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You are truly a creep! That's all I can say!

lacasa:
The igbos felt they cld get away with Murdering the North's political and Military Top Hierarchy easily, but lil did they know they were Sparking their own fuse ffor destruction.m


Wen 1966 is mentioned, I will always be proud of my Northern Soldiers for avenging the deaths of our Greatest Leaders.



RIP Balewa, Maimalari, Balewa, Akintole and all men wwwho fell to the cowardly attacks by those deegenerates.

As an adult (which I hope you are) and knowing the power of propaganda, do you actually believe that tripe you wrote? Knowing human nature the way it is now, do you actually see the Igbo race dancing makossa to the deaths of the northern leaders? Or was it just an isolated incident that was blown out of proportion? If you can check your conscience and intellect before answering this questions, I would be sincerely grateful!


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Some days ago, I read about some Yoruba criminals in the US; by your admission, the whole Yoruba race is responsible for that?

Doesn't it sound silly? Holding the whole Igbo race responsible for the actions or inactions of 3 "Igbo" sons? (I put parenthesis on the word Igbo because people from the areas these Majors hailed from claim not to be Igbo any more- what irony!!!)

Blackteeth:
I think they igbos were the cause of their predicament. They war would certainly have been avoided if those igbo officers did not act the first coup.

On a non-partisan note, I personally think Obasanjo is heating up the polity! He should season his remarks and apply them with caution, not responding to every sensory itch that affects him! I'm disappointed!

Family values have changed, and society has reflected these changes in the value system of our youths! Yes, we all had some good times in school, but don't you think there is a limit?

Our future generation are not making excellent choices!!

You are so correct!!! This is part of the hypocrisy of Nigeria!!! I don't know any Nigerian that doesn't like money, nor wouldn't go out of his/her way to make money, yet Igbos are always the usual suspects- guilty or innocent! Not fair nor honest!

Chiefpriest1:
Before nko? I am not Igbo, but I ll gladly think about having enormous wealth if I was in the same situation.

But don't we all like money, irrespective of tribe?

Your wife will suffer what Bianca is going through in your hands! Say amen!

Bruteforce1o1:
Its no more boko haram, now ISIS and Alqaeda. FFK is just a shameless old fool.

Thank you my brother! It can only get better for Naija!!

Peope like you are rare! More grease...

myvic70:
God bless you my brother.
God bless Nigeria with good Leaders.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the change we never collect? The outstanding N1, or 50k etc that never gets paid because of lack of change? If you examine it against the size of our GDP (a measure of our transactions) it is mind boggling; it is so bad these days that waiters and all forms of attendants never seem to have change..even when the change is as large as, N200!!! The most annoying are the banks and other financial institutions!! Where are these monies?

They way people generalise, you'd think they had rags for brains! There are hundreds of Igbo dialects and customs, and hundred of variegated cuisine; yet Mr. Egusi taster suddenly becomes a connoisseur of Igbo cooking and an expert at making broad-based declarations? I personally despise the way some section of Nigerians cook food, but won't tar all with the same brush, nor would I use it as a basis of analysing social issues.

kekakuz:
[size=20pt] ibo man chop akpu finish begin dey see double. rip little gir
wetin dey vex me pass na their egusi soup
ate one last week and till now av not been able to eat anything
why scatter fish head and bone inside your tasteless soup. are we cats? [/size]

Hmmm! I guess I missed this...

sCun:
Typical Yorubas, when a Yoruba does something worthwile, you make sure everyone knows he's Yoruba, when he commits crime, you call him an American or Briton.
When an Igbo man commits crime, you ascribe it to his tribe, when a Yoruba man commits crime, you find a way to justify or excuse him.

I'm really glad that no one mentioned the tribal slant of this crime...I mean, people who have said that they are not surprised that they are Igbo etc Please, always remember that when things happen, it's not an opportunity to divide our interests, but an opportunity to unite as Nigerians and eradicate our social ills. It's not a Yoruba thing in this case...it's a Nigerian problem!

