₦airaland Forum

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE

IN continuation of the month-long burial rites of late elder statesman and leader of defunct Biafran Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Igbo Nation in Lagos will today gather at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Onikan, to honour him.

The event which is co-ordinated by Ndigbo in Lagos will be chaired by Second Republic Presidential Candidate and elder statesman, Dr Tunji Braithwaite with Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN as chief host.

Chairman of Ndigbo Lagos, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd) said prominent Igbo leaders and personalities were expected as they had been enjoined “to turn out en mass to pay homage to this icon of our land.”

Kanu, who spoke through his personal assistant, Ndubuisi Ufonda, said those expected included Admiral Allison Madueke (rtd), Prof Anya O Anya, Major General Ike Nwachukwu (rtd) and all Ohanaeze members among others.

Secretary General of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nduka Eya, said the programme was in tandem with Ohanaeze’s directives because Ojukwu meant many things to everybody and everybody could not be in Nnewi for the burial.

“The different programmes being organised across the country show that Ojukwu is something to everybody. The National Planning Committee put out the programme. It is impossible for every Igbo man to be in Nnewi. So, we told all our affiliates to organise programmes in their different areas,” he said.

On the elevation of Chief Ralph Uwazurike as Eze Igbo Gburugburu, Eya said: “Ohanaeze has no hand in that. It was His Royal Majesty, Eze Obidiegwu Onyenso of Nri Kingdom, who gave him the title. The person who is Eze Igbo Gburugburu has not been buried, why give another person the title? It is not in our tradition to have anyone as Igbo leader worldwide because every area has its leader. I don’t know where and when Igbo people sat to crown Eze Igbo.

But whatever it is, Igbo people accepted Ojukwu as their hero and we don’t mind calling him Eze Igbo. Let everybody hail Ojukwu as they please. These programmes are building up to the final interment. Ojukwu’s death is a tragic loss. Ojukwu was pushed to the wall and he fought against international conspiracy.”

Speaking on arrangements for the ceremony, Dr Sylvan Ebigwei, the President of Igbo Intellectual Think -Tank, Aka-Ikenga, said Dr Tunji Braithwate, a close friend of the late Igbo leader, would chair the occasion, which a host of Igbo leaders in Lagos had promised to attend.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/igbo-in-lagos-honour-ojukwu-today/

KINGwax:
Is it by necessity that these idiottaz should alwys make noise ni? [size=14pt]They are so obsessed wit d yorubas dt they alwys compare and try flexing musculer to proud superior. Fuckin traders, stupiid wannabes [/size]

The word Yoruba gives them pleasure. I mean I don't understand the comparison each time. It is like they treat yorubas as their nemesis. LOL

bakila:
You major problem isnt the North. You leaders are as corrupt as those from the North. What Awo and Sarduana did for there people cannot be matched by any politician who has taken benefit of their names to achieve his aim of assuming position of leadership the idiots that killed sarduana and the opportunist in that Coup led the foundation of sectional and acrimonious politics that reign today. Mention one Governor from you region that has left office a true and clean hero.
Northern Gov abused their oath of office and sanusi goofed by not calling a spade what it is. Nigeria is still underdeveloped and for people here restricting it to the north is all crap. Whether we stand up to it togather or not na our toro.

correct sir. I hope they see it that way

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=875457.msg10243097#msg10243097 date=1329842470]@OP, Dr.  ANTHONY MUDIAGA's assertions are false and intellectually dishonest at best.  Sanusi never claimed that 13% derivation to ND is the cause of Northern underdevelopment.

The foolish doctor became a sooth sayer and a mind reader when he asserted that Sanusi 'regressed' to a strategy of using ethnic, religious or class sentiments, which political elites in Nigeria often use to gain the support of the dominated citizens to give them political legitimacy.  olodo Dr. Mudiaga further states that Sanusi may have ventured into this recursive strategy in Nigerian politics because, he is posturing for the 2015 elections.  I repeat this Dr. is a fool who needs to focus in his medical practice instead of attempting to attck Sanusi for no reason at all.

