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This man has a fixed mind that anyone who disagrees with him or Nnamdi Kanu/IPOB must be a Yoruba man.

He lives under the illusion that ALL Igbos must love Kanu's agitations for Biafra and that Efik, Ibiobio, Ijaw,Bini, Tiv,Idoma, Nupe or even Hausa-Fulani people on Nairaland can't say anything against Biafra.

AhoadaRivers:
Pretentious ewedu noisemeaker.

Are saying payment of tax is harrassment of the people or non-indigenes shouldn't pay tax or what exactly are you saying?



[quote author= post=89895707]Come to Anambra, see how your people are living nobody is discrimating or taxing them, at the back of my office there is one Igbo man that build very big mansion he is in US, he hardly come back, a Yoruba guy is looking after the big house, he has brought lots of his people, they are managing the man's BQ, nobody is harassing them, but for your region your guys have turned to monitoring spirits[/quote]

Which index did you use to measure the WEALTH of the two States?


IGR is not a measure of wealth and low poverty index doesn't translate to great wealth.

rdokoye:
If Igboland is so poor, why do so few people meet the requirements for the conditional cash transfer? Real development starts at the grassroots, with things like education, water access, healthcare delivery, mortality rates etc.

All the things that Igboland beats all the other states at. When it comes to education, there's no comparison between Ebonyi and Borno State, unless you're inferring that Nigeria is the only place on planet earth, where the uneducated are wealthier than the educated.

Some of these arguments are so wishful. Why do people like yourself, have such a vested interest in telling Igbo people how poor they are?

You just sit down in your room to write about places that you don't know anything about.

Why did you get this funny idea that ' In Borno, almost everybody work in the Public sector'??

What percentage of about 4 million people in Borno are Government workers?

Only a few thousands of the educated people work in the Public sector, majority of the people in Borno State are into Farming and Animal Husbandry.

rdokoye:
IGR has absolutely nothing to do with poverty. In the case of Borno, almost everyone works in the public sector, given the low level of education, that's why it's IGR is higher than a state like Ebonyi, where a larger portion of its population have SMEs, and they pay very little tax. The same is the case in all the Igbo states.

Because Igbo states have much larger private sectors, it also means that the state governments have more money to spend on capital infrastructure. Which accounts for the large infrastructure development in the state of Ebonyi. Compared to a state like Ogun, which has huge recurring expenditure, and very little money to spend on infrastructure development.

That's not true sir.

Have you lived in Yobe, Kano, Katsina or Rivers States before?

StubbornGENIUS:
Poor reception in non western regions.

Onye means 'a person's


What's the meaning 'ngbu'?

Tolu121:
onye ngbu means go and learn

Bros,I think you ought to have known that Democracy is a game of numbers and not necessarily a game of sentiments.


The majority of the people of Lagos prefer the ACN/APC to other parties.

VaselineCrew:
See all of them quoting me with stupid tribal talks.

Maybe this country really has no hope after all with such citizens

A shame really!

I think you can sponsor a bill for the ammendent of the electoral act to the National Assembly, that one party should not rule for more than four consecutive terms in a State.

VaselineCrew:
Then same for Enugu then. I’m not here to play any sort of tribal games, just looking for how we can strengthen our democracy and in turn our development as a people.

As I said, Nigerians will hail when they hear some igbo or Yoruba guy has been appointed mayor in some city in America, but same people won’t even let another party win elections in their state, talk less of another tribe or race.

I just think we are all very hypocritical sha.

Humanbeings can NOT be satisfied QED!


Even if you bring Prophet Muhammad (phub) to rule Nigeria, some people will still complain.

Yenefer:
is true zero project in the North, he just appointed Northerners into juicy positions, but he is working for So uth West and South East. The old man is total failure for the north

Okay, we have heard you well.

You didn't understand my points.

I am not saying 'one Nigeria' is good or bad, however if you want to get Biafra through peaceful means or restructuring or presidency, you will need the support of other (non-Igbo) Nigerians, majority of whom are Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba people.

