oyinkinola:

....it's not tribalism,ethnicity and religion that hold nigeria down, it's you looters!

mordsith:







I'll get it done by the first week of next month..... but it would be a Facebook page initially.


African Liberation Movement (NLM)

In it we would open the minds and heart of Nigerians.


Africa should no longer fight wars among ourselves. Other races have gone ahead....... we can and we will get there

cocoduck:
please keep quiet if yo have nothing to offer

Deadlytruth:
Nigeria veered off the path of good governance and began its journey towards failed state status when in 1966 Aguyi Ironsi dismantled our federal structure due to his crass ignorance and arrogance. Only a return to pre-1966 federalism will save Nigeria as under such system no part of Nigeria can reap from where it has not sown, no money will be available at the centre to be embezzled, attention will shift to the state governors and LGA chairman for those two levels will be the custodians of the bigger revenues, revenues will stop coming from Abuja and every individual will have to toil and labour to contribute to the revenue generation of his state hence corruption will no longer be tolerated on tribal sentiments because people will find it very offensive for their respective state governors to embezzle revenues they suffered to generate themselves, all forms of militancy, eg BH, Niger Delta men, OPC, Bakassi, Arewa, etc, will cease as most youths will be in the farm, quarries or mines toiling to raise revenues for their states in order to avoid hunger, cities will be decongested on their own as most people will return to the rural areas of their origin to participate in extractive and cottage industries, Nigeria will become a net exporter again and the Naira will ultimately return to its 0.68k to 1$ status.

Aguyi Ironsi should be posthumously given a national award of dishonour for blocking our path to greatness in this country.

macfarland:
In other words with ethnicity, tribalism and religion., The nation called Nigeria can never grow

Biafraandpeace:





Nigeria issue is older than you and didnt start in 1966 by aguyi ironsi....dont mention him ok.
The problem started with contraption between different ethnic majority and minorities, between religious and religion which shouldn't be combined by the British colony.
For this contraption called nigeria to see the light again, let us remove our eyes from oil-----exactly what brought up Nigeria and biafra war. If the North had oil, they wouldn't lift a muscle to fight biafra to stay, if the west had oil, they wouldn't join the killing spree of biafrans.

However, after the war, so much hatred had envelope the heart of average nigerians towards the biafrans and degenerated to high skies...
Therefore, the igbos/biafrans still has more than 3.5million reasons not to stay in nigeria...
I BELIEVE the north and west that fought the war have natural untaped resources that will be use to develop themselves apart from oil..The Germans, France, Britain, these country does not have oil, yet they developed to enviable height.
I still believe it was the northern and western laziness and failure to see beyond oil that made them killed more than 3.5millions souls. I concur to slipt Nigeria. It's a must to support.

Deadlytruth:


Aguyi Ironsi should be posthumously given a national award of dishonour for blocking our path to greatness in this country.

oyinkinola:

....iwo lo sakiyesi isoro nigeria dada, isoro eyo kan soso ti nigeria ni, oun ni, iwa jegudujera, oun wobia eyin oloselu nigeria, ni o je ki nigeria o roju. gbogbo ojo taa ba fowo iwa yi bole, oun to se wa tan!

kingzizzy:



People like you talk out of ignorance. How can you say that Ironsi destroyed the federal structure when all 4 regions that were the federating units of Nigeria were still there up to day Ironsi died? It was Gowon that came in, abolished the regions,took away resouce control, created 12 states and turned Nigeria into a unitary state. Ironsi never abolished the 4 regions! Get that into your head. In the bid of Gowon and his fellow northerners to exercise complete control of Nigeria, they introduced 'divide and rule' by abolishing the regional structure which Ironsi had maintained

Deadlytruth:


And people like you talk out of pure mischief and peddle lies to deceive the gullible. Aguyi Ironsi dismantled the regions and split Nigeria into 35 provinces and set out to draft a new unitary constitution which would suit the operation of unitary system over the new 35 provinces even though the public did not demand a constitution review from him. That showed he had something wicked up his sleeves. Go back and check your books. Aguyi Ironsi promulgated a decree 34 which he himself titled unification decree. If Aguyi Ironsi did not dissolve the regions then what else was his Unification Decree 34 meant to achieve? Get this into your block head. Unification means to make several separate entities to lose their individual identities and become one. Don't you have a dictionary in your house? Aguyi Ironsi was advised against tampering with the regions in any form at all but he arrogantly refused to and even argued that such was the only way his military junta could govern effectively.
The Northern officers who staged the counter coup that killed Aguyi Ironsi made it clear that his unification decree was one of the reasons they killed him as the decree amounted to bundling every region together as one single seamless entity under Igbo domination thereby heightening the Igbo domination fears already in the air. Were the Northern officers lying against Ironsi? If Ironsi's action did not substantially alter the regional structure would the Northern counter coup officers have listed tampering with the regional structure as one of his sins? If Ironsi left the regions intact as you want us to believe then why did he not allow the civilian premiers continue in their positions and allow the regions whose premiers were killed by the Igbo boys in Jan 15 to simply conduct parliament elections to quickly replace them?
Gowon actually returned us to the four region structure immediately he took over. He did that by his own Decree 59 which he pronounced on September 1 1966 i.e just two days after Ironsi's death and overthrow. If Ironsi's Decree 34 did not alter the status quo at all then why was there the need for Decree 59 by Gowon?
But the moment Ojukwu declared Biafra he had to quickly break it down to 12 states as a strategy of war aimed at dividing the eastern minorities against Igbos hence weakening the Igbos towards the war. If Ojukwu had not declared Biafra Republic Gowon would not have broken the restored regions into 12 states. Recall that Gowon clinched power July 30 1966 and Ojukwu declared Biafra May 1967. Now, during the time lapse between these two dates Gowon abrogated Ironsi's Unification Decree and restored the four regions which stayed alive while he and Ojukwu argued over the best system to adopt between confederacy leading to the Aburi Accord meeting in Ghana. In his arguement at Aburi Ojukwu's position was that each region should be allowed a greater autonomy. Now if Gowon had already broken down the region to states as of that moment I don't think Ojukwu would have still been referring to regions in his demands. He would have rather included a restoration of the regions as the first item in his list of demands at Aburi. Of course you can't be demanding for autonomy for regions which were not in existence. You would rather demand for the regions first before demanding for their autonomy. So the mere fact that Ojukwu, a very intelligent officer, did not include restoration of the regions in his list of demands meant the regions were actually existing under Gowon. But it was after arrival from Ghana that Gowon broke the regions to states as a war strategy response to Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra. Get this logical analysis into your head and stop defending the irreversible evil Ironsi did to this country just because he was of your tribe.

