₦airaland Forum

realstars:
Namdi KANU has lost my support for ever .
I don't see how he will gain our support again.

With KANU the Igbo's has lost the bid to gat Biafra actualization.

And who are you ? Idiotic slowpoke ? His support base has even become much stronger. He is the real courageous leader of his people. The ripple is only starting, soon you will be on the run.

MobilityExpress:
Jokes apart, this is a dangerous precedent, because you are setting an example for the real terrorists in Nigeria. People don't realize that evil elements are watching events unfold and learning new tactics. Southsouth militants started this kidnapping thing, but today killer fulani herdsmen have taken over the trade in an unprecedented dimension, kidnapping anyone, poor, rich, old, young, male, female, civilians, government workers etc. I read on Nairaland last week of a pastor in Kaduna that was kidnapped inside his home, the kidnappers went to his home, can you see how this evil thing has grown? If only the Niger Delta militants knew fulani herdsmen were taking lessons from them, and now the student has become the master. Same way this IPOB attack politicians on foreign soil, they should stop this behavior now before people like Boko Haram starts getting ideas from it. It will be terrible if people like Boko Haram latch on this idea and start their terror campaign overseas because they might make it into something else and not just attack politicians alone, they might attack prominent citizens too, or Christians. So IPOB should stop this rubbish now. They should not start a fire they cannot control.

Na mumu dey worry you ! Simple egg throwing, and your imagination is already going extremist; it's either you are a boko haram member or you are one of those in government that are destroying Nigeria. Who is happy to be a citizen of a country that doesn't want to develop? Those who are making it difficult for development to take place must be treated. And note that every citizen of Nigeria either rich or poor is equal before the law and before God,so there is no such thing as prominent citizens when you want to reset this evil Nigerian system. I think politicians and corrupt sympathizers like you are beginning to get the message.

alonzoiv:
A cowardly bunch of people. Assaulting your supposed leader abroad, shows your level of crudeness and backwardness. Are there no better ways to seek redress and attention? Shame on the attackers. Death to IPOB

Wiseman, it seems you know a lot of better ways ? Why don't you advice them of such better ways instead of sympathising with treacherous politicians. If these politicians were doing their jobs, these young Igbos wouldn't have had need for Europe. Ekweremadu and his likes were elected to better the lots of their people, but alas they are failing in this statutory responsibility, and most sadly lack the emotional intelligence to appreciate the present mood of their people. I am very glad he experienced no bodily injury, but he got the message. Political diplomacy is not understood by our political class.

LordofNaija:
I am so hurt seeing the photos of my friend Chikwado Ezeakunne among those who attacked Ekweremadu today. Ekweremadu may not be our best politician but he is definitely not the worst. If they were looking for a politician of southeast origin to attack, Rochas or orji Kalu would had been more appropriate or even Baba Ruga himself, if they have the balls. Now I'm scared Chikwado won't dare step his foot in this country for a long time to come for fear of being picked by DSS. I leave Chikwado my friend with this last words "since you arent coming home, who is going to buy me beer this xmas"

Stupid man ! The person whose name you have just mentioned is not your friend; if he were your friend, you would have called him on phone to express your disgust at his action, and not making attempt to set him up via mass media. You are just an enemy ! I hope you are not planning to set up an innocent man.

Elzakzaky:
Biafra will never become a reality. Igbos are not capable of managing themselves. Biafra land will break all the records of Sodom and Gomora. Drug trafficking, prostitution, 419, money rituals, raping, kidnapping, etc are their stock in trade.

Bros with all the ills quoted against the Biafrans, I think you should rather be happy that at last these evil ones will stop sharing political space with you; but rather because the emotions of fear and hatred are illogical in their very nature, just like any other emotion,you have shown your very low self in the open. It pains you so much that Biafra is about to become a reality. Just bury your hatred and stupidity because they are of no use to Biafrans. You are not yet intellectually schooled,you need more effort brother. Cheers

These guys should be allowed to do their business; let our Nigerians join them in the business if they can. Wettin our police sabi? Illegal e-waste ; they are helping you to clean up your dirty environment and by so doing, add some value to their life.

