₦airaland Forum

mama-gee:
[color=deeppink]Hey guys, I'm looking for someone to add as a friend on facebook.

If you want to be added, Contact me via email.[/color]

send me your email and i would add u

[size=5pt]u would be very surprise at my identity [/size]

pdp hass delivered nothing

obj tried but not as expected

joanthan has done nothing

mbatuku1:
Alj Haram would be OK for mod in jokes section. I recommend him. But politics? NO WAY

why

have i not noticed i have changed

why can't they put a nuclear power plant in the east so as to create jobs for the youths over there

bad decision GEJ

i mean at this age we do not have constant electricity

calaway:
@1025,

[s]Zonist pigs like you r the Nigerians who encourage the killing of babies and infidels
while encouraging public disorder to stir up confusion until you have your way.

Your game is up and up for good. you northernassholes(Hausa/fulani) Yelling about equity
and fairness, whether you like it or not, the north has had 11 years in this new
republic cos OBJ was chosen,presented and Financed by the north for imposition
on Nigeria(even against OBJ's constituency) so the south must enjoy 11 full years(if
the south decides to present a northerner during this time that will be their cup of tea).

Speaking the truth I think Jega is also playin out a northern Hausaist agenda. He maybe
attempting to give his brothers the reqiured excuse to initiate a confusion that will give them
a chance to scuttle the entire process and Seize the advantage. Just as we see them doing
in Jos.(Ferment confussion and then try to take control).
You have lost Nigeria and Nigeria will loose if you idiots dont repent.

(He who approaches equity must do so with clean hands the north has misruled Nigeria
for 35yrs others must have 35yrs. [/s]

pure trash

how does it relate to the thread

oyb:
[b]fresh[/b] bribery air 2011!!!!

PDP CAN NEVER CHANGE

WHETHER WITH JONATHAN OR NOT

mcgboye:
@naijaking, obviously u've got me wrong. I'll excuse d unwarranted insults and clarify. By saying until d last 1 or 2 months i havent read any topic under Politics, i only meant the politics section on nairaland. I guess that will take care of d other insults too. Every Nigerian follows politics, so i'll be telling a lie if i say i havent been following politics before now.
Overall, I shudder with disbelief d amount of insults this thread has caused. Is there a way i can delete this thread?

why should u delete a thread just because pro-GEJ people are all over

wait till the election is over and have the last laugh

people like naijaking and co are people who take joy in insult

most GEJ fan are full of insults, so it is nothing new

just ignor him

hmmmm

Chyz*:
Dude, it's not that serious.Calm down.

can u shut the eff up pls

mumu, is he taking it serious

he is tell u the truth mumu

you are nairaland is one of the best nigerian website

aribisala0:
sir please be a gentleman and admit your error.

delta state was never part of the Eastern region

do not waste your time brother

people like them do not like the voice of reasoning

favourite quote

If u no like to dey go to the naija

the nija go dey come to you

Beaf:
Yes, 15,000,000. Olodo google champion!

Musiwa,:
beaf , it show all of you in nigeria are olodo. look you have to be olodo, not to see that nigeria would end up in a civil war. when we leave, it solve the problem.

mumu

save their lives

how can you save them

agabaI23:
Because it does not suit you.

yes put it that way

why should it suit me when i know they are not representing me and my peoples general interest

i ask again

WHO ARE THE NORTH

rubbish newspaper

1 question

WHO ARE THE NORT

DO THEY MEAN IBB CIROMA AND CO

or

DO THEY MEAN US THE MASSES

i would like to know

smile11s:
if Buhari wins, then it shows Nigerians aren't ready to be renewed.
We are not ready for a change.
We do not believe in  taking risks or trying something new.
we do not believe in the new generation of today.
We have being infested by the old pilitical virus that the old never retires or dies, 

If Buhari wins,    I will hang myself!

believe it!

