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Success1020:
Hahaha...a dose of their own medicine.

seguntijan:
When militants were busy bombing and destroying oil installations and then polluting the entire Niger Delta environment between the year 1997 to 2016, where was your revolution?

When the same militants began kidnapping foreign investors in the year 2000 and later resorted to kidnapping Nigerian citizens for ransom after the foreigners ran away, where was your revolution?
When opposition politicians were being specifically targeted for assassination between the year 2002 to 2014, where was your revolution?

When they were busy buying private jets and building expensive private universities and gigantic personal libraries with funds stolen from us, where was your revolution?

When they sold NEPA/PHCN to themselves in 2013 and continued to rip us off our monies without giving us electricity, you didn't think of revolution!

When just one box was found containing 14 billion naira worth of jewellery for a thieving female minister recently, you didn't think of revolution when the theft and squandermania was going on between 2010 to 2015!

When they killed NITEL and our numerous textile factories since 2001, your revolution was missing!
When they killed Nigeria Airways without even paying off the workers, your revolution mind was where?

When airplanes were falling down almost every month in Nigeria, killing hundreds of people at each fall, and the only explanation Femi Fani-Kayode who was the minister of aviation at that time gave was that it was caused by cultists in government, where was your revolution to remove the cultists out of power?

When they sank billions of dollars of public funds in NEPA/PHCN and gave you darkness even before they sold it off to themselves, where was your revolution?

When they stole your monies and built palatable edifices for their families, concubines, whores or girlfriends, where was your revolution?

When they were selling crude oil at $140 per barrel and yet couldn't pay workers for upwards of 14 months, where was your revolution?

When our health institutions went comatose, and doctors, nurses and other medical workers were always on strike, where was your revolution?

When ASUU strikes lasted up to 9 months nonstop to over 14 months sometimes, there was no revolution from you! Why?

When Nigeria Airways staff were dying due to nonpayment of their benefits for over 20 years, where was your revolution?

When the 2nd Niger Bridge was commissioned on mere paper twice but which tens of billions of naira was looted and squandered in its name, where was your revolution?

When our railways were left dead and rusty, and our roads across the country were abandoned such that they became huge craters and hundreds of billions of naira were being looted annually in the name of building new ones, where was your revolution?

When 20 people alone are owing me and you about 5 trillion naira public money in AMCON, where was your revolution?

When a former First Lady's total amount forfeited to government can be divided amongst 774 local governments for 220 million naira each, where was your revolution?

When 23 people, under the instruction of President Jonathan, looted and shared $2.1 billion funds meant for fighting Boko Haram, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, where was your revolution?

When over 20 people died during the Nigeria Immigration Service jobs scam in 2014, where was your revolution?

When stealing was not corruption, and was effectively legalised to the point that it was a crime to be honest in any office in Nigeria between 1999 and 2015, where was your revolution?

When poverty reached an all-time high of 112 million people in 2012 and 130 million in 2013 according to World Bank data, where was your revolution?

It is when the figure has reduced to 88 million people in 2018, according to the same World Bank, that you are talking of revolution?

Between 2010 and early 2015, we were being bombed and killed in hundreds and even thousands almost daily in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Zaria, Jos, Bauchi, Azare, Misau, Gombe, Maiduguri, Damaturu, Potiskum, Yola, Mubi, Gwoza, Bama, Buni-Yadi, Kala Balge, and many other towns and communities in northern Nigeria! Where was your revolution at that time?

Someone is diligently cleaning all of that mess now, and you are now shouting REVOLUTION on behalf of the very thieves and plunderers who created and sustained all of that mess for 16 solid years?

Who the hell do you think you are to think we will let you railroad us back to the rape and plunder of our beloved country in the name of a wacky revolution?


God bless PMB.
God bless Nigeria.

Akile1:
mind ur tougue

marvin906:
he's a journalist learn to read

KidsNEXTdoor:
Nobody send you work

Boko Haram you are fighting today wants the same thing your president wants... SHARIA in the north
We have seen hisbah police in the north... they are not paid by Boko Haram

The only difference is that Boko Haram wants nothing to do with infidels... But your president knows that infidels will go with their Oil...

