₦airaland Forum

raulkayod:
hope the promotions are not skewed to favor one section of the Country

Factfinder1:
85% will be quota system northerners

PennywysCares:

Lets see the names of the newly promoted officers.
E get why

tasalanoni:
I won't want to see the list. It's a fully Hausa/Fulani business.

ArcSEMPECJ:
Good one, let the promotion come as at when due and with zero Fulanisation of the promotion......
May be a good Brian can be found amongst them to boost security....just may be...

The Nigerian Navy promoted 21 Commodores to Rear Admirals and 36 Captains to Commodores, while the Nigerian Air Force promoted 30 new Air Vice Marshals from Air Commodores and 36 Group Captains to Air Commodores.

Below are the names of the newly promoted officers:

Newly promoted Major Generals:

CU Onwunle,
M Dan madam,
OJ Akpor,
HT Wesley
UT Musa
AA Eyitayo
V Ebhaleme
LT Omoniyi
MNB Mamman
NU Muktar
A Adamu
DI Salihu
SA Akesobe
KA Isoni
HT Dada
AS Chinade
AA Ariyibi
W Shaibu
AA Adeyinka
BA Alabi
OT Olatoye
JH Abdussalam
ST Shafaru
PP Malla
BY Baffa
TE Gagariga
GM Mutkut
MT Durowaiye
JD Omali
J Mohammed
ZL Abubakar
ES Buba
JAL Jimoh
BE Onyeuko
JG Mohammed and EC Ekwesi
Those promoted from Colonels to Brigadier Generals are:

O Adegbe
AA Babalola
NN Orok
K Abdulkarim
VE Cletus
OA Aminu
GO Olorunyomi
MS Adamu
C Ogbuabo
JO Are
SA Adeyemo
AA Tawasimi
AT Lawal
BMG Martins
MJ Gambo
OO Olutunde
ML Abubakar
MU Ikobah
OO Yakubu
PK Zawaya
DR Dantani
BO Amakor
JH Bawa
EU Effiong
NA Mohammed
JO Ememe
DJ Abdulllahi
JU Gombe
J Ibrahim
MO Agi
CA Baushe
MY Lawal
RS Omolori
OO Obolo
OA Obasanjo
TJ Mackintosh
UC Ezeh
N Mbaka
T Ahmed
MO Ibrahim
BO Omopariola
UV Unachukwu
OM Oyekola
OAO Ojo
NN Rume
M Isah
AS Maikano
MI Falana
AD Abubakar
SS Diwa
D Umaru
A Mohammed
MK Sanda
HI Dasuki
S Ahmed
JA Ifeanyi
UA Lawal
YO Zubair
EA Koleoso
OJ Majebi
OA Ochagwuba
EC Emere
SM Dagari
AD Isa
I Tanko
A Jimoh
SI Said
AO Solarin
H Mohammed
JB Ibrahim
A Abdulkarim
II Adamu
A Iliyasu A Baningo
S Umaru
AA Ahmed
The newly-promoted Rear Admirals in the Nigerian Navy include AA Olugbode, former director Naval information, CF Azike, I Zilani, AD Bingel, KC Ezete, LC Izu, EI Ogalla, HUF Kaoje, SA Akinwande, USAChugali, EO Ferreira, B. Mohammed, MG Oamen, AM Ibrahim, A Ahmed, JN MAMMAN, PK Zakaria, AAO Orederu, H Ibrahim, SJ Oyegbade, SA Lawal.

The newly promoted Captains to Commodores in the Nigerian Navy are SA BAWA, ME EJUMABONE, MM EPELLE, GPZ ADO, OO FADAHUNSI, M FAKROGHA, PE METEKE, PP NIMMYEL, NS LAKAN, SM AHMED, ST LENGAYA, RT OLADEJO, MS OLUKOYA, AO OJO, OA AKINBAMI, HJ ARUOMAREN, CA ISAH, AO OJEBODE, BO ONALO, A ORIDE, MB SALISU, BM SULE, AA UMAR, BH SABO, ZS SULEIMAN IG IKONNE, SI MOHAMMED, CA OBIKA, OA OSHATUNBERU, JK ADEDEJI, OD NNATU, I PEPPLE, JE ADEDEJI and UM BUGAJE, MA ADETUNJI.

