₦airaland Forum

Racoon:
Yes! You're right sir.So also is the "Oil, Politics and Violence" by Max Siollun. There was actually this "76" movies that came close in depicting how that abortive Lt.Col.Bukar Suker Dimka's Coup of Feb.13 1976 took place.

Yes. The book - Oil, Politics and Violence did vividly described what played out in the Dimka Coup and the actors in the whole incidence. Buhari (who is a staunch protégé of Murtala Mohammed) was a key actor in foiling that coup.
Anyone that read those books before 2015 elections would have known who Buhari truly is and would not vote for him. Before i read Oil, POlitics and Violence, i had always perceived Murtala Mohammed as a gentle soldier. But the book depicted that he was a hard and stubborn soldier who had at many times openly threatened to deal with General Gowon, and he eventually overthrew Gowon and became the Head of state after ousting Gowon with the help of his staunch loyalists. Infact, the book narrated that Murtala was killed by those Loyal to Gowon as a revenge 6 months after Murtala ousted Gowon. the book further indicated that those times were very deadly times in the Military when there was distrusts and bad blood in the Military so much that everyone was scared of being assassinated, and after Murtala was killed, there was vacuum in the Military Headship for over 2 weeks and everyone ( Obasanjo and co who were highest officers then) refused to become Head of State. However, Obasanjo was almost forced to be Head of State so as to change Leadership to the Southern Nigeria to doused the Bad that had brewed between the Northern Military Christians camp ( The Langtan block and loyalist to Gowon) on one hand, and the Northern Military Muslims ( The Murtala Mohammed loyalist) on the other hand.
Anyone who wants to know why Nigeria is the way it is today should go and read 'Oil, Politics and violence" by Max Siolliun, And also the sequel of that book called - "Soldiers of Fortune" by same Author. But Books are Masterpieces that gives detailed accounts of every Top Nigerian Military officer since independence and their different roles in the Military to bastardized and destroyed Nigeria.

You can search and read these books online on : https://books.google.com.ng/books

ok

MyGeneration:
Short sighted people, people way no even know what they want are calling me outcast.

Shouting restructuring restructuring restructuring ok tell us what u want to restructure in the east u disappear.

Is it this level of thinking u would understand?

If you are IBO, even your family will disown you for making this idiotic suggestion.
Go and take your morning dose of your Tramadol.
Fulani goat.

MyGeneration:
I am igbo I advise u northerner's did u know wrong this is just my opinion, don't bring them into this

You are not IBO.
If at all you are, you are an OUTCAST.
No right thinking Southerner will spew such useless suggestion.

MyGeneration:
Nigeria is a great country, infact one if the greatest to have ever come out of Africa despite our minor set backs, for decades and centuries we have had trade relationship with our neighbouring country Niger.

To me the lack of sea port would make Niger not to able to attain it's full potentials.

Despite the sahara desert I see huge potentials in Niger republic, and they are not untilling but effectively.

Niger republic immigrants already make up a huge chunk of Nigerias immigrants, they see Nigeria as a second home as much as we see Niger as a second home.

Why don't we unite into one country.

You are Insane. Idiotic Fool.
Useless Fulani Northerner.

Aboki99:
Agree with some of your points, though not all and my disagreements pertain to:

(1)To say that good, peaceful, peace-loving and law-abiding northern muslims are few, I think it amounts to, at the very least, a slip of the pen. The Hausas say that "elders don't lie but their tongues can slip", so I want to give u the respect that your pen slipped on that one! If you have lived among northern muslims my bro, you wont be talking the way you are. Ask those who have,please.
(2) You stated quite rightly that those who cause trouble in the north are "volatile idle youth" or 'almajiri' and, I hasten to add ignorant political thugs. But the thing is it is agents of the state(police, sss, soldiers, nspcc etc) that should be responsible for checking the excesses of all law breakers and not some bright sparks or goody-goody samaritans who, because they want to avoid blanket-labelling, should be intimidated into confronting hardened drug addicts and thugs. Do southern gentlemen like you confront cultists that dot the southern landscape like coals in Newcastle? Or Area boys and OPC miscreants that have organized so many massacres against Hausa/Fulani muslims in the SW? No, you don't, and no one pins the blame on the whole Southern Christian's or be so authoritatively arrogant to order you to do so. You keep your peace but a northern Hausa/Fulani muslim can't have that luxury because he doesn't have the mouth and media to speak for him.

