₦airaland Forum

sassysure:
In this era of civilisation people still believe and practice voodoo.
Wickedness.
How can one sleep very well after snuffing life outta another being pls?
What kind of country is this?
Very lazy set of people.
That's why they so much believe in juju power instead of hardworking and intelligence.
Smh

Abysmally low level of MODERN education in that part of Nigeria, despite Awo's free education, despite closeness to Lagos.

madridguy:
Chai, na their way.

Evans the kidnapper better pass these Afonja people - 1,000,000 times - walahitalli

If Obama is still president, Wamako wouldn't have died
Amer/
ican doctors would have come to the rescue.

When Abacha created Ebonyi state, he should have created Njaba state between Imo and Anambra states.

Njaba state as proposed is a hundred times more viable than Ebonyi state.

Instead, Abacha created a seventh state in the NW.

This is part of the political inequality rocking Nigeria.

signz:
As for the deep seaport, I pray Gov Udom is able to convince his Colleagues in their SS/SE governors meeting on the need to support Ibom deep seaport. Even if it means raising funds from Diaspora and Chinese.

We can then build both rail lines and more Roads network connecting whole of SE & SS( especially Akwa Ibom)

I believe the investment maths will be attractive for foreign investors, Diaspora Nigerians and Nigerians living here.

Deep Sea port in Akwa Ibom to be financed by the eastern states? That would be very good.

But note that there may be more of such old people like Obong Victor Attah in Akwa Ibom state who would rather not wish any thing of such importance connecting Akwa Ibom and Igbo.

senatordave1:
Sir,doesnt it sound odd for the north thats 3 times bigger than the south to have less number of states than the south? Upon all the monies given to the north,cant u see that they are far mor underdeveloped and poorer than the south? Dont you realize that the niger delta states get the highest share from the federaation account but have misused it? The defunct northeen region was never balkanized because it was more united as one region unlike the south that has 3 disunited regions.

Did you not read me write that land mass is never used as a criterion to divide a country onto states or regions or local government councils?


The northern part of Russia is nearly half of the Russian federation by land mass, but that northern Russia does not have up to 1/5 of Russia's political units, like regions or states, and representatives in Russia's Parliament.


Nigeria's states should have been created based on near equal proportions between then three regions -north, southeast and southwest - that entered into independent Nigeria in 1960.

BiafraIShere:
The country was obviously built on lies right from day one. What a shame, its either total resource control or balkanization. Thank God for Nnamdi Kanu, OUR MUMU DON DO!!

Behind the population scandal is sharing national revenues in a most increasing unitary government system.

The British studied Nigeria well and granted independence for Nigeria for three regions.

Between 1967 to 1996, Hausa/Fulani used its military dictators and created 20 new federal units - 19 states and Abuja - plus hundreds of local government areas in the one northern region.
But they created only 17 new states and far less number of local government councils in the once two southern regions.

Mathematically, 1 yielded 20 states; while 2 yielded 17 states.

This is the most huge fraud about Nigeria, because land mass is never used as a criterion to create new states or regions or local government areas in a federal country where diverse regions came together to form one country.

There should have been more states and local government councils in the two southern regions, than in the one northern region today.

Three senators come from each state, according to the constitution also supervised by the same northern military dictators.

Therefore, from the 20 states in the north, an emergent northern super-political class draws undue political over-representation to all aspects of the country's political process, including at the National Assembly, to determine what can be where and who can be what in Nigeria's political process.

Through the large number of states and local government councils in the north, more than large quantities of the country's shared revenues and development projects go to the north.

This ugly situation has been endured for about forty years by the shortchanged southern groups; it's no more tolerable.

davidif:
The north-south divide has remained salient; there is still an unwritten rule that the presidency should alternate between a northerner and a southerner. Allegations that the north has manipulated its way to a majority continue. The censuses of 1973 and 1991 were annulled. In 2006 arguments flared when 9.4m people were counted in the northern state of Kano, compared with just 9m in Lagos, the commercial capital. The Lagos state government conducted its own, technically illegal, census and came up with 17.5m (probably a vast overestimate). A new national census has been repeatedly delayed. It is now scheduled for 2018, but the NPC’s estimate that it will “gulp” 223bn naira ($708m) may mean the count is put off indefinitely.

Even by other methods, Nigeria’s population has proven tricky to pin down. Africapolis, a French-funded research project, used satellite mapping to estimate the population of towns and cities in 2010. It found several cities, mostly in the north, had hundreds of thousands fewer people than the 2006 census counted. But even those data are not entirely trustworthy: it later transpired that the researchers had underestimated urbanisation in the densely populated Niger delta. Until there is an accurate, impartial census it will be impossible to know just how many Nigerians there really are. That means government policy will not be fully anchored in reality and it will not be possible to send resources where they are most needed.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-6?zid=304&ah=e5690753dc78ce91909083042ad12e30

The densely populated Niger delta area is deprived of development resources because its population is ever under counted.

