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| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 7:46pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
sunnyb0b0:What a foolish question u asking,  why dont u go fight 4 d divorce process |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 7:47pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
mulattoclaro: Is tonye your thinking faculty? Why can't you think like a man that you are, rather than a kid. I trust tonye, he isn't filled with hate, mind you I say this, tonye is my brother and he is closer culturally, geographically to the igbos than edo, same as the efiks, ibibios, ogojas et al...I don't hide the truth, I don't let hate blind me, you better keep your nonsense to yourself, eshinwaju is ur brother and he is closer to you culturally, accept him, rather than let oil and south south feed your delusion |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 7:50pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
willow0801:Millions of igbos are in south west, they bears yoruba name, they cannot speak igbo any longer, they claim they are native of Ekiti, kwara,ondo, osun, lagos e.t.c..can u say they are yoruba? 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by iconaus: 8:07pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
Igbo / biafra marginalization is not today . It has been there since after the civil war n buhari made it more obvious that igbos re not part of Nigeria . You appointed some few ministers of igbo extraction to camouflage his hate n alienation of igbos . All directors in strategic positions re northerners n currently igbos re being sack daily from top govt positions.we re not fools . 2 Likes |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by IsraeliAIRFORCE: 8:07pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
chowlade: How many of these so-called people are in the House of Assembly, HOR, Senate or may be Commissioner, market leaders or political appointee? We need their names. Ask Peter Odili what Clarke told him when we wanted to be Yardua's deputy. Let them try to venture into contesting the stated positions and you see how they will be forced back to answer their papa name. 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by anticabal1: 8:28pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: You are the shameless man here. Come to oyigbo with your ugly tribal marks and draw our boundaries na. ndi ara! 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by anticabal1: 8:30pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
TonyeBarcanista: again you the thief, this is my primary handle registered in 2014, i got banned today. use your head, you criminal https://www.nairaland.com/anticabal 3 Likes |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 8:37pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
chowlade: can you stop peddling lies please, no igbo forgets his root and no they aren't natives of Ekiti, kwara,ondo, osun, lagos as long as there is still state of origin! 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 9:01pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
willow0801:They have obtained d state of origin of d above mention states. |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 9:16pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
chowlade: Please stop lying, also the second lie, you said they are in their millions, what kind of lie is that  1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by mulattoclaro(m): 9:43pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
willow0801:see this goat. Ondo and Edo produces more oil than the whole of SE. Why would I want to attach myself by force unlike you and your worthless tribes. Who's your brother? You must be very stupid to call ijaws, Ogonis, Efiks and Ibibios your brother. These people don't even like you. The only people you're closer to are ikwerres and aniomas who have over the years denied you. Go and bother about the ikwerres and aniomas that have openly rejected you over the years and stop forming familiarity here. Tonyebarcanista is only trying to give hope to the hopeless (Igbos) but for me I'll never do that. I'll always put you where you and your fellow tribesmen belong. A baboon is a better friend and brother than an igbo man. 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Masterclass32: 9:54pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
Kai! This thread still dey go? Such love and bile mixed up in a rather strange way. Igbo have become so famous on this forum. Folks make it look like Igbo is the only tribe in Nigeria. Abeg, we need to 'diversify'. Let's try and discuss other tribes for a change (if we must discuss tribes) and give the Igbos a break. 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by mrsuccessful(m): 10:06pm On Dec 31, 2015 |
tuale4u my man, is very funny how the Igbos Have directed their anger towards us from south south because we rejected Biafra.... well if we want to form a new nation we should seat down and talk, make concrete constitution that will be okay for all, not just drawing some crazy map and disrespecting our self Identity Proudly Ikwerre |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by chiefobdk(m): 12:05am On Jan 01, 2016 |
At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought
together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The
initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975
under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe,
to designs of industrial machinery models and
prototypes for the East Central State Industrial
Masterplan, which remain undeveloped even today. The
Murtala/Obasanjo regime took over PRODA in 1975 by
decree, starved it of funds, and basically destroyed its
aims.
