₦airaland Forum

ollah1:
What sactions are NK under? How are sure they are heavily regulated ? You initially said they don't exist cos Muslims aren't tolerant now it's about reluation. They have millions of members who attend thosd churches. You should be the one that needs to be truthful

In islamic countries where churches are allowed they are regulated.in others dey don't even exist. regulating religion and not allowing are all intolerant acts which exist In muslim countries. I am very sure of this, I dont need to start telling you where I have been and haven't. islam is intolerant QED.
if.you see.the truth say it.

Do you wanna play ignorant of the sanctions NK is under or do.you need a lesson in world politics?

I have condemned all acts of violence present in the bible and both faiths, im still waiting for you to.prove me wrong and condemn those in the quran.
fyi im not a Christian I was born one but don't identify with any religion,. I see BS and I call.it what it is.

shadeyinka:
Unfortunately for you attaining Paradise in Christianity is completely different from that of islam, no christian by deeds alone can earn paradise. In fact paradise is earned by grace through faith so that no Christian will be able to boast.

Eph2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. (NKJV)

The route,

Jn3:3...Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (NKJV)


You are just mentioning Globalism...which as far as I no is not part of the Christian doctrine.

he is.just concerned about defending islam by pointing out specific texts from the Christian faith. he keeps bringing up alexander bissonette who attacked a.mosque and killed peolple while shouting allahu akbar.....his only defence is its a.christain. yet he never condemns the quran for its horrific texts nor the acts of mohammed. the dude is.a.funny one.

ollah1:
It is their country and that's what they want. Every country can't be the same. Why don't you castigate North Korea for not traveling anywhere or doing anything with anybody but themselves. Oh, they don't practice Islam so they don't need reform. And yes, they should be left out since they aren't Muslims.


If Bahrain , UAE, Qatar doesn't allow churches in their regions does that completly mean that's what Islam preaches. Aren't they churches in these Muslim countries Syria, Lebanon, Iraq , to name a few?

common say the truth for once nah....how.on earth do you compare NK under sanctions with discourse. yeah there are few churches in the places you mentioned but they are regulated heavily.

I have no.qulams with what they want for their countries but it still isn't tolerant, thats just what it is, if you regulated peoples freedom choose for themselves on various aspects it become intolerant. you call them islamic countries and yet say its not what islam preaches? you sure you dont have a cognitive dissonance issue? it's just amazing at how.far you go to defend an intolerant ideology.

ollah1:
You must be a great emotional writer. Old testamrmt, New testament. They are Bible's and you still till date quote. Pastors still use Malachi to extort people. You need to know something about the Quran. It's just one. It's unique. There aren't King James, Robin Hood or James Bond version. The crusades were an expression of military Christianity and Europe expansion.

Perhaps , the numbers of Muslims are more than the christians simply cause of the invasion the west unleashed on their lands. While growing up, who gave a fvck what religion you repped. Some don't even know nor talk about it.

I dont write with emotions, its so sad to see you try hard to defend islam......that taqqiya bullshit doesnt work on me.

there he goes referencing Hollywood and mixing the two. pastors are what they are, yahoo boys in suits. I have condemned the old testAment and judaism and even the crusades.
the quran is a shit load of bad rubbish, no different from the old testament if not worse. Christianity is just hippy delusions albeit a moderate tolerant morality guide from the New testament. now lets see.you condemn the quran and hadiths for the barbaric texts they contain? we know you wont.

and no the crusades were to halt islamic jihad.... go read again. I advice you to spend more of.your energy to.reform islam with more liberal minded muslims, else all this your long epistle wont save islam from what it is.

ollah1:
Like i said earlier, Muhamad fought wars but all defensive. Also, writing Muhammad raiding villages and blah blah are all nonsense. He did what God asked him to do. lslamic countries don't need to allow other religions on their lands, it's what they want. If you aren't satisfied with it. Then don't to there. Does that stop people from traveling to UAE, the tallest building will be in Qatar by next year eclipsing that of UAE.

Trump travelled to Saudi Arabia to strike a deal with them. He has business in Islamic countries. You write with lots of emotions

yeah and and yet you have.no.problem with a country that has draconian laws and limit human freedom in the name of.religion and you still call it tolerant. my dear that's cognitive dissonance.

if islamic faith does not allow other religions on their .land they shouldnt expect the different from others. and there's no need screaming when its pointed out to them that it is an intolerant behaviour.

I find it ridiculous you're telling bold face lies, mohammed fought defensive wars alone? dude you really are funny. well history is there so ill just let you continue lying.
stop talking from both sides of your mouth. condemn evil when you see it.

ollah1:
What did the bible say about homosexuals in Leviticus 20: 13?

What did the Bible says about other religion in Exodus 22:19?

What did it say about non believers in Chronicles 15: 12? If you claim Islam was violent from the onset then what about Chritinty? You should read further on the crusades. What about Canaanite and Midianite infants? Don't come here and write nonsense about Islam while high fiving Christinity. They all have bloodsheds on their hands

You still fail to.get the point, yes all that happened and yet Christianity evolved into what it is today, you keep quoting the old testament which was purely judaism which was barbaric. im not absolving it of blame. where judaism was centuries ago is where islam currently is. both are voilent including roman Catholicism aka early roman Christianity. you are the one sorely defending islam. show me 10 Christians who carry out whats stated in those verses currently and ill show you 1000 muslims who do worse.

it's funny how you go to the bible to show how barbaric those scriptures are but wont do same for islam. it's you who.should read further on the Crusades, I repeat.the crusades.were.fought halt islamic expansion into europe 50' years plus after.the islamic expansion started. both the crusaders and jihadists are evil.

