₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
The colonial masters realised they were more of Northerners than Southerners and carved them into Northern Nigeria

I think most of us from the East don't do much work as it regards understanding the make up of the socalled North. I served with an Igede guy and we nearly fought one day I tried to tie him and Benue state to the core north and this happened at in the north. The middle belt is like the South South. Most ordinary folks there have their own views of things while the dominant political elite is a creation of the core north caliphate. The David Marks, Audu Ogbe and the Suswans.. the core north made them what they are today..

They elites parrot the One North mantra while the ordinary folks face the Fulani and his matchete in the rural areas. Idomas are not really northerners. But fighting with the fulanis during the war seem to have cemented their status as northerners in the minds of easterners. The Sarduana carried out a genocide against The Tivs in the 50s for their "insubordination". Essentially they are northerners today because its the core north that plays the piper politically at the moment.

huptin:
He campaigned for it? Does the president have the power to stop states from practicing whatever they want to practice under a federal set up? I don't get it are you supporting illegality just because he campaigned for it? 19 northern states simultaneously launched sharia and you want the president to launch a war on all of them? Isn't that impossible? Why didn't Buhari launch a war on the southwest governors to stop Amotekun? The president simply have no such powers!

The same you will blame Obasanjo for withholding Lagos local government funds when Tinubu created 37 new local governments saying it is illegal, the same you want Obasanjo to stop state governments from practicing sharia, aren't you confusing yourself?

Is this country still a secular state as enshrined in the constitution if one of the constituent states can whimsically impose her preferred religion as the state religion!? Is that how federalism works in your own dictionary?

SirBlack999:
This will give the Biafra agitation a leverage. Besides, I don't know how Igbos should sit around and their gas is piped to the North. The same north that hates our existence

We have been a bit unfortunate with carbon discoveries in Igboland. Oil was discovered few years towards independence and this made Nigeria very palatable for other sections of the country like the North and the West that had absolutely nothing significant then other than some moribund groundnut pyramids and austere Cocoa harvests. With the help of Zik who wanted a One Africa government, these groups found Nigeria attractive, Inspite of their disdain for their fellow countrymen. At the start of the war, these groups were able to negotiate with the imperialist Britain to unleash genocide in the East and take control of the oil resources. It has been going ever since.

Now, with oil running out, and different parts of the country agitating for the break up of Nigeria, all of a sudden the government found gas in very high quantity in the East again. Now, the Buharis administration is desperately trying to tie eastern gas development to Western conglomerates through the Fulani, essentially making the gas deposits inn the East the property of Western companies managed by the Fulani oligarchs in Nigeria. Igbos seem to be a bit unaware of this and our fixation on trading seem to cause us to forget that with the gas in Igbo land, we can easily leapfrog above our peers, irrespective of the setbacks of the war.. imagine where oil in Nigeria was discovered say in 1980 or gas ten years from now..

Buhari is constructing the AKS pipeline that he claims will go to Europe from the heart of igboland. Most of the gas will come from Imo state and Abia state. I think that those pipelines will end in Niger republic. The just added Europe to fool warry Nigerians.. They're constructing as we speak. From this project, there will be 3 gas powered power station at Abuja, Kaduna and Kano. Totalling 10,000 MW. Maybe another in Niger republic, who knows? But NONE in either Imo state or Anambra state where the gas will come from! This is the kind of scotched earth policies the Fulani imperialists under this evil regime are propagating all over the East and we still have igbos trying to "intellectualise" this nonsense..

huptin:
I dont understand, he should have killed Yerima? He should stop a state governor from practicing Sharia? The Zamfara people that wanted sharia are they fools? Is it not Buhari that was on the fore-front of the fight for the spread of Sharia? Have you blamed him? When South west wanted to start amotekun could Buhari have stopped them?

If the north wanted to destroy themselves with sharia how is that Obj's fault? The north brought sharia, sharia subsequently brought Boko haram and banditry, please how is that Obj's fault.

