₦airaland Forum

KingEverest:
Trust me if this application form goes round the country and there is good enlightenment millions will volunteer

Ogbeni then what are you waiting for na? You wont be missed

Zetra7:
Assessing the unhealthy condition one has experienced in this country, I think its a wise decision to volunteer and fight for Ukriane..

First, Nigeria has no future technically. It's a broken and divided country who doesn't even have a vision cause no one believe in the country..

Buhari is receiving medical in London while the wife is in Dubai for her birthday with the wives of Governors.


Social crisis, insecurity , corruption , religious and ethnic crisis , secession threats , rituals, armed robbery, kidnapping, unemployment and so on controls every sphere of this country..

Technically , this country is also at war..

Do you want me to state the number of casualties in the past one year, it runs in 10s of thousands...

How many causalities do we have in Ukriane?


Well let's face the fact, once taken as a volunteer, you will certainly fight, don't think this war will last long, either peace is negotiated or Russia takes over completely..

Either way, you would have served a country that will certainly reward you including the world which will honour you, as a volunteer ,you have right to stay in Ukraine if they win and eventually get your EU citizenship which is definitely coming..

Secondly, if Russia takes over the country, you can play the foreigner card and make your way to Poland. Never setting foot in Nigeria until you get the EU citizenship...


What if you get hurt in Ukriane?? Well, you can also get hurt in Nigeria.. It's still a clear 50:50 probability...

Let's see what the Embassy of Ukriane says in the coming days..

We no gree go fight for any dirty Ukraine. We die here

where is an Igbo man when you need him?

gidgiddy:
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, is pointing accusing fingers at politicians over the resurgence of the activities of unknown gunmen and the festering insecurity in the South East zone.

According to the  CAN Chairman, Abia State, Apostle Emmanuel Agomuo, politicians who recruit hoodlums for some dirty jobs during electioneering period, and fail to empower them afterwards, should be held responsible for the worsening insecurity in the region.

He said contrary to allegations by security agencies that members of  IPOB, are behind the sad development, hoodlums recruited by politicians might be the real masks behind the veil. The cleric said hoodlums had since hijacked the situation in the South-East to unleash mayhem on innocent citizens

He blamed greedy politicians who arm and engage the services of hoodlums during electioneering periods but fail to meaningfully empower them afterwards; hence most of them resort to criminality. According to him, the hoodlums when they have no legitimate means of livelihood, resort to criminality and terrorism using the arms given to them by wicked politicians.


“I don’t think IPOB is behind this barbarity. These are the bad boys politicians use for election. After using them, they fail to empower them and that is why they go back into criminality. Politicians who recruit these hoodlums are to be held responsible for the mess in the South-East.”

The CAN boss urged security agencies not to be narrow-minded in their efforts to unravel the real sources of the monster but to be open to all possibilities.

An activist, Comrade Kindness Jonah condemned the resurgent and continuous killing in South-East zone, urging government at the center to adequately punish those captured in operation to serve as deterrent to others. He blamed security agencies for not unmasking unknown gunmen captured during operation for the public to know their identity

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/politicians-not-ipob-responsible-for-renewed-insecurity-in-s-east-can/amp/

Well Apostle that's just what you think. some of us think otherwise

Goodmarlian:
Everyday we learn, life is a school indeed.from this Ukraine war I learnt that media is very important and it's seems international sympathy is everything people need in war,though I am pro-putin but I can boldly tell you this war is going to be a difficult one I see it lingering for 5 years with no winner because indirectly Putin is fignting the world not just ukraine, sometimes I keep wondering why is FG trying so hard to paint Ipob black?is self determination a crime? Why are you labelling a peaceful organization terrorists,i[b]magine if Ipob gets a quarter of the sympathy ukraine is enjoying at the moment[/b] Biafra is a done deal I trust Nigeria government cannot withstand the pressure .
God bless Biafra
It shall be.

This can never happen cos the two situations are simply jus different. Ukraine is a sovereign nation state recognized by the international community while IPOB/Biafra is a group of unwashed cannibals better suited for Onitsha motor park activities. But as they say there's no harm in dreaming

PrinceOfLagos:
It is the turn of the igbos

They don't want the presidency, they want Biafra

FERNANDEZISBACK:
In what way?
You mean Egypt can tell your country what and what to do with their own country?
Wow tell me more I am all ears..

Can the Americans allow the Russians place nuclear warheads in Cuba or Mexico just like they did during the 1963 Cuban missile crisis?

Horeshit revisionist history. What a waste of a read!

