₦airaland Forum

merge:
Not expecting supporters. Don't care

Just Keeping it Real. Reality shall soon hit you.

Beaf:
No. The Nigerian reality is that an alarming proportion of the population finds it almost routine to bomb each other or embark on wholesale slaughter with whatever weapons come to hand. The few that are living side by side will not bring back the dead or save those who are next to die come the next ethnic, religious or resource clash.
A contract for our collective existence needs to be set out or we abandon the Nigerian project. Doing nothing costs lives.

I am interested in what alternative you have; I'm talking about practical solutions that will resolve the current ethnic / religous malaise.

kosovo:
A friend of mine once told me, that he was very happy that Nigeria won't be going for the WORLD CUP. and i was quick to ask, WHY?

citizenY:
@Nairaland politicians,

Honestly, we are all lilly livered armchair critics .we are all selfish, opinionated loosers who go no balls whatsoever.
We hide behind ethnicity to be throwing barbs at each other instead of facing reality.

My poser

1) If you really feel bad and hate another group so vehemently, arrange a walkout-- or call people of likeminds and get out

What if you have a gun pointed to your head?

2)If you feel you are bold, get your representative or senator to move a motion for any change you want in the polity
3) You know your oppressors are the people you elected/selected to go to Abuja and your state capitals and they are not serving right and
cannot confront them. You did not vote for them and you kept quiet

What if they are guarded by heavily armed mobile policemen?

4) When you have any difficulties- it is the fault of Hausaman/Igbo?Yoruba as the case might be
5) The cabal exploiting you is the same - military/political elite and they are located as follows

This is a clear lie!

-politicians and businessmen/contractors who steal your votes , corrupt the system and bank balances ( latest fad)
-lawyers and judges who manufacture judgments and injunctions for the ODili's and Ibori"s of our time

WHat do you expect an average Nigerian to do about that

- Ethnic jingoists in MEND/MAssoB /Afenifere/ Arewa etc etc who provide cover for all our phobias and ventilate them.

They are the only thing real about Nigeria, so face it and live with it!

- spineless people who occupy the civil service/ government positions in INEC, PTF/NDDC ETC.

More like THIEVES!

Nigerians, tell me who among these is not your brother, inlaw, uncle or tribesman or classmate. YEt you cannot face him , even at your village meeting.

NONE! When those people you allude to come home from abuja, they don't attend village meetings! So they are not my brothers or sisters. They will be lynched by the angry villagers!

NA for Nairaland you go dey blow grammar and throw abuse and champion assaults on each other. Your problem dey for your village, go cure am then come back make we move on, [/b]

ezeagu:
Wow, are you serious? Okay, let me not argue, no arguing needed. Just look at the poll in this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-299456.0.html

A-town:
The only thing that i noticed in that write up is UNMANNED DRONES. Haba come on now.
Okay lets even assume they will use them. What if NEPA decides to "off" the light at the control room/base station and they loose control. I dont want any funny looking drone approaching me in ASO ROCK oo. I still have 18 more "indian" women to corner.

Kobojunkie:
The question of whether to split Nigeria up or not has not even occured to millions out there. There are more concerned about breaking out of their situation, in their personal lives, than they are with this bogus message some have caged their minds up with.

chic2pimp:
Abi oooo.
The majority of igbos,yorubas and hausas do want ONE NIGERIA

SapeleGuy:
You've hit the nail on the head here this leads me to ask what does it mean to be Nigerian? Does anyone really understand what that means?

SapeleGuy:
Other countries have fashioned a sense of identity. They have strong imagery - for example what is the story behind our eagle, how did it come about?. With our ethnicity no such ambivalence exists - I think?

kliverpool:
i am also going crazy the list is endless

[b]how can we be importing fuel?

why cant our refinery work?

our universities don carry out any research

why is ajokuta and itakpe not working

why cant we have Nigerian cars?

textile companies are dead

how many Nigerians are employed?

housing why do Nigerians pay 1,2,3 years house rent when they get monthly salary?

why is our road this bad?when countries that are serious are thinking of space

what do people in government knows about Global warming?
what are we doing to stop desert encroachment in the north.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH OUR RAIL SYSTEM?
WHY CANT WE HAVE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS BY RAIL?
THINK OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE EMPLOYED IN THIS SECTOR IF IT WERE WORKING.

WHY DO OUR GOVERNMENT ALLOW OIL COMPANIES DESTROY OUR LAND OUR PEOPLE?
OIL SPILLAGE HAPPEND IN ALASKA IN 1989 THEY ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT IT NOW.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

WHY ARE WE NOT FARMING?

HAVE WE EVER SEEN OUR PRESIDENT TALK ABOUT JOB CREATION?

WHERE ARE WE GOING ?[/b]

SapeleGuy:
That is a very incisive question. It depends, can you be loyal to a parent who has not looked after you and doesn't care whether you live or die?

Beaf:
The 1% of the population who understand the "Nigerian game" are far from tribalistic. Indeed, they put their pockets before both nation and ethnicity.

Ethnicity is used as both a power base and a vicious divide and rule weapon against the remaining 99%. We hear about Afenifere, Arewa and Ohaneze; they are all fucking tools of the elite 1%.

Obviously, if we want to progress and overthrow the status quo, we are better off seeing one another as fellow humans.

SapeleGuy:
una don hear of goat wey like christmas day? this is no surprise.

larez:
If the South tries to secede now, there will be mass starvation if the North refuses to send Agriculture produce to the South. And of course you know that all the Southern owned properties in Abuja will be seized, when Abuja becomes Arewa capital city. Shipping lanes will also become closed if he North strategically places a few mines around the lanes leading to Oil facilities. Considering that Angola is a safer location to source oil, you might as well forget the Oil industry of the south helping to raise funds.

What I am saying here is that Nigeria has become a Nation that has all our collective interests intertwined. Our energies need to be focused on resolving issues and differences instead of the senseless noise about secession. It will definitely be a losing proposition for the South with the exception of Lagos which will remain non-aligned. lol.

I just cannot understand how these people spreading secessionist propaganda can even catch a following. They are obviously clueless about logistics an the planning it takes to attempt such a move. Northerners are about the most humble of Nigerians and they are also very focused and come to concessions amongst each other  faster than Southerners can muster. We in the South are always blinded with selfish interests and hardly see further than the tips of our noses with our current crop of leaders. [b]It is to every Nigerian's advantage to intermarry [/b]and make sure that we don't end up hating each other. This only serves the present crop of politicians.

The miseries that the average Nigerian suffers transcends tribal affiliation.

Ibime:
Nice one!

asha 80:
Civil War Genocides
The genocide of Anioma by Gen. Murtala Mohammed and Major Gen. Ibrahim Haruna (Retd), during the Nigerian-Biafran War started on the 21 of September, 1967 on the recapture of Benin City from the Biafrans sweeping Asaba, Ogwashi-Uku, Ibusa, Otutu and Ishiagu, Igbodo, Aboh and Ushisha communities but the massacres carried out in Asaba remains the most severe and unforgettable in which mostly helpless women, youths and children were killed in vapidity by the federal troops.

Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Retd) the then Head of State would later apologise to the Igbo community, while Major-General Ibrahim Haruna, the General officer Commanding (GOC) Two Division of the Army during the Civil War while testifying at the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission Panel aka Oputa Panel held in 2004, insistently maintained that he had no regret for the Asaba massacres in which the Igbo were killed by his troops since it was motivated by sense of duty to protect the unity of the country, he stated this under cross examination by Ohanaeze Ndiigbo group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anioma