aribisala0:
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So that? She will give me what?I really do not want to be disrespectful on that level but I don't see any marital value there so let us leave that .what makes you think I am single or looking for women. You might be younger than my son. Stick to topic

giftq:

we know your type

CrtlAltDel:

Stick to topic…. No use style derail this educative/informative thread

giftq:

[s]We are only being educated about the Igbo-obsession of the OP a.k.a aribisala0 [/s]

CrtlAltDel:

Stick to topic…. No use style derail this educative/informative thread

giftq:

Awolowo should have the answers to aribisala0's questions on this thread

But I know that aribisala0 perpetually fantasizes about marrying an Igbo girl

aribisala0:
I will accept that as SURRENDER on the subject of £20.
It is established that the Nigerian government generously gave the Igbo people £20 each even though this was largely undeserved.
Settled.

Rotimik:


20pounds of that time is like N600K of today .It was a lot if money in 1970.

SIRTee15:


This is it in case u missed it....

At the end of the civil war there was a critical shortage of the new Nigerian currency, which retarded efforts to replace the currency in circulation in the east. The Central Bank began recalling the Biafran currency and the old Nigerian currency in the war-torn region but, because of the shortage of new Nigerian notes, only receipts were issued to those who surrendered the notes; although during this period of recall it was unclear what rate of exchange would be made for the Biafran notes. Rumours as to what value the Central Bank of Nigeria would place on the Biafran notes became widespread, with many believing one rumour that twenty Biafran pounds would be given the value of one Nigerian pound. Many impatient people surrendered their Biafran notes to speculators who were purchasing them at fifty Biafran pounds to one Nigerian pound.
Ultimately the speculator! s got ‘burnt’, as the Central bank decided that there would be no exchange of Biafran currency for Nigerian currency, deciding instead to pay a flat rate of twenty Nigerian pounds to each depositor of Biafran or old Nigerian currency with the Central Bank.

This will be last tine I'll discuss this...
The whole thing is beginning to sound like a cracked CD...
On the long run, I can't be responsible for what u believe....
It's a free world....

Duru1:


My grandfather told me that most foolish pigs from certain section of Nigeria did not know where rain started beating them will never know where it stopped. No wonder certain goons are terribly scared about the disintegration of the zoo called Nigeria.

Duru1:


It is this same manner Igbo came to Lagos as tenants and became landlords. There is no narrative, even in motion pictures, that can explain the rapid recovery of Ndigbo.

Rotimik:


Another lie!

There were thousandnaires in Nigeria at the time. No millionaires. The value of our currency was very high at the time.

A brand new car that would cost you N50million today goes for less than 500pounds then.

aribisala0:
So how comw these folk never make their millions in Igboland
How come there are never homegrown Igbo millionaires living at home.

Are we to believe there were no banks in Igboand at the start of the war?

How come they were all empty at the end of the war?
Who was going to pay for that?

aribisala0:
Twenty pound lie busted

Duru1:


The caption of your post shows how deep in ignorance you have lived. Not every Igbo person received 20 pounds from federal government. The few that received the meager 20 pounds were the lucky ones who were able to show they had more than 20 pounds in the banks in Nigeria before the outbreak of the war. Mere ambition to balance things up in the zoo called Nigeria has set some goons into a tailspin of idiocy.

Rotimik:
Have you noticed when someone comes from the east to the west for the first time. The look of suppressed anger or fear.

Over the years as a child, I've wondered why. Now I know. Anger at or fear of Yoruba people because of what they have been told.

They later get over it when they find out, we are not the dangerous people they perceive us to be when they were being fed lies about us back at home.

