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Why can't Ndigbo see through this thing called okija_juju that it is not Igbo? Okija_juju is an oily-soup-eating creature from the SW.

Okija_juju = alh harem

ifyalways: Alex you had to call Zik an efulefu?

I'm.sure that men from your lineage in the 60's were busy chasing lizards while Zik was on the fore front.

Had you been him then, would you have done better?what have you done for your clan, not to mention igbo land since your pathetic self was birthed.

Ezi susue gi önu.

I hope the rest of umunna can see how I'm being insulted,,,even dragging my lineage into this? I've always maintained that Zik is an efulefu and will not apologise for saying so. You, Ify already attacked my person based on my statement about Zik? I will not derail this thread by going back and forth with you, for it takes a pathetic fellow to know another.
The greatest problem Ngigbo have since the inception of nigeria is having leaders who are born and raised outside of Igboland, e.g Zik the efulefu!

I will like to congratulate our incoming Eze, Odumchi. May you be wise in leading us here like the outgoing Eze Onlytruth.
I will also congratulate the current Eze Onlytruth. You, like your kinsman, our revered leader Ikemba, have demonstrated rare wisdom in leading Ndigbo in the trenches of nairaland. Chukwu gozie gi nwanne anyi.

As for our Eze nwanyi, Ogugua, I must say quite frankly, I'm unimpressed, but I accept the result of umunna in the spirit of democracy. I say this because Ndigbo are still recovering from the effect of the civil war and at this juncture, will not be needing a leader in the form of Zik, the efulefu!
Eze nwanyi, we'll be watching if you'll be toeing the line of Zik. An Igbo leader should strive to promote Igbo interest BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Congrats to pointB and the rest of his electoral team for making this year's election a success. We ndigbo are proud to have you and your team as our sons. By organising this election for a second time, you've shown to the world how Ndigbo differentiate themselves from the rest of nigeria, democratically. I,d have loved to render my support in any way I could, but I,m currently on job assignment in Haiti. Then again, you and your team have demonstrated that y'all capable.
Our able electoral commissioner,pointB, afam4ever, 9jahail, ujchief: may God bless you all and grant you all your heart desire(s)- Amen!

Umunnem, unu emego ihe Ndigbo ji karia ndi iro anyi.

Yorobbers are eternal savages by nature, animals and wild beasts.

May the killings in plateau continue till eternity- Amen!

Anybody that has a problem with Achebe's book should simply write a rebuttal or forever shu.t up!

"Don’t forget that in Nigeria today, the South-west is the only region that has land and sea borders, no other region does. So, naturally, they will be wary of our position. We are saying let us recognise our differences and respect it. The far North is landlocked, no access to the sea; the South-south has access to the sea, no lands border; the South- east is landlocked on all sides. That is a reality you must appreciate. Even within the South-west region, the differences are there. Like I did emphasise on that day, some states in the South-west are landlocked, some have access to the sea and to land border, some have access only to land border, no access to the sea. So, you must appreciate all these"

This man is one of the many reasons I say nigerians, yorubas in particular are stark illiterates. According to this fool called Akintola; "the SW is the only region with land and sea borders",,,,,what an irredemable goat. So a place like Rivers which borders the atlantic to the south and borders Abia, Imo and Anambra states to the north does not amount to having land and sea borders in akintola's eyes? Delata, Akwa Ibom and Cross rivers all borders the atlantic to the south and states to the north.
I just don't know how I ended up with these illiterates from the SW who have eternally condemned their miserable selves to serving those stinking vampires in the north as their slaves. The lying northern bastar.ds claimed that the north is more populated than the south and this Yoruba man echoed thesame thing . Chei Awolowo, see the product of your fake 'free education'.

bashr8: am begining to think people in the southwest dont see child molestation as a bad thing

This is one of the most closely-guarded-secrets in the SW. If there was anything like sex offenders' registery in nigeria, 80% of the names that will make it on that list will be of yorubas.

Na wa o!

