Typing: Ikwerre are not Igbo. They even hate Igbo. In most of Ikwerre communities, they don't rent their houses to Igbo. That's why you can never see an Igbo man shop in any Ikwerre community.
Ikweres are trying to avoid the Igbos because Igbos lost the war hence they lost power and influence . Plus many Ekweres during and after the war wronged the Igbos in a bad way by consfiscating their properties in and around port harcourt.
The Ikweres however (if they like it or not) , are indigenously, geographically, culturally, biological and ethically igbos
Shigishege2: thank you very much for this detailed explanation
Ikweres are trying to avoid the Igbos because Igbos lost the war hence they lost power and influence . Plus many Ekweres during and after the war wronged the Igbos in a bad way by consfiscating their properties in and around port harcourt.
The Ikweres however (if they like it or not) , are indigenously, geographically, culturally, biological and ethically igbos
ednut1: Are you guys igbo And why were places name Umu changed to Rumu after the civil war. Rumukoro, Rumuola etc😁
Ikweres are trying to avoid the Igbos because Igbos lost the war hence they lost power and influence . Plus many Ekweres during and after the war wronged the Igbos in a bad way by consfiscating their properties in and around port harcourt.
The Ikweres however (if they like it or not) , are indigenously, geographically, culturally, biological and ethically igbos
lhordspy: After this particular post. I am done exchanging word with you. Maybe forever.
No wonder you hide on nairaland to spew misinformation. You cant even read to comprehend the body of a news well. You just picked 2.1% and started spreading falsehood.
What IMF was saying is that Russia economy upped to 3.3% despite the war, from the 2.1% in 2022, when the sanction started. Even went up a whooping 0.7% from march-May this year. Yahoo, Reuter, independent, all reported the news. It was reported that Russia is actually spending less on the war than expected.
You are ignorant of so many things and unintelligent. No wonder you fill your post will laughing emojis to hide your scarcity of knowledge. Goodbye
Gbadebo19: If you like, kill yourself with propaganda. The US can fund Ukraine's war for 20+ years without going broke. Are you aware that the US spends a whooping 800 billion dollars on its defence? Do you even know maybe it is seized Russian assets they are currently using to fund Ukraine? Keep fooling yourself.
So nobody needs those money among its citizens? No hospital or research can use those money?
Librason: I understand you 100% , politicians played the ethnicity card to their advantage, especially APC in Lagos.
Let me put APC and their shenanigans in the LEFT and if we look to the RIGHT (even without belonging to APC) and find some other groups saying Lagos is no man's land (just because they came to do business ) then one is in dilemma as to which side to fall in .
First, APC and their excesses of using ethnicity to gain political advantage.
Second, the other group too with their chest - beating excesses that "Lagos is no man's land" (whereas Lagos has indigenes)
So one won't know where he should side. Remember all Yorubas are not in support of APC.
Iyabo Ojo is now being targeted with unfair taxation just because she is a popular figure against APC .
APC didn't win in Lagos in presidential election for example, so all Yorubas are not in APC.
So it's now left for other indigenes or opposition of APC to be wiser and be less controversial in their proclamation and in their acts in order to gain sympathy to their sides, they should play the politics right and carry other Yorubas along and don't jettison all Yoruba just because of APC or take Yoruba to be APC, they should be less emotional.
They can even found a party and acted behind the scene , if they want to change power in Lagos.
If not for consistent resistance , only God knows where this people would have taken their excesses to, some still insists that Lagos should not enjoy what is obtainable in other states (I.e presence of her indigenes) how can one say Lagos is no man's land and they want to advance this notion in their attitude, that's bad!
You are a well balanced person and your argument is valid. Still I will choose any side other than APC. APC is a violent group. Violence is not in the same badness class as chest beating. And you see if not that APC spin meaning into that phrase of “Lagos is a no mans land”, that phrase originally had a positive connotation. It originally was understood as meaning that Lagos is a place anybody can come and hustle and make it
Librason: It's almost natural , if not natural that a man will feel entitled especially if they realize that they are in their rightful position comparatively , my point is against those who are blind to this natural or almost natural tendency of entitlement.
Issues should be well managed , there should be mutual respect and mutual considerations, but nobody should claim Lagos is notorious for this and feeling of entitlement is not present elsewhere, infact Lagos and Southwest are sleeping are lagging behind in comparison with other region, dem just dey wake up.
You are right entitlement is everywhere. Lagos APC played on this the last time. I maintain that nobody is dragging anything with the indigenes of Lagos. Have you been hearing any issues again? The silence will be this way until another election year, then you will suddenly start hearing stories again
Truthsoldier: Good day nairalanders, I think the food I can eat consistently and not get tired is oil beans and plantain(ripe one),the thing takes me to cloud nine
How about you?
