₦airaland Forum

Buhari the disgusting evil man will do no such thing.

They are glad more igbo lives are lost to fulani troops.

Kazim88:
Igbo can not and never lose everything.

the problem is Nigerians are ignorant of International laws and charters...

We live like animals in the jungle in Nigeria.

The only thing Nigeria can do is settle with the Igbos in peace...

don't think because Nig Ar.my have gun they can shoot..

don't think if North attack Igbos in the North, people won't be jail in Hague... Even Buhari is not safe...

Go and ask Sudan President.

No need to respond to them. They are only trying yo extract your strategy.
Let them go ahead and implement their simple strategy of killing innocent igbos and christiansbin the north, and we shall then implement our own strategy.

ochejoseph:
BIAFRA VS AREWA FACE OFF: THE FIVE MAJOR ISSUE
WE MUST NOT FAIL TO US


Growing up as a child in Rigiyar Dorowa area of Sokoto was one of the happiest times of my life, opposite our house were the native Hausa/ Fulani hosts while on our sides were the non-natives 80% of which were Igbos. life was good, pidgin English was the lingua franca and the two other languages we could not do without were Igbo and Hausa and as kids we spoke them fluently nobody thought us we just grew up to speaking the languages as we mingled without segregation.

I have stayed out the Biafra discussion because I realized that whenever the issue comes up emotions run high while common sense and logical reasoning is always thrown out of the window hence my decision to watch the drama on the sidelines ,As a child who was born, raised and educated in Sokoto, North western Nigeria, I have felt the warmth, kindness and undiluted love of the people, I also understand the thinking's of a typical northerner haven spent the first 27 years of my life there and as a husband to a lovely Igbo woman and father to kids with some Igbo blood in their veins I also have a stake in the Eastern region.

Like I asserted in my book the Unseen Terrorist published by Author house in the United Kingdom, telling yourself a lie is like putting a short gun to your head and pulling the trigger in both ways you end up destroying yourself. There are 5 issues we must objectively look at in the ethnic and religious conflict that produced the Biafra agitation, at this point in our nation’s history silence is no longer golden, and history will not be kind to us if we fail to objectively dissect the issue and help the warring parties understand what is truly at stake.

Issue Number 1: The Tendency of the North to always be Violent

No one likes living with animals, as Northerner's we have spilled so much human blood, about 75 % of our innocent and defenseless victims have been the Igbo people and their children, and we have not spared their property also. Once there is any small fight or civil disturbance the next thing a northern miscreant thinks of is how to destroy Igbo property and sniff life out of a fellow human being.
During the sharia and election crises we killed and destroyed their properties across northern Nigeria, while they were still bleeding from the pains of the civil war and the trauma of abandoned property we continued to make them our number one target at the slightest provocation, these animalistic behavior we have perfected over decades has made living with us a nightmare.
Even among the so called northerners we have remained extremely violent to ourselves, how do we explain the killings in my home state Benue, how do we rationalize the slaughter by Boko haram in the North East. The Agatu massacre by Fulani herdsmen, their collaborators and silent supporter's is unexplainable yet we want people to live and coexist with us! Only a mad man will do so without asking questions.


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Issue Number 2: Beneficiaries of the Northern Population.

The second truth we must tell ourselves is why are the Igbo's found in the remotest villages of Northern Nigeria, No one has milked the benefits of the Northern population like the Igbo nation truth be told. Unfortunately, majority of Igbo's and southerners are unwilling to accept the role of the north in developing the Igbo entrepreneurial zeal.
A vast majority of the Goods and products sold in major south eastern markets like Aba and Onitsha are not consumed in the East they end up in the north, this explains why the volume of cash inflow to the east is at its lowest during Ramadan and crisis period up North, today the Igbo's control about 70% of the core commercial activity in the North while Northerner's control less than 3 % in the Eastern region these are facts.
The Northern population has provided a training ground for many Igbo traders and their trainees who later became masters and continued their commercial exploits , data has shown that a vast majority of real estate especially in major cities in the northern Nigeria are owned by our eastern brothers and sisters thanks to a northern population that was willing to support their enterprise, but to claim the Igbo's are doing the north a favour by making money in their enclave like some have claimed is taking the insult too far .

