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aleem50:
Nothing like odua states,they are Nigerian states in oduduwa land. We believe in one Nigeria.

Naso

chino11:
From the inside information Ngige is likely going to emerge as a minister or at worst an Ambassador of a frontline European country.

Okwadike is an outstanding Igbo mouthpiece.

Okadigbo will be remembered forever as an orator, first class material, an embodiment of knowledge and a foremost Nigerian politician.

"We need political sagacity to know political arithmetics"- Dr. William Wilberforce Chuba Malachy Okadigbo [Eagle Square- 2002]

Thanks nwanne madu...

aleem50:
Forget that one man. Point of correction,it is only Ilorin in kwara state where fulani is the ruler not kwara as a whole#shey you grab?

Thanks for this clarifications


I think that I he odua states are okay and Ilorin should be included

Candyrain:
If that's the case his SSA Shehu Garba shouldn't have bother sending Bubu commiseration message to the victims' families. They should rejoice that it's one way ticket to paradise.

Exactly

aleem50:
So what are you insinuating? You are still a learner,neither won't I argue with you nor abuse you. Just post the link of where he said he is Igbo. Igbos are just senseless haba, chibuike kor chinanya ni. When you guys have seen that you have been segregated,the next thing for you people is to claim noble sons and daughters of SS. Igbos are hypocrites,you can never produce President in this country, the ministerial slot to SE states should just be like minister of drug affairs,minister of pircacy,minister of baby factory,that will be okay for them. Had it not been for federal character,even one minister igbos are not worth it.

But do you realise that an average Igbo man doesn't wait for government to change his life

Candyrain:
Questions upon questions and the list is endless brother but if you ask me, na who I go ask? Well let's hope Bubu and his sophisticated supporters/followers can give us answers to these questions.

Another question is why has Bubu taken time to commiserate with the families of the hajj victims but never deem it fit to do same to the families of boko haram and fulani herdsmen's victims? I've just been wondering.

Don't you know that the average Muslim prays to die in hajj or Mecca ...its is their one way ticket to heaven

So there is nothing to commiserate ..in their own understanding they are matyrs

QuotaSystem:
Thank you. Mind you, you must compete for the privilege and power to allocate favourable quotas to yourself.

Politics is the ultimate competition and guess who is winning .

I hate talking about politics ....because the north and south west have been in politics but their region has nothing to show for it


So let's talk about human capacity

aleem50:
more than that man.

Noted but people term kwarra as fula because it is ruled by fulani

That's the issue

darfay:
~ the opening link has no correlation to this

~were u not the wan who opened that thread on Facebook?

~were u not the wan who asked the questio on Facebook also

~were not the wan who opened this dumb thread?

~and wats the aim of this f**** thread

~are u from delta state?

~have u ever bin to any of those communities in ur entire lyf? Asides from decieding who is igbo from ur fathers farm. Wat else do u do with ur lyf?


~how many ukwaanies corrobrate with this ur stories?

And u dare speak of knowledgeablility, I would have tried schooling u but spending even a second on you is a waste of tym no thanks to ur incorrigibility


**officially unfollows this stupid thread**

Bye bye ..adieu
You have no meaningful post

Chino11 what is happening to our nwanna ...the one we call ngige and what about okwadike aka ezeife


Oh I miss okadigbo ..such a fine anambra politician

ajepako:
You forgot to add : Sahara Reporter, The Nation and Leadership Newspaper

They have all gone deaf, dumb and blind unlike when the wailed the loudest under GEJ..

