₦airaland Forum

after1:
Dumb old fool, Ondo produces more oil than all your cursed erosion ravaged region. Fastfood security man

The missives of your idiotic stream of thought always compel me to sue for disintegration of the jungle called Nigeria. How could any reasonable fellow feel settled to have a dumbass dingbat such as you as compatriot? The so-called Ondo State's crude oil or lack thereof is the manifestation of Obasanjo's dubious and criminal boundary adjustment program. Every single crude oil assigned to Ondo State belongs to Edo and Delta States.

engrsyer:
If USA have the guts they should penalize China for violation of Human Right/ Free will to worship.

In China I believe seriously!

Who has penalized USA for forcing the acceptance of weird lifestyle such as homosexuality on the majority? China did not say Muslims cannot worship!!!

arbitter:
Didnt know heaven is smoke infested , center of child labor and all sorts of shlt.

And what exactly is there to be joyous about another country oppressing a minority?
Same crap could happen to your ass then see what you'll think of it.

Simple obedience of the law does not include oppression.

natas22:
Freedom of choose your religion thats one of the human rights
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Freedom is liberty to act or behavior within the guidance of the law. Religion does not warrant behaviors outside of the law.

It is foolhardy to insinuate the China has taken a major step to ban Islamic religion. I guess the action of China is a human approach to the modernization of Islamic religion. This is not only a bold move by China but a welcome step to assist human nature in sanitizing a religion that seemed out control and had no respect to human life.

Spymate:
Did they actually fight or offered services to the fighters?

They neither fought nor offered services to the fighters. They were ugly Yari.ba girls. I guess picture does not lie.

The socio-political philosophy espoused by Radio Biafra thus the re-orientation of the peoples’ political psychic from the destructive format entrenched in the zoo called Nigeria is one reason I support the need to disintegrate Nigeria.

nickxtra:
J. S. Tanka was a millitant; Joseph Waku is a verbal militant; Bukola Saraki is political militant; Prof. Jerry Gana is a political prostitute, etc, etc

J. S. Tarka was dumbass turncoat and water-boy. After his followers in UMBC were massacred by the Fulani, Hausa, Kanuri and Nupe in 1964, he allowed himself to be used by Mobil, Fulani, Yoruba, Hausa, Kanuri and Nupe as a weeping jackass before the USA audience by telling them that crude oil flows from his region and USA should support Nigeria against Biafra.

zendy:
I doubt the authenticity of this picture very much. Yaradua was a nobody in 1965, how would he have been mingling with the Oba of Lagos at this time?

Alhaji Musa Yaradua, the father of Shehu and Umaru, was the Minister of Lagos in 1965.

Freemanan:

THE WORST DEMOCRAT IS BETTER THAN THE BEST DICTATOR...



MUGABE STOP THE MALADY

You are very deluded about democracy.

Moslems are bloody hypocrisy and moronically deluded under the weight of Islamic religion. The pictures of modern cell phones and AK-47 buttressed the stupidity of the jackasses flying the banner of Boko Haram. Boko Haram indeed.

abagoro:
The question remains

1) How many months are civil servants owed?

2) Is Imo the only State owing workers?

3) Was there an agreement earlier reached which the Governor failed to honor?

At least in Rivers State workers are owed 4months while in other States it varies.

It is more than 13 (thirteen) months by the admission of Mallam Rochas Rogas Okorochange Okorocha.

Omenkata:
Oshiomole is a scallywag - Kwankwanso

Oshiomole is more than a scallywag - Omenkata

omonnakoda:
Dende even in dotage you must still remember [b]Ewu be na akwa and other records Eboes made taunting Hausas and celebrating their January 1966 "VICTORY". [/b]Eboes think taunting people and poking fun is a way of exchanging pleasantries so they laughed a lot in January but by July we came to know who the real Ewu was. The Ewu that is still wailing to this day from the Sanatorium

The foolishness in you is very daunting. The bolded explains everything about you. What an Ogbomosho jackass. I know if your stinking and useless life depended on getting the correct facts about 1966 Nigeria, your parents will lose dumbass dunce as a child. Yari.ba ninnies who continue to borrow wrong leaves from Nowa Omogui had suffered intellectual lashing. Since the best thing to do to a Yari.ba goons is to let them continue barking like a rabid dog, I shall let you indulge in the path of self-destruction. By the way, your Prophet Nowa Omogui had already beat a hasty U-turn on such silly accusation against Ndiigbo.

The worst act of ignorance by a human is the one displayed in the public. The stark display of foolery is parallel to your gloomy life on earth. I cannot pity a dumbass Yari.ba gull.

