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NaijaRoyalty:
Let No igbo man or woman participate in this protest.

The cowards would take to there heels should the situation go south and tag it an igbo protest.

It has happened before .

Maxymilliano:
The only approved protests by the Buhari led government are protest against groups such as Amnesty International and any other groups calling for transparency and accountability.

Such approved protest don't require police permit as it enjoys tacit endorsement of the government.

The modus operandi is to heckle and attack any groups or persons that dare question the activities of the government, with active connivance of security agencies.

donbachi:
Ipobians will insult the "SAN" out of ur name,today.

tutudesz:
Well you can go through my post and bring out where and when I claimed to be yoruba You are free to call us what ever name suit you whether Niger Deltans South South Fulani Yoruba, but one name that we will never accept is Biafrans Stop using that fake Photoshop picture

MinorityOpinion:
While their elders are begging for mercy to be president, their ignorant kids are causing mayhem on social media, abusing people left and right when una go get sense?

Gjrich:
Founder, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Secretary, Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, has berated Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari for ‘abandoning’ the country to go to Mali in search of peace when his own country is beset by worse crisis.

Uko who registered his displeasure with Buhari’s handling of ongoing killings in Southern Kaduna and other parts of the country in a statement on Saturday, regretted that the president has failed to show leadership while the country dances on the brink.

“Mr President just returned from Mali, where he went to broker peace over political differences in that country.

“For five straight days in Kajuri and other local government councils in southern Kaduna, innocent men, women and children are daily slaughtered while they sleep, by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. Gory photos of their badly mutilated corpses are currently awash online,” he said.

“Katsina and other North west states are boiling, whole communities sacked by armed gangs, as the hapless residents run into the bushes.

“The North east remains Boko haram territory, as military formations are not spared by the bloodthirsty vermin. They kill our soldiers weekly, even as the morale of our soldiers remains low, over the performance of the non performing over-stayed service chiefs.

Few days ago, 5 aide workers were gruesomely murdered in a horrific video trending online.

“Okene -Lokoja road has become kidnappers haven. The horror of Lagos to Abuja travellers. Ajaokuta-Lokoja axis has also become impassable. Kidnappers shoot, abduct, rape and slaughter Nigerians unchallenged.

“Illegal mining of solid minerals thrive in the North, mostly run by Chinese Mafia. Every body looks the other way. Our country is drifting.

“All over the country, armed robbers and kidnappers hold sway from the Niger Delta, through the South east, down to the South west. Nigerians cannot sleep with both eyes closed.

“But our President found time to visit Mali, to settle political disagreement amongst top Malian politicians. For how long would traumatised Nigerians watch in consternation?” he wondered.

Uko who is also Deputy Secretary, Igbo Leaders of Thought ILT, noted that corruption under the present government has reached unprecedented levels, as officials revel in mindless stealing of public funds while the masses wallow in poverty.

“The politicos have been entertaining and shocking citizens this penultimate week. Reeling from the ruling party’s leadership battle, EFCC, and NDDC drama exposed the rot in the system, in a bizarre and embarrassing manner,” he said.

“Citizens are shocked at the mindless looting and daylight robbery going on under the watch of Mr Integrity. Only God knows what mindboggling discovery, searchlight on NNPC, FIRS or CBN will unearth. We can be sure that very many actors will collapse and pass out during questioning. Nigeria cannot work this way.

“Weddings and all sorts of celebrations by the children of top Government officials in this season of hardship, sorrow and despair, reek of offensive opulence and mindless display of unearned easy money. This provocative display of excess cash runs contrary to the promises General Buhari reeled out as he ran his campaign five and half years ago. Did we enter one chance vehicle?

“For how long do we stand aside and look? Our leaders have ran out of ideas. The economy is certainly heading towards a recession. The dollar, today exchanges at an all time high. Unemployment keeps rising, poverty keeps increasing, our politicians are busy shouting it’s OK, it’s OK, off the mic. For how long? Silence of the lambs.

“Juxtaposing the current pitiable condition of the citizens with the grand promises flown five and half years ago, is simply heart rending. Insecurity, poverty, hunger and hardship rule the land. It is clear the ruling party is overwhelmed. The opposition party also seems confused. Silence in the land, suggests folks may have given up on Nigeria. Our country can’t grow this way.

