 Culture › Re: How ‘village’ Has Harmed The Igbo People by plaetton: 1:33pm On Jan 09, 2024 |
sonature1:
During the Yuletide, the hashtag ‘Igbo village mansions’ trended on social media. The hashtag, which started on Tiktok, was a reaction to a denigrating remark someone made about the Igbo people living in huts in rural communities.
Those travelling to Igboland for Christmas and New Year began to post photos and videos of their houses and other buildings in their communities, while urging people from other parts of the country to also show their own indigenous communities. It quickly spread to X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.
To some, it was a show-off; to others, it was some sort of enlightenment for many who had never travelled to Igboland and never knew that such edifices could be built even in the remotest places.
But there was a reason for that confusion. In Nigeria, the only people who call their ancestral communities ‘village’ are the Igbo people. By calling their hometowns and cities ‘villages’ over the years, Igbo people created a picture of a people who live in thatched huts built with mud. Conversely, other parts of Nigeria use terms like ‘town’ and ‘city’ to describe their own ancestral communities.
For example, growing up I had relatives who lived in places like Zonkwa, Funtua, Mubi, Owo, Ikare, Auchi, Gboko, etc. While talking about their place of residence, they would use words like “town” or “city”, but when talking about home, they would use “village.” Friends from other Igbo towns and cities had the same experience. Imagine the absurdity of hearing indigenes of cities like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, or Enugu, who live outside Igboland, saying: “I am travelling to my village.”
Unconsciously, the Igbo people internalised ‘village’ to mean “ancestral home” as opposed to “place of residence.” Village is interpreted to be where family members live, where childhood friends can be met, where childhood memories exist, and where the traditions of the people hold sway.
But because of the disconnect between this meaning of ‘village’ and the dictionary meaning, many non-Igbo mistake that expression for something else.
How does the dictionary define ‘village’? Dictionary.com defines a village as “a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.”
Using a hut for illustration, National Geographic explains ‘village’ to children between Grade 5 and Grade 8 or Primary 5 and JS2 this way: “A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a ‘hamlet’ but smaller than a ‘town.’ Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.”
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says that “a village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church or school, in a country area.” Note that “country area” means rural area. Similarly, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as “a very small town in the countryside.”
Two features run through all the definitions. The first is that a village is “small.” The second is that it is in a rural area. Being rural connotes lacking in modernity and facilities as a result of being far from the city where urbanity exists.
The large number of Igbo people outside Igboland also helped to accentuate the belief that they are running away from their rural communities which lack modern infrastructure to places where life is better. In every state of Nigeria, after the indigenous or ethnic population, the Igbo people are usually the second largest population. Outside Nigeria, the Igbo people also have large populations in many countries of the world. This has led to the creation of a saying that is used as a joke in Nigeria: “If you get to any part of the world and don’t find Igbo people there, please run away from that place.”
Some non-Igbo who had travelled to Igboland had asked me two interesting questions: Why do you people call your towns and cities ‘village’? Why do your people love to leave your beautiful and big towns and cities to relocate to other places, including places not as developed as yours? Such people say that even in remote communities in their home state, there are Igbo people.
But I always smile and say that such is the nature of the Igbo. They simply love to fan out: that even within Igboland, many Nnewi people leave Nnewi to settle in Owerri, while many Owerri people leave it to settle in Nnewi. Some people even relocate to smaller or less developed communities. Some even relocate to worn-torn countries. There is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or sThere is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or small.mall.
Without these factors, especially the use of ‘village’ by Igbo people to describe their hometowns and ancestral homes, there would have been no need to start a campaign of showcasing their homes to other Nigerians. But despite that display, it will still take a long time to erase that image of ‘village’ from the minds of most Nigerians. The first reason is that not everybody is on social media. The second is that not everybody who is on social media saw those displays. The third reason is that mental pictures and narratives are not easily wiped off or replaced.
Because of this wrong nomenclature, many years ago I made a decision never to say “my village,” given the massive developments that have taken place in Nnewi in the past 40 years. I began to use the terms “my hometown” or “my home city.” Initially, it was not easy to say. But eventually, it stuck. Today, I don’t have any problem using the term “hometown” or “home city.”
