₦airaland Forum

omonnakoda:
Why do Fulani maintain Sarki Fulani of Lagos State distinct from Sarki Hausawa of Lagos state

That's simply symbolic...besides no one is saying there aren't fulani people, in the north east which is not a hausa enclave, there are fulani people in adamawa but also hausa speaking, same applies to bauchi and gombe and even Taraba! Politically and culturally, Hausas and Fulanis are one unit!! Most Fulanis speak hausa as a first language!
The problem is that southerners have very very limited understanding of the north. In terms of culture, geography and politics of the region. Your question is very indicative of the fact that you guys simply don't understand the north, northerners do a better job at understanding the south.

QuotaSystem:
Karka biye musu mutumina, son suke sukawo rashin hadin kai tsakaninmu @kaura5000

Hahahaha which is impossible no matter how hard they try....talk about exercise in futility! How can you divide the heads of people that have been intermarrying over several centuries to the point that their identities have fused together! There's hardly any pure this or the other left in the northwest! So good luck to all those that want to divide and conquer on nairaland!

kindly list the highest paying government parastatals and private companies in Nigeria. I know NLNG is one of the highest but what about others?

obasanjo said it.....GEJ wants to do a gbagbo. Oya do it.....jail is waiting for him and shepopotamus

Next in line....Patience Ebele Jonathan for 30 years.

Ivory Coast's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections. Gbagbo, 65, had been charged with undermining state security. Her husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, is awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). More than 3,000 people died in the violence that followed the presidential poll after the ex-leader refused to accept defeat to Alassane Ouattara. She and her husband were arrested in 2011 after troops stormed a bunker where the pair had taken refuge in the main city, Abidjan. And it was in the same city where Gbagbo - once called the "Iron Lady" and known for her fiery speeches - faced trial. She was also accused of disturbing public order and organising armed gangs.

'Ashamed of Ivorian justice'
She denied witness accounts that accused her of personally distributing arms to the death squads that operated in Abidjan during the five-month conflict. The court unanimously sentenced her to 20 years, which is the sentence for undermining state security.
The prosecution had only asked for 10 years - but this had only been for the charge of disturbing public order. The BBC's Ali Bamba in Abidjan says the verdict was delivered in the early hours of Tuesday morning after eight hours of deliberation by the jury.The former first lady remained calm, as she had been throughout the trial, almost as if she knew what was coming, he says
Her daughter from a previous marriage, Marie Antoinette Singleton, told the BBC's Newsday programme that the sentence was unfair and a sign of "political justice".

"Why would you want to double it? It's not about justice; it's about getting rid of political adversaries."If we say that something wrong happened, it happened on both sides. Nobody looked into bringing all responsible parties to trial," she said. Simone Gbagbo's lawyer said they would appeal."I was expecting Simone to be acquitted," Rodrigue Dadje told the BBC French service."There is no proof of her involvement at a personal level… I am ashamed for the Ivorian justice system."

'Humiliations'
The former first lady was on trial with 82 other supporters of her husband - 15 of whom were acquitted.Two former military allies also received 20-year jail terms: Gen Bruno Dogbo Ble, once head of the Republic Guard, and the ex-navy chief Adm Vagba Faussignaux. The other accused got lesser sentences. Before her sentencing, Simone Gbagbo had said that she forgave the prosecution, despite the humiliation she had suffered during the trial. "I forgive because, if we don't forgive, this country will burn," she said. Both sides were accused of atrocities in the conflict that followed the 2010 poll. But our correspondent says despite a promise from President Alassane Ouattara that both sides would face justice, no-one in the president's camp has been charged. Laurent Gbagbo, is facing four charges at the ICC in The Hague, including murder, rape and persecution.The ICC had issued an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo too, but this was dismissed by the Ivorian government.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31809073

changes1:
Thunder wey go fire her still dey chop food for mami market.

see them killing themselves just to show GEJ is clueless... Na who go lose?

When obj said those chibok girls won't come back he had a reason to say so..

If they use terrorism to cripple the present administration just so they can climb the seat and chop oil money, what makes them think militants will allow that?... They should visit President Yar'adua's grave and ask him how far.

