Two pages and all the oil soup eaters want to discuss is Biafra and who is in Biafra. Leave Igbos alone for crying out loud. If calaba people have a problem belonging to Biafra, then it's between Igbos and Calaba, what concerns yoruba people.

Demdem:

If its Biafra and ND issue then why is it on Nairaland. Why dont u go strictly to IgboKwenu.com and discuss ur madness there.

This isnt ur village square. We discuss all issues brought to our attention here.

For the rest of ur post, u sound really daft no doubt.

..but as a yoruba guy,your level of anger is out of place really or are you in a permanent state of anger,animosity and pain?...you are neither from ND nor Igbo yet you've been hyperventilating over this issue...
..strange indeed cos i expected you to be more concerned about your Oduduwa country or something..na wa.

Onlytruth: If Southern protectorate (former Niger coast protectorate) is to be decoupled from Lagos colony, ie pre-1900, what we would have is Yorubaland on the one hand, and the rest of the south on the other hand.

If there would even be adjustments, it would be minor.

Anyway, I still believe that somehow Nigeria can pull through and stay together. The only problem I have with Nigeria is Northern backwardness and violent culture.

Only dreams, you are here again to delude yourself.

You see, nwamkpi n'agba ahuonu, onyeweya n'agbakwa ahuonu. Eshi ahia, anyi ga ma onyegapu ibe ya aga ahia.

You are a dreamer and I will not wake you from your dreams.

When the time comes, omegi vuuuuuuum n'anya.

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Onlytruth: lol Hate is eating up this Demdem guy. I only laid out what will likely happen should Nigeria disintegrate and the guy is about to commit suicide.

Here is a rough history of how Nigeria came to be. All the countries that disintegrated followed old boundaries.
In other words, what was coupled can be DE-coupled. Nothing more.

[b]1862 (January 1): Lagos Island annexed as a colony of Britain

Mr. H.S Freeman became Governor of Lagos Colony (Jan. 22)

1893: Oil Rivers Protectorate renamed Niger Coast Protectorate with Calabar as capital.

1890's: British reporter Flora Shaw, who later married Lord Frederick Lugard, suggests that the country be named "Nigeria" after the Niger River.

1897: The British overthrew Oba Ovonramwen of Benin, one of the last independent West African kings.

1900: The Niger Coast Protectorate, merged with the colony and protectorate of Lagos, was renamed the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria

Sir Lord Fredrick Lugard

1914: The northern and southern protectorates were amalgamated to form Nigeria. Colonial officer Frederick Lugard was governor-general.

1929 (October): Women in the eastern commercial city of Aba held a rowdy but effective and victorious protest against high taxes and low prices of Nigerian exports.

1951: The British decided to grant Nigeria internal self-rule, following an agitation led by the NCNC, Dr Azikiwe’s political party.

1954: The position of Governor was created in the three regions (North, West and East) on the adoption of federalism.

1958: Nigerian Armed Forces transferred to Federal control. The Nigerian Navy was born.

1959: The new Nigerian currency, the Pound, was introduced

1959: Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) and Niger Delta Congress (NDC) formed an alliance to contest parliamentary elections.

1960 (October 1): Independence. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe became Nigeria’s first indigenous Governor General.[/b]

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Crap. Talk about present day realities.

ballabriggs:

Only dreams, you are here again to delude yourself.

You see, nwamkpi n'agba ahuonu, onyeweya n'agbakwa ahuonu. Eshi ahia, anyi ga ma onyegapu ibe ya aga ahia.

You are a dreamer and I will not wake you from your dreams.

When the time comes, omegi vuuuuuuum n'anya.

And your point on the topic is?
There are lots of lunatics on this site, and I have since gotten used to them. Go and learn more Igbo.
Nkita na agba nne ya.

Demdem: [s][/s]

Crap. Talk about present day realities.

The present day reality is that Nigeria may actually disintegrate next year, and it is no joke.
Learn to live in your corner of Nigeria and learn how to work hard to build a new country, in case it happens.
Stop hyperventilating here. You will die of heart attack for nothing.

Anybody who wants to split Nigeria should be ready for a war. But are they ready?

