₦airaland Forum

YorubaMod:
I no fit laugh ...where are those Afonjas.. Come and carry ur lost sheep oo, he has forgotten his village. . , maybe he is from Ogbomosho or ijebu, he can't remember clearly. .

akpamuomenka:
Face them. I am an Igbo man and don't want to be insulted here.

Greenbullet:
This op village people sabi work, how can you be so stupid enough to let a girl downgrade you to a slave, you have no principles, ode .

Minemrys:
who kn0ws? Al0ne maybe, cos many regi0ns would opt out than remain with them. Those guys are murderous in nature. No respect 4 the sanctity of life. By the way, am n0t a yoruba, igbo or hausa/fulani. So no one should quote me, pls.

LaClicKLaBenDin:
Just like all Nigerians on in foreign countries have been deported, right?

I tire abeg!

dragonking2:
Tell your brothers to leave our own lands too, we don't want to see them here in the south.

humilitypays:
One thing I like Yorubas for is you guys are good in propaganda news! You can cook up believable lies to deceive the gullible ones u wish to deceive.

Niger Deltans didn't fight with Igbos during Biafran war but Philip Efiong was the vice head of state (president) of Biafra then, do u ever read history

Niger Delta was created by Yoruba-Hausa/Fulani just to spite the Igbos and to divide Igbos and Southsouth people just because of Yoruba-Hausa/Fulani greed and crave for crude oil!

Anyway, according UN policy, there will be a referendum for Niger Delta people to vote whether they want to join Biafra or stay back in Nigeria or form their own country.

Igbos have no problem with Niger Delta forming their own country or remaining in Nigeria if they choose to, but there must be a referendum to enable Igbo-speaking regions of Niger Delta decide whether they want to go with Biafra or not. So long as that will be done so our Igbo brothers caved into Niger Delta by selfish Hausa/Fulani-Yoruba politicians that took over power after the civil war, are not abandoned to be further persecuted by Nigerians or other major tribes, then that's fine.


And how can a Yoruba man become the head of Nnewi market when Yorubas refuse to travel! Yorubas only travel to UK! Yorubas don't travel, so how can they become leaders in other regions or countries, huh

Igbos were not invited from the southeast and appointed market leaders in Yoruba markets or made LGA chairmen or legislators in Lagos state, but they contested and won simply because Igbos were majority in those regions they contested the election and won, so it's not as if Yoruba willingly appointed them to become leaders out of love....it was out of no option just as Black American over time became majority in some American states and regions. It's beyond Yoruba people's control.

At 3 a.m. on August 9, 1967, a mobilized division of Biafran soldiers under General Victor Banjo crossed the River Niger Bridge at Onitsha and entered Asaba. When the Biafrans reached Agbor they split up, the Biafran 12th Battalion under Lt. Col. Festus Akagha began moving north-west to Benin City, the 18th Battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka made its way into the oil-rich Niger Delta, and the 13th Battalion under Col. Mike Inveso swung northwards towards Auchi. Benin City was captured with little opposition as Biafran soldiers fired their weapons into the air upon entering the city.
The 13th Battalion established control over Auchi and Agenebode while also capturing the towns of Okene, Atani, and Iloshi, indiscriminately shooting civilians in the process. A Nigerian Army unit was pursued by Biafran soldiers to the Siluko River where the two sides exchanged fire, before the Nigerians managed to escape under the cover of darkness. Within 12 hours of the initial invasion the Biafran Army had control over the entire Mid-Western Region. Unbeknownst to General Banjo a unit of Biafran soldiers under Lt. Col. Oechi attacked the government residence of Mid-Western Region governor David Ejoor on the orders of President Odumegwu Ojukwu to capture Ejoor dead or alive, Ejoor's guards resisted the attacking Biafrans which gave Ejoor enough time to escape and flee to Lagos. The 13th Battalion was given the job of defending the Biafran north flank while also cutting off Nigerian supplies going to Nsukka.

