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cheruv:We've heard this all before. ''No power in black Africa can subdue Biafra''. - Col. Emeka Ojukwu, shortly before the start of the Biafran war, 1967. |
. . What some of us elders can see sitting down, you youths of today cannot see standing from the tallest Iroko tree. The Biafran war was a massive conflict. 2 million Igbos lost their lives. There was mass starvation of Igbo people. Many also died of malnutrition and kwashiorkor. If you think this did not happen on a large scale, go to every Igbo village and ask them where their civil war dead are buried, and they will show you. And I mean EVERY village. All you youths shouting 'Biafra Biafra' need to cool down and research what happened the last time. It was very terrible for the Igbos. They suffered greatly. Virtually the entire world stood against Biafra and supported Nigeria. Biafra was blockaded, by sea, land, and air. Nothing could come in or go out, for years. Igbos were forced to eat anything that moved including cockroaches. Cannibalism grew. You honestly do not want a repeat of what happened back then. The sad thing is that this twitter, SUV, smartphone, instagram generation is far, far, far, far, far, far less able to deal with such hardships than the 60s generation, if their reoccur. Nnamdi Kanu to me, is an agent of people who want to destroy Igbos again, as they have become the most prosperous ethnic group on the continent, and therefore, must be cut down. He could be an international agent. He is in London stirring up trouble, and now the East is becoming a battle ground for federal troops. In 3 years time, it could be ''worse than Syria'' just like Kanu promised. Igbos, is THAT what you REALLY want for your region? Igboland, the land of multi-million dollar village mansions, festivities, industries, factories, and fine, fast developing cities, turned to... SYRIA? If not, get rid of Nnamdi Kanu, or that is exactly what you will get. |
georgeakins:''Where did they bury 3 million corpses'' is not an adequate defence against that number. You want to go and start digging up graves or what? The Biafran war was a massive conflict. There was mass starvation of Igbo people. Many also died of malnutrition and kwashiorkor. If you think this did not happen on a large scale, go to every Igbo village and ask them where their civil war dead are buried, and they will show you. And I mean EVERY village. All you youths shouting 'Biafra Biafra' need to cool down and research what happened the last time. It was very terrible for the Igbos. They suffered greatly. Virtually the entire world stood against Biafra and supported Nigeria. Biafra was blockaded, by sea, land, and air. Nothing could come in or go out, for years. Igbos were forced to eat lizards, cockroaches. Cannibalism grew. You honestly do not want a repeat of what happened back then. The sad thing is that this twitter, smartphone generation is far less able to deal with such hardships than the 60s generation, if their reoccur. Nnamdi Kanu to me, is an agent of people who want to destroy Igbos again, as they have become the most prosperous ethnic group on the continent, and therefore, must be cut down. He is in London stirring up trouble, and now the East is becoming a battle ground for federal troops. In 3 years time, it could be ''worse than Syria'' just like Kanu promised. Igbos, is THAT what you REALLY want for your region? If not, get rid of Nnamdi Kanu, or that is exactly what you will get. |
gidgiddy:Nigeria was a far greater hell when 3 million of your people were being slaughtered, you dumb idiot. Today you have mansions and SUVs throughout the east, even in villages, courtesy of the money you made all over Nigeria, and yet you still hate the same Nigeria, and are still moaning like a bunch of pussies. Go back to war and fighting, and losing maybe 5 or 8 million people this time, since you people love death so much. Idiots. |
RexTramadol1:Ignoramus. The design of his uniform is not for ''tucking in'', or can't you use your sense and observe? |
Victorclean1:How did ''Fulani'' enter your head in this discussion? Tufiakwa. These days it's you lot that are the fanatics, not the Fulanis. |
udemzyudex:I laughed at this comment. Funny dude. But we should not assume the guy was an illiterate just because he was a driver. As the president's driver, he would have been pretty well educated, maybe even a graduate. God bless his soul. |
peacekante:Bro forget. Their sense no reach that level. You'll get more joy reasoning with a brick wall. Igbo philosophy is ''Act now and think later.'' For all the other ethnicities it is ''Think deeply before acting''. That is why Igbos are always the bitches getting done. They are like Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart, a resourceful man whose uncontrollable temper led to his downfall. |
