₦airaland Forum

MusaChukwudi:
No, I am not blind to his inefficiencies and shortcomings. However I am also NOT blind to the massive constraints and the severely limited resources of the Nigerian state.

He has presidential powers but he is the president of an overpopulated very poor African country. He can't get much done with the best will in the world. His successor will suffer the same fate.

It is the Nigerian people that can collectively change Nigeria not one stupid man at the top!

When that stupid man pretended to be smart, to know the answers to the questions about Nigeria, and when he was trusted with the office, now you realize that he is stupid, or did he deceive you?

Nowenuse:
This is the map of Kaduna below. Can u see Chikun, Kajuru, Kauru & Lere LGAs at the same horizontal level? But Chikun & Kajuru are in Kaduna central, Kauru is in Kaduna south while Lere is in Kaduna north.
How can Lere & Kauru who are side by side in the same horizontal level, yet one is in Kaduna north and the other is in Kaduna south?

Then can you see Giwa & Birnin Gwari LGAs that share boundary with Katsina & Zamfara states? They are both in Kaduna central. If this is not a fraud to weaken the Christians in Kaduna state, tell me what it is!

Good job, sir.

ivolt:
Nose mask is okay but PPE requires higher standards than any random tailor can meet.

Well, start from somewhere, like Aba.
Thanks

MusaChukwudi:
You can't argue rationally because of your particular hatred for Buhari!!!!

Are you blind to Buhari's inefficiencies, or you're paid to defend him?

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Where is Abba Kyari

Pls let's pray for his quick recovery.

Say what

Ahmad?
Is he not the same guy who is promoting almajiri culture in Nigeria?
So shamelessly, the knows to beg Elon for help instead of begging Saudi Arabia or some of their backward Arabic countries.

Babatunde40:
I don't think we kept accurate data at that time. I do not believe it will be up to 500,000

You don't have data, or you don't have common sense?

Iyiataata92:
it's difficult being an FFK supporter. You won't know when he's lying or saying the truth cos his lies and truths look alike

Don't just sit there making noise. Find out if the general has been fired or not.

thorpido:
Garden snakes are not poisonous.

No, this is not garden snake. This is very poisonous variety.

ChinenyeN :
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I too believe that you do not have to reauthor history for the sake of self-determination [ana m ekwuru ụnụ, ndị "Igbo bụ Otu"]. However, at this point right now, we are clearly discussing something that has already happened. The how's and the why's are not as important as the reality of what faces us now, being that Ikwerre succeeded, and that is really all that matters.

Your pro-Ikwerre efforts will be in vain if you think that history is not important, and that after a mere 50 year hiatus, that Ikwerre has "succeeded "
This is very myopic, and I am not surprised, because unlike many normal people, some Ikwerre leaders have no concept of long term consequences.
That is why they could steal someone 's house in the name of abandoned property, and expect everything to be ok for them, their children, and grand children.

Has wishing anyone death been codified into a crime in Nigeria?

Please lawyers in the house, answer the question, because I know that planning, executing, and carrying out death threats is a crime.

When has someone's subconscious feelings and ideas risen to the level of a statutory crime?
Also , how does a person determine that another wishes him death, and therefore needs to counter attack?

Deception at full speed.

Kayceenaz:
It is becoming almost second nature for most Nigerians, both the educated and non-educated classes, to cross the line while pouring out their hearts on national issues. I agree, there are ample question marks on how the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has acted on and reacted to socio-political, economic, and religious matters; spanning from federal character, insurgency, ethno-religious skirmishes, education, malfeasance, to now presidential invisibility before this coronavirus pandemic.

Naturally, we feel betrayed, used, and insignificant to the presidency. Not paling in comparison to status-quo that should be, your feelings are indeed valid. But letting this emotional pain lead you to hurl insults of all sorts at President Buhari, as rampant online, is an overreaction. As you call him unprintable, reprehensible names and ridicule him through jokes/memes, remember he is fallible, someone's husband, father, uncle, grandfather, and holds office of President of Nigeria. It is enough to beg to differ with and criticize constructively his leadership style plus policies. Using constitutional and moral means to show displeasure are in order. Look emotional intelligence's way.

Disturbingly, some people even wish Buhari death, hoping news of his demise filters in soonest. If that's not a representation of the Scriptures' observation that "The heart of man is desperately wicked," then it must be of something worse. If you fall in this category, kindly stop now! Such comments are humor taken too far.

