₦airaland Forum

STFUand4kMeHARD:
This comes in reaction to the statements credited to President Muhammadu Buhari in the Nigerian Tribune of last week Friday in a story on Page 8 with the headline: Nigeria’s break up not possible, unthinkable. It was the report of the meeting he had the previous day with members of the Council of South-East Traditional Rulers at the State House, Abuja. But, sad to say, the President never said anything that could stop Igbo people from wanting to break away to establish their own country.
Earlier in the year, political leaders from the South-East were at Aso Villa to discuss the problems of their people and zone with the President. Like the Yoruba of the South-West and the ethnic groups in the South-South such as the Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio, Itsekiri, Urhobo and others, what the Igbo of the South-East want is the restructuring of the country. To this end, they are demanding for the number of states in the country to be reduced into six or eight regions or a return to the 12-state structure of 1967-1976 and changing from the presidential to the parliamentary system of the First Republic, so that, instead of a strong and overbearing central government, the regions or states would be largely autonomous and in charge of their economic resources, and only paying agreed taxes to the Federal Government, which will take care of matters like currency, postal services, security and foreign affairs.
For their part, the Igbo also want another state created in the South-East to make them have six as has been the case since 1996 with the South-West, South-South, North-Central and North-East. The North-West, to which Buhari belongs, has seven states. From the report in the Tribune, the President did not address any of these issues as all he told the Igbo monarchs was that he would extend the new railway system his government is planning to construct to their zone and that he had shown interest in the Igbo by appointing four of their people as ministers of five of the most important ministries, but which he did not identify.
For me, it is wrong for President Buhari to believe that God brought the ethnic groups in Nigeria together in 1914 for a purpose and that because of that the country cannot break up. Nigeria was not created by the Lord, but by the British government of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, the 24th in office who served from 1908 to 1916. The people brought together by God and who cannot break away are those in each tribe in the country, the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, etc., who have the same ancestors, were placed in the same area, speak the same language and have the same culture.
Just as such countries as the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Sudan, where people of different tribes were forcefully brought together by a strong military officer or monarch or a colonial power have broken up, Nigeria too can disintegrate in the nearest or distant future, if it is not restructured in time. That was why these four countries collapsed in the last 26 years. I was in Yugoslavia in July 1978, and the Soviet Union in August 1988, and the grumblings of the people were just like what we have had in Nigeria in recent years.
If Buhari is interested in restructuring the country, I believe he would have told the two delegations of the Igbo leaders whom he met with this year. If southerners want the President to take them seriously and act, the leaders of the South-West, South-South and South-East must come together and make joint demands, not by speaking separately as they have been doing. They must also liaise with their colleagues of the minority tribes in the North-East and North-Central, particularly the latter. The leaders of militant groups in the South-South, South-East and South-West should also act together and let Buhari know that they will not stop their agitations until he takes steps and presents a bill to the National Assembly on the restructuring of the country.
Indeed, restructuring and creating another state in the South-East should be campaign issues by southern leaders for the 2019 presidential poll. If Buhari does not act on it in the first quarter of next year the Yoruba in the All Progressives Congress (APC), who aided his emergence as the party’s candidate in 2014 and later winner in the presidential election last year, should dump him and get the people of the South-East and South-South to join them in voting for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa State in the North-East who has come out in support of restructuring of the country and has Yoruba and Igbo wives and can be trusted to keep his word.
Apart from his antecedents as a detribalised Nigerian, Atiku, as a highly successful businessman and former technocrat, will be a better manager of the nation’s economy and in finding solutions to our problems and creating tribal harmony than Buhari who so far has proven to be clueless and incapable of dealing with the nation’s economic challenges and plural ethnic composition. The country’s situation is more than fighting corruption. Atiku or any other acceptable northerner presented by the APC or the Peoples Democratic Party or another party should be the one southerners should vote for in 2019. Not Buhari whom I campaigned for in this column for three months for the 2011 poll and last year and voted for on both occasions, but who has let down myself and most Nigerians who voted for him last year. So, Nigeria needs leadership change in 2019.

