₦airaland Forum

athaboi:
Unlike the ewu hausa of imo state who is planning to run for presidency in 2019. He is said instead of protesting for biafra that it wld hv been reasonable to protest for bad roads bt i want to tell him that wen the time for that come it will be to kill all his likes in igboland and not to protest because it is pple like him that hv been drawing us backward by embezling all d funds made for road constructions in the region. #freennamdikanu

You want to kill him because he doesn't share your views right?...

Badgers14:
If the protest was peaceful or scheduled to be a peaceful protest, I see no reason why IGP would be making such statement. In that case the statement from IGP sounds more like a "threat" to democracy, if it was a peaceful protest..

Also be mindful, IPBO all have the right to free speech and should be allowed to express themselves as long as the protests were "peaceful".

Finally, I rest my case to the gods because the gods are wise...

Protests may be peaceful, but when you force everyone in a city to close their shops (including banks), and then you go ahead to completely barricade federal highways for days, that may be peaceful but it is an economic nuisance.

While you want to enjoy your freedom of expression, the other man (who doesnt share your views) may also want to enjoy his freedom of movement on roads and his freedom to continue his daily business without being intimidated. When expressing your rights hinders the other man from enjoying his own rights, the authorities have to step in.

lol... Wailer Alert!

The federal ministry of health has warned that early Monday morning wailing is dangerous to your health.

xtrorse:
Father Mbaka to 'One Nigeria' Igbo Proponents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTF4Unrot0A
"If Nigeria cannot be 'One Nigeria' let us divide...If it divides some Igbo people will like to be Hausa. Of course, you know that...
So everyone should go to where he wants to go to.
There are some Igbo people who don't have a hut in their father's land but have 10 storey buildings in Lagos and Abuja.
Have you seen an Hausa man with upstairs in Igboland...even a hut?"

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A yoruba friend ask me: under what conditions would you support One Nigeria and let go of the Biafra struggle. 

Here was my response:

1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri. 
2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports...only local or minimal connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights...direct and major connecting flights.
3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.
4. All federal governments agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC,e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
6. If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented, we can try one Nigeria and let's see if you Hausas and Yorubas will like it for a month. Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, e.t.c. 

The yoruba friend replied: you can't be serious, this is wickedness. I said really? Don't you think Biafrans have been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 yrs? He was quiet for a few seconds and said: wow, you are right but it never occurred to me. I said, that's the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting love it and would love to maintain the status quo.

You did not bother to answer any of my questions, not a single Biafran proponent has been able to answer these questions. It goes a long way to expose the limits of our reasoning capacity.

Now regarding your questions, Abuja is the FCT, Lagos was the FCT and Lagos is currently the commercial capital of Nigeria and that is why you have those facilities/offices/embassies in these towns. Most countries in the world have both administrative capitals and commercial capitals; Nigeria is not an exception. Now if I get you right, you want the FCT to be rotated to the SE, else the SE will break away?... if that request is granted, when will it be rotated to the SS or even NE or NW?

Very beautiful write up...

But of course, just like the bomb strapping terrorist up north have been brainwashed with a promise of paradise, the proponents of Biafra have been so deeply brainwashed with the promise of economic and social paradise the moment they change name from Nigeria to Biafra; hence there is absolutely no voice of reason they would allow to get into their ears. Its a pity!

maxdozie:
SOME INTELIGENT PEOPLE SAY ‪#‎NNAMDI_KANU‬ IS ‪#‎BRAIN_WASHING‬ ‪#‎BIAFRANS‬ TO AGITATE FOR THEIR RIGHTS AND ‪#‎FREEDOM‬. NOW MY QUESTION IS; ALL THESE NIGERIAN OLD POLITICIANS THAT EMTY THEIR LIVES WITH PROMISES DURING CAMPAIGN AND KNOWING THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO FUFILL ANYONE, SO WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT I GUESS ‪#‎BRAIN_DRYCLEANING‬ OR ‪#‎BRAIN_MENTAINANCE‬... (just reasoning)

Are Igbo leaders not a part of the 'Nigerian old politicians' you talk about?....

