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Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 5:28pm On Apr 14, 2022
Tunde Bakare lies about Balewa and the Igbo



Mr Tunde Bakare, Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly (now also known as the Citadel Global Community Church) a Nigerian fundamentalist Christian church, is a man with a large following. His words are consequential.

His pulpit is large. As a self-proclaimed Christian pastor, many Christians have trusted his words as true. Well, that is about, possibly to change. Why? Here’s the deal: in the last week, Bakare’s mask fell from his face, and we glimpsed the image of the grinning skull. A terrible image.

What led to this slipping of the mask? Well, again, there is the old saying that a lion may hide all it wants, but it cannot hide its claws. Tunde Bakare could not finally help himself.

Last week, this pastor according to a very embittered congregant who drew my attention to a video circulating now on the web – caused outrage in civilized circles, but particularly among the Igbo, when he declared in one of his sermons that the Igbo will not govern Nigeria because the late Tafawa Balewa cursed them. Really? Well, it seems that Mr. Tunde Bakare knows much more than most, about Tafawa Balewa who died in the January 15, 1966 coup.

Nigeria’s first military putsch. According to Bakare, when so-called Igbo soldiers arrested Balewa on January 15 1966, they violated him. They removed his turban, Bakare said, poured wine on his head, and forced some of that wine into his throat. Before he died, said Bakare, Tafawa Balewa cursed the Igbo, saying they would never govern Nigeria. This image is very calculated and vexatious. But Bakare knows exactly what he was doing. It is to rouse and stoke hatred against the Igbo by a section of Nigeria.

Bakare’s account of the death of Nigeria’s first prime minister is a lie from the pit of hell. First, how did Bakare come about this fiction? It must be part of the larger street mythologies sold to Nigerians as part of the hate campaign against the Igbo to justify the mass murder of the Igbo in the pogrom and the civil war that followed.

Bakare who grew up in Abeokuta must have, absorbed this street lore until he could swear by it. He was not there.

The only accounts that have come out about the death of the Prime Minister indicate that Alhaji Tafawa Balewa was accorded the highest regard even before he was arrested. According to Major Wale Ademoyega, a key leader of the coup, in Why We Struck, his account of the coup, wrote that Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna who led the team that arrested the Prime Minister at his lodge ordered that the Prime Minister be accorded the highest courtesy.

He was even allowed to finish his prayers before he was taken into Ifeajuna’s Red Mercedes 190.

Segun Osoba who was the only reporter to see the Prime Minister’s corpse at the cocoa plantation on Abeokuta where they found him prodded against a cocoa tree to rest, reported that the body of the Prime Minister when he saw it was “fresh” and there was no bullet wound.
If the Prime Minister was violated, as Bakare claims, Osoba would have known, and would have reported it. The death of Tafawa Balewa was tragic, but it needs to be said here, that Mr. Balewa could not have cursed an entire Igbo, simply because, in spite of what Bakare ignorantly thinks, the Igbo did not carry out a coup.

The coup was carried out by a faction of the Nigerian Army which happened to have had more Igbo officers. Besides, most Nigerians have been told a huge lie about that event. The government that was overthrown was led by an Igbo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was President. Even today, some Igbo have joined in telling the lie that Dr. Azikiwe was “merely a ceremonial president” and that the Igbo have therefore not governed Nigeria, except for General Ironsi’s six months.

That too is a lie. It is true that Dr. Azikiwe had largely ceremonial functions as Governor-General from 1960 to 1963. Before they handed that job to him, and this was part of the agreement, the British had striped the office of the Governor-General of its enormous powers and basically handed a ceremonial office to Zik.

But the 1963 republican constitution basically restored the powers of the President and Head of state of the republic, and literally turned the Prime Minister into the President’s Chief Adviser. In other words, from November 16, 1963, on his birthday, President Azikiwe governed Nigeria with full executive authority.

The Republican constitution of Nigeria endowed on the president, and not to the council of Ministers, all executive power. This constitution remains public document, and unambiguous, although even constitutional historians continue to fib about it, to align with ignorant and self-serving views.