GEJ 2011

awwhhh my brother wants to die because of a tribalistic man like GEJ

brother this is your last chance to save your life and vote BB 2011 so u can live to see your grand children at least

for good health to security

PDP is a fools paradise

why not go to acn and cpc or even apga

EzeUche:
They need to shut the borders to the North permanently. Too many hungry mouths to feed and these foreigners give the North more numbers in terms of political representation.

seanet02:
While The West shuts the door on Ibos!!

EzeUche:


I knew you couldn't resist.

shameless seanet02

ezeuche there are plans in place not to let non-nigerian to vote in nigeria

so a man can be hausa in niger but since he does not have the registertion card, he can not vote

this election has been made fair by the north

crap

why can't he make his state better

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola yesterday challenged the Yoruba race on the need to sustain the nation’s democratic principles.
Aregbesola, who was delivering his keynote address at an interactive forum with the theme: “Yoruba Nation: Agenda for National Politics of Development”, said the move became necessary because the Yoruba race constitutes a formidable force with huge history of value and character.
The forum, organised by the Lagos State Gubernatorial Advisory Committee, was held at the Events Centre, Agidingbi Lagos, featured prominent Yoruba, among them the chairman of the committee, Prof Adebayo Williams, Prof Akinwunmi Ishola, former Lagos State Deputy Governor, Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, Vice Chancellor of Caleb University, Prof Ayo Olukoju, Dr. Doyin Abiola, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Mrs Kemi Nelson, Erelu Abiola Dosumu Lagos State Commissioner for Environment Dr. Muiz Banire.
Aregbesola, who described the Yoruba nation as steward of progress and pride for Nigeria, stressed that as the nation goes through another process of change, the Yoruba must brace up to the challenges or face the risk of going down with the country.
“He said: “The Yoruba nation has been the pivot of progress and decline for Nigeria. We can gauge this through the struggle for independence, progressivism and Obafemi Awolowo led development, political decline and descent into military rule, the struggle for democracy, freedom and liberty and the recent political renaissance.
“The verdict is that if Yorubaland should go down, Nigeria has no hope of redemption. The converse is that if the Yoruba nation does not brace up, it stands the risk of going down with Nigeria as fate continues to push it towards the precipice.”
He stressed that the only way for the Yoruba nation to save itself from the situation is to arrest the slide of Nigeria into cataclysm and take giant strides in its march towards development.
“Many people are wont to ask: Why the Yoruba nation? Are we not all Nigerians, does it not amount to treason to talk about a non-existent Yoruba nation? First, a nation exists as a legal-juridical entity and secondly as a sociological category.
“When a sociological category of people within the same geographical space have common history, language, cultural practices and physiological similarities and are under a unified sovereign political system, then they constitute a nation-state.
“But in our own case, we constitute a nation but not a nation-state since there is no political sovereignty, neither do we have autonomous political existence. There is no dishonour, however, if we seek to advance our cause as a group.”
The governor also lamented the political situation in Yorubaland, which he said was in vicious cycles, adding that the challenge was to break the cycle and prevent corruption from within after progressive ascendancy.

http://newnigerianpolitics.com/2011/03/30/nigeria-can%E2%80%99t-survive-without-yoruba-says-aregbesola/

seanet02:
By a kanuri man?

and so

or i can not say things to make igbos happy again

why you people keep insulting them

Anioma: Waiting to be Created by the National Assembly of Nigeria
Anioma means good land and, Anioma State is a reality and not a dream, and we must work harder if this reality is to be realized. Before we proceed, we need to take a look at the brief history of the Anioma nation, including its origin, peoples, societal values, and answers to the ethnic identity currently confronting the nation.

It is pertinent to understand that before now there was nothing like Anioma by that that name but the community of people and the place have existed for centuries having been cohabiting from time immemorial. Quite understandably, the name “Anioma” was coined by the fathers of the group led by Chief Dennis Osadebe, Anioma therefore is an acronym derived from the then four existing local governments of the area, Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika and Oshimili. This development gave birth to Anioma but this should not lead to the hasty conclusion that Anioma is an artificial creation as many are poised to hurriedly conclude since there is no natural or divine creation in existence anywhere.