Secondly, Federal government policies centralized all
potentials for innovation and entrepreneurship. Before
1983, states had their Ministries of Trade and Industry.
These were charged with local business registration,
trade, and investment promotion, and so on. But today
in Nigeria, if you wish to do any business, you'd have to
go to Abuja (it used to be Lagos) to register under the
Corporate Affairs Commission. It used t be that local
business registration were state and municipal functions.
The concentration of the leverage for trade utterly limited
Igbo entrepreneurs, particularly in the era of import
licensing, once your quota was exhausted, you could not
do business. This affected the old Igbo money in Aba
and Onitsha, who were the arrow-heads of innovation
and traditional partners in the advance of Igbo industrial
economy. It is remarkable that as at 1985, a least by a
book published by the Oxford Economist Tom Forrest in
1980, The Advance of African Capital, the Igbo had the
highest investment in machine tools industries in all of
Africa, and the highest depth of investment in Rural,
cottage industries. In his prediction in 1980, if that rate
of investment continued, according to Forrest in 1980,
the Igbo part of Africa would accomplish an industrial
revolution by 1987. Now, by 1983/85, Federal government
policies helped to dismantle the growth of indigenous
Igbo Industry through its targeted national economic
policies. As I have said, there is a corollary between
industrial development and innovation.
Thirdly, the severe, strategic staunching of huge capital
in-flow into the East starved Igbo businesses and
institutions of the capacity to utilize or even expand their
capacities. There were no strategic Federal Capital
projects in the East. There were no huge infrastructural
investments in the East. The last major Federal
government investment in Igbo land was the Niger Bridge
which was commissioned in 1966. Any region starved of
government funds experiences catatony and attrition.
Private capital is often not enough to create the kind of
synergy necessary for innovation. Rather than invest in
the East, from 1970 to date, the Federal government has
strategically closed down every capacity for technological
advancement in the East and stripped that region of its
capacity. By 1966, the Eastern Nigerian Gas masterplan
had been completed under Okpara. But in its review of a
Nigeria gas masterplan, the Federal government
strategically circumvented the East. Oil and Gas are
under Federal oversight.
The Trans-Amadi to Aba
Industrial Gas network/linkage had been completed in
1966, to pipe gas from Port-Harcourt to Aba. The Federal
government let that go into abeyance and uprooted the
already reticulated pipes. The East was denied access to
energy with the destruction of the Power stations during
the war. The Mbakwe government sought to remedy this
by embarking on two highly critical area of investment
necessary for industrial life: the 5 Zonal water projects,
which were 75 completed by 1983, and set for
commissioning in 1984, which was to supply clean water
for domestic and industrial use to all parts of the old
Imo state, and the Amaraku and Izombe Power stations,
under the Imo Rural Electrification Project. These were
the first ever massive independent power projects ever
carried out by any state government in Nigeria which
would have made significant part of Igbo land energy
independent today. The supply of daily electricity was
possible in Imo as at 1984. [b] The Amaraku station had
come on stream, and the Izombe Gas station was
underway, when Buhari and his men struck. Ground had
already been acquired and cleared on the Umuahia-
Okigwe road to commence work by the South Korean
Auto firm, Hyundai, under a partnership with Imo for the
Hyundai Assembly plant in Umuahia, to cater to a West
African market. The first order of business under the
Buhari government in January 1984, was to declare all
that investment by Mbakwe "white elephant projects."
They were abandoned, and left to decay. The equipment
at the Amaraku power station was later sold in parts by
Joe Aneke during Abacha's government. Some of the
industries like the Paint and Resins company, and the
Aluminium Extrusion plant in Inyishi were privatized, and
sold. Projects like the massive Ezinachi Clay & Brick
works at Okigwe are at various stages of decay, as
memorial to all that effort.
