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omoelerin1:
There is nothing special in their meal. If you believe eating those poo is what will improve your critical thinking, then something is wrong with your brain in the first place. Mere perceiving the odour of those things makes me sick in the stomach.
If you travel to Europe or US by the time you spend a month without African food, you will fed up of their meal. Nobody will tell you before you will be looking for African kitchen.

I will prefer my Nigerian food to all these any time, any day.

you are speaking based on YOUR OWN PERSONAL TASTE

Nigerian food is high carb, which is not the best

but everyone has his own preferences tho

codemaniacs:
merahki is right...

stop looking at it from one point of view... Look at libya, they had things going for them as soon as "the west" considered libya a threat libya was turned into chaos...

what I mean is, even if Nigeria has things going well it can be turned into chaos..

for instance, before 1967, Nigeria was doing well until a civil war supported by different European countries put Nigeria in chaos...

gadaffi caused the downfall of Libya

Morocco is also a highly developed country in the continent, why has morroco not been destroyed?

All those touaregs across the mahgreb he armed have also gone to cause conflict in Libya, in addition to the militias.

You can blame westerners all we like, but if we are really honest, Gadaffi had a huge part to play in the collapse of Libya

Meeloreh:
I'll like to say we are still the source of our predicament one way or the other

exactly

merahki:
Hi. Sometimes what you think is voluntary is really not
I will explain
Do you know "they" actively and passively deliberately press the different buttons and fuel the problems that ensure Africa remains undeveloped and uninhabitable? If I was an engineer working in a SSA country earning 500 USD a month, the lack of incentives and enabling environment would make me easily pay for exams to practice in the US. I would jump at the offer to migrate and earn, say 5000USD (times 10 my Naija pay). When I abandon Naija, it is because I have been kept unhappy by my prevailing conditions and would therefore jump to become a slave, in this case a willing slave (on a surface level)
Naija is now an engineer short (perpetuating our problems)
And the cycle continues
My point is that it is not that voluntary cos if we are allowed to thrive (e.g. UK supporting Biafra, or pushing for restructuring in Naija (they way they pressured Jonathan) and more), Africa would be good to live in. Professionals would stay back in their continents with steady power, stable governments and economies
But should that happen, who would suffer it? The western world which because of their welfare programmes and increasingly aging populations are short of human resources and need these people badly. Now ask yourself, what would they now do to ensure they have a steady supply of cheap labour/professionals?
Really, ask yourself
If only our leaders could see and answer this too
Cheers

it does not always work like that......


India is a developing country like us, and they are forging ahead, despite the challenges

They are producing world class Labour, and medical tourist attraction etc.


The problem is that most of Africa was not and is still not innovative, nor did they ever have forsight


Coupled with the crab in the barrel mentality that is prevalent in Africa, how will you blame the outsiders for that?

If we put in the effort, like some countries even in this continent is putting, things would have been much better


All other arguments are baseless

SilentWisper:
you give them too much Credit. ....if you see what Nigerian women do with india and lebanese men. men. You will just shake your head in shame

it's all about the money

which MOST black men DON'T HAVE

if you are a rich black man in ANY COUNTRY; you will have all manners of women at your beck and call


It's all about the money once again.


you think if those foreigners don't lodge them in expensive hotels and give them monies the size of their boyfriend's two months salary in a night, these girls will be following them

ClintonNzedimma:
that's not accurate bro, as long as you continue to buy their products (iPhone and Benz etc), the only way you can make them suffer is if you steal their money and build your own products

Gbam!

you got that right!

All the money being scammed will still go back to western countries because these so called black monkey's don't have sense.

If the scam money was used to build concrete structure in place to uplift their respective communities, then it will be a different case entirely


but it's used to finance wanton consumerism

Mumu

KanwuliaExtra:
SARAKI na IPOB! MALAYE na IPOB! FAYOSE na IPOB! ADELEKE na IPOB! KWANKWASO na IPOB!