Some people have argued that the use of ‘village’ gives the nostalgic feeling of leaving the noise and aloof lifestyle of the city for the idyllic and convivial ambience of ‘home.’ They argue that using the term ‘hometown’ does not create that mental distinction. However, there is a price for every action. If you call your hometown ‘village’ while other ethnic groups call theirs hometown or city, naturally yours will be viewed as rural, backward, and poor. You will have the taxing duty of occasionally proving that it is not so. And like Nigerians say in pidgin English: You go explain tire; no evidence! (You will explain and explain, but all will be in vain.)
– X: @BrandAzuka
Azuka Onwuka
Source: https://punchng.com/how-village-has-harmed-the-igbo-people/ Rubbish. There is nothing denigrating about the word ' village ' to describe one's ancestral home. We are very very proud of the fact that our ancestral villages are the places we call our true homes . |
| Christianity Etc › Re: How My Father, TB Joshua Abused Me – Ajoke, Daughter Had Outside Wedlock by plaetton: 2:20am On Jan 09, 2024 |
Omihanifa:
Everyone knew TB joshua was using marine powers, and one thing about marine kingdom is that if you are dedicated in worshipping them and you follow their instructions one will be very rich and powerful. But ke me say one thing there's no power as great as that of Jesus christ. Nonsense. He , like many of his ilk, are just fraudsters and psychopaths who live large on the inexhaustible abundance of ignorance ,superstitions and the hopelessness of a failed state. All religious parasites are, by default, evil psychopaths. Control and manipulation is what attracts them the clergy, or should I say, the business. Religion, all religion is a fraud, founded on fraud, perpetuated by fraud and sustained by fraud. |
| Politics › Re: Tinubu's Financial Wizardry - Naira Is Now The World's Fastest Rising Currency! by plaetton: 2:37pm On Jan 06, 2024 |
Fibonacci88:
Stop deceiving gullible minions. I am very happy with the strengthening of the naira if only it will bring down the prices of goods. Why are u comparing black market rate to IE window rate. U quoted the highest black market rate ever of N1300 with the current IE window rate just to score cheap political point. The current black market rate is 985 on binance as I type. Propaganda won't help. Funny. The so-called IE window rate is the big fraud perpetuated daily to deceive the ignorant. The posted intra-day lows of $1240 reflect the real trading rate of the Naira on a daily basis. Let me demonstrate how their manipute the rate to deceive the gullible. On any given daily session organized by the CBN, the real demand and supply prices is usually in N1200 + range. But shortly the close of the session, the CBN and its agents put in a low bid of around N800(maybe in a tranche of $500 - $1000) to close the session. That bid is immediately filled the CBN and or its agents. That last very small trade of $500 at N800 therefore becomes the last trade for that session, and that price of N800 becomes the closing and quoted price for that day. Then their agents in the media immediately announce to the what they assume to be the blind people of the world that the almighty naira has strengthened against the dollar. They play this ping pong game everyday. If the CBN were to open their daily trading books to the public ( which they are supposed to do), we see that 98% of daily dollar sales at IE auctions are sold at very lowest ranges of the Naira and the less than 1% of the trades are done highest ranges of the naira, which, coincidentally, are always the very last trades and closing price for each session. This is fraud in broad daylight . My question is : Whom exactly are they deceiving, and why ? For how long can they keep up this daily racket ? Any real economist , including the many at CBN, know and accept that the Naira free fall is inevitable. However, I'm inclined to look at it from another angle, that maybe this shaninigan the CBN does everyday is just a way to handhold and guide the Naira gradually down to its true equilibrium without the public outcry and political pitfall. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: RCCG 2024 Prophecies By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. by plaetton: 1:54pm On Jan 01, 2024 |
Omooba77:
Nigeria –
1. The wind is blowing (ask God to allow the wind to blow you good).
2. Things will get worse before it gets better in 2024.
3. Because the wind is blowing, some serious secrets would come into the open.
Individuals –
4. There are some people who would start the year as nothing (nobody) but become significant before the end of the year.
5. There will be many opportunities this year, so get ready to grab them.
International –
There will be divine intervention in those places that are hot.
