₦airaland Forum

Funflipper:
What do you have to say about mega rich Delta which is still a slum with all the billions they receive monthly?

They are their own worst enemies.

Munamoqel:
obi na beer factory to get people drunk come add supermarket to import junks into Nigeria .big mouth from production to importation .obi real mantra! Yeye Guy man .

lol

Good job. Well done Lagos.

gidgiddy:
No enforced union ever succeeds, unity must come from the heart.

Nonsense. Go pick up a history book.The United States is an enforced union. Th native American population was massacred - genocided in fact, with the remnants forced into the 'union'.

Afro-Americans, who form a 50 million population there, were forced into the union. Their ancestors were sent there in chains!

So America is not a place where their nationhood ''came from the heart''. Far from it.

Don't even start with places like China and Russia, whose formation and existence are written in the blood of millions of dissidents.

Nigeria cannot work because nothing brings us together. All we are is just a group of people Lord Lugard ambushed into an unholy union in 1914, which his wife called "Nigeria"

We have had over 100 years as a country, and 62 years of self rule as a yardstick to see if this union had been worth it

All this is your opinion. The 11 million Igbos living in the north voluntarily, put a lie to what you are saying.

The result has been a complete disaster. What some of us are asking for is to be returned to how we were before Lugard came to create Nigeria

What compete disaster? Your grandparents were village illiterates who would kill for the type of choices and opportunities you have today.

As an Igbo man, I am tired of "one Nigeria" and want the Igbo nation to return to independence, as it once was before the creation of Nigeria

Those of you who still believe in Nigeria are free to carry on.

Nobody stopped Igbos from returning to the southeast homeland (dot in a circle) and declaring their country.

The truth is that unlike you, the vast majority of Igbos realise it is the most stupid and useless idea ever, which is why none of your representatives has ever tabled the motion in any assembly, including your state assemblies.

DMerciful:
You do realize Scotland has done two referendum to leave the UK and the last ond was so close. The next one will succeed and they'd leave.

Without killing tribalism, no country thats a tower of babel would succeed!

The difference between the Scotland situation and 'Biafra' is that the former has the backing of the Scottish political class and elite, who see their interest lie in exiting the UK. Hence representations have been made in the British parliament by high ranking Scottish representatives, regarding the need for a referendum.

With Biafra, the reverse is the case, with no representations or motions made in the state or national assemblies for secession, because the Igbo political and economic elite do NOT consider it to be in their interest to exit Nigeria.

The federal govt cannot be forced by IPOB thugs to call a 'referendum' without apriori motions or debates in the national assembly.

It's called the Rule of Law.

DMerciful:
Its not assumptions! Better know your friends else you get burnt. The fact that there's an uneasy coexistence doesn't mean its borne out of genuine 'compatriotship'

People are trying not to rock the boat because of the feeding bottle system Nigeria is so as not to be cutoff from oil money if the country crashes. Why else will Christians be killed for a cartoon in Denmark?

Why have some people vowed Igbos will never be president?

Using your personal sentiments to judge the whole country by saying you dont hate others is pedestrian!

We can say that the Chinese and Americans dont like each other but it doesn't mean there are no Americans doing business in China and vice versa.

Look, even within America, there are ethnic rivalries. Blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, Jews, Native Americans, Cuban Americans etc etc. They are always at loggerheads. WARS have been fought over those rivalries, including the US civil war.

The UK has its own ethnic rivalries, with the Scots, English, Welsh and Irish perennially quarrelling over one thing or the other.

So there are very few countries where everyone ''loves each other'' and there are no issues. Everyone is tolerating their fellow man. It is not only happening in Nigeria.

If somebody says Igbo will not be president, tell them they are not God and cannot make that pronouncement. Don't use that as a reason to flee the country.

DMerciful:
Ability of the black race to succeed and find its place does not depend on the size of the country but on their unity of purpose.

Can two walk together unless they agree?
Clearly, the different major nationalities in Nigeria hate themselves and there was no referendum in bringing them together like the British criminally did.

Someone that hates meritocracy, western education and kills for blasphemy would have the capacity and capability to move the black race forward?

This is all stereotypical nonsense.

Oh sure the ''different major nationalities hate themselves''.

IT IS A LIE. THEY DON'T.

I am an Igbo, and I do not hate Yorubas or Hausas.

