₦airaland Forum

Nasir123:
Sorry to disappoint u.
There is no sense in what u wrote up there.
You're just bragging about how you hit your wife.

Insanity.

What I typed will only make sense to a sane mind.

Sorry, but I am not responsible for your inability to make sense out of it.

Waiting for the brave Islamic zombie nation to throw the first bomb on Israel. 1967 will be a tip of the iceberg.

Happy ranting and Merry protest to all Palestinian apologists in the house.

Mrnairalandd:
It’s high time Nigeria govt stand up as a sovereign nation and tell USA to Bleep off with their fucking money

Are you not ashamed of yourself when America threaten your country that if Nigeria doesn’t follow her instruction to abstain from the voting process, she ll punish your country?

What is your sense of pride?

How do you feel when a USA citizen is proudly talking about his country while your own country is cowing whenever USA sneezes?

We should all be proud of our great country at this point in time for standing against USA foreign policy.

The USA citizens see our continent as a result of their government propaganda via CNN and BBC like animal farm where monkey live due to the fact that African leaders and citizens parade themselves without self respect and full patriotism.

128 have called USA fuckingg bluff and there is nothing on USA table to use against Nigeria.

Margaret Thatcher tried this Nonsense with Nigeria in early 80s when Nigeria Airway was grounded in UK. If it was now, i guess all these sissy men in this generation would have asked this strong and patriotic man called Buhari to chicken in and take a defeat. Thank God for giving us a man with national pride who told Britain that Nigeria ll give Britain 48hrs to release Nigeria Airways with 3 British Airways already grounded in Nigeria in retaliation. Nigeria gave British Embassy staff 48hrs to start packing their bags to leave Nigeria while Nigeria diplomats were asked to return home. What a National pride!

What is wrong with you guys in this generation without Shame? So you expected Nigeria to stay away from election cos USA say so. Pathetic!

In all your years of relationship with USA, tell me what have you gain as a country from that relationship in terms of social infrastructures, FDI and technology.

The little new infrastructures you see in Nigeria and other countries in Africa are made possible by China within the last five years of Africa relationship with China.

Finally, in the midst of Nigeria war against Bono Haram during Jonathan Administration, Nigeria govt did everything possible to get some military hardwares from USA with our money but what did USA do? She refused to sell to Nigeria with the help of Congress. USA even went as far blocking other countries from selling to us hence why we lost over billion of naira to South Africa when we were trying to get those military wares clandestinely. Thank God for Russia who later stepped in and help Nigeria out.

USA can’t hold us to ransom. It’s high time we throw their help to their face and tell them to Hell off.

The only economic power they have over Nigeria is our trade deal with USA which is our oil. If USA decide not to buy our oil, there are over 150 countries around the world ready to buy it. Why the stress?

If Ghana could proudly voted against USA foreign policy with the rest of the world like what we had few days ago, you guys lamenting and whining about why Nigeria shouldn’t have voted against it are nothing but freaking wimps and deserved to be castrated cos you are not real men.

128 countries stood together against tyranny and here you are telling 50 reasons why Nigeria shouldn’t have voted against USA. Bleep off Dawg.

If USA raises a resolution tomorrow that’s fair to the world, Nigeria is ready to work with USA.

Peace

Don't worry. You and bubu will drink the crude oil when US stop buying. I hope you have more Pension money to hijack when the foreign aids stop.

US just cut it's funding of UN by $285m and you are here bragging and comparing Nigerian with Ghana?

A wise man chooses his battles wisely. Buhari voted based on his religious bias rather than our national interest. But zombies are too blind to realize.

You think you have seen recession? Wait and see

Let the ranting continue.

If you are pained you can fly to Palestine and join the protest.

A Christian that denied Jerusalem as Israel's capital is like a Muslim that denies the sacredness of Kaaba.

Protests will come and go but the children of Israel will posses their land.

Go and ask Yasser Arafat what his eyes saw. He will explain better. No be by shout and propaganda

bumi10:
I personally told my friend that I'm not going to travel this time and he told me to forget that thing. That before new year now I go carry my bag travel, that I'm an Igbo and no matter what, if they tell me that masquerade is dancing in the village now, I will travel. I laughed anyway and got crossed with him instantly.

I looked at him and said "why are you guys so stupid? (He is Yoruba), Why do you guys always have problem with Igbos in everything? Even to travel to their various villages to see their people, you people will still complain. What is wrong with you guys. Lagos is not my land, I got to go and see my people and apparently, you still have problem with that. My friend had to shut up.

Well this article I stumbled upon on net will explain to whoever care to know the reason is necessary for any Igbo man anywhere to come home and see his people at least once in a year during festive periods like Christmas ...

