₦airaland Forum

Arrewa:
You should be Ashamed for your region!

The North being the food basket of the nation doesn't mean it doesn't have vulnerable people!!

The north produce 80‰ of Agricultural produce in Nigeria!!

On daily basis hundreds of trailer of food used to move food down to your region for you to survive!!

Now I challenge you to tell me one thing!! That is produced in igbo land which Nigerians consume??

The only thing you do is to gather Almejiri pictures and be posting on Nairaland!

Tell me one thing that is produced in igbo land which Nigerians consume!!

you people only assemble chines products in Aba, package them and tag them Aba made!!

The south east contribute nothing to our national pause!! Even the oil you're claiming in imo is not in commercial quantity!

Na just few igbo politicians dey use the money service their cars!

North is feeding your region!!

Northerners are feeding you from Generation to Generation!!

You should even thank the north more than you're thanking Jesus!! Cos they're your real Saviours!!

Simplyleo:
If only you will stop jumping in and out of my mention. You have been sweating to get my attention.

Simplyleo:
And this is your response to the "tribalistic" post.
Pls relate them.


This is why I earlier advised: READ IT VERY SLOWLY.

KingOdart:
Even if you want to use this to prove a senseless point, Lagos still distributed Food items some week back as palliatives during this lockdown

KingOdart:
Why are you crying all over the thread?


Have you forgotten that Lagos state still distributed regular food stuffs some weeks back?

This food sharing was the one the governor said he would implement last week as part of the measures to curb the hunger in the state and he finally implemented it which prove Sanwo Olu is a man of his words.

When did Abia Government distribute foodstuffs like Lagos did some weeks back? Since you want to compare Abia to Lagos

Melezenawii:
I first thought is the usual wailers

God bless Simplyleo

Good one

God Bless Lagos State
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

Simplyleo:
What kind of rubbish is this?

Cooked food in take-away as a palliative?

What happens to giving out some quantity of raw food items, no matter how small?

Na those agbaya wey queue dey vex me pas. The clowns are even trying yo be organised by practicing social distancing so they wont miss one plate of food.

Chuks0485:
Then you did better know the reason why the op is asking about them..... This Covid 19 is really an eye opener, disgracing not just our government of it's inefficiency but also our medical and trado-medical experts of their inability to come up with solutions or atleast be at per with some of their counterparts is African not to talk of elsewhere outside Africa. Even our miracle pastors are not left out.

MetaPhysical:
Your Excellencies,
POSER is a South East region-wide network of people with shared ideals, values and committed to authentic Igbo renaissance, socio-economic, political and infrastructural development of the Igbo homeland.

As an Igbocentric multi-stakeholder Coalition, addressing socio-economic and political issues confronting the Igbo nation, POSER has a strong membership strength across the South East states.

Your Excellencies, following the global outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) Nigeria's leadership responded swiftly announcing drastic measures including territorial lock downs to curtail and combat the spread of the pandemic.

State governments (including South East States) across the country responded with equal statewide measures aimed at combating community spread of the pandemic in their respective States.

Part of the measures by states and the federal government is the restrictions on people's movement. These restrictions became necessary since it is believed that the virus is spread through droplets from infected persons which when it comes in contact with a person, such person becomes infected.

Your Excellencies, it is on record that at this time, security agents have killed more people in South Eastern Nigeria than in any other region of the country with the pretentious excuse of enforcing the lockdown against the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

To Your Excellencies, it is now obvious that overzealous security agents consistently brutalize and kill young Ndi Igbo at the flimsiest of excuses under the watch of Igbo leaders.

For a long time Ndi Igbo have concentrated their animosity against external elements while ignoring leadership in Igbo land.

We believe that it is misplaced aggression for Ndi Igbo to continue to fight external forces while our political and traditional leaders constitute a more dangerous danger to Ndi Igbo.

As Governors of South Eastern states, the security and welfare of Ndi Igbo ought to and should be the topmost priority to Your Excellencies.

In strong terms we decry Your Excellencies silence in the face of constant and consistent brutalization and killing of your people.

Governors from other federating units of Nigeria will never condone this kind of regular killings of their citizens, and we ask, "why do Your Excellencies accept and condone this bloodletting in our homeland?".

Why this conspiracy of silence against your own people?

Your Excellencies, this open letter is to assure you that Ndi Igbo are no longer at ease.

TAKE NOTE, Ndi Igbo are redirecting their animosities away from their perceived external detractors to its political leaders, who have showed signs of being more dangerous to the continued existence of our people.

