₦airaland Forum

conductorl6:


Yoluba means coward or snake in my language.

malware:
It is very ironical that some unpatriotic Nigerians are making good effort to make the public believe that the kidnap of over hundred school girls from Dapchi town, by Boko Haram elements is a scam, and these same people are advocating for the release of the only Christian girl still in the terrorists' captivity.

I want the conspiracy theorists to explain the two contradicting points above.

Oluwabash:
At age 80, a man should naturally be making peace with his maker and seeking forgiveness from fellow humans for whatever he might have done to sin against them.

When this does not happen, the cause may be connected with the emerging phenomenon of people bestowing a god-state upon themselves, whereby certain individuals become rich and powerful to the point that they no longer see themselves on the same pedestal as mere mortals especially when they can spew forth decrees from their opulent temples without fear of being censured or called into account.

Even this view is not sufficient to explain the incendiary directive from Nigeria's one-time defence minister, retired Lieutenant General Theopilus Danjuma, who ordered Nigerians to pick up arms and turn on each other. Of course, he hid the sinister calls behind the façade of asking Nigerians to defend themselves.

To make sure the directive is seen as justified, he made sure to demonize the Nigerian Army, the same institution that he once presided over, which implies that whatever the army is today has the benefit of his input.

One wonders why Danjuma did not proffer this his newfound wise counsel to the people of Zaki Biam in 2001 ahead of when, as defence minister, he authorized an industrial scale massacre in the community.

He did not at time see the act as ethnic cleansing neither did he chance upon such awareness when he exploited his military background to arm Jukuns against Tivs in what is the foundation of the instability that today plague the region.

The template of arming ethnic militias to decimate the population of rival ethnic nationalities was first introduced by him. His minions have replicated this strategy with deadly consequences that are today threatening the very foundation of the country.

What is missing from the TY Danjuma pogrom equation is the abuse of the military to wipe out ethnic rivals as was the case in Zaki Biam.

The inability to draw the army into the fray this time around was an injury to those orchestrating the ethnic cleansing while the army's Operation Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) is the equivalent of rubbing salt in the wound because the military was able to mop up illegal arms that would have been used against innocent citizens.

Danjuma's frustration and anger are therefore understandable within the context of a man who wants to be seen as the messiah of his ethnic stock but the anger is unjustifiable. He is entitled to his ethnic angst but his venting must be within the confines of what is legal and does not threaten the wellbeing of other ethnicities or the security of the country.

He must express his displeasure without calling for more blood to be shed or misleading people to think that his position is right.

The tragedy is that uninformed cheerleaders are urging TY Danjuma to carry on with the path of destruction he is plotting for the country. Instead of nudging him to realize the error of his position they have instead christened him a hero who spoke the truth when it mattered; yet nothing can be farther from the truth.

He only needs to look at how his utterances have been manipulated to suit the agenda of extremists like Harun Elbinawi, who is already marketing Danjuma's call to violence as a dogma.

These same people will, naturally, testify against Danjuma when the time comes for those behind the ethnically motivated violence in Nigeria to answer for their crimes.
The excuse that he was trying to defend the interest of the people of Taraba state will not count at that time because there are legitimate avenues to address such, which TY Danjuma refused to exploit.

This refusal to exploit legitimate channels is not unconnected with the reality that he is himself part of the cause of the strife in not just Taraba, but also all the adjourning states.

Some indigenous authorities suggest Danjuma's show of concern for "Taraba's plight" is a desperate attempt to make the people accept him as one of them since there are speculations that he is not able to point out a paternal source in that state.

This may not hold water because at his age a man should know where he came from so something else, possibly more sinister, is driving the general's feral disposition. This disposition sank to a level where he is now seeking to discredit the government by suggesting that the army is partial.

Others have questioned if this attack on the army has anything to do with the absence of a military coup even after the party that landed Danuma his wealth has been kicked out of office. Is the recent call for people to bear arms against themselves a coded call for a coup? Only TY Danjuma knows.

What is not in contention is that Nigerians are awake to his shenanigans and definitely want no part in it.
Kolawole PhD contributed this article from Keffi, Nasarawa State.ource in that state. This may not hold water because at his age a man should know where he came from so something else, possibly more sinister, is driving the general's feral disposition.

This disposition sank to a level where he is now seeking to discredit the government by suggesting that the army is partial.

Others have questioned if this attack on the army has anything to do with the absence of a military coup even after the party that landed Danuma his wealth has been kicked out of office. Is the recent call for people to bear arms against themselves a coded call for a coup? Only TY Danjuma knows.