When the south east was warned about the consequences of supporting an ill advised insurgency on their soil we were told to shut up and mind our own business. Insurgencies naturally bring about backlashes by the security forces with innocent civilians taking most of the brunt. It happened in the North East on a far larger scale until the people there got sense. Sorry oh but as long as you don't fish out the terrorists in your mist, it's not going to end anytime soon

Soylife:
Tinubu is a great politician and one of the best governor's Lagos ever had but his frequent health problem is not good. We don't need a president that will be travelling every month for medical check up moreover he is very old.
We need a young visionary leader that can move this country forward,pls let's get it right this 2023 because I don tire for all this bad government

Yes that's why all Nigerians need to support Yemi Osibanjo to succeed Buhari in that high office come next year

Sammy07:
How?
Minority full south south and North central so they'll sort themselves

You're very naive and have no knowledge of recent Nigerian history.

gimakon:
4 countries fought Biafra, and as it stands, Nigeria has challenges with most nations bilaterally. China way borrow una money, won't take side in your development . Na e you day talk this one.
Stop being a hear say politician. Nigeria has to split, let's go separate ways. Everyone is tired of you Northern people and Yorubas.

This is a fallacy. Only Nigerian soldiers fought Biafra with a few Egyptian air force pilots. What the western powers did was to sell weapons to the Nigerian side. That being said nobody wants another war so be guided with your careless utterances

Sammy07:
Let's go back to regional government

And thank God we have 6 regions which will make it easier

Regional government puts minority ethnic groups in a disadvantaged position. Only 3 regions out of 6 are ethnically homogeneous

Kriss216:
We make War to live in peace.



We've gone pass the era of threatening us with War. Every born Igbo is a Warrior.

It's empty chestbeating like this that got your arse kicked in the past

Okwyjesus:
You are right but then SW seems to be more positioned to compete for the seat.
It could have been wisdom for the so called ONE NIGERIANIST to say no; Lets give peace and equity a chance , let SE go for the President.

Have it been done before .....YES of course.
So if SW enjoyed the support of others at the return of democracy why wont SE.

This is not Rocket Science, its wisdom 101

Yes some of us are actually sympathetic to your line of reasoning but there are 2 problems
1. The SE hasn't put forward a candidate that has the nationwide appeal to be able to win a presidential election. Orji Kalu or Ayim? Common man! That's a cruel joke

2. The agitation for Biafra has alienated major sections of the country who now find it difficult to entrust power to the hands of an Igbo man. Also matters are not helped by the daily rain of insults by mostly Igbos heaped on other ethnic groups.

You've got your work cut out for you

officialmario:
Good morning Nairalanders

I want to use this medium to seek for your advice..

Me and my wife has been together since 2014, although we have not done marriage as we only did introduction, but we planned having our marriage this year, we had two kids, but I think right now I'm not comfortable living with my wife.

I am not enjoying this relationship anymore, she keeps beating me whenever there is quarrel between us, she is fond of slapping me and giving me punches, at times she makes use of wire and and broom to scatter my head.

The one that happened on Monday is really giving me much concern, she checked my phone and saw a friend I was chatting with and instead of her to ask me about the lady, the next thing she did was to slap me and she started beating me to the extent of having right hand dislocation.. It's not as if she can beat me if I decided to fight back, I don't want to raise my hand on a woman, it's a curse and I don't want to do that, this is getting out of hand and I am not living comfortable at home again, we sleep on different bed, she doesn't allow me touch her again.

She is even planning to get a room by ending of this month when she gets her salary..
I told my sister about her behavior, the advice she gave me is that I should beat the hell out of her whenever she raises her hand to beat me.

I have pleaded with my wife to let us continue the way we have been doing before but she wouldn't listen to me.

I am really confused and I don't know what to do right now..

I need your advice my great people of Nairaland.

You are a disgrace to manhood. Bury your head in shame

Fejoku:
The pathway to freedom is strenuous and tortuous. Nnamdi Kanu understands and is well prepared for it and so are the gargantuan number of IPOB members. The walls of Jericho must fall for the children of God to be free.
Biafran land will be your Waterloo and we will avenge all the killings you and your brothers brought to our land. We will extend 'wuta wuta' to your own homes. Bear it at the back of your mind.
God Bless MNK
God Bless ESN
God Bless IPOB
God Bless Biafra.
Hunter hunted is the game.

Empty words

Fejoku:
We know your script which we have to expose for all to see and understand. There are reasons for everything and nothing will be left to chance. We and you people understand the implication of everything happening so be gear up. Biafran land will be your Waterloo. Have it at the back of your mind.
God Bless MNK
God Bless ESN
God Bless IPOB
God Bless Biafra
Hunter hunted is the game.