You will not see them report this


Bunch of journalism

aleem50:
though emir is the king in Ilorin due to afonja stupidity but other towns in kwara has Obas,towns such as omu aran,offa,iwere ile e.t.c stupidity. But just go there and see things for yourself Ilorin is purely yoruba but tho rule by fulani emirate as the traditional title there and Yoruba language is the first language,you can't see anywhere in Ilorin where fulfude(fulani language is being spoken) Even fulani minority in Ilorin speaks yoruba fluently. Furthermore you guys will just kill yourselves on top yoruba matter,Bukola saraki is yoruba a man,younger brother of gbemisola, senior brother of Laolu and husband of toyin and son to the late pa olushola and all his children bears yoruba names . Abi all those names I listed for you aint yoruba names? And by the way the chieftancy title EMIR is fo fulanis infact all hausas states where they have Emir as the title were also hijacked by fulani jihadist(uthman dan fodio). Borno for instance doesn't has Emir has the title there because it wasn't conquer,the title there is El kanemi. And Moreover,who told you delta isn't under any person,abi igbo is also the governor there#lol. Igbos are number ten citizen,you people are no longer in the 3 majority tribes any longer,u will soon be replaced with IJaw.

Bros your totally correct....but that Emirates thing is most disturbing ...but kwarra is 70% Yoruba that's a fact

QuotaSystem:
If those are the triggers for 'ibophobia' then it means Ibos are the most ibophobic beings on earth and it explains why they hate themselves...



In trade, commerce and wealth, Dangote is supreme. In education and industry, the SW is supreme. In politics and agriculture, the North is supreme.



You mean like the inability of the entire Ibo race to see the utter foolishness in putting all their eggs in one basket and voting based on religion and ethnicity without having a back up plan if their plan backfires, which has now made them completely politically irrelevant, immaterial, inconsequential and expendable.

That is boxed thinking 101.



Another Ibo trait. The fact that ibos refer to an elected and exalted Vice President of Nigeria as a mere commissioner underlines the deep seated inferiority complex, jealousy, hate and bile that characterize the Ibo.

Ibos are clearly the most Ibophobic people going by your submission, no wonder you hate yourselves (Osu caste system, Anambra superiority complex, Ojukwus rejection at the the polls etc)

Even your name says it all

Qouta system

So why argue with quota minded person instead of competition minded person


So your right afterall


Next......

elookoo:
Read more of history kid and stop listening to beer parlor gists. It was your igbo Nzeogu and his fellow igbo brothers that for selfish and greedy reasons that truncated the first Republic, a republic that saw growth and healthy rivalry among the regions.
The yorubas have always been advocates of regionalism, self determination, federalism. That have always been the Yoruba view until nzeogu. After Nzeogu came igbo aguyi ironsi who made Nigeria a unitary state that gave rise to the current arrangement
The yorubas are already integrating their region economically and socially

Is that so ?

doxime:
What exactly do the yorubas want?
you go to Abuja every month to collect allocation sourced from other peoples region.
your people are all over the niger delta region working and doing business with the oil companies and nobody is calling them immigrants or whatever.
you hear of Biafra and you go into delirium and start preaching one Nigeria.
and you call people who are legally living in their own country immigrants and visitors.
I do recall in the early 90s after seat of government was moved to Abuja,how yorubas were worried that Lagos is going to be abandoned and become ordinary like any other SW town but were assured that it's going to remain as the countries economic capital.it took the effort of Nigerians from different ethnic nationalities and diverse backgrounds to make Lagos what it is today but alas they want others to vacate the city for them but one thing is sure,so long as this contraption called Nigerian continues to exist,that won't happen.

I just don't get it

One mouth they want regionalism and one country
The other mouth they say go back to your country
The next mouth will say we don't want you to have Biafra

Its so confusing to decipher what these folks really want I must say

IROHINOodua:
Posted by Irohin Odua.

I wrote this article last Friday, September 18, for another purpose. That was three days before Chief Olu Falae was attacked and kidnapped on his farm by persons suspected by police to be Fulani cattle herders. Written before the unthinkable outrage against Chief Falae, this article proves surprisingly prophetic.

The country named Yugoslavia in southeastern Europe broke up in 1990. While it existed, it was similar to Nigeria of today in many ways. Like Nigeria, Yugoslavia consisted of many different nationalities – the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Albanians, etc. Britain had thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Nigeria in 1914; Britain and France also thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Yugoslavia in 1918.

