₦airaland Forum

abbey621:
Okay let's even play along, let's assume we divide.

Yorubas: Who will be president? Tinubu, Saraki, Fashola, Akeredolu?

SE/SS: Amaechi, Jonathan, Kanu, Obi?


Are we not seeing a pattern here? The same corrupt element would still govern us, the same problems would still manifest, they might come in a different shape or form but they would still exist. Look at states like Lagos, Imo, Cros Riv and so on with enough resources to stand alone, how come people in these states are still suffering?

OROSUNBOLB:
Even in nonsense there is sense ! Fani Kayode may be an unstable character, but any intelligent or reasonable person will agree with him that the very foundation of this country is shacking seriously and may collapse any time soon.

Buhari seems to be so much interested in pursuing Uthman Dan fodio's hegemonic agenda that will definitely see to the end of Nigeria. The country is divided sharply along ethnic ,regional and religious line in such a degree that has never been this pronounced in her history.

What is Buhari thinking of ? To subject the rest of the country to the authority of his ethnic fulani thereby securing Nigeria for them as their inheritance as wished by Uthman Dan Fodio ? What is the real motive behind Ruga ? 2023 is pregnant with a lot of possibilities that are capable of tearing the country apart and destabilize the whole of west Africa.. Nigeria will never be an inheritance of Fulanis. That idea is dead on arrival,it will never see the light of the day.

This is not 1967, I hope this administration will use the remaining parts of their tenure to quickly right some of the obvious wrongs before the situation gets out of hand. Buhari should not provoke ethnic conflict that can easily result in the collapse of Nigeria. He is too nepotistic to be President of Nigeria and I fear he is steering the ship of the country toward another civil war. He must be stopped ! This time around,any region can easily secede from Nigeria in case of another war.

Yorubas don't beat drum of war and we don't flex unnecessary muscle but nobody should doubt it, our land ,every inch of it, will be well defended and secured in case somebody decides to be stupid. Oodua won't be caught unaware !

Yes ,Nigeria can break up with the way Mr Buhari is running and conducting her affairs now. I so agree with Fani Kayode.



I am not disregarding the views of Femi Fani Kayode. I respect him as a person. However, I feel we should not allow ourselves to be used by Politicians to achieve their objectives. Because a Northern organization says Nigeria belongs to the Fulani people, does not mean all Northerners agree with the tribalistic organization. State Governors have been given more power nowadays and they are now able to develop their States as they deem fit. There is no General in Aso Rock controlling everyone in the country these days. I don't like the APC as a Party but under APC rule, we can see some positive moves. We can see infrastructural development to some extent and Social Welfare is being introduced gradually into the country. We also had some good initiatives and programs under the PDP governments. Gradually, Nigeria is developing. It is still at a snail pace, but Nigeria is moving towards its destiny. The battle for Aso Rock should not hinder the growth of the 36 States of the Federation. Governors should be held responsible for the development of their States. The President in Aso Rock will not come and develop your State for you. He can only release your State's monthly allocation to your Governor. So what we should work towards is Regionalism. We need to make Aso Rock less attractive to our Politicians.

Cantonese:
Did you say "20 years of democracy"? So what will you call the years 1960 - 1966 & 1979 - 1983? Which region had the presidency those years? Now aggregately from 1960 - 2019 which region has held power more? Why do you people rub off those times in the history of Nigeria? The north my friend has held power much more. And you know what, they need to let others enjoy it too.

homirefacuny:
I may not agree with Femi most times but the reality on ground seems to align with his thoughts. The Northern elites wants to hold on to power by all means in 2023 and the South feels shortchanged, rightly so. Nigeria na forced contraption!

codemaniacs:
you just answered yourself.

you said " blacks are at the lowest rung of economic prosperity in America". its not just blacks in the U.S it's all black people globally.

most of the big companies are owned by europeans who would always give jobs to their fellow europeans than give black Americans.

you get your info mostly from media so you're brainwashed. a lot of white people are doing worse than black Americans but the white owned media would never show it.

if you're expressing yourself would you express as a bad person.

right now you're trying your best to express yourself as been better than black Americans when there are millions of black americans that are better than you.

Tayeni:
OMG!!! please tell me you are joking with those crude rattan whatever. Do you know how much of your hides and skin go to Europe and at what ridiculously low price we sell them for and what the finished products go for? and do you know how much a Prada bag costs? Your elites pay a billion times more to get designer bags than Europeans would for your rrrattan bags. It's better we step our game up and start producing real things.

