Simplyleo: But I thought UK recognizes online country.
How comes UK prefers to transact with Nigeria rather than online country?
Is it one of those "intelligent" smart moves by lamidi cownu?
Though I heard lamidi cownu and Boris Johnson were in a closed door meeting yesterday. Based on what I heard, biafla and UK were about to sign a bilateral trade agreement.
Now that you mentioned it, it does contradict what IPOB has been saying all along, to the effect that Britain had joined hands with them to actualise the break-up of Nigeria.
I wonder what Nnamdi Kanu and his thugs think of this news.
Now free from the EU, Helen Grant, trade envoy to Nigeria and Tory MP for Maidstone and The Weald, said the UK was on the cusp of an ambitious era of trade with the major African state. Nigeria is Africa's largest and fastest-growing economy and is being targeted by the UK for an ambitious trade agreement. Due to its economic size, Ms Grant claimed there were wide opportunities to increase UK plc in multiple areas such as tech, financial services, agriculture and green technologies.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Ms Grant revealed any future deal may well surpass the current £3.4billion in trade between the UK and Nigeria.
She said: "I'm not gonna put a finger on it, but I think it could be absolutely huge."
Although Ms Grant refused to be drawn on when a free trade agreement may be signed, she did admit there is plenty to come between the UK and Nigeria.
She said: "I know we're trading with Nigeria under the generalised scheme of preferences.
"It's much simpler and more generous than the EU version.
"There is more to come on that. I also do get the strong feeling that we, of course, would be open to discussing an FTA with other West African countries.
"And I think the fact that you know, Nigeria is now at the helm of the WTO, I think that will be very helpful.
"And the fact that Nigeria has signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, I think all of these factors are, are of assistance.
While Nigeria has predominantly relied on oil within its economy, the state is developing rapidly in the tech industry which now accounts for 15 percent of its total economy.
The Nigeria economy also grew by 2.2 percent according to the IMF in 2019 and is expected to bounce back strongly from the pandemic.
UK expertise in engineering and science has also begun to shift the Nigerian government away from its dependence on oil.
Indeed, the Nigerian government's Economic Growth and Recovery Plan has outlined 60 initiatives.
These are centred on agriculture, industrialisation, energy and social investment, creating more opportunities within increased public-private partnerships.
In order to strengthen relationships with the state and other African nations, the UK hosted the first investment summit last year.
Due to this, commercial deals of over £6.5billion were signed and spanned several sectors including energy, retail and tech.
The second UK-Africa summit was held this year, albeit in a scaled-back fashion, as Boris Johnson declared the continent as a key trading partner.
Indeed, the Prime Minister said: "One thing that absolutely has not changed is my ambition for the UK to be Africa’s investment partner of choice."
While the UK has not signed a trade deal with Nigeria yet, the Government has inked 13 other agreements and is hoping to build on the £35-billion African trade relationship.
Kingstanding: . Still Nigeria is still the best country compare to majorities of Africa countries. When you tried other Africa countries you will give kudos to Nigeria as the most accommodative country in the world. If woman no taste two husband house she no go know the one way better.
Are you minding these guys.
I once told a Ugandan guy that in Naija we visit our villages for christmas etc, the guy was like ''huh? ...which village?'' He said in Uganda the villages were deserted, undeveloped, with only a few poor old people in mud huts. Most Ugandans don't even know where their so-called village is, he said, with their parents or grandparents having 'escaped' from there long ago.
In Naija villages we have banks, schools, electricity, tarred roads, mansions, markets filled with goods. Bobo said nothing like that in Uganda. Kampala or nothing.
Don't mind them. Their mates are hustling, doing real business. Their own is to look for railway line to steal even if people lose their lives because of it. Honestly, some people are just not well brought up.
NwaNimo1: Popular Yoruba historian, Professor Banji Akintoye has explained why he is in the struggle for the actualisation of the independence of the Yoruba Nation.
Akintoye, who is the leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, said his struggles for the actualisation of the Oduduwa nation was necessitated by the need to save his people from their suffering.
Akintoye, who was a senator in the Second Republic stated this in a virtual meeting with Dele Momodu's Ovation Media on Wednesday night.
He spoke of how herdsmen were not violent in years past.
He said, “The herdsmen were not violent neither were they destructive but the ones that have been sent since 2014 have been deliberately indoctrinated and empowered to go and hurt people, as servants of a philosophy that says ‘That we, Fulani, Allah has given us Nigeria and all of Nigeria and it is our duty to drive the people off their land and take the land’.
