That's great. Not many igbos wedded between 1967 and 70 unless they were abroad. That's a great feat. These days we now have weddings that don't last longer than the asoebi they sold.

Hausas should start separating themselves from the ills and evils of the fulanis. That's the start

I say this without fear or favour that if we as a nation must move forward and catch up with the rest of the world in economic growth and technological advancement, the north must be banned for a minimum of 10 years from holding key offices in nigeria. A people who abhor merit system and competitiveness and rely on govt quota and govt concessions are not ready to move forward.

penta:


Zombie comment: And every good benefit that Buhari regime brings should go to every individual that voted for him in 2015 & 2019. Can't hear you say Amen.

Amen!
You don't know how I wish you guys will enjoy his pros and cons and leave us at how gej left things. Buy your fuel at buhari new price(145) while we buy at gej price of 85. Same for cement, rice, food stuff, dollar etc.
Enjoy the pro and cons. God please answer this prayer for us.
What has been the benefit of Buhari govt? Please name 2 or 3

Wait! Did anyone ever take that boy serious as a pastor? A boy that has not even given his life to Christ yet is claiming pastor.
I remember when the boy got married to that his sugar mummy, he came on air in a radio interview and told the world that he is married and not ashamed of her, he went on on how Rev Chris Okotie and his parents were firmly behind their marriage. He even passed insults to any one that was doubting their marriage.
Not long later, the marriage crashed and they went their separate ways, he came on radio again to claim that they were not married, that it was a rumour spread by enemies.
That's when I knew that this kid is a scammer.

ERockson:
There is fire on the mountain. We've been rounded up in the South already

No. South west have been rounded up already.

Paxie55:
What is happening to us?
Yorubas should start speaking up.

These people are here to destroy the South.

No. Yorubas won't speak. They are busy shouting down igbos for speaking out. Hence, the fulanis have seen them as easier targets

We know. The presidency actually consist of Abba Kyari and Babagana Kingibe and Isa Funtua and Mamman Daura with Babachir Lawal in tow.
That's why Babachir Lawal could ask "who is the presidency?" Because they know who the true presidency are.
Sadly, they are just playing Tinubu.

Can anyone point at any appointee of Buhari that can be described as master stroke or world class.
None

The words of Buhari does not carry weight. He's a paper tiger. He will not do anything. Who wants to bet

Where is he taking it to? If he's selling it? Who's the buyer

Since he's a fulani from Niger Republic, nothing will be heard of this case again.
Who wants to bet?

Cow need more than just grass to grow, that's why herdsmen take them to feed on farmers produce. Those herdsmen know what they are doing.

If it is just grass that they are looking for, they will not be destroying farms; because no farmers in Nigeria plant grass.

Cow need feeds like chicken to actually attain their full economic value. They need to eat lots of corn, Yam, soybeans etc to get good body weight.

The reason why Fulani take their cow to Benue and not Nasarawa which is beside Benue is because Benue people plant lots of Yam. They wait for harvest, kill the farmer and feed their cow with the yam.

Herdsmen can't operate ranch because they don't want to plant food for their cow. They are thieves and are not ready to work. They belong to prison and not our community.

Remember the cows are owned by rich Fulani politician's, government workers etc

They pay no tax on the billions of Naira they make monthly.

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Cow need more than just grass to grow, that's why herdsmen take them to feed on farmers produce. Those herdsmen know what they are doing.

If it is just grass that they are looking for, they will not be destroying farms; because no farmers in Nigeria plant grass.

Cow need feeds like chicken to actually attain their full economic value. They need to eat lots of corn, Yam, soybeans etc to get good body weight.

The reason why Fulani take their cow to Benue and not Nasarawa which is beside Benue is because Benue people plant lots of Yam. They wait for harvest, kill the farmer and feed their cow with the yam.

Herdsmen can't operate ranch because they don't want to plant food for their cow. They are thieves and are not ready to work. They belong to prison and not our community.

Remember the cows are owned by rich Fulani politician's, government workers etc

They pay no tax on the billions of Naira they make monthly.

