₦airaland Forum

Xander85:
What you've posted is just papering over the cracks....they're just cosmetic solutions that have nothing to stand on and wouldn't last! The problems you're hoping your suggestions would solve are symptoms of a more endemic and fundamental problem facing Nigeria which you artfully swerved past.

Any solution to Nigerias' problems that doesn't have at its root the complete and total overhaul of its present structure and political economy....reversing back to pre-1966 settings (of course with modifications to reflect present day realities), such a solution is bound to fail!

Herdsmen:
Both lawan and Gbaja ain't getting nothing...

The heat is on tinubu..

He can be Lord of the west.. Nigeria is bigger than west...

May 29.. is just around

HalepSimon:
North Central people that have spent 25 years as Senate President?

Ugwuoke347:
Very well articulated.
You are obviously among the few who are not tied at the head like a sack of garri by the false logic of the pseudo intellectuals of the Nigerian media sphere.

YellowSimba:
You think we will eventually split

Opexzy:
Brexit isn't about freedom... European union (i mean the rest of the countries in EU) benefits from United Kingdom and United Kingdom benefit from them as well... This is more like a mutual benefit...

People only clamor for freedom when they are in slavery. In the case of Brexit. It's more like a divorce

Brexit is more like a contract termination and you know contracts are bounded by agreements..

Even the case of Biafra can not be likened to that of the United Kingdom because every nation in the UK are bounded by an act that is boldly represented in the constitution therefore can be separated by same act in the constitution...

In the case of biafra there is no constitution binding the regions... Our constitution was created after the amalgamation in 1914... So we started as a sovereign state together. The major issue now is simply because none of the regions exhibit total sovereignty before amalgamation. This is the major reason while any advocacy for a breakup can be treated as treasonous by the federal government

ChristianNorth:
Today the CJN has been vindicated.

We all know how this started, how SW media was the first to defend and support the illegality of the president, how they ran false stories just to tarnish the image of an innocent man, a father, grandfather and Head of Nigerian judiciary and used their media to crucify him even before the court sits.

We all know how they refused to to abide by the NBA's directive to boycott the court, how they refused to join the protest against this illegality and how to sponsored counter-protest against those Protesting the illegality.

We all saw how Channels suspended an ongoing programme to run emergency programme to defend Buhari's decision to unconstitutionally remove the CJN and swell public sentiment against the CJN, a lot of threads were opened by Sarrki, BBQ and others blackmailing everyone that spoke against that by labelling them as lovers of corruption.

Femi Falana was one of the first to condemn the illegality but few days later he adopted anti-Onnoghen stance calling for his resignation. How can a learned man call for the resignation of the CJN on the ground of unsubstantiated evidence. Anyway, we were surprised by the sudden turn-coat.

I don't know why SW has continually made themselves enemy of the South and opposing anything of Southerner interest but they should always know that "family is your last line of defence"

We wish from the better South wish them Good Luck.

willy25:
As a North American who has spent over a decade in Nigeria, I realized I should state this publicly more often because I think it most every day: Nigeria is f***king amazing. Nowhere else can one test the boundaries of what is possible better than in this country.

What would be considered national emergencies elsewhere barely register in Nigeria. The so-called rules of the financial markets are ignored, twisted and shattered here but people continue on with grace and joy. Electricity goes off randomly multiple times a day yet people's energy is constantly high. Imagine what your life would be like without electricity for one week, and know most Nigerians have been without it for weeks at a time since they were born. Terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 have happened every year for the past 7 years. Still this remains a nation where people will smile, engage and offer assistance more often than not. If any peoples are ready to survive the end times, it is those who were raised in Nigeria.

Every large city has traffic, but in many Nigerian cities a hold-up transitions into a shopping mall. Delicious popcorn, questionable mousetraps, Suzanne Summers thighmasters, real puppies... Where else can you be cursing under your breath in a traffic jam and a random stranger brings you a PUPPY?

Sick of reading long rants about how persecuted your great-uncle is or what a terrible restaurant some random acquaintance went to? Strangely in a country where people have every reason to complain, there is very little of it, especially wrt trivial matters. Why? My theory is most Nigerians generally do not have time for such nonsense, and complainers are not entertained even by their own mothers. Most Nigerians I have met learn early to put up or shut up. Do you have any idea how refreshing this is coming from a culture where cynicism is treated somewhere between an aspiring profession and a god given right?