There would be quite medical breakthroughs in areas like cancer, asthma, hypertension, and sugar diabetes. This serial fraudster doesn't even have a tiny bit of imagination and creativity. Just imagine the nonsense he sells to his very low IQ followers. |
| Politics › Re: "It Was Wrong For Sim Fubara To Shade Wike Publicly" ~reno Omokiri Tackle Fubara by plaetton: 4:10pm On Dec 17, 2023 |
princeemma69:
Reno is stup!d, so he has forgotten how Wike was shading and insulting people public before and during the electioneering period. Reno is really really stuupid. He appears soo desperate these days to appease power. The real shock would have been if the coward and cheap political pr.o.stitute had spoken against Wike the psychopath. Again, not so surprised that a Narcissist like Reno would support another. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: The Real Israelites Are BLACK AFRICANS by plaetton: 2:54am On Nov 24, 2023 |
Rossikk:
You are very thoughtless and ignorant.
We are here showing you that what you know as AFRICA is far more than you think it is.
The entire so-called middle East and Israel are historically AFRICAN SOIL.
Every bit as much as Nigeria is AFRICAN SOIL.
Your ancestors lived there for thousands of years in Egypt and the rest of the 'middle east' before they were driven into inner Africa by foreign invaders.
Today you see those lands as ''foreign'' because they've been taken over by invaders.
And because your brain refuses to work, you thInk we are ''claiming other peoples' land'', when in fact all we are doing is educating your dumbass that those are YOUR LANDS HISTORICALLY, AND WERE OCCUPIED BY YOUR PEOPLE, and we are showing you EVIDENCE of that, which is irrefutable.
Learn to look outside the little box they've placed you in today.
You don't know everything there is to know about this world, so be receptive to new knowledge and quit being a conditioned, programmed robot.
In 70 AD the Romans invaded Israel causing millions of Israelites to escape into inner Africa. In his book, ''The Great Roman-Jewish War p66–70'', the Roman historian, Flavius Josephus, stated over thousands of years ago, that the Israelites migrated into inner Africa. He writes:
“General Vaspasian and his son Caesar Titus fought against the Jews. Millions of Jews fled into Africa, among other places, fleeing from Roman persecution and starvation during the siege.”
The history is recorded and available for those who want to know. So much hogwash nonsense. This level of self-deprecation is nauseating. So your ancestors came into being when Vasspesian and his Son Titus expelled Jews from the middle east down to the African Tropical Rain Forrest less than 2000yrs ago ? Oh gosh , what kind of mo.ron am I dealing with here ? |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: The Real Israelites Are BLACK AFRICANS by plaetton: 2:11am On Nov 24, 2023 |
Kenneth4u205:
The OP has gone mental. So you don't know what is called figures of speech anymore?. The bible always use figure of speech to describe situation.
God told Abraham that I will give you Palestine (land of Canaan). A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.
According to op mental illness,he will interpret the above statement to mean there is river of milk and honey flowing on the streets of cannan. Why can't Africans be just Africans? Why do we need to be Israelites. Even going by the nebulous biblical chronology, the word Israel and the people supposedly associated with it goes back just 3500yrs ago, whereas Negroid African race, native to Africa, the birthplace and cradle of humanity, are 500,000 yrs to 1.5 million yrs old. This according to modern empirical research. Why are Africans so mentally fxxed up that they need to attach the provenance of another race to their ancestral history? I have zero respect for any African who suffer the stuupid delusion that they are Israelites or Jews, or whatever else nonsense. Pitiful. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Ruling That Igbos Are Hebrews (continued) by plaetton: 4:18pm On Nov 23, 2023 |
Gajagojo:
Iboes are Jews And cousins of Arabs. I wonder which part is African. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Ruling That Igbos Are Hebrews (continued) by plaetton: 2:47pm On Nov 15, 2023 |
OfoIgbo:
This one is still dragging an old 2017 Sun News article, with a Jewish Rabbinical Court ruling of 2022.
Education: 0 So hilarious. So if a Rabbanical court rules that you are genetically stu..pid, then it becomes so ? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Ruling That Igbos Are Hebrews (continued) by plaetton: 2:34pm On Nov 15, 2023 |
OfoIgbo:
You claim to be Igbo, but you sound pretty unintelligent.
You have forgotten that a negro and a non-negro can mate and have offspring.
In Igbo is incapsulated the fullness of the black race and the fullness of the Hebrew race. How come this concept is so difficult for you to comprehend.
