₦airaland Forum

asha80:
For people casting the man that wrote the article calling him Igbo man mentality and all that has it occurred to you that the author Ena Ofugara is not an Igbo name hence not an igboman? Do you guys actually know your country well?

Eledan ,StOla,Yorubanger etc

He can claim any name or Identity, the crux of the matter is that the story sits well with the typical Igbo mindset, and the article truly found an army of hate blinded Igbos already eager to wear the apparel of a victim.

Must the Igbos always be the victim of every government policy? Even this particular policy implemented by an Igbo CBN governor?

Anything propaganda is OK for them, as long as it would make them hate their eternal enemies the more.

ernesty20:
and the funny thing is that Gej is better than Obj 1000 times, but pride will never allow this man to admit it

I believe he just admitted it.

OBJ spent 2 terms and Nigeria is still on the world map.

Now imagine a better thief doing the same 2 terms?

Even IBB declared himself a saint compared to what was happening under Jonathan.

Eledan:
That is just it!
See how the OP conveniently rubbished everyone else in Nigeria. That is a typical Igbo mindet

He made it look like only the Igbos are making legitimate economic use of the Dollar in Nigeria. See the summary dismissal he gave the NigerDeltans.

The OP made it look like Nigeria is ready to turn its economy to that of Zimbabwe, as long as the Igbos are likely to suffer the most. What manner of people are these?

Infact, America dare not tamper with their own currency, else it would be regarded as a deliberate attempt to wage economic warfare against the chosen tribe of God.

Economic policies are likely to have demerits, but my economics class did not teach me that only a tribe called Igbo would suffer the demerits.

That we all know the above, yet someone would sit in his house to compose the trash on this thread, only shows how some people continue to hold themselves down with mental shackles.
Anything propaganda is OK for them, as long as it would make them hate their eternal enemies the more.

YoruBanger:
Bro, the thing tire me o. The author conveniently by-passed Emefiele who is the driver and initiator of the said policy and clumsily linked it to Buhari. You gotta wonder if some of these folks can ever be truly objective about any issue, without sentiment and their trademark sensationalism/emotionalism.

They should suck it up and stop playing victim on all matters.

The recent expose on the composition of the federal civil service is one that belies their constant irritating cry about marginalisation.

How the Igbos manage to make out every government decision as a hidden agenda to punish them is something that truly baffles me.

How do you guys do this shi.t?

Is it only Igbos that are studying abroad, or use foreign currency to transact business?

When will these self delusions and victim mentality stop for God's sake?

kITATITA:
I hope that my brothers who are mounting barricades and burning trucks because Jonathan lost election will realise that, even in corruption, Igbo were marginalised by PDP.

Their votes were never in doubt. Jonathan knew he could count on them, once he mentions Azikiwe and conclude by saying Buhari jailed Nwobodo over money not enough to buy Peugeot.

Even Ohaneze admitted Jonathan was a failure even to the SE, but they will still vote for him.

It was the regions of resistance, the North and SW, that needed to be forced into submission with the futile power of the dollars.

For the SE, their leaders were too cheap that a bargain was never required.

Acidosis, whether you like it or not, Buhari will retrieve every penny stolen from our coffers.

Even you had better cough out whatever you might have received to always be a defender of thieves who are already confessing. The "perceived corrupt people" are already confessing and cooperating with the relevant agencies, yet you seem bothered and you want to shut them up?

Don't you ever get tired of trying to politicize a just struggle to defeat corruption?

Tell us what you truly stand to lose in this fight against corruption? You always seem so ruffled whenever positive news emerges on this anti-corruption campaign.

ayemerbarth:
I am Begining to think Dasuki was the minister of Finance and Ngozi the minister of state. For finance.

Indeed!

MizMyColi:
StOla

You need to come and defend Sai Baba ASAP from Punch. They are also clamoring for timely delivery of good governance

The Punch, in this objective editorial made me feel a ray of hope for Nigerian Journalism.

