₦airaland Forum

sharpden:
You are free to think about my region, that's your right which is not correct.

If nothing will unite South then you guys should stop calling for power to return to South, say power should return to SW and you people should stop begging for unity by spearheading the coming together of Southern Governors.

Oga the North will retain power in 2023, the highest you can do is Japa.

You're doing yourself, not me actually..
I have no problem with the North safe for the religious extremism and insecurities plaguing them there. Infact Buhari turned out to be far better to SW than a Southerner GEJ who with support of Igbos, marginalized Yorubas and even retired majority of our people from federal service.

The North will never support an Easterner to win primaries not to talk of being presidential candidate so the earlier you realize that you're on your own, the better for you.
Next time you will connect your tongue with your brain before making negative and insultive statements about other tribes in Nigeria and Nigeria itself. "Zoo" presidency now dey hungry you.. ehnn look for animals to vote your candidate as president of zoogeria.

@OP I'm 100% sure you're Igbo..


FYI, nothing will unite South (SW,SS, SE) as you erroneously claimed in your writeup. It's getting clearer that we share nothing in common in terms of intelligence and tactical thinking.

You and your household can keep being slaves to the North but we in SW will take a shot at the presidency and win. You can bank on that.

People like Amaechi would rather have Nigeria build world class train station and railway with Chinese loans to Maradi and Niamey in Niger republic.. those are the kind of people ruling us in this country.

Aren't they supposed to revive the Iddo train station down to Lokoja to Kano for ease of transport from West to North? No plans for cargo trains, nothing.
It's poor countrues with no economic value they want to spend Nigeria's commonwealth on.

GeneralOjukwu:
Yorubas can be frustrating. We sabi do...fairness. A lot of us don't know how hateful they can be. We are too naive in that regard

It's lack of orientation.. most Yorubas think life in the West is the same as life in the East and other parts of the country. Then saboteurs are too much within Yorubas, people like Ayo Adebanjo won't see anything wrong with Igbo apex socio-cultural group ohaneze attacking a fellow Yoruba cos of probably envy or personal grievances he has with Tinubu.

This is one thing North won't ever do.. to support Igbos against their own or drum support for Igbo candidates while Igbos go all out to pull strong Northern candidates e.g El-rufai, Ganduje etc. down.
We Yorubas still have a very long way to go else nothing will change for us in Nigeria.

The North won't vote Peter Obi cos of his tribalistic ways so die this Obi matter.. how will he even cross to North to go and campaign and they won't lynch him.
The same man attacked Fashola for returning Eastern destitutes back to Onitsha, whipping tribal sentiments around. Is that the kind of personality any reasonable person would wish to have as president? certainly not.

The best Solution now is to empower the Agbekoya group to confront these bandits gradually encroaching into Yoruba soil.. the people like Adenuga, Otedola and co should make donations to secure their lands and not just be taking, taking without giving back to their society.

Amotekun + Agbekoya + Vigilantes and Civil defense patrolling the borders will curb all these nonsense.

The Northern governors and leaders are the bokoharam and bandits, reason they are doing nothing to end it. We are omoluabis and we won't allow our society to die.

Why do they have Civilian Joint Task Force in the North whereas the same Northerners are against Amotekun bearing arms and creation of state police?
Is the civilian JTF arrangement even constitutional? why then do we have Civil Defense and the likes. I really don't understand the kind of governance system we are running in this country.
You allow civilians bear arms in the North but won't allow proper security outfits in South bear arms or have state police

See the refurbished locomotive Rotimi Amaechi took millions of dollars in Chinese loan for.. signing documents waiving sovereignty clause of the most populous black nation to China.

The honourable thing for Amaechi to do is to resign. He is not fit to hold any public office in Nigeria. A monumental failure of a minister.

@OP I have two questions..

1. How come he had the exact same bag as yours at the spot?

2. Didn't you check your items before collecting the bag from the police officer? you must be a very careless person if you didn't.

My best guess is that he planted a stolen phone in your bag and removed the valuables he saw in the bag.. they'll likely track the phone to your end or get you arrested for "stealing" the phone if you meet him privately, then he'd extort even more from you.

Like good NLers have said, take the phone to the state police command alongside a lawyer to clear yourself. Too many bad people in the force now and it's unfortunate.

@OP I disagree with this.. a woman should learn to be financially stable or be an entrepreneur to support her husband else you'd be playing with poverty.
Gone are the days when women sit down and do nothing in the house.. if pvssy is the only thing you have to offer, then sorry is your case.