I condemn all violence and.relivious doctrines that.support such. I dare you do same about islam. we both know you wont. you rather absolve.it of.blame by showing the crime of another.

frosbel2:
Well written !

thanks

ollah1:
Mohammad was a warrior like Moses. He fought wars and battles and they were all defensive. He did things as instructed by God. Caphise

Christians follow Christ and not Moses, don't mix the two up. both mohammed and moses were aggressors, In my book moses and mohammed are no different.
they attacked communities raided villages and imposed their religion on others. Christ never did that.
again I say, islam needs a reform, to become more.tolerant of.opposing views and faith.

The day islamic countries start allowing other religions to thrive among their populace, grant freedom of lifestyles even if it just sticks condemnation by mouth absent of physical harm to homosexuals. that's when we would see it is truly peaceful.

ollah1:
I have read it perhaps you should too. They are Muslim countries so if other religions isn't accepted, that's their law. What did the bible tell you about unbelievers and homosexuals?


You can't just single out Islam to be on top of violence. I'm wondering why these atrcoites didn't happen 20 years ago, did Islam just change ? It's been in existence for over 1000 years. Why are these recent incidences happening in UK in particular when an election is less than 2 years.

Same incident happened in France prior to there eelction? Why these countries . Why not Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Argentina et al? Aren't Muslims living there? Aren't they supposed to be terrorists if Islam is the problem.

im surprised at why you just avoid the truth, of course they are islamic and are intolerant of other faiths because islam.is not tolerant, it's quite simple, why deny it?

islam has always been violent right from its onset, mohammed was living proof. Egypt and north africa were islamised in recent history go read your .history again. the bible says homosexuals.will.be damned in hell, yes thats the position of.the religion, I.dont see any.christains killing gays in the name of christ. the worse.they get is abuse and disdainful comments no Christians or Buddhist stones them.anyhwere, only islam is.guilty of that.

You can keep playing dodgeball and defend islam all you want, all I can tell you is islam needs reform. channel your energy.to.reform it and make it better. all religions are piss but islam is the motherload of bad ideas.

ollah1:
You must have forgotten Matthew 5: 17

No I did not, christ always maintained that.the law and.prophets are all summed up into these;
love your God with all your heart and all your soul, then love your neighbour as your self.

he came to fulfil that and accomplish that goal. his life and teachings were testament to his love. the harshest thing he did was using whip to out merchant folks from the temple......can the same be said for Mohammad?

ollah1:
You know nothing about the crusades. If Islam isn't compatible with 21st century ideas, how come Qatar, Bahrain, UAE et al are living the best lives and people often travel to their countries for different things.

Some people commit a crime then it's Islam at fault.
If it was a christian then it's the particular person.

Alexander Bissonntte committed a terror, why didn't you attack chrisitnaity. A pastor was gonna blow up his church, why didn't you attack Christianity?


M.E countries we're destroyed by the west. You didn't say a word about it but your problem is Islam

we don't need to quarrel, I simply told you why the crusades were fought, go di a fact check on history and confirm. throwing shades of me knowing nothing about the crusades is just childish.
in the countries you mentioned can one openly practice other religions there without any form of restriction? can one be openly gay and not face repercussions? can jews visit those countries and live there indefinitely?

islam unreformed has tenets of violence and needs to evolve, speak the truth always irrespective of your affiliations. and for alexander bissonnete I condemn his actions and one act from him isnt statistically enough condemn Christianity, to me all organised religions are thrash but islam is on its level.
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The west has its myriad of problems and are responsible for a lot, but islam isnt exonerated from blame as well.

ollah1:
Leviticus 20:13, 20: 27, 20:9 20:10
Exodus 22: 17, 21:15,
Proverbs 20: 20

Many more can be found in the Bible which is about incitements

yes you are correct, those verses depict gory details and things that would be regarded as crimes against humanity. But there's a difference between Christianity and Judaism, which lies in those same verses you out there.
To Christians all that is history of the jewish people and the law and the prophets, Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, it is judaism reformed and evolved. the same needs to happen in Islam.
That is the sole reason why you hardly see subjects of the Christian faith blow themselves up in the name of christ.

ollah1:
If you are angry about Islam then you are angry with God. Islam like Judiam and Christiatiny were Abrahamic religions. If Islam is from Hell then those two are too. Muhammad fought wars but they were defensive wars and they were ordained by God. If you claim Islam was spread through bloodshed, how did the crusaders spread Christianity?

let me correct a notion here, the crusade was not to spread Christianity but to checkmate.the spread of islam which was expanding into europe. infact from history we know the crusades was over 50 years late in responding to islam expansion. Judaism was as barbaric as islam is today, that's why Christianity had to evolve into what it is today.
islam needs to reform as well to become compatible with 21st century ideas.

by Okoye Chukwudi Charles Ezeamalukwuo
“God made man in his own image;
A being of love and boundless grace.
Man remade God in Man’s image;
A tool of fear, hate and disgrace.”
-The Journey of the Soul

Yesterday, I was reading the news and I came across the story that involves Kano state Sharia law and the destruction of countless crates of legal alcoholic drinks. I was shocked by this development because I thought Alcohol is legal in Nigeria. I thought Nigeria is a secular state and that there is a clear separation between state and religion.

