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PrinceOfLagos:
You want to join your people in Benin republic refugee camp abi?

Are you sure he\she is not posting from Republic of Benin?

Oshigun:
Lol. Omo Igbo ashamed of his heritage. Where are your pals like PrinceOfLagos, Obalola and other IPOBian fakers obsessed with Yorubas and their affairs?

Per your message, we hope the North brings it. Yorubas are peace-loving and progressive but we have been pushed to the wall in our own land and won't back up any more.

If the few Yorubas in the North know what is good for them then they will start coming back down South. I would worry about the many millions of Northerners in the South West if I were you.

Never heard about the crap in the bolded when the Yoruba cowardly joined the fight on the part of Caliphate, Fulani Herdsmen and the Jihadists from northern region of Nigeria in 1967. Yoruba are very deserving for sure.

BeeBeeOoh:




My anger now is how can Fulani's that are not up to 20million in population be giving 180million people sleepless night, causing headache and havoc, killing and sending their accomodators out of their ancestral homes and they are keeping quiet? As they say, the best form of defense is to attack, I think it's better to take the fight to them because I can't stay in my house and injure my testicle..

Because of the blunders of Yoruba and the minorities of the southern Nigeria in 1967. They will be forever remembered for it even if Nigeria becomes disintegrated.

Maxymilliano:
Coronavir***


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I saw a typical dumbass Nigerian. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwuala's father died in 2019

zeemahn:
You're very correct.

Lieutenant = Platoon,
Captain = Company,
Major = Armored/mechanised/artillery/ special company.

However, I hear that Nigerian army battalions are usually under manned. For example, instead of having at least 750 men, many I've heard about had less than 400 men.

Which AFM stipulated above pronouncement? Military command structure usually flows with situation of things.

jneutron4000:
You are daft, which stupid one Nigeria are we talking about? The same one Gumi said Christian Soldiers are the ones killing bandits? The same one Buhari referred to Boko haram as Families? Just last month some Military men were declared missing and information from those missing soldiers got to the public that fellow Military men from the North were killing them. Apart from that, a lot of time that Nigeria troops were ambushed by terrorist and killed. If any Southerners Military men are still foolishly walking into death trap all in the name of one Nigeria, then they are so foolish.

The only daft person in this discuss is you sir. I guess you have idiotically forgotten your forbearers fought for One-Nigeria and Boko Haram are fighting against such useless slogan. The soldiers who are been mercilessly slaughtered by Boko Haram are in the same daftness wagon as your father or forefather.

PHijo:
Shut up you IPOB apologists who thinks he knows anything

I had better live as IPOB apologist than a drunken Ijaw fisherman. There is no thinking about Andoni not Ijaw. It is no brainer.

jneutron4000:
If this is true, while will a person from South died for the North created problem This is pure stupidity.

What a useless question. Most moronic southerners joined the northern region in fight for One-Nigeria yet you ask such an infantile question. Did you forget the mantle to uphold the phantom of One-Nigeria?

PHijo:
It pains me any time it is reported that an Ijaw man died fighting Bokoharam. We are not meant to be on that war front. I don't see the need.

May his soul rest in peace!

Shut up your putrid mouth. Urang is not Ijaw. Besides Ijaw are patented cowards.

EzeNri:
My question is, why would a Major be commanding a Battalion, a Special Force Battalion for that matter?

A Colonel should command a Battalion, Brigadier General, a Brigade and Major General a Division.

A Major should be commanding a Company not a Special Forces Battalion please.

Which Uniform Code of Conduct stated the above crap? Commands depend on certain military circumstances.

OboloMAN:
Tears flowed as News filtered in last night that one of Obolo's (Andoni) finest Soldier was ambushed and killed by Boko Haram Insurgents in the Gudumbali general area of Borno State. His 10-vehicle convoy was on its way to the Gudumbali area from the town of Kukawa for a military operation against the insurgents when it came under fire.