Big idio.t infact you're a sorry human being with no thinking faculty.

eddie1:
Tribalism and superiority complex in display. I don't really care who rules, but when I see how angry they are knowing a christian southerner is president, it only makes me want to vote for GEJ.

One like for my post, is a vote for GEJ

You idio.t you're nothing but a degraded and toxic human being that has a soak away for a brain! Continue peddling sentiments for a clearly incompetent leader while your country is destroyed you buffoon. In 1993 northerners voted for mko over tofa. Even in Kano where tofa is from, mko won. Now you'll say the southerner has to be Christian for northerners to despise. Big fool...Nigerians deserve the kind of leaders you get coz you're a cursed people

Many observers have negative perceptions about Islam in relation to intellectual discovery and the quest for knowledge albeit ignorantly. They believe Islam is all about rote learning where adherents of the faith sit and memorize texts of the holy book. After which, they proceed on a slaughtering frenzy. Firstly, there are 1.2 billion Muslims on Earth today. If the Islam was not a peaceful religion, I dare say the world would not exist today. 1.2 billion people can cause quite the ruckus. Historically speaking, the west has borrowed a great deal of 'intellectual property' from Arabs and Muslims in general. The numerical system, 1,2,3 is of Arab roots first developed by Persian and Arab mathematicians based in India. furthermore, in mathematics, algebra, in its most standard form was created by a Muslim scholar by the name Muhammad Ibn Musa AlKhawarizmi in Baghdad around 820 AD in his book 'Hisab "AL JABR wal Muqabala. Algebra is actually "AL JABR" from the title of his book which simply means 'the book on calculation by completion and balancing'. Similarly, algorithm is a corruption of the learned man's name "Alkhawarizmi" called as
"algoritmi" He was a well known scholar in the Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad among many other renowned scholars. In spanish and Portuguese, his name is the word for digit i.e. guarismo. Ibn Sin was known to have conducted the first successful colic surgery. And Ibn Nafis performed the first successful eye surgery. The contributions to scientific discovery by the various Islamic caliphates is profound and one need only conduct a little research to find out how extensive it is and how much of what we currently attribute to western ingenuity is actually rooted in the old tradition of Islamic scholarship. I can write about contributions to Medicine, Astronomy, Mathematics, Geography, Philosophy, History, Chemistry (Also derived from an arabic word 'al-kimiya') But I know very well nairalanders will be too lazy to read it.

SporaD8: You seem not to get the Op question.
Is Arabic Nigeria official Language?
Were we colonized by Arabs?
Do any indigenous tribe in Nigeria speak Arabic?
Do the Army get it's uniform, weapons, or training from Arabs?
Then what is the use or significance of an Arabic inscription on Nigeria Army(significant federal institution) Logo?

Arabic alphabets were used to write a Nigerian language...Hausa language long before Europeans came to Africa. The Arabic you see denotes Hausa language not Arabic. Even the Arabic on naira notes, an arab man will not make any sense of it because it is Hausa being spelled with Arabic alphabets. Like how we now spell Yoruba with English(Latin) alphabets. So the whole thing is tradition and cultural not religious! Some other languages that use Arabic alphabets to write include Farsi or Persian in Iran, Urdu in Pakistan, Pashto, Kurdish, Malay, Uighur and numerous others covering 30% of this earth in terms of area span. Besides, there is an arab ethnic group in Nigeria called the shuwa Arabs and there are a number of northerners that have arab blood or roots. This is one of many legacies of the Islamic penetration into west Africa. Another interesting legacy would be the Babban Riga or agbada....yes we got that from Arabs!

This is just a question.....please explain why African countries have never gone beyond quarter finals in World Cup history.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu]Why don't you learn how to post first or better still get northerners to respond?[/quote]pls teach me, slowpoke!fact is, his hostility towards muslims is a sentiment his kinsmen share!

Where are all those southern hypocrites? Silent I see!

This guy really finished femi fani kayode, interesting read.

