Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,153,825 members, 7,820,902 topics. Date: Wednesday, 08 May 2024 at 01:30 AM

AsiwajuNdigbo's Posts

Nairaland Forum / AsiwajuNdigbo's Profile / AsiwajuNdigbo's Posts

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (of 62 pages)

Religion / Re: Imam Suleiman Njoku & His Reverend Sister, Celebrate Christmas Together by AsiwajuNdigbo: 7:55am On Dec 26, 2020
LegendHero:


Lol religious tolerance, Igbos, and second to none should not be placed in the same sentence?

Nothing wey we no go see for Nairaland o.

Naptu come and see what you caused. I asked why you didnt put yoruba instead of Igbo for this showcase. My question is almost 48hrs old and you still have not answered.

If you had not focused on Igbo somebody like this ewedu guzzler that do boyboy for Tinubu would lack the effrontery and the audacity to make such insulting statement. Ive been watching some people in this nairaland, people like legendhero that hate Igbo for no reason. Because of his slave worship of tinubu who is morbidly anti Igbo, this legendcoward will say anything spiteful and disgusting just to harass Ndigbo.

Mr naptu, so tell me, upon the fact that every yoruba family have muslim/christian make up, who in your opinion ought to be poster child for Imam/Deacon sibling pair, shouldnt such model come out of yoruba? eehn? Do you know how many yoruba pastors there are in nigeria? Over 50 prominent ones, not to mention the counterfeit ones.

Are you aware each of these 50 yoruba pastors also have yoruba sibling who are muslims, and can be paired to form your thread?

Infact, dont you know pastor bakare has a muslim sister? Dont you know bishop oyedepo has a muslim sister? Infact pastor osinbanjo, the vp of nigeria has a muslim sibling in their family.

Are you trying to ridicule Ndigbo with this Imam Njoku story?

Na by force say we must accept islam?

Legendcoward do not reply me o. Im waiting only for reply from mr naptu on this post.
Religion / Re: Imam Suleiman Njoku & His Reverend Sister, Celebrate Christmas Together by AsiwajuNdigbo: 10:35pm On Dec 25, 2020
naptu2:
Taha @TahaAdam_



https://mobile.twitter.com/TahaAdam_/status/1342459039989587970

I love this. Mr naptu, thank you. Things like this is inspiring. But ihave question.

Are there no yoruba imam with a reverend sister to show? Why pick on Imam "Njoku"?

Anyway, happy new year in advance.
Family / Re: Abroad Sisters, Stop Shaming Us by AsiwajuNdigbo: 7:09pm On Dec 25, 2020
vivsravine:
Thank you all for
Your

Views
shares
likes
Comments

Its indeed very interacting

Please Ahudiya is a woman not a man

Support your own and visit my blog spot for. More on my write ups https://vivoparah..com/?m=1

Or chat me on Facebook on oparah ahunna vivian or jion my Facebook page on Vivsravine

Many thanks, i appreciate

Attached is my pic for those who worry..

See as you fine sef. grin
Dont let me catch you o. cool
Family / Re: Abroad Sisters, Stop Shaming Us by AsiwajuNdigbo: 7:08pm On Dec 25, 2020
vivsravine:


Am a woman o

That why am xalled Ahudiya

Please visit my blog for more on my write ups

https://vivoparah..com/?m=1

Are you one of the yeye sisters shaming us abtoad too? Why are you acting abroad like you wouldnt act at home? Una go travel and start behaving any kind way. Calm down and remember where you came from.
Politics / Re: Trust Us Again To Fix Nigeria, Buhari Begs Nigerians by AsiwajuNdigbo: 6:44am On Dec 25, 2020
Too late. US Congress has opened hearing. They are looking into acts of genocide. This is no time to plead with nigerians at all. We pleaded with Buhari many years he told people to go solve their dispute and live peacefully with fulani killers.

US is looking at acts of genocide and also acts of massacre of Lekki protesters.

Get ready for your day of retribution.
Politics / Re: Kankara Schoolboys: Ransom Was Paid To Secure Our Release by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:34pm On Dec 24, 2020
lexy2014:


"After six nights in captivity, the students were handed to security agents on the night of Dec."

