₦airaland Forum

sjeezy8:
what are you saying my grandmother family is from benin and she was raised in lagos soooo you sound very stupid much less to tlka of the yoruba Lagosian descended from brazilians Govenor Pedro, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez or those from the krio FELA, Ajayi Crowther , ALL OF WHO SPEAK YORUBA AND CLAIM YORUBA.

sjeezy8:
WHAT are you sayin i think the guy is igbo like you, very sensible one, 40 millions igbos to a couple small states, is crazy

From what it seems overwhelmingly most igbos in NL are alike, hard headed and selfish, just from the post all of you have made. The igbos who do not want biafra, are being critized and labled as not being good Igbos by Biafran Igbos, that just shows the division you all have as a tribe.

even no talk of Biafra MANY dont get the point of unity,

Yoruba is a yoruba, whether from Nigeria, Benin(the country) or Togo ,Christian or Muslim

Tsiya:
This is help. The Chinese government is not under any international law or obligation to construct primary school in Nigeria or anywhere in Africa.

They are in Nigeria to do Business and Labourer work. We pay them for their labour and they sell us their fake products, we buy, we dont complain.

nex:
Even an ordinary borehole, I've not seen them construct there USAID people. Scholarships, I've not seen. Roads, no! All they do is claim they use billions of dollars to talk.

Britain will organise lectures to teach us how to be Africans as if they themselves are more African, later they'll claim that aid has been consumed by corruption. Even the prison they say they want to build, where is it?

Please, let's appreciate help that comes from a friend that is going through what we're experiencing and dealing with us as a friend to a friend, not people that use master-slave relationship to lie all around. When Yar'Adua net them the last time, he made it clear that all their billions of dollars promises were a fantasy and they had no answer to that. Yet they want to make us lobby them for what doesn't exist.

Please let's embrace true friends and the real help they offer.

nex:
We keep idealizing all the time: 30% for Education, 50% for Niger Delta, 20% for health, then what of power, transport, jobs, security, housing, subsidies, foreign reserves, civil servant salaries, NTA and debt management? What about the other states of the federation? What about the Federation account? All these should not be budgeted for? What about our embassies abroad?

We can't afford 30% for Education alone, not that we don't wish it.

You people keep talking about Federal Government all the time, but what about your parents. In civilized countries, parents start saving for their children's education right from birth. Here we seek charity.

You should be looking to your parents for school fees not Government, unless you weren't brought into this world on purpose.

Why we hit Bauchi, Borno, says Boko Haram
Headlines Jul 31, 2009 By Patience Ogbodo Bauchi, additional report by Uduma Kalu
Profile of Boko Haram
It will be a long war, Boko Haram Boko Haram, the group behind the latest violence in Northern Nigeria, is known by several different names, including al_Sunnah wal Jamma, or Followers of Muhammad’s Teachings in Arabic, and Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden” in the local Hausa language.

The group was founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, allegedly by one Mohammed Yusuf, a religious teacher. In 2004, it moved to Kanamma in Yobe state, close to the border with Niger, where it set up a base dubbed “Afghanistan”, from which it attacked nearby police outposts.


Arrested members of Boko Haram in Maiduguri
Boko Haram, which includes members who come from neighbouring Chad, is said to not only oppose Western education, but Western culture as well. Abdulmuni Ibrahim Mohammed, a senior member of the group arrested on Monday, told the media that “We do not believe in Western education. It corrupts our ideas and beliefs. That is why we are standing up to defend our religion.”

The latest clashes began in Dutsen Tenshin, a neighbourhood of the city of Bauchi, capital of the state of the same name. Bauchi is one of 12 states in northern Nigeria where sharia, or Islamic law, is practised.

Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians in Bauchi state in February left at least dozens people dead. Muslims attacked Christians and set fire to churches in retaliation for the burning of two mosques, which had been blamed on Christians. Last November, more than 700 were killed in Jos, capital of Plateau state, when a political feud over a local election degenerated into bloody confrontation between Muslims and Christians.

‘Democracy, education must change’, says leader

Mohammed Yusuf in a media interview said, “Democracy and the current system of education must change, otherwise this war that is yet to start will continue for long.”

And this has proved true as the clash which started in Bauchi has escalated to other neighbouring states like Borno, Adamawa, Kano and Katsina.

