₦airaland Forum

chopnaira:
Obi will shut down the highway. He does not want that road to cut off his region, the SE.

The Highway won't cut off the SE, since it will pass through Rivers State, from which a link road will be constructed to link Abia State which is just about 60km from Port-Harcourt. Althernatively, they may use the already existing link roads from Rivers to Abia.

bentenny:
The rice and wheat produced here will still be more expensive compared to other African countries because Nigeria lacks an enabling environment for business to thrive!
If there was an open market today within African countries,would Nigerian businesses be able to compete with countries that have constant power supply,security,unified tax system,low transport cost?

It is not about competing or not competing but SURVIVAL.

Can Nigeria import everything and anything that come to their minds? The answer is a CAPITAL NO.

This is just like a 5-year old child who accompanied his parents to a supermarket for shopping but was pointing to any item in the supermarket that caught his fancy and asking the parents to buy. The parents bought the first four items, then the father started hesitating to buy more items. Out of frustration, the boy asked his father, Daddy ,why can't we buy the remaining ones? And the father replied 'we can't just be buying everything. Then he asked the father , why can't we be buying everything? The father replied...when you grow-up, you will understand.

Paraman:
Buhari tried to discourage importation, it didn't end well. It's one of the reason we are where we are now

Nigerians will reduce importation of many products on their own as the economy become unable to afford it. The real reason why Nigeria recorded Trade Surplus in 2023 was because importation fell below the projected value.

Seun:
Discouraging importation is a bad idea. Value chains are global. Top exporting countries import their raw materials from countries that can sell them at the lowest price. If you discourage imports, your cost of materials will be high, and your export products will be too expensive to sell internationally and will contribute to inflation by being more expensive locally.

Dangote is importing crude oil from the US because it's the most cost-effective source for him right now. This will ensure that the petrol he refines will be cheap enough to sell/export and make a decent profit. If we hypothetically discouraged him from importing crude oil by charging high tariffs, his petrol would be more expensive.

We have to import raw materials from the cheapest sources internationally, process them cost-effectively, and then export our finished products at competitive prices. There is nothing you want to produce that doesn't require importation. Even farming needs imported fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, heavy equipment, spare parts, seeds, etc.

If we want to be an exporting nation, we should have low import tariffs and no export tariffs, like Singapore

You might say that we should have low tariffs for raw materials and high tariffs for finished products. That's not as bad as the current reality of high tariffs for raw materials in an attempt to encourage exportation of raw materials, but it is also a mirage. One man's "raw material" or input is another man's finished product.

Apple laptops and iPhones looks like finished luxury products, but to a programmer developing iOS apps, they're compulsory "raw materials" for production. The more expensive they are, the more difficult it will be for our youths to make clean money by becoming iOS developers.

Import tariffs or restrictions on grains would on the surface seem to help farmers, but they hurt feed mills, poultry farmers, bakeries, breweries, food processors, consumers who have to pay more for their products, and food exportation.

The top 3 exporting nations in the world are China, USA, and Germany. They are also the top 3 importing nations. The thinking of "imports bad, exports good" that leads to import substitution policies is primitive and outdated in the global village. India, which does import substitution, can't compete with China, which imports & exports.

Importation of what?
Is it importation of petrol, Garri, Wheat, Okirika, automobiles, Brazillian Hair, I-phone, took picks, wines, canned tomatoe, rice, Iron and steel or 'importations of workers'?

NairaMaster1:
Which money them use?

Which money do you use to buy your car and pay for your school fees?

gidgiddy:
The guy is right in what he is saying, all the places he mentioned speak Igbo as their indigenous language. Not only that, they all practice Igbo culture, bear Igbo names, have the 4 Igbo market days, and have "Omenala" as their culture

It doesn't get any more Igbo than that

Who declared their language Igbo or their culture Igbo? How do you know that it is not the other way round? How do you know its not the Igbo that speak Ikwerre language and practied Ikweres culture?
Do you have 'Copy right ' over any name or market practices?

Why don't you look at Europeans and learn?

Europeans of different Nationalities bear the same names with slightly different spellings/pronunciations, have so many practices in common and some even speak partially mutually intelligible languages but one doesn't claim the other.