To make matters worse, the comments from some people on the post did not help. They argued in favour of the destruction of another man’s legitimate business, stating that alcohol is wrong according to the teachings of their religion, and so should be forcefully resisted. Hence, it is right to destroy what is legitimate under our constitution and under the constitution of many countries in the world because someone told you some one thousand four hundred years ago that God (whom happened to choose him alone) told him that alcohol is wrong. Hmmmm…unbelievable.

My experience with the antics of Organised Religion started from birth. My childhood and most of my adolescence were spent in the strict adherence to the Catholic faith. I grow up in a family that wore the Christian Doctrine upon their skin (alas! not as much in their hearts). I was taught that Jesus is the ONLY true way, the only true teacher and that any other way or teaching is false. I was taught that Christianity (which happens to have about 1/5 of the world’s population) is the only true religion ordained by God, and that other religions were works of the Devil. This idea of being specially made me a bit arrogant and proud. Out of many, I was among the few chosen.

But as I grew older and started to study deeper and wider, I began to see the similarities of my religion with the other so called “damned” religions. I began to know many of the evil practises and actions done in the past by the Church in the name of God. I began to understand that Christianity is not the only Religion that thinks it is special. The Muslims, the Jews, the Buddhists and co also think that theirs is the only true Religion. Hence, I made a 180 degrees turn around, an epiphany. Today some friends and family members accuse me of being an atheist and in dire need of deliverance so to speak because I disagree with their narrow view of God.

The root of my problem with organised religions lies in their inability to tolerate opposing views. Each Religion believes that it is the One True Religion, the only one instituted by God and the only one good enough to make Heaven, while it believes that the others will be damned in hell for all eternity. We see this mostly in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In the Catholic Church, it was called Heresy for one to preach anything that contradicts with the Vatican. In the olden days people were burnt at stake for Heresy. The clerics argued then that it was better to torture the body that is temporary in order to save the soul that is permanent. In other words, whether you like it or not we will send you to heaven but first we will pass you through hell on earth. We see this actions being practised today by the radical islamists, who bomb, maim, torture innocent people because they share a different opinion from their own. But the true is that…
“God calls not only with the Jew,
Nor has he special relation
With the cross, star and moon and few;
For God is of no Religion.”
-The Journey of the Soul

I have asked this question many times and I will ask it here again; when a religious person encounters a pagan religion, whose people live in love, peace and harmony. Whose people are warm and hospitable and treat both friends and strangers with love and respect, and also embrace him as one of their own, treating him with dignity, but have only the flaw of worshipping idols, will he still go about preaching to them to repent and abandon their “Evil Practises”? This question beats me…

I have argued somewhere before that the idea of being special by Religious sects is a very dangerous one because it will make man to do unpredictable things in the Name of a being as ambiguous as God. The Israelis (who are but 0.1% of the world population) believe that they are the chosen people. God created 7 billion people and chose only 7 million as his people…does this make sense? This theory has been propagated by them to justify the hedious crimes against humanity taking place in Palestine.
The same can be said of Christianity in the Dark-Medieval ages down to the crusades and the spanish inquisition. And Islam too.

The teachings of organised religions have split in two many homogeneous countries today. We see this in India and Pakistan, we see this in Israel and Palestine, we see this in North and South Sudan, in Iraq (Sunni vs Shite), in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in Serbia, in Lebanon, and even in Nigeria to mention but a few. Religion, I have been told is supposed to make us better and more humane. But what I have seen is neither of the these. I have seen families divide over religion, Countries go to war over religion, Marriages dissolved over religion, Children dis-inherited over religion, innocents slaughtered over religion and etc. History is overflowing with the blood of the innocents killed by the holy sword of Religion.

God has become a victim in the hands of Religious heads, who use him at will to achieve their self-centred political and economical goals.
In my part of the world, Catholics hardly marry from any other Denomination in the Christian faith, yet we all are supposed to be children of one loving God through Jesus Christ…Make I hear!

Furthermore Organised Religion had impeded the growth in Science and Technology for many centuries. Man was busy trying hard to achieve Heaven while Earth rots away.
Earth is a Hell and not a home
Paradise; -a place yet unknown
Man in his quest to gain Heaven
Made a Hell of Earth; faith driven
-The Journey of the Soul.

Problems that involved simple human reasoning were left to grow complex while Man waited on God. There is this lack of ambition and constructive reasoning among religious people, their eyes are perpetually focused above, and their attitudes are usually one of resignation to their fate. Their’s is an unrealistically rigid mentality that is incapable of independent reasoning. “My pastor told me” syndrome or “It is written in the holy book” logic. To them, Earth is a distraction, Heaven is the goal, thus everything is accepted in faith. “God giveth, God taketh, Glory be to his name.” Hence nothing is done to advance the comfort and convenience of the society as a whole. I have said it times without number, the day that Nigerians stopped overly waiting on God to solve our problems, that day will half of our problems be solved.

