₦airaland Forum

godfatherx:
the choice of Buhari in 2015 was a mistake. I regret that decision

Every new government is worst than the previous in Nigeria,so something is wrong which they themselves cannot control.

bishopkay:
My good friend... Don't let experience teach you!

True what you said, not everyone does well over seas but You have to know wise people don't run over seas because of basically work... They go because of their working system! Our system is irredeemably broken and it can't be fixed by these crop of leaders and followers!

Don't forget the pendulum could also swing where people who went there came back to establish something for themselves and see their old friends who refused to take the leap living in penury or outrightly dead!

Anyway people migrate everytime and have the right to do so,but it is not green out there.

walex2:
I will forever be grateful for this administration for one thing: everybody learn how to work hard and there is no more rent seeking among the elites. please let me know if those who are paying 3.5M per three months would write the same WAEC that those who are going to public schools will write and still come out with better grade. ohh someone will say is because of my poverty mentality but let his father invest half of those school fees from jss1 to ss3 and see the returns on the investment for him in those 6 years if he will ever need to travel again to Canada to hustle.

Still your mentality,the people and network in school matter more than grades in school.And again 3.5m per three month is not true.

tactius:
I came across your post.

What is happening in Nigeria is called oil shock.

We were here before. In 1980, my dad and mom earned about N500 as salary combined. With that salary they were able to look after themselves well, and send a relative of my dad's to school.

In 1980, the oil price was at its highest....and had been since 1973....so things were good. Back then, salary earners like my dad could even afford a new car. NEW car...not these second hand jalopies.

In 1982, oil prices crashed, and so did the economy.

By 1983, things were so bad that Nigerians were eating from trashcan

Buhari took over on the last day of 1983....the oil price continued to fall, IBB took over in 1985, partially removed subsidy...improved econmomy for 2 years, then things went back to square one.

By 1988....my parent's salary could not keep them and their family (both lecturers). Back then....side hustle mode activated. That's how we survived till oil prices shot up again in the 2000.

Even if GEJ won, we were heading into a recession...as Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said. And it happened before. The reason why we were prosperous in 2012 was high oil prices above $100 .

On May 29 2015...OIL WAS at $75. By 2016, oil was at $30. Since then it has never gone above $80. The good times are over.

These analysis are not totally true

bishopkay:
Until police catch you when you come out to piss for gutter for night or just taking an evening stroll to go buy food by 8 pm.

When they beat the living hell out of you and frame you up as a kidnapper, or drug dealer or even shoot you and put a gun on you that's when you'd know Nigeria is not worth it.

Funny enough I had such a mindset at a time but now, I can't wait to get out! Except you are Into unmentionables, you can also do what you do here to make that "obscene" Money over there then when you come to Nigeria for holiday, you can hire a police escort!

People that you left behind will have gained a lot and localize fully and consolidated their positions when you decide to return.so many old men in the UK are regretting staying behind and living misreable lives.You are old and taking care of old people,is that not madness

afroxyz:
Nigerians psychology has been so twisted. of all the truths the poster was trying to profess, it's his social status she was interested in. I don't know who is worse in this country. Nigerians or the government.

Poor people are terrible,they are so damaged ,that after you help them,they become greedy and wicked to others.

INDUSTRIALFAN:
no. There is no sense of entitlement in what he hast typed. You are just upset. Calm down and get his point. He is wealthy because of his parents and that he acknowledged. By all standards, he isn't supposed to be struggling to keep up with an affluent lifestyle but the economy is haaaarrrrd. If people like him re beginning to feel the economy's bite, what he is trying to say is "then he can only imagine how terrible it must be for those below where he is."

Baba you summarized it for him!in layman's way.

SAVEDBABA:
You are making no sense,dont try to defend the guys nonsense.

Nigeria was once leading in the texile sector

charliboy654:
And who's fault is it that we don't produce, is under this condition with no light or good road that we want to produce. Govt should provide the basic for us, and we will live like Jay z.

And I know English, no need to school me.

