₦airaland Forum

Officialgarri:
I watched a video yesterday of killings still going on Ebonyi. No one's talking about it.
So many communal crisis going on in the east but they will choose to ignore it.

https://www.nairaland.com/5888949/over-3-villages-massacre-ebonyi#90068519

But let's see the killings in Kaduna or Borno, they will take it as a priority

They are naturally hypocrite

Anambra & Igbos know about killings that happened in Kajuru 2 weeks ago & started trending it yesterday. They dont know about the one going on now between Omor & Umumbo people in Anambra State. They dragged @hadizel who isn't governor but don't know Obianos handle. Before taking the speck off another person's eye, take the log of your own. If you care for Kaduna but stay silent for Anambra, you are a hypocrite.

MarrisManah:
And you chose to live in Abuja while making such statements... Maybe we'll wait and hear from the man from southern kaduna and North East before we conclude.

Lol

Nigeria the most dangerous place to be a Christian? Let’s put that in context

Boko Haram’s activities, while horrific, are not aimed at only one religion. We must beware of statistics creating a simplistic picture of faraway events

This week a report produced by the Christian charity Open Doors announced that North Korea was the overall worst place to be a Christian but that Nigeria was the most dangerous – accounting for more than half the 7,000 recorded killings

As a human being weary of what seems like an increasingly volatile and violent world I am dismayed by these statistics, but as a Christian living in Nigeria, I am surprised by them.

Living in Abuja, the quiet capital in the north, the most danger I face is from oncoming traffic as I drive to church on Sunday mornings. Roads are closed and one-way streets are converted into dual carriageways with no police supervision, but it’s the faithful who create that problem.

Christians flee growing persecution in Africa and Middle East
This is not to diminish the threat posed by Boko Haram, which Open Doors credits with some of the persecution Nigeria’s Christians face (the rest it attributes to “Hausa-Fulani herdsmen”). Sometimes, when rumours of an imminent attack increase, Abuja’s roads are closed off and marked with security checkpoints, and some of us sitting in services warily eye newcomers. A thin layer of foreboding hovers over the congregation.

That can happen. But it is not the norm in my experience of being Christian and Nigerian. Mostly what I contend with is how to make sense of the various versions of my faith being peddled by local pastors, and the consistently humorous ways Bible verses are tweaked to fit into daily colloquialisms. Reading that “millions of Christians escaped countries such as Nigeria” leaves me wondering what I’m missing as I go about my daily and mostly unencumbered life here.

Yes, religious persecution is real and growing, in Nigeria as well as globally – but not just of Christians. It is important that we acknowledge and continue to track this, but we must also consider the nuances and context.

Nigeria has a new government, but Boko Haram is deadlier than ever | Chika Unigwe
According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria, with more than 80 million Christians, has the largest Christian population on the African continent, most of whom reside in the south and south-eastern regions of the country. Yet the report says that “there were more recorded killings of Christians due to their faith in northern Nigeria than in the rest of the world put together”. The reasons for these deaths, according to the charity, is “religious cleansing to eradicate Christianity”.


Boko Haram is a violent Islamic extremist group that, in part, fights what it sees as western ideologies and replaces them with its own belief system. But that doesn’t make Christians the sole target of its terrorist activity. As has been written elsewhere: “Boko Haram is a rapidly changing, complex and fragmented movement. It is anti-democracy, anti-secularism, and anti-establishment.” Most of Nigeria’s followers of Islam do not adhere to their beliefs or principles, and Boko Haram’s activities, concentrated in north-eastern Nigeria – and now spreading to Chad and Cameroon – has largely affected Muslim communities. It is too simplistic to think of Boko Haram as simply being anti-Christian.

There is no denying the reality of religious persecution throughout the world. It certainly happens here in Nigeria. But the bare statistics don’t communicate the full socioeconomic and political context. If we oversimplify the story of death and destruction happening far away, we risk desensitising and distancing people, which is the exact opposite of what reports such as Open Doors’ set out to do.

MetaPhysical:
There is a part of history of North Nigeria that many Southerners are unaware of but which if care is not taken would also repeat itself in South. It has to do with alcohol.

In the early days of colonialism spirits and liquor was imported for the whitemen consumption only. Many of them bootlegged the product and sold to natives. Observers soon picked up that liquor reacts differently in the whiteman system than it does with the blackman, when consumed in same quantity and under same conditions and similarity of physicallity. So they raised duties and price to limit the availability and distribution of it. At one point they requested legislation back in UK to forbid importation of spirit to the natives in Southern Nigeria. Bottlers and merchants back in England suffered loss of revenue. They lobbied and put pressure on their government not to restrict trade in liquor. So the importation resumed and availability and consumption of liquor in Southern Nigeria was no longer prohibited.