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MoneyMan5:


It is very obvious you are in sifia Pain


When it come to poverty rate in the South

Igbo are still the poorest and the wretched tribe In the South


I don't give a fuucck about Igbo, one of you was the first to brought Yoruba business men to the discussion

If you want to brag and give excuses for your failure in life stop talking down on other tribes


You want to brag about your 2 by 2 activities but don't want others to brag, that is pure hypocrisy

you talk down on other tribes hustle and want people to accept your hustle as the only legit one

Igbo are still the Alimajiri of the South.



Ibeto was flooding market and weakening our economy with imported cements from other countries outside Nigeria but you want the government to support him over someone that is manufacturing cements in Nigeria and other Africa countries, gain forex for the country and also strengthen our Economy


If Ibeto cements want to compete with Dangote why can't he start manufacturing cement like Dangote instead of flooding our market with imported cement and weakening our Economy?

Does that sound like a competition to you?

You guys are deluded

I can see you are a pathological liar

MoneyMan5:



Keep giving excuses and crying victims for all your failure

Authur Eze deal in Oil and so many other Rich Igbo men

Why can't they dethrone Dangote that deal in Cement as the Richest man in Africa?

No tribe led the senate more than the Igbo in this country

Goodluck Jonathan tenure lasted for 6 years and he included Igbo in his government, why didn't you get government concessions too if truly those men are rich because of government concessions?

What about your numerous years in leading the senate?

You want to keep bragging about your 2 by 2 shops but you don't want Yoruba to brag about producing the second Richest Black man in the World and second Richest woman in Africa

Igbos will prefer having 100 igbos who have 1 billion dollars each than 1 man who has 100 billion dollars. Hence you can't find one man like Dangote sitting on top of the hierarchy while his people are highest at the base of the hierarchy as beggars, urchins and almajiris.

On dethroning Dangote on cement, please Google what was done to ibeto cement by the fgn for Dangote sake. I won't waste time on it.

Igbos don't sit and wail like you and others. They pick up themselves and keep pushing. Do you see those guys managing in a 2 by 2 shop? Their mates faced with the same life's circumstance in Yoruba are at the bus stop shouting owoda, collecting money they didn't work for, and wasting thereafter on shekpe, prostitutes and igbò. One of the first culture shocks of any igbo visiting South west is how some able bodied men will be at the bus stop, demanding for money they didn't earn. It was discovered that touting on the road is the highest employer of labour in Yoruba land. If that doesn't make you ashamed, then you have no shame.

Finally, why are you pained? The Hausa/fulani whom Asari's response was addressed to have not spoken and you have become more pained at the igbos success story. I can identify two things in your action- 1. Envy and jealous of a people whom God has blessed to the extent that you can jump into what doesn't concern you out of envy.
2. Complete slave mentality and servitude to the hausa/fulanis to the extent that you will take up their fight while they keep silent.

You need deliverance first before engaging in an argument.
Selah.

Difrent:


They are the more involved in agriculture than any tribe, they produce 90% of the food we eat, you can't survive without food even if you own all the shops in Nigeria...... This Ibo as businessmen always cracks me up, which business are they doing, they are simply traders, petty traders in distribution only,you don't see them in serious economic ventures like manufacturing, the little manufacturing they do is fake and substandard.....

The food we actually eat in commercial quantity comes from the middle belt region of benue and plateau, not even the core north of Hausa and fulanis. The truth is that those middle belters are suffering worse subjugation under the Hausa fulani who in fact contribute nothing to our GDP.
As for serious business like manufacturing, go out a bit, travel to nnewi where majority are into manufacturing. While other tribes get govt backing to do manufacturing, igbos are purely self sufficient. Nnewi is in Forbes for having the highest no of billionaires per square kilometre. Yet, they don't have govt concessions like Dangote, isiaku rabiu, deribe and other fulanis.

Oba Of Benin Raises Alarm, Says Fulani Herdsmen Building Camps Inside Edo Forests

Nkiruka Nistoran

The Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II of Benin has raised the alarm that criminal elements, including bandits and herdsmen, are building camps in forests within his kingdom.

