YoungExec:
Not Cardinal Arinze. Please let the old man enjoy his retirement at the Vatican.
This looks like the Archbishop of Owerri.

Leave the old man alone.

Cardinal Arinze is not retired,he's the Cardinal-Bishop of the Suburbican See of Velletri-Segni in Rome

Adminisher:


It is good to have brains, even better to use it. They are not putting grazing reserves in states that don't want it. We still need to eat meat in this country. About 5 % of Nigeria's GDP is tied up in nomadic livestock that we need to monitor not just for economic reasons but also security. Nigeria is not going to line up Fulani s and shoot them all

So,it is now the duty of govt to use scarce resource,our commonwealth to fund what's strictly private enterprise?
Calling nama brother cos you want to eat meat,smh

arcnomec:


Akalaka was the first oba,having founded the present day ogba kingdom. Just for the record,NNAM OBI was never the second OBA in ogbaland.

Are you from the ogba extraction?

Akalaka was reckoned by oral history as the father of Ogba,not the founder nor "oba" of any Ogba kingdom.In any case,Ogba settled at it present site long after his death.Go back home and learn real Ogba history,not the recent concocted political 'history' you'd just vomited.Oba of Ogba,indeed

arcnomec:



Don't come online and say what you don't know.I'm a native of Omoku in ogbaland,there is no such thing as Eze of ogbaland but OBA OF OGBALAND.Cause history account for our bloodline with the Benin's.So saying that it was recently changed is a slap on our traditional heritage.It has always and will forever be Oba of ogbaland.

Let me ask you,who was the first "Oba" of Ogba and who was the last before NNAM OBI?.
Also,tell the house who Eze Egi of Ogba (Eze Ogba Ukwu) is?

funkyibodude:
@op but you were once a bigot

He still is and will always be.He's only enjoying the fact those poised to dish him his comeuppance aren't around anymore

PassingShot:
APC promised Nigeria "Change" and we are getting it already.

You're getting it in old coins,shey?

HungerBAD:
This might be a good time to move in.

A good time to move in for the kill, by removing Saraki. Since most of his supporters from PDP have been shown out, and he does not have the Votes anymore.

APC Senators, have you forgotten Saraki's betrayal so soon?please do the needful now that he is weak.

Dumbo.
To impeach,you need 73 Senators.APC currently has only 58,some of who are Saraki's supporters.
Wake up,it's morning already

The two APC seats are lost till 2019.The Court of Appeal barred the candidates and the party from. participating in the re-run since they did not conduct/emerge from primaries.
One may as well add those two seats to PDP column

agabusta:


Sorry, na APC

The court also ordered that the man should not be allowed to participate in future rerun. I hope APC replaces him with another better candidate. APC will sure win the rerun, as the new Gov Elect, Yahaya Bello is from that area. And they are still basking in the euphoria of one of their own being the governor of the state.

I just hope they conduct the rerun before Faleke collects his mandate back from that Bello guy As the people go really vex for APC.

If the court barred the candidate from contesting,that also mean APC has been barred,just like the case of the two Kogi Senate seats they lost.
Sorry to burst your bubble,time for nominations are over.

joseph1832:
I see.

Daughters of Allya

joseph1832:
You can google it. I'm sure you'll find it. I know of the witches of Dathomir. They are very strong in the use of the dark side of the Force. Mace Windu even fought one of the witches in The Clone Wars.

The Witches were descended from a rogue Jedi exiled on Dathomir.I forget her name

OAFMods:


You have no idea what you just quoted, go back in history and dig out how many wars the British and Scotland fought till date. You can then adjust your quote n don't forget to thank me later.

The English and Scots fought wars,but all that were before the union of crowns under James VI of Scotland(known to you as King James I of England).Since then,all other wars fought in Britain were civil wars between various political interest groups,not between England and Scotland.You are the one who needs to get informed.

Jimdonnet:


Ukpor

You see your life in HD?.Ukpor is not Nnewi North,Nnewi North is composed solely of Nnewi town.
Try again

dewstar:


I'm sure this fool I just quoted does not live in Nigeria. There are many like you here, we know you.

The fool you quoted is a pay-per-post party man who make ends meet by how many posts he makes on social media in support of his party and its agenda and getting paid for them.
Pay him no heed.
A sha jeun.

