MtuMsuper:

Too late!! I know alot about nigerian peeps. I can even tell by just looking at you alot of things. Besides, am an experienced nairalander, i go through threads in every section. God bless the internet.

I don't care what you know about Naija as It does not make us better or worse. After all most progressive nations discuss their problems in public. I am just against unnecessary derailment of this thread

Nowenuse:


There is nothing we can do about this than to keep on promoting education and socialization in Nigeria.

Yoruba and middlebelt muslims face heavy westernization threats almost as much as christians. As a younger and more united urban population emerges, these extremisms will gradually die down.

I also think we need to keep on including muslims in Nigerian media. The southern controlled media almost completely excludes muslims.

A new surprise. And a big one too. Its almost like the way brazil excludes blacks and mulattos from the media, billboards and entertainment by trying to present it as a white country when the demographics​ show the exact opposite.

Maduawuchukwu:


Yeah It's key. It is almost as if Northern Nigerian don't exist or are sub-humans to the Nigerian Media. This hardens up Northerners who otherwise would have been receptive. I live in the north and every time you meet a core-northerner he always goes over the top to show that he is just a normal everyday person. They always try to be over pleasant to negate the media's presentation of them as sub-humans and blood-thirsty. The North should be judged based on the parameter used for other Nigerian groups.

Exactly.
If you live with educated and rich core-northernerns, you will wonder if the ones you see as Boko haram are the same core-northernerns with these educated ones.
They are extremely kind, liberal and loving to a fault.

The media is centred in Lagos which is very far away from the north and dominated by southernerns. Even the few middlebelters who have managed to be famous in the media have to open up themselves to Southern attributes and styles before they succeed and are accepted.
Maybe as things centralize more in Abuja, there will be better integration.

Take a look at these women below, these are Kanuri muslim women from Maiduguri, the Borno (Boko haram state that you know). What is the difference btw them and the ones carrying bomb in their hijab??
EDUCATION AND WEALTH.

Maduawuchukwu:


I don't care what you know about Naija as It does not make us better or worse. After all most progressive nations discuss their problems in public. I am just against unnecessary derailment of this thread

Roger that! Still i have a good picture of 9ja courtesy of nairaland. I am a student of life

Nowenuse:


Exactly.
If you live with educated and rich core-northernerns, you will wonder if the ones you see as Boko haram are the same core-northernerns with these educated ones.
They are extremely kind, liberal and loving to a fault.

The media is centred in Lagos which is very far away from the north and dominated by southernerns. Even the few middlebelters who have managed to be famous in the media have to open up themselves to Southern attributes and styles before they succeed and are accepted.
Maybe as things centralize more in Abuja, there will be better integration.

Take a look at these women below, these are Kanuri muslim women from Maiduguri, the Borno (Boko haram state that you know). What is the difference btw them and the ones carrying bomb in their hijab??
EDUCATION AND WEALTH.

Lol. This na Indimi Children nah?

Nowenuse:


Exactly.
If you live with educated and rich core-northernerns, you will wonder if the ones you see as Boko haram are the same core-northernerns with these educated ones.
They are extremely kind, liberal and loving to a fault.

The media is centred in Lagos which is very far away from the north and dominated by southernerns. Even the few middlebelters who have managed to be famous in the media have to open up themselves to Southern attributes and styles before they succeed and are accepted.
Maybe as things centralize more in Abuja, there will be better integration.

Take a look at these women below, these are Kanuri muslim women from Maiduguri, the Borno (Boko haram state that you know). What is the difference btw them and the ones carrying bomb in their hijab??
EDUCATION AND WEALTH.

Chai see bleach, but they are really pretty. The rich Northerners are the ones keeping the poor ones destitute and ignorant.

MtuMsuper:

A new surprise. And a big one too. Its almost like the way brazil excludes blacks and mulattos from the media, billboards and entertainment by trying to present it as a white country when the demographics​ show the exact opposite.

