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DrAda:I think Nigeria has what it takes to more or less, not care about this development, that is if the people in charge of policy-making actually know what to do. That said, the USA is likely one of Nigeria’s biggest recurring customers in terms of oil and it’s exportation. so I expect this to take a toll on Nigerias precarious state of economy. It is therefore of paramount importance that our leaders be circumspect of what they do in response. Unfortunately, Nigerian leaders are as clueless as they get. |
EmperorCaesar:Obviously, you didn’t think through…. before you started typing. |
Flangelo12:You’re not getting the point. The point I’m making is not that the Yoruba criminals are “pampered” and that the same should be done to the criminals from Igbo extraction. What I’m saying is that protesters aren’t criminals and shouldn’t be treated as such, including the APC protesters during Jonathan’s regime. But yeah you’re right you shouldn’t be talking to me about this, neither should I be speaking with you on this matter, it’s not like you can change anything. The future is unpredictable and “unfathomably contingent”. Nigerias disintegration, Nigerias drastic economic evolution, Nigerias collapse. Neither you or I can tell the future so it’s not worth arguing about it. Especially if we don’t agree. |
Flangelo12:What is wrong with you? Why lie? You and I know Kanu didn’t send any mob to Lagos to destroy anything. You know he doesn’t have that power or money. You also know that Kanu doesn’t have the power to bring any body’s head, let alone that of a president. Even if there’s truth to your claims (which I honestly doubt that there is), how does this address the issue of marginalization and discrimination against the SErs? Or you just decided to change the subject and respond to the kind of argument you think you would win? Why skew the facts to defend utter insanity. Do you know how many people from Yoruba extraction that have said hateful things to the apc administration? Do you know that the APC supporters threatened Jonathan and even went as far as parading a coffin with his picture on it before 2014 general elections? Did the military attack those protesters? Did they call for their leaders arrest? What are you saying? Your hate for Igbos has repressed your thinking sir. I think you need a thorough mental evaluation. Good day. |
Flangelo12:1st paragraph response: no I’m not his supporter. He was careless and arrogant. I do believe in an Igbo nation but not like this. The people spearheading the movement have turned it into a joke and something of a criminal, expansionist agenda. Second paragraph response: from what we know, Kanu’s only offense was stoking hatred and bigotry into Nigeria’s fragile unity, further precluding any attempts to make peace for productive alliance. He exacerbated the tension between the Igbos and other Nigerian ethnicities which is a very illiterate attempt at seeking autonomy. He never sponsored terrorists (at least none that we know of), He never called for violence (although he threatened the Nigerian government a couple times but never delivered on his threats). This guy as far as I know is a person who is concerned about the marginalization and discrimination of his people, my people. And even though his methods were wrong, he was right in agitating. There’s a lot of things to agitate about in Nigeria, I’m often bemused by the calmness and complacency of some people like you. There are Yoruba agitators too you know, wonder why you don’t notice them and call for their arrest. Agitation is ok, terrorism isn’t. Which is why I applaud the Finland authorities for the arrest of the thoughtless, insane thug; Simon Epka. 3rd paragraph response: Kanu worsened the situation by his frivolous and superfluously harsh statements and remarks. However, he has shown the Igbo people that they are settling for less in Nigeria. Nigeria has put it upon itself to marginalize the Igbos economically, politically and even in infrastructural development. It’s only reasonable that the Igbos are allowed to leave, should they choose to, and form their own sovereign nation where they would be responsible for its nascent growth or eventual collapse. Where they would be respected as 1st class citizens and not regarded as political slaves. Before you claim that “there’s no marginalization” I’d like you to make your research. People can’t be agitating for nothing. It doesn’t make sense. A clear example is the gas pipeline network system. Despite the role that south eastern states like Abia, IMO, Anambra play in Nigeria’s gas industry, word being that the SE accounts for around 60% to 80% of natural gas reserves in Nigeria, the FG’s blueprint for the CNG project has excluded SE states from the gas pipeline systems. Channeling gas from southeast states to another region (eg. gas from Abia would be transported from the state to another region entirely. The funny thing is that the original planners had already proposed their own blueprint that passes from the SE to its neighbors, but the FG rejected it and made its own blueprint. This is a clear example of the deliberate disregard and marginalization that the Nigerian government is trying to exploit with the Igbos. That gas pipeline would help provide jobs and infrastructural development in SE. but Nigeria as always, has denied them that benefit as well, even with their own resources. |
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zero8zero:Kanu is not the founder of UGM. His careless haphazard modus operandi simply spiraled into this madness. But he is not directly involved in the killings. But i’m more curious about the Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis who seem more invested and “obsessed” with Igbo affairs even to the extent of neglecting their own regional crisis. Why? Why do this? |
Flangelo12:Funny I could say the same about tinubu and APC. Btw, I’m not a Kanu supporter. Before you start dragging me. |
And anybody allowing Fulani herdsmen to go about killing innocent people is an enemy to national security. |
sulaak:Sorry about that sir. It was copied and pasted from WhatsApp. |
