Area4Area: It is the boastfulness of the Igbos that usually lead to the downfall of fellow Igbos, a thread was created after his nomination and see Igbos insulting others for not being as strong as the them. Liberians might have seen and read all the nonsense boasting and decided to tell George Weah to drop him which he did. Na una mouth go kill una las las.
Not true, as soon as the announcement of his nomination was made, calls for his removal were already been pushed, it's not because of Nairaland that he lost the nomination.
Adaogwashi1: My follow nairalanders please let us use this thread to show our appreciation to all our medical personnel that are fighting this covid-19 AkA coronavirus,Our medical personnel are out there risking their lives day and night to make sure that our country Nigeria is save not minding how bad our medical facilities are.
I still remain Ada ogwashi
Welcomed gesture, are you a medical personnel or is any member of your family a medical personnel
APOPTOSIS: Okk South South...... Akwa Ibom. South East....... Enugu. South West...... Ondo. North East...... Gombe. North West...... Kaduna. North Central...... Abuja..
Kaduna state capital is one of the polluted cities in the world, Zaria as well is very dirty.
I've never been to ondo but from what I've heard, it shouldnt be on any list for cleaniless, change your list.
divineappo: This is the Population of Deaths recorded in Nigeria, according to each state/region, during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
Pls if you notice any symptoms (God Forbid) This is the treatment for now, approved by American FDA, and other medical organizations.
Hydroxychloroquine (200mg - 3times per day for 10days)
Azithromycin (500mg once day 1, 250mg once each day 2-5)
Let's Save lives please
What's really driving me crazy is the fact that according to Nigerian statistics, Zaria is more populated that Onitsha, Nigerian census is a joke, a f@#king joke
helinues: The writer was indeed right.. East are known for ethnic and tribal jingoism
So is the West, ethnicity moves the west almost as much as the old Eastern region, of course not to such a great extent as the east however, but if you read where he writer wrote about the omoluabi, you'd see the ethnic undertone in his points, he didn't see the undertone in his own writing.
Infact, ethnicity moves every region in Nigeria, I've lived in Abuja and I've noticed that smaller ethnic groups like igbira often try to blend into the hausa so that they will be more accepted. If ethnicity didn't move the North, then Muslim Yoruba would be greatly accepted, but that isn't exactly the case is it.?
sarrki: gion moves the North, politics moves the West, ethnicity moves the East Published March 31, 2020
Azuka Onwuka
In summary, one can say that religion drives the North; politics drives the West, while ethnicity drives the East. By the East, one means the Old Eastern Region and the old Mid-Western Region.
The only part of Nigeria where the arrest of a religious leader for disobeying a Federal Government directive can lead to the burning of a police station is the North. And in the North, it will mainly be in the North-East, North-West and a small part of the North-Central. In Northern Nigeria, you dare not toy with Islam in whatever form. The passion for Islam is even higher than what obtains in Saudi Arabia where Islam has its headquarters.
In the North, political differences may hardly cause any quarrels. That is why in the Second Republic, Mallam Aminu Kano, with his People’s Redemption Party, controlled Kano State, the biggest state in the region (which then had Katsina as part of it), at a time Alhaji Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria was the President of Nigeria. At the same time, the Great Nigeria People’s Party, led by Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim, was in control of the old Borno State (which includes the current Yobe State). That did not create any problem or riot in the North.
Last month, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, was deposed and banished by the Government of Kano State. Some feared that it could cause a riot in the Kano and other Northern states, but nothing happened. The reality is that such a thing does not have the capacity to ignite a riot in the North.
If the Oba of Benin or the Obi of Onitsha had been deposed and banished for speaking against poverty, street children, low illiteracy rate and inequality in their domains or because of perceived political differences with the governor, it would have created an uproar in Edo and Anambra states respectively, with other neighbouring states speaking fiercely condemning the governor. In fact, the governor would not even contemplate deposing such a traditional ruler over such seemingly petty issues for fear of the consequences. An extreme action like that could only arise if the traditional leader is accused of a serious criminal offence like robbery, fraud, kidnapping, or any action that is deemed as bringing his office to disrepute.
Similarly, it will be hard to see the North riot over poverty, harsh economy or lack of employment. But it will be easy for the North to riot if there is any action taken against Islam in any part of the world, be it Denmark, Britain, France or the United States.
Police extort motorists to cross Delta boundary In addition, the Boko Haram insurgency, which has its roots in religion, cannot happen in any part of the South. There can be an uprising in the South over ethnic or political issues, but never over religion.
The Middle Belt, which is also part of the North, draws its strength of unity from religion: Christianity. The people of this zone see themselves as united by Christianity in a region dominated by Muslims.
Conversely, when it comes to the Western part of Nigeria, religion can never make it to resort to violence. As I wrote in an August 2012 article entitled, “Religious tolerance: Are the Yoruba Number 1 in the world?”, there may not be any ethnic group or race that is more tolerant than the Yoruba on the issue of religion. Man and wife or twins can be Muslim and Christian and live in peace. A family may have a Muslim father, a Christian mother, a Christian first daughter of a different denomination, an animist first son, an atheist second son, and yet live in peace, with everyone celebrating each religious feast as one family. People can be voted offices irrespective of their religious inclinations. That is why the religious division being created by the Muslim Rights Concern, led by Prof Ishaq Akintola, is dangerous to what the South-West is known for.
