₦airaland Forum

eyeview:
May God bless you. You have spoken my entire mind. I need to connect with people like you so that we'll start building a new set of young leaders from the east that can see and control things differently for our region in the nearest future.

brownlord:
If the ND militants decide to take up arms against Buhari government and the people of bayelsa, rivers and creek decide to buy into the militants idea, killing security men and destroying government property while the masses In shield them, there is nothing much Buhari government can do except he intend to declare full war and wipe the entire region.

Like I said here sometime ago, Obama was not there when bomb went off in Boston, but a citizen reported to the security men after seeing the the act on CCTV. Use your head son, to the north they could not deal with a minority president. The propaganda worked, couple with the fact Jonathan refuse to handover the country to OBJ and some cabals which are his greatest undoing.

@freeaGlobe, get over it, your man lost accept defeat and move on.

Wsdm:
Go and check the results; check the percentage of votes each candidate got from the various regions and see whose results is more inclined to ethnicity. Why is it so hard for you people to be magnanimous enough to accept this result and be calm? If everyone is inclined to your advice, then no way people from your side will ever become president of Nigeria.

Raiders:
what good is road,school and Agriculture when there is no security and people are dying every day from bomb blast? The northerners were living like refugees in their own country and GEJ refuse to protect them. Infact he only visited the north eastern state weeks to the election so he could campaign. GEJ failed the people of the north

eyeview:
Let's be sincere,the north voted buhari because he was their own,not because he had any better programme that GEJ.
The west voted Buhari simply because of the Osibanjo/Tinubu factor. Afterall,buhari has been contesting since,why didn't they recognise him as the change all this while.
I ask an ardent yoruba Apc supporter if he would have been clamouring for this change if Buhari had chosen Rochas or Ngige as running mate,he never answered.
Its all tribal.
Last note: let's pray that Apc learns from GEJ and provide a level electoral playing field to vote them out when they fail to perform(though I doubt).

FreeGlobe:
There is no reason why Nigeria should continue being a united country when we now place ethnic interests over competence and performance. The yorubas have supported with the hausas to return to the status quo of their born to rule. I don't expect any democracy dividend from a buhari presidency for the masses because Buhari didn't even present a manifesto. All he did was sell his ethnicity to his north while the yorubas did for their region.
Jonathan has done more for the north than any president from the north and yet tribalism defeated him. I want to ask all igbos to boycott this government and prepare for the next election with awareness and tribalism. Igbos should make sure that they are not shortchanged in the upcoming census. There is no reason why katsina should have more population than Anambra.

Enough said!

Realdeals:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/mend-congratulates-buhari/

SirShymexx:
Utter incoherent nonsense!

Keep living in denial, but the truth is always bitter. He allowed Igbo elites hijack his government, hence he failed before he started - cos like Zik, Igbo politics has always been opportunistic tendencies laced with nepotism - but without carrying the ordinary Igbos along.

I'm giving you facts. You should know by now that I don't bite my tongue for anyone and being PC isn't my thing.

The truth is bitter.

alaoeri:
Good one from the General, we can't go to bed now because we must make this government to work.

SirShymexx:
Lol. I still don't know how you can scam someone by taking a percentage of what actually belongs to you as a Nigerian. Was the money GEJ's? Classic case of a thief stealing from a next thief lol.

GEJ scammed himself by letting Igbo elites hijack his government. He ran a sectional government rife with extreme corruption and that was his Achilles heel - apart from being an obtuse weasel, with a stark illiterate for a wife.

Good riddance!

globatop:
Yorubas are never tribalistic in politics, we are the most sophisticated political animal in Nigerian politics. We never voted on sentimental lines, we have ideology, forget few black sheeps that can sell their mind (mother) for money.
ILL
In Yorubas you will find the best political analyst like Bola Tinubu, (The Awo of present days). He has the best political calculations.

Obasanjo was never supported by yorubas in 1999, Jonathan was highly favored in 2011 by the yorubas, how then can u term yorubas as tribal politicians.

When Jonathan was not running a credible govt, we turned our back on him based on ideology.

Ibos are tribalistic and politically naive, you rejected your credible son Ngige as gov because of the hate you have for Bola Tinubu and ACN. You supported Jonathan because of your corrupt people in his govt. Due to your political immaturity you rejected Ngige again as senator, hence losing the position of Senate President in the next dispensation.

It will take the will of God for SE to produce president in this country because at the same time if such is zoned to SE, every Igbo citizen will come out as candidates.

