₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Are Igbo's the only tribe in Nigeria? How have they been drawing unnecessary attention to themselves?

3exe3:
this didn't start from nairaland an ibo named amaka accused the yorubas of being against the ibos leaving Nigeria . all this started on x reno replied her though

Safyqueen:
As if people doesn't know the religion of their sponsors before.
This is just a ploy to get foods, drugs and other amenities to them in the daylight in front of security officers in the name of religious crusading nothing more.

EchoEnigma:
The problem isn't the tool, but the hand that wields it as a weapon. A sacred text can be a mirror. If a man with a violent agenda looks in, he will only ever see a reflection of himself. I've made my case, and I'll leave it at that.

helinues:
The Igbo's themselves have not moved on from the 1960 civil war that's why this revisiting is necessary may be it can heal.thr wounds

Ttalk:
This is typical example of someone who destroys his people. Just imagine SE have 5000 of this type of leader who collect 500m as constituency allowance but chose to empower 50people with wheelbarrow, what sort abject poverty will such society become after 10 years

DomPerignon:
Azikiwe didn't just stop at ensuring any talk of secession was labeled as Treason in our constitution, he took himself to the inaugural OAU summit held in Ethiopia as Nigeria's representative to sponsor and have a charter passed that ensured all independent member states recognise and see the inherited colonial borders as inviolable.
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Ttalk:
But they want the whole world to blame the Yoruba for their failed attempt to break away as if SW hold the rope to their neck

helinues:
The culprits forming victims..Very funny set of people

T9ksy:
Move on, ke? When those that started the ball rolling 7 decades ago, are still up to their old tricks.

Brenbentondiaz:
Standard deveroper tactics:
1. Push for something due to greed without thinking it through (because thinking before acting, or thinking at all, is a taboo).
2. Same thing backfires right into their faces.
3. Look for others to blame, wail and claim victim.

Rinse and repeat.

helinues:
Gosh, who do you like this to be sounding this way?

helinues:
That's not the question I asked you. Stop sounding incoherently

helinues:
Are you talking about the Obidients because real Nigerians are loving the way Reno has been debunking all una lies for years

helinues:
Who taught you to be trolling others?

helinues:
Bro imagine that guy derailing this thread deliberately. He has made use of nothing less than 4 monikers on this thread alone . That's how they do whenever any history story is not favouring them

Ewuoooo
Pompoma
Skeyskey
Desazubu

Cromagnon:
Mention a way beyond state police?

Cromagnon:
Welcome to democrac
Majority carries the vote

nomorespams:
I am an Igbo Man / Ika from Ika North East LG in Delta State.
But to most Southeasterns, I am Delta Igbo...
You see what most of you don't understand is that state creation never existed until the British Project called Nigeria was mapped out and even when states were created, they weren't drawn out based on ethnicity rather on military or superficial reasons..
That's why it irks me when some Southeasterns will say am not true Igbo...like can you listen to yourself Our forefathers have been migrating and cohabiting with each other for centuries on these lands but when Nigerian Military Government drew boundary lines on these same lands, you now ingested that as your true identity even discriminating and looking down on your kinfolks in other parts of the lands!! It's ridiculous..
And this is one of the effect of not teaching rigid history in Nigeria especially including the Civil War..a lot of ppl born in the late 70s downwards just think their state ethnic group is superior to their same ethnic group in other states or that though we speak more or less the same mother tongue but since we are in different state we are different!!! LMAO!!! Most Nigerians are so ignorant on this ethnic issue and it pains me that parents keep Passing down this ignorant virus down to their blood line..

Danisaint112:
No ransom was paid here though.