Its distribution slowly crept up to the North as the business boomed, particularly with RNC, which later became UAC as the sole distributor. As part of their negotiated peace and treaties with the English, Northern rulers drew a boundary for liquor trading and missionary work. Therefore the North had penal codes that made liquor consumption a crime. When missionary penetrated into some non-muslim parts in North, liquor also went along with it. Everywhere bible was received, liquor was also introduced.

Liquor is a weapon. It is a mind altering chemical that when consumed suppresses certain aspects of cognition usually used in processing and responding to impulses and circumstances in the immediate sorrounding and interactions. Therefore an alcohol consumer will concede ...or fail to recognize risks and threats sufficiently for self preservation....and thus in his vulnerable state is exploited. The colonials were ready to do battle and posess our lands, and in fact they fought wars in Lagos, in Ijebu, in Benin, in Sokoto, in Kano and in Bauchi but they also took many dispossessed us of many lands simply by using alcohol to alter our senses and put us in a position to be easily exploited with minimal or zero casualty.

Kaduna was the traditional land of the collective people we call Southern Kaduna today. Kaduna was leased from them when Colonials relocated their headquarters from Lokoja to Kaduna. Bible and alcohol were the two legacies they gained from colonial government. After colonials handed power to regional government, the fulanis in power began a programme of expansion to subdue and hold the North under their spiritual and political control. Gradually intoxication of the Kaduna majority ethnic groups (kajuru, gwari, and so on) took a new turn and trend. To cut the story short.....The majority number gradually became the minority in authority and with that they also lost vast areas of their ancestral homes. In 2015 or 2017 (can't remember which) Governor El Rufai sought to modify the alcohol consumption penal code that had always been in practice and it was meant to prohibit alcohol generally for everyone, muslim and non-muslim....but either by commission or ommission, the prohibition achieved the opposite. It is like telling a child i dont want to see you play ball outside because if you kick the ball and break someone's glass window I will have to pay for it. Meanwhile other children in the neighborhood gather everyday outside and play ball. Then you watch the child get impatient and with annoyance. So you say, okay Im going to just ban all children from playing ball outside. So you give the order. Guess what....those children will find a field somewhere else outside your sight and earshot. What the child does not see or hear also pacifies him into thinking no one else is playing ball and so he doesnt feel cheated...he calms. Southern Kaduna have been drinking alcohol before El Rufai was born.....he might ban it in Kaduna, for muslims.......he cannot enforce its ban on the Christians of Southern Kaduna. The effect is they will stay consumed and continue to lose their ancestral and tribal lands and chiefdoms. Alcohol did this to them.

Alcohol has become a status statement in the South and we have become engrossed in its consumption that we have an addiction, just like in Southern Kaduna, that our vulnerability grows rapidly and put us at risk of exploitation by the North. They are using weapons now to seed terror and intimidation, a time is coming that they will not need weapon....our intoxication is sufficient to yield to them while they slowly peel away our rights and force upon us a two class system...one law for them , a different law for us......just as they did to the Southern Kaduna.


In the Rufai household they probably mock the Southern Kadunas as drunks. They treat them as one for all we can see. Their mockery has crossed over to the web and lately voiced by their son Bello....who once promised gang rape and derided Igbo, with a repeat derision of Ipob few days ago in a tweet. Igbo people are not at the same level, academically or socially with a small boy whose father is an accidental achiever. So what could inform such a arrogance and filthy disregard. The state of mind! Alcohol has deeply altered our state of mind in South. Even when are not intoxicated, our reasoning habits are flawed....the toxins and poison in our blood keep us sedated and dispossed of fundamental responses to self-preservation. This applies to Yoruba, it applies to SS.

WOW

maclatunji:
If I had a vote, it would be Trump.

They are two sides of the same coin. But I prefer Trump, because he doesn't usually Act like a hypocrite. They are both puppet Working for the Devil

Awesome

A glimpse of the new normal

Lamidi cownu is coming with F35 C

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"



;DMan, you're never going to get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he's going to win. We'll tell you any sh*t you want to hear. We deal in *illusions*, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even *think* like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing! *WE* are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...

idonhammer:
Yenefer show us what you got.

I'm not married, even if I'm. I don't think I will be that reckless

President Muhammadu Buhari, has given the nod to a German firm, Siemens AG, to begin the concessionary funding and provision of technical support to the country’s power sector.

According to the official twitter handle of the Presidency, @NGRPresident, Buhari had already directed the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the Ministry of Power and the Bureau of Public Enterprises “to conclude the engagement with Siemens AG to commence the pre-engineering and concessionary financing aspects of the Presidential Power Initiative.”


The PPI, which transited from the Nigerian Electrification Road Map, first muted in 2018, aims to upgrade power infrastructure in the country as part of efforts to halt frequent blackouts.

“All items to be purchased were provided by the distribution companies and Transmission Company of Nigeria and they will be vetted by a professional project management office,” the Presidency stated.

