₦airaland Forum

There has been insinuations that North is “cooking” something for Nigerians. The visits in quick succession by Atiku and El Rufai to Buhari in the last of couple of days, have also added credence to it.

Firstly, for Atiku and Elrufai to visit Buhari and publicize it shows how unreasonable they are. This same Buhari is the cause of the cause of Nigeria’s present economic and political collapse. Buhari elevated bigotry to state policy and Tinubu has continued with it. Buhari ruined Nigeria’s economy the two times he ruled the country. Buhari caused the death of so many people including innocent youth corp members serving in the North, even when it was clear he lost an election. Juxtapose that with Obi who clearly won an election but was blatantly rigged out, yet he didn’t instigate Nigerians to soak monkeys and baboons in blood.

Atiku and El Rufai trying to give relevance to a villain shows how much they disdain Nigerians. It shows they’re unrepentant bigots who are still living in the past. It’s obvious that these two politicians & indeed most Muslim northern politicians haven’t learnt anything. They still have the illusion that the Islamic North is still in control and can determine what happens in Nigeria by themselves. Such nativity!

Someone should tell these people that they lost control the moment middle belt began to align with South. Without the MB, North is helpless!

If these people really want Tinubu to go, they really have to start using their brains now. Peter Obi won the election in 2023, with a relatively unknown party and an unpopular vice. Any idea that such a great man will stoop low to contest as vice to Atiku or El Rufai in 2027, is an insult and absurdity that will never happen.

Peter Obi will be the face of opposition in 2027, it’s left for the North to align with him and present a popular vice. Anything aside that will give Tinubu automatic 8 years, even if half of Nigerians starve to death.

All opposition parties should morph into one with Obi as flag bearer. Then there should be a massive campaign now for laws that would compel INEC to conduct a credible election.

Should Tinubu rule for 8 years, the biggest losers would be the North particularly and then all Nigerians. So, the North needs Peter Obi or and SE/SS and not the other way round.

Hmnnn. There seem to be an upsurge in terrorist attacks in Russia. What is going on, Putin?

When you stated earlier that you intended to do Keke business over there, I thought you meant selling meme or motor parts. How in God’s name do you want to ride keke napep in Liberia? How

If you have no capital to do business there and have no special skill, please don’t go there and constitute nuisance. They have surplus of poor people in there own country that would do that keke napep. Do not go there and choke them otherwise it would result in resentment and xenophobia.

LEGITCHUDDY:
mehn am just confuse cause all my plan is to go there...buy keke and start husting over but the statement alone just waeking my vissle

Lol, Hausa and Fulani people killed a Yoruba traffic policeman and used their motorcycles to run over him like it was an enjoyable sports. It happened in broad day light yet non of you could do anything.

This was exactly how Fulanis conquered Illorin and till today, they rule the place and have banned Yoruba culture, which they termed barbaric😂😂.

Cowards like you will never challenge them, instead you accept your place as their slave. But when it involves law abiding Igbos who are too busy creating wealth to bother themselves with lowlifes like you, you automatically become an online warrior.

What a disgrace. Spit!

flokii:
You know this overbearing attitude is what has been getting Igbos into trouble in the North from Jos to Kano to Kaduna.

While some might see this as nothing, I see a million things wrong here and can snowball into ethnic clashes if not checked. Yorubas are getting provoked already with Igbo attrocities especially during the 2023 Governorship elections in Lagos with Chinedu noise and all that, now this.

You people won't sha say we didn't warn you.

It’s always in Lagos that this rubbish happens. They empowered social misfits and encouraged them by giving them uniform to be terrorizing law abiding citizens.

Tinubu the criminal claimed he built Lagos but the old fool only recruited rogues and allowed them to be constituting nuisance in Lagos. Tell me any sane city in the world where criminals are allowed to harass law abiding citizens like Lagos.

Spit!!!

Igbofirstson:
I no understand this news can someone enlighten me more

If this was done by Igbos, by now every one of them from the fowl head called Soyinka to the last of them on the street would have been issuing threats every minute. However, it was done by their masters hence the radio silence and forming civility.