By antagonizing, abusing, insulting and cursing the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba and sometimes the Southerner minorities (whenever they reject the Biafran tag), you are drawing 'the battle lines' and they will gather their people together to oppose you and whatever you stand for.

You can criticize Government actions without drawing tribes/religion/regions into your criticisms.

Leo3333:
Mr. "One Nigeria", might we know how the current structure benefits you? How can we ever progress with this flawed system?

If you're from the NE/NW, then no need to respond. I'll understand.

Who are these shadowy people and are they found in only one Geo-Political zone?

When you devote your time and energy to single out a particular region for bashing and demonizing her people even in matters that doesn't involve them, do you for once sit down and think about it's implications?

Will demonizing the S/west and Hausa-Fulanis in the agitations for the creation of Biafra lead to creation of Biafra?

What do you think will the the responses of these people to your agitations? Are they likely to become convinced and embrace you with hugs or they will return hatred for your hatred?

Can you win against the majority populations in Nigieria? the

OfoIgbo:
SW almajiris are SHADOWY people. History has already established that.

When someone that is supposed to be my brother, goes partnering with known shadowy people to put down my people, that supposed brother looses the privileges of a brother. Didn't you see the unsubstantiated video the OP posted to start with? Which is obviously an attempt to undermine Ndigbo. As a hardcore Igboman, I am duty-bound to defend my people, in the face of any unfair onslaught against my people

Because of the above, I have no apologies to issue to anybody.

Stop creating unnecessary enemies for yourselves.

The Al-majiris are not associated with the S/West.

There is nothing that brings the SWest into this matter. Over 98% of the people of the S/west don't even know all these places and people you are discussing.





You can't achieve Biafra by constantly antagonizing the other tribes in Nigeria.

OfoIgbo:
He is being exposed little by little
He partnered with SW almajiris to try and rubbish the Igbo reputation with an unverified video. He is gradually coming clean and for people to see what he was all about.

As a neutral observer who doesn't belong to either side and who has read about many parts of this Country, I strongly think that;

1) King Jaja was born as an Igbo child, then sold into slavery.
He redeemed himself and gained the confidence of the household of his master and adopted Ijaw indentity.
He died as an Ijaw man.

2) Most Riverean communities from Bonny Island to Lagos to Badagry are NOT 100% homogeneous and always absorbed people from the surrounding areas, especially those who escaped the horror of slavery after the Slave Trade was abolished.

PHijo:
I laugh at your ignorance!
Jumbo jumbogha otherwise known as Jaja is an Ibani Ijaw just like anyone else. Oyigbo you erroneously refer to as Obigbo is Ijaw. In fact, if you are conversant with history you would know that the Ibani and Okrika clans of the Ijaw nation are deeply intertwined that the Ndoki cannot be separated from the Ibani or Okrika Okrika Ijaw. You are confused by what it means to be Ibani, Okrika, Ndoki or Oyigbo.

We Ijaws are not about to teach you revisionist Igbos our history.

The rubbish you are talking is like telling a Jew he is no Jewish because he is European or North American. Like I told you before, claim America, Brazil , Colombia or Mexico where you sold your kinfolk to. Supreme court ruling or not, Jumbo jumbogha left Bonny island for Opobo as an Ibani Ijaw. He died an Ijaw man. There is no evidence that Jaja had ever been an Igbo man. Every record of Jumbo jumbogha was in Ijawland and of him being Ijaw. Anybody can claim to come from any part of Nigeria, we know how many Igbos claim to be Saro-Wiwa 's father's sister's brother just to be given stay in foreign countries so we don't care about your union chairman. For all we care, no indigenous Oyigbo or Ndoki person would claim to be Igbo.

Now let me explain clearly to you;

you can NOT win this game by playing the tribal card.




Insulting, cursing and abusing the other tribes will create a DIVISION and leads to a 'We Vs Them' scenerio.