Once they find Oil in the north.. Believe me
They will declare Islamic Republic of Arewanistan

CodeTemplar:
BPL last week commissioned multi-million naira Water and Road Projects executed under the NNPC/Belemaoil JV in Katsina, Bauchi, Gombe and Sokoto, as part of its efforts to bring succour to the people of Niger Delta region and Nigeria at large.

This was disclosed yesterday in Port Harcourt in a statement were means of promoting oneness and unity in Nigeria and to better the lots of the people and give them a better lease of life.

He said: “This gathering here today is as a result of our desire to share fellowship, to share oneness. Nigeria is one indivisible country that is centred on love irrespective of the political insinuations, affiliations and we must as a matter of fact build bridges that unite us.

“We are here to demonstrate oneness, we are here to demonstrate love. You, here in the north and myself from the Niger Delta, are one. Every country, the U.S., UK, Europe, they all have their challenges but when you have a challenge what you do with that challenge draws you to solution.

“When my friend, Umar Kumo (PA on Special Duties to SGF) mentioned this project to me, he said, ‘my community travels about 10-12 kilometres in search of water and I promised them that because NNPC loves community development, I will initiate the project and see how we can embark on them. We are happy that this project is successful.”

He, however, thanked the NNPC and President Muhammadu Buhari for supporting the project and for granting the company the operating license of the OML-55, which has given the company opportunity to better the lots of many across the country.

In his speech, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, represented by Mrs. Tolulope Derin-Adefuwa, called on the people to make good use of the projects. He said NNPC embarks on community development projects through its partnerships for grassroots development.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/multi-million-projects-to-northern-states-meant-to-promote-unity-nnpc-explains/

Youngadvocate:
Don't be deceived...the only solution available to salvage Nigeria and steer her off the precipice she's dangerously and rapidly approaching is R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N

If you are waiting for a Government that will fix Nigeria you are leaving in acute ignorance. The same political class you're waiting on to fix Nigeria's are the problem Nigeria is suffering from.

MetaPhysical:
On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at full blast. They had come to discuss the caste system that persists among the Igbo people in the region. The group’s host, Ignatius Uchechukwu Okororie, a short, sixty-two-year-old retired civil servant, split open a kola nut with his fingernails and ate its flesh; he then passed a metal tray of nuts around the room, for the others to taste. “He who brings kola nut brings life,” he said. The breaking of kola nut, known as iwa oji, is an important Igbo ritual traditionally performed to welcome guests to a gathering. The group in Okororie’s living room were members of a caste called ohu: descendants of slaves who, almost a century ago, were owned by townspeople. They are typically restricted from presiding over such ceremonies. In Okororie’s house, the iwa oji was a small rebellion.



Dispatch
The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality
Adaobi Tricia NwaubaniJuly 11, 2019
Descendants of slaves in Nigeria
Slavery existed among the Igbo long before colonization, and accelerated with the transatlantic trade. Today, slave descendants still retain the stigma of their ancestors.
Illustration by Ojima Abalaka
On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at full blast. They had come to discuss the caste system that persists among the Igbo people in the region. The group’s host, Ignatius Uchechukwu Okororie, a short, sixty-two-year-old retired civil servant, split open a kola nut with his fingernails and ate its flesh; he then passed a metal tray of nuts around the room, for the others to taste. “He who brings kola nut brings life,” he said. The breaking of kola nut, known as iwa oji, is an important Igbo ritual traditionally performed to welcome guests to a gathering. The group in Okororie’s living room were members of a caste called ohu: descendants of slaves who, almost a century ago, were owned by townspeople. They are typically restricted from presiding over such ceremonies. In Okororie’s house, the iwa oji was a small rebellion.