The 12th Battalion was transformed into the 12th Brigade and given the job of capturing Ibadan and Lagos from two axes at the towns of Ore and Okitipupa but this was delayed for three days while President Ojukwu and General Banjo argued over who to appoint Governor/Administrator of the Mid-Western Region. Not wanting to appoint an Igbo over non-Igbo citizens General Banjo suggested that either David Ejoor, Sam Ogbemudia, or Col. Trimnell be made governor but Ojukwu refused and ultimately placed the Igbo medical-officer Albert Okonkwo governor. When General Banjo returned to Benin City on August 12 he ordered the 12th Brigade to make its way to the town of Ore but not to attack Ibadan or Lagos until further notice. In Warri, Major Chukwuka released Major Adewale Ademoyega from jail after getting into a fistfight with Major Emannuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna made his way to Benin City where he was put in command of the newly formed 19th Battalion, which consisted of 700 recently conscripted soldiers. The next day Major Ademoyega relieved Ifeajuna of his command and replaced him with Lt. Col. Henry Igboba.

On August 17 Governor Okonkwo installed a dusk to dawn curfew in which only citizens with passes would be allowed to move freely at night. Non-Igbo citizens, especially the Hausa community, were subject to harassment from Biafran soldiers while women were often molested and sometimes raped, this in retaliation for the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom.
Resistance groups began springing up constantly[b] consisting of mainly ethnic Urhobos and Ijaws[/b]. Because of a series of uprisings against the occupying Biafrans in Benin City, General Okonkwo began raising a force of loyal native inhabitants to combat the rebels. By August 18 Okonkwo had assembled a force of 780 reliable volunteers to keep natives from attacking or killing Biafran soldiers. Loyal inhabitants donated whatever weaponry they had to the Biafrans, which consisted mainly of single-shot rifles and double-barreled shotguns.
Cooks began poisoning Biafran soldiers whenever they had the chance to and it was because of this that Biafran soldiers began only eating food that was cooked by ethnic Igbos or self-cooked. Rebellious natives who did not wish to fight would often seduce Biafran soldiers to get information out of them and tell Nigerian authorities.

On August 20 a group of Urhobo/Ijaw rebels raided a Biafran camp and were successful in killing 50 soldiers while 16 rebels were killed in the skirmish. Due to these rebellions Biafran soldiers began raiding and pillaging villages throughout both the Mid-Western Region and Niger Delta inhabited by anyone other than Igbo civilians.
The Biafran government began broadcasting Biafran propaganda in the region while the Nigerian government broadcast anti-Biafran propaganda as well. On September 19 President Ojukwu declared Governor Okonkwo President of the Biafran puppet-state, the Republic of Benin, in an attempt to make citizens of the Mid-Western Region loyal to a government other than Nigeria.

KemjikaEme:
Only people befreft of common sense will associate Igbos with violence in Nigeria. People who have deep resentment and prejudice against igbos and refuse to consort history will call a coup of hot headed social reformist an 'Igbo coup'.
History has never failed to single out Northern Nigeria is the hotbed of violence and destruction of lives and properties in Nigeria.
There are numerous incidents of massacre of Eastern Nigerians perpetrated by Northern Nigerians way before Nigeria's independence and first coup. A few example is the genocide of 22 October 1945 in Jos and May 1953 in Kano where thousands of lives and properties were lost.
These violent incidents occured many years before the so called Igbo coup and this is just two out of the many waves of violent attacks on Southern Nigerians pre independence/coup.
Post independence, Northern Nigeria has strategically targeted and killed Igbos at will.


Nnamdi Kanu might have said things on air yet the non violent stance of Pro Biafran agitators don't correltate with his speeches. They have not attacked government properties,organized protest or even called for an expulsion of Northern natives in the East.
It is a pity that you are delusional and your post is entirely different from what is obtainable on ground. There is no relationship between Igbos and violence.

LaClicKLaBenDin:
You folks just come to nairaland and type away your ignorance...smh
What dream did the northern youths bring close?
In all your knowledge you think secession is all about making threats on the pages of newspapers?

