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Another irresponsible attempt to spread unfounded remours and lies against Fulani herdsmen. There is no proof whatsoever that these bandits were herdsmen or Fulani for that matter.

Sigh

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=696225.msg8569317#msg8569317 date=1308755533]As history has taught us, if you give the Fulani an inch, they'll take a mile.

Best bet for the Tiv would be to wipe out the Fulani utterly from their lands.[/quote]- 100 A sort of thoughtless prescription - what's your reason for being this unreasonably provocative.

The Federal Government led by GEJ is squarely responsible for the security of all Nigerians. What are his plans to safeguard the security of these herdsmen and farmers alike?

The current administration continues to fail Nigerians as far as security is concerned - sooner or later, these security problems will start happening very close to the decision makers prompting actions that would be too little too late. Its time to allow each state to have his own police force.

Malam Eziachi: Don't worry yourelf, its just that some of us tend to see beyond our toes.

One day you shall thank the MASSOB people for liberating you northern masses from the clutches of your Emperors and allow the likes of Buhari to give you a good governance with or without oil SS/SE in your own self govern nation.

Nwannem, Malam Eziachi, I'm not sure that you yourself see beyond your toes as you stated.  Why are we going to have any cause to thank MASSOB for liberating the Northern masses and allow the likes of Buhari to give us good governance? Have you quickly forgotten that it is the overwhelming support of your likes, other MASSOB members, and the rigging machinery of your region that prevented the very liberation which you now claim you people will be thanked for?

One thing is certain in my mind though, you will not support violence. That's a good thing. I hope you will categorically reject any suggestion that your MASSOB will be led into terrorist acts beyond those they've already perpetrated.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=694519.msg8558313#msg8558313 date=1308621498]ndu, how did u learn yoruba

i want to learn that language, brother [/quote]Our people talk say, Nwaanyi muta ite ofe mmiri mmiri, di ya amuta ipi utara aka were suru ofe meaning, if a woman decides to make the soup watery, the husband will learn to dent the tuwo (foofoo) before dipping it into the soup.

The advantages of learning all the major languages of Nigeria are immeasurable. It helps to aquire babes from all tribes, win over business deals that would otherwise be more challenging, and finally helps you in political battles.   

Back to topic.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=694519.msg8558262#msg8558262 date=1308619880]Wine ati emu ni mo mu yo sha.[/quote]hmmm, oro e ti su mi.

Eziachi: No I won't finance them if they are to go into violence but so far there is no indication that they are planning to do so, they have only highlighted how violence pays off in Nigeria, just that some you decided to made up issue that wasn't mentioned or raised.
And no one is giving me a Dikko treatment, for a start I am not a Nigerian and never had a Nigerian passport either unlike Dikko, unless you are planning to abduct a British subject in his own country.

Malam Eziachi, as long as you have not renounced your Nigerian citizenship, I'm afraid you are still a Nigerian, even if you do not have a Nigerian passport. Being one of those decorated biafran war veterans who had to run away along with Ojukwu and others, you are actually more Nigerian than most people. Your attrocities have been forgiven, just as Ojukwu and other biafran veterans of the civil war were forgiven. You may even be eligible for some benefits. No foreign government can protect you from Nigeria, when the Dikko treatment is metted out to you.

I know that you are still fighting the civil war in your head and one of your combat scenarios is to support MASSOB because you think they are fighting for the same thing you fought for during the civil war. I have great news for you, buddy, the freaking war was over some 40 years ago. You lost the war, move on.


@Ileke bebe-idi, what does Kim Kardashian have to do with this topic? abi o ti mu wine cooler ti mo send si e ni?

Onlytruth:
From the above article by Prof Hebert Ekwe Ekwe, I added a new word to my English dictionary:

[size=16pt]deindividuation[/size]

The deindividuation of Igboland must stop. NOW.  

shataap dia. Look at the primary 6 vocab word making you act like a biri(a form of primate found in Abriba land) who just found a ripe banana. olodo  

@OP, that was funny. You be real olodo.

Eziachi:
I am one of those thousands of Igbos that has financially helped MASSOB over the years based on their ideology and plans for our people and that is based on peaceful means but people like you poo in their pants when they talk despite being unarmed but were quite comfortable with bombers all the time.

My question to you sir, is, are you going to continue to financially support MASSOB when it starts using terror techniques threatened by Uwazuruike? If so I will personally support an Umaru Dikko treatment for you because you will belong in the Gallos along with Uwazuruike and other fellow terrorists.  

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=694519.msg8555022#msg8555022 date=1308581829]My brothers of the South, we know who are the real problem.

It is the North!

