I am a Southern Nigerian. But, most times, I'm ashamed to admit it. That's because I've noticed that Southern Nigeria might be the World Capital of Stupidity. Sorry my people but, please, hear me out first before the crucifixion.


The worst part of it is that most of us Southern Nigerians seem to think that we are wiser compared to the Northerners. Of course, a hallmark of fools is that they judge themselves by themselves - and their judgment always favors them against others. 


That's my Southern Nigeria for you - an enclave of highly educated fools. Once again, I'm sorry for this verbal brutality but I hope that - like bitter pills - it may help to heal our crass levels of foolishness here.


HERE IS A CASE IN POINT


Today, I read two first page posts that were adjacent to each other. One of the posts reports about 'a reign of terror' going on in the South-Eastern city of Onitsha while the other is talking about how some herder terrorists are still sacking Ogun residents and forcing them to flee to Benin Republic! 

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I believe that the Nairaland Admin purposely and wisely placed those two reports side by side to make Southerners think. But, instead, the Southerners (mainly Igbos and Yorubas) turned the reports into an opportunity for their usual online inter-tribal wars - trying to show which is better between Amotekun and ESN in very very bitter terms!


How much more stupid can we get as a people! Everywhere on Earth, it happens that a common enemy unites people. But not in Southern Nigeria - one reason why this may be the World Headquarters of STUPIDITY as I said earlier. How could we afford to be fighting each other at the same time that we are getting plundered by a common enemy!?! 


It's such a big shame to any Nigerian that Nigerians now have to flee to little Benin Republic in order to save their lives. But, it is a greater shame to Southern Nigerians (and to Yorubas in particular) that the people forcing us to flee our homes are from the far-away North - because of our extremely unwary attitudes like those of our ancestors for centuries now. It's also a shame that Igbos often complain about oppression from foreign terrorists but would so easily become terrorists unto themselves (as in the 'Onitsha reign of terror'). Is that how Igbos will run the Biafra they're looking for? As one of the shameless mockers noted about the Onitsha report:

If they like, make them chop themselves alive. What I know is that online country go sweet die.

 

We have become so stupid that our common enemy now has all the strings for controlling us. He knows the one to pull and get us to fight with each other. He knows the one to pull and we are begging him to rule us. Oh, it's so painful and shameful, chai!

WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN?

So, if any humanity or maturity is left in us, these things should make us too ashamed to easily be pointing accusing fingers at other people. Again, that's the height of stupidity.


Instead, both online and offline, we should be discussing and working and spending all our energy on getting ourselves out of this mess that our years of stupidity has gotten us into. Let's flee foolishness. Instead, let's learn the kind of wisdom that liberates people from personal/national slavery and shame.


Feel free to bash the hell out of me anywhere you think I got it wrong (because I'm also one of the Southern fools).

Yeah. That is why I don’t Fcck with Southern men. They are beyond stupid. See how a tribe of illiterate Fulani’s are ruling them like goats. I need a manly Northerner.

Southern Nigeria failed to use nairaland to their advantage instead they are using it to ridicule themselves

Those are not Southerners, they are impostors.

Be wise, illiterates has taken over this platform

Don't judge a whole tribe simply because of individual opinion. Note that politicians laid tribalism foundation in this trap called country for their selfish interest. Now ask yourself, what is the population of politicians and their agents, and what is the population of neutral Nigerians.

Beware Nigerians. This is the time to know and understand the true identity of those who cause tribalism on here, they are paid agents, they are neither from east or west, some are not Nigerian. They have more than twenty monikers, they would create tribal related topics and make tribal comments with different monikers to cause chaos between southerners. Though, they have no conscience but you can try to educate them or better ignore them. They are easy to identify, use your head brothers.
They dominate this platform. They are evil and restless until their aim is achieved

Nigeria is not made up of geographical boundaries but cultural boundaries.
I will explain later

Zooposki:
Yeah. That is why I don’t Fcck with Southern men. They are beyond stupid. See how a tribe of illiterate Fulani’s are ruling them like goats. I need a manly Northerner.

Bleep kill you there!!! who want to Bleep you before? you better mind yourself.

@ OP thanks for the post. Me as a person has tried to raise awareness for southerners, but it seems a lot of people are just unreasonable. They should continue sleeping and partying, while mischievous elements keep gaining ground. To most of them, they think trying to catch cruise and trolling on nairaland is fun?

