₦airaland Forum

MayorofLagos:
.....lmao! In the next few years you all are about to witness in Nigeria what Oyo did to Dahomey. We shall colonize SE and impose Governors and Ezes hand picked from Lagos to sit over you and rule you Oduduwa-style!

You never jam....

Please do not jump start the fairy tale about what Oyo did to Dahomey because Oyo was at the receiving end. With time, I do know Yoruba story tellers will transform the wresting matches called Kiriji wars into nuclear wars which was fought by Yoruba in their endless dreams.

PhenomenonVFX:

Foolish old man. Ur brain must be rotting along with the rest of ur body. Apparently ur comprehension skills is dulling with ur eyesight. Old goat.
Read what I wrote again carefully. Or call one of ur grandsons, the one lucky enough to have a brain among them, to help u read it.

I do not need to write more than you have written about your silly characteristics since you have the audacity to insult a person whom you thought is older than your parents.

Abimbola29:
My secondary school friend is number 11on that list,God pls save them all

He must be a "dropout".

Also missing was Lt Francis Fajuiyi.

musiwa97:
This picture is not 1959.. This picture was 1963.

General Forster left and ironsi was made head by azikiwe. This picture was taken during the sendforth of General Forster

The picture is correctly dated and it was not 1963. I suggest you do not confuse Maj. Gen. Christopher Welby-Everard with General Forster.

phantom:
i keep asking myself how we the igbos became this politically naive its frightening!

I honestly suggest you vouch for yourself politically. Please remove Ndiigbo from your political shenanigans.

PhenomenonVFX:
Any intelligent person reading the article will know that the author is not saying all Igbo should support Buhari. The central theme of his write-up is the bitterness with which some brain-dead Igbos oppose fellow Igbos who support Buhari. They use different tactics from intimidation to ostracization to cower people with differing political views. These kind of senseless Igbos are the ones I called Igbo barbarians. Some of the mugus even started burning APC flags recently. But the will be the first to kowtow at Aso Rock should APC win next years election. Thoughtless baboons.
Dont support APC. But stop threatening and bitterly insulting Igbos who do.

If every Hausa or Fulani politically supports Buhari, then your benign attempt to be reasonable deserves a second glance. However if the opposite is remotely the case, thus, all Hausa or Fulani does not politically prefer Buhari to another candidate, it is fair to say you are more idiotic than the ethnic group you have castigated in your post.

Abagworo:
I prefer Buhari to Jonathan and my reason is that Jonathan has wasted our high oil revenue and is busy fighting the good Governors instead of tackling corruption. Buhari will fight corruption to a stand still and as well bring peace to Nigeria.

Right now Igbos stand to lose most if Jonathan destroys Nigeria as a result of his ambition.

I guess the political preferences you cherished are not predicated on your ethnicity. If so, then it is clearly a foolish endeavor to remotely insinuate that an otherwise scenario applies to another individual.

phantom:
the following post is from a friend on facebook and is directed at our kinsmen,the igbos! enjoy!!!
N/B: i highlighted some important points


I will start this write-up with the analogy of the broken down clock for the sole reason that I do not intend this post to be an avenue for stereo-typing the igbos, but as an avenue for we from the South East region to tell ourselves some home-truth (like every race or ethnic group does from time to time) and stop what seems to be an exercise in self ridicule. Now, to the analogy of the broken down clock:

A broken down clock we all know cannot be relied on for telling the time of the day, especially for those who know its state of function. But regardless of that state of function, we all know it has its fingers pointing at some random time, which is usually the time at which it broke down. Lets just say for the sake of this write-up, our clock broke down at exactly 4 o' clock.

A stranger who comes into the house at time of say 3.55 (am or pm), 4.00 (am or pm), 4.05 (am or pm) would see the clock as still correct, or even accurate if he came in at exactly 4.00 (am or pm), but the owner of the house knows the true state of the clock, and the stranger would need to stay longer to know the clock is truly broken down. But the truth is, as a time piece, I was correct twice for the day. At every other time, it was on the WRONG side of time.