They have introduced bombing to Nigeria and now we are starting to resemble Pakistan, Iraq and other Arab countries.[/quote]hahahahaha, today must be silly day in the East. If we are to believe what you wrote then MEND is based in the North - oh I forgot Dokubo is really Alhaji Asari Dokubo.   olodo

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=694519.msg8554983#msg8554983 date=1308581421]This sounds like sarcasm from Uwazuruike. Some of your people need to learn what sarcasm means.

Of course a Northerner would read this out of context.[/quote]hahahahaha!!!! You would like us to dismiss a credible threat by the leader of the most prominent terrorist separatist group in Nigeria, as sarcasm. With due respect, don't be silly, olodo.

Your statement is as silly as saying that MEND's threat to detonate explosives anywhere in Nigeria is sarcasm.

Eziachi:
I  took time to read all the posts over this paticular thread and came to one conclusion that it likely that 90% of contributors to issues here do not read first what they are responding to. If not how can anyone with brain not to understand what Uwzuruike actually said, not the attractive headline that had no bearing on the content?

The man is saying that by the action of Nigerian govt regarding violent organisations like MEND/BOKO HARAM shows that they listened or respects violence than peace. He mentioned how despite MASSOB's ideology of a free Biafran state out of Nigeria using peaceful means, no govt of Nigeria has deem it fit to invite them for a talk or anything, rather they get arrested and gullaged in various Nigerian prisons and many of them killed in the last 2 yeaars.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=694519.msg8554628#msg8554628 date=1308578484]After 3 pages, somebody with some sense posted.


Yes. That is the issue.[/quote]Mallam Eziachi, you forgot to point out that Uwazuruike was quoted in the same article as follows:

“I am telling you that if I have my way now, I will join the Boko Haram and the entire country will turn into crisis, since it is what the Federal Government wants. I am saying it today that, I congratulate the Boko Haram people and I wish they will continue in their efforts and if I have my way, I will join them.”

The above is a treasonable threat, the man belongs in jail.

Wonders shall never end.

Uwazuruike, MASSOB leader threatens: I may join Boko Haram

The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has threatened that his group may abandon its non-violent approach and toe the line of the Boko Haram since the Federal Government understands the language of violence.

Uwazuruike, in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun in Owerri at the weekend said both groups were calling for the division of the country in different ways, saying while the Boko Haram adopted violence approach to press their demands, the latter (MASSOB) engaged in non-violent method to achieve the same objective.

According to him, it had taken MASSOB over 12 years preaching the gospel of Biafra sovereignty through non-violence, government had not deemed it necessary to invite the group for discussion but regretted that within a short space of time of the Islamic group’s bomb attack across the country, government had extended olive branch to it. “I congratulate them because it has taken me more than 12 years to preach the same language that they are saying today that Nigeria needs to be divided at least between Christians and Moslems, but the Federal Government has ignored me for 12 years.”

“Now, within a very short space of time the Boko Haram people have said the same thing I was saying through non-violence, the Federal Government has invited them and of which the group, (Boko Haram) has ignored the government and continue what they are doing.” The MASSOB leader made it clear that if he had his way, the group would join the Boko Haram and the entire nation would be in flames, since it was the only language the Federal Government understood.

“I am telling you that if I have my way now, I will join the Boko Haram and the entire country will turn into crisis, since it is what the Federal Government wants. I am saying it today that, I congratulate the Boko Haram people and I wish they will continue in their efforts and if I have my way, I will join them.” He regretted that, whenever the MASSOB embarked on a peaceful demonstration, government, through its security agencies would clamp down on them, even maiming and killing them in the process.

He, however, advised the Boko Haram not to bomb the rural areas, where common people reside, but, should focus attention on those who were clamouring for oneness of the country because of what they gained from the national treasury. He dismissed the insinuations that members of the Boko Haram group were invisible, alleging that some members of the nation’s security agencies belonged to the sect. Alleging further, the MASSOB leader said the Boko Haram were being sponsored by top politicians and business tycoons in Nigeria.

Uwazuruike, who dismissed those who claimed that members of the Islamic group were invisible, said the sect were human beings made up of flesh and blood but decided to make themselves invisible because they were committing crimes. He warned: “It is not only the Boko Haram that can throw bombs and they are not the only people that are courageous to be suicide bombers, any other person who believes in whatever he is doing can be a suicide bomber, but we are considering the fact that we can still achieve the same purpose by peaceful means without anybody dying.”

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/june/20/national-20-06-2011-001.html

These extremists have perpetrated violent acts of war agaist Nigeria and the government must respond in kind. The best way to deal with the problem is to arrest the leaders of these groups and their financial backers, try them for treason promptly and punish them accordingly. Identifying these leaders and financial backers should be very easy. Infact we should already know who they are - we need strong leadership with the will to arrest and deal with the criminals no matter how powerful they may be.

