₦airaland Forum

flokii:
Who the Igbo man can't dominate, he won't like.. but they forget that you can't dominate someone more intelligent than you are.

We'll keep reminding them that they are the cause of Nigeria's woes today whether they like it or not. I wonder why History was removed from our school curriculum.

LukasPodolski:
What, why do you guys hate the truth?

DanDeeBoss:
Lol..... See agile men jumping fence to steal someone's property

Coldie:
I grew up in the south south. Uptil today I can't point out what the Yoruba's did to us that has warranted our hatred for them.

I have researched a lot about awolowo he was not a bad guy as most people would want us to beleive, his 20 pounds policy was generosity, as at that time everybody protested against it, even our so called south south brothers, that not only protested against it, but used the opportunity to seize our properties especially in port Harcourt.

Awolowo made sure all the Igbo properties were kept, even rents were kept for us till we came back and it was given to us, our people forget so soon.

Only 3years war made our people suffer for decades later, do u know what would have happened if that war continued more than 3years we would have lost a bulk of our population. Alot of people would have let it rage so we will keep suffering and dieing but one policy ended a war that has raged on for years in months. The starvation policy.

All those pictures of hungry children was not caused by it, all those kids were already hungry before the policy. His policy saved them from suffering more by shortening there suffering.

To me the man is a hero

Gjrich:
One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s critics, Mr. Femi Aribisala has accused the President of playing the tribal card over key appointments in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Femi Aribisala alleged that 7 out of the 9 members of the NNPC Board are from a section of the country.

He said that this section of the country has no crude oil but its people are benefitting from juicy positions in the Oil Corporation.

In a series of Twitter messages, Femi Aribisala took time to list the key positions in the NNPC and the occupants

He said, “The North does not produce oil, nevertheless, he [Buhari] has Northernised the oil industry. Out of the 9 members of the NNPC Board, 7 are Northerners.”


On the positions and occupants, Femi Aribisala wrote, “Key Management positions held by Northerners in NNPC are Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Managing Director (GMD); Umar Isa Ajiya, Chief Finance Officer, Finance, and Account; Yusuf Usman; Chief Operating Officer, Gas & Power.

Farouk Garba Sa’id, Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services; Mustapha Y. Yakubu, Chief Operating Officer, Refining, and Petrochemicals; Hadiza Y. Coomassie, Corporate Secretary/Legal Adviser to the Corporation.

“Omar Farouk Ibrahim GGM, International Energy Relations, IER; Kallamu Abdullahi GGM, Renewable Energy; Ibrahim Birma GGM, Governance Risk and Compliance; Bala Wunti GGM, NAPIMS; Inuwa Waya MD, NNPC Shipping.

“Musa Lawan MD, Pipelines & Product Marketing, PPMC; Mansur Sambo MD, Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC; Lawal Sade MD, Duke Oil/NNPC Trading Company; Malami Shehu MD, Port Harcourt Refining Company.


Muhammed Abah MD, Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company; Abdulkadir Ahmed MD, Nigeria Gas Marketing Company; Salihu Jamari MD, Nigeria Gas and Power Investment Company Limited.

“Mohammed Zango MD, NNPC Medical Services; Sarki Auwalu Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR.”

gidgiddy:
There is an unwritten rule in Nigerian politics that power should rotate between the North and South every 8 years, for the sake of equity and fairness. No sooner had Buhari won his second term than the political calculations of 2023 started.

While most people in Southern Nigeria believe that power should move to the South after Buhari would have concluded his 8 years in 2023, the question is which of three zones in the South, SW/SE/SS, should it go to?

If equity and fairness is why the Presidency should come down to the South in 2023 then the SW has no business producing the President that year!

The South West have had their 8 years with Obasanjo, the SS have had 4 years with Jonathan while the SE has not had a shot at it yet. Since the SW have had their 8 years in this democratic dispensation, it is only fair that when the Presidency rotates to the South in 2023, it should either go the SS, to enable them complete their 8 years, or go to the SE who have not had it at all

If the SW insist on taking a shot at the Presidency in 2023, then it means that fairness and equity does not mean anything to them. Therefore, the SE/SS should work against the SW producing the President, even if it means power staying in the North.

To support SW Presidency in 2023 will amount to giving the the SW a 'third term' when the other two zones in the South are yet to equal the two terms the SW have already had.

