₦airaland Forum

fulanimafia:
In the world of corruption advocates, interrogation and possible detention should come before arrests are made.

Keep wailing yourselves into lunacy. At least it has some entertainment value.

You are one reason Nigeria is a certified dead-end.

It is good to know that Igbo nation has suddenly become a “colonial power”.

TonyeBarcanista:
Oga keep quiet. I am Okrika and you are telling me that I'm not Ijaw? Are you this dumb? Why the envy for Ijaw?


Okrika is aKingdom and not ethnic group, like Kalabari, Nember, Brass, Gbaramatu etc. You guys should stop your ignorance.

I honestly do not think you are an Okrika. If you are, there must be a mixed up somewhere along the line of your being.

It is funny to read research papers on marginalization by certain goofy Nigerians. The crux of the matter is simply that Ndiigbo want out of Nigeria, a joke created by the British imperialist.

Kemi Adeosun looked completely lost as Nigeria in that picture. Nigeria is a forgettable joke.

This jackass can only be a senator in Nigeria.

pentag0nal:
Editor’s note: Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been held in detention even after a Federal Court ruled on December 16 that his detention is unlawful.

Ij Onuigbo, an ex-US army captain and an Igbo, writes an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice Yemi Osinbajo appealing to them to release the Biafra leader.
Why I voted for Buhari in presidential election
Let me first say that I, as an Igbo person, supported your election and campaign passionately for it on social media, but I am now on neutral grounds, because of the way you are handling the cry for Biafra though I will always support any good strides you are making for the people of Nigeria.

Some of the reasons I supported you are:

1. Your wife said during a pre-election interview that you promised to lead by listening to the concerns of the people and doing what the people want.

2. As a former soldier in the United States Army, I knew that the discipline you have as a retired general of Nigeria Army is what is needed to clean up the corruption that has long retarded the progress of Nigeria.

However, during your interview in the USA, I believe at the State Department after your election you were asked a question about how you would handle the Niger Delta on amnesty and women issues, your answer was that and I quote, “constituents that gave me 97% votes cannot, in all honesty, be treated equally with constituents that gave me 5%.”

Both videos of your wife promise of your leadership and your admission of prejudicial treatment of people who did not vote for you is there on Youtube for anyone and the whole world to see.

Igbos they did not trust that Buhari would lead with integrity
Mr. President, the problem with this whole situation is that with the way you are currently treating the IPOB matter means that your wife has lied about you wanting to lead by listening and leading according to the needs of the people. Moreover, I, as your initial supporter, was very bewildered and embarrassed when I saw that video where you admitted that you would lead by preferential treatment of those who voted you into office. Those who voted you into office are majorly from your region, the north, as well as the Southwestern region.

Igbos were the ones that only gave you 5% vote because they did not trust that you would lead with integrity. And guess what you are doing now! You are proving them right. You are showing that their fears were valid. Mr. President, leadership requires that you must be fair to all and sundry no matter how you feel about them. You cannot lead with a vindictive spirit to get back at those who didn’t want you to win.

My people are very unhappy in Nigeria
I must mention that I am not for or against Biafra. I am for peace and fairness for all. If it were within my power, I would lead my people, the Igbos, to focus on what they are good at and leave politics to those who want it so bad. On the other hand, I have seen that my people are very unhappy in Nigeria and feel grossly marginalized. And since they have been bold enough to start a protest, they need to be heard and not ignored or shoved aside. They are human beings with feelings, values, and aspirations no matter how inconsequential anyone might see them.

So in that case, I support that there should be a referendum and due process to make a country of their own. Now there is a possibility that we may not get the entire required vote to amend the Nigeria constitution; but in that case, we would have seen that due process was given and anyone that fights it would be called a trouble maker. Right now, the trouble maker is the leader that has imprisoned the leader of a group that wants to move on to a better world for themselves. YOU are the trouble maker, Mr. President! You can stop all this by releasing him and demanding for him to go through the right process.