What a shame.

Spit!!!

C O W A R D.

Godfullsam:
You cockroaches want to use the incident to incite tribal problem between tribes despite the fact that the PPRO of Lagos state has arrested and detained the police on illegal duties and vowed to apprehend everyone involved.
You cockroaches are still calling the yorubas cowards because they have decided to allow the police to their jobs instead of going on rampage and killing all the hausas (both the guilty and Innocents).
It won't work!

I have seen nothing less than 5 threads on this issue alone and these threads were created by one single tribe who ordinarily should not be concerned.

A similar incident occurred recently in enugu state where some fooooolanis raped an under aged teenage girl and killed the man that came to rescue her.
But no one is talking about it. You people are really cursed.

Shame on you cockroaches.

Igbofirstson:
I no understand this news can someone enlighten me more

I think some Hausas and Fulanis were proving that Lagos is truly a no man’s land. They killed a Yoruba traffic police officer and repeatedly used their Ijaws to run over him.

Abysmal IQ. Quoting price in UK and converting directly to naira for comparison sake is stupidity. When will these people grow a brain?

And what primitive language was she even speaking that sounded so harsh to my ears? Couldn’t she complete the argument in English or even Pidgin?

I had to stop the video after a few seconds because it was unhealthy for me.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. When are they going to remove the other criminal organizations like the police and army?

This alone is going to save the region billions of naira annually and also improve ease of doing business. However, it’s only a matter of time before their greed will get the better of them and they will rush back.

madridguy:
Let us know where a building like this is located in Aba or anywhere in the entire SE.

There is no common sense in building a highrise building when you don’t have ordinary steady electricity. Most of the upper floors in that cocoa house are occupied by rodents. Even in Lagos with high income levels, owners of highrise buildings are operating at losses because of high cost of diesel to run their generators.

I would rather build such highrise in Aba now than build it anywhere else in Nigeria. Meanwhile, money used in building that cocoa house and also in trying to maintain it, would have been better used in replacing the rusted roofs in Ibadan.

chinasaekpere:
I want to learn something about cities in southwest

Non! All SW “cities” are slums in disguise. Brown roofs with mud walls. They’re incapable of building decent settlements. It could also be as a result of extreme poverty.

India, Pakistan and Nigeria are the three most useless countries in the world.

I never knew there were countries as backward, dirty, disorganized and filled with poor citizens like Nigeria until I visited India. I even there hotels are spared of grime and I was so careful with what and where I eat in New Delhi.

I saw cows rummaging through rubbish on major streets in New Delhi. Dead cat lying on the floor while everyone walks over it. Homeless people turned their metro stations to look 10x worse than a place called York in Aba. The worst is there spitting culture. It’s so bad that in their exclusive neighborhoods, you will see signs on posts warning people not to spit😆😆

I was mobbed by a colony of beggars shouting baba help me, baba help me the moment I alighted from my taxi. The worst thing is that they beg with so much entitlement. They will be touching you and if you give them smaller denominations of Rupees, they will tell you it’s small for them. A country that still use bicycle tricycles as a popular means of transportation 😂😆

Nigeria is being ruled by a criminal cartel. This situation is becoming very disturbing and dangerous. How can a whole president with fleet of hers now be using the private jet of a very corrupt Lebanese businessman? Have we descended that low?

Isn’t it better for this foolish old man called Tinubu to fly Airpeace or any other local airline than to be disgracing Nigeria like this?

Where is the national pride? Where is the patriotism?

Tinubu won’t end well Walahi.

Bobloco:
Aisha Yesufu must have touched some nerve with her comment to warrant these kind of response from Tinubu's entire media attack dogs.

Truth hurts deeply especially to unsecured people like Tinubu and his tainted presidency.

Aside their endless looting, I don’t think these people are enjoying their “presidency “ disgrace and embarrassment keep following them about😂😂

Tflex01:
So what do we do with the Igbo beggars we help to feed daily??

