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The fundamental issue with nigeria is this

We are a Country that wants to be a Nation so bad... We really not a nation can't be a nation
You can't run a country like a nation and expect it to succeed never

For peace to reign we must restructure along ethnic lines or separate it's not rocket science

There is no country on earth like Nigeria that practice our system that have worked

3 nearly equal majority, even two are not possible then plus over 300 minority and u practice unitary system? Never happened

The formation is usually 1 super majority 60% of population minimum and couple of minority

Know one in the world know what igbo man is!

They do know black African lives is less than Dogs in the west with health Insurance, grooming sessions, all required vaccines

If you don't understand the big picture, then you are part of the problem

Zonefree:
Nigeria is a hoax.

I'm an Igbo man first before becoming a forced Nigerian.

JagabanBorgu:

Disloyal people can't build a working system, a system don't fall from the blue sky, people build it.
Ironically, this disIoyaI mindset transcends down to the LGA of every Nigerian, Nigerians Iack patriotism so much that putting in resources to fully rebrand even their LGA is difficult.

Oga, the problem is not disloyalty, it's corruption.
Plain and simple

Zonefree:
Nigeria is a hoax.

I'm an Igbo man first before becoming a forced Nigerian.

Do you say that when you travel to America and obtain their citizenship?

mrvitalis:

You can't have loyal people when their is not equity and justice

While equity and justice are crucial for social cohesion, they don't necessarily guarantee loyalty. Loyalty is a complex trait influenced by various factors, including shared values, cultural identity and personal experience.
Example is Europe, its commitment to equity and justice hasn't immunized it against Islamist fighting against everything it stands for tooth and nail and trying to establish caliphate in Europe, even as the continent strives for equity and justice.

Ayoefa:
Igbos are the worst tribalistic and religious fanatics among all Nigerians. They see tribe and religion before anything else even when abroad .
Whenever I meet an Igbo person in the US, the first thing rhwy talk about is what tribe you are and next is " oh you are a Muslim"?
Even Oyinbo don't care but Igbos from Nigeria cares about what religion you belong too.
Very annoying and pathetic.

Wait first,are you a Yoruba Muslim?

mrvitalis:
The fundamental issue with nigeria is this

We are a Country that wants to be a Nation so bad... We really not a nation can't be a nation
You can't run a country like a nation and expect it to succeed never

For peace to reign we must restructure along ethnic lines or separate it's not rocket science

There is no country on earth like Nigeria that practice our system that have worked

3 nearly equal majority, even two are not possible then plus over 300 minority and u practice unitary system? Never happened

The formation is usually 1 super majority 60% of population minimum and couple of minority

This is the problem, not equity and justice.

All Nigerians Minus easterners

malali:
Because we stupidly copied democracy from the USA.

In the USA, you are from where you are born.(You are born in Texas, you are from Texas.)

So if you are Ibo and you are born in kaduna, you are from kaduna state.

If you are yoruba and you are born in Abia, you are from Abia state.

In Nigeria, if you are ibo and your family has been living in Kaduna for 100 years. you are still Ibo

Even though you have been voting for Kaduna state governor for 100 years. You are still guilty of crimes committed by your great grandfathers in Ibo land after living in kaduna for 100 years.

This is the most archaic system in the whole world....its is enabled for the benefit of the quota system, doesn't foster real development.

It doesn't make sense.When you elect semi-literate politicians, nobody can sponsor a bill to rectify this.[/b]

That’s our major leadership problem till today.
USA has their own form of government, Britain has a different style, has a different style, Russia also has a different one all working for them, but Africa, we will drop our own style, and blindly follow that of the west, ending up with no direction.
Till today, I don’t think most sub Saharan countries have truly gotten their independence.
Everything we do, was handed down to us.

True. Imagine if America was like this.

YES SIR.
GOD MAKES ALL HUMANS SELFISH
AND WANTS HUMANS TO BE RIGHTEOUS IN HIM.
PRESIDENTS MUST MAKE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL ORDERS.
TINUBU MUST TAG THE NAIRA AT AT LEAST N500 : $1
FIX PETROL PRICE AT N500 PER LITER.
ADOPT FAPRES AND CTC TRFG SINE DIE.
NIGERIA IS A 36 CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITIES. KUDOS TO OUR MILITARY FOR THAT.

