₦airaland Forum

bobogogo:
The size of your population and resources is the reason.
Nigeria is a shame.

Go and read about Bhutan.
They are a wonderful people.
The male and female pilots of their commercial airlines are one of the best in the world. They can fly a big plane on any terrain.

Check out pedestrian logic and talk. What has topic got to do with population of Nigeria for you to then conclude Nigeria "is a shame"?

Nigeria is not a rich nation and we all know why our people Japa. Meaning many may need some State assistance to settle when they reach their overseas destinations.

Yet, in no time, many Nigerians go on, be it in the UK or USA, to begin paying back by supplying high value professionals (in fields like Medicine, Engineering, IT etc) to their host nation.

I don't know the hate in the heart of some of you for Nigeria that can now make you begin denigrating Nigerians presence overseas whereas the rest of the world actually laud the successes of Nigerians for their capacity to contribute massively to the professional job sector of their host nations overseas.

It says a lot about the character of people like you that you ignore the positives related to Nigerian migration overseas whereas many non Nigerians are full of praise for that positive contribution of Nigerians to their nation.

Tendd:
This clearly shows Nigerians living abroad are generally lazy and unhealthy. This is pathetic regarding the fact that Nigerians are among the top immigrant groups in terms of population.lt reeks of laziness with that high percentage.I am very much certain,it's a similar figure in the UK and Canada with more social security benefits.

How did you come to this conclusion? It certainly can't be from inspection of the facts presented because Bhutan is highest with 81.4 percent of their immigrants to the USA needing State benefit .

Whereas Bermuda is lowest with 25.5% of her immigrants getring benefits.

How can anyone, except a self-hating Nigerian, say Nigerians are "generally lazy and unhealthy" when 33.3% of Nigerians, not significantly higher than the lowest figure of 25.5%, receive welfare Benefits?

In which Western nation, Whether UK or USA, have you noted Nigerians being termed "lazy" rather than "hardworking, motivated, achievers, talented, driven, inspirational, brilliant" etc?

Some of you self-haters sef. Would it not be easier to change nationality and just turn your back on Nigeria and leave her and her public discussion space, like Nairaland, for those of us who still believe in her ?

anonimi:
Please how can majority of Nigerian youths be like her when progreThief governors like Oshiomole steal money that should employ teachers for the free education of all children while expecting applause from 200 million mumus for a one-off philantropic gesture




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWUS1W_ITc

It's a new year. Abeg stop quoting me. Carry your opinion elsewhere. Na beg I beg.

DoctorAyukebot:
Says the man who has never travelled out of his state boundary

Don't mind the joker. What benefit does the USA have compared to the UK and most European nations? Ignorance and lack of exposure is a disease.

They are talking of benefit and USA sef dey open mouth to talk.

I think only those who have not travelled to the USA will praise her because the nation is a glorified Nigeria with stupendous wealth living next to excruciating poverty whereas that is not the reality of the best nations in Europe that try to ensure a decent standard of living can be secured for most citizens.

Rossychy:
You have spoken well.
You see, most people have the opportunity but never took it up.
But for her case, she is not only blind but took up one of the hardest courses to read at the university.
I am applauding her for the courage and achievement she has.

Clearly an exemplary young lady and I wish her the best. If majority of Nigerian youths were like her then we'd have a lot more solutions providers tackling the problems of Nigeria.

adioolayi:
Sensational journalism ..

Nigeria no dey top 10...

Why making it appear as if Nigerians are there to milk the USA

What's the contribution of the Nigeria immigrant to USA economy...let's also see this.

In Trump's USA, because he is a bigot and racist who has now gathered the biggest congregation of bigoted right wingers ever to shape the direction of America, issues are about highlighting what is bad about immigration and "foreigners".

Never the good that outweighs the bad in the case of Nigerians for examples.

Bizmind95:
Trump is a broken man so full of hatred for everyone. Tufiakwa!!!

Indeed. A racist, a bigot, a misogynist, a hypocrite ,a bully , a modern day Pirate leader and an all round "terrible person".

