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jason123:
How does that relate to the article I am simply trying to correct the lies peddled by some people on this forum about OBJ and the SW.

Itsekiri=yoruba Niger Deltan

jason123:
Where are the people that said SW voted for OBJ?

Yoruba boy wannabe.

alj harem:
i thought my igbo brothers on this forum said SW voted for obj 2003

i guess it shows that they have been liars from day 1

Yoruba boy.

It very annoying how reporters from western countries disrespect African men in the most disgusting and disrespectful way possible. This is something that I have been noticing for a while.smh.

As you can see, the usual excuse of "they killed one of the herdsmen's cattle" holds no water anymore.This is a clear case of land grab and conquest.

[size=15pt]Tiv/Fulani crises: 36 dead, 10,000 displaced in Benue
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News Feb 25, 2011

By Peter Duru




MAKURDI — No fewer than 36 persons have lost their lives while many more are yet to be accounted for in Naka, Gwer West local Government area following a violent clash between the native Tiv communities and Fulani herdsmen.

Similarly, about 10,000 persons have been displaced in Naka, Gwer West local Government area following a violent clash between the native Tiv communities and Fulani herdsmen.

While over 900 houses, huts and several farmland were also destroyed by the rampaging Fulani herdsmen who were alleged to be mercenaries from neighboring Nassarawa State.

The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Relief Agency SEMA, Mr. Adikpo Agbase, disclosed this when he undertook an on the spot assessment of the level of destruction in the area.

Agbase who lamented the level of destruction in the affected communities, pleaded with the National Emergency Relief Agency, NEMA, to “come to the aid of the displaced communities who are now living in despair in Naka town.”

According to him, the destruction in the communities was beyond his agency hence the need for assistance from public spirited individuals to alleviate the suffering of the people.

According to him: “What has happened in these communities is simply unbelievable. The level of destruction is shocking and mind-boggling. It is simply beyond our scope and capacity and that is why we are calling for assistance from public spirited individuals to aid the rehabilitation of the displaced people and reconstruction of the affected communities.”

He disclosed that SEMA had started moving relief materials to the affected persons with a view to giving them new lease of life.

He pleaded with security operatives to continue to avail the displaced persons adequate protection in order to avert further destruction and loss of lives in the communities.

Vanguard gathered that at last count, over 36 persons have lost their lives in the violent clash while several persons are still unaccounted for.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/tivfulani-crises-36-dead-10000-displaced-in-benue/

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alj harem:
mods please delete this thread as soon as possible before it gets out of hand

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-611071.0.html

the title is misleading

The "?" mark add to the title defeats you whole accusation.

fstranger3:
There are no Yorubas in the Port Harcourt, very very very few.

God has blessed our land, what is there in Portharcourt ? Nothing, compared to what we have back home.


There are Yorubas in the North though, we'd rather live with Hausas, very nice people.

You are a fool for this statement, obviously you've never been to PH.olodo

chuks01:
have you been reading the newspapers? GEJ is been kissing that backside of the north, just yesterday he said IBB is his Godfather and he was happy he didnt contest with him and he might hve lost, he visited ciroma on sunday stil begging for their support, calls atiku everyday to ask him to join him, kanti-bello has said it all 2015 will be free for all and the north will get it and if you think in your widest dreams that GEJ will move this country forward then you are in for the shock of your life, BUHARI/BAKARE is the best option for now, they will stabilize the country for the likes of fashola,ribadu and pat utomi to take this country to its rightful place.

I just hope your buhari will correct the census problem because once he gets presidency, you can kiss any southern presidency ever again to the curb. I pity GJ for not being a confident man. If he looses the Ijaws will be the laughing stock of the nation.

chuks01:
i am a realisitic person and i dnt deceive myself ok? quote me its free for all and the north will take it. i forsee atiku,IBB and lamido being in the contest in 2015

chuks bros, Goodluck has the potential to correct what is wrong.It is on us to remind him what those wrongs are and assist him on correcting it before 2015. If done right, there is no way the north will win the elections. It all depends on us. Although I still say, if GJ comes through and provides us with what he promised then I see no reason why he should leave.

jason123:
You are joking! When a whole OHANEZE acted as the igbo political group leader by endorsing GEJ, you all hailed him while other regions did not do the same YES EVEN THE IJAW LEADERS DID NOT DO THE SAME ONLY OHANEZE. You all (especially Onlytruth) said it was a master stroke! I warned and warned but you all said I was a tribalist and I do not want a better igbo nation. Agbaworo and mikeasy warned, they all warned but you did not listen. Now You of all people now threaten VIOLENCE? Because of your mistake and paranoia against other people (based on ethnicity)?


