₦airaland Forum

RockHard:
You should be attacking the current structure that warrants states having to surrender their resources to Abuja before it's then redistributed based on a formula that favours unproductive states with higher number of local governments than those from where the resources are being mined. Abuja isn't producing anything yet it enjoys better infrastructure than others because it is feeding fat on the resources of others. The rest of the country has to be dragged backwards because some are trying to play catch up. You, OP, are a dishonest individual. You know that the North has consistently proved to be a stumbling block to the efforts to address these imbalances, yet you are attacking Yorubas for expressing their preference for a system they feel would address these and secure a better future for their people. You as an igbo man can't claim to know what is best for the Yorubas than Yorubas themselves.

biko he is an hausa man..

PatriotTemidayo:
Idiots, when cornered with the truth, result to fighting dirty. What has my semantics got to do with the points raised for or against restructuring.
Tell you what. Go find Zombies like you that will support your idiotic stand. Nothing do you. Slowpoke.

You are the one fighting dirty. You started the insults calling someone thrash brain. You live in an alternative universe where the facts don't matter. You didn't like the truth and started calling me names. You also have no point.

You are the one supporting the idiotic stand of devolving more power to Yoruba criminals as a solution to Nigeria's problems. The same idiotic stand that says we should go back to a regional system that failed so woefully that it just lasted 6 years after independence.

As these facts are over your head, you resort (note not "result" ) to lashing out against someone who tells you that Santa Claus doesn't exist. Your restructuring Yoruba emperors have no clothes. I am just exposing their crooked unclothedness in a public place and you don't like the ugly sight.

sekxyqueen:
biko he is an hausa man..

Aboki, yaya ni?

zenmaster:
Are you one of these APC recession supporters?

There is no difference b/w APC and PDP and I don't support crooks.

Naijiant:
There is no difference b/w APC and PDP and I don't support crooks.

But you support economic recession and suffering masses

Naijiant:
You are the one fighting dirty. You started the insults calling someone thrash brain. You live in an alternative universe where the facts don't matter. You didn't like the truth and started calling me names. You also have no point.

You are the one supporting the idiotic stand of devolving more power to Yoruba criminals as a solution to Nigeria's problems. The same idiotic stand that says we should go back to a regional system that failed so woefully that it just lasted 6 years after independence.

As these facts are over your head, you resort (note not "result" ) to lashing out against someone who tells you that Santa Claus doesn't exist. Your restructuring Yoruba emperors have no clothes. I am just exposing their crooked unclothedness in a public place and you don't like the ugly sight.

While you're crying a river, people with the vision will achieve them.

If you cannot dream, let others do. I think you just have a penchant for talking too much. If you're against their agitation, why not keep to your side of the demand. I know your type, the sound of your voice makes you Hot.
Bye sir.

zenmaster:
But you support economic recession and suffering masses

I am on the side of the masses from every corner of Nigeria against their oppressors be they Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Ijaw, Igbo whoever. The people that screw Nigeria do not come from one area alone.

PatriotTemidayo:
While you're crying a river, people with the vision will achieve them.

If you cannot dream, let others do. I think you just have a penchant for talking too much. If you're against their agitation, why not keep to your side of the demand. I know your type, the sound of your voice makes you Hot.
Bye sir.

I'm not crying, just laughing at your ignorance, but with pity on you.

You can dream all you want to, I'm all about reality. This is how ignorant people like you dreamed that Buhari was your messiah. Now it is restructuring that will save you. Wake up and smell the coffee. The problem in Abeokuta is the same as in Abakaliki is the same as in Adamawa. It is your own people from senators to governors to LGA Chairman, stealing from you. These are the people responsible for the mess in your area and not the north or the structure. Whatever structure you have, those people would still steal from you. The only way to stop the stealing is you become armed with knowledge and stay vigilant.

When you stop sleeping, you have to wake up and face this reality.

