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AustineJohn908:
Is that not why they're asking for a Referendum to be done so those Igbo forcefully carves into others states will determine who they want to be with

Asking for Referendum is another matter entirely and even Referendum can not adequately solve the problem of getting all ethnic group in one country because it's always difficult to say where one ethnic group ends and another one begins. There are always areas of overlap.

Dede1:
The bolded crap should be addressed to Obasanjo and Nasir in their draconian boundary adjustment. In your life on earth, despite the misery, have you seen where a country suddenly engaged in the distortion of ethnic boundaries?

Ethnic boundaries are controversial issues and difficult to determine, not only in Nigeria but all over the world.


Where are the ethnic boundaries of the German ethnic group? German people can be found in;

Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Leichenstein.

Tiv people= Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa
Ebira= Kogi, FCT

KareKare= Bauci, Yobe

Kanuri= Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Niger Republic and Tchad.

Igbo= Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Delta and Rivers State.

Coldie:
We respect ethnic boundaries. It's u who dont.

Who in this Rivers State doesn't know the status of oyigbo concerning ownership abi oyigbo na ikwerre land?

You have a strong point.

However, is Biafra= Igbo (anywhere) and Igbo (anywhere) = Biafra?

Brooklynsouth:
wike what happens to your national political ambitions ? of you fight the inland Igbos who will you fall back to when Hausa and Yoruba people come for your head .amaechi is shouting I am IGBO because he has seen that only ikwere and money can't get him anywhere .PDP should call this guy to other if for any reason this guy is seen anywhere close to ballot box PDP will loose the election

So proscribing IPOB will make one to lose an election?

When and where did IPOB suddenly derive such fantastic powers to determine winners of an election?

amaridigital:
Now with all the evidences so far, there was shooting at Lekki. Two persons died and that was unfortunate. Somebody must be held responsible for the loss. Why is the opposition blowing this out of proportion to burn Lagos? Lives were lost in Ibadan including police officers. Lives were lost in other places. Why are we not talking about those? Are those people not Nigerians?
We all want justice for Lekki victims but no one is talking about justice for other people killed by thugs or police officers across Nigeria. Is that justice? Some people are playing prank with people's intelligence here.

The opposition is actually after the soul of Lagos.
They manipulated the Lekki Shootings to wreck havoc on Lagos State with the hope of discrediting the ruling party, Government of Lagos and Tinubu.

landcarz:
That's what am saying, he;s not the first Lagos State Governor, his mother is not the first iyaloja, neither his wife or son.

All this doesn't give him the right to position himself as the jagaban and ruler of Lagos. And convey money in bullion van like CBN.

If he's given the opportunity, he will begin to put his grandchildren and great grandchildren in positions to continue to loot lagos to his benefit. If other governor put their families there, would he have been opportuned to become governor in the first place.

Bro your mumu don do.

There's no title as Jagaban of Lagos.
Tinubu was installed as the Jagaban of BORGU by the BORGU Emirate in Niger State and Asiwaju of Lagos by the Late Oba Oyekan-11 in 2003.

Tinubu's wife was validly elected just as Hilary Clinton was elected as a Senator in New York and Jeb Bush was elected as Governor of Florida while his elder brother , George Bush was Governor of Texas and eventually elected as the President of the United States about 10yrs after their Father, George H.W Bush left office as the President of the United States in 1993.

PaChukwudi44:
Where are there? I can't find them.Paste them here with their car engine numbers.

Furthermore the names of the hoodlums who allegedly torched the vehicles must be given else all this will be taken as fake news

This is one of the enemies of Lagos and most likely one of those who wrecked havoc on Lagos hiding under the cover of #EndSARS

jchioma:
Why are they blaming it on other forces, when we know the undercurrent behind politics of Jagaban, MC Oluomo and the NURTW conundrum

In a protest, things are expected to get worse, before they get better. We pray next time is not revolution.

So you justify these destruction of public infrastructure in Lagos and suggest politics of Jagaban ,MC Oluomo and NURTW as the causes of the destruction?

