TonyeBarcanista:
This article by The Nation is shameless and unfortunate. It fans the embers of tribalism and seek to promote and justify marginalisation of the Igbo ethnic group by the clueless Buhari administration. It is unfortunate that the APC is yet to understand that electoral success is not a license to ethnic conquest. Nigerians of good conscience irrespective of ethnic affiliation must rise to condemn this evil act of the APC and The Nations.

Ioannes:
i think another logical question to ask is why do igbos hate yorubas so much as u can see from their response so far.
as far as they are concerned yoruba is the reason why they are not making progress as a people, yoruba is the cause of all the evil that has befallen them from time immemorial. yet they load marco polo buses everyday and head to yorubaland for sustenance.

the igbo psyche is puzzling to say the least.

they say yorubas are cowards, yet their biafran army was routinely routed and defeated by the nigerian side led by a yoruba, while their commander in chief abandoned them to their fate and ran off.

they say yorubas are dirty yet aba is the dirtiest town in nigeria.

i could continue but whats the point. they revel in their hatred. their hatred of yorubas and buhari gives purpose and meaning to their lives.

they continually lie to themselves that they are the chosen race and if not for the "yolobas" their gully infested land would be paradise.

well i doff my hat to the yoruba tribe that can hold down such a "mighty and god chosen" tribe like the igbos.

the igbos unconsciously feel that since they hate the yorubas then that means the yorubas must hate them with equal venom.

not so. what does it take for the yorubas to start a pogrom to wipe out the igbos in their midst? nothing. cos there are very few yorubas living in your non productive land. so no fear of retaliation.

the more you hate the less productive you are.
yorubas dont hate you. and am sure buhari doesnt hate you, he probably despises you. lol.

give it a rest will you. and i wish you all the best in your quest for biafra.
(expecting insults and curses).

Ioannes:
i think another logical question to ask is why do igbos hate yorubas so much as u can see from their response so far.
as far as they are concerned yoruba is the reason why they are not making progress as a people, yoruba is the cause of all the evil that has befallen them from time immemorial. yet they load marco polo buses everyday and head to yorubaland for sustenance.

the igbo psyche is puzzling to say the least.

they say yorubas are cowards, yet their biafran army was routinely routed and defeated by the nigerian side led by a yoruba, while their commander in chief abandoned them to their fate and ran off.

they say yorubas are dirty yet aba is the dirtiest town in nigeria.

i could continue but whats the point. they revel in their hatred. their hatred of yorubas and buhari gives purpose and meaning to their lives.

they continually lie to themselves that they are the chosen race and if not for the "yolobas" their gully infested land would be paradise.

well i doff my hat to the yoruba tribe that can hold down such a "mighty and god chosen" tribe like the igbos.

the igbos unconsciously feel that since they hate the yorubas then that means the yorubas must hate them with equal venom.

not so. what does it take for the yorubas to start a pogrom to wipe out the igbos in their midst? nothing. cos there are very few yorubas living in your non productive land. so no fear of retaliation.

the more you hate the less productive you are.
yorubas dont hate you. and am sure buhari doesnt hate you, he probably despises you. lol.

give it a rest will you. and i wish you all the best in your quest for biafra.
(expecting insults and curses).

oloyede252:

wow I didn't know that Igbo's hate Yoruba people for real o,I thought all this nairaland tribalism is a joke,but I still don't believe Igbo hate Yoruba because as a student I have many Igbo mates that are very good people which I trust habours no hate towards me as a Yoruba person.

stop all this hate message,whether you are aware of this or not,you tribal lords post actually will affect the psychological thinking of some people especially students who believe everything on internet is true without criticizing the content.you guys are suppose to be posting positive post but no you keep post in hate,what your said objective of this hate message?I will like to know your aim for promoting hate.

Ebukaobi:


[s]Failed blogger

Are you suggesting that there should be media censorship? The journalist that wrote that article is fully entitled to his opinion, that is freedom of the press. Several media houses did worse during the Presidential election period, AIT, Vanguard come to mind

What has APC got to do with this article? Do you have any evidence that the journalist has any link to APC or Buhari?

If you want to criticize, make sure it is constructive and fair. You did not address any of the points by the author, rather you just made sweeping statements devoid of any intelligence or analysis.

If you want to curry favor from Igbo posters on NL, this is the wrong approach. Go and post on Biafra threads, that way you will gain more relevance.

By the way, what is the current update on Lower Niger Congress?[/s]

xtrorse:


Stop being deceptive and clannish as if you are not in the know of how your kinsmen keep on fabricating and spreading wicked lies, falsehood and lies against the Igbos for many decades now. Yorubas take pleasure in promoting hatred in the polity. Little wonder Sanusi Lamido Sanusi termed Yorubas "the problem with Nigeria".

The Fulani herdsmen have been hunting Yorubas for sport for decades, and they don't even consider Yoruba Muslims as equals but inferior beings! And fellow beings like you dare not counter, vent your anger or even put up a writeup against them! Instead Yorubas have always maintained a deafening silence and would rather look for the Igbos to accuse!

Some Yorubas are carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North, warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos.
Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities are maltreated, relegated to the background and killed unabated.

You are talking about being embittered; it is your Yorubas that are always embittered about Igbo affairs. To buttress this fact, take a look at all the topics on Biafra and Igbos and you will concur - how your Yoruba people become agitated and bitter just at the mere mention of Biaf...! There's no need for you denying that fact.

