₦airaland Forum

Vaughanlanrewaj:
You see the reason why no reasonable Nigerian of Yoruba extraction will call for secession. These patriots will not die in vain. They are usually the finest in their set and lots of investment goes in their training by their parents and the country. We will always honour their sacrifice by doing our best for this great nation. They are true heroes and may God comfort their parents and families. God bless Nigeria.

I don't subscribe to this logic, if avoidable deaths of our brilliant minds is your reason why Yoruba must hold on to a seemingly failed marriage, then, you don't mean well for Yoruba race. Instead, their loss should be a motivating factor to want to opt out and form a country where their safety is guaranteed and their values highly respected.

DaniDani:
Soon after he was sworn in as the COAS, there were rumours of suspected planned coup to unseat the president. I hope something sinister related to the rumour is not behind his death. I strongly believe that something is wrong somewhere.

I doubt any sinister motive was behind his death. I learnt the weather was terrible and wasn't good for landing in Kaduna today. Maybe a manoeuvre from the crew went wrong?

Young Yoruba chaps were many in the unfortunate incident.

RIP to the departed souls.

1. LT GEN I ATTAHIRU
2. BRIG GEN MI ABDULRAHMAN
3. BRIG GEN OLAYINKA
4. BRIG GEN KULIYA
5. MAJ LA HAYATU
6. MAJ HAMZA
7. SGT UMAR

CREW
8. FLT LT TO ASANIYI.
9. FLT LT AA OLUFADE.
10. SGT ADESINA.
11. ACM OYEDEPO.


Read:

Fati Attahiru, wife of the chief of army staff was not inside the crashed Beechcraft 350 plane, as reported.

She is alive.

But six aides of her husband, 54 year-old Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, died with him, along with four crew members.

The aides were identified as:



BRIG GEN MI ABDULKADIR, BRIG GEN OLAYINKA, BRIG GEN KULIYA, MAJ LA HAYAT, MAJ HAMZA and SGT UMAR.

The crew members are FLT LT TO ASANIYI, FLT LT AA OLUFADE, SGT ADESINA.
and ACM OYEDEPO.

Attahiru and the aides were going to Kaduna, ostensibly to attend tomorrow’s passing out parade of soldiers from the Nigerian Army Depot in Zaria.

The aircraft, with registration number, 5N-R203 was billed to land at the Nigerian Airforce Base in Mando area.

But it was diverted to land at the Kaduna airport, amid heavy rainfall.



On landing, the plane exploded and burned, leaving occupants no chance to survive.

The Air Force has had several crashes in recent years.

In March, a fighter jet supporting ground troops fighting Boko Haram terrorists went missing in north-east Borno in March.

In February, seven Air Force officials crashed near Abuja.

They were heading to Minna, Niger state capital to assist in the banditry war in the state

.




https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/05/21/3-brigadiers-2-majors-in-crashed-plane-fati-attahiru-alive/

thebosstrevor1:
Yes between what have they contributed to the country except being tools for politicians.

This is a wrong mindset.

Better!!


Trying to renew mine since february to no avail.

Benbellamor:
Yes we can, only if one vote one man counts
We don't need criminals like Tinubu

Mention names of those yoruba politicians with the clout

Benbellamor:
Answer to your question

Ti awa omo Yoruba ba sapá titi Lati pinya kuro lara ijoba apapo Naijiria Sugbon ti kò ti i seese
Ona miran tó ti a le gba lati le janfani eto wa gegebi omo Yoruba ni lati gbaruku ti enikeni tí ó bá jé omowé tó mètó tó si ni emi ati farasin ti ko si nije eni ton fi esin boju lati huwa ika, sugbon kaka bee ologbonloye ati oniwa irele eniyan ti o konimora
Ki se amugbo tabi onirobi...jagidijagan eniyan
Labe iru eni bee
Aajo awa omo Yoruba le b"ere fun ati da duro laye arawa ti o bayá

Can we have examples of those under your category with clout and political sagacity across the length and breadth of Nigeria who under the present circumstance can win presidential election?

helinues:
You should know the people whose tantrum and insult are only their trade mark

Yes, it's obvious the op is an impostor.

OneTemplate:
Lol. When someone says "I am Yoruba" " and their manner is not that of an Omoluabi then you don't need Einstein to interpret their origin or motivation.

I was surprised at the level of insults and the disparaging names he called not only Tinubu but other well meaning Omoluabis. It is not a sin to disagree with what someone represents but presenting your disagreement in a way that is lacking in decorum and finesse is not only bad but shows you're not better than those you attempt to vilify

Christistruth00:
Tinubu and Prof Banji Akintoye whom I respect very much should Contest an Election and the Yoruba People will Choose for themselves

Suicide mission for the respected Prof.

Lol, but you don't have to deploy the use of abusive words to ..

1. Show your disapproval of Tinubu

2. Disrespect the wish of others just because they don't align with yours.

Akintoye is not synonymous with Yoruba, neither is Tinubu. They are both at the opposing ends of a fanatical ideologue.

funshint:
There's no need trying to make friends with someone that has sworn to hate you. These people are irredeemable even Awolowo has said it.