Sonnobax15:

Bitter truth so far.......

If you've been privileged to travel across different states in Nigeria, you'd know what uncle Jona is saying is nothing but the truth.....

ADOPT FAPRES AND CTC TRFG NOW.

Zonefree:
Nigeria is a hoax.

I'm an Igbo man first before becoming a forced Nigerian.

TINUBU MUST ADOPT FAPRES AND CTC TRFG NOW.

brain54:
It's because Nigeria has failed everyone...

If we had a working system people would be loyal!

SO PLEASE LET US ADOPT FAPRES AND CTC TRFG NOW.

Zonefree:
Nigeria is a hoax.

I'm an Igbo man first before becoming a forced Nigerian.

Thanks for proving his point.

This is just an obvious fact... No arguments here.


This is the main foundation of the nation's failure.

Because Nigeria was just a creation of the British people. But nobody created our ethnic groups.
We were forced to be Nigerians. I am first a YORUBA MAN before being Nigerian. It's a natural thing.

TouchNfollow:

https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/27/nigerians-are-more-loyal-their-ethnic-groups-nigeria-ex-president-jonathan-calls-unity

Mumu person that caused all the challenges happening to Nigerians. Are you not being biased in your six-years term as a president, putting your ethnic group as priority but sidelining the Yorubas and other minor ethnic groups. It is when clown like this leave power their brains wake up.

Zonefree:
Nigeria is a hoax.

I'm an Igbo man first before becoming a forced Nigerian.

Even in ur Igbo nation, some are still more Igbo, before forced Biafra.

Thats what happens when the federal system is failing, they resort to their core institutions of government, the tribal leaders

Will you be quiet! Ineffectual buffoon!! What did you do to change that position when you were in power?

Even in your ethic group,there is division. The Oyo/Ibadan believes they are d original Yoruba, the Ega/Ijebu feel they are d enlightened while d Ekitis which are generally believed by these previous two to be very local and uninformed think they are d most educated.

When Ekiti man speak Yoruba in front of Ibadan man, he'll seems like lol

I rather stick to one Nigeria.

More reason we need to operate as confederation. God will punish Agunyi Ironsi and his cohort for forcing us into unitary system of government.

Awolowo proposed future break out in case we don't work, unfortunately Nnamdi Azikwe mobilized North against it. God will punish all of them that force Nigeria on us

ThunderfireNLMO:



Mumu person that caused all the challenges happening to Nigerians. Are you not being biased in your six-years term as a president, putting your ethnic group as priority but sidelining the Yorubas and other minor ethnic groups. It is when clown like this leave power their brains wake up.

This!!!

seguntijan:
More reason we need to operate as confederation. God will punish Agunyi Ironsi and his cohort for forcing us into unitary system of government.

Awolowo proposed future break out in case we don't work, unfortunately Nnamdi Azikwe mobilized North against it. God will punish all of them that force Nigeria on us

If Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi had not abolished regionalism and resource control on May 24, 1966, with his Decree Number 34, the Western Region of Nigeria would have been better than Dubai today. That act set back Nigeria perhaps 100 years backwards, and we have not recovered from it until today.

Even with Awolowo in prison since 1963, the Western Region was on automatic pilot and still outperformed every other region by 1966, when Ironsi ended regionalism, because of his policies, especially his Universal Free Primary Education, which was compulsory and non-discriminatory. It included free school feeding to all children in the Western Region, no matter where their parents came from.

The Awolowo Western Region government introduced university scholarships that were higher in award amount than the federal scholarships. Awolowo's scholarship not only paid your school fees, whether in Nigeria or abroad, but your parents were paid a stipend during the pendency of your scholarship.

Long before Barack Obama achieved the Affordable Care Act (ACA), on March 23, 2010, Chief Awolowo had universal health coverage in the Western Region of Nigeria for every child and persons under eighteen, irrespective of whether or not their parents were from the Western Region. He did this by establishing at least one hospital in every istrative division in the Western Region.

The Western Region also had the first television station in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television Service, to keep citizens informed, educated and entertained.

Chief Awolowo established the Western Nigerian Development Corporation, which helped Westerners establish businesses and turned present-day Imeja into the most industrialised part of Nigeria to date. He set up the cooperative that ensured that as long as you were a farmer in the Western Region, the government would buy your produce as a last resort if you could not sell it.