Admittedly, I think I like you, moreso your frankness to a good extent. Am glad you and I are having a reasonable discourse devoid insults and rancour, and that's because you are not like many of your northern brothers who fail to want to see or hear logical reasons.
Am sure you and I do not subscribe to violence and unguarded hatred coming from both divides.
However, since you made comparisons between volatile actions as obtainable in the North and what emanates in the South, I guess you will very well agree with me that your Northern brothers are very well likely to be volatile and attack innocent southerners even when unprovoked. And contrary to that, downsouth Southerners are very unlikely to attack Northerners unduly. When such attacks happens, it is usually as a reprisal attack after the Northerner was volatile. This is why we seldom hear of Religious riots in the South, but these are very common in the North.
Why is it so??
1. Religious Intolerance
2. Envy, bitterness and idleness of the greater Northern youths.
3. Inferiority complex. The average Northern youth feels inferior to a Southern youth, and feels insecure beside his/her southern counterpart while tending to refrain from making close ties. This tendency automatically breeds distrust and brews distant hatred. These are the subtle bane of an average Northern youth.
Am sure you will agree with me.

Aboki99:
Whoever has ever lived in the north knows what you are saying is far from the truth. As a past corps member, I was privileged to know that corps members lived life in the comfort of their lodges, they never embed themselves in the larger society. Even those who teach in public secondary schools intermingle with a small fraction of people whose patterns of behaviour is not a good enough representative sample of the larger population. This is more so with google generation corps members you are probably a member of who go to their state of their PPA with preconceived and entrenched stereotypes that may be impossible to shed in a few months time. Receive some wisdom, young man, never count urself as those who have lived in the north.

But on a slip side, you speak quite intelligently and a lot different from 90% of an average Northern Muslim, so I will give you some slack and take you differently.
There are some very few like you out there in the North, who I can exonerate. But then, I know for sure (as I have seen in time past), when the chips are down in times of deadly riots unleashed on non Muslims, the very best you will do is stay aloof and not be vocal to condemn such acts of volatility and mayhem on human beings. This is of course of your fear. Those that are exposed in the north are so afraid and avoid the volatile youths (almajiris) out there on the streets when they go rampaging. You are careful not to condemn them. These have done more harm than good to the north. That's why the North has become so volatile because the exposed ones have failed to speak out and checkmate the volatile idle youths on the streets.
You and I know I speak the truth.

Aboki99:
Whoever has ever lived in the north knows what you are saying is far from the truth. As a past corps member, I was privileged to know that corps members lived life in the comfort of their lodges, they never embed themselves in the larger society. Even those who teach in public secondary schools intermingle with a small fraction of people whose patterns of behaviour is not a good enough representative sample of the larger population. This is more so with google generation corps members you are probably a member of who go to their state of their PPA with preconceived and entrenched stereotypes that may be impossible to shed in a few months time. Receive some wisdom, young man, never count urself as those who have lived in the north.

