₦airaland Forum

justsayemma: M not a fan of Tinubu,bt 1 questn I kip askin is hw many of our saint politicians would ve run Lagos state 4 months without fed alocation? I wuld ve lov d Op 2 also tel us hw many fg project has been completed in SW,b4 praisin GEJ

First of all, NA ONLY SW DEY NAIJA? Go to other states and see things yourself! He will still come to the SW. Other regions lack Federal presence and GEJ is correcting that. In the SW, Omotosho power plant is working. That, I commend GEJ for.

karl max: for the fact that this is coming from a GEJ critic on nairaland is a wellcome developement.I would have loved u mentioned a thing or too about the ongoing remodelling of the MMA.

MMA is still bad but manageable! GEJ has really tried! I passed through Omotosho power plant and I see people working! It is really a pleasant scenery.

ITbomb: See this man o, Wetin u get , u no know say kidnappers get choice for kidnappee. Na ur type dem dey waste money buy food for but u no get anybody to come pay ur ransom

ROMFL!

First of all, I must say, KUDOS to GEJ and PHNC. The Power Supply situation in Nigeria has greatly improved. At least, you get 16-20 hours of constant POWER SUPPLY which is unusual and welcomed considering how it was during my last visit to Nigeria (YEARS back).

Concerning Lagos state:

Lagos state has GREATLY IMPROVED. The traffic lights (most people adhere to it but you trust Lagosians, a few, especially the Okadas and Danfos break the lights), Lasma guys enforcing the law (I see everyone with their seat-belts strapped on, no answering of calls etc), the street sweepers cleaning every nook and cranny (God bless and reward them abundantly), BRT functioning well within their designated lanes, the RRS and ambulance (Rapid Response Squad) vehicles and personnel stationed at strategic places all over the state, monuments (eg Lekki-Ikoyi bridge. The first suspension bridge in West Africa is almost completed. I saw the bridge myself and felt a sense of pride being a Nigerian), parks (eg Oshodi looks good now compared to 10 yrs back), the dump site and recycle center at Ikeji (I think Alausa)- and before I forget, the roads repair personnel cannot be left out. They work day in and out to ensure smoother roads (I see them alot in different places with their trucks parked and the guys repair the little pot-holes with bitumen and granite), although most roads in the states are still VERY bad.

Indeed, Governor Fashola has tried! He has tried compared to other states. I traveled round with the exception of the SE and most of the SS (cause of the kidnapping situation). I also could not visit Delta state but I stayed in Edo state for a while (I really enjoyed it! To my Edo brothers, ere gue! ) and to be honest, Governor Oshiomole really tried on Ring road and its environs but the rest is not praise worthy but the people of the state love him (He is better than the Igbinedions)-more can be done in the state. As for other states (Most of the NC, SW, NW; , all I can do is SMH!!!! . Only Ogun state and a few towns in Oyo state tried)

Back to Fashola,

My dear Fashola fans, FASHOLA CAN DO MORE.

1) Most of the roads are TERRIBLE! Iyana paja, Mushin, Apapa/Wharf etc are in VERY TERRIBLE STATES! Haba!!! What is he doing? He has tried, YES but more can definitely be done!

2) The LASMA guys are thieves! How can one know whether a road allows one-way traffic or two-ways. Yes, there are sign boards before you enter some very few roads but MOST are without sign boards.

3) The money collected in Lekki is just absurd! 300N just to enter Lekki and come out?! Haba, that's too much!

4) The "thieving" Ojuyobo (Tinubu) has virtually owned the whole Lagos state and indeed, most of the SW except Ondo where MIMIKO will DEFINITELY WIN (I spent some time there and I know how the people feel)!

Fashola has tried but more can certainly be done!

I was in Ikeja today. The station does exist (just before you see the automedics). Guys in Lasgidi, you all should tune in to 96.1 FM to know the traffic situation in Lagos. I have been doing that (it's actually the driver) for the few weeks I have been in Nigeria.

