₦airaland Forum

signz:
The only problem I see here are Igbos that are responding to threads like this.

You know fully well that this OP is only seeking to be noticed, why grant him that satisfaction by responding

uyiekpen26:
[size=3pt]It sad to see some Igbos of eastern origin laying claims that ikweres are Igbos.

Forr this I had to call my neighbour who happens to be an ikwere man to confirm the authenticity of him being an igbo and he said capital "No".

He went further to say we bear igboid names, speaks igbo dialect along with our native dialect but we are not real igbos. we now fear loosing our identity to igbos by lies peddled by them.

To some ikweres people, why tell some igbos that you are igbos and tell the others you are not? Why also tell it to the Edo people that your ancestry belong to the Edos at the same time?

Please stop confusing the biafrian agitators that are aware of your resources.

Please no ethnic bashing on this thread I beg of you..God bless you as you comply. Here are the ethnics and List of indigenous peoples of Rivers State:

Abua

Andoni

Bille

Ekpeye

Eleme

Engenni

Etche

Ibani

Ikwerre

Kalabari

Kula

Ndoni

Nkoro

Nkoroo

Ogba

Okrika

Saro

As you all see no igbo amongst them...God bless the Republic of South South[/size].

metro10:
[s]I had this dream twice tonight. Seemed very real and couldn't sleep thereafter. I had to explain to my "white" wife what genocide looks look with the movie, The Yellow Sun. After which we prayed for Nigeria. I felt compelled to share.

I saw myself hovering like a drone over Lagos in these dream. At certain parts in Lagos, I saw people gathered and hatching plans with one intent: KILL THE IGBOS. I felt the emotion and evil in their secret conversation. They started calling friends and families in different parts of Lagos to do likewise.

All of a sudden, it started...in Satellite Town, spreading into Festac and different parts of Lagos. The Yorubas and Hausas took to arms and started killing the Igbos. It was a free for all killing spree. People were running into their houses, a bad choices of refuge because they were breaking into houses, pulling Igbos out and killing them.

I noticed that it wasn't just Igbos that we're been killed, any one from the South South were also attacked. I started screaming at those running into their homes for safety not to, but for unknown reasons couldn't hear me.

I am from Niger Delta...not Igbo. I live in the diaspora but have family members in Lagos and across Nigeria. My heart aches from the sight of what I saw this morning(16th of September, 2016).

As a Christian, I believe God speaks to His people through dream. I beseech all well meaning & loving Nigerians to pray against another civil war and genocide. Don't let the politicians peg us against each other. All lives matter![/s]

Love Machine:
I am still doubting if this statement truly came from to ango abdulahi.

Love Machine:
If Britain who amalgamated the different countries to form Nigeria could vote to exit European union why can't Nigeria do it.
Nigeria unity is indeed negotiable.

QuotaSystem:
Papa Chukwudi, anyone that thinks there would not be scattered bombings by mushroom groups seeking relevance is just being childish and unrealistic . You're an elderly man you should know that.

They're helping the cause, makes it easier to identify the criminals and minimise collateral damage on the innocents.

Now join me and your scAvengers as we sing "Dear Buhariii!"

Beremx:
All the food sent to them have been diverted.

Nigeria as a whole is hell on earth. No thanks to buhari.

SonOfEl:
Pls run away as fast as you can......COWARD. You think some nimbo village men represents the entire Igbo people? Sorry to burst your bubble.

And where is your shym3xx and mikolo80 ? Let me give them some spanking....I wont be too hard though, so that someone won't go and commit suicide.

Shym3xx:
I'm not even in the business of making excuses for women who like playing victims while looking for pity-parties, the faux-empowerment, and pseudo-feminism. However, this right here just shows the men are weaklings/cowards and they need to find their manhood and display it against the men violating it via their spouses - rather than victimising the victims. They failed to protect these women, hence they're being rap3d - period. Women and children have always been spoils of wars since the beginning of time and, it's always the responsibility of men to protect them...that's what being a man is about.

Also, I don't think all these women were rap3d in one fell swoop - it's a continuous/systematic thing that's happening there. And you should be able to deduce that from this excerpt in the news source the OP posted:



So, if that's the case, how come they aren't doing anyhing to protect these women and their daughters? After the first (or first few) incident(s), men who have their manhood intact without coward genes would've devise means/ways to protect these people and they wouldn't be allowed to venture to farms alone without adequate security. The buck stops with the men and running away from people who're victims of their cowardice doesn't negate the fact that their own manhood has also been violated and they're less of a man to Fulani marauders raping their women and daughters. The fact that they can't see that is even more troubling than victimising these women.

khaymillers:
and this made frontpage

Abagworo:
I understood the OP perfectly well but he has limited knowledge and I decided to update him. There are Fulanis in Nigeria but not all Fulanis are Nigerians. The herdsmen are nomads who move across countries and regions with their cattle.

