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Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by darazonian(m): 2:48pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
bilulu:I think something is wrong with you up stairs. for god sake, this is as simple as one plus one. but you find it elusive to understand because you have been brainwashed by enthnicity and sentiment. have you ever been to the north? 3 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Mogten(m): 2:54pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
bilulu:Have you any brains at all?! TF! you act too retarded for a human being. 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by trillville(m): 3:29pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
likila: So the governors of kogi, plateau and benue are Hausa Fulani? And all the senators in kwara and nassarawa are Hausa Fulani? Ignorance is truly a disease. 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by A7(m): 3:45pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
BishopMagic: Is Buni Yadi a christian community? Boys are slain in their dormitories and their corpses set ablaze. Is Katarko a christian community? Where students of college of Agric are butchered and shot on sight. Is Potiskum a christian community where bomb exploded on assembly ground killing many? Is Mamudo a christian community? Where students are burnt alive and shot in their hostels? For every one instance of attack on christians in the north, multitude of such incidents occured on Muslims, the chibok abduction for instance affect both Muslims and Christians, and Bh had kidnapped women in thousands where majority are Muslims. Muslims will gladly appreciate you channelling your attacks on BH only and suggesting ways to bring them down, the christian minorities you are instigating against Muslims are today in the ranks of civilian JTF together with the Muslims fighting Boko Haram. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 3:48pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Msquare220: This article was first written in ThisDay Newspapers. I wish you had cited the source. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/re-introducing-northern-nigeria-not-as-you-know-it/176756/ I also wish you had also inserted adequate spacing and punctuation marks in your article. By the time I got to the end of the article, I had eye-strain. There is a reason why tools like smilies, colours and fonts were included on NL. Kindly use them to make your article easier to read. Having said that, I am so thankful for this article for dispelling a few of the myths that have been held for so long about the North, by our Southern brothers. Each time I try to explain, that there are different strides of progress in various areas of the core North, and the almajiri problem, does not typify everyone in the North, a lot of them ignore me. It is amazing what prejudice can do to the minds of men. While I thank God for the improvement that education has brought to the life of your family and so many others, there is still a need to do far more in the North, to ensure that more children of the talakawas can enjoy the benefits of education, graduate with good degrees and use the knowledge they have acquired to improve themselves, their people, their communities and their state. The late Sardauna had a vision for education, that encompassed the whole of the North. Unfortunately, he was cut short before he could actualise most of it. It is sad that none of his lieutenants have been able to replicate and implement that dream. Msquare220: You are so-oo-oo right, brother. Pre-ea-ach it!! 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 3:52pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
trillville: Shey, you can see what I mean..? You are very correct! Ignorance is truly a disease. 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 3:58pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
otr1: Bros, I know exactly how you feel. But then, what you do is to either ignore them, or refute their allegations with fact, figures and data. What saddens me is that very few leaders in the North, have implemented adequate and appropriate development programmes that would improve the lot of their citizens and boost their welfare. I guess, that is why too many Southerners feel the North is backward. |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 4:01pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
dokiOloye: Very funny! Where did you get your moniker from?? |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by omoelesa(m): 4:15pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Religion extrimism is the bane of the north. |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by carnegiefan: 4:22pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
OP, the simplest way to solve this problem is to allow ethnicity to be part of the biometric information collected during census 2016. Tell your Northern brothers to stop fighting it. They are fighting it because it may show that Igbo (and not Hausa) are the single largest ethnic group in Nigeria. You cannot keep quiet at that deceit (when it favors you) and then turn around to blame us for calling you all Hausa/Fulani. You should complain about the political fallacy that the North is one -Hausa/Fulani- which you have used over the years to dominate Nigeria politically, and rule as you want. Let the truth be spoken even if heavens fall! 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by citizenY(m): 4:57pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