So.... the federal government spent 1.5 billion dollars building the 2nd Niger bridge for a region they want to destroy? They've spent countless millions of dollars rebuilding federal roads in Igboland plus Enugu Airport, because they want their fighter jets and tanks to land and patrol the region, after ''destroying it'', correct? They've signed multi-billion dollar rail contracts that will connect every South Eastern city in a region they want to destroy, correct? What? They don't have anything else to do with their money? Ndi ara. |
Bigflamie:Not impressed by your dumb and stupid pictures which have nothing to do with this thread. Must you bring Buhari into everything you think, do, and say? You're just ludicrous. Buhari is just one man, and he's there for a year and half at most, but it's like he's taken over your entire mindset and psyche. You're totally obsessed, and making him more powerful in your head than he really is. You cut a tragic, pitiful figure even if you don't realise it. |
Bigflamie:I wish you wouldn't do that..... I hate tribalism. Very backward. |
''Over the years, Nigerians have been impacting the world with their highly-improvised technical skills. From Wendy Okolo, the Nigerian genius at NASA who is the first black woman to earn a PhD in aerospace engineeering, to the likes of Osatohanmwen Osemwengie, who builds drones for the U.S. Army; the super-talented Nigerian man who designed the 2014 Chevrolet Volt; the Nigerian engineer who built the fastest carbureted front-wheel car in the world all the way to the 26-year-old Nigerian who is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world, Nigerians have made their country proud with these wonderful undertakings.'' https://face2faceafrica.com/article/this-nigerian-genius-at-nasa-is-first-black-woman-to-earn-phd-in-aerospace-engineering Pride of Nigeria - Wendy Okolo https://cdn.face2faceafrica.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/okolo.jpg This Nigerian Genius At NASA Is The First African Woman To Earn a PhD in Aersopace Engineering By MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR | Head of Content Wendy Okolo initially felt like an impostor when she worked as a summer researcher from 2010 to 2012 at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command. The mission of the AFRL is to discover, develop, and integrate affordable warfighting technologies for air and space forces. Working in the Control Design and Analysis Branch of the AFRL – Wright Patterson Air Force Base – Okolo was part of the team that flew the world’s fastest manned aircraft, which flew from coast to coast in 67 minutes. Okolo, then a graduate student, at first felt she had no place working with such a great team. “I was like I am sure these guys are so smart, what am I going to bring in,” she said. She found an error in the code in the systems and she fixed it and “that fixed the impostor syndrome for a while,” she was quoted by The Cable. Today, the 30-year-old is an aeronautics and space administration genius. She works as an aerospace research engineer at the Ames Research Center, a major research centre for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Silicon Valley. Born to a family of six in southeastern Nigeria, Okolo was only 26 when she became the first black woman to get a doctorate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her BSc and PhD degrees in aerospace engineering from the university in 2010 and 2015 respectively. https://f5p3e9e4.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Black-engineer-Wendy-Okolo.jpg Okolo said she owes her current feat to her all-time heroes – her sisters – who gave her biology and other science lessons through their everyday realities. She would subsequently excel in school and make tremendous moves during her undergraduate years at the University of Texas in Arlington, where she became the president of the society of women engineers in the university. |
ShadowCracker:You do realise there is no 'border' demarcating ''north'' from ''south'', and that a Fulani herdsman's first concern is a place to graze his cattle? Population growth caused in part by Igbo migration and settlement up north has also led to land shortages in the north. All the highways in the south are no longer safe, you Fulani's have turned it to your kidnapping den, I guess that is part of your herding culture.Swiftly dismissed to the trash bin section of my thoughts. Oh, I am not a northerner by the way. I know your IQ is not high enough to imagine that. |
DubaiLandLord:Stop telling lies. I am not ''supporting'' anybody as is clear to any unbiased person. All those scholarly research articles I posted, which lay the blame squarely on desertification, are they also ''supporting'' the killer herdsmen? Why can't you people be objective? If you are ever going to solve a crisis, you must do it holistically, from an 'outsider's perspective', not by seeing things from only your side. As for IPOB, many people in the US state of Texas also want to secede from the United States. If it is ''their right'', why haven't the US govt, which I'm sure you worship, allowed them to go? Are you aware that about half or more of the 50 - something states in America have secessionist groups? Here is the US law on secessaion: ''Current Supreme Court precedent, in Texas v. White, holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state. More