₦airaland Forum

Iykenuwa:
Partially, to deceive gullible people like you

The boarders in the north are closed

Dottore:
There's nearly unrestricted movement in the northern brothers. All the goods that are contraband in the the Southern borders are flowing into Nigeria freely from the North.

I am in the north, you are a bloody liar. You can easily lose your life in any northern city by smuggling just a bag of rice through any land boarder. All major roads are under the surveillance of armed security personnel, though some goods still get smuggled in but smuggling has reduced by as much as 90%.

Xano:
Dude, your posts most times are naive close to the extent of immature.

Trailers of rice bags commute from Niger-Nigeria border get to Port Harcourt and disembark all its goods at Mile 1 market.

Continue your nativity

Oga it is a lie.
All northern boarder are closed, all the designated routes from Niger republic to Nigeria are blocked, but Nigerians being stubborn will find ways to exploit the loopholes to smuggle in some goods.

Lots of you people here on nairaland are ignorant and views all government policies from narrow myopic views. The question should be why must we import rice when we can actually farm it here, why spend our scarce dollars on an item that we can produce or substitute with other food. While growing, majority of us eat other local food because obviously we can't afford to buy imported rice, what has change now?

I have been critical of Buhari regime but accusations of favouring the north by opening the northern land border is laughable at best, if Nigeria land boarder is opened to smuggler it will affect the north more because majority of locally produce rice is from the north and the government rice policies of local production is aiming to empowered the large unemployed northerner population

alphaNomega:
Why should an average Nigerian not be able to afford 24 hours electricity if the people are not collectively cursed? I am tired of complaining about this country hence my signature. It is too annoying.

Because an average Nigerian have too many children, lack the education needed to create wealth, spend too much of his time to pray and worried about unnecessary thing than to put in the work required.

Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world for a reason

solmusdesigns:
Our Tax to GDP ratio is quite poor

Because majority of Nigerians are in the informal sector of the economy.

Majority are artisans, owns shops, run small scale farms etc. How do you tax market women or men that have no idea what tax is. How do you tax northern local farmers that don't even take their money to the banks.

The bottom line is Nigeira is a very poor country.

helinues:
Our populations is our strength but Average Nigerians have no knowledge of that.

Population only become useful when they are educated, you have the resource to cater for their well being and when you have a serious head start.

Every over populated developing countries always find it difficult to developed.

In reality, population is never a strength, the smaller the population the better

MelesZenawi:
Ask yourself what Lord lugard was thinking when he brought over 360 class of ethnic groups and welded them into one nation.


What was lugard thinking carving people from Niger republic, Chad, Togo, benin republic and move them here as Nigerians.


That's the root cause of all problems.

All these other countries you listed were a French creation. Nigeria was carved up from the great Yoruba state, hausas city states, pagan tribes of middle belt, minority tribes of the delta and igbos semi autonomous villages of south eastern Nigeria

Donald95:
There will be competition between Ya-raba and Biafrans and that competition will catapult the two countries to very great heights.

The northern leaches that are pulling us back can now have backness all to themselves

Biafra don't have the resource and knowhow to catapult to anywhere. The east without the oil producing state will be a poorer version of Cameroon.

The far north will suffer without the middle belt because they lack the arable land, educated population, religious tolerance to attract investment and is obviously landlocked.

South south will be the richest nation by far, they will have their 2m barrel oil production to less than 20m people alone. They have reasonable other resource in natural gas, arable land ( Edo, Delta, cross river) and relatively educated workforce.

South west will developed well and we the omoluabi will be a great country where things will finally work

ruggedtimi:
In terms of development nigeria is far from rwanda, Ghana our neigbours are doing better. You can hardly see a bad road in ghana, almost 24hrs power supply, one of the best security system in west africa, Education is way better than nigeria's education. I dont know how we nigerians can sleep in a house without light for almost a year and still remain mute.

The question is how many Nigerians can pay for 24hours electricity?

How many Nigerians can pay the tax to developed a world class infrastructure for 200m people, out of which majority are illiterates?