Awake9ja: I don't like it when people that knew the truth turns around and do otherwise.
Edwin Clark makes the most point here. Though he agreed with obi and went ahead to straight things more.

Looking carefully in this discussion one may notice that all yorubas here supports fashola?
All ibos in here supports obi?

So where do we think minorities shall stand to avoid been bias?

We still have a cold tribalism we are trying to avoid, only that insults has not start raining here and there although two yoruba guys has tried hiting ibos and hausa already.

Dude, I have followed your post for a while. YOU ARE NOT A MINORITY, YOU ARE IGBO!

By CHARLES ADINGUPU.

The continuing perceived marginalisation of the Igbos should be blamed on the people. The National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shittima declared that Professor Achebe’s recent publication, ‘There was a Country,’ at this time, is a further threat to a country like Nigeria that is bogged down with imminent disintegration.

It was not only Chief Obafemi Awolowo who initiated policies that led to the victory of federal army. It was a collective effort. However, Awolowo did what he had to do to ensure victory for Nigeria’s troop. Besides, Chief Awolowo was more interested in the unity of the country. In a war situation, truly, anything goes. Nobody should blame Chief Awolowo for the action he took.

I’m surprise that such a reaction is coming from an intellectual like Professor Chinua Achebe, particularly at this time when the nation is facing imminent disintegration signs. Such issue would have been raised long time ago, but not now. We should rather concentrate on how to build a united nation.

Although, it is true that the Igbos have not been properly integrated into the Nigerian state but the problem lies with the Igbos themselves. They should be united with themselves just like you have the people of the Niger Delta region. Their long years of agitations have started yielding fruits.

I personally don’t believe that any group should be treated as second class citizens in a country that belongs to all of us. Hence, the Igbos should take their destiny in their own hands and stop trading blame over who is responsible for their political stagnation.

Also, there might be some element of truth that the effect of the civil was has not made the Igbos to take a shot at the presidency. I do know that some ethnic groups still nurse the fear that if the Igbos are allow to rule Nigeria that may hasten their secession agenda. This fear is held by people from my area.

This not withstanding, the Igbos must learn to work with other ethnic groups to realise their presidential aspiration rather than building enemies across the Niger. Afterall, Nigeria belongs to everybody and the presidency is not the exclusive reserve of any ethnic group.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/awolowo-believes-in-one-nigeria-shettima/

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE

UMBRELLA body of Igbo living in Lagos, the Ndigbo Lagos, has described as unnecessary the flickering controversies trailing Professor Chinua Achebe’s comments in his new book, “There was a country,” that late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was part of General Yakubu Gowon’s cabinet that initiated pogrom and genocide as a policy that killed millions of Igbos especially children during the civil war.

At a time Igbo and Yoruba leaders of the South-East and South-West as well as their counterparts in the South-South were forging an alliance and hammering out solutions to the country’s protracted socio-economic, political and developmental problems, the Professor Anya O. Anya-led group said what was needed now was sustaining the unfolding harmonious relations between the Igbo and Yoruba nations.

“Ndigbo Lagos deems the ongoing heated reactions to Elder statesman and world renowned writer, Prof Chinua Achebe’s personal chronicle of his experience during the civil war as being very unnecessary. The issue of what roles all actors on both sides played during the events leading to the unfortunate civil war and the prosecution of the war itself have for a long time been in the public space,” Ndigbo Lagos said in a statement by Chief Chuma Igwe, publicity secretary.

Noting that Chief Awolowo had spoken for himself in response to similar issue in 1983, Ndigbo Lagos said Awolowo’s response was enough to close the matter.

It said: “At this point in time the South-East, SouthSouth and South-West are in consultations working together for a better Nigeria to ensure that such a situation does not arise again. Ndigbo Lagos believes that the commendable quality of interpersonal relationship between Ndigbo and the Yoruba Nation should be sustained and translated into mutually beneficial political, social and cultural relationship for the progress of our country.