A number of Yorubas brag that Igbos don't have crude oil. That Igbos are greedy and want to corner Niger-delta oil wealth. That Ondo State produces more crude oil that the whole South East. And to heighten the insult, they say Igbos bring virtually nothing to the Federal revenue! Many Yorubas have sunk too low as camouflaging as South-South people online to attack and spite Igbos while at the same time ass-licking their Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri slave masters.
Do you see anything wrong at all when these lies are being fashioned against Igbos for years?

Many Yorubas hold the view that Igbos should be grateful for being allowed to live in their part of the country, even when the oil revenue from the South-East Zone is being channelled for Lagos development! Yorubas say Igbos disrespect their host when Igbos chose to exercise their franchise right. And you don't seem to see any wrong in Oba Rilwane Akiolu threatening Igbos to vote for his anointed candidate! And Dr Ariyo in the US went further by calling for xenophobic attack on Igbos.

And you don't seem to see anything wrong in castigating the ever peace-loving Igbo people. Have you ever heard anywhere, were Igbos are on rampage and causing mayhem to their 'host' for no just cause? 

Many Yorubas do not see anything wrong in the pogrom committed against Igbos - before, during and after the 1967-70 civil war. Many Yorubas take it as a point of duty to ridicule Igbos with the horror pictures of the war, including that of kwashiorkor-ridden children. 

Why do Yorubas take pleasure in twisting and distorting facts even when the truth is staring right at them?
How can a country built on a false and faulty foundation still attempts to progress by concealing the truth and instead spread falsehood, lies and propaganda?

Yorubas should stop being unnecessarily bitter and angry about Igbo affairs. It's evil so to do!

xtrorse:


Stop being deceptive and clannish as if you are not in the know of how your kinsmen keep on fabricating and spreading wicked lies, falsehood and lies against the Igbos for many decades now. Yorubas take pleasure in promoting hatred in the polity. Little wonder Sanusi Lamido Sanusi termed Yorubas "the problem with Nigeria".

The Fulani herdsmen have been hunting Yorubas for sport for decades, and they don't even consider Yoruba Muslims as equals but inferior beings! And fellow beings like you dare not counter, vent your anger or even put up a writeup against them! Instead Yorubas have always maintained a deafening silence and would rather look for the Igbos to accuse!

Some Yorubas are carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North, warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos.
Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities are maltreated, relegated to the background and killed unabated.

You are talking about being embittered; it is your Yorubas that are always embittered about Igbo affairs. To buttress this fact, take a look at all the topics on Biafra and Igbos and you will concur - how your Yoruba people become agitated and bitter just at the mere mention of Biaf...! There's no need for you denying that fact.

A number of Yorubas brag that Igbos don't have crude oil. That Igbos are greedy and want to corner Niger-delta oil wealth. That Ondo State produces more crude oil that the whole South East. And to heighten the insult, they say Igbos bring virtually nothing to the Federal revenue! Many Yorubas have sunk too low as camouflaging as South-South people online to attack and spite Igbos while at the same time ass-licking their Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri slave masters.
Do you see anything wrong at all when these lies are being fashioned against Igbos for years?

Many Yorubas hold the view that Igbos should be grateful for being allowed to live in their part of the country, even when the oil revenue from the South-East Zone is being channelled for Lagos development! Yorubas say Igbos disrespect their host when Igbos chose to exercise their franchise right. And you don't seem to see any wrong in Oba Rilwane Akiolu threatening Igbos to vote for his anointed candidate! And Dr Ariyo in the US went further by calling for xenophobic attack on Igbos.

And you don't seem to see anything wrong in castigating the ever peace-loving Igbo people. Have you ever heard anywhere, were Igbos are on rampage and causing mayhem to their 'host' for no just cause? 

Many Yorubas do not see anything wrong in the pogrom committed against Igbos - before, during and after the 1967-70 civil war. Many Yorubas take it as a point of duty to ridicule Igbos with the horror pictures of the war, including that of kwashiorkor-ridden children. 

Why do Yorubas take pleasure in twisting and distorting facts even when the truth is staring right at them?
How can a country built on a false and faulty foundation still attempts to progress by concealing the truth and instead spread falsehood, lies and propaganda?

Yorubas should stop being unnecessarily bitter and angry about Igbo affairs. It's evil so to do!

Olabestonic001:

All these "many" on Nairaland you think translate to reality? Please wake up man, I think all you university undergraduates or people who are too "angry" should wake up fast ooooooooooo. I love all tribes.

In other news, I'm Yoruba and I will soon marry my Igbo fiancée. #So, just let all those Yoruba and Igbo idiots please stop these before potential my in-laws vex for me ooooooooooooo.

Eastlink:
Daft. While I don't advocate for violence I still believe many Yoruba's have blinded themselves from reality. There is one thing I noticed about the Igbos, and that is they don't wish death or genocide on anyone or ethnic group. Igbos are reactionary when it comes to the use of violence. They replicate in double fold any violence meted out to them, even in the backyard of their assailants. The Aba, Onitsha, Owerri, Asaba and Sabongari counter-riot which was in retaliation to the killings of Southerners during the Sharia crisis that rocked many parts of the north is good testament of this. Only the Hausa/Fulani had tasted the anger of the Igbos as far as conflict is concerned in Nigeria. However, with the way most Yoruba's are shouting this genocide thing these days, it is advisable to tell them that they should watch what they wish for. Most Yoruba's feel that after their phantom genocide is carried out in their SW (if they suceed in Lagos) that their people in the S/S will go unhurt. That is where they lie, because blood is thicker than water. A genocidal conflict will wipe off no trace of the Yorubas here in Port-Harcourt. From Calabar to Asaba none shall be spared. Even the oil servicing workers. This is the gospel truth that many loud mouthed Yoruba bigots are oblivious of.

