₦airaland Forum

Alariiwo:
Who told you I hate Igbos?

That's how you people will be jumping into conclusions like bush meat.
Nonsense!

resurgentxtian4:
The igbo tribe is an enemy to Yorubas. What else is there to find out? You revel and jubilate in any calamity that befalls is and you can’t wait to see a genocide against Yorubas so we need to prophet to tell us who our enemies are.

Just take a look at the comments of your tribesmen since the news came out that 2 yorubas were allegedly killed by herdsmen in Ogun and ekiti states yesterday.

Odkosh:
Ok, tribe of swines.

Odkosh:
[s][/s]Dagini dagini boda ode, swine, what are you taking. Talk about the casino bombing which gour fathers never told you before all cos of victim mentality. Wicked selfish people that only talked about their own causaty during the war but ignore their own attrocities to others. War start, You hurt them, they hurt you. You even hurt people that did not partake in the war. What concerns me if war enter your sitting room, is it not what you called upon yourself, or is it yorubas that declared war on you?. And you are still wondereing why God did not answer you. It is because he is not a biased God that support victim criers like you. Nonsense. Oga mumu, i do not hate others in the south, others are not stupid like you that shout hatred daily. Stop dragging them and speak for your pathetic self.

resurgentxtian4:
Ok now I am hausa? Wow, your dementia must have really have gotten to you.

Odkosh:
You are not only demented genetically, you are foolish join. I repeat, casino saga will continue to live with us. Unless you people want us to visit it again. We never forgot. Who cares about the igbo progrom, na we send una male una mock them. Oga ade, pack go one corner. Thinking you are the only one that has monopoly to victim mentality. Can you imagine wjat tge swine is saying, BBC hausa just decided to propagate anti igbo and the started killing you without any provoke. Ofcourse what do i expect your radio whatever to trll you before. Do i expect them to tell you the bad side of you. Beside why are you dudging the casino saga i have been talking about. You see what i just said about you cunning people. Trying not to talk about that but keeps shouting igbo progrom. Infact, you are suffering from generational curse.

resurgentxtian4:
Just continue gloating at the killings and the uproar generated by the killings will be buried under politically motivated balderdash. The way igbos are going about the killings,it makes it seem that igbos are even the ones executing the gruesome murder to justify their hate for Buhari.

Igbos can’t just do anything right. They always mess up theor relationships with other Nigerians.

mrkunlex:
Ex Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode Via his twitter handle today shared a photo of pregnant christian woman slaughtered and burnt alive by fulani terrorists.
see his tweet below;
Fulani terrorists slaughtered and burnt alive this pregnant Christian woman during an attack in Dumne, Song LGA, Adamawa state. I received the picture from CAN this morning and I wept. Pl let the world see it and let them know what is happening to our people in Nigeria!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVvvhEVW0AAC8vT.jpg
source: https://mobile.twitter.com/realFFK/status/962626318864089089?p=v
Cc; Lalasticlala, Mynd44

EnkayDezign4:
http://sunnewsonline.com/the-conspiracy-against-nigeria/

@myndd44 @lalasticlala @seun....mods help us with this discussion please.

plessis:
The yorubas are responsible for this.

kramer:
From what I understand there was never a case of the Yoruba commoner (outside the Nigerian Army) collectively setting out to kill Igbo people. The hausas did it not the yorubas. The hausas did to the igbos what the Hutus did to the Tutsis that I agree, but you hardly see igbos attacking the hausas on NL, it almost as if they're scared the hausas would come for them again

ReubenE:
I knew you would say the above.

I lived with the Igbos for quite a long while, even now I still visit from time to time because I have a family in Imo State.

You may think all I said concerning the Igbos are tales of Nollywood, but I am not perturbed because you're at liberty to believe anything you want.
From experience, I discovered that Igbos have nuclear grade envy for others that do better than them.
If you eat meat pass dem, na problem. If you buy a car before they do especially when you are sharing the same facility, they get envious, to the point of arranging for hoodlums to steal the car so that you can be at per with them.
One cannot hold the position of a market secretary when you don't share the same ethnicity with them. I remember back then in Imo State, out of envy, some Igbo traders reported my in-law to the authorities that he is dealing in illegal business after he indicated his interest to become the president of their trade union.....my brother, the list is endless.

