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supporters on ONE Nigeria, una dey try o. This yeye country that has rendered everything that calls human dignity to zero is what some of u dey support. Hahahahaahahahahaahahaha

As u see me so, I am not a fan of Nigeria. It is terrible place to live. It is worse than Hell. No value for human lives. Politicians messed up the country. Simple, this country would have been fixed since even without fighting war. When I go outside and see the batelion of jobless Nigerians and uneducated Nigerians, youths o. I shake my head. The country will explode by her self. U cant have such huge population plus unemployment, plus poor education. Na chaos na.

Ishilove:
And this, folks, was one of the remote causes of the Rwandan Genocide.

The day I knew we are in trouble in this country was the day I went to the state HQ of the NCS in Apapa during Buhari's first tenure. Every where I turned to, there was a Bala, Usman, Halil, Dikko Yahaya et al waiting to attend to me. I heaved a small sigh of relief when I got to a section where the only thing they do is to sit on their asses and twiddle their thumbs. In this section i finally saw a Bayo and Ifeoma. In every department, 4 out of 5 officers are Northerners, and in some sections, ALL the officers are northerners. My mind boggled.

I saw the same thing when I went to the National HQ of the same NCS in Wuse 3 in 2018. In whole sections the officers were Northerners but it was a bit better here because there were more non-northerners are one moved up the rank and file. Still yet, the lopsided federal representation was glaring. Some of these officers can even write a simple statement and the one who attended to me gave me pen and paper to write his report for him after he asked me the correct spellings of some words a couple of times and i gave him. Last last he handed the paper to me and asked me to kukuma continue. I left what I came for to be doing secretary.

Let us be guided. We are in deep shït.

Bro, every northerner has the mindset of war, domination, conquest. We are in deep shit and sincerely, southerners must as a matter of urgency, rise up to demand for a restructured Nigeria.

tunjiajayi:
The saying that goes don't bring a dog home if you are allergic to fleas and ticks is apt here.

Yamrees make una cope with una dog.

oga calm down... police and soldiers have been killing Nigerians ever since. It is a useless country and u may be a victim too. They shot some in the north recently and the news was here..

I dont rate black race. We no get sense. If u know the number of people security men have wasted in Nigeria

lessonotes:
Hmmmm, for those that have little children, the only way is to escape to another country.

For those who have been fanning the embers of war and secession, I beg you please stop. Abeg, biko.

If it happens, there would be so many splinter groups and uncountable interests that war would be inevitable. These might lead to genocide, with small small groups trying to control LGAs or States; Libya and South Sudan is a prime example. I pray we don' t get to that stage.

It is crystal clear Nigeria needs help in this area, owing to the fact that it was publicized globally that Nigeria begged the US to move it's Africa Mission base from Germany down to the theater of war.

I keep saying it; employ 3 million youths into the Armed Forces. Our Security forces are over stretched.

All of u keep repeating the same thing..

The solution to Nigeria is not more soldiers. More soldiers never solved any problem. If it can, it would have solved the problems in Somalia, Pakistan, etc with massive USA soldiers.

The problem is that we refused to do the needful becus of greediness.

Practice true federalism like the USA system or adopt the Uk model and our problem will be reduced.

Our politicians wasted time and are still wasting time. U can't control violence for too long. It is just a matter of time, it will explode. Nigeria is extremely poorly governed with terrible electoral system full of rigging. We have been deceiving our selves since with our looting and refusal to accept the reality.

North and South can't be in one country under a unitary system. Both don't have same values.

This useless system of govt only promotes nepotism and massive corruption.

Any ways, black race no get sense. Nigeria will explode someday. Very soon. All these unemployed youths everywhere with massive poverty, what do u think will happen to them? They will surely go into crime.

Unfortunately, the politicians have enough loot to run to other countries.


One thing Nigeria must do fast is to restructure Nigeria as soon as possible.

PrinceOfLagos:
Enough of this Biafra nonsense please

What is the problem of black race? Scotish citizens talk about having their own country out of the UK. Other nations that make up the UK dont insult them. Blacks, always proving me right about our yeye views

What of fathers?

Morrorcoan health care system has been improving over the years and has attracted citizens and even leaders from other African countries. Well done to them.

There is money in health tourism and North Africans are trying in tourism generally

Rossinkup:
Playing to the gallery for political expediency is not the preserve of black politicians. Get rid of your racial self-loathing.