Issue Number 3: Insensitivity to Religious Beliefs on Both sides

The complete lack of regard for the religious believe of the typical Muslim is usually the trigger for violence between the Arewa Muslim community and the Igbo nation, it is not unusual to find an Igbo man provocatively gulping a bottle of beer before a fasting Muslim neighbor without recourse to their emotions during Ramadan, the failure and outright refusal of a vast majority of the Igbo community to recognize and respect the religious beliefs of their host communities will continue to be the weakest and most lethal link in this complex relationship.

On the other hand, the insatiable appetite and perpetual quest to burn churches by arewa miscreants and few educated illiterates is another issue that has hastened the segregation of the nation along ethnic and religious lines, this is because the non-northern Christian population in the north is largely dominated by the Igbo's
Unfortunately, the political elites on both sides see this as a political weapon and often used same to whip up sentiments during elections this explains why elections in Nigeria is never based on issues of development but largely on ethnic propaganda and where you pray.

Issue Number 4: Demerits of the Biafra agitation and Arewa exit declaration.

It was Micheal Crichton who said “if you don’t know history you don't know anything, you are like a leaf who does not know it is part of a tree."
Today Puerto Rico is begging to lose its statehood and join the US as its 51st state, South Sudan the world's newest nation is currently in coma with no end in sight to the infighting for power by her political elite. It’s not about chasing people out of a land or claiming you want Biafra it’s about the huge consequences of what some of our friends are asking for...

Salient issues

A. If Biafra is granted independence as some want that will automatically transform Igbo's into foreigners in Nigeria, a nation they contributed immensely to build.

Now...
Which country in the world will allow foreigners to control 80 % of the commerce within its territory? It will be against National security to do so, except the capital of Biafra will be Abuja.

B. If Biafra secede Will the Arewa dominated "new" Nigeria allow Igbo's who by this time are non-nationals to still hold on to 70 % of the real estate which they control in the capital?

C. Many of the Nigerian flagged ships are Igbo owned, with Biafra coming into the picture they will automatically lose their privileged rights under the Cabotage laws and even go bankrupt because they automatically become foreign flagged ships with little or no expertise in foreign shipping and the huge demands

D. It will be odd to see Goods from Aba the China of Africa and Onitsha paying import duty just to cross the Niger Bridge into Asaba! ,!!! Yes that will be an export terminal if the agitation succeed, this will reduce the competitiveness of these products in terms of pricing.

E. Our current laws limits foreign equity in local banks, even Jaiz Nigeria’s only Islamic Bank has more Igbo shareholders than arewa Muslim shareholders, if that is the case imagine the Igbo shareholding and equity in traditional banks! What happens to these investments by hard working Igbo men and women? Will the law be changed overnight?

E. The Nigerian Civil service is dominated by Igbo's, comparative to their population nationally they have taken more than their fair share , will the over saturated states Eastern civil service struggling to pay salaries absorb them? How will the new nation cope with the huge number of pensioners from the east under the national payroll?

Qatar with all its huge resources powdered by gas and other petroleum resources is currently feeling the heat of the blockade by GCC nations, its only land border is with Saudi Arabia this route serves as the only link for the supply of critical resources and it is currently closed, the proposed Biafra although with some little orifices is virtually a landlocked region the Igbo man is too mobile and enterprising to be confined to a landlocked nation. Therefore those supporting Biafran agitation must avoid parochial sentiments and look at the bigger picture.

