gungume:

SOUTHERNERS ARE NOW CALLING FOR DIVISION NOT KNOWING THAT NIGERIA STARTED SINCE BEFORE THE OIL BOOM IS JUST BECAUSE OF BAD LEARDERSHIP THAT AGRIC SECTOR AND OTHER SOLID MINERALS FROM NORTH WERE BADLY NEGLECTED. LET ME TELL THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE SAYING ''OUR OIL'' IS THIS THEIR OWN EFFORT? THEY ARE JUST BLESSED BY NATURE AND CAN RUN DRY ANY MOMENT. IF THE COUNTRY IS DIVIDED I WANT TO SEE HOW AN IGBO,YOURUBA NIG DELTS WILL PEACEFULLY BECAUSE OF OIL

tom28:

Igbo land is landlocked so making a country out of igbo land wont be possible and besides we guys from the midwest(edo and delta) wont support you ppl because we remember how u igbos practically forced us and threatened us to join biafra during the biafra war.

when southerners kill,we pretend and improvise like nothing happened but when mallams kill,everybody begins to talk about secession.How is MEND different from Boko haram ?

proO1:

I agree with Prof Omoruyi, and I get the substance of what he was trying to say with so much tact and political correctness.

It is ridiculous and perhaps hypocritical for anyone to compare Mend and Boko Haram. MEND had a clear focus, clear agitation, and were systematic and methodical in their operations. Boko Haram on the other hand, is an amorphous rag-tag guerrilla group of rebels without a cause. As with most things northern/muslim, blind senseless rage beclouds reasoning - leading to idiotic, unsystematic extremism that is an end in itself rather than a means to an end. The result is chaos all over the place.

What exactly is Boko Haram's defining purpose? Do they even have a principal, driving motive (like MEND) other than the incredibly daft mantra that 'Western education is sin'? They want Nigeria Islamized and governed strictly according to Sharia Law (just like the Taliban in Afghanistan), is that a sensible agitation in a diverse country like Nigeria? Is there any method to such madness? Is it possible for any sane person to be sympathetic to such a pathetic group and its preposterous agitation? Boko Haram is an exemplification of the unfortunate mixture of illiteracy and Islamic extremism that bedevils northern Nigeria. As usual, they would just engage in uncoordinated and unsystematic violence without clear objectives as to what point the violence is supposed to make. How can you compare such a band of illiterate, extremist lunatics to the well-organized and sophisticated militant organization called MEND?

These fools should just be allowed to secede and form their own country so that they can talibanize themselves as much as they want. They and their people do not contribute any value to Nigeria anyway - not human nor natural resources; nothing.
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korrect talk! These ppl contribute NOTHING. Instead of think and pressurizing the govt on how to turn northern Nigreia to Dubar they are thinking of take us back to stone age country like afghanistan. Foolish set of ppl. I wonder wc koran dey read!ystematic extremism that is an end in itself rather than a means to an end. The result is chaos all over the place.

What exactly is Boko Haram's defining purpose? Do they even have a principal, driving motive (like MEND) other than the incredibly daft mantra that 'Western education is sin'? They want Nigeria Islamized and governed strictly according to Sharia Law (just like the Taliban in Afghanistan), is that a sensible agitation in a diverse country like Nigeria? Is there any method to such madness? Is it possible for any sane person to be sympathetic to such a pathetic group and its preposterous agitation? Boko Haram is an exemplification of the unfortunate mixture of illiteracy and Islamic extremism that bedevils northern Nigeria. As usual, they would just engage in uncoordinated and unsystematic violence without clear objectives as to what point the violence is supposed to make. How can you compare such a band of illiterate, extremist lunatics to the well-organized and sophisticated militant organization called MEND?

These fools should just be allowed to secede and form their own country so that they can talibanize themselves as much as they want. They and their people do not contribute any value to Nigeria anyway - not human nor natural resources; nothing.
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korrect talk! These ppl contribute NOTHING. Instead of think and pressurizing the govt on how to turn northern Nigreia to Dubar they are thinking of take us back to stone age country like afghanistan. Foolish set of ppl. I wonder wc koran dey read!

aminubako:

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gonzaga:

I get sick when i see people comparing Boko Haram with MEND. In the case of MEND, the people in the region were exploited, marginalized and abandoned. Their waters were polluted, the land degraded and the people left to their ill fate. In the midst of plenty there was lack, poverty and disease. The people rose against such traetment and the rest as they say is now history. It is pertinent to note that, MEND never attcked a religious body or institution. They were fighting TJF and blowing up pipe lines. It was never a religious confrontation, even though the leaders that were responsible for the years of neglect were from the north. MEND never killed local government chairmen, blew up beer parlour joints or burn mosques. But Boko Haram, has unleashed voilence on all Christians , southerners and government institution. What are they asking for? that we should close down all our universities? tear our degree certificates? change to sharia? all become muslims or what? There is no basis for dialogue here.
The north had always been in power, so u cannot say they were marginalized. They all have sharia in the muslim dominated 12 northern states, is that not enough? The country is always trying to bow to muslim demands simply because of voilence. Now theyhave resulted to bombings just because GEJ is the president. Those asking for dialogue, if Boko Haram ask us to all become muslims, tear our certificates and all go to afghanistan to fight the infidels, will we be ready to meet such demands? You just dont dialogue for the sake of dialogue. Prof is right lets have a referendum just like south sudan, so that those who want to live like beasts can continue to live as they want to. My pity is to the christain minority in the north, they will either be slaughthered over night or turned to slaves. Enough should be enough! The muslims in the south, are they also not muslims? Why is the northern islam soo different?