Our question is simple, why do Your Excellencies allow Ndi Igbo to bear the brunt of overzealous security agents?

South West Governors do not allow their people to suffer such degrading and inhuman treatment from the Nigerian state.

It is sad to note that even with the widespread activities of hoodlums, harassing and robbing people in Ogun and Lagos areas, we have not heard of trigger-happy security operatives shooting and killing people in the South West.

We view this as a failure of leadership in the South East and must be addressed immediately.

The new thinking is Igbocentric leadership.
We can no longer stand aside and watch while leadership in Igbo land fails Ndi Igbo.

By this open letter we strongly urge Your Excellencies:

1. To take proactive steps to arrest the decline in the security and safety of Ndi Igbo across South East States.

2. To take proactive steps to ward off the excessive use of maximum force and indiscriminate arrest of Igbo youths in our Homeland.

3. Take immediate steps in mobilizing South East resources to address infrastructural deficiencies across Igboland

4. To begin immediate mobilization of Ndi Igbo towards the actualization of the Igbo Homeland Project.

While we pledge our continued support to the political leadership across Igboland, however we will not hesitate to withdraw such support if Your Excellencies fail, neglect or utterly refuse to protect our people.

Signed:
Amb. Obuesi Phillips - Global Leader, People Of South East Region (POSER)

Nze Ugo-Akpe Onwuka (Oyi) - Intl Coordinator, Igbo Renaissance Forum (IRF)

Hon. Samuel Obodo - National Chairman, People Of South East Region (POSER)

Mr. Silas Uzoma - Chairman, South East Mandate Monitoring Group (SEMMG)

Mr. Obi Kachi Nzedigwe - Coordinator, Anambra Grassr


https://www.modernghana.com/news/996745/an-open-letter-to-the-governors-of-south-east-stat.html

Chuks0485:
You seems not to know who they are.

salford1:
It won't dry up but it will remain buried in the ground. No point in exploring it.

Barbilius:
The mistake you are making is to think Yorubas are part of your South, sorry, we are not, we weren't part of you since inception of the contraption, and we will never be. We sit west of the Niger, thus, we are westerners and we do what we feel is good for us, you people too should do what is good for you. No hard feelings.

meavox:
POWER, PALLIATIVES AND BUHARI’S NIGERIA – BASIL OKOH (RE: WEST’S FEAR OF AREWA REFUGEES)
Basil Okoh, April 17, 2020
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Nigeria is not one country, has never been one country and can never be one country. Crude Oil and the Army are what hold the people together. Remove these two and a dozen nations will emerge from here.
Activities of the Federal Government officials appointed to provide palliatives for citizens under the threat of the coronavirus pandemic has shown up once again the crass bigotry and ethnic chicanery that rules Nigeria.

Before the pandemic, it was the sovereign loan of about $28 billion applied for by the Federal Government and approved by the Senate of the republic where the entire South East was left out, without a dollar of investment to it's name.
Again and again it has been proven that the Buhari Government cannot advance beyond it’s ethnic rampart and that the Fulani will drive it’s ethnic agenda to it’s final death by instalments. They give the lie to Nigeria’s assumed nationhood and sense of destiny as one entity.

Since it’s inception, Muhammadu Buhari's Government has demonstrated beyond anyone’s doubt that the North is in Nigeria to look out for its people only and that it’s politicians and publicans see Nigeria only in the prism of satisfying the needs of Northern Muslims. For those who refuse to uphold this truth, a rude awakening awaits at the looming cataclysmic end.

Any time Northern bureaucrats and apparatchiks unleash their ethnic pettiness on the rest of the country, laughing to the banks in personal and group triumph, they believe that they’ve won another political victory against the South, but since the seventies when I started watching these games go on, the South continues to grow faster and ahead of the North and have become economically stronger and more progressive in all areas of development, far superseding the North in every development index.

The notion and belief by the North that it does not have to earn it’s development, that it can always browbeat the South to force concessions and remain dominant in political influence to gain advantages, has become the major falsity that the North must contend with on the day of the apocalypse to come. That day, the freebies from the South will dry up and the North will be forced to work for it’s own upkeep and an unprecedented social dissonance and upheaval will result.

Ethnic entitlements cannot develop a people.
In 1977, Northern students, instigated by New Nigeria Newspapers, the establishment newspaper of Northern Nigeria back then, rioted across northern higher institutions against what they termed gross injustice in University admissions. Prior to that, each of the six Nigerian universities at the time, admitted students on their own terms and through their “Concessional” entrance examinations.
New Nigeria published University admission figures from the six universities to show that the then Bendel State had double the number of University admissions from the state than the eleven states of Northern Nigeria combined.
The resulting protests by Northern students provided the backcloth for the formation of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to infuse the quota system into University admissions in Nigeria.

