tpia.:

can you explain the recent beheadings by your Boko haram kinsmen?

I'm still amazed you're putting mouth sha.

anyway, like i said, your ethnicity is still being determined.

First you're Lebanese. Then you're Fulani and Shuwa Arab.

Next you'll be what.

attention: idiot tpia, i am not lebanese, the fact that you're still bringing it up makes you daft, dont bring that up again since ive already confirmed that im not lebanese,and you know im not freaking lebanese. my mother is fulani and my dad is shuwa arab, i can even tell you the name of his clan.im shuwa arab, i speak arabic! period, now you know my ethnicity,what are you

Beaf:

--I digress--
Sanusi, the disaster? No way! Abubakar Umar is excellent.
But before we forget, there is no rotation in the constituition, so the VP will become president. If the VP kpeme, then Senate President will take over.
--Back to topic--

atleast we know sanusi is honest, brilliantly intellectual and non materialistic, if yar'adua is there,i see no reason why sanusi cant take over from him,we know he'd be much better than yar'adua!how would goodluck become president when he's not a northerner? we're saying that a northerner or northerners should run for the presidency after yar'adua's first term!!!yar'adua should go back to katsina and sip some nono and goodluck should go back to bayelsa and sip some palm wine,i actually he can go drink some crude oil for all i care!!2015 we'll back fashola but the south will have to figure out among themselves whether a candidate from the south south, south east or south west will be fielded!!

THE AMAKA:

and pretend you didnt post this trying to start ANOTHER internet tribal war fare.   

yeah whatever, im just saying what i know, did you not see the way that man was biting the poor guy kneeling down, i mean biting,arent animals the ones that bite all the time,just watch discovery channel or animal planet and you'll see nothing but biting! this guy is biting the man like an animal,what kind of madness is that and honestly only yoruba people can do that!!

kai, yoruba people!!im not surprised at all. when i was in secondary school, my yoruba teachers were the most brutal,they enjoyed brutalizing students, flogging,slapping and all that. the hausa teachers never touched anybody and the igbo teachers hardly laid a hand on students.even our seniors,it was the yoruba seniors that enjoyed beating the juniors the most and they did it more often than anyone,yorubas are the problem with nigeria,they are like monkeys that have not fully evolved into civilized human beings,just look at how crude obasanjo is,typical example!

^^^
nonsense, i want yar'adua to go after his first term but in keeping faith with rotational presidency, major abubakar umar or even sanusi lamido should finish the 8 yr term which the north is entitled to just like how obasanjo had two terms equally as disastrous as yar'adua, after that, i support like many do the moving of the presidency to the south and i'll happily back fashola!!!

@illusion2

why are you so stereotypical, your propaganda is evil.

Bialegend:

All these almajiris lacks substance. The above quote contains a question that was posed to one of them call gadogado. Guess what he did? Vamoose without responding to the question.

im not aware of any question "posed" to me, pose any question and ill definitely answer you in a direct and holistic way!by the way,stop calling people almajiri,the population of almajiris in the north is about .8% of the entire northern population so your generalization is sickening and a mere stereotype, it would be like a northerner calling you a cannibal coz thats exactly what people in the north southerners are, i remember many stories growing up as a child about southern cannibalism
(igbo and yoruba cannibalistic juju people) clifford orji, remember him? so i suggest you relax, there are millions of productive northerners who are intelligent/intellectual and good people.

illusion2:

Those are the old notes my friend. . .

so i guess you feel like you've won something, you're victorious right?i dont see anything wrong with arabic on the naira and i dont mind if theres no arabic on the naira,i dont think most average northerners care either way!

there is arabic on the naira, i can read that stuff, its there so its not off yet,and it wont be off!!

step down and attend to my health

these guys, you make me laugh, i have figured out that the only reason you are attacking northerners and claiming theres is a northern agenda of domination of the country is simply coz yar'adua is the president, as soon as he leaves, and the power rotation moves back to the south, you guys will stop talking about "northern agenda" in other words, you guys are simply competing for power which is healthy in a democracy especially in multi cultural societies like nigeria.