kingzizzy:


OMG! You are an example of a Nigerian who does not know Nigerian history. It is really pathetic that so many Nigerians just don't know the history of their country but are quick to shout 'one Nigeria!'. I suggest you google the history of Nigeria and read about the period from January 1966 to May 1967 to cure your ignorance. You said that Ironsi dismantled the regions and created 35 provinces? Can you tell us the name of any one of these provinces Ironsi crated? You don't even know that the four regions were still in place almost a year after Ironsi died? You don't even know that Ironsi was on a tour of the four regions when he was killed? Ironsi was killed when he was on the western region tour, so how can he be visiting the regions if he had already dissolved them? Yes it is true that Ironsi promulgated the unification decree,and he had to do this because military rule is not democratic rule. Every military rule runs on some kind of unification decree. But he did not abolish the regions which is the main thing you are arguing here. You don't even know that the reason why Ojukwu declared Biafra on the 30th of May 1967 was because Gowon had announced the creation of states 3 days earlier on the 27th of May, which was against the Aburi confederal agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Ghana. The 36 states Nigeria has today is a creation of military Governments starting from Gowon all the way to Babangida. So how can you blame Ironsi for unitary rule when he never created any state? Cure your ignorance or start reading books, the North killed Ironsi because they wanted political power, that's always been what they wanted in Nigeria

macfarland:
Jonathan, an outstanding President

Ken Agala wrote:

At the commissioning of the first Almajiri school in Sokoto, the Sultan of Sokoto, the head of Muslims in Nigeria clearly said that Jonathan's action is unprecedented in the history of the north. The word unprecedented means something nobody has ever done before. Jonathan has built over 400 of these schools, free tuition , free meals , free books, free uniforms , free schoo bags etc. Similar to what Awo did for the south west.

Yet 90% of those against him are northerners.
The last University built in the north is the University of Agriculture Markurdi built 27 years ago by the Babangida regime.
From 1960 till 2010, the north had nine heads of state and only a total of nine federal universities was built during this period. Between 2010 and 2013, Jonathan has built nine federal universities in the north alone .

In 1982, President Shagari's government identified the prospects of a power plant in Zungeru Niger State. When Buhari kicked him out in 1983, no leader talked about Zungeru again .
Two years ago, President Jonathan kick started the 163 billion naira project. The spiral effect of the construction alone will affect the economy of 80% of those living within that environment positively.

The 3,050 MW Mambilla project in Taraba was conceived 32 years ago and all previous governments used it for campaign and it was just an avenue for fraud . Last year, President Jonathan provided one billion dollars for the project to commence .

In 2014, President Jonathan launched the Great Green Wall Initiative , a 100 billion naira regional afforestation program designed to create a green belt of that will prevent desert encroachment towards 11 northern states. The states covered in nigeria are Kebbi , Zamfara , gombe, Yobe, jigawa, adamawa, bauchi, katsina , Borno, sokoto and Kano .

The Abuja-Kaduna rail was started and completed by this administration . In a few months, people can actually live in Kaduna and work in Abuja.

Today, importers from Kano can haul their containers straight from Tin Can island to Kano, while exporters in the north can move their products from Kano to the sea port in lagos, by railway as Jonathan has revived the railways.

This is just a tip of numerous unprecedented projects carried out by Jonathan in the north. Yet the northern elders forum will come out strong to fight jonathan openly asking northerners not to vote him.
The opposition by the north against Jonathan is clearly not about performance but about tribalism and religion.

Let any northerner show me a northern president that has done more than these for the north.

Deadlytruth:


Jonathan was voted into power by the entire South (SW, SS and SE) together with the middle Belt. The Core North hated him, voted against him and shed blood when he was declared winner. But Jonathan abandoned all those zones that voted for him and concentrated all his attention trying to please the Core-North which never wanted him in power in the first instance. He took huge funds generated in the South (where he got his votes) to do projects in the Core North where he was rejected at the polls. He even naively declared in PH that he purposely left his own SS region unattended to because he did not want to appear partial. He acted as if he did not know that Zik, Ironsi, Abiola, and the rest who tried to sacrifice their own people's interests to please the North never actually succeeded in pleasing them but ended up being killed or hounded out of power by them. The only thing that pleases the North is to have their own in power even if he does NOTHING for them. Even if you help their kinsman to get to power they will always reward you negatively. When Zik blindly and foolishly chose to hand them power in 1960, they later used that same power to rig 1962/63 censuses and 1964/65 elections against the same Zik, and till today based on that rigged census Zik's region has 5 states while the NW of the Ahmadu Bello whom he gave power now has 7. Abiola too helped them crush his own brother Awolowo but the same Northerners made sure Abiola's mandate was stolen and got him killed. So Jonathan is to blame for his own political misfortune because he refused to learn from history and was therefore condemned to repeating it and the consequence followed.