Oniovo, you are quite observant. I'm trying to desist from all these e-brawls as they're unhealthy plus some people here have a psychotic train of thought so i see no need engaging them

Sanchez01:

This one that you are awfully quiet, I hope all is well?

rainylad:


..Childish talk,please go play with your toys.

leave our Sw fr us , go back to Aba or wherever. we don't want u psycho's no more.

aribisala0:
what is SS&SE Why are you folk so insecure. Why can you never speak for yourselves. ? Always attaching

Where do you suggest meeting, Aba or Onitsha
Are they holding a kidnapping conference?

In as much as I would totally disagree with anyone against the all important and vital meeting of all stakeholders in southern Nigeria, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to put to you that indigenous igbo-speaking people in the south south is ARGUABLY THE MOST POPULOUS set of people in that region. So, there's no attachment where there is no cultural and kinship connection.

dragonking2:


You guys should shine your eyes. There are many fake accounts posing as igbos, yoruba and delta to cause disunity amongst southern regions.

These guys might even be from the north.

One opened an account 2days ago and started claiming Edo yoruba nigerdeltan

Lol

The problem of the country starts and ends with the poor folk. They are poor in mentality, conductive thinking, poor in everything. I know some Igbo billionaires here in Ikoyi and they are very good with other tribes.

Let me mention just two of them and you google for further understanding.

Chief O, a billionaire business tycoon, with investment in importation, factory at Aspanda with lots of properties on the Island employed half Yoruba, 1/4 Igbos and 1/4 Hausas and other tribes in his firms. I know that because I processed their salaries. He speaks Yoruba fluently.

Elder E, a billionaire, with business in oil and gas, Fx, also employed half Yoruba and half Igbo in his firms. I also processed their salaries.

If these men were tribalists like you guys, they would not have made these much.

Go and purge yourselves of hate or else, you will remain poor. I am referring to all tribes and not just Igbos.

Note that I modified the names because of the risk of leaking people's infos to Kidnappers.

Ymodulus:
Igbos looking for way to drag Intelligent yorubas into their mess. Why are they scared? They should go back home and develop their land. Or they should go meet their Biafra spiritual leader - Nnamdi Kanu.


Igbos are always strong headed with their level of hatred for northern tribes. Now they are looking for people to fight their battle. Group of scared Homo Sapiens.

AFONJA MUSLIM, THE IMPORTER OF FAKE PRODUCTS

Ymodulus:

Nice comment. I am very happy, i can boldly say the igbo tribe / jewish race has well thinking men. Good one bro. The earlier Nnamdi kanu is ditched the better for the Igbos

Nnamdi Kanu has played his part. He shocked the nation to her bone, and people are waking up from slumber. Nigerians have just realized that is no more business usual. Its high time intellectuals with the proper vision, pick up from where he is, and build up a realizable mission. Respect to his guts, but he should retire; let others, with credibility and the ability to harness popular support lead from the front.

Nairaland has become the mainstay of tribal bigots. Can we ever be united in this country? The amount of hatred I see here on this forum is quite alarming to say the least. We should all go our separate ways, Osibanjo your trying but the hatred is beyond repair.

back2sender:
We the people of south west dont support our association with people who will not CONDEMN CRIMINALITY.

Ijaw boys kidnap students from the epe school and we have not yet heard the ijaw people congress or any ijaw group condemning this kidnap of school children and give ultimatum to thier brothers to release the school children unconditionally.

Same thing is been experience with Evans the kidnapper, ohaneze has not come out to CONDEMN kidnapping and VICES.

So what are they meeting for?

Yes I agree with you we yoruba people only support our brothers who remove human heads and put it inside nylon bags. They are our heroes.

Ymodulus:
@freshvine
Madam have i lied about the obvious? Have you sat down and listened to unadulterated versions of our nation's history? Have you asked yourself what really happened during the Biafra war? have you questioned why the level of hate from south-easterns against the northern?

Let me tell you ma, the last elections.. the igbos knew Buhari will win yet they refused voting for him. They knew Jonathan was an underachieve yet they ignored it and voted him.

Same people now hate Rochas Okorocha because he is with the north. Their hatred for this peaceful, loving governor knows no bound that they now NICK name him "Okoro-Awusa".

