₦airaland Forum

The Arabic inscription means: Nigeria is Hausaland.

Lasinoh:
The people for my village o.
As long as dem still dey alive. Or I disown all of them.
I dont kia wetin the other Nigerians wanno do.
Afemai land nor dey go Iyamiri land.
God forbid!!!
Northern Nigeria or One Nigeria.
NO ALLIANCE WITH BIAFRA OR NDI-IGBO!!!!
God bless America jare. . .my sweeetest of homes!!!

Well you should be open on your ethnicity. Afemai has "native" Hausas who are even among community leaders so it could be you are actually a Hausa pretending to be talking for the whole Afemai people.

I think I'll agree with Chinenye here. I have never seen an Osu person or heard about any Osu family. To me, Osu caste could be an Igbo myth.

Many people are unaware of it and I have never heard a marriage was cancelled because one of the partners was an Osu. Growing up, all I know was that the word "Osu" was used by some women during quarrel to insult one another, not commonly used though or all say very rarely used. 

ChinenyeN:
May I ask, who are the 'those'? You see, I'm going to tell you what I tell everyone else, regarding this topic. The only way for someone to hold on to this institution (or, to participate in maintaining it) is by first know who is and is not Osu. Now, already, with that in mind, there goes 90+% of the Igbo population, out the window. To put it simply, the vast majority of Igbo people have yet to even witness this thing called "Osu", and on top of that, many of those who "know" about Osu tend to only know about it from having read something about it on the Internet. So this should really make you wonder, who are the 'those'?

Many of the people who you hear say "I will never marry Osu" or anything else negative/discriminatory about Osu have probably fraternized with an Osu at one point of their lives or another, but they will never know. In fact, even those Osu that they fraternized with might not even have an idea that they are even Osu, to begin with, because most of them actually live their whole lives in ignorance of their "Osu-hood". So, you see, with the way people go about, raising dust concerning this Osu subject-matter, one is led to believe that at this very moment and in this day and age, some grave injustice is occurring to a notable portion of the Igbo population. Yet, until this very day, we are yet to even hear "kpim" (in the words of my mother) from these supposed Osu.

If the issue is as dire as many try to present it, then it only stands to reason that Osu themselves would have by now called the attention of the U.N. to their plight, but how can they, when many of them remain in a state of oblivion, concerning their "Osu-hood"?

Long story short, all of these topics, all this talk is nothing more than the phenomenon of crying more than the bereaved. Essentially, you honestly have no real reason to get upset over all of this, because think about it: Where will you find the Igbo that "continue to sustain this ignorance"? Who are you going to be upset with, when you can't even be pointed toward the direction of the institution itself?

Ozin:
I believe this is a good and strategic move politically!

Yeah but if it backfires and the North come grab the power, I'll quickly relocate to Nigeria/Cameroun border for easy escape in case . . .

Onlytruth:
This is part of why I am a strong advocate for setting up an Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation own by ALL the states in the SE and parts of SS. The company should develop all the mineral deposits in the SE and parts of SS to ensure world class environmental standards and best corporate practices.
It would also nullify cave mental rivalry and conflicts which undermine our unity, making it easier for foreigners to steal from us.

This idea is for GREAT/MATURE MINDS, not kids.  

The only way out of this is regional government.

I still maintain that all the states created in Nigeria are fraud.

alj harem:
attacking dog ?

there is no need for that, there is a common saying that

[size=13pt]"Evil prevails when a good man sees wrong and does nothing"[/size]

or would you like me to explain that to you as well ?

Again a man prayed for you to be successive and all you can do is insult and curse the person, In your right mind, is that right ?

Mr. Good Samaritan.

alj harem:
nwannem kedu ?

actually it is not about Igala but the way you keep insulting and humiliating and ridiculing yorubas and hausas even though we wish the best for you.

Have the Hausa and Yoruba people made an Igala man an attack dog?

alj harem:
Igala from Anambra

Ok, Igala. I now understand. There is a small Igala community in Northern Anambra. I hope that will settle your troubles as an Igala man. Now you can go outside and have some drink.

@ Alh. Haram, what are you today, Awori or Kanuri? Very important.

^^^

Why it's so funny is that they are still doing oil exploration and you're looking for compensation. Compensation for what?

That's why you sounded like a jobless guy, no insult intended.

Even the title puts you in a bad light, "Orient Petroleum oil blocks are in Igga, Enugu, not Anambra as they claim" but the map says otherwise.

A beg, make una leave this thread to die, the OP has vanished.

@ OP, Orient did not include your community in its investment plan because there's no physical structure (oil well, pipe lines, refinery) on your land. When time comes to get oil wells sited in your community, they you get something.

Oil underground does not take rectangular shape as in  OPL915 and 916!

Just like Bashr8 said, you should better go and find a job.

Why should the Army bury him? 

You people are funny mehn!

LMAO @ Rumuoji.
@ Nri Priest and AK, the name change is very bizarre and I really don't know how those Ikwerre people feel.

Beaf:
If you follow the setting up of the Belgore committee closely, you'll find that that larger group will represent every ethnic group in Nigeria. Things have to be done with a lot of tact.

