₦airaland Forum

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/5561373-146/letter_to_senator_eme_ufot_ekaette.csp

Nice one. Dat woman is a disgrace to womanhood.

IT WAS SOLUDO THAT APPROVED SHARIA BANKING. All these bigots should please shut the fvck up.

jassie:
right protest @the wrong place. . . all the anger should be expressed in abuja, not lagos!

na wa for you. this one shows how much you read. they first protested in abuja and even broke into the national assembly there.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5541662-146/police_seal_off_national_assembly_from.csp

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-413889.0.html

by Gbenga Olorunpomi

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5554300-146/nigerians_demand_reforms_fair_elections_.csp

Several hundreds of young Nigerians, comprising professionals, artists, and students, engaged in a peaceful march in the blazing Lagos sun for about two hours to the Lagos State Governor's Office in Alausa. They were marching under the aegis of Enough is Enough Nigeria.

Amongst the many protesters, led by president of the Campaign for Democracy, Joe Okei-Odumakin, were popular singers like Banky W, Eldee, Sound Sultan, Timi Dakolo, the Roof top MCs, actor Rita Dominic and comedian Ali Baba.

Informal sources said the governor was in the Acting President's entourage to high-powered meetings in Washington DC, USA. However, the governor did not designate a representative - even though the protesters showed a letter received and signed by his Chief of Staff as proof of ample notice. The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Yomi Ikuforiji, tried to come out to address the crowd, but they had lost their patience and the organisers declared the rally closed.

The march, which began at the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Open Field, went through Obafemi Awolowo Road and terminated at the gate of the Governor's Office.

The Lagos heat did not deter the marchers, who turned to the many vendors selling fluid to quench their thirst. The crowd, which had most wearing white t-shirts with inscriptions, attracted many on-lookers, many of whom voiced support for their cause.

A considerable contingent of police officers was on hand to ease traffic issues and quell any potential disturbance. This is a reversal of what transpired a month ago when gun-carrying police officers barred the same youth group at the main gate of the National Assembly in Abuja and prevented them from seeing the leadership of the Assembly. That incident resulted in a scuffle.

The Enough is Enough group is a coalition of youth groups who are demanding for a change and insisting that young Nigerians take more ownership of the voting process.

https://www.enoughisenoughnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/poster-2_Page_1-722x1024.jpg

Our Votes Must Count! #enoughisenough
On March 16, young Nigerians stormed Abuja.
On April 13, Lagos, here we come.
#EnoughisEnough Nigeria!
Finally, young Nigerians take charge…
Our Votes Must Count!
Join young professionals, celebrities, media, students and activists…
Take-off: Archbishop Vining Church, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Destination: Governor’s office, Alausa, Ikeja
Time: 11am prompt
RSVP: OUR PLAN FOR 2011…
Register (R): Empower yourself. Stop complaining and get your vote on!
Select (S): Choose wise, responsible people to support! Good leaders build a good nation.
Vote (V): Take Charge. Exercise your power. Roll with your buddies/clique to the polling booth.
Protect (P): Make your vote count. Don’t walk away from your future.
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OUR DEMANDS THIS TIME…
(a) Electoral Reform:
We have an electoral system that allows the president appoint an INEC chairman in an election which the president has interests, that allows convicted criminals to contest for public office, amongst other such misnomers. It is appalling that our electoral system remains so warped and this seems to indicate that elections are primed to be rigged. To this end, we demand that the Uwais Panel Report on Electoral Reform be adopted as is, as they present the clearest path towards transparent and corruption-free elections.

(b) Corruption:
There are littered across the country, corruption cases involving key ministries – from power to petroleum – parastatals and those held in cahoots with members of Corporate Nigeria. Even worse, the EFCC has been fingered in some of these scandals. The Acting President already slated the Ministry of Agriculture (where the former minister has been accused of inflating contracts by up to N500million); the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation; and the Millennium Development Programme for probe. There is the National Poverty Eradication Programme, where billions of naira has reportedly been misappropriated. The government must show its seriousness in prosecuting these alleged corrupt practices and showing to Nigerians seriousness in solving the problem of graft.