We are both niggaz and jew men  OK, maybe Hebrew men Honestly, I feel ashamed to be replying this nonsense from a semiliterate who skipped basic secondary school science and history, and even after then, has never bothered to upgrade his knowledge. This is the 21st century for goodness sake. Every piece of human knowledge is at everyone's fingertips. The era of perpetuating ignorant, self-deprecating myths has long gone. For blokes you who insist on perpetuating this low- self worth nonsense, need I remind you that if you are a jew by whatever nonsense you conjur in your vacuous mind, then by the same token , you are also an Arab. You see, Jews and Arabs are the same Semitic race. Their DNAs are similar, up to a certain point in chronological history. With modern DNA technology, we can see in what era, few thousand years ago, that they diverged. Besides, Jews and Arabs still share similarities in language and culture. Therefore, Mr Igbo Jew, can you Aldo accept that you are also Arab or related to the Arab race ? There is nothing in Igbo DNA that suggests that mixed with another distinct race several hundred years ago, talkless of several thousand years ago. African Negroid race are the first and Original template for the entire human race. All other races mutated from the African Negroids after the migration out of Africa about 500,000 yrs ago. The lot of you should be thoroughly ashamed for call yourselves descendants of Jews, a semitic race that is barely 3500 years old, while your own West African Negroid race is 500,000 years old. Please, proud of you Igboness and your Africaness. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Jewish Rabbinical Court Ruling That Igbos Are Hebrews (continued) by plaetton: 1:54pm On Nov 15, 2023 |
OfoIgbo:
Please this thread if for my fellow Igbos.
I copied and pasted the snippet below from one of the justification points of the Jewish Rabbinical Court that ruled that Igbos are Israelites.
I also googled and found out that people having the same or related y-chromosomes means that they are descended from the same male ancestor. In the Igbo case, this male ancestor must be Jacob (whose name was also Israel).
Anyone that understands DNA may want to shed more light on this matter.
The ruling also insinuates that Umu Nri are descendants of Levi, thus their traditional role of providing levitical services to the Igbo race and beyond.
Genetic studies of the y-chromosome of Igbo men demonstrate that they originated in the Levant basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike. While there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin into East Africa, and then settled in West Africa.
Moreover, Igbos are organized according to clans. The elders transmit genealogies orally, back to our patriarch Jacob. Indeed, many Igbos descend from Kohanim and Levites. These facts attest to the ancient Israelite origin of the Igbos.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a98cbc3b40b9da93f7c5126/t/61f35b8ad59d991291cab3fa/1643338634761/Teshubah-on-Igbo-Israelites.pdf Science illiterate. Igbos are of the original negro race from west Africa. A Negro cannot scientifically be a descendant of a non- negro ancestor. That is basic biology. As an Igbo, I feeling really really ashamed when I here these uniformed, self- deprecating nonsense about Igbos being descendants of Jews. There is nothing more ignorant and more pathetic. |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka Calls Buhari ‘idiot’ For Banning Social Media In Nigeria In 2021 by plaetton: 2:51pm On Nov 14, 2023 |
Niceday1:
Cowardly old man, now you have mouth to talk You spoke my mind. |
| Romance › Re: Why I May Not Marry A Nigerian Man (opinion) by plaetton: 11:48am On Nov 11, 2023 |
Persephone1:
[i]"Marry a typical Nigerian Man at your own peril"
When I type these words, it's not from a place of hate towards men ( I don't hate anybody) It is from careful analysis of marriages to Nigerian Men which mostly lack genuine love, empathy and kindness. Nigerian Marriages are mostly driven by "needs" and "means" to an end. Too systematic and unnatural and the one with the highest bargaining chip gets the most benefit.
Our mothers didn't teach us enough about Men. They didn't know either until they got married, unfortunately they are still learning about Men too. That is why the popular saying "Ile oko ile eko ni" (Your husband house is a school) is usually the soothing balm to unfavourable experiences a wife has with her husband. One question I always ask myself when I hear these words as parting words of advice for young wife is. Does that mean she is getting married into a strange,unknown and possibly unfavourable world? Why represent her husband as an unending course? And will she ever graduate and be relieved of painful lessons?. Ask these women these questions and they will shake their heads in mockery but the truth is, They weren't taught enough about the Men they are getting married to. How would they when they didn't know who they are either. To understand another person there must be a certain level of self awareness you have reached yourself. This way you have enough level of intelligence to be a perfect judge of character. But when a woman believe all she needs to be is a good cook and good konji reliever then all she will seek is a man who has Kitchen and bed.