“That's what we have been having, people call them herdsmen but when I came and found people in Afenifere meetings talking endlessly about the menace, I concluded we need to find out what's happening. We researched the crisis, I wrote a paper, I think 36 pages, I went all over Nigeria trying to understand and then I went to countries in West Africa, inside and outside Nigeria.
“I spoke to Fulani folks in places like Yewa, I spoke to Fulani folks in Upper Senegal and the Gambia in West Africa. Some eminent persons among the Fulani political elites decided that the terrible situation among the Fulani was an opportunity to unleash them as warriors against the rest of Nigeria and so they were indoctrinated, heavily indoctrinated to believe that God (Allah) has given Nigeria to the Fulani and that all that the Fulani needed to do was seize the land by force and that is what we are experiencing.
“One Aliu Gwazo wrote in January 2014, 'In 1960, Allah through the British, gave us Nigeria to rule and to do with as we please. We have been doing that since 1960 and we wish to continue and if anybody tries to stop us, we shall kill, maim and destroy and turn Nigeria to the bloodiest war zone in Africa'. That is what they are doing, claiming and trying to achieve.
“I was on the delegation of those who visited Benue State Governor when the Fulani people came in large number on January 1, 2018, they wrote a letter to him, 'Mr Governor, I see that you and your people are mourning and they carry out mass burials but what is happening is a little of what is coming to you and your offence before us is that your ethnic groups in your state believe that the land they are living on is theirs because they have been on it for thousands of years but the land is not theirs, it belongs to us Fulanis and Allah has given it to us and we will take it by force we have accumulated the money and weapon for the battle. And we will continue fighting for hundreds of years if that is what it will take and we are not talking of the ethnic groups in your state alone but all over Nigeria, the Yoruba, Igbo, Kanuri and nothing can stop us and if you think the FG can protect you, you are deceiving yourselves'.
“That is what is happening; saying it is a clash between farmers and herders, is a lie, it is not truth. When I came back to Nigeria, I was away for 25 years, I never thought I would come back to Nigeria. When I came back in 2015, I found our people in the midst of all these. I went about lecturing people that Yoruba is a great nation.”
The professor also spoke on why elections should not hold in the southwest region, he said, “The more we hold elections under the 1999 constitution, the more we prolong our suffering. The Fulani marauders are telling us that they are in Southern Nigeria, Yoruba land, Igbo land, everywhere because the constitution allows that, so the more we hold elections under 1999 constitution, the more we prolong our suffering.
“I am very confident that if it comes to a referendum or some sort of voting, the Yoruba people will say in a very large majority that they don't want election in their part of Nigeria and those in the East and Middle Belt are saying the same and look at it, South and the Middle Belt account for three-quarters of the population of Nigeria so this is not the question of the minority.
“In our kind of situation, it is sensible to resort to what other nationalities have resorted to. Many nationalities that have tried to conduct their election like the Catalonians in Spain, like the Scots in Britain. We think it would be better to persuade the United Nations to come and run our referendum, the same way they did it in Sudan, I believe we can get that done.
“It is the pressure from three-quarters of the country that will put pressure on the United Nations to run it, the people running the country may not want it but the two-thirds will put such amount of pressure in the world that a lot of people will agree with them and that will amount to a vote on the United Nations that will authorise the UN to intervene. Process and procedure to expect in terms of self-determination
“We are setting up in a very strong way, the hands of some important members of this government, critically important members of the security council in this matter, we might also be going to court over some parts of the struggle all put together to create a situation where there will be no doubt that the United Nations needs to intervene.
“United Nations doesn't choose to intervene in any situation on its own, it is the situation that pressurises the UN to intervene anyway and so we are going to be using that knowledge very much.”
Speaking on how some Yoruba politicians are reportedly preparing for the 2023 elections, Akintoye said, “They are warming up and there is nothing wrong with that but they will soon discover they will hit a rock very soon.”
The historian added that the Yoruba nation must be achieved as there is no other alternative to that.
“Yoruba must have their own country in the interest of humanity so they can bring development, prosperity and development to their people again, and I believe that it is the same type of thinking among the Igbo, Middle Belt and people of the South-South. There is no considerable option that will satisfy the humanity that we are seeking to satisfy."
When PDP were in power for 16 years, where was all this Fulani nonsense?
Why did the Fulani not disturb the southern based PDP power elite or power structure which controlled hundreds of billions of dollars for 16 years, if they are so powerful and think they ''own Nigeria''?
Rubbish.
Abeg fck off. Tribalist fake professor.
