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staytravel:
Igbos aren’t hated all over the world. It's just Nigeria.
Take the US as an example. Igbos are almost a quarter million there, and the majority tribe. And Nigerians have a far better reputation there than they do in the UK where Yoruba’s are.

While i think this is a salient open revelation, i beg to disagree with you. More good news come from the US than the UK because there are more opportunities in the US and it is more open to other groups than the UK. That's not to say that the violent hardworking nature of Igbos is not evident in their success throughout the world.

Rossikki:
Igbos can go anywhere they like, but they will NOT go with the Niger Delta, because that region does not belong to them.

That's not what the discourse is all about. Read again, you this Igbo man.

Alcatraz005:
Meanwhile, on the annoying attitude of the igbos, I have come to conclusion that the igbo can never change and would continue to be hated while being the target of all our frustrations because they have a penchant for attracting hatred to themselves wherever they are in the world and are naturally full of unwarranted vain pride. There is nothing that can be done to change them. Furthermore, igbos hate igboland ---they run away from the place and leave it desolate. They have been advised countless times but they refuse to listen. They have used their trade as a veritable excuse to flee the land to the detriment of alaigbo and the igbo race. Most Nigerians have shouted themselves hoarse on the need for igbos to develop their land all to no avail. This is most unfortunate for a majority ethnic group. I am sincerely crestfallen about the situation and weary of what it portends for them as a people/tribe/race/ethnic nationality.

I must commend your resolve to see things from a more objective prism than one from an emotional stance.

I think i quite agree with this paragraph of yours. I have also found my Igbo people to be annoying and strong headed and i think the reasons are not far fetched if you look at things objectively. Like Chimamanda Adichie, said, there is always two sides to a story. if you talk about how Igbos are stubborn and full of pride, it is one story. However another side of the story is how Igbos have been put down for so long tat their resistance is mistaken for stubbornness. I think the problem a lot of people have with Igbos is our inability to fall in line. People want us to accept the status quo and let things be. Probably if we were born at a different time, it would have been possible but our history has made us more resilient and forcefully hardworking to the point of vein pride and unwarranted braggadocio.

OAUTemitayo:
Who cares?
Nonsense.

You definitely seem to care else you wouldn't have spent 30 seconds responding to mt tirade I also care about you in telling you to get the help that you need.

This is in direct response to the assertion by an Igbo man and Lagos lawmaker, Mr Jude Idimogu where he posted that It is too late for the Igbos too pull out of Nigeria. You can find the article here https://www.nairaland.com/4074609/jude-idimogu-too-late-igbo

Before i make my point, it's imperative that i make it known that i'm neither for the breakup of Nigeria nor necessarily for One Nigeria. I think at this moment, i'll swing to wherever the pendulum takes me. I'm saying this because a lot of trolls will leave my message and start casting aspersions on my character. Not that i care anyways.

Now, i have nothing against the distinguished senator (I assume that he is), neither i'm i at variance with the nitty-gritty of his point of view. M only grouse is that he's using those views to make a very general statement about the well being or well without of the Igbo people.

Yes, it is true that Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria, probably more than any other ethnic group. It's also not surprising that Igbos have the largest investments of any group outside it's transient natural habitat. That is why people like the lawmaker can rise to become a lawmaker in a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

Having said all this, i think it's important that people separate the call for secession or self determination by a lot of Igbos from the economic, social or even political life of Igbos in any part of the world. People have gone ahead to give very absurd reasons why Igbos cannot have a country of the own and i will attempt to state and squash some of this tomfoolery.

Igbos are not united
This music has definitely been released since after independence. It is a song that non Igbo Nigerians have sang to the point that even some Igbos have started enjoying the tune and they join in the folly of hasty lack of common sense and reality. Igbos are not united but rightly or wrongly, they came together to fight the federal government from 1967 to 1970. We hate each other but even after all the destruction in Igboland and lack of federal help, we still managed to pick ourselves up and cleaned our cities to what it is now. It may not be the best out there, nut it's impressive for people who had to start from ground zero.

