₦airaland Forum

Eziachi:
Some people are just funny or just pure madness, always doing their best to divide Ndigbo, what do you understand by Igbanke? Base on your definition, it means then that Egbas or Ijebus are not Yorubas, Funtua people are not Hausa. Why not concentrate on reading others people's opinion than spewing out baseless stuff. One of the sons of those you are carving out from Ndigbo is now the new president of Ohaneze Ndigbo.

But I don't blame people like you, as some idiots among Igbos in Delta,Rivers and Cross River had said that they are not Igbos, that is their scheme of surviving the Nigeria cloudy political terrain, especially after the war.

sleek_p:
Babangida made Asaba capital of Delta state to satisfy his Ibo inlaws. Is this justice?

sleek_p:
The British lumped all of us together(and called it Nigeria) irrespective of our cultural differences, but why lump Igbos with minority peoples of the Delta? Why are people from Asaba and Agbor not with their cousins in the east? Too much injustice in Nigeria hence the constant skirmishes amongst tribes.

Mariu:
No, after I asked a friend of him who was in Nigeria to send me all the complete information about the hospital, address, phone number, etc, they just disappeared. He was comming to marry me !!!! can you believe that

Well, I learnt a lot and hopefully it won't happen again to me again.

Take care,

ow11:
So has the Government house in Asaba had an Igbo resident? Why don't you relax and face other things and leave s[b]omething as flimsy as the location of a state capital.[/b]

mazaje:
who is this self righteous hippocrite?

BabeX:
why?

udezue:
RedHotic

okay true even Igbo Yoruba get issues so do Deltans so why are u telling me to look up to Deltans when I know I can't win election in Delta because I am Igbo. Why are Urhobo people even Ijaw still mad as hell that Asaba be capital not Warri? To them Asaba no be core Delta yet I'm supposed to look up to them because they say Deltaaaaa. Were they saying Deltaaaa when Itsekiri were fighting Ijaw vs Urhobo?

hollandis:
I will blame Ibori ,obasanjo and many ethnic leaders in Delata.I am a true deltan ,son of the soil.In event after event ,the sad picture of a state under siege .
Sometimes I wonder if there is God in Nigeria

RedHotChic:
Delta state has itsekiris, Urhobos, Igbos, Ijaws etc in large groups but one thing I've noticed about them is that they tell you they are from Delta and they will only tell you their tribe when you seek further information. Americans do the same. They tell you I'm from Illinois, i'm from Oklahoma but my parents are from India or even Ney York. They represent their city and town before their ethnicity.


An attitude like that will reduce ethnic tension by almost half in Nigeria. I dream of the day when an igbo man born in Sokoto will tell you he is from sokoto without going further to explain his heritage. Like Deltans do, a yoruba man born and raised in umuahia will tell you he is from Abia before explaining his ethnic heritage. A day when every Nigerian shall have an equal opportunity in whatever state they were born irrespective of ethnic or racial origin. A day when a Fulani man will successfully run and become the governor of Osun State without ethnic rancor. I have that dream.

How and when can we achieve that? when shall we adopt the Delta example?. If Deltans can do it, why can't we all?

SeanT21:
No woman should ask her man for his hands into marriage.Its the man Job.Some things are better left to man!!

Plus if he says NO,That will scar us for life.We woman are Way too emotional!!

topup:
[color=#cc0066]That to me sounds like there was nothing in the relationship to begin with, if they want something else, surely they are not emotionally tied to you in the slightest, right?[/color]

topup:
[color=#cc0066] Yes, the best time to be single is when you are young, but he doesn't have to be single at all, I guess some people don't like being in a relationships, but I just think he had wandering eye syndrome, the grass always looks greener on the other side, for us singles, we can dance with whoever, kiss whoever, with only a little guilt, but he has to think about never being able to kiss another girl again.

I think that is what is daunting him, he is trying to control 'this urge' you guys talking about, how your body naturally wants to propagate and sow the seeds. . .

Hmmm[/color]

topup:
[color=#cc0066]Urm. . you might just have to be a lot more specific than that, don't get me wrong, useful advice and everything, but can you answer the question?

Thanks[/color]

JNdupu:
No diss but una don see the mansion wey Comrade "hala for front, chop for back" build for Abuja? Man weak small when them show me.

Good luck to Edo ipol oh but man no think say this "Comrade" go beta pass all una chop-chop governors to date.

blackspade:
Sad, but don't you think you're overreacting a bit by calling the riot a genocide?