YOU ARE ALL JOKING!!!! When you play partisan politics, you would rip the reward. MO. No offence but this is the brutal truth.

Go sit down you fool. Later you will start crying well i start frying your people the yorubas. As if the election is over. No offenCE but HOP OFF!!!!!

fstranger3:
I give you a lot of respect for this post, for not biting his bait.


It shows that your are more mature than Chyz. Keep it up Jason.

Yea jason my man, Keep it up.

jason123:
How does that relate to OPC My guy Yorubas ansd Ijaws would NEVER FIGHT again! OKAY?

I think you've developed a serious case of illiteracy for the pat couple months. Knowing when WILL should be used instead of WOULD should not be hard for a boy who lives in Britain. Stay off of nairaland and go to class homie.

Thanx mod

Beaf:
I challenged anybody to provide figures that don't include cows, goats, tree's or chickens, you simply haven't done that.

Lets leave the absurd topic of ethnic demographics and ponder what GEJ has said, because ethnic demographics are driven by the very ethnic bigotry he wishes to cure the nation of. Lets expand on that.

The only reason our ethnic groups claim huge numbers (especially the big 3), is to get a bigger share of oil wealth and wallow in laziness. That is the stark truth and that is the reason the elite push ethnic bigotry as a tool of leverage on the small-minded ones in the population.

Here's the equation of Nigerian society:
Bigger ethnic population numbers = more beggar LG's = more beggar states = more beggar reps and senators = laziness and parasitism = unproductiveness, theft and corruption

Oil wealth has nothing to do with the Igbo as far as population goes. Even if we were to do that,  we are in different zones so it would be of no help to us. The correction of population figures would have saved us the trouble of this INEC figures mayhem. How is GJ going to get over the almost obvious move to sabotage the election in favor of Buhari by the falsified figures by the INEC? Don't you think he should some way have his goverment supports of various states condemn those results? As of now, the only governor that i can recall to have come out and do that was Gov. Aliyu Babangida of Niger State.

From: omonuan

" Perhaps because of the military and
economic power of the Benin empire, the
Onitsha Kingdom that was originally inhabited
only by Igbos was occupied in the
16th century by migrants from Benin. Some
of these migrants also settled in other Igbo
lands which were between Onitsha and Benin
City. For this reason, the Old Kingdom
of Benin consisted of both the Edo and non-
Edo speaking groups, which are not linguistically
or genetically related to each
other. Some of the non-Edo speaking
groups include the Ika, Aniocha and the
Ukwuani speakers that inhabited Essaka—
one of those lands located between Onitsha
town and Benin City. These language
groups have some form of Igbo language
embedded in their vernacular. One could
say that the Ika, Aniocha and Ukwuani vernacular
are some forms of “mixed” Igbo
language."

Friday Onyeoziri of Univ. of massachussets HUMAN ARCHITECTURE: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE

Muza:
I'll take this with a pinch of salt since its coming from a President who exonerated MEND and also called SW rascals.

I think he pretty much bad mouths the whole country all in one speech really. He called to SW the most educated, or something like that. This implies that the rest of us are dumb and Eff the SE for always having the highest test scores and graduates in nigeria,ect. He really need to watch his words because his speech pissed a lot of us off.

eku_bear:


That is probably the only way to end tribalism, lol.

I mean the guy has to stop making dumb comments like this,lol. Too bad zoology doesn't reguire speech 101 or a poli-sci course. Image if Canada, U.S., and Mexico was forced into 1 country you can imagine the chaos, when it comes to electing presidents and other officials, there would be.

Could this be a metaphor for "I'm going to make nigeria disintegrate"?

[size=15pt]Cameroonians plan anti-government protests[/size]
By Faith Karimi, CNN

February 23, 2011 -- Updated 1139 GMT (1939 HKT)





(CNN) -- Opposition groups in Cameroon are planning "Egypt-like" protests Wednesday to call for the president's ouster after almost three decades in power.

President Paul Biya is running for re-election later this year.

"People yearn to see a change in government. He's been in place for 28 years," said Kah Walla, 45, an opposition member who is also running for president.