Ioannes:

when you get home, gather your family together and call them daft. (u started the insult). next tune in your radio to radio biafra and listen to how they are calling for genocide before you come and display your ignorance here. then maybe again you can tell us why kanu is calling for financial contributions to stock pile arms and ammunitions. maybe he wants to use them to hunt bush rats.

as to who will suffer most should violence begin, you must be a bad student of history. why do igbos always load buses and run from the north anytime there is a HINT of violence. even this year's election come and see mass exodus from sw.

i pity u. keep stoking the embers of hatred. when u see real fight your gragra will leave u.

compare the number of yorubas in the entire ss and se region to the number of igbos just in Lagos and you will understand the foolishness of your assertion.

it is the same false bravado that led to the unnecessary death of millions of igbo during the civil war that you are displaying here along with your comrades.

calling me a bigot is water off my back cos am not the one who thinks that without my tribe Nigeria will not succeed. or that other tribes are worthless.

you have a long way to go. keep up the insults.

xtrorse:


Stop being deceptive and clannish as if you are not in the know of how your kinsmen keep on fabricating and spreading wicked lies, falsehood and lies against the Igbos for many decades now. Yorubas take pleasure in promoting hatred in the polity. Little wonder Sanusi Lamido Sanusi termed Yorubas "the problem with Nigeria".

The Fulani herdsmen have been hunting Yorubas for sport for decades, and they don't even consider Yoruba Muslims as equals but inferior beings! And fellow beings like you dare not counter, vent your anger or even put up a writeup against them! Instead Yorubas have always maintained a deafening silence and would rather look for the Igbos to accuse!

Some Yorubas are carrying wicked lies about how Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri people have been peace-loving and accommodative; that it's the Igbos that always provoke their hosts in the North, warranting the pogrom and other heinous crimes against the Igbos.
Yet in the same North and the Middle-belt the Christian minorities are maltreated, relegated to the background and killed unabated.

You are talking about being embittered; it is your Yorubas that are always embittered about Igbo affairs. To buttress this fact, take a look at all the topics on Biafra and Igbos and you will concur - how your Yoruba people become agitated and bitter just at the mere mention of Biaf...! There's no need for you denying that fact.

A number of Yorubas brag that Igbos don't have crude oil. That Igbos are greedy and want to corner Niger-delta oil wealth. That Ondo State produces more crude oil that the whole South East. And to heighten the insult, they say Igbos bring virtually nothing to the Federal revenue! Many Yorubas have sunk too low as camouflaging as South-South people online to attack and spite Igbos while at the same time ass-licking their Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri slave masters.
Do you see anything wrong at all when these lies are being fashioned against Igbos for years?

Many Yorubas hold the view that Igbos should be grateful for being allowed to live in their part of the country, even when the oil revenue from the South-East Zone is being channelled for Lagos development! Yorubas say Igbos disrespect their host when Igbos chose to exercise their franchise right. And you don't seem to see any wrong in Oba Rilwane Akiolu threatening Igbos to vote for his anointed candidate! And Dr Ariyo in the US went further by calling for xenophobic attack on Igbos.

And you don't seem to see anything wrong in castigating the ever peace-loving Igbo people. Have you ever heard anywhere, were Igbos are on rampage and causing mayhem to their 'host' for no just cause? 

Many Yorubas do not see anything wrong in the pogrom committed against Igbos - before, during and after the 1967-70 civil war. Many Yorubas take it as a point of duty to ridicule Igbos with the horror pictures of the war, including that of kwashiorkor-ridden children. 

Why do Yorubas take pleasure in twisting and distorting facts even when the truth is staring right at them?
How can a country built on a false and faulty foundation still attempts to progress by concealing the truth and instead spread falsehood, lies and propaganda?

Yorubas should stop being unnecessarily bitter and angry about Igbo affairs. It's evil so to do!

xtrorse:


Never mind Olabestonic001, in-laws do cut across international boundaries. You can find love in many strange places. That may even help to strengthen bilateral relations.
However, the quest for true nationhood cannot be sacrificed on the alter of marriage.

Olabestonic001:


OK, at least I'm safe now. lolz.
In case they get their Biafra, I sha want them to have room for dual citizenship as I want my pikin to have the strength of the two major tribe that makes Naija rocks despite their e-battle. Diplomacy of the Yoruba's and the Industrious nature of the Igbo's. The ability to appeal to peoples intelligence of the Yoruba's and the Never-say die spirit of the Igbo's.

However, I want them to delete:
The lukewarmness of the Yoruba's and the victim-mentality of the Igbo's.
The "never decisive nature" of the Yoruba's and the "stubborn-even-after-being-defeated" of the Igbo's.
The "quick-to-forgetfulness" of the Yoruba's and the "Never-forgive-get-even" nature of the Igbos.
The "lets-give-him-another-chance" of the Yoruba's and the "You-can-never-be-forgiven" nature of the Igbo's.
The hypocrisy of the Yoruba's and the mobbish attitude of the Igbo's.

I hope they will be able to strike out the eternal suspicion and hates that filled these two main tribes that are best of pals but always see each other as worst of enemies. They will say many thing and detest each other politically but always find it easy to do reside and cohabit with each other. I have personally studies the two of them but being full-blooded Yoruba, my perspective will always be questioned. But, when a mix of core Yoruba (I'm from Oyo state) and Anambra state (my fiancee), then I hope those "beautiful" ones can speak easily and balancedly.