Source:http://odili.net/news/source/2012/sep/27/511.html

Ogun: Two brothers arrested for raping 19-year-old

Thursday, September 27, 2012




…As man, 34, is caught with human abdomen


From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta


Two suspected rapist brothers, Adebayo Tosin, 25, and Adebayo Opeyemi, 19, have been arrested by the police in Ogun State.


The arrest followed the alleged gang-raping of a girl, 19, while hawking palm oil along the Secretariat Road in Imeko.


Narrating how the palm oil hawker was raped, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Okoye Ikemefuna, said she was stopped by one of the suspects under the pretext of wanting to patronise her.


"It was in the process of negotiation that the boy forcefully dragged me into a place where other boys numbering five joined him and tore my underwear and illegally had carnal knowledge of me,'' the commissioner quoted the rape victim as having said.


The police commissioner further stated: "On receipt of the information, detectives from the Imeko Division immediately raced to the home of the suspects and arrested two of them while other gang members escaped.”


Ikemefuna, who said efforts were on to arrest the fleeing gang members, advised the public to be more security conscious and ready at all times to collaborate with the police to make sure "we sustain the existing sound security networking in the state."


In a related development, a suspected ritualist in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State is now with the police after he was caught with human abdomen and other vital parts.

Jimoh Olorunwa was caught after he allegedly excavated a grave and dismembered an unknown corpse buried in the Christian cemetery in the town.


Addressing a press conference yesterday, Ikemefuna said nemesis caught up with Olorunwa following a formal complaint lodged with the police in the town by chairman of the Christian Committee.


When he reported to the police, the Christian Committee chairman had told the police that when he visited the cemetery on a routine check, he discovered that some graves had been broken into and he suspected foul play by some ritualists.


According to the police boss: "On receipt of the information, surveillance was mounted within the cemetery area and this led to the arrest of one of the ritualists at the cemetery with human flesh (abdomen).”


He added that the suspect confessed to the crime and mentioned one Abore, of Odosinusi area of the town, who was currently at large, as an accomplice.


Olorunwa said: "I regret my action and I was pushed by the devil and the harsh economic situation in the state and in the country. I lost my job as a carpenter many months ago and I was lured into the business by a friend who is now on the run.”


Ikemefuna said efforts were on by his command to arrest the fleeing suspects, while assuring residents of the state that security would be beefed up at most cemeteries.

The only reason these river people known as Ijaws still act like they're relevant is because of the dungeon called nigeria. When nigeria ceases to exists, our "friends" of river extraction will follow suit,,,,there will be no more noise making from these folks called Ijaw.

torkaka: ijaws will soon be found in water wells and fountains!

LMAO

I'll advise sensible Igbos to ignore this thread and let it die a well deserved natural death . There is no need in paying mind to mallam ndu chuks whose region and people of the north are eternally confined to walls of failure.

BTW, I look forward to the moderators that will soon put this crap in the front page, since it contains Igbo in it, for it seems without Igbo/Biafra/Ojukwu, this site will be as worthless as the dungeon called nigeria .

IN ORDER TO GAIN "15min" NOTOREITY ON NAIRALAND, DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWINGS:

1. Start an Igbo/Biafra/Ojukwu thread.
2. Post lies about Igbo/Biafra/Ojukwu in every Igbo thread.

Do any of the above, and watch yourself become famous courtesy of Igbo/Biafra/Ojukwu.



"AKA IKENGA; THE MAGIC OF BEING IGBO/BIAFRAN"

The possibility of secession remains unless… – Ogbemudia
Politics Thursday, September 20, 2012




By SAM EYOBOKA & GLADYS ABUGOH

RETIRED Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, two-time governor of Mid West State and later Bendel State, was born in Benin on September 17, 1932. He joined the Nigerian Army in 1957 at the age of 25 with very minimal opposition from his only surviving parent, his mother.

He attended the officer cadet school at Aldershot, England in 1960, and was commissioned second lieutenant in 1961 and served with the UN peacekeeping force in the Congo for 16 months, and in Tanzania in 1964. He was appointed as an instructor to the Nigerian Military School, Zaria in 1964.