Your are not been fair to Igbos, what about the Northwest and Northeast that have been giving Buhari almost 85% vote since 2011? That some online mischief makers who are mostly PDP members or supporters tag Okorocha as Okoro-awusa does not mean all Igbos do the same. For your information Ndi Igbo did not know that Buhari will win the election as you claimed. The hatred for the north is because Igbos are always the victim of most violent in the North. You can attest to this. Igbo blood have always been used by some extremist to quench their taste for blood.

Gotze1:
Who is kanu?

The nightmare of the ewedu unity beggars. Even a villager in ogbomosho who reads alaroye newspaper knows him very much.

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Saturday, June 17, 2017
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter:@farooqkperogi

In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity by the renewed agitation for Biafra and its reverberations across the country, some readers of this column requested that I republish a series I wrote in 2008 and 2012. Here is an edited and updated version of the series:


Why is our diversity such a lumbering burden on us? Why do most Nigerians have such powerful loyalties to their incidental, primordial identities and a corresponding disdain, even hatred, for other identities?

Many Nigerians think our country is unworkable because it was “forced” into being by British colonialists. This view has no basis in the history and sociology of nation-building.

There is no nation in history whose formation was the consequence of a democratic consensus. Historically, most nations were formed by conquests, expansionist wars, and forceful cooptation, not by consensus. I don't know what fuels this false, annoyingly ahistorical sentiment among Nigerians.

Many Nigerians also cherish the illusion that they inhabit the most diverse country on planet Earth. But India, a post-colonial country like ours, has a lot more diversity than Nigeria has. It has over 800 languages, several mutually irreconcilable religions, a huge landmass that is several times the size of Nigeria, and a human population that is more than that of the entire African continent combined.

Yet it's one country, and it was formed in fairly the same way as Nigeria was formed. Most of the groups that make up present-day India were independent ethnic groupings. None of the groups was consulted before they were integrated into the modern Indian nation. But you don't hear Indians interminably whining about the unnaturalness of their nation, or about the need to “renegotiate” the basis of their existence.

Nigeria is only about 200 million in population, the 13th largest country in Africa in landmass, with some 500 languages (most of which belong to the same language family), two major religions (which share tremendous doctrinal affinities, unlike, for instance, India that has such mutually exclusive religions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and other Eastern mystical orders). Why is it difficult to conceive that a nation can be formed out of this?

In any case, there is no evidence that mono-ethnic nations thrive better than ethnically diverse nations. One supreme illustration that explodes the myth of the "naturalness" and invulnerability of mono-cultural nations is Somalia. There can be no more homogeneous nation on Earth than Somalia. It's a monolingual, mono-religious, and mono-ethnic society. Everybody in Somalia speaks the Somali language. Everybody there is not just a Muslim, but a Sunni Muslim. It is often said that Somalia is not just a nation; it is, in fact, a big family. They all have a common ancestor and preserve their ethnic purity through endogamous marriages.

How more homogenous can a nation get? Yet it's an excellent specimen of a failed state. It has been gripped by sanguinary convulsions for years on end.

An example nearer home is the former Oyo Empire, which had effectively disintegrated even before the start of colonialism, although it was an ethnically homogenous entity. It was caught in the web of a vicious internal schism that precipitated a debilitating war of attrition, which stopped only with the advent of colonialism.

So homogeneity and consensus are no safeguards against implosion. They are not necessary and sufficient conditions to immunize any nation against internal contradictions and disintegration. Only justice, mutual tolerance, good governance can.

Having said that, the claim that the formation of the Nigerian nation is “forced” needs some interrogation because the history and sociology of pre-colonial relations in Nigeria don't bear testimony to this claim.

A lot of research has been done by historians, notably the late Yusufu Bala Usman and Elizabeth Isichei, which chronicles the robust relational intercourse between the disparate ethnic groups that populate what is today Nigeria. A notable example was the burgeoning social and cultural melting between the Yoruba people and various ethnic groups in North before colonialism.

As the travel records of Arab explorers show, the "ambassadors" (or, if you like, interpreters) of the Alaafin of Oyo during the Trans-Saharan trade with Arabs were people from the extreme North. And records show that Hausas had been living in Yoruba land in large numbers before colonialism. The same is true of Yorubas in the North.

