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The so-called south-east does not have to contribute anything to Nigeria in order to share from the coffers of the federal government of Nigeria. Since the Nigeria has made the area part of the country, the so-called south east stands unshaken to enjoy the accumulative resources of the federal government of Nigeria.

stephleena:
giants in the land of dwarfs..

I guess the above statement is oxymoronic. Most Nigerians tend to exhibit pseudo-smartness while identifying with idiocy.

loopman:
Fuvck you too
In the meantime, check out the six packs

Have you seen the pictures of the so-called Internal Displaced Individuals from northern region of Nigeria? I guess you equally realized the insurgency by Boko Haram is not even a war and no blockade.

Shikena:
Benjamin Adekunle the Black Scorpion was only doing his job as a brave warrior in the Nigerian Army and if not for the fact that it was a mere lengthy 'police exercise' against our empty barrel brothers he would have completely wiped out the entire tiny region fooled by Ojukwu - who later fled to Abidjan after all his noise and boy scout theatrics then was pardoned by his masters led by Shagari and his assistant Ekwueme.

You must be a Yoruba!!! Have you inquired why the so-called brave warrior in the Nigerian Army was reduced to traffic warden in Apapa Wharf? When a soldier is relieved of his/her command for incompetence, it is foolhardy to attach the word - brave or warrior to his/her name. I really do not know why certain people in Nigeria are completely loudmouthed.

dealslip:
Some of you are demented. So every killing in Yorubaland must be avenged. What did you to the scorpion for all the atrocities perpetrated in your land

I guess demented as you. Who the hell is scorpion? I did point out unfounded fallacies by Femi Fani-Kayode.

attacker321:
I have been reluctant to write anything about the clash between the Yoruba and the Hausa Fulani in the ancient city of Ile-Ife and in which far many more people were killed than anyone cares to publicly admit. I was reluctant because Ile-Ife happens to be the home of my ancestors and indeed my hometown and for four generations my family have had a stake there and have been making meaningful contributions to the affairs and development of the community.


Consequently I have an emotional attachment to the town and when I hear that a son or daughter of Ife is in trouble or is in any way hurt or harmed it hurts me to the marrow. This is because the Ifes are more to me than just my kinsmen. I consider them to be part of my family and deep down I love each and everyone of them whether they be friend or foe. Yet despite all this, on this occassion, I am constrained to set emotion aside, look at the cold facts and write about this ugly and tragic episode.


I compelled to do so out of a sense of loyalty, honor and morality. This is especially so given the fact that the victims in this conflict appear to have no voice and no-one appears to be ready to speak for them. I am ready to be that voice. I owe my people, history and posterity that much and I have no apology for doing so.


The crisis in Ile-Ife started when a group of Hausa Fulani men molested and physically abused a young Yoruba woman by the name of Kubura and almost killed her in the process. She went home covered in blood and when her husband, Akeem (a leading member of the NURWT in Ile-Ife) found out what she had been subjected to he went back to the Hausa-Fulani quarters (commonly known as Sabo) with her in tow to find out why she had been subjected to such barbaric treatment and who the perpetrators were. On getting there instead of being received with sympathy and remorse the husband himself was viciously stabbed and almost lost his life. After that the Hausa Fulanis in Sabo went on the rampage killing many sons and daughters of Ile-Ife their host community and in the process they proceeded to behead a young Yoruba man and they paraded his head on a pole through the streets.


This infuriated the people of Ile-Ife and they retaliated by attacking the perpetrators. After that all hell broke loose and many Hausa Fulanis were killed. I have been reliably informed that at the end of the day, a large number of Hausa Fulanis were killed and buried in mass graves whilst an equally high percentage of the houses in Sabo were burnt down. The Ifes lost also lost heavily in the conflict. This is a tragedy of monumental proportions for each and every one of us. The casualty rate on both side is unacceptable and I wholeheartedly condemn the taking of human life for ANY reason unless it is in self-defence.