WILL THE REAL ANTICHRIST PLEASE STAND UP


It was with great shock that I read an article written by a former minister of the federal republic. With the exhibition of such unadulterated mediocrity, there’s little wonder why ours is a country that cannot seem to move an inch to the fore. It is thoroughly demoralizing to see people of that caliber engage in what appears to be chauvinism of dangerous dimensions. My intention is simply to address and dismantle the writer’s arguments one after the other. It appears the writer has become an adopted child of the far right wing of the American political theater. What some would call an “uncle Tom” given his own roots. He chooses to side with a group that has historically been either hostile or indifferent to minorities through both policy and politics. To ignore the oppressive policies of America’s far right like the systematic economic deprivation of minorities, the prison industrial complex, biased criminal justice system, Jim Crow and many others and focus on Saudi’s supposed oppression of minorities is nothing but deliberate conjecture. And since we’re talking about rights, did the writer consider the rights of the poor in his own country while discharging the duties of his office as minister?
In the writer’s perfect world, the United States should flex its muscles across the world and show absolutely no respect for other nations and peoples. The spirit of cooperation needn’t be encouraged and even if it is, it certainly shouldn’t be directed towards Arabs, who saw one of their countries invaded and occupied based on false pretenses. The United States should also support a Zionist land grab agenda, after all, it is justified, they refuse to recognize a concocted state populated by second and third generation immigrants and to make it worse, they are Arabs. This is the writer’s world view. He has also joined the band wagon of those implying that President Obama is a secret Muslim, a tired, over flogged and failed political fear tactic. Interestingly, the group accusing him of being a secret Muslim is the same group that attempted lynching the then candidate Obama over the divisive statements of the pastor of his Chicago based church. Clearly the writer suffers from amnesia.
The writer’s subjectivity and utter lack of intellectual depth in the article may possibly stem from his complete lack of understanding of the American political system as evidenced by some monumentally fallacious claims he advanced. I humbly advise the writer to always approach his keyboard while sober.
The issue raised by the writer pertaining to Obama’s bow to the Saudi monarch three years ago is not a new one, in other words, he’s not the first US president to engage in a controversy generating bow to a monarch. According to David Sanger of the New York Times; President George H.W Bush deeply bowed to the casket of the late Japanese emperor. This act generated some degree of political noise at home, and he was probed by journalists as to why the bow was necessitated. The former president answered like an exemplary and astute statesman by saying “I’m representing the United States of America. And we’re talking about a friend, and we’re talking about an ally. We’re talking about a nation with whom we have constructive relationships. Sure, we got some problems, but that was all overriding – respect for the emperor. And remember back in World War II, if you’d have predicted that I would be here, because of the hard feeling and the symbolic nature of the problem back then for the former emperor’s standing, I would have said ‘No Way’. But here we are, and times move on; and there’s a very good lesson for civilized countries in all this”. Sanger further posits that there is no protocol against US Presidents bowing to monarchs, the only protocol ignored by President Obama was the one suggesting a president cannot bow and shake hands at the same time. One has to be chosen over the other. The writer’s exercise in shameless demagogy led him to conveniently leave out discussion of President Obama’s bow to the Japanese emperor Akihito. Choosing instead to focus on an “Arab King”. Assuming that the gullible amongst us would buy into his deceptive motive. A bow symbolizes respect, a virtue the President promised to imbibe at his assumption of office, mutual respect and cooperative spirit. The writer’s crass insensitivity towards an elderly and internationally respected leader, King Abdullah by tagging him an “Arab King” unworthy of gestures of respect portrays a man that has deserted the tenets of his own ethnicity.

