Godman_n: Seriously, minus corruption, our next greatest headache in Nigeria is tribalism, the seed of which was sown by Awo. Don't we know the history of crosscarpeting in Nigeria politics. Why did Awo so much hate my people Igbos?

Maybe you would be kind enough to tell us why your uncles decided to kill other regional leaders and spare theirs

Godman_n: Seriously, minus corruption, our next greatest headache in Nigeria is tribalism, the seed of which was sown by Awo. Don't we know the history of crosscarpeting in Nigeria politics. Why did Awo so much hate my people Igbos?

An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938, Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

ITbomb: hope Ndigbo won't be deceive again . Support us and we will . . .
But it is a good meeting coming at the heel of Igbo vs Yoruba bashing , maybe looking for allay in the most unlikely places

"Allay" or Allies? Upon your free education your spelling still f-up.

lacasa: ACF and Ohaneze, dats nice.

Only those who have never been to Arewa will question the cordial relationship btw Northerners and Igbos.

There are over a million Igbos in Kano state alone not to talk of the large igbos residing in Northern Nigeria.

The thing is, Igbos n Hausas ave similarities in their distinct ways of life, and they are both a people who hold their culture, values and traditional beliefs in high esteem.

Certain Igbos past & present like Rochas okorocha, kaduna Nzoegwu, Efeanu, Pat Utomi etc are all products of Northern upbringing and orientation, education.

I, as a Proud Hausa man, hav ηo issues with an Igbo-man esp one who resides in the North.

liar! And u wil be fast to kil them 4 just a little religious provocation. Who is deceiving who? Who dsnt knw dat igbo has d highest victim of d northerm massacre and boko haram bombing.

dayokanu:

Maybe you would be kind enough to tell us why your uncles decided to kill other regional leaders and spare theirs

Hmmm!

Aigbofa:

An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938! Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

Another Hmmmmmmm!

nigeria started on bad ground. On mere selfishness.

In short we are not compatible.

To hell with one nigeria.

kindabigg: When their lords start killing them again, they will starting blaming another Awolowo.

NCNC + NPC = Biafra War. However, Awolowo is still giving them nightmares!

Wimps!!

just like they killed dele giwa,m.k.o abiola, fela kuti,poisoned awolowo, the 2 yoruba profs in bayero university,the countless yoruba massacres even in yorubaland. Lets stop the hypocrisy and deal with a common challenge. The world is moving on.

dayokanu: No be today. E don tay wey Igbo be hausa slaves

From Azikwe to Balewa

Ekwueme to SHagari

Sylvester Ugo to Bashitr Tofa

Soludo to Atiku

the slaves have merely reunited with their masters

Do masters go to the home of their slave s or is it the other away around?

afam4eva: Do masters go to the home of their slave s or is it the other away around?

You mean Masters dont go to the cage to feed the slaves? or to punish them?

Aigbofa:

An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938, Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

like i said before , igbos are self righteous hypocrites. not worthy of being taken seriously.

dayokanu:

You mean Masters dont go to the cage to feed the slaves? or to punish them?

Masters actually go to caves to feed their slaves? Hmm, masters must have become very generous.

afam4eva:
Masters actually go to caves to feed their slaves? Hmm, masters must have become very generous.

Slaves have their use, No one wants his slave to die or who would be doing the slave job if you dont feed your slaves

dayokanu:

Slaves have their use, No one wants his slave to die or who would be doing the slave job if you dont feed your slaves

That doesn't he will leqve his beatiful palance and go and serve his slave food. Who's the master and who's the slave.

afam4eva:
That doesn't he will leqve his beatiful palance and go and serve his slave food. Who's the master and who's the slave.

EVen when you have goats in their shed, you still go to feed them. Just the way you feed your caged slaves

kindabigg:

Do you remember the blockade and starvation? You will get that again if you try anything.

There are millions of Awolowos among Yorubas now.

That was then.