As sad and tragic as this event may be we must point the fingers at the right places and place the blame for the conflagration where it belongs. Many have failed in this respect. For example instead of blaming the aggressors for the crisis and the carnage and warning them to stop killing our people and raping and beating our women, Governor Rauf Aregbesola has been shamelessly begging the Hausa Fulani and saying such an attack will never take place again. It is right and proper for him, and indeed all responsible leaders, to call for restraint, to sue for peace and to encourage people not to break the law or take the law into their own hands in the name of retaliation and I must commend the efforts of our most reverred traditional ruler, his Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11 in this respect. However it is equally important for Aregbesola to condemn the aggressors, the wife-beaters, the rapists and the murderers and to tell them in simple and clear language that Ile-Ife, the source and cradle of the Yoruba race , or indeed anywhere else in Osun state or the south west is NOT the sort of place that they can commit such atrocities and get away with it. We are not Southern Kaduna or Agatu in Benue state. We find it difficult to sit by idly and watch our people being slaughtered in cold blood.


And neither do we bow down before our oppressors. There is something deep in the Yoruba spirit and soul and particularly that of the Ifes that resists and rebels against injustice, brutality, barbarity and subjugation and the history of the Yoruba proves that. We are slow to anger but irresistible in battle and the fact is that for one hundred years before the British colonial masters arrived on our shores we were fighting brutal civil wars against one another. We know the tragedy, the pain, the terror, the evil and the horrendous sacrifice that comes with war and conflict and though we avoid it as best as we can, we never shy away from it once it is forced upon us.


Worse still the youth of Ile Ife, many of whom are veterans of numerous Ife-Modakeke wars, are hardened and battle-ready any day and any time. This is indeed a potentially volatile and dangerous mix. In this respect relevant and insightful are the words of Oloye Gani Adams, the leader of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), when he said, just yesterday, that “the Yoruba cannot be conquered!”. And if anyone has any doubts about that they should consider the sheer courage and unconquerable spirit of a loyal anf faithful son of the Yoruba like Ayo Fayose, the Governor of Ekiti state. This is where Aregbesola missed it. This is what he appears to have forgotten and this is what slipped his mind. This is the point that he failed to appreciate and instead of doing so he chose to tread the disgraceful path of servility and appeasement whilst sacrificing the lives and interests of his own people. Though I am a firm believer in the right of self-defence, I do not seek to incite anyone to violence and neither do I advocate, condone or encourage it in any shape or form. I am simply stating the facts and pointing out that it is important to call an aggressor an aggressor and call a spade a spade.


My old friend Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso who is the former Governor of Kano state then entered the ring and made matters worse. He went to Ile-Ife, met with the Hausa Fulani community and had the nerve and effontry to tell Aregbesola that our people must pay compensation for the killing of his people: sounds familiar? I remember General Muhammadu Buhari’s words to Governor Lam Adesina in 2001 when, after a conflict between the Hausa Fulani and the Yoruba in Oyo, he asked “why are your people killing my people?” Kwakwanso came to Ile-Ife 16 years later, demanded an answer to the same question and asked for compensation! What a gratuitous insult this is delivered at a time when everyone is suing for peace and calling for calm.


If the truth be told who should pay compensation to who? Who is accommodating who? Who did the attacking?[b] Who killed first? Who drew first blood? Whose land and soil is it and who are the guests and visitors? You come into a man’s house and enter his land and you start killing members of his family and people and then you ask him to pay you compensation? Does this make sense? How many people did the Fulani compensate after they slaughtered the indigenees of Southern Kaduna, Benue, Enugu, Abia, Delta,Taraba, Lagos, Plateau, Kwara, Kogi, Adamawa, Nassarawa, Niger, Edo, Ebonyi, Ondo, Ekiti and numerous other states in the country in their own land? How many did they compensate after the sectarian and barbaric killings of Christians and southern Muslims all over the north over the last 56 years? How many did they compensate after the pogroms, mass murder and genocide perpetuated against the Igbo all over the north just before the civil war in 1966? Who should apologise and who should compensate who? Honestly I cannot stomach all this. It would have been better for Kwakwanso to start with an apology for the beating, raping, carnage and barbarity that his Hausa Fulani brothers indulged in and unleashed on their generous and accomodating hosts before the fighting started[/b].