But the terrorist nnamdi kanu is rotting away in our zoo cage so how can God bless Biafra?

The problem with this group is that they don't have sold grassroots support or more importantly political class support either. I'm sure after the APC national convention next month, the picture will be a lot clearer though not total on who will clinch the APC ticket

Fejoku:
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You and your terrorist brothers can only wish and pray that IPOB are out of the way so you can attack Biafrans as you wish but we are more determined to protect our ancestral lands and people from you invaders. Biafran land will be your Waterloo as a khaki man.
All the script you fools are acting to cause discord among Biafrans are exercises in futility. Let me expose you for all to see how evil you are.
Last week, your fulani terrorist brothers attacked our people in Isi-Uzo LGA. I didn't see your comments speaking against the attackers nor did I see your post sympathizing with the victims. Why did you suddenly show interest in yesterday's attack on the same victims who are Igbos? What's the difference between both attacks when the victims are the same people? The reason is simply because ESN did there bit in hitting back your terrorist brothers which angered you. You guys now came up with yesterday's attack to pin it on ESN whilst wishing Biafrans will take the bait. Bad news for you. Our people won't take your bait. In fact, they see the plot and foolishness you guys display from afar.
Why not tell us about what you wish to do to Bello Turji, the Arewa butcher? What do your useless army plan to do to him?

You talk too much

Kingscee:
Go to Aba or Anambra and preach your good gospel and return in peace

I don't have to go anywhere. Our armed forces are already on ground there. I will want to see how your IPOB will enforce anything

IPOB don't have the power to enforce any ban in the east. The group are cowards best known for carrying out raids on police formations and they've largely been contained

Valkrie:
You can't win an election by fraudulent means and not expect people to talk....!! Democrats brought this on America....!!!

Joe Biden won that election fair and square. Even republican appointed judges right up to the supreme court testified to it. Trump and the republicans are just sore losers

Joe Biden had spent a year in the hope that America could go back to normal. But last Thursday, the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, the president finally recognised the full scale of the current threat to American democracy.

“At this moment, we must decide,” Biden said in Statuary Hall, where rioters had swarmed a year earlier. “What kind of nation are we going to be? Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?”

Related: Trump has birthed a dangerous new ‘Lost Cause’ myth. We must fight it | David Blight

It is a question that many inside America and beyond are now asking. In a deeply divided society, where even a national tragedy such as 6 January only pushed people further apart, there is fear that that day was the just the beginning of a wave of unrest, conflict and domestic terrorism.

A slew of recent opinion polls show a significant minority of Americans at ease with the idea of violence against the government. Even talk of a second American civil war has gone from fringe fantasy to media mainstream.

“Is a Civil War ahead?” was the blunt headline of a New Yorker magazine article this week. “Are We Really Facing a Second Civil War?” posed the headline of a column in Friday’s New York Times. Three retired US generals wrote a recent Washington Post column warning that another coup attempt “could lead to civil war”.

The mere fact that such notions are entering the public domain shows the once unthinkable has become thinkable, even though some would argue it remains firmly improbable.

The anxiety is fed by rancour in Washington, where Biden’s desire for bipartisanship has crashed into radicalized Republican opposition. The president’s remarks on Thursday – “I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy” – appeared to acknowledge that there can be no business as usual when one of America’s major parties has embraced authoritarianism.

Illustrating the point, almost no Republicans attended the commemorations as the party seeks to rewrite history, recasting the mob who tried to overturn Trump’s election defeat as martyrs fighting for democracy. Tucker Carlson, the most watched host on the conservative Fox News network, refused to play any clips of Biden’s speech, arguing that 6 January 2021 “barely rates as a footnote” historically because “really not a lot happened that day”.

With the cult of Trump more dominant in the Republican party than ever, and radical rightwing groups such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys on the march, some regard the threat to democracy as greater now than it was a year ago. Among those raising the alarm is Barbara Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and author of a new book, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them.

Walter previously served on the political instability taskforce, an advisory panel to the CIA, which had a model to predict political violence in countries all over the world – except the US itself. Yet with the rise of Trump’s racist demagoguery, Walter, who has studied civil wars for 30 years, recognized telltale signs on her own doorstep.

One was the emergence of a government that is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic – an “anocracy”. The other is a landscape devolving into identity politics where parties no longer organise around ideology or specific policies but along racial, ethnic or religious lines.

Walter told the Observer: “By the 2020 elections, 90% of the Republican party was now white. On the taskforce, if we were to see that in another multiethnic, multi-religious country which is based on a two-party system, this is what we would call a super faction, and a super faction is particularly dangerous.”

