₦airaland Forum

Nonso92:
Indeed my brother, I was talking to one elderly beninoise woman before I left, and she was telling me that back in the day, a thousand naira was equivalent to over 7,000cfa, but now, the people in that country despise naira as if the money offended them.

Chai *in PEJ voice*

Well sha, how e be make e be.
it's been a while I have been ti Cotonou tho.
you know that club, Calypso, beside playzone?

grandlexuz:
This happens more often than we think. An elderly cousin revealed to me how his wife of 22 years cheated and got pregnant and he swept it under the carpet for so many years...

Yea
Heard of something like that too.

Why e dey pain some guys now
He decided to forgive and so what?

He is an adult, and if he likes, let him put his head inside fire, that is his headache.

I don't know what the issue is here.

If you cannot do it, leave those who can do it to do so, after all na im palava.

rollydex:
Why did Buhari not win in 2011? remove the south west influence pof Tinubu from the vote and check if the 3million votes will e there.

Just to let you know, the influence of SW votes are overrated...

Nigeria has six geo political zones, and each of these zones pull their own weight, and politicians know it.
To win the presidential elections really, you need to get 25% in 24 states plus majority vote.

With that said, If the SW did not vote for Buhari, and NC voted en mass for Buhari, Buhari will still have won, after all, the SW just gave a margin of 500,000 votes thereabouts, and that could be neutralized easily.


My point is, no region really has the over all say in who become president, that is why they (the candidates) try to reach out across the 6 zones.

Underestimate anyone, and you may pay for it at the polls

Ndipe:
At times, I do wonder now (and I posed that question to a friend) if colonialism is a detriment to the future of Africa or a blessing. In the olden days, it was rare, almost unheard of to see a homeless person in the village. The villagers would rally around to build a thatched house for that person. Our forefathers walked with their barefoot, rode their bike and lived a simple life. Now, it's all about me, me, me. 130 million Naira for a house in Lekki? How many people can afford that?

God knows how much these houses will cost now, in 2016

teamsynergy:
some folks r just too damn narrow minded. just becos a single mom didnt acknowledge her husby, it's now a single mothers thing... some of u av neva even dated a gal older Dan u or a single mom, u r already judging ... everybody is different and for those thinking its a stigma to marry a single mom, think again.. single mom get married and live hapily and if u tink d man deserves an applause, u definitely sexist... u marry out of love and contentment, not out of pity... marrying a single mom is no biggy. . if u can't do it , it doesn't mean others wont... can't stop ma bro from marry one, cos I can do it ma sef.....

I agree with you

ItsQuinn:
it was her father that paid for her M.Ed fees not her fvcking husband. Mention just 1 thing her husband did for her

Marry her

That counts for something, because especially in Nigeria.

Are you saying the man does not deserve some acknowledgment?

Lilimax:
It is a nation! The most populous black nation located at the trigger section of African map as a gun. May God bless Nigeria!

I like that

Nonso92:
As of last week Friday when I left the Benin, 1k naira was 1300cfa

Wow!!!
How the Naira has fallen

lifestyle1:
It's possible.

A female friend told me something similar sometime ago that happened to her friend, but she was so lucky cos she used a female condom before having s.ex with the guy (a yahoo boy).

After the intercourse she removed the condom, she saw colourful Margots mixed with the sperm.

The girl and her friends burnt the condom and after 2 days the guy's Tommy started swelling.

And he died.

You don't mean it
*hands on my head*

Somebody's child they want to use for bad thing

pansophist:
Wow, your post made me retrospect about the poignant experience of being black in white land.

You know, its psychologically comforting to walk into a classroom, enter a bus, a shopping mall or any public places without the burden of being the odd one. Living in a foreign society, you carry the baggage of fighting stereotype, proving yourself, thinking your job refusal was due to your hue, and your rude boss treats you differently because of his hidden prejudice towards your kind.

After your brain has been exhausted by the vorfreude andrenaline rush of endorphines associated with migration, it begins to dawn on you that truly, there is no place like home. Social ostracism seems to be the norm for many immigrants, and it seems like there are seeds in the Afro culture that is fundamentally missing in many culture such as empathy, inclusiveness and has a morbid obsession for competition, which makes it extremely difficult to feel at home, especially in a culture with a foundational condescending view on African.

Before moving abroad, I never knew that a mundane thing as skin colour would be the determinant on how I will be perceived, treated and covertly affect direction of my economical position. Just like how I see different skin colours of people in Nigeria and never treat them differently, the opposite is true in many foreign countries. Standard of living is surely very good in the west, but its very unsatisfying for someone that is well breed in the African system communality, and you many times find yourself retrospecting about your past life at home, with all its pleasant memories.

many of the facile comments on this thread portrays inexperience of living abroad, especially if you are a conscious African. Where you are merely tolerated, so as to convince themselves and proof to the world that they ain't racist and got nothing about you. But in reality, your kind if filled within the lower hierarchy of the socio-economical ladder. Admittedly, you will find many black people in top position, but this doesn't invalidate the conventional truth, just like a broken clock is correct twice a day.