Dont worry, the power will come back to you eventually, north-south rotation of power will not be jeopardized in 4th republic nigeria, people are too politically aware for the north to dominate the country, so you guys should just wait your turn. what bothers me a little though is that unlike america where you have people competing for power based on ideological grounds (conservative and liberal) nigerians compete for power on the basis of region,religion and tribe (north and south) and those things are dangerous because they appeal to the passions and sentiments of people on a deeper level. personally, i would love to campaign for raji fashola after yar'adua's term runs out, fashola for president, or any other progressive!!yar'adua is a classical conservative elite and aristocrat, he believes in a rigid class structure of aristocrats and peasants or nowadays, elite and commoners.islam and christianity are not that different and they both come from the same region (middle east) the fundamentals of both religions are just about identical and the same God is worshiped (the God of Abraham and Isaac) so i believe you guys are merely politicizing something so trivial and petty lime arabic on the naira, does arabic on the naira change your religion? if you want to be broad minded then im sure you'll draw a conclusion that the religions are by and large the same and the same God is worshipped and if you disrespect islam then you automatically discredit and disrespect christianity, most of the Bible stories are found in the Quran.so why not be open minded and accepting instead of ignorant and petty??i guess thats the nigerian way.

2011: EFCC seeks psychiatric test for aspirants
From Reuben Buhari in Kaduna, 09.29.2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Chairman of the Econo-mic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mrs. Waziri Farida, appears to have found her voice and she is using it strongly

The EFCC boss yesterday called for a psychiatric test for politicians jostling for public office in order to determine their level of mental and psychological suitability, ahead of the 2011 elections. The test in her summation is necessary given the primitive accumulation of wealth to the point of "madness" by officials duly elected or appointed to serve the public. Some of those officials might be suffering from "obsessive- compulsive psychiatric disorder", she declared. According to a statement signed by the Head of Media and Publicity of EFCC, Mr Femi Babefemi, Waziri made her views known while delivering the keynote address on Transparency and Accountabi-lity in Public Service at a three-day workshop in Kaduna, yesterday. "Having dealt with many corruption cases, I am inclined to suggest that public officers should be subjected to some form of psychiatric evaluation to determine their suitability for public office," she said. She hammered away on the depth of rot she encountered during the discharge of her duties. “The extent of aggrandizement and gluttonous accumulation of wealth that I have observed suggests to me that some people are mentally and psychologically unsuitable for public office. We have observed people amassing public wealth to a point suggesting ‘madness’ or some form of obsessive- compulsive psychiatric disorder," she observed. In her paper titled: "Transpa-rency and Accountability in Public Service: The Role of Anti-Corruption Agencies", Waziri said the success of the anti-corruption fight partly depends on the passage of relevant laws such as the Freedom of Information Bill (FOI). Also, a "whistle blower act" is necessary for the success of EFCC's efforts, she added. "If we truly expect a public service that is accountable to the people of Nigeria, then the Freedom of Information Bill must be passed. If you deny the public the right to know, the anti- corruption war is lost," she declared. She called on relevant agencies to work together in order to create an environment that would checkmate corrupt activities. The EFCC boss claimed that the crisis rocking the banking industry had justified her efforts because sceptics earlier labelled it a "jamboree". According to her, the country's financial system would have been "rubbished" but for the intervention of the Central Bank (CBN). “You cannot afford to be neutral in this war. Make it your war," she urged. She asked the organisers of the event to set up an anti-corruption arm of the public service that could collaborate with the EFCC on information and intelligence gathering, budget tracking and project implementation, grassroots anti-corruption mobilization, anti-corruption education and awareness as well as whistle blower activity. Waziri accused state governors of frustrating the work of the agency across the country. She stated that those concerned selectively support or antagonise the agency based on whether their friends were implicated in corruption cases.

“We don’t have full support from some Nigerians. When I arrest your friends, you criticize me and call me all sort of names," said the EFCC boss.

“You say I have lost track and not doing my job the way it should be done, but when I arrest your enemy, you now say I am doing a great job. It mustn’t be so."

Waziri stressed that the fight against corruption could only succeed when states that vehemently oppose the agency turn around to support it's effort. In her view, most Nigerians view the fight against corruption as a government project.

Former Chief Justice of the Federation Muhammad Uwais, who spoke earlier during the opening ceremony, stated that the common notion that all Nigerians are corrupt is false.