Not even the gloomiest pessimist is predicting a rerun of the 1861-65 civil war with a blue army and red army fighting pitched battles. “It would look more like Northern Ireland and what Britain experienced, where it’s more of an insurgency,” Walter continued. “It would probably be more decentralized than Northern Ireland because we have such a large country and there are so many militias all around the country
“They would turn to unconventional tactics, in particular terrorism, maybe even a little bit of guerrilla warfare, where they would target federal buildings, synagogues, places with large crowds. The strategy would be one of intimidation and to scare the American public into believing that the federal government isn’t capable of taking care of them.”

A 2020 plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, could be a sign of things to come. Walter suggests that opposition figures, moderate Republicans and judges deemed unsympathetic might all become potential assassination targets.

“I could also imagine situations where militias, in conjunction with law enforcement in those areas, carve out little white ethnostates in areas where that’s possible because of the way power is divided here in the United States. It would certainly not look anything like the civil war that happened in the 1860s.”

Walter notes that most people tend to assume civil wars are started by the poor or oppressed. Not so. In America’s case, it is a backlash from a white majority destined to become a minority by around 2045, an eclipse symbolized by Barack Obama’s election in 2008.

The academic explained: “The groups that tend to start civil wars are the groups that were once dominant politically but are in decline. They’ve either lost political power or they’re losing political power and they truly believe that the country is theirs by right and they are justified in using force to regain control because the system no longer works for them.”

A year after the 6 January insurrection, the atmosphere on Capitol Hill remains toxic amid a breakdown of civility, trust and shared norms. Several Republican members of Congress received menacing messages, including a death threat, after voting for an otherwise bipartisan infrastructure bill that Trump opposed.
The two Republicans on the House of Representatives select committee investigating the 6 January attack, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, face calls to be banished from their party. Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Somali-born Muslim, has suffered Islamophobic abuse.

Yet Trump’s supporters argue that they are the ones fighting to save democracy. Last year Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina said: “If our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, then it’s going to lead to one place and that’s bloodshed.”

Last month Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has bemoaned the treatment of 6 January defendants jailed for their role in the attack, called for a “national divorce” between blue and red states. Democrat Ruben Gallego responded forcefully: “There is no ‘National Divorce’. Either you are for civil war or not. Just say it if you want a civil war and officially declare yourself a traitor.”

There is also the prospect of Trump running for president again in 2024. Republican-led states are imposing voter restriction laws calculated to favour the party while Trump loyalists are seeking to take charge of running elections. A disputed White House race could make for an incendiary cocktail.

James Hawdon, director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention at Virginia Tech university, said: “I don’t like to be an alarmist, but the country has been moving more and more toward violence, not away from it. Another contested election may have grim consequences.”

Although most Americans have grown up taking its stable democracy for granted, this is also a society where violence is the norm, not the exception, from the genocide of Native Americans to slavery, from the civil war to four presidential assassinations, from gun violence that takes 40,000 lives a year to a military-industrial complex that has killed millions overseas.

Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said: “America is not unaccustomed to violence. It is a very violent society and what we’re talking about is violence being given an explicit political agenda. That’s a kind of terrifying new direction in America.”

While he does not currently foresee political violence becoming endemic, Jacobs agrees that any such unravelling would also be most likely to resemble Northern Ireland’s Troubles.

“We would see these episodic, scattered terrorist attacks,” he added. “The Northern Ireland model is the one that frankly most fear because it doesn’t take a huge number of people to do this and right now there are highly motivated, well-armed groups. The question is, has the FBI infiltrated them sufficiently to be able to knock them out before they they’ve launch a campaign of terror?”

“Of course, it doesn’t help in America that guns are prevalent. Anyone can get a gun and you have ready access to explosives. All of this is kindling for the precarious position we now find ourselves in.”

Nothing, though, is inevitable.

Biden also used his speech to praise the 2020 election as the greatest demonstration of democracy in US history with a record 150 million-plus people voting despite a pandemic. Trump’s bogus challenges to the result were thrown out by what remains a robust court system and scrutinised by what remains a vibrant civil society and media.

In a reality check, Josh Kertzer, a political scientist at Harvard University, tweeted: “I know a lot of civil war scholars, and … very few of them think the United States is on the precipice of a civil war.”