Dodo and fried egg prepared and served by a well rounded lady
Librason: The scenario may be similar and not the same even in South - South , there are boundaries and they become hostile , if they feel upset they feel entitled by breaking the oil pipes , forming modular refineries, a lot of them had to be begged, compensated , educated on scholarship, they currently give them (non state actor) millions of naira on regular basis to ensure there are no oil pipe issues, so these are also form of ENTITLEMENT they say it's their land and they have to be compensated or treated fairly, apart from 13% derivation fund and another percentage to specific oil producing community.
The other day the rivers indigenes disturbed to death the contractors in the state because they want a great high percentage of their indigenes to be part of the project. Sense of ENTITLEMENT , "na our land be this " kind of... so it's everywhere, think rightly..
The entitlement is there in the south south. So who says it’s not there in lagos? The clamour in Lagos is very unjustifiable. No one is contesting anything with anybody. The indigenes too have an head start more than the immigrants... they own the land and water source and whatever privilege or properties the immigrants have acquired by which they may brag about has been duly paid for. They pay also the space for their shops. So what’s the clamour or binckering about?
Great0ne1: My brother eh, some people are just something else in this country. Hopefully if Peter obi can recover his mandate, he MUST return this country to regional government. How can we practise unitary system with these kind of humans ?
Naijastrapmedia: moment palmpay agents arrested debtor at eatery after tracking him
A video that has gained widespread attention online captures the moment employees of a prominent online loan company apprehend a customer believed to have failed to repay a debt. The video depicts the company's staff, accompanied by security personnel, tracking down the customer at a restaurant where he was enjoying a meal. Despite attempting to escape, the customer was stopped by one of the security guards. The agents verified the customer's identity using a photo he had presumably provided during the loan application process. The customer pleaded with them to allow him to make a phone call to his mother as he was being taken away.
RockHard: It's not by force to live in Lagos. If you no like am you fit relocate to any other state wey ready to accommodate una excesses, or you can 'go to court'.
Dunce. I no you are complaining about fuel, but have you given it a thought that fuel is from other people’s land?
He did bad.. he did terrible things. But he could have just said he won’t continue talking except police or some lawyers show up. They are not police. He can leave them. Even they were wrong to ask him to drop his phone
Vixlot: VIDEO: In Garoua, Cameroon, commercial motorcyclists are protesting the removal of petrol subsidy. They are expressing their dissatisfaction in a blend of Fulfulde and French, and criticizing President Tinubu.
VIDEO: In Garoua, Cameroon, commercial motorcyclists are protesting the removal of petrol subsidy. They are expressing their dissatisfaction in a blend of Fulfulde and French, and criticizing President Tinubu. pic.twitter.com/N6SC8PFy8r
— Eons Intelligence (@eonsintelligenc) June 7, 2023
Na the way northerners for they complain if south-south no dey Nigeria again
Nsogbu001: Three months after arriving in the UK, Nigerian student arrested for allegedly attempting to date children
A Nigerian man identified as Cyril Kenneth has been arrested by the police after being accused of dating minors in Belfast, UK.
According to a video shared by warriors of children, Kenneth who arrived in February for his masters degree, was arrested after multiple children between the ages of 14 and 15 reported him with evidence of him grooming and sexually harassing them.
In the text messages he had with some of the victims, Kenneth sent his unsolicited indecent pictures, asked some of them for their house addresses, invited one of them to his house for sex, amongst other disturbing messages.
The suspect, however, confessed to the crime and blamed it on temptation from the devil. He said he contacted the kids because he needed friends as he was new to the country. He was subsequently handed over to the police for further investigation and possible prosecution(instablog)
If allowed to purchase the form for access to participation, this sex sport can be a major source of revenue generation for the growth of Nigeria's GDP......because about 80% of the Nigerian youth boys and girls alike are sexually active. Check them out on tiktok for confirmation.
We can monetize our sexual talent Mr Ex Senator.
At what price to the society? Or u don’t know that everything come with a price?
Acekidc4: They're going on strike that does not concern the federal government. It's a private sector and they will suffer for it.
Guy you no sabi anything about labour. Your response is giving you out as somebody that do not know much. As a cooperate organization even without being a public cooperate organization, there are right of every worker entrenched in law and supervised by bodyguards which TUC is one vital one. Any worker can decide to go on strike or in another word, down tool to protest some unfair perceived or real treatment
LeoDeKing: Someone up there already eating his vomitous since Peter Obi has thrown his weight behind the subsidy removal as he had stated during campaign.
Till this moment, their explanation has always been that Peter Obi would have cushioned the effect before removal, but ask them where Peter Obi said so, they will rather insult you down to your forefathers.
Someone said fuel subsidy will be removed immediately from day one, but they are explaining to us that the word "immediately" means "provisions and plans while removing subsidy".