MuttleyLaff:
There is nothing fake about the picture they posted at the time they were reporting that the shooting was on, especially when it is used for one thing and one word: Symbolism

Please sir, stop annoying people with this your logic.

A fake picture was uploaded and circulated by celebrities which causes widespread destruction that shook Lagos to it's foundation and you are calling it symbolism?

zionmde:
no ur people are now blaming d Igbos for destructions
the only thing they have not blamed them for was invasion of Cacovid warehouse.
the government will always win because we will always have a whole lot of things to divide d struggle

I read the press release by the SW Governors Forum and nowhere was the word 'Igbo' ever mentioned.

LadySarah:
your own must be a good one. It will never be well with the contractor that handled ours.

Mine didn't last 1mth after camp.Camp I didn't even come for so you can imagine that the shoe hadn't been worn more than 3x self.
Was walking jjejely on the road only to discover the sole has left the body. Most of us experienced it.

Just pulled it off on the road, bought a slippers and went back home.Cds done n dusted!

This one is serious o.

TechyMm0:



Tinubu this , Tinubu that


.

Poor Tinubu!


Tinubu has no become the cause of every and any problem in Nigeria.





Even if some people's wives have miscarriages, they will blame it on Tinubu.

James4bright:
Do you own an innoson vehicle? Lol

Innoson would crumble in Biafra. Just watch.

10% of igbos won't buy innoson vehicles, with a population of over 3million. They would prefer UK imported vehicles. You can't force people to buy what they don't feel satisfied by.

Now exporting as an Africa small country is another ball game. Innoson can't compete with South African made vehicles.

If innoson remains Nigerian, even if he can't export, several Nigerians would still buy for the love of growing their economy, it's already happening. Northern politicians buy innoson made vehicles.

If 2 million Nigerians from different geopolitical zones can buy innoson made vehicles, isn't that a benefit?

You have strong points because it's true that Large landmass + huge population are parts of what can make a country a great country.


However, the vision of Biafra for some of the propponents may not actually be for Biafra to be the giant of Africa but a country that can provide basic needs & amenities for Biafrans

James4bright:
I'm from the east man. I've lived in Lagos all my life. I know Nigerians would do better if we work together.

We just need to restructure our country and fight against bad governance.

Lastly, I don't have much followers on Twitter neither.

Some of the things you said each State should do following restructuring can be done even now.

Do we honestly need restructuring before pipe borne water can be provided by each State?

Do we need restructuring before we can produce enough rice, textiles &garments, pharmaceuticals and ceremic tiles for our citizens?

What of efficient waste disposal systems?

James4bright:
He can't even tackle my points. You are slow-witted. You think you are smart but you aren't. You aren't a deep thinker, just a shallow one.

Imagine if you created a blog solely for Biafrans, you would be broke to death.

You can't even get over 1 million Nigerians to view your blog as a Nigerian with over 200 million people.

What exactly would be the narrative within a country of over 4million people? Lol

You would probably be getting just 200 views. Lol

Let's not forget our music industry would be wack. How much streams would a Biafran artiste get?

Although I am indifferent to both sides but this your argument is not appropriate.
All countries aren't meant to have the same strengths.
Those who aren't doing well in entertainment may be doing well in Agriculture, Tourism or ICT.

AbujaBlue:
Sophie Vénétitay, deputy head of the SNES-FSU teachers' union, said: 'He was murdered because he was doing his job, namely teaching critical thought.' She said Mr Paty was a history and geography teacher who was in charge of 'moral and civic education'.

'In that capacity, he gave a lesson on the freedom of expression with the Mohammed cartoons,' she said.

Thibault Humbert, mayor of the nearby suburb of Éragny-sur-Oise, said: 'This was an exceptionally violent and horrifying attack. The police must be commended for intervening with such speed.'

