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alex_101: Nna men, I tire for thesepeople. Sometimes, I wonder if they want nigeria to progress or not?

I just laid an official complaint about the biased moderating and skewed bans against Ndigbo.

I wonder what some of these Mods are thinking sometimes.

I know we are not of the same tribe, but this is Nigeria's top web forum.

They should try to contain their bias sometimes.

@ALL Mods of this Section


There have been several reports by Igbo posters alleging that they are being banned for actions which Yoruba posters readily embark upon with total impunity.
Sometimes dayokanu instigates attacks and insults, and when Igbo posters respond, they are banned.

This is an official complaint from Eze Ndigbo Nairaland.

Such biased moderating of this Section should stop in the interest of peace and "cleanliness" of this Section.

Respect is reciprocal.

I take it that the owner of this site will not allow his site to be used as a platform for attacking the Igbo Nation.

Like I have said severally, we are not totally powerless here.

Let the rules apply to all equally.

A word is enough for the wise.

alex_101: Did you read the entire article at all? The writer indicated that a lot of Yorubas are still working in the aviation sector, and you guys are here making it as if the entire yorubas have eliminated.

They act in packs.
One Yoruba removed is tantamount to ALL removed.
I remember the Achebe thread when Awo was pilloried by the literature legend. It became an attack on Yoruba nation. lol

So, I guess all I have to say is MORE FUEL TO STELLA'S HATCHET CHAINSAW.

alex_101: Nna, ndi mod NL agwunu mu ike. I manna a kurum ban maka m sina umuIgbo kpo gwara ndi iro anyi "ofe##" akpo anyi Ibo na aha fa na kwesiri i kpo anyi.

Mba ahu enweghi isi nwanne.
Chukwu buru ha onu.

BTW no amount of ad hominems would sway the trajectory of our argument.
Yoruba sit down on jobs they cannot execute well for Nigeria. FACT.

They are foisting incompetence on the whole nation of 160 million.

alj harem: The SW is not the norths partner. You Igbos are really stu.pid. So If I am not for Igbo I must be for the north ?

If I am not for the north I must be for the Igbos ?

I really pity the SS that joins biafra. Why are you so myopic and stu.pid ?

Who were the rulers of the first republic that destoryed Nigeria ? Igbos

Were northerners and Igbos partners ?

Moreover I beat my chest that Yes Yorubas are at least more educated than Igbos. BTW you don't have to agree

Just compare any SE governor to SW governor. Compare you and I, etc Compare Jarus to Onlytruth (it is an insult to jarus) Compare Dede to Katsumoto, Compare Fstranger, Jason, Ekt bear etc to any Igbo on Nairaland

Now lets go back to the basics, compare Nnamdi to Awolowo

My friend you are the biggest coward in Nairaland. I hope you know.
A person who is too ashamed to identify his own group, yet feels competent to discuss others is the greatest coward ever created by God.

My main concern is that NOTHING is working engineering -wise in Nigeria, and Yoruba dominate engineering.
We were in near total darkness until Igbo engineers like Nnaji showed up.

My concern is that Nigeria cannot account for oil exports, yet, we have engineers who sit down on top of more competent ones.
Quite sad.

alex_101: I remember I was said to my Igbo brethren that "the greatest lie ever told by the devil was convincing humanity it didn't exist". The yorubas with the aid of their media propaganda were able to deceive shallow nigerians that they were the best at everything and the most "educated". Well, this sort of thing will everly continue as far as nigeria exists,,,eventually, the north will one day get its turn to rule and their partner, SW will be invited to come join the feast again,,,they're not clamouring for a northern president for nothing.

Nwanne ike gwuru!

alj harem: You quote the bible yet you are lying and causing strife among brothers ? Are you OK ?

I never lie. That is one thing I make sure of. I may double lay emphasis on a point, BUT I never lie.

c.fours:
How many yorubas have rights and posts in SE (also part of Federal Republic of Nigeria).
last time I checked there was a topic here about the discrimination faced by yorubas in SE. and all the igbos on that thread were telling them to go back to their land. so I have a right to tell you the same.

