₦airaland Forum

Zetra:
but it's Buhari's duty to bring about grazing bill, forgetting that the herdsmen are just business people. So It's wrong to forceful input a law just to their favour into our constitution

meanwhile OBJ where is the over 16billion Naira you spent on pictures showed on NTA on power procurements in Nepa but on ground na desert we see

OBJ was spot on.
The Fulani have a right to engage in their pastime but equally have no right to damage other ppl's crops.
This was why he explained the existence of grazing grounds even as far back as during the colonial era - so that Fulani can live and let live.
Unfortunately, there have been so much encroachment into these grazing land by farm and other settlements over the years so that Fulani have been having less and less places to graze - leading the inevitable clash between them and farmers.
One of the ways to address this problem is to give the Fulani back some of their lost pastoral grounds by restoring some of the past grazing grounds - hence the proposed bill.
Its simple common sense.

mmsen:
You grossly underestimate the damage that northern Nigeria has done if you think that they are only responsible for 50% Nigeria's problems.

The moronic, poorly scripted constitution, the false federalism that Nigeria practices and all of its problems are as a result of Northern short-sighted stupidity.

Every terrible leader that has stolen power at Federal Government level has come from the North.

I suppose Agui Ironsi, the first leader to have stolen federal power and demolished our true federal system and nascent democracy in 1966 after the Igbo lead first military coup, must have come from the north.
If you should go back to that very point in our history, it would not be too difficult to identify who were truly the real cause of all our problems to date.

XaintJoel20:
Did you read the last part of the report? Even Buhari's daughter and her group thought it wish to contact the group before using the hash tag.
Some Years ago, a director was to do a movie featuring American rap star, 50Cent. He wanted to title the movie, after Chinua Achebe's ' Things Fall Apart' but knew the implication of doing that without the express permission of the copyright owner. He had to contact Achebe to seek his permission, but even with financial inducement running into millions, the bitter story is that Achebe refused. You may want to ask, is it not just a three words sentence? The truth is that the words did not fall from Heaven, somebody coined it and that makes it his/her property and should he protected.

On the contrary, you should revisit the said paragraph and show me where the report alleged the NGO tried to contact the group before using the hash tag.
However, I do concede that the NGO made several attempts to contact the group but only after the event, with the intention of offering them to be signatory to the accruable funded account.
Yes, I will also concede that this very last act may indeed lend credence to your allegation of plagiarism, however, this alone cannot be sufficient evidence or proof; unless of course the hashtag had been duly registered and protected for the exclusive use of the BBOG group.

Your example of Chinua Achebe proved existence of copyright protection which the BBOG group is yet to publicly come out to claim nor was it even inferred anywhere through out the whole report - merely your personal assumption.

gamargu:
The guy is a confirmed Nincompoop. He displays the typical arrogance of southerners always thinking northerners are inferior to them intellectually yet when we meet in school we always beat them.
Proudly fulani proudly arewa

True talk, part of their supposed educational prowess relies heavily on exam malpractice and certificate forgery; that explains why many of them display an intellect well below the face value of their certificates - typical example being GEJ and WIFE PEJ, so called PhD holders - LOL, somebody hold me before I choke on my kunu

XaintJoel20:
What is it with the Buharis and plagiarism? Her father plagiarized Obama's and Charles de Gaulle speech and now his daughter is infringing on the intellectual property of a group.


I know his blind followers will not see any wrongdoing in this, just as they didn't see his infamous "my wife belongs to my kitchen, living room and other room" speech as verbal mishap.

How is the hash-tag (#) a registered trade mark or reserved for the exclusive use of BBOG organisation at the exclusion of everyone else; if not, how then does that amount to plagiarism?

Unchained mad dog, that was how he claimed Aisha Buhari could travel to America because she was the one indicted in the Halliburton scandal -till she went there and finally shut his stinking mouth.

infohenry:
Keep deceiving yourself, not long ago you, your ex and your daughters were disgracing yourselves all over the internet but to shade buhari who is his wife for 27yrs and still counting, you are now telling us how you love your wives. Shameless man who could not attend his daughter's wedding is forming responsible husband. #ihatehypocritism

Exactly, the foolish man is obviously playing to the gallery.
He is fishing for sympathy and admiration in order to re-invent himself, believing his exposed scandalous marital life have long been forgotten and no longer fresh in the public mind.

