₦airaland Forum

Rossikk:
Because the likes of 'Singapore' and 'Dubai' are EXCEPTIONS in a world in which 80% of countries are developing nations just like Nigeria.

More excuses from those defending the biggest embarrassment to the black race...

They now decide who's on the presidents side and who's not. It's now a caste government. The whole structure of governance revolves around a wayward president and his ethnic henchemen occupying sensitive positions in different agencies of government.. If you dare speak truth to power, you are ostracized and decimated..

mapet:
Bros we are all supporting you on this.... Ortom is loved by his people... nobody should complain that Benue has salaries backlog of over 2yrs, no sensible infrastructure and no development.... in addition let Benue people do what they do best... i.e. Ortom's excuses are what Benue people need....

The poor man is working.
His sin is that he challenged the lord and personal savior of the BMC.
The mans administration is being savaged all round by the federal government because he stood with his people..
He can't even see the president and was stopped from seeing the vee pee.
Give him some credit..

Ortom is working and is loved by his people.
It's only Tinubu urchins and herdsmen supporters that are frustrated with the man's amazing strides..

obinnanelson4:
Much more ought to be done to eradicate bandits, kidnappers and boko haram right from the beginning instead you and your so called kins men will never admit the truth but you are always quick to comment and judge other regions.

Do I support bandits?
Do I support unknown gunmen?
Do I support Boko Haram?
I want them all eradicated.
You are the one imposing your insecurities on me by claiming I support those I hate with passion..

They're running away. Shameless instigators. They encouraged the Ukrainian people to get into this fix, now , they have turned tail and are all running away..
The poor people of Ukraine will now face Russias wrath..

SlyDev:
How many Yoruba picture do you have?

Is that a "Yoruba picture"? I didn't know.. I simply put up The coat of arms of The Skull Miners Association of Nigeria (SMAN)
Thanks for correcting me..
Essentially, you are now claiming Skull mining with your full hairy chest?

Beverlyjean:
Stop comparing a 3rd world country to a first class country. Its like comparing a Mercedes to a suzuki and then insulting Isuzu vehicles. Compare us with Ghana, Mexico, Georgia

You like dipping the bar down into the latrine..
Why Gorgia and Ghana? Why not Singapore and Dubai?

This is what you guys should have been doing for years, to end this embarrassing nonsense but you all kept quiet, because your Obas who are neck deep into this nonsense never gave the go ahead orders to stop it..
Finish them off.. they are of no use to the society. And while you are at it, tell The Oni and his gang to stop doing things like this.. Whether it was a wooden human head that was in that basket or not, it gives all sorts of bad impressions that need to be stopped immediately..

DukeNija:
Not every nation is willing to cow to Russian intimidation. Ukraine is standing firm on their sovereignty. Bully dog Putin should deal with it.

He's about to do exactly that.. Mothers will cry and babies will be orphaned in few days time..

PurestBoy:
. . . but Ukraine is a sovereign nation and has the right to choose her friends. Why should that be Russia's problem?

It's called "The game nations play"... Ukraine is living next to a super power with nuclear weapons and a veto power in the united nations security council. Ukraine can't afford to invite the enemies of her neighbor to set up security posts in Ukraine. If Russia sets up shop in Mexico, America will do the same..
Have you read about the Cuban nuclear crises?

MyMouth:
Nuclear weapons are deterrents, but no country would actually want to use it because that would mean the end. But trust me an attack on any NATO country by Russia is an attack on all NATO country including the united states. It would involve military conflict but I doubt nuclear weapons would be deployed

Nobody is going to attack Russia if she invades Ukraine. Write that down somewhere. It's not done. Russia has enough nuclear warheads to eradicate the whole of the western world. The same with America and her allies. Each block is well stocked with enough armament, so a nuclear war means total decimation of their people... No country with serious nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles is attacked.

This is because all it takes to end the world afterwards is one bad decision. All of them know this . This is why they recently signed an agreement to upheld the use of nuclear weapons as deterrent only... The worst the west can do is to arm Ukraine or set up proxy fronts to fight Russia as they did with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then add killer sanctions.

But to attack Russia? Never gonna happen..

Which countries will be buying the quality products from this factory? How much forex will the state gain from this massive investment?

MyMouth:
Ukraine is not NATO, if Russia want to see real war, they should invade a NATO county

What will happen other than sanctions? Nobody attacks a country that can boast of serious nuclear arsenal.. Nobody will attack Russia. Just crippling sanctions..

Reference:
How is the West to blame here. How are they responsible?
There is no single NATO country on Russia's borders.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO and cannot even qualify to be a member at this point in time so the West has no defense pact with Ukraine but the West will seek to protect any democratic country that is under unjust threat.