Abagworo:
We West Africans as a whole are suffering from the menace of violent herdsmen and should join hands to solve it. Creating Religious and ethnic crisis will further complicate issues. The crisis is almost in the entire West Africa from Senegal down to Nigeria up to even Togo and Ghana.

https://www.newsbreak.ng/2016/04/protest-ghana-killing-rape-fulani-herdsmen/

Abagworo:
Are Herdsmen Northern militia? I guess you are not aware that northerners are suffering twice more in the hands of the bad herdsmen than the South be it rape, robbery or destruction of farmlands. Do we even farm in the South?

http://www.nigerianews24.com/articles/fulani-herdsmen-invade-zamfara-villages-rape-50-women-displace-2000-nigerian-tribune

Abagworo:
Fulani herdsmen are different from settled or town Fulani. They are equally different from Hausa, Tiv, Nupe, Berom, Angas and hundreds of ethnic groups in the North who are not herdsmen.

Abagworo:
I don't have time for parasites like you. FYI my father's village is oil producing and so is my mother's. So stop using oil as a yardstick for argument with me. I guess you are an Igbo man hence you are likely from non-oil producing area. Stop eyeing our oil please and face your village.

The herdsmen involved in crime are like every other African involved in crime. We should all condemn criminals whether from our village or from Venezuela.

ziddy:
Where the hell are the Chestbeaters?

We need their usual lecture on the cowardice and treachery of the Yorubas, and the unparalled bravery and industry of the Igbos.

Mboi:
See this one, where do you come from? If you buy a land or house in US or Europe, are you not the owner of the land or house? Will they come back and complain Nigerians are taking over their lands? Come to Lagos, you'll see them. After selling their grand father's land to you which is their only inheritance, they will collect a lot of money as Omonille when you start your project, disturb you all the way, you'll see young boys that are supposed to be helping themselves, they will be moving around with Babas colloecting small small money. When they finish the money they realised from the sale of their father's land, hunger will come, that's when they start shouting Ibos are taking their land that they will chase them bck to their land meanwhile na them sell their birthright.

Senator Ali Wakili, who represents Bauchi South in the Senate, has questioned the renewed call for restructuring of Nigeria by some prominent Nigerians notably former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. In an interview with Daily Sun in Bauchi, Wakili, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation, warned that any attempt to restructure the country would spell doom for its future. Rather than restructuring, he said the country’s leadership should be more engrossed in improving the worsening conditions of living of the citizens.


There is a renewed call for restructuring of Nigeria as a country which is spearheaded by former vice president, Atiku Abubakar with prominent Nigerians like Professor Wole Soyinka also calling for it even though some Nigerians are opposed to it. Where do you stand?

I don’t want to take up an issue that is allegedly being spearheaded by the former vice president, and also another respected Nigerian, Professor Wole Soyinka. First, I don’t know the concept of the restructuring you are talking about. I have not read it and I am not familiar with what they said, but you know every day the issue of federalism continues to resonate. The late Professor Bala Usman has written explicitly on this issue of restructuring. Are we going back to that sort of setting? Are you trying to say that we are going back to the era of the Sokoto Caliphate that has so many emirates, or are we going back to having the Yoruba nation? Even Professor Bala Usman said that the word Yoruba does not connote anything in Yoruba language as it is a name given by an Islamic scholar that coined the word Yoruba. If you look at the Itsekiris in the Niger Delta today, they are complaining about the Izons, so these are issues. We have more issues that should worry Nigerians than restructuring.


The proponents of restructuring argue that the centre is too strong and that is why there are agitations for true federalism and resource control.
When people talk of the centre being too strong, I don’t know what the yardstick for measuring strength is, because, as far as I know, the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria allows for that. The issue of restructuring revolves around the control of resources, and that is why people are thinking that the federal government has enormous powers. If we devolve powers, I do not think that we would need to restructure. If we all agree that restructuring means that Nigeria should be balkanised, then the smaller ethnic groups would have no place to go, because the issue of marginalisation would continue to resonate even to the lowest level. For instance, the people of Akwa Ibom are complaining that the minister of National Planning, the chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC), and the Special Adviser on National Assembly matters come from one ethnic group to the exclusion of about six ethnic groups, which they say make up the major ethnic groups in Akwa Ibom. So, I don’t know why some Nigerians want restructuring, because if you balkanise Nigeria, so many minority groups will regret it.


What is your take on the budget controversy in the House of Representatives?