Source:

http://sunnewsonline.com/buhari-nigerias-breakup-is-possible/

victorvezx:
Nice one. God bless the Nigerian Armed forces. Keep re-shaping their flat-heads, stu-pid rebellious elements!!!

bakry86:
Ever since FG informed us via the Npower's FB n twitter pages that npower programme would commence on December 1, d hope of getting December stipend by the selected volunteers was undoubtedly high. Today is 6th day of December and there's no clear evidence that selected unemployed graduate will start anytime soon.

Personally, I think d FG does nt want to employ people to be in charge of npower stuff, they only want to use LG workers without paying them for d service and they
are not ready to render free service. Some of d selected volunteers have visited their local govt with d hope of getting info on what next, only to be told by the LG staff that they have not
received any directive from Ogas at d top, except in Kogi State where the governor had been reported to have done the flag off for d programme.

NOW THE HOPE OF GETTING DECEMBER STIPEND SEEMS TO BE FADDING AWAY.

Can someone who knows someone who knows someone at the helm of npower affairs confirm to us if December pay will grace d bank account of the volunteers. Afterall we've filled in our account details as required.

thanks in anticipation.

dee02:
MASSOB in deep sh*t

SmartyPants:
No doubt the M16 is a superior weapon to the AK47 but not by that much. Especially looking at the figures you posted for range these have to be wrong. I think what you have posted there is the total range for the M16 vs the AK47's effective range. In reality AK47 rounds should generally travel well into kilometers but with a much shorter effective range, close to the figure you posted (200-300m). The M16 though better is not that much better and it's max effective range will be around 500m.

confirmed from this source: http://www.military-today.com/firearms/m16_vs_ak47.htm

ReubenE:

I guess our problem is bigger than I thought!
Whichever way, our security concern is now bigger than the AK, hence the call for change....

idupaul:
First for your info I know more about our military than you think.. so in your mind now you think you have more Nigerian Armed forces experience than me ? Don't make me laugh

dopedealer:
Bros a Tavor can release 1000bullets in a minute .

idupaul:
They will it's not the first time ...Didn't the Alphas and L39s come in as trainers .. before the end of the year they will be in the north east firing what ever machine gun came with them

idupaul:
And who is talking about the J17 ..is there currently any interceptor in Nigeria? Has the J17 arrived? I know your type quick to turn to insults since you have nothing in your head , learn to comprehend before talking.
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ReubenE:
M4 is far better than AK.
AK is old fashioned

mrvitalis:
Ok name a gun better than ak47

bettercreature:
Government should also buy some sophisticated guns for our soldiers,i always feels like crying any time i see our soldiers carrying AK 47 in 2016

Those who are mentioning me seriously need orientation,I wonder why you are stilll singing AK47 like AKON when it's out of arsenal of Russia that made it

We are talking about assault Riffles that can release 2000 bullets per min not AK 47 with just 60 bullets


AK 47 is only good for Arm Robbbers not battlefield

idupaul:
And Airforce that hasn't had an interceptor or air superiority craft since the sepecats yet you want want me to believe they use platforms for what they were meant for ..

prettyboi1989:
first of all m nt an idiot and in every way i have more sanity than u. Secondly what a frustrated soul u are u think coming online to lash out at strangers will get u ahead in life or solve the miserable challenges u face in ur home? did u get how to talk like this from ur parents? no sane person will call another an idiot just to pass a point across. it only makes u a lesser being.

idupaul:
Who doesn't know this plane will be used in combat in the NE in the coming days ..that's how we bought Alphas as primary jet trainers in the 80s and they turned raptors for our Airforce..if the Govt wanted a trainer they would have bought the MFI 17 Mushshak and not the Super Mushak which cost a lot more than the primary light trainer MFI 17

tdayof:
Sell arms to a nuclear armed country?

Nigerians and our arrogant behavior.

tdayof:
Bullshiit!!! That's is an awesome trainer!!!!!