God bless you, you can never see the Northerners hating and mocking each other like the way Yoruba and Ibos do here.
Bleep southern Youths jor

Southern unity or solidarity doesn’t exist

Thanks a lot @ op !

I think one of the problems here is that we have to many kids on this forum, age notwithstanding, bcs maturity and wisdom have nothing to do with age, not even education.

I said this bcs some of our southern brothers on NL come here to display their bigotry and emotions. Which in the long run create a vacuum for our ever serious and business minded nothern folks to widen the gap and create more confusion which give them more advantage for their so called divide and rule tactics.

If you notice, some of them have different accounts on NL which they use to impersonate the Southerners, in other to divide us more. And we foolish southerners will fall for it and begin to attack one another.

Then who are the iliterates and who are more sophisticated between the north and south ?

If you ask me, the north are smarter than us so, we are the iliterates here and they will continue to rule us and own Nigeria until we realize ourselves and unite..........

Southern unity ended in 1959 .Igbos have been supporting fulanis since 1959 ,but they do pretend to hate fulani .They blame everything on YORUBAS that they are the problem of the south .When AZIKWE an IGBO man from the EAST formed a coalition government with the TAFAWA BALEWA a FULANI from the NORTH while Yorubas were in opposition ,and sideline AWOLOWO .Azikwe thought the fulanis were dull,stupid and uneducated and decided to take control of the Balewa/Azikwe government ,but unfortunately the fulanis outsmarted him ,and since then the fulanis have been the controller of Nigeria due to Azikwe hatred for Awolowo,sent him to jail for 10 yrs .This same shameless igbos shouting Yorubas are betrayals formed a goverment with fulani in 1983 under Sheu shagari a FULANI and Alex Ekueme an IGBO in 1983 while Yorubas were in opposition ,even Ojukwu campaigned for a fulani man that destroyed them during civil war.Same igbos killed our western region premier Akintola ,they also suspended the regional goverment through ironsi and ben nwabueze .In 2011 Yorubas massively voted for jonathan ,and we got marginalized and noting to show of in our region as a result of Jonathan goverment ,our elders met with jonathan but everything was futility ,we kept calm till his tenure finishes and decided to remove jonathan by Allying with FULANI ,which was the first time in history .And all we got from igbos were INSULTS LIKE betrayals,fulani slaves ,fulani asslickers and all sorts.same igbos that formed a government with fulani Twice ;which is very funny .Their lord and personal saviour Ojukwu even campaigned for NPN of sheu shagari a fulani man,whose tribe together with british killed 3m igbos .i wonder the hypocrisy.So u have to agree with me that igbos only make noise when they are out of power.

9japride:
@ OP thanks for the post. Me as a person has tried to raise awareness for southerners, but it seems a lot of people are just unreasonable. They should continue sleeping and partying, while mischievous elements keep gaining ground. To most of them, they think trying to catch cruise and trolling on nairaland is fun?

the black man is all shades of stupid, come and see the way some Igbo people are dragging Nnamdi Kanu for standing up to defend his own people. Why are negroes so dumb and stupid, while young Igbo Biafran soldiers were being massacred by Nigerian Saladin armored tanks...Arthur Nzeribe and Ukpabi Asika were supplying weapons to the Nigerian army, in fact, they had suites at the federal palace hotel in victoria island all through the duration of the civil war.........meanwhile some tough Yoruba army officers who believed in the Biafran cause were leading young Igbo chaps into battles uptill the end of the war.

i grew up in Lagos in idumota ,oyingbo and masha areas of Lagos and I know the true nature of the Yorubas, they are far from being cowards! They are by and large a fair dealing people but their sense of rationality and deliberation may not serve them well in this current situation, the drumbeat of war from the Fulani is a frenzied one and the only way to dance to their mad rhythm is to dance and gyrate like a complete madman..........Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is matching them beat for beat ........madness for lunacy............the Fulani know IPOB has come to die with them! as for ndigbo and ndiyoruba intellectuals let them continue to waste time while these sahelian savages continue to eat their lunch.

