₦airaland Forum

CharlotteFlair:
Make I park my keke here...

BTW, is the vegetable in London decomposed properly now?

I need it for compost in my farm.

hmm what i learnt from buhari is "whatever you are desperate to have, be careful you might have it but not enjoy it" - uvaluedSense

Olasco93:
Nigeria is not SUDAN.
They should just have a rethink and channel their strength into their businesses. They don't even look like people that need Independence.
A people that can do the Undo for money and so on. I weep for Emekas and Okafors.
Freedom no be beans.
People wey dem go betray diaself once dem see small change for hand...
Because Baba no dey around, Kanu dey form Jagaban.
Rubbish and futile struggle.

for your mind you make sense

dienlmods:
Plan to make Osinbajo president will fail - A coalition of Arewa Youths said

"Having given power to the Yoruba on a platter of gold in 1999 as a way of compensating them for the June 12 saga, it is quite worrisome and unfortunate that they have lived up to their legendary reputation of backstabbing and betrayal by supporting the divisive calls for restructuring or dismemberment of the nation against the will and desire of the north," the statement said. "We gave the late Chief MKO Abiola the mandate in 1993 but shortly after that, as it is with the Yoruba as a culture, they immediately started circling around Abiola plotting on how to emasculate the north and strip us of every access we had to the politics and economy of this nation. “They had also raised a secret army of their elites to carry out these sinister plans against the north if Abiola eventually became president. It was this army that was unleashed on the nation in the guise of NADECO during the June 12 impasse.

May we remind the Yoruba that without the willingness and magnanimity of the north, there was no way Abiola could have purportedly won that election, and that all the Yoruba have now as assets in the south west, especially Lagos, were given to them by our leaders out of our own usual magnanimity. However, time and time again, the Yoruba have always turned their back on us whenever their support is needed.

https://www.naij.com/1112180-plan-osinbajo-president-fail-arewa-youths-yoruba-leaders.html

utter nonsense and rubbish. see audacity - we "gave"!

CYBERWEAVER:
gud1

lets go there...let us decide or not to stay as nigeria

ChimaAdeoye:
Truth is that the way NorthWest particularly and to some extent northeast are trying to blackmail and hold Nigeria ransom, even the restructuring may be insufficient to stop the unacceptable master - slave relationship in Nigeria

its a fact

it ends

kano 44lg brings zero as far as oil is concern to 23 river state and bayelsa 8 lg and this is not acceptable

restructuring can stop corruption

presenter interrupting her

lets say it as it is... facts southern nigerian gave aids to northern nigeria and it cannot continue

economic restructuring so that every region owns and manage its resources.

socio-cultural restructuring not when a group attacks you in your farm fir their cows to feed on

political restructuring is that equal number of senate and representation from north to south

nigerian unity is negotiable with an IF

she says south south middlebelt southwest south east are calling for restructuring

she says restructuring is economical,socio-cultural and political restructuring

donofdons:
Anyone that seek divine greenlight before doing anything is schizophrenic and mad. How long will it take us to realize that God is dead.
jesus went back to heaven and overthrew God the father and he was equally overthrown by God the holy spirit but being that the father and the son is dead, the holly spirit had no physical body through which he can carry out his will so the angels disobeyed him and supported angel michaels takeover the heavens. But lucifer defeated them all using the fallen angels and minions from hell and he lucifer now seat on the throne as our lord, God and saviour. for ever and ever.

