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And some people still think its a Christian genocide. Pathetic.

The man deserves his punishment, but I don't see the need for making a sport out of an execution.

As a former fanatical Muslim, It brings me so much happiness each day knowing that I dodged the bullet called Islam. Such a radical religion.

The number of people in sabon gari is more than the population of many local governments in some states.

LadeeE:
If you are referring to Sabon Gari, it is not a local government. It is a local government ward.

No body segregated anybody. When the earliest Igbo traders were coming to Kano they settled around market areas and established communities that grew to become what they are today. The settled their because it was the best place to conduct their businesses.

SpaceX:
why the segregation? Is it one Nigeria, why do they have to have a separate place to conduct their business?

Where did you get your figures from? Kano is one of the safest places to be a Christian in the North. In fact there is basically a local government in the city center dedicated to Christians. There is no type of church you will not find in sabon gari. There are beer parlours, clubs and night life that would make you not know you are still in the North.

SpaceX:
in the early 2000s the population of Muslims to Christians was 60 :40 in kano but in 2025 it 75:25, what happened here, where did the Christian population go? Jiihad right?

Kano is one state that will never tolerate bandits and kidnappers. Even when Boko Haram were hot, they desperately wanted to establish a base in Kano but found it to be impossible.

When Islam jam poverty and ignorance, the result is always terrorism.

This is a very great man. He is an inspiration.

Says a guy who uses AI to generate arguments. your post is not hard, i just find it offensive that you could not use your own words to argue you had to resort to ai.

shortgun:
Sorry ooh, I no even know say my post go too hard for you to understand. But you self try upgrade your self

ordinary conversation, you don go dey use AI. Even the AI arguments self na rubbish but i no follow you argue since you no fit use your own reasoning to argue.

shortgun:
1.political representation has nothing to do with land size. It is about equal political representation.
Every state big or small in Nigeria has 3 senators.
So southeast with fewer states automatically have less representation, less political bargaining power and fewer federal allocations tied to the number of states.
North West: 7 states → 21 senators
South East: 5 states → 15 senators
This is a permanent structural disadvantage!

Representation is not calculated by land size; it’s calculated by number of states—and the South East has the lowest.
The point is that all regions were created politically, not naturally and the South East’s demand for balanced state creation is legitimate

2. Nigeria intentionally concentrated refineries and other oil infrastructures in certain regions because of political power distribution, not geography or efficiency.
If transporting crude is more prudent, why then did Nigeria build refineries in far away North (Kaduna), which has zero oil and requires pipelines running across the country? Without building one in the southeast which has crude oil and gas reserves?
The prudence argument collapses immediately...the only reason a refinery was built in kaduna was to give the North a sense of belonging.

Why is it taking the government of Nigeria this long to address this obvious inequality.

3. For schools cut off mark.
High competition isn’t the problem.
The problem is that the federal government santioned cut-off system that penalizes high-performing regions instead of expanding capacity and rewarding them, a system that punishes merit and rewards mediocrity is an anomaly!
Places with lower demand get preferential thresholds, which guarantees unequal intake and opportunity.

If the North has low applicants, that’s all the more reason to invest more in basic education there, not to suppress merit in competitive regions and kill the dreams of Igbo children which traumatize many of them forever. How exactly do you explain to a kid that their high score after rigorous studying is not enough to get them admission in the same school were kids from other regions don't even need to lift a finger for the same opportunity?

4. In the case of IPOB, no region has paid with the bloods of it's people for the actions of few like the southeast.
The atrocities Nigerian security personnels committed in the name of fighting IPOB in the southeast can only be equated to war time wickedness.

Many innocent Igbo people who had no business with IPOB have been killed and labeled IPOB
There was Mass arrests
There was Military raids
Illegal Detentions
Fighter jets were deployed to bomb villages.
Young teenage girls were labeled IPOB and turned to sex slaves.
Entire communities were touched by security officers.
Every Igbo person is regarded as IPOB member
Numerous killings of civilians wrongly labeled as IPOB/ESN. Worse still, the government did not investigate any of the killing of the innocent people which speaks volumes.

Meanwhile, other violent groups—Boko Haram collaborators, bandits, herdsmen militias have received negotiations, reintegration programs, and in some cases state-backed pardons.
So saying IPOB gets special freedom is misleading

5. Militarization: You are Comparing Apples to Oranges
Saying “Go to Borno or Yobe” as proof that the South East isn’t militarized oversimplifies the matter.
Yes, the Northeast hosts the military because it is an active warzone.
But the question is different:
Why does the South East without an active insurgency even before IPOB have the highest densities of checkpoints and federal security operations in the country? Do you know security officers pay huge bribes to the superiors to be posted to the southeast? Because of the money they'll illegally make from the people of the southeast?

