Chima_Agbalajob: Let development continue in Anambra.

How does giving out cars to a few select people equal to development?

Do you know the meaning of economic development at all?

emrall:
That was the reason the tribal sentiment and religious rhetoric were introduced into the campaign to create animosity and heighten the cold war between the west and the east and break the already fragile relationship and the bridge which took the Igbo elders and Yoruba elders years to build between the two major ethnic groups since after the civil war. The creation of discord between Igbo and Yoruba was once tried by using Fani Kayode to destroy the relationship, but he was ignored by the Yorubas and Fashola himself who tendered an unreserved apology to ndigbo for the deportation of ndigbo from Lagos state.

This is another school of thought. It might be true or a ploy to calm frayed nerves following the damage made by the likes of Obi.

Whatever be the case, the horse has bolted from the stable and things have fallen apart. In simple terms, the damage is already done and reactions and counter reactions have started.

berem: The annoying part is that the fool that said it will not feel the impact of what he said and the aftermath of his words. It is the ordinary Igbos that will suffer the hatred when it starts. It is of utter disappointment that some Igbos on this forum see nothing wrong with it and they even praise arthur eze for making such callous statement.

Every line you have up there is true.

I'll tell you only two instances.

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Good question although the list needs a little update.

For example, Alamieyeseigha has been to prison although he's since been pardoned by Mr Jonathan.

Over to you EFCC.

Over to you all media houses.

Over to you Nigerians.

mustaphagreens:
so house too dey get footprints Na wa o oyinbo pple and their wahala wetin cm concern house with footprint na abi im get legs? Vewi soon una go begin talk of shoe size

It is the use of a language that brings out its beauty.

EBK2:
The picture you painted is true but I dont think break up will be the solution. The problem may even get worse after breakup. We need a Leadership and Cultural revolution in Nigeria. Leadership first. Strong, Selfless and visionary leaders that will bring about a cultural change that Nigeria needs.

But how are we going to get selfless, strong and visionary leaders?

The selfish and greedy politicians have hijacked totally hijacked the electoral system. Votes never count nor are counted. Most of the Good, capable and competent men and women have given politics a wide berth.

A good sign that people have given up is the percentage of registered voters compared to the number of adults.

Also compare the number of actual voters at elections to the number of registered voters. The figures are dismal and worrisome.

Nigerians have lost interest in Nigeria. However, Nigerians still do have some level of passion for their regions.

For now, I think there is no practical way to install credible leaders.

The poor man is in serious trouble in this country. To make matters worse for the hapless masses, there's no help in sight. Politicians waste money anyhow and are driven by selfish interest.

There is no adequate drinking water or sanitation. Yet these leaders continue to squander money.

This is the same state where a market went up in flames recently and some of the traders attempted to jump inside the raging fire.

https://www.nairaland.com/1483088/fire-guts-onitsha-market-traders

Politicians! Nigeria!!!

Secularist:

The property market here is hyper inflated, and corrupt politicians laundering money is the main reason.

You're right.

I think this advert is not for the regular people. The target may be the same corrupt politicians.

I'm confident that the number of honest Nigerians that can afford a N70m terraced house from a developer without a mortgage facility is very negligible.

Many of those honest ones that can afford it would rather build on their own so as to have more space.

But for the looters and thieves, anything goes.

Do you want to attach more pictures that show other views?

The houses look too crowded for the price tags of N50m and N70m.

What's the footprint of each house? How many cars can be parked in each one?

Katsumoto:

Malian Islamic travelers started visiting Old Oyo around the 15th century and a mosque was built solely for them. Conversion didn't start well until the 18th-19th centuries.

I guess that's why some Yoruba people refer to Islam as 'Esin Imale' which is a corruption of 'Esin Mali' (religion from Mali).

anonimi: ^^^^^^
That is why we need to share ideas and inform ourselves more about what is going on in order to understand what the possibilities are rather than simply pointing at some remote federal government and president while giving our local leaders who collect money from Abuja on our behalf a free pass.
What do you think

Just as I admitted up there, the problem with Nigeria could sometimes be so confusing and perplexing. But I'm sure the problem is very fundamental and getting more complex with each passing day.

