Teibaba:
It's not time for who is more sanctimonious.

Just be human.

Simplyleo:
Based on the prevailing chest beating of ipob pigs following the recent spate of destruction and killings by UGM, I expect lamidi cownu to have directed ESN, UGM and ipob pigs to storm the military detention facility were Awurum Eze is kept and free him.

All these noise and pictures are inconsequential because according to him, no more time for any useless talk.

Christistruth00:



IPOB are such illustrious Liars

that if they say anything is lie your can conclude 95% that it is the Truth

Simplyleo:
Lmao.

So all these killings and burnings by ESN, UGM and ipob pigs so that Buhari and his family should collapse is actually not getting anywhere close to Abuja? 

I was expecting to see a shattered, disgruntled and pathetic family of the president due to these self inflicted destruction.

Anyway, since the brain of ipob pigs are lodged with lamidi cownu, let's wait for cownu's comment on the picture. But for now, our fingers crossed. 

Meanwhile, happy Sallah to the president and family.

flokii:


Most of you are dull and it's appalling.. if not, I see no way you lots will ditch your senses to become terrorists and killers on the order of one lunatic hiding in London.

socialmediaman:
How are unemployment, dysfunctional education system, corruption in the police, military and security agencies contributing to the growth of local armed militias and heightened insecurity in the country? This article does a very minimalist summary on these trends that should make you worried and motivate you to get a plan B while we all pray and hope for the best.

Unemployment
The numbers are amazing. Nigeria has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world at 27%. You also find countries like South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Palestine and Bosnia Herzegovina on the list. But why is Nigeria’s unemployment rate very important? Because the 27% translates to about 54 million jobless people, almost the entire population of South Africa. With corrupt political and porous security systems which can be exploited by bad actors, insecurity will likely continue to rise. Make no mistake about it, the monster we created is only just waking up.

Dysfunctional Education System
Our education system is rigged with uncontrolled violence by various armed and violent groups. So let’s make an informed guess. With the school system bugged by frequent closures and striking lecturers, in what way can these bad students add their quota to the society? Your guess is as good as mine. Kidnappings, robberies, armed violence are not the products of only known armed insurgents.

Just recently, the ministry of education noted that more than 10 million children were out of school in Nigeria. This is very concerning as Nigeria is raising a very vulnerable, and most likely misinformed and poorly skilled population, at the same time when the rest of the world is expanding access to education.

Corruption
We cannot overemphasize the level of corruption in Nigeria at all levels and agencies including local, state and federal. When this level of corruption also thrives in the institutions meant to defend and protect the country and its people, the problem becomes a pandemic and threatens everything else in the society. Nigeria has been in this corruption pandemic for a while now and we could only hope that the politicians realize what dangerous path they have put Nigeria on for a very long time. I don’t need to speculate what will happen next.

Summary
There isn’t doubt that unemployment, dysfunctional education system, corruption among many other factors are contributing to the rise of insecurity in the country. The question is, how bad will things get? Will things get better? What facts do you have to show that things will get better, if they have been getting worse as predicted long ago?

The monster that we are evolving today was created and developed over time, possibly dating back to independence. In a broadcast by Chukwuma Nzeogwu after the first coup de tat in 1966 led by him, his words were “we seized power to stamp out tribalism, nepotism and regionalism”. These are various elements of corruption which only mean that we have been on this path for much longer than recently.

The Way Forward
Let’s be clear about one thing. There’s no sincere effort to fix the problems of Nigeria. Even if such effort and sincerity existed, it could take years or even decades to achieve the desired result. The point is, we should all be more mindful and realistic about the future of Nigeria based on today’s circumstances, and make appropriate plans.

God Bless Us All

helinues:


Should I send storage tank?

The bucket is filled up already

Eddygourdo:
The title might bear some semblance to another political attack on people from the south east, it could also be ascribed as the tales of an "afonja" Or "fulani", by the very people for whom this narrative addresses. The current disarray going on within the south east is meant to achieve what exactly ? .... Will the presidency be handed over to us because we killed the military men and women deployed to protect the lives of igbo citizens, or will biafra be declared because we have displayed bravado enough by setting our lands on fire.