This doesn't sound like d commando rescue d army said it undertook

Lol.
If you show to bandits video of nigerian army in action and "call of duty" army in video game, they will fear the animated soldiers more and consider a surrender right away. They have no respect for nigerian army.
Celebrities / Re: DJ Cuppy Gets Hermes Birkin Bag On Second Date (Photo) by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:25pm On Dec 24, 2020
[s]
sadeeqm:
I still like this babe
[/s] angry
Celebrities / Re: DJ Cuppy Gets Hermes Birkin Bag On Second Date (Photo) by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:24pm On Dec 24, 2020
See bae. Very beautiful & charming

kiss

Career / Re: She's Dark, Beautiful And A Female Barber (Photos, Video) by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:17pm On Dec 24, 2020
MikePhilly:
WCW: Meet Hairports Female Barber, How much would You Pay.

Edited by KvngIvanTheTerrible for Plugcentralhub
Introduction.

Arguably Iju's hotspot for hottest exports in talents, music and diversity across town, Hairport Unisex Salon boasts of top hair care & service by the most skillful barbers/ stylists in Lagos.

Meet
Ojo Oluwadamilola Abosede- dark skinned beauty and buxom addition to the Hairport crew, proudly trained by the competent duo of Hayzed and Drey.

During this brief montage, Damilola is captured on tape brilliantly tending the hair of a customer who stepped into Hairport for a first class cut with shades of tint.

Watch Damilola in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcVt6kyQZ-k

@hairportunisexsalon
@ife_faji

Op why you press camera lens on her breast, na the haircut be dat? grin

The girl fine sha. See her curvy hips. Mmmmahh. kiss

1 Like

Politics / Re: Kankara Schoolboys: Ransom Was Paid To Secure Our Release by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:05pm On Dec 24, 2020
orisa37:



MAFH ARE TERRORISTS AND BUHARI IS BEHIND THEM-BY CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR-CNN.

Politics / Re: IGP: We Need To Strategise With Miyetti Allah, Others To Forestall Banditry by AsiwajuNdigbo: 6:21am On Dec 24, 2020

60 Likes 5 Shares

Politics / Kankara Schoolboys: Ransom Was Paid To Secure Our Release by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:59am On Dec 24, 2020
Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolboys Say Ransom Was Paid, Tell of Beatings

KATSINA, Nigeria — It was on the third day in captivity that the Lawal brothers thought they would be executed.

Exhausted and hungry, their bare feet lacerated after long marches at gunpoint through a dense forest with more than 300 abducted schoolmates, 16-year-old Anas and 17-year-old Buhari were ordered by their kidnappers to answer a question.

“Is your family poor?” said one of the gunmen, much of his face masked by a turban. “If they are, we will kill you now. They won’t be able to afford the ransom,” he said.

The brothers, whose father, Abubakar Lawal, is a construction-industry consultant with an income of $100 a month—middle class by the region’s standards—said nothing and stared at the ground.

“We thought they would kill us there and then,” said Anas.

“That was the scariest part. We thought we’d never see our family again,” said his older brother, who is named after Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari.

Three days later, the Lawals were among the 344 students from the all-boys Kankara Government Science School who were released, a happy ending to a terrifying week in which they endured beatings, threats and deprivations at the hands of their kidnappers. Jihadist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Three boys said in interviews that the kidnappers told them a ransom had been paid for their release. A person familiar with the kidnappers’ talks with the government said a sizable sum had been paid for the boys’ freedom.

During their captivity, according to interviews with eight of the freed students, boys as young as 13 were forced to eat raw potatoes and bitter kalgo leaves to survive. They were seldom allowed rest, sleeping on rocky ground home to snakes and scorpions. They threw themselves on the forest floor to avoid being spotted by military jets their captors said would bomb them.

After six nights in captivity, the students were handed to security agents on the night of Dec. 17, some 80 miles from their school, in the neighboring state of Zamfara.

The release prompted outpourings of joy and relief across Africa’s most populous nation after fears the boys would become long-term hostages of Boko Haram.

The mass abduction — the largest such kidnapping in Nigerian history — came six years after Boko Haram seized 276 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok, igniting the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Those hostages were in custody for three years until 103 were freed for a ransom that people involved said included the exchange, mediated by Switzerland, of five imprisoned militants and 3 million euros, equivalent today to $3.66 million.

