₦airaland Forum

totally agree with you!

ClintonJr:
I like the way Yorubas are beating around the bush just to drag Zik into the mess, then turn a blind eye to the role Akintola played in jailing Awolowo #backstabbers

What was the state of the airline when OBJ liquidated it?

Fisiryorh:
My Mom worked as a senior flight purses & my Dad, An Aeronautical engineer/ Pilot with Nigeria Airways for over 35 years each...was heart breaking to see that obasanjo liquidated the airline with no just cause & without adequate pay in years......


WHAT A SHAME.....

JAH HELP US ALL...

Why are u surprised? That typical average Yoruba!

Obi2saveNigeria:
1) COAS (Army)-Yoruba.
2) IGP (Police)- Yoruba.
3) Immigration Boss -Yoruba.
4) Customs Comptroller - Yoruba.
5) CBN Governor - Yoruba.
6) Finance Minister - Yoruba.
7) Attorney General- Yoruba.
8 ) Accountant General- Yoruba.
9) Minister of Digital Economy- Yoruba.
10) Maritime Economy Minister - Yoruba.
11) FIRS Boss -Yoruba.
12) NIMC Boss -Yoruba.
13) Minister of Solid Minerals -Yoruba.
14) EFCC Boss - Yoruba
15) Petroleum Minister- Tinubu
16) Chairman Tax Reforms Committee -Yoruba
17) Head of service of the federation-Yoruba
18) Chief of Staffs- Yoruba
19) Minister of Justice-Yoruba
20) Minister of Power-Yoruba
21) Minister of Transportation-Yoruba

Now add the fact that our seaports, airports and other infrastructure are also being concentrated in their region. If half of these were to be done by any other region in Nigeria, Yorubas will be lamenting day and night. But it's in their favour so they see it as the best. This is the height of selfishness and hypocrisy!

What is ur ethnic nationality?

DeLaRue:
Importation will reduce by fire by force.

The current high inflation has reduced people's ability to purchase goods, particularly imported ones.

Demand for non-essential imports must already be falling drastically, and with crude oil price increasing, Nigeria's balance of payment will rebalance in favour of higher export earnings.

Making imports expensive by devaluing the naira, which is what the government has done is one of the most effective tools for achieving increased local production even though there are unfortunate downsides to that policy.

I think we finally have a clever government.

Go to any supermarket, you will see up to 10 different types of imported breakfast cereals, olive oil, this oil and that oil. Even imported can coke, and many more non-essential imports.

We can produce all the corn we need to make different breakfast cereals, but we don't. We have palm oil, groundnut oil etc, and there is nothing wrong with locally produced coke.

These are just few examples of non-essential imports that is killing the naira.

In the future, when we are producing more and the economy is in a better condition, may be these things can be imported.

For now, we can go back to eating yam, beans etc for breakfast. People did this in the past, it didn't kill them.

They are brainless.

Programmer47:
This is how am average batidiot thinks. No sense, no direction, just how to drag Obi and throw insults.

Blaming a country's citizens for importation?
Like, which brain una get?
4 refineries and no one is working and you correlated with Individuals importing?
Most of you need real help, not just with finance but with your mentality.
At this point, you can't think rationally again. The next thing is to insult me and throw tribal slurs as usual. Very senseless mob of individuals

Ok. So why don’t u support them to get Biafra?

OLODO RABATA!

tollyboy5:
Orisirisi, Nigerians are very funny set of people. Emeka, Ebuka and kingsley are into importation business and they import all manners of rubbish from abroad.
Tayo, Taiwo are also importing all kind of jargons from Europe. Now the government import petrol and many of you are complaining. The government is just a mirror of her people.

Give ten Nigerians loan today if they wont build hotels, club etc everywhere. I honestly asked one person who criticize obi when he was a governor on this forum why he/she was now rooting for obi now. The person did not reply my mention. Obi business model and performance as Anambra does not make him the best candidate over others to me.

