₦airaland Forum

babyfaceafrica:
how is this the worst place/road on earth.. you need to move around...just exaggerating upandawn...nansense

It might be an exaggeration, but he isn't far from the truth.

hakeem4:
It’s wet season so it would be difficult for construction of roads

Bridges and other heavy infrastructures are built across the ocean.




Raining season isn't an hindrance.

The road depicts how dirty the minds of our leaders are.




Sometimes I wonder why I was born in this direction of the equator.

hisexcellency34:
I thought Boko Haram has been technically defeated

Stale....Find a new line or better still, try to commend the efforts of the troops.

hisexcellency34:
I thought Boko Haram has been technically defeated

Stale.......Fine a new line or better still, try to commend the effort of the troops.

Obainoneandonly:
the Nigerian army knew dat they can't win d war,so they switched to anoda strategy,propaganda warfare. where are d bodies of d dead bokoboys or any evidence to ascertain their claims. they are all lies from the pit of hell. only the gullible will believe them

If the "propaganda will help them win the war so be it.


Do u think all casualties of war are meant for public consumption? Must u ask for pix before believing?

If u aren't satisfy with the story, just hold ur peace and be indifferent, rather than saying its a pure lie.

Jayslicky:
700 bokoharam men?
What kind of lie is this?

It's safe to say u don't believe the story, rather than saying its a pure lie.



What if its later confirmed?

kingzizzy:
You are wrong in the above you wrote. It is not difficult to teach history. What is difficult is is having the will to teach history because it exposes the truth which some people would rather hide.

The Aburi agreement, as it is some times called, had in it that Gowon would not change the structural composition of Nigeria unless the 4 regions of the time agreed that it would be changed. In other words, the 4 Regions would be kept and if Gowon was to change them, he would have to seek the consent of all 4 Military Governors of the time.

In May 1967, Gowon, without consultation and agreement as provided for in the Aburi agreement, issued a decree in which he announced the abolishment of the 4 Regions and creation of 12 states. This act violated the Aburi agreement led to the war.

The truth about it is that the North, having grabbed power through the military, wanted total control of Nigeria. The problem they had was that Nigeria was made up of 4 semi- autonomous Regions that was hard to control. They had to break up the Regions into smaller states and strip those states of the powers the Regions had .

What the North never bargained for was that Ojukwu and Igbos would rise up to fight this act to enslave them.

I learnt from Achebe's book(There Was A Country) that Gowon took that move to weaken secessionist sentiment when Ojukwu had made his intentions known. Gowon believed if he diced the four regions into states, Ojukwu will reconsider his stance. However, I will like to emphasized that Gowon did not reneged on the Aburi Accord agreement, he only delay the implementation of it for reasons I don't know. Ojukwu should have been patience, instead of leading millions into war.

FacelessKing:
Which letter?

Exemption letter.

kingzizzy:
The history of the civil war is out there for whoever is willing to put in the time and effort to get it. The internet has helped a lot.

It's not just about getting the Nigerian or Biafran side of the story but getting the story its self as transpired in the early 1960's.

The remote cause of the war

The fact that the British brought together the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo ethnic groupings without considering if all could co-exist along with their different ideological, cultural, traditional and religious differences. When three people with very different character traits are forced to live together under one roof, it wont be long before one of them will want to get out of the house or there will be a fight.

The immediate cause of the war

After the British left in 1960, the unworkable nature of Nigeria manifested its self. Political turmoil took over the place. Daily killings, attacks, strife and violence became the norm. A group of officers stepped in to end the madness and this led to a coup, counter coup, blame game, pogrom and genocide.

In a last ditch attempt to save Nigeria from total chaos, the military leaders of the 4 Reguons met in, Aburi, Ghana to find a solution. They reached an agreement and it was signed. The agreement basically gave the Regions more powers to police themselves and control their destiny. They all returned to Nigeria and for a little while, peace returned, until the federal government under General Gowon revoked the agreement without due consultation. Not only was the agreement revoked, Gowon also announced the abolishment of the 4 Regions. This was the needle that broke the camels back. In retaliation, the Eastern consultative assembly told the Military Governor of the East, Ojukwu, that since the federal government could not keep to the agreement that was signed, he should declare the Eastern Region a separate country. Ojukwu did that and the federal government declared war.


