Ihuomadinihu:

If Igbos have been tribalistic,you wouldn't have found them all over Nigeria changing and contributing to the socio-economy of their host communities. You wouldn't find them embracing other cultures and learning other languages to their own detriment.
If Igbos were Tribalistic, Azikiwe wouldn't have put hands together with the Ijebu Yorubas to fight a political party.
If Igbos are Tribalistic,why was a Fulani man appointed the first Mayor of Enugu?
Till Jesus comes, there are no group of people who are as multilingual/cultural as igbos and found in all parts of Nigeria yet they become the first target of illiterate blood suckers.
I understand that Nairaland is full of Ignorant,childish tribalists.

T9ksy:



And that's because your fathers ran towards the west chanting "One Nigeria" like a faulty water-tap to partake in the free

education Awo provided for his people with the regional resources at his disposal.

The sad story on the ground is that, had it not been for the free education implemented by Awo in his own domain, many of your fathers would not have not been opportuned to see the interior walls of an educational institution.

PentiumProf:

Go and read your history books
The igbos were killed in 1953 for protecting akintola and his fellow yorubas

CliffordOrji:
Meanwhile, Chinua Achebe the greatest academia from Igboland, could not attend a University in Igboland, he had his tertiary education at the University College of Ibadan. Even Ikemba, Ojukwu had his secondary education at Kings College Lagos.

YourNemesis:


lol, but as at independence, the West still had far more PRIMARY and SECONDARY schools than your Eastern region and the North.
No matter how you want to go about it, no evidence supports the claims by your brother up there.

DaPuncline:

Being a tribalist is different from traveling round the globe for a better life or to make more money. You can leave your region to another place and still be a tribalist.

Checkout what Merriam-Webster Dictionary says about tribalism:

"loyalty to a tribe or other social group
especially when combined with strong
negative feelings for people outside the
group".

So you can be outside your region and still have a negative feelings about your host. A case study is calling Lagos a no man's land or the head of igbo community in a yoruba city entering an oba's palace with a crown on his head.

You can't say an igbo man would pack his load and head to Kafancha to learn hausa Language. Hell No. He's simply going there for a better life.


The case of fulani man appointed a mayor in enugu, should I start counting the number of appointment that igbos has benefited from the yorubas alone ?

Wanna give you an Assignment bro: Since 1999, kindly tell me one or two person(s) that are not igbos but have given a political appointment in the east. Thanks.

Omololu007:
senseless post....who was akintola in 1953,,can you tell us what happened in 1953 that ibos where protecting akintola

saintdennis:


U forget to mention his first major error... FORCING THE NORTH TO BE PART OF AN INDEPENDENT NIGERIA.

The north NEVER wanted anything to do with the south, azikiwe toasted, coerced and ultimately sent UK messages to compel the north to be part of the marriage.

Today ironically igbos want to divorce but the north like a lazy housewife with no prospects for financial buoyancy after divorce vehemently refuses lols.

ok obafemi awolowo wanted to include right to secede in our constitution AZIKIWE wrote Britain to accuse awolowo of treason.

Those 2 grave errors are still affecting us southerners till this day.

B4 u mention azikiwe how bout ojukwu who was rewarded with chieftaincy title for his cowardice.

--in btw i'm pro-nigeria.

DaPuncline:

Of course we all know a typical igbo man slogan.

Appoint an igbo man = Merit.

Appoint a yoruba man = Tribalism.

The problem an average igbo man has is he simply wants everything to be his own way which is not possible.

DaPuncline:

I know the truth about how Zik romanced with Balewa to made igbos in charge of western universities can never be heard on Radio Biafra.

Just look at it from this angle: when GEJ recently established some Fed. Uni in nigeria, he made Prof. Ibidapo-Obe to be in charge of the one in Ebonyi, Prof. Aluko was in charge of the one in Bayelsa, Prof. Chinedu Nebo was in charge of the one in Ekiti. So from your conclusion are you saying there was no igbo Prof. that jonathan could appoint to be in charge of the fed uni in ebonyi ? Or no yoruba man is fit enough to handle ekiti's own ? It is purely political which is same as what Zik and Balewa did to the western university then.