Stop providing cheap excuses for some utterly incompetent politicians. Obasanjo was not forced to take over. He campaigned vigorously to be president. Constitutionally , Nigeria is a secular state! So if a State governor starts to impose a sectarian religion on his state, as the commander in chief with all the coercive instruments of the state at his beck and call, Obasanjo should have taken actions to stop that. He dropped the ball there because he was selfish and a northern slave! That's the blunt fact..

I think one of the major problems effecting Gernot Rohrs Super Eagles is the useless Lagos stadium they play at these days. I don't know why the Lagos state government insisted on taking over from Akwa Ibom that has better facilities. The team members have complained about that pitch several times but Nigerians always make it look like they're giving excuses. The fact is that that pitch is not upto international standards. You can easily notice how balls bounce awkwardly on the pitch just watching form your TV. Rohr complained, Balogun complained and I think that lately, they just resigned themselves to fate.

The super Eagles played much better at the Akwa Ibom stadium that stadium is most probably the best in the country. They also play better in away matches compared to how the play at Lagos. Also remember that almsot half of the Super Eagles contingent these days are made up of players born outside the country. These guys are actually not "Nigerians" in the real sense of it , so expecting them to "acclimatize" so easily and quickly with our konkiri pitches might not be the best thing to do..

sulaak:
Had he tried to stop Yerima, there would have been a civil war similar to the ongoing war in Ethiopia, and the North would have easily won the war.

The fact that despite the introduction of Sharia, corruption and underdevelopment hasn't ended in the North, it is even worse, confirming that is religion is not the solution to Nigeria problem.

Obasanjo was right.

The people that you should blame are the 12 Northern states that instigated the introduction of political Sharia, refusal to invest in children education, neglect of the rural regions and finally girl child marriage.

Civil war? North would have easily won? Because it's their birthright to win wars or what? How exactly will that have led to a war if handled smartly? So whatever the North wants it gets because we're afraid of wars the the gods have destined them to always win? Do you even understand that it was Obasanjos lack of action against yerima in Zamfara that emboldened other northern State governors to follow suit and declare Sharia?
Ahbegii...

This tout has been president of Nigeria for over decade! He was president as a young man and came back as an older man with a lot of "experience", but yet could not correct whatsoever that are the mistakes he saw from the sidelines. This guy allowed the Sharia nonsense to gain ground in the North through Zamfara. That's how Boko Haram started and the general insecurity in the North followed.

Everybody in the country begged him to stop Yerima from politicizing Sharia, yet after thousands were killed over the Sharia riots, he lifted no finger to stop that! Obasanjo is Evil. He knows all the problems of the country. He knows all the solutions and answers to those problems. But make him the president for a thousand times, he won't solve them, because he's part of the problem! He prefers to pontificate from Otta farm..

People don't realize it but the biggest problem facing governance in Nigeria is the civil service. Badly recruited, badly trained, badly remunerated, eternally corrupt! Nigerias civil service is actually nonexistent. You need to experience the civil service at work elsewhere to understand the rot..No matter how good the intentions of a politician, if you have to deliver through mess of a civil service like Nigerias, you're bound to fail. Matters are not helped when politicians intentionally flood the service with party urchins and ethnic henchemen..

So for 15 solid year, these beutiful people have been kept in detention by a wicked Nigerian state that keeps Boko Haram insurgents in 5 star hotels?

SlyDev:
Inferiority complex, when two culture clash the superior one win. It is marriage, the Chinese don't care but you are here shouting and screaming like you have won 1million

That's inferiority complex

Yeah Right!
If it's Brazilians or Americans speaking mgbati mgbati now, your take will be different..
We know you..

He must be on his way for this interview when he was waylayed by those cows few days ago. Noisy charlatans that were already hyjacking the political structure in the East before the coming of IPOB

SlyDev:
Inferiority complex smh

You will always approach every igbo topic from the pettiest of angles.
If it was a drug story now, you will be alllover the place snarling like a hyena in heat..

