₦airaland Forum

Chetas81:
question from shithole citizen

Shithole Citizen. I like that. It's poetic for it captures minimally much that is unspoken when the matter of what is thought to be wrong with Africa is discussed by po-faced analysts on World Stage discussion shows.

Houseontherock1:
Jail break or arranged freedom for them to enter naija

Indeed.

Realpolitik African style...

Who is the local government governor!

Princewill1:
All students of history knows that this has France written all over it.

It's has long been a pattern. If you chase out France from any of her French colony especially a lucrative one, then prepare for a coup d'etat or state collapse from insurgency.

Since staging a coup will most likely be difficult due to the presence of Russian troops. What's the best way of starting a new round of insurgency in Niger than to begin by releasing captured harden terrorists.

Niger should get ready for a long ride.

If the terrorists remain in Niger to cause problems.


If nations in West Africa had to deal with thire insecurity issues and not have them exported to Europe in the form of Migrants or exported to Nigeria in the form of Terrorist and Bandits, ECOWAS would not need to beg any of them to remain.

If entire thing comes about, hope sophisticated individuals, and not bushmen, populate local govt'. Hope they're ambitious enough to seek international and national investment. Hope they improve local government finance ecosystem, including salary structure and project funding and monitoring. Hope they engage communities more. Hope local governments does not create a climate of mediocre service provision and local standard projects.

Hope state governments do not frustrate and sabotage local govt. Hope State and Local Govt do not slaken in thire ordinances now that the opportunity presents to buck-pass, safe in the thought that responsibility can be apportioned to the other party.

The following implication in regards to Biden unfortunately also applies to Trump (the argument may be made to diminish his, Trump's, threat): there's an extent to which governments in more advanced nations such as in the US and UK have evolved over time and become a sort of autonomous mechanism. Become an entity onto itself so that the president and the prime minister respectively are arguably mere figureheads or even mere guilded Labels stamped to the side of the machinery. In other words, the system of rule may function adequately without the Figurehead or label item. The system is efficient to the extent of plug-and-play. This may account for why men such as Obama and Rishi Sunak (men diminished in those nations by epitaphs such as ethnicity) could be tolerated. Biden too if left in place by the Democrats.

Number 1 is concerning; what man doesn't do that in desperation?

One of the reasons I love Nigerians so much is because majority of Nigerians are not stereotypically Black. Unfortunately, there is one area in which Nigerians seem stereotypically Black and that is in the vicinity of food. It is a stereotype that Blacks think too much of thire stomachs; it is thought axiomatic that Blacks place a full stomach above every strategic advantage. This attitude describes Nigerianas currently.

I'm so disappointed that Nigerians aren't as supportive of polices aimed at enabling Nigeria to be food independent even with all the threat that being food dependent on foreign Nations portend.

I came to read how this sort of thing never happens in developed countries only in Nigeria. How this country is a hell hole from which everyone must Jappa.

Written by someone from the UK...

People still find money to import tons of weapons into Nigeria, though, and money to build countless number of homes on illegal land faster than they're taken down..


One would've hoped Eastern Nigeria gunmen would be too economy stricken to finance ammunitions and enforce Sit@ Homes' and terrorists up North too strapped for cash to finance bombs and too hungry to attack famers in "Starving Nigeria"!

Looks like "Nigerians" have at last become Ghanians. If not, how did the never ending boasting on Niraland that nations like South Africa never experience power cuts, unlike Nigeria, suddenly become, "South Africa is giant of Africa" for celebrating 100 days without power cut?

I stoped arguing with Ghanians because, like housewives, they are prone to shamelessly ridiculous and torturous contortions in order to avoid admitting when wrong - like housewives

SpaceX:
South Africa is a developed country, not surprising.

What's the relationship between 100 days without power cut and developed country?

Essentially, Nigeria no longer enjoys Oil Leverage, economically and geopolitically, in quite the same way as before and so is probably gradually suffocated by a world order institued by the West for the West. In order to survive the ever narrowing gap between the vice exerted by international West on the one lever and domestic discontent on the other, your Nigeria president is gradually sacrificing the sociopolitical, ideological positions that Oil power enabled Nigeria to adopt, evolve and sustain since the 70s.