MalcoImX:
Tell me, which country is not a geographical expression?

A country is more than a mere geographical expression.

According to Awolowo, Nigeria is a mere geographical expression. I usually do not agree with the late tribal icon of Yoruba land but on this stanza he did not miss the mark.

T8ksy:
It was basically "an ibo coup within an ibo" coup. Most of their top military leaders and politicians were in on the coup

hence Zik the big coward, was conveniently out of the country, two days before and ifeajunna, one of the inner coup plotter was having tea with

okpara, (premier of Eastern region who too, was supposed to be eliminated by the coupists) barely 12hours after killing his brigade commander in

cold blood whilst sparing his fellow ibo general, ironsi who could and did eventually quelled the rebellion, allegedly!

If the January 15, 1966 coup had been declared and baptized Igbo coup, one wonders when the dumbass Nigerians lost their intellectual sanity to baptize coups. Since January 15, 1966, Nigerian armed forces have precipitated, at least, more than two coups yet none has been named Fulani, Hausa, Kanuri, Nupe, Tiv or Birom coup.

nduchucks:
Sir, who intentionally made the coup to look like an Igbo coup to justify wholesale slaughter, as you put it? Are you insinuating that there was a plan for the "pogroms" before the coup and that the pogroms were not reactions to the said coup?

Were you new to Nigerian historical facts? There wer such incitement of riots in northern region before the pogrom of 1966. The long speeches of hatred directed to a particular ethnic nationality in northern region by Ahmadu Bello and ridicules of certain ethnicity at the floor of northern regional house of assembly by the members of NPC were precursor to pogrom. One example was the Jos riot instigated by the British. I guess the coup was also responsible for riots of 1945 and 1952.

nduchucks:
I am not going to argue with you about NPC or NCNC as these political parties are irrelevant to the larger point being made - the point I might add, you are well aware of.

The emphasis was on the fact that the power brokers of the day, regardless of their political affiliation, had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo. To many, Igbo people were considered to be the main beneficiaries of this alliance, taking most of the top jobs and leading business opportunities in the Nigerian federation. Are you disagreeing with this assertion or just nit picking?

I hate when Nigerians tend to bail out on intellectual exercise due to brazen ignorance. There is no point trying to take a high road on the issue you know nothing about yet attempted to deceive the forum audience to believe otherwise. Please pal, I really will appreciate the fact if you could strike a difference between political alliance and parties in coalition government.

As a matter of fact, the so-called mainstream Yoruba party under Awolowo was in alliance with so-called political party led by an Igbo man. Besides, the so-called Igbo man led political party won election in two and later three regions and as such ministerial appointments are distributed among political operatives from the regions hence, J O Johnson, Adelabu Adegoke, TOS Benson, Olu Akinfosale, Olu Balogun, Okotie- Eboh etc were ministers during the era you stipulated. I say shame to dumbass Nigerians who are bent on flying irresponsible falsehood in order to eke out a cheap political point.

aresa:





Saying you don't have homosexuals in your part of Africa is like saying you you yourself never existed in your part of Africa.

Or you arrived at your ignorant and idiotic conclusion after conducting your own ignorant survey all over Nigeria, looked inside everybody's bedroom to figure out their sexual acts and leanings, conducted medical and psychological evaluation on every man and woman and they expressed to you their sexual preferences..

You see how dumb and ignorant you sound at your miserable old age?

You're still daft, ignorant and unintelligent.

You are moronically idiotic. The weight of your perverse ignorant cannot response to sanity assistance. You are so dumb you did not even realized the premise of article is a dumb missive. Anyway there are haystacks of goons such you who have delusional compulsion to the brink and cannot discern there is no "Black Africa". You shall remain a drooling ninny for life.

Okijajuju1:
He actually ordered the immediate demolition of all structures blocking the water way.

That house submerged is at the end of the street my Aunty lives on and is just a few meters away. The house na one police oga house. I no dey pity am because hen boys dey behave like touts for the area.

The bolded is a mentality and line of action only found among clueless goons. Did the department of works not see the blockage before the down pour?

Sweetlemon:
Do you know anyone that is very humble, peaceful, unassuming, adaptive, fun, yet intelligent irrespective of their religion? Check their state of origin, they're most likely from the middlebelt! Save for a few bad eggs, most have very endearing qualities.
I grew more respect for them during the elections, I thought they were going to vote against Buhari being a Fulani man because of the way fulani herdsmen and people bully them on their lands. But surprisingly, they gave majority votes to APC even though there's also a large Christian population there. It shows they may not be phyical fighters but they can reason strategically.