I have written partially on this in the past and to your attention as well hoping that your social media crew would bring it to your attention, but I have not seen any meaningful or positive action taken towards this case. Some people have advised me that if the Igbos really want to secede, they would not have to go through you and others have educated me as well that all that is needed is for the IPOB to forward a motion for Referendum through the Nigeria National Assembly.

The solution to put a stop to the agitation for Biafra is in your hands
You might wonder why then am I writing to you if we knew what steps to take. I am writing to you because you are the President of a country in turmoil who has the power to quell the disaster that is brewing under you. The solution to put a stop to the agitation for Biafra is in your hands. All you have to do is take a leadership step by releasing Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and advising him and the group to begin the process of Referendum. If the motion holds, good, if the motion fails, then you have done your job as the President.

May I please remind you that the British, the Russians and the UN have wisely made suggestions for the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu and for Nigeria to allow a referendum to go through, but with all due respect, it all seems to have fallen on deaf ears.



The only response I have seen from your office is a statement that NO GROUP WILL BE ALLOWED TO TEAR NIGERIA APART. Mr. President that is not a responsible statement in the midst of what is going on.

Nigeria has never really been one. There is a deeply ingrained spirit of tribalism in Nigeria that has infected the political and economic fabrics of the nation of which is one of the biggest reasons driving the Biafra agitation. Igbos feel totally marginalized and rightfully so. This situation is like a bad marriage where one partner is very unhappy and keeps wanting out of the relationship, and the other partner refuses to corporate because the relationship benefits them more.

Mr. Kanu has become more dangerous than Boko Haram?
Your energy will be better served fighting Boko Haram rather than fighting IPOB agitation that has a simple solution. And I must say that how you are handling this situation makes it look like all of a sudden Mr. Kanu has become more dangerous than Boko Haram that is still killing people actively in Nigeria when Mr. Kanu has not killed one person.

When people protest for a cause, it is the responsibility of the leaders to address the issues surrounding that cause, not imprison the individuals. The cry for Biafra did not start today. It has been going on for ages that also led to the massacre of over one million Igbos around 1967. I am not a good student of history, so I will not pretend to go into it. But I am sure you know what I am talking about.

I implore you to please listen to right conscience and make the judgment that will bring positive resolution to this case and prevent lives from being wasted over a civil war. You have the power to do this by the simple step I have mentioned above. Once again, let me say it again. Release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and instruct him and his group to go through the right channel through Nigeria National Assembly to put forward the motion for a referendum. Though you are old, you still have a young family that will live on after you. What legacy do you want to leave?


https://www.naij.com/679361-solution-stop-biafra-hands-igbo-woman-begs-president-buhari.html

Your number 2 reason shows the level of your knowledge on the subject matter. Despite corruptible endeavors, the dude would not have made Sargent in the army.

simpleseyi:
The Federal Government says the clean-up of Ogoniland impacted by oil spill would commence in the first quarter of 2016.
Dr Peter Idabor, the Director General of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), stated this on Thursday in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Idabor said that the clean-up would be undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Environment, adding that the ministry was currently meeting with all relevant stakeholders.
It will be recalled that in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari directed actions to fast track the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report on environmental restoration of Ogoniland.
The actions were approved by the President based on recommendations made to him by the Executive Director of UNEP, Achim Steiner and other stakeholders.


SOURCE: http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/01/07/ogoniland-clean-up-to-commence-soon-fg/

Another con job!!!!

The grounds for tribunal rulings in Nigeria call for investigation. How did Ikpeazu factor into the INEC cancellation of elections in LGAs in Abia State? If Ikpeazu is a factor on the blunder of INEC officials, Otti is also a factor since he is one of the contestants.

Yari.ba people and crude oil is a combination that breeds stupidity. Must the sighting of any rig be concluded as crude oil platform. The rig could be for foundation engineering for bridges across the lagoons.

abduljabbar4:
I knew the anti-Islamic bastard is just plainly stpid and ignorant.

