₦airaland Forum

Tflesk:
they're so numerous... if i start listing them this page wont contain it...
The mighty iphinix, tecno and itel is owned by an igbo man... and 75% of nigerians are using his product dat alone is boostin d telecommunication sector

75% of nigerians use infinix, tecno and itel phones? That means only 25% of the over 180 million phones lines in Nigerians use Samsung, apple, and chinco brand phones?

SLAP44:
The south east doesn't need natural resources to develop and thrive.

The quality of the human resources in the south east can rival that of any country in the world. That's where our strength lies.

How has the quality of human resources helped your communities and states? How is the quality of human resources different from any other region or tribe of the south?
We need to start seeing the results of that strength, not only mouth on social media.

SLAP44:
At no time in history has the south east not been self reliant, and prosperous.

But you forefathers have been migrating to other regions to be prosperous, even before independence. If the south east was so prosperous, why we're many checking out?

Our parents and forefathers has never recorded draught, diseases or poverty. We were blessed from the inception of the world and we still retain the blessings.

So why did you guys never recorded a prosperous or strong kingdom like Songhai, Oyo or Benin kingdoms. Benin kingdom even incorporated some of your lands up to Onitsha.

tollyboy5:
2 many people has been saying melanin this melanin that, em, our weather is hot. where were they wen Ebola and kasa virus took over

What's kasa virus?

Anyway Ebola na senior brother of Corona. Ebola's fatality is far higher than corona. Why people are saying our hot weather is because corona is a flu virus, and flu viruses thrive better in cold weather.

Area4Area:
Don't blame him, he's among those that feel that getting Biafra would make them millionaires within some months and Biafra would be another Dubai and Singapore put together

They want to control the huge oil resources off the coast of delta, Bayelsa, rivers and Akwa Ibom states, which they will never get.

gidgiddy:
Thats true, he was the one who suggested the name "Biafra" to Ojukwu because that area used to be known by that name 600 years ago

False. The are was not known as Biafra before the Portuguese came. There was no kingdom or land of Biafra anywhere in recorded history before Ojukwu took on the name for his new country.
Some people just assumed that because the Portuguese named the bight - bight of Biafra, it assume there was an actual land called Biafra. It also means there is a land called Good hope, since the English named a cape in South Africa - Cape of good hope.

According to the fake map produced (yes fake map because the people living close to the sea (or bight), the Ijaws, never at any time in history called themselves Biafrans, Cameroon should be renamed Biafra, as most of Cameroon is inside Biafra.

I will have said this from day 1 and I will say it again; this coronavirus virus scare is a money spinning scheme by greedy and callous health conglomerates. It's just a modification of the flu virus. Flu viruses are very contagious but not deadly as being promoted. As a health young man living in sub Saharan Africa, you have a better odd of winning 10 million naira in bet9ja than dying from coronavirus.

There is no proven vaccine against the common Cold and they are talking about vaccine against coronavirus. They just want to "gba" (scam)the public into taking some placebo vaccine and make millions of dollars. Even ordinary face masks which is only required by to prevent infected people from sneezing and spreading it around is now being marketed to everyone including non infected people. The price is being sold 10 times the price.

Here is a video from a skeptic like me;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9wxA4_YGOw

tsephanyah:
Frustrating to see smart people not getting it, this thing is basically the flu. Last flu season 60 million people had the flu and 57,000 people died from complications of the flu, most were elderly or already sick from something else.

My brother, I tire o. The scare tactics and panic is ridiculous, so far less than 3000 people worldwide has died from corona, meanwhile, over half of that number are killed by malaria everyday.
Coronavirus which is a strain of the influenza virus is highly contagious, but not deadly. Less than 2 % of infected people actually die. It seems the virus has become cash cow for many health organisations and professionals.

dominique:
You people should stop twisting the narrative. It's not even up to a decade, don't think we've forgotten.

It was Lagos State government under Fashola that swung into action when Ebola got into the country. If that disease had entered the country through another terminal, the casualties would have been countless. The 1billion GEJ claimed to have released vanished. There were NO testing or quarantine centers in Abuja airport as someone up there claimed. A family friend of mine that travelled to Uganda during the Ebola crises complained about how passengers from West Africa were detained at their airport for about 8 hours and weren't released until several tests were carried out. A fellow 3rd world country o. Meanwhile, arrivals at Nnamdi Azikiwe airport were strolling in freely without any disturbance.

Fashola government in less than 24, hours opened at least 11 testing and quarantine centers across the state, a 24 hour toll free Ebola helpline and numerous public service announcements on how to prevent the disease without any support from FG. So why should it be GEJ administration that should given credit?

