₦airaland Forum

justineu:
what is in kano to wail about?

Kundagarten:
The man is also playing football with our electricity. Electricity has suddenly become rocket science.
Tell him to dress as a clown next time, biggest clown after Bubu.

OBAGADAFFI:
What nonsense

So the Caliphate now determines what happens in the Army.

Where is Obasanjo.

who is obasanjo??

Tolexander:
This is the handiwork of Orji Uzor Kanu's enemy.

Ovamboland:
The North is simply plotting to rule for 8 straight years under the guise of abandoning Buhari.
If they pool same stunt with the next guy they will claim 16 unbroken years ruling

that was exactly the same thing that came to my mind when i saw the head line. these people actually think that we are foo.ls? i don't blame them. i blame southerners who don't have the balls to produce a candidate that is competent who we would all vote for...

devindevin2000:
Typical afonja who thinks IPOB and Kanu is now into oblivion....lol. You will be shocked in the coming days...IPOB is more dangerous and effective working underground than Nnamdi Kanu seen live announcing his plans. Don't be fooled...IPOB is stronger than ever before. And...mind your business useless afonja thing!

obonujoker:
But Atiku is actually better than Buhari..... Although....

a billion times better......since we have to make comparison between two northerners who aren't even the best Nigeria has to offer. but because the Fulani runs the show we are left with mediocre's in the corridors of power.

Alhassan Dantata, an Agalawa merchant of Kano, victim of the Fulani tyranny and great grandfather of Aliko Dangote

Prior to their arrival in the Fulani people from Futa Jallon in Northern Nigeria, the Hausa kingdoms were a confederate of very prosperous nation states. They were the best traders in the whole continent for leather products and textiles and held large merchant bases in Katsina, Gobir, Kano and Zazzou. Trade in these regions were so vast that caravans came all the way from the ottoman empire and North Africa. . The agalawa merchants of Kano were the middle men who traded with the Arabs and traders from Sudan. One of the very important commodities traded at the time was Kola nuts, which was introduced by a legendary Hausa female ruler known as Queen Amina.

After the Jihad, the fulani leadership destroyed the prosperous Hausa kingdoms and turned it into a region of mass poverty and hub of slavery. It destroyed the merchants bases and persecuted the Agalawa merchants. One of the persecuted merchants at the time was the Dantata family. The famous Alhassan Dantata at some point was a slave of the fulani overlords and his family had to part with vast fortunes to buy his freedom. They fled to Ghana and the Fulani destroyed the agalawa merchant base at Kano. They took the fertile lands of the North for the fulani herdsmen who were being wooed at the time to stop the seasonal migrations and settle in the Hausa lands permanently. They forced the natives into a life of slavery so much that half of the native Hausas were stripped of their freedom. Over 50% of the hausa natives were slaves in their ancestral home. The largest concentrations were in Sokoto, Yola Kano, Zaria, katsina and Ilorin emirates

A German explorer called Heinrich Barth who travelled to many parts of the North in the 1850’s observed ‘slavery exists on an immense scale in the Hausa lands. There are many private individuals who have more than a thousand slaves….. Yola had so many slaves that the emir Mohammed Lowel built a slave village in Rumde to contain slaves. These slaves where used for farm labor. Every year Mohammed Lowel enforced a yearly tribute of five thousand slaves from his subjects. ( Barths Travels in Nigeria)

The hausa people were at the verge of fighting back when the British arrived and further favored the presence of the Futa Jallon emirs, so much that after independence, they not only ensured that the North had a bigger region and more advantage over the south in voting blocs, but also restricted the champion of the hausa masses ( Aminu Kano) who was ready to retake the North through the ballot boxes and totally destroy the emirates of the Hausa kingdoms under Fulani immigrant invaders.

The fulani leaders who eventually cause collateral damages come as humble friends, endear themselves to the people, give them false promise of a better future and bargain with the powerbrokers who think they would have a better stake in a fulani government but hold regrets when it is much too late. Such heavy weights to suffer such fates include Afonja, Zik, Abiola, Ekweme and currently Tinubu.