He however, said that stealing from the community which had always been considered a serious offence had sadly failed to be transmitted into moral values of society. The result, he said, was that some who committed crime against the state were regarded as heroes by their traditional communities

Governor of Kaduna State, Namadi Sambo, who was represented by his deputy, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, stated the determination of the state government to pursue due process and transparency in the conduct of governance.


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i would trust ribadu over ibori any day!but i have to admit,its hard knowing whats true and whats ficticious. i dont beleive ribadu is 100% clean but he is much cleaner than ibori.

SapeleGuy:

Does this theory of yours apply to islam because the black stone is erm black - I believe it is important in the religion. What colour is the ka'abba? is it white?

you should direct your question to no2atheism, he is he one talking as if arabs exist on this earth simply to hate black people!i on the other hand simply attempted to prove to him that thats not the case and that even blacks themselves dont like blacks so why should he act all offended that arabs dont like blacks, which is actually an over generalization on his part.The ka'aba is covereved in black cloth and the black stone is black! yep you're right.arabs feel blacks are unproductive!!they have a point i think!!as a black person,ask yourself what your race has contributed to the advancemet of humanity, please note that ancient egyptians were not black as in negroid,they had strong semitic blood in their ethnic composition and they were brown people maybe a little lighter than modern day eritreans.

@no2atheism

Do you know where the term slave comes from, it was derived from slav. yes,the people that inhabit eastern europe and russia. once upon a time, they were being sold as slaves on a massive scale to the extent that a slav and a slave became one and the same meaning, the arabs,persians,scandanavians all traded in slavic slaves. does this mean that slavic people should hate the english language an western europe? ill let you think about that!

also that song has underlying meaning! why is it that no one likes a black bird but they all like white birds,give you my black and you give me your white clearly suggests that you have something desirable and i have something undesirable and i desire what you have (white) and i want to get rid of what i have (black) i dont know about yoruba language but in hausa, there are a great deal of terms that turn negative when the word baki (black) is put in front of them, ill give you a few examples
bakin jini (someone who is not likeable)
bakin ciki (bad belle)
lets move to english
blackmail, black heart, so my point is the word black is associated with negative things so what do you think the subliminal message is to a child, a grown up and to the entire culture, what goes on in the subconscious mind when people identify black with neagtive?if my skin is black then i must be negative if compared to a white person. thats the logic!!!!whether conscious or subconscious, the fairer the better, the darker the worse off. it doesnt take a psychologist to figure this out!!!

@tpia

of course you knew im not lebanese,why would i be on nairaland if i was?i just said that to mess with you and you called it immediately!so wonder why you'd bring that up, im from the northern part of northern nigeria,infact,after my village is chad republic but ive never been to that village and didnt grow up in that state!!

those people in the picture above are north african arabs not black africans

IG:

Let me make some things clear about the North and the Fulanis. Most southerners believe that the Fulanis rule all of the North. Agreed they rule most of the Hausaland but that is because the Hausas never woke up to the concept of creating empires and kept living in city state like Kano, Zazzau, Daura e.t.c. Before the fulanis, the Jukuns ruled most of those areas. it was a great empire. But empires rise and fall. Even after the fulani conquest there are some kingdoms that were ruled by non-fulanis. For example Bauchi is part of the sokoto caliphate with a majority fulani population but the ruling class are the original gerawa people up to this day. Zaria has three ruling families, the Zage-Zagi who are hausas, the Mallawas who fulani and the Barnawas who are Kanuri.
The Kanem-Borno empire has some significant fulani population. They are called the fulata-borno but they've never ruled and were still loyal to the empire. The instances when Borno was attacked by fulanis, those attacks were carried out by foreign fulanis from the hausaland.

Kanem-Borno at it's peak covered an area that starts from present day Jigawa state from the west extended into cameroun to sout-east, libya and sudan in north-east. The point here is that Kanem-Borno was a negroe empire that ruled over arab kingdoms. Like I said empires rise and fall. So the fulanis never ruled all of the North. In fact the sokoto caliphate is considered young at 200 years compared to Kanem-Borno which is roughly 2000 years old.

Now talking about Darfur, the truth is that there is nothing like Arabs against Africans. That is only what the western world and some of their middle-east cronnies want us to believe. It's an age old fight between farmers and nomads. The british colonial government set the precedence for this fight when they allocated land for each ethnic group but didn't give any to the volatile nomads. I think the media propaganda started when Sudan chose to do business with chinese Sina-Oil instead of western oil companies.