“Painful, our image terribly battered abroad. Our young men die daily in the deserts of North Africa as they struggle to migrate to better climes by road. Theirs organs harvested and sold. So many of them in foreign jails even as many more dream of travelling out to escape the unfriendly environment.

“There are well over a hundred thousand trapped Nigerian young females hawking their bodies as prostitutes all over the world and another hundred thousand held as sex slaves, in Arab countries, their government is not bothered one bit.

“The lifestyle of politicians encourages sleaze. Nobody batts an eyelid. Unique Nigeria, where over 90% of the Abuja billionaires don’t have any source of livelihood to backup their stupendous wealth. Except being close to the corridors of power, either as a government official, ex official or influence peddler. For how long would we live this way? For how long?

“Everybody knows the 1999 constitution and the unitary structure practiced today encourages a lot of bad behaviour from our political leaders. What are we waiting for to reconstruct the structure of the country and move Nigeria forward? The unitary structure can no longer carry the edifice. Nigeria is at cross roads, only the truth can save Nigeria now.

“For how much longer, do we have to continue the self deception and false hope?Our country isn’t working and will never work this way. What are we waiting for?

“Delay in restructuring Nigeria is a great disservice to the fatherland. Which is why I plead with Nigerians from every region, to identify with and support the recent call by the Yoruba summit group for all, to join hands and drive the early restructuring of Nigeria in order to save Nigeria. Time is running out.”

IspitonCowards:
The Niger Delta should be a model region in Nigeria now,. With all the resources at their disposal the masses are yet to feel any meaningful difference

SmartProf:
Its very easy to speak English and become a Motivational speaker from a place of comfort. Nigerians don't need speeches but a proper country, where opportunities abound to succeed.

Deputy1111:
Do you think the pandemic is fighting only Nigeria as a country?? We are in a situation where Giant countries in the world are crying for help. I believe the government is trying everything possible to make the country stand again.

Fash20:
We shall achieve it. God willing

IvarTheBoneless:
Your entire generations past, present and future COMBINED can't measure up to Awolowo's excreta.

That's the bitter truth.

If he as a civilian didn't run away dealt with your coward general to the extent he left 3 million foolish people to be suyalized, how can Awo be the coward ?

I really feel for someone this brainless. Very pathetic.

ThatFairGuy1:
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Children of hate, perdition at it again. THEY MUST SHOW THEIR ANCESTRAL MADNESS

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Too bad
She died of childbirth complications in the US

Una hear am....all these people that are fast to lambaste Nigeria assuming say na Nigeria he for happen


Overrated Moda fuckkking America

nemynely:
My best hobby is thinking and this has led me to discover a lot of things on my own eg better ways of getting a task done easier and faster, whether at the office or at home. Through thinking, I am able to improvise when the appropriate is not available. Through retrospective analysis, I am able to better my present and by extension, the future.

It is this same thinking, which I did in 2009, that made me come to the frank and fearful realization that Nigeria is a damaged product. What led to that conclusion is story for another day. Only yesterday, I stumbled upon one of the letters of the late Sage, Pa Obafemi Awolowo (God bless his soul), who in 1986 penned down a fearful foreboding concerning this nation. It embodies all the trappings that led to my own sad conclusion of 2009.

Here's the letter.

To that request, Awolowo wrote the following:
“Dear Sir,
“I received your letter of February 28, 1986, and sincerely thank you for doing me the honour of inviting me to contribute to the National Political Debate.

“The purpose of the debate is to clarify our thoughts in our search for a new social order.

“It is therefore meet and proper that all those who have something to contribute should do so.

“I do fervently and will continue fervently to pray that I may be proved wrong.

“For something within me tells me, loud and clear, that we have embarked on a fruitless search.

“At the end of the day, when we imagine that the new order is here, we would be terribly disappointed.

“In other words, at the threshold of our New Social Order, we would see for ourselves that, as long as Nigerians remain what they are, nothing clean, principled, ethical, and idealistic can work with them.

“And Nigerians will remain what they are, unless the evils which now dominate their hearts, at all levels and in all sectors of our political, business and governmental activities are exorcised.