In conclusion, I believe that the end product of Religion should be to make us more loving, to make us more tolerant, more patient, more kind, more gentle, more humble, more honest, more disciplined etc. Thus if your faith is that which makes you less of these, which makes you more paranoid, more aggressive or demand the blood or tears of your fellow humans, my brother…”Know Ye well thy Path leadeth unto Hell.”
“All Religion is part of truth,
None alone has it all by root
Any faith that practice not love
Is dead and far from God above.
-The Journey of the Soul

I believe that organised Religions by the fact that they are organised -standardised, are prone to manipulations by the CEO and board of directors who manage them. The chief aim of establishing those Religions I believe was to awake our inner self to try and find consolation in death while making the world a better and more loving place to be, but with growth and time, corruption which is the inherent in humanity entered into these Religions, and these goals were substituted for a more standardised versions; that of increasing membership, that of silencing dissent voices, that of money making and global hegemony.

I must state clearly that I too am a bit religious myself. I believe in a Supreme Being, controller of the Universe; God. But do I believe that he called only a handful of people to be his and condemned others…NO, with a capital. God is for everyone. He is not a product that Judaism, Christianity, Islam or any other Religion has a monopoly on. You do not need to enter a church, a synagogue or a mosque before you can order yourself a basket of God. There is no exclusive right or patent to him. He is as free as the air we breathe. And anyone who truly seeks him will find him in their own way.

For as it is written; “Seek (my good friend) and surely you will find.

CaptainFM1:
You can post Dr Nnia Nwodo's speech!

Biafra 50 Years After -
Reconciliation: What have we learned?
Paper presented at The Conference -
MEMORY AND NATION BUILDING: BIAFRA 50 YEARS AFTER:
A SOBER REFLECTION.
By
PROF. T. UZODIMA NWALA
President
Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF).

Introduction.
Before I thank the organisers of this Conference and pay my tribute to the Memory of my friend, late Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, in whose Foundation Center this historic event is being organised, let me quickly dismiss certain lingering pernicious fallacies that have dominated all discussion about the coup of January 15, 1966 and the Biafra War.

First, the Chairman of the occasion, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, has alluded to the January 15, 1966 coup as an Igbo coup that, according to him, was replied by a Northern coup of July 29 1966.

Let it be said loud and clear that that coup, namely January 15, 1966 coup, was not an Igbo coup. It was a coup led by certain Igbo and Yoruba Officers, involving the active participation of soldiers from the North. The aim, as has been stated again and again, by the leaders of the coup was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was in detention at the time and install him the Prime Minister of Nigeria.

That coup was foiled by Igbo military officers. Igbo political leaders and activists knew nothing about the coup.
Again the Incursion into the Mid-West by the Biafran troops was not a quest for territorial grabbing by the Igbos. Ojukwu sent troops under the Command of Col, banjo in response to Chief Awolowo’s request for troops to help liberate Yoruba land from the occupation of soldiers from the North. By the time Col Banjo got to Ore, the British had gotten Gowon to offer Chief Awolowo Vice Chairmanship of the Nigerian Government. Awolowo, therefore, asked Banjo not to proceed on his mission.

General Yakubu Gowon knows the truth of all these things. And that is why the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) had written him and asked him to tell Nigerians and the whole world the truth about the January 15, 1966 coup and the Biafra incursion into the Mid-West.to stop all the lies against Ndigbo, which have been the basis of the burden they carry as a nation within the Nigerian Federation.

Secondly, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Head of State and a frontline commander on the Federal side during the war, said that they (the Federal military leaders) conducted the war without any hate or vengeance because it was a quarrel between brothers.

To this one is constrained to ask a few pertinent questions
How did the world come to describe the conduct of the war as POGROM?
What about the policy that hunger was a legitimate weapon of war and so was justified in its application against the Biafrans?
What about bombing of refugee camps, market places, churches, etc?

Again, when Chief Obasanjo said that they, the victorious side, have been more magnanimous than the victors in the American civil war, where, according to him, those who lost the war never had a chance to be President of America until several decades if not a century later, I would ask him WHAT ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA? WHAT ABOUT NELSON MANDELLA?

Such assertions rather than heal the wounds of the war, keep the wounds aglow, rather than reconcile pour raw paper of unjustified arrogance on the wounded hearts of the Biafrans. How can you genuinely talk about reconciliation with that kind o mind-set. The truth is that for General Obasanjo, the Biafrans are defeated people. Period!

Indeed, before we can talk about reconciliation, we must accept that grave wrongs were done to the Biafrans, Before, During and Since the end of the war.

Tribute to General Yar’Adua.
NOW, Mr Chairman, Ladies and \Gentlemen, let me go on to thank the organisers of this Conference - the Yar’Adua Foundation and the six Nigerian Universities partnering with the Foundation; the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa who have provided support for this Conference - Biafra: 50 Years After.

What is more, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of my late friend, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua. I met him for the first time during the 1994-5 National Constitutional Conference. There we struck a friendship that would have born great fruits but for his untimely death. I personally escaped being arrested with him.

