₦airaland Forum

The country is a joke. It is wrong to use Fulani as vigilante in Yoruba land without the support of the locals. Those vigilantes are the kidnappers.

It is people in government arming the militants. This now has become obvious

ogashman:
Was the CJTF operating in Borno kept secret?

Are they not indigenes of Borno state?

Why would the NSA arm and equip foreigners in order to fight insecurity in a land not theirs?

Are there no indigenous able bodied youths in Kwara that could do the job?

If the Presidency will not do anything then the community should take the NSA to court, demand a huge compensation and ask for his sack because they are the ones bearing the brunt. They are the ones being killed. The onus is on them

Tsarbomba:
Please can you explain to me in a layman's term what this listing of dangote refinery in the stock mean?

He is going to raise capital for his business and the owners of the funds will become shareholders. The new money will obviously be used to settle part of the debt used to build the refinery.

There is a Yoruba saying Moja mosa la fin mo akinkanju loju Ogun. Knowing how to fight and knowing how to flee is the mark of a true warrior or brave warrior. If all you know is fight you are not a true warrior.

gidgiddy:
No, Ojukwu should have folded his hands and let Gowon direct a war against the East from Lagos because Lagos is Yoruba land

They way you people reason is baffling

Ok. The Yoruba should have agreed to hand Lagos to him and for any policy in the west to require his written approval. He made his decision to invade Fine and he got what any military analyst worth his salt would have easily predicted. He did not have the firepower to take up the west, Midwest and North. Simple

gidgiddy:
Its unfortunate that when the Northerners killed the Yoruba Military Governor of the Western Region, Lt Col Fajuyi, and chased away from Lagos, the Yoruba man who was supposed to be President after the death of Ironsi, Brigadier Ogundipe so that they could put in Gowon, Yoruba's didn't see that as invasion. They didn't see that as an insult.

The only time Yoruba's remembered invasion was when Ojukwu attempted to get at Gowon and his Northern goons in Lagos.

Yoruba's were very happy to give Gowon and his fellow Northerners the platform in Lagos to wage war on the East, but got angry that Ojukwu tried to flush Gowon out of Lagos. No Yoruba even cares about Fajuyi and Ogundipe. They only care that Ojukwu tried to do what Yoruba's never had the backbone to do, which is try to deal with those who dealt with Fajuyi and Ogundipe

Sometimes Im surprised Yoruba's did anything when MKO was denied his mandate by Northerners, locked up and kpaied

Awo got Northern soldiers out of Yoruba land. Only Gowon and a few people were in Lagos. The Northern soldiers went to station themselves in Ilorin
If you think Biafra was right to invade the west and Midwest which did not allow any move against Biafra from their land then you should not think those who defended their land were wrong or what kind of thinking is that?. If they did not defend their land even when small Midwest defended theirs you will still call them cowards. Let this matter rest abeg. Those who defended their land from external aggression were right. That is what any sensible observer will say. The resistance against Biafra started in the Midwest, it just was not successful. Civilian Ijaw, Itsekiri Urhobo attacked Banjo's men and killed some. If you think Biafra was right, that's ok but stop saying those who defended their land were wrong. They will do so again

Again Awo had already gotten Northerners out of the west with only mouth and it was westerners that defended the west

Then Ogundipe didn't plan any coup and the Yoruba would not expect that he will be the beneficiary. Such has never and will never happen.
Colonel Fajuyi sacrificed himself. He died a death of honor with his guest General Ironsi. He did it so that the Yoruba will not be complicit in the coup. It is said they prostrated and begged him but he refused

In every nation where census was taken Yoruba have always been about double Igbo in population. When census of language spoken at home in the US was taken Yoruba was double Igbo when the same was taken in Ireland Yoruba was like triple Igbo. I believe if you go to any city in the North it will be like that. Verdict is that Yoruba is at least double Igbo in population. Presently people living on Nigerian Yoruba land will be in excess of seventy million while people living on Igbo land will just be over thirty million. After everything you can only count people on your land as yours

Lagos GDP is over bloated because of high cost of living

Oyo paid 70 billion naira in VAT. You have to show workings. Oyo GDP is not less than ten trillion naira because the GDP of companies that paid 70 billion is over one trillion naira and they can't be more than five to ten percent of the total GDP of Oyo state. The GDP ranking is not correct

I have read several reports putting Oyo state GDP at 4 trillion naira in 2024 but I do not agree with them. Oyo paid VAT of over 70 billion naira in 2024 and the GDP that generated that VAT is around one trillion naira since VAT is 7.5 percent. The companies that pay VAT in Oyo state can not be up to ten percent of the GDP of Oyo state, maybe five percent. Not up to ten percent of Nigeria's economy is in the formal sector especially in a state like Oyo state.
Therefore if Oyo state can pay VAT of seventy billion naira which is drawn from companies generating less than ten percent of its GDP then it's total GDP will be in the region of ten trillion naira and not four trillion naira.
There are other indicators too, for example Oyo has the highest number of hotels after Lagos making it's hospitality sector the second biggest in the country and etc

malali:

You only have 4 posts on Nairaland all attacking people who have criticized you paymaster Dangote.
And i am the one that is being paid.......

