PeggySandas:
Hmm... Biafuro people ehn...

Ehnn Afunjazzy say what you're thinking now why so cowardly

rheether:
This Evans and his gang are kindhearted. Who said crime doesn't pay??

As in 1.2 mill in $$$$$

Na greed cause am he should have repented after that, moved abroad and invested the money.

Lol bro bring ya receipt for the kidnapping service and payment


Cus me too I was kidnapped by Evans for 3 solid weeks

We were chopping cabin biscuit in sambisa forest......He also kidnapped some chibok girls as well

My own ransom na only 500k
Them give me half price cus I lie too much

sarrki:



Better than the criminal in the grave that wasted 3million innocent people and ran away

Lol the Nigerian govt. was complicit in the wasting and would still gladly waste more in this zoo

IDEKEALUMONA:
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:20 AM
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter:@farooqkperogi
In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity by the renewed agitation for Biafra and its reverberations across the country, some readers of this column requested that I republish a series I wrote in 2008 and 2012. Here is an edited and updated version of the series:
Why is our diversity such a lumbering burden on us? Why do most Nigerians have such powerful loyalties to their incidental, primordial identities and a corresponding disdain, even hatred, for other identities?
Many Nigerians think our country is unworkable because it was “forced” into being by British colonialists. This view has no basis in the history and sociology of nation-building.
There is no nation in history whose formation was the consequence of a democratic consensus. Historically, most nations were formed by conquests, expansionist wars, and forceful cooptation, not by consensus. I don't know what fuels this false, annoyingly ahistorical sentiment among Nigerians.
Many Nigerians also cherish the illusion that they inhabit the most diverse country on planet Earth. But India, a post-colonial country like ours, has a lot more diversity than Nigeria has. It has over 800 languages, several mutually irreconcilable religions, a huge landmass that is several times the size of Nigeria, and a human population that is more than that of the entire African continent combined.
Yet it's one country, and it was formed in fairly the same way as Nigeria was formed. Most of the groups that make up present-day India were independent ethnic groupings. None of the groups was consulted before they were integrated into the modern Indian nation. But you don't hear Indians interminably whining about the unnaturalness of their nation, or about the need to “renegotiate” the basis of their existence.
Nigeria is only about 200 million in population, the 13th largest country in Africa in landmass, with some 500 languages (most of which belong to the same language family), two major religions (which share tremendous doctrinal affinities, unlike, for instance, India that has such mutually exclusive religions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and other Eastern mystical orders). Why is it difficult to conceive that a nation can be formed out of this?
In any case, there is no evidence that mono-ethnic nations thrive better than ethnically diverse nations. One supreme illustration that explodes the myth of the "naturalness" and invulnerability of mono-cultural nations is Somalia. There can be no more homogeneous nation on Earth than Somalia. It's a monolingual, mono-religious, and mono-ethnic society. Everybody in Somalia speaks the Somali language. Everybody there is not just a Muslim, but a Sunni Muslim. It is often said that Somalia is not just a nation; it is, in fact, a big family. They all have a common ancestor and preserve their ethnic purity through endogamous marriages.
How more homogenous can a nation get? Yet it's an excellent specimen of a failed state. It has been gripped by sanguinary convulsions for years on end.
An example nearer home is the former Oyo Empire, which had effectively disintegrated even before the start of colonialism, although it was an ethnically homogenous entity. It was caught in the web of a vicious internal schism that precipitated a debilitating war of attrition, which stopped only with the advent of colonialism.