It is remotely impossible to make friends with those who wish for your downfall when all you wish and pray for them is success.

The post you quoted was for a reason, the moniker i directed the question to won't answer because he has absolutely nothing tangible against Tinubu.

megacity:
Tinubu helped to bring the grossly incompetent President Nigeria has today.

I hope you enjoying Nigeria the way it is


I won't waste time to discuss Awo cause they said he said he drank poison and so is rotting in hell...that's enough punishment already

Is your hate for Tinubu anchored solely on the role he played in the ascendancy of Buhari to the rostrum of power or there are other valuable information you're privy to you wish to furnish us with? Who knows, we may reconsider our support for Tinubu if those reasons are tenable enough.

Awo speaks - an excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983.

CIVIL WAR

Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal Military Government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being painted in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feel embittered?

Awolowo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but ….Ojukwu is irredeemable, so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.

I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point?. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.

That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as Pisces, in Latin Pisces means Fish.

So I put Pisces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matters. And then on top of it I wrote Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but………………Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the school…… started in Urhoboland, in the Mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..”ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..”ah these Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became a blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the 'Eebu' has become honor, the abuse became honor.

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call 'Homo Mortuus' - dead living, 'oku eniyan', that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.

So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so 'Eebudola' is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to Iboland - South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….were librated I handed over the money to them - millions of pounds. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the Executive Council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time, the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 pounds almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course - South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds (£3,500,000.00) to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view: you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Federal Commissioner for Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the Ministry of Economic Planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY

That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’ books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their savings books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then made some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approved, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.

And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

STARVATION POLICY

Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcort, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.

I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses - Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never returned from the place. But I went.

But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we were sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happened was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.

You won't hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambushed the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process, the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

CHANGE OF CURRENCY

And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers had stolen from our Central Bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central Bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.

So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now Governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any Commissioner at the time says that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.

These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who wasn't well fed? But he had been taking the food which we sent to civilians, and so we stopped the food.

ABANDONED PROPERTY

And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.

So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies.

Cc: Mynd44, lalasticlala


https://ng.opera.news/ng/en//5b5cc54460a555715d287c66c83620a6

Fake news

Military and Nigerian police killing innocent Biafarans claiming they are gunmen.

I hope the death of the outspoken Odumakin will bring Tinubu and Afenifere to a roundtable where grievances will be tabled and genuine desire for reconciliation will be discussed. We are better together, at the end of day, the good of Yoruba nation is what we all desire though our different approaches may differ.

Long live Afenifere

Long live Tinubu

Long live Yoruba nation

Five persons were on Saturday night kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen close to Aguleri community, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The victims are said to hail from Aguleri, where the state governor, Willie Obiano also comes from, and were returning from Awka, the state capital, where they attended a wedding ceremony when they were taken.

A victim, who escaped abduction who gave his name as Chidi narrated his experience in an audio clip which is being circulated in social media.

“I escaped. My Aguleri brothers were captured by them. I don’t know if they were killed or not. Four men and one lady from Aguleri were taken away. There were shootings in the area but I escaped.”

Spokesperson of the Anambra State Police Command, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tochukwu Ikenga confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with DAILY POST.

He said that of the five kidnapped persons, two were rescued by police operatives led by the District Police Officer of Otuocha division, while the identity of the kidnappers was yet to be ascertained.

“It was a kidnap incident and it happened at night. Five persons were kidnapped but the operatives led by the DPO Otuocha quickly moved into action and rescued two persons. They are still in manhunt to rescue the other three.

“The abducted persons are five in number. Four men and a lady. The lady and one of the men was, however, rescued, while three male victims are still in captivity,” he said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/04/04/anambra-suspected-herdsmen-kidnap-five-persons-in-obianos-community/%3famp

Penguin2:
What ethnic group does Wike want to represent?

Nigeria is the ethnic group.

goatgoat093:
Has the refugee watery beans you are consuming in Benin Republic affected your reasoning as well? Where in the report was it inferred that Igboland has been taken over by herdsmen? yaribanzas and stupidity! no wonder your rowdy and lousy brothers are currently been disciplined by the Beninoise soldiers who are in charge of their various refugee camps for disorderly conducts!

Well!!

goatgoat093:
Cc: LegendHero, SimplyLeo, and the rest of the refugees hope you are all holding up in your refugee camps and learning some French ... hang in there my coneheaded brothers, eating watery beans and dry bread is at least better than living like slaves to fulani bandits in your annexed homelands in Ogun state

Hmmm

goatgoat093:
Emperor Wakili will be back soon, the REAL Jagaban of Yoruba land who is the most misunderstood man in history ...

Good morning

jayjaycee0:
Tribalism and influencers and pity party is what helped laycon win this show. Erica is the true and only winner. It is clear even the blind see it

If it was about pity, Tochi would have won.

If it was about influencers, Erica would have topped from the first voting week.

It was about tribalism, Laycon would have gone the way of Seyi.

