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adahgold:
Your list is not complete what about Nigeria?

Nigeria cannot be among the 10 poorest countries

eaglechild:
It is going to be very difficult to get people to understand your view point but I do.

Virtually all first world countries are monolingual, with few exceptions that may be bi or trilingual and in which case those countries' citizens speak all the component languages.

For countries to thrive and have a sense of patriotism they strive towards homogeneity as much as possible. That is how the developed first world evolved. With language and religion being the two strongest factors.

It has nothing to do with hate it is just human nature.

I get your point.
But the problem is that this is Africa, that has over 2000 languages and people.
Based on that logic, it means Africa has to split into at least 1500 countries which would be too small to assert its influence on the world stage.
You talk of France, U.K., Germany, USA etc these countries are over 60 million people, and they were not always the way they are currently. If you know history, then you will understand what I mean.
But how many African tribes have up to 60 million people?
That is why for countries to thrive in Africa, there has to be some intersection, and for these countries to work, the structure has to be good, which unfortunately, most African countries are not.
If we can adopt the Switzerland model, I think African countries can work too, because The Swiss people are not homogenous, but because of the system, they are progressing.
Even Canada too, the same thing

Amah70:
Oga,

India has one major tribe that sets the value systems which all the other tribes follow, and which makes the country governable and peaceful;
Hindu. https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-8919e22ae4fa750eee575ab34abd5482-c?convert_to_webp=true. . Most Indians speak Hindu language.

just like the US of multiple ethnic groups has the value systems of the English which Africans and other minorities must follow or be damned.

But Nigeria has three major tribes with diverse value systems. No matter the amount of violence one group in power applies against the others to comply with the value systems of the governing tribe, it can't work; because of the strongly-held but diverse value systems, populations and convenient locations of the three major tribes in Nigeria.

If the governing tribe pushes others to the wall, civil war ensues.

This situation makes Nigeria ungovernable and a failed country, unless you don't agree that Nigeria has failed the more than one hundred million people in it, perhaps because you are at one corner profiting from the chaos of one Nigeria.

The South Sudan situation which some trickish fear-mongers like you sound off is not as deadly as Nigeria where more than three million Nigerians have been killed since 1914, and still getting killed to keep one Nigeria; one Nigeria which after more than $1 trillion earned in fifty years can't provide Nigeria with the most basic infrastructures like electricity, pipeborne water, functional hospitals, etc., one Nigeria with about the lowest life expectancy in the world.


Perhaps, because you don't know that you typify the laziest blackman who doesn't think properly, or with your selfish mindset and limited worldview, you endanger the other millions of people in Nigeria who think of tomorrow, and understand that what matters in having one's country is not how big the country, but happiness and pride with the country.

Half Education is really a disease.

But before I sign off, as you enjoy your blissful Nigeria, I would like to ask you to go and tell the Greeks that Greece can form one big country with Turkey, or tell the British that Britain can form one country with France.

South Sudan is not as deadly as Nigeria

A country that is going through one of the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa due to the greed and power drunkenness of two men?

Eritrea left Ethopia, what is their fate today?
Djibouti is a homogeneous country, how developed are they?
Gambia is a homogeneous country, what is their progress?
Guinea Bissau is a small country, what is their fate, and how developed are they?

Rwanda had just two ethnic groups, three.
But one deemed it fit to exterminate the other in its desperation to retain power.
Malaysia is diverse, yet they have made more progress than any of those "homogeneous" countries you listed up there.


For 50+ years, Nigeria has a huge infrastructural deficit and other problems because The leaders across board are greedy, not because the country is a multi ethnic country.

Hausa man that stole money, did he build up his region?
Igbo man stole money, did he build up his region?

Even Jonathan held away for 5 years, what is there to show for it?
Obasanjo 8 years yet the roads in OTA are death traps.

So what are we saying?

cc pimpping

Amah70:
Please don't believe that the Ugosample is Igbo as the moniker seems to show.