Or WAILERS!
Ambode na IPOB or soon-to-be-WAILER ni? CHAIIIIII!!!!! Diarrrrrrris GODIOOOOOH!!!!
Just tired of SHYTE HOLE POLITICS and your WAECLESS CORPSE of a DAURA DUNCE!
Shikena!

I dey tell you

anonymous96:
You live in a bubble....a bubble.. You may have a good paying job and I don't doubt you worked hard to get it.. But there are no Jobs is Nigeria is not a myth but a fact. The Firms you talk abt how many people do they recruit Yearly? You don't think there is a problem when since 1980 till date if you are looking for a job lagos is your best bet. There are no Jobs in Nigeria is not a myth but a fact. What is saving us now is that they use d class you graduated with to separate d sheeps from goats(nd 2:1 now sef job no certain) Don't use d bubble u live in to tell us there is jobs in Nigeria.

no mind the guy


I know their type

Babyvet:
I get it very well, you just don’t .good day

you don't
you really don't

good bye

EVILFOREST:
May GOD bless You.
If you want to leave NIGERIA, please leave.
Don’t mind those discouraging you.
After all the Chinese/ Indians/ Brits/Americans are all tourists everywhere.
U see them hang cameras down their necks traveling round the world to appreciate GOD’s creation.
No Vacation in Nigeria even when Given your manager would not let you have it in peace.
That’s why we look malnourished and perpetually angry, sorry to say

you have a point

specialty the angry part

Babyvet:
Lol your naive and ignorant. Go look up the definition of racism. What going in Nigerian is totally different from what going on in the Us or Canada. I don't have to talk too much , just google it yourself.

he has a point..


Racism has two distinct thing's

institutions and ability

White folks used to oppress blacks SO SO much because they could

They lynched them because they could

Civil rights came and limited the scope of oppression to the black man, and of course racism still exists today, limited to the scope of what they can do.


Nigerians on the other hand also practise racism in their own way, within the scope of power that they have

Like denying you a job bevause of your ethnic group

Like denying a certain part of the country they'd entitlements because you don't like them

Like killings in the NE because of religious differences

Like being extremely wicked to you because of your ethnic group

Heck!
Nigerians even killed the ethnic group in their numbers when they saw the opportunity to in the run up to the pogrom and civil war
The list is endless

The racism in Nigeria and America is the SAME

What limits it is the scope of power available to oppress or deal ruthlessly with those you hate

For many Nigerians; if they had the ability to lynch, loot, deny employment to, or just deal ruthlessly with those from that side of the country that they hate, they will do it.


so my sister, it's the SAME THING


but most of you don't get it

stagger:
There is more racism in Nigeria than in any of these places you mentioned.

I was in a taxi in PH some time ago when a passenger was ranting at how Igbos have spoiled the Garden City, and stated that she would have no problems deporting every Igbo person from the state if she was a governor. I have heard such several times in Bayelsa, Oyo, and in many states I have been to in Nigeria. I have even been in Enugu and overheard in an office a discussion between two men of how they (the Enugu people) were being oppressed by an Abia man (who was head of that agency) and how they would fight him to the end until he packs his bags back to the Abia village he came from. This is Igbo to Igbo hatred. What can beat that?

I don't even want to mention the fact that Hausa is the official language spoken in a federal parastatal such as NEMA. As if we have nothing like federal character in this country (indeed, have we ever had it?).

So all this talk about racism abroad is not strange to us. It is here in Nigeria among us. So anyone who can survive the ethnic-based racism we have here in Nigeria can survive it abroad.

yea

you got that right

lolaluv1:
I hope I won't be left behind while waiting for election bonanza (like the 5 virgins).

