₦airaland Forum

Thewrath:
Firstly,as usual,I am responsible for how I write and not how you understand or interpret.

Why are there no pics yet?
We all know the Nigerian army and pictures are like bread and butter,they have pictures of killed boko haram terrorists,the Shiite Muslims killed during during protest and more.so why are there no pictures yet of the 114 and over another 100 militants killed during the air strikes?

There is only one possible reason I can think of why there are no pictures yet:
-it's obvious(in Emmanuella's voice)that Nigeria army have as usual gone to kill/displace innocent yorubas and other inhabitants of these communities,and are ashamed to upload pics.i know civilians always get caught in crossfires,but in a professional operation,the damage on innocent civilians are minimal,maybe a few deaths but certainly not the majority.but I can't say thesame for our NA.

Misconceptions of yoruba youths:
I actually do not support the activities of the militants,but I read online how these set of people boast/beat their chest about how they will deal with the militants,maybe because there is a mere commissioner assisting buhari or that a yoruba general ordered the air strikes or that they voted for change....make no mistake,buhari will not bait an eyelid to turn Lagos into a war zone as long as oil is involved,not even even osibanjo,or your obas can or will be able to do anything about it.my advice is pray and hope the militants give up,stop beating your chest,your people are dying.

The position of the igbos
This particular is just funny,I don't know about the opinion if my brothers in SE,but I will attempt speak for myself and others in SS.
Firstly:
-Whose land is the battlefield-yoruba's
-Whose land is being polluted-yoruba's
-Whose people are being killed/displaced-yorubas.
-Who is going to suffer military presence/intimidation-yorubas.
-Whose economic activities will be crumbled-yorubas.
-Who would be used as target practice-yorubas.
are the militants igbos-No
are the helicopters,guns,pipelines,igbos?-No
And many many more....

So why in the midst of crisis in your own land,you still find a way to drag the igbos in,they have absolutely nothing to loose...it's a win-win for the igbos,the average Igboman does not give a hoot what happens outside igboland,he may still not care even if it happens in igboland but doesn't affect his business.
so why will the igbos be pained/worried that you are fighting militancy when they have a much bigger problem to deal with.

When you guyz were rejoicing during the killing of unarmed biafra protesters,I bet you did not know a day like this will come when your supposed peaceful land will be turned into a war zone.well you shouldn't be surprised when others return the favour.
I advice you focus on getting rid of these militants and leave the igbos out of your miseries.

I am still trying to figure out how Igbos have been dragged into this.

Igbophobia is a real mental disease, an epidemic of sorts.

erico2k2:
This is exactly waht Im trying to put in the head of that ingrate up here

Cognitive dissonance will not allow them to think that far.

In as much we Nigerians have been begging law enforcement agencies to flush out the criminal miscreants terrorizing Arepo and Ikorodu, a tactical special forces unit would have done a much cleaner job of neutralizing them than dropping bombs into a civilian community.

This is tantamount to a war crime if innocent civilians are among casualties.

HungerBAD:
I mean, this is a good move by the OPC.

The plan of the OPC is to protect, and not destroy their land. The Militants in the Niger Delta, are destroying their own lands, and his is why i support this move by the OPC.

So let us talk about these militants.

The Militants in the West are a product of two worlds. They are from Ondo State, which is in the West. But, they are the Ijaws and the Itsekiri from Ondo State, and these guys are not Yoruba's, but pure Niger Deltans, who by accident of wrongful map drawing, find themselves in the Western part of Nigeria.

A typical example is Oritsefemi the Musician, who is an Itsekiri, but from Ondo State.

So, we can safely say the militants hitting the Western part of Nigeria are actually Westerners, and so the OPC should be ready to fight against their own brothers.

Lastly, kudos goes to the Nigerian Military for the flushing out,bombing and killing of these militants.

Pls kindly tell us how exactly did the Nigerian military know who were the militants, and who were innocent civilians before they dropped their b bombs on a civilian community?