Ugosample wrote like a typical tricky Aboooki. Most Aboookis see Arab culture and religion as superior to all cultures. Thus, Aboookis want one Nigeria even if all in Nigeria are driven to the stone age. Objective? To have a larger population in Nigeria to forcefully convert to incline to Arab Culture and religion which Aboookis incline to.

As I said, your comnebts show your level of intelligence.
See you assuming that I am "Aboki"....

Amah70:
Your impossible solution:

you suggest until the blackman changes cultural inclinations. .

So you want Blackman to Change our cultural inclinations and adopt the culture of which race? Do you suggest we incline to the Culture of Europe or Asian race before we see light?

Or are you suggesting that the Ijaw, for example, to incline to the Arabic culture of far northern Nigeria? Or the Yoruba to incline to Igbo culture, or vice versa? Or all blackmen in Nigeria to incline to whiteman culture, so as to preserve your one Nigeria?


And do you know that any race or ethnic group which abandons its culture is doomed?
And you don't understand that the refusal of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria to abandone their respective cultures is why there is no synergy - no pursuit of common goal in Nigeria?

Well, this is NL, a land of all comers. You sing to people like you and they applaud.

What I mean by change our cultural inclinations is to change those hazardous things we do as a people (culture of lateness, culture of procrastination, culture of tribalism, culture of helplessness, etc)
I don't mean we should adopt anybody's culture.
Your comments show the depth of your intelligence.

pippimp:
We all as a people need to change the way we think and do business.

We need re orientation. That's it.

pippimp:
God bless you jare for that post. These oyibo people are just crazy. In fact they are evil. Can you imagine advising us to be bribing policemen everyday, dumping refuse on the streets, killing suspects by burning them on our streets, looting our treasury blind, depending on only one source of revenue for over 50 years, etc. I wonder what kind of people these oyibo people are? Thank God we don't do these things if not we would be in serious trouble now. Only useless idiotic people would do any of those things. We are smarter than that. Thank God for our "great" Nation.

See sarcasm....
lol.
The way Africans blame others for their problems is just embarrassing

Alcatraz003:
First of all, i am not igbo. I am a yoruba man. Secondly, i am disputing the fact that we all are responsible for the state of Nigeria today, all i am advocating is for us (Nigerians) to realise we are not one and make moves to dismember the state peacefully or restructure her willy nilly.

At times when i see bad reports about Nigeria on CNN, i marvel at the level to which we have fallen as a nation. I align with his argument/assertion (i mean amah) that the west are aware of the superiority of the south to the north and have vowed to never allow the south to discover her full potentials as that we free the black man worldwide from the shackles of slavery.

The only thing the north has over the south is murderous violence and that is what scares the south. An average muslim northerner can die any time and does not care as long as he thinks he died for the cause of jihad/islam. Whereas the southern Christian is so scared to die due to the human capital which he knows he carries. Why should i die in a bloody war with Hausas after wasting so many years in university and when i am yet to reach the pinnacle of my career, so much to live for: (this is the thought process of the southern christian) which is responsible for the present situation of playing second fiddle to the north. The Christian south have to wake up and break the shackles of the west which is the overbearing hegemony of the north in Nigeria or else Somalia will be better than Nigeria in a few years time.

No southerner should be happy with the state Nigeria is at the moment, she is a failed state with vital organs of government practically non functional.

I know deep down in your heart of hearts, you know i have spoken the truth.

See, I get that Nigeria is not in a good shape.
But we are ALL responsible for it, I keep saying it.
Even in the north now, with the level of suffering, they resent their leaders now, more than ever.
Wait till 2019 and you will see wonders at the polls.
We are not any better in bigotry, or nepotism.
And to add, we have wicked leaders across board too.

Disintegration is not the solution, because if you put a lizard in Ghana, or Nigeria, that lizard is still a lizard.

What we need is a national re orientation, which is still possible.

johnbuck81:
it seems u r happy with our current state.go find out urself.

That your figure is a fallacious figure

Amah70:
Asians somehow marched Oyibos with sense.

