₦airaland Forum

8BitGee:
God bless you man. It's unbelievable! They build roads with open drains, no sidewalks, no road markings, no parking and no pedestrian crossings. I don't mean pedestrian bridges, pedestrian crossing. Bridges are too expensive. Simply have traffic lights with pedestrian crossing buttons.

https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02209/crossing_2209318b.jpg

https://l7.alamy.com/zooms/e47cc981a26649c0889147f2b5f00a75/senior-citizens-crossing-a-road-in-wolverhampton-using-a-pelican-crossing-eaac8y.jpg

The thing about this scene here is... You don't even need to sweep the streets or do any 'environmental day' digging up of crap from gutters etc, because the way they've built the street, every thing is blocked off, including the soil. The whole street actually requires minimal maintenance once it's set up like this. It is only when you build rubbish that you need to keep having 'clean up days' and dust everywhere.

Abagworo:
Nigerian pedestrians prefer walking on the road instead of sidewalks. The citizens dislike closed drainage and they rather leave pedestrian brudges for cattle. We need more of enlightenment campaign than even the infrastructure itself.

(The highlighted) - I think that's because traders block the pavement. But any serious administration can take care of that.

MONITZ:
Nigerians are a very funny lot,its only in Nigeria that u see people giving plaudits to somebody who is only performing his duties.

Is it that poverty has so battered our senses that we don't reason well as normal human beings again??,maybe we ve been so battered that things which ordinarily should be a right or necessity are now seen as luxuries.

@ op, is the light free of charge or they re paying for it??

This ur nonsensical observation truly shows that we still ve a very very very long way to go as a country because of the kind of people inhabiting this geographical location called Nigeria and we also deserve the kind of leaders that we ve.

Abeg make we hear word. Nigeria is a developing country. In most developing countries (ie 80% of the globe) they are power outages.

See India:

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Vikkxh6Y197JND8rN9zraJ/Power-cuts-in-a-time-of-surplus.html

''Yet, the stark reality is that many states are witnessing power cuts of 4-5 hours every day. In Uttar Pradesh, planned load shedding is as much as 11-12 hours in rural areas and 5-6 hours in urban, according to the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp. Ltd website.''

So when we see improvement in Naija, we are right to celebrate it!

Mandu11:
I don't undastand the need of abok.i in football,football and abok.i man av no business at all

SHUT UP. FOOL. When the aboki was scoring goals in earlier matches, that saw us to the semis, did you complain? Ewu!

Josmila:
Our disjointed play in this game is worrisome, too many incomplete passes, feels like they're intimidated by the Germans. I dare say this isn't the team that played against Denmark. Piss poor performance this!

You answered the whole thing there. Dem dey fear Germany.

Simple passes they were making against Denmark, were going astray against Germany. If those Germans had Danish jerseys on, we would have beaten them.

lokoloko84:
And closed drainage with proper road signs, posts and markings.
Honestly, Nigeria politicians are shameless.A lot of deception everywhere and majority of the citizens will claim some states are developed.
I just laugh at such comments.

You dey mind them? Anyway, it's lack of exposure that's troubling them. They think it's normal to buiid a road with open drains. They have no idea they're being scammed. I have actually seen posts here PRAISING governors for building roads with open drains. ''Wow.. he built a nice drainage too!", they exclaim. Quite comical, really.

bayonino:
Why is this on the FP @seun @OP, are you motivating the youths to start smoking weed or what!!!

Post like this should even be removed not to talk of taking it to FP.

Seun you are really loosing it

My friend sharrap. Who doesn't smoke herb today apart from S.U. bible heads like you?

abike12:
Weed is not legal in Jamaica o. Smoking in your hotel or resort is fine but they will pick you up if they catch you in a public place

They let you off with a little 'fine' like in Naija.

Naijiant:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

lol...not in this case though.

Naijiant:
So to avoid stoning, they shouldn't build any roads.

YES! Don't build the road. Then we'll know we don't have road. When we're ready to build the road, we'll build it the way roads are supposed to be built.

kYjelly2:
U go wait tire op, mtcheew

U never even see as person go just stand spread leg for gutter, remuv is peniiis and start pissing into the neighborhood toilet (I mean gutter), while smiling at u (with his peniis not his face )

Nigerians love their open gutters, how else will they pee, or throw away their trash, or shower, or even make love

The open smelly gutter, filled with green, brown, black and yellow substances is a national treasure my friend, a national treasure.

