Katsumoto:

So if you were to ship in arms to start a conflict in Nigeria, you would ship in all your weapons in one major consignment?

So are you suggesting that thousands of containers have already been shipped behind the governments back? This is the only one that was caught? You should think man. Even if they were shipping for a "war" why so little at a time like 13??  when is the war 2020?  Theres no war being planned, Nigerians are exaggerators by nature, very hyper active conclusion jumpers!! Very ignorant and stereotypical crowd, not good with solid facts. No one in Nigeria want a war in the true sense and implication of that word. Even the militants are just chest pounding. A civil war will never occur in Nigeria because if you have no guts to challenge thieving politicians. How on God's green earth are you going to have the guts to fight a full blown war?
Nigerians specialize in cowardice, like kidnapping (unarmed people snatching) armed robbery (threatening poor unarmed people with guns in the middle of the night) and religious conflicts are gang wars with a group of muslims and christians clashing. By the time it gets to the media, its exaggerated. But show me the percentage of people that die in religious conflicts as against the population, a few hundred at a time against millions in the gen pop.

13 containers of arms and ammunition is not that much, how big is the container to begin with, also you have to factor in the fact that the weapons were hidden in crates along with tiles and other building materials so as to disguise them. In a country of 500 thousand, maybe and just maybe, 13 containers of arms will spark a major conflict that may not even be up to the degree of a civil war. But a country of 150 million, Its absolutely impossible for 13 containers to cause a "civil war" Many people seem to be shouting war without fully understanding the repercussions of war. This is probably the shipment for some gang who are thinking about taking things a notch higher. Not even a thousand containers can be enough arms to start a civil war in Nigeria. If you say 15,000 containers then my eyes will open wide.

Beaf:

The brand of Islam practised in Nigeria is Sunni. Unfortunately, Al Qaeda is also Sunni; Nigeria has terrorist groups affiliated with Al Qaeda in North Africa.

Al Qaeda groups will never recieve arms from Iran, in fact Iran see's Al Qaeda as a mortal enemy. However, Boko haram and Maitatsine cults in Nigeria practice Shiite Islam (the same as Iran ).

Nigerian politicians in the core North see the employment of shocking acts of violence as a short term route to gaining the upper hand; but this time, the omens portend a very dark future. I only foresee the core North dissolving into a sharia, Somali like cesspit when groups like Al Qaeda in North Africa (which sees the core North as its territory) begin to see the arming of shiite groups (Boko haram and Maitatsine cults) to sophisticated levels as an afront that deserves violent reactions.

Time to erect a wall to separate Southern Kaduna, Plateau, areas in Bauchi etc. Let us be onlookers, not partaker

See Beaf, you're ignorant and you come to NL to spew donkey Poo Points of correction

Boko Haram is not a shiite group, they're Sunni 100%
The only Shiite group in Northern Nigeria are the followers of Sheikh El Zakzaky and their base is in Zaria
You have pockets of Shiites in Kano, Sunnis dominate Nigeria by no small measure
Also, In Kano and Bauchi, you have Darikas or Sufis, who follow the teachings of sufi mystics like Tijjani and Abdul Qadr, hence their groups are called Tijjaniya and Qadiriya. You find quite a bit of them in Kano.
Politically from top to bottom, Sunnis are by far the majority. Maitetsine followers were sunnis not Shiites.

Heres a link to Nigerian sufi's practicing their brand of Islamic mysticism


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NfPWMOAJk

Don't say things you don't know please, I know you like to assume you know everything but you dont at all especially in the case of Northern Nigeria, from your posts and many others on NL, you're completely clueless. Don't peddle rubbish, double check your facts, dont just write what you think in your head.

Igbos got those red hats from Hausa people, its so obvious, even Libyans have the same thing both the black and red version.

Andre Uweh:

The above post is brain crippling. Sometimes I wonder why people write rubbish about Igbo culture which they do not know anything about it. anyway, the red hat titled men wear in Igboland signifies struggle (blood). It is not borrowed from HAUSAS or any other culture. What Hausas wear is not even red hats but oxblood hats.

