@Deepzone

Haba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You too tight ! Can you tell us what religion has to do with her not donating her Kidney (if the story is true)? You do sure come across as grossly biased against Muslims/ Islam.

Am quite sure if you are sincere with yourself the story did say she opts to do that in Germany and not in Saudi Arabia. The report did not tell why she does not believe the Saudi Hospital can do it very well.

As a woman do put yourself in her shoes can you do that for your husband ? If yes Why?If no Why?

I do say to you please treat stories the way they are. If a Muslim/Islam has offended you do find away in your heart to forgive.
Nne this your hatred na like person wen hate im step Mum when nothing good they com from.

@ Deepzone and David,

Before you go any further on the loan condition, recipient nations should not necessarily be an Islamic state . If I had created any other impression, then Accept my apologies.

Lets see your point on MM @Deepzone

Arabic Inscription on the Naira: This was actually done during the regime of Gen. Yakubu Gowon -a Christan (North) as there is no evidence that the naira was changed during the regime of MM

OIC Membership: All available records show that Nigeria became a member state during the regime of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo -a Christan (South). As Deepzone had earlier said, even if it was MM intention as far as he did not lead us there at that point in time you can not hang him on this.

Let us not forget that the polity of the World at that time allowed Obasanjo to lean towards Pan Africanism and to see it through it will associate with any thing that is against aparthied that is why World bank and its likes may not have been an option for us then. The . the nationalisation policy is one major decision taken then to show case pan Africanism (BP = AP)

If you do have more facts do bring it on

On MMIA: Well we do have to look at all monuments named after all known names and view it from allegations against them (You will be luck if we will ever name anything after anyone as all hands seems soiled)

@ Nigeria1
that is news.

@ Deepzone

This your attack on Murtala Mohammed lacks objectivity in all ramification.
Your problem seems more to be with why he led Nigeria into OIC and the Arabic Inscription on the Naira.
So for this he should be seen as a Villain not as a Hero.
Subtlety, this betrays your hatred and your previous post can attest to it.
I urge you to be more objective. The membership is strictly for economic gains. On Abacha and loans please check your source once more as a Pariah nation then, I doubt if any creditor nation ever gave him fresh loans except for the one he inherited.

If you care you could verify from OIC web site to find out if the conditions of the loan was that all citizenry of recipient nation should all be adherent of Islam.

On inscription in Arabic I think it was basically done to satisfy the northerners literate in Arabic ( as you know before colonisation the Northern Muslim write Hausa in Arabic).

Hold it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before you go further should the inscription have been there ? Well many are quote opinionated about that. but since it was removed I guess no one queried it or talked about why it was removed.

@ planner Abuja is far fetched what of Podium Block in Port Harcourt.
Or Companies in Trans Amadi with Community insisting they want their own employed at all cost?

Or the recent trouble with Rivers State Sustainable development Agency where people are insisting that scholarship recipient should reflect LGAs in Rivers State.

Come on Guys, This things happen every where. It is just that it is easy to point fingers at others to be the source of our problems.

Planner:

DeepZone dare not Marry Mc Usman for she will infect herself with a very deadly virus-Indolence and stupidity.

Oga,

Do you suffer from diarrhea of the mouth? Or you are just a wanna be?If you do not have better thing to add you keep shut? I may not agree with MC Usman in all things I do believe he has given us more insight than you have. He has tried to stress home his point quite intelligently though some may not by all his view but he has put up a spirited effort to defend his people.

So please respect his person.

Eziachi:

Usman, the reason southerners bashes the not too much in Nairaland with you as the only lonely northern voice is because their is no quota system in Nairaland. If there is, probably things might have been different for you and also may be you are one of the priviledge few from the north that knows what a keyboard means.

I disagree. I think like a war he is doing as much as he is expected to do that is why others have allowed him marshall this. The quota system thing is not just a northern affair. I am quite sure in every state manpower employment in the state services is spread across board. And even the distribution of resources in the states.

@ MC Usman,

I will say some arrogance exhibited by some northern leaders in the past may be the reason. And the fact that the North is rather portrayed as dictating the pace of 'development ' in the Luggard Nigeria. Some believes that without the North then the rest of the country would have developed to a super power ( whether that will be true, it cannot be pr oven).

