₦airaland Forum

IPOB123london:
hahhha

anyway enjoy oil money

not groundnut

Mr, just like Lagos state, Kano does not depend on oil proceed......it has a very high IGR....

akp202:
Humm....but when it comes to d turn of the north it becomes their birth right

it's by election not by selection, if u think u can hav a short at d presidency without votes from other regions, then u must be high on Oshogbo...weed...

Nowenuse:
She is from Kogi state and Kogi is classified as NORTH CENTRAL!

By Political description, but she is still Yoruba.

how does wat u r even saying relate to what is in ground?... she represented Kano state....and so?...

iwadobo:
U make whole lot of sense.

How?.....she is Yoruba, but born and brought up in Kano, thus representing Kano state, so how does that Tag her a Northerner?...

goldbim:
Nice shirt...who knows maybe he bought it from one of the proceeds of his stealing??#jstsaying#

Before nko?...he probably stole it from a shop sef....

baams:
the truck officers of the company are really trying to reduce many atrocities in the company transport section. the illegal haulage of a thing reduced. because of measures put in place bt truck officers.

really? what measures pls....

Sleezwizz:
Thanks for ur reply

Uwc...
https://www.nairaland.com/1926640/hausaland-teach-me-hausa

Sleezwizz:
Thanks for ur reply

Uwc...

Sleezwizz:
English please. I don't understand Hausa language

ah hahaha hahaha, now u got ur answer, dnt waste ur money going for the interview......shikenan...

u can join d Hausa class in d culture lounge to upgrade...in case of next time kaji ko?

Sleezwizz:
I got an invite for this particular vacancy but I can't speak Hausa fluently. Should I honor the invitation or not because I cant speak Hausa fluently and it's one of d requirements listed... Don't want to waste tfare..

I need an advice

me ya kai Ka tunda kasan baka Jin Hausa? ......dabara ta rage ma mai hawa kura ba takunkumi...

LoveJesus87:
I don't kwon why you people are so Unintelligent like this. Read the post again. Did they say she did dat for #200 naira? Or her people killed and forced into it?! It is when such happens to you dat u know what you are saying is totally off point. This is a clear case of abduction and wickedness of the highest order. She was even married off to one those animals, na because of #200 too abi? When these people catch u, u have just two options, cooperate or be killed not because of any #200. I guess she figured she could still escape by fooling them into thinking she would cooperate Buh instead threw d bomb away at d last minute and survived. I would say 'SMART'

God bless u, am just awed at some comments up there, and it pained that the ppl referring to her as uneducated, are not using their educated brain before commenting...

dingbang:
Some Hausa girls sha.. That is why we need to educate these young girls rather than building mosques upandan...

You can see ur life now, what make s u different from her?... she is even better, cos she have no education, but u, upon all the money spent on u, yet u r not literate enough to know that not all Northerners are Hausa..

U should travel more or better still enrol for lectures on Nigeria ppl, and culture...oponu...

abrahujaa:
It's much. 400 should be OK

#400? how, dat money na for one plate of food o...best way is to buy foodstuffs keep for house....

and if u must eat out, #200 at a go is ok, buy beans #70, bread, #120, pure water #20.

My recent article, the Messages of Ahiara, an incisive piece buttressed with logic and reason, which refuted some popular but erroneous notions of tribalism and secession in Nigeria, drew a lot of hostile responses from some of my readers. They lobbed curses and hauled invectives at me. However, to me, it was all exhilarating. I relish rejoinders to my writings, be them abusive or appreciative.

One of my milder critics accused me of demonstrated dislike for Biafra and its leadership. Yes, I detest the Biafra leadership because, in its recklessness, arrogance and despotism, it brought about the death of hundreds of thousands at the glory of their youth and the starvation to death of more than one million hapless and blameless men, women and children. It dismantled the Igbo power structure, painstakingly put together over decades by the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, and Michael Okpara, and set the Igbo back by at least 100 years. Why would any Igbo not despise a leadership that brought so much, avoidable, suffering, pain and sorrow to the Igbo?