On the 'free pass' or shielding that people are giving their local thieves and looters, what comes to my mind is that the people are indirectly saying that they are fed up with the 'Nigerian arrangement' and of course, something must be done about that arrangement in order to get 'Nigeria' working.

Two options come to mind:

1. A return to true fiscal and political federalism. Let's have a true federation in every sense of it. The federal government should bother only about common issues like currency, army, foreign policy, etc. The regions should have total control on their resources while they pay a token to the central purse to maintain it. The federation as we have it now is very faulty and has failed.

Why is the FG worrying about water, housing, intra city roads, power, local policing, schools, etc. As you can see, the FG has put so much load on itself. Why should robberies and housebreaking taking place at the same time in Saki, Gusau, and Eket be the headache of someone that is sitting in Abuja?

2. Break up the country and let people or the ensuing nations go their separate ways. If they want to come together again, after staying apart, the terms can be negotiated. And if they don't want one another again, the new nations would still be within West Africa sub region with free movement of persons and cargo. Honestly, I don't know the practical way to achieve this peacefully and quickly.

No matter what happens, something fundamental must happen to the current structure of Nigeria. Honestly, the people have become fed up and lost faith in the country.

awodman:
Some opposition lawmakers and those loyal to the G-7 governors are planning to boo him...

How can booing be a security issue?

What of Nigerians that are daily harassed at work and at home by unfriendly and harsh conditions?

Poverty and hardship are booing many Nigerians many of whom would not mind being booed by lawmakers.

padu:

It is the simple truth.

The research took us 48days between July and September, across 24 States in the country.

If you don't mind, I'll like to get the report.

anonimi:

I know it means MORE RESPONSIBILITY for the federal government in protecting Nigeria's territorial integrity, foreign relations AND supporting the states and LGAs in carrying out their CONSTITUTIONAL responsibilities in the educational and medical sectors such as through the UBE funds, Almajiri schools etc.



Did you read about youths protesting in Jigawa because their governor's sons were arrested for laundering money stolen that should have created employment through better equipped & staffed schools & hospitals etc
Do you recall how similar shows were staged for Ibori, Saraki etc?



They can follow the example of this community at the least:



But we will most likely not do that as we see those local representaTHIEVES (governor, state assembly lawmakers, SINators, federal legisLOOTERs, LGA chairmen & councillors along with their countless Special Assts & Advisers) in different offices as stealing from the national cake aka Niger Delta oil revenue on our behalf as they share us crumbs therefrom for which we are very grateful even as they abandon their CORE responsibilities and bamboozle us into thinking it is all the fault of the president
We deserve the leaders we get (or don't get) at ALL levels!

I share your sentiments but the way Nigerians are now, I doubt if there can be any genuine, unsponsored anti-bad governance protest by the people. The generation of genuine activists is dying off and Nigerians have become sharply divided and apathetic. People also keep quiet because of the backlash of participating in or leading protests. Whistle blowers are not safe and activists have become endangered so everyone is minding his own business.

If you removed the anonymity of Nairaland you can be sure that many people would stop criticizing the government. A friend of mine sometime ago put up a Facebook message that was critical of the government of the day and before the end of that day, several people called/contacted him to remove it. Some people even begged and pleaded with him to remove it. So I ask, how practical is genuine activism today?

This is why the situation in Nigeria is getting irksome, exasperating, complex and even confusing. If we say people should protest, who will lead them? If they are led, who will prosecute the offenders or suspects? The politicians at all levels have become very wasteful and opportunistic. Those benefiting from the rot will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo. The people that are dissatisfied with the system are afraid, scared or uninterested.

