₦airaland Forum

Ooni:
Op is correct we are very tolerant here in the west. An average yoruba here in osogbo is a christian, a moslem and a pagan.

We go to church in the morning, visit babalawo in the evening and become muslims when hausas start killing us in mile 12. Some pple call it hypocricy but i think its our way of life which the visitors we are accomodating should respect.

lordcabasa:
Truth hurts, but most of us in Africa are daft and ignorant hence we will remain puns in the hands of Arabs, whites and now our fellow blacks, Go spread the truth sire, doe u will be criticised and castigated but in truth Christians, Christianity and Southerners in Nigeria will bear the brunt of This Islamic government. I just hope our kids don't pay for our crimes of ineptitude.

dunkem21:
Yeah, you're right ..
I underestimated the foolishness of Nigerians

BushDoctor123:
The new way of Islamic evangelism is call child abduction.

3xtr6r:
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83% of the appointed female ministers in the current administration are from the North.

The military, navy, air force police and other security forces are populated with illiterate Northerners.

About 85% of crude oil wells in the South belong to Northerners.

For many decades monthly allocations, fertilizer distribution have been largely skewed to the North for no justifiable reason; all in the name of 'One Nigeria'.

Northerners have colonised Customs for decades when they have no reason to.
Here is the break down of comptroller positions in the recent promotion:
SE - 4, SS - 11, SW - 10, NE - 26, NW - 25 and NC - 19.

An outrageous 74% of key positions in Customs going to the North!

Did you see any wrong in dismissing Igbos from Nigeria Custom Service?

https://www.nairaland.com/2886318/senate-probes-lopsidedness-police-promotions

gwales:
enugu state Assembly rejected same gender bill and your southeast are among the highest federal workers with imo state as number in the whole of the country

Igobang:
Child Kidnap, Rape and Forced Islamisation/marriage led by the Sharia Court by months: 8:40pm On Mar 08
History


In 1999, Twelve Nigeria's states that have Sunni Islam as the dominant religion chose to have Sharia courts as well as Customary courts.[2]
The following states that have instituted Sharia are: Zamfara State (January 27, 2000), Kano State (June 21, 2000), Sokoto State, Katsina State, Bauchi State (June 2001), Borno State, Jigawa State, Kebbi State, Yobe State, Kaduna State, Niger State (May 4, 2000), and Gombe State.

Jurisdictional errors

The institution of Sharia as a main body of civil and criminal law violates the Constitution of Nigeria.


The Sharia Court of Appeals recognized as a federal court of appeals (the Unified Courts System), is the most controversial of the judicial system. The Sharia Court of Appeals reviews cases involving Sharia law, particularly in the North and Northeast regions of the country.

However, this has caused controversy because while the Sharia Court of Appeals interprets and reviews cases relating to Islamic law, they must also interpret the common and customary laws of the other regions of Nigeria.

In doing so, the Sharia Court exceeds its jurisdiction under the constitutional law which give federal and state governments various powers. It undermines the principles of separation of powers and the two level federal system of government in which an overarching national government governs issues that affect the entire country, and smaller subdivisions govern issues of local concern.


The Sharia Court going outside state powers and local confines is striking down federal law, on the grounds that it exceeded the Constitutional authority of National Assembly.


Cases and Controversy

Ese Oruru v Sharia Hisbah Commission
Ese Oruru was taken away by one Yunusa Dahiru from her home in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to Kano in August 2015 while she was still 13 years old and without the knowledge of her parents. While in Kano she was forced into marriage, converted to Islam and her name changed to Aisha.For months, efforts by the young girl’s parents to get their child back from Yunusa and the Kanohe District head of Kura, Sharia Hisbah Commission proved abortive, no action was taken until media attention was drawn to it. Ese held at the Palace of the Emir of Kano was discovered to be 5 months Pregnant after eight months captitity.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/my-role-on-ese-orurus-abduction-saga-emir-of-kano-2/

Rita Chinedu Ukeje V Sharia

Madam Jessy Ukeje, a 77-year-old grandmother from Eluoma Uzuakoli in Bende Local government area of Abia State, is in pains her granddaughter was given out in marriage by a top official of Zaria City Local Government area, without the consent of her family.Rita, an SS 3 student of Top Spring Secondary School, Zaria, Kaduna State, was abducted by a commercial bus driver, called Usman, who held her captive in his home, denying her the chance of sitting for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) she had enrolled for.