Well, you are entitled to your opinion because you desperately seek to defend our kin. But I speak from personal experience while living and serving in Kano. I escaped 3 deadly riots in the course of 4yrs. The same people that I used to help with money and clothes, the same were the ones that came to attack and loot and burn my house in the last riot.
An average northern Muslim only pretends but doesn't like a non Muslim and are likely to go volatile on slightest provocation or any chance to inflict mayhem even unjustly. An average Kano youth only relates with you based on what he can benefit from you. Same person u felt was amiable will be very volatile with so much hatred when bad situations present itself. I have seen loads of people killed by seemingly harmless Northern youths at various riots in Kano.
Kano resonate with me as a volatile city. I know what I say, and I speak the truth.
And point of correction, am not a young man. I bet you that I am a lot older than you. I am absolutely sure of that.
When I gained admission into university, you were probably still a toddler playing with sand. I don't mean disrespect here. But it is likely a fact.
Be careful not to assume you are older than people u have not seen or met.

Aboki99:
Wallahi they do bro. But evil people whether muslims or otherwise, will always find reasons, not matter how deviant and distorted, to be evil. May God guide them, but by now, it should be more than obvious that, these people are the personification of evil, wickedness and ungodliness that they are, and not representative of the majority (over 90%) of peaceful and law abiding muslims. Bro if you have ever lived in the core north and interacted with the average Muslim northerners, you will know that the vast majority of us are intrinsically peaceful, peace-loving and law abiding. The few (less than 10%) that are violent, have unfortunately defined who we are! But that could be part of our trials related to the 70%-muamalat tests we have to pass here on earth, so God can get to " know who are true believers " that keep to the straight and narrow path of His religion despite avalanches of trials from within (Boko Haram, ISIS etc) and without ( the media sensationalization and use of the action of less than 1% violent muslim terrorists like BH and Isis to cancel and blanket-condemn over 1.5 billions peaceful and law abiding muslims). Bro I am not a believer in conspiracy theories but do u honestly think that it is just by coincidence and accidental that just after the attacks of 9/11, muslim terrorists started to spring up left, right and centre, all over the globe? Haba! Did those muslim terrorists just begin to realize that their religion is violent in 2001 (the year 9/11 happened)? And so almost every muslim community (Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan etc) begin to witness eruptions of violent jihadists! This is all the more intriguing that no muslim country can manufacture a Kalashinakov! Haba, let us all start to utilize our number 6. Thank you bro for the genuine question you asked me. I could see its genuineness, believe me, coz both you and I products of our own milieu and could be shaped by what we constantly read in the papers, listen into from the radio or watch on TV. Thanks

Did you say over 90% of Northern Muslims are peaceful and law abiding? That's a Capital Lie.
I lived in Kano for 4yrs after NYSC, I survived 3 deadly riots in those 4yrs.
To say the truth, it is the reverse of what you say. Over 90% of average Northern Muslim has a violent tendency to kill at least provocation.

Ok.
For those that voted Buhari, these are what u get for having a Dictator for President.
The Truth is that the country is being ran by Northern Cabals whose only interest is to secure shield, and sustain power even in the face of glaring incompetence.
Malami has become too powerful and dictating the pace for a Clueless Buhari to follow.
2023 is just by the corner.
The Egyptian we see today, we will see no more

Na wa for Nairaland forum ooo.
Every Thread is full of tribal fights and abuses.
If you want to know the extent of tribal divide in Nigeria, come to Nairaland. This present generation of youths that know nothing about the Nigerian Civil war are just full of dirty mudslinging and tribal hatred.
I swear, if Nigeria was this divided during the civil war, Nigeria would have ceased to exist.
The Yoruba yoiths and Ibo youths both from Southern Nigeria have become cats and dogs with hatred, while the Hausa/Fulani youths from the North hates both Yoruba and Ibo youths. And both Yoruba and Ibo youths jointly hate their northern counterparts.
My question is: What has caused these high level hatred and tribal divide?
Nigeria is totally messed up with these level of hatred.

Kaduna1stson:
Good one there, this country is indivisible because we must be in control. Unpatriotic elements like Afenifere, Ohaneze, OPC, Pandev, Amotekun miscreants , IPOB and Niger Delta trouble makers must be routinely checked and stopped because they are threatening the survival of this country with their utterances.