Jimdonnet:
Please take biafra away.am full blooded ibo guy from nnewi north.ibos don't want another war

What town in "nnewi north" are you from?

azzima:
Ohhhh so their world igbo day that normally takes place in September is being hurried so as to use it as a guise for IPOD to protestThese Serpents are on a suicide mission. All igbo businesses will be burned and looted by omoniles and agberos and anyone with an obvious Igbo will be dealt with without mercy. We all know Biafrans have been Miscalculating since the beginning of time.

Talk is cheap.
As if you'll be bold enough to come out from under your bed,should such protest happen.
Enu e gboro lori nairaland nikan ni.

Keneking:
We shall meet at SC

Sorry mate,all legislative houses election appeal ends at the Court of Appeal level.
Try again in four years time

kokoA:
The Canada in your village abi, because the Canada I know has Internet conection o.

Buhahahahaha!
Canada,indeed!

By Obi Nwakanma The new Minister of Defence, Mr. Muhammed Dan Ali, has made what might be the first official statement by this administration on the new agitation by Biafrans for a separate country. Nigeria, he noted on his initial statement on assuming office as Defence Minister, is buffeted by “many indices of destabilisation.” Biafra The new minister called, in what may in fact be a very conciliatory tone for a meeting between the federal government and “stakeholders” to “brainstorm and come up with roadmap in order to abort any processes that may destabilise the nation.” Until the new Minister’s statement, and following the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu of the so- called Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and what is now clearly an unlawful and needless detention, which has also been followed by widespread demonstrations in the Eastern parts of Nigeria, the Buhari administration had maintained what seemed to be a calculated, and stolid silence. It was the kind of initial silence which the Jonathan administration kept over Boko Haram, hoping that by ignoring it, Boko Haram would somehow go away, and disappear or fizzle out. It turned out to be a mistake. It is a mistake that the current president whose public policies seems to have increasingly alienated the Eastern part of Nigeria has refused to make a categorical statement about the Biafran agitation, or the factors that are currently stoking it . Only recently, the president made but a tepid and general statement about “Nigerian unity.” President said at the ceremonies of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day: “since independence Nigeria has witnessed a lot of internal strife, survived a civil war and has remained united. This feat achieved by the country is an eloquent testimony of the determination of our citizens to remain as one people.” It is the president hiding his head like the ostrich’s in the sand. The president is unrealistic because the Biafra agitation is clearly challenging his assumptions at different levels. These new Biafrans feel that they do not wish to live together as one people with Nigerians, and this is simply because as Ojukwu never failed to remind us, patriotism is not like cocaine; it is not addictive. It is the product of conditions of shared wellbeing, and the current Biafran agitation for self-determination once more challenges that question of the “shared wellbeing” of being Nigerian. Jonathan’s initial response to Boko Haram was to adopt the policy of appeasement of the North through appointments, and the bribery of its elite. It failed because the root causes of the movement were generally ignored. The term “stakeholders” often confines itself to the appeasement of elite interests when grassroots forces rise in response to certain historical contradictions in the polity. Yet if it were just that kind of appeasement that were needed, perhaps the escalation would have been contained earlier. However, the Biafrans also see that one of those arrested and questioned, and detained for sponsoring Boko Haram, Senator Ali Ndume, is now the Majority Leader of the Senate under the APC. Another, who had been jailed for his involvement with Boko Haram, was released from jail by President Buhari, and given a position in the Nigerian intelligence services. The Biafrans have seen that long meditative, conciliatory silence does not earn anyone power in Nigeria; that the use of blackmail by certain forces in the North very nearly crippled