The brouhaha over budget padding in the House of Representatives is an unfortunate distraction. Any right thinking legislator should be thinking about serious issues, like how to alleviate the poverty and economic downturn being experienced in the country. I feel what should be discussed is that many Nigerians are living below the poverty line. People hardly meet their ends, they hardly feed, they hardly pay their bills. Right now, we are in the rainy season and our people are complaining because they need fertilizer; that is what should preoccupy our minds. Jibrin Abdulmuminu is practising political brinkmanship, because padding a budget is not criminal as Jibrin and his co travellers are making the issue seem. The budget has gone through due processes and the two chambers and the executive were involved. Where there were issues, they went through it before the president assented to it. I will stand by the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, because he did a good job as regards the budget. We have never had it so good in terms of the constituency he represents. Because of his influence, over N7 billion is going to be spent within parts of Bauchi South and Bauchi Central. That is a good one for me. That is what is occupying my mind and not the issue of padding. I don’t know what padding means, because it is not in our criminal books. These are political statements.
Today, if you go to the man at Burga, Tuldul, Balbiyu or Gwaranga, they want a road, and that road has been captured in the budget, and it has been advertised. We are overheating the polity with political statements, and that is not what Nigerians want. The average Nigerian wants to see food on his table.


But Jibrin now claims that certain monies were injected into the budget by Dogara and some principal officers and has already filed a petition at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). If the present administration claims to fight corruption, don’t you think it should move in now because critics of this government believe the anti corruption war is all targeted at the opposition?
Part of our national tragedy is that we speak on what we don’t know and we don’t learn what we have not inquired into. Section 59 of the constitution is quite explicit as to the power of the legislature, and it defines the role of the National Assembly in the passage of the budget. This section does not in any way limit the extent to which the National Assembly may alter the budgetary estimates submitted to it by the President. Section 59(4), gives the National Assembly the veto power, where the president declines to give his assent to what the legislature considers fit and proper for the country. The legislature has great powers to vary budget allocations and policy priorities as long as they do not exceed the total spending limits. Constitutionally, the legislature has the power of appropriation. I am not in the House of Representatives, so I don’t want to join issues with Jibrin and his co travellers. Some of those who are making noise hardly attend sittings, so the noise is just political brinkmanship.

Nigerians are also focusing their attention on the Senate because of the controversy in the lower chamber. What lessons are Senators learning from it?


Our focus is on agriculture, and we are trying to diversify and see how it will help the average Nigerian. We have complained of the fact that the federal government is in control of everything, and now we want to ensure that some of these things are outside the exclusive legislative list. These are the things that should worry us. The 2016 budget like I told you has gone through the accurate processes. I take the padding issue as a distraction and some of us should be left out of it because it is taking too much attention from our main problems. Every day we do things that make us look bad in the eyes of the world and the world complains about our bad behaviour; so some of these things should be better left, rather than focusing on them.


Dr. Junaidu Mohammed, a well known staunch critic of Goodluck Jonathan administration recently criticised President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism, appointing people from his state, Katsina. Junaidu Mohammed is a respected Nigerian. His antecedents did not start and end with Jonathan. If you know his contributions when he was in the House of Representatives during the Second Republic, you will see that he has his conscience to live by. He is a great intellectual, elder statesman and scientist, who has made his impact and he is entitled to his opinion.


You have many critics who brand you as anti Buhari and even alleging that you are one of those plotting to impeach the president. Why are they calling for your recall?


From the beginning of the creation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), some of us played prominent roles, but along the way, some who didn’t benefit now attribute some of the problems to some of us. Some of them we helped to become something out of today’s reality chose to say that we are nobody. For instance, the governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, was not at the foundation level in the formation of the party, but before we had the primaries, providence smiled on him. He became the governorship candidate and God has willed that he became the governor.


He is one of those that had the governorship seat on a platter of gold. If you look at the struggle that former governor, Adamu Mu’azu had to go through, and the intrigues Isa Yuguda had to go through, you would know that God smiled on him through some of us that gave him a helping hand. Bauchi gave great support to President Buhari, and so it is expected that all of us should behave and think like him.
Unfortunately, when we came, we started on a wrong footing by the fact that those of them that became leaders at the state level were not running an inclusive government, because of the fact that they do not consult before they make certain decisions.
Because of that, we discovered that the economy has been bastardised, salaries have not been paid for months and then there were debts that were inherited. But despite the economic crunch, we were able to collect billions from the federal government. It is expected that the billions would translate to improvement in the lives of people. But like I told you, because of non inclusiveness, it became a problem between some of the elected officials.
They feel that those of us in the National Assembly should stay in Abuja and should not be bothered about what is happening locally. So, today in the North, and in Bauchi, if you want to smear any body’s name, just send him a flier and accuse him of being anti-Buhari, then everywhere would catch fire. So, for some of them, in order to cover their inadequacies, they would just accuse you of being anti-Buhari.
The impeachment threat was a hoax because nobody raised any motion to that effect. It is not easy to impeach any president in Nigeria. Because of the integrity of the president and his huge support base, nobody will commit suicide by saying he is going to impeach any president in Nigeria.

sorepco:
Y r u so pompous and nauseous?? Has any Yoruba man complained to you. Arrogance comes b4 a great fall. I believe u r not igbo!! U seem to delight at the fight bw Yorubas and igbos. Well i guess most perps r busy being serious 2 respond to ur nonsensical gibberish