Yet the Kankara kidnapping was resolved within a week, following a secret deal, the details of which remain a mystery.

Government officials denied paying ransom and said the kidnappers released the schoolboys because the military had surrounded them.

However, three boys said their kidnappers told them they were initially paid 30 million naira, equivalent to around $76,000, but decided not to release the boys because they had demanded 344 million naira—1 per head.

“They threatened to release only 30 of us when the 30 million initial ransom was paid,” said 16-year-old Yinusa Idris. “They even took 30 of us away on motorcycles ready to release,”
he said.

Imran Yakubu, a 17-year-old, said the kidnappers told them: “One million naira must be paid per each student…or we will recruit or kill you.”

None of the boys said they saw money changing hands. A person familiar with the negotiations said a ransom was transferred in three batches.


A spokesman for the federal government said: “The information we have is that not a dime was paid in ransom, and we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the information.”

A spokesman for Zamfara’s state government said it paid no ransom but couldn’t tell if ransom was paid by other persons who participated in the negotiations.

A ransom payment would signal the increasing integration of criminality and terrorism in the region. On Saturday, less than 24 hours after the Kankara boys were reunited with their parents, Katsina police said that 84 students had been kidnapped before being freed after a fierce gun duel. On Friday, in neighboring Borno state, 35 people were abducted on a highway by Boko Haram, the state government said.

The Kankara kidnapping is also raising fears about the evolution of Boko Haram, which has expanded from its base in northeast Nigeria to ally itself with bandit groups in the northwest. Nigeria’s government says Boko Haram wasn’t involved in the kidnapping and only released the fake video claims of responsibility to seek relevance.

Some analysts say the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, who released two audio clips and a video claiming responsibility for the boys’ kidnapping, has a lucrative new business model: using his infamy to raise the cost of ransom payments in return for a percentage cut.

Fulan Nasrullah, a terrorism analyst who worked on the mediation to free the Chibok girls and other kidnappings, says Shekau—Africa’s most-wanted terrorist, with a $7 million U.S. bounty on his head—has found a lucrative new niche. “The kidnappers tried to ransom the boys for peanuts until Shekau got involved,” he said.

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Dec. 11, the Lawal brothers had just finished cleaning their sleeping quarters ahead of a dorm inspection the following morning when they heard gunfire. Several boys jumped from their rusting iron bed frames and the room became full of panicked chatter.

“We were all confused,” Buhari said.

“We should run,” he heard one voice say. “No, it’s vigilantes,” said another, referring to the civilian militia that often patrolled the area at night.

Then another volley of gunfire erupted, closer and louder, followed by the sound of voices barking instructions.

Anas joined the group of boys streaming out of the dormitory and toward the compound’s cement walls. There were more than 100 armed men in the school courtyard. They were shining bright flashlights and streaming into the pastel-colored buildings. “Gather here. We are soldiers,” they said. “We are soldiers.”

In the melee, Buhari and Anas lost each other.

The armed men told the hundreds of boys gathered in the unlit courtyard that they had been deployed for the school’s protection and that the students needed to follow them. Anyone who refused would be shot.

“We knew then they were not soldiers, but kidnappers,” Anas said.

The gunmen, some on foot, others on motorcycles, ordered the boys to walk in a long column, hitting anyone who walked too slowly with a whip or rifle butt.

By midnight, the hostages had entered the “Rugu” the sprawling forest that stretches over four of Nigeria’s 36 states. The brothers still had no idea if their sibling was among those kidnapped. “I couldn’t see Anas anywhere,” Buhari said. “I didn’t know if anything had happened to him.”

The boys walked until 5 a.m., hacking their way deeper into the forest, then were allowed to rest on rocks for an hour until they were ordered to move again. Almost all of them walked barefoot: They had had no time to grab their sandals.

In the daylight, the hostages got a better look at their captors. Many were also teenagers and some said they too had been kidnapped, and conscripted.

On the third day, the Lawal brothers saw each other again. “We rushed to hug and said we wouldn’t be separated again,” said Buhari.

“From then on we stuck together,” Anas said.

