₦airaland Forum

Ugobxt:
My visit to Owerri was really cool cos I witnessed some good development in and around the City. I was wondering why people keep on criticizing Owelle for his good deeds well I must really say he really tried. Much love to to Owerri.

All Igbos states are cool. Please do not attempt to divide us. Thank you

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photo but video tells a more complete story. See oyibo crowd

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pheyikemi:
Congrats to them, but why was the school named "DILLARD", I initially thot it was "DULLARD" until I went thru the topic again. #whew#.

This is not Dullard University from where the Daura President graduated. This is Dillard

Dillard senior awarded Hercules Scholarship




Victor Ogburie is a senior, physics major, computer science and mathematics minor, from Charlotte, North Carolina.

This future electrical engineer has a 4.0 GPA. Victor plans to start a program to provide opportunities to students who cannot afford an education in technology.

At Dillard, Victor finds time to serve as president of the Dillard Chapter of the National Association of Black Engineers, is a member of the Robotic Club, the Global Scholar Association, and the Louisiana Alliance Minority Program.


http://tomjoynerfoundation.org/dillard-senior-awarded-hercules-scholarship-2/

Three of the Igborians with their plaques

dokiOloye:
If na 'arrested for pushing drugs' now,d same U go remember say dem be Igbo.
Up Biafra joor.

Lol! Don't mind the baga

Click>>>>> video https://www.facebook.com/216530338389905/videos/944294558946809/?pnref=story

Emeskhalifa:
op correct yourself. FOUR NIGERIANS NOT FOUR IGBOS. ABI IGBOS NO BE NIGERIANS AGAIN NI

They were Igbos before being Nigerians. Besides, a look at the faces of the guys will tell you they love Biafra

Wow! Abia state, home of the Igbo, the most intelligent Nigerians

asha80:
how are you sure they are not Americans of Igbo descent?

Look at their faces and posture, you will know they are Nigerian born, recent American migrants

Buhahahaha
VP Commissioner of Oduduwa zoo

kestolove95:
all I see is an ibo guy...diz dia occupation in lag

We know how Yorubas look: too dark skin, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving

kestolove95:
But why chinedu?

This guy in the photo is too dirty to be an Igbo boy. He is 100% Yoruba, as someone said earlier his name is olatunji

Is this incidence conducted to achieve a political end? Election time is over, Lagosians. Stop killing yourselves for ritual purpose for worthless politicians


Material below is copied from facebook

This has got to be one of the most painful/heartbreaking news I’ve heard in a while. A 16- year-old boy named Tajudeen Azeez, lured his 4 year old neighbour to a primary school in the Ijaniki area of Lagos, stabbed him, strangled him and removed his intestines, his kidney and cut off his penis. He did because a man named Osho had approached him and asked him to get him fresh human parts and would pay him N50,000. N50,000 is what a human is worth to some. N50k. Unbelievably sad!
“At first, I did not want to succumb to the temptation but it kept coming. When I woke up this morning (Monday), I saw Ibrahim at the back of the house. I told him to escort me to a primary school not too far from the house. The name of the school is Anglican. Primary School, Ijanikin. He followed me to the place and on arrival there, I stabbed him with a knife from behind. He fell down and I strangled him with a rope. I then cut his stomach open with the knife. I am sorry for what I did,” He was of course caught and made to carry the deceased body. The photo is extremely graphic so please be warned before you continue… Tajudeen has been arrested by the Lagos state police command according to a report by Daily Trust and is currently at the homicide section of.the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Yaba. According to the acting police public relations officer for the Lagos Command, Patricia Amadin, the body of the deceased has been deposited at a government mortuary. She said Tajudeen was arrested following intelligence information. “Based on the strength of the information, the DPO and his men raced to the place. On arrival, they found the lifeless body of a four-year-old boy while the suspect was soaked in the deceased’s blood. From close observation, it was discovered that some vital organs such as the kidney and
intestine had been removed from the deceased. All the organs were kept in a black nylon bag. The suspect was promptly arrested and taken to the station,” Amadin said. She said they are now looking for the said Osho.

