₦airaland Forum

mjb05:
did u understand wat u read @ all, think b4 u talk

If your imams did not send their Almajiris to kill and loot people and their properties all those years would they have grown to become bokos?


Did these bloodletting imams speak out when businessmen women children pregnant women and fetuses were being slaughtered in the north?

Meritbaba:
see dis mugun, can't you read and comprehend for once?

Read what Mr Arindin?


If your imams did not send their Almajiris to kill and loot people and their properties all those years would they have grown to become bokos?


Did your miserable bloodletting imams speak out when businessmen women children pregnant women and fetuses were being slaughtered in the north?

Damn you and damn your clerics

Teekrayne:
........... Wetin dis arindin dey talk?

Awon tojumilo Nle yin larindi

Ode omo ode

Serves nigerians well


They voted in Apc & now they're enjoying what they voted for excuses, controversies, photoshoping, and outright confusion


And when the citizens complain they're tagged wailing wailers by these bunch of lying liars.


I am sure yolobas who sided almajiris to bring the confusion called apc to power are happy now

sanyy:
Tribal bigot !

Define those two words before I swear for you!

Yes you can use google!

K

Babalegba:
Did you read the article at all

Did I read the article?

What do you take me for? I write dude!
And I am telling you why the imams kept quiet all this while until the tide turned on them.

And you're asking me to let someone as shetima tell me why boko haram has thrived all the years. What the hell makes you think shettima is not himself a member? Why has bokos not blow him or ndume or Ali modu up all this while?


Please don't quote me if you're not educated & liberal minded. And by education I don't mean if you went to school but if you're indeed educated.

sanyy:
Read the post !! Mumuu

Na your papa and your mama be mumu
Dem mumu soteh come born another miserable thing like you!

mzmeeday:
ode ni yin sir

Iwo ati awon alfa yin lode
Owo togede ba gbe...oun loro boko haram ati enyi oni imanle

Lies everywhere

Hope its not one of their lies

They're not talking because the terrorists are also Muslims

K

londongal03:
nice

Lol
You read it in just two minutes? Good

By Goddy



Speech by Chief Obafemi Awolowo made to the Western leaders of thought, in Ibadan, 1 May 1967. (quoted in "Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria (Volume 1), January 1966-July 1971" by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. )

The aim of a leader should be the welfare of the people whom he leads. I have used 'welfare' to denote the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the people. With this aim fixed unflinchingly and unchangeably before my eyes I consider it my duty to Yoruba people in particular and to Nigerians in general, to place four imperatives before you this morning. Two of them are categorical and two are conditional. Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening stalemate and restore normalcy. The Eastern Region must be encouraged to remain part of the Federation. If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. The people of Western Nigeria and Lagos should participate in the ad hoc committee or any similar body only on the basis of absolute equality with the other regions of the Federation.

I would like to comment briefly on these four imperatives. There has, of late, been a good deal of sabre rattling in some parts of the country. Those who advocate the use force for the settlement of our present problems should stop a little and reflect. I can see no vital and abiding principle involved in any war between the North and the East. If the East attacked the North, it would be for purpose of revenge pure and simple. Any claim to the contrary would be untenable. If it is claimed that such a war is being waged for the purpose of recovering the real and personal properties left behind in the North by Easterners two insuperable points are obvious. Firstly, the personal effects left behind by Easterners have been wholly looted or destroyed, and can no longer be physically recovered. Secondly, since the real properties are immovable in case of recovery of them can only be by means of forcible military occupation of those parts of the North in which these properties are situated. On the other hand, if the North attacked the East, it could only be for the purpose of further strengthening and entrenching its position of dominance in the country.

If it is claimed that an attack on the East is going to be launched by the Federal Government and not by the North as such and that it is designed to ensure the unity and integrity of the Federation, two other insuperable points also become obvious. First, if a war against the East becomes a necessity it must be agreed to unanimously by the remaining units of the Federation. In this connection, the West, Mid- West and Lagos have declared their implacable opposition to the use of force in solving the present problem. In the face of such declarations by three out of remaining four territories of Nigeria, a war against the East could only be a war favoured by the North alone. Second, if the true purpose of such a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, then these ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the recommendation of the committee which met on August 9 1966, as reaffirmed by a decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5 1967 as well as by accepting such of the demands of the East, West, Mid-West and Lagos as are manifestly reasonable, and essential for assuring harmonious relationships and peaceful co-existence between them and their brothers and sisters in the North.

Some knowledgeable persons have likened an attack on the East to Lincoln's war against the southern states in America. Two vital factors distinguish Lincoln's campaign from the one now being contemplated in Nigeria. The first is that the American civil war was aimed at the abolition of slavery - that is the liberation of millions of Negroes who were then still being used as chattels and worse than domestic animals. The second factor is that Lincoln and others in the northern states were English-speaking people waging a war of good conscience and humanity against their fellow nationals who were also English speaking. A war against the East in which Northern soldiers are predominant, will only unite the Easterners or the Ibos against their attackers, strengthen them in their belief that they are not wanted by the majority of their fellow-Nigerians, and finally push them out of the Federation.

