₦airaland Forum

ISpiksDaTroof: What has the above got to do with the fact that anyone that can think logically understands that your President is behind (maybe not all, but some of) this chaos to divert attention from other illegal acts hes carrying out with his chronies. You Africans need to learn how to start thinking critically and logically. You just displayed the typical African way of reacting emotionally, instead of rationally, above.

So an American that doesn’t even know where Nigeria is, or anything about the country or its people, has more understanding of the political landscape in the country than a native? You’ve just proven that you are just like them, a bigot who thinks, by virtue of being born in a wealthy country, somehow makes you more enlightened than others.

Goodluck Jonathan has absolutely nothing to do with the terrorism in the North-Eastern Region of Nigeria and to say or insinuate that he does, just shows how ignorant you are.

Religious fanaticism in Northern Nigeria goes back decades, even centuries; President Jonathan merely inherited the garbage along with the North-Eastern governors, which is where most of the attention should be focused, since it’s their job to alleviate poverty in their states, not Goodluck Jonathan.

When people were being kidnapped in Igboland, I didn’t see or read a single article blaming the President.

People need to stop treating Northern Nigerian’s like they’re children.

The average American can’t even point out Nigeria in an atlas map, so who cares what they think? They typically sway towards the Africans are inferior and incompetent mantra, so the president sponsoring terrorism in his own country appeals most to them; as ridiculous as it sounds.

CFCfan: Equatorial Guinea 1-2 Spain. 10 mins to go.

So EQG are this good?

Equatorial Guinea failed to qualify for the last ANC, so no, they aren't that good. They're playing at home and the Spanish team tends to struggle against really physical sides, because of their short stature and lack of strength.

gbrown: If this is d team keshi is taking to Brazil, it,s better we pull out and allow the more enterprising ethiopeans go, what a drab game, imagine African champions who cannot string thier passes.

You mean the same Ethiopia that just lost 4 - 1?

Rossikk: Perhaps... But we're fast catching up on them while they seem to be regressing.



This is what I'm trying to drum into these peoples' heads.

The Egyptians should come to Nigeria for lessons on how to build their democracy. Their politicians are not as sophisticated as their Nigerian counterparts. They lack strategic thinking. I mean, look at Morsi. What he did was equivalent to Buhari winning power by a slim margin, and then proceeding to impose sharia across the country, and neglecting all developmental issues. You won't even need millions of Nigerians on the streets to stop him. Either he gets impeached, or someone in his inner circle will off him before he does further damage to their party.

That’s true, only, a sitting president, such as Buhari, because of the checks and balances in place, would be unable to impose Sharia on the entire country even if he wanted to.

I think the problem in Egypt’s case was political immaturity.

The story is old and baseless and was written by a Nigerian hating Ghanaian woman.

somalia5: i could never claim jews, or anyone that am really not

Ethiopia in its biblical sense refers to a group of people, not the country Ethiopia, which in actuality was renamed (from Abyssinia) in commemoration of the historical legacy of the term.

mens dept: These folks still remain very local.

They like to quote big time companies/institutes when they want to do something. Today its United Nations have approved Massob, then FIFA wants to go to Anambra to build stadium, etc.


Nonsense.

Anambra has this year and yearly budgets of USD 700 million and there is nothing to show for it. Those SE/SS states have the money to build a Dubai if they want to, but when ODILI of Rivers is acquited for stealing USD 600 million, Alamyeisba of Bayelsa money laundering, Attah of Akwa Ibom and Nnamani of ENugu hiding in America, Udenwa of Imo trying to smuggle himself into the Senate for immunity, Ibori jailed in London, then you wonder why these bast.ards should be bombed by Boko Haram.

And the people dey follow like mumu.

Incase you didn’t know, corruption exists everywhere in Nigeria. There isn’t a particular region of the country that is any more or less corrupt than the others. It all simply boils down to an issue of competence. Some governors are more competent than others, which is why poverty is low in the South East and extremely high in the North.

GAR3TH: I'm not shifting the goal post. All I'm saying is that there is no way Fifa's Goal Project will ever fund an international stadium. Its not what the program is about nor is it what they do. Either the government is involve and they pay for the stadium or the government is not involve and Fifa builds a training pitch and facilities and the newspapers are blowing things out of proportion. I think there will be less confusion if people actually know and research what Fifa goal projects are.

So that’s not a deflection, that wasn’t your original contention. You were wrong, be a man and move on!

Dabbling in conjecture…what is the point? You always seem to have an issue whenever it involves Igbo People.

GAR3TH: Fifa Goal Project is funding the project but the Fifa Goal project does not build/fund large stadiums. They construct and fund Football pitches, facilities and programs to develop football in the region, they DO NOT build or fund large stadiums. So its either the newspaper is blowing things out of proportion and their just going to build a pitch and some facilities or the government is building a large stadium with fifa assisting.

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footballdevelopment/projects/goalprogramme/index.html

Just admit you were wrong and move on; don’t try and shift the goal post, because your initial argument was about funding for the project.

Olodostein: We need Internationally recognized and acclaimed university with good research facilities.

