₦airaland Forum

Afam4eva:
It's people like you that get it wrong. Igbos have never said that they're the only one being marginalized but they're speaking for themselves. As much as Nigerians irrespective of tribe are marginalized, that of Igbos is on another level. You can keep denying it to yourself all you want but the truth is there to see.

Afam4eva:
Al_harem has spoken the truth. You cannot eat your cake and still want to have. PDP controls the center.So, states that will benefit from the center are PDP states. They should go and meet oga Tinubu if they feel marginalized.

aljharem:
this people are funny u know. Just i thought this people want to eat there cake and have it again

they all voted for ACN thus they want regional government ie fedralism

yet they still want the advantages of being in the mainstream politics

abeg make them go sit down

when it is time they should go meet tinubu there master

chino11:
This is a welcome development, the Yorubas should be effectively and perpetually marginalized and schemed out, because they deserve worst things also. What did they achieve for their rotten Yoruba states during wasted years of the baboon called Obasanjorijo Useless and woe tribe. They should step up the complaint, GEJ will as usual and as always mess them up. They forgot that Tinubo sold them out for a pot of 'ewodu', the same way their foolish leaders sold out abioala to the almajiris to be slaughtered.

sanmibukunmi:
hmmmmmm dts true though. I am just getting tired of the whinning. as a matter of fact an igbo family spent the whole of Christmas with my family. we ate together , played together. but this nairalanders really make it look like we are enemies.

cheruv:
A gāju onye
Finally its been long I heard this common Yoruba lie

icewinz:
1&2 are idiomatic expression.
3 earth worm- TANA.
4 ant-CHINAKA.
4 burgu-RABBIT.

SECTION B.

LOL,you are giving me idioms to answer bt sorry sir cuase graduate in huasa language like you has never been noted even in the north,sha ah know one answer-
2-baba na ciki gemu na waje-MAIZE.

Anybody who thinks islam are here for peace should emial me,ah would give he/she my num,so i can send the leaked voice call between arewa progresive form which in the call one alhaji was saying how the woiuld finish the igbo and render them useless.
Smh stop talking what you dont know.

Rilwayne001:
lool.. I have seen them here in Ibadan. One is living beside my house. He is a friend though. They also have their own church, that consist mostly northern christians. Maybe 15-20 members I think. They speak fluent Hausa.

modath:
The highlighted just made me too also realise that ALL the hausa speaking christians i know are all from the minority tribes, but why is it so ?

I have lived in FCT since dem military days & also waka deep into north for NYSC so i should know one at least.

obailala:
I am from the SE myself and we are not going anywhere, sorry! You know what they say about empty vessels making the loudest noise?... Don't let yourself be deceived by the noise you hear from some of these empty vessels online, they do not make up the larger population of Igbos.

sanmibukunmi:
OK keep crying about spilt milk....other people have moved on. if you choose not to then dts your biz

abduljabbar4:
Burgu means rat and not rabbit. Ask Sameer

As for the idioms, i dare you to ask any Hausa man you see on the streets. In fact most illiterates know the idioms better than us

Baba na daka gemu na waje means smoke!

Oh, its christianity that is here for peace right? We all know everything Namdi Kanu said about the Yorubas and Hausas. Dont dare me, i have a full callection of bible verses that encourage violence esp to non-christians

xtropy:
If you like continue wailing up and down on every topic bothering on Igbo affairs just because they desire a separate existence from lazy ass-lickers, parasites, treasury looters, never-do-wells and imperialists.

sanmibukunmi:
hahahahahaha....chai your words show how pained you are....am not responsible for your woes so stop crying bro. look at your words you are the wailer here.


and FYI I seriously want you ppl to go.

Ioannes:
did you ask these questions before deciding to vote goodluck Jonathan enmass in 2015 after 6years of cluelessness?

it is people like you and the others on this forum that make people think the IQ of an average Igbo individual is way below average. yet I know this not to be the case.

Bryan37:
Re u sure u know history?

If I recalled

It was the killing of the Igbos in the North
That prompted OJUKWU to declare for Biafra.


Just today.
A committee has been set to rehabilitate North east after suffering "insurgency"

What happened to the rehabilitation of South East after "a war"?

