₦airaland Forum

Ekealterego:
Yes... 100%. Just like people from those areas would say, "Ifu" (Face) instead of Ihu or Iru.

Interesting..

In my own area of Anambra state, we have villages with IRU, URU and UMU prefixes. These villages are usually super ancient especially within the NRI clans.
In Enugwu-Ukwu there is URUNNEBO, while in Enugwu-agidi there is IRUNNEBO.
In Enugwu-Ukwu there is UMUOKPALAERI while in Nawfia there is IRUKPALERI. Obviously the Nawfia variation must have started with IRUOKPALAERI, but over the centuries, they've shrunk it down to IRUKPALERI


In Nnobi there is UMUAGU while in neighbouring Nnewi there is URUAGU.

All those prefixes are euphemisms for DESCENDANTS OF. Of course IRU still means FACE, and UMU still mean CHILDREN or even DESCENDANTS OF.

DSS UGM, in collaboration with the police, are now trying to deny that there is no plan to declare a state of emergency in the Anambra, by using their UGM to create fake insecurity in Anambra

Let us hope the DSS UGM does not go on a rampage on the election day.

The DSS UGM terrorist, along with their Fulani jihadist terrorist federal government should let Anambrarians vote in their choice.

No magomago will bring in the quisling Andy Ubah.

The rising sun is not the Biafran flag.

Chiwetalu just lectured the illiterates

The rising sun appears on the Biafran flag

Of course Chiwetalu Agu was right. The rising sun is not the flag of Biafra. However the rising sun appears on the flag of Biafra.

All these educationally challenged almajiris won't know that.

Kaiser20:
This olodo is still talking about Herdsmen.... all Igbos should join Hands and start eliminating any ipob- ESN-UGM in SE.
Ipob-UGM is a Terrorist group.

What about DSS-UGM? Is it not a terrorist group also?

Aufbauh:
Hope Uzodinma is a big name!
The way he handled the ESN cum UGM rascality in his state is commendable. A no nonsense man.

He achieved that feat with mere policemen. Now that he has the 'fulani soldiers' at his beck and call, it'll be suicidal for any unscrupulous element to contemplate Ipob rascality in Imo state.

Army units were redeployed from Borno to Imo state a few months ago, and they boasted that they'd eliminated IPOB and ESN.

Now a fresh deployment of troops and you think you can get rid of IPOB and ESN that way?

Let me even tell you what will happen. They should expect more attacks from ESN and DSS's UGM.

All they are doing is showing their techniques and allowing ESN to adapt to it. This whole operation will be a total failure. I will raise this issue in a few months to come, for proper analysis of this my prediction.

You guys have to know that you are dealing with Igbos, and Igbos are super strong-headed, not easily intimidated, and are by far, the bravest ethnic group in Nigeria. No other ethnic group even comes a close second.

In spite of the leadership flaws that I have previously pointed out, with regards to IPOB, one thing they have given us and we are eternally grateful to them, is ESN, which has helped to drastically reduce the activities of Fulani terrorists in our ancestral forests.

Newton85:
You don't mean it!? You mean the Unknown Gunmen, who are Fulanis and DSS, murdered soldiers because they maltreated IPOB man Chinwetalu Agu?

Of course.

It's all in a bid to rope in IPOB, that isn't even related to UGM

Biodun556:
It is stupidity for ipob terrorist and it's supporters to believe that killing innocent people and destroying properties belonging to government and the citizens will make government to release the terrorists leader, Kanu.

It is just unfortunate that ibos bring this disasters upon themselves. Killing by ipob is now everyday affair.

But it is already proven that Fulani-led DSS operatives, are the unknown gunmen killing innocent easterners.

The police mistakingly killed one of those DSS undercover gunmen a few days ago.

To buttress the point,. Fulani-controlled APC government, announced its wish to declare a state of emergency in relatively peaceful Anambra, even when northern states are being taken over by terrorists.

Thank God for the DSS operative that was killed. It helped to reveal what's really going on

Ijaw landgrabbers, where una dey? Food don done

Ijaw ancestors that left Sagbama settled there, and their elders are now members of INC and their youths, members of IYC

Fahdiga:
Once Buhari withdrew his boys then there will be nothing like unknown gunmen again

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One of his DSS unknown gunmen was killed by his police people a few days ago.

God knows how to expose these people. Their state of emergency suggestion totally laid their game bare.

Is Buhari also unaware of the Fulani APC sponsored Unknown gunmen whose intention is to introduce insecurity to the south east, especially Anambra?

Mace0lane:
Tinubu did all this and your hopeless father can not contribute a thing to the development of the country he gave birth to you ?! SMH4U.

While your useless father was busy kissing Tinubu's scaly charcoal black ass, we Igbos were busy warning Nigerians against the evil that Buhari will bring into Nigeria.