Here's is exactly what Sanusi said regarding the said 13% derivation and I quote:
Can anyone dipute the factual accuracy of Sanusi's statement above? Sanusi is not saying that this direct link is the only reason. Only fools like Dr. Mudiaga, will interprete Sanusi's statement to mean that the said derivation is the only reason for underdevelopment in the North. Clearly it is one of the major reasons since it is a major contributing factor to the lack of enough money to meet basic needs prevalent in the region . SMH[/quote]My brother, the day I stopped following Sanusi was the day he was relating Boko haram to distribution of money.

Poverty is everywhere whether in the north or in the south. It is irrespective of ethnicity, religion or zones. Just like a man cannot afford garri/akara in maiduguri, a man too cannot afford groundnut in the warri/Onitsha.

Let face facts here. Sanusi is meant to be an intellectual who people like us follow and relate with. His recent article on that money deviation couple with the double speaking he did no that fuel subsidy saga made me really disappointed in him. Maybe I expected too much from him.

,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.

Dr. Mudiaga was just interpreting what Sanusi said, maybe not poverty but reason for boko haram.

DerideGull:
You have refused to make people believe you have few gray matters above your idiotic shoulders. It is either you are ignorant of the meaning of the word – nation or you are redundant dunce. When such asinine statements were uttered by the imbecilic scoundrels, Nigeria was a country and governmentally organized into three regions.

Sometimes I wonder if few Nigerians have cell brains at all. In fact, I get twisted out of human form when people born with the blood of a tribal icon accuse others of tribal bias. Again you have shown your foolishness by the insane undertaken to defend an ethnical begot such as SL Akintola. Why did he not question the positions of two VC in other regions? I guess SL Akintola moronically forgot the schools did not belong to western region of Nigeria but Nigeria where qualification and merit determine who sits on the position of VC. 

I am really amazed at the depth of idiocy to which some Nigerians had fallen. There was never a time Nigerian cabinet ministers was Zik’s. It was Tafawa Balewa’s cabinet and the appointments were determined by the strength of each political party after federal election.

if you noticed, I left this thread because as predicted it would be unproductive

No we were NOT NIGERIA

WE WERE

NORTHERN NIGERIA

WESTERN NIGERIA

AND EASTERN NIGERIA

It just shows how ignorant you are about the politics during that time.

this gra gra go end one day sha.

It was good intially when they wanted to world to know Ikemba died etc but the it is getting to much now

obynzo:
For me i do not think the igbos were marginalizing anyone.

Hmmmmmm yes you did and it was well recorded.

obynzo:
Go to wikipedia and research on the history of the Igbo tribe youn would find out that though the yorubas had adopted western education,the igbos were the ones that readily interacted with the colonial masters in their way of life and worked with them in lower cadre capacity and in business traded with them.

Igbos readily took up western ways just like the way they easily become hausa or yoruba. It is good. Did you know Ojukwu spoke Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo quite clearly ?

At the end of the day, it has not explain the marginalization and what I wrote up there,

obynzo:
Thus with the amalgamation of both protectorates came an influx of the igbo to the west and the north both to work in the colonial civil service and also to trade with the whites and the locals of both regions.So please let us look at facts before making assertions.

The amalgamation of both protectorate was the worst mistake we Nigerians ever made. Would you agree with me ?

obynzo:
pre and post independence era check the population of igbos in the skilled labour in relation to other ethnic groups,you'll find that they were more so it was logical that they were at the helm of affairs in the polity at that time.

Back then, they were educated people and skilled labours in every region so please don't start telling me Igbos alone. In 1954 or so during the pre independence, we all ready had north for northerner. Igbos that were doctors were asked to leave the north for northern doctors.

While the west took a more gentle approach by talking to Nnamdi and other Igbo leaders to form southern Nigeria. Nnamdi disregarded him and imprisoned him. An opposition to Awolowo even had to speak out back then. it was that bad.

I read one of Ojukwu memos where he said something about Igbos runned everything with a few yoruba brains. I looked and laughied at the propect of yorubas in Southern Nigeria if Nnamdi listen to Awo. I keep thanking God for directing things aright.

In a country where you don't see yourselves as equals, how do you expect to progress ?

Ok now that things are more equally balanced from my POV, why are Igbo leaders complaining ?

