₦airaland Forum

eni4real:
You are predictable again!!!
Too shallow!!!

I'm glad Nobel Prize is not awarded by shallow minded peeps like you!!

GamalNasser:
It wasn't his personal opinion they all did it to create mass hysteria of voters , it was all arranged , Wole Soyinka did his to ramp up African American immigrants to vote against Trump ..We know how these evil people use these so called influencers to create mass hysteria

SaintLucia:
Opomu go Twitter go see how they lamba your fiction writer. Countries all over the world are locking down while somebody that carried white wool for head is talking of freedom of movement. Your fiction writer will sit at home preventing himself from the virus and push ignorance like u into the street in the name of freedom of movement.

HMarshal:
In the end,uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.wateva he does will be judged.some learnerd ones can become nuisances (pray not to av em in ur landlord association meetings).& Set backs to common progressions .

I support only good deeds & governance irrespective of party (seyi makinde on my priority but)but Wat does he mean by dictatorial tendencies?is the president not a law maker in a way? Anyways ppl will always talk.seeking some kind of relevance for wateva sake

DonMekino:
The tragedy of one Nigeria

By Charles Ogbu

18 April 2017   |   2:52 am

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There is absolutely nothing wrong in a man choosing to live in denial of the reality of his situation for a short while. After all, denial is part of the grieving process. The first part, actually.
When I lost my father, the late Emmanuel Nwodo Ogbu Nwa-Chima, not too long ago, too afraid to admit the obvious and too scared to face the world on my own, for days, I lied to myself that my good man wasn’t dead but had somehow disappeared to someplace cool and would re-appear later to attend to his good boy. Sadly, he never did. And here I am. Stronger than he left me.
The biggest tragedy that would befall a man is for him to live in denial for far too long that he has now come to accept his own lies about his ugly situation and swallow them as though they were the gospel truth.
Sadly, this is the tragedy of the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.Contrary to what many believe, the Southern part of Nigeria IS NOT in a union with the North. They are in slavery and the North is their slave master. It grieves me to admit this but it grieves me even more that its true.
But this is not even the real problem. The real problem here is that most southerners appear either oblivious of the fact that they are in slavery or they’ve come to see their chain as a very beautiful bracelet. There is no task more tedious than rescuing a slave who is unaware of his slave status.
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves,” says Harriet Tubman.
Southern Nigeria is living in slavery. Let’s hurt ourselves with the truth rather than comfort ourselves with lies. If the truth is bitter, that is more reason we need to hear it.
Here in this country, less than two years ago, a Northern Muslim man from Kano State who goes by the name Yunusa Dahiru (alias Yellow) kidnapped an under-aged Christian girl named Ese Oruru from Bayelsa State. And to prove that a child sent to steal by the father breaks the door with his head, Yunusa took his victim straight to the palace of the Emir of Kano where the girl was brain-washed and forcibly converted to Islam before being repeatedly raped and impregnated by Yunusa. She is nursing the baby even as I write this.
Now, here is the real proof of the slave status of the southerners: The then Police Inspector General was a southern Christian by name Solomon Arase and this police chief had known about this case for over nine months. He equally knew the identity as well as the address of both the victim and the perpetrator and accomplices of this crime but he was too scared of the slave masters to intervene to rescue the innocent girl. On several occasions, the mother of the victim travelled from Bayelsa to Kano in search of her daughter but was assaulted by a Kano mob at the palace of the emir while the police played the spectator. I.G Solomon Arase would later tell the whole world that he could not just walk into the emir’s palace to rescue the kidnapped victim without the blessing of the emir who was in Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj.
A police chief admitted waiting for the permission of a traditional ruler before rescuing a kidnapped victim hidden in the palace of the traditional ruler with the full knowledge of the said traditional ruler.
How do you think this would have played out if it was a certain Chukwudi that abducted an under-aged Muslim girl from Kano and hid her at the palace of the Obi of Onitsha?  Would the police wait for permission from the Obi before invading his palace? Would our Muslim brothers even wait for the police before killing any southern living and non- living thing around them?
Fulani criminals have murdered thousands of Nigerians and displaced millions. To make it worse, they’ve repeatedly admitted to these killings right in the presence of security agencies. Matter of fact, last year, immediately after they slaughtered over 500 Agatus in Benue State and dozens in Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani, Enugu State, the leader of the marauding Fulanis, one Senator Dagari Alkali led a delegation of the butchers straight to the defence headquarters where they publicly told everyone that, indeed, they were responsible for the killings attributed to them because in his words; “we have been pushed to the wall”
And what was the response of the defence chiefs? They all shook hands, took a group photograph with the ‘special’ visitors with open teeth and the Fulanis majestically walked out of the defence headquarters like the slave masters that they are. And the killing continues.
But just in case, these instances didn’t quite explain the slavery situation well, here are other instances: Last year, an Igbo Christian woman, Mrs. Bridget Agbohime was gruesomely murdered in broad day light in Kano by a group of Muslim youths for what they call blasphemy. We cried. We shouted. We wailed louder than the reggae god, Bob Marley.
To pull a wool over our eyes and shut us up, the sharia government of Kano State – the same state government that has secured death sentence in the state sharia court against number-less persons for the same blasphemy – decided to arrest the killers of Bridget. And it did and even charged them to court. Right there in the court, the state chief prosecutor, Mr.  Dauda Jubril took time to explain to the magistrate how the five accused carried out the crime but the moment the case file got to the state Attorney General, Mr. Haruna Falari, he categorically told the court to discharge and acquit the five accused as according to him, “they had no case to answer”.  And that was the end of the case. Meanwhile, the case of Joe Umunnakwe who named his dog “Buhari” was not left to the government of Ogun State. A police D.I.G was put in charge of the case.
Now think of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members in different prisons all over the country while Boko Haram and Fulani terrorists once tagged the deadliest and fourth deadliest terror groups in the whole world, all from the same religion and region as the slave masters, are being gifted with a juicy amnesty offer, released from prison and even protected with a special army task force on top your tax and oil money.
Now, think of Ile-Ife where despite the fact that Hausa/Fulanis drew the first blood and even paraded the severed head of the victim, according to report, the arrests by the Hausa/Fulani headed security agencies have been lopsided against the Ife indigenes and have seen even a Yoruba monarch arrested and paraded alongside other Yorubas like common criminals simply for defending their ancient city of Ile-Ife.
The Interior Minister, Abdulrahaman Dambazzau, has never visited any venue of the Fulani attacks in the past. But he quickly visited Ile-Ife and suddenly, the badly compromised security forces that have never arrested and prosecuted the Fulani terrorists killing and maiming innocent people have suddenly become more efficient than Jack Bauer. They want us to think that the killings were done by the Yorubas alone while the Hausa settlers folded their arms all through.