As they further gain grips on the country, they are determined to disenfanshise the south like they did the Hausa people. they hate western education and most especially history. After they have ensured that all histories of the hausa kingdoms is lost to them, so much that they are alienated from their past great leaders like queen Amina of Zaria and King Rumfa of Kano. They have ensured that history is striped out of school syllabus in the south and ensure certain records that expose future generations to their cold-hearted tendencies like their role in the civil war remains unspoken

. In the 60’s when Ahmadu Bello became the premier of the North and Middle belt region. He structured the region very much like his great grandfather ( Dan Fodio) and tried to use religion as a weapon to subdue the North into conformity. He turned down Awolowo’s offer to help in ensuring free education in the North through migration of kids to the primary schools of the west. In 1962, he founded the Jamaatu Nasril Islam ( Society for the victory of Islam) and sent muslim teachers (mallams) throughout the region using the same blue print of his great grandfather who secretly tried to recruit natives through an organized koranic school structure and was restricted by Sultan Nafata from sending disciples out to teach and recruit in disguise thereby frustrating Dan Fodio’s effort to share his dream of the prophet. (in the dream, he was granted a green mantle, special turban and a command to raise the sword against his enemies and lead his followers to a new era of prosperity in the Hausa kingdoms). Not until after the saultan’s son (Yumfa) ascended the throne was he able to fully consolidate his army to launch the jiahad. Ahmadu Bello used this organized system to lead many conversion campaigns focused in the middle belt. The movement was called Ahmadu Bello’s Jihad by politicians in the west who held great reservations for the system. this organized structure remains in the North today and ensures that the hausa remain perpetual slaves carrying slates and taking koranic classes while the Fulani elites enroll in western schools. A second attempt under Jonathan to ensure mas education in the North was quickly proscribed in the early stages of Buhari presidency.

what they did to the Hausa kingdoms, they are determined to do in the south. They would not stop until they destroy its education system, enforce the Fulani minority as head of all ministries, take important lands for their cattle to graze, take wealth of the south as spoils of war as they spread poverty, ensure destruction of history and frustrate all attempts of the natives to reconnect with their past and maintain their ancestral pride. They do not belong here and hold no loyalty to anywere in Nigeria as their ancestral home. Nigeria would never prosper under a Fulani leader. We should never allow a fulani politician appeal to us, regardless of his tricks and gimmicks. Buhari should be the very last to ever fool a southern electorate. They will forever remain immigrants from Futa Jallon that came to take spoils of war regardless of how the sell any candidate from their stock.

By Gbonka Ebiri

Gotze1:
You sha want to use style drag Yoruba people here. Who told you dey care about your food?

then why did u reply him?

fake pastor

lastempero:
The problem with Igbo's is that most of us are myopic and enjoy trading blames instead of seeking solution.who is making use of the roads if I should ask u,its only in abia state that the governor cries like a bby when it comes to federal road,go to anambra,Enugu n pH most of the roads there are federal roads but their state govt took it upon themselves to rehabilitate the roads and we are here dragging who should do the road.

but i really need this question answered. if the logic here is that the governors should fix the road and be reimbursed,why shouldn't the federal government hands off all roads and let these states take care of the roads in their domain. thats exactly the reasons why i support the idea of federalism. lets stop deceiving our selves. we all know how long it took the LASG to get approval for the road leading to the international airport. lets stop being sentimental. when the FG decides to reduce the power it has in the legislative list then we can start talking

MadamExcellency:
You mean to say that the map is a geographical location of a people colonized by Igbo Nation in 1903?

There is nothing I won't read from you. So much fiction is embedded in you system that even when facts shine the light of liberation, you still refuse to get enlightened.

he isn't igbo

Mcowubaba:
During the last election, one of my relative kept on disturbing me, on how Buhari is the best thing after orgasmm, and why I should support him.

I warned him that Buhari is an unrepentant ethnic bigot, who has nothing to offer and his track record is nothing to talk about, but he vehemently refused, he said I was supporting Corruption, that Change is constant.
Fast forward earlier this year, he said he lost his job due to Economic issues in Nigeria, the company he worked with were trying to downsize, he is asking me for money now

I told him to go to and apply for NPOWER or register for the 5K for poorest citizens

Before you insult me or say I'm insensitive, I can give you his account number and details, so as a Patriot as my friend Sarki will say, you can help him with some money.
I don't have any money for Buhari's supporters , I'm broke

Even all this Almajiri the rounded up to vote for Buhari, I have advised people to stop giving them money
Their brother is in Power

People need to be responsible for their actions

Contemporary federal practice in Nigeria has hampered, rather than advance, development in states as a tier of government.

As the present agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra subjects the fabric of the nation to grievous strain, it is evident that the marriage of 1914

is not working.

Now is the time to revisit the structure of the federation and rethink it's constitution.

Our target should be:

The Second Schedule of the 199 constitution: Legislative Powers.

Amend the Constitution to include the right to self determination.

Revenue Allocation Formula.

The Nigerian federal practice had constituted a clog in the wheel of progress of the states to include the lopsided revenue allocation formula, the

constitutional delineation of power between the federal and state governments and the issue of security.

