₦airaland Forum

effort1:
Calling you dumb isn't an insult; it is a statement of fact.

Have you asked your dumb head why many Nigerian graduates, who couldn't succeed in Nigeria, are able to succeed once they get a certificate abroad or when they take their Nigerian certificates abroad to get work?

Have you now realised that the government of your country can determine your progress in life?

I'm sure you now know that you are dumb by default.

I don't have the time and energy for silly kids like you who think rantings on social media will give them the satisfaction that elude them in real life.


No country is good or bad on it's own. The people in the country make it what it is.

If all Americans should vacate America today and all Nigerians move to the US, within six months there will be power outages, industrial strikes in the universities , pot holes ridden roads and all other features of third world countries.

The state of Nigeria is a summary of the actions and in-actions of ALL Nigerians. There's always enough blames to go round.


You obviously aren't intelligent enough to understand these basic facts.

effort1:
Lolz. You are very dumb.

The kind of government in your country can determine your fate in life. Stop sounding like a dumb fellow with dead brain.

Apart from being rude on social media and venting your frustrations on total strangers, you need to learn how to live and succeed in life irrespective of whoever is in power.

MrColdsweat:
Nigerians should be wary of desperate aspirants.

We need new faces.

Which aspirant should Nigerians support sir?

effort1:
He package failure Buhari. That makes him a failure. How many of his political puppets have succeeded beyond Lagos? 1 or 2?


Of course, your campaign for a drug pusher really shows your family is successful. What a way to display success

Bros ,in life everybody can't be on the same page with you.

Campaign for your candidate whose morality is at par with that of Angel Gabriel and leave others to campaign for whoever they like.


Even the Jews demanded that Barrabas, the criminal be set free instead of Jesus the Messiah.

effort1:
That's a perfect reason to campaign for a failed politician as your president so that failure can continue to thrive in your family to the next generation due to bad national leadership.
Mr self-deceptive realist, Weh done

Hold yourself responsible for the failures in your life and not Tinubu or even Buhari.

Everyone is the architect of his own fortune or misfortunes.

Cromagnon:
so when you want to contest for Olympics, Usain bolt will step down for you?

What are you looking for there if you cannot match your competition?
Hope and wishful thinking is not a strategy.
If you are intimidated you have no business in leadership

This is deep.

Most of these so-called youths have no ideas what electoral contests is all about.



How can you be demanding for a
free & fair contest and at the same time demanding that a particular constestant shouldn't participate in the contest?

Buckeyemedia1:
Try get sense.

Then tell us what ISWAP/ Boko Haram are fighting for such that they are ready to kill thousands of lives and destroyed property worth billions of Naira?



The billions of dollars spent by Nigeria to be fighting Boko Haram/ISWAP since 2009 is enough to start and develop a brand new country.



I think it's better for Nigeria to carve out Borno and Yobe States for ISWAP/Boko Haram to form their own country and rule as they like for 25 years, after which the citizens of these States should vote to decide whether they want to continue as Boko Haram/ISWAP Republic or they want to re-join Nigeria.

arthurwillia:
Someone should put me through, what do they want exactly? This iswap people

They want to take over the Government of Nigeria and become the 'Government' with the hope of imposing Shari'ah Laws on Nigeria.

nairalandankrah:
Only the total Islamisation of Nigeria will stop this madness

How will Borno people destroying infrasture of Borno leads today
total islamization of Nigeria?

htdot:
Yea, these lots only import with nothing to export... They bring nothing to the table.... the fall of naira is as a result of incessant importation.... If they keep on importing without anything to export, how are they going to build their economy since they only import... Nigeria gave them the dollars they use to buy goods in china, thereby making the forex so scarce... The question will be, if they give them biafra with the five states and nigeria govt decided to build the Trump wall and declare no flight zone, how will they able to survive since they cant leave their five states or enter.

You are underestimating the resilient power of man to survive.


Despitr the blockage during the Biafra war, there were no episodes of fuel scarcity with people sleeping in petrol stations because Biafran soldiers learnt how to refine crude oil on their own. The Biafran military were able make some weapons on their own.
They also constructed and operated Uli International 'Airport' with which they traveled to the outside world and this secret 'Airport' was undiscovered by the Nigerian Military for about 2years.

In summary, if pushed to the wall, they will think deeply in ways that can bring solutions.