Since 1960 till date, when has there ever been a demonstration by Igbo youths against the greedy, inept Igbo leaders that have ruined us for decades?

Is it a crime to first of all clamour for better leadership in the SE before we start going to attack other tribes at the federal level?

If there are as many bad leaders in the SE of Nigeria, what on earth makes all you rampaging youths to think that a change of name from Nigeria to Biafra will automatically solve this more pressing issue of bad leadership at the local scene?.... How can people be so easily brainwashed to believe such fairy tales?

flyingsnail:
Politics I fear! Can ds be true?....
From a friend's wall page:
Mr Osinbajo's academic qualifications is looking like another certificate forgery.
A simple inquiry by Mr. Olawale Igi-iwe Oluwagbeminiyi,has returned the age of our professor of law to be 55 years. He was allegedly called to the bar in 1979, which was 35 years ago. So a deduction of 55 from 35 equals 20 years old.
What this implies is that Mr Osinbajo became a certified Lawyer at age 20 after he must have been admitted into the Law School at age 18 and perhaps was there for about 2 years.
He allegedly attended the University of Lagos, Unilag for a 5-year law degree. This will bring his age to 13 or 14 years when he got accepted to the University. This seems like another certificate forgery.
1. Accepted to the University of Lagos age 13 or 14 years??
2. Graduated from the University of Lagos age 18 years after a 5-year degree course in Law??
3. Graduated from the Law School age 20 years after spending an average of 2 years??
4. He is 55 years old as of today.
The questions remain:
1. At what age did Prof. Osinbajo enter the University of Lagos?
2. At what age did he graduate from the University of Lagos?
3. At what age did he complete the Law School?
Note: It is possible for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to have entered the University of Lagos at age 13 or 14, graduated at age 18 and completed his law school at age 20 and have been practising for 35 years which makes him 55 years old as of today. It also looks suspicious to have received a 13 or 14 years old undergraduates of the University of Lagos in the 1950s.
By - donmalcolm21

Who is this one again?

PYO was born in 1957, by my simple calculation, that is 58years old... So once again, where did this one hunp out from again?

Someone has to speak the truth even in the face of intimidation and rejection...

The era of impunity in Nigeria has to end one day. I wish to see that day before my time runs out.

nikkiking:
Nice one there.


They can go and die in Adam oshomole's voice.


Nigerian United for life, mind speaking.

But bros you for leave jona out of this.

He never deserve to be insulted. To me he's a true democrat, humble man to the core.

To say he wasn't a simple man by nature, by now biafraund would have been actualised. Those hungry blood seeker's could have caused injury to our beautiful country nigeria.

I'm not in any way insulting GEJ, far from it.

new2020:
Yoruba fool frustrated that oil money is coming to an end.

You are one of the iidiots I'm talking about for thinking that every opposing voice must be from a yoruba person; How could a normal human be so slow in reasoning?... Now another moronic reasoning is thinking that the SS is interested in this your delusion. Anu ohia!

HzRF:
U guys said igbo this igbo that yet u write novel like comments to depise them

Let them go

As far as I am concern dey can go where they lyk

Yoruba land hasn't witness the kind of leadership we witness under awolowo

I am pissed with the protests for 2 reasons, first is that I am also Igbo and second is the sheer hypocrisy / bigotry which has led to this recent movements.

Imagine Ipob threatening all Igbos b4 the election to vote for only PDP and never APC and then GEJ loses the election and we see Biafran rallies all over the place with these people insulting every person who doesn't share their views. Oh yes, I am embarrased and pissed at the same time.

Cc: IbokUtoroh

bonechamberlain:
let me ask you why we have only two reasonable airport in the north and west, non in the east and the so called south south.