(c) Security:
Nigerians are not safe. The carnage in Jos continues to be a source of worry for many Nigerians, and it continues to be a source of worry because it is proof that our government and its security agencies cannot protect the lives and properties of Nigerians. This is even more poignant because, even after the initial March crises, the intelligent agencies could not pre-empt and avoid the small pockets of deaths that followed. Add this to repeated kidnappings and assignations that continue to be unresolved and the problem is more acute. We therefore demand a complete overhaul of the country’s security apparatuses and that all the public officials who were responsible for the breakdown should be, as a matter of urgency, removed.

(d) Electricity:
6,000 megawatts will not solve the electricity problems of Nigeria, but they are a good start. And when the federal government promised it, Nigerians welcomed that start. Unfortunately, not only was this promise flagrantly broken, but there has as yet been no plan on how to redeem the process. Nigerians desperately and urgently need power for the industrial and production centers. Without that, it will be difficult for the engine of our economy to run efficiently. Without it, life has become near unbearable. We are extending our ultimatum to the federal government – until the end of April – for it to present this plan to the people. If not, we shall target the ministry of power specifically for protest. This promise is not to be taken lightly.

if this report has said that the 66% failure was in sanusi's time you would have seen all the haters filling this place up.

bump

The truth is bitter.

The 66% capital losses in the banking sector between 2008 and 2009 are depositors funds.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5549975-146/story.csp

http://akin.blog-city.com/nigeria_stand_up_for_nigeria.htm

Not to be dignified

When that mendicant from Libya first suggested Nigeria split up, I considered it beneath me to dignify his rant with an opinion, having never equivocated about the entity of Nigeria or the identity of Nigerian, I could not be perturbed.

However, this new atrocity of a comment from Muammar Gaddafi [1] requires a comprehensive put-down but better still it is that one opportunity for true Nigerians to stand up for their country in purpose, in unity and in truth.

Feeling the whole of Nigeria

I do wish I had lived all around Nigeria, I only lived in the North and the SouthWest, but I do speak two of the three major indigenous languages of Nigeria.

My mother was born in the SouthWest, grew up in the North before travelling out for studies and returned to the North afterwards, she however speaks the three indigenous languages even though she learnt the third without having first visited that region.

She can well pass for an indigene in any of those places for are command of the language and her understanding of nuances of those tongues.

I remember my father struggling with his Hausa lessons, he really did not need to speak Hausa but the sense of Nigerian in him lead to his desire to integrate.

The great Nigeria

But Nigeria as a whole is a wonderful place, a country of 150 million people, maybe 250 tribes and just as many nations but with a common purpose and identity of which we must all be proud and be ready to defend.

If no one has yet seen the evil, despicable and Machiavellian notion of Colonel Gaddafi, review once again his absurd suggestion.

Nigeria should split along ethnic lines, if Nigeria really had clear-cut ethnic lines there might be a second to consider it, but to then give the example of the Yugoslavian split, it sends a clear message of a deep felt hatred for everyone who boldly declares their Nigerian pride.

Working this Nigeria

I would have welcomed the peace of a Czechoslovakian split, but Yugoslavia is one of bloodshed, sectarian violence, war, genocide and backwardness in comparison to ones neighbours.

Obviously, we have to find ways to accentuate the things that make us uniquely and wonderfully Nigerians whilst we in unity militate against those things that divide us and take us away from the common purpose and desire of a great fatherland, great to us and great also in Africa.

There is no clamour of self-determination in our country what we seek is equity, justice, fairness and peace with all the abundant resources of our rich country used to the welfare and development of our people by honest, courageous and visionary leaders.

This is the time to ask yourself if you are really Nigerian or someone seeking an unviable fiefdom with speculations of Utopia that do not exist.