And yet the assumption that “it can’t happen here,” is as old as politics itself. Walter has interviewed many survivors about the lead-up to civil wars. “What everybody said, whether they were in Baghdad or Sarajevo or Kiev, was we didn’t see it coming,” she recalled. “In fact, we weren’t willing to accept that anything was wrong until we heard machine gun fire in the hillside. And by that time, it was too late.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-really-heading-second-civil-070014808.html

Truthisunique3:
don't fall for Taqiya

A Jew doesn't has no problem with christianity even though it may disagree on its core believe just like it does with Islam too

But a Jew won't hate you to the point of killing you unless you are an Islamic Terrorist threat to their lives

Of course their are always a few fanatics even in the west which we find in Islam from muric, hibah etc but never do they speak for their state

From the way you type I can tell that you're an IPOB miscreant and I don't really care about your Islamophobia because I've never practiced Islam for a single minute of my life

BafanaBafana:
Israel can never be hostile to Christians. Christianity is their greatest political tool they use to control almost a third of of the world.

Now while it is not Israeli state policy to harm Christians but orthodox Jews hate Christians with a passion much more than they do Muslims

Zandena:
But our brainwashed, dogmatic Christians in Nigeria are always at the forefront to defend, support and even wants to lay their lives for Israel while thinking that Israel is representing the church in fight with Palestine. However Israel kills and maims any Palestinian irrespective of being a Muslim or Christian.
Christians in Israel are more persecuted and alienated than even the Arab muslims of Israel origin!
That Shiite guy #elbinawi will not bring this to the fore as it coincides with Iranian mission to massacre Christians and Sunni muslims!

Sadly many Nigerian Christians fall for the Jewish propaganda that Christians and Jews are one. The persecution of Christians in that country is appalling but they turn a blind eye to it

Truthisunique3:
shut up abdul

And cry more

Continue with your Jewish arse licking

Truthisunique3:
I thought nothing like Christian Jews

Which one we go believe now

So why other people support for Israel come dey pain you when it's not your support they are using

Oga I myself am a Christian too but I don't support the state of Israel because I know Jews hate Christians. Just take a trip to the streets of Jerusalem and say you believe that Jesus Christ is God and see what those Orthodox |Jews will do to you Mr. Israeli supporter

When we say IPOB is a terrorist organization some online IPOB miscreants will attack us. The government needs to step up and eradicate the group

I recall telli9ng a friend about how much orthodox Jews hate Christians and he didn't believe me. It is very insulting for an orthodox Jew to hear a \Christian say that Jesus Christ is God. Actually they usually spit on Christians wherever they encounter them. Nigerian Christians better wake up and cease your support for the state of Israel because those Jews despise you

By Stephen Farrell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has accused radical Israeli groups of threatening the presence of Christians in the holy city, in remarks that Israeli officials rejected as baseless.

In a column in the Times of London on Saturday, His Beatitude, Theophilos III, said he believed the aim was to drive the Christian community from Jerusalem's Old City, which has sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Israel captured East Jerusalem, including the Old City, along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a 1967 war. It annexed East Jerusalem after the war in a move that has not won international recognition.

"Our presence in Jerusalem is under threat," the patriarch wrote in the article, published a day after the Greek Orthodox celebration of Christmas.

"Our churches are threatened by Israeli radical fringe groups. At the hands of these Zionist extremists the Christian community in Jerusalem is suffering greatly, he said.

"Our brothers and sisters are the victims of hate crimes. Our churches are regularly desecrated and vandalised. Our clergy are subject to frequent intimidation."

By singling out extremists as Israeli, Theophilos's criticism was more personal and trenchant than that of a collective statement issued by the heads of other churches in Jerusalem before Christmas.

Their statement spoke of "frequent and sustained attacks by fringe radical groups" but stopped short of identifying them as Israeli.

A U.S. State Department report published last year on religious freedom around the world said Christian clergy and pilgrims continued to report instances of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem harassing or spitting on them.

Church groups have for some time reported attacks of vandalism at religious sites in the city. Theophilos did not accuse any radical groups by name or cite specific incidents. He did not provide evidence that they were Israeli, or that their goal was to drive Christians from the city.
On Sunday, an Israeli official said the reality on the ground for Christians was completely different from that described by the patriarch, citing a Foreign Ministry statement on Dec 22 that rebutted the earlier church leaders' claims.

"Since the day it was established, the State of Israel has been committed to freedom of religion and worship for all religions, as well to ensuring the freedom of access to holy sites," the ministry statement said.

"The statement by Church leaders in Jerusalem is particularly infuriating given their silence on the plight of many Christian communities in the Middle East suffering from discrimination and persecution."

In his column, Theophilos said the radicals that he criticised "are not representative of the state of Israel or the Jewish people," and called on Jerusalem to remain a diverse "mosaic community" of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jerusalem-church-leader-says-israeli-165609247.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink