I strongly believe that there is nothing wrong in people migrating within Nigeria, but if you Wang to become an indigene of a place, you should be ready to be fully integrated. Igbo wants to continue with their culture and want become indigenous to a new place, never, it won't work.
If you want become part of us, start by being fully integrated, then, we can trust you. You can't become and indigene of a place and displace their culture. There will never be an Igbo man from any state outside 5 SE state.
I think DSS needs to start picking some of you up. Shebi, you lack home training, by the time yiu realise that all these nonsense you guys are posting can put you in a real messy situation, your head go correct.
RichDad25: Tinubu is an illegitimate, He shouldn't interfere with Niger Politics
Can you tell us what happend before you take your life? Please tell us what happened.
Meektunz: The next 30minutes is my last on Earth, I've decided to end it all.... Something terrible happended to me which is all my fault.... May God have mercy on me.
You made alot of sense, I think you should create another thread for this. I have some practical suggestions that can help SW to tame this nonsense
FreeStuffsNG: Talk is cheap. The most peaceful way to resolve it is the law of reciprocity by collaboration. Igbo should not cheat Yoruba and Yoruba should not cheat Igbos.
LAGOS GUBER & PLIGHT OF IGBOS: Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution
Background
For weeks leading to the elections till now, I notice a profound tension and apprehension from the majority section of Igbo who do not respect and appreciate the warm reception they enjoy in Lagos. Please note that a minority of Igbo in Lagos are not part of the unappreciative tendencies fuelling the hostility the Yoruba now have against the Igbo in Lagos.
Since 1999, Lagos state government from under Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (1999-2007) till date has been giving free education , free health and employment to our Igbo visitors in Lagos like the Yoruba natives since we are all Nigerians.
This is no longer sustainable without reciprocity before it is too late as real danger looms.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Hero or Villian? If Asiwaju Tinubu is blamed for creating the root cause of this socio-political problem then he should be part of those to fix it. Fix it as soon as possible before a 'native warrior' character in the mould of then young Gani Adams, who was barely able to communicate in English, rise up among the Yoruba youths and do it violently like we experienced in the 90s that forced Igbo to flee Lagos in fear and the Idi Araba Hausa/OPC wars . That will be bloody option hanging like sword of Damocles over our heads. Hence, I want us to use reciprocity to solve the problem.
I recall that some Lagos indigenes and notable Yoruba leaders including late Dr Fredrick Fasheun, founder of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, protested then that the Yoruba who mostly suffered from the pre-1999 broken down Lagos ruined by bomb blasts, filth etc under poor management of successive military governments were not being prioritized in terms of rewards, economic opportunities and welfare needs but these leaders eventually yielded to Asiwaju's pleas that the benefits will go round and the Yoruba natives should exercise patience. . Today some of those who opposed the all- comers approach of Asiwaju Tinubu leading a subnational government believe that he was the one who shrank the chances for the natives. They blame Asiwaju for giving 'too much' of Lagos oppprtunities to the Igbo and giving less part of the opportunities to them who suffered most. They are angry today that Asiwaju Tinubu sacrificed their yearnings and future for his future presidential ambition. Some of those disappointed Yoruba are tendencies behind clamour for Yoruba nation. They no longer trust Tinubu and Nigeria.
Curiously, most of the Igbo who directly benefited from the free provisions made by Asiwaju Tinubu-led government and still benefitting from these policies sustained by subsequent Lagos governments turned out to be unappreciative and hate Asiwaju most.
They hate Asiwaju Tinubu. They hate his wife. They hate his children and they hate everything about him.
The kind of hate is unprecedented to the point the tension today is the fall out of it.
All the good gestures and liberal policies initiated by Asiwaju Tinubu have been retained by successful governors but are still not appreciated by majority of Igbo in Lagos who have daily influx into Lagos because they have heard of opportunities in Lagos. The competition is now getting more intense and the Lagos state government appear to be pretending that the problem is not real.
Every four years, these Igbo residents in Lagos deliberately gather to promote the politics of lies, hate and bigotry against the dorminant political interest of their Yoruba host. The 2023 the candidate they are backing lost again calls for a foresight on how to stop these deep hate for the Yoruba politics the Igbo in Lagos play.
What solution do I propose?
Law Of Reciprocity
Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution.