fo.ol that says in his heart there is no God....wawa

follow

finally

after the crisis of 1951-1952, realized that this
country could not be a unitary state and they brought in the
1953 constitution which gave us regional autonomy. If the
colonial masters in their wisdom knew that we could not be a
unitary government and gave us what we had at
independence, we should have respected their wisdom.
You will also recall that after the civil war, the regional
autonomy which our independence conferred on us was
violated by the military government led by the Northern
soldiers. We ended up having this contraption that we are
having now; it has not worked. It will not work, unless there is
proper restructuring of the nation. We should stop pretending.
I believe in all sincerity that if we cannot accommodate every
segment of the federation in one Nigeria, we should call a
constitutional conference to decide how this country can be
restructured so that every area can take care of itself and we
can relate on certain agreed basis.
We have slaughtered ourselves enough. We do not want
another civil war in order to justify the existence of “One
Nigeria”.
May I humbly call on all Nigerians to examine the last
constitutional conference which addressed the issue of
restructuring. Let us not leave it to our youths to tell us when
we can stay together or when we cannot stay together. The
youths in Biafra are crying; the youths in the North are crying;
the Niger Delta youths are crying. The middle belt is not happy
with what is happening to them.
Added to these, the strategies of the herdsmen to penetrate
every nook and corner of Nigeria, is raising some issues for
national discourse. The Federal Government has deliberately
refused to call the herdsmen to order. They have killed many
people and ravaged many communities. None of them has
been arrested. Why? In May 2016, I published two articles and
warned that the activities of the herdsmen was a plot which
would soon cover the whole country. The heavy silence of the
Federal Government tends to support the view that the
herdsmen are on an undisclosed mission which only time
would tell.
The Government must listen to the call for restructuring in
order to have a workable nation.
The military, for partisan reasons, jettisoned the
independence constitution and foisted an unworkable
constitution on Nigeria. Let us be humble and accept that we
made a gross mistake by throwing away our independence
constitution. It is now clear that unless we return to a structure
that guarantees regional autonomy, there will be no peace in
this country. The earlier we returned to regional autonomy the
better for us.
Regional autonomy
I want you to look at the tables I have given you to see that
your postulation that the North, before independence, had
been carrying the burden of the South is a fallacy. The
statistics I have given you here were not compiled by me. They
were compiled by the colonial government in 1809 and 1813.
They show that the North has always been the Southern
burden. Even in this administration, without the resources
from the South, the North cannot make it. This is a gospel
truth. But if the North believes it can go without the South,
what prevents us from restructuring so that the North can be
on its own and the South can be on its own.
Let us call on our government to look seriously at this
unworkable structure called Nigeria. We must not allow our
youths to be slaughtered again defending the indefensible.
This federation as it is, is unworkable.
My dear Professor let us come together as scholars and look
at our country very objectively. You may also want to read
some of my works such as: Nigerian Nationalism & the
Problems of Socio-Political Integration and
Quo Vadis ( Where Are You Going) Nigeria?& Other Essays.

My sincere regards

Prof. B.I.C Ijomah

continued

Besides, the burden of
financing the North seemed to have been resisted and bitterly
criticized by the Southerners. The expenditure of the British
tax payer’s money in financing a colonial territory was a
contradiction of the British colonial policy enunciated sixty
(60) years before by L. Gray which stipulated that “the surest
test for the soundness of measures for improvement of an
uncivilized people is that they should be self-supporting.”
Economic position
This is by L. Gray in The Colonial Policy of the Administration
of Lord Russell, London: Cass and Company Limited, 1853,
page 281″ . Further, the Northern protectorate was not only
land-locked but bounded by territories that fell under the
influence of other European powers. It was, therefore,
inconceivable how the economic position would have
improved without aid from the South.
The only alternative open to Lord Lugard was to amalgamate
the North and the South and thus have a legitimate reason for
the expenditure of revenue from the South in developing the
North. Details of this manouevre was laid bare in a letter
written by Lord Lugard on November 22, 1912 to his wife
explaining how he had used the Southern resources to finance
the Northern deficit.
Regardless of the merit which Sir F.D Lugard saw in his
financial amalgamation of the South and the North, the
prevalence of bitter criticism in the South shows the
unpopularity of the amalgamation. At that time, the export
from the South stood at Five Million, One Hundred and
Twenty-Two Thousand Pounds (£5,232,000) while the export
from the North stood at Two Hundred Thousand Pounds
(£200,000) in 1910. This was very discouraging to the colonial
system and called for urgent remedy. On Tuesday, January 31,
1911, there were attacks on the colonial secretary’s suggestion
that the South should advance a loan of Two Hundred
Thousand Pounds (£200,000) to the North for the completion
of the Baro to Kano railway, in addition to the sum of One
Million, Two Hundred and Thirty Thousand which was required
from the South.
One of the criticisms of the Northern dependence on the
South was voiced out by Honourable Sapara Williams who
contended that before the loan was to be granted, the
Secretary of State should settle the type of relationship that
existed between Lagos and Zungeru, the two administrative
headquarters for the South and the North respectively.
Existing hostility
He contended that as far as he was concerned, that the
Southerners were strangers to anything connected with the
railway after it has passed Offa, the last Yoruba town on the
line. He referred to the existing hostility between the North
and the South, particularly as regards the issues of extending
the Northern boundary of the Southern protectorate to
incorporate Yoruba territories now locked up in the Northern
protectorate. My dear Professor, the hostility of the
Northerners towards the Southerners is not new in the
Nigerian history. Even during the time of Sapara Williams, the
Northerners did not see anything reasonable in the
relationship with the South.
You will recall the massacres of the Igbos in Jos in 1945; you
will recall the massacres of the Igbos in Kano in 1953; you will
recall the massacres that preceded the civil war. If we cannot
live together, Mr. Professor, don’t you think that it is high time
we told ourselves the naked truth.
You will also recall that in 1964, after the crisis that followed
the elections, that Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe had called on Nigerians
to call a round table conference to discuss how we could share
our assets if it was impossible for us to live together. We kept
on patching this unpatchable relationship. In my honest
opinion, this relationship has soured enough that it will take
the wisdom of God to make us love one another.
We went to Aburi and there the leaders agreed that the only
solution to our problems was to have a confederation but
Gowon reneged. You will recall also that the British
government, after the crisis of 1951-1952

