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Watching out for any impostor on a mission to cause confusion.
To the topic at hand, I'll say Igbos hate no one who's fair in his dealings. The Igbo/Yoruba relationship is a very funny and yet bitter one. Funny in the sense that despite all the insults and braggadoccio, no any real violent conflict have occurred among them. Bitter on the other hand in that the danger of a violent conflict is very much possible given the stupid politics the Yorubas are playing against Ndigbo. After studying European history extensively and juxtaposing it with what we are doing in Nigeria today, I've seen that we can't escape that violence that we can easily avoid. We simply refuse to learn from the mistake of others. America dropped two atomic bombs in Japan yet they still helped to rebuild her. Today they are strong allies. Germany was almost reduced to nothing yet those they led their subjugation helped to rebuild her but here in Nigeria I'm told my forefathers did a coup therefore I shouldn't aspire to certain positions in a country I'm suppose to be it's citizen. Tufiakwa!

ScotMisile:
May you not have a betrayal and coward as your team mate.. he will always give a good reason why you should accept defeat.

100% correct ***** I understand you perfectly.

Quality20:
zamani lekwot, one very evil general who supplied weapons to zangon katab ppl of southern kaduna ppl in d early 90s to wipe out muslims and Hausas in southern kaduna. May he die a wretched and miserable death

You hate Zamani Lekwot for aiding his people defend their lands from you greedy people right? You Hausa people went to their homeland to change their market place from the old place to another area and try to force them to abandon the old one. Then, you apportion the strategic shops in the new place to your own businessmen without regards to the needs of the indigenes. I wonder how you people reason. It's so painful to you when one of you is killed but you see nothing wrong in slaughtering thousands of others. I'm glad the Kataf people stood their ground and resisted your onslaught. You have never condemned El Rufai for the atrocities he's committing against Christians in Kaduna tomorrow if another influential Christian arise to neutralize him you will begin to shout. Note, we're still mourning the Agwom Adara Chief. El Rufai must answer for his crime. Wicked people!

RZArecta2:
Hehe expect full EFCC harassment on these great men orchestrated by the despotic and demonic daura dûllard in Aso Rock

This is where Christian youths are needed. Any EFCC harassment should be resisted if need by force. It is a fight for survival. Allow Buhari to clamp these men down and Christian youths are finished. This is a time to keep partisanship and political correctness far away.

maisauki:
WITHDRAWAL OF OIL WELLS LICENSE caused all these shouts.
if u know, you know

Don't take this man's statement seriously. It was meant to make you whittle down the influence of Danjuma. Though their past may be bad but they are the only few influential Christians we have. They can offer the backbone we can use to defeat the impending jihad.

NonsoWow:
I wouldn't take pics serious if I were you. Go and visit Onitsha for yourself and you will understand why Anambra people are different and uniquely superior compared to other Igbos. Then after taking in the awe, drive down to Aba to see the disaster of a town and you will understand why they are considered as second class Igbos. The difference is so clear. I wouldn't advice you to go to Enugu because you may stay there for days without bathing due to lack of water in that town.

Crazy impostor conjuring divisive words to pitch UmuIgbo against themselves. I'm glad majority of us already know you for this. You've failed already! UmuIgbo are all great in there own way. The failure of certain individuals in certain states does not take away the Great potential of UmuIgbo in that state. So, scamper back to where you were exhumed.

misterme:
Horror in the kidnappers’ den
It took me a long time of reflections to put this piece together. First, let me thank my husband for the emotional support, the counselling and for his belief in the creator of heaven and earth which we call God or Allah.
The journey began in Auchi. We had travelled to Akure on a Monday, stayed with my husband’s relations in the outskirt of this ancient town. In the evening of Monday, we visited the palace for dinner, my husband being a close friend to son of the King.
On Tuesday, we left for Ibadan, via the Akure-Ilesa road. Our plan was that after attending the wedding in Auchi, we would travel with (my husband) to Lagos, stay for few weeks before returning abroad where I had lived with my husband and children for more than a decade. We were in the car of a close family friend, an accountant who gave his time and energy for our comfort.