To sum it up, if material wealth and comfort is all you crave for, then surely, the west is for you. If you crave for something deep, meaningful and celestial, then relatively, its not for you. if you believe that life will be heaven after you moved abroad, then you probably will end of being a victim of the popular ''grass is greener on the other side'' maxim.

To be black and conscious in the west is to be in a constant state of rage." – James Baldwin

What do you mean by conscious African?
please explain that to me.


BTW, I don't pity black people for our travails because we are too stupid to know that we have to see each other as the same, not trying to struggle/feel superior to other blacks.


In your example, which I agree with, a Norwegian can move to the United States and blend in, as long as the person is white, even a white person from Zimbo (Zimbabwe/South Africa) who is white will be accepted,


But for black people
An Igbo man moved to Lagos, or a Hausa man moves to Onitsha and he will be constantly reminded that he does NOT belong here, and the feelings of superiority will always come in (like some dimwits in Lagos shouting respect your "hosts" and be grateful to them)
This is within a country, and I bet situations like this is common across SSA countries.



Now let us move to the Continent Level.
A Nigerian/Congolese moves to say, SA and is hated by his own African brother down there so much thst they even lynch them in Xenophobic attacks, when they don't dare touch white people who has oppressed them for centuries.


Crossing the Atlantic to America, an African Immigrant is not only discriminated against by some whites, but even Afro Americans too, who feel superior to those who came from here.

If this is not a case of a messed up race,

Thats just a digression from the main topic.
But how can we be reckoned with as a people when we have this type of problem as black people?

Food for thought.

wow..

@Onatisi et al

Please update me on the current rates the banks are charging via the ATM, like the exchange rates, if at all it is working.

thanks

GossipHeart:
Goat face
Africans and voodoo ??
Do you know what voodoo is ??
Voodoo originated from Louisiana USA and is still being practiced in Louisiana
I've see shrines and voodoo in almost 34 states across the USA and mind you, one state in the USA is bigger than Nigeria

Village fowl

Voodoo originated from USA?
So Togo and Benin is now USA?

Oh please,

Wow
The desperation to leave the country tho.... Quite alarming

Nonso92:
For real bro!! Manager of the club na my guy, and I happened to be in the club that night.
There was even a time he didnt pay for like 2 months, had to use gendermerie to pick him up.

That nigga needs deliverance from foolishness.
BTW, on a side note, do you by any chance know the current exchange rates between Naira and CFA?
#justasking
Thanks

ifyalways:
Am I missing something abi how are you folks determining the winner already

From the results thus far with Esan West as the last released results :APC has won 5 Lga's with 142,424 votes while PDP has 4 LGA's with 136,808 votes.

Difference is 5,616 votes and 5 LGA's or more to be announced.

I'm wondering myself....
Let's see how things turn out tho.

Nonso92:
I smell yahoo boys, because if they really worked hard for that money, they wouldn't be wasting it like that.

How may times have you seen e_money using drinks to wash his hands, even though we know that he can possibly buy the whole club.

SMH ... boys wey no get sense.

That's how one boy came to do lavish birthday party in a club at cotonou, everybody was hailing him, he was ordering drinks like say him get money. Only to find out that he was buying drinks on credit and had to pay the debt for 7 months.

You mean am?

ngcars:
@ugosample,

Thanks for always lending a helping hand bro.
I did not change much cash though. I have all my money in stanbic and standard chartered bank and my banks were duly informed of my trip. I hope and pray that I will get good rate.

@schboy3

I don't have ecobank unfortunately.

Okay then,
What were the rates at the border like?
And I hope you have arrived safely too.

charix:
It's the poo poo eating female again. I'm disgusted imagining the acts she's gone through.

Did she eat your own?

Hundredhundredd:
Must you add SS to everything. I have never seen SS people write SS/SE, its you Ibos that are fond of doing this attachee by force.

Lol @Attache by force...
I have nothing to say to you

omonnakoda:
Ijaw,Yoruba ...........where were you during the last census

Ijaws are more than Igbos?
That's a big joke!!!!

It's Obasanjo I still blame for this though

omonnakoda:
My point is Igbos like to claim equality with Hausa and Igbo when in reality they are a minority tribe from an enclave less than Oyo State in size

Minority

Apartt from the Hausa people, how many tribes have more people than Igbo people
Besides, it's not even about the numbers, pet se, but the quality of the numbers

gidgiddy:
In reality, there are no people called 'SS' or 'SE'. These are just mere geopolitical zones that have no real meaning. Nothing connects a Bini man and Efik man. But Igbo's have land border with Efik and have interacted with them long before the creation of Nigeria.