“The ongoing demand of the South-East for the creation of additional one state, the serious infrastructure deficit subsisting in our geopolitical zone and the Igbo Presidency project are areas Ndìgbo Lagos believes the South-West should come out with unequivocal support for the Ndigbo position.

“We should focus on how the two nations and indeed the entire South can cooperate to enthrone fairness, equity and justice in the Nigerian polity. That is the legacy we should aim at, moving forward.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/awolowo-achebe-controversy-unnecessary-ndigbo-lagos/

PDP is definitely the alternative.

Eko Ile: And the Nobel award for Literature goes to. Mo Yan from China.


Sorry Mr disgruntled , bitter, acrimonious, hate filled ashebe loser, you just lost again. Another failure to show that you are still mediocre and irrelevant to humanity. The world is moving on, nobody wanna keep reading your sad and pathetic tribal and hateful rants you call literature.


You can keep trying from your sad and lonely grave......

I'm speechless...

I just don't get what the big deal is with Igbos and Lagos. Fulanis were not allowed to enter Ogun state, everyone rejoiced. The same is carried out in Lagos state, you all are shouting like starving kids. Even if its a state directive, the same was carried out to people of other ethnic groups including Yorubas from other states and there were no complains but since its igbo, everyone must hear! You internet gangsters are just too noisy.

When elrufai deported some Hausas from the FCT, you all were ecstatic n shouted 'almajiris'. Please enjoy the policy. Anambra should please deport Lagosians too. Shikena!

Or you all think owning a property means indigenship? If that was the case, Fulanis should own more than half of Jos!
I wish my state can do something similar!

Abegi, Fashola carry go. Deport the JJCs and leave the Lagos Igbos alone, those ones are productive. The JJCs are the street hawkers, robbers etc... And please look into FESTAC Town, the crime wave (blood money n robbery as the case of Cynthia) there is on the rise and its almost Christmas, they need money to show off to there friends and family in the village!

Thanks Mr governor!

Smh....same old....

sbeezy8: Southern Nigerians are very DUMB- to think there is only oil inn Delta is quite foolish.

EVERY coastal state has Oil from Lagos - Cross river and Im sure a GOOD amount of Northern states do too.

But common sense

"Why would I SELL my Oil, when I can sell yours?"

99% of nairalanders are oblivious to that. I once posted a picture of TWO oil rigs in Lagos. I dare say, 95% of Southern states have COMMERCIALLY VIABLE OIL AND GAS.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g2tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B-kDAAAAIBAJ&dq=biafra%20lagos&pg=5339%2C2590839

I have had this argument with a few Niaralanders in the past. All denied the bombing of Lagos but on a particular thread I got the original link to the newspaper(1967) stating how three bombs were dropped. If Ojukwu had wanted allies, why did he bomb Lagos??


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qQZdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FloNAAAAIBAJ&dq=lagos%20bombed&pg=795%2C2201295

asha 80: i wonder what will happen when gej is no longer the president.

. . . and that's why they want Nigeria to break by 2015. . .

jidsoon: America’s Wall Street Journal today revealed the mind-boggling million dollar sums that the Nigerian government has been paying Niger Delta warlords to keep them off the oil pipelines in the past 12 months.



•Asari Dokubo
Mr. Dokubo Asari, the former warlord that first shot to national limelight collects $9million every year to keep his estimated 4000 soldiers at bay. ‘General’ Ateke Toms and ‘General‘ Ebikabowei Boyloaf Victor Ben collect $3.5million apiece while General Government Tompolo Ekpumopolo is the most priced of all: he gets $22.5 million yearly.

The newspaper said the figures were gotten from senior officials of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, which makes the payment direct to these warlords.

While Dokubo shrugged off the huge payment he receives, about N1.44 billion, as nothing unusual, there is the belief that the selective payments have bred some jealousy among other militants, not so rewarded, who in reaction continue to pillage Nigeria’s crude oil pipelines. Nigeria loses no less than 10 per cent of its crude production to oil thieves on prowl in the Niger Delta, despite the programme of pacification called the Amnesty Programme.