Another laughable albeit disgraceful statement in the form of a question is his claim that violent hurricanes are caused by Obama. No enlightened mind would ordinarily dignify this with an informed response. However, for the writer’s Information, hurricane season and campaign activity typically fall in the tail of the year, a mere coincidence rather than a cause and effect relationship. Furthermore, going by the writer’s premise, George W. Bush is a greater antichrist given that a major American city was almost entirely displaced by a hurricane during his presidency. We should therefore conclude that real antichrist’s name is Walker and not Hussein.
The former OBJ era aviation minister then floats into domestic social policy with first attempting to impose his religious views on the American polity then disregarding what every other child knows to be ‘AMERICA 101’ which is the separation of church and state. As much as we are all people of faith and firmly believe in our religious ordinances. America’s founding fathers charted a course for that country which they felt in their vision would service the nation’s growth and development, rightly or wrongly so. The foundation of that country is secularism, meaning that no religious sect, ideological persuasion, can hold sway over public affairs or have undue influence in matters of state policy. Neither can citizens be discriminated against on the basis of these factors or additional factors like race, creed, sexual orientation and national origin. This means that the state cannot take the religious views of some, whether minorities or the majority and impose it on everyone. The US constitution stipulates articulately these principles. Obama has endorsed abortion and the US Supreme Court has adjudged it constitutionally sound in Roe V. Wade. So may be the writer needs to take issue with the document itself not the individual that has sworn to uphold it. Indeed what Obama has supported is the US constitution both in spirit and script. That each and every American regardless of religious creed can have equal protection under the law, inalienable rights and freedom to pursue his or her happiness. This is the American ideal that has attracted millions to leave their homes for its shores. Thus dogmatic variance is an issue that belongs squarely to those that adhere to that given dogma as opposed to a public policy issue. The President is a democrat, hence an advocate of liberal policies like racial tolerance and economic fair play not “new age” ungodliness.
Another strikingly interesting point is how the writer starts out with an excessive dose of hostility towards Muslims which surprisingly transforms into sympathy for poor Muslims in tribal Pakistan being bombarded and killed by drone strikes. This just displays his inconsistency and confusion. Furthermore, blaming President Obama for events in North Africa is simply disingenuous. Obviously, the writer has neoconservative leanings and would prefer a situation where America invades every country that doesn’t play into its global agenda. Other than what Obama is doing with Iran, which is a multilateral coalition centered economic sabotage (as opposed to Bush’s unilateral action with a small coalition of the bribed and the coerced in Iraq) there is nothing else to be done short of a full scale war, which the country cannot financially stomach. People of good will around the world also have no appetite for another war in the Middle East. He also accuses Obama of ‘indecision’ and ‘procrastination’ in Syria. Any keen observer of the Syrian crises will tell you that decisive action at the security council against the Syrian regime has been continually barred by Russia and China, both of which equally posses veto power at the security council as permanent members. So maybe more blame should be directed towards Russia for protecting a murderous regime. Obama is not responsible for home grown revolutions in the Arab world, the domino effect is observable. Political suppression and economic hardship are the culprits. Similarly, President Obama cannot be blamed for Mali’s inability to protect its territorial integrity, which is the responsibility of Mali’s armed forces. The writer’s admonishment of the Obama administration for the political metamorphosis in North Africa is not only unjustifiable, but not rooted in fact or common sense. He suggests America should do more to stabilize the region but is likely one of those people that will be the first to accuse her of interference and meddling in the affairs of others when things go bad.
The writer claims that under Obama, America is gradually turning into a “quasi – welfarist state”. This claim is unfounded and he provides no data to back this claim which sits on the outskirts of common knowledge. Without a doubt, President Obama inherited subpar economic conditions from his predecessor. The country was already losing seven hundred thousand jobs a month towards the end of the Bush era. Bush’s deregulation of Wall Street is part of the cause of the deepest financial crises since the great depression where financial institutions engaged in all manner of risky behavior from subprime mortgages to predatory lending practices to collateralized debt obligations to credit default swaps and a host of other financial innovations. Overburdening War spending and Chinese mercantilism are also at the heart of the recession, the war being a misadventure and China being a force of history. Therefore, the country’s economic woes were caused by Bush, who inherited a surplus economy from Clinton.
The writer’s Orwellian branding characterized by his neat sweeping up and packaging of the world’s problems and branding them ‘Obama’ clearly doesn’t hold any water and is unacceptable to all fair minded people. Consequently, my prayer too is to see President Obama, a truly inspirational leader, retain his seat as ‘POTUS’.


Mr. Jidda writing from Abuja

Dame Patience Jonathan Road today became Abuja’s newest road. Named for the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, the refurbished road links the Defence Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA), which was responsible for its construction, with Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Barracks.