And if I may ask; what seed of hatred have been sowed? Is exercising one's fundamental rights to self-determination amount to sowing seeds of hatred? Why hasn't one part of Spain asked those clamouring for Catalunya to leave their places of abode?

I'm not in anyway supporting the Biafran agitation, but I am sick and tired of reading nonsensical comments here, all based on sentiments and all.

Even if Biafra secedes today, you can't force Igbos out of any part of Nigeria, as long as they have papers and visas, and you can't even take away their properties, except through violence necessitated by envy and jealousy.

Is living in another country a crime?
Why should they force Igbos out of the north when this entity is still called Nigeria? They don't have the right to! And Igbos have the right to self-determination regardless of what you or anyone thinks.

Mnbanu! It wont happen! You cant eat your cake and still try to have it.
All FOREIGNERS within Nigeria will be deported ASAP

DrGoodman:
Have we have gotten used to listening to ridiculous pronouncements from groups of people who constitute themselves to champion the cause of their group, while openly threatening the existence of others?
Have we sunk so deep as a people that we now allow those who threaten the very existence, lives and properties of millions of people to walk about freely, even having the brazen audacity to reissue and amend their threats to this country’s existence?
At no time in the history of Nigeria has there been more blatant disregard for the laws of the land, and the aloofness of those in authority from protection of the constitution of Nigeria.
But those in the know will understand what is happening, Arewa groups who issued these threats are untouchables, they cannot be arrested for an offence which other people have been detained for years for.
And why should they be bothered, they have precedence in their favour, a similar threat was issued to a group of Igbo visitors to the Oba of Lagos palace in 2015 by the Oba himself. In this case, the Oba issued an ultimatum that the Igbos must vote for a particular candidate in the gubernatorial polls or be drowned in the lagoon. Nothing happened to the Oba, he was spared because he is above the law. We were all witnesses of the scare tactics which ensured the current president won the elections in the north, we heard stories of how some northern youths were brandishing knifes and other dangerous weapons in the north, all to make the people vote for their preferred candidate.
Impunity is when people from openly commit crimes, knowing they will not be punished. That has been the problem of Nigeria. That is why the country will not grow, that is why those seeking to form a different country will continue to get popular, because there is no justice in this present arrangement.

You people can talk from now till tomorrow but to do the simplest thing which you crave for, na wahala!
Now the Arewa Youths have even given you a leg-up, yet all you do is go about "pointing fingers" at imagined enemies, again!
Pack your Bags and go to the East, that is it! Biafra is actualised. SIMPLE.

You cant just talk about your Biafra, without drawing others into it.

Maybe you should change the name of your Biafra Republic, to "Pointing Finger Republic"?

KemjikaEme:
This is not about claiming anybody because Biafra is only for Igbos and people who believe they are Igbos at the end of the day.
It is about Historical narratives, shared ancestry and affinities that go beyond the creation of geo-political boundaries in Nigeria.
The Hetrogenous identity crises witnessed today is a product of a dysfunctional political agenda unleashed by the federal govt to seperate Igbo of the East and their kins in the Niger delta group.
Identity was fluid before state and political creation in the East. The Egbema man in Imo state is one and the same as the Ogba-Egbema man in Rivers. The Nri man in Anambra has more in common with an Asaba man than an Mbaise man.
The man in Owerri is more related to an Ikwerre man than the man in Enugu.
The man in Bende and Arochukwu has exchanged cultural ideas with the Efik and Ibibio people for many centuries.
My response has nothing to do with claiming,it is rather aimed at debunking your hollow premise that Niger delta has nothing in common with Igbos.
Ironically, the whole of Niger Delta is filled with people who are more related to Igbos than they are to themselves.

Wyttcat:
Fake Yoruba man, it's simple, just take your household and follow ibos, i'm sure you will be given permits to live in biafra. We self respecting Yoruba are proud to have our own country.

nwaanambra1:
THIS IS FOR THOSE OF YOU MIDDLE BELTS - ESPECIALLY THE THE NATIVES AND CHRISTIAN PEOPLE OF PLATEAU, KADUNA, NASARAWA, KOGI, BENUE, FCT AND SOME PARTS OF NIGER STATE.