People are building cars of tomorrow.
Bill is building tomorrow toilets for developing nation.
Countries are embracing modern sustainable agriculture.
And many more.

We are building stadiums and what not.

Person wey no chop dey watch sports ? No wonder black kids have few intellectuals to look up.

This is secondary.

Anambra is the only state in Nigeria that builds cars, what do people do in your state?

[quote author=omayyi ]The people I pity most in the event of a disintegration are igbos living outside igboland. Can't wait to have a reason to kick their butts outta my land, lol.[/quote]If you did that then your new nation would collaspe even before it started. People don’t invest in nations were their investments are not safe. If foreigners witnessed your people attacking, killing, maiming and destroying “other” peoples businesses within your land, they’d quickly back out of any future investments they may have had planned.

[quote author=Ki-Katanga]The law cannot discriminate differently across its people. If the problem is Northerners then there may be a case for letting them go their separate way -- that's a different debate -- but a country should allow its people the same rights, responsibilities and sanctions before the law.

For Nigeria to be truly unified, it must be blind to ethnicity, tribe and state.[/quote]Nigeria’s priorites right now is getting its people to live amongst one another without conflict, trying to remove laws which recognise our differences will not unify us, because the issues that Nigeria faces are due to the refusal of the Nigerian state to aknowledge the patent differences in its people.

A prime example of this is in the unitary government that it now operates on. Right now people are clamouring for a SNC, which is the total opposite of what this policy is all about.

Northern Nigerians want sharia law in their land, they want to be able to practice their faith in its purest form, I say they should be allowed to. Nigeria should work like the United Kingdom, a nation of nations, rather than a forced country were people are blind to their ethnicity whether they be Welsh, English, Northern Irish or Scottish.

[quote author=Ki-Katanga]Good.

If Nigeria is going to be one country, you have to be either Nigerian or not none of this indigen/tribalist/racist nonsense.[/quote]Forced unity is not the way, acknowledgement of our differences is. Trying to impose unity of the people of Nigeria will only make things worse, by further heating up the polity.

geeez: Really?

You may just wanna read the link below showing the classification of states in Nigeria by the GDPs which places Oyo State ahead of any Igbo state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_GDP

Igbo land has the highest HDI in Nigeria, around 0.6 on par with many developing nations around the world!

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO]Looking at the 'white' factor a bit deeper, you could argue that as at the time the colonialists left in 1960, Nigeria, when compared with South Africa was still light years behind. Comparing pictures of Lagos and Johannesburg of 1960 will show stark differences between both in infrastructure and the city skyline. So what was the reason for this since both countries had 'whites' in gov't?

The reason why the Afrikaaners developed South Africa more than the British did for Nigeria was b'cos they actually believed they were developing 'their' homeland; as against the British that did the barest minimum they could get away with just to ensure their comfort, facilitate the exploitation and evacuation of our resources, and keep the niggas quiet .

If apartheid had continued to this day, and there had been no economic sanctions imposed on South Africa, it's quite possible that -with the abundance of cheap labour and vast mineral/human resources- South Africa today would be among the top 5 economies in the world.

So what we see in South Africa today by way of positive economic indices is the result of the groundwork layed by the departing whites (who didn't do it for their 'love' of the Zulu). As for 'stability': the main reason i can think of is that they don't have a lazy, thieving, murderous cabal that believes power at the centre is their birthright, and are prepared to dagbaru the whole political-economy if they are no more calling the shots.[/quote]White people don’t get along with one another just as much as black people don’t. The only difference between white people and black people is that white people have come to terms with that reality and have thus implemented structures in order to keep everyone happy.

The breakup of nations like Yugoslavia, the small almost inconsequential European nations sprouting up all over the place, these things are put in place to quell any future conflicts.

Black people on the other hand, much like the white racists of old, believe that they are all one people, and thus should be able to thrive together as one at the expense of our differences.

Moreover, the white people in South Africa did not build the country, Great Britain, Australia and United States of America built South Africa.

danjohn: I said parts of the SE and not all of it. I assume that not all parts of the SE has oil. Notwithstanding, please do not forget that there are millions of Igbos living outside of the SE who have businesses and investments in other regions. Breaking up Nigeria may not automatically mean that a vibrant new country will be established in the SE. Many of these individuals who live outside the SE will probably prefer to have permanent residency status in Lagos/Kaduna etc. and visit Biafra, their home country, only during the Christmas.....

No, most of us will relocate our businesses and move back home.

Mr femi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RYB3Iwee8

NEVER EXPECTED THIS GUY COULD STOOP TO THIS LEVEL OF HYPOCRISY.....Nawa o....anywz IBB na hin mentor so no wonder

How is that hypocrisy, he’s speaking about Ibori from his own personal perspective. If his perception of the man was positive, based on his interactions with the guy, should he now turn around and call Ibori the devil, because he was arrested for corrupt practices?

He can only speak on what he knows, if the man is corrupt (which he is), then he should be tried and convicted, but that doesn’t negate the positive things that he did.

pDude: John Fashanu should shut that his cockney mouth and stick to entertainment.

You should shut your mouth, because everything he said is true. You'd think that someone like him would have more insight into the matter, considering he was born and raised in a country that actually functions (England).