Those promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal in the Nigerian Air Force include PN Amadi, NN Anababa, A Abdulkadir, AV Ndace, UK Abdulahi, EE Effiom, IM Etukudo, AY Abdulahi, SK Aneke, NI Ilo, AH Amensilola, EO Ebiowei, MM Onyebashi, EO Shobande, S Olatunde, FO Edosa, AH Shinkafi, BR Mamman, HA Adebowale, AH Bakari, EF Batnah, AK Ademuwagun, LI Oluwatoyin, TZ Dauda, OS Ogunsina, NV Aguiyi, AT Marquis and OO Ogunmola.

https://dailytrust.com/just-in-military-promotes-dhq-spokesman-234-others-amid-forceful-retirement-rumour

kenex4ever:
He did not absorb anything

He will still test them to select the best fit

Their first class and 2:1 are the only test that will qualify them for the job!

BluntCrazeMan:
From the content of the Letter, your topic is so misleading.
ATBU happened to be one of the numerous Universities he wrote to.
But you made the topic to appear as if he beamed his searchlight only on ATBU, and thus neglecting the whole lots of other Nigerian Universities.

I said ATBU in the headline because the letter belongs to them. In the write-up, I made it clear that he promised the same thing to KUST, ABU has been benefiting from his recruitments. Also the letter make it clear that he intends to employ graduate Engineers across the Nation not only those schools.
I took part as a delegate of Young Engineers in a meeting in 2019 whereby we appealed to him and Abudssamad BUA to employ graduate Engineers especially from Kano and Jigawa. The meeting was convened by Jigawa-Kano professionals forum, NSE of the two states branches lead by Vice President, World Federation of Engineering (WFEO), Engr.MUSTAPHA Balarabe Shehu.
I'm upbeat this recruitment will cut across the Nation!

faste:
See yourself!can they complete this project in your own life time?

Is it Nigeria's project?
It's Chinese company. Did it take them life time to connect Europe with gas pipeline from Arab and Russia?

Many people don't understand El Rufai. He and Sunusi Lamido are suffering from psychological and mental disorder. They only believe in themselves and their principles, Any other verdict beside their is unacceptable.

I bet that PMB will be the next President that ElRufai will abuse and accuse oflota ofwrkng doings!

descarado:
You can never win any Nigerian election without cultists. Be it north or south.

It isn't true. Averagely speaking there is no cultism in Northern states.
Politicians use thugs not cultist. Only political will can end cultism and thuggery.
Between 1999-2011 there were many thugs in Jigawa, Katsina (kauraye), Gombe, Bauchi (Sara suka), Kano (yan daba) but with political will of the predecessors of those Governors there are nor those gangsters in Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe and Kano. It is only recently that Ganduje is trying to set back the good work of his predecessors in Kano.
Kwankwaso has done excellent work with very good approach in eliminating those gangs in Kano.
There are thugs bit not cultist!

nomshu:
Useless government, all there agenda against the christian will continue to fail. Sote sote muslim no result

nomshu:
Useless government, all there agenda against the christian will continue to fail. Sote sote muslim no result

Brendaniel:
And one Abdullahi comes on board... chai!

b3llo:
All northern Ministers are muslims except Benue and Plateau State.

wolesmile:
It's now very glaring that the Buhari/Idiagbon regime was run by Idiagbon. Buhari was just a figurehead Head of State then.
The only thing he knows how to run well is to actualize the Fulani agenda. By the time the Fulanis are done with their proposed takeover...



It's better we all wake up from our sleep and revolt against this government before it's too late.

Engr. SALEH Mamman was recently impeached by the President and replaced him with another candidate from the same state.
This unnecessary religious fanaticism and bigotry you are portraying is too much.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan (2011 – 2015) appointed six (6) ministers from Yoruba land and all of them were Christians and you didn't see anything wrong in it.

9jvirgin:
The only people responsible for the problems of Nigeria are the British. For their selfish reasons they amalgamated sane people with animals. We're now left to deal with this from generation to generation.

