₦airaland Forum

Fulaman198:
Well by population Igbo maybe 2nd (I don't know as Yoruba are bountiful too).

The thing is that respectively, Both Igbo and Yoruba people don't have as much offspring as the Hausa. I don't know if that is due to education or the mentality of being "modernised".

With that said, you are right about the fact that many people who speak Hausa are not even pure Hausa themselves. The number of pure Hausa is unknown really. You have a cluster of smaller minority groups who often want to be clustered with the Hausa, like the Bolewas, Ngas, Tangale, Buras, Ga'anda people, etc. etc. etc. I still live by the statement that the only true Hausa today can be found in the republic of Niger (near areas such as Zinder, Maradi, etc.) and some core parts of Nigeria. However, it is hard to find a Hausa who isn't mixed with a neighbouring ethnic group. The way Hausas are often clustered with Fulanis kind of disgusts me sometimes honestly because they can't differentiate from an Eagle and an Ostrich.

With that said, I also wanted to bring to your attention that many Igbo people of your generation and younger are not caring much for the Igbo language anymore. I've met several Igbo people (work, here in Nigeria, and even in school in the United States) and many of them couldn't even speak Igbo language......I mean no offence, but I believe that any person who can't speak their native language is a disgrace. I say that about everyone Fulani people especially in the North West who can't speak 1 kobo of Fulfulde.

Nigeria's census is indeed a huge issue and needs to be readdressed. But as long as corruption plays a huge part of Nigeria, it may never be even in our young lifetimes.

Remove the bolded from the list. Call a Tangale, hausa and you may be in trouble.

appini:
FYI; they are already planning to carry out series of attacks in Lagos and Ibadan before the elections; just to downplay the magnificent success in the coming weeks from the military against the Boko Haram.

You should be ready to defend this statement when you are being arresting for questioning.

We are assuring Nigerians that whereever they are, we will provide them with adequate security- Marylin Ogar(DSS Spokesperson)
What do you think?

psalmsjob:
You're 100% correct but the word "Dividends of Democracy" is related with the failed President and his party cohorts! It shall now be called "Dividends of Change"
#VoteForBuhari #VoteForChange #VoteForNigeria #VoteForAPC

I got it.

We have absolute faith in your ability to restore normalcy and deliver dividend of democracy. "A former Dictator is better than a failed President."

Rulzbeatz:
present ur facts or shut up and stop displaying ignorance ....dis is my fact http://www.news24.com.ng/Elections/News/Full-text-of-Professor-Jegas-statement-on-election-postponement-20150208

His security adviser, Sambo Dasuki pushed for it first. Use your brain my friend.

Whoever advises the PDP to push for postponement -using insurgency as an excuse-made a mistake. With these, GEJ will lose another 6 million. Trust the APC to make this backfire at the PDP.

Jega successfully shifted the responsibility of postponement on Security Operatives. Now there will be no more excuse not to hold elections even in Baga next month

Jega has succeeded in shifting the responsibility of the postponement on the Security Operatives.

Our level of preparedness is sufficient to deliver a free, fair and credible elections-Jega

AustineE1:
that is exactly why we must give him another four years to put things in order,he deserves a second chance....let the nomadic cattleman brought as the candidate of APC,go back to school and get his school cert. during the four yrs and God permit,he can contest for local govt chairmanship position of Daura LGA of katsina.

You can give a second chance over your compound, coz in governance, no repeat when you fail. For God sake, why am I replying a robot!?

hansad:
Welcome idea, to protect Nigeria from being taken over by extreme Islamists through election.

Go round the world, an average Somali is more interested and knows more than most Nigerians everything about Nigeria's forthcoming elections, Arab extremists also know.

Nigerians need to ensure that Nigeria does not become like Somalia by refusing to hand Nigeria over to Buhari via election

Mumu, what do you say about this?

