₦airaland Forum

Impecca:
She doesn't know what a Forum or Blog is eventho she has an Android phone. I just taught her how to shortcut to screenshot with it recently

These are problems that have easy solutions. There aren't disabilities.

rdokoye:
IGR is low in the SE because most Igbo people are self-employed and pay next to no tax.

Unlike in less developed states where everyone works in the public sector. That's why the SW, for example, struggled during the lockdowns in 2020, because almost everyone works in the public sector. Whereas in Anambra, Obiano removed all tax payments for the entire year. Because Anambra has a private sector led economy.

IGR is just revenue derived from tax. It doesn't reflect the wellbeing of the people.

You wrote out of ignorance sir.

1) IGR also include taxes collected from self-employed residents of each State.
Taxes are leveled on markets which are collected by the traders associations and added up to be remitted to their States' Gov't.



2) Who told you that almost everyone in the S/west are Gov't workers?
All the people working with Osun State Gov't for instance aren't upto 20,000 compared to a population of over 5 million residents.

Do you know the number of quarries in Osun State alone? Do you know how many tonnes of timbers & planks, Kolanuts and palm oil that leave Osun State every week, to be sold in the North?

Do you know the volume of trade along the international borders in Ogun and Oyo States?

Broveens42:
Nigerians are so predictable. I knew you would make this comment.
It's all propaganda still
and yet, everyone relies on oil to pay salaries.
Who is deceiving who?

Excuse me sir, the topic is not about oil or payment of salaries and if everyone rely on oil to pay salaries ,why is the S/East performing poorly in this Statistics on IGR?

plaindealer:
Unfortunately, when the North retaliates, it won't be the ESN terrorists dying, it's going to be the innocent Igbo people minding their business in the North.

I just don't understand why they can not learn from history.

You reap what you sow.

How come that these killer herdsmen have never reaped the evils they are sowing in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna and all over Southern Nigeria?

AlexBells:
Was I stressing on who built the bridge or that things were going fine and I don't see why things should go terrible, was the central government not the government of Zik and Tafawa, was Zik not an Easterner

You made a grave error, accept it and move on.

The FG built the bridge (it wasn't built by the Eastern Region).

Whiteangel1234:
every One Nigeria Advocate should be worry

Even at the peak of the civil war,people were doing night parties , wedding ceremonies , naming ceremony etc in Lagos, Ilorin, Maiduguri, Minna, Ibadan, Kano and Yola.

Tingotoe:
The data is sadly silent on the contributions the ibos make in the regions they migrate to. Ibos contribute alot to the economy of the country as a whole

The regions provide opportunities for the migrants to make their living.

Broveens42:
People should really be ashamed of themselves. What you call small south east who build their airports and key infrastructures themselves without FG with a whooping 52 billion (that's if it's not higher but for propaganda).
I also laugh when sw was assessed using Lagos with 278 billion, which is the gateway to the country backed by FG.

When you shun a disproportionate analysis. You discover SE comes tops just after SS

Even if you take out Lagos out of the S/West, Oyo State alone had more values than 3 S/East States combined.

So if 1 million people wear Biafra vest, they will arrest the 1 million people

Competence5050:
It's the fault of the market women, always blocking the drainage... Our governor is working... Number one citizen of Nigeria come 2023

2023: Vote Wike for president.



Wike dey work, na we go enjoy am!

pacino26:
For those who would want to comment blindly, Moscow road boasts of very good drain. That's the same area Amechi did his mono rail project too, so it's not a case of poorly done job.

Na flash flood

But you won't be talking like this if this is in Lagos.

LegendHero:
@the bolded, that is the main issue. They exhibit the same gross inferiority complex, bitterness, and the "world against us" like the black Americans due to slavery.

If you study the blacks well too you will see they are also bedeviled with the same problem. That psychological issue will not leave anytime soon except probably when Nigeria separate and they have their own countries.

Until then, we just have to tolerate them.

But majority of the igbos i see in real life are good people and don't exhibit these traits. There are some that are my childhood friends, neighbours, teachers, pastor, business partners and of course, Ex-lovers. I interact with them and i don't see all these traits. Infact, there are igbos in my hometown that have naturalized through inter marriages.

horsepower102:
A lot of Igbos dont let their kids speak Igbo at home. Even in lagos, there are so many Igbo children that cannot speak Igbo. This is one area that I respect the yorubas.