Igbos have been proven completely right. Times has shown that Igbos read people like a book.

Today, Yorubas are in exile because of the person they actively voted into power, all in an effort to spite a SS president

LegendHero:
I am even going to Benin also soon since we have indigenous Yorubas there and I’ll eat gbegiri and Ewedu. However same cannot be said of over 30+ Ebonyi indigents that the Fulani massacred few months ago. I don’t think they serve ofe Nsala in the grave. RIP to them tho.

Which gas lol? The gas that we are using to power the industries in the West. When we are done using the gas we will give the Ibos chance to secede.

You all can only wail on Nairaland while we continue to pump the gas hahahaha. When we are done with the SE, they will only be left with erosion ravaged muddy lands.

Igbos are the only group Fulanis truly fear. MACBAN even said yesterday that they'd left SE.

Before your people left your indigenous territories due to Fulani terrorist activities, hundreds of your people were butchered by them before the survivors ran away. RIP to the dead though.

In Igboland, we send those terrorists to God.

At least I'm happy you realise Igbos got Nigeria's gas hook line and sinker. We take our gas when we leave this hellhole. Before we leave, We may even destroy Lagos, so you can build it from scratch by selling cocoa.

LegendHero:
Lol we used to call the SE tiny erosion ravaged muddy land before.

Now Asari Dokubo one of the we SS/SE gang now made us understood that the SE is a barren land.

This might explain why any well to do in the SE want to Japa from the region at all cost to another region or overseas.

They are all running out of the barren land. Now IPOB terrorists have now added more wahala to the bareness.

horsepower102, as per say you go get better horsepower hope say you dey also plan japa from the barren land?

Are you still jealous of the SE that has more than 90% of Nigeria's gas reserves? And your region doesn't even have up to 1% of Nigeria's gas reserves. Gas will be more in demand than oil, in the next few years, so the SE is alright.

Just concentrate on how to get back your refugees from Benin republic

Mace0lane:
It is also thinkers like Bola Ahmed Tinubu that brought in democracy while your father n the likes of Peter Obi were fooling their souls away. Next point abeg.

It was thinkers like Tinubu that brought in herdsmen terrorism into the country.

It was thinkers like Tinubu that brought in this level of unprecedented tribalism and nepotism in government.

It was thinkers like Tinubu that ushered in the current naira value against major global currencies.

It was thinkers like Tinubu that was asking about Evans, when Chief Fasoranti was mourning his daughter slaughtered by the terrorists that Tinubu brought in.

And by the way, I am not a fan of Peter Obi. Prof. Muoghalu is my man.

It was thinkers like Tinubu, that brought in Buhari.

In fact Tinubu was one of them

walefresh3:
Because Southeast it's unproductive... Asari had been vindicated by ur point

Asari is not the official authority on what the SE has and doesn't have.

As God will have it, SE has more than 90% of Nigeria's gas reserves. You can choke on that.

But for the meantime, the SE governors don't have to take a stance on the vat controversy

Ttalk:
2015 and 2019 was not handed over to NW, the battle was between NW and NE from the two major party and NW became victorious on the two occasions, that's exactly what would play out in 2023, if your likes advice your people to chicken out, I trust SS and SW will not

Easlink is from the SS

Igboid:
Don't be silly.
Now get this. NIGERIA is rigged to favor the North.
But if we keep fighting the North, the North will keep giving SW and SS crumbs from our own share, which they would all happily accept and call us fools, sing one NIGERIA and see no reason to stop the North.

So what do we do?
We crash the game.

We beat them at their own game.
We help the North become eternal masters of NIGERIA.
We let them take everything that belongs to everyone, we stop fighting them so that they stop rewarding those two zones.
We stop fighting the North and the SS and SW will nolonger have something to blackmail the North with to offer them crumbs.
You see how Ghana must go was shared to Clark and co when you IPOB became too vocal with your Biafra stuff? Yes! That's the game. The more you fight the North, the more those people are important to the North, so they win little and you lose alot. It's a pattern that has been on repeat since 1970. Zik understood the game better, hence the success of the 1970s we enjoyed politically.

We let the North have everything.

Let all man feel the heat.
Let all man queue up in turns to serve as the VP for the North for the next 100 years.
Any one from the South who dare challenge the North, we let them burn alone.

If the North come up with squashing 13% in the future as Crude oil become less money spinning, we play neutral and let those involved carry their own albatross. If they rebel and the North send soldiers there, we stay neutral and let them handle them.
They(SS and SW) have alot to lose fighting the North, most of which they gained because we fought the North in 1967-70. But we have nothing to lose staying Neutral and everything to gain letting them get themselves burnt fighting the North, while we take back all they took from us by offering the North a buffer.