^^^^^^ Grow up... a vote is a vote... no colour no tribe.... Card reader is your friend. Is the SE monolithic YES/NO 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by DonXavi(m): 5:14pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
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Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Msquare220: 5:40pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
laudate:Thank you Sir, i'm sorry about the Source, line spacing, proper punctuation marks, not using of tools, colours and smiley. Lastly I'm sorry for the asthenopia, pray for relieve. 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by otr1(m): 6:16pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Afam4eva:Most probably because most Southerners sees anything "North" as backward and Northerners as Moslems, Hausas and people who cheat their ways to the top. People who display this kind of ignorance that I know personally, have one thing in common; they've not travelled much. 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Kingspin(m): 6:16pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Op, am ok with what u stated above but i cant agree less that u people join hands indirectly to some greater issues about Nigeria. What am i saying? Why do the like of Atiku, IBB, BUHARI, KANO state and few segregated individual decisions overshadow the entire 19 Northern states? I mean we need to see clearly a cut view/opinion of the NE,Ncentral and the rest as regard to Nigerian co-existence and development. 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Nobody: 6:28pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
That's how they tell you it's all nice and sweet until they put a dagger to your throat. 4 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by ItsMeAboki(m): 7:07pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
EasternLion: By the same token: Nyamiri or Flat Head na legit animal Abeg, make una help me judge: persin wey dey use leg kick im papa wake from sleep na persin? persin wey dey rape dem mothers & grand mothers na persin? persins wey dey breed themselves for baby factories like animals na persin? persins wey dey make dem widows drink dead body water na persin? persin wey dey sell im own pickin for money na persin? persin wey dey chop another human being as food na persin? Persins wey dem born to hate & disrespect na persin? persins wey dem curse with crime for inside their DNA na persin? Then how come one of these nyamiri animals get mouth abuse other ppl? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Sweetlemon(f): 7:14pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Thanks op. I'm always trying to explain this to people. Northern Nigeria is a beautiful place. I remember arriving Kaduna as a corper. I was very ashamed of the negative notions I had about the place! I have never been more welcomed anywhere else in Nigeria. I cried the day I was going back to Lagos. This is why I'm a firm believer of NYSC. NaijaForLyf Jare! #ArrogantlyNaija Make who no like am go jump for Lagoon on a rainy day. 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by olawalepopoola: 8:01pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
It is a pity that we Nigerians are tribalistic. I was fortunate to serve in Wurno village of Birin Kudu LGA of Jigawa state in 2010. I am a yoruba and a christian. In fact this write is nothing but the whole truth. Intellectually, the northerns are good. A friend of mine from the University of Jos, from Plateau south, came for a masters degree in FUTA and we happen to be in the same class and option. This guy was the best in our class. He is a christian. In Jigawa state, I learnt a lot about the Hausa culture and I found that muslims in Jigawa south from Dutse to Kigawa and Birin Kudu are lovely to christains as long as you do not preach against their religion! In Dutse I met a trained pharmacist who happened to be a Fulani, he speaks fluent english than even southerners. In Birin Kudu, I met an Architect, who assisted me in drawing the plan of the MDG/NYSC secondary in Wurno, which happen to be my personal CDS. I also taught as an extra mural class, an Hausa boy in the village in a science college, who is bent on becoming a medical doctor. In that village where I served, they produced they state auditor general as at that time and had two professors. We should try and travel and see other peoples' culture 3 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by knowledgeable: 8:12pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
fulanimafia: Believe me fulanimafia, nothing personal, even if Igbos get their "Biafra" or not, fulani/hausa in Nigeria, must own up to wanton destruction of life and properties of their fellow Africans in the name of Islam or brevity as their culture demands of them. The wanton destruction of innocent Nigerian lives by fulani herdsmen slaughtering unhindered in plateau, middle belt and bokoharam committing genocide of unimaginable proportion cannot just be wished away both in the present and history by your glamourlising, the beauty of way laid out streets in the North (resources from mostly Christian regions) or me facing my Biafra struggle. Nigeria could have being Great and sweet, but you hausa/fulani have arrogantly and in sensitively decided otherwise. 5 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by yang(m): 8:26pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
