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ChiefPiiko:
Lemme tell you how I picked interest, please modify your posts after our conversation, he was a child the Pharm had very early in life, when he was in the University, I think there was a row and he couldn't get married to Madam Mabel, even when he died his new wife refused to let him play any role in his dads burial. The Pharmacist later got married to another lady that became a top member of our state judiciary, our then governor attended the burial. It was after much persuasion his name was even listed as a son thats why there's an isolation of his name on a second page. My guess is his mother didn't let his father play any roles in the sons life, you understand now??

ChiefPiiko:
Good night Oga I am not interested in convincing you, but know that I know this family(Segun Femi dad was my granddads best friend until his death) and that's why I wanted to show you a little proof, I would usually not bother replying sef.

ChiefPiiko:
Here you go Mr doubting Thomas

2016v2017:
you are the one acting as a fool by using the word fools.
Massob is only trying to let all know that it's not good to pepatrate evil.
Evil you do today may visit you tomorrow,ie Kama.
I am not justifying or supporting the marssacre ,but I am saying it's not good to kill,
prominent people from those states ,speaking against this massacre all mentioned how they supported the North and fought the civil war,didn't you see where Massob got provoked?

whirlwind7:
For once I agree with you.
This report left a sour taste in my taste buds. The statement by the massob spokesperson is as callous as it is uncalled for. An entire generation has passed away since after the war.
What dismays me is how the people of Benue and some parts of the northcentral region can't seem to make up their mind about how to place its relationship with northern Nigeria.
There seem to be certain identity crisis among them, as majority of what they stand for seemed to have been imposed on them from their northern neighbours.

The north has made it clear, overtly and covertly, that theirs is to take. If you are going to relate with them peacefully, then you must be willing to give at all times, without expecting anything in return.

ChiefPiiko:
I will check my library 2moro, I should pull up his dads obituary book from there, PM me I will send to you, he came for his dads burial some years back. That's how I heard about him.

ChiefPiiko:
His dad was among Nigeria's first seven pharmacist, his name is Ayodele Inya-Agha, a friend of Ojukwu there weren't close though, his mum raised him singularly

ChiefPiiko:
Femi Segun is actually from Ebonyi state, his full name is Femi Segun Inya-Agha. May his soul continue to rest in peace

drestoneokuta:
Christ!!! I don't know why men ignore spiritual laws (one of which is popularly called karma). You built your marriage on deceit and betrayal what fruit are u expecting? Happy marriage? Hell no, you will reap desolation and sorrow. You have sown wind be prepared to reap whirlwind.

To all you ladies please and please the most important thing u need to search for in a man is not the fear of God but the love of God. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom while the love of God encompasses all.

Bigboss111:
Fulani cattle breeders are really neglected for a long time and so many were killed and their cattle. We can recall recent cattle rustling all over the country. But since most of them don't have any access to media outfit to express their grievances, they are left to leak their wounds in silence.

Sadly, the government has failed to tackle the enormous challenges between them and the farmers. Though some of them vent their anger by killing farmers even after little altercation. So bad!

We need peace to enable us grow as a country. Also, bad governance, poverty, unemployment and sentiments are among factors that continue to worsen the situation.

May peace reign in Nigeria.

amnesty7:
There is no denying what is obvious.

Herdsmen have attacked rural communities in different parts of Nigeria. The attacks are often brutal; the attackers would surround a village in the dead of night, shoot indiscriminately and set fire to huts.

The killing is also indiscriminate; they kill anyone they can find, make the rest of the community to flee, then melt away into the hills and bushes almost without trace. The police almost never find the culprits.

Members of the sacked community then run to the authorities for help, telling gory tales and claiming they were attacked without the slightest provocation.

Political leaders, escorted by heavily armed policemen and soldiers, then arrive at the scene, pressmen in tow. They condemn the heinous deed, inspect the damage done and promise to send help to the victims, which they hardly ever do.

Armed policemen are then posted to “guard” the sacked community, a case of locking the stables after the horses had bolted. Sacked community members then languish in IDP camps, with scant food and water supplies and after many months of fruitless wait they slowly drift back to their communities to try to rebuild their lives.

Meanwhile, the politicians make much capital out of it, but only where the attacks are along the country’s ethnic, regional and religious fault lines.

Even though criminal killings are going on in many parts of Nigeria, newspapers shout the loudest only when some sides of the divide carry out atrocities. Otherwise there is little media interest and there is no political capital to be derived from the killings.

Where the herdsmen themselves or their ethnic, regional or religious kinsmen find themselves at the receiving end, as happened in Mambilla and Numan, the dominant news media takes little interest in happenings and sees it as either a case of just deserts or, where both combatants are from the wrong ethnic and religious divides as in Zamfara, as dog-eat-dog.