It isn't the problem of British but a problem caused by people who live in denial despite being responsible for the problem they accused British and others for.
Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.
*What follows are facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then but some ignorant or selfish people limit their accusations to only Abdussalam Abubakar constitution that give birth to current democratic govt. Today, they're shouting restructuring that they helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria or refuse to let them go. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation.

However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.
Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.

To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".

Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.


However, Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution.

While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe.

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe.
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here is a quote:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"
Northerners have clearly known this & will never succumb to cheap political trick, how can u call us backward and at the same time asking us to go back to 1963 constitution talkless of even amending the current constitution?

Exonerate British from your allegations and accept that your forefathers are responsible for it!

DubaiLandLord:
For my area, dem no dey sell #100 rice sef



The FG do support the Northern Region more in the Agricultural sector.

They need to start supporting Southern Farmers in the production of food crops.

Forget that misappropriated and misplaced support. The support goes to mostly Politicians who use the money for other things. The number of Northern farmers is too much for Govt support!



CBN empowers South-west farmers with inputs
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/cbn-empowers-south-west-farmers-with-inputs/

CBN urges South-East region to embrace intervention programmes
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/05/cbn-urges-south-east-region-to-embrace-intervention-programmes/

525 IMO FARMERS TO BENEFIT FROM THE CBN ANCHOR BORROWERS’ PROGRAMME
https://nirsal.com/2019/03/25/525-imo-farmers-to-benefit-from-the-cbn-anchor-borrowers-programme/

Rugaria:
Innoson is not running on Arewa crude oil neither was his plant subsidized by The CBN!

Go and check the billions Niara soft loan he collected from CBN. Dangote is bigger than the loan he collected from CBN but he did because business is for smart people not dullard as u sound.
Did innoson applied quarter system in his company recruitment?
The major beneficiaries of Dangote companies are host states and communities he sited his company...

Keep wailing and ask ur people to indulge into similar businesses than ranting out of bigotry...

Alaigbopress:
Just imagine
A refinery that is domiciled in the South will have Engineers from North working on it. No Catchment Quota for even host community. This is the type of Nigeria some people are ready to die for.

Stop this complain if u have never followed his previous recruitment to the oil refinery.
The 900 staffs he sent to India abt 2yrs ago are they from heaven?
Most of them are from south!

Rugaria:
"Recruiting young engineers across the nation" you say? Is Bauchi and " the nation" or is it "across the North"? You lay hundred of kilometers of pipes to load crude oil from the East to your CBN funded refinery in Lagos. You won't go to Bauchi to lay pipelines for crude, neither will you go to Kano... But when it comes to job opportunities in this sector, you first focus on those you consider as "your people"!


This is the kind of One Nigeria they desperately want. You have all the jobs at the Ministry of Petroleum. All the jobs at NNPC and PPMC. All the jobs in the Customs and Army and Police and all that.... Now this... What are Eastern youths from where this resources are being exploited supposed to do? Go to Malaysia and Cambodia to hussle. Abi? While you and your brothers from the desert inherit the earth?
It won't work like that na..

Read the letter and you will see how he made his intentions clear. This unnecessary bigotry and spread of hate is needless. This is just the start and the operation hasn't yet taken off yet.
Dangote's wealth and her source are well known beyong ur bigotry, he refused to enter oil sector earlier because of ppl like u who will smear his name. Ask Yorubas, they're the major beneficiaries of his wealth in terms of jobs and economy. Most of his foremost trustees are Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba because they make themselves worth the trust. Keep going peddling the drugs to Malaysia and Cambodian and see if u can be employable for such jobs.
Tolerate others and make ur environment peaceful fornon-indigines business to thrive and u will see Dangote there. Now BUA is making his refinery at Akwa Ibom, this Eastern oil u keep repeating is nonsensical and misleading.
Oil pipeline to the North is a long term plan to channel oil from Delta to Europe but it will go through Northern Nigeria, Niger Republic, Sahara, Algeria, and go to Europe, this is business and the AKK pipeline is funded by PPP mostly private companies.
Business know no tribe or religion.

Dangote oil Refinery absorbs 3 consecutive set of ATBU Engineering Graduates

Dangote has directed the absorption of Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering Graduates from ATBU, Bauchi who graduated between 2019-2021.
Dangote who is the Chancellor of KUST Wudil, Kano has promised to do the same to the University since 2016 while Engineering Graduates from ABU and other universities have been benefitting from such recruitments. This is in line with his commitment to recruit Young Engineers across the the Nation into his multibillion dollar oil refinery.