In Nigeria, we have many people who analyse like broken down clocks. They seem to be correct not because they possess sterling analytical power, but because the situation which serves their myopic view speaks for itself. Once their position is on the wrong side of the argument, they cannot be fixed. We have them all over Nigeria, from those who rightly presently demand GEJ to be sacked at the polls in 2015 (but for some reason, supported a moribound Umaru Musa Yar Adua to rule Nigeria from his death bed), to those who called for GEJ's impeachment (but threatened the coporate existence of Nigeria should OBJ be impeached, remember OPC's famous "impeach OBJ, impeach Nigeria declaration). Yes, I know, many of them are "making sense" now, and are "gbaming", mass "liking", and high fiving each others' write-ups, but we who live in the house know their "broken down" antecedents, and I know they will be the new problem should an APC leadership begin to derail, should they take over in 2015. But for now, the broken down time piece is telling the correct time, and I hope the clocks that are working correctly will be there to tell the time when real time goes past the hour. It is these people that will eventually save the nation from itself.

But, lets leave those alone for now, its time to address those who seem to be on the wrong side of time.........
Now, we are all aware that GEJ has the most ardent support from the South East. On the surface, that is not a bad thing, everybody has a right to support a candidate of his own choice, and GEJ has the constitutional right to contest, but the reason behind such quickly betrays a sense of hatred, fear and insecurity around such support. The strong emotion with which they respond to their fellow south-easterners who try to be different betrays the ultimate fact that they are really neo-phytes when it comes to reading the political terrain.

These people are so locked in 1966, they forget they are falling into the same mistake of the Northern avengers of 1966, who thought they were doing justice to alleged Igbo domination, but ended up ruining Nigeria and the North even more. These people were seriously calling for devolution of powers and resource control, but do not realise that 2 southern Presidents (one from the Niger Delta) have failed to bring about a satisfactory form of federalism, now they seek to dominate that centre which they alleged to hate so much, when they had ample time to pursue their legitimate interest.

You claim GEJ has done a lot for the igbos more than any President. Well, in terms of appointments, he may have, and there is a psychological feeling about occupying a post whose elusion is thought to be a conspiracy of some sorts, but that is where it ends. It doesn't put food on the table of the average Igbo man more than it does for the Igala man or Jukun woman. And the Airport? [b]Thanks, but apart from that, what else? PTF did much more when oil was less than $20 a barrel. Much more for the common man, the 90% who probably will never use an airport. Roads in the South East remain deplorable, and the Second Niger Bridge is now so notorious a project, any Leader who wants to do the igbos "longer-throat" just needs to say "second Niger Bridge" and he will get our ears. [/b]Remember GEJ said he either completes the Second Niger Bridge by 2015 or he goes to exile. Does it look like all the sand and run down facilities in that area will suddenly become a bridge in 2015? And must it always be about roads and bridges? Dem born us born cement and concrete? What has he done for health that the igbos can shout alleluyah in particular? What about electricity? Does the East have more power supply than the rest of Nigeria? Are Igbo business-men selling more goods more than ever before? Are we buying agricultural produce cheaper than the rest of the country? Is Abakaliki rice more plentiful now than before? Why are our expectations so shallow?

You argue that he is one of us, that he is Igbo. I have never seen any argument betraying more confusion than this. GEJ is not Igbo. He is not even IJAW. He is an OGBIA man, an ethnic group of about 250,000. He has no Igbo name given to him from birth. AZIKIWE is a PET NAME given to him by his mother, because he smiled like the then famous Nnamdi Azikiwe. I had a school mate of COMPLETE Igbo blood in my days in UNEC whose nick-name was ABACHA simply because of his mannerisms. His birth certificate had no Abacha written on it. Meanwhile, it may interest you to know GEJ never took the AZIKIWE name seriously even while he was Governor of Bayelsa and Acting President, but I guess because of people like you, his sudden adoption of the name yielded dividends, and is about to yield further dividends because you cannot see beyond your nose.

Then the second name EBELE. Some un-informed people have called it EBELE-CHUKWU in the past. Well, that is wrong. It is actually EBELEMI, a full nomenclature in OGBIA language. So before you campaign, at least get your facts right.