Men are the worst in this joke of an institution. Configured to believe all they need to posses is Financial ability to provide. The upbringing of the typical Nigerian Man is very very wrong. Trained with little to no empathy,kindness, self care, sense of belonging, self love but burdened with sense of responsibility brought up like a robot to "provide" only. Most Nigerian men are robotic minded, unable to connect emotionally without aide yet this men are expected to naturally see their brides as a part of themselves. Wishful thinking if you ask me. And when some men luckily achieve this, the society (Men and Women) mock him. Aside this, they don't readily know what they want and are easily tossed by the society.
We create a society devoid of emotional engagement but want the benefits emotions birth. Compassion and affections brings liberty, a man who lacks these will see his wife as his slave and property, he gets to do with her what he seem best and not what is good for her. We really have a long way to go as a Society.
Nigerian Men make terrible horsebands Everything you wrote up there is true. However, 100% of it can also be said of Nigerian women. And to prove that Nigerian women are worse than Nigerian men , we see that outside Nigeria, Nigerian men are highly sought after by foreign women because they say Nigerian men are emotionally engaging and resourceful( the exact opposite of what you allege), whereas, outside Nigerian, Nigerian women are hardly desired or sought after by non- Nigerian men. From my experience and what I have seen, I think Nigerian women are more transactional when it comes to relationships and marriage than the Nigerian men. Nigerian women come into relationships and marriage as a means to one end or another, without sowing the vital and necessary emotionally seeds, and then they complain and become resentful when the emotional fruits do not materialize. Nature endowed women with all the tools to emotionally capture a man. If a woman does not first CAPTURE a man emotionally in a relationship, then that relationship is like a house built on sand. " Seek Ye First the kingdom of God, and all other benefits will be added unto ye ". This is my favorite quote to my prospective lovers. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Fr Paul Obayi "Okunerere" Announces He Is Leaving The Catholic Church by plaetton: 1:49pm On Oct 15, 2023 |
DeepSight:
They should just migrate to Mountain of Fire and Miracles. Abi o |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Fr Paul Obayi "Okunerere" Announces He Is Leaving The Catholic Church by plaetton: 12:44pm On Oct 15, 2023 |
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| Crime › Re: Manhood Theft: Bauchi Local Security Members Kill Suspect, Arrest 2 by plaetton: 1:05pm On Oct 13, 2023 |
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| Politics › Re: It Is TIME For Tinubu To TOUGHEN UP And Go After His Enemies. by plaetton: 5:56pm On Oct 07, 2023 |
Rostikol:
Tinubu is being too gentlemanly for my liking.
He is acting like he's the president of Sweden or Canada.
Gentleman presidency.
This is NIGERIA, not Sweden or UK.
You have to be ruthless here, because people here are not gentlemen.
They are very rugged, rough people, with no conscience.
PRESIDENT TINUBU needs a reality check.
I don't think he fully understands that he is the PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA, AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC.
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry riffraff (from the East mostly) goes online to abuse him and call him all sorts of unprintable names on a daily basis.
How long before he says ENOUGH?
How much abuse can one man take?
Dragging his name all over the whole internet and abusing him daily!
Enough already....
He should start by ordering the SS to go after people making incendiary, unproven allegations against him online, and drag them to court to testify and prove their allegations, or sue them for libel and defamation.
A couple of lengthy jail sentences for the culprits will discourage the rest of the online mob of imbeciles insulting him daily because of free internet access.
Mr President needs to understand that this country is filled with ASSHOLES who will take advantage of his gentlemanism.
He needs to start acting like a damn PRESIDENT.
He must become at least as strong as Obasanjo was in his time.
Personally I think he should be far stronger and more mean, because this new generation think they are wiser than everybody, and so require some HEAVY discipline that will shut them up and teach them manners. Monkey talk. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 5:55pm On Oct 06, 2023 |
OluOwolabi:
We have the resources they need to develop their lands.... most of those countries source their resources from outside. Not many countries in the world have resources in abundance the way Nigeria does. I laugh when I hear this nonsense ( pls don't be offended). No one needs our resources to develop their land. Last time I checked, most of them are already well developed. If you say, they are inclined to bribe us and steal the little we have, I will agree. As the corruption capital of the world, anyone smart enough can come to Nigeria , bribe us, and take whatever they need. These are not investors. They are scavengers feasting on the carcass of dead country. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 5:50pm On Oct 06, 2023 |
plaetton:
Gbam gbam 100%.