Last year in 2019 when I checked, Delta State, one of the two states from the old Bendel State, had a higher admission figure than all the Northern states put together. C’est change…… What has quota system availed the North in more than forty years of JAMB?

The Northern elite are not making “progress” at the expense of Southern Nigeria for the simple reason that progress is neither purchased nor is it a product of evil mischief. Progress is earned. Northern Nigeria is not making progress, no matter how many irrigation systems or bridges built or how many people in the Sahel North get Coronavirus pandemic bonuses against non in the South.

Railway Systems soon go dead without maintenance. Non of these can be run or maintained by Northern indigenous technology or enterprise or management capability. Their inability to build a technocratic workforce means that they can never own or sustain those technologies and investments.

The North is a leach with its proboscis sunk deep into the jugular of Southern Nigeria. With every opportunity and excuse, the North thrusts it’s sucking claws deeper into the economy of Southern Nigeria. As a result of its total dependence on the life blood of the South, it is now unable to survive by itself and provide for any of its needs. Like the true parasite, it will die if priced out of its host.

Northern Nigeria became a leach and a bully with a gun held to the head of Southern Nigeria. So the North is not just a parasite, it is also a deadly virus at the same. It lives off the South as a parasite and is ready to kill the South at the least sign of life, as a virus.

It became the goal of Northern politicians to stop the South from hosting or acquiring the accoutrements of military resistance and warfare. Just as the Muslim Turks did to the Armenians and are now doing to the Kurds, the survival of the North depends on the demilitarization of Southern Nigeria.

The North has played it’s survival politics so well and used it’s dominance of Government to ensure that Southern Nigeria remains unarmed and without a means of defense. It made sure that after the Civil War, it denuded Southern Nigeria of all munitions of defense.
While we lament, we have to ask: Where have the Southern politicians been all the while these Northern politicians have been grabbing power for themselves and their region?

Southern politicians are the quintessential self effacing chameleons in a retrograde forest. They change colours and blend into whatever environment they find themselves. Because of their inherent need for self abnegation, they remain subject to and victims of their environment, unable to rise to the position for self iteration or assertion.
They have no ambitions for their people, no vision and no speed. Their inherent capacity to self abnegate and blend into the flora of the moment means that the environment must define whoever and whatever they choose to be, they are ordinary chameleons foraging for food from leftovers. Nothing more.
They threaten no one. Their only skill is to blend into the environment and lose their self identity, in order to be left alone to forage for rotten leaves and leftovers.

The Southern politician is focused on the money, on personal gain and on what he takes home to flaunt among his people. The Northern politician on the other hand, is focused on power, on ethnic and group interests and using the power to achieve group political and economic control.
The Southern politician hardly has a national outlook but wants to be the biggest Igbo politician, bigger than Azikiwe or the most successful and richest Yoruba politician, bigger than Awolowo. He is in competition with his own, living or dead.

The Fulani sees Nigeria as a political unit and looks for the best position in the unit to fix his claws and his suction pipe. He is not in competition with his fellow Fulani but works in cooperation with him to achieve political supremacy for the benefit of the whole group.
Because the Southern politician works alone for personal rather than group interests, it does not take much to defeat his purpose and ambition because, again, his ambition was never founded on belief and galvanizing vision. So he is shoved aside as soon as he arrives on the national stage. He is alone, after all.

But in order to shove Fulani aside, you have to contend with the entire Fulani who share in his group interests and stand to benefit from his ethnic galvanizing ambition. Competition in the South is individual.
This is why the Southern politician surrounds himself with nincompoops, his useful idiots, those who cannot have the mental capacity to draw out his insecurities and selfish ambition. He feels threatened by the smart ones from among his people.
The Northerners compete as a group, presenting a United front and easily defeating the individual rival from the South. This is why a Bola Tinubu or Rotimi Amaechi cannot compete in national politics with a Buhari or even a Rufa'i.

These are alone pursuing personal agenda and contending with implacable and debilitating rivalries from home. They become mere candles in the wind of Nigerian national politics.
They can succeed in becoming local champions. They can never be national champions because they rise by suppressing all dissent at home and betraying every rival. They are all alone at the national stage without the consensual backing of their smart people. The intense enmity at home provided the inertia that makes national acceptance impossible.