I need not waste my time correcting those trying to rewrite history. You have done an excellent job. Jonathan's loss of 2015 is still affecting some people and so starts to rewrite history with falsehood.
Ebola was contained and eradicated from Nigeria principally because of the sacrifice of Dr. Adadavoh, the swift action of Lagos State government (note I am not a fan of fashola ) and support from the Federal Ministry of Health.

Ebola screening was not done at the airport before the first diagnosed patient, despite ebola ravishing Liberia for 3 weeks prior.

Oracle23:
U are quite deluded, This would be my last reply. Paternity is not the issue here, The child is davido's child, no one would even go to that discussion of weda the son is his or not.

The case will be judged in a customary court and the primary basis for judgement would be cultural ownership of the child, which on this case lies on the girl and her Father who is the head of the family where she belongs.


Even a civil court will never grant davido custody to a little child, the mother would easily get custody and davido will visit and pay child support.

Either way, the child isn't going home with davido.

It's you that is deluded. You guys have this belief like a religious dogma and no amount of logic or proof can make you see reason.

In Nigeria paternity is determined by;
* By acknowledgement - means acknowledgement by the biological father
* By presumption - means someone presumed to be the father
*By proof - DNA test

No where in any Nigerian law is bride price or marriage proof of paternity. Some igbo people just want to use blackmail to get bride price and force people to marry their daughters.

The funniest thing is that a man can be forced to assume paternity by the child's mother

Read more about what the Nigerian law says says about paternity here - https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenigerialawyer.com/what-the-law-says-about-paternity-of-a-child-or-an-adult-in-nigeria-by-o-g-chukkol/amp/

Paternity cases can be very complicated and complex. According to traditional laws the rights of the child's father's is recognised, even if no marriage to involved. The father can only be denied paternity by the girls family if he denies paternity at first and later change his mind to claim, or fails to show up to claim paternity when the child is born only to come some years later, after the child would have been nurtured by the girls family. It's in such instances that the girl's father can claims the child.

I think most igbos don't even understand their own culture. It's in certain instances that a girls father is allowed to claim children born in his house. Such arrangements are known ab initio, and the child father is aware.

In Ibo custom, a man who has no male child may persuade one of his daughters to stay in the family home and not marry. The purpose of such an arrangement is for the daughter to produce a male successor to her father and thus save the family line from threatened extinction”.
And under the circumstances, therefore, any child she bears whilst living and remaining with her family is regarded as the legitimate child of her father at birth.

Read more about paternity under customary laws here - https://thepointernewsonline.com/?p=46708

louiziana:
All tribal warriors should be ashamed of themselves, the educated ones have no hope. Their education was a waste of time and resources. Did U.S ban a particular tribe in Nigeria or every one of us?? We can't make measurable progress in this country with such mentality, guess the president is even guilty of this, appointing his tribesmen to hold important positions instead of appointing based on merit. Irritating!

The ban affects all Nigerians, but it is one tribe that is jubilating the ban like they won bet9ja.

Every body is angry at the presidents nepotism, but that's our own dirty linen we need to wash and solve internally. The US president also exhibit nepotism by appointing his own family and mainly white people in his government. The US people don't wish doom on the US because of it.

delugajackson:
Good thinking. The idea of child spacing has outlived its relevance.

False. Child spacing is very relevant today. Each child birth takes a serious toll on a woman's body, it needs between 2 to 4 years to fully recover, and prepare for the next pregnancy. sometimes a woman's body does not fully recover after child birth. You wonder why Nigeria has some of the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.

But why not marry her at once to claim full ownership than firing and impregnating her at will? Its more dignifying and honourable to do so. Otherwise, you're only subtly promoting pre-marital sex, baby mama-ism and also engendering a new generation of single mothers.

Why marry, when he can impregnate chioma as many times as he wants? and when he is tired, dump chioma and the children at her father's place, since the children belongs to the father as it is in Igbo culture. He can then move on to the next igbo girl without any consequences.

NOC1:
My mum is educated and exposed but her views on child spacing is different after some cases when some women could not take in again after child spacing.

Sh will say “once you’ve started making babies do it at once and rest”.

I think I go with my mom ideology.

As educated as you mom is, she is confusing child spacing with number of children policy. Child spacing is allowing enough space between births to allow the woman's body recover before putting her body through the stress of another pregnancy, while children policy is the exact number of children the couple decides to have. The number of children could be spaced or not.

