nairalanda1:


Many Nigerian parents don't like sending their kids abroad even if they can afford it. They think the kids would pick evil vices oversea

So send their kids to Covenant university or Babcock since evil vices is their problem

vastolord4:
The intimidation these staff feel is probably not how they should perceive it.. cars are a necessity and shouldn't be as a flaunt! But are minds are darker than black.. just the way the army intimidates harmless citizens in this country for no reason

Oga if those kids are rich what are they doing in Lautech? Why not travel abroad or attend private uni? Since they can afford expensive cars they can afford it

The Bible says, "knowledge is power". It also says "know the truth and
it will set you free".

This is made all the more important given the fact that history is not
taught in Nigerian schools.

Let us join hands and walk down the beautiful path of knowledge,
truth, and history together. Our focus and subject-matter for today is
the Fulani tribe of northern Nigeria.

The Fulani are only partially African and only partly Negroid. They
are the product of cross-breeding between the Taurags, Berbers, and
Arabs of north Africa on the one hand and the local black African
women of Futa Jalon, Guinea in West Africa, on the other.

In those days Futa Jalon was a popular trade route between north and
west Africa. After hundreds of years of cross-breeding the final
product of this union was the Fula race.

If you doubt this assertion I challenge you to look at the texture of
their hair, their thin lips, their slim and pointed noses, their tall
and slight build and their, more often than not, light complexion and
you will know that they are only partially African and only partly
Negroid.

Like their Tutsi cousins (who also originally came from Futa Jalon but
who migrated to central and east Africa over the centuries) they are
primarily and in the main gypsy-like wanderers and nomads who are
deeply courageous and notoriously ruthless and ferocious in battle yet
who have a strange and inexplicable attachment to and affinity and
affection for their cattle and cows.

They betray little emotion, even in the most difficult times and even
when going through immense and the most gruelling form of hardship and
they are focused, mentally-strong, disciplined, patient, calculating,
proud, ruthless, wise and totally unforgiving.

They have long memories: never forget a friend or favour and never
forgiving an insult or a slight. Most important of all is the fact
that they overwhelm and conquer very slowly and incrementally and they
do so primarily by infiltration, assimilation, and guile.

It is only when they are fully entrenched and empowered and when they
have totally won the confidence of their host community and
infiltrated them that the sword is brought out and the most extreme
forms of barbarity and violence are employed to achieve their
objective.

That is how they conquered the Habe Kingdom, subjugated the Hausa and
turned them into vassals and that is how they took Ilorin from the
Yoruba Aare Ona Kakanfo, Afonja. In both cases, they dethroned and
murdered the sitting Kings that they had earlier befriended.

Some historians have argued that they value the life of cows more than
that of human beings. This may be true of the uneducated herdsmen and
pastoralists amongst them but I do not believe it is entirely true of
their traditional rulers and their educated and political elites.

Some have also argued that their greatest desire is to establish a
homeland for themselves by grabbing the land of others because there
is nowhere in Africa that they can call their own.

Even in Guinea where they originally came from they constitute a tiny
minority of the population, they have never been trusted with
political power and they are viewed with the utmost suspicion.

They arrived on the shores of what later became known as northern
Nigeria in 1804 when they launched their first jihad, under the
leadership of Sheik Usman Dan Fodio, and conquered the Habe
(Hausa-speaking) Kingdom of Gobir.

That is how they got a foothold in Nigeria and they have been here
ever since, imposing their Emirs over the local indigenous populations
all over the north in the name of Islam and turning the children of
the conquered Hausa into almajiris.

They constitute only 7% to 10% of the 200 million-strong Nigerian
population yet they wield and control more power and authority than
any other tribe or ethnic nationality in the country.

This has been the case since Nigerian independence in 1960 by either
holding power directly or wielding it through a series of spineless,
cowardly, pliant, willing and loyal surrogates who do their bidding
out of ignorance, fear and a pitiful inferiority complex and who
consider them to be the "master race" that were ordained by God to
lead Nigeria and that were "born to rule".

Through Islam, they have conquered most of the core north because the
Emir is not just an ethnic overlord but he is also the leader of the
Islamic faithful in his domain.

This is a powerful and dangerous mix of religion and ethnicity and it
is one that the Fula's have used very effectively in their quest to
dominate, conquer and subjugate the whole of Nigeria and impose their
will on the local indigenous tribes and populations that have been
there for thousands of years before they came.