This is the work of Jagaban. Timely intervention by Tinubu made this man get to his sense and adopt peaceful resolution than the previous thug style approach.
Tinubu is truly a leader!

OneBulletOnly:
If you are current and observing keenly with development in Igboland ranging from Mkpuru miri drug saga to killing and beheading of traditional rulers and youths in Igboland. You will understand that all this is been orchestrated to destroy Igboland because Igboland have remained the only region the Jihadist government find so difficult to conquer right from the Biafran War.
All other tribes have already been bought and conquered, once they are able to defeat the Igbos, that's it. The Jihad against Christians in Nigeria will begin in fullness.

Don't say you were not warned.

Am not a blogger, but I can tell you for free.

Igbos defend your land from everywhere, Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland.

Use every skill at your disposal to defend your region.

When North was under invasion of Boko Haram and now banditry would you agree if they claim they're under attack of crusaders?

You only learn the pain of others when the same disaster befalls on you.

Many bigots, see BH insurgency as a Northern agenda which resulted in killing thousands of youths especially in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. BH disguised in the pretence of Islam to perpetrate all sort of criminalities.

When bandits are orchestrating their evil on Northerners, you accused North of bringing Jihadist with zero sympathy to the victims of the banditry who are majorly Muslims. If they killed them who are going to be left to Preside over?

When Kanu brought Biafra violent agitation, u supported him, funded him and cheered him. You see him as Messiah, he made all kinds of hate speeches against Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, Islam and North, you still adhere with his principles, his disciples killed many securities and burnt many Govt properties, instead of you to call him to order you protect him and accuse govt of sponsoring the attacks just to defame his movement. How on earth can security agencies comprising of all Nigerians from all ethno-religious groups allow such things to happen?

Many IPOBs were caught and publicly interrogated for such mayhem and confessed their actions but the whole Igbos deny it.
It is irresponsible to deny Govt involvement in Northern insecurity and accept her involvement in Eastern insecurity.

You can't forever live in denial when the truth is being revealed.

Boko Haram, banditry and Eastern terrorism are born out of sympathy people showed to wicked people who are not out to help in their cause but selfish interest!


When BH insurgency was at its peak under GEJ you said it is an effort to make GEJ's government ungovernable, should we say the same thing for Eastern terrorism as an effort to make PMB's Govt ungovernable? No!
We don't accuse baselessly or out of hate. This is self destruction for the hate of man who will rule for just 8yrs and go!

hardbody:
Blame your leadership. Even Togo? God why

Since the God himself can't help then why should we blame the leaders?

onuman:
Constitution of free and modern countries were NEVER made under MILITARY DICTATORS.

The Constitution of Nigeria was made under Military dictators from Northern Nigeria who practically dictated what was written in the Constitution. The constitutional conferences were a ruse. What powers have civilians under military dictators?
Or you think the southern Nigeria's politicians who have been asking for a democratic restructuring of the political structure of Northern Military dictators and making of a democratic constitution, are fools?
Worse, Nigeria has been irretrivably paralysed by conflicts originating from adoption of unconstitutional Islamic sharia criminal justice system by the political and religious leaders of the sharia states of Northern Nigeria; Secessionist groups in the east like the IPOB you detest, and the Yoruba Nation of west of Nigeria, know this.
Bandits are offshoots of Boko Haram. Will you pay American marines to stop Bandits/Boko Haram/ISWAP, since it's obvious that Nigeria's armed forces cannot defeat them due to the support they derive from civilians and soldiers in high places who are also sympathetic to having a Nigeria with Sharia criminal justice system applied in all the regions of Nigeria?
You can spin all your yarns online defending the political status quo in Nigeria, you are wasting your time. The inevitables: (1) dissolution of dysfunctional Nigeria, or to be kind to your lot, (2) a restructuring of Nigeria's political process with new Constitution, must come to pass, before long. No force on earth can stop either of the two.