Lol, how many Igbo beggars have you come across in your life? For every single Igbo beggar out there, there are colonies of others from your tribe.

Igbos are naturally hardworking and have pride, that’s why it’s common to see Igbos who are physically handicapped yet they’re still productive unlike in Lagos where you will see your brothers who are physically fit yet too lazy to help their lives. They will rather constitute nuisance as agberos or be running after moving vehicles while begging for money to eat😂😂

Olachase:
na only you your family day abroad

abi you don forget say Hausa man way fit feed your family day not even to mention other tribes

pls you guys need to apply sense before coming on social media to dish trash

Having one Dangote and 3000 Alhajis who got rich through government while 99,000,000.00 others are in deep poverty is madness. No country with such lopsided demography ever survives. Igbos may not have a Dangote, but they have 100,000’s middle class that can sustain their economy and reduce absolute poverty.

I never told you I’m the only person with family members abroad. Anyways, continue supporting Tinubu, you will also receive your reward accordingly.

Who doesn’t know those children of hate from the waste. If they’re not impersonating Northerners, they will be impersonating Niger delta just to push their hatred against Igbos.

I like what Harry did there, in fact I’m already advocating it. Do not help anyone in Nigeria without checking his background first. It will be the height of foolishness to assist wretched bigots instead of allowing nature to get rid of them.

godwinngbede:
This thing we joke about is actually a serious issue. This is how these guys change to Igbo names and use it to fuel bigotry and hatred. In their minds they are cashing out but by their very hands they are causing more damage than they can imagine. Tomorrow they will raise their hands in the air 🙌🏾 claiming innocence.

When Igbos complain of hatred people try to gaslight them. Thank God for social media has shrunken the Nigerian political space to a small global village and exposed what has been going on for years. The institutionalized bigotry and state-sponsored hatred against Igbos.

I pray and hope Nigeria does not slide into an ethnic civil war again cos this time it will be bloody. Most of these little children aiding this nonsense have never experienced war or its aftermath effects because the last civil war was happening and the whole of Nigeria was carrying on business as usual.

Should we slide into such again, it will be happening everywhere simultaneously and maybe by then we will all have sense.

The last paragraph is exactly what Obi said. Obi raised the alarm that Nigeria does not need to spend 15 trillion that would still be stolen in the name of coastal road when a fraction of that money is enough to fix the existing terrible roads. But as usual, the foolish bigots and bastards were busy insulting their fathers, thinking they were doing Obi.

Bobloco:
DIAGEO, the United Kingdom-based owner of the iconic Guinness brand became the latest multinational to dilute its shareholding in a major outfit in Nigeria. This again points to the grave failings of the policy environment that have spooked multinational organisations with serious implications for new investments, employment, and the economy at large.

Eyebrows were raised recently when Diageo sold 58.02 per cent of its shareholding to Tolaram, a multinational. Diageo still produces several beverages in Nigeria.

However, some multinationals completely exited Nigeria. Those leaving cited higher operating costs that have eroded profits, inability to access forex, and a harsh regulatory environment as major reasons. Foreign direct investment into Nigeria fell by 26.7 per cent to $3.9 billion in 2023 from $5.3 billion in 2022. Household names like Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kimberly Clark, GlaxoSmithKline, and Sanofi Aventis have exited fully or converted their business models to import and distribution. Jumia Foods and Bolt Foods are gone.

Microsoft and Meta have downsized their operations. PZ Cussons Plc is considering leaving Africa as a whole, partly due to its Nigeria woes, which have resulted in a 48 per cent drop in sales. The CEO, Jonathan Myers, cited macroeconomic challenges and complexities.


Most worrisome is the departure of Shell, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Equinor. The IOCs are divesting their assets away from Nigeria with investments in other African countries with better business environments. Oil theft, insecurity, and hostile communities are chasing these companies away from a sector that accounts for 95 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings.

TotalEnergies recently announced a commitment of $6 billion to developing the Kaminho oil project offshore Angola after dumping Nigeria as an option. It is investing $600 million in Congo. The company’s boss, Patrick Pouyanne, blamed the decision on Nigeria’s erratic policy environment that has made investments untenable.