You cant give what you don't have, how can a importer model the Nigeria economy when he failed to do that in his state?
My friend do say my soft spot for tinubu is because i'm a lagosian, i dont just have time for his capping yet. I know his soft spot for obi is because he likes igbo and edo people are big fan of obi.
Normally the igbos are being cheated in Nigeria but obi will fail if he was the president in nigeria kind of government settings where cabals has a bigger say in government. The person most fit for this job is the boastful mr tinubu. Lets see if he can really prove himself.

Obi fans feel they apply common sense but what they apply is emotional sense of entitlement. My friends tag me as tinubu supporter but some of my APC family tag me obidient but this obidient dont know we cant hate on our family because they're APC or tolerate insult because of a political party lol. On the day of election everyone in our house went to vote obi, my mum forced our igbo tenant to come out to vote obi. I had my reservations but my uncle said "Obi ni o!" . Now elections are over everyone has moved on but obi fans are still insulting us.

Obi is just like the rest nothing special to offer, at this stage of my understanding i can tell when someone is just gathering enough fans to when someone will actually perform. Obi will perform well in a government where there are lesser opposing forces but for this type of government, tinubu or atiku are ones that can make big moves and dare alot of opposing forces in government.

And those rooting for military rule and yet complaining about wike arrogant nature are confused and might also be obidient also.

Naija has happened to her. So sorry!

TemplarLandry:

What is the business of IPOB in this matter?
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Corrinthians:
If you gave Useni a gun, just like most Obidients from from ipob stock, he'd shoot Tinubu in the head.

The guy is a dangerously radicalised and overzealous Obidient. There's no going back from the mental health issues he's grappling with.

Rufai is economically & financially better than 99% of APC members so d “crying” tired cliche does not apply to him. Weather TINUBU succeeds or not Rufai will always come up on top.

muykem:
Rufia almost crying on live TV this morning. Frustration, disappointment, bitterness and regret was feasible in his face. I remember Wike song, as e dey pain them, e dey sweet us.

What is his development strikes in Lagos State — a parasite on Nigeria in the last 100 years. Anyone, including a dog, will do better than Buhari. Economic strides cannot cure the hat ails Nigeria.

INTEGRITYA1:
Tinubu's experiences and his antecedent in Lagos developmental projects are part of the reasons I want us to give him a try.

God Bless Nigeria

Is that really the price?

abhosts:
Nigerians were buying brand new cars like Hyundai Elantra for ₦3.5m and believing the lies of the likes of Sahara Reporters, that things were bad under PDP. Brand new Hyundai Elantra now costs ₦28m.

U are very funny! Am not surprised though

Mubiola360:
It is high time we come together to reconcile, rebuild and reconstruct our Nation to a greater hight.
Let's embrace collective cooperation, collaboration and do away with unnecessary confrontation.
Nigeria shall be great , IT IS A MUST !

Has Nigeria ever been great in the first place?

ecolime:
It's not all gloomy. Nigeria will be great again and you will definitely be fine.

Follow the guide below. Stay and live in the present. Don't be anxious of tomorrow.

Totally agree with u!
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OBIDIENTNAIJA:
This fraudster and babalawo can now rest. Your plan has materialized. So enjoy your stolen mandate.
One thing is sure for those who gather wealth at the expense of people's sweat, they will leave it in the midths of their days at the end will be fools. They have all received their packages and won't enjoy it including the mandate thieves.

That's not the issue. The issue is that state creation by successive Northen military dictatorship balkanized Igbo nation into different states to punish them for Biafra War. That's why we need a sovereign national conference to resolve all this.

ednut1:
are igalas in anambra not facing same marginalization The heart of man is desperately evil

What are terrible comment?

silvoclaira:
General Buratai has more properties than this and no one is doing anything about it.

You think say our Military senior officers are poor?

U did state the reasons why Igbos will be worse than Burundi. U only made a claim. Please substantiate ur claim.

Nvestor02:
There is nothing like fight here. Igbo are tyr one jealous of Yoruba achievements.

They need Yoruba to survive but Yoruba don't need them.

I'm from Akwa ibom, I studied the both people. The different is clear.

