₦airaland Forum

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He's a smart boy" – General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd)

Don't blame ffk the oha soup wey Igbos dey give am Na em dey make am run his mouth like tap water

Our blodas be like we contributed 98% of Lagos state IGR..

They called this unity gathering? What I'm seeing here is nothing but oppositions summit.. This summit is a joke.. The Southerners aren't ready for unity. I dnt even pray for it. We don't trust the Easterners .

A governor is telling us Ebonyi State would not be part of the conference just because he was not involved in the planning of the summit. Many governor's won't be present and they claim they want to build a stronger southern Nigeria. Yoruba e sho ara o ni tori wipe Ẹnu-u rẹ̀ ní ńdá igba, tí ńdá ọ̀ọ́dúnrún ati wipe Ki tan lara were koma ku Ho. We should be careful with these peeps o.

MasterKim:
did anybody force u to pray?
Na so u mumu reach?

No sir.

Lol! Suffer #ead.. If you like take your family to the church,organize special night vigil for the fools you called politicians,it won't stop them from looting.

LAGOS —The one-day summit of the Igbo and Yoruba with the prospect of reshaping age-long mistrust between the two dominant Southern ethnic groups holds today in Enugu.
Handshake Across the Niger summit
The summit, which is being co-hosted by the apex socio-cultural Yoruba group, Afenifere and the apex socio-cultural Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, is to prospect how the two groups could build on issues they hold in common towards redressing perceived frailties in the polity.
One issue that is likely to come out strongly today is the issue of restructuring.
Speaking ahead of the conference, yesterday, chairman of the Publicity Committee, Handshake Across the Niger Initiative, Mr Yinka Odumakin, expressed confidence that the event will reverberate across the country.
However, on the eve of the conference, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State said, yesterday, that Ebonyi State would not be part of the conference because neither he nor any prominent stakeholder from the state was involved in the planning of the summit.
His assertions, nonetheless, support for the summit has come from the South-South geopolitical zone, which is also sending representations to the summit.
Odumakin told Vanguard, yesterday, that traditional and political leaders, including the Obi of Onitsha and Ooni of Ife will grace the occasion.
Speaking with Vanguard, Odumakin said invitations have been extended to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said: “We are expecting leaders across the zones, from Yoruba and Igbo lands. A large contingent from the South-South is coming; delegates from the Middle Belt and the North-West are also coming. In short, Nigeria is converging in Enugu today and it is going to be the biggest event this year as leaders from across Nigeria will be in Enugu today.
“Invitations have been extended far and wide. We expect leading traditional rulers like the Obi of Onitsha, the Ooni of Ife and political leaders from both side of the divide and every part of Nigeria.”
Ebonyi gov pulls state out of conference
Giving reasons for his decision to opt out of the conference, Governor Umahi, while receiving a delegation of the organisers said it was because the organisers left out the people of the state from the plans for the summit.
The governor, while receiving the Igbo awareness group, Nzukor Umunna, frowned that no “notable Ebonyi person” is in the committee organising the event.
He said he received the Nzukor Umunna group essentially because of the respect he has for the leader of the group, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah, Managing Director of Capital Oil Limited.
S-South fully involved — Ewa-Henshaw
The governor’s assertions, nonetheless, support for the conference came from the immediate past chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, who told Vanguard, yesterday, that the South-South would also be attending the conference.
Welcoming the initiative, Ewa-Henshaw said: ”it is an attempt to unify the country, especially the South; it is an effort that any reasonable person will support to make sure that we build on the unity of the country, especially that of the South so that bridges of cooperation and understanding and oneness among the different ethnic nationalities will be built.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/handshake-across-niger-summit-holds-today/

IN a society where collaboration between geopolitical zones often lead to landmark consensus on national issues, today’s summit between the Yoruba and Igbo, will be seen as very promising.
Handshake Across the Niger summit
The fact that the Yoruba and the Igbo have rarely had any convergence on socio-political issues before and after independence, suggests that the outcome of the forum may likely address the age-long mistrust between them.
It could also be a functional vehicle for the bonding of the components that make up the larger South.
If the conference heralds that, the dreams of having a monolithic South like the North would be birthed in Enugu thereby signposting an era of mutual stance on national affairs.
Already, the South-South has keyed into the project, corroborating the position of analysts that it could yield critical ingredients needed for the realignment of a divided South.
Though there had been near-similar summits in the past under the auspices of Southern Conference, the fact that the latest one is purely being driven by the apex socio-cultural organizations among the Yoruba and the Igbo is significant.
Titled Handshake Across the Niger, it is expected that the forum which comes at a time Nigeria is challenged by peculiar social, economic and political challenges like never before, would provide a platform to prick the conscience of the Federal Government.
On the one hand, both conveners and sympathetic analysts are enthusiastic that the gathering would explore, sustain and strengthen the bond between both ethnic blocs. On the other hand some are skeptical about the possibility of achieving its set-goals considering the deep-seated nature of the mistrust between both tribes on virtually every issue.
However, Nigerians are waiting with bated breath to see how far the summit would go in promoting the interests of not only both tribes but Southern Nigeria.
Such expectation was even highlighted by Ohaneze in a pre-event statement where it said thus: ‘’The event which will attract several notable Igbo and Yoruba elites and stakeholders would x-ray the past, present, and future of Igbo /Yoruba relationship and seek for ways to boost such relationship.
‘’The two groups are from the same Kwa stock of the Niger/Congo family group and have a lot in common, though mutually suspicious of each other over the years. They also share some critical views on the restructuring of Nigeria,” Ohanaeze Ndigbo said.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/handshake-what-next/