You obviously don't live in the country or very young.have you heard of the structural adjustment programme before?that was the main policy that killed industries.and you need electricity to produce,cairo is a city in Egypt,it produces 25000 mega watts,Tokyo is a city in Japan ,it produces 70,000,South Africa produces 40000.so ours is less than 4000.how can you industalize with this type of figure.

charliboy654:
I get angry wen I see idiot like you speak, who is talking about living like Jay z, is asking for our basic amenities now sense of entitlement?
Is it now a crime to ask govt for constant light, good road, good health care. No one is saying govt should give us everything but what we deserve.

He also made sense with the write up.we don't produce,and he was saying you want to live like jaz z,which every normal thinking knows he was driving a point inform of exaggeration.Exaggeration is a term for a figure of speech. It means the describing of something and making it more than it really is. ... A hyperbole (IPA:[haı'pɝ.bə.li]) is a type of exaggeration that is used in literature. It is a figure of speech

GavelSlam:
Where ?
UK?
USA?
Canada?
Scandinavia?

You don't produce anything but want to live like Jay-Z.

Nigerians and their sense of entitlement.

De-industralization is a deliberate act in Nigeria,we are programmed to consume what is produced,and these people and their agents want to keep it that way..

Animals

ken6488:


Oil that is being pumped from delta

Located in the extreme western part offshore Nigeria, adjacent to the Benin border in the Dahomey Basin, the field is situated in water depths ranging from 100 to 1,500 metres, about 24 kilometres from the coast.
The field is situated 64 kilometres from Lagos and 12 kilometres close to the West African gas pipeline operated by Chevron.

jom28gy:
There is no oil in Lagos,and lagos,is not an oil state,proved me wrong

(OML) 113, offshore Lagos

technicallyrich:
which intellectuals,like edwin clak wey dem don bribe.
Ankio briggs,gej and so many other ijaws are pro ss and se.
Infact most ijaws speak igbo like part of okirika,bonny,opobo etc and have igbo linage like gej,asari etc.
So you see ss and se are brothers.

Ika ,ikeweere,ogba ,aniocha are your group who splitted them these way?putting igbos in Delta and rivers?it was an igbo man they did it.same for yorubas in kwara,edo,kogi state.igbos don't want baifra it's business.kanu is already chopping all the money,enjoying life.uwazurike has scammed you people in the past,in future another guy will come and brain wash all of you.

technicallyrich:
which intellectuals,like edwin clak wey dem don bribe.
Ankio briggs,gej and so many other ijaws are pro ss and se.
Infact most ijaws speak igbo like part of okirika,bonny,opobo etc and have igbo linage like gej,asari etc.
So you see ss and se are brothers.

You need them more than they need you.igbos are landlocked,no access to any sea,no access to any land border,igbo land is 11000sqms ,it's very small place.high literacy rate among women ,low literacy rate among men,and they want to create a super country.

technicallyrich:
liars.you want us to hate igbos,so that you will cause confusion for us,while we fight our selves.
Igbos do have oil and gas in rivers state,delta,abia and imo state.

Igbos already dealt with ijaws and minorities in the past,am not the one that will make you hate them,it is how you were treated when it was eastern region.how many ijaws were in the eastern Assembly?only one,why did they not recruit minorities into the biafran army simple it's domination and conquer,eyo yita was not chosen to be premier because he was not igbo.i can go on and one.igbos are terrible,you can see they say Lagos is no mansland.they want slot.we know them.

technicallyrich:
liars.you want us to hate igbos,so that you will cause confusion for us,while we fight our selves.
Igbos do have oil and gas in rivers state,delta,abia and imo state.

Oil is not the future,sensible countries are exchanging resources for infastructural development,you are talking of oil.abia and imo oil is not investor friendly,and a waste of their investments.

technicallyrich:
oga we know and that is the work of the british,not your people.
That is why we were fighting for niger delta republic like adaka borro and isari dokubo etc did.
But what is the essence,of niger delta republic and leaving part of our igbo brothers behind.
So now we support biafra eg like asari dokubo.me etc who are now pro ss/se.
Yorub ass head the oil company as their share for betraying biafrans.
Just like our see ports dont work. Because of lagos sea port.