I GUESS YOU ALL CAN READ HAUSA AND CAN THEREFORE UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS FULANI GUY IS SAYING.

IT IS WHEN WE LEAVE THIS FUKED CONTRAPTION THAT YOU GUYS WILL COME TO SEE THE BULLETS NDI IGBO HAS BEEN TAKING ON UR BEHALF. YOU GUYS WILL REALISE TOO LATE THAT NDI IGBO IS THE REASON WHY YOU STILL LIVE FREELY IN YOUR OWN LAND - THIS STATEMENT MAY SOUND ODD BUT YOU WILL REALIZE TOO LATE THAT IT IS A FACT!

AS FOR THE YORUBAS - THEY HAVE BEEN COUNTING YOUR SINS AND IT HAS REACHED THEIR LIMIT OF ENDURANCE THAT EVEN WHILE ASKING THE IGBOS TO LEAVE, THEY CANT HOLD BACK FROM MENTIONING SOME OF YOUR SINS AGAINST THEM - THE KILLING OF 500 HAUSAS IN ILE IFE!


ITS SAD THAT AFTER LIVING TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS, YOU GUYS STILL FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THE THINKING AND MACHINATION OF THE AVERAGE HAUSA FULANI - THEY DONT FORGET NOR FORGIVE!

THE TRUTH IS HAUSA FULANIS HATE THE IGBOS - YES! BUT WE ARE THE ONLY TRIBE THEY HOLD IN HIGHEST ESTEEM - YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE KNOW THEM VERY WELL! WE ARE THE ONLY TRIBE THAT UNDERSTANDS THEIR GIMMICKS SO VERY WELL!

THE HAUSA FULANI HOLDS BACK FROM TAKING CERTAIN ACTIONS IN NIGERIA BC THEY DONT WANT 'NYAMIRI SU KA SHE MU DA SURUTUN SU!'

WE WILL BE OUT OF THIS CONTRAPTION REAL SOON!

Its a matter of time!

"za su toshe muku baki don uwarku!"


"uwarku zasu cigaba da ci!"

" Arnen banza kawai!"

humilitypays:
‎May God bless you my brother for being honest. Sometimes I wonder what Igbos did to Yorubas that Yoruba youths hate Igbos so much with venomous spirit.

History can testify that Igbo people have never for once fought with Yorubas or attacked Yorubas anywhere, but always inter-marry with Yorubas and live peacefully with Yorubas but Yorubas just hate Igbos for no reason whatsoever.

Igbos till tomorrow prefer to live with Yorubas than with violent Hausa/Fulani. The only reason Igbos accuse Yorubas or point wrong fingers at Yorubas is due to Yoruba people's frequent betrayal of Igbos and other Southern minorities to align politically with Hausa/Fulani. Aside that, Igbo love Yorubas but Yorubas just hate Igbos for no reason other than just to hate.

And what Yoruba youths here don't realize is that once Hausa/Fulani decides to go violent and kill Igbos in the north, they cannot even distinguish between Igbos and Yorubas so they will kill both Igbos, Yorubas, Niger Delta, etc because to Hausa/Fulanis, anybody from the Southern Nigeria is 'Igbo'!

I support any move that will hasten or fasten the development of Nigeria or the regions that makeup Nigeria because as it stands now, Nigeria is a mess....nothing is working....youths cannot even guarantee their future....youths will labor, graduate from higher institution and yet no job for them but some few idiots stole our national wealth, keep trilions of $$$ in foreign countries‎, dug hole in various places to hide it for their yet unborn generation and we think everything is right

If re-structuring Nigeria will bring about the positive change every Niger‎Ian youth craves for, then let's all call for a total re-structuring of Nigeria into a regional force. And if peaceful division of Nigeria would bring the change, let us happily accept it.

