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PoliticsRe: Ndi Igbo May Regret Constant Attack On Yoruba - Their Only Reliable Supporter by nku5: 6:34am On Dec 14, 2017
chibuzorAbia:
Uncontrolled, unnatural migration (evacuation like immigration from Igboland in to Yoruba land) often leads to a disaster. Igbo love for our land and territory is already a declaration of war. They are coming in their millions with hateful minds and intentions. We should rise up and stand firm, we should be getting ready to neutralize their evil intentions. They have quietly turned into a major major threat to our inheritsnce and heritage.
Sai wan naijeriya! When Igbos were rallying behind IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu the people that attacked it the most were yorubas. Instead of keeping shut you people made the most noise against it.

Quit moaning Igbos will keep coming, if e vex una, secede. Shikena!
PoliticsRe: Traditional Rulers In Abia Petition Buhari, Demand Kanu’s Father’s Whereabouts by nku5: 6:59pm On Dec 13, 2017
Nigeria is such an evil, callous place. Tufiakwa
PoliticsRe: Ndi Igbo May Regret Constant Attack On Yoruba - Their Only Reliable Supporter by nku5: 5:00pm On Dec 13, 2017
4 pages and counting yet nobody including the original poster has explained how yorubas are Igbo's reliable supporters?
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 10:39pm On Dec 12, 2017
diadem10:
You're still pained!

Engage me when you get back to the topic.
You jump into my mentions and want to sneak out because you have no answer and its too late to move the goalpost. Come and read about how "accommodating" yorubas were in 1999. SMH

"On 25 November, a young man, Mohammed, was knifed
in the belly. He was rushed to hospital and was lucky to survive. They beat a lot of our members who started chasing them out. We went to the main road. The road was blocked. They were stopping all vehicles.

They would offload any Hausa or Igbo, kill them and set them on fire"

Disgrace to the south....
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 10:17pm On Dec 12, 2017
diadem10:
And this thrash is what the thread is about? Lol... Google is quite close to you. You're not only clueless but a lazy loser.

Like I said earlier, no amount of your victim play will wash out your treacherous atrocities before our very eyes! Go cry me a river if you are that pained!
Normal people would be ashamed at that sort of animal behaviour grin grin grin grin grin

Attacking people for being more successful than you. SMH
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 3:53pm On Dec 12, 2017
diadem10:
This one just crawled out from under a rock or he's suffering from great denial.. Don't worry, I understand quite well. I would also deny all the atrocities if I were in your shoes. It doesn't change the truth though. Lol.
Smallie this is how you affirm what you are claiming. With facts and not just posting back and forth like a 10 year old

Why aways thuggery, why?

https://www.hrw.org/report/2003/02/28/oodua-peoples-congress-opc/fighting-violence-violence

"The fighting is thought to have been caused by jealousy on the part of Yoruba about the perceived dominance of the market by Hausa traders. There had also been disputes between particular individuals for control of key leadership positions within the market traders' committee. According to some of the traders, some Yoruba had been threatening to challenge this dominance and "claim back" the market from the Hausa.

Consequently, many of the victims of the OPC attack were Hausa, or people of northern origin suspected to be Hausa; however, a number of Igbo and members of other ethnic groups were also attacked by the OPC. Some Hausa also attacked and killed Yoruba. Both groups were
well-armed. Most of the violence took place in the market and on the roads surrounding it. However, witnesses reported that there were also house tobhouse searches, in which the OPC targeted Hausas and Igbos."

:I ran into a house for safety. The owner of the house told me what had happened. Earlier that day, some Igbo traders had fought area boys. The Igbos had refused to pay the area boys and a fightvensued. The Igbos defeated the area boys, who were Yoruba. The area boys went to invite the OPC. Therefore, if you don't speak Yoruba, you must be Igbo."

