₦airaland Forum

Afam4eva:
For those who don't understand what Ngige said. He says that politics is a business venture and if you don't invest in a business, you shouldn't expect dividends. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what has befallen our so called democracy. We can no longer exercise our democratic rights without being punished for it.

Or crudely put,

Those who gave me 5% cannot expect to be treated as good as those who gave me 97%

The people who beat the drums of war in Nigeria are Nigerians.

They usually start this by shouting an outdated, obsolete statement known as "one Nigeria!"

Osibanjo is a fool for making a statement like this

Accomplished Igbo woman

When Rochas Okoroawusa was saying he is coming on a rescue mission, what he meant was that he is on a mission to rescue his family.

My father was a Captain in the Biafran Army. On 30th May, we shall remember the men my father lost in battle.

Meanwhile, everybody in Imo knows that Okorocha is preparing this Uche Nwosu to take over in 2019

PaulKillerman:
My brother, write for yourself..

I'm Ikwerre , in Rivers state, Ohio/Akpor precisely, and I can categorically tell u your phantom city Biafra (or whatever the heck is) is not welcomed here one bit..
U can actualise your state, within the east and its 5 states, please leave south south out of your foolery ..
Thank you!!!

N/B : before you start calling Afonja (whatever that trash is; u can check my Post since I started on NL, to see where I hail, have stated it several times) as anyone that tells you deluded lots the truth to your face is automatically Afonja ;
Illusioned deluded bigots..

So you are Ikwerre and you have decided to speak for Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik, Oron , Ogoja etc?

Did they tell you they cant speak for themselves?

Iwuanyanwu is a deamer. So what Iwuanyawu is saying is that if Hausa/Fulani want to secede from Nigeria as Arewa Repubic, Igbos will go and fight them to preserve 'one Nigeria'? I laugh in Igbo

Why would his licence to practice law be withdrawn in Nigeria just because it was suspended in.the US?

Litmus:
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Cult of personality. Not good signs for his supporters prospective new nation.


Wikipedia extract:

What do you mean cult of personality? You mean you have never seen people kneel down in prayer?

Umu-Chukwu!

EzePromoe:
A Niger Delta Activist. Pray Nnamdi Kanu doesn't succeed in convincing her on Biafra. She's very influential amongst the Ijaw folks.

Kanu doesnt need to convince her. Biafra is the only hope Ijaws have of ever controlling their resources

lowkey0147:
especially our south west unity preachers who is following him bumpa to bumpa to get his latest news and even the latest clothes, shoes and wrist watch he is wearing... what an admired celebrity

You mean those ones who come to all Kanu threads with their calculators see how many people are around Kanu, if they are more than 10

Philadelphia:
What's the pay for officers (Sub-Lieutenant) in the Nigeria Navy?
Please verified sources only.

I dont know about the Navy but I heard that a 2nd Lieutenant is about 125k while a Lieutenant is about 180k

A Major General is about 1 million a month.

Moreoffaith:
Abeg KANU don't turn pastor?

Do you need to be a pastor to pray for people?

Be prepared to become an 'Ojukwu' or stop making noise about restructuring you will never get

The core North will never agree to restructuring. The south will not boycott elections, they are not united enough to do this, and even if they were, this action will not be enough to make the North change their position on restructuring. The North controls the apparatus of government as well as much of the military.

As far as Nigeria is concerned, the core North only care about power. Restructuring will take that power away from them. Anyone who thinks they are going to take it laying low is dreaming.


Anyone who truly wants restructuring must be ready to do what Ojukwu did. Ojukwu went to Aburi to get restructuring, the North agreed in Aburi only to return to Nigeria and renege on it. Ojukwu was left with only two choices, accept the will of the North or secede and fight for your sovereignty'. For Ojukwu, and indeed the Igbo nation, it wasnt really an option. It was over their dead body that they would accept Northern domination in the name of 'one Nigeria'

Fast-foward to present times. The same choice that faced Ojukwu 50 years ago faces all those who clamour for restructuring.

If you are not prepared to fight for your sovereignty like Ojukwu did, do not ask for restructuring. You will only expose your self as a toothless Bulldog not worth taking serious.

The North has no respect for 'talkatives', they only take serious those who rise up and fight for their right.

So it is what it is. Be prepared to become an 'Ojukwu' or stop making noise about restructuring which you will never get.

gberra:
Will you stop fooling yourself. The situation in the SS is similar to that of the NC each with its identifying features

Identifying features such as what? Oil?

PapaBrowne:
Having states and regions should not automatically equate to having more and more layers of governance. Everything doesn't need to have a replica of the other. I'd recommend we abolish state houses of assembly and replace them with regional houses, but we should have state executives headed by governors. Having regions and scrapping states would leave us with the same old problem of over centralization.