Okoroawusa:
Ndi nnukwu muowu

Ndi ogiriga wara na nwa

Father Father...

Arusi Awkuzu

Charlie Millions

Eze Ego

Maurice Ibekwe

Been Ejogu ( Omena nwata 1 of Osu ama


Plus

Oliver De Coque

All gone!!!

I remember Morris Ibekwe was a popular Lagos Socialite in the early 1990s.

King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall (KWAM-1) sang his praises in in 1995.

engrchykae:
he is an unrepentant elitist and I hate elitists whether they are zik or sardauna

Unfortunately, not all Nigerians can be or think like you.

All over the world, it's the elites that rule.

Honestly I don't understand why the president, governors, APC chairman and the press are giving attention to FFK, who has no electoral values.
The dude can't even win a councillorship election in his home town, Ile-Ife or in his adopted State, FCT.

BiafIntel:
Little black brain, celebrating very little achievement and that's enough for him. All that was shown in your video are equal to a roundabout in China. Support Biafra where we will build viable cities fit for humans to live in.

He has a right to celebrate even the little achievement being recorded by Ebonyi State.



Everything isn't about Biafra, even at this there's no convincing evidence beyond the usual sloganeering that Biafra will be a first world country. If there is, you ought to have been using your much touted magic wand to have transformed the SouthEast to look
at least like Malaysia, Indonesia or Cyprus.

engrchykae:
you don't know the sardauna.
Him and zik are elitists,they believed the the British social order of aristocrats vs commoners,alhajis vs almajiris.
Awolowo is the only one who believed in prosperity for all.
That's why the igbos prefer mi okpara over zik.
Even ojukwu over zik.
Zik and sardauna are both fools.
Sardauna's ABU Zaria is for elites if not he would have given the children of the poor free education but rather he hated awolowo for campaigning to the north with free education just like kwankwaso hated gej for the same education for all almajiris.

You misunderstood the man. Ahmadu Bello, like most of his contemporaries were pioneers who didn't have the luxury of learning from the mistakes/successes of their predecessors.
Most of his policies were carried out after arriving at a comprise between his native conservative muslim aristocratic background and the emerging liberal European-like egalitarian societies.


Ahmadu Bello had a vision to see his people dominating the leadership positions in the new country and he worked to achieve this goal. He sent hundreds of Northern youths abroad to study in British universities, enlisted many youths in the Military, recruited many into the civil service, invested in industries for his region ( Arewa Textiles in Kaduna and Funtua, Bacita Sugar Company and Many industries in Kano) promoted peaceful co-existence among the diverse peoples of the North. It should be noted that religious crisis didn't occur under his administration.


There wouldn't have been Boko Haram under the Sardauna. He appointed a learned Sheik Abubakar Gumi as the grand khadi to harmonize religious views with a central authority, making it easy for regulations.


In his formative years, he never lived in Southern Nigeria and viewed people from the South with a veiled contempt. He was a regional leader who initially didn't believe in one Nigeria and made no pretence about it.
He asked for secession for the North in 1953-1955.

phemmyfour:
You lack basic comprehension. Chimpanzee is about 98% in DNA ish but not more useful to man than dog. That's how you fail woefully when you lack comprehension. The first domesticated animal is DOG not CAT

You are bringing unrelated issues into the thread and derailing it.

Dupamecano:
LMAO! Is this what they told you gullible lot in the south? LOOOOL! I swear you people are like sheep!

First of all, Ganduje is a fulani man.

Secondly, all the emirates he created were handed to fulani men, mostly children of the former fulani king of kano ado bayero.

Stop bringing an ethnic war that doesnt even exist into our midst. Why are you people obsessed with seeing hausas and fulanis divided? Thats a pipe dream, let it go.

But I think Sarki Gaya and Sarki Karaye are descendants of indigenous tribes who became hausanized.

Nowenuse:
Thousands and thousands of ethnic groups and civilizations have been destroyed and supplanted. Hausa is just one of them.
The 2-4 million Hausa Christians who live in rural areas of Katsina, Zaria & Kano at least cannot be destroyed cos they never contacted that evil virus of deception spread through Islam.

They are the only hope of the preservation of whatever existed of a once large and prosperous African race (Hausas).
Dozens of indigenous tribes in Bauchi & Yobe have also been destroyed but I wonder why nobody talks about them.