Let me explain.
Reading comments here and on social media, my conclusion is that anyone who attacks, insults , curses the Yoruba and notable Yoruba leaders is the one these majority of Igbo love.
From Rufai Oseni, former radio broadcaster and now Tv host on Arise Tv, is a Television station with a huge Igbo viewership , now to Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor, LP Gubernatorial candidate, who for years openly supported the proscribed IPOB group (linked to the coordinated arson in Lagos in 2020) and reportedly use derogatory words to insult and mock Yoruba and notable Yoruba leaders including Pastor Enoch.A. Adeboye, General Overseer, RCCG worldwide
Other Igbo folks online and offline are openly boasting that their main reason for suppporting LP is because Mr Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor, is one of them , raised to speak Igbo fluently like them and has an Igbo political godfather, Mr Peter Obi, former Anambra state Governor.
The Yoruba are livid and feel completely disrespected. A notable Yoruba leader, Ayo Fayose, former Governer of Ekiti state; described it as insensitive to the Yoruba for a party to present a candidate who can not speak Yoruba to govern a Yoruba state.
What he did not say openly is that the choice of a Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor who can not speak Yoruba is deliberate political mischief. Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor was selected by Igbo who do not speak or understand Yoruba as reward to him for being anti Yoruba and proscribed IPOB of Igbo extraction many believed worked for Mr Obi in the election votes from Igboland were allegedly rigged massively.
Igbo Insensitivity and Arrogance In Lagos.
The insensitive Igbo who derisively regard Lagos as a no man's land can not arrogantly claim to be the host of the Yoruba in their own land and enjoy the benefit of an entitled visitor in Lagos without the Yoruba having a single reciprocity from.the states of origin of these Igbo who mock and insult daily. It is a recipe for serious resentment of Igbo and anarchy by the Yoruba Lagos.
It is fair to adopt reciprocity as a Lagos state and Southwest policy so that all these bigotry and hatred these Igbo show for the Yoruba will reduce if not stop.
I have listened to a few vexed Yoruba and I heard why some stayed away from voting for Asiwaju is because they are angry with him, they believed he traded off the reciprocity in order to advance his personal political interest so they are demanding that if LASG give certain privileges to Igbo in Lagos there should be commensurate privilege given to Yoruba in Igboland too. Until this is done, the Yoruba will not stop feeling cheated and the bigotry and hatred caused by lack of gratitude on the part of some Igbo will not stop.
The Yoruba can be a Commissioner in Igboland too. A Femi should be able to move around to campaign to be Abia state governor like Mr Chinedu in Lagos too and you do not need to kill a fellow Igbo for celebrating the victory of a non-Igbo in Igboland.
Nobody does that to Igbo in Yorubaland. So reciprocity is a fair and just demand.
For 8 years, Mr El Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state kept Yoruba in his cabinet and extended free govt services to non Hausa. Such a state and its indigenes resident in Lagos are qualified for reciprocity in Lagos while states that are hostile to Yoruba and in fact, states without appointment for Yoruba should not recieve political appointments in Lagos .
States with indigenes in Lagos that do not hire and provide free heathcare and free education to Yoruba in their states too should not qualify for benefits of reciprocity. This should extend into streets naming, award of contracts, allocation of shops and hackney permits. These are finite oppprtunities and you must first give it the natives and whatever is left should meet the condition that the Igbo state give same opportunity to Yoruba in Igboland before we give it to Igbo in Yorubaland.
Only in Igbo states do we not have other tribes in their states exco,ministries etc. It is not a balanced relationship and I see reason in the complaint of the Yoruba who feel cheated.
Since democracy returned in 1999, Lagos has given a lot yet not even a single state in Igboland has ever appointed a Yoruba into their exco. It has to stop and reciprocity will stop it. Even property acquisition, especially a finite resource like land, should henceforth be scrutinized and rationed to demand reciprocity from the states of origin of the Igbo resident applicant and justice served.
Benefits
The benefits are too numerous and sustainable.
Jobs will be more abundant to the Yoruba natives at home and away from home.
This reciprocity policy will help provide jobs and social benefits to all Yoruba in other states especially if this policy of reciprocity is adopted by all the southwest states.