What is not in contention is that Nigerians are awake to his shenanigans and definitely want no part in it.

Kolawole PhD contributed this article from Keffi, Nasarawa State.

IeatPussy:
Nigeria won't achieve greatness by forcing an imaginary unity. The centre is suffocating us all. Buhari won't solve our problems. No single President can. We need to change the structure. Restructuring will solve 80% of our problem as a country. But I doubt if Nigeria will ever restructure because Corruption has eaten deep in almost every citizen of the country.

SamoaJoe:
May the Thunder of God destroy you and that Atikulate.

I pray Atiku dies before 2019... Amen.

Nigeriabiafra80:
So this is a response

saarumann:
Nigerians should rather pray for the division of the country. Let northerners fight their creation boko haram by themselves.

Billyonaire:
very dull. nothing inspiring.

johnyace:
we are not one,if only British had not join the north and south,if only ojukwu had won the civil war,things will be better than this.

amani63:
One man six guns

Tell me how Nigeria will survive

kernel504:
From the caption, The Nation Newspaper came to my mind, I quickly ran down to the link, indeed I wasn't disappointed.

Neyoor:
President Muhammadu Buhari says the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government has been salvaging Nigeria from her challenges since he assumed office.



The President said this on Tuesday while addressing a meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.


He urged leaders and members of the APC at the meeting, as well as Nigerians, to support the security agencies in tackling insecurity in the country.

Ahead of the forthcoming elections, President Buhari declared the APC as the party of the Nigerian people and asked its leaders and members to join forces towards achieving victory in the 2019 polls.



He further asked them to remind Nigerians of the past and thank them for supporting the APC in spite of the recent challenges in the country.

The President also appealed to the party faithful not to relax and support the presidential committee led by former governor Bola Tinubu, to reconcile all aggrieved members of the APC.

Read the President’s full remarks below:

I welcome all of you dear party members to this year’s NEC meeting.

Let me first record my appreciation to the party leadership in Abuja and the states for their stewardship of the party affairs. In particular, may I commend our Chairman, His Excellency Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for steering the party from success to success.

From our resounding victory in 2015, to gubernatorial elections in Kogi, Edo and Ondo as well as much improved showing in Anambra Elections. APC is the party of government and now the party of the Nigerian people.

Mr Chairman, Members of NEC, great credit is due to our APC State Governors for stabilizing the country and to our Armed Forces, Police and other Security Agencies for stopping Boko Haram in its tracks and driving them from their bases. No country, however well secured, can prevent isolated acts of terror as we have seen in America, Europe, Asia and here in Africa.

We must support our Security Agencies to safeguard our country so that the job of development as outlined in our Manifesto can proceed without too much interruption.

Mr Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee, we cannot afford to fail to remind Nigerians where we came from in 2015. I am happy to report that slowly and steadily we have managed to stabilise the country and re-direct the ship of the State.

We have restored prudence to the management of public finances. Confidence in Nigeria has been restored. On February 23rd, Nigeria issued 12-year and 20-year Eurobond on the international market, which were both oversubscribed. The 12-year bond was within days subscribed by 332%. The 20-year bond was subscribed by 372%.

We have stabilised the Naira, increased our foreign reserves from US$20 billion to US$40 billion. Inflation rate is down. With considerably less resources available to the country, we have improved all indices towards a stronger economy.

Above all, we must pay tribute to the Nigerian people. They still massively support the government in spite of distractions from exponents of “business-as-usual”.

Nevertheless, I am not asking us to relax and take things easy. As we all know, elections are looming on the horizon, we must, therefore, get our act together. Accordingly, I implore all members of the Party to give the Asiwaju Committee full cooperation to resolve differences existing amongst our members in the States affected. It is perhaps inevitable that there would be differences of opinion within the Party. If we didn’t have differences we wouldn’t be a genuinely democratic Party.

But we must not lose sight of our common purpose as a new Party to break the mould of Nigerian politics and take the country to new heights. Therefore, we have asked our respected Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead this process of restoring order to the ranks, manage differences and strengthen the Party.

Mr Chairman, members of the National Executive Committee, I must acknowledge that the pace of government has not met the expectations of many within our Party. But few of us knew or appreciated the depth of the hole when we took office. Thus we spent the last two years digging the country out of the mess we met.

Furthermore, the stand-off between the Executive and the National Assembly slowed the process of government. We are working hard to resolve the differences so that the country can move forward.

Soon, primaries for; wards, local governments, state and centre will be due.