Again, this Niger delta area produces the oil revenues that stand Nigeria.

For a most recent example, Nigeria built the first-ever standard gauge rail lines costing $1.059 billion in the arid and less populated north, while people in the Niger delta travel in 19th Century canoes and on the worst roads in Nigeria.

From this north, an exodus of southerners was made to the south by Boko Haram violence and unfriendly environment of Sharia criminal laws.


These are the contradictions and injustices in Nigeria that cry to high heavens for remedy.

Jonathan govt when this govt wants to cover up impunity.

It is students that read the subjects, not government. It's the same teachers to teach both subjects.

The attempt to oppose one religion for another is real. But it all must end with dissolving Nigeria. There is nothing foreign powers can do about it.

RIP. But you died for nothing.

Boko Haram is fighting for a country in the north to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal laws.

Boko Haram emerged shortly after the 12 northern Nigeria states adopted Islamic Sharia Criminal codes.

There are millions of Muslims in northern Nigeria who share same objectives with Boko Haram fighters.

Soldiers, use your tongue to count your teeth before embarking on a futile fight.

An Islamic Country for far-northern Nigeria shall see to the disappearance of Boko Haram, not waste of precious lives through war.

Freemancipation:
It's too late now. Those trying to use the restructuring game plan to squash Biafra are wasting their time.

Ha ha ha.

Go tell that to Akwa Ibom's Obong Victor Atta who believes he is brilliant as he has all his political life asked for his own type of restructuring that can suit only his state. Even at that, no body would listen to him.

Atta Victor's state gets stupendously rich from 13% derivation through offshore oil. Little or no environmental degradation in his state from oil exploitation.
Therefore he persistently asks for the type of restructuring that can further benefit only his state.

He must have believed that rest of the SS and SE who bear the brunt of environmental degradation from oil exploitation are foolish.

cascarino:
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/its-too-late-to-restructure-nigeria-ankko-briggs/

Briggs clearly understands the ugly political machinations of rest of Nigeria against the oil-producing areas.

The Obong Victor Attahs are selfish and insincere.
They have been yawning for political restructuring all their political lives, but deep inside them, they knew that unless crude oil dries up in the oil-producing areas, Arewa and the Muslim section of Yoruba shall never agree to such political restructuring that can make both lose political and economic advantages they currently have.

After the 30 years, northern and Yoruba Muslims shall agree to restructuring Nigeria politically.

Let those talking about restructure and restructure all their political lives hear this. Let the Obong Victor Attahs hear this.

Perhaps, in that 30 years, the Obongs and most of other restructure and restructure peoples in the SS and SE must have finally settled in Abuja, and leave the poor behind in environmentally devastated SE and SS.

Pheals:
since he as been killing biafrans what happens to him? ARINDIN
it's normal military man doesn't smile always

Good you agree that COAS Buratai, has been killing Biafrans, but no consequences.

Didn't they ask COAS Buratai: how come the army you command shot dead unarmed Biafra protesters in the churches?

Guess why the Hebrew religion is fast gaining ground, replacing Christianity in Biafra land. Those who brought us Christianity don't seem to adhere anymore to the teachings of Christianity.

Airforce1:
The girl and the crocodile look alike

Poor Crock. See how they make it suffer while still alive.

Like Buratai's mansion in Dubai, very soon, this mansion and the story shall be denied and forgotten, or the governor tells us that he bought the mansion with money he and his wife saved from their agriculture job.


Buhari shall accept and brush it away.
For Buhari, one can only be adjudged corrupt if one is not a northerner, or one is a political opponent of Buhari.

netoc65:
ODUDUWA REPUBLICAN SPOTTED

Oduduwa Republic? Never. Not in this world. Perhaps in the next world.
More Oduduwians have joined the predominantly Arewa religion in the last fifteen years than ever before.

Shared religious and other value systems exist between Arewa and Oduduwa. Both groups can share one Nigeria without the SE and SS.

Modsenemy:
Oil is a curse to Nigeria , hence , the downfall of every other sector.

I hope you have watched the footage of the heavily leaking roof at newly renovated Abuja airport .

These days we don't have business planes , we have private jets owned by the pas...rs

Ha ha ha. Do they understand yet that crude oil is a curse on Nigeria?

These days, Afonjaaaaaaaaas on top have taken to shameless sponsoring of some notable non-Igbos in the oil-producing SS to come to the media to pronounce: [my part of SS is not in Biafra]. Lol.