Walla, one of the main organizers, said protests are planned in Douala and the capital, Yaounde.

"Our main reason is to ask for free and fair elections," she said. "We also have other demands ,  Cameroon has a lot of resources yet our people are living in poverty."

A spokesman for the prime minister was not available for comment and a man who answered the phone at the president's office declined to comment.

Walla said the nation has been inspired by the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that led to the ouster of their longtime rulers. The protests have ignited a chain reaction that has spread to other countries, including Libya and Yemen.

"We want to take charge of our destiny like the people in Egypt and Tunisia did," Walla said.

The U.S. Embassy in the Cameroon capital urged its citizens to be careful.

"As always, U.S. citizens should avoid all demonstrations, as even peaceful ones can quickly become unruly and a foreign national could stand out and become a target of harassment or worse," the embassy said in a statement Wednesday.

In 2008, protesters took to the streets on the same day to protest food prices.

Walla said they chose the date because it is "symbolic of the ongoing fight" in the west African nation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/23/cameroon.protests/index.html?eref=edition&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

EzeUche_:
I am not one who claims I came from the Jews. Only a few Igbos believe that nonsense.

But nothing has stopped the Igbo either, so what are you saying? Do you see us not progressing? Do you see us not making money? Do you see us not reaching our educational potential? Do you see us complaining about oil? If not, I advise you to shut up.

Don't mind this ofe mmanu. They always think everybody should wait for them to make the first move first and if you make it before them, you're in the wrong. If that aint envy then i dont know what is.

Goodluck Obama LOL

karl max:
Submission of Afenifere to the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) led by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa

I) DETENTIONS

Prominent Yoruba people like Senator Abraham Adesanya, Otunba Solanke Onasanya, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu, Chief Olu Falae, Chief C.O. Adebayo, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, Chief Bola Ige, Senator Bola Tinubu, Dr. Beko-Ransome Kuti, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, Comrade Ola Oni, Alhaji Lam Adesina, Chief Olabiyi Durojaiye, Chief Segun Osoba, Baba Omojola, Wale Oshun and others were variously detained by Abacha for periods raging from weeks to years.

II) HOUNDING INTO EXILE

Leading lights of the Yoruba like Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Prof, Wole Soyinka, Chief C.O. Adebayo, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, Senator Bola Tinubu, Dr. Amus Akingba and others were hounded into exile for years because of their legitimate activities within the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO)

III) Bombs and arsonist attacks: Agents of Gen. Sani Abacha and his government launched bomb attacks in Yoruba cities like Lagos and Ibadan. Arsonist attacks were targeted at the homes of Yoruba June 12 activitist. In one of such the home of General Alani Akinrinade in Opebi, Lagos was set ablaze in 1996 and property worth several millions of naira destroyed. The residence of Mr. Ayo Opadokun was also set ablaze in the Oniwaya area of Lagos in 1994. Prof. Wole Soyinka equally had his Abeokuta home vandalised

IV) ASSASSINATIONS

On November 6, 1995, agents of the military junta murdered a strong backer of NADECO, Chief Alfred Rewane in his bedroom. Rear Admiral Omotehinwa’s assassination in 1996 has also been linked with security agents.

Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of detained June 12 President -elect, was assassinated in broad daylight by Sergeant Rogers and co. acting on the orders of the military junta on June 4 1996. But ironically, Senator Abraham Adesanya, Otunba Solanke Onasanya (80 years then), Chief Ayo Adebanjo and Alhaji Ganiyu Dawolu SHA were detained by the Abacha junta for about five months on the allegation of being the killers of Kudirat.

On 14 November 1996, Dr. Shola Omoshola and his cousin Nelson Kazeem were killed along the Airport Road in Lagos in a bomb blast planted by unknown persons.

V) ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND PRECIPITATED MURDER

On the 14th of January, 1997, unknown gunmen (now identified as Sgt. Rogers & Co.) opened fire on Senator Abraham Adesanya at the ELF Filling Station near Sura market in Lagos Island about 200 meters to his law chambers at 12 Simpson Street. They pumped 8 bullets into his Mercedez car marked Ogun AE 3775 GB. But he miraculously escaped unhurt.