Where the herdsmen are involved, the sacked farming communities always say that the attacks were unprovoked. Most reporters do not bother to question this claim.

That an attack was unprovoked could be true only in a certain context; most of the women, children and the elderly in the attacked communities did nothing to the herdsmen and probably did not even know that anyone else offended them.

Yet, to the herdsmen themselves, every attack that they launch is a “reprisal” attack. That they leave thousands of villages along their routes untouched and sneak upon some specific ones suggests that somebody in that community did something; either killed a herdsman or rustled some cattle.

Part of the problem we have is that the herdsmen live in another age and they have different rules of engagement from the one most of us are used to.

For example, the ugly notion that when someone offends them, every member of his village ---woman, child, aged and infirm---is fair game in a reprisal attack is deeply offensive to modern value systems, not to mention United Nations conventions.

But then, the herdsmen never read any UN convention. The bad news is, herdsmen are not alone in their ignorance of UN war conventions.

During this country’s frequent inter-communal clashes, tribal militiamen on all sides are brutal and indiscriminate killers and they kill more people with clubs, spears and Dane guns than Europeans and Americans can kill with tanks and fighter planes, hence the notion of “high-tech, low casualty wars” and “low tech, high casualty wars.”

Equally problematic is the lack of statute of limitations in the herdsmen’s rules of engagement. Their “reprisal” attack could be for a deed that was committed many years ago.

Many villages in Southern Kaduna State came under attack in 2012, a year after the 2011 post-election violence. From all indications the herders were avenging for their kinsmen who were killed in Southern Kaduna villages in 2011 when the violence that started in the state’s northern parts spilled over into Southern Kaduna.

The same thing happened in Plateau State arising from the violence that followed the November 2008 local government elections. Long after urban folks had sheathed their swords, herdsmen sneaked up on villages for revenge.

The notion promoted by politicians and the mass media that herdsmen are all out to eliminate Tivs, Southern Kaduna natives, Middle Belters or Christians is a political stretching of the fact because the herdsmen hardly know that there is a “North Central geopolitical zone,” much less aim to extinguish it.

Despite their supposed ethnic affiliation to Shehu Dan Fodio, most of today’s herdsmen practice Islam only nominally and are pre-occupied with survival, not religion.

Those who say that herdsmen have a “Jihadist” agenda are accusing the wrong party because the herders themselves need a second coming of Dan Fodio to revive their religious practice.

Since 2012 Fulfulde-speaking bandits have killed far more people and sacked far more villages in Zamfara State than they did in Benue State. How come no one said they were trying to wipe out Zamfara State, North West zone, Hausawa or Muslims?

Exactly the same brutal methods used against Benue villages were used against many villages in Zamfara State, in southern Katsina State and in the forested areas of north-western Kaduna State, Birnin Gwari Emirate. In most cases it was “reprisal” attack because local vigilantes killed or captured some bandits.


Prof Wole Soyinka went so far as to say that the herdsmen have declared war on Nigeria. How could they do so, when most of them are hardly aware that Nigeria exists?

They have probably never seen a map of Nigeria. They do not know a local, national or international boundary when they cross one. What they know of Geography is what they gleaned the hard way by marching up and down the country with the seasons.

Herdsmen were out of the loop with regards to government’s health, educational, housing, water or power projects over many decades. Now the chicken are coming home to roost.

Despite the neglect, the herders that I knew when growing up in my hometown respected state authority, the traditional aspect of it. They were always a very visible presence in alkali courts, police stations and traditional rulers’ courts trying to settle disputes. They report offenders to these places and they are also regularly reported to these places.

Gaunt Fulani Ardos stroll in and out of courts, looking peaceable, walking unsteadily, speaking in low tones, greeting everyone along the way, generous with their kolanuts, always asking for directions, armed only with sticks.

These days it is different; too many of them have acquired firearms in response to the challenge of cattle rustlers, no thanks to our inability to police our ports and borders.

Evidence abounds in recent years that the pastoral society has undergone a physical and value-system breakdown, much like the rest of Nigerian society.

When a friend first told me fifteen years ago that the armed men that robbed him on the highway were pure Fulani ethnics, I found it very hard to believe, except that every Hausa speaker knows the Fulfulde accent very well.

Soon afterwards I began to hear more and more stories about Fulani youths being the robbers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways.

Now there is no doubt about it; most of the kidnappers on the Abuja-Kaduna and Birnin Gwari highways are Fulani ethnics, not to mention the Zamfara bandits who are often well known to their victims.


So there is a crisis at hand in which climate change, population pressure, influx of small arms into Nigeria, the criminality of other ethnic groups as well as government’s total neglect of a large community’s needs over several decades have come together in a very combustible mixture.

