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The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 4:56am On Feb 16, 2017
The problem with Nigeria is never corruption as Nigeria is ranked with Russia as per corruption level and Russia is at least a force in the world today after the USA. It is only because of higher population that some other nations are reckoned with more. Russia has all industries in place even if not as developed as say Germany's. Russia has blazed the trail in many fields of human endeavor. Space travel, satellite communications, weapons manufacture and etc. Russia sort of leads despite the much spoken of corruption and that corruption is at par with Nigeria's

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA

The main problem is groups who are not satisfied with what God gave them as ancestral lands and want to rule others who are different from them like China is to Russia. The two main groups guilty of this are Hausas and Igbos. Why mix everything up like an antichrist country? So that Hausas can burn houses and kill people in Mile 12 Lagos, backed by Federal police?. So that Igbos can become Governor in Yoruba land and use the opportunity to undermine the Yoruba like the PDP Igbo house of assembly member in Lagos who said Yoruba should not be used for house proceedings because of himself!. YOU CAN ONLY TAKE YORUBA LAND BY WAR AND BIAFRA FAILED TO ACHIEVE THAT IN THE 1960s!. You find Yorubas all over Nigeria in their millions, holding political posts in Kaduna, PH and all over, having properties, dominating whole areas but they manage to comport themselves!. They bow to their hosts according to the saying 'Awolumate iwon ara e lo mo'. A stranger making it in a city is making it because he knows his limits. Yorubas have never ganged up to fight others on their lands and most Northern towns have a huge Yoruba population as well as indigenes from ancient Yoruba quarters.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF NIGERIA.

After the issue of highly unhealthy rivalry in the country, the next problem is infrastructure of which power is number one. If there is stable power in Nigeria, the country will change to a large extent. The other thing needed would be an engineering material industry and there would be industrialization. Next thing would be inflation and that will be solved when the economy is formalized and government depends on taxes only.

Ironically Igbos who think they are gaining in Nigeria are best poised to solve the power problem!. Coal is still the main resource used to generate power worldwide. Europe, Japan, Australia all use coal. Coal power is over 40 percent of electricity worldwide and a nation like South Africa (as a South African friend Mr Gregory Harrington told me) will buy coal from Nigeria if available as Australia is too far. This coal is in abundance in Igbo land. Even a Yoruba country will buy coal from an Igbo country as will do a Hausa country pending when other solutions are found for power generation. Enugu coal can power Nigeria and South Africa and we dont even have coal plants in the country.

Let everybody maintain their lands and allign as they wish. Stop trying to rule others. You are calling for war. Take what you have, allign with people who are agreeable and leave the rest. If the Igbos can build coal fired plants and end their power problem, what else are they looking for? The Yorubas will have to lay gas pipelines or buy coal from Igbos or both. The Hausas will also buy coal.

Power is the main economic problem, then engineering materials, other infrastructure like transportation followed by the problem of currency manipulation or inflation.

The big problem of inter ethnic rivalry can only be solved if people control their ancestral lands fully and once that happens, Yorubas prefer to allign West with Togo and Benin and even Ghana than to the East or North because those are our people that we were in a federal system with in the past. The Hausas will allign with their people in Niger better.

Headaches are better avoided when possible.

There is less than 3 billion tonnes of coal in Nigeria but that is still something. Power problem on the globe will eventually be solved with renewable energy as the cost is mediocred but in the main time, coal can be used. Later, solar, wind, tidal and etc sources will take over.

References

https://www.worldcoal.org/coal/uses-coal/coal-electricity
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 5:06am On Feb 16, 2017
A bunch of bul.l and in fact the OP knows he is joking. OYA launch Oduduwa Republic and see if it will stand like koboko..