It's a terrible shame, since independence, Nigerian leaders, because of shallowness and primordial greed, have reduced Nigerians to a beggarly people the entire world disrespect.

Whereas our endowment, if utilised judiciously , indicates we should be like Singapore that has the strongest passport in the world today and is regularly voted in the top three of best nations of the world to live in.

Kemetian:
Terrorist.

45,000 Americans are shot dead every year.

They are 10 times more "disgraced" than Nigeria.

Some of these guys you engage here don't have views that extend beyond their Nigerian local Government hood let alone appreciate what is going on globally. USA is the land of hypocrisy and duplicity.

Lionnation:
Will she be practicing? Her profession

What stops her practicing Law if that is what she wants to do?

Tell us what exactly would stop or impede her giving that we are in an age where disability aid must be provided to ensure disabled people have a fulfilled life as much as possible.

Rossychy:
Thank God for the girl. She must be a genius. Of all courses, she opted for law and made it. Law that requires a lot of reading and citings and quotations. I am super proud of her.

Indeed. Wonderful achievement despite what is severe disability that would make most depressed and despondent.

She should be an inspiration to functional and able-bodied Nigerian youths who are mentally/physically lazy and do nothing but complain about Government all day.

She took advantage of the opportunity Oshiomhole provided her brilliantly while most Nigerian youths sit around waiting to be spoonfed. God bless her and grant her a successful career and life.

Continued:

“It’s about regional stability.” Eight million Venezuelans have fled the country under Maduro. The humanitarian crisis is real. But American intervention has rarely produced stability or flourishing in the countries where it occurs. The track record from Guatemala to Iraq suggests something other than humanitarian outcomes.

All of these explanations have some truth in them. None of them explain why this president, this country, this moment.

To understand that, you have to follow the money. Literally.

What was actually threatened.
Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves—the largest in the world, exceeding even Saudi Arabia’s. And since 2018, Venezuela had been selling that oil in Chinese yuan, not American dollars.

About 80 percent of Venezuela’s oil exports were going to China. Caracas had established direct payment channels with Beijing that bypassed SWIFT—the U.S.-dominated financial messaging system that Washington has repeatedly weaponized through sanctions. Venezuela had been actively seeking BRICS membership, aligning itself with the economic bloc building alternative payment systems designed to circumvent the dollar entirely.

In other words: a country with the world’s largest oil reserves was proving that you could function outside the American financial system—with Chinese backing.

The historical pattern is unmistakable. In 2000, Iraq announced it would accept only euros for its oil; three years later, Saddam Hussein was removed from power. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi proposed a gold-backed pan-African currency to replace the dollar for oil transactions; NATO intervened in 2011. Iran has sold oil in currencies other than dollars since 2012 and faces continuous sanctions and threats of military action.

Venezuela is simply the latest chapter. The common thread isn’t democracy, drugs, or human rights. It’s the currency in which oil is priced.

The real stakes.
The immediate threat to the dollar wasn’t that Venezuela alone would collapse the system. Venezuela’s economy is small. The yuan’s share of global reserves is still only about 2-3 percent, compared to the dollar’s roughly 57 percent.

The threat was the precedent.

As one analyst observed: what Venezuela threatened “was not dollar dominance itself, but the belief that it is immutable. The real concern in Washington is not that the dollar is about to be displaced, but that alternative pathways are becoming survivable.”

If Venezuela could function outside the dollar system with BRICS support, other nations in America’s “backyard”—Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia—would have a template. The Western Hemisphere, long considered America’s uncontested domain, could pivot toward an alternative economic architecture.

And if that happened, the exorbitant privilege would begin to unravel.

According to a CFA Institute survey, 77 percent of financial professionals believe U.S. government finances are unsustainable, and 63 percent expect the dollar to lose at least partial reserve currency status within 5-15 years. The transition is already underway. Venezuela represented an acceleration of that timeline—and a demonstration that it could happen in America’s own hemisphere.

Continued below.

https://dmnews.com/j-tns-what-38-trillion-in-debt-explains-about-the-venezuela-raid/

What $38 Trillion in Debt Explains About the Venezuela Raid

Justin Brown.
Jan. 05, 2026 5 min read.

