₦airaland Forum

valirex:
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason. Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government. However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for. This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that. This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent. Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria. But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra.

sammy329:


We should be careful of these fake news, so that outsiders will incite violence and riots in Nigeria.

CNN is the mother of fake news, America's No. 1 propaganda machine.

GBTYO:
Apart from their constant virtue signalling and Bioleninist hiring policy which sees to gays, radical Islamists, feminists and whatnot getting prime time hosting shows, CNN is the most Jewed to the bone news Network .


I won't even highlight the CIA links with people like Anderson Cooper who apart from being a Jew and a fagg0t was and still is a CIA operative (Google it for yourself).

But rather the fact that over 75% of all news presenters are Jews and that the entire executive board is jewed should be enough to warn you of the intentions of CNN.

Before you label be a Buharist Muslim fanatic , know that I am not any of these things.


This same Jewed CNN was instrumental to bringing in this satanic Buhari APC govt with their constant PsychOP BBOG and we all know how this same JewNN has refused to report on all the booidy massacres ordered by Buhari on the Shiites and IPOB members. CNN kike all other Jew controlled MSMs has also turned a blind eye on the state backed killings and displacement of christians in the land by Buhari's Fulani Islamist terrorists militia .

This is exactly how CNN refused to report on ISIS madness on both Yazidis and Christians in Syria and Iraq but still continued to push their false narrative that ISIS are moderate Islamist rebels fighting a just war to oust Assad.

Then there is their coniviance with the discredited propaganda White Helmets who've been caught several times staging fake bombings of schools and hospitals or chemical attacks which they want us to believe is the work of Assad.

Then there is how that Jew witch Christiana Ammampour through her deliberately edited and doctored interviews of Qaddafi and false reportage of Qaddafi killing his own people led to the over 7y Libyan civil war. This same Ammampour even described the Benghazi based Islamist rebels as freedom fighters when it was a fact that Benghazi saw to the highest GDP contributor of ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq.

In summary, the fact that CNN is jewed is enough for any of you to see them as the liars that they are for no one lies more than the Jew.

NATIONALPASTOR:
I dont blame the terrorists, I blame afonjarins for always supporting those dehumanized fellaz

joyandfaith:
who is helinues? is he a goat, stone , or cutlass? or is he man with mental problem? please who is he?

authority2006:
Crawl back to your hole with your useless curses. It shows how poorly you were raised.

Whiteangel1234:
The Ikwerre Bini have fool and confuse the igbos for long time but this game will end henceforth

The Speak a Dialect of Igbo language , Answer Igbo Names , Dress like us so its easy for us to get confuse and call them our brothers not because we want to claim them but purely based on confusion , The Ikwerre Bini Hate the igbos more than any tribe in Nigeria , took our fathers property in Port Harcourt and called it abandoned Property when the Yorubas in Lagos return it to us .


Come 2023 the Igbos will play a National Politics based on our Political interest , and we are open to options in APC at least our major problem with APC is personal hatred for Buhari but by 2023 , Buhari will be out of the picture


Uche Secondus PDP Chairman is an Ikwerre Bini man they used him to confuse the Igbos so that we will think our Brother is the PDP chairman

Gov Ezebunwo Wike is the top Godfather in PDP and he is an Ikwerre Bini man until during this endsars protest when he clarify he is not Igbo I was also confused because of his Name thinking he is our brother .


Clearly the Ikwerre Bini People are taking advantage of the igbos and taking positions that we should rightfully occupy and we never protest because we are fooled by their names and identity , Today igbos hold not even a single top position in the PDP yet we are their stronghold for 21 years now

I support Mass Exodus of Igbos to APC in 2023 and to negotiate a very good positions for us enough of PDP and Ikwerre Bini Deception

AbijaJ:
If he deliberately addresses himself as igbo via his moniker then I have no other reason to see him any differently.

