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FFK dismantling the VP with very strong words.

He's mostly right though. The hypocrisy stinks to high heavens.

Imagine asking us to pray for Fulani herdsmen. Sometimes, it is better to keep shut and pretend not to know what's happening than make a complete fool of one's self.

Is this some kind of joke?

If u must lie, at least, organise it in such a way it will make sense.

This is total insult on peoples' intelligence.

Watery propaganda.

APC sef.

SE governors are just cowards. They had to proscribe IPOB, else Bubu would've opened their individual files.

Yet to see a core northern gov outrightly condemn the fulani herdsmen. Proscribing them would be in another lifetime. Same thing happened with Boko haram.

Why intimidate this man while the principal walks free?

The principal has come out to say that the statement was with his consent. In other words, it was Babangida speaking through his aide. Yet the govt is intimidating the messenger, who is just doing his job.

Bubu, grow some balls and go after IBB. Or better still, commence Python dance on top his head.

Salient points.

Buharinnator, seems Nigerians are going to be free from your 'change' (abi chains?) sooner than you thought.

This is good news.

Shine on.

Its no surprise. Alhaji Lai would always lie.

afrika:
It is unfortunate!!! Be it any tribe that suffers this, I will sympathize with them. Truly the Igbo's have suffered. Now look at Benue state.

Discussing with u, could be a waste cos u might be a drop out or and undereducated miscreant

Under-educated miscreant? Chai !

This upper-cut you are sharing, ...

Obasanjo might not be a saint but this move is impeccable.

Buhari is a complete disaster.

Isn't it high time someone proscribed these terrorists?

I personally think the time is high enough.

Ignorant girl oozing stupidity from every pore.

She thinks she's a slay queen. If she's not careful her foolishness will slay her.

All this animals dancing and smiling just cos a few fulani terrorists were killed. Where were these animals when the terrorists massacred people in their hundreds? Only for them to wake up when people have decided to defend themselves.

Buhari.

Lomprico2:
Very soon skull mining will be announced in ogun state stock exchange.

Never knew the army could be this fast.

What happened to the 'laid down rules' that must be followed before the army could be deployed? Is it no longer a police matter? Or have the police said that they're overwhelmed by the crisis?

Bubu.

Good move.
Other African nation should follow suit.

Always looking for reasons not to engage the fulani terrorists.

Where were the ''laid down rules'' when the Python went to dance in the south east? Or when the crocodile smiled in the south south?

Buhari ...

No be only Igbo and Yoruba be the only tribes wey dey Naija. Every time ''Igbo'' and ''Yoruba''.

As per the thread, both tribes should just mind their business, and they'd do just fine. Trying to force the love won't yield much result. Like someone said, both are totally different.

Obasanjo always a stooge, always speaking the minds of his foreign masters.

Good for them.

Me, I will stick with our beautiful Igbo women.

It's not tribalism. It's just choice.

python1:
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That is to say igbos are so unpopular that getting to aso rock through elections is not possible. So na coup una dey plan through the Nigerian military or bss? Which igbo go plan the coup? I thought the military is made of only abokii . Try any rubbish and see people dangled on their balls. . So revolution by igbos only or supported by almajiri and afonja?

Ok.

python1:
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igbo go rule nigeria for nairaland. Just the way dem get 98% of the world property inside nairaland. Who go even vote igbo sef? Na the almajiri or afonja? Abi na by force you go take rule the zoo?

People don't only get to power through elections.

A revolution is one way. A military intervention is yet another, especially during very critical times in a nation's history. Nigeria is fast approaching that 'make or break' moment.

Quite frankly, we must pass through that stage for there to be a complete overhaul of the current structure. The country will blossom after that.

Blind man's talk.

An Igbo President is just around the corner. And he will rule a united Nigeria.

Utter nonsense.

omoharry:
Dont take to heart the negative comment form this people here against one another in the south..if only you could see beyond the screen you will dsicover that majority of them are still in secondary schools or writing JAMB or WAEC..so many children with shallow way of thinking lucking around nairaland..this place used to be a platform for great minds but has been reduced to a play zone..the matured members barely comment anymore,..you will see them in other platform just as investment and business sections.The hand shake across the NIGER has positive impact..the tension between the east and the west has been limited..unlike before.its a good thing.