This is our country, if we see and feel that these few individuals in so-called positions of power are messing up with the lives of more than 170 million people; then we must be stupid to wait for another election to fu''ck them up. I mean give these bastards a run of their life. Fu''ck them up big time !! Collapse the system and rebuild it if need be. Everyone who needs a change in any form must be ready to fight for it. Fight for what you belief is right; blood is what flows in the vains of all humans, both the wicked and the good, cut off the blood flow and the few wicked individuals will be gone. #RevolutionNow must be supported; waiting for another election will be too late. These evil men must be suffocated to enable a prosperous nation that will take care its citizens to emerge. We must solve our problems ourselves, any further delay will be a real disaster.

This is our country, if we see and feel that these few individuals in so-called positions of power are messing up with the lives of more than 170 million people; then we must be stupid to wait for another election to fu''ck them up. I mean give these bastards a run of their life. Fu''ck them up big time !! Collapse the system and rebuild it if need be. Everyone who needs a change in any form must be ready to fight for it. Fight for what you belief is right; blood is what flows in the vains of all humans, both the wicked and the good, cut off the blood flow and the few wicked individuals will be gone. #Revolution must be supported; waiting for another election will be too late. These evil men must be suffocated to enable a prosperous nation that will take care its citizens to emerge. We must solve our problems ourselves, any further delay will be a real disaster.

selemempe:
the biafra foundation fund opened by nnamdi kanu should be used to build one major project in the east...for instance they can build a ring road to connect all 5 states...if they do that....more people will trust kanu's intentions for biafra.

And how much have you contributed to the fund? You're a foolish man

The fulanis know they failed, and almost on a self-destructive trajectory; now they are on damage control by trying to rub off their negative attributes on the so-called Monday from Delta. But the fact is that the Fulanis have irredeemably damaged whatever reputation the had before now. They are at the wit-end of their dirty game.

If they try this one and success, I am sure they would introduce marriage renewal certificate. Criminals everywhere !

Useless government ! Okay how many certificates will you give the Buharis and the Atikus with more than one wife ?You idiots should be talking about credible census,and not marriage certificate that should be within the domain of local government, or even the traditional institutions. You want to put everything under your control,including marriage affairs. Okay, now marriage is under the exclusive list? Mumus always importing everything foreign; just imagine their reason ? 'to satisfy foreign embassies' shhit'ol country.

myobjective:
I was having this debate with one of my supposed educated fulani friend this evening. He quickly raised the issue of cattle grazing route, he said and I quote " there was cattle route put in place by the colonial masters to allow the movement of herdsmen to move from the north to the south and all across west Africa during dry season but due to population explosion, most of the route has been taking over by farmers ". I quickly pick out flaws in his arguement.

To begin with, cattle route were not created by colonial master, what we have in place was an unofficial route ply by herdsmen during dry season from far north and southern Niger republic to northern Guinea savanna in places like southern Kaduna, Niger, taraba, adamawa and northern Cameroon. Later, the northern colonial government now made all these route to official hence all the cattle route are in Northern Nigeria.

Secondly, most of the communities where these routes passes especially those in middle belt, were not made aware of these routes, compensation were not paid to the indigenous people in these area, hence no legal backing to the route

I addition to what you have just said, the colonial administration was a rogue government, and even if they approved a grazing route, it must have been for all aboriginal herders who had interest in moving cattles across the African subcontinent including the Fulanis, kanuris,tivs and others; and that for Fulanis who are as foreign to Nigeria as the British to be making claims to such route is a no-brainer. Additionally thinking nations have moved away from such practice with its various implicit public health hazards.

cronsberg:
Accepted, no ruga settlement in your village, was anybody forcing it down your throat before? What we have problem with is you southerners trying to deny fellow citizens their constitutional right of freedom of movement and freedom to settle anywhere they want. And your elders threatening to form militias to attack them, and labelling them guilty of all manner of crime even without evidence, just because they are fulani while no one denied you those same rights you are trying to deny others. Thats why we are telling u that the fulani are very capable of defending themselves. Btw, since no ruga, then they continue herding as they are used to, in the bushes and forests of this great country.