The problem with Nigeria is she grow too big for the meager resources available to her, with over entitled illitrates popupation that believe that she is some kind of Eldorado

zubby80:
If federal government build 10 of such in the whole 36 states at 3.6 billion naira per state, electricity will be a thing of the past, but since no go gree dem

It cost about $1billion to generate 1000Mwatt of electricity when you are generating through the thermal plant, that will translate roughly into $1million per 1Mega watt.

The problem is Nigerians are too poor to afford stable electricity so, we can't fully privatize the industry and the government is too poor to build the infrastructure needed to meet up to the uncontrolled demography explosion.

The solution is in building an integrated gas pipeline across the country that can service small integrated power plant. We need to do away with our centralized power grid, smaller power plants generating 10mw in markets, estate, industrial park, hospitals and other institutions will now be possible through private of community finance.

Blackvic1:
so nigerians GDP is $6000 you say and you believe all this trash you wrote up there? A country that has almost all the natural resources and have almost half of its population in poverty you compare with a country that has no natural resource and depends only on coffee and even went through civil war few years ago and we can’t boost of 12hour power supply , no health care no good road no water supply , all we know how to do is chest beat at its finest tell me what to be proud of as a Nigerian ? What have you benefited as a Nigerian ? Our passport is among the worst thriving Rwanda is visas free to almost 55 countries abeg look for another story to tell

To begin with, no one is denying the fact that Nigeria have a long way to go and we all need to put in the work required to re positioning our country on the path of growth. We all need to work on our behavior, work on planning on having small number of kid that we can fend for, we need do our own quota to pay tax, help the less poor among us, obey traffic law and contribute more to the general improvement of our society. We also need to elect the right people into position of authority and always demand they do right thing not by selective criticism of leaders from other ethnic group.

To your second point, that Nigeria is a rich country. This is a huge misconception, as a mater of fact Nigeria is a very poor country that depend heavily on hydrocarbons that can only bring in around $30 billion dollars for 200m people, majority of which have entitlement mentality of our "oil money", we don't pay tax, we don't like to farm, majority wants to get rich quickly without putting in the hard work, we are so dependent on import that we have virtually killed our cartage industry with our appetite for foreign goods. We need to change our mentality and work harder on building a better nation.

I am a proud Yoruba and as long as we are part of this entity called Nigeria, I will be a proud Nigerian. I am not a chest beater because I am not from the region renowned from beating their chest like chimpanzee. You can't just conclude that there is no power, healthcare or good road, there is but we have shortages in these areas, what we need is proper planning across board not by badmouthing others online.

NGpatriot:
This is the main crux, as a society, we complain and blame the government for everything under the sun even for our own unruly and dirty behavior. yes, we can not excuse away leadership incompetence in Nigeria because it is prevalent, but are we ready to pay the price for cleanliness and orderliness.

This is why we shouldn't make illogical comparisons because there's a reason for the cleanliness you see in Kigali, they did something to achieve that, something you in Nigeria can not allow or abide by so why are you comparing yourself with them?

When the government in Lagos did exactly what they are doing in Kigali, the same dirty and unruly people with their supporters on the internet, even here on NL rained insults and abuse on the Lagos state government, they screamed tribalism, they yelled tyranny, cruelty and so on.

The fact is, before posting rubbish to compare yourself with other people, first ask yourself if you are willing to act and behave the way other people behave to attain a clean and sane society.

Basically, practice what you preach.

The problem with Nigeria is tribalism, some section of Nigeria always like to hate and criticized irrationally. His aim for creating the thread was to ridicule Yoruba and Tinubu, he wants to blame them for stealing the money of Lagos, when in reality Lagos was in a serious mess when Tinubu came into the scene in 1999. The Nigeria military government left Lagos to rot for three decades, Tinubu was the architect of modern Lagos through his ingenious ideas to generate revenue internally. No body is disputing the fact corruption exist, just like in every society but progress only come with planning and small step at a time.