You're the one with a comprehension problem! Read through and reboot your head!

mfm04622:
Do you have comprehension problem? Go back and read. Then it will be clear to you.

You're speculating and going to town with your assumptions; you are presenting them as if they are the gospel truth!

You know what they say about assumptions? We you assume, you've just made an "ass" out of "u" and "me".

As long as both parties are populated by the same greedy, selfish and egocentric politicians of Naija stock, then believe me, anything is possible no matter how crazy or far fetched! Remember Okija and the Lagos LGA chairman who was bathing with blood? One from PDP, the other APC...One Igbo, the other Yoruba! But guess what is the common denominator? They are both Nigerian politicians!!!

Abayhormy:
About that purported Apc video, this is what I have to say;

You can bet that Buhari is not aware some illiterate fans of his are doing this, neither did he give them the order or go ahead.

This is defferent from the instance of calling the head of a faction of OPC few days to the election and awarding him contract(a contract that will license him to import arms at freewill at that) .

We all know there is a direct link between the gun and machete wielding OPC and Jonathan.

But there is no direct link between these miscreants and Buhari.

He might not even know they Exist ! (which I know this is the case).

Why conclude that it's PDP? Aren't both parties filled with miscreants? Did you see the video of APC northern youths destroying PDP billboards? APC should stop playing the victim! Both parties are corrupt and bereft of morals!!!

May someone refer to your mother and wife the way you refer to Bianca who has caused you no harm! Say amen!!

donphilopus:
FFK is surely high on Bianca's cum!

May someone refer to your mother and wife the way you refer to Bianca who has caused you no harm! Say amen!!

Segeggs:
Son of a palm wine tapper who made it ahead of those born with a silver spoon

FFK, go and meet bianca jor.

Bros, sticks and stones...Lol!

The truth must be said despite persecution!

Awoofawo:
The son of the soil and people that sabi the place well say na Ika be their language and you dey come say na Igbo. You better mind yourself but the son of the soil stone you pure water satches...

An Igbanke man named Sirajo Alkali? I am filled with wonder, even though I know a lot of people changed their names or became Muslims during the Northern strangle-hold on the country to ingratiate themselves with the powers that be or simply to join any of the forces! The Igbanke's are Igbo-speaking. May his rest in peace!

Too much propaganda!

Too much of double standards! PDP is corrupt, that is a given; but APC is equally as corrupt! I hate grandstanding and barefaced lies!!! That's why I don't support either and thank God for this proposed legislation on independent candidature!

APC should stop this holier than thou attitude! It's sickening!

PDP should also stop revising history! Corruption has marked their years in power!