Dede Mor0n is probably somewhere in Tajikistan after his failed attempt to cross into Europe. Yet he wants those who are hustling in Naija to fight for his imaginary 'republic of Igbo land'.

Ovoko! Ovoko!! Ovoko!!! These are deluded minds. Ogaeme ha vuuuuum n'anya.

Onlytruth:

And your point on the topic is?
There are lots of lunatics on this site, and I have since gotten used to them. Go and learn more Igbo.
Nkita na agba nne ya.

Only dreams hiding in Tajikistan. Come back home, form your army of secessionists. Then I will know you are serious.

Not this one that you are behind your computer eating nkwobi and small stout in Tajikistan.

You are just a dreamer which is akin to masturb@ting with Agbani Darego's photo.

Meanwhile enjoy what a renowned Nigerian lawyer wrote about Nigeria.


The Amalgamation Of Nigeria Was A Fraud



by



Richard Akinjide, QC, SAN



July 9, 2000


Lagos - I Was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament in December 12, 1959. And I remained in Parliament until January 15, 1966 when the Government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet.

I woke up in the morning in my official house in Ikoyi to discover that my telephone was not working. I had never experienced coup before nor did I know that it was a coup, thinking it was just a telephone fault; until a colleague of mine in the cabinet Chief Abiodun Akerele, came in and told me there had been a military coup. So I had the fortune or the misfortune of being a victim of the first coup ever in this country.

Many people may not know that I spent 18 months in detention in prisons across the country. I've spent the time in Kirikiri prison, Ilesha prison, Ibadan prison and the Abeokuta prison Two of us who were in Balewa's government emerged when the military handed over to civilians in 1979 as part of the civilian Government. In Balewa's government, Alhaji Shehu Shagari was the Minister of Works while I was the Minister of Education. When the Military handed over to us after about 14 years, Shagari emerged as the President, while I became the Attorney - General and Minister of Justice. Again, Shagari's government was overthrown just a few months after I left the cabinet. Of course, we suspected it was coming.

A lot of things that happened between that period and now would never see the light of the day. When you are in government, you know a lot of things; you see a lot of things. A lot of things you know or did or saw will die with you. This is the practice the whole world. People have asked me to write my memoirs, I just laugh because there are certain things I can never reveal. When I was in Tafawa Balewa's Cabinet, all Cabinet ministers had access to written intelligence report every month. That was the practice at that time. But when Shagari came in, for reasons, which I cannot explain, that practice was no longer followed. But by virtue of my duties as the Attorney - General and as a member of the National Security Council, I continued to have access to some sensitive matters.

Nigeria is a very complex country. Our problems did not start yesterday. It started about 1884. Lord Lugard came here about 1894 and many people did not know that Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British Government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred to the British government. Unless you know this background, you will not know the root causes of our problems. The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed Nigeria was economic and it's still economic. They have no permanent friends and no permanent interests. Neither their interests nor their friends are permanent. Nigeria was created as British sphere of interests for business. In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers and that was the beginning of our problems.

Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist. A number of British soldiers, businessmen, politicians were very patriotic. But I must warn you; they were operating in the interest of their country. Lugard became a Lord.

Nigerians, too, should operate in the interest of their country. When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force with 2,000 troops, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt. And his dispatches to London between that time and January 1914 are extremely interesting. Lugard came here for a purpose ant that purpose was British interest. Between 1898 and 1914, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914.

The Order - in - Council was drawn up in November 1913 signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things, which are at the root causes of yesterday and today's problems.

The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest. He said the North and the South should be amalgamated. Southern Nigeria came into existence on January 1900 ... At the Centenary of the fall of Benin, I wrote a piece in a number of papers but before I published the piece, I sent a copy to the Oba of Benin. So when Benin was conquered in 1896, it made the creation of the Southern Nigerian protectorate possible on January 1, 1900.

If you remember, Sokoto was not conquered until 1903. So, there was no question of Nigeria at that time. After the conquest of Sokoto, they were able to create the northern Nigerian protectorate. Lugard went full blast and created what was to be known as the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. What is critical and important are the reasons Lugard gave in his dispatches. They are as follows: He said the North is poor and they have no resources to run the protectorate of the North. That they have no access to the sea; that the South has resources and have educated people.

