₦airaland Forum

anago12: its more of yorubas(brain working dudes) vs others (soldout citizens).

chakpe: so wetin b d diff btw mad and loony? is like ur brain dey ur anus like ur MOP? ...one fact stands; she's ur 1st lady and not even ur MOP or ur miserable self can alter dat! if MOP is so good enough let him field himself for the next general elections otherwise, let him forever keep his gutters shut!

ilugunboy: Sorry about the title..meant to read The Most accomplished Nigerian Ever? Nairaland don't give you the privilege to edit your post subject.

While answering a reporter question yesterday at the Hill Top mansion of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, one of the northern state governors said.

"We've come to meet the most accomplished Nigerian ever to discuss on matter of national importance"

Do you think that OBJ according to this governors is the most accomplished Nigerian ever?

tha_originator: Good development... Abia people should also vote Buhari for presidency!

Rhino.5dm:
But on a serious note - I think splitting Nigeria is the best thing to do. Whichever way, violently or peaceful, though am more inclined towards the peaceful dissolution. Nigerian project won't work.

na2day!:
Are you sure you mean what you wrote above?
Be careful what you wish for!

Rhino.5dm:
Very lovely! Can't wait to fence south west away from predators and parasites.

bestview: yurubas are shameless pigs..

A people without a hero..

Rather they choose criminals and arm robber as their leaders and heros..

debetmx: We are in okija shrine with Theodore Orji.

chiboy_man: words of some of our elders r words of life...he who has nti let him hear

debetmx: You must be laughing in your IGBO infested mind.

and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue, to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.

You must be laughing in your IGBO infested mind.

and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue, to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.

debetmx: You must be laughing in your IGBO infested mind.

and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue, to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.

You must be laughing in your IGBO infested mind.

and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue, to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.
And where are you today,

debetmx: Ojukwu on Awolowo in his book "Because I Am Involved"

"In political terms, he would be considered an adversary of the igbos given the intense rivalry between him and Dr Nnamdi Azikwe. As a leader of the modern cast, he has left Nigeria standards which are indelible, standards beside which future aspirants to public leadership can be eternally measured. He was firm, articulate, painstaking, and uncompromising. He was, for a long time, the only Nigerian leader who enunciated principles and played down personalities. He was a brilliant political administrator and a most erudite teacher. He not only identified himself wholly with the aspirations of the Yoruba people of Nigeria but also he was able to convince the Yoruba people of Nigeria that he and only he epitomized the highest point of their political aspirations and consciousness. He was loved, he was feared but above all he belonged to the people he professed to lead. At his death I had the singular honour of proposing for him the epitaph that has endured – ‘he was the best President that Nigeria never had’.

Many have wondered what I meant by this, but I believe the statement was clear. Nigeria would have benefited from his presidency because of his inate presidential qualities. Nigeria must continually regret that he never, for many reasons, had the opportunity to serve at the presidential level. Awo was a leader of great stature. He was a leader who was eminently successful. That he did not fulfill a presidential ambition cannot detract from his leadership, and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue, to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.

He perceived his job as leading his people and God his soul. He did a lot for them. Whenever he saw an opportunity for his people, he went for it. He had a dream for the Yorubas and was steadfast in the pursuit of that dream. He knew where he was going and took his people with him without deceit. That is why he will remain immortal in the area of his influence".

PointB: ‘They want to wipe off our tribe’
Thursday, 18 July 2013 00:00 From Joseph Wantu, Makurdi News - Metro

• Tiv monarch laments the killing, maiming and razing of communities by Fulani marauders

THE story of Fulani clash and incursion on sedentary farming communities in Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau as well as Taraba states among others in Nigeria, has in no small measure assumed a dangerous level that calls for, not only urgent, but total action by all and sundry.

It is no gain saying that the attendant consequences of these violent clashes are better imagined than described in communities where they occur.

Records have it that in Benue state alone, over 50 communities in the past three years have been under siege of the Fulani nomads as they throng into the communities, ransack, maim, set properties worth millions of naira ablaze and kill unquantifiable number of lives. Women, children and aged persons are worst hit by these rascally actions.