Other politicians lined up to express their horror at the killing, with Xavier Bertrand, centre-Right president of the Hauts-de-France region, saying: 'Islamist barbarity has taken aim at one of the symbols of the Republic: school. The terrorists want to shut us up, to bring us to our knees.
France's litany of deadly attacks

'They should know that we will not bend, they will never forbid us to read, write, draw, think, teach.'

Marine Le Pen of National Rally said: 'A teacher beheaded for showing Charlie Hebdo caricatures. We are in France with this level of unbearable barbarity. Islamism is waging war on us: it is by force that we must drive them out of our country.'

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the far-Left party, Unbowed France, said: 'Horrible crime in Conflans! In fact, the assassin takes himself for the god that he claims he follows. He is sullying religion. And he is inflicting on us all the hell of having to live with murderers like him.'

Local lawmaker Antoine Savignat said, 'If we cannot talk about the Charlie Hebdo caricatures in school, we end up in denialism... In France, the country of freedom of expression, this cannot be allowed to happen.'

Parents of pupils laid flowers at the school gate. Some said their children were distraught.'(My daughter) is in pieces, terrorised by the violence of such an act. How will I explain to her the unthinkable?' one father said.

Muslim leaders condemned the killing, which many public figures perceived as an attack on the essence of French statehood and its values of secularism, freedom of worship and freedom of expression.

Tareq Oubrou, the imam of a Bordeaux mosque, said of the killing, 'It is not a civilisation that kills an innocent person, it is barbarity'.

A police source said the scene has been cordoned off and a bomb disposal unit dispatched because of the suspected presence of an explosive vest.

'[The attacker] is believed to be from a Chechen background,' said an investigating source, referring to the Russian Federation republic.

Thousands of battle-hardened Chechen refugees, including many devout Muslims, entered France in the early 2000s following two bloody wars against Russia.

Around 30,000 Chechens in total escaped to France, many of them resettling in the suburbs of major cities such as Paris.

France has seen occasional violence involving its Chechen community in recent months – in the Dijon region, the Mediterranean city of Nice, and the western town of Saint-Dizier – believed to be linked to local criminal activity.

It was not known what link, if any, the attacker might have with the teacher or whether he had accomplices.

Police on Friday arrived at the scene after receiving a call about a suspicious individual loitering near the school, a police source said. There they found the dead man and nearby sighted the suspect armed with a knife-like weapon, who threatened them as they tried to arrest him.

They opened fire and injured him severely, the source said. The man later died of his injuries, a judicial source said.

The attack follows a terrorism enquiry being launched in Paris last month after two news agency staff were stabbed outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo – the magazine where staff members were murdered in 2015 after publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet.

Those on trial range in age from 29 to 68, and are charged with providing logistics to the terrorists, including cash, weapons and vehicles.

Paris-born brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi murdered 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo offices using Kalashnikovs, before escaping in a stolen car, and later being killed by police.

A third terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, gunned down four shoppers in a kosher supermarket and a policewoman during three days of carnage before he too was killed.

Charlie Hebdo now produces its magazine from a top secret location, and in September re-published the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had provoked outrage in the Muslim world.

There have been a series of bomb, gun and knife attacks carried out by Islamic State and al-Qaeda operatives in France, dating back to early 2015

The deadliest single terrorist attack ever in the country came in November 2015 when 130 people were killed in Paris. Suicide bombers pledging allegiance to ISIS targeted the Stade de France, cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan music venue, where 90 died.

Earlier in the year, two Paris-born gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda broke into the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, leaving 17 people dead inside and three outside.

In July 2016, 86 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a 19-tonne truck was deliberately driven into crowds on the seafront promenade at Nice, in the South of France.

The terrorist turned out to be a Tunisian immigrant who was shot dead by police. During the same month, two Isis terrorists murdered an 86-year-old Catholic priest during a church service in Normandy.

There have been frequent knife attacks on the forces of law and order, leading to the deaths of serving police.

In October last year, a radicalised computer operative working at the Paris Prefecture in central Paris stabbed four of his colleagues to death. The attacker – who was also shot dead – turned out to be a Muslim convert who kept extremist Al-Qaeda and Islamic State literature and images on his computer.


