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All the stupid comments I'm seeing here shows that Hausa people are now expected to kill at will in Nigeria. They should be praised and worshipped if you offend them and they didn't kill you.

The man didn't deny naming his dog Buhari but I'm not sure he accepted writing the name of his dog on the dog's body. that seem like a lie from the police, reason they had to kill the dog before he was freed.

When did we become slaves in Nigeria that we are told to learn never to provoke the North or be killed?

how she take enter naija? she pass niger/sokoto border?

What connection does Aguleri have with Agbor? Agbor is older than Aguleri and they don't even have anything in common. Why do some Igbos like twisting peoples history? it's disrespectful.

FREEEMANAN:
5. DEIN OF AGBOR
Agbor also known as Ominije as it was founded by Omini
from Aguleri and it is an Igbo town in Delta state. Agbor was
once affiliated with the Benin Empire before Benin was
conquered by the British. Sitting on the throne is Benjamin
Ikenchuku Keagborekuzi who goes by the title of “Dein of
Agbor” which is the name of his ruling house (the traditional
ruler is usually referred to as Eze or Obi). He was crowned
king just two years and four months after his birth following
the death of his father making him the youngest monarch
ever to ascend a royal throne according to the Guiness Book
of Records in 1981. Following his coronation, he left the
shores of Nigeria to pursue his academics and returned to
Agbor in 2001. He was appointed the fourth Chancellor of
the University of Ilorin by former president Olusegun
Obasanjo in 2006 making him the youngest vice chancellor
of a federal university. He is Officer in the Order of the
Crown, Belgium and also the Vice-Chairman, Delta State
Traditional Rulers Council.

OP, How dare you write this nonsense? you must be very foolish to write this.

Please zombies, where is Aisha Buhari? She lost for air?

Yet another drama.

What is the purpose of this thread?

This guy is good and most of his observations are correct but he's the kind of person that sees the good in others and use to compare his own bad side .

Ritchiee:
Starvation Policy

In Achebe’s book one could see several places where Biafrans violated the basis of the Geneva Convention. You could see where villagers who were non-combatants and should have been protected under Geneva Convention were taking machetes to federal soldiers, hence becoming legitimate targets of war themselves. Another striking instance was when Achebe was with his extended family and overnight their compound was turned into military base without their consent (pg 172). Heavens forbid the Nigerian side bombed the base. Yes, the Biafran propaganda machine would go to work that an innocent illustrious family had been eradicated by the “genocidal Nigerian army” and may even use it as an evidence of war crime. But it was the Biafran army that compromised Achebe’s household.

As part of security preparation for the last Olympics, the British Army commandeered a strategic high-rise residential building and placed surface-to-air missiles at the top. The residents protested and went to court. Let us assume a war broke out and the enemy flattened the whole building. He would not have committed a war crime because it was the British Army that made the civilian residents legitimate targets in the first place. Unfortunate though it may sound, schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, relief centres become legitimate targets once military activities begin to go on there in the event of a war. Check for instance the current Hamas tactics against Israel or the bombing of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when it allowed itself to become headquarters of local Biafran Army, with several professors joining in expedition force to hunt down lost federal soldiers in the bush and their wives back on campus took care of wounded Biafran soldiers and students were going for daily drills and rifle shooting practice under Prof. John C. Ene, Dean of Faculty of Sciences and Commander, University Defence Corps, as revealed in the US secret cable of 16 June 1967. Or the federal raid on the Catholic Cathedral of The Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, when it was discovered Biafran snipers were operating from there.

When a plane or ship is designated as flying relief supplies to war sufferers, it must not be used to supply arms. Once it does, it is no longer covered by Geneva Convention. There was an Austrian Count, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, whom Achebe praises a lot for his humanitarian assistance in flying relief efforts to Biafra. This is what the Count’s wife had to say: “He told me he was going to Biafra, but he didn’t say he would be bombing MIGs (pg 300).” Achebe writes of von Rosen: “He led multiple relief flights with humanitarian aid into Uli Airport – Biafra’s chief airstrip. Fed up with Nigerian Air Force interference with his peaceful missions, he entered the war heroes hall of fame after leading a five-plane assault on Nigerian aircraft in Port Harcourt, Benin City, Ughelli, Enugu, and some other locations. He took the Nigerian Air Force by total surprise and destroyed several Soviet-supplied aircraft in the process.” That was someone flying humanitarian aid. How would the federal side begin to see other humanitarian flights that were supposed to be carrying food and medical supplies to war-ravished children? Cyprian Ekwensi, writer and head of external publicity for Biafra, admitted in his post-war reminiscences that the relief materials had arms built into them. The American documents too confirmed. The same Hank Warton, who the relief agencies were using to fly food into Biafra, was the one Ojukwu was using to deliver arms.

