₦airaland Forum

Backwardness

Jonathan.
Waste of space and time.
It would have been nice to consign that man to the dustbin of history but ,
There are so many Jonathans in Nigeria that I won't be surprise if the country gets another one in less than a decade .

Obasanjo sold those refineries for scrap .
Rightfully so.
Yaradua took them back .
Since then , they have not worked but the amount of money spent on them during the locust years of transformation agenda ,is enough to build 3 or 4 brand new refineries .

DaBullIT:
And they'd say it's hausas and Yorubas taking their oilwells whereas in reality , their forefathers traded riches , happiness and development for Carton of Whisky and Goat for merriment

Their fathers are still trading ........
On oil well ownership, it is a pan Nigeria conversion and diversion of public resources into private hands.

Lack of planning is one of the reason why the population of that state keeps ballooning .if the state had exerted any form of control and enforced all her laws, more than half of those migrating in the state would have found it difficult to stay .
Just look at how the biodiversity of lekki has been destroyed with ugly concrete monstrosities .

I still do not get the purpose of these letters .
My guess is
1 looking for mumus to fight your war
2 Oil and the greed that comes with it
3 Searching for allies
SS is a creation of the Nigeria state the same way the eastern region was a creation of the Nigeria state under the British .
The hypocritical thing is avoiding the fact that most of the south were autonomous nation states before the British came to our shores .
after independence , almost half of SS was in the western region .
Even those who share roots and historical links with the SS are not as covetous .
Abegi

Or they shuffled money into their acolyte abroad for onward transmission into their foreign accounts

Barbarians.
Left to these barbarians , they would have killed all the gay people involved in the invention of the computer , smart phones etc

Shocking , shocking , shocking .
Despicable acts of terrorism .
Either the niger delta militants or these fulani terrorist are going to lead to the eventual break up of this country .
Harding cattle around in the 21st century is the definition of backwardness ?
For me , I am not going to miss anything about a failed country .
When questions about the sovereignty of nigeria was asked in the past , it must be noted that people like David mark and benue state elites always vote for one nigeria.
Like someone noted earlier , it did not start today . In fact , the negligence of the last government made them more daring And David Mark was a big part of that corrupt and incompetent government

This is orchestrated genocide.
I cannot for any reason tolerate backwardness of any type .
Whether it is the backwardness of religion , culture or values .
I and my people do not share any values in common with these people .in fact , we hardly share values set with most in that country apart from a minority subset.
For all those shouting one nigeria just because they are currently eating . For those who were eating yesterday.
I have news for you .
The situation is not going to get better . You are still talking about corruption , militancy , terrorism .
Get used to talking about what is coming .

1 Desertification and the problem it will bring
2 overpopulation
3 pauperization and human misery
4 climate change and water shortages
5 religious extremism


What is coming will hit harder than anything ever seen .
The herdmen do not belong in the company of human beings.
I could care less about nigeria as a country . Just my people ,the oodua nation and our independence .
The question we should be asking now is how and when to disentangle and disengage from the rubbish country

This is what filling stations look like back in the days

Getting the pieces in place

Not gonna happen

If that money goes into the federation account, of will disappear as usual

Asylum residents .

That city needs urgent sanitation .
Okada, street trading,slums , illegal structures ,haphazard construction ,open air market etc have to go .poverty is not an excuse to allow the city or region to rot away.

The nigerian economy is a mirage.

the same problems but at a critical level today

I remember the days when the children of governors , ministers and even a future vice president were classmates .
Nowadays ,ordinary directors send their kids to foreign universities .
The people who are supposed to make sure things work , rob those institutions, run them down and then , send the kids overseas .
The most annoying thing is that those who do come back , only come back with fake accents and their useless "in-america" ideas.
The better ones ,usually the children of mekunus who were sent by parents who had to sell their principal residence ( house) ,stay behind overseas and achieving great things .

I remember the days when the children of

Enforcing those laws is the only way to curb bad behavior

Sad .

Northern Nigeria joins Islamic coalition .
Wetin concern agbero concern overload.
Ban beer
Ban churches
Ban night clubs
Ban hotels
All equals less economic activity and more extremism.
No need for conspiracy.
Nigeria will unravel by itself until she breaks up.
Still doubling down on religion and religious based institutions ;are we?

