MetaPhysical:


How do you jump from jetty to long room?

Stop this nonsense. I hope you have not been selling this long room story to your people in village.

Ojukwu was dead a long time before long room came about.

Did you not ask about warehouse? Sometimes, it is waste of time dealing with certain Nigerians.

Moneywomen17:
thank u. Once u start seeing write up with “anonymous or a fake “lawyer/politician” u go know something is up.

Ipob stats we contributed majority to Lagos igr only to see majority comes From PAYE aka corporate and public sector dominated by Yorubas

Fatimaade:


Ipob stats we contributed majority to Lagos igr only to see majority comes From PAYE aka corporate and public sector dominated by Yorubas

I tire for ipob matter

Dedetwo:


Did you not ask about warehouse? Sometimes, it is waste of time dealing with certain Nigerians.

My friend, Ojukwu did not even know what Apapa port looked like...much more to own or operate any part of the complex. Stop mixing apple and oranges. Long room did not exist in his lifetime.

MetaPhysical:


My friend, Ojukwu did not even know what Apapa port looked like...much more to own or operate any part of the complex. Stop mixing apple and oranges. Long room did not exist in his lifetime.

Have you heard about Nnewi Building?

Ojukwu did not declare any war. Nigeria or specifically Northern
Nigeria declared war on Biafra.

MetaPhysical:


Which Ojukwu, the one who borrowed money couldnt pay back and lost his collateral property....or the one that insanity drove to declare war and when heat of war came too close he baled?

Please educate me. This is the first time am hearing that Nkrumah was going to throw Zik - his mentor - into jail. What year was this and what was the cause of Nkrumah's proposed action?

MetaPhysical:


Beside Yorubaland, the man couldnt find anywhere else hip and booming to eek a decent living.

Nkrumah missed him by whiskers, he was going to throw him in Jail in Accra. Zik fled Ghana!

mamaafrik:
When you ask an average Yoruba man that went to school before 80s ,95℅ will tell you It was through Awolowo.

I do tell people if Easterners were to have been in North shoe,they would have been a more worse devil in Nepotism and favouritism than Hausas abd Fulanis.
Ironsi situation is there for all to see,check Diamond banks and many whose MDs are ibos.

They are bunch of hypocrites who practice what they can't preach and if you doubt me check parastatals led by Ibos.

Understanding your destiny matters for growth in live,they often times think they are more smart and intelligent but that is not the case in reality.




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Pork at 1,500 per kilogram.

High quality Benin republic palm oil at 35,000 Naira per drum(212litres) .
If you are interested(serious buyers only) reach me on 08137297425.
We can help you deliver at an affordable price within lagos and environment.

Talking about Igbos thinking that they are more intelligent and smarter than others, what do you think? Like what is your mind telling you about that? Don't you always have this inner notion that Igbos are basically smarter than you are.
If you don't always ponder on that, you wouldn't have come up with that heinous allegation pointing at what you think that Igbos are thinking.

As for your foreign rice, don't you think you're a criminal? Dealing on contraband goods. And you often claim to be a proponent of one, bigger, better and united Nigeria.
What a vast contrast! SORRY!!

FortuneDeGreat:
Talking about Igbos thinking that they are more intelligent and smarter than others, what do you think? Like what is your mind telling you about that? Don't you always have this inner notion that Igbos are basically smarter than you are.
If you don't always ponder on that, you wouldn't have come up with that heinous allegation pointing at what you think that Igbos are thinking.

As for your foreign rice, don't you think you're a criminal? Dealing on contraband goods. And you often claim to be a proponent of one, bigger, better and united Nigeria.
What a vast contrast! SORRY!!

you are a fool,have you heard of Custom Auction before.
Clone

PicLtd:
Let me invite yorubahero, helinues, metaphysical, Grayoso, gracchus, sammy7 to come spice up this thread.

Lol. If you Igbos believe this piece of tripe, only paying homage to unintelligent revisionism, why are you not attempting today to rediscover your "glory days" through efforts to make every Igbo State, and thus the SE, great to the extent of dwarfing all else in developmental indices?

Instead of minimal validation of Igbo claims and tangible remnants of past regional greatness all we read today and see are damning statistic that shows Ala Igbo is backwards and unlikely to ever develop given the selfish and myopic mentality of her people that leads to acts inimical to socio-economic development such as the evasion of tax, corruption, condemnable selfishness of the elite/business/political class, leadership incompetence and disinterest in critical sectors etal.