In Lagos in September 1999, following clashes with dockworkers. Some reports alleged that the Yoruba had been protesting against perceived domination of key positions in the ports held by Igbo, and brought in the OPC to strengthen their position; other alleged that it was an internal dispute between individuals fighting for control of influential positions in the dockworkers' union. The OPC launched a major operation in the ports..."
PoliticsRe: Amaechi: "I Was Broke, My Friend Gave N200m After I Prayed, Fasted For 3 Months" by nku5: 10:07am On Dec 12, 2017
This man was speaker of Rivers Assembly for 8 years how could he have been broke? Bloody liar. Just leave God out of your politics
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 6:19am On Dec 12, 2017
diadem10:
Your victim play can never wash away the truth!

The truth that you treacherous weasels have always envied Yoruba and sided with the North since the 60's for instance, Zik and Ahmadu Bello in the 60's, Shagari and Ekweume in the 80's, not forgetting a million Ibo man march in solidarity for Abacha to spite the Yorubas.. Etc.

The truth that you treacherous weasels brought your accursed war to Ore, that was after your biafra lots already invaded and attacked neutral grounds such as the midwest region but to God be the glory, you were roundly defeated and gnawed which you still cry today. It's Karma!

The truth that you treacherous beings were the first to tribalize Jonathan's government with your Arthur Eze calling Yoruba folks a derogartory name in front of the president, he said and I quote "Yoruba are inconsequential Amala and ewedu folks" lol. You losers sabotaged Jonathan regime yet have the audacity to scream blue murder?

The truth that you treacherous weasels attacked a Yoruba mosque in Aba during your stupid ipob riot yet still have the nerve to play the victim.

The truth that you treacherous beings maligned pastor Kumuyi and forced him to cancel his crusade!

I repeat, your victim play will never change your atrocities before our very eyes and this is just the beginning!
You are obviously very shameless or just a kid grin grin I didn't even read your crap once I noticed there were no sources or links. Fake news is not allowed abi I should call the mods
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 7:18pm On Dec 11, 2017
diadem10:
Care to tell me the Yoruba mosque that was destroyed at Aba?
Fake news you can never prove. No Yoruba has ever been hunted and murdered in the south but the world recorded the evil you people did and you can't wash off the blood you have on your hands
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 2:58pm On Dec 10, 2017
Alcatraz005:
That is because xenophobic tendencies is raring it’s ugly head due to excess migration of other tribes into Yoruba cities. I am for example anti migration within Nigeria. I feel all tribes should sit down and fix their regions but the igbos don’t like staying at home so they have largely brushed aside such suggestions. We are yet to see the worst of xenophobia if Nigeria’s economy doesn’t improve and igbos continue flooding Yoruba land.
Trash!!!!

What a shameless excuse. Hate, jealousy , envy, bigotry and criminal tendencies have motivated yorubas into killing non-indigenes on yoruba soil. Ijaws, Igbos, Efiks, hausas etc have been targets so stop deceiving yourself. In Port Harcourt, yorubas want to die on top of the transport industry but indigenes have never killed your people even with all their militancy.

Do you know how relatives and kinsmen of people killed will look upon yoruba people? You are talking about peaceful igbos damaging relationships
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 2:40pm On Dec 10, 2017
Alcatraz005:
God bless you. These people from the SE don’t know what damage they have done to their relationship with Yorubasfor the past 6 years. I was in law school in the east and Yorubas(very young people oo) formed a knitted clique to protect themselves in enemy territory. This was at the height of chinua achebe’s “There was a country”. A lot of things were destroyed by the igbos during and after the Jonathan years.

The result is that over Nigerians are afraid of allowing the igbos rule Nigeria. How sad. cry
grin grin grin grin Lol at protection clique. You think we are like you people??

The only people in southern Nigeria that have set upon non-indigenes in their land with mass murder and genocide are yorubas. If your guilty conscience and bad belle plagued you while in Law school, it is your problem alone to face
PoliticsRe: There Is Something Funny I Have Noticed About A Particular Region On This Forum by nku5: 2:25pm On Dec 10, 2017
OP nailed it. After all Jonathan did for that region they hated him with all their might just because he said Igbos were the pillar of his government. The fact that Jona saw Igbos as his allies was too much for them to bear. They started shouting oduduwa republic, sold out their fellow southerners with venom and spite and entered into aliance with their usual masters in Sokoto.