Plus your mind works in a far too simplistic way.

''After decades of all these, why haven't we sat down to refix things?''

You think it takes mere decades to undo the damage done, but it doesn't.

It takes a CENTURY OR MORE.

And it is not something that will be noticeable to you as it happens.

But development IS happening.

A Lagosian from the 1980s will not recognise the Lagos of today, with things like the BRT system and its air-conditioned public buses with USB connectivity, ambulances you can call on your phone, flyovers everywhere, the transformation of Lekki and the island, the ferry system. New roads being built with sidewalks and covered drains. Shopping malls everywhere, high speed rail service to Ibadan, Abeokuta etc, with city-wide rail services about to be commissioned. A LOT has changed in Lagos.

Is it cities like Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Abakaliki, Nnewi, and Awka?

These places were VILLAGES with mud huts in the 1980s. I used to pass through them.

Go there today. Shopping malls, banks, stadiums, conference centres, flyovers, expressways, universities, major hospitals. A total transformation.

There was nothing like Abuja in the 80s. It was just a bush with some few buildings. Today it is one of Africa's most beautiful cities.

So Nigeria is developing.

America has been independent for 300+ years. UK 600 years. Nigeria merely 60. Give them time.

Some countries gained independence same time with us or around same time.. Singapore is one of them, Malaysia is another. Some countries discovered oil same around time we did and used it to transform their country but we used ours to loot away in Europe.

Bro, all these things you mentioned aren't development. Air conditioner busses. Lol

The people don't have security, the people don't have access to proper health care, the people don't have good roads as terrible roads are littered across the country, the people don't have electricity as generator is extremely common, the people dig bore holes etc. These are what development is and not building here and there. Some countries in similar situations like ours have gone a great level to fix these things within 60 years. Pls, in Dubai alone, Nigerian politicians own over 400 million properties. Aside other cities o, aside other countries, aside those not seen.

Pls we didn't need heaven to fall for a typical black man to have sense regarding looting his country btyr dry. Forget motivational speech. Just don't pray to have health crises. U will need to be flown abroad or u die. We have failed bro.

Rossinkup:
The whites defeated EVERYONE THEY FACED. Indians, Arabs, Native Americans, Chinese, Africans, you name it.

The game-changer was GUNPOWDER, plus European moral emptiness and greed.

They learnt from the Chinese how to mix natural ingredients to make gunpowder.

The Chinese had been using the substance for religious ceremonies.

The noise of explosions sounded like a return of the gods.

There was limited military use in 'primitive' firelances.

At this time, Europe was the poorest region on Earth.

They must have felt the only way to change that, was to go on a killing and looting spree of the world.

But how could they? Every nation used bows and arrows and shields and swords, and had done so for THOUSANDS of years.

The discovery of gunpowder was manna from heaven for the Europeans.

For them, it was their route out of poverty.

They used it to make guns and bombs that could kill masses of people in no time.

This weapon changed EVERYTHING.

They suddenly had the power over every other race and people, which they never had prior.

The rest is history.



Ethiopia was invaded and occupied by Italy for decades. The Italians massacred thousands and even used chemical weapons against them in several conflicts. They later imposed European administrative systems, disrupting the original systems. That is why the Ethiopian parliamentary session looks like the ones in Rome.

Nevertheless, Ethiopia's socio-cultural systems have not been as severely eroded as Nigeria's, and you can see it when you visit.

Their life expectancy is 67 compared to Nigeria's 54.

They are also the 2nd or 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWr7krAWAAAtfXc.jpg

Forget Ethiopia pics and yeye data. That country is messed up. Take away that their capital, it is nothing to write home about.

All these u wrote, I read them before. The fact that they discovered it before others is a plus for them.

Also, decades after all these, why haven't we sat down to to refix things? We know our problems but looting has not allowed us to do so.

Take a loot at Tinubu now. He was talking of regional govt before but becus he wants presidency, he has changed his mouth. So why can't we have blacks who will stand on what they believe in?

Rossinkup:
But THIS was the situation BEFORE colonialism:

''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’.'' The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

So if the ABOVE described PRECOLONIAL Africa, then, if you had a working brain, you would link the current decline in standards to the entry of external powerful forces that disrupted a working system, by forcing the populations to abandon those systems and embrace those practised in Europe.



So when things go wrong in the new imported systems, you don't go calling the people 'inferior' or blaming their skin colour, because they are not expert at 'copy and paste'.