Do some people have a greater right to life than others in Nigeria? Is the blood of some more precious than the blood of others? Do the lives of the Ife people mean nothing to these people? Does anyone not feel a deep sense of outrage about what the Hausa Fulani did and how this whole thing started? Are we supposed to brush it under the carpet out of fear and our accursed desire for peace at ANY price? How do we expect the woman that was beaten and whose husband was almost stabbed to death for attempting to defend her honor to feel? How do we expect the family of the young man that was beheaded and the families of the other Yorubas that were killed to take all this? Are we not dancing on the graves of those that were slaughtered for no just cause? What does that say about us as leaders and as a people? Are we not meant to defend the weak and stand up for the oppressed and the defenceless?


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/hausa-fulani-yoruba-slaughter-ile-ife-1-fani-kayode/

lalasticlala

Some peeps from certain part of Nigeria are very comical. They usually think that the act of bearing a falsehood is pure romantic. As for the bolded, such radical pronouncement belongs to Oyo- ile, 30 mile north of Ilorin. Fani Femi-Kayode, the stanzas of 1966 are not too long ago to forget. This statement "And neither do we bow down before our oppressors" is not even close to reality. If "we" in the statement referred to Yoruba, I would like to remind you that the son of the soil in the military governor of western region of Nigeria was killed in Ibadan, the capital city of Oduduwa, in a cold-blooded manner yet Yoruba not only bowed to the aggressors and oppressors but supplied beautiful ladies and joined hands with them in a war that ensued afterward.

seunmsg:
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Did God create Nigeria and declared it indivisible? One of the choices the Gowon overlooked was to let Biafra stand.


the union was intended to be perpetual and indivisible and that any attempt to divide the union by secession was treasonable
- Nnamdi Azikiwe


If Gowon had not followed the urging of British due to crude oil, Arawa, Oduduwa and Biafra or even additional countries would have been one good happy family joined together in business and commerce and devoid of hatred found everywhere in the cesspit called Nigeria. Nigeria cannot and will not grow out of the remnants of the civil war. The only thing that will save Nigeria is disintegration. If today's Nigeria is what you referred as territorial integrity in your post, I had rather not have one.

Your personal opinion. If America can work, i believe we can make Nigeria work as well.


By the way, were you referring to Gowon about starting the war in your previous post?

I thought i already answered this question in my second post. Anyway, below is the opinion of Nnamdi Azikiwe on what led to the war;

if any region or state should secede, then it will be an act of treason and that was what led to this war, because Col. Ojukwu seceded and so violated the constitution

In red is the major action word of the entire crap you posted.

ritababe:
oduduwa was a banished prince from bini

A hopelessly drunk and good for nothing.

Abagworo:
Are they? I used to enjoy the funny tales but they definitely aren't true.

Did you watch the narrative video that accompanied the post? Did the narrator, an European, ever mention Ijo in the video? One of the major setbacks among African is being apathetic to historical facts. Unlike the Europeans, Africans would rather want to be liked than be truthful with recorded events.

progress69:
Hahahahaha. Your line of thought is not only sick, but compoundly silly. All countries that attained self sufficiency in rice production did so with the help and policies of the government. Get your facts right and stop making senseless blabs on the internet with useless grammar.

Please elaborate on the "help and policies of the government" as it relates to the prices of the so-called Lagos rice and Anambra rice. Most Nigerians claim to be in the know when actually they know absolutely nothing or plain silly in their deductions.

progress69:
Hahahahahahaha. Someone sounds so pained and bitter. Tell ur ugwu governor to stop his deceit!

I do not think it is proper to continue flogging you on the skewed stream of thoughts you have displayed on this thread. It appears that everything from the backwater called Nigeria must come from the governor of state or deluded head of state. In a wised up society, products such as Anambra rice would have nothing to do with governor of a state or president of the country but entrepreneurs.

progress69:
Did u see the post I quoted where that clown was trying to claim Anambra rice is more quality than lake rice hence the higher price. He just sat with his fone to make dumb conclusion. Imagine the next out of place quote to me talking about economics. Mtcheeeew. Clowns Everywhere!