Wars are caused by disagreement and in the case of the Biafran/Nigeria war, it was caused by the federal government of Gowon not keeping to an agreement . It is to hide the fact that the Northern backed government of Gowon caused the war is why the history of the war is not taught in schools

With all due respect. From what I gathered, Gowon did not revoke the agreement, he only delayed it for what I believe to be political reason. Ojukwu became furious and inpatient, and decided to cease ties from Nigeria. That move is nothing, but an act of war. Well I am not say u are wrong and I am right or vice vasa. This only lay credence to my write-up that it will be difficult to teach this subject in schools.

FacelessKing:
It is quite sad that a country still subjects her citizens to a compulsory one year "national service".

Many loose their lives, many abducted.

I strongly believe this NYSC Should be Voluntary as it is practised in Ghana.

Bros e no day compulsory.

If u no wan go, u go collect letter.


Them no day force person.

laosy:
Not supporting Nigeria police oo, but one shouldn't resist police check and arrest... you cant try that in developed countries too, you will be pinned down

At least over there the police will obtain arrest warrant before arresting you.


Over here the reverse seem to be the case.

germanized:
How come no one was able to challenge those policemen?

Challenge them and get gun down.




This isn't Western world where highhandedness can be curtail.



Play safe ma friend.

The path way to freedom in Nigeria has been cut into two divide. Its either you are super rich or you are a uniform person.





Next time the young man should gently oblige them so as to avoid harassment or death.

And God said I have given him a name that is above every other name. That at the name of "Jesus" every kneel must bow (Philippians 2:9&10.

satan was smart enough to hide the true name of Christ that was given to him by his father(God) from a the world.


Satan knew that at the mention of that name, demons tremble, bow to their kneels and ultimately get subdue, so he hid the true name of Christ from the world.



Some of you would protest and say what is the true name of Christ.

The Hebrew pronunciation of Christ's true name is Yesua. In a bid to alter the true name of christ and deprive believers from the efficacy of the name, the name was translated from Yesua to Lesous by the Greeks, then later to Lisos by the Romans and subsequently to Jesus by the English.


I know this is hard to believe. Let us consider an analogy.
For instance let's say your name is Johnson and for some reason the Ibos translated it to Booson and the Yorubas translated it to Yooboo and the Hausas' translated it to Vooboo; ultimately your original name Johnson will go extinct in the nearest future.
Note: the translation of Christ name isn't in meaning, rather, it is in the pattern of pronunciation.



Ask yourself, why can't a mere word be pronounce the way it sounds? Even if it comes from a borrowed language it can still be pronounced the same way, though there might be some slight difference in terms of accent.


The truth and so many other truth has been hidden from the world. In due time God will reveal it to us all.

God bless!

wowcatty:
Here we go again! This issue has been flogged to death.
Just say you want to keep bringing it up cos you know it's all ibos fault borne out greed and criminal mindedness.

Let me me shrink it to the bottom line for you once more.

Yes, there will be another war in Nigeria but that will be war for freedom, Yorubaland must be free.

When the colonists left, they left us with the regional system of govt, the kind they have in the UK because we are different nations within Nigeria with different cultures and value system. But when fulani and ibos saw how developed Yorubaland was within a short time and the fact that Awolowo was fighting for the minorities in both the north and east to have their own regions, they teamed up to put Awolowo in prison. Fulani and ibos had the agreement to share Nigeria between both of them, but fulani didn't trust the ibos, so they reneged on the agreement and ibos got angry and carried out a coup fulani leaders including those of Yoruba who had nothing to do with their problem. Fulani youths mobilized and retaliated while Yoruba youths ran to Ghana.

Few ibos with money went to banks all over Nigeria and got their money out and ran back to their region, and still looted all foreign banks in their region, reason Awolowo changed naira.

Ibos stay put in their region and declared war after 1 year, Awolowo kept allowing food to get to biafra, but biafra soldiers were the ones eating everything while the civilians grew thin and were eating themselves. Biafra soldiers committed genocide against the people of midwest and got served when they got to Yorubaland proper, Yoruba had stayed clear of the fight between two best of friends, but could not allow ibos run over Yorubaland after an Italian pilot fighting on the wide of biafra bombed Lagos.

Ibos owe Nigeriam especially Yoruba an apology but ibos keep doubling down on stupidd and rubbing salt.

Will be back.

This info is new to me.
Do you think your narrative should be taught in schools?
I believe it will be inadmissible to many, especially the Igbos.

CyynthiaKiss:
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If I slap em....