NONSENSE
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by Blue3k(m): 5:14am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
Coal power is over 40 percent of electricity worldwide and a nation like South Africa (as a South African friend Mr Gregory Harrington told me) will buy coal from Nigeria if available as Australia is too far. This coal is in abundance in Igbo land. Even a Yoruba country will buy coal from an Igbo country as will do a Hausa country pending when other solutions are found for power generation. Enugu coal can power Nigeria and South Africa and we dont even have coal plants in the country.
There's coal power plant being built in Kogi. Itobe Power Plant Is set to have 1200 MW when fully active. If Enegu government cares to have coal power let the do it. The federal government has no reason to keep them down. It's in everyone's interest either way.

It would also help because it much easier to guard than pipelines NDA blows up. Anyway if Nigeria serious about issues they will look into options.

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Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 5:17am On Feb 16, 2017
WhoRUDeceiving:
A bunch of bul.l and in fact the OP knows he is joking. OYA launch Oduduwa Republic and see if it will stand like koboko..

NONSENSE
I BELIEVE YOU ARE IGBO BECAUSE THIS IS THE ATTITUDE OF MOST IGBOS AND IT IS MEDIOCRITY.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 5:20am On Feb 16, 2017
Blue3k:
There's coal power plant being built in Kogi. Itobe Power Plant Is set to have 1200 MW when fully active. If Enegu government cares to have coal power let the do it. The federal government has no reason to keep them down. It's in everyone's interest either way.

It would also help because it much easier to guard than pipelines NDA blows up. Anyway if Nigeria serious about issues they will look into options.

Shameless plug: https://www.nairaland.com/3624845/how-make-niger-delta-oil
of course they can go to US, Germany, South Africa, Japan for expertise and partnership and get even 15000 MW within some years. Power will be stable in the SE.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 5:25am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
I BELIEVE YOU ARE IGBO BECAUSE THIS IS THE ATTITUDE OF MOST IGBOS AND IT IS MEDIOCRITY.
I BELIEVE YOU HAVE NO SENSE LIKE MOST PEOPLE FROM IBADAN SHANTY TOWN BECAUSE ANYONE FROM TARABA, ANAMBRA, EVEN EDO CAN READ THE YOUR POST AND SAY YOU ARE JUST AN AFONJA

NA SO?

NONSENSE
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 5:30am On Feb 16, 2017
WhoRUDeceiving:
I BELIEVE YOU HAVE NO SENSE LIKE MOST PEOPLE FROM IBADAN SHANTY TOWN BECAUSE ANYONE FROM TARABA, ANAMBRA, EVEN EDO CAN READ THE YOUR POST AND SAY YOU ARE JUST AN AFONJA

NA SO?

NONSENSE
THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE EAST TO COMPARE WITH IBADAN YET YOU CALL THE PLACE SHANTY? A WORLD CLASS CITY WITH THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS AND FOREIGN OWNED COMPANIES IS A SHANTY?. LEBANESE, INDIANS, CHINESE, EUROPEANS, ISRAELIS, AMERICANS ETC ARE FULL OF IBADAN WITH THEIR FAMILIES LIVING THERE PERMANENTLY AND TO YOU, THAT IS SHANTY?.

FOR YOUR INFO IBADAN IS A WORLD CLASS CITY BEING HELD BACK BY NIGERIA.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 5:38am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE EAST TO COMPARE WITH IBADAN YET YOU CALL THE PLACE SHANTY? A WORLD CLASS CITY WITH THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS AND FOREIGN OWNED COMPANIES IS A SHANTY?. LEBANESE, INDIANS, CHINESE, EUROPEANS, ISRAELIS, AMERICANS ETC ARE FULL OF IBADAN WITH THEIR FAMILIES LIVING THERE PERMANENTLY AND TO YOU, THAT IS SHANTY?.

FOR YOUR INFO IBADAN IS A WORLD CLASS CITY BEING HELD BACK BY NIGERIA.
So why not be on your own then? That was the original response. Having Westerners and Indians in your town means they are finding a way of exploiting you folks like they do in black neighborhoods in Kingston, New Orleans, etc, so kini big deal. BTW


Ibadan is becoming one of the dirtiest state capitals in Nigeria, Ajimobi reads riot act.
Posted on January 15, 2016 in Ibadan, News // 0 Comments

Worried by the mountains of refuse that are gradually returning to some parts of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has directed the Heads of Local Government Administration (HLAs) and environmental health officers in the 11 local government areas in Ibadan to move fast to clear the eyesore. Besides, the governor also declared his administration’s readiness to ensure strict enforcement of the state’s environmental law in order to keep Ibadan and the entire state clean.

