Beaf:

I support this call entirely.

The call for a sovereign national conference to negotiate binding restructuring and True Federalim or confederacy?

I join you to support it 102%

MaziUche0:

May the enlightened Yorubas listen to the words of OPC.

All I can say to those who are AFRAID, is what would your ancestors think of you?

What happened to the brave children of Oduduwa? What happened to the descendants of the Oyo Empire? The same empire that not only fought the Fulani, but fought the Dahomey Kingdom and the mighty Asante Confederacy!

Rise Odua nation and make sure your brothers are avenged!

avenge ko, avenge ni .
i say the OPC put their strength into building a fence around the yoruba nation and let trhe igbos and hausa have a go at themelves 
Bravery is one thing, stupidity is another.

_____________________________________________________________
look at the west, so brave at war yet bankrupt to the ceiling-genius.

MaziUche0:

May the enlightened Yorubas listen to the words of OPC.

All I can say to those who are AFRAID, is what would your ancestors think of you?

What happened to the brave children of Oduduwa? What happened to the descendants of the Oyo Empire? The same empire that not only fought the Fulani, but fought the Dahomey Kingdom and the mighty Asante Confederacy!

Rise Odua nation and make sure your brothers are avenged!

The OPC people are being pragmatic, Nigeria can not afford another civil war.

Sick MFs

smooooooth:

everytime they keep warning while their people are been killed up north. abeg make opc shut up if them no get action. i should think warning the hausas by sending 1000 bodies from lagos to sokoto will be the only warnig those fools will hear. infact i look forward to the day the ''war'' will break out, wahalai, i wan kill like 2million aboki!

MaziUche0:

May the enlightened Yorubas listen to the words of OPC.

All I can say to those who are AFRAID, is what would your ancestors think of you?

What happened to the brave children of Oduduwa? What happened to the descendants of the Oyo Empire? The same empire that not only fought the Fulani, but fought the Dahomey Kingdom and the mighty Asante Confederacy!

Rise Odua nation and make sure your brothers are avenged!

coldhearts:

avenge ko, avenge ni .
i say the OPC put their strength into building a fence around the yoruba nation and let trhe igbos and hausa have a go at themelves 
Bravery is one thing, stupidity is another.

_____________________________________________________________
look at the west, so brave at war yet bankrupt to the ceiling-genius.

So your ancestors who fought for the Oyo empire from the same callous Fulanis were wired with stupidity?.

coldhearts:
Also, There aren't that many SW there to begin with plus we mostly avoid the North or try to blend in as muslim or whatever works.

Where do you people get this notion?. Yorubas in Jos alone are probably higher in number than hausas and Igbos. Yorubas control the taxi empire in the North and there aren't many of them there, duh!!!!

Kilode?!:
The call for a sovereign national conference to negotiate binding restructuring and True Federalim or confederacy?

I join you to support it 102%

Yes, it would be wise to wait for a fortnight or so after things have calmed down and then begin to make calls for restructuring. I don't know how GEJ will approach it, but its got to be done.

aloy-emeka:

So your ancestors who fought for the Oyo empire from the same callous Fulanis were wired with stupidity?.

aloy-emeka:

Where do you people get this notion?. Yorubas in Jos alone are probably higher in number than hausas and Igbos. Yorubas control the taxi empire in the North and there aren't many of them there, duh!!!!

and your point is?? if they are as many as you claim, then they don't have much to fear then.less damage.
No need to insult my ancestors, if you have misplaced anger issues, deal with it on your own or with the person you have problem with. That was then, this is now, it is not SW fight, get over it. It has to do with elections and people always react. get it?

Beaf:

Yes, it would be wise to wait for a fortnight or so after things have calmed down and then begin to make calls for restructuring. I don't know how GEJ will approach it, but its got to be done.

the only acceptable restructuring will be a divide, split this country down the middle so those camels in the norths can stick their usman-dan-fodiosm down their ass.

koruji:

Sick MFs

you fucking lucky u not here, i wld have made an example of you.