By Shell’s account, no less than 150,000 barrels of Nigeria’s production are stolen daily, a very low estimate in the eyes of many Niger Delta watchers.

The Wall Street Journal said in its report that government plans to spend $450 million on the amnesty programme this year alone, despite the increasing theft of crude in the region.

Said the respected journal: The gilded pacification campaign is offered up by the government as a success story. But others say the program, including a 2009 amnesty, has sent young men in Nigeria’s turbulent delta a different message: that militancy promises more rewards than risks.

For more please go to :http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577420160886588518.html



http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/08/22/how-jonathan-spoils-niger-delta-warlords/

GOD HELP THIS NATION! I might as well come back to Nigeria and take militancy as a profession.

ekt_bear: Currently, those items are "imported" from the north. What difference does it make if they are imported from the north or from Zimbabwe, or from Uzbekistan? Why does the latter = "doomed"?

Long time bro!

Not to sound big and all. I would have engaged you but as you might have noticed, I simply don't have the patience and time for long epistles. All I'll say is , " think about the highlighted." (I apologize if that sounded condescending).

kq: So here we are. I was discussing with a friend recently. She said something that bothered me and, I hope, should bother you too. She went to a Lagos market to buy foodstuff. She, being an economist, started comparing year-on-year price differences. The trend has been upward. She asked the seller why this is so. The market woman had her own explanation: the unrest in Northern Nigeria has been taking its toll on food prices. “No be today the thing start,” the woman told her. As my friend told me the story, an alarm went off in my head: with the unrelenting bombings and shootings, we may be heading for a food supply crisis as insecurity drives farmers out of business.

I have noticed a tendency among Southerners to disdainfully describe the terrorism challenge facing us today as purely “a problem of the North”. It may not be that simple. Last year, in the heat of the tomato crisis that hit Lagos markets, I did a snap survey among my colleagues at THISDAY. I asked a one-line question: “Did your wife make stew last weekend?” or “Did you make stew last weekend?” The instinctive response was laughter, followed by “Simon, you’ve started again o!” Then, a pause. A quick rethink. And then a different answer: “Wait, my wife said there was no tomato in the market, so she couldn’t make stew.” Some would say: “We used tin tomato. We don’t know what’s happening. They said it’s because of the crisis in Jos.”
My research motive was simple: to point out the important role of the North in the food supply chain. We normally take this for granted. If the crisis in the North gets out of hand, it is the whole of Nigeria that will suffer the consequences. But I can imagine someone snap at me: “Don’t worry, we’ll use petrodollars to import food when we break up.” Yes, anyone who has money can import, but any country that survives on importation of its staple food is doomed. We also seem to easily forget that the economic lives of ordinary people are being ruined by these terrorist activities. Cattle sellers were massacred the other day. When people can no longer go to their farms because of insecurity, how do they sustain their families? How do they send their children to school? How do they provide for their medical needs?
What are the implications for the North in particular and Nigeria in general?
Some Nigerians are so shallow-minded that they cannot even see the bigger picture of how interconnected and interrelated we human beings are. All they see is tribal marks. They only think in terms of North and South, Christian and Muslim, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo (and now Ijaw). The only thing that ever excites them is whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments. The solution to every problem, including husband and wife quarrels, is the balkanisation of Nigeria. On the other hand, you also have some opinion leaders up North who are playing the ostrich while the region is gradually being destroyed by terrorists. The only sense they can make out of this bloodbath is that it is Christians that are bombing churches and killing Christians. The only explanation they have to offer is that it is President Goodluck Jonathan that is behind the terrorist attacks. Some have even gone to the ridiculous extent of saying there is no Boko Haram.
How does this kind of mentality help? The North has been set back by decades. Livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being crippled. This is a region that desperately needs massive investment to be able to keep its head above water. By many development indicators, the North is behind: access to safe water, school enrolment, access to basic healthcare and general infrastructure. These areas require constant and concentrated injection of cash. Can you imagine then that the budgets are now being channelled into security because of terrorist activities? Meanwhile, how many investors would like to go to the North today? How many contractors would be eager to construct roads there? How many donors would feel safe to continue working in the region?
To those Northerners who are gloating that the terrorist attacks “serve Jonathan right”, I have a message for them: it is their land that is being ruined. Therefore, the rational thing to do now is work out how to stop this carnage, no matter who is behind it. I care little about the conspiracy theories. I care more about the solutions to the problem. Boko Haram leaders have come out time and again that they are behind these attacks. They released their mission statement the other day, saying: “In our struggle, we only kill government functionaries, security agents, Christians and anyone who pretends to be a Muslim but engage in assisting security agents to arrest us.” The pattern of attacks is consistent. Those who call themselves Northern elders must step in and stem this slide. Enough of politicking and grandstanding. The North is dying a slow death. The North is bleeding. Wise Northerners who have access to the Boko Haram hierarchy should do everything possible to stop this haemorrhage. It makes sense to preserve the North first and ask questions later. It is not about Jonathan.
And to those Southerners who harbour nothing but hate for the North and continue to gloat at this monumental misfortune ravaging the region, I have a message for them: if one part of the country is in turmoil, there cannot be stability in the system. Everybody is affected. Even a problem in a neighbouring country is a threat to us, much less on our territory. In fact, there are millions of Southerners up North whose livelihoods are being destroyed too. They are not doing the North any favour by living and working there; they went there for their own economic end. The Yoruba, Igbo and other Southern nationalities buying and selling and operating businesses in the North are not doing the North any favour.
They are there as economic beings. They too are adversely affected. If all the opportunities were in the South, no Southerner would go up North. It is therefore crass narrow-mindedness for anyone to gloat over this catastrophe rocking the North.
As I would forever argue, Boko Haram is a threat to all Muslims, Christians, atheists, Northerners, Southerners, foreigners, all! To reduce this huge problem to a regional or political issue is to miss the point entirely. We are all in this together. The earlier we realised this, the better.

