₦airaland Forum

DubaiLandLord:
Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguyi Ironsi killed the regional government.

Yes. How about the Igbo's, who and who removed Igbo from the background. Who introduced hate and tribalism. Who prior to all this introduced fear of dominance and if concentrated to the East, which was inexistent

huptin:
Where is the fact? Where is the proof? Any link to justify this malicious, unproven accusation?

I laugh them.
Here's Willinks report
12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

DubaiLandLord:
Almost every part of Nigeria is underdevelop.

Do you know why?
Because hate was intensified and competition died with the death of regional government.

Removing Igbo from the background remains ultimate.

gidgiddy:
Gowon gave them states with one hand but stole all their resources with the other hand

Maybe we Fulanis is better than the Igbos.
Hw good everyone faring now

DubaiLandLord:
Thank you Gowon for listening to the minorities in the South East.

The British should have created states for the minorities in the Eastern region, Western region and Northern region.

And how developed are they today.
In Uyo, starting back then till this very, they refused (don't sell) lands to Igbo's -whats the consequence, the today's level of underdevelopment there.
No hate here I do not mean infrastructural development, you get the consequence now?

DubaiLandLord:
Ibo

Swears.
Tell me something about the west

The 1958 Willinks Commission Report that explains Eastern minorities (South-South) rift with Ndi Igbo.

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”
THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Igbo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Igbo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”

2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”
“It was among the Igbos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”

3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”

4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Igbos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

5. “The strip to the south of the Igbo block, is physically, divided by a block of Igbo territory, tipped by the important Igbo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”

6. “In the whole of this non-Igbo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Igbos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Igbo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”

THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES:
7. “It was suggested (by non-Igbo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Igbo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Igbos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Igbo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”

9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”

10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”

11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Igbos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Igbo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Igbos are thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in the district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Igbos… We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development....”

Lie, fakenews.
I live there nothing as such there
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ThickSharon123:
Do you guys take we women for Dumbo's, so any person that speaks sense here is a guy to you ... I believe you do not respect your mom, and I believe you think she's inferior in giving good conversation.

Well, suit yourself. If the news hurts your ego, then why not protect that ego and move. Its good to have a little ego, but don't mesh it up by rubbing your stain of prejudice and suspicion over others. Good luck to you, and I wish you healing for your mind and state of being.

To add to it, the 200 trillion cubit feet or meter is just what they'd discovered presently, they even said there are more. So the calculations are still running sporadically.

aribisala0:
Arochukwu was not an Ibo group it was an enclave of the Akamkpa overlords ruling over enslaved Ibos

They used the platform of Arochukwu to hunt and sell Ibos as slaves
Till this day the rulers of Arochukwu are the Akamkpa/ibom dynasty

Hey dude look here am from Arochukwu.
Now, what you say againnn?

DubaiLandLord:
Gibberish!!

If Ironsi have dealt with the coup plotters immediately and handover power to civilians maybe the counter coup won't have happened.

Killing of Ibos in the North was a terrible thing, but Ojuku knew seccesion is a crime in Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikwe was against the seccesion clause in our referendum so secceding is a crime

Imagine if the Scottish just decide to secced from the UK without carrying other people alone.

You saw how it ended for the Catalonians in Spain?

No where in the world will Ojuku do what he did and it won't lead to a civil war.

He didn't just leave with Ibo land, he left will Cross River and Rivers State, the states that is not part of Ibo land.

And so meaning what?
Ok, even if vengeance is recommended on ur above assertion, what had the civilian class to do with the military drama.

That shows something else breeding -aged hate birthed of jealousy. But look at the north today, every better market there it this day is again filled by the Igbo's, they taught razing it would end what God have planted deep in a people.

The irony is every creature is unique in their own sphere's but you not developing urs and chasing another's downfall, the Igbo's call it "oji onye n'ala hi onwe ya' meaning "he that holdeth another to the grown also holdeth himself".
Think about that deeply, and that have since been the behind stage reason of the many years of Nigerias u progressiveness being ensued by collected hatred and downput of the Igbo's, instead of a reverse.

Nigeria can only get better when you all leave Igbo's alone, saddly that may never realize and a shake to all when they finally get their Biafra and the world spit on all Nigerians heads, why they had held this beauties down for ages.

Shiver99:
This is actually a drawing of an efik compound. But the academic paper that I sourced it from used Igbo compound building plans as a point of reference to describe this style, because of it's great similarity to common Igbo architecture. A key difference, would be that Igbo compound walls are much thicker and larger.

Sourced from: { 2017, Zones of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real and Imagined Compounds
Joseph Godlewski
Syracuse University }

Hello can you message me on Facebook on my mock account , that I refer you to the original -I would like we have some chat.

