₦airaland Forum

eastOFwest:
These people have absolutely no idea what democracy means. Imagine someone that begged the public to vote for him so that he can SERVE them. The people obliged, and with the assistance of some gerrymandering, he became president and number 1 public SERVANT. Now they are trying to say that he will be doing us a favour by being civil and democratic? The voters are his boss, for chrissakes, not the other way round! How can anybody with an ounce of sense in his brain open his mouth and spew such senseless thrash. Imagine the dinosaur mindset of these politicians. Completely clueless, backwards, out of touch, living a bubble bunch of fools.

Ok, Buhari should vex and do his worst. Rubbish!

This tells you the quality of "leadership" we have in the godforsaken country called Nigeria.

How can a sane person talk the way this moronic senator spoke?

Anyway, Nigeria is not a real place. You can't tell me otherwise cos the level of absurdity there is insane!

Lifestone:
We are all Nigerians at the end of the day we are all impacted.
My point is that press should stop been the hype man for this Bandits.
Not all that happens in USA are reported to the whole world

There is nothing in that report that suggests that Dauly trust is hyping the bandits.

It is simply a brilliant piece of investigative journalism which should be applauded.

This is the press doing their job what are you on about

Nawa o.

SenatePresdo:
If not that Messi is Humble and Loyal unlike Ronaldo, Barca would have lost him Years Ago.

Messi Should leave Barcelona, they can't blackmail him to extend his contract.

This a situation where I would love the likes of Ronaldo, Neymar or Even Pogba.

Messi is a Simp

Nonetheless, he's my GOAT.

Lol.

Do you even know Messi's history with Barca?

He pratcially owes Barcellona FC his life

Lifestone:
All these publicity will continue to fuel the desires of the bandits to commit more horrible things.
The Press though have the obligations to inform the public must do this with great care

This thoroughly investigative piece is what you're trying to badmouth?

The press, and in this case Daily Trust, has done its job. It's up to govt of the day to do theirs.

But we all know some of these bandits are untouchable simply cos they are Fulani.

How can you attempt to blackmail the press in this instance ffs?!

desiredhome:
Common sense is not common......I think you should be one of those kids here .......
Indomi generation.......bye

Lol.

Even in the first Republic, Nigerians have always left for abroad for different reasons and some came back later to invest in their motherland.

You're just being an obstinate nitwit who has refused to apply any form of thinking to the issue at hand.

Talmbout indomie generation

E sure me say I give you some years age wise.

PassingShot:
Spin it however you want, no individual is greater than the country.

So, NOTHING will happen should terrorist Kanu die in custody. Sink that in!

Going by your assertion, the fight and victory against the apartheid system in SA wouldn't have happened.

Also, the USA wouldn't have happened. Even the French revolution that gave rise to the current people's Republic wouldn't have happened.

People have fought governments and won so stop masturbating over how powerful govt is cos when the people actually rise they can't be stopped.

Has happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future (like recent cases of the revolutions in North Africa and Mali).

Get your cowardly acts together and be rest assured that the day majority of Nigerians decide to rise against the political class (although with the divide and rule tactics being perpetuated by them working so well and preventing this rise from happening), Nigerian govt will succumb.

nobaga:
A common question here is how much was naira to dollar then.

If all Americans do is spend Naira in America like Nigerians want dollars in Nigeria, American dollar will be cheaper than Zimbabwe dollars.

There are more American 100 dollars outside America than inside America back by nothing. Remember, there is nothing like gold standard again.

Spend Naira in Nigeria to demand Nigerian made goods and services. Naira will appreciate. But as long as you use Naira to chase American goods and services, you will always look for more and more Naira to buy dollars.

Dollar is branding, without weight. If Americans sell beach sands, people will buy made in America sand.

But wait, you can only buy American sand in dollars.

Go figure.

So your point brings us to the main challenge: Nigeria imports heavily; extraordinarily more than it exports.

What does Nigeria produce? Practically nothing in the technology economy.

So until that is fixed and we start manufacturing cars, planes, phones, etc, we will always be dependent on the USD.

desiredhome:
Mr know it explain why is Nigeria with all it's natural resources yet the poverty capital of the world......why is Nigeria the most praying, most Churchy yet the poorest country?........