So homogeneity and consensus are no safeguards against implosion. They are not necessary and sufficient conditions to immunize any nation against internal contradictions and disintegration. Only justice, mutual tolerance, good governance can.
Having said that, the claim that the formation of the Nigerian nation is “forced” needs some interrogation because the history and sociology of pre-colonial relations in Nigeria don't bear testimony to this claim.
A lot of research has been done by historians, notably the late Yusufu Bala Usman and Elizabeth Isichei, which chronicles the robust relational intercourse between the disparate ethnic groups that populate what is today Nigeria. A notable example was the burgeoning social and cultural melting between the Yoruba people and various ethnic groups in North before colonialism.
As the travel records of Arab explorers show, the "ambassadors" (or, if you like, interpreters) of the Alaafin of Oyo during the Trans-Saharan trade with Arabs were people from the extreme North. And records show that Hausas had been living in Yoruba land in large numbers before colonialism. The same is true of Yorubas in the North.
If you go to Kano, for instance, you will see entire neighborhoods that are peopled by men and women whose ancestral roots are located in Yoruba land. Gwammaja is one such neighborhood. Ayagi is another.
This is not to talk of the vibrant pre-colonial inter-ethnic relations between such northern minorities as Igalas, Tivs, Idomas, etc. and Igbos. To this day, Igalas and Idomas have councilors in some Igbo states, and there are "indigenous" Igbos in Benue State .
A lot of people are often shocked to find out that Joseph Wayas, Nigeria's Second Republic Senate President from Cross River State, is “Tiv.” He comes from a part of Cross River State called Obanliku (the location of the famous Obudu Cattle Ranch) where people speak Tiv but call it by a different name. And the man was made Senate President on the basis of his being a Southerner.
Interestingly, during the still-born Third Republic, Iyiorcha Ayu, another Tiv man, became Senate President because he was supposed to be from the North!
Take the case of Edo State, too. The people of southern Edo had shared, and still vastly share, deep cultural and historical ties with the Yoruba people long before colonialism, and those in northern Edo had deep ties with northern Nigeria dating back to hundreds of years. The people of Akoko Edo, for instance, speak the same language as the Ebira of Kogi State, although they call their language Igara. Yet Edo is supposed to be in the South and Kogi in the North.
Again, the people of Auchi have cultural values that decidedly owe their debts to Nupe and Hausa people. I remember that Auchi people used to be called "Bendel Hausas" when, in fact, their language is almost mutually intelligible with Bini and Ishan in southern Edo State
In northern Cross River, the Yala people are linguistically, ethnically, and culturally indistinct from the Idoma and Igede people in Benue State. The Ebu people in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State are actually Igala people. So are the Ilushi people in Edo State. And most so-called Delta Igbos are actually descended from Igala people in what is now Kogi State.
The point of these examples is to demonstrate the inadmissibility of the claim that Nigeria is a "forced" nation. We were too culturally and ethnically intertwined even before colonialism for that claim to have any basis in truth. Even without colonialism, it is conceivable that Nigeria in its present form would have emerged. If we related as closely as historical records show we did, the British merely accelerated what was likely to have happened anyway.
Of course, the result of these robust pre-colonial relational intercourses could very well have resulted in the formation of a different kind of nation from what Nigeria is today, but there is no reason to suppose that it would be the product of the kind of elaborate, unrealistic consensus that irredentists claim is indispensable to national formation.
To be continued
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O.p in respect to India it should be known that they had one of the bloodiest civil wars with hindus and muslims slaughtering each other


