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uckennety:
Google is ur friend

Convert Nigerian 20pounds to its value then

And place it with its value today

Here's a simpler way, why don't you ask the old men in your village how much they were making per annum as at 1976? That'll help you put things in perspective.

Offering 20pounds each to people who you were just in a war with is an act of magnanimity. They didn't need to do it and nobody would have arrested them if they didn't. But they did and what did they get from the childepren and grandchildren of the beneficiaries of this kindness many years after? Ingratitude, insults, curses.

Now, that's a sense of entitlement you don't see everyday. It ranks up there with a group of people who expected the enemies they declared war upon to feed them while the war lasted.

Chukapage:
yes nah the same Junaid has promised to make sure your elders run before ordinary knockouts start going off��.ok it's no longer SE/SS it's now Asari wasting my leader?? Asari is SS in your village the same Asari that's has his boys in Ipob running around screaming Biafra!Biafra!��,your funny comot for here before I call Junaid and his brothers now ..�

Why don't you type this in Igbo and I'll have someone translate it for me cos I can't make a head or tail of this gibberish. Honest, I don't understand a thing you wrote.

onyeopobo:
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Damn, How can a negro connect with some of y'all dense mutherfxckers! Oh but we should join you in SW? and be obliterated? how much cocooning have you guys done for the very few ijaws who resided in ondo state?

Read negro, PLEASE read and slowly - im from one those small communities in the SS and i'm pro SE, they're who most of the tribes here in SS have been in cahoots with for over 500 years. So if you really want this country to be together, then stop trolling, poking and taunting the SE because if they successfully break out of today's nigeria you best believe the Aro tribes of the SS is going with them, that should come as common sense to you people, but the denial in this forum is deep.

And hey! sell your fear and vitriol of the SE to the edos, itshekiris, isokos that are posting here, they might be interested! No offence to anyone, just stating facts[/s].

Stating facts? If you were stating facts you wouldn't be convulsing like an epileptic patient on my post. If you want to make a point do so without the vitriolic words. It's too early for me engage gutter like comments.

Try again, this time with a little bit more common sense.

osazsky:
because nysc missed few steps at d begining doesn't make it right now that they have realised it's better to correct the wrong that was neglected previously,,,its better to be late than nerver,,,we dont want doctors who are murderers or accountants that will turn d books upsidedown am with nysc on this,,good move kudos

Well, those few steps they missed has caused someone one year of her life and what if she had died while in active service?

Like I said, time is money. Someone should pay for wasting these people's time. NYSC should pay through their nose for their stupidity. There's no excuse for sloppy behaviour. We want Nigeria to be like the USA but we condone acts like this from government parastatals.

Put yourself in the shoes of the lady. If you were the one or your younger sister affected would you still say kudos?

AquariusRising:
We have a common enemy, those who will destroy or way of life and exterminate our people's..whether Yoruba, ibibio, Igbo or ikwere. ..It is disgusting and heart breaking, to say the least, to see educated indigenous people of this land now called Nigeria quibbling over minor tribal differences...If nothing else, let's hold to our love of freedom and liberty, if we can not hold to shared Christian faith.

Show me the posts you made condemning Nnamdi KANU when he made the call for Igbos to kill any Yoruba or Hausa man at sight. I still have his audio and video recordings in my archive.

Did you come out and condemn him when he said the Igbo shouldn't attend any church pastored or founded by a Yoruba man?

I have videos of this man soliciting for arms and ammunitions with which to fight Yorubas and Hausas at the US Igbo world council day or something.

You can't eat your cake and still have it. What you can do is have your cake and eat it, which you have done.

If you guys are wise you'd cut yourselves from that psychotic human being called Nnamdi Kanu. But he's another Ojukwu whom you are willing to follow to the ends of the earth.

When it is time for the Yorubas to protect themselves be rest assured that they will rise up and do just that.

The Fulanis present no threat to us. We dealt with them in the past, we'll do same if the need arises. We don't need to align with people who have only shown us hatred unabated over the years.