Ukraine conducted a referendum and agreed to join NATO. The west have been busy, skillfully extending NATO borders deep into Eastern Europe since the fall of The Soviet union. This is totally against the agreement between Gorbachev and Reagan.. If they get to Ukraine, they will have the ability to practically undermine Russias military capabilities to project power. They might even deploy missiles there, putting Russia in grave danger. Russia is a big power and should stop this. Putin is right to take concrete actions to stop this. That's how you defend your country..

Olaoluwa112:
Sad.

Well, he was only saying this cause that's the kind of man he was.

People used these words too and are still very much alive.

This is just a coincidence, may God grant him eternal rest.

May not be a coincidence. I had a personal experience like that where a brother started declaring his business sources to me over the phone. Ordinarily, he was supposed to keep those info to himself. But he told me to go ahead and try talking directly to those instead of leaving that too him. I asked him why? He gave no reason but insisted. I was totally worried because I thought I did something wrong. Couple of days later , he died of a heart attack! It was as if he had a premonition and knew that if he died, I can't locate those sources by myself since it was then a family business.. I feel that sometimes, those who die suddenly, do have some premonition that something is about to happen..

The west are responsible for this impending carnage! This whole wars are avoidable. The desperation on the part of the western powers to dictate to all countries of the world is unacceptable. NATO should get away from Russian borders so these people can live in peace.. This is exactly how the west pushed Gorgia and shakazvili into a confrontation with Russia and Gorgia suffered heavily thereafter. Why can't the west stay for a single year without fighting?

Beurifull gal...

He's atleast smart and up to date with what is happening around. Not his Oga that's only yapping about grazing routes..
Tinubu Internet Urchins won't even try to sell his candidacy because he is not criminal enough. They are fixated on making a drug Lord and commander of Awawa boys the president of Nigeria..

Idiko1:
The bolded is arrant nonsense!!! Nobody can make you a fool unless you allow them. In case in point was 1967 Nigeria. Why would the rest of dumbass Nigerians go to war against eastern region on a mere urging of Britain?

You're looking at it from the point of "black solidarity"..
The groups you mentioned, looked at it from their own selfish interest. They saw oil and gas and you, just like zik and co, saw Pan Africanism...
Joke is on you who can't see that folks are sectarian and you have to chart your on cause to survive.

Gbagura:
We have 6 geo zones which SW is part of 'em. Lagos is part and parcel of SW for a reason. The question is, are you from SW okoro? Your pain is because Lagos is in SW. E for sweet yeebos had Abacha excluded Lagos from SW but because Abacha was a wise man, he slammed Lagos in SW.

Cry okoro, cry

Naaa
That was the least of my intentions..
You got it all wrong on this one..
There's nothing in Lagos that trips me. I have lived in bigger and more modern cities. No hating, but I would even prefer Abuja and her serene lifestyle to the ultimate chaos called Lagos..
Enjoy your Lagos ahbegii..

sulaak:
Nigeria has had four elected Fulani presidents or vice presidents since independence, yet the Fulani make up less than 4% of Nigeria entire population Nigerians have tolerated this born to rule culture among Fulani's elite who still believe in the old Fulani Caliphate of 1800.

Tafewa Balewa was half Fulani - his poor judgement and government led to the Nigerian to civil war
Shagari was Fulani - corruption and recession
Yaradua was Fulani - died on the job
and Buhari was Fulani - we are living witness to his hellish leadership

The Fulani conquered the far North and not the South and some part of the middle-belt. I will take the worst Southern political prospect over another born to rule Fulani.

I can't put it better..

Atiku does not own the PDP. Someone should let that sink into his brain. And no fulani should be allowed to take over after Buhari. Not even as vee pee. Since 1999, we have had either a fulani president or a Fulani vice president. Non-stop. I think this has helped to create this sense of political chauvinism that exists within the Fulani elite. It now has to be stopped. We did not replace British colonialism with Fulani colonialism.

Maybe they built the houses in zinder and marada in Niger republic, because I can't see any in the East..

Very suspicious. No one trusts Tinubu and his gang and as such this should be taken with a pinch of salt. Same people that make no serious efforts for any serious census in the country will go to the backdoor, to smuggle in an exercise that will be used for all sorts of evil agenda... Even the distribution of State government amenities have been skewed around nepotistic lines in Lagos..

Wazobia2216:
That's why they are killing the people!

This is exactly why they want to militarize the whole of the east..

Owologbo:
why are you (Yorubas) like this?
Is the poster comparing Lagos with Opobo in river state?
Y'all are fill with this hatred that one cannot comprehend towards others for no just reason.

This is what I don't understand. I find this attitude of the yorubas here very annoying. Once you showcase a historical event or place from your part of the country, especially from the former Eastern Nigeria, they automatically get triggered! All of them will wriggle out from their wet holes to tell you how it happened first in Oyo or ogbomosho.. it's annoying. Every thread, they're desperately trying to convince you that they were the first own this..., talking about how they were the first to do this or that... Very very annoying..