"Buhari is not a true Muslim. If he is, he
won't appoint a pastor who controls over
5,000 churches as his deputy". - Namadi
Sambo

Be calm! These soldiers can never be half as much as the ones deployed to Osun in August. No need to panic. Everything Jona does is set to backfire at him, so relax.

cocokiller1:
come to rivers state and u'll knw getting pvc here is not a day job
don't sit in d comfort of ur home nd type rubbish u knw nothing about
how do u expect a crowd of 500-600 to get their pvc's done with jst too laptop nd two officials taking err1's detail wen it finally gets to ur turn,d laptop is shut down nd they keep posting you.

If I can travel to and fro Abuja-Ilorin four times to get mine, I don't understand why you should be complaining. The collection is now at the unit level and those who are ready to vote next week will collect their own.

ARES:
dude do you have any idea that you live in 2015. why dont you go back to where you open your bank account to withdraw money..... when people are told to embrace technology they resort to name calling

I'm also in Abuja and I registered in Abuja in 2011, but for political reasons, I have to vote in my PU of origin. I simple went to my state INEC Office, applied for tranfer and provided the details like the LG, ward and the PU I'd like to transfer to and I just got my PVC today. I didn't just appear there today asking for PVC when I know I've not done the necessary thing. If he wants to transfer his voter card to Abuja he should have request to do that in his present location since last year. How can he register in Enugu and want to collect PVC in Abuja? So INEC should tell everyone that registered in Enugu to come to Abuja just because he is in Abuja? It's senseless.

My PVC was given to my Grandma this morning
The only thing left now is to travel down to my Hometown to facilitate GEJ's return to Otuoke.

This election will not disintegrate this country. There will be crisis, but it shall pass. What I know for sure is that, a northerner-most certainly Buhari- will preside over the disintegration of Nigeria and the trouble and secession will start from his own region. Let no one deceive you, Buhari will rule again even if it's for a day.

M4gunners:
Guy i finish my secondary school in Port Harcourt 1999. I can tell you fully well that the last time we saw train was in 2000 which ex Governor Peter Odili try to rebuild when he came to power.It didn't last up to a year before the Train fall down in a river between Elelenwo and Nwogi,that was the last time i Train in River State. So tell me where you have been using ur own Train?

I don't know much about the Train service around there, but Train never stopped around Lagos-Kano axis for a year at any point in time.

M4gunners:
Sit down with your computer in your house 24/7 and be waiting for the different Train to come ur door so u can see it before u believe. For more than 20 years now, have you ever heard the sound of Train in Nigeria? Gej you are born to rule.

Train never stopped working at any point in time. I was a driver briefly in that sector in 2002, so stop that lie. I urge you to take a train trip from Lagos to Kano. I did and I had to come down in Minna because of brake problem. How can someone dust up the same kind of cabin I travelled in, in 1988 and call that Transformation in 2014? Stop watching too much of NTA.

FeBUHARI 14 is a date with destiny, any party or candidate that is not ready should withdraw from the race already.

nzeadachie:
CAN YOU AFFORD TO BUY THEIR HOUSE AFTER SELLING YOUR LANDS TO THEM?

How many plots of land do you have outside your father's compound in your homeland and how many of them did I sell to you?

The same Igbo population some people are banking on to give votes to Jona in the SW, NC, NW and NE are moving enmass back to Alaigbo. Yeye dey smell
Some of them are even selling their properties. In case you want to sell your house, please PM me abeg.

jamace:
They are matching Buhari for who he truly is.

...and a Sambo is what? And who is matching Buhari here, Sambo or the dull OP? I smell hypocrisy.

The same Buhari who said FG should stop killing Boko haram members is now saying Jonathan has failed to quell the insurgency. Buhari said fighting Boko haram was fighting the north and invariably the muslims: https://www.nairaland.com/2095243/stop-killing-boko-haram-members

Was Buhari right or wrong?

“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today.