I urge all members to take account of the fact that APC has a history of conducting free and fair primaries whenever consensus about any position is not reached. Regardless of thcomes of the primary processes, it is imperative that we all work together to ensure victory for our party.

Thank you

SOURCE
https://streetnetngr.com/spent-last-2-years-digging-nigeria-mess-met-president-buhari/

gidgiddy:
But if the Igbo man declares Biafra tomorow so that he can go his way, you will immidiately declare war so you can be with Igbos

limeta:
Whats yr reason for thinking the bishop dont know what his talking about
If islam is so good why dont you keep it to yr self

danvon:
I am 99.9999999999999999% sure you didn't read this, this is your fellow Igbo

Amarabae:
The social media is bubbling over a new law passed by the Lagos State house of assembly that made it compulsory for anyone seeking admission into Lagos State University to have a credit or pass in Yoruba language and also for the teaching of Yoruba language in all primary and secondary schools.
Ndi Igbo ibem, what is wrong with the law?
Why the noise?
The yorubas have shown the country again that they are proud of their identity and Lagos belongs to them which I agree, Lagos is a Yoruba state, argue with your shadow.
This is a time for us to think, Igbos,
We should be promoting our own identity like language, music, arts, movies ,attire etc
We should be more Igbotic everytime,
It pains me to see some Igbo youths busy trying to be more Jewish than Igbo,
To them, being Jewish is better to them than being Igbo,
Odinani is fading away and some are sweating to promote Judaism whereas the Israeli government are maltreating African immigrants in their country.
We are promoting Judaism while allowing Igbo identity to be fading away.
What a shock!

It pains me to see some Igbo youths busy online arguing and fascinating about how the minorities (ijaws, itsekiris, ogonis etc) will join Biafra.
How will they respect Igbo nation when you have painted yourself as beggars before them,
You hate the word homogeneous Igbo nation, you are only interested in teaching your children how how Phillip effiong was ojukwu vice therefore the whole of South south is Biafra yet if I ask your kids who Flora nwamkpa or mbonu ojike is, they will not know because you didn't bother to teach them.
Instead of talking about Igbo land issue, you are busy arguing on why south south is not in map or geography.

Who did this to us .

I love my Igbo ethnic nation and I am proudly Igbotic by nature, we need to be more ethnocentric as Igbos, enough of being politically correct as Igbo.
Love yourself.
Be proud of your Igbo identity
Showcase it.
Drop the defeatist mentality.
I have sworn that my little baby boy will learn from me how to speak fluent Igbo from small age, not just Igbo but his fathers Anambra dialect.
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Kudos to Lagos government.
Let the Igbo governors follow suit.
And finally, Lagos is Yoruba land no matter the amount of investment owned by non indigenes just like Enugu is Igbo land.
There is an Igbo adage that says "O biara ije nwe ula "
Keep your branch anywhere but move your headquarters to Igbo land.
Return your investment home,
Use your brain.
Igbo land is bigger than Rwanda ,Singapore and Israel in size yet these are countries,
Return your investment home.
The people you are buying their lands, paying taxes to and investing in their land don't appreciate nor like you.

Aku ruo uno, Biko o.
Igbo ga adi. Amii
Self preservation is the first law of Nature .
Ndewo

DUTCHDON:
He is a patriot and has the required political experience to become the President.
Obama was a Senator representing Chicago,before he was propelled himself to the highest office in America. It possible to have a repeat scenario in Nigeria. He is free from corruption and has shown he cares for the Nigerian people.

What are your thoughts?

Ekiseme:
he's not dead mf

baby124:
Regional is better. A lot of these 36 states are not viable on their own.

Derivation should be a 70% to the state and 30% to run the government.

Each region can elect a leader who can sit on a council with other regional leaders.

We can share one army with equal representation from all regions.

Independent candidacy can be encouraged but let it be on a regional level to represent each region on a council. Regions will pay the representatives expenses and not the country.

Legislative should be handled on the regional level. All regions should have their own laws which are binding.

Only thing council votes on is wars, resolving conflicts, economic strategy, borders. These are the only policies a federal government should be concerned with and fund. An army, immigration service and a border force. 30% revenue is enough for that. At the maximum 40%.

peoplesociety:
The saying that give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what belongs to God’ may be appropriate for the monumental movement of Dr Orji Uzor Kalu from the peoples Democratic party to the All progressive congress [A P C] The emergence of Kalu as one of the leaders of A P C in the south—east geo-political zone is not contestable any day anywhere.The truth has come to manifestation. In 1953 Pa Anthony Enahoro of the blessed memory with spiritedness in his step, a powerful and cultured voice moved a motion for independence of the present day Nigeria, he had so many reasons for so doing, one of them could have been autonomy in policy making and implementation, even the collection of tax and rate including the sharing formular.