Some of my detractors argued that secession was a necessary response to the mass-murder of the Igbo in northern Nigeria. Undoubtedly, that orchestrated slaughter of the innocent for no offense of theirs but their ethnicity was unconscionable. However, it would be selective amnesia to forget that the July 29th 1966 coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots in the North did not sprout out of a void. They were in reprisal for an earlier coup in January 1966 in which an Igbo dominated group of army officers murdered the most important Hausa/Fulani political and military leaders (Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Belewa and Zakari Miamalari) without killing any Igbo leader. And following the coup, the Igbo in the North became too celebrative; dancing and singing to a Rex Lawson song and telling their Hausa neighbors that the bleating of a goat in the song was Ahmadu Bello (the most important Hausa/Fulani leader) howling like a goat as he was being killed by Major Nzeogwu. It was the discriminatory killings and gratuitous mockery of the memory of their most important leader, amongst other reasons, that set the stage for the July 1966 anti-Igbo coup and the attendant anti-Igbo riots.

After the killings in the January and July coups and that unsurpassed butchery of Igbo civilians in northern Nigeria, there was a desperate need for peace in the country. In search of peace, the regional governors, David Ejoor, Usman Katsina, Robert Adebayo and Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, and the Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, met at Aburi in Ghana, where they agreed on and signed the Aburi Accord. The most significant aspect of the accord was constitutional: the reduction of the powers of the federal government by devolution of additional powers to regional governments. Long ago, an Igbo professor of political science at Howard University in Washington, DC told me that Yakubu Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord. To me, his statement was not only unbelievable but sacrilegious. I lost my temper at what I thought was historical revisionism taken to a nauseating extreme. The elderly professor must have understood my problem. I was suffering from a hangover of the Biafran propaganda. I was under the stupefying hold of the lies we were fed in Biafra. For he stated, “don’t worry, with time, in the course of your reading and research, you will find out that Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord”.

Years later, I found out that Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord. In his book, Power Sharing in Nigerian Federation, Chukwuemeka Nwokedi wrote that, “Apart from minor adjustments to the Aburi Accord, in other to still retain the corporate nature of Nigeria”, Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord with Decree 8; “and the regions acquired more powers than they have ever had”. That was months before the continued wrangling between Ojukwu and Gowon led to the creation of states. But did Ojukwu not declare Biafra and we marched out to war on the mantra, “On Aburi We Stand”. According to other writers, the minor adjustments Gowon made to the accord was the cancelation of two articles of the accord, which stated that any region can secede from Nigeria at will, and that the federal government can, on no account, impose a state of emergency on any region. Ojukwu’s advisers urged him to accept Decree 8 because Gowon had “gone more than far enough”. He refused.

The removal of the two articles of the accord did not in any way imperil the lives and property of the Igbo and other peoples of Eastern Region. Ojukwu’s squabbling, against the advice of his advisers, over the two articles was solely motivated by personal ambition. Following Ojukwu’s declaration of Biafra, the war inevitably started. As it raged on, it was obvious that a negotiated settlement to the war would be most advantageous to the Igbo. Ojukwu’s obsession with maintaining himself in power stalled the peace talks that would have extracted for the Igbo a number of concessions from the federal government. Despite the enormous toll of the war, especially, on human lives, he kept protecting his position and power, until it became untenable. And, as Biafra collapsed, he ran away; Biafra surrendered unconditionally.

A litany of the falsehood we were fed in Biafra is beyond the scope of this article. David Klinghoffer was right when he wrote that, “Widespread misinformation poisons a culture”. The enduring grip of these falsehoods on Igbo minds continues to poison both Igbo culture and psyche. They make us paranoid – we feel surrounded by enemies committed to our destruction, and in our suspicion of these “enemies” we see ulterior motives in every act, no matter how well-intended and benign, by other Nigerians. In addition, they make us feel like innocent victims of the evil devices of an alliance of the other Nigerian ethnic groups. And like perennial victims we refuse to take responsibilities for our actions; we find psychological refuge in blaming others, the Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, etc, for our problems.

Blaming others for your problems is gratifying but destructive; it reinforces the feeling of victimhood. The mindset that sustains a feeling of victimhood is antithetical to victory. Therefore, a victim remains a loser until he changes his mindset. For our own good, the Igbo need to change their attitude towards Nigeria and the other peoples of Nigeria. This demands rising above the misinformation of the Biafran propaganda by embracing some incontrovertible historical facts. This will enable us to realize that our problems stemmed not from the hatred and wicked machination of the Hausa, Yoruba and other ethnic groups of Nigeria, but from repeated political blunders of Igbo leaders, especially, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

Otherwise, our political fortune, clout and relevance will continue to decline. It has declined to a point, where a proud and resourceful people that, in their triumphalism, once boasted of dominating not only Nigeria but the whole of Africa now whimper and snivel over trivialities like a disconsolate old widow.