The Yorubas stopped Usman Dan Fodio's armies from taking over the entire south single handedly. We will do it again when the need arises by the grace of God.

PrecisionFx:
Yoruba and lies.


""Awolowo who y'all love to hate also kept the Eastern region's federal allocations for them all through the war period and remitted same to them after the war.""


Lies. Awolowo made sure all IGBOS lost all the money they had in Nigerian Banks with his 20 pound policy.


""I'm sure the minority tribes of the Niger Delta can tell us more how the Biafean soldiers dealt ruthlessly with them during the civil war.""


Some parts of Niger delta were attacked by the biafran army (Which was made up of all tribes from eastern nigeria). They did so because some communities were ambushing biafran soldiers n killing dem in the process.

Afonja pls carry ur lies n go

I only reply with facts no matter how unpleasant they may sound. Biafra soldiers never kept any federal prisoner of war. They executed any and all federal soldiers caught. During war terrible things happen. Biafra soldiers dealt mercilessly with their southern neighbours on the mere rumour that they were aiding the federal troops. Besides how can civilians ambush armed soldiers? Does that even make sense to you? You see soldiers carrying weapons during a war, what's your first instinct? To ambush them as an unarmed civilian or to go into hiding? Who is lying now?

As per the 20pounds policy, I have answered this somewhere earlier. Go and ask old people who lived when Nigeria was still spending pounds. 20 pounds was a huge amount and if you had proof that you hadmoney in a npbank account you were given 20 pounds. Most civil servants didn't earn 20 pounds in a year.

Only facts here.

For a better appreciation of the Nigerian civil war, go and read "The Tragedy of Victory" by a direct participant, Colonel Isama. His book documented most of what happened during the war with hundreds of pictures to boot.

ivolt:
Suppose I present a certificate from Elson Morali University of Technology, Benin Republic(It costs less than a $100 to make one).
Why should NYSC issue me a certificate if they found out that the university is fake?

From the original post, I gather that it isn't about fake university or fake certificate, it is about he perception that universities in Benin Republic give away their certificates to undeserving students cheaply. That's not for the NYSC to determine otherwise they'd have to have a board that looks into the eligibility of every foreign university to issue certificates.

Second, why wait until the lady had wasted a year of her life on a pointless exercise before rejecting her? Wasting tax payers money to pay out allowances to corp members who will eventually not get a certificate.

Third, what happened to putting out a bulletin that Nigeriams shouldn't study in any university in Benin Republic if they wanted to be called up for national service?

Fourth, why issue these people call up letter when you know that their certificates were bought?

Fifth, whenever there's going to be an Elson Morali University of Technology, it will NOT be fake. It'll be among the top 5 universities in the world.

rosebowl01:
I understand your point, but don't you think you're making the exact (but opposite) mistake that you are accusing the protesters of? You don't want them to say 'Fulani must go' so that it does not appear like they are trying to send away EVERY Fulanis, Hausas, and all other Northerners? Typical political correctness people! My point earlier is; by their 'Fulani must go' chant, I am sure you understand 100% that they mean the Fulani that are killing and maiming them. Tell me a time that these same locals ever acted hostile towards a regular Northerner or specifically Fulani man that just live their life without destroying people's farm, or killing people without cause?
You talk about consideration for Southerners living in the North, well, do you not think if we could all peacefully move to our regions, and go our separate ways, we (Southerners) will IMMEDIATELY agree to that offer? I mean check your history. These people are ultimately a drag on our progress and a threat to our peace. They do not contribute much, but take majority (every single year since amalgamation) by indirectly threatening the rest of the country.

It's not true that they do not contribute much. The amount of foodstuff that moves from the Northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere is huge. The north feeds the whole country literally. I have lived in communities where trailers go from one farmstead to the other packing and loading yams and potatoes and carrots etc. The average northerner may not be as educated as his southern counterpart but he is not less hardworking, honest and dedicated to his family's wellbeing.