Two features of the military imposed 199 Constitution and federal practice hampers regional development:

Firstly, the lopsided revenue allocation formula, through which the Federal Government takes 52.8 per cent of all federally-collected revenue,

the 36 states and the 774 local councils share 26.72 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.

The second feature of our federal system that hampers the speed of development in the states, is the constitutional delineation of power

between the federal government and state governments.

At present, the Federal Government controls 68 legislative items under the exclusive list and shares 24 with state governments on the

concurrent list.

Apart from the fact that the long legislative list raises issues of effectiveness at the federal level, given the expansive nature of the country,

many of the items could be better executed by the states, rather than the Federal Government.

Such matters include education, health, and even provision of public infrastructure within the states. For instance, rather than appropriate

funds to the federal government to provide township roads, would it not be better for such monies to be appropriated to states that are in daily

contact with the townships and their needs?

On the issue of security, the foundation of all development was peace and security, this have, in essence, put the burden of security on any

state government in search of development.

Regrettably, security had been made the exclusive responsibility of the Federal Government.

The states face enormous security challenges but are hamstrung by the present constitutional provisions.

We need to rethink the constitutional provisions on security for efficiency and effectiveness.

1999 Constitution for Nigeria: the 68-Item Exclusive Legislative List

These are the areas the powers reserved exclusively for the central government are defined. This means that only the central or federal

government can legislate on the subjects in the exclusive list. Interference of the regional or state governments on matters in the exclusive list

can be declared null and void and unconstitutional:

Accounts of the Government of the Federation, and of offices, courts, and authorities thereof, including audit of those accounts.

Arms, ammunition and explosives.

Aviation, including airports, safety of aircraft and carriage of passengers and goods by air.

Awards of national titles of honour, decorations and other dignities.

Bankruptcy and insolvency

Banks, banking, bills of exchange and promissory notes.

Borrowing of moneys within or outside Nigeria for the purposes of the Federation or of any State.

Census, including the establishment and maintenance of machinery for continuous and universal registration of births and deaths throughout

Nigeria.

Citizenship, naturalization and aliens.

Commercial and industrial monopolies, combines and trusts.

Construction, alteration and maintenance of such roads as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal trunk roads.

Control of capital issues.

Copyright

Creation of States

Currency, coinage and legal tender

Customs and excise duties

Defense

Deportation of persons who are not citizens of Nigeria

Designation of securities in which trust funds may be invested.

Diplomatic, consular and trade representation.

Drugs and poisons.

Election to the offices of President and Vice-President or Governor and Deputy Governor and any other office to which a person may be elected

under this Constitution, excluding election to a local government council or any office in such council.

Evidence

Exchange control

Export duties

External affairs

Extradition

Fingerprints identification and criminal records.

Fishing and fisheries other than fishing and fisheries in rivers, lakes, waterways, ponds and other inland waters within Nigeria.

Immigration into and emigration from Nigeria

Implementation of treaties relating to matters on this list

Incorporation, regulation and winding up of bodies corporate, other than co-operative societies, local government councils and bodies corporate

established directly by any Law enacted by a House of Assembly of a State.

Insurance.

Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations; conditions, safety and welfare of Labour; industrial disputes; prescribing a national minimum

wage for the Federation or any part thereof; and industrial arbitration.

Legal proceedings between Governments of States or between the Government of the Federation and Government of any State or any other

authority or person.

Maritime shipping and navigation, including – (a) shipping and navigation on tidal waters; (b) shipping and navigation on the River Niger and its

affluents and on any such other inland waterway as may be designated by the National Assembly to be an international waterway or to be an

inter-State waterway;(c) lighthouses, l ightships, beacons and other provisions for the safety of shipping and navigation; (d) such ports as may

be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal ports (including the constitution and powers of port authorities for Federal ports).

Meteorology

Military (Army, Navy and Air Force) including any other branch of the armed forces of the Federation.

Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas.

National parks being such areas in a State as may, with the consent of the Government of that State, be designated by the National Assembly

as national parks.

Nuclear energy

Passports and visas

Patents, trademarks, trade or business names, industrial designs and merchandise marks.

Pensions, gratuities and other-like benefit payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds of the Federation.

Police and other government security services established by law.

Posts, telegraphs and telephones

Powers of the National Assembly, and the privileges and immunities of its members

Prisons

Professional occupations as may be designated by the National Assembly.

Public debt of the Federation

Public holidays.

Public relations of the Federation

Public service of the Federation including the settlement of disputes between the Federation and officers of such service.