General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, became a great democrat after the war despite his aristocratic background. He genuinely believed that this wobbly Federation could be given a dependable foundation. Consequently, he set out to recruit gifted compatriots to work with him for that purpose. What a great hunter of talent Shehu was!

I remember two memorable moments in our interaction. One afternoon, after lunch in his house, we sat down on the sofa. I asked him

“General why is it that when you are not smoking cigar (cigarette), you are chewing kola nut?

He answered me. I will not tell you his answer today. Wait for my Memoire that should be ready by my next birthday.

At another moment, also after lunch with him and late Prof. Aborisade, we sat down on the sofa. Shehu said to me “Dr Nwala, let me show you why we Northerners are reluctant to relinquish political power”.

He brought out two volumes of strategic studies which he had commissioned some intellectuals to produce in preparation for the Constitutional Conference of 1994-5. I glanced through volume 1 which deals with the indices of power in Nigeria. I read the discussion, looked at the statistics and the graph, and shook my head, and said to myself this guy is a great political actor. I also reserve the details of what I read in that volume as well as our discussion for the sake of my forthcoming memoire.

I saw those two volumes of strategic studies at the Library of the Yar’Adua Center when I visited there about two week ago.

What is important in this narrative is that General Yar’Adua was avery sincere leader, he always spoke to me and to anyone in his political company from the bottom of his heart. He was sincerely in search of a genuine way forward. He was a man who knew that all is not well with the Nigerian Federation and genuinely sough the correct path to its healing!

The point of the story is to reveal a bit of the life of this great political strategist, who if he had lived after that Conference, he and the powerful circle of comrades he had built at the Conference would have helped to see to a more liberal accommodating political order in Nigeria. Shehu was the darling of a liberal democratic movement that was emerging in Nigeria before he died. He was equally hated by what many of us call the hegemonist who have consistently aborted every opportunity to create a democratic political culture. It is the later who have consistently made it difficult to achieve a genuine reconciliation in Nigeria. It is these forces that have insisted on a Federation founded on the peace of the grave yard.
Yes, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua along with the compatriots he had worked to put together would have constitute an authentic force for reconciliation and national integration. He was a victim of the forces of hegemony.

Post –Biafra Reconciliation – What Lessons?

During the trial of Adolf Hitler after Germany and her allies lost the war to the Allied Forces, the following exchange took place between Hitler and his interlocutor –

Interlocutor to Hitler: You were responsible for the Second World War?
Hitler: No! The Versailles Treaties was.

I believe this Conference has been provoked by the renewed agitation for Biafra. In that case, a similar question can be posed to the Biafra Self-determination Agitators in Nigeria today as to whether they are responsible for the renewed Agitation for Biafra.

I imagine that the Biafra Freedom Agitators, just like Adolf Hitler, would emphatically respond NO! They would rather blame the present upsurge for Self-determination and Biafra and all its fallouts on all those leaders on the victorious side who, rather than pursuing the path of genuine Reconciliation, pursued the path of punitive retributions against those who lost the war.

Unfortunately, as it was in the case of the defeated Germany that was neither pacified nor conciliated, nor was it permanently weakened, so do we find in the case of Biafra, that despite all the retributive measures against her people, Biafra and the Biafrans, have neither been pacified, nor conciliated, nor have they been permanently weakened.
Unlike the Treaty of Versailles that exerted bloody pound of flesh on the side that lost the First World War, the victorious side in the Second World War padded their retributive actions with the Marshall Plan. And thus unlike the intended Carthagenian peace of the Versailles Treaty of 28 June 1919, the Marshall Plan brought a relatively permanent peace to Europe that withstood the shock waves of the cold war including the Cuban Missile crises.

In pursuing the lessons of the retributive post-war treatment of the Biafrans, I would ask the leaders on the victorious side –

When you took all their financial deposits in the banks and paid them only £20 (twenty pounds), what did you expect the result to be – pacification, conciliation or to have them permanently weakened?

When you allowed massacre of unarmed soldiers and leaders even when they had declared their return to Nigeria, what did you expect? I mean when you murdered Prof. Kalu Ezera or when you killed unarmed Col Onwuatuegwu in cold blood, what did you expect?

When you killed and also buried alive thousands of innocent civilians in Asaba, was that a circus show?

I escaped being killed at the end of the war through the mysterious intervention of my college mate, Mr Nwogugbe from Asa in Abia State who was a member of the Nigerian battalion that overran my area on that fateful day of January 8, 1970. The solders had sent for me and when I arrived at Nkwo Mbaise their base, Nwoguegbe instantly recognised me and shouted Nkume! I responded Nwoguegbe! Despite being introduced to his commander, Captain Jibowu, the later took him to one corner, asking to be convinced why I should not be treated in accordance with the official instructions, namely to waste any such able-bodied young-man who may have been an actual or potential Biafra soldier. I was lucky. Nwoguegbe saved me, but several of my mates from my community were not. Cornellius Oguikpe, Michael Osuagwu, Efriam Chukwunoyerem, Echewodo Onwunali, all were murdered at the end of the war by the Nigerian soldiers.