We were five in the car, myself, my husband, our daughter, a lady who is my husband’s niece who had joined us in Akure with the hope of travelling with us to Lagos.
The driver accountant maintained a normal speed. He drove professionally. That gave me a lot of comfort and I felt I could find time to sleep a bit. My daughter was next to me, just 9. She was coming to Nigeria with me for the second time.
Shortly after the Ijare junction, the driver felt the wagon’s tires ruptured and decided to pack the car with the hope of changing the tires.

It was like a film. In a jiffy, motley crowd of armed men in military uniform came out of the bush. They fired at the boot of the car. Ahead of us, five of them came out of the bush, another two came from the rear. My daughter screamed: “Mummy, daddy, what’s going on”. There was no time to say a word. They marched us through into the bush, firing into the sky. They hit me on my chest, hit my daughter on her head, blood oozed. At this time, it was better to kill me. I shouted at one of the armed men. His response was hell. He went straight for my private part, tore my dress with his gun. The others ripped my dresses. I was left with my undies. My husband and my daughter started crying. Two of them dug their teeth into my breasts.
While attending a secondary school in Adamawa, I had lived with some Fulani, so I understand a few Fulani words. I started pleading, at least for my daughter. To my shock, at gun point, they removed the dress of my little girl, one of them carried her on his head as my baby struggled, shouting “Daddy, mummy, what’s going on. Help me.”

I could not help myself. We were marched for 9 hours. I was half naked. My daughter was totally naked. A felt her tears was like a stream of blood on her cheek. Our phones had been seized. We ended up in an ungoverned region in the thick of the forest. We met a well organized group.
There were some kidnapped victims, I saw two women, two ladies and three men. There were some people with their legs chained to trees. They were as if half dead. We were separated. I was separated from my husband. My daughter was taken away. I only heard her scream intermittently. I did not know what they were doing to her.
These men, now about two dozen had a full kitchen, they had a huge camp and a traditional medical team. But the camps appear isolated from each other. We heard noises afar indicating it might be nuclear settlements of camps. Right in my presence, I saw them pack the remains of a woman. They took her and buried her few meters away from us. She had tribal marks.
I cannot describe the agony of 6 days in captivity in this little piece. I cannot talk about how they asked my husband to choose between myself being raped or that his daughter be raped. My husband broke down in uncontrollable tears. One of them hit him saying “Yoruba bastard, you dey cry. Idiot.”
They now gave him the option that he should be raped by one homosexual among them. My husband is a devout Muslim. He told them homosexual and rape of any kind was against Islam. They hit him with the butt of AK 47: “What do you know about Islam?”
You can imagine, you are being asked to choose between being raped by a homosexual, your daughter, just nine years old, or your wife being raped? They gave the forth option, if you fail to choose, they would rape my daughter, rape my husband and rape me.
I made myself the sacrificial lamb. My husband begged, saying they should name their price. One of them asked him to bend down. Three beastly criminals sat on his back, jumping until he was too weak to stand. I was not allowed to put on any additional cloth on my body for 24 hours. The rain fell once. I became the relic and a sexual museum for the armed men who in turn addressed me and asked questions about my financial standing. New Fulani men joined the camp. They organized military training for the new Fulani men that came, teaching them how to shoot and walk through circles of glowing fire.
We were not released until after 6 days. We had to walk the same zik-zag journey back to the main road, our eyes blindfolded. During the negotiation to pay, they said the money was not for them alone that they had to settle “those who send us”. For me, I see a thriving, organized crime supported by powerful political interests.
Now, I do not think we were released to freedom after paying a whopping 8 million naira. I do not think we can ever be free, we can never be free, from the anguish, the psychological trauma, the nightmares we suffered, the occasional fits of our daughter, her waking up midnight behaving strangely, her asking the same question over and over: “Mummy, mummy, why?. Why.?” I do not have any answer.
In my life, I have never passed through a torture chamber like this. I do not think any society should let this happen. I do not know the fate of those we met, and about 7 other people brought during the 6 days we were in captivity. What I saw was a nation that has collapsed but pretends she lives, a people on life support. Crime is not restricted to Fulani people alone. We have Yoruba criminals. But I don’t Yoruba criminals are not as beastly. These elements are savages. I can’t imagine Yoruba thieves going to Sokoto or Maiduguri to kidnap Fulani people and keep them in their own bushes. It gives me mental torture that this is happening and some fools are even trying to justify or look for excuses.
Well, as a devout Muslim, myself and my family have taken solace in Allah, not the Nigerian police, not the Army, not the governments. We have taken our faith the way it came. I thank God that we have successfully returned to where we live, thousands of miles from Nigeria. We thank God that we have made a vow: Never shall me, any of my children or husband in our lifetime visit Nigeria. Our remains any time we die, will also not be buried in Nigeria. It was a suggestion by my daughter which we all adopted.
I pity the country. I pity her people who continuously walk like the living dead. I pity those who parade themselves as leaders, because they know nothing about what is going on and the abyss the country sunk already.

