₦airaland Forum

KwaraRat:
Kenya's main port in Mobassa is now fully owned and operated by the Chinese govt alongside other strategic infrastructure. The Kenyan govt spends a huge chunk of it's revenue servicing Chinese loans. But this idiot did not see that, it is the fellow African national doing genuine business and offering both employment to their lazy youth as well as paying taxes that he feels slighted against.

Same stupid blind attitude exhibited by African Americans in America to Nigerians and South Africans against Nigerians also...and Ghana in fact the black world...

When they can take it no more in Kenya, they will find a way to accuse the Nigeria take over of corruption or something and a way will be found to discredit or take back control. Then the Indians or Arabs will take over and the Kenyans would then be happy and content.

If this makes international news, Ghanaians working in international news organisations will twist it to include Nigeria and thereafter this will be all about some scandal in Nigeria health services.

Niger delta is criminally underdeveloped in relation to the good the area has been for Nigeria. For Nigeria’s long-term good and to illustrate that government is capable of putting the good of the nation above self-intrest of which ethnic bigotry is part, a marshal plan should be instigated for the Niger delta, with the state governor playing no part.

RuudVanNisteroy:
Development should start at local government and state level. The federal government steps in to complement the efforts and invest in projects beyond the states financial capabilities.

As much as I think Buhari's is the worst leader to ever lead a country. He is not responsible for Niger Delta under development.

No one could disagree with you in good conscience or objectively .

RuudVanNisteroy is beginning to get what majority of Nigerians don’t get or don’t want to get. Of course, there are overriding national ethnic injustices and corruption but our state and local government need held to account firstly. We get state governors working for State and people; we get this Nation working for the most part.

Those hankering after revolution, you first need to archive this in your state. Although I’m not actually a supporter of armed revolution

ugo4u:
Exactly what one of the soldiers I met today said,
in his words "DSS should stage a phantom terror attack in Abuja it should be executed in a way that no casualties should be recorded them they tell the media that X number of people died".
I saw sense in what he said honestly, the DSS, NIA, DIA have being reduced to tax collectors, political witch Hunters and election riggers.
Only the armed forces especially the army have bared the brunt of this Insurgency. The irony of of it all is that they are least taken care of welfare wise. DSS/NIA enjoy very juicy package for wearing suits and dark eye-glass and be pursuing yahoo boys. If I say all I heard from some serving personnel true to God even a devil will pity our soldiers. It even seem like Buratai is already suffering from "combat stress" the man look tired already, e don begin misyarn for media.

This would be a disaster. By the time that Nigeria-hating-media is finished with Nigeria no response by the politicians in terms of increased military spending will help salvage the country. The boost in Terrorists moral by the enormous negative news endangered would even mitigate gains in military acquisition by the army. As for the media, it’s not that those that target Nigeria are effective because they have a powerful media machinery, they are effective because they are articulate for having a target and mission. These outlets in audition to homegrown opposition political ones would simply overwhelm.

Lol, even before the star-wars weapons we buy has cleared the forests of evil terrorist vermin, America will land to save us like they saved Libya.

OLDESTWARRIBOY:
Saw this on Worldstarhiphop yesterday
The babe na Legend!!!

If na Nigerian she be, dem for dn marry give one Alhaji as 13th wife.

This is what we need to do To FG and corrupt Military and Para-military officials

There’s a very brave Nigerian woman up North that was featured by Aljazera fighting and defeating Terrorists

IspitonCowards:
Call it love of money or whatever,the truth is Igbos are nation builders, A pillar of Development....*Drops mic*

Lazy Africans label Nigerians’ hard work ethic “love of money".


I lived through a time not long ago in the West, when other Africans and blacks used to dismiss as FAKE the very real academic qualifications Nigerians achieved through terrific hard work and sacrifices.

princealexndre:
Are you the one that employed them? I have searched and I only saw some private owned ones, where they charge #500k for Diving, Nigeria doesn’t even have a coast Guard, wtf are you talking about, you don’t need to search deep to know what your country has

Nigeria has scuba divers.

Redomi:
only Oyinbos will not eat. Do you think Naija people that eat Monitor Lizard with spare this mighty fish?