Of course the Nigerian side knew this and mandated all relief flights to Biafra to submit themselves for inspection at the Port Harcourt Airport. That was the interference Achebe claimed von Rosen was fed up with. In any event, he never claimed such in that 6 July 1969 interview he gave the London Observer. Those planes that passed their inspection delivered their relief. Those that did not were shot down. One particular case was the Swiss Red Cross DC7 Flight heading towards the Uli Airstrip (pg 101). After repeated warnings to change course and land for inspection, it was shot down, disgorging its arms and ammunition. The Biafran propaganda went to work, saying it was part of the genocide policies of Nigerian military to destroy food supplies meant for the kwashiorkor-stricken children.

It is also a fact that some of the relief supplies meant for the children were either ambushed by soldiers or ended up on the black market. Ekwensi again: “People were stealing and selling the food. You could buy it in the market, but you couldn’t get it in the relief centres.” But why would Biafra rely on food from thousands of miles away when their normal antebellum route of supply was merely tens of miles nearby in the Midwest and Northern Nigeria? It was because of the supply of arms and ammunition.

In a memorandum to the White House, Benjamin Read, the Executive Secretary of US State Department, writes: “Because of the absence of other airlines willing to make hazardous flights into Biafra, the ICRC [International Committee Of The Red Cross] has been forced to charter planes from Henry Wharton, an American citizen, who is widely known to be Biafra’s only gun runner. In engaging Wharton, the ICRC is risking its good relations with the FMG, which has long feared that ICRC flights might provide opportunity for gun running.” When Awolowo offered to re-open the usual food corridors, Ojukwu flatly refused. Achebe writes: “Ojukwu like many Biafrans, was concerned about the prospect that Nigerians could poison the food supplies (pg211).” Awolowo let in the food supplies for the children anyway, working with the cover of Caritas and Red Cross. “In America, the Nixon administration increased diplomatic pressure on the Gowon administration to open up avenues for international relief agencies at about the same time, following months of impasse over the logistics of supply route,” writes Achebe on pg 221. There was neither pressure nor its increment.

Independent evidence from the US declines to support this. “The problem of disaster relief in Biafra is not the lack of supplies or means of transport but the lack of access, particularly by a land corridor to Biafra. The authorities [Biafran] on the spot, under the conditions of civil war have given a higher priority to politico-military considerations than to arranging food to be delivered to Biafra. In early November 1968, the Nigerian government told the ICRC that it would agree to daylight relief flights to the major airstrip now held by Biafra if the ICRC could give assurances that the strip would handle only relief flight in daylight hours. We welcome this step by the Federal Government (FMG), which would substantially increase the flow of relief. So far, however, the Biafran authorities have refused to agree. We find it incomprehensible that despite the millions of Biafran lives at stake, the Biafran leadership has not yet given its agreement. The Nigerian government has also offered to cooperate in efforts to open a land corridor to Biafran-held territory. We hope that the Biafran authorities will respond positively to this but heretofore they have alleged they fear the food may be poisoned while transiting FMG territory,” William B. Macomber, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations wrote in a letter dated 20 December 1968 to Congresswoman Florence Dwyer, when she sought clarification on the plight of Biafran refugees she kept seeing in the media.

Later when Awolowo visited the battlefronts and saw the kwashiorkor-ravaged children, he asked about the food supplies, only to discover that soldiers were ambushing the supplies, feeding themselves and the top hierarchy so as to continue the war. Awolowo decided this “dangerous policy” must stop.

If Awolowo was a devil as contemporary Igbo folklore and Achebe’s private demonology have him, he would have arranged for the food supplies to be poisoned, knowing they were going to the soldiers. To protect those children, who were suffering because of the war, he asked for a stop to the food supply that was inevitably going to the soldiers and the Biafran plutocrats unnecessarily elongating a war they would never win.

Once Cameroon too realised that to the Biafran authorities, the suffering children existed for show business and arms trade, they not only refused to take them into their country, they disbanded the newly formed relief agency dedicated to their welfare. What is more, Achebe boasts of Biafran prowess in manufacturing Ogbunigwe and the Biafran imaginative refinement of petroleum that kept Biafran vehicles on the road throughout the war without western technological help, but the most basic of human necessities – the production or the supply of food – they had no clue. And the farmers that were supposed to grow food, as the US documents noted, were conscripted into the Biafran Army during planting season of 1967. The fertilisers that could have been used to better their lands were used to make Ogbunigwe. And so the starvation was Awolowo’s fault.