Tochukwu Ezukanma writes from Lagos, Nigeria and can be reached at maciln18@yahoo.com.




http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/06/misinformation-continues-poison-our-minds-tochukwu-ezukanma

juman:
I am also not a fan of buhari and his clueless apc. But despite their utter failure there are very few positive indications achieved by him.

The ones I remember now
Number one: He removed the pdp that destroyed nigeria for sixteen years. Very important direction change for the country.
Number two: At federal level, his anti corruption has reduced corruption significantly.

But he can never become a great leader the way he governs.

Exactly, plus a heavy blow to the Shekau led insurgents....

actually a non bias analysis cannot be reached sue to many factors, Nigeria solely rely on oil, and it's price has crashed worldwide, with production at its lowest due to militant activities, all dis has led to a high cost of living, and subsequent fall in d value of Naira.

as long as we remain a mono economy, we will never get to the promise land, we have no business importing consumables we can easily produce here.

bottom line, Nigeria cannot become Paris overnight, we have to go thru some difficult times...

God bless FRN.....

prince9851:
Vikings season 4 episode 20 is out.
Ivar killed one of his brothers
Floki is out of d story
U need to watch dat piece

Have watched it........Bion is going to see d Mediterranean.....The Land ownership agreement is null, and void....as the Man who signed it is no longer king, and has no authority to do so...

globalresource:
Those guys should stop attacking US then

What did u mean sir?..

no citizen of the Banned countries have taken the life of any US citizen or carries out any terrorist attack on the US, so how come the ban is not on countries whose citizens has in one way or the other carried out attack on US?

simple, because Trump has business interest with them

Kennitrust:
must you called it church? someone set up his shrine and u quick to name it a church.

Shut up its a church....

Blakjewelry:
Anything is possible in Nigeria

In Biafra land....

kenex4ever:
I thought u were sane. Sorry dear

ahaahah e pain am.....COWARD like u....

vanbonattel:
Oladipo Diya and Abdulkareem Adisa , Olarewaju were soldiers too, and they cried more than 6 hours while begging for their lives. Two buckets were filled with tears from their eyes

Another coward....at least they did not run from the battle field....

kenex4ever:
if na u bokoharam abduct u go gree go back to base. He just escaped d claws of death

oh plsssss!!! he should have join d Gala or alaba boys, no-one force him to join d military....he is just a coward like his uncle that fled to Abidjan......

alaskido:
Please do not blame the man. He is a human being. He must have joined the Army due to lack of white collar jobs in the country. Why him no go run from Boko, when the Nigerian government did not provide the equipment to fight Boko Haram. The man run to his home town in the east to take refuge o. 80% of the soldiers in Maiduguri are Southerners.

80% ? y not say 100%

Uchenna , make we see ur face na......
checked, and confirm, NCAN correspondent reporting life from Kilimanjaro..

Amina Mohammed....

Kwenu!!!

ItsTheBachelor:
We don't want to understand the dynamics. We just want our country.

of u want the country, come and take it....

ItsTheBachelor:
We don't want to understand the dynamics. We just want our country.

If u want the country, come and take it....

opal4real:
I think it high time Biafrans retag theirs as "Biaexit".

that's roughly translated to be " come and be going"

zendy:
A lesson for bacward Nigerians who only believe in "Lord Lugard made us Nigerians". No unity is permanent!

Did u see any correlation btw this agitation and the nonsense u ppl are doing here?

can't u see the way they are going about it, first a vote to ascertain d willingness of the ppl to secede.....

uchennaq:
Your not a gamer if Resident Evil is giving you headache cos it has been beaten.

been a while though 2001 or so, couldn't finish it...love d graphics...but was able to finish Dinocrisis..

Resident Evil....

pennywys:
the parasitic northerners and Co. Let them free us

We need freedom!
We wanna go!

The northerners have a gun to ur head, or tied u with a rope...?

pls leave, and stop making excuses...