tintingz: bat! Read what your igbo muslim leader said in this thread
"The Challenges Of Igbo Muslims"
https://www.nairaland.com/997009/challenges-igbo-muslims
BTW igbo muslims in the north as you said are they not ndigbos who converted to Islam??

Zab: HAHAHAHA. LOL. OGA MARK YOUR THOUGHT IS A GOOD ONE BUT I FEEL IT WORKS IN AN ENLIGHTENED/FORWARD THINKING STATE.ETHNICITY HAS EATEN DEEP INTO OUR SOCIAL FABRIC.

THE DISPARITY OF ETHNIC NATIONALITIES THAT FORM NIGERIA WILL WORK AGAINST YOUR IDEA SIR. IMAGINE AN IGBO MAN AS THE GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE, OGUN OR KANO STATE. I BELIEVE THAT ANY POLICY OF GOVERNMENT MAY BE VIEWED AS ANTI - NATIVES.

IT IS FACT THAT INTRA-ETHNIC CONFLICT TAKE PLACE IN NIGERIA. THERE WERE COMPLAINTS THAT CERTAIN GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE IS NOT A LOGOSIAN.

LET THE SENATE STRIKE OUT QUOTA SYSTEM. IT BREEDS MEDIOCRITY. WHEN I WAS WRITING JAMB, UNN CUT OFF MARK DEALT WITH ME AS MY STATE(IMO) WAS REQUIRED TO MEET THE HIGHEST CUT OFF MARK. FOR INSTANCE WHEN I MADE 243 AND WAS NOT ADMITTED, CANDIDATES FROM KANO AND OTHER NORTHERN STATES, AKWA IBOM, CROSS RIVER WERE ADMITTED WITH CUT OFF POINTS BETWEEN 198- 215.MERIT SLAUGHTERED ON THE ALTAR OF MEDIOCRITY.

DAMIGHT: Only state of residence will work...state of origin is a sort of descrimination and tribalism... Imagine!!! In nigeria universities where indigin pay lesser to other nigerian

ceejay80s: wetin i take? Wetin bad for wetin i talk? France-French, Usa-English, Germany-German, Nigeria- Hausa,Igbo, Yoruba,Edo, Calabar, ibibio, efik,Pigeon, etc na wetin, just one country! Inshort naija for be a CONTINENT on its own

Antivirus92: that old article? You can still keep it in ur gallery and quote it in 2050 even when the writer has died. Rubbish! We only have north/western muslims here in the east.

tintingz: i can see how dumb you are. . .can you give the year the report was published. . .FYI the thread is created this year and the muslim scholar is an igbo man from the east i dont care if its 18 century report all i know is that there are igbo muslims in the east. . .and stop being ignorant

tintingz: i can see how dumb you are. . .can you give the year the report was published. . .FYI the thread is created this year and the muslim scholar is an igbo man from the east i dont care if its 18 century report all i know is that there are igbo muslims in the east. . .and stop being ignorant

Novice1: Let him resign from his postion as Senate president first, because he got that by virtue of his state of origin.

Awake9ja: hahaha this very serious.

only if hausa/fulani and kanuri are redy to do away with sharia.

i cannot be an indigene of a religional state.
can the core north lives freely with other people out side their region when they find out they have equal right with you.

they are permited to move around with knife,sword,gun and even bomb now we are divided etnicaly, how much more when they have equal right at every state of their resident.

hausa/fulani drags land with indigenes of every regions in nigeria now they are allien how much more when they are indigene.

Antivirus92: keep on hallucinating! you can only carve them out in ur imagination.

aribisala0: People misuse the wordss "tribalism" and "tribalist" out of ignorance or poor education. We are Igbo,Yoruba,Tiv,Efik Ogoni Ijaw etc peoples ; nations in a NATION STATE that is who and what we are
[b]Somehow there is this idea that we should give that all up to become "Nigerians" with English as our language and no consciousness or a colonial consciousness. Nigeria CANNOT become a nation in the way that Japan or Koreans are and we should not accept this project that seeks to delete our identity. We are a nation in the sense of a confederation of NATIONS not TRIBES. No one refers to Irish,Belgians,Ducth,Boers,Bosnians,Greeks or Armenians as tribes so why are Igbos a tribe.
We need to wake up revive our languages and culture and be proub of them. We can coexist in much the same way as the EU nations do but it is important to preserve the culture,language and identity of Autochthons in their ancestral homelands rather than seek to create meaningless and superficial new identities
David Marks proposal is stupid ; It is proposing that in maybe 100 years there will be no Ijaw,Edo or other Minorities indeed even bigger groups may not survive. If we are going down that road the destination must be clear before we start.[/b]
That idea can only make sense in a culturally and linguistically homogenous nation. We are not and certainly do not aspire to LOSE our language/culture. The final phase of remote colonialism

Desola:

But we are not one and united. We are but a mere geographical expression. What do I have in common with an ibo man to make me want to be one with him? Nada! That's what!

aribisala0: There is no need to call names because of a difference in perspective. What makes your opinion superior? Are you God?
The fact that we are Nigerian does not mean we should lose who we are. There is one word that describes what a lot of people are suggesting; HOMOGENIZATION. There is nothing wrong with this IF people agree to it. You cannot HOMOGENIZE us by force.
If indeed we are to be HOMOGENIZED then I must ask "IN WHOSE IMAGE" is this "TRIBELESS Nigerian" to be made? There are parts of Nigeria where they practise Sharia and other parts where they declare curfew for ORO or other traditional rituals. If those things are to be dispensed it must be DISCUSSED not just dispensed with by CAPRICIOUS IDEALISM.There is a relation that native Africans have with their land that certainly is the case in southern Nigeria. We have Native law and custom in our constitution because those things were negotiated even before independence. Of course there are Nigerians whose children speak French or Chinese preferentially but for me there is such a thing as Ijebuland and it should remain so forever,yes a part of Nigeria open to all Nigerians but Ijebu all the same

Novice1: Let him resign from his postion as Senate president first, because he got that by virtue of his state of origin.

Desola:

But we are not one and united. We are but a mere geographical expression. What do I have in common with an ibo man to make me want to be one with him? Nada! That's what!

Tony Spike: Nigerians are territorial. Everyone's allegiance is to his/her ethnic nationality and land. Land is a very difficult topic in Nigeria, and Africa at large. Land trespasses are not taken lightly in any part of Nigeria. I remember the recent experience I had in Enugu state while a youth corper. A boy and his friends, were afflicted by a juju-like fire burns, because he trespassed on someone's land. If that could happen between people of the same village (and stock), I wonder what would happen to trespasses committed by another ethnic group. State of residence cannot work in Nigeria...as simple as that. USA did not start as a tribal enclave like Nigeria. Most of the lands were virgin and belonging to no particular tribe when they were acquired, and hence, such laws were easier to implement.