I remember how he was in a public spat with one Alhaji (somebody) who exposed how his wive(s) and daughters were being serviced by Aso Rock security details; while he was similarly busy with his own cocaine laced bed hopping exploits between Igbo legs.

In fact the expose' was so bad that one couldn't help feeling sorry and embarrassed for him.

If all his ex wives were so loving and fulfilling why then did he divorced them, why isn't he still married to them - who is he fooling?

saintkel:
If its not scholarship, dis Northern folks won't wana go to school. Trust me, dis students r average, d best in those school will come from d south but government will not train them or send them abroad all in d name of ethnicity n religion

What a very stupid comment based entirely on assumption; how do you know they are average students, where are your facts?
In the same vane, it wouldn't surprise me if most of them are intellectually better than you.
If not for stupidity, how would you blame the failure of your own (southern) state governments from sending her indigenes abroad for training on the basis of religion and ethnicity - what religion or tribe is preventing them?
You are clearly bitter and envious of the opportunity given to those northern students by their state government based on your hatred and bias against the region - instead why not go and work on your government to do the same or go jump into the nearest lagoon.

Teechawa:
SERIOUSLY! Make me understand then!!!
cHANGE INDEED....

No chance in hell; it would literally be like flogging a dead horse, can't see how any logic can penetrate such a thick skull.

asha80:
stereotyping of northerners is their own doing..a long list of senseless and mindless killings all over the years speaks for itself and unfortunately will still continue ( shias attacks these past few days is a testament).sorry not my fault

As usual, still exposing your stupidity.

asha80:
what is more shameful and idiotic is when you initially said southerners living in the north are the ones that usually incite the violence meted against them with their behaviour which is clearly a mischievous statement..i am not even against what the op has narrated..it is that thinking in your post I first referred to that I am countering

You are apparently even more foolish than I initially thought you were.
How can anyone, if not a pathetic slowpoke, translate the following statement to mean that southerners are usually the ones inciting the violence against them.

As the OP mentioned, the operative key word for southerners wishing to visit or stay especially in the Muslim north is RESPECT: respect for the religion and culture - sadly, there are some ppl known for their propensity to insult, disrespect as well as provoke who unfortunately may have been the cause of their own grief.

The key words and the most important difference between my statement and your stupid interpretation are SOME (mine) against USUALLY (yours) - a typical example of an educated illiterate without grasp of simple basic English comprehension.

The more you post the more you continue to expose your seemingly cretinous poor intelligence and dishonesty; which also continues to lend credence as why you and your ilk are a major problem to the unfortunate stereotyping of northerners.

asha80:
please spare me your story..i simply countered where you say the southerners in the north are usually the ones that bring those carnage northerners unleash on them..i gave the danish cartoon one you said why should I use only one..fine..what about 1953 Kano riot? Was is the southerners in Kano that caused that one too? What about sharia Kaduna riot in 2001?look don't allow me go memory lane those victims of those senseless riots have relations.

Apparently, you are not only intellectually lazy but also dishonest as well.

You are clearly lying to be claiming to be still responding to my penultimate post (which you already had); when in fact it can be seen you were evidently responding to the latter, in which I gave reasons behind the deliberate misinformation about northerners, among them the motivation to influence the northern voting pattern.
Your words, not mine:
how was the danish cartoon riots the fault of the people from other parts of the country?
What a bloody liar.

Yes go ahead with your threat and quote all the northern riots you can recall; such relatively few incidences would still and cannot not change the reality on the ground i.e. that northerners (as also adduced by the OP) are being misrepresented - much in the same manner you are also desperately trying to do, by taking the same paint brush to paint the majority based on a few bad minority examples amongst them.

By the same token, the same can be said for your ppl: one can equally cite all the communal clashes within the SE region and paint the Igbos as hostile against themselves; or cite the OSU cast system and say all Igbos are discriminatory even against themselves; similarly, the treatment of widows etc.