Many of the indigenous tribes were assimilated into the emerging bigger tribes like Hausa, Kanuri, Fulani.

AfrokanGod:
The British empire burnt the Benin empire to ashes while also killing and looting its treasures, Go tell a Benin man he accepted Christianity on his own free will. Religion was an afterthought to the colonist, their first mission was to plunder the wealth of the colonised nation and they found out forcing their religion on their subject was one way to achieve their aim. King leopard came to congo under the guise to bringing religion to the savage congolease, he sought and got permission from the catholic church.

Nigerians had it better, south Americans where killed in their millions, the Congolese were also killed in their millions.

Christianity and Islam were spread by force, without force and subjugation how do you convince a man your god is better than is?

Read about the Spanish Inquisition, Read about the King leopards Colonization of congo, read about the Crusade.

The British burnt Bini Empire and invading Bini but this had nothing to do with Christianity at all. The Binis have known about Christianity since the 15th century through trading with the Portuguese.

However the religious groups who came for evangelism in the 19th century weren't exactly the same group as the Colonial officers.

Christian missionaries and evangelism in the South started long before British Colonialism.

Church Missionary Society (CMS), The Methodist Mission, Catholic Mission and several others already had their presence in Lagos, Badagry, Warri, Abeokuta, Calabar and other coastal towns by 1830 and CMS Grammar School, Lagos was established in 1859 when Nigerian Kingdoms were still independent before British Colonialism started.




Humans can change their religions voluntarily without the use of force if the new religions offer them succour. Up till date, there are people who still convert from one religion to another.


Your attempts to find Christian equivalent of the Fulanis Jihard in Southern Nigeria is ludicrous.

The British colonialists didn't establish a Theocratic State similar to the Sokoto Caliphate established by Usman DanFodio and their motives for colonialism was economic/political and not motivated by religion.

If the motivations were religious, then the whole of Nigeria would have been forced to become 'christians'

Nowenuse:
Fulanis have heavily intermarried and Intermixed with the Hausas (especially the elite and middle-class)... The Hausa elite and middle-class are the only ones who can save Hausa land, but will they be saving Hausa land from their wives and inlaws (fulanis)?

Abeg forget Hausa people or northern minorities muslims. The only ones you can pity for are the 2-4 million Hausa christians who are indingenes of Kano, Zaria & Katsina. ...These ones need to emigrate to join Plateau, Southern Kaduna & Gongola and we join the south to fight out of this useless country.

Why do you think anybody needs your pity at all?

There are so many problems in your own State, why not pity your people and solve just half of these problems sir?


The problems of Nigeria is very similar to the problems of Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania and other African countries.

They are largely economic problems which stem from the inability of the African peoples to use what are readily available in their environments to build their houses, roads, manufacture their own medicines, vehicles, and produce enough foods to feed their populations. These problems are NOT caused by the Fulanis or any particular tribe and won't be solved by a 'We Vs Them' solidarity or antagonism.

itsme01:
if you read my later comments, I agreed to the fact that what he did is terrorism and I clearly compared him with others in his league who invaded other peoples territory for spoils of war, like King Solomon and David in the bible, the greatest of all war criminal and looter , King Julius Cesar the ruthless war criminal who is barely second to Solomon in history, British Monarchy on colonization expedition, and Adolf Hitler

all this people forcefully took control of other peoples territory through bloody war killing and looting, but then the topic is about Dan fodio and the little good about him, just has we talk of the others and the little good about them and their conquers

Which war did King Solomon fight and who were the combatants?

engrchykae:
the op is a stupid person.
Usman fodio used taqiya to conquer the north.
His great grandson armadu bello continued his legacy of impoverishing the north.

Ahmadu Bello was a great leader of the North.


He built many schools, constructed many hospitals, roads and a university. He also encouraged girl child education.


If the subsequent leaders after him had acted like he did, the North would have been a better place.

eagleu:
Your conclusion about Fodio leading citizens of Gobir to riot against their own king beats all reason and imagination.

Imagine an alien coming into sokoto today, and somehow convincing present day citizens to riot against the sultan.

First, you can see all sorts of logistical problems with that, and finally you should ask where was the king when all these were happening.

