₦airaland Forum

Our undoing is the large unproductive population of the country held down by strong religious sentiments and beside we know that more than half of the states in Nigeria will not appear in the list if placed at par with countries on this list.

Jiokejohn:
As a Yoruba man, can you tell me how Tinubu's regime transcended to providing food on your table?

Before 2015 when I was campaigning for PMB against GEJ, I never knew it would be one of my greatest undoings. I felt that with PMB's military background, he would nip the then-insecurity 'Boko Haram' in the bud. I thought that GEJ was too weak to take decisive decisions. Under PMB's watch, we were mesmerised by Banditry, Fulani herdsmen's killings and high-scale kidnappings. During the 2015 election, some of my Igbo brothers were asking me to support GEJ because he made Gen. Ihejirika the Chief of Army Staff. But I questioned how Ihejirika being chief of Army staff will metamorphose to food on my table.

As a Yoruba, how did OBJ's 8 years in office benefit you personally? As a Northerner, how did PMB's 8 years benefit you personally? As Ijaw, how did GEJ's 5 or 6 years benefit you personally? It is high time we look for a competent leader irrespective of tribe or region to transform the country for the good of all of us.

Today, Tinubu is the president, under his watch, subsidy was removed. Pump price has gone up, electricity price has gone up. This resulted in to increase in the prices of food and household items. Yet, our salary (income) was never increased exponentially with other increments to it. Once again, as a Yoruba, can you sincerely tell me your gains or transformation compared to those of the politicians and their families you are fighting for?

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The truth is no body in ADC will perform any magic on the situation we currently find ourselves, from every indication the current government is taking some hard decisions in the kind of reforms they are embarking upon which will likely turn around the fortunes of the country in the long run.

[quote author=Jiokejohn post=136197183]As a Yoruba man, can you tell me how Tinubu's regime transcended to providing food on your table?

Before 2015 when I was campaigning for PMB against GEJ, I never knew it would be one of my greatest undoings. I felt that with PMB's military background, he would nip the then-insecurity 'Boko Haram' in the bud. I thought that GEJ was too weak to take decisive decisions. Under PMB's watch, we were mesmerised by Banditry, Fulani herdsmen's killings and high-scale kidnappings. During the 2015 election, some of my Igbo brothers were asking me to support GEJ because he made Gen. Ihejirika the Chief of Army Staff. But I questioned how Ihejirika being chief of Army staff will metamorphose to food on my table.

As a Yoruba, how did OBJ's 8 years in office benefit you personally? As a Northerner, how did PMB's 8 years benefit you personally? As Ijaw, how did GEJ's 5 or 6 years benefit you personally? It is high time we look for a competent leader irrespective of tribe or region to transform the country for the good of all of us.

Today, Tinubu is the president, under his watch, subsidy was removed. Pump price has gone up, electricity price has gone up. This resulted in to increase in the prices of food and household items. Yet, our salary (income) was never increased exponentially with other increments to it. Once again, as a Yoruba, can you sincerely tell me your gains or transformation compared to those of the politicians and their families you are fighting for? [/quo

The truth is no body in ADC will perform any magic on the situation we currently find ourselves, from every indication the current government is taking some hard decisions in the kind of reforms they are embarking upon which will likely turn around the fortunes of the country in the long run.

Bamibor:
The solution is simple, Dangote Petroleum should begin an aggressive drive to have retail outlets across the country begining with touchpoints in key cities like Lagos, Abuja, PH, Kano, Aba, Onitsha etc.

Set a 5-year target to own the largest chain of petroleum retail outlets in the country to distribute all their products.

The refining license prohibits ownership of retail franchise that is why his only option is to partner with them but unfortunately these same partners are being dishonest, if only NNPC will be willing to support his move maybe it would have help if he partners with them to sell at a discount to Nigerians through there retail outlets.