Few weeks later, she stated, the council chief, who took her to his home and promised to make her available for settlement with the family, allegedly gave her out in marriage to Usman. The incident happened in Damagaji area of Zaria in Kaduna State, even as every effort made by the family to rescue the teenage girl from the clutches of her abductors have met with stiff resistance from the kidnappers. They took her into captivity after undergoing their Muslim rituals of bathing and feeding her with concoction as a way of turning her into a Muslim.

Then, they gave her to somebody to marry without the consent and knowledge of her parents. This is certainly against religion and against tradition

Mama Jessy, who could not hold back tears while narrating the abduction of the girl in her house in Eluoma Uzuakoli, alleged further that the girl’s abductors are after Rita’s mother, Joy Ihedinma Ukeje, for insisting that Rita must be sent back to her. She alleged that they had been sending assassins to her, forcing her to quickly run back to Uzuakoli from Zaria after several attempts on her life.
http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/another-15-year-old-girl-rita-chinedu-ukeje-abducted-given-out-in-marriage-by-islamists/


Ifeoma Nichodemus v he Sharia Court Kaduna
IFEOMA, now Aisha, is the daughter of Mr. Ndubuisi Nichodemus. She was living with her parents, in the midst of the Hausa community in Zaria, Kaduna State, until May, 2014. On that fateful evening, Ifeoma had left the house in protest against the authority of her moth­er to question her for returning late to the house on the day. She simply walked out of her parents’ compound into a neighbour’s house, and since 21 months ago to be precise, the family is yet to set their eyes on her. Ifeoma, now 16, have been converted to Islam and married off. The Sharia Court handling the mat­ter keeps adjourning the case and as a result, we are still where we were last year”
Speaking during an interview then, Ndubuisi Nichodemus, resident of Sabon-Gari, Zaria, Kaduna State, who appealed to the authorities concerned, to help rescue his daughter, allegedly in the custody of another man since 2014, said her daughter had come home late on that fateful day and felt, as responsible par­ents, she should be scolded
http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/father-of-igbo-girl-abducted-in-zaria-cries-out-says-i-want-my-daughter-back/

Charity v Sharia Court Minna
MINNA—MISS Charity (Aisha) Uzoechina, the lady that was allegedly forced to convert to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for the past four months, will remain with the monarch until September 17. Charity cannot be released by the Emir to either the parents or anybody until the case instituted by Charity is vacated by the Sharia court in Bida, Niger State. The Sharia court kept adjourning the case the lawyer who handles her controversial case in Sharia court makes arrangement to marry her without the consent of her parents, but the Niger state Government called it off.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/charity-uzoechina-to-remain-with-etsu-nupe-till-sept-17/


Blasphemy and apostasy
A Sharia court may treat blasphemy as deserving of several punishments up to, and including, execution. In many predominantly Muslim states, conversion from Islam to another religion is illegal and often a capital offence.

In 2014 a Nigerian man, Mubarak Bala was forcibly committed to a psychiatric institution in Kano for eighteen days, where he was forcibly drugged after stating that he was an atheist. The International Humanist and Ethical Union took up the case, stating that Bala's human rights were violated.


Riots
There have been numerous riots over the implementation of sharia law, primarily involving non-Muslim minorities in the states which implemented the system. One such riot killed over 100 people in October 2001 in Kano State.


Executions

In 2002, the first execution of a man under Sharia took place in Katsina State; Human Rights Watch condemned the execution.



The Supreme Court Solution via Judicial Review

The Supreme Court uphold and declared Sharia Court to be ultra vires in a narrow or broad sense. Narrow ultra vires applies if an administrator did not have the substantive power to make a decision or it was wrought with procedural defects.

Broad ultra vires applies if there is an abuse of power (e.g.,unreasonableness or bad faith) or a failure to exercise an administrative discretion (e.g., acting at the behest of another or unlawfully applying a sectional policy) or application of discretionary powers in irrational and wrong way.[5] Either doctrine may entitle a claimant to various prerogative writs, equitable remedies or statutory orders if they are satisfied.