AbijaJ:
Op, why your obsession with SW states? Going by your moniker it is obvious that you are igbo, so why not leave SW people to concern themselves with that. A Yoruba person won't come here to ask this about igbo/SE states. But we sabi your kind. Na rofo-rofo fight you dey find.

Development is going on in different degrees all over the country (both private and government-initiated), but it is not every state government that has agents and propagandists on Nairaland in search of cheap 'likes'. If you really care about development going on in the SW states it is actually not difficult to find out about that online or you can go to those states yourself, but your motive is not genuine because even on this same Nairaland there are occasional news reports of development from that corridor.

authority2006:
Who are these set of stupid and unfortunate people self? Instead of you to pray for your father, mother, siblings and yourself to live a meaningful life and die happily, you're cursing someone that he will die a useless death!
People like you were supposed to be flushed down the toilet sink, world could do better without toxic and miserable people like you

kahal29:
https://t.guardian.ng/news/i-want-to-be-a-martyr-sacrificed-to-achieve-igbo-presidency-umahi/

murecool:
*Let's expand umbrella of hope over all sections of society
*And rebuild morale of the Police, says VP



REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE LAUNCH OF THE REBUILD LAGOS INITIATIVE AND INAUGURATION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF REBUILD LAGOS TRUST FUND IN LAGOS ON THE 16TH OF NOVEMBER, 2020

PROTOCOLS

I bring you the warm greetings of Mr. President, H.E Muhammadu Buhari and he has also asked me to express once again, his sincere and deep condolences on the catastrophic events of the last few weeks. To that I add again, my own sincere commiserations to the government and people of Lagos State, this place of my birth, for the loss of lives of citizens, the injured and the colossal destruction of public and private properties, social amenities and infrastructure as we’ve heard and seen.

Never in the history of our nation has this former capital city, and our nation’s commercial nerve centre experienced such mindless acts of violence and the enormity of destruction that occurred.
Perhaps it is worth noting that the destruction and disruption of life and work in Lagos is a national tragedy and a major economic setback for the nation even as we face the most difficult challenges, perhaps in a generation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the State that leads by far in the collection of non-oil revenues. The bulk of VAT is generated here. Of the 114 persons who pay self-assessed taxes of over N10million, 112 of them live and work here in Lagos. The Lagos port whose Marina office was attacked generates the most revenue and is the busiest in the Nation. The Lagos airport is the busiest in Nigeria. In so many ways, our fortunes as a nation are closely tied to the fortunes of this great State.

But even in the darkest of clouds, there is and will be silver linings. These trying times offer an invaluable learning opportunity, a teachable moment, and it is the lessons we draw from this period that will shape our path going forward.

We have seen how the most noble causes, such as the ENDSARS protests designed to call attention to a serious problem of brutality and extrajudicial killings, can be subverted leading to the exact opposite of its objectives; chaos, murder, looting and arson. So, we saw what can happen when the restraints of law and order are loosed and anarchy is given free rein.

In those difficult days when chaos swept from street to street, consuming lives and livelihoods, we learned that society is built on the balance between freedom and order. But we have also realized that order itself is a social construct sustained by the consent of the governed. Which is why it is important, as the Chairman of the Rebuild Lagos Trust Fund said, that we investigate and thoroughly interrogate the deep causes of the disenchantment that resulted in the chaos.

We recognize that our law enforcement agents who are tasked with keeping their fellow citizens safe do so under extremely difficult and challenging operational conditions; that while the dedication of the diligent officers among them is often overshadowed by the deviance and indiscipline of some of their comrades, there are undeniably a preponderance of competent officials who discharge their duties with a high sense of professionalism and patriotism. These good men and women in our police force and law enforcement agencies deserve our encouragement and support for standing in the gap between order and lawlessness.

At this point, let me pay tribute to the officers of the Nigeria Police Force who tragically lost their lives in the line of duty during the recent crisis. I offer my heartfelt sympathies to the families of the fallen. The task of serving and protecting the public is one of the noblest of professions and we are committed to upholding the dignity of all who do this work. Indeed, we recognize that the protests as well as the current national conversation they have inspired are ultimately about building a police force that will proudly represent our highest values. I will return to this point in a moment.