You are right, even though I think the hand shake should come after we've got our acts together.

namet:
Ethnic jealousy is at the roots of the hate between the Yorubas and the Igbos. Economic and political angling of past is also responsible. The Igbos are by nature very industrious and talented. They excel at just about anything they touch. The Igbos are very aggressive and domineering people. The Yorubas are afraid of the Igbo-take-over spirit and as such, are jealous and refuse to accept that reality.

If you read through the colonial documents leading up to the 1914 Amalgamation, you will see that Federick Luggard's Muhamedian Emirate of the North was broke as he routinely was unable to pay salaries to his colonial workers. At this time, Southern Nigeria (present day SE and SS regions) generated about 115 million in trade, a monumental achievement that was never-before heard of in this part of Africa then. The Yoruba Southwest at the time was called Lagos colony and this region had very mediocre economic impact.

Lagos colony was not financially bouyant, though not as poor as the North. For the Amalgamation to work however, Lagos colony and Southern Nigeria must be grouped together, in order to access the wealth generated by the Igbos to take care of the North. Luggard and his Northern conspirators only really wanted Igbo land but excluding Lagos colony would have met disapproval from the colonial office back in England charged with approving the Amalgamation plan. So, they grouped the East and West as Southern Nigeria, where the Yorubas wanted lead but Igbos refuse to allow them.

Look at it this way: your house is poor (North) but your neighbor's house is rich (South). To access your neighbor's wealth you announce that both houses belong to the same compound, so as to grab and share in the wealth of your neighbor's house.

To highlight the aggressiveness of Igbo success and ingenuity, the Igbos dominated industry and government before the civil war. Azikiwe even attempted to rule over the Yorubas in their land. Being dominated like that shook, and continues to shake, the Yorubas to their core, hence, the animosity.

More so, because the wealth of the new Nigeria was domiciled in the then South east (today's SS and SE combined), the Yorubas made sure they stand with the North to exterminate the Igbos for attempting to break away the rich region from the poor and parasitic regions. The civil war was genocide on the Igbos, Awolowo seized all the food and humanitarian supplies sent from other countries to the Igbos because the supplies came through Lagos port. The threat to deny the Yorubas and Northerners a share in the wealth now domiciled in today's SS region is why the Igbos are highly discriminated against politically, today, by the benefactors of one Nigeria. Obasanjo has confessed openly in the past that if the Federal government allows a functional seaport in the then Southeastern region, that the Igbos will use it to import military weapons to fight for breakoff. It is this reason why every was taken to Lagos.

So, the hatred or animosity between the Yorubas and the Igbos is rooted in these ethno-political and economic facts of the past. It is not personal, but ethnic or tribal instincts necessitates the blocking of other ethnic groups from outcompeting your ethnic group. The Yorubas see the Igbos as their rival in just about everything. They think of themselves as second to the North but they see the Igbos as challenging that, even with no political power or federal government help. They despise the guts of the Igbos.

Great people survive extermination. Most countries around the world hate Israel because they survived extermination by Hitler's Germany, and are today one of the strongest country and people on earth. The Igbos survived extermination by Northerners and the Yorubas to emerge today's most industrious and economically creative people. The Yorubas think this economic feat should be them. If the Igbos are allowed political power, in addition to their ability to generate money and to create things out of nothing, imagine how powerful the Igbos would dominate hence, the reason for the jealousy. The Yorubas are afraid of being dominated, but their Lagos is dominated and bought over by the Igbos. These are the causal factors.

I am not Igbo!

Truer words have never been spoken.

koladebrainiac:
DO YOU READ HISTORY AT ALL? OODUDUWA FATHER NAME IS LAMURUDU.YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. Yoruba too circumcise their children even the female one too .they also celebrate naming ceremony after 8days, mourn dead folks for 8days and new moon or new yam festival.

I read once that Lamurudu was actually the 'Nimrod' of old, but spelt differently.

Can you verify this?

My own is: the hand shake across the Niger was a waste of time. Until we, Igbos, shake hands with our God and reconcile with Him, whether we shake hands across the Niger, or behind the Niger or in the Niger itself, wouldn't make much difference.

oooduancalmdown:
You see them everyday indeed. See this iboe liar. Yoruba don't copy iboes' fashion. We are proud of ours.
Bullshyte!