Pa Michael Ajasin was arrested and detained with over 40 leaders of Afenifere during a meeting in his house in Owo on May 25, 1995. Those arrested included; Olu Falae, Ayo Fasanmi, Abraham Adesanya, Ganiyu Dawodu, NF Aina, Ade Adefarati, Abdulazeez Afolabi, Wunmi Adegbonmire, Wole Alabi, M.A. Baruwa, Adekunle Salami, Rafiu Jafojo, Adeyemi Alade, Ademola Ademoye, Mufutau Ajisebutu, Olu Dawodu, Olaniwun Ajayi, Titi Adeniran, Wole Oke, Pade Aderibigbe, Allison Balogun, Babatunde Adebanji, Rotimi Ogunrinde, Niyi Owolade, Samuel Adeyemi, Joseph Alabi, Kofo Bucknor- Akerele, Bodunrin George, George Akosile Taoridi Adisa, Moses Danyilu, Mrs Abiola Buraimoh, Olajide Oyewumi, Ayo Adebanjo SAB and Gbolahan Okuneye. Pa Ajasin (87) was released after spending one night at the Owo police Station while the others were released on June 4.

And in December 1996, the Administration of Ondo State, Navy Commander Anthony Onyearugbulem stormed the residence of Afenifere patriarch, Chief Micheal Adekunle Ajasin and harassed the old man through psychological torture and excruciating questioning. He was reported to have taken the tape of his encounter to his handlers in Abuja as a proof of having tamed the old war-horse. Papa Ajasin fell ill afterwards and never recovered from the trauma of the Onyearugbulem invasion of his house till he died.

VI)  MARGINALISATION OF YORUBA IN ALL FACETS OF NIGERIAN POLITY.

Since independence there has been an organised and systematic marginalisation of the Yoruba in the Armed Forces, Police, Civil Service, the commanding heights of the economy and government appointments.

We shall attempt to deal with these acts of marginalisation sectorally:

(I) Federal Capital Territory: When Lagos was considered a federal territory, the Ministers for Lagos Affairs from 1959-1965 were Northerners: Muhammadu Ribadu (1959-1960) and Musa Yaradua (1960-1965). But since Abuja became the Federal Capital territory, except Mobolaji Ajose Adeogun who was FCT Minister from 1976-1978, all subsequent ministers from 1978 till date were Northerners: John Kadiya (1979-1982), Iro Dan Musa (1982-1983), Halilu Dantoro (1983-1984), Mamman Vatsa (1984-1986) Hamza Abdullahi (1986-1989, Gado Nasko (1989-1993, Jeremiah Useni (1992-1999).

Ministry of Defence: Apart from Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo’s sojourn from 1977-79, the closest Yoruba has ever moved in the political head of the ministry is the present Minister of State (NAVY), Mrs. Dupe Adelaja. There have been Tafawa Balewa (North) 1960, Inuwa Wada (North) 1960-1964, Muhammadu Ribadu (North) 1965, Inuwa Wada (North) 1966, Yakubu Gowon (North) 1968-1975, ID Bisala (North) 1976, Olusegun Obasanjo (South) 1977-1979, Iya Abubakar (North) 1980-1981, Akanbi Oniyangi (North) 1982-1983, Shehu Shagari (North) 1983, Domkat Bali (North) 1984-1988, Ibrahim Babangida (North) 1989, Sani Abacha (North) 1990-1998.

Mines and Power: No Yorubaman ever headed this ministry. There were Muhammadu Ribadu (North) 1955-1959, Yusuf Maitama Sule (North) 1959-1960, R.O.B. Dikko (North) 1966-1967, R.B.A. Dikko (North) 1968-1971, Shetimah Ali Mongunno (North) 1972-1975, Efom Ekong (South) 1976, Kachala Barko (North) 1977, Shehu Kangiwa (North) 1978, Professor Justice Tseayo (South) 1979, M. I. Hassan (North) 1979, Paul Unongo (North) 1983, Ali Makele (North) 1981-1983, Audu Ogbe (North) 1983, Idrisu Ibrahim (North) 1983, Tam David West (South) 1984-1985, Rilwan Lukman (North) 1985-1986, Bunu Sherif Musa (North) 1986-1989, Nura Iman (North) 1989-1993. Security Printing and Minting Corporation: No Yorubaman has ever been appointed as a Chief Executive of this corporation. The preponderance of Northerners perhaps explains why the 20 Naira notes, a national currency carry the Arewa logo. From 1981 when Nigerians started heading the NSPMC the following have been the heads: A. E. Ekukinam (South) 1981-1984, A. A. Abdulkadir (North) 1984, W. I. Aleyideino (North) 1985-1989, Muktar Bello (North) 1989-1993, S. S. Baffa (North) 1993-1999.

Passport Office: From independence till 1999, no Yorubaman was ever appointed the Chief Passport Officer. Out of the eighteen between 1958-1999, only 2 were from the South and the remaining 16 were from the North; Mr. C. O. Egbunike (South) 1958-1960, Alhaji C. A. Bukar Kolo (North) 1961-1962, Alhaji Bukachuwa 1963-1965, Alhaji M. W. Lamino (North) 1966-1970, Alhaji Ibrahim Karfi (North) 1971, Alhaji Mohammed Sagie (North) 1971-1972, Alhaji S. A. Yakubu (North) 1972, Mrs. Rhoda Mohammed (North) 1972-1973, Mr. Mustapha Sam (North) 1973, Mr. E. U. Akang (South) 1973-1975, Alhaji S. A. Yaro (North) 1977-1978, Alhaji M. W. Lamino 1979-1982, Alhaji S. T. Adamu (North) 1982, Alhaji Ibrahim Karfi (North) 1982-1984, Alhaji Dattijo Ahmed (North) 1984-1985, Alhaji M. Kolo (North) 1985-1988, Alhaji A. T. Abdulkadir (North) 1988-1999.

It should be noted that Alhaji Ibrahim Kafir and Alhaji M. W. Lamino both served twice each.

Head of Immigration: This has also been a no-go area for the Yoruba. Six out of eight between 1962 – 1999 were Northerners. There have been H. E. Harrison (Exp.) 1962-1966, J. E. Onuboju (South) 1966-1967, E. I. Aleyideino (North) 1967-1976, Aliu Mohammed (North) 1972-1979, Lawal Sambo (North) 1979-1986, M. Damulak (North) 1986-1990, Garba Abass (North) 1990-1999.

Customs and Excise Head: The only Yorubaman that had a stint there was Mr. Oyebode Oyeleye in 1976.

Chief of Army Staff: Of about 20 occupants of this office, since 1964, only Adeyinka Adebayo (1964/65) and Alani Akinrinade (October 79-April 1980) have been Yoruba. There have been 16 from the North. Alani Akinrinade had to be taken to newly created innocuous office of Chief of Defence Staff in six months following a powerful Northern lobby to make way for Major General Jalo, a Northerner. In thirty-seven years of the Army under the command of Nigerians, Yoruba have been in charge for only one and half years.

JAMB Registrars: The Registrars of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the body that controls admission into universities since 1977 have been Northerners. Perhaps this was a deliberate ploy to “faithfully” implement the quota system. There have been M. S. Angulu (North) 1977-1986, Dr. M. S. Abdulrahman (North) 1986-1991, Professor Salim Bello (North) 1992-1999.

Executive Secretaries of NUC: The National Universities Commission (NUC), just like JAMB has had only Northerners as its Executive Secretaries since 1975 except Dr. I. A. Guobadia (1979-81) in acting capacity. Are we being told that there were no qualified Yoruba professors up till the recent appointment of Professor Peter Okebukola? There were Dr. Jubril Aminu (North) 1975-1978, Alhaji Yahaya Aliyu (North) 1981-1986, Professor I. A. Abdulkadir (North) 1986-1999.

Police Commissioners in Lagos: Despite being a Yoruba territory, of the 23 Police Commissioners that have been in Lagos since 1961, only 6 have been Yoruba. Compared with Kaduna, only Mr. J. Adeola (1973-75) has been a non-Northerner to be appointed a Police Commissioner in the state.

Secretaries to the Government of the Federation: Since independence in 1960, only 2 Yoruba have held the position of secretary to the government of the Federation out of 16.

Commercial Banks in which the Federal Government has Equity Participation: Before 1979, only one of the seven commercial banks in which the Federal Government had equity participation was headed by a Yorubaman. But by 1979, none of the seven banks: Arab Bank Limited, Allied Bank of Nigeria Limited, First Bank of Nigeria, International Bank of Nigeria Limited, Savannah Bank of Nigeria Limited, United Bank for Africa Limited and Union Bank of Nigeria Limited was headed by a Yoruba.

PTF Projects: The Abacha regime created a parallel government through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammed Buhari. Nothing else typifies the marginalisation of the Yoruba than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF. Figures from PTF Situation Reports (Vol. 2 Dec. 98) show that the PTF carried on as if there was no South West.

