₦airaland Forum

Lostz:
why must you pay for screening when you are donating free? the state should pay for that

Abio... you are donating your blood free, but the Lagos State you are donating to is charging between N10,000 - N15,000 just to screen the blood. Are the doctors, nurses and lab technicians not being paid salary from the state coffers? Are the equipments not property of the Lagos State governments? Is it reagents that cost N15,000?

Lostz:
hospital should pay for willing donors then sell the blood like they normally do

Gbam! Simple law of demand and supply. If the price is right, some people would make a career of selling their blood. In the West some people sell their sperm to various sperm banks to get by.

delpee:
The problem is that there's shortage of blood in the blood bank. People in dire situations need to be given blood urgently but our society us not enlightened enough to understand that blood donation is healthy and a form of social responsibility/civic duty.

There must always be blood at hand for pregnant women who are due for delivery and surgical cases. Sometimes it's a life and death issue. I hope this will not lead to maternal deaths.

So because of these reasons, families of women giving birth must be blackmailed to donate blood? Where have you seen such stupid policy in the history of mankind? The scam about the whole thing is that the blood that is extracted through blackmail is sold to those who desperately need it.

YorubaKinging:
The Lying scientists at it again
Nigeria is not hot like Saudi arabia, neither is it hot like Tunisia or isreali all of which have confirmed case
The truth is that
God always save his own people
Tribe of Judah, the envy of the world

Ignorance. The middle east is experiencing winter right now.

Zooposki:
Middle East and Australia are hotter and corona is spreading like wild fire there.

Don't know of Australia, but middle East is not hotter than Nigeria now.

sacx:
It's too early to say blacks are immune to it. The virus has an incubation period of two weeks, so it's only logical to give it time

How many of the periodic flu epidemics have affected black people? ie SARS, MERS

chewwie:
How on earth is this Trump's fault? Una sef

It's Buhari's fault.

PrimadonnaO:
What do you mean a single lady can't say no to the Oba of Benin?

That kind of nonsense tradition can't be binding on me... to marry a fetish polygamous man... and to lose my freedom in every goddamn way. Bound by senseless rules.

During Henry viii, no by a single lady could land her in the dungeon, or worst still, in the gallows.

Henry viii married 6 wives and took Britain out of the Catholic Church because the Pope condemned his multiple marriages.

You are talking like this because you live in a free modern society. If you lived just two centuries ago in Europe, you would have no rights at all, unless you are part of a privileged few.

Greyworld:
Now your cousin would be your half brother or sister. It's okay o.

Just imagine the authority and power wield by the English Monarch were to be in Africa Especially Nigeria. Just imagine.

The English Monarch used to wield far greater power than any current African king.

Deeminaj:
Audio happiness.who would love to share her man with another woman,talkless her own younger sister.

Speak for yourself. Some women would rather share her man with 3 other women than remain lonely and single for life. Men are becoming a scarce commodity, while eligible bachelors are becoming rare like gold.

Donelli:
There's no record showing you have sense. Should I now assume you don't have sense at all or blame you for not keeping the records?

I have tons of records showing I have sense. I have numerous certificates, I have over 200 pages of nairaland posts, I have tons of Facebook posts.

Oya, tell me where I can find any evidence of a great Biafran kingdom or empire.

Sometimes you guys make statements, thinking you're smart but only end up proving your shallowness. Your country nigeria that stopped the teaching of history in schools, which a lot of data is being lost with time, does it now mean one should conclude certain things never existed JUST BECAUSE the records are not kept.

You do not need history to be taught in schools before you can learn history. We are living in the information age, where any and all information is at your fingertips.
What do you mean a lot of data is lost? Are you saying all data of a Biafran empire is lost?

You are suffering from cognitive dissonance, you accuse our schools of not teaching history, but then assert that the records which the history should be based on are lost or not kept.

Furthermore, migration is a natural phenomenon that happens for various reasons among different individuals. And unless you're typing from the comfort(?) of your home village, that makes you an hypocrite.

People migrate for various reasons, it could be conflict, famine, environmental or economic. So which of the reason is responsible for Igbo mass migration since the beginning of the last century?

I am not typing from the comfort of my village, but at the same time I am not making noise that my village is the most prosperous place in Nigeria.

MONIKERREVEALER:
See as fear don make a coward like you to dey shake hand dey double quote pesin!!!

You people always talk in ironies. A person flees from battle, you term the person brave, but call the person that dies fighting a coward.

A person takes action to achieve his objectives you call coward, but a person that wails continuously on social media you call brave.

The only one experiencing acute and severe pain on here is the lousy loser who extremely hates (though in reality it is dreadful fear) the great igbos BUT, still was unable to take his lecherous eyes off their daughters and married one of the daughters of the people he CLAIMS to hate!!!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

What a complete confused tosser you are!!!

Getaway you cowardly suicidal maniac!!!

Another irony. You that insults Yorubas, hausas, Fulanis, and even other other tribes with such words as bastards, cows, demons, slaves, animals, and many other derogatory terms as love, but people who never for once issue any insulting words, to call hate.

Show me evidence that shows I hate igbos. Maybe I hate stupid, irrational, illiterate and hate filled igbos (or any other tribe for that matter).

gidgiddy:
You mean the same crude that has not helped anybody Nigeria? I dont know the point of all the crude Oil in the world if it has not translated to better life for most Nigerians

Anyone still relying on crude in this world that is shifting to renewable energy is fooling themselves

You mean the crude that help build Lagos and Abuja has not helped anybody in Nigeria? The crude money that your governors run to Abuja to collect every month to pay salaries, Build roads, and other white elephant projects have not helped anybody in Nigeria?