For those who don't understand the Biafra agitation, let me give u a hint. Biafra will be a youth-driven‎ country where no-nonsense politicians will be welcomed because Igbo youths are ready to stone any idiot politician who tries to mess Biafra up to death.

Biafra will be governed by youths and corruption will never be tolerated and all those old Igbo thieves calling themselves politicians and elders know this...thats why many of them don't want Biafra. if they try to loot in Biafra, youths will mobilize and burn down their house and take over their properties because from Biafra military to Police to leadership to judiciary will be revolutionary and driven by youths hungry for fast development.

And for Niger Deltas, it is not by force to join Biafra but Niger Delta are our beloved brothers...we cannot abandon them because we fought together and died together in 1967 - 1969, so crude oil cannot divide us now.....Biafra will operate as an independent region; Southeast region and Southsouth region. each region will be solely responsible for their resources....but we will be under one national umbrella; Biafra to unite us and give us the power and force to fight enemies or foreign intruders, that's why Southsouth must align with Igbos and go together to succeed together.

Igbos are not after crude oil....crude oil will soon lose its value worldwide as more renewable and cheaper energy sources and technology springs up, so let's not allow crude oil to divide us.

Yes maybe some useless Igbos may have done Southsouth bad in the past, they don't represent Igbos....Igbos have no issue with Niger Delta...you are our beloved brothers...but if u decide to stay with Nigeria or be your own country, that's fine, but there should be a referendum to allow Igbo-speaking Southsouth minorities decide if they want to go with Biafra or stay with Niger Delta.

If Biafra comes peacefully, it's good....and we are asking for Nigeria to peacefully divide so every tribe can succeed happily at their own pace. we wish Yoruba to establish a successful Oduduwa Country; I am sure Yorubas will make a great country. We wish Northerners will form their unique Arewa country and practice their religion peacefully without intruders just as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc does...and we wish you all succeed as we wish our Biafra after a peaceful division of Nigeria.


We want the division so peace can reign, so enemity can stop, so tribal wars can reduce, so ethnic sabotage in politics can reduce, so all these unwanted killings and violence can reduce.

We are too big to be a one country as black people we are....we don't accept ourselves so easily like the whites, so peaceful division will be a good idea for us all.

God bless all Nigerians of all tribes and ethnicity‎

Good morning Nigeria‎
‎

KemjikaEme:
So far the Biafran agitators have staged non violent protest and agitations. They have not given any ultimatum to these Northerners scattered all over the South East to pack up and leave. So where is this association of Biafra with violence/war coming from?
We know the areas prone to violence and instigations for war. Where has the Biafran agitators threatned war on Nigerians?

simplycarro:
What is bad in that? You want the properties to waste and rot away? Igbos didn't know they have investments in Nigeria before this Biafra madness start ?

Kingsley1000:
WHAT WILL THEN BE THE FATE OF YOUR BROTHERS DOING PETTY TRADING,SHOE REPAIRS AND GATE KEEPERS HERE?

NairalandHowTo:
Good they should come and be going. This shows the agitation for Biafra is about hate only not reality. Go and develop the east because the north are tired of you.

ayenitre:
Professional certificate doesn't always mean anything, especially when the recipient has zero job experience in the field. I was a self-taught Oracle Cert. Assoc. DBA many years ago, but looking back now, I don't look at it as an advantage in the job market, because I had mo relevant experience.

The best attribute I look at is the strength of character of candidates in job interviews. Who better than an ex-student to be the judge of character of candidate? If that teacher was unprofessional during his TP, I'm pretty sure the OP wouldnt recomnend him for the job.

Your statement makes me doubt you ever wrote and passed the Certifications you are claiming.
It is people who have failed in the "attempt" to have Certifications, that trash it.
Just like those school drop-outs will cite one fortunate drop-out (out of millions) as the reason for saying Education is a waste!
I have seen many of your types in the past.

omoelerin1:
nigerians and religion. when we succeed in our desire even if it is through dubious act it is miracle/favour but if it is failure what will you call that one? i dont know what concerns god in such triviality.

manson5011:
Its obvious that life is a cycle.
There was this job vacancy in my place of work and 8 people did apply for it which they were to be interviewed yesterday.