This is the first time in the history of Nigeria that herdsmen are actually carrying guns and killing and raping. Between 1960 and 2015, herdsmen hadly ever had a clash with farmers.

We all normally see them driving their cattle in our towns and cities without apprehension. What has changed?

Like I said earlier, it's not my perception of what the protest is all about that should bother you. I am Yoruba. It's what the Fulanis think when they see "Fulani must go" placards. This isn't the 80s and they aren't Ghanaians. There should be a better way to resolve this.

Inasmuch as I despise the murderous Fulani herdsmen and I've always lampooned Buhari for shielding them from justice, I still maintain that there are Fulanis who are nomadic and then there are other Fulanis.

The killer herdsmen should be dealt with. Open grazing should be banned in the country. If they want to graze their cattle freely, they should head towards Niger Republic. And I think that Miyetti Allah should be proscribed and outlawed. Buhari is an ethnocentric President. He doesn't deserve to be President.


Haven said that, if Nigeria is going to break up it should be amicably, otherwise we'd still be having problems even as separate nations because we share the same boundaries that formerly held us together.

uckennety:
Which #facts?


You mean the awolowo that ordered the clearance of whatever every igbo man has in the bank prior to the war to be given 20pounds each to start life(thats if you have any money in the bank at all) stating that the igbo caused the war and must bear the burdles

#Speak the truth

Lol. I'm sure you don't understand what war means. I wish your elderly ones who witnessed the war would at least tell you guys the truth. A change of currency was necessary as your war hero buddy Ojukwu had broken in the banks in the eastern regions and carted away money to use and buy arms. So changing the currency at the time was a genius move.

Also, you guys keep shouting 20pounds, 20pounds. Go and ask how huge 20pounds was as at the 70s in Nigeria. Lots of civil servants never earned 20pounds in a whole year. Most of you find it difficult to reason along logical lines when it comes to issues of the civil war. That's why you kept praising Ojukwu even till today after he led y'all to a war he didn't have the means of prosecuting and abandoned all of you to your fate as soon as the federal forces closed in on the eastern region.

You guys should have stoned him when he came back from where he scampered off to and worship Awolowo for saving your ethnic group from extinction, but the reverse is the case with you guys. You worship the wrong person and castigate the wrong person.

That is the story of the southeastern people of Nigeria. I don't hate them. I believe they are a unique people who bring something unique to the Nigerian mix just like every other ethnic group, but those are just the facts.

Ikenna0b:
Just shut the heck up and pack your bags and go. Nobody wants una in the South.

I'm not in the South. I'm in the West where my people have occupied for centuries. When are you going back to the East because I'm 99% sure you are somewhere in the West?

onyeopobo:
Can you people please stop using this man's name as someone who speaks for the Niger Delta or SS, please this is a huge insult to the region. We have great minds, and intellects who have and continue to express their opinions on regional issues and yet every time I hear some SS or Niger Delta, mischievous people continue to quote Asari. Asari is not a regional leader nor spokesman, he is a criminal and a mass murderer. Is this the type of person you would want people to quote as the spokesman of your region? how can you people continue to insult the Niger Delta like this?