Attempts by Adolf Hitler to invade other European countries where German language is spoken and unified them into one country led to the World War-2, why can't you learn from him.

Danisaint112:
And have the entire community of Ikwere deny their origin? Most do but some don't. And the entire population knows.

I understand your point about self-identification, and it's true that individuals have the right to define their own identity. However, in the case of the Ikweres, their cultural, linguistic, and historical ties align closely with those of the Igbo people.

This is widely recognized by scholars, historians, and even by the Ikweres themselves. Additionally, reputable sources such as Wikipedia and academic research consistently classify the Ikweres as part of the Igbo ethnic group.

While self-identification is important, it's also valuable to acknowledge the broader context and historical connections that contribute to a group's identity.

You are still making the same mistake: The people concerned assert whoever they want to be, NOT outsiders ,United Nations, not Scholars or Wikipedia.

Has Enugu or Aguleri declared their Igboness? Has Gbaramotu declared their Ijawness?

Yourbaslayer:
Look at this mumu from coward tribe is talking about caution as if your people get liver, i will start taking your people seriously when you install Oba of Ilorin

I don't need to engage you in silly childish tantrum but we all know the differences 'gra gra' that sacrificed 2 million souls for absolutely NOTHING and bravery.

hammer567:
SINCE AJ, ALL YORUBA BOYZ TURN BOXERS, NOW DEY WILL ALL RUN AWAY.



RIP

Ignorant kids like thus are too many on Nairaland.

Weren't Yoruba guys into boxing before AJ?

Did all Igbo guys run away from Football after the death of Sam Okwaraji who died at the 77th minute during a World Cup qualifying match between Nigeria and Angola in 1989

Tinubu was a victim of massive propaganda and manipulations especially by the supporters of Peter Obi before, during and after the election.

Interestingly, they all worked for the victory of Tinubu without knowing it.

babasolution:
It's now you know they are one of the 300 ethnics groups,but at other times you people disclaim the rights of small ethnic groups.

Yoruba are a major group,one of the pillars of Nigeria.
Their support for bad leadership is detrimental across board , carries weight and determines the course of Nigeria.

Moreover,the Yoruba personalized TINUBU if I may use that phrase despite his personal agenda,they took him as theirs and castigated anyone that spoke against him.

They did the same for Buhari.
Buhari totally failed.

We sincerely hope TINUBU would not but if he does.

The Yoruba legacy will forever be in the mud.
They will have no claim to responsible leadership and will share equal blame for the failure of NIGERIA with the hausa-fulani,as both groups have ruled Nigeria the longest.

You are talking too much ,without answering the question.

We have heard and accepted Yoruba are bad, evil and guilty of any crime you accused them of. However, you need to list other tribes in Nigeria and the percentage of blames that you apportioned to them e g

Nupe
Efik
Igbo
Kanuri
Ijaw
Fulani
Tiv
Edo
Zuru
Urhobo
Igala
Jukun
Kare-Karen
Chamba
Ibibio

Danisaint112:
Who says they do I am only trying to tell you they whole world know who you guys are wether you decide to deny to eternity.

Is it the 'whole world ' that determined your ethnic group or YOU yourself?

Did the 'Whole world' determine if Kano should be Hausa or not?

gidgiddy:
But you are in a map called Nigeria that was drawn by the British?

Open another thread for Nigeria ,instead of derailing this, if you don't know the differences between ethnic groups/ethnic homelands and Nigeria

igwebuike01:
Igbo ethnic group is based on cultural and linguistic affinity. It doesn't mean anybody will come and take your land. The same criteria used in calling Enugu or Nnewi Igbo was used in calling pH (ikwerre territory) Igbo. It doesn't mean anybody wants to take ikwerre land. Has Nnewi people taken Aba land? Or okigwe people taken Enugu land? These are just ethnic grouping. Igbos have always had a highly decentralized system of government. We are not feudalistic like the north or monarchical like Yoruba and Edo. All the Igbo territories in this maps remain sacrosanct

Then what is the meaning of the Tweets and numerous Maps drawn by IPOB?

Danisaint112:
Meanwhile, IKWERES are Igbos. Wether they choose to accept it or not. Anyone refusing to accept this is only living in self denial.

Which people in Nigeria need Wikipedia to know their ethnic group?

