₦airaland Forum

Ezigbonmadu:
Unfortunately for you, the Yoruba people you so much hate is your only saviour. Unlike you, they think every step through before they act. Yorubas are not also easily brainwashed.

wahles:
are u a Nigerian now? Tot u were Biafran now. Bullet switch sides nd all of a sudden u wana b treated as a Nigerian, even in d jungle or zoo like Biafrans call it, der r rules, break it @ dance

jrusky:
Sorry I can all of you has suddenly became humble guys becoming unity beggars didn't I warn you all before it came to this?

A child that says his/her father's mouth is smelling let see how far he or she will go.

davodyguy:
Spain’s central government launched its latest salvo against Catalonia on Friday, tightening control over regional spending and brushing aside a last-ditch separatist demand for dialogue to allow a banned referendum.



Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was due later Friday in the Catalan capital of Barcelona to rally his troops against a backdrop of soaring tensions over separatist leaders’ plans to hold the outlawed independence vote on October 1.

State authorities have piled pressure on Catalonia, threatening to arrest mayors if they facilitate the referendum and ordering police to seize any item that could be used in the vote in a region sharply divided over whether it wants independence or not.

They went a step further Friday by tightening control over Catalonia’s spending to prevent the region from using money to organise the referendum.

Budget Minister Cristobal Montoro said Spain’s central government would take over the payments of essential services and public workers’ salaries in the region to make sure the cash went just to them.

But separatists have reacted with defiance to attempts to stop the vote.

On Thursday evening, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional players launched their campaign for the referendum in front of a crowd of thousands of cheering supporters in the coastal city of Tarragona, ignoring warnings that the event was “illegal.”

In an open letter distributed to domestic and foreign media on Friday, Puigdemont and other leaders including Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau denounced “unprecedented repression” by Madrid.

They also asked Rajoy and the Spanish king for a last-ditch dialogue, but were promptly rebuked.

“It’s ironic coming from those who have refused dialogue save for a very specific issue — the only one they care about — the independence referendum,” government spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo told reporters.

– Big cities key –

The latest tit-for-tat tops weeks of mounting tensions as Catalan leaders go ahead with referendum preparations despite Madrid’s ban and a court ruling that deems it illegal.

On his trip to Barcelona, Rajoy is due to rally the troops within his conservative Popular Party around 6pm local time (1600 GMT) but is not expected to address any crowds.

Catalonia remains sharply divided over whether it wants independence or not.

A poll in July commissioned by the regional government found that 49.4 percent of Catalans were against independence while 41.1 percent supported it. More than 70 percent, though, wanted a referendum to settle the matter.

If they win, the separatists vow to declare independence within days for the wealthy northeastern region of Spain, home to around 7.5 million people.

Some 750 mayors have pledged to hold the referendum, but they head up mostly small municipalities.

Among the most populated cities, five out of 10 will not get involved, and question marks remain over the biggest of them all Barcelona.

Colau said Thursday that people in Barcelona would be able to vote “without putting institutions or public workers at risk,” but she gave no details as to how this would work.

– ‘Right to vote’ –

Catalonia, which accounts for about one-fifth of Spain’s economic output, already has significant powers over matters such as education and healthcare.

But Spain’s economic worries, coupled with a perception that Catalonia pays more in taxes than it receives in investments and transfers from Madrid, have helped push the cause of secession.

The pro-separatist camp argues that a referendum represents their right to self-determination.

“What we are doing is exercising the right to vote… that forms part of a basic democratic exercise,” Catalan Vice-President Oriol Junqueras told Spanish radio on Friday.

The “repression” they denounce includes legal proceedings against Puigdemont and other Catalan officials including members of a newly-created electoral board to oversee the vote.

Big business lobbies, though, have come out in favour of Madrid.

“What companies want is judicial security,” Juan Rosell, head of the CEOE employers’ association, told Spanish radio after his organisation published a statement in support of “all necessary actions to ensure respect of the current law.”

AFP

davodyguy:
See the attached image and tell me why Buharia shouldn't use Army

davodyguy:
Emptiness as usual, just like KANU. He has no agenda, no plan no vision, other than to insult and incite.

What is his development plan for the south east? Where's the blueprint? Has he read them out of how he would fix roads and improve the lives of Igbo's?

Keep following that criminal.

At least Buhari and APc got power on the change mantra, promising to fix what PDP destroyed. What has KANU promised to fix?


I've read comments from illiterates and ill informed IPOB supporters, trying to compare the nonsense KANU is doing now with other peaceful agitations around the world. If you agitation is genuine and not political, then you would be civil.

Ask yourself
Did the Catalonians call the Spanish government a zoo?
Did the catalonian leaders say to the followers to burn down Spain when ever they get arrested?
Did the catalobians go about with cutlasses, looking for other Spaniards to kill in transit buses?
The act of KANU and his supporters are leaning towards that of terrorists. Pa Awolowo didn't do these much, before he was arrested and jailed. What about Gani fawehinmi? What did he do before being sent to kuje prison?

You guys should be ashamed of yourselves

rottennaija:
Boko haram started as an unlawful group, an movement untill it turn to full blown terrorist organizations. ISIL started same.

IPOB started as an organization bent on burning the Nigerian state.

blacknp:
Cry Baby did the atrocities of boko haram stop you from going to work?be waiting for Nigeria to destroy.

Realdeals:
Na lie, only SE will suffer am. Southwest should be on guard to control the migration aftermath.

victorDanladi:
PIGs will blame it on Afonjas as if they are the leader of IYC.

zombieHUNTER:
In UK referendum means referendum
But in northern Nigeria it means war
Why is that?

higherpower:
That can only be because Mr Cownu doesn't even have a life talkless of history.

FriendNG:
Don't say what you don't know. They are children of the poor not rich. Kwankwaso personally screen scholarship list before approving.


BTW: God bless him for this timely intervention.