Latest urea and fertilizer plant in the world hosted in Lagos. top 3 Market cap Company Microsoft moving to Lagos. Top car manufacturer Toyota opening service center in Lagos. I thought the other region sabi business the most. I can’t really tell. Let me just mind my business.
Honestly I’m all for state and regional unions over national ones. Nigeria has never progressed with everything being at the center. This is a welcomed development.
God bless you for this. It’s really a problem with us as black people that we need to remedy fast. Everything we do we prefer to patronize white people because it’s “better quality” , as if Japanese, Chinese, and Indian manufacturing didn’t start somewhere. Soon Ethiopia will too pass us as they’re beginning to manufacture things on their own.
Our main problem is that we want things easy and fast, and we think anything white is better
- It why many people scam - It is why many people want to fly to the west - It is why many people buy western products - It is why people will promote western apps but mass review Nigerian apps negatively - It is why politicians procure foreign construction firms - It is why politicians procure foreign mining companies
Simple 10 year plan to teach its own population manufacturing and construction skill sets to set Nigeria up for the next 100 years, it is headache. Many politicians won’t because they lack foresight and can only think 4 years in the future. And even if they do many citizens will curse them because they automatically react negatively whenever anything is made by blacks.
Look at Lagos Ride launch. A right thinking government wanted to give citizens a right to own cars, replace Uber, build tax for the state, build a safer mobile taxi service (all cars have cameras and an S.O.S button in the app) all in one endeavor. What did Nigerians do? Curse the Nigerian government instead of telling their fellow Nigerians to patronize those apps instead of Uber,Lyft and Bolt which goes to supporting their own countries’ stock market.
Honestly many of this is so deep seated it will take something akin to an extremely aggressive national mandate like Mao’s cultural revolution to reset people’s brains. The Chinese would gather in crowds flogging and attacking people that didn’t promote and support Chinese culture. And look at them now.
mrvitalis: Reason why everyone wants to leave UK ...even tho UK gave each region autonomy
Listen to the people that own the land why is it hard for your likes to understand
People want to control their land and security why is it difficult ? Nigerian structure has never worked anywhere in the world with similar characteristics ..every country that's not a nation use weak center strong regions every single one
Italy , Germany , Russia ,every single on
Why are you bent on controlling others ?
I’ve already conceded state policing should be next up on the docket. Outside of that states already have control over their regions. They now have control over building railroads, they have control over building and modernizing airports. They have control over building roads, collecting state taxes, procuring investors, building train lines, building bus systems. Of all of these things they have control over, which of the states you are talking about have completed half of these things? Or is another excuse incoming?
mrvitalis: Norway is a nation ...Nigeria is a mere country with many nations
Stop comparing a country to a nation they are not the same
Yet another excuse. It’s exactly the same. What about the United Kingdom? Is that not a country with many nations? Comprised of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland. Should I compare Nigeria to UK instead? That might be worse.
Norway exports oil. And they don’t allow states to collect the revenue for the endeavor. They put aside a small percentage of that revenue for oil into their sovereign wealth fund, and after decades of investments of that fund, social services for the entire country can be financed for the next 100 years. 4-Day work week, free healthcare, free education. Etc. Tell me, is the lack of resource allocation preventing those states in Norway from having roads? Factories? Clean water? Electricity? High living standard all around?
My point is, we will continue to make excuses for the next thousand years and will go NO WHERE. It’s time to hold leaders accountable and vote for people who deliver, and cast out those that don’t. Or accept mediocrity and get left behind. The choice is yours. I’m just glad other regions don’t have to be held back as much any longer.
IGBOSON1: Don’t mind the OP! He’s being clever by half and must think he’s dealing with kids!
I’ve noticed these people have been all over the media since yesterday, waxing lyrical about how…with this half-hearted constitution amendment, that Nigeria is getting ‘restructuring’! When in actual fact they’re just leaving the substance and chasing shadows!
For free, i can tell all reading this that the seismic shift in the political-economy and structure of the polity that will finally free up the regions/ethnicities to determine the right cause to their own destiny, develop at their own pace, and use their own resources (human and natural)….all efforts to achieve this will be truncated by the actions of the core north, and the inactions of the lily-livered, greedy and self-seeking political actors from the south and middle-belt!
These smartass commentators are now trying to argue that since Nigeria is undergoing the ‘restructuring’ agitators were asking for, there’s no more any need for Biafra, Oduduwa, and Ijaw/Niger-Delta republics!
What exactly differentiates LAYE from the current revenue allocation setup?