The first Yoruba lawyer was called to the Bar in 1861. Therefore, because it was not the policy of the British Government to bring the taxpayers money to run the protectorate, it was in the interest of the British business and the British taxpayer that there should be Amalgamation. But what the British amalgamated was the Administration of the North and South and not the people of the North and the South, that is one of the root causes of the problems of Nigeria and the Nigerians.

When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. And between 1914 andl960, that's a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South. That was the basis on which we got our independence in 1960 when I was in the parliament. I entered Parliament on December 12, 1959. When the North formed a political party, the northern leaders called it Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). They didn't call it Nigeria Peoples Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Lugard. When Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) not Nigerian Progressive Union.

It was only Awolowo and Zik who were mistaken that there was anything called Nigeria. Infact, the so-cared Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created? The structures created were as follows: Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate Britain. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power rested in England.

That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North. The population figure of the North is also a fraud. Infact, a British Colonial Civil Servant who was involved in the fraud was trying to expose it but he was never allowed to publish it. The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria. Nigeria is the only zone whereby you go from coast to the North, the population increases and you come from the North to the Coast, the population decreases. Well, geographers, anthropologists and population experts, draw your conclusions, Someone has told me the last population census was done by computer, what a nonsense.

A computer is as good as its programmer. A computer will produce what you ask it to produce. I have read this book from cover to cover. This is a fantastic book. I want us to find a way to ensure that as many Nigerians read this book. It is a raw material for future authors. There is one thing which is missing in the book and that is the first broadcast of General Ibrahim Babangida when he assumed power in 1985. That broadcast is very crucial to the economic problems we have today. ... Talking on the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie- Eboh had been Hied, we knew Akintola had been killed. We, the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting. But how can you have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us. Then we continued holding our meetings. Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office. All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Ironsi to assemble.

What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed. We assembled there. Having nominated ZANA Diphcharima as our acting Prime Minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose where about we didn't know, we approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he cannot legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he is sworn- in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed t contact Zik who was then in West Indies.

Under the law, that is, the Interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwazor Orizu had all the powers of the President. The GOC said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand-over. Ironsi told us that "you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force". These were his words. Is that voluntary hand-over? So we did not hand-over. We wanted an Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.

The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not cooperate with us, cooperated with the GOC. Dr. Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast handing over the government of the country to the army. I here state again categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not hand-over voluntarily. It was a coup. This is a very good book, which everybody must read. It is raw material for future authors. Anybody, who wants to know some of the causes of our problems, military instability should read this book. I even recommend this book to all universities and secondary schools, so that they can know how we get to where we are now. What this book shows is that if anybody stages a coup and if people don't accept it, it would not succeed. What puzzles me is how the author got all these materials. He must have connections in high places to be able to get a lot of these materials.

These materials should not be in the archives, they should be in the public domain so that we know the causes of our problems. I pray that all Nigerians should rise up and say no if anybody seizes a radio station and says "fellow countrymen". I hope that this book will find its way into all university libraries throughout this country, to all secondary school library and abroad. I appeal to the media to give this book a comprehensive and desired review.

The more I open the book, the more I see something to talk about. This book is going to represent one of those chapters in the tragedy of Nigeria. This book is just like horror film because the instability which was started in I966 ... because many of the coups are what I'll call commercial coups. If anything at all, we have to learn a great lesson from this book and also learn a lesson on what happened, who failed or succeed in their coups. When it succeeds. They call it glorious revolution. But when it fails, it is called treason. It is my honour and privilege to present this great and historic book. One of the things I like about the book is the language of the author. He's someone who speaks Englishman's English. He writes Queen's English. Very lucid, very flowing.

Demdem:

Does this change the fact that ND wants to be independent and want nothing to do with Biafra?

..but ofcourse they should have their own country however way they want it..but it's their decision not yours..
...anyway am done with you cos i hate having a back and forth with your type..creeps me out for real...have fun!