The Yorubas are haughty and take pleasure in embarassing us with taunts of poor development because we fought a bloody war on our own soil, yoruba land has never been the venue of full scale war, maybe it will explain a lot as to why they are attractive to investors and have huge economic potentials. How can we allow the south east to be turned into Syria and Sudan, how can we allow miscreants to cripple the already none existent economic development, which region can develop while at war, even the northerners are learning a bitter lesson that nobody cuts of his nose to spite the face.

Nigeria isn't working, we need to renegotiate it's existence, we need to realign our aims and objectives as a nation, but mayhem and violence can never be the way to it. War and violence are the romantic past times of fools who have never seen war. Nobody wins in a war, nobody benefits from violence. The south east will not benefit from it, our markets will die, our youths will be maimed, the once peaceful south east will be further driven into poverty because of the actions of the few.

The Unknown gunmen are known to either the ipob or the Nigerian government, all playing out a devious conspiracy that is threatening the peace and sustenance of the south eastern region. Every Igbo son and daughter must today denounce the IPOB and allow peace to reign. They must also be aware of the high handedness with which this government treats the igbo and their Contempt for the igbo. Let us not give them reasons to further impoverish us.

Alaigbo was and is built with the sweat of the common Ibo man, nothing from federal, miniscule effort from the state and the local, we must today allow peace to return to all parts of the south east, while we plan for a better future for our people, through peace and dialogue.

Peace

Eddygourdo

Nigeria’s Igbo community have a reputation for being highly successful businessmen – partly thanks to a community-run apprentice scheme that emerged from the ruins of war, writes the BBC’s Chiagozie Nwonwu in Lagos.

A smiling Onyeka Orie, 28, looks the picture of happiness in his mobile phone accessories shop at the sprawling Computer Village in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos.



The shop and everything in it had been given to him by his former boss after Mr Orie worked for him without payment for several years, learning the trade.

“I served my oga [boss] for eight years. My oga gave me this shop. I had been managing the shop for four years before he gave it to me. I didn’t expect it,” an excited Mr Orie says.

Born to farmers in south-eastern Nigeria, he said he had little chance of breaking out of poverty because his family could not afford to give him the education he needed to get a good job in a country where unemployment is rife, even among those with a university degree.

So after secondary school he joined the trail of other young Igbo men to learn a trade under the apprentice system known as “Igba Boi” – a practice where young people, mainly boys, leave their family to live with successful businessmen.

The boys are expected to “serve” their boss, doing everything for him – including washing his cars and running his domestic errands. In exchange, the boys pick up life skills and are taught how to run a business. They are also given food and somewhere to live.



At the end of an agreed period, their boss gives them capital to set up their own business.

The Igbo apprenticeship system has roots in Nigeria’s post-civil-war years, says Ndubisi Ekekwe, a Nigerian professor whose article on the apprentice scheme is set to appear in the Harvard Business Review later this month.

The Igbos, emerging from defeat following the 1967-70 civil war, managed to recover a significant portion of their pre-war economic status within just two years.

This was despite the Nigerian government confiscating bank accounts belonging to many Igbos. It then gave them just £20 ($28) to start anew, while others saw their property seized by neighbours in some parts of the country.

The Peoples Club, a popular social club formed in the town of Aba in 1971, is also credited for kick-starting the Igbo apprenticeship scheme.

The ethos of the club, the Igbo philosophy of “onye a hana nwanne ya” (don’t leave your brother behind) is seen as a guiding principle of the scheme.

“The Peoples Club was a social-cum-economic movement…[that] designed an economic template of how the Igbo could move out of the ruins of the war and began a new movement of survival,” says Benedict Okoro, founder of the Odinala Cultural Heritage Foundation. “That is the genesis of the Igba Boi in Igbo cosmology.”