Ekejoestar:
Why always Africa, why must the black man always be at war with itself. Africa is in turmoil here and there, there seems to be no end in sight for all these killings. I weep for the black man

The African man NEVER started any of the world wars that consumed lives in millions. The crusades and jihads were not started by Africans either... Russia and America are positioning for a brutal conflict in Ukraine as we speak, .. it will cost tens of thousands of lives if it happens.. Get your warped history right pls..

European countries and most Asian countries fought hard to be left alone as ethnic-states. That's the main reason there has been quiet in Europe since the last world war. America helped them achieve that.

As long as some of you continue to campaign for a multi ethnic state, where one or two regions will desperately try to corner everything in sight, so long will the country be followed by conflicts, wars and uprisings.. it's not rocket science..

teamoneline:
As far as Federal character is entrenched in your Constitution don't expect tribalism to end. To put an end to tribalism and division first substitute Federal character for merit and competence as a decider for employment and appointments into public offices. Systems of merit should be designed and used in employment. When private companies do employment they don't ask where you are from the only thing they care about is competence but recruitment into the military,police civil service in Nigeria are built on the foundations of tribalism in the name of equality. There is nothing like equality. Equality is just a term used by lazy ethnic bigots.

Totally agree with you.
We seem to have perfected a system that does nothing but violence to meritocracy. It's unbelievable really. In this country, the establishment is slowly criminalizing hardwork and merit on the altar of nepotism and cronyism. There is no serious effort on the part of the government to incentify greater academic excellence by insisting on a structured method of rewarding honest achievers. What we have is the opposite and this to me is as a result of systemic cultural flaw on the part of the groups driving the engine of the state... But there's even a silent angle that humiliates and taunts greater academic excellence. I mean the continuous crowning of intellectual inferiors as heads over intelligent heads. It used to happen occasionally in the past but these days, it has become the norm under this administration.. Even in the private sector...

Few years ago, Dangote INTENTIONALLY put out an advertisement to recruit jobless PhD holders into his organization as lorry drivers! For any thinking mind, that move should be overwhelmingly alarming! But folks here were arguing that Dangote should be praised , "afterall, he went out of his way to provide jobs for these jobless PhD holders, it's his company bla bla bla bla".... Few days ago, I read here, that the same thing has happened with Dangote again! As far as I am concerned, this is pure Evil! Spin it whichever way you fancy, it's ridiculous that in the whole of Dangote conglomerates, they only viable position left for some jobless PhD holders is that of "Lorry drivers". I don't see how the young ones will be motivated to strive for greater academic excellence by this behavior, neither do I think that folks at Dangote are not aware of what they're doing and it's implications...

EXOUSIAng:
And you had to quote the whole story just to say this

I do what I like, my good brother..

I don't think it's helpful the way we rail against Africa here without expending some energy to understand why things are the way they're. For the OP to insist that South Korea got to the place she's today based solely on her efforts is deceptive. Lots of international realities came together to create the present day Asian tigers. Believe me, if the South Koreans were forced to face the kind of undermining efforts that the western powers visit on many African states, South Korea might be another Laos or Burma today...

The main factor was the proximity of communist China and socialist USSR to the Asian Tigers. With these two super powers supporting communist fighters both in Vietnam and North Korea in the 60s, the west worried real hard that the whole of Asia might end up as Communist states post world war and started building up strong capitalist enclaves around Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore etc as some kind of bulwark against communism/socialism. The fear of communism/spread of the socialist influence of the USSR across Asia, was the main factor..

This forced the west to invest heavily in these countries, who became western allies post world war 2. Western governments encouraged heavy technological transfers and helped to skill the local manpower to specifics. More importantly, instead of assassinating vibrant leaders in these South East Asian countries as was the case in Africa, their leaders were heavily encouraged and guarded as long as they were pro west. That gave the leaders the space to build up their countries and advance the course of national growth.. This doesn't distract from the point that these countries did have some really good leaders at this point, eg Singaporean leader Lee..

The transfer of technologies in order to grow the economies of these countries helped create a vibrant and peaceful region. They had, an already waiting western markets to buy their products. Western heavy investments in almost all sectors of the economy helped to create a prosperous set of countries that ultimately used their capitalist power to convince the communists in China that communism wasn't working. This was the main reason why China ditched communism for capitalism especially when the ordinary Chinese revolted in 1989 over their conditions, which were worse when compared to that of the people of Hong Kong..
Africa, in my own analysis, would have been better of, if there was a power tussle going on here between the major global powers. This is why I am not totally against Chinese deep penetration of Africa..