₦airaland Forum

Ttalk:
Why can't you people make your point without bragging, always comparing and claiming what you are not. Anambra your NY, how develop is it. From Upper Iweka to Nteje and all those villages where communal war still exist, which one doesn't have brown roof?

Why have you all failed to distinguish a city from houses in the bush Towns in SS are heaven compare to what we have in Alaigbo, there is nothing interesting there that is why your people troops to other region in droves turning yourself to refugee in your own country

Well, you have it wrong. It shows you haven't traveled enough. There are luxurious estates in the east, luxurious palaces, the only thing Igbo lacks presently is making their center the hub of manufacturing, where they'll be producing goods that is internationally acceptable. That's the Igbos hubby, and the government isn't focusing on that. What your government is focusing on is making Nigeria a full Islamic nation, so they'll be able to have puppets.

But Igbo isn't that kind of people. We prefer to be known by the world, we prefer to be a jewel for the black race. Most times, this is the reason Igbos love Chinese and the Asians. These people were called names by the ruling whites in those days, but they geared up to develop their lands, and what are the whites commending them for today? My dear so many things, the Chinese and Asians are loved by various people for their ingenuity.

But Yoruba fits the Sokoto caliphate agenda well. Becuase as your brother said you believe in respect of hericachy. Okay, if you do, then be so. But you need not force the democratic Igbo nation in the scam of democracy.

Very soon, we would have the leverage and you'll surely see the Biafran state what it truly is. A manufacturing hub of the world, because there would be the freedom to use our imagination to create something meaningful to the world. Not in nIgeria that never commends someone's imagination or ingenuity in using it for the betterment of the country.

Drop mic

Dsalvo:
Abeg shut up. Walk the walk or shut up. Everyone is tired of your insultive excuses always targeted at other Nigerians.

You are always waiting for one port, one airport, a certain bridge or a "game-changer" road.

Yet all Igbo trillion dollars of wealth you assure us is real cannot deliver these things today and now so you can all move back to the SE?

Shior.

Really I just read this, you still added more comments to it. Now, let's use this scenario, If the government thwarts every avenue to trade in Yoruba land, like a good sea port, policies against a certian people and all that stuff what would happen to the nation.

This development of Lagos is intentional, but it wouldn't last long for it would back fire, do you want to know why, the reason is Igbos won't be here too long and you guys would have to be on your own. No more petting you to develop your land as the government has indirectly directed them to do with its Draconian policies.

The private funds we've (Igbos) used it to develop the little we can, and I forsee the future, there'll be a great man from the Igbo country, who would set the world ablaze with his findings, that he would use his trillions to develop his country. I see it, although it's still a vision.

That said, Igbos are way more developed if you bring all of the South west and south east together. Most south west places are villages with brown, rusty roofs, dusty roads, uncultured people, and all that sort.

I know your next claim would be "How would Igbos survive in their erosion Laden lands." Well, erosion is caused by massive population explosions on a vicinity. But with much control it can be reduced to the barest minimum.
LAGOS is the only place Yoruba's take pride in, when they've contributed little or nothing. All they do is head to the Igbo markets they've little contributed into and start collecting payments. There are more and more you need to know which shows Igbos if they were kept in the same level playing ground with the Yoruba's, the Yoruba's would be numb.

Ttalk:
We have more SS in Lagos than Igbo yet you make the loudest noise

Okay, I've heard. It's no more Igbos.

Dsalvo:
I am supposed to feel bad because of what you think of me?

Abeg, if you a proper and sophisticated lady, to begin with, why did you not tackle your divisives brother who started this thread and his ethnic baiting that gained my response and that of other Yorubas here?

I read the thread and it was the truth to me. I was here when Yoruba's (your brothers per se) insulted Kanu that he was a coward, and even insulted the Igbo community, calling them cowards, chest beaters (I guess you know this word pretty well on this forum) and all sort of deragotory names.

But Igbos had little or no comment, or sometimes gave you back to back.

