₦airaland Forum

SoftSport:
Tinubu is trying to fix problems by removing fuel subsidy even though it is hard, many leaders before him did not try. But Peter Obi never sees anything good about this government. He talks bad all the time because he’s still bitter he lost the election.

Is removing subsidy necessary? Yes

Does removing fuel subsidy directly benefit the masses? Never the opposite
Now what has tinubu brought to alleviate the pains the masses are going through due to oil subsidy removal? Nothing
All we hear is more money to political leaders

Nigeria is still borrowing, why?

RandomFellow:
I'd say the Town stagnated... Or didn't grow as fast as it should. No sky scrappers; neither much difference since 2005.

Ndi Igbo don't romance mediocrity; and Aba, like many Towns in Igbo land, have not developed like we expect. There's much work to do, we are better. We should be better!

You said exactly what I wanted to say. You know aba well

There is nothing to see in those pictures, asides good roads the governor is giving them, no new edifice in most popular towns in aba. Just very old buildings. I hope that narrative changes soon. Aba needs to do more
If They gather the money they spend on alcohol everyday, they will be marveled on the kind of houses they can build

Kushites:
You need to go and study the colonial impact on Nigerian society. Many norms, from religion to language to public administration systems to trade networks, to traditional educational systems were suppressed or dismantled in favour of colonial systems designed to favour colonial interests.

Corrugated iron and zinc imported from England would have been been presented to the 'natives' as the 'best, modern option', ignoring and downplaying the benefits and aesthetics of thatched roofing. Enriching British businesses. Thatch? No money in that for them. Every man could make his own roof. Much better to have them Buy their roofing from UK.

It's called social engineering for profit by force of colonial power.


According to AI

''The widespread importation of British zinc roofing sheets during colonial rule disrupted and devalued traditional African thatching industries, especially in places like Nigeria. Here's how and why:

🔄 1. Economic Displacement of Local Thatchers

Before colonialism:

Thatched roofing (from grass, palm fronds, raffia, etc.) was a vibrant indigenous craft, with skilled thatchers providing roofing services for homes, palaces, shrines, and granaries.

These artisans had seasonal work cycles, community status, and deep spiritual and architectural knowledge.

After zinc imports:

British firms brought in mass-produced, “modern” roofing sheets, often subsidized or made accessible through colonial trade networks.

By the 1920s–40s, zinc roofs became widespread among:

Mission buildings

Schools

Courthouses

Wealthy elites’ homes

Result: demand for thatching plummeted, especially in urban and semi-urban areas.

👑 2. Zinc as a Colonial Status Symbol
British authorities promoted zinc roofing as a sign of “progress,” “cleanliness,” and "civilization."

African elites (chiefs, traders, converts, civil servants) were encouraged to abandon thatch to display their allegiance to Western modernity.

Thatch was increasingly mocked as backward or unhygienic — despite being:

Cooler in hot weather

Cheaper

Locally sustainable

This created a class divide where zinc = elite and thatch = poor.

⚠️ 3. British Trade Policy Favored Foreign Goods
Colonial economic systems favored imports from Britain rather than developing or protecting local industries.

No support or innovation was offered to thatching, which remained informal and unregulated.

British firms like UAC used their influence to dominate material supply chains — from roofing sheets to nails and tools — sidelining indigenous crafts.

🔥 4. Cultural Consequences
In many communities, thatching was tied to rituals, apprenticeship systems, and seasonal festivals.

The collapse of demand led to cultural erosion, as younger generations stopped learning the craft.

Sacred buildings and ancestral homes were sometimes retrofitted with zinc, disrupting symbolic or spiritual meanings tied to natural materials.

🧭 Final Thought
Yes, British zinc imports during colonialism disrupted traditional African thatching economies, replacing a skilled, sustainable, and culturally rooted practice with imported industrial material—and reshaping not just the skyline, but the social order.''


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After how many years you still blaming the white man for your failures. When a 10 year old boy says am suffering because my parents are poor its understandable, when a 50yr old man tells you that, won't you look at the man like a lazy person?