They had the biggest number of immigrants simultaneously on the move the world has ever seen historically as people fled to Hindu and Muslim areas respectively

The Hindu majority formed most of India along with the Sikhs while the muslim minority formed pakistan.


Basically the same scenario we had after the British left India

Indians and Pakistanis still have enemity for each other when bombs were set off in delhi Indians believed the Pakistanis played a part

So yeah O.p your so called scholar is Wrong

And I only did up to SS6 history

Lol you now large parts of europe where originally lumped together

And have been amalgamated through treaties and wars

Neegah if the ottoman empire, the persian empire, the roman empire which all existed for centuries and were actual world powers could crumble


What gives nigerians the impunity to believe their case is special or unique in terms of history 50 yrs is negligible.


Leave biafrans alone they have a right to peacefull self determination.

How can you preach homogenity when the north issued an ultimatum ?

We don't want them and they don't want us if only Nigeria was not a zoo, there would have been a referendum like the Scottish had

I will continue to ask what has a homogenous Nigeria achieved in 50+ yrs,

considering its population, lack of natural disaster, immeasurable natural resources we should be greater than Dubai(Saudi Arabia) and a force to be reckoned with on the international stage


The truth is that things have detoriated the longer we have existed. We ignore our problems and concentrate on nonsensical patriotism

If Nigeria is so wonderful why are nigerians crossing the sahara desert everyday


All of yall that agreed with o.p if you're given canadian, american, uk even greek visa i'm sure 90% of yall would be gone

Lol but we are also the most populated country in africa so.......

Neegahs; She didn't submit
She didn't keep kwayet
She provoked him
She didn't cook/clean


Me: Why can't Neegahs walk away

It looks like he whipped her with belt or wire so this was not just anger this was calculated

Bring am make we tear him back

ShootToKill:


My fellow ewedu muslim...oh we must lament against this anti-abooki ultimatum. Why can't SS hate SE and join the north in giving Igbos a quit notice? Oh Allah!
Why are they disturbing the great abookis who brought Islam to us?

Lol bro this comment had me choking

savage as Bleep

Chai








The ambitionz of a ridah

Rhodababy123:
Nobody is talking about rape.. Don't dress half naked to the market like you are going to the beach. Am not supporting their actions. In my state the women will probably say my daughter dress properly next time but some useless girls will respond disrespectfully. Abi u no know say mad people full market before. I have actually seen someone with top and pant get that treatment..... I even offered to buy leggings. Dat babe. no go talk say she no get leggings or bumshort or boxers for house. The men said 'it's only a mad person that walks about unclad. ......

Will you keep quiet so what they did is logical to naked her because her skirt is short

does that make sense

Okay not rape, sexual harrassment which she didnt consent to

look just stay in your close minded lane dont vex me pls

If a boy wear boxer or shorts out without shirt we should naked him too

since he dressed to be addressed.....

[quote author=creamylicious post=57545144] ride a nigga right for more than nine minutes under the influence of drug enhancing substance huh?[/quote/]

But she can lie and be screaming while allowing me to break my back for 20mins


Me I'm hydraulic pump shey

IpobExposed:


I have done that

So what is your original problem?

In fact dont worry dem no dey ask mad man wether im dey craze

Well here is the attention you ordered

Hope it fills your belly for today hungry boy

Over expression of human growth hormone

A simple operation or supplements should fix that

IpobExposed:


it seems he called Radio Biafra yesterday to speak he should be arrested for that.

So bloody what?

OP why is this Ipob matter paining your soul

Focus on self growth and your own personal wellbeing

What is your main opposition to Biafra and have you been this dilligent concerning matters of ingustice or inequality in your own local government area or state

Have you crusaded against any corrupt politicians or businessmen who are directly siphoning away your future into their offshore accounts

These are questions you should sit down and ask yourself, whether biafra comes into existence or not are they really your enemies, are they the reason you're subjected to abject poverty, are they the reasons why when or if you have a degree you will still be jobless?


These are the questions that matter

As to whether they can survive or thrive on their own, thats not your problem they reserve the right to self determination.

morbeta:
Food for thought!

Ndigbo and Biafra.

This is to all my Igbo brothers and sisters. I am posting this mindful of the insults and abuses I will receive. I'm prepared to take them.
Ndigbo, o gini n'eme anyi? Onye mere anyi ifea? I thought the Igbo man is intelligent? I thought the Igbo man is smart? Where and how did we get it wrong? How can we expose ourselves to the current ridicule we are facing in Nigeria? A country we have invested so much in all nooks and crannies? Investments that many are jealous of. Investments you want destroyed or lost? A country we have fought and lost a war? Who learns from his own experience if not a fool? Are we foolish?
Where are our leaders? Who are our leaders?

My people say " ilokalia, ezelu ufodu". How can we be abusing and insulting everybody and be hoping to attain independence with their support? Independence to what end? Independence for a people without leadership? Independence for a people that are not united? Independence for a people who have investments running into billions scattered across the same nation we are running away from?
Ndigbo, how do we think we can win this latest agitation by abusing, insulting and threatening everybody. "Yorubas are cowards". "Hausas are cows ". "Niger Delta people are lazy". "Everybody is against us". "Everybody hates us". Let me ask, who do we like? Who are we smarter than? Must we expose our flanks by rude and brazen talks?

