₦airaland Forum

KingKO22:
Obituarists are hungry and Obi cannot provide ordinary Agbado.
The Obituarists should go and settle their hunger brothers from Sadeast before Tinubu offer them Agbado and greener pasture in Lagos.

Despite millions of Sadeasterners in Lagos for survival the one who stay at home can't survive the hunger.
Cityboy should help our Obituarists miscreants by evacuating them from their Sadeast and bring them to Lagos their London in Nigeria

We don’t need animals in the zoo in Lagos.Let them relocate to the North where their fellow animals reside.

LegendHero:
They should write to Tinubu instead.

The rate at which IPOB terrorists people look up to Tinubu for leadership is alarming, if the pensioners can come to Bourdillon to complain, I am sure Tinubu will heed their cry.

Until then, they might continue to live in penury because those that should fight on their behalf are busy helping the Yorubas to deal with Tinubu.

Obi Pandora that should have paid pensioners rather lied he saved billions to the detriment of the poor. The billion remain 250million after Obiano handed over and Soludo already took another 100billion loan.

A fool and stingy homosapien called Peter Obi whose aide must not buy petrol to government cars unless he is around is who IPOD terrorist is pushing to govern Nigeria. We the true patriot of this country will never vote a portrait of financial stagnation called Peter Pandora.

We need to sing to them”Holy,holy,holy
Bola Tinubu is the Igbo saviour”.

Are you saying that the then Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff didn’t release any funds for rebuilding and compensation for christians who suffered the attacks and lost lives, assets and means of livelihood?

Absolutely not! There was no compensation. And I repeat, no compensation, nothing was given to christians except promises made by Sheriff. He promised to compensate christians for all those properties destroyed but he did not keep the promise. I was in a member of the high powered administrative committee as a representative of the christian community constituted by Sheriff. I think only N150,000 was given to each pastor whose entire church was destroyed. At a point, we compiled all the destroyed properties including churches and submitted the report to the Borno State Government.

Bishop, if christians didn’t receive compensation from the Borno Government after the 2006 Danish cartoon crisis, one is tempted to wonder what the situation is under a more vicious Boko Haram that has caused more havoc on communities that include christians.

My brothers, those who are not from Borno State may not know, but you and I know better. In the history of Borno State, there is no governor that has been fair to the christians community in this state as much as Governor Kashim Shettima. I am saying this in the presence of God Almighty and this is nothing but the truth. Shettima, in the history of Borno, is the only governor that has sponsored the highest number of christian pilgrims every year since 2011. I am speaking boldly without fear or favour because as CAN Chairman, I do not receive salary or kobo from the government or any institution, but the facts need to be told. This governor has shown compassion to the christian community. For example, when Gwoza people were driven from their ancestral homes, they fled to Maiduguri, and the governor personally came to CAN Centre in Jerusalem ward two times in June and July 2014. He gave N10 million for their upkeep at first instance, by then the victims were not many. By the end of October 2014, the Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) from Gwoza increased to 42,000 in that camp alone. Shettima came again and gave another N10 million. He also gave additional N5 million for christians from Borno who fled to Cameroon to enable them return home. He gave another N5 million for non-indigenes who fled to Cameroon to come back to Nigeria. The governor even directed the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA to supply food directly to the IDPs in the camps under the christian leadership. In fact, the governor insisted that he wanted christian IDPs to stay together with their muslim counterparts in various designated IDP camps here in Maiduguri but we the leaders felt it was wise to separate christian IDPs to avoid frictions between displaced persons dealing with trauma.


You said about 56 churches were destroyed in 2006, how many of them have been rebuilt?

On the churches that were razed down, we had a meeting with Shettima on how his administration can come in to assist in rebuilding some of them. Last year, when the governor visited Gwoza, Askira -Uba and Chibok Local Government Areas for an on-the-spot assessment of the destructions, he saw how some of these churches had become dilapidated, some burnt to ashes, in fact, some churches were not only razed down but graders were used to pull the structures to ground zero as if that church never existed there. Like in Gwoza, the report we received was that after some of the churches were demolished, the terrorists packed the whole debris and threw it far away from the premises. When Shettima visited these areas, he released N100 million for the rebuilding of some of these churches. A committee was set up for that purpose, I am a member of the committee headed by a permanent Secretary, Mr. Justus Zare as chairman, and I am happy to inform you that presently we have used that money to rebuild 11 key churches which our people are now using for their worship services. I am surprised when some people were saying why not rebuild all the churches, we cannot do that because there were so many places that are still unsafe for people to return, and you cannot expect us to go to the communities on the fringes of Sambisa Forest to start rebuilding destroyed churches, when the security situation has not improved. After, the initial N100m, Shettima graciously approved another N105 million for the 2nd phase of rebuilding destroyed churches. This was made possible when CAN officials led by my humble self had a meeting with him on 30th March, 2016 at the Government House. So far, the governor has released N210 million for reconstruction of our burnt churches. He also approved the sponsorship of all our local pastors to participate in the 2017 Jerusalem Pilgrimage. During the meeting, Shettima allocated land and approved Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) for church buildings in the state. This has never happened in the history of Borno since 1979. We are very grateful indeed. In fact, one of my neighbour who was a journalist died last year. He was a christian. When the governor heard of it, he delegated some of his aides and gave the family the sum of N1 million for the burial. So also, when Archbishop Emmanuel Kana Mani died, the governor visited the family residence in Maiduguri and gave N10 million to the family, I was among those who welcomed him at the Bishop’s Court. He gave N5 million for the upkeep of his family, while the other N5 million was for the preparation of his funeral. There was a time we complained to him to give us additional christian permanent secretaries, initially we had only one in the state, and he immediately approved additional three. As it is now, we have five in Borno civil service and we have to appreciate him, yes. His government has given us the opportunity to even run a collective programme on television and radio; we work with the Jama’atul Nasril Islam to sensitize our people on peaceful coexistence. They trust us, we trust them. In fact, it may interest you to know that there was a time I was asked to say a christian prayer at a gathering where we were only three christians in the midst of many muslims. The government under Shettima is bringing harmony among religious leaders.

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After, the initial N100m, Shettima graciously approved another N105 million for the 2nd phase of rebuilding destroyed churches. This was made possible when CAN officials led by my humble self had a meeting with him on 30th March, 2016 at the Government House. So far, the governor has released N210 million for reconstruction of our burnt churches.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/04/06/bishop-mohammed-shettima-has-done-more-for-christians-in-borno/amp/

Bishop Mohammed: Shettima Has Done More for Christians in Borno
Politics | 5 years ago
Bishop Naga Williams Mohammed is the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Borno State. He spoke to journalists on how Christians suffered in the hands of Boko Haram terrorists and the efforts of the state governor, Kashim Shettima to help them rebuild their lives. Michael Olugbode was there and presents the excerpts:

Bishop, we are surprised that your surname is Mohammed, how did this come into being?

Yes, in Southern Borno generally, it is common to see a family mixed up with both Muslims and Christians. My father was a Muslim and my mother was a dedicated Christian. We lived in the same house, ate the same food and shared the same culture. When it was Christmas, my Mum would give money to my Dad to buy whatever animal for us to slaughter. The same thing when it was time for Eid El Kabir (Sallah) Celebration, my Dad would buy a Ram for us to slaughter without discrimination.

Bishop, the number of christians in Borno State is large, but they still constitute a minority in the state, what has been the response of successive governments to challenges of insurgency faced by christians in Borno.

If you go back to recent history, our first major problem was in February 2006, when a Danish man whom I learnt was not even a christian, portrayed a picture of the prophet of Islam in a bad light. Unfortunately, there was protest here in Maiduguri and christians were at the receiving end. If I can recall, in 2006, they described behind the protests as miscreants, arsonists, hooligans, and bastards. I pity those who call them these names, because, these bad guys when they see an opportunity, they will take advantage of it. A total of 56 churches were razed down in Borno, and so many shops belonging to christians were destroyed and there was no compensation from the State Government then.

backnbeta:
The northerners are so so predictable! I really pity Tinubu and Obi because they will share the votes in the South. The rest of the North will go with Atiku because islamisation is a northern agenda and they will only vote for someone who will work towards it

The North is not one.It comprises of Kanuris,Yorubas,Beroms,Igala,Tangale,Mumiye,Tivs,Idomas,Ebira,,Hausa/Fulani are majorly in North West.
As a berom or tiv,will you vote another Fulani as President so that all your tribesmen will be wiped out and your ancestral cities become Fulani settlements.
Shettima is from Kanuri region and a voice of the Northerner minorities..

KingsleyA2:
This country is gradually beginning to have all the features of every failed islamic country like iraq, sudan, afghanistan and pakistan. This is what Buhari actually wants. deep down, this is what he wants. mix the baboon blood, kill all infidels. but we shall resist. they forget that there is a beast in every man, there is limit you'd push christians too and you will see that they can be twice as violent as all the muslims. we are getting there, we would soonest unleash our own terror!!

Wrong.Buhari’s inaction is to signal to the military for a takeover so that Presidency doesn’t come to the South.
When the citizens are tired they will call for military takeover,a Fulani military takeover.

ThrownBack:
Yoruba nation will be great, if Tinubu will agree to allow us to secede.

The question is if Britain will allow us secede without a brutal war?Tinubu did not create Nigeria,how can he dissolve it?

Obidient4life3:
After Tinubu lose make we know the face Una go use dey pass street

Politics is not a do or die affair for us like your Biafra or death people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxHRzH6amw
Batishe 2023

SmellyNyash:
He is a thief and a criminal plus cocaine pusher everywhere he goes. Ask American people especially down town Chicago. Oloshi buruku

Are the nyanmirins not the number one drug dealers in Nigeria?Una see una capone come dey cry.
All hail Capone of Nigeria,
God bless Asiwaju,the next President of the federation of Nigeria

Michelle70:
Will the vice President take over or will the entire party be asked to leave with him?

The Vice President takes over according to the 1999 constitution.

1. Bring in investors to create a stable power supply.

2.Give incentives to Nigerians who will produce what we consume(full scale industrialisation).We need to be the economic power house of Africa.

3. Create a welfare policy and plan for poor Nigerians.We will start with children in the first 4 years.

4.All artisans must get licensing fees and retrained by govt specialized agencies.

5. We will create a job Centres in every local govt to match Jobs with skills,retrain and counsel Nigerians.

6.Educational centers need to be upgraded to World standards.We will create a trust funds well meaning Nigerians can donate to find community projects.

7.Youths between the ages of 18-30 years must go on compulsory one year military training.

8.Students in all institutions of learning shall be requested to come up with innovations every year.The “theme” of such innovations will vary from Year to Year.

9.Ensure security of lives and Properties.Each region shall have a forum where they meet to discuss challenges facing them and proffer possible solutions every month.

10.Divide Nigeria into 10-15 regions,where each region controls its resources,Waterways,Ports,education etc.A review of the exclusive legislative list.each region will have its own Parliament and Prime minister/Premier.

11.Decentralised civil service.

Biafrans in the US campaign for Obi as Biafra President.Nnamdi Kanu will be Vice IPOB his release from zoo republic as a hyena.

H0711:
I got married two months ago. I am 7 months pregnant my husband didn't tell me he had a child from his previous relationship and the child has a disability celebral palsy. Her mother came to dropped her off in my house saying she has done enough and she's tired it is now hubby turn to take care of her.

The child can't do anything for herself she can't sit, talk, walk and she does toilet in her clothes. I can't do it anymore I love children because I have taken care of my own nieces and nephews before I would have taken care of her if she was normal but taking care of a child in this question is hard and if her own mother has had enough she abandoned her and why would I kill myself taking care of her in my condition.

I want to divorce and go back to my village I have told him i am leaving next month. He is pleading with me not to leave him that he will take the child somewhere else but the place is not free he has to be paying like 200k monthly for them to take care of the child and he doesn't even have that amount of money because he is not financial stable.

I will stick to my decision but I want to know what will other people do in my situation.

let your husband get a houselhelp for you to asisst you with the girl.The little girl deserves all the love she can get from her family.Please let her stay with you as a service to humanity.It is not her fault she was born with disability.

This recent terrorist attack is a ploy to make the Military takeover Nigeria.

Tinubuagbado:
Finally Tinubu has forced RUGA on Yoruba's.

Mumu talk,Yorubas always had farm settlements and ranches during regional govt era before the military coup which destroyed everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuxYKHEl2Ww

They offer it to ummu Chineke for good health.

1.A vote for Peter Obi is a vote for IPOB tyranny.
2.A vote for beheadings and punnani slicing of your female relatives.
3.Dissenters shall be termed “saboteurs” and summarily executed by beheadings.
4.Freedom is speech will be a crime.
5 Mob attacks will be the order of the day.
6.Double standard will be the standard in Nigeria
7.The Igbos will be the overlords with different rules and regulation while other tribes will be subjected to a different standard.
8.Drug trafficking will be legalised.
9.Baby factories will become human farms and legalised.
10.Prostitution will be legal.
11.Fake drugs and beverages will be the norm.
12.No independent thoughts will be tolerated.
13.Freedom of religion will not be tolerated.The official religions of Nigeria will be traditional worship and Catholic sect..
14.All non Igbo cities shall become “No mans Land” and renamed with Igbotic names.
15.
16.Only minions will survive in a Peter Obi Nigeria.

Christianizaton of Igbo race and land.

HOW IGBOS WERE SUBJUGATED AND CONVERTED BY THE WHITE MISSIONARIES FOR THEIR HOME GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC WELLBEING : A MUST READ!

Having striven unsuccessfully for 33 years between 1857 & 1890—contrary to their earlier boasting—to convert the Igbo in mass to christianity, the missionaries (CMS, RCM, Methodist, Presbyterian) grew frustrated and became desperate to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE, good or bad, to advance their ambition and scheme. To catalyse this desperation to convert the Igbo in mass was the bitter rivalry between the CMS and RCM at Ọnịcha and also in their head offices at London and Rome.

To position themselves for the desperate and hook-and-crook agenda ahead of the coming 20th century, the Romanists (catholics) replaced the Frenchman, Fr Joseph Lutz with an Irishman, Ignatius Shanahan as the British traders and colonists had bitterly requested in resistance of having Frenchmen leading in their territories. On the part of the CMS, Bishop Ajayi Crowther was hounded by the white racist priests under him who began to challenge him openly even as their London head office connived in diminishing his episcopal powers.

It was a ploy to quicken the old man's death who was about approaching his early 80s. And they succeeded. Ajayi died in 1891. With speed, Ajayi was replaced by a bishop who served very briefly before he died. Strategically, a stronger and healthier British man who could match Ignatius Shanahan in the battle for the Igbo souls was ordained bishop and deployed to Ọnịcha with immediate effect. His name was Herbert Tugwell. The CMS also added another fierce man to assist Tugwell.

His name was Rev. Thomas John Dennis. The RCM too equipped themselves with such fierce persons as Fr Bubbendorf. The whole matrix at Ọnịcha was then an allwhite affair and predominantly British/Irish-led. The battle for the heart of Igboland was now ready to begin ahead of the much talked-about 20th century!
But with all these reshuffle, reorganisation & reordering, the missionaries still felt frustrated in their penetration of the Igboland beyond Ọnịcha, Obosi, & Ogidi. They were all bitter rivals and quarreled among themselves denominationally.

But they were united in the realisation that there has to be some application of violent force to subdue and intimidate the Igbo into accepting christianity and abandoning their indigenous religion. At that realisation, they became one with their colonial brothers who were planning violent invasion and expedition of the Igbo interiors to bring the Igbo firmly under British government.
Desperate to support Ralph Moor, the leader of the bloody invasion and expeditions as well as Gallwey and Montanaro who led other army columns, the catholic missionaries rushed and sent a memo to its leadership in Paris saying firmly “This war is necessary”.

The biggest role of the missionaries in the expedition was gathering intelligence for the soldiers while they pretended to be preaching the gospel in the interiors. The CMS, RCM, Methodist, Presbyterians — all became intelligence officers and supplied information to the soldiers, exaggerating their findings most times. More desperate to've this war executed, some of the missionaries even supported the military materially & fooled the natives they preached telling them that little gossips they hear of the oncoming war were lies & won't happen.

Arọchukwu was the biggest target as it was believed that once the Chukwu deity and institution was destroyed and the resistors mowed down with guns, the rest of Igboland will be soaked in fear to surrender both land and religion. All the missionaries agreed with the British colonialists to start with Arọchukwu. Thus, on 1st December, 1901, the British attacked the Igboland from Arọchukwu. Arọ people resisted the invasion and paid with many lives until the expedition ended on 24th March, 1902.

Then, other parts of Igboland were faced for invasion and conquest for the next 17 years.
Happily, the missionaries moved in to take advantage of the fears of the Igbo people who hadn't seen or expected such superior military firepower on their peaceful spaces.

The missionaries promised to protect communities from the invasion of soldiers and provided care to the wounded persons. But that was all part of the grand plan with the colonial invaders:

STRIKE FEAR INTO THEM WITH VIOLENCE WE MOVE IN TO GIVE THEM SUCCOUR BASED ON THE CONDITION OF CONVERSION. In that circumstance, missionaries moved with the greatest masterstroke of only protecting those who admit to be baptised & remain consistent in attending church activities.

Defenceless, most Igbo people rushed to the church for protection and believed that the presence of the missionaries will protect their communities from being invaded or shelled like Arọ, Abam and other communities in the Bende axis.

For example, Ogidi people entrusted their native republican leadership into the hands of Walter Okafọ Amobi who was a British trade agent as well as a CMS agent, in the hope that he'd help ward off the soldiers from attacking Ogidi being that he was the first Ogidi man to know the Whiteman. Walter would mischievously take advantage of this and went on to become a warrant chief, introduced the fake monarchy (Igweship) in Ogidi and other parts of Anambra, ruling the people with heavy hand from 1904-1925, forced men to labour for nothing and also snatched people's wives to add to the retinue of the over 50 wives he married during his reign.
As the first decade of 20th century progressed into the second, the British colonialists, in connivance with the missionaries, consolidated their conquest of Igboland in grand style.

The introduction of Forced Labour and Prisons helped the process. The building of the rail tracks, carrying colonial officers and missionaries on hammock for hours along bush paths, clearing long miles of roads and other forms of unpaid labour were so much that many young and middle-aged men were breaking down in the face of the unending recruitments which prevented them from working on their farms to feed their families. The treacherous missionaries knew the plan and had an agreement with the government not to recruit the converts.

And so, only the non-converts who were called “heathens” were forced to labour for weeks and days without seeing their families. The wearied ones resorted to going to church to see if they could escape the predicament for the meantime. But the missionaries were ruthless. They subjected them to taking catechisms and threatened them with ejection if they absented from church or returned to their indigenous faith. To make this more formidable, the middle-aged and old men who were desperate to evade unending labour were forced to bring their Ọfọ, Ikenga, Okposi for destruction at the churches or risk being rejected as converts, thus putting the final nail on the coffins of their indigenous religion.

In this way and other subtle ways of instilling fear, the missionaries penetrated the Igbo more than ever between 1902 and 1920s, destroying the foundations of the indigenous social order to build theirs. In their words of justification and unified goal with the government:

“pull down the fabric of the native society in order to build on the ruins”.
For the ignorant Igbo christian who is unteachable and overloaded with dogma, the missionaries were amazing and thought the best for the Igbo. But for the enlightened, freeminded Igbo who is ready to understand and appreciate the experience of his ancestors whose stories were unwritten and were overwhelmed by the 'victorious' narratives of the missionaries, there is no difference between the merchants, colonialists and the missionaries who worked together with them not primarily for the benefit of the Igbo but for the utmost agenda of advancing their country's economic well-being and material prosperity using Soft Power behind the Hard Power of the colonialists.

How I wish one million Igbo persons between the ages of 25 and 40 would read F K Ekechi's Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland. If I had money or knew anyone who would sponsor it, I would print the 'hidden' book into 1 million copies and share freely to 1 million freeminded Igbo young persons who desire to understand how their ancestors were broken despite their resistance — those young Igbo who are wary of the danger of the single stories of missionaries presenting themselves as amazing, blameless people who did all amazing things and rescued us from “darkness”. Every Igbo below 40 years should, before he or she dies, read more than once Ekechi's monumental book which has been intentionally hidden away from succeeding Igbo generations for many years!

© Chijioke Ngobili

christistruth01:
Innocent Igbos will not pay any Price it is Simon Ekpa and his thugs that will pay that Price and Nnamdi Kanu"s
Grandchildren will be in Secondary School before he sees the outside of Jail again

His people should just make sure they warn him well

All Nyanmirins will pay the price.if one ant bites you,do you kill one ant or the whole ants under your bed?

The Igbos are pretending to support their son,Peter Obi for President.Obi is an extension of PDP meant to create a shadow/distraction over the real candidature of Atiku/Okowa ticket.It is meant to deceive gullible Yorubas and other Southern Minorities.

Come 2023,Nnamdi Kanu will come out to tell Igbos a vote for Atiku is a vote for his freedom and referendum for Biafra.
Signed,sealed and delivered.

Igbos will change 360 degree to say Nna To talk true, Obi no fit win, he no get structure may we no waste our vote make her son take spare tyre position like Osinbajo.
What will other obiedient followers of non -Igbo stock do?

LordVoldermort:
Nnamdi Azikiwe is considered a traitor amongst Igbos because he opposed the Biafran war the other Igbos you mentioned are neither hated nor loved they are seen as inconsequential can you compare the love Igbos have for Kanu, Ojukwu with Michael Okpara

As for america, Donald Trump was the establishment and order it was Hilary that was anti establishment, Joe Biden was more establishment than Trump so he won.

You mentioned Ukraine, that's what happens when you oppose Order and elect a comedian.
Chaos.

Azikwe doesn’t it have any Igbo bloods on his hands,why do Igbos love me Who shed their blood like water?.Ojukwu and Kanu shed and continue to shed Igbo blood but Nyanmirins love them till death.
only a slave tribe loves opppressors.

Penguin2:
Got into argument with a Tinubu supporter who dubiously said that one day Igbos will start supporting Ikpeazu for presidency because he’s Igbo.

And I reminded him that 16 years after Orji Uzor Kalu finished as Abia Governor, Igbos never cease to lambast him whenever they can because we believe he failed in Abia. That’s why we didn’t lose sleep when he was jailed.

7 years after his time as Imo governor, Igbos form the greatest critics of Okorocha . Because he failed in Imo. Reason we didn’t lose sleep when EFCC was manhandling him.

7 years after his time as Abia Governor, Theodore Orji cannot show his face in public because Igbos will eat him raw.

In 2015, Ikpeazu lost Abia but Theodore Orji used his influence as former INEC Commissioner to get him declared and that was how Alex Otti was denied his mandate.

7 years into his time as governor of Abia and Igbos are the fiercest critics of Ikpeazu.

Willie Obiano, despite his sterling performance in Anambra, when compared to other governors in Nigeria, was never spared of constant criticism by Ndi Anambra and Igbos in general because we believed his performance was below par when compared to the performance of the man he succeeded.

Governor Ugwuanyi of Enugu state, despite his humane nature, prompt payment of salary, not plunging the state into debts, still dey collect am woto woto for our hand. In fact some of us call him “Madam Ugwuanyi” because we believe his performance is below par.

Talking about Hope Uzodimma of Imo State would be an overkill.


But not so with most of our Yoruba brothers .

Despite Aregbesola plunging Osun state into the worst economic crisis ever suffered by any state in Nigeria, these people still supported and defended him.

Despite Dapo Dagboru of Ogun State practically doing nothing for over 3 years now, they still support him.

Despite Tinubu’s many glaring atrocities, he’s their lord and saviour.

The only time they hate you is if you go against Tinubu like they hated Fashola, still hates Ambode and Osinbajo for daring to go against Tinubu.

So, which Yoruba politicians do Yorubas genuinely hate for being inept or for being corrupt?

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Foolish Nyanmirins you reward your incompetent fools with Senatorial seats after failing as Governors.
If Kalu or Okorocha should contest for Presidency,Igbos will turn him into Saints.
We know Atiku is Igbo’s candidate for 2023.Obi is only a distraction to real Igbo candidate..Obituaries by the day,Atikulate by night.

NyamiriSlayer:
Who is obi?
A name of animal or place

Obi means Kolanut.