You are very correct. The hunters were the ones that did the job.
My junior sister was among the 17 kidnapped.
Nigeria happened to us yesterday.
I just dey calculate the ransom wey for comot for our body.When we screaming at the top of our voice about the why we need to oust this incompetent government out of power, many will not understand.
She is back home safely, and all we can apply do to is to thank God at this moment.

ogolemati:
you want to finish former chairman agbero union nairaland branch helinues take it easy on him agbero chairman is not in town,in case he needs money

helinues:
Only if some opposition in Nigeria can read it. Some of them have been threatening, blackmailing others because of politics

Inspirer1:
How easy it is to go on strike,,,,especially for a group that deals directly with human life

EchoEnigma:
To understand how this works, let's look at a verse manipulators often twist from

Surah Al-Baqarah:

"Kill them wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out. For persecution is far worse than killing... If they do so, then fight them..."

The clear context here is self defense for a community that was violently persecuted. But someone with an agenda can take this verse to a vulnerable person someone poor, illiterate, or just alienated and twist it.

They ignore the context of "persecution" and present it as a command for violence.
This isn't just my theory, I've seen this playbook firsthand. My work involves understanding radicalism, and my team has interviewed extremist leaders and their followers. What's shocking is that the followers often know the Qur'an by heart but can't actually read or understand its context. They're extremely poor. The leaders draw them in with gifts, food, clothes for their wives and then tell them to send their kids to indoctrination centers instead of schools.

The leaders, on the other hand, are just after power and wealth.

You can see the hypocrisy right here in Nigeria. A certain demographic is easily recruited by leaders. In this same society they forbid music at a wedding, while those same leaders play music and serve alcohol in private. It’s a game of manipulation, not faith. I wish I can go deeper into different use cases but NDA wouldn't allow me do that.

EchoEnigma:
This is a fair question, but the problem isn't the religion, it's the politics.
Terrorist groups are political movements that hijack religious symbols to get power. They recruit people by exploiting real world anger over things like foreign invasions, poverty, and corrupt governments. To justify their violence, they have to completely twist the faith's actual teachings. This is why the vast majority of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims reject these groups entirely. These opportunists, whom the media call terrorists, number only in the thousands.

Now, let's also look at the conditioning we all experience from the media we consume. News headlines often blame the religion while ignoring the political reasons and selfish interests behind the conflict. Movies do it too, constantly using stereotypes like 'Islamic terrorists,' Russian agents, and African warlords as the bad guys, while the West always plays the hero. This constant psychological positioning makes it hard to remain objective. Even when presented with different facts, your mind will still hold on to that conditioned image.

What you're seeing isn't a problem with Isla, it's a few violent political groups using its name to achieve their own goals.

My goal here isn't just to convince you. I would rather you go deeper into these matters go way back if you can. But while doing so, be objective. Leave your own beliefs at the door and come in as a researcher looking for answers. Perhaps then, you will form a point of view that isn't tainted, but is based on facts and human psychology.

All the best✌🏾

Lanretoye:
nothing they can explain to people like you,the only thing you can understand from the government is free food and salaries without work as they do all over the world including Ghana and neighboring Benin

toprealman:
Your inability to read and comprehend ain’t my responsibility.

Lanretoye:
in management you don’t relief people in such position without proper plan and replacements

CaseSensitive:
There's a deep historical context to it. You may have to go back to the times of "The Crusades" to fully understand but in short, they are instruments in the hand of foreign powers, politicians etc. America had strong links with Al Qaeda, Ukraine is supporting the JNIM terrorists in the Sahel etc.

France's Vincent Crouzet (A member of French Intelligence Agency) once publicly said loosely in 2023 or so, that "Now that we are no more in the Sahel, we have more flexibility to start up some operations of destabilisation more secretively in the region". How do you think they carry out these destabilisation operations?

toprealman:
Same thing political ideologies turn people to zombies! Be logical and think for yourself. Group think is why the world is heading towards perdition!

Cherrybae:
I'm not a Muslim but what has Islam to do with this.

In SE ipob and UGM kill too, what do you call that.

Let's respect other people religion.

All religions commit crimes and atrocities

Mbok

CodeTemplarr:
They kill with purpose. Thats a resource rich nation they are minority in. Suddenly they know how to strategize and strike.