RockHard:
Just shut it. The more you try to make sense, the harder you come off as an ignoramus. You said the system they are proposing didn't work in the past. What stupidity. Was it not Nzeogwu and his blood thirsty gang of coupists and khaki boys that terminated regionalism and imposed their unitary system on the rest of the country? Did they ask the permission of Yorubas and others before terminating regionalism?

You are just a shameless apologist for the status quo and the Northern born-to-rule establishment. When they declared an ultimatum sacking your people from the North (with impunity), you never made this much noise in condemnation of their effrontery, it's implication, and the dangerous precedent their actions and impunity set, but you can dedicate a thread to Yoruba calls for restructuring and a system they feel would best suit their collective aspirations as a people? You are a disgrace, considering your old age. Your opinion is irrelevant anyhow.

you are just dumb, so you don't know the person you are quoting is from north or are you scared to face your masters

Naijiant:
This is exactly what I mean about boneheaded ignorance.

Go and read what happened b/4 the Nzeogwu coup and why it was welcomed across the country. Who jailed Awolowo? Was it Nzeogwu? Nzeogwu and co actually wanted to free Awo and install him as PM - ask Odia Ofeimun, Awo's secretary. If you think regionalism was working, you probably never heard of the "wild, wild west"! Go and read your history and quit vomiting ignorance here. Awo was de facto vice president and finance minister under Gowon and the so-called unitary system suited him then. Whenever thieving elites are marginalised from their theft, they call for a different structure that would facilitate their stealing.

Dude, just quit embarrassing yourself for once. Can you imainge, you are justifying a coup-de-tat?? Only an INSANE person would venture to justify Nzeogwu's action, which, by the way, ended up triggering a counter-coup (by the same Northerners whom you said applauded it) and a needless civil war that snuffed out the lives of millions of your own brethren. Trying to excuse Nzeogwu's coup is like promoting a military takeover of the entire country over the Jos-Plateau crises, or the Boko-Haram crises in the NorthEast, or OBJ's 3rd term/executive-legislature face-offs. Are you saying that Awo's political problems were worth or were enough reasons to justify the counter-coup and civil war that resulted from the January 1966 coup?? If you blame the coup on the political crisis the Western Region, what about the other regions that were relatively quiet then? Didn't a referendum hold to create the mid-west region to assuage the agitation of minorities then? How many such 'states' or local government creations have so far happened under a 'civilian government'? Is it only Military dictatorship that should be able to create new states and local governments?? Did Yoruba people ask the Military to terminate the regional system of government on their behalf? Receive sense old man!!

You know next to nothing about Nigeria. The people with a born-to-rule mentality are the Fulani oligarchs. In fact, most of the north was conquered by Fulani jihadists. It is ignorant folks like you that associate born-to-rule with the entire north, when the majority there are conquered people. For you info, Nzeogwu's killing of Ahmadu Bello was celebrated in the north.

The last time I checked, it was Yoruba "leaders" like Tinubu, Fashola, etc that enabled Buhari to become president. Now, that Buhari's cabal has marginalised Tinubu and his houseboy Osinbajo, Yoruba crooks like FFK and co are calling for restructuring! If Tinubu got all the ministries he expected, it would be a different story. Why don't they restructure they they have in their private accounts back to the state treasuries where it was looted from?

I have news for you, buddy, but it may be over your ignorant head. There is no such thing as a collective Yoruba aspiration. The aspiration of Yoruba crooks is to steal from their people. Ordinary Yoruba folks are better off uniting with other ordinary Nigerians to stop the stealing. This is b/c Yoruba crooks like Tinubu always unite with crooks from other parts of the country to steal. Do you want me to remind you of what Tinubu said about Buhari in 2003 (agent of destabilisation whose ethnocentrism would jeopardise Nigerian unity) b/4 uniting with him in 2014?

I hate dealing with ignorant Nigerians. Teaching you people is a full time job and I have things to do to pay the bills.

