NAIJA_SOM: Please, Let us have a truthful,and mature conversation about the meaning of One Nigeria.

My objective in this thread is to understand how my good fellow Nigerians/Niaralanders understand/interpret this slogan. The event that are happening recently, shows us how this idea is very deceptive.

MaximusDMeridux:

You are a little kid or you think you can outsmart thinkers far ahead of you in every way!

1. ONE NIGERIA was an idea and slogan well before Biafra capitulated and was defeated! Second, one Nigeria did not mean an invitation for ibos to abandon their lands to claim ownership of other lands, it will only lead to your punishment like 1966.

2. Nigeria makes more sense from the perspective of every constituent part doing it's bit to raise their game and as every part does, the whole country (body) becomes better! That you breathe with your mouth after a fast run to take in more oxygen is not an invitation for the mouth to think it can now replace the nose!

3. Pay attention very well to this: ibos think MONEY is the answer to everything and we know that ibo parents tell their children from a young age that if they don't have money they will never be accepted. Therefore, ibos take the shortest path to making money like buying and selling, drugs, ritual killings, kidnapping, 419, fake drug selling, etc. Note that while money is important, it is not a goal or ultimate for the Yorubas or Hausas. I probably have more money than some of my uncles but if I see them, I must show them respect and regard, they will acknowledge it but the day you think your money is enough grounds for disrespect everyone even those who are not related to you will relegate you to the bastard son you really are. Next, as soon as ibos get some money, they buy or build a big house far away in a different land NOT because of generosity or altruistic reasons. It is usually to boost their big ego and show off, they cannot move back to their lands because the source of their wealth is in the Yoruba SW, they cannot build the house in their villages where people easily know them and their family. They will either be overwhelmed with demands, kidnapped, robbed, killed or made ritual money material.

4. The ibos attitude is the one that will bring ruin to them because they think if they live long enough in another man's land or carry half their population there, they will become owners, that will NEVER happen. So, here are some points for you to ponder on if you are genuinely looking for answers! Why is it that no other part of Nigeria wants to invest in Iboland? Sorry, Chiefs or Misters Dangote, Dantata, Adenuga, Otedola, etc for mentioning your names and thousands of billionaires from other parts of the country, are they all "STUPID" that they can't see that iboland is a paradise where they can literally reap gold if they plant a few million nairas which they make as profit in a single day?

5. Yes it is One Nigeria while it lasts, visit other parts of the country without a visa, do business, have customers there, in fact live there and pay taxes abeg but you cannot become a governor over other people and land, you have your own land go there! Why are you interested in governorship in the SW for example? Statistically and factually, the SW has produced FAR better governors and public than iboland since anything Nigeria was known so why would you leave your land to go and get a job none of you has ever done to pass mark in your state? Why disrespect the tradition, culture, customs and laws of the host city-states you have been so accepted as guests? These are the real questions and your hypocrisy is so glaring for while you completely discriminate every Nigerian out of your region you are asking to legislate resident law across the country so you can eat your cake and have it? There is no northerner, south westerner, niger delta or middle belt minorities that will ever vote such stupid laws knowing that ibos are the only ones really interested in another man's land!

MaximusDMeridux:

5. Yes it is One Nigeria while it lasts, visit other parts of the country without a visa, do business, have customers there, in fact live there and pay taxes abeg but you cannot become a governor over other people and land, you have your own land go there! Why are you interested in governorship in the SW for example? Statistically and factually, the SW has produced FAR better governors and public than iboland since anything Nigeria was known so why would you leave your land to go and get a job none of you has ever done to pass mark in your state? Why disrespect the tradition, culture, customs and laws of the host city-states you have been so accepted as guests? These are the real questions and your hypocrisy is so glaring for while you completely discriminate every Nigerian out of your region you are asking to legislate resident law across the country so you can eat your cake and have it? There is no northerner, south westerner, niger delta or middle belt minorities that will ever vote such stupid laws knowing that ibos are the only ones really interested in another man's land!