You guys are in for a long thing. Thank God for my Oyibo passport.

That passport is my most prized possession now. All the houses and cars can be gone in a minute, but my Oyibo passport is forever. When Buhari has fixed Nigeria (that is what you voted him in to do), I will dust my Naija passport again. For now, it is under the metal box I inherited from my late grandfather.

Outrage Over Buhari’s Handshake With An Infidel


All because of a handshake!

Posted on May 17, 2015 Updated on May 17, 2015


As usual I stumbled on this picture among others on the Nigerian blogosphere yesterday and bypassed it because I saw it as a publicity stunt for APC and Buhari. Just like the ones he took during his electioneering campaigns. Buhari ho campaigned mostly in the southern part of the country where he amassed chieftaincy titles, posed for photos with males and females of the Nigerian electorates and even had hand shakes them with them. Those pictures of handshakes, though there is nothing wrong with them, are part of the propaganda and publicity stunt, everyone knows that. They formed part of public relations package for Buhari. His handlers tried using them to polish his image from that held popularly as ethnic and religious bigot to a self-proclaimed new convert to democracy and nationalist.

However, all of a sudden, posts about the same picture started popping up on my news feed, and I was reading a lot of arguments and counter arguments on whether or not Buhari should shake hands with Oshiomhole’s bride. I saw the raging arguments on several threads notably those of us from the Northern part of the country. Honestly, the arguments were between the Muslim fundamentalists who thought it was haram for Buhari to shake hands with a non-related female versus the liberals ones who saw nothing wrong with it.

Though, I was taken aback, I must state that the conversations were interesting since it caught my attention for a while. I tried to read as many opinions of the commenters on many threads as quick as possible. Seriously, I learnt more Koran and Islamic opinions from Muslims than I’d seen since the inception of the Nigerian blogosphere. Even during the Boko Haram’s insurgency, I didn’t see such a degree of Koranic quotations from the North that Boko Haram was a profit of Islamic or not. Everyone of them kept mute on that, but used it instead as a tool against the Jonathan’s government.

Those against the handshake seemed to be those who voted Buhari because he’s a Muslim like them, not because they think he can change Nigeria or whatever. Religion was their one central consideration. The same set of fundamentalists are deeply disappointed because they thought Buhari would and should project the Islam of their own interpretations above every other secular considerations of his office.

These individuals are likely to be the source of trouble for the Buhari in the days to come for the simple reason that they want to see Nigeria become islamized. One danger of electing a leader who is a cult figure with fanatical following in this time and age is about to unleash itself upon Nigeria in the form of unhappy followers.

Buhari is not yet officially in Aso Rock as the president, he has not even been sworn in some religious die-hards are bent on playing a religious card on whom he should and should not shake. It has to take an extraordinary degree of fanaticism and fundamentalism to see something wrong with this handshake.

It is no exaggeration to say that from 2003, the greater majority of Buhari’s followers have been the almajiri and other sectionally indoctrinated followers who were emboldened by his stance on Sharia, Northern Nigeria and other narrow, sectional issues. Imagine their disappointment that their beloved General, in their eyes, isn’t even following Sharia! That disappointment must have caught them from their skin and deeply into their bone marrow.

Who’s to be blamed for this?

The Northern elite are to blamed for this sort of religious charge against a president-elect in a modern, secular and democratic state. Over the decades, out of sheer reason of selfish aggrandizement, they permitted certain extremist ideas to take hold in the grassroots and if the fierce reactions against this mere handshake is anything to go by, they should be held responsible for its adverse outcomes.

When Mohammed Yusuf was going around telling people that Western education is haram, the Western-educated Northern elite did nothing to quell, quench and quash such a dangerous idea at its source. Today that idea has birthed a leviathan for which they turn round to harass and hold President Jonathan responsible for.

http://chidinmaonyejiuwa.com/2015/05/17/outrage-over-buharis-handshake-with-an-infidel/

Ed Miliband resigns as Labour leader

Speculation will immediately turn to possible contenders for the leadership, including the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna; the shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham; the shadow health minister, Liz Kendall; and the shadow justice minister, Dan Jarvis. Burnham will start as favourite, but the party will scrutinise each leader closely

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/ed-miliband-to-resign-as-labour-leader

I predict Igbo man to be the UK PM in a few years

Those begging GMB for posts are Igbo APCs. No reasonable non-APC Igbo should be seen asking for what will naturally come to us. Who can manage Nigeria without Igbos?

