₦airaland Forum

EazyMoh:
Lol! first of all why not support the Kaduna Declaration, then you can make your own Makurdi Declaration afterwards?

Nope.

The Kaduna declaration is a precursor to war.

Have you stopped to wonder what would happen after said declaration?

If there are Igbos left in the north by October 1st, then what?

We don't support violence in any guise.

True.

The Enugu and Asaba Airports serve the state very well.

genieluv:
Naah, let's be sincere, muslims are up to 30% in Taraba.

Yaah, they (fulanis/muslims) are very good in politics, buh this is possible with islamic extremism n nothing more.

Okay. That's a lot of them then. I have always thought them to be between 20-25% of the entire Population.

Guess your stats includes non Fulani Muslim as well. I've always pictured just fulanis and resident Hausas. Although I've heard that the Mumuyes have some Muslims amidst them.

loshybab:
Attaching muslims/Islam with extremism with regards politics is very very wrong

Besides,Muslims are majority in TARABA STATE but the Jukuns run the show politically in the state.

I don't know so much about Taraba, but the one thing I know for sure is that Christians are the majority there, by far even.

genieluv:
Naaah, am from Benue/Southern kaduna.

Wow, that's good to know. A middle-beltan through and through.

You seem to know so much about Taraba state. That's why I thought you were from there.

QueenOfNepal:
I thought FriendNG said the north is one

The North is not and will never be one.

Don't mind him.

Yes, but changes must be made.

The quota system should be jettisoned.

Merit must have its way.

Everyone must be made to feel equally important.

middlebelter:
Yes, a good idea, I share your dream but am in total disagreement with the second to the last paragraph. Please do not insult anybody or tribe because you disagree with them. Remember that the fact you disagree with some of the things their leaders are doing doesn't make the entire tribe guilty of the same offence. You will agree with me that there are thousands of Hausa - Fulanis that wish they could change their leaders.
It is a good thing if the Middlebelt that is predominantly Christian can strive to unite with South to chat a future for the country.

Alright, bro. I'll take that out.

Thanks.

In light of the recent happenings In Nigeria, I wish to call on all Nigerians of Southern and Middle-belt extractions to converge here and chart a course for the future of our dear people.

The aim of this movement is to bring our people together and see how we can work towards a better and United front.

It is no more secret that we are all tired of the Hausa-Fulani overbearing and crude attitudes towards the national life.

I propose that we state in clear terms how we can move the two regions forward and ensure that we have a place where the best brains brains get the best jobs. A land where religion will no longer be a factor to calling another a brother. Somewhere we can all call home with pride.

NAMS is only a proposed name.

My fellow Nigerians of the South and Middle-belt extractions, there's no better time to kick the Abokis down the abyss than now. It's time we took back our country.

Just bring out one credible person from the south or middle belt whom we should all support and vote for.
We just need to agree.

APCsupporter:
And Arabic is the most widely spoken language in Africa! learning Arabic also gives the same advantages that you just mentioned and please stop making it as if French is going to be cancelled out in favour of Arabic so what's wrong with benefiting from both? just take a #200 note and tell any Hausa man to read the Arabic text on it for you. You will hear " naira dari biyu" instead of Arabic words. Arabic is part of our his history. Like I said, if you don't want Arabic please dont study it but you cannot use your silly, senseless religious bigotry to stop people that want to learn to learn.

So you mean to compare the benefits of studies in Arab institutions that are not different from Nigeria's due to religious sentiments, with what, French unis renowned for science and technology?

Why must he stress on Arabic. If you wanted a language for opportunities and growth, Arabic won't rank in the first 20. What remarkable feats have the Arab unis achieved?

Why not German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean?

Religion has most of you running mad, but you don't know it.

APCsupporter:
come on stop disgracing yourself. Tell me, what has been changed? is anybody being forced to study Arabic? You are only against it because it's the language of Islam. If you don't want to study it nobody is forcing forcing you but allow other Nigerians that want to learn Arabic to go and learn! jaki Kawai!

Who is the jaki here?

I don't join issues with unruly people. Does your head hurt?

French is the second most widely learned foreign language after English. You think all those people don't know why?

Speaking French opens up study opportunities at eminent French unis and business schools, not to mention job opportunities.

How much of those does the Arabic offer?

Like it or not, Arabic, as studied by the Arewa masses, is solely for religious reasons.

Whoever wants to learn Arabic should go to the islamiyya.

Unfortunately, we live amongst unreasonable people.

nwaanambra1:
very sad situation.

Nnamdi Kanu is never a solution to the igbo struggle.

all we ever wanted was restructuring and not secession. the sharp edged wood does not strike a man twice in the eyes.