“But I venture to assert that they will not be exorcised, and indeed they will be firmly entrenched, unless God Himself imbues a vast majority of us with a revolutionary change of attitude to life and politics or, unless the dialetic processes which have been at work for some twenty years now, perforce, make us perceive the abominable filth that abounds in our society, to the end that an inexorable abhorrence of it will be quickened in our hearts and impel us to make drastic changes for the better.

“There is, of course, an alternative option open to us.
“To succumb to permanent social instability and chaos.
“In the premises, I beg to decline your invitation.
“I am yours truly, Obafemi Awolowo”

Here's the link to acknowledge the original source - http://saharareporters.com/2020/08/01/can-nigeria-ever-be-redeemed-and-made-great-without-right-revolution-olanrewaju-osho

So what are your thoughts? Please let's rub minds here.

EsomahJD:
Prof Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba World Congress, the umbrella body of over 300 Yoruba groups worldwide, has said the Nigerian environment has been consistently harsh to the Yoruba people who dominate the South-West part of the country.

The elder statesman lamented that though his association is committed to peaceful activities, and peaceful purposes, the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has already begun to take action against it by removing the Yoruba World Congress from the list of state-registered organisations.

He also hinted that security forces are preparing to clamp down on members of his organisation whose aims are to promote and achieve the growth, prosperity, and sustenance of the Yoruba people and culture.

Akintoye spoke on Saturday on the occasion of this year’s General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation which was held virtually due to travel restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Founded in 1991, the UNPO is an international membership-based organisation established to empower the voices of unrepresented and marginalised peoples worldwide and to protect their fundamental human rights.

At the General Assembly on Saturday, the Yoruba World Congress was inducted as a member of the UNPO alongside four others including the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra represented by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

“From 1962 to 1972, under a limited self-government arrangement and federal constitution which the British granted to Nigeria, the Yoruba Nation proceeded to make mostly the Western region of Nigeria, the pacesetter in Nigeria, and even in Africa, in virtually all aspects of development and modernisation.

“But the Nigerian environment has consistently been hazardous to the Yoruba Nation. From the beginning, the British colonial rulers feared the considerably educated and professionally sophisticated Yoruba and proceeded to do everything to limit their influence in Nigeria. From the British, the tradition passed on to the non-Yoruba people of Nigeria that the Yoruba Nation needed to be stopped and to stop the Yoruba Nation became the constant purpose of Nigeria,” Akintoye told the Assembly.

He narrated, “At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, the British manipulated everything to impose the Hausa people and the Northern people of Nigeria and to have dominance over other arms and to exclude the Yoruba group from governance[/b].

“All the military coups from 1966 July to 1999 were led by military dictators from Northern Nigeria. This was so because the northern political elites whom the British had manipulated into political dominance over Nigeria at independence had used their control of federal powers to ensure the enrolment of Northern officers into military ranks.

“Inevitably, the Yoruba Nation was sucked into this deepening disaster. The military dictatorship seized important Yoruba assets that have been created in 1959. Most such assets were then poorly managed and or deliberately allowed to decline or even perished.

“Deepening poverty became the lot of the Yoruba Nation in Nigeria. Also, Yoruba leadership increasing fell for most of the mess like corruption characteristics of most public offices in Nigeria.

“In these circumstances, Yoruba people have progressively lost the enterprising spirit and the spirit of service to the society of which their nation has been known throughout history. The quality of their education has been destroyed. Yoruba language has declined and now faces the threat of extinction.

“Yoruba cocoa exports have dwindled almost to zero with the economy depressed, unemployment escalated recklessly among the Yoruba youths, forcing many to go into crimes, drug abuse, criminal cults and forcing many more to flee to other countries in the world. Yoruba youths are regularly many among western youths, who in desperation to reach Europe through the Saharan desert and the Mediterranean Sea, frequently die in the desert and drown in the sea.

“The Yoruba people are experiencing a degree of poverty, of loss of morale, of hopelessness, and of disorientation unknown in their history in spite of their much known cultural unity and in spite of their many exalted principles, the Yorubas always constantly disunited among ethnic groups in Nigeria.”