Many members of this group tore their degree certificates, while others dropped out from schools as a way of renouncing western education.

Why we hit Bauchi

Boko Haram came to Bauchi in January 2009 with their base at the Federal Low Cost, Fadama Mada and the airport area where they usually gathered children and the youth whom they trained.


Boko Haram members killed iduring shot out with police
The Islamic fundamentalists have been campaigning against western education in Nigeria, especially, in the Northern states. They were said to have sparked off the crisis when their members launched an attack at the Tusen Tanshi Police Station in the early hours of Sunday.

The group, it was said, reacted to why its adherents were prevented by the government in Bauchi, with the use of security agents, from publicly practising their belief, as well as win more members for the sect.

However, before the attack, members of the sect have been planning a demonstration in Bauchi for a long time. But they were not able to do so, as government feared that if the doctrine was allowed to be preached publicly, it would cause a religious crisis.

Government was also said to against the demonstration, considering the fact that the teachings are completely contrary to other Islamic sects’ stand as regards peaceful coexistence.

The attack, timing, recruitment

This situation made the Islamic sect troop out in their hundreds to the Dutsen Tanshi Police Station in the early hours of Sunday, and attacked it, chasing away the few policemen on duty, and forced themselves into the station, destroying anything they could lay their hands on. But they could not break into the armoury, which was under lock and key.

That was the beginning of the ugly Sunday. And though the state has had other violent terrorists’ acts, the latest episode was a bloodbath. And Bauchi State residents will not forget it in a hurry.

It was Sunday, July 26, 2009. And members of the Islamic sect called Boko Haram, which means ‘western education is sin’, gathered in their hundreds at 4 am. Their target, this time, were not the Christians but security agents.

By the end of the fight between the security agents and the militants, 39 members of Boko Haram lay dead while two policemen and one soldier were killed.

Boko Haram’s gun shots

One of the residents of Federal Low Cost, Samuel Daniel, a civil servant, told Saturday Vanguard that they were woken up from sleep that Sunday morning by gun shots sounds which lasted for hours.

“When we heard the gun shot , we thought it was armed robbers. So, we all hid under our bed and shut the doors. But we later heard that it was a clash between security agents and Islamic sects.”

Recruitment

Speaking to Saturday Vanguard, one of the members of the group arrested by security men in Bauchi, 18 years old Adamu Adbullahi, who dropped out of school, said he disobeyed his mother in order to join Boko Haram.

According to him, “They do not force anybody to join because my mother was against me joining the group. But I told her I believe in their teaching and that is what I read in the Quran due to that we desire that everybody should be practicing muslims”.

Salisu Mohammed, a conflict management specialist, told Al Jazeera that Nigerian authorities should have acted sooner to stop the proliferation of Boko Haram. “Many people have known of the existence of this group, silently and within the community, especially in the last year,” he said.

“They are becoming more extreme because in the past, there wasn’t a major push in place to check their proliferation. They are taking advantage of a broken-down structural condition in Nigeria that people can take the law into their hands without getting reprimanded.”

Analysts have also said that at the heart of this week’s violence is dire poverty and political manoeuvring _ not religion. They believe attacks were committed mainly by frustrated, unemployed youths and orchestrated by religious leaders and politicians who manipulate them to retain power.

39, policeman, soldier killed

The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 12, Bauchi, Moses Anegbode, described the Islamic sect as a criminal group parading itself as a religion which he said is a threat to peace of the people in the state.

The AIG disclosed that 39 of the Boko Haram were killed in a confrontation by a joint security operation last Sunday in Bauchi, while 176 of them were arrested and 15 injured.

He added that a lance corporal in the Army and two policemen were killed in the operations against the group.
According to him, the security operatives went after members of Boko Haram after they attacked a police station in Dutse Tanshi and opened fire during attempts to arrest them at their various hideouts at the Federal Low Cost and Fadama Mada areas.

Maiduguri, Nigeria’s first suicide mission target

Speaking further, Anegbode said that in Maiduguri that same Sunday, some members of the group, in spite of the heavy security in the state, came to a police station on a suicide mission with three motorcycles and sped towards the gate and set it ablaze.

According to the AIG “ They forbid anything western yet their leader has an array of western materials in their position and their usage. Even the phone, Jeep cars. I wonder if they were made by him, and they are notorious for kidnappings, for raping, for intimidation and molestation and known to be anti_establishment.”