Definitely not. Procurement of ammunition and explosives, creation of states, creation of currency, nuclear energy, are all things that should continue to be handled by the federal government. We aren’t running a banana republic. Why on earth should states create their own currency? Or nuclear energy research (which eventually leads to nuclear bombs), or buy weapons from russia/ Pakistan on their own without the federal government’s approval? That’s mad.
Nwaide01: True federalism is LAYE which simply means Live As You Earn. Then contributes whatever percentage the federating units agreed on to the center.
With the current VAT bill passing to go into effect, what exactly is the difference? As it currently stands, federal govt only gets percentage of those taxes, and NOT VAT. How is this new current situation with the VAT passing any different from LAYE? Specifics please.
Outside of state policing, what’s next. People shouting for federalism federalism, what else is needed if state policing is adopted by NASS? I would say federalism would be fully accomplished by then.
At that point people need to face their own governors to do the needful for their own regions.
Other items moved to concurrent list: - Railways moved to concurrent list. - Airports moved to concurrent list.
Note where Wike himself said in the report as follows:
The issue of VAT did not start from Rivers State alone,” Mr Wike said. “It started in Lagos State. Lagos challenged it in the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, Supreme Court said, look, you wouldn’t have sued the Federal Government, what you should have done was to sue the agency. We (Rivers) came up to sue the agency that you are not entitled to VAT.
You can hear it from the horse's (Wike's) mouth that Lagos started it and that the Rivers people took lessons from the outcome of the attempt made by Lagos. Please recall that Wike is a Barrister.
This should end this silly back and forth once and for all. The take away should be, when right thinking governors work together, anything is possible. Look at what just two states were able to accomplish in tandem. Imagine if half of Nigeria’s governors were like them. Nigeria will fly.
Two pages later and I still don’t see a single thing. And this is supposed to be the best southeast candidate. No wonder these people run to the SW in millions.
It’s ok. The igbos said they would rather vote Atiku anyway. These people just keep getting slapped left and right like prostitutes. Yes they scream Yoruba up and down. Cowards.
Dapinski: Indeed. What makes Igbos really bad is their covetousness and raw greed. They will alway want what belongs to others and don't mind being deceptive, cunning and unscrupulous to get what they want.
Usurpation and covetousness is historical and innate with Igbos.
This is why I personally feel many Yorubas are too foolish for their own good. We must be careful empowering and assisting Igbos in Yoruba land.
For one thing, Igbos will never return the favour in ala Igbo. Their motto is "what you have is ours and what we have is ours alone".
Secondly, look at how it is mainly Igbos who incessantly fight and trouble Yoruba leadership the most in Lagos to realize the danger of empowering a people who never know their place and will always arrogantly plot to take control of what others have.
I am personally more comfortable with Northerners than hateful, insultive and ungrateful Igbos.
Definitely in agreement. That’s the silver lining with the Tinubu campaign. 3 weeks into him declaring candidacy has already awoken thousands of Yorubas on the hatred the igbos have for them. His candidacy will wake millions more before it’s over. I already see it gaining steam on Twitter.
flokii: To be very honest o... Hausas are far more reliable, honest and they love Yorubas. I wonder why Awolowo never considered an alliance with Ahmadu Bello but was busy pacifying Zik.
The younger generation Yorubas should not make the mistake of Awolowo and try to reach out to other tribes in Nigeria. In Plateau state for example, they have plenty tribes who speak different dialects according to LGAs.. but that doesn't stop the love they have for one another and they have a large Christian population too.
There are many Yorubas in North that have naturalized there.. you won't know they are Yorubas until you hear their names or when they hear you speak Yoruba and reply you in Yoruba. Most have taken North as home and speak Hausa language well. Reason I laugh when some people come and say Southern unity. Southern unity with hateful people that'll insult you to your face and call your homeland "no man's land".
That’s exactly what I’m thinking. It hit me when Adesina stated that Dangote was in his office multiple times and when he said Dangote and Otedola are great friends. I began to think about the different partnerships between both regions politically and see how many infrastructure projects have been ongoing in both regions.
Nothing is perfect but it’s a great match. Yorubas like to focus on tech/banking/services while northerners like agriculture and industrials. Both aren’t overly emotional and don’t like hailing curses on a particular tribe. They let you do you as long as you don’t disturb them, and Yorubas do the same. And most importantly both tribes value honor and integrity.
Instead we want to be doing southern unity with people that will be cursing all of your fathers and history from Awolowo to MKO to every current Yoruba politician. Why?!?!?
Dapinski: Gave way for kini? Why are you Igbos such fraudulent revisionists? Did Alex Ekwueme contest the PDP Primary against OBJ or not?