This is no Nollywood cuz I don't even see their movies

kingem:
Am seeing 3 different faces

abi its ma eye

OP, which of them is chioma

knowledgeable:
How can a separation(of Retrogressive fooools) from you be a foolish act or even Retrogressive??.

You see why Igbos look at Yorubas and their logicals with extreme disdain...

tunjiajayi:
You and your kind of Igbo are the idiots, miscreants and misfits.

Retrogressive fooools.

tunjiajayi:
Your perspective is super myopic!
You put too much importance on yourselves.
Also the hatred was not spurn from Buhari's candidature.
It has always been there mutually, don't expect it to wane soon as you and your people are still playing the same card you have been playing since the civil war, blaming others without introspection or retrospection.
Get off your high horse, and be responsible for the hate you people bring on yourselves.

sarrki:
You don't even understand yourself

sarrki:
Pmb is on a rescue mission to the southeasterns

Cofactor:
REGIONAL AUTONOMY OR SELF DETERMINATION: A WAY FORWARD FOR THE YORÙBÁ

The tragedy of Nigeria is that in spite of an history that has lasted more than a century of amalgamation, it is still strongly divided along the major ethnic lines, while religion still plays an important role in its politics. This is so because Nigeria is not a product of natural evolution but the imagination of some people outside the African continent. Sadly, this imagination has forced Nigeria into a spiral along the cyclone of backwardness, underdevelopment and State failure due to the country failure to adopt one of the finest laws of nature which ensured that the cells of liver can only form the organ called liver and that of the kidney can only form the kidney to prevent cellular chaos.

At best, these organs along with other cellular organizations can now come together to form sustainable systems and ultimately an organism. This process is called organization; a process that once define Nigeria's political and economic structure before the destructive coup d'etat that struck the country twice in 1966. Today's Nigeria is a country that can be likened to a scenario of amalgamated Japan, Korea and China with French as their lingua franca. As a country, these three distinct nations will never take a step forward, they will continue to be at loggerheads and will continue to look for an escape out of such unholy union.

It is an amalgamation that is cancerous in nature and essence, for the cells of kidney has been inoculated with that of liver which will continually be at war with one another until they die out; leaving no room for cooperation, survival, growth and productivity. This is a consequence of the failure of these different cells to agree, to cooperate and to survive, and it is when they are able to survive, that they will grow and ultimately produce. Thus, cooperation, survival, growth and productivity will cease to exist in any society that has failed to organize itself based on this natural law. Hence, there is almost a zero possibility that the Yorùbá nation, Igbo nation and Hausa/Fulani nation can be eternally forced together with a language that was never theirs.

This is so because we are a people of different culture, tradition and language with the Yorùbá having over a thousand years of history which makes it a union that is bound to fail. It is to prevent this failure that the British government; our colonial master, gifted to us the regional government which birthed the post colonial golden era of the Yorùbá before some Igbo military officers destroyed this good political and economic structure through military coup. The latter then allowed the Hausa/Fulani this unacceptable domination through a counter military coup that put an end to the ruling of the first military coup plotters. However, we can not allow these dark events that has shaped our post-1966 till date to continue to do so for the sake of our collective peace, uunity, prosperity and security.

Thus, we must restructure this country in accordance to the 1960 arrangement and if we fail at this sacred duty, one nation or the other will be forced into divorce from this unholy union. It is either regional autonomy with territory based on 1958 recognition or the invoking of rights to self determination as guaranteed by the United Nations(UN) chatter by the Yorùbá. It is not sustainable to be generating revenue in Yorùbáland to fund the lives of the Hausa/Fulani or the extravagance of our political elite; most of them being Hausa/Fulani. Gone are the days we work hard only for the fruits of our labour to be shipped to London, and we must not allow the Northern part of this country to continue to replace that London.

I know it will not be easy because the Hausa/Fulani have total control of the Nigerian State either directly or through proxies but we must rise to the occasion and save the future of our children from the domination of Hausa/Fulani; a people not as sophisticated as the Yorùbá. The Yorùbá youth get educated to acquire skills so as to be qualified to work in relevant capacity yet that capacity is not created, and when it exists only the privileged enjoy such opportunity. While the cost of education remain on the rise with little or no use at all for the certificate that will be acquired in the end.