Numerous reasons abound why people volunteer themselves for representation to their kins in any national any state discouss. these ranges from speaking the minds of their people with one voice,self help programmes and the attraction of developmental projects to their zones as a matter of collective interest, they also have in mind as their mission for the peoples transparent and progressive representation such that will make governance to be more meaningful to the masses. Prominent amongst this caliber of people is Dr Orji Uzor Kalu [M O N] who overwhelmingly pulled out from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressive Congress with overbearing supporters all over the south-east geopolitical zone.

Tis natures law to change,constancy alone is strange.As far as there has been human on this planet , there has been changes also. And for that long, humans have tried to understand the changes they saw,love,birth and death, harvest and floodtide. The changes witnessed by the people of south-east geopolitical zone of the federal republic of Nigeria have been too difficult or bewildering to comprehend, but as far as we know,every age has wrestled with the problem of change in order that life will be more meaningful with a great sense of direction and purpose,however nuclear that might be.

Historically, record suggests that people of south-east-Nigeria have for decades been confronted by persistent tension between one and the many, between individual search for his own autonomy and his involvement in an environment that might deprive him of his autonomy and his sense of uniqueness. The age long question is Am I my brothers keeper, seem for ever to recur.And to this question too, the people of south-east geopolitical zone of the federal republic of Nigeria have had to find today some answers.

In the dawn of a new era with a mission for change. I hope to share my excitement about one way of understanding the world and man,s place within it .Certainly, The former governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Kalu is not the only man,he may not even be t he best but I am convinced that the qualities in him coupled with social approach and his penchant for touching lives positively is total.The business guru cum political giant from Igbere, Bende, Abia North senatorial district of Abia state,whom the good people of south-east will ever defy rain and sun to make sure they toe his path as the leader that will make the financial security and developmental indices of south-east geopolitical zone to rise and rise in a less confusing fashion and to see some hope where there might otherwise be discouragement.
The fact is that Dr Orji Uzor Kalu[M O N] is a leader whose primary interest is to make faces smile in the nook and crannies of his geopolitical zone and Nigeria at large.

Any one who has moved closer to him will agree that he has a passion for service. Even from a distance one can picture the selflessness in him. He is one man who looks ready at all times to use his energy,intellect and financial resources to support the masses. The man O U K whose agenda is total transformation of south-east geopolitical zone is ever a shinning light to all.

The former governor of Abia state who was dubbed ACTION GOVERNOR, courtesy of President Obasanjo [GCFR]has made his mark, endowed with impeccable character,immense sagacity,great administrative acumen,sense of mission to advance the boundaries of politics,education,employment,finance,infrastructure,industry,public health and security in the entire south-east geopolitical zone.He is now enarmored of what to do for the zone and not what the people can do for him.A pacesetter and a beacon of light to the youth and upcoming generation of Nigeria.

To many south-easterners,the stories across the zone reveals that leadership should be entrusted on the young and upwardly mobile in the likes of Dr Orji Uzor Kalu[M O N] to come up with administrative strategies to growth and development.There should be a paradigm change to younger generation to shine the torch of caring leadership and guidance.Politicians generally see themselves as leaders but not all of them are.Whereas the south-east geopolitical zone needs a leader who is in tune with times,a leader that can trample obstacles with unyielding zeal, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu[M O N] fits the bill.

By Kalu Okpo.

omonnakoda:
Politics is not about sentient or childish emotions but strategizing to achieve your interests.

Just recently the Benue state government released a TIMELINE inicationg that these attacks have been going on for a long time before Buhari came to power and most of those attacks in the timeline occurred before he came to power.

It is sad that when we face issues in our country people like to reduce it to a Man U versus Man city scenario. Buhari versus Tinubu without taking tie to reflect on the bigger picture.
e.g Buhari could never have won if GEJ was doing well, he dd not win in 2011 so what changed? .

A president is like a football team coach . He must pick the right team. GEJ did not pick the right team and Buhari is repeating the same error

I am not a Buhari or Tinubu apologist and so I am not here to defend them. Their paid hacks can do that but please do not pretend that this was better under Jonathan .

It was not. Tinubu did not bring this upon Nigerians.

They brought it upon themselves