Everything changed with colonialism. The way we hold our leaders accountable changed.

In the Oyo empire, if a king was found to be corrupt, he was ORDERED by his council (the Oyo Mesi) to commit suicide or go on exile.

We had real checks and balances that worked for thousands of years.

Today, what system do we practice? One that simply holds you to harmless bible oaths.

Imported, harmless rubbish.

Why would corruption not thrive?

Answer me that question.

So what YOU should be doing, if you were a real African intellectual as opposed to a self-hating coon who thinks he is 'inferior', is calling for political and social re-engineering of the people, to draw on our ancient strengths, and abandon foreign solutions.

You would not see it as ''blaming whites for our problems'', but as extricating blacks from theirs.

The question is why did we have all that and still got defeated by the same whites? We overrated the so called development we had. If the development was that sophisticated, we would have been able to defend the aggressors.
Also, Ethiopia wasn't colonized like we were. So, why aren't they different?

Rossinkup:
There are even more Asians than blacks in those western countries, so does that also prove to your dumb head that Asians are 'inferior' to whites?

See, you have a low IQ, so you cannot reason beyond a 4 year old's intellect.

''Oh mummy. Those people are yellow and they are poor. Those other ones are white and they are rich. Therefore the white colour is better than the yellow colour! Oh look! The black people are so poor. Is that why they are black, mummy? Can you please change me to colour white mummy!''

That's it. toddler logic. How does one debate a person like you? It's impossible.




How many black nations have you visited out of the 60 or so in existence?

My guess is LESS THAN 3.

Beyond the fact that they are developing nations, you haven't the slightest clue about their current state, their rate of progress and development, their economic growth rates, their history, their leadership, and whatever has led them to their current situation. All you see is ''black = bad'' and ''white = good''.

So how does one debate a toddler like you?

It is impossible.

I said, engage me in a dabate. Since u are intelligent, u may win me over, right? I can assure that I will give you proper account.

Never ever blame colonialism. We have all we need to develop but we are dam greedy. We steal and loot away our own resources to buy properties in Dubai, London, Paris, while our people lack health care. Did a white man put guy on our heads and asked us to loot? Over 60 years, blacks are still blaming colonialism when there were many countries in the same situation as ours decades ago, in fact, we looked more promising than they were, but today, they are far ahead. Why? They focused on building their nations with their resources while we focused on looting. Rubbish.


And like I said, people like you who easily resort to abusive words are not smart at all. They are driven by sentiments and not reality. As u can see, I find it hard to abuse u. I know ur type. U aren't smart at all.

Rossinkup:
Ignorant, empty headed dunce.

I bet you can't even name 15 black countries without Google, never mind 15 ''black leaders''.

Or know the first thing about African history.

Just an empty headed dunce walking around and considering himself inferior.

Wasted education.

hahahahahaa, black Africans are so good yet, black Africans are running to the same whites who colonized them for greener pasture. Blacks are even ready to die inside dangerous sea to escape the continent.

As usual, blacks will always allow sentiments to govern them. No wonder we will always sing black lives matter. Hahahaha, we sing it becus as a race, we have not been able to build our race. All we do is loot, loot, loot loot away our resources to white man's land. Up till today, blacks struggle to even solve electricity problem all becus they love to loot away their countries


Bro, u cant stand close to me if we are to reason logically. I challenge u on a debate via skype. I will even load ur data for the live debate if data is your problem. I dont resort to abuse. As usual, empty people resort to abuse instead of making valid points.

I told u people that blacks cant rule them selves and some people dey form motivational speech.

Tell me one black leader has been able to rule well. All of them have same thing: oppress their citizens, steal and loot endlessly, carry women and men and flex.

I am black but not a fan of blacks

Islie:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/05/02/herdsmen-flee-delta-community-as-thunder-strike-kills-12-cows/

But why cant fulanis just stop going inside bushes? Buy lands na and ranch. These cows are owned by rich men. They can buy lands as much as they want. Why do blacks behave like witches like this?

Minjim:
Our leaders will not escape this justice.

The innocent souls they killed for their political ambition will hunt down them down

Well, it won't. They live longer sef. Obasanjor, Atiku, Buhari, Gowon, etc are all alive and flexing.

Bro, only blacks leave their fight to their gods

Until blacks are ready to fight, we are wasting our time hoping that one God helps us to fight.

