₦airaland Forum

erad:
We love education or we are blind consumers?

What is the impact of all these universities?

They keep young people off the street, create jobs for lecturers and administrators and provide business for landlords, or you would rather they herd cattle like Fulani in the North.

YourKarma:
It's weird considering the fact that with these stats, one would think the SW would be leading in education in this country

The literacy rate in the SW has declined due to the ineffectiveness of the SW political class. The good news is that the literacy rate in the SW remains over 80%, and a change in leadership can help address these failures. Well done SE/SS in keeping the literacy at the top.

franchasng:
To be honest, Yorubas are good in investing in the private university ownership business, all thanks to Winners, Redeem and Seventh Day Adventist that opened their eyes to the lucrativeness of private university ownership business.



I am using this opportunity to appeal to our wealthy Yoruba men and women, please come to Southeast and invest in university business. Southeast is a very fertile region for university ownership business. Check all higher institution enrollment statistics, they all support my claim, come to Southeast and invest, stop being scared of coming to Southeast to invest only to turnaround tomorrow to claim Igbos don't sell lands to none Igbos, We do. I personally have versed plots and hectares of lands to sell to highest bidder in Owerri, Enugu, and few at Awka.


You will never regret coming to Southeast to invest in university ownership business, remember you guys have a competitive advantage in that particular business, so capitalize on it and take over Southeast and other regions. American investors are never scared to invest in any country or region, even in war torn and crises ravaged countries, only cowards give excuses for not exploring business opportunities in other regions and terrains

This is the right mentality. I laugh at Yoruba who attack Igbo businesses in the SW. Encourage investments in your region that will create jobs and opportunities.

yinkus6750:
Private universities getting more licences everyday. It's now a booming lucrative business venture due to the huge school fees. Who regulates and monitor them ? Anything goes,so far you can afford the fees. Educational standard needs to be seriously improved on.

Nigeria needs more universities with higher standards and facilities.

madridguy:
The time we surely come and everyone will be alive to see Iran having Nuclear weapon.

Now everyone can see the real people fighting Iran

The same countries are fighting Russia. They intend to keep the old rule-based order in which the West will control the world

Jesus! Wetin be this

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— 𝔼𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕥😎 (@Esmart26) June 16, 2025

EmperorIsaac:
Mark is part of the problem. He was senate president for many years and couldn't initiate a bill to ban open grazing; now he's crying wolf!

The middle-belt people are the most useless in Nigeria. They enabled the Islamists from Gowon to David Mark. They think Tinubu or PO will sacrifice their political ambitions for the sake of their people's lives. They should arm themselves and fight.

Maxymilliano:
The State is overdue for a state of emergency declaration

Nigeria needs a presidential candidate who campaigns on the separation of North from South or strict regional autonomy. Then nothing will happen.

The terrorists know themselves and why they are doing it, they are preparing for a war that will allow them to invade the South and take complete control of Nigeria. They have already started with Sharia law in the SW

KEVIND:
https://dailytrust.com/obi-in-2-years-tinubu-borrowed-more-money-than-3-presidents-combined/

There is more than enough ammunition to attack Tinubu, the bloated government, and unnecessary infrastructure projects, such as the Lagos-Calabar coastal road.

But in terms of debt, as of today, Tinubu has reduced the external debt from $47 billion to $44 billion. I have limited knowledge of the domestic debt

https://www.dmo.gov.ng/

Kc3000:
My friend,
That's not how Nigeria is structured. The state governments and local authorities have done all they are capable of doing by forming vigilantes. I've explained to you already that only the military is equipped to fight these terrorists.

The resources to combat this menace are all at the federal level. The military, police, paramilitary are all federal establishments. The resources to secure Nigeria are allocated to these organizations, this is the only reason they exist.


No matter how you twist it, you cannot pass the buck to civilians to fight these terrorists. The commander in chief must do whatever is necessary to ensure the military is up to the task of defending the nation from terrorists. Failure to do so is an indictment on him, and further demonstration of his incompetence.

You said the state governments and local authorities have done all they are capable of doing by forming vigilantes.

Northern governors have just accepted the creation of state police. The vigilantes are usually uneducated hunters with little or no organised command and control structure to organise a defence against the ongoing insecurity nd insurgency. The vigilante should be used as a backup spy.

Buhari was against Amotekun having automatic weapons. Ametokun is an organised armed militia with a command and control hierarchy led by a retired military officer. Amettokun can easily integrate into a state police when it is formed.

The resources may be at the federal level, but the evidence suggests that Nigeria's federal institutions are ineffective.

The Nigerian army and Navy have failed to end oil theft in the Niger Delta. Under the leadership of a former military General, Buhari, the so-called federal army exacerbated the problem to the point that Nigeria's oil exports dropped to less than 1 million barrels per day.

The Nigerian army has already stated that kinetic military tactics cannot end the insecurity and insurgency. The state and local governments must do more.

ALTERNATEID:
You don’t even need to be an expert to know this. When Obasanjo became the president, he started a gradual removal of subsidy but by the time he was leaving, the subsidy amount was more than what he met.