Imagine a people who claim to be this and that yet, despite claiming to host 2 million dollar billionaires, can never take their own destiny in their hands to ensure delivery of bridges, airports and other critical infrastructure they assure will turn their region into the Dubai of Africa.

Which innately great people in history do we see behaving like Igbos? I.e always complaining, playing victim and revising the past fraudulently with nothing at all to show for this touted greatness?

I suspect the reasons Igbos, more than all others, embrace fraudulent revisionism of the past is because they have nothing to brag about in the present and realize their future is condemned to be even more bleak.

mamaafrik:
you are a fool,have you heard of Custom Auction before.
Clone

You're even a bigger criminal here, so you take delight in amassing your wealth by conniving with the devilish customs in erroneously diverting and auctioning off of people's goods.

Chai, I pity your criminal life. Continue!!

FortuneDeGreat:
You're even a bigger criminal here, so you take delight in amassing your wealth by conniving with the devilish customs in erroneously diverting and auctioning off of people's goods.

Chai, I pity your criminal life. Continue!!

if your mama could not trained you to be intelligent,i can't help your soul
Wata ewu

FortuneDeGreat:
You're even a bigger criminal here, so you take delight in amassing your wealth by conniving with the devilish customs in erroneously diverting and auctioning off of people's goods.

Chai, I pity your criminal life. Continue!!

he pain am,oloshi kekere

mamaafrik:
if your mama could not trained you to be intelligent,i can't help your soul
Wata ewu

You're a common criminal, accessory to crimes. Aiding the spread of criminality. If you don't get punished then God is not just, but you know what that means? You must be punished cos God's name is justice. Awo olee.

FortuneDeGreat:
You're a common criminal, accessory to crimes. Aiding the spread of criminality. If you don't get punished then God is not just, but you know what that means? You must be punished cos God's name is justice. Awo olee.

i no get your time,you better take a sip of sniper

Grayoso:



Lol. If you Igbos believe this piece of tripe, only paying homage to unintelligent revisionism, why are you not attempting today to rediscover your "glory days" through efforts to make every Igbo State, and thus the SE, great to the extent of dwarfing all else in developmental indices?

Instead of minimal validation of Igbo claims and tangible remnants of past regional greatness all we read today and see are damning statistic that shows Ala Igbo is backwards and unlikely to ever develop given the selfish and myopic mentality of her people that leads to acts inimical to socio-economic development such as the evasion of tax, corruption, condemnable selfishness of the elite/business/political class, leadership incompetence and disinterest in critical sectors etal.

Imagine a people who claim to be this and that yet, despite claiming to host 2 million dollar billionaires, can never take their own destiny in their hands to ensure delivery of bridges, airports and other critical infrastructure they assure will turn their region into the Dubai of Africa.

Which innately great people in history do we see behaving like Igbos? I.e always complaining, playing victim and revising the past fraudulently with nothing at all to show for this touted greatness?

I suspect the reasons Igbos, more than all others, embrace fraudulent revisionism of the past is because they have nothing to brag about in the present and realize their future is condemned to be even more bleak.

Alaigbo has never been developed.

Ibo itself was a tag everyone in that area avoided because it was denigatory to be called Ibo.

Ibo was a class of people reserved for enslavement, and when Bini and Igala needed person to sacrifice to their gods they send another Ibo to go ambush from the Ibo stock.

These records are preserved in history.

You people on Awolowo matter again!

Fatimaade:



Mynd44 lalasticlala oam4j dominique justwise
Rule 3

Well said Fatimaade

People like the OP of this so called article should not spread fake news.

Please find a response by late Prof Tamuno’s family:

From: Ene Tamuno
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 1:41 PM
To: info@awarenessng.com <info@awarenessng.com>
Subject: Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Professor Tekena N. Tamuno

Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno



To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to the attention of the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno (1932-2015) that an article titled “IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA-PROF TEKENA TAMUNO” posted on a website info@theawarenessngr.com (Opinions section) is improperly using the name and image of our dear dad, the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno. The article is circulating on social media. The faceless and nameless author of the article uses the name of our late dad at the beginning and end of the Article. A cursory review of the post may lead a reader to believe that it was written by the late Emeritus Professor Tekena. N. Tamuno. Buried in the article is a statement ascribed to our dad, without a full and verifiable citation or context, which we are unable to accept, contextualize or refute, partially or fully.