Beaf:

Yes, it would be wise to wait for a fortnight or so after things have calmed down and then begin to make calls for restructuring. I don't know how GEJ will approach it, but its got to be done.

I will take back or eat all the names I called him if he can pull it off. . .

MASSOB, MEND and OPC need to quit giving out warnings and simply pounce on these ppl. That will be a fair warning.

coldhearts:

and your point is?? if they are as many as you claim, then they don't have much to fear then.less damage.
No need to insult my ancestors, if you have misplaced anger issues, deal with it on your own or with the person you have problem with. That was then, this is now, it is not SW fight, get over it. It has to do with elections and people always react. get it?

Which misplaced anger issue? over what? Are you alright, buddy?

Kilode?!:
I will take back or eat all the names I called him if he can pull it off. . .

Lol!
GEJ is a very coded guy. So lets wait and see.

aloy-emeka:

Which misplaced anger issue? over what? Are you alright, buddy?

You know, Go and take that desperate measure you seek since you are in your right mind. Eitherway, i'd rather not discuss anything further with you. I hope OPC/yorubas et al stays out this mess and Goodluck to you.

coldhearts:

You know i'd rather not discuss anything further with you. I hope OPC/yorubas et al stays out this mess and Goodluck to you.

I really don't understand your pacifism. Are Yoruba sons and daughters not being killed in the North or should the number of deaths reach a certain magic number before OPC/Yorubas react?

Whilst violence should not be the solution, keeping quiet and hoping the problem goes away is not the solution. How many innocent people must die?

Katsumoto:

I really don't understand your pacifism. Are Yoruba sons and daughters not being killed in the North or should the number of deaths reach a certain magic number before OPC/Yorubas react?

Whilst violence should not be the solution, keeping quiet and hoping the problem goes away is not the solution. How many innocent people must die?

I see your point but why the call for such bloodshed by some?, t.it for tat serves none of you. Nobody wants to die for nothing and right now SW involvement can be equated to dieing for nothing.
The problem is more than SE, SS, NE, NW, there are no jobs, leaders are signing away our future, education and healthcare is in a state of possible collapse etc. Ask yourself, what do you want to fight for? . Let everyone go and repair their land and stop wasting their energy.

Katsumoto:

I really don't understand your pacifism. Are Yoruba sons and daughters not being killed in the North or should the number of deaths reach a certain magic number before OPC/Yorubas react?

Whilst violence should not be the solution, keeping quiet and hoping the problem goes away is not the solution. How many innocent people must die?

Don't mind her. She sits her fat behind in UK or US talking about diplomacy with a bunch of Northern animals who understands nothing but bloodshed. If this is a once in ablue moon occurrence, I will understand her stance but it a biannual occurrence and no matter the amount of jobs created in Nigeria and even if we create a perfect welfare system whereby southerners work, pay into the system to sustain the amaljiris, they will still massacre the southerners who work to feed them. Even if earthquake happens somewhere in the north, they will pick up their daggers and kill southerners because they[southerners] are obviously the cause of the earthquake. The more I think about the North, the more I remember how one amajiri massacred 2 Yoruba corpers in Jos 2 years ago while smiling joyously.

So the 'igbos' want the yorubas do the fighting for them.


I thought you guys branded them/us as
co.wards and hypocrites?

After OPC helping your backside, you then resume your campaign of bigotry, No?.

Is all man for himself, next on the

aganda of OPC is to whoop your a*ses

back your east.

No faking 'omo Yoruba' will never do the fighting for you.

Here are the only two options.

start packing out from the core north back your biafra,

Or roll out machine to fight in Kano

since igbos are '40% of kano'. Dug up my

pre-election comments and see where i

clearly warn you people at the

implication of giving igbos bogus

political strenght in some violence prone

northern state and making you public

enemy number one.


