₦airaland Forum

RiceProducers:
Not necessarily intelligent. Good diction. Good basic and secondary education. English secondary school teachers

Actually he does. It takes Intelligence, confidence and deep understanding to deconstruct "established" realities especially considering that period of time and the fact that they were just coming out of colonialism.

On a lighter note it seems the confidence in Nigerians (and for which most Africans hate us) is "factory fitted"

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

Abeg how do you "dislike" a comment?

Interesting, musiwa is back

let's view it

chiiraq802:
Fulani Zombies,

Northern Elders Forum,

Arewa consultative Forum,

Miyetti Allah and all those there terrorist organizations right now.

This wan choke pass choke.

El rufai said the same in the past
Ganduje has said something similar in the past
Zulum now is saying same.

Many leaders of note have shared similar sentiments in the past, but you guys have already created a profile of an ideal northern enemy in your imagination which even if they don't exist, you must super impose it on any northerner in sight, and if that also fails you must conjure up a fictitious Northern enemy.

This is a classic case of "you're the one doing yourself"

ok

Kagd10:
Americans operate resource control in every state. I wonder why anyone would wanna secede in the first place when they already have their mini countries within America already!

I comment my reserve

First of all educate yourself on the meaning and make up of GDP.
Perhaps if you do the above you'll ge one of two things:

1. You would find that the answer is all around you
2. That was not your intended question (that it was meant to be more narrow minded)

NigeriaNawa:
As I said, I don't subscribe to his name calling and insults, I don't even believe he is the right person to lead a Biafra, but the state of Nigeria/Africa is enough to make a normal person go mad. The suffering, war, poverty and injustices are just too much.

I understand your frustration. it is well

What's up with "US army veteran blasting Buhari" and that being news. it just reeks of inferiority complex. From her name she's most likely is of igbo/Nigerian descent; so it's an expected reaction. Why not igbo leaders, actors, academics or people with some pedigree.

Being a US veteran is just what is, especially if you didn't distinguish yourself in service and there is no news on the circumstances surrounding how you left service.

Its just like calling a rusticated ABU student, an ABU alumnus - it adds no weight to him or his assertion

our media represents 50% of our problems, the credulous majority amongst us account for 30% while our leaders are responsible for 20%.

Know this and know peace

I will take a chinese loan many more times over, at least they dont ask you to implement draconian policies as conditions to grant you loan.

Deregulation
Devaluation of currency
Removal of subsidy from education and agriculture
and the list goes on

All these policy prescriptions mandated on African economies by the bretton woods institutions (IMF and WB) to keep them dependent while their debt ridden economies latched onto ours like leeches to suck us dry.

In 2005 Nigeria paid over 10billion dollars to the paris club for an 18billion dollar debt relief over an initial loan that was nowhere near the value of the former or the latter.

Abeg enough of this western propaganda on china.

At least for now China has even refused to offer us any more loans - no thanks to our media and legislators that have scared them away. Perhaps to focus on a more strategic country like Afghanistan (I hear they preparing billions of dollars package for the country in anticipation of American exit)

The arrest of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has dealt a serious blow to his group, and could even spell the end of his movement.

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a group that wants a breakaway state in south-east Nigeria, remains a cult hero to his hundreds of thousands of followers.


For more than a decade, his fiery radio broadcasts and social media posts were thorns in the side of the Nigerian government but his transition to an armed struggle in 2020 was seen as a step too far.

The armed wing of Ipob - the Eastern Security Network - has been accused of killing at least 60 people in recent months, most of them police officers, although the group denies the allegations.

Mr Kanu's arrest on Sunday is seen as the final act by a government determined to quell the uprising.

The images of his arrest, more than anything else, would have seriously undermined the confidence of even his staunchest supporters.

It was not the first time the 53-year-old Jewish convert has been paraded in handcuffs, but unlike previous occasions his customary defiance was missing. His days-old grey beard gave him a dishevelled look that not even his Fendi designer clothes could mask.

Mr Kanu was said to have turned the organisation into a one-man show, alienating some of his most trusted followers, and so there is now a leadership vacuum.

"Money disputes and accusations that he didn't consult key stakeholders over the formation of an armed wing did not go down well with many," said the BBC Igbo's Chiagozie Nwonwu, who interviewed Mr Kanu in 2019 while in exile.

One of those who fell out with Mr Kanu and left the organisation last year was his former deputy, Uche Mefor, a respected member of the group who took over when the leader was previously incarcerated.

Allegations of misappropriation of donated funds have also led to the exit of loyal supporters in the US and UK.

Locally, the spine of the movement is also gone, as battle-hardened members have either been killed or arrested by Nigeria's security forces.

Deep-rooted sentiments remain
Mr Kanu was seen by many as a dangerous propagandist, but he was also considered a lightning-rod for the discontent many Igbos still feel about Nigeria, decades after a three-year civil war between 1967 and 1970.