THERE is nothing ISIS, the Taliban are doing today that has not been done before in Northern Nigeria long before Boko Haram emerged as a matter of fact. Only that the world wasn’t paying attention then.  When the West was still fighting communism and the USSR, when J.F. Kennedy declared that “Ich bin ein Berliner in his 1963 speech, when Ronald Reagan challenged Gobarchev in 1987 to “tear down this wall,” Nigeria was being tortured by the ruling Islamic hardliners. Boko Haram is only the latest incarnation of a very long series of a progressive malaise. In February 2000, Governor Mohammed Ahmed Makarfi of Kaduna, the most multicultural state in the North imposed Sharia. Not only was the imposition contrary to the provisions of the country’s secular constitution, it was an act of religious extremism. The apex Islamic bodies, Jama’ tul Nasril Islam (JNI) and Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) did not condemn that extremism. The second bloodiest religious riot in Nigeria’s history then ensued in the state and the body count ran well over 2000. But it was Zamfara State governor Ahmed Yerima Sani who a month earlier launched the Sharia spree that has now engulfed 12 northern states. To confirm his seriousness, in March 2000, he ratified the cold-blooded cut of Buba Bello Jangebe’s hand for allegedly stealing a cow. His deputy then, Mamudu Aliyu Shinkafi was the one in November 2002 who pronounced the fatwa that scurried ThisDay fashion correspondent, Ms Isioma Daniel into exile in Norway during the Miss World pageantry officially hosted by Nigeria. The fanatics were virulently opposed, claiming the event was not supposed to hold during their holy month of fasting.
Despite the fact that the show organisers conceded that the girls would not wear bikinis on stage, the fanatics still went to work. They seized on the 18 words of Isioma Daniel that speculated on what  Prophet Mohammed would think of the beauties. Sponsored riots that led to the death of 217 broke out in Abuja and Kaduna.  The extremists didn’t want the pageantry because they claimed it would violate the holy month of fasting but they didn’t think their killing spree would.
Instead of Islamic leaders condemning the mass murder, they blamed the organisers. Dr. Lateef Adegbite, secretary general of Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) argued that with the murderous riots, the government and the organisers will learn to take them seriously. If they don’t want a programme, they don’t want it. To which Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate called him “a fool” i.e. how can you stake your need for respect on the lives of others. Two years later, the Zamfara State deputy governor rose to become the governor of the state while his boss became a federal senator and married a 13 year-old-girl.
All the pronouncements were not said or done by outcast terrorist organisations or criminals giving Islam a bad name. They were politicians who campaigned that they were going to introduce sharia as contained in the Quran and not the cherry-picked one that formed the basis of the penal code. June 2009, in the town of Sara in Jigawa State, a mob descended on a police station and burnt it down for failure of the police to hand over a fleeing man that sought refuge there. They claimed he had blasphemed against the holy prophet. October 2007, Shehu Sani’s book The Phantom Crescent satirising sharia leaders, lawyers, judges, and Hisbah (their police officers) was banned in Kaduna by the Upper Sharia Court. In February 2006, the extremists took to the streets of Maiduguri over the Danish cartoons; 16 people were killed including Rev Fr. Matthew Gajere who was helping his altar boys escape when the siege began. They didn’t know why they were rioting; they were just told to go into the streets by their sponsors. And so they chose their usual targets: non-indigenes, non-Muslims but no Danish nor European.
This is from The Punch newspaper of March 22, 2007: “Muslim pupils at a secondary school in Gandu, Gombe State, beat a teacher to death after accusing her of desecrating the Koran… The teacher, Oluwatoyin Olusesan, a Christian, was invigilating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the Government Day Secondary School, Gandu when the incident occurred… the teacher suspected that a foul play was about to take place when one of the students wanted to come in with his books to the exam hall. The teacher collected the books and threw them outside, unknown to her, there was a copy of the Holy Koran among the books. The principal said before they knew what was happening, the students had started chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Great). All efforts to control the rampaging students proved abortive even when the school principal, Mohammed Sadiq, tried to protect the teacher in his office. The principal was also terribly beaten and injured while they set the teacher’s car, three classes, the school’s clinic, administrative block and library on fire.” Note: these happened during their Islamic Religious Knowledge examination. Well, maybe they did not know like everybody else that Islam is a religion of peace.
In the state that eventually became the epicentre of Boko Haram; during the January 2001 lunar eclipse in Borno, Muslims youth began a rampage destroying hotels, bars and brothels blaming them for the cause of the eclipse. In September 2001, Governor Yerima Sani forbade women to come out and cheer President Obasanjo on his official visit to his state because according to sharia, women and men should not mix freely in public. The women refused. In October 2001 in Sokoto, Safiya Hussaini was sentenced to stoning to death for adultery by Judge Mohammed Bello Sanyinlawal while acquitting the 60-year-old Yahaya Abubakar who impregnated her. After sustained international pressure, Safiya was acquitted a year later and made honorary citizen of Rome. Sokoto Governor Attahiru Bafarawa and Zamfara’s Ahmed Sani condemned the honour with the latter adding, it was act of proselytisation. It was the turn of Amina Lawal in March 2002. She was sentenced to public stoning for getting pregnant outside wedlock in Katsina. In 1998, Muslims youth like the Taliban that can’t get use to the compromises of tolerance and diversity, invaded the Olofa’s palace and razed down the shrine of Moremi, a traditional goddess in Offa. December 1994 in Kano city, Gideon Akaluka, a trader, was beheaded and paraded danse macabre because his wife desecrated the Koran. In February 1989, death to Wole Soyinka posters were carried around during Zaria riots because he defended Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, urged artists to launch their own creative jihad against the Iranian Ayatollahs, and called on civilised nations to expel Iranian diplomats from their territories. And then the Maitatsine massacre in December 1980 in Kano  –the bloodiest single massacre in the nation’s history. 4,177 lives were lost, 8,712 received various degrees of injuries. As usual, there were no convictions.
To continue with the tradition of no conviction, less than two weeks after the bombing of the UN headquarters in Abuja, the governor of Kano State,  Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ordered 20 members of Boko Haram released as part of celebrations of the end of the holy month of fasting. Vanguard Newspaper of August 30, 2011 quotes him: “As a government, we consider all Islamic and Christian religious sects the same. It is the duty of government to embrace all religious groups toward peaceful coexistence among citizens.”
• Damola Awoyokun is a writer and historian. Follow me at @osoronga