Tell Afonja that referendum is used in other countries to determine what the population want, Aifonja shall be talking about war, and hate speeches, as if he is sure Oyibo shall sponsor fight like in 1966 to 1970 to force Biafra back to Nigeria.

seunny4lif:
Cry ke
If you pay me like 50K per month
I go cry for Nigeria Airway

From Nigeria Airways to Nigeria Airports Authority, to ITT, to NITEL, to NEPA to Ajaokuta ...
Who managed them to comatose state shortly after the civil war and stole them to death eventually?


Afonjaaaaaaaaa.


Most annoying thing is that Afonjas don't want their New Allah-ordained country with Muslim northern Nigeria - their New Nigeria without Biafra.

Afonja believes that crude oil is the only thing that makes a country survive. Why didn't crude oil make Nigeria Airways survive?

Victornezzar:
mr man hope dis ur post ain't directed at me
am an igbo boy but I won't be deceived by Biafra
d way out is restructuring

Go join the Army, plan a military coup and succede, then become Head of State to restructure Nigeria politically.

If you refuse, you may be waiting for another 100 years before restructuring of Nigeria.
APC controlled by Arewa has just told you that political restructuring is not on the table before 2019, perhaps never.

For you to believe that sooner, Arewa shall agree to give up its political and economic advantages from the political structure and increased unity government which Arewa soldiers created, you never begin to dream.

Dissolution of Nigeria immediately is best option.

ORACLE1975:
madness

Only mad people refuse to accept that One Nigeria has failed the millions of people it was created by Oyibo to serve.

One Nigeria now serves the interest of a tiny minority.

Up IPOB, UP Yerima's Arewa Youth groups.

Both IPOB and Arewa Youth groups purely understand that one Nigeria is a FAILED EXPERIMENT NOT WORTH CONTINUING WITH.

GameGod:
Take it or leave it, that Declaration he coordinated has left the Biafrians gasping for breath, it has taken the shine out of the whole thing.

Igbo loves Yerima with his Arewa youths. They have hastened the dissolution of failed Nigeria which IPOB has been asking for.
Only a few Igbos still endure life in northern Nigeria since Sharia criminal codes and Boko Haram violence.

Only an Afonja can see the Igbos as gasping for breath over the quit notice...


Afonjas have no country to go to without one Nigeria.
Because Afonjas are nearly equally divided between Muslim and non-Muslim groups.
The Afonja Muslim group looks forward to Northern Muslims for directions, and in fact, can't imagine another country without northern Muslims.

But a non-Muslim Afonja understands that one Nigeria is huge obstacle against overall development in Afonja land, most of which still looks like Mali or Niger Republic.

Yerima and Co. gave quit notice to the remaining handful of Igbos in northern Nigeria.

Sharia criminal codes and Boko Haram both provoked mass exodus of Igbos from northern Nigeria in the last 15 years.

krendo:
But restructuring is not a nice to have fancy word

Restructuring is central to us being able to shape our economic future and secure long term jobs

The argument by Mobolaji exposes the shortsightedness of the APC

Time to ask Gov. Wike of Rivers State, how market, as you are reading APC junk reasons why political restructuring can't be done now -and most probably in the nearest future?

Self interest led former so-called leaders of the non-Igbo in the SS to beg Gowon to restructure Nigeria as they begged him to carve out non-Igbo areas from Biafra.

After creating Cross Rivers and Rivers states to scuttle Biafra, northern people seized the oil blocks in the Niger delta, the environment of the Niger delta devastated.

Pacotdc:
Group kicks, says talks deceptive, hypocritical

The All progressives Congress (APC) has adduced the need to fix the nagging problems of insecurity and the recession as reasons for the delay in restructuring the country as outlined in the party’s manifesto.

APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, yesterday in a chat with The Guardian, faulted claims that the party was playing politics with the issue, said the issue of restructuring the country may not be placed on the front burner before 2019.

According to him: “My own take is that every government has its own priority and you will agree with me that if you have to deal with the issue of Boko Haram or you need to deal with the issue of the economy that has gone into recession and all that, you have to get your priorities right. I don’t think it would be a wise move to add the challenges of restructuring if you have not dealt with the problems that affect the average Nigerian.

“So when people are hungry, when people are losing jobs, when people’s salaries are not being paid I think any responsible government would consider this to be a priority even while it still believes in the restructuring of the country.

“The issue of restructuring is never a gimmick. It is in the manifesto of our party. How can that be a gimmick? That is why I said that the fact that it has not been done does not mean that it would not be done.’’

Meanwhile, former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has lauded former military president Ibrahim Babangida for throwing his weight behind calls for the restructuring of Nigeria.

In a statement yesterday, he also commended the recent resolution of the APC Progressive Governors Forum and several well-meaning Nigerians who stressed the need to restructure and entrench true federalism in the polity.

Saying that the issue transcends religion and ethnicity, he noted that the convergence of positions by leaders and stakeholders from diverse regions of the country on the issue speak volume of the need to ensure good governance in the polity.