And the picture the north present of itself, of being blessed with so many natural resource yet cannot find away of harnessing it.

On a lighter note, I think it will be a delight to see the Union of Deepzone and You. The Mutual attack will be diluted.At least you two will surely agree on some thing even though you will have fundamental things to disagree about

@Deepzone

Your hatred for Islam and adherent of the faith is quite glaring. I think this is not about Murtala Mohammed as a person I think it is about his faith and tribe. Save your energy and save it for some other thing. Your previous contributions portrays you as an Intelligent person leave the Haters club. Do not like Murtala Mohammed. Do not see him as Nigerians version JFK. But let him be. In all ramification he served the nation well enough.
If you have issues with Islam bring it on.

The OTC membership was to enable Nigeria access DB loan which are intrest free compare to that from the Paris Club or World Bank that attract intrest rate. So it is purely from economic point of view and not for religious obligations.

FYI: The condition of Membership has nothing to do with your faith as you can google the nations that are members and you will discover that Islamic system of governance is not enshrined in their constitution.

@huxely,

I will not hold you on previous jobs but I think we need re-orientation. I think the frustration of the system not working is actually taking its toll on everybody. So ethnic chauvinist will at best say the ineptitude in the system is as a result of the man from that region.when it is obvious that every sitting Nigerian leader have patriotic Nigerian from the other divide working with him.

The truth is that at all times we have this subordinates from other divide speaking at the top of their voices for their boss and some have good academic qualifications that make many green with envy.

Before they start allocating in percentage share of contributions that slowed the pace of development of this nation to the divides,we should ask ourselves whether the little that came our way within our divides have been used judiciously to satisfy our need by our leaders.

In my own case No.

@ freeranger

I quite agree. The guy is inconsistent. I can say he is speaking for no one .He is just an attention seeker trying to task zealots of both divide.

I am actually surprised that threads like this are not allowed to die naturally.names calling will fetch no one any good. Mischief makers have seized this to express parochial views.If at this Hour of the 21st Century young minds like ours are just concern on what members of my ethnic group have achieved over the other then our fathers generation may be better. across the divide we have good men and women who we all can make role models so also we have villians that we detest than the devil. And if you decide to scale them then you will do more than just name calling.

But let me ask this if Mr A. from your tribe is better than Mr. B of the other per your own evaluation,what makes you think you the Judge is any better than Mr. B.

Let us look inward and find straight with that that makes us united

@bilymuse
Please do try and explain what you want from this particular thread. Yes Gen Usman Hassan Katsina is Dead.He died March 21,1995(subject to verification). Why whip the dead?

@ lucabrasi

I support you all the way.

Haba we all were 12/13 years old once.

Thank God it was not a picture of his father giving him the gun or the
spraying him with bundles of a thousand naira notes.

I must commend Davidalyn for trying to justify all action of the State of Israel. Israelis/Jew would not have done better.

Obviously, the blood letting call for all concern. Hire wire politicking is fueling the crises and the war is being executed passionately by zealots on the both side of the divide. the solutions to this can best be sought from the sponsors(Israel - America, Palestinians - Saudi Arabia,Iran). As they provide more than enough to help them sustain the struggle. Historical the war may be, but it has to come to an end.

The propaganda implored in this war is quite enormous. Objectively it all tend to make the Israelis more humane despite the fact that the Palestinians suffer more.

I believe if they could make exchanges then that means they actually talked. And for the war to end the talk must continue with all parties and their supporters on board.

The violence will pay no one. Israels monopoly of winning was surely threatened by the 33days fight with Hizbollah that ended in a stalemate. I do not undermine the military capabilities of Israel both the present boldness of the other side calls for concern.

@Richblack and Davidylan
You guys no dey tire. This name calling is turning to something else. Abi una wan start una war wey go pass from generation to another? Abeg make una go small small.Lets just talk on issues and leave the side jabs. It spoils the whole show

I do strongly believe that the North should exploit their own resources and be able to develop themselves. The over dependent of Oil in the nation has actually weaken them and their believes. Even their share of the oil revenue has not been utilized judiciously. On the street and towns in the North, the impact of Poverty can be seen first hand.
Despite the excuse that the Northern Elites short changes the Masses, they can but help in carrying the burden that befalls them with the current quest by the Niger Deltans to have a larger control of the resources.
In no small measure, the north will feel the effect of less revenue from the centre (could be short while if they are sincere to themselves) but their is no guarantee that redistribution of the wealth will make Niger Delta any better. As the level of corruption in this nation cuts across all creeds,religion and tribe.
This should be a wake up call for the North. Let your ingenuity take the center stage. With her population (inflated?deflated?) it will surely get to their destined place.
As for the Governors in the North they should go beyond bragging And commit their actions to words. Develop your place.