Even the much sophisticated US military, with all their satellites, technology and intelligence gathering apparatus, occasionally,in fact, very often mistakenly bomb civilian targets.

Now, trusting own military who are renowned for shooting the civilians they are supposed to protect, what assurances do we have that the more than 100 people bombed to death were not all or majority civilians?

How do you bomb a supposed militant group who are imbedded amongst the civilian population that they are terrorizing ?

HungerBAD:
Lol lol lol.

At the end of the day,Kenyans will be Kenyans,and they will always suffer that air of inferiority complex around Nigerians.

Funny, your reaction is exactly the type of impudence they are talking about.

They have obviously shown that they have better, well-grounded values than you.

I am happy that Kenyans are reprimanding us for our inverted value systems.

nigerialog:
I emphasized money corruption because I believe that Nigeria's worse corruption is not monetary, but rather something that breeds all of that.
If baba can demote as much venom to political corruption in Nigeria, we might yet see a nirvana.

Thank you.

Corruption goes far deeper than pocketing public money. Before that, there is a corrupt state of mind that breeds stealing of public funds.

This is what GEJ was alluding to when the media misquoted him out of context by saying that stealing is not corruption.

Babzilla:
The only one who seems bitter is the man being interviewed. Its clear he has been stewing in bile all these years and is out to exact revenge. You cant govern a country on emotions alone you know. Be has not shown any serious problem solving skills, objectivity or any maturity as far as Im concerned .

People easily forget that because Buhari lost to Jonathan in 2011, Buhari never attended any council of State meetings throughout the tenure of GEJ and refused to shake hands with GEJ on few occasions.

Buhari is the most unpatriotic Nigerian I have seen to date.

lordnicklaus:
How did Meri and Mary become the same? It's just like saying Kannada and Canada are the same.

Lol .
Kannada and Canada are the same.

In French, it's Kanada.

In Native Iroquois language, it was called Kanata.

Now tell me, phonetically, what are the differences between Canada, Kannada, Kanada and Kanata ?

Etymology is the one the most accurate means of tracing cultures, migration and history.

The Bible offers us ample evidence that for the ancient Israelites, all roads lead to Egypt.

lordnicklaus:
Your history is totally wrong. Mary is actually the Anglo-Graecian variant of the Aramaic "Maryam" which is a term meaning "rebellion". The Meri-Amon you quoted is actually a compound word while "Maryam" is a single word. Amon is actually an Egyptian god who was sometimes associated with Ra and a variant of his name was Amen which is totally different from "Amen" which is a Chaldo-Hebraic term denoting "certainty." It is worth knowing that the Yoruba word "ino" which means "light" means "thief" in my native language and thus you can't be too presumptuous so as to claim that the word in my native language is actually stolen from the Yoruba version. It is clear that you have faulted in your claims. There are quite a number of similarities in phonology between different languages for example, the Yoruba word "oko" which means "husband" means "rashes" in Ibo.


You know the most annoying part of the incoherent jargon you posted? You said "Meri" was Latinized to Maria. Lie!! Before you embarass yourself and prove yourself lagged of the so-called smartness and ingenuity you claim to possess as an atheist, gain proper knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin. Mary of the bible, in Aramaic texts of the Gospels is Maryam and in the Hebrew text, Miryam.

Of course, Pharaohs had prefixes derived from names of gods attached to their names for example, Seti-Keba, Abu Simbel, Akhenaten, this I know but to say that bible text language was dependent of such is an outrageous claim from insipid facts.........

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You keep tipping history upside down. Mariam, Miriam, Mary ,whether Greco-Roman , Aramaic or hebrew,,..these are all the phonetic variations of the ancient Egyptian Meri, the original title of Isis.

In case you're ignorant of this, let me inform you that that Ancient Egypt preceded the the Greco-Roman cultures, Aramiac, Latin and Hebrew languages and cultures by thousands of years, even perhaps tens of thousands.