Do Mbaise and Ngwa people need Wikipedia to prove to them that they are Igbo?

Danisaint112:
The damage was done during The Biafran war.

Gowon and his cohorts succeeded brainswashing many of our Southern Igbo Elders back then. He deceived them into believing that the oil is what Ojukwu was after.

Imagine IKWERES that if they speak Igbo I hear clearly are claiming no to be Igbo. Tueh!

If there is any set of people close to the Igbo territory that will claim not to be Igbo and we might maybe agree, it's the people of Ebonyi. Because as a person based on central Igbo you must have gone deep in Igbo language and pay close attention when they speak to understand them most times.

Now imagine Gowon succeeded in barianwashing them (people of Ebony) just like he did to the Ikweres and the Igbo speaking towns of Rivers State, Ebonyi people of today would have never agreed ever relating to igbos at any point at all.

But this people traced their root carefully and discovered it all leads to Igbo ancestry and making them come to the realization that they are full blooded Igbos.


Gowon is the very reason Nigeria is still one in great disunity today.
This is one reason I keep saying that Gowon will not die a good death for the atrocities he committed against the Igbo race.

This is my stand: If Biafra were to ever turn a reality someday, then let only the five Igbo states go. We are not landlocked and can never be. Proper research has been done and many routesfound where large vessels can sail through. One of such examples is the Abia state Axis.

A Biafra based on only 5 Igbo states would thrive and be peaceful. I wouldn't want A Biafra that would become another Nigeria (disunity, Jealousy, tribalism and the likes). I want a whole Nation that unanimously agree to be one.

We can still be good neighbors with our lost brothers.
Our southerners brothers who have been misinformed by their grandparents ignorance will thrive better with their Niger Delta Republic and peace will rain. This is my opinion. Peace.

You probably think all the Ikwere People are Pry-3 pupils that can't deeply think for themselves such that it takes Gowon to tell them who they should be.

oluztx:
The problem with you agbadox is you don't travel. Know this by fire or by force, 3/4 of the people in your so-calked SS are Igbo people or related to Igbos. I'm saying this now so that when another civil war starts, you don't foolishly run into an Igbo man's house for refuge. That day, you will know the sefia pain Awolowo went through after eating that otapiapia.

You need to caution your people, learn from mistakes of Ojukwu and the Biafran leaders.

immortalcrown:
You may be right. I don't care about which tribe owns most of the industries in Lagos. The fact is that Reno goes offpoint here.

Then list the industries in Lagos owned by Igbo

babasolution:
The Yoruba supported the north through and through and castigated other regions that tried blaming the north,so the Yoruba as been a bulwark of support to bad leadership in Nigeria

Okay, but Yoruba is just one tribe out of over 300 tribes in Nigeria and one,out of 300 can't do anything.

So help us list the other tribes that contribute to bad leadership in Nigeria and the percentages of their contributions.

babasolution:
With the way certain sections of the country believe so much in this project despite its suspicious outlook.

What if the project turns out to be a white elephant project, or one that takes decades to finish like the LAGOS badagry after so much as been pumped into it.

What will those people say and do eventually?

Look the way Nigeria is being run is sick,at this rate,this nation will forever be crawling.

The most populous black nations and it's constituent tribes especially the major ones will be looked at as black fools.

There's so much to do with little funds yet there's so much waste.

Tinubu better deliver,he is carrying the legacy of the southwest on his shoulder as concerns Nigeria,he brought in Buhari who failed totally and embarrassingly.

If tinubu fails also not only will Nigeria be severely impaired but the southwest will loose all legitimacy and bragging rights.

There's no escaping this.

The southwest will be held responsible for Nigeria,if tinubu fails as they have held the most significant portion of nigerias leadership from 1979 Obasanjo, 1999 Obasanjo, yemi osibanjo VP,to TINUBU now, it's a path they willingly chose.

What happened to the holding of 'the North responsible for all the problems of Nigeria until May-29, 2023'?

hammer567:
Now they are relocating Landmark to Akwa Ibom State.

That landmark guy will go crazy their with highrise buildings and world class resort.

Do you see how a beggar like yoruba use hand to pour sand inside their garri?


No coastal road will ever be built and Tinubu will be booted out of Aso rOCK ASAP the opportunity arise.