11 million Igbos live in northern Nigeria, according to Ohaneze.

How is that possible, if Nigerians hate each other? If Hausas hate Igbos, how are they letting 11 million Igbos live and work and build houses, and marry in the north? Same as the west with Yorubas?

In Lagos, every weekend there are Igbos getting married to Yorubas.

Go to Abuja, Nigerians from all parts of the country are mingling, and doing business and partying. Go to Kano. Igbo boys are everywhere doing business and clubbing.

You see, you people assume that because you come on nairaland to abuse each other based on ethnicity, that the Nigerian majority are also like that, but you're wrong.

There is of course ethnic rivalry in our polity and politics, but that is not ''hating each other'', because rivalry can actually be healthy, drawing out the best in each group.

Is it when you ''break up Nigeria'' that there will be no rivalries in your newly constituted small republics?

You could actually end up with worse and bloodier rivalries in those smaller nations you create. Ask Liberia, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan.

gidgiddy:
Nigeria is poverty capital of the world and second most terrorised country on earth, nobody is looking up to it

This so called "giant of Africa" is a meaningless title if the vast masses are suffering, na giant we go chop?

Since it is clear to even the blind that Nigeria has failed, why keep Nigeria together? Why keep the British colonial contraption created by the white man together? We write our destiny, not the whiteman.


Nigeria is a failure and it is time to end it

Anyone can play this silly game, once they feel hatred for their country.

If I was an American who hated his country, I could reel out 5 heavy reasons why the country is a 'useless failure'.

I could start with the fact that an estimated 70,000 Americans are shot dead every year in gun violence. Followed by the fact that 80,000
are killed in drug overdose annually. Followed by the fact that there have been nearly 2,000 mass shootings this year alone in the country, etc etc.

So anyone can play that game.

MANY OTHERS look at Nigeria and see the cultural capital of the continent, with world class entertainment, music and film industries, Africa's largest economy, tech capital of the continent, and rising manufacturing and industrial power.

Go to Lagos airport. It is filled with people from all over the world trooping into Nigeria to do business,

So not everyone sees Nigeria the way YOU see Nigeria....

I shake my head when I see folks carelessly talking about ''dividing the country let everybody go his way.''

Do you people realise that the ENTIRE BLACK WORLD is looking up to, and waiting for NIGERIA, the Giant of Africa, to take the black race to the next level?

On this Earth, 1 out of every 4 black persons is a Nigerian.

Once Nigeria rises, the entire black race rises.

THIS IS THE BURDEN OF HISTORY PLACED ON YOUR HEAD AS A NIGERIAN.

If you go to HARLEM, NEW YORK CITY, that iconic Afro-American hub, that blood-soaked black civil rights headquarters home to Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and other fiery black liberation icons, and stand in the street, and declare that you want Nigeria, the biggest, richest, most powerful black country in the world, to be divided, they will STONE YOU. Somebody might even shoot you.

Please, don't mention it in the Caribbean.

These are people who are talking of Africa Unite! with Bob Marley and others, and you say you want to divide what? Where? They will kill you!

Please, don't mention this thing outside Nigeria, if you like yourself. Especially in black diaspora nations or neighbourhoods.

IPOB folks don't venture near those places when they go abroad, because they know the answer - ''NO DIVISION''.

Instead they go to where the whites are staying, because those are the ones that would love to see Nigeria smashed.

So there's no question of Nigeria dividing.

OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT WORK.

gidgiddy:
Anyone talking about restructuring is a dreamer who has not yet read the constitution of Nigeria. Nigeria cannot be restructured

In other to restructure Nigeria, the constitution must be changed. When you read what must be done to change the constitution, you will run away

To change the constitution, you will need at least two thirds of both the upper and lower houses of the national assembly to vote for it, and it does not stop there. You will also need at least two thirds of the 36 States assembly to also vote for it

With the core North totally against restructuring, and controlling 40% of the national assembly, and at least 13 States, restructuring is mission impossible

The only way out is to divide Nigeria so everyone can go their way and restructure themselves how they like

But if you decide you want "one Nigeria", better forget restructuring as it cannot be done

- It depends on the leader. It can be done by executive order under emergency powers.

Or

- A military regime can implement it.