Almost every part of ancient Hebrew religious culture came from Egypt, especially royal hereditary and religious culture and rituals. Same as the nomenclatures.
Meri, anglicized as Mary, Latinized as Maria , Miriam in the Arabic cultures, etc, is a cultural/ religious nomenclature denoting and tracking of the Royal female bloodlines going all the way to ancient Egypt.

KINGinVAHALA:
I guess its my Oshiomole that also did the emboldened to you?

Comprehension! comprehension !

If you didn't understand the context of my reference to Oshiomole, then I am sorry, I can't help you.

Funny that APC could be declared winner in one area while the rest are declared in inconclusive.

With all these inconclusive elections and Oshiomole spitting fire like a an angry emperor dragon in Edo,
Nigeria's 16 yr democracy RIP.

So what?

Natanyahu is a psychopath, racist and war criminal.

Which good person would not boycott that lunatic?

[quote author=lordnicklaus post=47841094]Besides Mary is an english name and it's proper Aramaic version is Maryam which is Hellenized to Maria and also maintains the Hellenized form in its Latinized form. Then from the Latinized form, Mary was gotten. The name you gave was made up and cannot even be found in Egyptian language. /quote]

What rubbish is this ?

History upside down?

Mary is an English name
Wtf ?

What is the difference between Meri and Mary?

Isis was the original Meri ( the beloved). She carried the sacred seed in the Egyptian matrilineal hereditary system.
In ancient Egypt, the prince must marry a Meri, usually his stepsister or female relative who carries the Pharaohnic mitochondrial DNA. This DNA is passed from mother to daughter unchanged through infinite generations.
Therefore, the Egyptians understood that the true royal Pharaohnic seed resided and protected by the female daughters of the Meri( the sacred one).
So, Meri was a title, not a name.

Just like the male pharaohs, the Meri also attached her title to the patron god of the ruling Pharaoh.
So, we find Meri-Kiba, Meri-Aten and of course, the most widely known, Meri- Ammon, from whence we get MeriAm.

So, in case you didn't know, Mariam is just an abbreviation of Meri-Ammon, beloved of Ammon or Ammen ( I am sure you remember Ammen from your Lord's prayer )

The ancient Hebrews, who borrowed almost their entire religious culture from Egypt, kept this tradition by maintaining a sacred bloodline of Meri's. A prince had to marry a Meri to become a legitimate King.
We see this played out in the biblical story of Joseph marrying a Meri to produce an heir to the throne of Israel. We see the same theme in the story of Meri-Magdaline or More correctly, Meri of Magdala( the sacred virgin of Magdala) anointing the feet of Jesus ( crown prince of Israel) with sacred perfume in a sacred marriage ritual.

Meri was Latinized to Maria and latter anglicized to Mary.

Meri was the original title of sacred royal women that goes all the back to the first Meri, mother Isis, the beloved one.

DIKEnaWAR:
He is still living in denial by blaming those 'around' Buhari. When he wakes up to reality, he'd realise that Buhari is actually incompetent and unprepared to lead this country.


The said people that hijacked the government because they know Buhari is unaware of so many things. He knows next to nothing about governance and is an economic illiterate!(Apologies to Junaid Mohammed).

Nigeria is adrift and will continue so for as long as Buhari is in power. What we did is like resurrecting a million year old Egyptian mummy to lead our country - It had been dead and out of touch with reality for a million years and cannot function in todays world -

I couldn't have said it better.

omenka:
If you like, spit a gallon of saliva and soak garri with it- I will still call the terrorist organisation and their Red Albino Bonobo Monkey Dilector iPod.

You and the other yoot have had your two seconds of attention.

Adios amigos.

The joke is on you ,buddy.

I am trying to find a befitting psychology syndrome that best describes you.

At the end, PITIFUL is the best I can come up with.

omenka:
I will call it iPod. Anyone who doesn't like it can go to hell.

Funny, I have never heard you call the murderous Fulani herdsmen that are periodically killing your Benue kinsmen any mocking names.

But here you are , on every thread with a mention of Biafra or Nnamdi Kanu, who, by the way, has not killed a single soul.