This came as no less than 20 farmers were shot dead on Tuesday when Boko Haram terrorists invaded farmlands at Ngamgam village of Damasak, headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno State.

On the heels of these, gunmen yesterday kidnapped 28 travellers along Akure/Ikere-Ekiti highway in Ekiti State.

Criminal camps now in Edo forests— Oba of Benin

The Oba, who disclosed this when he met with Enigie (dukes) in his kingdom in Benin yesterday, urged them to be more vigilant in their communities.

He directed Enigie to nominate credible persons from their villages to be part of the Security Surveillance Team to be set up by Edo State Government.

The Oba said government has resolved to set up the Security Surveillance Team to help identify criminals and their hideouts in the society.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Oba, Desmond Agbama, quoted the Oba as telling the Enigie that investigations had revealed that herdsmen and kidnappers as well as other sets of criminals have established camps in the forests in the various villages in Edo State, adding that there was need for the Enigie and the people to provide information that would help security agencies dislodge such criminal camps in the forest.

The Benin Monarch said those to be nominated by the Enigie would be thoroughly screened to ascertain their integrity and uprightness in carrying out the function and warned the Enigie not to usurp their powers once nominated.

Oba Ewuare II charged those to be nominated to do their work diligently and truthfully and report any criminal or person with questionable character to the Enigie who will in turn forward same to the relevant security agencies for necessary action.

The Oba of Benin said the Palace was pleased with the Enigie for their loyalty and dedication over the years and urged them to keep supporting the Palace in order for peace and progress not to elude the people, assuring that more good things awaited the people in the years ahead.

https://therepublicannews.net

ASARI DOKUBO RESPOND TO AHMED GUME - COMPlAINT AGAINST IGBOS.

"Igbos were allowed to establish businesses and live in other parts of Nigeria peacefully. However, they deny other tribes from simple owning shops in ALL EASTERN MARKETS!

Yes! I have gone to many eastern markets for ethnic survey. And no single shop is or was allocated to non Igbo. Please if there is one market with non Igbo, please mention" - #Ahmed Gume

#RESPONSE
How many shops do Hausa or Yoruba people own in Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, South Africa, Malawi, Sierra-Leone, Gabon UK, United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong-kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany, China, Taiwan, South Korea, India and countless other countries all over the world.

Those are not Igbo areas after all. Perhaps, they deny you shops like the Igbo did in all these countries. Igbos own shops and do business in those countries.

This is exactly how lazy people complain when they fail in business. If you can't compete on your own land, how are you going to do that in Igboland or neutral ground?

Every Igbo city has a place exclusively mapped out for Hausas free of charge for temporary use (that is the truth they will not tell you). Of course you know, Hausa man has his own pattern of business and shops mostly in form of kiosk where he sold his patty trades and provisions on free given portion of the street.

Another good business they do in the east is money exchange and cattle business which they control in every Igbo city on a free given land; 100% fact. Go to Owerri, Umuahia, Enugu, Awka. Nnewi. Aba etc.

Igbos don't wait for free land or free portion to be allocated to them, they buy them from indigenes who always have it free by inheritance or by allocation but doesn’t know what to do with them. Only quota system worthless person will wait for allocation before he starts a business.

How many shops do Hausas have in Lagos and other south west states? or do the Yoruba deny them shops too? Can you compare the number of shops and markets owned by Hausas in Yoruba land to the number owned by the Igbos?

Igbos rent shops from the landlords. Igbos Buy lands from the host to build shops. Igbos buy land from their host to build markets. Igbos don't wait for shop or land allocations to start up their businesses.

How many markets has the Hausa built in Lagos? None. How many markets has the Yoruba build in the north? None or do the Hausa and the Yoruba deny selling land to one another too, like the Igbos denied them?

But Igbo have used their money to buy lands from south west and north and build many markets that helps to develop their regions.

To be honest, not every Igbo traders in south west or north can compete with the traders in the east. The traders in the east are real geniuses in trading. They are wizards in buying and selling more than those Igbo traders in the west and north.

You have to first compete with the Igbo traders in your own territory before you think of competing with them in their own territory.