We have been told that an act of secession on the part of the East would be a signal, in the first instance, for the creation of the COR state by decree, which would be backed, if need be, by the use of force. With great respect, I have some dissenting observations to make on this declaration. There are 11 national or linguistic groups in the COR areas with a total population of 5.3 millions. These national groups are as distinct from one another as the Ibos are distinct from them or from the Yorubas or Hausas. Of the 11, the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group are 3.2 million strong as against the Ijaws who are only about 700,000 strong. Ostensibly, the remaining nine national group number 1.4 millions. But when you have subtracted the Ibo inhabitants from among them, what is left ranges from the Ngennis who number only 8,000 to the Ogonis who are 220,000 strong. A decree creating a COR state without a plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the peoples in the area, would only amount to subordinating the minority national groups in the state to the dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. It would be perfectly in order to create a Calabar state or a Rivers state by decree, and without a plebiscite. Each is a homogeneous national unit. But before you lump distinct and diverse national units together in one state, the consent of each of them is indispensable. Otherwise, the seed of social disquilibrium in the new state would have been sown.

On the other hand, if the COR State is created by decree after the Eastern Region shall have made its severance from Nigeria effective, we should then be waging an unjust war against a foreign state. It would be an unjust war, because the purpose of it would be to remove 10 minorities in the East from the dominance of the Ibos only to subordinate them to the dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. I think I have said enough to demonstrate that any war against the East, or vice versa, on any count whatsoever, would be an unholy crusade, for which it would be most unjustifiable to shed a drop of Nigerian blood. Therefore, only a peaceful solution must be found, and quickly too to arrest the present rapidly deteriorating stalemate and restore normalcy.

With regard to the second categorical imperative, it is my considered view that whilst some of the demands of the East are excessive within the context of a Nigerian union, most of such demands are not only wellfounded, but are designed for smooth and steady association amongst the various national units of Nigeria.



The dependence of the Federal Government on financial contributions from the regions? These and other such like demands I do not support. Demands such as these, if accepted, will lead surely to the complete disintegration of the Federation which is not in the interest of our people. But I wholeheartedly support the following demands among others, which we consider reasonable and most of which are already embodied in our memoranda to the Ad Hoc Committee....

That revenue should be allocated strictly on the basis of derivation; that is to say after the Federal Government has deducted its own share for its own services the rest should be allocated to the regions to which they are attributable.

That the existing public debt of the Federation should become the responsibility of the regions on the basis of the location of the projects in respect of each debt whether internal or external.

That each region should have and control its own militia and police force.

That, with immediate effect, all military personnel should be posted to their regions of origin....

If we are to live in harmony one with another as Nigerians it is imperative that these demands and others which are not related, should be met without further delay by those who have hitherto resisted them. To those who may argue that the acceptance of these demands will amount to transforming Nigeria into a federation with a weak central government, my comment is that any link however tenuous, which keeps the East in the Nigerian union, is better in my view than no link at all.

Before the Western delegates went to Lagos to attend the meetings of the ad hoc committee, they were given a clear mandate that if any region should opt out of the Federation of Nigeria, then the Federation should be considered to be at an end, and that the Western Region and Lagos should also opt out of it. It would then be up to Western Nigeria and Lagos as an independent sovereign state to enter into association with any of the Nigerian units of its own choosing, and on terms mutually acceptable to them. I see no reason for departing from this mandate. If any region in Nigeria considers itself strong enough to compel us to enter into association with it on its own terms, I would only wish such a region luck. But such luck, I must warn, will, in the long run be no better than that which has attended the doings of all colonial powers down the ages. This much I must say in addition, on this point. We have neither military might nor the overwhelming advantage of numbers here in Western Nigeria and Lagos. But we have justice of a noble and imperishable cause on our side, namely: the right of a people to unfettered self-determination. If this is so, then God is on our side, and if God is with us then we have nothing whatsoever in this world to fear.

The fourth imperative, and the second conditional one has been fully dealt with in my recent letter to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria, Col. Robert Adebayo, and in the representation which your deputation made last year to the head of the Federal Military Government, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon. As a matter of fact, as far back as November last year a smaller meeting of leaders of thought in this Region decided that unless certain things were done, we would no longer participate in the meeting of the ad hoc committee. But since then, not even one of our legitimate requests has been granted. I will, therefore, take no more of your time in making further comments on a point with which you are well familiar. As soon as our humble and earnest requests are met, I shall be ready to take my place on the ad hoc committee. But certainly, not before.