 The gesture comes four months after the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, unilaterally renamed the Maitama Extension District in Abuja as Goodluck Jonathan District.

Speaking at today’s commissioning ceremony, Mrs Apolonia Petinrin, the president of DEPOWA, said her association executed the project with the assistance of the armed forces and the police.

Noting that the road had been in a terribly dilapidated state, she explained that compassion for the less privileged in the community was responsible for the decision of her association to improve its condition.

In her remarks, Mrs. Jonathan said that the cooperation of the private sector was central to the success of her husband’s Transformation Agenda, and that the new road would serve the interests of members of DEPOWA, the barracks community and other road users.

“The gesture will also provide an evidence of the capability of our women to initiate and execute projects and programmes critical and beneficial to the well-being of our nation,” Mrs. Jonathan said.

She urged DEPOWA not to relent in its efforts, and users of the road to use it responsibly.

Last week, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson appointed Mrs. Jonathan to the job of a permanent secretary in Bayelsa State, where she had previously worked.  It was learned that Mrs. Jonathan, who will be sworn in tomorrow, has been drawing a salary in the state administration since 1999.  

She has indicated that she will perform her duties in Bayelsa as a Permanent Secretary from Abuja.


http://saharareporters.com/news-page/road-named-after-first-lady-patience-jonathan-abuja

True Story, please make sure you read,like  and share It!Indian Fake Doctors Operating In Abuja Nigeria Exposed!!!!
I am hurt and I wish to spread this news fast. If you had listened to the network news in FRCN this morning, this issue was seriously broadcasted and analyzed by the Reporter. It was also broadcast Monday last week.

The Indian operated Specialist hospital in Karu Site, Abuja are Quacks, Fake, 419 and exploiters of Nigerians. If you know anybody going or planning to go to that hospital, please stop the person immediately.

The hospital was built by FCT as Karu General hospital but all of a sudden it was leased to this killer Indians to operate as specialist hospital.Charges in this hospital is exploitative, only registration alone in N25,000.00.

MAIN ISSUE

In November 2011, my sister went to the Indian Hospital for Fibroid operation. The Indian thieves diagnosed her and said her case is very complex. She was charged a total of N700,000.00. On the day of operation, she was taken to the theatre and was Open up. What do I mean. She was torn OPEN-UP and stitched back without removing any fibroid. When she recovered from the effect of the Anastasia, they congratulated her for successful operation and that lumps of fibroid had been removed from her. My sister requested from the doctors to see the lumps which is a normal practice in every hospital, the Indian thieves said the lumps had been taken to lab for analysis, that they will show her later. Till today my sister have not sighted the fibroid lumps that was removed from her.

From the night after the operation, my sister started feeling serious pains than what she had before. She complained to the Indian thieves, they said it will be okay and discharge after three days with the pains. She went home and had more pains than ever aside the torn wound. We decided in December 2011 to go for scan in another lab. The scan result shows that there are heavy lumps of fibroid in her and that there is absolutely no sign that any removal attempt had been carried out even though there is evident that she was opened up for surgery. We tried the scan in another specialist hospital in Asokoro, Abuja. It was the same result. My sister then disguised herself with another name and went for scan in the same Indian specialist hospital Abuja and they confirmed that she was open up but not an iota of fibroid was removed from her. My sister lied to the scan officers that the operation was done in Benin hence she will require a comprehensive report from the Indian Killer hospital and the they did a beautiful job in putting the whole report in black and white.
January this year, my sister went for the same fibroid operation in another hospital in Asokoro, Abuja and she was operated successfully and the lumps of fibroid removed were shown, the operation was videoed and pictures of everything were taken and are well kept.

She has written petitions to Medical and Dental Council of Niger, Nigerian Medical association, Minister of Health, and we making effort to present it to the National Assembly. Many media reporters have interviewed her, Some have written already. FRCN has carried twice as main news item.

Investigation by media reveals that those Indians are quacks, they do not posses basic medical credentials. The Head of the hospital an Indian woman is not a medical doctor. The deputy is her son and not a medical doctor as well. A specialist hospital operating in a Nigerian Government Built Infrastructure do not have a medical director!