On the other hand my Arewa brothers who are banking on free crude oil money after chasing the Igbo's away must go back to the drawing board. It is sad that they fail to realize that once the South east goes, the South South will joyfully exit, and as we all know their agitation will not be as peaceful as IPOB who present themselves for practice training with live bullets by drunk officers and men of the Nigerian police and army, even the middle belt might not be willing to stay after the fragmentation and trust the highly educated Yoruba nation they have all the ingredients and capacity to start and sustain a viable new country.

As at today many of the northern states cannot sustain themselves, Benue my home state inclusive, with all the noise about food production and food basket there is widespread hunger, desperation and hopelessness in the land. The Northern healthcare system is driven by the population they want to expel, 9 out of every 10 pharmacy and chemist in the north 8 are owned by Igbo's.
The educational system in the core north is on life support thanks to Boko Haram. We have failed to properly manage the industries bequeathed to us by the late Sir Ahamadu Bello the Sardaunan Sokoto today their carcasses are scattered all over the region. If there is a time we need entrepreneur’s and investors to come to our region it is now !!!.

Many of those who have joined the band wagon of chase them away and Biafra agitation have not seen war, and some are under the influence of tramadol, alcoholic drinks and other substances which they abuse , nevertheless there are genuine agitators with sufficient grounds to call for a divorce of the marriage of 1914, they have issues which needs to be addressed, this is why I believe the decision the Buhari administration to pursue the policy of 97% and 5% as soon as he was inaugurated was the worse decision of his presidency so far.

Furthermore, the decision to completely throw away the entire recommendations of the national conference without sieving through to implement some of its nation saving recommendations is an action we will continue to regret for many years to come. With the current administration showing no regard for the constitution, court orders or the rule of Law, citizens are beginning to copy these dangerous precedents by abrogating to themselves powers which even the state does not have, as manifested by these haphazard declaration's and counter declaration which will further weaken whatever is left of the Nigerian state.

It is instructive to note that the general feeling among Nigerians who genuinely have the interest of the nation at heart is that there is an urgent need to restructure or tweak the framework of Nigerian state in order to prevent an imminent collapse and descent into lawlessness and anarchy.

Finally, just like my Eastern family my Northern family must recognized that we all need each other, No ethnic nationality can claim to know all, and no region is entirely self-sustaining as such we must stair up the Nigerian spirit of innovation and seek for ways to permanently resolve our differences, salvage our crumbling economy and preserve whatever is left of our common humanity.

May God Bless the Federal Republic Of Nigeria


Oche Joseph Otorkpa is a fellow of the Royal Society for Public health UK
And Author of the Unseen Terrorist

The deceit in your write up is that you pretend the north wants to keep Biafra because of love and allow Igbo petty traders to sell their wares in northern villages. BIG LIE!

THE NORTH SIMPLY WANTS TO KEEP BIAFRA SO THEY WILL CONTINUE TO MILK HER OF ALL HER OIL RESOURCES.

Exercise in futility

DutchBruh:
1)Buratai Dubai Mansions
2)Tinubu $50 million dollar private jet
3) The $180 million Halliburton Bribery scandal
4)Rotimi Amaechi $432 million indictment my Rivers State Judicial Panel
5)Siemens €10 million euro bribery scandal
6)The $16 billion power sector fraud under OBJ
7)Forex scam under CBN that Sanusi Lamido revealed that led to crash of the naira
8 The $6.8 billion dollar fuel subsidy scam in 2012 that turned Otedola,Ifeanyi Uba,Wale Tinubu etc to billionaires
9) El Rufai/Nitel scam. Sold Nitel to Dutch company Pentascope with headquarters in a Church.

Na paddy paddy gworment we dey.

moninuola65:
but is osinbajo that included in the suit is also hausa/fulani?

So is Willie Obiano included in the suit Hausa fulani? Or is Okezie ikpeazu included in the suit Hausa fulani too?