A region with no declared war shouldn’t be treated like a war zone under siege.


6. The push for fairness is not a victim mentality.
Demanding structural balance is the foundation of every stable federation worldwide.
You cannot build national unity by telling one region to forget legitimate historical and political disadvantages.

Unity is only achieved by:
Correcting systemic imbalances
Ensuring equal political voice
Distributing national opportunities fairly

Equality Requires Honesty
Nigeria cannot move forward by pretending the system treats everyone the same.
The South East’s concerns are rooted in the undeniable mathematics of Nigerian federalism.
A country that seeks unity must first seek fairness.
And fairness begins with acknowledging the imbalance, not dismissing it.



Our fathers endured this shameless, daylight injustice because the Nigerian state and it's collaborators took advantage of the peaceful nonchalant nature of the Igbo man to cheat him out in everything.

But this generation, we don't have the patience of our fathers and will not sit quietly and continue to absorb disrespect.
We’re not begging anymore, we are not waiting, or pretending anymore.
We will take back control of our future and make sure our children never inherit this engineered injustice. If we don't do it nobody will do it for us

Imagine a pastor telling his congregation to encourage his followers to also make the same contribution to him.

Depends on the strength of the relationship. If I really love the person, it will not be a deal breaker for me. There has been great advancement in managing HIV, so long as the person maintains a U=U status they can live a normal life and have children without any problem.

So which of the Igbo states is too big? Land wise or population wise there are states in Nigeria that are much bigger than all the Igbo states yet they have 3 senators like the Igbo states. How is that being unfair, do you want the government to create more states out of thin air in the south east.

In the core South East, only abia State has substantial oil reserve and before oil was discovered there refineries have already been built in neighbourig states of Delta and Rivers. So would it not be prudent to transport the crude oil there instead of building a refinery abia. Moreover, what are the refineries in Nigeria doing, absolutely nothing.

South Eastern schools have more competitions, while nothern schools have low applicants that why their cut off mark is lower. It simple logic, not because the schools don't like Igbos.

IPOB has gone scot free after burning a police station in abia, and have repeatedly attacked police and soldiers in other states without any consequence.

South East is the most militarized region ke, have you been to Borno, Benue, Yobe and Other states.

South East have higher FAAC allocation than North east and north central, so what are you saying.

The new generation of Nigerians, understand that they are not victims, they will let go of the grudges that have held us back and work towards building a better country.

shortgun:
You are funny.
Why is south east the only region with only 5 states? While other regions have 6 and 7 states?...this means less representation in the senate and house of reps. Less allocation from the Federation account. E.t.c
Why is no refinery sited in the southeast despite having the most viable crude oil?
Why do south east children need to score 150 to gain admission into unity schools while the some part of the North only need to score 9?
Why is it that when criminals kill any security personnel in the southeast the army will retaliate by killing innocent people and burning down villages and towns but does not deploy the same strategy for other parts of the country.
Why does the southeast the most policed and most militarized region in Nigeria?
Why does southeast states receive the least allocation from the Federation monthly allocation

Make I stop here first.
The good thing is that the present generation of Easterners don't want to just seat and complain, they don't want to just complain, they are tired of being victims.

You can't give a single case of Igbo oppression in this country, in fact I think Igbos are treated extra nicely because of the war. Igbos are among the elite population in this country with the liberty to live freely, conduct business and thrive in every nuke and cranny sometimes at the expense of the indigenous population (not saying it's bad).

The only grudge some Igbos may have is that we have not had a president of Igbo descent. But you and I both know that it is not state policy that is to blame here. Its just the dynamics of the Nigerian politics which makes it so. I hope and pray for an Igbo president in our lifetime.

themanderon:
Then you Are not being truthful. I love justice And peace, genuine justice because without justice there can be no peace.
Every right thinking Nigerian knows these people have been treated badly since after the war. If you don't see this then I am sorry.
One thing I have observed in this life is that someone that holds someone else down invariably holds himself down.
Nigeria can never ever progress so long as they hold igbo repression as state policy.

The Igbos are not victims in Nigeria, they are not oppressed or treated badly. So I don't know what you are talking about

themanderon:
One thing that I know about this world is that the word never never truly exists. Even the British empire never knew it would become a weak toothless bulldog it has become today.
Europe as presently constituted was not really this way from the beginning. People fought wars and millions died for the freedom Europe enjoys the today so we must never discount the probability of this happening in future.
Even the whites that ruled South Africa with vice grip had to let go when the time was right. Only but one day............

