₦airaland Forum

Igbo:
see my moniker
it resemble yoruba for your eye?

Igbo:
if you are y1bo here you should be ashamed of yourself

EasternVoice:
Just imagine.
Any IPOB sympathizer anywhere is a fool and a terrorist.

Lazyreporta:
I can confirm now that Igbos are actually minority in Nigeria.. I don't believe a major ethnic group will be saying all these.. You blame SW for everything.

You're quick to say north can continue and yet you say SW is slave, who is slave?

The west is busy fighting it for west yet you all keep saying they should fight it for east when you're saying north can have it. Simple, you're scared of yoruba on the race. You already believe you can't win them..

This politics, fight for your right and stop being slave to north

YorubaMentality:
Should the South lost 2023 general election to the North, the entire South should hold South West responsible.

Obasanjo 8 years
Osinbajo 8 years
Yet South West is contesting for another 8 years, yet South West is telling Hausa not to contest.

Nobody should tell Hausa not to contests since South West is contesting.

I see the North winning the 2023 presidential election because of South West greediness.

Long live Nigeria

ItsTutsi:
The only time you will see nyamuri associating, aligning and attaching itself by force with Niger Drlta/SS, is when it has to do with politics and oil.. it has nothing to do with love or brotherhood.. nyamuri have been looking for a way to add to their palm oil and granout oil, hence their desperation by IPOB to add them to their delusional Bia.fraud

Since the flat.head population is only 6%, they have been looking for a way to add to their numbers.. that's why dem dey do beggi beggi!

The insults and profanity targeted at Rivers State by ibo because of the Supreme Court judgment has exposed them for who they are

Niger Delta take note, these developers only want to use you to their advantage

Chichigi1990:
Sorry sir.
I wont prevaricate again.
Forgive me
Your royal majesty sir. Am deeply sorry for my shortcomings. Forgive me sire.

Chichigi1990:
There is a reason for everything sha.
I just feel bad.
It would have been better if it was autopiloters.

If you come to understand the magnitude of this you will just bow out in shame.
Im saddened and ashamed.

Laughnow419:
Since I joined nairaland in 2020 I've never talked on politics section because I don't want trouble from anybody.
I am an Igbo man. Feel free to call me fulani.
My aim on nairaland is posting jokes and memes.

But the video shared by OyigboUpdate I followed the thread and read each and every comments with an open mind and I discovered it was IPOB that did the killings. Feel free to disagree
below are my reasons.

Firstly they were accusing OyigboUpdate of having a hands in the killings. The accusations were so much he the accepted the same fate and accepted the blood to be on his head if he had hands in any killing entirely and dared them to do same if they never had a hand in the killings. But instead of the IPOBS to follow him and swear that is not them the way he swore it's not him they were insulting him.

Secondly some were asking for evidence to prove that its IPOB. OyigboUpdate said he believes they are Nnamdi Kanu boys because they are carrying out IPOB orders.
Sit at home they the unknown gunmen are enforcing it, no referendum no election order in Biafra land they are enforcing the it.
And the beheading of military officers was also an order by Nnamdi Kanu which they are also enforcing he has shared a Facebook broadcast of Nnamdi Kanu saying they need 2000 human heads to bury ikonso.
See the broadcast
https://www.facebook.com/ikechukwuemeka.onyiaii/videos/712005933287417/
He also highlighted they didn't come out to say we are IPOB but they also use one of their slogan inextricably linked to Nnamdi Kanu which is "tell Nigerian soldiers to resign from the east or else unknown gunmen will kill them" so the unknown gunmen are carrying out that Nnamdi Kanu order of killing the Nigerian soldiers in Igbo land. Of which they were carrying out before and he hailed them on radio. This one is just painful because it was recorded.

I also discovered the callers were not fulanis, as claimed but Igbo but my tribesmen.
This is because not just that they spoke Igbo they spoke it fluently. Not just that it was fluent it was in Igbo intonation.
If a calabar man is speaking Igbo, you'll know he is not Igbo not from the Igbo he speaks but his intonation.

These are my humble observations.
Feel free to insult me thanks.

Menance:
Igbos bring your selves to order. If ipob aren't the ones behind the killings then they should join the quest and hunt for these criminals who might be sponsored to destabilize the struggle.