The SE/SS should say NO to a 2023 SW Presidency! If the SW insists on cheating the rest of the South in 2023, then let the whole South be cheated!

diplomat058:
You are not far from the truth. Nnamdi Azikiwe's romance with the Ahmadu Bello's NPC to undermine regional self determination and JTU Ironsi's infamous unification decree 34 laid the foundation of the mess we are in today

diplomat058:
Well, your conclusion reeks of hasty generalization induced by bigotry of mindset. Many Igbos on this forum too hardly discuss Biafra without calling Yorubas sorts of derogatory names, but I don't use their shameful dispositions to conclude that the Igbos are antithetical to Yoruba progress. This is especiall of Nnamdi KANU who always calls Yorubas hateful names on radio Biafra

diplomat058:
Well, the choice of Buhari wasn't irrational, to me, in 2015. GEJ performed below expectations and people decided to try Buhari. You know the rigidity of his tenure in the '80s also helped give credence to the APC campaign narrative that Buhari would stamped out corruption, and it worked of course. You can't deter people from exercising their rights of choice.

Besides, the SW is a liberal region, not conservative like many others. The voting ratio was 60:40 in favour of Buhari, but you guys don't talk about the 40% at all. That is prejudice, I think.

And you and I are not zoo inhabitants

TheRareGem1:
Presidency is going to Southwest come 2023. Hausa as VP.

Looking at Osinbajo/Zulum. Good choice

diplomat058:
what do you mean by yorubas are abominable down south? Pls, stop promoting needles bigotry. The South is as superficial as the entity called Nigeria

diplomat058:
Are you implying that inept candidates do not come from other regions? And I think your choice of zoo is derogatory. Nigeria is the people that make it up. You are also referring to yourself as part of the zoo

Odingo1:

This is the reason why I said that Yoruba don't want anything in Nigeria. If you talk about how to make Nigeria a better place they will start telling you that one Nzeogwu 60 years did a coup and Ironsi abolish this that, in next 1 million years they will keep on telling you the same thing. They don't have the braveness to transform their current situation. Imagine Germans saying that it was Hitler that divided their country and bring war,till today they would have remain a backward country today.

diplomat058:
Lol. You should know that, as it stands now, western Nigeria is way prosperous without the oil.

Simbrixton:
I support total abolishment

diplomat058:
What gives you the conviction that only an Igbo person can restructure this country? If you didn't know, there are strong willed Yorubas who are hell bent on restructuring. Some are even championing outright secession. Ever heard about the Yoruba World Congress?

diplomat058:
So, we should move beyond the pettiness of who occupies Aso Rock and focus on how to lift millions out of poverty and leave a prosperous nation for the unborn generation

helinues:
And who is dragging that with you people under Pdp ?

diplomat058:
Are you happy with the state of things now, sir?

BabaRamota1980:
Two very important political groups in the South recently became members of UNPO. If we add Ogoni, it makes three. In fact Ogoni was the first to join ahead of Yoruba, then Ibo. Ogoni membership had not gained much traction. The Ibo membership is not expected to unsettle much or record a success either even though it will draw a lot of drama at home and bring attention to the issue. The Yoruba membership of UNPO however is different. Yoruba move to work from outside and force restructuring of the union is almost a done deal. It cannot be understimated or waved off. It bears with it significant and far reaching displacements. The move must be countered from outside as well. Attempts to oppose it from within will fail because it will accelerate the collapse and energise minority groups to rise up against the sovereingty.

The counter voice has to be one whose face, name and access in the international arena is well known and commands broad credibility to influence opinions of world leaders. Nigeria has few such leaders it can call to speak for its interest. Prof. Ibrahim Gambari is one of them.

His mission as Chief of Staff will be foreign policy, and not political as it was in the tenure of Late Abba Kyari.

Congrats to Prof Gambari, and wishing him well.

Osidazz19:
Idiotic loud mouth PDP clowns. Just make accusations without any prove knowing that some dumb dumb will believe anything.

See this is real life right here, when you are a thief, you will often perceive everyone to also be a thief. These PDP thugs are nothing but known original proven thieves hence they think Buhari should be stealing with his opportunity, forgetting that not everyone is delusional and consumed with stealing public funds like them.

#IDIOTPDPCLOWNS

ccffwx:
Somehow I knew it would be a Yoruba woman. These people are never really happy for others. Some of them, though.

9iceprince:
Shut up, keep praising people for bad deed coz someone had done that b4... Why don't you praise APC for looting bcoz PDP once looted the treasury