Are you saying that if Ekwueme had defeated OBJ, to gain the PDP ticket, Igbos would not have voted their son to become President?
Please chill with the lies thst does not match what the entire world knows about you people which is that you are clannish, self-serving, tribalistic, hateful of others and always laying in wait to reap where you have not sown.
Below is the result of the PDP Presidential Primaries when Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999. How many Yorubas contested and how many Igbos? Where is your "Igbos gave way for Yoruba" bullcrap validated below?
Stop trying to portray yourselves to be what even a newborn child knows you are not and can never be. Laughable doing so.
Everyone knows had Obasanjo lost against Ekwueme in the primaries they would’ve voted for him. The problem the Igbos have with the Yorubas contesting is because they know there is no way they will ever win an election competing with a Yoruba candidate. History has proven to this time and time again. So they want to force Yoruba candidates not to contest. Cowards afraid of competition.
flokii: What the North had realized about Igbos since 1960s', Yorubas are yet to figure out.. I watched Ahmadu Bello's interview of the 60s' where he discussed Igbos and their obsession to always take what belong to others and never practice fair play and I pondered deeply about it. They introduced tribalism into all spheres of life in Nigeria and made others become tribal conscious. Look at a lunatic Abia man like Nnamdi Kanu asking Ipobs to destroy Yorubas in Lagos yet Yorubas kept calm looking, including the Igbo puppet governor in Ondo state who finds his voice only when North is mentioned.
It doesn't even speak well of us as Yorubas to have kept quiet when the leader of a proscribed terrorist organization like IPOB called for destruction of our people and interests on our very own lands. These and more are part of the reason why these folks go about calling Yorubas names like cowards etc. because they've not been taught lesson yet in Yorubaland. The Deji in Akure got them flogged, the Oba in Lagos warned them seriously yet Yorubas still think there is gain being docile in the face of external hostilities from outsiders.
Investigative: You asked a question and I answered now you are shifting the goal post Blaming Igbo for what Yoruba did to another Yoruba because of politics SW have always fought for politics So stop roping Igbo into that affair And fight between tinubu and Obasanjo Now support another igbo like we did for Obasanjo
Investigative: Obasanjo was a product of Igbo support When it was zoned to South in 1999 Igbo gave way for Obasanjo Now tell me one instance Yoruba have replicate such gesture
If Obasanjo is what you call doing something for the southwest, the man that froze Lagos funds and made it difficult for SW states to get infrastructure funding, then you are out of your mind.
Bleep Southern Unity. The igbos have shown time and time again that they are against Yorubas. Much prefer Western Unity (NW/SW). You can’t be unifying with your open enemies.
pinkPUSSY: Did I just read that there is a collaboration\ alliance between north and SW ?
It's either you are naive or you just started following politics in 2015..
Do you think that Nigeria started in 2015 ? Smh..
Don't worry,.. By 2023 you will understand what politics is all about proper.. You will understand if the north is using you or if there is really a collaboration/ alliance..
Ask Pa Awolowo, Abiola or Kemi Adeosun.
Smh once again
You see the difference between the igbos and Yorubas is that the Yorubas don’t have a victim mindset, no one is using anyone. The SW has benefitted greatly in infrastructure in their partnership with the NW, as outlined above.
I have a very simple question for you: Give me 1 single way the SW has benefitted from a partnership with the SE? Outside of igbos saying they own Lagos up and down of course.
Goodluck Jonathan was known to marginalize Yorubas in his administration and Igbos were in full support of it.
Obasanjo the puppet with an Igbo mom that PDP wanted to elevate over MKO, the real Yoruba candidate, FROZE Lagos assets and set out to KILL Lagos’ economic prosperity before it began.
Meanwhile during just 8 yrs of the Buhari Administration representing SW/NW partnership we have:
- Lagos to Ibadan rail - Rail lines connecting Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan. - Lagos Metro Red and Blue Line partly financed by Buhari administration - Northern investment into Lagos tax and economy with the Dangote refinery (largest in Africa) - MASSIVE Norther support for any Yoruba candidate (both Osinbajo and Tinubu)
All without saying they “own Lagos” or looking to assassinate Yoruba political candidates online and social media. They simply do it because we supported them in the last election. They have something the Igbos will NEVER have, honor and integrity.
So my question to Yorubas is: What else must northerners do to prove to you that they are much better partners than those in the south East that hate you every second they can and do whatever they can to stop your progress??
Investigative: Any unity that give one group edge over another is a scam You have led for 8!years and because Igbo refuse to allow you lead again disunity comes What do you take people as
Igbos are saying Bleep southern Unity. Well Yorubas are now saying Bleep souther unity in agreement.