Igbo children in the S/west speak and learn igbo from their parents but they speak Yoruba with their friends/play mates on the street. The same is applicable to Yoruba, urhobo, Efik children living in the S/east.

AllahIsShit:
You are obviously bereft of even a modicum of knowledge on how self determination works.

When the time comes, Buhari or even Nigeria won't play any role. It will determined by either a plebiscite or a referendum which will be overseen by a specially appointed panel of the United Nations just as it was done in Kosovo, Montenegro, East Timor, Eritrea and all other countries who emerged as a result of self determination.

The Igbos who are native to the Niger Delta like the Elele, Isiokpo, Rumuji, Ernohua, Akpor, Aluu Igwuruta and Obio in Rivers State, the Enuani, Ika, and Ukwuani/Ndokwa who are all Anioma Igbos in Delta State and the Igbo Ekureku, Adadama, Itigidi and Igbo Imabana who are Igbos in Cross River state and many other indigenous Igbos in the South South and even the ones in Benue State like the Umuezeokoha, Umuezeoka, Oriuzor, Umuoghara, Amaekka and Amaezekwe all in Ezza communities, Izzi, Ezzamgbo and Effium will also vote and decide if they want to join Biafra.

Nigeria's only role will be to await the result of the vote and accept the outcome whether they like it or not.

Point of correction, the United Nations don't conduct referendum for countries.

ZKOSOSO:
Oga...Na because Tinubu over sabi and hate for GEJ that landed us into this mess we are in.

So allow everyone to DRAG Tinubu in Peace

Again this is wrong sir.

Most Nigerians don't really understand how countries develop and what should be the roles of political parties.

1) Tinubu is just an (unelected) individual, he couldn't have made the country what it is today.

2) Even if we agree that Tinubu is the cause of all the problems in the Country, the most approriate thing to do is to think of solutions to these problems.

3) Virtually all the discussions about a presidential elections, 15 months away is centred on Tinubu instead of discussing the problems of the country like insecurity, inflation and depreciation of the Naira, food security, unemployment ,poverty rates and the plans of each candidates to tackle these problems.


4) Dragging Tinubu alone will NOT solve any problem. On the contrary, it will give him more sympathy because some people will interprete it as undue witchhunt and rally round him.
In the long run, if he doesn't get the presidential post, a huge concession will be made to him.



#It will be very long for Nigeria to develop if we continue in these ways

Leverage2021:


Dem dey snap picture forgetting who hold knife na him get yam

Where was tinubu when they removed Adams

Where was tinubu when they appointed Bumi

The carpet has long been taken off his feet

Why this fixation about a particular citizen called Tinubu?


It will be very long for Nigeria to develop with this type of mindset.

There is no meeting by the political parties to brainstorm on the problems facing the country and how to solve them but every action and inactions are taking with respects to Mr Tinubu, what he will do or how he will do it.

sageb:
Are you not supporting Tinubu for president again?
Well, Wike is building flyover over here in port Harcourt. Maybe he wants to take it further to the National polity.
Mr. Project aka Flyover Governor

That's the beauty of Democracy.



I am not actually supporting Tinubu per se but i am strongly against the attempts to limit his rights to aspire to be the president of his country.


When we limit the right of a particular citizen to run for an election because we don't like him, we are indirectly reducing the democratic space.

KingGBsky:
Which Apga are you taking about? The one that’s only relevant in the east. The man has a presidential ambition so how does apga help him in his presidential bid?

I understand you but i think, Victor Oye is more correct.


If Obi had stayed in APGA and worked with other leaders, APGA will be controlling at least 3 States by now and he can leverage on that to form alliance/merger with other parties to realize a presidential dream.

Wike dey work, na we go enjoy am!


2023: Vote Wike for President.

baby124:
You are talking of Benin Republic or Dahomey. These ones here are talking of Benin City or Oba of Benin them. Completely different people.

In 1930, there was nothing like Republic Benin.



The country, Dahomey only adopted the name 'Republic of Benin' in 1972 as a neutral name to all parts of the country and reminiscent of the once great past of Africans.


Oyo Empire was a great African country which control large swathes of territories through military conquest and diplomacy but had become very weakened due to internal crisis by the early 1800s.
The legacy of this Empire is one of the reasons why the Yoruba language is spoken over vast areas in West Africa from Nigeria to Togo.

