₦airaland Forum

DeLaRue:
Everything is tribe, tribe, tribe.

So who is competent.

Mr Obi? Lol. Like he distinguished himself as Governor.

or PDP's Mr Atiku. So, you think having people like Dino in charge of the country would have been better

Tinubu was clearly the wrong choice,to every sane person, obi would have been far better,TINUBU never talked to the people,He clearly doesn't know the realities on ground.
Tinubu is a man that his feet hasn't even treaded the grounds most people walk on,how will he feel the pulse of the people,even though obi is an elite,he walks on the same ground most people walk on,he is clearly in touch with the people

APCNig:
Is this how you will be weeping for the next 8 years of Tinubu's rule? You go cry tire

Na your business, you major tribes people are sick

If your vision is clear and you pay attention and study the orientation of most Nigerian tribes one thing is clear they have made up their minds that their destiny is to suffer.

The majority of people's in most Nigerian tribes have a mindset that their destiny is to suffer or that well living depends on "God" so they believe the suffering life of NIG is their destiny.

They only think governments are there to provide succor for their suffering, maybe to share things occasionally to them.They don't know that their lives can be transformed by good governance.

This example is clear in the case of the majority of yorubas and TINUBU.
They don't care about his capabilities ,all they think is that as a Yoruba President he will share goodies to them.

They don't care of his bad leadership,they have made up their minds to suffer whatever the effect of his bad leadership. They are only hoping for occasional succor from their president.

This is the mindset reasonable tribes are dealing with,that is why people think Nigerians vote based on tribalism, I think it's really more of voting based on hope for succor from their tribesman.

tensazangetsu20:
We are blacks and the black man is cursed. There's no single black nation on earth doing well but you see Nigerians are a special type of cursed. If blacks are cursed, Nigerians are quadrupled cursed creatures.

It is the majority tribes of Nigeria that are cursed

abhosts:
Even if a derica of rice is N50,000 in 2027, trust that many from the president's tribe would still vote for him. The black race is cursed. I now believe the white colonialists that said the black man is incapable of self governance.

If i find myself anywhere close to power in Nigeria, I would fight to ensure that poor people and illiterates never vote again in Nigeria.

It's you stupid majority tribes, you guys are so stupid

It's the stupid majority tribes,the Hausa,Yoruba and Igbo are a crude people

Yujin:
The middlebelt people I'm sorry to say are victims of their own making. It's either they didn't know their history with the fulanis prior to European interference and colonization or they knew bit simple made terrible choices.
Before the British came and started colonization, the fulanis mostly with the Nupes and Kanuri plundered the middlebelt for slaves and cattles. Majority of the various tribes scattered in the present middlebelt fought series of battles with the different fulani raiding parties. Some of them lost the battle and were sold off while others defeated the fulani and chased them away from their domain.
Let's peg the commencement of colonization at 1900. By this time, the hangover of the middlebelt tribes and fulani battles still remained but as time went on, those who didn't witness it started seeing the fulanis as friends and brothers. One person who played the major role in buying (deceiving) the middlebelt people was Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello. When you listen to the few surviving middlebelt leaders or dignitaries, you'll hear them having nostalgic feelings about the old north which Ahmadu Bello sold to them. It is very surprising that most of them bought the lie and believed it till they died. Chiefly among them is Yakubu Gowon, Jeremiah Useni, Paul Unongo, Anthony Sani and a host of others who fought in the Biafran war.
Only one person didn't buy the lie. He was known as Joseph. S. Tarka. He was a Tiv leader and the first to speak up specifically for the middlebelt people to be different from the fulani controlled north. He was an arch enemy of Ahmadu Bello. Many times have Ahmadu Bello attempt to use the Nigerian army to wipe off the Tivs but Igbo officers who dominated the army officers corps won't ever agree to his plan (don't just believe me, go online and search about this claim).

