DSTV recently cancelled the airing of transgender show, I Am Cait, across Africa, owing to the objection of its Nigerian subscribers, in a move that has South Africans fuming, and up in arms over what they consider Nigeria's undue influence over what goes on on the continent.

If the ethnic separatists get their tiny fiefdoms, all that is GONE. You will become a Togo. A Gambia. A Sierra Leone. A Burundi. Insignificant little players. Does anybody ask the Togolese what they think on any issue? NOPE. Their job in Togo is to keep quiet and take orders from the big players on the continent and beyond. When you get your tiny ethnic country, you will grow in insignificance. A visit by the president of Kenya will be as if the US president came. So glad you will be to be noticed by your Kenyan bosses. When they are counting Africa's top economies, your new ethnic republic will be at number 43, if you're lucky. Top militaries? Maybe number 47. If the IMF or the US or France command you to devalue your currency or open up your market for imports etc, you DARE NOT argue with them or they'll crush you.

Nigeria is a task we need to work on, till we succeed. The alternatives are too terrible to contemplate. Smallness is grossly overrated in this country.

What's all the noise about!!

Hmmm.....this economy is really affecting people adversely.

Big country put food for my table? Big country gimme visa without application fee? Abegi. To be quiet and relaxed is better than to be making noise and being oppressed. Anyway is a way big or small.

Mtchew

ckmayoca:
Big country put food for my table? Big country gimme visa without application fee? Abegi. To be quiet and relaxed is better than to be making noise and being oppressed. Anyway is a way big or small.

Actually, being a big country DOES help to put food on your table, as seen by the issues affecting small, vulnerable states like Sierra Leone and South Sudan. And life is about more than...food.

" Another fundamentalist cesspit no one cares about this issue"

Exactly what was written on an international news website.
If anything, this issue reminds me why my the yorubas have to leave Nigeria.
The Nigerian bad rap sheet keep increasing.
What next are you going to ban or burn.
Books?
I would rather read book, watch news or documentaries than waste my time on reality TV.
But what happened to skipping the channel or locking it instead of exposing your extremism for the world to see.
Philippines has an ISIS problem. Malaysia is getting more fundamentalist by the day. Yet they are hardly in the news.

Splitting Nigeria is foolish yet the president of Nigeria travelled to the United Nations meeting in New York to campaign for the splitting up of Israel into Israel and Palestine state.

Splitting Nigeria is foolish yet the president of Nigeria was on public Media advocating the split up of another African country morroco into western Sahara and Morroco.

Splitting Nigeria is foolish yet Nigeria allowed it's oil rich peninsular to be taken away by its neighbor without any resistance.

Hmmmmmm, there is God oooo, the hypocrisy is getting hilarious and out of hand.

An Oduduwa Republic with a population of over 45 million cannot be a minority in Africa.
Largest economy after South Africa

Our strength is in our numbers and our diversity,
More work needs to be done.
Nigeria shall be great.

Nice line of thought.
The truth is, the disadvantages in breaking away are too many only if the advocates can think deep. We must not allow sentiments of religion and ethnicity to decide our future.

If anybody is in doubts, read about South Sudan and check out their post succession situation as a country.

OAUTemitayo:
An Oduduwa Republic with a population of over 45 million cannot be a minority in Africa.
Largest economy after South Africa

In your dreams. In today's Africa, 45 million population is nothing. Even Uganda and Sudan are approaching that figure. Is Uganda a big player in Africa? Nope! Sudan? For where?

Alexk2:
Nice line of thought.
The truth is, the disadvantages in breaking away are too many only if the advocates can think deep. We must not allow sentiments of religion and ethnicity to decide our future.

If anybody is in doubts, read about South Sudan and check out their post succession situation as a country.

Exactly what makes you an expert on this issue?

Rossikk:
Actually, being a big country DOES help to put food on your table, as seen by the issues affecting small, vulnerable states like Sierra Leone and South Sudan. And life is about more than...food.

What we need to make this nation work is love. Show love to who ever is hating you and not countering the person with partisan politics. Though everything I see online hasn't come my way in reality oh and people along the street never mention separation.

Rossikk:
DSTV recently cancelled the airing of transgender show, I Am Cait, across Africa, owing to the objection of its Nigerian subscribers, in a move that has South Africans fuming, and up in arms over what they consider Nigeria's undue influence over what goes on on the continent.

If the ethnic separatists get their tiny fiefdoms, all that is GONE. You will become a Togo. A Gambia. A Sierra Leone. A Burundi. Insignificant little players. Does anybody ask the Togolese what they think on any issue? NOPE. Their job in Togo is to keep quiet and take orders from the big players on the continent and beyond. When you get your tiny ethnic country, you will grow in insignificance. A visit by the president of Kenya will be as if the US president came. So glad you will be to be noticed by your Kenyan bosses. When they are counting Africa's top economies, your new ethnic republic will be at number 43, if you're lucky. Top militaries? Maybe number 47. If the IMF or the US or France command you to devalue your currency or open up your market for imports etc, you DARE NOT argue with them or they'll crush you.