Pls reply if interested -Thank you.

huptin:
This is not true please, this same Port Harcourt people you want to vote for you, you are demonizing them, calling them thieves, desecrating their hero's memory, but if they say they aren't Igbos you will still be angry!

Come on. You guys need to learn maturity. It is saddening, the hate in your blood is horrendous.

Mum*u is Saro Wiwa Igbo?

Idamond:
Big lie from stupd self proclaimed dot ndi ara.
someone that dead 19s took property from someone that dead 20s..
even by rank ken is far behind ojukwu.

You are Mua*d .
So OJUKWU'S father having scattered properties both in the capital Lagos, Kano, etc including England, after his death whether or not it's willed to his son, isn't it still his?
Poor comprehension of a dullard.

Samfloxin:
...and they almost made Saro Wiwa a saint

Sad

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu's Port - Harcourt house in the background. Ken Saro - Wiwa seized it as Abandoned Property and lived in it until he was prosecuted and executed for murder ...

paramakina202:
They seem it be partners in crime.
ESN was not formed to protect Igboland but to be use by IPOB leadership to intimidate and kill those that disagree with them.

At least, it's answer the where's ESN when you need them, which is the reverse to that of Amotekun or our Terror up north .
@Accountability

Looking at the below headline, it only insults on our hero's past, lowering to the Igbo's countless boast that no NIGERIAN TRIBE can face the Igbo's singlehandedly.

While upon the many comments affiliated with the below news, like how ridiculous it is one making alliance in own country (funny right). Now check it, thus no argument that the so called alliance have severe underneath reasons most amongst the *IPOB's ban on Cattle sell

*What's your take

Igboid:
No body is taught his language by outsiders (Bayelsans in this case).
Your language is called your mother tongue, because you learn it from your mother at home.

Bonny and Opobo speak Igbo as mother tongue.
Ijaw Fraudulent attempt at imposing the dead Kalabari language that you are calling "Ibani language" today, will continue to fail like it has failed since past decades.

This is Opobo today.

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In line with the way, Opobians took our Nwaotam to Bonny in 1941. The Dappa-Ye-Amakiri Ikina today 7th January 2022 has introduced a new masquerade (Rafia Play) from Bonny to Opobo. The masquerade has two-face; the human face and Agu face, which gave it the name "Agu Na Madu.

Stay Tuned, We’ll bring Live Stream.

Lol -savagery

Igboid:
The word for king in Opobo and Bonny remains Eze.
Amayanabo is a title for a king.
Just as Enanchioke is a title for a king in Ohafia.
Ijaws are strangers in Opobo and Bonny living on borrowed time.

Wonderful assertion

[quote author=helinues post=109193984]Ipob/ESN, they must come up with one silly excuse..

That ESN left and the herdsmen attacked -I do see that as accountability rather than excuses which the Nigerian state on its own lack

SHOCKING... CHINASA NWORU BUSTED: ESN were in Eha-Amufu Defending Them Day and Night Until The Community Betrayed Them. ~chinasa Nworu..

Chinasa Nworu, one of the members of Ipob DOS Leadership has made a shocking revelation over the recent killing of many villagers by Herdsmen who are in military and police uniform.

A question and answer program on radio Biafra with Chinasa Nworu was asked of his opinion concerning the attacks. This happened when Simon Ekpa exposed how he's threatening #ESN our gallant men on viral video happening.

In reply, he said the Following;

" The attack on Eha- Amufu was as a result of the withdrawal of ESN from said community.

This was a place ESN was protecting day and night.. ask anyone there, they will tell you that ESN was once there protecting them

But When they started working with the Nigeria government and security agents, the job of ESN became difficult,so they had to leave". ~Chinasa Nworu

MuchAdo:
Are you a piggiddioott Read!

No dear am your brother -but unfortunately you must be a Christian so ain't one of us.

tnerro1:
If you were to fight an ancient war, the Yoruba people would be used in the first wave of attack, if u understand you will know what I mean.

Lol Savagery

MuchAdo:
Kudos to Amotekun for restoring normalcy to the area.

As usual, piggiddiootts won't read the post before they start commenting like semi-literate looonatics...

But did 12herder sack entire Osogbo

twilliamx:
I dey oshogbo in osun.. Every where is calm. The problem of the world is media.. Over sensationalism of minor things... BUT..... Just a day after the presidents interview. Ondo was attacked, blood shed in enugu and osun was invaded with a 1000 cows.. The message they were waiting for has been passed...
Prepare for War!!!!

The strong shall choke the weak.

Saintdan0421:
12 herders shut down Osogbo.

Charlie this be some serious tins.

we re family

[quote author=NwaNimo1 post=109147178]Awon Appreciation

Truthisunique:
How e go bless you when your brain dey tilumbu feet