Oooduancalmdown, you got to calm down.

By Duke Oreva.

To believe that the Igbos is one of the lost tribes of Israel might sound ridiculous to a lot of people. But upon factual analysis, one is forced to re- think the possibility of this claim.

Known to be third largest of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, the typical Igbo communities are found in the southeastern part of Nigeria.

And according to oral tradition and many writers of Igbo history, Eri is to the Igbos, what Oduduwa is to the Yoruba.

But unlike Oduduwa whose father is unkown, Eri was the fifth son of Gad, the seventh son of Jacob (Genesis 46:15-18 and Numbers 26:16:18).

He was said to have migrated fromEgypt with a group of companions just before the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago.

Eri and his group were said to have traveled by water and finally arrived at the confluence of Ezu and Omambala Rivers, located in present-day Aguleri, Anambra State.

We were not told how long their voyage took to get to their promised land, what we were told is that Eri and his group was divinely instructed to make the confluence of Ezu and Omambala Rivers their final destination.

They would move into the hinterland and make a settlement in the present-day Aguleri. It was here that Eri lived and died.

Meanwhile, amongst Eri's children was Agulu, the eldest son who took over from his father after his demise.

It was him who appended the name of his father, Eri, to his name and founded Agulu-Eri (Aguleri) by calling the settlement where his father Eri died and he (Agulu) lived AGULERI.

However, apart from the story of how they came into being, the Igbos also shares some similar practices with the biblical Jews. And among the Igbos, these traditional practices predate the coming of the Christian missionaries.

Examples of shared traditional practices between the Jews and the Igbos include circumcising male children eight days after birth, refraining from eating "unclean" or tabooed foods, mourning the dead for seven days and celebrating the New Moon.

Supporting this belief is Daniel Lis, a foremost researcher on Jewish Identification among the Igbo from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

He affirms that there has been a clear continuity of Jewish identity among the Igbo. "It's not just something that happened yesterday," he said.

In addition to the shared practices between the Jews and the Igbos, there is a striking evidence that forces one to see a link between the Igbos and the ancient civilization of Egypt: It is the Ancient Igbo Pyramids, which is also known as the Nsude Pyramids.

The Ancient Igbo Pyramids or Nsude Pyramids is a testimony of ancient civilization among the Igbos.

Nobody knows when it was built, but archeologists have said that the pyramids have lasted centuries
and are believed to have been built at the same time the first or second wave of Egyptian pyramids were built by the Nubians.

With similar features to that of the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt, one is forced to contemplate on the mystery behind their resemblance.

And without exaggeration, it can be suggested that the knowledge of one must have led to the building of the other.

Be that as it may, it should be stated here for the purpose of clarity that the word Ndi Igbo/ Ndigbo mean the "Ancient People." And according to them, the British called us IBO or (Igbos): A word synonymous to Hebreew.

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Onitsha – Octogenarian music legend, Professor Goddy Ezike,
revealed weekend in Onitsha,
Anambra State that the incessant
killing of innocent people,
especially farmers by Fulani
herdsmen in so many parts of the country was a clear declaration of
Jihad War against Nigerians.

Urging the Igbos in the Northern
part of the country to return
home, Prof. Ezike said, “Igbos
should return from the North, they have declared Jihad War against the entire people of Nigeria because they have a brother as the President of this country.

According to him, “I have done
many albums on Jihad. Igbos
should listen to me by returning
home. I have told them earlier to
return and they refused may be
because of their investment there.”

The music master, who said he is
89 years old now, reiterated that at his age he has nothing to fear
adding, “if they want to kill me
for saying the truth, okay”.

“The Fulanis cannot do anything
to the Boko Haram. We call on
other countries to help us in this
Hausa/Fulani oligarchy.”

He urged the apex Igbo ruling
body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, to ensure
that Igbos in the North return
before it is too late stating that
“with the recent massacre of
Benue indigenes and Mr President saying he is not in a hurry to react, it is a clear case of bias.

“If it were the Fulanis that were
massacred, the country would
have been on fire, so many would
have been killed by security
operatives in Benue as a reprisal
attack,” he said.


www.independent.ng/herdsmen-attacks-jihad-war-declared-nigerians-igbos-return-home-now-ezike/amp/