Its a long read but worth readding by another professor. summary core north should follow true federalism ...

OPEN LETTER TO PROF. ANGO ABDULAHI
By. Prof B. I. C. IJOMAH
June 21, 2017
Prof. Ango Abdullahi,
OUR attention has been drawn to your statements in Vanguard
of Saturday, June 10, 2017. You are alleged to be in support of
the call on the Igbo to quit. It is unfortunate, grossly
unfortunate, that a scholar of your calibre will be so partisan
as to be unable to see the wisdom in retaining Nigeria as a
corporate entity. I know you have, in the past, been anti-Igbo.
One would have thought that our education exposes us to a
level where we can live even with our enemies. You said in the
alleged publication that, “each year up to the time Nigeria
gained its independence, none of the two regions East and
West was able to produce for its self. I mean none of the
Western and Eastern Regions had the money to effectively run
the affairs of the region until they got financial support from
the Northern Region.” It is this assumption of yours that I want
to address.
First of all it is not true that the North had bailed out Eastern
Region or the Western Region. But you claim that even before
independence none of the regions could live without Northern
subvention. Let me draw your attention to the facts before
independence. You should read W.M.M Geary’s work titled “
Nigeria under the British Rule” published by the Cass and
Company Limited, London (1927).
Subsidizing the North. May I draw your attention especially to
pages 124 and 125. You will see published, General Revenue
for the Northern and Southern Protectorates before the
Amalgamation and the Percentage of Total Revenue
originating from the North. You will see that contrary to your
argument, it was indeed the South that was subsidizing the
North. I am reproducing the tables here for clarity.
I also draw your attention to Abstracts of Revenue, 1809 to
1913 . You will also see that the North could not have survived
without the Imperial grant and the support of the South. When
you look at the third table, Northern Nigeria revenue paid by
the South and the Imperial grant, it will disabuse your mind
and show you that without the South and the Imperial grant,
the Northern government/states could not have existed.
Indeed, one of the reasons for the amalgamation was the fact
that the British colonial government was tired of carrying the
burden of the North and they thought that by merging the
Southern and Northern protectorates, the country would be
stable. Indeed, the circumstances that forced the British
government to amalgamate the Northern protectorate and the
Southern protectorate on January 1, 1914 were motivated
neither by political exigencies nor by a closer cultural
understanding among the diverse elements of the
conglomeration that was later to be called Nigeria. It is
obvious that the primary interest of the British government
was economic.
It was also obvious that the Northern protectorate, because of
its geographical location and cloudy economic prospects, was
not likely to be viable.
In fact, the Lugard administration was finding it rather difficult
to maintain the Northern protectorate which was already
running into deficit. Testifying to the financial difficulty of the
North and the anticipated prosperity that would follow the
projected amalgamation of the Northern protectorate with the
Southern protectorate, Lord Lugard reported that “the
prosperity of the Southern protectorate as evidenced by the
liquor trade, had risen by 57 per cent. In fact, the liquor trade
alone yielded a revenue of One Million, One Hundred and
Thirty-Eight Thousand pounds (£1,138,000) in 1913. This he
believed was the result of amalgamation of the Lagos colony
with the Southern protectorate.
The Northern administration could not have survived without
the imperial grant-in-aid which in the year before the
amalgamation stood at One Hundred and Thirty Six thousand
Pounds, (£136,000) and had averaged Three Hundred and
Fourteen Thousand, Five Hundred Pounds (£314,500) for the
eleven years ending in March, 1912.