The North central is the only region that hardly has militants, "freedom fighters", or whatever silly, violent, directionless, selfish, groups all other regions have.

They go about their businesses without creating drama and irritaing tantrums at the drop of a hat. Sometimes they're mistaken for "slaves" or docile people but there's a difference between being docile and wise. They're wise enough to know that fighting for their own country when they know they're not economically, socially, or politically ready to stand on their own two feet or allowing some selfish politicians to use their youths to fight "marginalization" is just NOT the way out.

The rest of us should please borrow a leaf from them. We need it urgently.

When one makes oneself irrelevant, one becomes a follower.

omonnakoda:
Dende how is the new sanatorium?

I guess you reside in one.

nduchucks:
This is irrelevant to the thread's topic. No one mentioned NPC or NCNC but you.



It appears that early blindness has started to set in o. Did you read this sentence in my post at all: "I do not believe that the coup of January 15, 1966 was meant to be an Igbo coup" ?



The 2 "facts" of yours above are unsubstantiated and are figments of your imagination and phobia. Stop manufacturing "facts"

Finally, join hands with moral Nigerians and let us build this nation together.

This is the first sentence of the thread: "After independence, a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties, which ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo". Please note that I was not born yesterday. If NPC and NCNC were not inferred in your previous post, can you expatiate the followings: a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties. Were you referring to APC and PDP in that condescending statement?

ayobabas:
Whenever a hat drops, SS/SE want Nigeria to divide along ethnic lines. Go round the world and you will find that most countries comprise of different nationalities working for the common good of all.

South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Zambia, Cameroun, Kenya, Ethopia, China, Russia, UK, USA, Canada, India, Pakistan, etc, are just examples of multi-ethnic countries.
If every tribe wants its own country, will you divide Nigeria into 300+ countries?

Yugoslavia was a western conspiracy aimed at weakening Russian hold on Eastern Europe. USSR was a collection of countries in a union, which could no longer continue the space and global domination race with the west and America. It was not militancy or the biafran-like chorus that dissolved USSR. Even today majority remain in a confederation of independent states.

War is a brunt instrument that kills mostly the innocent people while war-mongers and leaders sit in air-con offices.

I dare say however that Nigeria will be Nigeria and if the militants in the SS/SE want an expensive experiment, Nigeria will execute it with a ferocity unequalled in Biafran war. I pray not for war, though some untrained souls on NL have the annoying habit of beating the drums of war on empty stomach.

Arrant nonsense. Most developed countries of the world are homogeneous. It foolhardy to cite USA and other countries as diverse at their formative years. USA was purely English and the culture remains solidly the same till today. Do I need to mention Japan, Germany, Italy, France and even Portugal? I do not give a ratass if Nigeria is divided into 350 nation states as long as I have Republic of Igbo land.

eneidoko:
History has taught us that arm-chair war mongers are usually the first to flee abroad when the real war starts.

Confront your corrupt governors and so-called commanders or contractors for their greed.

War is not an option but if you think it is, fire the first shot and watch the Nigerian military juggernaut.

I hope this time the militants will not scurry into village holes among innocent civilians.

You are the arm-chair war monger who construed that agitation for independent home land equates to war-mongering. No wonders most Nigerians are regarded as wild beasts. USSR, which was better than Nigeria in every human endeavor, disintegrated without a shot fired in anger.

The picture of that young poor innocent girl will continue to haunt my consciousness about the unity in Nigeria or lack thereof. It has become one of the igniting burners in me to sue for the end of the jungle called Nigeria.

aresa:
Very daft, ignorant and unintelligent.

Only daft, ignorant and unintelligent dingbats identify human beings with hue. Is there any blue or yellow part of Africa, dummy?

nduchucks:
Background

After independence, a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties, which ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo. To many, Igbo people were considered to be the main beneficiaries of this alliance, taking most of the top jobs and leading business opportunities in the Nigerian federation.

The elections of 1965 saw the Nigerian National Alliance of the Muslim north and the conservative elements in the west, face off against the United Progressive Grand Alliance of the Christian east and the progressive elements among the westerners. The Alliance of North and West won a crushing victory under Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, amid claims of widespread electoral fraud. Many newspapers and election observers reported incidents in which millions of cattle, goats and sheep voted for the Northern candidates.

It was in this charged scenario that the military intervened.

The Coup

The January 15 was orchestrated by six Army officers: Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emma Ifeajuna, Chris Anuforo, Wale Ademoyega, Timothy Onwutuegwu, and Donatus Okafor.

Historians and scholars have consistently written in agreement that Nzeogwu, Anuforo and Ademoyega were genuine nationalists and detribalized men while the the motives of Ifeajuna and Okafor are still shrouded in mystery until today.