I pity Yoruba people, oh, I pity you. I pity my people. For me the issue is not about President Buhari. Democracy can produce anything, even the worst in the society.

What I worry about is the conspiracy of silence by the people themselves, the ignorance, the treachery and the illusion that one day, things will get better through another election.


Since I was born in Nigeria, each year had led from bad to worse and on and on. I do not have a solution to what is going on, but I think very soon, hell will let loose upon the earth as long as there is no law and order and anarchy and the rule of brutes is the order of the day.
Once again, there cannot be anything more comforting than my husband who saw what I went through but has been able to encourage me and even encouraged me to write this little piece after months of agony and sociological imbalance. Good night Nigerians.

Copied from a forum of Nigerian Women in Diaspora

I want to agree with this story but some answers are needed to clarify any doubts. Why do such victims remain silent even though they are no more in Nigeria where there's no security? If this is really from a Nigerian women forum, why didn't influential writers pick on it and write an expository article to bring to light what's happening in Yorubaland of recent and warn the Yorubas of what's going on in their land?
When I read some people saying Islamization is not possible in this age, I shudder at their naivety. Firstly, I'll want most Christians and Southerners to know that outside Nigeria, most people assume Muslims are very dominant in the contraption i.e Christians are just a tiny fraction of her given our long history of Muslim military dictators and our OIC membership. Even some assumed credible sources claim that Muslims are more in population and the percentage they ascribe to Christianity continues to decrease yearly. We know that Christian population in Nigeria is more if you do a simple sample check. However, the view as perceived from outside determines what treatment you get when in need of outside intervention. Sadly, Christians here will likely be ignored because it will be assumed that their population is quite small that any help rendered will make no difference in the long run. Let me make my point a bit clearer by bringing a similar scenario from within Nigeria here. Kaduna state paints a better picture of Nigeria in this light. With a clear North/South dichotomy bearing a noticeable religious difference, most southerners only noticed this of recent. The 2006 census showed that Southern Kaduna had a slightly more population than the north yet the general perception is that Kaduna is a strong Muslim state. Most Southerners do not know how to intervene in the persecution happening there because they don't see any difference it would make in the long run given that they assume the Christians of southern Kd are just very small which is not true. This is my point. The same ignorant assumption is what will make the Christian countries to show lack of interest as the Islamization agenda is rolled out gradually. Secondly, the inherent apathy in challenging and correcting wrong representation of Christians and the secular state of Nigeria has started affecting the Christians here. Take Sharia case under OBJ as an example. Take OIC membership of Nigeria while Christians remain mum as another. Being a member simply means Nigeria is an Islamic country tolerating Christian minorities which is not true. Another example of the gradual shift in a country's shift in religious perception is Lebanon. Most will never know that as recent as 60yrs ago, Lebanon had more Christian population but today, the demography and the perception has changed. Hezbollah a terrorist organization has become an integral part of that country and there's nothing Christians there can do. Same thing is been replicated here with Boko and fulanis terrorists while some Christians live in denial. When will such people believe the danger lurking? Is it when all hope is lost or is it after they've been maimed for life and become a liability to the Christian fold? Let's wake up and open our eyes to what's happening in Nigeria. OBJ and T.Y Danjuma cannot be wrong in their assertions. Mind you Ndigbo have been fighting this thing since the 60s but other Christians misunderstood them.