recently, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements#Texas_Nationalist_Movement Person wey dey live for Oyo, go borrow loan from the bank and invest in agriculture, fulani herdsmen go carry cows com chop the person crops, the person go challenge the fulani, the fulanis will hacked the person to death for challenging them.An average Fulani herdsmen cannot read, and does not know the way to a bank, much less what to say if he got there. Loans, interest rates, collateral, capital, credit rating. How do you explain those things to an average Fulani herdsman that can't speak English? Judging him by the standards of an Oyo businessman is just....foolish. In Benin republic, if fulani heardsmen are caught with guns, they are always killed immediately. If cows eat crops, the cows are either seized or killed while the fulani heardsmen in charge of the cows are killed or taken to the police station and will be charge to court.If you enact such a law in Nigeria, you would have to kill probably 500,000 herdsmen. Good luck explaining that to your electorate, much less the international community. |
DubaiLandLord:ESN have every right to defend Eastern lands from killer herdsmen where the federal police and/or army are found wanting. IPOB is an outlawed terrorist organisation which seeks secession from the federal republic, which I most certainly do NOT support. |
DubaiLandLord:The FIRST THING we all need to understand, admit, and realise, is that this crisis is a crisis that is derived 100% from climate change and desertification. That is the first thing. Probably 95% of southern Nigerians are totally unaware of this, and imagine that the herdsmen are encroaching southwards as a result of a Fulani/Buhari - led conspiracy to colonise and Islamize all of Nigeria. Remove that poison first from the peoples' minds. THEN we can be all free to brainstorm on lasting solutions to the crisis. |
walemoney007:You sure hate to hear the truth. |
Blue3k:Why not go round the entire West Africa and preach your mental and moral superiority to them, from your high, spiteful pedestal? I'm sure they will listen to your majesty speaking from his high horse of unadulterated spite. The problem is not limited to Nigeria. If you don't find a way to resolve the issue amicably, even you could end up dead from the violence, plus family. Or maybe you think you are immune from bullets, chaos, and societal destruction. |
criuze:This discussion is far above your level. Kindly stay out. WE need educated people in here, not thoughtless street touts. |
owobokiri:No. You've only gone to South Africa, India, Thailand, and Japan to sell cocaine and heroin which kills more people than herdsmen, while tarnishing Nigeria's name. |
Blue3k:If you had been born into a poor Fulani family in Sokoto, you would have been EXACTLY like one of those herders you are insulting. Probably worse. You are only LUCKY to be born a southern, educated, pampered, middle class person who now feels superior, courtesy of accident of birth. Whenever you see people who are generally less fortunate than you are, instead of regarding them with pomposity, say a silent thanks to your maker with the words, ''There but for the grace of God go I.'' |
Maduawuchukwu:YES, YES , YES!!! ![]() Is it rocket science?For someone who cannot read, it IS even more difficult than rocket science. Should Igbo traders in the north who struggle to pay rent and sometimes even fail to afford it also resort to killing the indigenous people so that the northern governments will give them land?If THOUSANDS of Igbo traders in the north were suddenly forced to abandon their business in Kano and flee into neighbouring towns due to some climatic issue, and met resistance from the locals, yes they will probably pull out their guns to enforce their stay in the new abodes. At least some would. Survival is a human instinct, and is not dependent on ethnicity. |
VaselineCrew:Did you acknowledge and condemn the grand theft and financial brigandage of the Jonathan regime? If you did not, and are now attacking Buhari - a far less corrupt administration, then you are a hypocrite who needs to STFU. That money for instance, could build a few Kilometers of road, or some other form of public infrastructure, which would slowly pull Nigeria out of the doldrums.The Buhari administration has probably rehabilitated more roads in the last 3 years than PDP did in 16 years, YOU DAMN HYPOCRITE. The Ganduje you are attacking, GO to Kano and see how he is transforming the place, with first class infrastructure. BTW, I thought you’re always saying Nigeria is poor and can’t execute projects for the benefits of its people, but now you say we are executing projects worth billions of dollars... interesting.Oh Nigeria is certainly not a rich country. Her annual budget is a pitiful 35 billion dollars for 210 million people, while South Africa's is 125 billon USD for 60 million people. The USA is 7.6 trillion, UK 1.7 trillion etc. So, much of our project financing comes from strategic borrowing. Not borrowing actual money and embezzling it like PDP did, but by getting