The gave all the punches to the right parts. The PDP of old was not spared either.

However, Buhari was worst hit.

The PDP of old?
What PDP are the present day supporters of Dokpesi?

PDP cannot change from its criminal mafia identify.

In due time change will move from the negative axis into the positive axis of the Cartesian.

The problem is that your PDP took us as far as an enemy of the state could into the extreme of the negative. We are steadily moving out, but yet to arrive at the origin with a positive outlook.

MizMyColi:
Well,

Sai Baba
Sai Buhari


I hope the broom wavers and sai chanters feel a measure of relief at this news.

One wonders if it'll take eternity for the Buhari Led FG to start delivering dividends of good governance to the Nigerian people.

I'm not surprised that you always find your voice on such threads. No exams today? You've craftily avoided threads that discuss how Dollars have been moved out of CBN in suit cases only to end up in the hands of PDP supporters.

Don't worry about dividends of democracy now, let us undo the damage done by PDP, then we can proceed towards the promised land.

We know that oil is the basis of our economy and the Naira to Dollar rate fell from N160 to N220+ in the regime of your hero.

As long as Brent continue to sell below $50/barrel, don't expect any magic that will restore it to N160 to a Dollar as was obtainable when Brent was selling above $100/barrel.

In due time, you will be put to shame.

xtrolse:
I can see that you are indeed an unrepentant lying propagandist.

I shall take you down memory lane...

Remember, prior to the 2015 general elections mischievous bigots like you engaged in campaign of calumny and hatred championed against president GEJ, an Ijaw man, who was very liberal and democratic.

You hypocrites that term yourselves as being respectful called GEJ unprintable names and denigrated the office of the Nigerian president.
You fabricated and concocted evils and sold them as news to the public. You even went as far as hiring thugs to pelt stones on GEJ on visit.

GEJ guaranteed you hypocrites freedom of speech and freedom after speech. You hypocritical bigots employed and used Sahara Reporter, Premium Times, Punch and The Nation to fabricate and spread numerous lies against GEJ and also tarnished the international image of country to your fill.
GEJ did not go about assassinating perceived political opponents as was obtained in the previous regime of Obj, a Yoruba man (1999 - 2007).

GEJ allowed your opposition party to flourish and win elections across the country - a democratic dividend that your Obj could not offer.

GEJ was peace-loving and liberal and never sent or forced any you on compulsory exile despite all your arrogance and insults against his person.

GEJ was so liberal that in spite of the fact that his State and SS region produce the crude oil wealth for the sustenance of your regions and parasitic States he allowed you parasitic ingrates to have your way.

With the advent of GEJ do-or-die politics and despotic reign was put in abeyance. Election rigging, financial recklessness, failed projects were relegated to the background.


Your APC set up Radio Chanji in the North with the only aim of inciting Northerners against President Goodluck Jonathan. You lots heartlessly misinformed the populace and the world that President Jonathan, General Ihejirika and Southerners were the ones funding and championing the dreaded Boko Haram—the same insurgents they were fighting.

Your wicked and deadly international campaigns led to the the US and its allies denying GEJ government the much needed ammunition to stop the terrorists from causing more carnage and bloodletting. You revelled in the imbroglio and popped champagne to your satisfaction.

If RB preached hate what was Radio Chanji preaching? What did the Yoruba Radio Kudirat preach?

The Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have over the century regarded other Nigerians as infidels and propagated despicable, hate speeches in their mosques and still execute the unconscionable, cold-hearted waste of human lives and reckless destruction of means of livelihoods in the North and Middle-belt. And they now have the presidency while the backstabbing Yorubas vice-presidency! Such a misnomer can only happen in the jungle! 

A number of you hypocrites even go to the extent of carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos.
Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities and other Southerners are maltreated, relegated to the background and even killed.