Quarantine

Railways

Regulations of political parties

Service and execution in a State of the civil and criminal processes, judgements, decrees, orders and other decisions of any court of law outside

Nigeria or any court of law in Nigeria other than a court of law established by the House of Assembly of that State.

Stamp duties

Taxation of incomes, profits and capital gains, except as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution.

The establishment and regulation of authorities for the Federation or any part thereof – (a) To promote and enforce the observance of the

Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles contained in this Constitution; (b) To identify, collect, preserve or generally look after ancient

and historical monuments and records and archaeological sites and remains declared by the National Assembly to be of national significance or

national importance; (c) to administer museums and libraries other than museums and libraries established by the Government of a state; (d)

To regulate tourist traffic; and (e) To prescribe minimum standards of education at all levels.

The formation, annulment and dissolution of marriages other than marriages under Islamic law and Customary law including matrimonial causes

relating thereto.

Trade and commerce, and in particular – (a) trade and commerce between Nigeria and other countries including import of commodities into and

export of commodities from Nigeria, and trade and commerce between the states; (b) establishment of a purchasing authority with power to

acquire for export or sale in world markets such agricultural produce as may be designated by the National Assembly; (c) inspection of produce

to be exported from Nigeria and the enforcement of grades and standards of quality in respect of produce so inspected; (d) establishment of a

body to prescribe and enforce standards of goods and commodities offered for sale; (e) control of the prices of goods and commodities

designated by the National Assembly as essential goods or commodities; and (f) registration of business names.

Traffic on Federal trunk roads.

Water from such sources as may be declared by the National Assembly to be sources affecting more than one state

Weights and measures.

Wireless, broadcasting and television other than broadcasting and television provided by the Government of a state; allocation of wave-lengths

for wireless, broadcasting and television transmission.

Any other matter with respect to which the National Assembly has power to make laws in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

Any matter incidental or supplementary to any matter mentioned elsewhere in this list.

CONCURRENT LIST: These areas are where powers are shared jointly by both the central and regional or state governments as stipulated in the

constitution. Even though both governments can make law on matters that fall under concurrent list, the central government is supreme. This

means that in case there is a conflict of law made by both, central government law will supersede that of the regional or state governments

subject to all matters on concurrent list, including health, education, agriculture, road, housing.

RESIDUAL LIST: These areas are the leftover powers not included in either the exclusive or the concurrent list. If powers in the residual list are

left for the regions or states as is done in some constitutions, that will render the central weak and vice versa. In some constitutions, residual

powers are exercised by both levels of government. Such matters in the residual list in Nigeria include chieftaincy matters.

PRESS RELEASE:
NNPC Confident of Commercial Hydrocarbon Find in Inland Basins

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has expressed confidence that the aggressive exploration of the inland basins being driven

by the corporation would soon yield success with hydrocarbon finds in commercial quantity.

This was disclosed by the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, when he received a delegation of the Nigerian Association of

Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) executives led by its President, Mr. Abidun Adesanya, in Abuja.

Dr. Baru said based on preliminary results from the exploration activities in the inland basins so far, especially the Benue Trough, there was a

strong indication that commercial quantity oil and gas finds would soon be made.

He said almost 400 square kilometer (400km²) of 3D seismic data had been acquired in the part of the Benue Trough that was earlier explored

by SNEPCO and that similar work would be extended to areas previously explored by Chevron and Total.

“We are targeting these areas because we have seen that some of what they have done has some prospects, it is only that they did not drill

deep enough. They also did not target the areas we believe, from the review of the seismic data, would have culminated into a find.

“So, we are reinvigorating that and soon we are going to start drilling some of the leads that we have seen to ascertain what prospects there

are. And as we have pointed out, there is an indication that we could find some hydrocarbon, we believe that in the nearest future hydrocarbon

will be found in commercial quantity”, Dr Baru stated.

He commended NAPE for its commitment to growing crude oil and gas reserves in the country, stressing that the resolutions from the

association’s conference last year gave great impetus to the aggressive exploration of the inland basins which include Anambra, Bida, Benue,

Chad, Dahomey, Gongola, Sokoto in keeping with the mandate given to the corporation by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The GMD said he was ready to deploy capabilities within and outside NNPC to ensure success of the inland basins exploration campaign.

On his part, President of NAPE, Mr. Abiodun Adesanya, commended the GMD for the faithful implementation of the recommendations made at

the association’s conference last year in the exploration of the inland basins.

He said NAPE was very impressed with the professionalism being brought to bear on the exploration of the inland basins and that for the first

time there was a steady and consistent approach to the campaign.