Na mumu dey worry you ! You are boasting how your funlani tribesmen killed and extinguished lives out of those you call your northern brothers from taraba,Adamawa and co. You see, it is very difficult for your Fulani herdsmen to peacefully co-habit with their hosts even in your northern region; the same northerners your Fulani herdsmen are killing are the same people you are thinking of mobilizing against southerners peacefully doing business in the North. Even with guns,fulanis are a weak people who normally trick themselves into power,and note that the Fulani population is reducing globally as a result of their self-defeating behaviour. The Fulanis are now being discovered as the earthworm that is eating up Nigeria. A dog that is about to die does not perceive the odour of faeces . Note: the colonial masters as they are called was a rogue government,and the aboriginal settlements they met when came into this part of Africa have not shifted from their natural boundaries since then,and non of these ethnicities answer a compound name like the Fulani who smuggled themselves into Nigeria and started answering a hausa-fulani(compound name),by leeching onto their aboriginal hausa host; with an unbridled appetite for land-grabbing the Fulanis have almost displaced the unambitious Hausa race; and if you are not careful, the much you gained in the north, you shall lose,Mark my word !! Because I am beginning to have a feeling that the Fulani is a coursed tribe. If you are among those that will survive, you will live to regret ever embarking on this project of self annihilation.

mvem:
this is exactly what the hutus said about the Tutsi in Rwanda in 94. Suspicion and hate resulted to the problem they had.
Why is ethnicity still a primitive problem is Africa .....you even added the kanuris that have only a presence in Borno and Yobe alone. Is the sultan of sokoto not already the religious head of all Muslims in Nigeria......

Okay, let the Fulani herdsmen rape and kill your sister and mother; or the Boko Haram Kanuris forcefully marry and convert your sisters to Muslim like they did to the Chibok and dapchi girls; let me see what your reaction will be. Have you ever heard that the Tivs or the Idomas went to sokoto to kill and slaughter community of Fulanis? Or you think Fulani settlements are not known? But you can't say that about the Fulanis who have weaponized the herdsmen, thus using them for ethnic cleansing of aboriginal Nigerians.

Those who plan evil for others must be consumed by evil. Look at this chameleon called Kuka,who has not had this same courage in condemning the killings in middle belt or any other places for that matter,by these murderous Fulani herdsmen. For all I care if Kuka likes let him become a Muslim, I don't care. An important point of note is that Fulanis are not Nigerians, they don't care about it's development ,and they don't see aboriginal Nigerians as their brothers, but rather as tools to be used to harken onto power. Just look at what they did to the Hausa tribe? The used the hausas as primer to penetrate the Nigerian system, and thus started answering Hausa-Fulani; the only ethnic group with a compound name. A strategy they used to annihilate the Hausa tribe,thus coming into prominence with their sultanate and emirates. I just heard they want to delineate Fulani as one of Nigerian languages through the federal government pioneered Fulani radio,thus pushing harder the Fulanization agenda which already come to fore.

In the quest to fulanize, the Fulani herdsmen have killed more Nigerians than Boko Haram. From analysis, this sinister plan to overrun Nigerian was planned and being executed by the Kanuris(Boko Harams)and Fulanis,the plan being that the Kanuri takes over the Northeast Nigeria,under the Shehu of Boronu, while the Fulanis should take over any territory they can gather from northwest down southern Nigeria using the instruments of herdsmen, bandits and Ruga settlements,to fulanize through ethnic cleaning of aboriginal settlements;all geared towards bringing these Fulanized section of the country under the Sokoto Sultanate. So what do you do to a group of people under such sinister mission ? Let every community defend itself, kill those who have come to rape/kill your wives,daughters and Children. Have no sympathy for these Murderous Fulanis, for they know no mercy. They tried and failed in the small Central African Republic,let all aboriginal Nigerians ensure that the Fulanis also fail without mercy in Nigeria,since they have decided to turn around and kill those who have given them aboard .

festacman:
1. Those people expressing concern about using public money to settle the itinerant Fulani herders in order to stop clashes with farmers should remember late President Yar'adua's Amnest programme that also utilized billions of public money in order to compensate the Niger Delta militants and stop armed unrest.