Southerners held power for 16 good years and fcked up the economy, looted the treasury, and now, all of a sudden, everything is Fulani peoples' fault?
IduNaOba: Like they were crushed in akwa Ibom and abịa and ịnọ since 3 days ago till now Abi?
You are still being handled with kid gloves. When they start crushing you now, you will jump online to scream ''genocide!!'...' ''They want to kill all Igbos!''
Dipwater: Nwanne free that guy. Some Igbos believe in Nigeria so much and are ready to defend their beloved country. I don't belive in this country and will work to achieve biafra. Onye Na way ya. One love
I hope you don't currently reside in Nigeria outside Igboland. Or that makes you a loud-mouthed hypocrite who clearly needs Nigeria more than Nigeria needs him.
mancoconut: I've already flogged you intellectually and made you my biTch you mentally unstable ape, meanwhile have you taken your psychotropic meds today?
You're an ape/demented stray dog combo - birthed mongrel freak.
Now run along, you maggot lookalike who thinks he is all that, but is only alive due to Nigeria's .....kindness
Sentientmind: God bless you, you got eveeything!!!
i strongly believe the black men are juat the loweat form of human existence, like other races have evolved and evolves from blacks, but blacks are just the very crude existence of othwr races!!! no matter how we choose to deny and fight this, our actions and activities akways betray us and we don't even know it.
i work with whites in Europe here and i know exactly what I'm saying. it will be unfair to see the way the people live and act here, and still call us humans like we call them, we bahve and act like baboons and monkeys to be honest.
the people understands what living like humans means, mutual respect for people, they dont even need police to tell them what to do, u dont even see police on their roads...
blackmen eh!!! kai!!
So you are calling yourself and your mother a monkey?
The thing about low IQ dullards like you is that you don't realise that when you racially insult your own race, you are directly demeaning YOUR OWN SELF.
You are too thick to even see that.
Who did this to you?
You are a disgusting specimen of existence.
You think white people all love each other and don't cause any trouble, because you arrived there yesterday and saw everywhere peaceful.
Does your thick, ignorant, dumb, anti-research skull realise that in that Europe you are in, that white people slaughtered over 100 million of themselves in the last century?
That one leader and his gang led 6 million fellow white people to death by gassing?
That one leader in Russia (Stalin) slaughtered 20 million of his people?
How will your dumb head sit down to study the place you are in when you are too busy drooling over their white skin and present comforts?
Do you have any clue how many billions of people Europeans slaughtered, enslaved and looted around the world to acquire their current riches?
How many civilizations, including yours, they destroyed?
Do you even know the first thing about your history as an African (assuming you indeed are African)?
You are just a disgrace. Wasted education.
Hope you don't impart your mental sickness that makes you consider yourself subhuman, on your kids.
RuudVanNisteroy: More pictures of Festac 1977 when Nigeria was still respected on the global stage and you didn't need visas to travel to UK. And the currency was still strong.
You didn't need visas to travel to the UK because, thanks to British colonial looting, few Nigerians were educated by 1977 enough to contemplate travelling abroad for anything. At independence in 1960, literacy rate was 6%.
That had moved to around 30% by 1977 courtesy of govt investment in public education, but still a small number, hence no need for visas, because only very few people were literate or educated enough to travel for 'greener pastures'.
Today, with a population of 210 million and a massive 70% literacy rate, there is a far greater mass of educated Nigerians seeking foreign opportunities, hence the imposition of visa conditions by the UK and others.
It is pure demographics and economics, and It has nothing to do with being ''respected'' or not ''respected''.
You need better education to be honest. You reason on a high school level.
mancoconut: Once again you never fail to disappoint with your brazen display of stupidity, crudity, and a generous topping of manic-depressive triggers to your predisposed madness. I've challenged you to bring any evidence based on the statistical index of crime waves, and other security challenges pervading the country across all regions that shows there have been any effective change, improvement and ability by the Nigerian security structure at any point in time to combat crime, even with the heavy presence of police and other security personnels? You stupidly outdid yourself once again by listing all the sophisticated security gadgets at the disposal of the Police, what have they achieved with all those equipments? yet I could easily give you an endless list and chronicle of killings of Nigerians even with the rising Fulani menace which needs no backdrop of introduction where thousands of people have been displaced from their homelands, farms etc with so many killed due to the gross incompetence and negligence by the Nigerian police. We've heard and seen cases where the Police/army even take sides with the fulani killer squads when the Indigenous People resort to self-defence... when has the Nigerian security system ever benefited the Nigerians? Anybody who stays in the East can attest to how the people repose their trust more in the vigilantes to provide security than the Police cause the results don't lie, even a renegade ESN displayed more ruthlessness in flushing out fulani criminal elements from many communities in the East despite their logistical handicap!