The country must be split! We are tired

of blood sucking northern vampires and

eastern dominating pest.

Go go go go go! Can i hear you bawl at
45%of kano, 35% of Jos and 40% of kaduna are Igbos very loudly, keep the delusion alive.

Yeah! Igbos are 65% of lagos Indeed.
ssmh!

Any of you remember this horror that happened in Jos in 2008?. The families who lost their loved ones are still in pain.

The gloom that pervaded the Lagos State Low Cost Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Akintola Tokunbo Akinjogbin, yesterday can be felt with touch. The woman, emotionally broken, laid on the bed while female members of her family and friends sat around to share in her grief. Her eyes bore the image of a woman that is wearied from shedding excessively painful tears.

The second son of the family, young Mr. Ibukun Oluwatosin Akinjogbin, 23, was one of the fifty people whose lives were brought to a cruel end by the rampaging voters in Jos on Friday morning. He was killed along with his nephew, Mr. Leke Akande, 23, and a friend, Mr. Tola Odusola, 20, all youth corps members, in the home of Ibukun’s uncle, Mr. Bisi Akinjogbin, an Abuja-based businessman. The hatchet men, who broke down the high gates and stormed the residence along Katako Junction by 7Up depot in Jos about 9.15am on Friday morning; caught down the three young men in the presence of Mrs. Doyin Akinjogbin, the uncle’s wife while her daughters also watched in horror.

Mrs. Doyin Akinjogbin is already placed under sedation as a result of the shock she suffered from witnessing the killings of the young men in her home.

The three men were among the scores of youths doing their one year mandatory youth service scheme in Pankshin, Jos central, in Plateau State, till they were killed.

Riot had broken out in Jos on Thursday, due to attempted manipulations with the results of the local government polls. The election was said to have been widely won by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), candidate.

Mr. Akintola Akinjogbin, who seemed to be taking the incidence with calmness, said the killing of his son is "barbaric, satanic and uncalled for."

One of the three youth corps members, Ibukun Oluwatosin Akinjogbin, a 2001 to 2003 Quantity Surveyor student from the Obafemi Awolowo (OAU), Ife, was said to have been in contact with his family on phone up till the last minute that life was ebbed out of him.

According to the father while narrating the gory ordeal, Ibukun was about coming to Lagos when the incident caught up with him without prior warning. He said prior to that day, the late young Akinjogbin had finalised plans to visit Lagos after a while.

He said: "My son had reported for the NYSC on August 26, 2008. We were in constant touch with him because mine is a very closely knit family. He would have actually returned to Lagos on Thursday but could not because it was rather late. So, I called him around 6. 20a.m on Friday morning and he said he was on his way to the park. Then later, he called that he was going back to his uncle’s home because the riot going on in Jos was quite heated. I said it was a good decision. So, he ran back into the house and we remained in touch.

"From that time, there were several calls and it was as if he was giving us situational reports. Then, his elder brother, Kayode Akinjogbin, an Investment Analyst with Lead Capital in Lagos, took over from me and kept monitoring his brother."

Speaking, Kayode said Ibukun started asking for prayers. "Please start praying for us’’; he had begged. "They are moving towards our side of the town. In fact, they seem to be getting close to our gate. Please pray Bro. Kayode. They are outside our house now. I don’t know why they came to us but they are here," Ibukun was reported to have said.

"Now, our gates are down," were the last direct words the young man could say to me, said Kayode. "Then I started hearing him beg them. Later there seemed to be some struggles but my younger brother was still pleading. Then, I heard cries and I was afraid while at the same time shouting his name. I heard the voices of women screaming and praying to God for help. For some time, everything seemed to get silent but by this time, I was almost running crazy when my colleagues in the office grabbed my phone from me to calm me down.