The people being reffered to as the opressed Africans are mostly from the Zaghawa ethnic group. This group form the ruling class in the neighbouring Chad republic. The president Idris Deby Itno is Zaghawa. The highest ranking sultan in Chad the Sultan of the Zaghawa. Don't forget that majority of the masses in Chad are Shuwa Arab living under Zaghawa rulership.
Going back to Sudan, it's interesting to know that the president Umar Al-Bashir is not even Shuwa Arab but traces his roots back to Nigeria.

The point I am trying to make is that Sudanese politics is not about Arabs vs Africans. It's just about holding on to power and controlling the resources. Just like any other part of the world.

IG, im not so sure i agree with you in your analysis of sudan, you may be right in that the shuwa arabs or baggaras as they're called in sudan are fighting the black zaghawas in western sudan along with other tribes of darfur like the fur. but you somewhat imply that there is no racism and that there is propaganda. However, the sudanese arabs are racists (dont mean to generalize) but they do have an ideological motive for doing what they did/doing in southern sudan and there is racism when it comes to darfur.the shuwa arabs base their hate for the darfuris on race although i tend to agree that the severity of the racism is exaggerated by the western media. there is racism though

@no2atheism

Myself and IG have owned you, we have refuted and defeated every single brainless argument you made on this thread.It is now clear that you are
I. religious bigot
II. consumed with hate for northerners
III. ignorant
IV. need to go and learn more

See i didn't use arabic numerals either so you dont start senselessly ranting. but seriously, you are very very ignorant, you need to do something about it coz ignorance is a disease, go an find your cure.

@beaf

that amanaonline article is the stupidest thing ive ever read, this is exactly how europeans divide and conquer idiotic people, the aim of barth or whatever his name is is to suggest that fulanis are racially superior to hausas or others like the belgians told the tutsis of rwanada that they were racially superior coz the were taller and have thinner noses than the hutus. its idiotic, there are members of my family from my mothers side who are real fulfulde (they speak the actual fulani language) and ive never heard any fulani person reflect anything in that article, actually, in the north, hausas laugh at fulanis coz they see them as bush people (borroro) there are all kinds of fulani jokes kinda like black jokes in america. if anything, the fulanis are looked down on, fulanis are peacful as far as i know, they mingle extremely well with other tribes. In adamawa for example where there are alot of northern christians, the fulani mix well and live in peace with the christians and smaller tribes, you find these actual fulfulde/fulani people who speak their own language in adamawa, N.E cameroun, bauchi, gombe for the most part and thats it, the other fulanis of north central or north western states, katsina,sokoto etc are what you can accurately call hausa-fulani coz firstly, they have interbreeded and intermingled and intermarried so much that there is no real difference. i am telling you this coz im a core northerner!and i know first hand. the fulanis of N.C and N.W dont speak fulfulde, they speak hausa and thats the only language they know how to speak!!thats their lingua franca and primary means of communication(im not talking of fulani nomads that have no home and just roam everywhere with cattle) im talking about sedentary fulanis that live in those states, they have hausa identity, the cultures are so mixed and diluted that there is only a hausa-fulani culture.
kai, some of you guys are so ignorant of the north,fulanis dont in anyway beleive that they're "superior" to anyone!thats a damn LIE.its extremely difficult for a northerner to trace his ancestry and claim pure fulani blood,actually,i dare to say it is impossible!no such thing!hausa/fulani is an accurate term, most hausas have fulani blood and vice versa, they mingled so well coz their cultures were very very similar, both are afro-asiatic people and even physically, there is a resemblance between hausas and fulanis before the fulanis came to northern nigeria that is.today,they're the same people!

this is/was the kuwaiti crown prince that died last year, is he not black to you, how is this nigerian politician a black african and the kuwaiti price a white arab,compare and contrast between saad alsabah and abubakar rimi (nigerian from kano)

No2Atheism:

Okay u are mixing me up with other people.