Plz go back to School!!!!!

xtropy:
See an ewedu eater still chestbeating in the public when his tribe rarely stand for anything in life even with their much taunted 'sufferstication', nay 'sophistication'.

xtropy:
Bring it on. Don't chicken out.

abduljabbar4:
Burgu means rat and not rabbit. Ask Sameer

As for the idioms, i dare you to ask any Hausa man you see on the streets. In fact most illiterates know the idioms better than us

Baba na daka gemu na waje means smoke!

Oh, its christianity that is here for peace right? We all know everything Namdi Kanu said about the Yorubas and Hausas. Dont dare me, i have a full callection of bible verses that encourage violence esp to non-christians

icewinz:
u just sound funny,i dare you nigga,qoute any bible verse that preaches against violence.

Ioannes:
come and see your kith and kin, your family members eating ewedu with me here in the southwest. I am sure they will give you the testimony that it is way better than eating human flesh.

we know who are the chest beaters extraordinnaire in Nigeria. the gra gra people. the people who swore up and down that if Kanu was touched Nigeria will see hell. Shege.

my ethnic group, the Yoruba, is well respected the world over. I won't even go there.

yours is known for haven been trounced in a war, not to mention all sorts of notorious atrocities committed in Indonesia and other Asian tiger countries.

read my lips. M.U.M.U.

osisi5:
I've heard this Igbo this, Igbo that too many times and it's plain annoying.
This old article may throw some light.
Nigerians commit crime and the criminals are from all the tribes.

One of the earliest known cases of drug abuse involving a Nigerian was the fate of one Iyabo Olorunkoya, who was sentenced to jail in the 1970s following an attempt to smuggle marijuana into the United Kingdom.

In the mid-1980s, during the General Mohammadu Buhari-led regime, two Nigerians, Messrs Wahab Ojuolape and Bartholomew Owoh as well as a third victim were executed under a peculiar decree drawn to take retroactive effect. Curiously, even this law and other draconian measures devised to deter drug traffickers, appeared insufficient, for about that same period, one Morenike Fausatu Lawal almost made it into history books as the first woman to be killed by firing squad for drug trafficking in Nigeria. Then came the Gloria Okon saga, where a suspected drug courier believed to have died in prison custody, ressurected overseas.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2005/july/28/travels-28-07-2005-001.htm

abduljabbar4:
You must kill and destroy those who worship another god[exodus 22:20]

And the Qur'an says:

be righteous and act justly toward those who worship another god[quran 60:8]

Austin4lif:
if not for the Grace of God I would have been death by the Fulani/hausa machine guns. Heavy machine Guns was shot in my area for 3 hours, no police and army from the Z00 come to help us. We have to use cutlass and stones to defend ourselves. It would have been a disaster even though we lost some gallant igbo youths who fought them with some northern Christians. The machine Guns shake houses wen fired, even the army don't have such guns but youths still confronted them. Nobody is asking who bought the Guns for them, can a koro seller or a tomato seller afford to buy SMG? Some stupid pple will come here and be shouting one Nigeria , sai Buhari. Go to Riyom in plateau state, go to Rigasa in kaduna, go to wadel in kano state, u will know that we are not one Nigeria.

Austin4lif:
Am never a Fan of this Kalu of a guy, what am concerned of is the northern domination of the minority groups in Nigeria. If you visit Kano, u will see hausa people claiming the birth right of Nigeria.

Those from the east,west and south are being regarded as foreigners in same Nigeria in Kano state. You dont have equal rights like those who are from there. Travel to Zamfara state, u will see the highest level of religious intolerance. The state school of health is an epitome of islamabad, Christians especially the girls were forced to put on Hijab b4 entering class. 

Who says that it is only Boko haram that want to force us to islam? Travel also to katsina state were it is a sin to be called igbo or a Christian even though there are minority christians from that state who are known as the"maguzawa" go to kebbi you will not have permit to build ur church and u will be harassed to pay tax by the local authorities even though hausa people are not goood in paying for Govt facilities. 
Only in Nigeria u will see Emirs with exotic cars and nobody is asking how did they get the money even though many of our igwe's and oba's don't even own a car.
Is only in Nigeria most mosques dnt pay NEPA bill and water Bills. Only in Nigeria will u see a particular ethnic group dominating all the sectors of the economy...

xtropy:
So tell us how many of your folks have been killed by Christians?

anticabal1:
and the obailala guy is supposed to be Igbo oo, all these phantom igbos go kee person. hahaha

abduljabbar4:
Who told you that lie? Where? How? Do you know?

Imokay:
Some pictures here will disturb you, but please this madness must stop.Something is hurting me and as each day goes by, it gets worse.