Feed your hypocrisy with these historical facts:

1* “We do not want our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. We have never associated ourselves with the activities of these
people. We do not know them, we do not
recognize them, and we share no responsibility in their actions. We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. If the British quit Nigeria now at this
stage, the Northern people would continue their uninterrupted conquest to the sea”. - Sir Tafawa Balewa (1947)

2* “We the people of the North will continue our stated intention to conquer the South and to dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean after the British leave our shores.” - Sir Ahmadu Bello (1957)

3* "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use minorities in the North as willing tools and South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future" 
- Sir Ahmadu Bello, October 12,  1960

Ahmadu Bello, arrogantly uttered the aforementioned statement in a multicultural and multi-religious country and got away with it, and many bigots still hold him in high esteem and even shove it down the throats of other people.

4*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSosECbcmM

5*...barely six months after independence, Sir Ahmadu Bello was able to say with confidence in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, the following:
“I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.”

6*...sometime in 2010, when upon the demise of President Umaru Y'Ardua, indications emerged that his erstwhile deputy, President Goodluck Jonathan, may contest the 2011 presidential election, a prominent chieftain of this same ACF, Lawal Kaita, who was a former Governor of old Kaduna State, threatened that the North would make Nigeria ungovernable, should Jonathan or anyone from the South win the 2011 presidential election, claiming that such would amount to denying the North it's birthright of ruling Nigeria.

7* It is in the same North barbaric statements like this were uttered in 2011:  ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD”. And what was the outcome - carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians in the North, including many Youth Corps members when Buhari lost the 2011 presidential election?

8* That true to that threat, upon the victory of Jonathan from the 2011 presidential election, massive violence was unleashed from the North by a group which called itself Boko Haram and which repeatedly took responsibility for unending mayhem which began with the killing of Youth Corp members who worked ad-hoc for INEC in that election.

9* As the barbaric killings and destructions reigned, especially with the attack by Boko Haram on the UN Building and Force Headquarters in Abuja, the Lower Niger Congress publicly posited that the nexus between the aforementioned threat by ACF's, Lawal Kaita and the Boko Haram's bloody campaigns summarily destroyed any prospects for keeping the Nigeria Union.

10* "It was, therefore, no surprise that in October 2013, following the bold announcement by President Jonathan, presenting the sudden prospect of revisiting the master-servant constitutional arrangements of Nigeria infuriated the warmongering born-to-rule Caliphate whose cause was championed by the same ACF, and who, supported by their allies from the renegade wing of the Yoruba Southwest,  launched a vicious, frontal attack on the initiative, teaming on the floor of the Conference into a majority, and driving the Conference into its first major decision, i.e. NOT TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF NIGERIA'S UNITY. The rest of the Conference was a jamboree that provided a luxurious platform for the North/SW Alliance, parading itself as a new political party named APC, to fine-tune their violent March to the do-or-die 2015 general elections."

11* Oba of Lagos Threat on Igbos Over 2015 Governorship 
http://expressng.com/2015/04/video-oba-rilwan-akiolu-threatening-igbos-in-lagos/
Oba Rilwane Akiolu of Lagos to Igbos - Vote APC or Perish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87u255UM6Ro

I'm happy you mentioned Radio Kudirat because it seems the message of your post is just to state that it is the turn of the Igbos to be the mad ones.

For your information, Radio Kudirat was a pirate station set up to challenge the military government of Abacha and demand a return to democracy and release of MKO Abiola.

Radio Kudirat had Nigerians across tribes as it's facilitator's, having been set up after Kudirat Abiola was killed.

Radio Kudirat was not a vehicle to propagate inter-tribal hate. Neither was any of Radio Kudirat or Chanji ever recorded to call the country a zoo or any such profane description

You mention Jonathan being ridiculed while he was president. Yes many called him names and I even call him a platinum certified dunce till today and I am vindicated. You would notice that I did not mention the equitable names that Buhari is called like dullard, illiterate etc.