Ijiji1:

I love it when the southerners and northerners fight over political posts and we easterners sit on the side lines and watch you guys go at it.

@Ijiji1.
I think yuo need to understand that the south comprises of South-South,South West and South East While the north has the North Central(Middle Belt),North East and North West

@Ogb5
I agree with you that the bane of our present problem is bad leadership. We do need leadership that will inspire the citizenry. Check out Calabar and feel what Donal Duke did with that state. Or that ongoing in Lagos with Fashola, I bet out of the 36 states we have we may only count a handfull as worthy governors who are people oriented. Am not talking about just tarring some KM of roads or sinking boreholes and commission such with live telecast- (showmanship I think it is). We have people people who want their egos massaged forget that power is transient. The Abachas,Odilis,Aminu Salehs,Raji Rasakis are typical expamples of people who actually felt they were all in all.

Well all said, we do need to move ahead and people oriented government.

@ogb5
I do appreciate your comment as it goes a long way to show that the quality of leadership we have in this country need orientation . Its true that no Northern Governor maybe ranked over Ibori even though he got what 5 states in the North got combined but did he actually meet the yearning of his people? Did he spend the money well enough?
Did he get across to the common Deltans?
The system is really blurring our vision as we are forced to make unnecessary comparism

A student dat made 30% and that with 35% are failures irrespective of the score.
Its time for us to see this nation is our to build

superman:

rubbish!!

what about all those killing going on in their yeye north.

a teacher was killed for bla blah

ibo killed and shops burn down yea yea

sultan blame nortihern politcal monkies for yeye north bla bla

hausa ran riot killing as usual!

na waa stuburn bastards!!

@ superman. I beg to differ from your point of view. Criminality in any guise is being perpetuated in ll nooks and crannies of Nigeria. It is actually not a birth right of any tribe or persons.
What I understand is that as soon as we begin to deal with the problem without ethnic or regional colouration's then as A nation we do move forward. But the moment we start generalizing our conclusions,then we will force some others to take side not because they want to but that they are been forced.
Imagine saying that for the fact Obasanjo squandered all the goodwill invested in him and we have nothing to show for his eight years as president despite the fact :the revenue that was accrued in the last eight years if not more than what his four predecessors combined had but enough to get us going then the whole Yoruba nation should be condemned for this. Forgeting that Wole Soyinka is a Yoruba Man
Or because of maradonic tactics of IBB we should condemn the north.

@superman I think antics like these only help potray ethic arrogance that yields no unity but division and mediocrity and helps both side of the divide. Mediocre at both end are better of when they play the ethnic card as they will not make even on a level playing field.

@poster
This article was on thursday Thisday newspaper of the26/06/2008.
I hope it answer your questions.


The North as Baghdad
Thursday Retort by Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, Email: abarkingdog@thisdayonline.com, Tel: 08056180060, 06.26.20