Nigeria is a task we need to work on, till we succeed. The alternatives are too terrible to contemplate. Smallness is grossly overrated in this country.

Lol Rosike believing a foreign institution

oduastates;
Exactly what makes you an expert on this issue?

To start with, I'm a Nigerian.... But if that's not enough for you, go and confirm the truth in my post.

Alexk2:
Nice line of thought.
The truth is, the disadvantages in breaking away are too many only if the advocates can think deep. We must not allow sentiments of religion and ethnicity to decide our future.

If anybody is in doubts, read about South Sudan and check out their post succession situation as a country.

no..no ..they will try to tell you south sudan is doing very fine now....

we nijerians need to read more...stop using the internet for only porn and gossip...educate yourself...read read read...

dont allow ipobian propaganda to tell you what to think...

rubbish people...

Alexk2:


To start with, I'm a Nigerian.... But if that's not enough for you, go and confirm the truth in my post.

You are a Nigerian and so damn what?
I do not blame you. It is the only status you are know.
A dysfunctional country from head to toe.
Even your leaders do not believe in the country.
"Na our turn" ; to steal?
What sort of country is that.
They do not believe in the country, they see their fellow "Nigerians" as animals.
The reason they keep putting the country's wealth in foreign vault.

Can you tell me the essence of being a Nigerian?
The day you see patriotism in the face of a German, American, British, French, German etc This is the day you will understand the definition of a Nation.

ckmayoca:


What we need to make this nation work is love. Show love to who ever is hating you and not countering the person with partisan politics. Though everything I see online hasn't come my way in reality oh and people along the street never mention separation.

we tried love...they even abused us more...

but the cheering of terrorists in the creeks conterminating soil that you need to plant food to survive is the biggest evil they ever did yet...

i say...we abuse them back...let them know how it feels.....

rubbish people....

Nigeria may remain one big country but if the incessant calls and increasingly insistent demands for outright separation are to be muted, then Nigeria must be prepared to re-engineer her system of governance.

For as long as one person in the centre can determine the action or inaction of security agencies as seen in Enugu where they had almost 48hrs notice of impending attacks by Fulani herdsmen but failed to act because they did not receive presidential orders from above, the more attractive option will be to break away and then ensure full security for ur people.

For as long as the constitution places the exploitation and revenue of resources from one region firmly in the control of the centre for onward distribution to others without d resources of others equally owned by the FG, the feeling of exploitation on the part of the 'minority' and entitlement on that of d 'majority' will continue to breed discontent. It is bad enough that people are tagged 'minority' in their own fatherland; did they ask to be lumped or joined with larger groups?!

Provided this same centre dictates so much even to education and sets disparate scores for entry into supposed unity schools thereby favouring one region in perpetuity over others, Nigeria cannot work peacefully.

As long as the FG is responsible for key yet basic infrastructure such as seaports such that states n regions cannot establish same without approval of the centre especially when funds are sourced from that same centre, e no follow! Again, provided states n regions don't have to generate funds and be absolutely responsible for their upkeep, the leaders there can never be innovative because of guaranteed monthly bottle feeding. Pata pata na loan for more profligacy! Necessity is the mother of invention, if the necessity of self provision/reliance doesn't stare them in the face, no need na...who no like free money?

So long as one region due to religion can destroy the businesses and livelihoods of non adherents to same religion such as alcohol, hotels etc, and no one condemns and criminalises such action because somehow a supposedly secular country upholds superiority of sharia over its constitution, there is a major problem!

In short, for as long as the centre remains powerful enough to deliberately sideline whole regions in the scheme of governance because of party, ethnic and religious concerns, there is no point to Nigeria!

A large sized country stuck in perpetual unrest and dissension by various groups or regions remains a blight to any continent it belongs to! It remains unnecessarily large and unwieldy. Otherwise why are we advocating a leaner civil service? Is it not for more efficiency and better service delivery? Nobody trifles with Israel, small as she may be but with our large size we are comfortably insulted as fantastically corrupt but we accept it because we're beggarly and not pulling the weight such a large size should ordinarily command.

It is better for self-federating units to stay together under one name with clearly negotiated and agreed statutory terms of engagement along with identified goals than for the current mess we call a country. Otherwise, the only alternative remains total dissolution! Simple!

Finally, South Sudan is not d only example of separation from a larger whole, nothing stops us from being more successful than the countries formed out of the former USSR!

How big is Israel?

duastates;

You are a Nigerian and so damn what?
I do not blame you. It is the only status you are know.
A dysfunctional country from head to toe.
Even your leaders do not believe in the country.
"Na our turn" ; to steal?
What sort of country is that.
They do not believe in the country, they see their fellow "Nigerians" as animals.
The reason they keep putting the country's wealth in foreign vault.

Can you tell me the essence of being a Nigerian?
The day you see patriotism in the face of a German, American, British, French, German etc This is the day you will understand the definition of a Nation.