I think it's time to take position

could this be true?

jomonic:
No one but Nigerians are inviting political strife to themselves. In Nigeria there is no love for one another. Very soon Buhari will be back in power and deepen his style of leadership which has up to now divided Nigeria more than ever before. His supporters will acclaim, not because he is the best but he fits into their idea of a leader that will contain those they do not love. The environment we have in Nigeria is the outcome of the predominant mindset. It is a very ugly mindset. Development is not just about building roads and bridges or physical structures. These are whited sepulchers as long as the people as extremely hateful. So I am indifferent to where America is having a military base. It might even be to the advantage of the oppressed people of Nigeria. Ghana deserves every recognition that they are getting from the developed world. Ghana is a very serious country. They definitely want to get it right.

you have a point


a lot of Nigerians are hateful /spiteful

which is very bad


a lot more are good, but the spiteful ones blinded with tribalism and ethnocentric nonsense are a big problem yo out country


imagine suffering youths shouting sai baba to spite their country men from the other side?

well sha

OlujobaSamuel:
leaders you say
we have western appointed puppets leading us.
That's why we have a *diseducating system so as to prevent the citizens from having a sound exposure on how true leaders should act.
I still say it times without number, all this terrorist dont manufacture weapons nor cars, 3rd world nations dont, then who are the producers, who are the sellers, a private company/individual can never ever have unlimited cash to sponsor any war, only a govt can do all these.
Is itUS, UK, Russia, China, Germany, France or who?
One day one day sha, my end will come as mortal, I want my offspring if any to have a good record about me and my immediate community should say a good man is gone to rest.

well about govt financing conflict, I cannot say..

But I was in a conference in one country like that, and I got to find out that sometimes, who realty finance conflicts in Africa are the multinational establishment operating there

using rebels or gangs to terrorise govts they don't like

And then getting favour after the gov't has been kicked out


I was shocked like

sogodihno:
ooo, so u think with all dz guys I have listed, it's a coincidence? it's not my brother.

if u love politicians, stop supporting them,they will loose

I repeat, it has nothing to do with that

sogodihno:
The moment I know u guys are supporting him, I know he's bound to fail. Anyone u guys support fails, Jonathan, jimi agbaje, Fayose, Adeleke etc.

Pls, Stop supporting politicians if u love them, your support is bad luck for people.

I feel for Ambode.

it has nothing to do with that

Ambode is FINISHED

NaijaTalkTown:
The problem we have is that our people are mostly illiterates and less politically informed. We are too gullible and can easily be manipulated into shooting ourselves. The strategy for the containment of Nigeria by the Western Powers was developed during Bush Jnr.'s tenure as the president of the U.S. Nigeria has been totally encircled. I remember when I created a thread to discuss similar topic 2 years ago, I was tagged a conspiracy theorist. It is the same Nigerians who are suffering from Western suppression of their country, its economy and culture that will attack you even when they haven't done any reasonable research to verify your claims. They make themselves willful tools for the neocolonialists to use at no cost at all. How then cab we mount pressure ob our government and Armed Forces to combat this grave threat we are facing?

yea

too too mant illiterates in Nigeria to do critical thinking


And Nigeria too is sleeping

We should not be taking chances like these

And neither should we trust our neighbours

AreaFada2:
Aircraft ready for scrap. Ask them for the latest if they will sell to you. They only give better models to Gulf countries. To contain Iran & thereby indirectly strengthen Israel.

Sha na our leaders fail to see how our neighbours see us as a BIG rival and anything that weaken us strengthens them. Nigeria needs to abandon "Africa First Policy". Pan-Africanism died with Osagyefo Nkrumah. No need fooling ourselves.
Nigeria should go all out and work with China & Russia. Advance technology & infrastructure quickly. After advancement, we can reconcile with the West Again. Shikena.

exactly!

The truth is that many African countries are envious of us and will gladly connive with the white folks to sabotage us

it has been the black man curse for centuries


They are threatened by Nigeria and I know it

Nigeria should face front and leave all these people alone

jayfolarin:
Insightful write up ONLY for the enlightened.

Don't be surprised that most of the commenters dismissing the article and it's content are ACTUALLY western paid agents of misinformation!

Knowledge is power, be INFORMED!

I don't know what to say.