Of all the roads rehabilitated by he PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products. All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent. This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.

Figures in other sectors were more scandalous. For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the South West had zero allocation in the tertiary programme, while the North picked 100 per cent. In the vocational programme, the South West had zero while the North had 97 per cent. In the primary area, the South-West had zero against 88 per cent for the North and in the secondary area, it was zero for the South-West and 86 per cent for the North.

The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the South-West had zero while the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was zero for the South-West and 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the Yoruba had nothing while the North had 56 per cent for health clinics, it was zero for the South-West against the North’s 100 per cent.

Under the food supply summary, the Southwest had 7.26 per cent compared with 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.

Demographic Manipulation: The Northern wielders of power have skewed all demographic indicators to marginalise the Yoruba and confer undue advantage on the North. For instance, while the old Kano and Lagos used to have the same number of divisions, various demographic manipulations over the years have brought about absurd disparities between the two states. While the old Lagos remains a state with 20 local governments, the old Kano has become two states-Kano and Jigawa with 77 local governments. These are some of the indices used for revenue sharing.

When compared to other non-yorubas of the South, this holds no water AT ALL. And about the assasination, is it not yorubas assassinating yorubas. Forgive me but, hasn't that been a practice since the beginning of the SW? The greed of power  by any means is nothing new to the yoruba. This write up seems more like a case being held against the northerners. I'm glad these present events taking place today in nigeria are showing the people that the Ndigbo are not the problem and never were. Too bad the NDeltans(non-Igbos), people of Plateau, and Benue are witnessing it now to the extreme. The fulanis are ruling Kwara and the herdsmen have been setting base in Oyo and causing trouble. It is a matter of time before they march with havoc. This write up by Afenifere is something big and should have been done for a whole now.What they've done, although their people are in[i] Limbo 1[/i] while the other southern people are in Limbo 11 and 12, this is the Igbo way of doing things and we welcome them into the world on sense for this. I wouldn't doubt that they were motivated to do this by works done by the MASSOB, and I wouldn't put it pass that they may be working with them on the low. After all, Asari Dokubo and MASSOB leader, Ralph Uwazuruike have a group together and also there individual organizations work hand in hand as well.

A bill is not going to get the work done. Nothing will happen if the government remains corrupt. Oil communities getting dividends mean what exactly?

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[size=15pt]Aliyu faults INEC voters’ figure in Niger State[/size]

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 00:00 From John Ogiji, Minna News - National




WITH barely 24 hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the provisional figure for the just concluded voters’ registration in the country, Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has faulted the figures credited to the state.
The governor, who made the position of the government known through the Director-General (DG) Media and Publicity, Mallam Bala Abdulkadir, insisted that with the level of mobilisation of its people by the government, it was difficult to accept the figure credited to the state.

The director-general while addressing reporters in Minna yesterday maintained that it was unthinkable that only 721,478 people out of the over four million population of the state registered during the exercise.

The figure, he argued, is below the 2.44 million the government claimed to have collated at all the polling unit levels across the state during the exercise, adding that “we are disputing the figures, because on our collation, the figures which was compiled at all polling unit levels, put register-able adults in Niger State at 2.44 million.”

Abdulkadir regretted that rather than the figure of registered voters in the state to increase from the 1.5 million voters that were recorded in 2007, the state is experiencing a decline, pointing out that “we believe INEC has made a mistake either in the computation of figure or there was computer error.”

According to him: “This figure is ridiculous and unacceptable to the government and people of the state. We made bold to say that we reject it and we are therefore calling on INEC to compile the figure thoroughly and properly.”

All efforts to get the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Emmanuel Onucheyo, to react to the protest from the government proved abortive, as the INEC boss could not pick his calls but the commission’s spokesman, Abdulmalik Wase, however told The Guardian that the commission in the state could not comment on the issue as it was beyond it powers.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39455:aliyu-faults-inec-voters-figure-in-niger-state&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Bayelsa has the highest amount of Ijaws but the figures say it as 1,700,000 people. So it that is the case, how did the Ijaw population skyrocket to 14 million as claimed by its people? Even those I believe the figures are wrong, the Ijaws are no more that 4-5 million.

T9ksy:
Can't wait to see the day. . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . .when an igbo man will aspire to be governor of KANO state!
[s]
Nevertheless, an igboman will never be trusted to be governor in any yoruba states and that includes Lagos![/s]

The article talks nothing concerning yoruba.