Everybody has their interests but these peeps are too thirsty abeg
PoliticsRe: Jet Bombs Fulani Militia In Adamawa After They Massacred Villagers (Graphic Pic by nku5: 7:57am On Dec 08, 2017
donteddy:
Yesterday 3 villages attacked.
2 district heads killed
1 secretary of a development area killed.
Lawaru and Dong in Demsa LG burnt and Shafaron in Numan LG.

There was no military intervention for 8hrs and even now there is none.

Airforce used 2 Alfa jets to bombed targeted villages in Lamurde and Numan LG and not the militias which were not under any Fulani militias attack and we wonder what took the Airforce to place that were not under attack by the Fulani militias

The militias were not bombed but only the natives.

And later about 4 rounds of airforce helicopter operations killing over 40 women and children in Dong after the militia operations.

2 of them with gun Shots of the airforce helicopter guns are at the hospital recieving treatment.

Then 5 other people from Gyawana and 5 from Lamurde were killed by bomb at Savannah Sugar Company as a result of the helicopter gun shoots while the militias were not touched .

The silence of the governor and government go Adamawa State and the prominent traditional ruler in Adamawa State of the Fulani extraction is noticeable and deserve condemnation from every citizen that love peace and harmony in Nigeria.

The half-harted interview granted the Adamawa State Commissioner of Information, Mr. Ahmed Sajoh makes a mockery of the situation because all that he said are far from the truth...his auterances are guided by a well written script .

We have heard inciting comments by two prominent leaders of the Fulani extraction the Sultan of Sokoto and Empire of Kano that can now be seen in clear manifestation the ongoing ethinc jenocide of the Bachama people.

We are calling on the international community to know that this a well planned attack on the largest Christian community in the North-East.

The deafening silence of the IGP and NPF over the killing of their agents by the Fulani militias leave a lot to be desired. Seeing that the IGP came to Numan over the killing of Fulanis by unknown persons
PoliticsRe: On The Fallacious Propaganda Against The National Convention Planning Committee by nku5: 7:11pm On Dec 07, 2017
Barcanistus nwa grin
You nor day APDA again?
PoliticsRe: When Nnamdi Kanu Was Hitting So Hard On FG by nku5: 6:31pm On Dec 06, 2017
Yyeske:
I'm all ears if you don't mind
OPC was formed in 1994 to defend Yoruba interests after IBB's regime annulled MKO Abiola's electoral victory. It morphed fully into a violent group after Gani Adams broke away from Dr Fasheun the founder in 1999

www.allafrica.com/stories/199904190168.html


"On November 25 and 26, 1999, scores of people were killed when the OPC clashed with traders in Ketu / Mile 12 market in Lagos. The exact number of victims has not been confirmed, but is estimated to be more than one hundred. A senior police official who was at the scene said he saw an estimated two hundred bodies, but that others had already been buried in mass graves.

The fighting is thought to have been caused by jealousy on the part of Yoruba about the perceived dominance of the market by Hausa traders. There had also been disputes between particular individuals for control of key leadership positions within the market traders' committee. According to some of the traders, some Yoruba had been threatening to challenge this dominance and "claim back" the market from the Hausa."

https://www.hrw.org/report/2003/02/28/oodua-peoples-congress-opc/fighting-violence-violence

In mid July 2000, a private dispute between a landlord and a tenant escalated out of control and several people were killed in the large Alaba electronics market in Lagos, as OPC members clashed with Igbo traders. The incident began when a Yoruba landlord, who had lost patience with a court case to resolve a dispute with his tenant, called in the OPC to deal with the problem instead. The tenant, an Igbo trader called Ike who dealt in electronic goods in Alaba market, returned from work one day to find his landlord and a group of OPC members waiting for him. On instruction from the landlord who pointed him out to the OPC, the OPC members attacked him, accusing him of being a criminal. Despite his denials, they beat him into a coma,
allegedly in the presence of the landlord who did not respond to his pleas for help, even when the OPC set him on fire; he later died from his injuries."