Your Excellencies, it is now time to rebuild. It is time for the painful and costly task of reconstruction and rehabilitation. It is now time for the private sector, our international friends and partners, and all who love this city and State, to make their contributions to the rebuilding and reconstruction effort. When Lagos works, it works for all of us.
For the Federal Government’s part, Mr. President has said that he will await a full report from Your Excellency, (the Governor) and I am sure that will be on hand soon so as to measure the sort of support that will be required.

We are also, of course, speaking with the National Assembly. I had a few conversations with the Rt. Honorable Speaker and we have also heard the representative of the Senate President, Senator Olamilekan Solomon, speak about the collaboration that must take place between the Executive and the Legislature and the National Assembly, in order to be able to do something that would make a difference in this reconstructive effort and of course, it is not just for Lagos, but for the rest of the country. But as we heard repeatedly, Lagos will clearly have to take the bulk of whatever effort that is put together.

For businesses that were destroyed, we also heard the CBN Governor speak about the CACOVID allowance and what the Bankers' Committee will do. They have been speaking about suspending existing facilities that business owners may have in banks and also offering lines of cheap credit to help them rebuild their damaged facilities and re-stock.

But it is clear that the task of reconstruction goes beyond physical infrastructure or brick and mortar. There is a moral, social and ethical reconstruction to be undertaken as well. We must rebuild trust between the government and the governed; the vast majority of who are young persons, rebuild trust between law enforcement agents and the communities that they are meant to serve.

Never again should law enforcement find itself on the opposite side of any conflict with society. We must in the process rebuild the morale of our police force, the gallant men and women who daily brave the elements to keep us all safe.

The process of reform has commenced. After 70 years of the Police Act, the President signed the new reformed Police Act 2020 into law. The new law contains in many parts, components of a charter of the rights of citizens even when they are questioned, or when they are detained, or whenever they have contact with the police or law enforcement agents under the purview of the police.

The President has also signed into law, the Police Trust Act, essentially to provide a source of extra funding for the police. Equally, the Police has also initiated its community policing programme aimed at reframing policing as an activity based on trust between law enforcement and the local communities. We recognize that our communities can be made safer when they are primarily policed by members of that same community who enjoy the trust of their neighbours. Which is why community policing involved recruitment of policemen from the local governments where these men and women live and they are required to remain in those local governments when they serve in the Police Force.

We must renew the ties that bind us together as a society. All of us who have a stake in a peaceful and prosperous Lagos must take upon ourselves, the task of expanding the umbrella of hope over all sections of our society.

We certainly cannot afford to alienate our young people who constitute the majority of our society and bear the burden of enterprise, resourcefulness and innovation required to propel our economy into the future. For their sake and ours, we need a broad-based and inclusive prosperity that creates opportunities on a scale commensurate with the aspirations of our population. Beyond restoring what we have lost, the task before us is nothing short of the reformulation of the social contract.

Let me extend my deepest sympathies to the families of those who lost their lives during the protests and to all those who have lost their loved ones or who have been affected by the actions especially of police brutality and brutality of law enforcement agents generally. Nothing can replace the life of a loved one and for that, I offer my deepest condolences.

These deaths should never have happened. It is now our responsibility to honour their memory and ensure that justice is comprehensively served.

Our State, like our nation, is in need of healing. We recognize that the balm for a wounded society is truth and justice. This is why the President has approved the setting up of Judicial Panels of Inquiry which has been established all over the country by the States of the Federation. Their mandate is to investigate cases of police brutality against citizens, where necessary recommend compensation for victims. Specifically, in Lagos, the mandate of the inquiry has been expanded to include the full investigation of the Lekki toll gate incidents. This process has begun in Lagos and you have seen already that all Federal Agencies and the armed services are participating actively in the proceedings of the judiciary inquiry. Mr. President said and I quote ''we will also ensure that all those responsible for misconduct or wrongful acts are brought to justice.”