Yoruba can have a country of their own with the 6 states and survive.

But if Igbo go with 5 state, they would be worse than Burundi.

You said the same thing with Buhari presidency.

helinues:
You are the one who has given up about everything considering your activities on this forum.

I understand the frustration of supporting things that are meant to be doomed for almost a decade not to talk of shattered dream of Utopia Biafra

Better Nigeria with Tinubu's presidency

U comment shows that u don’t even know how Dubai became the inspiring and acclaimed Dubai of today. Anambra does not have the political & economic independence Dubai had to become what it is today. Even Lagos which enjoys undue advantage cannot be Dubai. So why expect Anambra to be.
OLODO RABATA!

tonicyril:
No a rocket science..

In as much as Anambra became a dubai under Peter Obi, nothing God can not do

And how did it end? Didn’t he chicken out and went contrary to the military command given to him for the mission.

ElSudani:
Yoruba people are not made for war except his name was Benjamin Adekunle. The only meaningful expedition of the Biafrans was led by a Yoruba man, Victor Banjo.

Nigerians love “ With Immediate effect “ public officers. No wonder we are a dead country.

nedekid:
Kai, he may have good intentions, but you do not just enter a field you know nothing about and in just few days as minister, start making rash decisions. It is a recipe for desaster.
Probably he should have understudied the ministry for few months. Aviation is a technical field and not just a common sense or agbari one.

OLODO RABATA!

Everfrank:
AJAYI TEMITOPE WRITES:

Two days ago, a very good egbon wrote here in a Facebook post that the Igbos have been mindlessly marginalised in Nigeria. After reading the post, I asked him to explain how the Igbos are marginalised.

I am well aware we have many who binge on elite conspiracies which are just mere grand design to pollute the waters for personal advantage. With an open mind, I asked my good egbon to educate me on how the Igbos have been marginalised because I really want to know. Let me say I am still waiting to be well schooled on how badly Nigeria has treated Igbos.

For decades, many people, including the media have perpetuated wrong narratives in this country because of the way falsehoods have been mainstreamed. There is no part of Nigerian history from 1958 when we had the first all Nigerian cabinet headed by a Nigerian elected Prime Minister, preparatory to independence in 1960, that supports the false narrative of marginalisation of Igbos.

For those who may not know, the first indigenous Federal Permanent Secretary even before independence was an Igbo man, Mr. Francis Nwokedi.

Mr. Nwokedi and Dr. S.O Wey, who later in 1961 became the first Secretary to the Government of the Federation, were the first two indigenous Federal Permanent Secretaries in the colonial government. The two men were the doyen of Nigerian civil service. Mr. Nwokedi was promoted as Permanent Secretary about two weeks ahead of Dr. Wey.

To make Aguiyi Ironsi the General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa broke rank with his Northern People Congress colleagues and Sir Ahmadu Bello. NPC and Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Region wanted a Northerner as the GOC.

The last British General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army, Major-General Christopher Welby-Everard in his recommendation to the Prime Minister raised a number of issues against the then Brigadier Aguiyi Ironsi who at the time was the most Senior Nigerian Army Officer and concluded Brigadier Ironsi was unfit to lead the Army of a brand new country.

For fairness and to preserve the tradition of seniority in the Army, Balewa ignored General Welby-Everard’s recommendation. He appointed Ironsi as the first indigenous General Officer Commanding of Nigerian Army.

A stubborn fact of history is that the Igbos dominated the top echelon of the Army and Federal Civil/Public Service for many years from 1958. Till date, Abia, Anambra and Imo State have largest number of indigenes in Federal Civil Service.

If we all agree our country has historical animus we must, therefore, be honest to acknowledge them and confront them. If it is about trading blame of who did or caused what in Nigeria, no tribe or group will smell like roses.

In confronting our demons, we must also reject this persecution mentality many Igbos have carried for far too long. It is distorted version of history that is fueling anger in Igboland since the civil war broke. However we choose to dice it, Nigeria has been good to all tribes. Each tribe can only complain of not having enough but no one can honestly complain of having the short end of the stick. Like other countries, our union is not perfect. It remains a work in progress.