Ajimobi, who moved round Ibadan metropolis to assess the environmental situation, expressed displeasure with the delay in the evacuation of refuse on the median strips on some major roads in the ancient city. Specifically, the governor frowned at the failure of HLAs, environmental health officers and the state’s waste management authority to be alive to their responsibilities in maintaining a clean environment. He said: “This is embarrassing. This government is known for its credentials in environmental cleanliness and urban renewal. We won’t allow anybody to dent such credentials. “Everybody must work now. We are prepared to sanction people for inefficiency and services not rendered. The whole place is dirty. It’s a disgrace. From now on we will clean Oyo State again. “We are educating and enlightening our people now. We are informing them on what to do, soliciting their support. We are going to engage more youths to enforce sanitation laws. We will fortify the environmental officers and bring in more people,” the governor said. The governor said it was unfortunate that most of the residents, particularly traders within the state capital, had yet to fully comply with the state environmental laws by refusing to vacate the road side. Ajimobi said that residents must contribute to the environmental cleanliness crusade by adopting attitudinal change from indiscriminate refuse dumping and street trading. In her remarks, the Iyaloja of Ibadan market, Alhaja Fausat Oluwakemi, blamed unknown persons who operate under the cover of darkness to dump refuse on the U.I -Ojoo highway median strip.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 5:46am On Feb 16, 2017
WhoRUDeceiving:
So why not be on your own then? That was the original response. Having Westerners and Indians in your town means they are finding a way of exploiting you folks like they do in black neighborhoods in Kingston, New Orleans, etc, so kini big deal. BTW


Ibadan is becoming one of the dirtiest state capitals in Nigeria, Ajimobi reads riot act.
Posted on January 15, 2016 in Ibadan, News // 0 Comments

Worried by the mountains of refuse that are gradually returning to some parts of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has directed the Heads of Local Government Administration (HLAs) and environmental health officers in the 11 local government areas in Ibadan to move fast to clear the eyesore. Besides, the governor also declared his administration’s readiness to ensure strict enforcement of the state’s environmental law in order to keep Ibadan and the entire state clean.

Ajimobi, who moved round Ibadan metropolis to assess the environmental situation, expressed displeasure with the delay in the evacuation of refuse on the median strips on some major roads in the ancient city. Specifically, the governor frowned at the failure of HLAs, environmental health officers and the state’s waste management authority to be alive to their responsibilities in maintaining a clean environment. He said: “This is embarrassing. This government is known for its credentials in environmental cleanliness and urban renewal. We won’t allow anybody to dent such credentials. “Everybody must work now. We are prepared to sanction people for inefficiency and services not rendered. The whole place is dirty. It’s a disgrace. From now on we will clean Oyo State again. “We are educating and enlightening our people now. We are informing them on what to do, soliciting their support. We are going to engage more youths to enforce sanitation laws. We will fortify the environmental officers and bring in more people,” the governor said. The governor said it was unfortunate that most of the residents, particularly traders within the state capital, had yet to fully comply with the state environmental laws by refusing to vacate the road side. Ajimobi said that residents must contribute to the environmental cleanliness crusade by adopting attitudinal change from indiscriminate refuse dumping and street trading. In her remarks, the Iyaloja of Ibadan market, Alhaja Fausat Oluwakemi, blamed unknown persons who operate under the cover of darkness to dump refuse on the U.I -Ojoo highway median strip.
OUR CHINESE, INDIANS, LEBANESE, ISRAELIS, EUROPEANS ETC ARE NOT EXPLOITING US. THAT IS A MYOPIC MINDSET OF IGBOS. THEY ARE DEVELOPING OUR ECONOMY. THEY BRING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT AND THEY EXPORT, THEY HELP PROVIDE SELF SUFFICIENCY IN MANY SECTORS LIKE PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND THEY DONT KILL LIKE NOMADIC CATTLE REARERS.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 5:51am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
OUR CHINESE, INDIANS, LEBANESE, ISRAELIS, EUROPEANS ETC ARE NOT EXPLOITING US. THAT IS A MYOPIC MINDSET OF IGBOS. THEY ARE DEVELOPING OUR ECONOMY. THEY BRING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT AND THEY EXPORT, THEY HELP PROVIDE SELF SUFFICIENCY IN MANY SECTORS LIKE PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND THEY DONT KILL LIKE NOMADIC CATTLE REARERS.
THEN SIMPLY CHANGE YOUR NAME FROM IBADAN TO OMO BOMBAY AND ASK THEM TO CONTINUE TO MILK YOU WHILE GIVING YOUR OBAS AND TINUBU BOYS BRIBE. SEE HOW INFERIOR MINDED PEOPLE CAN PRAISE THEIR ENEMIES....TOO BAD FOR UNA