Once again: stop exposing your silly bigotry and dishonesty - it is quite shameful.

asha80:
you lack brains if you break this down to election voting pattern

You must either be intellectually lazy or deficient for completely missing the general message of my post and picking on only one among the multiple reasons given as cause for the apparent misconception of northerners by southerners - such narrow minded mentality as exhibited by you can only but give more credence to my earlier assertion.
You clearly need to revise your comprehension before becoming a source of further more embarrassment to yourself.

asha80:
how was the danish cartoon riots the fault of the people from other parts of the country?

Don't be silly, since when is it acceptable to take one or few of incidences relating to the actions of a minority to categorise the majority of a people.
The OP is correct: most of the stories you hear or read in the media are often exaggerated; the southern dominated media is known for its sensationalism as well as reporting stories from an unbalanced under researched/investigated perspective - often due sheer laziness and biased stereotyping.
Therefore, its not too difficult to understand why most southerners have a warped view of northerners, given the manner in which they are being misinformed - sometimes deliberately for political reasons, in order to stoke animosity between the north and south divide or to cause disaffection between the the Christian and Muslim north - so as to break up the northern voting pattern during elections.

joey150:
Trying to score cheap points for the north?

I can only agree with you if you choose ro remain there for a year after service.

Pray you don't be in the mix when another completely differnt eastern guy provoke them..your head is likely to follow when they run amok.

But still....there are still good people there. But its not all flowers and roses as you are trying to paint for us. To them you are like one foreigner so they still hold you in high regard.

Why would the OP be trying to score cheap points on behalf of a region he does not belong, what could be his motivation?
You sound disappointed that he did not tow the usual negative stereotype being perpetuated by sensationalization of a few (though true and unfortunate) incidences by the southern dominated media - against the reality on the ground.
FYI, there are many post NYSC southerners who had been absorbed by the organisations of their primary assignment (mostly state governments) and subsequently decided to settle in the north.
Though you may not necessarily have to believe me; however, I have been personally responsible for the employment of a few southerners (over 14 Igbos and 1 Yoruba) into my own state organisation - among them corpers and fresh applicants.

As the OP mentioned, the operative key word for southerners wishing to visit or stay especially in the Muslim north is RESPECT: respect for the religion and culture - sadly, there are some ppl known for their propensity to insult, disrespect as well as provoke who unfortunately may have been the cause of their own grief.

Collenshy2020:
Wow BiG Congrats, i thought a muslim lady can't get married to a christian, someone should clarify me on this please.

You are correct, its forbidden; its possible the family is only Muslim by name and its members not true practising ones.

Earth2Metahuman:
what is there to defend? Its obvious Aisha knows nothing about politics..

And instead of making his husband look weak and like an ediot, I would also suggest she stays in the kitchen.

Even if your husband is Hitler, you don't criticize him publicly.. That's how politics work.

Thank you my friend, well said.
The wailers who are criticising are doing so only out their usual habit to wail against anything about this president.
Most of them have not even stopped to analyse the implication of what Aisha Buhari is advocating for, which basically is: that the president should favour and reward only APC party loyalists who stood with him and worked towards his ascension to office, at the expense of the rest of Nigerians (in other words at the expense of the 5%ters i.e. wailers who didn't vote for him); against his stance the he belong to nobody and belongs to every body.

The wailers are as usual foolishly supporting a position that is quite counter productive and clearly against them - very ironic.

Teechawa:
Face the present matter and leave Prof. Wole Soyinka with PEJ out of this!

It seems you may have comprehension problems for that comment.

michelz:
Buhari really gaffed big time with that his statement. That statement should be the biggest hopeless statement ever made by a president in recent times. Imagine calling your wife of about 27 years a kitchen utensil and bedroom appliance before the whole world! Tufiakwa!

See as how you twisted the whole thing, lying without shame; pls where in his speech did he use or even remotely equated his wife with a utensil?
Could it be possible that you are confusing him with Wole Shoyinka, who described the former first lady PEJ as a mere domestic appendage?

LOL, Swag at its Best.