Another argument, is that we the igbos need to be at peace with our neighbours. I say, it is fine to be at peace, but not to the point of black-mail. Peace without Justice is peace of the grave-yard. [b]Yes, we have a right to support our neighbours, but some of us can also remember that those our neighbours who we desperately want to be at peace with, actually had a voting pattern in the past which was automatically against any candidate who came from the South East. Go and check your records of voting patterns from 1979 elections to 2011. I wont go into the various avenues at which we were sabotaged during the unfortunate civil war. And the abandoned properties nko? Have they given us back? Even the Late Ken Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni man (our neighbours) "occupied" a house "abandoned" by an Igbo-man when the civil war started. So, how exactly do you define living in genuine peace? Only when it benefits one person? Yes, by-gones should be by-gones, but my common sense still remains. If you want to dig up the role of the Hausas in that event, then let us complete the whole process, then the Efiks and Ibibios will also remind us (the Igbos) of the atrocities we committed against them as well.[/b]

It would have been different if it was a Murtala Mohammed contesting (the man who was responsible for the execution of almost 2,000 unarmed civillians in Asaba during the civil war), or if Buhari had any specific war crime to his name. But that is not the case. In politics, the duration of friendship or enmity is not permanent. What is permanent is INTEREST.

My arch-enemy of yesterday can become my friend today if I rightly identify my interest. Its for this same reason:

1. The Germans and the Jews (Isrealis) are friends and vital business partners today, despite the fact that the Germans gassed 6 million jews to death, with the intention of wiping them off the planet.

2. The Americans fought a bitter war of independence with the imperial British. Today, their alliance is one of the closest and most reliable on the planet.

3. England and France fought a war that lasted 100 years (yes 100). Yet today, one of the most technologically advanced tunnels connects both countries.

I can go on and on and on about how enmities of yesterday have become formidable alliances today based on common sense and identification of objective, legitimate interest. So don't go about calling an Igbo man using his common sense an EFULEFU. You are the one who is lost in the past.

The writer of the above crap is either a deluded jackass or an accomplished fool. I must confess that the use of broken down clock metaphor betrayed his or her idiotic intentions. The writer must have forgotten there are Obasanjo and PDP. Yet Obasnajo was one of human figures that prominently featured in Nigerian debacle which started in 1966 and ended in 1970. In addition to the writer’s delusional form, he or she forgot that Obasanjo does not have EBELE and AZIKIWE incorporated in his name.

Change2015:
Rubbish. Please go and face someone holding a gun when you have no bullets. It is stupid comments like yours that really rile me. You think these men have no family, no reason to want to stay alive? Jonathan has let everyone in government know looting is good business, now we can see the shambles our army has turned into, but instead of sacking the military bosses, you think it best they sacrifice the poor ground troops who have never had much in life? May God have the same portion of mercy on you as you have seen fit to give to your fellow countrymen.

Nigerians are noted for acting idiotically while calling contrarians idiots. It is only in your hopeless and goofy world that a country has standing army without issuing weapons. Even Nigeria’s roadside police are armed beyond the purpose of “police action”. Your post clearly depicted you as one of the culpable reasons Nigeria has been classified as jungle. By the way, what has person’s family got to do with desecrating the military code of conduct?

hardywaltz:
I talk am
U have just made my point.

Make Hatred no kill una...

The introduction of the useless brooms seriously altered the undertone of the would-be carnival festivities.

Abagworo:
Let us face reality. Imo is not an industrial State but what can be done is basic industrial establishment. The industrial layout in Owerri is well located and has better access road than those in Aba but industries keep springing up in Aba and many of them built by Imo indigenes. The only way Imo can industrialise is through the Nnewi model of people wisely siting industries in either their State or village but my question is whats the point? Since each Igbo State has its peculiarity and function let it remain so. Imo should forget factories and focus on hospitality, tourism and holiday industry that we are leading. Let Abia and Anambra continue being our industrial base.

No place on earth is fundamentally created as "industrial site or state". Imo State could be transformed into industrial yard. In USA, deserts have been transformed into industrial hub. Please quit being unnecessarily condescending on this subject matter.

hardywaltz:
I'm sure since it's Amaechi the pictures will be "grossly demeaning" as u put it but on others it would have been thumbs up.