Onlytruth: Meanwhile enjoy what a renowned Nigerian lawyer wrote about Nigeria.

Rubbish!!!

When a man who represented Nigeria at the World Court in the Bakassi case Vs Cameroon thinks that the country is a fraud, what should an ordinary Nigerian say?

And ANIMALS are here calling decent folks names. Mscteeeeeeeeeeeeeew.

Demdem:

Now that its proven that u goofed on that vital point, its safe to conclude that the rest of ur post is simply a heap of dung. Ur desires that has no bearing to what is on ground.

Are You from SS? no
Are You From Akwa Ibom? No
Are You From Cross River? No
Are You From SE? No
Are You Yoruba? Yes
Then My Comment Colored You Perfectly. If Not, Wetin Concern You Then? Why Are You Hyperventilating More Than The People In Question?

I Hope You don't Die Of Heart Attack Cause It's Not That Serious Jor. Let SE, Akwa Ibom And Cross River Speak Among Themselves. They didn't Ask For Your Opinion. #Just Saying.

ballabriggs:

Rubbish!!!

Atulu ugwu.

One_Naira:


Are You from SS? no
Are You From Akwa Ibom? No
Are You From Cross River? No
Are You From SE? No
Are You Yoruba? Yes
Then My Comment Colored You Perfectly. If Not, Wetin Concern You Then? Why Are You Hyperventilating More Than The People In Question.

I Hope You don't Die Of Heart Attack Cause It's Not That Serious Jor. Let SE, Akwa Ibom And Cross River Speak Among Themselves. They didn't Ask For Your Opinion. #Just Saying.

We are speaking. Chineke ekwela ihe ojo that I will let some deluded minds lead me into a doomed 'Republic of Igbo land'.

Onlytruth:

Atulu ugwu.

Only dreams, yere onwegi aka O. Have you formed your army?

ballabriggs:

Only dreams, yere onwegi aka O.

Which one be "yere"?
Don't you know that Igbo is an EMBEDDED language. You either are Igbo or you are NOT. You can learn the language, but it will keep opening your nyash once in a while, here and there.

ballabriggs:

We are speaking. Chineke ekwela ihe ojo that I will lat some deluded minds lead me into a doomed 'Republic of Igbo land'.

Lmao. Now You're Cross River Or Akwa Ibom? Didn't You Claim Igbo Few Months Ago When You Tried To Speak For Igbo? I Recalled Your Account Perfectly Cause You Tried To Speak For Asaba And Wrote To A Member "don't Let Asaba Ppl See This" When He Included Asaba As Part Of Igbo Cities. Lmfao. Nwoke Stick To One Ethnicity. Tomorrow Now, You'll Be Ijaw When It Suits You. Next Tomorrow Hausa. Lmfaoooo

ballabriggs:

Nwokem please take a seat. I am more Igbo than you are but I have a brain to think. Those other ethnic groups know this ia a huge joke that is not going to happen, so why waste your time.

https://www.nairaland.com/1317310/massob-sit-at-home-order-anambra-live/7#16131384

Onlytruth:

Which one be "yere"?
Don't you know that Igbo is an EMBEDDED language. You either are Igbo or you are NOT. You can learn the language, but it will keep opening your nyash once in a while, here and there.

Mr dreams, you know Igbo so much and you are not at center for Igbo studies, Imo State University.

Akabo lele O!!!

Only dreams help yourself O.

ballabriggs:

Mr dreams, you know Igbo so much and you are not at center for Igbo studies, Imo State University.

Akabo lele O!!!

Only dreams help yourself O.

Nwokem shift for one side. You are actually succeeding in changing the discourse, but I don't mind because it changes nothing.

The mistake some of you make is to assume that Nigeria's problem is caused by people who question your dogma about Nigeria.
Nigeria's arch problem stem from mindsets like yours that add NOTHING to the intellectual base of the country. The intellectual base is needed to build a FUNCTIONAL country, whether as one or as divided entities.
You are PESTS (ndi igbo call your type "akwu ani" or "mkpu"--). You are cankerworms eating the country and threatening those who speak the necessary truth to save the humans put there by God. Year after year, thousands of Nigerians die from senseless violence originating from a false national foundation.