Your lot demonise IPOB Secessionists but refuse to accept the fact that the political and religious leaders of the sharia states of the north carved out a new Islamic country for the 12 sharia states when they adopted unconstitutional Islamic sharia criminal justice system between 1999-2001, but clutch tight to one Nigeria because of financial gains from the south of Nigeria.

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;
Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!
Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!
Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.
Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!
We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.
*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze (An Igbo Southerner) was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then but some ignorant or selfish people limit their accusations to only Abdussalam Abubakar constitution that give birth to current democratic Govt.
Today, they are (you are) shouting restructuring that they (your people) helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

Why do you need restructuring when you destroyed the structure you wanted to take us back to?
The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their (your) perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they (you) recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria as a Nation.
However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.
Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.
To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.
But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.
After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe
Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.
It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe.
As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here is a quote:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"
Northerners have clearly known this & will never succumb to cheap political trick, how can u call us backward and at the same time asking us to go back to 1963 constitution that you destroyed?
Practically, 1979 constituition is a copy and paste of 1999 constituition with very little changes, and I'm sure you know who inaugurated and dictate the contents of the constitution. You need to know who are the members of the constitution committee. How can they be so dumb,dogmatic and stupid to accept what isn't suitable for their people?
Why during the constitution conferences your people didn't challenge it?
Learn to be more smart than you appear!

Boko Haram is a creation of few criminals who have no political influence in their territory and used it to get power, strictly a creation of Kanuri from only Yobe and Borno with zero support of others even among them.
Unlike the monster you created, funded and cheered, here we want them to be crushed and nobody want Islamic state in Nigeria. Shariah system predated the coming of colonial masters, missionaries and explorers in the North. Therefore asking them to completely switch from Shariah system they so much cherish and feel comfortable with may sound like a surreptitious religious agenda to shortchange their doctrines and principles they believe in. How can you be so bigotic and fanatic to insist on imposing what others don't want and clearly a creation of your belief?
Almost all Republican Nations in the world have different constitutional laws that guide their conducts in different regions and states. Your accusations are baseless and extremely bias. Stop crying and live your life. What happened had happened and nothing can change it!

BiggyB242:
Thank you for the enlightenment, but you are a northerner right?

You are welcome. Yes, I'm a Northerner!

BiggyB242:
Because they are mostly northeners. If you take read carefully majority of the states mentioned are from the north and middle belt.

The training is done in batches with North-Central states starting and all other zones will subsequently do theirs. The number is too much to be accommodated at the same time that is why it is done this way. Alleging that is only Northerners and Middlebelt states is misleading because States of Nigeria which are generally referred to as belonging to the Middle Belt are: old Plateau (now Plateau and Nasarawa), old Gongola (now Adamawa and Taraba), Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Benue, the Federal Capital Territory, alongside Southern Kaduna, Southern Bauchi, Southern Kebbi, Southern Gombe, Southern Yobe State.
Major indigenous languages are; Tiv, Igede, Ebira, Fulani, Gbagyi, Idoma, Igala, Jukun, Kainji languages, Nupe, Plateau languages, Yoruba.
In Geopolitical distribution of Nigeria, there is nothing like middlebelt. We only have zones and zones are always considered in Federal character principles!

Imagine the ranting they'll flood on the thread if it were in other part of the Nation.
These people are more fanatic than any other group of Nigerians!

onuman:
Death for apostacy, stone adulterous women to death, cut out the hands of thieves, etc, these barbaric penal codes are among the punishment from sharia criminal justice system adopted by political and religious leaders of the 12 sharia states of the north of Nigeria in 2001.


Shortly after, Boko Haram emerged and says that it's fighting for a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system.
Boko haram should have been defeated long ago if not for sabotage of the Nigeria armed forces by some people of the sharia states in high political and military offices in Nigeria.


So why do you expect the mainly non Muslim groups in the south of Nigeria to remain with you in one Nigeria until Nigeria is either finally crippled by strife or conquered by Boko Haram/ISWAP/Northern Nigeria's sympathizers to Islamic sharia criminal justice system?

Remember that Muslim military dictators from Northern Nigeria supervised Nigeria's 1999 Constitution. So your talk about the Constitution having Christian origin is unfounded. The military dictators carefully excluded sharia criminal justice system from the constitution because they must have understood the menace its inclusion could cause in a society where people have different religious faiths.