What is the meaning that the President is a pedophile or a terrorist? Do you understand what that means?

No one is deceived by Jonathan's attempt to keep the mob busy with a circus he termed National Conference. He had said when he resumed his tenure that he did not believe in it, especially as there was a national assembly that had equally reminded all who cared to listen that such was a waste of time that would not be ratified by them.

So like OBJ who reneged on his own stance when the PRONACO was to start, Jonathan also conducted his own jamboree destined to fail. A president who failed to implement the reports of committees that he set up like the Ribadu report.

You mentioned Lawal Kaita, but forgot to mention that he is a PDP chieftain who made his remarks as a PDP Northerner prior to the party primaries of the PDP. He later went on to take a position in the Jonathan administration.


As for political assassinations, whoever initiated and executed such were desperate politicians principally in the South of the country with the victims being primarily members of PDP or the OBJ government.
Is it the responsibility of OBJ to tell Rivers people whether to kill their political leaders or not?
Or was it the decision of OBJ to eliminate Bola Ige?

That politicians kept their cool in the GEJ regime is testament to the fact that power over party structure had changed hands, and the gladiators began to develop a conscience, while intended victims also became more cautious.

Concerning the pogroms in the North prior to the war, we all know the the factors that precipitated them. Let those who have an appreciation of history learn from their mistakes, and also learn not to be too stupid to become self destructive.

That you continue to regard the Yorubas as back stabbing suggests that you're yet to learn that they do not owe you any loyalty. You have not done anything to merit it and their political destiny is their own preoccupation.

Concerning the video of the Northern Premier you continue to rehash, it is evident that he was smart enough to know the limitations of his people and knew they were disadvantaged. He was Premier of the North, not Nigerian Prime Minister. He was doing the same thing every other Premier was doing to favour their region and its people. His people who had no chance of competing in the East and West ought to have their economic security guaranteed back at home. But you wanted to have it all both within your region and outside.
That you continue to cry about his opinion about you which was later vindicated by your own actions against him, only suggest that you saw him as a threat just has he equally saw you as a threat.

kingdompropty:
The last time I checked the Biafran protests had remained generally peaceful until the Nigerian soldiers opened fire on them, being the unprofessional military we know I will not doubt the IPOB side of the story.

Many of us with a fair mind will always look at the UN charters , Nigerians constitution and be guided by same, hence the agitation so far is in line.

I do not know the anti Biafra Ndigbos IPOB have either killed or maimed to make us panic yet.

Do not deceive yourself that the brains behind this protests ever wanted it to be peaceful. Infact I believe most are beginning to be irritated at how tactful the government and security forces have been in handling the protests.

In truth, they are determined that the protest must lead to an anarchy the whole world would read about. Lives have been lost, but even Ferguson protests in the US had more coverage.

A pirate radio station might make inciting statements, but that should not be condoned on a legitimate forum.

What is the meaning of "damnable zoological republic"

"The president is a pedophile"

"Awusa-cattle", "Yoro-bber"

Let a pirate radio continue to utter such rubbish until it can be censored, but this will not be repeated on a Nigerian forum.

Never!

The above quotes are the little I have by just scratching the surface, yet you are claiming human rights while the embers of hatred are fanned steadily till anarchy results.

Imagine if those who are at the level of these IPOB youths from other tribes see the stones being thrown in their direction, they will throw bombs back - a reaction being expected by the schemers.

Seun has simply excused his forum from being such a platform. A decision well within his rights.

kingdompropty:
Being a member of the Human rights community - Amnesty International specifically, I reserve my rights to speak out and defend the defenceless, like we did for Abiola even at personal risks.

Good to know that you are a human rights advocate.

Now I ask, is it a strategy of such advocacy to keep quiet and watch as ethnic hostilities continue to rise out of a determined attempt by Biafran apologists to denigrate the country, its goverment, its political leaders, and every Nigerian including Igbos who are not in support of the Biafran cause?

