₦airaland Forum

BigBashiru:
The statistics speak for themselves. There are less deaths in Nigeria. From the onset, UK had more casualties from covid-19 and continues to have more casualties from covid-19 yet FG took a practical approach with them. UK flights to Nigeria should be indefinitely banned until they can contain their pandemic. Enough of white worshipping and inferiority complex.

Just hear yourself.
According to statistics?
A country that doesn't know how many policemen it has, or how many hospitals and health workers it has can actually tell you how many covid-19 deaths you have throughout the country?
Do you actually believe that there are less deaths in Nigeria?
Does your government have a unified database of covid-19 test results, hospilizations and deaths? The answer is No
So I don't know which statistics you're referring to .

But even for the benefit of this discussion, you do have lower covid-19 deaths than the UK, is that your excuse to act oblivious to the health dangers that a global pandemic poses to your nation?

Who in Nigeria trusts the Nigerian government to do anything to protect lives? .
Why then do we become defensive and combative when other nations give the sane vote of no confidence to our government?

BigBashiru:
"“If they don’t allow our citizens to go into their countries who are their airlines coming to pick from our country?" - this does not sound to me like a knee jerk reaction at all.

On any flight in or out of any international Airport in Nigeria, Nigerian passengers outnumber foreign passengers by a ratio of 9 to 1.
Therefore, any punitive sections against international airline travel in Nigeria would negatively affect Nigerians 9 to 1 against foreign travelers.
But, I couldn't possibly expect our cow-brain decision makers to be able to do that simple math.

justosee:
How many people are dying in Nigeria.

Bingo!!
That is exactly the type of mentally indolent attitude that fuels the societal dysfunction that the world can see .
A Dystopian Paradise .

You have made my argument for me.

justosee:
This is the only good thing Buhari has done. How can those who brought Covid-19 be banning us from going to their countries? Africa need to wake up.

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They banned us because they know that we don't have any kind of system in place to checkmate a new and more lethal variant. Nigerians , from the citizens up to the leaders have been acting like the pandemic was over . They see our dysfunctional system. They see how our dysfunctional system endangers them. They act to protect their citizens.
On the other hand, what has Nigerian government done to protect its citizens from any danger? Zero
Nigerian government only acts knerjerk to protect its own bruised ego, not protect its citizens. If the Nigerian government were sensitive to the plight of its citizens, it would carefully consider the impact a retaliatory measure would harm Nigeria citizens home and abroad.

starbuck:
A case of DO ME I DO YOU and 1ST TO DO NO DEY PAIN

For a country that does not have an airline ?

Reading what most people have posted here, I must say that Nigeria is a very cruel , soulless country with even more cruel , soulless citizens in the majority.
The way society treats and oppresses women and children says volumes about that society and where it is going.
No wonder that providence curses Nigeria with equally cruel and soulless leaders.

chichar1:
Ogbeni speak for your self.

I am speaking for myself and every Igbo person that I happen to know.
These delusional assemblage of psychopaths are an embarrassment to my race, and help feed the stereotype that Igbos are impulsive and non- strategic thinkers .

kid23:
Because the people see hope in what they are agitating for, they trust them more than t by the e government.
Blood murder thing is not of IPOB doing, no terrorists in the world deny its actions.

BS.
Everyone in Igboland is sick and tired of Ipob.
No one sees any hope in IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’s personality cult.

kid23:
IPOB is not a country but an organization agitating for a separate country. You don't compare the two.

If it is just an organization, why do they make rules and impose them on ordinary people who are nonmembers, and enforcing such rules with maximum force, including cold blooded murder ?
That is the definition of a terrorist organisation.

alanto:
Would you give your children to a mentally unstable woman? What’s wrong with you? Does that woman sound like someone there capable of raising children? Did you read all the allegations she leveled against her ex lover. No sane person will say all those things. She even said she didn’t conceive through sex for the man. I shame for you I swear. It’s not every time that you do solidarity. Sometimes just use common sense. Until it’s confirmed medically that the woman is fit to raise children on her own. I wouldn’t advise she gets custody of those children.

