₦airaland Forum

Considering the fact that there are more than 250 ethnic nationalities with their Kings and tradititional beliefs and their people, and also the big problem of language and cultural barriers across ethnic lines in the country, you'd agree with me that it's going to be an onerous task trying to convince one ethnic group to align with others in a country such as Nigeria.

Nowadays, though, I see a lot of marriages getting conducted across ethnic lines. I just hope that this will continue to be on the rise. Hopefully, it will unite the people someday. And with English as the official language of the country - with more people speaking it, one can only hope that more people will come out and speak their minds on how they want to be governed.

There's this mistrust across ethnic lines. For example, the Niger Delta people and their rulers generally believe that the three major ethnic and domineering groups in the country - Yorub, Hausa and Igbo, are all out to milk their lands (Niger Delta) dry. It's evident, though. Now, between the three major ethinc groups, there's this craze for political power at the top - Abuja, amongst them. And like I said earlier, the reasons for this is not far fetched - to have unfettered access to the national cake.

Finally, there are just too few people across ethnic and traditional lines to pose any threat at the centre, populated by the rich, greedy and powerful few.

The[b] only [/b] reason I'll blame the Brits for our current woes is in their Amalgamation of the Northern & Southern Protectorates. This was the genesis of the problem.

Formal or informal constitutional monarchies are not that bad. I know the Oba of Benin commands much more respect from his people than the governor of Edo state and as such would have far more legitimacy. A system that is an adaptation of the pre-colonialism systems of governance would be more fitting. Does this also apply to other regions in Nigeria?

Most of our monarchies and traditional institutions are either[b] toothless bulldogs or are aiding and abetting crime at the top echelon.[/b] So that either way, our people do not really have a say in their own governance. We just adopt this 'siddon look' attitude to anything that happens. The best most folks do here is to pray to God for help.

Corruption has eaten into the very fabric of our nations existence. It will take eons to heal. All hope is not lost though.

@nferyn, theirs will be worst

Good question.

Answer: They will abuse it.

Emoticons: Somebody should tell these emoticons posters that they are boring the daylight out of me!! Gosh!

I don't think we need women now, maybe later, but definitely not now. They can be used by men to achieve some good feats, like Akunyili, not Okonjo-Iweala o, I don't trust that woman. But they should not rule us now. Later, please.

Na Ijebu jazz wey him dey use. The most potent of all 'jazzes' in the whole wide world!!

Latoya,
I thot there's got to be a link between age and level of maturity. You don't expect a kiddie at 6 to have a high level of maturity, right?. Ye children of nowadays sef, na so the other day I heard one 14 yr old girl got pregnant for a 39 yr old man!

When the chips are down now, and your level of maturity is put to test, it's your parents that will bear all the wahala! A word, they say, is enough for the wise. Wonders will never end.

Oya, make them go arrest the man now. Me, I dey kampe. And I dey wait.

A spell indeed , in the person of:

Chief Ernest Shonekan

Did you guys read this?

''Malu disclosed that the N17 billion that the former Inspector-General of Police stole was actually given to the then police boss to rig the 2003 general elections.

He asid, "this was the money that Tafa Balogun got to rig the elections for Gen. Obasanjo. He [Balogun] did the job but in the process he was very selfish, he did notshare this money with his commanders. They were the ones who reported this case, not to Obasanjo but to the EFCC. By the time the facts came out it was too late for Obasanjo to stop the investigation."

This man seems to be opening[b] cans of worm[/b]!!

Hey! Rolly, not the way you see it o. You've got to wait patiently until you get to that age 18 or so before you start thinking of romance.

Ample: Plenty, extensive, abundant. So, ample time means plenty time etc etc. Believe me, you'd get more growing up now than doing things meant for adults. Just wait for your time. Invite me to your 18th birthday. I will gladly come over and welcome you to the club of adults.

But, for the now, stay clear of these sections that keeps your hormones running pretty wild at night and you'd forget you have maths lessons tomorrow.

Now hear your self:

its not only education and sports and religion that makes a woman responsible. A woman who doesnt know her way around romance/romantic issues might/will definately have problems later like when dealing with her husband or kids(teenagers) and stuff. this is not to say that "romance-know-how" is a must but it is as important as education and religion and sports wetin we wan learn from sports sef?

Methink at 16, you're not a woman. You're a girl.

Another two cents for those who care to take it.

I heard there's this 'Labour Party ' carved out of the trade unions in Nigeria. I hope they'll be able to muster enough courage and strenght to counter the overbearing nature of rottened and expired minds leading the country.

But, our experience here in the past two major elections have shown that what happens at the Polls anytime an election is conducted goes way beyond the minds of the average Nigerian. What with thugism, political jingoism, police assaults, ghana must go bags sharing, ethno-centered manifestos, chicanery from basket-mouths, godfatherism etc etc? We all know that what the electorates wants at the end of the day do not really count. So, evil beings like Chris Uba and Baba Adedibu are foisted on innocent people at the end of the day.

Owo, in his entry said a good number of the educated elites travel out of the country for survival. The rest, really, amount to nothing compared to the great number of people who needs to be educated on how to fight for their rights.

Well, when I travel around here, and I think you must have been around Nigeria a while too in the past, the people I see are not those who wire money thru money transfers and the likes to their relations. Feel free to class yourself as Middle Class.

And I wonder how much you'd have to send to make up to what you'd call considerable - is it in the millions or billions of dollars range? What fraction of Nigerians abroad constitute the total number of Nigerians in the world?. So, you see, you need to take a look at the total picture.