It explained that the concessionary terms included a three-year moratorium and a “12-year repayment at concessionary (interest rates) through the German Euler Hermes cover, which Nigeria will on-lend as a convertible loan to the other shareholders in the Discos.”


The Presidency added, “All Discos have, directly, and through the BPE, been diligently carried along over the last 15 months to understand in detail the challenges in the electricity system.

“The PPI is a power infrastructure upgrade and modernisation programme agreed to by Nigerian government and Siemens AG of Germany, with the support of the German Government.

“Under the PPI, Nigerian government will on behalf of the other shareholders in the Discos invest in infrastructure upgrades in the form of improved payment systems, distribution substations, transformers, protection devices, smart meters, transmission lines, etc.

“President Buhari has approved the release of funding for the first part of Phase 1 of the PPI, to kick off the pre-engineering and concession financing work streams.”

The two presidential spokespersons, Mr Femi Adesina and Mr Garba Shehu, did not respond to enquiries by The PUNCH to confirm the @NGRPresident tweets as of 6.05pm.

https://punchng.com/buhari-approves-nigeria-siemens-electricity-deal-funding/?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

opportunes:
Igbo are good people

NO they are NOT

oxiide22:
babu ansa Fatima? if u don't mind including your contact pls. I just like to have a good friendship with u and may be inda rabo ma.... ko bakyaso kizama fatimana?

identity nafa. Zantura ma in rikicin danake ah nairaland in yalafa

oxiide22:
yauwa yanxu naji magana. amma pls inaso kimin wani alfarma guda fatima

Ok

oxiide22:
toh yanxu idan kingama research naki zaki dena Hawa nairaland kenan?

nayi downloading din apps dinsu ne, kuma suna posting ah Twitter yawanci ta Twitter nake shigowa

oxiide22:
toh yanxu idan kingama research naki zaki dena Hawa nairaland kenan?

zan dinga shigowa

Mahsums:
@yenefer arrewa come nd tell dem

is true zero project in the North, he just appointed Northerners into juicy positions, but he is working for South West and South East. The old man is total failure for the north

oxiide22:
hmm abunda yasa baki yadda akwai cutan covid19 bane yasa. kuma abinda yakamata ki kula ai bashine shugaba daya aduniya dayasa lockdown ba kuma namu ai da sauqima SBD bagashi yanxu cikin lockdown kin iya kinfita daga abuja ba har Maiduguri.

na yarda akoi Covid19 but tsoro da tashin hankalin yayi yawa. Kasan yanda mukai mufita daga Abuja kuwa, jirgin NGO muka bi

oxiide22:
Ahh! wait!! bantaba zaginki ba. nade san nace confuse kuma I said it because I've known you as buharist but suddenly I saw u started insulting buhari. sauran comment kuma inayi ne SBD tsokana. sekuma mgn hotuna dakike daurawa nan kuma dana fahinta cewa ba asalin hotonki ba kenan yasa nace fake w. amma kiyi hakuri I don't mean to hurt you whatsoever. hmm really? gaskiya I thought you're enjoying being on nairaland

Buhari yafara ban haushi akan unnecessary lockdown

oxiide22:
one thing still I observe about you that impress me is ; I never saw u comment on sex sex sex or relationship thread in romance section. I like that, i think u r a good girl Fatima yar baba cheers!

bayan ka Gama zagi na, do you think i like to be on nairaland. Ina logging in ne sabida, Wani abunda yashafi final year research danake

Welcome to Abia Rwanda, God's own state...my state. This road starts from Uturu to Akara junction linking up Abiriba, Ohafia, Item, Isikwuato etc this road started getting bad 1997/99. We have had Orji Kalu, Theodore Orji & now Ikpeazu but our problem is our oil money.

Millenniumlady:
When you're already walling over this forum because of me....you go die for my matter

Psycho Olo sho

Alright

Hmm! Africa while NASA and space X are taking one step closer to colonise Mars tomorrow.

How mass shooters are arrested...

Once the cuffs are, it’s over, put the person in the car and let justice take over. I think we need to have the talk about how a High School diploma is all a person needs to be given this power.

gr8keeng:
I don't know how to upload the video from the site.... You will literally cry watching the video of how the man was begging the cops, telling them he can't breath.... This is so pathetic, so sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxso3LqRWmQ

IPOB Masters treating them worst than animals

joeyfire:
Living with people who steal like mad is not pleasurable unless you are also a thief. Nobody wants to be with the north. Even the middle belt have rejected you. They go out of their way to explain that they are not "hausa" because you guys anti-progress in every single way possible

Yep we still own you

joeyfire:
They should go please. If they like they should be richer than China let them just go abeg

U are clearly in pain. We will not go anywhere and u people will remain in Nigeria so that we will continue