Even if this assertion of Igbos not being united were true, i don't think it's the business of anybody whether we're going to kill each other in Biafra or not. It's our decision and we don't need the input of anyone that isn't going to be part of the supposed country.

Igbos are spread all over Nigeria
This is another laughable rhetoric that we hear all the time. So, what if there are 20 million Igbos outside Igboland? Arent there Igbos in Ghana, Benin, Togo, China, Malaysia, Brasil, the US and UK? Is there really a need for all Igbos to be in Igboland? Even if they are forced back after the separation, what baring does that have on the topic of discourse.

Igbos own businesses throughout Nigeria
Igbos also own businesses in the countries i mentioned in the previous point. Don't Ghanians own businesses in Nigeria and vice versa? I think this statement is usually more of a threat than a show of concern. What a lot of people who make these statements are saying is that "If you get Biafra, forget about all your properties in Nigeria". This won't be news to a lot of Igbos who experienced the civil war.

Igboland is too small to contain Igbos
This one just made me chuckle just a little bit. It's funny that a state like Lagos contains about 20 million people despite being the smallest in the country but these same people think that a region that is probably 7 times the size of lagos will not contain, at most 50 million people.

Where will people married to Igbos fit in
I think this is the most silly of them all. Anybody who is married to an Igbo person or is an Igbo person married to a non Igbo Nigeria and asks this kind of question, that person should never have gotten married in the first place. While some people marry for love, others want us to believe that they married for other senseless reasons such as the guaranty that they and their spouse will be from the same country.

Having said all this, i think i have to point out that everyone has the right to their opinions just like i have the right to my opinion about their opinions if i find any of them in bad taste.

God Bless Nigeria

I think it's safe to say that the OP is a Christ Embassy member.

Orobo2Lekpa:
LIfe and Hero are being marginalised by this article

I saw Hero for the first time in the east. It's really popular over there.

I just need to point out that you dug your own grave (sorry for using this metaphor). I don't understand how people will not just delete any incriminating information on their phone no matter the situation.

The truth is that it's gonna be difficult for you to be readmitted into the US but i think because you have visited previously and returned, there's still hope for you. What you need to do is to get a decent job in Nigeria and use it as a basis of your returning to Nigeria. If you are another married, you could also get married and should it as a bargaining chip.

As far as going to another country. if you're talking about Canada or even the UK, be aware that these countries share information and these countries won't take a chance with you because of your red flag.

I wish you the best but please don't apologize to the US consulate because it will complicate issues. They hate apologies.

I really didn't know what title to give this thread, so i ended up with this.

Now, we all know that music is one of the ways that people praise, thank and worship God and for a lot of Christians, they feel some gospel songs evoke some level of spirituality. Which means that the songs are filled with rhema (like Christ Embassy people call it) or anointing. I've listened to a lot of these songs and i felt that they evoked some emotions in the way they sound. Meaning, anybody irrespective of religion, will feel some kind of way towards the song.

Take a look at this song for example


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ln__MWpKA

It's a song that can make a lot of people cry as seen in the video but is the emotions restricted only to people of the Christian faith? Is it similar to the way a 90s or early 20s RnB music will make you feel?

Another area that i want to talk about is when people say a particular pastor is ? (Can't remember the word) but i think a lot of times what they mean is that the pastor has a good command of English, a good accent and probably a motivational speaker. I've never seen a pastor with a thick Igbo accent being called that.

femi4:
Apostolic

They're almost similar. Infant, Kumuyi came out of Apostolic.

femi4:
I didn't agree with some of their doctrines especially on women shouldn't use earrings

Deeper Life?

Na for where these people no dey?

I think it's safe to say that even Tinubu knows that this government has failed but doesn't want to appear to be fighting the government since they belong to the same political party.

I think i need to point out the fact that cashew nuts have become so expensive in Nigeria.

