₦airaland Forum

EzeUche:
My Igbo brothers are right. Any topic that deals with Igbos the Yorubas continue to worry about other people's business.

They should worry about their own land and[b] how they have people who rather be Northerners than Yorubas which is PATHETIC.[/b]

ekt_bear:
Hehe

Alex101 and Bliss4lyfe running from pillar to post.

Let me repost:

Face Saro Wiwa's accusation!  

Bliss4Lyfe:
ekt_bear, did you see the qoute below:
[b]With the war ended, and as a Commissioner in Rivers State, I soon found that the Rivers State for which I had fought did not end my nightmare. In the first place, oil money from Ogoni country (as well as Ijaw country) was being carted away to Lagos, leaving the Ogoni illiterate and backward.[/b]

jason123:
I hope you know that what you just did can be equivalent to when people also insult Ojukwu?? Have you no respect?? So, basically, he has no right to talk for his people, abi? C'mon, he did not want his people to be part of Biafra. Respect him and his wish. Don't divert this thread to suit your agenda. PLEASE

Eko Ile:
Congrats to ibo people and welcome to the modern age,


With the picture below, y'all still have a long long way to go.

chino11:
At least he was 1 million times educated and intelligent than your foolish and nincompoop 'leader' Awalawao.

"While there he attended Howard University, Washington DC[7][8] before enrolling and graduating from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1930. He obtained a masters degree in 1933 from the University of Pennsylvania.[9] He worked as an instructor at Lincoln before returning to Nigeria."

Just check out Ziks academic profile. By the time Zik returned to Nigeria after having gotton multi-degrees in several fields, Awalaowo was yet to make his SSCE. By 1930 Zik already studied in one of best universities in the world while Awalawoa was still in the forest with monkeys eating cocoa

Eziachi:
Coming through the back door was legitimate then and that include Rawlings, our hero in Ghana. Depending of how old you were in 1984, millions of Nigeria trooped to the street to celebrate that back door entrance.

Onlytruth:
^^

No, they are not the same thing. This is a NEW idea because it is individual based and not community based.

Great idea!

Something tells me that we (Anambrarians) lost a golden opportunity when we failed to elect Soludo.  

Onlytruth:
Posted by: alex101
Seconded powerfully.

Everything else is really mute. Folks can choose to believe whatever they want. Mine is to warn Ndigbo to stay away from unbridled "fairness", "patriotism" and "nationalism".

If we focused only on our interest, we would be ruling all facets of Nigeria today. Though I don't know whether I would like to rule Somalia.    But God dey sha.

dem_people:
Which will complete his ancestor's (Fodio) conquest of the South beginning from the S.West.

I don't agree that Sarduana should have been left "unchecked" but at the same time, Nzeogwu's coup should never have failed. Its one of those very rare operations that should have been planned and designed not to fail. Something akin to a nuclear bomb explosion accident as a result of failure!

On the whole though, sometimes I try to imagine what Nzeogwu must've been thinking. Something like; "If we decide to wait for the parliament where the North had a majority then there wasn't any slightest chance of a Balewa impeachment and something on that line" . Or something like, "If the people protested. . . .oh yes they did but it was confined to the western region as a result of the conflict between the two groups. Not enough to "bring down" the government."

dem_people:
Interesting. Very interesting. Confirms my theories in the sense that the Sarduana and by extension, Balewa, were indeed on a stealth operation to complete Fodio's conquest of the South. The main devil who I personally consider the progenitor of the political upheavals of the '60s is Ahmadu Bello.

Perhaps there isn't any Nigerian I've thought thoroughly about than Nzeogwu himself - and which side he was between a hero and a villian.

Whatever thoughts we have of Nzeogwu, our thoughts have greatly been influenced by hindsight. If he had succeeded then I can't think of anyone who would have been held in a "herosphere" by Nigerians, than he himself.

Who knows, maybe Awolowo would have been a greater devil than Bello if he was installed by Nzeogwu and his team. We just don't know.

Do I believe he's a hero or villian? Personally to me, Nzeogwu wasn't ethnocentrically motivated but was motivated by patriotism. He just couldn't "hold/control" it to the point of seeking a civil intervention of some sort to the crisis - and that's where I fault him but then again, remember that my verdictal opinion of him is largely as a result of the benefit of hindsight, knowing the coup was a failed operation.

The best government Nigeria would have ever had would have been a government between NCNC and AG with Zik and Awo at the helm but well, great minds are always in competitive modes when engaged with each other. Its difficult to see whether both men would've worked well together.

I doubt so! 

T9ksy:
Thank goodness for the Ikemba!!

Hopefully, his 5 months stint in a London hospital having, probably caught a glimpse of the other side/life, will compel him to at least apologise to the yorubas (and the mid-west) for invading our territory.

alj_harem:
yeah I am for real, be positive i am not a bad person,

jason123:
Guy, so if I have issues with him, it means I must wish him death Pls, take your tribalism elsewhere!!!

alj_harem:
Thank God am really happy man

he should just go rest with his family and take life easy

Ojukwu congrates may you life long ikemba 1

jason123:
I thank God!!! wish you the soonest recovery