Bruxxels:
You are absolute right. There are babalawos who have gave their lives to Jesus. One specifically said that, the babalawos will not tell their clients the whole truth until they are locked into the deal. Evil forces are real. Not a child's play but power of Christ greater than them all.

They don't do it because the end reward is damnation for the rest of eternity. There is no salvation from such evil, reason any man that values his life and soul should not even dabble into such.

For what shall it profit a man to gain the world and lose his own soul?

Macphenson:
If there must be zoning there.must be micro zoning. You cannot accept zoning and reject micro zoning.

Some people wants to use zoning to reduce competition for them, then steal if from other micro zones,

kolework

Oga go and sleep.. nobody will micro-zone anything to SE.

No zone has ever gotten presidency on a platter of gold and SE won't get it that way either.. if you want presidency, select your candidate and let him/her contest with other zones in the South.

If Wike for example gets PDP ticket, Tinubu gets APC and an Igbo gets APGA and Wike emergers winner.. then fine and good. If it's Tinubu or the Igbo, then we have to accept like that. But coming out to issue threats and blackmail to Nigerians won't work.

This is the exact same thing going on in my mind.. North has ruled for the most years in Nigeria from democracy to military to democracy, back and forth like that.. so why should they be saying they want to continue ruling in 2023?

Tafawa Balewa, Gowon, Muritala, Shagari, Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, Abdusalam, Yar'adua and now Buhari are all Northerners and have ruled collectively for over 40years so North should not come and whip sentiments on half-truths else we refer them back to history.

Osole has been around for a long while but not as pronounced as it is now.. while we were growing up, they do warn us not to collect sweets or biscuits from strangers and not to pick up items for people we don't know.. It's common knowledge that some landlords use their houses for osole so as to be using their tenants glory to get wealth, some use furniture sets, bed frames, coffins, motorcyles, cabs, buses, trailers etc. for these evil purposes just to get rich and it's not a SW thing alone. Even food vendors a.k.a mama put, love vendors a.k.a ashaw0s are into these things. May God continue to save us.

Next time you see a wealthy man, ask for his source of wealth and don't just be hailing and saying things like 'boss do giveaway'.. The irony is that those witch doctors doing the osole don't do for themselves or their family members, I guess they know the price to pay is too high whereas the teenagers and youths doing it have no clue.

If Tinubu or Osinbajo should emerge as APC's flag bearer in 2023, Igbos will vote en masse against South.. they did it in 1993 and will gladly do it again.

Looks nice but I'm not an okro person.. give me ewedu, efo, white soup or the likes from South side and I'll be fine.

We'll remind you.. at least you can go back to Imo state and leave Lagos matters for Yorubas.

It's funny how man A will sit down, cross legs and relax under a tree while man B works his head off sowing seeds to reap bountiful harvest then all of a sudden, man A remembers fairness, equity and justice and wants to lay claim to the gains of man B.. That is exactly what Igbos are trying to do in APC. The party they served for 24years and counting which is PDP won't even consider them as flag bearer but the Yoruba ewedu muslim party should give them platform to contest on a platter of gold.

I thought PDP already said they are leaving the ticket open, not zoning to any region (not even SE with all the noise).. yet you won't see Igbo leaders attack PDP leadership, it's Tinubu's ambition that they want to die ontop.

You people from that part of the country are somewhat wicked and have crude behaviour.. no offence meant o! but stories like this and the ones I've witnessed are the reasons I said that.

@OP If you're above 18yrs and your cousin sis is above 18yrs.. then go the Police and report the matter.. tho. your relationship with your family and other siblings would be at stake but heck someone has to put her in her place.
It's not all guys that can't control their third leg so I want to assume that you're not fvcking the girl.. Shame dey catch me for your dad who couldn't call his wife to order. Such a pity!

Bounceboune7:
hate n bitterness is their greatest problem n it has alienate them from d rest of Nigeria..now they will understand that yorubas aren't their problem they are d problem themselves.

Let's see how they will tag south south betrayal

At least they will reduce d hate for Yoruba n shift some to south south

Wike will tidy them like he did to Ipob urchins in Oyigbo.
It's Yorubas that are docile o.. Igbos know their limits near North and South South people especially Rivers cos PortHarcourt people have dealt seriously with them in the past when they refused to release Igbo properties after the civil war. They won't try shit with Ijaws and Ikwerres the way they are doing with Yorubas in Lagos.

goaldynboy:
The property in Dubai was bought in her name; that is why she has right to sell it!