Boko Haram’s weapons

Anegbode revealed that dangerous weapons such as AK 47, 270 rounds of live ammunition, a single_barrel gun, three locally made single barrel_gun, two locally made revolver pistols, 5 rounds of 7.66 live ammunition, 500 rounds of 7.66 mm live ammunition, 21 live cartridges were recovered from their enclave in Fadama Mada in Bauchi metropolis.

He said “The implications of this is that these men are armed with sophisticated guns like, pump action guns, revolver pistols, AK 47 and lar rifles recovered from them. The operation is still on_going. We are doing mope up operation so that these items can be recovered,” he added.

According to him, two bags of lethal gun powder used for making explosives, 200 detonators, over 1, 000 locally fabricated plastic cylinders that could be used for manufacture of local guns, were also recovered from them. He described the items as dangerous substances and could be directed at society.

Other items recovered from the Boko Haram were 33 assorted knives, four jack knives, one sword, three cutlasses, eight catapults, three bows and arrows, three quivers containing 63 arrows, two unregistered motorcycles, three sewing machines, lots of army uniforms, seven bags of potassium nitrate used for explosives manufacture, police uniform bearing a force number , and foodstuff.

The AIG stated that the joint operation made up of police, army and State Security Service (SSS) went into a joint operation against the group due to that there was imminent threat to security of peace in Bauchi State by their activities.

A criminal group

He said they got the approval of Governor Isa Yuguda to carry out the operation against the group saying, it has nothing to do with religion. “It is just a group of criminals wearing the toga of religion. It is criminal, it is unacceptable and so we had to intervene. ”

Anegbode then assured members of the public of the security agents readiness to ensure safety of lives and property saying that they have mounted road blocks, check points to tyrack the members of Boko Haram down. In his reaction to the development, Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Yakubu Lame said the IGP has been ordered to ensure peace and security of lives and properties of innocent citizens across the country.

He stated that in as much as government is committed to freedom of religion, it would not condone any fundamentalism which will bring about break down of law and order in the country.

Also reacting to the incident, the Bauchi State Governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda described the fundamentalists as militants, saying its routing is the best thing to happen in order to be lasting peace in the state.
He urged Nigerians to see it as a national issue which he said their plan is to attack everybody.

He called on his colleagues across the country to take similar security steps in order to cleanse the country of militancy of whatever form. According to him, “Today, we are celebrating that we have been able to see the end of the problem because I have always said that what is happening in Bauchi is not religious riot but militancy as it is happening all over the country. But we thank Allah that everybody has now seen that we are right.

We’ll smash them, says Yuguda

Yuguda then called on the security agents to keep up the good work and ensure the security of lives and properties of all innocent citizens of the state. “I advised my colleagues to take a cue from us and pre-empt these people because they do not mean well for humanity.

I have often said it that no religion preaches violence, neither Christianity nor Islam. People only hide under these two religions to foment trouble and cause deaths of innocent people, just to achieve their selfish aims.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/31/why-we-hit-bauchi-borno-says-boko-haram/

Tippy Top:
And we from the oil producing states would see these and marvel. How the f@ck did we allow our oil money to be squandered to build Lagos and Abuja?

Nigeria, Chinese govts sign N107.4 m contract to build rural schools
National News Jul 31, 2009 By Chris Ochayi

ABUJA — Nigeria and Chinese governments yesterday signed N107.4 million contracts agreement for the construction of four rural primaries schools in four states of the federation. The benefitting states are Katsina, Kaduna and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Dukku, who signed on behalf of the Federal Government, explained that the project was Chinese government-assisted aimed to improve the education standard in the country.

She said the project would also help to compliment the Federal Government’s initiative to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education for All (EFA) goals by 2015.

Thanking the Chinese government for what she described as “kind gesture” and immense contribution to the development of the educational sector in the country, the minister recalled that the Chinese government had consistently assisted Nigeria with many projects in the education sector since in the seventies.

According to her, “this particular assistance is unique and significant because it arises from the forum of China-African Cooperation (FOCAC) where the Chinese President, Mr. Hu Jintao, magnanimously approved the construction of hundred rural primary schools in different African countries with four being allocated to Nigeria, the highest a single country received in Africa.”