Other than Usman Dan Fodio, two other Fulani leaders stand out as the
custodians and flagbearers of this messianic mission. The first of the
two is Sir Ahmadu Bello, the erstwhile Saurdana of Sokoto and the
premier of the old Northern Region and the second is General Muhammadu
Buhari, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is for this reason that Usman Dan Fodio is often referred to as the
First Mahdi of the north whilst Ahmadu Bello and Muhammadu Buhari are
referred to as the second and third Mahdi's of the north respectively.

You can say what you want about the Fulani but one thing you cannot
take from them is the fact that they fully understand and appreciate
the awesome power and beauty of ethnic and tribal unity in a wider
multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation like Nigeria.

Despite all pretensions to the contrary and rather like the English of
the United Kingdom, the Fulani will always put the Fulani interest
before the Nigerian interest and this has served their tribal purpose
and vision very well.

That is a lesson that other Nigerian tribes and ethnic nationalities
would do well to learn.

Mr. Obadiah Mailafia, who is a former deputy governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria and a former presidential candidate from Southern
Kaduna said the following on August 25, 2019, "Loyalty, honour
respect, integrity are defining features of the Yoruba leadership
tradition. Fulani leadership traditions are rooted in feudalism,
pretence, hiding one's thoughts and taqquiya.

"The game plan is to exploit to the fullest the political and
financial capital of Tinubu. They will keep him onside until they're
able to destroy him. To turn Nigeria into a Fulani Caliphate they will
happily sacrifice social progress for ambition. They understand that
hungry desperate people would be too broken to raise their heads.

"To assist they continue to allow murderous and terrorist hordes from
Central and Western Africa to take over ancestral lands by force. They
are ruthlessly imposing total control over culture, mass media, public
administration, and the economy. They govern by fear and are willing
to plunge us into another civil war."

I concur.

Obadiah is an old friend of mine. He studied at Oxford University and
he is one of the brightest stars and most formidable intellectuals in
Nigeria today.

Judging from his words he appears to know the Fulani very well indeed.
I do too. How? Because even though I am a proud Yoruba man, my
maternal great grandmother was a full-blooded Fulani woman and
consequently 1/8 of the blood that runs through my veins is Fulani.

I have never hidden this and I never will. As a matter of fact, I wear
it as a badge of pride and honor because it proves that I cannot
possibly hate the Fulani because I cannot possibly hate myself.

Criticism is different to hate. The former is healthy whilst the
latter is not. That is the point that many of my Fulani brothers and
sisters fail to appreciate and find it difficult to comprehend.

In any case, not all Fulani are bad and not all non-Fulani are good.
What I hate are not the Fulani people but the callous, barbarous and
unspeakable atrocities that the Fulani herdsmen and terrorists are
perpetrating in my country and the racist, hegemonist, ethnic and
religious agenda that the Fulani leaders are seeking to impose.

What is also clear to me is that the history, the disposition and the
ignoble intentions of the Fulani ruling elite raise concern and has
serious implications for the peace, welfare, and unity of Nigeria.

If the Fulani do not retrace their steps, change their ways and
moderate their actions and if they do not reign in their vaulting
ambition of conquering the Nigerian space and becoming Nigeria's
"master race", they can be rest assured of the fact that history,
posterity and the Nigerian people will be very harsh on them.

Worse still they may plunge our nation into a second savage, barbaric
and fratricidal civil war which would make the first one look like
child's play and which would shatter the very foundations of the West
African sub-region and tear the African continent apart. Let us pray
that it never comes to that.

This is the end of today's history lesson. Thanks for finding the time
to read and learn

I thought you were complaining about actual nudity and you were going to propose Sharia law

He is not stopping people from smoking he is just making cigarette expensive

Good idea but this is the wrong time

Ibechris2:
I am only thinking of the money u may have spent as a result of this ur lifestyle.

Calculate how much u have spent in one year and multiply it by the number of years including the condoms,short let and drinks.

As an igbo boy wey like money,this kind waste go buy me land for my village or Abuja.

Continue...subsidy removal is going to make u have the real feelings.

You remind me of people who do calculation for the price of cigarette or coffee and the question is always "you wey no dey smoke where your car dey?"

You guys need to really understand economics

totit:


You are for the SE like her, right?

Call a spade a spade, she showed support for her candidate no big deal there you can't compare her with the average obidient

It's funny how people always imitate their enemies

totit:


Point of correction. She was cloud chasing, she chose her tribesmen over her benefactors and insulted her benefactor.