Like Nigerian leaders, Yugoslav leaders were never able to manage their inter-ethnic relationships amicably. Like Nigeria therefore, Yugoslavia was always unstable. Under a dictator, Josip Tito, in 1945 to 1980, Yugoslavia’s ethnic hostilities were forcibly kept under control. But after Tito died in 1980, the instability returned in full force.

Most of Yugoslavia’s ethnic leaders did try to save the country. Throughout the 1980s, they held national conferences to find a settlement. But the Serbs (the largest of the nationalities) foiled all the attempts – because the Serbs would not accept any agreement that did not guarantee their dominance. The country slipped on – until it exploded in 1990.

The final break-up started when some of the nationalities announced secession. The Serbs mobilized a large army and tried to suppress them, but more nationalities announced secession. Yugoslavia descended into a horrendous conflagration.

We must now note the particular experience of one of the nationalities – Bosnia. While the other nationalities had attended to their own homelands in the 1980s, the Bosnian nation had been very careless about its own homeland and its future – just as the Yoruba are today in Nigeria. Like Yorubaland in Nigeria, Bosnia had attracted many immigrants from the other nationalities of Yugoslavia, as traders, job seekers, and settlers. The leaders of the Bosnian people had paid no attention to that development. Just as the Yoruba are doing today, the Bosnians had let the immigrants do as they wished. Bosnian politicians gave all their attention to Yugoslavian politics and did nothing as troubles openly brewed in their own homeland – exactly as Yoruba leaders are doing now in Nigeria.

When the Yugoslav conflagration finally came in 1990, and Bosnia announced secession like the other nationalities, the Bosnians immediately found themselves in hell – real hell. Some of the immigrant groups claimed parts of Bosnia as theirs, and tried to create small countries of their own in such places; and armed groups came from their homelands to help them. Serbian armies also came to suppress Bosnia’s secession. In the confusion, Bosnian people were killed in their tens of thousands, and their women were raped and killed. Bosnian towns and cities were devastated. This horror continued until NATO and the United States mercifully intervened, stopped the carnage and destruction, and helped Bosnians to have their country.

Yes, the Bosnians did get their country. In addition, many of the persons who had brutalized them during the secession confusions were later arrested by international authorities, hauled before the International Court of Justice, tried, and harshly penalized. But the Bosnians are still living with the scars and the painful memories of their horrific suffering, and they will live with such forever. Had Bosnian leaders been more dutiful to their nation instead of expending all their energy in partisan political wrangling in the 1980s, Bosnians would never have suffered as horribly as this.

The lesson here is clear. When different nationalities, each living in its own homeland, different in culture and religion, are forced together into one country, dark forces of rivalry, envy, fear, ill-will, hatred and domination can sometimes be generated in the hearts of some of the nationalities against others. That is what happened in Yugoslavia. It has happened in many Black African countries too. It is the duty of the leaders of each nationality to ensure that their people are not left unprotected.

Signs of these dark forces are manifest in Nigeria. Sure, Nigeria enjoys some fragile peace. Many Nigerians desire that Nigeria should become a harmonious and peaceful country and thereby exist for long as one country. However, for that to happen, Nigeria would need to be structured into a proper and well-ordered federation – with all of today’s over-centralization eliminated.

Much will also depend on how much Nigerian nationalities respect one another. Those who migrate to other peoples’ homelands and choose to be disrespectful of their hosts, and to indulge in aggressive and unruly claims and behavior against their hosts, and those who seek to dominate others, must know that they are essentially making Nigeria impossible to keep together.

Also, very importantly, each Nigerian nationality owes the duty of making inter-ethnic relationships in its own homeland orderly and healthy. Nearly all Nigerians relocating from their homelands today are heading to Yorubaland and, already, the coming of many of them is disorderly and unhealthy. Yoruba leaders need therefore to remember the experiences of the Bosnians. Like the Bosnian leaders, today’s Yoruba leaders may be preparing the grounds for the suffering of Yoruba people too. These Yoruba leaders may also be unknowingly strengthening the forces that can break up Nigeria – since it is impossible that the masses of common Yoruba people will forever tolerate being insulted and trampled underfoot, no matter how much Yoruba leaders may be committed to Nigeria.

