₦airaland Forum

Fejoku:
If I don't know Yoruba history, I would.have been misled to assume the jargons you typed made any sense. When Yorubas were fighting Kiriji wars and killing themselves because they couldn't agree on anything among themselves, we in Igboland were leaving peacefully. Your ancestors had to beg the Europeans to intervene and save you from yourselves. Even Ilorin was lost to the fulanis- you current masters because Yorubas failed to agree among themselves. Am I lying? Do you want me to bring proofs to all the claims I made in this comment?
Ndigbo- a formidable people whose history recorded us as living in peace with other smaller groups all around us proves the level of egalitarianism found among us. We have an identity before the colonialism and we still have our identity till date. A stupid nitwit from the jungles of Oshogbo can't be the one to tell us what to adopt and what not to.
Keep your Songhai to yourselves and your fulani masters while we keep our BIAFRA to ourselves and our brothers in our region.

How can a people who loosely organise fight anyone. I told you my grandfather had more than 500 indentured Igbo labourers.

Fejoku:
Yorubas and fulanis can adopt the name Songhai after Nigeria has disintegrated. We from the Eastern side had no contact or business with Songhai. We have our own identity which was well recorded in history and that name was BIAFRA. As you all know, we have bled for that name and it is what we still prefer to identify with. Therefore, whatever is your reason for coming up with Songhai should remain with you and those who have any affiliation with it.
Egbe biri, ugo biri. Nke si na ibeya agaghị ebi, nku kwakwa ya.

The problem with igbo’s is you have never been organised. Like yorubas and the Hausa city state. The only paramount ruler is the obi of Ontisha and I understand he migrated from Benin.

It is a new contraption now that every little community now have a chief, it is a new phenomenon borrowed from the west and North.

Having said that, how dear Igbo nation reject d name Songhai when they have never had any organised community in their existence. Is it wonder y the east is bedlam’s of unknown gun men because every wants to be boss. At times u need to succumb to authority.

The new Songhai £ would be 7.40 to the dollar once 2 zeros have been taking out from the current rate of 740 to the dollar.

Christistruth00:
Awolowo was too busy trying to overtake Europe

And he did really overtook Europe especially Eastern Europe.

gidgiddy:
It is a sacrilege to call your self the name of an empire. Empire is an evil thing because it means that at some point, some people left their land to gi to other peoples land and take over the place by brute force. Theres nothing good about that

Out of all the empires that exist in west Africa the only not to have metormophised to state is Songhai.

Ghana, Benin, Mali,

pandax:
One of the reasons behind the push for the change of the name, Nigeria is because of the history behind that name and you want us to change to a name, Songhai with an even worse past. Abort mission, as it is mission impossible

My grandfather a wealthy ondo farmer and the first man to have a car in Ondo, used to have Igbo’s and midwestern carry him in a hammock to his farm. Would you call such indentured workers slaves. That was how they lived back in the days.

pandax:
Perish that thought please, Besides most Nationalities of Nigeria not having any affiliations with the empire, The Songhai empire was built on conquest and slavery, and we need not resuscitate it. Imagine, Mansa Musa had over 1000 slaves and you are proud to admit it.

Slaves were what defined a man’s wealth in those days. Just like when have cars today.

oyatz:
Presidential, senatorial and Reps elections were conducted simultaneously and most people voted for the same party (from Top to Bottom) because Obi's name wasn't on the ballot papers, only the names and Logos of political parties were on the ballot paper.

Many politicians that won elections on the platform of the LP did so, not because the people loved them but they rode to power on the love some people had for Peter Obi and thus voted for his political party (GRV understood this phenomenon and tried to use it but he wasn't very diplomatic about it, so it back fired).
However, this was only limited to a small fraction of the Political spectrum of Nigeria and not enough to win a Presidential Election.

Check all the elections from 1959, there is no minority party that won a Federal election/Presidential election without having a majority in the senatorial and Reps elections.

Thank you said it all

pandax:
Maybe, Northwest Nigeria can claim and adopt that name for its region. In fact, it will be sacrilegious for the people of Middle Belt and Western Nigeria to accept that name. My people have no connection or contact with the defunct Songhai Empire

FYI, the Songhai alliance is taking shape already and Nigeria will not be a part of it, except NorthWest Nigeria wants to join. Senegal is the next country to fall to coup plotters and the alliance will be complete

Mr man you think the tribes in the middle belts and south exists in isolation, where did the slaves that were sold to Arab traffickers come from , they were middle belts & Southerners. It would be inconceivable that they Northerners in Savanna belts would sell kiths and kin to slavery when their other tribes amongst them to d south.

Mansa Musa was believed to have over 1000 slaves.

pandax:
WAZOBIA Union is good as well, but not Songhai ooo

Why not Songhai, Mali is already beating Mali obtained from the Malian empire. Upper Volta is Butkina faso, that leaves just us and Niger to claim the name. And I think the Nigerians are happy with their current name. That leaves us to claim it.

Moreover Mali had their own empire I think it was b4 or after Songhai.

pandax:
Mali is the epicenter of the Songhai Empire, and it extended into parts of Burkina Faso, Niger, and a very negligible part of Nigeria. The Songai coalition had been formed by Mali, Burkina Faso & Niger already and they are willing to defend their Kingdom.

Please tell your President, Mr Tinubu, in case he is muting that idea to perish the thought of calling Nigeria Songhai as it doesn't reflect the histories and aspirations of the majority of Nigerian ethnic nationalities

My Suggestions:
BONDA Repulic - Biafra, Oduduwa, Niger Delta, Arewa

BOMBA Republic - Biafra, Oduduwa, Middle Belt, Arewa

BOA Union - Biafra, Oduduwa, Arewa

Rather than go for all this your Bo-something names I think Wazobia might be better or Songhai.

mrvitalis:
just answer my question sir.. You are Yoruba right?