I wrote this in my free time. Pardon my English I’m still a student apropos the language. “The core foundation of a successful project, like a country, is unity. Unity is a corollary of trust. Trust of the people in the government and vice-versa, trust in institutions and policies, trust in the modus operandi and also the modus vivendi of cultural and political organizations etc. In trust, there is a higher chance of productive alliance and collective goal setting. Trust is a corollary of reliability, or in some milieux, it could be a product of sense of belonging. This does not need much explanation as it is the status quo in almost every successful homogeneous economic and industrial power house we know of. By and large, we observe how socially homogenous countries grow faster and more efficaciously as opposed to larger, more diverse countries. Now, saying that socioculturally heterogeneous countries are doomed to fail due to their preponderant cultural disparities, would be making a false causation fallacy. That said, history has records of countries that owe their socioeconomic success to the critical avant-garde decisions in policy making that were unanimous and weren’t thwarted by ethno-based or religiously centered objections. That gets us to our next derivative, likemindedness, in this case, political likemindedness. Likemindedness is an offshoot of cultural homogeneity or shared experience. People who share a tradition and cultural behavior as well as people who have had to experience similar events in the past will probably be more likeminded especially apropos events that are related or similar to what they had experienced together, which is hardly the case with people who barely have anything in common. That leaves us to our last element, History. History connects the dots. It is what determines the likelihood of future alliances or yet, future conflicts between regions. It doesn’t take much critical thinking to become cognizant of the fact that a country made up of different historically belligerent tribes and cliques that don’t tolerate each other, will hardly ever want to put aside their tribal interests and identities, and work together to benefit the collective interest of the country that is sure to benefit every unit. This phenomenon is prevalent in both educated and uneducated societies and is not merely a product of lack of exposure or a lack of education on tolerance and respect for differing cultures. It’s simply human nature. Something we evolved with, a quasi tacit manner of behavior and perception of the world and the people in it. As humans, we all have the proclivity to attach our identities to our tribe, race, religion, country, etc. We also tend to prefer our in-group over the out-groups. We especially don’t like rival out-groups because we find them threatening to our communities’ safe space, especially when we’re being compelled to share the same geopolitical region as the outsiders. This spawns a myriad of obstacles to developing the country. You can’t force people to work together, especially when they have no reason to trust each other, let alone sacrifice their inherent identities, and replace them with artificial identities. This keeps constituent sections of the country in a brutal stalemate, where no one wants to be the first to sacrifice their individual clans’ interests for the benefit of the nation. Sure, there are solutions to these problems that don’t involve separating into individual sovereign states, but many will not voluntarily participate in these solutions because it will involve putting aside their tribal identities and embracing a more nationalistic identity, which might even be considered quixotic both a priori and a posteriori.” -Biggeststar. |
TribalChair:They go learn the hard way. Boys nowadays Dey craze. Give them gun and weed and the small brain wey Dey get no go function again. I hope they’re caught and duly punished. Miscreants. |
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Godwin4444:What is happening in Lagos is not a result of economic prosperity, far from it actually, It’s rather a result of economic injustice. People aren’t coming to Lagos because they think it’s “better”, they are coming because the government has not performed in the area of decentralization and de-monopolization of the Nigerian economy. We also see this with Nigeria and oil: They refused to invest in the Economic exports that will involve hard work and critical thinking, so they invest in oil because it’s relatively easy and pays a lot. Plus, I would argue that lagos is the only reasonable place in southwestern Nigeria, Every Order please is heap of rubbish. If Lagos was a product of yoruba brainpower, then I would like to see them replicate it in other SW states that are plagued with multidimensional poverty and old dilapidated houses that shouldn’t be seen in the 21st century. |
Igbos are not expansionists. Carry your self Dey go. You have every right to choose your identity, but the ikwerres who identify as Igbos also have the right to choose their identities as well. This would not be such a big deal if there were a salient distinction between Igbos and ikwerres. Unfortunately our languages are similar, our culture, our names, I wish it weren’t like this but it is. Some igbos believe ikwerres are the “lost” Igbos. As for me and the other majority, we don’t see the anioma, the ikwerres and the ika people as Igbo, even Agbor. Let this die down. Caution your brother who maliciously contested for presidency of that useless committee, but don’t lie against the Igbos. They’re not expansionists, in fact, they prefer to stay on their own, than to occupy a territory of diverse groups. |
LivingSage:Well as long as yorubas didn’t not get killed, raped, starved, I opine whatever bitterness they feel should be secondary compared to that of the real victims from the east and the north. Also, yorubas were also involved in that coup. And the culprit wasn’t Igbo. He was anioma. |
Omoawoke:If so, then why are so many yorubas so invested in the coup and often use it to stoke hatred? If it’s Igbo and Hausa problem why not leave it at that? |
kmst:The culprit wasn’t even Igbo, he was anioma by ethnicity. These people deceptively leave such details out of the narrative just to paint the Igbo tribe as evil. Such duplicitous creatures. |