Asari and boys killed hundreds of people in his village,ph during his fight for supremacy with Ateke tom in the early 2000s. His boys thereafter robbed, raped and killed people at creek road market waterside for months. That man Asari is from the most troublesome Clan in Rivers State, the okrika people are known for starting wars by land grabbing. Anyone over 35 who grew up around Borokiri would have heard of the Okrika wars they fought the kalabaris, nembe, ogoni etc. As a child growing up in King Jaja street, I know that the Okrikas during the clash with ogonis killed and literally ate the ogoni people in the early 90s. They're still starting land clashes with neigbouring clans till today. Many people outside rivers state think the ikwerre's are the biggest trouble makers but ikwerres do not go outside ikwerreland to look for trouble and will not bother you if you dont rub your nose in their matter. You can see how jonathan's wife (from Okrika) could not resist trying to control amaechi when he was gov. of rivers, which was how the niger delta lost Amaechi to APC and why we have these blood baths during election, Amaechi is now being disrespected in ikwerreland, but he did what he had to do to keep his dignity. Even here on nairaland, theres only one guy tonye who always hides behind the name ijaw (although he's from okrika) and creates threads or comment to claim lands in Akwaibom, SE, edo etc, thereby causing online tension here amongst people in the SS and nigerdelta. Only Okrika would that, the okrika people are not even honestly Izon people and only started calling themselves ijaw during GEJs regime for politics. Core ijaw people have no energy to drag land because ijaw people have lands that are blessed by Baba God himself, and the thing ijaws want is control of the resources on the land they know is theirs.

Other SS/SE people who kept praising Asari because he was shouting resource control have now seen that he can never be trusted! Sad that I have to air dirty laundry of the ND here, but people mentioning Asari have to understand the evil behind his name.

I'm know I'm off topic and sorry for the Rant, but I and other people whose friends and family were killed, raped or had their houses burnt by Asari and his boys are still waiting for his judgement, to come here and see you people quoting him as a spokeperson for the SS is insult to injury, it really hurts!

Oh I know Asari Dokubo is a criminal, no doubt. The only reason I keep mentioning his name is because he has been hailed several times by se as a great ally from the ss. It was meant as a taunt.

The various smaller ethnic groups that make up the south south would be most unfortunate should they throw their hats in with the southeast. They'd be swallowed whole. But that's not for me to say, is it. My people are comfortably cocooned in the Southwest and whatever dangers threatens the Yoruba people they will face it together, as sure as God made little apples.

What the hell kinda fuckery is this now!!??

PrecisionFx:
Asari Dokubo is a self acclaimed true blood biafran. No questions about that.

SE n SS is the only alliance in Nigeria, They have never separated from each other since 1960, they always stand at the same point politically.

Oh is that so? I'm sure the minority tribes of the Niger Delta can tell us more how the Biafean soldiers dealt ruthlessly with them during the civil war.

I also heard that while the Yoruba neighbors in the southwest were busy collecting rent for the Igbo landlord neighbours who fled and and came back to meet their properties intact, the south south weren't so generous with the Igbo properties left behind.

Awolowo who y'all love to hate also kept the Eastern region's federal allocations for them all through the war period and remitted same to them after the war.

#facts.

PrecisionFx:
Sowore knows better than u.

Sowore is just another Jon Snow. He knows nothing.

Chukapage:
lol I no sey truth go pain you ..oya run now go and give my feedback to Gani Adams or perhaps your new leader Ahmed Drug Baron Tinubu controller of Lagos go and give him feedback..ozu na aga ije!!

Mr Chuka, I try as best as possible to respond to only intelligent posts. Please move it along if you don't have anything reasonable to say except forcefully attaching yourself to south-south minor tribes.

Asari Dokubo has promised to waste your runaway leader. Go and drag that with him. Godspeed.

Quorax:
And the behaviour of Buhari has done what? united the country abi? oniranu oshi

Maa poto lenu bi eni gbojo iku. T'o ba ya a ye e.

I told Sowore same thing. Aligning with KANU is a serious mistake. The guy breathes and eats hatred. Especially hatred for anything Yoruba and Hausa.

Anyway, I don't expect you to know this.

Kapeter:
don't mind them, awo saw the north have numbers and he sure knows they will suppress and oppress the rest of us which was why he added the secession clause so everyone can go away easily incase things don't go well, azikiwe removed it because of his greedines. Now they are the ones suffering the oppression and suppression. Awolowo tried all his best to save them but they didn't save themselve.

He was the best indeed. He lived way before his time.

selemempe:
as i said...keeping being aggressive...the east already want out....all we need is for u to push yorubas to the wall so they too will want out...once that happens...the rest will be written in history.