There are certain economic benefits obtainable by Africa nations that subordinate selves to that which the West desires, pertinent since the master slave relationship that began during the trans Atlantic slave trade. These benefits are ultimately insufficient to sustain or result in real development, See French West Africa. Unsurprising when real development by the relevant Africa nations comes with it treat of independence from chauvinistic impositions by Western hedgemony.

For Africa nations to be truly free of the Western sociopolitical hegemony, the people of Africa probably need to embrace Relative Poverty. In other words, the true Africa Revolution wouldn't resemble what those students are up to in Kenya but something akin to a shunning by Africans of those things they currently value about the West.

In the current dispensation,Tinubu will need to violate much of the cultural and independent values Nigeria holds sacrosanct in order to gain access to the nigerdly, piecemeal deals and financial aid offered by the West that will boost the Nigeria economy just enough to confound the critics, stave the youthful agitations, until he flees from office.


But there is hope for Nigeria in the coming technological revolution and because the future is unpredictable....

Nigeria's so called Youths may or may not know that a great deal of Nigeria's economic and social difficulties owes much to external Western control of international trade. A Western company uping stakes and pulling out of Nigeria may not necessarily mean it is doing so because of the economic climate or that it is unable to persevere. An influential nation like Nigeria, in terms of what it represents, will be subject to many neo colonial dictates and the Nigeria youths need to decide whether thire stomachs and sense of wellbeing in terms of material access is of greater importance than thire cultural moral independence.

Caramia2020:
She wants to thread, now the door is open for her to thread.

Did you mean trend ?

Crap.

Truth is, the poor never cause trouble in any society, anywhere in the world without being instigated to do so by the individuals and mechanisms originating or belonging to the envious middle classes. Religion is a political ideology created by the middle class as a means of weaponising the poor and appropriated by the rich as a means of transnational conquest.

Politics of the poor is a Western construct. Africans are generally not poor since majority own land. At least, in Nigeria most people own land. Majority of people in the West do not own land. Thire land were confiscated by kings and lords. Having confiscated the peoples lands, the lord's of Europe were obliged to provide for the people.This was how industries and narrow concentrated political power evolved.

Father4all:
oga, those people are more corrupt than Nigeria

Don't mind him. At least in Nigeria there are courts, the ones in those countries are probably thatched huts, prohibited by vultures circling above and dry mangy dogs shitting by the entrance way. Not only are there civilised courts in Nigeria, the American respected them enough to seek justice within. Not like those Africa countries where their justice system chain people to beds like they're practicing voodoo. A Nigerian pastor is still probably chained on one of those beds in Togo, or is it Benin Republic, wailing to god for help and asking why god didn't bestow enough wisdom in him to stay in Nigeria, the only civilised nation on the continent south of Egypt and north of South Africa.

The way sinister online groups try to use happenings in Kenya to foment problems in Nigeria, is a small glimmer into how and why unifications aims such as one passport, one currency, borderlessness will not serve Nigeria well.

Niger, Mali, Burkina Not Going Back To ECOWAS

Good for them, I only wish Nigeria would similarly act in her own interest and, for instance, pull back from all continental groupings ambitions mistakes and concentrate all her effort on Nigeria. Pull back from one Africa passports, pull back from borderless Africa, pull back from Trans Saharan highways, never contemplate single ECOWAS currencies etc.

Much of these unifications are for the benefit of Europe and the West that plan to exploit them as a backdoor means of exerting control on nations like Nigeria and South Africa through thire control of lesser Africa nations. South Africa will only give such semi unification aims lip service even though the West has more influential control on them than Nigeria.

Ezeama400:
MURDER CASES IN NIGERIA BY ZONE — 2023

1 North Central — 436
2 North West — 417
3 North East — 345
4 South West — 174
5 South East — 169
6 South South — 161

#Statisense
(Min. of Police Affairs)

This type of statistics by States, instead of Zones, could be more useful in facilitating awareness, shame and hopefully drive for change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBNlUm7IME?si=LYcHcPT2ucx-5oeh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uayZHnJ542o?si=enuKXNpadk10JgYh

Bahamas95:
Oga this is Nigeria not America?