The apprentice system is mostly aimed at boys and young men as families are generally unwilling to let their daughters live with a businessman for the five years or so it takes to learn a trade.

Women instead usually learn at established businesses where they pay to be taught for six months to one year, while still living at home.
‘I got nothing after seven years’

Prominent Nigerian businessmen such as auto tycoons Innocent Chukwuma of Innoson Motors and Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis Group are among the products of the scheme.

In a 2019 interview with BBC Igbo, Mr Maduka said that the 200 naira ($0.70; £0.50) given to him by his boss at the end of his apprenticeship in 1976 had laid the foundation for his multimillion-naira business empire.



The success of the scheme is also visible in eastern cities such as Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi where sprawling markets attract traders from across West Africa.

But the system is not without its critics, as it relies on the goodwill of the employer to look after the apprentice at the end of their service.

Ndubuisi Ilo, who now runs a successful auto parts shop in Ladipo, Lagos, says he was given nothing after serving his boss for seven years.

“My boss called me one day and told me that he can’t afford to settle [pay] me. He prayed for me and asked me to start hustling for myself. It was very difficult at first and I even had to sleep in cars, but now I look back and smile,” he says.

Nevertheless, he does not consider his apprenticeship a waste of time, as he used the knowledge he gained to start trading.

“Some businessmen don’t want to keep to the agreement because of the amount of money involved in setting up a business for an apprentice that has completed his time.

“Some of them accuse the apprentices of theft or something else and terminate the agreement,” Mr Ilo says.

Igba Boi agreements are usually verbal and when a businessman reneges on them, apprentices have few options for redress.



Since many of the businessmen are relatives, the extended family usually tries to mediate in any disputes and when they fail, the ancestral village of one or both parties steps in and try to resolve the matter.

Sometimes issues are amicably resolved, at other times they are not, leaving the apprentice to fend for himself after years of free labour.
‘An example for Africa’

Mr Okoro’s foundation is looking to institutionalise the Igba Boi scheme to minimise the risk of people defaulting on agreements.

“An institutionalised system would have backing of the law and won’t just be something between the traders and the apprentice and his family,” he says. “The apprentice will even get a certificate after his apprenticeship.”

Mr Ekweke notes that helping potential business rivals goes against traditional capitalist thinking but it goes to the heart of this system, which generally seems to work well for all concerned.

“[Economist] Adam Smith believes that success in business entails ensuring driving out your competitors, but this system is hinged on bringing more people into the business,” he says.

In the forthcoming issue of the Harvard Business Review he says he wants “to present the Igbo Apprenticeship System [IAS] as a thesis for the world as the conversation continues on stakeholder capitalism, not just shareholder capitalism”.

On his website, he suggests that it should be used across Africa. “Put the IAS in Economics textbook in Nigeria!”
‘Better than a university degree’

Current unemployment data in Nigeria paints a dire picture – 33% of those looking for work cannot find any. Many of them are university graduates.

Mr Orie says his financial situation is better than many of his peers who went on to acquire a university education.

He has also started thinking of getting a young man from the village to learn the trade under him, an act that is at the heart of the system.

Many of his peers are now hiring sales assistants to run their shops, rather than using the Igba Boi system.

However Mr Ilo says the future of the system that produced him and millions of other businessmen is safe.

“As long as there are markets and Igbo traders, there will be apprentices,” he says.

https://www.myjoyonline.com/how-a-nigerian-scheme-forged-in-war-creates-billionaires/

kettykin:


If the soldiers and policemen go back to the barracks, there will no longer be any message for ESN or ugm, even if they carry arms they will not hound traders or business men or civilians other wise a counter ESN would emerge. It was police and military oppression and brutality against unarmed and defenseless people that created these entities

hollah123:
nyanmiri the child of hate n perdition,I hail u

hollah123:
nyanmiri d picture on your profile gave u out,only God knows y u people find it easy to deny your rag tag forefathers in d name of clout chasing