****Allow the market to determine the price. I said the difference in price could not be unconnected to the quality of the commodities. In most developed world, the weight of a product does not determine the price but quality and sometimes the brand of the product. The sellers of Anambra rice will not force you to buy the rice from Anambra regardless of the price. If the Anambra rice is tagged at 20 naira at 25KG, it would have been a dingbat such as you would declare it inferior and no good.

ovadozes:
Where is the scam?? Look at that picture very well 25kg is boldly written on it and not 50kg, the op is the scammer here, just looking for cheap attention to direct traffic to her blog

Bros everything is a scam in the memory of an insecure street urchin.

Beremx:
I am doing great. I thought you have left nairaland. Good to see you again. I miss our e-fighting on Rochas. Finally, i am on your side.

Err, can you receive PMs?

It nice to hear from you again. And equally good you are visionary. Okoroawusa has never mounted to anything. Sure, I can receive PMs.

Beremx:
Dede long time. How are you doing?

How are you too?

progress69:
Lol. U people are are clowns. What useless quality are u talking about? When u see an obvious scam, u can do anything to defend it. Is the soil in Anambra more fertile than the one in Kebbi, or what exactly is your point? How do u know which one is more quality or whatever. Have u tasted both rice? Tmr u people will be over the Internet spreading lies of how rice jumped from 4k to 30k. Lagos is trying to sell made in Nigeria rice and an affordable rate, u are here singing another song of imagination where Anambra rice is more quality hence higher price. Smh.

It is unfortunate that clown such as you is oblivious to elementary economics. I am sure you are not blind and capable of making a decision. In addition, a ninny such as you have no gun on your head when buying a bag of rice. Everything is a scam to dingbats who cannot debunk simple economic fact that quality products are usually very small in size and pricey when compared with large quantity but inferior products. If you are one of the cream of the crops out of Nigeria, there is no need arguing about the dilapidated form of the country.

metroparrot:
Under-fire Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung has promised Nigerians that the incoming 2017 will be a great year for Nigerian sports while admitting he has learnt from his mistakes.

sports ministry will learn from its mistakes to make 2017 a trophy-laden year for Nigeria.

Speaking at the town hall meeting with the youths at the state house banquet hall Abuja, Dalung promised that the sports ministry will learn from its mistakes in 2016.

Dalung was answering a question from a member of the audience who asked the minister to comment on poor year for sports in Nigeria.

Nigeria performed badly at the Rio Olympics and had only a bronze medal to show from the men’s football tournament.

The athletes were not properly catered for with funds going missing.

The Super Eagles and Super Falcons at various times protested unpaid allowances.

The Eagles failed to qualify for AFCON 2017 while the Falcons managed to win a record 8th African Women Nations Cup.

Despite the overall poor year, Dalung has promised to learn from his mistakes to make 2017 a pleasurable one for Nigeria.

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/12/i-have-learnt-from-my-mistakes-2017.html

cc: lalasticlala mynd44

Probably, you alone will represent Nigeria in your delusional competitions in 2017. What a fool.

viviangist:
The Quantity is Clear , ....

Anambra Rice 50KG = 16,500 Naira

Lagos State Rice 50KG = 12,000 Naira

Source , http://www.viviangist.com/difference-between-anambra-lagos-state-rice-check-it

Cc; lalasticlala

The prices of commodities are not always determined by their weights but the quality of the products. Even when the Anambra Rice is 25KG and a price of 16,500 Naira as against Lagos Rice which is 50KG and priced at 12,000 Naira, the quality of the products will determine which of them will sell.

For two shotguns for hunting birds and the idiotic Nigerian Customs are making hay out of weeds. Yet the Fulani herdsmen are walking and killing farmers with Ak47 and G3 assault rifles. What a delusional country.

Nigerians are pitiable loudmouthed goons who could not maintain a mere road yet yean for nuclear power plant.

ianSweet:
This is thrash. Kano has always been one of the hausa city states even before Islam came through trade about 600 years ago. The Arabs never settled on our soil or built anything there, if not you would have seen their descendants here like you have in coastal Kenya.
Every single building u see in ancient Kano was built by the black people. Ignorance is bad .

Talk of ignorance, no human being is black or white. Color is not human.