Nigeria: Indians Handing Death and Slavery to Nigerians
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Legal AffairsNigeriaWest Africa

By Our Reporter
The Indians instructed two Nigerians whom they employed for "cleaning up" such messes for them to use the same forklift to take the dying Tosin out of the company unto the road leading to a hospital

The forklift lifted tons of iron inside the Indian company - African Wires and Allied Industries Nigeria Limited, Plot No. 4-6, Opic Industrial Estate, Agbara, Ogun State. But two heavy discs of iron hooked, so Tosin Olajide, one of the hundreds of casual workers at the company, went up to free the two irons weighing over 1.5 tons each. Suddenly, one of the irons came down on him, trapping him to the ground. No safety helmet was provided for Tosin by the Indians. It took the same forklift to lift the tonnage of iron before the boy could be pulled out.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 5:59am On Feb 16, 2017
WhoRUDeceiving:
THEN SIMPLY CHANGE YOUR NAME FROM IBADAN TO OMO BOMBAY AND ASK THEM TO CONTINUE TO MILK YOU WHILE GIVING YOUR OBAS AND TINUBU BOYS BRIBE. SEE HOW INFERIOR MINDED PEOPLE CAN PRAISE THEIR ENEMIES....TOO BAD FOR UNA

Nigeria: Indians Handing Death and Slavery to Nigerians
Tagged:
Legal AffairsNigeriaWest Africa

By Our Reporter
The Indians instructed two Nigerians whom they employed for "cleaning up" such messes for them to use the same forklift to take the dying Tosin out of the company unto the road leading to a hospital

The forklift lifted tons of iron inside the Indian company - African Wires and Allied Industries Nigeria Limited, Plot No. 4-6, Opic Industrial Estate, Agbara, Ogun State. But two heavy discs of iron hooked, so Tosin Olajide, one of the hundreds of casual workers at the company, went up to free the two irons weighing over 1.5 tons each. Suddenly, one of the irons came down on him, trapping him to the ground. No safety helmet was provided for Tosin by the Indians. It took the same forklift to lift the tonnage of iron before the boy could be pulled out.
DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER OF YORUBAS MAKING IT IN ASIA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA? THEY ARE HELPING THOSE PLACES TOO!. OUR INDIANS, LEBANESE, CHINESE ARE OUR PEOPLE AND INDIANS AND CHINESE ARE TRYING WITH HEAVY INDUSTRIES IN YORUBA LAND NOW. THEY NEVER PRAY THAT THEIR WORKERS GET INJURED. IT HAPPENS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. WHEN SOMEONE EMPLOYS 1000 TAXABLE PEOPLE IN A FACTORY, THAT PERSON IS A PARTNER OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by orunto27: 6:01am On Feb 16, 2017
Very good Contribution.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 6:12am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBER OF YORUBAS MAKING IT IN ASIA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA? THEY ARE HELPING THOSE PLACES TOO!. OUR INDIANS, LEBANESE, CHINESE ARE OUR PEOPLE AND INDIANS AND CHINESE ARE TRYING WITH HEAVY INDUSTRIES IN YORUBA LAND NOW. THEY NEVER PRAY THAT THEIR WORKERS GET INJURED. IT HAPPENS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. WHEN SOMEONE EMPLOYS 1000 TAXABLE PEOPLE IN A FACTORY, THAT PERSON IS A PARTNER OF THE GOVERNMENT.
MR MAN,