The first riot that led to the killings of easterners in the north was in 1945. Many still don't know the exact reason for that violence. They just quote the year of the riot and then followed by the one in 1953.
The 1945 riot which happened in Jos was as a result of the Hausa miners and traders instigating the locals (middlebelt people) against Igbos who they saw as competitors in the trading that was growing rapidly in the Tin city at the time.
It was around this time that the sentiments and prejudice against Igbos started to grow in the north and middlebelt. Mind you, Igbos had never had any problems/violence with the middlebelt people before. There might have been few isolated issues but it wasn't something to latch unto and hate a particular people. One of such issues which I heard directly from an aged Plateau man (in the early 2000s) was that (some) Igbos were fond of telling northerners (middlebelt people inclusive) that they were smelling inside the train. The lack of decorum of few Igbos was used in courting the alliance of the middlebelt people and using them as willing tools.
How a people who were hunted and enslaved by invaders in less than a century will turn and become friends with those invaders to attack another group who have never shown violence towards them beats my imagination. This same thing is what the fulanis are currently using on the Yorubas against Ndigbo.
Fast forward to the coup of January 1967, even with the death of Ahmadu Bello, the fulanis still managed to sell the fear of Igbo domination on the middlebelt people and they bought it hook, line and sinker. They succeeded in putting a middlebelt officer in the position of power and made it their own war whereas, those coup plotters were specific about nipping in the bud, Sardauna's plan of the continuation of fulani conquest.
The Tivs and other tribes of the Benue-Plateau region enlisted the highest to fight the war for the fulanis. Over 60 percent of the soldiers who fought the war on the Nigerian side were from the middlebelt. Ahmadu Bello's boasting of using the middlebelt as cannon fodder and the south as a comquered territory was perfectly executed.
After the war ended and the fulanis got what they wanted, they unceremoniously booted out Gowon- the willing tool. It was the realization of this game that pushed the middlebelt soldiers to attempt to wrest power from the fulanis through various coups (Dimka, Orkar and Vatsa coups). They now realized they were played. Unfortunately, all the coups failed because, some how, the fulanis always manage to find other willing tools to help them in scuttling the plans of other indigenous people. Today, the fulanis are still holding Nigeria by the jugular because they always manage to find willing tools from different ethnic groups.
Majority of the ethnic groups in Nigeria are very good in being 'willing tools'. It doesn't matter what the fulanis have done to them in the past; whatever the fulanis need them to do, they always do when the fulani sell them a particular narrative. They always swallow whole stories they are told and act how the fulanis want them to act.
Below are examples of individuals and ethnic groups that largely have been willing tools for fulanis in the strangle hold of Nigeria.
1. Igbos--- Ndigbo as a group have never been willing tools for any fulani agenda but some persons from the ethnic group have unfortunately served the purpose.
Here are names of few persons who have willingly offered themselves as willing tools for fulani agenda in Nigeria. Ukpabi Asika, Philip Asiodu, Orji Uzor Kalu and Hope Uzodinjo.

2. Yorubas--- As a group, the Yorubas have offered themselves as willing tools before and still are offering themselves today for the fulani agenda. Despite the sordid history they have with the fulani, majority of them still see fulanis as friends and political allies. The Yorubas lost a city (Ilorin) to the fulanis, were heavily raided, enslaved and sold by them in the past and are still been raided by them yet the Yorubas are willing to do the fulani bidding for even crumbs. Fulanis raiding Yoruba land has been happening for over 180 years (the proofs are online for any one who is in doubt).

3. Ijaws--- As a group, the Ijaws have not been willing tools but a good number of their leaders and elites have opted to willingly offer themselves to serve the fulani interest. Here are some names of such Ijaw leaders: Isaac Adaka Boro, Alfred Diete Spiff, Asari Dokubo and Tompolo.

4. Benue people--- As a state, they mostly have been happy willing tools of the fulani. The battles their ancestors fought against the fulanis at Ushongo hills means nothing to them. Till date,.they still think they can have a political alliance with the fulanis despite all the killings they have continued to suffer from them. They are exactly like the Yorubas.

5. Plateau people--- As a state, they were mostly willing tools for the fulanis right during the colonial days till Gowon was boothed out of office. It was like a scale fell off their eyes. It was gradual but today, majority of them won't offer themselves as willing tools any more. Only very few of their leaders and persons of importance still lick the boots of the fulanis. Here are some names of a few persons: Yakubu Gowon, Jeremiah Useni and Simon Lalong.