No need taking my post personal and been insulting. It's my opinion and it's devoid of sentiments.
How're you now different from those who is always thinking of "our turn"? Have you ask yourself why nobody is talking about IPOB and AVENGERS all through the tenure of GEJ.... Have you ask yourself why every sane Nigerian condemn bokoharam but some are hailing IPOB moves and AVENGERS bombings?
The truth remain that those leaders are the same people brainwashing those youths to believe that our problem is about ethnic alliance or our religious believes.
Unless we rid ourself of all these sentiments, they'll keep on having there way. As for me, I say No. Our problem is bad leadership and succession won't stop that; in fact, it'll make it worse.

Rossikk:
In your dreams. In today's Africa, 45 million population is nothing. Even Uganda and Sudan are approaching that figure. Is Uganda a big player in Africa? Nope! Sudan? For where?

remind me of Israel's population?

south sudan used to blame the north for thier woes nd suffering (same thing we do here). oya dey finally freed dem. the foolish south Sudanese are currently fighting a war amongst themselves . smh. will d same thing happen if Nigeria splits

the more reason d west wud do all possible 2 break it up. they will neva allow a black superpower

Rossikk:
In your dreams. In today's Africa, 45 million population is nothing. Even Uganda and Sudan are approaching that figure. Is Uganda a big player in Africa? Nope! Sudan? For where?

Uganda don't have the type of economy Oduduwa have

Rossikk:
DSTV recently cancelled the airing of transgender show, I Am Cait, across Africa, owing to the objection of its Nigerian subscribers, in a move that has South Africans fuming, and up in arms over what they consider Nigeria's undue influence over what goes on on the continent.

If the ethnic separatists get their tiny fiefdoms, all that is GONE. You will become a Togo. A Gambia. A Sierra Leone. A Burundi. Insignificant little players. Does anybody ask the Togolese what they think on any issue? NOPE. Their job in Togo is to keep quiet and take orders from the big players on the continent and beyond. When you get your tiny ethnic country, you will grow in insignificance. A visit by the president of Kenya will be as if the US president came. So glad you will be to be noticed by your Kenyan bosses. When they are counting Africa's top economies, your new ethnic republic will be at number 43, if you're lucky. Top militaries? Maybe number 47. If the IMF or the US or France command you to devalue your currency or open up your market for imports etc, you DARE NOT argue with them or they'll crush you.

Nigeria is a task we need to work on, till we succeed. The alternatives are too terrible to contemplate. Smallness is grossly overrated in this country.

A Togo with peace is much more better than a giant Nigeria without
Peace. Nigeria is not a country. I've traveled to some countries and I don't see an Hausa man as the same country when I see him in a foreign country even when people tell me he's my person.

Scream:
How big is Israel?

Israel would be nothing without the US backing they get, in the form of countless billions of dollars in aid and weapons, including nukes! Israel is just a 51st US state planted in the Middle East.

chukzyblingz:
A Togo with peace is much more better than a giant Nigeria without
Peace. Nigeria is not a country. I've traveled to some countries and I don't see an Hausa man as the same country when I see him in a foreign country even when people tell me he's my person.

We need to work for peace, not split up the country. Togo's peace is the peace of the graveyard, caused by a dictatorship that has been in power for donkey years. Eyadema ruled them for 38 years, then died in 2005, and his SON took over, and has been in power for almost 12 years now! That's the sort of nonsense that happens in small countries like the one you wish to become. Easily exploited. Easy to establish dictatorships, including family dictatorships... Little or no economic prospects (By contrast, Nigeria is projected to become the 6th largest economy on earth within the next 15 - 20 years, surpassing the likes of Germany, France and the UK!

You want to forgo all that and slither into insignificance because of the antics of a few illiterates in Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen??

Really??

And there is no guarantee that your new ethnic republic will be 'peaceful' either. Certain groups will still feel 'marginalized'. And it would be easier to start wars. Just ask the warlords of South Sudan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

This OP need a brain transplant!

Israel is not more than 7million,but she is a military and economic super power in the middle east.

These countries Denmark,Finland,Luxembourg,Switzerland,Hong Kong,Singapore are not more than 7million in population,Please tell us which of the over populated African countries that can challenge them economically or militarily?

Don't talk what u don't know,by the way Nigeria has expired!

Rossikk:
Actually, being a big country DOES help to put food on your table, as seen by the issues affecting small, vulnerable states like Sierra Leone and South Sudan. And life is about more than...food.

what nonesense.
So in your mind you think that population is the reason why the aforementioned countries dont have enough food. Smh

Gmajor:

what nonesense.
So in your mind you think that population is the reason why the aforementioned countries dont have enough food. Smh

It's more complex than that. A huge population provides the STABILITY and ECONOMIC RESILIENCE that ensure that problems do not degenerate to the point where we need food aid, foreign assistance, and have starving children and child soldiers fighting in rebel armies against dictators backed by warlords!!!! If you think Nigeria is bad, go and spend a week in Sierra Leone and see how people live. You couldn't be there more than a day or two to be honest.