Joysticks:
The police will say'we are on top of the situation'
They are always reactive to situation.

Oga, what would have done? That lady was probably killed when that call went off. I followed the story, that wicked guy must have killed her when he noticed that she put a call out.

I thought they said his handle is on nairaland. He is such a wicked human. I don't rate humans at all. Many people on this forum are even killers. Some killed last night. Many on ur social media are killers who just killed few minutes ago. That is why I trust only my self and no one else. Crazy world.

AbaLion:
An identified civil servant working in a top Government's executive office could stand surety for a radical islamic extremist turned Bokoharam terrorist founder, in same manner a serving senator stood surety for an IPOB terrorist founder.
From the North to the East, these two terrorists groups have been causing untold destructions, pains, deaths, catastrophes of unquantifiable proportions to lives and properties of the Nigerian people.
It's higly satanical that some highly placed individuals in the corridors of power are sympathetic to extremist ideologies for religious or ethnic reasons at the detriment of the country.
I think I would have to approach the court of law for an injunction to stop the Government deducting my taxes and other levies.
My taxes cannot be used to pay salaries of extremist sympathizers in government institutions.

-Lion

Demanding for my own nation is not a crime. It is part of the law Nigeria signed with UN. There was nothing like Nigeria before the greedy British empire merged the nations with different ideas together. Since then, till date, Nigeria has not solved ordinary electricity problem.

Throwback:
Barrack training for Northern youths?

When did the military recruit them for training?

I think it is time Nigerians get to know what happens inside our military barracks and if they serve a national purpose or a sectional purpose.

hahahahahaahaha, Nigeria military and police are sectional na. Due to the number of states that North has which is more than southern Nigeria, they tend to have more men in the military and police. Met a civil defense officer, a yoruba man, he was driving okada, we got talking one day where i met him, he told me that the main weapons of the country is in the hands of the north. lol. If u check very well, most of the training facilities of our top security arms are in the north. In fact, u enter many FG agencies for Abuja, u may assume that u are in the north

North really messed southern Nigeria up. How the most intelligent region allowed them selves to be messed up like this beats my imagination.

Lol.. Nigeria is just a shame. Univerties in SA eh, the structures no be here.

TheLionofLasigi:
No hate just facts.... since when did a flatin0 start answering the title of oba..

He is in River state bro

Have u all seen why some people got angry in the east? U can't continue to kill people in their farm lands, when they complain, u refuse to do anything. When they want to defend them selves, those killing them will run to the security for protection and the security will come after u.


Haba na. Why are we like this in Nigeria? Why are we using our own hands to buy problems? One of the key problems facing this country is that fulanis have taken over most of the security structures and there is always a fulani as head of major institution. They will always be bias. This is why it is wrong to allow one tribe to dominate in a country like Nigeria. We are causing our problems and the earlier every southerner speaks out, the better.

TheLionofLasigi:
Igbos are culture vultures with no history, tradition or culture..... always clinching and appropriating the culture of others, freaking children of the forest.

Why the hate? I mean, why should any human hate another human? Do u know if ur life would be saved someday by an igbo person?

I hope u aren't among those who cry racism by the whites.

Slurity:
IGBO are even the one that enjoyed the loan than any other parts, where do you think the infrastructure built are coming from? And if I may ask, how many is the whole population of IGBO compare to other parts that you want the largest share? You probably need to be reminded that a total of 5 states in IGBO land is like just 1 state in the north or west. All tribes in Nigeria are greedy but IGBO own is greedy plus foolishness

I don't understand.. Which infrastructure was built for the igbos? And igbos is not just south east. And land mass full of empty lands. I was in the north few years ago, many lands are just empty.

The fulani led Nigeria calved out many parts of igbo lands and gave them to other region. U think that people won't grow to ask questions?

I really want to know the infrastructure that u are talking about built for the igbos o from the loan. Pls point me to a link to read it up. I'm very interested

Na igbos I pity pass. I am igbo actually but mehn, this Nigeria has shown us pepper.

They will take loans, they won't build anything for us, we will still be part of those paying for the loans. Hahahahahahahaha

Fejoku:
Yet foolish southerners want the same Nigeria to continue. Are some black people so dumb not to be able to figure out things as simple as this.