Benin Empire was also a great African country. It was situated close to the coast and was more preoccupied with economic success (monopoly of trade with Europeans) than territorial expansion and thus lasted longer until her interests clashed with the interests of the British Empire, leading to its invasion and annexation in 1897.

zyphr:
That my parents don't look alike doesn't mean it is superstition. It's not. The images posted above by the OP and several others on the Internet are few proofs. Most times when a research is conducted in science, it doesn't mean that it is applicable to everybody. For example research say that smoking causes lung cancer but there are a lot of chronic smokers who lived till over 90years and died of other causes than cancer.

You are clearly more intelligent and matured than most people on this thread.

Odingo1:
Robbstark is an Afonja guy claiming Opobo man, all Opobo people agree that they are Igbos.
Ibani and Opobo are typical Igbo villages. Their Igbo names and language gives them out as Igbos.

Anyone who doesn't support your views on Nairaland is automatically an Afonja!

Igboid:
There are no Ijaws in Rivers, let alone Akwaibom.
Don't be foolish.
I don't know about Ondo and Edo, I will let those concerned to handle you.

Ama-Onye-nabo is not an Ijaw title or name.

But the Ijaws never used any title like Ama-Onye-Nabo.

You need to know that compound words in one language can be manipulated to mean something else in a different language by breaking it into two or more morphenes.

[quote author=OmoEpe post=107461543][/quote]Your ignorance, laced with tribalism is once again exhibited to the whole world.


The Federal Government does NOT give allocations to the States.


Federal, States and LGAs get their allocations from the FEDERATION account according to an agreed sharing formula.

RodgersAkpafu:
Once again
I say use your brain
So IPOB members migrated en masse to Lagos
Spread across Lagos
And destroyed everything
While the agberos and area boys that litter Lagos were just there looking ?
Mr. Man
Na thugs scatter Lagos
In the midst of chaos people always seek opportunity to loot

That said
I am not an IPOB member
I never support them

And bigotry is also on both sides
Not just "your side"
I cannot support bigotry
Regardless of who is doing it

But be sincere for once, Nnamdi Kanu broadcasted all those things on Radio Biafra.
People that believe in his struggles are living in Lagos and definitely amoung the mob carrying out the attacks on Lagos.

FORWARDEVERLY:
Ken Saro wiwa that was a stooge that was used to fight the Igbos..
He became powerful and Abacha killed him before he becomes a pain in the ass ..
No rip for him..
Next pls

Ken Saro-Wiwa fought for and defended the interests of his people just as Ojukwu did.


In wars, different great men may be on different sides of the divide. It is wrong to assume that everybody must be on your side.

Nonli1:
He was a traitor and he died like one. The people he connived with to fight his Igbo brothers killed him. I don't pity him, he deserved what he got

Ken Saro-Wiwa was NEVER a traitor to his people and country.



The matter had nothing to do with Igbos.

godofuck231:
macro economics differ from cattle raring, this guy no fit keep rats , them go die for sapa hand

Isn't that what we are saying sir?




Soludo is needed in Anambra to use his Macro-Economics to develop his State. There is no need for him getting involved with States where they engages in cattle rearing.

Very wrong o

MALIGNANTGuest:
It's obvious.
She was never prepared for marriage.
I will advise most YOUNG LADIES to look forward to a Singlehood. IF you think you need BABIES, pay a man to get you pregnant or better still visit the nearest IVF clinic.

MARRIAGE shouldn't be born out of compulsion.
And Again, if you Hate MEN, PLEASE avoid marriage. Just avoid it. It's not for you.

IF you are a Troublemaker, avoid marriage.
IF you are an embodiment of Insults, please avoid Men entirely. Singlehood is not a death sentence.

It is obvious that she wasn't mentally and psychologically ready for marriage.


You can NOT eat your cake and have it.


Nowadays, it is fairly common to see married women between 21-27 years chatting with guys on whatsapp till 12 midnight, wearing skimpy dresses and doing silly things like 'doggy pose' on social media.

During my NYSC camp days , i saw a married lady dancing on stage with guys. I pointed it out to her best friend that this was wrong. The friend replied 'marriage shouldn't be a boundage'