Business is based on competition, the question is, can you compete? There are shops in Onitsha main market but can you afford to rent it? Even when you do what do you intend to sell to regain your profit?.

Is it igbo man that sacrifice to be single till the age of 40 to balance his business achievements before marriage you want to compete with? Igbo man who wear warn out cloths with bathroom slippers to save money for his bussiness? Or the one that maintain just one wife you choose to compete with?....The one that married, how many children do they agreed to born, all are the sacrifices in order to save more for his business.

Nobody compete with the fulanis in their cow business or you think they don’t make money in that? Please leave the igbos alone, business is their God given talent.
We are Biafrans!!!.

madridguy:
The govt loves the Fulanis......hmmmmmmmm....are they not Nigerian like others tribe? Baba Buhari is for everybody.

The news I got yesterday was that the killings in zamfara and katsina was carried out by fulanis who spoke only French. Tell me, is buhari the president of fulanis in other French speaking sub Saharan African nations

He must have been released by now to 'Abuja'.

This people should know that South East region is more vigilant than they know.

Anyway, was he seen with a cow

That's why we have rotten kids today. Instead of joining the school to discipline the daughter, the father, because he's an ex commissioner is fighting the school for expelling his kids for coming to school with banned substances, bullying other kids and videoing othee kids undergoing punishment and posting online.

He should educate his kid at home where he can let her rot as much as he wants

Charleys:
I thought it was these afenifere that followed him to congratulate Buhari. So who are these afenifere again?

Tinubu formed his own Afenifere to deceive buhari

I was totally disappointed. Many leaders of thought were disgusted but don't want to join issues on his comment which is considered far beneath gutter level to engage him in

The deceased brother stated earlier that the police in Ore told them that it was done by fulani herdsmen and it is natural that he makes his post using the earlier police report. But since the police led by the state CP and other dignitaries made a U turn to absolve the fulanis from the killing, he too thought it wise to change his post according to the new narrative so as not to be seen opposing the FGN. That's the mature and diplomatic thing to do

RockHard:


Stfu Jor. Hypocrite like you. Wetin consign you with Wetin Aribisala talk? Why you no open thread about Kalu your kinsman's open support for Ruga? You no get shame. Na wetin no concern Una na im Una dey obsessed on top.

Son, face your offender and stop being what you are called

RockHard:
Well, we all know who is speaking for the Igbo. Very loud and clear.

Femi Aribisala is a renowned Yoruba journalist.
The killers of the Yorubas are the fulanis.

So why are you dragging the igbos into it?
Are you such a coward that you can't face the man poking his hands into your eyes but want to pick fight with someone who you believe must have laughed on hearing it.

Cowardice at its peak.
Son, face your offender cos we really don't care.

WHO SPEAKS FOR THE YORUBAS IN THE KILLING FIELDS OF NIGERIA TODAY? (2)

By Femi Aribisala.
July 9,2019

Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo and other APC opportunists can no longer speak for the Yorubas in Nigeria.

President Buhari cares for his people. But although he is president of Nigeria, his people are not the people of Nigeria. His people are the Fulanis in particular, and Northern Nigerians in general. That is the token of a “good politician.” A good politician promotes the interests of his people.

But what happens to members of the president’s party who are neither Fulani nor Northern Nigerians? Can they also care for their people as the president does for his, and at the same time be in alliance with Mr. President?

The evidence suggests they cannot and do not. They have watched in silence, without complaining, as the president filled major posts with his own people and ignored theirs. They have “siddon looked” as the entire security architecture of Nigeria was placed virtually exclusively in the hands of Northerners.

They said nothing when the president illegally appointed his sister’s in-law, Amina Zakari, as acting chairman of INEC, flouting statutory regulations and without the required approval of the National Council of State. Cat caught their tongue when the president illegally appointed Ahmed Lawan Kuru as the managing director of Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and named its executive directors without requisite Senate confirmation.

They were missing in action when he removed illegally Nigeria’s Southern Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and replaced him with a Northerner.

Deafening silence

Men like Bola Tinubu who were loud in calling for the restructuring the Nigerian polity, which is one of the cardinal demands of South, dropped their demand like a hot potato once they entered into an alliance with Buhari. In APC, they are now required to implement programs and policies whose primary objective is to benefit the agenda of the president’s people.