Donald Trump has visited Paris more times than you can dream about and must have known that Paris is in France more your average intellect can allow you to know.

Most people who insinuate that Trump thought Paris is in Germany are ignorant. It is due to tweeter lexicon. Donald Trump never said Paris is in Germany. Instead he meant that Germany is in terror mess too.

simplycarro:
There is nothing in the English language call Bolded

Bold is bold. Dede, with all your years overseas, you are still deficient.

You can use it as a verb. When used as an adjectival clause, bold is more formal. After all, this is NL, I mean an entity related to Nigeria. By the way, it is a pity you have not grown up yet since you have decided to be man and woman in one.

drss2:
[b]how did dis mosqito who calls himself prof sagay became a SAN [/b]is dat quack lawyer aware dat d right to self determination is enshrine in d united nations chatter on human rights of which d zoo is signatory of d way some pipul talk will one wonder weda some pipul were born with half brain.
how will dis prof feel if he moves in to his uncle's house but began to be treated like a second class member of d family how will he feel if members of d family keep giving him crumps n is made to work day n night like a slave will he like to continue living in dat house when every member of his uncle family treat him like a slave no amount of propaganda will stop d Nnamdi Kanu n ipod from achieving their goals. if Nelson Mandela was treated like an ANC criminal n was listed on america's terrorist list, yet came out bigger than he went to prison, what more of Nnamdi Kanu.

Per the bolded, only in Nigeria will a mosquito call itself a SAN. This character called sagay is one of the willing tools Ahmadu Bello referenced in one of his hateful speeches of the 50s and 60s.

EdCure:
[b]Sensible Nigerians [/b]have seen the recent upsurge in pro-biafra shenanigans for what it is - a fraudulent business venture that is aimed at exploiting gullible ibo masses and to blackmail the present administration.

They can't eat their cake and have it. They will fail!

Per the bolded, I stand to be corrected, there are no sensible Nigerians.

Nothing good comes out of Yakubu Gowon. What a joker.

Nigeria is a waste of fresh air. Who gives a ratass if this silly outfit arrests all and so-called influential Nigerians. This use of “us against them” is too old. Any law enforcement agency in Nigeria must respect certain aspects of law it tries to enforce.

MrAnalyst:
Leader of the now rested Arewa Peoples
Congress (APC), Alhaji Sagir Ringim has said
that the ongoing clamour for the creation of
the Independent State of Biafra was a ploy to
colonize the South-South.
The Waziri Ringim told Vanguard that
agitation by the Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB was a
calculated effort to capture the economic
prospects of the minority ethnic nationality in
the oil rich region.
He said, “Those Indigenous People of Biafra
have a hidden agenda to recolonize the South-
south, capture the region, colonize the oil field
for the betterment of the Igbos.”
Speaking further, the northern leader said
that Biafra is not blessed with solid minerals
apart from coal, saying that the geology of
the region can’t support an independent
country.
The former Intelligent officer of the Nigerian
Army explained that “because of these natural
shortcomings Igbos survived as a diaspora race
than any dominant group in Nigeria”.
Ringim opined that “if the Indigenous People
of Biafra are now saying that yes, we want to
have Biafra, what are you going to do with
more than three quarter of the Igbos who are
outside the East, those in Kano, those in Lagos
what are you going to do with then? You take
all those people then go back to Biafra? They
have no houses to live, they have no means of
livelihood.”
Waziri Ringim dismissed IPOB activities as
orchestrated blackmail to arm-twist other
stakeholders in the polity for more economic
advantage.

For the naysayers,here's the link-
www.dailypost.ng/2016/01/04/igbos-cant-make-up-a-country-their-land-is-poor-ringim/

Cc:Lalasticlala

The bolded explains the inherent backwardness of Nigeria. One wonders how this dumbass ever got into the corridor of recognition. If the so-called south-south is rich, one wonders while it only show in Lagos or Abuja not in the creek. If the resources in Igbo land cannot sustain it, why are most Nigerians hellishly afraid the moment Ndiigbo speak of disintegration of Nigeria or sue for separate independent nation from the zoo called Nigeria? No dumbass fool from the northern region can fool or turn any Igbo man into a willing tool for Caliphate. The hand writing is now visible on the wall. There is no turning back.

