₦airaland Forum

Kayceenaz:
Fairness doesn't discriminate. It is not too late to start doing what is right.

Let Buhari start doing what is right and the insult will stop. The insult did not come before his inactions so his actions should preceed the ceasing of the insults.

Oshigun:
Igbos can be really pedestrian and highly disappointing sometimes. Even in a matter of national importance, where there is only one option for every sensible Nigerian to follow, Igbos must continue to obsess about a Yoruba angle.

What is difficult to understand over the provisions of our constitution that the VP takes over if the President is incapacitated? Why are Igbos trying to be mischievous with the situation to even be saying Yorubas are wishing Buhari death yet they have no criticism of a Northerner openly insinuating the North should not do the right thing by the Nigerian constitution?

This is how Igbos always let themselves down. When we then get past this period the anti-Nigerian and tribalistic posturing is all that will be remembered as the Igbos input in this serious Nigerian issue. Igbos would have then set themselves back another 20 years. Incredible people sha.

Well looking at present day Nigeria in contrast to immediately after the war if there is any group that has made the biggest progress it is the Igbo.

As at today the tribe of the president has not impacted the average Yoruba differently when compare to an average Igbo.

When will Nigerians wake up and realize that this is not about one tribe against the other but a fight between the political class and the poor masses?

quentin06:
at least this one is sincere, some beggars here said they have stocked up their house with provisions that can last till eternity.

people wey never buy 1 bag of pure water for their life.

Sincere and still hiding?

Bro I have encountered people like this in the past. He/she might be someone trying to fleece money that he will spend on her/his girl(boy) friend this Easter. Open your eyes bro.

cenaman:
you dey craze, who told you is COVID19?

Well they didn't state categorically what illness killed her and given that those with underlying health issues are more prone to die from COVID-19 complications, I don't think there is any reason for you to pick an offence with my question.

mvem:
foolishness...It is not covid that killed her...why not read

When you see you father you can call him foolish. I forgot you don't even know who he is.

Well they didn't state categorically what illness killed her and given that those with underlying health issues are more prone to die from COVID-19 complications, I don't think there is any reason for you to pick an offence with my question

COVID-19 taking them out one at a time?

May her soul rest in peace.

. So people need to complain before he will address the country.

Jaqenhghar:
You have said it all. No amount of big brain can resolve an issue borne out of foolishness and alack of desire to plan.
The country does not have a functioning health system pretty much like every other thing. In those other countries many employees work from home. There is the facilities for that
Those whose business were affected or cant work or were laid off have measures in place for their welfare
Build una no gree build. Our people go dey chop the money dey flex. Others dey salute dem say na sharpness.

Una never see anything

The painful part of this pandemic is that in Nigeria case it is the rich that brought this disease to Nigeria. The poor can't feed well let alone traveling abroad or being in the same space with those having it abroad. Now everyone is going to suffer for it.

SoNature:
We cannot lock down this country unless the Nigerian government is willing to pay people a percentage of their earnings.

The UK is paying 80% of people's salaries to keep them at home...that's a Kingdom with a working system.

It's a good thing that APC and Buhari have no Jonathan to blame anymore.

These magas in government knew how populated Lagos is and refused to impose travel restrictions early enough.

It is a sad situation we can't pay anyone. I suspect the reason international movement of people were not initiated was because it will affect the rich. Now they are closing the airports because apparently they can't fly anywhere there usually destinations are not allowing air travels from abroad.

I feel sorry for the poor because Covid 19 in the case of Nigeria is rich people gift to the poor. The poor can't travel abroad to contract it.

The problem with Nigeria is that we never plan we are also reacting instead of taking initiative like other countries. EU are still biting their fingers for not reacting early, yet we still allow people from high risk area to come and go as pleased.

Seeing what is going on in Italy and for EU to put their country on lock down this is not a joking matter.

In fact our best option would have been to close borders and take it from there. Now that we have enough cases quarantine is not going to be effective in Nigeria.. Majority of the population work in the informal sector, how on earth are we going to keep them indoors for a considerable number of days unless we declare state of emergency and place 24 hours curfew.

Please those people with big brains on the forum should come forward with their take on this matter.

It is up to Edo people to decide.

Ooh I forgot this is Nigeria where terrorist feed fat on public funds and where the interest or opinion of the masses means shit.

APC has destroyed this country..

Why those guys making money from Ladipo market not living in the market?

People make money from investing in zoo that doesn't make a zoo inhabitable to human.

Blaming another party for the internal problem in APC.

It's like Buhari don spite inside this one mouth.