No one fights a war at home

spearman:
Asaba Man Responds On Facebook To Asaba Is Igbo Claims

Asaba Inlaw: "In This Whole World You Couldn’t Find Anyone To Marry But An Igbo"

Short story: One of my earliest and most persistent memories is this - near my village, 1 kilometer from Asaba, was a camp where people lived.
Who are they I asked - “Wa bu Ndigbo” I was told. Translation: “They are Igbos”.
I was confused. Aren’t we Igbos, but I said nothing.
Another occasion I heard some commotion in the direction of the camp. Oh don’t be worried I was told. They are Igbos. Again so thought but we are igbos!

Fast forward 3 decades.
A friend of mine from Aba who married from Asaba, over a beer told me “I can’t get over Asaba people. During my native law, my wife’s people kept abusing her in the same language I spoke. They kept saying ‘so in this whole world, you couldn’t find anyone to marry but an Igbo?’”
These are true accounts.
People from my area… even the indigenes of ONITSHA (I’ve been told) consider themselves Not Igbo.
I grew up seeing my people refer to others as “Those Igbo people”.
I have just learnt that the phrase “Igbo enwere Eze” was coined by core Igbos to separate themselves from the Onitsha indigenes…
Following that logic, Asaba nwere eze .... kedụ ka ọ ga-esi bụrụ igbo?
ka anyi biri n’udo nwanne m nwoke
m zuru ikpe m

It’s not an issue to be swept under the carpet. We need to consider it seriously.

Just because everyone in America speaks English doesn’t change their ancestry (some are of German, Italian, Russian, African, Chinese ancestry...).
Ancestry can only be determined scientifically by DNA analysis. My sister discovered she has ancestors from Mali, Senega... of course!! The river Niger flows through those nations before it passes the shores of my village which sits on the West Bank of the Niger net Asaba.

Bottom line, you cannot teach a man how to write with his left hand in old age.
The real issue is why so many Igbo speaking people reject the idea they’re Igbo. (Like some Egyptians in an interview I watched - who can’t understand why they’re considered Africans at all!).
Let’s have an academic discussion why!
We may learn valuable lessons.
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Good morning.

*****The heavy cannibal lines on below map indicate the limits of Igbo land and culture. All who fall outside the cannibal line are not Igbos. Plain to see.

This is a response to this mumu post

https://www.nairaland.com/7112529/origin-agbor-obi-agbor

Igboland:
If you can tell me the state in Alaigbo with pipe borne water I will give you a million dollar.

rayvelez:
Enough of this epistle bro to know if dem be IPOB or not just enter bus later in the morning and travel to east Imo precisely, so have anything that can incriminate you as Nigeria force come back later and write this rubbish if at all you will be alive to write the story.

slimfit1:
Still trying to use that as a selling point!! You don't need someone to tell you how to tax people you just need to travel out which he did to know the importance of tax. I don't know a country that let private companies collect tax thou.
Let's see this, with tax and federal allocation why is Lagos not anywhere close to Dubai or London. Tinubu has been Lagos governor for 23 years yet we don't have a metro railway, no jobs, no classrooms and no electricity.

OyigboUpdate:
Lastly

Tvoice:
Oga titus , i nor send you and who ever u vote for , I don't know why wat i posted is hurting u deeply, for u info , I nor send tinubu either, go and read that post again and receive sense , the names mentioned there were people criticise d previous government, oponu.

Tinubuadvocate:
Tinubu or nothing.

Tvoice:
I see u mentioned tinubu, it's obvious y u singled him out of every other persons , you old grandpa , your have your right , go and get your pvc this post was not all about tinubu , have a nice day

Tvoice:
He is no relevant , don't start what you cant finish

Tvoice:
As Nigeria is collapsing around us let us remember how we got here.*

*ROLL CALL OF THE PROMOTERS OF FAILURE IN NIGERIA*

Here are some of the prominent names that helped send BUHARI to Aso Rock:

1. Dr. Oby Ezekwesili
2. Fela Durotoye
3. Atiku Abubakar


Mind u am not goodluck Jonathan ebeles fan
4. Omoyele Sowore
5. Izala Muslim clerics and Christians clerics.
6. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
7. Professor Charles Soludo
8. Pastor Tunde Bakare
9. Pastor Sunday Adelaja
10. Father Ejike Mbaka
11. Professor Pastor Yemi Osibanjo
12. Professor Tam David West
13. Professor Wole Soyinka
14. Rev. Chris Okotie
15. Professor Pat Utomi
16. Nasir El-Rufai
17. Dino Melaye
18. Lai Mohammed
19. Rochas Okorocha
20. Rotimi Amaechi
21. Adams Oshiomhole
22. Dr. Bukola Saraki
23. Aminu Tambuwal
24. Bola Ahmed Tinubu
25. Raji Fashola
26. Dr. Chris Ngige
27. Rabiu Kwankwaso
28. Ibikunle Amosun
29. Rauf Aregbesola
30. Kayode Fayemi
31. Sanusi Lamido
32. Deacon Femi Adesina
33. Pastor E.A Adeboye
34. Pastor Kumuyi
35. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu
36. Kenny Ogungbe
37. Dato Adeneye
38. Magnus Abbey
39. Dakuku Peterside
40. 9ice
41. Kenny St. Ogungbe Brown
42. Tunde Disu
43. John Momoh
44. Maupe Ogun
45. Chamberlain Usoh
46. Suleiman Aleide
47. Monday Onyekachi Ubani
48. Iffy Ubani
49. Labourous Osuoma
50. Citizen Useni Jones (Radio continental 102.3FM).
51. Joe Igbokwe
52. Dele Momodu
53. Abike Dabiri
54. Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega
55. Muazu
56. Emeka Ojukwu Jnr.
57. Egenti E Raymond (Ogudo)
58. Victor Umeh
59. Wasiu Ayinde (Kwam 1)
60. TY Danjuma
61. Lauretta Onochie
62. Jide Kosoko
63. Jonah David Jang
64. MC Oluomo and his NURTW thugs
65. Solomon Dalung
66. Naja'atu Mohammed
67. Buba Galadima
68. Oba of lagos, Oba Akiolu
69. Shehu Sanni
70. Desmond Eliott
71. Femi Kuti
72. George Udom

These people and the entire RCCG actually believed that Buhari had what it takes to lead Nigeria into a first world.

These people went to school. Many are professors. Some claimed to have direct access to God.

Some are gifted with "prophesies."

They read history. They understood international relations. They understood how societies work or so we thought.

They were more than 20 years old in 1983 when Buhari shot himself to power.

They saw Buhari murder innocent Nigerians in 1983.

They saw Buhari destroy the economy in 1983.

They saw the role Buhari played in Abacha's government.

They read all the threats of violence by Buhari against the nation.

They saw Buhari harass Lam Adesina the Oyo State Governor due to Fulani herdsmen conflicts with locals in Oyo State.

They saw Buhari lead the sharia protest that claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians in 2001.

They saw Buhari and his minions open the gate of hell on innocent Nigerians when he lost the presidential election in 2011.

If Buhari was not speaking and defending his Fulani heritage he would be fighting to defend his religious heritage.

Never for once did he defend Nigeria or gave interview on how to rebuild the economy, education, power, health, etc.

They saw everything this man did. They knew him too well to miss the little details of his violent life.

But they were united in hatred.

Hatred for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. One among the few Nigeria leaders that actually wanted Nigeria to work.

Hatred became a unifying force to push forward a false narrative.

They exploited his humility.

They exploited his kindness.

They exploited his humanity

They danced and made merry in Ojota. They ate, drank and danced away the destiny of a nation.

Saints Tinubu, Amaechi, Fashola, etc., led the chorus against ‘corrupt’ Goodluck Jonathan.

Tinubu a private jet owner and owner of Lagos, Amaechi a private jet owner and funder of Buhari campaign, Atiku a University owner paid with his civil service allowance etc wanted ‘corrupt’ Goodluck Jonathan out.

But the people did not see the moral paradox because you see - hate is a unifying factor.

They mobilised thugs to stone a sitting President.

They harassed his family wherever they went.

Because they are from the hated minority who must NOT be king.

For Kings must come from the Fulani lineage. Jonathan is Ijaw. Ijaws should not be Kings.

Jonathan must not loot also.

For looters must come from enablers of evil.

These are intellectuals.

