₦airaland Forum

You see that your political party APC, is drastically reducing life span in Nigeria, reducing Nigeria's economy to tatters; yet you flaunt the political party around.
What is wrong with blackman in Nigeria?

State police under regional or zonal government system will eliminate banditry and Boko haram.
Because of crude oyel and gas deposits in the Niger delta region, later-day far north politicians don't want regional or zonal government system. Abuja collect revenues from oil and share to the states is preference for the northern politicians.

RIP to the dead.

walefresh3:
obi can never be president of Nigeria ...Stop dreaming...
2027 is not far....
President Tinubu 8 years is Sacrosanct....

When it is the turn of the Northern region to be president ...Tell thiefobi of Agulu to Come and retest is popularity....

Mumu...Nzogbu Nzogbu kid

You would rather prefer to have you and all members of your family buried from hunger and lack of medical care than have person from some area of Nigeria to preside over Nigeria. You will go that area and its neighbours for oil and gas that sustain Nigeria. Parasite who thinks all countries in the world were created to remain one forever.
Do you believe yourself? A terrorist would believe he will inherit 70 virgin girls in paradise after killing an infidel.

October 6, 2024

NIGERIA: Independence without sovereignty is a ruse, by Obi Nwakanma


I am Onye-Igbo. I Iunderstand the principles of sovereignty very clearly. I understand that all humans are born free and equal – irrespective of status, race, or ethnicity. For as long as they are human, they embody the highest attributes of creation, which is life, none of which can be measured greater than the other.


As my Igbo ancestors always knew, and as those among the Igbo captured during the Atlantic Slave trade said to their captors, including Jefferson in Virginia: “Madu nile wu Eze. Onweghi Onye wu Chi Ibe ya!” All men are born free and equal. There is none who is lord above the other. That is why the Igbo do not make kings. The true Igbo do not kneel or bow to any man. It is “Nso” against one’s “Chi.” They do not even bow down, or kneel before their God, Chukwu, with whom they enjoy a relationship of grace and adoration, and not of fear and

humiliation. Amanorwoman whose “Chi”is dead or indifferent, is subdued, and held to the ground by a force greater than their Chi. Those who, by acts of omission or commission, concede their sovereign rights to be free and prosperous are slaves. No human should be slave. It is the equivalent of a spiritual death. A true Igbo chooses death over the deadly mastery of another person. To live without freedom in the Igbo mind is the equivalence of death. That is why the Igbo never made slaves of others. Yes, they had a system of indenture, the “Ohu” system, which was the closest one came to losing full autonomy.


But in the Igbo system, one can be an indentured servant, but such a person is also given the opportunity to repossess their autonomous and free rights by a highly honorable form of the sweat equity. An “Ohu,” because he has been treated with such honor and dignity, may sometimes, choose to become a member of the family of he or she who has held him in a bond, even when his or her bond is served. At such an occasion a priest of the family, the Di Opara is called to perform the rite of adoption and acceptance, and such a one is conferred with all the rights pertaining to a man born into freedom in the land – the “Di Ala.”


In much of Igbo culture, women are rarely subjected to bond-servitude, largely because women are considered sacred in Igbo culture. They are makers and nurturers of life, and those who nurture life cannot be enslaved. It is considered “Nso- Ala”: a crime against the goddess of the earth, who is a fiery feminine divinity. That is the way the ancient Igbo thought of it. Women are the foundations of the earth:“Nwanyiwu Okpu” – the Igbo say. In recoil from the abomination of holding even a pregnant animal in bonds, the Igbo have a saying, “Okenye anaghi ano n’ulo, Ewu amuo n’obu.” No responsible old person stands around to watch a goat in parturition give birth while still held in tethers. It is an abomination. This is because to the Igbo, the highest, most sacred gift of creation is life, and all life must come into this world free. The Igbo do not make kings because the idea of a single, sovereign link to the great divine is anathema to Igbo self- apprehension. The Igbo guard their sovereignty very jealously, and the first site of the sovereign entity is the individuated “Self,” –“Onwem,”and in the collective self–the sovereign union-“Onwe anyi.” The idea that the single self is the first link in the chain of being is the grounds on which the Igbo collective national spirit is built.
But although the Igbo value nd jealously hold to an individualism that could sometimes be frustrating when it comes to building a consensus, they also have the idea that no matter how an individual might rise, they cannot rise above the community. The “Oha” – the gathering of the Igbo commons – is usually the embodiment of the sovereign will of the Igbo. The Igbo as a republican people have also been described as a “freedom-loving people.” Freedom is the gift of the sovereign will. It is the mark of independence.