Nigerian Medical Council have confirmed that this Indians were brought during the former Minister of FCT and were horridly given temporary permission to operate without passing through the normal registration procedure by the council.
DONT BE A VICTIM, BE WARNED. SPREAD THE NEWS TO ANY NIGERIAN YOU KNOW. AVOID INDIAN SPECIALIST HOSPITA, KARU SITE, ABUJA. BY Azubueze Pedro

All of a sudden, zoning must be strictly adhered to! IT IS HYPOCRISY THAT WILL NEVER ALLOW THAT USELESS COUNTRY DEVELOP.

Prof. Isa Odidi is from kano, that is his state of origin. Look at the link if you want to verify.

http://www.ndnigeria.org/Executives.htm

how can two incoming senators with no seniority be senate president over ranking members! NOT POSSIBLE

congoshine:
How laughable 

Talking from the comfort of your Minnesota villa ,probably financed by govt 'kwantracts' or kick-backs. 

See your mouth '80% northerners want to split' .   .    .    .    .Sege ! 

I wish you were with your cattle in Funtua  with US travel ban placed on your butt - you wouldn't be spewing such rubbish. 

Northerners want split ko . . . . . .gworo ni . Tschewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

clown

You say you want to split, I say my people also want the same thing, you turn around and say no we don't! I have never seen such confusion in my life. Guy, the only people that want to keep Nigeria one are the people milking it dry. The average northerner doesn't smell oil money therefore will not lose a damn thing in the event of a split. So split why don't you!! Most northerners want to split, in the riots, people were yelling"a raba" meaning split the darned country.

SO it has become a situation where it makes you happy to persist in your delusion that the north wants to be in the same country as drug dealing, kidnapping, blood ritual, 419ning, two timing bigots like you. Ha think again mr. man. If you have balls, organize a protest in the south demanding a split!!! PLEASE DO THAT!!! FOOLS!! your so called oil money will still be siphoned off!! Many of you run to non oil producing african countries as of right now as economic refugees so what are you blabbing on about!

most northerners including myself want a split! pleeeeease split it u hear! that would be awesome! 80% of northerners want a split. I'd love it.

As for the guy that said I should go hug a transformer, I just did and nothing happened? know why? coz there was no light. Fools, go manage your no light having as*ses! Backward people.

fools! cant you read? Ive answered the same question over and over again, why didn't the north riot when obj rigged elections in 2003 against Buhari That cancels out any of your arguments about religion. People were simply much more emotionally invested in this election. Power has to be shared, its either that or war, you pick. Turn into somalia or share power! The principle of rotation suits Nigeria's make up!!! Anyway, most people posting in NL are not sensible and will have no say whatsoever in who becomes the next president of Nigeria. Your slave masters will decide.

well growing up, my islamic religious knowledge teacher was a yoruba and he led many many prayers. Many yorubas have led in prayers! so Mr. Dracula, I dont know what you're talking about. People like you have no first hand knowledge of the north. All you have is overly emotional and sentiment laced fallacies that are completely absent in reality. Like boogie man stories.

Northerners hate this and that, they dont want to be ruled yet all these ridiculous assertions can be easily rebuffed if only you cared to look at the history objectively. The longest serving head of state was a christian, yakubu gowon was head of state for 9 straight years. The longest serving president in terms of years is OBJ, serving 3 plus 8 total. The north voted for OBJ in 1999, no one said he should not rule because he's not a northern muslim, no riots, even when he rigged in 2003, there were no riots!! The north voted for MKO en mass, he won Kano over a native son of Kano, Bashir Tofa. So be objective and stop succumbing to cheap propaganda and dont be intellectually lazy, examine what has happened and the root causes of the riots, it is very easy to say oh it is because of religion when you're failing to look at the other angles and deeper social issues that accompany them. The south is being fooled into chopping any bs story that comes from the north. Igbos run most northern markets, if you have a car and you've ever wanted to buy spare parts in the north then you have dealt with an igbo. But have northerners chased them out or decried that igbos are dominating markets? ask yourself why so many igbos live in the north and continue living there even after the violence!! sit there and distract yourself with north south and dont join hands and demand electricity or and end to corruption! FOOLS