You even said zik was the most visible politician in africa then ? What about Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyattta, Kenneth Kaunda, Haile seilaisse, Kwame Nkrumah etc. You must be joking!

orbitriz:


But as of that time Igbo people were still backward in education

InyinyaAgbaOku:

Deny that merit doesn't favor igbos more. Could the whites had likes them more out of nepotism? Not possible

DaPuncline:

Merit does not. I told you the ones you got then was influenced by Zik-Balewa's alliance coz AG which is awolowo's party was the opposition party then.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Stop conjuring things. We igbos never associated any of our success to zik. He had said we were naturally independent and we felt that's myopic considering how Nigeria is, and we weren't even wrong. Why are you hell bent on forcing ziks benevolence on us? See consolation. I told you igbos headed civil service everywhere and you are telling me of Ekiti, bagels and co. That wasn't the case then.

Tell me instead politician that had Africa attached to his name aside Zik?
Zik of Africa.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Evidence?

DaPuncline:

Bros which consolation are you talking about ? I keep giving you fact to affirm how Zik and Balewa populated the civil service, ministries with their alliance and you are here saying consolation. Balewa had to danced top Zik's tune coz hausas were less educated then and their political partner which are the igbos are better off academically so they needed them to run the affairs. Yorubas were doing well academically and churning out seasoned academicians but majority of them are Awoist which made never never to be considered by Zik and Balewa. The question I'm still asking you is are you saying there were no qualified yoruba academicians in the west before Zik-Balewa decided to choose igbo academicians as SW university VCs ? I guess that was the bedrock of our argument.

So you said no success was associated to Zik and your folks has been euologizing Zik for given them UNN and Niger Bridge inclusive.

So bros becos Zik fans in nigeria added the word "Africa" to his name so that made him greater than the lumubas, kenyattas, nkrumahs etc.

DaPuncline:

Let's start from the three igbo academicians appointed by Zik as VC in SW university because you said it was by merit and no yoruba man was qualified. So were they appointed by the white men ? Who also appointed Jaja Wachukwu Foreign affiars minister ?, Aja Nwachukwu education minister ? I guess the whitemen appointed them too ? Who made Aguiyi Ironsi chief of Army staff ? White man ? The list is endless bro.

Ihuomadinihu:

O di egwu. What is Zik's fans in Nigeria? Before Zik ventured into politics,he was a writer/journalist and his writeups succeded in motivating Africans to cry for independence and that ruffled the ego of the stubborn and greedy Colonialists. His Newspapers became a reference point for Africans seeking for liberation.
He was not just a Nigerian politician,he was a Pan African Nationalist whose legacy was felt throughout Black Africa.

Ihuomadinihu:

Irrespective of who appointed them. It was all based on Merit and who had the best qualifications in that time. Don't equate the Nigeria of today with that period. People were eager to serve their nation and put ego and tribalism aside. Things were largely done on merit. The reason you wouldn't find such situations in the East of those days was largely because your folks were basically absent.

CliffordOrji:
As a true Nwafo Igbo I am often perplexed whenever I read/hear my Ummuna brothers refer to Nnamdi Azikiwe as a Hero. For those who do not know; Nnamdi Azikiwe betrayed we Igbos. He was the one that composed the Biafran National Anthem, but ironically, during the heat of the Biafran civil war, Azikiwe ran away from Biafra. He defected to Nigeria and supported the Nigerian governemnt in the killing of his own Biafran people.

Obafemi Awolowo's free education policy amongst many others is an achievement the Yoruba's can regard to as the legacy of the defunct Western region; what can we Igbos point to as Nnamdi Azikiwe's achievment in the eastern region? Nothing !!

For those who do not know; prior to the 1950's, Nnamdi Azikiwe left Igboland, he went to Yorubaland and greedily fought both tooth and nail to become the leader of the western regional house of assembly at Ibadan. Awolowo's political party, A.G defeated Azikiwe's NCNC and disgracefully chased him back to Igboland. When he came back to Alaigbo what did he do for we Igbos? Nothing!! This particular university we are beating our chest about was built many years after more than five generation of Yoruba's had been going to the University in England. Even Chinua Achebe the greatest academia in Igboland had his own university education in Yorubaland at the University College of Ibadan

Mjuliet:
Zik Points To The Proposed Site Of The University Of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in 1950s.

http://www.fastdatashare.com/2016/10/zik-at-proposed-site-of-university-of.html

CliffordOrji:
Meanwhile, Chinua Achebe the greatest academia from Igboland, could not attend a University in Igboland, he had his tertiary education at the University College of Ibadan. Even Ikemba, Ojukwu had his secondary education at Kings College Lagos.