If you think beyond being a slave you will know it's better to develop your own instead of running after already made.....

You definitely have a vacuum inside your skull.

I have told you that emigration is a normal part of human existence you're talking about your generation's slavery that isn't any of my business.

desiredhome:
Na them cause am.....poverty and inferiority complex......
Nigerians have seen/made themselves slaves, so they can't reason/think for themselves.....

This is so funny.

People all over the world emigrate for better opportunities.

It is absolutely normal.

And when they go to those better countries they have to start from scratch doing odd and menial jobs.

If you plan well you'll move up the jobs ladder in no time.

Stop demonising emigration.

Italians, Polish, Spaniards, Portuguese and Australians all emigrate to the UK for better opportunities. Same way Argentines, Mexicans, Ecuadorians, etc emigrate to the US for better opportunities.

These are countries far better than Nigeria but still their citizens look to other better countries for opportunities.

Stop saying what you don't know.

MrBrownJay1:
swimming in the sea ANYWHERE is dangerous... let alone in rivers and lakes. if you dont know how to swim abeg stay away from these places and until your properly learn how to swim

You will be shocked to know that it is good swimmers that mostly get drowned.

Most adult drowning incidents are caused by fatigue while swimming, muscle pulls, accidents underwater, etc, not cos they don't know how to swim.

So yea, that's that.

Tadeknkeepcalm:
I know people like you.
They suffer from crude inferiority complex. They have no principles guiding them, neither can they think deeply and formulate an opinion if their own.

They wait for the white man to think and give verdicts before they know what to do. If the European says a man sleeping with a man is good, surely they will support it as they have already been doing. If the white man turns around and says it is wrong, they will accept it too without a second thought.

The day "falling in love" with a dog is acceptable is not too far away. And our people here, like you, are ready to accept it.

If you challenge them on their morals, their rebuttal will only be "the white man does it"

Another unthinking extremist spotted.

Go and live in Pakistan or Iraq or Iran if the progressive world angers you.

Comprehension is definitely not one of your strong suites. My post was clearly about her failing to mind her business. What people wear is basically their business and you can only look and look away.

Also, you don't go around judging people by what they wear. Who are you to talk about and judge people's morals? The moral police? Assistant God? Mohammed's/Jesus's protégé?

A lot of people wear clothes to be comfortable and as the weather/climate/season dictates. If you had any commonsense you would have known this. Or you go around cursing people or want govt to start jailing them (like they do in terrorist regions) cos they put on skimpy clothes?

Let people live their lives the way they deem fit as long as it doesn't harm you in any way.

You're frothing in the mouth about the white man to a confirm pan-afrikanist so you've missed by a wide margin

Get a life you sorry excuse of a human being.

Providence2020:
Am I really the only one seeing the California license plate there. If this story says it's in benin then why is the damaged vehicle spotting a different country's license plate?

What kind of journalism is this?


There must be something in the water northerners drink cos I fail to understand the obsession with southern affairs, it's not like there isn't actual terrorism going on in the north. Feed your hungry children, clothe them too, if not they'll always be recruited for banditry and terrorism. You guys have a major societal problem, the real tragedy is that we have to share the same consequences of your unwise decisions.

But One day the number of literate Nigerians will finally overshadow the number of illiterates and that power will speak with the ballot, an educated society that will finally agree to sit down and deconstruct this contraption so everybody can go their separate ways without meaningless bloodshed. I've seen this and it is inevitable.

For avoidance of doubt, most humans vote emotionally/sentimentally, just like when making purchases.

Also, if education is the magic pill as you insinuate, how come so-called educated southerners, including professors and PhD holders campaigned for an illiterate dictator in 2015?

You should know by now that hunger and tribalistic and religious sentiments trump education in Nigeria.

Lastly, I think the word you should be using in place of literate is enlightened/civilized. One can be lettered and still uncivilized/unenlightened.

Anambra men practically worship money

Money answereth all things though.

Buckeyemedia1:
President has no business with Native customs & tradition, that is the exclusive jurisdiction of The Governor, The Constitution is unambiguous on that.

You are easily speaking English

If the president wants any of the so-called Kings out it will happen. Of course he will go through the governor.

If the governor refuses, there are many ways to skin a bird.

It is not new.