At one point, when the guards were looking at the sky, two students close to the back of the convoy tried to slip away. The hostages were all told to halt so they could watch their classmates be punished.

"The older one’s hands were tied to a tree and he was beaten,” Buhari said. “Water was poured on his body in the early morning so that he could feel the freezing cold.”

Some of the boys heard their captors discussing the details of the negotiations with representatives of the Zamfara state government.

On Thursday morning, a commander told them, “Tonight, you can sleep at your parents’ house.”

The kidnappers had a final message for their captives: If they went back to school, they’d kidnap them again.

Within hours, the boys were handed to security agents in a forest clearing and hoisted onto trucks bound for home. Buhari and Anas sat next to one another, relieved but saying little.

Now home in their father’s cream-colored three-room house, the brothers have agreed they won’t go back to the Kankara Government Science Secondary School.

“We don’t want a repeat of that experience,” Buhari said. “I am calling on my namesake, Nigeria’s president, to help us find another school, where we can study in peace.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/kidnappednigerianschoolboys-say-ransom-was-paid-tell-of-beatings-11608747119

4 Likes 2 Shares

Politics / Re: Have The Igbos Accidentally Taken Yoruba Slot? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 1:45pm On Dec 23, 2020
Bonesking,
Where are other children born by Igwe Onyejekwe? Bring them out and compare pictures of his other sons with Obasanjo.
Politics / Re: Tax Requirements For People Living In Nigeria And Working Virtually Abroad by AsiwajuNdigbo: 4:43am On Dec 23, 2020
LordFriar:
Hey Heroshark. Kindly respond .. On what platform did you the get the remote job please??

Ol boy, go here. I once almost hit a jackpot. I applied and was selected for a test. I did test and was told wait for interview. I dont know if they didn't know how to call naija on phone or what but i never got call. Then i received email that they found a more fitting person. Try your luck.

https://weworkremotely.com/
Family / Re: Afam Uzowulu Vandalises Estranged Wife’s Residence Over Divorce by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:36pm On Dec 22, 2020
emeijeh:
See as he chop the fence like rat wen chop certificate remain.
He removed the roof like a disappointed inlaw.

The man must be an angry bird man


[img]https://media1./images/7cf5496978b667eca7501562b3bcf061/tenor.gif?itemid=15575812[/img]

grin
Politics / Re: Those Opposed To Eastern Security Networl Are Identified by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:30pm On Dec 22, 2020
Nigeriabiafra80:
Oga shut up
Stop pointing at anambra
We all support ESN

If you support abeg pass word around to those who do not. Let us show Nigeria we people as a race are bigger than they have given us honor. Upon all the money and investments my people sink everywhere dem suppose to worship us. But instead we are treated worse than foreigners. Some foreigners sef get mouth pass us for this country. Imagine that.

So we are homebound. But we need security first and foremost.

1 Like

Politics / Re: Those Opposed To Eastern Security Networl Are Identified by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:27pm On Dec 22, 2020
madmohamed:
oga I be Anambra man I give it my full support. So maind you word

God bless you!
I no mean say na every Anambra man oppose o. No, thats not what im saying. Infact a povket of prople in every state oppose it. Its just that the sponsors of the anti ESN, those on a crusade against are Anambra. Even Abia get people who oppose, and you know thats Kanu home.
Yes, i cant castigate everybody.

This thing go succeed in Jesus name

1 Like

Politics / Re: Nigeria Loosing Control Of NW Region (arewa) by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:04pm On Dec 22, 2020
seunmsg:
The insecurity in the north, especially the north west is a creation of the irresponsibilities of northern leaders, elites, politicians, religious and traditional rulers. They really need to do a serious soul searching and come out to tell the rest us if they truly want peace.

The so called bandits are well know to the people and community leaders. We’ve seen pictures of north west governors with the bandits. So, why is it so difficult for them to act?

Even if the military want to use maximum force to extinguish the criminals, leaders at various levels in the north will oppose them. They either choose peace or live with the monster they are nurturing.