Sharap dia.
I was stunned and very impressed with that woman's poise and articulation. I thought she was a bimbo until I watched that interview.
If you are intelligent enough to study people, study how they use words to articulate points, and body language, you could easily see that the woman was genuine, sincere and definitely not coached to make the points that she did. Aside from all the issues she finely articulated, DO YOU NOT already know that FFK is a basket case ?
Any man, an Ivey league school graduate, who's only literary contribution to humanity is a book about all the women he had slept with ought to strike you as a chronic narcissistic psychopath. FFK has , in many occasions, shown the whole world what a sociopath that he is. A man that is not only estranged to his 3 former wives, but also to all his 4 daughters ought to strike you as a man with very deep irredeemable psychological issues .
Infact, Chinwendu confirmed to all of us every weird thing we had suspected of FFK.
For good example, The Title of his auto biography was already screaming to us that the poor wretched soul was impotent. Chinwendu only just confirmed it.
The Real tragedy for all of us is that in this god-forsaken country, a psychopath like FFK and many many like him , get to be a minister, a political jobber, and dines at the corridors of power.

kettykings:
No need for this

It is very relevant and poignant.

Each time I think about India's ascension from being a third world basket case 4 decades ago, to being the foremost nurturer and exporter of Brainpower today, I cannot but also think of how Nigeria descended so far from being one of the nations with greatest potentials in the world the same 4 decades ago to being the number one basket case today in 2021.
India equalized by embracing science education and investing heavily on it. Nigeria, on the hand, doubled down on its investment in primitive stone superstitions from the middle East. There are 10x more religious denominations in our tertiary institutions than are academic or science clubs.
Our entire educational system is suffused with so much religious crap. Our pupils spend more time memorizing and reciting stone age religious crap from the middle than they do studying the Periodic Table and basic science.
As man thinketh, and so he lives,..and the same for nations.
Garbage in , garbage out.

Hey, we are not envious of India as the world's foremost Exporter of Brainpower.

After all, while the most influential high-tech companies in the world are headed by Indians, Nigeria too exports Brainpower. The most influential Megachurches in the world , hawkers of stone age primitive superstitions, are headed by Nigerians.
Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oyahkilome, Odukoya, Oshimolowo, etc. Nigeria's gift to the world .

BlackSpanner:
. Naija on daily cruise. Covid 419 affected the fight against kwaruption.
Covid 419 has led to hike in prices of goods and services in the country bla bla bla bla. Too much excuses and blame games till the tenure comes to and end.

Once again, Buhari shows us that he was never qualified to be a General in the Nigerian army , talkless of head of state and president.
A man, a father and former General that can never ever in his life take responsibility for anything . Blame Jonathan, blame Obasanjo , blame IBB, blame Gowon, Ojukwu, the British, the youths, even God, and now covid19 for all his failures, says so much for this pathetic excuse of a leader.

Audacious19:
You people have started again..
At op since you think you're rational enough what have you done for the common man with ur rationality..
What effort have you made offline to effect the growth or the quality of leadership we having.

Here we go again with the ad hominem crowd .
Ad hominen knee-jerk responses are usually indications that the poster is incapable if articulating a reasonable argument.

Ahmading:
My brothers it's not just religion but lack of basis education.this is one of the drawback of democracy. Where the vote of drug addict is same with that of a professor,Bishop ,imam.or royal fathers.
When you look at our traditional settings we have kings makers . who's responsibilities is to pick the right person. Because a poor man don't know what the want.
For it to work the level of education must be upgraded. Thanks

It is religion, my friend.
In Nigeria, the basic education you talk about starts with the heavy and compulsory infusion of stone age religious superstitions. Before we could even begin to articulate our own thoughts, our entire psyche suffused and traumatized with stone age myths. Thereafter, our entire worldview is built on the foundations of superstitions.

nams77:
Na wa.

Has Nairaland become so pathetic that this is the kind of headlines that make front page ?