I dislike saying Oyigbo eat whale meat since this inadvertently elevates them by seeming as if because they eat whale meat this makes eating whale meat somewhat alright and civilised. Unfortunately, I have to tell you that Oyigbo eat whale meat but are trying to stop. They want to stop not because they find consuming whale meat disgusting but that hunting whale for food and other products made from whale blubber,for instance , is endangering many whale species.

Fast-Growing Mini-Forests Spring up in Europe to Aid Climate

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A Miyawaki forest being planted on the outskirts of Paris, France. Photo by ollo / Getty Images.

Tiny, dense forests are springing up around Europe as part of a movement aimed at restoring biodiversity and fighting the climate crisis.

Often sited in schoolyards or alongside roads, the forests can be as small as a tennis court. They are based on the work of the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who has planted more than 1,000 such forests in Japan, Malaysia and elsewhere.

Advocates for the method say the miniature forests grow 10 times faster and become 30 times denser and 100 times more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods. This result is achieved by planting saplings close together, three per square metre, using native varieties adapted to local conditions. A wide variety of species – ideally 30 or more – are planted to recreate the layers of a natural forest.

Scientists say such ecosystems are key to meeting climate goals, estimating that natural forests can store 40 times more carbon than single-species plantations. The Miyawaki forests are designed to regenerate land in far less time than the 70-plus years it takes a forest to recover on its own.

“This is a great thing to do,” said Eric Dinerstein, a wildlife scientist who co-authored a recent paper calling for half of the Earth’s surface to be protected or managed for nature conservation to avoid catastrophic climate change. “So this could be another aspect for suburban and urban areas, to create wildlife corridors through contiguous ribbons of mini-forest.”

The mini-forests could attract migratory songbirds, Dinerstein said. “Songbirds are made from caterpillars and adult insects, and even small pockets of forests, if planted with native species, could become a nutritious fast-food fly-in site for hungry birds.”

In 2017, researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands monitored newly planted mini-forests and concluded that they “increase the biodiversity compared to the nearby forest. Both the number of species groups and the number of individuals is generally higher than in the reference forests.”

The higher biodiversity is due partly to the forests’ young age and openness, explained Fabrice Ottburg, an animal ecologist who led the Wageningen study. This allows more sunlight to reach flowering plants that attract pollinators. Diversity is also boosted by planting multiple species, which “provide more variety in food and shelter for a higher diversity of animals like insects, snails, butterflies, amphibians, bugs, grasshoppers”, Ottburg said.

In the Netherlands, the conservation group IVN Nature Education has helped cities and households to plant 100 Miyawaki-style forests since 2015. It is on track to more than double that number by 2022 and is working on similar efforts in a dozen other countries. Assorted groups in Belgium and France have recently created at least 40 mini-forests.

The first in France was planted in March 2018 beside a busy four-lane road on the edge of Paris. The dense thicket was intended to reduce noise and filter air for the adjacent neighbourhood. On the day of planting, 40 people gathered with 31 species of saplings to bring new life to ground that had been prepared with compost from local horse stables.

Two years earlier, Enrico Fusto and Damien Saraceni had applied for funding from Paris’s participatory budget, a scheme that asks residents for ideas about how to spend 5% of the city’s funds. The pair proposed mini-forests, saying they could help increase the level of tree cover in the city, which is currently less than 10%, much lower than many other major cities. “Each community can be the protagonist of its own restoration story,” said Fusto.

In Toulouse, a mini-forest group planted 1,200 saplings on a 400 sq metre patch in March.

Nicolas de Brabandère, a Belgian naturalist and founder of Urban Forests, began planting Miyawaki-style forests in 2016, organising volunteers and local authorities to plant 300 saplings on a grassy strip of land near a road. Now his first forest is 3 metres tall, its floor a thick layer of humus.

De Brabandère believes the participatory nature and speed of a mini-forest is what appeals to people, and he predicts a bright future for the movement. “Every time I tell the story, everybody likes it,” he said. “So I have a good feeling the trend will continue.”

UDOKABESTLUV:
Cc: Lalasticlala And Seun

Take a Good Look At This Trending Thread In Nigeria Now About A Female Ex-Corper who is a doctor, that passed Out from NYSC, last week, she is dead now.

https://www.nairaland.com/6003365/sad-doctor-just-passed-out

Please Do The Needful To The Thread

i pray this is not true

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Acceptable (Tump’s daughter and her husband and son off on holiday aboard Airforce 1)


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Unacceptable



Black lives only matter when it’s judged and condemned.