In closing, I have this piece of advice to give. In order to resolve amiably and in the best interests of all Nigerians certain attributes are required on the part of Nigerian leaders, military as well as non-military leaders alike, namely: vision, realism and unselfishness. But above all , what will keep Nigerian leaders in the North and East unwaveringly in the path of wisdom, realism and moderation is courage and steadfastness on the part of Yoruba people in the course of what they sincerely believe to be right, equitable and just. In the past five years we in the West and Lagos have shown that we possess these qualities in a large measure. If we demonstrate them again as we did in the past, calmly and heroically, we will save Nigeria from further bloodshed and imminent wreck and, at the same time, preserve our freedom and self-respect into the bargain.

May God rule and guide our deliberations here, and endow all the Nigerian leaders with the vision, realism, and unselfishness as well as courage and steadfastness in the course of truth, which the present circumstances demand. "

www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/98546/1/speech-by-chief-obafemi-awolowo-to-western-leaders.html

K

Thank the yolobas

K

K

The man went on a vacation

That's all

K

cyprus000:
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Who are they, sire?.

Hope you ain't refering to me,cos if I happen to be the one you mean as "they".


Google will be very useful in educating your ignorance on the above facts made.

Nothing up there,is a fiction. They are all facts which is accessible both offline and online.[/size]

Oh yeah, they own a quarter of google's hard disk, these conspiracy theorists.

Theirs is a life full of referencing.

Lalasticlala Ishilove can this op be cured?

Breaking news: Big Brother Africa 2015 cancelled
By Ayo Onikoyi This is not good news for African viewers as the biggest reality TV show in Africa, Big Brother Africa (BBA) may not take place this year as expected.
This is due to lack of sponsorship. The organizers of the show, Africa Magic and Endemol were unable to get sponsorship for this year’s edition of the show. The Manager of Multichoice Ghana, Anne Sackey confirmed to peganews that they at Multichoice Ghana have received notice from MNET that this year’s edition of Big Brother Africa will not hold. She explained that MNET did not give them any reasons as to why they will not be doing the Big Brother this year, but then, she personally thinks it’s due to sponsorship constraints.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/breaking-news-big-brother-africa-2015-cancelled/

Hmm

Breaking news: Big Brother Africa 2015 cancelled
By Ayo Onikoyi This is not good news for African viewers as the biggest reality TV show in Africa, Big Brother Africa (BBA) may not take place this year as expected.
This is due to lack of sponsorship. The organizers of the show, Africa Magic and Endemol were unable to get sponsorship for this year’s edition of the show. The Manager of Multichoice Ghana, Anne Sackey confirmed to peganews that they at Multichoice Ghana have received notice from MNET that this year’s edition of Big Brother Africa will not hold. She explained that MNET did not give them any reasons as to why they will not be doing the Big Brother this year, but then, she personally thinks it’s due to sponsorship constraints.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/breaking-news-big-brother-africa-2015-cancelled/

cyprus000:

Yea,he has point base on economic dominance of the dollar,which is fast falling and will finally be buried by (
AIIB)Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank.
If we have to look at it critically. The dollar is already dead,many countries has boycotted it,even nigeria.
The reason it still have little world dominance,is bcs uncle sam has choose to flood the financial market with papar print of it,without reserve backing.

militarily,uncle sam can't do nothing.
Puting has them by the balls. When it comes to nuclear war head.
America is still catching up.
it can't even match russia on a conventional warfare,without her allies.
Even at that. Few indefensive long range missle will take care of care of those countries(NETO to be precise).
Coming to influence. It is no news that puting is the world leader with the highest influence.
Forget what CNN,BBC,yahoo etc feed gullible minds.
Google may be sincere with his analysis.

Conspiracy theorists, damned living too long in their own head they almost assume the world is mad and they are the only sane fellas left.

such an ironic life they lead!

NDPVF:
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.


Can't you see Yorubas are our saviour?.

Yes na,they saved us "Niger Delta"(including all the Igbos here),from "Igbos",by massacaring over 500 young men in Asaba.


Cant you see Yorubas & their overlords,saved us,by owning over 80% oil blocs in this region.


Can't you see yorubas saved us,thats why they are the hijacked the employment in of ExxonMobil here,perharps thats why serious consultation is ongoing,on how to kick them out of here.


They saved us from Una,thats why ExxonMobils headquarter is in Lagos.


Exactly,thats why every attempt to build Ibaka port,is being destroyed with propaganda of southwest media.


Can't you see we are happy afterward,thats why people like me,and other comrades,spent our youthful age in the creeks,fighting for our people.


Is alright.Hell will visit them till eternity,let them shout Amen for these goodwill of theirs.

Why I don't blame yorubas and hausas?


Because they bought SS/ND in WHOLESALES in 1967



Who are yorubas and who are abokys if only the SS/ND people were able to know what they know now back then, if only they were able to see how far into future Ojukwu saw back then?




No p.

One day monkey go go market and will not return.

Hmm

My worst lecturer is dead. Don't know what killed him that early but I had no sympathy over his death coulda shot the dude meself save of course the government wouldn't let us have a hand gun as there would have been more mortuaries than there were streets.

Oh, and as to his name....he's a dead man now.