Now that Peter Obi has shown his support for the subsidy removal, will rodents and nematodes continue asking if Tinubu supporters are queuing for N500 per liter of fuel or they will find another face-saving explanation?
Let's wait and see. 🤞
You do not know much. Prolly u do not read much. I will show u here where he said he will remove immediately and where he gave the plans on how he will go about it
mushroomFarm: First picture: Another picture with my American classmate. Second picture: salads from church Third picture: flag of Nigeria and some other countries flying high at Ammosov North Eastern federal university stadium, Yakutsk, Russia.
Please, if I want to trek to Russia, especially this church, how many days will it take me?
Merry100: Even though I had to follow certain doctrines when I was younger, I have come to question some of them as they cannot be proven through the Bible. I am particularly curious about where the Bible specifically forbids wearing earrings. My parents are devout Christians, and they did not even pierce my ears, let alone allow me to wear earrings. However, one day I felt like wearing an earring, so I put on a magnetic earring and went out. Later in that day, I attended a Church program a friend invited me but when I got to the Church, I was asked to remove my earring or leave.
I am not trying to shade Christianity, not all Churches treat visitors that way, I was even surprised at the way I was treated that day. I am just specifically curious about where God condemned earring in the Bible? I accept that all Churches have their own doctrines but some of these Churches still use there doctrines to rate Christians from other Churches. Is wearing earring a sin or just some Church doctrines? I can't find any verse in the Bible that condemns earring. If you know any please indicate.
By Gods grace I have wisdom and knowledge of the Bible. I won’t give you the answers others have been giving you. The church approach was wrong. Jesus do not chase away sinners. However.... You can understand how the Bible address your dressing in two points; 1- The Bible when you understand it and especially too when you consider why Moses was mistaken for an Egyptian by the midianites that met him when he ran away from Israel you will know that God want you to present yourself in conduct and costume in a way that people will not identify you with the people of the world with some reputation of some vices. Think when you wear a earring as a guy, will people identify more as a pastor or a yahoo boy...
Kingosytex: Some of the happenings and traditions I see daily makes me question people's sanity and state of mind. Can a whole people be foolish at the same time?
Kobojunkie: See this olodo! Servant's prayer now become investigation?
The passage says absolutely none of what you claim though as it clearly states that the servant made up his mind when the girl brought water out for him to drink.
Ok, ur intellectual capacity, comprehension ability and honesty have been clearly shown now. It will be unwise for me to continue with u again now
Kobojunkie: Stop lying! He didn't test anyone. He simply accepted the one who gave him and his animals drink! Make una no dey add una own delusions between the lines of what is written.
U no wise oh. I was being civil with u but he be like say u like wahala. I will post the Bible verse here now for u to read if he performed a TEST or not. Focus on the servant prayer in verse 14. OLODO Genesis 24:13-15 King James Version 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
YOU REMEMBER I WAS PRAISING THE BEAUTIFUL ‘SCRIPTED’ SPEECH OF TINUBU? IT HAS COME TO LIGHT THAT TINUBUS REMARK ON FUEL SUBSIDY WAS JUST HIM BEING FLIPPANT. HE DIDN’T READ IT OUT THE WAY IT IS IN THE SPEECH, WHERE IT WAS ‘PHASING OUT’ THEY WROTE. HE JUST OPENED MOUTH ‘WAA’ AND PLUNGED THE NATION INTO CRISIS.
Nigeria's fuel subsidy: How the new president has shocked the nation
An off-the-cuff remark by Nigeria's new president during his inaugural speech caused chaos with snaking queues across the country at petrol stations. After he had been sworn in on Monday, Bola Tinubu took his eyes off the teleprompter during his address to say: "The fuel subsidy is gone." He was referring to a decades-long subsidy that has kept down the price of petroleum products. The 71-year-old politician gave no timeframe or any more details about what is a major policy move. When a president last tried to remove the subsidy 11 years ago, protests erupted. Within hours of Mr Tinubu's first address, hundreds of people had poured on to the streets, either in their cars or on foot with yellow jerrycans, to grab what they believed to be the last drops of fuel to be sold at a government-fixed price.
But only a few were lucky - many filling stations stopped selling altogether, while others unilaterally increased prices by more than 200%, triggering chaos and an artificial scarcity. By the time the president's team clarified that the scrapping of the subsidy would not come into effect until the end of June - in line with the outgoing administration's budget - it was too late to stop the panic. By Wednesday, even the state-owned oil company had said it would be raising the price of petrol. Transport fares have already shot up, commuters are stranded at bus stops and the powerful labour union is now readying itself for a confrontation with the new government. "By his insensitive decision, President Tinubu on his inauguration day brought tears and sorrow to millions of Nigerians instead of hope," Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leader Joe Ajaero said in a statement. Despite its oil riches, Nigeria is unable to refine crude locally to meet demands. The four state-owned refineries are moribund, forcing the country to import refined petroleum products which are then sold at a price fixed by the government. So while people in the UK and Ghana, for example, were forking out £1.44 ($1.80) or 14 cedis ($1.24) respectively for a litre of petrol in May, Nigerians paid 185 naira ($0.40) - despite all three countries buying it from the same international market. This has been the practice in Nigeria since the 1970s and most residents have grown up insulated from paying the actual price of petrol.
