₦airaland Forum

Jakumo:
No such thing as a SHORT gun, buddy, only SHOTguns.

If you put on your glasses and closely observe the two words, "SHOT" and "SHORT", you will notice that in written form those two words are NOT the same. regardless of how you may choose to pronounce each word. That is your homework assignment today. Fail next time and a vigorous flogging may well have to manifest in your future.

I think you missed the sarcasm/joke.

Ah? Why is this one not long like the others?

aribisala0:
the first oil boom lasted less than 10 years 1973-1983

It didn't even last that long; and it wasn't continuous; 1973 - 1976 and then 1978 - 1979. Of course most of the money was embezzled or mismanaged.

Driving Uber is a good way to meet chics.

dolphinife:
So we have people doing OWO DA in that part of the country too?

You will only be bothered by the chatter of these monkeys here if you've never been to the South East.

aribisala0:
This is nonsense really.

The claim that any governor will perfor in Lagos is not only absurd it is daft.

The guy didn't see the contradiction in calling a team "Barcelona's Guardiola" and saying they didn't need a coach. Why didn't he say Enrique's Barcelona?

Odingo1:
Aviation minister don't have the power to build a sea port or airport,the budget do so,Stella Odua only bought bullet proof vehicles at inflated prices,I don't really understand what you are saying because it doesn't have any connection with the topic we are discussing.

Sebi you were talking about viable airports. All the "renovation" work she did nko?

Odingo1:
It doesn't have to do with Aviation minister, Nigeria should have a master plan on development, FG should diversify Nigeria and stop concentrating everything in Lagos, is not that we are envious of lagos, but a sane country should spread its infrastructure,

Maybe you should ask your sister Oduah. I remember when she was accused of fraud and embezzlement, your people were all wailing, talking about "leave our sister alone". You want to eat your cake and have it?

Maduawuchukwu:
The English are the Kings of Centralization. They seem to abhore dynamism and decentralisation. Look at the way they centralize land ownership in their country in contrast to the US where land ownership is individualistic. Nigerian military government learnt from them.

Guy, your comparisons are not predicated on the context of history. England had long belonged to the English; you can trace the ownership of land to the Medieval Period and beyond to the various landowners and royal families. US is stolen land. That's why they would rather give the impression it is land of the free.

janellemonae:
I don't know what the Lagos State govt and Yorubas are expected to do. Maybe we should close d ports, close d markets, chase investors out, shut down d financial industry, put sand on our head, wear sackcloth and mourn in silence.

Now that should sound like a good plan to your envious neighbors who want all you have; but due to their organizational deficiency can't have what you have. So how do crabs in a bucket do?

aribisala0:
There is nothing like economic capital ,we have only one capital,

There is an airport in all major states nott just Lagos.

The Port was built by the British before independence.

There is no law forcing Banks to have their headuarters in Lagos

The bank CEOs like living in Lagos ,I wonder why

The issue here today is why there is so much money in Lagos is it because of Bridges and Embassies?

By the way all embassies are in Abuja . Even when they were in Lagsos the state governmennt coud not perform as it is now.


Is it the FG that made Dangote site his refinery in Lagos ..Why does Dangote himself live in Lagos?

Please explain how having oil headquarters contributed to the economy of Lagos before 1999. Did they start paying tax to Lagos state after 1999 because as of 1999 total IGR in lagos was 12 billion Naira a year and today it is over 300 billion

Waiting for answers to these rhetorical questions *crickets*

janellemonae:
Ahh! Typical.

I even checked your profile to confirm the ugliness.

IdeyFindWife:
To turn around and bite that same finger that fed so fat reveals depths of moral blindness and ungrateful wretchedness.

That is the summary. Thanks.

juman:
You are wrong.
Buba marwa did wonderful job as lagos governor.

Can you mention some of his "wonderful" job?

Odingo1:
it doesn't make sense for people from the SW to keep on bragging that Lagos is the only place that things happen in Nigeria and continue to do everything possible to make sure that the only viable airports,sea ports etc in Nigeria is only found in lagos

Funny people. For how many years were the Aviation Ministers Igbo? Yet, Yorubas are the ones doing everything possible to ensure Lagos has the only viable airport. This is beyond wailing.

caracas:
Oga the best governor till date in Lagos state is buba marwa

LMAO. Best Governor of Lagos till date was Buba Marwa! Something new to learn everyday.

Afam4eva:
Why must everything be fight for some of you. Can't we have a simple discussion without being confrontational?

Confrontational? With who? LMAO. You can't even get that your state Governors are the ones under developing states by embezzling funds and ironically bringing them to Lagos to invest; you are deflecting the matter to "flagship". Where is the argument in that?

Afam4eva:
I don't think the writer implied what you're saying. Was Lagos Nigeria's flagship city or not?

...and what does being the so called "flagship" city have to do with "Lagos under developing the rest of Nigeria"? Calabar was "flagship" no be so? Please, if you want Enugu as "flagship" we can give it to you.

Omoluabi16:
This writer is wrong. Like someone said, this is the writers version of africa blaming the white man for her woes. Lagos has used her competitive advantage maximally. For an economy to thrive, I dare say you do not really need much resource, but create an attractive and sustainable environment. This is where lagos and the west largely has succeeded. The Lagos we see today is as a result of long term planning.