You keep blaming slavery, colonialism and all that, but if the whites put a ship at different ports in africa and drop chains there and ask those interested in being slaves in America should chain themselves and enter the ship, A lot of countries in Africa will be almost empty. Let's keep blaming the whites, never wanting to take responsibility for our backwardness

We blacks must always blame the whites for everything
So it's the whites that told you to stop using it in africa or Africans saw a better luxury and decided to switch

Let's keep blaming them, since we are too irresponsible to own up to anything

According to aapc asslickers NL branch there was no hardship, Nigerians are just lazy people who need to huzzle harder.

Anyway, political leaders are cruising and getting fat on national cake while the common man is asked to endure. Awon endurance

7lives:
Rubbish post
Who stopped the East from picking the presidential ticket of PDP?, is it the West?.
The West don't roll like that, and this is why the West keeps you folks at arms length.
You guys are always illogical in your thinking.
You guys can't even rally yourselves and you're blaming the West.
You worked for PDP for 16;years and you want to get paid at APC in the name of equity, fairness and justice, are you okay?
You guys want to reap where you've not sown, you started crying and gaslighting the West are you normal?.
Fight your battle in PDP and take the damn presidential ticket, or you guys are going down.
And mind you, cry all you can, you're on your own, you guys can't take us down with you.

Are you that pained that you cannot save yourself the tears and at least read the contest of the post before wailing on my mentions

So as your brother accused igbos of hating yorubas and tinubu and that's why they didn't vote him I should tell him he is very correct, that igbos that once supported other tribes should never aspire to contest for presidency and should never back their candidate

Now before you cry more go and read the contest of the post first and don't be a nuisance

Demo crazy indeed
Nigeria is no where near democracy

Until we get to a time where everyone who is eligible to vote and stroll to the polling unit, vote and see his vote counted and reflected in the final results, we are no where near democracy. Hypocrites who declared today democracy day are still the same people who will not want to see people freely demonstrate their democratic rights. Even wike will be somewhere today speaking about democracy. Crazy things

I hope osimhen invests his money heavily and build somethingthat will last a lifetime, footballers retire too early and the football money doesn't last forever. I hope in 20yrs time we won't be hearing any awful story of our present crop of footballers living wretched lives.

sreamsense:
East always excludes herself because she doesn't know how to play politics. East is expecting presidency to be brought to her in her dinning room. Nzogbu, nzogbu politics doesn't work in this dispensation. You better humble yourselves and learn politics from your south west counterparts that know how to play politics more than you.

East can choose to learn politics as they learn trade also. If East doesn't enroll in the school of politics now by paying south west with humility to learn from them, don't be surprised that next time presidency rotation reaches south again, south south that is getting ready may still become president before you.

Nzogbu nzogbu politics like voting GEJ a southerner, Obj a Southerner, yaradua when it was north's turn, atiku when it was north's turn, just the only time they presented their own candidate and backed him, vroom they have committed unpardonable sin. It became nzogbu nzogbu

Nzogbu nzogbu was not when they were beaten and threatened not to vote in lagos, nzogbu nzogbu was not when wike single handedly wrote rivers result despite old men and women voting even under the rain that day.

So they should have followed SW to vote buhari, and left their own candidate to vote tinubu. Kindly expatiate more on what you mean

APOPTOSIS:
You are correct.
A lot of Igbos I have met in diaspora are very very very wealthy.
Check out Dr. Okpaleke's family ...with 5kids, father and mother as Medical Doctors in the United States. That family alone can set up several factories in the Eastern part, and we have a lot of such capacity in diaspora. Let them curb insecurity, the rest will be history. It is human capital development that builds a nation.
"In vain we build a nation if we don't first build the man"
People think Igbos topping several statistics here is a Joke.
It's like the Million Miles Messi keeps giving Pendu!

I have met a lot of wealthy igbos and they all have similar concerns, even though I won't totally absorb them from the guilt of not investing heavily in their region but those people are humans and also fear for their lives
We igbos are not known for terrorism, if because kanu is in detention we destroy our region others will even be very happy. A child not loved outside must come home and feel at home. I hope this sit at home and ipob rubbish will be fully resisted one day

Nobody who feels abiola was unjustly treated should ever support a rigged election where people are denied the rights to votes and pen are used to cancel out people's vote

It's pure facade to be honoring a man whose mandate was robbed off him while those honoring him have sworn never to allow a free and fair election. Democracy (democrazy) day indeed