If you go to Kano, for instance, you will see entire neighborhoods that are peopled by men and women whose ancestral roots are located in Yoruba land. Gwammaja is one such neighborhood. Ayagi is another.

This is not to talk of the vibrant pre-colonial inter-ethnic relations between such northern minorities as Igalas, Tivs, Idomas, etc. and Igbos. To this day, Igalas and Idomas have councilors in some Igbo states, and there are "indigenous" Igbos in Benue State.

A lot of people are often shocked to find out that Joseph Wayas, Nigeria's Second Republic Senate President from Cross River State, is “Tiv.” He comes from a part of Cross River State called Obanliku (the location of the famous Obudu Cattle Ranch) where people speak Tiv but call it by a different name. And the man was made Senate President on the basis of his being a Southerner.

Interestingly, during the still-born Third Republic, Iyiorcha Ayu, another Tiv man, became Senate President because he was supposed to be from the North!

Take the case of Edo State, too. The people of southern Edo had shared, and still vastly share, deep cultural and historical ties with the Yoruba people long before colonialism, and those in northern Edo had deep ties with northern Nigeria dating back to hundreds of years. The people of Akoko Edo, for instance, speak the same language as the Ebira of Kogi State, although they call their language Igara. Yet Edo is supposed to be in the South and Kogi in the North.

Again, the people of Auchi have cultural values that decidedly owe their debts to Nupe and Hausa people. I remember that Auchi people used to be called "Bendel Hausas" when, in fact, their language is almost mutually intelligible with Bini and Ishan in southern Edo State

In northern Cross River, the Yala people are linguistically, ethnically, and culturally indistinct from the Idoma and Igede people in Benue State. The Ebu people in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State are actually Igala people. So are the Ilushi people in Edo State. And most so-called Delta Igbos are actually descended from Igala people in what is now Kogi State.

The point of these examples is to demonstrate the inadmissibility of the claim that Nigeria is a "forced" nation. We were too culturally and ethnically intertwined even before colonialism for that claim to have any basis in truth. Even without colonialism, it is conceivable that Nigeria in its present form would have emerged. If we related as closely as historical records show we did, the British merely accelerated what was likely to have happened anyway.

Of course, the result of these robust pre-colonial relational intercourses could very well have resulted in the formation of a different kind of nation from what Nigeria is today, but there is no reason to suppose that it would be the product of the kind of elaborate, unrealistic consensus that irredentists claim is indispensable to national formation.

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Dr. Farooq Kperogi is a professor, journalist, newspaper columnist, author, and blogger based in Greater Atlanta, USA. He received his Ph.D. in communication from Georgia State University's Department of Communication where he taught journalism for 5 years and won the top Ph.D. student prize called the "Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies Award." He earned his Master of Science degree in communication (with a minor in English) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and won the Outstanding Master's Student in Communication Award.

He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication (with minors in English and Political Science) from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, where he won the Nigerian Television Authority Prize for the Best Graduating Student.

Dr. Kperogi worked as a reporter and news editor, as a researcher/speech writer at the (Nigerian) President's office, and as a journalism lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic and Ahmadu Bello University before relocating to the United States.

He was the Managing Editor of the Atlanta Review of Journalism History, a refereed academic journal. He was also Associate Director of Research at Georgia State University's Center for International Media Education (CIME).

He is currently an Associate Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at the School of Communication and Media, Kennesaw State University, Georgia's fastest-growing and third largest university. (Kennesaw is a suburb of Atlanta). He also writes two weekly newspaper columns: "Notes From Atlanta" in the Abuja-based Daily Trust on Saturday (formerly Weekly Trust) and "Politics of Grammar" in the Daily Trust on Sunday (formerly Sunday Trust).

In April 2014 Dr. Kperogi was honored as the Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Louisiana's Department of Communication. His research has also won international awards, such as the 2016 Top-Rated Research Paper Award at the 17th Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.

He is the author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World.
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igbeke:
National Unity: Southern Leaders Meet In Lagos
- Channels Television.