Once again, public opinion has tilted heavily against northern Nigeria since the recent exoneration of corruption allegations, by three colleagues and friends of the late General Sani Abacha. The trio of Generals Babangida, Buhari and Abdulsalami had, at the 10th anniversary of the late Abacha’s death, given him a clean bill of health, within the neighbourhood of public probity and accountability.
But people in the north don’t give a hoot what these people, especially IBB and about Abdulsalami think regarding corruption. If anything, it is the inclusion of Muhammadu Buhari, who is believed, take-it-or-leave-it, to have the most decent record of financial rectitude that bothers, otherwise the tributes of the other two could have gone like water in a basket, because it has the telltale signature of “settlement” that kept the power state myth alive for this long.
Coincidentally or by the design of some leprous hand of fate, the issue of lopsidedness and juice of positions and federal character on the distribution of appointments into boards of parastatals reared its ugly head, the same week. For all these, the north will now have to carry the can.
Even by the volatile standards in place since the establishment of the 12 states arrangement under General Yakubu Gowon, the north has been experiencing interludes of unprecedented deficiency. Northern Nigeria has been as unfortunate as Baghdad. When its indigenes say the right things nobody notices, when they weep, it is crocodile tears but when they talk like “Chemical Ali”, the nation smirks. The north’s potentials are ignored and its shortcomings are amplified. When they worry about the north, the critics see the following: a room, presumably in Lugard Hall in Kaduna, packed to capacity with turbaned traditional rulers and several long bearded mullahs debating what to tell the few technocrats working for Nigeria or how to coerce the rest of the country to cede power to the north.
Meanwhile, contrary to that scenario, much of what is happening there is agonising. Governors are thieving and turning states into family dorms, public schools are deserted or becoming visitation grounds for kids of the poor, school enrolment, once abysmally low is now substituted with thugs’ enrolment for political shindigs which are all over the place, healthcare and employment cannot even come up for discussion, while fertilizer distribution which used to enhance farming, the mainstay of the region, has been hijacked by government officials who sell to loyal patrons to further their political agenda. There are yet no instruments or leaders that have the faculty to help the region escape a recurring cycle of at-home hegemony and indigenous self-destruction or across-the-Niger-bashing. The key lies in recognising the differences between its few positives and several negatives, and that will depend on the ability of the local people to start defining their goals and acting in gig to achieve them.
Some problems are however, obvious. The diversity of the north for instance, and the deepening misunderstanding of its composition by those who criticise it cannot be viewed as anything but calamitous. Take the issue of revenue allocation for example. Between the months of May and October 2007, all the states in the north-east – Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba and Borno – received only about two-thirds of what the Rivers State government got from the federation account. The North-east states got N67 billion while Rivers alone got N93 billion during the period in question. There is no other calamity they can wish had befallen a region more than that which discriminates in the guise of derivation and the need of an area. Yet, in a recent attempt to fight the lopsided distribution of offices according to the federal character principle, the nation was divided into four regions by those who tried to buttress the action’s bias. It was the South-east, South-west, South-south and the north. This form of deliberate misinformation is either borne of ignorance or mischief and you are welcome to take your pick.
Others are more subtle but not by any stretch of the imagination less harmful. One common error has been to mistake relative outward stability that the north exudes, for real hegemony that the region lacks. It is fraught with error. The typical consequences of such conclusions include the imposition of agendas on the region, alienation of people from the region, subjugation by means foul or fair and even violence against innocent people in times of crises. These traits are increasingly on prominent display in most places. Few critics acknowledge that the ferment in the zones of the north is a direct result of elite domination or widespread poverty, factors that recent outward unanimity does not even attempt to address.
Closer to home, several recent examples of movement on some of the region's more intractable problems offer the possibility, however fragile, that significantly reduced tensions could be in the offing. Northern Nigeria’s fractious hoi polloi are showing signs of intelligence. They are talking to each other on ways to emancipate themselves from the shackles of elite bondage. Particularly because of their perceived role in ensuring that they snub subservience to some quarters, the region is in the midst of rapprochement, a local renaissance possibly, that is likely to better the region socially, educationally and economically.
What remains absent is any credit that northerners have a grip on their destiny, individually or collectively. It is understandable that different regions will have different agendas, but most in this part of the country, until recently, seemed not too sure of their own, let alone the agenda of others. Worse yet, many of them are effectively vassals of the elite, severely inhibiting their ability and willingness to coordinate anything more complicated than their subsistence. This explains the incomprehensible conclusion, anytime one literate northerner speaks, that the north has spoken.
But how accurate that assumption is can only be imagined. A brief glance around the region is enough to understand that even where different parties are in control, the motive of the divisive tendencies are either ingrained or heavily influenced by their fear of the north or lack of understanding of it. The north leads the pack in misery. In Sokoto and Jigawa States, the compassion of the governors has compelled them to extend the golden handshake to the less privileged. It also leads in despair. In Bauchi and Gombe States, it is a different kind of handshake where governors are feeding hooliganism. Their hangers-on have constituted themselves into the amoebic arm of the state to create an informal form of employment. It is ahead of the pack in collective anguish. In Niger and Kebbi States, camps determine what you get. In Niger, it is now taboo to adore Kure just as it is now taboo to adore Aliero in Kebbi. Keep your fantasy to yourself and keep your peace is the rule in those states and even IBB, the evil genius himself is aware of that. The north supersedes all in unrest. In Plateau, it is a continuous cat and mouse game between those in power and those who want to capture it. David Jang is probing Joshua Dariye, while the Mantu and Sango group are eagerly in the wings and wishing. In Borno State, SAS’ hoodlums dominate all discourse. The message there is “love SAS or die trying.” Anything outside this is anathema, even to the closest relatives of the governor who feel uncomfortable with the way things are run in the state but venture little.
In all these situations, Northern Nigeria has replicated, without knowing it, the image of Iraq’s Baghdad. The propaganda, the violence, the misinformation and the oppression are all effectively here with us. It has also not been spared the attack or is it invasion from outside. So why in spite of all these problems are they so afraid of the north as to always prescribe doom to an already doomed region? It is because men who are not afraid of God are afraid of man. They made a monster of the north and now they cannot contain their own creation.
It is fair to attribute much of the regions predicament to the meddlesomeness of so-called northern elite and their power-houses far and near, but that is no excuse for regional ruling classes that have been almost completely devoid of genuine leadership for two generations (at least) to claim individual authority over all. Each region has its own bogeyman to be thrown up as the reason for its failings, but the truth of the matter is that most regions cherish such “enemies” as props for their own facades of legitimacy. It is called the accumulation of political capital and northern governors overuse it. Take away their ghosts and many of our brutal and kleptocratic leaders might be swept aside by people’s power. It has been the hallmark of Kano, Bauchi, Maiduguri and until recently, Zamfara politics, where Ahmed Sani Bakura was cleverly outwitted by the combination of his deputy’s political sagacity and people power.
Perhaps that is why they cannot take the initiative to change things until a crisis forces them. They lack enthusiasm for anything new in which they would be even more obsolete. And in the absence of anything new, they prefer to remain in Baghdad where their critics keep them. They love the prominence and the rest of the north understands why nice guys finish last.