The story look a credible, but I don't know whether it's true indeed

it's the kind of thing America can do, so I am not surprised


But then, leaders in Nigeria are too too stupid to even think

we are shouting pdp and apc

Omeokachie:
"We want Saraki's dynasty to end in Kwara"

"We don't want Tinubu's dynasty to end in Lagos"

"PDP is wrong to present 75yrs old Useni as candidate"

"76yr old Buhari is the best for the country"


What can we do with BMCs biko nu? Who has bewitched these people?

no mind them

beejaay:
you want saraki dynasty to end in kwara but you are asslicking tinubu dynasty in lagos and a certified zombie for him...what a double faced hypocrite........if saraki dynasty should end then all godfathers dynasty should end including that of tinubu...

no mind that guy

seunmsg:
Saraki will be demystified in the coming election. This is not a dream but what will happen based on current political trend. PDP lost in 2015 after 16 years of uninterrupted rule. Saraki's time is up and next year will mark a departure from the unenviable past for the people of Kwara state.

it's like saying Tinubu will be demystified in Lagos too

Does that not sounf ridiculous to you?

otipoju:
No dont go there...his son is not a bastard. He is responsible and did not deny his son and is proud of him.

Marriage is a choice just as not getting married is a choice. As long as you are taking care of your kids and their mother.

Even your bible allows men like David, Jacob, and others to have concubines..

My grouse witb Airforce01 is his childish display of irrelevant things. He needs to man up...he has a good heart nevertheless and is a responsible father.

Let us assume the child is a "bastard"
is it a crime to have a "bastard" or to be a "bastard"

It's only a social construct to stigmatize bastards, it's nothing to be stigmatized for really.

As long as the guy is taking care of his child and being a responsible dad, nothing is wrong.

Airforce01, don't mind these people, be a good dad, and a role model too for him/her......

Leave all those people shouting bride price and all, if you want to marry her, fine, but don't feel obligated to marry her because you had a kid together, it will lead to a life of misery


I'm sure this baby will make you mature even faster

otipoju:
No dont go there...his son is not a bastard. He is responsible and did not deny his son and is proud of him.

Marriage is a choice just as not getting married is a choice. As long as you are taking care of your kids and their mother.

Even your bible allows men like David, Jacob, and others to have concubines..

My grouse witb Airforce01 is his childish display of irrelevant things. He needs to man up...he has a good heart nevertheless and is a responsible father.

Let us assume the child is a "bastard"
is it a crime to have a "bastard" or to be a "bastard"

It's only a social construct to stigmatize bastards, it's nothing to be stigmatized for really.

As long as the guy is taking care of his child and being a responsible dad, nothing is wrong.

Airforce, don't mind these people, be a good dad, and a role model too for him/her......

Leave all those people shouting bride price and all, if you want to marry her, fine, but don't feel obligated to marry her because you had a kid together, it will lead to a life of misery


I'm sure this baby will make you mature even faster

BlackAfrican:
Go and pay your child's mother's brideprice and go do a ur marriage registry before the child grows up or turns one year old... I'll be disappointed if you don't do this... And make sure to invite us

All he needs to do is to be a good dad to his kid

that's all.

Being married or not has nothing to do with anything

real777:
Believe it or not a millionaire or billionaire in dollars living in Nigeria is living in hell. An adage where I come from says "if you are the only rich man in your family you are still poor" The so called political elites in Nigeria don't know that they are very foolish & wicked. How long will you continue fueling your generator while your neighbors live in darkness and so on.

Do you know that Tanzania don't have 10% of the blessings of Nigeria but that country is better than Nigeria in all aspects. The youths of that country do not have this "GET QUICK RICH SYNDROME MENTALITY" inbuilt into the Nigerian youths & even children these days.

An average Nigeria business man especially those from that part of the country is programmed to cheat or sell you fake stuff. While tell me a pair of trousers is 5000 whereas it is actually 500 naira ? This does not happen in Dar es Salaam

The time is near where the rich in Nigeria will become an endangered species. No security can save you. Continue destroying that country. Na so oyinbo destroy their own na every where cool for you & your children to live

kidnapping as an occupation started in Nigeria by kidnapping expatriates for huge ransom. And thereafter metamorphosed to kidnapping locals. Now many are hailing yahoo boys (now yahoo plus eating human feaces, killing for money rituals etc) in the guise of no jobs for the youths. You all supporting one evil or the other in that shithhole country will be swallowed directly or your family members affected. Ride on

If we can't get our country egalitarian with the huge human & natural resources available...we are amongst all nations the most miserable

What people called living good life in Nigeria are normal & way of life in most African countries.

you got that right

Apart from the part where you use style to yab my people which is not cool, but its fine

The get rich quick scares the hell outta me

but its due to the SOCIETY making people feel worthless if they are not rich /upper middle class at least

so that's what is causing the rush to "make it"

you will be treated like scum if you are broke in Nigeria

Freedem:
As a Nigerian who has lived in Europe since childhood, this comment here best describes how I feel about europe .

