₦airaland Forum

Shinor: I am sad that this device though needed mostly in Africa particularly Nigeria, was not designed and manufactured by a Nigerian or indeed an African company. It points to the lazy attitude that has continued to plague Africa. Always seeking answers to internal problems from outside. NOKIA noticed we never have electricity so they designed this phone for us.
They noticed we always carry 2 0r 3 phones so they manufactured dual sim for us.
Another phone company manufactured a phone that also had torch light for us as we never have light.
Samsung just manufactured a fridge that will function better with our epileptic power supply
All these were done by foreign companies for a problem that is predominantly a unique to us.

Very good assertion
Most of the above flow with what I thought too

kpozite: see everybody government and citizens alike singing praises for Nokia. when I wonder will the much anticipated development of Africa be? When Africans cannot sit and think of how to solve African problems. Third world till when
Thumbs up for Nokia sha

Shinor: When are we going to wake up Nigeria?
When will Nigerians start seeing opportunities instead of complaints?

Its not Nigerians haven't woken up
Your question should be directed at Nigerian scientists and technologists
An above average technical knowledge is needed for such
There's something called R& who has a big brother called funding
You should know the solar charger is for emerging economies [not only Nigeria] which have power issues, India inclusive

berem: Who cares? All I want is a 24 hour uninterrupted power supply in my house.

amaba: I dont care who wins d bid even if it is fashola, tinubu, OBJ, abacha, bakare, buhari, elrufai... all i'm interested is LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT.....

Billyonaire: Its better for them to invest these 'Nigeria's money' in Nigeria than enriching the Western countries.

Why are we heckling Ebele to prosecute the subsidy thieves since its now so okay to steal?
So its accepted to loot the nation's commonwealth as long as you 'reinvest' your loot @ home?
SMH!

chucky234: Tinubu defeated at his own backyard by Aboki of all people,hmmm interesting.

What is this obsession with Tinubu?
If you have evidence against him, mail it to EFCC
If not, shut up.
[s]He's crooked no doubt, but so are many others[/s]

Paulego: President Jonathan is like a mute dog, he is neither biting nor barking.

The company won bids for the Yola Distribution Company, Ibadan Distribution Company, Eko Distribution Company, and Ikeja Distribution Company.

How credible is the above?
Ikeja & Eko DISCOs generate 45% of PHCN's revenue and BPE said no company will be awarded the two DISCOs
Or have the rules changed?

asala1: Everybody is guilty! But come to think of it, how will someone who claimed he was fighting for his people be this wicked to allow them die of starvation when food was readily available. Its cruel

This letter was forged - Chinua Achebe

Dotman01: By their names u shall know them. . . Am not surprised at all.

Abeg let my Igbo brothers be?
Their Yoruba accomplices were the guys who were shot dead by the police

chucky234: Does anyone pay a nanny as much as £300 in Nigeria? They should have allow the poor woman to follow the couple to UK jare,at least they would have provided her with food and apartment tax free.

Why don't you volunteer a female family member e.g. your sister to go slave away for this oyinbos?
At least they would provide her with food and apartment tax free.

‘‘We were able to rescue Muibat from them. It was then that she told us that she is the wife of Osun speaker. Let the record be put straight that the police carried out the rescue operation.”

The same 9ja men-in-black who ran from a stone throwing ALUU mob
The same ones traded banters with Emevor vigilantes when Christian Obodo was rescued
Mr State Commissioner of Police sir, let me help you wipe that bull off your lips
Give regard to who rescued Muibat jo!

The ex-international’s mother, Christiana, died last week, and that has left him devastated.

Its painful to love beings death can touch
Death and birth are the two constants for life on earth here
Peter Rufai, take heart and come back alive and stronger
Come back Dodo Mayana

I would have thought that the auto section would suit your line of business better
https://www.nairaland.com/autos

I would have thought that the auto section would suit your line of business better
https://www.nairaland.com/autos
Except you are already there

This 'll be the day
I never thought a day would come that a G*#ri thread would make front page and people would freely post the G*#ri word without been banned
Oh well,
GARRI
GARRI
GARRI

On a more sober note, many many peoples will go hungry for a long while as this staple foodstuff is pushed off the reach of many commoners because of the floods
Abi Ebele will set up a garri subsidy committee for the common man?

docokwy: You mean LAUTECH and UI, the over-glorified Yoruba champion universities?

You Igbo spambots are really virulent
Must every thread become a tribal sparring ring
Wasn't it NYSC who detected and rejected ESUT 'illiterate' graduates
https://www.nairaland.com/1074812/nysc-reject-illiterate-graduates-esut
Get a life ethnic online spammer

Ngodigha1: ESUT NEVER, it seems he graduated from S.L.A UNIVERSITY OGBOMOSHO.

You Igbo spambots are really virulent
Must every thread become a tribal sparring ring
Wasn't it NYSC who detected and rejected ESUT 'illiterate' graduates
https://www.nairaland.com/1074812/nysc-reject-illiterate-graduates-esut
Get a life ethnic online spammer

740megawatts: The thread title should have read "Jonathan moves to rescue PDP South-West from Political Oblivion". The PDP chieftains seem to be going seriously broke in that Yoruba region...Odikwa seriously.