For the last time, you are not a Yoruba man, and therefore have no portion in any matter that concerns us as a people. Face your people's Biafra agitation and leave Yoruba people alone!!! Your opinion on this matter is as good as trash.

FKO81:
you are just dumb, so you don't know the person you are quoting is from north or are you scared to face your masters

STFU! That old man is a confam Igboman, from Enugu state. He can't and won't deny that.

I've read every comment with keen interest however, no concrete solution av been proffered. It is quite disheartening that we left it too late in Nigeria.
We obviously seem devoid of possible option for a workable solution to Nigeria myriad problems, sometimes I ask myself what do we need to do to be the best like every other first word countries the answer is just simple copy what the develop countries do and we are there with them but due to selfish reasons our paper certify fools (politicians) loot us till nothing is left.
Another question begging for answer is whether we av youth anymore the truth is we av but they av been turned out by this guys.
Don't u think if every unemployed graduates in every state converge and enmassely match to their respective state house and demand for a change that will be instantly effected things we take a new shape? If a concrete effort is made to assemble graduates who are ready to sacrifice many weeks for the match and with a workable agendas and also ready to actively ground government activities till their demands are met I bliv we would get what we want. No any sane uniform man will open fire on the youth of his country when they stage peaceful protest bcoz I bilv every family we be represented
What Nigeria is lacking is access to good roads,
Better social security,
Stable electricity
Water etc I don't think we need any uncommon idea to understand all this facts.
We do not really need to attack ourselves like we normally do here they created the problem and we allow them it's high time we acted. Let's forget restructure the only restructure a revolutionize youth

RockHard:
Dude, just quit embarrassing yourself for once. Can you imainge, you are justifying a coup-de-tat?? Only an INSANE person would venture to justify Nzeogwu's action, which, by the way, ended up triggering a counter-coup (by the same Northerners whom you said applauded it) and a needless civil war that snuffed out the lives of millions of your own brethren. Trying to excuse Nzeogwu's coup is like promoting a military takeover of the entire country over the Jos-Plateau crises, or the Boko-Haram crises in the NorthEast, or OBJ's 3rd term/executive-legislature face-offs. Are you saying that Awo's political problems were worth or were enough reasons to justify the counter-coup and civil war that resulted from the January 1966 coup?? If you blame the coup on the political crisis the Western Region, what about the other regions that were relatively quiet then? Didn't a referendum hold to create the mid-west region to assuage the agitation of minorities then? How many such 'states' or local government creations have so far happened under a 'civilian government'? Is it only Military dictatorship that should be able to create new states and local governments?? Did Yoruba people ask the Military to terminate the regional system of government on their behalf? Receive sense old man!!



For the last time, you are not a Yoruba man, and therefore have no portion in any matter that concerns us as a people. Face your people's Biafra agitation and leave Yoruba people alone!!! Your opinion on this matter is as good as trash.

I have told you go and read your history and stop vomiting ignorance here.

Go and read what was happening in Nigeria b/4 the coup. People were calling for the army to take over. Go and read Nzeogwu's coup statement. Nigeria was descending into chaos. These are FACTS. It is not an attempt to justify the coup, but the FACTS about Nigeria at the time, to get it through your skull that the system was NOT working.

The counter-coup was organised by Fulani oligarchs with the help of the army and the British. It had nothing to do with the fact that many in the north celebrated and rejoiced following the coup. The BBC were involved in spreading the lies that it was an Igbo coup, which contributed to the killings of many Igbos.

No region was stable then, it was just worse in the west and the FG was a cesspit of corruption. Many Yorubas were asking the military to take over. Awo was jailed for plotting a coup.

I'm not a Yoruba man. I'm a Nigerian. The last I checked, Yorubas are Nigerians. Until they stop being Nigerians, what affects them is my concern.

Naijiant:
1. It isn't the current structure that stole the resources of the states. It is their governors.

2. Your governors like Tinubu, Gbenga Daniel, etc have fed fat on the resources that should have been used to develop their states.