We should really sit back and let things flow in Nigeria.We have done enough.
This freedom must not come in our lifetime, Catalonia started fighting for freedom before us, and they are still fighting as we speak, but not with guns.
It's not an Ozugbo ozugbo things.
That's the mistake you IPOB are making.

There must be a long term vision and plan.

IGBOID, you have to realise that stupid people will not understand the logic of your point.

Sound advice will evade them perpetually.

Igboid:
When when they disappoint, I will be here to call them out.

But for now, they should be praised for what they currently did.

Eto dike na nke omelu, o mekwa ozo.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

While our governors are irredeemable buffoons, they are right in not making the VAT controversy and the southern presidency issue, the major talking points of their meeting.

They should however be extracting concessions from the FG simultaneously. All the southern regions are really working for their own interests and the SE must not be swept away by any illusions.
If the south is not specifically supporting a SE presidency, there is no point the SE supporting the southern VAT collection stance.

donjahsy:
Misleading headline

What is misleading about the headline?

Was his surname not Tinubu. Haba

TheCrusader14:
The Ibos voted Obasanjo, someone you knew will never wanted.

Igbos knew the military still had a dominating sway. Look at what happened to Shonekan. Look at how he was so easily pushed out of the way by Abacha.
Igbos are more intelligent than you guys realise. The northern military officers would have toppled him, if they had felt he was acting against the northern interest

Then vote for Ogbonnaya Onu, even though we Igbos don't want him.

I personally prefer Prof. Muoghalu. A large chunk of Igbos prefer Peter Obi

Igboid:
I'm finally beginning to see through the eyes of Umahi.
Interesting!
He is the chairman of the SE governors forum, so he will certainly be present.
Ugwuanyi is more like an air head, I don't expect him to have an opinion.
Obiano is a serpent, he will agree with Umahi.
Uzodimma is a supreme Court governor in fight with Wike for oil Wells, he will be against supporting Rivers and SS. Okezie Ikpeazu is in same category as Ugwuanyi.

Every thing being equal, SE governors will maintain neutrality or support FG .
Fingers crossed.

This is what is known as pragmatic politics. Something Zik had a total lack of. SE is where it is, because our previous leaders lacked pragmatism. They were always after the good of all, and totally ignoring the good of Igbos.

It is also one of the areas Nnamdi Kanu falls short on. Always thinking about the good of the east, when eastern minorities are busy thinking about their own parochial good, to the detriment of the Igbo good.

If the federal government and the courts will adjust these artificial Rivers state boundaries in ways that will favour Imo and Abia, I believe it makes excellence sense for Igbos to pay back the federal government, by backing her stance on the VAT controversy. It is a price worth paying.

You and Eastlink have sound points

TheCrusader14:
Ibo your point would have been valid if the rest of you didn't undermine we Yoruba in 1999. You all knew we never wanted Obasanjo yet you voted for him in order to spite us. Well, come 2023 we either rule or dismantle this accursed British cage.

Ogbonnaya Onu who was the APP presidential candidate, stepped down for Olu Falae, who was from the junior party in the alliance.
Ogbonnaya Onu is an Igbo man, so he did not undermine Yorubas.

As it happens, Ogbonnaya Onu is still in APC, so Yorubas in APC should support him, after all, he supported the Yoruba candidate in 1999.

The SE voted for Obasanjo in the 1999 presidential election. Obasanjo is a Yoruba man and the SE is occupied by Igbos, so clearly, the Igbos supported the Yorubas in 1999

It will now make sense for the Yorubas to support the Igbos in both leading parties.

noleflendum:
Ass licker governors from the land of killing policemen are cowards like Ojukwu

You're Obviously sending this message from your bedbugs infested mat in a Benin Republic refugee camp.

Yoruba generals that were kneeling and crying before a Fulani major, comes to mind

LegendHero:
When has the SE governors ever been effective? They’ve been jokers since time immemorial. Even Northern governors are more useful than SE governors.


Lol why should the SW behave like animals in this age and time? If we say the Fulanis are behaving like animals, should the SW governors also start offering shoot at sight of Fulanis and cows on the street to flex muscle or what? The Yorubas are not sub-human without intellect. No sane nation will follow IPOB method.

Ask yourself, what is the security situation in the SW and SE presently? Both used several method to confront the Fulani herdmen menace, which area is now peaceful or non-peaceful?


Nonsense. The SE where you have 100% of Igbos are very useless and you’re here claiming Igbo wife of Ondo Governor shaped him. Seems most of you in the SE have low thinking irrespective of your level of education. Abi how do we explain that the 5 SE governors with 5 Igbo wife are all useless and clueless ? For your info, Amotekun is an establishment of DAWN commission which is a think tank of Yoruba people.