wonders shall never end aboki talk say he no be aboki well, thats none of my business when your hausa/fulani brothers were killing southerners in the North in 1966, you did not know you were a christian when saradauna and his fellow house of assembly of the northern regional government started the nepotism and genocide against igbos on the floor of the northen house of assembly, you did not know you were not a Northerner Today Boko Haram is killing people per second in North and Biafra is declared and you now know you are a christian You my friend are a hypocrite One Nigeria Gbakwaa oku 3 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 9:31pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
yang: What makes him a hypocrite? When Boko Haram decides to strike, do you think they will ask if you are a Northerner or a Southerner before killing you? Do you know how many muslim and Christian Northerners also lost their lives during riots in the North?? Do you know how many Northerners have been killed by Boko Haram? Why cant you educate yourself? Honestly, ignorance is a problem...I pray you receive enlightenment someday. When OMATA boys were causing riots and mayhem in Onitsha some years ago and some Igbo people lost their lives, would you say that all Igbo people are uneducated thugs, who are experts in street-fighting?? When prominent Igbo sons and daughters were being abducted by kidnappers sometime ago, would you say all Igbo people are kidnappers, or that kidnapping is an industry in the South-East?? When the Area Boys of Lagos attack traders in Idumota, and loot property and shops during riots in addition to causing bodily harm and deaths, would you say all Yoruba people are unruly?? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Sweetlemon(f): 9:36pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
laudate: One big bottle of orijin for you jare. 1 Like |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 9:39pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
Sweetlemon: Babe, how you dey?? |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by IdisuleOurOwn(m): 9:52pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
laudate: Yang, come and answer this guy or hide your head in shame. And never comment on anything you don't know. |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Sweetlemon(f): 9:55pm On Aug 22, 2015 |
laudate: I dey kampe! I dey groove now |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Nobody: 12:45am On Aug 23, 2015 |
Sweetlemon:I grew up in kaduna and I can tell you a lot about Kaduna than your numbskull can comprehend. Stop reminding us that you are a graduate. ODE 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Nobody: 12:49am On Aug 23, 2015 |
Sweetlemon:Tell us where you served in kaduna and stop fooling yourself as if you missed KD rather you missed the Alhaji in Kawo that takes you out. We know people like you annd the best thing they can do with their life 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 1:04am On Aug 23, 2015 |
PROVACATEUR: You signed up on Nairaland just one month ago, and you have joined the internet bashing team. Something tells me that it was your antics that got you banned, before you chose this moniker. What was your name in your former life on NL?? 2 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by laudate: 2:13am On Aug 23, 2015 |
Going through the article again on ThisDay Newspapers website, I was struck by some of the responses to Mark Azama's article. I just want to post one of them here: It boils down to the question of ethnic groups and personal identity. Rufus: Here is another response to the same article from the same site: jonasodocha: • a year ago |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by c33b33(m): 2:41am On Aug 23, 2015 |
You all speak hausa language which means you have something in common. What about Food,dressing,and maybe traditional festival? The Fulanis are radical migrants and seeking the end of those who bear your name and those who practice CHRISTAINITY . What are you guys doing about it? Even in Bauchi they are not happy a Christain is the Speaker of Reps,and they closed down all government owned school during the moslem fasting. Your Leaders are corrupt religious bigots,that's what you should be preaching. IPOB Youth 3 Likes |
Re: Inaccurate View Of The North By Southern Nigerians - Mark Amaza by Nobody: 2:41am On Aug 23, 2015 |
Sometimes I get to read stories by some Yorubas of how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have always been peace-loving and accommodative of the Igbos in the North. That it was the Igbos living in the North that provoked the people and that warranted the pogrom against the Igbos and the counter-coup of 1966. The issue that's mind boggling is, do the Christian minorities in the North and the Middle-belt receive such accommodative spirit as it is being championed in certain sections of the the media? For many decades now Fulani herdsmen have continued to exhibit despicable attitudes and heartlessness with reckless abandon, trespassing on indigenous peasants' farmlands, destroying their crops, killing the people and chasing them far away from their ancestral lands. How many sustained campaigns have been raised using the numerous media outfits, vehemently condemning the heinous act, with a view to arresting the ugly trend? All animals are equal but some definitely are more equal than the order, in this forced union of strange bedfellows! Austin4lif: Imokay: "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future" - Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12, 1960 Austin4lif: 2 Likes |
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