Do you expect that harmony is the end result of all the tribal hate and propaganda being advanced on all media available to the Biafrans? Or do you only speak out when anarchy has set as a result of that hate and mischievous propaganda?

Is Seun not a patriot and a peacemaker for ensuring his own creation would play no part in the anarchy the Biafrans are passionately spoiling for?

Do we as Nigerians not have the right to ensure we no longer serve as the audience for all the hate and profanities being heaped daily on the nation and it's constituent tribes?

Who is the defenceless between the man who is at the receiving end of hate and threats but keeps his cool, and the man who has become an irritating nuisance to all and sundry without restraint?

Let the Biafrans find another rebellious channel for their outbursts against Nigeria and her citizens. Nairaland remains a pro-Nigerian medium.

Lastly, does the ethnic oriented outbursts and threats against Seun on the very thread where he communicated his decision in a civil manner, not suggest that we have been dealing with deranged ethnic maniacs, rednecks and skinheads? Why should such nonsense be tolerated by any sane human being?


I certainly refuse to give the Biafran hate my audience.

Eddygourdo:
I saw a thread of a brother in apparent capitulation over the update on rule nine. Though I agree with him that he was an apologist and not a warrior. The point is that nairaland was aiding and abetting acts of disunity by not controlling it's use as a means of agitation and hate messages. These acts were treasonable, as in some cases it promoted miss representation and miss information of the public. It became a rave for E battles and shouldn't sit well with this forum as a means of communication and education of its members on diverse issues. Thank you for that update Mr seun. We well meaning Igbos were tired of the acts of the biafrauds who were selling us in a bad light, that all of a sudden the igbo man is regarded as a trouble maker, who calls the country at the time of his birth a Zoo and his neighbours animals. This isn't representative of the online igbo opinion on this forum or igbo at large. Nevertheless I want to raise a point I learned from the tirades of that nairalander.

Every group has a right to discuss issues pertaining to its future growth and development, unfortunately biafra is considered and end to that means. We Igbos would love to have brotherly and peaceful discussions on issues bothering us as every other tribe does here. I hope such threads won't be a violation of rule 9.

Biafra is a dead issue but if it's living I agree that this forum should not be a platform that encourages mutiny or treason and such matters will not be discussed. But it could be mentioned occasionally in discussion and not in a subjective manner but rather objectively. Hopefully the behaviours and stereotypes now built by the ipob and biafrauds towards the Igbos will be amended.

Goodday

I concur!

googlepikin:
People with lazy dull brains. Will Google Facebook YouTube Twitter WhatsApp Yahoo Reddit and billion dollar companies also ask igbos to stop mentioning Biafra? If Linda ikeji should start blocking yorubbers on her blog she go fit buy house for banana island. Or if Jason Njoku should block yorubbers on irokotv.com will he be a millionaire. Typical jealous minds.

Has anyone blocked any tribe here?

Why is it that even the educated Igbo is still too daft and cannot apply appropriate logic to issues?

Nairaland is for all Nigerians regardless of tribe.

Seun who is the founder of Nairaland has only said that his forum remains a pro-Nigerian avenue. Therefore, no posts that denigrate Nigeria and Nigerians, or that seek to tear the country apart is welcomed here.

So Nairaland says No to Biafra. Biafra can go look for an audience elsewhere, we Nigerians are tired of the hate and petty name calling.

Nigeria is an imperfect nation, not a zoo.

cokoduck:
STFU, we are not sesecionists, we are IPOB, we are Biafran Nationalists and deserve to be heard, seun and his goons can go to hell for all I care

But we Nigerians have heard all you have to say about our tribes and our country. We have heard you enough and we are done listening to the hate you want to propagate.

Continue among yourselves to build up the hate that has consumed your souls and deceive yourselves with your own propaganda.