However, when it comes to politics, the South-West is least tolerant of dissenting views in Nigeria. That is why the political violence that happened in the First Republic tagged Operation Wetie could not have happened in any other part of Nigeria except the South-West. A Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe from the East can be the presidential candidate of the Nigerian People’s Party while his kinsman Dr Alex Ekwueme is the vice presidential candidate of the NPN under Shagari. Such cannot cause any conflict. It is the same in the North.
In the South-West, there is usually one mainstream party to which every “true Yoruba” or omoluabi is expected to belong. Any other party is seen as the party of saboteurs, and anybody who belongs to it is viewed harshly and is hardly ever forgiven. Anytime a South-West state is not controlled by that mainstream party, all is not seen as being well until that state is brought back to the fold. The unwritten law is that when it comes to politics, all South-West states must be controlled by the mainstream party of the South-West. Anything to the contrary is seen as an aberration.
In the South-East and the South-South, a different scenario plays out. Religion and politics do not make the people draw the lines. What fires them up is more of ethnic loyalty. Within the zones, you can belong to any political party or religion without much crisis. However, when the people feel that their well-being is threatened, they mobilise and resist such. That was what led to the Biafran War in 1967. The people of the Eastern Region, especially the Igbo, felt that their existence was threatened in Nigeria and resisted it. Before it, the uprising for the creation of the Niger Delta Republic, which was started by Isaac Adaka Boro on February 23, 1966 was for the same reason. Boro believed that the Igbo and the Federal Government were dominating the people of Niger Delta.
I found some errors in this write up, for instance, Katsina state was never part of Kano state, it was part of Kaduna.
Secondly, if you read closely what he said, you'd realize that ethnicity drives the Yoruba people, he only drew those links to politics it becomes obvious when he made mention of the 'omoluabi'
3, Ethnicity isn't only what drives the Eastern region, ethnicity is part of it, but not the whole story, communal (family) interests drives the Igbo man, the Igbo man's perception of community has changed alot and now I can say that he perceives the community as his immediate family or cla(a narrower perception) Not necessarily his entire ethnicity. To further buttress my point on ethnicity in the East, I would draw to the fact that the first mayor of Enugu city was a Fulani man. This article has flaws.
Thank God for journey mercies, please remove all your cloths and wash them immediately, bath immediately after and try to avoid contact for the next week.
freeman131: AGAIN TB JOSHUA PROPHESY CAME TO PASS AS OXFORD UNIVERSITY DISCOVERS COVID-19 VACCINE.
One of the leading Nigerian Prophet, TB Joshua was ‘trending’ on Twitter throughout Friday 27th March 2020 as citizens debated the veracity of his prophecy regarding the impending end of the deadly coronavirus.
A video from Sunday 1st March 2020, in which Joshua is seen declaring March 27th 2020 would signal the end of coronavirus was widely shared online, stirring controversy and heated discussions.
In a broadcast released today on Emmanuel TV, the cleric again insisted the “coronavirus is fading away” before encouraging viewers to hold fast to their faith.
Merely hours later, a team of experts from the prestigious University of Oxford in United Kingdom announced that they had discovered a vaccine for the deadly virus and would begin human testing on volunteers in the coming days.
Despite the scepticism expressed by online commentators, other significant events around the world throughout the course of Friday suggest that Joshua’s words indeed carried weight.
On the cusp of a medical breakthrough, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that the first patients enrolled in its ‘Solidarity Trial’, which will officially examine potential treatment options for Covid-19.
“This is a historic trial which will dramatically cut the time needed to generate robust evidence about what drugs work,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
In addition, statistics showed that the rate of the virus’ spread in Italy has started to steadily diminish, with more than 900 declared recovered on Friday alone – sparking celebration from health officials in the stricken country.
Furthermore, Spain – one of the hardest hit nations in Europe – declared the virus was past its peak and expected cases to begin reducing.
For more than one week, there have been no new declared cases of the disease in Wuhan, China – the epicentre of the outbreak – leading to Chinese officials reopening most of Hubei province with life returning to virtual normalcy.
A Chinese citizen released a video showing an outpouring of rain in Wuhan, in which he can be heard testifying that TB Joshua had declared rain would fall in the city as a sign the disease was being ‘wiped away’.
In Uganda, over 100 of those suspected to have been infected were confirmed to be negative after testing, leading to jubilation from the country’s health minister.
Joshua’s followers have held fast to their conviction that the “noise” of the disease had indeed been silenced according to the cleric’s declaration and the end was in sight for the sickness that resulted in an almost global lockdown.
“Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for satan, the cause of crises, has been defeated,” the popular cleric declared during the interactive broadcast subsequently uploaded to YouTube.
“Don’t listen to the panic of the moment. Warfare is necessary for our victory,” he insisted.
Sexytincoll: Enugu recorded two cases already if I'm not mistaken
Really, so there's actually a stay at home order in Enugu, I was preparing to attend a burial there this forth coming week, I didn't even know that the state was on lockdown
Sexytincoll: We all know staying at home is the best precaution to take for now but it's so tiring and boring already.How many of you are enjoying your "stay at home"
Where do you stay? Because I know that this stay at home conundrum isn't affecting everyone, some people in some states like Kano, Enugu and Imo aren't really suffering it.
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