CliffordOrji:
As a true Nwafo Igbo I am often perplexed whenever I read/hear my Ummuna brothers refer to Nnamdi Azikiwe as a Hero. For those who do not know; Nnamdi Azikiwe betrayed we Igbos. He was the one that composed the Biafran National Anthem, but ironically, during the heat of the Biafran civil war, Azikiwe ran away from Biafra. He defected to Nigeria and supported the Nigerian governemnt in the killing of his own Biafran people.

Obafemi Awolowo's free education policy amongst many others is an achievement the Yoruba's can regard to as the legacy of the defunct Western region; what can we Igbos point to as Nnamdi Azikiwe's achievment in the eastern region? Nothing !!

For those who do not know; prior to the 1950's, Nnamdi Azikiwe left Igboland, he went to Yorubaland and greedily fought both tooth and nail to become the leader of the western regional house of assembly at Ibadan. Awolowo's political party, A.G defeated Azikiwe's NCNC and disgracefully chased him back to Igboland. When he came back to Alaigbo what did he do for we Igbos? Nothing!! This particular university we are beating our chest about was built many years after more than five generation of Yoruba's had been going to the University in England. Even Chinua Achebe the greatest academia in Igboland had his own university education in Yorubaland at the University College of Ibadan

slurryeye:


I will take the pain of educating a retard like you. When Nigeria was going into independence, it has just one university located in Ibadan. The regional leaders decided to build one university in each region and one in Lagos which was the Capital. The following where built, University of Ife in western region, University of Nigeria in eastern region, University of Northern Nigeria in northern region and University of Lagos in the Capital. However, when Awolowo died, university of Ife was named after him, when Ahmadu Bello died the university of northern Nigeria was named after him. But the Igbos being unappreciative and ungrateful breeds they are, they refused to name the university after their so called founding father. Instead they named him after a 3rd tier university in Awka.
Now think about that slowpoke

CliffordOrji:
As a true Nwafo Igbo I am often perplexed whenever I read/hear my Ummuna brothers refer to Nnamdi Azikiwe as a Hero. For those who do not know; Nnamdi Azikiwe betrayed we Igbos. He was the one that composed the Biafran National Anthem, but ironically, during the heat of the Biafran civil war, Azikiwe ran away from Biafra. He defected to Nigeria and supported the Nigerian governemnt in the killing of his own Biafran people.

Obafemi Awolowo's free education policy amongst many others is an achievement the Yoruba's can regard to as the legacy of the defunct Western region; what can we Igbos point to as Nnamdi Azikiwe's achievment in the eastern region? Nothing !!

For those who do not know; prior to the 1950's, Nnamdi Azikiwe left Igboland, he went to Yorubaland and greedily fought both tooth and nail to become the leader of the western regional house of assembly at Ibadan. Awolowo's political party, A.G defeated Azikiwe's NCNC and disgracefully chased him back to Igboland. When he came back to Alaigbo what did he do for we Igbos? Nothing!! This particular university we are beating our chest about was built many years after more than five generation of Yoruba's had been going to the University in England. Even Chinua Achebe the greatest academia in Igboland had his own university education in Yorubaland at the University College of Ibadan

PentiumProf:
The first indeginous university in nigeria was not built by the white man
It was not built with oil money
It wasn't built by federal government
It was built by the owelle of onitsha Dr nnamdi azikwe
While the other tribe focused on building a tall building of no use a television station that was watched by the rich igbos were investing in education health industries
Igbos are the pride of the world

CliffordOrji:
As a true Nwafo Igbo I am often perplexed whenever I read/hear my Ummuna brothers refer to Nnamdi Azikiwe as a Hero. For those who do not know; Nnamdi Azikiwe betrayed we Igbos. He was the one that composed the Biafran National Anthem, but ironically, during the heat of the Biafran civil war, Azikiwe ran away from Biafra. He defected to Nigeria and supported the Nigerian governemnt in the killing of his own Biafran people.

Obafemi Awolowo's free education policy amongst many others is an achievement the Yoruba's can regard to as the legacy of the defunct Western region; what can we Igbos point to as Nnamdi Azikiwe's achievment in the eastern region? Nothing !!

For those who do not know; prior to the 1950's, Nnamdi Azikiwe left Igboland, he went to Yorubaland and greedily fought both tooth and nail to become the leader of the western regional house of assembly at Ibadan. Awolowo's political party, A.G defeated Azikiwe's NCNC and disgracefully chased him back to Igboland. When he came back to Alaigbo what did he do for we Igbos? Nothing!! This particular university we are beating our chest about was built many years after more than five generation of Yoruba's had been going to the University in England. Even Chinua Achebe the greatest academia in Igboland had his own university education in Yorubaland at the University College of Ibadan