I am sure that many other cultures, of other peoples, in this behemoth called Nigeria, needless to say, understand the power of sovereignty, the impulse for liberty, and the meaning of freedom. But I lay it all out here, using the Igbo just as example, to indicate that Nigerians know, and have lived, and do value their freedom. They understand it. They did not first hear of independence, freedom, and sovereignty, from some alien force. They have fought for freedom. They have died for it. But what Nigerians these days genuinely ask, given the current situation of the country is, when did this nation lose it? Is Nigeria actually still a sovereign and independent nation? Did the end of colonialism really offer us sovereign power and actual independence? Did there turn to “democracy ” guarantee freedom and prosperity to Nigerians? What is missing?

Every year, since the last 64 years, Nigerians go all out to celebrate their Independence Day. What I remember growing up in Nigeria in the 1970s and ‘80s is that Independence Day Celebration was a major national shebang. In every city, and township, and community in Nigeria, the reparations for it was both festive and solemn.The mood often began to build up from the second week of September, when all the schools brought out their marching bands, and practiced march pasts in their school fields, until they were in perfect lock step. On Independence day, Nigerian children, educated and socialized in well- organized public schools, would go to Government Fields, in their spanking new school uniforms, and march past the Chair of the County government or the Governor, with an array of dignified men and women present. There would be entertainment. The sack race. The teachers race.

The Intercollegiate Athletics event. The culminating soccer march, and the “Hip-Hip to the Republic!” and the “Hurray!” resounding from these happy school kids, who would have saved up their pocket money just for that day, in order to buy the goodies: ice cream, peanuts, bananas, kuli-kuli; akara, the soft drinks, and so forth. The fanfare; the spectacle; the huge sense of shared world, with all its aspirations towards a just, prosperous, joyful community is the real basis of nation-building. It was such great pleasure to be among the children returning home from the march pasts, chirping along; school flags folded, living happily, with such great hopes, and such carefree joy. Some years, you might even be drenched in the October rain. But that was alright. The life of the children mirrored the life of that society. Nigeria had such hope; such possibility. But dear reader, compare that with the Nigerian independence anniversary this year, or in the past ten years of the Buhari- Tinubu apocalypse.

It has been dreadful, with each passing year, as Nigeria slips into terrifying decline. This year ’s Independence day anniversary, just this past Tuesday was spectacularly listless. Nigeria is spectacularly listless. There is clearly nothing to celebrate. The mood is rather subdued, tragic, confused and agonized. Streets are in turmoil.

Nigerians are in this state of befuddlement, and in this moment of national despair, many are already questioning the meaning of this nation, and of a national day of Independence. What is freedom to a slave? Nigerians have been turned into slaves in their own country. They dare not talk. They dare not protest. They cannot travel from one city to another without risking kidnap, or extortion. They have no jobs. Their businesses are in decline. Public services do not exist.


Public government is more a ritual of empty, and meaningless grandeur, than a process of thoughtful, innovative problem solving. Is this the nation Dr. Azikiwe and his nationalist acolytes fought for, sometimes at pain of death? Young and forgotten men like Heelas Chukwuma Ugokwe, member of the Zikist movement, who plotted, and attempted to assassinate the colonial Chief Secretary, Hugh Foot, in 1950 as part of the agitation for Nigeria’s independence and sovereign freedom. He was tried and sentenced to life in prison, confined at the Yaba Mental Asylum, where he died a lonely and quiet death; his sacrifice obscured by an ungrateful nation.


What is independence and sovereignty if we are still slaves to alien “masters” who pull is on the string, and if we cannot act with fierce authority to determine the path of our own salvation. As Nigeria was marking a 64th national indepedence celebration when its president, Mr. Bola Tinubu flew out for a two-week “vacation” in the UK. Like Buhari, Tinubu governs Nigeria from the air, or from abroad. He is either going for medical checks, or vacations, or inconsequential jamborees abroad that brings no credible return to Nigeria.

Therefore, imagine it, dear Nigerians, that just a day after Nigeria’s independence anniversary; just as Nigerians were massing on the streets to protest the high cost of food; the usurious charges on fuel and electricity; the severe levels ofunemployment; the rapid collapse and flight of businesses and capital from Nigeria, the ravaging, apocalyptic hunger in the land, Bola Ahmed Tinubu jumps on the presidential jet, to go and enjoy a “ working vacation,” in the UK.