For all you know, there may be more than meets the eyes in the Jigawa protest and the case of family ostracism in Ogwashi Uku. Things have got that bad.

On another thought, it appears to me that people have lost faith in the Nigeria contraption and what they want is their 'own area' or region or country. This might be why there seems to be a deliberate effort on the part of many people to bring down the house and kill off the contraption.

iterator25:
Many of them are lazy, all they do is sit home waiting to be spoon fed by the government

Honestly, you don't know the duties of a good, responsible and responsive government.

anonimi:


You surely need to wake up first before you advise others.
How much of the responsibility of states and LGAs in the education (primary, vocational/technical & secondary) as well as in health (primary health centres & general hospitals) have they carried out successfully and adequately
I hope you are sharp enough to see the link with employment generation and impact on security.
Let us continue to sit down there and keep expecting the president to DO ALL while our governors and LGA chairmen are looting us blind

I agree that so much attention is on the FG and I want other tiers of government to also be held accountable.

But have you asked why this is so?

1. The FG takes 52% of the federal revenue. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources is also under the FG. Of course you know what this means.

2. The FG-led law enforcement agents are the ones that are constitutionally empowered and funded to fight corruption including in the states and LGAs. With the way Nigeria is constituted, what do you expect the people to do apart from usual talking?

iyke926:

Nigga, truth hurts. i speak from what I know...i'm a "factist" and you betta open ya eyes. Naija is a messed up "clannistic" country. And what tha f**k makes you think that u are intellectually inclined?? I know ya type of peeps. And what makes you think that ya microscopic reasoning is coherent and others lack sound reasoning?? Dont diss Naija youths like that. If you wanna attack come straight boi.

Your case is almost a hopeless one and what you need is help and not condemnation.

Now relax and listen.

We were on a serious matter and you introduced this:

iyke926: Yorubas like to excrete in moi moi leather and throw it like cricket abi na shot put.

Hausa people na by bush method...fresh air things with cigar for hand. When they are thru, d use use stick or stone to wipe their asshole. If u are unlucky use that stick do chewing


#TeamFreshAir ...GEJ for 2015

Read it again and see if it makes any sense whatsoever. Every single line of that disjointed post is dumb and foolish, both in letter and spirit. If you still can't figure this out then point it out to a much smarter person to discern for you.

I had youths like you in mind when I wrote the other post. It is youths like you that make someone want to give up about the various issues that abound in the country. But I have nothing for you except pity when I see you as one of the symptoms of what is wrong with the system.

It is not all youths in Nigeria that are intellectually empty but people like you are a strong justification to scrap the system and start again.

Again, you need help.

berem: are you talking of that? What of an election of 35 state governors for NGF chairman which some fools said it was rigged in favour of the Amaechi faction? You are talking of 500,00 voters. Smh

Things are getting worse.

The Anambra election was supervised by thousands of INEC officials, policemen and observers and spanned two days. Yet, it has been declared inconclusive.

Something very fundamental is wrong with Nigeria.

At this rate, something has to give.

Things can't just continue this way.

iyke926: Yorubas like to excrete in moi moi leather and throw it like cricket abi na shot put.

Hausa people na by bush method...fresh air things with cigar for hand. When they are throw, d use use stick or stone to wipe their ass. If u are unlucky use that stick brush teeth


#TeamFreshAir ...GEJ for 2013

Amaso99: Statistics was gotten from the western part of the country where bush sh*ting is normal... No offense

This is part of the problem with Nigeria - turning serious discussions into a tribal mudslinging.

The youths blame their leaders for the misrule yet they themselves have become clannish, intellectually lazy and totally bereft of sound reasoning.

A country that can't even organize a successful election for 500,000 voters across 21 local government areas.

Nigeria is progressively getting worse.

Sadly, things have fallen apart for Nigeria.

Terrorism is taking a tap root and the incidences of kidnapping, armed robbery are not abating. The USA has designated Boko Haram as a terrorist group and armed robbers stormed a hospital the other day to ask for a day old baby.