I think to solve the problem the government should impose a tariff on importation for a few years. Not indefinitely. Then those that have invested will be able to sell even at a little bit above market rate or even drive importers out. I also don't support the outright ban of importation. There are many companies producing in the country from iron rods to cable wire and etc and nobody has banned importation for them. They have had to struggle. They can place tariffs for two or three years because if they ban importation what will happen is what has happened in the cement sector. We will be paying double what they pay in China and India despite that we are poorer and labor is cheaper here

We hope the replacements too are not living above their means. Judges in this country send kids to foreign universities on their meagre salaries

loffyloffy:
What a stupid view, Ojukwu troops will just match through yoruba land without any casuality and attack Lagos(a city with the largest population in Nigeria) with Zero casuality, Gowon will just raise his hands ans run to Kaduna.

All this Alaba babies that are trying to rewrite history instead of accepting the fact that their Grand father started a war that they are not equiped to win, and loss th3 war gallantly.

Not only Col Ojukwu. Some of the blame should go to Col Banjo as well because without a Yoruba to lead the force he may have dropped the idea of invading the west and midwest

Ofodirinwa:
Is oil and gas not an economic activity?
You can say everything you need but in all indices of development Imo is in the top 4 nationwide. GDP, education, healthcare, literacy etc etc.

If you want to convince yourself that it is the high income foreigners like Yoruba tailors and Hausa security men which are causing this that is fine but the next question is why is it that its only the places with a high Igbo population (and im including Lagos and Kano) that are yellow? And when you go to these places Igbo people are living better than the locals. Then you go to the SE and Igbo people are living better than the foreigners (who are few).

But even outside of Oil, the Owerri Airport is only behind Abuja and Lagos in patronage. There are thousands of videos of Imo State villages and cities and the SE is visibly and statistically more economically active and developed than everywhere else in Nigeria

It is wrong to say all Igbos are living better than the locals. Some not all. Many Igbos don't even have money to rent shops. They hawk in the streets. Owerri has oil companies and I don't think the airport can be busier than PH. Owerri airport is very busy because of oil and gas. However Anambra has more population. Abia too has more population. Osun has a bit more population too and from my findings they have a higher non oil and gas activity. All the info is there online. Imo has more indigenes than Anambra as evidenced in ume registration and etc but Anambra has more people living in it and hence a larger GDP. Oil and gas is economic activity but it is mostly taken out. The JV partner takes 40 percent and FG sixty from where they give 13 percent of that sixty to the states apart from other allocation. What stays in the state maybe less than fifteen to twenty percent of the oil and gas but it is something too. However GDP ranking in Nigeria awards 100 percent.
The fact is that there are successful non indigenes in the East just like there are successful easterners in other places. There are 9800 dollar millionaires in Nigeria. Lagos has 4800 and Abuja 800. The rest are shared between the 35 states remaining. If SE have 500 or any number there will be Yoruba, Hausa and etc among them. Such people will be worth over 2 billion naira.

Then in any state the economy is overwhelmingly under the control of the locals. Not strangers. Be it agriculture, manufacturing, trading and etc. Other people are just fringe players.

mrvitalis:
IMO GDP is higher than all South West state outside Lagos
Anambra GDP is highly than all South West state outside Anambra

South East have 5 states ooh yet has same GDP as North West with 7 states

The most important fact is this

99.999% of South East GDP is Igbo owned no other region can say the same none

The up to 30 billion dollars oil revenue that is taken by government and oil companies is added to the GDP of oil producing states. Banks and hotels have more branches in Osun state than Imo state. That means they make more money there. There is no profession or trade you want to count that Osun or Anambra is not more than Imo. All the evidence are online. Just Google. Use rentech.com. Therefore the real GDP of Osun or Anambra is higher than Imo. The oil and gas in Imo is taken out by the government. It is added to the GDP but the money does not stay in Imo or any of the oil states.
According to NIN registration data available online Imo has 2.1 million entries and Osun has 2.3 million. Anambra is 2.9 million Ogun is 5 million and Oyo is 4.5 million. The real GDP outside oil and gas will correlate with the population when compared with each other. The only instances it will not correlate perfectly is when cost of living differs. For instance cost of living is lower in the North. A low cost of living is an advantage.
Akwa ibom or Rivers or Imo does not have Kano's economic activity or GDP but Nigeria's GDP ranking awards them a higher GDP because of oil and gas.