There is a kind of apartheid of life in this world, I find, that says whites, Asian and Arabs may live life according to their own dictates and be innovators in their lives but blacks cannot. It exists within the realms of double standards. If you are black and wealthy then you wealth is ill gotten or inappropriate, anything you do as a black person or Nation that is informed by your own existence and culture is demonised unless whites had a hand in dictating it or granting permission. This ability by whites to dictate and permit black lives, affairs and hopes are an indirect refocusing on whites and their lives. So all we are relegated to doing is observing whites and others living lives. I am beginning to view Nigeria and Nigerians and explaining their increasing demonisation within this focus.


An example: United Arab Emirates successfully sends its first mission to Mars

Nigeria cannot do space programs because we need to first feed and house all the poor - Whites say so.

Here we go again, whites, brainwashed blacks or naïve Africans trying to prevent black people from living and trying to relegate blacks to consumers of other races living life. What's wrong with rich Nigerians or Politicians and their children flying on jet plain or presidential aeroplanes? Is there a law that says only wealthy whites , Arab and Asian politicians are allowed to fly on private jets or presidential jet but if you’re Nigerian and do so then you shouldn’t do so because there are poor people in your country as opposed to other races that don’t have poor people in their countries ?

bidexiii:
Sold to buyers at any cattle/Kara market and transported to the west/other part of the country where it’s been consumed.

Thanks

bidexiii:
#pressrelease #DHQUpdate

OPERATION HADARIN DAJI: OPERATION SAHEL SANITY TROOPS NEUTRALIZE BANDITS RECOVER ARMS, CATTLE IN NORTH WEST ZONE



https://defenceinfo.mil.ng/operation-hadarin-daji-operation-sahel-sanity-troops-neutralize-bandits-recover-arms-cattle-in-north-west-zone/


Terrorist are now fully present in the north west/central rustling cattle to finance there operation in the N.E. Look at the clothing, ones used by BHT special fighters.

Where are these rustled cattle sold and aren't these cattles branded?

Nigerian government care more for Africa than for Nigeria; if not, something like this would be good news because it would offer the opportunity to deport Niger people from Nigeria. Unfortunately, it seems as if when Nigeria attends all these Africa international conferences and gathering, the Nigerian delegates get drawn in wholeheartedly in dewy-eyed talk of brotherliness, trans Africa highway, one Africa market and curencey, joint African forces, collaborative Africa investment, banking and whatnot, while the other African leaders just give lip service knowing in the back of their minds that their countries come first. I believe that a good deal of Nigeria’s problem arises because Nigeria leader are unserious about Nigeria because they have their eyes set on the long term development of Africa as a whole.

Nigerians must embrace Nigeria and Nationhood building, forget about the rest of Africa. But Nigerians be telling you, don’t fence border because we have kinsmen across the border, we are same tribes and all that crap. Ask any of these people if they would tolerate even for one year their poor blood brother or sister and family cohabiting with them in the same house. I know it will not happen in London or America, I know of Nigerians cutting all ties with their brothers, parents, aunties and extended family members, kicking them out of houses and even calling immigration on them. Yet some barefoot crud in Niger is suddenly Buhari’s brother and closing borders is near heresy!

GeneralFarouq:
You guys keep talking about equipment, some bases with equipment have fallen in the past to BH,
I think we should pay attention to the fighting spirit of the troops.
Edit:
Our soldiers are good but can do better
This may be through better provision of kitting and welfarism..

We need both - relevant equipment as well as fighting spirit. Answer, buy equipment and pay attention to the weponisation of social media to break the Nigeria army. The latest of the latter is the alleged story by a Nigerian sniper that his fellow Nigerian soldiers tried to kill him because he was inflicting heavy casualty on the terrorists. Two days ago social media had turned Tolulope’s death into fifth-columnists conspiracy and before that Nigeria army was hiding massive and unprecedented casualties inflicted on us by terrorists and on and on. If you were a soldier reading all this and also reading people calling you a fool for fighting for Nigeria; Social media celebrating the deaths of your comrades, Social Media telling you that running is a sign of your intelligence; Social Media telling you Nigeria is not worth dying for, your fighting spirit is going to run South, pardon the pun.