Jonathan, obscured his achievements, and earned the current president the ride to the presidency. President Buhari has not been shy either in the use of his power to define the geopolitics that has exacerbated the sense of alienation of the Eastern part of Nigeria. The president has almost inexorably opened a flank, as a result, in the battle for Nigeria to those who are discontented with Nigeria. Last week, in response to the new Biafran agitation, the General Officer Commanding the 81 Div in Enugu issued what is clearly a threat to use of military force against an unarmed civilian population which has so far staged its protests as non-violent street campaigns. Two things feel arbitrary in this sense: first, it is not the constitutional role of the Army to deploy and suppress the internal or domestic agitation of citizens. It is the function of the police. The constitutional role of the military is to defend Nigeria from external military aggression. Secondly, the president cannot deploy the military for an internal security operation until he has been expressly given authority to do so by the National Assembly under the emergency provision, otherwise, the unconstitutional use of the armed forces against an unarmed civilian population would constitute an impeachable offence. This might also be grounds for prosecution at the International Criminals court. The federal government should know that the supporters of this Biafran movement have the resources currently to campaign internationally and drag Nigeria to the International Criminals Court if undue violence is used to quell the legitimate, non-violent agitation for self-determination. A Nigerian president should not be on the disgraceful list of “wanted criminals” to be arrested for the violation of the rights to life of its citizens. Meanwhile, as I am writing, there are new Biafra Support Committees springing up quietly in private homes in various US cities, prepping to raise funds and other logistical support for this movement. It is complex. The threat and use of violence will only make this agitation even more complex. Street campaigns will definitely grow in intensity. The Nigerian security services are far too thinly deployed to contain what might become a growing movement in the East. Soon, the elected state governments will lose their legitimacy as the Biafran activists begin to fill the gaps in the provision of the local social services that have been long absent in the East at the municipal levels, and this will transfer legitimacy and loyalty to the movement. I think Dan Ali is therefore quite correct: it is futile to ignore or threaten the Biafrans. It is time to meet and brainstorm with the stakeholders, and these are to be clear, the young, disaffected organizers of this movement. These young people, many with quality education, but suffering the indignity and the humiliation of long and sustained unemployment and immobility, have actually nothing to lose. Those among them trained in the humanities and the social sciences would have encountered, or taken classes in the theories and practice of insurgency and counter- insurgency; those trained in the hard sciences and Engineering would have dangerous skills that can be very easily appropriated and deployed. And Nigeria has no index of where these skills are currently deployed. That should be the first rule of engagement. I personally think that it is fair to give this president a chance in the first year of his presidency to fulfil his promise, and not foreclose on him yet. I wish that the young Biafrans could channel their agitation in seeking change starting with their own elected leaders in the East who must account for the resources allotted to the East. I wish also that the Biafrans would rise above the agitation for a separate state of Biafra and work with their peers nationally, who are equally aggrieved and suffering from the consequences of over forty years of misrule, to create a common ground for a new nationalist movement, and fulfil the aborted Zikist mission of a great nation founded on individual liberty, equal citizenship, and the rights of all irrespective of ethnicity, gender, or creed, because at its very core, this is what the agitation by the new Biafra is all about: justice for an alienated people. A new state of Biafra, with its inherited contradictions may not guarantee that justice either. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/againbiafra/