Dear Nigerians, what does this say about Nigeria? Here is what it says: this nation is finished. Even those who govern it know this, and are now brazenly supervising its end of history. Nigeria is the only country in the world whose president proudly vacations abroad; whose doctors are abroad; whose life, fortune, and well- being are in the hands of foreigners, some of whom sometimes could be enemies, and competitors with Nigeria in this strange global system, in which nations seek advantage over other nations, as they compete for limited world resources. Now, imagine it, and think about what it means: it simply means that President Bola Tinubu is a national security risk. He is not accountable to Nigerians because his life is not in the hands of Nigerians. Nigeria can go to hell as far as he is concerned.

The hospitals can burn to ashes, because it would not affect him. Who cares if there is electricity, or even public safety? I mean, he vacations abroad. When he visits Nigeria, he lives ensconced in this weird and alien territory called Aso Rocks. There is nothing that Nigeria offers him, and therefore he can compromise Nigeria’s sovereign interest at will, as he clearly did, when he floated the Naira, unleashing on Nigerians, an economic catastrophe which might take them half a century to overcome and remedy. That is, if the countries from whom Nigeria has borrowed heavily do not fall upon it, strip and seize its national assets, or compel the UN to lease it as a Trust nation, until it fully pays its debts.


I say, think Haiti. But Nigerians have no idea what confronts them. It is such a terrible feeling these days to be Nigerian. When one thinks of all the possibilities; of all the promise of yesterday, when Nigeria’s voice once boomed and mattered in international affairs, when Nigerians at home walked with such a great spring on their heels, there is the creeping fear that we have lived past our best years. That we have lost our sovereignty. That every celebration of National independence is an empty ritual because independence without sovereignty is bogus.


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bhella10:
He would be lucky to vice Obi sef. Two losers merging

Obi won Nigeria's presidential election in 2023 after Tinubu, Atiku and Kwankwaso shared the votes of myopic and ethno-religious bigots that mainly formed the camps of the trio.

That's N44 million bail money.

Vision101:
This industry is not buying and selling. It's not for babies. Fuel price is gradually going down. I have bought for 1,400, 1300, 1250, 1200, 1150 and 920 yesterday.

But you write like a street urchin. State of well-being for Nigerians was drastically reduced, people dropping dead from hunger and unaffordable treatment of illnesses, and population of Nigeria reducing, through an ill-informed reform program of Tinubu government. Here you tell people to research to find out a trade deal between government and a refining company, you don't understand that the deal was supposed to be made public by government. You don't know that it's the people that own the government.

Politics, businesses and politicians in Nigeria tied to crude oyel.
If any thing happens suddenly any time soon and crude oil proceeds stop coming to Abuja, what will Nigeria's politicians do?

PrinceOfLagos:
why are you afraid of Peter Obi?

Every Tinubu asss licker is afraid of Peter Obi regarding 2027.
Immediately after Tinubu was sworn in as president of Nigeria, they started to malign and target Obi for political demolition ahead of 2027.

Wisdomkosi:
Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/i-have-no-issue-being-peter-obis-running-mate-kwankwaso-reveals-new-details-on-negotiations-video/

Man who won only some local government areas in his state now claims that he is bigger than man who won 11 states and Abuja.
Naija be cruz really.

Softmirror:
ANARCHY LOADING. Where are the police!!!

Police and judiciary are APC instruments.

Wisdomkosi:
Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-heavy-gunfire-at-wikes-ward-as-rivers-lg-election-turns-violent/

Does this Wike have reasonable advisers?

Antoeni:
What an interesting time it is to be a Nigerian.
I guess, as they would say, the aggrieved parties can "go to court!".
What a country! What a democracy!

Let's wait if Wike will go to court and use his APC-appointed judges of the Supreme Court to upturn the election results. Is there any set back that APC is not ready to impose upon Nigerians, in APC's strive for a one party state for Nigeria? One party state is the choice of Arab countries.

press9jatv:
Fubara Vs Wike: Structure demolition ongoing 😆😆😆

It's only a bush man who after 8 years of governing a state, would still want to control politics of the state. A bush man does not know that vanity is the last word for the existence of man on earth.
It takes those in power in Rivers state to deconstruct the head of Wike.

Jonjam269:
He's your fellow IPOB and Obirodent miscreant oo!

U need special delivery session to understand what is good for you and your people.

Warrior99:
This one don "IPOB" him papa.

