Iamgrey5:
My man stop talking nonsense

Even when people were evacuated from South Africa recently, we saw a great deal of Yorubas coming home, who would have thought considering the numbers of igbos in South Africa

Yorubas don't often travel to other places in Nigeria as much as igbos often do, but when it comes to travelling out of this country, Yorubas would give anyone a run for their money.

Olodo can't even spell illiterates properly.

And You are the illiterate pulling dumb stats straight from your harse

AwkaFinest:
See celebrating and wishing. Una go jam Wike for court.

Kyase:
Here to read comments and laugh.
Instead of these people to find a way to farm their own onions na Rivers State oil Dem wan collect.

IkwerrePikin:


Chest beating as usual!

Hillard:
It's indisputable that northern Nigeria is today one of the most dangerous places on earth. While Boko Haram continues its rampage, launching deadly attacks in the northeast literally every day, criminal gangs in the northwest are operating with impunity. Attacks have become so frequent that the massacre of dozens no longer makes the headlines, much less capture the attention of those in authority. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, another incident proves you wrong. The slide into anarchy now seems inevitable. And very few of those who claim to speak for the North seem to care.

The past fortnight has recorded many different incidents that is, even in this era that seems not to view human life with any sanctity, unique. It started with a report by BBC Hausa that bandits have imposed ‘harvest fees’ of between N300,000 to N900,000 on farmers in some communities of Zamfara State. Those who are unable to pay are prevented from harvesting their crops, which spoil in the bush while they struggle to feed their families. It then emerged that these charges are also imposed by criminal gangs in Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states. Farmers in these states were forced to pay at the onset of the season to access and cultivate their farms. Now, their crops are ripe and they’re starving, but they can’t harvest until they incur more debts to settle the same gangs. If this isn’t a sign of a failing country, I don’t know what is.

Next came the devastating story of what 26 seized women and girls went through at the hands of the bandits. The governor of Zamfara State published a photo of himself with the victims on Twitter, claiming that they had been “rescued” after only one week in captivity, indicating that no ransom had been paid and that the victims were unharmed. Thanks to the investigative journalism of this paper, the truth emerged: the victims spent over three weeks in captivity, they were serially beaten and raped, including the children, and that their relatives paid N6.6 million to get them released. Parents said they sold everything they had including their unharvested crops, and incurred debts to raise the money. That a governor will use this tragedy as a photo opportunity, drawing praise for his inaction, is a monumental national disgrace.

But the climax came last Tuesday when BBC Hausa revealed that 12 assistant superintendents of police deployed from Borno to Zamfara have been abducted by bandits in the northwest. Yes, you read it right: a dozen police officers were kidnapped on duty at once. The wife of one of the officers told the BBC that her husband had called from the kidnappers’ den and instructed her to sell off their house for ransom payment. She said she knows eight other police families working to raise N800,000 each to pay the abductors. The situation is so ugly that the police can’t even defend themselves even in a convoy. If 12 senior police officers, with their training, experience and presumably weapons, could be kidnapped on a highway, what more of ordinary Nigerians living in remote villages? Worse still, the captives know very well that their institution is incapable of rescuing them. That is why they asked their families to ransom them.

Amidst of all this, the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, insulted us by asking us to ignore the facts and fall for their propaganda. Responding to criticisms and concerns, including in this newspaper, he claimed that the bandits have been “degraded”. This is even as they hold a dozen police officers captive! His statement came on the same day 16 people, including the district head of Zangon Kataf were killed in different spots in Kaduna, and, two days earlier, nine French language students of ABU Zaria were abducted on the Kaduna-Abuja road. Dingyadi, who is himself a northerner, said all these attacks are “small” and “normal”, an indication that government isn’t bothered, and we should expect more. One is left to wonder if the minister’s opinion would’ve been the same if the victims were his family. I would bet my bottom naira that Dingyadi can’t drive from Abuja through Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara to his native Sokoto.

But the minister is only following the example of other northern “leaders”. Earlier this month, the Northern Governors’ Forum hosted northern political and traditional leaders including the Senate President, ministers and the chairmen of Northern State Traditional Rulers led by the Sultan of Sokoto. They dedicated more than half of their 20-paragraph communique to condemning the #EndSARS protests, praising the government for its use of live bullets against unarmed protesters and calling for censoring the social media. The “leaders” of the North did not spare a single sentence for the bandits’ and terrorists’ depredations in the North. There was not one word of even the usual ceremonial sympathises for the victims, nor any encouragement of the government to do more to help. This speaks volumes on their priorities: they are more perturbed by well-founded protests against police brutality and Nigerians’ freedom of expression than the wanton destruction of the lives and livelihoods of their supposed constituents. That is because the former threatens their power and wealth while the latter affects ordinary northerners whose lives are worth nothing in their eyes.

But the facts and data don’t lie. They show that the bandits continue to get more lethal and sophisticated by the day. They have raised and continue to launder huge sums from ransoms which they use to stockpile weapons and supplies; they have effectively taken control of swathes of land in the northwest where they levy taxes and impose their law(lessness). From Benue to Borno, from Kaduna to Kebbi, the North is bleeding so badly. Northerners are killed like rats. Women and children are captured and violated freely. A presidency dominated by northerners keeps paying lip service. Our security agencies are clearly overwhelmed. Our political leaders are more concerned with their personal parochial interests; our emirs, imams, and intellectuals are silent; most of our youths are uneducated and many of those educated have been brainwashed, blackmailed or bullied into acquiescence. In this perfect conspiracy of silence, who will rescue the north from its dangerous descend?
https://dailytrust.com/who-will-rescue-the-north

Arrewa:
Alright

superlightning:


You really need traffic on your thread....