He also invited the GMD to NAPE’s 32nd Conference and Exhibition billed to hold in Lagos next month.

Ndu Ughamadu
Group General Manager
Group Public Affairs Division,
NNPC Towers, Abuja
31st October, 2017.

Rotimik:
1pound will get you a carton of tin milk in 1970. It was a lot of money then.

Check the regional and Federal budget in the 60s to 1970, we budget in millions then. The word billion only exist in the imagination.

Individual millionaires were hard to find in 1970. It is funny that some people said their grandies told them that they saved millions in 1970 when a brand new car was sold for less than 500 pounds then.

Stop trying to justify the 20pounds policy lies you have been told.

I grew up at a time we were buying a dozen (12) of tin milk and a dozen of Geisha for N1 naira in the early 80s .At that time N0.75=$1 while N2.00=1pounds sterling.

Stop comparing 20pounds of 1970 with 20pounds of 2017. They are not the same.

so because you could buy all these means 20 pound is equivalent to 600k? guy fear God na

Obi1kenobi:
£20 then is not 600k today. It's barely even 1/10th of that today. Where do you guys dig out these lies from?

i hardly comment these days sha....but 600k hehehehe...these dudes must think we are at the garage

and we are still blind................

Keen observers in the socio-political arena across the world and, in Nigeria particularly, have expressed palpable and ominous fears of the unfathomable consequences over the reported gruesome murder of Christopher McManus, a Briton and Franco Lamotinara, an Italian, by their abductors in Mabera Area of Sokoto on Thursday, 8 March 2012.

The duo, who worked for an expatriate construction company, B. Stabling, which was building the Kebbi State Branch of Nigeria, were abducted by Gunmen in may 2011, after a ransom N150 million was demanded in the initial stage, but was not paid.

Their prolonged detention had led to the final resolution to organize a surreptitious security operation in concordance with the British government, which, however, ended in a disaster. The duo was killed during the ill-fated rescue operation. The ‘Boko Haram’ sect had since denied being responsible as their spokesman, one Abdul Qaqa, told the press in a Tele-Conference recently. According to him, members of the Ahl-al Sunnat lid dawati wal jihad do not hijack people for ransom and has never done so before.

The Governments of Britain had since expressed deep regret, sorrow and sadness over the incident. President Jonathan Goodluck has since blamed the radical Islamic Group as responsible.

The implications of the dastardly act legally, politically and socially are grave, if not out rightly implicating to the North in particular and Nigeria in general. Financial compensations had already been paid, probably by Nigerians. There has been allegation of carelessness and inaptitude in the way the rescue operation was carried out jointly between the SSS, Army and the British Force. What did the Security Forces and Government of Nigeria do, or not do, since May 2011, when the abductors ferried the duo away in an attempt to rescue them? The time lag was awesome, awful and questionable.

What about the unimaginable reprisals coming from the government of both Italy and Britain, whose citizens were horrendously killed by their alleged abductors? The despicable crime could, perhaps, lead to deployment of an Army of occupation in Sokoto to “protect interests of the west” or in search of alleged Al-Qaeda-in-Maghreb (AQIM) MEMBERS LURKING OUT THERE, OR THEIR COLLABORATORS, COMRADES OR MEMBERS in that axis. The United States and United Nations have since said that, “there are sympathizers and supporters of Al-Qaeda Terrorist Network” in Northern Nigeria.

General Carter of US command in the middle-East has said so also. It has been alleged that the Yusuffiya members have links to the Al-Shabaab of Somalia where they received training “and whether the Group has links also with the Al-Qaeda Network”. This much was revealed by the National Security Adviser, Gen Awoeye Azazi, who was also reported to have said that, “Nigeria has signed an agreement or memorandum of understanding to provide security support to Nigeria, as a result of recalcitrant and bellicose threats coming from the Islamic insurgents or “Terrorists”.

Should this happen, Northern Nigeria may as well be playing host to some foreign Army of occupation, at least in Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Niger and Plateau, where the innocent bombings and killings are imminent. No one would be happy or celebrate the intervention of foreign forces in our land for whatever reasons because, this would threaten our Sovereignty and independence. It is also an indictment on our own security forces that will be seen and regarded as inapt, ineffective and hopelessly useless.

We still lament the occupation in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan- where the largely Muslim population there are being decimated, destroyed and reduced considerably. Their Cultures and tradition also are being desecrated by slowpoke forces as in Afghanistan where the NATO forces debased corpses, desecrated the Quran and killed civilians at the slightest perception of threat or dangers from them. Such interventions are always counterproductive, expensive to maintain and life threatening to the citizenry. Iraq was occupied for almost ten years, just as Afghanistan and they are still counting their losses daily, while still picking up the pieces.