The aggrieved CPC bloc left even before the last election, what most people fail to realize is that the only person that can control the CPC 12m bloc vote is Buhari himself and that bloc vote left with him, none of the current leaders in the north can control half that number in loyalty votes, they are all money bag politicians and it will go for the highest bidder which means the governors in each state in the core north automatically takes his share of those votes for the candidate they will support in the Presidential election and as it stands now it will be almost impossible to defeat Asiwaju because most of the first term governors in the north are all eyeing the Presidential seat in 2031 including serving ministers and they will all individually rather fight for Tinubu second term than support an Atiku ticket which will keep them off the mark for the next 16 years.

The aggrieved CPC bloc left even before the last election, what most people fail to realize is that the only person that can control the CPC 12m bloc vote is Buhari himself and that bloc vote left with him, none of the current leaders in the north can control half that number in loyalty votes, they are all money bag politicians and it will go for the highest bidder which means the governors in each state in the core north automatically takes his share of those votes for the candidate they will support in the Presidential election and as it stands now it will be almost impossible to defeat Asiwaju because most of the firs term governors in the north are all eying the Presidential seat in 2031 including serving ministers and they will all individually rather fight for Tinubu second term than support an Atiku ticket which will keep them off the mark for the next 16 years.

Kaycee9242:
The Koko si that he has failed woefully in governance

If we call the Tinubu performance as failure am afraid we might be very naive in our interpretation of what a good government is all about, I doubt if any of the contenders would have achieve up to 10 % of what the present government have achieve thus far, governance is not measured by the pain of reforms it is about the long term benefits, if successive past governments have done half of what the current government is doing in terms of real reforms we won't be going through our present predicaments, the best is for us to hang on, suck up the pains and come out stronger, whatever way we want it there must be a government that will have to take the painful decisions the current administration decide to bear if we ever wanted to succeed as a nation.

ArcSEMPECJ:
The reason why I love Peter Obi to be President is not far fetched,....

Anyone that knows how many employees he has in his company, can always cater for their welfare....meaning that without statistical measures, a Manager is not serious yet but we had one man who during campaign asked Nigerians , "na Statistics we go chop"...and some zombies laughed , today what are we chopping?

Go to abroad and see how they behave, they work with data, once you enter their country, they know you entered, they work with statistics, they know the number of people employed, know the numbers remaining for employment, they know how many people pay taxes, they know those not working and they pay them too...even in your work place, your Manager monitors you, and can sack you if you are under performing, it is not about ethnicity or religion over there....but due process..

Everything working there is not rocket science, it is not Agbero talks where you grab it, steal it and run with it..... everything there is ironed out...

Police know their job, have cameras on their uniform , even sign in from work place, everywhere is organized...

Nigeria doesn't need emilokan kind now, let's leave Nigeria to be developed by Men with capable brains , then we can at a time say let's celebrate the old age men and make one President just for a ceremonial 4years...then we can bring them that said it is their turn to rule Nigeria, give them 4years, and monitor them as well, so they won't make a mess just as we have today in Government...

Nigeria can work again...let's get it right with the right leaders ..

If he was able to have performed uniquely different from his peers in Anambra where he was governor for eight years you would have had a valid point, but his performance was far below the national average in all parameters, mind you Nigeria is a more complex scenario with a lot more of politicking than governance to get it right.

The statuesque will not change anytime soon until the northern elite stop using illiteracy as a tool of control on their people for political gains because the moment the people become educated the current grip they have on them will slip off. Definitely without the north the southern part of the country is well ahead of most African countries.

The statuesque will not change anytime soon until the northern elite stop using illiteracy as a tool of control of their people for political gains because the moment the people become educated the current grip they have on them will slip off. Definitely without the north the southern part of the country is well ahead of most African countries.

