₦airaland Forum

NaMeAboki:
The Herdsmen attack is happening all over Nigeria; unlike the Biafran agitation and how Igbos engage others: it is not a tribal, religious or regionally motivated conflict but purely an economic one; a clash over land, for grazing against land for farming between pastoralists and farmers - simple, so lets get this straight.

Its either you are not watching the news and keeping up with current affairs or being selective with your memory. Indeed some northern leaders, including the president had at various time come out and condemned the attacks attributed to the herdsmen and had put measures in place to curb such atrocities with some degree of success e.g. the alleged Enugu attackers had already been caught, Olu Falae's abductors had similarly been caught, tried and jailed amongst others - so pls stop lying.

Northern youths are not interested in Igbo properties but simply tired of Igbo hypocrisy of being the biggest beneficiaries of One Nigeria, without any signs of giving it up; while abusing and threatening to break away from the same Nigeria.

Now that the north is ready to give you what you want, so pls get out.

Just be sure of one thing. If Igbos leave the north, the entire South South will equally leave, and even majority of Yorubas will go. The greatest tragedy it will pose to the north is the collapse of its educational system.
The north relies heavily on youth corps members and some southern teachers to augment the few northern teachers. Even in the tertiary institutions, a large number of your lecturers are from the south. Hope you have it in mind that they should equally leave. Even with their presence, the North is still very much backward educationally. Imagine how it will be when they all leave.
You guys should think well.

As for your explanation of the fulani herdsmen menace, there isn't any iota of sense in what you wrote, so I won't bother responding to it.

martooski:
maybe he ran out of bullets

Nope. He was still shooting even after running out.
He was shielded by the walls of that security post but ran outside fully exposed to bullets by the other 2 robbers with guns.
If he had stayed inside, he would have taken down that gun-less driver, and might have also been lucky enough to take down d one that sat behind the driver who eventually killed him when he ran out.
May he rest in peace.

NaMeAboki:
They are hypocrites because they are part of the problem; where were they when Kanu and IPOB were freely unleashing rancid unprintable threats and insults against the north and in particular the Hausa-Fulani tribes?
They have the audacity to call on northern leaders (political and religious) to reign in the ppl; but yet were silent when the likes of pastor suleiman and Kanu were preaching hatred and division in churches and over the airway respectively.
Were they also not the ones during GEJ's regime that were ordering the arrest and detention of innocent northerners in Igbo states, in makeshift camps, as Boko Haram suspects as well as demanding for northerners to carry special ID cards in an illegal and discriminatory manner - until northerners threatened retaliatory action (just like now) that only then did GEJ stepped in to declare the action illegal?

In what stronger terms should have the governors reacted; threaten to send the Biafran army against the north for giving IPOBs what they been asking for - freedom and quit notice to go and form their Biafra?

Despite all the havoc your fellow herdsmen have caused in the middle belt and some SE and SS states, neither you nor Arewa nor your governors came out openly to condemn them or take decisive steps to stop the havoc.

Yes, Kanu said unprintable things and ended up being jailed for over a year, despite that nobody has threatened the peace of northerners in the SE, rather it's herdsmen like you that went about killing innocent Igbos in their own communities. How come no fulani miscreant has been jailed for their numerous atrocities? Even the foolish Arewa youth who are only interested in grabbing the property of hardworking Igbos in the north are still walking about free till today.

What kind of hypocrisy is this?

Toks2008:
On the contrary,network marketing is legit but it's not just for everyone.

Is there anything bad if that bag of rice dealer tells you that he will give you 1k for every buyer you refer to his shop and another N500 on anyone who buys through the first guy you introduced.

The only problem is when that bag of rice sells for 50k instead of 20k and people only buy it because they hope to recover the money spent on it, and make gains.

That is my grouse with many network marketing groups. Over hyping and over pricing of simple products (in many cases ordinary supplements) and people spend tens even hundreds of thousands to buy them not because they need them but because they hope to invite people and make so much money when they build a team. At the end, only a few people (the early starters) make maximum gains.

From your earlier calculation, do you know that if you continue that matrix (and assuming it takes each new sign up a whole month to register 2 downlines), by the 36th month (ie 3 years), over 68 billion people will need to join in one month to sustain the matrix?
Network marketing is a big scam. I've joined 2 companies in the past, lost some money till my eyes opened to how unrealistic and how unsustainable it is.

chinwegeo:
Watch this extremely Hilarious comedy short film by these beautiful girls and their two years old very funny brother. it's so funny


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB88ulVOJzw&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

You can't go far with such crappy videos, honestly!
It was a waste of data.

fulanmafia:
I don't believe you.