Yoshi-Master:


"Other peoples land", hmmmm. So if indeed it is other peoples land, then why are we still together.

I am just being a neutral observer here, but going by your response, it would seem that your solution would be to devide the country, cause there really is no point in calling Nigeria "My Country", if my aspirations will be limited to certain geographical locations within this same Country I call my own.

Yoshi-Master:


"Other peoples land", hmmmm. So if indeed it is other peoples land, then why are we still together.

I am just being a neutral observer here, but going by your response, it would seem that your solution would be to devide the country, cause there really is no point in calling Nigeria "My Country", if my aspirations will be limited to certain geographical locations within this same Country I call my own.

NAIJA_SOM:

Intelligent Response...thanks

MaximusDMeridux:

You are getting it all wrong! If you are a genuine investor, by every means make your investment, no one is saying you cannot invest. However, by making an investment, you will own all your business and income - minus taxes of course - but no matter how much money you make you WILL NEVER still be native to that country! Of course you can be resident but why would you seek to bring all your family from the village, hire them in your business and then they also bring all their family until the ground is full and then you think you can contest for elections in that land? Why? This is the reality of Nigeria and ibo's history does not serve them well at all. Do you know how many people will offer Dangote residency if he wanted even in another country but you can bet your last dollar he is not interested in abandoning his Kano and northern heritage! Chief MKO Abiola was awarded titles all over Nigeria and he had so much money, he was the richest man of his time, he never tried to be from anywhere else! Now tell me, why will your imaginary ibo man want to be a northerner or Yoruba? Bill Gates would be awash with applications if he were looking for another country and he has invested more money through Microsoft in Nigeria than all of you combined, are you betting you will see him with an application for native status in Nigeria? If nobody will, what chases ibos from their lands? Answer that question please! Maybe if you do it might help us to be more careful so that what is chasing you does not land on us when we accommodate you. No ill feelings, just laying it down!

juman: One nigeria is a fraud and desperate effort to continuously enslave the masses.

IGBO-SON:
The maximus guy is a typical example of one who not only speaks from both corners of his deceitful mouth, but also wants to eat his cake and still have it! On each related thread it's almost like he copies and pastes the same tiresome response no matter which way the argument is going......and when he's 'cornered' with logic, he disappears only to resurface later on another thread to continue his shameless charade!

The very same thing some people fought for (and for which others support their forebears actions/inaction) is the same thing they're now rejecting, inspite of the innocent blood spilled......wanting to move the goal posts after the match has started!

MaximusDMeridux:

3. Pay attention very well to this: ibos think MONEY is the answer to everything and we know that ibo parents tell their children from a young age that if they don't have money they will never be accepted. Therefore, ibos take the shortest path to making money like buying and selling, drugs, ritual killings, kidnapping, 419, fake drug selling, etc. Note that while money is important, it is not a goal or ultimate for the Yorubas or Hausas.

MaximusDMeridux:
Let your land be enough for you, visit others but you can never be the owner otherwise you might end up only owning a 6 X 3 feet piece of space 6 feet below the ground! If you cannot be satisfied to live in your land, be a guest in other parts of the country and respect them then get a visa and go to another country. It is not by force!

quid:
Yorubas should lead by example and quit living off the oil of the Niger Deltans,.

alj harem:

How are yorubas living off Niger deltan OIL. You must be very stu.pid for that statement. BTW is Ondo, Delta and Edo no longer Niger-delta ?

So long as Ilaje, Akoko, Itsekiri, Usan and co are found there then it must be dumb of you to say such

quid:
Go to Bayelsa, Rivers etc and see many Yorubas working in the oil companies there without disturbance.
So, one Nigeria allows them to work there and make plenty of money.
But one Nigeria does not allow non-Yorubas to live and work in Lagos. Story

alj harem:

Go to Ondo, Edo, Lagos, Ogun and delta see how many other ethnic groups are working in oil companies without disturbance.

Oyo and co still have other ethnic groups working as well

So because Igbos were sent packing it means non-yorubas ?

Moreover ask your relative in Lagos whether he has been disturbed just because he is Igbo