Common sense should dictate that you pay more attention, spend more sleepless nights, worrying about about the blood thirsty invaders of your family farmlands and estates than the dreams and aspirations of Nnamdi Kanu.

Physicist:
CBN and Nigerian banks have been defrauding Nigerians remitting money home. On the other hand, the government officials in Nigeria are taking money out of Nigeria. For example, someone sends $100 from United States to his sibling in Nigeria through Moneygram. CBN and Nigerian banks pay the recipient 30,000 Naira at a rate of 300 Naira to a Dollar. The banks officials and CBN officials now sells the 100 Dollars to the black market through back door at 375 Naira to a Dollar. The officials now make 7500 Naira on 100 Dollars or 75 Naira per dollar. An estimated 20 billion dollars is officially remitted to Nigeria annually according to World Bank by Nigerian Diasporas. Therefor ethe Nigerian government, CBN officials and bank officials are making a profit of 20Billion*75 = 1.5 Trillion Naira each year from the Nigerian Diasporas. There was a time recipients in Nigeria could receive their Moneygram or WesternUnion gifts from their loved ones on Dollars. CBN and the Nigerian government cancelled the option.
What is the most annoying is that almost all the remittances back to Nigeria are done by Southerners. In short Nigerian government, CBN officials and Nigerian banks officials are making illegal and illicit money on the back of Southerners abroad to spend. CBN should allow recipients to receive money in Dollars.

You hit the nail right on the head.

It's a parasitic existence.

Did you notice that it was Soludo that made it possible for Western Union and MoneyGram recipients to receive their remittances in foreign currency?
And guess who reversed that policy in favour of First Bank? The current Emir of Kano, Sanusi.

You can see that these two previous CBN governors had different worldviews.

Everything in Nigeria is built on a foundation of Fraud.
That is the problem.
That is we keep going in a merry-go-round.

This is not only hilarious, but very very sad.

So, in less than a month, the CBN is harpooning the much celebrated forex policies that it announced just about a month ago ?
Isn't this schizophrenia?

So, we are stuck with a dual exchange rate monetary policy till eternity? The same exchange rate policy that encourages corruption at every level, that robs the public to pad the coffers of the banks?

sukkot:
brother ? like i said, west africa is the western portion of a land mass called africa. it is not a lineage. people come from other people, they dont come from the land, they just live on the land.

You're invoking infinite regression of sorts.
If we do that, then we have to only point out where the first human seed sprung up.

Yes, humans have been migrating from one place to the other since the first human seed sprang up in East Central Africa several million years ago.

But at least we know most people are tied to their soil, their climate and their vegetations.

We of the West African origins, our body physiology are intricately linked to our geography, our climate, and our soil and vegetations.

This is proof that we adapted and have been evolving in this general area for at least the past 250,000 yrs.

sukkot:
no such thing as west african. africa is the name of the land mass not the people. its like me living in oshodi and you ask me what my lineage is and i say i am oshodian. i hope you see where i am coming from. there is no such thing as a west african lineage. who are your people from ? where do they trace to ? gerrit ?

We could similarly ask where were the ancient Egyptians from ?
Atlantis or Mars?

West Africans, the people of whose ancestral origins are in the geographical region known as west Africa, have peculiar physical features and genetic markers that are clearly identifiable.
Infact, sickle cell disease is the evolutionary marker that places West Africans in West Africa going back hundreds of thousands, if not a million years.


Follow the evolutionary genetics.
They don't lie.

sukkot:
a lil example of what i am talking about. now it is well documented history that before the arabs and whites took over egypt during the ptolemy and alexander the not so great era, that ancient egypt was a black country. when those arabs and whites invaded like hundreds upon hundreds of years ago is when the blacks ran into west africa. the ancient egyptians were the yorubas / benin and they ran to what we call lagos state today. now the capital of egypt is cairo. what does cairo mean ? cairo means mars aka the god of war. now from that article you gave me it says eko is from war camp which is the same as mars the god of war which is the same as cairo. so that article just established the link between yorubas and ancient egypt and that they are / were a warrior people. thats just the surface but like i said ? behind names lies many deep secrets

Lol.
Success has many relatives.
Failure is an orphan.