Explaining why he committed himself to these policies, Chief Awolowo, on September 3, 1959, said:

"To educate the child is to lay the solid foundation for future social and economic progress: to provide health services is to combat diseases which are wasting on human resources and, therefore, reduce our productive potentialities. The Government has, for these reasons, brought about the greatest social revolution in the history of Black Africa."

We really need to go back to this regional system of government, Nigeria can't work like this.

May God bless the memory, offspring, and lineage of Papa Obafemi Awolowo, forever and ever.

TouchNfollow:

“We are more loyal to our ethnic groups than to the nation. Nigeria, as it stands, is a collection of small ethnic nationalities, each prioritizing its interests. Over time, the divisions between these groups have only deepened.

“Other countries with diverse nationalities have managed to overcome these barriers, evolving into unified nations. Until we achieve this transformation and break down these ethnic boundaries, progress will remain elusive,” he stated.
https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/27/nigerians-are-more-loyal-their-ethnic-groups-nigeria-ex-president-jonathan-calls-unity

Very true, what the ex president has said. But I feel the idea of breaking down ethnic boundaries is myth. It has been and will always be. A child does not learn to be left handed at old age.
The ethnic identities have become the default identities of the Nigerian peoples and must be strengthened over the false nationhood. The country doesn't have to divide to achieve this. They had been workable proposals like those of the CONFAB organized by Jonathan himself that has been thrown under the carpet. A true federation where the state have more powers over their own affairs compared to the centre is the only place from where the sense of nationhood he has proposed can be engendered.

mannobi:
Because Nigeria was just a creation of the British people. But nobody created our ethnic groups.
We were forced to be Nigerians. I am first a YORUBA MAN before being Nigerian. It's a natural thing.

Shared values and cultural identity are the strongest bonds on earth. Nothing can be done against our tribal allegiance in Nigeria. Even if dem introduce policies against our tribal allegiance, like eliminating state of origin, our natural affinity for our roots will never let those policies be fruitful.

princeSammyz:


Very true, what the ex president has said. But I feel the idea of breaking down ethnic boundaries is myth. It has been and will always be. A child does not learn to be left handed at old age.
The ethnic identities have become the default identities of the Nigerian peoples and must be strengthened over the false nationhood. The country doesn't have to divide to achieve this. They had been workable proposals like those of the CONFAB organized by Jonathan himself that has been thrown under the carpet. A true federation where the state have more powers over their own affairs compared to the centre is the only place from where the sense of nationhood he has proposed can be engendered.

God bless you sir.

Talk is cheap when the work is not walked.

Yea. The exact reasons you made your self a sectional leader during your reign,appointed virtually all your appointees from a single tribe out of the thousand and left others ,especially those who actualized your emergent to gaze in futility.

Sabi man !

seguntijan:
More reason we need to operate as confederation. God will punish Agunyi Ironsi and his cohort for forcing us into unitary system of government.

Awolowo proposed future break out in case we don't work, unfortunately Nnamdi Azikwe mobilized North against it. God will punish all of them that force Nigeria on us

You're not adequately informed, Nnamdi Azikiwe was never against confederation,as a matter of fact, he ed the Aburi accord that wanted Nigeria to be a confederation. Igbos at that time wanted a separate country fully independent or a confederation. Confederation would have been better but now everything is too complicated.

malali:
Because we stupidly copied democracy from the USA.

In the USA, you are from where you are born.(You are born in Texas, you are from Texas.)

So if you are Ibo and you are born in kaduna, you are from kaduna state.

If you are yoruba and you are born in Abia, you are from Abia state.

In Nigeria, if you are ibo and your family has been living in Kaduna for 100 years. you are still Ibo

Even though you have been voting for Kaduna state governor for 100 years. You are still guilty of crimes committed by your great grandfathers in Ibo land after living in kaduna for 100 years.

This is the most archaic system in the whole world....its is enabled for the benefit of the quota system, doesn't foster real development.

It doesn't make sense.When you elect semi-literate politicians, nobody can sponsor a bill to rectify this.

You are absolutely correctly.

Your everyday average Nigerian is a bigot.