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Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by seguno2: 4:01pm On May 10, 2017 |
engrchykae: Was that because MKO was also not a capitalist working for/with western imperialists? |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by edi879: 4:02pm On May 10, 2017 |
tifany89:Name one SE governor that has been better than Tinubu and Fashola since 99?? Shey Nigerians are holding ipob down?? Name one SE governor that has performed as well as those guys? Why aren't you talking about Rochas that owned pensioners for how long and forced them to a deal forfeiting part of their pensions. 3 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Nobody: 4:06pm On May 10, 2017 |
Jetleeee: I have come to realise that silence is golden You could have kept quiet instead of spitting out thrash from your gutter look alike mouth Somebody has done something remarkable hence the commendation But your stupid self just had to put in some form of tribal colouration... You accuse the Yorubas of sitting down,hailing Somebody who has done something commendable. Are u so dull that this guy who put up a nice piece is a Yoruba boy? Well hate won't allow u see that..... u this tribalistic nonentity |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by sunto: 4:06pm On May 10, 2017 |
Nwakaumu: Yes we love that brown roof because it remains us that as at time those roof was constructed some tribe ancestors are still living on the tree 3 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Jetleeee: 4:11pm On May 10, 2017 |
zxcvb: No be you I go take chop ban I called you out for your bullchitt and I still stand by it. I'm sure most Yorubas here agree with me. You sabi curse like this yet dem go dey abuse your ancestors for here, you no go fit defend your people. Collate your facts and stop waiting for someone else to do it. Now 4++koff!!! 3 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by femolii: 4:14pm On May 10, 2017 |
Baba Awo a man that deal with Osus and their father zik osu seniour son. 4 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Mujtahida: 4:14pm On May 10, 2017 |
pazienza:Clap for yourself. Your little Kingdom has won the race against another little Kingdom. Only people who grew up in an Army barrack, Naval or Airforce Base are somewhat free from this oozing ethnic consciousness that means so much to other Nigerians. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by bestpunterever: 4:26pm On May 10, 2017 |
ODVanguard:don't forget that we Bleep their sisters en masses for 500 naira in southwest brothel. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Nobody: 4:32pm On May 10, 2017 |
Jetleeee: Dude get a life... and don't b jobless.... I keep stopping my work over here intermittently just to reply u... if u need a job just send me ur CV so I could help u secure a place here in my place of Work #GOD BLESS YOU #GOD BLESS THE YORUBA RACE #GOD BLESS NIGERIA 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Benekruku(m): 4:33pm On May 10, 2017 |
evilyoruba: Chest-beating! As if people have not toured across te whole region! In sane English language, The East is under developed The least in whole Nigeria And u will be bragging as if we don't go there? Outside Enugu an Imo, which other sane place is in the East? 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by bestpunterever: 4:37pm On May 10, 2017 |
Nwakaumu:yes, and we keep fucking yah sisters for 500 naira under our brown roof brothels |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by bestpunterever: 4:40pm On May 10, 2017 |
ariesbull:your region is develop and yah sisters keep coming to southwest for prostitution. U better keep mute. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by sarrki(m): 4:40pm On May 10, 2017 |
bestpunterever: On point |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by tifany89(m): 4:41pm On May 10, 2017 |
edi879:The onus is on u to prove coz I wasn't the one dat started with the comparisons but u know what? Quoting you was a big mistake seriously coz this ur comment now just goes to show how far from intelligent you are . Why did u use Lagos as a case study? Why not OYO or Osun or Ekiti? Coz you know those states are glorified villages. Do u know how much Lagos receives from the federal coffers in a month coupled with her internally generated revenue? Lagos naturally has an edge over every other states in Nigeria coz of its status as a former capital coupled with the amount of businesses, companies, and all dat are sited dere and dey are all taxable. So by your standards Tinubu and Fashola are exemplary governors? Stop celebrating mediocrity, No wonder we are were we are coz a people deserves the kind of leader they get. Ever head of Peter Obi? Despite limited resources go to Anambra and see how well he tried. Aren't you even ashamed that u r comparing a region that fought a war amidst heavy bombardment with a region dat has enjoyed relative peace except for pockets of violence due to civil disobedience? So what kept the west from developing to enviable standards all this while? Even awolowo failed in that regard. Seriously am ashamed for you people. How would it feel that in 20 years time I will now be comparing Borno and Ebonyi after all these Boko haram menace? Wouldn't dat be an indictment on us as a people? Just see your life outside, and am sure when u were commenting dat rubbish u thought u were making sense. Let me laugh in Chinese. Compare the five Eastern states with the 5 western states apart from Lagos without bias, let them stand toe to toe and see which ones are much more developed . Adieu |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by tifany89(m): 4:42pm On May 10, 2017 |