There is nothing you can do to make the nose of a dog to be white. What is bad is bad. Even the war itself is evil. People like you do evil and come up with excuses why you did it same way Jibrin is giving reasons why he shared in an illegal fund of the people he's blackmailing.

Stingman:
So IKA is a tribe? What language do you speak in IKA ethnic group? What does Anioma, your generic name mean? I can assure you, your mother could be from Anioma and your father would be a Yoruba or Benin man or vice a verse...

Please I'm not ready for such talks. life is by mutual respect. I'm Ika, I respect Igbo man's rights to self determination, please respect my right to self identity. thanks.

Stingman:
Is Anioma a tribe? Tell us your tribe? What does Anioma mean in your language?

Well, you're right. Anioma is not a tribe but a Nation that has many tribes and ethnic groups. My ethnic group is Ika and there is nothing like Anioma. Anioma was adopted as a generic name for all the ethnic groups living in the geographical area.

cheruv:
Anioma is the only part of Igboland outside Biāfra that produced most of our military leadership...
Our defense chief,Major General Efyong was from akwa ibom, our army chief Major General Maduebo was from Awka while our airforce and navy chiefs viz Ezeilo and Anuku were from Anioma(I heard Ezeilo was from Ukwuani while Anuku was from Ika)
Aside them,our brigade commanders viz Nwawo, Nzeogwu, Okwuchime etc were from Anioma

So are you Anioma?

Yes I'm Anioma but sorry, I don't see myself as Igbo. but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate good thing but being Igbo is an innate thing and I don't have that feeling of being Igbo in me.

This list is perfect. Darey is highly talented but I don't know what his problem is. Ice Prince is zero talented and I don't know what he raps about. sounds so lame. D banj has no talent so also is K Cee. I'm not a fan of Lil kesh but I think he is better at what he does than the other is listed apart from Darey. Olamide should be on the list as well.

Manseydour:
That ain't poverty. No poor person would need an air conditioner in her house , unless she wants to sell it, which also portrays deceit and greediness.

She's human and all humans - whether big or small Cherish luxuries. Most houses in Nigeria use post paid meters so there is no problem of asking if she can afford the light bills.

EKSUgal:
To stem down the high rate of killing, raping, kidnapping, cult activities, armed robberies, fraud (419, yahoo plus), ritual killings, insurgency, etc, in the country we need to police our immediate environment. We must do the following:

1. Live on the right side of the law. Don't do crime.

2. Don't abet crime. Don't aid crime. Don't join hands with criminals.

3. Expose the criminal elements and their activities in your neighborhood. Criminals are not ghost. They are human beings. They live among people. Get official security lines from police, DSS, and other law enforcement agents in your locality. Report to them. Such reports are anonymous. They don't reveal your identity. Their phone lines have being formatted to hide your identity. You don't even have to tell them your name. Just ensure you give genuine information. Work like a voluntary under-cover. For instance, a young man is living large in your neighborhood, without any obvious job, and you keep quiet. Hmmmn. You're playing with fire.

4. If you see something, say something! Be security conscious!


5. If you keep quiet, they would continue to rob you, kill you, rape the women, defile the minors, kidnap for rituals and ransom, and foment troubles as cultists.

6. Forget about their empty threats of reprisal attacks or revenge attacks. They only use that to intimidate people. Once they are caught, and sent to where they belong, they can't do nothing! Moreso, your identity is hidden.

7. When you don't stand against evil, there can't be peace in the land.

Morals: if you fail to do your part as a good citizen, never blame the government or the authority for whatever horrors the criminals in your areas are subjecting you to. Life is choice.

Your number 6 is so untrue. don't take the threat of a hardened criminal lightly. the only point I see in your post is 1 and 2. everybody must not be an informant. Nothing kills faster than not minding your business.

waShine:
You are not correcting wrong doing atall, the person (call am mumu) and you are telling him to remain the mumu? This is why our faith sometimes wicken our right of justice, sometimes our faith lets go a thief free to continuing thiefing.

No be mumu. Maybe she thinks he has a lot. there are people like that. I don't know her but I like helping people in need and I advise everybody to do the same. the last time I was in Nigeria, the people I helped stole my phone and my money. very expensive phone with all my files with large amount of money, I vowed never to help people again but that decision only stood for few days and I'm back to my old self. Giving is a sacrifice and it's a secret only a few people know. giving paves ways for you in places that you never expected. Even when some people try to take you for a fool, ignore it. it's like someone throwing and scattering seeds in an open field, some of them will die and some will germinate. not all seeds that one sows that bears fruits but you can never tell the one that bears the most fruits.