As events unfold and we watch with disappointment, anticipating the National Assembly does the needful and saves the day, let us (Nigerians) amplify our voices to be critically loud enough, not insulting enough.


©Kaycee Naze,
Rational Pen.

Another BMO poster on the loose.
Insult is very subjective in interpretation, and you know it.

Criticizing without crossing your red line of so- called insult is called dictatorship, like in north Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other backward nations.

Buhari and his team came into office calling GEJ all sorts of unprintable names privately and publicly, now you want to change the rules of the game during a match?

ChinenyeN:
Sigh. So you're one of the "Igbo bụ Igbo" types ehn nụ? Propaganda has been running strong with you all since the post-war aftermath. Being "Igbo" pre-war was simply because that is what the British said. We just continued about our business despite it. Hence, indifferent. However, being "Igbo" now is a consequence of the choices that were made during and after the war.

We are now choosing to actively draw a line and pick one side or the other (nonsensically). Origin has nothing to do with what side was picked, and (listen well), ORIGIN DOES NOT MATTER. Sentiment and self-determination is really what matters here and that is what won out in the end. So quit this waste of a mantra that you call "Igbo bụ Igbo", and leave those who found themselves on the other side of the line alone.

I do understand sentiment, self-determination, and even self preservation. You don't have to do it by distorting history--- that's cheap, deceitful, and outrageously wrong!

You can blame the British for caving PH, and Ikwerre people under Owerri province, but you shouldn't blame anybody for making 1900 to 1960 Ikwerres declare themselves Igbos in various easily traceable documents all over the eastern region.

Ikwerre ethnic propaganda, like all historical accounts of betrayal and sabotage show that Ikwerre woke up after the war to change their ethnicity to Bini, as a way to regain lands previously sold to Igbos in PH, steal Igbo properties as abandoned property, and look good in the eyes of Igbo oppressors.

That's ok, that's self preservation, but how long will psuedo educated Elechis, and Orijis if this World advance untenable theory to justify their sabotage of Igbos during and after the war?

Just like Ikwerre people have a need for self determination, Igbos too have a need to focus on those who are Igbos, want to be Igbos, and proud to be Igbo! That's why Igbo b'Igbo is what matters.

When things change again, and Ikwerre people produce yet another theory of their ethnicity, Igbos who are Igbos will still be watching them.

ChinenyeN:
This is not true at all. Prior to the war, most people were indifferent about the "Igbo" tag. It was primarily only literature writers, linguists, academics and the devout Christians who were mostly involved with using the term to within their circles. The war drew a concrete line in the sand and forced people to choose sides. We are living that consequence right now. You are either one side or the other. That is what happened. There's no such thing as "deniers" when it comes to this.

There's nothing like "indifferent " to the question of being Igbo or not. Before the war:
Ogoni people identified themselves as Ogoni, though they spoke Igbo.
Ijaw people, the same.
Efik people the same.

Ikwerre people who still have relatives in many Igbo towns, identified as Igbos before the war, simply began to deny, equivocate, and then purposefully began to confuse their younger ones about their origin, because Igbos lost the war, and the benefits of identifying as non Igbo suddenly outweighed the reverse. Even Ijaw people know that Ikwerres are simply playing a game.

Igbo b'Igbo is really what matters, not the maddening unreliable crowd out there.

Dedetwo:
You have excellently captured the conflict of the ongoing debate in a nutshell. The Igbo phobia seen in southern Nigeria was planted by the British colonial masters. It was even extended to southern Cameroon. When NDC and COR were in vogue, the so-called minorities did tell anyone that they were losing election to fellow village folks and to Igbo.

Good point

pazienza:
It is not always that black and white.
The Ukelle men in Effium, Ntezi and Okpoto in Ebonyi are all proud Igbos today, despite not speaking Igbo as their first language.
What do you have to say about this? I have one of them as my friend, and he carries Igbo matter on his head like gala. Always naturally feel he has to show more pro Igbo character, to be fully accepted as an Igbo.
Such people are real Igbos and are more important and useful for achieving Igbo agenda than an Ijaw man in Opobo /Bonny who speaks Igbo as first language, or a Bini man in a Rumu Ikwerre village, who speak a corrupted version of Igbo language as first language, don't you think so? Think about it more.

Your exam with Ebonyi people is wrong, because they speak a variation or a dialect of Igbo. You can not honestly say that they don't speak Igbo.

Unlike Ikwerre man whose father, grandfather, and great grandfather spoke Igbo, other ethnic minorities in the former eastern Nigeria might have spoken Igbo as a condition of their citizenship of belonging to the region, the same way many minorities of the north spoke Hausa.

However, they always have a mother tongue spoken by their grandparents before the creation of the region's.

So, when revisionists weave the baseless argument that language is not a major defining qualification for a tribe, educated people know better.

Ikwerre man whose forebears spoke Igbo can't compare his lineage with say an Ijaw or Efik man whose parents spoke Igbo as a member of eastern Nigeria.

StreetFight:
Yes, will never develop their drugs and crime region but are all over the world distributing drugs.

Maurice Ewu the former Igbo INEC Chairman is still facing prosecution for stealing 1.2 billion naira.

Iwu was not perfect, but not on the scale of the shameless man who appointed his own people to rig elections for him, and crazy dogs like EFCC boss whose only goal is to hunt done any suspected opponent of Buhari.

Mark of a very bad government:
Always blame the people you're supposed to be governing.

If you blame them first, then it will be difficult for them to turn around and blame you for failing to do your job!

He already won 75% of the votes, while his opponent, no matter who, wins less than 20% of the votes.

J111333:
I hope he doesn't introduce advanced election rigging in Liberia just like Jega and his successor did in Nigeria.

Well, Prof. Humphery Nwosu didn't disappoint so this Igboman won't.

Congrats.

Liberian president could not nominate his niece to engineer his own election?

Ladylite:
So the Iman who also didn't obey the same law should remain free and congratulated?

Nigerians are too blind.

They need to be rewarded, forgiven, retrained, and awarded scholarship to overseas studies.

awakeuche:
My experience too, they have a love hate relationship with Igbo people, mostly an envious one.
But if you see them outside rivers state, especially in the north or south west, they will begin calling any Igbo person they see "nwannem o". I find it two faced and laughable.

My experience too. Had a 50 year old patient once who trumpet his Igboness right from the gate to the checkin counter, only to find out that he was Ikwerre man who is Igbo overseas, and Bini descended Ikwerre once in Nigeria.

pazienza:
Rivers is more of Ijaw state than Igbo.
The Kalabari, Andoni, Opobo, Bonny,Okirika, Nkoro, are all proud Ijaws.

Only Oyigbo and to an extent Egbema (Many here are now becoming Igbophobic) are Igbos.

Oyigbo or Obigbo?
When a city calls itself Obigbo, "the heart of Igbos", it doesn't matter whether the Igbo name was adulterated by Dietta Spiff and Ken Saro Wiwa or not.

joelbooks:
They're Ikwerre, Ikwerre never believe there are igbos.... They Rather believe to be from Benin

They never believe that they are Igbos after Biafra was defeated in the civil war!

Please make a point to correct your self.

The fathers and grand fathers of those insisting that they are not Igbos today, clearly documented their tribe as Igbo before the civil war.

Igbos can't force anyone to be Igbo, but at least the records remain undisputable.

chatinent:
I can't believe Buhari is negative.

Presidents can't be positive, even Trump whose every contact has tested positive claims his test was negative!

Whether Jibril or Mohammed Buhari, the cabal will not let you know the truth.

Davash222:
A truck loaded with 70 soldiers in a war zone


If this is true, then, Nigeria Army lack tactics and I don't see them winning this war with this amateur approach.

That's why we question the sincerity of Aso Rock in dealing with BH
Someone made the decision to pack hopeless soldiers like sardines and creat a nice shooting target for the BH friends.
Another sad story is that nobody will be punished for this decision.

Fraudulent PDP chairman who was actually working for APC.

OP, your point destroyed itself with inherent bias and stupidity.
Last time I checked democracy is about hearing from everybody, not tagging them, isolating them, and prosecuting them with a lopsided military.
You can do better.

Osagyefo98:
Stop scattering our plans and agenda with all these your statistics.

It is quite suspicious now.

What's your main agenda for all these please?

Educate us

Truth hurts?

How does this affect Buhari's frequent and unnecessary overseas travels?

Herdsmen:
Kingibe missed his period.. didn’t take take his chance.
Apc is returning power to the north..2021 wil see lot of alignment.
It’s already “one North” Ogbe from Benue is the new chairman..
One North is signed sealed and delivered.

Let see what south is bringing against the north.

One north, sure!
Ogbe, yes, a good stooge
Benue plateau people have really enjoyed one north with killing of their people but northern Fulani herdsmen, yes one nut!