Lmaooo

There was no bigotry in her post, she didn't support IPOB or insulted Yoruba people, she just showed support for her candidate and in a very low-key responsible way.

totit:
She must trend by fire so that her fellows and future possible bigots can learn from her foolishness.

There was no bigotry in her post, she didn't support IPOB or insulted Yoruba people, she just showed support for her candidate and in a very low-key responsible way.

Christistruth03:


Those are the real Original founders and owners of the Labour Party for over 20 years

Peter Obi was just an Oppotunistic Gate Crasher who used money to hijack the Party Presidential Slot

Under the Party rules he shouldn’t even have been considered for the Post because he hadn’t been in the Party long enough

Then why did they all seat back and allow him to run, why didn't they begin their madness then maybe save everyone lots of headache

Is she married yet?

Omowale2023:

Number 2 can't work. It will discourage people from coming to the website

True, but it might also make people take the site more seriously.

Omowale2023:

Lol.....even fb, Twitter, YouTube no dey do paid subscription, na Nairaland wan start am.....😂😂😂
Even reddit & quora won't even try it, talkless of discord or twitch or rumble. Seun should just hire more mods to regulate the comments on the site. That's all

Reddit and Quora have good moderators, they also use an upvoting system so the most sensible posts are more visible...

I don't think this might work for Nairaland

Just observe how the most tribalistic posts tend to get more likes than moderate ones

So good moderators or upvoting system won't change much it's the customer base that needs to be worked on.

It seems like you are cursing UBA for being a good bank.

They did a transaction - it didn't go well, hence they reversed the money so their customer doesn't lose his money.

That's what a good bank should do.

AchrafHakimi:


Your comment is just too unintelligent to reply so I'll just numerate a few.

1. "Stupid teenagers & children" have the most money to spend on frivolities which Nairaland is.

2. "those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave" are the guys that drive Nairaland's ad revenue. If the numbers leave, Seun's ad rate drops.

3. If you think any serious person will pay to comment on Nairaland then you are deluded. The serious ones read & scroll. 90% of commenters are attention seekers.

Bye.

1. "Stupid teenagers & children" have the most money to spend on frivolities which Nairaland is.

No because to pay you need to have a bank account with money inside which teenagers wouldn't have and if they have it they wouldn't want to spend the only money their parents gave them on Nairaland


2. "those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave" are the guys that drive Nairaland's ad revenue. If the numbers leave, Seun's ad rate drops

This wouldn't be a problem because Seun would no longer rely so heavily on ad revenue.


3. If you think any serious person will pay to comment on Nairaland then you are deluded. The serious ones read & scroll. 90% of commenters are attention seekers.

I agree, as long as Nairaland remain a petty site no one in their right mind would want to pay to interact on it, if this changes though.

In other words

"I am putting business before sentiments"

AchrafHakimi:


Pay for exclusive bigotry you mean?
If dem born Seun well let him try it.

Nairaland will end 0.000000056 seconds after.

Nonsense.

I mean it will drastically reduce the number of stupid comments since teenagers and children can't comment on the site because they can't afford it, also those who consider Nairaland not worth it would simply leave, also it will reduce the pressure on the mods to push trendy but meaningless topics to generate traffic.

Meaning a large pool of sensible people would remain and this would change the discourse on the site for the better.

"I think".

I mean the level of useless comments I read here is abominable, 90% of the comments on front page topics are just repetition of the first few posts, it's sad because there are some sensible and educational posts on Nairaland which are overcrowded by the number of rabble posts.

I think Seun needs to introduce an annual subscription, that should at least reduce the number of senseless post here and create a sense of exclusivity.

This is how things were meant to be

thisisit:


Thanks for your analysis.... please read this..

UNITARY STRUCTURE ..IS LIKE FACE ME.. I FACE YOU APARTMENT.. WE SHARE KITCHEN, BATHROOM AND TOILET... THEREFORE WE WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE ENDLESS CONFLICTS.. BECAUSE SOME PERSONS WILL NOT FLUSH THE TOILET AFTER USE.. SOME WILL STAY IN THE BATHROOM FOREVER WITHOUT REGARD FOR OTHER USERS ETC.


ON THE OTHER HAND, REGIONAL STRUCTURE... IS LIKE SELF-CONTAIN APARTMENT... EVERYONE HAS THEIR KITCHEN BATHROOM AND TOILET..