There is even no parallel with the comment in bold. Lagos unlike the Oyinbos did not go to the other states to steal resources and subjugate the inhabitants. This write up is more or less making the claim that the name Lagos is synonymous with the names of Governors of other states. Did Lagos push these Governors to steal funds from their states and then bring these funds to come build hotels and houses in Lagos? Aha.

GenBuhari:
It just happens to be a fact that all our leaders that were assassinated whilst trying to fix Nigeria were Northerners.
Osinbajo is very likely an imperialist stooge because imperialist will never support PMB's election unless they planned to remove him and replace with a stooge whom they would have already installed in the VP position.

As the coordinator of the economic team he has been instrumental in the disastrous Naira devaluation that has caused so much hardship.
If you remember, he first announced the new flexible forex policy last year whilst PMB was on "medical vacation " in London with "ear problems". Which upto that point PMB as been firmly opposed to.

Hmm. I see.

Unfortunately, the people he thought would save him turned around to accuse him of being a thief and descended on him with cudgels.

Typical baboons.

hammer6:
Of all the Military heads of state, none did i like as much as i liked Abacha.

Till today, he remains the man.

"The man" in what? Where are you from though?

GenBuhari:
If you think that a country can potentially loose 3 leaders in 19years due to illness, (Abacha , Yaradua , and the gods forbid, Buhari) without foul play then you are very naive.

Also consider that all the leaders who die tend to be those that try to repair Nigeria.

I noticed those trying to repair Nigeria are Northerners, while Osinbajo is an Imperialist tool. Can you further explain how Osinbajo is trying to destroy Nigeria unlike the patriots like Abacha?

Chikpat:
Do u know what is 2mega watts? No big olowo can consume 2MW which is the minimum demand for d eligible consumers regime qualification.

Who enforces this?

GenBuhari:
The story os Abacha's daughter involvment in deliberate importation of such fuel was probably false to discredit Abacha like all imperialist sponsored anti-Abacha propaganda.

There you go; operative word "probably". There was no need to discredit Abacha; he already did plenty to discredit himself.

And yes, despots don't always see eye to eye with the so called "Imperialists". That should not in any way make the despot anything than what he is - an unwanted and crude power grabber.

GenBuhari:
I just told you that bad fuel is standard export to Africa even till this very day, nothing to do with Abacha, but everything to do with the same imperialists who falsely accused and maliciously demonised and discredit him and his family after his death.

Guy, there is a difference between just low quality fuel and abysmally and unusable fuel. The latter was the kind of fuel we had to deal with back in 1994/1995; and the rotten egg smell (H2S) pervaded the whole of Lagos and environs (I don't know how widespread the atmospheric contamination was). Please, don't try and use the fight against the Imperialists to whitewash dictators; we know how it goes. African despots tend to use the Imperialist propaganda when they are not favored by the West for their own personal and selfish ends. The fact that The West does not like a despot does not mean the despot is on the side of the people he oppresses.

seguno2:
Yes oh to all your questions.
The $460,000 was negotiated by his lawyers to avoid future repercussions such as you have listed.
Please educate yourself with the links below.

Guy, there is no education here; these are the same materials which have been online for quite a while now. My point here is, if there was actual direct link of Tinubu to those heroine deals he would not only forfeit the money he would have gone to jail and lost his Green Card. If you did some work for a criminal and he paid you and he's caught, the proceeds of the crime with which he paid you can be traced to you and you will forfeit the money; but you are not guilty of that actual crime. That is my point.

GenBuhari:
You dont get it do you?
Imperialist write all the false news stories to discredit Abacha and his family after they poisoned Abacha.
They make it their business to acquire and control all media that the African consumes.

LMAO. The Imperialists wrote bad fuel into people's cars and damaged their engines? Imperialists wrote polluted air all over Nigeria? Dude, I am telling you my experience, you are talking about "Imperialists wrote". They wrote what?

dollyjoy:
Some guys are soooooooo stvpid!!!

...and you think anybody actually sent this to her?

seguno2:
Because he paid $460,000 to settle his drug charges out of court.

...and you think after settling out of court, he would be able to visit the US afterwards? You think you can settle a drug charge out of court if they have evidence? You think you can be implicated on drug charge, settle out of court and still visit the US? You think you can still retain your Green Card after being sullied by a drug charge?

GenBuhari:
Abacha was demonised by imperialist controlled media unfairly and dishonestly because he tried to fix Nigeria. Iam sure if Buhari eventuallly dies he too would be demonized, itis a tried and testd imperialist strategy.

Abacha never stashed money abroad the imperialists made it up with their stooges in Nigeria to demonise one of our greatest leaders. I actually did rsearch on this subject and created threads on the conspiracy and propaganda orchestrated against Abacha by the imperialists and their chief stooge in Nigeria Thief Obasanjo.

The Imperialists also imported low quality fuel on behalf of Abacha's daughter eh? Ogbeni, wake up.

seguno2:
....who was indicted for drug charges in the US.

Yet he could still visit the US afterwards?