You want Biafra? What are you plans? What are your strategies? You want to adopt Judaism? You want to bow and worship Nnamdi Kanu? Who is he? What is his pedigree? What are his plans? Where is he leading you?
Our brothers in the diaspora, you sit in your comfort zone where you enjoy freedom of speech and of association and you hold Biafra rallies, puting your kith and kin at home in jeopardy. What is it? What is wrong with us?
In Mbaise, Imo state, Igbos have refused that their Igbo brother from Anambra cannot be bishop in a Catholic church. The Pope, the supreme leader who cannot be faulted when he speaks ex cathedra, has spoken and the clergy, religious have disobeyed him. And you want Biafra where ordinary people will preside? Once you achieve Biafra, all your problems will vanish? We will become paradise by mere proclamation?
Ndigbo, o gini? Where are your leaders?

Where are our politicians? They are busy buying choice property and building estates. In Anambra, they are seeking Kanu's endorsement to become governor. Ewooooooo!
My people, my people, my people, nsogbu di. Ezigbo nsogbu. Let nobody deceive you. We are making a very big mistake. A costly mistake. And we will regret it.
I am tired of reading quotations from renowned authors. I want common sense to prevail. I urge everybody to speak up. Talk to our youths and traders who are misguided and angry.
We are marginalized. But what have our political leaders past and present done to look inwards? Onye ajulu ona aju onweya? We had our people in GEJ government. What did they do? We supported GEJ, and still support him, what did he do for us?

Copied....

Will you find a place to sit down


What plan does Nigeria have

What has Nigeria achieved in 50+ yrs

What infastructure, security, education, healthcare plans or achievement can you speak of even to compare with botswana or kenya


The definition of madness is doing the same thing but expecting different results


Leave nigeria and see small countries like Ireland with no natural resources flourishing and you will be ashamed to open your mouth and say you're a Nigerian

Ipob Obsessed na o.p middle name

My first thought was asha.....

But let me not be a hypocrite to be fair we all want someone good in bed

Atleast shes not a liar like other ladies who pretend that its only men that enjoy the thing


Chai I wish I could get a chick that'd ride a neega right......

Instead my lazy bitch will ride 9 minutes and tell me her back is paining while breathing like an asthmatic......Mtschewww

tianshie:
She wan use the woman picture do levels for her other housemaid-friends. "Na my aunty be dis. Fine woman. Same mother, same father, but she nor fit help me."

Hmmm i no dey superstitous but this girl surely had dark intentions

or

maybe shes in love with the lady hence carrying her pic

NNAMDIII:
what is this one saying??

Do you have any comprehension skills?

HardMirror:
do u believe they use jazz or the food is just irresistible?

Na the food is good maybe unhygienic but I don't believe they use jazz


Cus some women can really cook.....especially those village women

Something must kill man

Atleast its sweet

Lies


Yall had more than 50yrs nothing changed

let these people go its not by force

Amberon11:
Don't mind them.

Its obvious nigeria has a massive problem

The federal govt is not working for the 180million inhabitants

Now Biafrans want to seceede you will hear them shouting one nigeria

One nigeria what? Ask yourself what this country has done for you

Healthcare? shambles
Education? ruins
Infastructure? non-existent
Security? Lol police are your friend

Thats before you and petty tribalism and ingrained corruption

One nigeria what

Chai touching


Nigerias problems are too many

Yall are Ipob obsessed forreal

Get jobs








O wait there are none in the zoo continu

WORDWORLD:
"DRESS AS YOU WISH TO BE ADDRESSED". An old adage of the wise.

So when children, old women, even nuns are raped


How did they dress before the addressing


Enabling azz fool

Amberon11:
Mission failed. Im not igbo and nigeria is still a zoo.

Lol they think anybody who disagrees with them is Igbo

Lies and alternate facts from the pitz of hell

No work again in Imo govt. house

Cus this neega is chatting like person wey no get job


Face ya work cockorocha