It is you on nairaland that supports baifra ,not your intellectuals ,that I have met in the past .you are ignorant.

technicallyrich:
but atleast stronger than yoru,and you cant argue it.and we are decisive too.
And more over ijaws have the 4th largest population in nigeria
first been the hausas,igbos,yorubas and then ijaws.
So ijaws are more than 3million.
Ijaws are in 9 state including lagos that will jointly own with the benins and ondo state.
Now to goodluck,he was a gentle man and even said that the blood of any one is not worth his ambition.even when ijaws like orubebe wanted to hit up the country and cause another war.
Goodluck jonathan was still betrayed by yoru mudslim upon everything.
My guy stick with igbos but run when you see ijaws or niger deltans please.
And remember the igbos are our brothers.and if you start fighting like voting we will support them.
You
Now swerve to ogbomosho.kowords

You are writing trash,the first nigerian to move s motion in pailment called doctrine of necessity was a Yoruba politicans ,femi gbajabiamila,all yorubas supported GEj,when they refuse to hand over.what did he do after.igbos started advising him wrongly until he failed.instead of working with tinubu ,he wanted to break him.

technicallyrich:
boy,i am ijawoo,and you know what that means.
Pls remember There are two tribes that are feared most in nigeria.
Ijaws and fulanis.
Even when i served in oyo state yorub boys they fear as them hear say i be ijaw.
Is like you want make them piss for pant.even you will be afraid if you see them beating an ijaw man.
We are the richest black tribe on earth and one of the strongest and bravest too.
I repeat i no be igbo manoo.

Am surprised to read about an ijaw man on the platform siding with unreasonable fellows.i thought your literacy rate was high and will understand what you want.yorubas want restructuring,don't you know it will benefit you?igbos don't want restructuring and there biafra is business unlimited,it's a lie,they prefer a unitary system like this and are just waiting to get power and comit the same atrocities the hausa,fulani have committed,they will be worst than these guys.

technicallyrich:
boy,i am ijawoo,and you know what that means.
Pls remember There are two tribes that are feared most in nigeria.
Ijaws and fulanis.
Even when i served in oyo state yorub boys they fear as them hear say i be ijaw.
Is like you want make them piss for pant.even you will be afraid if you see them beating an ijaw man.
We are the richest black tribe on earth and one of the strongest and bravest too.
I repeat i no be igbo manoo.

All the jobs in oil industry belongs to some people and you are here beating your chest.

technicallyrich:
boy,i am ijawoo,and you know what that means.
Pls remember There are two tribes that are feared most in nigeria.
Ijaws and fulanis.
Even when i served in oyo state yorub boys they fear as them hear say i be ijaw.
Is like you want make them piss for pant.even you will be afraid if you see them beating an ijaw man.
We are the richest black tribe on earth and one of the strongest and bravest too.
I repeat i no be igbo manoo.

Was it not an ijaw man that was president,he could not restructure,he was afraid. Was is not ijaw land that they discover the first crude and you allow them to mess you up for 50years.

technicallyrich:
boy,i am ijawoo,and you know what that means.
Pls remember There are two tribes that are feared most in nigeria.
Ijaws and fulanis.
Even when i served in oyo state yorub boys they fear as them hear say i be ijaw.
Is like you want make them piss for pant.even you will be afraid if you see them beating an ijaw man.
We are the richest black tribe on earth and one of the strongest and bravest too.
I repeat i no be igbo manoo.

Ijaw is a small population of 3million people ,you are not stronger than government

months:
Even after Biafra flag in Lagos? Go and sit down.

Ladipo market,Alaba market ,tradefair will all be possessed and the original plans for the place implemented.you people are walking dead .a govt policy in Nigeria will create havoc to you because you only import and don't produce.

months:
Even after Biafra flag in Lagos? Go and sit down.

Because lagosians are tolerant that is why they want to invest here.you people kill Chinese investors in the east.

months:
Even after Biafra flag in Lagos? Go and sit down.