This is why Judicial Panels of Inquiry have been established all across the country. Their mandate is to investigate cases of police brutality against citizens and where necessary compensate victims.

Specifically, in Lagos the mandate of the inquiry has been expanded to include a full investigation of the Lekki toll gate incidents. This process has begun and all Federal Agencies and the armed services are participating actively as Mr. President said and I quote ''We will also ensure that all those responsible for misconduct or wrongful acts are brought to justice.”

The pursuit of restorative justice, recompense for injury to innocents and a reckoning for perpetrators of abuse are essential components of the moral and ethical reconstruction of our homestead. I urge all of us to give this process a chance to work and to commit to the advocacy and participation that it will take to enable this process succeed.

We have been through a very difficult time but all our moral traditions instruct us that character is forged in hardship. The things that truly strengthen us are gained in seasons of adversity.

It will be severely remiss of me if I leave here without commending the outstanding leadership shown by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo–Olu in what has been an immensely challenging season for the State.

First, Mr. Governor, you led your State’s efforts in addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic to both local and international acclaim with the sort of leadership you have shown. When State Governors under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC) resolved that States should establish Judicial Panels of Inquiry, Lagos was the very first State to constitute its inquiry.

Throughout this period, your actions have been an example of responsibility, creativity, sensitivity and resolve under pressure. I want to say that we are extremely proud of what you have done and what you are doing. Thank you very much.

In closing, let me on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria assure you that we stand with you and the great people of Lagos as you undertake this difficult journey of rebuilding. It is my conviction that Lagos and our nation at large will emerge from this crisis better and stronger.

Igbega ipinle Eko, ajumose gbogbo wa ni o.

May God bless the government and people of Lagos State and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Thank you.

Released by:
Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
17th November 2020

OfficialAwol:
Even after the painstaking clarification I made? With picture evidence attached? You still said this?

Nah! Your problem defies reason.

DamZik:
APC zombies below are heartless, irrational and irritating. They earn a living buy surpporting evil, wickedness and atrocities in Nigeria high places.

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thebosstrevor1:
Sowore must be stopped before he turns Abuja into a war zone.

This man contested for election and lost woeful even after raising lot of funds from the diaspora.

Sowore won't destroy Nigeria, he should be stopped.

We want peace, we don't want revolution.

His political ambitions isn't worth the death of Nigeria.

Stop Sowore Now.

Marxists and Anarchists won't destroy Nigeria for law abiding citizens

OneCorner:
Afonjaz will cry blood today
Nothing in there land... ordinary iron no dey

thebosstrevor1:
For All those crying for revolution, you need to go and read history, all those who took part in revolution, who killed and destroyed wished they never did it.

We don't need revolution in Nigeria, what we know is evolution, revolution is digression, evolution is progression.

The bad peace we have is better than the civil war revolution will create

we should learn from the last civil war, how people lost their love ones and friends, instead of agitating for things that will destroy lives and properties, glamour for change that will help move this country forward

Remember, Your political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian also remember that a bad peace is better than a good bloody war.

ogbuefi677:
Why does anything Igbo give yerobber mumuslims nightmares?
B/C you are afraid your hausa/Fulani slave masters will be raping you ppl 3 times daily and without lubrication too, when the gallant Igbos leave?

BlackfireX:
See teeth like Fulani goat

OfficialAPCNig:
If Igbos are foolish, I wonder what will be said of Yorubas.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Is everything ok over there

Agbegbaorogboye:
I really don't understand what the fuss about this oyibo is about.
If the Igbos are sure the people and place belong to them, they should come forward with historical and documentary evidence to buttress that fact.
If not, then they should let things be and be respectful to their hosts

BlackfireX:
Sorry i am the one that didn't get it right...