Quite a number of so-called Obas are known fraudsters.

I won't name names but we know.

They use their influence to do many unbecoming things.

PlayMaker14:
Exactly what a morally bankrupt fellow will say.

Says a nonentity whose signature reads fuckernizer. Get a grip on yourself bozo.

What do you actually know about moral bankruptcy?

Tssskk.

PlayMaker14:
Let's say this new boyfriend of yours starts misbehaving, is that how you will be looking for different "shoulders" to lean on and also fornicating up and down till you get the right one?


You're not better than your ex if we look at it from another angle... Don't justify cheating no matter the circumstances, only morally bankrupt fools cheat and cheating is the betrayal of TRUST.

Bla, bla, fxcking bla...

Spare us your sanctimonious BS.

“Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga/rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga Still nigga, still nigga,”

Jay Z - The Story of O.J. (4:44 Album).

thebosstrevor1:
The professor is talking nonsense, saying things like inefficient power supply, naira depreciation and increased cost of production that is why no body is investing , the same nonsense he has been telling his students since 1989.

the Director-General of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr Chijioke Ekechukwu, made some very good point than the professor.

The main issue why nvestors are not investing is mainly security and not naira depreciation, naira depreciation makes foreign investors buy assets for very cheap. Cosy of labour is very cheap in Nigeria, compared to other places and big companies do economics of scale to recoup all their investments.

I guess you - a nobody on nairaland is more knowledgeable than a university don who has done economics all his life.

Things you see on the internet.

Why I always insist on me driving when I and my friends go to flex, that's if I'm not with my car, or anyone else I personally know and trust their driving skills when high on the devil's juice.

May they find peace on the other side.

dederocs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna.
Purely a coup masterminded and carried out by ibos.

This was Nzeogwu's speech/broadcast after the coup
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/radio-broadcast-by-major-chukwuma-kaduna-nzeogwu-%E2%80%93-announcing-nigeria%E2%80%99s-first-military-coup-on-radio-nigeria-kaduna-on-january-15-1966/amp/

Is Ademoyega also Igbo?

Or you didn't see his name on the Wikipedia page?

His speech clearly stated why they struck and Ademoyega also wrote a book that goes by same phrase.

You can wallow in your insincerity and hypocrisy, idgaf.

Also, lest you think your feeble attempt to revise well documented history will fly, a lot of non Igbo officers and soldiers were part of that coup.

I don't blame you, the country doesn't teach its own history in its schools so these kind of senseless vituperations are expected.

Knock yourself out.

einsteine:
Only one Igbo army officer was killed and it was a mistake as he was never slated to die. No politician from the east was killed. Not one. Were they saints? Meanwhile, almost all senior army officers of northern extraction were wiped out. One was even killed with his wife. A pregnant wife, for that matter.

I am not justifying any pogrom, you are the one trying to justify a needless coup. Even the coup was not a problem. The people were willing to accept the authority of Ironsi. Guess what, he totally mismanaged the situation.

As for cries of Igbo Amaka being meaningless, your reason is quite silly. How did Northern leaders kill them pre-independence? They were killing them while having them work in the northern civil service and use northern slots in the military? They were killing them at a time the North and East were political allies? Or you think it's an accident that many prominent Easterners (Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Cyprian Ekwuensi) were born in the North?

You are funny and it's obvious you have something against Igbos and it's fine tbh.

Just own it with your chest and stop trying to be politically correct

I guess the 1953 Kano Riots was a joke to you?

Btw terming an unfortunate military interference in 1966 as an Igbo coup tells me all I need to know about you.

And saying I'm trying to justify the coup is baseless. Justify it how? That I insist, and rightfully, that it is not an Igbo coup is justification of the coup?

There is no logic or inference from our discuss so far that points to such a far-flung conclusion.

As I said earlier, the coup plotters clearly explained why they struck in their historical accounts yet you're here shilling same propaganda that culminated in the pogrom of 1967.

You can repeat that it was an Igbo coup a million times but the facts and historical accounts are there to prove you wrong.

It would do you well to be more objective and clearheaded when thinking cos it's thought processes like yours that brought Buhari into power.

Learn to distill facts and see things for what they factually are. Learn to think for yourself young man.