Lagos is tolerant that is why you beat your chest daily.

technicallyrich:
wait,can someone say lagos is a no mans land in public.
I have said that it is ijaw land in all parts of lagos.
There was a day,they wanted to harass me,thinkin i am igbo,but someone there called them and told them that they should run for their life that i am ijaw.
For fuk sake everyone knows that the yoru are weak cowards.
Let me leave you with these qoute by ty danjuma.if i am sleeping and they wake me up that yoru want to startt fighting i go back to slep yoru is makin problem,i go back to slep.

You will make a mistake soon and lose your life just say it in mushin ,or Lagos island .and see if you will not die 12times.

Chipink:
#fact.. Without IGBOS Lagos would have been like ogbomosho.
However we are still ready to leave it for them when we get what we want. #classy!

Sammuel Olatunbosun Shonibare (January 8, 1920 - January 1964) was a Nigerian businessman and politician who was a founding member of the Action Group (AG), he was an active member of the party from its formation until his death in 1964. Shonibare acted as the publicity secretary for the party and also performed fund raising duties for the Action Group.

He held the chieftaincy title of Asiwaju of Ijebu.[1]

Early life and career
Edit
Born in January 1920 to the family of Sadiku Shonibare-Sanusi. His career began in 1936 as a clerk for U.A.C in Ibadan where he worked from 1936 to 1942, he was then promoted Chief Clerk and book-keeper at Ijebu-Ode in 1942.[2] He rose to become office manager, technical department before leaving the firm in 1952. Upon leaving UAC, he joined Amalgamated Press, publishers of the Daily Service which was then a political mouth-piece of the Action Group. During his tenure, the company launched the Sunday Express an apolitical weekly magazine and also the launched Daily Express in partnership with the Thomson Group.[1] Under his leadership, Amalgamated Press had editors like Bisi Onabanjo and Lateef Jakande, two future governors.

In 1958, Shonibare became managing director of the National Investment Property Company, he was invited to be the MD by S.O. Gbadamosi, a board member.

While working for U.A.C. in Ijebu Ode, his supervisor was Mr Samuel Olukoya. At party in 1942, he was introduced to his daughter Ms Alice Olukoya, they got married in 1946.

NIPC
Edit
He was managing director of a controversial company, National Investment and Properties Corporation, a private company that was linked with AG and the regional government and whose directors were party members. The company was formed 1958 by Action Group to evade a new legislation curtailing the use of banks to finance party activities. Previously, the party was involved in a murky arrangement with National Bank for financing.[3] Under NIPC's relationship with AG, the private firm borrowed money from the Western regional marketing board to invest in the country. The money was used to develop some properties that included Cocoa House, Ibadan and Western House, Broad Street, Lagos.[4] In 1962, a tribunal under Justice G.B.A. Coker probed a six-million-pound loan that was extended to NIPC by the Western Region Marketing Board. At the inquiry, it was noted that NIPC was an investment arm of the Action Group to fund party activities.[5] The assets of NIPC were transferred to WEMABOD.

When a state of emergency became effective in the region, Shonibare was limited to Ondo town; he died in January 1964, weeks after the state of emergency was lifted. Shonibare was chairman of Amalgamated Press Ltd, Ikeja, publishers of the now-defunct Daily Express and Daily Service. Prior to his death, he founded Shonny Investments which was in the process of developing Maryland Estate, he was also involved in a mobile film unit and a printing business.

Chipink:
#fact.. Without IGBOS Lagos would have been like ogbomosho.
However we are still ready to leave it for them when we get what we want.

Cappa & D'Alberto was established by Pietro Cappa and Viginio D'Alberto in 1932, immigrants from Italy who settled in Nigeria. D'Alberto was born in Roasio and Cappa was born in Gifflenga.[2] Both businessmen had similar path to Africa, Cappa emigrated to British West Africa in 1924 and originally worked in Ghana before settling in Nigeria. While D'Alberto came to Ghana in 1929 before arriving in Nigeria in 1931.[2] Both individuals met in Kaduna in 1931 and a year later founded Cappa and D'Alberto with office in Oil Mill St, Lagos. Grato Cappa, brother of Pietro later founded G Cappa in 1935. Early in its history, the firm was sustained with works for the Catholic mission within Lagos and Abeokuta. It later took jobs far from its Lagos base such as the construction of a government housing project in Yola which was completed on time,[3] and later Yola hospital. The company then followed up with contracts in Sokoto and the construction of a camp in Jos.[2] This jobs sustained the company through the great depression. During World War II, the firm's asset was briefly under the control of British authorities through the custodian of enemy properties, both D'Alberto and Cappa returned to Italy and the remaining Italian employees were interned in Jamaica until the end of the war.[2] The partners returned in 1945 and re-established the firm, after taking control of their remaining assets.[2]