@ deep soul,

well if you had gone through you then you could at best judge the author. I think he was trying to respond to recent Northern bashing by people who have problem with few individual and yet try to generalize hence making some other who becomes victim because of birth place to be on thye defensive.
check this www.nigeriannews.com for the analysis

landis:

what are you writing?

I said the MUSLIM are 99% from NORTH. They should be sent back to their place. I did not ask them to be sent to Saudi Arabia.

So your comment is INVALID.

They can do all sorts but if they attack 'YORUBA cultural heritage'; thats attack on our IDENTITY AS YORUBA.

Then they will get what is coming to them!

@ladis. wishing you all the best @ this quest. How best do you hope to start this war. How would you ensure you are not defeated. It beats me when people of this generation thinks this way.

Not holding forth for any if the story is anytin to go by the masquerade passed in front of the mosque and were sing songs found to be insulting by Muslim faithfull. I agree with the freedom in all ramification but where one's freedom stops the other persons begin. Then mutual respect should have been preached. if the songs were to come on air,near the mosque during prayer time is wrong and even at that the Muslims should have reported instead of taking laws into their hands.

For Peace to reign lets have mutual respect for one another regardless of faith. If you desecrate another, then when your turn comes do not shout.As what goes around comes around.

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It is not quite difficult to understand the psychology underlying the resurgence of petty anti-north sentiments from a select section of the media in recent times. It started with some spurious claims of marginalisation or perceived lopsidedness in the composition of the Yar’Adua Government in favour of the ‘north’. In responding to these accusations, the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Segun Adeniji not only rolled out the statistics of the current composition of presidential aides but also gave a detailed list of names of key appointees of ‘southern’ extraction most of which were actually inherited from the Obasanjo administration to prove that the allegations were both untrue and mischievous. He observed correctly that these pro-south activists have suddenly realised that Nigeria now has four zones instead of six namely North, South-West, South-South and South-East as if to borrow from a popular advertisement by Mercerdez Benz ‘there are only two zones in Nigeria, North and ‘others’-the said advert says: there are only two cars; Benz and ‘others’.