And more SWAG!

SWAG!

jaymejate:
Easy to make peace with your brothers than with a total stranger.
Gej was a stranger to them.
You're brothers.

Not surprised

Stop this lie; GEJ claimed they were his siblings.

clogogo:
Lol... The advantage are far more than the disAdvantages ... We can travel to other countries .. Without ur country if we divided, so it no big deal

Yes indeed, other countries like Southern Sudan - shey you understand.

ABEngine:
Thank you for the nice words, but having read through as advised i still maintain you are totally out of contest as regards to my response.

However i will gladly react to any meaningful and postive inputs you will make in the near future to either butress your points or dispute mine.

Point has already been made: Nigeria cannot achieve energy security if its supply lines remain vulnerable to attack and sabotage by concentrating its source in one area (i.e. the ND) - which is akin to putting all its eggs in one basket.
Anyone with common sense would understand why it is therefore strategic to also diversify the source of such resource, so that the country may not be held to ransom like in the current situation that we have with the NDA or in event of war or disaster that may impact on our supply infrastructure.
Hope that is now simple enough for you.

Degis:
when you wont go to school, how will you know that when your name is wrongly spelt on a document, it invalidates any content of the document, try your rubbish talk when you go to the bank to withdraw money on a name that does not look like your name and see whether the cashier will pay you

Typical of a one tracked mind that revolves only around money; my friend, what validates a document is your signature; besides, the case scenario of the bank against a letter from the presidency to the senate are not the same - but what do I know since according to you I did not go to school.

ABEngine:
Read again and amuse yourself even more.

What do you understand by the following words; prospecting, uncertainty, economic quantity or volumes, oil price glut?

Do you know there are confirmed prospects in the south waiting development? Do you also know that our onshore and swamp wells are not beyond 13000fts ? Have you ever heard of deep reach wells?

If yes, why not develop a region with such potentials rather than wildcatting to the tune of $340 million and some billions of Naira.

That money can change alot in the power sector as well as boost the diversification agenda in Agriculture.

You actually sound learned but I urge you to remain so throughout this convo

If you had any comprehension you wouldn't raise any of the issues you mentioned; since my post had already addressed them.
Evidently, since you are hard of understanding of the following key words used in my post: exploring, strategic reserves, energy security; then let me make it very simple for you: Ever heard of the saying 'putting all ones eggs in the same basket'? - hope you get it.

When will they give up on this line of propaganda on supposed Buhari's ill health?
They first created a fake laboratory report on his alleged prostate cancer, then later about his supposed leukaemia and now its Alzheimer - when will they ever stop.
I wish God Almighty returns the same those wishing upon Buhari these ailments - click like to answer Amen.

All I can see is a thread full of Wailers maturbating over an insignificant non-issue, as if such a typo would have changed the content or legal validity of the signed document.

nortcentrallord:
Who's money are you using to develop the imaginary oil wells in the north? You should be great full to the south for feeding you all these years. I am grateful to them even though am far away. Nigerians are suffering and such amount is spent on a wild goose chase. I will be happy for the north to find even little oil so we can practice true federalism. sanusi is shouting "oil is irrelevant in this Modern day world" who buhari is drilling al avail lands up north to find a pint of Sam oil. Who is fooling who?

The answer to your question is: Nigerian is money being used to develop the new found wells in the north just like Nigerian money was used to develop those in the south.
No! there is nothing imaginary about the oil find in the north except to those with literacy problems, who apparently cannot read the screaming headlines in front of them.
Yes, oil may now be losing its relevance but it doesn't meant it will completely lose its entire relevance even in the future.
That is why even oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia etc, with huge reserves have never stopped exploring for new finds to add to their strategic reserves and safeguard their energy security.

clogogo:
Finally you Northerners can leave us a long and build ur nations like Dubai rite ... I can't wait for a Life knowing that the northerners are our neighbouring country ..
Thank God for the announcement because I knew there was oil in the River basin before now.

Careful of what you are wishing for; because if it should happen, note that our borders may not necessarily be opened to neighbouring tourists or economic refugees - particularly of the Flatinoid kind.