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Watch video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty495X_Qqy4

This is total rubbish

Islam is a religion made by terrorists for terrorists. Not that any country with major Islamic population would be dealing with one terrorist group or the other

lalasticlala:
‘The moment he is released, kill him’ – Islamic cleric orders death of man arrested in Sokoto for blasphemy - NewsWireNGR



https://newswirengr.com/2021/07/15/the-moment-he-is-released-kill-him-islamic-cleric-orders-death-of-man-arrested-in-sokoto-for-blasphemy/

The terrorists at our doors.

Both US and Russia are afraid of themselves. Highest that could come of it is another cold war

One thing I'm certain of is that I'm not voting for any South Western presidential candidate. Especially Tinubu. The South West already had a president and VP. If they can't unanimously vote a South Eastern man for the president in 2023 (South East that hasn't had a president since the time of Azikiwe), then I know they're all words but still at heart, betrayers to the South.

ChangedMan1999:
Before the two tribes can unite, one needs to leave the 2023 presidential position for the other.

It's a big JOKE if the South West are still contesting for presidency despite the fact that the South East hasn't had a president in ever.

ShadowCracker:
I am open-minded to anything.

if working with Igbo's will get us Yoruba nation quicker, fine by me.

But they should remeber "No permanent Friends, or Enimies, Just permanent interests".

Powerful nations always have allies. That's one thing Nigerians don't understand. As much as the British and French diss each other, they'll immediately become allies should any if their interests be threatened. Remember, we are the South. South East or South West, but we are the South. Divided we are 50 million 60 million strong apiece. But together we number more than the North

At least they're lucky it'll only last a month or so then Autumn then Winter. Us it's heat day in day out. Especially in Lagos.

July 4th, July 11th, July 13th, and numerous other Julys. I'm sure Julius Ceaser must have laid a curse in Brittannia.

Akalia:
Don't pray that China will emerge as the number one super power nation in the world, someday. The day such happens, a vast number of third world countries will either be colonised or re-colonised by means of subtle or forceful expasionism agenda.
The Chinese are a bred of mean communists, they are also racists and overly ambitious.

Good. Look what we did with our country when left to govern ourselves. Tell me, how are things better now than when we were colonized. African Blacks are incapable of governing themselves. They need to be colonized for 400 years at least, like the Romans did to the British to completely eradicate that inherent savagery and barbarism.

US grasping at straws. Trying aggressively to expand the reach of their dying empire. They can't slow or stave it. It'll fall like Britain, Rome, and the rest.

Cool, but this looks staged as fyck. Old parlor trick.

Counting your chicks...I can't wait for England to lose.

You're pretty gay but OKAY

Home, boys

Blacks doing what they do best

HonNL:
Previous thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6639890/presumed-assassins-president-jovenel-moise#103481001


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/15/45198331-9769109-image-a-17_1625753542875.jpg
President Moise with First Lady Martine and their three children, from left, Jomarlie, Jovenel Jr and Joverlein

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/19/45207467-9769109-image-a-39_1625768118505.jpg
One of the men detained by Haitian police on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/19/45207475-9769109-image-a-42_1625768139904.jpg
Another male suspect is seen covered in blood as he was loaded into the back of a police car Thursday - one day on from the deadly raid on the president's mansion
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/18/45205979-9769109-image-a-26_1625765276088.jpg
The two men were reportedly found hiding in bushes by civilians who roughed them up before turning them over to police
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/17/45203973-9769109-image-a-11_1625761525999.jpg
Six 'assassins' have been arrested and seven killed over the murder of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse, police said. The bodies of two of the people killed by police are pictured being transported away in a police vehicle

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/07/22/45165687-9766403-Moise_was_taken_by_ambulance_to_Jackson_Memorial_Hospital_in_Mia-a-49_1625692154476.jpg
The critically-injured Martine Moise was flown to Miami and then taken by air ambulance to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment after she was shot alongside her husband
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/07/22/45165713-9766403-Trinity_Air_Ambulance_touches_down_at_Fort_Lauderdale_Executive_-a-47_1625692154469.jpg
Trinity Air Ambulance touches down at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in Florida, carrying the gravely injured Martine Moise, Haiti's First Lady, who was shot during an assassination raid that killed her husband, Haitian President Jovenel Moise
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/05/45175803-9766403-Martine_Moise_first_lady_of_Haiti_arrives_at_Jackson_Health_Syst-a-55_1625717118245.jpg
Martine Moise, first lady of Haiti, arrives at Jackson Health System's Ryder Trauma Center, in Miami, for treatment Wednesday after being shot multiple times at her home earlier in the day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in the attack that killed her husband
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/18/45204881-9769109-image-a-20_1625764757121.jpg
A crowd of locals gathered outside the Petion Ville police station Thursday demanding police hand over the suspects so they can burn them in retaliation for the president's assassination