The undersigned on behalf of the Tekena N. Tamuno family hereby unequivocally states that the afore-mentioned write-up posted on the above-mentioned website and circulating on social media was not written by the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno nor was it approved by his family. Attaching our dad’s photograph and name to the title and at the end of the article as if he was the author of the article is impermissible. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno strongly object to such unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the late patriarch of the family and submit this disclaimer to that end.



The late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno, of blessed memory, was apolitical, non-sectional and non-partisan and his scholarly writings reflect that. Inasmuch as everyone has a right to free speech/freedom of expression, the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family is saddened that a nameless and faceless person would use the likeness and name of our dad to push the author’s narrative and such conduct is strongly denounced by the family. The family hereby cautions the general public to cross check facts that may circulate on the internet ascribed to a well known, indeed to any, personality, to verify the authenticity of the alleged facts or statements. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno request that info@theawarenessngr.com immediately remove our dad's name and picture from the unauthorized publication and provide full verifiable citation of any quote attributed to our dad.



This serves to put info@theawarenessngr.com and the world on notice that future attempts to publish and disseminate information that misleads as to authorship under the name and likeness of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno will be vigorously challenged to the fullest extent of applicable laws. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno reserves all its rights.

Sincerely,

Ene Tamuno, Esq.

Tamuno & Tamuno Partners

(On behalf of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family)

pazienza:
AZIKIWE and AWOLOWO: who did more for Nigeria's education?


The problem with writing skewered history is that it equally misinforms its target: Kayode Esho was a great jurist, but Akunne Oputa was the "Socrates" of the Supreme court.
Enahoro was a young editor, but Azikiwe made him that young editor with Osita Agwuna as his assistant, at his paper, the Southern Nigerian Defender in Ibadan, where my own father incidentally started as a rookie before shortly abandoning journalism for the stable berth of the civil service.

The myth of Awolowo as building the first this and that does not match the documented economic history of the period. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as "the fastest growing economy in the world," by the Harvard Review; faster than China, faster than Singapore, and all the so-called "Asian Tigers." Awolowo is often credited with "free education". But no one yet has pointed out any surviving school buildings of the period built by Awo.

But all over the East there were quality schools built by the various communities using the Town Development Unions from 1954, and acessing the matching grants of the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. And this was the East with the poorest revenue resources of any of the regions. The Mbaise secondary school exists, the National High School Okigwe exists, the Ngwa High school exists, the Enyiogugu Grammar School exists, etc. These were solid schools built all over the East with matching goverment grants. But where are the buildings of the Modern schools in Western Nigeria? They do not exist.

They were makeshift. The Catholic church forced the Azikiwe government from its scholarship program, but it is also on record, that the Eastern government was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in education. The East had the highest number of schools; the highest school enrollment; the broadest penetration of medical services; and the best modern road network in west Africa. Indeed if we look carefully, the only public hospitals and most of the schools still standing in the East today, at various stages of run down are the schools and hospitals built by Azikiwe/Okpara.

Every division of the East had a Joint Hospital as part of the Eastern Medical services. So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments. First, the Eastern Outlook, the government paper of Eastern Nigeria was the first newspaper established by any government in Nigeria, and it was of such quality and impact that the literacy level of Easterners, and the depth of public information retailed by Outlook was without compare. This is besides the fact that Western Nigerian Broadcast Services, WNBS-TV founded in 1958 only preceded the ENBC-TV founded in 1959, by only seven months. But Outlook preceded Sketch by about 15 years. Now Azikiwe built the Onitsha Modern market, the first modern mall or trade emporium in West Africa.

Onitsha was effectively Dubai before Dubai. People traveled all over Africa, from as far as the Congo and Sudan and Egypt, to come and buy and trade in Onitsha. The economic impact of this was humonguos. So, give me the vast Onitsha modern market over Cocoa House in Ibadan. Azikiwe built the first Nigerian University at Nsukka with the first School of Law, the first School of Engineering, the first Business School; the first school of journalism, and the first school of music and performance, etc.

By the time its first graduates took the Nigerian civil service exams in 1963, everybody began to raise the cry of "Igbo domination" starting with Akintola and Ayo Rosiji. Give me UNN over Liberty stadium. Azikiwe began the first modern library system in West Africa. The East had a system of city libraries starting with the very modern Ziks Library in Enugu.

I Literally grew up in the Umuahia Divisional Library. These libraries were built all over the East. Schools in the East were built with libraries. Moreover the Eastern Nigerian Library Board had a sysem of rural amd mobile libraries. There was nothing like it anywhere else in Nigeria: kids having library cards and able to borrow or order books from the public library. Give me the the first library over the first TV. I do not by this mean that Awolowo did not make his contributions, but the regular skewering of the facts, and angling of contemporary national narratives often makes it seem these days like the greatest contributor to the founding of Nigeria and its development is Awolowo and the Yoruba, when the actual facts speak differently.