DMerciful:
With a senator with 4 wives and 27 children and counting bragging in the national assembly that he is a strong man, how will population not increase inspite of the killings

Polygamy is also becoming rife in the US. Just last week the state of Utah passed a legislation to decriminalise polygamy - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/18/utah-senate-decriminalize-polygamy-bill

The Brown family from the TLC show "Sister Wives" has 4 wives and 18 children. So polygamy is not only a Nigerian thing.

timesup234:
Make Ogun and shango strike you mad! Over 100,000 Americans die annually from common flu. You are a bastard and a slave. America kill you there. Americans die like mosquito. I am thankful I left that shithole called America. Only monkeys and donkeys should live there. Bastard a fool!

It's a surprise o, that the blackman and the Nigerian in particular has the greatest case of self loathe. A Nigerian loathe his country, his village, his neighbours, his family and even himself. Psychologists need to study this strange phenomenon to determine why.

Flu - common Cold is a huge problem in oyimbo countries. You will hear people dying or falling sick for days because of common Cold. How many Nigerians have you heard of dying from common Cold. That's why I tell people that this coronavirus is oyimbo (and asian) problem because if from the flu family. Black Africans don't die of flu. I am yet to see one black African infected, not to talk of dying.

DMerciful:
Shut up your mouth. People die like fowl in Nigeria. Thank God I left that jungle already!

And our population increase per year is five times that of the US. With the way you said people die like fowl, you would expect Nigerians to become extinct in 10 years.

Rossinnki:
Approximately 17,000 Americans are shot dead annually in the USA by fellow Americans.

This is direct from the FBI:

''In 2018, the estimated number of murders in the nation was 16,214. This was a 6.2 percent decrease from the 2017 estimate, a 14.5 percent increase from the 2014 figure, and a 5.3 percent increase from the number in 2009.''

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/murder


When we say that you Nigerian youths are the dumbest, most uninformed, ignorant, self-loathing group of people on earth, you wonder why.

Nigeria is far safer than the USA, but the way you imbeci.les go online rubbishing Nigeria daily, and making out that she is the most dangerous and worst place on earth, talking every day about ''insecurity'' because you stupidly think everywhere outside Nigeria is paradise on earth. Is that not how you guys end up in slavery in Libya?

Today the whole world is scared of visiting Nigeria because of you people.

People think they will be killed by Boko Haram or 'Fulani herdsmen' the minute they step foot in Nigeria, courtesy of you SCUMBAGS that go around smearing this country.

Mumu people. Keep hating your country, you hear? Shebi Trump has banned you. Tomorrow may others follow suit. So that finally you will start to focus on investing in your own society, instead of hating it.

Americans suffer 10 times more ''insecurity'' than Nigerians, but how often do you see Americans blaming Trump, or condemning their nation online as a ''shiithole'', or ''zoo'', or ''failed state'', and all these hateful adjectives you imbecil.es use to describe Nigeria?

Idiots drowning in inferiority complex and self hate..

Oh and guess what. You think that US murder rate is high?

Wait till you see the annual death rate from drug ovedose:

''More than 70,200 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids—a 2-fold increase in a decade''

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

Those deaths could be ended tomorrow if the US govt was not run by corrupt people benefitting hugely from the drug trade. Those drugs pass through US borders! Bribery and corruption by US officials and senior politicians allows this to fester unchecked.

Is any of this comparable to the few hundred people killed by herdsmen and BH per year? Nope.

But foreigners believe Nigeria is 100 times more dangerous than the USA because of what NIGERIANS post about their own country online daily.

USELESS SET OF PEOPLE. YOU'RE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMIES.

My brother keep educating them. It's we ourselves that is damaging our reputation outside. We wash and dry our dirty linens for the whole world to see, while others hide theirs. You will hardly see other people rubbish their country to outsiders. Even Syria, Bangladesh, Somalians, Congo, who live in worst conditions that us don't go trying to destroy their country. You will see Ghana, Rwanda, Angola, Vietnam and many country's citizen laundering the image of their countries online. They only show the few urban cities they have. They hide the vast majority of the villages where you find abject poverty, where majority of the population lives. Many practically believe these countries are better than Nigeria.

No matter what indices you use, Nigeria is not the worst in the world.

In terms of wealth and income inequality, ie the gap between the rich and poor, South Africa is the worst in the world, Nigeria is no. 35 from bottom - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/02/598864666/the-country-with-the-worlds-worst-inequality-is
In the US, over 38 million Americans live below the poverty line - https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-reports-poverty-rate-down-but-millions-still-poor

In terms of corruption, Nigeria is not the worst, we are around No. 140 out of 179 countries. It terms of perception, Nigerians think we are the most corrupt nation of earth.

That we have huge problems cannot be denied, we have corrupt and inept government at all levels, we have huge social integration issues, we have huge infrastructural deficits, but we should not forget the fact that many countries are grappling with their own issues too.