I guess the above was meant for Carnival and rightfully so while the one from clueless Rotimi and Peterside looks more like a would-be serious political rally than a clownish display.

hardywaltz:
I'm sure if it were Akpabio that put it on u would have called it uncommon transformation.

Bo, you know I shoot from the hip. The picture is grossly demeaning.

This is antic usually attributed to individuals who are in doubt about their lineage. What a despicable clown.

mrvitalis:
whats ur point??

You have demonstrated the cluelessness of knowledge pertaining to national economic infrastructures. There is no bridge in Nigeria meant for Igbo person only.

mrvitalis:
as an igbo ...i know my people just hate the Hausa man ..for the civil war ....without knowing our brother caused the war....major kadunna was the problem
Hausa trusted us....and we betrayed them ...i just pray they forgive us so that this country can move forward
....
..i just laf when igbos support ijaws ....cos dey have never and will never support us

The above post speaks volumes about your disingenuous plank on the so-called second bridge or lack thereof across River Niger/Benue.

stevnwigw1:
What is an old school cert holder in the person of Buhari coming to do as a leader of a country that has millions of unemployed graduates. Say no to Nigeria being taken back to stone age.

Are sure the so-called Gen. M. Buhari is a school certificate holder? Having written this though, it does not require any certificate to be a good leader.

fairheven:
Been from the southeast mysef,I have always felt that GMB shud have picked an IBO man as his running mate,for the fact that southwest has had Obasanjo in power for eight good years,then south south with Jonathan,for six years,so the fairest tin shud be someone of Ibo extraction to his VP.
But consider this my pple..
1.Jonathon has not done anything to deserve our vote in southeast
2.Jonathan wife's mother is from Abia an yet Abia has been raped by one wicked and heartless leader called "ochendo"under Jonathan's watch.
3.most of the project that Jonathan initiated in our region have turnout to be empty promises for the sake our vote,Eg,second niger bridge and onisha port.
4.the most important reason to vote buhari..this man"the righteous one"has infact chosen Ibo as running mate befor in the person OKADIGBO AND one OBI(can't remember his surname)but he didn't win ,not that he didn't succeed,but obviously like we all know,those election were manipulated by obasanjo an co.because even the beneficiary,Yaradua confirmed it.

So it behooves on evry Ibo to leave sentiment aside an tink wat will benefit us as a nation an vote buhari for change..an talking about change,am not goner vote party but individuals that I know will bring the desired change,eg: am going to vote out PDP AND JONA OUT OF ABUJA AND AM GOING TO ALSO VOTE OUT APC AND TINUBU OUT of LAGOS BY VOTING "uncle JIMI as the next governor..that is the change we are talking about. God bless Nigeria!

It is only for parochial and tribal reasons. If GEJ was Yoruba or even the VP post is held by Yoruba, trust me, the betrayal artists would be singing a different song now.

donnypool:
the south will be glad to chatter a trailer and transport ibo's back to their biafra. Although it was same people like you that screamed when fashola sent ibo's back home without any cost. Don't scream Biafra, go to other part of nigeria to see the amount of ibo's willingly relocating from the east.

In the event of disintegration of the Nigeria, the so-called south-south does not have the wherewithal to decide who joins or not join Biafra. Event on the ground certainly will decide such arrangement. Today is certainly not 1967. Many groups in Nigeria are quite expendable

BashBB:
Mr. Ikengawo I don't know if you have ever been to the troubled areas, but I can tell you this because I am from Michika in Adamawa state now in the control of Boko haram, soldiers in the fronts aren't given better weapons...they have just two magazines (60 rounds) given to them....most of the weapons are locked up in the armoury and they are not allowed to use them when BH atttacks, in some instances the GOCs often gives the order for the soldiers to withdraw (as was the case in mubi, michika, and gulak)......this are all my community.......I cannot give you detail account of whats happening here....but if interested you can contact me privately please

Issuing soldiers a truck load of ammunitions has led to wastefulness and lack of tactical approach to combat. Some modern assault rifles are designed without option of fully automatic mechanism but a burst of three shots. Therefore battles are not won because soldiers carry tonnage of lead to the battle field. Nigerians should quit the irresponsible propaganda for cheap political point. It does not speak well about the intellect of Nigerians if they continue to dwell on crass idiocy. Nigeria should endeavor to improve on the management of its logistical quagmire.