When Igboho came, Yoruba's even called him Omoluabi, singing praises to him, and it seemed all Yoruba's were with him at that time. They'd even mocked the Igbos too at that time, telling us he's a real leader. In which I believe he is. He had the zeal to stop the menace happening in a land that he was born in.

But as soon as the government took a hold of him, you come here to say Yoruba's respect heirachy, isn't that the most delusional piece of stuff in the century? Please aks yourself?

Respect a government meant to work for you, you voted him in to respect him. Government works for you, not the other way around.

With your concept we could very well be heading in some communist government, and not liberal as you purport.

Ttalk:
Stop you lies, Igbo are everywhere in Nigeria, I mean responsible Igbo not some egocentric and barbaric one among you who never leave Evil forest in Abakaliki with your myopic view and irritating comments against other tribes in Nigeria

Where in my mention did I say they aren't everywhere. Our point of discuss was Lagos, not Nigeria. Your people always term Lagos as Igbo heaven because you find Igbos making it what it is.
Isn't it why at a certain time, one governor years ago made a huge makrekt complex, and told citizens and Igbos are invited to take a lease in opening the market.

If it was a Yoruba land for only you guys why would the south western governor, I don't know if it's Ogun or Osun call on Igbos to take lease for the new market complex.

You people know how important Igbos are to your region and you can't accept it, but enjoy the benefits of it.

Dsalvo:
Abeg shut up.

... I've said my own two cents. I thought you were a gentleman. Didn't know you're an agbero looking for who to fight or exchange words with. Biko shift.

Dsalvo:
Did your grandfather also not tell you to stay away from the land of "backstabbers"?

Abi what are you people doing, if not #holding on to the tail of a lizard", by making Yorubaland your biggest home away from home, by far, in the entire universe? Shameless hypocrites.

Point of correction, the only place you will find Igbos in majority is Lagos, what does Igbo want to do with other Western state? It's the same way In Enugu, so stop all these pride in yourself, thinking you people are special becuase you know of computer village or Alaba market. If all the Igbos go, it's people like you that would persuade them to come back, crying food is scarce, transport is costly, or you can hardly get cheap products and all that sort.

So, stop ridiculing yourself with all your mentions when you know the truth. Igbos are found in millions in Lagos. Even me, I don't see myself preparering to go to OYO, or Ogun, what do I want to do there. Even if you see some Igbos there, just know is either they didn't have money to pay rent or something happened financially.

And I believe most Yoruba' landlords in Lagos do that, so Igbos would develop hinther lands for them. So when the prices are high, the business looking igbos would have to pack to places in their village to develop it for them.

And Igbos are not devious, so they help you guys develop. But as soon as Akwa Ibom and it's port, and Imo and it's infrastructural abilities are done or even Enugu, you'll be seeing a mass migration in no time. So, please dear, be less worried. Igbos have no time to steal your Lagos from you, they'll freely give you back when the time comes.

I have 30k, dear

Ilaumoh:
Uyo to Calabar

30-40 mins only

Amount #2000.00

Save yourself the stress, pains and join the easiest, fasted and reliable transportation means.

No road along Calabar Itu Rd.

50 new speedboats expected.

Akwa Ibom State is fast moving forward

God bless UDOM Emmanuel

Ibom City Ferries to commence daily scheduled Ferry service fron Oron to Calabar Operations in December.

Further to it's commitment to help promote water transportation in the state as an effective, fast and safe alternative to road transportation, Ibom City Ferries announced in Uyo that it will commence it's ferry operations from Oron to Calabar from December 1st, 2021.

The company will be deploying 100 pieces of a 50 seater passenger ferry, complete with modern facilities, i.e. Wifi, Air Condition, phone charging ports, Toilet and drinks Bar,

The MD of Ibom City Ferries, Mr Larinde Williams stated that the service is expected to change the landscape of travel in the state.

The service which will run daily between Oron and Calabar, will also include scheduled tour services from Le Meridien Marina to Calabar which will help improve travel and tourism between Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers states.