The great Ibadan historian, Tekena Tamuno, was unambiguous in stating once at NIPPS, Jos, that "the Igbos are the makers of moderm Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed." We must remind Nigerians, particularly Igbo children, daily of these fact, to achieve what Achebe called " a balance of stories." And that also means we must read beyond the surface of things. Babarinsa's Guardian essay is angled carefully to maintain a revisionist narrative. And that is to be always challenged, however innocent it might seem. Even today, most Yoruba think that Awolowo founded the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos. No one has reminded them that it took Azikiwe's pressures for a university for Nigeria, in his meeting with Arthur Richards in 1946, that led to the cobstitution of the Eliot commision and subsequently the founding of the University College, Ibadan. This fact is even clearly conveyed in Michael Crowder's eponymous book, The Story of Nigeria. Nsukka was Azikiwe's critique of what he felt to be the conceptual limitations of Ibadan.


The University of Lagos was the result of NCNC's ideological contributions to the federal policy during the ill fated coalition government with the NPC. UNILAG was an NCNC project, shepherded by Aja Wachukwu as minister for education. Even the great UNILAG in her 50th anniversary failed to mention Prof Eni Njoku as the pioneer Vice Chancellor of the university, a man that layed the solid foundation of what made Unilag is today.
These facts must be made known and put as forcefully accross as possible. Again, until the lion tells his own story, the story of the hunt will belong to the hunter. Kabissa!


- Anonymous

Late Prof Tamuno NEVER made the comments ascribed to him. At best this is lazy journalism (there is no NIPPS Jos - there is NIPSS Kuru).

His family (3 of his 4 children are lawyers so ‘Awareness’ Media should be careful�) have responded:


From: Ene Tamuno
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 1:41 PM
To: info@awarenessng.com <info@awarenessng.com>
Subject: Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Professor Tekena N. Tamuno

Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno



To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to the attention of the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno (1932-2015) that an article titled “IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA-PROF TEKENA TAMUNO” posted on a website info@theawarenessngr.com (Opinions section) is improperly using the name and image of our dear dad, the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno. The article is circulating on social media. The faceless and nameless author of the article uses the name of our late dad at the beginning and end of the Article. A cursory review of the post may lead a reader to believe that it was written by the late Emeritus Professor Tekena. N. Tamuno. Buried in the article is a statement ascribed to our dad, without a full and verifiable citation or context, which we are unable to accept, contextualize or refute, partially or fully.



The undersigned on behalf of the Tekena N. Tamuno family hereby unequivocally states that the afore-mentioned write-up posted on the above-mentioned website and circulating on social media was not written by the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno nor was it approved by his family. Attaching our dad’s photograph and name to the title and at the end of the article as if he was the author of the article is impermissible. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno strongly object to such unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the late patriarch of the family and submit this disclaimer to that end.



The late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno, of blessed memory, was apolitical, non-sectional and non-partisan and his scholarly writings reflect that. Inasmuch as everyone has a right to free speech/freedom of expression, the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family is saddened that a nameless and faceless person would use the likeness and name of our dad to push the author’s narrative and such conduct is strongly denounced by the family. The family hereby cautions the general public to cross check facts that may circulate on the internet ascribed to a well known, indeed to any, personality, to verify the authenticity of the alleged facts or statements. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno request that info@theawarenessngr.com immediately remove our dad's name and picture from the unauthorized publication and provide full verifiable citation of any quote attributed to our dad.



This serves to put info@theawarenessngr.com and the world on notice that future attempts to publish and disseminate information that misleads as to authorship under the name and likeness of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno will be vigorously challenged to the fullest extent of applicable laws. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno reserves all its rights.

Sincerely,

Ene Tamuno, Esq.

Tamuno & Tamuno Partners

(On behalf of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family)

Moneywomen17:
This thread is dead on arrival. A similar one has already be opened in the past and all this foolish claims were already dealt with by legendhero. Awo is head and shoulder above the zik of aba any day. Case closed.

Dont say anything,THEY ARE ATTENTION SEEKERS!!

bugzy84:


Late Prof Tamuno NEVER made the comments ascribed to him. At best this is lazy journalism (there is no NIPPS Jos - there is NIPSS Kuru).

