see western hypocrisy. the divorce settlements is the greatest instigator of western high divorce rates. why would she wait for him to become a multimillionnaire before seriously considering a divorce? western divirce laws are made to destroy a man's life and making the woman richer. it is very shameful most western marriages collapse within the first ten yrs.

i dont think jonathan is trying to link obj with the killing of murtala muhammed. to me, he was shamelessly admitting he couldnt do anything with it or too afraid of his own safety to confront corruption headon.

my ears became so dehydrated my german host applied engine oil to lubricate them after a maiden half a day trip in an aircraft.
it worked wonders

i still blame the weather of the fall of 2008 as the culprit. it was down to 8c in the day and 3c at night.
it was my first in an aircraft

none
he didnt convince even himself with his fight against corruption, clannishness and cluelessless. i enjoin every right thinking nigerian to give him the boot come 2015

My christian brothers and sisters, surely islam is the ONLY violent religion. Abi.

On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I'm in
support of BREAK UP. Because most
Nigerian minds are full of hatred,
sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and
tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but instead of
loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if
the 2015 election will result to loss of lives and
property, the romance should end before then, Please!
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is
long overdue. Why can some have freedom to perform
their religious rites while some are deprived? I can't
remain at home on Fridays like Christians do Sundays,
Marital dossiers is only emphasized for only one wife &
four children. Economically, we are considered
parasites because they refused to revamp agriculture.
They refused to explore oil deposits in more than five
places in my region. Let us break so that we have fresh
air.
Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it's long overdue! Let's break
up anyhow regardless of the consequences. I want to
be governed by ISLAMIC LAW not this Infidel system of
government. I hate to be governed by DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response
from Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on
the subject, "Nigeria: Do We Need To Break This Up?"
A majority of northern masses are now making this call
as situations keep deteriorating in the nation and
undeserved ethnic insults and ethnic torment has
become the order of the day from certain quarters in
Nigeria. Additionally, it appears that Nigeria as
formatted and the perceived disenfranchisement of
certain aspects of the South, justify and subject us and
Nigeria as a whole to a most terrible regime that is
unable to secure life in the north and yield for us the
social, economic and developmental dividends of
democracy; as poverty reigns at its highest level in the
north which is unfairly economically disadvantaged.
Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is
an uneven distribution of the poverty with the South
doing more favorably, whereas the north suffers the
most with its level of poor as high as 80% living under a
dollar a day in many states, this compares to the south
that has levels from 20-50%. This level of poverty in
the north exceeds the level in neighboring Mali, Chad
and Niger, all sharing the northern ecological and
cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to who and what military and civilian
dictatorial and usurpist regime caused this high level of
poverty is puerile, meaningless and disingenuous; and
it contributes nothing towards addressing the real and
present epic crisis. Also, asserting that because
northern dictators have ruled the nation for 60% of its
independent life over 40% Southern rule is meaningless
and does not solve the deadly poverty situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain absolutely
nothing from Nigeria's oil, apart from what we buy of
it at the pumps at a price above the global mean, and
rather we suffer from oppression and terror as a
consequence of, and thanks to bloody oil money. Only
the cabal enjoy from the current state of Nigeria. Let it
be known that the voices of many so-called northern
leaders, which are obviously the loudest, do not
represent the sentiments of us suffering masses,
wrecked with poverty and lack of opportunity.
These 'northern elders' are part of a national cabal that
exploits and extorts the nation. These cabal obviously
have no honest interest in our region as can clearly be
seen by their lack of investment in the north, building
all their factories in the South. We the real people of
the north are eager for autonomy of our region. This is
our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None of
the regimes provided the transportation networks to
link the north to Nigeria's ports as would have been the
basic and smallest requirement to re-establish a
northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our
textile industry has been completely abandoned, as we
suffer from the 'curse' of oil and the illusion of
Nigeria's wealth from a mono-economy, which has
satisfied and favored only a set of greedy cabal without
regional distinction, north, east, west or south. We see
regionalism with the plan of possible disintegration as
an urgent next best step towards a northern cultural
and economic awakening.
Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military
dictator; Aguiyi Ironsi made an error on 24 May 1966,
when he released Decree No. 34 which dissolved the
regions.
Excerpt: "The provisions of the Decree are intended to
remove the last vestiges of the intense regionalism of
the recent past, and to produce that cohesion in the
governmental structure which is so necessary in
achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every
true Nigerian, namely, national unity. The highlights of
this Decree are as follows: The former regions are
abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number of
territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria ceases to
be what has been described as a federation. It now
becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria."
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our
sentiments and will be happy to peacefully and
respectfully discuss modalities of separation into
economically independent regions which will test and
pave a path for emotional, marital, economical,
military and other national related changes and
challenges necessary for possible separation in the
future.

very nice

8trillion naira outright stealing by gej and kleptomania crew.

nigeria is dead the day the americans go and call any other military to go and put put fires in the region. even countries like guinea bissau former president who was a great critic of nigerian interventions in both liberia and sierra leone rejected a francophone countries attempt to rescie him when his presidential palace was surrounded by rebels. u know why? he specifically requested for a nigerian led rescue team. but the nigerians wasted no time in making an example of him and bluntly to go so that others like can learn from him until he was overthrown.

the ghanians were forced to go and buy artillery in the sierra leonian war when they saw the RUF rebels using captured guienian artillery pieces. up till now, the 5,000 strong army has no tanks but only armoured cars. even charles taylor only trusted the nigerian soldiers with his life when he was the president that he made nigerian soldiers his guards and adc throughout his presidency despite his anti nigerian stance on most issues. u know why? he knew only nigerian soldiers wont desert him when the going goes tough.

no wonder, the americans will always call us to do some serious fire fighting in the region rather than call a 7,000 strong ghanain armed forces who were too afraid to even fight the rebels during the liberian and sierra leonian wars. u know why? most of these rebels were better armed than the 5,000 man strong ghanaian army. the ghanians didnt have any weapons heavier than morters and armoured cars. meaning no artillery and tanks which nigerians have been using in large numbers since the biafra war.