Also, this idea of sticking to what was in the past is the problem with the African mindset. Who says we cant create something new that would work in this era. True, states were a creation of the military, that doesn't mean it should be discarded just because! We should seek a model that would take us into the future, not just something that was in the past.

My best bet would be like this:

The 6 regions and 36 states are the best geographical composition we can have in Nigeria today. So we should maintain that. I would have recommended an additional state in the South East to match up with the rest but I think that should be up to the south east to decide. But the landmass is small. If the entire South East were a state, it would be the 14th largest state in Nigeria meaning there are currently 13 states in Nigeria bigger than the 5 states of the South East combined. But then again, Lagos as small as it is stays bigger in GDP than the least 25 states combined.

I would recommend an executive President in Abuja to manage the country.
I would recommend six regional heads to serve as executives for the regions.
The state governors should be retained but state houses of assembly should be eradicated and replaced with regional houses.

Executives are responsible for development so we an have different layers for that as that requires everyday work. Lawmakers just make laws and sincerely their services are not needed daily

We need to come up with new solutions as deliberate extensively to see which would work out best. And es, if it doesn't work after trying it, we discard it and try something else!

Your idea will make things much worse by adding a 4th tier of Government to the already over bloated and expensive 3 tier system we currently operate. It will also create a lot of confusion. There is nothing like scrapping the state house of assembly. Every tier of government must have a legislature in a democracy. It is only when it is a dictatorship that you dont need legislature. Every state must have a state assembky same as every state assembly must have a state. One cannit exist without the other in a democracy.

Also, a lot of people like me want to see a weak centre and the decebtralisatiin of powers. The president of Nigeria collects two salaries, one as executive president, and the other as commander in chief. It is not fair for one man to hold so much power, thats why many people want to kill themselves to president of Nigeria. So that office should be split into two. A ceremonial president who is comnander in chief, and a prime minister who is the executive.

gberra:
You can't seem to hide your inferiority complex which clearly defines you a unity beggar. Like it or not SS would go their separate ways. They have both the population, land mass & resources to chart their course. Your antics kole werk!

IPOBS always cry

Which one is unity begger? You are the person already begging for unity with 'SS'. Its laughable how someone can bring more than 40 tribes together and call them 'SS' or Niger Delta, what is that one supposed to mean?

A refendum has to be used to ask the various tribes which Region they want to belong to, not snatch peoples lands in the name of 'South South' that is not even recognised by the constitution.

postmann:
If you listen, listen and listen again you'd hear the drums of restructuring getting bit by bit louder.

A total boycott from the south can still happen with time, even if majority vote fails in the National assembly.

Against the North, those drums dont mean anything. If you boycott elections, its all to the Norths advantage.

There will be no restructuring unless the North agree and they have said it will be over there dead body. The only people who can challenge the North are those who are ready to take up arms. People like Ojukwu, Niger Delta militants. These are the people who the North take serious. The rest of you can shout restructuring forever, the North doesnt care

postmann:
With total cooperation from the 17 states of the southern region, states like Jos, Benue, Kogi, etc. can be persuaded given the fact that they too haven't enjoyed much from the current structure.

Alternatively, total boycott of all national eelections by the southern regions remain a sure proof that the south has had enough.

Not possible. The total control of the south in the national assembly is just about 38%, the North about 62%. What this means is that in other to get the 67% needed to pass a bill on restructuring. The entire SW/SE/SS/NC and at least half of either the NE and the NW, the two biggest opponents of restructuring.

The south are not united enough to boycott eletions

It is simply not possible.

Even if he does speak on Biafra, we all know what he is going to say:

"Fellow Nigeriand, let the Biafran war be a cornerstone for us to be united in one Nigeria"


Easy for the 'midget commissioner' to say, it wasnt his people that lost over 3 million people.

They are BIM which is the group Uwazuruike now leads. MASSOB is now led by Uche Madu.

When the North controlls over 60% of the votes at the national assmbly, how will anyone pass a vote on restructuring? It will never happen because the northerners will never agree to it.

PapaBrowne:
We don't have to abolish states to implement regions same way we didn't abolish LGs to implement states.

But without question regionalization is the only way forward.

I was in Kaduna and Kano some months ago. In Kaduna at the central area, you have some tall buildings mostly built in the 60s that depict the glory days of the city. In Kano, you have some wonderful buildings mostly built in the 60s. Then you have numerous warehouses in Bombay industrial layout also from the 60s that indicate that it thrived greatly in an era before this.

There are hardly any new quality buildings in these two cities for the last 40 years.