Democracy is a game of numbers.
Most people will take sides and the side with the largest number of people will win and that side will NOT be your side.

It doesn't have to be the side that is more intelligent, hardworking or competent.

By constantly abusing the two other majority tribes, you are indirectly telling them to gang-up against you.

The Ijaws, the Ogonis, Efik, Idoma or Igala seems to understand this phenomenon better than you.

Let start to criticize Government actions and inactions based on the merits of the actions and start deemphasizing ethno-religious sentiments. . .It put you in disadvantaged positions more than your opponents.

AhoadaRivers:
Stop deceiving yourself, you cannot sequester tribalism from politics in Nigeria.

They are two conjoined siamese twins. Even your yoruba tribe have gained from political tribalism in 1999.

1) Many people from the North criticize this Buhari administration e.g Buba Galadima, Senator Sheu Sani etc

Northerners aren't many like the Southerners on social media.

However, for certain reasons , Northerners don't criticize their leaders like Southerners do.

2) When people come online to criticize Buhari and use the opportunity to abuse, insult and curse Northerners/Fulanis, you are indirectly telling Northerners/Fulani to unite and defend one of their own and return hatred for you.

They will not join you in such criticisms, no matter the wrongs that he has done.

3) When tribal bigots come online to spend all their time and energy telling whoever cares to listen how evil a particular Geopolitical zone is, what do you think people from that zone will do?

4) When you constantly call people backstabbers, betrayers and greedy people (which has become intensified since 2015), do you expect them to return the gestures by supporting your views and working to see you rewarded with power to preside over their lives?

5) Who appointed you a judge to determine the morality of the Interests of the S/West in politics, especially the 2023 election?

You are in politics to protect your own interests and I am in politics to protect my own interests too.

9japride:
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I agree politics is about interest. But some people interest might be selfish and not moral. I still maintain that northerners don't critize this Buhari government and it seems it's either their religion or culture that advices them not to do so. From observation in politics all over the world. Government lies a lot and use propaganda to deceive the citizens, its now left for the citizens to take a stand and reject incompetence, but in Nigeria we play tribal and religious politics and we call it politics of interest. In a country were there is no equity and justice. A leader is being tribal bigot, but his people cannot advise him to calm down and learn to accommodate people from other regions. A leader that is sectional, is that one a leader? A situation one will be forming James Bond with our collective resources like its he's own personal wealth. Imagine someone that comes from a region that does not contribute mega share in the income of the country but rather using another man's wealth to play nepotism and bigotry. Development should be spread around, same thing it's happening in various states too where a particular region didn't vote the governor and the governor deprive such region from development. Is that a good way of governance? Most Nigerians are just too wicked and vengeful in their attitude. Just like the various vengeful monikers who open up senseless topics on nairaland daily just to spite south east, just imagine if such evil people get hold of power, with their messed up mind. They will be very sectional and bigoted in their style of governance. If all government are critized properly and everyone feels belong, there won't be any need for zoning. It's just that we are not yet matured in governance that is why zoning is done just to spread development which to me it shouldn't be. The interest of south west in 2023 has no moral ground. But in politics anything goes. That's why a thug can be elected into government positions in Nigeria, because of politics of interest from a group of people.
GEJ was a true leader who valued all Nigerians irrespective of were they come from, though he didn't perform to expectations.

Tribal bigots like you don't learn anything.

Whatever you want in the politics of Nigeria, be it Biafra, Presidency, Restructuring,

You can NOT win this game by playing the tribal card.

You will only succeed in sensitizing the other people to rally round their own and gang up against you.

AhoadaRivers:
They are actually more smarter than the yoruba who claim to be educated. Afterall they both fought the 'oil war' against Biafra together, how come yorubas are not getting more of the 'oil wealth' since they claim to be intelligent and educated when time came to share the spoil.

yorubas got the short end of the stick if you ask me. They should be ones in these pictures enjoying since they claim to be 'more intelligent and won the oil war against Biafra' but unfortunately they have relegated to chasing after agege bread vans due to covid hunger.