“It has become our tradition to travel every Christmas. I am going with my wife and my children because this is the only opportunity to see our relatives who are based in other parts of the country and even abroad. We meet to discuss family issues. No matter the fare, we must go.” At the Jibowu Bus Park in Lagos during the week, Ugochukwu Anufurum was firm on going “home” for Christmas/New Year celebrations no matter the situation.

The Yuletide and New Year season is one of the few seasons millions of people look forward to every year all over the world. In Nigeria, it is one of the few seasons that bring friends and families together, including long-lost ones, and as such, one that countless number of people always looks forward to.

However, the Igbo people in the South East section of the country are known to have, over the years, developed special interest for this season (seemingly above all others) and as such would do everything possible that they mark the season in grand styles. It is therefore a very common sight to see the Igbo using the occasion of Christmas to storm their villages from wherever they might be, including far away cities like Lagos and Abuja, while some even travel from outside the countries for the same purpose.

The Igbo, as believed in some quarters, love to show off their wealth and flaunt what they have and this they do more than any other ethnic group in Nigeria. It is believed that they use the Christmas time to travel to their villages to show off the wealth they have been able to accumulate over the year.
However, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Indigbo, strongly differed as it declared that the Igbo never travel at Christmas because of show off. The group vehemently denied that the mass travelling of Igbo, especially during the Yuletide, is done for showboating, but rather something the Igbo do as a mark of respect for their roots. As such, the group maintained that no Igbo person should ever be vilified over the issue.

In a chat with Saturday Tribune, the Publicity Secretary of the Ohanaeze Indigbo, South West, Mr Peter Anosike, pointed out that only two tribes in the whole world-the Igbo and the Israelis-were known to never joke with their roots and who always ‘remember their homes’ wherever they might be in any part of the world.

“Anywhere we go, we must always remember home. The only tribes that remember home are the Igbo and Israelites. Even when they die in a foreign land, they would prefer that their dead bodies be brought back home for burial. As people that have travelled far and wide, the Christmas time provides the Indigbos the opportunity to see their families and loved ones again.

“So it is more of a home-coming for an average Igbo traveler, because an individual you’ve not seen from January to December, you are suddenly given the opportunity to see such an individual. So travelling home for Christmas is never about showoff and those who have such a notion should discard it immediately. The period provides an opportunity for Indigbos from all walks of life to have a reunion sort of,” he pointed out.

At this juncture, it is noteworthy to state that there are many other festivals that also serve as an avenue for south-easterners to visit their villages, or “home” as it is generally referred to. Each of such festivals is unique in its own way and attracts its own fair share of participants. For example, Easter, another major Christian festival, also serves the same purpose, while there a few traditional festivals that Igbo still hold in high esteem and which they would do their best possible to participate in.

Some of such traditional functions or festivals include: the annual kingship festival, that is, the Ofala Festival, which is mostly celebrated during the Christmas in different villages in Igboland; Iwa Akwa; and the Okonko Festival, which is used as the festival to celebrate the coming of age of male youths. There is also the Iza aha, Ede aro festival (in celebration of the Aro Deity), age grade meetings, as well as the Iwa Ji Festival, which is the famous New Yam Festival, among others.

These cultural and traditional activities would almost always make an average Igboman embark on a journey back home to participate in the festivities. But despite this large array of festivals and their popularity, it is only right to say that Christmas and festivities associated with it dwarf them all.

The real seasons the Igbo don’t joke with going “home” during this period has always been a source of debate, especially among non-Igbo and no matter the length of such debates, the real reasons have always remained evasive. However, inquest into some of the arguments provided by those who engage in this practice and those who don’t might provide some sort of insights into possible reasons behind this annual pilgrimage.

For many, one reason the Igbo travel home for Christmas is to ensure family reunion. According to those who nurse this belief, only few tribes in the world could match the adventurous and industrious nature of the Igbo. Therefore, according to those who hold this argument, if an Igbo individual has been away from his home and roots all through the year, it is only normal for such people to create an avenue for themselves to meet once again in an atmosphere of unity and camaraderie.

Sharing this view with Saturday Tribune, was a Lagos-based businessman and an octogenarian, Pa Uche Anisiemeka, who claimed to have spent over 60 years in Lagos. Pa Anisiemeka’s escapades and success in Lagos have him boasting of an enviable house and other investments in the Okota area of the city. But despite his over six-decade sojourn in Lagos, Pa Anisiemeka claimed to have only missed spending his Christmas holidays in his native Imo State on a few occasions.