Let's go back to our history and let history guide us. There is no strong argument to support the marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria beyond what exists in the imagination of those who constantly mine the Biafra franchise to amass private wealth from brainwashed people and politicians who use same for political bargain.

I can conveniently say that Igbos have had the best of Nigeria more than any other tribe. Blackmailing the country with victim mentality is not a strategy. Today, many Southern politicians and so-called activists built their public credentials on constant agitation for restructuring of Nigeria. If indeed there is anything wrong with the current political structure of the country, the blame should be more on Igbos.

Who promulgated the Decree 34 that abolished 1963 Federal Constitution and unitarised the Federal structure? It was Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi as Military Head of State. With scant regard to other tribes, Igbos dominated the security agencies and the Federal civil service in the first Republic.

Professor Ben Nwabueze who is now the chief priest of restructuring drafted the unification decree as Legal Counsel to General Ironsi. Igbos who literally ran the Federal Government then executed the unitary arrangement for domination and ethnic advantage.

Who plotted first coup that decimated South West and Northern political establishment? The fallout of that misadventure led to the civil war in 1967. The mainly Igbo officers who masterminded the coup didn't kill any political leader from their tribe.

Some Igbo leaders talk about the Civil War as if Nigeria started the war against them. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu started the war not Major-General Yakubu Gowon. Gowon had a duty to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria.

Even with all the noise about all that is supposedly wrong with Nigeria, who are the biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria's diversity today? It is still igbos. Every part of this country welcomes them.

They prosper more across the country outside their ancestral homeland. Igbos are probably the biggest real estate owners among all Nigerian tribes. In fact records show they own more than 60% of houses, Plazas, hotels and housing estates in Abuja.

They play big in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, and Port Harcourt - every part of Nigeria. I need someone to tell me the number of Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Ijaw, Kanuri, Tiv man or woman etc that currently have lands, houses or any business that can employ 50 people in any part of South Eastern Nigeria the same way Igbos do in South West, South South and in the North. Do they sell land to non-Igbos in South East same way they freely buy land and own properties in other parts of Nigeria?

Under President Jonathan, the government they seem to have invested heavy emotions more than Jonathan's own Ijaw tribe, Igbos got key federal appointments through Senator Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Did other tribes bitterly complain the way Igbos now do over appointments? In any case, which statutory appointments have they been denied by current government despite rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari and his party in 4 elections? Let’s get real here.

Igbos really want to get all top appointments in a government they rejected and have shown unimaginable hostility despite the government offering them the best deal in Nigeria in terms of real development no administration offered them since 1960. It is on record Buhari, in two presidential contests, made top Igbo politicians his running mate. Let’s face it.

Which government in Nigeria has taken on the quantum of Federal government-funded infrastructural projects that are going on in the South East than this current FG since 1960? If we analyse the Federal Budget from 2016 when President Buhari presented his first budget, the current FG has possibly spent more money developing SE in 6 years than it has done in Buhari's own North West if we consider FG's spend on Infrastructure per region.

It will appear Igbo elites prefer appointments that only benefit individuals and their hangers-on more than real development that benefits majority of citizens of that region.

They covet appointment of an Igbo person as Chief of Army Staff more than Second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt Express, Awka-Enugu Express, Owerri-Port Harcourt Express, Port Harcourt-Aba and other dead Federal highways that are being reconstructed across the region.

For all the special intervention supports by Federal Government to all States of the Federation, I am not aware President Buhari denied South Eastern States what is due to them because Igbos didn't vote for him.

Question: how did all the appointments held by Igbos before the Buhari administration including Chief of Army Staff, Comptroller General of Immigration, Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Inspector General of Police, Minister of Aviation, Director-General of Pension Commission, Executive Chairman of National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Minister of Power etc improve the lives of Igbo people.