The Venezuela raid isn’t about what the headlines say it’s about. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

On January 3rd, the United States military captured a sitting foreign president, flew him to New York in handcuffs, and announced that America would “run” his country. Within hours, the commentary machine churned out the predictable responses: debates about legality, arguments about democracy, fact-checks on drug trafficking claims.

All of it missed the point. As I wrote for Silicon Canals this week, the capture of Nicolás Maduro represents something more significant than another U.S. intervention in Latin America. It represents the moment the United States stopped pretending that its foreign policy is about principles—and revealed that it has always been about protecting a very specific privilege.

That privilege has a name. Most people have never heard of it. And understanding it changes how you see not just Venezuela, but the entire architecture of American power.

The tension
Here’s the contradiction at the heart of this story that nobody in mainstream coverage is addressing:

The United States carries $38 trillion in national debt. It pays more than $970 billion annually just in interest—the second-largest federal expense after Social Security. The government spends over $11 billion per week servicing what it already owes.

Any other country with this profile would have collapsed into hyperinflation or default decades ago.

The U.S. hasn’t. Why?

The answer is something called the “exorbitant privilege“—a term coined in the 1960s by French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing to describe the unique advantages that accrue to the country whose currency serves as the world’s reserve.

Because the world needs dollars to buy oil, settle international debts, and participate in global trade, there’s automatic demand for American currency. This demand allows the U.S. government to borrow at lower interest rates than any other nation. It means the U.S. can run permanent deficits, fund its military, and maintain global dominance in ways that would bankrupt any other country.

The foundation of this system was laid in 1974, when Henry Kissinger negotiated an agreement with Saudi Arabia to price oil exclusively in dollars. In exchange for American military protection, the Saudis agreed that the world’s most essential commodity would be bought and sold in American currency. The “petrodollar” was born.

For fifty years, this arrangement has enabled the United States to live beyond its means. And Venezuela threatened to prove it could be undone.

The noise
Listen to the coverage of the Maduro capture and you’ll hear a lot of arguments:

“It’s about drug trafficking.” Maduro was indicted on narcoterrorism charges. The administration invoked these charges as justification for the raid. But fact-checkers have noted that Mexico and Colombia remain far larger conduits for cocaine entering the United States. If drug trafficking were the criterion, the list of leaders to capture would be much longer.

“It’s about democracy.” Maduro did steal an election. He is an authoritarian. But the United States has supported and continues to support plenty of authoritarians who serve American interests. Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi runs one of the most repressive regimes in the Middle East. The democratic criterion is applied selectively—which means it isn’t really the criterion.

To be continued.

Streetinvestor2:
You can cry for all we care.Trump is coming. Obi represents southern turn now in adc if the coalition decides that

Lol. The new Odin13 not so? "Tinubu must contest" repetition 2022 to 2023. Now it is "Obi represents southern turn now in adc".

These emotional people no go kill person for Nairaland.

Dogalmighty17:
You can imagine? What more confirmation do we need of the complicity of the government?

So the random claim of a Nairalander that Gumi said this or that, with no verifiable link, is conclusive confirmation of the complicity of Government to you? What do you do for a living bro? Just curious.

Orlandoo:
This is why Trump striked Sokoto without even informing Tinubu.

What exactly are you responding to excitably? A claim by a dubious Nairalander with no credible link? What does this say about you and how you reason?

With so many spreading fake news to encourage America remove "Yoruba President" for them, as their ultimate fantasy, and since they have tried everything else yet have failed is, is it not obvious normal adults should ask OP for credible link before commenting?

Better still, why not cut and paste sections of OP's claim in Google to see if it leads anywhere credible other than this Nairaland thread started by a known bigot and liar from the SE who pretends to be from the North to bait everyone here?

DomPerignon:
They are lunatics who I believe have a fetish for sadomasochistic degradation because I don't know why they keep poking the beer.

What they are pushing for is full blown ethno religious war which they know they will draw the short straw but they keep pushing and provoking this to happen because just as Ojukwu weaponised his people's suffering during the war, these lunatics want a repeat of a pogrom on their own people to get them to all move to their Biafra an from there get global sympathy for that rogue state.