Akwa Ibom Ayaya

Anonymous15:
what is the name of the part of your area you move up a hill to see the ocean?

Ibom. There's a particular place you'll stand and you'll see the ocean.

Timekeeper:
And the price is like how much..

If I had much, I wunt consider staying

3k-20k a week or you can extend it, but you'll be staying with people. If you've been to the university, you'll have no problem with it.

Timekeeper:
Where Dt one dey?

Check Jiji, or Bookings.com or Google Chrome just search Hostels in the island. And you get cheap rates, but most times it favours we women. You men have a problem with your fellow men . I gues ls you people's strong head and gra gra is too much.

Timekeeper:
Advice Needed. I Have An Issue Bothering My Soul And Life..

I am based on the mainland and I recently came back from akwa Ibom where I did my youth service... I stay with my brother on mainland hoping to get a job and move out..

By God grace, there is possibility of me getting a Job on the island even though it is not yet concluded... Meanwhile the job will be on probation as I am currently being trained on it.

I have a lady Frnd Dt I met since last year, no sexual stuff btw us. We have just been friends. She stays on the island (ajah) and her rent is expired, though she didn't plan to continue living in That house. Our plan is Dt she is moving out and I will pay but recently she had some financial issues and wunt be able to move out again. So she suggested that we should pay another 1 year rent.

My concerns:
1. She is not really troublesome but sumtyms she is very stubborn. Anyway she is a Good lady sha.

2. Possibility Dt her sis will stay with us. I don't know much abt her sis and I don't want trouble.

3. a. The house is located in a ghetto like area in Ajah where the bathroom has no door and even the next person bathroom and people outside will know u r the one bathing. (bathroom fence not tall and no roof)

3.b. The toilet fence are so short that the next person can see u and u can see him/her while pooing . I love privacy and this kind life is not what I wished for..

4. The environment is notin to write about but I can cope...
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What should I do? I don't intend rejecting this job due to lack of a good place to stay and I can't stay In mainland to be working in island which of course is still a probatory stuff.

Nairaland family, I am so confused right now......

You can get a hostel

AlexBells:
Swimming or sailing lol, unless your boat capsized you don't need to swim the ocean but I'm telling you, why would someone swim the high sea naturally, I'm saying perhaps people are confident to paddle their canoe in the ocean, let's say from Onitsha to Bonny, for real I don't think many Igbo can do that in the present day

And who told you so dear? Don't underestimate Igbo people, greatness is in the blood of all of them. Don't be shocked if you see a layman doing it better than the waterside people. We have many of them on Igbo land.

He loves it, let him be. Most females wear waist beads so they reduce belly fat. Maybe he doesn't want to have Potbelly.

AlexBells:
Do you know how many Igbos had died as a result of drowning especially in Lagos, this thing you guys are seeing it as a matter of ego, we are talking about life here,

Phobia does not mean hate, no one really hate water, we are talking about phobia (fear) and we are not talking about a cup of water, we are talking about sea/ocean and larger rivers, if you are talking about the Igbos in Opobo, I can understand those ones, they may not swim the ocean but at least they can sail it with their locally made boat,

I'm waiting for any Igbo who had paddled a canoe across our inland rivers, until no one had come out to disprove that then it means that there is serious fear of water, the fact is that this is not about being Igbo, I was born and raised in Igboland,

We are saying the same thing, so which Ijaw or water side people have you seen swimming on the broad ocean. Even the Singapore's or islands near the ocean don't even know how to swim on the large ocean, or the British Isles people, why is Igbo an exception.

In Calabar self, I haven't seen a fisherman swim in the ocean, River, yes, but ocean, chineee skirt!!! Which one is that?

AlexBells:
Now you are talking, I did not say that Igbos hate water generally but that Igbos have phobia for large water bodies and there seem a Disinterest towards swimming on a greater majority and parents had passed down tales about how water gods and goddesses would take people yearly, you should know that this story is only applicable to deep waters so, there is going to be need for awakening, where we could engage in deep sea diving, submarines and real inland shipping both for peace and otherwise.