In the fierce battle that occurred during the attack, Major Urang and other troop members were severely wounded and paid the ultimate price while the Nigerian Army killed “scores of the terrorists” who came with rocket launchers and grenades.

Until his death, Major U. I Urang was the commanding officer 123 Special forces battalion of the Nigerian Army and had led many successful operations against the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) popularly called Boko Haram.

The entire Obolo Nation, Andoni LGA, Ijaw, Rivers State, and Nigeria mourns as we call for the immediate end of insurgency and unnecessary death of our gallant officers.

Rest in Peace Major Urang !!



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There is nothing such as Andoni LGA Ijaw. In addition, Andoni LGA is not and have never been Ijaw. The word, Urang, is not Ijaw. It is very silly people from an insignificant entity tend grab what cannot defend.

Okey Okoroji, if Alhaji Oshigun runs naked in the street of Lagos due to your willful endeavor, you shall be held responsible.

valentineuwakwe:
Give me one reason to support the Biafran cause?

why will I trade my freedom with one tyrant in Abuja and many others in Anambra or Enugu state, cos An Anambra man does not see an Imo state man as pure igbo sef, he sees himself as the main igbo!

Nigeria is basket of fools.

Yoruba and Igbo had nothing in common. The present day habitat of the people called Yoruba was not the their original place of abode. The original home of Yoruba was Oyo-Ile which was 30 miles north of Ilorin, Kwara State. The original Yoruba were migrants from Upper Volta. They were co-migrants of the Fulani.

StreetFight:
He is living fat on oil wells given to his father by the Northern parasitic government. How can a useless Almajari own oil wells in Bayelsa and making billions when Bayelsans are living in poverty.

It was due to the idiotic decision made by the moronic elders of the region. I hated the day the demented old fools decided to join northern region for anything especially the war of 1967.

favor914:
That is to say you blame God for giving him the platform to spew trash?

I say yes if your silly God was involved in the idiotic pronouncement.

ESN is not totally for the so-called southeast it is designed for the defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria and areas included by the IPOB. ESN is eastern security network not southeast security network. This goofy governor if Imo State has shown the level of idiocy and cluelessness of the governors in southern Nigeria. Even the southwest governors are better than the southeast and southsouth governors. These jackasses from the south behave in a manner which defines them as beggars. The central government of Nigeria led by moronic Buhari does not own the commonwealth of Nigeria. The fools who pass governors in the southern Nigeria should stop behaving like beggars. By standing up for your people will never stop the silly allocation from Abuja rather it will increase the allocation. What a bunch of fools. I do not publicly spew what I feel for these airheads who parade themselves as governors in southern Nigeria.

Abagworo:
The environment of that Royal Palm is how most residential areas in Nigeria should be. Whoever planned and built the estate deserves to be employed as a city planner by government.

There is absolutely nothing which will justify the greed and penchant to overlook the issue of conflict of interest in the construction of Royal Palm Estate. If Okoroawusa's services to the people of Imo State who moronically elected him into office of governor of Imo State are replicated across the length of the state as he did with Royal Palm Estate, everybody in Imo State would have been singing praises of his name.

Warripikine:
awon south south freedom fighter.. mumu

I guess the highest echelon of the note.

Warripikine:
We know what we want and are not going back. Every other side talk is nothing but a distraction. We are fully focused; the Yoruba nation is the goal.


Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, has said the time has come for the much-desired Yoruba nation's realisation.


He added that anyone willing to join the agitation for the Yoruba Nation is welcomed.


Igboho, in a statement by his spokesperson, Olayomi Koiki, stated that the Yoruba knew what they wanted and that there was no going back on the agitation for the Yoruba nation.

The statement partly read: "Anyone willing to support the agitation for the Yoruba nation is highly welcomed; the goal is the Yoruba nation Now.

"We know what we want and are not going back. Every other side talk is nothing but a distraction. We are fully focused; the Yoruba nation is the goal.

"Let me reiterate, anything you did not hear from me, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) or my spokesperson, Olayomi Koiki of Koiki Media, is not a fact.