Then in the SE there are millions of non indigenes with many of them as HNIs and you are wrong to say indigenes control everything in the SE. Their situation is like other zones. If they have 1000 dollar millionaires more than ten percent or thereabouts will be non indigenes. There are less than ten thousand dollar millionaires in Nigeria. A Fulani man with 200 cows is a naira level HNI with over 100 million in asset and such are there in the SE

Eboofa:
Rubbish analysis..........so Nigeria is richer than China abi? Because we are busy doing subsistence farming......Nigeria is a crappy poor backwater....including Lagos and south east!

Agric is only around twenty something percent of the GDP but it is the largest sector. China is better led than Nigeria. They have a lower dependency ratio. Fewer children. Slower population growth rate. They also have a better infrastructure. We have too many mouths to feed in Nigeria and not under as able leadership. China is more expensive to live in than Nigeria but I was not comparing China to Nigeria.

Everybody have what they do in their land. In Ilesa here a farmer producing 5 tonnes of cocoa per annum apart from yams, cassava and etc will not go and do another thing. Cocoa is six thousand dollars per tonne. A Hausa farmer doing beans, onions and maize making thirty million naira a year will base on that. Small time farmers in the North come to the south during dry season for seasonal jobs does not mean they are poor. They always return to their farms and overtime they become wealthy. Somebody in the east doing palm oil, cassava and yams will stay there. All states have civil servants too paid similar wages. Total wealth of a state is to do with population and not much else. Nowhere is idle and most states are over ninety percent indigenes.

Ofodirinwa:
No suprises. There are really two economic regions (Lagos and South East). Igboland has by far the widest net of wealth across the region

The SE has the lowest GDP by far and that is because of the low population. You can't manufacture GDP from thin air. You need to have the population first

If North is poor how come they buy around sixty percent of cement in Nigeria?. They are poor but are pulling more than their weight in building houses.
Nowhere is poor, what is needed is cooperation by joining hands together via taxes. Mass poverty can only be solved by the government taking around half of the GDP.
Then where population is is where the money is. Also Lagos GDP is artificially high because of a high cost of living.

gidgiddy:
The people protesting about Anioma State creation, it being added to the South-East, have good reason to do so. The resolution of the national assembly is that one more state should be created for the South-East, the only zone with 5 states

The only chance of creating Anioma state is if it put in the South-East, as no one, not even Northerners and Westerners, are going to accept the South South climbing to 7 states while most of them stay at 6. The South-East won't support something that will keep them at 5 states while South South climbes to 7 states.

So if Anioma insists on staying in the South South, which is their right, they should forget everything about Anioma State creation. And the South-East can look at other alternatives such as Adada State, Etiti State and Orlu State.

Ned Nwoko knew that for Anioma state to ever be possible, it needed the massive support of the South-East, who were willing to embrace those they regard as brothers. Utterances by people mainly from Ndokwa and Ika, as well as the Asagba of Asaba, has since made the South-East to have a rethink

But nobody is going to support the South South climbing to 7 states, leaving others at 6, and the South-East remains at 5.

Actually a state is a state whether in SE or SS. There is no difference. The zones hold no significance at all. Then as per number of senators the most cheated are the NW and SW. The most cheated on the overall is SW because they not only have the population but are also contributing tax revenue in form of VAT for others to eat. SS contribute natural resources and natural resources is not tax. Nobody put it there. The fair federation is one where your revenue will determine your representation in government. A state with 100 billion naira in tax revenue should have ten times the representation of one with ten billion. That is the only fair way. Every other thing is cheating

casualobserver:
I am not here for fantasy talk. I am here for reality. When you snap out of your fantasy or grow up and see the world as it is I will be happy to engage you. Right now we are too far apart. You are talking hypothetical fantasy and I am dealing with realities on the ground.

We are too far gone to return to that constitution. Even if we did it would be a disaster. The conditions that created that environment are gone!

You are just talking nonsense like a bot

casualobserver:
That is why it is important to think before you act.

The truth about the matter is the Nigeria of 1960 is not the Nigeria of today. Things have changed on so many levels.