Akintoye told the Assembly of the insecurity such as kidnapping, banditry, farmer-herder clashes and many more that have pervaded the region.

He added, “Heavily armed Hausa and Fulani militiamen have been coming to Nigeria, rampaging and destroying villages and farms, killing rural dwellers and threatening to conquer the Yoruba Nation and to seize lands all over Yoruba land, even to banish the Yoruba Nation from their hometown and to bring Fulani folks from other countries of West Africa to seize and possess lands in Yorubaland.

“Countless Yoruba patriots and civil organisations and the patriots and organisations of other Nigerian people have greatly agitated for decades for a return to a truly federal existence but the people who control the central government have stubbornly employed the federal government powers to prevent such restructuring.

“Most of Yoruba people have now given up on the agitation for restructuring and have moved to the position that the Nigerian situation be sorted out through peaceful and friendly negotiations which will enable the Yoruba Nation and other nations that so choose to retrieve their self-determination and to pursue their own economic, political and cultural stabilisation, progress and prosperity


“The Yoruba World Congress which I have the honour to lead and which consists of thousands of Yorubas at home and in the Yoruba diasporan communities of the world has stepped forward to motivate the Yoruba people to defend their homeland and to prepare themselves for the accomplishment of their nation’s ultimate goal of self-determination and prosperity.

“Though our Yoruba Congress is less than one year old and even though we are known to be faithful and committed to peaceful activities, and peaceful purposes, the Nigerian government has already begun to take action against us. This past week, the Nigerian director of state security announced that all organisations like ours have been removed from the list of state-registered organisations and that the security forces are preparing to clamp down on members of such organisation.



https://punchng.com/nigeria-unsafe-for-yoruba-banji-akintoye/?amp=1

LabuleofNigeria:
IBGOs (Igbos) can never become president and will never produce a President.

A tribe that has not iota of [b]UNITY.
A tribe that lacks the spirit of follower-ship and leadership.
A tribe that cannot unanimously stand for one thing and speak with one voice.
A tribe that has no love and is only driven by lust for monetized entities.

Even when their biggest icon (Odimegwu Ojukwu) contested for presidency, 85% igbos frowned and voted him out
Even 70% Igbos (Igbos) still condemned their beloved diehard son (Nnamdi Cownu).
Ohhh...How sweet would it have been if Igbos could be given their long awaited freedom (Biafra)....
I would love to watch documentaries of how the Animal-tibe will lynch theirselves into extintion because of leadership.

We Yorubas and Hausas has that awesome spirit of one voice and leadership,
Dear Igbos, do not forget that for Unity and leadership to thrive, there must be followership.

Fake tribe

pafra:
Guys it's easy to criticis the government. Critically let's look at the situation of Nigeria.

Nigeria is a mono economy that depends on oil. The price have been down since the government came in it means, the amount realize from sells of oil can not finance our budget.

Please as Nigeria that want to see the country better let's list other forms of financing the budget outside borrowing.

Forget hate and let's talk about the nation

BluntTheApostle:
Bro, you don't have any point.

Call for the scrapping of the NNPC is not new. As a matter of fact, no one cares if it is scrapped or not, provided a better, more robust option is considered. Even the NYSC has not escaped calls for scrapping.

So, I don't see how calling for the scrapping of NDDC is such a big deal.

A huge amount of money has been revealed to have been stolen. Should this amount fall into the hands of the Japanese or Chinese government, we know how judiciously it would be used, but in Nigeria, this money has been squandered. This is a country where close to half of its population of approximately 200 million people live in abject poverty.

And yet you want to come and defend a reckless statement made by someone who made billions from being just a "freedom fighter".

TruthinAction:
I don't know why people can't read between lines. Asari Dokubo is not justifying the looting in NDDC but he is saying that there are far bigger looting going in other sectors which they deliberately turn blind eye on. If they are truly fighting corruption, search light should also be thrown on these other sectors such as NNPC, CBN and The Nigeria Customs. You will be amazed at the money being looted in these sectors.

omenka:
There goes the orientation of the average Nigerian- my thief is holier than your thief.

Since the Northerners are stealing, the end result of which is poverty and illiteracy, Southerners too must do the same, our poverty level must equalize!!