Bola Tinubu you hate so much has been a liberating factor in Nigeria. Due to his political mathematics and his magnanimity, he United the opposition parties to wrestle power from the devourer party PDP. Long live Bola Tinubu, long South west, long live Nigeria.

demandtruth:
Silly x2 you

reading, learning has become a nightmare to you because of
the "transformation" you enjoyed in education as supplied by Gej

you better go join Pej to enrol in a primary school

Mapletraks:
@christopher

It is Lagos Island (Marina, Lagos Island)
that was the administrative capital of Nigeria from 1906-1991.

Lagos State wasn't the capital of Nigeria.
There is a difference between Lagos Island (Lagos for short or Eko in Yoruba) which is an Island town just like Bonny Island or Bonny for short, and Lagos State
which is NOT a noman's land because the whole of Lagos State is owned by the Aworis, Ijebus of Epe, Ikorodu, and Lekki LGAs, and Ogus/Aworis of Badagry LGA.

These 3 subethnic groups are the indigenes of Lagos State which Gen. Gowon created for them on May 27, 1967 along with 11 other new states.

Even the British Colonialists clearly stated
that Lagos Island is a Yoruba town and it has always been so. They never said Lagos Island which served as the British admin capital is a noman's land just as Calabar, the former capital before Lagos Island also has real indigenes (Efik, Efut and the Qua).

Ibos must desist from insulting the Yoruba
by refering to Lagos State as a nobody's land or that oil money built it.

Do other states in Iboland and Nigeria not get oil money from the Federation account
like Lagos does? Please let the indigenes
of Lagos State enjoy their state without this overbearing attitude from some Ibos.

Finally I read copy of the SUN newspaper and other historical documents which indicate that a lot of Yoruba and Edo lived
in Iboland in places like Abakaliki before
the Nigerian Civil War and invested/built
houses, but since the Civil War ended their population had reduced in Iboland. Most can be found in mainly Rivers States and other South-South states.

Some Edo females came back to the Mid-West with pregnancies from being raped
in Iboland prior to and during the early days of the Civil War of 1967-1970, before being expelled with other non-Ibos by the
Secessionists, so that and other acts of insecurity such as kidnappings and vivious armed robberies had prevented a lot of non-Ibos from living in large numbers in the core 5 Eastern States.

A lot of the supposed "Hausa" in the Ibolands are NOT really Hausa but from foreign countries. Hausas don't do maiguard work or sell water (mai ruwa).


Onitsha and Asaba are favorite destinations for non-Ibos such as the Yoruba, Edo, and Hausa traders, business people and other professionals.

demandtruth:
Silly x2 you

reading, learning has become a nightmare to you because of
the "transformation" you enjoyed in education as supplied by Gej

you better go join Pej to enrol in a primary school

WebSurfer:
The just shared this on twitter...

koife:
Trending online now as we speak in the likelihood for this election to go into run off esp with the 25% and popular vote concept....I seem to get it all mixed up. Can someone pls help give me in depth explanation?

ketekete:


Sai baba.. Sai Buhari.

PDP how market?

sirlaw2:
Its very easy to hate what u cant acquire.... And in this case u termed it overbilling... My brothers and sisters, NO TOWN IN ANAMBRA collects more dan 50k as brideprice... Am sayin dis with absolute certainty cos i did a journal on culture and its effects on the modern man. I had to interview a lot of traditional rulers and other high profile traditional men. Even my sister's bride price was as little as 20k and tradition demands that u use d money and buy something she will value... Thats Anambra for u. Pls dnt believe everything u hear. One love.

Suspect33:
Jst last month a frnd of mine went to his fiancee's hometown in anambra state for introduction, nd after the introduction, he was given a list of items to buy in accordance wit dia tradition.... Buying those items cost more than 350,000.......

Lst 2 week he went again to gve dem d items, so as to hasten the wedding plans, to cut it short, der told him dat the bride price was 1.2million bt der decided to reduce it to 1 million because of d present condition of d country..... He told dem he cant pay such amount, nd der said der will not gve him dia daughter, dat if he dnt hav money he should go nd marry frm oda tribes.....


My question nw is dat, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE IGBO... because dis hav happened to three of my friends nd am dating an igbo girl..... AM NID ANSWERS PLs

duni04:
On one hand this saddens me because we've allowed foreigners, who would not even replicate this kind of gesture in their home states, represent us. On the other hand I'm happy because it shows Yoruba people are tolerant of other tribes and practise modern democracy devoid of tribalism and ethnic affiliation. On the whole its a win-win for the Yorubas. Its shows that elections were indeed free and fair in Lagos. Can't say the same for the states in other regions, especially the SE and SS.