2. However, in implementation, Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) should be restricted to Northern Nigeria. The reason is simple: Nigeria Fulani folks have always lived and operated up North with Hausa as neighbours. In fact, Hausa language, intermarriage and Islam have made this relationship smoother over the years. So it is natural to set up the 80% of thevproposed Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) in the core North and may be 20% in friendly Northcentral zone. Other parts of Nigeria should take the ranching option or engage in pasture production business especially during rainy season and then sell harvested grass to herders up north.

3. Obviously, the critical issues with creating Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) settlements is how to manage in the short term, the relationship between settled Fulanis and the locals in terms of respect for culture and values of host communities. Then in the long term, how to manage the relationship vis-à-vis capturing future growth of both the fulani population and that of the host communities.

4. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture should transparently make public the official policy document on Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) programme as this would help Nigerians to fully understand
- its objectives
- how it will operate in detail
- how it will solve the existing problems
- antipated challenges the settlement would create and how it will be solved
- benefits to stakeholders, business and employment opportunities it offers, etc.

5. Moreover, communications sorrounding Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) need to be professionally done for clarity and effectivess. Unfortunately, at the moment the message has poorly articulated and carelessly relayed to the public. Even the communicators themselves have become a big source of noise in the communication channel. This is NOT helping the already existing mutual inter-ethnic suspicion and mistrust.

6. I also believe that setting up a multi-ethnic implementation committee would help the national acceptance of this strategic intervention to stop herders/farmers clash over land resources.

Why are you trying very hard to give/coin a meaning for RUGA. Rural grazing area my foot ! Cattle economy of Nigeria.

Study Finds that Yorubas Are Genetically 99.9% Igbo

Four of the major coastal ethnic groups of Western Africa: the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan and the Gaa-Adangbe are dissimilar at a glance and evidently geographic neighbours, but very closely related, when examined at the genetic level.

Several studies have been employed over the years, with findings showing genetic similarity between differing regional ethnic groups. One in particular, conducted by Adebowale Adeyemo, Guanjie Chen, Yuanxiu Chen, the National Human Genome Centre and Howard University, and Charles Rotimi of the University of Ibadan, provided results indicating the genetic similarities between the four major West African ethnic groups.

Their findings further showed surprising genetic variance within groups, but almost none across groups, similar to the closeness of human genetics across races, showing more range within than without.

According to this landmark study, there was a 99.9 percent within-population variance, the between-population variance was less than 0.1 percent. This means that Yorubas, Igbos, Gaa and Akan are 99.9 percent similar, while within each of the groups there are variations/differences between individuals as high as 99 percent i.e. One Igbo may be 99 percent genetically different from another Igbo person, or one Yoruba person to another.

It is important to remember that these groups were not initially split by national borders; prior to the European division of the continent, these ethnic peoples traded, migrated and wedded as the times permitted, allowing apparent regional and national mixtures that remain evident in modern day genetic analyses of some Yoruba and Igbo individuals….

Also worthy of note is the shared Volta-Niger root languages, Yoruba and Igbo languages belong to the same family (YEAI branch), showing the common start of the diverse languages spoken by these ethnicities.

Consequently, barring the inclusion of culture, ethnic affiliation and nationality, it could be said that the the Yorubas, the Igbos, the Akans and the Gaa-Adangbes are but ONE people spread over a wide area with different ways of life. Thus, discrediting any claim of a unique Yoruba “race” or a genetically insured Igbo ethnicity often employed by politicians and traditional rulers in rhetorics and propaganda messages.

A body does not fight itself. These kinds of research serve as a balm to the much divided heart of the ethnically-concerned West African, and to the African at large: one root, many branches; united by blood if not spirit.

