₦airaland Forum

B2mario:
I've noticed that

yashau:
Lagos is setting the pace, others are following

Eastlink:
Inspector Nku. And where is he from? May God deliver you Ipobians. Please you guys should stop this attitude. Yes, the AdakaBoro guy is not from Rivers state, but Bayelsa. But dude is a bonafide Ijaw man. There are as many INC/IYC members in this forum than a lot of you can imagine.

Both him, BishopMagic, TonyeBanicanista, Truckpusher are the Ijaw champions you have here. Every ethnicity is defending their existence unlike you guys that don't know your purpose.

B2mario:
Then we will treat you the way Israel is treating Palestinians. Is like you are not afraid of the Igbos.

AdakaBoro8:
Adaka that delared niger delta to freed us.. it was igbos that destroyed it and put us in this bondage..but thank God it also back-fired them and put them into 5th class citizen status..

Elliot2:
Did you know that Adaka Boro was equally hated by his own people for oppressing them? In fact, his own father laid a curse on him. Adaka borrow killed a lot of ijaw men suspected of supporting Biafra. Adaka borrow was not a saint himself. And again, ijaw people killed a lot of Biafrans too, especially Adaka boro. Also, a lot of Biafran soldiers were drowned in the rivers by ijaws who were ferrying them across communities, they purposely capsized the boats. It was war, and a lot of atrocities happen on both sides.

agabusta:
Who were the military governors reporting to? Was it not the centre? If the governors were not autonomous but reporting to the centre, it simply means they were practising a central government.

Even though, they were called Regional governors.

The hitherto Regional Governement Headed by Premiers had a large degree of autonomy.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is optimistic that Nigeria will overcome its current security challenges.

Speaking during the Special Ramadan Prayer Tafsir which held in Sunday at the Lagos House in Marina, Tinubu said Nigerians will feel safe under President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

President Buhari had swept to power in 2015 on three cardinal promises – tackling security, fixing the economy and addressing power.

However, six years after defeating the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ending its 16-year rule on Nigeria, insecurity seems to have worsened under the current APC government.

But Tinubu feels strongly that things will get better in the long run.

“We know when it started but we don’t want to give excuses. This government will perform, Nigerians will feel safe and be happy,” he said.

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gidgiddy:
I was in a zoom meeting recently where we were discussing Nigeria and where we got it wrong. Someone said in the meeting that Nigeria headed down the wrong lane when Major General Ironsi abolished Regionalism and introduced unitary rule.

This is completely false! Ironsi neither abolished the Regions nor did he introduce unitary rule.

The simple way anyone can know that Ironsi did not do these things is to check the date Ironsi died. Ironsi was killed on 29th of July 1966. The 4 Regions of the time, Western Region, Eastern Region, Northern Region and Midwest Region, were all existing on 29th July 1966, and all 4 of them had resource control and practiced the revenue sharing formular agreed at independence. In fact, all 4 Regions were existing even into 1967 when Gowon officially dissolved the 4 Regional structure and replaced them with 12 states, and took away resource control. The 12 states Gowon created were further subdivided by different military regimes until we arrived at the 36 we have today


So if the 4 Regions were existing and had resource control on the day Ironsi died, how is it possible that Ironsi was the one who dissolved the Regions and introduced unitary rule?

It would have required Ironsi rising up from the dead to have been the one who dissolved Regionalism

PHijo:
States were not, and can not be the biggest problem in Nigeria. Thanks to states we no longer have to put with Igbo excesses like forced in school to learn; 1 otu, 2 abo, etc.

The biggest problem of Nigeria is the greed, bigotry and ingratitude of some ethnic groups within the space called Nigeria.

helinues:
Abeg count Yoruba's out of this. Even Egbon FFK enunjawa has maintained his lane about this.

We know those who have been hell bent in trying to bring Pantami down..

Bringing others down has been their favourite hobby lately

PHijo:
It is disingenuous of you to claim he asked Gowon to scrap resource control.
His call for state creation is popular till date, it brought an end to the oppressive eastern region and her western counterpart.

PHijo:
If you know the history of Abia and Imo you wouldn't even post it!

Much of Abia and Imo was owned by Ijaws and Ibibio people.

The Ndoki have Ijaw ancestry. This is something we ( Ijaws) in Rivers state know.

plaindealer:
GEJ spent 6 years in office and collected N51 Trillion oil revenue and he still abandoned the project.

In fact, Buhari traveled magically back to GEJ's time in office to prevent GEJ from finishing the project after 6 years in office and N51 Trillion oil wealth.

I'm not sure what is going on in Nigeria, but it seems there's a powerful drug that you people are smoking...

FatherOfJesus:
This post is going to assume that Ondo, Abia and IMO state are not part of Nigerdelta, however for purpose the name they call it, Nigerdelta republic, I’m sticking to it.

First of all, I’m from Rivers state, specifically Omuma, an Igbo speaking part of rivers state. Personally I think Nigerdelta republic only exist on paper and will most likely not come in to fruition. The diverse nature of the region is stable because it’s under Nigeria, if Nigeria splits today, Nigerdelta will cease to exist.

There are so many tribes in that region with different agenda, we Omuma would mostly like want to join my kinsmen rather join another multiethnic wahala. In Nigerdelta, groups do not agree, the Nigerian Government is trying to foster peace in the region just for the purpose of oil and gas exploitation by using all means including settling traditional and political leaders against our people. I do not think for example, Ibibio and Efik people really want to be in a sole country with IJaws and binis, these tribes hardly share anything in common and forming another country will be another Nigeria-like chaos. In essence, we in nigerdelta, we know that we cannot agree and it’s laughable that IJaws are trying hard to push for another overly multi ethnic nation.

The best bet for Nigerdelta is for Nigeria never to split however If happens to spilt, forget it, no nation can come out of there. It will all come to a matter of alignment and negotiations, the fate of Nigerdelta is that it will split further to aligning with Biafra and oduduwa republic and some might even join Cameroon. Each group in the region will consider their short and long term interests, they will be lots and lots of negotiations and even forceful land ownership.

We in Nigerdelta know this, don’t let us deceive ourselves.

Racoon:
You mind the guy with his incredible story The stooge thinks all the stunts will make the power and blood thirsty power mongers to soft pedal.Alas! It never stopped the likes of the then Lt.Col.Murtala Mohammed, Capt.Ibrahim Gagara Taiwo, and their co-murderers from carrying out and even futile attempts to deny the gruesome Asaba massacre of 1967-68.RIP brethren.

joeyfire:
Omojuwa claims Lagos state but he's from Delta not Ondo. I think it's his mother that could be Ilaje