But let us return to the so-called “Balewa curse”: in uttering that blasphemy, Igbo Christians have identified Bakare as “anti-Christ.” A wolf in sheep’s clothing. He uses the podium of a Christian ministry to preach hate, and to raise cudgels against the anointed of God. The Igbo call themselves “Umu-Chukwu” – children of the High God.

That is why they do not make kings. According to the Igbo, the only king of the Igbo is God. That is the central basis of their covenantal life. To these Igbo, what Bakare did in declaring that the Igbo were cursed by Balewa and that they would therefore never rule in Nigeria is as it is written, that a false prophet shall arise, like a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and driven mad by power, shall “battle against God’s chillun.”

The problem is that Tunde Bakare got it wrong. He should just simply take a look around: the Igbo are a blessed people. Wherever they are, they prosper. They turn deserts into fruitful fields. When the Igbo leave a place, it becomes molten. If the Igbo leave Abuja today, it stops being Abuja.

If Igbo leave Lagos, it stops being Lagos. If the Igbo leave Kano, it will lose its kano-ness. The evidence is often made bare during Christmas, when the Igbo leave these cities to the East. Those places become hollow. Whatever the Igbo touch, even today, blooms. Such a people could not have been cursed: with the highest level of education; highest per capita income of any group in Nigeria; with a mobile global network that is increasingly consequential.

The only place where darkness has fallen is postwar Nigeria. Without the Igbo unleashing their great talent on this nation, Nigeria will increasingly atrophy. It is Nigeria that is actually under the curse of the Igbo. Here is the evidence: since 1966 when the rest of Nigeria fell on the Igbo and shed Igbo blood, this country has remained confused. It has not known peace. First it was coups and counter coups. Those who killed the Igbo turned the swords against each other.

They fell like carrion on the carcass of Nigeria. They looted it. Nigeria has earned mind-boggling money from oil, but it remains poorer than Gambia. Its public service is in decay. Its infrastructure is like what you find only in places that are under constant bombardment. It is a corrupt and unkind nation. Its population is adrift and in fear. Even Bakare cannot travel from Abeokuta to Lagos without an armed escort. Nigeria is like a clock turned backwards since the energy that compelled its modernity and fought for its liberation – the Igbo – left it spiritually.

Whatever Nigeria touches without the Igbo have turned to dust. So, Bakare must look again about who has cursed whom. It is Nigeria that is under the curse of the Igbo whose innocent blood Nigerians shed to appease a false god.

If Nigeria were some El-dorado since 1967, Bakare might have been right about Balewa’s curse. But the Igbo are a blessing to Nigeria. Nigerians know it and that is why they are prepared to go to war to make certain that the Igbo did not leave this poor, haggard nation. The only curse on Nigeria is that the Igbo have not governed Nigeria since 1970, and have withdrawn spiritually from it. As a result this nation has turned into dust. It is Nigeria that needs the Igbo to govern it.

The Igbo do not need Nigeria. Tunde Bakare cam across in his sermon as a false, anti-Christian teacher haunted by the shadow of an “Igbo giant.” He has confessed that once in his dream, he saw the hulk of a massive Igbo giant pursuing him. Psychoanalysts might say, he is driven by “Igbo anguish” -a deep envy and fear of the Igbo which diminishes him and makes him feel very little. It is not the fault of the Igbo. It may have to do with Bakare’s troubled past. But the Igbo as people clearly haunts his dream. Particularly his dream about transcendence.

That prospect seems to him compromised by the Igbo staking their claims for the presidency of Nigeria in 2023. His resort is to invent a false, very unchristian lie, about Balewa’s curse on the Igbo.

Truth is, Balewa did not curse the Igbo, because the Igbo did not kill Balewa. On the other hand the Igbo cursed Nigeria because of the blood of the Igbo shed by this nation.

Until Nigeria makes right with the Igbo, the nation will continue going to the well until it smashes all its calabashes.


By Obi Nwakanma

Vanguard News Nigeria



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efDNQlYGRDM

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Finquas: 6:07pm On Apr 14, 2022
Bakare is still an imam or sheikh in a pastors clothing. He should stop creating tensions between Christians and Muslims unecesarily with vile lies

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by TheNiceGuy(m): 6:09pm On Apr 14, 2022
The CURSE is really manifesting sad

Unfortunately no one can erase the curse.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 6:43pm On Apr 14, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
The CURSE is really manifesting sad

Unfortunately no one can erase the curse.