Isn't it a clear indication that regionalism favored the North and the oil has not benefited it in any way? Why then would its leaders be opposed to

Sorry but you have to abolish the states if you are to implement Regionalism. To have states and Regions is to make things much worse as you will have Regional Premiers, state Governors, Regional parliaments, state houses of assembly, national assembly. It would be too much and far more expensive than what we have now.

Nigeria did not used to have states, all these states are just mere military creations.

In Regionalism, the states have to go, the state assmbly's have to, the Senate has to go, the office of executive president and commander in chief of the armed forces has to go to be replaced by two new offices. The office of primeminister who will now hold executive power while the president of parliament will hold the title of commander in chief.

Also, many of the current Local governments will be merged with others to make 'provinces'. The old Eastern Region only had 20 provinces

The entire 36 states in Nigeria are a waste of time and money, they should be all abolished because Regions are much better and cost effective.

The only place I differ with Atiku is the adoption of the 6 geopolitical zones as the federating Regions. I think that a referendum should be held to allow people decide what Region they want to join.

Also, each Region will have right of secession.

victorvezx:
I am a Nigerian. Almost all countries in Africa were a creation of colonisation and most of them leave in peace with many tribes in their country. So stop acting like the case of Nigeria is different. It is Biafra that is the fraud, because it never existed before Nigeria as most of u Biafra fraudsters claim. If u don't have border, then u can't lay claim to anything. Deal with it or u people trigger a war

How are you a Nigerian? You stole the name Lugards wife came up with and claimed it as your own, you stole the country Lugard created and claimed it as your own. You are stealing other peoples inventions and shamelessly fronting it as your own.

But when you see people like Ojukwu, Kanu and Uwazuruike and others coming up with their own names and trying to create their own countries you get angry because you cant to do what they are doing.

So you have no choice but to do what all slaves do, you go back to answering the name your white slave master imposed on you.

Nigeria is a British invented colonial fraud. The question isnt if Nigeria can work, no fraud ever works. The question is who is a Nigerian?

It is not every marriage that will work despite the best of intentions. For Nigeria to move foward, the indigenous people of the land have to embrace it. But a situation were people are being forced against their will to answer to a colonial machnation and some people still expect progress and development is laughable.

Nigeria is heading no where

SoNature:
I'm proudly Igbo and I strongly believe that if Nigeria is restructured, most of the agitation will die a natural death.

And if Nigeria is not restructured, then what? You dont know that the North will never allow restructuring? 50 years ago, Ojukwu went to Aburi to avoid war and get restructuring instead, till today there is no restructuring.

Restructuring is not possible in Nigeria but it is 100% a must in Biafra

ISpiksDaTroof:
Restricting your territory to just the Five core Ibo states and Biafra aint looking like the land of the rising sun no more, huh? You want something with access to the sea, maybe a little crude Oil and like another 800sq miles to accommodate your 40-50million strong population and all will be right in South Eastern heaven, yes?

Well, sorry, thats not how it works. Im sure, though, that if you ask for just those 5 states and nothing more Nigeria will gladly acquiesce to your wish.

Well you may have to go back in history and check, Biafra has never been about being Igbo. As I say all the time, the last president of Biafra, General Philip Effiong was not an Igbo man. The word Biafra is not even an Igbo word.

If anything, Biafra is a 'lower Niger' thing. While there may be people who do not buy the idea of Biafra, a referendum will separate the wheat from the chaff.

Even if Biafra was just about Igbos, it is not for Nigeria to say who is Igbo by state creation. The original map of Igbo land drawn by British colonialists included the Igbos of the lower Benue, the Western Igbos or Anioma and the Southern Igbos which includes much of the Igbo/Igboids of present day Rivers state including the Ikwerres of Portharcourt. The same colonialists drew the map of Nigeria. If Igbos/Igboids/indigenous Igbo speaking people were all to secede, they would be fine.


Biafra is not about being Igbo same as Nigeria is not about being Yoruba

Jim Iyke is now serving food and drinks in Kanu's house. Biafra has assumed a life of its own

“By Friday, May 19, 2017, at about 09.30 hours, women in large number surged towards the stadium. It was at that point the patrol team moved close to the arena, with intent to monitor them further.

“On sighting the team, the women ran out, removed part of their dresses and converged in an alternate venue where the Divisional Police Officer, Abiriba and His Royal Majesty Eze Ogbu of Abiriba addressed the gathering

Lets take a look at this. The Nigerian Army has shot and killed unarmed IPOB. The Nigerian Army has has arrested and tortured IPOB. However, the same Nigerian Army with its notorious reputation for human rights violation heard that Biafran women were having meeting and the only went there to 'monitor' them?

So the women saw the military and took of their dresses? How can women see the Army and just take of their cloths?

The Nigerian Army must think we are all fools.