Yaradua, Jonathan and Buhari also did the same thing. Most people don’t know that the serial pms price increments were basically an attempt to gradually remove subsidy. They all failed.

Judging from experience, it’s obvious a gradual removal can’t work. Do it at once and face the consequences. That is what Tinubu did.

Now, we’ve all adjusted. Everyone now knows market will determine the price and nothing else.

Well said .

Nigeria had FX backlog that the country couldn't pay, which is why Etihad Airways withdrew from Nigeria. Any gradual change in Nigeria will never work because the cabal will work against it. Removing FX controls and fuel subsidies was the only option

Macphenson:
South west have almost half of out of school children in the south. Owomida is taking over education in the south west. Their kids are ascribing to be MC Oluomo.

The majority of those out-of-school children in the SW are from the North. SW is the hub of internal immigration from the SE, SS and North.

The out-of-school statistics are more than 20 million, likely around 50 million.

ActressAbimbola:
I'm Yoruba but I can't find a single thing Tinubu has done in the south east and south south.

What project has Tinubu done for the SW? Nigeria is broke, the country is leveraged with high debt and low income. The Lagos -Calabar Coastal road is designed to traverse the SW/SS, but I doubt the project will go beyond Ogun State due to it cost and relevance.

Kc3000:
No state government in Nigeria is equipped to effectively combat the menace of transnational terrorism that is ravaging Nigeria. Almost every state in Nigeria has some form of government supported vigilante outfit, just like you have your amotekun. These civilian outfits, as much as they try, are no match to these terrorists. At best, these vigilante groups are armed with pump action guns(many are still wielding dane guns), these terrorists have assault rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft machine guns, I've even seen them brandishing shoulder launched surface to air missiles.
This is definitely a job for the military, the police cannot even contend with these filthy agents of terror, talk less of poorly armed civilian vigilantes. Clearly, amotekun has not ejected these terrorists from yoruba forests, as they're still causing mayhem in that axis. Mind you, the situation in the North is far worse than what is experienced in the south.
It's extremely shameful that the Nigerian military has not been up to the task of doing what is necessary to ensure absolute annihilation of these terrorists. As the commander in chief, Tinubu, like his predecessors, has to be held accountable for this gross failure.

My Friend.

Nigeria is a federal republic; the state may not be equipped today, but that doesn't mean that it should not start the process immediately. Nigeria itself is not equipped to fight the current insurgency, so waiting for a federal government that has not existed for the past 10 years

As a Local Government Chairman or Governor, your number one responsibility is to your people. If the president is missing, take it on yourself to do the right thing and protect your people.

Kc3000:
Meanwhile, the commander in chief of Nigerianistan is only concerned about 2027.

What is the state governor doing? The SW didn't wait for Buhari before creating Amotekun. The governor has the finances and resources to secure his people.

Dalohad:
Southerners should better go into farming on a massive scale.

If we buying food from the north,we are indirectly funding Bello Turji and his band of scallywag terrorists

The South is a major producer of cash crops, such as Cocoa and Palm Oil, as well as food crops like yams and cassava. The South must look beyond the North, including the Middle Belt

adenigga:
Bandit leader, Bello Turji has reportedly threatened farmers around Zamfara state this rainy season.



Source: https://dailypost.ng/Bandit-leader-Turji-demands-N50m-to-allow-farming-in-Zamfara-Niger-communities

In 1999, the Northern Nigerian elite introduced political Sharia across the Northern states. Have the states seen any economic or social improvement 26 years later?

In Nigeria, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in twelve Muslim-majority states since 1999, when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government.

Putindbutt:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/fg-set-to-revive-ajaokuta-steel-plant

After wasting and stealing $4 billion on the refinery TAM, now they intend to waste $2 billion on a steel plant that should be scrap

Arostar2023:
Say that Obi doesn't play politics like an average Nigerian politicians. And guess what, Nigeria is a mess today because of the type of politics played there. There's no strength or wisdom in a politics that bring sufferings and pauperisation of the masses.

Nigeria needs a strong and decisive opposition that will take on the APC and the corrupt mafia.

AqualinaXYZ:
No bro Obi isn’t a fool he knows what he’s saying which is audible to every sane Nigeria that Tinubu is destroying labor party



The only fool here is Tinubu



Tinubu is not only a fool but also a thief who held Lagos treasury hostage for decades and enslaved una father & future kids unborn



The certificate forger who built Lagos from scratch is on a mission to destroy Nigeria and he won’t succeed


Now bro you see who’s the fool here?


Yeah the frog eyed bedwetter without a trace of origin


Love and light

Why didn't PDP destroy APC in 2011?

PO cannot lead a political party, yet he wants to take on the corrupt oil and FX mafia yet he cannot deal with nAbure and Apapa.

immortalcrown:
How long will it take?

As long as Nigerians are prepared to tolerate corrupt politicians. Removing the fuel subsidies and FX control was the correct thing to do, but wasting $12 billion on a useless coastal road and $4 billion on refineries TAMends any benefit to. nation

immortalcrown:
But everything is wrong with APC's dishonesty about the subsidy removal.