Fearurcreeator:
Just like how you people always behave. Always pointing fingers but your people are the evil ones. Why should people support you people that believes you are superior. Who will love to support such people. Ego wan wound una , una never get power ooo. Power no befit una at all. See the ways you guys have been dragging everyone like mad lots since 2years . Lolzzz. No tribe will love to give such people block vote. If your people dont see others as their equal then it will be foolishness from others to allow you people govern them . You guys can never be trusted with power. What you people call others is exactly what you people are. Bigot, hypocrite,evil , and all sort

So you support northerners where boko haram and fulani herdsmen emanate from. You support a fulani man whose brothers are in your bushes causing all sorts of mayhem to your people, but you claim the so called "ego" of igbos is why you won't support them? Can you hear how bigotic you sound?

So now the problem is Igbos believe they are superior, same igbos that have supported candidates from SW and SS , while your humble SW have not fully backed any other southern candidate?

As I said before, as long as it's not your father or family member holding that power, you are just like the rest of Nigerians, only a naive kid will think they are better off because the president is from their region

DomPerignon:
By adult you mean the vapid olodos in the ipob obidient movement who were staunch jubrilists now turn Natashists who also believe Wike is in a morgue ?

The definitions of what a one party state are not in tandem with your upper iweaka pseudo intellectual understanding.

Swerve.

Something is obviously wrong with this one's brains

Fearurcreeator:
2015 would have seen a southerner ruled for like 10years if Jonathan had won . The north voted in mass for buhari, igbos vote buhari ni . North had population and was used against Jonathan. What happened 2015 was something the south can do too. You are over flogging it ... Imagine a southerner did 8years , then northerner come did like 2years sick then died, southerner came on again complete his tenure , then ran again did four years then coming again to come ... Thats about 14years from south seen 1999 ... Sebi north mumu na . You now saying they voted Jonathan out 2015 , them for leave am na. Your talk no hold water. Thank God SS sef don do am ... SE doing as if them better the rest who go vote for those kind people. I say it again SE no fit smell that presidency again . There has never been time una like Tinubu sef .. so all this story say na SE supposed dey no concern me. God no go make my energy vote for SE person. Tufia , very hareful people

So not liking tinubu is because he is yoruba abi? While Obasanjo is Igbo, or is there any other reason your bigotic mind is telling you?

As one south you hypocrites are preaching, why didn't you align with the rest of the south to decide that GEJ shouldn't run again so power will go back to the north?

So you mean after Obj 8yrs, SE should love tinubu and support him because they are not good to have the Presidency abi? If not because of selfishness, the fairness you preached for power going back to north in 2015, why didn't you replicate that same sense of fairness for power going to SE who have at one time supported both SW and SS

You call others hateful people but @bolded show the level of bitterness you Harbour. Anyway because tinubu is from SW doesn't really make you better than anybody, as long as he is not your father and you can't mention one thing you have benefitted directly from him

silibaba:
Human being or women

Both
Wickedness is not gender specific

DomPerignon:
Do you know what it means when you say a country is a one party state ?

China and its CCP which your Obi loves is a typical one party state where no other political party is allowed to exist or is banned .

Stop showing your cras ignorance .

I did this thread a few weeks back to cure your ignorance https://www.nairaland.com/8433661/what-one-party-state-truly

Crass not cras let's start from there

Every adult mentioning "one party state" in this country knows exactly what they are implying. You can go to hell with your so called definition and explanations.

Nigeria is a one party state because political leaders are really enjoying this government. The level of peace in the legislative arms shows that they are really guzzling the national cake while governors are pocketing more money

I hope other citizens who are not in the above category are also enjoying the government.

He is already old, he doesn't need that kind of news unless they have planned to send him to an early grave.

It's unfortunate how wicked human beings can be sometimes.

franchasng:
You know nothing about Nigeria.


Lagos is what it is today because of two things:


1.) Federal government policies & support
2.) Lagos state geographical location


Same applies to Abuja and others.


It was the Military Heads of state that decided the boundary of each state.


They decided how the federal allocation should be shared.

They drafted the constitution as they wished.

President decides if a state should be secure or not yes quote me anywhere. If President of Nigeria wants insecurity to end in Southeast he will do it today. First release Nnamdi Kanu on state pardon as part of peace deal. Secondly appoint an Igbo man and IG of Police.

Next is stop posting Hausa-Fulani Generals as GOCs of army barracks in the Southeast.