Dbboy:
There goes a country that produces nothing banning people means of livelihoods. What is the percentage of plastic we produce in the world as compared to china or the USA.

You will be surprised by the amount of plastic bottles, satchels and bags we produce. I own house is overwelmed by plastic bottles. We have water, coke, merinda, five alive and other bottles all over my house. My bins are always full. It got me thinking about this plastic problem even before now.

Nigerians use and dispose million of plastic bottles everyday. Where do they all end up? In the gutters and eventually in the oceans, since we don't have a waste management system. It's a huge problem today and would be a catastrophe very soon. Look into all the gutters in this dry season, they are all filled with empty plastic bottles. We are not even talking about plastic satchel for pure water and food packaging yet.

We need to replace plastic packaging with something that's bio degradable.

Armaggedon:
fake stories...in your dreams

A woman buried her husband alone with mopol...lol

Truth is bitter. I know you guys live in denial. Igbo so called culture is greed oriented, for the exploitation of women, children and the helpless.

Where did I say she buried her husband alone?
I said she went for the burial (in company of her 2 little childeren plus some family members) with a bus load mobile Policemen.

SciLab:
Igbo customs existed for centuries before lugard and his ashawo wife cobbled your nigeria together under the influence of tombo liquor.
The house where the nigeria was cobbled together is now in shatters, rotten beyond redemption to reflect the hopeless state of the contraption they sewed up together.

So yes Igbo customary laws superceeds you Nigerian law that is less than a 100 years old. My grandfather is older than the so-called nigerian constitution..No living man is older than Igbo customary laws.

Another name for nigeria is 'Tufiakwa'.

Which yeye igbo customary laws? You guys truly deserve your own igbo only country, where you can be allowed to go back to the stone age.

I don't blame you guys, it's your women I blame. They take too much shit from misogynist menfolks in the name of tradition. Come to warri and try half of these useless customs on our girls and they will show you how far.

Property, she has no right to inherit from her own father. Her own child she carried for 9 month, you want to claim, because her baby daddy did not come and pay you money in the form of bride price. If the husband dies, you will see the husband's brothers circling like vultures to come and claim properties they did not work for. If the husband dies, the wife will be made to endure all sorts of humiliating ceremonies in the name of culture.

I am always proud of the way my wafi sisters treat their Bleep up. I am seen a situation where a igbo man who was married to an urhobo lady died. She and her little children went to bury the man in his village with a full detachment of mopol. The youths of the town wanted to cause trouble, insisting she undergoes some ceremonies. After the mopol used some to do "for example" no body told them to forget culture.

After the burial, the family made mistake of coming to warri, where the guy built a massive house and plenty cars. I trust Ekpan youths, they were waiting for them.

panafrican:
Instead of building flying cars Israel would be better off building a manned space country station , move all their people there.and stop attacking the peaceful Palestinian people.

Which flying cars? Ordinary driving Car dem never build, you come dey talk flying cars. All na mouth.
Israel is a bit like China, they copy US and European technology, make a few changes and then shout Israeli technology.

Manned Space station ke? Ordinary space rocket when India, Pakistan and China don launch, dem never even attempt.

Juliusmalema:
You are just twisting her submission. The father has rightfully taken his child as custom and tradition demands.

You are arguing blindly. The father is dead and the mother took the child to her father. If the boy is alive and wants his child it will go to the courts. If the child's mother did not give the child to her father, he cannot claim it.
The primary rights to a child belongs to both parents

Omon605:
Is a bit more complicated than you thought. It all have to be a matter of culture and tradition. Yes Davido is wealthy he will be able to withstand all the push and resist anything throw at him but if they are able to take that child to ibo land and Chioma and her father agree that the said child is not for Davido, I believe that settle everything. because I had witnessed the same till today my friend family are still doing everything within their power to get the son back from and ibo lady and the father. They have exploit all available means but nothing good comes out. My friend dated and impregnated the ibo lady and had a son for him. Unfortunately my friend had and ghastly accident and died at the spot. The lady and the child live with him before this incident happened. This happened about 8yrs ago, till today nobody have see the little boy. I do see the lady, all what she's saying is her people have collected the child from her and my friend family had seen her parents severally to see if there's anything they needed to do to take the child all to no avail. They had involved litigation and mediation with full proof, nothing positive comes out. The son don't even have and ibo name. From what I realise, it is the tradition and culture of the land that will determine

You are comparing apples to oranges. The main difference in this case is; the father is late. So the only person with absolute rights to the child is the mother, and if the mother willingly gives the child to her family, there is little the child's father's family can do. The situation would be different if the father is alive and demands paternity rights. Then there would be custody battle in the courts and visitation rights issues among other issues.