TonyeBarcanista:
Ignoramus, Okrika alone has TWO exclusive LGAs (Okrika and Ogu/Bolo), and also shared PH LGA with Ikwerres. PHALGA has two seats in RSHA, Ikwerre produce one and Okrika produce one. This is just Okrika o, not to talk of the Ijaws as a whole in RVS.


Like I said, you are an ignoramus. I'm sure Nnamdi Kanu didn't tell you this.

Most Ikwerre, as fake as their so-called ancestral acclaimed name sounds, are relatively nobodies.

When seemingly above ordinary Nigerians started raining praises on a human fraud such Daura Dumbass named Muhammadu Buhari, I realized really that the fish rots from the head. Muhammadu Buhari was manipulated into Nigerian armed forces without even a common first school leaving certificate through corruptible means of NPC and Tafawa Balewa yet most moronic Nigerians are sold to money. Take all my money and give character. I feel very happy each I am able to walk out of my bed knowing full well that Nigeria is zoo and most of its inhabitants cannot qualify as my compatriots.

OrlandoOwoh:
Musiwa, you're welcome. It's been long since I read your comments.

Musiwa is a gift to the country of western Nigeria.

Whoever is this joker should be arrested. An ordinary former lawmaker donated all these cars and bikes to his constituency. How did he make the money? EfCC should visit or invite him. A stitch in time saves nine.

geeez:
Globacom

Airtel

Oando

Conoil

Honeywell Oil

First Bank

GTbank

FCMB

Sterling Bank

Wema Bank

Global Fleet

Nicon Group

Punch Newspapers

Tribune Newspapers

The Nation

Elephant Cement

Abiola Farms

Summit oil international ltd

Africa Ocean lines

Lister Oil

Bi Courtney

African Petroleum

Zenon Oil

Eleganza Group

Elizade Motors

Aiico Insurance

Xerox Nigeria

Cadbury

Guinness

Note that I'm yet to include companies solely owned by Fernandez and Harry Akande and Obasanjo and a host of other Yoruba people

List more of yours and I'll be back

Per the bolded in the red, Yari.ba owned too?

PAINGAIN:
when will Yorubas mind their own business? Anytime biafra or Kanu are mentioned the yorubas jump into that thread and attack d igbos. I still don't understand it. Hausas don't say anything, likewise other tribes except d yorubas. What is ur own with d biafra struggle? Are igbos asking yorubas to join them? How does biafra concern u? Why do u people always give us 1001 reasons why biafra can't work? I guess u yorubas' " bring down syndrome" will not let u leave igbos alone . U people are just hating for no reason.

Do you mean the ethnic group whose trade in stock is cowardice? I have tried to put a finger on the source of the fear being generated the moment Biafra is mentioned. Even twin brothers and sisters usually go their different ways in life talk less of ethnic groups that have absolutely nothing in commonality.

EternalTruths:
Ahiara declaration and Aburi accord will help you

Anyway

Nigeria can save herself through True Federalism

Bros do not waste your time on that stiff.

wirinet:
Please can you educate us on this Biafran Ideology? Provide me with a link so i can understand the Idology and proponents of this idelogy. Because most of us and even Igbos are confused what Biafra is all about.

When you do not know the meaning of word - ideology, how could you comprehend the fact that Biafra is ideology? Since you are not a Biafran and can never qualify as Biafran, it will amount to waste of my precious time to attempt to educate a sycophant on Biafran ideologue.

OAFMods:
The baffling thing about the Igbo race is their bravado. Have you ever wonder why Nigeria can not tell Biafra what to do but Biafra can dictator to Nigeria what must be done ?