Is it by force to beg for a Nigerian audience? Stop begging us to listen and go to where your own are waiting for you.

Nairaland remains pro-Nigeria, rebels can find another avenue and another audience to amuse and threaten.

Lilimax:
@ the highlighted.
Everybody must not support PMB

Indeed!

I don’t begrudge him for that. However we knew then and also know better now that the President was a Father Christmas who placed so much hopes in the gifts he gave so generously. Therefore many flocked to his grotto, reeling out all the good deeds they had done or could do to help him win re-election.

Wow!

This is real bad investment by Kanu. Maybe this explains his support for Jonathan, hoping Father Christmas would have some gifts for him this holiday season. Alas, Father Christmas was sacked from office before the gifts could arrive.

Kanu must not be allowed to go down like this. He is a national hero, a philanthropist, a legend.

EasternLeopard:
SEUN can you see this poster insulting the Biafrans

If tomorrow the Biafrans return fire on this forum, I hope you won't complain


SEUN hide the comment of the poster I quoted

Take my case to the ICC or British parliament.

By the way, what is a Biafran like you still doing here?

hinwazaka:
Mr President, how far with the fuel scarcity. I hope you are enjoying it. And also how do you like the drop in power supply. I heard your minister of power, is talking rubbish about boosting power and constructing roads. Well, let me tell you that you can forget about that, there will be no road construction or power improvement. We will so deal with you, that even your generation unborn will be stained with the disgrace your name will become. Enjoy yourself Mr President, you have only six months left, so please name names.

Seun, Mynd44, OAM4J, Lalasticlala.

Isn't there something that can be done about this dude who keeps threatening all manner of politicians with death and anarchy?

He mentioned that the late Audu was going to pay with his blood for leading in the elections, Audu died hours later. He said Kogites were going to suffer from chaos just for exercising their democratic franchise of voting for the candidate of their choice.

Same guy has threatened that IEDs will be placed in the presidents plane to blow him away.

Now this, and you all keep tolerating his terror.

Are you waiting till the DSS take down this site and quiz you all regarding a threat made here that was later executed as detailed?

I wonder what the DSS is also doing not identifying this threat and checkmating it?

He remembered that Buhari no be Jonathan.

Falana remarked: ”The Federal Government has a record of $2 billion recovered Abacha loot, but our former minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala claimed that only $500 million have been recovered. To help her, the World Bank has just issued a report, a package of lies, a 700-page report to say that this $500 million that was recovered under her watch was judiciously spent and they have listed roads that were not even in existence in Nigeria that were tarred. We are taking them on, and this will be the last time the World Bank will tell lies about this country.

I have maintained that Nigeria must never allow all the Bretton Woods institutions to have any say over who directs our ministry of finance or budget.

They are nothing but saboteurs.

ELTON123:
Ok biafrans are now terrorists for aiming there own view? When scot were doing there's in british forum were the banned?? Am not surprise we are blacks.

The Scots are not denigrating Britain as a zoo, or calling the Prime Minister or Monarchy all sorts of vile names.

They are not boasting to turn Britain into a place worse off than Somalia.

They are not embarking on a campaign of hate against the other constituent parts of Britain.

That you did not observe this difference in approach is because you are black too. Civilisation was a gift your tribe got from the colonialists. It is yet to become genetic.

How this man managed to isolate his soul from the infectious Nigerian corruption is still a mystery.

Many who feel threatened that a Nigerian could be this upright, would soon come here to declare that how dare he pretend to be a saint.
These people have always known corruption to be a Nigerian way of life. Their fathers and mothers are beneficiaries of the corrupt system, and woe betide that leader who would dare to deny them of their corruption priviledges.

Sai Baba, call on me. I am willing to quit my life of luxury from honest earnings to come pursue corrupt men and women to the end of this world. Even into hell, to retrieve them for a Nigerian judgement that many have escaped in the years when the presidency was the greatest promoter of corruption.