The crude with which provides the foreign currency with which you guys depend on for your importation and trading business has not helped anybody in Nigeria?

Keep living in denial.

[quote author=MONIKERREVEALER post=87077991][/quote]But it's paining you to the point of suicide because; the north and britain have the crude, instead of you.

[quote author=MONIKERREVEALER post=87077991][/quote]But it's paining you to the point of suicide because;

the north and britain have the crude

Donelli:
Migration does not equate prosperity, else, the fulanis would have been the most prosperous. When you make such comments, one might think the "other regions" are flowing with milk and honey. If so, why are the locals not themselves wealthy? And why does the issue of Easterners dominating their hosts come up? Cos one can only dominate who s/he is greater than. How do you reconcile these two accusations in one breath
Maybe you can help me understand better.

What you wrote up there makes no sense at all. Fulanis migrate because they are nomads, they are cattle herder's and their original home is no longer appropriate for grazing cows. This is because the Sahara has been moving south since the last millennium, so naturally the Fulanis have been moving southwards following river courses. Obviously Fulanis realised they cannot be prosperous in their original home.

So if you say igbos were very prosperous in their homes, why the need to migrate all over Nigeria, and currently all over the world in droves? Prosperous people prosper in their homes. It's hard to find Japanese, Norwegians, Saudis migrating all over the world looking for prosperity. The few you find in the US and UK are usually there for educational purposes. Trump is even asking for immigrants from Norway instead of "shithole countries".

Great kingdoms they were, truly. Yet it doesn't take away the fact that other unsung kingdoms, empires, kindreds, and what have you, also hold their own. It's just like saying, if the Songhai empire was so great, why wasn't it greater than the Roman empire. These are unnecessary comparisons.

We are not comparing greatness of empires, what I am saying if the igbos had a great empire, how come history had no record of it. No records of its kings, it's cities, it's literature, it's architecture, it's military conquests, nothing.
We have had many great empires starting from sumeria, mesopotamia, Babylonia, Egypt, Persia, Greek, Roman, ottoman, British and lots of others.

Gnaeusmagnus:
Actually, no region can survive restructuring, except the South South, and even the South South itself would run into trobule in a few years.

In my opinion, what is driving the cry for restructuring is two ideas

1.The North (usually defined as the Hausas...even though at least 50% of the North isn't Hausa) is eating Southern money

2.Under regionalism, we lived much better.

First, regions were not better than what we have today. The fact is, most people in all the regions lived in rural areas. And the spending was disproprtionately on the small educated class with the idea that they would develop Nigeria....and since it is the educated class that writes the story...that's why you hear many of them chanting 'Things were better'. Things were not better....and infact things would get worse if we had kept the regions.

Second...agriculture in Nigeria is largely subsistence. If we restructure into regions, or break up, the amount we produce agriculture wise would be too low to support one state , talk-less of one region. In a country where less than 10% of the farmers are practicing large scale mechanzed farming....the money generated won't be enough to support everyone.

Third,the biggest business in Nigeria is importing stuff and reselling. Infact the reason why many Easterners want restructuring is because they think that the oil money will sustain their business. Well, while I don't oppose anyone agitating for his interest...the truth is that under such a system, we would run out of forex in months...and be forced to take loans to sustain ourselves (because oil is on a downward trend)

Fourth, anyone telling me that the regions are going to use their human resources to devlop is on a long thing. Nigerians like welfare...which is why the North does not want to be free of oil from the South...and why some Easterners want Biafra and restructuring...because they think alike. In Nigeria...we see raw materials as an unlimited source of income to be shared...and that in our mind constitutes development. That is not development...development is using your limited resources to be productive.

In my opinion, Nigerians should forget restructuring, and instead force themselves to become a nation where every state is producing stuff for the global market....industrialization. It is because the road to industrial development is long and hard, and Nigerians want ready made, that they are chanting restructuring. Meanwhile, North, and South are non-producing entities...

Until every state in Nigeria is a producer, not a parasite...then we can talk restructuring. Because if we restructure now...we would be fighting resource wars within 10 years. And you won't like it.

And no, I am not speaking for the North. As far as I am concerned, the North needs this message of mine the most. They need to invest in education and industrial development urgently..especially as Boko Haram has shown them how neglect of their youth has led to problems.

As for the South East....you guys cannot have Biafra without changing your economic structure. Like the North, you need to invest in industrial and educational development, and make industries the center of your economy. Otherwise, Biafra would be a broke nation taking loans like Nigeria...because the main business is importing and selling stuff...stressing the forex savings.

Same for the South West. You will suffer under restructuring too. If you don't reduce your oil dependency.

You have summed up what I have been saying all these years, restructuring is a meaningless term. In fact it's another euphemism for getting more money out of crude of the Niger Delta. The three major ethnic groups igbo, Yoruba and hausa fulani are jostling for a greater share of the oil money.
I assume you are from a minority tribe and not from the big three, because the big three tribes don't think beyond terms that is ultimately about controlling and sharing Niger delta oil resources.

The only road to development is through a concise development plan, which starts with proper education, research, infrastructure and long term goals. That's how Japan developed less than 20 years after being completely devastated in a war, that's how China became an economic giant in 30 years.

selemempe:
yoruba man is now telling us his fears about Biafra...wow interesting

I am not yoruba. We have the crude you guys want to kill yourselves over.

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.