The blogs rarely report this. Its voice is muted on TV and radio. But for us that are affected, this voice is loud. Sometimes it is a shout, sometimes it is a cry, sometimes it is a prayer, sometimes it is just a hollow empty sound.
Berom people are being wiped out one family at a time. It started 14years ago. Our men, our women, our children are being murdered on the streets, on their farms, in their sleep, on the way to school and sometimes still in the womb.
The culprits are called Unknown gunmen. They are unknown to the security agencies, unknown to the bloggers, unknown to TV, Radio and Newspapers. They are most terrifyingly unknown to the presidency. Funny thing is if you ask a 3 year old Berom boy who they are, he will tell you. I heard a statement from the FG vowing to deal with cattle rustlers and to protect cattle rearers. The Fulanis that carry AK47s alongside their sticks?But nothing was said of the farmers (Beroms). So who will protect the farmers? Who will protect their families from the cattle rearers?
My mother’s village is practically empty. The women and children are squatting in town. The men form bands, like vigilantes knowing that they cannot turn their backs away from their ancestral lands or they will be lost forever.
That is the plan. Shey you all know. It is a war to claim territory." We make their villages unsafe, they run away and we can roam and graze freely. 100years from now, no one will dispute it is ours." It is a long term plan but one family a night, in a year thousands are killed year in year out and the plan is taking shape.
A chemical explosion at British America in Lamingo area in Jos and the Federal Government orders an investigation. Families are being snuffed out, not a word. He is chasing money for people that are dying. When (if) he gets this money, how many will be alive to benefit from it? I am speaking about my people, who are displaced all over plateau state. In my family house in Jos, we cook with a huge pot outside. I cannot tell you how much it costs. We will bear the cost, if only we knew when help will come.
The rest of Nigeria is looking at the North East, but they have hope. Who is looking at the North Central? We are looking at ourselves. When people from Benue speak, we understand only too well.
Someone asked what the security agencies are doing, we are asking the same. I remember when the soldiers in Vom were pursued by women baring their breasts. They were camping in the midst of Vom people and still families were being killed.
I understand America’s unwillingness to give up their guns. Too many crazy people. If the Berom people decided to bear arms, who in honesty will blame them? How do you look at the corpses of children with their milky bloody brains on the floor next to their severed heads and not burn with murderous rage? How do you look at young pretty girls wearing tights in the Jos morning cold strewn on the floor in awkward positions on half harvested potato farms and not want vengeance? How do you wrap the bodies of your 65 year old uncle, his younger brother, his wife and two children in wrappers and lay them side by side in a large dug out red dirt ditch and still feel human? How does a mother stop being a mother when her breasts are still leaking with milk for a baby hacked to death with a cutlass? She would hug the older children for comfort, only they were killed too.
And O ye kinsmen of Fulani, that jump into every thread and talk about how much cattle the Fulani have lost. Can you help us do a body count? Count your cattle and victims and we will count just our bodies. If ours is higher, will you stop? Will your thirsty god finally be appeased? I am equating the lives of my people to your cows. I am to understand they are precious to you. You have killed our old, young and the babies. You have spared no one.
I call on President  Buhari because he said he is for us all. Not just the cattle rearers.
Plateau state voted almost 50%, hear our cries.
Lastly, no one should mention graze reserves. You cannot soak a land with the blood of its indigenes and then hand it over to their killers. Your cows will be eating blood grass.As i was putting this piece together, new cries,  young able bodied men,with lives snuffed out of them by unknown gun men. Help us please, come to our aid........people here that campaigned, hep us get the president, maybe no one is telling him. We learn from the last administration, that people in power can be isolated from things happening and that was or confidence i this new administration. The President must hear, know and act.
Ya Yesu Adagwi, see our tears. Save our children.

Pix 1 and 2 Pictures of the victims.
Pix 3 Victims murdered in cold blood.

abduljabbar4:
You must kill and destroy those who worship another god[exodus 22:20]

Compared to Qur'an:

be righteous and act justly toward those who worship another god[quran 60:8]

I have hundreds of them

Deadlytruth:
Igbos started being killed in very large numbers in the North far before 1966/67 pogroms which Ojukwu claimed made him declare Biafra. A lot of Igbos were killed in 1945 and 1953 in the North. With these two ethnic cleansing against Igbos by Northerners one would not have expected Azikiwe to have later in 1960 forged an alliance with the same North at all no matter his earlier beef with Awolowo whose Yoruba people had never shed any single Igbo man's blood in the West prior to that time. Why did Zik cut his nose to spite his face? Was the need to avenge Awolowo's 'sin' against him more important and urgent than the need to have accepted Awolowo's offer thus prevent from rising to power the very people who had been slaughtering his own brothers and were definitely going to use such official power to further wreck carnage on his tribe which they already hated and did not pretend about it? How could a leader, in pursuit of personal vendetta, sacrifice the future and freedom of those he was leading and representing?