Not all Anioma are Igbo and not all Igbo are Anioma as the nation comprises of people with different histories of origin, while the oral history of origins of notable towns such as Ibusa, Asaba, Ogwashi-Uku etc lay claims to Nshi (Nri) Isu, Ogboli factor, Nteje factors and theories with progenitors of Igbo extraction such as Umejei, Edini, Nnebuisi, Odaigbo etc, other Anioma towns such as Issele-Uku, Issele-Mkpitime, Onitsha (in present Anambra State,) Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, etc are believed to have been founded by Ezechime of Edo extraction, there is however a theory to buttress that certain descendants of Ezechime must have added to the population of Ibusa and Asaba in the origin periods of the communities.
There are also the Ika people of Agbor, Igbanke whose origin are traceable to Edo prince. What is also significant to the Anioma is that Igbo is intelligible to all of these communities.

Suffice it therefore that peoples are what they are because they so chose, the Anioma in particular have decided there fate because “a people are defined by their culture, history and geography. More importantly, a people are defined by how they perceive themselves. In effect, a people are who they say they are” (Anioma People of “The Delta,” by Kunirum Osia.) Essentially, the Anioma have emerged as a nation in the polity of Nigeria . The Anioma have come to represent in Nigeria today an insignia of dignifying and unifying culture as one.

The geopolitical definition of Nigeria today recognizes the Anioma nation as located in the South-south region of the country and in Delta State, finely situated too among the Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekeri all of the ethnic nations that the Anioma have related with for ages and having shared same provinces with in the past. Anioma has 9 Local Governments out of the 25 Local Governments that presently makes up the Delta State in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria .

Anioma people as noted earlier do not share similar origins, histories, ancestries and linguistics for obvious reasons; in fact, about 13 languages are spoken by the people and include Igbo (Enuani,) Ozzara, Olukunmi (an extinct old Yoruba Language,) Igara, Ika, Ukwuani, Edo, Odiani, Utagba, Aboh etc still the Anioma have been woven by oneness which has uniquely manifested into a globe of one community.