“It is common knowledge that the Igbo are very enterprising. They are migrant-entrepreneurs who are endowed with immense competitive spirit. They prefer to leave their families and homes in search of greener pastures elsewhere. They can live in the cities from the beginning of the year to the end without visiting home, but one thing a lot of them would not do is to celebrate Christmas outside of their hometowns, in the company of their families, friends and age-long colleagues. Celebrating Christmas at home is considered typically cultural and it is curiously expected of anyone living in town or abroad to re-connect with the home people during Christmas,” he told Saturday Tribune.

Yet, there are many others (mostly non-Igbo) who are of the opinion that the yearly journey home is spurred primarily by ego, showmanship and unhealthy competition, rather than genuine need for reunion. Saturday Tribune, during the week took up the task of attempting to unveil the reason(s) for this ageless behaviour and as such, some opinions of randomly selected Igbo travelers were sampled. The quest to solve this “mystery” took Saturday Tribune to some popular motor parks in Lagos which, as expected, had become a beehive of activities.

At the popular and ever-busy Maza Maza Bus Terminus in Lagos, a middle-age traveler who identified himself as Chinedu Obasi, argued that no matter how busy one is, he should always create time to remember home. According to him, since it is practically impossible for many Igbo living in the other parts of the country to be travelling home as often as they would have loved, calving out just one period in an entire year to achieve this purpose is not too much. This, he said, is what the yearly journey home during Christmas is all about.

“Christmas brings a moment in a year when all Igbo or majority of them living outside Igboland return to their villages to reunite with their kin who they have not seen, probably in the last 12 months,” said Obasi, who was getting set to travel to his native Enugu State.

Similarly, Chizaram, a 37-year-old native of Abia State, also pointed out to Saturday Tribune that Christmas provided the only opportunity she had of seeing her aged parents, other relatives and loved ones, who like her, were living in far places. Chizaram, who was spotted making last minutes efforts to board a bus, also at Maza Maza, which was going to her hometown of Umuahia in Abia State, said she was willing to brave all odds to make the journey.

She however also hinted that it might be impossible to rule out showoff and show-boasting as one of the reasons some travel at this time, a development she said often served as one of the reasons young men and women often veered to a life of crime so that they would be able to make money at all cost so as to be able to meet up with others. She further pointed out that, in some instances, parents whose children are coming home go all the way to boast about such children and the children in return will do everything possible not to disappoint such parents, including taking to a life of crime.

“To an average Igbo man, going to the village is non-negotiable. Far and near, sons and daughters return home, besiege their respective villages, not only to celebrate Christmas with their kith and kin, but also to provide an opportunity for many families to boast about their illustrious sons and daughters, whom they are proud of,” she said.

But for other travelers, the yearly exodus is nothing more than a family tradition. At the Jibowu Bus Park, yet another traveler, Ugochukwu Anufurum, insisted that the period provided an opportunity for him to attend to salient and sometimes delayed family/community matters, especially since other important stakeholders in such matters would also be around.

“I can say that this is why the Igbo work hard to ensure that they gather enough money with which they can go home for the Christmas celebration. They do this because the communal life they live as umunna would require them to give gifts to their kin when they get back home,” he further noted.


more @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2017/12/why-igbos-always-travel-home-during.html

There is a comprehension skills called summary.
Op need to learn that skill.

Qed

9jakohai:
There is a simple explanation, and no i am not defending the govt.

1.During GEJ'S govt, the oil price was $94-120. That meant we had enough dollars to buffer the naira...and as a result the value of the naira was stronger..meaning we needed fewer naira to import rice.

2.Now, during Old Man Bubu's govt, the price of oil has fallen to $28-65. This means we have less dollars to buffer the naira, and the value falls.Meaning we need more naira to import the rice.

3.If oil jumps up to $100 again, rice prices will fall...see1 .

4.What does this mean?

a)INCREASE DOMESTIC RICE PRODUCTION...via mechanised farming and irrigation

b)Get other sources of dollars...ie industrialization., industrialization.

Fin.

Bros what about obasanjo administration when crude was selling at 23per barrel?

Stop making excuses for cluelesness bubu

Efewestern:
127 stood for justice, if you like be from the moon, you are wrong, you are wrong.

Isreal are no different from any nations of this world, and should be condemned if they over step their boundaries.



So 127 countries of the world voted base on religion?

SMH, don't have anything to say.

You can rant online all you want. The reality on ground speak for itself. Let the clueless 127 countries dare us/isreal and see.

Keep condemning but that is all you can do. Jerusalem is Israel, Israel is Jerusalem. Palestine that is not even a state is claiming capital. SMH

FrenchWay:
...
Hmmm..
Why didn't they take flight? Why hire a driver from Jos to the East?