6. Southern Kaduna people--- They are the same as the Plateau people above. Here's just one name of a willing tool from them. His name is Anthony Sani.

Imagine if everyone decides to go against the fulani agenda at the same time. It's impossible in Nigeria.
Let me stop here for now.

The thing is that under the old north,the Fulani government under the sarduana was actually very good to the Middlebelt people, this won their hearts, that's why most of the elders were willing tools to the Fulani, that's what the igbos fail to capture and understand and get confused by many middlebelt people initially liked the Fulani, the reason is that the Fulani government of old northern Nigeria province was very good to many of that generation. It was a strategy to win the heart of the Middlebelt people and it worked

Swaibokmikang:
Oga you are not speaking for middlebelt, I'm very sure you are either from Kano or sokoto, majority of the indigenous tribes in the middlebelt are Christian, most of the Muslim in the middlebelt are settlers from the core north, all tribes in the middlebelt share many things in common, from food to dressing, the intermarriage and attend the same church, their way of lives in same from St KD to plateau, Benue,nasarawa,kogi and taraba. Any politician from the middle belt ass licking the caliphate is doing so for his political gain, not love for the caliphate. all the tribes and plateau always team up to fight the common enemy whenever they need arise, from Jos to yelwa Shendam, same in nasarawa, Benue and taraba, Christian all over the world share common values, so Mr fulani, remove Federal government interference in the middle belt affair and see how United the people are against land grabbing Fulani terrorist.

So the Nupe who are muslims are settlers? the igala who are half Muslims are settlers, the ebira half Muslims are settlers,the alago and other tribes in nasarawa who are muslims are settlers?,

The ebira doesn't have anything to do with the plateau people, likewise the igala, the tivs have nothing to do with say the ebira,the ebira for example will not be sitting ducks for the Fulani and let themselves be killed by the Fulani like the stupid plateau people. Once again the middlebelt are not one people period.

The Fulani are the master race in these parts,they have subjugated the SW

There's this misconception going around by these stupid majority tribes that are utterly ignoramus and incompetent about the so called middlebelt or North central.

The north central or middlebelt connotation is just a political name for an area of NIG it absolutely has no meaning, like south south,southeast,southwest etc they are simply political interest connotations giving by the military rulers of NIG. It has no effects on the tribes in the territorial area.It can be called anything and it doesn't signify allegiance to the caliphate.

The middle belt was administered by the British as part of northern Nigeria, it is this legacy that the military and political rulers continued with,and no fault of the constituent tribes albeit it has no political meaning today,as the middlebelt has even largely voted against the core north.

Also note that the region has a lot of Muslims who will be obviously sympathetic to the caliphate

Unlike the southeast,southwest,or north west or even south south or northeast which have tribes of single origin or common language and are effectively a single block.

The northeast and most especially the "northcentral" is composed of varying tribes with most of them not having shared origin or language.

For example the major tribes in Benue, the tiv and idoma have totally different origin,language and culture.

The tribes in kogi have different languages and culture,likewise nasarawa,and plateau. Etc.

They all have different approach to life, make varying political choices and different sentiments towards the Fulani or core northern centres or caliphate.

Some of their politicians might be loyal to the caliphate like Simon lalong but many are opposed to it like Jonah jang.

I see a lot of Southerners lumping the middlebelt experience as one experience and trying to label them with a single brush.

Any middlebelt tribe that is willing to be a sitting duck to the Fulani like tribes in plateau and Benue is left to them.

We are not one people and will fight the Fulani separately in our own various ways and means.

Meanwhile the stupid southerners who are even the ones that enabled this Fulani rampage with their utter incompetence and stupid laws and military better sit this one out and stop their disparaging comments about the middlebelt, if they can't help as they likely can't given the fact that they are big for nothing tribes they should keep shut.

Let each "middlebelt" tribe deal with the situation the way they can.

Enough of the insults to Middlebelt people,the southern tribes even the south east are not any better,as they are largely ignorant and incompetent enabling the Fulani even in their own lands as we can see in ekiti.

All these southerners know to do is to insult everyone they think they are better than when they are clearly not having been slaves in most of their history and their failures to develop or even secure their own territory in NIG even with the big redundant populations.