Rotimi Amaechi pitched the idea of building a University of Transportation in Nigeria. He believes, in his own words, that “charity begins at home.” Nevertheless, he claims in this case that his charity “must begin abroad.” The reason is that he is a member of the APC. Therefore, the proposed university has to be based in Daura, President Buhari’s hometown in Katsina State.

This is what happens when you join Buhari’s APC. You deny your interests and rationalize that of Mr. President. Buhari is a former military general, and once a general, you are always a general. In the army, foot-soldiers have no interest. They are required to sacrifice themselves for the general. They do the general’s bidding, no questions asked, even at the cost of their life.

In effect, Southern politicians in the APC are conscripted to promote the president’s Northern agenda. This makes them, in effect, traitors to their own people.

Betrayal of the Yorubas

This is the predicament of Yoruba APC leaders. They are politicians, but in bed with a military president with a Northern agenda. In order to ingratiate themselves to the president, they are forced to be ambassadors of his many chauvinistically Northern schemes.

If you are a Yoruba man, once you join APC, you lose your voice. Otherwise, why has Bola Tinubu said nothing publicly about Fulani herdsmen killing Yoruba farmers in their farms? Why has Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo kept mum on the rape and plunder of his kith and kin by the Fulani militia? Why has he not resigned in protest?

On the contrary, their silence has been bought. Their silence is the price they have had to pay for being in the APC and for collecting scraps from the master’s table.

Things have now come home to the roost. The marauding herdsmen have shifted their raping, kidnapping and progroms from the Middle Belt progressively southward. They are now attacking people in Ogun, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states. What are the Yoruba allies of Buhari going to do or say about this?

The first bombshell came from Femi Adeshina, the president’s Yoruba special adviser on media and publicity. Adesina’s self-serving advice is that, rather than resist and be killed, Nigerians should surrender their ancestral homelands to the Fulanis. “Ancestral attachment?” he asked. You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?”

Hogwash of Bola Tinubu

But Femi Adeshina is a small fry. What about Bola Tinubu, the so-called leader of the APC. Tinubu has also dodged the issue. He went with a fake Afenifere group to congratulate Buhari on his famous re-election. However, he could not broach the issue of insecurity in the Southwest frontally. Instead, he suggested that the president should endeavor to base police recruitment according to the 774 local government areas of the country.

He said: “The essence of the meeting is to thank the President, congratulate him on the election and the first step on the security of the country to really see a way out to stem any hate speech; intolerance across the nation and look at the problem of security holistically and from the grassroots level; including the fact there is a shortage of police personnel.”

Wow! So the insecurity problem is as a result of hate speech. What nonsense! The truth is that Bola Tinubu is compromised. He cannot tell the president the truth. Listen to this putative Yoruba leader. He implies that the menace of Fulani herdsmen in the Southwest (since he came with only Southwest representatives) is caused by intolerance and hate speech.

Who, we may well ask the APC leader, is intolerant? Obviously, Tinubu is not talking about the herdsmen. After all, they are the ones violating other people’s rights, so they can hardly be classified as tolerant. The only people that could be said to be intolerant are those whose land and property they are violating.

So, appearing before a Fulani president, Tinubu cannot present a case about the pillaging and killings of his people by Fulani herdsmen. Instead, he implies that those whose land they violate, and who they kidnap, rape and murder, are intolerant.

Prescription of a genius

What is the Jagaban’s solution to this problem? Instead of insisting that the president needs to get proactive by arresting these murderers and by defending those they attack, he comes up with a vague namby-pamby suggestion. He says the president needs to take “a holistic approach” to the problem and address it from “a grassroots level.”

This is just vain platitudes. What exactly does he mean about addressing the security problem holistically from a grassroots level? What rubbish!

Tinubu then implied that the answer to the problem of murderous Fulani herdsmen was because of some inadequacy in police recruitment. How does Tinubu propose to address this? Hear him:

“There is the need to look at the recruitment from 774 Local Governments and be able to effectively have information; it takes time to train people; you equally create employment from such an action; I mean employment for the people and strengthen security intelligence from the grassroots.”