It is this same categorisation that has placed a ‘middle-belter’ like me in a position where anti-north arrows from intellectual critics of my writings could be hauled at me without apology. Before Obasanjo took over power from the ‘north’ there was a general resentment, essentially orchestrated by the south-western press, against the North which was hinged on perceived political domination by the North. I have had cause in the past to point out the error in this perception and I wish to repeat myself here that this perception, though very faulty, was not without some measure of justification because of the long years of military rule in which the military leaders happened to be dominantly from the north.

Interestingly the embers hate for the north subsided significantly during the eight years in which a prince of Owu, a descendant of Oduduwa held sway at the Villa in Aso indicating that the noise was coming mostly from the south-west (in this article therefore wherever the word south appears, it can be read as south-west). During those gruelling eight years of Obasanjo’s dictatorship the anti-north or pro-south activist redirected their energies into praise singing for the ‘shon of the shoil’. They found every vain reason to applaud their own including the most insignificant achievements like licensing of GSM operators to open the doors of Nigeria to the information gateway. They reasoned that nobody else could have done this even though they knew silently (but wished not to admit it) that the blueprint for the liberalisation of communication in Nigeria was conceived and developed by Abacha before he died. But he deserved no credit for this because he was a northerner and a ‘demon’ in their characterisation.

I make bold to state that it did not take much on the part of the government for GSM to come into the Nigerian market. The private operators got only paper licences to bring in their funds and develop their infrastructure. The government did not use the money they raised through the licensing to upgrade Nitel’s capacity to support the Networks. NTN and Globacom had to build their transmission backbones from scratch. So it did not task the ingenuity of the then president to bring GSM to Nigeria. In fact any dummy could have done this. But ironically this is about the only thing these pundits seem to lay their hands on when searching for a legacy bequeathed to us by that regime. Yet the same people are quick to tell any listening ear how the ‘north’ destroyed Nigeria for three decades. They fail to tell you that the devastation of Nigeria which the ‘north’(military) could not achieve in three decades was easily achieved by their son in just eight years.

I had written the paragraph below in an earlier article on January 15, 2007 titled ‘Census: Blame OBJ and Leave the North Alone’ but I wish to reproduce it here in view of how prophetic the statement has turned out to be.

As May 2007 approaches, we are thus gradually slipping back to the pre-1999 era of negative press against the north simply because it has come to the ‘turn’ of the north to produce their only second executive president since independence. I foresee more of this anti-north propaganda in the next 4-8 years but one thing I can say for sure is that OBJ’s failure should silence his kinsmen’s virulent attacks against the north. OBJ has proved that the Southwest is not superior in wisdom to the north or indeed any other part of the country. Individual leaders must be held accountable for their actions and not the section of the country where they come from. So whoever does not accept the results of the 2006 census should blame OBJ and leave the north alone.

Yes indeed, those seeking for a reason for our backwardness must look beyond this north-south dichotomy. In the absence of any empirical evidence that the south (particularly the south-west) are more intellectually capable to govern the nation than any other section of the country, I am inclined to rely on Obasanjo’s dismal performance to opine that poor governance is more attributable to individual capabilities rather than genetic lineage of the individual in the saddle.

What achievement in terms of excellence in governance have the ‘southern’ Governors attained in their domains over and above their northern counterparts considering the disparity in revenues that accrue to them? Reading from these mischief-makers, you would think those states or federal ministries headed by the southerners have been transformed to some heaven on earth by some magical ingenuity whereas the truth on ground is that most of the thieving former governors are from the ‘south’. Whereas none of the federal ministers from the so-called ‘north’ have been prosecuted for corruption we have the Sunday Afolabis, Adenike Granges and if am permitted to include Fabian Osuji all serving ministers who were removed on corruption charges. We also have a Tafa Balogun who as a Police IG demonstrated no virtue over and above his northern predecessors.

It needs to be pointed out that these anti-north sentiments does not reflect the general mindset of the average Nigerian on the street. Those propagandists are a minority intellectual class that is bent on taking Nigeria back into the abyss of religious fanaticism tribalism and sectional agitation for power for some interest best known to them. Nigerians like a snail have gradually moved out of the tribal and religious shell since Jun12 1992 when without coersion or intimidation they voted overwhelmingly for a southern Muslim for president whose running mate was also a Muslim. From there, they also voted for Obasanjo in 1999(but not in 2003 because the election was rigged). So it does not really matter to the man on the street whether a Mohamed Usman or a Babajide Ayodele or an Emeka Okonkwo occupies Aso Rock Villa as long as he is guaranteed food for his table, a roof over his head, a school for his kids and a road to the market square.