Stella Oduah and Osita Chidoka as Ministers of Aviation couldn't even fix Enugu Airport in 5 years or did Dr. Sam Amadi, Professor Bath Nnaji and Professor Chinedu Nebo who superintended over the power sector for 6 years supply more electricity to Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi?

Having Igbo sons leading the power sector for 6years could not even resolve the legal logjam between Emeka Offor’s, Enugu Distribution Company and Geometric Power owned by another Igbo man to supply regular electricity to Aba.

Whereas a Federal government being led by a man they rejected in every election since 2003 has done, in 6 years, what the Igbo adopted political party could not do for them in 16 years. It was Buhari that gave Ariaria Market, the biggest market in the region uninterrupted electricity supply.

The main point here is the fact that Igbos cannot continue to claim they are the only good people or tribe in Nigeria while others are the evil people holding them down. Certainly, hate and insulting other tribes can't be a strategy for engagement in addressing any grievances if at all there are genuine ones.

Even though the Nigerian constitution does not allow for referendum, let the Federal Government allow it to see if majority of Igbo people will vote to leave Nigeria. I am sure majority wants to remain citizens of Nigeria because they know Nigeria serves them better.

If the Nigerian government won’t allow a referendum, can the South East governors agree and fund an informal referendum to even give us a scientific basis to know if the Igbos want to live as citizens of Biafra, after all, Lagos State, in 2003 or so, conducted its own census independent of the Federal Government.

The Igbo elites must summon courage to counter the IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu's hate mongering. Igbo elites have tolerated Kanu too much without considering their own hard work, sweat and investments in Nigeria. Whatever our country is today is what we all made of it.

If we now need to press the reset button it should be done in a manner we all can listen to ourselves. We must not yield the space to the mad man and his specialists in IPOB..."

If the condemned is your kinsmen, u won't rope the entire ethnic group.

adekolaelect:
Developers' Tribe will develope heaven through Hanging.

Totally agree with you!

franchasofficia:
Ronu miscreants and OPC terrorists will never scream foul play because it's their masters doing this, let it be from Southeast or Southsouth and watch them start bleating from their wide mouths

You asked the fundamental question: who dey drag am with Una?

Another question: how does who started Nollywood or not improve the basis life of average Nigerian — especially that of her Yoruba kins(wo)men? The average Yoruba is Ndigbo-obsessed but Yoruba-survival blind.

Divide this shithole & all these unnecessary fight will end.

Babaken:
Who dey drag am with Una, una think say na everytime person dey get time dey argue for waiten no get head.

How do u know that Igbo states are a pile of crab?

HBB1:
Is that why your States are a pile of crap and you lot jump on every bus going to the S.West?

Why did u had to inject IPOB? U could have made ur point without robing IPOB. If this issue was about Hausa/Fulani, u most likely wouldn’t have tarred them with Fulani herdsmen/Boko Haram. I tire for una!

Ola9ja23:
This people and their nonsense argument

We are proud of our Yoruba movies as it promotes our culture and heritage that's why you see many of them doing great on Netflix and attracting international attention. I can't remember any ibo movie on Netflix that gain attention as Yoruba language in Africa.

We don't need to brake into local English movie of IPOB 😂 the way we started our Afrobeat and Afromusic that's recognized internationally today is the way we want Yoruba movies from Africa to the world.

Yoruba is greater than Africa

Nigeria is not a nation but a MERE GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION

Vinnie2000:
In this Life, it's good to know your History, so that you can learn from it.

Nigeria has carrying all this Unnecessary IgboPhobic Practices for too long.

And it has NOT Produced any Results.😏😌

Even Jonathan faced same issue when he Appointed Azubuike Iherijika as Chief of Army Staff. 😕😒

We will NOT prosper as a Nation, if we continue like this!

How?

Ebubu3:
Please let all these revisionism die.

Discussion like this are what fuel biafra agitation

Yorubas were hailing him even when the daft policy was hurting them and killing their border economy.

slimfit1:
Really, what if it was Buhari that was there what would have happened? Buhari left the borders opened with Niger and close the one to Benin what did you say about that?