All the State on the sea will build deep seaports and seapots.


They dont need your coastal highway.

Too many kids on this forum

hammer567:
See Akwa Ibom has erected skyscrappers to relocate their oil companies from Lagos to their State.

What are the names of their oil companies?

nairavsdollars:
Do due diligence before starting. FG owns all the lands in Nigeria

FG do NOT own all the Lands, they only own FCT and 250m along the coast line.

Al the Lands in each State belong to the State

mastermaestro:
Those are the real targets. But they must first strategically killed off any tribal prejudice the eventual moves may elicit. Just watch.

Tribal prejudice or not, some people are constituting nuisances Lagos and should be relocated to their States.

Oneday82:
If this is true, then the governor of Lagos State and the government of Lagos State no right as enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria as amended refer or address any citizens as miscreants and other sorts .

As a matter of fact, every citizens of this country has the right to live anywhere in the country without harass or intimidation. This act most be condemned in entirety and further refrained forth with.

Like I said, if this entity called Nigeria is no longer ONE, they should do justice to it and let people go.

HE. Sanwo Olu and other governors should be very careful.

You don't have rights to move to another State and build shanties everywhere or to be sleeping under the bridge,harassing pedestrians or motirists

Lanre1st:
Deportation from Lagos

But on serious note, this is ridiculous. How sure Lagos government know they are from Osun state? Or they are making jest of Osun being a poor state? Is only Osun state people begging on the streets of Lagos

The people concerned stated their States.

This batch is for Osun, next May be Edo, Ondo, Kano or Anambra

Yankee101:
What is wrong is wrong

What is wrong in their State Government providing assisted to their indigenes to be economically engaged in their States instead of constituting nuisance in Lagos?

Do you know that Osun State Gov't wants to use #100Billion to construct Fly overs across the State, in a place with litter traffic? Why not use #2 Billion to modernize Agricultural Practice for these people?

iichidodo:
[color=#1986BC] You have to agree that this here is just a smokescreen to the grand plot of systematic depopulation of Lagos with a view to reducing the voting strength of non-yorubas. I mean, if this pilot scheme can commence with deporting yorubas to Osun then imagine the hell that awaits non-yorubas in Lagos especially the igbos...[/color]

Osun State is not part of Igboland.


Let destitute, miscreants, beggars, area boys and homeless people be relocated to their States.
Lagos can NOT shoulder the responsibilities of the remaining 35 States.

jmoore:
What about touts that Lagos is their state of origin? You will send them to?

LASG will handle them.

Many people constituting nuisance in Lagos have no business being there.
Their State Gov't should cater for them.

Bulldozer90:
Did you notice how Opobo and Aba had one representative and how Egwenga (Igwenga) was a name also used for Opobo.

Representative in this sense mean they hire the same Lawyer, NOT elective representative.

Nigeria first had a semblance of representative democracy in 1947 with the establishment of the Legislative Council (LegCo) to advise the Colonial Governor.

Yes, Lagos State belong to the Southwest and i fully support tha action of LASG.

Let Osun Gov't cater for these people. They would be far better off if their State Gov't help them to engage in economic activities in their State where they would have home-based support rather than being stranded, homeless or becoming destitute in Lagos. Lagos can NOT be neat and organized if all struggling Nigerians relocate to Lagos while their State Gov't spend their allocations without investing enough in their people because people don't scrutinize governance in other States but focus all their attention on the FG and Lagos State.

Osun State take up the challenges and rehabilitate these guys. There are numerous untapped economic potentials in Osun State.

Eeyah, three years has passed since the death of Comrade Yinka Odumakin! May God grant him eternal rest and comfort the family left behind.

We need a date set aside to remember those who fought for this democracy during the dark days of the Military rule:

Dele Giwa
Admiral Elegbede
Commandore Dan Suleman
Authur Nwakwo
Pa Abraham Adesanya
Bagaudo Kaltho
Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti
Comrade Chima Ubani
Comrade Sheu Sanni
Femi Falana
Chief Gani Fawehinmi
Pa Alfred Rewane
Mrs Kudirat Abiola
Lam Adeshina
Hilary Ojukwu
Comrade Frank Kokori
Comrade Uba Sani
Omoyele Sowore

And...many other.