Black Americans are doing well in music and sports.... but that has not helped them economically as a group. Get the right education and apply it and get respect.

Tayeni:
What should be massively promoted in all schools is STEM education. That is the only thing that will help the black man. And get him respect. That's the only type of education that will make him a creator instead of a perpetual consumer. If parents and families can't promote languages and culture.... so be it.

Premiumwriter:
are they as diverse as we are?

does japan or china have over 250 languages within its boundaries? if we all encourage our local languages over english then how should the country be governed?

if buhari today can only speak fulani fluently and osibanjo only yoruba how are they going to communicate with each other and moreover the over 250 other ethnic groups?

and should the government make provisions for maths, biology, chemistry to be translated into the over 250 ethnic groups individually? the problem of choosing to teach in our local language will bring far more problem and disunity than the common english.

texazzpete:
Yes. You can learn by living in the East. Many Unilag students learn Yoruba just by living and interacting with people in Yaba. Nobody forced them to take lectures in Yoruba.

You can also make Igbo a compulsory subject and that would help too

texazzpete:
There is no difference between

“Everyone must speak Igbo in school on Wednesday “

And

“Vote APC or we throw you into the lagoon”

Both espouse intolerance towards diversity.


If you want to ‘save the Igbo language’, make it a compulsory subject and teach it rigorously in school. Same as how we do for English.

Forcing non-Igbos to wear Igbo attire and speak Igbo language...that’s nonsense.

mvem:
No!...Japanese and Chinese because of pride speak their own language...you don't see Japanese prime minister speak English in the UN meeting even if he can. See! igbo is dying. I see many Igbo youths that can't speak igbo, forming phonetics. Unlike Hausa and Yoruba that is taught from childhood. Many igbo parents sometimes willingly refuse teaching Igbo to their kids because they want them to appear more western or civilized which is very wrong. See many igbo brought ups in Lagos, Kaduna, kano etc can't speak igbo. In the North even in official setting they joyfully speak their hausa but in the east it is not the case. I don't know why many igbos sometimes pretend they can't speak igbo and this is rampant among young youths and those slay Queens...The language will slowly die with this mentality erasing our culture. We should encourage igbo to be spoken and no one should be shy to speak it. We igbos always try to appear more western which in the long run will affect our heritage.

samwash:
Oga!!! Ur argument is baseless, those countries u name above speck a unifieing language, which are Chinese, Japanese, Dutch , Korean etc. And there citizens speck English at the international stage. Nigeria is a muti-legual nation, English is our unifieing language.

Xclusiveme:
If you train our students with native language, how do you think we can cope with international debate or expressing ourselves in an interview or relating with investors in nigeria. While Korea and rest of the country u mentioned are like that is because their government did a lot for them, empowering everybody with the skills and intellectuality without going to foreign land. I bet Nigeria can't do that. Even our politicians send their kids to foreign land. There's no empowerment. And that's why we need to empower ourselves by learning the foreign language. That's our last option

Tayeni:
As desirable as it is to teach science and other forms of education in our mother tongues, it's not feasible in a country that's not homogeneous .
. Not even in Africa as a whole. We are too fragmented along language lines. Too many languages.

IGBOmarryme:
IMO already started it first with Emeka Ihedioha.

Xclusiveme:
They should have an igbo speaking day once a week, the rest of the days English. English is really important in training a child. Children these days don't really know how to express themselves in English because of native lang upbringing. Our mother's tongue is necessary too but we need to be advanced in English first than any other language.

Ctorch:
https://punchng.com/anambra-to-punish-teachers-flogging-pupils-for-speaking-igbo?fbclid=IwAR1nzwYYWdCwGKoWryM040AMuWcXBNmAtyZEWd_cVWiitUvvO4fpK_4rHUw

Nerro042:
Numerous opportunities in this country but alas it's filled with unpatriotic citizens who'd bash and elope the country in a flash.. It's a shame really this Nigeria holds too much potential to remain like this.

Sammy07:
Lol, honestly I don't know it's name.
But we saw clearly that it carried mat...

One of my friends died in the process, he was slapped, he and the security man sha.
They were smoking cigarettes in the middle of the night. (the bush sha)

The security man used more than 3 months in the hospital.
My friend died on the spot...