Why am I even wasting my time with you goat?

Anyway I think I've made my point.

If ever Nigeria will disintegrate it would be along internationally recognized borders like North and South; or North, East, and West (following amalgamation historical paths).

I rest.

Signing off,

Yours truly,

Onlytruth!

Onlytruth:

Nwokem shift for one side. You are actually succeeding in changing the discourse, but I don't mind because it changes nothing.

The mistake some of you make is to assume that Nigeria's problem is caused by people who question your dogma about Nigeria.
Nigeria's arch problem stem from mindsets like yours that add NOTHING to the intellectual base of the country. The intellectual base is needed to build a FUNCTIONAL country, whether as one or as divided entities.
You are PESTS (ndi igbo call your type "akwu ani" or "mkpu"--). You are cankerworms eating the country and threatening those who speak the necessary truth to save the humans put there by God. Year after year, thousands of Nigerians die from senseless violence originating from a false national foundation.

Why am I even wasting my time with you goat?

The problem with people like you is that you think Nigeria is still in 1914 when the protectorates where put together.

This country has moved and has grown assets over the years making it more complicated to balkanise. For example, do you really expect the northern man to watch you turn his area to a landlocked place? You must be deluded if you think it is something that can easily be agreed on.

All I know is that yorubas shd mind their biz.

ngozievergreen: All I know is that yorubas shd mind their biz.

You should be directing that to your brothers who are right now at the motor park in their thousands, attempting to come over to yorubaland in search for a better life

Freewilly: Two pages and all the oil soup eaters want to discuss is Biafra and who is in Biafra. Leave Igbos alone for crying out loud. If calaba people have a problem belonging to Biafra, then it's between Igbos and Calaba, what concerns yoruba people.

The majority of the Akwa Ibom, Calabar, Ogoni evidently are opinionated AGAINST having any geographical boundaries with Ibos in an eventual break-up if that was to be a possibility in the future.

That said, a question I want you to answer is:

-If then these minorities end up facing a prospect of forceful integration by Ibos, does that not warrant the intervention of another enemy tribe of the Ibos e.g Yorubas to come to the aid of the powerless minorities suffering oppression in the hands of the Ibos?

lakhadimar: You should be directing that to your brothers who are right now at the motor park in their thousands, attempting to come over to yorubaland in search for a better life

Then they set up huge businesses buy up your lands and have your brothers and sisters do house boy for them. Tell me who is the smart one here.

St_Black:

The majority of the Akwa Ibom, Calabar, Ogoni evidently are opinionated AGAINST having any geographical boundaries with Ibos in an eventual break-up if that was to be a possibility in the future.

That said, a question I want you to answer is:

-If then these minorities end up facing a prospect of forceful integration by Ibos, does that not warrant the intervention of another enemy tribe of the Ibos e.g Yorubas to come to the aid of the powerless minorities suffering oppression in the hands of the Ibos?

Hey blacky your hatred for Igbos is blinding you, I don't have anything to discuss with you so pls go away.

One_Naira:


Are You from SS? no
Are You From Akwa Ibom? No
Are You From Cross River? No
Are You From SE? No
Are You Yoruba? Yes
Then My Comment Colored You Perfectly. If Not, Wetin Concern You Then? Why Are You Hyperventilating More Than The People In Question?

I Hope You don't Die Of Heart Attack Cause It's Not That Serious Jor. Let SE, Akwa Ibom And Cross River Speak Among Themselves. They didn't Ask For Your Opinion. #Just Saying.

If I may ask you then, are you an non-Igbo? No.

If No,

-then what gives you & your tribesmen the fu*cking right to upset the sovereignity of a minority/minority groups?

-What also gives your tribesmen the fu*cking right the monopoly of interfering on the matter of other non-Ibos, hereby making that exclusive for other majorities

PLS ANSWER THESE.

Freewilly:

Then we ibos set start selling fake and counterfeit products, use our parents for money rituals, while our sisterd do ashawo work. Tell me who is the smart one here.

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