We do not want this scenario to happen to Muslims- North especially Sokoto, Maiduguri, Kano, Niger, Kaduna which are today flash points for incessant bombings, Killings, maiming and crime.

Stakeholders must rise up to the occasion to surmount courage to restore peace, normalcy and order now, because procrastination and prevarications will only aggravate the situation to our detriments.

During the Royalties of late Sultan Muhammadu Maccido and Shehu of Borno, Mustapha Umar El-Kanemi, the duo had rejected plans by the then President Bush of USA to send US Marines to both Sokoto and Maiduguri to build camps to fight what they called “Terrorism in the North”. Prayers were said across the two former Emirates and Empires, which were sacked by British colonial soldiers in 1930 before they introduced their Colonial administration against the will of our fore-fathers. The attempt did not materialize. And now this. There have been rekindling of such hopes to send US or allied forces to the Muslim North to fight resurging insurgency and terrorism by the Boko Haram, now branded terrorists by the UN.

If allowed this will pave the way for the US and UN to have an inroad and incursions into the heart of the former Islamic empires, which have resisted westernization and perhaps Christianity. Sokoto, for example, was said to have only one church in the city, which Arch Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, had decried and lamented over; he wanted more as resident Arch Bishop in the North- West, with Headquarters in Sokoto. Both Sokoto and Borno have been missionary-focused areas since colonialism, which have remained “Stubborn” to accept Christianity and westernization. A kind of conflict of civilization one would say.

Everything possible needed to be done has actually been done by the Muslim Umma in the North to protect the lasting and enduring legacy bequeathed by the late Uthman Dan Fodio and Muhammad Al- Amin el-Kanemi in Sokoto and Borno respectively.

The conspiracy theory at the top cannot be ruled out. Some even added that it is at play to destroy that legacy and the recurring insurgency and killings are now providing the much-needed platform for the West, UN and the Christian- Dom to destroy the North to gain their own goals and interest. Care and caution are needed here. The Northern Elite must eschew political bickering and rise to the occasion to stop the eminent conspiracy theory coming into play. We must prove we are not terrorists, not insurgents, not Islamic irredentists, bigots or fanatics who do not want to allow others enjoy their Fundamental Freedoms and Rights as citizens to practice whatever Religion they may have chosen to profess for themselves.

Elders like Gen Buhari, IBB, Ciroma, Maitama Sule, Shettima Ali Monguno etc, need to rise up to speak against the propaganda making the rounds that the North is deliberately killing Christians to chase them away from their midst, simply because they do not want Christians in Sokoto, Kano, or Kaduna.

The Muslim-North has been given a very negative and anti-Christian impression from within and outside the country. Stakeholders must debunk this erroneous, chauvinistic and lopsided impression by rising to the occasion to disprove all doubting Thomases and Judases in our midst- and there are many of them, especially from among the middle belters and other small minority groups who have been misled into also believing that the Hausa-Fulani are their own traducers, tormentors and masters. This is devilish as it is an attempt to deliberately divide the North to cause enmity, grouse and crises, as now happening. There seems to be a grand conspiracy against the Hausa and Fulani in Nigeria which started since the OBJ Presidency between 1999 and 2007. He was said to have empowered the minority Ethnic Groups Politically and economically in order to fight the Hausa-Fulani North-West, which one of his former boys, Ali Modu Sheriff, once told the Northern union to their face when they visited him as governor that, “we are tired of only one section of the country producing President,” in reference to the North-West of Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Kebbi etc. The leaders Galadima Olusola Saraki and others in the delegation were humiliated and left embarrassed. Such was the level of conspiracy which Ali Modu Sheriff promoted maliciously in Borno.

The conspirational malice Against the Hausa-Fulani is still on and something should be done to address the malady, contempt and odium which have divided even the so- called Muslim North. Borno, Kano, Sokoto and their allies in the far North must read in between the lines and decipher those things which seem to divide them and resolve them for the sake of Islam, peace, unity and progress of the region. All propaganda are being peddled and speculated, all in an attempt to deepen and aggravate the Anti Hausa- Fulani political conspiracy, even though they both have long history of Islam in their Emirate spanning over 1000 years.