Which is it people, today its, hausa's want southerns to rule them, but they voted from MKO Abiola en mass. Tomorrow its northerners have sworn that no xtian will rule muslims yet the voted for OBJ in 1999. The north voted and supported OBJ in 1999, he went to Kano and many parts of the north and they were screaming "sai BABA"

Please enough of your hypocrisy. You continue moving the posts just to suit some agenda then turn around and say aboki this aboki that. It was agreed that there would be rotation, 8 years south 8 years north. All of a sudden, instead of sticking to it in the interest of unity, it has been jettisoned over short term thinking. When it was the south that forced zoning on the country. Now when in the long term the chairs are switched, guess who'll start crying first?

For those that say power will never return to the hausa speaking north. well, we're going to have to see about that but something tells me that would be utterly impossible to stage. We'll see how far that goes. But I'll let some of you relish in your "new elevation syndrome"

oweniwe:
GBAM!!

Gadogaga or what are you called? Answer these questions ASAP

1. Why didn't the north riot in 2007 when PDP rigged the election for Yar Adua?
2. When did churches become PDP campaign offices?
3. How many states in the south nigeria did buhari campaign that made you think southerners voted for him? Ok, he campaigned at sheraton hotel in lagos and presidential hotel in port harcourt. But is it hotel people that will cast the votes he needed to win the election? Even in the states he won, is it hotel peeps that voted for him?
3. Apart from the north, CPC doesn't have any structures in most south south\south east states. In my ward ezionum delta state, CPC didn't have agents. Ribudu's campaign train even came there. But CPC? No poster, no agent, no office, just NOTHING. How could buhari have won the election this way?
4. You are saying only a small number of southerners were killed o. That northerners were affected too. Nonsense. It doesn't matter who is affected. Call a spade a spade. WHAT IS BAD IS BAD

1. There was unrest in the north when Buhari lost to Yar'adua, not that I expect you to know since the southern dominated media never reported it much. Buhari also appealed to his supporters not to resort to violence and it was obliged. Furthermore, the 2011 election was over hyped and pdp peddled the notion of a free and fair election. Naturally, people bought into that hogwash and the voter turn out was tremendously high compared to 2007 believing thier voted would count only to see that GEJ won 40% of southern votes. An impossibility from whatever angle you look at it. People were generally more emotionally invested in the 2011 elections and had more hope. Buhari took yar'adua to court. They supreme court agreed that the rigging was monumental but that (according to chief justice Kutigi) Nigeria could not afford to have an election rerun, thus it was best to accept the illegality in good faith.

2. Churches as well as mosques were burned down. Yes but how many? there are old rivalries between muslims and xtians in Kaduna south, any conflict be it over a chicken will involve this. Right from the zangon kataf crisis. It is also more political than religious. At the end of the day, you have to contextualize, where was the brunt of the damage targeted and who were the people that died, of that, how many in reality were southerners? This is like alqaeda flying planes into the twin towers and a nearby resident complaining only about the debris caused by the collapse of the buildings while completely disregarding every other aspect of alqaeda's actions. Its plain silly.

3. No one is saying that Buhari should have won southern states. Many northerners believe that the election should have gone into a run off had it not been rigged. In other words, rigging was done in the south on monumental scales and the numbers GEJ got in the north were inflated on a massive scale. Otherwise how can GEJ get 40% of sokoto votes??
If indeed 95% of sokoto residents are muslims and the election was on religious fault lines then at least 85% of the sokoto vote would go to Buhari. Thats simple calculation.

4. Again, I mentioned killing innocents in unjustifiable but go back to my alqaeda example. Can you believe that the palaces of the all powerful and revered emirs was burned down? How can you now say that northerners only targeted southern xtian when clearly, they attempted a social revolution where they attacked their oppressors and you simple ignored that massive implication just to cheaply invite some useless north south propaganda. Cant you see? GEJ is a symbol of PDP, meaning him and his northern friends will continue defrauding you while keeping you busy with north south sentiments and playing on your emotions. Whos zooming who?