I am a Nigerian, soon to be a Songhian

The Songhai Empire was the largest and last of the three major pre-colonial empires to emerge in West Africa. From its capital at Gao on the Niger River, Songhai expanded in all directions until it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean (modern Senegal and Gambia) to what is now Northwest Nigeria and central Niger. Gao, Songhai’s capital, which remains to this day a small Niger River trading center, was home to the famous Goa Mosque and the Tomb of Askia, the most important of the Songhai emperors. The cities of Timbuktu and Djenne were the other major cultural and commercial centers of the empire.

The Songhai people founded Gao around 800 A.D. and established it as their capital in the 11th century during the reign of Dia Kossoi. As the city and region grew in importance, the Malian Empire incorporated both as it expanded across the West African savanna.

And we change Lagos to Las Gidi. Or Gidi

Or do we prefer Naija-

We thank God Obi did not make it . No one predict that lunatic kanu.

Won’t you be proud you are all descendants of d richest man that ever lived. Mansa Musa

The name change from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso really lifted that nation.

illicit:
Sahara u mean

Yoruba is in Savannah

Savannah/ Sahara, Yoruba is in d forest/ savanna

mrvitalis:
Let me guess you are Yoruba right?

Songhai empire reined mostly in d savanna, Yoruba was not involved. But it is a good name where d richest man that ever lived came from. Mansa Musa

Independence Day is nearing best time to

1. Change d name of country

2. Best time to rededominate d Naira by removing 2 zeros

3. Best time to reset d economy.

Some people wants us to change our name and since there used to be a big empire in west Africa called Songhai empire, which stretched all the way from Mauritanian to Chad covering most Northern Nigeria why not adopt this sacred name.

Abi Wazobia is better, what is your view.

Tochi360:
Shut up jareh😀 is it not the same structureless Lp You said will not win one polling unit outside Anambra😀

Do You want Us to compare the performance of structureless Lp with that of your former Acn since You are ignorant😀

If you have sense, You will understand that people trooped out for Lp bcus they wanted a new leg,Apc is no doubt the worst calamity to befall this Country, going back to pdp was not a very good idea to many, so sticking with Lp the party for the common man in any Country was the best option.

I am sure ignorant You thinks Lp is a Nigerian thing,😀 if You are a common hustler,teacher,trader,artisan,farmer etc You are Lp by default, You just wan zombie and mumu yourself for whatever reasons😀

Like the court said where is your evidence. Abi na for your mind love win😳 No Governor, I don’t forget they have one. Few Senators and paltry HOR members and yet they won, how?

Pierocash:
if you have anything like brain, you should have known that most of the Governorship seat , and house elections were rigged , it is the ones they couldn't succeed in rigging that was declared in favour of labour.

It is only in Nigeria that people use politics to throw away their senses , and refuse to admit that Nigeria is always rigged to favour some powerful forces. But they want to go and get job in nnpc, and CBN, and when they couldn't get it, they suddenly admit that the employment slots has being already rigged to favour some powerful people. But once it comes to politics , they throw away their senses , and pretend like they don't know what transpired .

No be your papa mate be nnpc Group managing director, and CBN governor, are they more qualified than your father, why didn't he become one? The f.ool will now admit that na who knew who they go there

LP could not even more than one Governor & only 7 Senators not to talk of the 27 HOR . God knows what Obi and that woman Aisha are smoking

Abeg Obi should go & sit down. No where in d world has a party won an election and took the legislation with them Haba!!!

And they cannot recapture Sambesi forest in Borno state today.

With exchange rate $1= N1000 , every Judge is as broke as church mouse and would honour only the highest bidder.

That poor Uber driver that won the election in southern Kaduna I hope he has not been kicked out.

At this rate they would probably change the whole member of both houses of Assembly. How can the legislators be focused if all they would be thinking off is election matters.

How can they do their work effectively, doing the oversight functions.

There is anarchy in the horizon ohh!!!😳

ezechi242:
abeg shut up and learn.....which kind hatred be this chai.

By saying Igbo’s are dominant is not hatred. It is a statement of fact. See Igbo’s in South Africa, in India, in Kenya not to talk of their backyard in Ambazonia.

RushManni:
Bro, you don't understand. You really don't understand.

The last election going by what it implies (by using BVA and Real Time Transmission ) is one way to have a free and fair election; but what happened ? We all know what happened.

I think the only way is to invest in people wey dey reason well for this country then let's see if life with the idiots and sensibles can be the same.

Another way is a national prayer of Vengeance on these politicians. This is how it'll be, starting from LG chairman people will pray very violent prayers on them if they are doing wrong in their various constituencies and so on till the president level .....

More like, pray for your lga chairman for God to visit him with vengeance if he is doing / leading wrongly and wickedly.

Bring a solid legal ground that shows that he is eating collective money which isn't his and see wonders.

Our pastor's, this is what they should be doing but sorry they've been facing elsewhere since time immemorial. They don't wanna face the truth. So let's see how long they would want to pretend that "God will fix Nigeria through tinubu/buhari. Buharis own has failed."

Prayers still work. Just that those who should be doing that are dining with occultic and wicked people who call themselves politicians

How can we go on like this. At the last count more than 100 House of reps & Senator results has been upturned to the highest bidder. This is not democracy, Haba!

When the Governor’s win 2nd term they down tools. Can someone tell me specifically what Fayemi did on his second tenure in Ekiti State.

Apart from Wike 2nd term na for jollof for most Governors.