Is it not better to have Shari'a system for those who advocate for it, which defined the jurisdiction of criminal cases for thieves, murderous and adulterers than to have a lawless society driven by jungle justice? We have seen in numerous occasions how petty thieves are burnt to death, killed by beatings, killed in many inhumane and cruel manners; these are societies that don't like Sharia system but are driven by jungle Justices!
In addition, the same penal codes and sections that defined the jurisdiction in criminal cases in not only Nigeria but advanced Nations have death penalty by Electrocution, by hanging, by firing and all sort of barbaric manners, therefore how is it different from those you so much detest Sharia system with no conscience?
Muslims would be happy and won't in anyway resist establishment of Christian Justice system in Nigeria because we so much believe that Islam and Christianity guide humans in the best way of life!
You (your people) are in many occasions seen here on Nairaland jubilating the destruction of NE, mocking them, calling them terrorists. However, as Boko Haram is fighting for independent Islamic state, IPOB is equally also fighting for independent Biafra land, a state with no Islam or other tribes but only Igbos. Both Boko Haram and IPOBs are terrorists and are restricted to Eastern part of Northern and Southern part of the country respectively. Let them be dealt with by military with no aorta of mercy.
Nigerian territory is for the multicultural and multi-ethnic, multi-religious Nigerians who have the constitutional right to decide the guidance and conducts of their life.

The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.
On November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998”. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations.
So they recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.
When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of them sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. They then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and THISDAY features editor. They did a word-for-word reading and laughed themselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution!
There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999 constitution therefore it can be concluded that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution.
The biggest irony abt the contentious nature of our constitution is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by some prominent Nigerians who mostly took part in the previous constitution starting committees or got favour & protection by the system.

onuman:
Sharia criminal laws are not the same as Sharia civil laws.
Sharia criminal laws are not allowed in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria; but Sharia civil laws are allowed, just as customary laws are allowed in the Constitution.

You are apparently a Muslim but do not understand the difference between Sharia criminal laws and Sharia civil laws.

You must seek to have your own Islamic country ruled with Sharia criminal laws you adopted beginning 1999 in the 12 Northern Nigeria Sharia states. Stop deceiving yourself with yourselves: you can't practise obsolete Sharia criminal laws in the north but strive to share one country with the southern Nigeria groups that bluntly resent Sharia criminal laws.

Boko Haram is fighting for a country to be governed with Islamic sharia criminal laws.

IPOB is campaigning for a Biafra not tainted with Islamic Sharia criminal laws. What's your problem with IPOB?

This is mere fanaticism. The constitution we have today is born in a Christian way of life, colonial masters system and colonial masters are Christians who are in a mission to propagate Christianity, banned the existing Islamic laws and replaced them by Christian laws. Should Christians have enough jurisdiction in their Bible it would've been the doctrine of laws we could've been using in Nigeria.
If we can sit down and write laws with penal codes and sections that guide our conducts then why the bigotry when Some people choose to live in their own way?
Is it not obvious that some people are so uncivilised that women aren't entitled for inheritance in their culture in Nigeria without any existing law backing this cruelty and is still practiced?
Stop dodging reality and know that all groups of people have the right to make laws based on their culture and traditions. Customary law is practice where Christians majority reside and Shari'a is adopted where Muslims are majority.
Despite Shari'a law, National laws supercede Sharia law and only Muslims are tried in sha ria court, Muslims have the right to say they don't want to be tried in Shariah court. So why the excessive religious fanaticism and bigotry?
In a sane society with ethno-religious diversity, states have right to adopt their justice system. In the U.S you see as demigods almost all states have their own laws and Federal laws supercede those of states.

We read and listened to some hate speeches of Kanu and his followers and it is indeed very clear that Religious fanaticism and ethnic jingoism is what beclouded their struggle. They targeted Muslims and their businesses during Endsars protest, they always claim there are no Muslims in the East, Muslims are being marginalised!
Average IPOB is driven by religious bigotry; check their comments on Nairaland, all they do is to descend their energy on insulting others religion, they're shamelessly calling every Muslim terrorist, they call out Yoruba Muslims all sort of derogatory names which is incline to hate!
Ethnic profiling and generalising criminality is very wrong, religious fanaticism and jingoism is a big cancer!