Source: [url]http://www.africaeagle.com/2012/08/opinion-destruction-of-northern-nigeria.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Africaeagle+%28AfricaEagle%29[/url]

Where are the ones who say they go to the North to "develop" the North and not for "economic reasons?? Southerners have been killed since the 1950's yet we rush back there like chickens to be slaughtered. Abeg, go develop your region!!!! We southerners simply go there for economic reasons and if that's the case, why agitate for a split Sometimes, I think these Northerners are a lot smarter than the average Southerner.


Simon, thanks for a lovely write up!

And I repeat with confidence, WE ARE NOT JOINING BIAFRA!!! Go hang!

This One naira abi na noiseless, funny sha! Yes, I am ocelot and alj harem. I am shymexx and bittyend. I am chino and onye whatever.

Ode wey lack sense!!!! What a paraniod person. If only you know how stupidly paranoid your comments are....

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ocelot2006: Ok hold it right there, you bloody liar! 70% of Niger-Deltans are igbos?!! Haba!! Seriously you Biafran cheerleaders are so desperate to have us on your side. Why not tell the garbage you just spewed to the Ibibios, Annangs', Kalabaris, Urhobos, Ijaws, itsekiris, Efiks, etc. We have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in common culture-wise with the Igbos. So please zip it.

Absolutely NOTHING!!! No mind them.

WTF is a Temi, a Tosan etc doing in Biafra? I reject it IJN!!! Biafrans, na by force?!

The southern part of the country is divided over a proposed amendment to the 1999 Constitution, which will include an indigene clause.

Under the amendment, which is among the proposals that have been submitted to the National Assembly, any citizen of the country, who has lived in an area for 10 years, can claim to be an indigene of that area.

The amendment is also aimed at resolving the issue of settlers in some parts of the country, including Plateau State.

While the South-South has kicked against the proposal, the South-East describes it as a welcome development.

The South-West said the proposed amendment is not desirable.