Majority of us do not know what prosperity is anymore and only see it in the lives of those that are either thieves or corrupt public servants and this comes with great consequences that endanger our values and development as a people. The society does not value earning with dignity anymore, integrity is abandoned and vices are what that are now dignified by our people because the Yorùbá leadership has failed to provide direction that will ensure the needed continuous growth of ability and capacity to drive development, provide jobs, ensure security and prosperity of our people.

Unlike many of us that will want to believe that there is nothing we can do to change the tides of things except we wait on God, I say to you; the future of man rest in his hands and God will not come down to remove corruption from our minds nor will God come down to save us from bad leadership and the apathy we show towards governance. God will only make use of men that are ready and willing to save the day and it is up to us whose culture, traditions and regional development are being threatened and undermined by a Hausa/Fulani dominated Nigeria to rise up to this righteous work. We must do this for ourselves; we must do this for our children and ultimately, we must do this for a prosperous, peaceful and secured Yorùbáland.

Abiola Akintunde is a political commentator based in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria. He tweets at @AAbiolat on twitter and can be reached via paulakintunde@gmail.com

Visit www.abiolaoakintunde. to read other posts by Abiola Akintunde.

sarrki:
Buhari was given a Portrait by the Nigeria's Ambassador to Ethiopia Amb. Bankole Adeoye and His Spouse Mrs Gwendolyn Adeoye shortly before departing Addis Ababa after his participation at 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Govt. of in Ethiopia. He also chatted with members of staff at the Embassy......

HungerBAD:
Nigeria do not deserve President Muhammadu Buhari. He should leave us to our fate. Nigerians do not seem to realise when someone is doing a lot for them, and to top the list of the many heinous sins of Nigerians is our impatience…very impatient set of humans.

The impatience is so conspicuous that even the President was forced to call us out on national television during his new year broadcast. Poor Buhari, he has been bludgeoned left, right and centre, even by his Mrs.

As regards the matter with this Fulani Hell’s men…sorry. I mean to write herdsmen, this cranky antiquated computer sometimes seem to have a mind of its own and I have no control over it, just like ‘some’ people are accusing the Commander in Chief of the federal republic of Nigeria of not having any control over his gun-totting kinsmen.


Some even called him out for not ensuring the arrest of the spokesman for the Miyetti Allah who admitted that the 74 souls that were snatched in their sleep were in retaliation for 800 stolen cows.

Nigerians sha. Very funny people. How dare them! Of course, he has control over them. He is General Buhari, remember? Go and ask IPOB and everybody ‘unfortunate’ enough to be in their vicinity, as the military spared nothing to trample, subdue and suppress them without sparing any life in the onslaught.

Some argue that they were armless citizens exercising their freedom of expression and right to self determination as espoused by the UN charter on self determination…story story…Baba says they are terrorists and so it is, they are a threat to our compulsory concatenation as a “united” country.

However, the Fulani herdsmen cannot be terrorists, far from it. How can you call someone trying to feed his cow a terrorist, even if it involves obliterating an entire village to do that! Cows are a special creation of God, much more special than human beings. What’s a human life compared to a cow? A cow! Do we even realise the sanctity of their existence? Ask Indians. A cow has every right to eat your crops and could even take a stroll into your sitting and excrete on your expensive centre rug. Every farmer should realise that the volume of their harvest is at the mercy of the mighty cow.


A herdsman could decide to allow his cattle decimate an entire farm land and anybody who as much raise their voices in protest should be gunned with an Ak47 or hacked to death or better still roasted and allowed to serve as manure for the crops the cattle would come back to eat.

This is why the herders, from Benue to Kaduna to Oyo to Delta State are out with their one million naira Ak47 rifles (Don’t ask where they are getting those expensive weapons from, must you know everything? Aproko) are terminating the continuation of an entire lineage, killing, maiming, burning and matcheting humans...those lowly humans.