Kidnap is a very serious offence and when it is done for sexual gratification, it is a heinous crime. The Sharia court is a form of customary court to the North. In that sense, it has no jurisdiction to hear cases of people not part of that culture. It is like a Igbo customary court hearing the case of a Yoruba, claiming they have converted to Igbo.

Custom refers to origin and ancestral linage, if a person does not have their roots in islam then Sharia court has no grounds to hold or hear the case. The Sharia system was introduced for people who customarily have followed the religion of islam.

It is illegal and unconstitutional to steal peoples child and claim forced conversion to islam, as a bases to Ra.pe and forced marriage/ conversion to islam, without any form of consent. Whilst handing out death sentence to Muslim that desire to convert to Christianity freely without abduction or coercion.


Why drag us Christian southerners into uncivilised and criminal customs? Why are u stealing our children and raping them? Is sharing a country a crime? Can u not face and marry your muslim children?

virud:
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Freshboi:
Many of you are showing like twats. How many of you pay taxes? In developed countries that we run to, the tax regime is strong. That is why UK and USA and the rest have developed. In this regime, we have peaked 4000mw.. Something that never happened during the Gej Era. The government is seeking innovative ways to finance the economy and we are here lamenting. What part have you played to expose corruption? Many of you shouting are simply Wailers.. Hungry Wailers

porshuch:
are you serious? So the north is setting us back in Nigeria? Abeg tell me what I don't know. , let me tell you, every tribe in Nigeria is also a problem to this country. Pls shun tribalism, and mind you Abu kwa mu nwafo o, and I hate religion and tribalism.

alexlee50:
your response defies logic

sweetgala:
Then you don't know much about the KKK a group who's originator had very strong Christian values and a warped concept of exclusivity as ordiamrd by God, their earlier activities included the strengthening of the Aryan family unit.

MS13 believe in very crude idolatry influenced by Catholic doctrine. While they are not a religious terrorists group they claim allegiance to a certain religious order and traditions.

I'm yet to be convinced that Islam is a religion of terrorists anymore than Christianity is the religion of slave owners, murderers and the plunderers of Africa ; given it has more people practising it than Christianity the world should have been run over by now if that was so.

Bigotry is a sin, Jesus would not give you a shiny medal for bearing false witness against Muslims

odeotito:
Words fail one to describe the murderous fury these folks exhibit the moment they get taken by it! Most unfair. If you've been in a place for 100 years and you still can't blend with your hosts and resolve differences in a civilized manner they are used to but relish drawing the dagger then its time to have you in the jungle that fits you and your ilk. Folks who fit in to the civilized environment will come buy from you in that jungle where you can jab at animals with your dagger companion! Ilorin and Ese Oruru stands as a testimony of your tendency to be treacherous and lecherous! #nototreacherousguests

ikechuk0:
First of all, I'm Delta Igbo and I am going with SE when Biafra comes. The stupidity of you North is the fact you think Igboland starts and end in SE. Newsflash: IT DOES NOT. There's multiple of us in SS that are PROUDLY IGBO so you ppl pathetic divide and rule tactics is shameful I swear.

In case you are not aware, the largest oil producing area in River state is not ijaw, ogoni or even ikwerre, the largest is OYINBO which is an IGBO territory carved to River state. In addition, In Anioma... several communities of our land has oil as well. Then you have Abia, Imo and Anambra to the mix...the Bleep do we need others for when Igbo territory alone is more than enough for us. In fact, the most inland oil production of oil is from SE and there are graphs as well as maps from NPDC proving so. Heck it was in even posted on here.

While I'm at it, Nigeria imports majority of the food so idk all this crap about north agriculture feeds the country. Are you kidding me? If the country already imports it's food, then very likely if the north is gone, the rest would continue to importing from neighboring African countries if there own production is not enough. The south has farm production as well. The only nprth has more argiculture activity than south is because most southern would rather be anything else than a farmer. I mean hell, last I checked, majority of the rice we eat in Asaba comes from Abakaliki, not North. Abeg waka.

As for Bruce statement about a nation can't survive without food. Last I checked USA imports MAJORITY of it's food from Mexico while Mexico has one of the largest agriculture output in the world. Between the two countries, which is more progressive? Mexico or USA? Mschewwwwwwww. Rubbish post from that senator

san316:
The social media senator himself.

