₦airaland Forum

grandstar:
No privilege my friend. Many Igbo girls bugged me for marriage. No different from other tribes.

grandstar:
Shouldn't you be happy someone wrote this. A good name is better than silver and gold.

Yes, a changed perception helps. He might one day marry an Igbo girl. Many NL members because of this post may also marry Igbo. Many before this article would have sworn never to marry Igbo.

Perception matters. It does epp. What he has done is to endorse the Igbos. And it is endorsement given by a non Igbo, you should be pleased (Read Proverbs 27:2).

BlackfireX:
Imagine a county of Yoruba and Igbo...




An unstoppable force of growth.

BlackfireX:
The same mistake, shortsightedness is what we are displaying today, while the north is planning...




The person that did this charm of disunity is strong o....

samincredible44:
there's a difference between the richest man IN africa(based in Africa) and the richest man born in Africa

kikero:
Well, the same terrorism is frustrating Buhari and frustrated Yaradua beforehand.

And the South too has its own long list of security issues.

The problem is job scarcity exacerbated by an import dependent economy which stifles job creation and makes education unattractive. More idle youths, food for Boko

kikero:
It isn't.

The political elite is made up of Muslims and Christians.

The civil service is made up of Muslims and Christians

Sharia law does not apply all over the country, and even in places where it applies it's not that seriously enforced.

Plus the reason why Buhari wins is because the potential opposition to him is divided.

And because we are a resource dependent economy, job creation is stifled, which means that competition for jobs in the civil service is tight, which leads to accusations of bias. If our economy was industrial, that won't be happening

kikero:
Were you forced to become a Muslim?

Are your kids forced to become Muslims?

Was the South east forced to convert to Islam at the end of the civil war?

Even now, the population of Christians may be more than that of Muslims in this country by a slight margin.

Ejanla07:
I went to mission private schools...
They remain the best to manage a school..
The quality of education is better
Teachers no longer leave school to stay in thr shops, increased salaries..
Fees still unchanged..
Anambra is reaping the benefits of returning schools to missionary..

The funny thing is higher percentage of the so called schools re all in church compounds.. I kno the primary school my dad attended no longer look dilapidated since it was returned to the Catholic Church under the community supervision..

They now have ivm school bus, borehole, computer room with brand new buildings

People don't kno education is really cheap in Anambra and they still have d best standards

Nigeria was and isn't a 'Muslim controlled state. The Nigerian Army was majority Christian (60% by 1967, even after the Ibo exodus), Gowon was a Christian and a devout one at that. Muslim Nigeria fighing against christian Bafra was a product of Biafran propaganda.

Ejanla07:
The schools whr started by the church way back..

investnow2013:
The govt is falling that's why the Church is almost in every business and in control of some key sectors in the state!!!

tutudesz:
Sanction Nigeria? Seriously is either the Ops lack the knowledge of international relation.
1. Sanction means Nigeria will withdraw it's membership from Commonwealth nations
2. All the assets of BP and other oil companies own by citizens of UK will be taken over by FG.

bjcoptmistic:
Chimooo!!!! Please fear Yoruba tribe . Colossal betrayers . I for say why Ojukwu lose that war ! Aluko was very pernicious to A man that trusted him. Look at his mouth ! "I told Gowon everything " . Aluko you will never rest in peace when you die . You said all these because your heart is troubling you already.

Dansuqi:
Sorry sir.that of imo is different.go back to the first page and read what kahal posted.the case was purely between nwosu and AA.APC and uzodinma were never parties to that case and it is a universal principle that judgment cannot be binding on someone that was never a party to that case.the case was purely about double candidature.when ihedioha lawyers raised this issue,the court answered them.

Mind you after the imo APC primaries,nwosu went to court and it declared that uzodinma was APC candidate.it was never appealed so this matter ended there at the high court.the supreme court ruling is invalid and null to the extent where it concerns APC.it is just like the supreme court ruling today that buhari is not qualified when the electoral calendar for 2019 elections has passed and when there was no originating case from the lower courts.

Representatives of Cameroon's government have held talks with the main leaders of an Anglophone separatist group for the first time since the conflict began in 2017, a separatist leader and two security sources said on Friday.

Julius Ayuk Tabe, the most prominent separatist leader who is currently serving a life sentence in prison for charges including "terrorism", said the meeting took place on Thursday to discuss the possibility of a ceasefire.


Violence broke out in 2017 following a government crackdown on peaceful protests by Anglophone lawyers and teachers who complained of being marginalised by the French-speaking majority.

The fighting has since caused more than 3,000 deaths and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.

Last year, Switzerland mediated talks between the government and exiled separatist leaders, but those leaders are considered less influential than Tabe and the discussions did not produce any significant results.

Tabe, the self-declared president of an independent English-speaking state the separatists call Ambazonia, said nine separatist leaders participated in the meeting, which followed calls by the United Nations for a ceasefire.

A look at Cameroon's language divide (4:00)

"Be reassured that we remain committed to the restoration of the independence of the homeland," he said in a statement, without providing further details about the substance of the talks.

The nine leaders are self-declared members of the "interim government of Ambazonia". All are in jail in the capital Yaounde, sentenced last August on "terrorism" charges.

Government officials were not immediately available for comment.

One of the security sources who confirmed the meeting said the authorities' openness to talks reflected the fatigue of the population after three years of conflict that have failed to produce a clear victor.

"This war has made us see the resilience of the Anglophones from an ideological point of view," he said, adding that international pressure to end the conflict had also forced the government's hand.

Cameroon's linguistic divide harks back to the end of World War I, when the League of Nations divided the former German colony of Kamerun between the allied French and British victors.           

'Sustainable peace'              

President Paul Biya's government has previously refused to negotiate with the separatist leaders.

It held a "national dialogue" on the conflict in October, but most separatist groups refused to participate, many pointing out their leaders remained in prison.

In early March, the UN called for a ceasefire in the two regions, in part to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

But the appeal went unheeded, with military operations even seeming to intensify - the army said it killed 24 separatists in two raids last month.

The sudden softening towards negotiation therefore took many by surprise.

In the statement sent to AFP news agency, the separatist leaders said "no war has ever been wrapped up in the battlefield" and that "real, sustainable peace and independence are a product of the negotiation table".

The statement, which is addressed to separatist armed fighters, said the Thursday meeting was "an initial confidence-building procedure" and that the leaders' position on a negotiated ceasefire was made "clear and unambiguous" to the government.

Cameroon's Anglophone protest movement is fragmented into several groups, with the most radical not recognising the "interim government of Ambazonia" and refusing any discussion with the government.