Nigeria is designed in such a way that unless you are very aware,skilled ,talented or just plain lucky you can almost never escape struggling life,while the small elites in every sector bask in immense wealth.

This system in my opinion is a system created and sponsored by the majority tribes. Their culture and way of life promotes this system.

They are a people that love chaos,disorganisation, slave labour and filth.

The major tribes have so messed up the entire value system,labour system,credit system just name it they have used their irresponsible way of life to mess everything up.

Under Gowon a minority ruler Nigeria was very balanced, with everyone having the ability to find their footing.Soon as the majority tribes started dominating governance they turned every thing to their rugged violent survival of the fittest systems, that has created huge insecurity and crime.

I was in lag recently, my god the whole city is messed up,like a hip of filth same with every major city were the majority tribes dominate.

These people cannot simply live in a secure,Serene environment, everything to them is ruggedity and chaos.

Nigerias 3 major tribes are a let down, they haven't done anything grandly positive since the creation of Nigeria.

It's no coincidence that Nigerias best times were under Gowon and Jonathan.

Note: Abacha and babangida are proto core northerners. ( hausa-fulani). A majority.

Tinubus administration is not progressing fine,from the way things are shaping up,it looks like an administration that will just be all about promises till 2027,nothing seems to be done,it's almost a year now and no significant changes have happened in any sector.

It will be all about entrenching his political dynasty over Nigeria, the elites love him cos of this but it will be unfortunate for the masses.

Things will go on this way till 2027 when they will start sharing money again and people will still vote for them

Simeonjoe1:
I agree a little.
The continent of Africa is a huge disadvantage to its populace. The development of Europe, Carthage, other northern Africa, Middle East and far Asia is all about constant communications through trade, wars and conquest, cultural exchanges and scholars exploration. Those were the known world back then, the rest of the world was not caught up in this rollarcoster human interaction which comes with its benefits and its devastating destruction also.
Africa is isolated, we are of not much advantage to the known world, we trade but not as much to bring the needed exploration or knowledge transfer, sub-Saharan Africa missed the golden age, medevial age and industrial age.
When they finally came they were more advanced in it resulted to in balance of trade-direct exploitation and colonisation.

This same disadvantage we have now. When people blame our leaders on while Africa is underdeveloped, or fails to follow the booming development in South East Asia and European countries. I believe it's all about the continent, sub-Saharan Africa doesn't falls in the major trade route, we offer little significance to worlds trade, we have nothing to bargain for so we are left behind to scrabble from scratch which is almost impossible in a now integrated world where you can't develop alone.

Modern Africans have to realise this disadvantage and use whatever is available to them to make headway, but modern Africans aren't doing this,with better management of available resources and overall better governance it can be achieved

tensazangetsu20:
You want to compare shitty mud buildings to european architecture. As of the 1800s, americans were building skyscrapers. Look at new york from 1800 and no african city comes close. The black man is cursed!!!!!!.

I said from the knowledge available to them,Europeans had prior knowledge from Greek and Roman architecture, who got their knowledge from the early Egyptian civilisations

Simeonjoe1:
False..

While we have this hard constructs building. It's still nothing compare to the magnificent castles in medieval Europe, the grand Wall of Nineva in the BCE, or grand city of Baghdad during the golden age of the Kalif.

Our ancestors might be hardworking but not as exploitative or grandeur as you piant it to be. The prefer the miniature close nit structure of communal living, with just the right tools to sustain their life and not explore it.

False,African societies were just coming together during the time of Nineveh ,from archaeological research so far,a city like Nineveh is older than every African city,there was no time to consolidate and built those structures.

Like I said,the European castles were built from foundational knowledge of Roman and Greek architecture, Africans were not privy to that knowledge, that's why I said they maximised their knowledge

I noticed many people like to shame their ancestors, labeling them as weak and unintelligent and failures,comparing them to the Whites.

There's a history archive of pictures taken by colonialists in the late 19th century such as during the European wars on city states like Benin, anioma country ,the aro etc.

One thing you will notice is that though their buildings were made of mud and rafia palms,they were very huge,some reaching modern story buildings,very well built and elegantly designed,they weren't just easy mud huts we see today,many of those magnificent structures ,including very high and strong walls were deliberately pulled down and burnt during the wars with the Europeans that's why many of those magnificent structures were lost,the subsequent huts that were built were hurriedly built due to the poverty inflicted by the ravage of the colonialist.