Anything that will be about unity and restructuring of Nigeria is a good devpt.
All I need is competent & selfless pple occupying public office FULLSTOP

dayokanu:

EVen when you have goats in their shed, you still go to feed them. Just the way you feed your caged slaves

It's just shocking that a master will travel that far to feed his slave. These slaves are really misusing the privilege given to them. Don't you think.

afam4eva:
It's just shocking that a master will travel that far to feed his slave. These slaves are really misusing the privilege given to them. Don't you think.

2015 is near, Its time to take advantage of the slaves again. Its time to give them candy and they would sell their souls again.

Wasnt it one top Igbo politician that was telling everyone that its the Norths turn to rule after Retardeen Jonathan? Thats how loyal Igbos are to their Hausa masters

Even Shagari had the below to say

"Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a mild mannered man captured it well when he told Zik during the 1979 election campaign: "when you switch husbands one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times, you are no longer a beautiful bride but a harlot"

Basically the ACF just went to visit their prostitute, their ever faithfully ashi who doesnt say no

I know nigeria is not united but i dint know its dis bad! Smh
as for those ibos sayin yoruba's should leave, you've only helped in confirming dat truly u guys are whores of these aboki. They'll simply use and dump you. I can't wait for dat 'dumping' period where i'll be rotflmao at you.

NRI PRIEST: Believe it or not,the Hausa aren't bad ppl. You can trust them with your life and they will stick out for you but the only problem with them is "Islam" and "lack of education"! I grew up in plateau and we had them as family friends and they are very honest and cool headed. As for awo pikins them...I just dey laugh first.....finish the rest.

My broda i agree wit u, am an Hausa boi, bt d problem is nt Islam, bt Education, its islam dat instil those gud trait u mentioned in2 an Hausa Man, wateva we want 2 do, we do wholeheartedly, dats why most of d uneductd ones r easily manoverd.

tubolancer: So it is yoruba that must go,okay o we shall go and leave you in the hand of hausas but if anything happen between you folks another awolowo will be eager to sell his expertise hope you will not cruxify him this time around.

so the yoruba are the ones protecting the igbo now?

dayokanu: [img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/829605_kano_-_5_jpg4511c06e1afa7a204b97ff8f2d9b32e3[/img]

i am seeing women with no breast

dayokanu:

Maybe you would be kind enough to tell us why your uncles decided to kill other regional leaders and spare theirs

Yorubas were killing and burning each to dead because of Akintola, they called Akintola devil that must die by any means, they accused Akintola of causeing all their problem, men on arms heard their plead and kill Akintola, immediately Akintola die peace return to Yorubaland and Yorubas stoped their path to self destruction

noblezone: To inaugurate the South East Chapter of what?
Did you say ACF?

emm, Please will they also inaugurate South East chapter of BOKO HARAM?

Just asking ooo!

Cut the crap, there is Ohaneze Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, etc chapters. There is even Eze Ndigbo of Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, etc. When is what is good for the Igbo not good for Hausa/Fulani?

kaeto: I am an Igbo but do not buy the reason of this inane,insane, disrespectful and senseless malice against the yorubas, a people that are peaceful and hospitable,and you even got some 'likes' from your co-bigots. SMH in gross disappointment.

Mumu.

The hidden problems in Nigeria are Yoruba, Yoruba and Yoruba. It's only the wise that could see beyond the realm of the ordinary people.
Cut those non-Nigerians out, Nigeria will attain a new equilibrium.

Yoruba Must Go!

They are not Nigerians.

Real-Mccoy:




70percent of Lagosians and their livehood is dictated by Igbo traders. We fed them, import their tokumbo cars and parts, gave them generator, introduced plasma TV to them, sold used clothes to their children. They never developed Lagos as they like to claim, Lagos was former Capital of Nigeria and that's why custom boss is not a Lagosian,MMS boss not a lagosian, Immigration boss also. 70 percent of goods that comes through Lagos sea are owned by non indigenes.