I hope they make the proceedings public.

Beaf:
^
Cut the crap. Anyone reading would think that the President is only there for the SS. Its time for people like you to leave thinking in bigotted ways.

@topic
For the balance, here are GEJ's words:

No President can convene a Sovereign National Conference without being acused of subverting the state, but GEJ can surely set the ball rolling (which he has).
It is for other groups to begin clamouring for an SNC in addition to the two groups that visited GEJ.

Call it SNC or any other name but the aim will be to restructure the country except he sees no problem in the way Nigeria is constituted. SNC does not equate disintegration of Nigeria.

As for the quote "a larger body will meet on issues that are still controversial for a national consensus" does not make sense to me. Nigeria as a whole is controversial from the illegal states and LGAs created by illegal military regimes without conducting a referendum to federal civil service to redefining citizenship and indigene/settler problem to revenue allocation to resource control to . . . everything.
It's not a case where he will selectively pick what to be discussed.

Onlytruth:
Bros I'm thinking that our support for GEJ may have been in vain because the more I look to see any transformative agenda from him, the less I see any.
His body language these days even shows that he is almost comfortable with the status quo. That is why I say that I won't support him past December this year.
He has to show that he is serious about changing Nigeria.

My support ended after fuel subsidy saga.

Anyway, from what I observed, every agitation from down South starts and ends with resource control and not proper restructuring of the country. Glad that someone like Oritsejafor called for SNC too. It pisses me off when someone that's suppose to understand that Nigeria handed over to us by the Whites and the Military is not working will choose to play politics instead.

If the SS lead by GEJ will sabotage SNC which will lead to restructuring of Nigeria, then I think every region should sabotage resource control. Chikena!

By 2015, SS presidency will end, make I hear kpim from them again.


If GEJ cannot restructure this country now, who will do it? A Northerner?

ChinenyeN:
Same unsubstantiated, proof-lacking, nonsensically over-reaching claims, every time. Go figure. The reasoning is simple, really. Until you all can substantiate your BS, I will continue to call you all out on your over-reaching claims.

It's no personal attack on any of you. It's just to confront the unnecessary lies.

. . . and who gave you the authority to do that? Is that your hobby?
Mrs Chinenye, can't you ignore things you don't agree with?

CyberG:
LOL. . .no wonder you tribal hatred and bigotry has NO MEASURE!

. . . and when did I become a tribalist and a bigot

lailaiwala:
mrs chinenyen.   you ruin threads.  you're a combination of tilapia and kobojunkie.  make a contribution and stop going off the rails.

He has driven me out of cultural section. Same irritating argument every time.

This is how this thread will die.

Any town in Igboland that still practice Osu system is always backward, poor and undeveloped. Prove me wrong.

We don't have Osu in my town, to hell with that and to hell with all the towns that still practice it, you're all evil and a disgrace to Igboland.

Country of retards!

Human life = Zero

chioma134:
Previously,I thought osu issue would die a natural death if we all kept quiet abt it, but I now think a radical solution is needed. Don't  mind all these people here claiming they can marry osu. The pressure alone from ur family will not allow u,no matter ur level of resolve. Infact if u marry an osu,u and ur lineage after u automatically become osu,n u r sent out of ur family compd to build ur house elsewhere.
     When I was abt getting married,someone carried a malicious rumour of how my husband-to-be's grandmother was an osu. My parents told us pointblank that the marriage was over. But thank God,it turned out to be a lie.
      Osu practice is traditional,n there r traditional ways of removing d curse. But cos of civilization,people claim all men r equal n refuse to subject themselves to the traditional ways of cleansing. This is a form of denial and so the discrimination continues. Everyone claims to be civilized n will not discuss Osu in public,but in their houses they forbid their children from having any relationship with osu.
      I think some groups of people r now canvassing for the abolishment of Osu d traditional way. And if their move prospers,a day will come when d whole Igboland with their kings n priests will rise up and say "enough is enough".

Thank you very much. All those shouting I can marry an Osu are the ones that will hide under the cover of their roofs and warn their kids never to marry an Osu. Hypocrites!
Something radical has to be done about that Osu silliness instead people are paying lip service to it claiming Christians or advanced. Crap!

ak47mann:
obiagu i don't no about your area in asaba such things like osu ever existed in your area,can you let us no,

I'm not from Asaba, I'm from Anaocha Anambra.

nedu210:
Truly osu should be abolished but am disappointed at Nri priest and obiagu1, especialy Nri priest 4 not knwin wat osu is. I dint want 2 answer afams question if he dint tell us wat he knw about osu, but let me say it, i can marry osu but ppl should knw wat they ar getting into be4.

Why should you be disappointed in me? Why should I get entangled in something I know nothing about?
You should be disappointed with the towns that still practice it not me.

NRI PRIEST:
Explain the inlaw part,

By in-laws, I meant the village or town one married from not just one's in-laws family.

Marry Osu at your own peril.

Towns and communities that still practice it should abolish it. It's wicked!

As for me, it's not practised in my town or towns close to me and I won't go all the way to a town that still practise it to marry. Never! I wouldn't want to be treated like crap by my in-laws.