Its rather unfortunate that most people don't read articles before responding and it goes a long way to show the attitude most of us display on issues and how we perceive and react to situations, the article is about a situation of a road where the house of rep member is pleading with his people to exercise patience as the senator representing the zone have made effort to include the road project in the current budget to the tune of N3b, what is expected is for those responsible for the release of the funds to do so timely for the reconstruction of the failed portion of the road and also for the constituent to keep eye on the ball and follow through for the full utilization of the said funds without diversion

TheRareGem1:
A day well spent at the public unveiling of Mallam @GarShehu's oven-fresh book, "According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesman's Experience." My list of must-read books is growing by the day.

This is so ungentlemanly to seat and receive a handshake and exchange pleasantries with a fellow man not less a former vice President and your colleague? How you carry yourself in public tells a lot about who you are in private, this is not the first time Atiku is showing such disrespect to Osinbajo and it's not a nice body language for someone of his status with a lot of followership

Those the hate to see Nigeria progress have seen the handwriting on the wall that we are on a path to real progress for the first time in our history and are hell bent in making sure we don't succeed , we all have to make the bold move by standing up for the truth if likes of Peter Obi and others truly care for the genuine development of the country then they should rather at this time begin to speak about the positive impact the tough policies of the current government will have on the economy at the long run and encourage Nigerians to bear the temporal pain for a better a prosperous future for the country.

[quote author=Built2last post=136021235]So by you assertions, we should continue with this suffering because Tinubu is the devil we know? Nawa[/quote

The country must have to go through this period if we must make any meaningful progress maybe you need to read about what other great countries you hear of today went through to get to where they are, Nigerians don't want to pay the price for success, everyone want to blow without lifting a finger, dream world I guess, Tinubu is your President till 2031, that is the only sure bet for the CORE north to return back to power and they will stick to the plan. You see all these young governors from the north will never allow any new arrangement to jeopardize their chances in 2031 they are all in their first terms mind you.

marlow1962:
Nigerians una dy see o, vote wisely next election.

Tell us who is the option that will stop this or is there a candidate from moon? this are lives lost and all you care about is politics?

marlow1962:
Nigerians una dy see o, vote wisely next election.

Telling us who is the option that will stop this or is there a candidate from moon? this are lives lost and all you care about is politics?

When will it be enough before we call this war as it should be? how can soldiers be dying in combat within their own country in such a manner, and we are going about like all is well? have Nigerian been programmed to be taken over? If the government doesn't see anything wrong with the manner these soldiers were killed, and no decisive action is taken then there is more to this than meets the eye.

9jatriot:
To be fair to him, it is the media and his former enemies who are now hailing him because he has fallen out with BAT that twisted the comments he made them.
What I think he said then was that because people had killed cows in Nigeria, fearing that there would be reprisal, he went as far as Senegal to go and appease them so that they would not take revenge.

So, the herdsmen terrorizing us in Nigeria come from as far as Senegal, and have the effrontery to commit all these atrocities unchecked? what manner of audacity

Dogalmighty17:
200 people were killed in Benue state. Northern Governors forum couldn't find their voice. The particular community this incident happened has been subject to Fulani attacks for a long time. Neither the Nigerian army nor any security outfit bothered to come to their aid.

Now that community decided enough is enough and laid hands on who they could find. This turned out to be these travellers. Within minutes, a team of Nigerian army soldiers showed up and that's why some survived.

The question here is, are some lives more valuable than others? Why haven't the northern Governors condemned what happened in Benue state but can quickly find their voice in this case? Why was the army quick to respond here but not in Yelwata Benue state?

We may not want to accept it but the next civil war has gradually begun.

P:S. I know nairaland will soon delete this comment.

No matter how you put it no one can shy away from the obvious truth, the response is so totally different, and it is good people are watching and are beginning to take note, the discrimination against Christians in the north by fellow northerner Muslims is so embarrassingly glaring, it's so unfortunate, southwest have a mix of both religion but they are still more better united as a people, no surprise the people are bent on embracing the new identity by been middle belt than north central.