We really need to seriously restructured this nation to allow states to organized their economy, control inflow and outflow and to be able to pick what type of immigrant they will add value to their state not the type we have when every tom and harry will just enter the next available night bus at upper Iweka in Onitsha without money, where to sleep, skill or education to head to Lagos in other to constitute nuisance.
Majority of those sleeping under the bridge and constituting nuisance in Lagos are from the land of the rising sun, they contribute close to nothing in tax but end up committing all the crime in the city

Blackvic1:
all I can say is that we should be ashamed of ourselves there’s nothing melodramatic About this...we actually have Stockholm syndrome, we are used to rubbish been dished out to us by our leaders and lagos is our almighty newyork , lagos and Abuja are pile of shit compared to other economic cities and there capitals no drainage no health system no road no light no city centers education system is 0 internet access is less to nothing , we don’t even have a 3g internet access , where a bank will go for hours and they will tell you that the internet is down, tell me 1 thing that is working in this country and I will tell you 100 that is working in Rwanda and other places

Majority of world population live in developing nations from Africa, to Asia to Eastern Europe and south America, that is the reality. The problem with Nigerians is we shout, wail and complain when we actually don't know how to build a nation. Compared to other African Nigeria is actually doing well, Nigeria per capita is actually about $6,000(PPP) with a population of around 200m while Rwanda with a much smaller population is just around $2,000. In all ramification, Nigeria is far ahead of Rwanda not to talk of Lagos.

donfineboi:
LOL!! I understand your frustrations.... But you need to save your emotions and frustrations on the Govt you put in the office through elections and not me.

Any Govt that doesn't have a contingent plan to manage it's high population has no business in governance. You voted your Govt in and had reasons to vote him, follow his plan or vote him out next election.

My purpose in this discourse is mainly to justify the importance of comparisons and explain the significance of population as an asset. Which I have done and achieved.

The failure of your Govt to profer solution or their ineptitude in same regard is solely between you the electorate.

Rwanda has credible institutions and they have shown great governance in sustaining very robust and effective institutions over the years. Give them credit!!

If your Govt is not working for you vote them out and try another. Nigeria is just a place were people vote the same people and they complain things are not working.....

Good luck in life..

Rwanda is basically a banana republic with a strong man dictator that west is in love with, all those beautiful pictures only mask the underlying poverty that the majority of the population is facing.

Until we restructured and allowed proper control of resources Lagos will continue to experience overcrowding. The immigration from other less poor region is placing a strain on the state.


Majority of you economic immigrant in Lagos don't contribute a dime to the cover of Lagos in your 2b2 shops, majority of you that don't obey traffic rules, don't dispose off your refuse properly will come here to badmouth Lagos.

Minjim:
Population should be an advantage. Ask China.

Nigeria is actually more congested than China.
Nigeria 1/6th of China in population and 1/10th in landmass.

China has more resources per head, my land per head, more surface water per head even without comparing its technological knowhow.

Nigeria is a very poor third world over populous country, we are actually very poor as a country, we depend heavily on primary goods like crude oil and agro produce but our semi-illiterate populace believe that we are rich

Ojiofor:
Igbos are not tolerant as you said but how many properties does yorubas have in friendly non Igbo teritories in Nigeria outside Yorubaland?

Come to the North, Yorubas have plenty properties here in the North.


In some Northern Cities, you have seriki Yoruba as part of the chief of the emir.

Go to Suleja, Minna, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Zaria and you will see Yoruba properties

Uyomeyouyo:
Yorubas work smart as showcased in the Yoruba thread while Igbos WORK HARD for less...

It is a myth that Igbos work hard, hard work and Igbos don't go together.

mercyville:
They have only cottage industries and they are mostly in Anambra.Only Honeywell will swallow all of them.That is why they have the poorest IGR. Poor souls but mouthy...
Suffering and smiling..

Onitsha is a glorified slump where nothing works, all the business in Onitsha put together is not up to the value of Dangote cement factory in Ogun state. I have been to all the major markets in Onitsha and there is nothing to write home about them .

mercyville:
Poverty stinks in the SE and I really pity them.Thank God the SW is helping them..

Do you know that Enugu municipal which was the formal capital of the old eastern region has no waterworks? No pipe born water. It is also impossible to drill a borehole there, you have to buy water throubg tanker.

