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The moral of the story being Nigeria should not break up because of our minority groups.

The old man is at it again with his usual antics, one would think with age he would have outgrown some of his petulant and dishonest behaviour, but it seems to be growing worse.

There is virtually no country in the whole wide world that does not have some form of a minority group and both groups co-exist peacefully.
When Nigeria splits, it will be no different, all of this rabble rousing and scare mongering is simply to frighten the people and keep them in line and also to show his Fulani and Colonial masters that he doing the work he has been eternally trusted with - which is to ensure that their one Nigeria dream is still intact.

So you really believe everyone hiding behind a Yoruba name online is actually a Yoruba person.

People come here, post all sorts using all sorts of names to further their agenda and you are here attacking one group of people on the basis of this.

You need to get your head examined.

koondog:
Funny Yorubas are not even interested in this news about their people but open the same for IPOB or Biafra, and see them enter. Something is wrong somewhere with these people!

If the NLTP involves states giving up land for livestock farming controlled by herdsmen of fulani descent, then NLTP is same as RUGA.

iammo:
That's the opinion of the people's Gazzete writter, RUGA isn't even a proposed policy anymore but NLTP

Garba Shehu's statement is clear and unambiguous

"Benue under the Ortom administration ought to cooperate with the federal government in the implementation of a number of national strategies programmes in addressing underlying issues militating against peace, progress, and development.

“This can still get done when the interest of the people is placed above all other interests. A government voted into office by the people should treat the people as its masters and not as its servants,”

When they are done spending the money and riding the bikes, they will come back for more.

There is a reason why it is not advisable to negotiate with terrorists of any kind. The people of Niger State and all the other states who are busy negotiating with terrorists are going to find out the hard way eventually.

If we are talking about bigots, then surely we must throw in Mr Osita Chidoka who seems to have a deep distrust or should I say distaste for Yoruba people.

But look any and every of these leaders are biased one way or the other. Once they get pulled into the absurd theatre of Nigerian politics, it becomes imperative for them to play the politics of ethnicity and religion. I do not excuse bigotry, I am only explaining that Nigeria brings out the bigot in everyone although some are more bigoted than others.

It is one of the reasons I continue to insist that we tear this so-called country to shreds. This is not a country, it is a sham, a clever scheme that benefits a microscopic few to the detriment of many.

If we do not strive to detach ourselves from this country, Buhari will be the least of our worries because I fear who comes after may well be a more competent and better organised bigot.

Nigeria is not becoming a failed state, Nigeria is a failed state.

Extra source protein for the bandits and a convenient way for the Katsina state government to pilfer state resources.

10 million per dog?

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says Nigeria cannot afford another civil war because it will not augur well for the country.

With the way you and your cohorts within the ruling elite have mismanaged the entire affairs of this country, I am afraid to tell you that a war is inevitable.

You dance around the issue of restructuring yet you want us to maintain the status quo knowing fully well it is the status quo that led us to this very moment that we are now. You and your ilk have sacrificed the collective future of not just the present generation but the generations to come, on the altar of political convenience and expediency.

I predict in the not too distant future, this man having left office will now start complaining about how further worse things have become and how he could not do anything whilst in office because his hands were tied.
Mr Vice President, I have no doubt in my mind that you are a fake pastor, a political jobberman and a conman. Anything you say should be taken with the tiniest grain of salt because you have zero integrity and your words lack genuineness.

Even if Buhari declares a state of emergency on the entire country, of what use will that be if he lacks the means to enforce it.

You guys need to understand one thing, we have been contending with Boko Haram for the past 15 years and it has not ended, we have not won despite the resources deployed. Now added on that, we have Fulani Killer Herdsmen to contend with.

The entire security forces (Police, Para-military and Military) can not completed occupy the entire country to enforce a state of emergency if it were to be declared. They cannot even occupy the entire North to enforce such an order.

