alfaman2: It seems to me that everybody (maybe not the yorubas) want to be on their own. Northerners want their own country with their sharia laws. Easterners had always wanted independence and have even fought a bloody war for that. Even the so called minorities are clamouring for self determination. MEND, Middle belt youths, etc.
So why are we still together? Is the yorubas holding everybody to ransom or are there some other forces that I don't understand?

ziga:

The Yorubas must be so strong to be holding all these other groups together.

PROUD-IGBO:
What's holding Nigeria together is the thieving elite and ruling class from ALL regions/ethnicities; it's also because of these same people that we're yet to sit down at a round table to address fundamental issues facing us and restructure this country.

They are the ones enjoying this 'one Nigeria'; cutting deals and feathering their nests for the present and later generations of their families to pig-out on for life! More than 100 million Nigerians are suffering with the status-quo, and these are the hidden and silent majority that would gain from a sovereign national conference that would bring about a new way of doing things......not necessarily to break up the country.

PROUD-IGBO:
What's holding Nigeria together is the thieving elite and ruling class from ALL regions/ethnicities; it's also because of these same people that we're yet to sit down at a round table to address fundamental issues facing us and restructure this country.

They are the ones enjoying this 'one Nigeria'; cutting deals and feathering their nests for the present and later generations of their families to pig-out on for life! More than 100 million Nigerians are suffering with the status-quo, and these are the hidden and silent majority that would gain from a sovereign national conference that would bring about a new way of doing things......not necessarily to break up the country.

Feed me more: ^^^^Keep deceiving yourself....

If Nigerians don't hate themselves in real life, why is it that when an Igbo person is appointed to a ministerial position or head any government parastatal or even military post for that matter, some tribes especially the north, whine, bawl, Bleat, groan that Igbo's are being favored, despite the fact that they have been short-changed for the better part of it's (Nigeria) existence.

alfaman2:

You mean they need other people to survive? They are not capable of self-sustainance?

dayokanu:

You should know the people that need others to survive, the ones who cant stay in their region and need to migrate en masse everytime to other regions.

If Naija disintegrate, And they send them back to their caves how would they survive without killing each other off?

dayokanu: Is political capital the reason we have more ibo in Ibadan than Yorubas in Enugu. More Ibos in Ogun statethan in Imo. Or which capital makes ibo flood to kano maiduguri jos yola sokoto etc

Bloody leeches

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^What studies/data are you relying on to posit that there are more Igbos in Ibadan and Ogun than there are Yorubas in Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, Port Harcourt, Bonny and Warri? Igbos are industrious and go where there's an opening for business; they are the ethnic group -more than any other in Nigeria- that are putting their money (and some may argue- lives) where their mouth is regarding this 'one Nigeria' project.

If Nigeria were to disintergrate tomorrow, each ethnic group would have their destiny in their hands and would not be held down or have their future tied to or determined by hateful bastards like you.....this would open up loads of new economic opportunities and frontiers for all (Ndigbo inclusive) in their respective regions; you would see confederations (or countries) like Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Igboland (or Biafra), Delta, Benue, etc, being able to use their own resources like Oil/Gas, Agriculture, Tourism, Sea/River Ports, International Airports, Sporting Prowess, Academics, Commercial/Industrial ingenuity, etc.....they would be able to use these resources primarily for their own benefit and as they please without waiting for instructions from Abuja; they would be able to attract FDIs better because they would be better able to manage issues like terrorism and armed robbery better (armed robbery being the resultant effect of a non-inclusive and poor economy, would then reduce to the barest minimum like we had it b/4 the civil war).

So if you think a disintergrated Nigeria would work against Igbo interests, think again mate! Of course there would be teething problems at first what with issues of investments in other regions, but this would be a nationwide issue not peculiar to Igbos alone and an agreement would be reached by all parties involved for an amicable seperation.

alj harem:

These are not igbo territories though

alj harem:

These are not igbo territories though

T9ksy:

They are ibo territories o, afterall wasn't it the ibos who developed the area?

Just as they developed abuja, lagos (ref. Ladipo mkt), kano, Kaduna ati bebelo.

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^While Port Harcourt has a large Igbo presence, i actually used those examples to tell him that Yorubas also leave the south west for economic reasons....he was trying to make it look like it's just Igbos that leave their place and can be found in other regions.

Onlytruth:

Yes, BUT you would also agree that there are powerful forces within Nigeria (perhaps not more than three men) that are basically holding everybody hostage in that country. The rest of the country is beholden to these men who hold enormous powers of life and death, as well as carrots. If you refuse to be paid with the carrots, you may die. So, most simply take the carrot and keep quiet even while mortgaging the future of their own children. They console themselves by sending their children overseas with the money they got from these few evil men holding Nigeria hostage. Nobody knew how tenuous Iraq was until Saddam Hussein died. The whole of North Africa is yet to settle down after Gaddafi's death. Nigeria will unravel the same way, for good or for bad. Either way, don't blame the whole country yet, at least until these few evil men go the way of Saddam and Gadaffi.