afube:







the black man is all shades of stupid, come and see the way some Igbo people are dragging Nnamdi Kanu for standing up to defend his own people. Why are negroes so dumb and stupid, while young Igbo Biafran soldiers were being massacred by Nigerian Saladin armored tanks...Arthur Nzeribe and Ukpabi Asika were supplying weapons to the Nigerian army, in fact, they had suites at the federal palace hotel in victoria island all through the duration of the civil war.........meanwhile some tough Yoruba army officers who believed in the Biafran cause were leading young Igbo chaps into battles uptill the end of the war.

i grew up in Lagos in idumota ,oyingbo and masha areas of Lagos and I know the true nature of the Yorubas, they are far from being cowards! They are by and large a fair dealing people but their sense of rationality and deliberation may not serve them well in this current situation, the drumbeat of war from the Fulani is a frenzied one and the only way to dance to their mad rhythm is to dance and gyrate like a complete madman..........Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is matching them beat for beat ........madness for lunacy............the Fulani know IPOB has come to die with them! as for ndigbo and ndiyoruba intellectuals let them continue to waste time while these sahelian savages continue to eat their lunch.

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It's really unfortunate that most people are acting sane when dealing with bandits. You don't play with snakes. There will always be saboteurs in any society.

The Fulani slaves a.k.a Atikiu asslickers are to blame for the mess in the Southern parts of Nigeria today. Their treachery is second to none.

Honestly,we southern Nigeria must Unite.
It will go a long way in the growth of Africa at large.
Imagine if ndi Igbo and Oduduwans support the growth of each other, individually and on regional level,they would be mass development in the whole south.All this our fights amount to nothing,it only cause division and shame.We both have our mistakes,failures and strengths,you cant Win by bringing people down.

Easternmind:
Honestly,we southern Nigeria must Unite.
It will go a long way in the growth of Africa at large.
Imagine if ndi Igbo and Oduduwans support the growth of each other, individually and on regional level,they would be mass development in the whole south.All this our fights amount to nothing,it only cause division and shame.We both have our mistakes,failures and strengths,you cant Win by bringing people down.

But your forefathers like Azikiwe have been uniting with Fulanis.. which oduduwans are you here hallucinating about?

God forbid my own people have any thing to do with your likes. Hateful set of people.

flokii:


But your forefathers like Azikiwe have been uniting with Fulanis.. which oduduwans are you here hallucinating about?

God forbid my own people have any thing to do with your likes. Hateful set of people.

@Easternmind.

Beware of this post and the Monika !

The opinion here does not represent that of the Yorubas , he's one of those impostors we're talking about on NL.

Samunique:


@Easternmind.

Beware of this post and the Monika !

The opinion here does not represent that of the Yorubas , he's one of those impostors we're talking about on NL.

You are inconsequential and your ignorant rants don't bother me.

When the time comes, we shall separate the seeds from chaffs. Radarada

flokii:


But your forefathers like Azikiwe have been uniting with Fulanis.. which oduduwans are you here hallucinating about?

God forbid my own people have any thing to do with your likes. Hateful set of people.

U are one of the problem we are facing in this country

flokii:


You are inconsequential and your ignorant rants don't bother me.

When the time comes, we shall separate the seeds from chaffs. Radarada

Chest beating Fulani jihadist

Because blacks are subhuman monkeys with bad instincts. Fulanis are lucky because they have a trace amount of Arabic DNA that allows them to dominate the pure black abeed. The Fulanis invaded Nigeria through the Hausa kingdoms. But instead of uniting against a common enemy, the Hausa's betrayed each other -- with some fighting alongside the Fulani. In fact, many Hausa peasants used the Fulani invasion as an opportunity to revolt against their kings because of high taxation.

As a result, all of them were defeated and their descendants remain slaves to the Fulani to this day.

The same thing is happening in Southern Nigeria. Instead of uniting against a common enemy, the black monkeys are fighting each other. And as a result, all of them will be enslaved, just like the Hausas before them. The fate of the nigger-man is slavery. It is in his blood to be a slave.

flokii:


But your forefathers like Azikiwe have been uniting with Fulanis.. which oduduwans are you here hallucinating about?

God forbid my own people have any thing to do with your likes. Hateful set of people.

I know azikiwe aligned with north,but you must look at things in a better way.
If we continue bashing and fighting ourselves,it will amount to nothing,rather than disharmony.I don't hate the Yorubas.
I'm Only seeking if they could be southern alliance to aid growth.