JOS MAYHEM
How they killed our husband –Pregnant wives
From EBOMHIANA MUSA and PAUL ORUDE, Jos
Wednesday, December 3, 2008


•The pregnant wives with their children
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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Two pregnant housewives have recounted the chilling details of how their husband was brutally killed by rampaging youths who shot him and then burnt their house to ashes.

Hafsatu Mallam Muhammadu and Adama Muhammadu who said they narrowly escaped added that they watched helplessly as their husband died of gun shots in the neck at FOMWAN Hospital in Gangere where he was rushed to after he was shot and beaten to pulp.

The two distraught housewives, who spoke amidst tears to Daily Sun on Tuesday, four days after the sad incident, said they managed to escape without being able to carry any personal effects from their house in Tudun Wada area in Jos Metropolis as it was completely razed by rioters.

The senior wife, Hafsatu, 30, mother of five told Daily Sun, " I was in the house when the crisis started. My husband asked me to wait to see what was happening. I was scared. I wanted to run. He told me that I shouldn’t worry that there would be no problem. He didn’t know it was serious. Later, I jumped over the fence with my five children, even though I am four months pregnant."

Hafsatu said she and her five children went to one Liman’s house for safety. She said further, "My husband then went to the mosque and that was when he was shot in the neck."
Hafsatu, who is currently taking refuge at the Government Secondary School, Gangare along with her mate and thousands of other displaced persons, said efforts to save her husband’s life were in vain as he gave up few hours later.

Adama, the second wife of the deceased, escaped the same time with the senior wife and her children.
"It was a horrible experience," she said. "After we stayed at Liman’s house for a while, they came there and attacked again and we escaped. We trekked to Bukuru for hours for fear of being killed and to look for food. We were very hungry and tired. We had no where to run to. I am pregnant, my first, and it was a very difficult experinmce for me. My mate encouraged me to be strong, otherwise, I almost fainted," Adama added.

Adama said she was the one who alerted the other wife that it was dangerous to remain in the house.
She said, "I was waiting outside not too far from the mosque in my area when someone came and asked me to leave that it was not safe. I immediately went into the house to inform my mate."
Hafsat said they made their escape after waiting for their husband who had earlier gone to the mosque.
"When I didn’t see him, I was sacred. But news later came to us that he was shot in the neck. I was with him at the hospital but he couldnt speak and later he died.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Information, Comrade Nuhu Gagara, has confirmed that over 250 persons have been killed since the crisis erupted on Friday.
In an interview with Daily Sun in his office on Tuesday, Gagara said the state government has spent close to N80 million to take care of the victims who were displaced by the crisis.
He said food itmes, cloths, grains, drugs and other relief materials are being distributed daily among the displaced persons scattered in 20 different centres within Jos.

The commissioner disagreed with those who attributed the crisis to disagreement arising from the local election hled last week, noting that PDP was firmly on ground and had no oppostion in the state.
He said all the state EXCO members of the supposed main opposition party in the state, the AC, except the chairman have decamped to the PDP.
He, therefore, said there was no basis for any meaningful challenge or opposition against the dominace of the PDP.

However, officials of the Jamatul Nasiral Islam (JNI), highly disputed the figure being bandied by the state government.
As at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 17 fresh bodies in two different vans were being shifted out of the Jos Central mosque for mass burial.

Five corpes in military uniform were sighted under the Nassarawa Gwom bridge as passersby gathered to take a pathetic glimpse at them.
The state police Commissioner, Mr Samson V. Wudah in company of the AIG zone 4, Mr. Richard Chime, toild Daily Sun at the state police command that the police authorities were on top of the sitruation.

He said more enforcement (men and materials) were being deployed from neighbouring states to beef up security on ground.
They condemned what they called outrageous figures being published by foreign media.
Meanwhile, curfew is still in force in the metropolis, even as the banks remain shut. Customers who daily beiseige the banks are groaning as they find it impossible to access funds.
Except for few shops which are opened for business, activities in the city remain paralysed.

lucabrasi:
they are both stupid,especially that neo tirbalist buhari, they should lead with their families like others have said here and then their respective local governments and respective political parties after which nigerians will take the rear, for anyone in nigeria thinking of joining,remember abiola 93?after the deaths of nigerians who went to fight for mko,he turned round and said he didnt send anyone to fight