I for one want them gone for good but these banzas want to annex my SS into their 02u republic.

Spot on. This is my view also. They are pushing very hard today to provoke that ethnic strife with propaganda, lies, wild fabrications and even totally fake news put in the global space about Nigeria and her non-Igbo ethnic groups.

The sad thing, as usual, is that they will begin to weep and play victim when they get the fight they are seeking and did everything to precipitate.

We have seen it many times before and will continue to see it because acting emotionally, without thoughts for possible harmful consequences of their action, is second nature to them.

ResidentSnitch:
Who do you think is dumb enough to fall for your infantile and irritating lies? Certainly not even the dum*bos that voted for Tinubu. Most of them still support him not because he's doing anything even averagely remarkable, but because of tribal and egoistic reasons.
The same way most of you here swore to high heavens that Buhari, that conscienceless effigy, was doing wonders even when all facts on ground was showing otherwise. Now that all his misdeeds and whatnots are in the open, you and your cronies have started shamelessly distancing yourselves from his government.

Just admit you are ignorant because it is obvious you know nothing and need to stop making a fool of yourself.

ResidentSnitch:
Look at this one...
Progress ko, problem ni..
You dey whine yourself.

You must be one of those deceived to believe all fingers are same or all men carry same talent.

Your mates, more intelligent, informed, positive and focused than you, are already using MREIF, that never existed before PBAT, to own homes with single digit interest and mortgage tenure of 20 years.

Wife buys a property , husband buy another then that is one for family to live in and another to rent out as passive income.

Easily the beginning of family divested income and investment portfolio while you and your fellow Obidients continue to curse Tinubu online.

Keep fooling yourself all others are like you and your co-travellers.

DomPerignon:
Bashir knows who is behind the lobby.

It is you obidients that need to be careful.

Nigeria is not Venezuala.

You will soon understand that too just as Trump knows this as well.

No need to warn them. They are used to laughing maniacally and jubilating prematurely, based on nothing other than their wild imagination, to then begin crying later.

Bro always remember the saying below, about Obidients, that is now a modern classic. Lol.

"Obidients create a scenario inside their heads and then start rejoicing over the imaginary scenario"

CaptainJune:
Utter rubbish and balderdash

Don't blame me for your comprehension deficits.

Dalohad:
Bashir Ahmad wants Tinubu dealt with so bad,that is why he is Rage-baiting Americans and daring them to touch Tinubu.. For once I pray he succeeds...

I am sure by 5pm today he will get 99 missed calls from Bayo Oponuga trying to beg him to stop rage-baiting Americans.

Tinubu...no level..

Legendhero and WizardofNg..how far? Do you think Tinubu is greater than Maduro and Trump?

Keek fooling yourself. Those of us far smarter and more focused than you are making real progress and gains from the economic empowerment and liberalisation PBAT is supervising.

Keep doing cho cho cho up and down, same way you wasted your 2025, instead of getting productively busy in 2026.

gidgiddy:
Its incredible how people will justify kidnapping when it suits them

Nigeria did it with Nnamdi Kanu, now US has done it with Maduro

Look, forget individuals on Nairaland and stop the idiocy of trying to avoid main points made as you always engage in here.

According to virtually all Igbos, Nigeria "illegally kidnapped" Kanu who is a British citizen and "innocent" of all charges.

Why was the UK not fighting and protesting against the "illegal kidnapping" of Kanu, since he is their citizen, if they truly believe he is innocent as all you Igbos claim?

Why have they refrained from intervening in his trial and stood with arms folded to watch him jailed for life. Till today, not a comment from them about Kanu's trial and jailing. Why?

Answer those question if you can.

Streetinvestor2:
If trump fails to treat SW president like Venezuela president. Nigerians will never forgive trump for double standard. Venezuela president was because of drugs and election rigging/human rights abuse so he must apply it to SW president

@OP.

See an example of the sought I said would flood this thread. Trump should remove "SW President" as he did Nicolas Maduro.