Dottore:
What is their offence just asking? Catholics carry all manner of statues up and down with long procession and incense burning and lots of paraphernalia in their altars. Same as white Garment churches

I am asking the same question.
White garment Church people do all manners of fetishes in rivers and streams. Who is arresting them ?

So if I go into the bush or river to perform homages and rites to Amadioha, Does that mean that I am breaking any law that might warrant my arrest ?

AlexBells:
"Ask not what your counntry can Do For you, ask what you can do for your country" by John F Kenedy.

Everyday Nigerians yearns for a better country where citizens would not just eat three square meals a day but also with chicken and some fine wines.

I really can't boast of what the past have left us but I want a country where my children would be proud of the sacrifices my generation had made, if you want a better country and a better future there MUST be a price to it.

Petrol Subsidy Removal is the first step to getting it right in Nigeria, Note, any aspiring politician in Nigeria MUST borrow Buhari's left ear which he don't like to hear with otherwise you would lose focus soon enough.

Nothing had escalated corruption in the Nigerian history more than Petrol subsidy becuase by that every Nigerian became corrupt, virtually everyone is stealing from the treasury for every litre of petrol.

You might think that the biggest corrupt practices in Nigeria is the crooked allocation of oil wells but the biggest dollars are signed off through this subsidy, and subsidy did not just harm the petrochemical industries it harmed virtually everything.

Petrol Barron are crooks who would suply any amount of gasoline becuase the pay is directly from the national purse and Nigerians over use things that are dependent on petroleum because they don't understand how much they burn from the national purse each time that generator set is powered up.

Nigeria does not refine our crude oil part of the reason is because big petrol importers sabotage efforts to get our refineries working, what about electricity generation this same crazy affordability of petrol had equipped every home with generator set and people don't bother to put pressure on the government to generate more electricity apart from that, the same big conglomerate sabotage these efforts.

Now I know that Nigeria is a very crazy and densely corrupt country, but the reality is that everyone wants to be corrupt in this country, in fact everyone is corrupt, you can't be pointing fingers at the bigger fish when you want to steal over #200 from every litre of petrol you buy, if you look at it very well you figure out that in a month, an average Nigerian could have stolen more than #2000 from the country.

Don't even come here shouting how there is no job, really we export crude oil quite alright, then corrupt politicians and other chiefs would steal then we little people at the bottom steal then tell me how much would be left of our forex to achieve any meaningful thing.

Abroad remittances had been very significant becuase unlike us who stays here, abroad people don't steal from the country, yet they send back some money.

Irrespective of whatsoever reason I give, Nigerians would still prefer that subsidy stays but it is nothing but exhibition of an inherent corruption and unless the subsidy is removed when next you count list of corrupt Nigerians do remember to count yourself, we can't eat our cake and have it back subsidy is either removed today or we pay massive loans tomorrow.

I wish there was a better word to describe this post other than jaundiced, half-baked .

Ending subsidy without tackling the issues that make subsidy possible would be daft, but not surprising for this type of government that we have been cursed with.

Nigeria pays billions of dollars/Naira for fuel subsidy for one simple reason:
As the 6th largest producer of crude in the world and one of the lowest cost producers, we do not refine our low-cost crude for domestic consumption. That is one of the greatest mysteries and tragedy of the modern century.

After 6 good years in Office, The greatest achievement for Buhari , despite his overwhelming ineptitude and failures in every aspect of governance , WOULD HAVE BEEN to get our 3 Refineries up to capacity to supply the domestic petroleum needs.

Subsidy exists because Nigeria/NNPC has to pay importers international price( USD) for refined petroleum products, and then sells it at a cheaper price to domestic consumers. So the higher the international price of oil , the more the FG pays in subsidy. Also, the weaker the Naira against the USD, the more the FG pays in subsidy.

The only solution would be for Nigeria's refineries to produce enough refined petroleum to meet domestic needs. Then as a low cost producer and refiner of petroleum products, NNPC would be able sell refined petroleum at COST to Nigerians, thereby eliminating the need for any kind of subsidy.