Check all the shining stars of Nigeria: 60% are Igbos

Icon4s:
20. Carter bridge street scene, Lagos Island (1950s)

So no be today brown roof start

weyreypey:
You people are less than 10% of Nigeria's population

And you know that by what method?

BBC HAUSA=RADIO BIAFRA
QED

Apparently there are two or more versions of this story. However, only one must be correct
So Soyinka should find out who manipulated his statements. That is the person causing this confusion

Everybody in this world votes in an election based on their stomach (job creation, projects, etc) and that (stomach) is figuratively used.

Now tell me, why did Yorubas vote for Buhari?
Why did the North vote for Buhari?
Did they vote for the fun of it or for the belief that he will butter their bread (provide jobs, etc)?
If so, why should there be an attempt by certain Yoruba elements to deny Igbos the right to believe that GEJ is in a better position to butter their bread?

If the above is what he said, then that is much better.

I am not sure which is correct of all these ''you-say-I-no-say'' claims and counterclaims. But it seems apparent that some yet-to be identified Yoruba persons somewhere are instigating hatred against Igbos

Igbos Vote Based On Their Stomach, Says Soyinka

Nobel Laureate and foremost social critic, Wole Soyinka, is of the opinion that Nigerians of Igbo extraction are the only people in the country who can be predicted accurately.


Delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the revered scholar described people from that part of the country as politically matured.

“Igbos remained unrepentant and resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best,” he said at the lecture, which held on April 29.

“The climax of MASSOB’s war against the Nigerian state was the call for sit-ins and civil disobedience that shut down markets and public services, as Igbos stayed at home in a symbolic gesture to assert Biafran independence. The call was honoured by governors in the two principal Ibo states, though without fanfare.

“The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; this is the greatest height of political maturity as matured voters vote for a government that will ensure their welfare economically. Why would someone vote for a president that will clamp down on your business, kill their people, or institute policies that will prevent a free flow of business? Voters always consider their stomach (means of income) first before they vote. The Igbo people were rightly apprehensive of the Buhari candidacy because of his past and they are rightly so. We should not hold it against them as they rightly believed a Goodluck Jonathan government would do more for them than that of a former unrepentant dictator like Buhari.”

Commenting on the result of Nigeria’s presidential election, Soyinka said the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan would have been “disastrous”, as Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, is better option.

“Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated disaster and failure,” he said.

“It was a painful decision to tell people to vote Buhari, but the country needed a new beginning. I was more against Jonathan, than I was pro-Buhari.

“Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which one attains fulfillment, and this is what the nation witnessed time and time again under Jonathan.

“The ‘militricians’ – soldiers turned politicians in power – aren’t looking for excellence; their civilian cohorts are worse. Short cuts and how to circumvent the system for the profit of a few are the norm of governance. Those who do honest work are derided as lacking the skill to fit it. Ironically, things haven’t quite changed a bit after 16 years of democracy in the country.

It will be interesting to see if the Igbos are correct in their rejection of Buhari or not. If Buhari engages in a government of vendatta as he normally does, then the Igbos would have been the greater minds that they usually are; but if he puts together a government for all and engages the Igbos in ways that would benefit them economically and infrastructure wise, then it would be an opportunity to bring them back into the Nigerian political mainstream. [b]The Igbos have shown that they are united, smart, and a formidable force politically”

[/b]Sule Ahmed -- New York

These northern folks keep segregating against the rest of Nigeria based on religion and/or ethnicity
In Nollywood, there are easterners, westerners, south-southerners and northerners
But in Kannywood, there are no southerners, not even Yoruba muslims.

It looks like the days of xxxxx (not sure what to right, but will be right back with an adjective) is over