You guys are just too tribalistic. Trying to play smart by using tribe to defend mass murderers. Security leaders, Governors, battalion commanders that gave the orders to kill people praying in churches, in the barracks, denied medical care to those in their custody with gun shot injuries which led to their deaths must answer for the crimes they committed. You can threaten Igbos in the north or threaten war as much as you like to intimidate people from seeking justice on these mass murderers. That is your concern. When we arrive at that eventuality, we shall show you what technology can do in warefare and how a disciplined army fights. For now, we are asking for justice, not that we cannot slaughter fulanis in our midst as you erroneously think we cant.

Another hate speech threatening all igbos in the north if mass murderers are brought to book.

If masdob threatens fulanis in the SE ans SS, then its hate speech if Evans or some mass murderer is jailed.

Igbos want nothing more than the ability to manage its own affairs without deceitful manipulations or dictation from fulanis hiding in Abuja.

All i can say to fulani that want war is bring it on. Remember that its not who fired the first shot thst eins the war.

Another hate speech threatening all igbos in the north if murderers are brought to book.
If masdob threatens fulanis in the SE ans SS, then its hate speech.

Igbos want nothing more than the ability to manage its own affairs without deceitful manipulations or dictation from fulanis hiding in Abuja.

All i can say to fulani that want war is bring it on. Remember that its not who fired the first shot thst eins the war.

At some point you just pray for BUHARI to do his worst.
Afterall it his actions that have brought the economy, fulani herdsmen, anger in the nation and tribalism to the fore so thst Nigerians stop pretending to themselves.

The so called Arewa suspension of qujt notice is a trick.Arewa likes to surprise their enemies

Those that know Arewa well will tell you they are now plotting intensely to take you by surprise. A word is enough......

Those that can relocate especially from northwest and northeast regions should do so ASAP! Those who cannot should organize their defenses as groups of people and get some molotov too.

Great to see OBJ do something good.

But true charity begins at home.

Nigerians were butchered in Ozubulu and nobody commiserate with the wounded or families of the bereaved

As much as i support peace, we must seriously consider begining to acquire important light weapons namel
1. Mortars
2. 50 calibers
3. AKs
4. RPGs and anti tank

These 4 items will suffice for a highly mobile force.

Ekakamba:
NAIJ.com earlier reported that a church in Ozubulu, not far from Nnewi had attacked by unknown gunmen. Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state said two persons from Ozubulu who are known drug barons in South Africa were the prime suspects of the attack on St Philips Catholic church.

Nnewi, Anambra state is once again in the news and this time it is because of a well-researched story written by journalist Eromo Egbejule for Forbes Africa on the number of billionaires in the town.

Nnewi has possibly bred more billionaires than any other town in Africa and is nicknamed the Japan of Africa.

According to Forbes Africa, these are 10 of the most prominent naira billionaires from Nnewi, in no particular order:

1. Cletus Ibeto

Cletus Ibeto is the chairman of the Ibeto Group. According to Wikipedia, he started out as a spare parts import dealer, after spending some time as an apprentice in the motor parts business, a gradual step taken by many eastern traders.

In March 1988, he stopped direct importation of lead acid automotive battery and plastic motor accessories after completing his factory in Nnewi. By 1995, The Ibeto Group had become one of the largest auto spare parts manufacturing outfits in the country.

2. Cosmas Maduka

Dr Cosmas Maduka according to his website is the founder, President/CEO of Coscharis Group. He started Coscharis Motors as a one-man business and over the years has transformed it into one of the largest car dealerships in Nigeria that deals in BMW, Jaguar, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce.

3. Innocent Chukwuma

Dr Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma started trading in spare parts under the name of Innoson trading Nigeria Ltd in 1981.

It now produces sport utility vehicles, commercial buses and passenger cars at the first indigenous assembly plant in Nigeria.

4. Gabriel Chukwuma

Gabriel Chukwuma is the owner of former club side, Gabros International FC, and ex-Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Professional Football Association.

He is also the elder brother of Innoson who began business as a patent medicine dealer.

5. Alexander Chika Okafor

In 1981, Chief (Dr) Alexander Chika Okafor, founded Chicason Group of Companies. A-Z Petroleum and other of his products are now household names in Nigeria.