Dogalmighty17:
200 people were killed in Benue state. Northern Governors forum couldn't find their voice. The particular community this incident happened has been subject to Fulani attacks for a long time. Neither the Nigerian army nor any security outfit bothered to come to their aid.

Now that community decided enough is enough and laid hands on who they could find. This turned out to be these travellers. Within minutes, a team of Nigerian army soldiers showed up and that's why some survived.

The question here is, are some lives more valuable than others? Why haven't the northern Governors condemned what happened in Benue state but can quickly find their voice in this case? Why was the army quick to respond here but not in Yelwata Benue state?

We may not want to accept it but the next civil war has gradually begun.

P:S. I know nairaland will soon delete this comment.

No matter how you put it no one can shy away from the obvious truth, the response is so totally different, and it is good people are watching and are beginning to take note, the discrimination against Christians in the north by fellow northerner Muslims is so embarrassingly glaring, it's so unfortunate, southwest have a mix of both religion but they are still more better united as a people.

magicminister:
Funny! I hate that they call it war instead of genocide.

Military folks committed a coup, the right thing would’ve been to arrest and try all those that committed the coup…. Instead, they went after civilians, killing men, women and children… setting up checkups to look for igbos, checking departing flights to see if there are igbos in them… committing all manner of atrocities against unarmed and innocent civilians. Under the circumstances, Ojukwu was right to call for the return of all igbos in Nigeria to the east and move for a secession. Since the government of Godwon could not protect Nigerians of Igbo extraction, then they must seek to protect themselves.

To prevent the impending war, an agreement was signed by Godwon and Ojukwu in Aburi, Ghana… guess who violated the agreement?

So, let’s stop rewriting history okay.

It is actually beginning to look like there is a deliberate intention to force a wrong narrative about the history of the civil war on the rest of us or are we saying the press conference in London by Azikiwe and all books on the account and events that lead to the civil war by prominent leaders in the eastern government and especially those that were part of federal government back then before the civil war are all false?

ogaemma:
If this news is true, then is so unfortunate that the Benue people are part of their own problem.
The security Agencies should investigate and fish out all the traitor's.
They must face the law.

And you believe people will drive into a village with automatic machine guns and rocket launchers in the night shooting and killing people sporadically and the indigenes will host them happily and even give them woman? they obviously dispatch a surveillance team that came ahead in disguise and secretly surveyed the place, look we should admit we failed the people by not protecting them from the killers, Yelwata is a big farming settlement and a lot of business people go there to buy all forms of food items including grains yams and fruits if you watched the VDM video you would have noticed the burnt rice paddy warehouse , the villagers cant profile people and tag everyone as enemies otherwise they might lose genuine customers that's why a military base was stationed there for necessary profiling of visitors beside there was an IDP camp in the location existing without proper documentation of the victims, it's failure on the part of government, with all the high level threats in the state security should have been on high alert.

ogaemma:
If this news is true, then is so unfortunate that the Benue people are part of their own problem.
The security Agencies should investigate and fish out all the traitor's.
They must face the law.

And you believe people will drive into a village with automatic machine guns and rocket launchers in the night shooting and killing people sporadically and the indigenes will host them happily and even give them woman? they obviously dispatch a secret surveillance team that came ahead in disguise and secretly surveyed the place, look we should admit we failed the people by not protecting them from the killers, Yelwata is a big farming settlement and a lot of business people to there to buy all forms of food items including grains yams and fruits, the villagers cant profile people and tag everyone as enemies otherwise they might lose genuine customers that's why a military base was stationed there for necessary profiling of visitors beside there was an IDP camp in the location existing without proper documentation of the victims, it's a total failure on the part of government, with all the high level threats in the state security should have been on high alert.