GOD BLESS YOU BRO.

xtrorse:


Gowon, Awolowo, Ejoor, Adebayo, Mobolaji Johnson, Katsina, Wey and all the groups that supported and advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to renege on the accords agreed upon in Aburi, Ghana were responsible for the 1967-70 Civil War, alongside their murderous kinsmen who killed innocent Easterners in revenge for an act done by a misguided group of soldiers comprising both Southerners and Northerners.

Ojukwu tried making peace, and called for peace-talk in a neutral ground hence the Aburi Accord, but Gowon and his co-travellers violated the agreement reached. If Ojukwu wanted war he wouldn't have called for peace talk in Ghana but the declaration of Biafra was inevitable as the killing of Easterners continued across the country. Ojukwu never asked for war! Ojukwu only declared Biafra when over thirty thousand corpses littered the Northern region in the aftermath of the January 15 1966 coup. Gowon and his cohorts declared the civil war! And Benjamin Adekunle, one the Nigerian soldier, later attested to the fact that Nigeria declared war because of oil in the Eastern region and not for the unity of the country!

Why didn't the July 1966 counter-coup plotters just wipe out the Eastern political class and call it a day. Aguiyi Ironsi did nothing deserving death yet they killed him. Ironsi was too much of a peacemaker and he died making useless peace, appeasing the Northerners. The counter coup plotters simply wanted a war and they sure got one.
Bear in mind there was no war before the pogrom of 1966 started in the North.
So why resort to maiming and killing innocent Easterners cum civilians. Has the killings stopped till date? NO!

The February 13, 1976 Dimka-led coupists came from Benue and Plateau region. They assassinated Murtala Mohammed then Head of State, yet there was no genocide carried against the Middle-belt people. Why was same treatment not given to the ethnic groups of the Dimka-led coupists that committed same offence? It's simply hypocrisy!
It is even against the military rule to harm the innocent civilians during coup.

According to the warped logic of hypocritical Yoruba and their co-travellers anytime there is a revolution or a coup the ethnic groups of the coup plotters should be singled out for ethnic cleansing!

Bloody, treacheerous, lousy noise-maker, you think you can cover up the atrocities of you saboteurs and your god, Obafemi Awolowo, who was the chief proponent of hatred, bitterness, tribalism, nepotism, propaganda and wickedness in this country? The same power hungry and greedy Awolowo who was imprisoned for treason and coup plotting until he was released by Odumegwu Ojukwu just before the 1967-70 war?

Hypocrite, what did you and your Yoruba tribe do when Igbos where being massacred across the North in 1966? Did you and your people come to the aid of the people of Igbodo and Asaba in 1967 when genocide was being carried out on them by your wicked Yoruba tribesmen and their co-travellers? 

Just like the chameleon, the Yorubas can change the colour of their skin at will and can vacillate at random between Christian and Muslim worlds whenever the evil spirit begins to operate them. Little wonder they are descendants of a fallen demon!
The vacillation is akin to the abracadabra of a sworn homosexual who might screw a man today, a woman tomorrow, or an animal the next time. You never can tell.

The level of Yoruba treacheery and betrayal is second to none.
Finding a reliable and trustworthy Yoruba person is like searching for a pin in a haystack. Yorubas who possess these good characters are rare.
Yorubas are not only treacherous but always at the servitude of the Northerners which is very worrisome.

Ethnomusicolist Charles Keil, who was visiting
Nigeria in 1966, recounted:

"The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria
(late Sept. 1966) were foreshadowed by
months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti-
Eastern conversations among Tiv, Idoma,
Hausa and other Northerners resident in
Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in
city after city, the massacres were led by the
Nigerian army. Before, during and after the
slaughter, Col. Gowan could be heard over
the radio issuing 'guarantees of safety' to all
Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the
intent of the soldiers, the only power that
counts in Nigeria now or then, was painfully
clear. After counting the disemboweled
bodies along the Makurdi road I was
escorted back to the city by soldiers who
apologized for the stench and explained
politely that they were doing me and the
world a great favor by eliminating Ibos.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

Here's actually an excerpt, albeit it was written by Emeka Esogbue but it is a direct summarization of Emma Okocha books.

"It was this battle that gave birth to Murtala, a “Local champion” called Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo of the Nigerian Army. Africans first had the practical experience of the word “genocide” in Igbodo where hundreds of lives were lost in the Nigerian civil war. In Isheagu, the case was not different. It was here that the ulterior motive of the Nigerian troop clearly unfolded.

The people were now scampering for the safety of their lives having experienced what happened in Igbodo and some other places. In the Midwestern region, able bodied men went into hiding leaving women and children at the mercy of advancing soldiers. The people of Benin went identifying their Ibo-speaking neighbours from house to house for executions."

BLOOD ON THE NIGER: THE FIRST BLACK ON BLACK OCTOBER 1967 GENOCIDE OF ASABA PEOPLE BY MURTALA, GOWON  AND AWOLOWO

...Like my father and elder brother that were part of the over 1000 youths that were killed on October 7, 1967, in Asaba, most of them were members of the Action Group (AG). The people that believed in the NCNC at that time left for the east. My father who worked in Enugu, Nsukka, Uzuakoli and Kafanchan as a civil servant could have gone to the east. But he believed in that war. He was an apostle of the Awo ideas-free education and free medical services. In fact, the Asaba General Hospital that is now a Specialist Hospital was brought to us by the AG led by Nduka Eze, another AG hardliner who left the Zikist Movement to join Awolowo. But Nduka Eze's wife was killed by the federal troop under the command of Murtala Mohammed because she refused to be touched because they were defiling women at random when they came in.

