₦airaland Forum

tochukwuifeduba:
General Buhari(rtd) is guilty of the Highest offence in Nigeria TREASON, what makes Treason a very serious issue is because it constitutes a crime not only against the Government but also an attack against the People of Nigeria, suspension of the most sacred Tool of our Political dispensation THE CONSTITUTION.

Somebody need to Remind Buhari that he cannot be the Messiah Nigerians seek, His 20 month rule in Nigeria is equivalent to the House of Horror under the Merciless Vamparist Rule of Count Dracula( The Blood sucking Undead demon who plague mankind).

Nigerians can never vote a certified Dictator nor A Proven Traitor the greatest Enemy of our dear state and Emerging Democracy. Unless maybe Buhari is on the last mission to subvert , rape, maimed and Destroy Nigeria Democracy maybe he have a strong Avid to return Nigeria to the Darkess Hours of Military Rule and Monumental horror.

Buhari regime attempted to stifle criticism. Journalists were harassed, and many critics were arrested. Symbolically, the arrest of the popular musician, Fela Ransome-Kuti, personified the crackdown. Ransome-Kuti's lyrics sharply mocked the government's inability to deal with national problems. The National Security Organisation (NSO) became the principal instrument of repression. The NSO, created in 1976, had played only a marginal role in Nigerian politics until the Buhari regime. Buhari appointed Rafindadi, a civilian, as head of the NSO, and under Rafindadi, Nigeria experienced the harassment and insecurity of a secret police force for the first time. Fortunately, the NSO proved to be inefficient, and subsequent reaction to its operations led to its reorganization.

Buhari's biggest problem was Nigeria's foreign debt. Negotiations with the International Monetary Fund dragged on, and in the end efforts to reschedule the debt failed. Although Buhari was committed to austerity, the IMF insisted on even more drastic measures to cut spending, devalue the currency, and otherwise restructure the economy than most Nigerians were willing to accept. Buhari had to accede to the strong and vocal opposition to the IMF terms. Nigerian nationalism won out over economic necessity, at least in the short run. Furthermore, by the end of 1985 there was considerable frustration within the army. The army had been reduced in size steadily since the end of the civil war, from a total of about 275,000 in 1969 to about 80,000 by the end of the 1980s. The economic crisis, the campaign against corruption, and civilian criticism of the military undermined Buhari's position, and in August 1985 a group of officers under Major General Ibrahim Babangida removed Buhari from power.

The officers who staged the coup were mostly from the north, but unlike Buhari (of Hausa origin), they were mostly from minority ethnic groups. Babangida, for example, was of Gwari origin from Niger state. He was a member of the Supreme Military Council under the Murtala Muhammad, Obasanjo, and Buhari regimes and had been involved in the 1975 and 1984 coups. Lieutenant General Domkat Bali became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Armed Forces Ruling Council (which succeeded the Supreme Military Council) was dominated by minority groups from the north. Some radicals and technocrats were appointed to ministerial positions.

Ifeduba ThankGod Tochukwu( Aguiyi Na Ozubulu)

tonychristopher:
Life is good ...that's lg motto

Happy new year for us

tonychristopher:
But what he said was true from his experience and mine ..I can second that

noblezone:
Latest news has it that IBB stole it.

humilitypays:
Let me first tackle the first issue- Igbos trying to buy-off a rented shop in Akure via a prodigal member of a Yoruba family- pls bro be sincere here, who is to be blamed?

You have to understand that the Igbo man is a chore entrepreneur by nature & birth trying to cut cost for himself and maximize and expand his business empire, so he tries to find a way to stop or cut down his business running cost (paying of rent annually) by convincing the owners or one of the owners of an estate/property to sell their estate outrightly to him.

If I am to judge on a neutral ground, I will blame the prodigal son more for allowing himself to be bought over with money.

This wouldn't cause hatred or uproar if it were done by another tribe or even a Yoruba indigene, its just unfortunate that Yoruba over the years have developed strong hatred and envy for Igbo people for no justifiable reason.

I read the funny cooked up story here of Igbo people giving one Ijebu woman married to an Igbo man mark to kill her in future; and some gullible Yoruba people will believe this half-baked lies and swallow it...kai...lolz....one of my brothers is married to a Yoruba lady...in fact, my family is a multi-cultural family because most siblings married from other tribes and its only Igbo men that marry freely and easily from other tribes in Nigeria.

The issue of Igbos engaging in human ritual to make money is more fallacious than a foreigner saying that all Nigerians are internet fraudsters when you and I know that not even up to 1% of Nigerians are into internet scam.

Nollywood is the major cause of this false money ritual accusation on Igbo people- Nollywood movies painted the wrong picture of successful Igbo businessmen just to sell their movies to make their money and Nigerians have bought that fallacy, kai...lol

History and news we do read everyday even here on nairaland shows that more Yoruba people even indulge in money ritual than Igbo people, why?