Those That Were Crushed – A visual commentary on Nigeria’s political landscape by artist, Muyiwa Akinwolere

https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/study-finds-that-the-yorubas-are-genetically-99-9-similar-to-the-igbos/

What is this COZA all about? Prick and pussy ? Can't you just concentrate on other important and motivating issues that will salvage this Godforsaken country? No wonder more people are committing suicide. This is looking more like a gossip website.

Fake news, let's see the pictures of the dead. You are just showing us people's eyes. Useless people

The simply question is why are they smuggling ? If we have constant power for manufacturing activities and optimize the factors of production, our products should come out cheaper than those smuggled, thus making smuggling non lucrative. Smuggling is all about buying cheap and selling high. Yes Dangote would want ban on the importation of all the items he manufactures,so that he can sell at any price within the Nigerian market ,thus killing consumers. How many of Dangote's products are exported to Benin Republic? Sure non,because the cost of his products are not competitive, he just survives under government protection and ripping off Nigerian consumers.

LordviccoDaGuru:
What goes around normally comes around,

You mock our president because he refuses to give you people fuel, you call him all slot of names... You haven't seen anything yet stupid losser of our generation any wailer that quote me may hunger strike visit that wailer

~ The truth bitters

You are an assl.You have not even started on the path of development, you can't built simply bicycle, you are opening your dirty mouth to talk about a Man who has made his country's development a number one policy statement. You should be extremely ashamed of yourself that you are so valueless to the extent that your slowpoke president didn't even remember to thank you for your votes after his inauguration. When first world countries are playing among themselves just hide your face.

This ihedioha must be very stupid ! Is that how to start building a state. Must you destroy any good thing Rocha's built because of hate? I thought you are lettered, but I have just seen that you might be full of shiit. Your action is a total no-brains.

All the huge underdevelopment index mentioned is the more reason why you need more Emirates that take care of the underserved members of the community. One Emir cannot oversee the whole of kano.

They guy said he hates Yoruba with Passion, he did not say he hates Yorubas or Yoruba people. This is English grammar; for instance, hating English with Passion does not mean that you hate English people.

fineboynl:
Nigeria is the most foolish country I have ever seen. I stop commenting on Fulani herdsmen issues after buhari got votes at all from the north central.

in fact the next Senate will converge and I want them to pass a compulsory bill awarding land to Fulani herdsman as big as a local governments across the country. that is possible when they have the majority and put their boy at the Senate.

You are a foolish Fulani boy

Olumyco:
Congratulations to Councillor Obazie.
Pls she is a Nigerian and let's stop this Igbo this, Yoruba this. It doesn't make sense. Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa are all Nigerians. The glory and progress of Nigeria as a Country lies in her diversity. Please let's appreciate our ethnic diversity and not use it to form superiority here. No tribe is superior. Each tribe is good in what she does best. And when best from Igbo, best from Yoruba, best from Hausa and best from other tribes come together, Nigeria becomes lit up and great. We should be more concerned about Nigeria. We to ensure that we lead Africa and the world.
God bless Nigeria.

Thanks

How can you move Nigeria up with these unprovoked killings of innocent citizens. How can Igbos call these tribes in military uniform brothers,who came to kill them in the name of operation Python dance. This country is irredeemably sick.

Check the shots below and judge for yourself

Relics of history will always tell you something about the past,present and the future.

Have a close look at the traditional cap of the Eze Eri, and that of Ooni of Ife. Then judge for yourselves where the head below is coming from, or those who have the land where the head was discovered.

Eze Chima was originally from Ohafia, they were brought to Benin to teach the Oba of benin and his palace how to read and write in Nsibidi and other spiritual issues.But there was a time when problem came,Eze Chima and his co-travellers has to find their way eastward. They fought wars in with one of the daughter's of the Oba of Benin was killed. They defeated Benin and even came back with Benin war mask still there in the Eze's palace. If you know, you know. And the history is not hidden.

Quickly treat yourself of malaria ! That's the most probable culprit; then plan your study timetable. Good luck

When they stop teaching History in Schools, this is the types of confusion you get; but at the DNA level, Igbos and Yorubas are one and the same people.