IF YOU TRESPASS INTO OTHER PERSONS TOILET OR BATHROOM WITHOUT PERMISSION.. IT IS OBVIOUS YOU'RE THE AGGRESSOR.... WHEN BIAFRA MILITARY STARTED HEADING TO THE WEST THROUGH MIDWEST.. OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AGGRESSOR.

BUT IN THIS UNITARY, BOKO HARAM CAN ENTER ANYWHERE IN SOUTH WEST IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.

BESIDE IM REGIONAL STRUCTURE, THIS DO-OR-DIE MENTALLY OF POLITICIANS IN THEIR BID TO BE AT THE ALMIGHTY CENTRE WILL NOT BE THERE.

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THST SOME REGIONS HAVE PROBLEM.. THE PROBLEM IS LOCALIZED WITHIN THE REGION.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, CORRUPTION WILL BE MINIMIZE.

THERE WOULD BE HEALTHY COMPETITION AMONGST REGIONS .. AND NOT THIS CURRENT BITTER ETHNO-RELIGIOUS RIVALRY

THANK YOU

Have you lived in self contain apartment where there is no clear head or leader, where every tenant can do their way as long it is within their apartment, it is usually a disaster and such a building would become uninhabitable...

For example what would you do when some girls flush pad down the toilet, and this cause the soakaway pipe to get stuck which would affect other tenants...

Sometimes when water is pumping it doesn't reach everybody because some people just leave their tap running...


What about Nepa bill?

What about tenants who refuse to participate in sanitation?

One way or the other you would have to interfere in people's apartments because it affects yours, so this analogy simply doesn't work, living in a house with no central authority would not be so different from a face-me-I-face-you, having a strong central authority is the solution for better accomodation in both scenarios.


"BESIDE IN REGIONAL STRUCTURE, THIS DO-OR-DIE MENTALLY OF POLITICIANS IN THEIR BID TO BE AT THE ALMIGHTY CENTRE WILL NOT BE THERE.

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THST SOME REGIONS HAVE PROBLEM.. THE PROBLEM IS LOCALIZED WITHIN THE REGION."

What are you basing your claims off? Are you basing it on history?

Maybe you didn't read about the massive amount of political scandals, protests and lynchings in the early days of Nigerian independence, I personally think your suffering from nostalgia of the good old days syndrome...

- if regionalism was so good it would have still existed, good things can't be destroyed easily...

Having a central authority helps to balance different kinds of people. Maybe the authority should not be too powerful to the point of tyranny, but it should not be too weak to allow chaos.

Thank You.

thisisit:


SO, HAS TRIBALISM GONE AWAY FROM NIGERIA OF TODAY?... HAS CORRUPTION GONE AWAY?. IS THERE SOCIAL COHESION IN NIGERIA OF TODAY.

WE ARE BUT A FRAGILE LEAST DEVELOPING COUNTRY, HELD DOWN BY POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, CORRUPTION &

UNITARY STRUCTURE IS GOOD FOR HOMOGENEOUS PEOPLE LIKE MILITARY.. BRITIONS.. ..ODUDUWA ... BIAFRA.. AREWA ETC.

BUT FOR HETEROGENEOUS PEOPLE LIKE NIGERIA, AMERICANS ETC,, TRUE FEDERALISM IS IT.

OLD WAYS ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOOD JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE OLD.

AGUYI IRONSI WAS WRONG TO HAVE CHANGED THE REGIONAL STRUCTURE.


A WEAK CENTRE AND STRONG REGIONS IS THE WAY TO OUR GREATNESS.

OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT-ELECT ONCE SAID ... NIGERIA IS NOT ONE NATION....HE WAS RIGHT.

Nigeria is still tribalist and corrupt, now imagine how things would be under regionalism...

Under regionalism the regional governor would have an extreme amount of power over a vast number of people - add a little corruption to the mixture and you have a nightmare...

Under regionalism Igbos would dominate the South East, Hausas and Fulanis would Dominate the North, I'm sure Calabars and Niger deltans would be glad to have their future dictated by Igbos, same way people of Jos and Benue would love to be ruled by Fulanis... This is what you believe would stop tribalism.

Old ways are not necessarily good because they are old - you should take your own advice, just because regionalism is old doesn't mean it was good.

thisisit:


MR. SHUT D Bleep UP,

KINDLY TELL US THE VERY GOOD REASON IT WAS ABOLISHED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Because it encouraged tribalism, it also encourages corruption, a body cannot function with different brains.