Once again you degenerate/psychopathic product of rape, the Igbos who flooded Lagos didn't do so in millions immediately after the war you daft bastard, go study the post war events that happened and you will maybe enlighten your single digit having IQ self that it was only late in 1973 that Igbos began to return to Lagos after spending the best quarter of the previous years rebuilding their war-ravaged cities, and the number of Igbos that "flooded" Lagos didn't do so in millions because there were still stern policies put in place by the FG to mitigate the influx of Igbo returnees to Lagos and all parts of Nigeria; thus making the rehabilitation and integration process very tedious for lots of Igbos.
And how can one be smart enough to stop genocide? Are you really this fu*king stupid? My goodness your poor father should have done the world a favor by pissing your dumb arse right in the toilet by way of getting rid of residues of his sloppy seconds with your slutty mum, instead of making the singular mistake of ejaculating in your mum to produce a chromosomal defect like you... the Jews who are arguably the smartest race of people in the world, how come they couldn't stop the holocaust from Hitler? you stupid ape!
Reserve that 'ape' business for your primal, spear-chucking self and stinking, worthless family.
You are actually lucky to be alive today. It was all due to Gowon's 'No Victor, No Vanquished' policy, which stopped Nigerian troops from storming Igboland for the 'Final Solution' - the extermination of your group, and a renaming of your cities to New Kano, New Lagos, New Ibadan, etc, after you surrendered and your leader fled.
See, that's what USUALLY happens in a war you lose, You lose EVERYTHING.
You don't get to be 'rehabilitated' and given MONEY by the victor, like Gowon did to you.
After Germany lost the 2nd European war (aka 'world' war), its leaders were hunted down and hanged, and the country was divided up among the allies. West Germany went to western Europe and America, and East Germany to the Soviets. Only recently were they re-united. The country is still occupied by 50,000+ allied troops till today.
Or was it the native American Indians - a once proud behemoth of a people who dominated the Americas for aeons, only to be defeated in war and ruthlessly exterminated by the Europeans, with their handful of remnants today confined to 'reservations', playing the role of virtual zoo creatures for modern tourists?
That was YOUR portion after the Biafra war, you imbecilic creature who thinks he is something. You were only lucky to avoid that fate, courtesy of Yakubu Gowon's magnanimity, which stunned the entire world.
Oh, and regarding the POLICE, once again, you peabrain masquerading as an intellectual, the primary role of the police is as a DETERRENCE FORCE.
You cannot quantify deterrence.
You cannot say how many robberies were prevented in Enugu today as a result of armed police patrols and checkpoints.
It could have been 50 or 500.
What we DO know is that police presence in the city ensured limited incidence of robberies.
We are also smart enough to know that their absence will lead to an instant rise in robberies.
Shame that little bit of common sense eludes your tiny, tribalist spear-chucker head filled with bombast.
sage: Who is we? Who did you consult? Did you meet honest Igbo business people and get consensus from them that armed robbers, high way robbers and kidnappers are better than police? Who is this we you are talking about? Who made you and people who have your delusional viewpoint spokesmen for Igbo people?
Most Igbo people don’t share your sentiment and want a peaceful and lawful society as they go about their business. Leave them out of your madness please
Tell them, biko.
Mad men and touts now representing Igbo views. This needs to stop.
Flanker: thats not realy a slum , on your pic its the old Kasbah of Algiers built in the 10th century. its classified as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage , many remains of the citadel are ruined or in a critical state . many of this old houses were build in the 16th , 17th , 18 th centuries
See? Everyone always has an EXCUSE for other people's development problems, while OVERBLOWING black African issues to high heavens.
THAT IS A FCKING SLUM, YOU HEAR? I don't give two shiits if they made it a UNESCO site or not. Can you live there? Mr Professor of excuses.
If that was a black country, you would not come in here with excuses and rationalisations.
of course there is few small slums in algeria , like you can find in all countries in the world including super powers like USA , France ect... but nothing comparable to the number of slums in many other african countries.
SHUT UP. There are HUGE slums in Algeria and Egypt, which you could not find in MANY black African countries like Botswana, Gabon, Tanzania, Rwanda, Gambia, Namibia, Malawi, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Lesotho, Senegal, Togo, Zimbabwe, Benin Republic, Swaziland, and many others.