A clueless platoon of eternally blundering neanderthals..

jmoore:
When you were shouting no referendum no erection, you didn't know impotency will cause infertility?

But seriously, how did you in particular become so virulently anti Igbo?
I used to read you a lot here.. You sounded very reasonable.
I mean, it's like the qualification for becoming a BMC is to discard any shred of sanity in this shameless haunt for the Igbo.
The speed with which APC diehards morph into anti igbo campaigners from their anti ipob rants is startling..

jmoore:
It is easy to spot IPOB propaganda.


Whenever IPOB accusses DSS of something, it means IPOB is guilty of that offence.

Several town unions in Igboland have already pledged to fight against meth. Therefore the recent announcement by IPOB to fight same drug is damage control. I urge all unions not to associate with IPOB if they want the fight to be successful. Anything IPOB touches, turns to chaos. IPOB may even be trying to infiltrate the unions in order to get information of those leading the fight against drug abuse and assassinate them.

If serious investigations are carried out, I won't be surprised that drug barons are funding IPOB's activities. The unknown gunmen employed by IPOB are definitely using meth.

IPOB is also responsible for barrenness in Nigeria..

Obatala7Kronos:
No! Nigeria isn’t afraid of losing that cursed erosion-ravaged, landlocked territory.

Nigeria only wants the bastards who originate from there to suffer untold hardship for going abroad to tarnishing her image and then coming around to blame Nigeria for their self-inflicted woes.

95% of Nigerians responsible for tainting & tarnishing Nigeria’s image & reputation abroad via their get-rich-or-die-trying mentality are the bastards children of shuku-shuku okike obama from the East of the Niger.

Think about it, you want to take a shortcut for starting afresh while leaving the rest of us to suffer the brunts of your inherited cursed lifestyles?

No! Biafra will only come, when this world ends and another one starts - awon Oloriburuku Omo ale jati-jati Ikeji eranko.

Lol

Like Hushpuppy?
Like the underwear bomber??
Or like this Adewales who beheaded a British veteran on the streets of London to glorify Nigerias image?
Is Shekau an Igbo?

Can you point to any igboman that has brought more shame to your shameless Lugardian contraption than this your terrorist brothers?

backbencher:
It's also going to reduce our borrowing, free up more money for spending by the government on things like health and education, attract more and more investment in our petroleum sector, and crucially, make more and more people interested in building refinereis, so that Dangote won't hold a monopoly....since it would now be profitable to refine at home...and eventually in the long term, would bring about price reductions.

It would also end the culture of lying and stealing and smuggling of subsidized fuel to neighboring countries at our expense, inflation of subsidy claims , and so forth. Importation of fuel would eventually reduce.

That is, if government stops setting the price of fuel.

It would also save at least N2trillion a year, if not more.

If we had done this removal of subsidy in 1993, or in 2012, by now we would have been over the hard suffering. But we did not remove subsidy for the arguments that you are making right now, meanwhile because it has become unprofitable to refine fuel at home, we have ended up with no refinereis, and NNPC rejoicing over a profit made ...after 2 decades of losses

The ironic thing is that many in this government were at the forefront of marches against subsidy in 2012.Now they have seen the reality, and know why their PDP predecessors wanted subsidy gone then..

Have we not heard this before? Is there even a real subsidy? Is this not a hoax? The same people that argued that the socalled subsidy was non existent few years back, are the people fighting for the removal of the subsidy today! Where did the epiphany happen? And why is the government and her agencies more interested in pilling up the enermous burden of economic trauma on the people? Why is nobody talking of reducing the cost of governance? Recurrent expenditure is at all times high but the government is not bothered! Remove the subsidy to have enough money to pay some ineffective civil servants whose yearly emoluments are now basically consuming the whole budget? Who are the owners of the oil blocs being auctioned off by the presidency like a bazaar? Can't that process be managed to earn more for the state? Is it not obvious the government doesn't care about the level of poverty in the land?