I am one of those diaspora investors who have invested in many different ventures and various asset classes over the years.
I have also brought in foreign investors , who afterwards, considered their Nigerian experience the worst in their business careers.
My verdict is that Nigeria is probably the worst place on earth to invest and do business, unless the business involves colluding with corrupt public officials to steal something.
Rather than blowing this hot air grounded on a deluded sense of importance, the government should court and provide an enabling environment for local businesses to thrive .
When that happens, the local business people would invite their foreign partners to invest in Nigeria.
Potential Foreign investors are not blind, deaf and dumb. They get firsthand economic intelligence information from their embassies and missions in Nigeria. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 5:48pm On Oct 06, 2023 |
d142475:
No country is an island, but compared to other African countries, Nigeria is one country, whose well-qaulified and wealthy diaspora population is a gold mine waiting to be unleashed. Our primary "foreign investors" are the Nigerian diaspora population. Do you know how many diasporas Nigerians are itching to invest in Nigeria? We should target them instead of Indians and Lebanese, Chinese, and those Oybios, who are coming here to make a killing. At the risk of sounding naive or isolationist, I dare say that Nigeria will be just fine if we created the right atmosphere (power, road, security, and ease of doing business) for Nigerians-both at home and those abroad. We are one of the few African countries where the ultra rich are indigenous. Nigeria is blessed with enormous human and capital resources. I don't think many people realize how tremendously blessed we are. Gbam gbam 100%. I am one those diaspora investors who have invested in many different ventures and various asset classes over the years. I have also brought in foreign investors , who afterwards, considered their Nigerian experience the worst in their business careers. My verdict is that Nigeria is probably the worst place on earth to invest and do business, unless the business involves colluding with corrupt public officials to steal something. Rather blowing this hot air grounded on a deluded sense of importance, the government should court and provide an enabling environment for local businesses to thrive . When that happens, the local business people would invite their foreign partners to invest in Nigeria. Potential Foreign investors are not blind, deaf and dumb. They get firsthand economic intelligence information from their embassies and missions in Nigeria. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 1:49pm On Oct 06, 2023 |
Dadadididacontr:
Thanks, You have talked as your sense can carry it.
Why some other countries of the world neeeeed NIGERIA
1. NIGERIA population
2. UNLIMITED Resources in NIGERIA
3. OUR societal values and CULTURE.
4. WORKFORCE.
5. HUMAN WARE(Workforce)
6. YOUTHFUL POPULATION.
Abeg the reasons plenty.
Im tired of typing.... Google it. If you had these human and whatever resources you claim, then why is Nigeria a failed state? With all the so-called human workforce, why is Dangote importing 11,000 workers from India to run his new refinery ? Who do oil companies import workers from the Philippines to work in Nigeria's most economically important and lucrative job sector ? Keep on deluding yourself. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 1:45pm On Oct 06, 2023 |
Dadadididacontr:
Thanks, You have talked as your sense can carry it.
Why some other countries of the world neeeeed NIGERIA
1. NIGERIA population
2. UNLIMITED Resources in NIGERIA
3. OUR societal values and CULTURE.
4. WORKFORCE.
5. HUMAN WARE(Workforce)
6. YOUTHFUL POPULATION.
Abeg the reasons plenty.
Im tired of typing.... Google it. Absolute nonsense. By workforce you mean floor cleaners and personal support workers. They can get those from 100 countries with citizens hungry for work and a better living. Societal values and culture? Are you joking? There are no natural resources that Nigeria has abundantly that cannot be gotten elsewhere, with a better business and investment climate. People like you are either paid to write this nonsense or the nonsense itself is a clear demonstration of just how deluded and dystopian Nigeria and its leaders are. |
| Politics › Re: Adopt Visa-On-Arrival Reciprocity Or Face Retaliation: Minister, Tunji-Ojo by plaetton: 11:51am On Oct 06, 2023 |
Xscape1993:
This is a good welcome development. Nigeria should be relevant too. You people live in a Dystopian universe. Nigeria needs foreign investors now more than ever. Majority of the countries in the world do NOT need Nigeria or Nigerians for investment, tourism or any other economic value. There are currently hundreds of thousands or even millions of Nigerian economic refugees spread accross every country on earth. Therefore morons, Nigeria does not have the clout to demand anything from any country whatsoever. Every country in the world with sane leaders court investors and tourists to come and invest and spend money. Nigeria, this Dystopian paradise, threatens and admonishes the potential foreign investors that it so desperately needs. Na wa ooo  |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Was Not Removed When He Presented Replacement GCE Full Of Errors - Omokri by plaetton: 6:25pm On Oct 05, 2023 |
AllenSpencer:
Exactly!