Frauds continue to rock private and public establishments as the massive, unprecedented oil theft continues unchecked. The Police seem to have given up and EFCC is on vacation.

Nigeria stands tall when it comes to deaths from terrorism, malaria, typhoid, cholera, road accidents, maternal mortality and children out of school, street hawkers, street beggars, street mad men/women, etc.

There is no adequate supply of water to Nigerians and government appears helpless. Teaching hospitals don't have blood or ambulances and proper toilet facilities are uncommon across the country. No state/city across the country can boast of adequate drinking water while the environment is noisy, dusty and dirty. Access to sanitation is poor and access to electricity or good roads is very limited. The education system is lying prostrate. Nigeria has become a giant slum.

Unemployment rate is sky rocketing and Nigerian graduates do menial and degrading jobs both at home and in abroad. Nigerians have become laughing stock and endangered species in Europe, Americas, 'cancer' in India and even hated in Africa - Ghana, Benin, South Africa. UK is even contemplating funding a prison in Nigeria because of the high number of inmates in British prisons.

Life expectancy remains very low and many people have heaped many aspirations which are the basic responsibilities of a good government on God, hence the hike in the number of religious centres.

Yeah, things have fallen apart and I think the word 'Nigeria' has become a joke. Nigerians themselves have become very divided and hopelessly disunited, except during fleeting and short moments of football.

A very dangerous dimension is when people shield corrupt citizens and suspects of fraud just because of mother tongue. This is a loud affirmation by the people that Nigeria has failed and they have lost confidence in the system/contraption.

Nigeria as an experiment has failed but the people should be given another chance under different platforms. Governments at all levels and at all times have failed! The Nigeria idea has not worked.

This is the time to seriously consider the break-up of the country...may be, just may be the people of the new nations would be serious about nation-building.

victorazy: Nothing we no go suffer for these ppl hand.

engrfcuksmtin: Wey we dey rain forest with all the jungles around this oyinbo people, am sure there will be world bed sheet day

folahann: Some people will sit down in their offices and pull out these figures from their imagination.
Before na 100 Million destitutes, now 100million lack toilet. Keep up the figures.

victorazy: Nothing we no go suffer for these ppl hand.

BrutusOj: Oyibo ppl don't even know what to celebrate anymore..wch one is world toilet day again? They celebrate all de available sickness(polio,cancer,Hiv/Aids,malaria,typhoid,bird flu,leprosy,kidney failure etc...)Now it' toilet day,small tin na,na #worldmadnessday....na wa oo

eluquenson: Fallacy, how on earth will that be

Which is more worrisome - the lack of toilets or the ignorance and nonchalance being expressed here?

Joavid: Is there anyway the Nigerian government can sue this bodies for gross misinformation?

WTF? 100million Nigerians

Misinformation? By how many millions is the figure wrong?

By the way, the UN is just saying this to call attention to the poor living conditions in he blighted areas of the world. It is in our interest to look inwards rather than fight with the figure.

The issue goes beyond mere physical presence of toilets and includes sanitation. Sanitation is very crucial to human health.


Listen to your Minister of Health (Prof Chukwu):

But Chukwu said the yearly occurrence of cholera could be stopped[b] “if there is a mechanism to stop open defecation which will prevent contamination of water sources and foods that are major causes of cholera in the country.”

He added, “Reports from the 14 states affected by the cholera and gastroenteritis outbreak indicated that indiscriminate open defecation practice and lack of toilet facilities which contaminated water sources and foods were the major causes of cholera in these states.[/b]

Hear your Minister of Water Resources (Sarah Ochekpe):

Seventy per cent of common tropical diseases are water-related and can be eliminated if adequate supply of water at the right quantity and quality is provided to the public,” 

Tell me, how can there be adequate toilet facilities when there is no adequate supply of water?

lincolnj88: D sweetest thing in life is excreating of shitting...... Especially in d bush

How is the waste disposed?

