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Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by NubaVertigo(m): 3:04am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Yakubu Gowon Bishop Ajayi Crowther |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by BigBrother9ja: 3:47am On Jan 27, 2018 |
devindevin2000:Dear OSU ALUSI, I just want to inform you that I was the one who deleted your stupîd comment. Thanks |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by SOFTENGR: 4:45am On Jan 27, 2018 |
geoinvestor:Why is my name not there? |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Macelliot(m): 4:51am On Jan 27, 2018 |
geoinvestor:Jude Ezeah |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by davibid: 5:13am On Jan 27, 2018 |
GEJ |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by NovusHomo(m): 6:04am On Jan 27, 2018 |
dontbothermuch: "AIDS" Machine ke?!. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by BeijinDossier: 6:05am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Greatest Nigerians are the Anambra born Zik of Africa, Achebe and Ojukwu. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by NovusHomo(m): 6:06am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Harmored: "AIDS Machine" Ke?! |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Dagoma: 6:21am On Jan 27, 2018 |
MasViews: Very right, unless if one doesn't want the truth. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Deadlytruth(m): 6:27am On Jan 27, 2018 |
CSTR2: Achebe held onto a ministerial portfolio in a government which did not really have a genuine concern for equity among Nigerians, and refused to resign when this became all too obvious. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Nobody: 6:30am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Yakubu Ayegbeni |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Deadlytruth(m): 6:46am On Jan 27, 2018 |
emmykk: If you base it on fighting for independence, then Herbert Macaulay has it unrivalled because his idea about an independent Nigeria were very visionary. It is one thing to dream of freedom from external colonization but another thing to think about how to prevent internal recolonization of one another after the external one has ended. In addition to hoping for independence, Herbert Macaulay was careful not to be in a hurry about it because he could decipher that Nigerians were not yet politically mature and civilized enough to successfully govern themselves democratically since they were still subjects of monarchism in the background. For this reason Macaulay's calculated date for independence was somewhere between 1980 and 1990 to allow them enough time to learn civility and maturity required for democratic governance. But unfortunately, all those so-called founding fathers (Ahmadu Bello, Awolowo, Azikiwe and Balewa) thwarted Macaulay's dream and hurried Nigeria into independence. And here we are today with regret over how too early the independence was as feared by Macaulay. The only early independence apostle who reasoned like Macaulay to some extent was Enahoro who equally feared that certain agreements should be reached in concrete terms before going into independence rather than just going into it blindly as Zik would prefer. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Akaujaa(m): 7:02am On Jan 27, 2018 |
devindevin2000: The question is "who's the greatest Nigerian?", not the greatest Biafran. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by kitombo: 7:06am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Abami Eda! None like him yet!! |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Humblebloke(m): 7:20am On Jan 27, 2018 |
CSTR2: he was a tribal bigot... |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by bakynes(m): 7:33am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Without been biased as a Yoruba man,it has to be between these six men. 1.Wole Soyinka 2. Obasanjo and 3. Fela Kuti 4. Herbert Macauley 5. Nnamdi Azikiwe 6. Gani Fawehmi That is not to say these men above didn't have their shortcomings as they were not perfect but they put Nigeria's interest at heart. Every other person's like Ojukwu and Achebe represented Biafran interest so cannot be the greatest Nigerians. Awolowo/Ahmadu Bello represented Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani interest respectively so they cannot be the greatest Nigerians. Tafawa Balewa, we never really knew much about him except for the fact he was Prime Minister. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Nonaira1: 7:38am On Jan 27, 2018 |
devindevin2000: He's not Niggerian but a proud Biafran. Please do not ever insult Nnamdi again by associating him to that shithole. You're right though. He is the best biafran ever |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:56am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Nigeria is so fractured that it is impossible to speak of 'the greatest Nigerian'. What we have are men who are great in the regions they come from... sectional great men. I consider Usman dan Fodio the greatest northerner. Obafemi Awolowo was the greatest southwesterner. [I would have said Oduduwa, but the character of Oduduwa is too misty to be considered truly historical, in my opinion.] Ewuare the Great was the greatest south-southerner. Emeka Ojukwu (like him or hate him) was the greatest south-easterner. 1 Like |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Abogwara: 8:01am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Obasanjo Obasanjo Obasanjo |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by LordNapoleon: 8:22am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Why is no one mentioning Buhari? |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by BeijinDossier: 8:41am On Jan 27, 2018 |