Few years ago, this administration raised the prices of petroleum products under the guise of removing the much vaunted fuel subsidy!
So what subsidy was removed then and what subsidy are they about to remove again?

If igbos leave , They can't point to a marshy piece of swamp space in Lagos and tell you they are selling it for hundreds of millions of naira again. Who's going to be buying their flooded lagoons for prices bigger than beachfront estates in Dubai apart from the same igbos they like to hate?

Sylva NC keeps presenting himself as if he has anything whatsoever to do with the decision making process in Nigerias oil industry.. Gas price increases coupled with the so called oil subsidy removal will ultimately push the people to the wall in an election year in which the presidential election is bound to produce an unpopular candidate.....

Folks like Sylva are the real problem of this country.Very shallow minded man with no iota of principles providing all the political cover needed by a despot to thrive... Keeps taking decisions that favor others at the detriment of his own people, just because he was appointed to a ceremonial position..

This could not have happened when South Sudan and North Sudan were in the same country.
People of the North are starting to ask basic questions because there are no more South Sudan oil money to subsidize the governments maladministration... No more common enermy.
The Army is finding it hard to kill off the protesters because the army is now more or else a native Army. You shoot into a crowd and you may kill your brother or sister. Unlike when the south Sudanese were seen as urgent threats to be exterminated. Government has now been forced to listen and dialogue with the people. This is why nation steps thrive and most multi ethnic states struggle...
I hope you guys can relate..

The Borrower in Chief

ajl:
You people and your ethnic sentiments. You all need to have your brain checked because good judgment is difficult with such state of mind.

If you're from Okija and you're witnessing these double standards in terms of how the press encourage certain narratives injurious to your hometown while looking the other way with other communities, I bet your opinion will be different. You are upset with me because you're used to dishing it out. You ain't used to receiving until the coming of the internet... Overtime here, I have come to realize that some of you are just clannishly self centered in your outlook to life and have no regrets living your lives to the very end that way.. You only see other people's weaknesses. You don't and can't see yours.

Same way you will cry foul whenever the names of Orji Kalu or James Ibori are mentioned but will start shouting "The Jagaban of Africa" once Tinubus name is muted! These are lootocrats! But you don't mind yours! You are desperately trying to normalize his iniquitous pedigree, Yet you want others of the same vile resume killed.. What kind of human beings are you then? Do you think the world revolves around you only?

ba7man:
You guys always measure yourselves with criminals from the southwest.

Either those illiterate "Owo mi da" agberos or ritualists are your yardstick for comparison with the southwest.

How will you blame me when you proudly project a renowned drug Barron as your South West leader....?
Ko easy..

ba7man:
If those dead looking meth smoking clownish gunmen are the people you look up to, you must be on some serious drugs.

Atleast they are not mining human heads for fun...

Dude was most probably killed for all those their primitive cult related butchery that happens in that part of the country. That hotel might be a "headhunting" front all along. Primitive cult killings used to be a common occurance around the country, but it has abated in certain areas as a result of growing rejection. The problem here is that when a people defend all sorts base-primitive practices as symbols of their culture, things like these thrive..

Imagine the hassles that come with the Oro festival and this iyala oja nonsense in this century? What it means is that if the Oro festival needs human heads to be consumated, it is actually culturally permissable to do so. In which case head hunting will continue to be a lucrative business. That is the foundation of the whole Evil realities.. He might not have been killed for money making but surely has something to do with one moribund cultural practice..

DarkJeddi:
Being monied is not equivalent to being intelligent..

That's one of the hallmark of IPOB Imbeciles..

Because you get little money..

You suddenly think that you are an Albert Einstein?

Bunch of M0R0NS

You can shout yourself hoarse, in the end you will all feel the heat and nobody rests until the right thing is done...