Should Nigeria break up , some places are going to be dictatorship by default; hence banana republic.

A

You are all annoyingly arrogant , Half educated and hopeless dogooders .
1 When fashola banned okada ,bearing in mind , the lawlessness of the okada riders , what did you all do ?
All those okada banned in Abuja , Benin etc , where do you think they moved to when they packed their okada into the back of lorries?

2 when fashola passed the cremation bill that saved Nigeria from Ebola , did you not oppose the bill based on your ignorant and backward foreign religions.

3 when Fashola increased LASU fees to stop the degree mill . The degree mill that ensures that bad cheating students will graduate and tussle with good students for employment and jobs .
What did you all do ?

4 what do you alway say about slum removal . E sha nu won


I have come to believe that the greatest enemies of Yorubas are yorubas themselves. A culture of not accepting superior debate by the less knowledgeable is sipping into polity .
To me , I have linked this the fact that the traditional religion and it teachings keep retreating year by year . Now , we have many educated people with a serious lack in the power of perspective ( ESU).
When the nationals of a nation ( Yoruba nation ) are resistant to change .
When they are hostile to the idea of the government enforcing the law( colonial) . Why are you surprised that imbeciles, thugs , criminal and lawless folks find your town and cities comfortable.

N:B there have been numerous conflicts in that mile 12 market. Never before has it gone beyond the normal skirmishes and fighting on the street . From my point of view , what has changed is that , like the Igbo mass migration of the 80's , the Almajiris have also discovered Lagos. The new set have no mechanism for
My appeal to all omoluabis
They must allow and support the government to enforce all Laws.
Colonial laws and more recent laws .
Laws on building codes
Residence
Loitering
Town planning
Education .

So funny and annoying at the same time .
We sabi them .we don't tolerate them good for nothing men.

Did train ever stop working in Nigeria?
Nope .
Was Jonathan responsible .
Nope
Work started on the rehabilitation of the railway under abacha( contracts awarded to Chinese national railway company) and continue all through abdusalam , obasanjo yar adua. I can remember when they were working on the Ibadan section of the track in 1999.
Jonathan ,like everything he did , put a few ancient trains ( costing less than $5million ) on ancient tracks to score cheap publicity , whereas most of the heavy lifting ( contract award, payments, construction ) had already been done by previous administrations with little money.

bigtt76:
Toh! How we for do naaaa. If the higher institutions in Nigeria were of standard, good infrastructure, with their graduates impacting the economy with sane lecturers and professors, I guess no one would want to travel out for studies buh alas ...all these are just not there Baba else your children won't have enrolled at Buckigham University UK naaaa

As your elites treat their own country like Ali baba's kingdom , those things will never happen .
Why bother when you can simply fly to Monaco and get top quality
Also , the citizens also expect everything to be free . If you do not pay commiserate taxes, never expect commiserate quality.
Infrastructure can only be free at the point of use , someone still has to pay for it beforehand.

A Christian crusader jihadist post right there.
Such a hypocritical post.
You should have added

11 christains should not use computers and mobile phones because the inventors are gays , atheist and children of satan.

That idea that theirs are religions better than others even though at their core, they are backward and have not yet attained the level the Ifa religion attained 1000 years ago.
The Yoruba religion has an humanist core . The reason why it is spreading like wildfire amongst the enlighten all over the world .
You refer to traditional religions as paganism and made mention of sacrifices .
What exactly are those turkey , cocks and goats killed during Christmas and Easter if not the celebration of paganism ? Even the bible and Koran stole most of their myths , stories and teachings from ancient Egyptian pagan beliefs
They are not original.
Plant sacrifice?
Talking about blood and human misery , it will take a million years for the so called pagans to match the quantity of blood shed by you Abrahamic( Islam and Christainity ) adherents.
I am only talking about the blood shed in you r holy books here. Not talking about those not there.
I will take the pagans who express my culture , values and traditions over confused folks anytime .
Yorubas Pagans like these practicing the yoruba religion in the purest form and who will form a major part of the future Yoruba empire.

It will take a miracle to get the Nigerian state back on track .The Nigerian state has derailed and what you have now is nothing but a charade masquerading as a country. Even the elites have given up going by how they consistently ship their ill gotten wealth into offshore account , buy houses overseas and ship their families out.
Different groups challenging the authority of the state.

And will forever remain so.