, Aare Afonja never betrayed anybody or else where is proof?. Alaafin Aole was duly removed and he was not the first Alaafin to be removed. Aare Afonja could not have done it alone. Even Bashorun Gaha was not able to. Therefore revise your history. If people in Ilorin are ninety percent paternally descended from Yoruba today similar to Ibadan then who were the Fulanis that were in the Osogbo war?

Why talk to your teacher with respect too?. All courtesy should be outlawed

Ibani are Igboid speakers of Ijoid origin. They adopted a trade language over time. If no other Ijaw group,they would identify as Igbos but as Ijaw is large, then they would identify as Ijaw. They have Igbo dialect and Ijaw language. There are Ijaws in the South east as well because I have heard of one Taribo from Abia state and there are Ijaws in the southwest. Let every group control their land and align it anyhow they want is the only way to avoid problems. There is no conquering any group by force any more. That is a bygone era. The land you control is what you control and It can not increase more than that. All people speaking the same language ought to be in the same country to preserve that language and use it as official and if you have any language about to disappear like Ibani, brush it up and restore it as did the Jews with Hebrew. It is better to stop saying anybody at all is something they have repeatedly said they are not. Best scenario for Yoruba is to merge all their lands to Eastern Ghana as well as the land of associated people who agree to be in a Yoruba language country but it will be hard. The minimum is to start from looking out for each other in whatever country they find themselves. It is the same for Hausa in Nigeria and Niger. So let Igbos stop saying anybody is Igbo or not. There are Igboid people who may not be Igbos and the worst case scenario is having two or three Igbo speaking countries in west Africa and like everything it has its own advantages. Don't say people are what they are not. I know where my ancestors were say twenty or even two hundred generations ago but we no longer are from there and they don't claim us

Kano is the most progressive state in Nigeria since independence and they produced the number one grass root mobilizer in the country in the person of Mallam Aminu Kano. It is the only state that is firmly under the control of the masses and the only missing thing there is financial independence from the FG and they missed it only because they were not pushed as Lagos was pushed during the seizure of their LG funds. They should not surrender their independence even if it remains only thirty minutes for Nigeria to break up

Engine bloc, gear systems etc are the difficult parts of an automobile to manufacture but they can be made in the country as well. Osogbo machine tools can produce engine blocs. A simple lathe machine can be used to produce any machine part and can even produce another lathe machine and assemble it without the gear and it can substitute the gear with a switch. So I was told by a technician in Makstech Ilesa 23 years ago. Anything can be produced in the country if Ajaokuta were working well

tobstarizhia:
The middle class earn between 2/3rd of the national median income of 339,000 (around 230,000) to double that (660,000). I personally believe that the max value is much more higher. Going into the millions. In fact, I think anything less than 2.5 million is still middle class. Also, you can be earning 5 million a month and still be middle class. You're only rich if you have income generating assets (businesses, schools, etc) and those assets attracts little or no liabilities. E.g. you own the land and building on which your business is built. Middle income earners can own businesses, but they are more likely to rent the building than actually owning it

Your definition of the middle class is sensible because to own a building housing your business will be close to twenty million naira if not in Lagos but it can help you with bank guarantees, your character and long standing can also help you with credit. So if you have only a few millions of your own as liquidity but own your premises, you are not really middle class if you have long standing and character

nwadikeokey11:
Oga which of the embassies have you submitted your visa application before? Are you aware that you are more likely to be granted visa if you have a bulk amount in your account that has not been touched for months? That money just keep flowing into the account without you touching it? That it shows how comfortable and rich you are because what the embassies want to see and know is that you are very comfortable in your own country and only want to go to their country for a temporary visit just to enjoy your money in their country then return back to your own country, hence the steady inflow of money in your account and the balance is one of the major determinant factor to granting you visa? The balance in your account is very necessary to prove that you have got enough money to spend in their country and a left over you fall back on when you return. Show me the embassy that will grant you visa without a substantial stipulated amount of money in your account. Only USA will not request for bank statement for tourist visa, others does and they all requires a substantial bulk in your account. I ask you again, are you aware that most embassies rules include that a certain amount of money must be in your account at the time you are printing and submitting your account statement, irrespective of the busy activities in the said account? Talk about only what you know and never babble into what you know absolutely nothing of.

You people think you have to travel out of the country before having basic common sense but that is mediocre thinking. If there is any bank account where money is entering constantly without it being depleted, then that is not a real bank account. It is a kind of scam account. I hope you understand but I doubt you ever will or can

nwadikeokey11:
Checking the balance is also part of it, especially if it's for visa purposes. Or are you not aware that there's certain amount of money that's required to be in your account for you to stand the chance of getting a visa of some countries? Oga talk wetin you know.

In any active account, money is moved more or less everyday and sometimes more than that nce a day to remain zero. Therefore it is never the balance being checked and if you have a huge balance with no activity, the account will be freezed

GlobeTrotter2:
the regular documents like employment letter or cac, account statement, cover letter,etc.

There is no definite amount that should be in your bank account, but it must be healthy enough to fund your trip with a good amount remaining

When bank statement is asked for by any entity. It is not to check the balance but to check the activity.

BreconHills:


I know exactly what you are saying.