The President didn't win in kano in 2023 but still won the election is not lost or won on the basis of the destruction of billboards.

jibnet1:
I no even understand waiting this man dey talk

He spoke very intelligently and have a good understanding of the problem, the breakdown of what he meant is that the herders are the ones that go around causing trouble that farmers are stationary, that the solution is to stop the herders from moving around which is political because a law must be put in place to stop them from roaming around the forest, that way they can criminalize grazing and enforce the law but at the moment no law stopping cattle from roaming around in Nigeria on a national level. He said its not a clash but rather an attack on farmers by herders, that it's the herders that come to attack the farmers so it's not a clash but an attack, you can clash with some on the street but anyone that comes right to your doorstep and into your property (farm asset )to fight you is an attacking you and not clashing with you, the herders are the ones coming to attack the farmers unprovoked by invading and destroying their farms.

God1000:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/18/benue-nothing-like-farmers-herders-clash-cds-musa-gives-reasons-for-conflicts/?

This is the most intelligent response that have been proposed by any high ranking goverment offical as a remedy to this issue thus far which is also the reason why the Benue state governement enacted the anti open grazing law, the CDS is apt in his analysis of the problem and for me the Political elite if seroius about resolving this issue pemanently should immidiately outlaw open grazing nationwide unless there is more to this that meets the eye. The is solution is ranching (political throught the national Assembly to pass te law) unless the goveement dont want to put an end to the killing.

EmperorIsaac:
It's very unfortunate indeed! Ban open grazing today.

That is the only solution unless there is something else the government isn't telling us, the roaming of cattle across farmland should be outlawed everyone should ranch livestock farming is a private business and not a government venture.

EmperorIsaac:
It's very unfortunate indeed! Ban open grazing today.

The is the only solution unless there is something else the government isn't telling us, the roaming of cattle across farmland should be outlawed everyone should ranch livestock farming is a private business and not a government venture.

EyeCumInPeace:
Why can't the president ban open grazing.
What's he afraid of.
That's the root cause of these conflicts.

If you want to rear cow, buy land and establish a ranch.

The only sin of the Benue people for all this killing is the enactment of the anti-open grazing law, which is the only antidote to the farmers and herder clashes, to the herdsmen it's an afront taken too far and they fear when fully implemented might lead to cessation of the crisis and other states will begin to subscribe to it and it will end the long quest of land grabbing through the back door.

Livestock farming is not exclusive to Fulani's alone a lot of other people are into it too and most times hire a Fulani to cater for the herds of cattle, this might be a Benue indigene probably moving his herds to a save location due to the present crisis. Not all cows are owned by Fulani.

danvon:
The question is, what did the Benue people do?

Fulanis didnt just wake up and start fighting.

They confused Fulanis for Igbos but Fulanis will never be victims in this life.

Everybody knows Benue people are not innocent, that is why they are silent.

The killing in Benue is unprovoked and the only sin the people committed is enacting the anti-open grazing prohibition law, the state and its people have outlawed the grazing of cattle over grassland resulting to violent clashing between farmers and herders and that is what it is , open grazing is a stone age practice not for the modern world, to the herders this is an affront probably they feel they own the country and the Benue people can't dictate to them, the attacks are clearly aimed at forcefully taking over the land from the indigenous farmers, the voracious nature of this attacks is meant to terrorize the people to submission, but I see the people resist this, it's there land they own it not herdsmen.

danvon:
The question is, what did the Benue people do?

Fulanis didnt just wake up and start fighting.

They confused Fulanis for Igbos but Fulanis will never be victims in this life.

Everybody knows Benue people are not innocent, that is why they are silent.

The killing in Benue is unprovoked and the only sin the people committed is enacting the anti-open grazing prohibition bill, the state and its people have outlawed the grazing of cattle over grassland resulting to violent clashing between farmers and herders , and that is what it is, open grazing is a stone age practice not meant for the modern age, to the herders this is an affront probably they feel they own the country and the Benue people can't dictate to them, the attacks are clearly aimed at forcefully taking over the land from the indigenous farmers, the voracious nature of this attacks is meant to terrorize the people to submission, but I see the people resist this, it's there land they own it not the herdsmen.