Commanding officers at the theatre have to start countering many of these viral Social Media output by, for instance, conducting moral reinforcing tent speeches that reassure the men of the falseness of these outputs. Of course, Commanding Officers most not be influenced or show that they are influenced by these Social Media tales.

Speculate as much as you want but don’t loose your sense of reality in these speculations and begin to believe they are fact. Make evidence your friend.

IkwerrePikin:
Yes brother. This should be practice across all African countries and there will be peace,development and no more call for succession.

Africa doesn’t need division, we need unity. Politics have brought hatred amongst black people which is very bad.

Nigeria needs to consolidate and keep apart from other African nations. Many African nations are vile western and Arab stooges. We need to lock down border, intervene in no wars outside Nigeria, partner with China, expel some Africans, invest in military and security services, rip up and redo the infrastructure across Nigeria, link the states with good rail, air and road networks and fund the space service among the other well known developmental needs such as health care and agriculture.

Forget that one Africa and black brothers stuff, Africans are not the saints you think they are.

So why not tell the world the names of the offending soldiers for evidence such men exist? Doing so will not endanger his life any more than having told the world this story against the Nigeria Army will. Nigerians should always asks for evidence otherwise this juvenile and market woman atmosphere of rumours beloved by too many will be used by Nigeria enemies to destroy Nigeria.

Government needs to do something about social media. Few nations – actually, no nation, can survive the absolutely free freedom of expression enjoyed by Nigerians in Nigeria. In the West, they are monitoring and sanctioning social media in addition to the self-censorships fear of Litigations exerts on individuals freedoms.

Bigflamie:
Love this dude a lot. He's real as fvck.

Kudos to him for making his fans smile in this ugly country.

Lalasticlala

Nigeria is a beautiful country full of truly innocent beautiful hearted people and Mark Angel’s earlier stuff to me was a master class observation of this. His stuff was full of wisdom and remarkably clever beneath the apparent simplicity. I cant watch the latest Mark Angel offering because majority do not really represent how Nigerians are, especially in that part of the country, but representative of the power of viewer to spoil works by Nigerians through encouraging Nigerians to include ugly stuff more representative of other parts of African and not Nigeria. I find Nigerian Youtube comedy skits are best when informed by Nigerian living experiences and nature of Nigeria but ugly when the creators listen to input and advice from viewers usually not Nigerians evident in abusing women for instance as the Nigerian creators succumb to taunts by none Nigerian African or World viewers that Nigerian men are soft and that women from their part of the world would be dealt with. Or Nigerian content providers making Nigerian women act vulgar because these foreign viewers want to see more booty shaking like those skits from other parts of Africa. Or Nigerian contents provider roughing up their actors so that they look dirty because these viewers want to see what they think is authentic Africans. Or Nigerian contents provider making young people cheek adults in a nasty unnigerian way and not in the innocent realistic way Mark portrayed in his earlier stuff etc, etc

Righteousness89:
Fraud is not really about Race, Nationality, Color and all that...
Anyone who lacks the Fear of God can do anything..
anyone who has a Dead Conscience will do anything..

The World Needs to Accept the Lamb of God!

We all Need JESUS Christ

Hah, I see. When a white dude commits cyber crime, we’re all suddenly full of conciliatory compassion and understanding of human nature. Suddenly we are ensconced in a rosy glow, and the world looks wonderful and hopeful through our fuzzy, all human inclusiveness goggles. However, when it is a Nigerian, blacks become devils or evil ape-like-creatures invincible when in front of you but glimpsed at out the corner of the eyes at sunset dragging their knuckles along the dust as they head for their damp underground layer. We are all cheerleaders excusing white racisms disguised as clamping down on Nigerians for fraud and welcome the murder of Nigerians in South Africa for same.

fiizznation:
I will keep saying this; the only advantage Lagos have over kano is the sea-port. Well I believe with time and by electing the right leaders at every level of government in the state, kano state will surely overthrow Lagos as the real commercial hub of Nigeria.

God bless kano state.