The genocide against the Igbos has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the apology made to Asaba people by General Gowon when he came there after the release of the Blood On The Niger. The genocide against the Igbos was proved beyond reasonable doubt at the Oputa panel which the federal government has up till now refused to publish the findings. Bishop Desmond Tutu chaired the Truth and Justice tribunal in South Africa to find out what happened in South Africa during the apartheid period. It was accepted by both sides and just look at the peace that has prevailed there since then. Why would Nigeria not publish the findings of the Oputa Panel where it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that pilots were throwing bombs at random into market places in Uzuakoli, Uzuitem and Nsukka, where bottles and implements were also used against women during the war.

History is an account of the actions of actors in a community or in a state recorded that made impacts during their time. Awolowo was a great leader; great politician and great performer in government but his activities during the civil war were negative. If you are a writer, you cannot defend his position that starvation is an instrument of warfare. Starvation cannot be an instrument of warfare when you are fighting a civil war. 

Nigeria was being supplied arms from all countries. For the first time there was an unholy alliance between the Soviet Union and the West. It had never happened before. Any place that there was a war of revolution, the USSR is always taking the place of the revolutionary. How come that the USSR for the first time allied with the West against Biafra? So, let somebody go and disprove Achebe; that is what we want to see not that somebody did not commit genocide. Genocide has been proved to be committed. If there were no genocide, the World Council of Churches, the Caritas wouldn't have come in droves. If genocide was not committed, why did Biafra lose two million casualties, most of them civilians and children? And if people are not apologising to Igbos, why should they now come out to talk because one man has been put to where he belongs in history. He was the principal protagonist of using starvation as an instrument of warfare against his fellow citizens. Remember that Nigeria was fighting a war of unity. They were not as desperate as the other camp that was fighting a war of secession. So, in international convention Geneva included, you don't use starvation against civilians, you don't use firearms against civilians and you don't use bombs. Are they saying they didn't bomb civilians during the war? The Nigerian Air Force was very pronounced in its use of bombs on civilians and their targets were churches, market places and hospitals. These were recorded by missionaries and foreign journalists. 

Awolowo was the Minister of Finance under Gowon. He was the de facto prime minister of Nigeria during the war and he performed. I don't grudge him for winning the war for Nigeria; for changing the currency. He can win the war by all means but the fact that he prevented massive aid from coming is genocidal.

There was an inhuman instance. There was an incident where a Red Cross plane coming with medication and food was blown off the sky for the beleaguered people of Biafra. Even after the war, what was the purpose of denying Igbos their primary source of protein-stockfish? How can you defend the policy of giving people who have lost everything only 20 Pounds? If there is anybody that should have been given more, the returning war battered people of Biafra should have received more.

The Igbos have always accepted Awolowo as a great leader but his activities during the civil war shocked them. BY THE OBJECTIVE OF THE JANUARY 15 COUP, as quoted by Odia Ofeimun, the poet, the boys believed he was the greatest leader. 

THE LEADERS OF THE COUP, WERE TO MAKE CHIEF AWOLOWO THE PRIME MINISTER OF NIGERIA. These coup leaders didn't go for Azikiwe or Balewa. They wanted Chief Awolowo as quoted by Odia in a 1999 edition of The Guardian. Awolowo was supposed to be released by the Nzeogwu coup, which didn't have its assumed ending; it was aborted half way. It was Nzeogwu's colleague, Major Nzegwu that was supposed to pick him from Calabar prison and release him. So, I'm proving to you that the Igbo literality have always accepted Awo as one of the best and great leaders the country has ever produced but his activities during the war did not only shock them but betrayed the trust they had in.

During the whole peace conferences from Niamey to Kinshasha, Awolowo, Enahoro and Alison Ayida, who was a permanent secretary, always took a hawkish stand. That was why in the Niamey conference of 1968 Alison Ayida quoted Awo exactly that starvation is an instrument of warfare. This was at a time when millions of Biafran children were dying off. And death by starvation is not an ordinary death. It is for you to experience it. It was horror and the photographs are there but Awolowo and his henchmen never batted an eyelid even after the war. That is why we glorify other great literality like Wole Soyinka who told us in his book A Man Died that extermination was committed in Asaba. He was the first courageous soul in Nigeria that told the world about the Asaba massacre.

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/73341-most-those-murdered-asaba-muritala-gowon-awo-were-action-group-members-emma-okocha-author-blood-niger.html

Otherique:
Buhari is very predictable.

As a military head of state, how many Igbos made up his cabinet.

As a civilian president, till date, no south-easterner has been found worthy to grace his cabinet.

Even he acknowledged he can only work with the people he knows, in the south east, we see him as an uneducated bigot and he sees us as the wailing 5%.

He entered and stopped the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge, instead, he gave us Boko haram.
Funny enough, the author ignored the contributions of the likes of Okorocha and Ngige in his stereotypes.


The good news is, the South East even without having a Vice President since 1999 can not be said to be backward when compared with other geopolitical zones.

oloyede252:

OK.with all what you said what is the message you want to pass across to me,that Igbo should continue to hate their yourba brothers and yoruba should continue to hate their Igbo brothers.. what do you gain by preaching hate.OK now look at both my post and your post tell me who is bitter and angry about a particular tribe,its evil to preach hate bro... pls reply my mention with a better post not containing tales and misconstrued issues.this.
note.I am not part of the online tribalist movement but please answer my question with a simple well constructed sentence.