Its beyond ur power....u cant stop fulani herdsmen from being aggresssive...u are just a political commentator...so u cant do much to stop the tide...their agression will trigger a response soon from the yorubas...i know this because this is not 1967...everybody don wise up and yorubas now have lagos and oil wont be around much longer too...all we need is for u guys to trigger a response from yoruba...the east will take it from there

I just love it when someone thinks I'm a northerner because I say it as it is. Really gratifying.

favour32:
Nothing is constant but change.
It can happen.

If you say so.

Chukapage:
[s]bla bla blAh!! What is this one saying SS against SE suspicious of them?? Stop spilling gibberish everywhere because of hate and tribalism!! You and I know the only genuine political alliance in this country is SE/SS .have you ever wondered why Apc could not penetrate the region?? The only Apc governor there was kicked out smoothly with his boy boy Godson.and for the records the East don't give a Bleep about the west either ,infact they way the political tides are turning the whole Eastern Region will Ally with middlebelt region after all we all know nobody trusts the west even their Northern allies don't trust them one bit and are always Suspicious of the west ,is it now the East that will want to Ally with the West?[/s]

Tell that to Asari Dokubo.

Quorax:
The person you quoted is a core Northerner... I can almost always identify them by their moniker... it usually has this meaningless letters string together.

but my joy is Buhari has succeeded in waking every region up and going forward, there will be tilting towards self determination. The North (core north) is not as powerful as people assume... yes, imagine if the MB carry out their claims as written here, you have succeeded in decimating their power even further.

Truth is there never was a united North. The only face saving factor was that most of them spoke Hausa exclusively.

There has always been middle belt and there will always be middlebelt region

MaziOmenuko:
Lol...your advise is dead on arrival. NYSC has the right and discretion to issue, suspend, withdraw discharge certificates. Some legit corp members have their service year extended or outrightly dismissed from camp. It will take 4yrs for NYSC to respond to any law case from the lady. If she has money to waste Shaa, she can go to court.

The right and discretion to issue...and the candidate has the right to sue. If she has a good lawyer it will take NYSC 4days to appear in court and defend its actions.

Were they blind when she submitted her certificate for verification and call up?

Were they having spastic convulsion when they sent her her call up letter?

Were they in the throes of serious brain contusion and confusion when they issued her NYSC kit and then proceeded to assign her to a local government for primary assignment?

Were they missing a neuron in their brain matter when they paid her allowance for 12 months?

selemempe:
sure....but the north's aggression will turn out to unite the south and be a blessing in disguise...keep hoping there wont be a united south ever...all it takes is one respected yoruba leader to rally the east and west...just one

A respected Yoruba leader may be able to rally the Yorubas because they have a history of throwing their weight behind a leader, but how will that work in the east exactly?

There's no love lost there. The only true leader that could have done this was labeled a coward and a backstabber and is still being cursed and vilified today by children whose parents weren't even born yet during the civil war. Yet all he did was advise them to toe the path of dialog instead of war.

Rest in peace great sage, Obafemi Awolowo. "The best President Nigeria never had".

favour32:
Do not worry.
A time will come what will be applicable for survival will be,
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Alright!

I don't see that happening. The utterance of Nnamdi KANU has not only turned the west against the east, but has made the south-south ethnic groups very suspicious of the east.

Kkb1977:
Middle belters should be very careful with this so called politians who are looking for cheap popularity.
Igbos and yorubas will never accommodate you.
Your only reliable ally is core North. Go back to history.
Bewarned.

That's a lie. First and foremost nobody is saying they should come and join Yorubas or Igbo. They are different people in their own right. Why should they be affiliated with the north or the east or the west?

Also, most of the middle belt territories are actually Christian. But systematic cleansing is being carried out to make that region an Islamic region.

At least 90% or so indigenes of the various tribes in Plateau are Christians. The main churxh there is COCIN, Church Of Christ In Nigeria. That's why there are always clashes there.

Celebsnews:
Islamization in Kogi state has made it more North than South.