He explained that the agitations for secession would not have arisen if the country had shown sincere readiness to address the underlying problems that feed the agitations by separatist forces.

However, the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkadir, believes that those at the forefront of the calls to restructure the country were using it to score political goals.

Blaming the ruling elites for using the agenda to hoodwink the gullible populace to further their selfish desires, he challenged restructuring proponents to come out with a blueprint on how to achieve the goal.

If you look at the issue of fiscal federalism, are we going back to the old three of four regions or are we going to use the present six geo-political zones to achieve it? If we are to use the present six geo-political zone, take one of the zones for instance, which of the states of any of the zones would agree to merge with one another.

Also, the United Action for Democracy (UAD), a non-governmental and human rights group has kicked against the notion to restructure Nigeria as agitated for by some citizens of the country.

UAD yesterday at a press conference, moved against the pro-separatist agitation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the purportedly quit notice by the northern youths.

According to the convener of the group, Gabriel Ojumah, “Nigeria has moved from regional government to federal system of government yet things are not working right: what we need is not a geo-political restructuring but a change in the ruling class of the country.”

Ojumah reiterated that, “should Nigeria divide today, the known cabals in the leadership of the country will continue ruling in the various parts of the country hence we still come back to square one.” He added that the masses should be united in the front to change the current social order and exploitative ruling class in the country.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/apc-explains-delay-in-restructuring-nigeria-as-atiku-lauds-ibb/

But the issues of Boko Haram and Economic Recession should have hastened the political restructuring of Nigeria, instead of delaying it.


APC, this is another BUNKUM from you.

philpwresh:
The Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has reacted to the quit notice issued to Igbos by a coalition of northern youths.


The Arewa groups had asked South-easterners living in the north to vacate before October 1.


Giving his position on the issue which has drawn condemnation from many groups and individuals, the billionaire said joblessness was the reason for the ultimatum.


Dangote said this when a team of business executives from Lagos Business School (LBS), visited his multi-billion dollars refinery and petrochemical projects in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.


“Some guys who have no relevance and values came out to issue a warning that Igbo should leave the North.


‘I am surprised everybody started talking about this nonsense. Why are we talking about it?


“Obviously, in a place where there is a lot of joblessness, it is expected that this kind of jobless people would come out with all sorts of anger.


“We understand the reasons why they are angry, but they cannot justify their action when they have decided not to work.


“They only issue senseless warning to keep themselves relevant,” Nation quoted him.


Africa’s richest man assured that his refinery project, when completed, would create thousands of direct jobs for the youths and millions of indirect jobs in the value chain.


SOURCE

http://dailypost.ng/2017/06/28/dangote-reacts-quit-notice-igbos/

And Dangote has established job opportunities in all areas of Nigeria except in Igboland.


Even Dangote, as well as the Arewa youths know that Igboland is temporarily in Nigeria.

Divide and rule and exploit and devastate the environment of the non-Igbo in the SS has been doing the deal for northern and SW Nigeria.

NtoAkwaIbom:
see you will be more helpful to Biafra if you start reading good books... read and open ur mind... bikonu.

everything is Propaganda now, whoever wins, wins everything.
Ipob started "the zoo must fall" Propaganda, its a pity Nigerians has also come out to bring the "Ipob miscreants" "Ipob are brainwashed people" "Kanu is terrorist"... and now, its a fight u guys can never winagain.

Pity your plight.

If you are Yoruba, you don't transfer your plight to others..
Your people can never ask for Odua Republic from Nigeria, because Yoruba is nearly equally divided between Muslim and non-Muslim groups.

For directions, the Muslim Yoruba group which leads Yoruba politically looks forward to the descendants of Othman Dan Fodio in far north Nigeria.

But Nigeria has failed, woefully.

And the division among Yaribas makes it next to impossible for Yoruba to ask for Odua country.

If you are a non-Igbo from the SS, pity your abysmal low level of understanding of trends in Nigeria's political process.

It's your plight which makes you unable to understand that Wike can easily buy people to accompany him to Sokoto to protect his personal interest

Any democracy that doesn't offer Referendum to its people to decide issues is like a slave house. The House MUST FALL.

For decades since it was started, northern Nigeria politicians have been kicking against the payment of 13% from derivation to oil producing states.
The northern politicians complain that payment of 13% makes some states richer than others.

But for heightened agitation for Biafra, these northern politicians could have heightened their agitation for 13% from derivation be upturned. And quashing the 13% payment could have been easiest under a most pro-north 97% and 5% president like Buhari.

Agitation for Biafra has made the song of political restructuring a chorus for people who once objected to political restructuring. But what and how are we going to restructure to get an egalitarian society in Nigeria? Difficult, if not impossible.



Any one from the SE or SS objecting to restoration of Biafra, is the person not a most Ill-informed, or one only after his/her personal political fortune in one Nigeria?