₦airaland Forum

This is the beginning of the end.

The Quintessential Tyrant is nearing the exit door.

As if God has a two-bedroom apartment in Rome.

You can pray to God anywhere.

So the opposition/corrupt politicians that sponsor these killings (according to APC) have suddenly turned to farmers to harvest peoples' farms.

Make we dey tell ourself the truth o.

Western Nigeria is not Biafra. Has never been. Will never be.

Let's limit this our struggle to our old Eastern region. Other surrounding tribes that express interest in joining may be considered. Otherwise, let it be an Igbo only affair.

True talk.

It is only the govt that blames bandits, criminals, foreign mercenaries, opposition/corrupt politicians, communal clashes etc for the killings while every other person knows that it is the handiwork of fulani herdsmen. There seems to be a veiled desperation on the part of the govt to absolve the fulani herdsmen of all culpability.

Nigerians have a duty to change this 'change' in 2019.

This man is mistaken.

There's no farmer-harder clash anywhere. What we have is an orchestrated massacre by fulani herdsmen.

APC's promise of change.

Nigerians expected the positive kind of change but what they're getting is quite the opposite.

Big girl with tiny shoes.

Lies upon lies.

FFK, always saying it as it is.

I wonder what Buhari is afraid of.

ENUGU—AN Igbo group, Voice from the East, VEAST, after a crucial meeting in Enugu, weekend, maintained that their earlier quit notice to herdsmen to vacate Igboland on or before August 31st, 2018, remained unchanged.

They insisted that should the herdsmen fail to quit after the deadline, they might be forced to take drastic action.

The group condemned the Federal Government for setting aside N179 billion to establish grazing reserve for the herdsmen, saying it was “an indication that President Buhari is surreptitiously trying to Islamise Nigeria.”
The group stated: “Voice from the East, VEAST, an Igbo Group, held an urgent meeting on Nigeria’s security situation over the activities of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, with particular reference to its reaction to the grazing reserve mooted by Buhari.
“VEAST authoritatively gathered that Buhari withdrew a whooping sum of N179 billion to establish 94 grazing reserves across Nigeria for the private sector businessmen called herdsmen. South East Governors who have remained Buhari’s puppets, most surprisingly rejected the satanic arrangement.

“We therefore, categorically state that the quit notice given to the herdsmen by VEAST on 31st August, 2018, is most sacrosanct.
“After that date, all Igbo youth would enter Igbo forests and chase out any herdsman found. We are ready to deal with all of them by any means possible, because they have been killing others in their land.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/herdsmen-august-31-quit-notice-sacrosanct-igbo-group/

Talk is cheap.

Walking the talk is a different kettle of fish.

Stella Oduah is definitely right on this one.

Why run to invest another place while our region lies bare? A n'esi n'uno mara mma wee puo n'ezi.

Its not like our home is allergic to investments.

TheGuyNextDoor:
as in, u mean Nigeria's No. 1 dullard will know that the fingers behind this edited picture is not a professional?

My kind of man.

Complete 'doggist'.

Even Buhari would know this picture is fake.

All the best!

Way to go.

Raw evidence!

Maybe this will convince PDP that aunty kemi actually did her NYSC.

ENUGU - THE Igbo Civil Society Coalition, ICSCO, has agreed on pursing self- determination for an independent state of Ndigbo than engaging in Nigeria’s protracted restructuring debate.

The Igbo group said it was of the opinion that achieving a separate country for Ndigbo is a more viable option for the people sequel to their engagements in Nigeria.
The option was the majority opinion at ICSCO Colloquium onThe Igbo question: Restructuring or Self-Determination? held in Enugu last weekend.
Among prominent Igbo that spoke at the colloquium included first republic Minister and Zikist, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi; Veteran Biafran soldier and emeritus Professor, Mark Anikpo; Social Science Professor and social critic, Prof. Obasi Igwe, President, National Political Science Association, Prof. Aloysius Okolie; President of Civil Liberties Organisation, Mr. Ibuchukwu Ezike; leader of Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Comrade Uchenna Madu who represented a coalition of 24 pro-Biafra groups, among others.

Chairman of the Colloquium and guest lecturer, Prof. Mark Anikpo in his paper concluded that it was better to pursue self-determination straight away than going through roundabout restructuring which he stated would eventually lead to Self-determination.
Anikpo said that self-determination was best for Ndigbo because it will afford them the right to own a republic of theirs, where they could advance their own society.
He said: “Logically speaking, a combination of the two strategies would have made more sense. In other words, restructuring could be a strategy for an ultimate self-determination agenda. While Ohanaeze Ndigbo acts as the political face of the campaign, the MASSOB/IPOB/IBM will function as the military wing of the struggle for self-determination.

“There should really be no conflict between the two groups. It’s only cooperation among all that can achieve the objective of dealing successfully with the Igbo question, a question that can only be finally resolved by the actualisation of an independent state of Biafra.”
On his own account, Octogenarian and first republic Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi regretted that whereas the Igbo led the struggle for Nigeria’s independence, the ethnic group was since then consigned to the back bench of Nigerian polity and tasked Igbo youths to regain the lost position.
Amaechi said: “We should interrogate the present leadership of Nigeria because this is not the type of cabinet we bequeathed on them. The constitution we left behind was a federal constitution but the military subverted it to a unitary one.
“The military institutionalised corruption and Ndigbo cannot stay in society where they play second fiddle.”

The elder statesman pointed out that himself and Alhaji Shehu Shagari were the only surviving members of the First Republic cabinet, stating that he was presently 89 years and would answer any call his attention is required.
The MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu noted that all the pro-Biafra groups have formed a coalition since they pursue the same goal, noting that they have since realised that working separately will not help actualise their goal faster.
Professor Obasi Igwe in his own paper asked for “lifting of the economic blockade and other Berlin walls against the Igbo if anyone wants them in Nigeria.”

Igwe traced the 1967 Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s blockade of the Ubani/Bonny, Opobo and Igweocha/Port Harcourt ports from their continued use by the Igbo as a calculated economic blockade and plot to reverse Igbo maritime history, render the Igbo non-coastal and deny them continued commercial use of their age-old ports, with the aim of de-industrialising and impoverishing Eastern Nigeria.
“From the de-industrialisation and impoverishment, youth restiveness, unemployment, crime, mutual suspicion, acrimony, hatred and other disasters, have ensued,” Igwe said, adding that the fundamental questions on restricting Nigeria has since been resolved in the Willink’s report of 1958 “and all we need is simply go back to it.”
He called for unity among the Igbo, cooperation with other ethnic groups in Nigeria, stating that justice; equity and fair play were the only foundation for sustainable peace. “If proper restructuring is done in Nigeria, and relative self-determination guaranteed for nationalities, many, including the Igbo, will reconsider arguments favouring absolute self-determination, after all, we’re all Black peoples.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/igbo-coalition-votes-self-determination-restructuring/

Such stupidity.

Some people will do anything for money.

- The Miyetti Allah Kautal says security agencies are doing their best to tackle the issue of proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the country
- The secretary-general of the group, Saleh Al-Hassan, insists herdsmen from other countries had the rights to graze their cattle in Nigeria
- Garba Shehu blames corrupt politicians for some of the killings in the country.

An association of cattle breeders, the Miyetti Allah Kautal, has faulted calls by some Nigerians for the sacking of the service chiefs over claims that they had failed to protect the lives of Nigerians.
The Punch reports that group in an interview on Channels TV on Monday, July 2, labeled those calling for the sack of the service chiefs as corrupt.
The secretary-general of the group, Saleh Al-Hassan, said the security agencies were doing their best to tackle the issue of proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the country.

“We have documented 411 innocent pastoralists killed just in southern Kaduna for nothing. We have documented all the crises but because we want peace and want to promote the culture of peace and forgiveness hoping that our neighbours will continue to allow us to do our business,Al-Hassan said.
“But the issue of arms and light weapons is a security one. I believe they (security agencies) are on top of it. With the arrests they are making, we must acknowledge the efforts security agencies have put in trying to contain criminality in this country.
“That is why people calling for the removal of service chiefs are either the corrupt politicians or the ones working for them. We should not fall for that gambit.”

Al-Hassan also insisted herdsmen from other countries had the rights to graze their cattle in Nigeria because of the ECOWAS free trade protocol which guarantees free movement.
He said herdsmen do not recognise international boundaries which he described as colonial creations.

“You cannot just opt out of a protocol that is integrating the African continent. The pastoralist movement is not for picnics. They go there to access land resources. Also, these boundaries that you have are colonial boundaries,"he said.
“Some of them (boundaries) don’t mean anything to the herders. So, what we need to do is to domesticate the ECOWAS protocol, begin to enforce it and then we create grazing reserves for trans-human pastoralists.”
Meanwhile, Malam Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has attributed insecurity and killings in the country to corrupt politicians.

He said that the politicians involved were those who no longer had access loot public treasury. Shehu, who stated this on Monday, Junly 2, in Abuja while speaking with newsmen, said that such politicians were bent on taking the shine out of the Buhari-led administration.
According to Shehu, Buhari is being attacked especially because he has unleashed on the country, a war against corruption.
This, he said, had never been so in the country as access to public treasury for looting had been blocked to some persons.

https://www.naija.ng/1178330-miyetti-allah-faults-calls-sack-service-chiefs.html

Buhari should forget the south-east. He can't win there.

Moreover, Is Garba shehu trying to say that politicians have now taken over the killings from Ghadafi's mercenaries?

Sending Buhari back to daura in 2019 is a task Nigerians must undertake with every sense of responsibility and dedication.

Good one. More Grace.

Taking this story with a bag of salt.

ikbnice:
Na kissing he find go acting?

I tire o. Why is he so particular about the kissing?

The Nigerian Army has arrested five men for allegedly setting a Fulani community on fire after suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Demsa Local Government Area in Adamawa state. About 18 people were killed in the attack by suspected herdsmen, while houses and properties were also burnt.

The arrest of these five comes two days after suspected herdsmen killed about 200 people in Plateau State.

Troops of 24 Brigade in Yola allegedly caught the group setting a building on fire and promptly arrested them, then handed them over to the Adamawa Police Command for proper investigation.
They were also allegedly caught with a knife, local gun and empty 10-litre jerrycan.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/06/26/soldiers-arrest-five-burning-fulani-community-herdsmen-who-killed-18-earlier-attack

Cuteness overload.

HML.

Trying very hard to exonerate the fulani terrorists.