In January, 1966, a coup d'état overthrew the civilian government of Nigeria and Major Samuel Ogbemudia played a pivotal role in the July 1966 counter-coup by disarming his troops in Kaduna. One month later he was transferred to the area command, Benin City, fighting with government forces in the Nigerian Civil War.

Ogbemudia was later appointed military administrator of Mid-West State in September 1967 following the liberation of the state from the secessionist forces.

A populist, dedicated to reconstruction after the war, he initiated improvements in the areas of sports, urban development, education, public transportation, housing and commerce. He built the Ogbe Sports Stadium, now named after him, and in August 1973 he commissioned the 3-storey National Museum in Benin City.

Other projects included the Agbede Mechanized Farm, Rural Electrification Board, Bendel Steel Structures, Bendel Pharmaceuticals, Bendel Boatyard, the University of Benin and the Bendel Line. In later years, people looked back on his governorship as a time when much was achieved, followed by stagnation in later administrations.

In July 1975, he retired alongside 11 other military governors by Gen. Murtala Muhammed. The retirement of the governors found guilty of corruption was converted to dismissal. Among these was Brigadier General Samuel Ogbemudia, whom Murtala had appointed eight years earlier, and whom he replaced with Colonel George Agbazika Innih. Ogbemudia was tried for abuses while in office, but acquitted. As the man marked his 80 birthday, he spoke to Vanguard on his days at the Government House, Benin and other national issues. Excerpts:

MANY Nigerians recall with nostalgia the lofty contributions of Afuze and Ogbe Hard Court and many other sporting activities and they are of the opinion that you are the real pillar of sports. When you look at the rot in the nation's sports today, how do you feel?

The answer to your question would make me step on toes but I do not mind. I cannot mark my own script. I cannot score myself, whether I am the authentic pillar of sports in Nigeria or not.

Now looking back I will say what I believe. I don't think that it is only Ogbemudia that is unhappy with current development of our sports sector. Do you remember how Nigerians felt when we won the Under 17 World Cup?


Now we couldn't even qualify for African Nations' cup. It is that bad, not only football but also for other games. We are not making progress. Just look at the London Olympics, what do you see yourself? You ask me what we can do to turn things around.

Entertainment and recreation

The ball is in the court of Government. I have always said and I appeal even at the risk of repetition, that if we want to use sports only for entertainment and recreation, then our attention to it and investment in it so far is okay.

But if we want to use sports for national mobilization and galvanization, massive economic revival and influence foreign affairs, etc, then our attention to it and investments in it must not just double, it should triple or even quadruple!

My belief is that government has not been able to effectively cross-breed various ideas for sports development and aggregate these ideas and interests for possible policy formulation that would emancipate the Ministry of Sports from the current syndrome of abysmal failures in every international outing to that of fame and respect for sports loving Nigerians. I call on the Federal Government to take control and reorganize sports.

You were once a Minister of Labour and Productivity. Where did Nigeria get it wrong? Why do we have a large army of unemployed youths ?

The Ministry of Labour and government generally cannot provide all the jobs Nigerians need. The private sector is mostly responsible for employment.

That must be understood by everybody. The expectation for employment from Government by the people is too high. Government tries to meet this by employing people that sometimes are not needed, and the Labour Unions would not allow Government to retrench, rationalize or downsize the work force.

That is why government bureaucracy is too large, leading to high recurrent expenditure. Worse still, productivity is low because of redundant workers, yet there is still unemployment. The universities and other higher institutions of learning are turning out graduates yearly into the Labour market. The answer does not lie in one jacket.

It is multifarious, but government must show the light, by creating the enabling environment where private sectors could probably take the lead. You were talking of Sports moments ago. Let me tell you, Sports and Agriculture if well developed can absorb a sizeable number of our unemployed youths and even some that are unemployable.

Look at the Sports Industry in Europe and America; even Asia. You can understand what UEFA is now trying to do with Sports.