Southern Nigeria is the most foolish region in the world

Hahahahaha hahahahaha. Na igbo be the problem of southern Nigeria. Fulanis are siant. Hahahahahaha

Cousin9999:
Yeah, I don't like when oyinbos refer to themselves as South African. I don't care how many generations have been in that country.

So, black Americans shouldn't call them selves Americans, right?

onyi2k:
I just got my Visa to go to Germany. I am having cold feet making this journey. I have already told my boss I am leaving my current position.

I am yet to tell HR because of this cold feet. I have been in Qatar for 2years now and I think its best I move since I cannot marry and bring wify here.

The German company is paying for my flight and accommodation for 2 weeks but I am still having cold feet. The process is cumbersome.. I just realised I need health insurance to make this move. Where can i get such in Nigeria.

Congrats bro, pls move so that u can be with your family.

Pls what sort of job do u do? Is it coding?

BigBashiru:
Buhari is alleged to be actively fighting jihad against Nigerians.... this explains why he hasn't stopped boko haram and yaradua was also believed to be sympathetic to jihadists

Actually, fulanis share similar belief about their fate. They are naturally interested in domination.

BigBashiru:
Buhari didn't make a mistake.....he knows exactly what he is doing

If that is the case, he is wicked. Handling over the major security to Muslim North is very bad becus they will always share sentiment with the fulanis. He should have balanced this to prevent sentiment. The core funalis are in charge of major positions in the country and as the killer herdsmen kept on killing people, the security couldn't help. The people saw the security as part of the killers and started defending them selves. That is where we are now.

U can do this shit with minority group but not with a major ethnic group. It doesn't always end well. The herdsmen were really killing people in villages.. My brother-in-law had told us about protest in their village few weeks ago over the constant killings by herdsmen in that village and raping of women. The youths got so angry and staged a protest and warned that they will go self defence if the govt refuses to do anything.

U could see exactly what happened in Oyo state. See, people will react if u constantly kill them and if those who are supposed to protect them show any sign of compromise.

It is sad that we are here today.

PissfulProtester:
just because they don't like a Fulani government, they are burning down their homes...

The best bet for Nigeria in 2023 is to have a president from the South West...Reason is this,.the people of the North are quiet and not revenging the killing of their people in the East only because they don't want to spoil Buhari's Government..I am sure we all know an average northerner is no coward! All it takes for them to turn the country upside down is a sickle

If the country makes the mistake of installing someone from the East as president or Vice, either by coup or by the book, it will be pay back time for the northerners..And the circle had no end point

Oga, calm down. This nonsense started when people were getting killed at will in their farms and getting raped. Don't twist the truth. People complained, lamented, they were chased away from their lands. Ur security men who were mainly led by Northerners refused to act. They were obviously sentimental towards the fulanis. That was the Genesis of this problem. Injustice breeds violence. Nigeria is so sick that she can't learn from her history. Fulanis were and are still killing people.

Look at benue now. The people are shouting, the people are calling on FG to help them but security heads who are mainly northerners are not acting. Over 70 people slaughtered even in IDP in that state. When the people now carry arms to fight, una go dey talk nonsense.

The mistake Buhari made was making the security heads of this country northern affair. These heads will surely be sentimental towards their own. U don't do that in a fragile country like Nigeria. Buhari messed up.

lonlytroy:
Tell them abeg, who get ear make he hear

Oga, people just want to move to where they can at least live without fear abeg.

I can't even travel by road anymore in Nigeria.


Op, pls move and hustle. No place is easy. Even in Europe, and America, it is not easy. A friend who moved her husband to the USA, the man didn't see job for months. She also gets broke sometimes.

But she is happier living in a sane country. Pls move to any place where ur peace is paramount. Nigeria is chaotic, unorganized, extremely dangerous and u could sleep and wake up one day to hear that airports have been shuts due to war or massive Insecurity.

I always tell people migrating never expect to expect it to be easy. Even in Germany, many Nigerians are jobless and broke. But bro, they at least live in a sane country.

I strongly advice u move and think of business u can do. One of our biggest problems in this part of the world is our mentality to always look for job. We can always think on how to create jobs. My job enables me to work for clients abroad and I'm always amazed on how they create jobs. They are always thinking of creating jobs. Move to a sane country and look for small jobs while u look and plan to create a business there. If u are smart, u will shine. Snane environment is very important. Nigerians even behave like mad people. When u drive, when u go out, almost everyone is behaving like a mad person. Gush.

Beautiful. I love South Attica