Amongst whom are Pastors and Prophets.

Wisdom failed.

Prophesies failed.

WAEC issued a fake WAEC attestation to Buhari.

It is possible many Nigerian "intellectuals" are working with fake certificates.

A nation without conscience is a curse to its people.

We all are standing on the podium of history.
Humanity beckons.
Surely our children will read the roles we played in the salvation or annihilation of humanity.
#Copied
#Sir Simba



Mind you am not a Jonathan fan

aribisala0:
We do not have any for domestic use. Nothing significant compared to need
To use it domestically we need investment in infrastructure. As long as that infrastructure does not exist and we are cooking with kerosine it is self deception to say we have excess. That infrastructure costs money and should BE PRIORITIZED over export infrastructure. If you do not get that you will never get anything

When you prioritize domestic consumption, where do you get your foreign exchange which your economy will need to finance imports and keep a healthy trade balance from?.

This is not about right or wrong but priority and interest
You talk about boosting foreign reserve as if that is a virtue? Does US boost foreign reserve? That is not their concern They sell their gas in their own currency .Why? because we are reserving in their currencyas is the rest of the world .So demand for dollar is always high
Boosting foreign reserves is not a pointless thing it must have a reason and that is to pay for imports . So if we can reduce imports WHICH WE CAN then boosting foreign reserves is an academic exercise. As we have learnt from The Ukraine war . Dollar based foreign reserves can be sanctioned For any reason the US can cook up . We do not need limitless foreign reserves rather we need to improve our balance of trade and domicile surplus in OUR OWN banks

I am not sure you understand the world trade framework. The United States is the world's number one exporter of crude oil. The US does not prioritize domestic consumption. It wouldn't make any sense in any case because the price of crude is decided centrally by market forces.



No currency has intrinsic value. It is all down to demand and supply.
So the idea of "boosting foreign reserves" come from a colonized mindset. That is because we manufacture nothing and import everything
If we reverse that trend our own currency can become a reserve currency too.
Colonized minds will never envision that.
The other strategic consideration is if we decide to enter energy intensive sectors of the World Economy then those we sell gas
to are our competitors. If they cannot get cheap gas then they MIGHT be forced to shift production to our country. As long as cheap gas is an option that will not happen.

Again, you failed to understand that production has gravitational forces. Gas, even if a natural resource has a production and delivery cost that can be steep. You rightly identified Nigeria as a consumption society. What that means is that the economy is not productive, therefore does not have the basis on which its currency can be concretely evaluated. The oil it is piggybacked on is very volatile, and we have consistently and woefully failed to keep our OPEC-approved production quota at parity over the years.

If half the money Nigeria politicians have borrowed and consumed was invested in a well-structured South-north gas pipeline with an eye on the vast European gas market, The naira will not exchange beyond 250 naira to the dollar today. The alternative home-grown economic value would be a massive investment of these funds in thousands of viable SMEs who will create mass employment and keep the domestic economy running through a combination of consumption, taxation, and goods export.

Finally your projection about boosting foreign reserves is weak

How much exactly are we talking about . Gas is very cheap and from our perspective at current prices is not worth selling .
Let it stay in the ground. Last year how much did we make from gas sales abroad?

If Nigeria invested in the right technologies and repent from its selfish, corrupt tendencies, how is gas cheap and not worth selling when Russia's daily gas revenue is 720 million dollars?.

NwaNimo1:
But mallam will argue the gas was created in the north but deposited in the south?

aribisala0:
Exactly

The same way they will dump us when it suits

We have been struggling with terrorism in West Africa since THEY uprooted Gaddafi

Have they helped us ?

But in two months they have found billions for Ukraine

We better wake up and figure out how to use gas more

NwaNimo1:
https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-seeking-funding-for-gas-pipeline-to-morocco

Siwel25:
Tinubu can mention multiplication of IGR by 1100 percent; LAWMA, LASTMA, Rapid Response Squad; Primary healthcare Centres, BRT, Lekki free Trade zone; LIRS template (copied by FG and other states) and over 1300 road projects completed.

What can Peter Obi point to today after 8 years as Governor?

Gbajure:
A morally depraved sick and certified klepto cannot be an Einstein

Gbajure:
A morally depraved sick and certified klepto cannot be an Einstein