Everyone wants to claim Egyptian lineage. No one wants to be original West African.

Anyways, claiming Egyptian origins is still far far better than those black African morons that call themselves Hebrews or children of Abraham.

sunnyb0b0:
What do you know? Naira has depreciated to about N294 from N199 in the official market meaning that every $ the FG earns is sold for N294 against N199 previously. So, for every N199 earned initially, they are now earning N294. So the naira earnings would increase even if actual earning in $ didn't.

For example, if the govt earned $2bn in the previous month, that would be N398bn while the same earning of $2bn today would be N588bn.

You gerrit?

Thank you jare.

I was just about to remind them that federal government just got almost 50% more Naira for every US$ they earned I'm the last month.

So naturally, they have more Naira to share.
This increase is not an indication of any positive economic activity.

MzPecs:
http://www.informationng.com/2016/07/12-things-buhari-govt-is-doing-to-revive-nigerian-economy-adeosun.html

Lalasticlala

Haba!!
Aunty Kemi.

The elections were over a year and half ago.

You're still distributing UNICORN meat to the zombies

Shame on you.

If wishes were true, I would wish a chartered plane carrying these 36 fools to Germany would crash in the Sahara desert, they would all survive the crash, but stranded in the middle of the Sahara desert for at least 10 days.
Those of them who survive the ordeal might grow to Appreciate what the average citizen goes through just to survive.

HardMirror:
She obviously studied chemistry in the church

Lol.


Let's keep reminding them that Sunday school is not SCHOOL.

I said it that the N6 trillion budget proposal was a huge joke, a stuuuupid but very cruel joke on Nigerians.
I said it.

Only people who couldn't count 123 properly would cheer a padded N6 trillion budget at a period when government revenue from our only exportable product is down 70%.

It was the budget proposal that really really exposed and confirmed this government as a bunch of delusional jokers who have ZERO, ZILCH, to add to the advancement of Nigeria.
The blind leading the blind.

To make matters even worse, they continue to NAUSEATE us daily with their sheer dishonesty.

herzern:
If science knows everything and have every power.....Science should have been able to explain what exactly is inside the SUN

Laughing out loudly.

aressssa:
Legitimate question or not, I'v answered your question and also dispelled the writers tribal and ethnic baiting idiotic nonsense.


The fact that the ignorant writer wrote his ethnic baiting trash based on ignorance and tribalism doesn't mean Yoruba people stopped have stopped June 12 activities and remembrance.






And the preacher's death in Abuja is a law enforcement issue. Law enforcement in Nigeria is not rooted in the SW by law, it's National so why take the law into our own hands to dispense justice and I don't even know what you are demanding? Demonstration, protests, fights, blowing things up and destruction?

What exactly are you and the ignorant and ethnic writer suggesting?

You see?

You have , after all, answered the question as best as you could.
That's all that was needed.

All the squabble about the OP's motives were not necessary.

ayindejimmy:
Now, if this an opionated forum u'll learn to respect nd tolerate hw other ethnic react to issues without using insultive words, dnt u tink so?

I wholeheartedly agree, and apologize if anything I posted was misconstrued as an insult.
It wasn't my intention.

Allann:
Exactly bro, that's where the deliverance of this sleeping giant called Nigeria lies. All the tribes/regions in nigeria know that there is injustice but there is no unity of approach in tackling it.

Thank you and a million likes.
An injustice against one is an injustice against All.
If you want to know the real character of friend, just watch how he or she treats .

ayindejimmy:
i've read ur mentions. I3 u cant debate witout insulting some1, pls, go to 2go.
Yorubas dnt hate and are nt abt to start 4 any reason. Check our history.
We can vividly see tru the the op's deceptiv veil of ethnic demonizatn and cynical tendency, so u both shuld spare us the sermon.

You too have chosen to focus on the messenger and ignoring the message.