Thunder fire your mouth for there,
Afenifere, Ohaneze, Pandev etc are the ones you know that are disuniting the country? Your Regions Arewa, Northern Elders Forum, Hisbah, Fulani Herdsmen, Islamic Fundamentalists, and Boko Haram are the ones uniting the country?
Why are you people in the north always afraid if breakup if not that your Northern region is a parasite on other regions.
Thunder go fire ya extremist mouth there 1000 times.

samsard:
First of all, your poverty is in the mind. I don't have a 250k TV but the difference between a TV like that and a cheap one is light and day!! Have you ever been in a Samsung showroom with OLED TVs?
People buy cars for 50 million, are you so foolish as to think they don't see 3 million Naira Camry cars?
I'm not rich, but at least I'm not mentally poor like you.
Deal with your poverty of the mind. I could buy the TV if I save for it, but I don't even watch TV at home as I'm too busy.

You are a demented fool.
Stop bragging about what you can't afford or buy, and feeling funky enough to advise other people to buy.
If you can't pay 250k TV, why urge someone else to do that?
Lousy good for nothing wretched braggarts full Nairaland these day. And same useless fools are quick to call others poor.
Ndi ara.

generationz:
E pain am.

All these small children that have found their way to Nairaland are the ones spoiling Nairaland for Seun.

Seun, henceforth make NYSC discarge certificate a prequisite for registration on Nairaland, so you can have decency on Nairaland.
Don't allow small small children come spoil your business

generationz:
It is poverty that makes one analyse things like this.

If it was not satisfying a particular market, they won't keep producing it.

When you buy a duplex at Magodo, you can as well put a 32 inch TV in your large living room.

Only a wannabe Poor man would want to talk like a Rich man to feel among.
You are not even anywhere close to a Comfortable man let alone a middle class, am wondering where you are coming from with analyzing someone with a poverty mentality?
Look who is talking about Duplex... Someone living in one shithole in Ajegunle.
All these online rats coming to feel funky about ostensible living.
Get off my face. Idiota

lefulefu:
we shoudnt just blame the north alone cos the south is also guilty of this.i have seen some gate men who are christians and from the south having up to 15 children and such men will be earning only 10k.some even have concubines sef and the concubines will also have large number of kids for them.Its a nigerian thing not a northern thing.

Have u been to the North?
I know what I say when I said the North. You will see a Male begger in the North begging in one corner, and his wife with 4 little kids begging in another corner not far away. Their small children already being trained to be beggers, and before you know it, she is already pregnant with the 5th child.
These children grow up without schooling or a future. It is a normal thing for them.
And as the children grow up, they become independent in street life and become Almajiris. The next thing is to carry arms and become bandits and terrorists.
The North is the biggest problem of Nigeria by the singular reason of having too many children they cant fend for and their many myopic mindsets.

Short of Words.
But truth be told.... Why have many kids you can't fend for?
Rich people these days are settling for 2 kids or 3kids at most. Poor people these days are having 5 to 7kids, and they open their mouths to tell you the God that giveth will provide.
By end of the day, the children will suffer and pass thru hard lives and in most cases never make it to higher institutions.
As you lay your bed, so you shall lie on it.
The North should Stop breeding children they can't cater for.

RIP

AustineJohn908:
Wasn't Nebuchadnezzar known to men?

Known to men that God was using him??

My emphasis is that if God is using Trump many wouldn't know God is using him. Now that many are claiming he is being used by God for Christians, sorry bro, I don't believe it.

AustineJohn908:
Sorry but Trump is a better devil than Nebuchadnezzar but God use Nebuchadnezzar to do his things. he was Good servants even if he was devilish too. Trump doing all that doesn't mean God can't use him to do one or two things

So God lack people to use so tey na Trump God go use?
And who tells you that God announces to people who intends to use?
If many think or feel that Trump is doing God's bidding, then God isn't using him cos whoever God wants to use such a person usually not known to men.
So continue to deceive yourself about Trump.

payloader:
None of you on Nairaland attacking Trump can actually point out one serious offence he commited, aside from that he "talks trash". He is just a straight forward fellow, who doesn't hide his feelings. And guess what, people don't like people like that, no matter how effective they might be. People hate the truth and love those that flatter them. So sad.