Photos: Macron addresses nation and visits scene of crime.
Teenagers pay their respects.

How can you be inviting people into your homes only for them to start killing your family members?

France should better do the needful and expel the 5 Million Muslims back to their home countries, if she hope to exist peacefully otherwise, in the next 15-20 years, France will experience what's presently happening in Syria and Yemen.

JastSiryin:
What is wrong you and MC Oluomo bros?... You should know my grouse isn't with him personally but what he stands for. The message he sends across by virtue of his position. The glorification of thuggery in Lagos state is what I'm against. I don't want to argue further. Nuff said

There are so many people on this platform who peddle wrong information about MC Oluomo
, NURTW and/ Lagos.


There are Thugs in Lagos, like in all other States. However they are not necessarily raised or employed by the NURTW or MC Oluomo. After MC Oluomo's tenure, there will still be thugs in Lagos.

The problems with Lagos represent the problems of black people in handling complex situations.

As populations and methods of doing things increase, the blackman's inadequacy in strategic management & planning making adequate provisions for adequate housing, convenient transportation, safe disposal of industrial & domestic wastes, prudient financial management and effective security become glaringly obvious.

jplusnaira:
Tinubu deserves to make an official response to this allegation because little things like this could hunt him in the future.

Look at the protest happening everywhere if the government had responded swiftly and not arrogantly at the beginning things wound not have escalated this way.

Already TVC is already been mocked by the way they are not effectively covering the protest and we all know it is not unconnected with their link with Tinubu. I am not a fan of his but I am also not his enemy I just love the fact that TVC is the number one station in Nigeria and I want them to maintain that title for as long as they can because Channels TV don too carry that title for long and having some kind of competition is good for TV.

Tinubu doesn't he to dignify her childish rantings with any response.

If he does, it will be a grave blunder because next week, one Mr Chukwudifor who has a Chemist Shop at Okokomaiko will give a press conference alleging that Tinubu slept with his wife when he came to campaign at Okokomaiko in 2019.

jplusnaira:
Morayo you don't need to defend Bourdillon we know the truth. It is the rule of nature, he that pays the Piper dictates the tune.

Bourdillon has always publicly presented himself as a true democrat but with the way we see him run Lagos affairs we know that is not the case.

After watching the way he disposed of Ambode I had confirmed the kind of person he really is. It was still on a TVC program (Journalist Hangout) that Babajide was advicing that journalist should have worked out on FFK when he insulted a journalist some weeks back. Now it is the same TVC that is firing another journalist for working out when she felt insulted

Double standards everywhere its a pity. The only mistake you made was telling her the source of where her sack order came from. I just felt disappointed with the way you guys handled the situation especially knowing fully well that igbos form a major chunk of your viewership.

I just hope this mess is not blown out of proportion because I believe igbos have left that episode behind them let's not rekindle that horrible past from our senseless leaders that will always want to use the divide and conquer mechanism to control us.

Rather let's focus on what are more important now which are
#EndSars
#EndSwat
#EndPoliceBrutality

......we move

Every day thousands of employees get fired in this country.
I have never seen any Urhobo, Tiv, Ijaw or Kanuri employee coming to print and electronic media wailing that he/she was sacked because of his/her tribe.

Staro:
Whatever, Sanzye has
moved on

The fact that Sanzye is trying to play the tribal card against Tinubu for an event that happened in 2015 shows that she hasn't moved on.

JastSiryin:
The NURTW is only a coperate body by definition alone. And let's not act like the BRT system is properly managed either. I'm glad you mentioned enlightenment, as the other criterias barely mean Jack because of how corrupt the system is. I don't subscribe to the view that the present Govt has the vision to make Lagos what it aught to be. They're far too carried away with their interests. It's far too aligned with the underworld to even hide it

What exactly is your grouse sir?

Are you complaining about the incumbent Government in Lagos State or you are complaining about MC Oluomo as a person?