"A few minutes later, after I had regained my composure, I picked my phone to call my younger brother. But it was a Hausa man that replied me. And he said in Hausa tone and seemed to be mocking at the same time: ‘Ya broad, I'm dey die, I'm det die…hHa ha, now, I'm don die’. And at that point, the phone went dead. And that was when I blacked out too," Kayode said.

Akinjogbin senior said his son had come to the Uncle’s house because of the visit to Lagos. "The uncle is like their father over there. They all go to his house whenever there is need. Ibukun served as a Works Officer with the Pankshin Local Government council because he was a Quantity Surveyor. But what can I do now than to throw my hands up to God and accept my fate?

"My concern however is why the Nigerian government should subject our children to death on annual basis? Every year, Youth Corpers die in their numbers. The government should please scrap this programme. Parents would have laboured to educate their children and in the process of doing the youth service, those children will die. This is very unfair," Akinjogbin said.

"Ibukun was a core gentleman. He was very quiet and easy-going. Everyone that ever dealt with him knew that. And how can a people kill such a young man? Nigeria is one country and we should all learn to accommodate one another regardless of religious differences. As a matter of fact, how does a political riot change to religious fight? This is why government must tame these people up North. They can’t just be killing innocent people and go scot-free all the time. If they have been dealt with in time past, they wouldn’t have done it again. For me, the NYSC stuff is a bad taste that has left a traumatic mark in my family. I just pray God to grant my wife the grace to bear the incident with calm equanimity.


http://thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=71426

Lets not forget the cost of each riot.

[size=14pt]Jos crisis: We lost all say Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba [/size]
Written by Chioma Gabriel, (Deputy Editor, Lagos,) Taye Obateru, Jos, Uduma Kalu, Lagos
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Igbos: Spare parts, timber shed, motor market, shops burnt*

Hausa: N2bn worth of cars *

Yoruba: 113 lives,house, businesses lost


All Nigerians, not just natives of Jos, capital of Plateau state, were victims of the last November 27 described by the people as the worst ever in the city investigations have revealed.

Yet, another crisis may erupt in the city as the victims count their losses. To nip this in the bud, the victims are asking the federal and the state governments to come to their aid.

A survey of the city last Thursday by Saturday Vanguard indicates that the fear now is that the level of loss suffered by people may lead to another crisis at the slightest excuse. They are therefore crying out for assistance.

Some of those asking for help are the Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba and Benue citizens. Regrettably, most of the victims who were killed knew nothing about what went amiss.

A young man who lived around Rikkos area lost his life when the Hausa community burnt his house.

When asked to leave his house as a crowd was gathering because of the local government elections, the young man asked why he should run when he was not a politician and had nothing to do with the election. The house was burnt by the assailants. His young wife and kids are now without a bread winner.

Many more examples abound of how people died innocently in the mayhem while those who managed to escape with their lives lost life investments and other property. For a number of others, it was multiple tragedies as they lost children, homes and business places all to the crisis.

Homes, shops, cars and other economic property were burnt, or destroyed on both sides in retaliatory moves designed to inflict as much pain as possible. Stories were told of when groups saw the destruction done to their own property or economic interests also mobilized and descended on those belonging to those believed to be responsible for their own loss.

The riot began along political party lines but took ethno-religious dimension later, resulting in the death of over 500 people, with properties worth billions of naira burnt, looted and destroyed.

And it is not only natives of the city that are counting their losses but all Nigerian of all ethnic groups.

That all Nigerian were victims of the loss could be gleaned from Laranto Market, hitherto a perfect setting of Nigerians from various parts, who together pursued their economic interests without let or hindrance.

This largest timber market, mostly run by the Igbo, also had the second hand clothing and large scale foodstuff business run by the Hausa-Fulani, the building materials shops, run by the Igbo as well as the palm oil, small-scale foodstuff business, etc, which was a mix of Nigerians made the place popularly known as ‘Katako’ bubble.