Arewa is nothing but a failure. Even in their islamic religion, they are failure. They are kaffirs living under guise of Islam.
Politics / Re: Those Opposed To Eastern Security Networl Are Identified by AsiwajuNdigbo: 4:06pm On Dec 22, 2020
gidgiddy:


So you people still think this method of division still works? grin grin grin

Someone in Ibadan who has never crossed the River Niger in his life Is spewing nonsense hoping to cause a fight amongst brothers. Go and find a proper job

I cannot fathom a division between my own brothers. But we need to tell each other truth. Infact many people here will tell you I advocate a Igbo brotherhood anyday. If I see people open too much thread that are stats focused i ask them to include all our states instead of singling them out. People have been crying to Igbos in diaspora, come home vome home vome home and invest, bring your capital to East. How? Business need security. Now we have volunteers and a leader trying to establish security and people are scattering the efforts. What kind of stepidity is this?

Go and check people criminalizing Kanu and Ipob and see where majority are from. Its Anambra. This is not about division but I want to shame the people to stop this backstabbing and allow us to develop our own homeland. Look, how long shall we blame yoruba and hausa for holding us down. Lets rise together instead of jealousy. Im pleading with Anambra people to support this goal of putting security on ground. Time waits for no one. Our region need growth. Guys are ready to bring capital and investment, we ready to vacate other paople land and storm East. Help us guys. Campaign fervently for security in East. I dont hate but i love my brothers, sometime you have to shame and humiliate people to open their awareness to what id wrong.

1 Like

Politics / Those Opposed To Eastern Security Networl Are Identified by AsiwajuNdigbo: 2:23pm On Dec 22, 2020
After thorough observation and investigation looking into the reasons many people are opposed to ESN, we were able to narrow down the opposition and its epicenter.

Anambra people are the ones leading and bank rolling this antagonism to ESN. They are determined to overlook the many benefits and values inherent in the formation and operation of the newly created security corps.

Many leaders around the world agree on the need for community policing and at different scale befitting the need and in slresponse as a countermeasure to the level of imminent or perceived threat. As such, these world leaders agree unanimously on the concept of ESN as a local protective shield. Let me add that shortly after its creation there was a chorus of acknowledgement and kudos to the show of gallantry and organization in the ESN structure. The world is joyous and happy with us. From what we learnt, the video of ESN on drill grounds in uniform and color guards has made its way to the security briefing in Oval office. This is very very significant and raises the trust and credibility of Eastern Security Network in the eye of the world.

We thus ask, are there any counter voice to what the world has accepted as a good policy? In fact, we found plenty opposition here at home. Yes, right in East.

The people that ought to jubilate and lay wrappers on ground ffor Eastern Guards to march on as they enter town in triumphant glory, they are bitter and sour. They fail to see what the rest of the world see, they fail to focus where it is appropriate, on security, safety. Instead they are attaching ESN unecessarily to IPOB, to Kanu. They are turning their back on security and safety and embracing jealousy to attack one man and his organization. ESN is not ipob. We shall call them EASTERN GUARDS. They are drawn from all over East and its a volunteer group. The call went out and people joined voluntarily. They are patriots.

Who are the dissenters opposed to these patriots? Anambra people form the arrowhead of the opposition. They are flooding internet and flying banners and bankrolling people from other states to reject Nnamdi Kanu and reject ESN.

God will not give them victory. We shall not rest to advocate for and support Eastern Guards. We love them, they are brave men and women and very patriotic.

May God bless East
May our fallen heroes not be in vain
Biafra shall rise again

Big love to Eastern Guards

Jealous and haters can quench.

3 Likes

Politics / Nigeria Loosing Control Of NW Region (arewa) by AsiwajuNdigbo: 1:41pm On Dec 22, 2020
This month, BBC’s Hausa language service, which covers northern Nigeria, reported a remarkable story of 12 Nigerian police officers being kidnapped along the Katsina-Zamfara expressway in the country’s northwest region.

It was the latest in a growing list of attacks and kidnappings in Nigeria’s northwest that have often been underreported in Nigeria’s national media and almost hardly ever covered by international media.
For the past decade and more, Nigeria has been battling the deadly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in an insurgency that has cost up to 30,000 lives and displaced 2.3 million people in and around the northeast region of the country.

The group, which has carried out attacks in the country’s capital Abuja as well as in neighboring countries Chad, Cameroon, and Niger, remains very active in the northeast even after splintering into the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and the Jamaa’atul Ahlis Sunnah (JAS), with both carrying out attacks on civilians, aid workers, and the military.