Nigeria is cursed;for all the Igbo blood they spilled; in there genocide .

Which tribe is most intelligent in Africa?

Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.

Igbos are of the most progressive tribes in Africa.

5/10 richest Nigerians according to forbes 2022;
Are Igbos.

Igbos are like palm trees in the desert. If you see palm trees, you know water is there. If you see an Igbo in a town, you know progress is there. Not as if they go where progress is. They themselves are seed of progress that yield harvests of progress.

To have a proper understanding of what the Igbo have achieved, consider that every Igbo man, woman and child in Nigeria was reduced to £20 after the civil war in 1970. But look at how far they have come since then. They turned adversity to prosperity.

No ethnic group are as Nigerian as the Igbo. An Igbo builds his family, his house and his businesses in whatever part of Nigeria he finds himself. They do not exploit other regions. They expand other regions. It is a disservice to treat them as unwanted.

Instead of making Igbos feel unwelcome, leaders should welcome them. Anyone who thinks the Igbo really want to break away does not understand economics. In 2003, Elrufai revealed Igbos own 73% of land in Abuja. Google it. That is commitment to Nigeria.

This idea that Igbo come to exploit other regions is unscientific. Igbos create value. They do not take value already created. Example, by opening shops, Igbos create value by meeting a need. Without Igbo, the price of spare-parts in the North will be x4.

It might shock you to know there are more Igbo doctors practicing in other parts of Nigeria than in the SE. Thousands of Igbos are battling Boko Haram in the NE. These are critical values. People who bring such value should be celebrated, not denigrated.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by flokii: 7:28pm On Apr 14, 2022
Stop the lies.. Ironsi was fully aware of that coup that killed Tafawa Balewa and it was an Igbo orchestrated affair to seize power, just that some unfortunate and naive Yorubas were among them.

Ask yourself how and why Azikiwe escaped the coup that killed prominent Nigerians from other tribes except the Igbos.. the Northerners took their revenge, killed Ironsi and many Igbos living in the North and have sworn never to allow Igbos rule Nigeria.
It's still the tribalism of the Igbos that we are talking of that made them kill other tribes while they tipped their own brothers to flee the country.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 7:35pm On Apr 14, 2022
Finquas:
Bakare is still an imam or sheikh in a pastors clothing. He should stop creating tensions between Christians and Muslims unecesarily with vile lies

Igbo coup plotters killed Tafaawa, akintola, disgraced FFK father and ahmadu Bello

You can't erase it

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Finquas: 7:42pm On Apr 14, 2022
SlyDev:


Igbo coup plotters killed Tafaawa, akintola, disgraced FFK father and ahmadu Bello

You can't erase it
And fulani coup plotters also killed Aguiyi ironsi. Fajuyi. And many Top eastern soldiers in the Army. It can't be erased too. So u see why pushing ethnic slants pays no one but plants seeds of hate and bitterness to the new generation which isn't good for nationhood. See how Rwanda healed their wounds and the hutsis and tutsis forgave each other and today go and see how that country has grown in leaps and bounds in devolopment and Unity

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Finquas: 7:43pm On Apr 14, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
The CURSE is really manifesting sad

Unfortunately no one can erase the curse.


What curse bro!

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by eagleu: 7:46pm On Apr 14, 2022
SlyDev:


Igbo coup plotters killed Tafaawa, akintola, disgraced FFK father and ahmadu Bello

You can't erase it

Igbo coup plotters like Ademoyegan, Atom Kpera, Hassan Katsina?

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 8:44pm On Apr 14, 2022
flokii:
Stop the lies.. Ironsi was fully aware of that coup that killed Tafawa Balewa and it was an Igbo orchestrated affair to seize power, just that some unfortunate and naive Yorubas were among them.

Ask yourself how and why Azikiwe escaped the coup that killed prominent Nigerians from other tribes except the Igbos.. the Northerners took their revenge, killed Ironsi and many Igbos living in the North and have sworn never to allow Igbos rule Nigeria.
It's still the tribalism of the Igbos that we are talking of that made them kill other tribes while they tipped their own brothers to flee the country.