3. The stumbling block to imbalances in the country is the corruption of the people in power in the north, southwest, southeast, Niger Delta and every part of the country. While they are robbing you, you are busy blaming the north. Tinubu is a billionaire and you are blaming the north. Gbenga Daniel, Fayose, Mimiko and co are all stupendously wealthy from looting public funds. That is where the imbalance is - money in their pockets, no money for development.

4. What is best for Yoruba criminal politricksters is to rob their people. It is not what is best for ordinary Yoruba people. That's why they deliberately keep you in ignorance and bamboozle you into thinking that what they want is what you want. A fox and a chicken from the same place don't want the same thing. The fox wants to eat the chicken.

You are very misinforned about the political landscape, at national or regional level.

This is the problem for yanminris who are priviledged to live in Yorubaland, they soon start to believe their abode amongst Yorubas now qualify them to join in and discuss grassroot politics.

ImperialYoruba:
You are very misinforned about the political landscape, at national or regional level.

This is the problem for yanminris who are priviledged to live in Yorubaland, they soon start to believe their abode amongst Yorubas now qualify them to join in and discuss grassroot politics.

Another ignorant person dives in spewing idiocies. I don't live in Yorubaland. Anywhere I live is a privilege to the people I live with. You would be privileged (note the correct spelling) to go back to school and learn simple English. It should help you get a job. There are so many errors in your last sentence. The right grammar should be "their abode qualifies" and "grassroots".

I blame thieving Yoruba politicians for the failure in the education system in Yorubaland. It has nothing to do with the structure of Nigeria. They have stolen money meant to educate you properly, while their kids study abroad. Now, we have to deal with the consequences.

Naijiant:
Another ignorant person dives in spewing idiocies. I don't live in Yorubaland. Anywhere I live is a privilege to the people I live with. You would be privileged (note the correct spelling) to go back to school and learn simple English. It should help you get a job. There are so many errors in your last sentence. The right grammar should be "their abode qualifies" and "grassroots".

I blame thieving Yoruba politicians for the failure in the education system in Yorubaland. It has nothing to do with the structure of Nigeria. They have stolen money meant to educate you properly, while their kids study abroad. Now, we have to deal with the consequences.

What a prick! Update yourself on spelling varieties. Words like checque can also be spelt as cheque or indeed check; valour can be spelt as valor; splendour as splendor; PRIVILEDGE as PRIVILEGE....bring your stuck-up neck out of its English socket so it can swivel round the universe and acknowledge contemporary word usage and diction in English language. I am not the one to intimidate with with lexicon, I will embarass you.

Apparently you fail to realize all communications in Nairaland qualifies as informal exchange, and casual!...so I wonder why you suited up in your three piece jacket just to take the dog on a walk? Dog walk can be done in a simple pair of jeans and t shirt; casual!

Reserve your Esquire mannerisms for those who will not be caught taking out the trashbag (alternate spelling thrash) in anything but double-breasted jacket!


Now, to the nitty gritty....Yoruba is not running against time, neither are we racing to prove righteousness...we are simply telling you that we have a choice, and we are exercising that choice. We are accountable to three things
1- the Crown
2 - the Sword
3 - the Throne

We are Yoruba first before anything else. For many decades we took other commitments, we are rededicating to the three items listed above.

ImperialYoruba:
What a prick! Update yourself on spelling varieties. Words like checque can also be spelt as cheque or indeed check; valour can be spelt as valor; splendour as splendor; PRIVILEDGE as PRIVILEGE....bring your stuck-up neck out of its English socket so it can swivel round the universe and acknowledge contemporary word usage and diction in English language. I am not the one to intimidate with with lexicon, I will embarass you.

Apparently you fail to realize all [b]communications in Nairaland qualifies [/b]as informal exchange, and casual!...so I wonder why you suited up in your three piece jacket just to take the dog on a walk? Dog walk can be done in a simple pair of jeans and t shirt; casual!