Yes, post-Biafra was not attended by any genuine efforts to seek reconciliation nor even to find out what led to the war. Rather, what we have witnessed is decades of vengeance, arrogance and conspiracy against Alaigbo and Ndigbo –
Yes these are on record -
Immediate post-war punitive massacre,
Dismissal of some officers on the losing side, reduction in rank of others
Dismissal of civil servants.
Secret Execution of some officers (Col. Onwuatuegwu, Prof, Kalu Ezera)
Abandoned property seizure of Igbo property.
Punitive boundary adjustment.
Closure of the Eastern Sea Port and Railway lines.
Deliberate policy of encirclement of Alaigbo, inciting Igbo outside Igbo heartland to reject their Igbo identity.
Deliberate policy of exclusion from the governance and power equation i Nigeria..
Deliberate policy of destroying Igbo businesses.
Continued massacre, lynching of Igbos in many places in the North
Insensitivity to the plight of the IDPs of Igbo extraction who were initially the major targets of Boko Harm bombings and killings.
No serious effort at post-war reconstruction and reconciliation

I strongly recommend to all those who care to understand how the Igbos view their predicament in the Federation to read the Petition of Ohanaeze ndigbo to the Human Rights Violations Investigating Committee of 1999. It is captioned
The Violations of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndigbo in the Federation of Nigeria (1966-1999).

President Obasanjo should speak to the nation now about why and how that initiative of his was aborted. A Truth and Reconciliation was a great idea, but just like all National Conference decisions meant to deal with the resolution of the injustices of the system. It was arrogantly dismissed and nothing happened.

Biafra : A Collective Guilt
Have we forgotten that Biafra was a collective guilt and that those who created the Nigerian Federation did so to satisfy their own agenda They designed a local a local agenda for the same purpose?
Have we forgotten the cause of Biafra and the war? Have we ever come together to examine why Biafra?
Obasanjo’s Truth Commission and the Justice Oputa Commission were arrogantly dismissed and nothing happened.
Who was the aggressor in that war?

Aborted Efforts to Solve the Nigerian Problem
What about several efforts to sit down and dispassionately examine the fate of the Federation and how to heal the wounds of the past. Several aborted historical opportunities for peace and stability, or a genuine democratic system include -
Ibadan Conference of Sept/Oct 1966
Aburi Accord.
Abiola’s election that wuld have set a precedent.
1994-5 Constitutional Conference and the 1995 Draft Constitution, the best Constitutional Draft in the history of Nigeria.
Conferences organised by Obasanjos regime.
President Jonathan’s 2014 Conference.
Current Ferocious opposition to restructuring.

Laying the Foundations for Genuine Reconciliation – The Biafra Initiative
The Birth of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) – A child of the post-war East Central State Youth Volunteer Services Corps (ECSYVSC) whose memo to General Gowon led to the establishment of the NYSC by the Federal Government.
I led the delegation, as Chairman of the ECSYVSC, that delivered the Memoradum to the Federal Government on the eve of the first post-war independence anniversary, precisely on30th September, 1970.
In response General Gowon had given Dr Ukpabi Asika’s Government £75,000 (Seventy-five thousand pounds) in appreciation of that historical initiative of the youth of Alaigbo.

The great objective of that historical initiative as conceived by us, the youth of Alaigbo, was to forge a genuine instrument of national reconciliation and national integration.

What has happened to the NYSC? Any credit to the initiators? Several attempts have been made by the chaps in the NYSC Foundation in Abuja to interview me in order to draw inspiration from the original mind that conceived the NYSC; each time they were discouraged from a follow-up.

It was the same way that a former Governor had advised the Federal Government to create an institution to house the Biafra scientist. The answer was no!, because doing so would give credit to the Biafrans.

The Road to Reconciliation.
Not Restructuring but Renegotiation of the basis of the Nigerian Federation.
Nigeria is a multi-national Federation. The task is to agree on the terms for a form of political union among these nations and mini-nations.

Unless this is done, there would never be any stable Federation uniting all these peoples who are culturally, religiously and philosophically separate nations and mini-nations.

Prof. Uzodinma Nwala
President
Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF)

shakaZuIlu:
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what's this one saying
i don't read clumsy trash

don't pay any attention to him, the amount of hate oozing from him is nauseating. I'm still surprised at how such people manage to stay alive and keep thier hearts beating, that amount of hate and bile can make.one drop dead. I almost feel sorry for him.

greenpasture:
When at the end of life, he looks into the coming darkness, let us see which name he will call - whether it is Steve Hawkins, Bertrand Russell or his EPL team. People making macho here in faith and eternity are like little children shouting at lightening from under their beds.

People die everyday and do not call upon any divinity or name. That you will do so or know people who do doesn't mean everyone will. that you believe in eternity and divinity doesn't make it real.

LordAdam:
Yea, and what has been the response of Christians to these attacks?

I don't know if you are suffering from comprehension problems, but please pray tell, if Westerners and Christians in general want to eradicate Sharia. If that was the case, we'd have heavily-armed and well-coordinated Christian terrorist groups sponsored by Britain, the US, the Vatican and several countries around the world using full Emirate and Qatar Airways jets to take down the Burj Khalifa. Or well-coordinated shootings in the city of Tehran, Jeddah, and Islamabad.

Is that the case?

I'm basing my argument on the premise that Muslims in general are in antithesis to the Western way of life. And you take accounts (most of which are isolated without any link to terrorist groups and 95% of the time target only fellow Christians) as your response.