Till today, all the security men stays indoor...

uuzba:
Europeans, Westerners all live on credit.
Their bank account is 0.00. They use credit card for everything. Food, Clothes, Car, Phone contract, mortgage.
And then they spend their lives, working and paying back the credit, month after month.
In that type of life, one can barely save anything. That's why they pay monthly rent. They can never save money like us to pay yearly.
We Nigerians do not have credit system.
Nobody here will give you Food, Clothes, Car, Phone contract, mortgage on credit.
Go and earn your complete money first, before buying anything.
So somehow, we are better at saving money.
We can save to pay annual rent.
But believe me, if you allow your life to go down the path of credit-credit-credit.... you can never gain it back.
Majority of British students take out a student loan to even go to university. And this money is deducted from their salary if and when they get jobs
after graduation.
Many get seriously depressed becuase of this. If they don't pay, it is recorded as a bad credit rating and they can not take more credit for any other thing.
Some just gather small money, enter aeroplane and run to Australia (a country made or formerly British citizens) and start a new life there, never to return to UK.

Kelechi009:
Yeah, this is why people in the west live from paycheck to paycheck. Once job is lost, they are dead.

bunto:
I can so relate to this. Way back in 2005 I started a food packaging business. I promised all my employees that they would always receive 13th month salary. They also went home every month with products that the packaging had been damaged or returned by customers.
Between 2005 - 2008 they received tje 13th month. I thought they were loyal, not knowing they had become a cartel to milk me dry. In 2008 I had to take a loan to finance the business still. Not know they were stealing. They got so comfortable stealing that people later said they were using "juju" on me. A lot of other people saw them stealing and ruining my business but you know Nigerians, nobody said anything. By 2009 I couldn't repay the loan so I lost my collateral. By the end of 2009, when I couldn't pay the 13th month, every single one of them left.

I used all my gratuity from working with an oil company to set up this business. They just came to ruin me and left.

On the flip side, I have a friend that wouldn't pay her staff for months, her children school abroad. Yet her staff stay for years, they dare not steal from her.

Honestly, Nigerians are the cause of their own woes. Businesses pack up daily because Nigerians care so little about each other.

They don't seem to realise it affects every part of their lives, their children's lives and future.
We are tearing this country apart through nonchalance and greed.

I don't know a more disloyal citizenry than Nigerians. It is all quite unfortunate because together we could make a phenomenal nation.

BreconHills:
Not completely true. Certainly if you look at Europe the Middle ages or some call it Dark Ages lasted from the 5th Century to the 15th Century. That is a heck of a lot of time! But we could have leapfrogged all this in the same way Dubai and Singapore have done so why havent we?

The main reason is we are a country with an extraordinarily high friction rate. It's difficult getting things done but we a lot of this friction owes to the fact that you have over 50 different nationalities bunged up together with differing views, outlooks and culture. Friction filled tribal relationships have not helped.

But why am I so hopeful.

An entirely new country is being built around human capital, technology and innovation. Nigeria is the clear leader in numbers of innovation hubs, tech funding is huge and most of it is local. The new wealth isnt crude oil but people. Why isnt it changing things? Well, a lot of graduates are badly educated but entitled. They want the old economy where you go and work in a company or they become life coaches spreading ignorance and narrow perspectives in their trail. They wont get it. It's gone, dead, kaput!

Sure weve had horrid leaders but that doesnt completely explain why we are where we are. I wont go into that.

But we have made progress - huge progress. Think of Nigeria 30 years ago with an archaic telecoms system, low bandwidth, relying on 100% fossil fueled domestic energy, ( today some of us are off grid using solar), crumbling state schools and almost no private hospital system. There was no HMO, international travel was restricted to very few privileged people and income mobility was extremely narrow. Today there has been progress, not as much as we would have liked

Initial progress in any country like Nigeria is private sector led. The malls are redefining shopping, cinemas lifestyle, payment systems are creating frictionless transactions and housing developments are moving from grand luxury to income directed accomodation. You no longer need to know the bank manager to access credit.
What needs to happen is that Government needs to expand opportunities for private sector by opening up the country with rail and motorways. This is exactly what is happening.

I am a pre independence person so heck I might not see as much of the future as the really young people but believe me you are staring at a much brighter horizon than say 40 years ago. But it wont come on a plat you have to know your sectors and build the appropriate skills and networks.

Long reply. But what the..

Ibime:
This is so funny.

This guy face look like he go soon get heart attack. Doing business in Nigeria no easy oh.