You guys need to get this into your skulls, the two parents of a child has equal paternity rights to a child before any body else.

Juliusmalema:
The girl is an Igbo girl and David's culture is not even in the picture.

Anybody talking about Yoruba in this situation is just been mischievous. It can be considered at all.

Please explain why davido's culture is not in the picture, but chioma's own is. Yoruba's culture recognise paternity based on DNA and not bride price, is accorded full family rights including inheritance. So because the girl is Igbo means Yoruba culture should be disregarded?

OgunLaakaye:
Right!

You are a comedian.

Don't mind him, he still sees female children as commodities or investments, to collect dividends from intending husbands.

So a man will many female children will be saddled with the responsibility of adopting all his unmarried daughter children, in old age, when he should be retired and resting.

The implications of what he is saying is that igbo girls and their boyfriends can be having children up and down without the responsibility of caring and raising the children because the children belongs to the girl's fathers. You fail to realize that men can impregnate 7 girls in one week. If he has no responsibility to his children whatsoever, what stops him from impregnating girls up and down like 2 face?

Juliusmalema:
It is not blackmail young man. That's the culture of the people. An elder will not be in the house and a goat delivers in tether.

Respect my tradition same way I respect yours, period.

But that's not the culture of the other party. Which of the 2 clashing cultures should be respected?
You also have to respect the tradition of others.

If you guys don't want others to disregard your cultures, then train your daughters not to open legs for non igbos

jhenie:
You obviously aren't igbo, if Chioma's family take the child and decide not to give him to another man, the child belongs to them and can inherit everything from Chioma's family. Haven't you heard of ladies giving birth in their father's house in other for her family to have a Male child?

I wonder why you girls support cultures that demean women and exploit children. As an adult women (I assume you are over 18), you talking like someone without any rights. Your father has no rights to take your children from you, not to talk of your baby daddy's. Chioma's family cannot decide to give davido's son to anybody, they have no such rights under Nigerian law. Even if davido bleeped chioma on his father's bed and gave birth on the same fathers bed, the child does not belong to him, unless the two parents forgo their parental rights, or its the father's sperm that produced the baby.

Juliusmalema:
You don't imagine been told the truth because you want to forcefully claim another man's child. Chioma's father will just sit and watch you trample on his right?

Not possible

Which right does chioma's father has? He does not even have rights over chioma, who is an adult, not to talk of her baby.
He wants to collect bride price abi? He should carry gun and point to davido to collect it.

Some igbos behave like 18th century bush men, but claim to better than others.

Even if davido pays chioma's bride price, what happens to his children if the couple divorces, and chioma marries another man? The new man will claim the child, or the father will claim the child?

All these father claiming others people's children is not out of love, but a blackmail to collect bride price up and down. Some fathers that cannot even feed themselves, will be claiming other people's children.

In sane societies, a man that impregnates a woman is forced to pay child care for the child until 18. Many have gone to jail for avoiding their responsibilities to their children, but in igbos archaic culture, it's all about greed of collecting bride price and not the welfare of the child.

Henrykeeyz19:
Good analyses but to shock you, except influenced by other factors: money, corruption, misrepresentation and/or misinterpretation of actual traditional rites, ordinarily, Igbo tradition will not compromise it's standards when it wants to decide on Davido-Chioma unmarried status, with Ifeanyi at hand– it will be so blunt–in the event actual ownership of Ifeanyi arises.

The young man adviced Davido rightly, in the light of Igbo culture and cultural rites.

You are failing to consider on thing,
Davido is not igbo , so he is not bound by igbo culture.

When my first cousin wanted to marry an anambra prince in warri, in one of the ceremonies, he was expected to tie a wrapper. He refused vehemently, he said as a prince, he cannot tie a wrapper. It was a big issue. When I became a stalemate, my uncle got up and told everyone to let the groom wear what his custom permits.
So when you have a clash of cultures, common sense should prevail. You cannot expect others to imbibe your culture by force, that's fundamentalism.

Charleys:
Because the wife is from there and the wife will be given child custody.

That's where Davido losses

Wherever the case is heard, women are generally given custody of very young children, except in cases where the mother is incapable or proven irresponsible. That doesn't mean davido would not be given parental rights. No other man can claim the child.

chinolization:
DNA is not the same as marriage rite. Anyways what am I even arguing with non igbos that doesn't know igbo tradition.

Praise God, the point is gradually sinking in;
Non igbos don't know or care about Igbo traditions. It's important only to igbos.

Charleys:
The case will be transfered to a different high court.

So?