₦airaland Forum

Karlovich:
I just blame the useless vegetable for this discrimination

So he drafted the electoral act abi?

No one wanna associate with a terrorist group in naija!

schoolboymatt:
I never knew he was a marriage sex counsellor

fixed!

You could have told Davido to leave his career and cancel the fixed show, to sleep with Tagbo in mortuary or by his grave.

Many of these celebs know this, but the practical na e be wahala.

Tonto Dike, Mercy Aigbe et al can also drop keys better than this. But the only time they can act them is in the movie.

Soldier go, soldier come!

kenonze:
This must be Umuahia . Umuahia is still the best planned city in the entire SE and SS.

comedienne

Only God knows how many group we have in Nigeria!

danielnmerengwa:
chisos! Travel? Ogbeni if you don't know what to talk just kip kwayet.

get lost!

How many times has he been at home in the last 4months?

millik:
not at all.. I do visit there at times.

OK!
Anytime you wanna visit, let me know.

Why didn't he allow free and fair primary election!

See how he raised his leg up to shoot. He is not even afraid of the trousers getting torn!
www.nairaland.com/attachments/6069353_obianofootballskills_jpeged6d6d487d1ac16b260448218889b517

freeze001:
And did you see wedding in my comment? How is the time of her death suddenly 'right' because her son-in-law is governor? U say she knew the right time to die like she had some control over the time of death. That's a tasteless, nasty and inhumane statement to make.

Dey there dey analyse nonsense.

One of the greatest prayers is for everyone to die at the right and befitting time!
Either one has the power to control death or not.

was promoting her album. She was talking poo about me and my music. I was like; girl, I’m not even competing with you. I mean, I’m winning up here and you’re winning down there. If you’re not supporting me, just don’t talk about me. Bleep you and all your bleeping noisy album. Bleep you ugly ass hoe!!! Yes, you!”
“Her music might be dope to her followers and I respect that. But sis, your album wasn’t even in the top 10.

Yemi Alade that is a lesson to you.

"Don't look down on someone, unless you are helping the person up".

Every one has its own time.

freeze001:
Shame on you and that prick. An elderly woman passes and u just nastily imply that she held on till there was money to plan her burial. What a prick!

You seem to have problem comprehending!

Did I say "she held on until there was money to plan her burial"?

I said she died at the right time, when enough money is available to plan the burial, as an in law to the state Governor.

Iranu!

freeze001:
What kind of human being are you?

A potent man with a prick!
You wanna run a test on me to verify my potency?

freeze001:
What kind of human being are you?

A potent man with a prick!
You wanna run a test on me to verify my potency?

millik:
u normally bring urself down in tribal war..
it doesn't befit u..

most of the people that fights tribal e-war here, has close associates from the opp tribe.

oh, you seem not to understand me.

I don't engage in tribal war, only fighting against the secession, IPOB guys.

You reside in Abia?

misterawo:
On October 1, 2017, a very brief post lightly circulated on Facebook. I didn’t really take it seriously even though I made some comprehensive comments under some two different names that carried it. However, as days went by, I kept seeing the post re-circulated and shared to the extent of meeting it again in a Whatsapp group.

Initially, I was overwhelmed by the volume of ignorant takes that trailed the post. In fact, in one of the posts where I commented in my effort to educate folks, I was ridiculed but I was firm enough to engage the disagreeing interlocutors and argue my points out.

The said post goes thus:

“If zik was born 1904, Awolowo 1909, Ahmadu Bello 1910, Tafawa Belewa 1912, M. Okpara 1920 who agreed and signed 1914 amalgamation?”

To this, there were two groups of reactionaries. The first were youths in their 20s and 30s — people of my generation. They were expressing surprise and awe at such a “smart” question which nobody can decode or would be a hard nut to crack. Immediately, I saw the devastating effect of their poverty of historical knowledge and consciousness ably facilitated by the Nigeria Establishment over the years through direct and indirect cancelling out of history studies in our formative stages. The second group included middle-aged people who have some appreciable knowledge or answer to the question but are insistent on knowing the “signatories” at the amalgamation. As a teacher, I have the habit of never taking any question for granted or useless because there might be that one person in the crowd struggling taciturnly to know and understand something that might illuminate his/her mind in the process. So, I’m making a few points—mainly to raise more discussions rather than lump my takes—as regards that post in the interest of those who don’t know but are interested in knowing or augmenting the clarity of what they know.

1. “Nigeria” – as a word or a place – was never instituted with the consent of our forefathers when it came into being at the dawn of 19th century (remember the Berlin Conference of 1885-6 that officially gave British the geographical dominance) as well as the beginning of 20th century (creation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates in 1900). Note also that the present core North was formerly called “Western Soudan” until 1900. The people presently answering and have answered “Nigerians” up till today merely inherited a business/colonial empire belonging to the British people and were forced to make a “nation” out of it unlike, say, Americans that wiped off their colonial legacy and were fully involved in renegotiating their country to what THEY WANT! Ever notice how America has quietly yanked off anything “British” in their march through history such that many young Africans are always surprised to learn that the same Britain that colonized them colonized America too?!