6. Augustine Ilodibe

Late Augustine Ilodibe pioneered the interstate luxury bus transport service; for years, he was the sole importer of these buses.

After helping organize vehicles for the Biafran side during the civil war, he established the hugely popular Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport, his main cash cow and later diversified into brewery and agriculture.

7. Ifeanyi Ubah

Due to the inability of his parents to cater for the educational and material needs of their needs, Ifeanyi dropped out of Okongwu Memorial Grammar School, Nnewi, Anambra State to learn trade at a young age.

In 2001, he founded Capital Oil and Gas Limited which has since went on to become one of the largest distributors of petrol products around Nigeria with a combined capacity to berth 3-6 vessels simultaneously and 32 loading arms.

He is the founder of The Authority Newspaper, a Nigerian daily newspaper and also the owner of Ifeanyi Ubah F.C., a football club in the Nigeria Premier League.

8. Louis Onwugbenu

A profile by The Guardian of him in 2016 said:

"Born into economic challenges 63 years ago, the intellectually promising young Louis had to forgo his education midway at the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war in 1967.

"He later started business in 1972 by selling of bolts and nuts, oil filters and plugs with the meager capital from his parents.

"It was his resilience that propped him on till he graduated into the importation of auto spare parts and rose above his peers in almost all respect.

"Between 1972 and 1977 when his extra hardworking started paying off, he became one of the few pioneer traders that made weekly shuttles to motor/motorcycle spare parts markets at Idumota, Lagos directly under the Carter Bridge; hence he was nicknamed ‘Louis Carter Bridge.’"

The headquarters of his conglomerate sits in the Carter Industrial Estate, spanning many acres in Nnewi.

9. Obiajulu Uzodike

Engr Gilbert Obiajulu Uzodike, founding Chairman/CEO of Cutix Plc was born on March 25, 1949, in Nnewi, Anambra state.

Founded in 1982 by Gilbert Obia­julu Uzodike, after returning from a stint with Raychem Corporation in the United States, Cutix has today grown in leaps and bounds, becoming a multi-award winning manufacturer of electric and telecoms cables, making it one of the best-performing indigenous companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

10. Odumegwu Ojukwu

Late Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria's first black billionaire, and founding President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen's visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce - apparently the only one in the country at the time - on the request of the colonial administration.

Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today's economic value.

Please where is Joe Igbokwe? The self acclaimed high achiever?

Even in his town he is considered a tout with his mama-put restaurant business after Bsc in engineering

AmadiAba:
Ex Face of Igbere (FOI) Queen posted:

"Arewa Youths on Rampage claiming Niger Delta...

So Ogoni people don't know how to spell their hometown?

Hausas' are known compound illiterates. Have a look at this protesters.

<< #OGINI YOUTH SUPPORT BUHARI>>

What a shame!"

Itsekiri is also now Istekiri


More here >>> http://igberetvnews.com/422955/arewa-youths-on-rampage-claiming-niger-delta/

cc: Seun, Lalasticlala, OAM4J, Mynd44

Mods my post hardly makes front page. Wetin I do una?

Abooki just don't care.

They only care about continued stealing of the oil money coming from their enemy's land.

You guys will kill me with jokes here

Op is a mischievous afonja.
Obiano never ordered the shooting of youths in his state.
Please place the blame squarely on the perpetrator Burutai. Soon, all these youths he is killing will ask for justice.

judondasylva:
Some things Nigerians No longer Talk About ....

1.No one talks about where our President is ( we've all accepted our fate of being ruled by a president residing in London. Maybe, Arsenal FC would sign him incase Laccazete fails).

2. No one talks about MMM ( their fate is solely in their hands)...

3. No one talks about Evans ( wherever he is now , no one knows and no one cares to know. he was probably watching Real madrid's match last night while sipping a coffee )

4. No one talks about all the recovered loots / funds . ( where is the whole money hiding )....?

5 . No one talks about Dasuki gate and his chronology of looters....