Aguiyi Ironsi himself abolished it and no other leader was foolish enough to revive it.

thisisit:
OPC .. IS STILL ALIVE
MEND ... IS STILL ALIVE
BIAFRA ... IS STILL ALIVE
BOKO HARAM .... IS STILL ALIVE...

DO WE NEED A SOOTHSAYER TO TELL US THAT THIS UNITARY GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE WILL INADVERTENTLY DESTROY US..

REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE (FEDERATING FEDERALISM NOT UNITARY FEDERALISM) IS THE FACTORY SETTING OF NIGERIA. IT IS THE GOD-GIVEN POLITICAL TEMPLATE BEQUEATHED TO US BY OUR FORESIGHTED AND MORE EXPERIENCED COLONIAL MASTERS.

OUR DIVERSITIES ARE IRRECONCILABLE...

WE MUST REVERT TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENT.. SOONER OR LATER AND I HOPE NOT VIOLENTLY.

THIS IS WHAT ABURI ACCORD IS ABOUT.
THIS IS WHAT SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS ABOUT..

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

Shut the fak up jare, there's a very good reason it was abolished in the first place

The only way to defeat a woman is with another woman

This topic is long overdue but I feel I do not have enough resources to do it justice.

We shall begin with Fani Kayode's famous line "the new found trust and alliance between the people of the SW and the people of the NORTH shall never again be broken"


Now one might ask when did this trust exist and who broke it...

Perhaps it was when Usman Dan Fodio declared a jihad on the Oyo Empire or maybe when Tafewa Balewa sentenced Awolowo to ten years imprisonment, or maybe when Sani Abacha killed MKO Abiola, however none of this is important what matters is the geopolitics of Nigeria presently and what is responsible for the 'new found trust' , the answer is very simple and complicated 'IGBOS'...

Igbos are one of the major tribes in nigeria but unlike the other major tribes, igbos lack a central structure and this lack of central structure is both a great strength and a greater weakness..

Yorubas leaders no longer have to just worry about the ambition of Northerners they now also have to worry about the ambition of Easterners...

It's a tight situation, it's like choosing between a mad enemy and a smart enemy, the mad enemy is mad so you can't reason with him, the smart enemy on the other can be reasoned with, however he can also plan and aim more effectively on how to bring your destruction.

For now Yoruba leaders have picked the smart enemy and they hope that by convincing them they have the same enemy and goals perhaps this smart enemy would not destroy them...

but there's a tiny tiny flaw in this plan, this plan only works as long as Igbo leaders do not try to form some kind of alliance with Northerners and as long as Northerners perceive Igbos as a threat, so no matter how they ally with the North they also have to carefully make sure Igbos don't change course and they also have to buff up igbos so they don't appear too weak and non threatening, they have to keep the embers of hatred alive from time to time between these two groups.

But fortunately things are going well - a bit too well, the Oyo Empire is finally rising again, but in the long run only time will tell.

The worst part about japa wave is how it ultimately destroys its purpose...

If few Nigerians japa then it's not a problem - because it's not a problem more Nigerians begin to japa and very soon the worst Nigerians will japa too and they will japa with all the crime, lawlessness, corruption that the initial japaists claim to run away from...

Eventually the government will become racist and would ban Nigerians from immigrating.

MasterJayJay:


But north remains headquarters of terrorism, kidnapping, poverty and illiteracy.

It can be likened to a man with a good penis but can't impregnate his wife because of impotency.

The terrorism and banditry is proof of how great Northerners are, even northern criminals are united and disciplined.

Compare them with a certain terrorist group in the South that runs to Finland or UK at every small opportunity, they can't even work together to do their crime in peace...

Northern Terrorist are actually willing to die for what they believe in and the fact Nigerian government have been fighting them for over a decade, should show you how well trained and resilient they are.

As for the so - called illiteracy, where is the education in the South where their youths are either Yahoo boys, Drug addicts or cultists?... Where they turn on each other at the slightest provocation for the stupidest reason?

Education is not education

They are the most united, God fearing people... who at the same time are very humble, slow to anger yet very ruthless when they need to be.

They have been in power for over 100years and they shall rule for 100 more because they are God's chosen people.

Southerners are too barbaric, disorganized and corrupt to rule anything.

Power must go to the North Inshallah.

God Bless Nigeria.