Start some real infrastructural developmental projects to revamp major federal roads in Southeast.


Do just these few things and watch things turnaround in Southeast.



You really don't know the power of a President in Nigeria

Insecurity in SE is caused by Igbos, you can choose to blame whoever you wish to. So because kanu is in prison igbos should punish FG by killing other Igbos and destroying businesses?

Which President is from abuja? Or should they also move the fct to SE before SE progresses. Why didn't you mention Kastina and bayelsa

Only a lazy man blames others for his lack of progress. Wise people take their destinies in their hands.

franchasng:
You don't understand Nigeria at all.


Without Igbo producing a President, Southeast will not develop the way you aspire.


President determine virtually every developmental pace in Nigeria.

A very big lie
Infact presidency and development have no relationship. Go to the states of the past presidents and see the mess

Let SE rise against all forms of insecurity, if your brother is a stay at home enforcer, report him, flush out the criminals making the place unsafe, then see investments flooding in. SE has the potential to grow beyond all expectations if they are committed to it

Am just seeing tears and wailing everywhere
Abians are happy and grateful, yet haters are crying
If Nigerians are happy for the 30km roads, so be it.

I don't know why these hateful things up there always cry whenever abians are celebrating

As an Igbo man
I will rather wish my brothers take this as a criticism, rather than fighting or insulting the man, lets take it as a wake up call. Igbos have illustrious men and women whose investments can turn things around and see our people wanting to come home more. First we need to collectively reject any form of insecurity, including ipob activities. Nobody wants to invest where safety is not guaranteed

I hate all those complaints of marginalization, we can conveniently build our own economy and let FG take their interventions to those who need it more than us.

Enugu, abia and anambra are doing well in governance, if Otti or soludo was the governor of imo state, he will first visit ohaji and say no to the evil Nigeria is doing there and ensure what comes out of there is used to industrialize the state and SE as a whole

Fearurcreeator:
Igbos supports Obasanjo wetin be my own anynody them like support. This matter is all about why PDP chose a northener instead of of southerner, but you dey call wike Hypocrite for not supporting such. Yorubas no like Obasanjo like that if na that one you wan talk , that useless to Yoruba and any leader yoruba ever had .no dey even talk Obasanjo for my side. Last election if Obi had won I don't have issues at all. All i know is una try are just too full of unaself na why people no go vote una , very arrogant people. Who will want that kind people to rule them. Its politicians, South and north if south east dont see the rest in the south as their equal the rest wont follow thier lead. Its pure politics if you dont get it then Rest

So obasanjo is no liked by yorubas but he scored over 90% in almost all SW states, very interesting, tell me more about the hatred

You didn't still answer why SW helped oust a fellow southerner in 2015. Or is it south only when it pleases hypocrites?

Lastly tell me any southern candidate not from SW that have received massive votes from SW?

As I said before, if presidency will not rotate fairly throughout the 6 regions, then let anybody from any region win it. All this talk of south turn is rubbish. If any region have shown there is nothing like Southern unity it's SW
Funny enough, SE have never given up to 65% votes in favor of any northern candidate again a southerner

That will be a big relieve for pdp

CyrusVI:
Ikwerres are coming out to deny their Igbo link, Itshekiri and co are coming out to affirm their Yoruba connection

How many times have you seen any Yoruba group lay claims to anything Itshekiri. No one is even asking them to unite with their SW counterpart

You, on the other hand, you become angry whenever others deny being Igbo

You cant decide for another group

Deny or affirm doesn't have effect on the roots
Meanwhile I don't care who is Igbo or who is not, it adds or reduces nothing from my life. Unlike you guys that want to die on the matter. I just wanted OP to answer my simple question
Which you obviously didn't answer

Now why is Emeka from delta not igbo while Isinyemeze from delta is yoruba. Incase you missed the question

Sha stay in Abuja and die, don't make it quicker by going to abia to constitute nuisance during the elections. While you die, let the common abian decide what and who they want

helinues:
Nigeria is using at least 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) to repay other oil-backed loans that its national oil firm NNPC has taken.

Sharrap, loan buhari took, and cronies like you supported while calling others wailers. You are now putting it on nnpc so you won't say it's buhari. Shame on you guys

Ohhh you think its only 300bpd Nigeria is using to repay loans, I said it before you are very far from reality.