Backup your claim with evidence; a single link would suffice.

Until then your allegation remains baseless.

By the time you deny somebody who scored, for example 260 in JAMB admission into medicine and give that same admission to someone who scored 250 simply because he came from an educationally less developed state, what do you call that? Is that not being unfair?

https://m.guardian.ng/features/much-ado-about-educationally-less-developed-states/

https://schoolnewsng.com/jamb-set-equal-cut-off-marks-admission-policy/



This is for the unity schools and the disparity in cut off marks

https://passnownow.com/opinion-disparity-unity-schools-cut-off-marks-albatross/

fulanmafia:
Really? There are different cut-off marks for JAMB for different regions?

Can you backup this amazing claim of yours?

I'm talking of cut off marks for different states by the universities. The whole Northern states have lower cut off marks because they are classed as educationally less advantaged.

YelloweWest:
Building a house in the middle of a bush is not an investment.
If Igbos invest well in their place the market will come to them.

Middle of a bush indeed. The people whose voices are loudest about how the South East is a village are those who haven't even crossed Niger bridge. Every part of Nigeria has both urban and rural areas. The rural parts of the south east aren't less developed than what you find in other regions.

If you can reason properly, you will realise that it doesn't make any economic sense to have for instance 2 million traders out of a population of 20 million people while another region with 30 million people has just about 500k traders. More of the 2 million traders will make more money if they migrate to the regions with fewer traders.

I went to a South Western town of Mamfe in Cameroon about 8 years ago. As far less developed as it is compared to any of the major Igbo towns, there were many Igbos living there mainly engaged in trading.
Gusau, Kaura Namoda, Birnin Kebbi, Kafanchan etc are not more developed than typical towns in the South East, neither are there better business opportunities there on the whole, but there are a lot of Igbos there cos the areas are not saturated already.

You say market will come to Igbos if they invest in their place, then you know nothing. On a typical day at Onitsha main market, thousands of buyers there come from several parts of the South South and Northern parts of the country to buy good. There are even traders from the South Western part of Cameroon. All Igbo traders cannot squeeze themselves into the South East for business when there are various regions to explore.
There are many Chinese doing businesses in Nigeria not because their country is bad but simply because there is a less saturated market in Nigeria than where they are coming from.

fulanmafia:
I hope you're sane. Is JAMB/UTME not a form of competitive bidding?

I think we should check your own sanity first.

JAMB/UTME means nothing when different cut off marks are used for different people. Use the same benchmark for everybody irrespective of geopolitical zone. That's what competitiveness stands for.

fulanmafia:
First of all, the process for allocating oil blocs is through competitive bidding; nobody dashes anyone oil blocs. In fact many of the current license holders go into partnerships with foreign firms to raise the license fee which could run into hundreds of billions. If 80% of southerners happen to present the winning bids and are allocated the blocs, can the North blame the south for that?

Secondly, I would like you to quickly research the actual list of oil bloc owners and come back to tell me that 80% are owned by northerners. Its a complete fallacy and a repeated lie that southern propagandists have used over the years to blind their zombie followers while the rob their commonwealth.

I was careful to use the word 'juicy' alongside the oil blocs. The oil blocs with the largest outputs are mostly owned by the northerners. That's the truth.

Leave that competitive bidding issue. It is pure politics. Many southerners have the financial muscle and can build better partnership with foreign firms.

How come this competitive bidding system isn't maintained in employments in FG agencies or in admissions into Federal unity school and even universities? Why do we have to soft pedal for some people and start talking about federal character and educationally disadvantaged states bla bla bla? Why don't we just employ and admit only the most academically proficient?

YelloweWest:
No right thinking igbo man should take this warning for granted.

Relocate and invest back in the east!

Come sef, why do igbo find it hard to invest in their place??

You guys should stop saying that. Igbos are mostly traders and the entire South East is saturated with markets. That is why they move to other regions with fewer traders and they maximise such opportunities.
Are you not aware that 2 of the 5 largest markets in Nigeria (Onitsha Main Market and Ariaria Market Aba) are in Igbo land. The largest market for vehicle parts is in Igbo land (at Nnewi).

Igbos invest in their homes well enough. Go to villages in the south east especially in Anambra State and see business men living in other parts of the country building houses they barely live in.

fulanmafia:
I am responding despite your juvenile tantrum as a public service to enlighten you.