Oyibos created India to be like Nigeria - ever fighting and killing one another.

But shortly after, Asians showed their intelligence: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India went their natural separate ways to their new countries.


Oyibo who also created Iraq to fail refused to create Kurdistan country separate from Iraq, Syria and from Turkey. The region has remained volatile ever since.

Oyibo can visit anywhere with their passports, but people from the countries created to fail cannot, because political instability makes these wrong countries remain poor to be exploited by Oyibo to get richer.

No be fault of Oyibo. Asians developed sense. But black Africans, especially Nigerians siddon de look.

Oga stop talking rubbish please.

India is a country of over 1 billion people, more people than the entire continent of Africa.
It is also one of the most diverse places in the world, with Buddhists, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Animists, etc all living in one place.
A country with a lot of official languages.


And they are still progressing and making waves in the world today, with Medical tourism and The I.T industry in Bangalore driving growth.
Did they divide?

Even Pakistan that left, what is their fate when compared to India?

In addition, there are more Muslims in India than the population of Pakistan.

You can talk that trash to others, but not people that know their onions.


The black man is too lazy to think, and is not innovative, a tribalistic slothful being

Divide Africa into 200 countries and it is still the same thing till we change the way we think and our cultural inclinations.


South Sudan is currently in the gutter because of the greed of two men...
Kiir and Machar, who were even president and vice before in the same govern ment.
You see black man

Alcatraz003:
He is saying the truth, why are you feigning ignorance ? SMH for you oooooo

You be pikin?

Which truth id he saying?
He is talking rubbish.
The problem is not the north alone, it's the WHOLE country.

The Lynching, and the other barbaric things we do (Remember Aluu 4; etc)
The kidnappings and the rest. Those peddling drugs nko.

It is very easy for we Igbos to call Nigeria a zoo, forgetting that we also contributed in no small measure to turning the country into zoo.

We should stop the self righteousness please....

The problem is that we have a VERY clueless Foreign Ministry.

They should have been negotiating with different countries in order to give our green passport more access, but we are not serious people.

Brazil used it's leverage as the host of the world cup and the Olympics to negotiate visa free access to most of Europe on return for free access for European tourists and spectators coming to see the games.

But in Africa
Sometimes I'm beginning to believe that the black man is indeed cursed.
That we cannot use our brains

Amah70:
Wow.

Oyibos created the system in the world to work for only Oyibos.

Nigeria is a country Oyibo still holds one in order to spite the blackman on earth.

Seeing the mangled dead bodies of Nigerians displayed daily on the Web thickles some Oyibos.

They know that separating the predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria from the predominantly Christian southern Nigerians shall stop the daily show of mangled bodies of killed Nigerians.

What is this one saying?

Ask4Info:
I REALLY DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG I WILL KEEP EDUCATING PEOPLE THAT A MAN SNAPPING IN FRONT OF A CAR OR MULTIPLE CARS OR IN A BIG AND FINE HOUSE DOESN'T MEAN HE OWNS IT OR EVERYTHING IN THE PICTURE.

THIS IS WHY ALOT OF PEOPLE GET INVOLVED IN SHADDY DEALS BECAUSE THEY PUT THEMSELVES IN UNNECESSARY PRESSURE TO COMPETE WITH THE NEXT MAN. INSTAGRAM HAS KILLED SO MANY PEOPLE'S ESTEEM BECAUSE THEIR PEERS COME ONLINE TO PAINT A FAKE PICTURE HAS AGAINST WHAT THEY ARE REALLY WORTH IN REAL LIFE.

But this is P-Square o

They are one of NIGERIA's richest artistes.
So this one no be fake o

ISpiksDaTroof:
"The man has been totally demystified!"

And this makes you happy. Im willing to bet that since the day you were born, you've NEVER witnessed 2straight months of uninterrupted power supply? Know how I know that? Because you come across as a complete loser in life. Nobody that has anything going for them relishes their Government borrowing from the World Bank.

Its a shame what poverty has done to the psyche of the average Nigerian.


P.S: I just saw the last part about your "crappy mobile phone". I should've known better and ignored you. Most of you think poverty and a disorganized society is normal. You are wrong.

In all honesty, borrowing from the world bank is no problem.

But borrowing from IMF?
That shows that you are in serious soup.
So I get your point.
Just substitute World Bank for IMF

Cathony:
Bros, I'm been factual, whatever age that you stated in your international passport, that's what matters...no one cares if you reduce or increase it, not js Africans or South Americans, its a global thing mehn

You think you can reduce your age if you are born in a European country? Lol; D

That's 100 % impossible.

dokiOloye:
Observe very carefully, Igbo traders tend to be very polite in their dealings with their customers esp d owners of d shop,not their sales girls/boys.
I was brought up in d east,there is this street in my town filled with 2,3 and 4 storey buildings.The shops downstairs are usually owned by d landlady.
If U come to buy as little as sachet water of #10(was #5 per piece then),the madam will keep petting U."Thank U my son,do U need a leather bag?" good night my son".
All for 10 naira sachet water.
But when I came to live in Abj,I was schocked by d rudeness of d itinerant hausa traders.Immediately they see U with 1k note,they'll arrogantly dismiss U citing lack of change,even when they have enuf change on their hand and U are seeing it.
But an Igbo man will first of all collect Ur money,then both of U will start looking for d change.If U both can't find it,he/she will try to coax U into buying something else or coming back for Ur change later.
Men,give it to d Igbo traders in terms of customer relationship.

You are very right on this one.
Even when you price them, they would not take offence.
But try it with all those Yoruba market women, you will hear tori.

discusant:
The Ibo army officer was tactically placed in Buratai's entourage to Nembe to create the impression that even Igbo army officers are in the invasion troops in the creeks.

Trust Fulani. The Fulani outsmart others in Nigeria.

Burantai is not fulani!!!!!!

What is wrong with you people?

ISpiksDaTroof:
Why is chest beating so rampant among you guys? Gen.Okore-Affia was born to a German mother in Bonn, Germany. He was primarily raised in Nigeria. It doesn't make him "pure" Ibo who is just light skinned. HE IS HALF WHITE.

I dont understand how lies come so easy to you guys.

So what is your point?

Ranchhoddas:
Yimu. All the private jet owners in this are famous to a certain degree. Acquisitions of private aircrafts are usually announced as they are used to make ''statements''. I find it very hard to believe that there are unknown owners of private jets in this country( private is the operative word). One should not confuse corporate with private...Feel free to not reply.

Oga you are not right on that one o.
There are two men from the SE who have private jets o, and you don't know them.

Not everyone likes show off.

Fedayeen02:
The only thing that got my attention is SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY this is to tell you that APC still believe that its only the SS/SE that are complaining

I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

The man is a joke.

I pray your wish come true

Chukzyfcb:
although Lagos state is on a low land, if there is any place that will first be badly hit by ocean rising from climate change, it is lekki........
most of y'all haven't heard about the Lagos wall that's to be built to protect the Atlantic city from future ocean surges, as scientist has pointed out, lekki is a danger zone for the future.
as for me, give me Ikeja gra or festac town, I go collect am over lekki phase 1anyday anytime.

You will take Festac over lekki?
It's your choice sha

welzyj2:
Baba u shld read well b4 dropping ur comments.

BELOW THE LINE OF POVERTY (EXTREMELY VERY VERY POOR). Some 1 below the line of poverty is worse dan just been poor.

I read that, and those who are extremely poor are more than 30m

That is still my point.

Go to Zamfara, Kebbi, Niger and Bauchi to see for yourself in the north

Then in the south, check States like Oyo, bayelsa and some others.

You will see grinding poverty that would make you cry.

ZKOSOSO:
Then let him just do it...
Restructuring is the only way out....

Buhari and his Core Northern goons won't do it...
Cos they would loose the oil wells....loose their grip on power around the treasury...