By privilege as an Admin/Acct Officer I was authorized by my HR who was engaged in a crucial meeting to conduct the interview on his behalf so far I know what the company requires.

Lo and behold among them was my secondary school Teacher who did teaching practice (TP) when I was in SS1.

We were both shocked when we saw each other, looking at each other, I smiled and said Sir kindly have a seat.

We gist for 30mnts then I used 5mnts to ask him where he worked before now, that's all.

Meanwhile, I recommended him OK for the job and asked him to come and start work tomorrow.

It is good to live peacefully with all men as you may not know where your turning table will stop next.
The question is, was that a dishonesty for me to have picked him as there were 2 people who had professional certification ahead of him?

Nairalanders over to you!

angels09:
He should be fried to death. Women quit provoking your men. Marriage is not a licence to collect.

Sparkle777:
Wait ooh, so this magun of a thing affects men too?
I tot it was only done against women.

ivolt:
No need for alarm. Pen.is Captivus can be sorted out by administering muscle relaxant
to the woman or they can wait till they separate naturally.

The wife and that native doctor are probably scammers.

I pity you, with your Grammar!

A child does not understand Jazz..... he calls it vegetable!

Our Fathers know what to do, just that men of these days think using Camera phone to monitor a cheating wife, is the solution.

InvertedHammer:
No special tools needed. You need masons who love their job and are willing to accept daily payment instead of block count payment.

I think Phillipinos are the most patient workers I have ever seen. Even with crude tools, they still pay close attention to details.

streetzdreamz:
its funny when a particular being, claiming to be the supposed king of the town keeps causing mayhem and confusion in the land,get some touts and hand dem 200-500bucks and you have a crowd behind you, what sacred tree that's brought nothing good to the land!!!! I respect tradition same way I value modernization, one shouldn't impede the other, a supposed shrine located at the heart of a developing town is barbaric, as far as am.concerned on this ish, those traditionalists may go hang!!!!!!!! fayose should go ahead with the construction.

shikshark:
They should try and transplant it where it will be at peace, abi sacred tree fit construct the road ni.....+ she na by force for fayose to do the road ni

CastedDude:
This shows that the 'rich also cry'. This is the state of Victoria Island Garden City VGC after rainfall in Lagos today. Reports have it that some major roads have been rendered inaccessible after being overtaken by raging floods in the area as road users and motorists lament.

According to reports, the early morning downpour in Lagos which resulted in heavy flooding in VGC caused heavy traffic from Mega Chicken to VGC leading to Ajah fly-over.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/06/victoria-island-garden-city-vgc.html

Infact, all l see is them showing-off how their latest model SUV can drive on LAND and also navigate easily on WATER.

If you want to see real CRY after the rains, go to Orile, Mushin, Bariga and places like that.

InvertedHammer:
EgunMogaji:

Some of them are square and do not look like what was done with grovers. Anything else they use?

Like the picture below. It has aluminium inserts. Does the aluminium serve any purpose?

yak:
to access loan now, banks will demand for ur grandparents' head. aside that, interest rate of 28+% is simply outrageous, to put it mildly, what kind of business wld b able to pull through?

InvertedHammer:
The landing cost of a cheap one from Harbor freight will be less than $6000 (including clearing). A lot of contractors can afford it but will never buy it. They will rather add more cars to their fleet.

Then and again, if you buy it and put a lot of workers out of work, you may wake up one day and backhoe will be up in flames. Double wahala! So let them dig. There is no rush in Nigeria. African time reigns supreme. You can hurry up the excavation, start construction and oga shows up a month later to state that he/she is out of funds. So why the rush?
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EgunMogaji:
And Nigerias cheap labor will always win. This we know.

godwinkessi:
No wonder. Bro where are u? How can I see u? I'm presently in owerri

Fippycbk is a young Woman, not a Man.
I wonder why she is also trying desperately to pass-off as a male?

Honesty in all things, pays in the end