So, you mean that a multinational oil company who operate out of Lagos is now a Yoruba company?
If there is no oil in Eastern Nigeria (at least about 70% of Nigeria's oil is in the East) would that company be in Lagos?

c.fours:
even the devil himself can quote the bible. what are you trying to prove? some sort of self-righteousness? are we supposed to be impressed?

what a hypocrite

If you refuse to answer the question, I will simply step above you and move on.

c.fours:
@Onlytruth, let me guess, your "friend" lives in surulere, LAGOS.
then, maybe it's time for him to move back to Enugu!!!


rubbish. as if you are dashing yoruba people govt posts left and right in your own land.

Is Suru Lere not part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
If the answer is yes, then, don't you see how foolish you sound?

alj harem: ^^^^^^^^ But the Oil industry is controlled by Foriegners, and Igbos so what are you blabbing about ?

You should also read and meditate carefully on the words of Psalm 37.
If you do not repent, be rest assured that your fate will be that of a man cursed by God for oppressing the poor and lowly.
Man may forgive carelessly but God NEVER forgives unless the person repents.

It is not too late to repent.

If I am to go by personal account of someone close to me, then, the Yoruba could easily be termed the most clannish and tribalistic Nigerians.

The guy in question recounted MANY instances of Yoruba thwarting his ascension in his engineering profession. I would not like to recount all the instances, but he just told me yesterday that the Yoruba dominated branch of the oil company where he is working, just bypassed him on his DUE promotion. Their game plan was to get him angry so that in his anger he would do something rash and they would then instigate his firing. I personally told him to calm down and play dead for now. Their day of reckoning will come one day. I told him to read and meditate on Psalm 37.

Let me say this now. There is no way for Nigeria to move forward without a MASSIVE overhaul of the system. A lot of "parapo" dudes are sitting on top of COMPETENT Nigerian working staff. For me, the most significant reason why that system has to change is that the people doing this are mainly incapable and unqualified to occupy the positions from which they dominate and oppress other Nigerians. Let me give an example. Since the Yoruba dominate Nigerian oil sector engineering; pray in what areas has Nigeria distinguished herself in petrochemical and marine engineering? Is there something we dominate engineering-wise internationally, any thing? Why is Nigeria not able to account for the amount of oil she exports? Why is Nigeria still backward in engineering generally? You see, there is something Ndigbo call "ewu eri, ma okuko atu" -the goat refuses to eat, (or is incapable of eating something), yet will fight tooth and nail to ensure that the chicken never eats it! That is the height of wickedness and a unique type of corruption that must be fought to a stand still for Nigeria to move forward.

BTW such unique corruption will NEVER stop until Ministers start acting like Stella Oduah.

If it were someone else now complaining about Obasanjo's wasted years in office, some people will say he is whining.
Is this not the height of whining?
The Senator knows that his party has already lost 2015 elections.

Oya go impeach am na. lol

TheBookWorm: Why should the North produce the next Presidential nominee?

This question has been confusing me for quite a while. The North has not shown any signs of economic progress, development or any educational progress. What right do these Northern politicians have to lead Nigeria?

If APC wants to be taken seriously that they support Nigeria's economic development, they should pick a leader who is well known throughout the country as a true leader.

I cannot think of ANY Northern politician who can lead to Nigeria to greater heights.

If I talk am now, dem go say Eze Ndigbo na bigot. But you spoke the truth.

PointB: My candid advice to APC: Pick Rochas as your presidential candidate and pair him with a muslim from the North. Pitch it as strategy to re-unite the country. 8 years later power can go back to the North
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Any other permutation hands power back to the incumbent.

I don't know how many times Ndigbo have to drum it into people's ears that we DON'T want VP positions again in Nigeria.
Ndigbo si na adighi ahapu ebe a na echi ozo gawa n'ebe a na aru agwu (a sane man cannot choose to attend a native doctors little ceremony rather that a huge feast of chieftaincy title taking ceremony).
VPs in Nigerian political system is like a "none speaking towns man" in a movie set - basically powerless.
We are tired of that crap.