However, I agree with him. The south believes because oil comes from the south and Nigeria depends on oil, the north is dependent on them.

Fact is, the average northerner does not even benefit from oil money, they mostly live off agriculture, business and menial jobs.

The so called southerners who claim to be feeding the nation have no input whatsoever to the economy other than the fact that the resources were naturally deposited in their region.

0YorubaParapo0:
Why do you think Igbos carry their fake products to sell in the North if they don't depend on other Nigerians to be successful. Make dem go open shop in Zambia.

kenny4one:
one Nigeria let's enjoy the killing while it last

this same people almost kill my boss alone portharcourt enugw express road last month, after firing him 3 bullet but God save him no one touch him but piece his car.

Xsolutions:
@ Fadekebisola: I wanted to type this when you started this thread; when it was still about five comments or so; but now that you've had 'first hand' experience of the BILE, HATE and TOXICITY of these people as shown in their comments above; use these as a sort of 'wisdom' henceforth in your dealings with them (If you have anything to do with them at all).

I came to the conclusion long ago that these people ARE NOT good people, though there are still A FEW good IGBO'S among them; you just have to know the individual you are dealing with.

PEACE...

PS: Although it might be tempting, you've done well so far in ignoring their hateful comments towards you; I'd advice you keep doing that; just stay off the thread.

lanregbade:
U people keep fooling urselves (sorry to say),But why Don't u igbos go back to your home towns and see how hunger will finish u people ,we are tolerating you people becos we Don't want what happened during ur Biafra fight to repeat itself ,where heads are bigger than the body and bodies suffering from malnutritions becos of hunger

sweetgala:
Mohammedans ! Wow

Have you ever heard of the KKK or have you ever heard of MS13 , or LRA these are people who under the premise of Christianity strike fear into the hearts of many and have used the Bible to justify their actions. MS13 are devout Catholics and believe in strange sacrifices, KKK I don't need to tell you about and LRA.

You sound bitter, and you came to a conclusion that everytime a church is bombed every Muslim celebrates please show me proof. Because not only have there been a few churches bombed , every time it happens I see men from that area usually Muslim helping to evacuate the hurt, clear the rubble etc.

You are one of the people Christ directed the commandments towards, you are Christian by religion and not by action.

God forgive you. I have no time for a bigot like you.

You are one of the idiots that would always play the race card I'm sure also.

Sttropez2:
Before you criticise an eight month APC
Government in Nigeria what about how deadly PDP
ruined Nigeria. PDP met the Dollar at N20 when they came in
1999 but left it at N220 in 2015 when they were
leaving. PDP met the Dollar at N20 when they came 1999 but left it at N220 in 2015 when they were leaving. PDP met petrol pump price at N11 when they
came in 1999 but left it at N87 when they were
leaving 2015.PDP met a bag of cement at less than N400
but left it at N2000 while they were leaving in
2015.PDP met a tin of milk at N15 in 1999 but left
it at N120 when they left in 2015.PDP met only OPC in 1999 but left us with
Niger Delta militancy, MASSOB, IPOB, BAKASSI,
and Boko Haram as at when they left in 2015.but they left us
with ballot box snatching, rice sharing for
campaigns, do-or-die politics, political
assassinations, etc.

Emancipation:
Northerners have ruled for over 40 years, has the north developed? In fact they are poorer today than in the 60s

Look at south west. What did obasanjo presidency do for them? Compare south west today to the east.

I will pick development 1 million times over useless presidency. The East is developing at a fast pace. What I saw with my two eyes still shocks me. So to hell with the useless presidency.

freeborn76:
The rate at which Igbos celebrated (are celebrating) the Mile 12 fracas shows the depth of hate they have for Yorubas and indeed other tribes. Igbos live and thrive in Western Nigeria, they are everywhere in the North and they even want to claim the South South, yet they spew hatred...no wonder the entire Southeast looks like a horror movie-like wasted haunted land. I sincerely think it's time we discussed Biafra and let these bigots go, I cannot imagine sharing a republic with such heartless human beings. Everywhere they go-South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon, US, Germany etc. they struggle for relevance with their host and give the entire nation a bad name. Please just go and establish you Biafra!

RIZLER:
We left mile12 we ran to mowe you still follow us there?