I am Igbo & I trust northerners

If the story is true, That's just a good man, we all know most Igbos are trained to hate the Northerners, that's the truth, it's obvious, even though most of them cant differentiate BTW, Hausa, Fulani, and d numerous tribes in d North..

They told them all sort-of lies about the civil war, why the Northerners are the enemy, and the Yorubas betrayals.

anyway the Northerners don't even bother themselves about the Flattinoes..

selemempe:
This is not true. Even a homogenous country like japan has poor ppl. The tribal and religious diff in nigeria is the reason we are almost not progressing. The bad leaders are a manifestation of tribe and religion. To grow we must divide along tribe and religion so dat govt can become inclusive. Nigeria is the 2nd country with the most diverse ethnic grouping after u.s....and the only country with almost equal moslems and xtians...how can we progress with such individuality

I disagree with you because the stats prove otherwise. Some of the world's poorest countries are mostly homogenous. Just to mention a few, Afghanistan(99.7% Muslims), Haiti(over 86% Christians), Uganda (84% Christians), Mali(92% Muslims).
If you've stated that most poor countries are religious, then I'll have no choice than to agree with you because poor countries almost always find an excuse in God, but that's by the way.

And note that some of the European countries also have major differences between different parts of the countries. Again, just to mention a few, the same issue of south and north is also present in Italy. In the Baltic countries, there are also issues between the Estonian, Latvian, Luthenian and Russian speaking people. Yet despite these differences, these countries still found a way to make things work. So no, I don't believe that our problem is mainly because of religious and tribal differences.
If it was just because of tribal differences, then most states would have been working. But as we can all see, the rot in the centre is carried over to the state and local government level where we cannot truthfully blame tribal differences.

ecosanders:
If the story is true, That's just a good man, we all know most Igbos are trained to hate the Northerners, that's the truth, it's obvious, even though most of them cant differentiate BTW, Hausa, Fulani, and d numerous tribes in d North..

They told them all sort-of lies about the civil war, why the Northerners are the enemy, and the Yorubas betrayals.

anyway the Northerners don't even bother themselves about the Flattinoes..

whenever they comment, u must know.

lordsterlin:
Took a taxi to Rigasa train station after work yesterday,was to return my young cousins back to Abuja.

It was chaos as the kids,jumped played,screamed and even fought in the taxi. On getting to the train station,both the driver and I offloaded our several luggages,I paid him and he left..

We joined the queue to purchase our tickets and on getting to my turn,after asking them to give me 5 tickets,I turned to my purse to pay and behold,it was gone, there was no purse!

I searched all our luggage,but couldn't find it,told the guy issuing the tickets to hold them for a while,that I'd be back.Took the kids to a corner and we all sat thinking of what to do.All my cash was in my purse and the purse was gone!

I got very worried,scared and confused,as I sat trying to hide my fear from the kids,I started making contacts, to get a solution. At this point I was only thinking of how to simply get back to my home in kaduna. I had decided to abandon the idea of traveling to Abuja.

The kids became impatient as they saw the train had started boarding, I told them,it was already filled up and we may have to return home to reschedule our trip for the next day. As kids will always be kids,they started screaming and crying.

My confusion got worse,in all the chaos I could barely think straight. As I sat there very worried and trying to think, a young man who was also on the queue boarding for Abuja, left his queue and came to me,he asked,what the problem was,and at this point before I could say there's no problem,the kids told him,they wanted to go home and I told them the train is already filled.

He came a bit closer and asked,Hajia what's the problem,you know the train isn't filled yet. As I still refused to say anything to him,he understood,went away and came back, and squeezed 5tickets in my hand and simply said,get up let's go!

I stood up in shock, my hands were shaking and tears just started rolling. He said,you don't trust me,because I wear a rosary around my neck? My name is Okechukwu,what's yours? I told him,he helped us with some of our luggage and we boarded!

Throughout the journey,I kept wondering, how a stranger could spend so much,selflessly.considering the fact that the train fares had been recently hiked! But he felt I wasn't relaxed,so he didn't even talk to me,he just kept playing with the kids.

On arrival,My uncle was waiting to pick us up at Idu train station. On seeing my uncle, I hurriedly rushed and told him what happened and asked him to pay the young man back and thank him too.

But to my surprise Okechukwu simply shook my uncle hands, refused to collect any money and left. My Uncle kept calling him,but he didn't even look back. I also wanted to ask for his contact, but I felt too shy and didn't want people to misunderstand my intentions.

Throughout the evening, I became restless and desperately wanted to find him,so i started searching for him on Facebook to identify his full names and photo. Just to say thank you again, but I've not been successful.

They say the Igbo's don't like the Northerners and vice versa,but yesterday, it was an igbo man, who came to my rescue.

Most Nigerians are good,warm hearted people.
God bless you sir Okechukwu, wherever you are.please inbox me,if you ever read this!

Story by Na'eema Bello

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