If the federal government is headed by a northerner, does that prevent the southern governors who are supposedly wiser and more intelligent in government business from developing their respective domains? Is it the president that decides how the governors spend the monthly federal allocations to their states? Why can’t these wise men of the south become models for the rest o follow? My dear pro-south activist should answer these questions honestly or hold their peace.

Those who have issues against IBB’s ambition for the presidency should take him on those issues as an individual but desist from roping in the north in a phoney agenda. Perpetual bashing of the north could only serve the purpose of ego fertilisation but add no value to nation building. We need to leave the past behind and move forward.




I read the above article and decided to share it to get other opinion as mine is that the battle for tribal supremacy is at its optimal height. I pray we all start seeing the need to see ourselves as willing tools in the hands of few individual spread across the imaginary division

@poster.

I can help but commend you for this insight. Your write up is so cohesive. I hope many Northerners would look at this and go into soul searching. It is time they take their destiny into their hands. I do not advocate violent means but should be able to call a spade a spade. May this crusade of making Nigeria a better place yield positive result soonest.

I do strongly agree to the call for Muslims to speak against the modern day slavery. Their is no justification for such inhuman act .It is quite pathetic that they are more concern about the plight of Arab Palestinians than their own African brothers. Arab Imperialism( this different from Islam) at play,as many of the victims of this Dafur crisis are even Muslims. I believe man just use the tenet of religion to exploit gullible ones.Despite the anti-Islam policies been claimed against the west,they should reckon with the fact that the west have done tremendously in Dafur where there silence(which I think is consent)has helped to perpetuate inhuman crimes.(I think when AIT gets all the Money they would become our own Aljazerra and all these atrocities would be beamed straight to our room our way then we would understand the magnitude of crime been committed there )

In Africa, the Arabs have maintained a policy of not seeing themselves as African first-referring to those in the Maghreb State,they see themselves as Arabs with more loyalty to the middle east Arab states.

Even in this bless country of ours -Nigeria the Arabs here see themselves more superior and get away with virtually everything (Ask any one that have worked with them). With this mentality,just imagine what it would be like to be working in their own country.

The west took our brothers and sister in ship loads, inhuman as that may be,we can see for our selves what has become of their offsprings. The Arab did the same with herds of camel over centuries yet we can not point at one individual prominent within that community that is of Black African ancestry.

Shame on the Arabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ nwando

Your post leave little to be desired.I have followed your comments on issues in the past even though I don't agree with most of them I do acknowledge you have a good way of driving home our conviction.

The stadium in question is in Kano. Yes Northern Nigeria. With the amount of money spent to Host Nigeria 99 especially to renovate stadia I want to believe that it is a Federal Govt Property. So if the govt stick to that I guess it is still the Govt that want his name some where.

Even if the stadium belongs to the state government then it should be the Kano indigenes that should be asked to justify that(But before we get there we do have to ask reason others in other part of Nigeria have one thing or the other named after them. The History of Nigeria can not be complete without Abacha. He is no HERO but if villians are to be classified in Nigeria he will not rank No.1. His only crime is that HE IS DEAD. And the dead do not talk.

So what do you hope to achieve by making the north the curlpit. In Port Harcourt Abacha has a street named after him in GRA-In a choice are with a very good road, So do you now call southerners degoratory names. If only many of us that see ourselves as enlighten do focus on that we share in common rather than that which makes us different.

For what ever his crimes are I believe that he is not the worst we had seen and definitely not anywhere near our very best of Leaders

Guys did you read the last thread she posted about rejecting him if he had proposed?

The lady has left the juicy part of the gist out. I think if she needs the right dose of the correct elixir she should tell us more about why she would have declined. Mayb it is for the same reason the guy left for another.

Angelq move on with your life. For that sweet thing that attaches you to him could readily be made available by the this other guy you claim is dotting you.

Anyway sha use you head O. Emotion atimes beclouds the sense of REALITY(Judgement).

Am sure the bachelors and married women in Nairaland would be stunned that despite all odds the babe is tripping for the married fellow.