edi879:The onus is on u to prove coz I wasn't the one dat started with the comparisons but u know what? Quoting you was a big mistake seriously coz this ur comment now just goes to show how far from intelligent you are . Why did u use Lagos as a case study? Why not OYO or Osun or Ekiti? Coz you know those states are glorified villages. Do u know how much Lagos receives from the federal coffers in a month coupled with her internally generated revenue? Lagos naturally has an edge over every other states in Nigeria coz of its status as a former capital coupled with the amount of businesses, companies, and all dat are sited dere and dey are all taxable. So by your standards Tinubu and Fashola are exemplary governors? Stop celebrating mediocrity, No wonder we are were we are coz a people deserves the kind of leader they get. Ever head of Peter Obi? Despite limited resources go to Anambra and see how well he tried. Aren't you even ashamed that u r comparing a region that fought a war amidst heavy bombardment with a region dat has enjoyed relative peace except for pockets of violence due to civil disobedience? So what kept the west from developing to enviable standards all this while? Even awolowo failed in that regard. Seriously am ashamed for you people. How would it feel that in 20 years time I will now be comparing Borno and Ebonyi after all these Boko haram menace? Wouldn't dat be an indictment on us as a people? Just see your life outside, and am sure when u were commenting dat rubbish u thought u were making sense. Let me laugh in Chinese. Compare the five Eastern states with the 5 western states apart from Lagos without bias, let them stand toe to toe and see which ones are much more developed . Adieu |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by catalan15(m): 4:45pm On May 10, 2017 |
Majesticniyi:... Good Talk.... |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by edi879: 4:46pm On May 10, 2017 |
tifany89:Why should we exclude Lagos? Aren't they part of the West? What about Ogun? Ibadan? Why are most of our ibo brothers running to the place they hate so much. Let's develop SE instead of developing other people's places for them. The truth hurts. SW have been performing better than SE for a while now. Fact. 2 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by SirShymexx: 4:50pm On May 10, 2017 |
Interesting and insightful read. One of these thieving Yoruba politicians need to sponsor a well written/directed documentary about the man's life/achievements and take it to the big screen for the youths to learn about the great man. A black man using the black mind to proffer solutions to peculiar problems affecting black people ought to be a blueprint for others to follow. That might be a catalyst for a change cos all I can see right now is utter failure piling up on future failures. Rest in power to the great/enigmatic one...just had to pay homage cos they don't breed folks like him anymore. The new wave are a bunch of owanbe dancing amala eaters with no sense of purpose/direction smh. 4 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Nobody: 4:53pm On May 10, 2017 |
It is sardonic that a Nigerian can ("témbélú " what Awolowo did for this nation. I'm a Yoruba guy but I'm not saying this in favour of my tribe. Awolowo is the greatest "leader" to rise in Nigeria. He was a man of vision that no one had at that time . Many of us today are advocating for disintegration of the country... (I'll talk on that but let me drive home a point). Africa as a continent was "raped" by the whites no doubt about that. In fact they (the white) were the ones that determined which part is this country which part is that country, that was back in 1885 when the European leaders met at the infamous Berlin Conference to divide Africa and arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day... May I tell you that problem caused implicitly lingered till today. There is a part of Benin -republic that are Yorubas, there is a part of Cameroon that is supposed to be of the east too, same in the north.. Every African nation has the scar and how to use this disadvantage as a point of strength was what Awolowo advocated for "one Nigeria " because breaking away from each other will result to future breaking( because we at first are people of different beliefs, cultural background, thought patterns etc. And aren't supposed to be together) but this will be a Continental tsunami if everyone is trying to segregate n divide to their respective nations. That was why the man that was interviewed said. "Nigeria is not a nation but a Country of nations" that phrase must be from Awolowo. Awolowo saw that despite our differences uniting us(I mean staying united) as one even though it might not have happened until the whites did. Was better now than dividing after it already done... It will be a Continental tsunami that will forever leave a scar in the government of any daughter nation birthed from the division of one Nigeria. Finally, then it will be a self fulfilling prophesy : if one nation breaks out of Nigeria, multiple nation from the daughter nation will advocate for their independence in a 100 years. You might think hundred years is too long to take serious but I hope some persons alive now will live to tell the story to then contemporary generation.. 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by TheStronghold: 4:56pm On May 10, 2017 |
People should've listened to him. If Nigeria were a confederation of regions as he wanted, the country wouldn't be where it is today. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by InvertedHammer: 4:59pm On May 10, 2017 |
/* THE TRUTH */ By Ena Ofugara I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a student of history, I wish to show just what these great people came/come against and yet thrive. Okay, the incessant killings in the north will be glossed over so as to make this article not overly long. The civil war will also not be discussed. However, post-civil war, as I explained in my post “Minority report: the system is rigged against you”, the rich in Nigeria have major roots in the Indigenisation Decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded people how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausa and Yoruba, loans to buy up companies owned by foreigners. Now, imagine the federal government forced Chevron to sell 51% of its shares and Access Bank would give you loans to buy the shares. How rich would you be in a year? Five years? That is how many Yoruba and Hausa got to own UAC, all the Dunlop, Leventis, Cadbury etc shares. Now while this was ongoing, Awolowo/Gowon told the Nigerian banks to give tops 20 pounds to any Igbo man that had money in the bank before the war. That is, if you had N5 before the war, you would be given the N5. But if you had N1million, you get just 20 pounds in full fulfilment