Reserve your Esquire mannerisms for those who will not be caught taking out the trashbag (alternate spelling thrash) in anything but double-breasted jacket!


Now, to the nitty gritty....Yoruba is not running against time, neither are we racing to prove righteousness...we are simply telling you that we have a choice, and we are exercising that choice. We are accountable to three things
1- the Crown
2 - the Sword
3 - the Throne

We are Yoruba first before anything else. For many decades we took other commitments, we are rededicating to the three items listed above.

Only Jakande school olodos spell "privilege" as you did.

The correct word is "communication" and not "communications" and if you use the latter, you should say "qualify" instead of "qualifies".

You need to go back to school. Whatever you want to be accountable to is your business. My concern is that Yoruba vagabonds in power are robbing their people blind and are unaccountable.

Waste of time. Senseless post.!!!

Naijiant:
Only Jakande school olodos spell "privilege" as you did.

The correct word is "communication" and not "communications" and if you use the latter, you should say "qualify" instead of "qualifies".

You need to go back to school. Whatever you want to be accountable to is your business. My concern is that Yoruba vagabonds in power are robbing their people blind and are unaccountable.

For someone who is ashame of his roots and refuses identification by his ancestry you are a disgrace to the values and pride inherent in everything English, particularly the language. English people refused to learn the language of others because of pride in their native land and ancestry. In their desire to propagate that pride they therefore look for minds that can be conditioned to accept English as a superior standard. You are publicly disgracing yourself the more you demonstrate that other speakers or writers of English language are less than you in your accomodation of that language as a superior to whatever ethnic background you are.


If you read report from the summit you would have seen that Chief Afe Babalola started speaking in English but the crowd demanded he addressed them in YORUBA, and he switched...before the moderators stepped in and asked permission that English be allowed because its a global message. At Ooni's turn, his delivery was all done in Yoruba. He is the vanguard of unity and culture for Yoruba and was given the waiver.

So I am a proud Yorubaman and identify proudly with my native root and language....just as the Englishman identifies with his proudly. Can you identify with your ethicity and be proud of your root? I guess not. English language and Nigeria give meaning to your existence, without the two life would have no meaning for you.


Until you identify your ethnicity in Nigeria I will no longer reply you and Im hoping others will not reply you as well so this thread can die off.

We want to address the Nigerian question from a cultural perspective and those who cannot identify their place in it lack the authority to discuss ethnic issues.

ImperialYoruba:
For someone who is ashame of his roots and refuses identification by his ancestry you are a disgrace to the values and pride inherent in everything English, particularly the language. English people refused to learn the language of others because of pride in their native land and ancestry. In their desire to propagate that pride they therefore look for minds that can be conditioned to accept English as a superior standard. You are publicly disgracing yourself the more you demonstrate that other speakers or writers of English language are less than you in your accomodation of that language as a superior to whatever ethnic background you are.


If you read report from the summit you would have seen that Chief Afe Babalola started speaking in English but the crowd demanded he addressed them in YORUBA, and he switched...before the moderators stepped in and asked permission that English be allowed because its a global message. At Ooni's turn, his delivery was all done in Yoruba. He is the vanguard of unity and culture for Yoruba and was given the waiver.

So I am a proud Yorubaman and identify proudly with my native root and language....just as the Englishman identifies with his proudly. Can you identify with your ethicity and be proud of your root? I guess not. English language and Nigeria give meaning to your existence, without the two life would have no meaning for you.


Until you identify your ethnicity in Nigeria I will no longer reply you and Im hoping others will not reply you as well so this thread can die off.

We want to address the Nigerian question from a cultural perspective and those who cannot identify their place in it lack the authority to discuss ethnic issues.

Once again, you need to consider evening classes in English b/c the education system failed you. Nigeria's education system is poor, not due to the structure of the country, but due to thieving rulers in all the states, Yoruba ones included. They loot the money meant for the education of the likes of your ignorant self. They send their children abroad so that they don't have to endure the failed education system that their looting has created.