If APC is serious, then Rochas MUST be on top of the ticket, or we shall stick to Bro Jona.

odumorun 1: Nothing seems to provoke fury, indeed unbridled rage on this website and across the land more than when some prominent Nigerian goes abroad and criticises the brazenly obvious ills in our society. The response always revolves around the excuse that we should not wash our dirty linen in public, Americans and westerners don’t do the same etc etc.

This is more than people with something to hide not wanting exposure where they can’t use their powers of coercion and manipulation to conceal their crimes, as many otherwise innocent Nigerians tend to join in the chorus of hate towards anybody who dare says outside our shores the reality most people endure in it. There is something deep rooted in the African mindset that seems to abhor facing up to reality, a deeply embedded moral cowardice to be seen in offices, business and families in our society that accepts any condition no matter how bad, how humiliating as long as we can look good to outsiders.


People who struggle to feed their families, will never be short of money to buy clothes for the next party, men who can’t pay their kids school fees but will always find money to upgrade their mobile phones regardless of the expense, even when the replaced ones are perfectly functional. The disease affects even the Diaspora, Not a few Africans drive the flashiest cars yet head for the economy shelves of the big supermarkets for their groceries. There are families (from Africa in Europe) who ration the sugar for their families, but will never be seen without the latest designer clothes outside their front doors. There are people whose kids will never be seen without the latest computer gadgets but who shovel the cheapest, unhealthiest food down their throats to ‘save costs’

On any high street in the UK for instance many small Asian businessmen will be mistaken for labourers at first sight. The dress simply but most of their businesses are worth millions and have endured for decades. African businessmen on the same streets dress like kings and the average life span of their businesses tend to range from 4 – 5 years.


Why are we so obsessed with outward appearance, even when it’s not backed by any internal substance? The mindset of an Asian or western businessman is hard work, enterprise, risk taking and innovation. In Africa or amongst Africans, business means luxury, enterprise is equated with elegance. So profit is rarely re-invested, it is immediately spent on conspicuous consumption. So even when the businesses don’t collapse, they don’t expand. There is no drive to innovate, to take risks. The ultimate aim is to look the part. ‘Ah that man is a business man he has a new Lexus’. Not that man is a businessman; he opened a shop 2 years ago now he has 7. In Europe every ethnic group has produced restaurants that have prospered by conquering the western palate, except Africans. Go to any Chinese restaurant anywhere in Europe and most people there will be Caucasian, not Chinese. Go to any African restaurant and you will struggle to see a non black face.

What is the reason; it’s not as if our food is not tasty. Again it is a cowardly desire not to take risks, to innovate. The Chinese, Indian, Arab and Thai menu has evolved. The African menu has not. We still eat the same way our forebears did 200 hundred years ago in a radically changed environment. Our food has not changed – it is still the same old format – a heavy cereal with a separate stew. Eba, iyan etc. But these foods were created for a period that has been largely bypassed at least in the west. Our foods were created at a time when most people worked on the farms, hard punishing labour requiring foods heavy in carbohydrates, to burn off to release energy. Now many people work in offices – having eba or iyan at lunch means you won’t be productive when you return to your desk, because the work does not require you to burn off energy as our ancestors did. So we fall asleep at our desks. How can such a menu attract foreigners? But still we refuse to change because of a fear of risk taking allied to the desperation to keep up appearances


It is the same with the way we live. We have some of the most beautiful apartments in the world (lets leave aside the fact that most of the money used to build them was stolen). Compared to many luxury apartments in other parts of the world, they look good. However go inside and you find shoddy finishes, poor coordination, tasteless furnishing, and a lack of real refinement, which in the minds of the African bourgeois and aspiring classes means big, not necessarily brilliant. . In the homes of the wealthy Europeans or Asians the homes might not look that great from outside – but enter inside its another world, Persian rugs, old antiques, sculptures etc. A sense of real taste and culture. Why are we so shallow? We delude ourselves that we know how to live, yet we in reality don’t know how to even enjoy the life we pretend to love so much. We attend parties that we don’t enjoy, parties were we sit staring for most of the time like beheaded goats because we don’t want to do anything wrong, to draw attention to ourselves for the wrong reasons to look bad lojuagbo

Rich westerners have a love of high art, paintings, and exquisite carvings. I can count the number of times I have seen Africans in museums admiring the finest creations of human civilisation anywhere in the world. We prefer shopping - nothing wrong with that – but how many of the things that we buy can we produce. We buy the latest multimedia gadgets, the finest electronics, yet we can’t build a factory to produce simple radios at a technical a level achieved in other parts of the world 100 years ago.