In 1950, it secured a lease from Candido Da Rocha to erect a new office in Campbell St, Lagos.

The company's pre-independence projects in Lagos included Holy Cross Cathedral and Humoani Mosque which were built in the 1930s and later Kingsway Stores, Maternity Hospital, Lagos Island, Bristol Hotel and Western House.[4] In Ibadan, it built Cocoa House.

In the 1950s, the firm delved into the property development sector with the establishment of Igbobi Development Company.

In the post-independence period, the firm built supporting housing facilities for construction workers at Kainji dam, NEPA office, Marina, Tafawa Balewa Square and was involved in the construction of the National Stadium at Surulere. The company also built factories including Dunlop in Ikeja and Arewa Textile, Kaduna.[4] The firm's work at Kainji also included New Bussa township and resettlement of residents affected by the dam.[4]

By the 1970s, the company was self supporting with its own equipment, cranes and vehicles.

The firm is one of the leading construction companies in Lagos Island, with works that include: Civic Center Towers, Mobil House, Zenon House, Union Marble building and Wings complex, Victoria Island.[5]

Chipink:
#fact.. Without IGBOS Lagos would have been like ogbomosho.
However we are still ready to leave it for them when we get what we want.

Leventis was sympathetic to the cause of African nationalists. He was a friend of Kwame Nkrumah and J.B. Danquah. When a riot flared up in the country, many foreign stores were burnt and closed but only Leventis owned stores remained untouched and were opened throughout the period of conflict. He was made Ghanaian ambassador to France when Nkrumah was elected president of Ghana.

A.G. Leventis established a branch in Nigeria, called A.G. Leventis Nigeria Plc. Within a few years the Nigerian company expanded its business line from cotton exports to merchandise trading and secured new sources of supplies. In the late 1940s, motivated by diversification and modernization the firm changed its strategy. In 1960, Leventis Group speedily completed the Federal Palace Hotel at the request of the Nigerian government, the hotel served as accommodation for guests expected during Nigeria's independence celebration. By the 1960s his firm had grown to become one of the largest distributors in Nigeria and one of the largest merchandise traders in the West African region. In Nigeria, he re-structured the business from general trading into a specialized trading firm and established various department stores. During this period, he thrived as a result of the nation's relatively open economy, as it was not until the 1970s that economic nationalism became a dominant initiative. His marketing style made the Leventis name familiar to many customers in Nigeria. Apart from his sympathy for the nationalist movement in Africa, he also gave his support to his native country's independence movement. He developed a friendship with Arch-Bishop Makarios III who appointed him Cyprus' ambassador to UNESCO and awarded him the medal of St. Barnabas.

Chipink:
#fact.. Without IGBOS Lagos would have been like ogbomosho.
However we are still ready to leave it for them when we get what we want.

Anastasios George Leventis (Greek: Αναστάσιος Γ. Λεβέντης; December 1902 – October 25, 1978) was a Greek Cypriot businessman who founded a major merchandise trading firm, A.G. Leventis (Nigeria) Plc, in West Africa. A dominant figure in the economy of many West African countries and especially Nigeria, he was awarded the title of Babalaje of Egbaland by Alake Ladapo Ademola.

Anastasios George Leventis
Born
December 1902
Lemythou, Cyprus
Died
October 25, 1978
Occupation
Entrepreneur, founder and owner of Leventis Group
His daughter Fotini married politician Tassos Papadopoulos, who eventually became President of Cyprus
Have you head of this name before,they contributed to lagos. this are cologemerates.