His family (3 of his 4 children are lawyers so ‘Awareness’ Media should be careful�) have responded:


From: Ene Tamuno
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 1:41 PM
To: info@awarenessng.com <info@awarenessng.com>
Subject: Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Professor Tekena N. Tamuno

Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno



To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to the attention of the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno (1932-2015) that an article titled “IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA-PROF TEKENA TAMUNO” posted on a website info@theawarenessngr.com (Opinions section) is improperly using the name and image of our dear dad, the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno. The article is circulating on social media. The faceless and nameless author of the article uses the name of our late dad at the beginning and end of the Article. A cursory review of the post may lead a reader to believe that it was written by the late Emeritus Professor Tekena. N. Tamuno. Buried in the article is a statement ascribed to our dad, without a full and verifiable citation or context, which we are unable to accept, contextualize or refute, partially or fully.



The undersigned on behalf of the Tekena N. Tamuno family hereby unequivocally states that the afore-mentioned write-up posted on the above-mentioned website and circulating on social media was not written by the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno nor was it approved by his family. Attaching our dad’s photograph and name to the title and at the end of the article as if he was the author of the article is impermissible. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno strongly object to such unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the late patriarch of the family and submit this disclaimer to that end.



The late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno, of blessed memory, was apolitical, non-sectional and non-partisan and his scholarly writings reflect that. Inasmuch as everyone has a right to free speech/freedom of expression, the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family is saddened that a nameless and faceless person would use the likeness and name of our dad to push the author’s narrative and such conduct is strongly denounced by the family. The family hereby cautions the general public to cross check facts that may circulate on the internet ascribed to a well known, indeed to any, personality, to verify the authenticity of the alleged facts or statements. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno request that info@theawarenessngr.com immediately remove our dad's name and picture from the unauthorized publication and provide full verifiable citation of any quote attributed to our dad.



This serves to put info@theawarenessngr.com and the world on notice that future attempts to publish and disseminate information that misleads as to authorship under the name and likeness of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno will be vigorously challenged to the fullest extent of applicable laws. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno reserves all its rights.

Sincerely,

Ene Tamuno, Esq.

Tamuno & Tamuno Partners

(On behalf of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family)

.

Lol

mamaafrik:
abegi clear,no be me go dey argue with a slowpokee.

why resorting to insult? Counter his claim with fact nah..

The only reason you will always compare yourself to y
Yorubas and always want to compete with them is because you know they are greater than you.

Always creating all manner of threads just to compare and level up with Yorubas. If they give you biafra.ud today, I can bet many of you ipods will rather die in SW than live in biafra.ud land. You think and breathe Yorubas all your phucking life.

Seerade029:


You don't understand.

Ever since I've been born.
In all the South West state.
Igbos head the Catholic Church there, why is it so?

head Catholic church how? As in being a priest or what?

FortuneDeGreat:
Talking about Igbos thinking that they are more intelligent and smarter than others, what do you think? Like what is your mind telling you about that? Don't you always have this inner notion that Igbos are basically smarter than you are.
If you don't always ponder on that, you wouldn't have come up with that heinous allegation pointing at what you think that Igbos are thinking.

As for your foreign rice, don't you think you're a criminal? Dealing on contraband goods. And you often claim to be a proponent of one, bigger, better and united Nigeria.
What a vast contrast! SORRY!!

Hahahaha how does he expect anyone to buy his poisonous product.

Justice35:
why resorting to insult? Counter his claim with fact nah..

type both names on Wikipedia.

The way these people are going with their lies, they would soon come round to tell us the blueprint with which Lagos is working on for a greater stride is drafted by one Ugochukwu somewhere and not Tinubu. Just watch out for this propaganda soonest.
The one ascribed to a dead man about this topic has been refuted by the family not quite long after it got circulated on the internet yet being filled with hate induced into them by their grandparents, and without making his findings, the Op here still cited the same post the deceased family condemned as an evidence.

It seems to me they all are in one group telling themselves to rewrite history to their taste. Thank God, the Grammies, the Nobel Laurette are awards by external bodies otherwise they'd have said it was influenced. Even so, some morons among them still believed Chinue Achebe was better than Wole Shoyinka. That's how dumb they can get.
I don't blame them though; who never wish to be better than he really is?

andrewtosin:
oh... I see. Someone was arguing with me that there are no Igbo people in Delta State neither are they in Rivers, hence the reason I asked.