If it wasn't in her name, Atiku would have left her dry and empty!

So the woman is a very smart woman!!

It's still Atiku's money, so she should at least have the decency to iron out issues with him first before selling off the property..

Atiku has entered one chance with Igbos now.. maybe he's next in line to get dragged by Igbos on social media just like FFK, who knows.

Bounceboune7:
south south have moved on,they will have large stakes in both party unlike their attache friends still choking on hate

Pdp will not field them as President or vp
APC will not field them as President or vp.

Their politics of hate and bitterness has clearly separated them from other Nigerians

Their journey in the political wilderness is just starting.. they still have donkey's years to roam the wilderness.

I read a news where some of their leaders went to beg Arewa forum to accept them back since they were once allies in the first republic while Yorubas have always been in opposition. The same set of people will turn around and accuse Yorubas of ruling not mentioning how they enjoyed Nigeria with North during Azikiwe and the other Igbo VPs they had.

That guy is only showing remorse because he got caught, not that he has changed or anything.. He'll still go back and do the same crime again and again.

There is a big difference between morals and being religious.. Some claim to be religious but have no moral principles.

Jennifer go marry Atiku a muslim because of ego knowing fully well they are allowed to take plenty wives and womanize as they like.. why is she now tired and disturbing our peace?
Same way we heard Genevive too chook head for Atiku matter that year. Igbo ladies and their love for rich Northern alhajis ehnn..

If truly she sold his property in Dubai, then she is in a big mess. I thought they said she is a lawyer, why didn't she approach the courts to demand her rights or she didn't want to offend His Excellency too?

@Op Don't mind the guy.. If the girl should maybe fall sick and die under his roof now, the same judgemental people he is trying to please would be the first to accuse him of using her for rituals and all sort of rumors without concrete evidence.

Just do what makes you happy, not what will make others see you and be happy. Cheers!

We can attribute the problem to so many things like feminism, poor upbringing, societal failure etc.

Let's pick feminism for example and how western cultures now encourage women to deny their husbands sex in marriages terming it "RAPE", thereby deviating from the norms of the sane society our parents had in the past. The option of divorce is always there for husbands to break away from their toxic wives and that's why you have so many broken homes and failed marriages in places like Canada where women are being valued and worshiped over men.

WoundedLamb:
But these associations are created by black people themselves in search of solidarity. Don't you think we've developed a habit of blaming the white man for everything?

My point is.. racism still lives in the world today and blacks are not even helping matters.
We fought for independence from whites not too long ago but nowadays, black youths fight tooth and nail to go live in white countries and enjoy white-made facilities. What stops blacks from loving black and developing black continent?

With the facts on ground, Africa is the best place to live on earth in terms of geopositioning, environment factors and the huge deposit of natural resources that the white colonialists have been stealing and are still stealing tactically to develop the white man's lands. You see most of these foreigners coming to Africa to establish and then refuse to go back. I'm sure they always feel sorry for blacks for not knowing the value of their lands and the fortunes black continent holds.

Wike's political wit is on another level.. antagonize Atiku small, just small o and watch him pick you as VP over Peter Obi.

The South South guys are giving me joy.. despite their proximity to SE, you don't hear of their youths killing themselves or killing policemen to spite and blackmail Nigerians for presidency. They play the game of politics fair and square.

Yes, I know..

Kogi-Igala
Kogi-Yoruba
Kogi-Ebira.

There are other tribes too in same Kogi.

I'm yet to see any tangible contribution of SE to SW... our people hardly go there, hardly get jobs or lands to build houses or start business. Instead they are the ones trooping into SW in their millions as if there is war going on in their enclave.
The one that pains me most is the huge allocations their 5 tiny states get monthly from FG that politicians there embezzle including the revenues and taxes (most of them don't pay tax), yet still they declare fake revenue figures just to embezzle more. If you do the maths correctly,you'd see that the 5 SE states combined get far more allocations than Oyo state and Niger state which are even larger than the entire SE region in terms of size. Yet these people can't sit down, think and develop their region.

They can call us names like bigot but it won't stop us from saying the truth.. If we are to progress as a nation, the ideologies of regionalism of our founding fathers must be followed where every region has to make development a priority and provide jobs for their youths, not that some will turn leeches running to other regions to drag non-existent jobs with indigenes in those places. What stops them from creating the conducive environment in their own region?

@OP NW shares some similarities with SW and I think working with them will boost the growth of SW economy and that of Nigeria at large.