Eye witness (Admissible in court) vs hear say ( Not admissible in court)

Only a foolish man; will take hear say; over eye witness.

Eye witnesses

The only accounts that have come out about the death of the Prime Minister indicate that Alhaji Tafawa Balewa was accorded the highest regard even before he was arrested. According to Major Wale Ademoyega, a key leader of the coup, in Why We Struck, his account of the coup, wrote that Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna who led the team that arrested the Prime Minister at his lodge ordered that the Prime Minister be accorded the highest courtesy.

He was even allowed to finish his prayers before he was taken into Ifeajuna’s Red Mercedes 190.

Segun Osoba who was the only reporter to see the Prime Minister’s corpse at the cocoa plantation on Abeokuta where they found him prodded against a cocoa tree to rest, reported that the body of the Prime Minister when he saw it was “fresh” and there was no bullet wound.
If the Prime Minister was violated, as Bakare claims, Osoba would have known, and would have reported it. The death of Tafawa Balewa was tragic, but it needs to be said here, that Mr. Balewa could not have cursed an entire Igbo, simply because, in spite of what Bakare ignorantly thinks, the Igbo did not carry out a coup.

The coup was carried out by a faction of the Nigerian Army which happened to have had more Igbo officers. Besides, most Nigerians have been told a huge lie about that event. The government that was overthrown was led by an Igbo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was President.

I read history with facts.
I dont argue; with ignorant people.
Bye.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by flokii: 9:01pm On Apr 14, 2022
VPN11:



Eye witness vs hear say
Only a foolish man; will take hear say; over eye witness.

Eye witnesses

The only accounts that have come out about the death of the Prime Minister indicate that Alhaji Tafawa Balewa was accorded the highest regard even before he was arrested. According to Major Wale Ademoyega, a key leader of the coup, in Why We Struck, his account of the coup, wrote that Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna who led the team that arrested the Prime Minister at his lodge ordered that the Prime Minister be accorded the highest courtesy.

He was even allowed to finish his prayers before he was taken into Ifeajuna’s Red Mercedes 190.

Segun Osoba who was the only reporter to see the Prime Minister’s corpse at the cocoa plantation on Abeokuta where they found him prodded against a cocoa tree to rest, reported that the body of the Prime Minister when he saw it was “fresh” and there was no bullet wound.
If the Prime Minister was violated, as Bakare claims, Osoba would have known, and would have reported it. The death of Tafawa Balewa was tragic, but it needs to be said here, that Mr. Balewa could not have cursed an entire Igbo, simply because, in spite of what Bakare ignorantly thinks, the Igbo did not carry out a coup.

The coup was carried out by a faction of the Nigerian Army which happened to have had more Igbo officers. Besides, most Nigerians have been told a huge lie about that event. The government that was overthrown was led by an Igbo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was President.

I read history with facts.
I dont argue; with ignorant people.
Bye.

You left out the part where Ademoyega was to eliminate Ironsi but one of the Igbo coup plotters talked him out of it, saying he will handle it.. the end result is that Aguiyi Ironsi survived and became Military head of state whereas the other Igbos like Ifeajuna and co. had a swell time killing Tafawa Balewa, Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and the numerous others. That shows it was a well planned Igbo affair.

You fo0l noone with your half truths.. all pointers have made it clear that the 1966 coup was as Igbo coup.

Whichever nonsense eye witness account that you're quoting can't erase history.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by christistruth01: 9:12pm On Apr 14, 2022
flokii:


You left out the part where Ademoyega was to eliminate Ironsi but one of the Igbo coup plotters talked him out of it, saying he will handle it.. the end result is that Aguiyi Ironsi survived and became Military head of state whereas the other Igbos like Ifeajuna and co. had a swell time killing Tafawa Balewa, Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and the numerous others. That shows it was a well planned Igbo affair.

You fo0l noone with your half truths.. all pointers have made it clear that the 1966 coup was as Igbo coup.

Whichever nonsense eye witness account that you're quoting can't erase history.