Without Sports, millions of their children would be jobless and perhaps would also be militants. That is also the case with Agriculture, which has demonstrated its capacity to employ people in the past, with huge potentials for the future.

The film industry is also there and Nigerians are trying in that regard. So there are lots of opportunities for employment generations that are yet to be tapped. All we need is to convince ourselves that we can do it, and develop the courage to match our conviction with action.

Fifty-two years after political independence would you say that the Nigeria of your dream has evolved?

I am not one of those that dreamt of Nigeria. Our political leaders did. I was a soldier then. My duty was to support civil authority.

The dreams as expressed by our leaders were lofty. Unfortunately, they couldn't manage the politics and things fell apart. Fifty two years in the life of a man is a long time. Such a man will most probably be a grand-father, doing the second lap of his journey. However, 52 years in the life of a nation is very small.

The advanced democracies of this world are much older. Having said that, we must admit that mistakes have been made and we should courageously avoid such areas or mistakes for the future. We must take care to build a nation as we develop our country, otherwise the possibility of secession would remain.

Specifically, will you say that subsequent leaders of Edo State have followed your development blueprint?

I was governor of Mid West as a military officer and later Bendel State as an elected civilian governor; not of Edo State, although the present Edo State was an integral part of Mid West and Bendel State. The challenges of development were a little different at the time I was on the saddle. There was civil war. And I needed to protect our people.

Nigeria's unity was threatened and Mid West sacrificed a lot to help the Federal Government to restore it. The State received the brunt of the war and we needed to rebuild it. We also needed to modernize it to meet world's standard.

In most of the areas we addressed, a futuristic view was taken into account. To construct a road for example, I would ask the Commissioner and the engineer, what do they think would be the volume of traffic this road would carry in 10 to 20 years time? And we set out to construct the road to meet the projection. That applied to all other areas.

Now, as regards blueprints, I do no think that successive governments were bound by what we did. They were free to accept, adopt, adapt or abandon anything, provided what they chose to do meet the challenges of the time and the aspirations of the people as they saw it.

On a comparative note, Mid West or Bendel State cannot be the same as Edo State today. While it could be said that development in my time commensurate with the economic expectation of that era, the expectation of today, brought about by the issue of globalization of the economy has tended to stretch development beyond snapping point.

Thus most governments have not been able to muster enough strength or build up equal alacrity to rebound in the face of too many requests. But government should strive to do something constantly for the people in order to restore hopes even if these developments are not seen to be total.

Are you a fulfilled man?

Not just fulfilled, also a grateful man, grateful to God, to Nigeria, to Bendel and to my people. That is why all the energy left in me is now put at the disposal of God, my Country and my people. I am not looking for job or contract but willing and ready to do anything that would contribute to the growth and happiness of our people.

Looking back now, what are those things you would have done differently?

Sometimes when I see how bad things are in Nigeria, I regret that most politicians have not learnt any lesson. I was too loyal to the military and to government. There was little or nothing I could do since my main duty was to support civil authority.

However, I look at the past with nostalgia when Nigerians used to pull one string with rapture and enthusiasm. When the military finally decided to quit and restore civil government, I sought a political party that would adopt sports, transportation, agriculture, education and health care delivery as the central theme of its government but failed. Rather, the party would generalize everything and step out on all fronts. These seem to be falling apart today. However, I thank God for everything.

One of the hallmarks of your 80th birthday is the launching of the Osaigbovo Ogbemudia Foundation. What do you aim to achieve with this?

The main thrust of the Foundation is to support the prevention and control of diabetes, which I have found to be posing a major health challenge to Nigerians. It is even more malignant for older persons and I think I could help put smiles on their faces so they could have hopes of counting more years on earth particularly for those who are managing to eke out a living.

The other objectives of the Foundation are on some of the issues above, including Good Governance and Development, especially for the youths which will manifest with time.


Source: http://odili.net/news/source/2012/sep/20/311.html

Ijaws have become like the hausa/fulani, peddling lies about their population. Throughout my travel in life, I have only met 3 Ijaws.