Thank you jo
All the below listed are known PDP clones

According to our source, some of the Yoruba leaders who attended the impromptu meeting with the president included Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, General Adeyinka Adebayo, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Ambassador (Dr) Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, Senators Tony Adefuye and Femi Okunroumu, Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, Dr Kunle Olajide and others.

When you are advocating true federalism, you don't shout marginalization
The above people are just seeking government contracts

bilms: A governor who provided the people with free world class modern markets across the state for convinience

Phuck Mimiko jo!
Markets that are abandoned
Take your propaganda else where jo!

Nairalandisdead: I apologize..it's the speed of sound that was broken. Someone told me he jumped from the moon. Very soon, whites will start jumping from Pluto. I think all flights in Nigeria should provide the passengers with such clothings.

From the link you posted [skydiver-felix-baumgartner-breaks-sound-barrier/] ,you should have known it was the sound barrier
Also, if you knew anything about gravity, it is IMPOSSIBLE to jump from the moon and land on Earth
How can you post a link and not read up the story yourself only to depend on hearsay
Are you a graduate of ESUT?

Dignitary: Rather than spice up the PDP candidate's ambition, the presence of GEJ at the rally is no doubt a BIG MINUS to Oke..l

The people of the South West have been making it care to all that GEJ IS A FAILURE...

Infact, the general impression by ppl in the West is that he's unintelligent and clueless!!!

I wonder how OKE cud not stylishly convince him not to join his campaign train!!!

He came to sight see

What a dumb poster
A thread about cooking in the politics section?
Are you a graduate of ESUT?
Just asking

Prof Corruption: He looks clueless as usual!

Move on with your life
Omo yapa yaski

Ain't no love in the city
RIP ALUU 4

IGP Abubakar, keep your bullsh*t story to yourself
I dedicate the pictures below to you

Olodostein: We must resist this in Nigeria and Africa as a whole by any means necessary.

True that but won't our government who are so complacent regarding their people's welfare not just roll over and get laid

mu2sa2: Bukar Ibrahim hits d nail on the head. We hav seen how poverty & injustice led to violence in d Niger Delta. D violence in the north east is largely a product of poverty & injustice and cannot be stopped by more violence. JTF is now becoming a problem than a solution - the same way that NATO has only brought misery rather than succour to Afghanistan. D insecurity in the north east requires imaginative and concerted effort to ameliorate the dehumanising poverty there by all govts - FG,states and LGs. Bukar Ibrahim may hav put it bluntly but he is saying the truth- abusing him on nairaland doesnt alter the truth.

What Bukar Ibrahim did was amplify the thinking among the Northern elite that BH can gain them political power since the Niger Delta got power by militancy and blackmail.
We may yab Bukar Ibrahim yet that is how the elites who govern us think, they think only of themselves and their cronies but use their people as pawns to get what they want
If we are truthful, can the Niger Delta as a region be said to have benefited from having their son as president?
Is it not mainly their elite& key ex militants [along with some Igbo elite] who have been grabbing& cornering the bulk of the resources to themselves?
Why is that the Niger Delta vociferous cry for resource control before Ebele got there has suddenly become a muted whisper now?
Think peoples Think
Do you not watch all of them hugging and embracing each other at parties , events and occasions on TV?
Do you not see them intermarrying their children in the gossip magazines?
Why is it that none of the elite is openly advocating for a breakup of Nigeria when it is apparent the current structure is seriously flawed and not working
When they disagree amongst each other, they play the aces of ethnicity and religion
All what this elites are fighting amongst themselves for are keys to the national treasury
Once they get it, we all get phucked from behind without vasiline

Also, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the CBN Governor, said that increasing the benchmark would not increase revenue for government.

“Increasing benchmark does not increase government revenue; government revenue comes from how much oil you sell and at what price.

“Increasing the benchmark just increases the amount of money that is going to be spent and I think it’s important to remember that.’’

Sanusi should not try and sway people's emotions with cheap blackmail
Who gets to spend the money, is it not the executive?
In a recession ridden planet, why is China been encouraged to spend by the global powers but Africa is been encouraged to save with JP Morgan and the like?
Who then will have immediate access to this 'saved' finances?
A man is hungery yet he goes to his farm, harvests his crops and stores it in his barn without eating?
Lunacy at its best

@ op,Follow your heart

The wicked lies that have been told against the Yoruba people under the mango trees of the East have persisted for ages even when many Igbo have come and saw for themselves; how they have thrived unmolested everywhere in Yorubaland, the lies persist because people like Achebe, an icon of Igbo people, are always there to lend their intellectual falsehood to the tales by the moonlight. I think it is about time to fight back and set the records straight.


People like Achebe came up with tribalism theory against Awolowo. In their selective ignorance they forgot that Azikiwe went back to the East to drive away Eyo Ita who was the Prime Minister because he was from the minority tribe. Nobody talks about that. What do they really want from us?