1. I hate islam.
2. I dislike islamic arabs that are racist towards black people.
3. Go through my post and u would understand i already said original inhabitants of arabia were actually black . . . hence i don't understand why u feel the need to repeat back to me what i already mentioned.
4. English is nigeria's official language . . . Arabic is not.
5. English is a parasitic language that steals from other languages hence the reason why Indian Numerals are found in english.
6. Hausa has a non-arabic script. Igbo is written using english script, Yoruba is also written using english script.
7. Non-muslim arabs are just as hated as blacks by muslim arabs so stop your whitewash of history or else soon you are going to start telling me its possible for non-muslim arabs or blacks to have significant position in the middle east e.g. Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.
8. Sanusi is an open islamophilic fulani man who does not hide that fact that he is pro - islam.
9. Arabic language is a symbol of islam ( cus islam falsely claims its intertwined with arabic itself hence as far as am concerned islam and arabic language are synonymous even though people know there are non-muslims arabic speakers who are likewise being discriminated against by the stance of islam as concerns arabic.)
10. Thus by the aforementioned points, arabic is not welcomed on the nigerian currency . . .

You're ignorant! simple! the kuwaiti crown prince saad al-ahmed al-sabah is black.what are you talking about!his mother, jamila is african.i used to live in dubai (im black) i had a room mate who is full blooded kuwaiti and he used to watch so much pornography but the thing was he only watched the videos that had black women in them coz according to him,he liked the butts.furthermore,i was close to palestinians there and they were a group of friends, all palestinian but a mix of muslims and christians and they were brothers and loved each other often making fun of each others religion.dont be ignorant and never generalize people,its shallow and shows your lack of depth and understanding of the human mind and social conditions. furthermore, alot of arabs hate eachother,i have seen this first had,the gulf arabs despise the lebanese and the egyptians ad vice versa,saudis hate jordanians and palestinians etc etc, there is a lot of that between them and if you want to go down memory lane,you'll find that arabs lived in tribes and many of them engaged in tribal warfare, killing each other coz they were from different tribes meaning they hated each other.

so stop acting like your some special victim of arab hate coz you're black,many people hate for various reasons. Furthermore,if you want to be honest ans if you are well travelled,is there anywhere on this earth of ours that loves black people? anywhere you go as a black person,you'll find people who hate you and think you're lower than them. EVERYWHERE or dont they have that in the u.kpls go and expand your mind.dont single out arabs coz everyone hates blacks even blacks that are lighter skinned hate darker skinned blacks and often ridicule them whether african americans or africans especially nigerians. as a kid,i'd always here little hausa kids singing a song when they saw a particular type of white bird "bellbela bellbela bani fari in baka baki" it means "bird,bird give me your white and i'll give you my black" if blacks themselves didnt hate each other,would they sell each other in the transatlantic slave trade,in one case,a black cheif sold 200 blackmen to a white man for a mirror,actually he exchanged or bartered 200 men for a mirror so he could look at himself,IS THERE NOT SOMETHING INHERENTLY DIFFICIENT IN BLACK PEOPLE?BE HONEST

davidylan:

this is nonsense . . . prior to the kleptocratic regimes of your northern stooges . . . no southerner would ever contemplate going to Sudan to hustle. Igbo boys are there today because you have bankrupted our nation and turned it into a banana republic. For this and many more we say thank you and pray without ceasing for the day our leaders will grow and spine and kick us out of this unholy yoke with cattle rearers and backward folks.

dude, are northerners the only leaders in nigeria that are corrupt,corruption is not a tribal thing,its a class thing,if you belong to that class (upper/political elite) tribe doesn't matter nearly as much as you'd want to beleive. they had corruption in europe, study russian history prior to the revolution, all were russians and had no ethnic sects but there was still massive corruption by the nobles and elites, the peasants suffered in no small measure! its a CLASS thing not a TRIBE thing, the earlier you can understand that, the better for you!!all nigerians are corrupt, it has absolutely nothing to do with tribe unless you're saying that ibori (the most corrupt governor in nigerias history) is a northerner! delta state got alot of money under his regime, why didnt he simply use it to better the lot of his people instead he stole and stashed but he is a southerner.sometimes you're too simplistic! ribadu is a northern fulani man, but is he corrupt? if he became president,would he be corrupt?doubt that!! why? coz he's not from that class!!its CLASS not TRIBE.i kind of feel sorry for you coz you're consumed by too much hate!