Or

- A northern political consensus could emerge (and there are early signs of this), on the need to restructure the federation, making it easy to pass through national and state assemblies. Recent gold, lithium, and oil and gas discoveries in the north buttress a growing sense of resource independence in the region, further loosening their resistance to restructuring.

sweetTai:
Why does all these Ibo boys do stupid things like this? Must you at all cost make money?? And if you must make money why drugs?? Especially in a country where they’d already be happy to kill you!

Honestly, I don't even know what gives them the courage to push drugs in a country where they know very well that if they're caught, they're finished.

It's mind boggling.

christistruth01:
God said that because the Jews and Ethiopians both migrated out of Egypt

Which Ethiopians migrated out of Egypt?

Egypt was a black nation in antiquity, so I've no idea what you're talking about 'Ethiopians' migrating out of her.

The indigenous black population of Egypt remained firmly intact in Egypt even when the Hebrews, who were also blacks, supposedly fled Egypt for Israel.

Okealaaye:
Eboe boy, to think that you claim to be a Christian! You call a man who's old enough to be your father This Thing! A man made in the image and likeness of God Almighty! May God prevent Nigeria from having an Eboe partisan as president, ever.

Honestly, even the way they talk is so heartless and spiteful. God forbid these IPOB sympathisers taste any power in Nigeria.

Traitors.

Worthless set of imbec.iles.

This Moroccan achievement has gone a long way to remove the mental block that has held back African teams at the World Cup in the past.

That subtle unspoken feeling that they're just not quite good enough to reach the advanced stages of the Mundial.

The Atlas Lions of Morocco, The Atlas Lions of AFRICA, have shattered and smashed that illusion for all time.

TODAY our Super Eagles can look at themselves and say, ''WE CAN GET TO THAT WORLD CUP FINAL, NOT JUST SEMI-FINAL.''

Victor Osimhen is saying that to himself right now.

As is Alex Iwobi.

As is Samuel Chukwueze.

As is Wilfred Ndidi.

As is Kelechi Iheanacho.

As is Moses Simon.

As are Joe Aribo and Paul Onuachu.

GO, SUPER EAGLES GO!

Morocco, our WIFE in African soccer, has shown us we can do it.

Read my lips, because I am not a small boy. I have been watching Morocco in competitions since 1978.

And I'm telling you here and now, that if the ATLAS LIONS OF MOROCCO can reach the World Cup semi final, the SUPER EAGLES OF NIGERIA can reach the World Cup Final.

Quote me on that any day.

We just need the right coach, that's tactically astute, and able to drill in absolute belief, and a never-say-die, winning mentality into the squad.

That Morocco coach, 3 MONTHS, was all he had with the team.

And he transformed their output.

FLY SUPER EAGLES FLY, TO THE TOP WHERE YOU BELONG.

YOU, THE TEAM OF JAY JAY OKOCHA, OF RASHIDI "GOALSFATHER'' YEKINI, OF EMMANUEL AMUNIKE, OF TARIBO WEST, OF NWANKWO KANU, OF SUNDAY OLISEH, FINIDI GEORGE, AND DANIEL 'THE BULL' AMOKACHI.

YOU, THE TEAM RANKED 5TH IN THE 1994 FIFA WORLD RANKINGS.

A RANKING UNMATCHED BY ANY AFRICAN TEAM TILL DATE.

YOU, THE TEAM OF 'MATHEMATICAL' SEGUN ODEGBAMI, OF 'CHIEF JUSTICE' ADOKIYE AMAESIMAKA, MUDA LAWAL, STEPHEN KESHI, AND CHAIRMAN CHRISTIAN CHUKWU.

FLY TO THE WORLD CUP 2026 AND RECLAIM YOUR GLORY, SUPER EAGLES, AS AFRICA'S TOP FOOTBALLING NIGHTMARE TO THE NATIONS..

FreedomfromtheT:
To me, it is Africans in diaspora beating Arabs in Africa.

lol

DriveByKiller:
very unfortunate.

Unfortunate indeed.

omonnakoda:
It is not supposed to be beautiful or an "edifice". Functionality is the most important thing which we can only judge once it commences operations. Describing it as mediocre is premature
Your comment seems churlish and motivated by toxicity
I have seen stations in Amsterdam, Antwerp, London that are not "edifices" . The key consideration is functionality
This is a METRO station. Not a train station

So tell us one Metro Station Edifice of the lot you have seen

Just one please

Don't mind the mugu.....Go to London, most of their train stations look like ordinary bungalows. Unless you see the signboard, you won't even know it's a train station.

vengertime:
Nice one, but we must make sure tinubu urchins don't start robbing Innocent people around these train stations

You people sef.....which kind bad mind be this?