4thly, You may not remember but Odumegwu Ojukwu
founded and opened the first Nigerian University of
Technology - the University of Technology Port-Harcourt
in 1967, under the leadership of prof. Kenneth Dike. He
had also compelled Shell to establish the First Petroleum
Technology Training Institute in Port-Harcourt in 1966. All
these were dismantled. The PTI was take from Port-
Harcourt to Warri, while University of Tech, P/H was
reduced to a campus of UNN, until 1975, when it became
Uniport. You will recall that for years, up till 1981, the
only institutions of higher learning in Central Eastern
Nigeria were the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, IMT
Enugu and Alvan Ikoku College of Ed, in Owerri. There is
no innovation without centers of strategic research.
Mbakwe and Jim Nwobodo changed all that in 1981,
when they pushed through their various states
Assembly, the bills establishing the old Anambra State
Univ. of Tech (ASUTHECH), under the presidency of
Kenneth Dike, and the IMOSU with its five campuses
under the presidency of Prof MJC Echeruo. The
masterplan for these universities as epicenters of
research and innovation in the East were effectively
grounded with the second coming of the military in 1984,
and the dimunition of their mission through
underfunding, etc.
As I have said, I have given you the
very short version. After a brief glimpse of light between
1979-83, Igbo land witnessed the highest form of attrition
from 1983- date, and the destruction of the efforts of its
public leadership to restore it to its feet has been
strategic. Some have been intimidated, and the Igbo
themselves have grown very cynical from that experience
of deep alienation from Nigeria. I think you should be a
little less cynical of Igbo attempts to re-situate
themselves in the Nigerian federation: starved of funds,
starved of investments, subjected to regulatory strictures
from a powerful central government which sees the East
in adversarial terms, and often threatened, the Igbo
themselves grew cynical of it all. You may recall, the first
move by the governors of the former Eastern Region to
meet under the aegis of the old Eastern Region's
Governors Conference in 1999, was basically checkmated
by Obasanjo who threatened them after they called for
confederation in response to the Sharia issue in the
North. Their attempts to establish liaison offices in Enugu
and create a regional partnership was considered very
threatening by the federal government under Obasanjo,
that not too long after, they abandoned that move, and
that was it. If people cannot be allowed to organize for
the good of their constituents, then it only means one
thing: it is not in the interest of certain vested interests
in Nigeria for a return of a common ground in the
Eastern part of Nigeria because establishing that kind of
common ground threatens the balance of power. It is
even immaterial if such a common ground leads to
Nigeria's ultimate benefit. There are people who just find
the idea of a common, progressive partnership of the old
Eastern Region threatening to their own long term
interests. This is precisely what is going on - its
undercurrent. This of course cannot be permitted to go
on forever. A generation arises which often says, "No! in
Thunder."
Igbo population is quite huge, and people who truly know
understand that the Igbo constitute the single largest
ethnic nation in Nigeria. Much has been made about how
this so-called "small" Igbo land space could
accommodate the vast Igbo population. But People also
forget that Igbo land accommodated Igbo who fled from
everywhere else in 1967. So, the question of whether
Igbo land is large enough to contain the Igbo is a non-
issue. In any case, Biafra is not only the land of the Igbo.
It goes far beyond Igbo land. But even for the sake of
building scenarios, we stick to Igbo land alone - the great
Igbo cities of Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Owerri, Aba,
Onitsha, Asaba, Abakiliki, Umuahia, Awka and Onitsha
are yet to be reach even 30% of their capacities. New
arteries can be built, facilities expanded; there are
innovative ways of moving populations through new
transportation platforms -underneath, above, on the
surface, and by waterways.
The East of Nigeria has one
of the most complex and connected, and largely disused
system of natural river waterways in the world. New,
ecologically habitable towns can be expanded to form
new cities from the Grade A Townships - Agbor,
Obiaruku, Aboh, Oguta, Mgbidi, Orlu, Ihiala, Amawbia/
Ekwuluobia, Elele/Ahoada, Owerrinta, Bonny, Asa,
Arochukwu, Afikpo, Okigwe, and so on. The Igbo will be
fine. The Japanese and the Dutch, for example, have
proved that there are innovative ways of using
constricted space.