Aufbauh:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives, it is the ones that is most adaptable to change" - Charles Darwin.
My observations from the last presidential election is that Igbo exposes themselves politically that without them you can win an election.
They brag all over lagos that they will decide the governorship election but in the end it was same sad story for them.
I wonder why majority of Igbo population are Christian and Christianity preaches love and forgiveness, yet they refused to embrace these virtues. Even if Buhari have killed all your community men in the past it is progressive to forgive and move on. What they failed to acknowledge is that it is not only them that are marginalised if there's any. Others are not wailing the way they do not out stupidity or cowardness but they feel diplomacy can fetch you what violence & eternal grudge can't do.

Ioannes:


let me ask u a simple question and I Hope you will answer with all honesty. if Ojukwu had the military advantage of blocking Nigeria's access to food will he or will he not.

that not withstanding I still believe that the starvation was caused by the biafran leaders who preferred to feed themselves and the soldiers and allowed the biafran children and women to starve to death as testified to by numerous war photos .

war is not a child's play and any sane person will do all in their power to avoid it.But it seems Kanu isn't totally sane as he is beating war drums.

xtrorse:


Can you post such evidence of Radio Biafra call for unprovoked attacks or genocide on anyone, here and now?

In the 90s, the NADECO's unlicensed and inciting Radio Kudirat was hitting the airwaves, did any of you hypocritical bigots condemn it?

Before the 2015 general elections, did Yorubas condemn the highly inciting Radio Chanji in the North?

The Igbos defended themselves against world powers-backed Nigeria with Egyptian bombers, and the war lasted about three years but when the big mouthed Yoruba tribe tried their gra-gra in 1993, it did not even last two days. 
And it took just one Abacha to silence the most successful man from the suffersticated and diabolic Yoruba tribe, MKO Abiola - the Field Marshall of Odua Kingdom and nothing happened. Fact#

After 45 years of the Biafran war, the entire Yoruba tribe that is filled with loudmouthed, suffersticated and diabolic cowards dare not think of it, not to mention trying what a 30 year old Ojukwu did. Are you not bloody cowards? Aren't you ashamed that it took over 200 ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and the Western powers to stop a 30 year old brave man?

Need I remind you also of how a Yoruba Army General, Oladipo Diya, wept like a kid before a junior officer because he was afraid of his life...after wilfully and knowingly plotting a coup?

If you are even worth your silly rantings, you should have installed an Oba in Ilorin. But since you couldn't, you remain a piss in the wind!

To every Yoruba person out there, the peace-loving people of the Great Igbo Nation are no cowards. Igbos never initiate clashes but they never turn their backs on any fight. They do not hide behind the handset or keyboard to sing war songs on the internet. 


There is no law on this earth that prohibits free movement of people and participation in government. It takes a man of courage to venture into an unknown terrain and conquer it. The Chinese are doing it. The British, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese etc. did it. If the great Roman Empire hadn't ventured no one would have known they were great. Today many American businesses are located offshores in China, Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, United Arab Emirate and they are still venturing out to conquer unknown terrains.

For you to be great you have to venture out of your comfort zone. This is the true character of the ever industrious and peace-loving Great Igbo Nation. As of today it would be an understatement to aver that Igbos control 50% of the economy of Lagos and its environs. You see, it pays to venture out instead of lazing around touting and disturbing the peace of the society. 

Cease from being short-sighted and wallowing in the ocean of tribalism. You end up dissipating your energy in hating and being envious of goal-getters and achievers - the Great Igbo Nation who have made life meaningful for you and your folks. 

Stop focusing on the oil wealth from another man's backyard. 

Yoruba need to explore the world, not staying at home eating amala and gbegiri, and later whine away their lives envying the lofty achievements of the Great Igbo Nation who are key to SW economy.

Ioannes:


I won't even bother responding you anymore. I can the signs of hallucination and delusions of grandeur all over your post.
thought we could have a reasonable discussion But alas...
all the best with your biafra.

Olufemiolaolu:
May ur pathetic low thinking brain be delivered from ignorance & sentiments.

Olabestonic001:


OK, at least I'm safe now. lolz.
In case they get their Biafra, I sha want them to have room for dual citizenship as I want my pikin to have the strength of the two major tribe that makes Naija rocks despite their e-battle. Diplomacy of the Yoruba's and the Industrious nature of the Igbo's. The ability to appeal to peoples intelligence of the Yoruba's and the Never-say die spirit of the Igbo's.

However, I want them to delete:
The lukewarmness of the Yoruba's and the victim-mentality of the Igbo's.
The "never decisive nature" of the Yoruba's and the "stubborn-even-after-being-defeated" of the Igbo's.
The "quick-to-forgetfulness" of the Yoruba's and the "Never-forgive-get-even" nature of the Igbos.
The "lets-give-him-another-chance" of the Yoruba's and the "You-can-never-be-forgiven" nature of the Igbo's.
The hypocrisy of the Yoruba's and the mobbish attitude of the Igbo's.

I hope they will be able to strike out the eternal suspicion and hates that filled these two main tribes that are best of pals but always see each other as worst of enemies. They will say many thing and detest each other politically but always find it easy to do reside and cohabit with each other. I have personally studies the two of them but being full-blooded Yoruba, my perspective will always be questioned. But, when a mix of core Yoruba (I'm from Oyo state) and Anambra state (my fiancee), then I hope those "beautiful" ones can speak easily and balancedly.