You simply cannot compare the coordination of a few one-man kill squads to a global terror network that exists on every continent on this world.

And that's aside the fact that there are far more Christians than Muslims on the planet.

If you think that Christian terrorists have done worse than 9/11 in America, then I'm done talking to you.

About the US-born muslims, you should know that Muslims have existed side by side with Christians in America for decades, and until recently the Islamic side suppressed their disdain for the Western system concretely. The radicalization and outright display of intolerance is coming from overseas. And we now have home-grown threats as a result. That's where Omar Mateen comes in.

America can very well deal with home-grown threats whether Christian or Islamic to the Western way of life, but we can't be fighting on different fronts including muslim immigrants who were all responsible for 9/11.

There is no world domination in Christianity that all Christians are looking forward to and tacitly giving support to insane white guys for. 99.99% of Christians and secularists (people like me who are non-religious theists, atheists, et cetera) all over the world denounce and do all within our power to suppress the activities of these rouge, renegade fuckers that belong to state penitentiaries. Can we say the same thing about Muslims?

Sharia and Islam are not welcome in the West. Deal with it, go back to your Islamic country, or go create your own country. The West has decided.

If this will lead to more confrontation, please bring it on!

-Lord

Lord please save your energy and don't bother arguing with him, people like him will never admit to the facts no matter how obvious. He claims there are Christian attacks, yet i dont remember any of those deranged sycophants shouting praise the lord or hallelujah while committing the acts or claiming they did it for christ. terrorist chant allahu akbar whenever they carry out their acts, yet folks like him will never face that fact or admit to it. Trump has won let them go and rest.

LordAdam:
It's unfortunate you've been disappointed. But those are my views.

I'm showing a relationship between the soldiers' deaths and the prisoner swaps. Thousands of people including women and children have been kidnapped by these same terrorists. All I'm saying is that Nigeria did not get a good deal from the negotiations.

And considering the politics being played with this Chibok saga, all of these state actions call for deeper scrutiny.

About Islamophobia, I don't know what news you're reading. A muslim walked into a gay bar in Chicago and started spraying bullets. Gays are beheaded in Saudi Arabia. And for some reason, I or Trump is the enemy. How many people have homosexuals killed? Even with the persecution around the world, do you know of any gay militia shooting and blowing people up.

Muslims can't stand the western way of life, so they can congregate in their countries where it's fine and okay to live according to their culture. Minorities in Islamic countries are persecuted in their numbers, maybe it's Karma serving them back.

Let the Islamic countries keep their people. They're rich and there are plenty of opportunities for them.

We're talking about the safety and preserving the Western way of life from an hostile culture. And all you can see is the bickering. Trump may be a conservative and has his issues with same-sex relations. But same-sex couples and hetero couples are going to put the safety of themselves, their kids (adopted or not), and their family above other things.

-Lord

Lord o need.to buy you some bottles of origin jare.......i like people who speak it as it is from simple observation. The funny part is when you say this facts as they are they label you an islamophobe, yet they see the facts and deny it. All moderate muslims love the idea of sharia, they might not be radicals but that fact in itself shows all. Sharia is opposed to western way of life its just as simple as that.

funny thing these refugees fleeing their hostile regions don't want to go to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, malaysia and Iran. They all wanna go to Europe and the west, question is why doesn't there rich muslim brothers take these refugees and immigrants into their borders? someone is definitely playing smart somewhere. This is the simple reason why Trump won, let them stay in them sharia countries and practice their religion to their hearts content, and Trump hopefully will pull america out of their affairs......it what they've always wanted. they all blame america for the conflict in their region. Let them support trump if that's the case, except they have another agenda which they aren't letting us in on.

gregyboy:
is high time all nigerians in different countries b deported back to der contry so dey can put in d knowledge dey have acquired in different countries while in der stay in dose countries. nd a wise man said u can never run from ur promblem untill u find a solution to dat problem nd i heartedly support trum for his statement and all countries should do dsame wen everyone have return buahari close border nd block airport no going out lets solve dis Nigeria issues once nd for all cus i see a better Nigeria no more segregation no ipob no wazobia no nda no boko. no afonja all i see is great nigeria thank you
pls
vote me president of Nigeria
2017 thank you my country people

You just spoke mu mind, a lot of Nigerians are abroad with lots of degrees and knowledge in various fields, let them all return and lets work to make our nation great, kick out this current idiotic political class. if trump winning will chase them back let them come back jare. Its not like they even leave and stop being concerned about Nigeria they sit down in comfort and puck nose and make suggestion on how things should be done......i say let them all go back and put it to practical.

Pidgin2:
Most of the people you refer to as Americans today are settlers, the real Americans are called native Americans and they have been marginalized since their land was taken over by these selfish Caucasians

If the native Americans had been as selfish as these settlers there would be no Caucasian calling himself or herself an American

Muslims, Christians, pagans or not, if America claims to be a so-called big brother they should be willing to accept desperate refugees like they were also accepted.