Why cant Kano, Lagos, Anambra, PortHarcourt, Wari or wherever just be huge commercial hubs in Nigeria, instead of this seeming to want one place to fall so another would rise ?

hammer3:
OUR WICKED NIGERIA BROTHERS WOULD LOVE NOTHING THAN FOR THAT BRIDGE TO COLLAPSE AND KILL MANY PEOPLE.


THE WARNS HAVE BEEN FALLIN DEAF EARS.


THEY WILL LISTEN, AFTER THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE WITH MASSIVE LOSS OF LIFE.

Someone please help me understand this type of thinking oOoOoOOO! Who are the Nigerians brothers? Why would the Nigerian brothers want the bridge to collapse and kill many people? Are Nigerian brothers’ brothers not using the bridge? If Nigerian bothers want the bridge to collapse so badly, why are the presumably wicked Nigeria brothers relying on the age of the bridge and traffic weight to make the bridge fall, why not just place charges under the bridge? And why would Nigeria brothers even rely on bridge to kill many people when there are so many other ways of doing so? Why are Nigerian brothers building another bridge? Or is the new bridge being built a secret plot to kill many people in future through having it collapse due to poor maintenance?

Help, I am often flummoxed by such Nairaland imponderable imponderables

If majority of Nigerian act like this guy, with concern for the safety of others not just self and tribe, the positive vibes will add to Nigeria’s progress. The message was clear, alarming, and not lost by sour face, cussing politicians and accusing everything that moves of cooption, corruption, witchcraft, tribal prejudice and hatred.

You important people that visit online sites like this one, you heard his words, and others have warned about this bridge also, action and assurances are needed.

olawale1516:
And you kill this lady , Nigerian why we no like see better things

Why would Nigeria spend millions training her if Nigeria no like better thing? In addition, in future try to narrow the scope of your accusations. I’m Nigerian and I like better thing', so why accuse me and other Nigerians of not liking better things instead of owning up for yourself that you don’t like better thing ?

Concrete Vs. Asphalt Roads — Which Is Better?

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The debate over the better product - concrete vs. asphalt roads has long been a topic for environmentalists, engineers, and car manufacturers.

What We Know

Concrete roads are highly durable and more environmentally friendly as compared to asphalt roads. However, asphalt paving costs far less than concrete paving. Also, asphalt road provides a little better safety of the vehicle against snow and skidding.
How are Concrete vs. Asphalt Roads made?

Concrete is made using aggregate (like crushed rock and sand), along with cement and water. The cement acts as the binder in concrete, holding the aggregate together. As the mixture dries, it forms a stiff, unforgiving solid that is prone to cracking and breaking, especially if the surface beneath it is not perfectly smooth.

Like concrete, asphalt is made using aggregate. Its binder, however, is bitumen, a dark, sticky substance derived from crude oil. When roads, parking lots or driveways are built using asphalt construction, hot asphalt (bitumen mixed with fine aggregate) is poured onto a bed of heavier aggregate and then pressed into it with a steamroller. Once the asphalt cools to the surrounding air temperature, it is strong enough to withstand automobile traffic. While asphalt is extremely hard and durable, it offers enough flexibility to accommodate imperfections in underlying surfaces, a feature that concrete sorely lacks — this is where we come in!

https://atlantisfiber.com/concrete-vs-asphalt-roads-which-is-better/

The Advantages of Concrete Roadways!

Roads play a very important part of any nation’s infrastructure. So, when looking at concrete vs. asphalt roads, their construction and maintenance, and the vehicles that travel over them, we must look at how the roads consume large amounts of produced energy. This energy use results in atmospheric emissions, the reduction of a non-renewable resource, and other environmental impacts. Any reduction of the lifetime energy use associated with roading, even if only by a small percentage, will have significant positive implications for sustainable development.

Concrete roads are durable and safe. They are considerably less prone to wear and tear defects like rutting, cracking, stripping loss of texture, and potholes that can occur with flexible pavement surfaces. This low maintenance requirement is one of the principal advantages of concrete pavements. There are well-designed concrete pavements that have required little or no maintenance well beyond their 40-year design lives. Less maintenance also means fewer traffic delays, a huge advantage on some of our already congested highways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZN2UAfvwY

plastic roads

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If it’s possible to build roads with concrete foundations, these may be durable

Saleh marks the third shock popular figure death this week, Tolulope and Nicole Thea are the others. Very depressing.