This is a load of malarkey. How can recruitment according to the country’s 774 local governments address the issue? Tinubu is coming from Lagos, although he is not really from Lagos. Lagos is a megacity with over 20 million people. But it has only 20 local government areas. Kano has double that at 44. Even Jigawa has more than Lagos: 27.

When Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State, he had an epic fight with Obasanjo, a Yoruba president, over this very issue of a lopsided local government system. His position then was that the local government structure was inadequate. But now confronted with a Fulani president, Tinubu becomes a traitor to himself. He now presents police recruitment according to this allegedly inadequate structure as the panacea for the continued slaughter of his people by Fulani herdsmen within the framework of a Fulani presidency.

The simple conclusion here is that Tinubu is a sell-out. Bola Tinubu has sold out his people for the sake of ingratiating himself to President Buhari, whose support he probably requires for a futile future run for the presidency. Clearly, Tinubu can no longer be trusted to speak for the Yorubas in Nigeria. When he speaks today, he is only speaking for himself.

Tinubu wants to have his cake and eat it, but this cannot wash. The problem of murderous Fulani herdsmen has reached crisis proportions in the Southwest. He is a member of APC, the ruling party that can put a stop to this but refuses to do so. He has to be seen to be doing something about this even though he is compromised and cannot; for self-interested reasons.

So what does Tinubu do? He goes to see the president with a collection of fake Yoruba leaders who call themselves Afenifere but are not. We know who the real Afenifere are. They are led by Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Their spokesman is Yinka Odumakin. The real Afenifere has already concluded that Tinubu is a traitor to the interests of the Yoruba.

When Tinubu gets to the president, he is unable to tell him the truth about the security situation in the Southwest or to offer any serious suggestions about the need to address them. All he went there for was just a photo-up. But nobody should be fooled by this.

Yemi Osinbajo

The real Afenifere has also identified Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo as a sell-out. In a communiqué, signed by its leaders, they said: “Osinbajo is hanging on the Fulani to work against Yoruba interest. When our people are getting killed in their farms by Fulani herdsmen Osinbajo did not say anything.”

On his recent visit to the United States, Osinbajo downplayed the incidence of the marauding herdsmen, because he dared not admit the truth. He said: “With respect to general kidnapping which we have seen in parts of the country, again, this is not entirely new. In fact, some of the kidnapping stories you read or listen to are simply not true anywhere, some are fueled by politics.”

Replied the Afenifere: “(We are scandalized) by the opportunistic and provocative utterances of Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo in New York dismissing the danger we are faced in Yorubaland as well as by other zones in Nigeria as being ‘politically motivated.’”

In effect, Yoruba politicians in the APC are on the horns of a dilemma. How can they continue to be members of a party and government that practically turns a blind eye to the kidnapping, raping, maiming and killing of their people? Is the trade-off of declaring June 12 as Democracy Day sufficient for them to acquiesce in forfeiting part of their homeland to Fulani herdsmen?

Make no mistake about it. Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo and other APC opportunists can no longer speak for the Yorubas in Nigeria.

That useless idiot called Garba Shehu will come and tell us that the attacks on buhari's state shows that buhari does not give preferential treatment to his state.

What a slowpoke

Biafra was never an igbo agenda. That deception that it was igbo was planted by the northern cabals and spread by their western yoruba tools to create a division between the South East and South South. They know that as long as these two are united, their efforts of spreading the sokoto caliphate across Nigeria till the Atlantic ocean won't be easy. They see South west as easy picking any day.

Sadly, we now have even igbos from the Niger delta saying They are deltans than igbos. The 1966 coup called igbo coup was led by Major Gen Chukwuma Nzeogwu yet he is from the area called Delta State today, but it was igbos that were attacked for it.

The fiercest battle during the civil war was the battle for Calabar. It was biafra's FCT and the Nigerian army wanted to get it by all means. We all know that calabar is not an igbo town. It's the recent kids of today that don't know history that wish to push a narrative the sokoto caliphate pushed out.

They have sent him with some lies.

Chai