nations like China to fund projects to say 70 or 80% while we pay the balance. Lastly, why should I support the notion that desertification is forcing some people to infringe on others property when the solution is simply ranching, instead of nomadic pastoralism?It is not as easy as you make it sound. According to the UK Guardian newspaper, ''In 2018, the [Nigerian] federal government proposed colonies for cattle and funded grazing camps across various states in the country. But local leaders were resistant, and fears grew in the south in particular that ethnic groups such as the Muslim Fulani would use the scheme to grab land. Some researchers estimate that the members of the Fulani ethnic group own 90% of Nigeria’s livestock. As the climate crisis continues, the government has set up the National Livestock Transformation Plan, which aims to modernise the livestock sector through a series of phased interventions from 2018 to 2027. Ranches for breeding and processing will be created, and several pilot projects have already been established. But this plan, too, is encountering difficulties. According to Khalid Salisu, a journalist in one of the pilot project regions, “It doesn’t serve the needs of cattle herders adequately. The herders in the ranches are struggling to find enough water and pastures to keep their herds alive during the dry season.” In the absence of effective solutions from the central government, states and communities are proposing various remedies. In Benue state, southern Nigeria, for example, legislation in 2017 banned open cattle grazing. The law required herders to rent or buy lands to host their ranches. The heart of the problem is the need to persuade herders to give up treating land and water as a free resource. It will be difficult to persuade them to move to capital-intensive ranching, said Ubah. The herdsmen, for whom the policies are meant, should be directly involved Abubakar Sambo, the leader of the northern community in Enugu state, says the herders must be consulted before fresh initiatives are launched. “The policies received by cattle herders largely on radio and television cannot work. The herdsmen, for whom the policies are meant, should be directly involved.” He believes younger herders need to be educated and sent to study model ranching systems in other countries. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/11/nigeria-cattle-crisis-how-drought-and-urbanisation-led-to-deadly-land-grabs You see, there are literally MILLIONS of herdsmen in Nigeria. You cannot sit down somewhere and say ''They should do this''. Some might. many won't. Human nature. Most are illiterate and don't know the first thing about ranching, for starters. Most couldn't even read a lease agreement, never mind understanding its contents, so what do you mean by telling them to go and buy land or lease land'' etc? We need a more strategic and comprehensive approach than the ''you are on your own'' approach, which is what is leading to the violence. |
Blue3k:Majority of farmers in Nigeria did not ''buy their land''. Their inherited it or were allocated it by their villages as is customary. If you don't own land then lease it. It cant do either borrow. If thats not an option then sell. Being a foolish criminal isn't justified because you poor. It's nobody fault your poor and don't have forward thinking.That attitude will only lead to bloodshed. Maybe you love bloodshed. Even if what you typed makes sense, it can never be effectively implemented by the herders on their own without a proper structure and framework backed by the government and all parties across the nation. You forget that most of those herders are illiterates, and don't even know the meaning of those terms you are using, like ''lease'', ''ranching'', and so on. There needs to be a clear administrative framework to streamline any adjustment to the new realities caused by climate change. Sitting in your parlour screaming ''they should do this and that'' is not the solution. |
Blue3k:It's very easy to tell people to ''buy land'' when it is not YOU being required to dig into your pockets. Imagine if every southern trader or farmer had to first ''buy land'' before they could run their business. Majority would resort to begging or violence. The problem needs a collaborative approach between north and south, NOT the ''you are on your own'' type approach, and most certainly, not an approach based on ethnic hatred, suspicion, and animosity. We are human beings, and we are equipped to handle our problems like adults. |