This month Nigerians have been paying 185 naira ($0.40, £0.32) per litre for petrol But Mr Tinubu says Nigeria can no longer do this because of dwindling revenue: the government has already set aside $7bn to subsidise fuel for the first six months of this year. This amounts to 15% of the budget, more than the combined allocations for education (8.2%) and health (5.3%). Subsidies are not necessarily bad. Many countries offer them in sectors ranging from agriculture to electricity in order to keep costs down for citizens. But of major concern to Nigerians is corruption. Government agencies give conflicting figures for the amount of fuel imported, while dubious sellers have been known to divert the fuel to nearby countries to get higher rates. Ironically, President Tinubu was at the head of the resistance in 2012 when a government last tried to end the subsidy. He wrote then that the government had "tossed the people into the depths of the midnight sea", in a blistering attack on the policy, which was subsequently reversed. Yet there is more of an acceptance now that the subsidy should be scrapped to free up money for essential public services like transport, health and education. Analysts expect fuel to sell from anywhere between 250 naira and 350 naira after the current upheavals. The increase may not seem huge, but it is likely to have far-reaching repercussions in a country where one in three people are unemployed, inflation is at a record 22% and 96 million live below the poverty line of $1.90 per day. The situation is made worse by the fact that economy is run on thousands of fuel-sucking generators that power businesses, from barbershops to corporate skyscrapers, because of a lack of electricity. Nigerians are already spending more than 60% of their income on food and transport. With the minimum wage stuck at $64 a month, many are fearing that they will be further impoverished. "It is not sustainable," muttered one man at a petrol station in the capital, Abuja, after filling the tank of his SUV. Mr Tinubu's announcement was not preceded by the usual talks with the unions to find common-ground. In late 2021 when the last government toyed with the idea, it proposed a monthly cash advance of 5,000 naira to poor Nigerians to cover transport fares.
Inflation in Nigeria is standing at an all-time high of 22% Many struggling Nigerians, used to seeing politicians mismanage the country's oil wealth, fear they may already be victims of a profiteering racket. They are questioning why the pump price has already increased at both private and state-owned filling stations for what is likely to be older and cheaper stock. They also wonder what will happen to the money the government has set aside to subsidise fuel for the month of June. Will it disappear or will it be used for their benefit? There is a feeling that politicians want the people to make sacrifices without making any of their own. "Had the president also reeled out cost-cutting measures by the government, such as selling a jet from the presidential fleet or reducing Aso Rock's [a reference to the presidential office] budget on refreshments, the message might have been better received," said another man at the Abuja petrol station. It was also not the sort of first-day pronouncement many were expecting from a president who does not have a large dose of goodwill - he was elected by less than 10% of registered voters. It is unlikely that Mr Tinubu will reverse the policy. Unlike his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who leaned towards welfarism, he favours free market-driven forces. Many Nigerians wanted Mr Tinubu to hit the ground running, but many wish he had stuck to the script at his inaugural address, which should have mentioned the "phasing out" of the petrol subsidy.
WE MUST AS A NATION HAVE MORE INTELLECTUAL PEOPLE, PHILOSOPHERS, PEOPLE THAT CAN APPRECIATE ‘CAUSE AND EFFECT.’ I SEE TOO MANY SHALLOW-MINDED PEOPLE AROUND. TO PUT IT STRAIGHT, TINUBU’S CARELESS REMARK HAS SHOCKED THE WHOLE NATION AND CAUSED PAIN. THE CLAMOUR FOR HIM DURING CAMPAIGN TO SHOW UP MORE AND EVEN DEBATE WAS FOR A REASON. IT WAS SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW TINUBU TALKS, HIS INTELLIGENCE AND TEMPERAMENT, AND HOW HE REACTS TO THINGS. THE FAILURES AND BY GODS MERCY MANY FUTURE SUCCESS OF TINUBUS ADMINISTRATION WILL BE PINNED NOT ONLY ON HIM BUT ALSO THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM. IN EFFECT, THE WHOLE WAHALA SINCE THE VERY DAY OF TINUBUS INAUGURATION IS ON YOU, YES YOU THAT VOTED FOR HIM. THE CURSES AND BLESSINGS TINUBU HAS BEEN RECEIVING IS NOT ONLY ON HIM, ITS ALSO ON YOU THAT VOTED FOR HIM.