IPOB has been so undiplomatic in their use of words and the northern youths spoke without wisdom - and sadly the elders from both divide are not speaking like elders.

its time Nigeria realize that if their is any kind of war again, its going to be the end of west africa and possibly africa as we know it.

this situation has become that of odudu biri na amu - it needs serious caution. elders should stop sitting on the fence and doing the job of elders!


some words of caution for the North - if they make the mistake of braking Nigeria, their situation will be worst than Afghanistan - there will be massive uprising from the various ethnic groups in the North who are already feed up with the oppression by the northern hausa-fulanis. these ethnic groups will no longer be deceived into being used to fight any war ever again.

True.

You see, the north has already lost the middle belt and parts of the Northeast. Civilised people outnumber the uncivilised ones in the Northeast, excluding Northern Borno, of course.

When push comes to shove, the northwest will have to go it all alone. And that for me, is suicide mission on their part.

The northwest has always been the problem of this country from time immemorial.

Statsocial:
ABU Zaria is quite known for this. Frankly, there is nothing the FG would do about it. I feel so much pity for Northern Christians having been essentially ostracized in all facets of life, being treated as second class citizens. It would also amaze you that same University gets far more allocation than UI and UNN. I hope the christians up north can seek refuge in Unijos or so.

You speak the truth, bro.

And as you rightly suggested, some of the people are beginning to move to unijos instead. I know about two professors who have moved already. And these people were the best their various departments could boast of during my undergraduate days.

They Muslim leaders have already laid the groundwork to make the uni accrue more allocations that any other in Nigeria. A very nice school overall, but religion has tore it down to shreds.

I am afraid for the incompetent people ABU will dole out in future.

Things look bleak.

Izonpikin:
we had more of the northern part of nigeria failing the nnpc tests which warranted a cancelation of the whole recruitment process by our dear buhari and his gang..

You see ehn men dey vex...

Hmmm. I am even afraid for the future. Because they are getting worse by the day.

Competent lecturers and professors are already leaving schools like ABU, Zaria for the same reasons. For them, it's religion over all else.

The number of dull people they will dole out in the future is even more scary.

genieluv:
Don't promote violence buh peace.
***Go n ask what mambilla people did to fulanis in 2002. That was like the worst genocide in Nigeria after the Biafran war. Over 50,000 fulani refugees fled to Cameroon in that crisis. Have the fulanis retaliated since then?
Some middlebelt tribes are madder than others. Fulanis can easily mess with Tivs n beroms n go free, buh tribes like Mambilla, Jukun, Mumuye, Bachama,Tarok, Ngas, Kataf, Sayawa, Eggon are almost mad people. You will regret ever crossing their paths.

You are a true middle beltan. You seem to know a lot about the people.

Are you from Taraba?

loshybab:
why did u single out jukun outta the many tribes in the state?

I guess you're a jukun man!

Lol

I am not Jukun. I am from Plateau State.

I didn't want to go into listing all the badass tribes in Taraba like Kuteb and the rest. I for no finish that comment na. Unna tribes many.

genieluv:
Which Taraba state are you people talking about with 30% fulani population? Are you counting all the muslims in the state as fulanis?

I was referring to the State House of Assembly comprising 30% Fulani Members, not the general population.

I know very well that the entire Muslims population in the State won't make up to 30% of the entire population.

NairalandHowTo:
Na u they speak like this today. I study French instead of Arabic in primary school.

Lol.

What do you take me for na, a bigot?

APCsupporter:
The fools are accusing the government of trying to Islamise Nigeria because of Arabic. what is Nigeria doing with French? At least Northerners used Arabic to read and write long before the whites came

You know Nigerians are very sensitive people when it comes to religion and ethnicity.

Don't blame them for being worked up over the issue.

The move to me is totally uncalled for. Arabic has been taught in the north for years. I don't see the need to change that.

This education minister is one controversial man. Refer to seunmsg's comment for my reservations on this.

APCsupporter:
keep quiet! what does Nigeria have to do with French!? Arabic has been in Nigeria for centuries, long before the English men came. Your hatred for Islam is beginning to take over your brain

And what has Nigeria to do with Arabic?

ZKOSOSO:
What is good about Arabic to Nigeria Christians? We are anglophone country not Arabs. With the global Fight against terrorism Arabic language should be an abomination to Christian communities as new language. Who Arabic epp?? Terrorists favourite lingua franka...

Chinese or Portuguese is far more important than Arabic to Nigerians aside English Language. What do I need Allahu.akbar for??