Signing for Chinese government, Mr. Wang Lei, the Charge d’Affaires, Chinese Embassy, Abuja explained that though China is still a developing country, and could provide assistance only within its capacity, but China’s assistance is sincere and unselfish.

Mr. Lei explained further that China never attaches any political conditions or demands any political privileges in providing aid to other developing countries.

Explaining the rationale behind the gesture, he said: “Education is of crucial importance to the development of any nation, and we appreciate that education is included in the 7-Point Agenda of President Umaru Yar’Adua.”

udezue:
PEOPLE NEED TO SHUT UP. Enugu is better than PH now so guys Igbos are investing heavily back home. The younger generations are doing it.

yommyuk:
It's part of why smart Igbos are not buying properties in Lagos yet. The values will drop like stone eventually.

Before u can have another lagos. it will take u decades to be where we are at the momment.
U will always be playing catch up. for real.
What u guys used to have is unity. that has gone! Why haven't ur so called smart guys stayed in the east. Because u know competition
will be more intense. The west has always been ur hideaway. You guys wont last.
Lagos and Ibadan in the 1800s was already metropolitian compared to the likes of London and Amsterdam.
Ever b4 ur lot set foot pass Edo

We are the real brains. When the whiteman came to naija - We were the real Threat. The north were the mumus, the east were the follow
follow. We were more organised. If u guys are so smart why haven't u guys come to the UK to operate your business. U wont survive.

The British practiced indirect rule in Nigeria as they had in much of the rest of their colonial states. The Ibo were early opponents to British rule. However, they took advantage of missionaries to become educated and many converted to Christianity, especially Catholicism. They were then selected by the British to fill low-level civil service and business positions, and military posts. Favoritism by the British led to further conflict with other groups when the Ibo were placed in authority positions in the north and southwest.

ezeagu:
Thats a lie and I think you know it, there are many Yoruba people who base themselves in the UK and never plan on going home, just like many other Nigerian ethnicities, you only have to go ask the night-workers, cleaners and NHS workers how long they've been in the UK and then go to Peckham which is Isaleko numero dous.

yommyuk:
As for investments only a blind person will ask what investments igbos have made in lagos and nigeria as a whole.

Name five with their websites

[b]Why are yorubas always running to london and allowing igbos stranglehold of lagos to increase
because we have moved on from petty trading- We have upgraded.
were r u based.[/b] may be umofia


You are talking more out of angry and it is not good for your health

Anger
Please dude don't irritate me.
It is you people that r anger and want to leave.
I beg leave!

MrCrackles:

MrCrackles:

yommyuk:
@Eziachi

who was talking about baring investment
It is u people who keeping banging on about this rubbish BIAFRA fiasco.
It shows how self centred u all are.
Do u Igbos/Ibos really have any good intension regarding moving Nigeria forward.
Lets talk about investments?  what investments are u really talking about.
Is it the okirika shops that ur lot have all over lagos u call investment
Or all the fake goods u keep making at Aba or import from India/ china u call investment - MY ARSE
which Major National industry have u established that has in real terms contributed to the economy

Well if you bar them, then they will take their investment to where people appreciate good things.
I beg, me for one person I can't wait to get rid of your arses for good.
95% of the fake goods come from ur people.
Even in ur okirika shops, do u employ Yorubas or Hausa??
You can only strive in a corrupt country like nigeria where u can selling all ur [b]Counterfeits

Like someone had just said, when people typed, you can just guage their age of reasoning.
Ol boy, with age comes wisdom and experience. This is gained by real life occurences.
A few words are enough for the wise.
Your people better stop all this BIAFRA CRAP because all u r doing is banging ur heads on a rock
and u will only have urselves to blame when Ur heads get smashed like in the 67-70 fiasco.
It will also keep u as 3RD class citizens of Nigeria forever
Monkey wey wan catch monkey must  do like monkey. The Yoruba understand this adage very well

Again I maintain - BIAFRA MY ARSE

sjeezy8:
THEY ARE BITCHES TOO

MY PARENTS LIVE IN NAIJA AND WHOLE SO I WOULD NEVER LEAVE I WANT EVERYONE TO BE OK, YORUBA IGBO EDO HAUSAS IJAW, BUT mess BIAFRANS

sjeezy8:
lol i said any one leaving the country are bitches lol