You're clearly totally ignorant of the Land Use Act of 1990 which puts ownership of every drop of oil and other solid minerals under Nigeria's earth and waters in the hands of the Federal Government.

Now thank me and go and disinfect that mouth with Izal.

FG owns the oil but only northerners are fit to have the oil wells allocated to them, right? Over 80% of the 'juicy' oil wells are owned by northerners, and it's fair to you, abi? What happened to the principle of federal character on allocating the wells?

Tajbol4splend:
I got friends who I'm 6yrs older than

Still doesn't change anything.
If she is 15, is it possible that all her close friends are almost 10 years or more older than her, cos none of those girls look less than 25? How come she doesn't have a friend who is about her age?

Tajbol4splend:
I've seen many people who are 15 with this kinda body size

A 15 year old girl will have friends who ages will range from 13 - 18 years. Who among her friends in the picture do you think will be between 13 and 18 years old?

dapyd1:
Is it the advent of more news media coverage that is exposing people, or humans are actually becoming more wicked.

I think its the latter, the rate of negativity is increasing geometrically.

Less than ten years ago, nairaland front page used to be filled with Nigerians winning laurels, people helping each other, news that make you swell with pride. Not anymore.

With the way things are going, we don't need to combat climate change, we'll sure kill ourselves off in the next 200 years.

There weren't many bloggers 10 years ago. We mostly relied on the national dailies for news, and many events aren't captured by them. Nowadays, with the multiplicity of bloggers hungry for news and traffic to their sites, and the ease of information dissemination through Facebook and WhatsApp, events that happen even in the remotest parts of the nation get a nationwide and even worldwide spread in a question of hours.

deji15:
Nwanne, I doubt you are Igbo

As much as I hate to admit what I wrote earlier, it is the truth. If you read my earlier posts on this forum, you will know I'm a pure Igbo, though not IPOBic.
I still maintain that I prefer Nigeria operating fiscal federalism to Biafra.

Paperwhite:
Fear is killing them now.

Truth be told. Yorubas are the most likely to survive in a divided Nigeria. I'm Igbo, but the reality is very glaring. Yorubas already have EVERYTHING on ground to succeed as a nation.

SilentHaulers:
Stop making noise, you will just kill yourself cos of envy and hatred for the SW. Ogun's high IGR is cos of its industry. Direct your anger to your leaders and governors, stop crying everywhere pls.

Ogun's industries and high IGR is still as a result of its proximity to Lagos. Most people establishing businesses and building industries now around Lagos axis do it in Ogun state. Even a cousin of mine who lived in Ketu for years has built his own house (part of which is rented) in Ogun State, while his business is at Computer Village.
Ogun will keep enjoying from it's proximity to Lagos cos attention has shifted from Lag to Ogun now. The clear disparity between the stats of Ogun and the other SW states like Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti lays credence to the fact that Ogun is prospering because of its proximity to Lagos.

Anyway, SE governors may have to step up with taxation in the SE. That is the major way for them to increase their IGR. I know when Oshiomhole did it and was being crucified. Now, people are used to it. Even Lagos did it under Fashola. Imagine Imo State generating only 5bn per annum. That's shameful.

mmsen:
The real fool believes in fairy tales.

You cannot swear with your life that there is no God.
You say He doesn't exist simply because you have neither seen Him, felt Him nor heard from Him. People have experienced Him for real.

At the peak of Ebola virus, many people were afraid. 99.99% of the world had not seen the virus, but they believed its existence.
People believe HIV exists yet haven't seen it. Some have doubted its existence, didn't play safe and died of AIDS. Some have also doubted and done several rough plays but they are still alive and healthy.
Their belief or unbelief hasn't changed anything about the virus.

Whether you believe or not, miracles still happen at the mention of the name of Jesus. Chains are still broken and people are still set free in His name.
I guess you don't also believe the devil exists. Don't worry, he will come for you in due time, and unfortunately, you have no divine covering.

mmsen:
Children/people need food to survive.

The medicine can be justified by way of reason, logic and science.

No one needs religion. It is senseless dogma kept alive by foolish cretins who live in constant fear.

The fool says there is no God.

mmsen:
Religion is forced down the throat of every child in a religious home.

One of the worst forms of child abuse.

Many kids are also forced to eat, some even with beating. Kids are also forced and enticed to take meds when sick. Is that also child abuse?

Saphiex:
It is more than, roughly about 4billion.