There's apparent phobia honestly, I don't think apart from the Igbos in Opobo, Bonny and other places that any of us mainlanders can brave the sea on a canoe, this lack of interest had impacted the economy of AlaIgbo, we don't even talk about fishing

Even in Ijaws, which Ijaw or water side people can gracefully swim in water or the open ocean. Its only a few, just the same way as Igbos.

And when it comes to the Igbos, it isn't only a few, a great majority of us love the water. That's why when we come to Lagos, or Calabar, we love to buy houses near the ocean.

TeamLeader:
E ehn wonders shall never end.

Is this the new format?

Just now I was surfing the net and gbagaun I got this credit alert from palmpay loan app.

I did not applied for anything. I was shocked so I went to playStore to download the app and found out that I have the app already on my phone disabled because I can't remember I ever took a loan from them even though I have collected money from other loan apps and I pay back on due dates.

But this one shock me. So I try to login maybe na me forget the response I got is that my number is not registered.

How do I handle this? Because right now me I de broke o and I don swear say I will never do with any loan apps in my life again but this wan shock me.

The money still de the account as I de write no reversal

Modified:
3k is gone out of the money. I want to see. Wetin go happen

You must borrow by force ... Why not send a compliant and fall them to take it back.

AlexBells:
Shey I don tell you that I'm Jubril El Rufai, why you still dey stress yourself lol, Nwafor Zukwanu ike biko, no be me and you go defend Igbo with pride still enter Bush, if I must defend AlaIgbo, it shall be for the truth if not for the truth then for humanity but once it is not the truth and nobody would get hurt, Ada/Nwokem, you are on your own lol

it isn't right Nna, where did you make your basis from? That Igbos are water phobic? That's absurd, if you read your write up in the first instance, it more or less sounded deragotory. How would a human being hate water in any way?

AlexBells:
Being pro Igbo does not mean that other people are not human, leave slayerforever he is actually my buddy lol just that he thinks that everyone else is a reincarnation of the devil while we are the only ones made in God's own image, lol, I'm pro Igbo too like "Oginidi" but at least I won't declare war against everyone else especially when I know that deep down we have our own issues,

Sweetheart, Igbos do not have issues. We were brought into a system were cowardice, servitude and ridiculous obesiance was self-forced on us. This is why we are pro-igbo, becuase most idealogies from other tribes are either ancient or not accepted in the present state of the world. This is the reason for the Igbo renaissance.

That said, not to deviate from the subject, Igbos love to swim, infarct a great majority of us love the water.

I'm Ghanaian (Ashanti) but my lovely Igbo mum is from Arochukwu in Abia state. In the past when I came to the village for Christmas, the village kids would drag us to the river to while away the time, and you'll be seeing little kids swimming like submarine jets.

I for myself love the water, and the elders I saw there also love the water. Water is refreshing and it has been known for millennials. This is the reason the human body is made up of 70-80 percent water. So to say Igbos fear water becuase of what not, I'll say it's false. Igbos love the water in some respect, but avoided it becuase of certian issues it has at that time, and they'd also loved the dry land because of their dry crop products. Gbam!!!

AlexBells:
Biko Ga Nodu Ala Nwanne, I'm pure Igbo abeg, it just these nonsense tribal hatred in Nigeria had made everyone not to care about the truth, even if the devil was Igbo we shall baptise him lol. And funny enough we would begin to progress once we begin to treat issues head on

You are not Nwoke mu, ... You are an Impostor, no Igbo would ever demean another Igbo for being pro-igbo.

AlexBells:
Opobo is a very special case so leave it out for now, even the said Ikwerre is very much distanced from the sea, if we had affinity to water, Ikwerre could have extended into the sea.