As the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, continues his consultations with leaders of different ethnic, religious and interest groups on the nation’s unity in Abuja, some leaders of the Southern states are also meeting in Lagos.

The meeting, which was held in one of the leaders’ residence in Lagos, had leaders from the South-East, South-South and South-West regions in attendance. The meeting, according to the organisers, is said to be on the recent tension in the country and the threat to national unity

The leaders say they are looking into the options on the table and strategising on the best moves in achieving peace, equity among the different ethnic nationalities within the country.

Among those at the meeting are Afenifere leaders such as General Alani Akinrinade (retd), Chief Ayo Adebanjo; and Senator Femi Okunrounmu. The President of Ohaneze, Chief John Nwodo, and others are from the South-South region, including one of the region’s vocal activist, Tony Uranta, were also present at the meeting.

http://www.channelstv.com/2017/06/18/national-unity-southern-leaders-meet-lagos/

They have heard my call. I also ask once more for formation of a Southern Governor's Forum. The North has its Northern Governor's Forum. Why should we not have a pan-Southern forum to complement/balance them here?

[quote author=Ikology post=57650178]

Your are not been fair to Igbos, what about the Northwest and Northeast that have been giving Buhari almost 85% vote since 2011? That some online mischief makers [/b]who are mostly PDP members or supporters tag Okorocha as Okoro-awusa does not mean all Igbos do the same.

[b]Please not just online mischief makers.

For your information Ndi Igbo did not know that Buhari will win the election as you claimed. The hatred for the north is because Igbos are always the victim of most violent in the North. You can attest to this. Igbo blood have always been used by some extremist to quench their taste for blood.

Brother those are religious miscreants. Religious fools, illiterates. Also the hatred of the igbos against the north is not for as a result of the reason as claimed. It has to do with the Biafran civil war..

Why include Edo as Biafra.. Don't you know your history?
Benin Empire, an independent nation that ruled over lot of regions from the SE to Togo.. Read your history my friend!

victorDanladi:
You yourself know that lagos is not a no mans land in your subconscious mind.If not,you will not make an attempt at condemning the meeting holding there in the first place.

lolz.....Muslims giving you headache since time immemorial.


I hope biafra will be Christian state where Muslims faithful like edo muslims will be oppressed even if not Christianized or pure jew state with this your mazi kanu causing and abusing Igbo Christians and yoruba pastors.

deluded set of people.

aribisala0:
what is SS&SE Why are you folk so insecure. Why can you never speak for yourselves. ? Always attaching

Where do you suggest meeting, Aba or Onitsha
Are they holding a kidnapping conference?

Lwkmd!

[quote author=Gotze1 post=57648437]Bros, we must attach south South by fire by force. we need access to sea at all cost hehehehe. [/quote


Just like u guys are needing the oil...
We must attach just like the north attaches middlebelt and other adjacent regions dat make up the 19 northern states....
Its no longer oil bcoz its inargueably proven that 3 states in d east has oil its now sea... jumping from pillar to post..dumbie

iwatch:
See my brother, Nnamdi Kanu will only make things worse. It is very obvious to everybody and I hate is methodology to the marrows.

People are screaming when the North ask Igbos to leave their land but at the same time, they are same people who said they want to leave. Is that not madness?

I don't think you understand something here. Some igbos told Nigeria that they want to leave so is Nigeria that will tell igbos to leave in the right way and not one tribe telling igbos to leave, who are they?
It is more like you are talking to your master that you are no longer comfortable staying with him and you need to go. But instead of your master replying, it was a fellow servant that asked you to go; chei you go listen to that one abi give am him seat?

If the Afonjas can agree,let us divide this country into two;north and south.If it is done I will be the happiest man on earth.

Bridget95:
until you tell yourself the truth.

Abacha
IBB
Gowon
Obasanjo
and others did wonderfully well with the handling of Nigeria right?

And Alex ekwueme,ken nnamani,Aldophus wabara,chuba okadigbo,Anyim pius Anyim,ekwueremadu,Good luck jonathan did wonderfully well in handling of Nigeria,right?


Igbo sha....hmmmm,they are the most perfect on earth.

cumbak60:

Nnamdi Kanu has played his part. He shocked the nation to her bone, and people are waking up from slumber. Nigerians have just realized that is no more business usual. Its high time intellectuals with the proper vision, pick up from where he is, and build up a realizable mission. Respect to his guts, but he should retire; let others, with credibility and the ability to harness popular support lead from the front.