Kaysalas:
Sorry O! But for ya mind, u go dey think say na better talk you type put here abi?

Mr. I didn't talk to you so look away from my nonsense.

DonCortino:
Greed is greed! If u are greedy when poor, you will also be greedy when rich!

You're wrong. Greed is a very bad trait but there are people that don't want so much. They can do anything to get to a certain stage in life but when they get there, they relax. there are people that go into crime out of frustration, you know such people because once they're able to make out any reasonable income from crime, they turn a new leaf... except that the lazy and least industrious ones of them go back to crime when they're not able to invest their crime proceeds rightly. But there are some that goes into crime out of greed. These set of people will make money from crime but instead of turning a new leaf, they upgrade.

Why do some people talk like they know nothing. Ogbunigwe can destroy any number of soldiers but not in one shot. Biafra soldiers are the most intelligent and resilient soldiers I've ever seen. They were able to stand and fight the Nigerian Army with higher weapons and manpower and also supported by the whole world for 3 years. They inflicted heavy casualties on the Nigerian soldiers that the Nigerian Army has to resort to killing innocent civilians. Nigerian Army lost more soldiers than the Biafran Army. Anyone in doubt should read the books on the biafran war both by Nigerian and Biafran generals.

I'm not Igbo and I was not part of the biafran republic but some of my people fought on solidarity with Biafra and most of the commanders and generals in Biafran army were from my tribe.

Igbos are really great people when it comes to some certain things. only a fool will try to deny that.

Shehu Garba said it "Criticize Buhari and be investigated.. " some people thought he was joking.

LynnPetra:
Greed is the most wicked sin I have ever come across. It just makes me wanna shot something dead!
Have this "nice Christian woman" down the street who I sincerely love.Gave her a old Gen free last yr after she promised to pay, but I refused to take a dime because the amount she wanted to pay for it was very very unreasonable.Promise to give her (out of my free will) a standing fridge when I m moving out of the apartment FREE. Now this woman is asking after my air condition. :oSaid if I want to sell it? Someone that can't afford my generator, my standing fridge, now she us asking after my AC? I have decided when I'm moving out, I will just give her 15k, tell her my sister needs the fridge and that she should join money to the 15k and get another fridge. I hate her character already .

Hers is poverty induced greed. if you already made up your mind to give her, please do. thanks.

These actually are not militants. only God knows who they are. they statement released says militants but the weapons and other things captured showed that of oil bunkerers. who these corpse are I don't understand.

iyb:

Christians and old laws every time an argument starts they claim its an old law found in the old testament but the new testament does not have such since it is written by man and updated frequently like the windows operating system its perfect.
Seriously do you actually believe in the lies you tell yourselves

Ain't you the one deceiving yourself? Do you think any Muslim would still be living today if Christians were working by the old law of an eye for an eye? The new law is about love and selfless service. If an enemy smite you, don't smite back, if someone slaps you, turn the other cheek. if someone offends you 70x7 times, forgive him. and that is the major reason Christians don't go about fighting back when muslims provoke them and Muslims are taking that advantage.

One Day buhari will ask for 7 heads of virgins to sacrifice to Muhammad and Allah before he can do the work he was rigged in to do. I pity Nigeria.

Most of these pdp guys talk like prophets. it's because they truly understand pmb to the core.

since buharu came to power more and more people are dying over blasphemy.

EKSUgal:
It's obvious you have never seen hoodlums from your first comment. Lols.

It's even more obvious you're well raised!

Not all girls are up from grab! That's the morals here!

We are constantly in search of hoodlums, and when we find them we send them where they belong, behind bars.

Are you forming an intelligent official? you're no intelligence nothing if you were, you wouldn't come on nairaland to post this nonsense

Very useless op. You're full of hate. what's your business with this? Leave security agents to do their job. If not for yahoo, nobody would be alive in Nigeria because of the level of poverty and frustration would have reached a very bad stage. Yahoo is not good but it's obviously better than armed robbery, kidnapping and drug pushing. yahoo is really helping Nigerian youths. stopping the menace of yahoo lies in the hands of the government and not you. there's no job and no enabling environment. man gots eat.

full scale Sharia is going through NA reading and U Hari is seeking absolute power. after that, the next decree will shock Nigerians.

It's strange some people say buhari don't want to islamize Nigeria when the handwriting is bold on the wall. can anybody explain the ethnic and religious cleansing in the armed forces? isn't that where UT starts from? Is Buharis silence on Fulani herdsmen not a prove?

Loan recovery and loot recovery is what we hear everyday. Is loan, and loot recovery supposed to be the government's main source of income? apart from these the only other thing they hope on a tax increase. this government is a big joke