MC Oluomo is not the Governor of Lagos, he is not a Government official and neither does he holds any post in the party.

The NURTW have State Branches in ALL States of the Federation.

JastSiryin:
Bros i never said he shouldn't exist, I'm not God. But he is a thug, a leader of a union that operates like a mob and sources income mostly through racketeering. A sane society would have him hiding in the shadows and not acting like he's some elder statesman or something other than the thug he is. Let's not pretend that Lagos is some model state. It's just the best of the worst

What exactly is your grouse?

Is it the methods by which NURTW generate income as a corporate body or how MC Oluomo generate his personal income?

How is MC Oluomo the same thing as Lagos? How can Lagos being a model State or not be attributed to the presence or MC Oluomo in Lagos?


The Chairman of NURTW is just like any other leading trade unionist e.g Chairman of NUT, NMA,NUJ or NBA.

The major difference is that most of the NURTW members are stubborn kids in the youthdays who dropped out from school and later took to driving/touting which don't require serious mental requirements or academic qualifications to do.

The introduction of BRT, Light Trains and Standard Guarge Railways services to the Transport sector in Lagos will modernize the system as well as the players over a period of years.


The upcoming generation of Transport workers in Lagos will not be brute, crude and school drop out guys but educated, exposed and enlightened people.

jamiudinho:
yes am proudly saying it

Then have it in mind that your head might as well fall from your neck first before you are able to kill for your prophet.


Those who dig for evil should know that they themselves may fall into the ditch.

Beverlyjean:
He might not truly b involved with what happened in alausa...but because he is a strong and top ally of government from the agbero sector, he is a suspect

Who sponsored the attacks on the #EndSARS protesters in Benin City yesterday that left one of the protesters dead?

hotseat:
This Chairman of NURTW position no get tenure? Life Chairman, go give your tugs/slaves your ye ye water. We no wan do. Na by force?

You people talk about people you hate too much without really understanding anything about them.


All these while you have been hearing MC Oluomo, he wasn't the chairman but just one of the EX-co as a Treasurer.

He just contested and won election as the chairman recently.

JastSiryin:
I just can't wait for the day that thug would be irrelevant. The fact that he still holds weight speaks volumes about our kind of government

Bros, calm down.
MC Oluomo has a right to exist.


He is a private citizen just like you and the chairman of a union. He is NOT holding any Government/Party position.

able20:
Who is Oluomo to be interfering with the affairs of LASG. Why some of the SW pipo always looking for who to worship

You ought to be more enlightened than this but your bigotry will not allow you to reason well.


So a private citizen offering bottled water to the protesters in Lagos automatically means he is interfering with the affairs of the Lagos State Government?

Is MC Oluomo holding any Government position?

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is an affiliate of NLC and it's a private union of drivers and owners of commercial vehicles.

RealEzee:
was he white or black that's the question kwa, who asked u if he was prophet/general ?

He was neither a White nor a Black man

x123xlolls:
They hate islam the most, that's the reason.

But to tell you, We muslims will never insult or draw any respectable person of any religion.

Probably because the Religion of Peace encourage it's adherents to behead people who draw 'ordinary cartoon' depicting it's prophet.

Most sane people will not like to associate with a group that can easily cut off their heads from their necks. . .do you know understand?

madridguy:
France is not a Moslem country but they can go to Muslim countries to topple their government? If you don't know before, know it now, in years to come, Muslim will control major European countries and France and the UK will be the main target.

There's nothing bad if Muslims control Europe (we are all humans).

However, you need to also know that as more and more Muslims live, work and interract with non Muslims, certain things they do/practice or opinions they hold will begin to be reformed or even fade away.

Check the descendants of pious Muslim emirs who waged Jihards and established Emirates.

jamiudinho:
anybody insult the prophet will surely beheaded no going back

Why can't the prophet/Allah fight for himself?



See what colonial mentality has done to a blackman!

He is happily bragging about how he will kill his fellow Blackman for insulting an Arab Prophet that died over a thousand years ago.