However, for the past five years, the northwestern part of Nigeria has also become gradually engulfed by violence, with much less media coverage because these attacks have been carried out by groups that have been described locally as “bandits”. These are not Islamist terrorist groups with international affiliations which would more easily capture the imagination of global media.

Bandit is used here as a catch-all term to describe numerous groups that have carried out vicious attacks on local communities, killing scores of people, and have also been kidnapping as many as they can for ransoms. Zamfara, Katsina, and Kaduna states are the epicenters of the growing crisis.

The genesis of the lawlessness is not as clear-cut as the Boko Haram insurgency as it is a combination of various factors.

The northwest region makes up just over a quarter of Nigeria’s landmass and is composed of seven states, including some of Nigeria’s poorest. Zamfara and Sokoto have high poverty rates like in the northeast. But unlike the northeast, the northwest region is more homogenous in terms of ethnicity and religion: with the exception of the southern part of Kaduna State and parts of Kebbi State, it is mostly peopled by the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups, and mostly Muslim.

Most of the actors are Fulani, the ethnic group that spreads across West Africa and is known for being nomadic pastoralists, while the communities being attacked are mostly Hausa farming communities. The current violent dynamic started soon after vigilante groups formed from the Hausa communities for security purposes carried out extrajudicial action against Fulani pastoralists as tensions mounted from increasing competition for land and water resources between the pastoralists and the farmers as the effects of climate change exacerbate.

This has all coincided with an increase in cattle rustling in the region by armed gangs, again mostly Fulani, using increasingly sophisticated weapons and staging attacks from nearby forests. It is these gangs that have now been attacking communities and killing indiscriminately in a bid to exact revenge. There is also a nexus between the banditry and illegal gold mining in Zamfara state, with the miners accused of being collaborators but have also fallen victims to the armed gangs.

“The population in the state, which is mainly made up of herders and farmers, have been affected heavily as they have been unable to carry out their economic activities,” says Yusuf Anka, a political commentator based in Gusau, Zamfara’s state capital. “There is arbitrary taxation on the communities by the bandits before they can plant and harvest crops. Everyone in Zamfara has suffered a personal loss to this banditry.”

Given there is very little or even no state presence in most parts of the northwest region beyond its state capitals and major towns, it has become very easy for non-state actors to run rampant in the deep rural areas. It is made worse by the fact the nearby national border in the region is very porous and for many years has become a conduit for smuggling illicit drugs, weapons, and even humans. Together with a high rate of unemployment and poverty, these factors have served to ignite and sustain the seemingly unending cycle of violence.

“It has been terrible in Zandam in the Jibia local government area of Katsina state, where we’ve experienced about five attacks in the last year,” says Gidado Suleiman Farfaru, a local civil society activist in Katsina. “All the resources of the community have been wiped out.” He said three people were killed in these attacks; and another nine people have been reported as kidnapped.

An uncertain calm has returned to the farms and surrounding areas after the government sanctioned the deployment of 60 mobile policemen in the village for the last two months, says Farfaru. The BBC story of the police kidnapping highlights the risk for even uniformed security officials.
But the disruption is not limited to rural areas anymore as there have been numerous kidnappings on major highways in the region and even attacks in cities: for example, traveling on the 190-kilometer expressway linking Nigeria’s capital Abuja and Kaduna is fraught with risk due to the high rate of attacks on travelers. This has made the train link the safer choice for traveling and even an air shuttle service being mooted.

“The deteriorating state of security in the region has also provided opportunities for jihadist groups to take advantage,” says Murtala Abdullahi, a climate, conflict, and security reporter with Humangle News. “There have been reports of the Boko Haram factions trying to extend their reach from the Lake Chad region while groups active in neighboring countries such as Mali, Niger Republic, and Burkina Faso are getting increasingly active close to the region.”

The insecurity is also impacting Nigeria’s agricultural production and food security with more farmers abandoning their farms due to fears of being attacked.

“The insecurity in the northwest is causing significant problems for farmers. In many areas, they now pay bandits to have access to their farms in order to harvest—with fees often ranging in the hundreds of thousands of naira,” says Ikemesit Effiong, the head of research at SBM Intelligence, a geopolitical consultancy based in Lagos. “Even with this quasi-taxation, security is not always guaranteed.”