herringbone:
Uhu and akabo stands for same thing,but Uhu seems more like the elders homestead while akabo is the younger. Both are clans name in my community

We're both saying same thing,homestead/settlement.
I also come from an Akabo village in an Uru community

OdenigboAroli:
Okadigbo...oka di Igbo mma....still pleases Igbo.
Okika di gboo....superiority is ancient...something like that.

I don't really know the real pronounciation of that name and only then can we give an accurate meaning.

Can be pronounced two ways,viz:
Oka di di gboo or Okika di gboo,both meaning same thing -Superiority or being superior has been of old.

ezeagu:
Uhu means homestead, like a base for a family, or hamlet.

You may be right,much like Akabo stands for settlement/citadel of

Radoillo:


Uhu-Umuba, Uhu-Orji, Ama-Uhu, Ndi-Uhu, etc.

These are place-names. And in such place-names the term is 'Uhu' for Imo/Abia, but 'Uru' for us up in northern Anambra.

The OP is talking about place-names. You, however, seem to be talking about a completely different word (profit/flesh), which is 'Uru' in Imo/Abia, but 'Ulu' in much of Anambra.

There's Uruala and one other Uru town in Imo state tho.

Question is,will they even read the letter,not to talk of acting positively on its content.

Dear Northern youths,
Do you know why some of us don't blink
anymore at the Boko haram activities and
never talk about it?
I cannot be crying more than the bereaved. I
cringe everytime the "bomb goes boom" then I
weep for the dead and move. The northern
youths are the most blank people I know. My
apologies to the few sensible ones first of all.
Your number is being reduced drastically,
under your watch boko haram and Fulani
herdsmen snatched the first and the fourth
most deadliest terror groups. Everybody
blames you. Everybody calls you name. Your
young's girls were carted away in the middle
of the night in a ridiculous drama, your
daughters and children are either being used
as bomb detonators or being decimated by
bombs.
Your region is blessed with so much.you have
the real gold in agriculture but your people
are suffering most from malnutrition, when
there is an outbreak of an epidemic it starts
with you. Your leaders have been in power for
over 36 years. The Nigerian state is 55 years
mind you yet you are the poorest region. You
have children who wake up in the morning and
hit the road to beg ,yet you are not ashamed.
You wanted power so much. It has been given
back to you. You have had it for six months
now guess who is suffering most You.
The rich among you are very rich and powerful
and hand you peanuts and you prostrate for
them. They dash you crumbs and you rejoice.
Ask those of your brothers who have left to
other regions to make a living why they never
come home unless it is to find a wife or do
something. They go there and discover equity
and fairness. The Igbos will never give you fish
but the will teach you how to fish, the Yourbas
will put you to shame with their hard work.The
entire south region abhor poverty and
injustices. Why won't you ask yourself " what
are we doing wrong??
You have never for one day risen in anger
against the bastardization of your land. Your
land is flowing with blood. Blood that will one
day speak against you. You have not asked
yourself, why am I not as fearless as my
brothers from other region? You see us attack
our own and they shake in fear, you never
speak against yours because you think it is
their sole right to be powerful, while you
remain impoverished. Have you ever asked
yourself if this folks can give me 1k there must
be 100k, why don't you want that 100k??
Your fellow youths were blown to smithereens
days ago because somebody was sharing
ordinary five hundred naira and youths with
potentials were killed. Are you not angry
When will you protest against injustices,
poverty, neglect and senseless deaths??
When I ask you But a gathering of small
brained folks under the umbrella of a
ridiculous name has protested against the
Biafra youths who are simply asking for
freedom of one of their own , perceived
injustice to their region and the freedom to
leave Nigeria . Not a bomb has been dropped,
not a single bullet has been fired. That
mammoth crowd has been protesting
peacefully for two weeks now. Yet you with the
Iroko tree in your eyes want to remove the lid
from their eyes and you wonder why they do
not want to be associated with you? Ask
yourself again what the oil has against water??
Wake up!!!! Do the right thing!!! Take the
shackles of your feet's!!!! Fight for your
future!! Stand up for yourselves!!! Then may be
we can talk about the one Nigeria project. For
now DONT RAIN ON THEIR PARADE!!!
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fineguy11:
u're a from the pirate enterprise called biafra...if south south/south east leaders have been serious abt establishing a functional seaport in their domain,,there wld have been one..,so stop your squables...its not everything u blame the north...

Idiot.
Ports are the exclusive preserve of the Federal government,on the exclusive legislative list.

HopeAtHand:



You dont need to tell me about the port area, im an Ikwerre guy, its something im well aware of...My main concern is to see if Amaechi as minister of Transport can make that port viable again.

Theres also another mini port that can be expanded.it is owned by Saipem in Rumuolumeni area of Obio/Akpor LGA.

Before anyone gets carried away, im not in support of Biafra.

Nobody said you should.They should just get the damned ports working,all of them.
This is downright wickedness,didn't even give the natives a say nor a share,no matter how small.

Truckpusher:
Get ready to be deported from Rivers State abeg.

We can't afford to lose the whole of Opobo to these expansionists from the East because of one man's family.

Nodcock.
How many times has it been drilled into you that the whole of Opobo is the personal estate and property of the Jaja family,as ruled by the Supreme Court of Nigeria?.
Opobo is whatever the Jaja family,as represented by the King,say it is.Get that into your head

naijapips02:


Agaghi akwado ihe n'emezighi ofuma. O buru na anyi ga enwe Biafra, anyi kwesiri take time, chemaa ya eche. Put things on ground and prepare for whatever outcome. Ireland didn't



Ireland was a previously independent country, with a central government, conquered by Britain. Is Biafra same?

You need a brain reset,I swear.
Having a home parliament does not an independent country make.Osun has a parliament,but is not a country.
Ireland,before Henry VIII's break with the Pope,was a nominal dominion of the Pope with whoever is the English monarch as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.After the break with the church,Henry assumed dominion and sovereignty over Ireland in himself and his crown.
Serve whatever political purpose you've been paid on here to serve,but don't you dare revise well-established history of another country.This is not Nigeria,where they don't teach history n anyone can wake up one afternoon to claim whatever.