Just accept that fact that Igbos borrow certain things from other places. I know you're cultural supremacist but Its not everything that Igbos have that evolved only from them. Look at the pitures

So you can see that everyone has mingled and taken an aspect of someone else's culture even if its unknowingly, some yorubas will stop wearing agbadas if they know its origin is Arab, lol
Language, religion, dress, food, other aspects of culture.

The British took just about half of their words from Latin. The British aren't Latin, the were enslaved by Latin speaking Romans. English and Latin aren't even in the same language group technically speaking. Try not being too hard on yourself. We have to mingle to survive, not everything has to be of your making. We always borrow. Its not as black and white as "mental slavery" as some are alluding to.

Then

The Arab to the North African Arab/berber to the Hausa to the Yoruba.

Honestly, if we want to go down this road of who and who have been colonized, its a slippery slope argument. You can say Japanese people have their own religion and their own names but then you have to ask why they dress like Europeans. Thats also part of colonization, the adoption in a wholesale fashion of someone else's culture or aspects of their culture because it implies that at some point in time, you felt what you had was not good enough so you either willingly adopted someone else's or you were sort of forced to by colonialism, everybody is a victim of colonization one way or the other.
Why do Iranians who are Persians wear western/European clothes? Why do Nigerians wear arab clothes? coz the agabda, babban riga and Kaftan are all arab. Those red hats that Igbo chiefs wear are Turkish passed through Arabs and Hausa people to the Igbos! Goodluck Jonathan whole attire is foreign, his hat English, his clothes, if you trace the origins (the trousers and knee length gown) are attires that came from south west Asia. But its obviously been modified.

@poster. I don't see the need of asking this question. The fact is names come with either religion or colonization/ political-cultural influence or need for assimilation. Haven't you see Chinese people with English names, go to Hong Kong or the Chinese that live in America or the west in general. Go to Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, most of the "stan" countries, Brunei, Iran (persians), Turkey (they're not arab), Albania and so on. You'll see that they mostly have Arabic names due solely to Islam, a religion of about 1.2 billion people. So its not peculiar to Nigeria or Africa. The europeans have a lot of names that come from hebrew/aramaic and general semitic origin, they anglicized most like Joshua from Yeshua etc. So europeans got the names from semites and passed it onto to Africans. If a people subscribes to any of the Abrahamic faiths then they'll have the same names like Moshe for Jews, Moses for xtians, Musa for Muslims. Those 3 are the same names. If you have indigenous beliefs as in parts of India and Japan then you're likely to have your own names. Actually, you have to praise Africans because they adopted the Abrahamic faiths and still kept their names, you cant say that for most others. Just go to Pakistan and see whether its easy to find Urdu or Pashtun names.

excanny:



The bolded are still Arabic names.

Larai and Turai are an Hausanized form of the Arabic names Balarabe and Thurayya

Not true, larai is a hausa name, balarabe as in balarabe musa means "arab" in hausa, the female version of that is balarabiya, and there are women with that name in Nigeria. The Hausanized version of Thurayya is Surayya not Turai. Turai means you were born in a foreign land. Thats why a white person is called "bature" meaning foreigner. Bello is a hausa name, so is dalhatu, sarki, tafida, tukur, lamido, badamasi, gambo, tanko, mairo, dogara, dikko and many more.

IBB gave him the money to buy his 1990 ferrari that he so much loves! its red abi, i see it around abuja!

nairaland has officially become a northern bashing site. Its sad because 99% of you bash northerners on here and hardly do northerners defend themselves. So you're basically talking to each other like i.diots.

http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3964:listen-to-henry-okahs-interview-with-aljazeera&catid=27:breaking
news

orbaxy:

Sometimes you manufacture evidences to nail a culprit,  sometimes you create a little "evil" to avert a huge ONE

A CULPRIT is guilty, because we KNOW it,  all we need is a reason whether existent or imagined.

If he's indeed evil like you say and has committed all these crimes, then why not prosecute him for the alleged crimes instead of fabricating evidence and conspiring against him in a really dirty way. If goodluck is now fabricating evidence to rope his political opponents into some phantom charge, how is he different from abacha or any other evil dictator? What can we expect from him in the future in terms of intimidation of political opponents
Good thing is IBB cant be pushed around by Jonathan.