All these brainless supporters of Trump are like brainless supporters of Buhari. They can never see anything wrong with the man.
When Jamal Khassuggi was brutally murdered in Saudi Embassy in Turkey, all fingers were pointing to Saudi Crown prince Salman.
Trump discredited US CIA report and findings that crown Prince of Saudi ordered the killing of Jamal Khassuggi only because he wanted to protect his personal business interests in Saudi. Today
crown Prince Salman is walking free and not facing trial only because Trump kicked against his prosecution.
That was a wicked criminal cover up by Trump for his selfish interest.

When many were being brutally killed by US Police and people protested with Blacklives matter, Trump stood by the police and kicked against the protests.
Today, same thing is happening In Nigeria. The Buhari govt is clamping down on end SARS protesters, many condemn Buhari, but same people support Trump for doing same.
Trump and Buhari are same, period.
Buhari would have refused to accept defeat just like Trump is refusing.

AustineJohn908:
Oga didn't God used Nebuchadnezzar to do his bidding even when he was an idol worshipper? God can use anybody, even the "Sexist Trump" for his glory

So in your mind, God is using Trump to do his will?
Was God using Trump when Trump covered up for Saudi Prince over the death of Jamal Khassuggi?
Was using Trump when Trump went to a state that Blacks were killed and told them that Police needed more protection and he failed to do something positive about Black lives matters?
Does God use an unruly, selfish and delusional person like Trump?
I don't know which God u serve, but my God can never support a Racist and unruly person like Trump.

Kriss216:
A return for Trump is a return for Christ.

Did Trump tell you he is for Christ?
Or
Did Christ tell you Trump is his representative on earth?
And what makes you think Trump is more Christian or Spirit filled than you are?
Go and let Trump lay hands on your head then.
What is really the matter with many gullible Christians these days?

These Elites has for decades deliberately impoverish the Masses.
Imagine hijacking what is meant for the Masses and taking them to keep in warehouses until they rot away. Meanwhile the masses are sleeping hungry.
What sort of leaders do we have in these country?
Wicked people

oluseyiforjesus:
bros dis one pass regret ooo

Now that you have seen the Monster that you so wanted and voted for, do you like what you are getting??
I think the best thing to do is to apologize to well meaning Nigerians who didn't support Buhari then because they knew this devil is bad luck for Nigeria.
Pls do well to sincerely apologize.

BlackfireX:
Your losses

Buhari till 2023..
4+4+4 must complete
Insignificant south

See this useless and illiterate aboki from the backward and parasitic North. You shld be glad you are privilege to even post on Nairaland based on Quota system.
Quota system and Federal Character kee una there. Cheating North.

The useless North should stay on their own and stop parasiting on the South.

BlackfireX:
Buhari is the best president, people just need to give him time ..

#lStandWithBuhari
#4+4
#BestPresident

Since he is the best thing to happen in your life, then make him your Village head for Life, Or Better still ... Ask him to marry your Mom.

Buhari kee you there this morning.
Useless asslicker.

Moderators should pls help move this to Front page so we remind some people of the follies and mistakes they made years ago.
Nigerians should learn to try to find sense in whatever Nonsense Elders say.

All Sai Buhari Hailers, how Market?
I dey greet ooo.
I hope this change you people clamoured for and got is good for you all?
I just dey ask.�

All those that supported a Bigot Evil man like Buhari to become president and still had guts to sharp their useless mouth that Nigerians won't regret, How is it now?
Una don take una eyes see evil you brought on us?
You were warned about Buhari.
Ntooooor!!

Ok.
The world has seen and the world is now condemning the evils of Buhari govt.
This govt is finished.