"I was coming home from work, after 7p.m. I ran into a group of OPC at Ebute Metta. They had clubs and machetes. They were in uniforms, white gowns with red cloth on their foreheads. They included men and women. They asked me which tribe I was from. I told them I am a child of God. They said: "he is not Yoruba, he must be Igbo." They said I should follow them. I said: "for what?" I ran into a house for safety. The owner of the house told me what had happened.

Earlier that day, some Igbo traders had fought area boys. The Igbos had refused to pay the area boys and a fight ensued. The Igbos defeated the area boys, who were Yoruba. The area boys went to invite the OPC. Therefore, if you don't speak Yoruba, you must be Igbo."
PoliticsRe: When Nnamdi Kanu Was Hitting So Hard On FG by nku5: 12:54pm On Dec 06, 2017
Yyeske:
Akiko n'egwu
If I try to educate you with facts your brain wont be able to take it so no need
PoliticsRe: When Nnamdi Kanu Was Hitting So Hard On FG by nku5: 10:11am On Dec 06, 2017
Yyeske:
Ohaneze is not hidden or a proscribed group so you can get its members anywhere you want.
OPC never called for the killing of other ethnic groups.
That northerners didn't initially come after Boko Haram doesn't mean we repeat same mistake from IPOB, tell me who suffers the bulk of Boko Haram's atrocities now.
As for the insult, I won't warn you a second time
OPC murdered 1000s of non-yorubas in raw genocide, burnt police stations, demanded secession etc
PoliticsRe: Photos Of Ongoing Rehabilitation Of Outstanding Section Of Onitsha-enugu Express by nku5: 2:24pm On Dec 05, 2017
Propaganda for fish brained people to believe.
The same Onitsha-Enugu journey I undertook last weekhuh
OP kindly tell us the community where this work is being done so we can verify
PoliticsRe: The Lesson For Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo by nku5(op): 11:50am On Dec 05, 2017
Cjrane2:
The more these IPOB youths live in sorry denial looking for one Igbo governor or Ohaneze to blame rather than think how to decisively tackle the FG, the more unfortunate the cause.

Your penchant for looking for "some" igbo person responsible for your plight instead of pointing at the Goliath standing in your way, the more ridiculous your story and excuse. Nobody said you should fight anyone, but at least be man enough to call the name of your oppressor than called Nwodo, Nwoye, Obiano, Rochas or Wike. You know none of those planned python to dance on you, yet you a re quick to "blame" them.

SORRY!
Nothing you have posted here is factual or even relevant to the original post. Just inaccuracies from top to bottom
PoliticsThe Lesson For Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo by nku5(op): 5:51pm On Dec 04, 2017
Copied:

When Nnamdi Kanu was hitting the Federal Government so hard, OHANEZE become so relevant and important to the ruling class and the media. Nwodo was sought after for interviews. OHANEZE thought it was about them, over rated themselves with the thought that they had arrived in the Nigerian scheme of things. They talked tough on restructuring, the FG gave them a listening ear and was bending towards restructuring . They thought the oligarchy tilting towards restructuring was their making not knowing it was about choosing the lesser evil.

Instead of giving their Malcolm X (Nnamdi Kanu) cover and continuing to use him to bargain for restructuring, they thought he was their stumbling block, they planned with the enemy and knocked him off the way.
To their own amazement, the OHANEZE relevancy
disappeared with Nnamdi Kanu. The media no longer remembers Nwodo's name, the restructuring that was all over the place faded away.

Lesson: Never join hands with the enemy to destroy your
own, no matter the circumstances.

By Freddie Ude
PoliticsRe: A Tale Of Two Fulanis by nku5: 6:54am On Dec 04, 2017
The same Amina that corruptly signed thousands of waivers for the illegal export of trees to china on her last day as minister and Buhari the worst president in the history of Nigeria?