Another important, but very much overlooked issue is the issue of power supply. As a result of poor power supply, Nigerians Burn Billions and Billions of litres of SUBSIDIZED FUEL to power their generators everyday.
Just try to do a mental calculation of how many generators there are in Nigeria and how many hours each one burns , and how many litres of fuel burned each day, and then multiply that by the amount of subsidy per litre of fuel.
You would then realize that Nigeria is perhaps the only Nation in the entire universe that purposefully burn Billions of Naira everyday, and then runs to China the next day to borrow more.

Nigeria is Truly a Dystopian Paradise.

Only the government in power has the power to get our refineries fully functional, If ONLY THEY HAD THE WILL TO SO.

Unfortunately, Buhari has ZERO will to do any hard work for Nigeria.
He has never had, even during his first Missionless journey in governance in 1983.

We tend to forget that despite all his pretenses, Buhari is and has always been part and parcel of the Nigerian parasitic Oligarchy.
As such , he would never do anything meaningful to dislodge his parasitic base from their feeding tubes.

EazyMoh:
Stop overreacting. Nobody is abandoning anything. He can simply defer a session or two at most and would come back to finish it. There are countless number of people parading the same Degree certificate struggling to get a 20k job. Unemployment in Nigeria is at an alarming rate and a Degree certificate does not guarantee anything.

Stop deluding yourself.
Anyone who purposely got a university education just for the sake of a job is entirely missing the whole point about education.
Education is its own reward, not necessarily a means to a salary . An educated mind is equipped ( not sure if that's case with Nigerian education though) with broader mental skills and versatility with which to navigate a complex and changing world. As such, the person has far greater vocational and career options.

Education is not about walking around with certificates looking for a job, it's more about molding a mind to be focused and versatile, and having options.
By dropping out of school, he greatly limits his future options in life.
And he should not delude himself with the idea of going back to school later, because that hardly ever works out for anyone, talkless of a low ranking, lowly paid police corporal in the Nigerian police force.

Asagaguy:
What course are you studying at UI? If it's not science related course , just jettison your studies and go for the police job.once you are into the job, jettison their code of conduct and focus on how to cash out using the uniform as a leverage

Horrible advice.
Extremely short-sighted too.

Asagaguy:
once you are into the job, jettison their code of conduct and focus on how to cash out using the uniform as a leverage

You mean leverage the uniform and Gun to extort and rob citizens on the road ?

Wow! and we wonder why Nigeria is so rotten

lalajnr:
wipe out this thrash that you dropped here


What's education for you. Only in Nigeria that you see people going to school just to secure job. Education cannot give you money but it can help to be productive.


Education didn't give Obi Cubana money but it help him to be productive and successful


So OP should better complete his education before thinking about other stuff after all if he go for police na korofo he go end


Be wise man

Thank you Jare.
Nigerians are sooo short-sighted.

Internet22:
Guy, I will advice you to take the job and forget about degree for now except you're studying a professional course that guarantee job after graduation. Getting job now is very difficult, having a degree is now equivalent to having an SSCE result.
Though the constable pay is not much, but you'll appreciate yourself later on in future when you see you fellow classmates

Ditching a Degree in place joining the Nigerian police force as recruit would probably be the dumbest thing anyone can do. Even if his dream is to be a police officer, a university degree would place him in much more better position and future options in the police force.
Education is its own reward. Even if an education doesn't guarantee you a suit and tie job in Nigeria, it would certainly give him broader options in the future in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.
Abandoning the pursuit of a university degree to be a Nigerian police corporal would be the dumbest move in anyone's lifetime. A lifetime of regret awaits him he chooses that path.

RuggedBiafran:
Why you miscreants are easy to decode is so pathetic. Who dash you IGBO Blood??

Can You ever substitue an Apple for an Orange??

What is the obsession with claiming IGBO and later fuulling yourself in the public domain of vast opinions??

You are obviously ashamed of your useless ethnic background that is why you can't even spell a basic IGBO word correctly.