In our families the problem is the same. There is a problem – take the easy way out blame everybody, so nobody is offended including whoever has committed the offence. We call that wisdom. Of course there are times when both parties could be at fault. But it also possible that one person is at fault, but you will struggle to find a family on this continent that will not seek to share the blame around, ostensibly to reach a compromise but in reality so they can remain on good terms with both parties or at least the offending one in a society where very principle is available for compromise, where standards exist on nothing where anybody who takes a clear stance on anything is immediately dismissed as mad, extreme etc. A man has slept with his house girl, ok blame the man, but also the woman for not putting enough salt in the food tempting the man to sleep with another woman!! A woman stabbed her husband; ok blame the woman, but also the man for not running away fast enough!!!- We are all to blame, so nobody is to blame; we are all responsible so nobody is responsible. All Nigerians are corrupt so don’t blame the government. Leadership has power and privilege but not responsibility and accountability. The government is ‘trying’ ‘they are trying’. What is the point of trying without succeeding? A society of endless compromises where the aim as always is to keep a clean front to outsiders for a home rotting and putrefying inside.


When we end up dying it is the same people screaming that we should not expose our ills to outsiders who will demand immediate outside medical intervention.


We condemn people for going to the west to criticise what we all know is true, trying to silence them. Yet when the problem, because it has not been treated, explodes, it is the same people who now insist we don’t tell the world our problems (problems the foreigners are far more aware of than we are – where is the stolen money kept UBA Ikeja?) it is these same people who will demand for armed western intervention to save their skins and their stolen property

Once is a long while, one comes across a post in Nairaland that is so brilliant that one forgets (even if for a short while) all the junks oozing out of this website ostensibly from fools, half witted scoundrels, and outright nincompoops.
This piece is so brilliant I can hang my hat on it.
Kudos OP.

[size=14pt]TO REDISTRIBUTE NIGERIA'S OIL BLOCKS IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE! [/size]

trillville: My guy u are making a lot of sense. The thing is even if the south gets back the oil wells, will that guarantee an improved standard of living in the south? Nigeria is more important than north vs south. We constitute the largest concentration of black people on earth. Why there is overt racism today is because Nigeria is a shit hole. Do you think the northern masses have being enjoying the 83% ownership of oil wells?

The truth is that Nigeria can only change if all forms of chauvinism is defeated and a MERIT based system introduced.
Let me ask you. Does it mean that the owners of these oil blocks PAID fair market prices for them? Answer: NO
So, why were they allocated the oil blocks then? Do you know how much Nigeria lost already because these blocks were basically dashed to military affiliates of the ruling Military juntas from the North?
The poor people in Nigeria will NEVER see improvement in their living standards for as long as this type of brazen crony-ism is entrenched as the norm in Nigeria. Let the "Northern masses" hustle like the rest of us "Southern masses". We are all masses!
Nigeria's oil wealth should be sold to the highest bidding private investor, and the proceeds put into national coffers.
I don't even believe in federal character in these types of things. I wonder whether US uses federal character to sell oil blocks.
Here you pay for what you own! If you want oil block, PAY FOR THE DAMN THING.

miiraaj: Does the question have to do with the fact that GEJ has no balls? Thank God you just admitted he's got no balls.The truth is gradually sinking into your thick skull. You are beginning to realise that your Oga is the most useless and inefficient leader the world has ever produced.

Buhari is the answer!

In 1999 after Obasanjo started making changes in the army, your Northern brothers introduced Sharia law in 15 states (or so), tempting Obasanjo to clamp down on them, and in the process provide them with an excuse to topple him in a coup. OBJ being an old fox, kept his cool. . . until won his second term. He turned the army upside down and removed core North from most strategic commands. From then on, OBJ became almost like God, even to core North. lol He remained untouchable until he left and even foisted a dying Northerner as a way to regain power in the south. He succeeded.