I believe the the most viable solution to making Nigeria a true giant of Africa is unity. We must see past our religious or cultural differences and focus on our common struggle against oppression and bad governments.

Kewekubosineh:
Ok

So, you like the manner Nigeria is moving, groping? Since you don't want Biafran agitation and exit from Nigeria?

Offer solution than dismissing Biafran agitation in a jiffy.

Nigeria is groping like a ship in the Adriatic sea.

Unilateral declaration of Independence is illegal under international law. But just for argument sake, do you know the price Yugoslavia and Sudan paid. People died in millions, and none of those countries have recovered ever since. Some of the worst atrocities ever recorded in human history happened in Yugoslavia. There is a documentary about it on YouTube.

Moreover, the case of Biafra is different. The factors I gave earlier makes it clear that Biafran agitations will no see the light of day. It can neither be achieved through force, referendum, or constitutional amendment.

themanderon:
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That's how people will be yearning dust. Who told you breaking away is against international law? People have a right to self determination if the country they currently live in doesn't serve their interests.
Was Yugoslavia not broken into pieces under its own weight when people wanted to finish themselves? Was Sudan not broken into north and South? There are several examples too numerous to mention. Even Scotland is agitating to go away from the ill-fated union with the British. The British empire had to make serious concessions to placate and quell the succession plans yet the British empire doesn't want any country they have interest in to break up because of their selfish interests.
The good thing about this life is that nothing lasts forever. Not humans , not empires not economies. Just nothing.

Agitations! Thats all it will ever be.

Agitations. Thats all it will ever be.

Biafra is a pipe dream, sold to people who can't see past their noses. Any body with half a brain knows this. Biafra can never be achieved through force, the civil war proved this. it can never be by a referendum, they simply don't have the numbers or support of other southerners. It can never be through constitutional amendment, because the Igbo senators and representatives do not have the political pool to achieve this. More importantly, the international community will never support Biafran, because breaking away from a sovereign country with recognized borders is against international law.

And again let's be real, the biafrans don't just want to form a country with only the six Igbo states, they also want to include other southern states such as Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers and other oil producing States. There is no way the Nigerian government will ever give those states up because they are central to the country's economy.

So anybody wey dey do agitations, do am small small because if them sentence you to life in prison, none of the people wey dey ginger you go follow you do time.

Why you go read am, if to say you dey read you no for dey blindly support Nnamdi Kanu.

SisterAnn:
Load of lengthy BS as usual. If I read make I bend.

Make e come be say na the day wey I join Donald Trump go come. God abeg o.

sirray001:
you go like join? Forms de available oo

Na wa o. Upon all this, some people are still spewing the wicked and malicious narrative of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, God forbid bad thing.

This banditry has proven to be a lucrative business for crimainals, na why them no wan stop.

Donald Trump, na you do this one. Thank you sir.

The truth is I admire Kanu in many ways. But there is a difference between been brave and being Stupid. There is no way he can take in the Nigerian government and win.

Biafra is a pipe dream, sold to people who can't see past their noses. Any body with half a brain knows this. Biafra can never be achieved through force and the Igbos have learnt this. it can never be by a referendum, they simply don't have the numbers or support of other southerners. It can never be through constitutional amendment, because the Igbo senators and representatives do not have the political pool to achieve this.

And again let's be real, the biafrans don't just want to form a country with only the six Igbo states, they also want to include other southern states such as Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa ibom and other oil producing States and we both know that the Nigerian government will never ever give those states up because they are the backbone of the country's economy.

So, for Nnamdi Kanu to think that he could achieve Biafra through Online rants and instigation of violence, just goes to show you that he is either naïve or delusional. I don't hate him at all, infact I admire his bravery and refusal to be intimidated. But that doesn't change the fact that he was fighting battle that was lost even before it began.

SisterAnn:
I hate simps!! This is my last response to you ladyboy.

https://www.nairaland.com/8565494/re-mazi-nnamdi-kanu-pbuh

I agree. Him wey be Hero, shey any of una go follow am do jail time. No be only dey carry him cross

SisterAnn:
This is actually the voice of a coward.

Just wait, na em go come explain the difference between detention center and prison give you. E be like say you no know watin be prison.

Kalulu44:
And where has he been since the last 4yrs?

Probably not. But I can never be that stupid. I know a lost battle before it even begins.

SisterAnn:
You can never be one percent the man he is!

Just give Nnamdi Kanu 2 years of eating watery beans, na him go come out beg by himself. Prison no be anybody mate.

Na wa o. E con be like say these bandits just dey whine us

The idea of a Christian genocide is a malicious and wicked sentiment of evil people.