Because the Northern politician and his brother military denizen have succeeded in moving all military installations to the North, it gives the Southern politician a convenient alibi to live the life of a chameleon, in self abnegation and measured cowardice. So he proceeds to Government with a defeated mind ready to negotiate and concede even his own peoples need for group ambition in a federal arrangement.

But like all parasites, the North is so weak that it cannot survive without it’s host, Southern Nigeria. Take Northern Nigeria off the suction pipe to Southern Nigeria’s economy, it will suffer atrophy and die in no time. This is true of every parasites and true also for Northern Nigeria.
In the distribution of relief materials across the country, what emerges is a shameless Buhari Government recognizing and reinforcing the general belief in the helplessness and inherent poverty of Northern Nigeria and its total dependence on handouts from the Government for survival.

Coronavirus becomes another excuse to unleash a new episode of an ingrained and clannish predilection to feed the North from the wealth of the South.
It’s not for nothing that all of 75% of the relief handouts went to Northern Nigeria and a mere quarter was payed out in Southern Nigeria. Now here are the payment allocations as published by the agency directly making the payments.
FG Relief Cash Transfer - Zone by Zone
1) North West -- N112.7Billion
2) North Central -- N88.1Billion
3) North East -- N44.4Billion
4) South West -- N39.1Billion
5) South South -- N10.4B
6) South East -- N3.3B

What does this information tell the world, other than to show the diabolical clannishness of those handling the operations?
It tells the world above all else, of a population of a hundred and more millions of people dominant in the expanse of the Sahel Savannah belt of Northern Nigeria, who one and all, are totally dependent on others for food and other needs for basic sustenance.

So when you read in the Vanguard Newspaper recently, one of them writing that the North is the food basket of Nigeria, you ask, what food and where is the basket? You are the food basket of the South from whose ports, farms and storehouses you are loading up thousands of trucks to feed your people at no cost to them or your region? Has any Southerner ever been “allocated” Northern food for free?

Do not bet on the world not knowing the anomaly of the Nigerian situation. The world’s knowledge of this anomaly is the reason why it insists that Nigeria be continually glued together as a nation, for good or for worse. It is convenient now for the world to abandon Southern Nigeria to carry the burden of a hundred million indolent population, even as it gasps for breath.
When the overburdened ox throws down the weight in revolt, the world will notice as the Sub Saharan Africa gets flooded in their cities and nations with refugees.[b][/b]

The world fears for the unleashing of fifty million refugees on the rest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and the humanitarian crisis that will result, the like of which will overwhelm the entire continent of Africa. The present level of hunger and poverty in the Sahel Northern Nigeria puts the region in worse position today than Yemen, Kashmir, or South Sudan, countries devastated by years of warfare.

Now, you imagine two million refugees added to the population of Ghana, two million to Cameroun and one million each to the population of forty-six other African countries, you'll then know the problems the world would face with a real Civil Strife in Nigeria.
The world is not helping in any way to enforce the sociopolitical Justice that would help keep Nigeria peaceable and glued together. The North has made itself to believe that it can get away with any act of aggression against Southern Nigeria at no cost to itself.
It has been allowed to keep all the instruments of warfare to menace the South and also allowed to purloin the sustaining structures of the economy to the sorry point where the North now believes in it’s false invincibility against any Southern reaction.

The seeds of a cataclysmic warfare are being planted everyday but the world, particularly paternalistic Britain, looks the other way, leaving the South to carry the burden of a lumpen population and a thoughtless comprador elite hooked on free loading from Southern Nigeria.
There must be a bottom to political and social endurance and Southern Nigeria is fast approaching that bottom.

Nobody will die for lack of coronavirus palliatives in Southern Nigeria, that we are sure. But for those who need palliatives to survive as humans, it is to them we send our sympathy. For one day the feeding bottle will dry up. When it does, where will the people who need palliatives turn? Where will the pampered horde turn to for free food? @basilokoh.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/basil.okoh/posts/10222853516750678

B4Blez:
My parents want me to further my studies to PhD level after my first degree.
But I dream alot of becoming a music star and I have talent and passion for music.
I wanted going into music after my first degree but my parents are discouraging me, their reasons is what I know nothing about.
What do I do? I need advice Please.

Corporate2020:
Save oil till later? Europe, America, Australia and Asia are moving to electric cars, that means very soon car manufacturers will stop producing petrol and diesel cars. Countries are also moving to alternate power supply including solar and wind. So, when is the later day that oil price will go up? When Jesus comes?

Corporate2020:
Haaaa!!!

All these our oyel people will soon start hawking crude oil in Lagos holdups

Bola146:
Why not be honest for once Mr counselor, kindly advise them