Is it not your Bible that says " Treat others as you want yourself to be treated".

[quote author=Dudu_Negro link=topic=875712.msg10238073#msg10238073 date=1329793257]^^^ I agree![/quote]kudi owo ego na money na.

if macjieve tribalistic brain is too blocked to see that free land is being given to him just because he is Igbo. then that is his bad luck

if I fit go Kogi, I go call myself Uche Ojukwu, get the land, and sell it as soon as possible.

BlackPikiN:
Lol, U nefa see anything.

Samuel Ladoke Akintola made the same hate speech too.
But most Igbos didnt realise that was the most open hate speech ever delivered publicly in Nigeria.
He spoke in yoruba.


If na Igbo man, dem for don abuse am tire say na tribalist blah blah blah.

can you shut it,  

[size=13pt]1. Sardanua made that speech because it is the truth ( the truth hurts). Back then, we had 3 Nations in a country and each protected her own interest. Sardauna MADE IT CLEAR FROM DAY ONE THAT HE DID NOT WANT NIGERIA BUT NNAMDI FORCED HIM.

2. I bet you could not understand a word in what Akintola said but ignorantly mentioned Akintola. Akintola wanted an explanation why the VC in the 2 western region universities were Igbo and even worse employed only Igbos out of 109, the 2  and only VC in the western region employed 106 Igbos in Ibadan and lagos and 3 yoruba lecturals. He wanted to know why out of 12 ministers in Nnamdi's carbinat, only 1 yoruba was their and even the position according to him would wasted and useless.

Hw wanted to know why Nnamdi and Igbo leaders were Oppression and marginalising them. Thus shut it if you do not know Akintola or what he made of his speech[/size]

Da infamous:
hahahahaha Yoruba people the way they think sometimes i wonder,nothing is for free igbo people don't get free land for their side so why are they expecting free land in igboland i dey laugh

My brother, Igbos would NOT get free land. Do you know why ? Because of law of demand and supply.

The demand for yorubaland is very high, thus to even buy land is expensive not to talk of giving it for free to Igbos who already claim 45 %- 75 % of the South-west region.

Meanwhile, the so called spokes man is just speaking his mind because he wants to cash in. Really if you notice more yorubas don't even care.

Thanks for your time

Toaskarity:
Please give me details about this free land abeg! kogi isnt far from east so I can run back when time reach or swim through R. Niger  ,  Though still a student but atleast if i change some of my savings, I know how much it will be in Naira and build something like a block industry there,ofcourse there will be cheap labour there I might be paying a guy 50cent per hr( they will be glad). Also Kogi is surrounded by cities like abuja Enugu etc and these places need things like cheap block which I can be able to supply for their construction. Every rich man starts somewhere.

Sharp man !!!!

abeg cash in

macjive01:
After the civil war many useless and foolish igbos didn't learn from abandoned property policy in river state. Go to Victoria island 85% of the buildings are owned by igbos. Same goes to every capital city in Nigeria. I found it difficult to believe that a true igbo son and daughter will own a mansion outside igbo land. Igbos please be wise. How many buildings does an hausa man own in onistha? How many buildings does a yoruba man own in igbo land?

Macjieve, I have actually taken time to study you and know where you live

You actually live in Lagos, enjoy the big city and come on Nairaland to discourage other Igbos from that sort of life. What sort of person are you ?

How do you feel when you wake up and come here on Nairaland to be discouraging Igbos from coming to Kano and lagos when you all actually live there ?

Are the people killing you or chasing you away ?


If you are tired of staying in Kogi, Please move back and let those that want to better their lifes stay and get something good.

If they are offered free land, perfect, they can sell it and make more money. That is a blessing from God. If you don't want the blessing because of tribalism, then stay and stop discouraging others.

You are are traveling to America each year to spend billions, you are not complaining.

where is my bliss4lyfe

macjive01:
. . . .KILLS ALL INCLUDING THOSE RESISTANT TO WARFARIN

whjy why why, let peace reign

jason123:
^^^^
Guy, you dey craze! . Of all times to come online while I still dey clear my name . . . Anyway, have fun!

me I know dey craze o. Maybe na you

I mean you are talking to me, walihi you don dey mad small small

alj harem talking to jason123, e be like say this alj harem done craze

BTW, don't deny you are me. Yes you are alj harem

In fact as from today I would add Itsekiri to my list

lol

megerue= alj harem = jason= baika= balaka= orisis111

good, . the fear of alj harem keeps the dogs aright

Chai !!!!!