Lol! Aregbe is silly on this. I haven't pray for myself, it's somebody that didn't know i existed i will be praying for? Hmmm! What are we benefiting from them that you re telling us to pray for them? Abegi make every body carry hm cross. Useless politicians.

Useless government everywhere. So because fulani herds men killed 756 when Johnathan was in government then they should also kill thousands under you guys? So you guys are counting scores playing 9ja bet with human lives? Blaming past government instead of solving the problem. Since this government came to power the fulanis would've double that 756 . I didn't blame you sha, I blamed the useless voter's that brought you into power and the stupid ones that will still queue to vote you in the next coming general election. Useless politicians.

bjnice:
chai, which kind lie bin this gan self, do you live in Ekiti, if no plz zip ur mouth. I am from Ekiti,a left two days ago, infrastructure development has improved tremendously even to other local government aside the state capital. Plz this is 2018, get ur fact right before typing.

If what I'm seeing here is what you called tremendous development then i give up. To make you fell better, Ekiti is developed and Fayose is trying. Thanks for the reply. 1❤

ushafe:
Pls, what are reasons?

Go to ekiti and see for yourself, no visible development going on there.

kuntash:
just assume the likes and shares you had with this statement you made as the medals

then compare with the one just below you who said Fayose doesnt need your skull medal .

Take all your likes go to the bank and withdraw money with it. Did they tell you I'm here to hunt for likes?

loveth361:
how can they agree when a leader from one bribe starved 5 millions children to dead and even stole their parents money to sponsor free education to his people.

Is that what your father told you?

henrysam:
And what Wil Buhari get. The most incompetent president in the whole universe

Yes! I'm not a supporter of these politicians. What I'm i gaining from them nothing. Infact if you have what's more than incompetent give it to him.

Igbayi laro,arugbo wo laci. Campaign after election. were they blind since? They just woke up i guess. Yeye Government.

GEJisBOKO:
Moto bi e lomo

yes sir. Eku orire.

Aipete2:
suffer head, iyen emi oh o baje. Lemme leave you cos you're still a kid

Kid? Madam epele o. you forgot when you tagged me useless and oponu?

GEJisBOKO:
la enu e sile. Fulani fe yagbe si

Mstw. Omode ni eleyi sha..

Aipete2:
as useless as you are #oponu

I won't abuse you just because of tiwantiwa. Tell me one reasonable thing or projects this guy did in Ekiti for him not to be ranked useless?

BuariCopyPaste:
Interfering to abi na interfering into-to

Go school you no gree

Oyibo umu agbara

You understood and comprehend my message right ? Lol. Mr English teacher,hope you know what's typographical error? Thanks.

GEJisBOKO:
okin se yoruba. eru Fulani ni e

lol! Emi ni kilo fe aya lo jafun awon ara benue abi? before you believe that I'm actually a yoruba abi?

GEJisBOKO:
you Will rather a governor like ortom of venue state who will sit back while the fulani terrorist wreck carnage all over

I'm talking about my region here oga. Let benue people speak and fight for the right to live.

Onyochejohn:
thats why u are very very useless, are you a foooolani? Fayose is not like Ortom or other yeye governors who cannot protect their own people. Fooooolani will bow in ekiti.

Ipob abusing someone. Madam face your Abia politics I didn't say SE read well. I don't have your time.

BuariCopyPaste:
Fayose does not need your skull medal

Imagine! An outsider interfering to SW politics. Oga face your flat h**d Republic.

An outsider can not be a principal in Igboland not to talk of ward councillor. How will a yorubaman even get a job there when they are discriminating Igbos from other state in Igboland ?

If I'm to give this guy an award, I will give him the most useless governor in South West Nigeria. That's the only award he deserves..

nairavsdollars:
Only bow? As a true Omoluwabi i thought he will prostrate and lick Osinbande's shoes

There are differences between an Ipob and a true Omoluwabi. So dont mix both together. Ipobs are the shoe licker

Left to me, i see nothing wrong with these pix above. We see things from different perspective sha. Beside it's her life and body. She can put on whatever she likes.