Nigeria is a regrettable joke.

doctokwus:
Where did it say he got d WASSCE certificate in 1953?
Or u mistaking FSLC(primary school) with secondary school certificate that he obtained in 1961.
Some of u pple come online and just make a complete fool of yourselves and become disgraces to family and friends.
U cant distinguish btw FSLC and WASC and u are here questioning the presidents educational qualifications.

Are you insinuating Buhari spent 8 years in secondary school instead of 5 years? He must be repeating classes. He joined the Nigerian army in 1961.

PMPhoenix:
It's called a Mossberg shotgun not 'moaperg', TF is moaperg?, it's pellets and not pallets and it's packs and not parks. Smh

Bros you forgot you were dealing with Nigerians.

Only fools with inconsequential lineages think that agitation for nation state is a taboo.

This is one of the perils of academic quota system which validates the nepotistic endeavors of northern region of Nigeria.

ODVanguard:
OP funny, it's called Palms Mall, Ota, not Palm store.



https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/4630704_palmsota_jpeg3db11da6f417a8211e9cc3f07b1260d7

How could the dumbass donkey discern the difference between mall and store when he or she is infatuated with word, "biggest"?

UzuegbuProsper:
It is no longer news that the duo of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Ghana's President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo were in Imo State earlier today to join Imo's governor and the generality of Imo citizenry to celebrate Imo's Day of Thanksgiving, what may be important news is the reason behind their coming.

Hate him as much as you would love to, but you cannot deny the fact that former President Olusegun Obasanjo remains one of Nigeria's most favored political leaders and the Number One political godfather as long as Nigeria is concerned, so his coming couldn't have been for any other reason but for the fact that he wants to identify with one of the most performing governors in today's Nigeria.

Obasanjo has grown beyond sycophancy and if he wasn't impressed with the landmark achievements of the Okorocha led administration in Imo State, he would have distanced himself from an event of that nature. Obasanjo, like most lovers of Nigeria are proud of Governor Okorocha and will seize any opportunity to identify with him.

Nana Akufo Addo, apart from being Ghana's President-elect is a longstanding and well respected political player not just in Ghana, but across Africa.

He is arguably Africa's most popular politician at the moment, having recorded the rare feat of defeating an incumbent in the presidential election. He is also the son of a former President of Ghana, Edward Akufo Addo. The President-elect has a long history of friendship with the Imo governor and is aligned to Governor Okorocha's humanitarian political philosophies.

He is in Imo to celebrate with the governor and the entire Imo people for the good things God has done for the people of Imo State in the last one year and also learn one or two lessons on leadership from his friend, governor Okorocha, especially in the area of the free education program.

Any responsible leader would also not have failed to be part of this landmark event organized specifically to give thanks to the Almighty God to whose glory all of us are alive to see the end of this 2016, especially as the event also provided a grand opportunity to extend help to the less privileged among us, as whatever thing realized during the event will be shared to the less privileged across the 305 wards in the State through their SDC Coordinators.

GOD HAS BLESSED IMO STATE!

Written by;
Comr. Onwuasoanya Fcc Jones.

This is another display of infantile stupidity by Okoroawusa.

Adminisher:
No Ibo man for EFCC. Nothing against the tribe but you just don't give them this kind of job.

You have shown that foolery is inherent. Keep it up!!!

project8:
Honestly this pple are programmed to hate anythn Unifyin,anything good,be it politics,religion.

if okorocha is not hausa today, its uzor kalu being enemy of igbos for calling them to forget biafra
or a victor umeh title bein against christendom and i ask how is a traditional title and islamic affair or dressing?
this hate is too much and i dnt see it taking u to any greater height

The people are wired for national home land they are willing to call paradise. There is nothing wrong about such political motivation. Nigerian who may be recognized with a chieftaincy title by the Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana does not mean Nigeria should fail to exist as a country. No title can subdue the quest for national home land.

There are too many uneducated fellows on this forum. The displeasures exhibited from certain quarters of the forum’s society uncover the fact many trolls did not know that socio-political link between the people of Zamfara and Ndigbo goes far back as 1945.

It is the evidence few minority ethnic groups in southern Nigeria sold their birth right.