Reno is one of the most brilliant people we have in Africa! Lol. What a very very low standard you have for Africa. Is it no wonder that Nigeria, the big boy of Africa, is such a basket case. |
| Politics › Re: CSU:some TV Stations Will Have A Lot Of Explanations To Do To Nigerians-Reno by plaetton: 3:57pm On Oct 02, 2023 |
tolue42:
That is your trademark in the East, we don't do that here The news headlines, from authoritative sources, say otherwise. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Countries That Gained Independence In October Just Like Nigeria by plaetton: 11:02pm On Oct 01, 2023 |
DrGoodman:
The issues that sank Nigeria are Tribalism triggered by unhealthy competition initiated by people who couldn't stomach the rise of a particular part of Nigeria to greatness.
So they lied, cheated, fought, killed, and destroyed the whole process in the country that can bring a level playing field for all the country, because they know that tribe will race ahead again.
The fight against that tribe meant that they had to cut corners with the truth, cutting their chances down just to make sure nobody rises, if it means the successful region will rise faster. So standards were lowered, educationally, financially and socially, it became okay to lie about things on national TV, as long as you will be seen to be against that tribe, you will be forgiven.
Institutions had to be killed, processes had to be destroyed, procedures had to be abolished for the tribal Lords to unfairly climb up to twist the truth. Of course the end result became the elevation of haters, criminals and illiterates who cares less about the general wellbeing of the country. As the criminals took over, and are still in power, expect no meaningful developments, because
YOU CANNOT PLANT CORN, AND HARVEST COCONUTS  100% correct. Unfortunately, suffering and hopelessness knows no ethnicity. |
| Politics › Re: Reno Omokri Listed Things That Ought To Make You Proud As A Nigerian by plaetton: 8:40pm On Oct 01, 2023 |
Alliswell248:
List what you have achieved in life apart from making noise online.....
Hateful soul....enemy of Nigeria.....
We really dodged a bullet on February 25th.... Name what other nation in the world that produces cheap crude oil , but imports petrol ? What other oil producing nation that whose fortunes go down when the price of oil , their principal commodity, goes up in price ? What other nation spends close $30b on a steel plant , and in 40yrs, no single steel rod has been produced? What other nation has its entire economy RUN on imported generators that RUN on subsided imported fuel ? What other nation has swaths of local government areas permanently under the control of terrorists and bandits? Gosh, I can go on and on . Nigeria is failed state. |
| Politics › Re: Reno Omokri Listed Things That Ought To Make You Proud As A Nigerian by plaetton: 8:31pm On Oct 01, 2023 |
Alliswell248:
List what you have achieved in life apart from making noise online.....
Hateful soul....enemy of Nigeria.....
We really dodged a bullet on February 25th.... I'm not sure how old you are, little person, but if think that Nigeria has delivered even 10% of the promise of nationhood it had in 1960, then I sincerely hope you do live in Nigeria, proud of the flag. Nigeria is not a nation, and unfortunately, never have been since perhaps only on the October 1st 1960. And unfortunately, tribalism and blind bigotry is the main reason it will probably never be a nation. |
| Politics › Re: Reno Omokri Listed Things That Ought To Make You Proud As A Nigerian by plaetton: 8:18pm On Oct 01, 2023 |
obembet:
Source: https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1708411118300155995?t=V4VKTz0_tip4gc-s6RulYA&s=19
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Lalasticlala Nonsense from a shameless, jobless , desperate political jobber. Laughing out . If these are the things to proud of in Nigeria, then it's easy to see what high and low level political contractors have done to this once promising country. For every one of those supposed things to be proud of, there are 1000 for each to weep about. October 1st should be a day of mourning for every Nigerian. Fools like Reno Omokri blow hot and cold depending on where the next meal is Coming from. I'm not sure who gives this fool audience and gives him front page. |
| Politics › Re: At 63, Nigeria Is A Failed Country, Has Nothing To Celebrate - Nwanguma by plaetton: 6:23pm On Oct 01, 2023 |
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Pentecostal Christianity , by default, is a private business enterprise usually run by a family. |
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