Ndo

iamDrRhymes:
Whether you like it on not, we still have patriotic Nigerians who are are amazingly engulfed by the love of their country despite present ugly realities. Such is from an inspiring story a Facebook friend shared yesterday. It reads:

''I needed to catch up with an appointment today.

Okada being the fastest means.

Saw a pool of Okada riders and decided to negotiate with one of them who was putting on Chelsea's Shirt.

Charges, agreed. 800 naira.

We landed safely, I gave him 1000 naira, he returned it back to me.

Why? What happened ?

'Oga, no worry, I no dey collect money from people who put on Nigeria Jersey'. He said to me. (I wore Green Super Eagle Jersey).

He shock me! What kind of Okada rider is this?''


Wow! What kind of Okada man will let go of a whole N800 in a dream? What a patriotic man!

With love and selflessness, we will build the new Nigeria of our dreams.

God bless every patriotic Nigerian.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

nsiba:
It is not new seeing so many IPOB's lamenting, wailing and tearing their clothes over the rejection of their childish, immature and "by force by firw attaché" by the south south region.
What is new will soon be the committing of suicide by many of them, after the final rejection meted on this degenerate group by Gov. Wike many of them including their coward leader always smoking Aba weed in his hole in London have gone bunkers.
Since their planned thievery of south south resources have always failed, their 419 gimmicks rejected their only consolation as usual is nothing but the propaganda and lies they are specialist in.
While they continue in this their lamentation the South South region wish to make it clear that IPOB remain a nonentity to the region, that any nonsense from them and their fraudulent Rabbi will lead them to more woes and miseries.

GOTVee:
Even though I've been a born again Christian of over 25 years, I think we Christians really need to let the sleeping Dog lie. I have been to several Arab nations on tourism and Evangelism and I can attest to the fact that Arabic remains one of the unique and outstanding languages on earth. What is the big deal in having Arabic inscriptions on Naira notes and Army uniform? Nigeria is a country of Muslim majority and due to their numerical advantage I think the Muslims deserve to have the Arabic as a national symbol. I mostly prefer to read my bible in Arabic language for better understanding despite being a Christian. The Muslims in this country have never complained of the fact that the national language is English. The Christian missionaries brough English language to Nigeria and our dear Muslim brothers easily accepted it without fuss. Why are we Christians trouble some unnecessarily? We Christians really to be careful not to cause a national disaster

ThatFairGuy:
Sighting this 1000 note as an example, The Arabic inscription on it simply means NAIRA DUBU(Hausa language) in Transliteration which means #1000.

It's Hausa language but written in Arabic.

The Arabic word for a thousand naira is ألف not نير دوبو as it's on our thousand note.

I can also write egberun naira (Yoruba language) in Arabic as we have it in Hausa language (but written in Arabic) on our note. As well as in Igbo.

أيبر نير egberun naira (#1000).

IT'S JUST A LANGUAGE as explained in this write-up, nothing like ISLAMIZATION. We all need to look away on some certain things if we must live in peace, Which is ESSENTIAL.

I can sight some examples of what we're also using in Nigeria that are related to Christianity but no fuss from Muslim side.


WE NEED TO STOP ALL THESE UNNECESSARY FUSS

NNEWIsuper:
If igbo was accommodating just like Hausa it would have been a lingual fraca in the whole old Eastern region of Nigeria made of SE and SS. It doesn't mean the minorities won't speak and know their dialect but just like how Hausa is the lingual franca in the North West and North East and even some parts of North Central like plateau, nasarawa speak Hausa as lingual franca but it doesn't mean the minorities there don't know and speak their own dialect.
Rather what we see is even the ones who are actually igbo denying their route.. Well you won't blame them because igbo itself is too divided and not accommodating. This is a loss for the igbos because ordinarily they should be influential tribe in Nigeria politics which would have even helped reshape the business environment of Igbos

SaintBishop:
Where is the intelligence op?

Davash222:
Aside Falana, these guys you mentioned are just hustlers.