. . Climate Change and Farmer – Herder Conflicts in West Africa October 2017 In book: Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa (pp.11-44) Linkages between climate change and conflict and political solutions Author: Charlene Cabo Nomadic and semi-nomadic herders such as the Fulbe have a long history of migrating and also of building relationships with various sedentary farming populations in West Africa. These contacts can take various forms, from coexistence to cooperation or competition and even to conflicts over shared natural renewable resources, namely fresh water and land, which can be referred to as Common-Pool Resources (CPRs) . The effects of climate change are already being felt in these regions, and the IPCC forecasts that they will significantly increase, with more irregular precipitation and rising temperatures. These changes could aggravate land degradation and increase the frequency of droughts, and consequently lead to declining food production and a decline in the availability of water. Climate change is thus putting a strain on delicate relationships between farmers and herders, because of its effect on CPRs. Herders and farmers of the drylands of West Africa are indeed highly vulnerable to changes in the availability of CPRs. In a context where the object of the conflict plays (or is perceived to play) a key role in the survival of the parties, there are risks of an escalation to violence and a destabilization of the security of both communities. Agro-pastoral conflicts might increase in frequency and intensity in the coming years. However, a conflict reduction lens can be applied to these climate-change-induced or -aggravated farmer–herder conflicts over CPRs in general and in particular in West Africa. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309442498_Climate_Change_and_Farmer-Herder_Conflicts_in_West_Africa |
VaselineCrew:What is this peabrain on about? Are you even aware that Nigeria has over 100 billion dollars worth of infrastructural projects ongoing as we speak? Mr Bodyguard for whites. Icheoku. In khaki shorts and singlet standing at attention. Yes, if whites massacred and looted the whole world to enrich themselves, we must recognise that and call it out for the EVIL it was. And increased desertification is not an ''excuse''. It is a fact attested to by science and research, and which, if you had a working brain in your head, you would have easily deduced by reading the other instances of the herdsmen crisis across West Africa and the Sahel, which I posted, with links. |
Abagworo:The 'Nigerian government' is not a dictatorship to enforce any solutions, and consensus is needed in an issue like this. The federal govt needed regional co-operation which was not forthcoming because the south saw it all as an attempted Fulani land grab and nothing else. |
limeta:That is a very evil and selfish way to look at the issue. What if perchance God had created you a northerner? How would you feel reading what you just typed? |
The herdsmen crisis is a WEST AFRICAN phenomenon, as the desertification of the Sahara accelerates, forcing herders to migrate ever southwards to graze their cattle. See Ghana News: Livelihoods under threat as herdsmen invade Kwamang farmlands at Kwamang https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Livelihoods-under-threat-as-herdsmen-invade-Kwamang-farmlands-at-Kwamang-1224913 It is a big problem in Ghana now. Just google ''Ghana herdsmen''. They even killed some Fulani herdsmen in southern Ghana last week. In South Sudan yesterday, 40 peole were killed. According to the news, ''this conflict... stemmed from disagreements between Arab herdsmen and non-Arab farmers in South Darfur.'' https://www.voanews.com/africa/40-people-killed-ethnic-clashes-west-darfur-un-says So this is a region-wide issue caused by the encroaching Sahara and climate change. But instead of us to recognise the issue for what it is, and co-operate to handle it well, we are screaming that it is a ''long-planned Fulani takeover of the South!!'' And now we are looking to start fighting and killing! Tufiakwa. Who did this to us? |
Chigboboss:Many Igbos are dumb, thoughtless narcissists, and I say this as an Igbo. Look at Enugu Airport. Buhari is the one fixing it, after ''our own sister'' Stella Oduah of PDP looted the money meant to build it. It didn't even have a functioning runway by the time she ''completed'' the project. A week ago, some shameless PDP governors even sent a delegation to Aso Rock to beg Buhari for more money to fix the airprt! I mean these idiots had been in power for 16 years!!! Same thing with the 2nd Niger Bridge. They kept allocating funds for the project, and embezzling and reallocating, for 16 years. Nothing on ground. Buhari came in, and that bridge is nearly completed in under 2 years. Today you can drive from Umuahia to Owerri to Enugu to Port Harcourt on smooth, well rehabilitated federal roads, unlike during Jonathan's era. The herdsmen crisis is a WEST AFRICAN phenomenon, as the desertification of the Sahara accelerates, forcing herders to migrate ever southwards to graze their cattle. See Ghana News: Livelihoods under threat as herdsmen invade Kwamang farmlands at Kwamang https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Livelihoods-under-threat-as-herdsmen-invade-Kwamang-farmlands-at-Kwamang-1224913 It is a big problem in Ghana now. Just google ''Ghana herdsmen''. But instead of us to recognise the issue for what it is, and co-operate to handle it well, we are screaming that it is a ''long-planned Fulani takeover of the East!!'' And now we are looking to start fighting and killing! Tufia. |
ESN and IPOB also have a genuine reason they are fighting, right?