An Ukwuani man however as Monn Olodu remarks
“The culture, food, dressing, names, market days are basically the same. An Ukwuani woman does not need an interpreter to trade at Asaba or Abavo markets” Please note that the culture and languages of Igbo, Edo and Yoruba may have started diverged at a period as postulated here by sanders in his studies of “who are the Nigerian?”:
He wrote that:
“Ibo, Anioma, Yoruba and Edo languages and culture may have started diverging about five thousand years ago; this claim is further strengthened by the archaeological discoveries of the Bronze in Ezerra, by Dr. Hertle.
He further recommended, that the burial grounds in Isele-Uku, Abor and Abudu be excavated for more explanation on the missing links (Anioma, Culture: The Past, Present and the Future, a keynote Lecture Delivered by on the Occasion of the Organization for the Advancement of AniomaCulture (OFAAC) Stakeholders Forum, at Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos, !3 October, 2005)
The Anioma people are noted to abhor violence, a situation that has placed the people in the list of marginalized people of Nigeria , placing them in utter obscurity even with collective unheard voice in the cry for the development, crass neglect, degradation and absence of government agenda for the betterment of the lives of the people. Roads are missing in the region, lack of amenities all of which has left the youth of the region in pitiable conditions.
Anioma is blessed with natural oil and gas but the derivations from the availability of this oil have not reflected in the lives of the people as developments have been concentrated in other parts of State except Anioma.
True to its name, the Anioma soil is fertile, and several other mineral resources such as rubber, rivers for fishing can be found in Anioma but visible State and Federal presence have been found missing in the development of the region.
The case of Anioma is akin that being suffered by the minority ethnicities in the polity of Nigeria , and the founding fathers such as Chief Dennis Osadebe, Honorable F. H. Utomi, Honourable Obi of Akumazi, Honourable Frank Oputa Ututu and Honourable Oki must have realized this, a situation which led to the formation of Movement for the creation of Anioma State.
The neglect of this people has continued till this day. It is as a result of this that the creation of Anioma State is deemed necessary today because of the long neglect of this people in the hands of the Igbo their kit and kin, a people the Anioma have stood for/by when it has always mattered. The Anioma people struggles can be equated with those of the Igbo of the South-East as a people the Anioma have always viewed themselves Igbo but this has yielded almost nothing in return for the Anioma region.
The recent adoption of the creation of any one of Adada, Orashi, Orlu, Aba States by the Igbo show that the creation of Anioma State is not on the agenda of the Ohaneze and indeed Igbo, and the Igbo are in some way skeptical about the ethnic identity of the Anioma people. The Igbo has expressed fears that if allowed to be created as a State in Nigeria , Anioma would eventually become part of the South-South region of Nigeria .
This is best explained in the words of Gabriel Nwanze thus;
“The first issue is that of geopolitical location. Will Anioma State regard itself as a Southeast state or as a South–South state? If the former should be the case, this means that the Igbo have lost half of their foothold and influence in the South-South, leaving only Ndiigbo from Rivers to carry the Igbo flag. The implication not only ends there; it will extend to issues like insufficient representation of Ndiigbo in the affairs of the South-South and thus further marginalization of the Igbo nation” (Issues in the Creation of Anioma state, 2006)
He further contradicts thus while hoping that Ndiigbo benefits from future Anioma State :
“If Anioma State remains in the South-South, then it stands a chance of enabling many more Ndiigbo to benefit both from allocations to the Southeast and to the South-South simultaneously.”

In fact the Iwuayanwu led committee on additional State creation for Ndiigbo ha ssince ruled out the Anioma region in their quest for State creation stating clearly that this would mean additional State for the South-South, interestingly the South-South that considers Anioma people Igbo as Itse Sagay, a renowned professor of International Law and an Itsekiri indigene once suggested that the in Urhobo Historical society website that the Anioma be either moved into Anambra State to join their kit and kin or be given their separate State with capital at Asaba.

It is unnecessary to enumerate here the condition of Anioma in the Delta State as presently constituted, series of these actions have continually pointed to us that we do not belong to Delta State , so we need not vie for developments and the betterment of the lives of the people of Anioma in the State of Delta . We have before our very eyes seen developments exported to the other regions of the State except our own Anioma and hue and cry has been our portion rather than fight against the ugly leper eating our bodies. We have also embraced individualism as against unity.

This brings us to the ethnic identity crisis being suffered by the Anioma. So to which ethnicity do the Anioma belong? The uniqueness of Anioma culture surely has landed the ethnic group in identity crisis, which may live for ages with the people if they fail to take the destiny of the region in their hands (Igbo and Anioma: The Bitter truth, Emeka Esogbue, 2008) Kunirum Osia would put it this way “No Anioma person wishes to be recast in a mould that is not Anioma” The Anioma people have all they want in ethnic identity so they do not need to look elsewhere to acquire ethnic identity, the legend, folklore and history of this people have changed over the time and only Anioma can provide us with full irrevocable sense of history.

With illustous sons and daughters like Chief of Defense Staff, Air-Chief Marshal Paul Dike; the ever glamorous Dr (Mrs) Maryam Babangida; our own Diplomat, Chief Ralph Uwechue; the erudite Professor Pat Utomi; Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of World Bank; Mr. Nuel Ojei automobile conglomerate; Chief Sunny Odogwu, the renowned industrialist; Tony Elumelu of UBA; Mr. Jim Ovia of the Zenith Bank International; Chief P. C. Nwaodua, the security guru; Professor Augustine Esogbue the Only African in NASA and Scientist; Peter Eloka Okocha Business Mongul; Amb. Ignatius Olisemeka; Frank Atuche; Chief Godwill Obieluem; Chief Sabastine Adigwe M/D Afribank; Austine “Jay Jay” Okocha; Chief Benjamin Elue former Deputy Governor Delta State Nigeria ; and many more, the Anioma community need not look elsewhere to claim its identity.