In my time spent on social media, I have witness great controversies that ensued in the media space over the Nigeria/Biafra war. There have been rivalry from different quarters of the country in a bid to hang the blame on one tribe. Some political pundit believes the controversies is as a result of people being ill informed and they also suggested that if educated caution is not taken, what happened in Nigeria during the period of 1967 to 1970 is highly likely go to happen again. Some have advocated for the need of the Nigeria/Biafra war to be taught in schools. The bigger ask here is, whose account of the story about the war should be taught? is it that of the Biafrans or that of Nigerians?. I ask this questions because I have read the accounts of prominent Igbo figures, who were core witnesses of the war; in person of Chinue Achebe, Alexander Madiebo and other notable personalities of Igbo extraction. I have also had the fortune to hear some of the accounts of some Nigerian sympathizers and unfortunately the accounts from both quarters are in conflict with each other. The various account from both quarters, in my opinion are coloured with tribal sentiment or what sociologist call ethnocentrism. Some of the accounts from the international community are also coloured with political sentiment. UK for example, supported Nigeria during the war because of their interest in Nigeria and the West Africa sub region. France on the other hand, believed Biafrans had a justifiable reason to fight, even though they did not openly declare their support for Biafra for political reasons. Surprisingly, the United State were neutral during the war. Its safe to say they were passive with the truth and chose to stay on the fence, in order not "offend" any of the Waring party. This I can say, is also for political reasons. Since it seem impossible, or better still, difficult to get the truth of what transpired before, during and after the war from either Nigeria, Biafra or the international community, where do we seek the truth from?. This has become a burden to many a person because if we must teach the younger generation about the Nigeria/Biafra war, then we must teach nothing but the truth, in order for them to make informed decisions and avoid a reoccurrence of the bitter war. This is especially important, because the younger generation has started hating each other (tribal wise) and pointing accusing fingers at each other because of their half bake or half understood knowledge of the civil war. The burning question still remains, if we must teach the younger generation, where can the truth about the war be gotten from?. I will leave my readers to ponder over it.

Good move.......There is a limitation to everything.



FFK should be the first to be clap down.

He is nothing but a subtle war drummer.

Sanwo Olu should visit Lagos Badagary express road.


Somewhere along Abule Ado to Ojo barracks. He shouldn't be in Abuja giving platitudes.

yarimo:
FG should replace TINUBU'S picture with the man on # 500 note

U day find trouble ba?

post=79271468:
We thank God no life was lost.
That is d koko at this point.

Loss of national property isn't a concern to u?

Students hardly read.
Special centre has become a given.
It explains why we have so many half bake graduate that are unemployable.




Most of the students that couldn't meet the 200 cut off mark scored almost all A(s) in their various WAEC results. What an irony!



The standers should be maintained. The few hard working students that were able to score 200 should be given admission.

Enough of this unnecessary compromise of our educational standers, all in a bid to accommodate lazy students.

tayebest:
Rubbish!

it won't work. We've heard many from the past, infact there was a time jamb dare to peg cutoff mark to 120 for university, even private universities rejected the shiit. If this is what oloyede wants to reduce our admission status to, then let him use the exit door.


Many universities are still suffering about the blunder he made on scrapping PUTME in 2016. Many reason why those U16 head just dull anyhow since they were not screen before admission!

Oloyede is only acting at the behest of his principals in person of Malam Adamu Adamu and President Buhari. It's a shame our education is hitting the rocks.

I love pre weeding pix

Men aren't scarce as people presumed it to be. There is a strong relationship between late marriage and joblessness.
So many men of marriageable age are still single and unwilling to marry because of their economic status.




That young ladies problem is traceable to bad governance.

Offpoint1:
When he was useful to himself and society una no state pardon am, now that he's useless to himself and his society una dey release am.
If I were to be his son or daughter I'll sue the state government for releasing a liability to me. Let them feed him till death.

Nonsense state pardon.

lol....abeg no kill me with laugh.

etibaba:
Looks like business went well for the criminals in uniform.

lol...business indeed.

[nstead of me to read this paid eulogy shouldn't I be checking livescore or something more reasonable?

lol....Bart guy.

A sizable number of Nigerians, especially the kwara indigenes thinks diffidently. If he is astute as u claim, let him go make impact in the private sector.

Starz825:
Our ceremonial president

Liar

oluwasegun007:
Imagine he sneezed as he was serving that food...

Them go still shout sai baba.

Liar