GOD BLESS YOU BRO.

yang:
Garbage as usual from Lagos Ibadan express way brown envelope pig

stop mentioning Igbo and the dullard paedophile in one sentence

finniblinks:
As the gospel of the restoration of the
sovereign State of Biafra being pioneered
by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
via its vociferous mouthpiece (Radio Biafra
and Biafra Television), continue to gather
momentum on daily basis, so is its people
continue to voice out their disdain for the
Nigerian State. Radio Biafra has reawakened
the comradeship in Biafrans from all works
of life. All over the world, one will not be
surprised to see Biafrans gathering in
unison discussing and strategizing on how
best to restore their sweet home, Biafra.
For many years, Biafran citizens has been
marginalized and denied of their common
wealth and dubiously pushed out of their
enclave to scamper for survival in different
part of the Universe by the occupying
Nigerian State. In the course of these
migrations, majority died in the Arabian
Desert due to severe hydration and some
drown in the Mediterranean Sea. Back home
in Biafraland, our future kids are denied
entry into unity schools due to the dubious
cut-off mark disparity between Biafrans
and the Hausa-Fulani hegemonic North.
Biafrans continue to question the rationale
in dubiously awarding northern kids a
miserable cut-off mark of 2 compared to
their Biafran counterparts of 139 to gain
entry into the same unity schools.
Current events in Nigeria whereby the
rogue regime of Buhari continue to
terrorise, hack, maim, shooting to death,
and kidnappings of Biafrans using its
combined security apparatus, has compelled
well-meaning Biafrans to start to question
the rationale behind these atrocities being
meted on them day by day, hence
reawakening the spirit of comradeship
(Onuru ube Nwanne agbala oso) in us. In
social media like Facebook, write-ups and
comments concerning Biafra and its plights
are awash. For example, Mazi Chinwike
Justice Oke-Nwosu took to his Facebook to
vest his frustration of this damnable entity
coined by Lugard in 1914. He wrote thus:
“It is only in Nigeria that there is an official
policy to promote mediocrity to a level that
merit is seen as an offence. How can any
person justify the absurd score of 2 for
Northern kids to gain places in UNITY
SCHOOLS as against 139 imposed on kids
from the East (Biafra) for same places.
If someone wants to encourage the
North, differential score of 105 for
northerners and 139 for Eastern kids should
have been arguably right but differential
marks of 2 and 139 is obscene and a slap
on the face of rationality, decency and
common sense! How can policy makers and
implementers justify this obnoxious policy?
Who proposed this and who are those in
education ministry presiding over this
retrogressive policy?Are other states and
ethnic representatives in the board or
committee that approved and signed off
this iniquity? This is abhorrent and
indefensible by any stretch and with any
prism you look at it. I took one Anthony N.
Z. Sani who I learnt is/was spokesperson of
Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF on about
this. He severally referred to me as a
believer in "Darwanism" of "survival of the
fittest" where the best is naturally selected.
What the spokesperson for the oligarchy
refused to address is my question about
why kids of affluent Northerners who
attend best schools money and facilities
could provide should be allowed to gain
admission with this shameful score of 2
whilst Eastern kids from indigent families -
some orphans and who live in poor
neighborhoods and schooled in rural areas
must score 139 to gain admission. I am
waiting for him to address this
issue. Speaking to few friends of Northern
extraction on this matter, they believed
Southerners are not advantaged in the
sense that most people take it but simply
that Northern politicians and policy makers
are better in pushing policies that assist
their owns! In simple tone, my Northern
friends believe the Northern technocrats are
simply "looking after our people". This strike
at the heart of the problem with Nigeria and
the drifting that attends this dubious
edifice. Sani in his dubious argument
believes not in proper federalism and
weak center or referendum. He advances
illogical syllogism to defend indefensible
even as his intellectually
sterile innuendos litter discourse on this
matter with lacunae in all dimensions.
This brings me to the position of Igbos-
Biafrans some who claims to be journalists,
scholars and academics; why they have not
seen this as an area that needs pressure to
remove this obscene disparity that
checkmates and stunts the future and
development of our young. It is matter of
pain to me that whilst Buhari jettisons
federal character in his cabinet
appointments and other political
appointments he has so far made and
received applause from some Igbo APC and
others in his camp, none of those who are
eulogising him has anything to say about
how merit is ditched in favour of
mediocrity and in the most embarrassing
and shameful scale that this admission
matter has flagged up!
My issue is why are Northerners who are
hell-bent in applying quota where they
believe that they have disadvantage refuse
the same criteria in areas they have
maximum advantages like in army, police,
immigration, custom and even occupancy
of highest judicial office. If the North is that
educationally backwards, how come they
have produced so many justices of the
federation ahead of Igbos who are more
educated? I have never seen Igbo Chief
Justice of Nigeria!
That my fellow Igbos shouting Sai Buhari
are blind, deaf and dumb in this echoing
absurdity shows the extent personal
pursuits and economic necessity have
driven some Igbos so far in the dirtiest side
of moral life. Many have their kids, nieces
and nephews likely to be disadvantaged by
this anomaly yet they seal their lips and fold
their arms in the hope that crumbs that fall
for them from oligarchy's table will enable
them to purchase spaces or send their owns
to elite schools. Shame on those
contemporary Igbo who much are given
but who are lily-livered and whose hands of
catch-penny would not allow them to be
vanguard for poor and beleaguered
Biafrans whose only passport in life is
through God given endowment. The only
hope and chance in life for these people is
merit.
This is what feudalistic Northern enclave in
connivance with some irresponsible
Southern elite have ensured these Igbos
and other Southerners are not also allowed.
Shame on Igbos who have left their duty
posts and falling over themselves in praise
of Buhari in the hope they are rewarded
while the future of Biafran kids are being
blighted daily by retrogressive
policies. When a policy is put in place
mechanism of monitoring through
appraisals and audits are put in place to
ensure that the advantaged are not with
time become disadvantaged by the policy.
Hardly can anyone say that the quota
system that stunts Igbo kids future in
education has such review in place. It is a
blank cheque handed to the North with no
checks and balances. It is a matter of regret
and shame”.
Continuing in another comment, Mazi
Chinwike has this to say; “The North may
play the ostrich as much as they like. This
obscenity will not last forever. The Biafrans
are just being calm watching as lazy
manipulative Northern enclave checkmates
the future of their kids whilst the kids of
Northern extraction with weaker qualities
are allowed to move on and return to
impose mediocrity on the nation as
"LEADERS" not because they are afraid or
happy. They are watching to see where this
takes you to and how far! In life wisdom
withdraws to see! Watch out this your
posturing and established kleptocracy and
manipulation of levers of power and policy
and all putative apparatus of state will be
what will imperil the Nigerian nationhood
and leave the North in shattered a wrecked
ship far removed from shore. One day the
day you think you have may turn out to be
your moments of darkness and northern
enclaves’ greatest nightmare! Save this and
take it to the bank!
Mediocre will only perform within his/her
capability - mediocrity. It is not surprising
that Nigeria has been drifting from days of
Tafawa Balewa till date. Attempt by Ironsi to
impose meritocracy with unification decree
34 caused north to sweep him out of power
and plunged the nation in bloodshed.
Thereafter North captured and gripped in
its own sin live life of paranoia of Igbo
domination and reprisal that North is
applying glass ceiling for Igbo as ethnic
group in Biafra and using both overt and
covert official policies aimed to stop Biafran
advancement in Nigeria political, economic
and social lives and environment. How the
North and indeed their accomplices believe
such is sustainable is yet to be seen.
Banking that experience of the past
BIAFRAN war is an enough deterrent shows
that what northern and the people who
man their policies fail to learn from history
is history itself. I urge the North not to
change. They should continue to harden
their hearts like pharaoh Ramses of Egypt
who refused to allow Israelites to leave.
When they managed to create their exit
unknown to the Pharaoh, he dispatched his
formidable army after them. If there is one
thing to learn it is how the formidable army
of Egypt perished in the Red Sea!
Time shall come when there shall arise
amongst Biafrans a Moses whose lion heart
and craft of leadership will plot exit strategy
from this Nigerian zoo. Even though all
entrances and gates shall be manned by
northern guards armed to the teeth. Biafra
nation - every soul shall walk pass through
your locked iron gates. By the time you
wake up from your slumber all you will see
will be a desolate zoo! The precious blood
of Biafrans shall never flow on dirty
Nigerian streets again like in 1966 to 1970!
Any hungry beast thinking and provoking
Biafrans to feed on our precious blood shall
have their horns entangled in their own
traps and noose and be chocked in their
own web.
Mark my words - this evil won't be allowed
to continue. The silence is not that of
satisfaction or acceptance; it is silence of
contemplation and strategising and silence
of let us wait and see! We know Buhari was
packaged by the North to come and
resuscitate the decaying feudalistic Hausa/
Fulani oligarchy tools of hegemony. He is
making good of the deed and plan and
intention. All evil and its perpetrators have a
place in history. The evil shall fall face down
and the perpetrator on his/her own swords.
Chinwe Korie Reporting.