To be honest, sometimes I think that Nigeria is this fantastic secret carefully guarded by Niger Delta militants, Boko Haram terrorists and internet scammers. But I also realize this would ignore the massive endemic issues that make life a magnitude harder for most people here. I realize that as a relativity rich white person, I get treated better and have a different experience than many. ​I realize this experience is not everybody's cup of tea. But for those who can see past the problems to the opportunities, there is not really a better place to be than Nigeria.

wowcatty:
People still don't get what is going on. The shooter is as much of a victim as the dead/injured and their families. It was a deep state false flag operation to change the news narrative in the US. New Zealand happened to be one of the 5-eyes countries involved in spying on Trump and
the world of trouble they and their friends are in and wanted their involvemen buried while other news take center stage and are willing to sniff out innocent people's lives to achieve that. John Podesta (Hillary Clinton best friend and campaign manager) was in New Zealand to personally supervise the shooting and even said something about how New Zealand is ripe for such shooting, days before the massacre. The same Hillary Clinton is said to have patented Boeing 737 GPS with remote control access back in her days at a law firm. The wicked witch is going down and wants to take half of the world with her.Just as world trade center was not done by the Muslim (though they found some Arab patsies to be the fall guys) this very massacre was deep state operation. As with most shooting this shooter also had a therapist who put him through intense sessions of mind control and powerful drugs.The world needs to wake up, there are unseen evil forces that feel threatened by Trump and will do everything to remain in power. A man was even shooting at his own cellphone just as he was rushing the White House lawn yesterday, what would make a man be shooting his own phone? Who's on the other side of the line and what instruction was he given? This llusion age the world is in right now is real people but the truth is in plain sight for the wise.

Kobicove:
Jimi has refused to read the handwriting on the wall and retire...

In 4 years time he will still come back to contest and loose.

Stubborn man!

zionmde:
Igbos envy nothing about yorubas, nothing at all. Its the other way round.
The day Igbos choose to stop using the port in lagos and stop using banks whose headquarters are in lagos that's wen u know lagos is wat it is because of Igbos. When Igbos choose to leave the so called lagos, tell me who will live in those expensive houses? Hausas? Or agberos?. Don't be deceived the exodus of Igbos from lagos won't create any opportunity for yorubas because they can't suddenly develop business sense and occupy the businesses Igbos do.
Just pray one day the Onne and calabar ports doesn't become fully operational, then u will know lagos is nothing.
One more thing 80% of yorubas in rivers state are taxi drivers. No single sense of taking the opportunities in the land.

So how exactly does the Igbos who conquer everywhere they go commercially envy yorubas.
Pray also the country doesn't break up, don't think Igbos will keep importing goods through Tin can island

Chimok:
The only claim u lay to Lagos is only in ur saying it and that's where it ends

simplyhonest:
crying more than the bereaved

Obi1kenobi:
See all the wishful rants here. After debunking the historically illiterate rubbish he was spewing, he just repeated some of the same nonsense again. Again, "you" built jackshit in Lagos. You can ramble all the nonsense about how Lagos was like New York before it was "carved into Nigeria". The reality is it was little more than coastal fishing villages before the Europeans landed on its shores. The indigenes of Lagos and surrounding Yoruba land simply profited from the infrastructural base and capital that poured into Lagos from the British and the FG for 76 good years. Much of the road networks (including all 3 main bridges connecting the Island to the Mainland, which allowed the mainland flower), the ports, the airport, the power infrastructure, including Egbin, the transmission and distribution networks, Eti Osa, Lagos Island, Apapa, Festac etc were the product of the FG and British colonialists. Most of the industries founded in Lagos before independence were foreign investments from the British which were later indigenized. The ministries, departments and agencies housed in the city by the FG also attracted massive capital. The rest of the development simply came from settlers all over Nigeria who arrived to tap into the enabling environment that this capital investments into Lagos created (same way millions ran to Abuja after it was made capital).
You can delude yourself with whatever comforting illusions you wish. You didn't "build" jackshit.



Sure, "Igbo land" is hardly flowing with milk and honey. This has nothing to do with the people of Igbo land, but the fortune that nature dealt us. Akwa Ibom, or Rivers may be rich in oil, but the indigenes didn't put any oil in the ground so it's nothing to brag about. It's dumb luck. Lagos indigenes (and I'm not talking about Ogbomosho villagers claiming Lagos) were simply favored with the dumb luck of being coastal dwelling fishermen, and coastal areas tend to attract more capital as trading and commercial hubs than land-locked hinterland areas. That's nothing to brag about. Repeat it however many times you want, I'll still be here to bust your delusions and tell you that you built jackshit in Lagos. Lagos was nothing more than coastal fishing villages till Europeans landed its shores. You built nothing in Lagos. You're just the most populated tribe in a cosmopolitan industrialized city with a complex history, and then trying to claim what you don't own from your Osun village.
Ghana deported "700 of us"? Eziokwu? They specifically searched for Igbo people and deported 700 of us? Keep dreaming sha, but that is never happening in Lagos. You can always get off the internet and try your luck. You can start from my area in Festac where most of us are Igbo. We're waiting for you to come and drive us out.