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Bros, you're obviously either very young or not very educated. No need to be so embittered.

The point is that as a taxpayer, I have every right to question the conduct of the military (I hope I have increased your education by a notch?) and the military are accountable to all Nigerians! So, my dear, I have the right!

Secondly, no one joins the military by fiat or compulsion! It's voluntary!!! It's a job description!! I do my own work to the best of my ability, and I am constantly looking for how to improve my service either through training or experience; the military should be about professionalism and consistent improvement, not the rabble rousing and crude bunch you are trying to portray them to be! I personally know some highly qualified and dependable officers who espouse this consistent improvement mantra! Kudos to the military for jobs well done, and for the sacrifice!

Now, as a final response, I contribute a lot to the system; if nothing else, my taxes for the past 15 years of working have been paid promptly! Lol! I won't join issues with you any longer, and wish you luck with your kind of thinking!

shadowgwalker:
stop trying to twist it!!! why come online and start Yaning rust about the job of the military endangering their lives for your own safety?are you this ungrateful?why don't you join the military so that you know what really goes on there?
who gives you the right to document or judge their job when you have no idea on what happens over here?now, in what way have you improved the system?

Read through my comments, Mr.Rebel hater! I utterly detest Boko Haram and what they stand for; however, I can't stand for inhumanity or evil perpetrated on people who could be innocent for all we know! Pray to never be a victim of false accusation...Many innocents have been victims! Whereas I understand why the military used such crude methods, yet robust discussions can whip up the right sentiments for future improvement!

There is something known as lessons-learnt documentation! It is not used to witch-hunt, but to improve the system and ensure that future efforts are improved, and more efficient!

shadowgwalker:
people like you are the ones giving the rebels morales.
take your time or you die in the act.

People like you are the reason why Nigeria is a Banana Republic! I am ashamed at your reasoning!

shadowgwalker:
this OP is so lame! I pray the law haunts you down and take you in for questioning.
-are you trying to say the military should be like a painter, carefully carving out piece of land where to perform?
- you've not even understood the power of an army, it's like a monkey playing in a power-house, it could get burnt and there will be nobody to blame.
- the pride of a nation is the military arms, hit one and you cause disaster, attack a soldier and you will be marked as a threat. you think the military job is police job that's why you upload rubbish online and expect people to follow your ways of thoughts. guy you are dull!deal with it.