of the bank’s duty to give you your money. Ask yourself: why would the banks give the Igbo only 20 pounds? Did the banks collapse? So why pay less than you were given? So while the banks were giving loans to Hausa and Yoruba to buy oyibo companies they did not build, the Igbo were being cheated out of their rightful moneys. Now note also that these people lost houses and business across the land. It is safe to say that as at 1970/71, the richest Igbo had 20 pounds — that may be the equivalent of maybe one N1million. Let us look at how Dangote made his money. He Dangote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) had an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 1950’s and ’60’s. He gave Dangote a loan and Dangote paid it back in a record time. Clap! Clap! Then add that Dangote has had his “brothers” in government — from Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalami to Yar’Adua. When they now agreed to have democracy, he was rich enough to have funded Obasanjo, and so government policies enabled him to be the monopoly for rice, sugar, flour imports — and of course a large share of subsidy etc. – and ensured he is the wealthiest Nigerian. Note that many had same opportunity but did not use it. We kowtow to Dangote’s investment capabilities. However, for the Igbo man, where would he see an uncle that would loan him money? The richest man in their family had how much as at then? So while Fani-Kayode could inherit the property of his father and grandfather and great-grandfather, a Chidi Kalu could not inherit anything from his grandfather who had business in Kano or even Port Harcourt. Neighbours had made his dad’s storey building theirs, and even someone as educated as Ken Saro-Wiwa lived in an Igbo war emigrant’s house as his. (A sore point of the Niger Delta and Igbo unity). WAEC building was Ojukwu’s dad’s building and, like that building, thousands and the lands with it — lands worth billions today were taken from the Igbo and each and every Igbo had tops 20 pounds, destroyed homeland, stolen and destroyed wealth away from the east. Also his brother is never president that will give him oil block or fuel lifting. Of 33, only one Igbo man and because he was in Obasanjo’s good graces. YET LOOK HOW PROUD THEY STAND TODAY! Look what they have achieved for themselves…FIRST GENERATION WEALTH…top second generation. From being unable to send their first sons to school so he could help look after the shop, to producing first-class brains in all departments of modern learning. So today, as you accuse the Igbo of wanting their Biafra or of baby factory, or liking money and ready to do anything for money, remember that just 40 years ago, while the banks were dashing your uncles loans to buy all the companies of Nigeria they stole from the Igbo. Know that appointments have not favoured them. Note that they remain persecuted and many speak such ill and hate towards a people forced by need to survive to be extra-aggressive towards their sustenance. Maybe if you took their history into consideration, you would not be so critical of them, but instead say “what a resilient people” and give God the glory. # Share this: |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by MENELIK1: 5:04pm On May 10, 2017 |
deomelo: Yes Lagos was founded by the Edos while Benin was founded by the Yorubas, so who own Lagos? |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by seniorkachion(m): 5:05pm On May 10, 2017 |
edi287: Na lie! |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Dedetwo(m): 5:08pm On May 10, 2017 |
When will this delusion with Awolowo ends? |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by bizzibodi(m): 5:08pm On May 10, 2017 |
evilyoruba:if d igbos are still living,all that died during d civil war hav all reincarnated,Y all this hatred.japan has left d bitter WWII experience behind them. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by jidxin(m): 5:10pm On May 10, 2017 |
Nwakaumu:bro. the story is .......the portugese came to nigeria b4 d british. wen dey got to d east the eastern families were pushing their daughter to go and sleep wit the gods so dat dey can give birth to gods too |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by sorry1(m): 5:12pm On May 10, 2017 |
ODVanguard:I wonder what makes you guys believe e that you are sophisticated when almost all of you reason like this. When the Europeans were flooding Africa did it mean Africa was more developed than Europe? why don't you self imposed sophisticated people reason? When I see how you guys reason It makes me wanna denounce African .origin, damn!!! 1 Like |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by sorry1(m): 5:15pm On May 10, 2017 |
obaaderemi:Bros most of your kinsmen have come to the east and they could survive. A sheep can't can't survive where the lions thrive. Afonjas are lazy and can't survive in the east, simple. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by sorry1(m): 5:21pm On May 10, 2017 |
ODVanguard:Be smart and reason like an economist and an educated person, Europeans came to Africa to exploit us, and easterners go to west to exploit them, use your cone-head na. You should be ashamed that you guys are busy doing owo mi da when reasonable people are taking the main dividend of development just as former leaders of Nigeria like awolowo were busy forming nationalist when the whites were exploiting Nigeria. Reason, I beg of you. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Neozy(m): 5:25pm On May 10, 2017 |
Majesticniyi:Accurate and perfect conclusion jare, my namesake. |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by bestpunterever: 5:29pm On May 10, 2017 |
sorry1:u must be a fool.. When the Europeans u claimed were flooding africa, were they in africa to hawk gala or their sisters Here to do prostitution? Ur foolishness is incomparable. I sorry for u as yah names claimed it. 5 Likes |
Re: Awolowo Gave Western Region In 7 Years What British Couldn't Give Nigeria In 50 by Neozy(m): 5:32pm On May 10, 2017 |
ariesbull:Pls think b4 you talk. So because there is no place in your community or local government named after awolowo, you assume there no place named after him in the whole eastern Nigeria. SMH for you. |
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