₦airaland Forum

You can only imagine what could have been If the reckless looting which happened under Jonathan was anywhere below what we had before him.
Someone's future was mortgaged right there.

Not surprised.

Fantastic article.
I like the way the article exposes the way crude oil distorts and creates an alternate reality.

What took the government so long to tell Nigerians their reality?
Instead of going out to protest against the oppressors like the National Assembly, they sit on their asses,expecting the society to morph into El dorado without them lifting a finger.
A society which sticks a knives into herself and expects no bleeding.
Not like the government has done anything revolutionary yet.
They are still running with the same old tattered engine and fire-fighting where the right thing to do is to take the entire society and turn it upside down

Fair assessment.
Where will the farmer dispose the cow?
Sheik Gunmi alluded to the criminality of neglected fulanis who discovered kidnapping and armed robbery as a less risky option to rustling.
Only someone who herds cow can rustle cow.

Moronic arguments.
What exactly is the chief function of government?
Security of life and property.

It is very logical

Good

Good job.

But I need to criticise sha.
Aresa , take this observations to your boss.
why waste money disfiguring the sidewalk and the divider with paint when the money would have been better spent on marking the road with giveway line, stop lines,speed limits and reflective studs for night driving.

Also I think they should have Paved right to the front door in such a tight high density street.

You were warned.
You do not know better than your 9th century forefathers who built walls around their cities and celebrated festivals (Oro, ogun etc) to defend,strike fear in their enemies and mark their territory.
Neither do you know better than the well fed,well educated and culturally liberal European.
Europe and syrian refugees, you know what they did and her still doing ( building barriers to keep people out)
Never try to accommodate outsiders you are incapable of integrating and assimilating.
Growing up,all the people from exotic places were integrated and well educated children of mostly senior civil transferred down to yorubaland.
Now you look around and it is not the same.

The gas is the key to cutting the evil umbilical cord binding us to the rest of the country.
I am not so kin on the oil.
The gas though is key to getting the factories rolling again.
Yorubaland has shed over 500,000 textile jobs since 1983.

too many kids around

I thought Jonathan transformed it

DaBullIT:
Who cares who or what is in Biafra


between themselves they've begun fighting over land and membership , each state wants to secede , ND republic, Biafra republic, bayelsa republic e.t.c.




It's not my business as long as heaven does not fall

Bro, you will not believe what a Dutch told me last year in Amsterdam .These guys seem to derive pleasures in running us down.This girl was repeating all the rubbish being perpetuated on nairaland without having met any omoluabi.
Is it just insecurity or what?
Since that day, I removed my liberal hat because we yoruba seem to be too liberal to the point of stupidd

Is it the Igbos that shut down all the ports in the SouthSouth (Port Harcourt; Sapele; Koko; Calaber; Warri) for the port in Lagos just to kill the commerce in SouthSouth and SouthEast?


Mstewwww.
Haters gonna hate.
Woke up to another early morning brain fart?
Those ports still exist, why can't they make use of them.
Get this. Oodualands ports were booming before Nigeria , they will continue to boom after Nigeria.
From trade with the Songhai empire, great Ghana Mansa Musa's Mali to trade with the Portuguese, British and Dutch.
Goods, no matter how small,will continue to be shipped from our hinterland and hopefully, Cruise ships will be docking in future after Nigeria.
As long as we can till out land with our 2 hands and harvest crops, the land will never lack.
Now to give haters more headache.

Ambode's Tweet

We are likely to have three sea ports in Lagos in another two years - the Badagry Deep Sea Port, the Lekki Port and also the Apapa port.

idupaul:
Where are the Tiv warriors of old

The Nigerian clock is ticking fast.
The country misused every opportunity she was given.
It is also safe to say that the fulani society is dysfunctional and a collision with civilisation is going to happen if this thing is not checked soon.
This has nothing to do with cattle rustling ( 99% sure that any rustling done is by a fulani like them).This is pure violence being orchestrated by expansionists.
Terrorise the residents out of their home and hope they live to never return.Then occupy the land.
Eventually, the land will die as a result of over grazing and the hoofs of the cattles.

Sorry these guys need to form their own self defence militia and honestly, after watching another oil oil oil ( the money which never seems to filter down to their Street) video , maybe those avenger folks will be doing these people a favour.
Just look at the useless argument,loaded wwith a strange sense of entitlement, made in the video below.
It is the same arguments every expansionist( incl the herdsmen) is using In that country.
Nigerian constitution or FG
This Ortom still took his big head to the northern elders forum.
What you see in benue is what happens when corruption renders the leadership of a place so useless and helpless.
David Mark, Suswan, Ahmadu Ali, Gemade, Ortum, Akume etc.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6ZkSGPgVY

Jonathan, shagari
Two of a kind
Mumus put in power so that thieves can go on the rampage.

That is some good looking yard right there

I am trying to understand this tweet.
Will someone out there please interpret?

These herdsmen are going to push the country to the brink

Reminez:
The real owners of the nest of killers ( PDP ) are back to reclaim what is theirs . The pretenders to the throne a.k.a gullibos from red mudded land are for the uptenth time about to be handed the short end of the stick in their self proclaimed pseudo ibo party . What a shame !!!