The elegant swords they made,the great higj strong walls,the art,the hairstyles of the women these things showed that African ancestors did a lot,they weren't some Bush ignorant men that today's Africans portray their ancestors as.

The key thing to note is that they utilised the Knowledge and materials available to them to the fullest and they were very hardworking.

look Asia was not so different from Africa even in the 19th century,I see people talking about the great inventions and cities of China as a great power in the world but looking at pictures of Asia and China even in the 19th century it was the same as most of African cities.

There was a picture of Singapore in 1900 and Lagos at the same time posted on X sometime ago,Lagos as at then looked far better than Singapore but what do we have today?

The modern Africans have completely degraded their abilities.

The Europeans had cross-fertilisation of knowledge coming from the Greeks and Romans which allowed them to develop so fast and they knew the secret of technology faster then any other race.

Africans were victims of their location, but they maximised what they knew and there are proofs.

They made some mistakes too,like engaging in enslaving their people for European goods.It was a costly mistake.

However,modern Africans are not doing as much as their ancestors did even with better knowledge,they wait for oyinbo to do everything for them.

Common road and bridges they can't build on their own.

Na oyinbo they do everything for us now,

Modern Africans are the ones doing badly,yet they have the guts to villify African ancient accomplishments,the fools are less accomplished and are not maximising the knowledge they have, having learnt from the Europeans about technology which our ancestors didn't know,yet they cannot engage those high technology effectively for their people success instead they are just messing around, destroying themselves.

TINTINABULATION:
I am beginning to suspect that Kogi State needs Special Prayer & Deliverance. A State that produces the likes of Yahaya Bello, & Dino Melaye sure has numerous genetical defects.

When your state produces worse people

Faiththatworks:
I appreciate the photographer that did a wonderful Job cleaning up these pictures.
Passing through Kogi to Abuja,u will know there's something just not right.
Lokoja looks like a semi-urban city,with no major attraction,I always ask myself if Lokoja the capital looks that way,I wonder how the interior parts of the state will fare.
Seriously,Yahaya Bello could have done more,but like they say, Government is a contiminum,let The Next Governor sit down in Lokoja and give the state a Major facelift.
If there's one major area I will always continue to praise Yahaya Bello,it's his boldness in taking the war to terrorist and Bandits.
Kogi like Niger state shares a boundary with Abuja but you never hear any issues of Terriorist or kidnappers taking their victim to Kogi state,this is not a coincidence,the governor made sure the state was very very very hot for the human cockroaches and they had to port to other boundary states.
That's one major area I will continue to applaud the Governor,I recommend this kind of action to other Governors including Mr Wike.
We must never let these murderous cockroaches called bandits and Terriorist believe any inch of Nigeria is habitable for them,once they see any weakness,they will surely congregate for their nefarious activities.
God bless Nigeria.

I don't know why you people are always too critical about the looks of lokoja,i know lokoja and have been to many state capitals in Nigeria, there's not much difference, lokoja is like most state capitals in NIG, you people just pass the outskirts of the town,then conclude base on what you see,lokoja is a very cool place

These majority tribes are so warped.
Their women are hoes
Their men are insanely corrupt and evil.
Just imagine the kind of evil heart it takes to do blood money,sell fake drugs and edible items,mine skulls etc.
All the major tribes know to do is just messing around
Their country doesn't have any pedigree despite their population.

The only time Nigeria had pedigree was under minority rulers such as Gowon and good luck Jonathan

Abacha and babangida cannot be classified as minority, they are under the Hausa cultures.

Their own is just to sing and dance.

Imagine a country that has next to zero electricity in this day and age.
Wanton killings by a minority Fulani, and they can't even defend themselves. ( the Fulani kill in majority SW,and Hausa NW too),talk less of to help the minority plateau people.

They are just big for nothing tribes

Ofodirinwa:
The Catholic Church also signed the unprecedented rule that says you can enslave on-christians, and even after they become christians they remain slaves. This is what brought about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Without these Papal Bulls European nations would have had to follow their local laws about slavery which they had all abolished by the 1400-1500s. That's why few slaves were taken to Europe. But the Pope ordained that in 'the new world' (the Americas) slavery is 'back' in full swing.