Bye.

einsteine:
Just one guy was Yoruba (ademoyega by the way ended up fighting with the Biafrans). One Yoruba Vs 4 people of Igbo origin. Come on, as far as any neutral observer is concerned, the Igbos plotted the coup. Soldiers and politicians from all other three regions were killed, not a single Eastern politician was killed. How does one decide to kill the sardauna of Sokoto and the prime minister and not kill the eastern premier?

At the end of the coup, the North had lost most of its senior military officers and Igbos were dominant in the officer corps of the army. When you add the reluctance of the Igbo head of state, Ironsi, to prosecute the coup plotters and his plan to centralise control in Nigeria, then you can forgive people for seeing it as an Igbo coup.

N. B. I have not even mentioned the "Igbo Amaka" attitude of the Igbo commoners who saw the coup as an evidence of the superiority of the Igbos over others.

When you consider the case

The north never had much senior officers at the time. The military, just like the civil service was dominated by southerners cos of the educational advantage.

You are now suddenly knowledgeable but won't talk about who foiled the coup?

If it was an Igbo coup then there's no way a Yoruba man would have been one of the masterminds, no?

Anyway, the officers involved clearly stated their reasons for the coup but people will always fall for cheap propaganda. Also, are you aware that at least two Igbo army officers were killed in that coup?

Talking about Igbo amaka is meaningless because it is normal for Igbos to be happy that harm befell those who hate and have been killing them for no reasons even pre independence.

All these rigors you're going through so as to justify the 1967 pogrom is the kind of heartlessness that defines the average Nigerian anyway.

It is why we are where we are.

phemmyfour:
Lives were lost and your concern is whether it was a success or failure. The coup was unnecessary, It is on record that the igbos are the pioneer of coup in Nigeria

And in every coup thereafter, with the exception of Buhari's regime, lives were lost. Lives are almost guaranteed to be lost in a military coup.

You're being evasive cos you know very well that an Igbo military officer foiled the coup.

How can you even say it is an Igbo coup when ab initio the coup masterminds were not exclusively Igbo?

Since Ademoyega was one of the masterminds, safe to say it was an Igbo and Yoruba coup then?

I put it to you that you are either a bare-faced liar or you're talking about things you're ignorant about.

There are books out there. Read and be liberated from the shackles of ignorance; unless of course you have an agenda against Igbos.

For starters you can read Why We Struck by same Ademoyega.

phemmyfour:
His diction is superb for a typical Mallam.

The one and only Nigeria prime minister eliminated in the igbo coup

You know the coup failed right?

You say it's an Igbo coup but do you know who actually foiled the coup in Lagos?

VEXT:
If u enter east ehn...The only investment for that states na hotels...
Before I been think say every body for east na billionaires

You have won today's most stupid comment award

jaxxy:
Burna who? And what does burna sing about?

Burna talks too much like a woman on menstruation. What real life has he sang? He copied Fela in most

Lmao.

Just say you don't know his discography.

He's been singing about real life issues since day 1.

No cap.

incogni2o:
Yes if you don't want to pay extra charges at the border

Like how much in extra charges?

Do you need a passport to go to Benin ��?

Asking for a friend

It has become undeniably clear that a Nigerian's life is worth nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

People that still insist on One Nigeria are big foools who have insisted on playing the ostrich.

Nigeria only exists to serve the purpose of a fantastically corrupt few and will never work for the common man

It's time we all accept this ugly truth and renegotiate the country's existence cos there is a clear plot by Fulanis to take over the country the way they took over most of the north.

Nigerians need to wake up and smell the coffee.

Atiwaye:
What his occupation before he formed Stabic bank.

Why don't you research the man?

ivolt:
He has a point.
Insecurity has been the order of the day since SARS was disbanded.
One of the worst hit is the Lekki zone which was the epicentre of the violence.
You can't even jog in peace these days because of dangerous hoodlums.

Leemao.

You faux middle-class never cease to amaze me

You people were hoping all the insecurity in Nigeria will never reach you in Lekki but like breakfast, gbogbo wa la ma je.

I guess the disbandment of SARS also caused increase in banditry and school kidnappings.

If you think avoiding jogging will save you, it won't. They will soon start invading those little cozy, flood-prone estates.

Maybe then you will understand what insecurity really means.