Who knows? May be its those innocent children she killed during abortion that are taking revenge... Who knows!!?

Nwamaikpe come and carry your brother o

Efewestern:
Please explain @the bolded, how is it Jewish land ?,

Nigeria is not the only country who voted in favour of Palestine, the people are being oppressed by your so called Jews, Wrong is wrong no matter who is involve.

Be rational when replying. happy Sunday.

And you think it is wrong because 127 countries say so? It will surprise you to realize that 2 is greater than 127

Waiting for Ambode to do thesame in Lagos...

yeyerolling:
The jews too get wahala. Maybe hitler shud have finished dem off .

it's not too late.
Carry buratai along and go finish them off

XavierBlue:
All I have experienced so far is the fuel scarcity, then the size of artificial hair this girls are carrying on top their head.. Just to celebrate Christmas, somebody is carrying a birds nest. Issoke.

Again, them go say money no dey this country, but go over to the banks and see the unbelievable queue at the ATM, makes me think they are with drawing leaves and sand. Issoke too

Kikikikiki
I don Laff taya

Statsocial:
From Church leaders who Christ handed over to.

Please name them and add Bible references to show that the 12/70/120 disciples received tithe from congregation as levites.

Oya Im waiting for your response

Eke40seven:
Malachi wasn't talking to Christians. Malachi admonished the Levites to bring the tithes to the storehouse. The storehouse is a silo in the temple where the grain and food were suppose to be stored.
Keep ignoring the facts.
It's almost impossible trying to get you to speak the truth.
You are not a Levite, even today the Israelites that were directly instructed in tithe payment can't establish that there exists a pure Levite anymore and thus can't even pay tithe. Na one man from Ijebu ode come fit collect tithe?
Did Jesus a non-levite receive tithes?
Did peter a non Levite receive tithes?
Did Paul receive tithes?
If not, where did you get your doctrine from?

Bezimo Oya answer eke40seven sharp sharp

Joshintua:
Why won't they will all when d governor is strategising to make PDP candidate win for governorship election thereby putting his kinsmen/slaves in power

An APC governor would have done thesame. They are all in thesame party. Forget the different names

kahal29:
http://punchng.com/we-can-no-longer-import-sell-fuel-at-n145litre-marketers/

So CBN can give some people dollar at 200 naira to go for hajj but they cannot give marketers at N250 to import fuel.

Says alot about our priorities in this country!

Thisis2raw:
OK let's me explain.

Rumu means in Ikwerre dialect means children.
So Rumumasi means children of Masi
My place Rumuorlumeni means children of Orlumeni.
As well as Rumuokoro means means children of Okoro

Thanks for educating me.
This lands diverse and rich in culture.

God bless Nigeria

Thisis2raw:
am sure the army seized their illegally.

The Nigerian Navy did the same in my community Rumuorlumeni

Never been to PH but why do almost all location name begin with Rumu....

Rumuomasi
Rumuokoro and the likes?

OrestesDante:




∆ Soldiers and policemen dey fight who go separate them...


Honestly, Soldiers sometimes act as if they are above the law...

***In Gordon's voice***


But if your friend slap you. You go tell police.

If police slap you. You fit tell Soldier.

If soldier slap you my brother...


Just commit yourself into the hand of the Lord!!!!!! ∆

"Haleluyah"

You forgot Gordon's signature

9jakohai:
So long as govt controls prices, there is a subsidy.

And no, I am not deceiving myself.

If you insist there is still subsidy then Buhari lied to gullible Nigerians yet again.

brainpulse:
God bless Daystar, this is how he blesses thousands of souls everytime. The last was thousands of school bags and writing materials for children and schools. Where are those goats and freeze that questions about tithes.

If all GOs were to do this do you know how long it will go to help? GOs must wake up and I just see freeze as a wake-up call to pastors.

Hate the message or not he has some point even though he is not entirely correct.

9jakohai:
Will President Fayose deregulate the downstream sector ?

The elephant in the room is deregulation.

If we are seriously considering ending this fuel scarcity, we need to allow marketers to set their prices, instead of govt doing it for them.

We need to privatize NNPC, and the refineries too.

Do that, and hoarding, stealing, subsidy scams, etc will stop.

Yes, prices will go up. But do we have money to pay for subsidy? No.

That is what bubu should do. Or a hypothetical President Fayose.

Oil subsidy must go. Let us stop deceiving ourselves.

Bros which subsidy again?

What did Buhari remove to increase fuel price from 87 to 145?

Keep deceiving yourself with grammar.