Well done

I was discussing this just today with Someone


It was Major Ifeajuna that refused to let Ademoyega deal with Gen Ironsi and sent him to the Telephone exchange instead

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by flokii: 9:21pm On Apr 14, 2022
christistruth01:






Well done

I was discussing this just today with Someone


It was Major Ifeajuna that refused to let Ademoyega deal with Gen Ironsi and sent him to the Telephone exchange instead

This is the truth Igbos don't want people to know.. Had it been Ifeajuna didn't stop Ademoyega from his mission of eliminating Aguiyi Ironsi, maybe Nigerians wouldn't have termed it an Igbo coup..

The North saw the plot and killed Ironsi in retaliation, his Northern ADC in the person of T.Y. Danjuma did the job.

Igbos always feel they are wiser than everybody but life is calculation not by gra gra or chestbeating.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 9:30pm On Apr 14, 2022
flokii:


You left out the part where Ademoyega was to eliminate Ironsi but one of the Igbo coup plotters talked him out of it, saying he will handle it.. the end result is that Aguiyi Ironsi survived and became Military head of state whereas the other Igbos like Ifeajuna and co. had a swell time killing Tafawa Balewa, Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and the numerous others. That shows it was a well planned Igbo affair.

You fo0l noone with your half truths.. all pointers have made it clear that the 1966 coup was as Igbo coup.

Whichever nonsense eye witness account that you're quoting can't erase history.


You live by lies; and propaganda's.

The January 1966 coup was not an Igbo Coup, and Nzeogwu was not the leader of the coup.



Let it be said loud and clear that that coup, namely January 15, 1966 coup, was not an Igbo coup. It was a coup led by certain progressive Yoruba and Igbo Officers, involving the active participation of soldiers and officers from the North and other ethnic minorities in Nigeria.

The aim, as has been stated again and again by the leaders of the coup, was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was in detention at the time and install him as the Prime Minister of Nigeria. The only excuse the British and their Fulani allies had for tagging it “an Igbo coup” was that it was Major Nzeogwu who announced the coup from Kaduna. Captain Adewale Ademoyega explained that the coup was
to be announced from NBC (Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation) Lagos, the seat of the Government, if it had not been foiled by Gen Ironsi. He made it clear that upon troops loyal to Gen. Ironsi taking over Army Signals at Apapa and the telephone exchanges in Lagos, Kaduna was completely isolated; and Nzeogwu, having carried out his “assignment” successfully in Kaduna, made the broadcast out of frustration. Besides, it is a historical fact in Nigeria that a coup leader is NOT the one that announces the coup. Brigadier Abacha announced Gen Buhari’s coup; Lt. Col Ukpo announced Babangida’s coup; Gideon Orka announced Col Nyiam’s coup. The only exception, where the announcer was labeled the coup leader, was the case of Major Nzeogwu; by virtue of which it became a coup planned by Igbos, the ethnic group of the announcer! Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, in his book, My Command, made it clear that Major Nzeogwu was not capable of, and would never have participated in, a coup with an ethnic or sectional bias.

January 15, 1966 Coup and Biafra Myth and Realities exposes in graphic details the truth about that coup and the list of the participants and victims. By default, it was the last minute refusalto participate in the coupby an Igbo officer, Major Obienu, who failed to bring up the armored cars to back up the seizure of Lagos as planned, that made it possible for Gen Ironsi to successfully round up the culprits. Gowon knows this truth. T.Y Danjuma, whose gang (ironically) murdered Obienu on July 29th 1966, also knows this for a fact. It is curious that the alleged Igbo coup plot was unknown to the highest ranking Igbo officer in the North at the time, Lt. Col. Odumegwu –Ojukwu who mustered his troops in Kano to march down to Kaduna to crush Nzeogwu and those loyal to him. Gen Obasanjo, in his book narrated his ordeal in the hands of Ojukwu who suspected that he (Obasanjo, being Nzeogwu’s best friend), must have been one of the plotters. Ojukwu promptly put him under arrest until a signal came from Army Headquarters in Lagos for Ojukwu to release him. Thus, we have an alleged “Igbo Coup” where, the most senior military officer, in the whole country, an Igbo, foiled the coup in the South and Lagos; while the most senior Igbo military officer in the North, Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, frustrated it in the North by denying Major Nzeogwu fighting troops he needed to challenge Lagos. Both T.Y Danjuma and Gen Gowon know these facts.