Secondly, these extremists congregate in camps and other millitary facilities disguised as religious facilities, where they plan, train, and blackmail innocent, less sophisticated Nigerians. Our secrete services personnel must infiltrate these groups and identify times and locations of important meetings they hold. Once that is done, we attack them and spare no one. I'm sure our friends arround the world will be more than willing to help us with communication support and drones for effective action against these people.

I truly do not believe that our commander in chief is up to the task at hand, but I hope I am dead wrong on this. Arresting 58 Boko Haram members, none of whom are in leadership positions, is laughable. If the prompt action needed is not carried out immediately and urgently, it will surely be done when a suicide bomber attacks NASS or Aso Rock.

[quote author=Abu-Maryam link=topic=693712.msg8545531#msg8545531 date=1308435773]Fela Anikulapo kuti

Raskimono


Alhaji Musa Dankwairo

Alhaji Adamu Dan maraya Jos


Oliver D'

Abdulrazak Ayinde[/quote]Most of these are musicians rather than statesmen, haba! 

I can listen to Alhaji Adamu Dan maraya Jos all day long, he is sooooo talented. I love to play molo myself.

Middle belt ko, central belt ni.
@OP, I'm afraid you are from Northern Nigeria. I agree that you may not be Hausa or Fulani, but a Northerner, you are.

Most of you people like edoyad suffer from an identity crisis. Pele o.

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This is becoming unbearable, the level of theft with impunity leaves one dumbfounded.

Former Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole, facing trial for mismanaging funds meant for parliament, was this morning granted bail by Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

But he was rearrested within the court premises by operatives of the anti-graft agency - the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He is to be arraigned at a Federal Capital Territory High Court for another alleged mismanagement of funds. In the course of investigation, the EFCC discovered that Bankole obtained another 12 billion naira loan on behalf of the House of Represenbtatives three days to his exit from office.

He will be arraigned in this latest case alongside his former deputy Mr. Usman Nafada

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/9203-bankole-gets-bail-rearrested.html

naijaking1:
Don't worry, the good man threatens no one.

Ezeuche, learn from your intellectual superior, naijaking1. Despite threashing him in the arena of ideas over countless of issues, hes still does not feel threatened by ndu_chucks. That is a typical Igbo trait.

First Nigerian President of Rotary International:

Jonathan B Majiyagbe, President, Rotary International 2003-2004

Also: First African President of Rotary International and First Black President of Rotary International

[quote author=EzeUche! link=topic=687676.msg8501069#msg8501069 date=1307814584]ndu_chuks is the most dangerous Northerner on NL. His ability to communicate in Igbo makes him a dangerous foe![/quote]It is highly uncharacteristic of Ndigbo to exibit fear simply because anyone can communicate in Igbo. Igbos are typically tough folks - I am beginning to suspect that you may be a fake Igbo.

Don't you have enough foes at it is? Why have you classified me as your foe when I consider you my lovely brother? Nwannem what are you really afraid of and why are you threatened by faceless internet monikers?

Here we go again.

If anyone needs to apologise, it is Brigadier General Godwin Alabi Isama. This man claims that his strategy won the war? How come no one knew about this for 40years? This man manufactured sensationalism to peddle his new book and you gullible Nigerians are overreacting. Unfortunately for Brigadier General Godwin Alabi Isama, most of the dummies here don't read, let alone buy his book.

Brigadier General Godwin Alabi Isama will not profit from his lies and lame attempt at disparaging Eze Ndigbo Gburugburu, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Adekunle should have used his customary spanner to pull the Brigadier's teeth out while he was much younger, olodo banza.

@Jakumo, since you know so much about airplanes and your love for your dear country Nigeria, is well known, why don't you show this love by doing a kamakaze somewhere in the neighborhood of Aso rock (preferably during the council of states meeting - Buhari should be in attendance) and jumpstart a most needed revolution.

abi you dey fear, ni?

naijaking1: What's been going on is the use of the instruments of the state to surpress Igbos to the advantages of those who percieve themselves as winners of the civil war.

If you remove the federal clog and energy deviced to hold Igbos down, you'll notice a nearly even playing field. Individually, everybody knows the Igbos remain superior overall.

I’m afraid the condition you described will remain as long as your Igbo leaders continue to support these instruments of state and even head many of the organizations which you claim are used to surpress Igbos. None of the devices you claim are used to keep Igbos down would be effective without your fellow Igbos and so-called leaders making sure that the condition remains. These leaders don’t give a hoot about your plight as long as they are compensated handsomely and make enough money to keep several generations of their families wealthy.

The day SW and SE put aside their hatred for each other and cooperate for the greater good will be the day hope begins to rise in the SE. Gba be. So far, the North dey kampe.

I don't believe there was any subliminal insult in Clinton's remarks - these people were simply having harmless fun. Now, if GEJ does not return to Nigeria with a commitment from Obama to provide us with 4- 6 drones to checkmate the terrorists in Nigeria, his trip would have been a total failure, as far as I am concerned.