Islamisation agenda is the Only Motive behind this scheme from the Sultanate domination. How many Muslims do we even have in Nigeria? With less than 41% una no go let pesin sleep sef!!

God bless you, my brother.

Afam4eva:
I thank God I'm not from that part of the country.

Seriously.

There's a lot to be thankful for when you and those people do not relate.

They don't mind tearing everything down for the sake of religion. It's shameful.

SUPERPACK:
who cares, if they like they should christianize the school,

That's a bad sign for a federal uni at that.

A wise man once said, "Education would be all the better for teachers focusing on knowledge and not evangelising for their god."

Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell ABU apart from a religious organisation.

Every facet of the academic life is now been given a religious coloration. Exceptional professors, doctors, and lecturers have left the institution at one point or the other owing to the politics of religion playing out there.

Today, it has been established that the the non-Muslim and non-natural/Fulani Muslim lecturers were frustrated out of the school to make way for the rather inept but Muslim ones.

Information from reliable sources disclosed that ABU Zaria has been hiring Muslim-only candidates to fill various vacancies in the school. This is irrespective of whether they are fit for the job or not. Professor Ibrahim Garba has turned the once reverred institution into a sectarian assembly where merit has been thrown out the window.

I have been reliably informed that the recruitment was such that some Christian applicants were told to their faces that they won't make the cut just because they differ in religious beliefs.

Even the admission process has taken a different dimension.

Religion has been eating deeply into the fabrics of ABU for long, but never before has it been this bad.

The Federal government needs to look into the affairs of that school.

Cc: Lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44

Izonpikin:
you remember the nnpc recruitment of 2014??..

Quota system squashed it all..

Yea, true.

I thought history repeated itself again.

Something needs to be done about this quota system of a thing. Merit should trump all.

Izonpikin:
Recent nnpc recruitment was squashed because of the quota system madness..

What kind of country is this??

You don't mean it! What happened, biko?!

chemicalDisease:
Number 12 Buhari.

You're truly a disease.

Laburos:
Go get some sense I mean 5/16 of the state house of assembly are fulanis not that they are 30%.

The remaining tribes that made up your assumpt 70% are made up of over 50 tribes, Majorly Jukun, Kutep Ichen,Mambilla,Chambas etc or you believe all this tribes will gang up and wipe the Fulanis?

The tribes of Taraba are always at each others neck, The most backward state with the Most visionless Governor in Nigeria is Taraba, The Governor spend 4B to farm Cucumber worth 2b.

I hope I have slap sense into your head.

The Jews are the Ndigbos (In Nnamdi Kanu Voice)

Oga, you said there are over 31% Fulanis in the Taraba State house of Assembly, alleging that in addition to the five LGAs they control, it'll be impossible to wipe them out. And I asked, so the remaining 69% cannot wipe out the 31?

Your explanation about the other tribes being at each others' throats answers that any way.

However, you must understand that when it comes to facing the Fulanis squarely, there's unity of purpose amongst all tribes.

That said, overall, the Taraba based Fulanis are among the most peaceful, tolerant, and educated. Although there are some troublesome elements among them.

We wouldn't have had as many issues if the other Fulanis were like that.

It's obvious that you are Fulani yourself, considering how much you are standing up for them here. Take the message of peace home, and not encourage war. They'll end up losing in the event of that.

Laburos:
Lol Look at this idiotic comment, Fulanis are the Most resilient People in Africa after the African Jews . They have over 5 Local Governments in Taraba Produce Deputy Governors, Senators, Reps, currently 31.5% of the Members in TSHA are fulanis No tribe have More than 3 except them.

Mr Coptic how will you wipe them out

So, who are the African Jews?

The are the majority in over five local governments, more like it.

So you mean the over 70% non-fulanis can't wipe 30% Fulanis? Even though you stats are exaggerated.

Laburos:
The Fulani are Resilient People trust me, They are the single most Majority tribe in Taraba state,
The have the Gassol, Jalingo 1,2, Gashaka part of Lau, Bali, etc, No one can wipe them.

That's the normal Fulani life. They are scattered all over the place.

That doesn't make them the majority.

Laburos:
The Fulanis in Mambila are the Most peaceful people Ive ever known, I lived for over 18 years in Mambilla and I have been visiting since i left in 2005.
Its true they were attacked and killed and Maim, Its a Pity they chose to allow the Mambilas to continue killing them I was there in 2002 when they were attacked it was horrible.
They should armed themselves for self defense or perish in the Hand of the Militias

I hope you know that over 18 years and over 19 years don't mean the same thing?

So you are advocating for war abi?

If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the Fulanis in Taraba are wiped off the surface of the earth.

Taraba is not Adamawa.