@ayindejimmy, what you just highlighted is an institutional error committed by our leaders (past to present)! Although the best trained armies have collateral damages, our institutions have failed to hold up the right values as the banners of democracy! So, in reality, the blame is not for the soldiers alone...or for this government alone! The government of today is certainly dealing with institutionalised brigandage, cruelty and utter regard for the right of citizens, even though my opinion is that they seem helpless and have achieved nothing in this regard! Even our politicians are bullies, exhibiting the same devil-may-care attitude!! It's a vicious circle, and strong leadership is needed to curb it's momentum!

ayindejimmy:
First, we Nigerians know our soldies . We see the way they act on the streets. The question is ...are our soldiers trained to minimise the incidents fr situations of collateral damage? An error is different from when something is deliberate.
This was what got us here in the first place ...when the police killed the leader of Bh and his in law without prosecution. Thats was how someone like Shekau was able to take power and have his way.

It certainly does @tit!! I know that towns like Konduga and Bama are almost 100 percent Muslims! In fact, in Konduga, churches are not allowed!! This was more than 10 years before the full blown Boko Haram issue!

I remember being stoned during a polio immunisation exercise because a cleric told local folks that we were agents of the West armed with drugs to sterilise their male folk, and prevent future childbirth and consequently, advancement of their community!! In that time an age, I was amazed at the simplistic thinking and the sheer venom of hatred against anything seen as anti-islam! We even heard of parents murdering their own children over a religious infarction!!!

tit:
About 1960, the NE was 65% pagan, 30% Christian and 5% Muslim.
It looks like all that has changed now.
But I wonder if this plays a part in the civilian jtf targeted killings?

I totally agree with this submission!!
We understand why the army did it, but it does not excuse the moral questions it poses, as well as the criminality it encourages! Government must investigate and clean house, but should view reports in the context of the Nigerian situation. No collateral damage is right, no matter the extenuating circumstances, simply because no taking of human life is right!

Jbenue:
@ q
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LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE.

What the army is doing is wrong and immoral, it can happened to you aswell. Indiscriminate killing is does not help in a situation like this, certainly it is the easier route to take but what will the long term consequences be for perpetrator and victim?

You hit the nail on the head! I couldn't have put it better! That is what I have been trying to tell @Jbenue!!

quid:
Boko haram mingles with the civilian population and conducts unconventional warfare. There is really no "book" method suitable for countering such a group. It is either the innocent civilians give out info or they all just endure strong treatment by soldiers.]

Lol! If wishes were horses!! See, @Jbenue, I am partly from the Northeast, and have lived in some of the areas controlled by Boko Haram! I know the level of religious intolerance in those areas, the distrust for government, and the acceptance of fatality by many in those parts! People would shield those who killed their people in those parts, basically because they have extended families and fear further reprisals and, for some, because they either tacitly support the cause or/and they won't go openly against anything viewed as anti-islam!!!

Your suggestion is simplistic and won't work!! Human beings are a complex group, and when you mix religion and tribal flavours into the fray, you get strange, disturbing and unpredictable results!

Jbenue:
You have answered your own question, Boko Haram is killing indiscriminately muslims and christians alike so why not build on the inevitable resentment that this will foster in the community. No one wants to shield the man that killed his son,brother, father etc....But If you go in and pick up exactly where BK left of then You are just driving these disenfranchised people into the hands of BK.


Oh and it wasnt my intention to luanch a personal attack, you just seemed desensitized to the situation.

I totally agree with you; however, it is important to also note the source of a leader's strength! If it is hinged on certain individuals, it is called "leadership by abdication"! It is still leadership, but in management circles, it is regarded as a weak and ineffectual style of leadership!

afolag:
I guess somebody don't understand the full definition of leadership and it xteristics.
So all the blames put on jonathan now isn't his fault?. Look let the sleeping dog lie down well, if electricity and water start functioning well in this country. Pastor T.B joshua will not be praised for seeing the vision, nor will the manager of PHCN and WATER COPERATION will be praised, all goes to the president for creating the enabling environment. when you collected 10naira change from fuel film trick na allison u dey praise?

Too much fuss and suspicion over this card readers! Nothing should truncate this election or our democracy! We must vote!!!

Even though I don't trust either party, I don't think this information is correct! APC won't go to this length...