Nzeogwu and his colleagues had nothing but patriotic aims in staging that coup, first to abort and preempt the sustenance of the anachronistic regime of the time that had planned to sustain itself via a coup on 17th January 1966; secondly, to replace it (the anachronistic regime) by a more progressive one to be led by a man many of them had confidence in, namely Chief Obafemi Awolwo; thirdly, to support him (Chief Awolowo) to govern together with patriotic citizens to turn Nigeria into a more progressive united course. Both Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Col Victor Banjo and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna carried this dream to their last days. It is noteworthy that Col Victor Banjo and Major Emanuel Ifeajuna were executed by Col Ojukwu, the Biafran Leader, for their abiding faith in that Nigeria of their dream, instead of giving full support for Biafra.
the coup failed, he said: “I want them also to know why the coup failed. It failed because an Igbo man, General Aguiyi Ironsi took up arms and arrested the coup plotters and put them in prison.

”Ironsi was the one controlling the army then. If he had supported the coup, it could have succeeded. So,it was Igbo that stopped the coup. Ironsi was eventually killed

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by TheNiceGuy(m): 9:33pm On Apr 14, 2022
I stopped reading at 5/10 richest men in Nigeria are Igbo.


List them.


Igbos are the most intelligent, give evidence!



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VPN11:


Nigeria is cursed;for all the Igbo blood they spilled; in there genocide .

Which tribe is most intelligent in Africa?

Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.

Igbos are of the most progressive tribes in Africa.

5/10 richest Nigerians according to forbes 2022;
Are Igbos.

Igbos are like palm trees in the desert. If you see palm trees, you know water is there. If you see an Igbo in a town, you know progress is there. Not as if they go where progress is. They themselves are seed of progress that yield harvests of progress.

To have a proper understanding of what the Igbo have achieved, consider that every Igbo man, woman and child in Nigeria was reduced to £20 after the civil war in 1970. But look at how far they have come since then. They turned adversity to prosperity.

No ethnic group are as Nigerian as the Igbo. An Igbo builds his family, his house and his businesses in whatever part of Nigeria he finds himself. They do not exploit other regions. They expand other regions. It is a disservice to treat them as unwanted.

Instead of making Igbos feel unwelcome, leaders should welcome them. Anyone who thinks the Igbo really want to break away does not understand economics. In 2003, Elrufai revealed Igbos own 73% of land in Abuja. Google it. That is commitment to Nigeria.

This idea that Igbo come to exploit other regions is unscientific. Igbos create value. They do not take value already created. Example, by opening shops, Igbos create value by meeting a need. Without Igbo, the price of spare-parts in the North will be x4.

It might shock you to know there are more Igbo doctors practicing in other parts of Nigeria than in the SE. Thousands of Igbos are battling Boko Haram in the NE. These are critical values. People who bring such value should be celebrated, not denigrated.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 9:43pm On Apr 14, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
I stopped reading at 5/10 richest men in Nigeria are Igbo.


List them.


Igbos are the most intelligent, give evidence!



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Published 3 weeks ago on March 23, 2022By Babs Ayandayo


Forbes Top 10 Richest Men in Nigeria in 2022

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A big thanks to Forbes and other prominent websites that publish updates about these eminent people, we have enough information about the top richest people in Nigeria 2022 and what they do.

Top 10 Richest Men in Nigeria 2022
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Rank Name Net worth Age Source of Wealth
1 Aliko Dangote $14 Billion 64 Cement and Sugar
2 Mike Adenuga $7.9 Billion 68 Telecommunication, Oil and Gas
3 Femi Otedola $5.9 Billion 59 Oil and Gas
4 Arthur Eze $5 Billion 73 Oil and Gas
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Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.Jan 26, 2021

See data; and facts below.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 9:50pm On Apr 14, 2022
eagleu:


Igbo coup plotters like Ademoyegan, Atom Kpera, Hassan Katsina?