THE PROBLEM IN NIGERIA AS YOUR POST SUGGEST IS NOT FULANI OR IGBO, AND THOUGH THOSE GROUPS SAY ITS YORUBA, IT IS ACTUALLY INFERIORITY COMPLEX. MAYBE TINUBU HAS FED YOU PROPAGANDA CRAP AS TO WHY YOUR INDUSTRIES ARE FAILING DESPITE GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE AND YOU FEEL BY SEEING OYIBO FACE HE IS YOUR FRIEND. WELL, HE IS NOT AND WILL USE YOU TO FINANCE HIS CHILDREN'S HEGEMONY ROUND BLACK AFRICA.

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China’s Growing Footprint in Africa is Potentially Damaging[i][/i]
Mark Esposito,Terence Tse
Nov 20, 2015
China’s ties to Africa are likely to get stronger this year as the world’s biggest economy appears poised to once again double its investments across the fast-growing continent.
The run-up to the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to be held early next month in South Africa is under way. The forum—in its 15th year and the first held under President Xi Jinping’s administration—has been the main venue for setting the investment, trade, and integration agenda between China and countries in Africa.
But has this relationship been as good for Africa as it has been for China? And what can other countries beginning to receive more of its largesse learn from it?
Spreading wealth
As the poster child for economic growth in recent decades, China has been increasingly keen to spread its wealth and influence around.
Even though the country is suffering from a slowdown and expected to achieve “only” single-digit growth rate in the coming years, it remains one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Its success has been, in part, the result of it being the recipient of huge amounts of foreign direct investment itself.
As China gradually embraces the roles and responsibilities of the world’s biggest economy as well, it is increasingly reversing that flow of cash and is expected to soon surpass the U.S. as the largest investor in other countries.
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The inauguration of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a rival to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, is a sign of that, with its $100 billion in financial firepower, as is the new China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will run from Gwadar in Pakistan to China’s western Xinjiang region, supported by a historical agreement of over $46 billion.
Indeed, the amount of investments made by China abroad is estimated to be $531 billion in outward foreign direct investment, with 4% of it—$22 billion—going to investments in natural resource extraction, finance, infrastructure, power generation, textiles, and home appliances in Africa.
That’s a small sum at first glance, but its economic impact to the region is both huge and far-reaching, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the biggest investments made in Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa, and Angola.
In addition to investment projects, China has quickly become the continent’s biggest trading partner, with trade volume of $166 billion in 2014. This is likely to continue to increase and reach an estimated $1.7 trillion by 2030.
Losing hearts, minds, and jobs?
But despite the substantial investments, most of the them have been routinely cast as detrimental to Africa’s overall competitiveness.