IPOB lifted sit at home and people came out to vote and your useless APC miscreant slave lost woefully as anticipated...now you are lamenting and spilling blood from you cancerous mouth. If Those IGBO women could reject #5,000 that should show you that even in death and hunger...IGBO people have principles...you cant be a zombie and expevt IGBO people to be loyal to you. Nnamdi Kanu is not even wealthy but even the wealthy IGBO people are loyal to the dictates of IPOB...So lament all you want ..you are just a Grade A zombie ..i made famous by talking to...spits

IGBO wannabe zombe ...Its TUFIAKWA...NOT TIFIAKWA...and dont claim typo because no sane igbo man or woman would be foolish as you ...spits!!

You IPOB retards have a tunnel vision, which has always been your undoing. If paid attention to any of the points I have made, it shouldn't matter where I am from. Common sense can come from anyone.

I am a bona fide son of the Igbo soil. If you doubt it, then Go to my profile and read my posts over the last 3 years to see how vigorously I had defended IPOB and MNK here on Nairaland, and even offline.

My awakening just came recently when you brainless fools started your compulsory lockedowns, enforced with maximum force and shedding of Igbo blood.
That's when I realized that for whatever bravery I admired of Nnamdi Kanu, he had created a big, ugly MONSTER, a Frankenstein that is now the biggest threat to the peace and freedom of the Igbo people.

When the FG labeled IPOB a terrorist organisation, I, like many Igbos, fumed and abused them online and offline.
But to my greatest shock and to shock of every Igbo sons and daughters, IPOB seem to have taken a cue from the FG, and have since done everything to convince the whole world that they earned the title of terrorists.

I have taken a few times to listen to IPOB broadcasts ,and each time I did, I felt sick in my stomach. The absolute trash coming out of the mouths of those very daft psychopaths who call themselves DOS would be a great comedy if they were not so tragically sad.

You bunch have become abominable , and an embarrassment to the Igbo race. Stop deluding yourselves that you're fighting for Igbo people. Right now, You're fighting for your cult leader. Simple.
And please, stop sacrificing the lives of Igbo people.

Whatever is the outcome of MNK current situation, history would definitely give him a little credit for bravery and speaking truth to power when no else dared to. But the same history would also judge him harshly for the Monstrosity he had created, and the damage it is doing to the Igbo psyche.

As IPOB is currently rudderless, structureless, broke, filled with internal strifes, infigting, backstabbing and even accusations of embezzlement, the lot of you retards and psychopaths would eventually return to your criminal dens. But the damage you have done to the Igbo psyche, peace and freedom, would take a long time to heal.

May the Igbo Soil perpetually curse anyone who shackles the Igbo spirit or sheds Igbo blood in the name of IPOB or MNK .

RuggedBiafran:
@bolded ...You are actually a bastardd terrorist supporting uncircumcised miscreant...Fulani herdmen will locate you and your family and you will call them brothers...spits!!

Who told you that if IGBO want to counter IPOB they wont?....but because you miscreants are programmed to be senseless and depend on Government for every facet of your useless existence you are aghast that IPOB ...is challenging a government that has structured you to be a fuul? get a life loser...no matter the useless propaganda you miscreants put out ..IPOB has left "Local foolishness" for you miscreants ...IPOB has taken the war to the internation stage and that is why reasonable nations have refused to call them terrorist....ISNT it pathetic that the fuulish "mannequin" you call a leader couldnt call IPOB terrorist at the UN general Assembly??...But dilapidated zombie miscreants like you "litter" the internet with IPOB are terrorist mantra....You are a blazing "Mooroon" and i aint surprised, because to be employed by "Buhari the useless mannequin" ..you must be a FUUL. ...spits!!

Get the fuuuccck outta hia....zombie

Lol.
You are free to fight Buhari and Fulani all you want. But stop claiming that you're fighting for Igbos. We thought so and stood by you and MNK all along.
But we don't buy that lie anymore. You're just an assembly of brainwashed cult followers, for whom your cult leader, MNK, become the sole object of your existence and worship.
We gave up on you mor.ons the moment you started terrorizing fellow Igbos and forcing your so-called laws on them. Who gave IPOB the legitimate right to enforce anything in Igboland?