Why could Ojukwu and Ironsi not declare Biafra as at when they were both still in power and had the ultimate wherewithal to do so knowing fully well that Igbo massacres had already started far before then? What sort of belief in one Nigeria was that?

BishopMagic:
As far as I am concerned Yorubas are the most tribalistic bigoted goats in this section.

They started this sh1t and when we fought them back they now had the audacity to call some one like me a bigot.

If there is one thing I can take from NL is knowing truly that Yorubas are highly tribalistic people.

I never used to pay much heed to the political motives of my Yoruba friends which by the way outnumber any other tribe but after coming to nairaland I began to see the same attitude displayed here being revealed slowly to me in my Yoruba friends.

To be honest with you I got sick and tired of their foolish reasons why they thought Buhari is better than Jonathan and how they refuse to see the corruption under their noses but where more interested in peddling the lies handed down to them by Liar Mohammed. It is at this point it dawned to me that the Yoruba mindset is highly sentimental and tribally biased when it comes to political issues and since then I have refused discussing politics or any other issue by the way with my Yoruba friends who are now fast turning to mere acquaintances.

The substance of a man is his character and that character is built on principles and values shaped by ones thoughts and ideologies. I have since found out that the average Yoruba man lacks any real identity but rather is shaped inwardly and outwardly by the collective rhertrioc of his tribe.

And since I do not befriend tribes or nations but only humans it then means I can not be friends to zombie xenophobic tribalists.

Afam4eva:
It's people like you that get it wrong. Igbos have never said that they're the only one being marginalized but they're speaking for themselves. As much as Nigerians irrespective of tribe are marginalized, that of Igbos is on another level. You can keep denying it to yourself all you want but the truth is there to see.

omonnakoda:
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the [holy man] who represents God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged.



. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.



Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.


Make ready to slaughter [the infidel’s] sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.

Then I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children.”



Keep [my holiday], for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die.


If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.



Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

A [holy man’s] daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.



Everyone who would not seek God was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.



But if [a girl wasn't a virgin on her wedding night] and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her father’s house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against God’s people by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.



If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.



. Cursed be he who does God’s work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.



Anyone who blasphemes God’s name must be stoned to death by the whole community of [believers].


Anyone else who goes too near the [Holy Place] will be executed.


1. Deuteronomy17:12 NLT;
2. Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT;
3. Matthew 10:34-35;
4Isaiah 14:21 NAB;
5. Ezekiel 9:5
6.Exodus 31:12-15 NLT; 12.
7. Leviticus 20:10 NLT;
8. Numbers 31: 17-18 KJV;
9. Leviticus 21:9 NAB;
10. 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB;
11. Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB;
12. Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB;
13. Jeremiah 48:10 NAB;
14. Leviticus 24:16 NLT;
15. Numbers 1: 51 NLT;

Deadlytruth:
All the above referenced bible verses still have to do with the laws among Israelites themselves. They were not commands to Israelites to kill other peoples who did not worship their God.
Where God promised such other nations would die, He (God) promised to kill them by Himself and did not mandate Israelites to do it for Him. And on such cases those other nations were slaughtered by God not because they did not believe in Israelites' God but because they offended the Israelites and God himself and refused to be remorseful. If God was killing them for the mere fact that they did not believe in Him, then He would have wiped all other nations off the earth leaving only the Israelites who believed in Him.
The verses in which Jesus declared that he brought sword to the world to set people against one another is more figurative than literal just like many other Jesus' use of literary style in speaking. For example, the command to turn the other cheek as a response to a slap on one is not literal in application. It is only a hyperbole which Jesus employed to emphasize how slow to retaliation his followers should be. This is confirmed by the fact that when Jesus himself was later given a very dirty slap before the high priest Caiaphas he did not literally turn the other cheek for more but queried why he deserved such violent treatment and yet never retaliated. The Bible should be read between the lines by anyone who seeks the truth.