I'm so homesick and in the process of returning back home.

My only desire is to see a Nigeria that looks like Europe, we should never glorify other people's countries whilst we allow ours to rot away .


Let's be honest most countries are sick to death of Nigerian immigrants/ irritants.

Nigeria is rotting away, and it's a sad thing


I never feel at home in Nigeria, even though I miss my parents and some others

We are all different tho, and I'm a firm believes of home is where your heart is, which unfortunately is not in Nigeria


Good luck in your quest to return, and pls, look before leaping when making that change

Avedonn:
I'll only respond to only few of the points you raised because the rest aren't worthy of reply.

1. You said you only served at one of the northern states years back, so that'd not give you the true picture of everything. Because I assumed you've only been to one northern state some years back.


2. Saying the only staple food used in the southern part is garri, imported rice and crayfish is false because I know 100 of trucks transport Beans, Yam, Livestock vegetables etc to the southern part. If you doubt please ask those that engage in such business where they usually get their goods from.

3. You mentioned that northerners don't own houses down south and they live in shanties. Yes, you're correct the reason is, an average northerner doesn't build a house outside north no matter how rich he's. Can you mentioned rich northern politicians that own a house in the south? most of them build their houses in Kaduna and Kano or Abuja which they regard as headquarters of northern Nigeria. There's a reason why they don't build houses at the southern part and I don't want to go in to that.


4. You said the northerners are docile hence their reason of not traveling out, well you are wrong with such assumption. I have a lot of northern friend that studied at United States and other European countries but they chooses to come back home and set up a business after their studies. I'll give two examples of people I've interacted with that studied abroad and chooses to come back home. A guy I met at Kaduna main market selling textile that studied software engineering at Milwaukee school of engineering in the U.S. and chooses to come back home instead of staying back even thou he had the opportunity of staying back but he chooses to come back home. I also met a lady that studied medicine at Canada and after her studies she came back and working at murtala Muhammed hospital Kano at present. And many others. If you doubt, ask any one you know from Kano or Kaduna about the number of students that studied abroad yearly and always come back home after their studies.

Even some European and American embassies check names before issuing visa. It is more easier for a person bearing northern name to secure a visa because they knew they'd not stay back in their countries after their studies or vacation. I'm not saying this based on assumption because I've a lot of friends that secure visa without much stress.

5. You said someone can not travel on the northern highway without being killed or kidnapped by militias or insurgents. That's not true because I've been frequenting those roads you mentioned every month and I didn't witness anything like that even once. The insurgency you mentioned, they usually carry out their atrocities between Nigeria Chad/Cameron border fringes and far from the main cities.

I'll attach some of the pictures I snapped at Maiduguri during my visit last month.

that assumptions that northerners don't buy houses in the south is a FAT LIE

I know SO SO many especially while growing up who own houses across Lagos, from Festac, in the island and in Apapa.

They even own properties in the SE too (Alhaji Sanni for example)

The only thing I know abt northern folks is that unlike us, they are not attached much to properties or material things, and they value kettle and mat more than any other thing


We as Igbo people onthe other hand are opposite


And dangote, dantata and even Rabiu own homes in the South

so forget that argument

MrMakaveli20:
as in, the name and comment weak me. let' him continue standing with Buhari. He's not going anywhere

don't mind these fools

.tribalist folks with hate in their hearts supporting a known failure due to follusb reasons

they are worst hit by the useless policies of the govt, now many of them also want to flee

And still shout sai baba


yeye people full Nigeria I tell you