Because Yoruba people always find it difficult to understand how an Igbo trader will be expanding and building houses by selling say: automobile spare parts, electronics, provision, etc, so they now believe Igbos are into rituals and hence jump into that hasty conclusion and also find ways to engage in money rituals in order to prosper financially like the Igbo businessmen they see, at the end they fail because they didn't do the right thing- solving societal problem, providing needed solutions to problems in the society in exchange for money; they believe if they kill one fine girl and put her corpse in the wardrobe, it will be vomiting money for them whenever they call her name as they watch in Nollywood movies, lolz.

Let me also point out here that what spread this dangerous lies that Igbo people are money ritualist is Nollywood movies which are mostly written out of imagination and to attract people to make money from the movie. (I won't blame the producers of Nollywood movies because they are smart thinkers who knew what people wanted to see and gave it to them in order to get their constant patronage), lol


Igbo people aren't as fetish as Yoruba people believe; and I keep wondering y Yoruba people believe too much in fetish and juju things. I asked more than 4 different Yoruba friends and colleagues y they don't like going to their villages to build house and spend holidays, they all told me the same thing- PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGE ARE WITCHES, WICKED, KILLERS; you want them to kill me abi?

But your parents came from that village and no one killed them...Igbos don't believe in that because Igbo people don't believe so much in fetish powers like Yorubas and other tribes that fear going to their villages.


Meanwhile, there's no rocket science about Igbo people financial success all over the world; Igbo people are so industrious even before the civil war- they dominated every sector of Nigeria- military, politics, trade, importation/exportation except agriculture, and the reward for being hardworking, smart and industrious is financial prosperity!

When I was serving in Osun State, I was doing petty businesses- going to Lagos to buy fairly used laptops, phones and resold to my fellow Yoruba/Hausa/Tiv/Bini/Igbo/etc corpers to make some little change; they called me Igbo boy, mocked me jokingly for chasing money desperately even as a corper...some jokingly told me that it seems I was using juju/jazz to convince people to buy my laptops, I laughed.

Aside that, I and some fellow corpers also started tutorial classes for secondary school students there in which they paid us a token (I initiated it; I and some other Igbo/Warri corpers....Yoruba corpers mocked us because most of them believed they are too big to do that because some schooled abroad, UNILAG, Covenant university, Babcock, and couldn't bring themselves down to do little things that will fetch them money, but I and my fellow Igbo corpers did those shameful things to make money). I also taught OAU students AutoCAD in exchange for money, lol

One of my elder brothers I knew how much he suffered to become financially okay, and how much effort, hardwork and unusual labour he has put in life still gets bad name- ritualist, lol...meanwhile the man they call ritualist is always afraid of juju, praying to God daily to protect him and help him not to make financial mistake that will bring him down but people are out there seeing him as a demi god that fears no one and untouchable spirit man who makes huge money by invoking some spirits and sacrificing people he killed, *rotfl

My brother, wealth creation has one formula- solve people's problem, monetize your solution and u will be wealthy with time & watch people call u ritualist, lolz. Don't listen to those ritual crap people talk about Igbo people.

Most Igbo people Yorubas called ritualists in the 1980s and 1990s were into advanced fee fraud- what we now call Yahoo-Yahoo.

It was Igbo men that started it back then....writing Oyimbo letters via NIPOST to come claim crude oil money contract executed by a dead or missing foreigner, and out of greed, the Oyimbo people do reply them, agreeing to come claim the money they never worked for, lol...and in the process of Oyimbo trying to claim the virtual money, he pays more money to the Igbo group who are mostly secondary school graduates & drop-outs o...but today, Yoruba boys have taken over Yahoo-Yahoo from Igbo guys and have even messed it up by adding juju- Yahoo-Plus which they thought Igbo people were using to convince Oyimbo back then.

The earlier Yoruba people realise that majority of Igbo guys don't even believe in jazz and dread jazz like death, the better for them.

With how hard and smart that I am working now, I see myself excelling exceedingly in years to come, and my Yoruba neighbours won't recognise my hardwork/effort now o, tomorrow when I blow, they will call me ritualist...I can't wait to bear that honourable name- ritualist which God alone knows who's who.

I am working, despite that, I engage in lots of legal petty businesses to boost my income...and whenever my Yoruba colleagues hear me making business calls and mentioning money, they mock me and call me- Igbo boy u and business...you and money...some will jokingly tell me make I no use them do money ritual o and I laugh...they are comfortable working for a company till old age...they are happy being on a payroll and acquiring more degree certificates (Masters, Ph.D, ICAN, ACCA, etc) to get promoted to manager and get higher salary, lol

They can consult ifa, afa, etc to help protect them and jazz them up so their boss and mgt can do whatever they ask or favour them in company policies & decision making, but they aren't ok working extra hard, engaging in other business activities with their salary to earn more money and employ people in future; an Igbo man that does that & end up wealthier than them tomorrow is a money ritualist, *rotfl.

Meanwhile, I won't dispute the fact that some unscrupulous sons of Igbo land engage in human activities that soil the image of Igbo people; I won't also divorce the fact that some of these unworthy Igbo sons do indulge in these so-called money ritual in which they usually fail because you don't accumulate wealth by sacrificing human being or animal...find a problem in the society where u live, offer a solution to that problem and watch people give u their hard-earned money in exchange for your solution, hence your journey to becoming wealthy!


I hope I have answered your questions sir Lol

Good morning