Instead of buffoons like you wising up and seeing how you are being robbed and betrayed by your own people, you instead cloak yourselves in ethnicity and think that just b/c you are Yoruba, a Yoruba vagabond in power represents your interests.

Your poor English is evidence of how you have been let down by your own rulers. I bet their children write and speak English better than you b/c they went to better schools that those rulers refused to provide for you.

For your info, English is the national language in Nigeria. Proficiency in English gives you a better chance in life - a chance of getting a job, rising in your work place, etc. Only ignorant bums like you dismiss the importance of English in a country with English as its national language. Without English, I wouldn't be able to educate and embarrass you like this.

The correct grammar is "someone who is ashamed of his roots". What makes you think I'm ashamed of my roots? I am ashamed of you and your ignorance!

I don't care if Afe Babalola or any other clown spoke English, Yoruba or Swahili at the summit. I know he spoke the language of deception. I'm here to tell you the truth. I don't speak or write Yoruba, so I am delivering the truth in English.

Feel free to be proud of being a Yorubaman. But don't be proud of your ignorance and you need to open your closed mind to learning. Learn that you are being robbed by Yoruba crooks and they are using ethnicity to deflect attention from their culpability in your misery.

You are very stupid to imagine that Nigeria's problems are ethnic or cultural. Poverty, criminality, illiteracy, bad governance, decrepit infrastructure, etc affect all Nigerians. When NEPA "take light" do they discriminate by ethnicity? When armed robbers attack do they only attack according to where you come from? When you are being robbed and you call the police would they refuse to come on the basis of ethnicity? Are our hospitals failing Nigerians according to ethnicity? The Nigerian rulers that run abroad when they are sick do they not belong to every ethnic group? You mumu never do?

Naijiant:
Once again, you need to consider evening classes in English b/c the education system failed you. Nigeria's education system is poor, not due to the structure of the country, but due to thieving rulers in all the states, Yoruba ones included. They loot the money meant for the education of the likes of your ignorant self. They send their children abroad so that they don't have to endure the failed education system that their looting has created.

Instead of buffoons like you wising up and seeing how you are being robbed and betrayed by your own people, you instead cloak yourselves in ethnicity and think that just b/c you are Yoruba, a Yoruba vagabond in power represents your interests.

Your poor English is evidence of how you have been let down by your own rulers. I bet their children write and speak English better than you b/c they went to better schools that those rulers refused to provide for you.

For your info, English is the national language in Nigeria. Proficiency in English gives you a better chance in life - a chance of getting a job, rising in your work place, etc. Only ignorant bums like you dismiss the importance of English in a country with English as its national language. Without English, I wouldn't be able to educate and embarrass you like this.

The correct grammar is "someone who is ashamed of his roots". What makes you think I'm ashamed of my roots? I am ashamed of you and your ignorance!

I don't care if Afe Babalola or any other clown spoke English, Yoruba or Swahili at the summit. I know he spoke the language of deception. I'm here to tell you the truth. I don't speak or write Yoruba, so I am delivering the truth in English.

Feel free to be proud of being a Yorubaman. But don't be proud of your ignorance and you need to open your closed mind to learning. Learn that you are being robbed by Yoruba crooks and they are using ethnicity to deflect attention from their culpability in your misery.

You are very stupid to imagine that Nigeria's problems are ethnic or cultural. Poverty, criminality, illiteracy, bad governance, decrepit infrastructure, etc affect all Nigerians. When NEPA "take light" do they discriminate by ethnicity? When armed robbers attack do they only attack according to where you come from? When you are being robbed and you call the police would they refuse to come on the basis of ethnicity? Are our hospitals failing Nigerians according to ethnicity? The Nigerian rulers that run abroad when they are sick do they not belong to every ethnic group? You mumu never do?

You must be a descendant of prophet Muhammad the child rapist

BininEmpire:
You must be a descendant of prophet Muhammad the child rapist

Clap for yourself for a very intelligent comment.