₦airaland Forum

RockMaxi:
How I wish we can rewrite the history of this nation.

The country’s annual defence budget is about £3.5 billion yet the frontline soldiers unfortunate enough to be sent into the areas where Boko Haram hangs out are by all accounts drastically under-equipped by comparison with the surprisingly well-provided terrorists.

This wretched affair should make us think twice about economic relations with Nigeria itself. Not just the amount of UK aid that goes there – about £238 million a year, it seems, almost all of it to non-state agencies, which is controversial enough – but investment in Nigeria generally.

Even today’s FT supplement on investing in Nigeria kicks off with a reminder that the place is not just riven with sectarian divisions, of which Boko Haram is the most obvious example, but drastic inequalities.
The country’s GDP is put at $510 billion for last year but about 70 per cent of the population lives in poverty.

Of course that brings us to the argument about whether it’s better to engage with unpleasant and corrupt states in order to make them better or leave them severely alone. Personally, when it comes to Nigeria, I’m all in favour of raising our skirts well above our ankles.

Sincere9gerian:
What about ISIS and the west? What does the inability of the west to defeat ISIS prove?

Sibrah:
Nigeria is well known for her systemic ineffeciency.

Ilekokonit:
Boko Haram proves the Nigerian government to be corrupt and useless - Weekly Conservative British Magazine - 6 May 2014

The country’s annual defence budget is about £3.5 billion yet the frontline soldiers unfortunate enough to be sent into the areas where Boko Haram hangs out are by all accounts drastically under-equipped by comparison with the surprisingly well-provided terrorists.

This wretched affair should make us think twice about economic relations with Nigeria itself. Not just the amount of UK aid that goes there – about £238 million a year, it seems, almost all of it to non-state agencies, which is controversial enough – but investment in Nigeria generally.

Even today’s FT supplement on investing in Nigeria kicks off with a reminder that the place is not just riven with sectarian divisions, of which Boko Haram is the most obvious example, but drastic inequalities.
The country’s GDP is put at $510 billion for last year but about 70 per cent of the population lives in poverty.

Of course that brings us to the argument about whether it’s better to engage with unpleasant and corrupt states in order to make them better or leave them severely alone. Personally, when it comes to Nigeria, I’m all in favour of raising our skirts well above our ankles.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/boko-haram-proves-the-nigerian-government-to-be-corrupt-and-useless/

Litmus:
Lol, this amounts to the quivering plea of a racist individual or someone with Indian or Ghanaian friends hiding in the background. The plea essentially says- 'please don't invest in Nigeria, Nigeria is rising fast and might become -for the first time a powerful nation run by people of African origin. We the British and other friends of closet racists, have spent decades demonizing them, praising others in Africa above them and yet they are about to ram all or negative predictions down our sanctimonious throats please to don't let them. Fund Bokokharm, discourage investment, anything but please do something to stem their growth, put them in their place and make our predictions come true...please, please pretty please'.

celeron40:
Don't interrogate me.

BlackTechnology:
Wise man why didn't you apply when the military was recruiting boys to be deployed to NE


I maintain my stand


Give BH their sharia nation

aresa:
Den say you be thief, but you are saying it's not a big deal because other people steal too. Are you still not a damn thief.

So, your country should remain in the gutter because other countries are in the gutter too? How rrretarded can you backward and cavemen thinking losers be?

You people come up with the dumbest and unintelligent rationale ever...

They call you losers unintelligent TANoids and you try our very best to prove them right.

Adminisher:
Many people do not understand the serious intellectual limitations of our President. He was chosen carefully by the Godfathers for qualities that he lacks. The man is a delight to all those who work for him because they can do and steal anything and get away with it. He just does not understand much about anything, a complete blank tabular Rasa. This is the man they need to stay in office, speaking unintelligibly, blinking and flinching confusedly while they take apart the whole country.

Ibnsultan:
Boko Haram Attack! Family members of Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh airlifted by @DefenceInfoNG but ordinary Nigerians abandoned and left to take refugee on hills and mountains. Vimtin, the Adamawa State hometown of Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, was attacked by Boko Haram militants on Thursday. Nigerian authorities sent in an helicopter to airlift family members of the CDS.

berem:
Seriously?

No one should blame the Nigeria soldiers for fleeing the war zone.

omoreminder2:
True soldiers do not flee in face of enemy fire, understand??

berem:
True soldiers my foot!

Eneze1:
At times the way you people make useless comparisons is astonishing, is ISIS attacking any part of the US that you know of? please my friend try and reason well next time before you make baseless comparisons. What has GEJ achieved in almost his 6 years in power? corruption is high, no electricity, basic amenities are nothing to write home about, security is zero, pray tell what has he done? largest economy in Africa that has little or no effect on Nigerians just the same set of people holding the nation to ransome

berem:
Seriously?

No one should blame the Nigeria soldiers for fleeing the war zone.

omoreminder2:
Yes. A soldier has sworn to defend his nation even at the expense of his life and so should not run away from enemy fire.

anonimi:
Are his family members civilians or soldiers

divaoflife:
It is really a shame the way things are going from bad to worse in this country.
Do we need a foreign magazine to tell us the very obvious?
Honestly,words fail me.

berem:
Story! na today?

aresa:
Den say you be thief, but you are saying it's not a big deal because other people steal too. Are you still not a damn thief.

So, your country should remain in the gutter because other countries are in the gutter too? How rrretarded can you backward and cavemen thinking losers be?

You people come up with the dumbest and unintelligent rationale ever...

They call you losers unintelligent TANoids and you try our very best to prove them right.

BlackTechnology:
You were quick to talk about the North as if you are an indigene but quick to avoid talking about your true Southern region.

fr3do:
Wait o
What are our state governors for?

berem:
Shut up and don't ask me foolish question!

bjdon:
My brother it's not that posters fault, na because they no take IQ test before approving use of Internet. Any brainless nematode can come on here and type trash, then go back home and start to look for where to find fuel for their generator to watch football. Too many people in this country are just darn brainless. In fact if there is a revolution it's not just the corrupt leaders that need to be culled!!

berem:
Seriously?

No one should blame the Nigeria soldiers for fleeing the war zone.

anonimi:
Are his family members civilians or soldiers