You will NOT come in here and stereotype black African nations as all slum-intensive, and everyone else ''just has a little bit of it''.
even if there is a specificity in Algeria. the state is relocating residents of houses in these slums , some people come on purpose to build this kind of makeshift house so that the state gives them a new apartment.
Excuse making expert for oyinbo fck ups. Even in Lagos, there are all sorts of resettlement schemes and bulldozing of slums. It doesn't happen only in 'white' or 'light skinned' people's countries.
nairalee: All these rubbish don't work. If it does native doctor for Don kill Buhari since.
If it's real ba, what stops Nigeria as a nation from inviting all native doctors to form a Justice league and pay them huge money to kill Shekau and Boko Haram members?
By the criteria you are using, christianity and islam don't work either.
Pray to your christian or islamic god now for 10 million dollars to hit your account tomorrow morning, and see if it happens.
RuudVanNisteroy: Lagos is not even among the top 10 cities in Africa. Can it match any city in South Africa,Tunisia,Algeria or Namibia in terms of infrastructural development spread to its population.
Come on SHUT UP THERE. When I start posting slums from those cities now, you will quickly change the subject.
wingmanIII: Sick bigot! When did Igbos chase police? Stupid, senseless thread.
You must be living under a rock to have not heard of the multiple deadly attacks on police officers by IPOB and ESN elements, also known as 'unknown gunmen'.
And that in consequence, policemen are refusing deployment to the South East. Even begging to be sent to the North instead.
awgumayor: If your enemy tellls you that what you are doing is wrong it means you are doing the right thing. The sudden " love" for igbos and Igboland by afonjaz is is something else.The people you want dead by all means are the people you are advising against armed robbers. Wonders shall never end !!! When Niger Deltans rose against plundering and exploitation of their region you idiots started advising them of environmental pollution, but the ones you have polluted have not been cleaned up. Igbos are now fighting against injustice, extra judicial killings, police checkpoint extortions, military intimidation and harassment, etc and you morons are here again with your useless advice. Why can't you advise your people what will become of them when the Fulani that are displacing from the east and those avoiding the east because of the UGM all relocated to south west and make your population one and one with Fulani. Your region is like a time bomb waiting to explode and Fulani are going nowhere from their irreversible land. Mr. Special Adviser.
What a splash of vomit that evades entirely the issue raised, and sinks to an incoherent, barbarous, tribalistic rant.
nedu666: There are 37 checkpoints on benin ore by pass, yet people are kidnapped daily on that road by fulani herdsmen. So what is the essence of the checkpoints
SHEER COMMON SENSE. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS.
If 10 people a day are getting kidnapped on that road by fulani herdsmen, with 37 checkpoints on ground, it means that 500 people a day would be getting kidnapped there without the checkpoints.
So which do you prefer, checkpoints or no checkpoints?
mancoconut: Another load of obtuse nonsense. I'll rather trust the local Nnewi vigilante units to effectively respond fast and neutralize the threats from the armed robbers than the useless police that will arrive at the crime scene hours after the crime has been committed.
This statement alone shows us how dumb and ignorant you are with regard to law enforcement in Nigeria.
Get this, The Nigerian Police proactively STOP THE ROBBERS from getting near to your street or house. They stop them on the highways, raid them in their hideouts, search them, engage in gunfights with them, so it doesn't GET to the point where you have to call them about a robbery in your house.
They use intelligence, communications, public informants, 24/7 patrols and other tools, to fight the robbers.
What training does your local, semi-literate Nnewi vigilante group have, to combat armed robbers? Do they have vans, weapons and the will to patrol the highways and expressways at night in search of armed robbers? Ready to do shootouts with robbers? Who pays them for all this? You?
You think you can evade this problem by blowing grammar?
And there was never a time "millions of Igbos" much less refugees flooded Lagos you recalcitrant hare-brained melodramatic cretin, and there will never be a refugee crisis in the East cause we're sophisticated and smart enough to stem that tide if it ever rears its ugly head
You weren't sophisticated and smart enough to prevent 3 million of your people getting slaughtered in a needless war, from bullets, starvation, and kwashiorkor, so kindly STFU, you demented narcissist.
the evil prayers you wish for my people shall befall your accursed region and family members for good measure in multiplier effects.
Bastard
Yawn.....little, insolent kid who thinks he's all that.
Justcash: You are wrong. Moreover, the East was more peaceful than the West. Why did they need so much checkpoints all over the East? IPOB was non violent, why did they need gun wielding and murderous security operatives harassing, raping and extorting Eastern Nigeria? There is no smoke without fire.