Those who do not understand because they have been blindfolded by Ethno-tribal, cum political sentiments, thereby promoting envy, jealousy, violence and schisms must realize that the real conspiracy against the North comes from the West and US who believe we are conservative, non-conformists, fanatics or terrorists who must be dealt militarily to weaken us – regardless of whether we are Kanuri, Hausa, or indeed Fulani. To them it does not matter since we are core Muslims and conservatives. Moreover, the oil and hydro-carbon content in the Chad basin is another attraction for the conspirators to divide us to gain a mile. We must be careful.

http://desertherald.com/the-north-insurgency-and-conspiracy-theory/

nero2face:
Lolz, but did you expect them to call Mohammed or Jesus Christ?, U're Atiku so they called Atiku... So gerraarraahiaa

Jonathan:
Honestly, with Buhari and his cabal in government, this country is going no where. Only stagnation and continuous poverty.

Buhari was only interested in power but lacks leadership skills. It's very glaring now.
He is weak
He is clueless
He is a bigot
And a VERY BIG DISAPPOINTMENT.

COME 2019, I URGE ALL NIGERIANS NEVER TO VOTE APC, PDP, APGA ETC

WHAT WE NEED IS REVOLUTION!

Like the Russia - 1917
Arab Spring etc


All these modafuckers needs to be ousted or killed if they resist.

Likes of IBB, SARAKI, OBJ, GEJ, TINUBU, DAVID MARK ETC
We need REAL CHANGE.

so when they are killed,they would say that its an igbo coup......hehehehehe

spawnx:
Beautiful, I never knew Nigeria had a campaign in Somalia. I bet if Nigerian troops were still on ground the "black hawk down" saga wouldn't have been that bloody for the Americans.

Nigeria will rise

rise to where? rising in tribalism abi? keep deceiving your self....if you haven't noticed, we have been going down not up....

otijah:
Time to appoint another notherner Asap

aribisala0:
Show us one newspaper article or any book written anywhere to back up all these silly stories

Was there a decree enacted.How did they identify Igbo accounts?
What about Ijaws and Ibibios?

Are we to believe that Igbos from IKa and Delta were spared as were Ikwerres who have similar names? or they did not have bank accounts?
The truth is most folk who had money fled with it and gave it to Ojukwu in exchange for Biafra pounds it was BAD MARKET
One of the most difficult thing to do is to admit personal foolishness especially to your children so what do you do blame others.
Blame Awo. Blame Yoruba.

The truth is you INVESTED your wealth in the Biafran pound and A superior mind defeated that strartegy

i think it is highly insensitive for you to play with a matter like this that involves lost ones and material things worked for by a people who lost everything. i know some times we come online to say very bad things about other tribes. a joke it is and only online. but for you to go down this level of using pictures of children begging for food tells alot about you as a person,your tribe and the type of training you have if any. the reason for this post is for only one thing to ridicule the igbo people. there are things you dont joke with. and this is one of them. the universe has laws and you are breaking one of them. i hope the same fate that befell the people whose picture you are making jest of wont haunt you one day. yy then you would really know how it feels to loose everything and be cheated. i leave you to your conscience if you have any.