The promised economic benefits of the subsidy removal is yet to be evident in the economy of the nation.

So, bloggers should stop twisting what Obi says. As Obi said that subsidy removal is not bad, did Obi say that this regime has been honest and prudent in managing the subsidy removal?

The economic benefits included fuel subsidies and the removal of foreign exchange controls. Removing both policies will lead to immediate financial hardship, but over time, the economy will stabilise if the government cuts the cost of government.

The war in Sudan has exacerbated the problem in Nigeria,

Zeebuy:
Just shut it! Give me instance where the Igbos disrespected the yorubas. Enough of this nonsense abeg! So because they live there, they're supposed to worship the Yorubas? The lands we're talking about, did the Yorubas give them the land for free?
In all my years, I've never seen a single case of a clash between the Igbos and the Yorubas but I've seen numerous between the yorubas and the northerners. Yorubas were even killed I'm some cases but not once will these Yorubas say the northerners are disrespecting them.

These same Yorubas are being forcefully pushed out of their lands by fulani terrorists to live as refugees in Benin Republic but it's the Igbos, who buy lands legitimately, who is their problem.

Make una just close mouth abeg, all this talk is borne out of envy, nothing else.

The SE is virtually at war with itself. focus solving your own problem and leave the SW alone. Igbos and Fulani are a problem in the SW

Zeebuy:
That's the only thing on your minds, to steal another person's property. That's why you'll never grow and it's why they're buying your ancestral lands

And you are growing. The only people crying victim are your people.

You will never learn, you live in their land and then insult them and disrespect the owners of the land and cry to heaven when the owner kicks you out. Learn to respect the host as you would expect to be respected.

Judolisco:
Not funny some people sold everything they had and took loans jst to japa....e be like say dis oyibos no understand oh.... We ain't coming to your country for study.... Why will I pay 23 million naira to study public health when I can study it here at ABU zaria for less than 2 million naira..... D day wey UK go start ehn.... Eno go funny oh....
Deporting people is like ending their lives oh... Especially people who sold everything to travel

You think the West will tolerate the uncontrolled migration that Nigeria tolerate, the lack of internal and external migration is the root cause of poverty, insecurity and violence in Nigeria.

There are too many Nigerians in Ireland, and the people want them out.

proeast:
Those thousands of beautiful houses, aren't they occupied by Igbos? Have you been to Aba to see how busy everywhere is?

I haven't been to Aba, but based on these lovely pictures, I would expect the Igbo people to be content living in the "civilised" and well-developed SE instead of relocating to the "underdeveloped " SW.

There needs to be internal border controls that regulate internal migration.

Zeebuy:
I second this motion. After seeing the handwriting on the wall after tinubu won the election, I sold off my properties in Yorubaland. Right now, I have around 13 plots in Badagry and I'll dispose of them soon too

Igbos never learn that they will be crying like children when Yoruba reclaim their land

proeast:
These are pictures of Aba. If I don't tell you, yorubas like you will think it's Europe.

Those are beautiful pictures, and Aba looks like a lovely place to live. So why aren't the Igbo people staying in their regions? Internal migration to the Southwest is often forced.

Mrfixitt:
African man mentality.

Blackman, who doesn't understand his problem. Continue believing in a country that you didn't create, and wonder why the Nigerian government can never work.

Uncontrolled internal migration will be the downfall of Nigeria.

The hukou system is China's household registration system, a residence permit required for all citizens to live legally in a specific area. It was originally implemented in 1958 to manage internal migration and is crucial for access to various social services and benefits, including education, healthcare, and housing.
Key aspects of the hukou system:
Historical Purpose:
The system was designed to control population movement and allocate resources, initially dividing people into agricultural (rural) and non-agricultural (urban) hukou categories.

Mrfixitt:
Black man and his wack mentality

Blackman, who doesn't understand his problem. Continue believing in a country that you didn't create, and wonder why the Nigerian government can never work.

Uncontrolled internal migration will be the downfall of Nigeria.

The hukou system is China's household registration system, a residence permit required for all citizens to live legally in a specific area. It was originally implemented in 1958 to manage internal migration and is crucial for access to various social services and benefits, including education, healthcare, and housing.
Key aspects of the hukou system:
Historical Purpose:
The system was designed to control population movement and allocate resources, initially dividing people into agricultural (rural) and non-agricultural (urban) hukou categories.

Bestwt001:
It's really understandable why MURIC is upset about the train rides. When you see free rides for Christmas but not for Eid, it absolutely feels like a double standard. Professor Akintola makes a strong point about fairness, and it's especially jarring when the government is led by Muslims.
This isn't just about train tickets; it's about feeling equally valued in your own country. The government really needs to explain this disparity or, better yet, fix it to show all Nigerians that they're treated with the same respect and consideration.

All Nigerians benefited from the Free trains in December. The free train service during Christmas aimed to increase patronage of services across Nigeria following the impact of the removal of oil subsidies. The situation is quite different now; fuel prices are lower, and train services have become a mainstay of Nigerian commuters.