Only someone like the op rossikki will be heartless enough to recommend genocide of a whole species just to make "progress", don't u know that mosquitoes are people too

So in conclusion, I conclude

funny guy.

Jengem:
I so agree with your post

Spot on

The leaders dont care because they dont expect their families to walk on the road

They dont consider the poor in their planning stages

The sad thing is that they don't realise that even the quality of life of their own children will be improved if they could just come out of the house and take a nice walk on a pavement to wherever. After all walking IS good for the body, as opposed to driving everywhere.

plaetton:
No wonder Nigerians voted out Jonathan.

If Nigerians don't appreciate the simple, common sense of Ben Bruce, then it's obvious that we can never appreciate common sense leadership.

No wonder we are now saddled and stuck with the current set of fossilized dinosaurs.

We deserve the morons that we get it office.

Dude, please...

It's really strange. When you go to other countries, it is taken for granted that a road will come with sidewalks and covered drains. In Nigeria, it's usually a toss of a coin whether it will or not. That's got to change.

Somebody should ban him from Twitter.

The era of building urban roads with open gutters is gone for good. ANY governor who tries that today must be STONED by the people, and his work instantly rejected. Pedestrians are citizens too, and deserve adequate infrastructural facilities for their own movement. Thanks!

Folzye:
I want to ask the same question , where is the small london? But b4 u attempt to slap, prove to me where London is else get ready to face the queen of England and tell her your street with archaic buildings and grace C tarred roads compares with the London standard.... Even VI no fit claim small London with confidence

My friend sharrap there... There are places in London I will take you, and you will be screaming for that VI.

OP, who stopped you from becoming an athlete and winning a medal at the Olympics? The people that are competing there, do they have 2 heads? Lazy man mocking others for not bringing medals to him.

newbornmacho:
The same way majority of youths rejected brexit . What would they rather have? Angela merkel's Germany of terror and white body bags Trump is coming to save western civilization ...these kids ought to be saying 'thank you'.

You have no sense. Do you know Trump asked US intelligence folks in a private briefing, why the US was building nuclear weapons, and not using them? He asked the question 3 times in that briefing. This is the madman you're claiming wants to save "western" civilization. How, by starting a nuclear war? Do you even care about your own life or family, to have an impulsive, vindictive, thoughtless, ignorant, racist bigot in charge of the world's mightiest nuclear arsenal? Where is your common sense?

Abraham4christ:
And where is the small london.

You deserve two slaps for that question..

mekaboy:
Majority or Nigerians are poor and hungry while a few can wear expensive shoes. The poor will be hailing the few and praising their shoes.

What happened to buy Nigeria to Grow Nigeria?

Sanusi was having his Friday prayers when that came up.

uniklinkum:
Truth that, took a course in my final days on the neocons and their shenanigans. The only development the colonists embarked on was constructing transport facilities towards port cities and point of exit to sites where they pillage countries resources to their countries.

True. Some Nigerians point to the railway system left by the colonialists as 'evidence' that they tried to develop the country. Meanwhile, the network was a simple north to south line built to evacuate resources from the north to the southern Atlantic coastal ports for onward shipment overseas. By contrast, Nigeria is building a proper rail system today that connects and integrates the various regions of the country.

AntiWailer:
May be 70 years is not enough.

Go and do your research.

Check counties and how long they got independance.

And read about each of them.

I have been to a few.

70 years of robbing you is not enough? Buhari or Jonathan are in power for a year and you guys start calling for their heads. But Whitey can come in and rob you for 70 years, and you call for another 70. Did the whites use jazz on you?

ConqueredWest:
Yes fact from one perceptive.

A nation where its inhabitants don't love and trust themselves should part ways peaceful if they seek to progress.

Now mention one developed nation that is hatefully divided along ethnic or religious lines

The USA.

AntiWailer:
Other African Countries got their independence before they are qualified to.

Check African countries, the longer their year of independence, the more useless the country.


Not like South Africa has good leaders but the country has been developed beyond damage befoe the colonial masters left.