Look up the dictionary definition of Terrorism. You might actually realize that You have become the Terror in Igboland that you claimed to protecting us from.
You have become an abomination in Igboland, your own home.
Tifiakwa!!

RuggedBiafran:
People have shown they voluntarily want to sit at home ..because they believe Nnamdi Knau....and he has been proved right!!

That is how people voted for Buhari foolishly and they see the negative results....Nnamdi Kanu was proved right again

Yaribaa zombies supported Tinubu....and he failed them totally..

Nnamdi Kanu is an enigma..and the people that decide to sit at home because of his trail from a Government that supports GUMI should be applauded...

Its that simple...ZOMBIES AND TERRORIST HATE NNAMDI KANU...

Bullshyt.
I don't even a single person that wants to sit at home.
People are sitting at home because of the FEAR of you bastard terrorists and the violence you inflict on the very people you mo.rons claim to be fighting for.

Nigeria is a Dystopian paradise.

A country ruled , unfortunately, by 13th century nomads, a people whom time left behind.
A country that strangulates its people, especially its young, its future.

TheRareGem1:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-to-create-21-million-jobs-lift-35-million-nigerians-out-of-poverty-by-2025-%e2%80%95-osibanjo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Baba.
Since 2014, you have been selling Unicorn meat to Nigerians.
7 yrs later, we are still asking- where is the beef ?

ActuaRise696969:
A lot.

All we have to do is integrate the eNaira to China's promoted mCBDC bridge for cross border payments and every importer infact everyone will be able to send eNaira to the bridge and its automatically converts to eyuan instantly and you import machineries for production.

Two things will happen.
1. You won't need to buy dollar to import
2. You can easily buy machineries for production and so import with be reduced so dollars will be less needed.

Who ever has much dollars should sell. It's about to go cheap once a bridge for cross border payment is integrated.
I could write about how to increase the velocity of money by accelerating the technologies and building platforms to accelerate integration.

I was not excited about Nigeria until today. I can't wait to design systems for this.

PoS businesses will really help to mop up the old legacy naira into this so there is new type of merchant business kiosks will spring up and after years will die cos we won't need PoS anymore after the mop up phase. Taxing will be easy, tracking will be superb. And trading platform built around this can be monitored. There SEC must design a legit trading platform or illegal players will take over the space. Whether SEC builds it or not, they need to back builders and legalize it, and tax it. It is will bring massive prosperity to the intelligent

This sounds too much like Unicorn Meat.

Too much promises from a system that is basically good at nothing.
In whatever way you do a transaction, especially in global trade, there must always be an exchange rate mechanism. Enaira will be as useful or or useless as the Underlying currency. You make it sound like the Dollar is the problem. A weak naira against the Euro, Pounds, Dollar will also make the e-naira weak against the Won, Yen and CFA, etc.

I'm still not sure how E-naira is supposedly going to help improve trade or the strenght of the Naira.

I remain skeptical.

Zeezenho:
Ogã no freedom movement is legal before it's oppressors.
Mandela was labelled a terrorist,was he? The answer is no.same with Zik,awo and every order freedom fighters and their organization. Mazi nnamdi KANU is no different.

About ipob killing its own people is a lie fabricated in hell.no ipob member have been convicted for any terro related crime anywhere.

They have right to defend themselves and by doing so does not make them a terror group because self defense is a fundamental right of both human and animals.

You can hate them all you want that will never stop them and their ideology.

So we have arrest and conviction an ipob member of terrorism before we can accept that Ipob is a terrorist organisation?
C'mon.
Is Ipob not terrorizing everyone in the East, for example, with their violently enforced sit-at home ? What is your definition of Terrorism.
You can save all that ill logic for your ipob simpletons.

And to let you know, until recently I strongly defended ipob and MNK on this forum and elsewhere, to the point of heated disagreements with my friends.
And for a long time, I didn't ever want to believe that IPOB would harm fellow Igbos in the name of Biafra MNK.
I never ever listened to radio Biafra because I thought it just garbage being dished out IPOB sheeples. The day I decided to listen for 30 mins of MNK and his minions was the day I got the greatest shock. IPOB in their broadcasts, are not shy about carrying out terrorists acts against perceived enemies in Igboland. That broadcast brought me to me senses. I since written them off as a bunch of dimwits, psychopaths, fraudsters and criminals. Unfortunately, in Igboland, they are showing their true colors.

gidgiddy:
Terrorism is based on violence, and violence must be an action, not spoken words. If this Professor is relying on whatever Nnamdi Kanu said, wether on radio Biafra or elsewhere, the courts will remind him that no amount of spoken words amounts to violence. This Professor Ivan better have credible evidence to show that IPOB commited acts of violence, or he will sell his liver to pay for damages

Terrorism is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

If you believe that illegally Forcing( by use of force) a population to stay at home and not go out to engage in lawful pursuits of work, business or school is not an act of terrorism under the definition of Terrorism, then you live in world that I and 98% Igbos do not ever want to live in.

gidgiddy:
IPOB's US Lawyer, Bruce Fein, has confirmed today in a press conference I watched, that he took Professor Ivan to court. So that one is confirmed

While everyone has a right to express their opinions, everyone one has the right to take anyone to court based on their expressed opinion, particularly when it is an opinion that is meant to be malicious, such as calling someone a terrorist

IPOB had repeatedly disassociated themselves from the violence this Professor blamed them for. Now the professor will have the opportunity to come to court to present the evidence he has that made him ask the US government to designate IPOB a terrorist group.

However, the US is not backward Nigeria where people are designated terrorists based on online gossip. This is not about bringing videos of dead people, burning vehicles and saying IPOB did it, courts dont operate on hear-say. He will have to prove IPOB did it. So if he likes let him go and get any video or audio recording he likes, if he cannot present any factual evidence, beyond hearsay and online gossip,
that IPOB did what he claimed they did, not only will he pay through the nose, he will lose all credibility along with that Newspaper he used

Good response. I commend you for that.

However, like said before, it is very very easy for Sheehan, if sued, to prove that Ipob is indeed a terrorist organisation.
All he has to do is site dictionary definition of Terrorism, and then replay just one of hundreds of Radio Biafra broadcasts by MNK or any of his minions to demonstrate in MNK's on lips, that IPOB fits 100% with the legal definition of terrorists. His star witness would of course be the Nigerian government, a legitimate government ( like them or not).

However, must importantly, a lawsuit is not a police action. It takes processes. In legal depositions, Ipob itself would come under the microscope. Much of their activities and finances would come under the microscope, all their skeletons and of their leadership would be publicly exposed. IPOB has much more to lose than the person they are purportedly suing.
It would just be one more own goal among dozens that Ipob dimwits score on a regular basis.

Zeezenho:
Let me lecture you on technicality of been peaceful.you defending yourself violently does not make you a violent person,because self defense is a right,not just a right but a fundamental one you get.

Ipob were always peaceful till they were attacked and killed in their numbers without remorse,they became defenceless and mocked even by you.
saying enough is enough and adoption of self defense is not a crime anywhere in the world except Nigeria.

Thank God the case is in America you will se the outcome just chill.

You are wrong on many fronts.
First of all, Ipob is not a legally constituted authority in any jurisdiction in Nigeria. Ipob started out as a legitimate protest movement, but today, it is similar to bokoharam in many ways. What makes Ipob more pernicious is that Ipob have turned their violent wrath on their own people, defenseless Igbos in their homeland. Even for a terrorist organisation, I cannot find anything more stupid.
IPOB’s claim to be defending Igbo interests is now hogwash. Ipob is nothing but a personal cult of MNK. MNK feeds the the mass illiterate and semiliterate followers trash, and they happily follow.
With MNK in chains now, we now know that Ipob had no structure, none at all. With contradicting voices, orders and counterorders, allegations of fraud, sabotage and mudslinging amongst the supposed leadership, it is obvious that Ipob is just another ponzi scheme using Biafra restoration as a selling point.