Duru1:


It is this same manner Igbo came to Lagos as tenants and became landlords. There is no narrative, even in motion pictures, that can explain the rapid recovery of Ndigbo.

eagleu:



Another blind expression of childish ethnic chauvinism. If you're saying that there were no Igbo millionaires before the civil war, I can only say sorry to you, for the mega ignorance!

aribisala0:
And these millionaires fled and left their millions in Nigerian Banks

patrick89:

Far from truth. not until recently, many Igbo who grew up from the east, know little or nothing about Yoruba. They're only see the north as their "political enemy". With the growth of Nigeria music industry and domination of Yorubas in it. People are beginning to notice you. But politically, they see you guys as dirty and coward! simple!
This is a very honest assessment. Hausa is seen as opposite of Igbo amongst Igbo from the East.
like the following.
Muslim is the opposite of Christian
educated is opposite of illiterate
Rich is opposite of poor.
Igbo is opposite of Hausa.
Yoruba is not in the picture.

Obi1kenobi:


Were they going to carry it on their heads? There's little doubt the elites and middle class were wrecked after the war. The shortage of capital was one of the reasons the indigenization of foreign firms/industries worked overwhelmingly in favour of Yorubas immediately after the civil war: a massive gap which developed at the time that we've been trying to bridge ever since to some degree of success, but still ultimately falling short.

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is really. Those who couldn't prove they had deposits in banks before the war got nothing and had to start from scratch. My dad was an example. This group was the majority. The minority who could prove they did got £20. It would be silly in the extreme to believe this covered what they had lost.

obailala:
The FG didn't pay any money to Igbos, rather they returned a tiny fraction of the seized. If an Igbo man had £10,000 in his account, only £20 was returned to him; if the man had zero in his account, nothing was paid to him.

Rotimik:


Thank you for this post.

We Yorubas have been the most kind to the Igbos of all ethnic groups in Nigeria, yet they are always looking for ways to malign us and cast aspersions on our character before the world.

It was on record that ACB, the bank with which most Igbos save their money's was bankrupted upon their leaving for the east.

Also, it took the intervention of Awolowo for the 20 pounds per person to be approved by the then military government.

It is only in Nigeria that you hear of such thing happening, that a government pays the others side like that after a war.

Obi1kenobi:


Were they going to carry it on their heads? There's little doubt the elites and middle class were wrecked after the war. The shortage of capital was one of the reasons the indigenization of foreign firms/industries worked overwhelmingly in favour of Yorubas immediately after the civil war: a massive gap which developed at the time that we've been trying to bridge ever since to some degree of success, but still ultimately falling short.

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is really. Those who couldn't prove they had deposits in banks before the war got nothing and had to start from scratch. My dad was an example. This group was the majority. The minority who could prove they did got £20. It would be silly in the extreme to believe this covered what they had lost.

Ovamboland:


How many people can save up to £10,000 in 1967? What was the budget of the country or regions at that time? The yearly salary of senior civil servants at that time was far less than £1,000. Per capita gdp was about £200, it will the height of conjecture to assume £20 was small money at that time.

And was the Nigerian government obliged to give Ibo adults any money? They got paid what was a full month wage for rebelling against the country. Rather than aknowledge that as an act of kindness and magnanimity, you use that to sneer and heap opprobrium on those who were considerate enough to do that. What would you lot have done or not done if only £0 was handed over to ibo adults?

Rotimik:


You people wanted FG to pay what it did not owe. It was ACB that owed you people not FG. You people bankrupted ACB with mass withdrawals upon your departure to the east.

You should be grateful for fg's help. What if they had decided not to give anything. What would you people have done.

Why do Igbo people keep deluding themselves that everybody hate them.

Obi1kenobi:


You clearly don't grasp the responsibilities of a government. If there's a financial crash for example and you get banks failing, every responsible government in the world looks to intervene and bail out the failing institutions, so depositors don't lose their money. Deposited money in banks is supposed to be Federally insured. To claim the FG has no responsibility is absurd. And even more absurd in the light of fighting to keep a separatist group in the country, only to abandon them to their own fate after their losses. Why would we be grateful for getting less than we're entitled to?