I was looking for where Buhari said Boko Haram members should not be punished according to the law in that post, but I could not find it. I guess you don't know that before now, Soldier did go into people's house, bring the men out, gather them in the street, kill them and parade them as insurgents. This was why we had people voluntarily joining the group for revenge. What about the over 200 innocent detainees released recently? Most of them have been there for up to 3 years- among them was a university student arrested in his room while sleeping. I guess the guy will clap for the army for ruining his education. Buhari was right! After the declaration of the SOE, the army went on wasting innocent lives and carrying out cordinated attacks in the name of terrorists just to justify the SOE and huge military budget. I have friends who requested to be transferred because of this, so don't think it's hearsay. Injustice begets injustice and as B. Tukur put it, they are fighting for justice. Even Jonathan said they are his siblings and he can't just unleash the army on them

jamace:
Buhari was also high on weed when he said muslims should vote people who will propagate sharia: http://www.theheraldng.com/vote-candidates-will-defend-islam-sharia-buhari/

"Buhari is not a true Muslim. If he is, he
won't appoint a pastor who controls over
5,000 churches as his deputy". - Namadi
Sambo.

If you know your bible stories well, you'll know that Joseph was the 2ic to Pharaoh who served a different god. Didn't Daniel, Meshack, Shadrack and Abednego serve a King who worshipped idols? How was that a slap to God? Not until you define a christian and how Jonathan has the quality of a christian, you are a barking dog!

If you think the candidate of the ocults is the candidate of the Most High, better wake up. Our N100 now wearing an occultic symbol. Lets see how the votes of herbalists, witches and wizard will make him win

If you really think Buhari will be disqualified, you need to have your head examined.

As a Welfare Economist, I knew it's either Madam Ngozi do not know anything about Economics or outrightly telling lies to deceive the people. I challenge her to explain how the masses benefits from the GDP growth rate and government budget when capital expenditure stands below 15% of the total budget. This clearly exposes this government as one that is not interested in investment and saving. Our economic team lacks the basic knowledge of distribution of income and how this type of budget further widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Any improvement-if at all- in the life of an average Nigerian in the last 6 years can only be attributed to individual efforts and will to excel, not "transformation agend." Whatever they mean by transformation in the context of their of governance is debate for another day. It's funny how this government is celebration a single digit growth rate at this stage of our development. They say it's one of the highest in the world and one would ask, what's the population of Nigeria? What's the value of our GDP? And what exactly is the value of the growth? For a nation of 160 million people with huge potentials, it's not out of place if our GDP stands above $1 Trillion then and then we can start dreaming of celebrtating a 7% growth rate.
If Madam Ngozi thinks she is up to her a.ss in alligators, let her drain the pool by accepting this challenge...

Can I propose a three-way debate with you (representing PDP/Federal Government), nominee of APC (Utomi or Fayemi? or any other), and myself (as independent citizen— I don’t belong to any of the two). Let us have two bouts of debate between now and 12th February, 2015 focusing on: CBN/AMCON and the financial system (if you want); our economy and its outlook, and agenda/alternative paths to sustainable prosperity post elections. Choose the dates and times, and for the sake of Nigeria, I will fly in.

I bet she won't coz all the achievements they've been building on lies will be exposed as non-existent.
Prof. Soludo is a man a respect so much. He made CBN an household name with his consolidation policy, just as GEJ made ordinary Nigerian know the meaning of a strickly economic term as subsidy. I was in the University during the Bank consolidation and it was an interesting subject of debate in Macro and Monetary Economics classes. To me, he is the best CBN Governor we've had. I know you are a seasoned Economist and Policy Maker, but Sir, I never knew you also have killer punchs like this

...you are busy dancing Atilogwu dance at TAN and PDP rallies, struggling to keep your job

That's devastasting.
Madam Ngozi, the Economics of Nigeria can be reduced to common sense, if only you can half as honest as Prof. Soludo.

We all know who was diagnosed of an ogogoro induced liver schlerosis in a London Hospital.

How do you expect a man who lied about what he said 4 years ago, have the moral courage to declare his true age?

SweetJoystick:
Of the five state governors mentioned, I think only three of them are capable of selling out, and they are governors of Adamawa, Niger and Taraba states

Babangida doesn't need to sell out. Buhari will win more than 75% there so it's not a question of 25.

sonssyo:
u ar just a small mind wen it come to politics,its ok

You can say that hiding behind your phone ok. Go get your PVC first.