2. It is funny how many Nigerian folks see Zik, Awo and Bello as some “old” forefathers. Hello, these men were born at the beginning of 20th century—not so long ago! They were just of the generation of my grandfather and uncles. Such persons need to realize that Nnamdi Azikiwe’s father was a clerk to the British masters who never allowed them acquire education beyond what is equivalent to today’s Primary school studies. Even Zik’s father and his generation (born in the 19th century) didn’t fully appreciate what “amalgamation” implied as they were merely servants of their British masters who were running a business for the Colonial Office in London using a large field called “Nigeria”. By 1920s, Zik himself began to understand the complexity of the world around him and it took him many years between the 1920s and 1930s to acquire the weapon to fight the Establishment. Then another round of 20 years between the 1940s and 1960 to consummate that dream. Same can be said of Obafemi Awolowo. Slightly, same can be said of Bello for he was only a product of the “British affection” for the ‘loyal North’ that doesn’t want to threaten its religious institutions with the influx of Western civilization. One must note that all the British officers who served in the North were all men who had served in the Malayan and Strait States where Islamism was the core culture/religion. They were carefully selected to perpetuate the servility and docility of the Northern Islamic culture in the ‘future interest’ of the British—that is today’s Fulani Hegemony in the Nigerian Political power matrix.

3. There were only 28 persons involved in the so-called “amalgamation” of January, 1914. While 6 persons were Nigerians, the rest were British including Frederick Lord Lugard himself, Lewis Harcourt (the secretary of state for the colonies whose name Port-Harcourt city took after leaving the original “Igweocha/Obumotu”) and other European officers in charge of the two Protectorates. The following were the ONLY “Nigerians” officially involved in the amalgamation signage:

• A lawyer, Sir Kitoyi Ajasa (representing the African community in Lagos as a Legislative Council member of the Colony since 1902). Lagos was mainly for the British. Then the rest were summed up as “African community” which included the returnee slaves of Sierra-Leone, Nigerians themselves, Ghanaians, etc.
• His Highness, Oladugbolu (Alaafin of Oyo)
• Hon. R Henshaw (Obong of Calabar)
• Hon. Maiturare (Sarkin Mussulumi and Sultan of Sokoto)
• Hon. Abubakar (Shehu of Borno)
• Hon. Usuman (Emir of Kano)

Note, from the above, that there was no Igbo traditional ruler involved. Not even the Eze Chima of Onicha those days. The Aro Expedition that was the final conquest of Igboland had happened 12 years earlier between 1901 and 1902 as the British Indirect treachery had been fiercely resisted by the Igbo people in the late 19th century. Again, note that there was more Fulani/Northern presence than any other “Nigerians” in the signage. The “pact” between the British and the Northern Oligarchy had been sealed for over a century and what we complain of today should never be a surprise to anyone who knows history. We are merely slaves living out the dreams and arrangement of unconcerned bourgeoisies—by sheer force!

4. By the time Zik had acquired enough weapons to lead the war against the British continued imperialism in the so-called Nigeria, the whole moribund arrangement had existed for more than 30 years. How many persons had been educated enough at that time? Only a few! Michael Okpara was even just a very young man at the time. The only visible result they could make out of the whole complication was Independence. Today, that Independence is only 57 years old {with over 50 years of nothing to show and 3 years of war from it all}.

5. In conclusion, those who see Zik, Awo, Bello, Balewa, Okpara, etc as some ancestral forefathers and architects of this whole impossible behemoth should realize that these men met an arrangement that had existed for about 40 years—an arrangement far older than them. They spent the rest of their lives trying to make sense of it. That’s all! When people of Nigeria say “I love Nigeria” and all the attendant shallow emotional similarities, do they really know what they love? Do they know its form, origin, the pacts of its workings and its future? Certainly not! No honest person who appreciates these things easily proclaims love for Nigeria. S/he, at best, remains silent. The Colonial Machine it is, has been and still continues. I hope this gives some answer and clarity to the above post and the needless but instructive contentions that trailed it.

©Chijioke Ngobili

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The baby na albino!

millik:
Mr, are u from/reside in abia?
ikpeazu travels to where?

only God knows.
I reside in Abia. Any problem with that?

RIP

The woman knew the right time to die. When there is available money to plan the burial.

The EFCC Lagos Zonal office, have arrested four suspected Internet fraudsters. They are: Oluwaseun Michael, 28; Igbokwe Chijioke, 27; Felix Chukwudi, 22 and Babajide Goloba. The quartet were arrested in different parts of Lagos, following intelligence report received by the Commission.

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goalless draw

No victor, no vanquish!

May they have every course to pom the champagne tomorrow!

But make dem make sure they make ready, the salaries and allowances for the players and coach o.

Praise
Praise
Praise the Lord

It shall be permanent!

Wey the video?

Dem pot bellies no even allow dem hug well.

So because of the inspection na e make dem bring bulldozers come the road? I see!

This Ikpeazu can travel.
The time he spends outside the country is more than the time he spends in Umuahia.

lawani:
I am from Ere Ijesa and I want the place to become the capital of the Oduduwa Republic with a name change to Ile Ife George Herbert Walker Bush. The town can be reinaugurated to obtain a birth odu under the new mame. Then all of traditional Ijesa Land from Osogbo To Akure including Ilesa can be federal capital territory fct. Ijesa is known for its agricultural produce like kolanuts, coffee, palm oil etc, so Ille Ife GHWB will be a sprawl of plantations along with high rises to conserve space, no high brow areas as only govt allocates land, no leaders with airs. we want to increase and not reduce Ijesa Agricultural output after the capital is moved there

osogbo weed in action

Of the six, three were held during Independence. Sylhet, then a small Bengali speaking Muslim-majority city surrounded by a Hindu-majority Assam opted to join Bangladesh in 1947. Similarly, the North Western Frontier Province, what is today known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, too opted to join Pakistan.

No Bangladesh in 1947 but Eastern Pakistan!

Quebec, the only French-speaking province of Canada’s 13 provinces, has an active secessionist movement.

Canada doesn't have 13 provinces but 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Imagine these men standing to welcome this lady younger than their wives!

Power is so powerful!