As for the economy: it is supply and demand. New
economic policies will integrated Igbo economy to the
central west African and West African Markets. The Igbo
will create a new vast export network, unhindered by
idiotic economic and foreign policies. The re-activation of
the PH port systems will for e.g. open the closed
economic corridor once and for all to global trade. As
anybody knows, it might take a fast train no more than
45 minutes to move goods from the Warri or Sapele
ports to Aba and even in less time to Onitsha. As Diette
Spiff once observed while playing golf at Oguta, all it
would take to connect Warri and Oguta is just a long
bridge, and the vast economic movement will commence
between Warri and its traditional trading areas of Onitsha
and the rest of the East. The quantum of economic
activity will see the growth of that corridor between Aba-
Oguta- Obiaruku down to Warri as the crow flies. The
impact of trade between the Calabar ports and Aba will
explode. In fact, the old trading stations along the Qua-
Iboe River (the Cross River) at Arochukwu, Afikpo, down
to Oron and Mamfe in the Cameroons will explode and
create new prosperity and new opportunities. I am giving
the short version. So, the Igbo will be alright. They would
simply be just able to define their own development
strategies, deploy their highly trained manpower
currently wasting unutilized, and the basis of its vast
middle class will create new consumers, and generate an
internal energy that will thrive on Igbo innovation,
industry, and know-how, which Nigeria currently
suppresses. This is exactly one very possible scenario.
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Re: A Fierce Reply To Buhari Question What Do The Igbos
Want by Demburrows ( m ): 2:00pm On Dec 31 , 2015
So, Tanko Yakassi is wrong. May be if the Igbo leave
Kano, the Emir will no longer need to buy his bulb from
an Igbo trader in Kano. He will have to buy it either from
an Hausa, a Fulani, a Lebanese, or some such person.
But those will have to come to Igbo land to buy it first
before selling to the Emir. There was a time when all of
West Africa came to Onitsha or Aba to buy and trade
because it was safe, and those cities were the largest
market emporia in the continent. People came from as
far aways as the Congo to buy stuff in Aba and sell in
the Congo. It could happen again, only this time on a
vaster, more controlled scale. The network of Igbo global
trade will not stop if they left Nigeria. In fact, they will
have more access to an indigenous credit system that
would expand that trade, currently unobtainable and
unavailable today to them, because Nigeria makes it
impossible for Igbo business to grow through all kinds of
restrictions strategically imposed on it, including port
restrictions.
However, although I do think that the Igbo would do
quite well alone, they could do a lot better with Nigeria, if
the conditions are right. This agitation is for the
conditions to be made right; for Nigeria and its political
and economic policies to stop being a wedge on Igbo
aspirations. And Igbo aspiration is quite simple: to match
the rest of the developed world inch by every inch, and
not to be held down by the Nigerian millstone of
corruption, inefficiency, and inferiority. The Igbo think
that control of their public policies on education,
research and innovation, economic and monetary
policies, and recruitment, control and deployment of its
own work force both in public and private sectors will
give them the leverage they need to build a coherent and
civilized society. They point to the example of Biafra,
where under three years, they were making their own
rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own
oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical
and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like
Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the
entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it, while
Nigeria was busy doing owambe, importing even
toothpick, and creating new wartime millionaires from
corrupt contracting systems by a powerful oligopoly. It is
a fallacy much driven by ignorance that Igbo will not
thrive and that Igbo land will not accommodate Igbo
population if they leave. That is not true. There is no
scientific basis for it. The dynamics of human movement
will take great care of all that. It s a lame excuse. What
people who wish for Nigeria to stay together should do is
not to make such puerile statements, because it is
meaningless. What we should all do is to find the
strategic means of containing Igbo discontent by
LISTENING to the Igbo, and seeking peaceful and
productive ways of fully freeing their energy to instigate
growth both of themselves and of Nigeria withun Nigeria
for everyone's benefit. Threatening them will not work. It
has never worked, and it is important to understand a bit
of Igbo cultural psychology: the more you threaten him,
the more the Igbo person digs in very stubbornly. Igbo,
with a long tradition of diplomacy, thrive on consensus
not on threat of the use of force, or the like. Frankly,
those who continue to think that the Igbo have no
options are yet to understand the complexity of this
movement as we speak. They still look at the surface of
events while the train is revving and about to leave the
station. We need to work very carefully on this issue. I
myself, I prefer Nigeria. I like its color of many peoples
and cultures. That in itself is the very condition for
growth and regeneration. A single Igbo nation may be
more prosperous, but will be less interesting, and that is
the more valid argument.