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chizzyking:
A former Nigerian Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil war, between 1967 and 1970.
Former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has given insight into what happened at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, convened to resolve Nigeria’s civil war.
The civil war started in 1967 and ended in 1970.
Gowon became head of state in July 1966.
The former leader declared that the Federal Government, under his leadership, went to Aburi unprepared, following a disagreement which broke out between the Supreme Military Council (SMC) and the Eastern region, led by late Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu.
He was, however, quick to add that their decision to go to Aburi was borne out of the desire of leaders on both sides, at the time, to win back the trust and confidence of Nigerians and insisted that secession was never part of the resolutions they agreed on.
Gowon disclosed this, yesterday, on an Africa Independent Television (AIT) programme “People, Politics and Power,” monitored in Lagos.
“We agreed to put our heads together, to regain the trust and confidence of Nigerians. We went to Aburi, to agree to deal with the situation of our country, by ourselves. We did not go with any prepared position on the federal side, but, Ojukwu came with a paper he prepared. His prepared position was on a pink paper. Usually, pink paper at the Staff College is directing staff solution to the problem,”
He further disclosed that most of the positions presented by Ojukwu at the conference were accepted and that after their return to Nigeria, from Aburi, he (Gowon) was determined to keep the country together by assuaging the feelings of the South East but, Ojukwu thought otherwise.
The former military leader further said Ojukwu’s reluctance may have been informed by the killings of the Igbo in the North,which made him (Ojukwu) believe that secession was the way they could get the freedom and the security they desired.
According to Gowon, part of the understanding they had on both sides, while in Aburi, was that, as the leader, upon their return to the country, he would be the first to make any statement concerning the resolutions before any governor makes any statement.
“But, by the time I returned, I was ill; I had fever. I could not make any statement. But, Ojukwu went to the radio, to make a statement and said the things we never agreed on.
“David Ejoor was the one who called me one early morning to ask if I had heard what Ojukwu said, and I said no. He then reeled out all that Ojukwu had said and I asked David, in all honesty, if that was what we agreed. He said no.
“To keep the country together was not a task that I could do alone. I needed the cooperation and understanding of every Nigerian. And, in order to ensure we kept the country together, I reckoned that we needed to have discussions among ourselves. We had a civil servant who was exceptionally experienced and good. We went there (Aburi) to restore the trust of our country.
“If we were working together, anyone with conscience will assuage the feelings (of the South-easterners). But, Ojukwu thought otherwise. He had in mind all along, based on what happened to his people in the North, that secession was the only way out. But, we were thinking of the whole country, because all parts of the country were involved. The military was not involved in the killings of South-easterners in the North.”
Explaining how his passion to keep the country together, Gowon again said: “Thank God that God knows I love the country very dearly. I have no any other loyalty but to the country, even though we were Queen commissioned, our loyalty was to our country, once we became a republic. That love and loyalty to my country was first and foremost. That had been inculcated in me; right from the on set. Once you had that as the basis, the next was to deal with the situation.
“One day, when I was doing my best to keep Nigeria together, one young man wrote me a letter; and in the letter, he wrote: ‘Do you know the meaning of Gowon?’ Gowon in my language means owner of God’s masquerade. But, the young man in his letter wrote that ‘Gowon means, Go on With One Nigeria.’ And, I said to myself, ‘this is what I was trying to tell Nigerians that we must do, as a result of all the confusions that had taken place.’ But, Nigerians are saying this is what I must do. It made an impact on me. I was more determined to keep Nigeria together.”


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“The choice of this location in Kano were both necessary and strategic, given the fact that Kano is the most populous state in Nigeria with over 20 operating broadcast establishments as well as the observed spike in hate speech within the environment.”

scully95:
Set free from who From Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq ?? Where in the world do you live Where your money is heavily dependent on dollar.. Which freedom do you need and from who ?? Know your real enemies ok. The real enemy are those who already want to control you via their puppet or semi puppet ideology such as democrazy. In reality there is nothing as freedom. When those who seek real freedom are seeking from the anglozionist empire.. Let me list top 4 countries that can be termed free country.

Russia (semi free economically but free 100% in foreign policy and militarily)
Iran (free both Economically and foreign policy)
China (Free)
North Korea (free)

Now tell me what is the definition of freedom ?? Cos you are writing as if you live in another world. Biafra is an ideology so as Boko haram, shia movement, ISIS, Mujadeen, Wahhabi, Takfiri mantra.

Read this to understand more.. https://www.nairaland.com/4092328/what-west-cia-cooler-nigeria




Because Biafra is Artificial, it's not in the interest of the ppl. But in the interest of the Globalist, the zionist, the Anglozionist empire to use against the country they created that has long gone out of their control and hence they need to do the same invade, destroy, conquer and rule strategy. Read this to understand more. https://www.nairaland.com/4092328/what-west-cia-cooler-nigeria


Biafra is a failed ideology ok so as Boko haram and Jonathan killed the spirit of Boko haram, it's the reason the west hated GEJ and wanted him out already since he destroyed their plan about Nigeria must break by 2015. OK..
use your 10kobo brain. (Those liking ur comments are in the same category, very less educated or no Education except shouting the biafran mantra)

We all need Economic freedom. What is Economic freedom. A case where by our output is not only based on how many petro dollar. We need full time diversification and a scenario where by Oil (which you are hell bent on) is just 1% of our export. Reactivate and Use your 3rd class dead brain cells.
This is why they call you 3rd world. cos you have 3rd class brain dead cells.



You are 1million years backward by your level of thinking or reasoning and your kind is why we are still living in denial according to Wole Soyinka. Too much potentials but living in denial.

DUDE,I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU GET YOUR THEORIES FROM, BUT IF THE WEST WANTED NIGERIA BROKEN,IT WONT BE THAT DIFFICULT. WE ARE UNDER THE RULE OF THE BRITISH AND THEY DECIDE WHAT HAPPENS TO US.

WealthPhillips:
Meanwhile, please rate my artwork

u need to be shot

people would just wake up and start looking for trouble. when it starts the would say the people they attacked first are tribal. why cant people just mind their business for once?

modelmike7:
Now, he will be jailed cos of an ashawo...

EzeEbira:
That's Amsterdam in Netherlands,it is even boldly written there.

when u walk with the government thats what you get