Abia always gives you nightmares....

Carry on with your disease.... Abia is above you and your state...... Envious leech

Okwyjesus:

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How many oil well is in Obio Akpor. And Wike is claiming Niger Delta.

EMMY76:
This is supposed to be one of the benefits of being in the apc ruling party okorohausa just wasted eight whole years for absolutely nothing building useless statues everywhere instead fighting for sensitive things like these that have long term benefit for imo people.

MrayNgozi:
Nnamdi Kanu Leader Of The Indigenous People Of Biafra IPOB has made a claim that Oyigbo ought to be called Obigbo.
Nnamdi Kanu Posted On His Official Page saying that “It is #OBIGBO, not Oyigbo. Britain may have gotten away with planting the fake name Port Harcourt in our brains in place of the rightful name #IGWEOCHA

This time around we will not allow a bunch of badly educated people, full of self-hate, to change a name that has been in existence for over 5000 years.



Igbo people never changed the name of anybody’s town or village, therefore, nobody has the right to come to our land to give us a name that has no meaning.

The fact European Bible wrongly referred to it as #Jerusalem does not mean the original name #Yerushalayim is an attempt at land grab by the Jews of Israel but a reflection of historical reality.



You may call it #Rome but to Italians, the proper name is #Roma and that is what they call it to this day. You call it #Munich but the Bavarian owners of the land know and call it #Munchen.

To us the owners of the land in Igweocha, the correct name is OBIGBO, foreigners are free to call it Oyigbo if they like, it won’t change the identity of the people or originality of the name

[https://www.thengozimedia.com/nnamdi-kanu-its-obigbo-not-oyigbo-its-igweocha-not-port-harcourt/]

SIONKPO1:
Funny one sided analysis
*Ndigbo don't need presidency for them to develop their states but rather fairness
*Umahi,I can tell you left PDP for APC cause of his own personal greed
*Umahi cannot get the presidential ticket of Apc
****Our mumu don do
If Umahi claims PDP is bad,must he decamp to APC that is terrible? Why not other political party

Kweensavvy:
It's best we turn our attention to a more befiting political party. How long will Nigeria keep switching from APC to PDP and back again?

Worst of it all is that they're the same people. Most of them in APC are from PDP. Most in PDP are from APC. Back and forth, over and over again.

Youths what were you cooking before? I hope you haven't ditch your resolve for a fresh start and a new Nigeria?

I don't think it's fine to recycle politicians.

authority2006:


What attitude and what truth is that? APC was formed around 2013, and you guys never welcome the newly formed party, only God knew why!
Buhari campaigned like never before in the South East in 2019 and APC even promised to reward you with presidency in 2023 but you were not moved an inch.
Now, APC has been consistently winning without your votes and you have no bargaining power with them. And PDP is treating you like trash. Leak your wound

Arrewa:
Bachir my broh!

See as Bashir press their mumu button

The lady is not even an igbo lady!

My baba just shake table... And some bigots don carry am for head.

Our people hardly marry from the Igbo tribe.

We have smart, beautiful and hard-working ladies in abundance.

I have dated different igbo ladies... I mean ladies of capacity not runs girls.

Igbo ladies love fulani boys especially when you're handsome and have big buraa!

Na only Igbos hate us their women like us die... They use to convert to Islam once you show any intention of marrying them.

We have many of them that have converted through their boyfriend.

Believe me... Fulani maidens are the best!!

Very intelligent...smart and hardly cheat!

Fulani maidens Any day... Any time!

ABlAstate:
Lemme quickly introduce myself. I am from OSISIOMA NGWA in Abia state Nigeria.

Igbos are not ready for 2023 politics. Yorubas, Niger Delta and northerners are even more prepared with good candidates than the east.

Here in the SE we are talking about people like Orji kalu who is an ex convict that was jailed because he looted his state and set the tone that made Abia state to become a shambolic shithole and the most backward state in Nigeria.

Igbos should present people with good records and not criminals. OUK is a bad market for the igbos.

Abia state is cursed and should not be allowed to present any candidate to join the list of igbos that may contest the next poll at the national level.

Igbos should present people like, Ngige, Umahi, Peter Obi, Okorocha, Moghalu, etc

Pictures: Abia state major city- Aba
Nnewisuper

Kestolove:
D only governor wey get since from dat region

kettykin:
The loud mouthed noise makers that caused all these is no where to be found and innocent people are paying with their lives for someone unguarded statement

TinubuGoQuench:
DEVIL UMAHI IS AN IRREDEEMABLE FOOL
GOOD RIDDANCE TO USELESS TRAITOR

Muna4real:
Igbo, igbo everywhere. What did we do to you?

vanbonattel:
Biafra is the only saviour of the Igbo man.

But I love what Umahi is doing, if he fails, we will revert to APGA and metamorphose into Biafra later.

It's getting clearer daily.

helinues:


But that's the reality now....

Visible to blind
Audio to deaf

helinues:


Hahahahahaha.. You don already don dey get aggressive.

This aggressiveness don dey turn to region stuffs oo

Dovegrey:
They will soon ban you again contiune posting fake news

helinues:


What's the % of SE people that vote during election?