Now on the issue of who constitutes the majority in rivers state, all I can say to that is the dungeon called nigeria protects a lot of weak groups . When the dungeon called nigeria finally disintegrates, then we would know what/who belongs to where . Meanwhile, goats can keep spewing crap.

@ post, any smart person can see what Islam has done to the middleeast vis-a-vis nigeria. Like somebody rightly said, most middleastern countries without oil will look like Yemen. Now, we can Imagine what Nigeria w'd look like without oil,,,,thanks to the north who have been practising extreem form of Islam.

It's very unfortunate that a thread like this never makes it to the front page. This is one of the reasons many reasonable folks have quit nairaland. Now, you have senseless thread making it to the front page.

My main contribution to this thread is for we the younger Igbo nation to be wise and learn about nigeria (oh yes, learn about nigeria's past), because most of us claim to be educated in one field or the other, but when it comes to nigeria's history vis-a-vis Igbo nation, we are completely illiterate (no offence). I also believe that it's only when Ndigbo have a full undiluted and unbiased knowledge of nigeria's history, that they can safely navigate the dungeon called nigeria.

The knowledge of the past shall be the light to the future .

@ OP, I say a resounding thank you for this thread. Although, my father already told me about the motivation behind Awolowo's move, but it's a good thing you brought up this important issue for some naive Igbo sons/daughters especially the "Lagos and Abuja" Igbos who can no longer see beyond their nose(s) . Some of these so called "Lagos and Abuja" Igbos are even telling us to forget the past and move on, forgetting that this is precisely what the enemies of Ndigbo wanted in the first place.

Lastly, there is a wise saying that says: "THOSE WHO FORGET THEIR PAST SHALL BECOME HISTORY".

Katsumoto: Your ignorance knows no bounds and you stupidly exaggerate your ability to see in to the future.

Before the British took over Yorubaland with a series of treaties with various kings; there were Christians, Muslims, and Traditionalists. The first mosque in Yorubaland was built in Oyo in the 15th century to accommodate Muslim scholars and traders despite the fact that Oyo was into traditional forms of worship.

The rest of your post is just a compilation of bunkum and idiocy.

Trust me, I, like your elites in Yoruba land have seen the future of what will become of you people, when the dungeon called nigeria comes apart. If you have any brain, you would have known why the abokis keep reminding you of your place,,,,does the "one-mile corridor" ring any bell? Anyway, what becomes of Yoruba is not my f##king business, I'm only pointing out the remote flaws in this article to undiscerning folks out there.

I remember having an arguement with a Yoruba guy about why they (SW) are opposed to be by themselves, he answered as follows: "Yorubas are too sophisticated to be by themselves".

Alas! Over the exhaustion of time, I have come to rephrase that quote to be: "Yorubas are too chaotic to be by themselves" .

Malawian: I have not seen a yoruba postrating to an igbo or ijaw or bini. Why must it be only the hausa fulani? Did your "culture" preclude you from postrating to any other than the hausa fulani? I am waiting for an answer!

Valid?

The problem with all these "Lagos and Abuja" Igbos is simply their inabilty to think meditatively before spewing crap . This article is loaded with unsubstantiated junk and I must advise the writer of this article to look before leaping . The only reason our "friends" of Yoruba extraction have not turned their "guns" on each other is simply because they exists within the confines of the dungeon called nigeria. The minute nigeria ceases to exist, the Yoruba as a people will become chaotic as the Hausa/Fulani will find it easy to sow a "religious seed" of discord amongst Yorubas, tipping power to Muslim Yorubas,,,as a matter of fact, I can correctively state that the entire christian yoruba will become Islamized just to avoid discrimination. The elite Yorubas know this and that is why they're opposed to any form of nigeria's disintegration,,,,If you are in doubt, ask Afenifere who were begging the north not to do anything that will make nigeria fall apart.
Finally, I will advise all these so called "Lagos and Abuja" Igbos not to judge a book by its cover. Nigeria remains the [b]"life-wire" [/b]of Yorubas, hence their fierce opposition to nigeria's disintegration, but everything always comes to an end .