By the way your name is Amarachi abi?

they do not like being refered to as Igbos, that young lady is Igbo and Igbos forcefully want aniomas and ikweres to identify as Igbos cause of Biafra and their oil. Realistically they are not Igbos , Cause they don’t identify themselves as Igbos . Only Igbos forceful want them to be Igbos . But b4 now even Igbos never saw them as real Igbos .

Re: Disclaimer: Unauthorized Use of the Name, Image and Likeness of late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno

To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to the attention of the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno (1932-2015) that an article titled “IGBO ARE THE MAKERS OF MODERN NIGERIA-PROF TEKENA TAMUNO” posted on a website info@theawarenessngr.com (Opinions section) is improperly using the name and image of our dear dad, the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno. The article is circulating on social media. The faceless and nameless author of the article uses the name of our late dad at the beginning and end of the Article. A cursory review of the post may lead a reader to believe that it was written by the late Emeritus Professor Tekena. N. Tamuno. Buried in the article is a statement ascribed to our dad, without a full and verifiable citation or context, which we are unable to accept, contextualize or refute, partially or fully.

The undersigned on behalf of the Tekena N. Tamuno family hereby unequivocally states that the afore-mentioned write-up posted on the above-mentioned website and circulating on social media was not written by the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno nor was it approved by his family. Attaching our dad’s photograph and name to the title and at the end of the article as if he was the author of the article is impermissible. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno strongly object to such unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the late patriarch of the family and submit this disclaimer to that end.

The late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno, of blessed memory, was apolitical, non-sectional and non-partisan and his scholarly writings reflect that. Inasmuch as everyone has a right to free speech/freedom of expression, the family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family is saddened that a nameless and faceless person would use the likeness and name of our dad to push the author’s narrative and such conduct is strongly denounced by the family. The family hereby cautions the general public to cross check facts that may circulate on the internet ascribed to a well known, indeed to any, personality, to verify the authenticity of the alleged facts or statements. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno request that info@theawarenessngr.com immediately remove our dad's name and picture from the unauthorized publication and provide full verifiable citation of any quote attributed to our dad.

This serves to put info@theawarenessngr.com and the world on notice that future attempts to publish and disseminate information that misleads as to authorship under the name and likeness of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno will be vigorously challenged to the fullest extent of applicable laws. The family of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno reserves all its rights.
Sincerely,

Ene Tamuno, Esq.

Tamuno & Tamuno Partners

(On behalf of the late Emeritus Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno family)

Swtbabyvee:
they do not like being refered to as Igbos, that young lady is Igbo and Igbos forcefully want aniomas and ikweres to identify as Igbos cause of Biafra and their oil. Realistically they are not Igbos , Cause they don’t identify themselves as Igbos . Only Igbos forceful want them to be Igbos . But b4 now even Igbos never saw them as real Igbos .

You sound very stupid, sometimes I wonder if some of you guys are actually this intentionally dumb or just inadvertently ignorant...how can Igbos force fellow Igbos to be Igbos, does that even make any sense to you? are the Igbos of the South East more Igbo than Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, JJ Okocha, Tony Elumelu, Colonel Achuzia and many more Aniocha illustrious people who are unapologetically Igbo? I'm an Anioma man from Onicha-Ugbo, and I just like millions of the Anioma nation are PROUDLY Igbos. Anioma is a sociopolitical and cultural nomenclature for the people of Delta North, but our ethnicity is IGBO. Because few people from Anioma especially those from Ika/Ukwuani axis that suffer from mild identity crisis and claim Benin ancestry (which is true in the context of history, even though they've been Igbonized over the cause of years ), doesn't mean we are suddenly stopped been Igbos overnight.

You've been warned to stop trying to sow insipid seeds of division among the Igbo nation, cause its not working anymore. If I may ask btw, what tribe are you?

Bikoko:

You sound very stupid, sometimes I wonder of some of you guys are actually this intentionally dumb or just inadvertently ignorant. I'm an Anioma man from Onicha-Ugbo, and I just like millions of the Anioma nation are PROUDLY Igbos. Anioma is a sociopolitical and cultural nomenclature for the people of Delta North, but our ethnicity is IGBO. Because few people from Anioma especially those from Ika/Ukwuani axis that suffer from mild identity crisis and claim Benin ancestry (which is true in the context of history, even though they've been Igbonized over the cause of years ), doesn't mean we are suddenly stopped been Igbos overnight.

You've been warned to stop trying to sow insipid seeds of division among the Igbo nation, cause its not working anymore. If I may ask btw, what tribe are you?

Must u insult her to pass ur msg??