Trump is a sexual predator, this is a fact. If you say Hillary is guilty even after the FBI has cleared her then why are you blaming the media for pointing out Trump's fault? They did it to Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby etc, so it is not just a Trump thing

Americans voted Trump because they weren't ready for a female president, there's no other valid reason for voting someone like him. Still I believe if you vote for Change then be ready to accept it regardless

He just stated the facts for trump wining the elections, larger percentage of the populace felt the system was imposing Hilary on them. Whether these reasons are morally justifiable or not is a matter of opinion. Sexual predator you call him yet women still voted for him, i agree that his utterances were unguarded but hey the majority of voters don't agree with your assertion.

Also for the fact that majority of the caucasians in america are immigrants or children of immigrants is not valid reason to just let refugees that pose a security threat to be granted free entry. whether this opinion its right or wrong is subjective, they chose who they wanted in the end.

lastly i don't think hillary should have won just because she was female, i believe when a woman who can win the majority of votes is presented she will be elected. that's the beauty of democracy, majority carries the vote, the minority will have to bear with it.

macphilip:
If Covenant or other Church universities are run on free tuition and scholarships,
How would they pay Lecturers and staff?
How would they even afford the best staff to work for them if they do make enough revenue.
If you cannot go to covenant, try Osu, Lasu, Ekpoma or Ado na

my brother the church can still make contributions to pay staff and maintenance cost as well as charging far lesser than what is currently the norm. Growing up i attended missionary schools which provided education with as little school fees as possible. The early church of the bible understood the concept of being a caretaker of the needy, not concerned with building large infrastructures for investment sake but to serve the less privileged. Today all they seem concerned about is making profits from investment.
I believe if the church was tasked with providing all the staffs need to run the school there would be excess money giving as tithes nd offering and support for the cause.

Some men can be so daft. He wasn't beaten properly at all.

shumuel:
Op And you expect me to believe this poo you think they just make fast cars to look small and sleeky abi ? This poo wont make that speed with its weight and body design if its a sport SUV maybe and how can the engine Turbo jump from 381 to 2000, would it be running on Nitro all through ? Lie lie Toyota

Chai See marketing

Just the same thing i was about to say, super cars are built sleek due to aerodynamics. A car is not just fast because its has mega horsepowers and huge acceleration, it has to be shaped to slice through air at those speeds with minimal air resistance. That poo up there does not look aerodynamic the slightest bit.

MyFlair:
since the keplar is twice the size of the earth dnt u think that will compensate for the weight with regard to the gravitational pull, considering the fact that acceleration of free fall follows inverse square law.

yeah bro you're right in a way......wat dolly failed to consider is that a planets gravitational pull doesn't arise from just its mass alone but its rotational and revolution speed. obviously from the data available it takes earth 2.0 longer duration of 385 days or so to revolve round its host star, if it had longer rotational as well its gravity might be Earth like or close. thus the slower rotation speed will compensate for the mass to not produce a so much powerful gravitational force. till more data is acquired all we can is just whop up conjectures.

RapLawd:
no!!!... they are collateral damages acceptable to Islam, they will be seen as martyrs killed in war against infidels!!!... killed by the sword of mujahideens...


Islam and boko haram are inseparable...


so Muslim being by victim is like Christian being victim of a fake pastor and his crusade.

Did you really believe him when he said Asabe and lami were Muslim names? Any one who has stayed with the Christian minority tribes in the north knows those are tribal names of minority christains living in the north......don't let the him deceive you with his petty talk.

Nigerians sef! Someone will sit down in his house all day, watch TV and browse the internet! Listen to rubbish news on america vs russia then compound madness In his head by analysing information with conspiracy theories! America is the problem of the world to some, russia is the saviour to some! America is the solution to some while russia is the problem to another group! Siddon for your house for nigeria or abroad come online they form professor of international politics.....SMH. Who gives a poo about what you think? Russia doesn't, neither does USA. If only the youths were using all this them big head to solve naija wahala e for better! Nah to dey disturb other people about what happens 300 thousand miles away from dia own nation! Yeye!

Nigerians sef! Someone will sit down in his house all day, watch TV and browse the internet! Listen to rubbish news on america vs russia then compound madness In his head by analysing information with conspiracy theories! America is the problem of the world to some, russia is the saviour to some! America is the solution to some while russia is the problem to another group! Siddon for your house for nigeria or abroad come online they form professor of international politics.....SMH. Who gives about what you think? Russia doesn't, neither does USA. If only the youths were using all this them big head to solve naija wahala e for better! Nah to dey disturb other people about what happens 300 thousand miles away from dia own nation! Yeye!

Sagamite: AAAAHHHHHH!

Epe! (Curse!)

My guy, how you let this happen to you na?

You for don come my masterclass, I have given risk management lectures on this before na.

https://www.nairaland.com/982698/love-without-sex-dat-such/3#14360493

Hahahahah! I had no idea you were running that class in 2006 when I got the emotional beating of my life, I for run apply sharp sharp! At least I was delivered even though I almost suffered from high bp! Lolz.

tonididdy: but still dey filter am sha...some chicks are for keeps. you'll know when u meet her sha #nowTHATu'reAman

I pray oooh! But I've been emotionally sterile for long, plus no plans of keeping anybody now or the nearest future. But who knows it might just happen.......I'm always open minded to the possibility.

tonididdy: I shed a tear from one eye for your experience but I salute you and officially welcome you to the players zone.

Thanks bro! Playerhood is the surest! No time for yeye.