Written by: prof. Obi Nwakanma https://www.nairaland.com/2834110/fierce-reply-buhari-question-what |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by chiefobdk(m): 12:08am On Jan 01, 2016 |
mulattoclaro: are u back from Canada |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by CltrAltDel: 1:06am On Jan 01, 2016 |
willow0801:Lol. ..and other tribes are known to be very poor......gosh see pride This una chest beating is una najor problem. ...igbos were known to be very wealthy indeed  1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by CltrAltDel: 1:10am On Jan 01, 2016 |
mulattoclaro:Dt guy is just displaying his stupidity in public. ...though I am enjoying it |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by nedu666: 1:20am On Jan 01, 2016 |
every where an ibo man goes haters are abound. imagine the no of thread opened on ibos. to the extent after a 2hr presidential chat most of the thread opened centered on ipob and kanu. none on the economy, security situation nothing just the last minutes when pmb panicked, lost composure because of ibos. I tell u if you are nothing nobody will talk about you. ibos are too much. haters can go and masturbate and ejaculate |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 2:11am On Jan 01, 2016 |
itunu8: Thank u |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 2:16am On Jan 01, 2016 |
willow0801: IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu is d cause of dis anger from South South. MASSOB has been there b4 IPOB. D leader Uwazurike has been arrested several times in this country. When u listen to MASSOB speak they were not distorting history to make south south Join Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu on d other hand waz distorting history and spewing trash. Insulting everybody who dont agree with him. 2 Likes |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by SUBWAY101(m): 2:57am On Jan 01, 2016 |
anticabal1: M.oronic cocaine pusher, You are a shameless akpu man, cowardice wont make you admit. You can only deceive your fellow product of baby factory...oloribu omo ale. 1 Like |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by mikolo80: 5:27am On Jan 01, 2016 |
sunnyb0b0:for better for worse abi una no de swear for una church he who God have joined let no man put asunder |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by anticabal1: 6:43am On Jan 01, 2016 |
SUBWAY101: Land thieves |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by Nobody: 6:52am On Jan 01, 2016 |
msss: |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by ogmaskman: 9:04am On Jan 01, 2016 |
EasternActivist: At the bolded, it shows you ddnt read his post befor commenting. Or maybe you read it but ddnt understand it. Pls go back and read it till you understand what he wrote then come back and post ur comments. Tnk me later bro. |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by SUBWAY101(m): 9:13am On Jan 01, 2016 |
anticabal1: Shameless scam artist. Spit on your flat head |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by anticabal1: 9:15am On Jan 01, 2016 |
SUBWAY101:who send u? commot abeg! |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by SUBWAY101(m): 9:15am On Jan 01, 2016 |
anticabal1: Go end your pathetic life, smelly coward. |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by anticabal1: 9:24am On Jan 01, 2016 |
SUBWAY101: But why u mumu like dis? |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by StOla: 10:53am On Jan 01, 2016 |
tuale4u: QED! |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by homosapien(m): 11:28am On Jan 01, 2016 |
willow0801:What does Yoruba's need Igbo's love for? Please shower that love to leaders especially kanu. |
| Re: Igbo Marginalisation is a Big lie and just a Propaganda. by homosapien(m): 11:51am On Jan 01, 2016 |
homosapien: |
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