Hmmm. You really nailed it

Aconomist:
The fate of the nigger-man is slavery. It is in his blood to be a slave.

This got me thinking.

@ op

The problem with the South is cohesion (or friction) rather. Religious bigotry and tribalistic shenanigans are the bane of contention. Yoruba's hate easterners for the most inane reasons you can fathom (envy really). Igbos distrust yorubas because their parents told them civil war betrayal stories. Akwa Cross,Niger Delta and the WHOLE middle belt are sitting on the fence. ..what am I saying?


Nigeria is being run by touts, cultists,social misfits...and you expect the country to work? There is more than enough evidence to prove govt is behind the insecurity in the country... Many know this but can't speak out so DSS don't come knocking on their door....

No one can occupy a top political post in Nigeria without selling their souls to foreign Fulani parasites. ALL the presidents/governors/senators/reps are ALL slaves to Fulani. From Obasanjo 1999 down...that is why Hope Uzodinma couldn't cough when herdsmen were having field day killing and raping his kindred but could invite army to deal with ESN (who are trying to do what the governor ought to be doing (see the cliche?)

Ask yourself... Why is Amotekun approved and ESN proscribed? Its obvious....

Amotekun is a charade, a smoke screen. They can NEVER deal with Fulani terrorists. Even if they catch one, they will hand over to Police which is controlled by Fulani and the matter dies

ESN on the other hand are pragmatic (real huncho niggaz yo). They are out to decimate Fulani domination. Uthman Dan Fodio adherents will not allow that....so they label them "terrorist" and outlaw and idiots from the south can't see through the bullshit.

Nigeria can only change when young bloods (with honor) get into the game...I mean ppl who will never back down even if 200 billion bribe is splashed in their faces.

I'm too tired and way to tipsy (drunk actually) but I hope I got a point or two across. Its 10:36 and I have more drinks to down.

Adios.

mccloud224:
@ op

The problem with the South is cohesion (or friction) rather. Religious bigotry and tribalistic shenanigans are the bane of contention. Yoruba's hate easterners for the most inane reasons you can fathom (envy really). Igbos distrust yorubas because their parents told them civil war betrayal stories. Akwa Cross,Niger Delta and the WHOLE middle belt are sitting on the fence. ..what am I saying?


Nigeria is being run by touts, cultists,social misfits...and you expect the country to work? There is more than enough evidence to prove govt is behind the insecurity in the country... Many know this but can't speak out so DSS don't come knocking on their door....

No one can occupy a top political post in Nigeria without selling their souls to foreign Fulani parasites. ALL the presidents/governors/senators/reps are ALL slaves to Fulani. From Obasanjo 1999 down...that is why Hope Uzodinma couldn't cough when herdsmen were having field day killing and raping his kindred but could invite army to deal with ESN (who are trying to do what the governor ought to be doing (see the cliche?)

Ask yourself... Why is Amotekun approved and ESN proscribed? Its obvious....

Amotekun is a charade, a smoke screen. They can NEVER deal with Fulani terrorists. Even if they catch one, they will hand over to Police which is controlled by Fulani and the matter dies

ESN on the other hand are pragmatic (real huncho niggaz yo). They are out to decimate Fulani domination. Uthman Dan Fodio adherents will not allow that....so they label them "terrorist" and outlaw and idiots from the south can't see through the bullshit.

Nigeria can only change when young bloods (with honor) get into the game...I mean ppl who will never back down even if 200 billion bribe is splashed in their faces.

I'm too tired and way to tipsy (drunk actually) but I hope I got a point or two across. Its 10:36 and I have more drinks to down.

Adios.

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Well spoken. God bless you.

Easternmind:

I know azikiwe aligned with north,but you must look at things in a better way.
If we continue bashing and fighting ourselves,it will amount to nothing,rather than disharmony.I don't hate the Yorubas.
I'm Only seeking if they could be southern alliance to aid growth.

Azikiwe finally aligned with Tafawa Balewa because he found out Awolowo had "sophisticatedly' gone behind Azikiwe to open up talks with Tafawa to form a coalition government, that was after publicly offering to form a government with Zik...........but all that is in the past! most relevant question is , can we work together to fight a common enemy.