But the whites ruled Nigeria for 70 years and built not one university, power plant, expressway, or major hospital. Goodluck Jonathan built 12 universities in 4 years, while the Enugu state govt built more kilometres of road in 4 years than the colonialists built in Nigeria in 70 years. How much longer did you want the colonialists to stay and rob you, since you enjoy being robbed?

bender79:
Because they were in a hurry to chase the whites.

Actually it was after we chased the whites that we began to develop.

ConqueredWest:
I disagree with you.

AustriaHungary empire became a failed nation because of the existence of diverse ethnic groups that do not love themselves and a system that is over centralized like Nigeria.

There is nothing to 'disagree' with, in what I wrote. I wasn't stating an opinion. I was stating facts.

Time to educate some folks here. The ONLY reason South Africa is more developed than the rest of black Africa is that she began her modern development long before any other African countries. Of all the black African nations under colonialism, South Africa was the ONLY country in which the colonialists RE -INVESTED export earnings in the local economy. Thus, South Africa's first universities were established as early as the 1880s by the colonialists. They built their first power stations in the 1890s. By contrast, in Nigeria etc, none of these things were built until the 1960s, after the colonialists left. The colonialists had settled SA in large numbers due to the weather etc. They saw it as a permanent settlement. So they governed responsibly. The rest of Africa they just looted. They exported resources from Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone etc, and they reinvested next to nothing in those countries, for a hundred years plus. That's why they are so rich today. That was the reason for their colonialism in the first place. So SA has a 100 year headstart on the rest of Africa in terms of development, and in terms of experience in running a modern society. That is why we are all playing catch-up to them. But we are catching up, though it'll take some time. And they are not standing still either.

Political enemies on the pages of newspapers.

SIRTee15:
I guess rossikki is looking at this secession stuff from the economic angle.
the truth is a lot of pro-biafrans haven't thought this out in detail.
I'm sure a lot of Ibos' will vote 'no to biafra' if they are made to understand the dire economic consequences.
just like the Scottish developed cold feet when they realized the economic challenges that lie ahead in case they the exit the UK.

let no one be deluded that if biafra is formed, Nigerian govt will be magnanimous in dealing with them.

if cbn decides the new country will not use the naira, it means Ibos will have to convert their naira to other currencies.

If the new nation decides to float her own currency, then Biafrans will exchange their hard earned naira for a relatively unknown currency backed by nothing, since the FGN will not assist the new nation with foreign reserves.

The exchange rate may also be dubious depending on the greed of the Biafrans govt or the reality on ground. eg if the govt is in desperate need of money, they will overvalue the currency...... thus ibos' will be forced to buy expensive Biafran currency.

This was exactly what ojukwu did with the Biafran pound during the civil war. He collected Biafrans' Nigerian pounds to procure arms n weapons and in return gave them worthless pieces of paper called the Biafran pound. After the war the Ibos' realized what they had with them was useless because the currency was never recognized outside biafra.

Most Ibo elites and businessmen will prempt this problem and simply embark on massive capital flight, leaving the new nation with acute shortage of cash.
the alternative is to dollarize the economy, this will leave the nation vulnerable to global shocks and the govt unable to implement any meaningful fiscal or monetary policies.

Foreign trade n services will equally be a challenge because the govt will most likely enact the same buharinomics Nigerians are currently enjoying in order to protect whatever foreign reserve they have.

The solution is for biafra to immediately start producing n exporting goods once it's formed.... or else.....

the saving grace is if the oil producing nigerdelta region chooses to join the biafra nation....... the sale of oil will serve as a vital source foreign exchange as well as a cushion for the govt to implement sound economic policies.

I'll be back to discuss more on possible challenges and solutions in event of biafra emergence.

Thanks for your input here. These are the sort of discussions pro Biafrans rarely, if ever, engage in. How can you be advocating to form a new country with no forward planning, no study of the economic implications, no discussion on even the system of govt to be practiced. I mean, it's just a disaster waiting to happen.

OgundeleT:
but not all claim we are going somewhere after we died. so which one do u want me to take?

ALL of them DO state we are going somewhere after death. It is only Christianity and Islam that arrived recently to claim we need to believe in their stories in order to transit to the next world. Of course it's a blatant lie, devised for control and profit motives. The truth is that ALL living beings , including animals, transit naturally to the next world. Animal souls, and even the souls of plants, have their own 'sections' in the afterlife.