The country we have

For 96 years, we have had the entity called Nigeria, whilst it was handed to us by colonial masters, we have run this country for 49 of those years, very few of the countries of colonial progeny that have split up in Africa have ever done so peacefully.

Nigerians need to rise above the religiosity and primitive clannish tendencies to the promise of a worthwhile commitment to a place called Nigeria.

We inter-marry along all sorts of lines, religious, ethnic, tribal, ideological and what else we have one pledge, one anthem and one identity – it is Nigerian.

Any division would definitely lead to abnormal divisions which in very much like a cancerous growth which eventually kills the host – you can begin to kill Nigeria and watch it die or starve this travesty of an utterance of oxygen and watch Nigeria rise.

You can however allow a Libyan dictator to take away your right to be a Nigerian, but for me, all men would have departed the earth before Nigeria is no more.

My fellow compatriots – Stand Up for Nigeria.

Beaf:
^
Yes I said we speak with one voice.

Take the panadol and mind your own village.

I come from a township unlike you that comes from a creek.

calyx:
I do not really know what your problem. You clearly seem to be the only person that doesnt acknowledge Nigeria is probably never going to work. Nigeria has failed to work!!!!! simple.

What do I think? Division of the country even if it means to 1000 different ethinic sects is way to go. . .maybe second to genuine federated system with complete resource control.

I am not Niger Delta sorry_{I be Igbo boy}

I am also Igbo.

Division of the country will not solve the problem but rather will escalate the problem. A friend of mine wrote an article about it and I totally agree.

P.S I never said it is well with Nigeria. That will reduce me to a dreamer like beaf and the rest of his ilk.

Beaf:
Who is "they"? Did that fight that "they" where engaged in scuttle true federalism?
So what if an Evreni traditional ruler lost his life? Is that the reason why Nigeria shouldn't either practice true federalism or split.

Go and take panadol, you're mentally tired.

I thought you said Niger Delta speaks with one voice? I may be mentally tired maybe but you are an intellectual non-starter. Run along to tribalism. Your friends are there. Anu ohia.

Beaf:
You are funny.
If we look at it very simplistically, a GDP of $40 billion makes even a new born baby in Luxemburg worth $80,000.

Nigeria makes more money than Luxemburg, but while your average Nigerian is wretchedly poor, the average person in Luxemburg has twice as much money as the average American.

. . .Now do you want to talk about stupidity?

Since in your warped sense of reasoning every human being must have $80k, why does every American, unarguably the richest country on earth not have that amount?

You are hopelessly out of your depth so go and play in the tribalism section where you belong.

FYI, while Luxembourg is number 97 in terms of GNP, Nigeria is number 33. It is never an even spread once you divide by large populations, hence India has a GDP that places her at 128 (Nigeria is 130). You can thank me for the lesson later.

tensor777:
Therin lies the true madness of Kaddafi's ideas Africa no longer consists of ethnically homogenous regions.

as a matter of fact the WORST country on god's green earth, Somalia, IS to all intents and purposes ethnically and religiously homogeneous. So the madman's theory goes out of the window. His own Libya has four ethnic groups. That will be easier to split than Nigeria's 389. Let us split Libya.

Beaf:
So how come we speak with one voice as Niger Delta? Mind your own side of the country and stop trying to discuss other people problems which you are clearly ignorant of. Mind your own village abeg!

Speak with one voice? Your head is stuck so far up your own arse that it has began to smell like roses to you. I lived in Warri when they were fighting. Is it not in the same Niger Delta that the people of Evreni killed their traditional ruler over a squabble? Don't make me laugh.

Beaf:
[size=14pt]So what? The population of Luxemburg is half a million, but Nigeria is much poorer.[/size]
More than that, Luxemburg is the richest country by GDP per capita, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg
. . .Like I said you mouth inanities.

Again your stupidity knows no boundaries. Luxembourg is not an ethnically homogeneous nation. And GDP per capita means income divided by number of individuals. That country has a population of half a million people and an income of $40billion. Even Nigeria makes more money than Luxembourg.