"Chief Femi Fani Kayode is one of the stakeholders that identify with us on the struggle of Yoruba nation agitation.

"He can give his advice at any time as regards the agitation and there's no reason to doubt him. We have 100 per cent confidence in him. Let's not talk with envy. We must unite and stay strong in one voice. Therefore, we want to identify with Chief Femi Fani Kayode and any other person that stands for the Yoruba race irrespective of their religion or political party affiliation."

http://saharareporters.com/2021/03/13/time-has-come-realise-yoruba-nation-sunday-igboho-says

I honestly say Good Morning to Yoruba Nation AKA Republic of Oduduwastan. The Muslim population of Yoruba peeps had to be represented that is the reason behind Oduduwastan.

asha80:
not sure why you didn't list ihedioha's name there since it was him that constituted that panel that came up with that white paper

Bro I am not into counting of names. Ihedioha could be hardly remembered as governor of Imo State. Was the white paper executed by the order of governor or any law passed by house of assembly on the advice of the alleged panel? Why would Ozodingba cow-toe to the idiocy of Ihedioha? I had thought the government should be visionary and innovative.

asha80:
so what is the truth?

Are you still searching for truth in Nigeria? The issue is not the truth but honesty. The government led by Okoroawusa and Ozodingba cannot be trusted for anything. Government policies are led by executive orders or laws created by house of assembly.

sanctity454:
Problem with Royal palm estate, is not misappropriation of funds, but the structure being on a green verge .
If the white paper is implemented as recommended, then every new structure about 10000 will go down in Owerri.
The white paper tried hard to deny the fact that a governor has the powers to change the purpose of a land.

Bro do not bite hard into the crap called government white paper. The "Green verge" aspect is very laughable.

Abagworo:
Based on the whitepaper the issue is that Okorocha opened up so many new layouts and also changed purpose of use in others not that he personally took lands. The committee tried as much as possible to find fault in all his land use policies making it seem wrong that housing and real estate development increased under Okorocha.

Africans in general and Nigerians in particular have not leant anything about democracy especially in the area of conflict of interest. Okoroawusa created policies that will benefit him and his cronies. Hopeless Ozodingba can bring heaven to Imo State, he will never amount to anything valuable to me since he publicly proclaimed to have invited the Nigerian Fulani soldiers to Orlu.