What is clear however, is that of the six plotters, only one (Ademoyega) was not Igbo, and going through a list of their victims, there was only one Igbo man (Lt. Col. A. Unegbe) killed.

The North lost the core of its political elite (Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello), and some of their best military officers (Zakariya Maimalari, Kur Mohammed, Abogo Largema and James Pam), while the West lost its leading politician at the time (Samuel Akintola), and some officers (Sam Ademulegun and Ralph Sodeinde).

This list of people killed is by no means exhaustive, but I must point out that four people who were on the list to die that day somehow escaped, and they are Nnamdi Azikiwe (who 'conveniently' left Nigeria two days before), Michael Opara, Dennis Osadebe and J.T. Aguiyi-Ironsi. They were all Igbo.

Detribalized Analysis

I do not believe that the coup of January 15, 1966 was meant to be an Igbo coup. Of all Nigeria’s coups, it was the most nationalistic in outlook and didn’t promote any group’s interests over those of any other. Unfortunately however, it was poorly executed by those who executed it in the South, and from that moment on the fates of millions of people was sealed.

Naturally, the North felt that it had been shafted, and began to make plans for revenge, a revenge which they took in more measures than one when the pogroms started in May 1966, and eventually the counter coup of July 29, 1966. I do not think any sane human being can blame the North for its reaction here.

And the rest they say, is [url=lalasticlala.oam4j.afam4eva]history.[/url]

When a Nigerian starts conversion with "I am detribalized", he or she exudes a culpable idiocy. It is safe to say that in the context of Nigeria, a person becomes culturally nobody when he or she assumes detribalized. The person becomes wondering ninny without a home.
In addition, I had thought the poster of the above bunkum should have known better than tempting the forum audience with such a junk. It is unfortunate that individuals do not know how ignorant they sound when attempting to be mischievous.
Fact: NPC and NCNC never were in alliance
Fact: January 15, 1966 coup in Nigeria was not Igbo coup
Fact: The coup was precipitated by Nigerian army officers led by Igbo and Yoruba descents.
Fact: British, BBC, Gowon, Yusuf and Baba Usman connived to brand the coup an Igbo.

Did the man return the stolen carrot of the 7-year old boy?

ROSSIKE:
Homosexuality is not un-African


It is legalized homophobia, not same-sex relations, that is alien to Africa

April 26, 2014

by Sylvia Tamale

During a prime time interview with BBC’s “Hard Talk” show in March 2012, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni noted, “Homosexuals in small numbers have always existed in our part of black Africa …They were never prosecuted. They were never discriminated against.”

Earlier this year, confronted by internal and external pressure, Museveni reversed himself and signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the full glare of the media — declaring that homosexuality was Western-imposed. Before signing the law, Museveni asked a team of top-notch Ugandan scientists to help him make an educated decision. The panel’s report did not mince words: “In every society, there is a small number of people with homosexual tendencies.”

Museveni’s bizarre actions can only be interpreted as a political ploy ahead of presidential elections scheduled for early 2016. Having been at the helm since 1986, Museveni faces serious competition both within and outside his party, not to mention a restless population afflicted by a high cost of living, unemployment and a general disgust with rampant corruption. By the stroke of a pen, Museveni succumbed to populist pressures and condemned an otherwise law-abiding sexual minority to maximum sentences of life imprisonment.

Uganda is not alone in its anti-gay crusade. Nigeria recently passed a law criminalizing homosexuality. Several other African countries — including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Sierra Leone — have all expressed the desire to emulate Uganda and Nigeria. At least 38 African countries already proscribe consensual same-sex behavior.

The sad, tired but widely accepted myth that homosexuality is un-African has been valorized and erected on the altar of falsehood time after time. It is a myth that has been played out in numerous contexts, most recently over the debate on Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill. However, historical facts demand that this fable be debunked once and for all.


African sexualities

The 'homosexuality is un-African' myth is anchored on an old practice of selectively invoking African culture by those in power. African women are familiar with the mantra. “It is un-African” whenever they assert their rights, particularly those rights that involve reproductive autonomy and sexual sovereignty.

The mistaken claim that anything is un-African is based on the essentialist assumption that Africa is a homogeneous entity. In reality, however, Africa is made up of thousands of ethnic groups with rich and diverse cultures and sexualities. As appealing as the notion of African culture may be to some people, no such thing exists. Moreover, even if we wanted to imagine an authentic African culture, like all others, it would not be static.