I like fulani clannishness sha. They never criticise their own unlike southerners and their ITK
PoliticsRe: Just Like Lagos Onitsha Is Also No Mans Land by nku5: 8:02pm On Nov 25, 2017
No wahala Onitsha na no man's land. You are free go hustle for there if you get heart grin
PoliticsRe: Why I Will Never Leave APGA For APC - Obiano by nku5: 4:56pm On Nov 25, 2017
Willie nwokem! Iga dili nwokoma na ku salary on time as ezigbo nwafor!
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 6:07am On Nov 25, 2017
Ratello:
Respect bro you are an egghead. I share your sentiments here totally.
You share sentiments with him based only on tribal affiliation.The man has not brought a single fact to the table. Just the usual empty, copy and paste ibadan axis propaganda that nobody backs up with facts
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 8:51pm On Nov 24, 2017
IditaBoy:
As a doctoral student in History, I have taken courses in military in politics of Nigeria. By this, I have been exposed to numerous books. I have also spent considerable time on NL, a year after NL began soecifically, to have followed the debates on this same topic.

Wale Ademoyega’s account is more of a chronicle/primary source that requires a lot more vetting and reconstruction by a Historian. Ademoyega’s work is prone to being subjective.

Going by every sources out there, primary & secondary; military & civilian; citizens & expats as well as considering the socio-political feel preceding and after the coup, any Historian worth his/her salt or any person with an analytical mind knows it was an Igbo coup - masterminded and executed by the Igbo to put Nigeria at the feet of the Igbo.

Zik’s speech, constitutional conferences, ethnic unions all point towards the ideology of the Igbo prior to independence - this same mentality was displayed in Achebe’s last work.

The executors of the coup, victims and survivors of the coup, the beneficiary of the coup, the pardon of the executors of the coup and beneficiaries of the civil service integration are all Igbos.

A handful of non-Igbo sprinkled here and there with minor roles does not change anything. Everyone knows it is a Igbo coup, else the North would not have rolled out a Northern coup in response and continue to exude hatred/dislike towards the Igbo till today.

You are the one who needs to put down Ademoyega’s text and study papers of the Nigerian state’s politics and social system prior to independence to see a trend of the sense of superiority the Igbo carried into 1966.

It is also on record that after the coup, Igbos in the North took to the streets singing anti-Hausa songs and pro-Igbo songs.

Research is the key thing here. Don’t read books tilted towarss your preconceived expectation, read everything that says what you don’t like and what you like, compare texts and sources then draw a conclusion.
1. Like I said I could have referred you to a number of other books but Ademoyega's book IS a first-hand account from a non-Igbo man!. Any sound researcher knows that his "chronicle" as you call it, is a primary source of information. Decades after his book was released, his account has not been disproved by any counter story from historians or even colleagues (like Alabi-Isama countered Obasanjo's book) so what's your point? Ademoyega formed part of the nucleus of the "planning committee" of the coup, years after the war, he writes a book and specifically states that there was no "Igbo coup" and discountenanced conspiracy theories, the quality of which you are still spinning after 40 years?

2. I am interested in some of these your sources that have convinced you that the 1966 coup was a grand conspiracy by the Igbo race. If you are indeed a historian "worth his salt" oya back up your claim with an authority

3. Do you have any proof that Igbos took to the streets singing after the coup ? Any sources at all half as authoritative as Ademoyega's account?
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 7:29pm On Nov 24, 2017
IditaBoy:
As a doctoral student in History, I have taken courses in military in politics of Nigeria. By this, I have been exposed to numerous books. I have also spent considerable time on NL, a year after NL began soecifically, to have followed the debates on this same topic.

Wale Ademoyega’s account is more of a chronicle/primary source that requires a lot more vetting and reconstruction by a Historian. Ademoyega’s work is prone to being subjective.

Going by every sources out there, primary & secondary; military & civilian; citizens & expats as well as considering the socio-political feel preceding and after the coup, any Historian worth his/her salt or any person with an analytical mind knows it was an Igbo coup - masterminded and executed by the Igbo to put Nigeria at the feet of the Igbo.