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/18/45203977-9769109-image-a-31_1625765840611.jpg
Police try to control the crowd gathered outside the police station as six suspects have been arrested and seven killed
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/14/45151413-9769109-A_car_riddled_with_bullet_holes_outside_the_late_president_s_hom-a-4_1625751505868.jpg
A car riddled with bullet holes outside the late president's home in the hills near Port-au-Prince on Wednesday
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/14/45151399-9769109-Ammunition_casings_lay_on_the_ground_near_the_entrance_to_the_ho-a-6_1625751509372.jpg
Ammunition casings lay on the ground near the entrance to the house of late Haitian President Jovenel Moise
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/08/05/45171809-9766403-Investigators_work_near_Haitian_President_Jovenel_Moise_s_home_i-a-57_1625717118305.jpg
Investigators work near Haitian President Jovenel Moise's home in Port-au-Prince collecting evidence after the assassination





@AP

If it were the reverse and the American president was assassinated by Haitians, this would have been an act of war, and HAITI would have been invaded by American forces. But Africans are weak and only have mouth against themselves. Even the fact that the people beat only the black assassin's and left the white ones alone is enough evidence of Africa's slavery mentality. If it we're me I would have shot those two Americans in the head in the most brutal way.

Take her to your place, have sex, and she'll never leave you trust me.

post=103430901:
In every sane society the structures were supposed to be built one hundred meters (or more) away from the road.

All states in Nigeria should Come to Lagos state for more sight-seeing and how things are done, even if they cannot go abroad.

Lagos State : A country within a country!!

A better Nigeria all around is all we want.

God bless Anambra State.
God bless Lagos State.
God bless Nigeria

We Rise.

Are you kidney me? Me that live in Lagos for 24 years. Shio! Na so dem dey lie so?

I've just been going through the comments and what I've been seeing is, Igbo fighting Rivers, Rivers fighting Akwa Ibom, Akwa Ibom Dissing Calabar, Delta fighting Igbo, Yoruba fighting South East and South South. Like, where the Unity dey. You can never see this kind thing in a northern forum. Just imagine people from Kano fighting against people from Borno even though it's North East vs North West. Unthinkable right? Una better calm down.

sapientia:
How does what she wrote relate to the title?

THIS:


Yesterday I announced that I would unveil my thoughts regarding the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Several people reached out, advising me to be neutral and steer clear of political discourse. They meant well for a young female writer with a reputation to protect, an image to project, and the care not to cause offense.

I almost yielded but changed my mind this morning.

The Igbos are the same people about whom I wrote my current published work, In Blood and War, a book set in the then troubled Biafra.

On principle, I consider it unethical to make money off retelling the struggle of this tribe, and in the same breath be silent about their same struggle.

It is beneath morality for a writer to choose to speak only when it favours him or her. To retreat to silence in order not to ‘taint’ reputation.

To speak on this particular issue, of the man called Nnamdi Kanu, does not tribalize me or my works of literature. Especially as this remains an age-long fear of most writers; the fear of offending, a fear of stepping on toes, of banishment by a displeased societal sect, and even possible ostracism.

I speak because the making of a villain or hero often depends on who tells the story. Representation matters, when perspective becomes the thin line between an activist or a terrorist.

WHO IS NNAMDI KANU?
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Nnamdi Okwu Kanu is a Nigerian Biafra political activist, and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB.

In a move to create an independent state for the people of old Eastern Region of Nigeria through an independent referendum, Kanu founded IPOB in 2014.

He began his activism for the freedom of Biafra as director of Radio Biafra in 2009, and anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

NNAMDI on Referendum, and SECESSION
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According to Article 2 of the nation’s constitution, Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state to be known by the name of the ‘Federal Republic of Nigeria’.

Our law does not recognise the right of a state to break away from the union. The only way to legally grant such an option is through an amendment to the law.

Hence, Nnamdi Kanu’s call for a referendum.

Same constitution only addresses two scenarios where a referendum is recognised – state boundary adjustment and the recall of a member of the National Assembly.

Headstrong on this path, Nnamdi Kanu ran into trouble with the Nigerian government and was first arraigned over allegations of terrorism, money laundering, treason, others, on October 14, 2015.

Later granted bail in 2017, he fled Nigeria in September after the military invaded his home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State, in the southeast of Nigeria. A move that prompted the Nigerian government to secure a court order proscribing IPOB as a terrorist group.

Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts remained unknown until his recent arrest a few days ago. He and his co-defendant are currently facing treasonable felony charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. He also faces charges on unlawful possession of firearms and management of an unlawful society. The presiding judge adjourned the case to July 26, 2021.

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Last week, while parceling one of my books to a buyer, a young boy of about 20 years old was making a call beside me.

At the end of his call, I understood four things:

1. He was negotiating to pay 200k to obtain a form that will identify him as a Niger Delta militant

2. This young man was not a militant

3. Incriminating himself and mortgaging his future through filling out such form would enable him get his share of the amnesty dished out by the Federal government monthly.

4. Our government negotiates with terrorists.

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Since the arrest of the IPOB leader, my feed has been agog with posts casting aspersions on his person. Of which majority are made by Igbos, falling over themselves in a frenzy to denounce Nnamdi Kanu.

Meanwhile, a regular Hausa man is yet to put aside his Suya trade, cast on ashes and put on sackcloth, and then come on social media to endlessly bemoan the menance of Boko Haram in the country.

My ear still itches, awaiting the day a regular Yoruba man would take a chill off a peppery dish to criticize Obj. for not being the messiah we had hoped for. No, he is their brother. They must not speak bad of him.

Neither are the Ijaws pausing the oil bunkering trade in the rivers long enough to come online and rant about distancing themselves from militancy in the Niger Delta region.

I am yet to see any of these tribes measure the size of their phallus by how hard they throw their kinsman under the bus.

But not your average Igbo man.

No. Not the average Igbo man with itchy fingers, who masturbates off lambasting Nnamdi. The Igbo man must belong. He must trend. It is fashionable.

The Igbos are a bit too extra on this table.

GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?
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Still on the call for secession, on the 2nd of June 2021, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made the below ‘heartwarming endearment’ to the Igbos on Twitter :

“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”

The above threat from the house of the presidency stinks of beating a child and asking him not to cry.

No one in their right mind departs a good home, one that is working.

Shouldn’t the real question then be . . . why do these people so badly want to stay apart from the rest of the nation?

First demonize a people, call their outcry terrorism, then their injustice becomes acceptable, their oppression becomes deserving.

Guilty or not guilty?

Nnamdi’s methodology may be rad, but his intentions are understandable. And for that, I will not throw him under the bus. Unbridled passion, passion without diplomacy, is all I see.

SOBER REFLECTIONS
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In the words of Peter Tosh, everyone is crying out for peace and none for justice.

I ponder in idle musings:

Whether Nnamdi is a terrorist, depends on what you mean by a terrorist. Yesterday it was Sowore. Then the youths at the Lekki tollgate. Today Nnamdi. Or could it be that this country only understands you better when you act mad?

On nitty-gritty, we might have become a nation that picks and chooses the brand of terrorists deserving of amnesty. Perhaps the class with guns and doing the most harm are more deserving on the VIP list. That is the only way the massacre of the armless IPOB youths can make sense.

One day, in a saner clime abounding in freedom of speech, I will laud the beautiful corruption of a beloved country called Nigeria

Till then, we will watch the brave made into examples, and shiver at the spectacle, until fear seals our lips and sends us tumbling back into the tunnel of silence.

Link to article: https://opinionnigeria.com/reflections-on-the-man-nnamdi-kanu-by-gloria-ogo/

sapientia:
How does what she wrote relate to the title?

It's in reference to one recent article published by Gloria Ogo who many people are mistaking for Chimamanda Adichie. I'll post the article with the link if I can.

Kinobi:
Is she not the one that wrote Black Opal. I read that book sometime ago. She just seems like another Chinua Achebe wannabe. Just like Chimamanda. Most of these igbo writers don't have a unique voice. They're all just copies of Chinua Achebe. This Gloria Ogo is nothing different and nothing special. Her book, In Blood and War was interesting Sha, I can't lie.

Know this and know peace

tobstarizhia:
So the whole "Half of a Yellow Sun" means absolutely nothing. I knew I shouldn't take that woman's opinion seriously. Luckily, Igbo Authors like Gloria Ogo, among others are not taking the cowardly silence. Gloria's book "In Blood and War" is even better than "Half of a Yellow Sun" in my honest opinion.

Is she not the one that wrote Black Opal. I read that book sometime ago. She just seems like another Chinua Achebe wannabe. Just like Chimamanda. Most of these igbo writers don't have a unique voice. They're all just copies of Chinua Achebe. This Gloria Ogo is nothing different and nothing special. Her book, In Blood and War was interesting Sha, I can't lie.