6. No one talks about the so many Dollars recovered from Whistle blowing avenue and the one Wike was claiming ownership ( hancha adago mmiri now ).....the whole whistle have suddenly rusted and can't make any more sound....

7. No one talks about the payment of 5k stipend to the jobless youth as promised by The APC government....

8. No one talks about Steady light in Nigeria anymore...(better go buy your own generator and scamper for petrol.)

9. No one talks about petrol price going back to normal 65naira or even 96 naira before they removed the fuel subsidy and we all shouted ," Eureka....... Anyone can now import fuel and the price would soon crash like the walls of Jerico....( how many have you imported or anyone from your kindred ).......143/ltr pricing cemented

10. No one talks about where the removed fuel subsidy money delved ....( guess all roads and infrastructures have been fixed )
.....i told them, the only reasonable thing and direct impact this so called government gives to her citizenry was payment of subsidy, atleast, we could buy petrol at a cheaper price and keep powering our houses at least to charge our mobile phones........
During subsidy, it was alleged that some individuals/cabals loot via it but atleast, we were sharing in the loot by buying at cheaper rate, Now, it's been removed and the looting is exponentially transformed .

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Oh my God....how did we get to this level.... Scam is even little to say the least....
Add more because i'm sure they are still many...
#GodHelpNigeria.

#4 and #6.

If you ask questions DSS and EFCC will make sure you disappeared

Suspect33:
Share your challenges, your thoughts and the action you intend to take

i also live in the North, and i have no intentions of relocating in this recession, life sef don taya me, let dem cme and kill

Any igbo living in the north that exposes their plans to this fulani op to take back to his group and plot counter measures deserve what they get.

Those that think they own Nigeria because they have secretly seized our national military forces must know that people cannot be held down by gun

NIGERIA is a very wicked place.

The injustices must not be allowed to continue.

Live free or die is the motto or Biafra.

Let those who think they gave slaves in the south cone out and fight instead of hiding under darkness to kill people as they did in Ozubulu

Another senseless fulani post.

Igbos must come to the war front armed with eggs and abookis with AK47 because Igbos are afraid of killing fulanis.

Those abookis clamouring for war should not look for middle belt to pay with their lives when the war comes.

Ngige who told us APC will build the second niger bridge within 2 years witbout PPP.

Please where is the bridge and why has Ngige suddenly gone mute on the issue?

Fulani men are seriously plotting an attack.

I know you are not afraid to fight back.However I appeal to southerners especially igbos to relocate women and children. Then stay in groups to defend themselves. Make sure to impose equal measure of whatever is imposed on you. But you must remove the innocent women and children from the theater now.

I beg una.

Warship:
Those Arewas are confused on what to do


God has set them up for total destruction

Biafra is our country and our only hope to live as decent human beings free from oppression and we will have it no matter what.

GBAM!

THIS USELESS COUNTRY MUST STOP PRETENDING TO ITSELF.

Hehehehe ....lol

Joe Igbokwe is an intellectual?.

I remember another one called Pini Jason that claimed to be a guru on June 12 just because he wrote an article on Abiola and IBB friendship before the election

These newspaper commentators always over rate themselves.

NK should just ignore the riffraff

Let those who said Biafra cannot stand come out and give their reasons. Not beer parlour thugs as Igbokwe or Orji Kalu

When it comes to "listing" they will list SE and SS roads along with their own.

When it comes to "funding" all the roads approved will be Fulani and few in West .

The northerners have sadly become very lazy due to over dependence on southern oil resources and totally focussed all their thoughts on how to subdue and cheat the south and forgot to think how to develop the north without stealing anybody's resources.

Unfortunately nothing lasts forever. The south has realized the plot of fulani to subdue them, enslave them and then steal all her resources hiding under the cover of " one Nigeria " and determined to end the daylight robbery .

Why not call Afghanistan to rule Nigeria?