It’s like a 60yr old man who abandoned a promising career at 22 to face music only to realize that this music dream isn’t working. He can’t go back to the career he had before because things have changed in that time! The people are different, the leaders are different, everything is different!. In 36 states you have people who are planning to be governor and when their turn comes you say they should revert to 4 or 6 regions? Let’s say that I was assured of governor of small Ekiti state , I have played the game right, zoning favours me, I have received the endorsement of the godfathers and kingmakers, i have spent money on borehole transformer and scholarships (lol). I should now go and compete with aspirants from 5 other states including moneybag states like Lagos for governor of western region?

And you think he he political heavyweights will instruct my state senators, house and state assembly members to vote I. Favour of this new constitution?

All this assumes you can even get the votes for a new constitution.

Independence constitution can be with any number of states. What is best is total division. Yoruba are for one too large to not have their nation fully under their control. Every ethnic nationality should have their land under their control with police at least.

casualobserver:
Stop talking like a primary 4 child. That option has been removed by those who never see beyond their noses.

So you don't see any way forward and the country must remain on one spot or be moving backwards because of somethings that happened decades ago?

casualobserver:
You guys just talk anyhow sha! This is not the fantasy channel! It’s the same people that cannot create states that you are dreaming will return to independence constitution?

This is why people should think before they act, when things aren’t going your way else you make moves for which there is no return.

Those who couldn’t see beyond today and refused secession clause, who abolished referendum, who staged a coup, those who promulgated decree 34 etc etc did not realize they would be here today paying the price for the situation they created for themselves and everyone else.

The best thing is to breakup the country and let everybody do with their land what they wish. However nobody signed up for the current constitution. It was imposed by the military. The country is holding everybody back and should be disbanded

casualobserver:
Like I said….people who are capable of thinking know this is just a jamboree and not a single state that will be created.

If there is a return to the independence constitution it can be done. Back then regions did not want to be divided unlike now that states are asking to be divided. The military messed up the country.

casualobserver:
It is easier to for Nnamdi Kanu to see the law under which he was tried than for any state to be created.

The parliament just presented a list of constitutional amendments including renaming of local govts etc. Did you see any state creation there?

If people prefer to keep the space in their heads empty, pastors, politicians, Islamic and IPOB terrorists will use your brains for you.

Those whose brains are still functioning and haven’t been sublet to politicians know it is more or less impossible to create a state in a civilian dispensation in Nigeria. The only time is was done was when we had regions and at the time you only needed the approval of 2 out of 3 regions. With states, you need the state parliaments of 25 out of 36+ FCT and all want their own state and none will vote in favour unless they get their own.

It is just a campaign tool especially as election season is round the corner.

How will they create one small state and give them three senators when Lagos and Kano with over 20 million people have only three senators? The first thing is to abolish the Senate then give anybody that want state the state they want.

Any group that wants a state should be given a state. That is the idea in the independence constitution but states should not be equally represented at any level. States are not equal.

chiagozien:
Hahaha 😂😂😂 so the assault on Biafra was it by Nigeria soldiers or Northern soldiers?


But the way you yorubas lie up down changing narrative 🤣🤣😂😂😂

Where did the two part said assault on Biafra will not pass through their land?


So federal troop in MW part that Biafra soldiers pushed back and marching to Midwest came from north?

There were no standing troops in the Midwest. The Biafran invasion army was attacked by civilians. In the west, Col Akinrinade with his men met the invaders in Ore while Colonel Benjamin Adekunle loaded three ships to invade Biafra through Calabar.
What is important was the leaders of the two regions invaded were working silently for Biafra

Brendaniel:
Sample for those who want Igbos to have Biafra

What some people do is put mouth in what does not concern them by saying the old Eastern region should not be one but their opinion does not matter or does it?. No serious Yoruba person will be saying the old Eastern region should not be one if that's what you mean. Simply because it is not their business and it is not their land. Their opinion does not matter.

Brendaniel:
Yes you might be supporting Biafra but a lot of your people don't and a lot are also indifferent, I know what I am saying, if you live in Nigeria, you can do a poll randomly with Yorubas in your street...

I have sampled many opinions and I know the overwhelming majority of Yoruba prefer to be in a Yoruba country.
There are also many people online working for one Nigeria politicians

chiagozien:
The question is the war was between Biafra and who?


Answer that then we can move to what I would have done as Yoruba leader and MW leader.

The war was between Biafra and Nigeria with two parts of Nigeria saying an assault on Biafra will never pass through their land