Geolalisa:
THE general belief held by most southerners about the North is that the region is not just mainly Muslim, but wholly Muslim. Whenever I meet someone from the South and introduce myself, I am correctly placed as a Christian. But once I am asked my state and I say Borno State, the next question becomes, ‘Are you a Muslim?’ This is despite my name being a very common Biblical name, Mark, which is the second Gospel. Matter of fact, I have been asked that question while attending a church programme, with a Bible conspicuously held in my hands. You could imagine my surprise at that question. This has also been the experience of a lot of friends with common names such as ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Daniel’, etc.
To start with, out of the 19 Northern states, at least five have a majority Christian population: Plateau, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Taraba and Benue. At least six more have at least 40 per cent Christian population. These states include Niger, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and either Borno or Bauchi. That then leaves only Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara as having Muslim populations above 60 per cent. How then are we all seen as Muslims?This misconception could be excused when the person has an Arabic name, as there are many Northern Christians who bear names such as Jamila, Habiba, Halima, Sadiq, and Yunusa and so on. But when the person has an obvious Christian name and even attends church services, you really begin to wonder.
Another common perception of the North is that we are all Hausa. My usual response to this is to borrow the logical argument of Simon Kolawole, the Editor-in-Chief of THISDay Newspapers. In an article in which he attempted to educate his largely southern readership base about the North, he went thus:
“If out of the estimated 250 tribes in Nigeria, we can say that the South-West is mainly Yoruba with a few other tribes around Badagry area, the South-East wholly Igbo and the South-South being most diverse in the South with about 40 tribes, that still leaves the remaining 200 tribes in the North.”
How then are we reduced to one single ethnic group, Hausa? It is only the North-West that is close to being homogenous, mainly Hausa and Fulani, but with still some minority tribes in the Zuru area of Kebbi State and the multi-diverse Southern Kaduna. The North-East and North-Central is filled with tribes, many of whom I have never even heard of. For example, Adamawa State is so diverse that the largest ethnic group, the Fulani, is just three per cent of the entire population. In my home state of Borno, there is a local government so diverse that from one village to another, you are likely to meet an entirely different ethnic group. The number of tribes there are so many that we just address the people as ‘Gwoza people’, after the name of the local government.
Even though we all speak Hausa as a lingua franca in order to communicate amongst ourselves as trading partners over the centuries, that doesn’t make us Hausa people as much as communicating English doesn’t make you and I English people. As a matter of fact, in the North-East, Hausa people are a minority and virtually non-existent in the North-Central region.
Now, this is one belief that whenever I am confronted with, it takes me a great deal of self-control not to flip out and lose my temper.
Times without number, when I tell people I am from Borno State, I am asked how come I speak such good English. What the hell? What am I supposed to speak? Arabic? The general expectation is that someone from the North is not supposed to be this learned, this well-spoken and articulate in English, this knowledgeable. I remember when a friend asked me if my mother went to school, and the surprised look on his face when I told him that my mum earned her masters’ degree over 20 years ago. There was also a time when my dad met someone at the Lagos International Airport and they got talking. When my dad told him his profession, the man, in a fit of surprise, exclaimed, ‘I didn’t know that there were professors in the North’.
I admit the fact that the North lags behind the South educationally, especially the North-West and the North-East. But this is not due to our inability to comprehend what we are being taught, but rather due to the incompetence of leadership in the region to give education its premium importance as a form of human development. We, like every other human being on the face of this earth, can excel when given the opportunity. Talent and intellect abounds everywhere. Opportunity, however, does not. I personally know of many northerners who have excelled nationally and internationally. Daily, the story of young men like Ahmed Mukoshy, who is born, bred and schooled in Sokoto, and yet, rose above his environment to become one of the emerging forces in IT in this country in his early 20s inspires me. This is just one example among many that I could cite but for the lack of space.
I find it outright disgusting whenever people claim that if not for federal character and ‘zoning’, no northerner would be able to compete in this country. Last week, I was shocked when a friend said only 10 per cent of northerners in the Federal Civil Service deserved their places on merit, and went on to add that if he had not known me personally and I were to get a job with the Federal Government, he would believe that I did not earn it on merit.
The most ridiculous one I encountered was when earlier this year, former Minister of Finance, Dr Mansur Mukhtar was appointed a World Bank director. Most of the commentators on the 234Next article announcing this achievement for this Nigerian and Nigeria made the ludicrous assertion that the appointment was done to please the North, that Dr Mukhtar did not merit it. Little did they know that Dr Mukhtar had worked at the World Bank and the African Development Bank, prior to his heading Nigeria’s Budget Office on the invitation of the then and present Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former World Bank Managing Director, who also recommended him for the post of Finance Minister when she rejected former President Umaru Yar’adua’s invitation to join his government. What is even worse is that they did not care to know: their minds were already made up and could not be confused with the facts.
Another common belief among southerners and most especially spread by southern newspapers is that the entire 19 Northern states act and think as one when it comes to issues of Northern politics. This is one of the biggest untruths about the North. Whenever northern Nigeria is mentioned, the people of Benue, Kogi and Kwara states do not feel it refers to them. Geographically, they are part of the North; politically, however, they and the entire Middle-Belt act independently. This can be clearly in the last elections where President Goodluck Jonathan won in 7 Northern states, even against his strongest opponent, General Muhammadu Buhari, who is a northerner. This was something I am sure a lot of people in the South, save for the political savvy, did not see coming.
One common sight of this perception being entrenched by newspapers is when politicians of Northern extraction speak on national issues. I have innumerably seen a washed-out Northern politician, without any influence or popularity speak regarding an issue, and the next day, newspapers carry bold headlines saying, ‘North rejects this’ or ‘North plans to do that’, quoting the same washed-out politician as speaking for the entire North. I have rarely seen a Bola Tinubu speaking and being quoted as the mouthpiece of the entire Yoruba ethnic group, or a Chief Edwin Clark for the Ijaw people. Methinks this is a way of selling newspapers by capitalizing on the image of the North as one single, political force which moves in a particular direction all-together
Admittedly, as people of the same region, we share a lot in common culturally and socially in the general terms: our mannerisms, modes of dressing, traditional titles (apart from paramount rulers with the exception of emirates), etc. Despite that, the Jukun in Taraba and the Kataf in Kaduna are very different in the specifics, as even the Bura and Marghi people of Borno/Adamawa States. To pick the attitude of one ethnic group in the North and attach it to all the others, is to put it mildly, a very short-sighted way of knowing and understanding the people of Northern Nigeria.
Another belief in the South is that the entire North is but an empty landmass with nothing but trees. I remember the controversy of the 2006 census when Kano State was said to have a slightly higher population than Lagos State. Many of my southern friends called it ‘an impossibility’. In the words of one of them, ‘Lagos is so populated that when you throw grains of rice into the air, they wouldn’t land on the ground, but on people’. However, they all forgot to factor in land mass, because Lagos State is a much smaller state than Kano State, and hence has the highest population density in Nigeria, hence making it look as though it was way more populated.