Among the suggested solutions already on the table is Wantaregh Paul Unongo’s idea of raising a Tiv national army.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/this-thing-called-killer-herdsman.html

zendy:
It was the first coup, however, besides Cameroon, there was hardly any country in West Africa that did not experience military coup in the 60's and 70's. Thats how it was back then

zendy:
Very unfortunate.

Nzeogwu and co were tired of the direction Nigeria was heading and they struck. Military coup was very fashionable at the time

henry007:
That's obviously false. If not how would i have been able to compare the Infinix Zero 4 Plus with the Zero 5?

b5ive:
Funny enough, she made a point. Although I wouldn't totally support her "red card" movement, but on the other hand the prior motive of the movement is to properly flush out the old set of people ruling us for as long as we can remember. The same corrupt leaders from past administrations are now decamping into the party of the interim govt, you would agree with me that they just want to keep being relevant and too important in our political system. I'll prefer a new polical party comprising of youths with vast and eloquent agendas to help salvage our already crumbling nation. Our mumu don do. God bless Nigeria

pittoilet:
10 persons have been confirmed dead in an explosion that occured at the Second Coming Gas station in Magodo, Lagos state this morning January 11th. The gas plant is located on CMD Road, opposite Magodo Brooks Estate.


Operatives of the Lagos State Fire Service, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Federal Road Safety Corps and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) are currently at the scenery to contain the fire and carry out rescue operation. The cause of the explosion is yet unknown.

http://www.looknaija.com/2018/01/explosion-lagos-gas-station-explodes-10-dead/

SpaceAngel:
There was explosion at the plants office in Lekki 2013, this means the have issue with safety procedure. Government should look at what happened and why they had two similar incidents at two different locations.

https://www.nairaland.com/1470184/three-severely-burnt-lekki-gas

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/three-severely-burnt-lekki-gas-fire/

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/index.php?topic=339463.0

ODVanguard:
Exactly bro! The worst part is that they keep going from one community to another massacring people WITH IMPUNITY! Again I ask, ARE THEY SPIRITS? There's no way in hell they can consistently get away with their atrocities for this long without working in collusion with the security operatives. Have you seen the kind of cuts those sadist inflict on their victims?? Those animals are sick, mehn.

CioAngels:
My fine king, what a shame that you are saying this, this is for sympathy, why did you not cry out before now? With due respect sir, This is not right, you have just said this to support your reason telling headsmen to kill Nigerians. The list of names you want to give will be an after thought and made up list. If you say because Taraba did that hence your command to kill them, what did other states they raped, maimed and killed did to them? Sultan of Sokoto and Emir of Kano, this is shocking confession. My fine revered kings, have a change of heart so we can have peace in Nigeria. I know you can never be happy seeing Nigerians being slaughtered.

karashita:
Seriously! If that is the case, the government is culpable.Sometimes i wonder if truly we have a government in this Country.So sad.
Meanwhile,thanks bro for the education.I appreciate.

emeka2847:
2017, Mambila Plateau. You can Google it or check social media very well. I honestly think that there's a grand conspiracy against the Fulani, and it could spiral into more complex problems.

This is the first time in this country that the media has conspired to attach ethnicity to a crime.

I know some who lack home train may just start raining insults instead of presenting facts. God knows I don't care.

themonk:
If you are not lying, Unfortunately you will put your self in trouble due to ignorance.
No. 1: impersonation is a serious crime.
No. 2: that guy you mentioned gave you the best advice if you want to cash out.

THEbaddest007:
my waec GCE result without any expo. What course can I study with this result?

cc lalasticlala

subcbouy:
Interesting! .modules under Islamic engineering: Bomb and nuclear denotation, boko haram management, shariah and law contract, Arabic morphology, logic in Islamic symbols n letters, beheading engineering etc

Nathan2016:
The same thing Nigeria is offering to you to be its defender

dreamworld:
U no get sense,

Nathan2016:
Nah, they didnt.

But for you to get rid of your sin, you have to call your sin by its name, call yourself a sinner and work towards getting a new life.

Most Nigerians are living under the illusion of their comfort,

Hey I can afford 3 square meal and yes, nigeria will get better,

They forget IDP camps in the north, orphans in benue and taraba, millions of properties destroy by heardsmen and billions of money allocated to fight boko boys (still dont know what they really wants)..

But to you, you are not in a shithole, you can afford three square meal afterall and your family will never be involve in heardsmen crisis.. You are in a working country

dreamworld:
Keep calling anambra, ,no b only anambra Na Alhambra,,
Lagos is not a Yoruba city, keep calm , pained hediot