Hospitality to strangers is a well-established icon of Yoruba culture. Moreover, welcoming people from other lands is something that can add greatly to prosperity in Yorubaland over time. However, the large-scale immigration into Yorubaland today creates many serious problems – problems that Yoruba people, Yoruba leaders, and especially Yoruba governors and legislatures, need to find answers to. Yoruba leaders should establish some modicum of unity in their own ranks, at least for the purpose of facing these serious problems together. The six governors of the Yoruba South-west, and the six legislatures, should establish ways to put heads together to find and implement answers to these problems.

The problems are many and complex, but they as soluble. The leading problem is that Yorubaland is not generating enough economic development, and enough jobs, for its burgeoning population. Among the Yoruba people themselves, in spite of their solid education, enough businesses are not being created – because the governments are not developing their people. As a result, most educated Yoruba youths are unemployed, and most of the immigrants are unemployed too. Huge numbers of the immigrants struggling for survival, as well as many of the Yoruba youths, take to petty peddling on the streets, which is a classic example of “under-employment”. In their frenetic hurrying around, they make the main streets of most Yoruba cities look like trash-dumps churned by whirlwinds.

The state governments must arise to this situation. Obviously, what the governments need to do is to create programmes of human development – improved basic education, job-skill development, entrepreneurial development, small business promotion, modern farm programmes, and well-managed micro-credit systems, for all (indigenes and immigrants alike). The objective must be to achieve the purpose of the old Yoruba adage – “that the owners of the home and the strangers in the home may all have plenty to eat”. That “plenty” must also include housing space – meaning that public authorities must aggressively build housing estates.

Another problem is the serious shortage of shopping centres in Yoruba towns. The old marketplaces are still there, but more shopping centres and malls are urgently needed. Also needed are proper licensing of traders and stores, introduction of sales tax, and prohibition of street peddling in designated residential zones of every city. Laws should also be made to prohibit the existence of exclusive “tribal” marketplaces or shopping centres, and to make all marketplaces and shopping centres the common property of the community, equally open to all. Provisions also need to be made for the proper observance of law in the commercial life of Yorubaland, as well as laws for the prohibition of ethnic-based, or other, monopolies or cartels.

Yet another problem is that, though Nigeria’s laws vest the management of the land of every state in the state government, Yoruba states have evolved no land policies and no land transfer systems. Therefore, land acquisition and land transfer are occurring on a massively chaotic scale – obviously threatening indigenes and immigrants alike (and the whole society) with mightily confused land problems. These need to be corrected.

Yet another serious problem is that, in many rural areas, migrant Fulani cattle herders from across the Niger, pushed south by drought, and by attacks by cattle rustlers, are increasingly clashing with Yoruba farmers on their farms, and becoming more dangerously armed and more aggressive – resulting in serious harm to farmers and cattle herders alike. Yoruba leaders and governments must find sensible and sustainable answers to this situation.

There are more problems, but we will stop here. Altogether, the impression must be eliminated that the Yoruba homeland is a “no-man’s-land”, a land without rules or order or leadership, where people from other parts of Nigeria can do as they wish. The core need is that Yoruba leaders and state governments must urgently rise up to their duties of ensuring orderly progress in their homeland.

By Professor Banji Akintoye

You see the kind of prof this man is ....he refused to list the causative factors


I will just list few

Unlike Bosnia Lagos was made the capital with so many infrastructure centred in Lagos and it is bound to attract visitors

Lagos was developed with oil money from the visitors land

Lagos had a functional seaport tactically killing other region port development unlike Bosnia that have many access to the Caspian sea routes did I mention black sea

Now unlike Bosnia that are whites we are Africans and we do enjoy killing


The visitors wanted out since 1967 but unlike Bosnia they fought for one country so this is it



Next time our prof should embark in a research before publishing an article



So much for Nigeria education

Balkan:
does the name Lagos sound like: Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, or Ogun . Lagos is a Biafra Territory. An occupied territory

Let's assume it's a Yoruba state but Lagos is more of Yoruba than egun

aleem50:
Because he bears Amaechi he is now an igbo man?,so you people want to claim rivers state now?. Well,he also bears a Yoruba name Rotimi(stay with me English)lol. I swear igbos are the most stupid people to ever liveth.