ndu_chucks:

many of una wey dey post here should be ashamed.  de most marginalized Nigerians wey una go find dey for naija delta region and for north, in de form of almanjiris.

none of una come from out of space, na naija dem born most of una, or at least una papa or mama. so therefore, na una responsibility to find solution to de problems wey una dey complain about. de energy wey una take dey fight is better used when una take am proffer solutions.

all of una be enablers to the leaders wey una get. if una fit come internet, then una dey priviledged, since most naija people never get light not to talk of internet. shame on all of una.  de only ting wey una fit do na to cowardly battle each other from una living rooms.

wettin una don do personally to improve naija.  most of una be dan iskas; olodo rabata,  bloody tribalists and racists.

make una no vex, sometimes una need tough love.

i concur!! by blaming each other, you solve absolutely nothing!cooperation is a conept that'll get you somewhere not trivial and false little comments like we feed you.

df2006:

thank you david.   gado whatever  you should have been in chad on a camel, but thanks to the fraud called nigeria, you are posting a reply in nairaland. but i do appreciate your humanity though, but the reality is that we can never, i repeat never be the same, we think differently, and you are only here because of what you stand to gain, nothing more nothing less, but not for long,  very soon, we shall see

dude, what makes a nigerian think he is so much better than someone from chad or sudan or wherever you people like to bash so much. if you go to khartoum-sudan, you'll see all sorts of igbo boys there hustling to make a living, if its so much worse than nigeria or (southern nigeria) why go to sudan in the first place, im also certain that you've never been to chad so you have no way of knowing what its really like,camels? dont be ignorant, you sound like a european who asks if you live on trees when you say you're nigerian.your view of chad is probably wrong, so dont judge it untill you actually go there!!i cant understand why you people cannot appreciate diversity, you feel like as cultures and ethnicities we have absolutely nothing to learn from each other! even linguistically, northerners have borrowed from southerners and vice versa!you want to go and form your little shell of only like minded and mono-ethnic citizens, this is the 21st entury where people are supposed to embrase humanity and look at the world from a global standpoint, we as humans are a single organism. your hitler views are outdated and ignorant, ethnocentrism is mere silliness and an unfortunate manifestation of the lack of education in our country. the world is coming together as larger bodies, look at the european union, soon it'll be the country of europe instead of an economic union, but people like you are advocating a break up into smaller fractions, do you see how your own thinking is backward and retrogrssive?

Let me ask you this, you want to break up nigeria on the account that we are "too" different. well you live in africa, land of tribes! if you break up for this reason, is there only one ethnic group in the south? there are so many,maybe more than the north, so what if you become the republic of southern nigeria or whatever, and some people start claiming that igbos are too different from yorubas or the million ethnic groups in that area and that you should break up again,isint your argument a slippery slope one? then before you know it, you are back to living in little tribes with no ounce of unity and this is exactly how foreigners will enter your land and capture slaves or nowadays economically destroy you coz you have no solid,firm voice, just little weak ones. Militarily, nigeria is stronger as is, economically, there is huge potential, divided we fall,united we stand, a statement taken for granted today, yet so true!!

as the entity of nigeria today, even if its just by the population, nigeria has a strong voice in africa, one of the strongest, break up and you'll realize that no one is taking you seriously, break up today and tomorrow, you may not be able to stave off attacks from countries or (tribes from other countries in your case) than are much more different from you than northern nigerians, this is how it works!! please dont take "attacks" in a simplistic way as i have a hunch you will,when i say attacks, it could be of any kind, there are a million ways to attack you with out it being military confrontation.THINK, I'll continue schooling you boy.

davidylan:

Those differences are the reason we are so poor and yet are one of the 5 top producers of oil. Those differences are the reason Sudan is engulfed in civil strife today . . . people like me choose to face reality while people like you prefer to bury your head in the sand because forced marriages like this are the reason you can even boast of owning a computer in the first place. I dont blame you, i wouldnt want to be in a nation like Niger Republic either.

dont be a damn fool, what you're saying is utter ignorance and simplicty of highest or in your case lowest order!! dont you know that nations only rise on the account of diversity, when i say diversity, i mean of culture, because you cannot claim that having only one and the same group of people as citizens of a country and stamping out diversity is better than having diversity to begin with, look at the u.s, whats wrong with that society? absolutely nothing as far as nigeria is concerned!even in the u.s, the cities with the most diverse populations have the biggest economies and highest living standard, Los Angeles, Miami, New York e.t.c. Now contrast that to cities with high levels of ethnic bigotry like Louiville Kentucky or cities with all white (less diverse) demography like Boise- Idaho, Cheynene- Wyoming, Sioux Falls-South Dakota, Fargo- North Dakota e.t.c.