Yes,again the doctrine of Christianity and the good it brought is the key thing here

You should also note that many black tribes were ever willing to cooperate and trade with the whites for their benefits, if they didn't trade colonialism would have been prevented

Ofodirinwa:
I posted the Doctrine of Discovery. It will show you why the catholic church came with the Portugese (slave traders) and dutch (slave traders) and did really went into overdrive with the English (colonizers/Slave traders).

In order for you to have liscense to sell slaves, and colonize other countries, you must allow the catholic church into the area and offer them land. If you refuse, your claim is not recognized. The Pope is also the one that declared all non-christian land is up for grabs and the enslavement of non-christians is completely legal for all european nations.

Again, I posted the document the pope wrote, you can read it.

Yes ,it was the doctrine back then,most of the popes were evil,probably till now even

Nigeria is a peculiar country,were they claim to be the most populous blacks on earth.
The 3 tribes who have the country the Hausa,Yoruba and Igbo have not achieved nothing with their size.

They are just empty.

No transformations
No defence
No strategy

Historical slavery +

Poverty, wanton killings, strife is their legacy

Just big 3 incompetence

All hail the big 3

N3TRAL:
Let's make it clear, I do not like the Jews because of their superiority complex and communal narcissism.

However, I cannot deny that I was impressed by their ability to prevent the desired fatality figures of a surprise attack by their enemy neighbours.

If there was no IRON DOME defence system, we'd be talking about more than 100,000 Israeli casualties. It is the fact that Israel had a superior defense that makes Palestinians look like victims.

What am I saying? Hamas fired more than 12,000 rockets into Israel between October and December last year. . More than 12 freaking thousand rockets!!! 3,000 of those rockets were fired during the first few hours of the surprise attack.

Think about the impact of the recent Ibadan explosion. Then imagine the same explosion happening in 12,000 different places in Nigeria.

That's enough to destroy every important structure in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt.

Israel intercepted almost all the rockets. The few that landed were those that would not hit critical structures or human beings as the defense system is able to calculate the landing place of a rocket in seconds.


What is Nigeria's Air Defence system called?

Like our forefathers, we have failed. We cannot defend the vulnerable people amongst us against Ak-47 bullets of less than 10,000 kidnappers.

It's the so called big for nothing major tribes, they are just stupid and incompetent

jkpbestseries:
what is Gowon doing, he fought for Nigeria and cant fight for his state

He is a very old man,you can't blame him,let the young men fight

It's mainly the majority tribes, the Hausa,Yoruba and Igbo.

However the minority tribes are living in deception, conforming to the stupid laws of these tribes

The plateau men dey their dey look,I've got no pity for these people, for Christ sake the governor is from there

How can the governor be from a local government (mangu) and his people are being repeatedly killed,same thing happened with Simon lalong.

All they do is issue condemnation and we are back to root one.

The political leadership in plateau aren't even saying anything.( senators,reps,lg chairman, etc).

There's no gain saying that they are complicit in these killings.

These people are sacrificing their people.

WARNING! Nigerians should be very very careful about their political elite and even traditional .Those people are demonic and evil.Be very very careful with them.They are selling out the people.

Ofodirinwa:
So then why is the catholic church in Nigeria and specifically brought in by colonialists? Why wasn't it all angelican?

The catholic had missionaries, the catholic also got in before the Anglican, remember the Portuguese,Dutch ,even French were here before the British came

Ofodirinwa:
since you seem to be interested and well versed in history. Read this when you get some time. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493

All colonies must be recognized by ordained by the pope, the pope also issued the order that all non-christian lands are not legitmate nations and can be colonized. Again, this is why even though Britian is not catholic, the catholic church is very active in Nigeria.

the pope served as the UN of his time for europeans. If the UN recognizes something, it's offical among nations, if the UN doesn't, it's not.

The pope order or papal order was in the time early of slave trade.With the rise of the Protestant movements with England severing from the catholic order and Martin Luther activities, the popes power were weakened

The colonial times were different

Stop this Reno omokri crap,the guy is irritating and evil.