Many Igbos feel sidelined in Nigerian politics and there are cries of marginalisation.

Nigeria's third-largest ethnic group, they are yet to produce a president since the 1960s and accuse the federal government of neglecting their region.

These feelings have heightened since President Muhammadu Buhari came into power in 2015, and his rhetoric has not helped.

He recently referenced the civil war while vowing to crush Ipob, prompting Twitter to delete his tweet, and in the past said those who gave him 5% of votes [such as the south-east] should not expect to be treated same as those that gave him 95%.

Such comments helped propel Mr Kanu, a largely obscure figure despite his radio broadcasts, to fame.

Any other president might have ignored him but not Mr Buhari, a stoic former military general famous for suffering no indiscipline even from civilians when he ruled in the 1980s.

Mr Kanu was arrested in 2015 when he returned to Nigeria but this only boosted his profile.

The man who had been dismissed as a rabble-rouser by many Nigerians, even within his ethnic group, became the most talked about Igbo person.

Those who know him say it was the sort of attention he had been craving and once released on bail in 2017 he never looked back.

Mysterious escape
He formed the Biafran Security Services (BSS), a mock militia that dressed in black and held parades in the eastern city of Abia, his home state.

His diatribes increased, accusing the president of harbouring plans to Islamise Nigeria and saying that President Buhari had been replaced by an impostor - Jubril from Sudan.

Mr Buhari felt he had seen enough and after a court proscribed Ipob as a terrorist organisation, the army went in, carrying out an attack on Mr Kanu's home in September 2017.

He mysteriously escaped.

Many thought that was the end, but he reappeared in Europe in 2018 and the radio broadcasts resumed, this time latching on to Nigeria's farmers-herders crisis to fan ethnic tensions in the country.

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Last year, Mr Kanu saw an opening in the #EndSars protests against police brutality but many believe this was actually the start of his downfall.

As thugs hijacked the demonstrations across Nigeria, Mr Kanu ordered his supporters to attack police stations.

For someone that had openly been against an armed struggle in the early days of Ipob, it is hard to know what changed.

Many suspect that the 2017 attack on his house and death of members influenced his decision to arm the group.

Men in black clothes and red berets
Men in black clothes and red berets
In late 2020 he resurrected the BSS and rechristened it the Eastern Security Network (ESN).

While BSS was a mock militia, the ESN was closer to the real deal.

Members, dressed in black attire and red berets, were trained in the south-east's forests, there was a chain of command, and more importantly they had AK-47 rifles which had been stolen from police stations.

Between September 2020 and May 2021, there was a wave of attacks on police stations and other public facilities in the south-east which authorities blamed on Ipob.

In March, the army went in and began taking out ESN camps and commanders, turning the region on its head.

For most people, especially young people sympathetic to the Ipob cause, the army operation was an eye-opener about what war looked like.

Businesses were closed, curfews imposed and people walked with their hands above their heads when they approached army checkpoints.

At this point, sentiments started to turn against Ipob and its leader and with his arrest, he joins other Igbo separatists who have lost against the Nigerian state.

But he is unlikely to be the last until the root causes of the grievances felt by many living in south-eastern Nigeria are addressed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57693863

How did we become so bereft of morals to this point. Imagine some people encouraging her not to say the truth, or speak to a lawyer, implying that she can get herself off the hook somehow.

What happened to honesty, meekness, honor. I guess these traits are out of vogue. People being corrupt, wicked and dishonest is something, but actively encouraging others to act in such dishonourable fashion even even with glaring evidence of culpability is another level of low.

let's see

ok we've heard your own

unlike our media I'll comment when I listen to the interview.

In all fairness to El-rufai (which most comments here lack) he has advocated for bandits to be "sentenced to death", he has invited the NAF to carry out multiple air raids in his state on bandits camps. What he meant is that unlike ipob, these bandits dont have a central leadership. now isn't that a statement of fact? Has the death of shekau or M.yusuf stopped BH. But the government will continue to target the various leadership of this hydra headed monster. And we pray they succeed.

But what do I know, infer whatever you will from the article, your problem

mods now?

Oya now, if that's what they want so be it.

The west will facilitate small time arm dealers to smuggle arms to them while the same west's military industrial complex signs arms deal to supply the FG arms to fight them. At the end the south east will be another crisis ridden, refugee infested region just like we have littered around the globe.

I remember late Jaafar clearly warning Muhammad Yusuf that year that this movement of yours will become a pawn in the hands of external forces, but he didn't listen (he's followers even threatened jaafar with death). Both of them are late now, and Borno is what it is today.

So like I said continue...

BigSarah:
Our reality is our problem...
And with this administration stifling independent reporters and social media, outsiders won't believe non-mass media reportings even if they are positive

I beg to differ. we have one of the most vibrant media in the world, so much that even junk passes as journalism these days. Ironically it is the lack of effective regulation that makes our media space vibrant.