It is very easy to shock the nation to her bone na.Evans,the kidnapper biafran also did.

As I watch Southern youths insult themselves I feel like crying but I am a MAN, also seeing the unity of Northern youths. Please I beg you all my southern brothers learn to show some respect to one another, Igbos learn to respect Yorubas, and Yorubas learn to respect Igbos. Please Igbos calling Yorubas saboteur I will like to tell that the worst sabo I know today is Arthur Nzeribe which happens to be an Igbo man, maybe lot of saboteurs, but believe me same goes for Igbos. Igbos we love ourselves because there are Yorubas and Hausas, Yorubas we love ourselves because there are Igbos and hausas. Personally I believe in Southern Nigeria than Biafra/ODua/ Niger Delta republic if there is need to divide. Please let us respect and show support for one another my southern brothers before what I am seeing consume us all. Please please and please if you are from the south do not laugh at one another when being attack by the north or by Fulani herdsmen The , the best you could do is to show some support and respect. The reason the NORTH feels they are born to rule is because the south is not united. God bless everyone who does not insult another person in Jesus name I pray, Amen. May my Good God give us the strengths to respect one another.

igbeke:
National Unity: Southern Leaders Meet In Lagos
- Channels Television.

As the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, continues his consultations with leaders of different ethnic, religious and interest groups on the nation’s unity in Abuja, some leaders of the Southern states are also meeting in Lagos.

The meeting, which was held in one of the leaders’ residence in Lagos, had leaders from the South-East, South-South and South-West regions in attendance. The meeting, according to the organisers, is said to be on the recent tension in the country and the threat to national unity

The leaders say they are looking into the options on the table and strategising on the best moves in achieving peace, equity among the different ethnic nationalities within the country.

Among those at the meeting are Afenifere leaders such as General Alani Akinrinade (retd), Chief Ayo Adebanjo; and Senator Femi Okunrounmu. The President of Ohaneze, Chief John Nwodo, and others are from the South-South region, including one of the region’s vocal activist, Tony Uranta, were also present at the meeting.

http://www.channelstv.com/2017/06/18/national-unity-southern-leaders-meet-lagos/

ZKOSOSO:
If this is true then am OK... John Nwodo, femi okorunmi and uranta are correct men of calibre.

Referendum, Restructuring or Division.

Anyone is not bad.

Only division would solve d problem ones and for all. All other negotiations or suggestions are only temporary measures which would soon collapse relapsing us to where we are now and d cycle continues.
Pls let's leave d north

blueseacats:
Who knows you? You better go and find a way to at least pass your jamb.

#HoeLawd this is Savage
bro u finished im

Amberon11:
Oniovo, you are quite observant. I'm trying to desist from all these e-brawls as they're unhealthy plus some people here have a psychotic train of thought so i see no need engaging them

Lol. It is well, Dearie. Now I understand why you have been very quiet. By the way, what happened to your mail? I recall sending you a message at some point.

igbodefender:
They have heard my call. I also ask once more for formation of a Southern Governor's Forum. The North has its Northern Governor's Forum. Why should we not have a pan-Southern forum to complement/balance them here?

Matured observation. I agree with u

Yorubas dont want southern unity. We are better on our own

dragonking2:


You guys should shine your eyes. There are many fake accounts posing as igbos, yoruba and delta to cause disunity amongst southern regions.

These guys might even be from the north.

One opened an account 2days ago and started claiming Edo yoruba nigerdeltan

This does not mean that many yorubas do not want southern unity. We detest it. South-south and south-east can form their southern unity, but leave yorubas. I will only support it if they plan to split this country into three or more, but aside that, i do not support it.

Sanchez01:

Step down for Nnamdi Kanu to be President? You must be high on your saliva.

The guy said osinbajo should step down as nigeria president, while at the same time shouting biafra.
Confused bunch!

deedeedee1:
Yorubas dont want southern unity. We are better on our own

IkediEbube, you're on point. But some form of alliances that will see to an amicable division of the country without rancor is welcomed.