It is as result of this that the people believing that no other ethnic group would fight its cause should as a matter of urgency rally round Associations like Oganihu-Anioma, Onu-Anioma, Anioma Association USA Inc, Organization for the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC) and other well meaning individuals and Association of Anioma ethnic group to present oneness in its renewed agitation for the creation of Anioma State. Only the realization of our own State administered by our own indigene will solve our own socio-economic and political problems and marginalization which has pauperized our sons and daughters with untold hardship. The messianic tool for salvaging this must live and come from our midst.

Anioma State is a reality!

Emeka Esogbue hails from Ibusa, Delta State, Nigeria. He is a Historian and International Relations graduate and Political/Public Affairs Analyst.

http://mouzella.com/anioma-waiting-to-be-created-by-the-national-assembly-of-nigeria/

Jarus:
Only the Admin(forum owner) has final say on who becomes Mod, although Supermod too can be very influential in the decision.

But given your records on the forum, especially in politics, your being considered mod looks impossible, except of course you turn a new, rule-abiding leaf.

And for the records, Mods are not paid.

Thanks Offa man

CrazyMan:
@Poster.

If you want to be a mod, go for it and ignore what people are posting. I myself, I've been eying that seat for a while now but most of the boards I cherish so much are taken, so I think I would keep my fingers crossed till you know. . .

thank you man

^^^^^

so it is about south south presidency not a good president abi

well we go see

onya ara

rubbish

absolute rubbish song

i mean

" a father to the fatherless

a mother to the motherless

a friend to the friendless

goodluck jonathan"

does it make sense at all to you all

the only person that can be all that is GOD, ALLAH, CHUKWU, OLORUN OBA, BABA GOD

how can goodluck take the place of God in Nigeria in the name of money GEJ is going to give the musician

shameless

recoome:
@jason123:u nd your friends nt supporting GEJ has no effect, GEJ does not expect everyone 2 support him, he has the bulk of SE/SS already so your 3 votes are null nd void, u shld ask your candidate why they are afraid of going 2 d SE/SS 2 campaign, the northerners are nt supporting buhari becos he's "the best" but becos of ethnicity and religious sentiments, so i wonder who is fooling who? GEJ does nt need your vote 2 win this election, he is a household name already, so come may when he's sworn-in,u are free 2 pack out of Nigeria, i'm 4rm the SS and i can never betray my own(GEJ) 4 any reason whatsoever. Buhari was PTF chairman, minister of petroleum, & president and he did nothing 4 the SS, rather than launder our money and connive with abacha 2 kill our leader(ken-saro wiwa), now u pple are sayin that he is the messiah, when he was president how many SSerners did he appoint in his cabinet or as governors? which laudable project did he take up in the SS? It's high time we take our destiny into our own hands by ensuring that one of our own gets there, [b]the north have ruled 4 39 yrs out of 50yrs [/b]and all they do is promise us heaven and earth, they said they will make SS like dubai & kuwait, yet all we see is oil spillage and gas flaring, do u ever think a SSer will ever be a frontline presidential candidate again? NO-the north will never allow that and the SE only lent us support becos they didnt have any contestants 4 the position, they will not be sn generous next time, dnt let us waste this opportunity.think!!

at bold

this is the statment that annoys me the most 

are you mad or you are just stu.pid or maybe you did not go to school

how has the north ruled for 38yrs

how how please answer

is military government not different from civilian

in the military the soliders take power by coups or force etc

in democrazy it is by votes so talking about the north we have ruled for 3 yrs out of 11 yrs of a democratic government system

haba