₦airaland Forum

hahn:
I believe one of our major problems is the fact that we fail to face the reality of our problems. Everyone is more comfortable with creating a sort of psychological cushion by believing and relying on beer palour gists and wishful thinking

hahn:
I believe one of our major problems is the fact that we fail to face the reality of our problems. Everyone is more comfortable with creating a sort of psychological cushion by believing and relying on beer palour gists and wishful thinking

FOLYKAZE:
Lol. . .this guy no go kill me.

Oodua has all these and SW states have not become London?

OFFICIAL336:
Go to hell with ur Presidency. Nobody wants to be the President of a Zoo except Baboons and Monkeys #RisingSun

macof:
Oodua has oil in lagos and Ondo states...and with the possibility of Itsekiri joining Oodua

So banking can only function in a country with large oil reserves? Pls I need an answer to this question. .

Yorubas have agriculture, tourism, entertainment, art and textile, natural resources including crude oil and gold, we have access to the ocean, countless rivers and waterways plus our illustrious human resources

We don't need non yoruba Niger delta oil


What has our diversity given us so far? What has our position in Africa given us? How much better is nigeria than Benin Republic?
Just look at a country where nothing works, nothing! There's only resentment, bigotry, urge for political dominance, lack of nationalism/patriotism. All this will end in a homogeneous state under an independent government

VonBismark:
I don't know what you mean by steady democracy in nigeria because I dnt see any form of steadiness in the nigerian democracy. The nation was built on lies with the population census rigged to favor the north giving them some form of upper hand especially in the area of policy making, as if that wasn't enough they followed it up with the divide and rule tactics in the south by south I mean the SE and SS with igbos the greatest victims. Now crown it up with the born to rule mentality of the north amongst other forms of vicissitudes and there your have your nigeria. That's why today a confab report that can move your supposed democracy forward and bring about progress can be rejected and nothing will happen.
While we re still on democracy the present status quo suggests that nigeria has taken some steps backward in democracy and that's why human rights are being violated almost on a daily basis with impunity and what's the latest one a supposed bill to indirectly impede on the basic human right of speech and expression.
What is your first instinct? To wait for four years so you can score the present administration. Yea! Nigeria has been waiting for four years sometimes eight years and each time they found out at the end of the administration how stupid they were

EmoBoy:
The Western world does not care about the Niger Delta. I'm a Niger Deltan myself.

The same excuse you people keep giving is by saying we should study how long it took other countries to get to where they are. Hey, that was then and not now. The world has changed and the world is still changing fast. If we call ourselves a nation, we should be looking at how we should structure our country to enable us develop as fast as possible but are we doing that? No!

I would want Nigeria to succeed but if want to continue as a country, we have to do it well. We must have a proper constitution and every ethnic nation must agree to the abide by it and pledge to contribute to the development of the country.

The secession idea is not moronic. Countries have seceded all over the world, some succeeded and progressed while some failed.

EmoBoy:
You are a typical Nigerian, who unconsciously never wishes his country well.

The untold economic hardship facing Nigerians is caused by the faulty foundations of the country, everything else comes second. Nigeria has been on a perpetual arab spring since 1966. The country has not progressed since then. Military men have run the country to the ground and shaken the foundations which the founding fathers have laid. I want the Nigeria which Azikiwe, Awo et al fought for and not this ragtag country.

If your backup plan has not worked for sixteen years, why will it work in the next fifty years? This is exactly my problem with Nigerians, you people never learn.

And forget about the Niger Delta, nobody cares about the Niger Delta.

patrick89:
you're very myopic "no offence "
you made mention of China yet you don't know anything about Hongkong? you didn't compare the political atmosphere? I don't like giving people litany of what have happened. but get your facts right.

EmoBoy:
You are not being objective.

The fact are out there like the sun.

- Nigeria unlike the arab nations is am ethnically pluralistic country. The situations are very different, while the Arab nations barely have issues bordering tribal conflicts and relations, Nigeria does. Unlike Nigeria, the Arab spring started as a result of the economic hardship and corruption faced by citizens of certain Arab nations but was hijacked by foreign powers along the way. They were not protesting for secession and disintegration of their country like people in Nigerians are doing. And guess what, the country with genuine revolutionary intentions got back on its feet.

Whether the seceding nation will progress or not is none of your business. They are not progressing in Nigeria either so whats your point? Nigeria has not turned out as planned after 55 years of independence, what is Nigeria's backup plan?

EmoBoy:
Tunisia even after the Arab spring still has a better HDI ranking than Nigeria, so whats your point? We are now sixteen years in a democracy but the country is still not developing. Doesn't that tell you that something is fundamentally wrong with Nigeria?

Secession is one of the solutions to solve our teething problems, it is not the only solution. Steady democracy that is built on injustice, inequity, hatred and greed will stand no chance of success in a million years and that is why Nigeria will not develop.

EmoBoy:
What an ignorant comment

1. Nigerian states have economic, legal and institutional limitations
2. Most Nigerian states were created by ignorant and shortsighted military rulers.
3. Nigerian States cannot sustain themselves because they have been structured to be parasitic.
4. Nigeria has been operating as an illegal country from 1966 till date. That is why the country is totally messed up.
5. A country does not grow on the back of injustice, inequality, hatred and greed.
6. If certain sections of the country believe they can prosper as a sovereign nation, they have every right to pursue their aim.
7. Nigeria at its present state is not much better than the Benin Republic you mentioned in your comment. The two countries are on the same developmental phase both human and infrastructural.
8. You, like a vast majority of Nigerians are totally ignorant of the core problems facing Nigeria. You rather wait every four years to vote a "good president" to salvage your useless country rather than agitate to fix the fundamental issues hindering the progress of the country.

Gayigaskia:
The only reason why Arewa Republic, Niger Delta Republic, Biafra, Odudua won't work is ironically the same reason why Niger Republic is not working. A country with massive land and resources with less than 20 million people and relative peace are still the poorest people on the face of earth. Even though Niger has at this moment the only working oil refinery in the region and a lot of crude oil reserves in the Lac chad area and the Sahara. Niger 's Uranium has been feeding the french (75%) and Japanese electrical nuclear power plants for over 40 years against a meager 5% of the benefits. We need to Unite, educate our people to move forward, no one is going to do that for us it is possible; the Chinese did it.

whirlwind7:
I don't know if BH fighters are zombies that keeps getting up to fight after they are killed, or the army is just trying to win this war by propaganda alone.
Going by the advances the army claimed to have made since the beginning of the year, BH should have been decimated to a few, isolated and demoralized stragglers.

Technocrat1759:
This is what happens in a country where d law only punishes a poor man severly 4 stealing maggi and hand d rich man a little or no sentence 4 looting millions, i don't blame bode gorge because d last time they only gave him a jail term that lasted 4 few months after which he came out an trew a big party and d looting continues. I prescribe death sentence 4 such people.