Slavery existed among the Igbo long before colonization, but it accelerated in the sixteenth century, when the transatlantic trade began and demand for slaves increased. Under slavery, Igbo society was divided into three main categories: diala, ohu, and osu. The diala were the freeborn, and enjoyed full status as members of the human race. The ohu were taken as captives from distant communities or else enslaved in payment of debts or as punishment for crimes; the diala kept them as domestic servants, sold them to white merchants, and occasionally sacrificed them in religious ceremonies or buried them alive at their masters’ funerals. (A popular Igbo proverb goes, “A slave who looks on while a fellow-slave is tied up and thrown into the grave should realize that it could also be his turn someday.”) The osu were slaves owned by traditional deities. A diala who wanted a blessing, such as a male child, or who was trying to avoid tribulation, such as a poor harvest or an epidemic, could give a slave or a family member to a shrine as an offering; a criminal could also seek refuge from punishment by offering himself to a deity. This person then became osu, and lived near the shrine, tending to its grounds and rarely mingling with the larger community. “He was a person dedicated to a god, a thing set apart—a taboo forever, and his children after him,” Chinua Achebe wrote of the osu, in “Things Fall Apart.” (The ume, a fourth caste, was comprised of the slaves who were dedicated to the most vicious deities.)

In the nineteenth century, the abolition of slavery in the West inadvertently led to a glut of slaves in the Igbo markets, causing the number of ohu and osu to skyrocket. “Those families which were really rich competed with one another in the number of slaves each killed for its dead or used to placate the gods,” Adiele Afigbo, an Igbo historian, wrote in “The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950.” The British formally abolished slavery in Nigeria in the early twentieth century, and finally eradicated it in the late nineteen-forties, but the descendants of slaves—who are also called ohu and osu—retained the stigma of their ancestors. They are often forbidden from speaking during community meetings and are not allowed to intermarry with the freeborn. In Oguta, they can’t take traditional titles, such as Ogbuagu, which is conferred upon the most accomplished men, and they can’t join the Oriri Nzere, an important social organization.

Westerners trying to understand the Igbo system often reach for its similarities with the oppression of black Americans. This analogy is helpful but imperfect. Igbo discrimination is not based on race, and there are no visual markers to differentiate slave descendants from freeborn. Instead, it trades on cultural beliefs about lineage and spirituality. The ohu were originally brought to their towns from distant villages. Community ties are very important in Igbo culture, and so, while the descendants of, say, American immigrants are encouraged to assimilate, the ohu have never lost their outsider status. With the osu, the diala originally believed that mixing with a deity’s slaves would earn them divine punishment. (In its spiritual aspect, the plight of the osu is similar to that of dalits in India or of burakumin in Japan, whose ancestors are believed to have done “polluting” work as butchers or tanners, and who are therefore thought to be impure.) With Christianization, the conscious aspect of this belief dissipated, but not without leaving traces. “The fear people have is: before long, our children and children’s children will be bastardized,” Okoro Ijoma, a professor of Igbo history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, told me. “It is about keeping their lineage pure.”

Perhaps the most important difference is that, though abolition in the West was preceded by centuries of activism that slowly (and imperfectly) changed popular attitudes, abolition in southeastern Nigeria was accomplished by colonial fiat—and only after the British no longer had an economic stake in the trade. It therefore seemed to many diala to be as arbitrary and self-serving as when the British pushed the Igbo, in the nineteenth century, to abandon subsistence farming in favor of cultivating cash crops, such as palm oil. The institution of slavery ended, but the underlying prejudices remained. In 1956, the legislature in southeastern Nigeria passed a statute outlawing the caste system, which then simply went underground. “Legal proscriptions are not enough to abolish certain primordial customs,” Anthony Obinna, a Catholic archbishop who advocates for the end of the system, told me. “You need more grassroots engagement.”

No data exist on the number of slave descendants in southeastern Nigeria today; it is rarely studied, and the stigma often compels people to keep silent about their status. (Ugo Nwokeji, a professor at Berkeley who studies the issue, estimates that five to ten per cent of Igbos, which would mean millions of people in Nigeria, are osu, and likely an equivalent number are ohu.) Recently, slave descendants have begun agitating for equality, staging protests and pressuring politicians. In 2017, the governor of Enugu State spoke out against the discrimination, saying that it violated the country’s constitution. In Oguta, ohu have distributed pamphlets and sued diala family members who tried to block them from receiving what they considered to be their inheritances, including access to communal farm land. Two years ago, when an elderly ohu man was snubbed for a seat on the village council, the ohu held a parallel ceremony to install him in the position. The ceremony was invaded by diala, who caused a brawl that the police had to break up. “Their population is much higher than ours,” Okororie said. “That is our only handicap.”