Zik’s speech, constitutional conferences, ethnic unions all point towards the ideology of the Igbo prior to independence - this same mentality was displayed in Achebe’s last work.

The executors of the coup, victims and survivors of the coup, the beneficiary of the coup, the pardon of the executors of the coup and beneficiaries of the civil service integration are all Igbos.

A handful of non-Igbo sprinkled here and there with minor roles does not change anything. Everyone knows it is a Igbo coup, else the North would not have rolled out a Northern coup in response and continue to exude hatred/dislike towards the Igbo till today.

You are the one who needs to put down Ademoyega’s text and study papers of the Nigerian state’s politics and social system prior to independence to see a trend of the sense of superiority the Igbo carried into 1966.

It is also on record that after the coup, Igbos in the North took to the streets singing anti-Hausa songs and pro-Igbo songs.

Research is the key thing here. Don’t read books tilted towarss your preconceived expectation, read everything that says what you don’t like and what you like, compare texts and sources then draw a conclusion.
Finally a poster willing to discuss facts! I'll be back.
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 6:47pm On Nov 24, 2017
shukuokukobambi:
If only you could use all this moronic verbosity to prove ifeajuna or nzeogwu were not Igbo instead of wasting it on empty and useless rants, your life could actually have more meaning but alas, we expect in vain!! angry
Your bitter, simple minded half-truths deserve sympathy and little else.
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 6:33pm On Nov 24, 2017
IditaBoy:
A revisit the details of the event shows Igbo killed everybother persons except their own politicians.
.

Try to do a little research. Read the accounts of those who were involved with the 1966 coup. Don't rely only on the words of bigots crawling all over the internet. They will only infect you with their ignorance and hate.

I could recommend many books but try reading "Why we struck" by Wale Ademoyega (one of the plotters) it will broaden your scope
PoliticsRe: History And The Future Of Decree 34 Of 1966! by nku5: 6:21pm On Nov 24, 2017
shukuokukobambi:
Igbo mutineers killed Western regional and northern regional political and military leaders while sparing Eastern political and military leaders
The most popular and despicable lie hatched by serpentine, evil yoruba propagandists. Disproved with great ease but shamelessly repeated in the vain hope that it will stick somehow
PoliticsRe: How Igbos Developed Lagos by nku5: 12:50pm On Nov 24, 2017
Michael004:
Are you dumb or akpu has filled your brain? Can't you read? I said una stupid chest beating and claiming to develop their land cost other Nigerian Nationals and other African countries national in South Africa. Get sense.
You have no shame grin not one ounce of dignity at all grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: How Igbos Developed Lagos by nku5: 8:44am On Nov 24, 2017
Michael004:
Thanks to the Yoruba guys for putting these pigs where they belong. For making them know their positions in our land as nobody. Thanks guys, was too busy yesterday, would have came in too. But I love you guys. We will keep using left hand to point to their fathers' land for them. We use left hand for them because that is where they belong, they don't deserve right hand. Remember what happened in South Africa after they are claiming to developed South Africa. They cost other nationals doing their things and respecting their hosts. Thanks guys.
You should be ashamed of yourself...This happened just few weeks ago...

"Nigerian mission in South Africa has confirmed the killing of a 25- year- old Nigerian, Mr Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus , a native of Lagos state .

The killing occurred less than a week after Mr Jelili
Omoyele , a 35 year –old cellular phone technician was shot dead at Doornfontein, near Johannesburg"

www.punchng.com/25-year-old-nigerian-killed-in-south-africa/
PoliticsRe: Apo Six: Nigeria Police Reinstates Officer Who Killed Igbo Traders by nku5: 7:12am On Nov 24, 2017
I am not proud of being a Nigerian. I consider being a Nigeria a thing of shame. It is an artificial contraption built on a foundation of blood, injustice and lies.

I curse Lord Lugard's memory!

Nobody can tell me ONE thing to make a person proud of being a Nigerian except potential for greatness. Who potential epp?

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