The truth is that the nigerian military is bigger than the combined strenghts of the other 15 ecowas countries both in numbers of personnel as well as in the numbers of equipment holdings. Incidentally too, we have the best trained too.

a mere 700 troops deployment is less than 5% of the strenght of only nigerian army alone. we are undoubtly african superpower for God sake.

The northerners are alarmed about their continous and irrevocably losing of their grip on the military which their have been long being using as a leverage to blackmail and oust unflinching successive govts to maintain their iron grip on power.

They are clearly alarmed of sinking deeper into their cesspit dug for them by their corrupt and visionless leaders who have failed to uplift their living standards. If their leaders prefered lining their pockets rather than develop the region, i share their pessimism that gej led govt or any southern led govt can stop their slide into the bottomless pit.

The truth is that the north is doomed and they know it. Despite having single handedly ruled the country for decades, the region comes first in every negative indicators militating against the country progress economically, educationally, healthwise, terrorism etc

It is very embarrasing that the northerners are now feeling increasingly boxed into a corner. They ought to accept the bitter pill they have forced down the throats of other tribes for decades in good faith.

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author=confusion247]
Sure i can't follow everything about this world but to the best of my
knowledge, Isreal doesn't need USA to deal with HAMAS.[/quote]. of course, the present isreali military is strong enough to defeat hamas because the palestinians are divided too. i suspect some high ranking ppl in fatah working for mossad to deal with hamas. with time, hamas will triumph.

confusion247: You are wrong because all you mentioned was developed by ISREALIS and in Isreal. just google it and confirm.

. even any blind man knows that patriot, F16 and M1 tanks are american topgrade weapons. google it urself. it shows u havent been following military news

begwong: shame no catch u? did u ever ask yrself why iran cant mobilize its population to go &finish Isreal? go 2palestine &die &visit yr awaited virgins! oloshi

. the same reason nigeria didnt invade cameroun. u only know the beginning of war but not its outcome. why did it take the americans a decade to pacify iraq of mere 22million ppl despite the massive bribing of sunni insurgents to point their weapons at al qaeda? maybe, 40yrs to pacify 75million iranians? remember iraqi war drew the US back by a 1.2trillion dollar chinese loan. the chinese are slowly buying up the most lucrative buildings and companies in the US. remember ur creditor is ur king anyday. hence most americans are running from war and its runous effects on the economy. remember, cameroun has the same population and GDP as lagos.

begwong: u forgot to add d casualty figures from both sides punk!

. i dont respond to insolent motherfuckers like u who is too slow witted to engage in intelligent discussions. bye punkest punk.

begwong: you forgot to mention d casualty figures from both side..

. the isrealis claimed a casualty of just hundred soldiers killed and 500 hisbollah fighters dead. this figure is very misleading because why didnt they advance more than 100 km inside lebanon if they were almost achieving their goal of neutralising hizbollah in beirut? it is commonsensical to assume they were routed at those border regions by ragtag hizbollah. abi? remember that the same isreali military encircled beirut in two weeks time in the early eighties by defeating the well equipped syrian army, airforce, PLO, lebanese military and too many lebanese militias. arabs are mastering the curve too.

Movingcoil: and how do u guys mean dat the americans are helping d israelis, have u seen wer dey wer helped b4? I need 2 know

they help mostly with weapons like anti missile iron dome development, patriot anti missile systems, f16aircraft, m1 tanks, submarines and intelligence.

ayando: like you av rightly gave a local example of ur point,let me ask u. Wat happened to dos communities? Did they not realise dat d solution to der problems isnt violence. You cant protest thru aggression n u wont get aggression.let dem employ diplomatic channels to address these issues.

@ayando, ur ignorance is very disgusting to the historians like me. how many american sponsored camp david accords have failed to achieve peace all because the americans and the jews dont want peace?

ayando: like you av rightly gave a local example of ur point,let me ask u. Wat happened to dos communities? Did they not realise dat d solution to der problems isnt violence. You cant protest thru aggression n u wont get aggression.let dem employ diplomatic channels to address these issues.

@ayando, ur ignorance is very disgusting to the historians like me. how many american sponsored camp david accords have failed to achieve peace all because the jews dont want peace?

@violent, dont mind that guy who was as blind as a bat but claims to be citing unrelated history but he needs to tell us why every european country massacred their jewish populations.

movingcoil, u think the most technologically advanced nation in middle east and the second richest after turkey wont draw up their own strategy on how to defeat both isreali and american forces too? a nation that produces her own tanks, aircraft, missiles, drones, subways, nuclear tech, armoured cars and submarines. u think the iranians are as lazy as nigerians? i laugh. even ordinary armed robbers draw up their strategy on how to beat the security apparatus they might encounter. abi? mind any bank robbery in nigeria takes up to three months of strategising in order to beat the police and the bank security.

remember a meagre ragtag guerrilla force of less than 1500 guerrillas armed ak47 and anti tank missiles dusted a 30,000 isreali forces armed with drones, merkava tanks, apc, f16 aircraft in a 34 day war. arabs are learning western battlefield tactics too and applying generously to defeat them too.

the truth is that without these american support, isreal cant attack those nuclear facilities. they should ask the iraqis of their experience with human waves attacks on heavily defended iraqi positions.

movingcoil, every isreali strategy of countering the iranians are heavily dependent on the presence of the american carrier battle groups to watch their back.

the 75million suicidal iranians will drag conveniently a war with a meagre 7m isrealis for decades.