At some point, perhaps one should even stop blaming these so called leaders whose conducts make them no less dark hearted than the Devil himself, but blame it all on the led whose conducts make them no less foolish than the most illiterate aborigines in Madagascar.

What a shame.

nkwuocha1:
Igbos should stay away from presidency in this cesspit. Jonathan a Southern Southern, is being blamed for all the woes in the country despite ruling for just 4 years since independence.

Even Abacha is already seen as a saint compared to Jonathan.

It's only a stupid Igbo man that will vie for presidency in country where the civil war orchestrated by a 'Delta man' is tagged Igbo coup.Yet, when you add same Delta State to the Biafra flag, it's called land grabbing by low lives and their cronnies.

A stupid Igbo man is the one who thinks he can save a worthless contraption, "a mere geographical expression..."

Best solution for this ugly piece of thrash called called Nigeria is outright dismemberment

Onlinesmart:
60% import báwo? It's 97% bro. You're simply sick. Your region is the poorest in Southern Nigeria which is a glaring fact. You can only lie to non-travellers about your degraded region, not to someone like me that knows your region like the back of his palm.

Your problem in life is bragging. You've forgotten so quickly that it was an act of generosity that made us accept you all back into our lands after the war else hunger would have destroy the leftover of the war. Your region is the backyard of Nigeria. We don't care what happens over there. Face your region make I face mine. Stay back home make I dey my region too. Na by force?

Kdon2:
He is in hell fire! Evil man

Guestlander:
We don't do empty chest beating like some folks from the East.

jrusky:
Which respect? Thunder + Ogun +Amadioha fire Funtua.

Falana do not need appointment he has said it in Obj regime , said it Gej regime and said it clearly in your lifeless buhari regime so mr man face front.

May Funtua rot in hell. Respect the death my a s s.

Minsk24:
That is not the point...The structure of Nigeria Cedes so much power to the Federal Government which is controlled by The North... I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, I'm just asking a question...

360degreess:
.. Am not responsible for your frustration and failure in life.

CandyCandy:
OK. We are all good people/tribe in Nigeria exception of some bad eggs which comes in individual form, not a whole tribe or people.

Please,

Greetings to you all, please I'm doing this at this point because I'm already dying as I can't handle it again strongly believing some help come my way. I'm a widow with 4 children and with aged mother under my care. First, I'm not claiming to be a teacher because teachers seem to be most vulnerable at the moment when I am not. I'm actually a teacher in a private school (I have every proof you may want). If I am lying or doing this to scam, judgment will be upon me. Like I said, I am doing this because it has gone beyond my control at this point. The family is solely taken care of by salaries earned from the teaching practice and that happened last in the month of February. Right now, we are in a very pitiable situation with nothing to call our next meal again. Please help us with any little amount you can. Not like you are owing us anything but please have mercy on us. Consider my situation please. Let's not die of starvation please. I believe God will see us through these challenges. Thank you very much.

30 539 775 83 - First Bank

aremuforlife:
What us the ideology of Iba Gani? Most of us don't know what restructure means, we are new to the term and we believe is something we want. The federal government just gave the the local government and judiciary autonomy, the executive refused it, and nobody raises alarm. Restructure is like the subsidy removal we just witness, everybody want it but we don't want the aftermath.
Most of them attacking Tinubu has not done 10% what he has done. Interests or no interest, we all aim for our interests.

Uchek:
Kudos for evidence- driven and logical arguement.
Tinubu and his ilks have mortgaged Yoruba future for political crumbs from the table of Fulani- Hausa. Sadly majority of them are too myopic to see the definte end result.

duncun:
The same Tinubu that was accused of betraying Abiola?

https://www.omokoshaban.com/2019/06/26/the-interview-bola-tinubu-betrayed-my-dad-kola-abiola-speaks/

The same Tinubu that have become a demi god and the wife calls Lagos youths Lazy?

https://www.informationnigeria.com/2019/09/lagos-youths-are-lazy-they-beg-for-money-remi-tinubu.html

The same man Gani is currently accusing of divisiveness in various institutions even Afenifere. ?

Why not come up with treacherous acts gani had committed amongst his ppl so we can learn better.