What they have in their glorified villages is mansions built of proceeds of drugs and illegal hustle from the south-west but they lack every other basic infrastructure that makes a decent living possible.

In my line of work, I get to travel to lots of places, only in the east I am always eager to board the next available flight back to Abuja.

mercyville:
lol
And they are asking for a nation of mainly traders.No wonder they could not develop during the regional system.The lazy brats..

lol
And they are asking for a nation of mainly traders.No wonder they could not develop during regional system.The lazy brats..

Don't mind those lazy fools.

Igbos are the parasitic of all the major tribes in Nigeria, they bring close to zero to the table. The northerners are great farmers, traders, and supply a great deal of labourer all across the nation, the Yorubas are well represented in all facet of life but the Igbos just want to make money by all means without doing anything.

You will never see them do anything that involves deep thinking and know-how but rather import substandard goods from China and put a burden on our forest.

I have been to all their potopoto state, majority of them are glorified villages, the reason you see them boarding the next available night bus to Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Kano, Abuja, Kaduna etc.

Makuos19:
I hope u are not including Lagos as yolobaland. Because the last i check, the Oba said Lagos does not belong to yoloba!!!

We are starting all these from Lagos.
We will force you all to speak our language in your home and place of work.

The tinubu that you guys love to hate is even more liberal and have some soft spot towards you people but we the younger Yoruba will not tolerate any of your excesses, we will chase you all economic immigrant to the potopoto republic

Rumxy:
Every time they talk about richest, they bring up Adenugas, Alakijas. Those are not who you are supposed to be talking about. An average Igbo man hustles far more than an average Yoruba man. Majority of yorubas do white collar jobs, those that receive salaries are comfortable and not multimillionaires. You can't compare them to their Igbo counterparts who are majorly businessmen. You don't rate them because you see them in small shops but majority of those guys are multi-millionaires with assets that will surprise you. Many make your monthly salaries in a few hours.Most Igbo businessmen don't show off their wealth for fear of government clampdown that is why many are not rated by Forbes. If you don't know Forbes is by choice, you need to open up to them before they can rate you. Igbo people buy properties everywhere in Nigeria even in your Lagos, they own many properties.

On average, Igbos are richer than yorubas.

Majority of igbos are lazy, an unimaginative individual that wants to make money, by all means, the loiter around all the major market across the nation to swindle people off their hard earn money.

Retailing business in most society is the profession of women, Igbo is the only tribe to brag about selling shoes, rice, used the spare parts, fairly used clothes etc in small 8ft x 8ft shops.
Yorubas are great entrepreneur, academicians, carpenters, bricklayer, bankers, auto mechanics, banker, stockbrokers, ICT experts etc.

Yorubas dominate the banking industry, insurance, construction, music and every other industry that a level of skill and know-how is required

IgANephropathy:
So only when Igbos ally with the North is it acceptable. Yorubas are not allowed to, as that's betrayal.

How did Yorubas betray Zik? You've uttered crap. So Zik should have been allowed to rule the South-West? Igbos would have allowed a Yoruba man to rule South-East? The Yorubas fought for what they wanted, a Yoruba Premier. How is that betrayal?

Igbos men!!!! You want everything to favour you. Once denied, you stomp your feet like kids

Don't mind those hypocrites, Igbos are the most greedy of the tribes in Nigeria, they always want what doesn't belongs to them.

During the Obasanjo regime, my dad always criticise Obasanjo government for giving igbos too much power, he always emphasises the hatred Igbos have for Yoruba from the first republic to the third republic, I never believe in his assertion until I started meeting with them.

We the younger Yoruba generation are very nationalistic in our outlook towards life, we will start chasing Igbos out of the southwest, we will revoke all the certificate of occupancy we gave them, we will not seed them an inch if our land starting from 2023.

For the Igbos to continue to live and do business in south west thy mustn't be seen to be against our interest

IgANephropathy:
So only when Igbos ally with the North is it acceptable. Yorubas are not allowed to, as that's betrayal.