The answer to this is very simple, Abuja is the FCT and Lagos was the former FCT. Lagos is also the economic capital of Nigeria and I can assure you that with or without the FG, the airport in Lagos will still function as a matter of necessity. The ineptitude of successive federal governments is the reason the other airports in Nigeria are dead, it's not because of any regional witch hunting as a lot of we Igbos have been raised/deceived to believe.

bonechamberlain:
if u have been to the north before u would think that bad roads were meant for the east.

There is no argument that the SE roads have been neglected greatly by successive administrations. But something you need to have in mind is the dry climate of the north vs the wet south; roads built in the north are bound to last much much longer than roads in the south, this is simple engineering.

Another thing you need to ask is what south eastern leaders have been doing regarding the roads in the SE. You may want to argue with me on this but I can assure you that south eastern leaders have a very large part of the blame for the bad nature of the roads in the zone. It is not once that we've heard of contractors abandoning projects and I can assure you that an hausa contractor cannot abandon a road project in the SE without the ACTIVE connivance with SE leaders. Now I'm sure you must have heard of a 'massive' man called Iwuanyanwu and his Hardel and Enic construction company?... I wouldn't want to start giving you gory tales of what that single man and his companies have done in terms of abandoned and substandard road projects in the SE. One of such examples is the Obinze-Ihiagwa-Naze federal road, I schooled in FUTO so this road was one road that mattered to my life for over 6 years; I really wouldn't want to go into details. Are you also aware that Iwuanyanwu was the chairman of FERMA for several years?.... What exactly did he use his position to achieve for the SE zone if not for enriching himself?... The last time I checked, Chief Iwuanyanwu is not a Yoruba or Hausa man.

Another factor I would like to point out still borders on the ineptitude of Igbo leaders. A systematic way in which states have attracted federal road projects to their states is by constructing FG roads with state funds and then getting a refund from the FG. Some of the last payments made by the past government of GEj just before May 29th was a refund to states for FG roads constructed with state funds. Do you know something depressing?... There was not a single SE government that built a federal road, hence the SE could not benefit from this systematic approach. A particular road which was dear to my heart is the PH-Owerri road; the only good stretch of this road is the Rivers state axis which was built by Amaechi and guess what?.. even though Amaechi had a running battle with GEJ, GEj made sure he refunded that money spent to the RVSG. Now tell me, is it the hausas or yorubas that stopped imo stage government from fixing the Imo axis?..... Is it the hausas or yorubas that stopped other Igbo governors from building more federal roads?..... Recently, Buhari has been invited by the Cross Rivers state govt to kickstart the construction of the Calabar - Katsina Ala (Benue) 260km federal road. Very soon that road wwill be completed and the state will be refunded and there would be another lamentaion that the FG is avoiding thhe fixing of federal roads in the SE. Are our leaders in the SE imbeciles?... If only NNamdi Kanu and his ipob can chanel their charismatic movement to knock eastern governors (irrespective of party) to order, that would have been beneficial and I would have supported IPOB wholeheartedly, but instead, they choose to place the blame on yoruba and hausa leaders (who are obviously fighting for their own people's welfare).

bonechamberlain:
haven't you heard that 80% of northerners control oil wells in this godforsaken country, where do those money go to, it goes back to the north. they use the wealth to build industries in the north remember the northerners are agrarian in nature hence their major products are agriculture which they use very effectively, almost serving the whole Nigeria. as they get the largest share of fertilizer being distributed by the fed govt yearly.

The story of northerners owning 80% of oil wells in Nigeria is trash, a lie from the pit of hell which has been disproved severally on this forum, the list of owners is in circulation, google is your friend. The ownership of oil wells is spread across the different tribes and zones, especially the 3 main big tribes. As a matter of fact, the only group which is 'a bit' cheated in the ownership of oil wells is the SS which owns the oil. Enough of peddling this lie/propaganda to incite hatred.

As for fertilizer distribution, it is a known fact, the northerners are more into farming than any other regions in Nigeria. Do you expect fertilisers to be shared based on federal character or state quota too?... This is common sense.

bonechamberlain:
have u ever wondered why most rich easterners prefer their business abroad, cause if they tried setting it up in the east its either one govt comes and kills the business or license would be given to another person to import that same product.

the easterners are good in technology and business, now tell me why u don't find any meaningful invention from the east, even if you find the govt would close their eyes and ears and pretend it doesn't exist. even the business is as result of resilience and hardworking nature of the easterners that they manage to succeed.