Our media is our problem.
Imagine the gibberish they filled the cyberspace with yesterday with multiple cities from which only one MNK was arrested. Must you report if you dont have all the facts?

Now just imagine this headline? it is clearly stated even in their article that the vaccine is meant for AU, COVAX etc. must the US manufacture each AU country's vaccine in her territory? while at it why not you ask that only igbos should handle the ones meant for the east and the hausas to handle the one meant for the north. I just tire for the people in this country

TripleOh7:
You guys just keep doing more damage to your own case.

What if he was wearing Fendi?

Should he dress shabbily to meet supposed heads of state to solicit support for his people?

Please all these silly analysis isn't necessary.

The picture isn't photoshopped.

I use Photoshop well and I know when a picture is faked.

True. but that tells you the reasoning capacity of a typical ipob member. Damn narrow minded people.

ecolime:
I am yet see a Northen leader or cleric attack northern criminals or even Boko Haram that has caused the death of thousands over the years.

I am not a fan of NK, IPOB, ESN neither do I support killing of security forces.

We southerners betray ourselves a lot and the Fulanis are cashing in on this disunity. We need to seat down, be cohesive and have a united front on issues affecting us.

who did this to us in this country? For the sake of argument let's assume no Northern leader has condemned insecurity, does that justify your condoning of criminality in the form of IPOB. Be bold with your assertion: you support the terrorist group IPOB - loud it. But don't come here with some warped innuendo trying to justify your support for criminality or terrorism.

And for the records the north is against bandits and killer herdsmen. The NAF has been bombing them for eons now we just don't make stupid statements like "when will the military bomb ipod", that's why even with the unfortunate strike on a wedding by NAF the north did not condemn the government (I can only imagine the multiple international agencies that will be tagged on SM if this happened in your region)

hmm!

Standing5:
You mean the typewriter has this font?

I think the quote was a reprint by a newspaper or something

I found this quite interesting. (how authentic the source is, I do not know)
Take our education for instance, psychologists say your mother tongue is the language you dream and swear in. An average nigerian student needs to internalise what ever he's taught first in English then deconstruct and assimilate it in whatever or however his mind has adapted his "mother tongue" to his reasoning quadrant of his brain- little wonder most often than not Nigerians excell when they go to foreign countries where the mind of the native students there dont have to work as much as ours and the environment is more conducive for learning.

The alacrity at which the government has handled this IPOB saga commendable. From clamping down on the foot soldiers to arresting Kanu.

But where is this fervour in handling corruption, banditry, kidnapping etc. May God guide them

I like the guy. Good or bad, there is definitely more to him than he is showing. But how strong is his will? Nigeria is not for the faint hearted.

@lalasticlala are you guys against good news. must it always be bad news you push to FP

Ola17:
Chief how do you mean? This comment was made today, are you clairvoyant?

I haven't engaged you in any discussion, yet you have started hurling insults, how then will it be if I responded with something you dont agree with. My first post mentioned civil discussions only. Peace

I know closet ipob supporters wont like this.

Igbo Businessmen Ask Northern Traders To Give Estimate Of Losses Incurred From IPOB Attacks

Some prominent businessmen in the South-East led by Nigerian politician Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, have called on northern traders in the region to provide them with an estimate of the losses incurred as a result of attacks by Biafran agitators.

They made this known during a meeting involving Igbo leaders and northern business leaders in the South-East.

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its security arm, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) have been accused of carrying out attacks on government institutions, security forces and individuals, including northerners and their businesses.

At the meeting held in Owerri, Imo State on Wednesday, the Igbo businessmen pledged to do everything possible to ensure the safety and well-being of the northerners living in their area.

They also asked the northen traders to report all losses incurred due to the killings and destruction of property

The Igbo tribesmen said they will convene another conference in the North, and promised that everything will be fine within a short time.

Speaking during the meeting, Nwuanyanwu promised that they would ensure a return to normalcy.

"If they are honest Nigerians, we should help them (affected traders). As soon as we have people like you talking to them, we should help them,” he said.

On his part, head of the Northern Livestock Dealers Association, Alhaji Yau Ali, said members of the association attended the meeting because they wanted to take action on the killings of northerners in the south-east.

Some Igbo activists have expressed concern over the situation, saying Igbo people have investments in various parts of northern Nigeria.

They say there are at least 11 million Igbo people living in northern Nigeria.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/23/igbo-businessmen-ask-northern-traders-give-estimate-losses-incurred-ipob-attacks

vedaxcool:
You chased northerners from their dwellings to provoke the North, you got no response

You killed a family of 19 this provoke the North, you got no response.

You killed Gulak to provoke a response, you got none.
. You burn the goods and property of Northerners to provoke a response, still you got none.

You continue to threaten and incite violence against Northerners and their leaders using the most bigoted words at them.

But in all this beerfraud choose to victimize himself rather than see the the wicked actions the ipob group he supports is doing to get a response.

But guess what your provocation have failed.

In fact I marvel at the logic of a Biafran