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gartamanta:
Ikwo is amongst the toughest to understand, you have to be super attentive to the tone and pitch to even understand what they are saying. The same goes for deep Ekpeye

I wouldn't have taken note of your post, if not for my first hand experience at Ikwo.

Went there with my cousin for a certain business. I couldn't understand a single word they say. It was hard to believe what I was hearing was an Igbo dialect.

24SEVEN:
Whatever your hear the Ikwerres speaking as language and bearing as names is our clan version of Bini. Also any culture we practice is our very own Ikwerre-Bini culture. Don't lose sleep.

This mean the Ikwerre have no unique cultural identity of their own. I've heard them speak their dialect, and it is nothing near any Bini tongue. You and your people seem to believe that adding the consonant "r" as a prefix to Igbo words automatically make them a Bini version

As an Igbo, I wholeheartedly believe Ikwerre are not Igbos. Their language and culture has nothing in common with those of the great Bini kingdom either. I also think its time you stop borrowing and corrupting Igbo words. We don't want to be found guilty by association.

Anyhow, it is not too late for you and your ancestors to find your way back to where you might have fallen out from. I can borrow you my compass and flashlight for the quest
You might want to organise an ultimate search for your youths to try and locate your roots. Because that time when Nigeria has to redefine itself based on ethnic nationality is fast approaching. You are neither here nor there. Pity.

mufutau55:
Case closed... make we go follow Spyder build house o.
Who no know go know.

Hajji M.

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post=91149298:
May it never ever be well with the evil and looting party that brought this evil Boko Haram into our nation..

These Criminals couldn't do anything for more than a decade and watch Boko haram kill thousand and thousands of innocent Nigerians.
That people could not go to their place of worship for over a whole year.
Back then, if you see an ordinary polythene bag (nylon of akara) on the floor, everybody start running helter skelter thinking it's gonna be an explosive/BOMB!
(It was that bad!)

Same evil party that denied Boko Haram kidnapped 286 of our teenage girls before the world stood up to burst their bubble!

They rather share the BILLIONS meant to procure ammunition for our soldiers to tackle this Boko Haram insurgency (when it was still at infancy) among themselves and watch our soldiers die!!

Only people with chicken brains must have forgotten all these atrocities in less than 6 years. 
That is why we call them hypocrites and children of hate, perdition and frustration.
(They are trying to tell us that this raped, battered and looted nation by their party of looters was like Canada or Dubai pre 2015!)

Kidnappings, Daily Pipeline Explosions etc were the order of the day.
More of the reason we sent the ineffectual buffon packing. 

A senseless wailer was telling us here yesterday that before Buhari became President, Borno and Katsina was peaceful, we replied him that before PDP brought Boko Haram to our darling country, the whole Nigeria was peaceful, he kept shut and never responded again.
Shameless criminals supportingevil.

Our darling country will win this war as a nation, and all the politicians sponsoring these killings along with anyone supporting them will all die miserably and terribly in due season.

God bless Nigeria. 


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The greatest tragedy that can befall a nation is for her citizens to suffer collective amnesia.
We believe PDP believes Nigerians have short memories,
For those who may have forgotten, kindly joggle your memories with the following words on marble and you will agree with us that what happened during thier 16 years of looting was nothing but gathering of rogues.
Happy reading:

1. I acted based on Jonathan's instruction - Dasuki

2. I didn't give order - Jonathan

3. I collected 350M from Dasuki for consultation - Iyorchia Ayu

4. I only collected $30,000 from Dasuki not N100m - Bode George

5. I got N4.6b from Dasuki for spiritual purposes - Bafarawa

6. I got N650M from Dasuki for my Abuja burnt office - Thisday Obaigbena.

7. I got N2.1b from Dasuki for publicity - Dokpesi

8. I got another N100m from Yuguda he didn't tell me from where - Bafarawa.

9. I gave N100m each to Odili, Jim Nwobodo Bode George and others - Yuguda

10. The president asked me to change N10B to foreign currency for PDP delegates - Dasuki

11. My boss asked me to get $11M from the CBN - Dasuki's account officer.

12. I got order from above to pay Tompolo N13B for Maritime university land. - Nimasa DG.

13. 950m was shared in my house -- Shekarau

With all this looting and many more revealed, some people are still shouting no sign of change yet, they even say it's political persecution.

But I believe, it is the right thing to do. 
If you believe too, send this to other people to garner more support for the fight against corruption and looting in our nation. There must be consequences for such crimes otherwise Nigeria will not develop.

WHERE ARE THE #WAILERS? 
"Over 20 billion dollars unremitted to the Federation account, and if nothing is done by 2015 upward, Nigeria will know what economic crisis is"
*~ Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi*

"Whoever wins 2015 will NEVER find it easy to govern. Over 30 trillion is mismanaged, unaccounted for or missing under Jonathan."
*~ Prof Charles Soludo*

"Our reserve is depleted and our savings are squandered. Our nation is in trouble."
*~ Dr Oby Ezekwesili.*

"For seven months, NNPC did not remit any money into federation account. When I called as a sitting governor and major oil producing state, Deziani Alison Madueke refused to pick my calls."
*~ Godswill Akpabio*

"I told them to save ahead of eventualities but Jonathan had no political will to do so and this is the reason why we are in crisis, because we squandered our boom."
*~ Okonjo Iweala*

"Okonjo-Iweala, Sanusi urged us to save but we state Governors refused to save for the unseen future during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan, despite warning from economic experts."
*~ Peter Obi*

"Jonathan is a blessed ATM machine that doesn't have secret pin number"
*~ Bala Mohammed*

* Tompolo was paid 13Billion.!
* Ex-CDS,Alex Badeh dug a pit toilet to hide $32m.
* Patience Jonathan is claiming $31m, she has sued the Nigerian state.
* Femi Fani-Kayode took 740M.
* Dasuki used trucks to load over $35B from the CBN.
* Olisa Metuh took 400M.
* Aziboala, GEJ's cousin took 6B naira.
* Nenadi Usman took 3.5B naira.
* Fayose took 3B naira.
* Obanikoro took 4Billion naira.
* Olu Falae took 100M naira.
* Tony Anenih - 400M naira.
* Oritsejafor - $35M 
* Former Air Chief Amosu - 2Billion naira.
* Lucky Igbinedion-16B naira.
*Bode-George and Dabo -100B naira
* Jolly Nyame-2.4B naira.
* Joshua Dariye-700M naira.
*Nyesom Wike stole #4b.
* Diezzani with $20 billion missing oil money? 
15 billon dollars missing from arms fund, 10 billion naria, converted to dollars and given as gift to delegates of PDP Nation convention, Bafarawa collected 3 billion for spiritual purposes , 12. 7 billon naria for deceased NEPA staff grew wings and disappeared, 20 billion dollars missing from NNPC accounts, 23 billon naira as bribe to INEC staffs to rig the general election. The list is endless. They only left what they can't carry or unable to lay their hands on. The list continues.....
Recession didn't just happen, people looted Nigeria into RECESSION happening.
Thank God we are going out of it gradually for now and we know better days are ahead.

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You have been known to be a total asswipe, a useful idiot.
Obviously, nobody expects you to suddenly regain your senses.

You are doing your job.

Trustme2:
Pre-Order for Naija used Car? Pls I don't understand. Enlighten me pls

Thought I'm the only one baffled by this.
I see only Nissan products in the picture, though

Olominira:
Since that racist assumed white house, nothing closed to 1bn has been sent to Nigeria. Go and obtain the data

Silly talk. As if he owes Nigeria the money.
The ones that your country has received since the past decade, how has it improved your life? What credible account can your govt give as to how it was used?
If Trump is a racist, what does that make your president? Your president even hates his fellow blacks, so long as they are not from his tribe.

This revolting entitled mentality you exhibit....smh.

Olominira:
Since that racist assumed white house, nothing closed to 1bn has been sent to Nigeria. Go and obtain the data

Silly talk. As if he owes Nigeria the money.
The ones that your country has received since the past decade, how has it improved your life? What credible account can your govt give as to how it was used?

This revolting entitled mentality you exhibit....smh.

Yampotatocarrot:
You know Afor-Oru market? You be area o... Lol

Question now becomes, is there any area in Imo state where one can get land that is FERTILE enough for agriculture? Someone already mentioned that Okigwe area is out of it cos of the rocky nature of the ground there. Which area can one face now?

As for fertility, that isn't guaranteed. But since you can make a barren land fertile yourself, it shouldn't be the main yardstick for purchasing farmland in the SE where it is in short supply.
Not all part of Okigwe is rocky. If you get reasonable offers there, go and inspect the land to see the amount of stones in it.

I learnt about farmlands for sale at Mgbidi over 3 years ago, but I didn't follow up due to lack of funds. Not sure they are still available now. Also learnt about lands at Okigwe, after Umulolo. My inlaw went to check it out, but was a bit discouraged due to it's remoteness. He wanted something close by a good road. But lands like that would be too costly.
I got info on lands at Eziobodo. Want to send someone to inspect and give me feedback, then I can decide.
Generally, farmlands would cost about 200k per plot and above.

For me, I'm not averse to farmland any location in the SE, so long as the place is easily accessible and motorable.
Only thing I'm wary of is the menace of herdsmen.

proeast:
You're right. I was shocked when I got to village in Mbaise and discovered that lands in interior communities now goes for as high as one million naira!! I mean lands in a rural community!!

I think very high population density is causing it and areas around Mbaise and Owerri is highly populated.

You're not exaggerating. I have witnessed this first hand.
But then, I know people who are snapping up lands around there, especially in places with close proximity to Afọr-Oru Market. Which is how I got to know the very scary price that a small piece of land commands around there.
This person told me that, if I think land is expensive now, then I should wait for 10 years

One other reason why land tend to be expensive is from the way land is fragmented to be shared among siblings. For instance, a piece of land no bigger than a plot may be owned by 3 brothers who inherited it from their father.
One may decide to sell his own portion, while the others aren't ready to sell yet. To induce them to sell, a potential buyer will have to offer something above the prevalent market price. Once the transaction is sealed, others who own lands around there take note of the price at which it was sold and that becomes the price at which adjourning lands are pegged.

Bottom line, prices are driven upwards by short supply and the sentiments attached to land.

Which makes me laugh when ignorant folks from the SW say that Igbos don't sell land to non Igbos. The very few who dared were scared shitless from the high price, and felt it was a ploy to dissuade them from buying lands in alaigbo.

Abagworo:
You are right. The Southwest adopted centralized settlement which actually created space for forest preservation and availability of large cimmunal lands for farming. The Southeast has a pattern of settlement that wastes land

I don't entirely agree with this.
Like most part of the SE, the SW isn't planned around major settlements.
Just happens that the SW has so much land mass compared with SE.
Like the SE, the Yorubas also site their rural settlements in close proximity to pre-existing ones for security reasons.

They just have more fallow, uncultivated land, which the SE doesn't.

Yampotatocarrot:
that's good. Let them check out the road leading to Nekede zoo also, last time I went to the zoo, the road was pretty bad

Nwanne, I'm praying for that road too, as it leads to a property dear to me

spyder880:
Yes I think the solid blocks helped the house survive this long. Some people even said the house was stated in the late 70s or early 80s. Most of the people who started this building are now deceased, but their children needs to see this hall completed. The people that built this house were not even literate, a few masons and other workmen but you can see how solid their work looks.

Very impressive!
In those days, if a block moulder tells his client that a bag of cement will be used to mould, say 30 blocks, the client would ask, can you make it 20 blocks instead? I want the blocks strong as a rock!
Times were relatively good then, and most people won't cut costs.

My father's house in the village, you will suffer before you can drive a nail through it's walls to hang something. We have to use concrete nails to penetrate the blocks. Even at that, some poor quality concrete nails still bend before you can hammer it halfway into the wall.

Gjrich:
Before you start ascribing blames to any one over the gunshots in Aso Rock, you need to know what truly transpired in Aso Rock between the First Lady, First Family, Aso Rock Security, Chief Security Officer to the President and the President’s Personal Assistant, Yusuf on the 12th of June, 2020.


It all started when the Personal Assistant, Secretary and Cousin of President Buhari, Mr. Sabiu Yusuf returned from a journey from Lagos State to the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock. The problem started when two of the most powerful relations of the President started checking power, a power tussle. The Wife of the President, who holds the key to the President’s heart and partly his life and the deepest vein of the President, his cousin who is at the same time his Personal Assistant and even his Personal Secretary, created a scene at the Villa last night.

Returning back from the trip, the President’s Wife Aisha Buhari and three of the President’s children; Zahra, Halima and Yusuf together with some security personnel led by the Aide-de-Camp of Aisha Buhari, Mr. Usman Shuabu, kindly went to Mr. Sabiu Yusuf, who just arrived from an interstate journey, just to spend the weekend alongside some five girls from Daura, Kano and Abuja, was kindly asked to self quarantined himself in his residence inside the Villa so as to protect the lives of everyone; the President’s inclusive.

Aisha Buhari enjoins him to do this because she, Aisha Buhari believes that he, Yusuf may have unknowingly contracted the virus because she has Intel that Mr. Yusuf had met with some of the contacts of the late Former Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Maikanti Baru, who recently died of COVID-19 complications. The President was in the villa and the First Family must do everything in their power to make sure his health is not compromised; also the Security Personnel’s top priority is to protect the First Family, majorly the President. Thus, they told Mr. Yusuf to go and self quarantine himself away from the Presidential Villa. Instead, Mr. Yusuf, who is absolutely, one of the richest youths and definitely the most powerful youth in Nigeria today, decided to wave away the instructions and forced his way into the Presidential Villa to see the President.

The First Family, especially the First Lady became so angered owing to the way Mr. Yusuf defied her order and primarily the NCDC’S which states that anyone who has traveled interstate, should compulsorily self quarantine. The First Lady then told some securities of the First Family, to forcefully, if need be, show Mr. Yusuf his way out of the Villa.

The scenario birthed a heated argument as the Personal Assistant to the President, Mr. Yusuf claims that his wife just delivered in Lagos and he had to go see her. Moreover, he claims he was not the only one who travels to Lagos, in defiance to the interstate lockdown order. Mr. Yusuf tells the first lady that, she knows that the new Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari does travel to Lagos State, virtually every weekend. Yet, he was the only one that was victimized of the accusation.

Still, all force was applied on him and when he showed too much adamancy, the ADC of the First Lady, Usman Shuagba, in an attempt to apprehend Mr. Yusuf and throw him out of the Villa, allegedly fired a gunshot, which cause disarray in the Villa. As for Mr. Yusuf, he quickly finds his way of the Villa and immediately went to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Adamu Muhammed to report the incident, which later led to the arrest of the ADC of the First Lady.

Currently, all the securities of the First Family who were involved in the gun violence had been nabbed by the Federal Police Force and they are in the Police Cell. They were all arrested based on a principle in their code of duty that no matter the provocation, firing the gunshots in the Presidency Constitutes a “Security breach”, which they are guilty of.
The wife of the President has taken to her twitter account to ask for the release of her securities.

In your own pool of opinions, based on the exclusive information that you have consumed on what truly transpired in the Aso Rock, between the Powerful Forces from different tents, the Tent of the First Family, which constitutes the wife, children and securities of the President and the Tent of the onerous Man, most powerful youth in Nigeria, who at the same time is a Cousin to the president, a Personal Assistant and a Personal Secretary of the President. Which tent do you think is at fault? The First Family’s Tent who applied force which later resulted to gun violence to protect the lives of the Residents of the Villa, including the President or the Personal Assistant and Secretary of the President, Mr. Yusuf who breaks a lockdown order on the basis that his wife allegedly gave birth in Lagos, which the First Lady seems to dispute as he was accused of spending the weekend with some girls from the aforementioned states and haven met the contacts of a Former Coronavirus Patient, refused to self quarantine himself when he got back?

Drop your comments below; let’s know who is at fault.

You sounded so silly with your narration, I had to feel pity for you.
Now, you want readers of your pitiful, grovelling story to decide which party should be blamed?
Dear Lord!

Hasn't it occurred to you that all this nonsense is happening because you have a president nobody respects as he isn't in charge of anything?

If Yusuf has any atom of respect for buhari, he will also respect buhari's wife, the first b!tch of a senile nincompoop who you regard as your president.
Same story went round when one of Abba Kyari's daughters locked out the first b!tch from her apartment after the latter returned from an overseas trip to interrupt a planned marriage by the senile nincompoop to a second b!tch.

If buhari commands any respect within Aso Shrine villa, nobody, I repeat, nobody would have the guts to disrespect any member of his family. He is the president, for goodness sake!

So, you don't need to ask anyone about whom to blame. buhari is the original, undisputed, lame duck nonentity in charge, and every blame rests squarely on his skinny, puny shoulders.

Note: me starting the name buhari with small letter is intentional. His name is a liability, and no human deserves to bear the burden in that name after what this disaster in human form has put the country through. I've read about two occasions where sensible parents decided to change their kid's name who were named buhari before then.

GogetterMD:
And do you know how long this problem has persisted?

Because the problem has been there for a thousand years, it therefore means that a truly selfless and smart govt cannot solve it, right?

Nigeria deserves this. Nigeria deserves the horrible leaders running it, because it's citizens are even much worse.

Wow. 35 years!
If it was built with hollow blocks, it would need to be demolished by now.
The expertise that went into this building was top notch though.
Didn't look like its even 10 years old.

Sigh....another clean ride.

Since I can't buy this now, I'll just make a bet with my Toyota crazed neighbor that this car will be sold in at most, a week from today.

Can at least win 10k off him to chill at my fav joint next weekend

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright


Not true brother
They are the simplest to understand

I know you won't understand
Humans hate what they don't understand
Na only for north person go give you accomodation and food without you nor get money
They are too simple and easy
The simplest people on planet earth

The only thing you should say is that when they are angry they take it to the extreme

They are too simple and easy, bla bla bla
So, people who have no regard for the sanctity of human life can be classed as simple?
Anyone with such a mindset, no matter how "simple or "easy," is next to wild animals on the evolutionary scale.

Is it in the south that one can't get free accommodation and food? That's probably your index to measure simplicity. Free food kee You there.

MoIbrahim:
I tire o





Some people struggle to defend Trump even more than the real Americans do. Only one man fighting against China, Iran, France, Germany, CNN, WHO, Facebook, Twitter,.... At a point, he even fought against UK, and some people whose ancestory had nothing to do with the USA are defending him even more than the Americans.For them it is always a way of spiting Buhari. Na wa o

The man is gradually destroying the US foreign relations with petty decisions.

Stop being an asswipe. You quote me to say I'm defending Trump? U dey craze?

I don't give a shyte about Trump or about America. I don't give a shyte about you, either.

AntiWailer:
lol.

Cretin in Chief.

Thank God he won, if not they would have told us how America was denied the opportunity to be led by a Smart Man.


Just like other businesses he bankrupted, America is just one of them and the latest.

Same thing could be said about your buhari.
Word for word, just substitute "America" with "Nigeria" and the sentence makes even better sense.

hushpanda:
I re-registered today from 2016: don't call a dog a bad name to hang it.

I had to because some things had to be set straight here, really. How do you think you are helping by the silly, unintelligent comments you all make?

You have a grudge with the government, fine; but don't make justify one evil with another. Let's deal with Madueke FIRST, leave this government for posterity.

Here's one rëtard sounding govt bitch

Your govt couldn't prosecute thieves right under it's nose FIRST, yet it is itching to go after those overseas. Has your govt even shown any atom of seriousness in the fight against corruption?

Left for me, Madueke can rot in jail. But I guarantee you that this lame govt can't prosecute her. They haven't got the moral gumption nor the brains to do that.

Let's deal with Madueke first? You and who?
Sure, go ahead. What's stopping you?

SeverusSnape:
Those were the days when Frats consisted of reasonable people and intellectuals, Now, the whole thing has been hijacked by lowlifes and riff-raffs, murderous blowhards.

Ask yourself this: what upright organization at it's inception, would adopt skull and crossbones as it's symbol?
Skull and crossbones is an already well known universal sign for danger. I guess that, underneath all that altruistic bullshit the founders of the confraternity were spewing, they knew that sooner or later, they would resort to violence as a tool.
When violence becomes the norm, you don't expect intellectuals or reasonable folks to line up for recruitment, would you?
Not fooled. A snake will always give birth to a snake.

Akpaamunsi:
What are the 2 fools above me saying ?

Chill brother.
There should no longer be any argument over what we have already known: that these people just can't exist if they don't drag the blessed ones into what isn't our concern.
LASG is taking steps to make the state better. The report even mentioned the Elegushi royal family as losing parts of their land. I don't know Elegushi family changed to Igbo overnight, or what could be the reason for these two clowns bellyaching?