Saphil!! Na you be dis? First time I'm seeing someone I know in real life here. Wehdon bro.

uglyafonja:
They still remain the most patronized transport firm

True! The reason is that they have more vehicles than most other companies.
Last time I travelled to the east, I promised myself I won't use them again but by the time I couldn't get buses from other companies, I had to go back to them. I got to the parks around 9am.

TheAngry1:
See this Otondo! Outside Lagos, Ogun state is the most industrialised in the country; you think development is about skyscrappers and dust-stained four storey buildings that litter Onitsha?

Oyo and Osun states ares vibrant peaceful and focusing on educational development of their people. Even your own people dread the southeast like a plague, that is why they are helping to 'develop' other people's state.

Did you say Oyo and Osun are focusing on educational development? You must be living in the outer space to make this useless assertion.
Wake me up when Osun comes out as one of the top 10 states whether in Primary 6 entrance exam, WAEC, NECO or JAMB.

chynie:
If your cousin's English is like your own
why would a girl who studied Law in Uk marry him
like your family dey find who go upgrade una

Come on! His written English isn't bad. Is it because of the insignificant error he made in the last paragraph that you wrote this crap? That's so bad of you.

Your English isn't even perfect, as you don't know how to punctuate: no comma, no question mark, no full stop. First take out the log in your eyes before removing the speck in another's. Thank you.

Shebi later now, somebody will come and tell me that Igbos and Anambrarians don't go to school. The kind slap I go give d pesin eh.

Smeago007:
Whether they believe it or not Salvation is of the jews Jesus quoted it John 4vs22
Keeping the words (laws) of God OK? Will make you get enternal life.. That's what they believe.. And that's the truth

Funny. I definitely can't discuss this with you. Off I go.

Smeago007:
Better promises?
Your misguided
What separates the old testament and new tastement??
If not the words of Jesus
Mathew, Mark,john, and few others
The rest were letters

When you hear it is written in the scriptures
It refers to the old testament

You should know that keeping the word of God holds much promises than the new tastement of letters your emphasizing

Unfortunately, the Jews don't believe in Jesus as the son of God. That makes all the difference, cos to those practising Judaism, the entire New Testament is null and void.

Billyonaire:
Christianity is not the State Religion of Biafra. The Christian cleric should be forgiven and ignored.

Biafra's official religion is Judaism.

That's where the problem will be. Returning back to the old covenant when the new covenant has better promises?

fratermathy:
But we have the same landmass as Swaziland. I checked it. It terms of population, we are far more populated than both of them.

Republic of Urhobo can thrive. If other nations can thrive, why not ours? However, like you rightly said, we would do much better in a working Nigeria, at least for now.

Swaziland has about same land mass as Delta State. Urhobo land is probably about ⅓ or at most 2/5 of Delta State, cos I know Anioma (Delta North senatorial zone) has ⅓ of the land mass. Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri share the remaining ⅔. If Urhoboland is so big, that will be half of that remaining ⅔ which is ⅓ or just at most, 2/5.
I can't talk about the population cos I don't have facts about that.
It will be difficult for a country like that to thrive especially in West Africa, and considering the calibre of leaders and people the region has paraded over the years.

fratermathy:
And what is wrong with a Republic of Urhobo? Afterall, we have Lesotho and Swaziland which are not even up to half the size of Urhoboland. What stops us from being a nation? Who dictates our fate? Aren't we freemen and don't we have a right to say what we want?

I don't give a damn about Ijaws and Itsekiris. I only see them as brotherly neighbours. They are free to do what they may and in the event that we choose to be a nation together, it'll be a very loose confederation where trust won't be an issue. In any case, we'd rather stick with Nigeria where the big 3 of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba checkmate their own excesses than to be in an Igbo dominated nation where no one can checkmate the excesses of the Igbo.

It is either we get what we want in Nigeria or we agitate for our own nation. If Igbos can do it, Urhobos can as well. No one can tell us what we can or can't achieve. We have the resources that can sustain us. We have the population (2million+), we have the infrastructure, we have all we need. We have the voice to speak and speak, we will. Should seek alliances, we will do so as well. Should we seek confederations, we'd do so with ethnicities that we can effectively match.

Lesotho and Swaziland are not up to half of Urhobo land? Brother, please make your research before writing. Lesotho is almost twice the size of Delta State.

You're right that Urhobo people will thrive better in a united and prosperous Nigeria than in Biafra. But however, in event of a separation, the so called Republic of Urhobo cannot thrive as a nation. That is a fact. A Republic of Niger Delta will have the money (cos of the oil), but their fate as a country will be worse than that of South Sudan.