People please and please Ignore this ideeiot

aribisala0:
ask your mother don't ask me
It will not be well with your family if you stop so continue

LOL, eke, kilo kon be

[quote author=Ji_sun_pack link=topic=874928.msg10236440#msg10236440 date=1329766689]Alhaji Harem!!

Rhino.5dm=Rhino.4dm=Osiris.211=Ji_Sun_Pack [/quote]Hmmmm!!!! eku fun ara re

yaushe ka canza ji_sun_pack da osiris.211 Rhino chai, abeg free my iboalagidi bros o !!!

aribisala0:
ask your mother

Agu o naagu gi ?

aribisala0:
alhaji harem ask ya mama naa

I noticed you are very uncultured and trust me, YOU HAVE MET YOUR MATCH

Answer the simple question. Are you Igbo or Ikwerre. Yes or No

If No, then what are you arguing about on this thread ?

No problem. All is well, Ojukwu was a lagosian

All this dirty talk

Ji_sun_pack you know me before ?

[quote author=haka_nai link=topic=874928.msg10236386#msg10236386 date=1329765967]kai "ji sun" sai da hankali kar dai a bama yarinyan wani ciki dai? Kuma a kiyayi cutar kanjimur. [/quote] lol

aribisala0:
are you really an 1diot  or are you just pretending.
Alhaji please go to your mother and your father and ask them well who your relatives are I am not related to you.I do not want to speak to you. do not quote me and do not address me. If this seems like a bit of fun to you it is not to me
are your children lost?
were they kidnapped. or are they dying from a terrible illness that you have lost all sense of decency.
i am not interested in conversing with you

so go somewhere and die!
I do not know how my concern is any business of you or your mother . Stay away from me!

Nope I would not stay away from you until you tell me what you are doing in an Ikwerre/Igbo thread.

Yes every group has a right to self determination but let them do it themselves not you.

Moreover, we cannot have 250 ethnic groups in a small land space as texas in Nigeria.

aribisala0:
alhaji harem like I said to you before better keep away from me.

You are contemptible.
I really do not wish to engage you in anyway banter or polemic or anything at all.
I am not interested in you or any output of your mind.
If you think it is funny,I do not!
Do not talk at me or about me whether in this life or any other .
I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW YOU

Just stay away from me.
I really do not think that could be any clearer.

Find those with whom you have something in common and play with them.

dude what exactly are you arguing about in this thread. ?

whether they are igbo or not is not your concern

i mean

Very interesting. Thanks Haka nai

Very good

we are proud of you. May God keep blessing you my sister

mbatuku2:
I'm yet to figure out the stake of the yoruba posters here in all of this. Beef?

so baba is yoruba now. Yorubas are the only baba users on NL

BTW the only yoruba here is aribasole,

I don't even know what he is doing here He is not Ikwerre

Andre Uweh:
@Uche, even Nnewi people are capable of organising a befitting burial for Ikemba. But in this case, it is not only Nnewi nor Anambra state but the entire Eastern region. It is enough and even overcrowded. No more support from our western Nigerian friends.

LOL it is not only western friend but also the north. Moreover the burial site might be in Nnewi but the ceremony could be in other parts.

BTW, are you still in Nigeria or London ?

Onlytruth:
My friend nobody is stopping anyone from offering a helping hand, just make sure that the hand is actually helpful.

I don't know Eze ndigbo but in as much as we do our tribal bashing on NL etc. Always remember that no group dislike each other. It is all based on individuality.

The north has offered to help because Ojukwu was a Nigerian and indeed Igbos holding an important part of our country MUST be respected and if that means proper burial of Ojukwu, then so be it.

Andre Uweh:
the southwesterners can only come as observers

Why ?. You talk of Igbo tradition but yet are Igbos not human being.

Andre my friend Brother, If SW want to help out, then try to accept them. Stop being arrogant.

Same with other regions