GrowYourSales:
Our own Anthony

Ah ah I thought he was unbeatable...I wanted to marry him that year

Typical of women. "I wanted...". How situations change your decisions is inexplicable.

Balyz:
Empty chestbeating as usual

Ok o

I'm grateful to the OP for this thread. This is the first most comprehensive info I've got on both the Akassa war and the metamorphosis of the Royal Niger Company. I really wanted to know what happened in Akassa. Our Kings weren't that daft after all. Our problem have always been the division within our ranks. A company wouldn't have sacked a kingdom if they'd merged together and fight as a unit. I hope the present Southern people of Nigeria can learn from this. Jaja was taken out first before they came for Koko. Bonny refused to come for the important alliance. Shame! Rest In Peace Koko the Great.

GeneralPula:
Very true bro. I wish it was France that colonized up. I really wish. Benin republic is still partly under France till today and they’re doing very fine with the little. Less racism & things like that

Although I dislike the British government for what they did to us in Nigeria, I still choose them over the French. The English came for resources and left us with our identity whereas the French came for the same thing and took away the identity of their former colonies. In fact, those countries are still colonies of France hence you hardly hear of any giant economic growth from francophone countries in Africa. Let me tell you a secret: the British later realized their mistake and have since started to follow the french approach in Africa hence the lots of Nigerians winning elections in the country now. The french understood Africans better at an early stage.

Osagyefo98:
With statement as false as anything I believe IPOB has nothing to offer.

They are terrorists as labelled.

If you need long life desist from IPOB, they are as useless as anything and have nothing to offer.


If I had not got the first hand information, I will believe this guys as usual.

Evil man. Nothing you do will stop the movement of IPOB. We shall conquer and get Biafra. No false accusations will fly because we will counter all of them. The end of the contraption is near. Viva Biafra.
All our people in countries all over the world went for rally with policemen escorting them. Nigeria has bitten more than it can chew. As of present we are going it in a peaceful way and the world knows. You have been killing us and we've been enduring. The day we will take up arms, they will support us.

kennygee:
Jacob wasn't a Christian.

What religion was he?

kennygee:
They are most certainly not Christians and their religious practice isn't against it.

Jacob the patriarch married two sisters.

Neozy:
Nelson Mandella is the most overhyped African. Tell me his legacies and achievements( perhaps I forgot). Tell me what he did that Awolowo didn't do better. I will even choose Thomas Sankara before him. Awolowo is greatly underrated.

Lol. You want to overrate Awolowo right? See how you try to underrate Mandela? His personality is beyond what your small mind can grasp. Back to Awolowo; he was a great man no doubt but for the fact that he was championing a sectional agenda limited his popularity. Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe tower far above him despite his local achievements. Awolowo is of the same mould as Ahmadu Bello- only popular within Nigeria.

Osagyefo98:
Mynd44 push this to front-page

Ipob are becoming more dangerous this days.

They are now deadlier than boko haram.

Leave all this sycophants defending evil....


Nnamdi and his group are terrorist.

Umu ekwensu.

In your desperation, you continue to fail. IPOB deadlier than boko haram? Lol. Show us pix and videos of IPOB members killing people. That of boko haram is all over YouTube. You are a demon and you deserve death for your false accusations. Fulani herdsmen are the 4th deadliest terrorists group in the whole world and you've never said anything about them. You deserve death. Evil entity.

muykem:
You lack understanding of history you claimed. Ojukwu declared self determination and fully harmed his men. What is that please?

If only you will jettison prejudice and face the truth, you could see who triggered the war. Why did Gowon withdraw from the Aburi Accord he duly signed? Mind you that at the time tens of thousands of easterners were already killed in the north. You don't expect an endangered people to trust someone who can't keep to his words hence the eastern assembly mandated Ojukwu to declare Biafra. If you were in Ojukwu's shoe, what would you have done?

MetaPhysical:
Even today as we speak Iboland remain headquarter of homosexuality in West Africa.