I hope the military keep the tempo of their attacks on him and his men untill he face the wrath of atrocities he committed on innocent souls!

GEEBITE:
You are given to exaggeration. Lagos to Kano is 994km. You just made an preposterous claim of 1516 km road network in Jigawa. Slow down bro. I have an idea of major towns in Jigawa like Hadejia,Gumel and Kaazaure where my cousins went to the FGC there.Not a single city there the capital Dutse was a glorified village before it was made one.Come on 1,516km!!! . Unless they are just constructing roads into void ,or you are counting streets paved.

I can't bring myself so low to just exaggerate the number for nothing.
Jigawa State has 23,154 km2 size. In Jigawa there is no single LG out of 27 that doesn't have township road, villages are linked to LGs with roads.
In Jigawa, within Gwaram LG alone you can cover a distance of more than 70km (Basirka to Gwaram, along Maiduguri road).
The topic isn't about city or village but road infrastructure!

https://www.blueprint.ng/badaru-constructs-93-jigawa-roads-in-6-years/

2023 Presidency: Why we dragged ex-Gov Orji Kalu to court — Bauchi Indigenes

Two Bauchi State indigenes have dragged a former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, before the Bauchi State High Court.

The Bauchi indigenes said the senator’s failure to declare for the 2023 presidency was responsible for their action.

Addressing a press conference in Bauchi, the plaintiffs, Aliyu Ladan and Lawan Abdullahi, informed that they had an agreement with Kalu to contest the presidency under the platform of APC in 2023 but he was being reluctant to declare his interest.

The plaintiffs said they know Kalu’s capacity, which is why they want him to be Nigeria’s next president, adding that only a strategic thinker like the former Abia State governor could rescue the country from its current parlous state.

They added that they approached the court, presided over by Justice Mohammed A Sambo, to compel the Senate Chief Whip to not only respect the agreement they had with him but also to declare his interest to run in the 2023 general election as a presidential candidate.

“We know his capacity to change the scenario; his capacity to change things from negative to positive. He had done it in Abia State. Despite its challenges, Kalu turned the people of Abia into good persons in Nigeria.

“As a result of his laudable achievements and leadership capacity, we entered into an agreement with him last 2nd February 2021 that he will contest for president but he is reluctant to declare his interest.

“Kalu is a person with all the capacity and capability to change the narratives of the nation. He is a man of purpose and foresight, a mentor to many citizens, a dynamic Nigerian, an advocate of justice, a revolutionary politician, a consummate administrator, master strategist. In fact, he is a blessing not only to Igbo but entire all Nigerians.

“We are in court because we want the court to respect our agreement for contesting as President of Nigeria. We want the court to compel Kalu to declare his interest to run in the 2023 general election as a presidential candidate under the platform of APC or any other party.

We want the court to direct Kalu to commence preparation and put all the necessary machinery in place for the purpose of contesting as a presidential candidate,” the plaintiffs said.

According to the duo, many credible groups across the six geopolitical zones of the country were drumming support for Kalu to vie for the 2023 presidency, noting that they found the former governor worthy to lead Nigeria and deliver good governance to the country.

They asserted that Kalu’s credibility, honesty and capacity to deliver endeared him to all Nigerians, adding that, “Kalu has deep relationships with all Nigerians across divides and he has never disappointed in any of these relations.

“He knows many Nigerians and has so many businesses across North and Southern parts of the country for decades and has never disappointed anybody in terms of buying and selling because he is a man of his words a trustworthy.

“We find him worthy because we know whatever he says he will do, he does and whatever he says he will not do, he will not do it. He is sincere to Nigerians, and Nigerians are always sincere to him.”

They, however, urged the ruling All Progressives Congress to commence the process of adopting him as its sole presidential candidate, declaring that Kalu’s managerial skill, experience, and national appeal put him in the best position to rule Nigeria in 2023.

Meanwhile, they informed that while their case against the former governor had been adjourned to 27th January 2022 for hearing, Justice Sambo had ordered them to serve Kalu with the originating summons in the suit, marked BA/331/2021, in Abuja outside the jurisdiction of the court.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/19/2023-presidency-why-we-dragged-ex-gov-orji-kalu-to-court-bauchi-indigenes/

Asgard73:
Maidugiri is a big city.. bornu a very big state.