The Igbo also suffered serious losses in the crisis because many of their shops and businesses were targeted by the hoodlums during the riot. Apart from the timber shed in Katako which was completely razed, the second hand vehicle parts market at Farin Gada where they sold vehicle engines, spare parts and other things was attacked, torched and looted. Many of their shops in other places were also not spared.

Today, Laranto Market is now reduced to rubbles, more like an open field, as it was razed down and levelled in what could be described as mutually assured destruction or what in Nigerian parlance is called ‘do me, I do you’. It was learnt that victims of initial attacks fought back to ensure that they all suffered the pain.

Saturday Vanguard also gathered that the recent Jos mayhem was worse than the September 7, 2001 version in terms of human and economic loss.

“The one that occurred in 2001 is nowhere near this. Many more lives were lost in this one and more property and businesses were destroyed”, Jude Sylvester, a businessman told Saturday Vanguard.

His view was supported by Mrs. Roseline Okonkwo, a petty trader at the destroyed Laranto market who said many businesses might have been permanently ruined unless assistance comes from government or from other quarters.

“Where do we begin from? Even the little money we had was left in the store and all were either burnt or looted. We have not even paid for some of the goods we collected that were destroyed. I don’t want to think about it”; she said amidst sobs.

Calls for compensation have been coming from various quarters to assist the victims to start life again.

Chairman of the second hand vehicle dealers association, Alhaji Yahaya Kega who said his members lost vehicles worth almost N2b in the mayhem urged both the Federal and State governments to come to their aid in view of the incalculable loss they suffered. The timber dealers in Laranto have also made a similar appeal.

Perhaps most pathetic is the situation of the Yoruba who got caught on all fronts of the divide and suffered heavy human and business losses in the crisis. Since the crisis took a religious dimension, the Yoruba who are almost equally divided along both religious lines were attacked from both sides.

Christian and Moslem Yoruba alike were attacked, killed and had their houses and property burnt.

According to President-General of the Yoruba Community Council in the state, Chief Toye Ogushuyi, the losses suffered by his people were heavy. About 113 Yorubas, he said, lost their lives in the recent crisis.

He stated this at a meeting between Governor Jonah Jang and community and religious leaders on Wednesday saying most of their corpses have been taken to their states for burial.

With tears in their eyes, including the state Deputy Governor, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, Ogunshuyi narrated how his people were hacked down or burnt over a crisis they knew nothing about.

He said many of the victims were caught unawares because their assailants wore military uniforms. He said Yorubas were peace loving adding,“We have been carrying out legitimate businesses in Jos since 1891 and we built the first church in Jos but we have been living peacefully without fighting to rule Jos”.

The Yoruba leader said those who unleashed the violence should be identified and punished to restore the confidence of people in government’s ability to protect lives and property.

“We, the Yorubas, have suffered a great loss. Like I said at the meeting with the governor, over a 100 and something of our people have died, and they are both Moslems and Christians.

Houses and businesses were destroyed and right now we are collating the losses of our people to be sent to the governors of the Yoruba states for possible assistance. An elderly man of 72 years Alhaji Hassan had his house and business places burnt.

Another elderly Yoruba, Alhaji Alasinrin also lost four shops where he sold grains completely razed. This is not to talk of those who were killed indiscriminately whether they were Christians or Moslems,” he told Saturday Vanguard in an interview.

Ogunsuyi expressed disappointment with some members of the National Assembly whom he said had been making emotional outbursts based on ignorance and bias as if only a particular ethnic group or religion was affected.

“They should come here and see what our people suffered before making provocative statements that will only cause more problems,” he said.

As the crisis lasted in Jos, the nation was also seized by tension. Last Thursday, newly elected president of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Ralph Uwechue, in a telephone interview with Saturday Vanguard said the group is trying to get inventory of the Igbo affected by the crisis as it does not know the extent Igbo were affected in the mayhem.