If Nigeria is desirous of a war for Biafra to leave then to war Biafra must go. If the intellectuals in Biafra can not get down their high horse and lay down flat on their igbotic Tommy and plead, beg that Nigeria should conduct a referendum or let Biafra go, I say no such request must be granted no matter how sensible.

The Igbo race must learn to understand they do not stand taller than any other tribe in Nigeria. As Igbo do not want to be dictated to so do other Nigerians are not desirous of any Igbo dictating what should happen or not happen to them in their fatherland.

A trash from a deluded poster. In a straight war without silly helps from certain quarters for the cesspit called Nigeria, it could not have defeated Biafra even with its numerical advantage. The trash cannot hide your fear. If Igbo is not taller, which no Igbo person has advocated about being taller, why not let them split from the cesspit. Must Nigeria conduct referendum to let Ndiigbo and Biafra split from the cesspit called Nigeria? What is the fear for Christ sake?

hazyfm1:
OP This is what makes you sleep well at night, posting negative news all the time

Those who don't want to see anything good in Nigeria will never see anything good

Are you this slow? We were all told that Boko Haram has been soundly defeated. What is source of your headache on this post?

ekafine:
Don't Feel hurt over my comment because I Was only responding to your brother who tried to run down Calabar only to uplift his own town. Although most of the things I wrote up there are truth but I said it in defence of Calabar which gave me my mom. for the decaying infrastructures I will not post it yet at least for now.

I shall not be perturbed to say that anybody of Ibibio or Annang ancestral background cannot put a hurting on my feeling due to long closeness cultivated between them and Ndiigbo particularly my family. Now, there are few misguided trolls among each group which is understandable due to human complexity. However, we must watch when our criticisms become borderline insults.

ekafine:
This is what pisses me up about igbo people. U run a place down just to uplift your place. In which way has owerri surpassed Calabar. Calabar Is another level. Is it beauty, good roads etc. If u say that Owerri is the cheap se.x capital of Nigeria that would be understandable. Because all I saw in owerri aside bad and decaying infrastructures are battalions of women all over the town seeking for men. U dont call that tourism but disaster & chaos. I refused to share the pictures i took here knowing how some of u will misconstrue it but I will share it anyways if u keep attacking south south states.

Cc: HopeAtHand

I have shown wisdom in my post against the posters who attacked you on previous posts but the above post bordered on insult on the people of Owerri and Imo State. Owerri can never have more decaying infrastructure than Calaber. In addition, Owerri cannot have more women seeking for men than Eket or Calaber. I started visiting the region that made up Akwa Ibom and Cross River States at 17 and I am not a girl. I use to travel to Eket when it was semi-village in late 70s. You should also understand that the federal government ran by Yari.ba, Hausa, Pula, Kanuri and rest of them from northern region of Nigeria have concluded to bypass AlaIgbo in terms of meaningful federal presence.
The two federal roads that passed or intercepted at Eket are Eket-Uyo and Oran-Ikot Abasi via Eket-PH Expway. These roads were constructed by the federal government and any boast of economic infrastructure in Eket was due to federal government plan to abuse the minds of Ibibio and Annag towards Ndi-Igbo especially through Helen Esuene. The federral government neglected the Owerri-PH road which is a federal responsibility. Now, if you were coming from Onitsha, the Owerri-Onitsha road is in good form until Obirinze.
One begins to wonder at what point in Owerri you started to see the decaying infrastructures and battalion of women seeking for men. Everything from the control post to Obirinze are mostly new projects.

obailala:
Do you agree with me that the current war in Crimea is still an offshoot of that separation?

There is no war in Crimea. However there is one in Ukraine which cannot be attributed to the disintegration of USSR. If that should be case, there could have been wars all over eastern Europe which might have triggered world war. The east Ukraine saga is closely related to what could have been obtained in Nigeria where ethnic Russians in Donetsk want to join their brothers in Russia or formed independent nation but fools in Ukraine tend oppose to it.