@OP

It is arrant nonsense and pitiable display of ignorance for anybody to insinuate that “religion and ethnicity have split Nigeria down the middle under President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime”. The geographical expression known as Nigeria has been divided into numerous pieces by religion and ethnicity even before the amalgamation of southern and northern protectorates. It is idiotically disingenuous for any moronic Nigerian to attribute the religious and ethnic division of the jungle called Nigeria to Goodluck Jonathan’s regime. Articles such as the OP define Nigeria as doomed country.

thegoodjoehunt3:
Which one is insinuating? I was trying to paint a picture of what I'll equipped means. I created an analogy. That is no insinuation.

I guess you should understood that any military formation, be it USA, UK or Russia, runs into logistical problem. I am not surprised that such problem is endemic with Nigeria.

thegoodjoehunt3:
8.    Recently the newly appointed 21 Brigade commander lead 3 units to flush out the BH, that operation was successful, almost 300 BH were killed, weapons and vehicles were recovered from them, in the process the troops exhausted their ammunitions from the Div, the GOC simply replied that there was no ammunition this made all the troops to withdraw back to KONDUGA
http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/15/why-we-could-not-defeat-boko-haram-army-commander-writes-powerful-letter-president

Arrant nonsense. Any military unit could have problem of logistic. In the case of Nigeria, the problem could be ten fold since the country is a practical joke. The picture you painted in the post clearly suggests a case of logistical problem rather than lack of ammunition.

thegoodjoehunt3:
Abi, you can not read for instance. If I knew the standard amount of magazines soldiers use, will I use for instance?

I suggest you stop insinuating.

thegoodjoehunt3:
Remember, this is a case of 54 soldiers. Some where trained by American forces.


The question is, were they given enough Ammunition. The Lawyer has presented his case. The Civilian JTF using Bow and Arrow are not in the war front against machine guns.

They asked for ammunition and they were given death.

If USA soldiers are decorated with bullets does not means any soldiers outside USA should be weighed down with bullets. Besides, insurgents in Afghanistan do not carry as much ammunition as USA soldiers do yet the insurgents still engage the USA troops in gun fight.

thegoodjoehunt3:
The had ammunitions but they were not well equipped. For instance, they did not have enough bullets. You might needs ten magazines of bullets and you are sent out with only two. Then you are not well equipped for the war.

Who informed you that the standard issue to a soldier is ten magazines (clips) before he or she could engage in gun battle?

Ikengawo:
LOL
This is a ceremonial showing of the new process no the actual issuing of GEJ's card. Unless you as a fool and supporter of APC believe he will be pulling that 4 foot card out of his a.ss every time someone asks him to show ID, you should know that the giant card isn't his actual id.

Bro, Nigeria’s problem rests mostly on the led not the leaders. It is unfortunate the OP is bereft of the idea known as Photo-Ops among government officials.

thegoodjoehunt3:
I guess you did not read the post at all. If not, you would not have made such statement.

The soldiers refused to fight because of they lacked ammunition. As soon as another group got arms, they went for the mission and did well. Yet, they are sentenced to be executed despite proof that they were not well armed.

The constitution backs SAN Falana's point of view.

What arrant nonsense. The Nigerian policemen who mount road blocks were not deployed without ammunition talk less of soldiers ordered to engage in gun battle. Moronic dingbat such as Femi Falana is one reason among many reasons Nigeria remains a joke.

ManTiger:
I have a system of ignoring nitwits but before I do that, why do you think those guys refrain from confronting the boko boys? Soldiers will be given 2magazines of 40bullets while Boko Haram will come in hilux load of magazines and you think they are coward for refraining?

I'm done with you.

It is typical form for Nigerian to wallow in ignorance and yet claim to be in the know. Again, you are worse than a basement nitwit. The standard clip of AK 47, which is the common infantry assault rifle of Nigerian armed forces, contains 30 bullets. And there is, at least, one or two SAW which could be chain or box fed issued to a company or even a platoon. Nigerian armed forces are not lacking in weaponry but tactical and patriotic approach.