The Fulani Herdmans killing would be halted as regional and state police will flush them back to d deserts...

North would be poorest like Somalia..and Niger Republic..

Restructuring is inevitable,, but those guys up there have a lot of valuable things to exploit, it's free oil money that makes us lazy

welzyj2:
Baba u know watin 30 million b
Count 1st den correct me.

You think there are only 30 m poor peeps in a country like Nigeria with more than 170m?
It's alright

This is supposed to be a joke right?
What makes him think he is qualified to lead anybody
Onye isi mmebi

derolemode:
Let the Niger Delta withold her oil money to herself for six months all the states including lagos will turn to our slaves.
Why do u think the West, North and other parts of the country be the first to kick against division of the country? Sincerity is what will grow us, please say the truth.

Oga, what you said is completely ridiculous, and it means you may either be too young, or haven't lived in Lagos before.

When Obasanjo was president , he with held the allocations to Lagos for some time, and Lagos did not die, we coped and coped well, so don't say that thing.

On the other hand, hold allocations from Edo, or Enugu state for just two months and you will see crisis.

Even tho I am from across the Niger, I refuse to see things from a sentimental perspective.


Defend your points with facts and not emotions.

Izonpikin:
can Lagos afford to even feed the nearby south western States let alone like 30 other states...instead of that foolish malam to appreciate the burdens the Niger delta is carrying he is there spewing rubbish..then let him tell buhari to withdraw the crocodile smile troop na...mumu oligarchs...

Lagos should not be feeding other States, those states should be feeding themselves.
I am a big proponent for restructuring by the way, not disintegrate, I know we will get that right, unfortunately, not under this current president.

coolviv:
I tell u solemnly, the driver and madam ish is realer than fiction. Una never know Nigerian women sha....u think say na by play or mistake dem win most unfaithful wives in d world. Only difference be say...They are eternally coded cuz society will finish dem while d man is more open cuz society will condone him.

You sabi.

damon232:
Sanusi is a riff raff. Is he not living in Kano state? If he has a normal brain, he should as well grow Kano to where Lagos is. He has forgotton that all the headquarters of the oil companies ravaging the oil producing states are all located in Lagos thereby enjoying all the benefits of being an headquarters. You have impovirished the poeple of the south south, you oppress them, you do whatever you like to them. You shut down their only marine unisiversity few hours you were sworn in and allow the police college in your region etc.to stay. As if all those deliberate, develish evil atrocites against the people of the south south are not enough, you are planning to take their land for cattle breeding. By God's special grace, that your sharp mouth like kingfisher will turned round and ask you questions, then you willl leave N/D. Very foolish small sized man.

Was it not amaechi clamouring for the closure of the maritime university?

Sometimes, we always look for others to blame for our predicament because it is the easy thing to do.

Billyonaire:
Silly comment. 50% or more of the IGR to Lagos State comes from the Oil companies and headquaters at Lagos. The tank farms of local products apart from imported ones come from Niger Delta but taxes are paid to Lagos. Sanusi sounds sentimental here. Even if you mention solar as the next frontier, does it mean sun doesnt shine at ND ? Shutdown Niger Delta oil and all the oil companies headquarters at Lagos disappears and 50% of IGR with the land use charges of properties owned by oil workers disappear.

Aboki na aboki. Dem never talk how useful they are in the Nigeria equation.

First of all, the ports revenues go the federal government, and Lagos does not get a kobo from it, same as the airport.

Second, the 50% claim is a big joke right? with a city this ?

Thirdly, what really makes Lagos what it is is the informal sector of the economy, in which most Lagosians thrive on.

If you know how much is generated from the markets here
It is very HUGE.
That is why Lagos coped when OBJ decided to withold Lagos revenues.

Do that to any other state, and see how that state crumble.

Lastly, the bulk of the taxes in the oil industry goes to the FG; what goes to the state is income tax from the workers, and how many workers are in the oil industry HERE?

Please let us be objective.

Good day