Its a long read but worth the time....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-descendants-of-slaves-in-nigeria-fight-for-equality/amp

lloyds:
Most likely she made an international call, on more flex package.

She should have made pre-tariff inquiry before making such calls.

Rosarie:
Instead of just writin this long epistle them for just write the data now so we will know if it is true or not
Another thing about this mtn,they can say they have reduced it but it will burn faster than fuel sef.

Benekruku:
Its a welcomed Idea, but the political elites who are opportune to be in the fore-front to move motion, love Nigeria united

If due process is followed, Its a welcomed idea.

Benekruku:
If I want to be fair and go by the recommendations of those that antagonised my humble and honourable self when I was in support of RUGA,

I will clearly state that the Ultimatum is well deserved. Many quoted me on Nairaland saying "RUGA should be done up North ONLY". Fine! And now they are also telling you to go trade in your region. Anybody that needs your product would come and buy in your region.

I think its fair with all honesty. If a Fulani or Hausa man is limited to trade in certain parts of the country, then I think other tribes should be limited to trading in there own region too.

I feel does that came for head when I was supporting RUGA can now find a better resolution to the impending doom that stares at us at present.


The English people call it "Tit for Tat"
Warri people call it "Do me, I do you"
Men call it "An eye for an eye"

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deomelo:
I was actually expecting a reply without the usual tribalism, bigotry, and rubbish.

I guess that was expecting too much from tribally stewed people.

deomelo:
Before rejecting anything, read and understand everything about what you are rejecting because the uninformed citizen is an ignorant citizen.

Internet, tribal and bigoted follow follow don consume you from top to bottom.

Dpharisee:
Ruga is to wandering Fulanis what Palestine is to wandering Jews who needed a homeland to call their own after the holocaust that occurred during WWII in 1945.

It was obvious to the scattered Jews that they needed a place to call home and adopted Palestine using historical and biblical contexts.

All Jews all over the world were encouraged to migrate to Palestine which is now Israel where settlements similar to Ruga was created for them in 1945 to live side by side with the Palestinian Arabs, overtime this did not go down well with Palestinians and thus triggered the 1948 Palestine war which was won by Isreal thereby using that opportunity to grab more land from the Palestinians till date.

leokid866:
From what I have heard only states that are interested in participating in the project would be called forward. And so far most of the states that have stepped up officially are northern states.

deomelo:
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citizenY:
All the states of the country have been given an option to accept or reject the scheme and some have stated explicitly that they are against it, while some are in favour. Low IQ is when you do not recognize this. I will not call it stupid when I have already mentioned low IQ. It makes things worse.

leokid866:
Yes everyone has a state of origin but that doesn't mean they always have to do business there, if you were born in Osun nothing stops you from doing your business in lagos if the structures you need are in lagos.....just saying.

netpro:
There two main problem we have on this matter:

1. How to stop legit herders from roaming about with their livestock and be clashing with farmers whose farms are destroyed by these cattle. The ranches will fix that. This is 21st century, not the days of Abraham.
2. The criminal elements, who go about killing, invading and burning villages. Security agents will deal with this, with support from local policing.

To deal with number 2 effectively and stop the killings of innocent Nigerians, you need to fix number one.

Already we have a problem, what is important is implementing a good solution. Yes, ranches should only be establish in communities and states who want it.

That Sambisa Forest argument is ridiculous at best.

fukara:
BOOM �
Cattle rearers come to the south because we southerners eat a lot of cow meat. Lagos alone eat 10,000 cows daily.
In economics, business location is consumer dependent.... They did not come to steal land, they come to make money.
But as long as we kill 10,000 cows a day in Lagos alone, Ruga or no Ruga, by fire by force, those who sell cows will find their ways to where their customers are!
However, if the Southern Governors mean business, they should make a law that anyone who eats cow meat will face firing squad. All these problems will be solved.

otipoju:
First class muntula