The truth was he killed the king, and somehow convinced some citizens that he was fighting for a purer form of islam, same way Buhari is locking up his opponent, because he is fighting corruption. Yet some citizens didn't accept Fodio for a long time, and those he simply murdered in the name of islam. Yumfa, the son of the sarkin Gobir was on of his victims.

Having accumulated power and resources, Fodio sent his cousin to Kano to replicate the same technique, and it worked, because he was a well educated strategist who understood how to confuse the masses with religious.

BTW, Alimi used the same technique in Illorin to subdue the greedy general working the northern borders of Oyo empire called Afonja. That's why Illorin has a Fulani emir today instead of an Oba.

You like projecting your own biased assumptions as the Gospel Truths.


Usman Dan Fodio was a religious leaders and an advisor to the king of Gobir. The king even enrolled his son and heir, Yunfa in Dan Fodio's classes.

When Yunfa ascended the throne, he noticed that Dan Fodio was given religious directives to his followers and adjucating on civil matters based on Islamic laws.
Sarkin Yunfa misinterpreted all these as threats to his rule, so he expelled Dan Fodio from his Royal court and issued some royal decrees aimed at reducing the spread of Islam.

Meanwhile, Dan Fodio who by then had fled to Gudu has amassed large followers comprising mostly of poor Hausa masses and some Fulanis (the Fulanis were a minority settler tribe in 1804), teaching them about the Shari'ah Laws.

Attempts by Sarkin Yunfa to dislodge them from Gudu were seen as religious persecution, prompting Dan Fodio to declare Jihard against Sarkin Yunfa and Gobir Kingdom.

In summary, what happened was a clash of interests.

josielewa:
OGA, all the vat being collected is part of Niger delta money...the revenue from crude nko...the 30% for the north in pib nko...OGA just stfu

It's wrong to assume that any money in Nigeria is part of the Niger Delta money.

We pay tax on every car, airtime, data, cement or iron rods we buy and these aren't parts of the Niger-Delta money.

Yobabad:
Yoruba Muslims are specialist on this business

But the ritual killings being discussed in this post was done by the Etche-Igbos.

Mercychen:
So the pero just sat there waiting for tuface to come around anytime he wishes to use her?

For crying out loud, tuface is married. Let her get herself another man.

Some women act like puppets.

You need to really understand that Tuface is actually a polygamist.

Sunbo is the first wife, Pero (with three children for Tuface) is the second wife and Annie is actually the third wife.

OfoIgbo:
The bolded is what I need to be hearing and reading. Denying reality doesn't make it less real. Changing the reality is a much better way of going about it.

The facts on ground are that the Fulanis have a vested interest in Illorin emirate, and the Ilorin emirate bows to the Sokoto caliphate.
Extra facts being that this cultural domination only started about two hundred years ago, when Alimi carried out a wicked coup against the Yoruba landowners.

What Yorubas have to do is to acknowledge the current Fulani usurpation of cultural headship over Ilorin, and then ensure to reverse that injustice. Denial of the current fact, is like playing the ostritch.

It's tempting but misleading to judge the historical events of the 19th century with contemporary parameters.


1) What happened in Ilorin around 1820 and many other political entities of that era was a struggle between States/Kingdoms/Empires and not strictly an inter-tribal war as we now understand the tribes.

2) Alimi did NOT invade or even killed Afonja (Alimi actually died before Afonja).
The Ilorin Jaa'ma (Muslim Ummah comprising of people of different ethnic backgrounds) allied themselves with Sokoto Caliphate which was the nascent Muslim State just directly up north of Ilorin.

3) This Ilorin Jaa'ma did so to prevent themselves from being ruled further by Afonja , who though had relied on them and used them to secceed from Oyo Empire but nevertheless wasn't a Muslim himself and had no intention to become one.

4) The Ilorin Emirate under Abdusalami as Amir Al-Muslimi (the leader of the Muslims) and it's subsequent affiliation to the Muslim Sokoto Caliphate was constituted much more later after the death of Afonja.

6) With time, the Ilorin Emirate transformed from a Theocracy into a Monarchy just as it's often the case everywhere.