Are you supporting his indirect view that in America/ Abroad police do not engage in car chases ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTx4a4wguw?si=Mg2znZLWsoDzxGcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZhKqpleAXM?si=VFOhJHTACbE-2d1B

AkinPhysicist:
Another evidence that God does not exist.

Not necessarily.

If there is a god, and if life exist after bodily death, then from God's perspective, those that die, by whatever means, and however young, are merely passing through a phase.

From your perspective death is a horrible event but from God's perspective just a phase and to him you're merely reacting emotionally out of your ignorance of the bigger picture.


Rip.

Well, if Nigeria's youth are shamelessly threatening to destroy the nation just because small, small Kenya youths taunted them but the Nigeria government is mistakenly believing that the youths want to disrupt the country due to hardship yet there really is no money in the economy, what do you expect the government to do but to open Nigeria's Yash for the West to sodomize if it means Nigeria can gain access to world levers that would enable it to inject life into the economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhU4nA3i_IQ?si=P7eZoLr4h-nC9b-6

She shouldn't weep so hard, money grows on trees Abroad.

Why Africa seems afraid of a peaceful Nigeria.

For example, Nigeria as an insecure destination is pushed heavily by several Africa nations on social media (one in particularly in the West Africa subregion) as a means of diverting visitors to thire nation instead of Nigeria.

Protest in Nigeria is hyped up by them as example of insecurity and why one should not visit Nigeria much less invest there or live there.

Since the end of SARS protest, and with elections behind us, terrorism diminishing relatively and with Nigeria settling down and trending in many social areas online, those Africa nations that benefit from negative Nigeria news have struggled.

So with one of their darling safe Africa nations, Kenya, experiencing violent protests, and the narrative of Kenya as a safe wonderful destination threatend, these Africans had to act. Thus Kenya protests was spun into Kenya as pioneering Radical Africa Youth uprising against the status quo and Nigerians as cowards. All over social media arose cries aimed at mocking Nigerians into rising up and violently protesting.

Nigerians don't seem to understand Africans. They mean you no good.

The picture below shows what the 18th to 19th century British people created underground as drainage systems before erecting thire cities on top.

Nigeria's colonial rulers were possibly responsible for the impractical way our Nigeria cities are today. The foundations of our cities were built by them for no other purpose than temporary stay. Our cities were essentially thire rudimentary goldmine camps. When they left we simply continued.

I've mentioned this many times and am suggesting it again. If you're part of a real estate company, you people should look into the possibility of creating estate streets whose building are elevated by dint of archway platforms, see pic. The hight of the arch-row adopted, of course would be moderated by the economic, needs and practicality.

Regardless of measures that Nigeria state and federal government adopt in order to counteract the worst flooding, Climate Change may mean that majority of nations worldwide are forced to to live with regular but reduced flooding.

Building on open-ended arches may provide home owners additional safeguards. I mean buildings erected along the top level with stairways leading to each front door. Arches below would double up as additional real estate for each home owner to do with as they choose - set up business (at own flooding risks) gardens, car garage etc.

Nigeria masses need to begin detaching themselves emotionally from political parties by adopting a pragmatic and objective approach to party support. Each individual, his or her immediate family, the community, state and nation aught be the order of priority when considering each political party. By adopting this method, the interest of Nigerians will not be so vulnerable to the self interest of political parties as opposed to the political parties interest in national progress for which they via for your support.


How the above is relevant in regards to this thread: understand that a nation may fulfil criterias such as high GDP, low inflation, and robust financial markets, which suggest a healthy economy to the internationally community; however, the quality of your existence as a citizen of that nation may be compromised by deplorable infrastructure. Conversely the nation my fail the same criterias yet your quality of existence may be enriching due to great infrastructure within which you live your life.

Take into consideration that governments would rather save and appear to fulfill the criterias mentioned above than invest in infrastructure and risk the later. So when, due to Opposition politics, individuals and interested parties criticise government policies don't always be to quick to believe that they do so out of your interest rather than theres.