The government says these issues will be resolved with the ongoing economic reforms and has acknowledged that the absence of a liquid foreign exchange market is a key factor in the exit of the multinational. Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, is optimistic that things will improve. We do not share such optimism.

Multinationals play a key role in job creation, technology transfer, contribution to the tax pool, CSR programmes, and signalling for foreign investors. These departures have a negative multiplier effect on small and medium-scale companies, which are their suppliers and service providers. Thousands of jobs have disappeared.

It is incongruous that this administration has been busy globetrotting, seeking new investors while the existing ones are fleeing. That the government does not see the urgency of the situation is shocking. The fiscal policy and tax reforms that ought to provide a clear new direction and remove regulatory and tax bottlenecks should have been implemented by now.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote revealed that the Federal Government takes 52 per cent tax on every N1 his company earns in profit and that policy inconsistencies could easily lead to business bankruptcy. This sums up a picture of why Nigeria cannot be an investment destination of choice unless these issues are addressed quickly.

For a government that has sold itself as business-friendly, it must prioritise measures that support businesses, such as lowering taxes, streamlining business processes, trade facilitation, and creating a regulatory environment that is not predatory but delivers on enterprise development.

The focus should not be on how much government can extract from businesses. Businesses need to be thriving to recruit and pay employees, meet tax obligations, and undertake CSR. Policies should be clear and consistent.

Security must be improved to support agriculture and the oil and gas sector. The government needs to upgrade existing infrastructure. There is no point committing N15 trillion to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road when the existing highways are shabby.

https://punchng.com/nigerias-worrisome-corporate-exodus/

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Yet some bigots are still supporting the evil drug lord who has destroyed Nigeria.

Karma is coming to take revenge with full force on you all.

Wasted generation!!!

Calm down, don’t worry yourself, nature will always do the needful on idiots

Lessonteacher:
this idiot still have strength to talk nonsense here, don't worry hunger will finish all of you since you lack sense.

Lol, more than half of my family members are abroad. Even if the remaining ones in Nigeria are to stay idle, remittances we send to them alone is enough to sustain them even if rice becomes 200k a bag.

Anyways, we know the actual poverty endemic regions where people are already eating grass and others dying of malnutrition, SE or the wider Igboland is not part of them

aguluobi:
Bro beta be careful what you wish for, with how fathers are beating sons to death over left over in Anambra n mothers selling first sons to eat in the same state you might just be holding back help from your family members.

Do not say I did not warn you.

Stop talking like a drunk. Orlu zone has produced more governors in Imo state than Owerri and Okigwe zones combined. Achike Udenwa is from Orlu zone, he ruled for 8 years and built Imo international market in Orlu despite the fact that Owerri is the biggest city and thus would be more viable for it.

Rochas is from Orlu zone and he ruled for 8 years. He built a brand new university in his Orlu zone.

Hope Uzodinma is from Orlu zone and he will also rule for 8 years.

In your demonic greediness, your people have dominated governance in Imo state and despite the complains of other zones, you people insist on having your way. Yet, you have the guts to come online and be saying rubbish. If IMO state governors didn’t do anything for Orlu, when majority of them equally came from Orlu, why don’t you go and hold them responsible

You want to carry this demonic attitude to form another so you can also oppress them while crying at the same time Good luck to those that will be foolish enough to join you in your wild goose chase🤡

E ga awu ogbenye, wurukwa amusu

Amah70:
Your Owerri people took 99.9% of all govt establishments and institutions to Imo state and got all located in Owerri during the military administrations; no consideration for what to leave to Orlu and Okigwe areas to induce human and economic development in Orlu and Okigwe areas.