Very true. This annoys me a lot! Latin america is a place filled with beautiful black and brown people, but the media heavily isolates them, seeing them as too backwards and poorer.
This is why when you see the Brazillian football team and you see Brazilliam telemundos, you wonder if it is the same country. The black and brown people have managed to excel in sports and music only.
Well, i think the task lies in the hands of the black and brown brazillians. Black americans did not wait for the whites to drag them along into the media. They stood up for themselves.

Maduawuchukwu:

Lol. This na Indimi Children nah?

Hahaha. Are these Indimi's children too?

Educated core-northernerns would always be less religious and more westernized and many of them do not wear hijab.
A core northern woman has once been Miss Nigeria.

fanficgirl:

I wasn't the one who brought it up, and it is very pertinent when we are talking about how the South is divided and that's why we can't stand against the core North. True, core Northeneres are heavily vilified in Nigerian media, and that doesn't help matters.

wat do u mean by heavily vilified in Nigerian media

fanficgirl:

Chai see bleach, but they are really pretty. The rich Northerners are the ones keeping the poor ones destitute and ignorant.

Partially true. However the religious and traditional rulers are the main cause.
Southern elites never really begged southern masses to go to schools. Many southernerns just struggled to get educated on their own, cos they saw it as a way to a better life.
Many core-northernerns on the other hand think islamic schools should come first before western schools.

The colonial masters have a large part of the blame. Core-northernerns have been going to islamic schools and reading and writing arabic decades before the British came and this so much became entrenched and part of their culture.
The british used the indirect rule of govt during colonialism and never encouraged western education among northern masses. Infact the british promoted islamization and arabic learning and were ok as long as the northern leaders reported administratively in English.

These people (core northnerns) already had islamic education which was already part of their culture, the British never made them see the reason why they should drop islamic education and accept western education. So, be in their shoes, really, why should they?

naijalander:

Please stick to Kenyan stuff cos your talking trash.

The British handed over to the Northerns cos they first met the North before the ever had dealings with the South, another reason is that the North at the time was considered more developed than the South because by the 18th Century most of the South was still largely unlettered whilst the North already had literary works from as early as 100 AD.

The North got the better end of post colonial deals because it had more man power in the defense industry. Do your readers h before you spew trash.

Dude. Don't you want me to learn anything concerning your country?

naijalander:
Yeah like that county where the governor took a helicopter to go commission a bridge made out of bamboo. I laugh in swah!

What are you saying?

Nowenuse:


I think you were too harsh on TayserMahiri. He is not a Nigerian and does not know Nigerian history.

And truly yes, the North was more co-ordinated than the South when the British came. The northernerns were already reading and writing Arabic, travelling for Hajj in Saudia arabia and the Sokoto caliphate was conquering and islamizing many places under emirate rulership.

@Tayser Mahiri, i bet you don't know that probably if not for the colonial masters who came, many more parts of Nigeria and west/central africa would have been islamized by jihadists from Sokoto caliphate.
My own people (in the north-central) managed to resist islamization because we were on the mountains and had the upper advantage cos the jihadists who rode on horses could not climb the mountains with their horses.

I hope u can now grasp it all. Core-northern Nigerians are descendants of islamists and jihadists. And the demonic british people left them just like that because of ease of administrative convenience while they (british) looted us to Europe.

Thanks mate, I am not a Naija expert and am glad to be here to learn, that guy just being mean! I thought the north was always backward, so when I hear they were handed power I couldn't help but smell foul play from the Britons. Good to know.

fanficgirl:

True federalism, restructuring, or core Northners being kicked out

Kick them out of Naija?

uzzyfire:
Nigeria can't break up, it will affect a lot of countries in Africa

Not to be mean but the overwhelming majority of countries would continue just fine in Africa. Look at chaotic Egypt and see things are just fine with the exception of Libya, whose problems have nothing to do with Egypt.

naijalander:

Yes, restructuring.

What kind then?