by Mark Amaza

I do not have any respect for the alleged academic achievement of northern region of Nigeria due to quota system and watered down academic requirement for admission into institutions of higher learning.

excanny:
But Elegushi married a Fulani as Olori, how is not marrying a yoruba as Olori a disgrace to Yoruba nation?

I usually get goose bumps when I read craps from Igbo friends who believed Yoruba people are good socio-political partners in Nigeria..

favor914:
Nigeria will choose the president of Biafra for the first 100 years.

Are you okay? The moment Biafra or Republic of Igboland is actualized, the shithole called Nigeria will cease to exist. Please write like a person with brains cells.

favor914:
It is true Useless Empty Barrel, I guess that is why Odumegwu Ojukwu & Nnamdi Kanu ran away to preserve their death? Mumu.

I had left the earth the day anybody from your miserable ethnic group in Nigeria will dream to stand up for his people as Ojukwu did in 1967 despite all odds.

BKayy:
This was how the one of Western Igboland started.
For those that are new to the game. The one of Onitsha and Oguta in core Igboland was sown by the useless man called Nnamdi Azikiwe.
The most useless, idiotic half baked educated illiterate to ever come out of Igboland

I agree with you that Azikiwe was goofy in pursuit of Igbo identity. He was more of nonsensical nationalist than traditionalist. He brought more twist to Igbo than he solved issues.

I am very flabbergasted by the manner the minorities treat Ndigbo who happen to minority in Benue, Kogi, Rivers and Akwa Ibom States. It is very disheartening to read the Akwa Ibom government was bent on changing Igbo community name from Igbo to Annang. The case of Ohaobu is a typical example. Had Ndigbo behaved in the manner these minorities acting in the pre-colonial and colonial periods, they would ceased to exist.

theTranslator:
How dare you compare Madibah to Nnamdi??

It is very silly to put Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the Mandela's path. Mandela actually participated in terrorist actions in Republic of South Africa while Nnamdi Kanu has not blown up a can of beer in Nigeria. Nnamdi Kanu is not a terrorist, Mandela was.

Oshigun:
You guys should stop this blanket political correctness against all Nigerians and learn to call a spade a spade.

Specifically call out those guilty of the part in bold above for this behaviour here, i.e Igbos, and stop condemning others who tried to do what you said.

The two comments below were the first to set this thread on an ethnocentric path.

The parts in bold below are incendiary and condemnable so have the balls to condemn directly and stop tarnishing all with the ethnocentric brush mainly Igbos deserve to be painted with.

Only a dummy will listen to a loudmouthed ninny who has equated Africans to a thing such as black.