And now some mischievous folks - because of Buhari’s ascendancy to the hallowed position  as Nigeria’s number one citizen with a no-where-to-be-found certificate while they, with all their doctorates degrees and endless sojourn at the ivory towers are not anywhere near the seat - are criticising Buhari for not taking a decisive step against these herders like he did to IPOB. They are accusing the GCFR of ethnic solipsism, refusing to factor in the fact that the president himself, like his gun totting kinsmen appreciates the value of a cow. He understands the actions of the herders and empthasizes with them: their travails and their ideology.

He has over a hundred cows in his hometown...and well, I know some merchants of mischief would say that he has had those cows ever since the days of the Great Flood, claiming these cattle never seem to increase or decrease in number; but then Buhari does not owe anybody any explanation for the state of his pastoral enterprise now, does he?

These same Nigerians accusing the GCFR of ethnic solipsism even expected him to visit Benue to commiserate with the victims and families of those who died from the tragic New Year massacre. Will his visit bring them back? How many funerals can he attend? Must he copy presidents of other countries in the world? Moreover, he was busy receiving the seven northern wise men who, out of their love for Nigeria, decided to pay him a visit to encourage their ‘brother’ to contest again in 2019: very deep thinking, sagacious and introspective men.

These ungrateful Nigerians calling on the president to address this contentious issue are still the ones rejecting the idea for a cattle colony, arguing that it is a way of purloining their land and advertently establishing a Fulani empire in guise. What a conspiracy theory! The Fulanis would never do that! That Ottman Dan Fudio repeatedly did does not mean they would.

You just have to trust them. Is mutual trust not one of the pillars of our unity anymore? They even went further in their inscrutable sojourn of obstinacy that the herders should instead set up ranches; investing like every other businesses instead of herding their cows to gnaw and chew away at crops across the country. Imagine, just imagine that. Why would anybody make such outrageous demands?

It is good that, as reported by The Guardian on Monday, January 22, 2018, the Jamatul Nasir Islam (JNI), through its Secretary General, Sheikh Khalid Abubakar that ‘the whole Fulani herdsmen debacle is a coinage “mischievously” invented by the Christian Association of Nigeria in order to heat up the polity in preparation for 2019.

The group even warned the Christian leaders not to take the Nigerian Muslim’s patience for foolishness. Add that to the fact that no major northern leader has expressly condemned the activities of the Fulani herdsmen. Does this not show that these ‘disgruntled’ Nigerians mainly from some sections of the country are merely crying wolf?

As mentioned earlier, Nigerians do not deserve Buhari. This fact is now succinct and clear enough. Buhari should leave Nigerians with our ‘impatience’ and simply return to Daura to fend for his 150 cows. I am pretty sure those poor cows have sorely missed him and would appreciate him more than the impatient 180 million Nigerians. I alongside other true lovers of Buhari will help him make that decision at the polls next year.

Olorunfemi lives in Lagos.

http://guardian.ng/opinion/buhari-a-president-too-good-for-us/

Lalasticlacla Mynd44

nwakibie3:
Former aide to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has said that he and other politicians from the South West have always known that associating with the Northern political elites is regrettable.

Doyin said any Southwest politician can come out to prove him wrong adding that most northern politicians he had worked with played very selfish and parochial politics.

The former Presidential aide said this in a post he shared on Facebook where he maintained that the northern political elites often time, make them, the southern collaborators look like saboteurs of their people.

Doyin wrote, “I chose politics over Surgery.

“In choosing politics I also chose a party, NPN, with a national outlook than the regional party, UPN, that held sway in my geopolitical zone.

“From then, 35years ago, and now I have always choosing national parties because of my belief in Nigeria.

“I am not alone in this class of southwest nationalists. i have seniors like, Akinloye, Awotesu, Odunjo, prince adetona, M.K.O. Abiola,who are all late. Baba Akinjide is still alive and well.

”However and quite sadly I say it openly today without any fear of contradictions that with no exception, WE ALL REGRET OUR ASSOCIATION WITH THE NORTHERN POLITICAL ELITES.

“I have not spoken to chief akinjide in over 3years and I do not have his permission to speak on his behalf. Since God has preserved his life till such a time as this, nigerians are at liberty to (confirm or denounce) my statement from him.