In my view, why Nigeria managed to limp along for this long was because as bad as corruption has been the people managed to get by on their own as best as they could. They provided water for themselves, they provided light for themselves, the bought jeeps to avoid bad roads. But the insecurity brings a different issue. And it has an ethnic undertone. Government failed at every single thing government was tasked with doing and what do you expect would happen.

This is really the beginning of the end for Nigeria.

God almighty will cause everything to go well and you will be healed permanently.

Amen.

davonlee:
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Some of you may think Buhari asking for AFRICOM to relocate to Nigeria is about fighting terrorism in Nigeria, it is not.

Buhari has one mission and one mission alone, to consolidate power for his kinsmen, the Fulani.

Buhari cannot say with a straight face that he or persons around him were not involved in sponsoring or at the very least encouraging the growth and the actions of Boko Haram and the Fulani killer herdsmen.

Buhari and/or persons around him were instrumental to the influx of these foreign terrorist herdsmen who he promised land in exchange for guaranteeing they would unleash chaos if he did not win the 2015 presidential election.

Buhari is on record as being sympathetic toward Boko Haram, calling previous government intervention against them, an attack on the North.

Buhari is an ethnic and religious bigot, these are not debatable, these are facts that cannot be refuted!!!

The US are not remotely interested in propping up his government, Nigeria is of no strategic use to the USA. The US state department had long predicted that we were a failed state and would sooner break up.
I am certain the Americans, as well as their European collaborators, would love nothing more than to see us tear each other to pieces.

Like Husband, Like Wife. So because your husband wants to become president we should all deny the obvious, even if it kills us and eats us alive. Such is the madness that runs deep in the Tinubu family.

They, like all Nigerian politicians, do not give a flying fvck about Nigerians. They are so far from the realities on ground, if e happen, I am sure they have passports of like 6 other countries they and their families can run to for safe haven.

Nigeria will surely split that's for sure, we cannot deny the obvious we can only try to delay it and when it does, in my region we are definitely coming for the likes of Tinubu and his wife. Traitorous scum.

I think it is safe to call the Vice President a religious hustler.

I get that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things yet unseen but on the other hand we must remember that faith without works is dead. As it pertains to Nigeria, perhaps the only thing worth having faith in is the certainty that we are doomed to fail and condemned to mediocrity.

The Nations who prosper today (I dare you to pick any) did not succeed because their leaders were men of faith who offered empty rhetoric whilst looting the treasury. The Nations who prosper today succeeded and continue to succeed because of the tireless visionary work of successive leaders. Some laid out a blueprint, others followed. Some sacrificed so that others could benefit. No nation that has succeeded on today's earth is an overnight success story yet we as Nigerians are being fed lies by our so-called leaders that if we just pray and have faith, all our problems will disappear and all will be well. This is misdirection deployed by the very architects of our own misfortune and such thinking needs to be condemned and rejected in its entirety.

Nigeria is not fit to be called a nation, it is a collection of various nations made up of people who have no business being together. You cannot have this and expect anything meaningful, when the foundation is weak, even Jesus christ in his parables said it, whatever you build will be destroyed.

Such is the case of Nigeria!

Oh my goodness, I was just laughing my head off as I read through this joke.

If politics does bring out the worst in everyman like they say, then Tinubu at his worst is just pitiful.

Agricultural players...

All of this a_s_s kissing, to gain the tacit approval of the Fulani.

Hehehehehehehehe, it is well.

— It will take visionary leadership with the right political will to win the war

Nope, this is a bare faced lie, a false narrative that is meant to trick gullible Nigerians into hoping for some messianic figure or figures to come and miraculously solve all our problems. It will never happen sorry.
Our problems are structural and fundamental, the foundation from the onset was weak and purposefully made so by the architects of Nigeria - the British and their local collaborators, the Fulani.
From the very beginning, Nigeria was never meant to be a success story, it was built to fail.