I love the fact that not many people are spoofed by this cheap attempt to incite hatred at a time when Nigerians should be united. Also, this shows how desperate APC is, they never use accountability and competence to defend their position in government, they rather resort to silly rhetorics in a bid to divert attention from the main issue, which is the continued pauperization of the vast Nigerian populace. Nigerians should always remember that your fellow victim is not the cause of your problem. Igbos are not the cause of North’s problems, the North is not the cause of Igbo problems, the Igbos are not the cause of Yoruba problems. The real cause are these people who are bent on reducing all of us to paupers, and they use division to divert your anger from themselves to your fellow victims. Don’t fall for it. I am now convinced that many APC supporters here on nairaland have been paid to spread propaganda and unnecessary hate. I wondered why I always saw them every time I logged in, it seemed as though they had no jobs. Now I know, they have one job which is; to divert the attention of the people against the callousness of this cruel government to their fellow victims. Instead of questioning the government, they goad you into quibbling amongst yourselves. What the hell does the coup have to do with the fact that this current administration of kleptomaniacs is better off and wealthier than they were before they came into office, and that the average Nigerian is worse off than he was before this administration. This is what we should focus on, not freakin coups. APC doesn’t care about the north, east, west, etc. they only care about keeping themselves in power. Whoever posted this doesn’t give crap about the north, likewise whoever is inciting hate against the north by Igbos and the rest of the south doesn’t give crap about the south either. Keep this in mind, they only care about spreading hate. Nothing more, nothing less. If the north falls today, whoever posted this will not give the slightest thought to it. Nigerians focus. |
Una desperate sha |
Everybody Dey collect the hardship steady. |
Is this a prank? |
Godwin4444:Only you oo |
mrvitalis:Because I’m from the south east and (I know it’s kinda selfish to say this) but I care about my own region more. I want peace in every region in Nigeria but I’m more concerned about mine. My people, our economy, our sustainability, and all that went to sh!t after Nnamdi Kanu’s carelessness that got him arrested and created the destructive domino effect that led to this senseless onslaught. |
helinues:This is the first time I’ve seen you make sense on the forum. |
mrvitalis:Every criminal organization in every region in the world has their modus operandi. In the north, the criminals need money as well, so they improvise and resort to kidnapping, just like in the south east. In south south they start vandalizing oil pipelines. In some countries, they try to take over the government by threatening the incumbent to include them as stakeholders in the country’s affairs, Or worse, abdicate from the office and leave it for them. Some introduce anarchy. This is just my suspicion though. I’m not in any sense blaming IPOB for this, even though I still hold that they are criminals. I just think it’s worth it considering this correlation of events. |
Soludo is incompetent. Bad idea to have him become the president. |
This is just my suspicion. I noticed that ever since Simon Epka, and four other suspected sponsors of the Unknown Gunmen and Sit-at-home enforcers in the South East, was remanded by the Finnish authorities, few weeks following, the rate of kidnappings in South Eastern Nigeria, especially in Anambra, has surged. This does not look like much of a coincidence to me. The sit-at-home movement is imposed and spearheaded by criminals. Jobless nonentities in the Nigerian unemployed demographic. Simon Ekpa and his cronies specifically selected for these criminals who they recruited into their ragtag guerrilla organization, and now that he and other likely sponsors have been arrested and currently being detained, the organization is broke, they need supplies and provisions which their detained sponsors can no longer provide, and since they are fugitives of the law, and hence, cannot make money by legal means, their next recourse is to do so by the easiest and fasted way possible, kidnapping. This would allow them to make loads of cash by demanding ransom and selling the organs of the victims to raise funds. They would also not require the use of bullets in this trade since they would only need to capture victims and butcher them with knives or cutlasses. That said, I think this inkling of mine should be put into consideration. If this should be the case, then it’s safe to say that they are at their most vulnerable, and this would be the perfect time for the Nigerian armed forces to strike. The fact that the kidnappings are more rampant in Anambra state, also hints at the possibility that one of their main camps might be in Anambra state. In the event that my suspicion is correct, we could also extrapolate that they have limited resources and weaponry; bullets, projectiles, explosives, fuel etc. this could be the golden opportunity for the Anambra state government to carve its name in gold. The use of drones, night vision goggles, PNVS, and heat vision sensors etc. should be very effective in tracking down these criminals. It would put the Nigerian armed forces at a vantage point, from which they could lure, outmaneuver, beleaguer and take out these terrorists one after the other, camp by camp. If properly exploited, I don’t see why the Nigerian armed forces should not succeed in this endeavor. We need peace in Nigeria, only in peace can a nation thrive. And even if you support Biafra, if it is achieved by these criminals, trust me you will run back to Nigeria as refugees. |
Krismas:And you suppose “god” is the answer? |
Krismas:And you wonder why atheists don’t normally talk to you guys. I don’t know where to start from, just how? How did you come to think this way. From evolution you jump to god? |
Krismas:That you’re unaware doesn’t mean it’s not happening. You said 8000 years and you made reference to 4000 year old mummies? Also, flapping away flies is not an evolutionary concern. Natural selection doesn’t select for such abilities. Evolution is based on survival and reproduction. Not for flapping away insects. There’s so much you don’t know. That’s why I said not to make any hasty assumption. |