Nairaland disgust me.

okikiosibodu:
My sister, I just skipped the introductory words at the beginning of the thread and went straight to look at pictures. After seeing the singe propeller powered engine, I had to scroll up to check out the topic of the thread again. I was expecting a turbine powered engine. It had better be for reconnaissance survey purpose (eventhough I think a drone is more cost effective) . And by the was if they need training aircrafts, I feel the Diamond aircrafts ( the likes of DA-40 and DA-42) would be cost effective on the long run
All is well.

idupaul:
The spitfire is a more complex plane than this please ..you cant compare both ..the spit fire machine gun could fire round in between its propeller and this contraption cant... See below image of the Supermarine spitfire and Mushshak ,it's clear the spit fire is far more complex in design , aerodynamics and performance

Edwinmason:
buhari preparing for his religious cleansing

RaeMystix:
That's because she's paranoid that she might lose her free ticket. Imagine this. She is your fiance, yet all she does is ask for money and fast food. What happens when you both get married?. Won't she continue with such attitude?. Oh perhaps you're thinking she would stop her behavior?.

She also might just be using you for money without the intention of marrying you. Her accepting your marriage proposal does not make it a guarantee that she would end up marrying you. Even until the wedding day.

Izen:
Lol, you've still not answered my question. If I'm providing for myself, what else will I gain from being married please? If we're being realistic, we would both agree that every relationship involves giving and taking at some point. So what will I have to gain from my husband if I'm taking care of myself by myself. Good d.I.c.k?
And when you say a man respects an empowered and level-headed woman, does it mean men don't appreciate the roles their mothers played in their lives besides finance? If they do, why then do they judge their mothers and potential wives differently? And does it also mean that men hate confident women? You know being confident and being proud can be easily misinterpreted as it usually is in most cases. And why is it okay for men to be confident but not women?
Finally, this is a personal question for you. Do you believe in gender roles?

gedtalks:
My people pleaseeee I need sincere advise here. Your advise will definitely guide me on the next step to take.

There is a beautiful girl I've been considering getting married to, but the way she requests money and fast food is making her look very ... lol.. "hungry" and opportunistic to me. The values she sees in a man seem to me like its basically what he will BUY for her. I confess that I made matters worse initially by "fast fooding" each time we meet... Now I think she sees me like a free lunch at crunchies. If I call her in the afternoon, she says I'm hungry.. its so irritating now.. in fact I lost a lot of regards for her..but she doesn't know yet.

Recently she asked me for some money and I refused very politely..she said she was "disappointed".

I wonder if she even loves any other thing about me asides the MONEY I WILL GIVE HER. she pays ABSOLUTELY NO attention the things I want her to see in me...like level of maturity, my leadership skills, I taught she was just being childish, but lately I discovered its just her nature. her ideology about a guy is WHAT WILL I GET FROM HIM.. I might dump her .. i wont even talk to her about it. please advise me

chrisxxx:
I did the same and exactly at the quoted time. I was building my house. I realised every morning somebody had come to defaecate inside the building under construction. This is ominous, taboo and abomination from the part of the world I come from. I shouted to people around it wouldn't stop. I wrote on the wall it would not stop. I used scarecrow, it was a human and not an animal that wouldn't not differentiate an animate object from inanimate, it continued.
When all efforts failed, I decided to grab the bull only by the horn. I started going there very early in the morning. Then come the D-day. I saw in my hiding someone walking into one of the rooms of the building. I had wanted to raise alarm but I remembered the man might say he wasn't there to defaecate. Good enough it was in same room I was. I had noticed this act had been prevalent in this room. In front of me the man pulled down his pant. I never made a move he might claim he only wanted to urinate. This is no offence. He bent down backing me. I never interfered. I allowed him to complete the act in order to have a factual evidence. On completion of it all I stood up just behind and grabbed his shoulders pressing him down so that his buttucks would also have a share of the evidence.
The man started to beg. He was someone I know too well. I only told him he needed a 7-day prayer for deliverance. I called a pastor who did the prayer religiously for him and he paid the pastor.

martyns303:
Have we no humanity in us as a country?

That man in black is capable of murder and I have no doubt he has committed murder before, any man who is capable of doing such to a fellow human, inflicting so much pain and body harm, all because he stole? Exactly what did he steal? An item probably worth less than N20K.

Man is really unkind to mankind.

Cutehector:
How many mega pixels is the camera?

OZAOEKPE:
I am not going to say much about this great man called ATIKU, one thing i know for sure is that if there is any northerner who can unite our country and heal us from the wound of tribalism it is ATIKU.

THAT MAN IS A GREAT MAN WITH DREAMS AND VISIONS FOR OUR NATION.


ISTANDWITHATIKU