I keep asking why do Yoruba like to act this way

Somebody that bears rotimi chibuike amaechi is not an Igbo yet he goes to aba to say he is Igbo


Maybe me that is bearing Tony Christopher obinna umunnah is a British not an Igbo


Just listen to how foolish you sound



Oh you don't know that port Harcourt real name is igweocha ocha it is a Spanish name


Monkey

MarshRiley:
President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria for the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 24, Thursday.

The president was accompanied only by 21 delegates, according to a Sahara Reporters source.

Buhari’s team is far more than small if to compare with the delegations for previous years for the yearly event.

According to the list Nigerian leader will be accompanied by the governors of Kaduna, Niger and Cross River states. Also on his entourage are former governors Rotimi Amaechi and Kayode Fayemi, senator from Katsina, Hadi Sirika and a former member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri, are also in the delegation.

Others on the board to New York comprise General Monguno (Rtd), the National Security Adviser; Femi Adesina, the presidential special adviser; Sarkin Abba Kalu, special adviser household matters; Lawal Kazuare (State Chief of Protocol), Nura Rimi, presidential liaison officer; Lt. Col M. L Abubakar (Aide de Camp); Bashir Abubakar, Chief Security Officer; Sabi’u Yusuf (personal assistant); ACP Abdukarim Dauda, Dr. Suhayb Sanusi Rafindadi, Chief Personal Physician; and Ya’u Abdulahi, Chief Detail.

The immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan in 2013 was accompanied by over 600 people to New York.

However, the presidency scrambled a denial, saying those who traveled officially with the president were less than 30.

For his first visit to the General Assembly as elected president, Buhari reportedly received meeting requests from about 21 world leaders, but he will only be able to meet some of them.

Buhari is expected to return to Nigeria on October 1.

https://www.naij.com/562776-full-list-whos-president-buharis-22-man-entourage-new-york.html

Monkey is amechi a Spanish name

But wait a minute where is ngige ?
Lol

The basic reason for Igbophobia is inability to compete under a fair playing group ....

The inability to think out of the box is another cause for the Igbophobia

Finally jealousy envy hate and bile is another cause

Balkan:
cabinet my foot. Igbos have decided not be part of your cabinet. It was igbo people that made fashola succeed. We are going in for Elective positions not cabinet member that can be removed any minute.

We have come to stay. Lagos is not a Yoruba territory. It's an occupied territory.

The agenda is working

Yes you are right but to be honest Lagos is a Yoruba land

aleem50:
As you fools always say kwara state(Ilorin particular) is not a yoruba state and how some sick people in that your number 10 citizen tribe do say Lagos is not SW#lol. Emefiele is not igboman. Quote me anywhere.

Kwarra is different. .kwarra is been ruled by the fulani and its an emirate
But unlike delta Igbo that isn't under any man

The politics of kwara is under saraki and gamabri and these are not Yoruba surnames

So there is a clear difference guy

wytecat:
You should stay off threads like this, as the the only thing you have succeeded doing is emboldened Ibos to think that their tactics of bullying you to say what they want are working. Caving in under the barrage of Ibos insults has just gone to show you as the coward here.

There's no evidence whatsoever linking fulani with this abduction, only for those who can think though! The old man is known to play dirty politics of late, and as an AFENIFERE, he has no integrity left to be honest.

Wait for fulani to do what Ibos are doing to us and call us asslickers then if we don't give them as much, and until then, stop showing your spaghetti spine to the world.

We can be playing into Ibos hands. DAMN IF WE DO, DAMN IF WE DON'T! So, it's better to do the ones which infuriate them.

Fulani servitude at its finest. You have proved that notion cat

wytecat:
You can get yourself launched to another planet just to get enough time to think about us undisturbed!

You can see the work devil has given you to do, worry about your enemies!