Similarly, 40 of the Tiv communities resident in Nasarawa state are also being visited with the same holocaust of maiming, killing and destruction of farms.

It was at the heat of this crisis that the government of Benue and Nasarawa States on June 24, 2011, constituted a joint communal clashes committee to look into and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crisis with the aim of proffering lasting solutions. But as the situation portends now, it no longer warrants the release of any white paper of the said committee as it has been overtaken by events.

Explaining the situation to The Guardian, a royal father, Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse expressed worry that the phenomenon has sent thousands of Tiv people to their early graves both in Benue and Nasarawa states and their ancestral homes occupied by the Alagos, Fulanis or their associates.

Chief Abomtse said: “By the foregoing analysis, it no longer gives a picture of mere Fulani herdsmen – sedentary farmers clash, but a case of consummate hatred of a particular tribe by others in order to wipe off the unwanted tribe called Tiv both in Nasarawa and to some extent deep inside the Benue Tiv community at the borders.”

The royal father called on the Federal government, through the National Assembly, to enacts national policies to curb incessant Fulani menace now that the nation is undergoing the constitution review.

While stressing that Nigeria needs to settle once and for all, the settler-indigene dichotomy so as to give Nigerian citizens the right to live anywhere in the country; the royal father also posited that all forms and politically incorrect discriminations should be sanctioned to promote inter-ethnic interactions, maintaining, too, that the Nigerian Constitution should be amended to protect the land tenure system from abuse where peasants are often dispossessed by the rich and powerful.

He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to evolve policies and programs that will dramatically reduce poverty and increase agricultural production which remains the mainstay of the majority rural dwellers; aside using the ECOWAS protocols to convene a special conference on the ways to help settle the Fulani in their states in West Africa.

He also blamed the heinous attitude being perpetrated on the people on the visiting or nomadic Fulanis, noting that before now, the Tiv and the resident Fulani relationship used to be cordial, as the two tribes had even intermarried.

Abomtse further called for massive sensitization of the visiting Fulanis to make them know the difference between pasture grasses and farm crops; urging that the visiting Fulanis should always be made to live under the authority of their host communities and under the supervision of local government authorities as well as the law enforcement agents with all the rules of engagement.

The monarch equally advised the Fulanis in Benue and Nasarawa States to re-establish their own conflict resolving rituals to foster peace from antiquity so that peace shall reign and the sinister agenda of occupation be abandoned for ever, just as he condemned the calls by some people for barricading grazing areas for the cross border Fulanis saying it will compound more of Fulani aggressions on the people.

Recently, the governments of Nasarawa and Benue States, at a joint meeting in Lafia, vowed to intensify security through increased logistics to operatives to bring down the menace.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/news-metro/127463-they-want-to-wipe-off-our-tribe-

debetmx: Ok, you are weed abi. If I may ask you what did the man called a cantankerous coward by in-law stand for and mean to you? If I can remember ojukwu reminds of another weed (Igbo) man, after starting and leading people to their deaths ran away dressed like a woman? Ifeajuna!

Back to ojukwu. Yes he was the first man who led a war against his fatherland and came back to the same country to seek an elective position in the same country. He was the first man, sorry second man after another of kinsmen to wasted other people's lives and run away into exile.

He was the first man who led his biafran forces to break into the Central Bank in Benin

sheyie2007: We need fashola as president... Enough with all this presidents with poor communication skills I'm disappointed.. Well, obasanjo was worse, I felt like burning my passport when I watched his interview

debetmx: I had warned you in a previous thread that those that live in glass houses don't throw stones.

ojukwu too is not your father, never done nothing for you but wasted 3M lives of your people. I guess he was smoking the name of your tribe (IGBO), when he led your people to their deaths.

autumn.flower:
all this kids on NL, seun you better do something abeg!

Delafruita: oga gbawe dont mind them.they think soyinka is like their greedy ghana-must-go collecting "statesmen"