It will equally help draw mostly talents and less of lazy or criminal elements to the Southwest from the South East which in turn will help improve the economy of Yoruba states and Yoruba living outside SW, especially in Igboland.
The Yoruba need the jobs here at home too and those resident in Igboland should benefit from jobs in Igboland so that the same privileges the Igbo benefit here in Yorubaland their govts are giving with reciprocity to the Yoruba.
Our economy in SW will grow in leaps and bounds with the policy reciprocity.
The State Executive councils and state Houses of Assembly in the South West should fornulate an effecrive strategy and laws to domesticate the policy of reciprocity in their states like they did with the Amotekun law.
A more radical variant of this pragmatic policy was adopted and implemented by the Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Ibrahim Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto-led Northern Nigeria government in the 1st republic . It was very effective to quickly help Northern Nigeria ramp up human capacity and infrastructural development before the Premier's life was terminated violently on January 15, 1966.
Conclusion
Yoruba should not cheat Igbo and Igbo should not cheat Yoruba. Enough of this politics of lies, hate and bigotry every 4 years.
jahrule: The question should be who died at the lekki toll gate on that fateful day? Please list their names out to know if there was indeed a massacre. Emphasis should be those who died of the bullet wounds, and at the toll gate.
The question should be who died at the lekki toll gate on that fateful day? Please list their names out to know if there was indeed a massacre. Emphasis should be thise who died of the bullet wounds, and at the toll gate.
Yoruba should stop this their sophistication thing and embrace self preservation. I am sorry, they are taking you for a fool, and you would be insulted on every front if their candidate wins.
We need to make our brothers know that these people are only pretending to love us. As soon as their bigot Obi wins, they will start spitting those Yoruba that would foolishly vote for them. Obi won't win anyway.
E be like say na only you understand wetin dey go on here, it is another dubai strategy. It will fail Qquote author=airsaylongcome post=119560925]Well played PDP. Well played [/quote]
Don't bother, you won't get any reasonable answer, they are all dumb like thier principal. Imported inflation, export of employment, worsening economic conditions are what you get if that dullard ever gets to power. He is banking on his oratory prowess too get power because many people are dumb, and can not take thier time to dissec submissions from the presidential candiidates. They only folllow the crowd without asking questions
seunmsg: OP, let’s discuss this “groundbreaking” idea of Peter Obi that will finally rescue the economy of Nigeria.
The items on the import prohibition list includes rice through land borders), bagged cement, canned drinks, live and dead poultry products, vegetable oil, noodles, spaghetti, soap, footwear etc. These are items we are now producing substantially in Nigeria and as such, we don’t need to waste scarce forex on their importation.
Now that you guys are saying we should remove the restriction on the importation of these items, where exactly are we going to get forex to pay for these imports considering we are currently struggling to meet our import bills despite the restriction?
The higher taxes that will be imposed on these items will definitely be in Naira and as such, will add nothing to our forex. Even at that, the high taxes will be passed to the consumers thereby increasing the level of inflation. Again, Nigerians have a very high taste for foreign products as it depicts class and affluence. How will local producers of these items compete? When rice farmers and poultry owners start losing their market to imported products, what do you think will happen to the jobs in these sectors?
Check if the your maf sensor is connected or the wire that that connected cojld be testes for continnuity test.
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Olodo, how many seats did NCNC wins to make Zik form the government? Do you even know the place Zik won his seat from? Do you know how parliamentary system of Government works? Name the people that cross-carpeted and their parties. Some of you just make noise because your illiterate uncle lied to you without doing your due diligence
What are you talking about? Zik contested and won the majority and would have become the Western premier before the infamous cross carpeting. A Fulani was the first mayor of Enugu, so that unification has always been there. What we are talking about was the abolishing of semi autonomy the regions enjoyed before Gowon created 12 states.
fiizznation: God bless you for this. Everyday, Mr Obi just exposes himself as a very clueless person. I won't be surprised if he actually doesn't understand what he even tweeted. Developing countries have no business in contracting their economy. It doesn't even make any sense.