Abeg typical naija man dey abroad dey hammer other women but no want the woman wey he abandon for naija Bleep another person.

If you don't want her to Bleep someone else come home and stay with your family. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Pm news and tales by the moonlight are like 5 & 6.

I am beginning to think that this PM news just sits down somewhere and concocte gist.

Difrent:
Hypocrites
Sanusi says 20 billion missing, igbos says it's a LIE and wanted GEJ government to fail.
Sanusi says speak against northern elites, igbos say it's the TRUTH

Yeye people don't know their right from left

Most amusing is how they in the south east are taking panadol for kano people, many of them predicted doom and chaos but it didn't happen and they are so unhappy that they now embrace the killer of their kinsman in 1994,......at least one of your 'gods' FFK also confirmed this

You people will never cease to amaze me. How does the rants of few people on NL translate to an Igbo affair?

The last time I checked majority of Nigerians are poor people living in the villages across the countries.

These majority are more concern about their daily bread than who was booted out of the office.

Which still brings us back to the question how does the view of few on the Internet becomes the position of an entire tribe?

It is on this forum that people will spin every ill news from South around the neck of the Igbo. I am sure their are Yorubas and Ijaws and other tribe that have a different opinions but you guys would rather conveniently ignore that and weave it just around the neck of people of SE. Una weldon ooh.

MelesZenawi:
Oga Anambra state communities has deep rooted monarchial system even before the whitemen arrived.

Obi of onitsha....same as Nnewi and other communities. There was nothing like warrant chiefs here but rather the British adopted the already existing kingship.

Go and read your history.

That u guys are kingless doesn't mean others are.

You just made my point that Onitsha and few others had a kingdom again to the Bini does not mean majority of the Igbo do. So making a blanket statement will be appropriate if majority of the Igbo had just like the Yorubas or Hausa.


Meanwhile if I may ask out of curiosity:

what is the monarchy system like in your community?

Has it been in the same family since time immemorial (hereditary is the hallmark of a monarchy in most cases, there is always an exception when there is no direct descendant)?

IkeOnyia:
Sanusi Lamido was alleged to have instigated the mob killing of an Igbo man in Kano but Igbos have become his number one advocates. Shame!

Where is Gideon Akaluka from again?

Speaking up against injustice is different from supporting a murderer.

If I may ask where is your out cry for those killed in Kano?

It's amazing how you guys could spin anything into Igbo did this Igbo did that.

shugabasbn:
The guy is an hypocrite. He is just like Dino, they talk what the masses wanted to hear but do opposite in their domains.

He was MD of Union n First bank before he became CBN governor. Can someone mention one single thing he did for the state?

I don't like people da talk without action I will rather praise those that mute and achiever

If you judge Sanusi performance based on his office that is normal. But judging him based on what he did for his state, a state that elected a governor to perform those tasks, is kind of hypocritical to me.

Op I am not a fan of Sanusi nor any politician for that matter.

But I noticed that the things you asked Sanusi to do is actually the job of those elected.

In this country we have had it so bad that we have taken it upon ourselves to do the jobs of elected officers(provide your own water, security, education, power etc) that we now believe it is normal.

My question to you is how much has each government both successive and present one improved on the tasks they were elected to do?

sassysure:
For the sake of clarity, I will explain this a bit.

In igboland especially anambra which I came from, we have nze na òzò.
Now, nollywood has merged them together.

Nze and òzò are different traditional titles we have in anambra state.
We have ichie.
Ichie and nze and òzò are the three prominent igbo titles we have in anambra for men

The nze and ichie run the ùmùnna. They are otherwise called the elders of the land.
The nze wear red cap.
The oźò is dinstint from these two cos it's political.
The oźò members are answerable to the igwe of that town.
Oźò title is usually done in the night to the celebration dsy by the igwe of the town exclusively and his cabinet and other òzò members
Whatever traditional rites needed are done by the igwe and his council alone and yeah, it takes a lot to be one.

And for u to aspire to be a young òzò man, your dad must be crowned before u.

That is why whenever u see the chief, u see òzò people around him chiefs have cabinet members and they are all òzò title red cap holders.

Do i still look like i do not know what im talkig about?

Infact, when a prominent òzò member enters another town on official visit like traditional marriage, they usually pay homage to the igwe.

I was surprised to see FFK doing that.
He was told of the tradition and he honoured it.