They will never do.Instead, they will be deriding those that are doing their best to expand their choices and better the community.
What deceived many for years was the looting and polluting of the resources in the oil producing areas as the free money made some to look down on groups that engineers development.

Chief Ekwueme's bold and indirect statement about the preference of Igbos to be on their own equally created panics and Arewa knows that the alliance that help them in the past is no more intact.They confessed and others will follow them shortly because Nigeria is getting interesting as lies gives way for truth.

Aigbofa:

An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938, Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

I knew the inherently loudmouthed sons and daughters of tribal icons in Nigeria will pull out this write-up. It is unfortunate that these tribal jingoists were oblivious that when the aforementioned article was written, there was no entity known as Nigeria. During the period in discuss, people in the provinces of southern and northern protectorates were identified either by their ethnicity or province. One can begin to decipher the conjectural crap imbedded in this rubbish.

As for the drubbing the Christ the King's College, Onitsha handed to St Gregory's College, Lagos, there is no better way to express the duel than the manner used by Zik to elucidate the outcome of the football match. Before the soccer match commenced, some deluded juju musicians have gathered at the Palace of Olu of Ibadan singing how the boys from Onicha will disgraced on the field of soccer by the boys from Lagos because Europeans first handed them (Lagos boys) the knowledge of kicking the round object.

In order to salvage silly and tribal ego of the Yoruba, not as ordinary man on the street, Olu of Ibadan sent SOS to all nooks and carnies of Yoruba land and secured a match between CKC kids and semi-professional team called the Olubadan XI. Despite playing a tough match the previous two days, the kids from CKC humbled the semi-pro Olubadan XI side.

Dede1:


I knew the inherently loudmouthed sons and daughters of tribal icons in Nigeria will pull out this write-up. It is unfortunate that these tribal jingoists were oblivious that when the aforementioned article was written, there was no entity known as Nigeria. During the period in discuss, people in the provinces of southern and northern protectorates were identified either by their ethnicity or province. One can begin to decipher the conjectural crap imbedded in this rubbish.

As for the drubbing the Christ the King's College, Onitsha handed to St Gregory's College, Lagos, there is no better way to express the duel than the manner used by Zik to elucidate the outcome of the football match. Before the soccer match commenced, some deluded juju musicians have gathered at the Palace of Olu of Ibadan singing how the boys from Onicha will disgraced on the field of soccer by the boys from Lagos because Europeans first handed them (Lagos boys) the knowledge of kicking the round object.

In order to salvage silly and tribal ego of the Yoruba, not as ordinary man on the street, Olu of Ibadan sent SOS to all nooks and carnies of Yoruba land and secured a match between CKC kids and semi-professional team called the Olubadan XI. Despite playing a tough match the previous two days, the kids from CKC humbled the semi-pro Olubadan XI side.

There was no entity called Nigeria in 1940? Pa Dede, you need to cut down on the snuff and Sapele water.

kaeto: just like they killed dele giwa,m.k.o abiola, fela kuti,poisoned awolowo, the 2 yoruba profs in bayero university,the countless yoruba massacres even in yorubaland. Lets stop the hypocrisy and deal with a common challenge. The world is moving on.

Why are you so dull?

One person (not Hausas) is alleged to have sent Dele Giwa a letter bomb. Dele Giwa was Edo.

M.K.O Abiola was killed by the C.I.A one full month after Abacha's demise. Abiola remained an impediment to the nation's political progress cos he insisted on his mandate.Even Abacha couldnt raise a finger against him.

Fela died of AIDS. How old were you that time self?

Awolowo had a domestic accident.He fell in the bathroom.

Where were you when the OPC terrorized the aboki community between 1999 and 2003 and even recently (July 2012) when a mosque was stormed with several abokis lynched in reprisal to a BH attack in the north? Maybe you were still in your village that time.

You are a cretin!

Aigbofa:

There was no entity called Nigeria in 1940? Pa Dede, you need to cut down on the snuff and Sapele water.

Dende is a slowpoke.

When was the NCNC formed? and what does it mean?