Ehiscotch:
Nigerians can be unforgiving.

They don't care about the lives that were at risk if tuface hadn't called off the planned demonstration.

Even you tuface, just forget about organizing protests or anything of that sort because you only get on shot and you didn't make most of it.

Suddenly you realize that life is at risk. Why didn't we hear of this risk back then during occupy Nigeria protest?

Put it simply this government is out to suppress opposition free speech and cannot tolerate protests.... Same protests that brought Buhari to power

horsepower101:
Dear Niger Deltans,
Looking at the changes happening in the world today, the future is very dark for you. My advice to you all is to forget oil and develop your human resources. It is too late to fight for resource control. That window of opportunity has been lost forever. In the coming years, your value to Nigeria will diminish and no one will listen to you. All you will be left with is polluted land and poverty.

You can as well stop exploration immediately since the world is moving away from oil.

If the north was the oil producer with all the pollution will they support withdrawing 1billion USD to fight a self created bokoharam?

Let's face the fact. Without oil from Niger delta the government is in trouble.

Daviddson:
Kai...Jonathan really did many silly things to please people. Obasanjo did same too sha. Why should houses for SP, Speakers, CJN be sold in the first place? What if a president decides to sell the presidential villa to himself one day before leaving office?

Check 2018 budget you will see rent for Aso Villa.
Question is who is the landlord of Aso rock Villa?

kaymandak:
Nigerians are the cause of their problem not Buhari.
To the fools who are behind this, they think Buhari or his supporters will be pained, not knowing that only buhari haters will use this period to inflict more psychological problems cum economic hardship on themselves.
To us, the pro Buhari we are focused because will understand that time will definitely heal the wounds given to the country by the PDP

Almost 3 years....Still blaming PDP

Continue. You will also blame PDP for losing in 2019

ALMUSTAQIM:
JERUSALEM REMAINS THE CAPITAL OF PALESTINE


SHAME ON PRESIDENT IN TWEET DONALD TRUMP & ALL THE INTIMIDATED COHORTS


SHAME ON YOU, ABDULLATEEF OLUFEMI FANI-KAYODE


SHAME, SHAME ON THE ENEMIES OF PALESTINE


JERUSALEM REMAINS THE CAPITAL OF PALESTINE

Palestine is not even a state much less having a capital. Ask the Arabs how the six day war turned out. You will be surprised to realize to your shock that 1 can sometimes be greater than 6.

USA and Israel are an unbeatable pair. You can go on ranting for eternity.

Deal with the boko Haram you created and your killer Fulani herdsmen brothers before talking about far away Palestine

jenykaris:
GIG Lagos to Abuja is #16,740.

By land or by air?

koropotopoto:
damage control
5 of my friends who are big business men in main market onitsha withdrew all their money and transfer to fidelity and and UBA respectively

Safe journey to them. No customer is better than a dubious customer.

Didn't they see Fidelity and UBA before going to GTB?

passyhansome:
I am not here to argue, or engage in a belligerent confrontation, The Book of John 21:25 :Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
You can't know all about God or the Kingdom by Logos( General Knowledge that is the BIBLE). FREEZE is still a Babe in Christ. We have three Knowledge of God. 1.Generial Knowledge, 2.Experential Knowledge 3.Revalational Knowledge they are all dimension, which can only be experienced by an HOLY GHOST filled MAN. not by reading the letters or Bible. FREEZE should be careful cos the end won't be nice, if you are not gathering you are scattering the consequences are grave. WHO GAVE FREEZE THE MANDATE? GOD WILL ASK HIM THIS?. CARNAL MAN FROMING SPIRITUAL THAT'S DEATH

True Jesus did many other things that are not written but his aim of coming would have been defeated if the few that is written does not include his basic teachings on salvation and it's requirements.

Read trough the four gospels. They all emphasized his prophesied birth, miraculous conception, birth, ministry, important messages of salvation and righteousness, his miracles, healing, compassion, mercy, justice, his death, resurrection, ascension and his promise to return and above all the great commission.

It would be so surprising that a supposed cornerstone of messages of tithing in churches of today was relegated to number three behind mercy and justice.

If truly you must tithe to make heaven, then I put it to you that you are simply telling us that the twelve apostles, the early church and all after them down to the 18th century are robbers, cursed and did not make heaven.

Enough said.

Awoleesu:
Of course, you're wrong Freeze; Christianity accepts you just as you are... And that's what distinguishes it from the others you listed.

church accepts you as you are but does not encourage you to remain as you are or grow worse than you were.

Man is dressed responsibly.

Lady is on undies


And you think there's nothing wrong with women in this generation?