Hmm, I here you. Your stats is warped and you're doing it to please your lesiure moment. You know nothing about Igbos, what are we even saying you're not Igbo! Which Igbo person would ever demean another Igbo person for being pro-igbo

triple996:
Pls make una de wail more and more .
Make it louder please. More pain to hate filled bigots

Who is hating who. I don't hate anyone, but for me I can't leave in the North. The time NYSC sent me there , I cried and cried, becuase it's like hell to me.

I didn't want to do anything there. It's hot, less land, no water, highly moral and religiously old, and totally not my type.

AlexBells:
Impostor by your definition, I'm Alex Elrufai, there must be Limitations to things especially when there is need for understanding a certain concern, you hide the truth, you only get you harm yourself in the long run especially when this does not have any impact on Igbo outlooks with others

Then why does a Fulani have to speak for the Igbo's, Mr. Elrufai? Let me guess, you're half Igbo?

gabazin080:
the number of news I have been reading recently on social media about ritual killings is alarming. then I begin to wonder if the thing is real. where do the spirit get the money they give the ritualist.
I need more light on this topic please

Humans believe in giving something to get something, which makes the adage "Nothing is free" thereby increasing their trust in the power of the JuJu, which is obviously theirs.
There is no JuJu power it is all our power.

AlexBells:
Nobody will take you too serious becuase you are too pro Igbo that it gets to that point where in your views, Igbos have no fault or weaknesses. Always be guided by moderation and truth and realise also that we all have weaknesses

What is pro Igbo .. you're not Igbo dear, I rest my case. You're an impostor.

AlexBells:
Why I do really think that it is an Igbo thing is that our ancestors spread Northwards instead of towards the Atlantic, and if we wanted given the large number of Igbos, if there were no fear of the Oceans, we could have advanced further towards the Ocean, in Nigeria for instance, Occupation could be tribal,

For instance in the very distant past, the Ijaws were more into fishing, Igbos more into Smithing, farming, weaving, etc, it became a bulk of occupation by strength, in the basic human reacts to greed and fear, fight or flight, in this regards, Igbo ancestors' greed did not take them to the ocean so did the fear most likely, and then if we can't fight it, we flight from it, creating the phobia at the national level, we are not allien to the ocean, our ancestors just avoided it

Our ancestors didn't only spread northward, we have clans like Ikewere, Opobo and the likes who settled even when when Niger Delta was bad lands, filled with swamps and horrifying creatures. Some even tagged it's bushes as evil forest. So they moved far and wide.

AlexBells:
Hmmm are you serious, well then you are not in touch with reality honestly about 75% of Igbo population can't swim, that would be the highest of any other nationality South of Nigeria

Stop the lies, that isn't true, biko. Mr statistics . Me self as I'm big, I love the water and my mom's village is filled with all sorts of water bodies, and if you move on a hill in my area you can see the ocean at the far end. So all this is bunkers.

triple996:
Elrufai remains the best thing that ever happens to kaduna. After completing the flyovers and bridges, our own iron-man went ahead to beautify them thereby making our city colourful and exotic.
Kodus to mallam.

https://web.facebook.com/hashtag/kadunaurbanrenewal

Most Nigerian bridges are home to the homeless, that's not what to be proud of. Bridges are good, but when the citizens can't enjoy it, what's the purpose?

Deadlytruth:
But why is it that whenever it comes to the issue of Igbo presidency, you Igbos don't seem to feel that the injustice is actually coming from your beloved PDP which is currently reluctant to give you people her 2003 as a matter of a right owing to how much you have invested your emotions and loyalty unquestioningly and religiously in the last 22 years? If Tinubu and APC refuse the APC ticket being zoned to the SE, it will be quite understood given how much Igbos rejected, insulted and cursed the party in 2015 when it offered to the SE the proposal that the region support the party for 2015 in exchange for 2023 ticket. Had Igbos accepted that offer back then, I can bet you that Tinubu would have been nowhere nursing any 2023 ambition now.

This is total rubbish. You're lucky I took my time to read this, I'm disinterested.