— Amotekun, Ebube- Agu security outfits won’t work

Well, I do not expect a Northerner to admit that Southern Security outfits (that were formed in response to insecurity challenges which emanated from the North and which Northern leaders allowed to fester) will succeed.

- kicks against a fractured Nigeria

Well it is obvious that politicians live in a different reality from Nigerian citizens, Nigeria is fractured and has been fractured since it's very inception. We were never meant to be under one umbrella as one. The main ethnic groups have different philosophies of what a nation is/should be. You cannot have a people this divided yet expect some kind of meaningful change, it's not going to happen sorry.

Systematically?
Just delete that word.

The colonial powers are still actively involved in the affairs of their former colonies.

And it is to the full detriment of the populace within these colonies which is why you are not likely to see any good come out of any such country. It is one of the reasons why Nigeria continues to remain as it is, especially under the subjugation of Fulani rule (directly or indirectly, the fulani have been involved in the governance of Nigeria at the highest level since its inception, it is not a mere coincidence, it is exactly what the British wanted).

It is not a curse, it is a fact with roughly 50 plus years of abundant evidence to support my conclusion.

Resurrection212:
Even despite the warnings gave to him to stay away from the country. Africa needs to rise up against the whites that systematically colonize them.

This is what we are telling ipob to reject British offer well the UK ship is ready to ship them to uk they said they are preferred being a slave in uk than living in the east.

Lamidi Amoda Sangodere a.k.a Bola Ahmed Tinubu

We will see how masterful a tactician he is in the coming months.

It will not even work to full capacity talk less of pack up again.

And Nigerians will have long forgotten because just when you think the government can not do anything more stupid, they just think up another stupid way to amaze the h_ell out of us all.

He is absolutely positively correct.

Four classmates of mine graduated with 1st classes and benefitted from the 1st and 2nd editions of the PRESSID. They are all of Yoruba extraction. I did interact with one of them who is now a PhD holder from a prestigious university in the USA and he said of the 103 candidates who were shortlisted as successful, non were of Northern extraction judging by the names on the list. They were all Yoruba, Igbo, South South and Middle Beltans.

Please keep in mind, the PRESSID was for strictly 1st class graduates. PRESSID did not have the issues that we saw with other Federal Government scholarships such as PTDF, NDIC NITDA and a host of others. It was not an issue of man know man, you needed to have a 1st class from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field. You take a computer based exam and you get your result instantly. PRESSID was directly under the purview of the NUC under the then Professor Okebukola, he has a track record as a seasoned education professional. It was a strictly Merit-based affair. I believe Northern candidates took the test but non were successful (for the 1st and 2nd edition, I do not know of the 3rd). I believe it stopped after the 3rd edition. The story by Buhari's regime was that oil prices had fallen in 2015 hence they could not find the resources to fund it (but there is always resources to fund their own excesses).

Overall, this is not to say there are no Northerners who are intelligent and gifted. But time and time again, we have seen this common pattern where ethnic champions such as Mohammadu Buhari will readily jettison strictly merit-based exercises such as this painting it as a Southern agenda. It simply shows we are not nor were we ever a country. It is one of the reasons why I have consistently, whether on nairaland or elsewhere, campaigned for independent regions away from this horrible country. Where on earth have you seen serious minded people using quota system on serious things that should be strictly merit-based.

When I say Nigeria cannot amount to much, this is what I see that makes me say this. Let each region go their own way and find best ways to promote their best and brightest to manage their affairs. Insofar as we continue to have men of dubious moral character govern us, men who champion the rights of their own ethnic group over others or their own religion over others, we cannot amount to anything meaningful. It is not a curse, it is the truth that no amount of prayer or fasting can undo.

Nigeria must be dissolved, let each region go their separate way and find the best solution to their problems.

He is trying so so hard.

Little does he know that Northerners will eat that rice, even use some of it to make Tuwo with Mia kuka and they still won't vote for him.