I had thought you were reasonable in that your thread... now I see another part of you. Noted

immhotep:
It is not the job of Economist magazine to massage the ego of APCheat and sai babarians.

Cc lzaa sarrki adaibeku husbandsnatcha

WORD!

RichBoy247:
So you need Fulanis' need? I thought you are the Jews that can take on the whole world and reduce the world to ashes. I thought you can overrun Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri/Igala/Tiv/Junkun/Gwari/Ijebu/Ekiti/Egba/Awori/Egun and every tribe in Nigeria?

We are waiting for you, the 1967 episode will be a child's play to what will befall you.

Lol. I know you're always thirsty for Igbo blood but it's yours that will be drunk. Are Fulanis not killing Nigerians now? Are they not doing ethnic cleansing? Do you have an answer to their threat? You're just like a sitting duck waiting for your turn to be taken to the abattoir. I don't see you raising any resistance to them but you have the effontery to threaten Igbos. You deserve what befalls you.
Oh yes, we are Jews and can do lots of things but contrary to your expectation in naivety, we will not start a war but will rise up and defend ourselves like we did before. Foolish people don't deserve to be occupying scarce resources like lands that's why fulanis are presently mopping those lands.

muykem:
They started the war and be defeated but turnaround to blame victim of their senseless action.

I don't blame you history isn't taught in Nigerian schools. It was Gowon led Nigerian government that attacked Biafra after failing to honour the Aburi Accord he was signatory to. Today, they tell you Biafrans started the war. Lies from the pit of hell.

muykem:
They started the war and be defeated but turnaround to blame victim of their senseless action.

I don't blame you history isn't taught in Nigerian schools. It was Gowon led Nigerian government that attacked Biafra after the failing to honour the Aburi Accord he was signatory to. Today, they tell you Biafrans started the war. Lies from the pit of he'll.

RichBoy247:
Your people have been crying for 52 years now, if you pick up arms against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, what you will witness will be beyond your wildest imagination, that is is you are even lucky to be alive to witness it. You cannot decalre war against the Federal Republic and expect a hug.

Lol. We're waiting for fulanis to help us reduce you people before we strike. Give and take 5yrs from now many of you would have been slaughtered. It makes the job easier for us. Lol

I actually cried the first time I read that piece of history. Shortly after that I witnessed something similar in Jos and ever since after that, I was transformed. I've never been the same again. Nigeria has a date with history. That's the reality.

Nice one Billyonaire. You've been scarce lately. Great to have you back.
Topics as this hardly gets the attention of majority of nairalanders. It's too deep for their comprehension and contribution. You can see the first comment after your post. It's sad what's happening to the black race. Too sad!

Great one UmuIgbo! Let the world hear our voice.

The world will know that we remember our fallen heroes and the innocent children that died due to malnutrition. We will always remember.

Olufemiolaolu:
It's only the gullible people of the east he can deceive.

Lol. Your government labelled him a terrorist but he has been travelling unrestricted in first world countries. What does that make of your country? A jungle, shithole or zoo? A contraption that can't be taken seriously. Lol. The joke is on you guys. Even UK will not arrest him simply because they're quite reasonable. They have laws and they abide by them. Meanwhile, fulani herdsmen will slaughter some of you before this week runs out and yet they are not a terrorist group. Lol

Kingsley1000:
do we know the economic implications of this sit at home to our people?

i pity those that are complying to this shit

You have never told us the economic implications of the herdsmen rapings, killings and pillaging. Scram off hateful being.

madmohamed:
agent of darkness what is ur business with ndi igbo when did u start to care about them. This Bini boy self

He's not Bini. He's Fulani

Osagyefo98:
As posted by Twitter user, his mother returning from night vigil escaped death as IPOB set bus on fire.

Security should rise and deal decisively with these terrorists.

You evil persona, stop posting lies against IPOB members. Your evil agenda have failed woefully.

Nice one OP. Continue with the expose and enlightenment.
Seeing that we have lots of cultist here, I believe that fulani herdsmen will meet there match soon. Rugged entities are gallant. We are counting on you guys. Lol