What do you clean your hands with afterwards?

For those that have been kicking, this is part of the statistics.

And the one below:

crisycent: I jst enta uncompleted building go shet so. No toilet for imo state nysc orientation camp

eluquenson: Fallacy, how on earth will that be

A proper toilet facility means a toilet that is safe and clean.

The toilets in many places fail the 'clean' test either because there is little or no water or the people are generally dirty. The toilets in the halls of our Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos are not even clean!

The toilets in many places fail the 'safe' test because of their location or their nature. Some people, especially girls and women, are also embarassed to use them. Even for men, many of the so-called toilets are not convenient/comfortable.

With this in mind, how many Nigerians do you think have access to proper toilet facilities?

Guyman02: This people wan kill us with statistics?
100million Nigerians live as destitutes.
100million Nigerians live below 1 dollar per day.
100million Nigerias suffer from river blindness
100million Nigerians dont have access to toilets.
100 million Nigerians bla bla bla.....

Nigeria economy is among the worst in the world yet this ldiats repartriate billions from Nigeria to their countries daily ask MTN or Shell how much they make daily here.

This foreign bodies have never given any positive stat about Nigeria e.g 100 million Nigerians celebrate Super Eagles world cup qualification.
Its only negative statistics, its high time we ignored all this useless stats.

Are you doubting the fact that development is low in Nigeria or there's widespread poverty?

UCH Ibadan does not have blood or ambulance to transport patients!!! The Water Corporation in many states manufacture 'pure water' or sachet water!!!

For so many reasons, policemen do not enjoy the confidence of the citizens. This is even a story for another day.

The 100m figure may not be 'accurate' as it is just a statistical measure, but I tell you, millions of people lack proper toilet facilities. How can people who don't have/can't afford enough water for drinking have proper toilet facilities?

The raw statistics on under-development in Nigeria is damning!

The country is fast on the way to failure!!!

Since it has got to this - Ibos supporting Stella Oduah in spite of overwhelming evidence of inadequacies and Jigawa youths protesting the EFCC arrest of suspects, is there any further proof that Nigeria, as presently constituted, has failed?

danot1030: ok mr presido can u pls tell d world hw many nigeria can afford basic needs.

Good question.

He should also tell us his plan to pull the hapless people out of destitution as well as the timeline for the plan.

accused:

WILLIAM LLOYDS TECHNICAL COMPANY- they will force all staff for monthly deliverance at mountine of fire in lagos,all staff are posses by one demon or the other so u most go for deliverance, u can be sack any moment without reason. before u re employed a pastor have to check u up spiritually.total abuse of staff rights by the md

Are you serious?

Where is the company located and what are they into to warrant spiritual checks?

According to the Water Resources Minister, Sarah Ochekpe:

Seventy per cent of common tropical diseases are water-related and can be eliminated if adequate supply of water at the right quantity and quality is provided to the public,” 

What the Minister failed to mention is WHEN adequate supply of water at the right quantity and quality will be provided to the public.

But they get angry when an outsider says millions of Nigeria lack access to drinking water or are destitutes.

On the recent outbreak of cholera, which has become annual, the Minister of Health - Professor Chukwu- had this to say:

But Chukwu said the yearly occurrence of cholera could be stopped “if there is a mechanism to stop open defecation which will prevent contamination of water sources and foods that are major causes of cholera in the country.”

He added, “Reports from the 14 states affected by the cholera and gastroenteritis outbreak indicated that indiscriminate open defecation practice and lack of toilet facilities which contaminated water sources and foods were the major causes of cholera in these states.

bloggernaija:

NIGERIA-A COUNTRY WHERE THE TOTALLY BLIND LEAD THE PARTIALLY BLIND.

Oh yes, the followership has become as much of a problem as the leadership. The problem is getting more and more complex by the day.

It is now so bad that people shield suspects of corruption on the basis of mother tongue!!!

How bad can it get?