The modern African nation state INCLUDING LIBYA is an amalgam of different ethnic groups and this is by no means exclusive to Nigeria. Must all African nations north and south of the sahara split up because they are all heterigenous? Again, Gadahfi shows he's not mastered the issue at hand.

UcheUwadi_:
Some people would say split up along regional lines. Many groups that inhabit particular regions are closely related. Just look at the relation of the Ibibio with the Igbo and the Idoma and the Igbo. Different groups, but similar cultures.

and you think that the Ibibio want to be associated with ndi Igbo? Get your head out of your arse boy, they hate us. The Idoma even worse. On these very pages we have Ikwerre people cursing out anything Igbo. If we go to Benue state alone, the Idoma and the Tiv can't stand each other. In Edo, the Bini and Ishan hate each other's guts. In Plateau the Langtang, Birom, Jasarawa, Naraguta just to name a few would rather spend their time tearing each other out. In Delta, Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo hate themselve. Where do you want to start?

Beaf:
Really? The above is as simplistic as simplistic can get. Are you being mischievous or just naive?

Sylva's case is easy to analyse. The only place the cabal can get huge sums to line their pockets or fight the Nigerian population to a standstill, is the Niger Delta. In the past, we had Ibori, who Aondoakaa travelled the World to defend; today, it is Sylva.
The long and short of the matter, is that the cabal sourced 100 billion stolen oil money to fight Jonathan, Sylva is just the fool flattered by the power the cabal can give him.
The 100 billion fraud fight is another face of Jonathan vs cabal.

Everybody, please mind your own areas and stop bringing up false justifications. Should we split along ethnic lines? YES, if we can't have a national conference, or true federalism at the very least. Nigeria isn't working, so lets quit mouthing inane sentiments.

You are very silly. Nigeria (according to the CIA fact book) has 389 ethnic groups. Tell me, just HOW do you want to split then? 389 countries? If you really believe that will work I have a bridge to sell you.

chosen04:
@Pretty G

That is exactly the same thing they told the states in the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavi, Etc.

We now new better

Give us the examples of when they told those things to the people of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia or for ever be known as a liar.

Boboribo, splitting would not make our problems go away. The issue with Timpriye Silva is a classic case of how our problems are not ethnic or religious.

you are a bastard.

what does it matter where his forefathers came from if he can do a good job? have the people there been representing the interests of their 'regions of origin'? all this archaic thinking is drawing us back.

Aloy+Emeka:
Guys, take it easy and hear him out.

u r learning the hard way how illiterates communicate. they don't listen to you but keep shouting. that is nigeria's big problem. d country is full of illiterates.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Blogs/MaxSiollun/5544980-179/nigeria_africas_tower_of_babel_.csp



By Max Siollun


I was speaking to some friends recently and they pointed me to some online debates among Nigerians who "refused to believe" that there are 250 ethno-linguistic groups in Nigeria. Even those that concede there are 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria do not realise that a great many of those 250 are in the north.

There is a tendency among southern Nigerians to ignorantly refer to any northerner as "Hausa".

The recent furore regarding the Jos murders, General Domkat Bali and Major-General Saleh Maina (GOC of the army's 3rd armoured division in Jos) is a case in point. There has been an explosive debate with many Christians, middle belters and southerners accusing Maina of pro Fulani bias because he is "Hausa-Fulani".

The ignorance surrounding the furore is palpable, because Maina is NOT Hausa or Fulani. He is Kanuri, but has fallen victim to the generic mindset of "every northerner is Hausa". Many southern Nigerians ignorantly label Nigeria's past northern leaders like Abacha, Babangida, and Abubakar as "Hausa" when in fact NONE of these men was or is Hausa. I am sure that many are also unaware that Nigeria's Senate President David Mark (i.e. citizen no. 3 in Nigeria) is from the Idoma ethnic group in the middle belt.