1) People from ALL States in Nigeria criticize and complain about ANY Government in power , including this incumbent Buhari Administration.
You need to check more with an unbiased mind on all social media


2) You wrongly assume that the reasons why people vote for this Government is because they want to spite you.

Well, may be people at the same level of reasoning with you actually did because of that .

However,most people did because of their own more serious interests e g construction of Lagos-Ibadan ,Oshodi-Apapa and Oyo-Ogbomosho road express roads, the construction of Lagos-Ibadan-Oshogbo-Ilorin Railways, having good representation in Government etc

Politics is about interests.

9japride:
A question for a tribes in Southern Nigeria, how many of you have seen post by northerners critizing this government on social media especially on Facebook? But yet you will side with someone just to spite your fellow southern brother because of the hatred you have for south east.

I am surprised the way I hear Yoruba Muslims here on Nairaland.


Yorubas are not very keen about imported religions and most Yorubas still believe some elements of their Traditional Religion.
Yorubas change from Christianity to Islam or Islam to Christianity or some even practice both.

Yoruba Muslims and Christians live peacefully together, inter marry and are often related.

astonished:
stop deceiving yourself, there nothing like Yoruba Muslim, Yoruba this & Yoruba that. only in your delusional mind.

Yorubas are one, don't give a fvck about religion

My friend, let me me tell you what is wrong with his posts.

1) The subtle attempt to single out the hard-working folks of the S/West for bashing was done in bad faith.

2) The objectivity of criticism of what we consider to be wrong in our polity is defeated the moment we add regional or ethno-religious colouration to the criticism.

3) The listeners who ought to all join hands to criticize the wrong actions will view the tribal undertone as an atteck on their region/tribe and instead will be attacking the guy criticizing, creating a 'We Vs Them' scenerio.

4) Infact this was the origin of all these posts by the #ArewaTwitter.
It was in response to persistent bashing of the Northerners as poverty stricken, God forsaken wretched people and the continuous demonizing of the Al-majiris by Southern bigots online.

Virtually all Northerners on Twitter on Sunday 24th May 2020 supported these rich Northern Youths in displaying their 'wealth' in a show of regional solidarity.

xcabczyxabczzzz:
Baba lockup, na insult to every youth in this country. It is either you didn't take your time to read what he wrote or are simply an ethnic bigot for you leave out all he wrote and single out SOUTHWEST as the only problem you have with his write up.

You are right.

However, the problem with discussions about anything in Nigeria is that it becomes complicated and muddle up when we introduce regional and ethno-religious colouration into it. Objectivity is often defeated in such discussions.

MANDIPUTIN:
All the people you mentioned, everyone knows the source of their wealth, most of them are through individual hard work without govt support & those guys are in their 40s & 50s. But those arewa youths are in their teens and twenties without known source of income. You and i know in Nigeria today you can't be stinkingly rich at that age except there's already made wealth on ground acquired by their parents & uncles.
I salute them & most especially their parents.

Bros, leave that stuff.


Politicians and top Government workers in ALL parts of Nigeria steal public fund.

There are some top civil servants in Abuja that are richer than Governors.

denko:
Unfortunately their father has stolen enough to keep for them to eat but that does not remove the facts that they are still being spoon fed

Excuse me bros, how does this surgical precision excision stuff relate to these rich Northern Youths?



Are you saying if Eastern Region had still remain one entity, there won't be rich Northern Youths or there will be no embezzlement of public funds?

IGBOSON1:
They knew it would be tricky getting their hands on the resources with the ‘i-too-sabi nyamurees’ in the picture, so they painted Igbos as the bad guys out to decimate other ethnicities in the Niger-Delta! And Igbo parts of the delta equally blessed with hydrocarbons, they sliced out of the then Eastern Region with surgical precision, placed them in non Igbo states, and got them to deny their god given heritage! Textbook divide-and-rule strategy!