There is a reason why south easterners are referred to as Jews, it is in our culture to travel and we will always travel for business. Igbos have been travelling far and wide and making foreign lands their homes long before 1960. So please are you also attributing the travelling of Igbos to economic oppresion of successive hausa/yoruba governments against the SE?... Please this is exactly why I say we must emancipate ourselves from this mental slavery; oh yeas, the captivity we suffer from is only in the mind and until we emancipate ourselves, we will not be free from such paranoid 'persecution complex' reasonings.

bonechamberlain:
note : I only listed what these regions enjoy the most as a result of fg assistance. if I start listing all fg projects in each region I might develop headache .

Please list a few of the completed major federal government projects in these other zones that are not in the SE.... and please do not include Lagos or Abuja in your list, those cities are not your regular regional cities.

In summary, my comment was only meant to address the general belief that the enugu coal mines were allowed to collapse because the FG wanted to frustrate the south eastern economy, all I have to say is that this is one lie too many, this is one lie that I have lived with all my life and this is one lie that any discerning person who can break himself free from the mental slavery would be able to sniff out easily cos it is very clear.

ARIZONA123:
. Thunder fire you dere. Ogun,sango,and amadioha pay you and ur accursed family a deadly visist. Ijiot

ARIZONA hapunu m aka bikonu.... what kind of obsession and stalking is this?

maxdozie:
Hmmmm
Post like this don't make Frog page!
Seun why
Shame!

You want DSS to arrest seun?... why should such a pro-secessionist thread even be in the front page of a pro-Nigerian forum?

brize:
Until buhari pees in his pants we will keep on disgracing this contraption called nigeria, we promised them the greatest protest ever seen in Africa and they doubted us...... Well we don't disappoint

You guys can demonstrate till you die, you guys can deny Nigeria till you die, but whatever you do, the Buhari you guys hate so much will continue to be your president till 2019, and maybe till 2023; GEJ is never coming back.

It is very obvious that all these silly protests is just a demonstration of your hatred for Buhari and an expression of your anger that he won GEJ in a democratic election. It is also clear that all these public disturbance is just a way to make Nigeria ungovernable for PMB, because you believe hausas made Nigeria ungovernable for your lord and saviour GEJ, but what some of you jobless not-too-smart folks do not know is that a child which says the mother will not sleep, that child will not also sleep; when you say Nigeria will not be governable for PMB, it the SE and South easterners that would suffer it the most (if you doubt me, go and ask the north easterners).

You jobless folks can keep fooling yourselves around the world till eternity. Nigeria now has a more responsible and less corrupt federal government and Nigeria must get better whether you lot like it or not.

egift:
That intra party exercise is a part and parcel or the Electoral Process. If it is faulty as you have admitted its irregularity, then whatever is built upon it is flawed.

When APC is done with PDP, their Primaries will become transparent by force

..and thats the beauty and the essence of democratic opposition in politics.

bonechamberlain:
oga there is a deliberate attempt to undermine any massive development in the south east by every successive fed govt.. can u list any fed gov developmental establishment in the south east. even the Akanu ibiam airport was built by a joint fed and state govt contributions, which up till now it isn't complete, so I see the abandoned coal as one of the grand scheme.

Bro, let me correct your statement... "There is a deliberate attempt to undermine any massive development in ALL THE ZONES OF NIGERIA by every successive fed govt."

Can you kindly list any major fed gov developmental establishment in the SS or SW or NC or any other zone at all?.... You complain of Akanu Ibiam airport, but this inbuilt bias and myopia will never let you see that the only 2 reasonable airports in Nigeria are the Abuja and Lagos airports (and the reasons are obvious).... When will Igbos ever be able to open their eyes, put aside the paranoia and persecution complex and see that this injustice is equally suffered by every other zone?....