The projects are dependent on deals made at the highest political levels. They lack competitive and transparent bidding processes, and most of the work force employed at these ventures has been Chinese. Promises of job creation have not been fulfilled. Further, when Africans are hired, local rules and regulations are often flouted, leading at times to poor safety.
For instance, at Chinese-run mines in Zambia’s copper belt, employees must work for two years before they get safety helmets. Ventilation below ground is poor, and deadly accidents occur almost on a daily basis.
More frequently, jobs are lost to Chinese employees, who are ferried in project by project. For example, the growing Chinese presence in South Africa may have cost the country 75,000 jobs from 2000 to 2011. In Nigeria, the influx of low-priced Chinese textile goods has caused 80% of Nigerian companies in this industry to close.
Africans' impression of Chinese firms could also be shaped by illegal practices carried out by them.
For example, by law, mining on small plots of 25 acres or less is restricted to Ghanaian nationals. However, many Chinese continue to explore for gold in conjunction with local landowners, even though regulations have made it clear that such practice is illegal. The result: Many Africans see themselves to be exploited by the newcomers.
One-sided trade?
Perhaps making matter worse, the kinds of goods that the two partners trade with each other have done little to change such perception.
Whereas China buys from Africa mainly natural resources—minerals and metals—African countries import primarily the finished results, ranging from machinery and electrical goods to plastics and rubber.
Such an arrangement could benefit both parties, but it’s more often seen as China exploiting Africa’s natural resources to feed its need for industrial output.
At the same time, by exporting cheap—and often shoddy—manufactured goods to African countries, local companies not only become less competitive but they also grow increasingly dependent on China.
Recent research has also suggested that the Chinese presence has failed to bring significant skill developments, adequate technological transfer or any measurable upgrade to the productivity levels to this part of the world.
Jobs and infrastructure, not just oil and mines
Recently, China has become more tactful in its approach to Africa, trying to preempt the perception that its presence in Africa may be one-sided only.
In this year’s China-Africa forum, for example, the Middle Kingdom is believed to be making efforts to mitigate the broad criticisms of its “mercantilist” approach toward Africa by, among other things, offering more access to capital for local companies. The fact is that China’s Export-Import Bank extended $62.7 billion in loans to African countries from 2001 to 2010, some $12.5 billion more than the World Bank.
And contrary to what many may believe, China’s investment is not concentrated in countries with inadequate rule of law. The biggest recipient is in fact South Africa—though the Chinese presence is often more visible in other countries from which Western governments have shied away.
Indeed, as researchers have pointed out, Chinese investments are not concentrated in natural resources: Services are the most common sector, with significant investments in manufacturing as well. This suggests that China is now doing more to help African countries to build up their competitiveness.
Lately, the Middle Kingdom has tended to reduce to publicize major oil and mining contracts and instead has focused more on areas where it’s creating jobs, investing in infrastructure, and transferring technology. And the latest Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is meant to showcase that.
But will loans to support new railroads and other infrastructure projects be enough to make up for concerns that African resources are being exploited?
The challenge for Xi, and China, is to further develop the relationship and at the same time alter sometimes negative perceptions. That’s the opportunity presented by the forum, which could be a game changer for China, its external policy model and its growing footprint beyond its borders.
Key to that is ensuring Chinese companies operating in Africa comply with local rules and regulations. They also have to change their views of the locals, so that the latter are seen as equal business partners.
Only by making such fundamental shifts can China capture people’s hearts and minds and not just their mines.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by WhoRUDeceiving: 6:15am On Feb 16, 2017
AND FOR THE MALAYSIANS AND INDIAN BUSINESS WOMEN IN IBADAN WE SALUTE YOU