Prof Gambari needs to start learning Hausa or better still Fulfulde, the language of his great-grandfather.

AsomughaChuks05:
Gambari can never gain the absolute trust of Buhari like Kyari no matter how hard he tries.

But some people say he has been replaced by Jubrin from Sudan who is about 56 year old.

Irijosa777:
noted, I know baba is old now.
thank you.

There are children of politicians like these in ALL States.
Their parents most likely aquired all these wealth through looting of public fund.

You won't see children of genuine business men/entrepreneurs who made their money legitimately flauting wealth on social media.

Children of Dangote, Adenuga, Ibeto, Innoson, Ishaku Rabiu or T.Y Danjuma don't come on social media for ostentatious display of wealth.

GamalNasser:
Parasites. Well I don't blame them na Southern disunity I Blame

Are these people doing baptism in the river or what is the meaning of this water?

LukasPodolski:
I love this ooh.

Make Northerners pepper our brothers from potopoto republic.

Ex-Governor Aregbesola of Osun State once boasted of a comprehensive economic blue print that will link Osun State to tap from the economy of Lagos State by supplying agricultural produce to Lagos State but got derailed in his second year in office.

Sunshineg5:
Bro, we have maintained that the huge population in Lagos is not exactly a blessing to Lagos because very few of the population pay taxes, especially the small scale igbo businessmen.

Many of them came to Lagos because of the prosperity of Lagos and now claim to have built Lagos despite having contributed very little in taxes.

What we need now is for other South west state to tap into the Lagos story

Oyo and Osun in particular needs to start producing 75% of the Agricultural needs of Lagos.

So the politicians are the ones robbing you?



And how did the hardworking people of the S/West managed to enter this thread sir?

Are these hardworking folks of the S/West different from the hardworking folks in Borno, Niger, Kaduna, Cross-River or Ebonyi States?

Gbabe2:
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Good question and I will try to educate you. Others can as well enlighten you guys. How many graduates are employed in this country? How many graduates are underemployed in this country? When we travel by road, how many good roads do we have in this country? Do you have a tap borne water at home? how many functioning hospitals do we have? Insecurity---- when you are robbed, do they ask whether you are Igbo or Yoruba? When we are deprived of the basic amenities of life, are we differentiated by our tribes? Its time for us to grow past these tribalistic tendencies and face the really.

As a full-bloodied Yoruba man, I had high hopes for this country. All I thought was, once I graduated from a college with a good grade, all will fall on my lap in life. Where are we? It is over 20 good years I graduated from College and yet the story has not changed in this country. You know why? it is all because of these never do well robbers that can cough out multi-millions to buy these cars that are necessary in our environment. A typical politician in Nigeria has the intention to rob us blind. Typical examples are Dino, Jagaban, Orji, and all others. Most of these guys don't have any business if the process is functioning and there is a great accountability for your so-called service.

I can further educate you if you don't mind. Thank you.

This Reno Omakri is doing unnecessary disservice to the Jonathan era.

Is Reno Omakri trying to say that President Jonathan was so weak that a post from El-Rufai on Twitter could undermine a policy of his administration?

So anyone who criticized a policy of Ex-Pres Jonathan was undermining him?

Please explain sir,

Who is robbing who and how?

How did the hardworking folks of the S/West enter this thread?

Gbabe2:
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He didn't only mock the hardworking southwestern folks but all hardworking youths in this country. This is what our dear country has turned into. Slaves riding our horseback while Kings are walking on foot like slaves. This is their time and they should enjoy it very well. God willing, time is going to come when their names will never be heard of again in the history of Nigeria. To tell you the truth, it also reflects the kind of parents and upbringing these guys have. How on earth can rob people, deprive them of basic amenities of life and yet, flaunt this ill-gotten wealth? There is no peace for the wicked and shame to these guys and their generations.