₦airaland Forum

Hopefully we will start seeing these buildings being put back into order after the sacking of those Nicon Noga Hilton generals.

I do not have anything against self determination or campaign for fairness. However when such campaigns are hijacked by criminals, then all bets are off.
Is tompolo more qualified to speak on behalf on his people than professor itse sagay?

Pfttt
What did they do with the over 50% of oil money devoted to the region during Jonathan's reign of impunity?
Jonathan , patience ,madueke practically stole 60% of all revenues and devoted more than 50 % of the remainder to the South South .
Buhari should simply hand over the 17% derivation to the communities where the oil is mined . They are the ones who are suffering and not Askari and the other fraudulent militants .
For the post down below who blamed omoluabis for taking all the positions,how come the western regional part of the Niger delta is well represented in not only the oil companies, but also in the non oil , organised private sector .
From the illogical post of folks that I read on nairaland, I doubt they have the aptitude to pass through the aptitude test ,especially when a casual observer can easily see that most of the post originating from the other side lacks logical reasoning. ( yes ,you are tested for logic )
Anyway, this is what true merit looks like . Thank your God that Nigeria is not meritocracy else, we would be the Dons while you would be the serfs.
By the way , got 2 friends in the oil industry and the two were recruited overseas and were transferred to Nigeria after 2 and 4 years in Indonesia , United Kingdom and Brunei .
If you want to be like them , get an education. Quality education without expo.

The first coup was followed by a second one ;a palace coup by Ironsi. it was as tribal as they come . The purpose for which was ethnic domination regardless of the one or two token members of other ethnic groups .
That tokenism was exhibited even under Jonathan where a SE dominated government essentially installed themselves in the post that matter, marginalised others bar one or two touts from other regions , totally messed up the country and are now trying to destabilise the government of Buhari with the sponsorship of radioactive Biafra .
Ironsi did not all of a sudden ,develop or conjure that unitary decree out of nowhere. This was obviously preplanned

Close watchers know that abati had such a hard time defending Jonathan ,patience and all the village clowns who came with him that he literally gave up trying.
stuffing his mouth was much easier.
Abati like the rest of the thieving FG now has the money to send his kids to university overseas .
Schools that locals whites have to take loans and accumulate debts in order to attend .

Simple .
The Nigeria military commits gross human right abuses.
Often times when the raid locations , they summarily execute all the men and rape women and children .
Maybe fani as no clue , Pakistani military is as disciplined ,professional and equipped as any military in the western world .
I mean these guys control nukes and project power in their sub region.
The Saudi ,Turkish ,Qatari military is on a defensive posture

succinct .
Nigeria has a management deficiency syndrome. Most cannot think outside the box to find local solutions to local problems.

Zakkyoz:
i will not even waste my time reading clueless post.

Lol

They should chase all of them away

Both of them simply just talking rubbish. The solution is simplecookie should start paying commiserate taxes and the size of government ( non essential staffs ) should be reduced.

Jonathan will do well if he comes out and denounce those who messed up his government.

As if there are no valid reasons to send them all in jail.

Spybradd:
these cows,people are so barbaric and retrogressive...unproductive caveys...thunder fire the Yoruba for keeping these drawbacks in power..do they destroy vat that comes from the alcohol biz?

Education without critical logical reasoning is not complete
A tale of 2 sambo

1 sambo dasuki
2 namadi sambo .

The wrong types of northerners were already in power under Jonathan.
One could poison Jonathan's tea if he wanted , the other was a breath away from the seat.

Privy:
Every time things like these happen, it creates a damning indictment on the government of the state in which it happens and subsequently on the FG too.

If a state has secular police and is run by a secular constitution, why should a religious police/enforcement team (hisbah) punish legal business entities for doing their legal businesses?

If Kano wants to be run by Sharia and destroy beer bottles (not because they were smuggled or illegally manufactured but because a religion forbids it) why should the government not condemn and proscribe these kinds of actions? When Excesses like these are not checked, previous excesses are exceeded and before you know it some form of terrorism has been festered!

If a government does not see a reason to condemn some locally constituted police force, not enacted by Nigerian constitution, which assigns to herself the power to destroy the products of legally established and registered, tax-paying business entities, because of a religious belief, without recourse to the Nigerian constitution, then the same government has no reasonable moral reason to condemn the Niger-delta militants when they destroy pipelines. Abi na how?! I hope the FG will prove its mettle by condemning illegalities such as these.

And by the way, if Kano (and some other states) do not want "haram" products and lifestyles in their domain, they should remember to tell the FG to make sure that no revenue generated from "haram" products/processes isbe shared with them likewise.

I have said it many times .
Buhari might be the last Nigerian president.
Nothing to do with mend ,opc or radio Biafra.
But if he does not check the excesses of his socially and educationally backward region ,they will cast off into the desert.
All this does not stop the north from being the highest consumers of drugs .
The only direction I see them heading , is towards the path of destruction.
I cannot believe how a people can be so stupidd and dumb as to stop practicing their own culture ,norms and laws and start practising and alien one. A religious one at that.

E.g Islamic mass weddings for people who cannot afford it
Where their own superior tradition and customs requires the groom to prove the ability to care for his future family by buying a heavy bride (cows , sheeps,goats ,food ).
If you cannot pay the dowry, you shouldn't marry .


No beer ,something which most cannot afford anyway .
Means no nightlife
Means No tourist
Means less taxes
Means Less money to spend on education,health
Means more poverty
Mean more potential recruits for terrorists.
Very soon the Sudanese and Arab types will move in amongst them and start killing them off to take their land .
That is exactly what has happened and is still happening in North Africa.

Dollyak:
Great. They should also stop sharing tax revenues from alcoholic drinks while they are at it.