The Maina/Bali controversy is not the topic of this article. I hope our Nigerian and friends from other countries reading this will be enlightened by the diversity in their own country - especially in the north. A few sobering statistics (I know some of you do not like stats, but I cannot help it right now):

The Koma and all those "Minorities" 1) About 700-800 languages are spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon alone. Two countries with less than 1% of the world's population speak over 10% of ALL languages in the world.

2) Which is the most linguistically diverse region in Nigeria? The North. Many do not realise that there are states in Nigeria where one encounters different ethnic groups/languages as one moves from one town to the next. Some groups like the "Big Three", the Tiv, Kanuri and Ijaw number in the millions.

However, others are in the mere thousands and are so obscure that the federal government might not even be aware of their existence.

3) States like Adamawa, Bauchi, Plateau and Taraba are reputed to have over 50 (yes, I said FIFTY) ethnic groups EACH.

4) Who reading this has nostalgic memories of the Koma people? With approximately 50,000 people, this was the ethnic group that remained "undiscovered" in the mountainous highland area to the northeast, living a naked Pagan lifestyle up in the mountains with no interaction with modern society. There were "discovered" in 1986 during the administration of Colonel Yohanna Madaki - then Military Governor of Gongola State. Early missionaries who tried to convert them had to go naked so as not to make them feel uncomfortable around clothed strangers.

Christians North, Muslim South

A few days ago, Libyan leader Colonel Ghaddafi advocated splitting Nigeria between Muslims and Christians. Sounds plausible right? Should be easy since the "north is Muslim and south is Christian"? Wrong.

The Muslim north/Christian south discourse has been a massive myth for decades. Some northern states likeKaduna, and southern states like Oyo have mixed Muslim and Christian populations. Let's not even mention Kwara State.

Aside from having sizeable Christian and Muslim populations, no one can even agree whether it is in the north or south! Ask anyone about the far northwestern corner of Nigeria, and they are likely to think of it as the home area of President Yar'Adua and as the area of Nigeria where Muslim Sharia law started. Zamfara State in the far northwest was the first Nigerian state to adopt Sharia law when Ahmed Sani was governor.

Yet right next door the first footsteps of Sharia in Nigeria, there is an indigenous Christian minority ethnic group. Who remembers Colonel Dauda Musa Komo - former Military Governor of Rivers State and nemesis of Ken Saro-Wiwa? Komo, and other famous individuals like Sani Sami,

Ishaya Bamaiyi and Tanko Ayuba are from the minority Zuru Christian area in what is now Kebbi State.

Nigerians are unaware of the diversity in their own country because many do not have experience of interaction with the numerically smaller ethnicities. Most Nigerians who travel outside their home areas do so to get to big cities like Abuja and Lagos. It is rare (except for NYSC) to find Nigerians living in the rural/local parts outside their home area.

Nigeria - Earth's Tower of Babel Nigeria is Earth's answer to the biblical Tower of Babel; a kaleidoscope of different cultures, languages and labyrinthine diversity. Let us open our eyes and minds to the breathtaking diversity of the area called Nigeria. Before you call that fellow across the road an [Hausa][Fulani][Yoruba][Igbo], have a hard think, you might be surprised at what you find out,

as i said earlier most of these christian fundamentalists cannot tell the difference so there is no need talking with them. the more reasonable people will know i am saying the truth and that alone satisfies me.

I don't want to argue with you because you are obviously ignorant and poorly educated. But read Joshua 10:40-41. And that is only the first example I can bring. I can list up to 100.

Same rubbish that is happening in Nigeria

'Stench of death' in Congo confirms resurgence of Lord's Resistance Army | World news | The Observer



on a side note, These guys are Christians and are fighting for the establishment of a government based on the biblical Ten Commandments.

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

Im pointing this out not to say "look Christians do the same thing"
but to point out there is no point saying Islam is *Insert negative word* when it is just evil , uneducated, brainwashed people committing these evil acts