5. The fact of the matter is, people were very emotionally invested in this election and PDP ended up massively rigging it. Lack of fair play and injustice is what always causes violence. The igbos that run kaduna market all opened their shops when the situation calmed down. Igbo shops were not closed because the shop owners were all killed as you're trying to make yourself believe. Africans will always be foolish! tell me who is the real mugu in this case, you or GEJ and his click of hausa, yoruba, delta and igbo elite.

purplelady:
You norther guys keep talking about a few southerners been killed, is it right for a single southerner to die. Corp members that have struggle their way through school with community fund just been wasted by some illiterate Alimajiri. You are saying the south is being brainwashed. A child the parent are wanting for to come lift the financial burden on them after NYSC.4 or 5 years of the parents denying themselves of a lot to train these innocent corp members is now wasted.No a single northerner have been touched in the south, am sure you people see us as fools.
Go and build your groundnut pyramid, am sure that will keep your lazy beggars busy.

To answer your question, NO it is not justifiable to kill any innocent person! a corps member should not be targeted. That being said, I must also point out two things,1, that the corpers were accused of being pdp agents and helping pdp rig elections. 2, the corpers killed were a very tiny percentage of the people that got killed in the riots but for reasons related to brainwashing and deceiving southerners, the news carriers gave you a tainted one sided story that focused on the corpers just to whip up sentiment. Go to saharareporters and you'll see pictures of northern elite and big wigs homes and property burned to the ground. Most of the people killed were northerners who were suspected of being pdp members or loyalists. You people are acting as if its amargeddon, of the millions upon millions of southerners that live in the north, how many were killed in the riots?? How many people died in the riots??was it not 50 people, and 80% of these 50 people were northerners and you want to scream as if some northerner dropped a nuclear bomb in lagos and PH.

My problem with some southerners is they brag about their so called education but are easily brainwashed and hood winked and made to believe garbage without questioning anything. Most southerners know very little about the north, very very shockingly little yet they talk as if nobody knows the region like them. Its both funny and sad. Blowing something out of proportion is either propaganda or sheer unlimited foolishness! God bless the souls of the departed. You people dont even get what the riots were about, they were about ELECTION RIGGING BY THE THIEVING PDP. Some people are distracting themselves with north south division, thats how people are made slaves. While the "big man" is carting away your money, you're wasting your time talking about northerners. Fool. Divide the heads of the common men and rule over them easily. Thats what is happening, you're accepting illegality because of sentiment!! you dont realize PDP is just cheating you and their agents like beaf are making you think north this north that. Africans are such fools.

you say power will not return to the north, well since its your father that gives the power, lets wait and see who he will give it to. You talk of political prowess and numbers, firstly, the election was rigged, secondly, The north has more numbers, you want it to be between north and south but it isn't, its about elite using north and south to brainwash you so you'll be distracted with that while they cart away billions. You're too foolish to see!! GEJ would not have been president if he didn't get the support of the sultan of sokoto and other elite in the north. They backed him over Buhari 100%. The day they, the elite decide power will come back to the north, you really think someone will tell them no Let me tell you, the northern elite along with southern oligarchs have a lot invested and tied into the PDP so they'll never let it fail. NOW the elections will son go to court, had there been a true free and fair election, no rigging, how would the numbers look? very different, anyone can win elections through rigging!!! even your 2 year old daughter.

again, the people that were killed were muslim hausa pdp supporters. Fools, you've been brainwashed into buying utter nonsense! Really? lets kill southerners and only burn northern pdp supporters properties!! Nonsense!!! You people are fools and have failed to see your true enemy. GO and manage your poverty and no light for another four years. Foolish people.

Southerners have been brain washed and hood winked. You now believe northerners attacked southern christians while completely disregarding where the bulk of the destruction went to which is wealthy northern elite!!! the north wants to start a real revolution and in order for the southern brothers not to pick up and get ideas, you were made to believe that they are only killing southerners, southerners make up less that 0.5% of those killed in the riots but thats been blown out of proportion. your claim to superior education is indeed a farce.