What I am saying is that in car manufacture, nobody builds a car using 100% parts from one country. Usually parts are brought from several countries and it assembled in location. The eurofighter for example (which admittedly is a plane) is built with components from four - six countries. The engine alone was contributed by five engine parts manufacturers.

However in ship building Nigeria is making more progress with small inland patrol boats and ferries. Caverton has just produced a largely NG manufactured ferry.

The objective for any country is to increase local components. If you have 30% local components you can claim the car. What the government should do have a tiered tax and support regime based on local content with import waivers for export lines.

By the way there is an ( OEM) Original Equiptment Manufacturers (a market for buying non military components for everything including building private Jets).This is the market that Nigerian car assembly companies are buying from. They are not buying a car in China and shipping it as a completely knocked down UNLESS they are an outpost of such a car manufacturer eg Peugeot in the North. However to reduce final costs it is unlikely they will by buying Rolls Royce engines or Saab parts - so high liklihood China, Turkish and Korea parts will feature heavily.

Let's give some kudos to people veering into unsupported areas with very tiny domestic ecosystems.

We will get there.

Do you realize that if rent in Europe or China or North America were as cheap as Enugu or Owerri that salaries will come down and oil price will drop as well to around seven dollars per barrel and a car you are buying at ten million will drop to at most two million naira? And that will be only because of the lower cost of labour in high income countries also because of lower cost of oil. If you can relate with that you will realize that Nigeria does not have any real industrial capacity. If there is then a brand new car will be around one million naira only

There are many historical accounts wrongly propagated as truths while they are demonstrably false and the idea of a Fulani jihad in Yoruba land is one. The oft repeated account of Ibadan driving back the Fulani at Osogbo is a false historical account. The right history is that Ibadan drove back the Ilorin from Osogbo a part of Ijesa land and the Ilorin were allied with the Ijesa whose land was occupied by the Ibadan. An Ijesa Oba was more or less apprehended by Ibadan after the Ilorin calvary was routed by Ibadan infantry. He was my ancestor the Ogboni of Ibokun for supporting Ilorin. He gave birth to the grandmother of late Chief Josiah Oladiran Lawanson That is the correct account. No Fulani were driven back from Osogbo and it was Ilorin that was driven back and the Ilorin were allies of the Ijesa.

The correct account of what happened in Ilorin in the 1840s is that Aafa Alimi a Fulani man was a gentleman that was well liked by everybody. He grew old and died and was buried. Then Aare ona Kakanfo Afonja wanted to instal another Imam and he picked a naturalized Yoruba I think from Borno but the followers of Aafa Alimi said it must be Abdulsalam that should be installed and he was the son of the late Aafa Alimi by a Yoruba woman and they went further to disinherit all other older and younger sons from the non Yoruba wives of the late Aafa Alimi but Aare Afonja did not agree. It turned into a civil war during which he was killed. Does it qualify as a Fulani Jihad?. It certainly does not but for some reasons it has been tagged like that. The struggle was not initiated by Fulani and the beneficiary was made Emir only because of his Yoruba heritage. You must note that if there is war in Ijesa today, all sorts of people will participate including Fulani, Hausa, Bariba, Igbo and probably Europeans. Ilorin jihad or Iwo jihad or Ijesa jihad is not the same thing as a Fulani jihad. The Othman Dan Fodio jihad was a Fulani jihad but Ilorin jihad is Ilorin jihad and it was nipped in the bud by Ibadan. The last headquarter of Ilorin before colonisation was Ibadan and they dutifully sent in their taxes in produce, livestock and young women to Ibadan annually. What caused an upset was the Kirini war that was on for seventeen years. The Fulani in Sokoto wished to carry jihad to the South but it was only a wish which never happened as they had major cities or nations to cross or subdue before reaching any Yoruba people. It was not the Yoruba at risk of being overrun by Sokoto, it was the other way round if not for the Kiriji war that broke out. If you doubt me go to Ilorin today and each and everyone of them will tell you details of their origin and it will be places like Oyo, Bariba, Ogbomoso, Iseyin, Ijesa, Fulani, Mali, Kanuri, Iwo, Egba but it is a predominantly Oyo culture that has embraced Islam like Iwo, Ede, Ibadan etc. They use turban partly because they are Muslims and also because they were in the Northern Nigeria. The Olu of Jebba and the Obaro of Kabba used to wear turban. Christian Kings in the North still do so but by ancestry Ilorin probably has more Yoruba than Ilesa. Then the person who signed the land under Britain was a descendant of Alaafin Abiodun. He was therefore the representative of the landowners as at then. So stop the idea of a Fulani jihad that reached Ilorin because it is an uneducated presentation of history. Something coming from Sokoto that did not reach Jebba obviously could not have reached Ilorin or how is that possible?. If you are coming overland from Cameroon to Benin republic, you must pass Nigeria and if not you must pass other places that is bordering Nigeria. Isn't it?.

excel101:
Are the likes of:
1. Lanre Shittu Motors
2. Dana Motors
3. Elizade Motors
Etc a Motor manufacturing company.

They have assembly plants and can take auto parts from local suppliers while they also manufacture some especially none metal parts. No other company is doing much more than that.. The industrial capacity in the country is not adequate otherwise a brand new car will be less than two million naira

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