BrandBrainBox:
How much more stupid can we get as a people! Everywhere on Earth, it happens that a common enemy unites people. But not in Southern Nigeria - one reason why this may be the World Headquarters of STUPIDITY as I said earlier. How could we afford to be fighting each other at the same time that we are getting plundered by a common enemy!?! 

We have become so stupid that our common enemy now has all the strings for controlling us. He knows the one to pull and get us to fight with each other. He knows the one to pull and we are begging him to rule us. Oh, it's so painful and shameful, chai!

100% on point.
I stopped commenting on nairaland because of the stupidity of we the southern Nigeria, especially the Igbos and Yorubas but this your post pushed me to once again make a comment on nairaland

May be coincidence, still still you have made some reasonable points..

Southerners don't see beyond their nose.. Ego and pride are not allowing any of them to have reasonable achievement/development.

Funnily, people will read this as usual, give praise to the op and that's the end.. No further action to what might have been consciously learned from the write up

Easternmind:

I know azikiwe aligned with north,but you must look at things in a better way.
If we continue bashing and fighting ourselves,it will amount to nothing,rather than disharmony.I don't hate the Yorubas.
I'm Only seeking if they could be southern alliance to aid growth.

You are a rational mind, same cannot be said for your people.
Imagine always blaming Yoruba for Azikiwe's lack of foresight, Azikiwe did not only sabotage the secession clause, he also joined the North to delay Nigeria's independence for two years.
SW was colonized separately, the current Nigerian high commission office in UK, used to be the embassy of Western Nigeria in UK.
If the secession clause was included in the Nigerian constitution, Awolowo would probably have pulled SW out even before 1963.
Awo is a man that saw tomorrow, this was why he said Nigeria is a ' mere geographical expression " , not a country.
Did your people not labeled him a tribalist for his views?.
What Awolowo saw and demanded for secession clause to be included in the Nigerian constitution, Adaka Boro saw it, Ojukwu eventually saw it, the whole of Igboland saw it and this was why they support Ojukwu's Biafra agenda, unfortunately their fore fathers signed them into this union, forceful exit is a breach of contract, the owners of this slave ship the British will not take it.
Did Zik not cornived with his Fulani allies to carve out mid west?, Benin, Itshekiri, and Uhrobo are a sub Yoruba group or have they denied their identity?.
He still did the same to the Okun and Igbomina people, thank God for the likes of Olawoyin, who keeps reminding his people that " we are Yorubas we are not North".
Now tell me, 60 years later who in SW, SS, SE and MB is not seeing things from Awo's point of view today?.
Yorubas have since mapped out their survival strategy in a forced union like Nigeria, let other tribes too go and do the same.
Orun ma wo, kii se ori enikan.

7lives:


You are a rational mind, same cannot be said for your people.
Imagine always blaming Yoruba for Azikiwe's lack of foresight, Azikiwe did not only sabotage the secession clause, he also joined the North to delay Nigeria's independence for two years.
SW was colonized separately, the current Nigerian high commission office in UK, used to be the embassy of Western Nigeria in UK.
If the secession clause was included in the Nigerian constitution, Awolowo would probably have pulled SW out even before 1963.
Awo is a man that saw tomorrow, this was why he said Nigeria is a ' mere geographical expression " , not a country.
Did your people not labeled him a tribalist for his views?.
What Awolowo saw and demanded for secession clause to be included in the Nigerian constitution, Adaka Boro saw it, Ojukwu eventually saw it, the whole of Igboland saw it and this was why they support Ojukwu's Biafra agenda, unfortunately their fore fathers signed them into this union, forceful exit is a breach of contract, the owners of this slave ship the British will not take it.
Did Zik not cornived with his Fulani allies to carve out mid west?, Benin, Itshekiri, and Uhrobo are a sub Yoruba group or have they denied their identity?.
He still did the same to the Okun and Igbomina people, thank God for the likes of Olawoyin, who keeps reminding his people that " we are Yorubas we are not North".
Now tell me, 60 years later who in SW, SS, SE and MB is not seeing things from Awo's point of view today?.
Yorubas have since mapped out their survival strategy in a forced union like Nigeria, let other tribes too go and do the same.
Orun ma wo, kii se ori enikan.

You said that what Awo saw, Ojukwu also saw. Good. But, I'm wondering why the same Awo, instead of keeping to his plan with Ojukwu to work together for secession, decided to undermine Ojukwu during the Civil War. Can you please explain this?