The most shameful aspect of this whole tragedy is that while this rape is being perpetrated against southerners, southern elites are still busy mortgaging the future of their unborn generation to these same Northern slave masters for crumbs while their well educated but fundamentally stupid youth are busy in some Igbo-Yoruba-Niger Delta cat and mouse fight. Talk of misplaced anger!
If you criticise the lopsided arrest in Ife killing, chances are the first person that will attack you will be a southerner.  Condemn the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu and trust me, you will be attacked not by northerners but southerners first.
Such is the degree of the willingness of southerners to continue defending their slave masters. But, while it is important that we acknowledge our slave status at the hands of a few northern oligarchs and work towards our freedom, it is more important if not most important that we do not fail to remember the faces of our southern parents who deliberately marched us into this slavery out of sheer greed.
Ogbu, a social analyst, writes from Port Harcourt.

Gabkosh:
Oya tell us how relevant are you

SaintLucia:
Opomu go Twitter go see how they lamba your fiction writer. Countries all over the world are locking down while somebody that carried white wool for head is talking of freedom of movement. Your fiction writer will sit at home preventing himself from the virus and push ignorance like u into the street in the name of freedom of movement.

TIGRITIS:
Oga prof, with due respect sir, you are an authority in your field. Medicine is not your field of study. The situation at hand is not about who is being paid for whatever reason. It is also not about trading of words. It is about the safest approach to save lives. Sir, in this case, a 400 level medical student is of more relevance than you. I'm sure you know it. So, oga prof, leave matter where e dey. If you have any contributions, don't hesitate, but if non, pls shut the fvck up.

Meninmen:
Do you even understand the issue at hand? What brought medicine into this matter? If the president has no constitutional powers to lock down a state, then his pronouncement is illegal. What's medicine and 400l medical student in this matter?

Some people sef

Guestlander:
The president is not a lawmaker, he can propose a law but he doesn't make them. He also doesn't have any powers outside of those granted him by the constitution.

Racoon:
Even Soyinka himself too was also once an APC paid propaganda machine. The difference now is that the same system he supported failed to allow him partake in the spoil of the charade.

HMarshal:
Does that mean Suld he wait for the consitution to be amended 1st b4 he acts on an emergency sir?