As a result, you have cities of Old Owerri and New Owerri plus other emerging cities in your Owerri zone. Orlu and Okigwe deteriorate because of association with greedy people in the same Imo state.
Owerri even tricked a new military gov of Imo state to close the Orlu campus of Alvan Ikoku College of Education, after Mbakwe administrstion and the World Bank spent millions of Naira to establish the campus in Orlu. Owerri told the military gov that a campus of Alvan Ikoku College of Education outside Owerri cannot be viable. Even the university teaching hospital establiished in Orlu, no Owerri born patient ever attended for treatment in the hospital until the teaching hospital became morribund.


Knowing your primitive greed, by the time everywhere in Owerri zone is fully urbanised with modern infrastures, you people will like to ask IMSG to deck the whole of Owerri zone for a new ultra modern Owerri city.

The results of the EVIL THINGS you people did and still do to Orlu and Okigwe zones have manifested clearly. Imo state is the only state in the southeast with only one modern city. Development does not come from nothing; nothing left for Orlu and Okigwe zones despite that some governors came from the two zones.

Nigerians condemn your primitive greed of locating every govt thing of Imo state in Owerri before 1999.

Owerri knew that they are more related to Ikwerre than to either Orlu or Okigwe. That's why Owerri lobbied for and collected all govt establishments and institutions that should induce human and economic devlooment in all of Imo state and got them all located in Owerri zone.

In disguise, you have now come to do your witchcraft against Orlu leaving your Owerri for a different state.

You know that the 12 local government areas of Orlu zone are big and populated enough to have a state. But parts of Anambra south are our kit and kin in Orlu zone. We need them as much as they need us. Your Owerri zone alone has amassed excess wealth from creation of Imo state. Owerri zone can now sustain itself as a state. Take your eyes away from Orlu state proposal.

Begging has become widespread in Nigeria today, and the ridiculous thing is that a good number of these people supported Buhari, supported Tinubu and are still supporting Tinubu!!!!

I’m no longer bothered about those foolish and hungry bigots still supporting the drug lord on empty stomach. My happiness is that karma is already happening to them.

Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest principle will ensure that most of them won’t survive. They think their foolishness doesn’t have consequences but I will explain.

By not eating well, they will become malnourished and their immune systems will break down. Which makes them vulnerable to all manner of diseases and sickness. Add to the frustration, depression and hopelessness and you will have walking corpse. When they eventually pick up even ordinary malaria or typhoid, they won’t have money to buy OTC drugs talk more of going to hospitals. Then the grim reaper takes over. Meanwhile, the drug lord and his family and cartels are balling and packing money in bullion vans.

Before any Nigerian should help anyone, please ask them to provide evidence they didn’t support Tinubu in any way. We can’t continue subsidizing foolishness.

Ezeama400:
The problem is not Tinubu and those defending him because I know some of them are benefiting directly from him, the greatest problem here is those defending him on an empty stomach...

Don’t worry about those foolish and hungry bigots still supporting the drug lord on empty stomach. My happiness is that karma is already happening to them.

Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest principle will ensure that most of them won’t survive. They think their foolishness doesn’t have consequences but I will explain.

By not eating well, they will become malnourished and their immune systems will break down. Which makes them vulnerable to all manner of diseases and sickness. Add to the frustration, depression and hopelessness and you will have walking corpse. When they eventually pick up even ordinary malaria or typhoid, they won’t have money to buy OTC drugs talk more of going to hospitals. Then the grim reaper takes over. Meanwhile, the drug lord and his family and cartels are balling and packing money in bullion vans.

Before any Nigerian should help anyone, please ask them to provide evidence they didn’t support Tinubu in any way. We can’t continue subsidizing foolishness.

Lol, but same bigots are still supporting Tinubu the drug lord who has made life miserable for them?

Abegiii, it’s Yorubas that need to wake up, not Nigerians.

Nonsense and ingredients!!!

LillyandDaisy:
Wakeup Nigeria! O nru'gbo bo o ... see how people of Ada, in Boripe Local Government, Osun State dealt with their House of Representatives member...O wa fun odun Ileya pelu N160m jeep ! For Nigeria to be great...That's how they should all be treated in their communities to uniformly register our general displeasures !

What do you expect in a jungle called Zoogeria😂😂