Lol what badass move and who are the Igbo links? That a majority tribe can always attach to minority tribe to amount to anything of substance is such a shame. These same guys if the SS have trashed you time without numbers and even their highest level of leadership just meet up under BRACE and never acknowledge the clueless Ibo leaders.


And what should we do with Igboid language? The same Wike that have constantly deal with your people and openly denounced any link to you guys and sometimes even flaunt the Benin link. I think this is a case of psychological defect that a majority tribe will queue behind a single minority even with the fact that the said minority have dealt and ridiculed the majority. Could this be a psychological effect of the civil war defeat?

SW doesn't have to behave like animals in the SW and send Fulani terrorist to God. Yorubas rather prefer living like animals in Benin Republic refugee camps, after being chased away from their ancestral lands by terrorists. I know which one I prefer.

The BRACED meeting has happened, and it was chaired by an Igboman wearing the Igbo titled man's red cap
I have also noticed that of late, Wike has been wearing the typical Igbo red cap. A little too late for him though.

Now just to tell you something that will hurt you badly. Igbos have the largest gas reserves in Nigeria. More than 90% of Nigeria's gas reserves lie in the SE. If you add Igbo territories in the SS, then we are talking about 95% of Nigeria's gas reserves.

Meanwhile our daughter has added the needed bravery in a sea of world renowned SW cowardice, by fortifying Akeredolu. Treat her well to banish cases of Yoruba generals kneeling, crying and begging Fulani majors to save their skins

LegendHero:
God bless South South people and their governors.

Nice step in the right direction. Now the Southern governors should come together and push resource control and fight it with the FG with their last breath.

Forget about exclusive or inclusive list, we can only get any meaningful progress on restructuring or secession through our elected representatives.

—The SW governors showed that during Amotekun creation.
—Wike is showing that with this VAT.
—They should collectively find a way to exploit more loophole to effect some some of structural change and be ready to 100% support it.

The only set of guys that is currently hindering this move are the directionless SE governors. They are neither here nor there:

The SE governors are not doing much because they have abandoned the psychological leadership to IPOB.

IPOB has gone much further than all the southern governors. IPOB's security outfit kills cows and Fulani terrorists, something no SW governor has the balls to do, and will never have the balls to do.

I am proud of the Igbo governor in the SS, Dr. Okowa. A typical Igbo man with balls of steel.
The Igbo first lady of Ondo also seems to have fortified her husband.

All the badass moves being made in the South have Igbo links. I wonder why.

Even wike that denies being Igbo, speaks an IGBOID language.

IGBO AMAKA

LegendHero:
Justice kor, malice ni.

Azikiwe nko? I thought they said he was the executive president, whether ceremonial or not is not our business because the “President” is attached to his name.

What about Ironsi? Even if he spent few months, it’s still presidency.

And what about all the years of Senate President that the SE have gotten? In as much as president is attached to that, the SE have gotten it.

Even if we are going to concede, I’ll prefer a NC guy because the Igbo leaders have shown they are balless and useless in how they are administering their zone. Give them power and IPOB terrorists will take over Nigeria within 9months like Boko took hold in those days.

Azikiwe was never the executive president.

Name the ministers Azikiwe appointed, or the budgets he or his people prepared.

Using your logic, you shouldn't also count Gowon as the president after all, they were referred to as the Head of State and not the president. It was Babangida that was the first military coupist to start referring to himself as the president.

But let me even humour you by following your line of argument.
Azikiwe was a ceremonial president in the 60s for just 6 years
Gowon was the head of state for 9 years.
Tafawa Balewa was the prime minister, and in charge of appointing ministers and with all the executive powers of a modern president, when zik was the ceremonial president. One had the executive powers while the other was just ceremonial.

So even if you count Zik, justice will still demand that an Igboman assumes the executive presidency of Nigeria.
Yorubas have done 13 years of presidency, when you count all of Obasanjo's and Shonekan's stints.
The north central has done 9 years with Gowon
The north east has done 5 years through Abacha
The SS has done 5 years through GEJ.

So it will be absurd for any other region to take it while Igbos have only enjoyed 6 months of executive power through Ironsi

Since 1999, the SW held the presidency for 8 years and will hold the vice presidency for 8 years by 2023
Fulanis held the vp slot for 8 years and will hold the presidency for 11 years by 2023.
The SS has held the presidency for 5 years and the vice presidency for 3 years.

The SE and the NC have not tasted any of those positions, however when you track back, Gowon held the position for many years and he comes from the NC, so for justice to reign, the SE must be considered for the presidency role.

My own is, has Twitter restored Buhari's hate speech against the Igbos?

I understand 70% of what she is saying.

An Edo person will understand 0% of what she is saying