Mamajama:

@debosky an ill-informed mind is a cripple mind. So because the poster posted a link means we should not research and do our home work to make sure we are not been misinformed with wrong information?

in this day in age, with information technology any person who cares to know the truth just have to do their homework.

I am asking someone to please post a link where it clearly said or has the requirements that the army is seeking IGBO KWENU.

debosky:

Why do you all think this way? Is it that Igbos suffer from undue ethnocentrism, looking for any mention of the Igbos and somehow linking that back to getting Biafra actualised?

In my humble opinion, in terms of oil production quantities, the Igbos are not very different from the Yorubas, and even in terms of local politics/crises, there is more to be gained in chasing Ijaws, Urhobos, Itshekiris or Efiks/Ibibios than there would be in chasing Igbos, if the intent is to secure oil production assets for the US.

But then again, I might be wrong.

asha 80:

But seroiusly why are the US interested in igbo speakers  

But could this not simply be because there seem to be more Ibos than Yorubas and hausa's in New York? I am not exactly sure of the numbers but in NY, you have ibos most every where you go there

KarmaMod:

Um Not true. Majority live in places like Texas, Maryland, etc

KarmaMod:

The same US that doesnt accept Nigerian blood for donation and such?

PurestBoy:

You gats be mad. Ibos workhard for their money unlike the lazy yorubas that beg for money with scopes everywhere on the street

~Sauron~:

You are a flaming retard. . . . .
Anuofia!!!!

Ibos live everywhere in the US. NY is one of the cities where Ibos reside.

MrCrackles:

Topic

Good news for my igbo bros!

MrCrackles:

Topic

Good news for my igbo bros!

naijaking1:

What good news? Nobody really knows what these people are up to.

Kobojunkie:

hhmmm,  should we now neglect the rules that make you ineligible in this case and claim it is simply because they are Nigerians? Can you at least provide proof for this claim.

QUESTION: Can you donate if you have been out of the country?
Wait 12 months after travel in an area where malaria is found. Wait 3 years after moving to the United States after living in a country where malaria is found. Persons who have spent long periods of time in countries where “mad cow disease” is found are not eligible to donate. This requirement is related to concerns about variant Creutzfeld Jacob Disease (vCJD). Persons who were born in or who lived in certain countries in Western Africa, or who have had close contact with persons who were born in or who lived in certain West African countries are not eligible to donate, a requirement related to concerns about HIV.

Were born in or lived in any of the following countries since 1977: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger or Nigeria

Mamajama:

there is no credibility to this story.  under united state constitution you have to be USA citizen to be recruited to the arm forces.  

This legislation has to go through senate if it will be rectify.  We can go back and forth on this issue, I hate silly and misleading journalism.

Just because we have a black president don't mean we have no law in the USA.      This is not ABIA state abeg.

~Sauron~:

If they don't send em to the high altitude areas of Afghanistan or to Zimbabwe to fight Mugabe's Zanu PF-thugs.

Hehehee!!

I am sure my igbo brothers can withstand the test

Original OKRIKAAA

MrCrackles:

What do you think they are up to?

naijaking1:

Honestly, I don't know. I remain suspicious.

Treetop20:

a lot of tribalists
on nairaland

Negro_Ntns:

. . .As testimony to the ambition, let us consider the recent hype about pirates off the coast of Somalia.  What was the response?  Navies from more than 20 countries around the world converged in that territory.  Does it take that much firepower to dissuade pirates?  NO!  There is a political point to it.  Russia and China got involved and so did NATO.  They are not protecting Africans from deadly pirates and they are not protecting merchant ships from loss either because doing so will then create an imbalance of demand/supply factor in cargo insurance.  They did it for one reason only - SUEZ CANAL.

We in Africa are so far behind developments that the trend that currently hold priority in our discussions were events that happened 15 or more years ago in our backyard and we didn't even know it.  We will not realize the importance of world powers juggling for position at the entrance to SUEZ CANAL for another 10yrs to come by which time the benefits and profits are old.  

Joining the US Army is good for the Igbo if at the end of the day and when the mission is ended he will become a landowner and an oil prospector in the Delta region that he fought to secure.

I thought Debosky was just being mean when he said you can't read, but with the above post, I might even agree with him. This recruitment is for Igbo speakers not just for Igbo [/[b]b] people only-my Ishan friend who grew up in Onitsha is already trying to apply into the army , and subsequent eligibility to apply for citizenship after only 6-months, instead of more than 10 years of living in the US.
Please read the news again.

~Sauron~:

Hypocritical scumbags you mean. . . . .

**osisi:

Please my Igbo brothers should be careful.
I hope they're not trying to render our men strerile in order to decrease our population by force
God won't agree

**osisi link=topic=234592.msg3475076 #msg3475076 date=1234806497:

Please my Igbo brothers should be careful.
I hope they're not trying to render our men strerile in order to decrease our population by force
God won't agree

Treetop20:

it churns my stomach
that is why i do not come to the
culture section

Treetop20:

it churns my stomach
that is why i do not come to the
culture section