The bulk of Nigerians do not even know what the web - internet is all about! We are hoping that with time, the information age will catch up with us here, or is it we that needs to catch up with the information age?

There's nothing like middle class again in this country. That was in the past. It's either you're rich, so rich that you can afford to do anything you like, or you're so poor, you can't get fed thrice in a day! It's that bad man.

Also, the unfortunate thing here is that the majority of Nigerians are illiterates. UN stats revealed that about 20-30% of Nigerians are educated to an acceptable degree. The rest, which constitute the majority, are somewhat blind. Some of them even wants to be blind, y'know. 

So, it will take sometime before we get out of this quagmire. And by that time, the National Cake would have been reduced to crumbs.

@nferyn, I think it doesn't. The political folks here are just concerned about how to fill their purse with the much they can get from the central government. This is so that they can get enough funds to take care of their siblings up to the fourth generations, when their own remains would have mixed with the ground and probably turn to manure.

There's what is generally referred to as the National Cake. Everyone, leftist, rightist, democrats, republicans and even voodoo politicians only jostle to get to the exalted position of the President of the Federal Republic, where you have unfettered access to the National Cake. That Cake is what matters to everyone here.

Politiking in Nigeria is just like hunting in unknown territory. Anything goes. It's either you get killed or you kill to get to the top.

The point I'm trying to make here is that:

1. Immigration Sacks 200 Over Passport Fraud - GOOD
2. EFCC Detains 18 Plateau Commissioners - EVIL

Do you get it now?

So,

EVIL * GOOD = EVIL

And if you take a cursory look at this OBJ administration, you'd notice that we have more EVILS than GOOD. Ask anyone here and they will tell you it's true.

Much as I dislike OBJ and his style of leadership, this Malu's talk is just way too much for me to comprehend. I think he should be arrested and charged for treason, before he throws the country into another round of military misrule.

But, why will such statements not come from Malu? I will not blame the man too much. He's perplexed at the way OBJ is ruling the country. Look at the way OBJ is handling everything that affects the country. From economic to education, infrastructural development to agriculture, all you see is rot, decay and stench. Instead of job opportunities, you see unemployment at it's peak in the history of this country. Our hospitals are actually morgues. The aviation sector is comatose. Road and rail networks - just forget about that one. Electricity, well, need I say more about the decay in the power sector?


So, if one Malu feels he had the opportunity of terminating OBJ and his bunch of goons and numskulls and he did not do so, and he's regretting, then let the man be.

Really, I believe a girl at 16 should be much more occupied with how to solve complex algebra, calculus and others, y'know school work, kind of. You'd end up a responsible girl that way than just wasting ample time here.

And why waste precious time on romance section when you know that no one will ever call on you to date you? Just go to Education, Religion, Sports and other much more enlightening sections on this forum to grow up and be a responsible woman.

Just my 2 cents, that's all.

For me, no picking nobody. I'm already hooked up to someone from Akwaibom State.

Gosh!!! nferyn, How did you get this 'map'. Indeed, this is the way the Americans view the world.

Well, I was away all through the weekend. Just chilling out in Portharcourt. I just 'fashied' everything web. So, when I logged on this morning, I noticed that some of my posts last Friday had suddenly vanished! Then, I took a closer look and noticed also that most of my pals did not post anything all through the weekend. I knew something must have gone wrong somehow.

So, when I read Seun's post on NL coming back with a bang, that mail went further to confim my fears, and boy! was I glad NL was back.

Kola, I'm working very hard to mix and post entries on other important issues other than Politics. Hopefully, you'd see more of my posts on such issues/areas as Family, Romance and what have u - This NL is a world of it's own.

If all I've read about the Americans view of Africa is real (from you folks) - with all the high level of technology, science and creativity we've been made to understand about them, then I shudder at their so called foreign policies about Africa, and indeed the rest of the world.

For me, I think it's a 'mutatis mutandis' scenario for any country. They are so full of themselves that they set forth to change every other country to what they think that country or place should be. They should know that pride goes before a fall o.

I wonder what Africans view about America is, y'know.

Party? Let's have one in Warri and I'll be right there, pronto!!

dirty hookers - pls, don't bring them o. AIDS/HIV is real.

Hmn, NL's a good place to unwind after a hard day's work. But, I must confess somehow, I'm getting addicted to this site. God help me, before I get ranked way below my peers in the office.

Kola, sorry o! That quote is supposed to be my opinion, or view about the average Nigerian. I wasn't refering to you o, Abeg.

@ Gentleaura, thanks man. Just checked the site. The webmaster (Ashiru) was my pal at school, and trust him, he's fixed in my name already. Beautiful site to behold.

Some advice gets the mind running crazy! I hope Zulu and Kokscity have seen and heard something called self control. If they haven't, they should go get a large dose of it.

Boro,
Erm, er, No threats for now, please. I know how it feels too. Yes, it's sad that we're being subjected to this kind of treatment, but these things will be addressed very soon. In fact, they are being addressed as I write. The evildoers will not go unpunished. They will vomit all they've stolen over the years.

Just leave them. No threats please.

Boro,
Erm, er, No threats for now, please. I know how it feels too. Yes, it's sad that we're being subjected to this kind of treatment, but these things will be addressed very soon. In fact, they are being addressed as I write. The evildoers will not go unpunished. They will vomit all they've stolen over the years.

Just leave them. No threats please.

How about this one:

EFCC Detains 18 Plateau Commissioners
http://www.independentng.com/news/nnjan260603.htm

Once again, we see mixture of evil and good = EVIL. Chikena!