GamalNasser:
Soyinka you were part of those that deceived Nigerians to vote in this failed govt and you also tried to convince Americans not to Vote in Donald Trump but you failed

sapientia:
Prof is suprised.
He is part of why Buhari won.

Guestlander:
You should ask if the people you elected to serve you in the national assembly for the purpose of making laws for the country are actually earning their pay.

HMarshal:
That's off point.am against ppls destructive criticizim of every measure the president makes @tm even tho it comprises of incomplete,biased measures (not a supporter or any party,Neva ever voted too).
If soyinka spoke about how the millions of Nigerians will get money to feed,or isolation centers being of standard etc,ild aplaud him in opinion (my opinion).do u get my point now sir?

Guestlander:
What is the definition of a destructive criticism? The president is not a king. He was elected to serve the Nigerian people and Soyinka's question is absolutely legitimate.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. If Soyinka wants to talk about lockdown you as citizen can also raise the issues that are important to you.

0m0nnakoda:
That is a reflection of the quality of Nigerian education.
Soyinka is talking about rule of law and due process and some clown is talking about MEDICINE

TIGRITIS:
Oga prof, with due respect sir, you are an authority in your field. Medicine is not your field of study. The situation at hand is not about who is being paid for whatever reason. It is also not about trading of words. It is about the safest approach to save lives. Sir, in this case, a 400 level medical student is of more relevance than you. I'm sure you know it. So, oga prof, leave matter where e dey. If you have any contributions, don't hesitate, but if non, pls shut the fvck up.

Racoon:
Even Soyinka himself too was also once an APC paid propaganda machine.The difference now is that the same system he supported failed to allow him partake in the spoil of the charade.

Lavisha:
garba is a woefully bantering troglodyte and a preposterous acidly acrimonious abomination of humanity

WesleyPepper:
Get proper education first . Gosh !

eni4real:
What ignoramus like you say on Twitter is none of my Business!!

Those Twitter keyboard warriors are not relevant anywhere else!!!

Soyinka can give lecture In Foreign universities as a Legend.. You 'all can only Ignorantly type any gibberish on the Social Media!!!

Someone old enough to be your Father.. Africa has lost everything.... including respect for their elders especially those that achieved the highest level of individual excellence!!!

Read about Noble Prize... Stop sounding like low budget Garba Sheu... It seems you just swallow the ignorant phrase like a kid!!!

Garba Sheu is a disgrace to Public speaking!!!

Jelzin2412:
Thank you jare...

Racoon:
Even Soyinka himself too was also once an APC paid propaganda machine.The difference now is that the same system he supported failed to allow him partake in the spoil of the charade.

knowhowk:
. Is the Minister of Health Field of Study Medicine ? We are Talking about Health ,this one and Garba is talking about Field .Do they know anything about Health as well.

SaintLucia:
Garba Shehu gave your mentor fiction writer an upper cut and he's yet to recover from it. Even Prof children who are into medical line are disappointed in their father. There's a different between science and literature and that's what GS is telling your mentor who already isolated alone in the forest. It through corona is poetry. Other countries are locking down and all your fiction writer can suggests is for Nigeria to demand for their freedom of movement. I'm very sure u are born by mistake.

eni4real:
Any deliquent can insult anybody.. The one that will insult you or Garba Sheu , may still be in her Mother's womb right now!!!
keyboard warriors and Buhari PAs have one thing in common, they are nobodies outside their privileged domain!!!
Nonentities feeling funky

SaintLucia:
https://punchng.com/covid-19-saving-lives-more-paramount-than-saving-jobs-who-imf/ Read the article and tell me why your Prof should not be call a fiction writer? Responsible people are talking about saving lives and your fiction writer is there saying jargon. I only pity your parents because what they have in u is ofifo. U are what John Locke described as TABULAR RASA.

TIGRITIS:
Oga prof, with due respect sir, you are an authority in your field. Medicine is not your field of study. The situation at hand is not about who is being paid for whatever reason. It is also not about trading of words. It is about the safest approach to save lives. Sir, in this case, a 400 level medical student is of more relevance than you. I'm sure you know it. So, oga prof, leave matter where e dey. If you have any contributions, don't hesitate, but if non, pls shut the fvck up.

eni4real:
Will you keep quiet kid??

SaintLucia:
This one hit u like your fiction writer ba? Responsible citizens are doing everything possible to defend humanity while your fiction writer is talking of liberty. Honestly u are just what John Locke described as TABULAR RASA, It's a pity crown like u still exist in this millennium. The last time I saw a fool like you was in 1988 in Ibadan.