If you are not relevant, nobody will mention you. Fact.
They see Igbos in their dreams, they wake up and their first thought is about Igbo.
They go out to hustle for pennies, and their first prayer is that an Igbo shouldn't overtake them.
They eat their own food and wish it were ofe ǹsàlà, onugbu or something prepared by Nnamdi's wife
They look at their pretty women, but still wish they could measure up to the standards of Nneka, Chinyere or Anụlịka.

So, let them be. Nairaland gives them the platform to vent and rage. You meet anyone of them offline, and they become as meek as tepid water.
Let them be, for they are in a lot of pains. Not that it is any easier for Igbos. Just that we have largely come to terms about how to master our environment, and swallow our pains while soldiering on. Our threshold is much higher.

When you meet any of them, give them a hug.
E no easy for them at all

rentAcock:
Pastors are worried that social distancing will reduce the capacity of the church and thereby decrease offerings. I'm not even sure if all these attempts at social distancing is effective considering that when you sneeze droplet aerosols can travel as fast as 100,000 miles per second. So how exactly does a 6ft distance prevent the spread? The one that makes me laugh the most is the proposition that airplanes should fly with the middle seat empty; how does it prevent the spread of aerosols in and closed compartment?

100,000 miles per sec?
The 6 feet distance only works if everyone is wearing facemask. The mask impedes the ejection of aerosols and absorbs the bulk of it. Which is why churches are directed to have all worshippers maintain the distance and make masks compulsory.
Now, at this preliminary stage, pastors have already began protesting. Okotie oniranu with the smelly mouth is saying it negates God's healing powers
The jerrycurl spotting playboy has not healed a single corvid-19 patient, yet he's making so much noise about healing.

If I were FG, this is where I will stamp my authority and make an outright ban on religious gatherings. Our religious zeal (not spirituality) stinks. Let's see if people will collapse and die in their thousands if they get deprived from going to church or mosque for six months.

Silly pastopreneurs.

spyder880:
See this link, I have lands along this new road. This road is going to be a very important link road in Enugu city.

https://www.nairaland.com/5888456/father-mbaka-praises-completion-abakpa-emene

Wow. This is a great development.
What lands are available along this new road?

Glad to see the OP has deleted the body of the post he made.

All you little kids can keep arguing back and forth like the untrained, illegitimate dregs of society you are.

Final over and out.

IMO01:
Hello sir

Yes. I get your point.
I saw some blocks packed at a spot from the video you uploaded. This showed that there are some construction work happening there, right?

Which was partly the reason I asked if the lands were partitioned into plots already.

Yampotatocarrot:
Please, as someone who has resided in Imo for a long time, what crops will be profitable to plant in Imo.

I made enquiry fee weeks ago and the answers were not too encouraging. Although I was adviced to go into agro processing rather than production.

So, aside cucumbers (I've done cucumber in Lagos, I need a new challenge), what fast growing crops or agro-based business do you think someone in Imo state can go into?

Thanks

okoroemeka, can you make some input here, pls.

Hi. I'm interested in this.

Has the plots been mapped out to designate where access roads within the layout should be?

If I want to purchase 20 plots or more, I shouldn't have to use some of my plots to create roads in the future. I have experienced something like this before.
If they haven't done so, let the community know that mapping out the land into layouts of plots with access roads is the right step. This will add immediate value to the land.
Let me have your feedback, then I can decide on inspection.

I think you're about the only person on nairaland who takes the time to assess properties and give some amount of detailed feedback.

You're doing a great job

I think you're about the only person on nairaland who takes the time to assess properties and give some amount of detailed feedback.

You're doing a great job!

Snaagg:
Nigerians abroad, how many of you are considering relocating back to the 'motherland' once this whole pandemic/lockdown debacle is over?

If you are, state your reasons here..

The contraption called Nigeria is nobody's motherland.
You may talk about someone moving to join "his own people"
Nigeria only serves to line the pockets of those in power.
Can you even come to terms with the fact that since February this year, many "Nigerians" living overseas whose passports had expired, couldn't get a new one months after applying for a renewal?
Their embassy's lame excuse: covid-19 pandemic made passport booklets scarce!