You are still sleeping.
IPOB people are awake and don't want to share one country with parasites of your sort.

Bovis:
The following quote is meant for you
“ The average Nigerian youth talks from his ass, talks birthed from thoughts rooted in emotions, hunger, envy, hatred. No common sense, no rational or logical reasoning and no education....”

You are an average Nigerian- you are typically one, judging from your comments above.

Estello:
https://newsdirect.ng/aisha-yesufu-calls-omokri-a-liar-he-responds/

Omokri wrote for Yesufu:

If you ever need clarifications on anything I have published, please do reach out to me and I will gladly make clarifications.


Ha ha ha. Omokri is truly looking for fans on his social media handle. He is nowhere for real.

Nanalucky:
Hmmm.the police should go for him.....that is the law....he can't hide under the cover of church.....

Time does not stop investigation into a crime.

Are there any crimes he is believed to have committed before he repented? If there are any, he ought to be arrested and charged to court for the crimes.

officialwdhtvv:
I was a notorious armed robber at the age of 14 - Odumeje confesses his past lifestyle to his congregation before God called him

Take a listen!!!

#wetindeyhappentv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owq0BOhHXdQ

Does this take away from the clown he has always remained?

DIVIDED FOR EASY EXPLOITATION.
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Rivers state typifies the phenomenon of wherever there is abundant natural resources, there is always disunity injected into the place by external people to exploit the resources in the place.
This is how Chukwuemeka or Nwike from Rivers or Delta states would say: 'I no be Ibo, I am from Rivers or Delta state." Abuja does not want to leave Rivers state in peace for political and economic reasons.

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2024/10/04/you-can-drive-night-travel-any-part-nigeria-now-and-feel-safe-says-tinubu-amid

I swear; it's like the only ticket to APC membership is capacity to tell lies.
This man was doing well as EFCC chairman before APC was formed.

ONE PARTY SYSTEM IS A DELIGHT FOR ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WORLDWIDE.

Nigerians can no longer express their political choices through the ballot box; no thanks to APC's drive for one party system for Nigeria.
Shame to APC leaders and its supporters; shame at INEC boss.
Behind the Rivers rucus is APC's drive for a one party democracy in Nigeria.
INEC boss shall have his name written in the blackest book by future generations in today's Nigeria.

Gerrard59:
This means in the near future, Nigeria will become a full fledged Islamic Republic. Abi no be so?

Nigeria will rather splinter than become an Islamic Republic.

Men are not scarce in the UK.
They are more than plenty.
But because the culture of
men taking care of the financial needs of women does not exist in the UK, (men and women work equally), Nigerian women in the UK would rather go dilldo than do show with their fellow black men. They would dress in ragtag fashion. Hairs unkempt.

HurricaneLanter:
Ukraine will learn the hard way.

The Dramatist turned president has subjected his country to become ruined by Russia. He wanted NATO and EU membership for Ukraine.
By the time the war ends, Ukrain must have been reduced to rubble, NATO and European Union will not touch membership demand of Ukraine- not even with a long spoon.

WriterNig:
https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2024/10/02/03d759952cc0f09c9ac15efcc2db388c.png
https://en.defence-ua.com/media/illustration/articles/51166fd54d72902e.jpg

Newly released footage shows 🇷🇺 Russian forces striking a Ukrainian town, using what pro-Kremlin sources have claimed is one of the most powerful non-nuclear weapons in the world.

On Tuesday morning, videos began circulating on Russian and Ukrainian media of a "vacuum bomb" being dropped on the town of Vovchansk in the country's northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.

Ukrainian news agency InsiderUA posted the video to its Telegram channel, citing Russian military bloggers who said that the bomb was the ODAB-9000, a three-ton glide bomb sometimes referred to as "the father of all bombs."

In the video, the bomb can be seen descending from the top right corner of the screen, exploding in the already derelict city and damaging the surrounding buildings.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJLbpJjUIY

Ahh. So they are still fighting that proxy war against communism?

American and Western European war to obliterate communism in Europe.
War to end Vladimir Putin's dream of regrouping some former Soviet Union nations into another giant country.
The war has been overshadowed by the Middle East war.

Freshtruth:
Giving birth to female children is a punishment

Na lie.
By the way, who's this Ruger? Even his music is not a hit, never heard of him or his music.

War is no good for any one.
Politicians invite or perpetuate war due to politricking. Innocent youths go out to die for that.

RIP dead soldiers.