Today, someone will say that Delta and Edo states are 'SS' but these 2 states were never in the Eastern Region, so how did they become SS? Are the Igalas of Anambra and the Idomas of Enugu also SE?

All these terms have no meaning, what matters is the interaction between ethnic groups, not invented words like SE and SS.

You have a good point...

omonnakoda:
Igbos like to claim a very large population in Nigeria. Based on census figures of the SE The only way those claims can have any meaning is if we assume that there are a lot more Igbos elsewhere .Having been to the SS/SE is totally irrelevant. If going there is enough why conduct censuses. Please try and talk logically. If you are right that the majority live in the SE then Igbos are another minority in Nigeria and should not have more than 3 states
So everyone who goes there has the same opinion?
And why are you folk so determined to rub araldite to yourselves and SS. SS is Edo State among others. What is the connection?

What is your own in the matter now?

I'll just say this to be clear.....
Even Yoruba people are PLENTY in the North, and in PH, and Aboki people are also plenty in the South too, they are the ones selling fruits, Suya and many other things they do here.


But many here make it look like it's only Igbo people who migrate, and they are deserting their "homeland"

Let's be clear on that

omonnakoda:
Gazetted? What does that mean? Please stop talking rubbish. Every port in Nigeria was set up by an Act or Decree.
What is the capacity? of the port and what is the significance of Igbos flooding it. You folk like to delude yourselves. So if Igbos flood an okada it will carry a cow. You believe the bulk of importing in Nigeria is done by Igbos?
Do not be ridiculous!! the greatest tonnage of imports into Nigeria is done by companies and government not Igbos. Is it only Igbos that import petrol and steel and rice into Nigeria? The greatest spend on imports into Nigeria is food and petroleum and Igbos are not the key players in these sectors. Companies import all the time without noise and chest beating. Consider all the steel and other inputs that went into the rail or the imports of the flour mills and breweries daily. Those are the importers we need in Lagos. Not the rubbish that your folk bring to Ladipo. Please take that to PH you won't be missed!
How many Igbos do you know that single-handedly import a shipload of goods into Nigeria? Let us leave that Igbo delusion and focus on the thread. The fact is that PH port is a small river port and not profitable for shippers. That is why it is dormant.
The majority of Nigeria.s population is in the North and SW and that is where importers will sell there goods. I am sure that more than half of Igbos do not live at home.The whole of Igboland is smaller than Oyo state. Importers go to where the market is and it is not in PH

Your last paragraph is a very wrong assertion.
Who told you most Igbo people don't live in Igbo Land

You obviously have not been to the SE/SS

oluxy:
Nigerians with good English but empty brains.
They are good at speaking good English but lack creativity n technical skill. We cannot create or build anything but very good at speaking English to intimidate one another.

Some 18-21 years Japan n china guys came to port Harcourt to repair nnpc refinery, they don't understand English, they can't even speak. Yet see what dey built.
I look forward for the day we'll love creativity more than this English of a thing without anything to show for it.

Yes
One can be intelligent without being able to speak 100 % correct English...
That I agree with you
Let us focus on the content and message of conversations, not grammar, though it is good to speak proper grammar too.

Young03:
they assembled it not that the manufactured it


na them manufacture the engine?

How many car making companies manufacture their engines?
Even almighty Airbus does not manufacture it's engine...

Let us encourage them pls, no need to tear them down

breakeven:
IN NORMAL AND SANE CLIME, THEY USE REFERENDUM TO RESOLVE ISSUES LIKE "DO WE REALLY WANT TO LIVE TOGETHER"?THOSE WHO ARE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS CONFUSED SITUATION WE ARE IN HAVE RESOLVED THAT ONE NIGERIA IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT NIGERIANS ARE NOT ONE AND EXCEPT WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, THIS CONFUSION WILL LAST FOR EVER. LET US ASK OURSELVES THROUGH A FREE AND FAIR REFERENDUM WHETHER WE WANT TO STAY TOGETHER. THOSE WHO WANT TO GO SHOULD BE ALLOWED WHILE THOSE WHO WANT TO STAY TOGETHER LIVE TOGETHER. FORCING A MAN OR WOMAN TO STAY IN A MARRIAGE CAN ONLY END IN CHAOS.

Splitting the country will not solve the problem...
Black man in general is too greedy to serve his people, and that has to change FIRST, before any division/Unification.


If you like split Nigeria into 20, it will still be the same thing.

Freedom2016:
Lol...just listen to yourself? Lol. I'll educate you...Lagos gets a percentage from the port duties, same with airport, just like Niger delta states get percentage called derivation from oil. Where do you think most of Lagos revenue come from? Ports and Airport, if not Lagos revenue will drop by 60%

That is not true at all.

BiafranPrince:
Actually Atiku owns and controls Onne and Calabar seaports, as unbelievable as he may sound, it is true.

You think if Dangote buys Abuja airport that it still belongs to FG?

So what are you driving at?
That the SE/SS are deliberately marginalized and strangulated?