GEJ is making changes (in fact he has gone far sef ) in the army, and will win again in 2015. My concern is the fools in the south who want to buy into your Northern lies, and smuggle a nineteen century man into Aso rock in 2015. It won't happen though.
This man you say has no balls has done more than you would ever comprehend.

The question EVERY southerner should ask himself is this: HOW DID THE NORTH CORNER 83% OF NIGERIA'S OIL WEALTH?

Answer: THROUGH MILITARY DOMINATION OF NIGERIA.

Shikena.

If that changes, all else will change. If the North gets back to power, not only would that endure, it would be expanded to even experiment will other things like total sharianization of Nigeria. If you think it is not possible, you don't understand how the North thinks.
For all the cries of cheating and marginalization emanating from the North, they are still sitting on 83% of Nigeria's oil wealth.
Now, go figure.

Billyonaire: I love the way you put it, I really admire your detailed explanation. I voted for GEJ to have 247 Electricity, if I must vote a Buhari, then I wanna be sure that there is an established manisfesto to revoke Oil wells Leases, without which I will not believe in his cause or vote for him. If APC came out telling us they are going there to right the wrongs done to Nigerians as regards distribution of commonwealth, I will be the first to decamp from PDP, but APC and Buhari have not made known their intents, and I can only say they have no other purpose, other than to 'Fight PDP'.

Most you don't understand the progress Nigeria has made between 1999 and today. I don't like Obasanjo, but he kick started something that made it possible for Jonathan to be there today, and for Nigeria to have a real chance if Jonathan wins in 2015.
The North is desperate for power, and will say or do ANYTHING just to get it again. But be ready for DECADES of pain after that.
I'm shocked by your short memories.

The only advise I would give to any progressive Nigerian (especially southerners) is to pray that Jonathan wins again in 2015, else, TROUBLE lies ahead. Nigeria has made REAL progress under Jonathan, and the progress would be consolidated if he wins again in 2015.

Nigerian military is where all the relevant changes are taking place.

trillville: You are actually making a lot of sense. Another statistic the honorable member should have given us is what percentage of oil well owners are PDP card carrying members. The only issue I have with your comment is putting the whole north under a blanket as one entity. Even the hausa Fulani are divided between the rich and the poor. The rich have used Islam to suppress the Poor claiming God blessed destined them to be rich and the same God destined the poor to be almajiri.

I must state that I am not a staunch Buhari supporter but I want Nigeria to change. The sight of creeks in the Niger delta brings tears to my eyes. There is no where on earth that is as polluted, it is nothing short of a horrendous disaster. [size=16pt]The rich northerners know that if Buhari were to be elected, he would seize all the oil wells and then jail them[/size]. Consider the fact that he removed a democratically elected northerner and then was removed by another northerner. Most of Buhari's supporters in the north are the poor and the few rich you see around him simply want to use his popularity with the poor to their advantage.
Buhari never gave any person an oil well and I am sure that one of the first things he would do if elected president of Nigeria, will be to revoke the leases. His past certainly proves he has the courage for the task. The question remains that does GEJ have the courage?

The bolded words are some of the lies that make Nigeria a very sad and depressing country! Dude where did you get this lie from?
Who told you that Buhari is capable of taking away Northern privileges on the alter of national interest? Where were you when Buhari sacked the civilian government of Shagari, only to jail southerners like Ekwueme, while putting Shagari in a convenient house arrest? Shagaris mates were languishing in Kiri Kiri MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON, while Buhari put him under mere house arrest.
Where were you when Buhari turned a blind eye to the 53 suitcases of cash being smuggled out of the country by the Emir of Gwandu of that time? Meanwhile other Nigerians (less mortals like southerners of course) where queuing for days in the bank after Buhari changed the currency without consultation.

It is very depressing to see young Nigerians (some of them southerners) trying unintelligently to launder Buhari's image, desperately trying to turn him into a modern nationalist incorruptible leader, when he is nothing less than a Fulani chauvinist, hell bent on preserving Northern privileges and advantages.

If you are a southerner, keep trying to bring back Buhari. You will regret later.