Two Ijaw have argued that the indigene/settler clause would not work in the far North, where “the Hausa/Fulani are intolerant of Christians and southerners.”

Commenting on the proposal, the National Secretary of the Ijaw National Congress, Mr. Robinson Esite, on Thursday, condemned in strong terms those pushing for its inclusion in the constitution.

Esite said that those behind the indigenisation clause were not just sectional irredentists, but a group of fanatics.

He said indigenisation could not in any way be said to be a major problem confronting the country.

The INC secretary expressed the fear that the clause, if included in the constitution, could create widespread inter-ethnic violence and strife in the country rather than foster national integration.

He said it would be inconceivable to think that indigenisation would work without cultural assimilation.

He said the attitude of the northern Muslims and the fanaticism displayed by them would make it impossible for indigenisation to work.

He referred to the recent call by Boko Haram on President Goodluck Jonathan to embrace Islam or resign from office.

Esite said that it was the mentality of the Hausa/Fulani to attempt to impose their culture and religion on people whenever they were many in a particular location whether in the North or South, which would lead to crisis.

He said, “Indigenisation is not the problem of Nigeria. The problem of Nigeria is resource control.

“If you say a Hausa man is an indigene of Bayelsa by virtue of the fact that he has lived there for 10 years and the Bayelsa man who has lived in the North for 10 years is now being told to leave because of religion, then there is inequality and misapplication of the law.

“Then when you talk of indigenisation, you are talking about the culture of the people. A Hausa man who has lived in Bayelsa for example, does he assimilate the culture of the people? He wants to impose his culture, his religion on the people.

“That clause would be difficult to implement; when they are many are they not going to impose their culture on the indigenes because of the cultural and religious diversities in the county?

“Rather, it would result in ethnic clashes and communal strife. More so, the northerners are saying for a Christian to rule, he must embrace their religion. For a southerner to live among them for 10 years to be an indigene, he must be a Muslim against his wish.

“So, you can see that those pushing for this so -called indigenisation are sectional. They are religious fanatics. They should think about transforming the hearts of Nigerians. The only thing that would do that is transparency.”

Spokesperson for the Ijaw Republican Assembly, Ms. Annkio Briggs, said that the mere passing of a law would not translate a southerner living in the North to a northerner as there is more to the issue of indigenisation.

She said that even with such a law in place, it would be practically impossible for an Igbo man who hadlived almost all his life in the North and who is a Christian to become the governor of Zamfara or even Adamawa State.

She said that the clause on indigestion would culminate in the increase of inter-ethnic violence as had been shown already by the clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and their host communities.

She argued that indigenisation was not as important as resource ownership the right to freedom of worship.

Briggs said that the recurrent attacks on the people of the Middle Belt, the Igbo and other Christians in the North had shown clearly that the policy would not work.

She urged Nigerians to be conscious of the wide differences between the North and the South in the areas of religion, language, ethnicity and even education.

“You see, when laws are proposed, their relevance, the level of their usefulness is determined by how many millions of people would benefit from them.

“I don’t believe in passing a law that if an Igbo man has lived in Kano for 20 years, it means that he has become a Kano man and can run for the position of the governor of the state. How realistic, how feasible do you think that would be?

“I don’t believe that the issue of indigenisation is as important as resource ownership, and the right to religion. The other day, Boko Haram was calling on Jonathan to resign as President because he is not a Muslim.

“If for instance, that law comes into force, only the North will benefit.

“It will result in inter-ethnic violence. Look at the issue of cattle rearing, can you imagine what it is causing now? Can you imagine one Emeka Nwachukwu saying he is going to be governor of Zamfara, Kano or Adamawa?

“Even lesser things have led to inter-ethnic violence; Christians of the Middle Belt and the Igbo are targeted because of religion and different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

“The divide between the North and the South is huge in the area of language; education and religion and let us resolve some fundamental issues rather than our lawmakers concerning themselves with the issue of indigenisation. These things won’t work and we should stop pretending about it,” she said

Also, the Yoruba social-political organisation, Afenifere, said the indigenisation clause being proposed for inclusion in the nation’s constitution was unnecessary.