The north has been ruling Nigeria for ages yet their zones still remain the most backwards; OBJ ruled for over 8 years but that did not in any way affect the general fortunes of his region. When would the generality of Igbos open their eyes and see that the problem is purely a problem of bad leadership (rich vs poor) and never has it been a case of zone A vs zone B?... and of course, minus the position of president, is there any other position Igbos have not occupied?.... Any discerning mind can see that the problem is a problem of successive bad leadership and Igbos are not in any way exempted from this blame.

Growing up as an Igbo child, I was raised to believe this great misconception that the rest of Nigeria is ganging up against Igbos but growing up and asking the right questions, I realised that that is just a convenient excuse from Igbo leaders for their ineptitude and greed.

For any single FG establishment which has collapsed in the SE, can you kindly point out to a similar FG establishment in ANY OTHER ZONE which is functional?... Who does not know that Nigerian leaders have been successively bad and who does not know that FG establishments (all zones) have all crumbled due to bad leadership?.... Why do we keep deceiving ourselves that this is strictly a SE problem?

... How the Igbos in their wisdom cannot see through this age long simple lie (about FG targeting only the SE) is something that completely baffles me.

bonechamberlain:
it was deliberately abandoned to make sure the east do not experience any form of massive development.

It would do a lot of good if Igbos stop all these kind of paranoid reasoning. Is the coal in SE the only natural resource that was abandoned by govt after crude oil was discovered? .... Is coal in Enugu the only mineral resource in Nigeria? .... If your answer is NO, so tell me which other resource has not also been abandoned?.... Why must we always have to make it look like a problem suffered by ONLY Igbos?... This keeps getting more and more irritating.

This sort of senseless paranoid reasoning that everyone is just out to hurt the Igbos is not only backwards, it is also very counterproductive. We need to stop this!

8unit:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha you've been brainwashed. You too know the truth. Buhari is far from what u expected.

It is common sense.... U do not expect a lawless and insecure Nigeria to change overnight to Britain where the prime minister moves with a 3 car convoy. Like I said, this is pure common sense and yeah, Buhari is not far from what I expected because I have always known he is human and not a demigod

8unit:
it happened in the last regime and this regime is a regime of change and it's still happening. The president once was very obedient of traffic and others. Why will u be so blinded? Their's no change in the country, the little change am seeing is very very bad from the past administration. I never liked GEJ nor PMB. They're the same people. Let's be truthful, their is NO CHANGE

If you cannot see the changes in terms of blocking revenue leakages, then I'm sorry you are not being honest with yourself for obvious political/ethnic sentimental reasons.

Impressive...

Why must the Nigerian police always kill someone in every protest?... Whatever happened to rubber bullets or teargas if they think some hoodlums are taking advantage?

Is Mutiu not supposed to be the chairman of Shell Nigeria?... Did he retire from Shell to head Julius Berger?

All these winshes and winzards praying fervently and hoping for the nation to crumble so they can justify their support for the devilish past order. These guys are actually pained that states were bailed out and workers paid, they are also deeply pained that the impending fuel scarcity which was loading for December has just been averted with the payment made to oil marketers. Hence they have come up with several subtle lamentation threads like this one and plenty others:-
- Is Buhari not breaking the law by paying fuel marketers?
- I thought buhari said Nigeria was broke?
- I thought pmb said he didnt know what subsidy was?

By their fruits ye shall know them, the heart of man is desperately wicked even to himself (cos if Nigeria crumbles, these folks and their families will also suffer). For too long we have been deceived to think that winshes and winzards are those ugly people that fly at night, but we have been wrong all along.

God pass una!

I am hopeful that from next year 2016, Nigerians will start to experience the difference. I can only hope and pray that I will not be disappointed. I know there a lot of our folks out there who are actually hoping and praying that things get worse in the country so they can justify their support for the old devilish order, but I rejoice in my heart knowing that God does not answer such silly prayers by the wicked and foolish.

Lol... Shameless men and women