“We regret our association because the most of those we worked with played very selfish and parochial nearly based on master servant relationship. Always the interest of the north superseded every other interests and it must be achieved at any and all cost. Often times making us, the patriotic the southern collaborators look like saboteurs of our people.

“I must add here that but for general Babangida and Aliyu Gusau with very few associates, the wrong that was done by the unfair annulment of Abiolas mandate would not have been assuaged by the the creation of a political scenario which ensured head and tail, a southwest President emerged in 1999.

“People may want to argue that this was not a big deal since it was Babangida’s administration itself that caused the annulment. If the annulment was an error the subsequent incaseration and death of MKO was a major disaster that had the potential to scatter this great nation for good if not carefully recompensed through a political retribution in 1999.

“Whenever we asked for the correction of the political and unjust imbalances done by the military, the northern political elites always give the untenable excuses that those actions were done by through military fiat and not the political democratic system.

“Yet the entire military interregnum was headed by northern officers. This is why today we have ridiculous lopsidedness in distribution of states and local governments in the country. it is the same reason we are a federation run with a unitary constitution. it is the same reason that virtually ALL northerners irrespective of their political parties are united in their opposition to Restructuring.

“It is the same reason that all securities agencies in the country (except for 1 or 2 minor ones) are headed by northerners. Yet our political elite class and colleagues in the north look the other way and are quite comfortable with all this unfairness and condemnable injustices which breed hate and disunity in the country.

“The worst of it all is the unguarded, arrogant and uncaring pronouncements from northern elites and leaders in times of severe national calamities inflicted by some northerners on other citizens of the nation.

“The recent gruesome killings in Benue is a thing all Nigerians should be sad and concerned about. It is not an occasion for profuse but irrational arguments and justifications. Certainly not an occasion for display of insensitivity.

“I personally will never ever do anything or participate in any actions that will precipitate the dismemberment of Nigeria. To do so, will be to break the nearly 60years mirror of hope that I had envisioned Nigeria.

“I will however sound a note of warning to our friends from the North, and this is more partisan, that yet we may appear to have been fooled for so long, yes, in the interest of national unity, we have with great anguish, we have tolerated and accommodated the sustained excesses of the north, we have finally reached the end of our tethers. Our elasticity has been stretched to its breaking point.

“I therefore desperately plead with our friends and colleagues to apply reason and good conscience in issues that concern equity and justice in this country. No part of this nation was conquered by another.

“We are an independent sovereign Nation and no citizen must live in fear, none must be treated before the law as being superior or inferior. Governance must be all inclusive and must belong to all not a few as we presently have. Senior citizens from the north must stop playing the ostrich just to please their own especially when their actions harm other sections of the country.

“From now onward it is the North that will decide if the country shall remain together or otherwise.

“May the Almighty Bless our country Nigeria and imbibe its leadership especially those from the North the conscience to stand for what is equitable and just and the courage to speak against evil no matter who the perpetrators are.”

Cc myndd44
Cc lalasticlala
Cc Seun
http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/24/yorubas-always-regret-associating-northerners-doyin-okupe/

edoman2016:
Hey! Why the insult? I am sure you lack manners. Do you have to behave like a tout on a faceless forum? Can't you post comments without resorting to abuse? Please, I don't have your time. So get lost on my comment.

edoman2016:
Cattle colony is a good idea by federal government that will boost the dairy industry in Nigeria. It is adopted in African countries such as Kenya and Uganda. And those two countries are leading in dairy farming and milk production in Africa.

The peculiarities of Nigeria politics is the reason why application of cattle colony will be difficult in Nigeria. Ethnicity in Nigeria do not simply trust the Fulanis on their ancestral lands.

Nwadiuto247:
Igbo man comes to your place, buys land to do his business or pay rent for your shops.

Fulani herdsmen comes to your place, invade your land by force and spoil your farm with his cattle, rape your women. If you confront him he kills you.

He insists that FG must give him part of your land for his cattle business or the bloodshed continues.