Not so. There are lots of moslems in the western part if the southwest region. That doesn't make them northerners, does it? Especially Kwara.

ivolt:
Do you really think that is how the law works?
NYSC certificate is not a right, it is a privilege.

If the candidate has served her country under the guidance of the NYSC, then the issuance of that certificate to that candidate becomes a right. God forbid, but if she had died in an accident while on duty, wouldn't the same NYSC have issued a new pair of uniforms and boots for her?

The lawyers only need to look at the laws establishing NYSC and check their roles and functions. I'm sure certifying which university is worthy to produce candidates is not one of their job functions. They don't have such expertise nor the manpower to engage in such.

Besides they should have rejected them BEFORE and not AFTER wasting one year of their lives.

Time is money. Sue the hell out of them.

selemempe:
kwara and benue have no business being north...those 2 states alone should be south's advantage politically...we can also flip jos and and kogi...but is there a southern party? No! So wat purpose does it serve? What does the ''united'' south really want? Power or true federalism? Until we know wat we really want, this news doesnt change anything

Don't kid yourself there's no united south. Never was, never will be. Not my doing, the people of the south don't trust themselves.

Celebsnews:
MB is North and see my reason below

You all speak Hausa
You all eat Hausa foods
You all sew your ankara clothings the Arewa way
You act like Hausa somehow


The only state that shouldn't be there is BENUE STATE

And some parts of Kogi.

If a southerner sees the man talking they'll tell him he's a northerner because he looks like one. Not only does he look like one, he talks like one too.

Novartis:
NYSC Discriminates Benin Trained Graduates & Refuses To Issue Their Certificates

After one year of rigorous service, my sister a 2018 batch B, Stream 2 Corp member was not issued her certificate because she schooled in Benin Republic.

This is so sad

Why the discrimination ?

And please what is the solution to help her get her certificate. She has been crying since yesterday.

NYSC is claiming that they got information that students from Benin Republic universities did not pass through the four walls of universities and all bought their degrees. I doubt this is true, but then, how can they (NYSC) judge thousands of students who schooled in Benin Republic because of the misdeeds of a few bad eggs.

I know nothing about the buying and selling of degree certificates in Benin Republic, but what I am very sure about is that my sister went to school and have studied seriously from year 1 to her final year, with me remitting her school fees, not even to her but directly to the bank account of her institution.

Why is NYSC now causing her pains by withholding her certificate and that of thousand other foreign students after waisting one year of National service. This is not fair! Please give us advice and help us create awareness.

Mods Front Page please

Sue them. NYSC isn't charged with verification of whether a university is good enough/accredited or not. If her university has given her a certificate and she presented same to the NYSC BEFORE and not AFTER the service and they accepted her, then what are we talking about here. Sue the pants off of them. Get a lawyer and SUE THEM. Don't just come here and tell us about it. I repeat, SUE THEM.

selemempe:
u can advise...but listen and listen good...nobody has monopoly for violence...and when u push someone close to the edge he will either fight and die or not fight and still die. The north has been pushing the south...we are nearing the edge...and wen we do, the killing of northernrs will start from the west and spread to the east.

U can reply by killing all the southerners in the north....including my own bloods..they are long dead to me for being foolish to go establish in the north after the events of 1967.

The victory for the south will not come from how many northerners killed...no. it will come from finally destroying nigeria and dissociating itself from the backward north. The goal of the war will not be to kill northeners till they surrender...no. its independence of the southern tribes.

Keep offending the south and counting on wat happened in 1967 to happen again...it wont

Only kids jump up in excitement at the prospect of war.

If you can't see that blaming the entire North for the crimes and sins of a select few who are not even up to .05% of the total northern population is crazy, then I really can't help you.

The average northerner goes about his daily work like the average southerner, hustling to make ends meet to keep his family fed and sheltered.

You want to wage war against them, go right ahead. I hope you'll be in the forefront carrying your AK47 or Uzi.