True.
1999-2007 people
They are the owners.

I know about kaduna and now lagos.
What is keeping the rest from operating TSA?

grandstar:
And see inflation hit 50%

Do not mind these increase salary people.
To what end. Do we actually need these civil servant apart from the essential ones.
The day after the minimum wage is increased, bus driver, landlords, tomatoes sellers also increase their prices.

Not well thought out.
All attempt to feed resources directly into the hands of the vulnerable have always ended in failure because of a lack of database, data, corruption and efficient processes to monitor such disbursements. Most important of all, the concept is flawed. It has been done before. DFFRI, MAMSER, NDE, NAPEP,PEP,SURE-P etc
I believe that this policy is not well thought out.
A better option is to reduce local fuel consumption by building mass transits with cities.
In fact you can start by using existing rail tracks. This will not only force down the cost of transportation but also free up resources to spend elsewhere.
They can then follow it up by taking the biggest loads off farmers.some common sense Solution


The effort and hardwork required to farm which discourages the youth and causes the urban rural migration ( tractors, portable harvesters, tillers, irrigation pumps).

Extension workers to teach about modern farming techniques. Graduates of agriculture can be trained instead of wasting time on NYSC

A well thought process to track harvest to get produce to the market. Something that can be tracked online to direct buyers to sellers . ( An Oracle /Sql database app can achieve this purpose.

Green house aka climate controlled agriculture on unproductive lands for year round farming.

Until they get it into their numb skull that the only way to out is to build a middle class and not by sharing money to the poor or the rich.
It is the middle class spending that will put money into the pockets of the poor and make others rich.

Portable rice harvester $800

They go to dubai to propose to their lovers then turn around and complain about exchange rate.
Iranu.
Good job buhari.

arresa:
Beats me why the government is wasting billions on power plants.

They should be getting people off the grid by subsidizing roof top solar.

Even all the DISCOs should start investing in solar by installing roof top solar for monthly payments same way they collect payments for the never supplied electricity they charge for, but this time around, theirs actually going to be 24/7 electricity which Nigerians wont mind paying for..

We are talking about solar farms here.
Power is an industry and is a source of tax income.
You just do not write off an industry like that.
Below is the beauty going up in morroco.
160MW

Good job.
Going straight to the source. No middlemen.
Also anything to get us off dependence on ND gas
Someone should inform Amosun or Ajimobi to get to work.
A factory in shagamu, ibadan or Abeokuta looks like a good idea to me.

Intervene ko, Intervene ni.

boostdom:
Here you go with your righteous and atrocious indignation about self interest but when the Niger Delta echo our determination for resource control , you go on your hypocritical diatribe about how resources in Nigeria belongs to Nigeria.

It's logical for you to fight for your region and projects and unabashedly admit that the development of other regions is of no importance to you but the resources of the Niger Delta is the resources of all regions.

Waste no time in your sterile litanies and neausating mimicry for you lack any sort of critical thought and you lack the capacity to effectively criticise dialectic reasoning.

Why should I care if violence is used for the expression of grievance?
Why should I care if, in spite of clear evidence /facts, they keep repeating the same clichés.
What are your representative doing?
What are their legacies in power? Why did they not build the heaven on earth with all the money flowing left right and centre?
When and if the next opportunity, use the formula that you think is fair.
Jonathan was transformational. No be so.

aventura:
us meaning the yorubas.

From your logic the commonwealth of the nation should be plied into where suits your interest and not the collective interest of the nation? Wonderful!!!

But I need to ask; do you have a conscience?

Nation?

A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, interest inhabiting a particular state or territory.


Nigeria is not a nation and this is proven by simply looking at the heading of this post.
My route is important the same way Niger bridge is important to you.
Lagos- calabar is of limited economic importance to us. Inferring that this thing is a kind of favour is utter bullocks.
I would happily have the oodua nation part of the rail line redirected towards my route.you can choose to redirect the eastern part towards wherever rock your boat.
Anyway, your senators did not want it
Not bit**hing about, just being a realist.

Psst
You should be happy that attention is being paid.
Using Jonathan's bigoted criteria and standards , you are lucky that Buhari is paying attention to the SE.
Capital items of less than $ 4 billion.
Show me a capital item paid for and built by Jonathan worth $1 billion in the SE,out of the over $500 billion stolen or squandered by JONATHAN and his goons.
Lagos-calabar rail line is meaningless and irrelevant to us.
Ask any strategic thinking omoluabi, we would have preferred
Accra - Lome - Cotonou -Lagos -Shagamu - Ibadan -Ife- akure - Benin-Sapale -Warri.
Omoluabi are much more embedded in the economy of the aforementioned countries than anything beyond warri.
In short, Ancient Oyo/ife and the trading routes.
Anything beyond that is of little strategic importance to us.


PMB Govt inherited 206 unfinished road projects, costing more than 2 trillion. 1.7 trillion of that yet to be paid. Power,work and housing budget = 433bn.

How can you award 206 Road projects without the ability to pay .This is the Jonathan I know