Something tells me that he does not even have the guts to make the request.

You people are very gullible. No wonder your so-called leaders keep scrrewing you left, right, center, front, and back while you continue to idolise them.

How can this story be true if not a single media outlet in the USA is publicising it? If any such a thing happens to a imprisoned suspected bomber in the US, it would be all over the news in the USA. How come this news is not reported in the US, hmm? Abi Nigerian journalists have more access to US jails and informants than their American counterparts?

Many Nigerian media houses are as irresponsible as how dumb many of the posters of this thread are. Awon olodo rabata, ode iddo.

Wizardofoz:
Thanks for that link.

You need to watch OGD's version, very funny and in OGD's usual charismatic manner, brought life to the song


Anyway, POC, Yoruba Ronu means Yoruba think deeply [/b]which is somewhat different from Yoruba think (Yoruba r'ori)

Just so you know.

Interesting. I would have thought one would do deep thinking with the brain (head) hence r'[b]ori. Thanks for the correction, na gode.

Tinubu  a.k.a Dan Iska  

The disgraceful feud being discussed is not surprising to observers like me. This self destructive behaviour of the Yorubas is why one of their sons, Chief H. Ogunde wrote a play and a song titled Yoruba Ronu (Yoruba think)

Here's is my rendition of one or two stanzas from the song (pardon me for the typos) :

Yoruba nse ra won nitori owo
Yoruba nj'irawon lese nitori ipo

won gbe'bi fun alare, won gbe are fun eni'bi
won pe ole ko wa ja, won tun pe oloko wa mu (dem call tief make him come steal from farm, then come call farmer to come catch de tief)

ogbon ti won da togbe won dele ola    (na de sense wey carry dem reach top of de mountain)
ogbon na lo pada wa si gbe won san le  (wey come back troway dem for valley)

The last two lines should be instructive to Tinubu and other political jobbers lurking arround this thread. Eko ile, se iwo mo yoruba ka - se you sabi read Yoruba?


Reference material"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEP6GQhneM

naijaking1:
^^^
Making excuses on why things should remain aberrent in Nigeria is not a way forward.
You need to get off that your primitive 1620 AD mentality, or should I say radical islamic mentality--that our judicial system is an unnecessary wast of time. So, anybody alleged to to have committed a crime is execute before trial
People like you and Sanusi ought to have no room in a modern and growing society like ours

Keep burying you head in the sand. Rakumin dajij. The crimes which Bankole has been accused of, are simply the modus operandi in Nigeria. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. The western legal system cannot do justice to these crimes and criminals because they serve as no deterrence. By the time you execute two or three of them, the rest will sit up. If you are old enough or have read about the firing squad judgement of armed robbers back in the day, you'd realize that it was quite effective.

You cannot lodge a gorilla in a 5 star hotel, you must treat the gorilla as the beast he is.

Eko Ile:
Let's get serious and quit acting naive, any form of Yoruba and ibo unity remains a flawed dream because ibo folks are too tribal and unstable for their own good, Yoruba people failing and eating dirt means more to them than all the glowing stuff you're peddling.

Let everybody carry their father's name for now.

You are simply validating my point buddy! As for the bolded, everybody's father's name is Nigeria. That is what you people should carry. Cut the tribalistic crap, it is destructive to the welfare of our dear country.

Your Lagos would have never achieved its 'greatness' without the contributions of Ndigbo and people of other tribes. Gba be.

Katsumoto:
You are being disingenuous with this SW-SE alliance. You and I know what the problems are and they started with the phantom cencus figures the british left in Nigeria which gave a numerical advantage to the North and the illiteracy in the North which ensures that its leaders are not checked effectively.

If the census figures makeup the root of our poblems and gave a numerical advantage to the North as you claim, wouldn't a solid SW-SE alliance force the conduct of a more accurate census?  Why didn't we hear from the SW-SE alliance when Professor Jega and his team announced the voter registration results which were in line with the census figures which you say are bogus? Admit it, SW and SE are enablers if we are to believe what you are saying. Your hatred for each other continues to harm the whole country. This hatred, I maintain is the greatest Nigerian tragedy.

naijaking1:
Bankole is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. Though the guy is not as politically savvy as he ought to have been considering his education, did you guys forget his role in frustrating GEJ ascencion to the presidency when Yar'dua died or was almost dead. The guy obviously sided with Turai and the Cabal.
Thank God for Mark, Nigeria would have been in crises longer than necessary, because somehow Bankole saw himself as an agent of the northern muslim political establishment.
All said and done, his trial should be devoid of politics---if possible.

You go out of your way to appear consistent regarding the bolded above. This is not America buddy, Bankole, Madam Ibru and all these other criminals deserve to be summarily shot as Sanusi would say. Even the blind can see that they are guilty. Stop trying to defend the indefensible. Rule of law my foot.