It is on record that Chief Awolowo approached Dr. Azikiwe during the 1959 elections when no clear leader emerged to give Action Group votes to him so that Azikiwe could become the Prime Minister and he Awolowo, the Finance Minister, but Zik turned him down and traded Prime Ministership for ceremonial presidency with Tafawa Balewa. What do they really want from us? It is on record that NPC/NCNC alliance was used for maximum effect to oppress the Yoruba and other minorities of the South with Igbo people taking about 97 per cent of whatever was due to the South in a country that understood only North/South dichotomy; that the so-called Igbo dominance (at the federal level) is traceable to this evil and oppressive alliance. With federal might, they installed Igbo vice-chancellors in universities in Yorubaland, which was and is still not practicable in their own clime. We did not bulge neither did the Yoruba people complain. What do they really want from us?

It is on record that Dr. Azikiwe’s alliance with Northern People Congress railroaded Chief Awolowo to the prison and he never lifted a finger to support him. It is also on record that Tafawa Balewa offered Chief Obafemi Awolowo Deputy Prime Ministership in prison, if he would support him, but great Awo turned it down. When Aguiyi-Ironsi seized power, he freed all political prisoners and despite Chief Awolowo’s passionate plea for his case to be considered, Aguiyi-Ironsi ignored him. What do they really want from us.

It is on record that the coup carried out by mostly Igbo soldiers in 1966 killed mostly the leadership of the North and West. We do not know if Awolowo would have survived, if he was not in prison. They killed almost all the most senior Yoruba military officers and even callously murdered Brigadier Ademulegun, his pregnant wife and Col. Ralph Shodeinde for no apparent reason in a coup supposedly directed at corrupt civilians. The only high-ranking member of NCNC that was killed, Chief Okotie-Eboh, was not Igbo and had problem with Mbadiwe on the Finance portfolio that he held. The latter wanted the ‘juicy’ portfolio, but Tafa Balewa rebuffed him. Yet, we did not start pogrom against Igbo residing in the West. What do they really want from us?

It is on record that Adekunle Fajuyi, a Yoruba man, chose to die with Aguiyi-Ironsi; it is on record that Prof. Soyinka and Dr. Tai Solarin went to jail for the Biafran cause. What do they really want from us?

It is on record that despite everything, Chief Obafemi Awolowo went to Enugu in company of Prof. Sam Aluko and Mariere to persuade Ojukwu not to start the war yet; that he should give him the opportunity to mediate; that Ojukwu gave him his words to tarry a little bit but declared a war immediately Awo stepped out of Enugu. What do they really want from us?

I am not surprised; Prof. Achebe did not disappoint in his latest work. I believe, therefore, that Prof. Achebe is entitled to his selective senility and convenient amnesia; it is only left for us, people of goodwill, to put the record straight for posterity’s sake. Igbo intellectuals of good conscience should help to re-orientate their youths that have been grossly miseducated, misinformed and disinformed by people like Achebe. It is in their interest to do so.

Ayo Turton Esq. : National Legal Counsel to Egbe Omo Yoruba USA and Canada.

1] You must wonder why Joe Achuzia and Chinua Achebe did not tar Awolowo with the tar brush of 'genocide' when he was alive?
I mean he was alive to refute or admit to it then even though his memoirs are replete with his stand on it
Why wait when he's long dead and buried to exhume this serious allegation?
Is it to sell their books?
2] How come the Igbos have always aligned with the Hausa/Fulani& conservative political parties [those who instigated their 'genocide'] in politics since the onset of the 2nd Republic? I mean always voting for those who killed your people?
Did the same Igbos who have always effused with love for Ojukwu denied him representation in the Senate?
3] How come Igbos have not refuted the fact that the region of man whom they accuse of genocide was the only part of Nigeria where the horrors visited against their race [raping, looting, ethnic cleansing etal] was minimal if at all existent?
4] How come the Igbos are yet to refute the fact that the South West was the only part of the country they came back to lay hold of their properties and investments after the war?
5] How come the Igbos have NEVER taken Ojukwu& their war leaders to task that they led them into a war which was not well thought out, in which he lacked major allies [Russia's backing of Assad is why the Syrian crisis has no direct Western intervention till now], ammunition to prosecute it nor provision in nutrition, cash and kind?
6] How come Achebe [a civilian] is blaming Awolowo for the a$s whooping Biafra received? Late Ojukwu& Effiong should be the ones who should tackle Gowon and their ilk about such attrocities
7] Why is the Igbo man despite his business acumen ever brash, belligerent or is it bellicose?
Is it something in his genes or is it pride?
Anyone who had spent time on NL or other online sites would not be shocked by Achebe's revisionism
Igbo ethnic online warriors have been at it for eons
After all, Achebe was an official Biafran propagandist during the war
So what do you expect 42 years after the war?
Any one seen his recent pictures, dude looks senile at best, so what ramblings do you expect from a man who should be in the sanatorium?