Rawani:
To be honest, the Igbo-Jonathan parasitic relationship defies logic and rational thinking.

For the few appointees and contractors, I can understand, but for the hungry and jobless NL youths that benefited nothing from him except a 25 year 2nd Niger bridge toll slavery, it remains a puzzle.

As for President Buhari, he couldn't care any less, the relevant ones are at his beck and call.

Ioannes:
i think another logical question to ask is why do igbos hate yorubas so much as u can see from their response so far.
as far as they are concerned yoruba is the reason why they are not making progress as a people, yoruba is the cause of all the evil that has befallen them from time immemorial. yet they load marco polo buses everyday and head to yorubaland for sustenance.

the igbo psyche is puzzling to say the least.

they say yorubas are cowards, yet their biafran army was routinely routed and defeated by the nigerian side led by a yoruba, while their commander in chief abandoned them to their fate and ran off.

they say yorubas are dirty yet aba is the dirtiest town in nigeria.

i could continue but whats the point. they revel in their hatred. their hatred of yorubas and buhari gives purpose and meaning to their lives.

they continually lie to themselves that they are the chosen race and if not for the "yolobas" their gully infested land would be paradise.

well i doff my hat to the yoruba tribe that can hold down such a "mighty and god chosen" tribe like the igbos.

the igbos unconsciously feel that since they hate the yorubas then that means the yorubas must hate them with equal venom.

not so. what does it take for the yorubas to start a pogrom to wipe out the igbos in their midst? nothing. cos there are very few yorubas living in your non productive land. so no fear of retaliation.

the more you hate the less productive you are.
yorubas dont hate you. and am sure buhari doesnt hate you, he probably despises you. lol.

give it a rest will you. and i wish you all the best in your quest for biafra.
(expecting insults and curses).

maestroferddi:
[s]I really don't blame you.
You have since cultivated this predilection for making idiotic and asinine comments.[/s]

For the record, no true Igboman goes cap in hand begging for appointments. We respect Buhari as the president of the country but it transcends the realm of commonsense to suggest that the Igbo nation nay intelligentsia would fall over themselves to curry the favours of a man who, to all intents and purposes, is a provincial president.

[s]We proved our mettle and then some over the Awolowos, the Ahmadu Bellos, the Danjumas, the Gowons and other manifest traducers of Igbo interest.

The Igbos are only demanding their constitutional rights. Buhari is the least of our problems... [/s]