Why didn't they kill any igbo leader

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 9:51pm On Apr 14, 2022
Finquas:

And fulani coup plotters also killed Aguiyi ironsi. Fajuyi. And many Top eastern soldiers in the Army. It can't be erased too. So u see why pushing ethnic slants pays no one but plants seeds of hate and bitterness to the new generation which isn't good for nationhood. See how Rwanda healed their wounds and the hutsis and tutsis forgave each other and today go and see how that country has grown in leaps and bounds in devolopment and Unity

Yoruba are yet to revenge

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by TheNiceGuy(m): 9:51pm On Apr 14, 2022
So this is the no name list you're talking about.

The list that put Muhammad rabiu, the fourth African richest men under Otedola not to talk of authur eze.



Most intelligent black man?

Evidence
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BUSINESSForbes Top 10 Richest Men in Nigeria in 2022

Published 3 weeks ago on March 23, 2022By Babs Ayandayo


Forbes Top 10 Richest Men in Nigeria in 2022

In this article, we will discuss the Forbes top 10 richest men in Nigeria in 2022. The richest men in Nigeria in 2022 are people of class and calibre. They own multi-million dollar conglomerates and sit on the board of directors of various high-profile multinational companies both in Nigeria and abroad.

A big thanks to Forbes and other prominent websites that publish updates about these eminent people, we have enough information about the top richest people in Nigeria 2022 and what they do.

Top 10 Richest Men in Nigeria 2022
The table below contains the names, net worth, age, and the primary source of wealth of Forbes top 10 richest men in Nigeria for the year 2022.

Rank Name Net worth Age Source of Wealth
1 Aliko Dangote $14 Billion 64 Cement and Sugar
2 Mike Adenuga $7.9 Billion 68 Telecommunication, Oil and Gas
3 Femi Otedola $5.9 Billion 59 Oil and Gas
4 Arthur Eze $5 Billion 73 Oil and Gas
5 Abdulsamad Rabiu $3.7 Billion 61 Cement and Sugar
6 Cletus Ibeto $3.5 Billion 69 Automobile, Real Estate
7 Orji Uzor Kalu $3.2 Billion 61 Furniture, Publishing
8 ABC Orjiakor $1.2 Billion 63 Oil and Gas
9 Jimoh Ibrahim $1 Billion 54 Insurance, Oil and Gas, Real Estate
10 Tony Elumelu $900 Million 58 Banking

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 10:00pm On Apr 14, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
So this is the no name list you're talking about.

The list that put Muhammad rabiu, the fourth African richest men under Otedola not to talk of authur eze.



Most intelligent black man?

Evidence

Go ;and quarrel with Forbes business.
Furthermore; go ;and quarrel with America database and research institute.

I follow data; and facts ;not gibberish and propaganda's.

Bye. grin

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Finquas: 10:03pm On Apr 14, 2022
SlyDev:


Yoruba are yet to revenge
Lol. Bros be calming down . If everybody begin revenge, everywhere go scatter pass atomic bomb

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 10:47pm On Apr 14, 2022
Finquas:

Lol. Bros be calming down . If everybody begin revenge, everywhere go scatter pass atomic bomb

Let it scatter cheesy no be only una sabi blackmail

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by maestroferddi: 11:25pm On Apr 14, 2022
flokii:


You left out the part where Ademoyega was to eliminate Ironsi but one of the Igbo coup plotters talked him out of it, saying he will handle it.. the end result is that Aguiyi Ironsi survived and became Military head of state whereas the other Igbos like Ifeajuna and co. had a swell time killing Tafawa Balewa, Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and the numerous others. That shows it was a well planned Igbo affair.

You fo0l noone with your half truths.. all pointers have made it clear that the 1966 coup was as Igbo coup.

Whichever nonsense eye witness account that you're quoting can't erase history.
You appear hellbent to sound as dumb as possible provided it accords you the opportunity to vent some atavistic predilections.

You conceded that Ironsi was in the hit list of the coup plotters...from the account of a participant.

Now how does the fact that Adegboyega's inability to discharge his duty or assignment in the putsch make it an Igbo coup?

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by walefresh3(m): 12:00am On Apr 15, 2022
VPN11:


Nigeria is cursed;for all the Igbo blood they spilled; in there genocide .