7) It should be noted that the Jihard of Usman DanFodio started as a religious war and not really an inter-tribal war.
The Fulanis were a settler minority tribe in 1804 and the indigenous peoples would have closed ranks and killed them off if they had carried out the Jihard as a FULANI Vs Non-Fulani inter-tribal war.

theInterpreter:
kanuri are not in anywhere else but bornu

Some Kanuri and Hausa Slaves in old Oyo Empire fled from their Masters and emigrated en-mass to Ilorin where Afonja, the Governor of Ilorin Pronvince and a former Oyo General now turned Rebel leader, in collaboration with Sheik
Salihu Janta alias Alimi have declared freedom and sanctuary for any Muslim slave that escaped and join their growing number of rebels.

The descendants of these non-Yoruba, non-Fulani group of northern origin are the peoples that call themselves GAMBARI. They have their Quarters and Military Representative in the Ilorin inner Cabinet called BALOGUN GAMBARI. The military representative of the Fulani group is BALOGUN FULANI. The two other military representing, BALOGUN ALANOMU and BALOGUN AJIKOBI represent the Yoruba components.

JohnSin97:
There's nothing wrong in people excising their constitutional rights. Most igbos I've seen are actually behind ipob and fully in support, if the supreme leader Nnamdi kanu can suffer in prison for the sake of biafra, what then is a sit at home that biafrans cannot comply with? The problem is that igbos is that they love money too much, but would you rather make pennies under fulani subjugation than give your children a legacy of biafran nation that would be the pride of africa? It's biafra or nothing, the sit at home must continue either anyone likes it or not.

Although I resepect the right of the Igbos or any other ethnic group to secceed but I don't believe that the new country will automatically become a first world country just because they have seceeded.


Who are the people that will make up this utopian country? Are they the same people presently in Nigeria or they will be imported from Spain, Malaysia, Canada or Singapore?

Ekejoestar:
Honestly this thing is paining me like seriously, I spoke with my mum today and she narrated to me how those stupid boys went to a restaurant and wasted the effort of the owner like they used knives to slice the wrapped semovita that the woman want to sell and they carried the cooler of rice and poured it into the cooler of beans and mixed everything together and am sure they also poured away the stew and the soup and this woman is not a fulani ooo but a fellow Igbo for that matter

Will these actions of the IPOB enforcers of the sit-at-home order be appropriate if the woman were to be a Fulani?

Zeinymira:
Well, Islam is a way of life, it touches every aspect. But your Bible says do not be yoke with unbelievers does that not extend to marriage too? Anyways, I have given you Islamic verdict and you're just deviating. Why don't you worry about Catholics not wanting to marry from Christ embassy or Anglicans avoiding marriage with Winner's Chapel? Tired of this back and forth plus you're not even honest to admit that Christian men will never respect their non-Christian wives faith.

1) What is yoke and who is an unbeliever?

2) Whoever Catholic or Non-catholic marries is none of my business.

3) All over the world, self preservation is the norm. The embargo on who a member of a group (be it a religious or ethnic group) can marry is to prevent erosion of the group's identity

4) In my own views, individuals should marry whoever they love and love them in return.
However, frictions that emanate from great dissimilarities in worldviews, norms and status can reduce the happiness provided by love.

5) In Nigeria, we live in highly patrichial society. The Husband is the head of the family and he often decides what he wants for his family.

6) Imported religions are great problems for the black man.

jneutron4000:
What do you expect Wikipedia to put before? It was through Fulani that Emirate got into Ilorin so that's what will be in Wikipedia and we Yorubas are not denying it. I can tell you for a fact that Fulani does not have any monarchy system that they initiated, even when they were in Futajalon even other ethnic group in Senegambia then like the Mandigo still had a system, Fulanis just copied the Arab system of Emirate and adopted it, and there only stronghold where they style themselves the most in even in Nigeria, in other West Africa countries no one recognises them as practising Emirate apart from the Normadic culture that they are known for. So if you talk about Oba, Baale, everyone know it
Yoruba for that, Igwe, Obis every know it Igbos, but Emir is not from Fulani and people should stop appropriating it to them, some time ago the Olu of Iwo even style himself as Emir of Iwo before he was warned to do mess our culture for the Arab culture. The Emir of Ilorin na full blooded Yoruba man, that is a fact

.Dues to cultural assimilation and social changes, the Fulanis in Ilorin have become Yorubanized.


However, we need to understand that in Ilorin, ethnic identities is subsumed under the Islamic identity.
Ilorin people are a blend of people mostly from Yoruba but with some Fulani, Nupe, Hausa and Kanuri origins.