I didn't see anything in the original OP that advocated ethnic hatred, bitterness or violence.

For example, what happened to June 12?
Abiola was surely Nigeria's true martyr for democracy.

How come all of a sudden there was a deafening silence last month on June 12th?
Has Abiola's martyrdom been traded for Buhari's Messiahship?

This is a valid question that must be asked.

If you can't answer it, then kindly move on and let another person attempt to.
This is an opinion forum. Not everyone comes here for war.

aressssa:
No, I did not miss anything and I based my post strictly on the writers misguided views and ethnic baiting sentiments.


Where is the sense and wisdom in asking why the SW is responding or not responding this or that way.

Who arrogated to the writer the right to judge or question how ethnic groups should respond to issues especially obvious National issues?

The murdered preacher remains a national and law enforcement issue, not any kind of issue to handle any other way.

The writer basically echoed the same destructive and pointless sentiments by his kind we read on NL everyday

Before telling other people what, to do or how to respond to anything, you should first show them how handling issues the way you prefer and suggested have worked for you or any society under the sun, how it progressed and developed your land and how it made you economically and politically relevant.

A discussion on Nairaland should be similar to the type of discussions I have with my friends everyday.

In fact, my very good southwest friends hVe boasted many times to me that the southwest elites are the champions of democratic struggle, social justice and the triumph of the rule law in Nigeria.
And I completely concur.

Now, tell me, what is wrong with me going back to my southwest friends and asking them what the heck is going on? Why are the southwest champions of social justice and the rule of law now on sabbatical?

This is a legitimate question.
Should my friends now feel offended that I asked ?

There is no reason for you to feel offended, irrespective of who is doing the asking.

aressssa:
Seriously, the OP basically regurgitated the same ethnic and tribe baiting ways of ibo people which Yoruba people have always sidestepped and refused to swallow, we are just not into such stupidity, foolish, thoughtless and destructive ways of thinking and self destructive resolutions which have incapacitated ibo people and other purveyors of ethnic and bigoted sentiments and emotions.

What happened to the preacher in Abuja was sad and unfortunate and even reprehensible, but this is a law enforcement issue, this is what law enforcement should be allowed to handle, this is what people do in sane and rational societies. What do we have to gain by taking the law into our own hands, acting destructive, fighting and blowing up or cities and promoting lawlessness.

MKO passed away decades ago, but should we have started endless war, destruction and anarchy in our own land, should we have destroyed what we spent decades to build just because ibo people respond to such issues with thoughtlessness, insanity, hate, bigotry, enmity and everlasting anger that's so far incapacitated the entire ibo race and prevented them from moving forward?


Our ways work for us and we don't have to be like you, we don't feed on paranoia, we don't feed on anger, we don't feed on hatred and we know when and how to handle our issues, we pick our own battles, you don't.


Before telling other people what to do or how to respond to anything, you should fist show them how handling issues the way you prefer and suggested have world for you.

Obviously, your ways never worked for you, it's been destructive, it fed you nothing but hatred, anger and bitterness which we are not.

Anger, hate and bitterness doesn't create conducive environment for peaceful coexistent like the one you enjoy in Yorubaland, it doesn't create jobs, like the jobs you troop to the SW to make a living with, it doesn't develop any society, it doesn't lead to investments like we attract in the SW than any other region in Nigeria.


The ibo writer is a know hate mongering and bigoted peddler of ethnic baits which excites only his kind...

You still miss the point.
I am sticking with the core issues of the OP, not what might be his motives.

The reason I responded is because I too have been pondering same, even debating with my close southwest friends. If we can't honestly discuss and address issues without invoking ethnic hatred, then what's the point of saying we are citizens of the same nation?

Nobody, certainly not me, is talking about or insinuating violence and bitterness.
We , I especially, am lamenting what I am Missing from the usually outspoken southwestern elites on relevant and vexing national issues.

I still can't figure out how this valid curiosity constitute ethnic baiting, disrespect or hatred towards the southwest.
This is a question that southwest youths should be asking their elders.
And many of them have already started asking.