The General Secretary of the organisation, Chief Seinde Arogbofa, in an interview on Thursday in Akure, urged the lawmakers to forget about the idea because it would not work.

He said, “Why should we worry ourselves with such an idea which would only benefit some tribes and endanger the lives of other tribes in some hostile parts of the country.

“The clause cannot achieve any form of national unity and integration because there are lots of unresolved crises at hand in the country.

“The incessant bloody clashes between the Fulani and the Berom in Plateau State are caused by this same amendment being proposed in the constitution.

“The clause should be de-emphasised in the interest of peace.”

But the Ndigbo Unity Forum threw its weight behind the proposed constitution amendment.

The president of the forum, Mr. Augustine Chukwudum, told one of our correspondents in Onitsha on Thursday that the amendment, if it eventually sailed through, would resolve a lot of social and political misgivings in the country.

Chukwudum, who said the Igbo that had suffered tremendously from discrimination because of the non-indigene factor, would now feel free to contribute their full potential to the development of their host states.

He, however, said such amendment might not resolve isolated cases like the Plateau crises between the Berom indigenes and the settler Hausa/Fulani.

“The Plateau problem has a religious undertone, whose solution might not lie in the proposed constitutional amendment. Anything that has a religious undertone should be carefully resolved because of its sensitive nature,” he said.

Also, the ACF gave its nod for the inclusion of the indigene/settler clause in the proposed review of the nation’s constitution.

The forum argued that such statute provision in the nation’s book would not only foster unity, it would also give every Nigerian a sense of belonging.

The National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Mr. Anthony Sani, said, “ACF’s position on indigene/settler issue has been that all those born in a place should be indigenes of that place, since being born in a particular place is not a matter of choice.

“But there should be no dual indigeneship. ACF believes such a provision would promote national integration, since it would put to rest for good the controversy about who is an indigene and who is not an indigene.

“The controversy about who is an indigene and who is not may appear not pronounced in the southern part of the country. But it is not that southerners are friendlier and more accommodating than northerners. It has more to do with the fact that there are fewer settlers in the South.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/seast-swest-ssouth-divided-over-indigenesettler-clause/

safarigirl: on the contrary, Akwa-ibom would most likely end up in Biafra, they're closer to the East, especially the Anang. Akwa-Ibom and Delta state will be for Biafra, cos they mostly inter-marry with the Ibo, especially Abia, 7 in 10 families from these states marry with the Igbos.

Who has been deceiving you guys? Beaf? ROMFL!

ifechez: This halfwit, you asked why people would like to me igbo? yet fear dey catch u anytime u hear or read BIAFRA. Yet u dey shout of igbo expansionism and dominance. We are more than capable. why a non-igbo babe will readilly fall for an igbo guy is simply becos of his igbo symbolism. From onicha to aba to ph to kano to sokoto to lagos to ghana to port novo to togo to china to jakarta to korea to mozambique to zimbawea and even to ur cave village our igboness rings a bell.

You guys are funny mehn! Chai! Nairaland!

drnoel: The new traffic law is bullshit. How can fashola hope to enforce a law when he has not put infrastructions to aid the public obey the law. He has not build all the roads in lagos. Most of the roads are still at their sorry state. Besides how many traffic lights has he installed so far. More than 60% of raods the require traffic lights don´t have em and he is talking about fitting em with cameras. Is that not a mark of irresponsiblity. How does one count from 1 to 10 without calling 2,3,4 e.t.c or does one just jump to 40 while trying to count to 10. He may have good ideas but he is going about it the wrong. The said traffic law is not even in circulation yet or has anyone seen a copy yet or does he expect all lagosians to go in massess to the government house asking to see the new traffic law,..bullshit. How does one enact a law and expects it to be obeyed if the public do not know what the law comprises of and how to obey it...Fashiola is just irresponsible period.

I hope you know the difference between federal roads and state roads