don't bother yourself too much, he graduated with a pass, and he is already exhibiting the class of his degree. Many Nigerian youth are dumb, they only follow who talk more. Once you are eloquent, most of them see you as been intelligent, especially when those dumb celebrities canvas or route for a candidate, most Nigerian youths won't take time to analyse or dissect what is being said. I have always picked holes whenever Obi speaks, but most people are carried away because he is acting smart by always quoting statistics, and regurgitates already known Nigeria problems without providing any clear-cut strategies on how to tackle them
adedayoa2: if it is a shithole then it is the residents that made it so, the government made the road accessible, citizens should stop spoiling their properties thinking it is the government they are doing.
don't mind the guy. Immediately I saw Ajegunle in his comment, I knew he was a clown. Go to Ajegunle, all their roads are good, the last time I went their, all the inner street we used to play as kids have all been tared
This is not good. She sonds like she was playing with someone very close to her, but her position does not permit such play outside. It is very unfortunate to say the least
May be I shouldn't as at bravest, I know we have a lot of warriors in the middle belt. Jukun from current Tarraba state. To middle belt actually disturb the Fulani jihadists.
What actually save them is because Fulani couldn't not conquer Yoruba. Had it been that Yoruba were conquered, the whole south would have gone by now. Igno and chest beating
PoloG: lol.. don't mind those guys.. then even get luck say fulani jihad no reach their side because of the river Niger wey separate them.. and also because the tiv defeat the fulani jihadists for benue.. By now, all of them for they speak fulfude
Ijaw are the bravest., igbos always show that ouook to cover their weakness, when you change am for them, they retreat. Where is Nnamdi Kanu leading from? Common illiterate Igboho is leading from the front,and not afraid of FG.
PoloG: Igbo people are not brave anything, they only chestbeat.. I know them very well.. The bravest tribe is either ijaw or Hausa...
What you term bravery is actually stupidity, the real brave and powerful people built empire.
Lelelalalele: 1. Igbo: Igbo, also called Ibo, people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speak Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Igbo may be grouped into the following main cultural divisions: northern, southern, western, eastern or Cross River, and northeastern. Before European colonization, the Igbo were not united as a single people but lived in autonomous local communities. By the mid-20th century, however, a sense of ethnic identity was strongly developed, and the Igbo-dominated Eastern region of Nigeria tried to unilaterally secede from Nigeria in 1967 as the independent nation of Biafra. By the turn of the 21st century, the Igbo numbered some 20 million. 2. Igala: Igala, also spelled Igara, a largely Muslim people of Nigeria, living on the left bank of the Niger River below its junction with the Benue River. Their language belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family. Their ruler, the ata, traditionally also governed two other groups, the Bassa Nge and the Bass Nkome, who live between the Igala and the Benue River.
Traditional Igala society was politically organized as a kingdom. Kings were divine and were surrounded by numerous taboos; they held elaborate courts attended by a host of officials and servants, many of them slaves and eunuchs. All divine kingdoms in Africa had customs that acted as checks on the power of the king. This included a custom in which the queen mother could chastise the king; she was the only individual who was able to do so under the taboo system.
The Igala have been primarily an agricultural people, growing a wide range of crops typical of the area, including yams, taro, pumpkins, squash, corn (maize), manioc, and peanuts (groundnuts). Palm oil and kernels have become significant as cash crops. 3. Fulani: Fulani, also called Peul or Fulbe, a primarily Muslim people scattered throughout many parts of West Africa, from Lake Chad, in the east, to the Atlantic coast. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, and Niger. The Fulani language, known as Fula, is classified within the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. 4. Kanuri: Kanuri, African people, the dominant element of the population of Bornu state in northeastern Nigeria and also found in large numbers in southeastern Niger. The Kanuri language is classified as belonging to the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan family. 5. Bini: Edo, also called Bini, people of southern Nigeria who speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Edo numbered about 3.8 million at the turn of the 21st century. Their territory is west of the Niger River and extends from hilly country in the north to swamps in the Niger Delta. Edo is also the vernacular name for Benin City, the centre of the Benin kingdom, which flourished from the 14th to the 17th century. Source: Britannica..
You are very smart, I the secessionists plans are working well for them. FG should be very careful by ignoring them, rather than using a force, which would never end well.
donbachi: FG should avoid anything dat will make oodua militia and ipob to form a coaliation militia against it..it will not end well.which may lead to symphaty from security personels on their tribes men/militias.
Politics / Re: State Of Origin Or State Of Residency by jahrule: 12:38pm On Aug 13, 2023 