Nowenuse:


LoL. I don't know what to reply u

Trust me, most kenyans would mention Obasanjo if asked any Nigerian president.

fanficgirl:

Chai see bleach, but they are really pretty. The rich Northerners are the ones keeping the poor ones destitute and ignorant.

How did you know that they bleached? Their mother is a half caste. She is shuwa arab by tribe.

TayserMahiri:


Kick them out of Naija?

that wud cos serious war, u don't know how violent those core northerners can be

TayserMahiri:


Thanks mate, I am not a Naija expert and am glad to be here to learn, that guy just being mean! I thought the north was always backward, so when I hear they were handed power I couldn't help but smell foul play from the Britons. Good to know.

Exactly. We should be able to learn abt each other. These are what platforms like this are meant for.

I myself have learnt a lot about Kenya here. And seriously, i'd like to visit Kenya sometime in the future. I think Kenya has some fantastic tourism industry.
When it comes to tourism, quality of infrastructure and aesthetic appeal, Kenya is ahead of Nigeria.

TayserMahiri:


Not to be mean but the overwhelming majority of countries would continue just fine in Africa. Look at chaotic Egypt and see things are just fine with the exception of Libya, whose problems have nothing to do with Egypt.

that's wat u think, u can Neva know d value of sometin until u loose it

TayserMahiri:


Not to be mean but the overwhelming majority of countries would continue just fine in Africa. Look at chaotic Egypt and see things are just fine with the exception of Libya, whose problems have nothing to do with Egypt.

Of course it would affect many countries (west and central africa especially).
The population is very large. The economy of Africa will seriously shake. Nigeria is about one-quarter of the total economy (GDP) of Africa.

Nigeria, nigeria How I view nigeria, Nigeria will always remain nigeria before my eyes No Giant, No nothing I don't even see brazil, china or india like other nairalanders , When I look at the picture of Nigeria Nigeria will always remain ''the Nigeria I know'', NOTHING ELSE

MPSA:
Nigeria, nigeria How I view nigeria, Nigeria will always remain nigeria before my eyes No Giant, No nothing I don't even see brazil, china or india like other nairalanders , When I look at the picture of Nigeria Nigeria will always remain ''the Nigeria I know'', NOTHING ELSE

loooooooooooollll and south Africa will always be d south Africa everybody knew back in d 1800s.loooooolll

MPSA:
Nigeria, nigeria How I view nigeria, Nigeria will always remain nigeria before my eyes No Giant, No nothing I don't even see brazil, china or india like other nairalanders , When I look at the picture of Nigeria Nigeria will always remain ''the Nigeria I know'', NOTHING ELSE

loooll to be honest d way I view south Africa is eehhhn, I swear broda u no go like am

''The Giant of Nigerians'' , I don't see the Giant, truly speaking , I only see millions, and millions of people, nothing else

Nowenuse:


Exactly. We should be able to learn abt each other. These are what platforms like this are meant for.

I myself have learnt a lot about Kenya here. And seriously, i'd like to visit Kenya sometime in the future. I think Kenya has some fantastic tourism industry.
When it comes to tourism, quality of infrastructure and aesthetic appeal, Kenya is ahead of Nigeria.

Hahahaha abi, Nigerians don't know the meaning of aesthetics

TayserMahiri:


Trust me, most kenyans would mention Obasanjo if asked any Nigerian president.

Why Obasanjo when he was horrible?

Nigeria will ALWAYS remain a backward country before my eyes, No Giant, No Nothing

MPSA:
Nigeria will ALWAYS remain a backward country before my eyes, No Giant, No Nothing

ok we get it. Now we're actually having a good discussion about African politics here. So if that's all you have to say we've heard you like 10 times now.

fanficgirl:

Why Obasanjo when he was horrible?

Probably because Nigeria was at it's most successful economically during his reign.

MrMaestro:
ok we get it. Now we're actually having a good discussion about African politics here. So if that's all you have to say we've heard you like 10 times now.

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