geoinvestor: This is best the list with Zik and Achebe leading the pack. Although the great Zik of Africa is by far the greatest Nigerian and among the top 5 greatest Africans. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Emyogalanya: 9:15am On Jan 27, 2018 |
PLS DEFINE WHAT YOU MEAN BY GREATEST NIGERIAN. AND CRITERIA FOR SELECTION SO WE KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. FOR NOW THERE IS NO NO GREAT NIGERIAN. ONLY ETHNIC CHAMPIONS. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by misgab: 9:15am On Jan 27, 2018 |
obafemi awolowo |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by gabbasin(m): 9:21am On Jan 27, 2018 |
gani fawehinmi |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by americanson: 9:25am On Jan 27, 2018 |
dontbothermuch:thank you |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by largeman4u(m): 9:32am On Jan 27, 2018 |
Gani fawehinmi is the greatest |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Reeberry: 9:43am On Jan 27, 2018 |
See nonsense thread na. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by emmykk(m): 8:32pm On Jan 27, 2018 |
Deadlytruth:sit down ane read nigeria history properly |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Deadlytruth(m): 4:26am On Jan 28, 2018 |
emmykk: You should have rather told us that your own "correct" version of Nigeria's history. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by emmykk(m): 4:49am On Jan 28, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: you are pain because i state the obvious that zik of africa is the most prominent national figure that dwarf other leaders in achievement. he didnt support the civil war organise by his kindred,he even wanted to contest from Lagos,his influence on nationalist activity is beyond bound. you are colouring it that he is not,if he is not then state the person |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by Deadlytruth(m): 5:48am On Jan 28, 2018 |
emmykk: I have already stated that It is Herbert Macaulay followed by Anthony Enahoro. How come you missed seeing it in my comment? You see, Zik was not a nationalist in the real sense of the word unless according to the Nigerian meaning which has to do with sentiments and misconceptions here and there. Who is a nationalist really? A nationalist or nationalism hero is he who fights for the freedom in two ways: 1. He fights to free his fellow countrymen and women from external domination by imperial forces. Mandela is a good example here. 2. He more importantly fights for internal freedom of his people from one another's possible future domination after the imperialists may have gone. Abraham Lincoln is the world's best example here for fighting for the freedom of Americans from fellow Americans. On these two standards Zik failed woefully. First, he knew fully well that Nigerian was a British creation as a means to keep exploiting Africa of her material and human resources yet he openly pledged to pay the supreme price to keep Nigeria one at a time every other figure was asking for a de-amalgamation of the British fraud. He resisted the inclusion of secession clause in our constitution even though such a clause would have guaranteed good governance. Till today we are not really free from Britain's imperialism courtesy of Zik's One-Nigeria philosophy. Was such a person therefore a nationalist or a neo-colonialist? Secondly, for a country like Nigeria with a very diverse ethnic mix, it is a principle in Anthropology that the best guarantee for genuine national peace and development is highly decentralized system which in our case should be federalism marked by resource control. Zik read Anthropology from a prestigious university in Pennsylvania and even lectured in it for sometime before returning home. But in the build up to independence Zik, despite being an Anthropologist began to champion unitary system (i.e. a government with a very powerful centre and very weak sub-national units which creates room for internal oppression of other tribes by the ruling tribe). This means he was deliberately seeking for a system of internal recolonization of Nigerians by fellow Nigerians, and that exactly is what we have today hence asking for restructuring. The effect of the internal recolonization also caused his own Igbo brothers to ask for secession in 1967 through Ojukwu and now through Nnamdi Kanu. With all these, do you still believe Zik was a nationalist and national hero? The system he advocates is what we have now practised for 52 years and the country has failed because of that. Whoever calls such a figure a national hero is obviously blinded by tribal loyalty. |
Re: Who Is The Greatest Nigerian Ever? by emmykk(m): 9:04pm On Jan 28, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: zik key in to all the discription you made of a leader. he used his knowledge and western education and newspaper to fast forward nigeria independence from britain.... if all leaders were like zik nigeria will be a better place he was born in zaria,from east and worked in Lagos he believe in the oneness of nigeria.... Nigeria was handed over to him at independence by britain as the most educated |
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