I have noticed you.OK run along ...cat

MusaIbrahim1:
ok... oga is in usa.... when he comes back, we will tell him...

Baba and his gworo are in USA ..but I thought they said boko haram has been surrendering

Did we get to hear this on news. I will tune CNN and BBC for update .forget nta forget tvc forget channels TV what I don't understand is why don't these station show this

Kagawa10:
Yeye man!
If Ukwuani is ibo, you shouldn't find it difficult to understand the sentences here: www.nairaland.com/2406514/ukwuani-people-nairaland.
Go and ask your imaginary wife!
Yeye!

Ewu pls tell the world the meaning of UKWUANI

Anu ofia

abdulkayus:
Am a Yoruba guy bt the way Yorubas on this thread are really trying to absolve the fulanis of the perpetrated crime is really annoying and disgusting. It is ppl like them that make other southerners to be calling Yorubas cowards and slave. Habaaa, this buttlicking is too much.
Am so sure of it were the Igbos that was accuse of the kidnapping, some of these guys would have been everywhere abusing and castigating the igbos without even waiting for proper investigation.
This ass licking need to stop.
The same fulanis have been known of high profile armed robbery along zaria road amd other atrocities. So u guys should stop thinking that they can do this kidnapping of Olu Falae. It is very very possible.

I keep wondering how Yoruba's ended up like this. ..why can't they just stand once and be counted as men

naijaking1:
In a country where Hausa Fulani people masterminded genocide of millions of Igbos, on the weak excuse that Igbo boys executed a coup, why can't you join us in asking Buhari and his Fulani brothers, kit and kin to stop killing and tormenting peaceful law abbdiding Nigerians

E don do Nigerian for eyes make them no carry their madness enter east

OdenigboAroli:
Sometimes you have to give up some things...You can go the Owerri way. Anambra don't take halfs....it's either you speak Owerri and claim that or...

My dear I totally understand what you are saying but it is even unfortunate that u don't know that we anambra people do not speak the same ...we have different dialects


Some sound like IMO eg those from ihiala axis some sound okigwe eg those from uga , amichi and orsumenyi side while some sound aro like those from ajalli and oko axis

Which one come be your own sweet anambra

Bros rest let anyone speak any type of Igbo ..we anambra people seff ana aguko

Kedu ife na eme anyi ...ana ede anambra na iru? Di anyi rapu okwu

MrsPhyno:
I have
I think my favourite verse is Ice Princes tho that may be because I can understand what he's saying......

The chorus that Illbliss keeps repeating over and over.... The meaning ?

Such an Igbo boy song about container landing and bank alerts lol. Like MI's Bullion Van.

I'll bliss killed the jamz

OdenigboAroli:
So,what is your point ? I hope you are not trying to say all Igbo has the same origin. Just because part Ebonyi used to be in old Anambra doesn't mean an Obosi and Afikpo are kins. We are all Igbo yet distinct in our ways. And I think it should be left like that. Our sweet Anambra dialect is dying out because of Igbo Izugbe. Today you hear Anambra people answering Chinecherem instead of Chinelo or Chinechelum,Ebere instead of Ebele,Amara instead of Amala. Anambra tongue flows easily and very sweet but our people careless. One day my chic said "chere" instead of chelu and I just looked at her with so much fury. I hate Igbo Izugbe to my bone marrow and it irritates me when Anambra person speaks it or write in it. Infact, I look down on any Anambrarian that uses that version. We need to be the way God made us....I.e keeping the things that make us stand out! I don't care about stereotypes because I have lived with ENUGU and Imo people and have heard it all....from money ritualists aka ogwuego,illiterate traders aka ndi Omata, and our L factor. They say we can't pronounce R. At a point I stopped using R just to give them something to talk about....Emelu enu emelu ana nwa Omanbala ka m' bu lukwaa echi. I don't need to brag but when you encounter me in real life you will certainly feel that superior nobility ingrained in the Omanbala man/woman. Onye wee iwe nnie!

What about us that was born in IMO but from anambra... Which lect do we use