African history is replete with examples of both erotic and nonerotic same-sex relationships. For example, the ancient cave paintings of the San people near Guruve in Zimbabwe depict two men engaged in some form of ritual sex. During precolonial times, the “mudoko dako,” or effeminate males among the Langi of northern Uganda were treated as women and could marry men. In Buganda, one of the largest traditional kingdoms in Uganda, it was an open secret that Kabaka (king) Mwanga II, who ruled in the latter half of the 19th century, was gay.

The vocabulary used to describe same-sex relations in traditional languages, predating colonialism, is further proof of the existence of such relations in precolonial Africa. To name but a few, the Shangaan of southern Africa referred to same-sex relations as “inkotshane” (male-wife); Basotho women in present-day Lesotho engage in socially sanctioned erotic relationships called “motsoalle” (special friend) and in the Wolof language, spoken in Senegal, homosexual men are known as “gor-digen” (men-women). But to be sure, the context and experiences of such relationships did not necessarily mirror homosexual relations as understood in the West, nor were they necessarily consistent with what we now describe as a gay or queer identity.

Same-sex relationships in Africa were far more complex than what the champions of the “un-African” myth would have us believe. Apart from erotic same-sex desire, in precolonial Africa, several other activities were involved in same-sex (or what the colonialists branded “unnatural”) sexuality. For example, the Ndebele and Shona in Zimbabwe, the Azande in Sudan and Congo, the Nupe in Nigeria and the Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi all engaged in same-sex acts for spiritual rearmament — i.e., as a source of fresh power for their territories. It was also used for ritual purposes. Among various communities in South Africa, sex education among adolescent peers allowed them to experiment through acts such as “thigh sex” (“hlobonga” among the Zulu, “ukumetsha” among the Xhosa and “gangisa” among the Shangaan).

It is ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.

In many African societies, same-sex sexuality was also believed to be a source of magical powers to guarantee bountiful crop yields and abundant hunting, good health and to ward off evil spirits. In Angola and Namibia, for instance, a caste of male diviners — known as “zvibanda,” “chibados,” “quimbanda,” gangas” and “kibambaa” — were believed to carry powerful female spirits that they would pass on to fellow men through anal sex.

Even today, marriages between women for reproductive, economic and diplomatic reasons still exist among the Nandi and Kisii of Kenya, the Igbo of Nigeria, the Nuer of Sudan and the Kuria of Tanzania. Like elsewhere around the world, anal intercourse between married opposite-sex partners to avoid pregnancy was historically practiced by many Africans before the invention of modern contraceptive methods.

Clearly, it is not homosexuality that is un-African but the laws that criminalized such relations. In other words, what is alien to the continent is legalized homophobia, exported to Africa by the imperialists where there had been indifference to and even tolerance of same-sex relations. In Uganda such laws were introduced by the British and have been part of our penal law since the late 19th century. The current wave of anti-homosexuality laws sweeping across the continent is therefore part of a thinly veiled and wider political attempt to entrench repressive and undemocratic regimes.


Alien to Africa

Equally alien to the continent are the Abrahamic religions (particularly Christianity and Islam) that often accompany and augment the “un-African” arguments against homosexuality. African traditional religions were (and still are) integrated into the people’s holistic and everyday existence. It was intricately tied to their culture, including sexuality.

With the new religions, many sexual practices that were acceptable in precolonial, pre-Islamic and pre-Christian Africa were encoded with tags of “deviant,” “illegitimate” and “criminal” through the process of proselytization and acculturation.

The struggle to win full citizenship for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex groups is global. Even in countries where homosexuality has been decriminalized, the consciousness of the majority has yet to catch up with reformed laws. In order to completely dispel homophobia from Africa, we may have to employ radically new methods of advocacy that resonate with African philosophies such as Ubuntu. This concept encompasses many values — humaneness, solidarity, interdependence, compassion, respect and dignity. It rejects selfish, paternalistic and restrictive regulations issued by rulers riding high moral horses in complete disregard of the interests of their neighbors, their community and their fellow human beings.

The late Nelson Mandela described this philosophy as “the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others, that if we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.”

The homosexuality-is-un-African mantra negates everything that African history and tradition has transmitted to posterity. A tenet of African philosophy holds that “I am because you are.” In short, it matters little about the differences that each one of us displays but much about the essence of humanity that binds us together. What really matters is the respect for human dignity and diversity.

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/homosexuality-africamuseveniugandanigeriaethiopia.html

The writer of the above article is a big fool. The presence of a delusional compulsion overmastered his or her intellect to embrace a common sense that no part of Africa is black. Only a dumbass ninny from Africa arrogates blackness to his or her neck of woods. Homosexual never existed in my part of Africa and it has never been black too.