Which tribe is most intelligent in Africa?

Igbo people of Nigeria were ranked as the most intelligent tribe of black Africa in a US academic report in 2015.

Igbos are of the most progressive tribes in Africa.

5/10 richest Nigerians according to forbes 2022;
Are Igbos.

Igbos are like palm trees in the desert. If you see palm trees, you know water is there. If you see an Igbo in a town, you know progress is there. Not as if they go where progress is. They themselves are seed of progress that yield harvests of progress.

To have a proper understanding of what the Igbo have achieved, consider that every Igbo man, woman and child in Nigeria was reduced to £20 after the civil war in 1970. But look at how far they have come since then. They turned adversity to prosperity.

No ethnic group are as Nigerian as the Igbo. An Igbo builds his family, his house and his businesses in whatever part of Nigeria he finds himself. They do not exploit other regions. They expand other regions. It is a disservice to treat them as unwanted.

Instead of making Igbos feel unwelcome, leaders should welcome them. Anyone who thinks the Igbo really want to break away does not understand economics. In 2003, Elrufai revealed Igbos own 73% of land in Abuja. Google it. That is commitment to Nigeria.

This idea that Igbo come to exploit other regions is unscientific. Igbos create value. They do not take value already created. Example, by opening shops, Igbos create value by meeting a need. Without Igbo, the price of spare-parts in the North will be x4.

It might shock you to know there are more Igbo doctors practicing in other parts of Nigeria than in the SE. Thousands of Igbos are battling Boko Haram in the NE. These are critical values. People who bring such value should be celebrated, not denigrated.
Pls leave the forum , When u are done telling your nyamiris brother your beautiful lies

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by VPN11(m): 12:26am On Apr 15, 2022
walefresh3:

Pls leave the forum , When u are done telling your nyamiris brother your beautiful lies

When they dont have facts ;they results to insults. grin
Na dem regular trade mark.
Ndigbo; are not called ;the most intelligent black ethnic group; for nothing;
When you are done; with your anti Igbo; lies ;propaganda's ;fuedal agenda's;gaslighting with your paid media agent's; the truth doesnt change;You have to learn the tribe ;Ndigbo;A four year old Igbo person ;will always be smarter; than you ;and your paid agents.

Come ;and push me out the forum;nah.

The truth hurts;

I just added ;the richest female; artist in the world;

Rihanna;so make all the anti Igbo; cry ;and weep even more grin

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by CaptainAyub: 6:14am On Apr 15, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
The CURSE is really manifesting sad

Unfortunately no one can erase the curse.


Yes oo.
The curse is responsible for Igbos buying up your ancestral lands,digging up d graves of your forefathers and building beautiful mansions grin

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by CaptainAyub: 6:16am On Apr 15, 2022
flokii:
Stop the lies.. Ironsi was fully aware of that coup that killed Tafawa Balewa and it was an Igbo orchestrated affair to seize power, just that some unfortunate and naive Yorubas were among them.

Ask yourself how and why Azikiwe escaped the coup that killed prominent Nigerians from other tribes except the Igbos.. the Northerners took their revenge, killed Ironsi and many Igbos living in the North and have sworn never to allow Igbos rule Nigeria.
It's still the tribalism of the Igbos that we are talking of that made them kill other tribes while they tipped their own brothers to flee the country.
Afonja taqqiya islamabad liar.
Azikiwe was already abroad nearly a month b4 the coup

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 6:24am On Apr 15, 2022
Balewa had no bullet wounds? So he was respectfully strangled or something? You guys can scream "it wasn't an Igbo" coup all you want, but until you list the Igbo senior officers and politicians killed (as against the loss by other regions) other ethnic groups will always see you for what you are; deluded, paranoid and tribalistic bums.

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Re: Tunde Bakare Lies About Balewa And The Igbo by Nobody: 6:30am On Apr 15, 2022
TheNiceGuy:
I stopped reading at 5/10 richest men in Nigeria are Igbo.


List them.


Igbos are the most intelligent, give evidence!



WAITING

You don't know how deluded these Igbo clowns are. They're are a great source of daily amusement and entertainment for me (both online and offline). Their ignorance also stinks.

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