Thiwalade:
Two wrongs never make a right. That some people are doing it doesn't mean you have to follow such trend. Throughout your post you never condemned the action but was quick to point out something totally irrelevant. Find something better to do than crying all day about how igbos are hated. Move from such self pity and actually find something meaningful to do. Crime is crime regardless of where it happens. Go through my previous comments on this forum and point out where I've favored someone cos of tribal or religious affiliation. You're not enlightened just speaking english doesn't make you educated. Education is in your behavior, utterances and judgement.

You can't even communicate without adding insults. You can't see me jumping from one thread to another insulting people or crying about how YORUBA'S are victims of the Nigerian system. Only fools have something to say about everything. Wise people only speak when they have something relevant to contribute.

I'm just entertaining your uncouth vituperations for the nuisance value. Nothing else!

You obviously are too full of it. The issues you're desperate to pontificate on are all way above your pay grade.
I don't care about what you post or how you post. If as a Yoruba boy, you feel that Nigeria is working out fine the way it's, I don't begrudge you. You obviously have your standards deep inside the latrine, but hey, it's your kettle of fish.. Just stop trying to lecture me on how to see Nigeria as an Igbo man, because I know how Nigeria sees me more than you! We don't suffer the same desease in this desease infested hellhole of a country so we shouldn't react the same way...

Any igboman who acts all fine and gentle in the face of the ceaseless provocations, taunts, humiliations and uncouth insults that is buharis regime against the Igbo nation, needs to do some soul searching!
The Igbo man is under attack from all fronts under this regime and this has happened many times in the past. It's the duty of this generation of igbos to put an immediate end to this nonsense. If treacherous interlopers like you don't feel comfortable with this, then do the needful by supporting the Igbo to leave your beutiful country. But don't you ever try to lay down a "code of conduct" for me to follow while you join hands with the Fulani to loot the former Eastern Nigeria.

Equating obedience and compliance to wayward dictatorship as maturity is simply evil. Quietness here is a sign of servitude and not a mark of personal sophistication! Stick to what you know and have peace..It's that simple..

FlipModeSquade:
Lol..

You mean..

Like the TOUTS and Agberos that stand in Upper Iweka and NIPOST Onitsha Newspaper stands..

Arguing and talking IPOB rubbish all day long?

Or the learned F00LS that think that imposing sit at homes on hungry Igbos..

And threatening months long sit at homes..

Is actually going to make Buhari release Kanu?

Your Buhari is already talking about releasing him. If we followed your tactics, nothing will be achieved. Igbos have been following your placid lukewarm approach to national issues for the better part of 5 decades, we all can see how good it turned out. .. We know your type..
Once again let me inform you: most of Nnamdi Kanus followers are far more monied, far more educated and far more travelled than an unknown quantity like you and there lies the irony in your earlier post..

FlipModeSquade:
Another IPOB Propaganda..

Inflicting death and hardship on Igbos does not make a Mandela..

And his army of low IQ IMBECILES masquerading as Freedom Fighters..

Are nothing more than TOUTS and CRIMINAL URCHINS..

Most of these people you called touts and urchins in capital letters are far more educated, travelled and richer than you... So what does that say about you?

Thiwalade:
Why must you display your petulant and bigoted behavior on this thread? Must you view everything from a tribal point. A young man had just been killed you're talking gibberish about how it was reported. You ought not be insensitive in matters like these which requires consistent condemnation regardless of where it was perpetrated. You keep acting like a little kid littering everywhere with your bigoted egest. I thought education was supposed to enlighten people to realize humans will always be humans regardless of where they come from. Crime is crime regardless of where you're from. Get lost!

The problem with your post is that you will never say anything like this in a similar thread about otokoto or okija shrine! Endless threads like that and all you do is to watch as your kind try all sorts of demarketing antics against a group. The new one is to paint Igbo a tribe of drug dealers. What have you said about that?
Where you come from , you guys chose when to be reasonable, when to be honest and when to be stewpid! It's not done that way. We should know you for something... I said the truth and will repeat same many times tiill I knock that inside your tribal head..
Mgbu