This is what happens with threads that needlessly feeds bigoted, jobless and hateful trolls.

@OP.

You are just creating a congregation ground for seditious, perpetually bitter and hateful anti-Nigerian elements to gather and vent.

This your thread is needless as there is no threat to Tinubu's Presidency or Nigeria's sovereignty.

In fact, pay attention to what those whose opinion matters are saying rather than listen to those who are always spreading propaganda and lies in hope "Yoruba President" is deposed.

Like a clown saying this morning the USA may enter Nigeria because Igbo shops and buildings are being demolished in Lagos as if the demolition lack legality and the US has nothing better to do with her time and resources.

Read world news more to note what the likes of IMF, World bank, globally respected economists and analysts are saying about the brave and pivotal reforms of Tinubu they feel will set Nigeria on the path of development if we endure with them.

They know others before had the chance to rescue Nigeria, with the sort of reforms Tinubu has bravely forged ahead with, yet they all did nothing from 1999 to 2023.

Tinubu is the sort of President the thinking world knows Nigeria needs and must endure with. Stop listening to those trying to deliberately use scaremongering to darken the image of Nigeria because they think that brings regime change closer. Won't happen. As simple as that.

loveth360:
You mean kidnapping a British citizen that entered another country with British passport and not Nigeria passport.


You people supports irregularities especially when it involves Igbos, but one day it will come to Hunt you.


That was how you people were supporting killing of peaceful protesters in south east, now protesting against government in Nigeria is a death sentence.

Listen to yourself and consider how silly your argument is given the fact. The British Government know and are sure Nigeria "kidnapped a British citizen" yet they did not act in defence of Kanu nor engage in a diplomatic row against Nigeria?

You've seen the UK act like that in contemporary memory? I.e abandon a British citizen who is the "innocent" victim of "kidnapping" by a foreign nation.

You people, men and women plus old and young, are simply too emotional. You never acknowledge facts and reality let alone work with those.

Worst of all, you cannot ever accept responsibility for your wrongdoing and must instead play victim to always insist others are guilty of crimes against you. Yes Kanu is a Saint and Angel, so too every Igbo, while all Yorubas are wicked and evil.

MrBadNews:
That means the USA can rendit any body from any country, with a drug case in the USA, as no other country can stop USA from prosecuting such person for his criminal conduct in the USA.

Not as simple as that. If a US citizen flees America to avoid arrest or prosecution over non-terrorism criminal act the USA should demand an extradition formally and work with interpol or appropriate authority to arrest and repatriate suspect.

Terrorism is different and a gray area. This is why the USA entered the UK to arrest Britons and lock them under in Guantanamo Bay after 911 attack considered a direct act of terror against the USA thus granting a blank global arrest warrant to the US.

That is what is responsible for the USA creating and using the category of Narco-Terrorism to snare Maduro.

The even accused him of being the head of a drug cartel, named as "cartel de los Soles", which many expert insist is unlikely and likely another grand lie similar to "weapons of Mass destruction" lies they fabricated to justify invading an destroying Iraq.

wediehere1:
we are here to laugh at you and not crying
Kanu is being locked up now and what do you want to do about that?

Lol. Don't blame OP. He s built to talk before he thinks. Most of them come with that basic spec as standard from the factory.

Laughable they delusionally believed one man is a God and messiah greater than Nigeria and her government.

MrBadNews:
Just to remind you that he's also a British citizen.

He has dual nationality. He is Nigeria also and therefore subject to prosecution/punishment under British and Nigerian law for any criminal offence he commits in either nation.

Nigeria cannot intervene if Kanu is convicted of a criminal act he committed in the UK. Same as the UK cannot stop Nigeria prosecuting Kanu for his criminal conduct in Nigeria.

The most relevant question you need to ask yourself is why the UK, a mighty nation that defends her citizens robustly, did not intervene in defence of Kanu despite Igbos globally shouting "lllegal rendition" and claiming Kanu's "innocence" up and down.

You really should wonder why the UK turned her back on supposedly "innocent" Kanu completely considering nations work with intelligence they never reveal publicly that may reveal those they prefer incarcerated.