The Ugly Truth About Your Human Hair Weave


There is no doubt that wearing human hair weaves sets you apart from just any girl on the street. The look of the weave, the feel of it against your skin, the bounciness, texture and money that you’ve spent on the hair all comes together to make you feel like a million bucks.
But have you ever paused to consider where that human hair might have come from?
The most popular human hair, which incidentally was the pioneer hair texture to arrive on the Nigerian weave scene, is the Brazilian weave. It was soon followed by hair from Malaysia, India, Peru and a host of other countries. But in making inquiries about the origins of human hair found in the market, we found out a few surprising things:
First, Brazilians don’t like to cut their hair. If true, how do we reconcile that with the fact that marketers and sellers say that the Brazilian weave is the most available human weave around?
«Brazilians are very finicky about their hair. They rarely cut their hair.” This goes to say that most of the human weaves out there are not actually Brazilian hair
A human hair weave marketer in the Ikeja part of Lagos states, »Brazilians are very finicky about their hair. They rarely cut their hair.” This goes to say that most of the human weaves out there are not actually Brazilian hair. Research shows that the majority of human weaves in the market are from Europe and Asia, which is processed to look like Brazilian hair, and because it has been processed it thins out faster and hardly keeps its curls.
Second, human weaves are sourced through a variety of means, some of them disturbing to say the least. As stated earlier, research shows that majority of human hair comes from Asian and European countries, mainly India and China. It is popularly known that in India, people offer their hair not for money but as a sacrifice to the deity Vishnu, to show appreciation. The hair is then processed and sold for outrageous prices. Meanwhile, in Russia, girls as young as 12 or 13 are cajoled into selling their hair for as little as $100 (N16,600), and the hair is then sold for as high as $2,000 (N320,000) in other countries where demand is as high as it is here.
A Sri-Lankan woman who is resident in Nigeria (name withheld) says it isn't at all natural for sacrificed hair to end up being sold as a weave.
In her words, “When you wear the hair, men do not see you as yourself but as the deity it was sacrificed to.« In plain words, when you wear this hair, your likeness is transformed to that of the deity.
A Sri-Lankan woman says “When you wear the hair, men do not see you as yourself but as the deity it was sacrificed to.»
Dubious practices like these are why certain marketers are particular about the kind of hair they sell to her clients. According to a weave practitioner ,“I think it is wrong to exploit young ladies for their hair. I want to be able to offer my customers the peace of mind they deserve, which is why when starting out, I went through the pain of meeting with my suppliers to ascertain where the hair comes from. I would not be involved with anything that is remotely fetish”.
So when it comes to buying and enjoying human hair weaves, ask yourself this question...where did this hair come from?
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by zendy: 6:45am On Feb 16, 2017
The problem with Nigeria is that Igbo/Yoruba/Hausa do not see each other as one. They never have and never will.

That Lugard brought them together does not necessarily mean they are meant to be together

Is it out of such disunity that anyone is hoping Nigeria will achieve great things? Personally, I dont think so but thats just my opinion
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by EternalTruths: 6:53am On Feb 16, 2017
If you insist on One Nigeria then Igbos must be leaders in your land.

The choice is yours to choose. kiss
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 6:56am On Feb 16, 2017
WhoRUDeceiving. You keep mentioning people hating people!. You dont need to love anyone! Just be fair to them!. Japanese, Chinese, Europeans, Lebanese, Israelis love Yorubas more than Igbos love Yorubas! Or would you say that is wrong?. So check yourself and stop accusing others of what you are guilty of!.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 6:59am On Feb 16, 2017
EternalTruths:
If you insist on One Nigeria then Igbos must be leaders in your land.

The choice is yours to choose. kiss
ARE IGBOS NOT LEADERS IN EUROPE? YOU NEED TO BE BROADMINDED.
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by EternalTruths: 7:02am On Feb 16, 2017
lawani:
ARE IGBOS NOT LEADERS IN EUROPE? YOU NEED TO BE BROADMINDED.
If they refuse the Igbos occupying political offices in their land after shouting One Nigeria, then expect Divine Punishment against their land and people

The price for One Nigeria is loss of their independence. kiss
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 7:06am On Feb 16, 2017
EternalTruths:
If they refuse the Igbos occupying political offices in their land after shouting One Nigeria, then expect Divine Punishment against their land and people

The price for One Nigeria is loss of their independence. kiss
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by lawani(op): 7:08am On Feb 16, 2017
EternalTruths:
If they refuse the Igbos occupying political offices in their land after shouting One Nigeria, then expect Divine Punishment against their land and people

The price for One Nigeria is loss of their independence. kiss
NOBODY IS SAYING IGBOS MUST NOT OCCUPY POSTS BUT SUCH IGBOS MUST BOW. THEY MUST BEHAVE THEMSELVES AND YORUBA PLUS FORMER MIDWEST ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ONE NIGERIA. THEY NEVER JOINED THE CIVIL WAR AGAINST BIAFRA UNTIL BIAFRA INVADED THEIR LAND
Re: The Problem With Nigeria. by ycat: 7:37am On Feb 16, 2017
The question is, what makes everyone to want to steamroll Yoruba?
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