Then you come to nairaland and abuse igbos doing business in your so called land while keeping mute on the wickedness of the fulani herdsmen. Are you not being hypocritical?

magicalBae:


Sorrow will not end in the home of the killers and anybody who support it.

oooduancalmdown:
There is nothing like southern unity. I as a Yoruba do not support it. This is like creating a mini Nigeria. It will not end well because we don't like ourselves. The north look united because there is a dominant ethnic group. It cannot be like that in the south because there are two. The south south tribes like the land grabbing Ijaws always fight itshekiris and edos.
I don't support southern unity. I will only support it if we are to split the country so we can all go our seperate ways and develop at our pace.
I don't want one tribe to blame mine for their woes.

7lives:
Must it be Yoruba lawmakers?, are there no Benue law makers?, so what exactly is David Mark's duty at the Senate?.
You people needs to wake up, the erq of Yoruba carrying another man load for head don pass., I'm ready to carry my load, why not carry your own.

oooduancalmdown:
If Yoruba people agree to form that nonsense, iboes with their voracious attitude will want to steal from others. This is what will lead to problems. Let everyone stay on their own. We don't share anything in common. Our culture, way of life, language, and tradition is totally different. Fani kayode is a bastard.

OKDnigeria:
For ignoring the wanton killings in several states across Nigeria and indicating his re-election bid for the 2019 Presidency, Northern youths have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being inhuman and insensitive to the mood in the land and the plight of suffering Nigerians.

The youths noted with dismay that the second term bid declaration at a time of fuel scarcity, rising cost of living and wanton destruction of lives and property showed that the president did not care about the feelings of Nigerians.

The youths under the aegis of Arewa Youth Forum said they were alarmed that the reckless mass murder of innocent Nigerians in Benue, Rivers, Kaduna and Kwara took place at a time the president gleefully extended the tenure of all the nation’s service chiefs on account of ‘excellent performance’.

In a strongly worded mail signed by the National President of the Arewa Youth Forum, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, the youths lamented that none of the killers had been and prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.

The AYF said, “We are also worried that Nigerians had to go through the yuletide with agony and pains because of the fuel scarcity which still persist into the new year with the Federal government not having a definite roadmap to ending the malaise.

“This scenario was also compounded by the prevailing hardship Nigerians have been going through because of the actions and inactions of politicians and the elite who we believed have not done enough to assuage the plight of the ordinary Nigerians.

“If you add these challenges to the corruption allegations that had plagued some top ranking officers of this administration and the inability or refusal of Mr. President to address same leaves a sour taste in the mouth of many Nigerians.

“Consequently, we are appalled to hear that in the midst of all these the president and his men have already put in place measures to kick start his re – election bid for 2019.

“As the apex body of youths in the 19 Northern states and Abuja with affiliates across the country, we see the re election bid of Mr. President at this point in time inhuman, uncalled for and an insult to the sensibilities of the suffering Nigerian masses.

“On the magnitude of the killings, we expect the president to visit some of the states and when he came to Kaduna, he should have condoled with the people or even visited the affected area.

“It is disheartening that when the President visited Kaduna State, black marketers were having a field day as many of the stations where closed and the people where buying fuel at over 350/litre. This we believe is not good enough.

“Nigerians expect a more purposeful leadership from the champion of change than this anarchy in the land and the time to act is now, Mr. President,” the youths warned.

http://www.nigeriatoday.ng/2018/01/arewa-youths-to-buhari-your-2019-re-election-bid-inhuman-insulting/amp/

morereb10:
IPOB Is A Threat To National Unity More Than Herdsmen, Lai Muhammed Tells BBC - FFK Reacts

Former Aviation Minister and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has lashed out at the minister for information and culture, Lai Muhammed for the statements he made on BBC World. Mr. Lai told BBC that Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB posses more threat to Nigerias National Security that Fulani Herdsmen.

In Chief Kayode's reaction via his Twitter handle, he said and I quote;

Lai Mohammed told @BBCWorld that IPOB are terrorists who pose a much greater threat to national unity than the Fulani herdsmen. He is sick and depraved. Both he and Buhari will answer to God and the Nigerian people for the innocent blood that their herdsmen have shed!

Boko Haram bombs its victims whilst the Fulani herdsmen cut theirs to pieces. Dont be fooled: the same hidden hand controls the two. Who refuses to arrest Fulani herdsmen? Who said "an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on north"? Who said it was wrong to proscribe Boko Haram?


more @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2018/01/ipob-is-threat-to-national-unity-more.html