Effiong is worried about a fast deteriorating situation. “Food insecurity is now a national emergency and the federal and state governments in the northwest need to urgently and closely cooperate to re-establish an adequate security presence in farming areas, so normal activities can resume.”

To be clear, in its efforts to restore security to the region, the Nigerian government has launched numerous military operations over the past four years but with an overstretched military that is deployed in multiple concurrent operations across the whole country, the impact of these operations has been very limited.

“Military approach is important but it needs to be done in a way that is not excessive and targets only the right persons,” says Abdullahi. “Other approaches need to be utilized as well, addressing surrounding issues such as justice, rural development, and state presence, and improving livelihood.”

Other approaches such as a peace deal brokered with the bandits by state governors in the region only held together for a few months before it collapsed, leading to at least one state officially pulling out of the deal. This is likely due to the fragmented nature of the actors in the conflict with so many groups involved such that it is hard to have an agreement binding on all of them.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/africa/1935821/nigeria-losing-control-of-northwest-region-to-bandit-herdsmen/amp/

Politics / Re: Repentant Bandits Helped To Secure Kankara Schoolboys Release — Garba Shehu by AsiwajuNdigbo: 1:15pm On Dec 22, 2020
ExAngel007:


http://saharareporters.com/2020/12/22/repentant-bandits-helped-secure-kankara-schoolboys-release-—presidency

Same presidency tgat said only 10 students were kdnapped. Presidency has lost credibility, its sayings bears no weight.
Politics / Re: ESN: I Will Unite All Terrorist Groups In The North Against by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:25am On Dec 22, 2020
Yerima cannot even travel Abuja-Kaduna road but he is beating chest about uniting terrorists. Make hin step foot in gwoza if dem born an well. grin

7 Likes

Politics / Re: ESN: I Will Unite All Terrorist Groups In The North Against by AsiwajuNdigbo: 5:24am On Dec 22, 2020
cheruv:
And on the 7th day, the barbarian army under shettima reached the fords of the benue and crossed South, not knowing that the ESN army groups 101st and 105th were already in ambush...
At the signal, the ESN charged the barbarians. With their backs to the river, the barbarian army fought to the death but couldn't escape being hacked down by the ESN.
Yerima himself also fell, and his head was hoisted on a pike...

Chronicles of Abu Hashish e Rafsanjani

grin grin
Romance / Re: Igbos Help! Would You Date A Girl That Sells Native Pot And Spiritual Items? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 3:34am On Dec 22, 2020
Sammy07:


Stop giving yourself unnecessary headache.
It's well known on this forun that Julius mealea is from Anambra state

maybe you weren't informed.
If you think I'm lying kindly check his post history.

I syspect he is same person with . He changes to juliusmalema when he wants to be mischievious.
Romance / Re: Igbos Help! Would You Date A Girl That Sells Native Pot And Spiritual Items? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 2:36am On Dec 22, 2020
Juliusmalema:


Trash, I said your state has no marital dignity and you are calling igbo. Play that your chess igbo game, I am not interested.

We insist that blood line was be strictly pure and not multilated anyhow.








Is chioma davido's wife?

She is just a prostitute and baby mama to Davido. Maybe that's want you want others emulate.

Is she different from other Imo prostitute?

When dealing with you one must be very patient and calm. You like to deliberately tease people and get their blood hot. Im not going to get high blood pressure ontop your crap.
Romance / Re: Igbos Help! Would You Date A Girl That Sells Native Pot And Spiritual Items? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 2:31am On Dec 22, 2020
ChangedMan1999:


Nwanne


Take a look at Davido.
He said "Igbos should stop this nonsense", when our brothers were protesting for Biafra during Buharis first term.
As a deep thinker one would see that he said that because he thinks he is not connected with Ndigbo in any way and he see Igbo tribe as "just another tribe.
Note: His grandma who carried his father and senator Adeleke in her womb is from our tribe.
So tell me what our tribe benefitted from the marriage that produced his father and uncle( No disrespect to Yoruba people)



Take a look at Ukpabi Asika.
He was the administrator of East Central state during the civil war. He was partly Igbo and partly Hausa Fulani. He gave the FG instructions on how to bring down Biafra. Bringing down Biafra means massacring of Ndigbo.
So what did our tribe gain by the marriage that produced someone like him.