Papiikush:
Satan don't buy unfortunate souls, they are his right from time. Your soul ain't worth shìt SISTA.

finality. she cant sell what she doesnt own...

there is hardly one sexually faithful man out there.

@toks2008 carnally minded sure but spiritually minded no. essense of self control i gal 5:22-23

fratermathy:
I am pretty sure many of us would stick with the devil we know than the angel we don't.

we up north will fill otherwise... the venom of deceit/religious supremacist/illogical would make us explore alternative option based on CHOICE AND ACCEPTANCE AS EQUALS not as conquered territories.

”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 the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future.” (Sir Ahmadu Bello October 12, 1960)

fratermathy:
That clause was used "specifically" when he spoke on the Middle Belt groups! He never used that clause when he referred to the ND as "Southern Biafra"!

okay but lets face the fact... it still boils down to CHOICE . would you choose to stay with more illogicqk radicalised hausa fulani than igbo? i in north knows... i feel when the chips are down and a refrendum is call lets choose independence and co exist on mutual ground

ComrdDRS:
BENUE, BRO. ONE LOVE, WE RE ONE.

we will if it means going with nnamdi kanu... i downloaded the video to share with friends.

fratermathy:
Drawing from your logic again; Urhobos can discuss and forever refute, denounce, deny, confront, and fight Biafra and Biafrans for as long as our land is included in your projected maps and governmental frameworks.

watching the video i saw how he stressed that "if they so wish" so i see a choice at work...

ComrdDRS:
Nnamdi Kanu has a point. A strong one for that matter. I m not ipob nor afonjas. I m a middle beltan. PLS THE AFONJAS SHOULD LOOK AT THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE. AND STOP SUPPORTING NORTHERNERS AT THE DETRIMENT OF MINORITIES AND THE ENTIRE NATION. IF ONLY THE YORUBAS CAN SPEAK UP LIKE THE IGBOS NIGERIANS WILL NOT BE TERRORIZED AND PERSECUTED IN THEIR LANDS. BUT THE YORUBAS ACTIONS AND INACTIONS GIVES THE HAUSA FOOLANIS AUDACITY. Pls yorubas and Igbos should resolve their difference for the sake of minorities so we can sit on round table and discuss this nation. BECAUSE AS IT IS NOW IF LEAVE THIS MARRIAGE NIGERIA I 'LL BE MORE HAPPY. GOING BY THE PRESENT CONDITIONS THAT I M BEEN COINED INTO. AS I M WRITING THE I M NOT DIFFERENT FROM A PREY IN THESE COUNTRY I CALLED MINE AND I SEE NO HOPE I NEAR FUTURE RATHER I SEES MORE THREAT. MIDDLE BELTANS ARE GETTING TIRED OF THE STATUES QUO TOO.

i hail you..am from taraba u are from? i subscribe to your thoughts

middlebelt states WILL rathergo with this man than the cire north...i like how he mentioned taraba and benue, southern kaduna... #enoughisenough

PRAYING IN TONGUES

The Preacher died in Active Service preaching repentance from sin.
Rejoicing in Paradise (RIP)

which company can build a 2bedroom flat and be paid from source for 36months on an agrreed sum