We will get there soon .

Okontami:
They are not even Nigerian Companies. You guys should see who our real enemies are.

You too can buy a tanker and register them anywhere for peanuts.
In the 80s , Liberia used to have the largest shipping fleet in the world . Not one of them was owned by a Liberian.
I am sure that many of those ships are owned by Nigerians

Na by force .
Nigeria no wan see una .
Una too plenty.

We do not need more than 20 mega tankers to move crude oil . Probably even less .

onyedikachukwue:
This man is busy witchhunting and economy is seriously failing.
Insurgency increasing.
Some people busy applauding failure

Remove your tribal glasses before commenting or simply head back to the village where the society exist at the rudimentary level.
You are not fit for an aspiring civilised society.

No matter the number of attempts to rewrite history , Nigerian history will never be allowed to be rewritten.
1 The British left Nigeria with 3 region despite the fact that the minorities wanted breathing space ( their own region )
At this stage , cocoa was the principal export and chief forex earner of the country . Other produce like rubber , oil palm, groundnut contributed but not as much

2 As the British were leaving , Igbo elites calculated that since the Hausa/ Fulani were mostly illiterate, they were going to be able to manipulate them and use that as a platform to dominate. At this time , the Northern civil service was dominated by the SE and they felt They can replicate this at the federal level( as amhadu bello was scheming , so also were they ). The two regions were conservative societies after all.so the romance was natural.

3 They ganged up against the western region by creating the Midwest without creating the ogoja region , Carlsbad region , central region etc( only the itshekiris voted no in the referendum)

4 they put Awo in prison and proceeded to share the loot .out of 11 ministerial positions , azikwe gave the western region only 2 ( the same pattern was repeated under Jonathan) .

5 you all know what happened when ahmadu bello showed his hands .

6 Not only did he nothernize the North by replacing their conservative soul mates ( igbos) in the northern civil service , he went ahead and started giving all the juicy bits ( projects and all ) to the northern region .
What came next was an Igbo coup to reclaim what they thought was theirs , a country to dominate.
For that 6 months Ironsi was at the top , all was good (or so they thought)

7Ironsi immediately moved to turn Nigeria into a unitary state and began assembling all the tools for ethnic domination. All the while , the igbos were mocking the Hausa on the street .

8 the Hausa /Fulani launched a counter coup and were shouting Araba all over the place until the British ambassador pulled them aside and told them of the economic implications of independence. They resolved to use those tools of ethnic domination for themselves.

9 a program was launched in the north targeting outsiders ( not only igbos ) . Yorubas ,igbirras, calabar ,
Itshekiri, urhobo died too in those progroms even though the igbos had the largest casualties.

10 20,000 people died in those northern progroms

11 the igbos too killed 5,000 northerners residing in the east

12 less than a million people died in the Biafra war (civilians and all )on all sides even though the Igbo civilians suffered the most.

13 there were Igbo POW who lived through to see the end of the war. All Nigerians captured during the war were butchered

14 war crimes were committed on all sides

They will be going after these Union types soon

Onijagidijagan:
who b dis femi aribisala

One of Jonathan's paid sycophants

Hmm

Even Yet some people still voted that clown . It says a lot about those societies

One of the dummy projects of the last government.
Of all the problems afflicting the country and the Niger delta , this must be the least of them all.
Even when pilots with 10 years experience cannot even find a plane to fly.

sammyj:
Go and ask Madam minister of finance alias madam puff puff she is in the best position to tell us how the clueless one squandered our 150 billion dollars. That's the truth take it or leave it wailers !!

Correction
Squandered $500 billion

Open secret in the creeks.
Jonathan was a disappointment

Jonathan was a joke . No body wanted to associate with him .
By the way , America is a world leader in coal power plants .
Buhari should seek out the manufacturers of power plants and invite them to Nigeria .why obasanjo totally converted the 1000MW Egbin power station to gas , I do not know .
A big strategic blunder since the Niger delta is an unreliable source of gas
He should also seek out the manufacturers of weapon systems and cut out all the leeching middle men who have been using local contents to fleece the country.

Jonathan was a joke . No body wanted to associate with him .
By the way , America is a world leader in coal power plants .
Buhari should seek out the manufacturers of power plants and invite them to Nigeria .
He should also seek out the manufacturers of weapon systems and cut out all the leeching middle men who have been using local contents to fleece the country.

1after:
Gbam. End of discussion.

I laugh when they compare Osun to any state apart from Lagos , ogun , rivers , ondo and oyo .
Where do they think all the plantain ,yam ,cassava ,vegetables,many of the fruits fruits and industrial raw materials come from. Especially in the south of Nigeria
What is coming out of that state in terms of real wealth creation is unbelievable . Second to ondo in cocoa and cashew , kola nut production . Second to ogun in cassava production . Third to ondo and ogun in timber and furniture production , receives most of the international tourist who come to Nigeria ( converts to the Yoruba religion and descendants of slaves tracing their roots).produces most of the Gold ,topaz and aquamarine illegally mined in Nigeria , third to ogun and ondo in granite production. Number 1 in arts and crafts,
I can go on and on
The only thing the States needs to do is to increase productivity, find a way to include food processing and packaging into the chain , improve the marketing of produce and generating tax revenues from the numerous activities.
The state can start by kicking out the NURTW thugs out of the state who have been milking the state out of revenues which ought to go to the government. The same is applicable to other odua states and territories.
E.g the corruption at the ojo park alone in Ibadan is said upwards of 4 billion naira every year .
The only province of odua States that We are concerned about in case of independence is Ekiti .
that state is one conservative shit hole

Nothing new here .
After all, Jonathan brought Beyoncé.
Dunderheads all over the place

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