Maidugiri is capital.. not even worth the Zulum hype .
And yet the whole borno has not seen development.. from Chibok down to Biu.. grorzo

Stop hyping this governors that are doing nothing

Same thing with elrufia.

Kaduna North which is majorly kaduna capital is working
What about other local government.. kafachan ,kataf, chikun, Zaria..

And this one will come with painted flyovers in maidugiri to hype Zulum

Poverty mentality

If you dey hype Zulum and elrufia with this flyovers as deveolpment .. then Nigeria should worship Rivers, Akwaibom, Anambra, Delta , Enugu, Lagos Ebonyi Ondo ..Governors.

Nonsense bigotic assertion. I live almost all my life recently around Rivers, Delta, Anambra and other SS states. It is extremely sad that u consider Wike as a working Governor, he isn't working anywhere beside PHC, Delta is extremely dirty with close to zero infrastructure. It is shameful to include Ondo among the states with good performance. Rotimi isn't performing at the level of some Senators in some other states.
I have been to nooks and crannies of this Nation and I can attest with no much praise that only Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina Governments (past and present) do work in the entire LGs across their states. Now, El Rufai has immensely expand his projects to senatorial district of his state, Umahi is trying, Akwa Ibom is doing very well.
All other Governors work in state capital and use media to hype their useless work which can't in anyway reflect their allocations.
The most deceptive Governors today in Nigeria are Ganduje, Wike, Sanwo-Olu is average (can be considered poorly performing by reflecting on the state allocation and size).

Zulum is really trying, he is just 3yrs but his performance has reached various LGs across the state.
Every 3 months I enter not less than 15 states across Nigeria, those living in state capitals don't know anything about the wickedness of their Govts!

Rexwalters1:
Ogbonnaya Onu President Buhari’s forever trusted loyalist, yet some ipobians want us to believe that the President has something against Ndi Igbos?

Same President Buhari that chose the lion of Anambra Chuba Okadigbo to run with him as his running mate?

He had 2 Igbos as his running mate in 2003 and 2007 before switching to Yorubas in 2011 and 2015.
Propaganda is created to defame popular Politicians but only fools buy it!

Bendeco02:
These Tinubu suppoters like rejoicing over rubbish, so for saleh to mobilize suppoters in Kaduna for Tinubu shows that Tinubu is popular in Kaduna?

Why not elrufai.. ?

You guys are just desperate and like deceiving yourselves.

Northerners sabi press una mumu button

El Rufai lost most of his political relevance in Kaduna with his wickedness policies!

Penguin2:
I believe you are a northerner with a lot of information.

Thank you for lending your voice.

Yes I'm. I know Onu since the time at ANPP!

Advocate500:
i have to disagree with you on this, in as much as i find it difficult to believe that any party will zone their ticket to the east, because every party is in the business to win election not to ensure political imbalances, zoning at this point will be very difficult under two party system, it would have been easier under pdp when their was no APC.

On the event of what happened in two 2015 under the pretence that pdp was not doing well .that was the only reason majority of us from the south supported that arrangement but now we can see clearly, power should returned to the south wether south east or south west the same way we supported power returning to the north.

Average Northerners are advocating for power shift to the south as I'm talking to u now!
Politics is played based on permutation and the permutation done has to be maintained for the sake of democratic coexistence in Nigeria!

oyatz:
Why is Anyim not sellable sir?

He was once a Senate president and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?

Does that mean he can even win PDP primary election?
SGF is a mere political appointment while he became SP as a result of party positions permutation!

I so much hate major Kaduna. His killing of Sardauna and Akintola is ethno-religiously motivated. Had it been it was only Tafawa Balewa they killed it would have been excused but killing Premiers of North and Western region and sparing his region's premier is questionable.
Zik knew about the planned coup and left the country, he was supposed to come back but extended his stay for another time to ensure they perpetrated their act when he was away.
Why did they killed Sardauna's wife too?
Major Kaduna was well taken care of by Sardauna but he still killed him!
The coup and killings are motivated by extreme ethno-religious fanaticism!