In anambra we have ùmùnna which are ruled by elders of different villages. Now each ùmùnna has head.
All the heads from each village of the town are answerable to the chief. A town has a chief which comprises of villages that has ùmùnna ruled by the elders of India ichie and nze. Among them, we have the òźò people. They are not as big as the nze elders and ndì ichie.
That u don't see the chief everywhere don't mean they are not there.


A good example is the national assembly and presidency.
That is how they are ran.
I hope I tried explaining this.


It may be different in other igbo states as some of them has autonomous community kind of setting which is different from how it is in anambra.

This is excellent this is how to respond or address issues and ending it with a caveat that things that are applicable in one place may not be the same on most places (not the name calling "irritating" and "vile" you used when addressing my initial points).

My code still dey run ooh. I get plenty time today.

sassysure:
Guy, I'm tired pls.

Too ashamed of your tribe or where you from?

The text you have up there is enough to spell out the name of more than half the tribe in naija

sassysure:
I will love to be a troll honestly.
It's even better.

Meanwhile, I know ubakala in umuahia and have tasted their achal(r)a soup with bush meat.

I will love to learn how to prepare that.

If u know my moniker, u will know my tribe.
It's never hidden.
Have a great day.

You should be proud of your heritage spill it.

sassysure:
saharareporters.com › 2018/03/04
How True Is The Saying That The Igbo Have No King? By Fredrick Nwabufo | Sahara Reporters

A true son of the soil knows what igbo people don't have kings means.

I hope this explains it to some fake igbos and non igbos that think igbos don't have kings and even if they do, it's British creation of last century.


I didn't capture this well.
Look it up and read.

I pity you. That Nigeria has a "democratic elected president" does not make it a democractic country in the real sense of democracy.

Please go and bring any book and article or writings that fulfilled the following criteria :

Writen before the colonial time and involve history of at least half of the groups that made up present igbo communities.

You people will pick out the Obi of Onitsha and Eze Nri and use it to make inference about the whole Igbo communities without any idea how those people operated before now.

Simple task. Give us any academic material on pre colonial rulership in any community from present day Nsukka, one from present day Nkanu, Afikpo, Udi etc. Then we can discuss what the duties of the people you call Kings are those days when place side by side with that of Obi of Onitsha etc.

Oga you are yet to tell us where you are from?

Google won't help you with this matter.

gozie112:
dont mind them ,in my village in oguta local govtcin imo state we have kings,just that we no Dey carry them for head

You have king that started when? Ask your aged parents who was your king before the advent of colonialism and what was the type of rulership in place before now?

sassysure:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://feathersproject./tag/obi-of-onitsha/&ved=2ahUKEwjC_pedoZLoAhX8QRUIHWXTCVYQFjAWegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw1bfW21FGGHUnVfdOAhZzT1&cshid=1583924161906

U can read further.

This dynasty has been in existence for more than 400yrs!

I'm sure awka, some dynasties in imo, abia, Enugu and eboni are as old as that of onitsha.

Because they hardly make noise, they are now British creation.

Mtcheew.

I am from Umuahia grew up in Enugu. I know my tradition and history and that of the people I am talking about. You tell me where you from? Let me be sure I am not even arguing with a non Igbo troll

sassysure:
U guys are very irritating.
Nigeria became a British colony 1901.
Obi of onitsha was dated as far back as 1665.

I will not reply any of u guys again.

U guys are vile.
It is shocking to know that common obi of onitsha has been in existence centuries ago.

I'm sure non of u expected it.
If u schooled in igboland which I did and studied igbo, u will know that red cap chiefs are crowned by the king only!
Also, they have been existing in igboland ages ago.
They are under the leadership of the king!


U don't school me on my tradition, I will teach u if u want to learn.
Did u see me talk about oba or emir?

How does any of my statements lead to you calling Igbo vile? Name calling does not win an argument. You may like playing in the mud but what you failed to understand is that there are people that would actually descent to your level.

Today is your "lucky" day my python script will take hours to run an mcmc simulation of 100mila. So I have your time.

My question to you remain can you tell us the reach of Obi of Onitsha before the arrival of the British?

Does the Eze Nri kingdom include all the present day Igbo land running from Nsukka to Eza in Ebonyi?

If not, please which kingdom was in charge of the places in Igbo speaking community that were outside the reach of Obi of Onitsha and Eze Nri?

If the only answer you have starts with calling your father and generation unborn vile do not bother to respond. Because guy I no get patient for your irresponsible upbringing this morning. I will insult you and give you some to take home to your parents if you dare insult me again.

You study Igbo tradition my left nyash. Show me any Igbo history that was written before colonial time and we will start talking instead of parroting tradition as seen by the white man.