He has so much money to spend courtesy sucking Lagos dry. It is well

The real bad belle was when you Obasanjo connived with Northern Fulani elements to rob Awolowo of the 79 elections.

Abiola's presidency would have benefitted the ordinary Yorubas very little, the writing was on the wall, his precedence spoke for itself.

However, in fairness to the man, it was a free and fair election that the military annulled for no reason other than foreign interference from the British and the USA due to fears of nationalising the oil and gas industry.

having made my points abundantly clear yet you so carefully choose to ignore, i will recommend a couple cold bottles of beer to calm your fraying nerves.

i have nothing more to add. good day.

PHAYOL81:
Then create another thread for it and let people discuss it; why made my mention the bearer of that fury of Fashola perceived governorship mismanagement when all I did was correcting wrong impression against APC by stating that PDP is the crook this particular thread is fingering out Besides, I ain't defending FASHOLA AND APC too but pointing out the comprehension issues of majority who had started lambasting APC wrongly for the sin of another which is PDP.
Don't get emotional, stop accusing me of traits you're beginning to show. You suddenly go defensive over a single comment correcting wrong impression while you leave the ones accusing the other party; isn't that hypocrisy Yet you accuse me of defending the party being accused wrongly. If APC is bad, create a thread for it with verifiable evidence but don't point wrong accusations against it because people would always call it out.

similar to how they built the kaduna refinery, white elephant projects with no real economic value or advantage.

power projects all across the world as a matter of necessity are situated close to their primary source of energy. i guess that skipped over the heads of these fools that the gas is in the southern part of nigeria but for these fools i guess it is more convenient to pipe gas down to the north rather than use high voltage transmission lines to transmit the electricity generated all over the country. i am not saying borno does not deserve its own power plant, if they have gas or coal or hydro or are close to these sources of power, then by all means let them have it (insurgency aside) but as of today, gas in commercial quantities is located in the deep south. all thermal power plants ought to be located in the southern part of the country closer to where the gas is extracted.

another million dollar project for no reason whatsoever. no one is saying anything about the exisiting power plants we have. no one is saying anything about our dilapidated transmission and distribution system (yes distribution has been privatised but tranmission is still in government hands and our national grid is a fcu_king joke). is it the electricity they want or to make a political statement from the commissioning and building of a gas power plant in the middle of nowhere.

this is what tribal politics looks like. sweep all logic under the rug and just go with what is best for my tribe. and we wonder why Nigeria is a monumentally failed state, a proverbial gift of failure that keeps giving.

i was not trying to make this about APC vs PDP. i am sure you know, so stop the mischief.

under fashola's lagos, we got some of the most ridiculous quotes for road projects, the infamous 1 billion naira per kilometre for the uncompleted (till this day) lekki-epe expressway still holds true. i am sure same applies to some PDP led government, i do not care that is not the crux of my discussion.

my point is roads
- are a much needed infrastructure in Nigeria. every developed or aiming to be developed country needs suitable, decent road infrastructure;
- building and maintaining of roads are government's business;
- we can build roads for a fraction of the cost being quoted;
- even if we must use infrastructure projects to pilfer public funds, which is inevitable, we are doing so at a rate (300-500% on mostly borrowed money we use to finance our budget) which is not sustainable and the projects are never done to standard or even completed.

Nigeria is a mess and has always been. And like DMX said, we are heading nowhere fast.