Exercises is the cool thing in Enugu now. Here are my people doing their thing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsWl1siYTc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqO1gt8G1Z0

Jeffy1206:
Why the name TStv or I'm I the only one seeing the useless nomenclature?

These days, nomenclature doesn't matter.

Btw, do they show EPL and La Liga?

Does anyone know if the bridge at Orji has been completed?

deedeedee1:
Nobody force you to wat Amala. If you dont like it then shut your dirty mouth! We Yorubas love it.
This is how you ebowls insult people then begin to cry victim later.
Yoruba people have never cared if you like their food. Just dont insult them in the Cyber Space.

Kai, which kain wahala be this nitori olorun? Don't i reserve the right to like or dislike a particular food irrespective of the origin of the food?

cornel00:
My brother. I've never crossed River Niger let alone been to Yoruba land. I lived all my life in the north, i have interacted with different people from different ethnic groups in this country i am now presently in Enugu since the past 2 years. I've grown old enough to know what's right and wrong.
So nwanne, i don't need to prove anything to you, let's face the truth.

Nde ebe isi na isi?

nengibo:
That is true , I belief dats what this administration was trying to do with the pleasure park but what are the landmarks we have in Nigeria apart from political offices & business locations, I would like to see your examole of landmarks in Nigeria's beautiful cities

For example, in Lagos, there's the Muson Center, TBS, Civic Center and those sky scrapers on broad street, Lagos and hundreds of other impressive bulding and structures, it may not be up to what is obtained in places like New York and London but according to Nigeria's standard, it's definitely up there. in Port-hacourt, there's no equivalent.

Kai, this country really needs to restructure. The Hunger is real.

tensazangetsu20:
I went to more than 20 weddings there and they were all like that. Even my Ghanaian friends see it as normal. Only the extremely elite bloody rich people cook in their weddings. Normal people just use pastries.

Na waoo

highchief3:
Mine was Amala, served in the west, first time I saw someone eating Amala, I actually throw up.

As corpers we were always invited to parties but I kept on refusing to eat Amala until one yoruba babe took it upon herself to initiate me to Amala,

I took the challenge and tasted Amala Oooooboy..... It was heavenly it was so smooth and goes down easily I never expected to be that good.

The last time i ate amala was about 15 years ago and it was also the first time. I have to be able to summon courage to eat certain foods because mere looking at them, i just give up. It's funny that a lot of people including my siblings can kill to eat Amala.

tensazangetsu20:
They don't serve food in Ghanaian weddings.

Every Nigerian knows how weddings are done in Nigeria with all the owambe and everything. Our west African neighbours are totally different. The first Ghanaian wedding to was a very big shock to me. The venue was like 3 hours from school so I went hungry. I thought it's like Nigerian weddings where during the reception you can eat till your hearts content.

Well after all the church buohaha. We were just served 2 buns one coke and one tiny chicken. I thought that was an appetiser and the main course is coming. Only for people to start going and I was told that was the end of it. I was shocked to the bone. After that before I go to any Ghanaian wedding I make sure to stuff up my tummy.

That country is very weird.

I no understand oo...could it be that it's just that particular wedding?

Abagworo:
Port Harcourt has some beautiful and scenic areas but it's just disjointed and disorganized. It is still the 3rd most developed city in Nigeria.

That exactly is the point. PH would have been a great city had it been planned adequately because the development happened so fast.

I visited the Island of Mauritius and apart from the fact that i was seeing hundreds of ladies with hot bikinis, there was a section where ladies were topless and it wasn't a big deal to them but to a Nigerian guy, i just had to contain my excitement and respect myself.

nengibo:
Please explain further on what you meant by poorly organised

Port-hacourt is the third most important city in Nigeria after Lagos and Abuja but the city doesn't have any landmark. There's really nothing special as it pertains to beauty.

Oxtonguy:
No place like Lagos

I noticed that Lagos is usually very fine from the top. But when on ground, it's a different thing. I think it's like that for most cities.