Okoroawusa:
Anakogheri

Huh?

Okoroawusa:
If you want to live long on earth I will advise you to run away from religion.
You as a black man didn't know anything about Jesus and the rest until the white man colonized you. Leave his religion for him.

This thread is NOT about Jesus.

It is about the identity of the ancient Hebrews.

That identity did not come to Africans via the colonialists.

The Igbos knew they were Hebrews long before the colonial invasion.

The Lemba Jews and Ethiopian Jews knew their Israelite ancestry long before any Englishman came to Africa.

The old testament is talking about the history of the black folks who lived in the region of ISRAEL up till about 2,000 years ago, when they were driven out by the Romans.

Over half the African population of today comprises descendants of those fleeing Israelites.

THE OLD TESTAMENT IS AFRICAN HISTORY.


Here's where YAHWEH concurs with what I just typed.

HE SAID in Zephania 3:10

''From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.''

The 'rivers of Ethiopia' refers to the Nile. Yahweh, in Israel says that from beyond the RIVER NILE, ie from those lands located in regions after you pass the River NILE, ie WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA, His 'dispersed' will bring his offering.

We are Yahweh's dispersed.

We are The Children of the Most High.

OhGeeBee:
Putting so much energy into irrelevant things. Are you saying their skin changed overnight?

Err no, you historical illiterate. Their skin colour did not change overnight. They were driven from the land in 70 AD with the fall of Jerusalem, which led to over 1 million of them fleeing into Africa over 2,000 years ago, to be replaced by other people/races. That 1 million would have multiplied to become several hundred million today, in Africa. Children of ancient Israel.

What is black What is white are they not both human?

If they are both human, then why did your coloniser change their colour from black to white?

Does your mumu brain not think in that direction?

Checkout the Bible's description of David, Absalom and many more, you'll know that your writeup is thrash.
I know you aren't a Christian tho' so invest your racist mind elsewhere.

Oh, so TELL US where the bible described David, Absalom and co as white folks.

Go on, show us the chapters, you colonised Uncle Tom defending your lying slavemaster.

We know that for you, ''being a real christian'' means accepting a 'white Jesus'.

Disgusting.

WHY THE BLACK RACE HAS BEEN SUFFERING.

It appears that our ancestors who lived in Israel disobeyed Yahweh in remote history. He had given them a lot of power over the world in times past, and they had to abide by his principles. They seem to have jettisoned those principles at some point, and began to follow and mimic the customs of the pagan nations around them. Yahweh decreed that they would be driven from the region, and caused to flee, and that their succeeding generations (ie us) would go through hell. And did we not? From the slave trade to colonialism, starvation, famine, and aid dependence, we have seen it all.

Yahweh promises that after we have gone through hell, he will return us to our previous state of prosperity and influence.

Here are the curses:

DEUERONOMY 28

Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed. (The Sahara desert was green and fertile at this point..... It no longer is)

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. (foreign invasions, anti-black racism)

26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. (wrong economic policies, corruption, mismanagement)

29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you. (Economic exploitation by foreign multinationals)

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. (foreign exploitation, slavery in the Americas with black women raped)

31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. (economic exploitation)

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. (transatlantic slave trade)

33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. (colonialism and neo-colonialism)

34 The sights you see will drive you mad.

35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you. ('nigger', 'monkey' etc etc, racial abuse]

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. (African agricultural problems)

39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. (slave trade to Arab world and Europe/America)

42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. (whites always richer...)

44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail. (IMF, World Bank, Western 'aid' China etc)

45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in unclothedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you. (Iron yokes were used to hold Africans by the neck during the slave trade)

49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. (The United States is home to 45 million African-Americans descended from enslaved west Africans)

51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you. (A prediction of colonial invasion and subjugation of Africa, which was where most of the Hebrews fled to after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD).

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.

54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. (The black diaspora, remnants of the slave trade in Brazil, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Colombia, UK, USA, France, Holland, everywhere)

65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. (Racism and discrimination against blacks)

66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will [redeem] you. (Transatlantic slave trade)