Uwechue who served as both ex President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Special Envoy on Conflict Resolution in Africa and as Head of the Economic Community of West African States Mission in Cote d’Ivoire (ECOMICI) said the group has therefore despatched some people to Jos, through various Igbo groups to take inventory of Igbo involvement in the crisis.

He added that Ohanaeze will decide on what action to take on the matter once the inventory is made, adding that the Igbo should project a common cause, and not to act on individual basis in the new dispensation.


http://odili.net/news/source/2008/dec/6/315.html

@aloy emeka
sure you can do better than that.
you continually stoop low, i'm so glad i am not fat considering i only weigh 110 pound (skinny) and tall too.
You sit in front of a keyboard and insult a stranger, you are even lower than i thought, GOODLUCK again. pick up the arms and go fight already if it pains you that much.

Rhino.5dm:

So the 'igbos' want the yorubas do the fighting for them.


I thought you guys branded them/us as
co.wards and hypocrites?

After OPC helping your backside, you then resume your campaign of bigotry, No?.

Is all man for himself, next on the

aganda of OPC is to whoop your a*ses

back your east.

No faking 'omo Yoruba' will never do the fighting for you.

Here are the only two options.

start packing out from the core north back your biafra,

Or roll out machine to fight in Kano

since igbos are '40% of kano'. Dug up my

pre-election comments and see where i

clearly warn you people at the

implication of giving igbos bogus

political strenght in some violence prone

northern state and making you public

enemy number one.


The country must be split! We are tired

of blood sucking northern vampires and

eastern dominating pest.

Go go go go go! Can i hear you bawl at
45%of kano, 35% of Jos and 40% of kaduna are Igbos very loudly, keep the delusion alive.

Yeah! Igbos are 65% of lagos Indeed.
ssmh!

You sound and look so foolish.

Like somebody said, the man fine well well, for an old man

OPC, it's not only the Hausa, but all their Northern brothers. They need to be warned, the SW stayed out of this election, so they need to desist their uncontrollable urge to kill.

Why not simply ask to leave this union? Who would ask them to stay? They even dey vex me sef.

Ileke-IdI:

Like somebody said, the man fine well well, for an old man

OPC, it's not only the Hausa, but all their Northern brothers. They need to be warned, the SW stayed out of this election, so they need to desist their uncontrollable urge to kill.

Why not simply ask to leave this union? Who would ask them to stay? They even dey vex me sef.

I wonder that as well. If the want to rule themselves. What is stopping them? The Middle Belt, SE, SW and SS would not care if that happened.

MaziUche0:

I wonder that as well. If the want to rule themselves. What is stopping them? The Middle Belt, SE, SW and SS would not care if that happened.

You sure you wouldnt beg them to stay?
I know how you love them Fulani-Hausa chicks

Ileke-IdI:

You sure you wouldnt beg them to stay?
I know how you love them Fulani-Hausa chicks

I guess I can focus on Yoruba women. No Muslim babe for me o!

MaziUche0:

I guess I can focus on Yoruba women. No Muslim babe for me o!

LOL Who said the SW would stay if North leaves?

Like you previously said, we've made SW an opposition for one reason amongst many other.

OPC is only bluffing. They will run to Igbo agala at the sound of the word Hausa. Cowards

d bitterness nd bigotry here is alarmin. pls stp incitin sectional hatred. d only ppl gainin frm dis r our corupt leadrs

nigerian leadrs continue 2 ride on our hatred for each othr 2 plunder d country while preventin the truth.

left 2 many nigerians we shld divide nd go peacefuly bt our leadrs wont allow it because of d oil. why cant we av a SNC.

coldhearts:

@aloy emeka
sure you can do better than that.
you continually stoop low, i'm so glad i am not fat considering i only weigh 110 pound (skinny) and tall too.
You sit in front of a keyboard and insult a stranger, you are even lower than i thought, GOODLUCK again. pick up the arms and go fight already if it pains you that much.

Then go eat some food and stop talking like somebody malnourished. Lepas are as attractive as Eko Ile .

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