Take a look at Ike Nwachukwu.
He was a former military administrator of old Imo state. His father was from our tribe and his mother was Hausa Fulani. He led soldiers that slaughterd members of his fathers tribe. When I say slaughter I don't mean slaughter of Biafran soldiers, I mean slaughter of Biafran civilians.
So tell me what we gained in the marriage that produced him.
Assuming the marriage did not happen some of our people who died in the war would have been with us today.


Take a look Alabi Isama.
He was also a soldier that massacred our people. His mother was Delta Igbo and his father was Yoruba. Had it being that we do only intra tribal marriage, would someone like that exists.

Take a look at Chukwuemeka Ike.
the author of "the portals wheel". He was a traditional ruler. His son who suppose to succeed him died before him. The son married an Edo woman before he died and they gave birth to a son. The woman didn't bring the son back to Anambra state after her husband died
Do you know old Chukwuemeka Ike's desire to see his grandson who would succeed also sent him to the grave; it troubled his soul so much that after his son died, his grandson was taken away from him.
Had it being that the son took a wife among us and she took away the grandson, our tribe would have done reasonable something about it, since about a garacha must come back to his house. But. since the woman was from another tribe what could we have done?



Lastly, apart from all this betrayals, inter tribal marriage is a no no.

Now, magine war starts between members of tribe A and tribe Z. And James is partly tribe A and Z. Members of tribe a Z would be trusting him with delicate information because they think he is one of them. Let's say James pitch his tent with tribe A, and he became a an informant and spy for them in tribe Z's camp.



The different tribes in the world beautifys the world. It would be distasteful and unnatural for us all to merge as one.

So Umunna anytime you want to get married, marry from your tribe.

Look at the Arabs.
The don't marry from other tribes and their blood is pure.

Don't you guys want our blood to be pure also.





I have never read anyone with so much patriotism oozing out of him.

I didnt think of it the way you said.

Are there any samples of crossbreeds that have been a blessing to us?

1 Like

Romance / Re: Igbos Help! Would You Date A Girl That Sells Native Pot And Spiritual Items? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 8:38pm On Dec 21, 2020
Juliusmalema:



Your state have no marital value and dignity. If such exist u shouldn't be writing this nonsense, so I can't waste my time on you..Never.

Why do you hate Igbo. Why?

1 Like

Politics / Re: Genocide In Nigeria - US Congress Has Started An Hearing. by AsiwajuNdigbo: 8:33pm On Dec 21, 2020
hollah123:
genocide without dead bodies, nobody will take u serious

Go and do your sai baba chant.

Let people see front.
Romance / Re: Igbos Help! Would You Date A Girl That Sells Native Pot And Spiritual Items? by AsiwajuNdigbo: 8:28pm On Dec 21, 2020
fineboynl:
Igbos help! would you date a girl that sells native Pot and spiritual Items?

this igbo girl is giving me green light in igbo land, she has a very nice standing structure and well shape hips, the only thing is her dull black skin.. but from where I came from in Edo people of such has Ancestral tiles and spiritual connection with the Underworld. I need to hear from the igbos to explain this type of people to me in igbo land.


I mean the native pot use for spiritual sacrifice. I have looked inside her store and see something like roots, old piles of wood herbs and back of trees. so many native pots of different kinds, the odors eminating from there is somehow and too scary. they Are spiritual or herbal items.

this is making me to give her yard and chance.


Ol boy, that girl is from a herbalist background. Either the mother or someone on her father side was a herbalist or priest. She is carrying on the legacy.

There are dos and donts for herbalists and people in the healing practice. One of their ethos and sacred oaths forbid using their knowledge of herbs, plants and earth, to hurt any life knowlingly.

You have a lot to gain if you marry this beautiful girl. What you call dull dark skin is an essence of purity. People with this tone are often disease free. You and your children will have a blessing in her traditional practice. If you love her, and she loves you,I see no reason you cant make her a wife.

Be a blessing to each other.

4 Likes 1 Share

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (of 62 pages)

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 111
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.