You see, Laycon won because in the house, he added the most value to the show. At a point, he was ONLY the topic of discourse. Naturally talented, blessed with native intelligence, his cognitive power was unparalleled.

fergie001:
I don't know where you get the word "scared" from?
In a region of 5, you have 2 sitting Governors. You had 1 in 2015.
In 2015....You had no Senator......
In 2019,....You have 2+ Senators

In that same party.....You have several ex-Governors, former Army Chief, et al...and you say scared?

You should already know scared and the Igbos don't go in the same sentence.

There is no lukewarm attitude. Even the SW didn't put all their eggs in the same basket in 2019.
PDP - 1776670
APC - 2036450

The SW voted for Buhari with just a 53% margin.....Were you not lukewarm considering you needed to crush your opponent in that region, knowing that the sitting VP (who lost his PU) is from that region?

Was it not the same reason the Kano Gov's aide was also threatening the APC SW chapter?

If there is any region since 2019 that has made the biggest statement in the APC ....It is the SE. They are just simply adapting by throwing their eggs around.


I can see how satisfied they are with this administration.

Well, you know you aren't telling yourself the truth. The SW angst with Jonathan was that they were marginalised in the Jonathan administration, like they didn't belong...I don't know where you got ethnic gang-up from or is that what you have been made to believe all these years?

I never inclined towards an ethnic gang-up hence, there is no correction to be made.

This issue is very simple, what does SE want? Presidency i guess? They can realise it either in PDP or APC, in my opinion, they have enough experienced men in both parties to fly the kit. My concern is how these noble Igbo men in PDP have elected to promote Atiku instead of firing the course of SE presidency from all cylinders, the recent report submitted by a committee headed by Bala Mohammed is a testament to how lackluster they are regarding the subject of discourse. Those in APC either think they are not fit to rule or they stand no chance, all they do is mapping out strategy on how to become vp to a northern candidate.

Your leaders can't be putting such lackadaisical attitude up and still be complaining about gang up, nothing to gang up against, not that they have ambition to start with.

fergie001:
Mr. Nexus, right?
There are SE members in the APC who will also champion that the Presidency comes to them. They are defecting in droves for the same reason.

Out of 5, the APC has 2 states. Hence, someone screaming for a gang-up is likely a member of the opposition who is doing what the opposition does.

I am not aware of a meeting where Atiku or a Northerner was heralded as the Candidate of the PDP or has the APC zoned theirs, if yes, to where?

Nonetheless, I don't know where the Igbos have any hierarchy wrt the dominant parties.

Which of them have a SEner as National Chair or so.... They are complaining the same way the SWners complained in 2014 before taking their decision or is there no SWner in the PDP?

The bolded is what is needed of a group in dare need of a very competitive position in a pluralistic country like Nigeria. Nobody will hand it over to them on a platter and as such they should show willingness and readiness to pursue their aspiration to any length.

Not this their lukewarm attitude of wanting something but too scared to pursue it but instead elect to engage in petty talks and illogical innuendos.

Point of correction, SW didn't complain of ethnic gang up, they were only dissatisfied with the administration of Jonathan and they showed in their action they wanted Jonathan to go. If SE wants power, they should show seriousness.

Ikinternational:
They're not doing so because they haven't told you on nairaland abi

I know some people consider anonymous posters to be appointed spokesperson


"Southern zones"
Obasanjo
Jonathan
??

Which southern zone is missing?

Did the igbos fight the above or lend their votes?

My bad I forgot we're pretending n posting with amnesia.


I wish some of you will just say it with your chest "you don't want an igbo president" N stop beating around the bush N hiding behind semantics

According to Ohameze, Nigeria is standing on a tripod, the North, West and East.

The obj you mentioned was of Western extraction, Jonathan from Eastern extraction of the tripod and Buhari from the North.

In the spirit of fairness and equity, the next President should be from the West...

Obj.......West
Yardua...North
GEJ......East
Buhari....North.

The next President?

fergie001:
The writer said there is a gang-up against the Igbos
The guy I quoted said...there is no gang-up, that infact the Igbos are ganging-up against other parts of the South.

My analogy is simple:

He explained like one region is responsible for all the votes the man earned. How are we sure, IF #ProjectAtiku comes again..the SW won't vote him overwhelmingly.

Context is very important to fully understand the import of a text, if you contextualize his stance, the import becomes clearer. SE can't be seeing championing Atiku's presidency in one hand while complaining of gang up on the other hand. It stands logic on its head. Like he said, they should stick to one.

Jagaban of Borgu

Àsiwaju of Lagos

Oko Oluremi.


On your mandate we stand


Jagaban for President

Till i see a reputable source, the report remains fake.

Who trusts daily trust? That jankara outlet that shun out lies with reckless abandon.

Veqtor:
Fulani causing mayhem everywer dey go since 1914.

The people from that side are innately violent, killing is nothing to them, they don't value life

Coldie:
You are dismantling and attacking policemen stationed to protect you and still shouting insecurity, where does that happen...

This is my fear. Much as i support the flushing out of Fulani marauders, killing security agents is one thing i don't subscribe to.