How did Yorubas betray Zik? You've uttered crap. So Zik should have been allowed to rule the South-West? Igbos would have allowed a Yoruba man to rule South-East? The Yorubas fought for what they wanted, a Yoruba Premier. How is that betrayal?

Igbos men!!!! You want everything to favour you. Once denied, you stomp your feet like kids

Don't mind those hypocrites,

Biety:
Pay no attention to El rufai, SW is in a very good position of producing Buhari' successor in 2023.

Don't mind children of hate, they see every Hausa Fulani as their master, see them biggie el rufai up.

El rufai can't even win the party primary if it is zoned to north west not to talk of when Tinubu is involved.

Stingman:
Have you been to Onitsha in your life before

Yes, I have been there

jaxxy:
The government has probably failed to educate them and then the cause of their poverty is not always their fault smtmes it’s the environment or government policies. Extremists that’s abit more difficult to solve cos it’s very sentimental.

The government have a role to play only when the people are ready to change, Nigeria is one of those few countries that subsidized almost everything, from electricity to education to fuel to the healthcare but he poor are not really ready to take the initiative.

The poor will rather give their money to fake pastors inform of tithe than to pay tax or form a community-based program to solve some of their problems in water distribution, community schools, community hospitals, drainages etc.

The government have a role to play but he society have the biggest role

jaxxy:
The people holding this country to ransom are in both Apc and Pdp. They are plagues to the real progress of this country. They know the right thing bt keep doing the wrong ones.

The poor are the biggest culprit, they reproductive at a very alarming rate without planning ahead, they lazy around and go to mosque and churches to pray for the imaginary sky daddy to come to their rescue.

The major contributor to Nigeria misery and problem are the illiterate poor that also religious fanatics

mercyville:
This is more like it.
Even migration and IGR assert this...moreover, only Ibadan is more developed than the entire Igboland.
Lagos
Ogun
Rivers
Oyo
Anambra




North:

Kano
Fct

Don't mind them, they will always use every opportunity to beat their chest.

Delta or Akwa Ibom should take the position of Anambra. There is nothing in Anambra to warrant such rating.

BigIyanga:
But Ogun state needed several financial bailouts? Ogun state is cash flow negative, it borrows and spends more than it takes in. It’s one of least financially stable states with huge debt obligations

Ogun is a million time better than any southeastern states.

You people will come online to beat your chest when the majority of your states are no going area.

I have been to all the five southeastern states and there is nothing in them to write home about

abuhari:
This is Clarion's call for the remaining governors on 31 States, let them create wealth for their citizens.

Where is the money to create wealth?
We complain about lack of wealth creation when we ourself don't have the know-how to create wealth.

Sanusi has been telling everyone that has hears all along that our population growth is a disaster waiting to happen, we breed too much when we don't have the resources to support a bogus population explosion.

Until we go back to the drawing board and solve many of our social problem of early marriage, almajiri, lack girl child education, polygamous marriages and poor family planning, the poverty rate will continue to rise

Pharaoh4rin:
No. Not all Nigerians are hypocrite.
The 3 major tribes are defined thus:
Hausa/Fulanis MegaHypocrite
Ibo Difficult
Yoruba Cunning/Crafty

Nigeria can't develop as long as the Hausa/Fulanis are in (charge) government. In fact, Ango Abdullahi in 2014 said that commerce and industry belongs to the south but government is norths'. The north is Happy BCS they understand that the SE & SW do not have a common front. So each time I see d bashing from d SW against SE it pricks my mind. Apart from NYSC, a lot of youth don't travel within naija to know what's happening especially d Yorubas. Let's unit against our enemy. I know them. You know them. We know them

Stop repeating this tired line that Yorubas don't travel, we travelled only to productive places.
Come to the north, you we see yoruba in mass, places like Abuja, Minna, Kaduna, Suleja, Sokoto, jos, kano, Katsina, etc. Go to the Port Harcourt in river state and you will see lots of Yoruba working for the multinationals oil firm.

Yorubas just don't go to the east in large numbers because there is obviously nothing there to do.