PHAYOL81:
Chill, buddy. Many comments were lambasting APC and Fashola erroneously, you don't call them to reasoning but when one comment fingered out the real culprit, you got defensive. Whether APC is corrupt or not is another point of discussion entirely but this thread is pointing patently at the corruption level of PDP. Basic
The Op must've misjudged to present the thread in the hope of roping in Fashola but the article was clear. The past administration was a disaster.

forward 60 plus years of self-rule and is there a world class university or power plant in Nigeria?
They did same in India, Ghana, Hong Kong but today can you look at those countries and say they have not benefitted from self-rule one way or the other? Can the same be said about Nigeria a.k.a neega area, a british experiment, created as a mere means of convenience.

i get your sentiment however let us never get carried away, we are still under colonial rule till this day. the fulanis replaced the british, as the overlords, and now rule indirectly. Azikiwe and Awolowo should have known better and could have done better. The Southern part of Nigeria had no business being with the North. The differences were always there and are still evident till this very day. The writing was on the damn wall. The results are as we see till this very day and it is not a mere coincidence.

nenyeRitta:
That is why at the time this picture was taken, there wasn't a single
university or power plant in Nigeria, despite the British having ruled for
half a century, while extracting and exporting our resources.

From Dubai abi.

Can someone tell this religious entrepreneur to shut the he_ll up and sit his short _ass down.

She is a thot a.k.a bish, no surprises here!

Well Pa Fasoranti can campaign for whoever he wishes to.

It is just sad that a man this old and nearing the grave would see a big and wide pit and ask whoever listens to and follows him to jump into it. Men from Pa Fasoranti's generation are the ones who failed the Yoruba people by not insisting we be excluded from the madness that is now Nigeria.

I honestly do not know how someone who has been a lifelong supporter of Yoruba independence suddenly turns around to support Tinubu's presidential ambition. Tinubu becoming President will translate to nothing for the common Yoruba. It will be great for those who in his inner circle, but it will not translate to anything meaningful for the generality of Yorubas. And like I often say, Lagos is the perfect example which no one can deny.

When Yorubas cannot speak with one voice even in times such as this, it is no wonder nobody takes us seriously when some attempt to agitate for an independent region.
The Yoruba Youth must look away from these men who have failed us collectively. The Yoruba Youth must look to himself otherwise it will be a lifetime of complaints under Hausa-Fulani servitude and nothing will change.

Yorubas have always been great, save for the latest weak leadership that we have.

Tinubu's presidential ambition does not add or diminish the greatness of Yoruba people.

Tolexander:
Jagaban has done it again

He has seized the death of the Afenifere spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, to mend the deteriorated relationship with Afenifere.

Yoruba shall be great

Well, Pastor Prof, perhaps you can direct your empty rhetoric to armed bandits and killer herdsmen.

Better still, you can call Sheikh Gumi and arrange for him to take you to meet them, then you can deliver a sermon to them with hopes that you will win some souls and they will be saved.

Stop preaching to the choir.

But why not crush bandits and killer herdsmen?

I totally understand, 97% more important and precious than the 5%.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. If Mohammadu Buhari engaged criminality everywhere across Nigeria regardless of ethnicity, I am sure no one would bat an eyelid on the IGP's recent order. Infact, if the Government tackled crime regardless of tribe, there would be no ESN, maybe IPOB would thrive but I doubt they would resort to violence.

Like with Newton's third law of motion, Buhari's inaction has produced a series of opposite reactions.

Perhaps this is what brings ignites the fall of this evil, rotten, corrupt nation called Nigeria. We will see.

Like the strong response we have seen against the killer herdsmen all over the country. A group that has made an open attempt at the life of a sitting governor.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I do not support the violence that led to freeing of inmates in Owerri, however it is what it is. The foundation for such madness had already been laid by the ethnic championing by Mr President and his tribe.

This is in direct correlation to that. This is as a result of that. It is not an isolated incident of it's own making, these events are in response to Mr President's handling of the security situation within this God forsaken country.

If you cannot in all honesty admit to this, then I have nothing further to add.

seunmsg:
Is it not obvious even to the blind? We don’t need the IGP to tell us what we all know. The only set of people denying the obvious are IPOB sympathizers.

Hopefully, there will be a very strong response from our security agencies. They must feel the full wrath of Nigeria’s military force. They have brought home an ant infested firewood and must not complain of the lizard’s visit.