Diversity is an asset to any nation and any people living within the same country, the fact that Nigeria has a diverse demography should strengthen the country, its just that nigerians much like yourself are not advanced enough to realize this and you are always accusing the other tribe for your failures which is just diversionary since we all know that nigeria's problem is not that it has people of diverse backgrounds and ethnicity, its that there is a super corrupt political elite and the elite in question belong to every tribe across the length and breadth of the country. Thay have succeeded in "bamboozling" you to believe the fallacy that the country is poor because it has so many ethnic groups. thats nonsense!diversity is a source of strength because culture intermingle and continually learn from each other and adopt each others strengths making the entire nation better for that! CORRUPTION is whats making the country poor not DIVERSITY of our population. THINK

@all

if ancient egyptians were black then who are the modern day egyptian copts and who did they decsend from?

davidylan:

People like you shld not be a part of a nation with us, we have nothing in common.

well blame the British you so love for that, they did this as im sure you are aware all over africa!! nigeria is not a country where people have things in common, the country is a collection of different and very distinct nations like sudan and most of the countries on the west coast of africa, multi ethnic,multi cultural and some people just cant deal with that much diversty and chose to avoid our common humanity! but im every bit nigerian as the next guy!!and all nigerians have one thing or the other in common, infact all humans do but people like you chose to dwell on the differences even where we have more similarities.

df2006:

gadogado let me ask you a honest question and i pray you answer me truthfully, where are you from? hausa or fulani?

I am neither, my tribe/ethnicity is called shuwa arab.

Beaf:

@gadogado

Since you keep mentioning "Oh Hausa had no writing system blah blah", perhaps you could check out this page? http://www.bisharat.net/Demos/Hausa_alphabet.htm

I told you, the reason for rooting for Arabic (instead of protecting your own heritage) is a bleeping brainwash.

dude that script/alphabets you posted/cited was created by raina kama in 1980, what are you talking about

illusion2:

Emeka,your arguments aren’t entirely convincing. The official languages of Nigeria are English,Hausa,Igbo & Yoruba. Except English for obvious reasons . .  .they should all be equal, if the currency was for Arewa Republic. . by all means that is fine. . . but its not, its for NIGERIA.
Now the point gado made about the Arabic alphabets-that made sense 40 years ago, not now. I studied hausa in Sec school & we were thought with the latin characters –daya,biu,uku.hudu,biyar,shida etc  and that is the way people study in the North now. I’m studying Arabic now & I’m doing it with those same characters else it’ll take forever.
Bringing up 14th century excuses(by gado)  for 21st century issues may be misguided. Lets forget Lord Lugard & move forward.

dude, most hausas and generally people in the north or who grow up in the north as muslims go to two schools, in the morning,they go to their primary and secondary school (boko) where instruction is in english including hausa language. then after that, they go to islamiyyah school in the afternoon where they learn how to read and write arabic for purposes of reading,writing and understanding the quran, most hausa kids know arabic even if its a little bit, i know i do and many others i know.some hausas dont even bother with the boko,they go to islamiyyah school all day and learn things like history and philosophy and literature. the problem i think is that southerners worship anything western, nothing is good unless it belongs to white men from the west,why is islamic education bad??ever thought of that? at one point in history,baghdad (arabs) was the center of learning of the entire world and many western concepts were borrowes from arabs, white people simply borrowed from culture to culture and added a little of their own, when you go to school and learn algebra.who do you think algebra is? he is al jabra an arab that developed the system of calculations and arithmetic manipulation known as algebra today. he is an ARAB. so quit your blind worship of anything western, hausas often say that the southerners love europeans more than the europeans love themselves and you guys are proving it on NL. english is not your language so why are you defending it as if its yours. if arabic became the official language of nigeria today, what is bad about that? some of you would commit suicde over that or start wars in defense of the white mans language. i really dont understand wha the big deal is